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CWS ends and fireworks · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jean Stothard. Peyton Highlock, my producer,
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Speaker 1: is also here and good morning, Good morning Gene, and
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Speaker 1: thank you all for being here with us today. We
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Speaker 1: want to hear from you. We want to get your feedback.
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Speaker 1: We want to hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints, anything goes.
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Speaker 1: We won't back away from anything. We talk about the city,
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Speaker 1: of the state, the nation, and the world, and the
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Speaker 1: street car, and of course we will have great guests.
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Speaker 1: We had a great guest with Jay Lons yesterday. We're
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Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit more about that because
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Speaker 1: we've got some comments we want to cover. We didn't
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Speaker 1: really have time yesterday, but you will hear plenty of
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Speaker 1: opinions from me because it is your chance, though to
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Speaker 1: speak up and sound off. Send your emails at comment
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Speaker 1: at kfab dot com, or you can call us at
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Speaker 1: five five, eight eleven ten, or if you miss the
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Speaker 1: show and really want to listen to what we had
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Speaker 1: to say, the podcast will be up usually by about
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Speaker 1: noon and you can listen to it then. So Peyton,
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Speaker 1: I was down at the ballpark last night till god
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Speaker 1: knows when. But the College World Series is now over
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Speaker 1: with the Oklahoma sooners being the champs thirteen to two
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 2: It was great.
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Speaker 1: It was great being there and looking at the attendance
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Speaker 1: for this year twenty twenty six, the total attendance was
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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty nine hundred and nineteen, which tops
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Speaker 1: last year, which was three hundred and forty three thousand,
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Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy two. So that means more people
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Speaker 1: are coming and joined the College World Series. You know,
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Speaker 1: we did have some calls when after I had the
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Speaker 1: Decing family on Jack and his daughter Lisa and complaining
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Speaker 1: about ticket prices. But you know, I've gone through that
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Speaker 1: several times. There are plenty of opportunities for people in
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Speaker 1: Omaha to buy tickets for that stadium. Were filling it
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Speaker 1: up almost every single game. And you know, some of
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Speaker 1: those seats, to call it the three hundred section, that
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Speaker 1: it's pretty high, but they're really good seats. Some of
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Speaker 1: those start at fifteen dollars. And I noticed last night,
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Speaker 1: you know, as teams start being eliminated, there are plenty
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Speaker 1: of seats, you know, in the outfield and on the
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Speaker 1: other sides too. I want to repeat what I've said before, though,
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Speaker 1: if you want a seat at the face value, you
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Speaker 1: go to the box office at the stadium, they have
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Speaker 1: to sell them at face value.
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Speaker 2: And that's good to know for the future and for
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Speaker 2: next year.
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Speaker 1: I did kind of want to bring up once again
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Speaker 1: that that stadium is one hundred and thirty one million dollars.
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Speaker 1: There was private money put into the construction of the stadium.
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Speaker 1: It will be paid off in twenty thirty seven, and
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Speaker 1: so it'll be totally paid off. We do have a
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Speaker 1: new scoreboard this year that I think everybody noticed out
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Speaker 1: in the outfield, which was great because they had different
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Speaker 1: things being shown on each scoreboard during the game and
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Speaker 1: one may be showing stats about the picture and the
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Speaker 1: other stats about the batter and it was really really great.
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Speaker 1: But guess how much that new scoreboard.
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Speaker 3: Just guess those video boards and scoreboards are really expensive.
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Speaker 4: They are.
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Speaker 5: If I said, I don't even know, half a quarter million.
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Speaker 1: Okay, six point five million what for the scoreboard?
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Speaker 5: Six point five million for.
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Speaker 1: The scoreboard for the one scoreboard, and it's pretty awesome,
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Speaker 1: but you could tell it's expensive to maintain and keep.
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Speaker 2: Up a ballpark like we do.
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Speaker 1: And you know that ten days of the College World Series,
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Speaker 1: basically they call it a waterfall of revenue, but it
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Speaker 1: basically pays for the entire.
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Speaker 2: Debt that we owe on this stadium.
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Speaker 3: That scoreboard looks really really great up there, and they
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Speaker 3: added all those lights on top of it too, so
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Speaker 3: it really looks like it fits in with the stadium.
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Speaker 3: And then also about the ticket prices, if the attendance
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Speaker 3: is up year after year, yes, that's a good sign.
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Speaker 1: It's a really good sign because that just shows people
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Speaker 1: from all over are enjoying it. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: did say before on the air because of people complaining
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Speaker 1: about the cost, but of the number of seats in
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Speaker 1: that stadium. So there's twenty four thousand seats in that stadium.
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Speaker 1: There are eleven thousand, four hundred that go to season
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Speaker 1: ticket holders, so less than half go to season ticket holders.
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Speaker 1: And those season ticket holders, sixty eight percent are from
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Speaker 1: the Omaha and the surrounding area, so there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of Omahans that attend. Each team that is playing that
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Speaker 1: game gets seven hundred tickets for family and for friends
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Speaker 1: that have traveled with them. But that's fourteen hundred out
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Speaker 1: of the twenty four thousand that keep in mind all
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Speaker 1: those seats in the outfield, there's another about fifty four
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Speaker 1: hundred in the outfield too, So there is plenty, plenty
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Speaker 1: of seats in that stadium. And like I said, those
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Speaker 1: in the three hundred level, some of those start at
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Speaker 1: fifteen dollars. And so, boy, we've got a great thing
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Speaker 1: going on. You know, we do have a contract for
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Speaker 1: the College World Series. It will run through twenty third
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Speaker 1: height of I think twenty thirty seven will be when
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Speaker 1: our last game will be played in that stadium under
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Speaker 1: the current contract, and hopefully we get to keep it here.
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Speaker 3: Last question for you about the College World Series. You
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Speaker 3: were at every single day. You missed one day? Yes,
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Speaker 3: what would you say was your favorite game, whether it
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Speaker 3: was the baseball game or the environment in the in
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Speaker 3: the stadium you went down there.
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Speaker 5: Was it just a beautiful day? Favorite game?
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Speaker 1: No, you know, it's to me, it's all fun and
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Speaker 1: I try to you know, I gotta admit, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't follow college baseball until the College World Series.
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Speaker 1: But of course that championship series, you know, on on
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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday and then Monday the third game, and
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Speaker 1: when you went there Monday, you knew whoever won was
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Speaker 1: going to be the champ and to see the best
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Speaker 1: baseball college baseball teams in the country competing against each other.
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Speaker 2: It's it's it's a real thrill.
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Speaker 1: I like watching college baseball better than Major League, but
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Speaker 1: it was I agree. I think it's just really really fun.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's the College World Series for this year.
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Speaker 1: And when I was mayor, I just used to Chief
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Speaker 1: Schmodern I breathe a little sigh of relief after it
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Speaker 1: was over, thinking nothing negative really happened, nothing big. You
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Speaker 1: always worry about that when large groups of people come in.
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Speaker 1: Were large crowds, lots of people drinking. But it was
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Speaker 1: really really fun. So congratulations to the NCAA and College
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Speaker 1: World Series and Mecca for putting on a really good
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Speaker 1: show again. You know, Peyton, another thing we I think
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Speaker 1: we both drive six eighty north on the way to
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Speaker 1: the station every day. I get on at about L
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Speaker 1: Street and then get off on Dodge Street, and boy,
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Speaker 1: what Hawkins Construction is doing widening six't eighty.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm amazed. Every Monday morning it looks different.
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Speaker 6: I know.
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Speaker 3: And I was driving yesterday and I think there was
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Speaker 3: about half a dozen cement trucks all lined up at
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Speaker 3: the same time. I'm telling you, saying, wow, they must
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Speaker 3: be turning these guys in and out really really quickly.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've said it before, but I love Hawkins Construction.
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Speaker 1: They are a Omaha business, a family business.
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Speaker 2: It has grown.
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Speaker 1: They're known for doing interstates and bridges. They did the
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Speaker 1: Harney Street Bridge and the Farnum Street Bridge for the
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Speaker 1: street car. They always do it on budget, on time.
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Speaker 1: And boy, their work on that six't eighty. They are
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Speaker 1: just a whaling and widening six eighty. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be both ways, but boy, I mean they've got it
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Speaker 1: grated down.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 1: It looks like they're about ready to pour concrete on
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Speaker 1: the side that they have been working on. But that
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Speaker 1: whole project on six eighty and that strip, that area there,
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Speaker 1: that chunk of six eighty should be done by the
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Speaker 1: end of the year. So great that we have Hawkins
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Speaker 1: Construction that are are here in Omaha and doing these
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Speaker 1: great jobs.
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Speaker 2: That they do.
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Speaker 1: So yesterday, great great guests that was on was Jay
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Speaker 1: Lund and his company is called Greenslaight and he is
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Speaker 1: I think one of their pride and joy I think
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Speaker 1: has to be that they did the Blackstone and he
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Speaker 1: did the cottonwood and his dad, John Lond did the
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Speaker 1: Blackstone building there, the big black building on Farnham. And
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Speaker 1: we did have several calls and several emails Peyton that
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Speaker 1: I didn't get to yesterday, and so maybe you can
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Speaker 1: run those by me today. But one of the things
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Speaker 1: that we did talk about with Jay yesterday is we
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Speaker 1: called it a sinkhole. We called it a cave in.
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Speaker 1: I think you could use those interchangeably. But it happened
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk at about thirty eighth in Farnham, and
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Speaker 1: he came in and he said he was obviously aware
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Speaker 1: of it a big It was a big hole in
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk. If you see pictures of it, it's quite large.
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Speaker 1: But at the time he did say and I agreed
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Speaker 1: with him that the city would do and the city's
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Speaker 1: engineers would do a thorough investigation of what caused it.
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Speaker 1: It looks like now that they're not calling it a
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Speaker 1: sinkhole or a cave in, but they said it was
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Speaker 1: a Basically it was a from an engineering standpoint, it
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Speaker 1: was the building's foundation wall that collapsed. And he said
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Speaker 1: a sinkhole implies that there's an existing underground cavity, like
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Speaker 1: a void under the ground. It could be done by sewers,
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Speaker 1: old sewers, old waterlines.
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Speaker 2: There's vaults under the streets, but this was not that.
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Speaker 1: And he said that the building adjacent to that had
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Speaker 1: been vacant since COVID, and so it was a vacant
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Speaker 1: old building. But the street engineers by the City of Omaha,
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Speaker 1: Austin Rouser with the Public Works Department, he said, to
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Speaker 1: his knowledge, there was not any void that existed prior
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Speaker 1: to the wall collapsing, which is what caused that. And
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Speaker 1: so they'll get to the bottom of it, and of
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Speaker 1: course they will fix it. But again, I know everybody's
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Speaker 1: talking about, oh, another Saint Cole, another cave in, but
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Speaker 1: we've got to think we've got five thousand lane miles
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Speaker 1: the road in Omaha, and sometimes these things happen. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot that is underground, is very old, and it's
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Speaker 1: really hard to tell what's going on underground.
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Speaker 3: I have a good email that I want to read
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Speaker 3: to you, Gene about that interview yesterday with Jay Lund.
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Speaker 3: I do have a talk back here. This is on
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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. There's a little bit of microphone. You
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Speaker 3: hit that thirty seconds here you go. This is Paul
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Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio talk back mic.
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Speaker 7: Good morning. Why does anybody carele we call it the
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Speaker 7: hole in the ground, sink hole, adivot, Why is anybody care?
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Speaker 7: Just get somebody to fix it, figure out what happened,
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Speaker 7: fix it and move on. Thank you, great show as always.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your comment. But you know, I don't think
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Speaker 1: we really care what it's called. Which you know, a sinkhole,
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Speaker 1: a cave in, in my opinion, can be used interchangeably.
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Speaker 1: It means there's a hole in a sidewalk or in
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Speaker 1: a street those though a sinkhole a cave in is
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Speaker 1: usually but it's always caused by some void underneath the ground,
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Speaker 1: in a cavity there which caused it the cave in
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Speaker 1: the cities in the city, the engineer's responsibility is to
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Speaker 1: see what caused it and then fix what caused it
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Speaker 1: so it won't happen again. I think this though, we
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Speaker 1: found out that it was a foundation wall that collapsed,
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Speaker 1: and so now they know, and so it really doesn't
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Speaker 1: make any difference what we call it. But this this
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Speaker 1: on far and I'm thirty eighth and far and I'm
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, wasn't either it wasn't a sinkhole, or
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Speaker 1: it wasn't a cave in. It was basically the foundation
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Speaker 1: wall that collapsed. So they always, the engineers just always
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Speaker 1: have to get to the bottom of it.
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Speaker 2: That's all. That's the big that's the only thing.
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Speaker 1: They got to get to the bottom of it, figure
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Speaker 1: out why it happened, and then fix why it happened,
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Speaker 1: and then fix and repair the hole.
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Speaker 2: And that's that's the long and short of it.
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Speaker 3: I got an email yesterday at comment at kfab dot
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Speaker 3: com and Bob says this, how much has the Lund
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Speaker 3: family benefited financially from this guy being appointed to the
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Speaker 3: Streetcar Authority board? Good old Boy network is still alive
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Speaker 3: and well whoa.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you the Streetcar Authority is one thing,
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Speaker 1: because that streetcar Authority overseas basically what the construction of
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Speaker 1: the street car. But let me let me just go
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Speaker 1: back to how how much money has the LUNs made?
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Speaker 1: You know, the LUNs John and his son Jay, that
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Speaker 1: was on yesterday. Like most developers, they're the ones who
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Speaker 1: take the risk and they literally put their money where
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Speaker 1: their mouth is. If a project is successful, they'll make
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Speaker 1: money on it. It's their own money. If the project
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Speaker 1: is a failure, it's their loss. They could go bankrupt.
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Speaker 1: Many developers start out with nothing, are very small projects.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind, their projects help our community. They
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Speaker 1: are growing private businesses. They're creating jobs, they're providing housing
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Speaker 1: and retail and business. They're doing the things that the
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Speaker 1: people want in Omaha. I want them to make money,
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Speaker 1: you know, I want the LUNs and every other developer
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Speaker 1: in town to make money, because when they make money,
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Speaker 1: they turn around and do another development, and they're investing
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Speaker 1: in Omaha. You don't want to see developers fail and
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Speaker 1: go bankrupt.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's not what we want. This is capitalism.
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Speaker 1: This is private businesses working in our community, being successful
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Speaker 1: and reinvesting because they're successful. These developers are so good
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Speaker 1: and so savvy. The ones we have in Omahan, we're
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Speaker 1: so lucky to have them. They could go anywhere. They
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Speaker 1: could go any city in that that's just it.
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Speaker 3: If they're not gonna make money here, they're gonna go
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Speaker 3: somewhere else and make money.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna go somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: And you know, people will say all those rich people, well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you, they worked their fingers to the
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Speaker 1: bones getting the money that they do have.
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Speaker 2: But a lot of their money.
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Speaker 1: Goes right back into their business to do another project
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Speaker 1: and they take risk.
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Speaker 2: They're always taking risk.
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Speaker 1: Jayln Yeah, I appointed him to the street car Authority
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Speaker 1: because the mayor appoints. Portion of the street car Authority,
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Speaker 1: part come from appointment of the mayor, and park come
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Speaker 1: from Metro Transit, and that's what the law is. How
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Speaker 1: and then there's one that the Chamber appoints, one that
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Speaker 1: the chamber appoints.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it's not.
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Speaker 1: That he's making money being on the streetcar Authority. And
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Speaker 1: like another caller said yesterday, yes that streetcar is going
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Speaker 1: to go through Blackstone, but look at what the streetcar
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Speaker 1: during construction is causing along the route. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: causing a lot of disruption in business that these developers
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Speaker 1: are aware of, and they you know, they want to
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Speaker 1: do whatever they can so that that doesn't cause problems
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Speaker 1: to those businesses. So I mean, in my opinion, hats
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Speaker 1: off to every developer that is working in Omaha and
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Speaker 1: developing in Omaha. I mean the Lanahas, the novels, all
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Speaker 1: of those developers are putting their money where their mouth
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Speaker 1: is and spending their own money here in Omaha. And
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Speaker 1: if they're successful, great for Omaha.
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Speaker 2: If they're not.
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Speaker 1: That's not what we want to see at all. So again,
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Speaker 1: hats off to them. You know, these are entrepreneurs and
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Speaker 1: they're business owners, and you don't want anybody to fail.
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Speaker 3: Now, going back to the College World Series real quick, Gene,
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Speaker 3: you said nothing negative has happened this year at the
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Speaker 3: College World Series significant.
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Speaker 5: I would agree in terms of public safety, it was
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Speaker 5: a safe event.
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Speaker 3: Stephen just said as well, the Troy Videos equipment did
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Speaker 3: get stolen, true, which I would say is a very
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Speaker 3: minor negative event. If that's the biggest one on the list,
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Speaker 3: I would say that's a pretty successful event.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm talking about is people's lives
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Speaker 1: are in danger. You know, there was a little riff
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Speaker 1: raff going on downtown in the Old Market a couple
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Speaker 1: of nights, but there was just masses of people down there,
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Speaker 1: masses of people.
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Speaker 2: A lot we're drinking, of course too.
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Speaker 1: That brings a whole different atmosphere when people are drinking.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, what I'm thinking of is
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Speaker 1: some of these things, terrible things that have happened in
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Speaker 1: large crowds, in malls, in parking lots all over the country.
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Speaker 1: That you hear, I mean, you hear trucks driving up
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Speaker 1: on the sidewalks and killing people. You hear shootings, you
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Speaker 1: hear all of these things that put people's lives in danger.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was talking about. Yeah, it is too
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Speaker 1: bad that that equipment was stolen. I hate to hear
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Speaker 1: that because it just makes it look bad for Omaha
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Speaker 1: and too bad for the team too. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, I'm talking about things that are really dangerous
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Speaker 1: and put people's lives at risk. And keep in mind,
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Speaker 1: not only is are all of these people here from
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Speaker 1: out of town for the College World Series. And keep
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Speaker 1: in mind the eight teams bring a lot of fans
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Speaker 1: with them that make the finals. Is that the Slumpbusters,
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Speaker 1: that tournament of youth baseball that is here at the
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Speaker 1: same time this year there was eight hundred and one
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Speaker 1: teams of the Slumpbusters, and so business was booming. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're staying in hotels all over the place. We had
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Speaker 1: lots of lots of sold out games, so all that
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Speaker 1: going on at once and to send everybody home safe,
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Speaker 1: that's what is a relief to me.
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Speaker 3: Larry gave a call in He's on the line. Larry
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Speaker 3: will get to you maybe a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: negative event on his side. Larry, thanks for calling into
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Speaker 3: KFAB you're live with Jean's author.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, thank you and yeah, good morning, Gene. I'm
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Speaker 4: mayor the only negative thing. And this is.
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Speaker 8: Obviously on a scale of one to ten, this is not.
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Speaker 4: A big deal, but it's annoying when I.
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Speaker 8: Worked very hard to get my phone number off of
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Speaker 8: all the spam lists, and for the last year I
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Speaker 8: have not had any spam calls. Okay, you have to
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Speaker 8: give them your phone numbers in order for them to
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Speaker 8: text you your tickets. And then at the College World Series,
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Speaker 8: so I did that. I went to three or four games,
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Speaker 8: really enjoyed myself. You're right, it's a very safe environment.
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Speaker 8: I had a good time, took the grandkids. Within minutes
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Speaker 8: of the first time that they text me, I started
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Speaker 8: getting spam calls again. Really, that information has got to
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Speaker 8: be then sold to people who you do this or
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Speaker 8: use this to sell whatever, okay, and it's it's just
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Speaker 8: disappointing to me personally that it took me so long
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Speaker 8: to get my number off of these spam call lists
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Speaker 8: and now literally I get ten or fifteen a day.
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Speaker 4: Again, It's very disappointing. Anyway. That's all I wanted.
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Speaker 5: To say, Larry, Can I ask you a question real quick?
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Yes, sir?
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Speaker 2: What what where?
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Speaker 3: Did you buy your tickets.
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Speaker 8: At the stadium, at the stadium, at the stadium box office?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 8: And I did get one.
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Speaker 4: I did get one.
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Speaker 8: Online at one of the vendors.
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Speaker 4: I can't think of the one. I don't want to
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Speaker 4: just throw a name out.
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Speaker 8: There, but as a ticket master, it was the other one.
19:02
Speaker 2: Was it the NC double A one? That's that's the exchange?
19:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, because that's the one that anybody could go
19:09
Speaker 1: to and sell their tickets for anything they want.
19:11
Speaker 2: That's interesting though.
19:12
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that out because I will pass
19:14
Speaker 1: that on to the College World Series now they send me.
19:18
Speaker 8: You would, I would greatly appreciate it, Uh, Jean, I really,
19:22
Speaker 8: I really would.
19:23
Speaker 4: It's very well disturbing.
19:26
Speaker 8: I'm I'm I'm hearing impaired, so for me to answer phones,
19:31
Speaker 8: I've got to have the hearing. Everything's got to be
19:34
Speaker 8: lined up just right.
19:35
Speaker 4: I don't need to go into details, but it is now.
19:38
Speaker 4: I'm I'm right.
19:39
Speaker 8: Back to where I started from. And it had to
19:42
Speaker 8: do I know, from having to do buy tickets and
19:47
Speaker 8: then having them text them to you, and then that
19:50
Speaker 8: information is sold and now I'm right back to where
19:53
Speaker 8: I started from again.
19:54
Speaker 2: So I'm glad you brought that. I had a great time,
19:59
Speaker 2: thank you, and I'm glad you I brought that up.
20:00
Speaker 2: I will pass that on.
20:01
Speaker 1: Now I get my tickets by email, they don't text
20:05
Speaker 1: them to me, and then I take them and I
20:07
Speaker 1: save them to my wallet, and uh, that's how I
20:11
Speaker 1: get mine.
20:12
Speaker 2: But I did not know that.
20:13
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you told me that, and I definitely
20:15
Speaker 1: will pass that on because I could see how that
20:17
Speaker 1: would be annoying. I'm going to tell you one other
20:19
Speaker 1: thing that's thank you, Yeah, thank you so much. One
20:22
Speaker 1: other thing. And I brought this up the other day too,
20:24
Speaker 1: but I think they try to cover all bases, and
20:27
Speaker 1: I think they'll be very interested to hear this. But
20:29
Speaker 1: one thing that I ask them about is why is
20:32
Speaker 1: it that always the most rowdy, drunk person is sitting
20:37
Speaker 1: behind me.
20:38
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
20:40
Speaker 1: Last night I didn't do it, but they had to
20:43
Speaker 1: call security for some guy who was yelling and screaming
20:48
Speaker 1: profanities at the other team. But anyway, they they have
20:52
Speaker 1: a number and they advertise it and just if you're listening,
20:57
Speaker 1: it's four oh two six two four four four for
21:01
Speaker 1: one that you can text during the game anonymously, basically
21:06
Speaker 1: and saying I'm in row to seat twenty one and
21:09
Speaker 1: twenty two and there's a guy right behind me that
21:12
Speaker 1: is carrying on and he's misbehaving. Adults behaving badly, and
21:18
Speaker 1: they will come down and take care of it. I
21:21
Speaker 1: saw the crowd managers come down twice to my area
21:25
Speaker 1: last night. And it wasn't me, and it wasn't Kevin
21:27
Speaker 1: that we're screaming, we were behaving. But there was a
21:30
Speaker 1: little boy that was sitting next to me with his
21:32
Speaker 1: little glove on and trying to catch a ball. He
21:36
Speaker 1: wanted a ball so badly, and I told him my
21:38
Speaker 1: eight year old grandson sat in my seat one night
21:41
Speaker 1: and caught a ball and he wanted to catch a
21:42
Speaker 1: ball so bad. And I finally had to lean over saying,
21:45
Speaker 1: this is just adults behaving badly here. Don't listen to this,
21:49
Speaker 1: and he said, no, I'm not, but you know that happens,
21:52
Speaker 1: and they even tried to cover that. So you can
21:54
Speaker 1: use your phone to report people that are behaving badly,
21:59
Speaker 1: and fortunately that happens, Gene.
22:01
Speaker 3: I got an email this morning and it was a
22:03
Speaker 3: bit of an interesting one. Good It says, dear mean Gen,
22:08
Speaker 3: all right, would you en I would enjoy your take
22:12
Speaker 3: on Nebraska's medical marijuana boondoggle. As you know, voters passed
22:18
Speaker 3: it almost eighteen months ago. This is from Billy, a
22:22
Speaker 3: mean Jen fan. All Right, Billy, I'll take that mean
22:26
Speaker 3: Gene any day. I've been called a lot worse, so
22:28
Speaker 3: that doesn't bother me at all. Okay, medical marijuana. As
22:32
Speaker 3: you all know my background as I'm trained as a
22:35
Speaker 3: critical care nurse, so I understand what is going on
22:41
Speaker 3: with this. But I will tell you I am a
22:44
Speaker 3: big supporter of medical marijuana. I know that there are
22:49
Speaker 3: a lot of children, especially with seizure disorders, that get
22:54
Speaker 3: no relief whatsoever besides medical marijuana or cannabis, and so I.
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Speaker 2: Am a supporter.
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Speaker 1: I know that people have voted for it, the majority
23:06
Speaker 1: wanted it, and I think it is something that should
23:10
Speaker 1: go forward. I'm a big fan of Governor Pillin's I
23:13
Speaker 1: know he is against it. I feel like he also
23:16
Speaker 1: Senator Ricketts, feel like it may lead or it would
23:21
Speaker 1: definitely lead to other drugs. It's just like a gateway
23:27
Speaker 1: to other drugs, and I do not share that feeling.
23:31
Speaker 1: I just I don't feel that way. I think that
23:33
Speaker 1: there's a purpose for it. I think if it works
23:36
Speaker 1: and for some medical conditions, I think it's something that
23:41
Speaker 1: the people in Nebraska wanted, and I think it should
23:45
Speaker 1: be made illegal.
23:46
Speaker 2: And as far as the cannabis.
23:48
Speaker 1: Cultivators, I think they hope to plant soon and grow it,
23:51
Speaker 1: and I think that that is something that I would support.
23:54
Speaker 1: I would not have any issue with it whatsoever.
23:57
Speaker 5: Very interesting.
23:58
Speaker 3: Thank you Billy for the message there. That was an
24:00
Speaker 3: email at comment at kfab dot com. Everything is on
24:04
Speaker 3: the table, and one thing Katz is saying here is
24:10
Speaker 3: who the heck did Fort Street a few years back?
24:13
Speaker 3: I believe they are doing it over for the third
24:16
Speaker 3: time now. It seems they should have sued for such
24:19
Speaker 3: a poor job Fort Street. I wonder where that is at.
24:23
Speaker 3: Oh no, I mean I know where it's at, but
24:25
Speaker 3: I wonder.
24:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure what section of fort that they
24:28
Speaker 1: are talking about. I would have to do a little
24:31
Speaker 1: bit of a review because I haven't driven that stretch
24:34
Speaker 1: in a while. That on that one, I'll get back
24:36
Speaker 1: with you tomorrow to see if they I don't know
24:38
Speaker 1: if they are redoing. Keep in mind, when the city
24:42
Speaker 1: does street work, the city will do the potholes. The
24:46
Speaker 1: city may do smaller areas, but the city bids out
24:52
Speaker 1: all these construction projects to bigger construction companies.
24:56
Speaker 2: And so it's not the.
24:57
Speaker 1: City out there that's doing Underwood right now hour that's
25:00
Speaker 1: doing some of the bigger street work. It's other companies
25:05
Speaker 1: that bien on the on the job. And so I'm
25:09
Speaker 1: not sure about that one. I would have to check
25:11
Speaker 1: into that, and I would I would.
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Speaker 5: Get back with you on that absolutely.
25:16
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gene. We'll come back to that one. I
25:18
Speaker 3: did get another talk back here on the iHeartRadio app
25:23
Speaker 3: going Live.
25:24
Speaker 4: It's amazing, Gene.
25:25
Speaker 1: Anytime somebody has a different take than you, we are always.
25:29
Speaker 8: Wrong and you are right no matter what.
25:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, the lun family.
25:37
Speaker 8: Tiff TIF using their own money doesn't sound like their
25:42
Speaker 8: own money to me.
25:45
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate the comment.
25:47
Speaker 1: But first of all, that I'm always right and you
25:52
Speaker 1: are all always wrong.
25:53
Speaker 2: It's just not true.
25:55
Speaker 1: I say, at the beginning of every single show, you're
25:58
Speaker 1: gonna hear plenty of opinion from me. So I'm going
26:01
Speaker 1: to say what my opinion is based on my knowledge,
26:04
Speaker 1: is on any subject that you asked me to comment on. Now,
26:08
Speaker 1: when you talk about tax increment financing, and you said TIF,
26:13
Speaker 1: which is tiff.
26:15
Speaker 2: That also is their money.
26:18
Speaker 1: You know what what tiff is is when a developer
26:22
Speaker 1: develops an area, they are paying the property tax on it.
26:27
Speaker 1: When the value continues to go up and up and
26:30
Speaker 1: up and up. Because they may develop a corner that's
26:33
Speaker 1: worth a million into a corner that's worth three hundred million.
26:37
Speaker 1: They the developers will pay that increase tax based on
26:43
Speaker 1: the increased valuation of the property that they have. They're
26:46
Speaker 1: paying that increased tax. Well, how tiff works is a
26:51
Speaker 1: portion of that tax that they have paid will go
26:55
Speaker 1: back to the developer, usually for a period of time,
27:01
Speaker 1: to help pay for their development. But they are paying
27:04
Speaker 1: that extra amount of taxes based on the increased valuation
27:08
Speaker 1: of the project. And keep in mind, they're not going
27:11
Speaker 1: to get tiff either, which is defined in state law
27:15
Speaker 1: unless they meet that butt four clause. And that butt
27:19
Speaker 1: four clause means this development would never happen but for
27:24
Speaker 1: the tiff. If they didn't get the tiff, they couldn't
27:26
Speaker 1: afford to do it. There and nothing would happen there,
27:30
Speaker 1: and so that is their tax dollars that they are
27:34
Speaker 1: actually getting a smaller portion of it back to help
27:38
Speaker 1: pay for that development, and it happens.
27:40
Speaker 2: We use it very judiciously.
27:43
Speaker 1: That is one tool development tool that we have in
27:46
Speaker 1: the state of Nebraska, and it is used very very carefully.
27:49
Speaker 1: It goes through a tiff committee, it goes through the
27:52
Speaker 1: planning board, it goes through the city council before it
27:55
Speaker 1: ever is awarded back to the developer. And there are
27:59
Speaker 1: only certain tiff eligible expenses that are covered by state law.
28:05
Speaker 1: And so once again that's not just that's not city money,
28:09
Speaker 1: that's not taxpayer money.
28:11
Speaker 2: That is taxes that they are paying.
28:13
Speaker 1: That a portion goes back to them for a certain
28:15
Speaker 1: period of time to help pay for that development. And
28:18
Speaker 1: then once that tiff note is paid off, and again
28:21
Speaker 1: that tiff note is between the developer and the bank.
28:25
Speaker 1: The city is at no risk at all for awarding
28:28
Speaker 1: tiff The money does not come from the city. They
28:31
Speaker 1: go to the bank and get a loan, and then
28:33
Speaker 1: when they pay their tiff note back and that is
28:37
Speaker 1: all settled, then that extra tax dollar is that that
28:41
Speaker 1: developer is paying on his big development it goes back
28:45
Speaker 1: on the tax rolls for Omaha and benefits all of
28:48
Speaker 1: Omaha and really benefits all of Omaha. And again, if
28:52
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that development, that corner or that piece
28:56
Speaker 1: of land or that vacant parking garage or vacant building
28:59
Speaker 1: might just be sitting there bringing in no tax dollars,
29:02
Speaker 1: hardly at all.
29:04
Speaker 3: Thank you for your opinion on the talkback of Mike.
29:07
Speaker 3: These are the things that we welcome every day. We
29:09
Speaker 3: love to hear it. Thank you for the amazing talkback.
29:12
Speaker 3: Another topic that I wanted to get into just very briefly.
29:17
Speaker 3: Here is a phone call that from Jim and he
29:21
Speaker 3: was questioning the Wi Fi at the College World Series. Jim,
29:25
Speaker 3: you're live here on news Radio eleven ten kfab Well.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, mayor Jean, good morning.
29:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:33
Speaker 6: So you know, I love the College World Series. We've
29:37
Speaker 6: been going since I was first station at off It
29:39
Speaker 6: in the mid eighties. And Schwapfield is a wonderful facility,
29:47
Speaker 6: and you know they Mecca and CWS think all was. Oh,
29:52
Speaker 6: it's the largest stadium without a major League team minute,
29:57
Speaker 6: but there's no Wi Fi there. And so you talked
30:02
Speaker 6: about tickets and whether they're texted to you, or you
30:06
Speaker 6: have them in your in your wallet or your email account.
30:11
Speaker 6: Sometimes you're just sitting there and it's spinning, and it's spinning,
30:14
Speaker 6: and it's spinning. And NCAA events they won't give you
30:18
Speaker 6: paper tickets when we attend uh like Nebraska Creighton. First,
30:23
Speaker 6: My first stop is the box office and they'll print
30:25
Speaker 6: you off the paper ticket you're in. But the fact
30:28
Speaker 6: that there's no Wi Fi there is is just it's
30:33
Speaker 6: a headshaker.
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Speaker 1: You know.
30:35
Speaker 2: I agree with you there. Now all of the tickets
30:38
Speaker 2: are mobile.
30:38
Speaker 1: Now there are there aren't paper tickets, and you're you're
30:42
Speaker 1: probably I don't know, I'm probably older than you.
30:45
Speaker 2: So I'm used to paper tickets for everything. I like them.
30:48
Speaker 1: But it's interesting that you say that, because I felt
30:52
Speaker 1: it too. The first year that TD Meri Trade it
30:55
Speaker 1: was TD Merior Trade now Charles Flab was open, there
30:58
Speaker 1: was a big problem with Wi Fi and the internet there,
31:02
Speaker 1: and I thought they had fixed it.
31:04
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought they had done what they need to.
31:06
Speaker 1: Do to make sure that that was fixed and everybody
31:10
Speaker 1: had access to it.
31:11
Speaker 2: But I noticed it myself. This time. I didn't have
31:14
Speaker 2: any trouble.
31:14
Speaker 1: I like, I said, I'd get my tickets through email
31:17
Speaker 1: and then I'd transfer them to my mobile wallet. I
31:20
Speaker 1: didn't have any trouble showing them that, But while I
31:23
Speaker 1: was sitting in the stadium, and you think that there's
31:25
Speaker 1: probably twenty four thousand cell phones that people are trying
31:29
Speaker 1: to work to get their internet on there, I had
31:32
Speaker 1: some trouble too occasionally, and I would and you know,
31:35
Speaker 1: I would text something, or I would send an email
31:38
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't go, and then I'd try again a
31:40
Speaker 1: little bit later, or I'd try to open up my email,
31:43
Speaker 1: try again a little bit later, and it would work.
31:45
Speaker 2: So I did experience that myself. This time. It was
31:48
Speaker 2: a little sketchy intermittently.
31:50
Speaker 1: So that's another thing I think I would like to
31:53
Speaker 1: ask them about this time. Keep in mind that every
31:56
Speaker 1: year after the College World Series there are multiple meetings,
32:00
Speaker 1: but one is a big one and it's between the
32:02
Speaker 1: city of Omaha, Mecca, the College World Series in the NCAA,
32:07
Speaker 1: and everybody sits and gives a report, and it's always
32:10
Speaker 1: what happened right, what happened wrong, and how can we
32:13
Speaker 1: make it better?
32:13
Speaker 2: So these are good things to know.
32:15
Speaker 3: Thank you, absolutely, thank you Jim for that phone call.
32:17
Speaker 3: And I just want to say as well, when I
32:19
Speaker 3: was going to the World Cup game this weekend on
32:21
Speaker 3: Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium, I had multiple emails bleeding up
32:26
Speaker 3: to the game where they said put it on your
32:29
Speaker 3: Apple wallet. So when seventy thousand people are here and
32:33
Speaker 3: the Wi Fi goes slow, you have your tickets and
32:36
Speaker 3: you can get in. And they said that in advance,
32:38
Speaker 3: you know, take care of this early WiFi is going
32:40
Speaker 3: to be slow.
32:41
Speaker 5: You're going to get the spinning wheel of doom.
32:43
Speaker 3: Yes, you know it's going to be brutal, But at
32:45
Speaker 3: the same time there's also a safety factor to it
32:47
Speaker 3: as well that if you can't send a text message,
32:50
Speaker 3: your phone calls not going through that could also be
32:53
Speaker 3: a little bit dangerous. But it's one of those things
32:55
Speaker 3: in a big stadium. You know, you're down there at
32:58
Speaker 3: Charles Swab there's twenty five thirty thousand and people there.
33:01
Speaker 3: That doesn't even include the people in the general vicinity
33:03
Speaker 3: of the stadium outside.
33:04
Speaker 5: Right, It's one of those.
33:05
Speaker 3: Things that is kind of inevitable, but it's good feedback
33:08
Speaker 3: to see if they can take care of that in
33:10
Speaker 3: the years to come.
33:11
Speaker 1: And I think that that will be a priority forum.
33:13
Speaker 1: But yeah, again, when you think of that many people,
33:16
Speaker 1: like when you were down at the Arrowhead Stadium, like
33:18
Speaker 1: seventy thousand plus people, probably every one of them had
33:21
Speaker 1: their cell phones going. And you know that is not
33:24
Speaker 1: my area of expertise, but I'm sure that Geane, what
33:28
Speaker 1: can we do?
33:28
Speaker 3: What can we do to increase the strength of signal
33:31
Speaker 3: here in the Wi FI?
33:31
Speaker 5: Is it something we can't know? I'm just ki.
33:34
Speaker 2: I know you're messing with me today, Peyton. I don't know.
33:37
Speaker 1: I mean, I really don't, but I know somebody does
33:40
Speaker 1: and they will. I'm sure that they will look into
33:43
Speaker 1: that because I'm sure if that is happening to me
33:45
Speaker 1: and the caller, I'm sure it's happening to many other
33:48
Speaker 1: people too, and I'm sure they've heard about it.
33:50
Speaker 3: So Jean Stouthard and the KFAB comment line will return next.
33:54
Speaker 3: Phone lines are open, give.
33:55
Speaker 2: Us a buzz, and we're going to talk fireworks.
33:57
Speaker 5: And we are going to talk fireworks. It's been long waited.
34:00
Speaker 3: We didn't get to it yesterday, but hey, we're going
34:02
Speaker 3: to get to it next.
34:07
Speaker 5: Yes we will.
34:08
Speaker 3: We will give them something to talk about here on
34:10
Speaker 3: news Radio eleven ten KFAB. Your host of the show,
34:13
Speaker 3: Geene Stauthard. My name is Peyton Hylock. Here for the
34:16
Speaker 3: kfab comment line and Gene. On Friday we had a
34:19
Speaker 3: really really good conversation about fireworks and as we're approaching
34:24
Speaker 3: the fourth of July, it is getting more and more relevant.
34:28
Speaker 3: So I know you hit the books this weekend. You
34:30
Speaker 3: did some research on some fireworks.
34:32
Speaker 5: What do you got.
34:33
Speaker 1: Well, I had to refresh my memory a little bit
34:36
Speaker 1: because when I was I think when I was on
34:38
Speaker 1: the city Council is when we first started having a
34:41
Speaker 1: you know, an ordinance to allow the sale and use
34:44
Speaker 1: of fireworks. But I did review a little bit, and
34:48
Speaker 1: you know it is in city code. It has been
34:51
Speaker 1: amended at least once to shorten the time that fireworks
34:55
Speaker 1: could be sold in Omaha and could be used. But
34:58
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to look it up, if you can
35:00
Speaker 1: look up any city ordinance or code online, it's Article ten,
35:05
Speaker 1: section twenty to three twenty. But anyway, what it basically
35:09
Speaker 1: says is it is unlawful to possess to offer for sale,
35:16
Speaker 1: to hold for sale, or to bring into the city
35:19
Speaker 1: to use or discharge in the City of Omaha except
35:24
Speaker 1: four and then it goes through and it defines what
35:29
Speaker 1: fireworks are. It defines it's a we're wordy and I'm
35:34
Speaker 1: not going to read it on the air. It talks
35:36
Speaker 1: about the lanterns that we talked about the other day,
35:39
Speaker 1: for example. It talks about what they say when they
35:42
Speaker 1: are defining fireworks, because some people will come out with
35:45
Speaker 1: just basic explosive and let them off. But I want
35:49
Speaker 1: to let people know that tents that are put up
35:53
Speaker 1: the city allows for forty tenths for nonprofits. Each city
35:57
Speaker 1: council can pick so many that they want based on
36:01
Speaker 1: the applicants. The mayor can pick a few two and
36:05
Speaker 1: that fireworks in Omaha can only be used and discharged
36:10
Speaker 1: from July second to July fourth, and that is only
36:16
Speaker 1: between noon and eleven pm July second and fourth, second, third, fourth,
36:22
Speaker 1: between noon and eleven pm.
36:24
Speaker 2: That's it. Otherwise it is illegal. And then also it
36:28
Speaker 2: is allowed.
36:29
Speaker 1: From five pm until one am on December thirty first,
36:33
Speaker 1: so New Year's Eve. So for a very short time
36:36
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve you must Then there's a lot
36:39
Speaker 1: more that's in that ordinance that you need to be.
36:42
Speaker 1: You must be sixteen years or older to possess or
36:46
Speaker 1: discharge if you are younger than that, you have to
36:48
Speaker 1: be accompanied by an adult. Now, if a person is
36:51
Speaker 1: convicted of a violation of this law, the first offense
36:56
Speaker 1: is three hundred dollars, the second is four hundred, and
36:59
Speaker 1: the third is five hundred for each separate instance.
37:02
Speaker 2: Put them in jail, and it's a fine. It's a fine.
37:05
Speaker 1: Let me tell you though, it gets difficult because if
37:09
Speaker 1: you call the Omaha Police Department, if you use nine
37:12
Speaker 1: to one one, they're just running all over the city
37:14
Speaker 1: and by the time they get there, somebody is or
37:17
Speaker 1: is done. There is a non emergency number that the
37:21
Speaker 1: police put out every year, and they said, if you
37:23
Speaker 1: are having issues that you think you need to report
37:26
Speaker 1: of somebody using them before those dates July, second, third,
37:30
Speaker 1: and fourth, there's a number that it's four O two
37:32
Speaker 1: four four four five eight oh two. So that's four
37:37
Speaker 1: four four five eight oh two. That's a non emergency number,
37:41
Speaker 1: and you can call that to get the police's attention,
37:44
Speaker 1: because sometimes you need to. I mean, there are people
37:47
Speaker 1: that are really injured by using explosives and not the fireworks,
37:51
Speaker 1: and the fireworks that are accepted to be sold and
37:55
Speaker 1: discharged in the city of Omaha are defined in this ordinance,
38:00
Speaker 1: in this law. So, like I said, it gets very technical,
38:03
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to read at all. But the
38:05
Speaker 1: point I really wanted to make people are saying they're
38:08
Speaker 1: letting fireworks off already, the tents are going up.
38:11
Speaker 2: You are not legally allowed.
38:13
Speaker 1: To let your fireworks off discharge them until July second, third, fourth,
38:17
Speaker 1: and that's only between noon and eleven PM. So people
38:21
Speaker 1: will say, well, they're letting them off in the morning,
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Speaker 1: well that is illegal. They're letting them off at midnight,
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Speaker 1: that's illegal. So keep that in mind, folks.
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Speaker 3: I got a few emails last week. This one comes
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Speaker 3: from Brian s. People need to remember that cities outside
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Speaker 3: of Omaha, especially in Sarpye County, sell fireworks long before
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Speaker 3: Omaha allows the sale of them, so there's really no
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Speaker 3: stopping it. And then Brian H. Says, Hygiene and Peyton
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Speaker 3: what needs to happen is a joint meeting of all
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Speaker 3: Douglas and Sarpy County government entities to unify the sales
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Speaker 3: and the dates, which I think would be a little
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Speaker 3: bit complicated. This is me speaking now. I think that
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Speaker 3: would be really complicated to organize. But if that were
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Speaker 3: to happen across the Omaha metro area. That might help
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Speaker 3: a little bit.
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Speaker 2: It's you know, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, it definitely would, But to get each entity to
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Speaker 1: get you know, Ralston and La Vista and Papilion and
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Speaker 1: you know, Gret all of these areas to agree would
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Speaker 1: be a little bit difficult. It would be ideal, but
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Speaker 1: it would be a little bit difficult. But then again,
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Speaker 1: you could think all you got to do is go
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Speaker 1: across the river and you could buy them in Iowa
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Speaker 1: then too. Yeah, and so that's the real problem.
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Speaker 3: They're abundant or fifty minutes down south down twenty nine,
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Speaker 3: you hit Rockport until they got a lot of fireworks
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Speaker 3: for sale there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, So that's the dish. The issue with it.
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Speaker 1: It is just so hard to enforce it, and it's
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Speaker 1: so hard to be calling the police to enforce something
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Speaker 1: going on. But I know a lot of people brought
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Speaker 1: up their animals that are scared to death with the fireworks.
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Speaker 1: And I said, I had a dog that was just
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Speaker 1: petro by fireworks, but she was petrified by thunder two,
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Speaker 1: you know, And there's not much I'm gonna do about
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Speaker 1: a storm with her. And so yeah, I had to
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Speaker 1: sedate Lily my golden lab that I had. But I
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Speaker 1: know it's a problem. It's a problem. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people hate them. There's every year there is there are injuries,
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it because people aren't using them correctly.
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Speaker 1: But I just wanted people to know when it is
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Speaker 1: legal in the City of Omaha. That was a law
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Speaker 1: and ordinance passed by the city council and it stands.
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