Holding Out for a Hero

Now, let's check time saver traffic with Lucy Chapman. Use caution. We've got a cow that is loose and very close to the road at 195th and Pacific. So if you're in that area, use caution through there. That's a look at your roads. I'm Lucy Chapman. Yeah, let's just move on with the show after that. I'm sorry, Lucy. There is a cow in the road at 195th in Pacific. Yes, sir. That is exactly what was reported. I know that there are some people who have horses out there. Right. Cows? But I don't know, maybe it's a pet. Bessie? Which if it's a pet, you really want to be careful. You don't want to hit a cow. No. Under any circumstances. I agree with you. You know who else agrees? The cow. Right. Got Nebraska's morning news coming at you here. Thank you so much for Withstanding the Blow. Craig Evans is back after a day off. Jim Rose is right there. Lucy Chapman is watching video footage of a cow moving through traffic. I am Scott Voorhees looking more and more like a cow every day and sounding more and more like a pig. And we're all here on news radio 1110 KFAB. Why are you yelling? Good morning, Jim. Lucy, how's that cow? I wish I had video. That would be cool. I don't. Your drone camera footage ends at about 180th in Pacific. It doesn't go out to 190 something. It ends at 181st. Shoot. All right. So there's a cow on the road near 195th and Pacific. Near HWS Cleveland Boulevard. It's been a busy week. Nobody can really figure out exactly where that starts and where it ends. Is it north? Is it south? It's like a puzzle piece. It kind of goes everywhere. It really does. All right. Well, watch out for the cow out there. In southeast Omaha, I should say in southeast Omaha, there is a building there that someone just painted a swastika on. There are Democratic officials urging it to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine. So that would be good for that building. We might have a swastika painted building in Omaha be the next senator from Maine. Graham Platner dropped his bid for the Senate race in Maine last night. But I don't think he's done doing damage. If you saw that video, which was released at like one in the morning, it was not positive. It was a little bit modeling. And he essentially told his... What do you expect? Well, he essentially told his... his supporters that look this was rigged i got screwed here yeah well none of these accusations are accurate use those words well he didn't say screwed but okay he got screwed he didn't apologize and no he only suspended his campaign says we're not gonna which essentially mean but that that's that's political speak for i don't have to give the money back because if he ends he doesn't have a lot of money to give he's only got about a hundred thousand of the bank for the campaign. Really? Yeah. But if you suspend your campaign, you don't actually have to give the money back because your campaign never officially ends. However, the tone of this video was, you know what? You guys out there that voted for me, they don't care about you. They don't care about democracy. This is a machine in Maine. This is the Democrat Party machine. This is what they did to us.

That's the way it's been for her in Maine since the very beginning. Now, who do they get? There's this guy named Troy Jackson in Maine who is now the favorite among the Bernie Sanders crowd. In other words, it's Graham Platner 2.0. Where's his Nazi tattoo? Looking for that. All right. Well. Look harder. Leave no stone on turn. I don't think he has a Nazi tattoo, but he may be a Jew hater because a lot of them are. He may be one of these people that believes in free stuff who says that anybody who makes more than minimum wage is making too much and needs to give it to the government, that kind of thing. But let's see. There is no doubt. The Democrat Party is a steaming pile right now in the state of Maine, as it is in a lot of states. Look, I think of Maine. I think of beautiful scenery. Lobster rolls. I'd rather not think about Graham Platner anymore. We'll see if this is the end of that. Kinney Bunkport. Yeah, that's good stuff. America went up and down the coast of Iran and knocked out some missile defense and radar systems and drone storage sites. And haven't we done this 88 times? in the last few months. How many of these things do they have over there? What do they do? We go over there and we bomb a drone storage site or a radar defense system and they go in there and rebuild it and it's there again the next morning. Is that the entire economy of Iran is just rebuilding the radar systems that we blow up every single night? Here's the statement from Senate. minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York. He said, quote, Trump's so-called deal to end hostilities with Iran has turned into total utter disaster. Yeah, I like how this is Trump's fault, by the way. The president gave Iran a very, very good deal. Everyone said that, right? Everyone said it was too good a deal. Chuck Schumer had problems with it. Jim Rose had problems with it. You know, those two guys are in bed together a lot. Chuck Schumer and Jim Rose, just seeing if you're paying attention. Yeah, well, we had coffee the other day. He came to Omaha, it flew under the radar. Yeah. We were down at Lola's. Everyone said that this is too sweet a deal for Iran, and Iran couldn't even agree to it. They couldn't resist trying to attack some cargo ships. And so Trump says, all right, we gave him a deal. They reneged on the deal. We're going to blow up a lot of their stuff. And what's the headline here? Here's a headline. World markets take a hit from Trump's Iran remarks. Not from Iran going back on the deal to which they agreed. It's because Trump had the audacity to say something about it. And that's why world markets took a hit. By the way, NASDAQ's up big here this morning. The NASDAQ? Yeah. And I don't know. I guess it's the exact same thing we see is yesterday, except today it looks a little bit better in the light. I don't know. It's...

Quite a deal. We'll be talking about it throughout the morning here, Jim. Right now, let's get to the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. We have a genuine fairy tale. As an Arthur Ferry at Wimbledon, 23-year-old Brit who entered the tournament as a wild card, meaning his world ranking was so low he needed a special invitation to play, has made the semifinals. He beat the number nine seed Flavio Kobuli on a raucous center court. He's only the second wild card to ever make Wimbledon's final four. He's a fun story. He grew up rich. His family has been a member of the All-England Lawn and Tennis Club forever. His dad is a hedge fund manager. Mom was a good player. Arthur went to Stanford where he was a two-time All-American, but a Brit getting this far at Wimbledon is huge for the country. He plays Alexander Zavarev, the German, and the semifinals. Zavarev took out Tyler Fritz, the last American, and the men's draw. Cocoa Golf of the United States plays her semifinal today. Rhonda Rebell is living large. 34-year Husker softball coach got a new contract, keeps her in a visor through 2030. New Deal is up to $375,000 a year. And if you think that's a lot to coach softball, and it is when she started, she was working for 375 an hour. Had a great year, 52 wins, won a lot of hardware. Baseball games. Mets exploded for five runs in the eighth inning, beat the Royals, 6 to 2. Yeah, we hung in there, all of us, says second baseman Brett Bady. I mean, this whole season we've known what we can do as an offense. It's just about going out there and doing it every single night. We've got guys that are specializing getting on base, scrappy out bats, and then we get guys that can put it in the seats too. So it's a complete lineup when we're all firing on cylinders. He drove in two of the six runs. Toronto tends to nothing over the Giants. The Cubs beat the Orioles 9-7. Miami shut out Seattle and Washington beat Houston and Interleague play. Winners in the National League were the Dodgers and Padres, St. Louis, Louis, Reds, and Braves. In the American League, it was Tampa Bay, Detroit, the Twins, Boston, the Angels all got victories. Louisville 12, Omaha 8. College football, Nebraska is shutting down. It's NIL collective, the 1890 group, and now Iowa is doing the same. shutting down its NIL program called the Swarm. These universities will now take over the summary paying of the players. Not sure why they're doing this. Let the third party groups like these guys do the dirty work. Raise the money, romance the donors. It's about control. World Cup soccer tonight. What do we have? The quarterfinal round, France and Morocco. They are in one of them. This is a rematch of the 2022 finals in the World Cup, won that day by the French. And Lionel Messi and the defending champions of Argentina get back to work on Saturday against Switzerland, England, and Norway clash earlier that day. Tomorrow we got a matchup between Spain and Belgium. Sports is news on Nebraska's news weather and traffic station. KFAB news time in the morning 623. Is Iran still in the World Cup? No. They're out. Did they ever go back to Iran? No. They went down to state in Mexico. Right. They didn't want to stay in America. No, they now live in Bakersfield.

They live in Bakersfield, California now. They've relocated to Bakersfield, and they're running a youth soccer club there. How many members of the Iran national soccer team are running for the U.S. Senate and Maine? Several, because they're getting recruited right now by Graham Platner and Bernie Sanders. Because nobody understands socialism as well as the Iranians. We made up all of that stuff, folks, just so you know. They're not living in Bakersfield. They're probably back somewhere. in Iran hiding, trying not to get blown up by American guns. I wouldn't want to go back to Iran having lost a soccer game right now. As long as they didn't lose to the United States. That's a good point. Lucy, we lost our friend Bonnie. You didn't hear that news today? No, who's Bonnie? Bonnie Tyler. No. Yeah. Seriously. She'll look for a hero. Yeah. I didn't know she was sick. She'd been holding out for a hero for several decades. This is from Footloose. And Shrek. Yeah, they did a great job with this in Shrek as well. That's Jim Rose right there, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans. I'm Scott Voorhees. This is Nebraska's morning news. Don't you think it's a little soon? Four. You did joke about... I'm not joking. What? She got a lot of money for this song in Shrek. Trust me. I love this song. I always wanted her voice. But to make it about her holding up her hero and what, are you insinuating she just gave up? No. She was never going to get her hero. Maybe she got one. I'm not insinuating. Well, she found her songwriting hero and Jim Steinman. Jim Steinman's the guy who wrote, Making love out of nothing at all for Air Supply. She did a great version of that song as well. And then pretty much any meatloaf song you can think of, that was a Jim Steinman song. But Jim loved her voice and loved writing songs. She had two hit songs with Jim Steinman. That one holding out for a hero from the Footloose soundtrack. And of course, total eclipse of the heart, which is probably the greatest power ballad of all time. It's up there. It's on the Mount Rushmore of power ballads. But, yeah, she was the, always described as the gravelly voiced singer. She and Kim Carnes from the 80s. Yeah, Kim Carnes to Betty Davis eyes. She had that rasp to her voice as well. A good, healthy dose of bourbon and cigars. And it really paid off for Bonnie Tyler. Kim Carnes. But no, she's got one of those distinctive sounds, and that's what you miss most about artists, ones that are so unique and different. Well, it sounds like everybody else. She was an absolute sweetheart. She was a guest on our program about five years ago. She had a new album called The Best Is Yet to Come. She had plans for a tour this past spring, but this is why she died. She was hospitalized.

in late April and underwent emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. And she didn't recover, as expected. It was placed in a medically induced coma. She was on a ventilator. You don't want to be on a ventilator. And she came out of the coma, remained in ICU, kept canceling tour dates, and finally succumb to all of that. That horror and passed away in a hospital in Portugal at the age of 75. She was an absolute sweetheart. And... I'm trying to find here. Oh, yeah, Jim, we do a bit on the show where we did one for years. It doesn't happen as much anymore, where we ask celebrities to make us pancakes. Yes, I know. I've heard every one of them. You've never recorded that line, but the line is, Good Morning, Honey. I made you pancakes for breakfast. And Bonnie Tyler was, I believe, the only one who ever sang the pancakes line for us. Here we go. Turn around bright eyes. Come on, darling. I've just made you pancakes. It's funny. She was so sweet. We're going to replay all or at least part of that conversation from March 3rd, 2021, a little bit later this morning after 9 o'clock. I also got Tyrus on the show after 9 o'clock. George. Love George. George and I go way back. George Murdoch, yeah. He was. I have a great Tyrus story about his recruitment to Nebraska, as a matter of fact. Oh, okay. Well, let's, we'll lead into, because he's on at 905, so at 835, I want your Tyrus. Tyrus and I are tight. Okay. He came back, when I was running the Nebraska Grades Foundation, he came back and did a fundraiser for us, and he was fantastic. Sold the place out. Then came back about half a year later and did another show in Omaha, sold out. The man is not only impressive in so many ways physically and intellectually. But the guy has a comedic bent to him, too, that's really actually underrated. He's coming to Omaha next month for his comedy tour at the Relevance Center, five years in a row for that one. It's Thursday, August 13th. He'll be on with me at 905, and he and I actually do go way back. We went to Carney together. You're both U&K guys. Oh, were you guys friends? He does not know me. There was more than three or four people at Carney at the time. Well, he was, you know, the football players and the baseball players only hung out with the football players and the baseball players. players. So it was hard to break in with some of those guys.

I wasn't on the football team. No. They didn't ask. They were good back in those days. And Chad Ruttar, who's a local financial whiz, he was the starting quarterback at the time. That's right. When George, later, George Murdoch, his real name, later became Tyrus when he was a big MMA guy. But Tyrus has lived three lives already. The man has been a Hollywood celebrity. The man's been a bouncer, an MMA champion. There's a lot there. You're a wrestling champion. Yeah, there's a lot there. Is Snoop Dogg's body? He was Snoop Dog's bodyguard. That's got to be a book just by itself. A new survey says two hours is too long for today's movie audiences. Filmgoers from several age groups were pulled. On average, adults prefer a film to be about 88 minutes long. Gen Z viewers preferring an 82-minute movie while boomers can be patient for 93 minutes. I'm Craig Evans. More news at the top of the hour at News Radio 1110, KFAB. It's a good question, Craig Evans. How long should a movie be? See, when I was growing up, I'm still growing up. I'm Scott Borges, by the way. Jim Rose with Sports Brief here in just a few minutes. Lucy Chapman here too, and this is Nebraska's morning news, news radio 1110 KFAB. But Lucy, you and I are both Gen Xers. We were growing up here. Seems like movies were always an hour and a half. give or take a few minutes. Like all the movies were about an hour and a half. And every once in a while you'd have something that would get towards two hours and like, wow, that's a long movie. And then Oliver Stone, I think, was like, I'm putting out a three hour movie. A JFK film was about three hours long. And you know what? It was great. I would have watched it for another few hours. He did that one. I think the Ali movie was approaching three hours long. I think Oppenheimer, these aren't all Oliver Stone films. What decade are we talking? Well, now I'm just jumping around. In the 70s and 80s, the movies were all about an hour and a half long. That's as long as the shark would continue to swim. We didn't see the shark for the first 20 minutes of that movie. No, I, um, whether it was Jaws or Jaws 2 or Jaws 3 and 3D or Jaws 4, the revenge or Jaws 5, that's the one where he fights Tommy Gunn. Right. In the street or wait, that's Rocky. Anyway, all the popcorn movies, the 80s were all about an hour and a half long. And now I don't mind if I'm going to go to the theater, if I'm going to pay money to go to the theater, I don't want to be in there for 82 minutes. Shoot, the previews are 82 minutes. If you're going to bring a cosigner just to get concessions, you want a lot more than 82 minutes. Yeah, I want a good movie. I want something that's, you know, two hours and 17 minutes long. I want Dr. Zavago. I want gone with the wind. I need an intermission. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about something like that. But I want to see big explosions and superheroes for at least two hours and 17 minutes. That's a good length of film if I'm sitting there in the movie. But if you see a movie, it's over two hours long, especially since, as I said, you know, Gen X kid, which means now if I'm going to go see a movie that's more than two hours long, I am at that point in my life where I do need to think before the film starts.

strategically. Do I need to say the rest of this? No. Well, it becomes an issue. Just don't get a soda. No, I don't have that kind of money. Guess who had to write an op-ed in Maine and say, hey, thank you very much for reaching out, but I'm not going to jump in and pick up the baton from Graham Platner to run for the U.S. Senate. None other than actor Patrick Dempsey. Didn't know that he cared about politics, didn't know that he lived in Maine, hadn't really thought much about Patrick Dempsey since Gray's Anatomy, or before that, Can't Buy Me Love. Good morning. I'm Scott Voorhees, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Dan Schwartzman, and for Courtney Dunahoe today, and this is Nebraska's morning news. Senator McDreamy. Is he McDreamy or McSteamy? I didn't watch Gray's Anatomy. I didn't either, but I think McDreamy. It says here he's Dr. McDreamy. Patrick Dempsey. So now they got to go get Stephen King. Who else lives in Maine? Oh. The Bushes. I don't think that any of the Bushes are going to run as a Democratic Senate candidate. Is there a Bush that hopped the Republican corral and went out and got a little Democrat-y? Well, many of them have acted like Democrats down through the years. I don't know if that qualifies. But yeah, they usually convene at Walker's Point for the summer up there in Kinney Bunkport, which is right there on the ocean. That's pretty cool. I've been in the family for like 150 years, that little spot up there on the point. You ever been invited up there? I haven't. I've been by it, but I've never been welcomed in. And that was an oversight. You've been shooed away from there? No, the president said that was an oversight. Were you up there protesting? No, I was actually sailing around the Penobscot Bay one time on a little 19th century sailing schooner. It was a wonderful trip. Tell me more about your dinghy. Well, it wasn't a dinghy. It was a large ship. But yeah, so I saw this advertised, and I thought this was like, 25 years ago. I saw this advertised, so I called a friend and said, so we went up there. So we flew into Hartford, you know, visited a friend there and then drove up along the coast of Maine, past Kittery and Kinney Bunkport to Camden, Maine, which is a beautiful little cove. And that's where we boarded the ship and sailed around for several days and then came home. It was great. Did you wear the little schooner outfit? No. But it rained for the first. It was not the world's greatest experience for the first day because it rained, and we kind of had to sit there and just ride it out. But it was funny. I ran into a couple from New York City. This guy was a hedge fund manager, and his wife had forced him to go on vacation. And you have to go on vacation. Dear, this is a save the marriage trip. So they found out we were from Nebraska. And, of course, the first thing. that he said was Rose Blumpkin, Nebraska Furniture Mark, because she'd just been profiled in the Wall Street Journal. So anyway, the wife is talking to him, and he pulls out his phone and is going to take a call on his little flip phone, cell phone. She grabs it and throws it into the ocean. Wow.

She said, I warned you. This is a vacation. Yeah, I wonder if they're still together. I don't know. They're still around. But no, that was a beautiful state. It's a truly beautiful state. Now, I wasn't up there in the wintertime. I guess it gets a little nippy up there in the wintertime. Certainly can. But in the summertime, it is just a magnificent place. It's cool, the breezes, deep, rich blue skies. It's a very clean state. They don't even allow advertising on the highways, no billboards. Well, Graham Platner was going to represent that state if, indeed, he was victorious in November, but he couldn't even get to mid-July. He last night suspended his campaign, which is not dropping out. No. He could jump back in. You know, he says, I have not been even, no one's even filed a charge against me. I've just got a bunch of Democrats and say, no, no, you got to go. We've got to get someone else in there. This is after the voting process. So who do the Democrats get after the voting process to suddenly step in there and go, okay, I'll do it. Does Kamala Harris have a little place in Bar Harbor or something? Maybe. That seems to be the way that. They do it. I'm sure Bernie knows a few communists up there. They're going to have a convention. They're going to have a little mini convention in Maine and Bangor or Augusta or wherever they have their conventions up there. Springfield. And they'll have 600 Mainers there picked their Senate candidate. But the bigger, broader issue of your Democrat up there is this. How much rampaging across the landscape will Graham Platner do? And the answer will be a lot. If you look at that video, and I'm sure it's online easy to get to, that he released early this morning, pretty much saying that, I'm suspending my campaign, and it's not because I want to, and this is not an admission of guilt. You know, I'm not saying that those women are right, but that's what people are going to think. I'm dropping out because they found out about me. He says, that's not the case. I'm doing it because the structure here screwed me over. implied that much. It says that these guys, these Democrats here, they caught something in the wind and said, that's it. We're going to dump this guy. We're going to cancel this guy. So he's probably not going to be supportive of the Democrat candidate, whoever that one is. Well, since apparently, according to Pete Ricketts, Dan Osborne and Graham Platner are best friends, practically Siamese twins, then maybe Graham Platner can run as an independent Senate candidate up there. Well, maybe Dan Osborne can run for Senate in Maine. If things go a little south here. If we continue to get these nasty ads and he gets pushed out of Nebraska, maybe he could sign up and run in Maine. Well, the one person not running is actor Patrick Dempsey. Here's what he said. As I reflected on all of this, I kept coming back to one question. Do I truly want to serve in Congress? After a lot of thought, I realize the answer is no. Not because public service isn't honorable. It absolutely is. But because I believe I can contribute more effectively. Through the life I've already built, unquote. Let's just pause for a moment and reflect upon what life Patrick Dempsey, actor over several decades, has built for himself there in Maine. I'm guessing it's pretty comfortable.

I can contribute more effectively through the life I've already built. And what effective life is that, Patrick? Well, I'm going to have grapefruit for breakfast and lobster. And then lobster rolls for lunch. And then for dinner, a whole plate of lobster. It is, after all, in Maine. Things could not possibly be moving more slowly than in Utah. This is the Charlie Kirk. murderers trial, the alleged murderer Charlie Kirk, is in there. We're not even to a place where the judge is asking for a plea at this point. Jim, you've been following this. We don't have a plea yet. It's been a year and we don't even have a plea because of this judge. This judge Stephen Groff is pulling a Lance Etoe. He wants it to be about him. And so yesterday he allowed the defense to just hatch all sorts of conspiracy theories about the ballistics test and all this other jazz. We still have two more defense witnesses. This is just the, this is essentially the grand jury stage. We're just deciding if there's enough evidence to move forward with a trial and get a plea. And look, we got a note, we got video, we got a roommate, we got all sorts of stuff, we got a gun, we got scratches on shell casings. What do we need? If I were the Kirk family, I would be just outraged by this behavior. And then yesterday this judge says to the guys, Would you guys be okay with us maybe wrapping this up by Friday? That's not what a judge says. A judge says, I'm making a decision. And he's not even going to say at the time he's going to write about it and let him think about it over the weekend and then maybe on Monday. But to go this long without even a plea to me is judicial malfeasance. And go to trial. Put all of this stuff on trial, all right? But get a plea out of this guy. Are you guilty? Are you not guilty? Are you animal, vegetable, or mineral, whatever? But to allow this to go on and on. Now, we're going to get a video, I guess, of the roommate. This is the trans lover. Part of it. Part of it. It's a 37-minute video. They hacked out 17 minutes of it that apparently was prejudicial. The Kirk family and the prosecutor are saying that is prejudice against our case. But anyway, we're going to get at least Mr. Lance Twig. We're going to get him on video today. It's not going to be televised. It's going to be audio for people outside the courtroom. But what else do you need? But they're cutting out the part where he allegedly admits to the crime. Correct. So I'm not quite sure what the point of this is. Donald Trump Jr. is among those who's been in the courtroom this week in Utah. And he said this evidence is monumental. And this is going to be a cut and dry case if the judge will allow it to be. They don't move that quickly in Utah. Well, they should move that quickly. What's the holdup? Well, I think that Elizabeth Smart case took years. Eight years. It took eight years for her. And she said, that's the guy. Oh, my gosh. I'm not in love. So don't forget.

Bonnie Tyler from her most recent album, which is now five years old. And sadly, that would be her last album and maybe truest statement. Is it a Bonnie Taylor, Bonnie Tyler is not up there singing with the Angels, then who deserves to. Oh, I think she's doing a lot with the ages up there. Yeah. So, yeah. So the best is yet to come. I hope so. Even if you shake off that mortal coil, Bonnie Tyler, gone at the age of 75. I talked to her a few years ago. I've been listening back to that interview. She is so sweet. I love Bonnie Tyler. Now you have a crush on Bonnie Tyler. No, I have always had a crush on Bonnie Tyler. That faster than the Speed of Night album cover? You like that, did you? Yeah, she's dutiful. You got into that. The eyes. She has great eyes. Kim Carnes was very attractive in her prime, too. No, I like women. We've got a celebrity deathmash going right now with Kim Carnes and Bonnie Tyler. You know, I've always kind of been attracted to uniquely sounding female voices. Many of them sound the same. But the ones that aren't the same, the ones that are very throaty, very raspy, smoky, I've always liked those. I had a thing for Mary Chapin Carpenter back in the 1990s when she was rocking and rolling. She was sending out one great album after another crossing over from country. She was one of those people that got me into country back in the 90s. And I'm thinking, this one, nobody sounds like this. Yeah. Yeah, now, she had a guy named John Jennings who did most of the lyrics for her songs, but she put something on them that most people didn't. So Bonnie Tyler's going to be missed. You know, she was one of those. And it's a loss for us. Yeah. Janice Joplin. Janice Joplin. Maybe the greatest, most unique rock voice in. And not just female rock music history, but in all of music. Yeah, she led the parade. Janice Joplin led the parade. That's Jim Rose right there, Craig Evans. You talk about your throaty female vocalist, Craig Evans right there. A lot of people don't know. He is a woman. I can get him to sing. I'm holding out for a hero. I think I'm a few bars of that. We should. We should have Craig sing. I'll do the turnaround broad-eyes parts, and Craig can sing the vocals on Total Eclipse of the Heart. And I'm rolling tape. We have a few hours to talk him into it. Lucy Chapman's right there. I'm Scott Voorhees. This is News Radio 1110, KFAB. I'd like to hear Lucy Chapman sing. Lucy's kind of got one of those voices. She's in that parade. I'd like to hear her sing. We've done some karaoke. We've done some fun karaoke stuff over the years. Maybe we can do Total Eclipse of the Heart later this morning, Lucy. Do you want to take the Bonnie Tyler part or the Rory Dodd part? He's the guy who sings the turnaround bright eyes. I once sang karaoke at an event with Jeff Koturba, and he did the turnaround bright eyes parts, and I sang the Bonnie Tyler part. Is there any evidence of this? No evidence. Well, there's a picture, but there's no audio that exists. It was burned immediately. Governor Jim Pillen says,

It's time for Nebraska state agencies to implement some spending cuts. Again? Yeah, well, he said that revenues are down and the state budget division, you've got to reduce your monthly budget by no less than 5%. Yikes. Well, I mean, there's a reason we have a hole. Look, this, people think that this can't happen in government. It happens in business all the time. Yes. Is there room to cut more? It depends on who's receiving what. But the hole is the property tax relief fund. That is the hole in this budget. It's a billion dollars that we pour into a bucket that has a hole at the bottom. And nobody seems to want to do anything about it, okay, except the governor. The governor has tried. He's been trying very hard to get people to change the way we tax things in this state. And if we don't address that... Okay, if we don't systematically change the formula for how we value property and tax property in this state, that number is going to keep growing up, going up. And every year, the governor, if they are a fiscal conservative, is going to say we have to cut more out of the state budget to accommodate that. That is not the way to fix the problem. And it's a Band-Aid on a compound fracture. And compound fractures don't work without resetting the leg. And that's what we have to do. And guess what? That hurts, okay? If anybody out there's had a compound fracture, they know how hard it is and how painful it is to reset the leg. But that's how you fix it. and nobody wants to reset the leg down there. Very politically unpopular. And I don't understand why it is that 75% of Nebraska's will tell anybody running for office, property taxes are my biggest problem. 75%, 7.5 out of every 10 Nebraska's will say, I want you to lower my property taxes systemically. Okay, not just one time, but I need a new system. And they won't do anything about it. They just keep pouring money into a bucket that has a hole at the bottom. And nobody sane does that, except us in state government in Nebraska. So that's what it's boiling down to, Scott. I mean, it's a billion-dollar hole. So you don't think that some of these agencies can just implement a restaurant tax across the state to come up? You go eating Gothenburg. What is this restaurant tax in Gothenburg? Now, that's the pay property taxes in Douglas County relief. It won't be easy. It will be painful.

It will cost people elections, but this is how you fix it. I don't know that we did a real good doge action in Nebraska. They cut $150 million out of the DHS budget, which is also one of the – well, and that's the other thing, Scott. We talk about trimming around the edges. We got four bills in this state. That's it. The rest of it's peanuts. You got the university. You got K-12 education. You got DHS. That's three bills, basically. And then the rest of it is just – By comparison, peanuts. So if you really want to save money, you've got to go to those three. Well, you can't go to those three now because the university says we're at the end. I'm not sure they are. K through 12, wait a minute. I'll just jack up property taxes if you do that. Right. University can jack up tuition room and board. So I don't know why we're giving them that much money. They should be self-sufficient. None of my tax dollars should go to the university. The university should go get money from sports. If the university needs money to shore up its budget, its academic budget, it needs to go to the Husker Athletic Department. They've got all the money. That tuned into the Chris Baker show the other day and was suddenly sucked into an edition of Live PD Omaha. Adopting. The Chris Baker Show, always an interesting ride, whether you're driving in the passenger seat, handcuffed in the back, gagged in the trunk. I mean, everyone has a different feeling when riding along with the Chris Baker Show. Afternoons 2 to 6 right here. On Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station, this is News Radio 1110 KFAB. And we got Nebraska's morning news right here. Jim Rose with Sports Brief in just a moment. Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans there. I am Scott Voorhees. Cityboy. I didn't realize this. You're not allowed to fix your own John Deere equipment? I didn't know about this, but it took a lawsuit. A right to repair settlement that was resolved yesterday as attorneys general in several states secured that settlement with John Deere that required the company to allow farmers to fix their own equipment. The Illinois-based Deer and Company has faced complaints for years for withholding the software needed for repairs and forcing customers to use authorized dealers instead of independent ones or being able to do it themselves. And so it was a class action lawsuit. Nebraska was not part of this lawsuit as far as I can tell. Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin. I imagine there were probably some guys going I'm not taking it to the authorized dealer I can do a better job than they can

And there are even older ag producers who have older John Deere equipment that they've been fixing themselves for years ago on software. This thing don't need no software. There's no software in this thing. I've been using this thing for 46 years. Still runs great. I take good care of it. Still runs like a deer. Runs like a deer. That's right. We were talking about property taxes in this last hour. Governor Pillen says these state agencies need to cut. A lot of their budgets because the revenues aren't coming in. That's funny. I paid my property taxes and state income tax this past year. How did they not have any money? I paid a lot of money to them. I live in a very, very sprawling multi-acreage compound. No, you don't. I know. Well, of course, you know, the state doesn't get much property tax. That mostly goes to local districts. If you look at your property tax bill, there are 15 mouths there, and none of them are state. They're all county or school or city or bond issues. So it's sales taxes and income taxes. That's pretty much what we get. And Nebraska, Nebraska's, hey, you know, we're not buying cars. We're not buying new cars, not buying, you know, washers and dryers and dishwashers like we were. You went into the rant on property taxes and elicited this email from Tannis says, we moved from Nebraska to Iowa in 2002 to save on property taxes. But since then, Iowa has almost caught up to Nebraska and taxing people to death. We just sold our house in Glenwood and we've moved to Missouri. They've gone from $6,000 a year to $600 a year in property taxes and they're overlooking the lake of the Ozarks. Much happier looking out at the lake every morning and saving 90% in property taxes and enjoying listening to you all in the morning on IHeartRadio. Thank you, Tannis. Appreciate the email. It's happening. A lot of Nebraskaans are relocating to other states. especially when they get to a retirement age, when they have more financial resources. Many of them are fleeing to Wyoming or South Dakota or Arizona or Texas or Missouri, and it's because of that. So you think, well, but they're here like half the year. They may be official residents of Arizona, but they're here during the summer and they're back down in Arizona in the winter. There are thousands of Nebraskaans that behave that way. But here's the problem. You take somebody out of the state. You take everything out. They may be here, but they're not participating like they were if they were actual citizens. What do you mean, Rosie? They don't buy as much stuff here. They don't give as much money away here. In other words, they're charitable giving changes. They are not investing and they are not participating in day-to-day life like if they were full-time citizens here. So those who say, well, that's not any big deal, Rosie. Yeah, it is a big deal. It's a huge deal. And it's having a tremendously negative effect on economic development in greater Nebraska, particularly in what we call the Class 1 cities, the North Plats, the Grand Islands, the Carnies, the Yorks, and that kind of thing. So you have to stop people from fleeing.

Tax policy is the single biggest reason that people flee. But you could have a better tax policy, and you're still going to look at Florida and Arizona versus 30 degrees below zero here in the winter. Yes, but they'll stay as residents here, which means they'll file their income tax here. Okay, now we have been more competitive in income tax, Scott. That's true. Not as low as some states like South Dakota, which is zero. Or Texas, which is... zero, Florida, zero. By next year, our income tax rates set to drop to 3.99%. If we meet economic metrics, see, there was a little fine print on that law, and that is only if revenues are here or here or here. If we have a big gap in sales tax revenues, then that won't trigger the change. But the main thing that we have to address, because I believe there's enough revenue in Nebraska to do what we need to do. It's the way we tax. It's what we tax. It's what we don't tax. If you go down to Arizona where they have a very, very low state income tax and very low property taxes, you can get a $2 million house in the Phoenix area and pay $4,000 in property tax. That $2 million house in Omaha, you're paying $30,000 in property taxes. But they tax everything. Everything has a sales tax associated to it. It's a discretionary tax. We don't. Okay, we have exempted too many things. And you say, well, that adversely affects poor people. It's discretionary. Okay, a property tax is not. And you people that live in the urban core, in your little houses in the urban core, get ready. Because in the next five years, your property taxes are going through the roof thanks to our little streetcar project. And you're thinking, well, I can't hide. No, you can't hide. It's a tax policy. problem. Gene Stott, there's going to come running in here two hours early for the KFAB comment line just to strangle you with your own microphone. She and I got into it yesterday over the garages because she was propagating false information about the garages yesterday and I had to set her straight on that. Sometime you need to be a guest on the KFAB comment line. I've told her. I'll come on. But look. It's going to happen. We can't stop it. That streetcar has left the station. All right. By the way, Council Bluffs Mayor Jill Shudak was a guest. She was great yesterday, by the way. She's a sharp gal. You folks in Council Bluffs have a sharp gal in charge. I probably got off on the wrong foot with her. What did you say? Well, because, you know, I left the studio as Gene was coming in here. And I said, I'll go get your guest and bring her in. And I went up to her and said, you're not Tom Hannafin. I heard the mayor of Council Bluffs was out here. Meanwhile, Matt Walsh is like, what the heck? I was here for years. If you miss any part of the KFAB comment line, it is on the podcast link at kfab.com. Just click on Gene Stoddard. And it's a good show. It is. The president says that Iran called him up after we hit on last night.

We hit the radar installations. We hit the drone installations. We hit the missile sites. And they called us up. And they were begging, please, we so badly want to make a deal. Please let us make it. Mr. President, I say this with all due respect. I don't believe you. I imagine someone talked to somebody, but... The fact that we're hitting the same stuff that we always hit, when they already had a really sweet deal laid out for them and they could not bring themselves to abide by it, and then we hit some more other stuff that they clearly don't care about. They knew it was coming. And then we did exactly what we said we were going to do. We hit some of these drone installations or whatever. And then they're like, oh, please, Mr. President, we didn't know it's going to be so awful. Please don't do it anymore. Don't hit our radar sites. We want to make a deal. I don't believe you. Just because I don't believe them, and I know that the president is prone to exaggeration, I don't believe any of that. Well, look, every observer who knew or has had some interaction, significant interaction with the regime in Iran over the last 25 years, said the same thing when the MOU came out. Mr. President, you're wasting time. These people are not trustworthy. They don't tell the truth. They slow-run negotiations for a reason. They don't think long-term. They think about today. There is only one answer for these people. Now, does that involve boots on the ground? I don't know. I'm glad I'm not the Secretary of Defense or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the President. But there's only one solution. You have to blow these people to smithereens. You have to destroy that country. You have to burn it to save it. And I know that's hard for people to process, but it's either that or you're going to have this problem continue to get worse and worse. It doesn't matter who's in charge. It is a theocracy of extremism. Religious extremism. We have destroyed their nuclear capabilities. Well, we've killed a handful of Ayatollahs. I don't know. We're just blowing up a couple more drones. And suddenly Iran's like, all right, well, we didn't know that you were going to do that. Please, we want to make a deal. I don't believe that had happened. You got to have regime change. You got to have regime change. Here's what I do believe. Why would the president say that? Well, let's look at the markets. Oh, they're up today. Right. How about that? Which, by the way, I'm not complaining about. No. Oil is down a little bit, but Tom emails, Scott at kfab.com via the Zonkers Customwood's inbox and says $4.16 at the mega saver. That didn't take long. What? That would be the mega saver. It's 416. He says 416. I don't know if that's 91. I have a hard time believing that's 87. I don't know. That might be diesel. I don't have any idea. It sounds like diesel. But the president, you know, I think it's funny. He said MAGA saver. A little Trumpian slip there, a mega saver. But the president is pushing some MAGA gas stations. He's promoting a new Freedom Fuel Network, 25 gas stations, especially around Pennsylvania, that are charging 347 a gallon for the 47th president.

The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Pennsylvania is $3.99 and then $3.89 in New Jersey. The president says, here's where you should get your gas. It's the Freedom Fuel Network. Can't wait for terrorists to go there and try and blow up the gas tanks. Even people who don't like them say, yeah, gas prices are lower. I'll fill up here. Yeah, I hate that guy, but I do like paying a little bit less for gas. Now, I got this email from Renee. It says, good morning. I just heard you announce that Tyrus is going to be on the show today. Yep, he's coming up at 905. Tell Tyrus that my mom, Betty, and I are true Tyrus fans out here in Hastings. Oh, yeah. Tyrus makes my mama smile and laugh. And for that, I am forever grateful. That's from Renee, sent to Scott at kfab.com. Yeah, Fox News. Tyrus is coming to Omaha, back to Omaha for the fifth year in a row. He'll do the comedy show at the Relevant Center in Elkhorn. Thursday, August 13th, Tyrus Tour.org. We'll talk with him here in about a half an hour on News Radio 1110, KFAB. Now, when I mentioned that a couple of hours ago, Jim said, you got to hear my Tyrus story. Yeah, well, Tyrus is a great guy. His real name is George Murdoch. what you see on television is what you get. He's a very, very smart guy who came from very troubled, humbling origins. His dad was 19 when he was born. His mom was 15. His dad was abusive. And his mom got out of there and raised, you know, Tyrus and his brother with a very stern hand. And as Tyrus says, if it weren't for my mom, I'd have been in jail or dead or whatnot. Well, he was a football player in high school. He grew up in a very, very rough neighborhood in Los Angeles. And he wound up playing junior college football at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California. Now, this is a Division 2 juco. It's not even a Division 1 juco, Division 2 juco. Hey, big guy, you know, a pretty athletic guy, although he'd had some knee problems. He walks into the coach's office one day, and the coach says, hey, Tyrus, the University of Nebraska wants you to come out on a recruiting visit. Now, this was back in the early 90s when we were in the top five. This is the early Tommy Frazier. He's going, Nebraska, yeah, they want you to fly out to Lincoln right now, and they'll pick you up and they'll take you out. Really? Wow, I didn't realize they knew anything about me. So he gets on the plane, flies to Denver, Denver, into Lincoln, and then these two guys holding up a sign that says George Murdoch, that's his real name. And they go, those are my two guys. So they get in the car, and they're driving out of the Lincoln Airport, and they get on that little interstate. They're stretched by Cornhusker Highway. And Tyrus sees the sign downtown this way. Exit. Well, these two guys blow right past that exit. and they're driving west. Now, Tyrus knows which direction west and east is. He knows that Lincoln is east. They're going west. And he says, guys, did you miss the exit for the University of Nebraska?

and the two of them look at each other, then look at Tyrus in the backseat and said, University of Nebraska? Yeah, Huskers, am I not going on a recruiting visit for Huskers? He goes, no, you're going to the University of Nebraska, Carney. Really? That's how we ended up? The lopers. At UN cap. He goes, well, where is that? He goes, it's in Carney, Nebraska. Yeah, where's that? Well, how far is that? About two and a half hours from now. He goes, Really? So he winds up at Carney. He plays on a very good team with a really good quarterback, Chad Routar, who's now a high-level financial guy in Omaha. He was the quarterback. And Matt Orduna was a really good running. There was a good team at Carney. And, of course, Tyrus did not get his degree from Carney. He took off and became a W.W.E. Star and appeared in movies because he's a 6-foot, 7-inch black guy, 340 pounds. And he's a character actor. He was also the bodyguard for Snoop Dog. He got involved in the celebrity circle. Well, he then, of course, grew into this big commentator for Greg Gutfeld. And that was his discovery on Fox News. And now he's one of their top people. But he does have affection for Carney. And he came back to Nebraska. And I learned that story when he was. providing some support for the Nebraska Greats Foundation. He donated some experiences with Tyrus that were very, very good for the foundation. And he has affection for Carney, and they invited him back about three years ago. And he got an honorary degree. And Doug Christensen was the chancellor at the time. And Doug was very welcoming of Tyrus back. He came back and said only nice things about his experience at UNK. And I hope that that continues. I knew who he was. We were both at Carney at the same time. It's pretty hard to miss. Yeah, the fall of 1995. I knew who he was because he would just, you know, he, Tyrus looked like Tyrus back then. He was just a happy guy. He was always wearing. shorts, no matter what the temperature was. Five below zero. Still in shorts. And because he's such a big guy, I just remember his backpack looked hilariously small on him. It was a regular size backpack, but he's not a regular size guy. So it looked just, it looks so small on him. And we'd always pass each other. And I'd say, good morning. He'd smile to everyone. He seemed like a happy guy. But I don't know how he, I didn't know how he got to Carney. I didn't know how he got to Fox. We'll talk with Tyrus about all that coming up here in about discovered by Gutfeld. 25 minutes. But it is. Well, I'm going to ask him if it's all right. He was discovered by Gutfeld, but there's a fun story about Gutfeld getting him on the show. that I'm sure he'll share. We'll see about that. So that's coming up at 905, where we will replay our conversation with Bonnie Tyler, who's passed at the age of 75. That's coming up at 935. She's an absolute delight. Flying instructor in Argentina is taking his student up for another flight. This is not her first flight. She is fairly seasoned, but obviously still a student and a 22-year-old female. And the instructor suddenly during the lesson.

which is, you know, up in the plane, turns to her and says, you know what you have to do, carry on. He takes off his headset. He unbuckles his seatbelt and leaps out of the window of the Cessna 150, obviously plummeting to his death. She, stunned by this, lands the plane. Well, what else was she going to do? I mean, you got to put that shock aside for a minute. Yeah. She said I had no inclination. There was no inkling or anything there that he planned to do anything like this. But you got to admit, it's a pretty good flying instructor. Well, yeah. And I mean, if you're going to do something big and you're going to do it. At least get people talking about it. How many times did she land to the plane before? I don't know, but she'd never done it solo, and she'd never done it solo while thinking about what just happened. But this is true sink or swim stuff. This guy, I mean, it's terrible what happened. It's sad that this man is gone, but... What a great flying instructor. He trained her to the point that she could even fly the plane and land it after someone just did that. That's an amazing flying instructor. And let's give this man credit. No, he was rude. That's rude. Yeah, his tactics. His tactics were questionable. I don't know about rude. Tactics are questionable. I would have looked out the door. That's rude. Hey, where are you going? She must have been good. And I bet she'd landed the plane several times before with him and the... jump seat. Well, he apparently felt like she was going to be okay. You know what you have to do. Carry on. That's what Gary said when he left. Right. You know what you have to do. And then he jumped out the window. We're only on the first floor, though. So he's all right.