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And she said, what radio station are you on? I said 11, 10 a.m. She was like, all right, I'm going to listen tomorrow. I said, well, I'm going to be pretty tired tomorrow. And she goes, you're retiring tomorrow? Hey, congratulations. I don't think so. We do have a suit in town later today, but we'll see. Jim, you were at a fancy pass party last night. The Midlands Business Journal, 50th anniversary celebration down at the Durham. I love the Midlands Business Journal. It is a good paper. It comes out every Friday and has for 50 consecutive years of Fridays. It's sort of a throwback, but it's one of those classic cases of something that really worked. And it's not just Omaha. They do Council Bluffs, Lincoln, Midlands Business Journal. Where do the Midlands begin and end? Wherever you want them to, you know, if you want them to begin in Minnesota, feel free. Yeah. But it's pretty much, you know, it's been really good for business. And it sort of keeps the business community tied together. They also have annual awards to their top, you know, folks. And Johnny Rogers got one last night because he's been promoting. a lot of small businesses, and he's really good with young people. He's into educational training, and he's committed a lot of time and energy to that. Is he related to the Heisman Trophy winner? Same guy. His kids, by the way, are rock stars. Oh, his daughter is incredible. Poet Laureate. One of them is the Poet Laureate of Nebraska, and the other one is like a big business executive in Chicago, but his kids have turned out great. Mike Castling got something last night, which was good to see Mike and Gail. Yanny got something last. They have nice business. trailblazer and business entrepreneur awards. John Hoyt's got something last night. He's been on, he's been profiled in the Midland Business Journal like 15 or 20 times. The first one when he was 18 years old and he'd started this lawn mowing business and he was profiled in the Midlands Business Journal back in the 70s because at age 18, he was getting jobs for other 18 year olds in town. And that was a nice story. That's something that should be talked to a lot of kids. These days, that entrepreneurial spirit. Or just, how about this? Instead of looking at your phone all day long, why don't you do something, earn a little bit of money? And he built a really large and successful business. Well, they are. They're all sports betting. That's why they're looking at their phones. And sometimes they earn a little bit of money. Yeah, they're betting on whether the next pitch is going to be a fastball from Tarek's scuba. The Omaha business community does a good job of kind of looking out for each other and members of the chamber and a lot of these different organizations to get together for meetings and read the business journal and all the rest of that. Great. There were some people that showed up at a city meeting yesterday along those lines that is a divisive issue in our community, and I'll tell you about it, after traffic. Slow on eastbound I-80 between 680 and 480 and the Dodge Expressway starting to fill in its Wednesday traffic. That's a look at your roads. I'm Lucy Chapman. Wednesday traffic. I've never heard you say that.

I have mentioned it. You might not have heard it, but I have mentioned it. We worked together on a few Wednesdays over the last couple of decades. Is there an issue with Wednesday morning traffic? I don't know that I'd call it an issue, but it is the busiest traffic day. It is? Yeah, and the only thing that I have come up with for the reason, because I've watched this for years, and it started probably around 2020. If you have to work from home, but only partially, say you have to be in the office for two days. You're going on Wednesday. You're going on Wednesday. You're either going to take Monday and Tuesday off or Thursday and Friday. Mm-hmm. Okay. So everybody goes to work on Wednesday. Now, that is starting to ease a little bit as more companies are forcing you to go back to work into the office full-time. But still, even this morning, I was driving in my usual time, and I'd like six cars around me. Are there still businesses who at this point? are still trying to make that transition from, all right, you've been working at home. Come back to the office, like at this point, because we've been essentially back to some level of normal for five years here in Omaha. Not everyone, not everything, but much more than a lot of other communities. And I would guess that if you're still working from home and your office has not said, hey, come on back here. then you're probably good. I mean, are there still businesses like, okay, we're just getting out of COVID? Like, I don't know about you. We got out of COVID five years ago. That's when the vaccines rolled out. And a few months after that, people are like, all right, these are either going to work or they're not. I've got to work. We're coming back. Not everything is completely back to normal. I get it. Now, with that, I don't expect you to answer that question. Unless you haven't answered. I actually have just one comment on that. I just saw recently within the last few days a large company. And I'm sorry I don't remember which company was, but it's a national company that have now told everybody in their company, they have to all be back. Five days a week or whatever their schedule is. No more work from home. And they have until August to make that happen. So Kmart. Was that? Sears and Roebuck. Kmart's coming back. It was Montgomery Ward. Oh, I love that. Bring Yonkers back and you'll be on top of the world. Richmond Gordman made that. I'd be okay with that. Safeway. I can do hinky dinky. I can do this all day. There was a meeting yesterday, the Omaha Public Works Department, and this kind of goes along the same things because one of the hardest hit industries was really the restaurant industry and everything changed.

And then we had the dawn of the food trucks. Well, the standalone restaurants say we would rather, you know, we're paying the property taxes and the employees and the infrastructure costs and everything. And we're having to jump through a lot of different health and safety hoops, which are fine. We like health and safety. We're serving people food. But we got to do all these things as a restaurant, a brick and mortar restaurant, which I would not recommend serving to your customers. And we got bow. We have brick and mortar. Ooh, that sounds good. I'll have the... I'll have the mortar. Yeah, I would eat it. Yeah, I would deep fry anything. I'll eat it. So then here come the food trucks. They have none of those things. And the council and the public works department have tried to say, look, if you're going to do food truck stuff, you've got to do this and that. Well, a few months ago, and this was apparently news to food truck owners, the city council said, yeah, as of last August, if you're a food truck here in Omaha, you need to go every single day to a licensed kitchen. and you got to, you know, make sure everything's clean, and you got to make sure everything's up to code, and you got to stop by a licensed kitchen for daily licensed commissary cleanup and service. And the food truck owners are like, we don't want to clean anything up. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know if you want to admit that. No, they say everything's clean. I don't like burdensome regulations. If you want to go eat at a food truck. and you feel like, I don't know how great that food and the cleanliness is, then don't eat there. But the restaurant owners hate the food trucks. I understand that, but you know, you talk about the cost of maintaining that truck, the engine, just the mechanics of it. That's a lot of cost, too. Not as much as a full restaurant, but it's definitely an issue here that. The food truck owners are like, what do you mean we got to do this? Like, you've been, you're supposed to do this as of nine months ago. A little hollering at that meeting yesterday. Now the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. Here's Jim Rose. Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. It was diehard night at Schwab Field last night. If you stuck around until the 13th, the least they could have done is giving you one for the road. But the Jays rewarded the girlfriends and scouts who were still there through four hours and 54 minutes. Nine to eight, Creighton topples, the number seven ranked team in the country, Kansas. Jay's coach Mark Kingston. Big win for us, obviously. The last two games I told the team, the last two games were all about just the will to win. Really proud, really proud of the guys tonight. Yeah, Ben North hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 13th for the winner. But Creighton's pitching staff was nails. The Jayhawks, one of the better scoring teams in the country, was shut out over the last seven innings. Big League scoreboard. The Royals win again. That's five Ws in a row. Beat the Guardians five to three. Angels, Yankees, Rays, and Red Sox also win in the American League. National League postpones Milwaukee at St. Louis and New York and Colorado. But San Diego beat the Giants. Arizona beat the Pirates. The Cubs over the Reds in Philadelphia, 9, the A's 1. Interleague play, Baltimore 9, Miami 7, Minnesota 11, the Nats 3, Houston 2, and Los Angeles 1, Atlanta 3.

Seattle, too. Omaha at Indianapolis postponed because of rain. Two days ago, a Husker football legacy committed to Minnesota, Scots Allstate or Wyatt Liebentritt. But Big Red got a good one yesterday. Maurice Purify 2, whose dad was our top receiver in 2006 and 2007 committed to Big Red for this fall. Mo 2 was recruited by Washington State, but they had a coach change and the new coach didn't want him. So Purify and All-Stator at Westside was a man without a team, which is puzzling. The guy drips with athletic ability, 6-4-170 pounds, caught 63 passes over the last two seasons, and is the leading long jumper in Class A. He also runs a 10-800. So it's Christmas in May for Matt Ruhl, although it is a crowded room. 18 wide receivers are now on scholarship down there. Seems like a lot for a team that says it's going to run the ball. NBA playoffs, Detroit 111, Cleveland 101. That is game one of the East semifinals. In game one of the West semifinals, Oklahoma City 108, the Lakers 90. NHL playoffs, Colorado 5-2 over Minnesota, the abs lead that best of seven second round series, two victories to none. Our old friend Craig Bowle, who was an average assistant coach, but a really good head coach here, is now the chairman of the American Football Coaches Association. He is lobbying the NCAA. for major reforms to the college football schedule. He floated a proposal yesterday that would end the season by the second Monday in January, increase the number of playoff teams, reduce the number of in-season by weeks from two to one, but the biggie is eliminating the conference championship games. The AFCA has no power, but is trying to give the NCAA Oversight Committee, which does make these decisions, some options. Nothing could change until the 2020. eight season. Sports is news on Nebraska's news weather and traffic station. We convene every morning and honestly we look at each other and go. How do we entertain the masses this morning? What is it the people are coming to us for? How can we provide them with that expectation and more? And then we say, I don't know, let's just talk about Husker football. And we do that for a few hours every morning. And here we are on Nebraska's morning news, news radio, 1110, KFAB. I'm Scott Forhees, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Courtney Dunahoe right here. We did get into a conversation a moment ago about the food trucks. Restaurants with their brick and mortar locations hate the food trucks. And I said...

I recognize that. And I said, I'd prefer to let the market decide on this. If someone wants to go to a food truck and they say, yeah, I don't know that it's very clean in there. And they're not hiring as many people as the restaurant here that is right next door. And in some cases, I don't know what rules exist right now to stop a food truck from pulling right up in front of a restaurant and saying, hey, whatever they're charging in there, we're going to do 10% less. Who wants? Popsicles or whatever. There's got to be something. But I'm kind of a let the market decide kind of a guy. Oli emails and says, agree to disagree on food trucks, Scott. A buddy of mine ran a pub and grill in South O'O had to go through all the proper inspections regularly with his brick and mortar and his food trailer that they ran for functions outside the pub. When the food truck boom came along, his lunch crowd took a hit. And he knew for a fact that most of the food trucks did not go by the same laws and inspections. Don't get me wrong. I fancied some and agree with if the food truck looks suspect don't go there. Then we don't disagree. I said restaurants hate the food trucks. And it can't be. And I don't know about laws and regulations. I just go gym off of the, it's just not cool. Like if you're doing a sports update. here on microphone two, and someone comes up on microphone three in the middle of your sports update and says, hey, I'm going to tell you about the Kansas City Royals for a little bit cheaper than Jim Rose is at the same time that you're doing it. It's just not cool. I'd say, be my guest. We're doing auditions in the 8 o'clock hour this morning. You want to come in, just make sure you bring your own money. But this idea where we suddenly told the food trucks here in Omaha, you've got to go. to a licensed kitchen every day, a licensed commissary every day for cleanup and service. The food trucks say, where are we going to go? This is where someone could make a bunch of money. I'm now taking investors. The KFAB licensed commissary will do a central location in Omaha, and all the food trucks have to come there every day, pay us to be able to use that space, and they clean up their tongs. or whatever it is that they got to do. No, we got a kitchen at a break room. We got a coffee bar right here. We have a coffee bar over here with a refrigerator. Yeah, I don't drink coffee. We got another refrigerator across the hall on the top floor, but then a whole big fat kitchen with a dishwasher. Yeah. Oh, did you see the new fridge? We got a new fridge up there. You got a new fridge, too. Anything in it? See, we're essentially, and we're centrally located here in Dundee. It's the KFAB licensed commissary. Now, I don't know what we charge these food trucks. I say call it the KFAB Cafe. Let's open it up for lunch. And just to be clear, don't stop by the radio station today for lunch. All I have, I've got a couple of old, like, instant oatmeal packets in my desk. Well, there's some chicken salad from when the suits were in here a week or two ago. I think there's still some of that. There's a salad downstairs that I think has been sitting there for eight weeks.

I got an email says, don't read, don't use my name if you read this on the air because we were talking about going back to the office too. Says I work at Mutual of Omaha and last month we were told we have to go back to the office three days a week. And when the new building is finished, they want people in the building. Only three days a week? So what are they doing now? And they're complaining about it. Well, I mean... Are they working from home exclusively? I imagine that there's a lot of... All right, everything that's in the current mutual headquarters here needs to go... Like, we've got to start boxing stuff up. It's going to be a war zone in here as we're moving stuff down to the new construction. When we open this tower with our logo and whatever... non-racial imagery we put on the side of this tower. I miss the Indian. We want, I do too. We want people in the office. We can't have a, what is it? 30. Two, whatever it is. I think like 45 or 46. That's a tall building. We can't have, we can't have the skyscraper in Omaha with no one in it. So we got to have people come back to the office. Well, how many days do they come back? We'll start with three. Three days. Ride the street car. Make it an amusement park ride. Yeah. And, hey, park your car, you and MC, get on the street car. Take that down to mutual. It's not working yet. It starts off. It starts your day off fun. The check in here, not working. You're going to want to shove one of the homeless guys out of the seats, but other than that, it's a hell of a fun deal to start the day. That's part of the experience. Or the other thing is you pull your keel boat up there on the Missouri River side and grab that streetcar, ride along the river, and circle around on Harney and back down Farnham. Jim, are they really homeless if they are living on the street car? Good point. These are the issues we have. We get a new classification, and that is mobile homeless. We've got a couple of years to discuss the mobile homeless and keel boat situation here in Omaha. If you just moved here, great to have you. I'm trying to get people excited about coming to work a mutual five days a week. I love the idea. Someone just moved to Omaha, and they're like keel boats, and it was 80 degrees on Monday, and it was 40 degrees last night. What's going on here? Here's the other thing. We've got all these parking spaces down there that the city says it's going to get rich off of. These parking spaces, you know, part of the mutual tower, city says we're going to get rich leasing off those parking spaces on weekends. People are going to come down, park their car, ride the street car, pay $10 to park the car. We're going to pay off the $700 million in debt on the street car by the parking garage. I'm telling you, this is a whole plan we got here. We got it all figured out. We're going to have some fun over the next few years. We just need a few more fun things to do for mutual people who are coming downtown. I just wish someone would call into the KFAB comment line with Gene Stother and bring up the streetcar once in a while. Yes, Gene. Which happens nine times a day. Lucy, you weren't doing traffic updates on Sunday afternoon. In my head I was.

You do too. You're constantly checking stuff. Before you start that, let me just say that there is a lane down for construction on the JFK northbound at Cornhusker. That's why you're backed up almost coming to a standstill. Once you get past that, looks like you're smooth sailing. Okay. Don't you dare interrupt me. I'm sorry. Everybody sitting in line is not sorry. You can always interrupt. In fact, sometime when Jim's talking about the Kansas City Royals here in a moment, just interrupting and go, I'm going to let you finish. But there was a just pull a Kanye West. You would have on Sunday afternoon, though, near 138th and Birchwood. That's on that road there between Q and Harrison that goes by the airport. Right. And there was a guy who was an alleged drunk driver who drove down that road and hit everything. He just, like a pinball. The family's out in their yard nearby and they hear a bang. It started when he hit a light pole. And then he backed off of that and thought, I don't know who put this light pole in the middle of the road, but I'm going to keep driving. And that's when he, according to what we saw on the ring doorbell camera for this family. Their cars are in their driveway. The family is on the other side of the car is in their yard. Here comes the alleged drunk driver. And if he's not drunk, there are a lot more issues that need to be figured out. He goes flying over their curb, over a retaining wall, slams into one of the cars in their driveway. The family's on the other side of that car. They're like, what? You know, their kids are out in the yard playing ball or whatever. And then this guy. Same thing with the light pole. He's like, I don't know what is going on with this road, but there's junk all over the middle of it. So he starts trying to back out, but he can't because he's stuck between a car and a retaining wall and a guy's driveway. Police caught up with him, and he's now facing several charges. The family probably hasn't slept since Sunday. Did they catch him? Did they catch up with him still close to the scene? Yeah, you can see it and hear it in the doorbell camera. He's spinning his wheels trying to back out of this thing. Can you imagine this? You're there in your yard, you're weed whacking or something. You look over and you see this. And you're like, what is this guy doing? And you know that they locked eyes with him where he was like, hey, sorry, I got to go though. And he's trying to, he's stuck. having just almost taken out your family right there in your driveway. I'm just wondering if they caught him there or if they caught him later at home. I mean, it would make a difference in the case. Police caught him.

I think there, I don't think he got out of that situation. He couldn't, unless he tried to get out of the car and stagger away. People filling their gas tanks say that the high price of gas is hurting their budgets and their families. It's crazy, just nuts. I think it's ridiculous. For somebody who has to work two full-time jobs to survive, this is not what I need right now. It's outrageous. I drive every day, and it's becoming a struggle. I have two kids, and I'm on a budget. Do you cut back on going places? Absolutely. He says they had to cancel a planned Mother's Day visit to the children's grandmother an hour and a half away because of high gas prices. The Nebraska average price is 406 a gallon this morning, 8 cents higher than yesterday. A year ago, gas was under $3. I'm Craig Evans. News Radio 1110, KFAB. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached that point in the morning where I think it's time for us to do some math. This was a guy who said, We wanted to go visit my mom for Mother's Day weekend, but she lives an hour and a half away. And I can't afford the gas. Gas prices are too high. So we're not going to go visit my mom. I'm not going to take my kids up to visit their grandma for Mother's Day. All right. Let's do some math. Hour and a half away, presuming that they don't live on the interstate and mom doesn't live right off the interstate, there's going to be some time, so we can't just figure on 90 miles away for your 90-minute drive here. I think we should probably conservatively estimated as mom lives 75 miles away. So... Let's say your car gets 25 miles per gallon. That's going to be three gallons up, three gallons back. That's six gallons to go visit mom. So let's say you're paying $2 more than a year ago to go visit mom. An extra $2 per gallon, six gallon total. You just told your mom. We're not going to come see you for Mother's Day because I'm not going to pay an extra 12 bucks to come see. Now. I know. I'm the guy who started off coming in hot Monday morning complaining about gas prices. That's because you were down in another state. Driving all over the Midwest over the last week here. And yeah, I'll complain. But I'm still going. I just don't like paying the extra money because I don't know what we're doing in Iran right now. You want Iran to have a nuclear weapon? No, I don't. But I thought we already destroyed by the president's own admission. We already took out Iran's ability to have nukes. And he keeps saying like, they've got no Navy. We took all that stuff. Then what are we doing? Who are we negotiating with? And with whom are we negotiating? I'll say it both ways for the English teachers listening this morning. So I was just wondering like, all right, what are we doing? How long are we going to be doing it? How high is gas going to go? But I'm not going to tell my mom, hey, we can't come up and visit you. Gas prices are higher than I thought. I'm not going to pay 12 bucks.

To go visit Mom from Mother's Day? Is that all she means to you? Twelve bucks? We would have done it for eight. I can't afford an extra $12. Dude, I'll give that guy $12. Go visit your mom. Twelve bucks. Times are tough out there. People can't make ends meet. They know they're going to have to pay more for Husker volleyball tickets. If you can't. So the decision is I'm either paying more for Oscar volleyball tickets or $12 extra to go visit money. People are strapped. If you can't afford. You've got to make decisions. You've got to make priorities. I'm not suggesting, nor am I making fun of people. Are in such a situation that they can't afford an extra $12. A lot of people in that position is fine. Well, it's $12 on top of this and that on top of that. I know. But if your entire financial picture is suddenly. flipped on its head thanks to an extra $12, then gas prices are not the issue. There are other issues there, and I'm sympathetic. Might be on to something. But 12 bucks. Dude, we got to kick in for NIL players. You know, people are passing the hat. They need money for the players. Your mom raised you better than that. Spend the, it's 12 bucks extra. Go visit your mother. It's your mom. Mother's Day. We've done that. I'm not yelling at you. I'm not real happy with my children right now, but, you know, they've got other things to do on Mother's Day. And I used guilt as a weapon as a club, but it didn't work. I said, you really need to come up and see your mother. Don't know how many more Mother's Day she's going to have. Oh, you didn't do that. Yeah, I did. Oh, my gosh. You paved the guilt trip for them and they still didn't go down that road. No. And I got, I was rejected with prejudice, that one. Yikes. All right. They've got their own lives. We'll explore more of Jim's family dynamic coming up. Do you know that I think we got through, and I probably shouldn't, I'm not bragging about this, and I probably shouldn't admit this. It sounds like dereliction of duty, but I think that in the last segment where the name President Trump was dropped in that last segment, I think that's the first time in a couple of days we even swerved back into mentioning. the national and geopolitical politics that emanate from the White House and Truth Social posts. I don't think we talked about President Trump at all on yesterday's program. How do we go an entire program without talking about? It's funny. If you step back, you talk about geopolitics, if you step back and look at the totality of Trump's foreign policy successes, it's pretty dramatic. Think about it. They're about ready to wrap up the Iran deal, which not only neutralizes Iran, but it neutralizes any threat that they would have a nuclear weapon or otherwise he won't accept the terms. Venezuela was a rogue state and a sponsor of terrorism. It's now, like the 51st state, it's producing... Oil that we are using to leverage against Iran and to buffet our own energy supplies. And cut off China. And cut off China. Both Iran and Venezuelan oil for China. And North Korea and some of the other bad guys. And he's about ready to turn Cuba back into that, you know, wintertime paradise we enjoyed before our good friend Fidel Castro took over. Havana. If you look around.

Trump's foreign policy is better than about anything that happens since Reagan ended the Cold War. A couple of wet blanket issues on that. Just slight. I don't want to be that guy. Calls me negative. Number one, we still have no idea with whom we are negotiating and trying to get a peace deal agreed to with Iran. Who's in charge over there? The AI Atola, we have no one. We don't know if anyone's even alive. We don't know who's in charge. It's probably a chat bot. Maybe. It's the gang members that are shooting at our ships with like slingshots and like bows and arrows that you buy at a gas station and cost guns. Yeah. So President Trump says, assuming Iran agrees to give what's been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be in an end. But he says if the bombing, if they don't, the bombing starts and will be much bigger and higher level of intensity than it was before, which of course he. Is maybe Bluster? They don't know. Maybe it's not. All of it's true. But you know that the strait is shut off. The quarantine is working. There are 300 ships sitting there with oil on them in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's losing $500 million a day on this. What's left of their Navy are a couple of tugboats that work at about five miles an hour that we just shoot out with our... with our handguns. But the truth is, in totality, he's winning the geopolitical battle bigger and better than any president we've had in a long time. Just look at the facts. That's not a GOP talking point. That's true. The Iranian Navy is like a 16-foot bass boat with an Evan Rood motor. But I said I had two wet blanket issues and all your stuff you mentioned there. We don't have Greenland yet, and I want Greenland. That's next. We've got to get Cuba first because Cuba's a great spot for a vacation. Greenland is clearly more important than all the rest of them. We pointed out earlier, Craig Evans had a news update. This guy was like, I can't even afford. Gas price is so high. I can't afford to go see my mom. She lives an hour and a half away. He sounded just like that. But gas price is so high. And we did the math and figured out it was going to be an extra $12 flipping dollars. For this guy to go see his mom. And he's not going to go see his mom, takes kids to see grandma for Mother's Day weekend for 12 bucks. Emails into the Zonkers Customwoods inbox. Scott at kfab.com. Tom says, Scott, thank you for pointing out that about the trip to old grandma's house. I was literally just typing the same math to you when it popped up. Thank you for pointing out the ignorance of the left. Kevin says, it sounds so dramatic when you say you can't afford to see mom this year. It's not so dramatic when you point out it's an extra 12 bucks. I don't care if that guy is listening. If that was a local, I don't know if that was, I don't know where it came from. I hope that guy's mom is listening. And anyone else, any of the rest of you who are going to make up some lame, oh, down on my luck, can't afford to come see you. Gas prices are so high, Ma, sorry. You got to come up with a better excuse. You tell your mother, your poor mudda, that you can't, you're not going to come up and see her.

She lives an hour and a half away being extra 12 bucks because of the extra gas prices. You better hope, and I don't say this, well, I do say it glibly. You better hope your dad is either dead or shacked up with a younger woman and hasn't talked to you in years because if he finds out that you told your poor mother that you're not going to come see her for Mother's Day weekend for 12 bucks. Well, he would, he, he slapped the taste right out your mouth. Wait a minute. Son, what? There is one caveat. What if he's driving in 1976 LTD? That's going to be more than $12.1976 LTD, that was a ban with Jeffrey Osborne. Wasn't that, right? Yes. It was also a car. Oh, it was? Okay. All right. Well, all right, so let's say, like, well, it's cost more than $12 that I drive a 1993 Humvee. They're just not fuel efficient. Then that's your problem. The gas prices are an issue. I'm not saying they're not. But your problem is that you're driving a tank. It gets four miles a gallon. It's more than 12 bucks. All right, that's your problem, dude. Let's just say it. I'll say it. I don't care. He doesn't like his mother-in-law. He didn't say mother-in-law. It's his mom. He doesn't like his mom. I know. This is, yeah, and he just laid it out there for KFAB Nation to judge, and he is being Judge Harsely. Now, all right, I'll try and put myself in everyone's shoes here. given the benefit of the doubt. Maybe his mother sucks. She might. Maybe she's just awful. She might be a horrible person. She might be the worst. We haven't factored that in. It could be Jim Rose is back here in the studio. His mom could be Anne Ramsey from Goonies. Exactly. Throw Mama from the train. Owen! You come to poop! Mama could be Howard Wallowicz's mom. Howard. What are you doing now and there? Get me out of the top. I think his mother's probably a saint. You're making an assumption. And she needs to call him up and say, you know what? We always thought you were switched at birth. And then start singing that Genesis song. You're no son of mine. Start singing that song to him. This is a good time. Hey, it's Mother's Day weekend. What a great time to disown your child. Then on Mother's Day weekend, 12 bucks. I'm so mad at that guy. I'm going to go. I'm so mad at that guy. I'm going to consider actually sending my mom a text. You know, just a step up for sons. My mom lives down the street from me. I'm going to text her. It's Mother's Day. From the talkback, Mike, we let you talk on this program as well. All you got to do is when listening to us on our free iHeart radio app, which is available anywhere you are. With this station, you can preset, with podcasts, you can pull up right there on our app. It's super easy. And there's a little picture of a microphone on there. You touch that microphone button. You record a message and you send it in.

to the Zonkers Customwoods inbox. Hey, good morning and happy Wednesday. Say, I wondered if you guys saw the Washington Huskies woman's soccer team getting beat by a U-14 boys' soccer team. So I wondered what U-14 meant. It meant 14 and under. A 14-year-old boys' soccer team beat the Washington Huskies girls' soccer team. Okay. Any more trans-testical questions? Good gravy. What was that word? Trans-testical. What? Transgender questions. Yeah, there are a lot of people pointing that out. And by the way, that did happen. Last week, the University of Women's Soccer team had a match against a quote-unquote men's team. Men's... This is a 14-U boys soccer team. Not the first time this has happened. There was a 15-U boys' soccer team that beat the women's national team in 2017. The one that was fresh off a women's World Cup win a couple years prior, a bunch of 15-year-old kids in Dallas beat them 5'2. The Swiss women's national team lost about the same time to a 15-U boys team. 7-1. Huskies lost to this 14. You boys team, I don't know what the score was. And they say, well, practicing against men is the same as if you know that you're playing a baseball team and their top pitcher throws 90 miles an hour, you want to set your pitching machine to 100. That way those pitches look better. The jury has already rendered its conclusion on this one. There is a business here in the Omaha metro area because there is a woman who's been keeping me apprised of the situation throughout this women's amateur pickleball season where they're playing against... a guy who's more athletic and he's much better than these women. And these women are like, look, this guy can live the life he wants to live. We got into this league at this local sports bar establishment because we thought it would be kind of a fun recreational league. And this guy is out there taking it very, very seriously. And I don't know where he gets off thinking it's fun to just go in there and just pound these women in pickleball. But... And, of course, the establishment won't say anything about it. They're just hoping the season ends as quickly and as quietly as possible. And I'm not naming them. It's their business. They can do what they want. But I told this woman, if you and your teammates want to come on the radio and make a case of it, I'll let you do it. We'll reach out to the business, see if they have anything to say. But thus far, they're not saying anything to anyone about it. This is... Sounds like a lack of leadership to me. Yeah, that's right. Now, Mike emails Scott at KFAB.com, and accuses us of treating the high gas prices like a, as he says, quote, a big morning zoo joke.

Says we sound like out of touch in the bubble coastal elites making fun of this. Look, Frank or Mike or whatever your name is, both of you. We'll treat everything like a joke eventually. I'm Scott Voorhees here with Jim Rose, Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Courtney Dunahoe. And now 1110 KFAB national correspondent Rory O'Neill joins us here on Nebraska's Morning News. The gas prices are not funny when it comes to the rising cost. Everything. Gas prices go up. Everything goes up, especially in the restaurant business, right, Rory? Especially when we're talking about those diesel prices, because diesel gets into everything. Farmers know that clearly because it costs money. A lot of diesel goes into growing crops, harvesting them, getting them to market, and then getting them out to the restaurants that ultimately serve us. And we're looking at not only higher costs for restaurants, say for this upcoming Mother's Day weekend, but then people don't have that disposable income either. Maybe it'll be eggs for mom this year rather than steak. All right. Well, here's what we were talking about, Rory. Let me get your take on this. There was a guy whining that he can't go visit his mom. She lives about an hour and a half away because of high gas prices. And we figured that the extra costs of maybe a couple dollars a gallon for the six gallons of gas he would spend to go see mom is $12. And he's not going to go see his mom for $12. We called him a horrible son. What's your thought? Well, that's a little extreme, but I think that it shows you the psychological impact of these prices. Because, again, we drive by the gas sign a hundred times before we actually stop to have to get gas. So we see it, and we try, oh, gosh, it's up 20 cents from yesterday. Oh, gosh, it was 40 cents cheaper a week ago, but we still haven't stopped to buy gas. So to your point, when you actually buy the gas... Put it in the tank. Yeah, you're talking about $10, $12 difference. It's not much. But that's one car. Likely there are two, maybe three cars in the household. Suddenly, that starts to add up, too. Oh, I know. I got a 16-year-old son. I get it. I have not yet begun to get extreme. But, you know, oil prices are down about 7% right now. If that were the case, the other way, if they were up 7%, we'd be paying an extra 50 cents a gallon for gas by noon. But if it goes down, it's like, well, it takes a while for price to come down. Liars and thieves, Rory, liars and thieves. I want to catch... Off like a rocket, down like a feather. That's the motto, remember that. I want to get your thoughts on another story that you're reporting on this morning, and that is what? I saw that Vladimir Putin is in an underground bunker with Dick Cheney or something like that. He's afraid that what are the Ukrainians are coming after him? What's going on? Yeah, it's almost that bad. Either the Ukrainians or perhaps a coup inside Russia with a lot of frustration about this war with Ukraine that seems to be dragging on. You know the numbers? 30,000 Russian soldiers, maybe North Koreans too. But 30,000 of them are being killed or wounded every month. And this is taking an economic toll. The big military parade that Russia has to celebrate the victory over the Nazis is set to take place on the 9th.

They asked for a ceasefire with Ukraine so that they could bring enough soldiers back and military hardware to actually take part in a parade. Otherwise, it's all being deployed across Ukraine. I don't see Volodymyr Zelensky having the heart to say, yeah, Russia, whatever you guys need to get on the men. Then you can come back and attack us again. Rory, great conversation, as always. Thanks for the time. Thanks, Scott. That's 1110 KFAB National Correspondent, Rory O'Neill, here on Nebraska's morning news. And if you have yet to email me this morning via the Zonker's Customwood's inbox, Scott at kfab.com, and call me and out of touch in the bubble, coastal elite, liberal sounding blowhard, then please send in that email. How will I know unless you tell me? Scott at kfab.com. Here's another example on where you might want to. Say this now look now look I'm not saying this isn't a lot of money this is an exorbitant amount of money But there is a way around it because I didn't get charged this amount of money. I'm guessing that Jim and Lucy didn't get charged this amount of money. The amount of money is, in this guy's case, $828. Some people paid a little bit less. Some people paid a little bit more. These people are the ones who went to the Omaha City Board of Equalization meeting yesterday. Oh, shoot, was that yesterday? I missed it. So why did these guys go down there? About 10 property owners filed protests, went over there and complained to the board and said, look at this bill you guys gave me in the city of Omaha. I can't pay this much money. It's ridiculous. Why did they get the charge? Because the way it works is we get a significant amount of snow. You get so much time to get the snow off of your sidewalk in front of your house. If you don't do that, the city of Omaha, by virtue of this is lost in the story from First Alert 6 News, by virtue of one of your neighbors calling the city to complain about you. Stan didn't clean up his sidewalk in front of his house. rather than going over to see what Stan's issue might be. He might be in there clinging to life. You don't care. You just called up the city and like, you send someone out. My kids have to walk in the snow on their way to school. Your kids are going to be walking in the snow anyway. They're kids. They should be walking in the snow. They don't walk in the snow. They don't walk to school. They should. Well, the city sends out a contractor and they'll happily clean. And this is after I think the first thing they do is they put a little door hanger saying if you don't get the snow off your sidewalk, we're sending someone out to do it and we'll charge you for it. I don't use my front door.

That's what one guy said. He goes, I go in my garage. I didn't know there was a door hanger. I didn't know there was a door. You knew the front door. I don't even think that works. I don't know where the key is. You knew that there was snow on the sidewalk in front of your house, though. You could see that. True. And you didn't clean it up. Well, I was waiting for it to melt next week. So they send out a contractor. A contractor does it. And then you get a bill. This guy got a bill for $828. I want that job. His, I know. His sidewalk doesn't look like the Lewis and Clark Trail or anything like that. It's just sidewalk sized. And they did it and charged him $828. So they went to dispute their bills. I don't blame them. But. Like I said, did you get a charge, Lucy, for $828 to clean off your sidewalks? No, but I would absolutely dispute the total. I would dispute the amount. Or here's another thing. You could just be a good neighbor and shovel the sidewalk. Yeah, but if it's not your... Yeah, but if you can't... Yeah. What if you are an elderly person and you just can't get out there and get it done? Then you either pay a kid to do it or your neighbors know you. Kids don't do that anymore. Your neighbors, they can't... Some do them. Very few. Or your neighbors know you. They know your situation and a strapping... young man or his father and or his father come over and they clean your sidewalk for you. Yep. Keep your eyes on your neighbors when they need help. Yeah. And then, you know, Gladys looks out her curtains and you give her a wave and she's like, oh, thank you. You know, that's how people used to do. We can do that again. We can be decent people again. And if not, the charge for not being decent, $828. Craig Evans just gave us the story of the guy saying, yeah, I'm not going to go see my mom. Hour and a half away, gas price is too high. We figured that's probably an extra $12 to go see mom. And if you can't afford an extra $12 to go see your poor mother on Mother's Day weekend, your bad son. Bad son. Well, at least give her a call. Send her a text like I'm going to do. Send her a text. Your sensitivity is overwhelming. Send her a text. And use some emojis and see if she can figure it out. Here's what I'll do for my mom on Mother's Day. She'll send me a text, just kind of a hint because she hadn't heard from me all day. Just a little hint like, hey, hope you're having a nice Sunday. And I'll just heart it. Oh. Let's see if you can put it the least amount of effort possible. Thankfully. It still assuage the guilt that is ravaging your soul for being such a crappy son. Thankfully, I hope my mom is listening and laughing at this. You wonder where I got my sense of humor? She's very, very funny. One time, Saddemeier and I called our moms on the Friday before Mother's Day on this radio show. Yeah, I remember that. That was good stuff. Saddemeier's mom said, who is this? I remember that. Mom, it's me.

Messages. Some messages here in there. Hey, Gary. What's new? I'm on the radio. You are too. Stop it. Zonkers Customwood's inbox, Scott, at kfab.com. Dave says, Scott, I was just behind a heavyset person. Brand new iPhone using $13 cappuccino, $8 muffin purchaser at Starbucks, who was concerned about the gas prices. So I wish you would do the same. Being fluent and sarcasm, Dave, I appreciate that email. Greg's along the same lines saying, I wonder how many of these people complaining about gas prices, drink, smoke, or have multiple paid streaming services. Maybe they could cut corners somewhere. Well, to be serious for a moment, they will. We can't pay. We shouldn't, and Trump has told us we shouldn't pay this much for gas for too long. Yeah, this is awful right now. And like I often say, about all elected officials, I hope they know what they're doing. Good news here today. We've seen good news here and there throughout the last month or two. We've been messing around with whatever's going on in Iran. I certainly hope it leads somewhere. I don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. I don't want Council Bluffs to have nuclear weapons. You know, let's try and... Bring this in. We can barely live with North Korea having nuclear weapons, and thank goodness China is keeping a leash on that guy. I don't think North Korea has nukes. Yeah, they do. They can't even shoot rockets into the ocean. Doesn't mean they don't have a nuke. All right. Now let's go to the talk back, Mike, and see what you have to say here this morning. Hey, good morning, guys. How about them Blue Jays against some Kansas Jayhawks last night, huh? Great. Yeah, that's good stuff there. Thank you very much for that message. And, oh, this is on the guy who went and complained to the city that they charged him $828 to have a contractor go out and clear his sidewalk of snow this past winter. One time? Because he wouldn't do it. Yeah, it's a one-time charge. Yeah, it's exorbitant. And maybe you just... I don't know, clean the snow off your sidewalk like a normal person. And I reminded him and you when this happened. It's because your neighbor is called the city on you. So we get this. Or maybe all the neighbors hate this person's guts because they don't clean up their yard. It's a trash heap. They don't do this and they don't do that. So they're hated by their neighbors. No one's going to work with them. I have one of those type of neighbors. They're scumbags. Don't you wish you could call out the city and have them write your neighbor an $828 ticket just for being a scumbag? So what do they do? Tack that onto your property taxes? How do they collect it? They just bill you. But what if you don't pay it? What's the recourse? The stocks. The stocks? Yeah, they put you in the stocks. Oh, they throw you in jail. You don't pay this, they throw you in jail. They put you in the stocks. We all get to go down and throw tomatoes at you. I think it's a civil charge. I don't think they lock you up.

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