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It's no one was involved. No real people. No, just computer. But the law, I mean, if it's, I mean, if you read the details about this, I mean, the hundreds of images, what he admitted to doing there at a school computer at school, I don't think students were in class at the time. I mean, I don't know if it's against the law, but this guy's creepy and whatever they can do to get him away from your kid in this Millard Middle School would be fine. Weird, weird, weird. That's all I want to say about that right now. Storms across the area last night. We were covering them here on Nebraska's News, Weather, and Traffic Station. We cracked open the... Pyramid Contractors, Severe Weather Center. Terry Leahy was lead anchor. I popped in a little bit. Chris Baker, Peyton Highlock, also a part of that coverage, as well as our friends at First Alert 6 News. And, of course, you hear about a tornado up around Little Sioux. And for those of us who've been in the area for at least 20 years or so, We know how awful that memory is. It was June 11, 2008. Went up about an hour, hour and a half north of Omaha. The Little Sioux Scout Camp tornado occurred. June 11, 2008. Four Boy Scouts killed. Three 13-year-olds from Omaha. Ben, Sam, and Josh were lost that day, and then a 14-year-old named Aaron from Eagle Grove. killed 48 others injured. And it was kind of late in the season, late in the afternoon, early evening when that storm touched down, and just a horrible day. So yesterday we hear about a reported tornado striking near the town, be that as it may. It's a very small little village up there, a little Sioux. But we are very gracious to learn that other than a guy's... farm equipment. The tornado moved through the property. It smashed up some like a shed and probably some equipment down some power lines. Scattered debris, but no injuries. And that was, it only impacted Dave's farm. Sorry, Dave, but that was the best of the worst of that scenario up there. But here we are at the precipice of severe weather season. When that happens throughout the season, join us. We'll be here with you on News Radio, 1110, KFAB. Hang on, let me check my phone. Still no notifications. Well, it's early on day two. Lucy, I've always kind of held out hope. that my phone would ring and it would be one of the various national football league teams contacting me on draft day asking if I'd be interested in joining their organization so I would do what I would be well that that every year that question is ball boy did they have ball boys

I would sideline ball boys I would well I'm kind of the ball boy here at KFAB here you go Mr. Rose here's your sports copy no what do you call the what do you call the pit is it a pitcher that can just do anything isn't there something like that huh isn't there like in baseball the pitcher usually does anything by throwing the ball towards the are you talking about a utility player yeah that's what you are Yeah, he can do anything. He doesn't do any of those things really well. But he is capable. Yeah, that's you. Yeah. Well, you know what? It's important to have a role. But I've always kind of hoped that my three-year letter winner football at Ralston High School. You? Yeah. No. Yeah, because when I played for Ralston, a guy like me could be a three-year letter winner. How many games did you guys win your sophomore year? Hey, that's not important. I think it is, though. We didn't win any. That's why a guy like me got into a lot of fourth quarters. All right, we're down by 50. Who wants to play? All the other players took a big step backwards. All right, four, easier in. Are we on offense or defense? It doesn't matter. They're going to get the ball and score with it anyway. So you didn't have a Rudy moment? No. You know, I had one game where I had two touchdowns called back by penalties. Both penalties committed by the same guy. I was like, why do you hate me? So that's awesome. Yeah, that was my, that was my claim to fame. So you never scored a touchdown that counted? In varsity? No. Well, boy, there's your sports. Close. I got some, I got some important first down through some, through some nice blocks. There's your sports report. Yeah, here's the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. Yeah, with the first pick in the NFL draft, it was Irving Fryer. Wait, no, that was 40 years ago. Last night. With the first pick in the 2026 NFL draft, the Las Vegas Raiders select Fernando Mendoza. Quarterback in Indiana. What? He looks marvelous. Yeah, everyone knew, including Mendoza. The last five months has been such a blessing by God, and I can't thank him enough. I'm just looking forward to get to work, prove at the next level. College was fantastic. I'm so blessed to have that career, but now I step into a great game of the NFL. Look forward to proving and earning it every single day. Yeah, Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman trophy winning quarterback for the national champion, Indiana Hoosiers. Talking about the last five months being a blessing. You think about that. Five months ago, in the playoffs, people are like, is Indiana for real? Who is this guy, Fernando?

And everyone kind of got the Abbas song in their head. And he's really easy to cheer for. I know a lot of people don't find the Raiders real easy to cheer for, especially Chiefs and Broncos fans in the area. But he was the first overall pick. Everyone kind of knew that. Here's what happened with the next few picks. Jets take Texas Tech edge rusher, David Bailey. Cardinals get Notre Dame running back, Jeremiah Love. Titans go with Ohio Statewide receiver Carnell Tate. He's really good. Giants take Ohio State linebacker, linebacker Arvel Reese. There's your top five. As far as running backs go, it will probably be sometime tomorrow. that Huskers running back Emmett Johnson is selected. Speaking of the Big Red, it's Senior Day tomorrow where Nebraska sports fans, especially softball fans, bid goodbye, not for the end of the season, but for Senior Day in Lincoln. to the incredible pitcher, Jordi Ball from. Yeah, you know, I am all Nebraska softball until I can't be anymore. And we're running out of time and that's sad. But until I'm done with this team and this program, like, I don't really want to talk or even think about what comes after that. Yeah, the thought was that maybe she would go pro and play some professional softball or maybe she'd take time off. She is, after all, now married. Maybe interested in starting a family. First things first, though, softball doubleheader versus Iowa in Lincoln today, three and then approximately 5.30, senior days 1 o'clock tomorrow for the NU softball team in Lincoln. Baseball on the road tonight for the first of three, six o'clock at Illinois. Creighton's Home versus Butler. If you like baseball, you've got a couple options here locally. CU 6 o'clock, first to three for the weekend against Butler. That's tonight. And UNO is at home versus St. Thomas. Also, it's 6 o'clock in the NBA playoffs.

up for Rudy Gobert in the series. And it puts the wolves up by 24. Timberwolves now lead that best of seven first round series 2-1, beating the Denver Nuggets. 113-96 last night. Hawks and Raptors also get win. And in the NHL playoffs, it was Buffalo, Carolina, and Colorado, all winning their games last night in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. And you've got Nebraska's morning news here on this Friday morning. Jim Roseless. He is out today back Monday. Lucy Chapman's here. Craig Evans. I am Scott Voorhees. Emery Songers is going to pop in at some point in the next hour. Talking about the severe weather coverage here on 1110 KFAB last night as we were all watching the skies, especially Blair was getting hit with hail again. Ralston getting hit with hail again. We got some pea-sized hail throughout much of Omaha. Thankfully, nothing. terribly damaging, and we had the one tornado damaged some equipment on a guy's farm up around Little Sioux about an hour or so north of Omaha. But as you heard in the Fox News update, Northern Oklahoma had some homes flattened, 10 injured, and an Air Force base damaged. As we had tornadoes touchdown near Enid, Oklahoma. That's where JD Vance Air Force Base is. And so now you can expect to turn on the news today and see various members of the media talking with people in Oklahoma. about what that tornado experience was like for them yesterday. I'll tell you what you do. You just take them down spark plugs out, and then that little hole, you just put a little old around there, just like Bobby Hunter said it's like it to go boom, just like that. I'll tell you what, you see that part where Daniel George come in there, he's talking about tasting his own bourbon. Kramer comes sliding in. I tell you what, man. Yeah, so you're going to see a lot of that on the news today. Because that's what people on the coast think people in Oklahoma sound like. And sometimes they're right. But thankfully, no injuries last night and not a lot of damage to JD Vance Air Force Base. See, we need the Air Force Base because we're battling Iran and we're losing weapons. We're losing ammunition. And we lost a soldier. Thankfully, not killed. But a soldier had to be taken out of action in Iran because, Lucy, he was scratched by a monkey. Or did you already know I was going to say that? I did not know that there were monkey scratches going around? Well, it turns out his mission didn't get derailed by the war necessarily, but apparently on their way to the Strait of Hormuz. A sailor aboard the USS Chief. This is a Navy mine sweeper. They got to go into the straight, figure out where the mines are, and sweep them. And they stopped near the ship's home port in Japan. They were actually in Thailand, and they had a little shore leave, and I don't know if I can say the name of the town in Thailand. It's spelled P-H-U-K-E-T.

Pouquet. That's what Craig in the news department, all knowing Craig. Oh yeah, Craig says some variation of that a lot. Hey, Craig, your computer not working. Yep, Pouquet. The sailor and electronics technician was on shore leave and ended up getting scratched by a monkey. We don't know how he came in such close proximity with the monkey. A military official says, quote, weird stuff happens. This was definitely an unknown unknown. The monkey run in has become a talking point among the Navy small mine sweeping community where they say, all right, watch out for the long tail macaw, the common and sometimes aggressive monkeys in the tourist areas there in Phuket, Thailand. Were they able to take him into custody? The monkey? Yes. Well, I don't know that the monkey did anything terribly wrong. He scratched him. He's just doing monkey stuff. Yeah. That's an assault. That's assault, brother. They can carry diseases, including herpes. How'd you like to tell people, yeah, I got herpes from a monkey. A monkey scratch. Yeah. Well, that's the story. It's herpes B, and you need immediate treatment on that. Well, I'm sure I don't have to tell you. I'm not talking to you. You know, there's a guy, there's a guy. Two days in a row now. I'm not talking to you. Okay. There's a guy riddled with the herp here in the studio. And we have, we have people come in. There's bleachers sitting here in the Gary Saddlemire studio to observe the show. And there's one guy here who's got the herp. And, you know, he's nodding. Yep, yep, you don't have to tell me. I got it. I was talking to him. Mm-hmm. We're all here with you on News Radio 1110, KFAB, as some of us were last night for severe weather coverage. We had a tornado up around Sioux City. We had some pretty severe warnings down around Beatrice and Fairbury. And that's just a long line of storm. Also... Way far south had the tornado there around Enid, Oklahoma. And we even had a tornado warning at K State, where my daughter is a freshman and sent us a text and said, we're in the basement of our dorm room right now. So in addition to checking the radar here in Omaha, I also was checking the radar in Manhattan, Kansas. And I said, you're in the right place. Glad you're not out somewhere on campus. This tornado warning should be lifted like in less than 10 minutes. The storm was so fast moving across the area. And thankfully everything was okay. They didn't get carried off to Oz last night in Kansas. That's good. I have a different story from Kansas, though. It was prom last weekend for some of these Kansas students. This in the Topeka School of Seaman High School, where a kid named Cooper.

had an idea when he spotted this vehicle in a grocery store parking lot there in Topeka and thought, you know, some people rent a limousine for prom. I wonder what it would take. And, turns out, all it takes is money and gumption and Cooper and his buddies. There was a big group of them all piled in and took to prom. And Lucy, I've been trying for days to come up with a good joke or punchline for this. But all these kids went to prom in the Wiener Mobile. Really? And their dates or just the kids? Just the guys. You know, what was funny about this is it truly was the Wiener Mobile because they all posed for the picture out of it. It was like eight guys and two girls. What? That is the Wiener. Well, a lot of these high school kids, they go to these dances, homecoming prom, as just a group of friends, and then they meet up and occasionally dance with girls there. Lucy, I'm telling you. First of all, yeah, the punch, I don't know exactly what the setup is, but the punchline is riding the Wiener Mobile. A lot of people do that. So a lot of these high school kids, they go to prom. There's really no slow songs to dance to. This isn't like when we went to prom and you could just put on Journey's greatest hits and that would cover the entire night. with some fun, fast songs and some great slow songs. They barely play any slow songs. These kids don't know how to dance. Well, to be fair, neither did we. We just kind of faked it. I mean, they don't know how to ask a girl to slow dance with them and then try and deal with the, how do my feet go? My mind is racing right now. I never realized my palms could get so sweaty. You've got to go through that stuff. And that's why all these kids are all nuts. They haven't had this interaction that should start in middle school. All right, we're having a middle school dance. And there'll be three slow songs. And if you don't dance with someone by the third slow song, you're going to regret it and think about it for the rest of your life. You'll be walking around in your 40s just shaking your head going, why didn't I ask Tracy to dance? That's how it goes. And you've got to learn how to do that. And they don't do that anymore. They barely even do any slow dances, if at all. And so they just kind of go together as a big group of friends, and maybe you'd hang out and... dance with the girl maybe you don't well it seems to me like this has been going on for the last couple of decades that the powers that be whoever they are decide that the kids don't want to do something or haven't learned how and are not willing to learn how so we'll just eliminate it now they um instead of trying to make kids learn stuff new interact i i've just kind of found that whatever the when it comes to schools like today

Today, Omaha Public Schools has, they got the day off. But they're still going to make them check in for remote learning, even though the teachers told the students, we're not really going to do anything on Friday. today. So what are they checking in for? I don't know. What I've learned is when it comes to public schools, they get together and say, all right, guys, what's the dumbest thing we can do? Okay, let's do that. Right. By the way, on the Wiener Mobile, I'm super jealous. I would have absolutely loved to have shown up at Ralston High School's prom with my date. In a Wiener Mobile, I would have absolutely done that if I had... Two things. One, access to the Wiener Mobile and two, access to a date. But as I was 0 for two, I didn't have a chance to do that. She wouldn't have gotten on that Wiener Mobile anyway. No, she didn't. Even if you had a date, you wouldn't have one by the time the dance started. No, she really wouldn't have. So thank you, Lucy. I'm Scott Borges. Welcoming another member of the KFAB family into Nebraska's morning news. Ladies and gentlemen, Emery Songer has arrived there. What's up, what's up, girl? Good to see you. Good morning. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, this is, this is fun. I used to do mornings every single day for five years in my life. So this is a nice call back to that. Yeah, for our friends over in Iowa. And people are like, well, I thought Emery left. No, you know Emery didn't leave. He's got a great podcast. You just had Nora Sis on your podcast at kfab.com. Click podcast, click Emory Songer. All that stuff right there at kfab.com. Podcasts always Omaha-based. Always talking about the things that are happening in and around Omaha. We do at least two of those, three of those a week. Yeah, a lot of fun talking to Nora, legend at Creighton in the Supernovas tonight. Last game. at home this season. So one last chance to root them on. And there are ways that they can clinch a playoff berth by the end of the weekend. So that's what we're looking for. Fantastic. And you hear Emery pop in on reverse trivia on Chris Baker's show once a while. Friday's 5 o'clock. And invited you in here because you popped in on the show a couple of times. But one week from today, I'm gone. Our dedicated morning show fill-in, the rookie Gary Saddlemire. Who's that? He used to work here. He's not available next Friday. Now, I'm going to be gone next Thursday and Friday. Gary's going to fill in on Thursday here on the morning show. But on Friday, Emery Songers at the controls. And since you've never been in here for the entire show, you know, maybe I'll come in here and... Kind of see how this goes. Here's how it goes. You just keep saying, traffic weather and news next, and you hit this button. And then you say, hey, Jim, what do you think about this? And then you go make a sandwich, and then you come back here, and you still need to kind of wave him off to try and stay on time. And that's how it goes.

Nice. Yeah, it's super easy. Can confirm. Yeah, see, it's super easy. You got Lucy over here, and you got Jim over here, and you're going to have a great time next Friday. It sounds like fun. I'm not used to being able to talk to so many people during my radio shows. So, you know, this is good. Yeah, well. You still won't. Sometimes. So here's the other hazard of this show. Oh. Sometimes, like, Jim's just decided, like, I got to type up my Rosie to Genozy or a sports brief, whatever. So he's over there busy doing that. And then Lucy's recording traffic updates for everyone in the entire country. Yeah. So she's over there doing that. And you're looking at both them going, all right, I guess I don't have either of them to talk to in this segment. And then you start getting emails going, how come you're ignoring Lucy and Jim? It's fun. It's a super delight. You're going to love it. It won't keep you up at night or make your hair gray or nothing. So people get mad at you, too? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's great. I, but I, there's no place I'd rather be. Love doing this. Glad you're hanging out with this this morning. I'm glad I'm here too. Emery, we might be buying an airline. Isn't that exciting? Oh, we? Taxpayers. I didn't know I was making that much money yet. That's great. Yeah, you can have your own private jet. If the taxpayers own Spirit Airlines, which is what President Trump is talking about, do we at least get reduced rate to fly somewhere? What do we gain by this? I guess what's the plan? From a business standpoint, it makes sense. He's saying, look, Spirit Airlines been struggling for years. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a couple of years ago. And then again, last year they've just been struggling with losses. If you're going to buy an airline, and who among us hasn't thought occasionally? Maybe I should buy an airline. I mean, this would be a good time to get in and buy Spirit Airlines. So Trump's looking at it from a business standpoint. We buy it now. And then after oil prices drop, that's a better time to then sell the airline. And we make a big profit. Who is selling it to? Who's going to buy it? Probably someone who is not the U.S. government that would buy airlines. I don't know. What, the Saudi Arabian government? Elon Musk. I don't know, air lingus. Someone might want this. The Emirates are going to come here? They could. Who knows? But he says, quote, they have some good aircraft and good. This is what President Trump said. They got some good aircraft, good assets, and when the price of oil goes down, we'll sell it for a profit. I'd love to be able to save those jobs. I'd love to be able to save an airline. True that if you have more airlines, you get more competition, therefore lower rates. I don't know when the last, well, you've flown as recently as a few weeks ago. Yeah.

Because of the uncertainty, because of some fear from comments from some state leaders. And so what happened yesterday with the reclassification? You know, we had anticipated that for a long, long time. That's been talked about at the federal level. And so, you know, a Schedule I drug is noted for that there are no medical uses for it, highly addictive, and we can't study it. And so the reclassification is a huge win in a sense that we are going to be able to start studying this. But even more, I think, for those of us who have been in this fight for a long time, patients who have said this is a medicine, I want the opportunity to have this as an option for me or my loved one, is that we finally are, the federal government has said, yes, this is correct. There is a medical use. And so I think that's very vindicating for people who have been fighting for that. However, it doesn't change anything here in the state of Nebraska. There is no access. There are no dispensaries. There are no growers that are currently growing. And so the impact of rescheduling is not something that we're going to suddenly see any changes here in Nebraska. It is going to take the Medical Cannabis Commission continuing to set up a functioning program. It is going to take the legislature over the next, you know, years and years to continue or begin creating. meaningful legislation that supports a good program. It's all very... So I hope that gives a little bit of an overview. Yeah, it's all very confusing because voters are like, wait, we voted for this. Why isn't it happening? And many people probably think it is happening because you drive anywhere around Omaha and you see businesses that say cannabis dispensary and you can drive just pretty much any border state around Nebraska and pick some up, medical, recreational... or whatever. Why is it that you think that Governor Pillon and the Nebraska Unicameral has slow walked the will of the voters when it comes to medical marijuana? Krista. Yeah, you know, my opinion is that this is something that, you know, Governor Pillon, Attorney General Hildgers, even our federal delegates, you know, former Governor Pete Ricketts, that have all voiced opposition to. You know, that opposition, unfortunately, now that the voters spoke, their own personal opinions or, you know, political... behind the scenes stuff i think is is creating a stall absolutely um those who are in charge and have that power to to push or to push back um i think that's what we've seen and then brassica medical cannabis commission um although they they've begun their work

what is happening is going so slowly that we know, I know at the last meeting, we don't anticipate plants going in the ground until next year, which means patients would not have access in the state at a dispensary for possibly still a year and a half from now. Why can't they just drive down to Missouri and get some like fireworks, bottle rockets? You know, they absolutely can if people want to choose to do that, but that shouldn't have to be what they face. They shouldn't have to go across state lines. They shouldn't have to go and find a doctor somewhere. They should be able to have access to this medicine in our state that is safe, that is regulated, that is affordable, something that they can actually afford. And so right now we're in that gray area. It is legal to possess that with that written recommendation. But no one can get a recommendation. Therefore, there are no actual patients at our program. And if there were patients, unfortunately, there's nowhere for them to even get this product. And finally, it always comes down to a question and argument about recreational marijuana, which I argue we have now. You go to any middle school bathroom or concert around town. and someone's out there puffing away or vaping, and no one's doing anything to go in there and shut that down, and people accuse you and your organization of really ultimately pushing for recreational marijuana in Nebraska. Your response to that. Yeah, I agree that I don't think it's a secret that there is marijuana in our state. Unfortunately, I think much of it or most, all of it is probably not safe. We know it's not tested. It's not regulated. And what I would say about, you know, recreational and moving that direction is... I would challenge people to go and look where Nebraska's for medical marijuana has always started and what our mission has been, and that is to bring safe access. And for many of us in this effort, this is about our children. And I can tell you that an adult youth or recreational program has nothing and no way to help children and patients who need this medicinally. So that is not our effort. That has never been our effort. And, you know, we are still here begging and pleading for patients to have a good medical program. And we will continue doing what we're doing, bringing legislation, you know, using the power of the people and their voices until we see the day where, again, we have reached our goal and our mission, which was to have safe access for patients who need this in our state. Krista Eger is Executive Director of Nebraska's for Medical Marijuana. You can find more from them online at Nebraskamarijuana.org. Krista, thank you very much for the time today. Have a good weekend.

Thank you as well, Scott. Your thoughts on that topic, Emery. Well, the conversation, and I'm glad you brought this up at the end, we get a lot of the medicinal marijuana versus recreational marijuana arguments, and they bleed into each other. They're not the same thing. They're not close to the same thing. They shouldn't be considered the same thing. They are derived from the same product, but that doesn't mean that they do the same things. Your doctor's probably not going to prescribe you a giant fatty. I take this home, give it to you. your kid and maybe they won't have any problems with glaucoma. Right. Usually it's like a lotion, some sort of ointment or something like that. Well, and if we look at it from this perspective, we can make the argument about regulation being much safer than what the kids are getting on the streets. And that's a different thing than what we're talking about with medicinal marijuana. But CBD, hemp oil, if you've ever tried to give your dog... Like, I put my, I put some. Brownies? No, little, it's a pump of, like, fish oil. But there were, there's a bit of hemp in it as well. And it's good for their joints as they age. Really? Right. So, like, it doesn't get my dogs high. But it's a plant derived, you know, kind of a pre-treatment, if you will. And it can be a treatment for people who have different things. And there is science to back up. And this is why I think Nebraska voters to a pretty. large margin voted a year and a half ago that said, you know what? I think this would be a good thing for the state of Nebraska. I'm constantly confused, though, because, I mean, on a lot of different things. First of all, CBD is available. And they say, like, oh, it's great. It's everything from migraines to back pain to general malaise. And you're like, okay, so I can go get that. What do I need the marijuana for? And then... I'm even further confused because you said it doesn't get my dog high. Why don't we have a product that gets dogs high? We got catnip for cats. That gets them absolutely lit. How come dogs don't have? Do dogs have dog nip? So I think catnip is more like cocaine. for cats. And I don't think dogs in general need anything to make them more excited. They're just kind of already excited. Now, we did give them trisadone ahead of the fireworks last year, and that's the opposite. That's probably like dog weed. That's the stuff where they basically become sleepy and loopy, and they're just like, whoa, this is awesome. Look at the sky. Oh, look at those lights. All of a sudden, this isn't so scary anymore. See, that's what we need grandma to have. Trazidone? I don't know. That'd be bad. Don't take tracadone. Don't give your kids tracidone. Bad idea. I'm glad to have a couple of days off next week. Gary Saddlemire will do the show on Thursday, Emery on Friday. I'm Scott Voorhees. And that is Michael Jackson. Is that movie out today? I believe so. I think it is. Have you read anything about it? Yeah. I know you're a big MJ fan. Well, see, that's the controversy about it. So I was born in the mid-70s, raised in the 80s, came of age in the 90s, which I feel is the best time anyone could have done those things at that time. And I hope everyone is able to say that for the time that they grew up.

But for purposes of the Michael Jackson conversation, the people who are like 10 years older than me think, yeah, he had some good songs, but then he's a weirdo. And then the people who are younger than me just basically know him as a weirdo. And maybe a few of the cool ones think some of his music is pretty good. But for those of us in that sweet spot for me, like... Thriller came out when I was in first grade. We made sequined gloves in Sunday school. That's who Michael Jackson was for us at that time. When MTV first came out and Michael Jackson was the biggest thing going, I mean, he... He was the biggest thing in the world. Yeah, so Taylor Swift is Michael Jackson now, but the thing that she doesn't have is the signature stuff, right? The hair or the jackets, the music videos that are going to live forever because that was the predominant era that a music video could step out of being a music video and be something larger than that. Now, if you're not seeing a music video on YouTube, I mean, it might as well not exist. And then, of course, the glove is the one thing that I think everybody just... started to associate, oh, that's a Michael Jackson thing. The glove, the moonwalk, the hat. I mean, the whole Billie Jean Motown thing was so, so great. But this movie, I mean, I'm sure that you're a bit torn on it because it has not been super well reviewed. It sounds to me like they shot... for more than they could chew for his music career and then decided that was enough of talking about Michael Jackson's life and basically end it before we get to any of the weird stuff. Basically, it's his upbringing through the bad album in 87 and 88. And then it's like, and Michael's life goes, I don't, I didn't want the biopic about the accusations and what happened with the end of his life. And I, as a Michael Jackson fan of the artist. I don't want that stuff. If I want to read the tabloid stuff, I'll do it. There are documentaries out there that are completely one-sided. If I want to watch that stuff, but I don't, it's there. This is a celebration of the guy that I knew growing up. the artist. Yeah. The biggest thing in the world. And obviously, there are people older and younger than me to go, this is just a fake stuff that's signed off by his family. So what you're saying is you're going to go see this. I'm absolutely going to go see it. And I'm going to do it with no shame. Judge me all you want. Lucy, are you judging me? Oh, she is. A little. I think that it's unfair of you to say anybody older than you thinks that Michael Jackson's no good or... Whatever word you used. You definitely pigeonholed people in multiple generations there. We were roller skating to his music long before you were. I think stereotypically, though, if you were already a teenager when Thriller came out, which was the big moment, then, yeah, you liked the album. You owned the album. But it wasn't like...

It wasn't, this was in your formative child years. Well, here's the most entertaining thing you'll ever see that sticks with you the rest of your life. I can't help it. I just thought that the music was amazing. And I go, I'm definitely a part of the Dave Chappelle School on this. When in Chappelle's show, he was asked like, oh, witness on the stand. Do you think Michael Jackson did this stuff? No, why not? He made thriller. I don't know if that defense holds up in court. It does with me. I was 18 when he died, and I will say this, that led me to discovering a lot of his catalog. I was familiar with a few of the biggest of his hits, but after he died when everybody was playing all the songs, just kind of a remembrance to him, that was when I was exposed to some other songs, and I really... Got to understand why he was so renowned as an artist. So I think there's space for this. Is it going to be a biopic that's ultimately fairly forgettable? Probably. But at the same time, if you're a Michael Jackson fan, this is going to go in the catalog for sure. It's a fun way of celebrating Michael Jackson and his music. And I think it's Jermaine's kid that plays Mike. So he looks and sounds, dances just like him. If you want to see it. I guess it's out today. I'm looking at it right now. Showtimes are available in all your movie theaters. All right. I'll see you at the theater. What's the best biopic? Lucy, think about this one as well. Best biopic of a musician or band and... Who should be the next person profiled in the next movie? Okay. Emmer, you want to start? Sure. We were talking about Michael. I haven't seen it yet. I've seen very few. Biopics are not something that I find to be very interesting to me. I've probably seen six or seven music. related ones in my life. The one that I was talking to you off the air was the Brian Wilson one, Love and Mercy. That was one that stuck with me for a while. I liked the Beach Boys. I was one of those weird 10-year-olds that picked up the Beach Boys' greatest hits and really liked listening to that. At the same time, you know, Brian Wilson was just the singer of the Beach Boys to me. And then I watched Love and Mercy, which came out probably 10, 12 years ago. Paul Dano is young, Brian Wilson, and John Cusack is older Brian Wilson. And John Cusack is Brian Wilson. I can see that. He's fantastic, by the way. And Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks are in this movie as well. It's really more of a look at his personal life. And I learned a lot more about the genius of him. It doesn't talk about the music nearly as much. But that one to me was just like, wow, that guy is a one of one in history. What should be the next band or musician profiled in a movie? It's got to be Boston. Boston. Boston. We got to start with Tom Scholes, who is a Yale educator or MIT-educated engineer who in his 20s decided he was going to design this studio and made one of the greatest debut albums of all time and then befriends this guy named Brad Delp, who happens to have one of the most unique and incredible voices in rock and roll history. And they just happen to be buddies. It's hard to believe for me. But I would love to see somebody like,

explore that situation and how they made that album when they were super young and had no musical connections. Good pick. Lucy got a pick for best biopic on a band or artist. I loved Walk the Line. Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash? Yeah, love that one. Who should be the next one profiled? Barry Manelow. I think it would be really interesting. Yeah, he's such a nice guy. Yeah. We love Barry Manelow. Friend of the program. He was on here for like three minutes once. A good friend of the program, Barry Manila. I'm going to go with Best Musician Biopic Ray. Jamie Fox is Ray Charles. That's a good one. Oh, so good. Unless the Blues Brothers are spinal tap counts. Orange whip? Orange whip? No, no. Three orange whips. All right. So I'm going to go Ray, and then the next one should be Nirvana. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. That's going to be a good movie someday. You want to open that camera? I'm not sure I'm going to like how that one ends. That's, yeah, spoiler alert. It doesn't end well. Let's talk about some happy things here. Oh, okay. The president says that the reflecting pool. Yeah, this makes everyone happy. Donald Trump today. Ooh, hey kids. Hello, that sounds like a great time. Pewees play out. Presidenti says that the Memorial Reflecting Pool there in D.C. on the National Mall is filthy and disgusting. Ah, yes. So he says, we're cleaning it up. It's America 250. So we're getting a better looking reflecting pool. When's the last time you were in D.C. and saw that. To May of 2023, I was in D.C. is most recently. And I walked past that thing. You know, the first thing that I thought, man, that water is dirty. No, does anybody even notice the water? Do you care? Like, does anybody care? You know, this is the thing. I don't. The president gets. In his idea that he wants to do something, he just wants to go and do it. I mean, like the ballroom at the White House, right, it's just like, well, why couldn't we do it? Let's just do it. Now, this is certainly not going to cost the same amount as that ballroom's going to cost. And if it looks fine, I'm down for it. Why is it cost that much to... I don't know, what are we doing? Drain and clean it? I mean, don't we have like a pool boy there through the reflecting pool? You would theoretically have to drain it and clean it if you want it to look nice with this new blue stuff you're going to be putting in there. But again, I don't, who goes to deep? American flag blue industrial pool coating to the bottom of a pool. Here's what I'm saying. I totally understand everybody wants everything to look pristine and nice and everything. I just. If that's the only thing that you notice when you were walking through the National Mall with all those monuments and all the tributes and statues and that's the thing you notice, I would just make sure that you look in the mirror at the end of the day and it's like, am I a bad person? Because that would be my reaction to that. No, no, no. If the National Mall is there to provide these monuments and things for tourists to go by and look at our nation's capital and be proud of them, you don't want crime.

I mean, I've not been in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years now, so it's been a while. Okay. When I was there, I witnessed the reflecting pool and obviously being able to stand there on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and look out and think about. being Dr. King delivering that monumental speech at that monument with a or Forrest Gump. A bazillion people or Forrest Gump up there too. You know, the two great figures in American history and stand there and try and picture that and be just full of pride to stand there. It's all inspiring. To be in Arlington, it's all inspiring. But you know what else I saw? I saw some monuments and a bit of disrepair, and I watched one guy beat another guy with that guy's own crutch on the streets of Washington, D.C. That could happen anywhere. Come on. And people were just walking by like, hey, this is just Tuesday. So I want a clean D.C. that we can be proud of, especially for our 250th birthday. The president says it'll take two weeks. Everything takes two weeks with this president. Right? Two weeks. Even seven weeks takes two weeks with this president. How long is the next seven weeks? Two weeks. It's going to cost about a million and a half dollars. Donnie email says $1.5 million to paint a pool. I'm in the wrong business. See, that's the silver lining here. Maybe this just does wonders for the pool lining business. It's stimulating the economy. President Trump's stimulating the economy this way. I've been to Washington, see, relatively. recently. I wrote a bike from Nationals Park all the way through downtown. I didn't feel afraid of my life except when I accidentally ran a red light. That was my bad. But, you know, I get that we need a crime to be cleaned up there. It's... gotten cleaned up. This pool apparently needs cleaned up. Donald Trump wants to clean that up too. I'm sure to look great. I just know that when I was walking through the National Mall, that was the last thing that I was thinking about. I wasn't even really paying attention to the cherry blossoms, which were in perfect bloom at the time that I was there. And trust me, there are a lot of people that are showing up literally to look at cherry blossoms. Don't ask me why. You want to stand there at our National Mall. You want to see... Obviously, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the reflecting pool, there between the two. You want to be proud of these things. The Vietnam Memorial is right there. World War II monuments right there. You look at the Capitol in the White House, and you look over and go, what is that over there? It's the Jefferson Memorial. Should you walk over there? I can see it from here. And do make a point to go over to Arlington. And that's what people will be doing here for America 250, and they do that all the time. And it should look great. So with an American flag blue industrial. water and pool coating. I think that's going to look cool. That's fine. Yeah. You know, it's going to be the coating on the bottom of the pool, not a tent applied to the water. Sure, sorry. When homeless guys try and bathe in there, they're not going to come out looking like Papa Smurf. Well, I was... That'd be kind of funny. But...

I just, you got to keep the water really clear and probably put some lighting at the bottom of this, like your hot tub to make sure that the lining is seen. But even then, are we defacing the National Mall's pool and making it more noticeable? And that's not even the point. He's not putting his face, you know, at the bottom of it. The water's going to be clear so you can see this face. I understand what you're saying. I'm also just saying that, you know, I think the point of the water was not to notice the water. It was symbolic that it was there, but it's... not supposed to be like the star of the show. I can't imagine. Trump puts his face there at the bottom of the reflecting pool. Would you be that surprised? Would you be surprised? Would you be surprised if it happened? I wouldn't be surprised when the TDS victims go, look, guys, a bathroom. We got Greg Wagner here. Don't go messing with a country boy. A country boy. Don't go messing with a country boy. Don't mess with a country boy. Amory, you're a wrestling fan. You recognize that theme song? Is that Hillbilly Gym? Hillbilly Jim. I'm so proud of you. There you go. Greg, Wagner from Nebraska. Emery, thanks a lot for being here today, man. Yeah, talk to you next week. Greg, you got Emory Songer as your host next week here. Yeah, he's a camper, a hiker, want to talk outdoors. Big time. You want to just come co-host the show? Oh, wait, I have Jim Rose with me. Sorry. No, no, I'm a good guest, but no. Well, let's see about that. From Nebraska. From Nebraska Game in Parks, Greg Wagner. All right, fishing first. What do we, you know, obviously, we always talk about the weather here. Tomorrow, maybe, probably Sunday, wash out. I don't think so. But we have a good croppy bite right now. Not crappy, croppy. Croppy. Good croppy bite right now. As they move into the shallows, they're pre-spawn as we talk to fishing lingo. Folks are using jigs and minnows, minnows where you can use them. And wind-swept shoreline's going to be the ticket. And water temperatures are still chilly, buddy. So fish slope. Yeah. What about hunting this weekend? Spring turkey hunting. Greg Wagner had success just a couple days ago. And... bumped up numbers of birds out there. And I think today is a great day to spring wild turkey hunt with your shotgun or with your bow. Tomorrow, okay. And then the wind picks up. The enemy of the spring turkey hunter is wind and rain. And so we'll have a couple days. Give the birds a break. Yeah, that'd be good. So the wind, not impacting the mushrooms. I mean, it has some very strong, strong winds. But what about the rain yesterday? We had a lot of rain, Scotty. It was spotty, Scotty. And we needed more. But every little bit helps. So we still... are finding morel mushrooms along the river bottom woodlands and are dead and decaying trees. So still hunt. Now what you're battling is a lot of vegetation, a lot of greenery as it gets taller, just like your yard. Yeah. Taller and taller. So you've got to slow down doing that too and really look around those dead cottonwood trees. And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg? It's Arbor Day. Arbor Day Celebration, Nebraska City. Arbor Day message.

Plant a native Nebraska tree. One I would suggest is a cool one. It's not big. It's a shrub-like tree. Produces food for you and critters. The choke cherry. The choke cherry. All right. You like it? Beautiful. Is that a spring blossom tree? A choke cherry? Kind of, yeah. I would think so. Yes, yes, great. Greg Wagner, have a great weekend. You too, buddy. See you. Thank you very much from Nebraska Game in Parks. That is Greg Wagner here on Nebraska's morning news. Toleretic here from 2311 racing. Game nights fun until someone spends five minutes lining up one shot. Chalk, breathe, rechalk, still aiming. While they figure it out, I fire up Chamba Casino. I can spin anywhere, anytime, and there's always a new social casino game every week. Spins happen way faster than that shot. Play now at chumba casino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with Iheart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeart media a part of your 2026 plan today. Call 844-844-I-Hart. Again, that's 844-844-I-Hart.