Pillen Calls Out "Libt_rds"

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Answer the feline question. So then someone decides from his staff. Governor, we had a call from a constituent named Lucy. She wants to know what you think about cats. Well, I appreciate the question. You know, dogs are like, he's not answering it. You know, so that's how this thing works. I don't know what the questions were, but they had to do with some sort of opposition. to things the governor says or does, and that's not going to quiet down after these responses. When I asked the question a moment ago, are we all adults here? It's because the governor used a term, a childish sophomoric frequently used term, to describe people on the other side, the Democratic side of the political spectrums with whom he disagrees. I see this a lot in social media. I see it a lot in the inbox. I see this kind of thing. Once in a while, I don't use the term. Frankly, I'm not a fan of the term. I get it, and it speaks to another term that I don't. use and we're going to have to talk about that this morning. Now, we're all adults here, right? I'm saying right now, I don't like this word. Now, at the end of the day, people are going to scream at me for using this word 50,000 million times. Governor said it three times. The word is lib-tard. Are you laughing at the word that's a word you've heard a million times? Are you laughing that the governor of Nebraska just said it? Actually, I was kind of trying to get past the whole saying it three times and wondering if he clicked his heels together too. Yes, if you say that word three times and click your heels together, Jane Cleb appears. I see. She is among those who are feigning offense. Oh, really? I thought she was the one under the house. No, come on. Jane's our friend. We love Jane, the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party. Love. I adore her. Honest to goodness. All right, so. We'll get the hell out of here. Okay. See, that's exactly what I was about to say. This is what we're talking about. The language in politics these days, whether it comes from the president, the mayor of Minneapolis, the governor of Nebraska, there are a lot of people who have said, you know, the language of these politicians. Well, how did they get there? Was it a bloody coup? Or did we... profane classless society. The people were just out there wearing pajamas 24 hours a day and cursing up a storm in front of someone else's kids at McDonald's leaking class all over town. Did we put these guys there? So look in a mirror. Anyway, the governor, here are the ways that he used the term. The first one was, quote, Nebraska's are about faith, family, and hard work. And you're wondering, how is he going to work this tournament? We're about the American Dream. I will tell you that if you sit and listen to the 10 keyboard warriors that are the Lib Tards, if you listen to that, you would think the sky is falling down. Well, he's only talking about 10 people then? 10 people, keyboard warriors. That's usage number one. Usage number two.

Quote, I love the people in Nebraska, and you know, I don't really give a damn what those libtards and these people want to criticize. Quite honestly, the more they criticize me and our team and my family, we're doing great work. I'm only your governor by the strength of prayers, unquote. We've worked both faith, prayers, and libtards into the same two quotes. Third one, as quicker, he says, quote, we had some demonstrators in one of our places today that wear the red things, whatever. The libtards have lost their brains, unquote. When he's talking about the red thing, he's not talking about Husker fans. We have these people wearing these red things. That's a Nebraska basketball game, Governor. No, he's talking about those who wear the handsmaid tail costumes. Oh, they want us to be Puritans and not give us rights and all this stuff. So he says they've lost their brains. Now, I don't use that term. I don't like that term. I get it. People toss a lot of terms around there. It's not exactly my lane to fire that one across. Though I do... understand the Louis C.K. way of describing the people who use then the R word. And he's like, you know, people aren't calling those who are, you know, actually in various forms of mental retardation. They're not calling people that word. That would be horrible. No one's doing that. They're saying it to their buddies. They're saying it to someone they disagree with. The president says it about the governor of Minnesota. You know, you're not actually calling someone who's in that state, that word. So there is that. Not an excuse. I'm just throwing it out there. And then you've got this phrase here that is a variation on that. And the reason why a lot of people keep saying it is because a lot of liberal people hate hearing it. And that's why they keep saying it. I didn't think the governor was going to say it three times in a teletown hall. Yeah, well, it was Michael Savage who first referred to liberalism as a mental disorder, and that may have planted the seed. Now, if you're a liberal, you're not retarded, mentally retarded, or anything like that. You just have a differing view of how the world should be run. And in most cases, your policies have failed, but that's a separate argument. This is a governor, much like the president, who is not a politician, who never wanted to be a politician. who never was trained in the art of politics. They were trained in the art of looking at a task, figuring out how to make it better or fix it. and then doing it. Yes, but, and we're going to get back to my... So he gets slack. The guy gets slack. Well, no, I don't like it. I wish he wouldn't refer to liberals as Librar's, but I guess. There's a yes, but, and we're going to get to my butt at like 635 here. We're really going to get to your butt at 635. I got a big butt on this, and we're going to get to it. See, I'm right there classless as well. And I want to hear your thoughts, Scott at kfab.com. We'll read those emails coming up. And yes, this cabal of adults here this morning.

Be that as it may, are discussing a term that the governor of Nebraska used three times in last night's Tella Town Hall. The term is Lib Tard, is what the governor said. Again, the quotes, he says, quote, I'll tell you that if you sit and listen to the 10 keyboard warriors that are the lib tards, if you listen to that, you would think the sky is falling down. That's one. Number two. I love the people in Nebraska, and you know, I really don't give a damn what those libtards, and these people want to criticize. And number three, we had some demonstrators in one of our places today that wear the red things, whatever. The libtards have lost their brains, unquote. The red things are the handsmaid's tails outfit, that whole thing. So we're getting your feedback. And it is exactly as you think. I'll read those emails in a moment. I already came out and said, you know, I'm not a, I don't use that term. I get it because the people who do use that term, they're not finding people who are mentally retarded and tend to vote Democrat and referring to them as that term. It's the comedian Louis C.K. There's another dangerous person to quote, but he was talking about the R word. And he said, you know, people aren't out there calling those who are afflicted with that condition, that word. That would be terrible. So that's, I'm not using it as an excuse like, ah, this is no big deal. I think it is below the class of the governor of the state of Nebraska to use that term. There. I said that. Now, Jim Rose said. A moment ago that you disagree with that assessment. I don't like it. I don't like it. I wish you wouldn't say that. But we are in an era now where we are electing people to office who really don't care what other people think about them personally or professionally. They look at their job as a chief executive, whether it's president of the United States or governor of Nebraska, as the people saying, we want you to lead this. We want you to manage. We want you to run the office. And Jim Pillon, as we found, because he was on the air with us last week, he has no future political aspiration. Most do. Even Dave Heineman, when he left office in 2014 after serving his governor for 10 years, he might have thought in the back of his mind, maybe I have one more election in me. So I'm going to hedge a little bit. I'm not going to stick my neck out. This guy does not have that issue. This guy doesn't care what you think or I think or the media thinks. Remember, when he was running for governor four years ago, he didn't participate in any of those debates. No, I know. Nor did he come on the radio station a whole lot. A couple times here on a morning show. This is him. He's a farmer. Farmers approach life very differently than most people. Yes, but. Here's my butt. I say, you know what? I don't like it. If I were his dad, I would say that demonstrates to you a lack of intelligence, which is not so. He's a very, very smart guy.

But I'm not his dad, and I'm not his social worker or his probation officer. Ultimately, as a politician, if you don't like it, then don't vote for it. Don't vote for. So as a person, though, and you're saying, like, look, this guy's not a politician, he's not polished, he says some stuff that's unvarnished. Here's, you know, kind of what you get. And I consider him a friend. But, you know, he was raised as a kind of person that we'd expect from a classy Nebraska. That's true. Not to use. Great family. Phrasing like that. And his mother would say, Jim. Jim. Jim. It's true. She probably would. Look. Now, am I, did I lose any sleep about it last night? I did not. No. So here's what we're getting in the Zonkers custom woods inbox. Scott at kfab.com. Patrick says he's not wrong. Keith says, I use LibTard daily. It's a pretty good description of people on that certain mindset slash political side of the aisle. As from Keith, Tom says, what else would you refer to them as? I know that you could, I've been shooting off my big fat mouth for a couple of decades now on this radio station. You're going to find several examples where I have failed in a standard that I try and set for myself. Honestly, I don't. Lucy, you've been listening to this for years. I don't use a lot of name calling. And you always finish it up with so's your face when you do. Right. So I'm not a big. Blanket statement name caller. I'm sure I can find lots of examples. And I'll probably come up with another one here in response to Kevin's email says if you use, since the governor used that term three times in the conference call last night, says if you say that three times, does Beetlejuice show up? Kind of. It's former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. Now see, that's... Just by pointing out that former Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, does resemble Beetlejuice. You might think, well, that's name-calling. No, it's not. Beetlejuice is one of my very favorite movies. I think that's a badge of honor on her part. We got CM says the facts that the leftists throw out there are absolutely mentally libtarded, Scott. Yeah, thank you for that email. And then Terry and Council Bluff says, I don't use the R word much, but I agree with the point that banning words is a form of control. And Libtar, I mean, leftist progressives are all about control as they take more and more power. And he quotes a woman named Amy Therese on Twitter who said, you ever notice how they banned us from saying gay and retarded at precisely the moment. that they began ushering in a completely gay and retarded social order. So there. Like I said, we're adults this morning. There's some terms, phrases out here that I will not be using over the course of the next hour and a half or so when kids are in school. I'll use more euphemistic phrasing if and probably when we continue to talk about this story.

But those are my sensitivities. I don't have much of them, but those are a few of those coming through there. But before we get all bent out of shape and take any kind of moral high ground. As I mentioned earlier, Jane Kleb, the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party, said, this is just absolutely terrible that the governor called people to say. Remember, it was President Barack Obama who went on one of those late-night shows and referred to, I think, his bowling prowess as being like the Special Olympics. Which was founded by a Robert F. Kennedy Jr., interestingly enough. Well, it's interesting. So I just. Before we all start saying, well, I never look. People look at things that President Trump says, and they're like, I don't know why he says things like that. Because this is a filthy job, not what we're doing here this morning. Politics, it's a filthy job. And with the... advent of social media, these guys are getting the ugliest and sometimes violent, threatening things thrown at them all the time. If they fire back a few times and say some things that we might say, I don't know that a reasonable person would sit down, think that through and say that. I tend to provide grace and be able to forgive a few things like that. This is News Radio 1110, KFAB. Scott at kFAB.com. Governor Pillen used a phrase in the Teletown Hall last night that got people talking. And here are some responses. More in the Zonkerous Customwoods inbox. Chris says, I love Pillen's blunt talk. You're not guessing where he's coming from or what he means. And if you're just joining us going, what do you say? You know the R word? It's a version of that where he's talking about liberals. Takes the first part of liberal, the last part of the R word. You've heard it. That's what he said three times. So we've now reached the point of the program where I've determined that kids might be up listening, and I am not going to use that phrase for the next hour and a half or so. But after that, I'm going to use it a bunch. Adam says, good morning. I get it. These LTs, we'll use that term, can call. Good as any. Yeah. And I love this response from Adam, though. He says these LTs can call Republicans, Nazis, and Gestapo's. But a humorous American slag term like is off limits. L.O.L., the governor might have just earned my vote if he doesn't apologize. That's from Adam, does not want an apology. Now, that point I get. We're forcing the issue and saying, all right, why do you get to say all of these hateful things? You're racist, you're sexist.

You're jingoistic. You are Nazi. I'm what? Jingoistic. What's that? That you make America great again as America and only America. We don't care about anybody else in the world and all that. Because I learned a term once and I want to use it once in a while in my life. Yeah, jingoism. Never heard that? No. All right. And then Richard emails and says just proves what Pillon said there just proves once again the crooked businessman type is not the answer. We need the working men and women to save us. Give me someone who's actually paid taxes. And listening to you guys just proves how stupid America is right now. Thank you, Richard. He listens every day. Governor Pillon, not the working man out there slopping hogs for the better part of the last 50 years. If you don't think the Jim Pillan's ever gotten his hands dirty. Yeah. You don't know Jim Pillen. This guy's dad was a sharecropper. So trust me, he knows what hard work looks like. Where do you think Governor Pillen would rather be, knee deep in pig slop or hanging out with some of the Democrats in the Nebraska unit camera? Knee deep in pig slop, waist deep in pigs. Distinction without a difference some days. I got Lucy Chapman keeping an eye on traffic, which is tough to do when it's still dark after 7 o'clock. But Lucy is very, very good. She has night vision like one of them cats. One of them cats. Sorry. Can you be more specific? It's phrasing from, I think that's, that's from cranky anchors. That's Adam Carolla's Bircham. I'm hairless like one of them cats. So that's just a phrasing of my buddies and I use. To be fair, I do have that kind of vision, but I don't use it here. Don't use it for evil, only for good. That is powerful, and I thank you very much for taking that stand. Can you tell me whether traffic is building up on West Maple near about 180th, where people have apparently been coming from hours around to get a cup of coffee from a new, we got a new coffee shop. What's in this coffee? Fentil? Yeah. Well, I don't know the best way to get them to advertise here is that suggestion, but apparently it's really good coffee. It's seven brew coffee. This is a place that just opened up their first location in the Omaha area. I guess there's one in Fremont. but there have been lines wrapping around the what's kind of the new business district out on West Maple near 180th. Cars are lined up all over the place in the drive-th to get a cup of coffee. And the story here from KMTV 3 News Now is talking to a guy because they're just waiting there in line, talking to a guy named Christian who says he drove there from Carter Lake and says what I just ordered is cheaper than Starbucks.

Did you factor in? I know where this is going. The gas from Carter Lake to 180th in Maple, not to mention what is your time worth. But then again, I'm not a coffee drinker. Maybe the coffee is that good that people are coming. Here's a family from Gretna. Said, oh yeah, we used to go to Fremont to get their coffee. One cup of coffee? I don't get it, but they showed an aerial photo of lines of cars wrapped around the building, extending well beyond the drive-thru lane, down the block, over close to that Costco out there. Were they ready for it? That's what it was. I went to Costco the other day, and I looked over and saw what I thought was a new business, and I couldn't tell what the sign was. I thought it was Runza. I was like, that's really close to the other Runza. And I couldn't tell what it was, and I didn't want to drive over there. But there were cars everywhere. And it's funny. Anytime a new business opens, even if there's one just like it, just right down the street. I'll give you an example, same corridor, 168th of Maple, that Church's chicken opened there a couple of years ago and people were freaking out. Oh my gosh, fried chicken! And they're waiting in line forever. And now it's kind of tapered off. They're still pretty busy. But then they just opened a Popeye's probably 500 yards away, right south there on the other side of Maple. And now the lines are all like people have, they're like they've never heard of such a thing. Hey, hey guys over here, look. Fried chicken. Yes, it's, it is a different business that has fried chicken. And it's just a few yards away. But people are like, it's new fried chicken. And it's the same thing I guess with this coffee. People are like, hey, coffee. And look, it's not a Chick-fil-A sandwich. What are you guys doing? Calm down. Well, that's what I was thinking. It's got to be a marketing tactic. And plus, when you see a big line of traffic, you're going to do one of two things. You're going to run as fast as you can. Or you're going to say, what's going on there? Let me go check that out. I got to get in there. I heard this is the best roller coaster ever. Like, it's not a roller coaster. It's a cup of coffee. I blame Don Eccles for this. Scooters. This is the former KFAB news guy who realized the radio is great if you bring your own money, but you can make more by doing something else. So he invented Scooters coffee, right? And he picked this up. We did a rosy-digin-ozy on this when he made the Hall of Fame. We picked this up when he was out in California. And he saw these people lined up at this drive-thru coffee. And he figured out what are they serving over there?

Well, it wasn't just a cup of Joe, right? It was like an experience. Yeah. People. And that's what this industry is. This industry is about branding experience. The coffee isn't that much better. It's just done differently with all sorts of creative ingredients. God bless America, man. People love their coffee, and there are people who have an affinity for certain brews they get that cost this much money at one of those. Big chains. And then there are people that say, I just go into this local gas station where it costs a nickel. And it's the best coffee I ever had. Well, whatever it takes to get you going in the morning, thanks for making us part of your routine. Governor Pillen wants Jim Rose to put Coach Osborne in the Nebraska Hall of Fame. And you're thinking, how in the world is Tom Osborne not in the Nebraska State Hall of Fame? Now, this isn't... Is this the Sports Hall of Fame or just the state? This is the State Hall of Fame. Right now the rules are you can only induct one person every five years and you had to have been deceased for at least 35 years. And you cannot have been in entertainment or athletics, which is a bone of contention for me. I'm on the commission appointed by the governor and we look through these list of important people. The last one we put in was Malcolm X. This is the greatest collection of Nebraska's. ever. Now, there are some missing because of various politics or restrictions, and you're right, 35 years, I think, is excessive. I don't necessarily believe you should go in when you're alive because I think that your legacy needs to endure past your lifespan on Earth, but 35 years is too long. So if Rosie was the emperor, it'd be 25 years, and we would also lift restrictions on categories. For example, right now, Johnny Carson would not be eligible to go into the Hall of Fame because he was in entertainment, and that is a restricted category. That's ridiculous. I agree. That Johnny Carson did so much for Nebraska, for the view of Nebraska. Correct. I mean... He wouldn't qualify under current conditions. Really? So what I'd like to see, and there is a bill that is wafting its way through the legislature, it was introduced by... Senator Lonergan, I believe, from Hastings that would amend the statute that would allow Coach Osborne to get in while he's alive. This is the T.O. exemption. We're not changing the rules for everybody. I think we need to change the statute. The statute's been around a long time and some would argue and they have fair arguments. But I believe... 35 years is too long, and I believe you need to lift the sports and entertainment restriction. Bob Devaney, his death, his 30-year anniversary for death, will come up next year.

Bob Devaney is as deserving to get into the Nebraska Hall of Fame as Tom Osborne. In fact, you could make the argument more deserving because what he did when he arrived was revive an entire state. Now, Tom's example and his not only great success, but his commitment to youth is unparalleled. But I would hope that we could use this, this statute exemption amendment to the statute. as an opportunity to do some reforms on the category and on eligibility standards. Because I just think we're restricting people of great acclaim in Nebraska. Now, Buffett will go in 35 years after his death, but I would hope it wouldn't have to be 35. Well, don't spoil it. I don't think I'll be on the commission in 35 years. Maybe. I think this is a wonderful gesture. I think we need to do it more often than every five years. I don't know about every year. I'd be okay with every year. But maybe every two years, we should probably look at that statute too. But it's in the hands of the Unicameral. The Hall of Fame statutes, that is the purview of the unicameral. And I'm sure Governor Pillen would agree to any changes that would be made. A couple of quick things. Number one. you start thinking about 35 years down the line and you've seen what's happened with people out there just angrily toppling statues or saying we need to get white faces off our money. I don't want to wait 35 years to see what the people who are out there protesting in the streets kids think and who they think should be in the state Hall of Fame. I don't know these people. I'm already not interested in what they think. Two, the last person who needs this acclaim for him to be able to hold his head up high is coach Tom Osberg. He's okay. He's okay with it. He deserves to go in, but if we're going to do some changes, let's make them permanent. We have been talking a lot this morning about a phrase used by Governor Pillen a few times in last night's Teletown Hall. We are in that grace period. instituted about a hour or so ago where I said, look, kids are uplisting and some people are incredibly offended by the term. We're not going to use it, but I didn't want you to think we were ignoring this news since social media is exploding about it. Governor Pillon used the phrase, the first part of the word liberal. And the last part of the R word. I'm using the phrase LT when responding to this. And if your kids are like, what does LT mean? As a good father, you tell them Lawrence Taylor. Now, here are some of the responses here in these Zonkers Custom Woods inbox. Tim says, Scott at kfab.com, good morning. I'm not thrilled with Governor Pillen's use of that phrase. I expect a little more decorum from our elected officials, and there's not much to be found anymore.

I believe his use of this term is to emphasize the lack of growth and progression by the liberals and the left. They're so wrapped up and hate for all things Trump and by default Republicans, they're unable to see logic or common sense. That said, a more Truman-esque term like dumb rear ends would be more acceptable. So there's Tim. threading that needle and I appreciate the email Tim Scott at kfab.com. City of Omaha is looking at vacant buildings going up in flames just about every single day. Now why is that? What's that going to look like this weekend when temperatures overnight are approaching minus 20 and below wind chills? The out the unhoused crowd. We'll be looking for indoor housing. Well, a vacant building's not very warm. How do you warm it up? Set everything on fire. What happens when that happens? Building goes up in flames. We had another one the other day, Omaha Fire Department investigating, and you've got the mayor and the OFD Chief Kathy Bossman saying, look, this is a dangerous situation as people go inside, trying to find a place to warm up. And they're setting stuff on fire and the building, and that creates a problem for businesses, nearby homeowners, and, of course, the people in the building. Remember, there are lots of, not lots, but there are a good number and enough beds available at some of the nonprofit organizations in our town as well. Now, Papillion... has a little different issue. Craig Evans just told you about this, and the KFAB News Update, says that there were apparently really not a lot of opposition to this in Papillion at the city council meeting yesterday. It's a proposed ordinance that would allow people in Papillion to keep up to six chickens on residential properties, but they have to be female chickens. No roosters. I'm the cock of the walk, baby. No, not in Papillion. No roosters. We don't need because city people think that the rooster crows once at sunrise and then just kind of walks around the rest of the day. No, the rural people know that the rooster is just crowing its cockle-doodle doing its full head off all day. And they don't want that noise. So six female chickens who I guess aren't as noisy. They're cleaner. Now, they talk a lot of smack on each other when other female chickens backs are turned. We're busy making eggs. Yeah, but if there's no rooster around, how are you making eggs? You can still make eggs. Can you? Yes. You just can't have baby chickens. Now we've got transgender chickens in Papillion. What's the president going to say about that? Well, the rooster can't. Well, no, the chicken can't make their own eggs. They're not asexual. Chickens make eggs even if there's no rooster. Is that true? No, it's not. Is someone going to have to explain the birds and the bees to me?

You're going to get lots of email. Wait, what a help? I can't help you. What? Don't you need? Jim, help me out here. The egg. Jim's not listening to us. I'm just observing you, too. Wait a second. Stop everything. What are you talking about? You can have chicken eggs without a rooster. Is that true? I believe so. I'm not exactly on top of the biological process for chickens. But I don't think you need a rooster to have to lay eggs. You need a rooster to make new chickens. You're right. Hens lay eggs without a rooster. It's a natural. Oh, okay. All right, okay. All right. So I'm thinking about those which hatch into baby chickens. Oh, okay. The natural ovulation, just like with a human. Yes. They're constantly making eggs. They're just not fertilized. Making eggs. Okay. All right. Sorry. I. But you need a rooster to have baby chickens. Yeah. If you want a baby chicken, you got to have a rooster. But if you want to have sunny side up or poached soft, you don't. Well, how are babies made then? Which kind? Yeah. Human babies. Do we want to really go through eighth grade health right now? Yeah. I want Lucy to explain it. Okay. So here's what happens. In the back seat of your brother's car. No. Yeah. When a mommy loves a daddy. Oh, my gosh. Are you enjoying this? I don't, I know a lot of people aren't. I miss Gary. Yeah, I miss Gary. Yeah, you do. I miss Gary. Yeah, there's a lot of that. I'll do you. Okay. Well, I don't ovulate. Everyone calm down. Man, I'm getting fried like an egg in the Zalkers custom woods inbox. Scott at KFAB.com. I wasn't thinking about it in those terms. My favorite, though, here is J.D. saying, you guys in that last segment sounded like Seinfeld. Let me understand. You got the hen, the chicken, and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So who's having sex with the hen? I'll talk about it another time. But you see my point here? You only hear of a hen, a rooster, and a chicken. Something's missing. Something's missing, all right. They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them. That's my advice. That was one of my favorite Seinfeld scenes, but Jerry Stiller there and go, you get the chicken. Yeah, that's what I sounded like a moment ago. All right, if you missed any of that, well, you know, we post most of this program in podcast form on the Nebraska's Morning News podcast link at kfab.com. Listen at your own risk and see what your IQ is at the start of the show and at the end of that show. It's all posted there. on the morning news link at kfab.com. So now you might have to have your own chickens in Papillion and certainly in Leavenworth and throughout the Midwest as we have the Tyson plant did close in Lexington, Nebraska. And the impact of the community is such that one pastor of the first United Church in Lexington says we've lost 70% of our congregation. He said, we had 65 people in worship. Now we have at most 14. I'm going to presume as math is correct because I came and figure out where babies come from. So now you've got people who either have left the community, which then has that ripple effect on places that sell groceries and food and haircuts, new refrigerators, whatever.

And you've got the people who have stayed there who no longer have a job at the Tyson plan, which has been a generational employer of some people in that community who are staying there and they're getting unemployment and other forms of assistance. They're saying that town of Leavenworth is really going to change. Well, they still got the building and the infrastructure there. I don't know. I mean, do people not eat chickens? Have you not seen people wait in line? In that back area, Costco, they're going to bring the rotissaries out in like four minutes. And people start flocking around like vultures there to get that. So I would hope that someone else would use not just the business infrastructure, but the human capital out there as well. When I think of Tyson, I think of chicken and bacon. That's a beef plant out there. Part of the very historically low head of cattle issue we have in this country, rising beef prices. Tyson's losing a ton of money on beef. That's why they shut down that beef plant in Lexington, not chicken. My bad. I am checking my facts fool. Check your facts, fool. I'm doing it. Thank you. Well, hey, we got a lot of stuff wrong. I'm going to include just me in this. I got a lot of stuff wrong in the last hour of the show. If you're going to get everything wrong all day, start early. That's what we do here on News Radio 1110, KFAB. Let's see how the president is doing. He's... Speaking to the world leaders at the World Economic Forum, and like a lot of people that go on vacation, he's looking to get a big piece of ice. Big, beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land. It's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. He's talking about World War II here. We did it for ourselves also. And then after the war, which we won, We want it big without us. Right now, you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese perhaps. That's the president of the United States. That is so good. World leaders in Davos. You'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese. I don't know if you guys know this, but without us, you'd all be speaking German and a little. Now, that includes the leader of Germany. They do speak German. It's Germany. You'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese. That guy, man, folks, enjoy this while we have it because when he leaves off us, we'll never see anybody like him again. Jeez. You'd all be speaking a little Japanese. Yeah.

He needs to get a little piece of ice up there Greenland. He talked about how Denmark tried. They got rolled over of our enemies. We had to go in there. We had to bail him out. Well, he is talking about historically, it's not like... President Trump got some wild hair and suddenly is like, where else on the map can I either get or rename something? This is historic going back to World War II. And you could argue even before then with various settlers going and having a foothold in Greenland, it's all about keeping Russia and China from getting access to not only the rare earth minerals there, but also that strategic location in our hemisphere. that puts them even closer to America and Europe. Now, certainly Russia is there. But China's not... Well, we don't teach geography much anymore. But if we did, you'd see how perilously close those guys are. But there are a couple of other historical components that is lost on today's national news media because they're really not qualified to do the job. The first one is the difference between the year 2026 and 1946. Actually, you can go back to the year 201921 in the wake of World War I. First, let's look at 46. The truth is... The American and Western approach to Russia was containment, was detente. Let's just say, all right, you do you, will do me, and it'll all be fine. Well, those days are over. Now you have a global economic superpower in China that is involved when back in those days, China was overrun by Japan during World War II. So you have an entirely different geopolitical, military, economic construct today that never existed in 1946. And if you look back after the wake of World War I, Europe was so tired. I mean, that was a rough war. They said, guys, let's just not have a war anymore. And so they slept. They slept while Germany rebuilt its military while they developed an axis at the time with Russia. But the continent, you might say, well, why didn't they see it coming? Well, the only guy who saw it coming was Winston Churchill. And he would speak on the floor of parliament and say, guys, I don't know if you noticed, but this dude over there in Germany, he's building tanks, he's violating the Treaty of Versailles. He's doing everything he's not supposed to do. But no, well, it'll be okay. He's not going to get into another war. You can't take that chance in the year 2026. Now, is Donald Trump going to invade Greenland? No. He's not. But he uses words as leverage. And he's leaving it open as a possibility so that he can get these people to act. And no American president has ever done that. We've had strong, very strong Republican.

You potentially could be in trouble, yes. All right. Well, we'll obviously be watching this. This is going beyond just words in the media now. Jeff Minasso with the media. Fox News Radio, our partner here, thanks a lot for the reporting as always. You bet. On News Radio 1110, KFAB. We've got a few more names for you out of Minnesota. One Ilhan Omar, the representative there, President Trump, says, how'd she get so much money? She's never had a job. Yesterday, the president says, I was just told Ilhan Omar is worth $30 million. She never had a job. Just another crooked politician. Well, she's put forth her taxes and some of her... personal financial disclosure details. So let's see here. Well, her husband is some sort of financial guy. Well, yeah, but let's take a look at that. So her husband has a venture capitalist firm. A year ago, it was reported that that company's value in her financial disclosure form was $1,000. Actually, there was a range between $1 and $1,000. A year later, It's suddenly great year for them, good for them, between $5 and $25 million. Wow, that's a big year. Yeah. A winery that he apparently has an ownership stock in a year ago was valued between $15,000 and $50,000 now between $1 and $5 million. So you take the $25 and the $30 and that's Ilhan Omar's brother, I mean, husband, and that's what President Trump and other... officials are wondering about in Minnesota. Well, the bigger question in addition to a very shady financial operation by the Ilhan Omar family, is really, do you really believe that Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz? because she found a guy that could really compliment the ticket. She found a guy that could go out there and get those 18 to 34-year-old males, peel them away from Donald Trump. She must have, I mean, in that 24 hours after she put Tim Walz on the ticket, there was $36 million that came into the Harris campaign. A lot of new donors, they love Tim Walz. Do you really think that vetting committee for Kamala Harris? asked about the $9 billion fraud issue going on in the state of Minnesota? Of course not, because they were afraid to get the answer. So what happened was they said this guy can get us $30 million from the Somali community in the city of Minneapolis. $30 million. Now, how many VP candidates have ever been tacked onto a ticket that in 24 hours can deliver $30 million in campaign support for the president? The answer is never. Why do you walk past Pete Buttigieg?

You know, you got some sort of kindred relationship with that guy. It's not because he was gay. He couldn't get $30 million out of Indianapolis. Why do you walk past Josh Shapiro? Not because he's a Jew, but he couldn't get $35 million out of Pennsylvania in 24 hours. If you start connecting the dots here. It's looking worse and worse and worse for that buffoon every single day to say nothing of that mayor who clearly was dropped on his head as an infant. There can be no better explanation for Jacob Frey's behavior than that. And now we know about Keith Ellison. We've had whispers about Keith Ellison and just how corrupt that guy is as the attorney general in the state of Minnesota. It's all happening. But until, Scott, people... are put in orange jumpsuits and cuffed. We will never have change in this country. And we haven't had people go to jail since Oliver North. I wonder what Governor Pillen would call them. As we just heard from Jeff Manasse with Fox News here, the Department of Justice and Congress is issuing subpoenas against some of these names you just mentioned out of Minnesota. This will be all part of the conversation. Now, there were a lot of names thrown out there by the president and the Trump administration yesterday. And for all of those who were out there saying, well, ICE is just out there looking for these hardworking people in this country from Mexico. I'm just going to give country and also convictions that were provided yesterday. This is out of Minnesota, largely from that Minneapolis-St. Paul, this is why ICE is there. We've got a guy from Laos, homicide. robbery. Another guy from Laos homicide, assault, forgery, obstruction, arrest for drug possession and theft. Guatemala, sexual assault, DUI, Laos convicted sex offender, including with a 12-year-old. Another guy from Laos, sex offender, 12-year-old. Vietnam, multiple arrests for DUI, larceny assault, terroristic threats. I mean, it goes on and on. Cuba, Laos. Here's Mexico, Ecuador, Laos, Mexico, Mexico. So they're going after criminals with convictions up there. Now, that was... That's going to be part, I think, of the ice situation in Minneapolis in just a moment, particularly that church as part of the Rosie to Genozy in a moment. Yesterday you had some interesting comments about Nebraska football based on what Indiana has done, how that looks versus Nebraska. I got this email from Joel, and I said, all right, I'll ask him on the radio tomorrow. Joel emails via the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox, Scott at KFAB.com and says, just tell Jim Rose to just come out and call for Matt Rule's firing. He's constantly bagging on him. I'm constantly backing on him. What am I backing on him? How am I backing on him? I'm just reporting what's going on. There will be no firing of Matt Rule. He has a $71 million buyout. He'll have a $63 million buyout after next season. As I've said, he may not be the guy, but he's our guy.

But I think it's important for Nebraska's who have made this football program worth $1.236 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal audit of college football programs, to know where the money's going and to know how is it that Indiana can spend $61 million and win the national championship. We can spend $82 million and win seven games and lose a bowl game by 22 points. Well, there are a lot of college football teams that did not win the national championship this year. Not too many of them spent $82 million. But the point is this, at what point are we accountable? At what point is anybody accountable to the people who are supporting this program with their hard-earned dollars? And I just think questions should be asked. My job on 50,000 watts and 100,000 online listeners is to ask the questions. You guys can answer them. I'm not answering the questions. I'm asking them. And if we ever get to a point where we stop asking questions of people in positions of authority, power, and influence, Why are we here? I'm frustrated too, but I'm a fan. And I wish Coach Rule all the best. And I'm hoping for better things. Everybody does. And we're only about nine months from football season. Go Big Red. Everybody wants to success. Thank goodness we got this basketball team. Back to the inbox. Aaron says, I cringe every time I hear these guys either get identified as being from Minnesota or talk about Minnesota values. And it's a whole list. who are not originally from Minnesota, including Governor Tim Walz. Jim, where's Governor Wals from? Don't ask. Okay, Nebraska. Walls, Mayor Jacob Frye, Minneapolis, police chief up there, the state attorney general Keith Ellison, St. Paul's mayor, Elon Musk Omar, Senator Smith, State Senator Omar Fattah, and even ICE protester Renee Good. None of them are originally from Minnesota. And I'm not saying that... You've got to be from a place to be able to be identified with it and be a community leader and so forth. Gary Saddlemire is not originally from Nebraska. It doesn't get much more Nebraska than Gary Saddlemire. Spent more years in Nebraska than he did in Minnesota. Yes, he did. So it is interesting, though. Hey, these guys, none of them got in position thanks to, you know, a bloody coup or anything. Most of these people we're talking about are elected officials. Now, to Gretna. From Minnesota to Gretna? Yes, where we've got a press release here. We talked about that new coffee shop out at West Maple, 180th and West Maple, where you got lines of people from Elkhorn to Harlan to get a cup of coffee. People are coming, they're flying into Epley, so they can go out to this place and get a cup of coffee. Well, Gretna is about to have their own, really fantastic place. They're going to get the first buckies. Now, we are like, wait, we've got buckies all over the place. No, buckies are gone. That's Bucky. Yeah, but that's gone. Sold to Casey's. Yeah, but that's a different bucky. Oh, that's B-U-C-Y-Postrophe S. This is B-U-C-E-E-Postrophe S. A little... What is it, Chipmuck, Woodchuck, gopher, whatever that is. New coffee drive-in. Gretna is getting their first Bucky's convenience store, the travel center chain, renowned for clean bathrooms, endless snack options. What other snack options besides what every convenience store has? But do they have fish sticks out of a vending machine? You guys got a little chocolate donuts?

Yeah, we got a little chocolate donuts. Oh, man. So this is going to be in the southeast corner of I-80 and Highway 31 in that Good Life district. Let's see, when is it open up? I'm going to have to check out this seven bruise. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I don't know when this thing opens up, but they're very excited in Gretna. First Nebraska location of Buck. ease. We get excited about some of the dumbest stuff around here. This is what happens in your football team goes seven. That's right. Hey guys, it's Ryan. I want to tell you about my new pastime, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has been around for over a decade delivering the most fun you can have online. Play social casino style games for free, anytime, anywhere. So sign up at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See terms of conditions, 21 plus. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are. Listening to me. Which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-I-Hart or go to IHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-Ehart or IHeart Advertising.com.