Denise Rises, Beth Dies

I'm Scott Borges here with Lucy Chapman, Courtney Dunahoe, Jim Rose. Craig Evans, thank you so much for being up and with us here on this Tuesday morning. Is it only Tuesday? My computer says Tuesday. Second Monday. I always believe my computer. It is... I don't know. Monday wasn't too bad. I don't know that we need to do it again. Let's see what Tuesday's all about. Are you with me on this one? Fine. Let's give it a shot. Something very interesting happened in Nebraska yesterday. That was a board of education, in this case, the Nebraska State Board of Education. had an application from a new school. This is going to be fourth and fifth grade girls in North Omaha. It's set to open in days from now. Just two grades. Yeah. Okay. It's an academy. It's called the Identity Preparatory Academy. And it's just for it's all girls. They call it a middle school. Fourth and fifth grade girls doesn't seem like middle school, but. I don't know that that was the concern here. The State Board of Education voted this school down, and it was a 6-2 vote. Now, we have an education body, the State Board of Education, looking at a North Omaha school that wants to serve not just all girls, but they want to serve all girls with a nod towards... being more diverse in our educational style, and they refer to it as abolitionist teaching. The members of the Board of Education said, what exactly is that? Because we have a responsibility as a board. And by the way, as Americans, to make sure that our young people are given the opportunity to become competent, responsible, patriotic citizens of a civil society. What is it that you're teaching? And the founder of the Academy says, oh, no, no, this isn't anti-American at all. It's all fine. Okay, let's see what abolitionist teaching is all about. It's a framework focused on fighting for educational freedom, disrupting systemic oppression, dismantling the educational survival complex. What does that mean? Dismantling the educational survival complex? You mean where if you get an A on a test, you're in a different track than someone who's not paying attention, not putting forth the effort, and gets an F on a test that encourages competition to do well on testing? What is the educational survival complex? To do your best, move from grade to grade?

Rather than just helping marginalized students survive within flawed school systems with standardized testing cultures and a school policing that fuels the school to prison pipeline. Yeah, the State Board of Education looked at all this and said, what are you talking about? And why are you going to bring up young people in our community with this mindset? The mindset that there's white society and then there's we need to rally around each other and be different and be an abolitionist movement to separate ourselves from whatever it is that you guys over there are doing. The State Board of Education says what we're doing is making sure that students are. giving the best opportunity to succeed. I don't know what you're doing. It sounds anti-American. It sounds anti-again against a certain race. And race came into it. There was a member of the state board, one of the two who voted against it, Liz Renner, who said, by us postponing this on criteria that has nothing to do with what is legal and in policy on a school that is focused on African American children is not a good look. I don't know who's going to be going to the school. I can venture a guess. But this... This is a major problem. And I think the bigger problem is how much of this is already happening in public schools that just don't put as fine a point in a neon sign outside and on the website that says, here's what we're doing. Seems like a lot of this stuff might be happening. And this school's just promoting it. Well, the State Board of Education, they didn't completely shoot the school down. but they decided to postpone the approval of this school. For how long? I don't know. The school's set to open here in the next week. Can I just address one thing you said? Yes, Lucy. That whole pipeline to prison. Schools are a pipeline to prison. I've never understood that because do the parents of these children have any responsibility to keep their kids out of a life of crime? Do they have anything to say about it? Or is it all just school? I know that there used to be a time. not all that long ago, when you would get in trouble at school and they would call your parents, and your parents would come down there, and they would look at the teacher, the principal, and say, don't worry, I'll take it from here. And the school knew that this child was going to be dealt with, and I don't mean whooped. I mean, we'll be, the student would be led to believe that his actions would not be appreciated by anyone anymore.

And if you have this kind of energy and time on your hands, I have a lot of projects for you to do around the house. Then you can come to work with me and we can work on those things also. You're going to stay after school and those blackboards are going to be the cleanest thing you've ever seen. That day is over. Now a kid gets a bee in a test and here comes the parents. Why are you doing this to my kid? What do you have against my kid? Your kid punched someone and then bit the principal. Well, it's all because of the, and he was hungry. Yeah. You're not feeding them enough for lunch. They have free food at school these days. Good morning, June. Everybody does. Good morning, she can't blame the guy. He was hungry. Yeah, so. That's the teacher. This is why the school boards that were postponing the opening of the school. Now, what about the parents whose kids are going to be going to the school here next week? Like, what are they supposed to do? State Board of Education says that sounds like a whole lot of your problem at this point. Jim, here's the moment you've been waiting for. You wanted to hear from Denise Jerome Powell. Denise Jerome Powell has a new ad. And I'm not used to doing this with especially local political ads, but I had to check it first to see if there was any profanity in there. Remember in the last ad, she was a P-Oed mom, which didn't set well with everybody. Sounds like this one, she's not P-Oed anymore. Now she's fed up. And as Jim Rose said recently, once these... Fet up with what? Well, you're going to hear. As these candidates win the primary, they start rushing towards the middle before the general election. Listen to this. This is a new ad from Denise Jerome Powell. It's called Door Knocking. Hi. People are fed up with Washington. They are also corrupt. Everything they do is making our life more expensive. I'm Denise Jerome Powell, a mom, small business owner, and I'm fed up too. When our public schools were under attack, I brought Democrats and Republicans together to protect them. I love that you work with both parties. I'll do the same in Congress to fight the corruption, lower costs, and finally cut taxes for the middle class. a tax break. I approve this message to make our lives affordable. This is the second coming of... You know, Mr. Smith goes to Washington. I'm just here to work with both parties. And that's what I've been doing my entire career. No, you haven't. How? Where? Do how? Which Republicans have you supported? Which Republican candidates, Denise, have you supported? She may be. She may be all of those things. We don't know. This woman has been behind the scenes her entire career. Well, she's been a consultant. She's been a commercial. She's been busy. She's been a consultant. She decided I want to run for Congress. So she did. And she was able to annex. leverage all of the IOUs that she'd built up over the years, and she was able to win a competitive primary. But never, ever has she been vetted thoroughly on her political views. She's not been asked about the DSA. She's not been asked yes or no. Do you believe in defunding police? Don't wait for the translation. Give me the answer right now. Nobody has asked her any of those questions. Well, do you know what's not in that ad? Her political affiliation.

She's not even telling people she's a Democrat. It's okay to be a Democrat. Just tell us what you are. Do you believe in open borders? Do you believe that ICE should be removing illegals from the communities? Do you believe in higher income taxes for rich people? My gosh. I mean, it's a very simple approach. You demand an awful lot. Accountability. Party of one. How about the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief now? Okay, here we go. All right, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, everybody at football. Man Rule has been tamping down a lot of stuff since the end of last season, notably expectations. But he also says don't make a lot of noise out of the changes on defense. Going from a 3-4-4-4-base alignment to a 4-25 isn't as dramatic as you think. And I think good coaches say to themselves, what's the best scheme fit for the players we have, not, hey, I want to do this because it's what I do. And so the guys have picked it up and run with it. New defensive coaches led by coordinator Rob Arich. new D-line coach, new defensive ends coach. Rule has 20 assistant coaches on his staff. That's plenty of folks to blame if things don't go well. Baseball last night, the last place Royals hung with the first place Dodgers for quite a while. Game was tied in the seventh before Freddie Freeman drove in the go-ahead run for Los Angeles. Six to five, the Dodgers get the win, shaky outing for their big get. Cy Young winner, Tarek Skubal, in a trade with Detroit. He threw 95 pitches to get 15 outs. We won, so it's... You know, I'd gladly take that in a win, you know, any day of the week. But, you know, I'll be better going forward. Since they got him, L.A. has been all of one and eight scores. In interleague play, Houston, 6, San Francisco 3, National League, Padres 3, Brewers 2, D-Backs 9, 9, Zip, Philadelphia, 6, Cards 5, Mets 8, Atlanta 5. In the American League, it was Texas 4 and the Angels 1. Tampa Bay won, the 8, 6, Minnesota 9 to 5 over Baltimore, Toronto beat Boston, final score. 2 to 1. Boy, did this work. Akron football in the Mac did a promotion. If you buy season tickets to Zips games, your name is in a contest. And one lucky season ticket holder will be chosen to call all of the plays in the first drive of their season opener. The promotion was posted on X. 22 million views and season ticket orders are pouring in most in 17 years so far. If you win, you're going to spend Thursday and Friday of game week in the coaches meetings and the game plan meetings and then watch practice. On game day, you'll be in the press box on the headsets calling all the plays on the first drive. The winner will be picked on August 19th. Dejone Carrington, the thug women's basketball player who assaulted another player on the floor of a game Sunday, got kicked out of that game and then posted the words, white privilege on her social media account, got pulverized all day long yesterday. Finally sick of it, she went back on X and said, you got it all wrong. Me posting the words white privilege had nothing to do with getting ejected from a game.

But then she neglected to explain exactly what she did mean by posting the words white privilege. She is black. The player she clobbered is white. Another Iowa High School is canceling its football season. Davis County in Southeast Iowa only has 22 kids on the varsity this fall, so they're out. Although they will play a JV schedule to try and build up the roster for 2027, this is the fourth Iowa high school to dump its football season. Sports is news on Nebraska's newsweather traffic station. Come on in. Scott at kfab.com or send us a message via the talkback mic with your own voice. That's via our free iHeart radio app anywhere you are with that app. It comes right in here to the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox, where at any moment, Lucy Chapman can interrupt what I'm saying and start talking about a traffic issue. At any moment, she could just start jumping in. Did you, did you, did you say earlier that there was a slight chance of rain this morning? Is it? Oh, I thought you had a traffic thing. Well, I do. Is it, is the rain impacting the traffic somewhere? Well, it's slowing things down on 680 up on the north side. Right around Maple. I'm seeing wet streets. I'm seeing rain coming down, maybe even a little bit of lightning, although that could just have been a traffic light out. No, no, I see it on the radar. It's moving pretty quickly, and it's... Yeah, we got some on the north side, heading north now of Carter Lake and the airport. But there's another band going through Millard into Papillion as well. Okay, well, I thought I heard you say that. Looks like it's rain coming to the south and the thunderstorm in the rain heading to the north. Okay. So slow down. So we're going to up that 40% chance to 41%. Oh, right. We're going to increase it. You're just going to go for all the glory. Well, I'm not out there personally experiencing it. So I can't say for sure. I'm going to take your and the radar's word for it. Lucy Chapman. Good choice. It's funny. CNN is reporting that Dr. Anthony Fauci. The handsome, smiling face of the anti-COVID movement. He had some text messages concerned about what the vaccine might do. This was in January of 2021. The vaccine started rolling out to high-risk populations in January, February, early March of 2021. So this is days before people would be getting these shots. High-risk populations included people, women who were pregnant. They were considered a high-risk population. You've got to get your great-great-great-grandmother and pregnant women in there to get the shot, and especially your great-great-great-grandmother, if she's pregnant, needs to go and get that shot.

So Dr. Anthony Fauci in a series of text messages with other people related to the CDC like Dr. Walensky over there and some of these people said we're seeing some disturbing responses come in here related to people getting the second dose of these vaccines and the vaccines are causing miscarriages. That's what he said in January of 2021. A couple weeks later, when these things started getting rolling out, he was asked about pregnancies, he said, totally safe. And he said, we have seen no evidence to suggest that there's any concern if you're pregnant with these vaccines. The risks of COVID are too great. You've got to get the vaccine. Now, that's funny because the text messages, just days before that, had Dr. Anthony Fauci himself, not some low-level staffer going, hey, Tony, how is he? No, it was him himself. raising these concerns. But somehow, maybe the data changed, maybe the checks were cashed. I don't know. Somehow something changed. Now, if one thing out, what did I leave out? Fear. The fear? Yeah. I don't think so based on what this diary has said, the way he is being portrayed by his own pen. I don't think he would be afraid of anything because he's such a narcissist and whatever, fill in the blink. But it's possible that he changed his tune because he was threatened by global powers. Shadow government. I'm not sure. Of course not. I'm not sure. And you know what? It would be fantastic to ask him. Dr. Anthony Fauci on this date, you raised these concerns, but just days later you said there was no evidence to suggest there was any problem with these vaccines, especially the second dose of these MRNA vaccines causing miscarriages. What happened in those days? Out of advice for counsel, I'm going to plead the Fifth Amendment against my... And how is this being reported by the news? Both the Washington Post and CNN are pointing out it was Republican senators who have leaked out Dr. Anthony Fauci's text messages. Not any stories about what the messages say. Not any stories about what the impact was on potential miscarriages. People, not when you lose a baby due to a miscarriage. That you carry that with you your entire life. Was that necessary? Was it unnecessary? Was it due to the vaccines? Anyone looking into any of this stuff?

Can we ask the guy responsible for saying, hey, I have a concern? And then later, the face of this movement coming out going, it's all fine. Anyone going to be able to ask him a question? No. He has pled the fifth. He's not answering any questions. And the media says, Republican senators have it in for Dr. Anthony Fauci. They're the ones leaking his messages. Right. Well, if you look at what happened back during Operation Warp Speed, Scott. This was during the Donald Trump years before he was bounced out in the 2020 election. And essentially, he wanted all of this to be accelerated so that we could arrest this virus and get back to dominating the world economically. And the big drug companies required indemnification because they couldn't get sued for side effects by 300 million people. The difference between Anthony Fauci and Donald Trump is this. Trump never mandated that anybody have to take the shot. Okay? We are ramping up a vaccine for this virus, but I'm not going to force you to take it. And that's the difference between the warp speed that we're hearing about now. And then. Now, Jim, you're not going to have this today in sports brief, but this was part of yesterday's sports updates. A lot of response by KFAB Nation to this comment from Coach Matt Ruhle. At the same time, while they added those 667 pounds of lean mass, they lost 188 pounds as a team of fat. This will be the biggest and leanest team we've had. Great job by the players in the offseason. They've been great in the weight room, great and training table, great in that classroom. Now they've got to take that. mindset and transfer over to the football field. All right. So your assessment was that the entire team last year was fat, sluggish, couldn't move. Starting with the quarterback. Well, the entire team losing 188 pounds. Of fat. Of fat. Doesn't sound like that much. No, it doesn't sound like that. That's one pound a guy. I have a friend who went on Ozempic and she lost 188 pounds of fat last week. No, she didn't, but I guess she was. Well, not last week. They said we lost 188 pounds of fat, which implies they weren't that fat to begin with. I would say, check out the offensive line from 1994 and then check out the offensive line from 2025. And the Vs were inverted. The physical Vs were very inverted. But he says, well, we eliminated this fat. This body mass fat and then added 600 some pounds of lean muscle mass. Okay, well, that's great. We'll see how it does on the field. Yeah, fantastic. But 188 is not a lot of weight, fat weight for a team of 114 guys. Most of the response here has to do with the quarterback leaving. How much did he weigh? It's a lot of fat that lives. Especially the NIL haul he was getting. We trimmed a lot of that. We trimmed a million dollars a year off of that. Yeah. And I hate that I'm not hearing a lot of big red optimism by KFAB Nation. No. Leading up to the season, here's an email from Joe that says since Steve Peterson took over as athletic director, which was 25-ish-2000 years ago. Since then, NU has been looking up at mediocrity. It will never be like it was.

That's from Joe. Well, I don't agree with that. I believe if you look at Indiana and you look at what they did miraculously, it stemmed from a great athletics director. That guy over there is top de Roar, and he knew exactly what it was going to take to win in football in the NIL and Transfer Portal era, and he pulled it off. Now, do we have the right people in place right now? I don't know. That's a very, very good question because the performance ain't there. Bill Moose hired Fred Hoyberg. Bill Byrne hired Mark Manning. Bill Byrne hired Rhonda Ravel. Bill Moose hired Will Bolt. These are the coaches that had great years at Nebraska. So he doesn't get any credit for hiring those guys. But you do get blamed when people aren't successful. So the question is to be determined. We don't know how it's going to turn out yet. Yeah, the performance isn't there because we haven't played our first game yet. Optimism abounds. You're an optimistic guy. I appreciate that. I'm a big red fan. And I'm going to be. Very Chinese. I'm going to be all season. As I get quieter and quieter, that would be a bad sign throughout the season. I'm Scott Voorhees, and it's that time of year again. We're in the next week or so. Not only will kids be going back to school, but parents. We'll be posting pictures of their kids on social media, causing people like Lucy to go, I can't believe you people had kids and need to post them all over social media. Well, police are interested in all this as well. And for more on this story, Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us back here on 1110 KFAB. Eben, what's the story here? Good morning, yes. This is a warning or advice really from law enforcement about protecting your identifiable information. A lot of people like to do these photos of their kids as they go back to school, especially if they're younger. They have them pose in front of the house with a decorated chalkboard or something that says, first day of second grade, Mrs. Jay Jones class, Happydale Elementary School. And they take it in front of the house and they post it online. And what have you now posted online? You've posted where your kid goes to school, how old they are, who their teacher is, and in front of your house where we can see the street number of your house. So that's not really smart in this day and age. So the idea here is to, if you want to take a photo, don't put so much identifiable information in there and be careful about posting it because nothing online is totally ever 100% secure. And, you know, the reason for this is, you know, your kid may be in first grade now, but at some point that kid's going to be 18 and have a banking, you know, account.

online and what's that password retrieval question they asked where did you go to elementary school yeah out there right yeah his mom wanted a photograph is it you know is it really a concern of police or is it just people saying i don't need to see a picture every single year of your kids going back to school let's find an excuse not to do it Well, there could be some of that, too. I mean, you know, again, look, those photos are for mom and dad, and, of course, for grandma and grandpa, too. Yeah. And that's a real thing. But, you know, some people are still not fully understanding that in the digital space. you can be inadvertently giving out important information that you wouldn't want out there. This is not the same, you know, snapping, you know, photos with a disposable camera and then dropping it off at the drug store to get developed or the Polaroid that, you know. sitting there and shaking it and waiting for it to develop and give it to grandma. These photographs, and then when they're posted online, contain a lot of data, some that you could visibly see if you're putting words in front of it, and others that are embedded in the photograph itself. There could be location data, for instance. So people need to, you know, once again be reminded of this and just act accordingly. Evan, I'm so old. I catch your references there about photomats and Polaroid pictures. But I also, I have teenagers. And it was a few years ago when they said, Dad, don't post pictures of us on social media. They have their own social media. They don't want Dad approved. Oh, this is a cute picture of you guys out there for people to comment on. And so I generally don't do that. It's always smart to kind of think these things through. Evan, great reporting as always. Thanks a lot for the time this morning. You bet. Take care. You bet. You too. Here on News Radio, 1110, KFAB. That's from Fox News Radio, Eben Brown. Let's see here. I just got a text back. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yep, great. We've got a member of the Nebraska State Board of Education joining us at 735 this morning. As we talked about an hour ago, that board yesterday had a 6-2 vote against a new, they call it a middle school in North Omaha. It was going to serve young women in the neighborhood and all girls' school. But there was also something on the website about an abolitionist teaching framework. And that had members of the board of education saying, what exactly are you filling these young brains?

With. Abolishing what? Yeah, there's another little back-to-school nugget for you. And we've got Lisa Schoenhoff of the State Board of Education joining us at 735 this morning on news radio 1110 KFAB. And the voice I'm speaking over is that of Luke Combs. Country song called Growing Up and Getting Old. Well, I have not seen Steve Lundy grow up and I have not seen you get old. Steve Lundy, who I listened to as a kid on Sweet 98 and then worked with on K-Car and now have a chance to work in the same building and space with on our Kiss and Country Station, Kiss and Cousin Station, Country's Cat 103.7. Tonight, Steve Lundy is being inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. This is the day. Steve, how are you feeling about it? It's just weird. I mean, I never, this was never a goal. And it's just that it. It kind of caught me by surprise when I found out. But I'm excited. I mean, I look forward to celebrating with a bunch of friends. You know, to me, it's always been about the people you get to work with and, you know, so many through the years. And to get to celebrate with them is going to be a lot of fun. Well, you got into this business when you could, I don't know that you had any bosses that hit any kind of reins on anything you were doing. back on the old breakfast flakes. I mean, you were talking about those early mid-80s sweet 98 morning show where kids like me were growing up. And it was about the only station in town you could listen to the current music on. And. We loved your morning show. I mean, the great personalities. And then we'd see you out in the streets or at concerts or events or at Pini Park and all this stuff here. I mean, that had to have been fun. What do you remember of those days? Well, it was fun. And I've had some great partners through the years. You were talking about back with Captain Tony and Rhino and the original Sweet 98. And then before that, coil with the, you know, The people might remember Jimmy O'Neill and Terry Mason and... And before that, W-O-W with Dave Winger. And it was just, I've been fortunate to work with so many great people. That's the thing. And so many of them in one way and other have had an influence on me. So I am just kind of an amalgam of, you know, influences I've had from others through the years. Well, and you see how far the business is falling. Now you're working with Gina on Cat 103. You're forced to wander in here from time to time. Please tell her I said that. I've never been on a fair.

$50,000 a lot of a blowtorch like this before. See, you're finally getting heard. That's good. Yeah, except when you're talking about Patera. Yeah. No, Steve, I just wanted to take a moment here. I know you've got to get back on, you're doing the morning show right now. Steve and Gene in the morning on Cat 103. Yeah, Gene has no idea where I went. Yeah, you just put a long record on and said, okay, see you later in. No, I just wanted to celebrate you because you've been a presence in my ears for my entire life. And when I started in this business as an intern, You were the morning show host on K-Car. We were doing some stuff in the afternoon with Chris Baker. And I thought, I'm working with Steve Lundy. I mean, it was so cool for me to be a part of that and to be able to work with you now and tell you congratulations. Oh, thank you. And I'm here with Scott Forge's and Jim Rose. This is one of the highlights of my career. Yeah. Be sure and sign the wall. Thanks, Steve. Congratulations. Have fun tonight. I appreciate that. Thank you. Steve Lundy from Cat 103, the newest member of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame now. We welcome to the program. This is the theme from Knight Rider. David Hasselhoff's sister is a District 3 representative on the Nebraska State Board of Education. It's Lisa Schoenhoff here on News Radio 1110 KFAB. Lisa, good morning. thing. I love that. Yeah, it's great to have you here on the program. We talked about this in the last hour, and I'd like your take because you were part of this, being a member of the State Board of Education. You guys just had a 6-2 vote to postpone the approval of what's supposed to be in all-girls middle school in North Omaha that's supposed to open in just days from now. What was your reasoning for postponing the approval of the start of the school year for this school, the Identity Preparatory Academy? Well, let me tell you that the application process wasn't completed until kind of the last hour in, I believe it was May, and actually I think it was, and that it was brought to us in June. We didn't have a meeting in July. And so by the time all the questions were answered that board members had, it just wasn't quite enough time and new information had come to light. And so in order to make a thorough... decision, it was imperative that we had a little extra time. And some board members said, clearly, we need a little extra time or we're going to have to rush to a decision. And so we took a few extra days, and I think that's what was necessary to make a good decision in this case for our constituents. A phrase has come up here related to this school that I wasn't familiar with, an abolitionist teaching framework. Can you explain what that means and why this became such an issue here for this school?

Well, let me bring it back to our state law. State law says very clearly that it is the responsibility of society to ensure that youth are given the opportunity to become competent, responsible, patriotic, and civil citizens to ensure a strong, stable, just, and prosperous America. And the abolitionist framework for education seeks to dismantle the systems that America has in place, such as schools, prisons, police. Any systems that are already in place, it seeks to abolish those systems. And so there were questions regarding that framework that have hopefully been answered thoroughly so that we can make a decision today. What I've found online here from, it's championed by scholars like Bettina L. Love. She's one of those who is really high on this. Abolitionist teaching. is described as rejecting punitive discipline, standardized test scores, and school policing that fuels the school to prison pipeline. In other words, holding someone accountable for their action or how they do in a test is racist, and we are trying to disrupt the systemic oppression in the educational system by doing something completely different. That doesn't sound like education to me.

And that was a bad time to lose Lisa's phone. Lisa, are you there? Oops. Oh, that's no good. All right. Hit a gap. Well, we got to get her back on because we've got to talk about Northwest High School, too. I know. Well, if you give me a set here, set up the Northwest High School thing, I'll call her back. Well, Lisa Schoenhoff from the State Board of Education is with us on 1110, KFAB. And there's a lot going on relative to education in our state. And a lot of parents are beginning to wonder whether their kids are getting a quality enough education. Most recently, they put Northwest High School, the State Board of Education, but Northwest High School, in the needs support to improve category, which is the lowest designation the state gives to schools through its accountability system. They provide intensive support to schools on this list, and Northwest High School may very well be on this list. Now, is Lisa back? She is. Let me kind of reset this here. Lisa, while your phone was away here, Jim is concerned about the State Board of Education and a certification process for Omaha Northwest High School. What can you tell us about that? Well, you see, we have three schools that have just been placed on the priority list throughout the state, and we are wanting to make questions. We're going to make sure that we have the highest standard possible. required to make certain improvements by being on the priority list, and then we give them, the Nebraska Department of Education will give them additional support to make these improvements. And so the question is, are we making enough improvement? Man, I thought District 3 was kind of around the Omaha area, not somewhere on the far side of Saturn. But Lisa, we keep losing your connection here. So let me just frame it like this, and let's see if we can get a short answer here. For parents who are expecting to send their kids either to Northwest or this identity preparatory academy this month, now with all these questions out there, what are these parents supposed to do right now? Oh, boy. Okay, well, we're going to have to find a way to get Lisa through, you know, Houston control for our next Space Age cell phone broadcast. Well, it sounds to me like they have additional meetings set up here for this in September. And this might happen as soon as this week on this middle school in Omaha. I don't know how. the people behind setting up this abolitionist teaching framework academy for young girls in North Omaha are going to be able to adhere to what Lisa said was state law.

when it sounds like they're trying to teach something that does not follow what is the state law to have students given the opportunity to become competent, responsible, patriotic, and civil citizens, if there's no discipline and no testing and everything that they're teaching in the other schools is racist, we're going to do something different here. That's an issue. They're going to have to address it, and Northwest hopefully will be able to. In the case of Northwest, they're putting them on a track. to try and improve their ACT scores because they are at a 12.5% for English language arts and about 14.6% in math. They want to raise those by at least 3% between now in 2027. The issue is whether or not that's a robust enough goal. And the president of the State Board of Education said, I don't think you're shooting high enough. Well, the folks in charge of Omaha Northwest High School say, well, there's a lot going on here that really keeps our kids from being successful in your eyes or by that percentage. There are other schools in that same boat doing better. Yes. But the one question I did have for her, and we'll hopefully get Lisa back on or anybody, and that is something about a 68 percentage point gap. between the 78% overall graduation rate and the 10% of students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmarks in English and math. 68 percentage point gap? Northwest is not the only school having that problem. How do we have that problem? That was Lisa Schoenhoff, hopefully District 3, Nebraska State Board of Education. Hopefully we can have a more substantial phone connection in the... future when we have her back here on Nebraska's morning news. The New York Mets have partnered with a website called Hot and Social. Coming up on August 27th, it's singles night out with the Mets. I don't know who the Mets are playing that night, but a home game for New York means that you can go there and get a special wristband letting other singles know of your intentions. Green means I am hot and social. I am ready to meet someone. I miss right now. You can take me out to the ball game. Yellow means proceed with caution. Red means I'm here to actually watch a baseball game. I'm not interested in meeting anyone. So don't even talk to me. But you know who's going to get the most attention? The ones with the red wristbands. Because guys like to chase after the hard to get. Yeah, what's her problem? Happily married. Yeah, you haven't met me. I can fix that. Zonkers custom was inbox open for you, Scott at kfab.com. And Rich has hit me right in the weakness. He says, have you watched Tim Walz play golf? Yeah, I saw that. Have you seen this? It's not pretty. So he said that to Scott at KFAB. Although he has lost some weight. Yeah, I have to admit, when I first saw it's a three-minute video, and he posted this on some golf course up in Minnesota. It's so far north you have to go into Canada to come back and get it. The road to it comes actually through Canada. When I first kind of.

ticked through it there. I didn't watch it with the sound on and I didn't note some of the things that people who've really watched this clip have discovered about it. Here's what I saw. I saw Tim Walz out there on a golf course and he's swatting the way it flies the entire time. He's doing this, flies, mosquitoes, whatever. He's got T.C. flies all over him and he's got, has a very short back swing and a pretty ugly follow through. But I will say that it looks repeatable. It's a swing that works for him, and it works pretty well as a chip shot. So from a golf standpoint, I was like, okay. Now here's what I didn't see. Now I've got the sound on, and he's taking shots at Trump. Go ahead. That's probably like 350 if I were playing at Bedminster on my own course. I'm not, though. So that was probably about 220. All right, so probably about 220. So he comes up there and he says, all right, I got about 100 yards left. Now. A guy name, this guy's name, Zach Dean with Outkick. This is the Clay Travis website Outkick. He says, I just did a little Google Earth search. He says he's on the sixth hole up here. That's a 261 yard par four. He says, I hit about 220. Got about 100 yards in. Now, maybe that works at the leering center. Yeah. But that would put his drive at approximately 160 yards. Not quite 220, but okay, whatever. Well, he didn't have the furniture out on the tee. It was a three wood. I don't know what kind of wood it was, but people are also looking going, what is this tea box? It looks like you've moved up and you've now teed up a golf ball in the rough. And you're hitting it off a tea in the rough. No, that's actually a very common look for golf courses that have sand greens or gravel greens. Yeah, this has sand greens. This is not Augustin National. Right. And so there's some of that. And then. People are saying he's wearing a quarter zip sweater, which is fine golf attire. But I've also never seen this move, nor have I done it. He's wearing a quarter zip sweatshirt with no undershirt, no golf shirt underneath, not even a t-shirt. It's just bare-chested and just a quarter-zip. And so people are looking at this going, there's no chance that drive goes 220. What's up with the attire? Can't you do something someplace that doesn't have you getting swarmed with flies? Can you throw some... deep woods off or something on there. So nice bogey, Tim. He had two-potted for bogey up there. Well, first of all, the state bird of Minnesota is the mosquito, especially up there. 10,000 lakes? Yeah, 15 or 20,000, I guess. According to Gary, our official Minnesota historian, he knows he's counted all of them. Okay. So it's not uncommon to have a mosquito or some sort of a flying insect sort of harass you up there. But I just, I'm sad that he referenced a...

golf course in Butte, Nebraska. Because he said, when I was growing up in Butte, Nebraska, I played on San Greens. Oh, yeah. And it just, it really frosts me when he refers to Nebraska. He's from Nebraska. We don't want people to know you're from Nebraska. His wife is going to be our next governor. We got enough problems. That's what people think Lynn Walsh is married to Tim Walz. It's a distant cousin, but we have enough problems as it is. You know, it's seriously, ladies and gentlemen, I mean, we. We have enough headwinds in Nebraska every day on our own. We don't need that brand. That brand association is negative. Don't give me your honky BS buttermaker. Don't bring politics into this, Ahmed. We got enough problems as it is. We have another Tuesday, and every single week, it's the same thing we say. We just swap out a different name. So last week we were like, it's a primary voting day in Michigan, and this Democratic socialist, Abdul El-Sayed is running. And before that, it was, what's Maine going to do with Graham Platner? You know, it's every single week. There's some DSA candidate we have to learn about for a week. We have to demonize on Tuesday. And then on Wednesday, they're like, yeah, and that candidate won. Well, we'll see what happens in November. Forget about this person until then. So today's person is Francesca Hong. Jim, you've been pretty hot and heavy on gubernatorial candidate Hong. Can you tell us about this next governor of Wisconsin? Well, she has a big lead in the polls among those Democrats who will vote, even though virtually every establishment Democrat in the state of Wisconsin has distanced themselves from her, even always on camera, has distanced herself from this gal. She won't endorse her. She says, oh, she's got some gradated. Would you know? But she doesn't endorse her. Who she? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, always on camera. And Bernie Sanders has not endorsed her. So some of these great potentates of the DSA movement won't even touch this gal. She now claims that these wild, wild social media posts were done when she was drunk or late at night when she was studying to be a sports journalist. And she said, you know, I'm studying here to be a sports journalist, but I hate Thanksgiving. What does Thanksgiving have to do with sports? She's grasping at ways in which to explain that, yeah, I was just young and stupid. And when I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid. And I posted all of this stuff. Let's listen to that. It's actually not true. Here's Francesca Hong. Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. My favorite holiday is. Thanksgiving. Okay, I don't know what that is. It's an incredible, well. But you should know that these tweets, some of the more objectionable tweets, are on an account that says Francesca for governor. Okay, not Francesca stupid college student. Francesca, stupid journalist. Francesca, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, Hong. It's Francesca for governor.

Twitter account, X account. So that thing doesn't fly, that dog doesn't hunt. She's clearly stepped on landmines. She launched this bid under the DSA banner saying, I'm going to prove that this country. In the state of Wisconsin, which is very purple, they have a lot of statewide elected Republicans and a lot of statewide elected Democrats, is filled with a bunch of Americans who are sick and tired of the fat cat capitalists who own all the property, own all the money, and none of us get anything. And I'm going to tap into this class envy thing that it seems to be working in some places. Not knowing that don't you believe that any first year political consultant working for the other side is going to find some of the stuff that you... You used to post online. It's almost like she's surprised by this. But if the people of Wisconsin who have elected some pretty good Democrats down through the years, Wisconsin has produced good people who just happen to be members of the Democrat Party. A few good Republicans, too. Scott Walker was a good governor for me. They've elected a number of good Republicans. But if I look at guys like Russ Feingold and you can ignore some of his political views in the latter stages of his career, this guy was a very capable United States senator. And Tony Ewers, who is their governor right now, is probably closer to the center than most gubernatorial Democrats in the country today. So the issue isn't whether this woman's going to get attention because she is, as all of them are. But the issue is, does the state of Wisconsin, has it been overrun by anti-capitalists? Has it been overrun by socialist Marxists because she believes in a 17% personal income tax. She believes in defunding immigration and customs enforcement. She believes in providing identification driver's licenses for illegal aliens, which will lead to their ability to register to vote. Well, at least you'll tell us what she believes. Denise Jerome Powell here in Nebraska's second district says she's getting Republicans and Democrats together and building a coalition of people. And I don't know any Republicans who are support. reporting Denise Jerome Powell for Congress. Show me a Republican. Now there may be a disgruntled Trumpster or there may be a disgruntled somebody out there, just like there are Democrats who are probably going to vote Republican in this state. We've had a lot of Republicans vote for Democrats in the history of Nebraska. But the issue today, if you distill the issue politically in our country today, Scott, it boils down to capitalism versus socialism. And as we did on our Rosie to Genozy earlier this week, or last week, I think it was. No, it was Monday yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday. It was yesterday. See, I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I listened to that. It was good. Essentially, what we've had here is a generational turnaway, not from capitalism, because capitalism has a bad brand. It's free enterprise. And the first thing, and Brinker, you need to listen to this, and Pete, you need to listen to this, and all you Republicans out there running for office in Nebraska, Mike Flood, need to listen to this. You need to rebrand our economic system from capitalism, which evokes images of fat cats on Wall Street, to free enterprise, which is small business guys opening a store.

Okay, which is still the backbone of this American economy. We have to rebrand our economic system from capitalism to free enterprise. And if we do that, then suddenly people will see it differently. They'll say, wait a minute. Okay, free enterprise means I in this country have the opportunity. to start a business, to follow my dreams, to work hard and then reap the rewards of that. And there are probably some reforms that can be made on Capitol Hill to ensure for that. But we have to remind people of the joy and the excitement and the rewards that come from the free enterprise system. Well, I have one more political story for you here in this segment. Can't wait to hear it. Well, it's a sad one. Oh. Sad news for the family of Chuck Grassley. Uh-oh. Is Chuck finally kicked the bucket? No. Chuck is fine. His wife is fine, but Beth has passed away. Is the dog? No. Cow? Beth is the family vacuum cleaner. Aha. 50 years. They have the same vacuum cleaner for 50 years. Tell me you're surprised that Chuck Grassley has had the same vacuum cleaner for 50 years. And you could have a vacuum cleaner that's 50 years old. It was probably a really good vacuum cleaner. That's why they kept it. It did the job. Good luck buying a vacuum cleaner today that lasts you up to five years. And he's been living in a sod house in Mount Pleasant Iowa since 1974. They named it. Beth. And photo posted on Chuck Grassley's very entertaining ex-Twitter account is holding the blackburned and melted plug for the vacuum and he posted, goodbye, Beth. You have been a real workhorse. I will miss you. Beth was a Hoover concept, too, that they had for nearly 50 years. Goodbye, Beth. We will miss you as well.