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I know it said an awful lot that today's youth. when they get to the point where they're in charge and they have to go out and fight these battles and conquer the Great Unknown and all that. You know, somehow, you know, Caden with a GH and a nut allergy, you know, crying about toxic masculinity and football, probably not going to conquer the great unknown and lead us into the next American chapter of fantastic. Well, I guess it would be future. We just won't reach our manifest. Are you suggesting we won't reach our second manifest destiny with this next generation? I'm saying it's often said. But I guarantee like the greatest generation, those who went through the Depression and fought in the Second World War, you know who thought they were absolutely worthless? their parents. No. No, they didn't. Oh, yeah, they did. As those kids were coming up, no, they did. Under, you know, President Teddy Roosevelt, they're looking at President Theodore Roosevelt and then their own kids going, these kids are worthless. No, they did. These are the most worthless kids I've ever seen. So that's just how it goes. I don't think the kids today are worthless. I don't think they're being prepared. My kids are worthless. Your kids are not worthless. Everyone else's kids. You talk about your kids all the time as such a disparaging tone. Your kids are not worthless. I mean, your kids are fine. Now, you know, your 16-year-old is following much of your example when you behaved when you were 16. That's why I know he's worthless. You turned out. He's having fun. It's not that they don't have it. They're not being trained. We're not getting them ready. And when you put your thumb on the scale of your son's baseball team or basketball team and say, you don't have to make the team, I'll find a team that'll play you. That's bad preparation. I think worse than that is all the adults want to do everything for their kids. I don't want my kid to ever come up against an obstacle. I don't want my kid to ever have to try and think for himself. How do I get out of this situation? I don't want them ever to have anything bad happen in their entire lives, which I understand the sentiment. I understand where that comes from. I think it's child abuse. But yeah, you can't do it. You have to let them fall down. You have to let them try and get back up. And this is not how I wanted to start the show. But here's where I did want to start the show. And I think it actually is a perfect meeting of what we're talking about and what has happened over near Iran. And some of the people who were saying, look, our nation's military, these guys on this aircraft carrier have absolutely had it. There were a lot of moves made on this front yesterday. And I got this email in yesterday as we were responding to reports that, The crew aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln over there near Iran, just there to make sure the Strait of Hormuz and everything else is flowing the way it's supposed to and be ready to go and blow Iran off the face of the planet if they act up anymore. The crew has been there for about eight months. They were not supposed to be deployed that long, and they are so distressed at having to still serve in this capacity that some of them are jumping off the aircraft carrier. That was the report.

to do the right thing here. Trump will kill you, but he just hasn't lost his patience and said, all right, kill him right now. He's threatened to do so, and that's why it looks like he's weak. That's it. It's roads and bridges and energy plants, and we're going to kill all the... All right, we've decided to hold off on that. This is going to be the biggest strike anyone's ever seen. And it's coming tonight. All right, it's not going to come tonight. So... If you're a member of the military or a loved one back here in the area, emailing me, I get how it looks. Hopefully, as we look back on this time, whether it's months or a year from now, we realize, okay, that went about as well as it could have, and everything is much better now. That's all our hope can be at this point. What I don't want to do is start a give and take fight between people who are serving or have served or... Have family members currently serving, but we have this from Good Gravy Ken, a military veteran in the talkback, Mike. So let's get all the perspectives out there. Hey, good morning. Morning. Say, I'm going to try to be as respectful as I can. I'm not trying to disrespect the email you got. But suck it up, Buttercup, all right? In the Air Force, all right? If you're on a recon flight, every mission, you have sensitive stuff on that plane. Everyone knows before we get on there, because you have to sign a non-disclosure before you come into that unit, you know that knows that of the plane, so none of that stuff can get enemy hands. Every mission, we get locked on by missiles, jam the signals. Take that stress. Come on. All right. Well, hey, Ken, God bless you. Thank you very much. Appreciate that message. We've got all the perspectives out there now. And since I'm diving back into a little bit of what we did in the 9 o'clock hour yesterday, I'll throw this out here in the 6 o'clock hour this morning. The people who are, a lot of this just has to do with Trump. What's President Trump like? All right, we don't like whatever it is that he likes. We support the other thing. So you can see this with some of the reports about, oh yeah, the military, they would rather jump off an aircraft carrier, which I don't know if that means jump to your death or jump off and swim towards shore miles and miles that way. I don't know. I've never jumped off an aircraft carrier. Imagine it's different depending on... A lot of factors. I wouldn't want to jump off the deck of an aircraft carrier. That's got to be four or five stories in the air. I would imagine it's not good. So it just has to do with whatever it is that Trump is in favor of. We have to report the other side. For example, Jim. The idea that we can't have our members of border security ICE throughout the country detaining people or coming up against armed protesters who are either using guns on their person or cars as battering rams and have these members of law enforcement who are with ICE.

Pull out a gun and do anything. So people have said, we don't want ICE to be armed. This is an armed masked Gestapo in our streets. We don't want them to have guns. This is terrible. So then ICE came out and said, all right, we've got these things called shot gloves. And they're like, we have a taser. Remember the old Joy buzzer joke? Yeah, a little buzzer in there. Well, this one's got 300 volts. It's like that, except it's a little bit more. It's like if you hooked up this Joy buzzer to an ever-ready battery, it's kind of like that. And so it won't kill you, but it will get your attention. It'll take you down. So we're going to have these ice members out in the streets with shock gloves in case someone wants to go up there and start trying to interrupt an ice. operation somewhere. Shaking hands and kissing babies. Now the same people, yeah, hey, let's post for a selfie. The same people said, I don't want members of ICE to be armed are now seeing them wearing taser shot gloves. And they don't like that either. Oh, okay. They don't like ice, Scott. They don't want anybody arresting illegals in this country. They could wear bikinis or sundresses, and they'd still say, get out of my neighborhood. Because they don't think that it's really quite, to me, a paradox in Minnesota. This is one of the most subsidized states in the country, and yet they don't want the government involved in their lives. Except send us a bunch of money so that we can put up phony Somali. daycare and senior care centers, but stay out of our neighborhoods, government. This is the state of Minnesota, and this is the state of the DEI, a bigger part, and this is the state of the ICE culture in our country. The president has said, I'm going to round up people who are here illegally and send them home. I'm going to incentivize them to come forward and voluntarily deport, in which case they'll have every opportunity to come back legally through points of entry. But there are so many out there, especially in the news media, who will amplify this narrative that ICE are just a bunch of jackbooted thugs. They are descendants of Hitler, Schuetzel, and all of that. It's not true. It's hardly ever been true. You've had one or two incidents where a guy or an ice agent probably stepped out of bounds. But in most cases, I mean, think of the hundreds of thousands of illegals that have been rounded up who have been identified and who have been sent home. for which there is no incident. Hundreds of thousands across the country. We have mayors here who are literally breaking the law. We have governors and mayors in states, blue states, and heavy blue states that are breaking the law. But we could characterize ICE agents under any conditions, and these people will have a platform. It's the mainstream news media that are demonizing ICE agents and demonizing law enforcement. I know. Two things as an absolute fact. One, if these shock gloves get in the hands of my son and his friends, it's all over. They'll just be jokingly shocking each other, tasting each other, and that would be bad. Two, the same people said, we don't want ice to have guns. All right, we're going to give them taser gloves. We don't want ice to have taser gloves.

They would be mad if ICE committed the same fouls that you see on a regular basis in the WNBA. They would say, oh, that's not fair. Those people need to be ejected. Unless, of course, someone does it to Sophie Cunningham, then they would be fine with you. Yeah, you're welcome to assault people on the floor in a WNBA game. But if you look at somebody weird, you're to be locked up. And unmasked and ridiculed and harassed by everybody else. A couple of messages here in the Zonkers custom was inbox. This is via the talkback, Mike, on our free I-Heart radio app, getting some of this today. Good morning, KFAB Land. Good morning. I was so happy to hear Jake Goodman back on the radio this morning. Good job, Jake. Yes, Jake is a highly controversial figure here when he jumps in from a, he's a national guy. I have never met Jake. But we're glad to have them in for Lucy Chapman and very glad to have Lucy enjoy a day off here in a three-day weekend. She's been working real hard this week. We also have this in the talkback Mike this morning on the shock taser gloves that ICE is getting. Hey, fellas. One comment about the shock gloves. I sure hope they trained them to take them off if they have to pee. Have good morning, guys. Go Big Red. Good. Go Big Red indeed. That'd be a negative. Thank you. Thank you for that. And on that note, on the Go Big Red notes, time for the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. It's the Husker Vuzz edition. Sean Callahan and Lincoln and Jim Rose is right there. Okay, Sean, oh, let's visit about your compatriot, Jake Crane. Do you ever watch his podcast? Oh, the Crane and Co? Yeah. I do. I've been on the show a few times. Oh, good. They work with on three in our building now. So you talk about their prediction? What is what they do on their show? Well, no, I was going to reference a remark that he made about the quarterback situation, and Jake says that a one-eyed Anthony Calandria is better than Dylan Ryola. Now, I don't know if that's just clickbait or if Ryola snubbed him once or maybe Ryola took one of his girlfriends. I don't know. But he says a half-blind Jake Calandria would be better than Dylan Ryola. Yeah, I mean, that's a little extreme. I mean, I think just as biggest thought on that is the mobility factor and how much they were limited by not having a quarterback that could bail you out in situations when you needed to get away. And, you know, Matt Ruhl, and I know it said they will never not have a mobile quarterback. They have to have a mobile quarterback always moving forward. And, you know, I think it hurt them when you look at some of the games against Minnesota and Michigan and, you know, their offensive line issues, but a quarterback with some ability could get away from some of that if they were able to run better. So, I mean, that was probably the biggest thing last year. Dylan, no one's going to question his arm mobility, arm talent. but his ability to kind of create when the play breaks down. And in college football, you have to be able to do that. Well, he might have been the only one that questioned his arm talent because he refused to throw a fader out. But let's visit about a couple of other people. There's a lot of buzz about how much better this defense is going to be. Well, we'll see about that. But it doesn't matter what scheme you're playing if you don't have people up front who can stop the run. And this has been a major problem for Nebraska.

at least certainly was since Nat Hushma, Hutmacher, and Ty Robinson left the program. But is Jashir Winningham enough? What else? Now, we've talked about Tys and Terry, but is Jashir Wittingham, who's the big money-free agent, is he enough to fix that? Well, Owen Stottemeyer is in that category, too. And Whittington and Stottomier are going to play a lot in the middle. you know, with Riley Van Popple, probably Tyson-Terry. Then you have a group of other guys. They want to play six, and I think the first three games are going to allow them to do that. The biggest thing I think is the level of coaching and teaching is better than what it has been. Terry Braden had never coached. really a room like that last year and it showed they just i don't think they were really lined up right or developed properly um and you know to even terence night and before that had had been kind of more of a rookie coach in that role. And now you've got Corey Brown, who's a longtime coach, who's coached all the way down on the small college level, Dave Tolson, who's assistant. Roy Manning came on the edges with Rob Warrench. So I think the continuity in the teaching and the coaching is night and day from what I've gathered, and that is going to make a difference because it wasn't a lack of material always at times. It was – it was – Weatherline Nebraska was getting blown off the ball. It was more where guys lined up were they playing the right techniques, the right gaps, the right reads. Some of those reasons were why we saw the big plays last year. Especially in the Iowa and Penn State game. There's another player that I think a lot of Husker fans are wondering about, and it is a crowded wide receiver room. But what about Demetrius Bell? This was one of the top receivers out of the recruiting class of a couple of years ago. He's had a lot of injuries. He's a red shirt junior. Is this guy ready for a breakout season? And will they have enough footballs in the air to make all of these receivers happy? No, he's really, I mean, I don't even know if he's practicing at this point right now. I don't know where he's at, but the injury situation with him. That is a very defined, established top group, Jim. Quasi Gilmer is their big free agent. He was the leading receiver for UCLA, Geordy and Isaiah Hunter, the leading receivers from the Huskers a year ago. That's your top three. And then, you know, Quinn Clark, Judiron Bonner, Cortez Mills, maybe then Keelan Smith. I mean, those guys all would be ahead of him right now on the depth chart. So he's one of those recruits that just didn't work out, and the injuries are probably a factor. Once you've been injured enough, it's very difficult to motivate yourself back, especially when you look at all of the guys in front of you on the depth chart. All right, we've got a scrimmage tomorrow. What do they hope to get done in a scrimmage tomorrow? You only get a couple of these, and this is a big one for Nebraska.

I think the live work with your running backs is so important because you just don't get an opportunity. to take them down live a lot in camp. So I think that's big. But yeah, your defense, I mean, you want to see how these guys respond, how they play in the scheme as well. And who wins the scrimmage? I mean, is it a good side of the defense wins it or is a good side of the offense wins it? You'd like to maybe see both sides have some success. Most importantly, you want a clean scrimmage, nobody getting hurt, but just you don't want procedural penalties, balls on the ground. things that really come back to bite yet when you start playing in September. All right. That's KFB, Husker Info, Strong Man, Sean Callahan exclusively in Omaha, 1110, KFB. There's Jim Rose, who, like a lot of us, has been staring at these reports of the guy accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare. Iowa's Brian Thompson, who left behind a family with two young kids. Luigi Mangione. Because there are some... really, really awful, terrible people in this country who say, yeah, he deserved to get killed. This Luigi guy probably had United Health Care and those big health care companies. You know, they love to deny coverage and probably denied him coverage or bankrupted a family member. And hey, if it takes someone to die. so that we can have better health care and socialize medicine in this country. None of that was true. This guy, no one in his family, no one had any of those things that people were attaching to the situation. This guy is just accused of going up there and for whatever reason, murdering a guy. And now there are a lot of people nervously looking at this and thinking he might... If he doesn't get away with it, he might not spend a lot like life in prison. He has really smart lawyers, Scott. First of all, a side note, just to illustrate the sickness in the country, the number of young women who have become sexually attracted to the guy is really whacked, but that's a whole separate show. So in New York, they have a double jeopardy law, meaning you cannot be tried in a state court. for the same charges that got you in a federal court. So he is liable to plead guilty today to federal charges of stalking which resulted in a death. That is probably good for 15 to 20 years in a federal prison at the most. Okay? Now, a federal prison by comparison to say Attica or Rikers Island, which are some of the tougher state prisons in New York State, is a country club. A federal prison, you've got guys that are there for tax evasion or writing bad checks. But you don't have the boys. You don't have the brothers that are in there for a reason, bad stuff. You don't have dudes that are really rotten people.

by comparison to state prisons. So what we have now is a conundrum because if he pleads guilty to this charge, his lawyers will be skilled enough to say this stalking charge is very similar to the murder charge because he'll go check box, check box, check box, check box, as the two laws are very, very similar, or at least they'll make that argument. No, they are not. From an evidentiary standpoint. Come on. It's not about what's right. It's about what your lawyers can negotiate for you. And there are enough boxes that you can check on both cases that you can say to a jury or a judge, this is a similar charge. I don't believe it either. Now, if I were a judge or a lawyer, I wouldn't. But if this happens and he gets a favorable ruling, he will not be... He will not be tried in state court on these murder charges. That's the word. I can't imagine that we are out of common sense thinking adults. We are. No, I get where... We are very out of common sense thinking adults. I get we're a lawyer, and I'm going to, just to try and save us all from throwing up in our mouths here, I get where a lawyer isn't trying to get this guy off the hook, he's trying to hold the state or the feds in this case to a burden of proof. If they're going to take away any of our constitutional rights, they have to prove it. That's how they have to do this. That's how we have to look at it. Otherwise, we would all lose our minds. So I get where they're doing that. But... This is a very, it worked with Paul Manafort. If you're able to, no, no, no. Yes, it did. Hold on. Hold on. The Paul Manafort thing was he was accused of doing something by the feds and accused of the exact same thing of doing something by the state of New York. And the state of New York also wanted to throw the book at him and they said, you can't. It's double jeopardy in New York. He's already been found guilty of the same thing. You can't find him guilty of the same thing in state. In this case, the federal charge against Luigi is stalking. Which resulted in a murder. The state charge is murder one. there's these are not in the same ballpark I don't care legally and then ask the judge if a judge is thinking well yeah maybe the same thing what would you rather have happened this weekend would you rather be stalked or would you rather be murdered I don't disagree with you. I'm all mad now. As a common thinking, average Nebraska, who looks at things as they are without the technicalities, I agree with you. But in New York, where you have activist judges, where you have legislators from the bench, and you have morality police from the bench, I would not be surprised if it happens, if they are able to win this.

I don't think it will, but I'm not a lawyer and I'm not in New York and I'm not a judge. It seems to me this is pretty obvious. You can plead guilty to anything you want in federal court, but we're coming after you on this murder one charge in state court, and we have all the evidence in the world to support it. The other thing that works against him here is that in federal court, if there's a trial, again, if he pleads guilty, there is no trial. But if there's a trial, they can admit evidence in the federal court that would not be admitted in the state court, stuff like what was in his backpack and other indicators that he was going to kill this guy. Look, he is a bad person. He's mentally deranged. This guy has anger issues, and nobody wants Luigi Mangione out walking the streets. But the legal system in a very liberal state like New York... will allow for this loophole to keep him from going to Rikers Island. What you said there about activist judges in that state, siding with him? Uh-huh. And therefore also working to find a way to get him off the hook here is so hauntingly disgusting. Well, they'll say, hey, you know, we do have a health care crisis in this country. And those fat cat CEOs of these health care companies and these insurance companies, somebody needs to send them a message. It should be illegal for you to get me all angry about something like that on a Friday morning. This is what we do here. We get people worked up. It's one of the reasons that it's the most listened to radio station now in multiple states, including the state of New Mexico. As we will learn later this morning. Oh, I've been doing a pretty bad impression of Gary Saddlemire this year. It's working. Gary occasionally used to do this, and I think this is the first time I'm going to do it. I'm going to issue a Gary Saddlemire. I can't take it anymore. There's another thing that drives me crazy, Jim. I don't know what has happened to people. The judicial system in New York. This has nothing to do with the judicial system in New York, but it is into the same tap route here, which is what does happen to people? We've got a guy in Michigan who says football is toxic. It's part of that toxic masculinity and really doesn't like football, would like to see football go away. In Michigan. where the University of Michigan is saying, yeah, freshmen shouldn't be graded as they come here to the University of Michigan because bad grades make students feel bad. Now, these are not third graders. These are college-aged freshmen who've gotten into a Big Ten institution at the University of Michigan. These are people who are the same age as those who enlist in our nation's military, and they go off to do things like hold Iran's feet to the fire that we started. Hey, we're going to hold your feet to the fire. What fire? Well, we just lit all your house on fire here, and your feet are now going to be held to it. These guys are 18, 19, 20 years old. These college freshmen are 18, 19, years old.

And on one front, these guys are going off and serving in battle. We entrust them to keep our world safe. But at the University of Michigan, we couldn't give one of them a D if they earn it in a college class because they've been passed along every grade throughout public schools through high school. They got a diploma and graduated in high school. But now they get to college where someone has a different set of standards, which is to say standards, and they earn a C-minus, and they don't know how to deal with it. So rather than make them deal with it, The University of Michigan says, we're just going to do away with grades for our freshmen. What in the world has happened? And how, if we lose to Michigan state in this climate in that state, we could. We could lose to them. I know they're at the bottom of the stack, but they got a great coach. Not exactly. What they're doing is they're hiding the grades. They're still earning the grades. But for the first semester of freshman year, they're hiding them. So they don't know what they actually got. The same thing. Now, I don't know about you, but when I was in college, when I was traversing the Kay Ivey colored building, well, okay, we didn't have a lot of Kay Ivey on the building. At Universitas, Nebraska, says, I knew, I knew exactly what I was doing in those classes. I knew exactly which ones I was doing okay in, which ones I was doing good in, and which ones I was sucking in. Yep. But at Michigan, they want to make sure that these kids hang around for another semester or two and pay the tuition and the fees in the room and board so they don't want to traumatize them with their own bad grades. Now, look, again, they still have the grades on their transcripts, but they just don't see them. They're just not going to have access to them until second semester. Ridiculous. 1110 KFAB certified transmission, sports brief, Jim. Yeah, the campus, I must admit the campus has improved dramatically in the many autumn since we went back and forth and dumped laundry detergent in the broilfell. Okay, they built it and they came. The Field of Dreams baseball diamond over in Dyersville, Iowa gets a big league game each summer, and it was last night. Philly's seven twins won. Philadelphia hit three home runs into the corn stalks. Chances are it hit a Hall of Famer on the head. 26 Hall of Famers were there to come through the cornstalks, just like in the movie. A lot of the guys. Did you want that? Well, I gave you a bad sign in the third base box. That got to me, says Philly's manager, Don Mattingly. Here we go. A lot of the guys I know, so it was nice to see those guys in the back before we came out. A lot of a few guys I played against, a lot of guys that I know actually coached. Yeah, Kyle Schwarber hit two home runs, finished with three RBI.

It was not a good night for hitting in the big leagues. Only 14 runs were scored by losing teams. And in the American League, they had four games and four shutouts. National League, Nat 7, Cubs, nothing. Pittsburgh, 13, Miami 1, and Milwaukee beat the Dodgers final score 5 to 4. One other interleague game, it was the Reds 9 and the White Sox 8. The rugs of carpet land, the Lincoln East High Kids playing Legion baseball got a win in their first Legion World Series game yesterday, 4 to 2 over the Western Region champs from Fairfield, California. The Lincoln Kids is the next play on Saturday against Tupelo, Mississippi. Now, how good are these guys? The best high school team in Nebraska in the last 50 years is the 2014 West Side Warriors. State champs, Legion champs made it all the way to the semifinals of the Legion World Series. They finished the spring and summer at 92 and 9. Had three guys drafted. Two of them made the big leagues. Well, this year's Lincoln's kids are spring and summer record up to 84 and 9, 52 and 6 this summer. They didn't win the state high school title, which is a factor. But if they take the Legion World Series title, how are they not the greatest of all time? That coach, Michael Lannick, former assistant at prep, is pathologically competitive. He's built a college-style program at a public high school. Good first round for Jim Jordan Speeth at the St. Jude Classic down in Memphis, five under 65, among five players at five under. He hasn't won in four years, hasn't finished in the top 10 in any tournament this year. He's distracted. He's got three kids and all the money he'll ever need. Hey, look at the crap sandwich lives of pros who don't have a quality home life. Phil? Winding down the regular season for NASCAR, three more races before we get to the playoffs. This week, they are on Richmond, Virginia. But how do you top the race in Iowa last week? On Sunday, won by Ty Gibbs by one quarter of a second. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. On News Radio 1110, KFAB, this is Nebraska's morning news. We've got Craig Evans, Courtney Dunahoe here. Lucy Chapman, not here. She's off today. Jake. Goodman with your traffic updates throughout the morning. There's Jim Rose. I'm Scott Voorhees. Thank you so much for being here with us. Jim, help me understand this. There was streetcar construction in Blackstone. and near the street car construction, a building that's been there for about 100 years that has never had any foundation problem, suddenly has the ground open up and a foundation problem near the street car construction. The owners of the building said, we think this was due to the street car construction. The city came out and said, no, that's ridiculous. And the owners of the building said, well, someone's got to pay for this, and the city said,

You guys have to. This has nothing to do with us. The owners of the building complained, and yesterday the city said, I tell you what. We'll pay for it. We'll pay to repair the damage, or if you want to demolish the building, we can demolish the building, but that's on us. While not admitting fault that it was the city's responsibility, streetcar construction that caused this giant sinkhole near this building, what about the other property owners along this line or anywhere along the streetcar construction line? I don't understand any of this. Well, this is an easy one. They were threatening. to sue the city, which would enjoin the streetcar, and they would delay the streetcar. If they sue and a judge says, okay, all right, hold off on the streetcar construction until we solve this. That could delay the streetcar construction by a year, year and a half, maybe more. So they said the city attorney or whoever down there said, look, pay them what they want because if they tie this thing up in court, this is going to drive the cost of the streetcar up another 5, 10, 15%, maybe more to say nothing of the impact on those businesses on Farnham and Harney Street and along that whole streetcar corridor. So they said, yeah, you can stop. You can do this. But if we get served, a judge is going to enjoin the streetcar. Jim, I don't know if it's just I'm a little tired today or what, but you're making a lot of sense today. I've seen this. That makes perfect sense. And in addition to that, they said, well, what about all those other businesses? Well, they're going to sue us too, and we're going to have to pay them. So what we need to do is keep this quiet. We need to shut them up with a check because if we don't do this, then they're going to sue us. And then we're going to have a major... shite storm on our hands because this streetcar is going to get delayed maybe a year or two. This is the reality of bad public policy, of not collaborating with the community on the decision to build the streetcar. Gene yesterday had a little fun with me, and that's fine. On the air, we'll continue to do that. It's good radio, and it's all in good fun. She's a pal and we're friends. But she said, well, this streetcar was not a new idea. That's true. Hal Dobb was the first guy talking about a streetcar back when he was mayor of Omaha, which was nearly 20 years ago. That's true. But there was no. More than that. 30 years ago. I don't know. He was mayor in the early 2000s, I believe. Was he not? No, Faye was. I've been apart. Yeah. So, yeah, you're right. It has been 30 years. But there was no community collaboration here. There was no gathering of stakeholder groups. It was a railroad job. Pardon the pun. And it was about money and greed and power. And that's a shame by influential people. And you know who you are. And most people know who they are too. So the issue is this. This baby is going to get birthed. It's going to be a very expensive baby. And in 10 or 15 years, when the streetcar bonds start come and do.

This is going to put the city of Omaha in a tremendously horrible, horrible financial position, which will result in massive cuts in services and massive tax increases across the entire community. And they'd better hope. that the unicameral, which is one vote shy of this happening, doesn't change the property valuation formula because the entire financing model for the streetcar is based on massive increases in property taxes in downtown. I hope that in 10 to 15 years from now, when that prediction doesn't come true, that you and I are sitting here so you can admit you are wrong. Not because... I'm not wrong. Not because I want you to be wrong. I think you also want you to be wrong. I do. I do, actually. And I hope it doesn't get to that point. But we're not going to know. There's little... point in arguing about that today when we don't know exactly what's going to happen in the future other than just the fun of the argument. I'll let you and Gene Stother do that. But people are looking at this thing here with the city not admitting liability and paying for this, but they're saying, well, wait, didn't the city just pay off all those businesses have been impacted by the streetcar? No, they didn't. No. I don't know if you heard the announcement on Gene Stother's show, the KFAB comment line two days ago. She said, This is Susie Buffett and the Sherwood Foundation. Warren's daughter, Susie Buffett, has directed the money, and she's paying these business owners, while not also, she says, I don't like the streetcar anymore than anyone else in this town right now, but what's happening in these businesses is unfortunate. I'll pay. Well, what she has done is she has funded the enterprise fund. There is an enterprise fund, I believe it's state. But it might be city. I don't know exactly what its origin is. But it's an enterprise fund that does create a stream of revenue for businesses that are adversely affected by public works projects. And it was woefully underfunded. Again, bad public policy by the city of Omaha. They did not put enough money in the enterprise fund for these businesses. So Susie, God bless her. She is a really, really, really conscientious citizen, and she's very generous. And she and her foundation funded that. Again, bad public policy. Another one, and I brought this up to our good friend Brinker Harding. You do not have enough money in the Environmental Cleanup Fund for that new soccer stadium. I promise you people. This is the downtown soccer stadium. That is dirty dirt. That was an industrial site for decades. There is not enough money in that fund. When the EPA gets in there and they start finding particles in there upon which you're going to build a soccer stadium, you better have a hell of a lot more money in that fund than you have now. So what? So what? There are people working on that site. So what? I'm not saying kids are down there eating dirt or living there. You can't play soccer on dirty dirt. No, you cannot. That's ridiculous.

Well, it might be ridiculous, but that's what the reality is. Yeah, the reality is. You may not like it. No one's going to be in a stoppage time in a soccer game and suddenly start growing a fourth arm. Yeah. Right. That's going to happen. During halftime of the soccer game, all of these people on the berm are going to start growing a fourth arm. There is no halftime. There is no halftime as three stupid periods. Did you ever see the movie Aaron Brockovich? No. Well, you need to watch it. Get back to me. We'll talk about this. It's the same thing. I know the story. It's the same thing. Yeah. Well, if you had her cleavage, maybe I'd be paying more attention. It's got nothing to do with her breasts. It's got nothing to do with that. Although she pulled it off, you know. The braw technology worked for Julia John Roberts. All right. We're not talking about that because it's Friday and we're supposed to be in a better mood. Hello, honey. I made you pancakes for breakfast. Thank you, Steve Martin. And happy birthday. Steve Martin, celebrating a birthday today. Great to have you with us. And if I missed your birthday... Excuse me!

One of the greatest of all time right there. I'm Scott Voorhees. There's Jim Rose, Craig Evans. Lucy Chapman's out today. Jake Goodman, providing your traffic updates here in this hour of Nebraska's morning news on news radio 1110 KFAB. Jim, I want to get your thoughts on this. We have the story here that American workers are stepping away from the labor market. Now, it's not because they're retiring. It's younger workers. are said to not be participating in the labor market. Now, this is either because they've decided they don't need money. They're on an agrarian lifestyle. They're living in a commune. They're growing their own beans, and they're able to subsist. In which case, they don't need to barter or trade or be a part of a job or anything like that. That's great. I don't see that happening a lot. And I don't know that every single parent is saying, that's all right, kids, you can live here well into your 50s and we'll take care of you. You'll never want for anything. I know that happens. I don't think that's it either. I think it is not just a gig economy. which I would think would be counted in the larger labor department statistics. But it's a gig economy and it's also the trading stuff with websites like whatnot. What old stuff can I find here in the house that I can sell online and then I can make some money doing that? The predictions markets here where I can go on an app like Kalshi and predict whether... You know, tomorrow's going to be Saturday. Hey, I won. You know, here's six bucks. This is great. If I do this every single waking moment of the day and get hopelessly addicted to it, maybe I can make a living. And, of course, you've got sports betting, as the story here is sports betting is gaining ground in Gen Z's long-term wealth plans. And weed. This is a career. Yeah, they could just be cultivating and selling their own weed. But if they're all selling it to each other, where do they all get the money? Like, I'm going to sell you some weed, and tomorrow you can sell me weed, and I'll give you the money right back. How are these young people who are checking out of the labor market? How do you think they're able to make a living? It's a really big challenge in a lot of places, Scott, especially in big cities where it's really expensive to live. It might be expensive at Omaha to live, but compared to Chicago, this is a walnut grove, Minnesota town. Bottom line is this. Corporate America has really, really made it hard for young people to plan a career for their adult lives. Corporate America in the last 25 or 30 years has gravitated away from building a business to mergers and acquisitions. And federal law has relaxed ownership standards. Federal law has relaxed... you know, well, you would consider the old antitrust considerations, Department of Justice, okay, wait a minute, how much of the marketplace will you have if we do allow this merger? When was the last merger that was ever denied by the Department of Justice? And as I said in the Rosie de Genozy yesterday, if an employee doesn't feel like the company cares about them,

If an employee believes they could be in the next round of layoffs, if the company doesn't develop their skills and talents and give them new challenges to grow in the company, they will never, ever have the loyalty of an employee. And so that trickles down to kids. Okay, you know what? I'm not going to work for anybody. I'm going to work for myself and just live sort of hand to mouth. I'll do gigs here and there just to keep the lights on, but I'm not really committed to a career of building wealth, of acquiring assets, and having a comfortable life as I get older. It's become an issue in our country. that has been exacerbated by the things they've experienced, but also what they've been taught and the example that they've followed. But we've also taught these young people that you have to get into a job that you absolutely love and that you feel valued and seen and heard and all. I don't know about you. I've worked in some soul-crushing jobs. I'm blessed not to be in that situation right now, at least not all the time. Yeah, I've been through the ringer a couple of times. Maybe briefly once a week. But other than that... I'm very blessed to love what I do. But we've told these young people that this old thing where you and I, and we've all done it, where you go and you clock in, you do your work, you keep your head down, you try not to murder anybody, and then you clock out, and then you go do something you love. Yeah, I mean, we don't do that anymore? But the other thing we've done is we've disincentivized success. And Rush used to talk about this. We've demonized success in this country. Oh, you know, you're not special just because you were really good at that. So we've had this mob mentality that says to somebody who's really an achiever and tried to make them feel bad. And social media has allowed that kind of shaming. We've made success a dirty word. We've said to kids, you know, don't stand out. Don't strive because, you know, then you're going to, you won't have any friends, you know, because no, your friends are like that. When I was growing up, man, we competed. I competed with my friends. And it wasn't negative. It wasn't angry. But I competed with them, you know, for everything. Well, now we've desocialized kids. We've disincentivized success. We've demonized it. We've made people successful, unattractive that are successful. successful, unattractive. And it's not something that happens overnight. It's an accumulation of one small impulse like that after another. To say nothing of how, we talked about this yesterday, I don't believe parents today understand in many ways their job. Their job is not to be their kid's friend or protector. Now, your job is to protect them from harm, but not the world. And if you look around and see helicopter parents, it's like the parent that just spent $20,000 on their kid's dorm room. What parent two generations ago would do that? Thornton Mellon from the movie Back to School. Rodney Dangerfield would do that. Look at some of the gifts that parents give to their children. Parents give their children credit cards. My dad and mom would no more give me a credit card when I was growing up than they'd give me a freaking house and a boat to go with it. You know that maybe the kids are just getting these offers and opening up credit cards.

in their own. My daughter, as soon as she turned 18, my mailbox bends over from the amount of credit card mail that she gets in her name. Part of it was because she was also an academic achiever. They've gotten all that data on kids. Oh, yeah? Okay. Well, hey, good for her. Funny, my son's not getting any of that stuff. Your son getting any credit card application. Couldn't help but take a shot at the boy. Now, nowhere is the rearing of kids to fit a model that you just described more apparent than outside of a New York courtroom. We'll talk about that next. I am Scott Borges with you until, and actually through then I'll be producing the comment line with Chip later this morning, right here on news radio. 1110 KFAB is producer Peyton as one more day of honeymoon and then he's back. I'm not sure where Peyton. People ask like, where is Peyton? Right now, on his honeymoon. I don't know. I know that a moment ago they turned on the cameras on the crowd. They're outside of a Manhattan courtroom in New York City, and I didn't see him there, which is really good. Because I don't know if I'd want him back here, if he was out there, like some of these guys. They're dressed up like Luigi from Super Mario Brothers, supporting a guy who was alleged to have murdered a guy. who leaves behind a wife and two young kids. Just walking down the street. Iowa's Brian Thompson, who was new in the job, who was trying to do some things in the job that some of these people that say, we need health care companies to be better for them. You know who agreed with you? Brian Thompson, who was a really good man. who was new in that job, who never did anything to the family of Luigi Mangione, that health care company, no health care company. This guy was a nut, and he was accused of murdering this guy. A rich kid from Philadelphia. And there are young people out there supporting him because they think that, oh, we need to have socialized health care. And the way to do it is to support a murderer because he's kind of cute. I'm sick about this. Well, the other thing is they're cameras. You know, social media and the media culture in which we exist now where everybody has a camera that can go viral, people perform for cameras. Back during the Vietnam War demonstrations and some of the civil rights demonstrations and the ERA demonstrations, we didn't have nearly the media coverage that we have on events like this. And there were hundreds of thousands of people who marched in supportive causes back a generation or two ago. Today, they just show up to get on TV. Did they just show up to get on social media? They can become a social media darling for a day. That's gross. And it's disgusting. And again, who are these people's parents? Did these people's parents set any kind of an example for them? Do they have any social discourse that isn't objectionable? And the answer is no. All I know is I want these pot-smoking hippies to get off my lawn. That's what I want. Yeah. They better do it. Are there really some by your yard and smoke? Yeah, I grow a lot of marijuana on my yard. That's why they're there. We'll knock off now and take the next two days off. How's that? Hello, chest, one, two, one, two, three, four, five. One, two, one, two, three, four. Who are these people? These freckon people. And why are they here? Good morning, honey. I made you pancakes for breakfast. Uh-oh, guess what day it is. Now, I can say, hey, this is a week. I've got a hundred dollar smoking in my bill for.

I know I ought to save it, but he's burning a hole. Right through my pocket and into my skin. Come on the morning, I'll be broke again. I see. It's finally Friday, I'm free again. I've got my motor running for a while weekend. It's finally Friday, I'm out of control. Forget the working blues in at the time. How about that one man? I'm a man. A little girl needs her daddy. What's up? I don't really have to believe in this stuff, do I? Tell that guy to shut up. Tell that guy to shut up. Monday, I'll be hurting with my head and advice. Tuesday, I'll be wondering if I'll ever survive. Wednesday and a Thursday, I'll be slowly tuning in. Friday I'll be revving up my motor again. Let's go. All right. It's finally Friday, I'm out of control. Forget the working booze and let the good time to throw. Did that satisfy you or should I do it. I got my motor running for a while weekend. It's finally Friday. Ain't nobody got time for that. Forget the working booze and let you do a better job. That is unbelievable, man. All right, now it's Friday. Good morning. Thank you very much for hanging out here with us. Nebraska's morning news. News Radio 1110, KFAB. I'm Scott Borges here with Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Lucy Chapman out today. Jake Goodman will have one or two more traffic updates. We'll see if conditions warrant more than that. here on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. This is News Radio, 1110, KFAB, and a whole lot of Gary Saddlemire there in our finally Friday KFAB version of that song. Yeah, I don't always play that. It gets stuck in my head, and that's why Monday morning I'll be waking up with my head in a vice because that song is stuck in my head all weekend, but it felt appropriate here today. I'll tell you another song that's not just stuck in my head. Last night was the Douglas County Republican Party's Elephant Remembers Banquet. It's a fundraiser and also a just a fun evening here with a lot of Republicans across the area. And I'll say this here and I said this last night. I don't know if you've been to a lot of these events over the last decade or so, but it used to be, it was more of the old school Republicans would attend this event. And some of this new, like the Freedom Party, the Tea Party, the Freedom Party, and then MAGA, you wouldn't often see them. And I don't know that they were always welcome. And then there was a big fight. And then it became MAGA got into the leadership positions. And over the last few years, since that happened, some of the familiar faces, the long-term Republicans, you wouldn't see them at this event. But I looked at this crowd last night and said,

I'm seeing everyone back here altogether. I said, hey, it's great to see everyone here. And hopefully this is showing that people are getting along. But if you're going to fight tonight, make it good so we can talk about it on the radio tomorrow. But everyone got along. It was a good night there within the divisions of the Republican Party. There's something bigger that they see that they're going to be doing. But I also said last night, I've been thinking about something more over these last couple weeks, and that is, fake Dan Osborne's a Democrat, voted for Hillary. That's a fan. And I started singing that, and then I got to the chorus, he's a fake, and the crowd. Every single man, woman, and child in there has said, Democrat Osborne. He's a fake. Democrat Osborne. And you know who had a big smile on his face right there in the front row? Senator Pete Ricketts was there last night. That's the best day I've ever created. That's money well spent. Well, the party, that's good to know because, you know, Nebraska still has sizably larger numbers of Republicans registered to vote than Democrats. But there is a growing independent. streak in our state where a lot more independents are declaring themselves as such when before they just sort of let it I'm kind of you know I vote the man all that chance but you know and I like Pete Ricketts a lot we're not close friends but we're friends we're friendly I've known him a long time I go to Cloisters on the plat his dad is at my retreat when I go to Cloisters I've met his two brothers both great guys But Pete really sort of ran the show here in Nebraska for most of the last 20 years. His checkbook has funded a lot of campaigns. His checkbook has derailed a number of campaigns. He's been embroiled in high controversy, see Janet Palm Tag and Julie Slama and others. So it got to the point where a lot of Republicans are going, What is this? Is this just his deal? And that all came to a head a couple of years ago at the big state convention in Carney. Oh, yeah. But this threat of a Democrat socialist winning an election in Nebraska tends to end the feuds and the rivalries, and it's now all hands on deck. And look, I don't know if it's going to happen. I would be very surprised if Denise Jerome Powell appears on this radio station in any context. I hope she does. You know, I would hope that she'd consent to a debate with Brinker Harding on KFAB sometime between now and Election Day. I would hope that she'd recognize that this is the most dominant media outlet in District 2. It may be the most dominant media outlet in the state of Nebraska. It certainly has greater reach than newspapers. But the bottom line is this. She has to be defined. or you don't know what you're buying. And she could win this race. And she may have all the right answers. If she gives me a chance to ask the questions, which I doubt she will because I hear from internal situations over there that there's not a lot of interest in that. But if she would do that, we can say, okay, this is where she stands. And this is what we're voting for or not. But right now.

Nobody really knows what she is. She won't even call herself a Democrat right now. No, I know. Well, she's, it's getting better. She was P-Oed, and now she's just fed up. Next time, she might be in a general malaise, and at some point, she might actually be somewhat happy. So she's moving in the right direction. I don't know. I'm polling for Denise Jerome Powell to have a better life than apparently she says she's had. Don't go missing with a country boy, a country boy, a country boy. Our country boy, Greg Wagner from Nebraska Game of Parks, is here. Greg, what's going on in our state parks this weekend? Well, we're going to be probably battling a little bit of weather, it looks like. No question. Maybe. Maybe a few pop-up storms here. Enough to keep an eye on stuff. Yeah, keep an eye on the weather. But state parks activities, we're rolling with them. On weekdays, you know, our... or staff has gone back to high school and college. So the weekdays are quiet and everything. But the weekends, we're still rolling weather permitting. Yeah. Some storms might make for some good fishing, either before or after the storm. Exactly. You know, I was telling somebody the other day, the best catfishing, and that's what we have really biting now. And big catfish is when you have these waters rising, whether it's a lake, reservoir, river, these big catfish, it flushes them out of their holes. Feeding, building up their fat reserves for fall. Aren't we all? Yeah. What about hunting? What about hunting? Well, you know, it's a great time to get out and scout when you get a little bit cooler weather. Probably need to sort some gear if we get some rain events this weekend and organize your gear for the big hunting seasons. September 1st opens up some biggies, archery deer, dove grouse. So they're right around the corner. We have the outdoor bulletin board, but we also have on that bulletin board something called Greg's Nature Notes now. What's this? Gregie, the Nature Boy. Well, we've got Botark butterflies. You'll see a lot of them there starting to really migrate through Nebraska. And on a good news front, my farmers are really telling me they're seeing a lot of young. Wild Turkey is a young Bob White Quayle more than they've seen in past years. So some good news there. What else is on your outdoor bulletin board? Low water. You're going to Western Nebraska. We have very low water conditions in our reservoirs, especially at Big Mac. So they've escaped a lot of the rains that we've had here. Here we're looking okay. I had two inches out there the other night. Yeah, still not enough. I mean, long-term drought and not a lot of rain for a while. Thank you, Greg Wagner. Ready to put a little spin. on your day, then check out Chumba Casino's new online social casino game, Ryan Seacrest, 10K Ways. It's free and packed with 10,000 ways to play, only at chumpacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law, CTs and Cs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumpa Casino.