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We have some of the worst marked streets anywhere in the universe in this town, in these conditions. Yes. And even in daytime, right, sunny conditions, there are some that are stupid. You know which one's really stupid? It's hard to narrow it, but I'm going to narrow it. Okay. Westbound casts at the Peeny Park IV. You're crossing that 78th Street. And it used to be that the lanes were marked this way. Well, they decided, I guess, to remark some of the center line on the westbound traffic of Cass. So they took the old strips, you know, the divided white line. that goes down there that delineates the two lanes going the same direction. They took those off the street. But you can still see the old marks on the street. So people, I see this all the time. People go across their westbound at 78th and cast. The high V. Peeny Park there is on your right. And now you've got what appears to be two. divided lanes in front of you and some people kind of keep going straight. Some people start moving over to the right. And if you do that, you better take a right and go play some big red keynote because you're going to run into a curb after about a half a block because the whole thing is stupid. No one's going to do anything about that. I don't know. See, I go so fast through there. I don't even notice. I'm just speeding. I'm doing 95 miles an hour through there. I don't even notice the lines. Are there lines? Once in a while, you should look up from texting and see what's going on around you out there. And you got this guy out there taking, he's the, he's got a little auto sales shop there in their 42nd and Q. There's a roundabout there, fairly new roundabout there. Right. And he's got video, these guys coming around the roundabout and then accelerating through the roundabout, but they don't know. There's one little extra narrow kind of turn there. And they're plowing into the light pole and the fence and off the road. And he says, This is dangerous. And the city works looked at it and said, people need to slow down. And they're both right. And I'm guessing that that area is probably like a lot of other parts down here, a little swimming pool today. I think somebody did actually say the words, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. If you slow down and take it easy, it's fine. Well, yeah, but no one's doing that. Back to Lucy for time saver traffic in just a moment. We've got the forecast, which is drying out today. News update.

And Jim Rose is award-winning sports update. I'll highlight that in a moment. I don't know if this one is an award winner, but previous ones apparently have been. Optimism abounds. Okay. Good morning, Jim Rose. Let's pump on the chest here, folks. Looking here at some girl and her mom are in the daughter's dorm room. I don't know where this college is. says they hired a designer, did $20,000 in renovations to the dorm room to make it really sweet. She doesn't own. Yeah. The last time I saw someone do something like that was Thornton Mellon. did that for his son and his son's roommate who looked a lot like Robert Danner Jr. Oh, that was Robert Downey Jr. That was the film Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. That looks like an SEC dorm to me. That is remarkably similar to the dorm that my daughter moved into at Ole Miss. And we spent about $295 on her dorm move. $2,995. $295. $295. Yeah, that's about what we did. We were moving our daughter into her dorm last year at K State, and I said, what do you need? I don't know. I'm looking around. I said, you know what you guys need in here? Trash can and some trash can liners. Right. So I went over to Walmart, and I got a trash can, some trash can liner. It's about what we got. It cost about $20,000. That's fair. She got some Christmas, would look like Christmas lights that we hung up around, you know, the window and that sort of thing. I'm trying to think of everything. I think we got her maybe some new betting, but not much because we brought some with her. And I'm thinking, okay, but there was quite a bit of activity. higher priced activity in adjacent dorm rooms. I'm sure there was. What are you talking about? I'm thinking to myself, okay, why are they spending this kind of money on a room that she'll be out of in less than a year? I forgot. There was one other price tag there. I asked my daughter, I said, do you need anything like for towels or anything? She goes, no, no, I'm good. I'm like, okay, I didn't think anything of it until I got back home. and opened up the linen closet. Hey, where are my towels? Where are my towels? Congratulations last night, Nebraska Broadcasters Association. Pinnacle Awards in Lincoln. News Radio 1110, KFAB was honored with six pinnacle awards. One of those was the Gold Award Best Sportscast. Yeah. for this guy, the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief with Pinnacle Award winner. This is two years in a row here for this award. Jim Rose. Six of them now. Yeah. Well, you've been here long enough. Things like that happen. Helmets had a practice yesterday, Scott, ramping up for the opener, which is three weeks from Saturday. Among the new guys is Dexter Foster linebacker, transfer from Oregon State where he made 11 starts last season. He came here for the money, but that ain't all.

And I feel like me coming here, I was going to be able to develop as a player and as a leader, too. So I've seen the vision and I just basically see myself, you know, playing here. 95 tackles last season. It would be nice if he'd make a few this season. Jamarcus Lawrence, a big part of the reason Nebraska basketball made it to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament this past spring, took the first step towards staying with the team. He joined a lawsuit of players denied a fifth year of eligibility under the new NCAA rules. Prior to, he was looking at the G League. Now, he has to win an injunction of the NCAA rule to be eligible, but he's planning on it. Now, he has no leverage. He can't enter the transfer portal and play for somebody else, so it's either Nebraska or nobody. Fred will undoubtedly welcome him back, and there is a roster spot, but the dollars ain't going to be tall because they weren't planning on him. Baseball games, the Big Dog 8 and the Royals Dodgers game. He swings, it's a high drive, left field, way back and gone. an opposite field blast and the Dodgers lead it three to two. 27th home run for Shoah. He's really good en route to a 4-2 Dodgers win and a series sweep. But there was a scary moment for Freddie Freeman, L.A.'s All-Star First Baseman. Top of the 8th, he went headlong into the Royals dugout trying to track down a foul ball. Amazingly, he was not seriously hurt. 27 million a year for the guy and he's diving into dugouts. Team owner Mark Walter, Creighton University graduate of 1982, was so upset by that he decided to sell the team. Okay, that's not why he's selling the team, but he is. He bought controlling interest two years ago for $10 billion. He is selling to a group led by Ivanka Trump's brother-in-law, Josh Jared Kushner, and Disney CEO Robert Iger for $12 billion. Mickey Mouse ears for everybody. It's a good buy. The Lakers generate more revenue than any franchise in American sport. Baseball games around the horn last night. It was Houston 2 to 1 over the Giants and Interleague play. In the National League, the Braves, Cubs, Marlins, Padres, Rockies, and Carls. All got wins. Late games in the American League, the Angels 5, Texas 2, Tampa Bay 8, the A's 4. The Pale Hose defeated Cincinnati 5 to nothing. Toronto, the Yankees, Cleveland, and Minnesota. Also got wins. Chuck Love, former Nebraska women's basketball assistant coach who did the nasty with a player. wants his name off the lawsuit the player has filed against Chuck, head coach Amy Williams, former athletics director Treb Alberts and the entire university. Ashley Skagen, the player who texted nude photos of herself to love when both of them were on the team and who drove to a parking lot one night to have sex with him in a car, wants big money, says her civil rights were violated because he was her coach.

His lawyer filed a brief in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, admitting he may be a schmuck, but the sex was consensual. Another high-profile firing at ESPN. Gone as NFL commentator, Damian Woody. He'd been there 15 years. All of these body parts on the floor there is the result of their acquisition of the NFL network. They've had to integrate staffs, and there isn't room for everybody. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. Nebraska's morning news here. Thank you so much for being with us. On news radio 1110, KFAB with Jim Rose, Craig Evans, Courtney Donahoe. I'm Scott Voorhees. Lucy Chapman is especially busy, and it's not like you don't have enough to do in terms of the metro roads. I just got this email via the Zonkers custom was inbox, Scott at kfab.com from Sparky. Sparky says, please tell Lucy, westbound I-80 is closed at Sutherland. That's a wreck just east of Ken Paxton, and traffic is being diverted onto Highway 30. If you're not familiar... That's about three and a half hours from here. It's closer to four and a half hours from here. Well, to be fair, I do talk about... For travelers, I do talk about things that are that far out unless we have everything exploding here. Yeah. But the good news is I'm hearing some talk that they're getting ready to reopen I80 Eastbound. It's not open right this second, but they're working on it. They are absolutely working on it, getting close. Yeah, this is. We have everything here in the inbox today. Here, let me prove it to you. So we had that email there about westbound I-80 closed at Sutherland for Iraq just east of Ken Paxton. If you are right now driving and listening to us and you're traveling westbound and approaching North Platte, this is going to impact your life. Now, I also got this email from Chris says I hate to be that guy, but... I got to tell people when it's dark and pouring buckets like this, you got to turn your headlights on. I saw two people not using their headlights during this downpour this morning. I can only assume that people... like turned off the auto headlights and forgot to turn it back on that's my guess or or these people are they don't even know what planet they're on they're just driving they're idiots they shouldn't have an operator's license they got rejected by their girlfriend last night and they want to end their lives well i take out a few more with them i don't know that that's darker than the sky right now well And then I got this email. All the things we're talking about. All the work that we're doing here. And I got this email. It comes from Ken sent to Scott at kFAB.com. Ken says, is it just me?

or is Ainsley on Fox and Friends about the hottest woman on TV today. Did you guys see her at Halloween? She had her hair all 80s curled wearing a cheerleading outfit. No. Now, see, an email like that makes me mad. We're in here working real hard. We're talking about traffic and weather issues, and I did a search for that picture he's talking about, and I couldn't find it. Everything just... Ticks me off about that email. If you're going to send me an email like that, it's got to come with a picture. It's a matter with you. Talking to Ainsley Earhart, the... The blonde co-host of the morning show on Fox. She's married to Sean Hannity. Is that the one he's talking about? That's Ainsley. Is Ainsley? Is she married to Sean Hannity? I don't know. Yeah, they are. Okay. They made kind of a big deal about it last year. Craig says she's not married. Okay. Yeah. Well, no, she is married to Sean Hannity. All right. It was in the news. I'm going to let you. They had photos and everything. And Craig and this e-mailer duke it out. Well, look, I'm too busy focusing on KFAB's extraordinarily vast and discriminating audience. I can't be distracted by morning co-anchors on Fox. So I don't know much about Ainsley Earhart or other than the fact that she was married to Sean Hannity last year. Because it made the news and they had a big deal about it and it was all over the papers. Do you have the WNBA story in this sports update? It's not a sports story. It's an XXXY story. My interest in the WNBA has reached an almost undetectable level. You've got to find some entertainment value, though, in the fact that we've got women from a league that was set up for women to play basketball who are going to have a meeting to decide if men can play in the league that was set up for women to play against women in a women-only basketball league. It's a WNBA task force made up of team presidents and general managers. Yes, that's their agenda. I like basketball. I like women. I like basketball games and women in them. But this is taxing my patience because the WNBA is not about basketball anymore. It's about coaches that pop off and use the word love and go to hell in the same sentence. Well, who would do something like that? Every day these women put their ass on the line. What? Ass. Every day. When they go low, we go high. Love will win. Grace will win. Humility will win and kindness will win.

I stand by them. I will always stand by them. Sure. Everybody else can go to hell. Right. Now look. This is the same coach. Love and Grace. And if you don't like it, you can go to hell. And ass. Now, this is the same coach who after her player was assaulted on the floor, said only, well, it was a hard foul. And yeah, she probably got what she dessert. If I own the Indiana fever, she'd be gone. She does not, if I were Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham, I'd go to the owner of the team and say, I want to be traded. I can't play for this woman anymore. She's, she's bipolar. At least it would appear so. She may not be clinically bipolar, but it sure appears so. And here's the deal. If you can't back up your players, and if you can't make this more about the sport, then the political activism, then the agenda items, the LGBTQ curry, then get out. Because you're losing fans. I don't know. Well, two things. Number one, I think every time one of these women gets decapitated, it raises their stock, both for her and the person doing the clothes lining. And then two, that quote from that coach is so funny. It reminds me, it's like, hey, we want to give love and grace to everyone. And if you don't like it, you got help. True yourself. It reminds me of a great line from Frazier when Niles says of his father. He's very judgmental, and I've always condemned him for that. Traffic signals are starting to act up. What does that mean? I don't need to clean my room. You're not the boss of me. I didn't ask for a stepdad. What are the traffic signals doing? 160th in Maple. They're flashing red in all directions. Not a major intersection, but if they're flashing red there, that could be we've got some power outages in the area. Traffic signals are acting up. Did you mow the lawn? Yeah. And you weed whacked too. You did the trimmer. Yeah. That's funny because as I look along the fence line, what's the matter? What's your problem? Traffic signals are acting up. We're going to have to take those to the hospital and drop them off. We're going to have safe haven, those traffic signals. We still do that? There is about 750, 750 without power, customers without power. So that could mean, you know, it couldn't mean anything. And it just takes one idiot. You know, a big car going, this is fine. I got four-wheel drive. Well, that's great. Do you have a rudder? Do you have a trolling motor? It's great you have four-wheel drive. And you got some clearance. That will help. But if you're going too fast and you're weaving in and out of traffic and next thing you know, get that water spraying up across your windshield, you're temporarily blinded and you crash into oncoming traffic, well, hey, that's great about your... four-wheel drive. Take it easy. Good advice. It's dangerous. This is usually your department. I've been learning. I've been listening to you.

Usually you're like, hey, you've got to be really careful out there. I'm like, ah, it's not that bad. Today, it is that bad. It is that bad. And as you mentioned, the standing water, you've got it at 216th in Maple, which is something that happens a lot. I think that's a very low, that's a very low spot. And because I kept thinking, oh, that's by the river. No, no, no, that's just outside of Elkhorn. So. Is the 216th got to be where you would go like take a left, well, if you're heading westbound, take a left to go over to downtown Elkhorn. I believe that's. Taha Zuka Park. I believe that's true, which is going to be hopping this weekend. Yeah, I hope that any potential thunderstorm and rain activity doesn't tamp down on the balloon and wine festival. I think your opportunity to win tickets for that on our website ended yesterday. We'll find our promotions director Delaney. The rather unheralded for the amount of work and effort she puts in, Delaney, our promotions director, will be contacting a winner today and setting someone up with not only tickets to the balloon and wine festival on Elkhorn, but we also threw in a hot air balloon excursion. I've been on a hot air balloon. It's... fun. It is super, super fun. It is just peaceful and serene. Kind of like listening to Jim Rose go on a rant about something. You just feel like, ah, I'm in the pocket of a cloud right now, and I've never felt more peaceful. Well, that rant pays the bills around here. Yeah, I know. That's why I feel safe and protected when hearing it. The Rosie de Genozy coming up at 848 this morning. 848. So I got, you took two minutes away from my preparation time. I got it. Well, okay, 849 and a half, we'll give you time. I had to go home and finish that last night after the Pinnacle Awards. I had to drive back from Lincoln and do that just to demonstrate my dedication to the craft. It's, it is. It is commitment. And I couldn't mail one in because I told everybody I do part two of my free capitalism thing. It's commitment in the sense that you should be committed. And all of us for enjoying it. What does that say about us? I don't miss it. You guys are all into misery. That's it. Investigators in Washington, D.C. shut down some streets during morning rush hour the other day. As it turns out, when they investigated what it was that was causing such a ruckus there in a trash can in the area. Investigators say the package contained a, quote, electronic, portable sex pump device, unquote. Investigators right now are they have a man for questioning. One Swedish-made penis enlarger pump. That's not mine? One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis-in-larger. Signed by Austin Powers. I'm telling you, baby, that's not mine. One warranty card for Swedish made penis in larger pump filled out by Austin Jerome Powell. I don't even know what this is. This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby. One book Swedish made penis in larger pumps and me. This sort of thing is my bag, baby. By...

Austin Palace. Scott, if you could make the announcement that the Omaha Whitewater Rafting team will be assembling at Saddle Creek and Dodge for their latest whitewater adventure. Appreciate that message there via the talkback, Mike, on our free I-Heart radio app into the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox. So per request, the Omaha Whitewater Rafting Team will be assembling at Saddle Creek and Dodge for their latest whitewater adventure. I'm Scott Voorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. Do we have dumpsters going down Saddle Creek? Well, there were earlier, but they were very small dumpsters. Is that last year or the year before we had the infamous dumpster heading down Saddle Creek? This seems like a dumpster day. It would feel that way. It does. It does an elkhorn. It feels like a dumpster adventure down a brand new river where they put a street where the creek was and didn't think like, well, in heavy rains, this seems to be where the water wants to go. So the water might go there. So the aptly named Saddle Creek Road becomes Saddle Creek again. in conditions like this. Lucy's paying attention to all of it. The trash pandas love, love it when the dumpsters go for a sale. They're going to see the world. Yeah, but if they're already, they better be in the dumpsters because if they're in the sewers. It's like, oh, I think it's starting to rain. Next thing you know, it's like someone turned the fire hose on them. Not if the top is closed, if the lid's closed. No, I'm saying if they're in the sewers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They seem to be okay. Nature finds a way. Who said that? Jeff Goldblum. Oh, Craig Evans, Jim Rose, Courtney Dunahoe. I'm Scott Voorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. This is Nebraska's morning news. News Radio 1110, KFAB. Here's... maybe the dumbest news story of the morning. And it's one of the top stories from the Omaha World Herald. I'm not saying it's not a story. It is maybe the dumbest local story, though, of the morning. It has to do with a photo that was shown on the Douglas County Treasurer's website and social media. The photo is of the Omaha Skyline. at dusk with three skyscrapers. Okay, well, you got the first National Tower and Woodman Life and then the new Mutual Tower, yeah. Well, one of the skyscrapers looks a lot like the first National Tower, but so did the other two. And people looked at this and said, this isn't Omaha. I don't know, I don't know where this is. It looks like it wants to be Omaha. It looks like an AI driven picture of Omaha skyline at dusk. So here goes the, so it got posted online and people are making fun of it. One person said, oh, this is a good picture of faux maha. Fake Omaha, faux maha. That's funny. Very well done.

Not as good as Foe Pellini. That Twitter account is still going on, by the way. If you've watched that on Game Day. A-U-X. That's right. F-O-Mahaw. I like it. So several online commenters, according to the Omaha World Herald said this looks fake. So the World Herald reached out to Douglas County Treasurer Tim Brett Kavanaugh. Now, Douglas County Treasurer Tim Brett Kavanaugh. He was appointed by the county board to step in there and fulfill the rest of the term by the former Douglas County Treasurer, who is now the mayor of Omaha, John Superman Jorel Ewing. And so, and Brett Kavanaugh is not running for election in this spot. He doesn't want to be the Douglas County Treasurer anymore. So he said, I don't know. I'm busy being Douglas County Treasurer. By the way, did I miss the part where you guys at the Omaha World Herald reported on some of the over $100,000 in wasteful spending that used to happen in this office that we have cleaned up during my time, my interim time as county treasurer? No, in any of that. So he goes, I don't know. That picture has been up there for years. And the world Harold's like, we dug into it. A Facebook timestamp showed that the daytime photo was uploaded at the treasurer's office cover photo on February 23rd. Why, that's not years. That's just months. He's lying! Or he doesn't know and he doesn't care. So now he looked into it, and the county treasurer's office replaced the skyline photos with a photo of the former Thomas Fitzgerald home. Now, here's why that's hilarious. Do you know why that's funny? I don't know why it's funny, but it's not even, well, I mean, it's operable for other things. Yeah. Here's why that's funny. Okay. The former Thomas Fitzgerald home is part of a series of... Really nice historic buildings near 156th and West Maple Road. Oh, that's where the... Oh, wait. That's where the Douglas County Treasurer's office is. In other words, someone said this picture online's fake. Tim Brett Kavanaugh says, who cares? And they say, well, a lot of people care. He's all right. We got to get another picture. Well, you can't just use someone's picture. You got to get, all right, fine. Where's my phone? He or someone went outside, took a picture of the building. Said, here, here it is. Post this. And that's what's up there right now on their social channels. That's great. I love it. I know. It's so good. Now, who in the world would ever use an AI-generated photo of Omaha Skyline that if anyone took a real close look at it would realize, oh, that's fake. Who would do that? I'm still waiting for someone to find something in the KFAB artwork sphere and point out, I don't think that that's a real picture. I've been waiting for nine months.

for someone to point this out. No one's done it yet, but it's out there. If someone wants to sleuth it out, you would have my undying appreciation for being so nitpicky as to say, wait a second, I don't think that's real. It exists. Have fun. KFAB.com. A picture, not a person. I'm not giving you any more hints. I've already given you the website address. I can sympathize with the county treasurer's office because. It's either you pay someone to go out and do all this stuff and make sure we got the right thing and all this stuff, or it's just like, okay, hey, give me a picture of the Omaha skyline. How's this? Fine. And there it is. I got an email here from Douglas County Treasurer Tim Brett Kavanaugh. He says, Scott. I want to correct something that was said. I did not say that the picture on the website has been there for years. It has not. The picture on our Facebook page has been there for years. It was placed there by a previous social media contractor who I eliminated to save money. The picture is a stock photo, no lies. Frankly, I care more about great service, fiscal accountability, and saving taxpayer money. Thanks for correcting, signed Tim Brett Kavanaugh, Douglas County Treasurer. Is that for real? Is what for real? The email? Yeah. The AI. Oh. No, it's a real email from Tim Brett Kavanaugh. Okay. That's a lovely response. Now, why would the Omaha World Herald say, no, no, we showed it was uploaded on February 23rd. If you've ever had to, and now I'm realizing I don't. I have neglected KFAB's Facebook page, full disclosure. Every once in a while I'm like, oh yeah, and I'll go in there and I'll respond to messages and say, what picture is up here now? And we have our cover art there that we can swap in and out based on the season. I have neglected it. I'm not even busy. I just forget. Just forget. So when you swap out like the cover art, which I imagine is what they're talking about, it's either the profile pick or the cover pick, when you swap it out or re-upload something that has existed before, it could say, oh, this was uploaded in February. And Tim Brett Kavanaugh says, that picture's been in our system for years. Yeah, but it might have been swapped out with something else. Maybe the previous county treasurer had a picture of him wearing a Superman costume or something. And then they decided to swap out this one. And then later, you could do a picture of Tim Brett Kavanaugh dressed as Superman. I mean, there's all sorts of options there. But both of the, all these things can be true. It can be true that it's been there for years. It was re-uploaded this past February. It's fake. And that Douglas County Treasurer Tim Brett Kavanaugh, like me, I'm the program director for this radio station. The buck stops here.

We don't have enough money for a buck, so it's like the half dollar piece stops here. It is my responsibility of what's on our Facebook page. Well, I've got to run stuff past you? Ultimately, no, no one has around something. Okay. And I get busy, and I don't think about that stuff. Tim Brett Kavanaugh, he's the county treasurer. The buck stops there. But he's probably also a little busy. I'm sure he doesn't pull the team together going, all right. Yesterday, the waiting times was a little bit longer than we wanted here. What if we wrap people around here? Are we maximizing our parking opportunities out here? Who's mowing the lawn between our property and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office here at 156 in Maple? And oh, yeah, what's going on with our Facebook page picture? I don't think that probably comes up. Cass County Commissioners voted on a one-year pause of new data centers in Cass County. Were they, I imagine they were going to put some data centers somewhere in Cass County. Cass County is a big attractive place to put businesses, data centers. Or was this something where people went in there and said, we don't want data centers and we don't want flock cameras? And I don't know about that TikTok. It's Chinese. And the Cass County Commission said, we don't have any plans to do that. Well, good. All right. But, no, I imagine there was, well, the story here from KMTV3 says that there was a family farm here. This woman, Lisa, went in there and said that the land across from our family farm was optioned by a group as a possible. Data Center. Well, if this happens with people, and I'm sympathetic to a point, if you live someplace or you move someplace and the land across from you is zoned to be able to accommodate a certain business or ag or whatever, and then they end up using it for that purpose. Eh, what do you? Anyway, Cass County said, all right, a 12-month pause on new data centers. Then I wonder when people here in six months go back to the Cass County Commission and say, there's no more room in the cloud or whatever. I don't really know how any of the stuff works. Sing along, Jim. He's a fake. He's a fake. Democrat. It's just, I wake up 1 o'clock in the morning. I have one eye on the clock and I think, oh, good, I can go back to sleep. And then he's a fake. And I'm like, oh, come on. That being a fake. So this is from the Pete Ricketts for Senate campaign. We're now joined here on News Radio 1110 KFAB by Senator Pete Ricketts. Is that you on the banjo on that track or what? No, no, sadly. I have almost no musical talent whatsoever. So we actually, again, technology, we created that with the computer. So that's not real people singing? I told you.

No, no, no. Yeah, that's all the computer. That's sad because I was hoping those guys could appear on stage. Yeah, someone will learn it. Yeah, someone will learn it and do something. I was thinking maybe it was your dad on the banjo, your brother on the drums, you know, you over there on the washboard. Well, let's talk about the campaign for a second. Your opponent in this race is an independent candidate officially, Dan Osborne, who was supported by the Nebraska Democrat Party. He is accusing you of not holding any town halls for quite some time. Others like Mike Flood has been doing that. It has not been going well, but he does it. And he's also accusing you of not getting a farm bill passed. Your response to some of these accusations from the Osborne campaign? Well, I started with the last one. It was all Democrats who voted against the farm bill. It was in committee and every single Democrat, every single one. The same party, Dan, really belongs to. voted against it. Republicans voted for it. Democrats voted against it. And we were missing a couple of Republicans because Mitch McConnell was still in rehab. So that's why that bill didn't proceed on to the Senate floor. And, you know, Dan, again, just show you what kind of say Dan is. Dan is what he's doing, what he says are town halls, but then he kicks press out of them. When I have my campaign events, we invite press in. This is all recorded. Dad's really, again, just being another fake here. In particular, the Great Plains Sentinel online newspaper has been, they've been after Dan Osborne, and they've been pretty much told you're not welcome at any of our events. Is it because the Democrats didn't vote for the Farm Bill because they oppose the reforms to the SNAP program? Is that it? That's it. That's primarily the big sticking point because what we said is, look, you've got states, blue states primarily that have high error rates. When we say high error rates, what we mean is they are giving food stamp benefits to people who don't qualify, who don't deserve it. Sometimes it's people with too high income. Sometimes it's people who are here illegally. And the Democrats don't want to see that reform. They want to continue to give these. benefits out to illegal immigrants. And that's what we're trying to reform. That's what the Democrats, basically they want to push all the reforms off until after President Trump leaves office, hoping that they can change that completely and never have to have the states put up more money for the benefits that are giving out to people who don't deserve them. Of course, any Republican in any campaign this year is going to be tied to the president. The president's being tied to higher gas prices. How do you feel everything is going in the Middle East? Certainly the conflict in Middle East puts a lot of pressure on our families, the military families who have loved ones overseas, and every Nebraska family goes to the pump and is paying higher prices. We can't let a country that chance death to America and has killed tens of thousands of their own people have a nuclear weapon because they would kill 100,000 or more of ours in a heartbeat. And we need to continue to keep the pressure on Iran. You know, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps are the ones who are driving this. We've got to blockade reports, got to continue to strike the militarily. We're getting about 8 million barrels of oil out through the strait spombuz, and we've got to find other ways to get more oil out to mitigate what Iran's doing. And then, of course, we've got homegrown solutions here, like our biofuels. Last time I filled up at IV, I say 55 cents a gallon using E10.

And so the more we can do that, we kind of mitigate our dependence on what happens in foreign markets. Did you use your high V-plus purse rewards card? You could probably save an extra 8 cents or more. You know, I need to sign up for one of those. I actually don't have one of those. Oh, my gosh. See, you're detached from the rest of us. See, that's one of the lobs against you from the left, you know? You didn't have a high-be card. Making all this money. Oh, did you vote to lower your own taxes? Yeah, did you do that one bill? Clarify that. I want to vote to lower Pete Ricketts taxes. You know, we actually gave tax relief to all Americans. Most of the benefits went to middle-income folks or low-income folks. But it was things like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. And actually, no tax on overtime has been used by 30 million people, I think. No tax on Social Security benefits for 88% of seniors. So lots of tax reliefs that we voted on last year to that working family tax cuts, and it avoided a $2,400 tax increase. And by the way, Democrat Dan would have voted against those tax cuts. He wanted to vote to raise your Social Security taxes, and he wants to give them to illegal immigrants on top of that. Remember the whole video of him saying, just give him a damn Social Security card array? That's his words, not my. Pete, what's the message here? The easy target is the DSA is filled with a bunch of communists, and everybody who's a Democrat is a DSA, even if they aren't saying so, that, you know, if they get a hold of the government, out goes the Senate, out goes the Supreme Court, out goes the presidency, open borders, girls' teams overrun with males. That can't be the message for you guys. What is the solution message for the Republicans with 90 days to go? Well, first of all, Jim, frankly, one in three Democrats actually identify as Democrat socialists. And if you've been to read their platform, it's pretty crazy, right? They want to get rid of the presidency. They want to get rid of the Senate. They want the Supreme Court's report to the House of Representatives. They want to defund the Department of War. They want to abolish prisons. They want open borders. So the DSA people are pretty crazy. And by the way, it was DSA operatives who recruited my opponent, Democrat Dan. So the threat of socialism here is very real. But again, what I would say is you want to talk about what we're doing. We'll put more money back in people's pockets, whether it was through the working family tax cuts that we passed last year or things like the housing, the road 21st century housing bill that we just passed this year. And by the way, these are things very similar to what I did when I was governor. You may recall that we had some of the largest task cuts in Nebraska history. When I was governor, we were able to get rid of the tax on the state income tax on Social Security here in our state. We got rid of the tax on military retirement benefits. We lowered everybody's income tax rates. We put $10 billion to property tax relief. And then we also worked on housing through things like the rural workforce housing fund and middle income housing fund to create more housing stocks.

A lot of things that I did here as governor is what I'm taking to Washington, D.C. to do that. Senator, we've got to run here, but I want to give you a moment on the Carly Rain Wood Act. I've talked with Carly Rain's mother, Amber, several times, and I know you have as well. This was a young woman who a few years ago was shot eight times at a party. She was only there for a few minutes and her killer was previously convicted of four different felonies. He never should have been released. There are a number of stories like this across the country. Your bill is looking to do something about that kind of thing, right? Yeah, Amber approached me and said, hey, we need to do more steps to make sure people know when there's violent repeat offenders that are released to the public. And so from that, those conversations, we came up with the idea that Carly Rain Wood Act, which would create a violent offender registry that would be similar to the sex offender registry. So after you've had a couple of violent offenses, you would have to, once you're being released, or if the judge didn't give you a prison sentence when the judge let you go. then you would have to register. And then that would be very similar to the sex offender registry where you have to say, hey, here's where I live, here's where I work, here's my license plate, turn that over to local law enforcement officials. And there would be a national registry website as well as local officials that have that information as well to publish so that people could see if there was a violent offender that was working in their, say, strip mall or living in their neighborhood or whatever it is. So that... people would know who is in the neighborhood and be able to take precautions, and frankly, to really raise the price for these violent repeat offenders. It'd be better to keep them behind bars, but, you know, this is certainly better than nothing. Be very curious to see who votes against this. Senator, thank you for sponsoring it, and thank you for the time this morning for us. Great. Thanks a lot for having me on. Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts here on News Radio 1110 KFAB. Ryan Crest here, so every great barbecue takes a little patience. And while the food does its thing, you can enjoy a little Chumba Casino. The perfect recipe. Chumba Casino, always good to have you back. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, void where prohibited by law. CTs and Cs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumba Casino.