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She lost to a Democratic establishment. I didn't know anyone was voting for the Democratic establishment anymore, Jim Rose. Who had dropped out of the race. They had to find the guy at home. Yeah. Oh, shoot, I should have even, I should have voted today, I guess. He dropped out of the race a couple of months ago, said, you know, I just don't see my way forward to winning this nomination. And the governor sensing. genuine panic with Ms. Hong rising in the polls, went back to him and said, look, you've got to get back in. I don't want to go back in. You got to get back in. I don't want to get back in. I want to stay home with you guys. I like being the county administrator from Milwaukee. It's a soft job. Nobody cares. I get paid. There's a pension. I don't want to get out there and campaign go up to Kenosha and Wabashaw and Sheboygan and all these other places. Leave me alone. He convinced him to get back in, and he won by 3,000 votes. The New York Times says past statements about the defunding of police abolishing ICE and... The abolishment of Thanksgiving. And the 17% state income tax. Yeah, and raising taxes and getting turkey and stuffing off your plate in November. May have come back to haunt her. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and this Hasan Piker guy, they all came out and said, you got to vote for Francesca Hong. And I'm looking at this woman. And they said, oh, this woman's devil incarnate. She's just the absolute worst. And I'm looking at her going. Ah, she looks nice. She's a, she looks fun. She's a loser. Okay. She is now. She is, well, this is, this is the classic, this is the classic profile of the DSA. candidate. They've never done anything in their lives. She was a chef for a while. Well, that's something. I like to eat. She didn't stick around very long. It's just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She was a bartender. These people have never accomplished anything. That's an accomplishment. And it's a shame that. this continues to happen for the Democrat Party because there are good people in that party, accomplished people in that party. Well, then people look at who didn't advance in Minnesota and who did advance in South Carolina and say, well, what about these levels of accomplishment? Well, Minnesota. Minnesota is in a very, very funky place right now. I don't get it. Jim, that's a broadcast tease. That is a broadcast tease. We'll talk about that in a moment. Francesca Hong, the DSA candidate that everyone said, she's the worst thing ever. I'm like, She looks cute. She looks sweet. She looks like a bug-eyed freak. What are you talking about? I like bug-eyed freaks. She lost in Wisconsin, but Mike Lindell got trounced in Minnesota. This is the My Pillo guy who Trump said, go out and vote for Mike. He's a great patriot. Trump did that out of loyalty to him because he took the hits during the...

The election fraud discussion. He finishes a distant second to the state house speaker up there, Lisa Demuth. She'll take on Senator Amy Klobuchar in November. She's leaving the Senate to become governor. Peggy. She's the one. Who's Peggy? This is the lieutenant governor who won the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate to replace Amy Klobuchar up in Minnesota. Peggy Flanagan is her name. She's the lieutenant governor. She was sitting right there when Tim Walz botched everything in Minnesota. She is a DSA. She says defund ICE, defund police. Medicare for all, daycare for all. We don't spend enough tax money. We're not getting enough tax money. So this, to me, puts Minnesota in play. Yes, it is the People's Republic of Minnesota. Yes, it is overrun with a whole bunch of people voting who want something from the government, especially the Twin Cities. But Michelle Tofoya, the sportscaster from NBC, is the Republican nominee for the United States Senate up there. This is an articulate... thoughtful, smart, young woman. And there's no doubt in my mind that she is going to make this a very, very competitive race. She, from the very beginning, when she announced her plan to become a senator back in January, said, this is about fraud. This is about rooting out fraud in our government, ensuring that people who pay taxes... can be confident that their tax money will go to only things in people who need it. So she has used the $9 billion fraud, disaster, disgrace, embarrassment in the state of Minnesota as the foundation of her campaign. And I got to tell you, as liberal as they are up there, and there are many who are. There are many who aren't, but there are many who are. They have to look at this and say, we can't keep putting the same people in these jobs and expect a different result. And Peggy Flanagan was the lieutenant governor under Tim Walz, who might be the worst governor in the entire country. And she just sat right there as it all happened. Well, uh... They love him up there. Who loves him up there? Minnesota. They don't love him. They loved him. He'd be running for re-election. That guy will be asked to leave. As soon as his term is up, they're going to say, can we help you pack? But his wife's going to be the next governor of Nebraska, right? So people think Lynn Walls is Tim Walz's wife. Distant cousin by marriage. Only other political note is that Lindsey Graham's sister advances for a... Another week or two. There's a runoff on August 25th. She and another guy were the top two vote getters. Ralph Norman. He's not just another guy. He calls her Queen Darling. Darling Graham. Queen Darling. Could still replace her brother in the U.S. Senate. We don't coronate. We don't coronate people here. And that's Queen Darling. 1110 KFAB certified transmission. Sports brief now with Jim Rose. Okay, Sky. Good morning, everybody. Husker football is pretty bad on defense most of the season.

last year. Those last three games were embarrassing. So Matt Ruhl moves a few of his deck chairs around and hires a bunch of new staff, starting with a new defensive coordinator. Maybe this one will work out, third one in four years. Former star defensive tackle Rob Arrich, who comes from San Diego State. Obviously right now we're through about six days of install. One thing I've been really pleased with is we're not always focused on rather the outcome of the play, but our process of playing technique, executing the defense, really all loving guys. kind of live in that. What can they improve? What can they improve? What can they improve a lot? He wants his team to be fast and violent and cause turnovers. We're tracking everything every day. So we haven't had any live reps yet. Today was probably our most physical day. We just got the pads on. But turnover focus and the way we generate them, they're worked every day through our fundamental approach. That would be a switch. The black shirts have only forced 32 turnovers over the last two seasons. Baseball scores. Can City Royals pushed the Dodgers to the 10th inning. But that's when it ended. Swings and this ball game is over. Live drive, right center, field, base hit. Dodgers win it. Five to four and a walkoff hit. Sixth time this year, the Dodgers have walked it off. Win number 72 for the Dodgers. Yeah, that was Max Muncie who did the job. Freddie Freeman tied it with a single in the eighth, final again, five to four. They're paying those two guys a combined 37 million a year they'd better deliver. On the board, in Interleague play, it was the Reds over the White Sox 5 to 4 in San Francisco beat Houston, 4 to 1. National League Padres 11, Milwaukee 2, Rocky 3, D-backs, 2, Cards 2, Philadelphia, nothing. Atlanta shut out the Mets, Cubs beat the Nats, and the Marlins beat Pittsburgh. In the American League, Tampa Bay, 12 to 4 over the A's. It was the Angels 3 to 2 over the Rangers. Baltimore 5. Five Twins, two, Toronto Five, Bo Sucks, three, Yankees, four, Seattle, one, Detroit, six, Cleveland, four. Back to football. As we told you last week, we have seen the last of Tony Romo on CBS. The president of that network division, David Guy Benson admitted to reporters yesterday, quote, he is on indefinite leave after his DUI arrest. And, quote, we have to protect our brand. That is the trigger on his morals clause, which is part of his $100 million contract, which is the weapon CBS will use to keep from paying him the remaining $72 million. He'll counter by saying his alcoholism is a disease. He'll go to AA and his lawyers will try to claw back some of the 72. J.J. Watt is now their number one NFL analyst with Jim Nance. Reese Davis, one of ESPN's a smarter college football commentators, hardworking guy. He knows stuff. He's making predictions about the season. He says the Big Ten's a sleeper this year, Illinois. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. We'll have KFB Husker Info, Strongman, Sean Callahan. He'll talk a little bit about some players that really need to make it happen for Nebraska this year. We'll get his take on some of those and continue talking about those this week with the first full-scale scrimmage coming. Yesterday, we talked about how the Nebraska State Board of Education said, whoa, whoa, what is this? We don't know what the abolitionist teaching framework, something that says that

Punishment in school is racist. Testing in school is racist. We don't know what you guys are doing. We have a state law in Nebraska, you know. The state law says you've got to be churning out kids who are good model citizens, patriots, you know, because that's all that comes out of our schools, right? It's against the law not to. We should lock up a lot of these kids and teach it. Anyway, it was just the other day, the State Board of Education said, We have taken a look at your platform and your ideas for this North Omaha All Girls Middle School, and we don't think you should open up this month. And then yesterday they came back and said, but what if we didn't change anything and called you guys racist for not allowing us to open? And the State Board of Education looked at that defense and said, oh, you know what? We hadn't considered it that way. Why don't you guys go ahead and open? Because I don't know that anything changed. other than there were people that came out from the school and the community and said the Nebraska State Board of Education is racist that they're not allowing. And all girls school in North Omaha that teaches that we need to get away from standardized tests and punishment and the school classroom to prison pipeline that exists when you punish kids in schools, which apparently only black kids are being punished. Seems that way. They didn't change anything on their platform. They just called the state board racist, and the state board said, you know what, it's unanimous. You guys can open up this month. They said, but it's conditional. Watch it. I guess we're going to do. Yeah, what are you going to do? I guess we're just a bunch of jackbooted thugs, knuckle dragon, racist, misogynist, we hate anybody that doesn't look like us. I still wonder. out loud, and I'm not being a jerk about this, what does the state board of education do other than set standards, minimum standards? And if the school doesn't meet the standards, what happens? It takes forever for anything to happen because these schools are governed by local boards of education, and they are funded most exclusively by local property taxes. Now, we do have a equalization formula that sends X amount of money to some school districts. But a lot of school districts don't get any equalization money from the state. Now, OPS happens to be one that does. But I wonder out loud, why do we have a state board of education? And again, I'm seeking information here. I'm not just trying to be sarcastic and facetious. Please walk me through the value of this organization if they make pronouncements as they did and then just back down from them a couple of days later. Well, one of the great... The person who throws out the darts of, you're a racist, you're a racist, is now the person who sits in Ernie Chambers, longtime Nebraska unit camera seat. That's Nebraska State Senator Terrell McKinney in North Omaha. And he said at this meeting yesterday, the conversation about the abolitionist language, people weaponize words to fit their own narrative to how they feel about things like this, and that's what's disappointing.

I looked up on their paperwork what abolitionist teaching framework is. And by all accounts, it's punishment and tests are racist. Now, there are parents who are, I mean, the school can open up, and apparently they are. Their academy is set to open up on August 19th. So we got a week until they start their school year. The school can open up. Parents have to decide whether they send their girls there. Here's a question for you. Are white girls allowed to go to the school? Are Hispanic girls allowed to go? Our Asian girls? Are Inuit girls? Is this only for black girls in North Omaha? That's, I think, a fair question. Of course, someone's going to, and I think I already got an email from a guy, says, how long is it going to be before guys are trying to get in there? Yeah, if Ennis Cantor Freedom and Royce White, who are trying to get into the WNBA, former NBA players say, I identify as a fourth grade black girl, I would like to go to the school, then is their hand force? I don't know. We'll call that ridiculous right now and wait for it to come true. Well, it's dry sarcasm given that they say we only identify as a girl when it comes to sports. And don't say I'm being racist by wondering if white girls are allowed to go to the school. Here's another quote from State Senator McKinney when he was calling the board members racist. He says individuals on the board, I assume. feel some type of way about young black girls being educated by black women in our community. So it sounds like you must, there's a color bar there on the door of the school. And on the lighter end is Michael Jackson at the end of his life and the darker end is Michael Jackson at the start of his career. And somewhere in the middle is like, you must be this black to get into this school. No reason to bring race into this, Ahmed. We've got enough problems as it is. Thank you, Buttermaker. But Terrell McKinney is the one that's doing this. He says they're telling these girls about their true history and not a fabricated history and a true understanding of self. Their true history, these girls are 10. So we're going to go back to the 1619 project again. We've dusted that. We've been 16, 19, whatever it was. Whenever year it was, we first brought slaves over here. Yeah, these girls are 10. So we're going back to that. Apparently, these girls in Omaha at age 10, have been adversely affected by what happened in the 15th, 16th, 17th century. Yes, the systemic racism of the last nine years for these fourth grade girls is what we got to battle against. So the State Board of Education said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't want to be called races. Okay, you can open your school. They didn't change anything.

They, other than you got people like State Senator McKinney calling the board members racist. And Arkansas High School says one of its football players was at team practice for nearly an hour last week before he felt something moving around inside his helmet and discovered a snake, a two-foot-long venomous cotton mouth hiding beneath the padding. After the discovery, the local animal shelter posted a notice saying before putting on your helmet, always give it a quick check first. I'm Craig Evans. More news at the top of the hour at News Radio 1110, KFAB. You might think, how would a kid put on a football helmet and not know there's a cotton mouth in there? Well, in those football helmets, there's a lot of, you know, pads and areas for the snake to kind of work its way in there and get up and hide. and not be directly against your head. How did the snake get into the helmet? Well, you know, you'd take it off, you throw it on the ground, you're over there having a meeting with the coach. Well, our coach never let our helmets touch the ground, but I don't know how they do things. That wasn't a baby one. That was a big one. It might have been in the kid's locker, and the snake is like, hey, this is just a good place to crash for the night. Maybe the snake had too much to drink, wandered its way in there. Maybe it'd be a good motivator for the black shirts. That's it. Let's put snakes in their helmets. 1110 KFAB, certified transmission, sports brief, Husker Buzz Edition with Sean Callahan live in Lincoln and Jim Rose right here. All right. Shana, how you doing? Good morning, gentlemen. Do you ever have a snake in your helmet when you were playing for the gross high cougars? No. I do remember that scene from arachnophobia, the movie. whereas Spider got inside the kid's helmet and he takes a big shot in the football field and they think he goes down because of the hit. Well, Spider bit him and kill him. Okay, well, nothing like football. Football season. Someone called John Goodman. Yeah. All right, let's visit about some players. There's a couple guys out there. A lot of people are wondering whether they're ever going to turn out or how good are they. What's their status? And I want to ask you about a couple of those guys because you're on top of everybody. What is the deal with Justin Rett? This was the Georgia transfer. Is this guy going to be a key factor at safety this year? I still look. When I look at that group, I still think he might be on the outside looking in. I mean, he's still right there. But remember, Rex Guthrie is now back. Joanne McDougall was brought in as a starter that was at San Diego State. You have Jemir Khan. I mean, those are kind of the three main safeties. When I look at them, Caleb Benning and Justin Red, I mean, you've got four or five guys that can play there, and they've all been repping. It's early in camp. But, yeah, the talent's there. She's lost days, Bishop Gorman kid that went to Georgia. But, yeah, you know, as far as winning the job, it remains to be seen because you have now last year starter healthy, and then a new coach and the coordinator. Then obviously he brought one of his starters with him enjoying McDougal. Now, what about Jason Shiggs? Is he a factor? Yeah, he'd be in that conversation, too. You know, he was kind of under the radar portal addition.

So it's really hard to say where he kind of fits in at this point. But, you know, they brought him in. It was not by any means like a big money ad, more of a depth piece ad that they brought in. But, you know, special teams probably could be an option too for some of these guys. Now, the running back room, I think, is still a big question mark. I don't think they're going to be running the ball a lot anyway. But you do have to have a feature back. And I don't know how you replace Emmett Johnson's versatility. Who do you think is going to emerge out of that room? Well, you got to look at it. like this way, there's probably going to be about 35 touches in a game for the backs, whether it's on the ground or through the air, maybe 40. And last year they were blessed enough with Emma Johnson that he could take 90% of those touches. And they don't have, obviously, somebody of that caliber, at least right now. I mean, I still think McKay Nelson and Isaiah and Mosy and Jamal rule, that combination, it will have split that up. And, you know, McKay Nelson looks really good physically when you see him from, say, a year ago. Mosey has had a great offseason. They love Jumal Rule. Tyke Hayes is kind of a wild card coming in late from Penn State, from Iowa Western, where he kind of fits. He's the one guy that could really shake that conversation up. The nice thing is they have those first three games where they're going to be heavy favorites at home, where ideally you can kind of let that room figure itself out. Do you think Quentin Ives, we've seen the best of Quentin Ives yet? Yeah, I just don't put him up. I mean, I think those first four guys are ahead of him. So he's probably your fifth option down. He does not have like that second gear of speed. If you remember last year, we got to see him play more in the Houston Christian game because McKay Nelson was suspended. And, you know, he had some kind of, you know, breakaway runs that any back on the team would have gotten because of the discrepancy of talent. And he just didn't look fluid and good running in the open where McKine Nelson would have been easy touchdowns. So I think he does some good things, but he doesn't have that speed to kind of break away. and do some of the things maybe the other guys can do. Now, when you throw Amir Brown into the mix, that's six scholarship running backs. Is that too many? who amir next year when you throw amir brown in there and you know that will Connor booths in that conversation as well but no you want to have options I think when you when you look at that group you want a number of options in there and you know that top four is pretty good I mean I think that's a really solid group of four backs

I mean, Mosey and the guy they just brought in Tykeye Hayes from Penn State. I mean, those two guys are former four-star guys. And then, you know, you get down the line of Mackay and Nelson being, you know, it's a solid group of backs. It's got to kind of figure out how they want to rotate them and play them here in the games. All right, so what's ahead this week? Well, they will practice today, and then tomorrow is an off day, and then they'll come back Friday and Saturday, and they'll scrimmage probably Saturday. So today, I believe, is their last day in the dorms before the players move out of the dorms. But, yeah, camps moving along. The heat is here. They've kind of been practicing at different times. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Eric, well, there you have the gist of it. We're going to have a scrimmage on Saturday. Sad that we lost to Shano there to technology. Why did you hang up on Sean? Sorry we lost Shano to technology, but he'll be back to a recap of, you know, what happened today and get some more insight on some players when we talk on Friday. Let's look at this story, though, because I sympathize with the people who are on Air Force One. that were used as a decoy. Jesus. Last month, including the Secretary of State. Yeah, heading out of the G8 summit, President Trump goes up the gang plank or whatever they call it. The mobile steps. Yeah, he goes up there, he waves at everyone, gets on Air Force One. And then they do the thing where he goes out in the catering card or whatever. Can you imagine Donald Trump? Crouch down. He's got like a towel over him or whatever. He's surrounded by bowls of oranges and silverware. Little packets of nuts. They sneak them out. Little packets of nuts. They sneak him out with the caterers. It's that old trick. And so then he leaves in a truck. He gets on another plane, which technically... is Air Force One. Yes, that's correct. But that's neither here nor there. It's a troop transport plane. He's in the back. He's strapped up against the wall with all these other guys and uniform. He has everyone believing he's on this plane. He sneaks out. He gets on another plane and left on the first plane would be members of the media and members of the president's cabinet as well as the Secretary of State. Secret Service and, you know, people on the airplane. And they did this because we had a credible threat that Iran was going to blow the plane out of the air. And so that's why the president wasn't on the plane. But everyone else was. So now you're Jim Rose covering the president's trip to the G8 summit for News Radio 1110 KFAB, and you find out later. So wait a second. I was on the decoy plane. How do you feel about that? I'd like to know how they were able to couch that. So, yeah, just as you described it, the president gets on, and then the catering truck on the other side of the plane, you know, that has those risers so it can go up to the door level. You know, that's when they unload the little packets of peanuts and the cookie and all that stuff that you pay $500 to get when you buy an airplane ticket. And he gets on the catering.

vehicle and then it goes back down to street level and they drive him off and he goes to London on a different plane and then gets on the real plane in London. Well, I'd like to know did they tell people while they were in the air? You need to know that there might be one hooty out there with a shoulder-fire missile launcher that is shooting at this airplane. The other thing they did say is keep the shade of your window down. Really? He did tell those members of the media before he got off the plane and got on the catering truck, keep the shade of your window down. He didn't seem to troubled by it. I'm sure he probably was at the time. And not necessarily, and I know a lot of people think Donald Trump is a schmuck, and he just only cares about himself. He was visibly shaken by it because of the people that were still on the plane, including Marco Rubio and other members of his staff. He got off because he's the president. But if they did fire a shoulder-fired launcher missile at the plane and hit it, all those people are going to die. And if it's up in the air, any measurable amount, they're going to die. So I had to tell you, I don't know if we discussed this off the air before he was over there, I can't believe that the Secret Service was confident they'd be able to keep him safe traveling that far away from the country into a foreign country where they are relying on much of their security service to keep all of these G7 leaders safe. But it was the Israelis who uncovered this one, and they said to Mr. President, that's a dangerous plane. Don't get on it. This is a day-to-day operation for these guys. Yesterday I talked with a member of the United States Air Force who had flown numerous times on Air Force One, and I asked her, how would you feel about being a decoy? And she said, that's part of the job. Now, all the administration officials, the Secret Service, the flight crew, they all know that. And in their hearts, the media members right now who are crying going, well, I was in a decoy, the president had a threat and he left and left us there. The president, anytime he gets on. Air Force One always has threats against him. Every day President Trump has threats against him from Iran and all their proxies and then just any crazy eye. He'd be shot at twice. Crazy-eyed nut job hiding on a golf course. There are people all over the place trying to take him out. If you're a reporter getting on Air Force One, you know that. So. Spare me some of the faux outrage here about I didn't like being used. What would you prefer? That the president be on there, the plane gets shot out of the sky and you're all gone? Is that better? Like, well, at least he went down with me. Probably some reporters would think that. But that's part of that job. If you don't like it, I have to be reassigned to the city crime beat, which is probably more dangerous, especially if you're in Chicago or some parts of New York.

than being on Air Force One. I just think once again, this is an example of just how advanced the Israeli intelligence services. We think the CIA does a good job. Maybe it does. Well, presidents alive, they're doing something right. These guys over in Israel, they know what's happening in Iran, probably more than they know what's happening in Israel. And that's why I would just say to those guys, you tell us what you'd like us to do, to take out those bad guys, and we'll do it. But this anti-Israeli sentiment in this country right now, and the anti-Israel sentiment in this country right now has become viral and political. Somehow, some way, Israel now is the bad guy, the world's bad guy. And I don't understand it. It's a state, the size, it's a country, the size of the state of New Jersey, and they have been under siege since 1947. That country has been aimed at and shot at and invaded. for decades, and all they're trying to do is live peaceful lives. All they want to do is have a country. I understand that they're aligned with President Trump, and you can't do that in the eyes of some people right now. Well, they've been aligned with every president since Harry Truman. I know, but, well, none necessarily. Well, some liked them better than others. Yeah, right. Obama wasn't a big fan of Israel, for example. As far as president sneaking off Air Force One, President Clinton did that too. Of course, the threat was Hillary. And he wanted to get a haircut. Yeah, I think it was he wanted to shack up with some gap tooth trailer trash chick and not have Hillary find out about it. So he got into the catering truck to go do that? Yeah, there was a caterer he had his eye on. She was attractive and she had food. Clinton was all over it. 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief, Jim. The WNBA is just determined to get the rest of us to think of them for everything but basketball. The mouthy coach of Indiana, Steph White went off. This is more for an online community that's trying to create narratives that simply don't exist. Trying to create a fabrication or distortion of who I am, of what I'm about. Our player success. Our players' health and wellness, our player's safety is always a top priority for me. One of the things I pride myself on is my relationships with players. After the incident Sunday, when one of her players was assaulted on the floor, she was ejected, followed not she, the coach, but the player who did the assaulting was ejected, and followed that up with a tweet on her social media account that read white privilege. Massive online anger ensued. Every day these women put their ass on the line. Every day. When they go low, we go high. Love will win. Grace will win. Humility will win. Calm down. And kindness will win. I stand by them. I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hell. All right. Well, clean up your league. Punish the thugs. Make it hurt. Get back to shooting baskets. Getting rebounds. And maybe we'll start equating the WNBA with basketball. The NBA season is scheduled first game October 20. Nick's host, Philly. Sports is news on Nebraska's news weather and traffic station. You can all go to hell. If it'd be news time in the morning 725. Grace will win. You have to show grace, forgiveness, love. Love will win. Grace will win. If you don't like it, you can go to hell. See what's going on here in the Talk Back, Mike. Anywhere you are on our free Eyeheart radio app, there's a little microphone icon right there.

you can touch that button and send us a message with your own voice hello good morning kfab morning don't air force want to have all those fancy gadgets to uh protect itself they always i always heard that the uh air force one was the most safest plane to fly in when it comes to terrorist attacks type crap. They have some of those technological defensive maneuvers that they can release things that might mess with radar. So if it's a radar-guided missile, I think the answer is yes, they do have those diversionary technological devices on the plane. But if it's just a missile shot from a shoulder-fired launcher, that's straight at the plane, I don't think that they are affected by those. Now, the range is obviously a lot. closer to the ground than if it were at 30 or 35 or 40,000 feet. I just like when that guy sends us a talkback mic message. He just seems to go out in the middle of nature as birds. I thought I heard an owl in the background of that one. He's out there in the most serene, pristine, quiet environment possible. Listening to Nebraska's morning news, why not take this racket with you wherever you go? This is News Radio 1110 KFAB. That's Jim Rose. I'm Scott Voorhees, Craig Evans, Courtney Donahoe, Lucy Chapman right there. Here's another plain story involving the president, not the sneaking out with the caterers on Air Force One last month, but yesterday the president apparently managed to secure the release of an American who has spent more than four years in a Russian prison on, of course, trumped up. disputed charges. The charges of you're an American and you will be used as a pawn. We're charging you with being a legal pawn in Russia. So he wasn't apparently doing well and Texas allowed him to go home. 32 year old teacher detained since 2022. He was convicted of beating a police officer after being taken off a train for causing a disturbance. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. But he was sitting there in a Russian prison for all these years, and the president said, we've got to get this guy home. Now, of course, they asked the question, well, who did you trade? Because, you know, other presidents said, all right, we need to get one American out of Russia, whether that's a WNBA player or a teacher or a humanitarian worker, who do you want? And Russia said, how many terrorists and bushers and arms dealers you got in there? Oh, we got, we have lots. Well, can we have all of them? Sure you can. That's how other presidents have done it. This president said, we didn't trade anything.

We told Russia to release that guy, and they did. In the meantime, maybe, just maybe. And I know I sound like an uncultured boob for saying this and for probably saying just about everything. But maybe Americans stop traveling to Russia. They will probably detain you and use you as a political pun. I'm sure, you know, Russia with its rich history, before the Soviet block. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff you can see there. And I have family members who have traveled to Russia on Christian humanitarian missions. And they said it was one of the most beautiful things they've ever done in their lives. I'm glad they made it out. But here's the thing. Stop going to Russia. If you're looking for someplace to go, have you been to Branson? Branson's fantastic. Have you been to Nashville? Stop buying Nashville sometime. If Lucy, if you're like, you know, should I go to Moscow or Leningrad? Yes. Vladivostok. You know why? Or should I go to Nashville? Choose Nashville. Russia. Why Russia? Because a whole lot less crime. You can go to Russia and no crime. Unless you're an American in Russia, then the crime is being an American in Russia. They will, they will, you can get, you can get arrested as an American in Moscow for picking your nose, and they'll find a way to give you 10 years for that. Well, just behave. Nope. How about just don't go? Just don't go. You know, it's like Brittany Griner, what are you doing over there? Now, she tried to pass. marijuana through the airport so i think she should have stayed and this guy should have come home instead but she's an idiot she's she's not very bright but uh you know why anybody would go It's like, why would you go to anywhere near North Korea or Iran? If you're an American, they're looking for a reason to nab you. You're going to get thrown into jail. And trust me, the ones in the U.S. are a lot better than these. And they'll use you to try to negotiate something with the government. It's called hostage. kinds of negotiations that really are all about, okay, we have Scott Voorhees over here, and if you want them back, we have to have this, this, this, this, and this, and, you know, the United States and the past is caved. They've said, okay, all right, all right. Obama gave away the store to get guys back. They're going to have to come get me. I'm not going to Russia. I'm not going to Russia anytime soon. I just went to Yellowstone. I'd go back to Yellowstone before going to Russia. I'd go just about anywhere before going to Russia. If I want to go to a desolate place, I'll just go to North Dakota. Well, there go are I-Heart radio listeners in Fargo. Thanks, Jim. I don't think there's a ton of eye-heart listeners in Fargo. Not anymore. Actually, I am going to North Dakota. I'm going to go visit the Teddy Roosevelt Museum sometime this fall.

The president was up there. He liked it. I liked Teddy. I'm going to have my face right next to him on Mount Rushmore. And I were great friends. We got along very well with them. And Brian emailed Scott at KFAB.com via the Zonkers custom woods inbox and said, I guarantee if I had a snake in my football helmet, I would be the fastest player on the team. At least for the four seconds after the discovery. Thank you for that, Brian. You can also email Scott at kfab.com anytime you want via the Zonkers custom was in box. I don't know how a snake got into the helmet. Okay, so the helmet's either on the head of the player. It's in his hands. He's sitting on it during a brief coach's conversation at practice or it's hanging in the locker. You can think of a couple of times when either a snake could get in the locker in the locker room in Arkansas. Is the locker on a swamp? It's Arkansas. I don't know where in Arkansas it was. Arkansas is not underwater. The snakes everywhere. But there's also times in football practice, not very often, at least not for our teams. But, all right, hats off and come over here. And you just throw your helmet on the ground. Then you've got to go back and try and figure out which helmet is yours. The one with the snake in it. I just want to know where the hell this helmet was long enough for a snake to say, ah, That's where I want to hang out for a while. Well, at least he didn't throw his jockstrap off to the side and then put it back on. Or are you just happy to be playing football? That's not a cotton mouth. Jim, you're a volatile guy. Very. How do you deal with road rage in traffic? We've got the story here in Omaha last couple of days. These two guys near 96 and center were flipping each other off. And then the Camaro is making loud muffler noises. And the guy in the minivan said, I thought he was shooting at me. So I shot back in him. I don't drive around Omaha and my minivan without packing. So he shot the guy. And now he's in a lot of trouble for it. But this all started because of a road rage incident. Do you usually... Start those, finish those, or just back away from those? First of all, I drive defensively, so I presume somebody's going to act like a jackass behind the wheel, which I think is helpful to stay alive. If somebody does something really mean, dumb, stupid, or whatever, I never flip them off. I just sort of raise my hands like, what are you doing? Because if you flip them off, that sometimes foretells of a gun battle. And I don't shoot my gun while I'm driving my car. This isn't a 1950s Hollywood Western where they're in the stagecoach shooting at guys that riding horses. We don't do that here. But there are a lot of very, very troublesome people out there that get behind the wheel of a killing machine, which is what a vehicle is. So you need to say, hey, if I'm in a bad mood, don't drive a car for 10 minutes. Count to 10.

A lot of dangerous drivers out there. That's why every morning I get into my car, wave at everyone, and then I sneak out with the caterers and someone else drives my car. Thanks for hanging out here on News Radio 1110 KFAB. Let's talk about alcohol. In the sports updates here, Jim has been talking about Tony Romo. He had a bad DUI. They're DUIs, and they're all bad. There's no excuse anymore. Ride share. Especially if you're doing 100 million. Yeah, you could have any number of people come pick you up. There's just no excuse. Have a bikini-clad dance squad member drive you around. It'll make you feel better. That's what I do. And then you got the bad DUI where suddenly we all see the arrest. And you're a stammering, drunken idiot. And Tony Romo had, eh. He was wobbly, but he wasn't slurring his speech. And, you know. bob in his head and all that. I mean, he looked quasi sober, but he flunked the field tests. So now Romo is going to be replaced this year by JJ Watt. I got a great email from a guy that said, did you see the story about JJ a few weeks back? So J.J. Watt posts something on his social media. He's like, hey, I'm here in New York, in a picture of him somewhere. And one of the guys in the comments said, oh, man, I wish you were there. I'm not too far from there. I'd come by and buy you a beer. And like an hour later, JJ is looking at his comments and messages the guy and said, you're still around? I'll come back and came back. And the guy, you know, they had a beer together, posted a picture of the two of these guys together. And JJ Watts a good dude. But on the subject of what you have said a few times that Tony Romo will claim alcoholism is a disease, and I'm going to get treated for this disease. Which it is. It is. No, alcoholism is a disease. It's an addiction. It's a disease. Well, I know there's a lot of people right now with an operable brain cancer saying, well, at least I don't have alcoholism. But that's one way of looking at it. It's my way of looking at it. Only your twisted mind would look at it that way, but go ahead. Okay. So, I mean, it's an addiction. And I'm not, that's not me minimizing the pole of an addiction. So. Romo's going to go that route. Now, someone else who has said these things before is now saying, I'm tired of alcohol having a grip on my life because alcoholics will tell you that alcohol always has a grip on your life, even if you hadn't had a drink in 20 years. So Brad Pitt says, I've shifted my approach to alcohol. after being fully sober for seven years without even a sip of anything, I've decided that I'm mature enough and confident enough in who I am and what I'm doing to be able to have a drink once in a while. Now, I know many of you are thinking about your cousin going at no point, should he ever go back to doing that? Well, maybe he can't, and maybe Brad Pitt can. So... What do we think? I wanted to bring this up to kind of get your thoughts on alcoholism here. Well, I know a lot about alcoholism because there's a lot of it in my family. My dad was sober for 49 years. But he was committed to the 12 steps and Alcoholics Anonymous. And I do believe that it's hard. It is. And, you know, it was the greatest accomplishment of his life, the last 49 years of his life. But I can assure you that the addiction is it is a mental.

issue but it becomes a chemical issue alcoholism i believe is a mental disorder but then because of your bodies uh need to be satisfied with the alcoholic content it becomes a chemical addiction and so when you go off of it there is a massive physical response to that but yeah mentally you know you you make the decision i'm gonna drink I need this drink to get through the day. I can't function without it. And there are lots and lots of studies about how that happens, why that happens. Is it genetic? I do think there is a genetic predilection to it. Sometimes it skips a generation. But, you know, to Tony Romo's credit, you know, he didn't, he wasn't, he certainly wasn't belligerent with a police officer. He was actually quite affable. He tried to call his lawyer. They wouldn't let him do that until after he got out of the car and all of that. And they took his phone. He wanted the phone to show. He set the phone up on the back of his vehicle to videotape what was happening. So he'd have that in case this cop stepped out of line. But you do wonder. And this happens a lot, Scott. You know, these guys, they feel like they are impenetrable, that they are Superman, that there is Teflon there and nothing can get them. Why would you get behind the wheel in the year 2026? No. After you've had a couple of pops. No argument there. And in his case, probably more than one or two, why in heaven's name would Tony Romo, one of the highest profile media personalities in sports, climb behind the wheel of an SUV instead of either calling for a lift, calling for an Uber, or having the hot, you know, at the end of the table say, would you drive me home? I mean, that's all it takes. Sometimes these guys say, ah, I'm fine. Nothing's going to happen to me. I had driven him home. I'd drive Tiger Woods around if you knew me too. Same thing with Tiger. Why would you do that? But there's no explaining human behavior in many cases. Do you think someone like Brad Pitt who previously said he went through Alcoholics Anonymous after his divorce from Angelina Jolie, said, I'm sober, told everyone for seven years I'm sober. And now he says, I've been to have a glass of wine once in a while. It's not a big deal. Can he do that? Or do you immediately? Because of everything you just said there and what you've seen in proximity to it think, oh, he's about to turn into a train wreck. It depends. That depends. It depends. It depends. It depends on every individual. Everybody's chemical wiring is a little different. Yeah. Is it possible that somebody who gave up alcohol because it was having devastating effects on his or her life can go back and just drink socially? I suppose. I've seen it happen. And you get nervous when you see it happen going, wait a second. I've never seen that. I've never seen a declared. That guy, I've seen it. Okay. And you see it. You see someone who's gone through the program, hasn't drank in a couple of years. And next thing you know, you see him with a drink. And you think, let's keep an eye on this. Sure. I mean, it makes you nervous. But if you can get to a point where you can do that and doesn't rule your life. I wish you the best. Sure. I have never, I've known a lot of alcoholics in my life, some of whom don't think they're alcoholics, but they are. I've seen guys that have been through the program, men and women.

And they can't come within five feet of an alcohol, of a drink or a beer or anything or a glass of wine without slipping back into an addiction. A lot of conversation in the inbox right now as to whether or not alcoholism is a disease or whether it is an addiction. The only email I'll read on that is just funny from Jim that says, holy cow, Scott, you are correct for once in your life. Alcohol is a compulsion, not an addiction, not a, pardon me. Alcohol is a compulsion and addiction, not a disease. Good job. It's a cop out calling it a disease. And there's some of that here in the inbox, but we're talking about this because Brad Pitt says, I know I've been sober for years. and had gone through Alcoholics Anonymous, but I've decided I don't want alcohol to rule over me by not drinking, so I'm going to have a beer once in a while. I'm going to have a cocktail or a glass of wine, and hopefully I won't go off the rails, and certainly I hope he doesn't. Other people hear that, and they get really, really nervous about themselves or someone else. Email here unsigned says I was medicating when I drank. I can tell you this much. I could go back out and be fine for a while. But I know I'd hit the wall in those behaviors that got me to quitting would reemerge my secret drinking, having my Casey's fountain soda spiked pretending I'm not drinking all the drama that comes with all that crap. Bottom line, I'd never go back because my life, it's too good. My relationships are too good. That's awesome, dude. Congratulations. It is one of the hardest things in the world to overcome. And whatever it is, you would call that, whether it's alcoholism or using drugs or gambling, whatever that addiction is, it's one of the hardest things to overcome. If you're able to do it, don't stop what you're doing. I'm Scott Voorhe. He is welcoming back here for kind of a roundup of what we saw across the country yesterday. with the primary elections. Back from Fox News Radio, it's Eben Brown here on 1110, KFAB. I think we got to start in Wisconsin. What happened to Francesca Hong? Yeah, so we have a couple of things to talk about with that. The first thing, we have to get out of the way here, is the polling. We have once again had another situation where the polling did not really reflect the outcome. And we have to ask questions, why? Are these polls, you know, worthwhile anymore? Maybe they are. Maybe they're not. I think personally it has to do with the pollsters not being able to reach voters the way they used to. People don't answer calls from numbers. They don't know, and they ignore texts they didn't ask for. all that kind of stuff. So I think maybe the pollsters are having trouble reaching people and therefore don't get accurate sampling when they do their polls. But, you know, there are some establishment voices. I saw a tweet from Jim Axelrod earlier, excuse me, David Axelrod earlier, saying that, you know, this was a sound win for the establishment. Well, it really wasn't because even though she lost, she only lost by 0.4%. She basically had half the votes. You got 300,000 votes.

Yeah, she had half the votes cast, just about half the votes cast a little bit less, obviously, went to her. So I think Democrats have to begin to address this at the top party level to say we have candidates who are running essentially against the Democratic Party party from within, and they're pushing a very anti-American message. And that is the message of the Democratic Socialists, which have also adopted an Islamist bent. And I think that that is beginning to scare some of the upper echelon of the Democratic Party because they've sort of inculcated this a bit. They've spent the past 30 years courting extremist voters as they have lost more of Middle America. And so, you know, back in the 90s, it was the environmentalists and then it was the feminist and so on and so forth. Now it's the LGBTQ and the Islamists that they have been trying to. you know, I guess, bring into their tent. And now this voice, this dissident voice is becoming very loud and has the ability to throw primary elections. Certainly their biggest accomplishment, you know, to date has been Zohran Mamdani in New York. But with Abdul El-Sayed's, you know, win last week in Michigan in the Senate primary and now Hong almost winning the governor's primary in Wisconsin. This needs to ring some bills for them. Evan, let's talk about Minnesota. Well, hang on one more thought about Wisconsin. I want to ask this real quick. Do you think, Evan, that Hong lost because going into this, it was a foregone conclusion. She's up by nearly 15 points. Don't even worry about going out and voting. Do you think some people stayed home because of that? No, no, I think that the Democratic Socialist bloc of voters are very motivated, and they came out in force. Again, she barely lost. She barely, you know, a few thousand votes going the other way she would have won. Well, I feel bad about her campaign manager. She's going to have to go back to being an adult film star. By the way, look it up. That's true. All right, Jim Rose. Let's visit about Minnesota. The People's Republic of Minnesota has not elected a Republican statewide since 2006. Peggy Flanagan is a DSA cheerleader. By the way, nobody votes for the lieutenant governor, so it's not like people voted for her when Tim Walz made her the lieutenant governor on his ticket four years ago. I assume that they elect them together. Yeah, but it's just like nobody walks out of the voting booth and says, you know, I was really undecided until I looked at the lieutenant governor candidate, and that's what tipped me over. This woman is crazy, and it seems to me. that Minnesota, which has not been a blowout win in presidential elections for Democrats in quite a while, would be in play. Two things. One, how really radical is Peggy Flanagan? And two, can Michelle Tofoya win this?

Well, that's a great question. You know, primary elections are different than general elections. Primary elections are catered towards, you know, what we call the super voter. The people who never miss any type of chance to vote, they're much more involved. General elections get much more people out. And when you have an extreme voice winning a nomination, that person now has a challenge in that they have to not only get the same people to come back out and vote for them, they have to get their own party people that didn't vote for them. And then they have to get... independence and maybe even some of the other party to cross over. I think Flanagan is going to have a big, big trouble doing that, even in a state like Minnesota. That being said, Michelle Tafoya certainly is a popular person. The question is, would she be able to, again, get independence and maybe some of those Democrats that are dismayed that their party picked a socialist? She has made fraud. The very foundation of her campaign, Ms. Defoya has. I mean, from the very beginning when she declared back in January, she said this state has been ripped off by fraud. How big a problem is that in the eyes of voters in Minnesota or would they continue to pick communists just because they always have? Well, again, half the party didn't pick communists, right? I mean, half the party did, of course. But the other thing is, you know, are people angry enough that their money was used to fund these, you know, these fraudulent empires, the so-called quality-learing schools or whatever it was called? You know, if people are angry enough about that, then Mr. Foia's messages will resonate. She, of course, has to provide solutions to that. How do we make sure that this fraud's not happening? You know, consumer advocacy is really what this is, and that always rings well with people. You guys are paying attention to the wrong thing. You ought to watch Tim Walz's golf swing. It is a thing of beauty. Eben, always appreciate it. Thank you very much for coming on here. You bet. Take care. From Fox News Radio, that's Evan Brown here on 1110, KFAB. Maybe I'm crazy. And I have met Michelle Tofoya during my years in sports broadcasting. She is a delightful person. She's very, very likable, very warm and welcoming for a celebrity. She's done Super Bowls and Final Fours and NBA championships and all the rest. If she can convince Minnesotans that Peggy Flanagan is part of the problem. Okay. She isn't a solution to the problem. She is the problem. Well, now you have to convince Minnesotans there is a problem. I don't know that you can do that. But I can't believe that Minnesotans who pay taxes, even Democrats who pay taxes, are okay with this. How many of these people up there voting for all these candidates pay taxes? Someone else's got to take care of that.

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