"Half a Bubble Off"

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Oh my goodness, it's Nebraska's Morning News again. We just
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did it like every day last week. We're gonna do
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it again, and we're gonna keep doing this till we
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get it right. Good morning. I'm Scott Vorhees. Lucy Chapman's
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like I've been. I think I've been doing a pretty
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good job.
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I just die.
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I don't understand.
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There's a lot of moving parts and components to this,
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and it's hard for it all to come together perfectly.
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And you know, but I think that if we keep
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doing this another thirty or forty years, it might some
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it might Jee. I think you're doing all right. There's
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Lucy Chapman, it's we we Craig Evans right there. Jim
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Rose is going around the studio marking all the things
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that aren't working this morning. This Jim, it's gonna take
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a long time. It's gonna take him. You're gonna take
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a very long time. Yeah, It's it's one of those days.
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I don't know if it works like this that to
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whatever it is that you do for a living. You
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go in there and and a Monday morning you're like,
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let's see, I left here on Friday. Everything was freaking
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now now everything's broken. This doesn't work, this won't print,
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this thing doesn't work. Un was two days and the
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whole operation falls apart. I don't know. And the only
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person in here all weekend was Trenton Meggan.
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So well, no, no, we're gonna have to do a
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new exhaustive investigation on the weekend. People, but can get
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this thing taped back together again for another five days, the.
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Same people every weekend. I don't know.
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Thor Shrock he's gonna get He's gonna get put into
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a darkened room with a bright lighting.
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Yes, Thor Strock, the guy who fixes computers and technical
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equipment for a living, came in here and broke everything.
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You never know. Maybe he was having a bad day.
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I don't think it's likely. Old Jean stuff.
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There's gonna get a talking to too, by the way,
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making sure she's taking care of the equipment around here.
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I don't care how old it is or how howdated
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it is, needs to be treated with respect.
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Well, here's the thing that I think is really funny,
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and that is the number of people who look at
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this coming week and go, oh my goodness. And it
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started yesterday and throughout the week, heat index values ad
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or above one one hundred degrees, and people rightfully look
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at that and go, oh, my goodness, it's gonna be hot. Now.
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Most of the people who will complain about this don't
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work outside. They don't have jobs that take them outside.
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They're not out there toiling in the heat, including on
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the pavement or the blacktop, which you've got the heat
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coming down from above and then radiating up off of
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the concrete jungle that is downtown Omaha, Nebraska or wherever.
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These are not people who say, oh, my goodness, is
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hot out. Well, I still have to put on the
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full whether it's the firefighter's uniform, the full Omaha Police
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Department vests and equipment, the first responders who are out there,
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the people who when you're out there, you know, reving
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your engine and you get in your air conditioning to
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full blast and you haven't changed your oil in three
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and a half years, and your car breaks down. You
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got a bunch of people out there making sure it's
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up on the tow truck and getting it out there.
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And then they're working in a hot garage. You know
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those garages out there, Oh they're inside, it's not air
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conditioning in there, not really anyway, So before we all
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sit here in our I mean, it's so cold in
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the studio. I have to wear a jacket. You think,
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why don't you guys turn down the air condition fantastic idea.
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We're just opening the window. No one knows how to
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do that. We have three thermostats that allegedly work these studios.
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None of them were actually Steve and Jen are going
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right now, go in there and screw it from there.
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The one I can, I can mess with the thermostat
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and see that helps. Yeah's thermostats. I'm seeing the office.
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But there are a lot of people who, you know,
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they say, oh, my goodness, is so hot. So what
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they do is they go from the air conditioned house
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through their garage into their car, which the air conditioning
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cars these days, and for a long time cools things
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in your vehicle very very rapidly. Remember when you used
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to have to drive like ten minutes and then finally
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the air conditioning you start to feel it and kick
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on here and now it's just immediate and what dual
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climate zones would you like in your vehicle? And then
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it immediately cools to your comfort level. And then we
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drive an air conditioning to the job. We have to
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walk outside for a moment. Oh goodness, is hot. I
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had to walk It took me eighteen seconds to walk
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into the office. And you walk into an office that
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is so cold you have to put a jacket on.
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Heat index value of one hundred and ten outside, freezing
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cold inside. And then we do that in reverse, and
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we go home and we binge, watch TV, and then
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take some sleeping pills and go to bed. So the
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number of people complain about the heat don't have anything
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to do with it. They're not out there doing it.
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And you know who you don't hear complain about the heat.
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The people who are out there working. Let's think about them.
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This week, it's gonna be toasty. It's Independence Day week. Yeah,
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two hundred and fifty years. It's kind of snuck up
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on me. Well, it feels like we've kind of been
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in this two hundred and fifty years celebratory mode now
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for a while. And I think a big part of
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it is the World Cup. It feels like there's been
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a lot of flag waving here, not just America, but
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you see these people coming from all around the world.
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They come to America and they're loving it. Here someone
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sent me a video of it's a SpongeBob SquarePants clip,
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and you've got you got SpongeBob and one of his
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buddies running around having fun, arm in arm, having a
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great time. And then is it Squidward. My kids were
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not They weren't born during the time when they would
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have grown up with SpongeBob. That wasn't something introduced to
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their star Yeah, so I think it's it's SpongeBob and
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the starfish Patrick Starr, who you think looks like from
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almost the councilman christ Jam And then you got spitting image. No no,
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I since you said that years ago, I've not been
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able to unsee it. But then you got the angry
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guy squid Word, looking out his window and just scowling
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at these these two people out there on the ocean
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floor having a good time, and one of them says
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the USA, the other one says the rest of the world,
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and they're all having fun. And then the angry person
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watching them is the mainstream media. I can't believe they're
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down there getting along. They're supposed to come here and say, well,
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I think Donald Trump's America. How is anyone supposed to
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they wanted, honest to goodness, I think that they wanted
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President Trump to send ice onto the pitch during the
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game and just start rounding people up. All right, the
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whole Mexican national team. You're coming with us and getting
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down here and having fights breakout and all and none
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of this is happening. And I think that just speaks
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to why it's important to have a great two hundred
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and fiftieth birthday celebration. People love this country. Not all
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the people live here, but a lot of people love
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this People.
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Who live here wish there was someplace else to go,
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and we'd prefer that they'd leave and go there. But
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it's no doubt, Scott. You listened to all of the
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interviews that have been done, both of the local level
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and some of these cities, and certainly by the national media,
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and they've talked to these folks coming in from other
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countries and they go, oh, my gosh, you know, we'd
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heard about the United States, but we've never actually traveled here.
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And look around. Look at how happy everybody is. Look
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at how nice the homes are that average people live
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in that house right there. Wow, only the president of
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my country lives in a house like that, you mean,
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just like anybody can live there. So it's really actually
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quite refreshing to me to see somebody come into this
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country and say, you know, this is really pretty cool.
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I wish I could be a part of this.
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No, not suckle off the giant tea to the government,
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but like be here and get a job or maybe
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build a business like millions of other legal immigrants have
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done down through the years. Be really fun to see
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that happen again. And then I read yesterday's paper about
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what's going on out in McCook and I'm not real happy.
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We'll talk about that a little bit later on this morning,
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Yes we will, but yeah, no, I think it's great
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for the country. I'm a little frustrated with myself. It
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snuck up on me, and I really wish I'd made
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plans to go to DC this week because I'm thinking,
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wait a minute, I don't think i'll be around for
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the like three point fifty and I probably won't even
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be around for three hundred. No, you know, I was there.
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I delivered papers the morning of the bi centennial in
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nineteen seventy six. I delivered newspapers.
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I was en route. Yeah, you were just you were
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coming through the birth Can.
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I was in route and uh, and it was great
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and this is really neat. And then I went home
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and watched some of the stuff on TV and I thought, Okay,
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I'm going to really take advantage of the next one,
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which was twenty five years later, which is this coming
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what Saturday?
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And fifty years later? Yeah? And yeah, fifty years later,
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and I kind of waste I should be in d C. Well,
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you are timeless. I don't know that you're gonna make
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it three fifty, you know, but you think I get
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to three hundred. You could make it to d C
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this week. You could do take the Jim Rose Rose.
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You have a place to still. Rosy did your road
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show out there, and I'm sure we can get a
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camper from some of our friends with the coffee is
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always on and then you out on the road and
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I can. I gotta check in. I am here in
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Indianapolis this morning. Now we're starting here in Kikkok. I
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think they're looking good here. You haven't gotten very far
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one day. You're never gonna make it to d C.
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All right. The eleven to ten KFAB Certified Transmission Sports
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Brave Here is Jim all.
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Right, Scot boor he's the sooner aj Ferrari leaves Nebraska
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the better. The Husker wrestler has another scrape, another scrape
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with law enforcement, most recently this past weekend when he
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engaged state patrol on a high speed chase across Lincoln County,
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reached one hundred and twenty miles an hour, crashed his vehicle,
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and then took off on foot.
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They got him.
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This is the same wrestler who has already made stops
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at five schools, and check out this guy's resume. I
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mean it's pretty sad. Actually, he insinuated an Iowa State
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wrestler beat him because the wrestler was on steroids. He
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was arrested in January on fugitive from justice charges from Texas.
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He left Oklahoma State in twenty twenty three over a
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sex battery charge that was later dismissed. He enrolled at
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Iowa but never joined the team after he threw a
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punch at his opponent in a meet while he was
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wrestling unattached, and he was denied admission to the University
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of North Carolina. Nebraska wrestling does not need individuals in
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it like this guy. Mark Manning is one of the
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best coaches in the business, but not all kids want
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to be reclaimed coach. Even father Flannagan lost a couple
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over the years. Knockout round at the World Cup started yesterday.
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Canada beat South Africa one nil. Matches today Brazil versus Japan,
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Germany versus Paraguay, the Netherlands versus Morocco baseball games. Kse
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Royals got one of that series against the White Sox
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won at yesterday five to four. Carter Jensen has been
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the lone bright spot. He has now up to his
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hitting streak to nineteen games. Sky's the limit for me,
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so I think just try to stay with that and
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not pressing out.
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He's saying like, oh, I need to get a hit.
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I need to get a hit because you know, if
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I do everything right, you know it's nothing more likely
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to get it.
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This is the catcher of the future for the organization.
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He went three for five with a pair of runs
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batted in. This ends Kansas City's losing streak at four
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American League Baseball last night Houston seven to five over
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the Tigers. The Guardians beat Seattle six to five, Angels
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over the A's Texas over the Blue Jays, and the
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Red Sox beat the Yankees, in fact swept the Yankees.
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National League Pittsburgh Philadelphia, the Cubs, Cards, Giants, and Dodgers
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all got wins. NAT's six Baltimore four, Tampa Bay five,
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Arizona one, Minnesota three, the Rockies two.
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In interleague play.
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On the golf course, we're not done at the old
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Greater Hartford Open. Both Scheffler and Hoveland were at twenty
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on Nebraska's News weathern traffic station.
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Jim, I forgot how you phrased it a moment ago,
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but you were visibly shaken when you referenced a story
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in the local paper about our local detention center. It's
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not local, it's in McCook, it's Nebraska. It's local enough. Well,
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they got the one in Florida, they got closed down,
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the Alligator Alcatraz, and so they were looking for a
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few other detention centers, and they settled on what had
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been a men's prison in McCook. And people are like,
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you can't use this prison as a detention center. It's
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a distinction without a difference. But of course, politics being
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what they are, everyone lost their minds. We got a
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lot of people out there, and the story in the
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Omaha World Herald said that they don't like being out there.
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Well, it's a little more than that. They interviewed three
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the folks that are being detained out there. And remember,
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in many cases, a detainee's and this is probably a
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little bit of a gray area in our judicial system,
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but a detainee has not been charged with anything, and
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there is no term to their detention. They're just out
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there until we decide what to do with them. And
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that leaves open to me a morality issue that probably
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should be addressed at some point. But you can say
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that that paper is left leaning and it's looking for
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ways in which it can embarrass Republican led governments and
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enforcement and all the rest, and that's fine, You're welcome
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to that viewpoint. I personally don't think they make up stuff.
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I think they have a lean, but I don't believe
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they make up things. And this isn't the first media
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outlet to talk about conditions out there. And these are
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conditions which should make you if they are true, and
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I believe them to be true, because they interviewed three
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different people here and there was no response from the
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governor's office about this. Okay, there are conditions out there
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that I don't think are in line or align with
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the American value system. We treat people innocent until proven
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guilty in this country, and yes, in some cases they
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need to be locked up. In many cases, these may
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be criminals that have multiple charges against them. In some cases,
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they're just illegal immigrants. Now they're here illegally, which technically
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means they have broken the law, and they should be
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sent back to their home countries.
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I think we.
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Should have special classifications for certain people of them, certain
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of them, but many people agree, and a lot of
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Americans voted for Donald Trump under the notion that if
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you're here illegally, you get run back to your country
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and does not matter how long you've been here. But
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the conditions out there are not are deplorable, according to
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these three people who were interviewed, including food and water
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and availability of access to a communication outside of the facility.
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And remember, these people haven't been charged with a crime.
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These people are detained, and you can say, Jim, for
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good reason, we're detaining them, and I wouldn't argue with you,
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But that doesn't mean they should be mistreated. And it
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sounds to me like they're being mistreated.
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I would like to hear from the governor, and I'd
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like to hear from the director of Corrections or anybody
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else who's responsible for these people, and have them say
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what I read in yesterday's paper isn't true.
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Here's what I saw in the article in the Omaha
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World Herald about this. First of all, the backstory is
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millions and millions and millions of people came over here. Yes,
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there's no documentation, no idea that's correct, and a lot
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of times you get a lot of names that are
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very very similar, and so it all goes into a system.
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You go on guy whose middle name is one letter
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off from another guy, and this guy is you know,
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eats people for a hobby, and then this guy is
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a hard working salesman or something like that. So the
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detention centers are there to try and figure out who
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from who, And these are people who who did you know?
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Identity theft in many instances, and sometimes worse crimes. We're
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still trying to figure out all this stuff. We've got
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millions of people that came across the border and maybe
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dozens of people trying to figure out and sort things out.
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So my heart does go out to people who end
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up at the end of however many weeks or months,
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they're in a detention center and they're like, Okay, well
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you got to get your immigration paperwork in order. Maybe
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there's a path you can do that, maybe there's not,
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and sorry, you're free to go. But the article seemed
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to be trying to tell me for several paragraphs that
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the conditions were deplorable out there, and then you finally
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get down to the story where they say, well, the
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water didn't taste very good, and McCook said, yeah, we
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had a water issue, but all of our water met
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all the standards. It was safe. Sometimes when you have
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water treatment, they put a little chemical in there. You
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can smell it. And this happens in Omaha, this happened
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in McCook. That's the number one complaint they had. And
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then another complaint was someone kicked a soccer ball over
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the prison walls and the guard wouldn't immediately go get
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it for them. Yeah, I don't care about that, So
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I'm not sure what deplorable conditions. It seemed like they
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wanted to tell beat you over the head, knowing you
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were only going to read about fifteen seconds into this
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article before actually finding out what these specific complaints were,
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which to me were underwhelming. Well, I don't.
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Think so, based on the quotes in the and I
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didn't interview these people, So I'm just going bait like
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every other Nebraska and I'm just reading this And the
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Nebraska Examiner has written stories similar to this in the
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past about the conditions and some of these detentions. So
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were the conditions though, and depends on which story you're
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talking about. In this case, they should have high quality
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food and water presented to them. They should have plenty
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of time outside the so called cells, you know, in
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this case apparently not. Apparently they kept them locked up
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for a longer period of time.
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The one part of the story I saw on that
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one said in mid February they weren't allowed to go outside.
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What was the temperature in McCook in mid February.
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I don't care what the conditions are relative to the
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weather forecast. I'm what I'm suggesting is that most Nebraskans
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would find this to be intolerable if it's true or
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even close to being true. And I'd like to hear
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from the governor about this, and I'd like to hear
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from the Department of Corrections to refute this with factual evidence. Now,
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there are people that were interviewed, and again, I don't think.
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I think most Nebraskans believe that immigrants in this country
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should be here legally. I'm one of them, and I
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believe that if you will seek asylum, you seek it
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at a port of entry. You don't seek it after
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you get into the country for six months. I don't
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believe you should be here illegally.
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You should.
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We should have a system that provides you to come
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and go as guest workers or guest visas, as we've
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had in the past. But yeah, under Joe Biden's reign
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of terror, he allowed millions and millions of people to
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come across this border, and our country is paying a
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very heavy price for that. And Donald Trump ran on
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the very simple solution, I'm running them all back out
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of here. I think Nebraskans have a legitimate right to
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expect that to happen. But that said, especially since this
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is a federal facility and no Nebraska taxpayer of money
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is being used to function in this facility and to
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function the facility in McCook, I think most Nebraskans would say,
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if we're going to have him here, they need to
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be treated humanly, even better than somebody who's in prison
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having been charged and convicted of a crime. These guys
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are being detained. They're not serving a sentence, They're being detained.
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That one very very important different. I want people to
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be treated humanly as well. I would have gone to
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get the guy's soccer ball. That seems to be one
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of the big complaint. I've never read about the soccer ball.
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I don't care about the soccer ball.
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You got this email via the Zonkers custom What's Inbox.
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Scott atkfab dot com says, no one has to be
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in detention at the detention center out there in McCook.
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They can choose to do the right thing, take the
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twenty one hundred dollars and plane ticket home, and then
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apply the right way. That's true.
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Yeah, I look, they had plenty of opportunities to leave
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the country voluntarily. In many cases, I don't know how many,
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But in many cases, they may not even have known
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if they were illegal. If they were brought here as
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a child, and they don't even remember their former country.
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All they remember is the United States. They may not
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have thought that they were here ill legally. And in
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many cases, you know, you show up at the border
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and a guy in a uniform says, give me five
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thousand dollars a year, an American?
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You do it.
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You're not familiar with the immigration and naturalization policy of
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the federal government. Are those people to be held responsible
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for being duped by someone down on the border.
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I don't know.
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I'm I'm lucky enough not to be someone who had
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to immigrate to this country. I was born here. But
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our greater morality would dictate, in my view, the country
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treats people better than that. If this is in fact
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the way it is. If this is the if these
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are the conditions there, they should be improved because that's
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just the way we do.
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Business in this country. The article, to me, you're one
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hundred percent right on what you just said. The article
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to me, wanted people, I think to get the impression
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that people were being beaten and not given humane treatment
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out there. The article lacked any specificity to me along
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those lines. Now, what I want to be out there,
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I would not do. I understand that there are people
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who've been here under the conditions you just described one,
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but that doesn't mean well, we should just keep on
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doing it. I mean, there's got to be a delineation,
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and that's what we're seeing right now. It's not pretty
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in many instances, but it is necessary, and it is
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better treatment and better possibility for some level of status
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then you'll get in many, many other countries. So this
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is we can do better. It was the ongoing story
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of our time. We can do better. I hope we
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had a chance to spend a little time together over
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the weekend. After all, we had a really fun concert
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Friday night, the annual City of Omaha fireworks show and concert,
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not necessarily in that order, all free and it was
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all super fun. Perfect weather Friday night for this starting
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off with nineties alternative rockers Cake, followed by motown legends
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Smokey Robinson Really fun time. Tell you what Smoky he
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still got it, man, he can still sing. He shows
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up in a full like sparkled, almost diamond encrusted looking
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suit jacket, matching pants, and matching shoes, all sparkly, and
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sang all the hits, mixed in some hits from the
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other motown acts he used to go out in the
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road with, told some stories about all that really really
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fun night. So that was Friday night, and whatever you
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did the rest of the weekend, I hope you had
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a great time, especially if we were together at Baxter
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Reno last night for the concert featuring inarguably the greatest
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performer and artists of our time and maybe the most
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important performer and artists of our time, weird Al Yankovic.
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That was the show last night at Baxter. Are you
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high high on loving weird out?
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Oh?
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Weird Al is nothing more than a half baked cult
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hero from the nineteen eighties and nineties who just who
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made fun of music and became a celebrity as a
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result of that. He had to put him in at
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anything else means that you're nuts.
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Hit a number one album in the twenty teens too,
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But that's you know, that's beside the point. You know,
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sold so many albums that had so many singles over
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multiple decades, only a few other other artists ever done that.
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It's fine though, you know whatever, you don't have to
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be a fan. Sorry, sorry you, sorry you missed out.
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I'm not a sold out, crowded Baxter Arena last night.
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Did that? It was a great time. Let's talk about
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something that might be a bit more up not only
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your alley, but mine as well. I'm not going to
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let this pass. You said during the last sports brief
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that some guy online said, here's the greatest Husker of
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the nineties. Did they do Here's the greatest Husker of
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the seventies? Nineties? Nineties? Too? Well, I think that you
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ought to do that. I mean, some of these are
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we're all holding hands right.
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Well, I would think, I mean, the best player in
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the nineteen seventies may be the best player in the
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history of the program. Johnny Rod Johnny the Jet Okay
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best player in the nineteen eighties, in my view is
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Dave Remington and the guy redefined the position. Now, we
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had some guys with bigger stats. You know, Irving is
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probably the most complete athlete that Nebraska football's had, maybe
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in a generation. But Turner Gill was a fabulous leader.
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He got those skills in Mike Rozier won a Heisman Trophy,
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Roger Craig's going into the NFL Hall of Fame.
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Not a bad decade.
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In the decade of the eighties saw some quality talent
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come through, and in the nineties, you know Fraser. I
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like that pick of Remington, though, yeah, he changed the position.
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I mean when you change the position. We've had three
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transformative players in the history of the program, and by
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that I mean those who literally changed the way the
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position was played. Rogers has won, Remington has won, and
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then Dominican Sue has won. So you look around and
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think to yourself, all right, well, if we're going to
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make this judgment, what's the criteria. Impact on the game
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itself is probably the differentiator, and in the nineteen nineties
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that was Fraser. Now, I personally think Mike Brown is
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the best football player we've ever had in the program.
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But that's he played one time. You played three different
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positions in the same game. But as it relates to
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impact on the program, impact on the game, he was
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the USA Today National Offensive Player of the Year out
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of high school. To get him was huge, and he
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delivered a lot of times they don't he did in
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the twenty tens, I'd say it's probably Sue, although he
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was out in two thousand, he'd be the two thousands.
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You he makes you got Crouch and you got Sue. Okay, Crouch.
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I mean Eric was a really, really good football player
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and he was perfect for our offense. But did he
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change the position? And the answer is, I don't know.
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He may not be considered the best quarterback of all time.
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And if he's not the best quarterback of all time,
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how can he be the player of the decade up
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against adamikan Su who did transform in a position.
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It's tough to put one over the other because it
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makes it sound like you're diminishing. Correct what you know
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the other brought here was not which certainly should not
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be the case here. And I know you're not doing it,
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and I'm not. I think A.
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Mira Abdullah was the best player of the teams, the guy.
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The guy made some plays on third and short that
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kept drives alive, that kept wins in place. Plus he's
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a wonderful guy too, and a really underrated player. I
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like the twenty teens, and we're still in the twenty
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twenties and I don't know who qualifies in the twenty
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twenties right now, because has been a big, fat so
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far in the twenty twenties for US.
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But you know, the teams weren't always so great, but no, yeah,
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we've had some really just sterling great players.
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Bob Brown is the greatest player of the nineteen nineties
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nineteen sixties because he was two ways in the NFL
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Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame, ridiculously good,
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Bobby Reynolds in the fifties, Tom Novak in the forties,
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and then take your pick of our all Americans in
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the twenties and thirties. Ed, we're in the twenties, but
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in the nineties, and Francis in the thirties.
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I mean to be on anyone's list, And like, this
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is the best Husker of the nineties. When you look
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at who else is in that top ten, LP, LP,
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Grant Westrom, Jason Peter, I mean, you've got so many
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US danding you know, that's probably why we won three
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national championships in Laon we had some five pretty good players. Yeah.
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Look, LP LP is the most gifted running back we
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have ever had by a sizable margin. And that says
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a lot given We've had one win a Heisman Trophy
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and several more play in the NFL. But this was
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Gaiel Sayers. If you look at tape of Gayel Sayers
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in the sixties, shame he didn't come here either, although
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he was committed. The problem was we That's a whole
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separate show. LP is the Gael Sayers of the nineteen nineties.
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Look at remember how he used to run in the
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open field. The power, the elusiveness, the speed, the burst,
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the toughness. There's been nobody like him. We just can't
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put anybody else in his class, you know, honestly, with integrity,
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you can't put anybody else in Lawrence Phillips class. But
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of course the demise of Lawrence Phillips has stained his
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reputation as a football player, which is a shame.
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Yeah. And you imagine being a defensive back and you're
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out there, chance alone, and here comes Lawrence Phillips crumbling
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at you. You're the latter guy to stop him. Oh gosh,
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you're like, I don't think he's going to go out
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of bounds. I don't think he's even going towards the sidelines,
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coming after me right at me. I don't even know
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if he looks like he's looking past me. He was
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so good just before we played in the Fiesta Bowl.
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He Nebraska used to do one plays of ones on
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ones and down in the Cook Center, he ran through
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the first team defense and too goes well, I think
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Lawrence is ready for the ball game.
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Yeah, it's a quality list there, Jim, fine job. If
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you want to weigh in, you're welcome to Scott at
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kfab dot com. It was a wonderful time at Memorial
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Park the City of Omaha free concert and fireworks show,
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and once again we hear on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
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We're so honored to be a part of it. And
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I love doing that because I always know who's there
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by the text messages I get. I can feel my
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phone buzzing in my pocket while I'm on stage saying, hey,
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it's great to have everyone out here. Bathroom's over there,
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get some food and all the rest of that stuff,
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and then my phone starts buzzing, like, Oh, I wonder
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who's here. And it turns out like you know, you
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get fifty thousand plus people there. A few of them
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are gonna have my phone number. I'm glad that you
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were there now, especially if you showed up early because
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news Radio eleven ten kfab had the van out there.
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We had the prize wheel out there and people are
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winning stuff including from yard Market, Nursery and the big
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prize which we're going to give away right now from
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Party Omaha. We have Party Omaha owner Beth Hanson right
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here in the studios. Beth, thank you so much for
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partnering with us for this fun event, and you were
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out there on Friday night as well.
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Oh. Absolutely, it was so much fun. We had such
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a blastpin in the wheel.
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Yeah, the wheel was spun by several people here a
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pull box of people that filled out the forums and
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00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.440
wanted to try and win something from party Omaha. So
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before we talk about who won, what here tell me
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about Party Omaha.
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So Party Omaha has been around for a couple of years,
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several years now. We started with fun Foone Party, then
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Big O Bounce and we just can't continually add things.
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So we can't just be fun Phone Party in Big
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O Bounce anymore. We had to merge into party Omaha
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because when you have so many different things like the
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mechanical bowl, phone parties, tons of obstacle courses, that type
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of thing.
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We had to rebrand be party o Maha.
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I would love to be a part of your meetings.
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It's okay. So the kids are having fun over here
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on the bouncy houses and we got the bouncy obstacle
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courses and all that stuff. The adults are playing on
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the mechanical bull and carnival foam parties, carnival games, miniature golf,
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all this fun stuff that we can do here. What
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else can we do? There's no bad ideas, and that
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if people just start throwing ideas out there about what
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00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.319
else can we do here? So what about a jet pack?
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00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.279
You know, I don't have a jet pack yet.
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00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:41.680
I have told people this and my husband, if you're listening,
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00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.880
I'm so sorry. I always say we pretty much have everything.
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00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.519
If we don't have it, I might buy it because somebody.
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Else might want it.
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What a fun time though, We have a lot of fun.
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Tell me about the foam parties.
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00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:57.319
Okay, So the phone parties are It is exactly what
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it sounds like. We come out there, we have our cannon,
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we have our music, we have our fun, and there's
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00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:05.279
just foam everywhere that kids can play in.
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Not only kids, but adults too.
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00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.559
Yeah, I want an adult foam party.
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00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:12.359
We do glow parties. I've only do them aft when
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it gets dark and we have the lights. The glow.
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It's phenomenal.
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They used to do the mud run up at Valley
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View golf Course in Fremont and at the end of
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that you'd come through there and the last thing you'd
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00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.960
come through is a foam party, and that is just
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00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:29.160
everything about that was just a riot. I still have
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00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:30.279
mud between my toes.
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It's a blast.
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It's a great time. And of course bouncy houses for
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the kids. See Jim and I are too old. Oh
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we didn't. But when we were kids, we didn't have
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bouncy houses, and then our kids grew up at bouncy
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houses and there's so much fun.
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Oh they're blasts.
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We have some that are really small up to things
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that are huge and three pieces they're eighty feet long,
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I mean seventy feet.
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Tall, is sure.
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We just fell off the jungle gym at the city Park,
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separated shoulders, you know, dislocated in the an arm.
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Hey, it was great fun. Yeah. The slide's been out
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00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:05.000
here baking to the sun all week. Why don't you
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go down with your your short nineteen eighty one, little
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shorty short shorts on and skin up your legs. Yeah,
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climb onto that aluminum slide after ninety five degrees and
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00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.079
see how that is all? This is great.
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Now we have huge ones that are water slides, and
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especially for the fourth of July and this week, it's
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been phenomenal.
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Well. Party Omaha is your party destination here in Omaha,
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hence the name, and you're not going to believe the website.
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It is in fact Partyomaha dot com. So, Beth Hanson,
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we gave people a chance to stop by the Kfab
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boot there at the Memorial Park concert and it' spin
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the wheel and have a chance to try and win
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an inflatable rental. We have a winner here, James in
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the studio who's nonpartisan. He's not involved with any of
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the stuff. He drew The winner's name and the winter's
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name is Gary P. And we will email or contact
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Gary and let him know what he won. But Beth,
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I need to know what did he win.
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00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.960
He can win an inflatable up to one or four
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hundred and fifty dollars.
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How far is four to fifty go with an inflatable rental?
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Fifty goes quite away, so he can do an obstacle course,
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he can do a water slide, he could do a
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couple of smaller bounce houses if he wanted to. So
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it gets him quite a bounce house, some quite a
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bounce house.
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I don't know if Gary here is a dad, uncle,
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grandpa status or whatever, but I love the idea of
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him saying, now this is just for me. Just bring
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it over in my backyard, set it up here, and
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this one's just for me, and.
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In there we there you go.
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That's what I'm envisioning right now.
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I think that would be great.
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Whether he's got one person or he's got forty people,
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I think it'd be fabulous.
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Well, Gary, congratulations, you have won an inflatable rental up
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to four hundred and fifty dollars from party Omaha, and
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we will contact you and Beth will get you all
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set up here. Today is not a good day to
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have an inflatable out It's going to be windy. So
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what are how how Wendy's to Wendy for getting the
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inflatable out there and strapping the thing down and make
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sure it doesn't go flying off.
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Well, we are very conscientious of the wind obviously we
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have when we go out, we do attach it either
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to the grass or we have things that are guts
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that are probably about two d and fifty pounds wow
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per connection, and we do two or three or four
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depending on how windy it is.
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We never ever skimp on.
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No.
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Have you ever had a bounce house that looked like
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Dorothy's house take off and spin around in a tornado
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with her in it?
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We are not going to talk about that. I'll put
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that up in that kind of weather, right, you know.
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It's it's that could be fun. You see that in
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the news once and you think it's funny until it's
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00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.400
your kid up. So that's why you have people like
723
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.679
Beth taking all due precautions and doing it the right way.
724
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:50.079
All right.
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00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.199
If we can't, our guys are very very sad.
726
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:55.760
It comes first.
727
00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:57.840
If we can't do the bounce house, we do bubble
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00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.320
party or phone party, or I want to put Jim
729
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.400
on the mechanical bowl, and then I want that cowboy.
730
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:10.159
Then I want the mechanical bowl on Jim. That might
731
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:11.800
be hard because it doesn't have legs.
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00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:14.920
Eight seconds bowl, you can do it, ride me for
733
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:15.639
eight seconds.
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00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:21.840
I think, Beth, this is this is why you come
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00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.320
into the studio. This is this is where the magic happens.
736
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:26.800
All right, Well, thank you very much for partnering with
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00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:28.920
us and for providing this great price for one of
738
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:29.559
our listeners.
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00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.280
Okay, Scott, I gotta say party on with Party Omaha.
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00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:37.960
Party On Beth Beth Hanson, Party Omaha, Party Omaha dot
741
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com is the website. The person who tends to provide
742
00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:44.679
the strongest opinions and thereby get the strongest pushback is
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00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.440
Jim Rose. And we talked everything from illegal immigration to
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00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:56.440
the Huskers uh the best players of the decades, uh
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00:37:56.679 --> 00:38:01.000
over over the decades of Nebraska football. But of all
746
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:04.199
the things that Jim Rose said that got the most pushback,
747
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:08.079
can't find it right now, it was Yeah, it was
748
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:13.679
someone who could not believe you had the audacity to
749
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:18.880
mock weird Al Yankovic. He was in town last night
750
00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:21.400
at Baxter Arena. We had a great time.
751
00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:23.599
I'm sure I think it's a clown show, but you
752
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:25.360
know what, if you love him, God bless you.
753
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:28.880
Well. The the opening act literally is a clown show.
754
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:33.559
Its red dressed like a clown who has the voice
755
00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:36.679
of an angel. It's it was a really really fun time.
756
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:41.239
A quick trivia question artists who have achieved a Billboard
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00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:44.800
Hot one hundred or top forty hits across four at
758
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:50.199
least four separate days. Weird Al, Michael Jackson, Madonna, you two,
759
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:56.039
and Kenny G Henny G Yep, Yep, there's only one,
760
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:58.639
so it's a pretty good If you're on the same
761
00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:02.280
list as Kenny G. I guess you're doing something right
762
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:06.199
to start talking smack about weird out, Jim, can I
763
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:09.119
get your knee jerk reaction on something before sports brief
764
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:14.000
in just a moment Always? A new analysis here says
765
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:18.559
that America's days of churning out seventeen million plus new
766
00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:22.639
car sales a year maybe in the rear view mirror
767
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.880
says people aren't buying as many cars, fewer teams are
768
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:31.280
rushing to get licenses. And also they say tighter immigration
769
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.159
is to blame for people not buying new cars. I
770
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:37.719
didn't realize so many people were coming across our border
771
00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:41.400
with nothing except that which they have to buy a
772
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:46.440
brand new fifty five thousand dollars late model suv. But
773
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.800
are not? Are we not driving as much? And if so?
774
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:55.280
Why does Lucy have traffic updates? We're wasting time with
775
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:58.239
traffic ten minutes. Apparently there's no one driving, no one
776
00:39:58.280 --> 00:39:59.079
on the road anymore.
777
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:02.280
Oh, it's all about a affordability Scott. This is not
778
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:05.519
super complicated. You start added up and you think to yourself,
779
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:08.400
how can I afford this vehicle? If it's five six
780
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:11.400
hundred dollars a month for the vehicle and another two
781
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:14.679
three hundred dollars a month for insurance, to say nothing
782
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:18.559
of taxes and licensing and maintenance and all of that jazz,
783
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:20.840
you just say I can't afford it, and so you
784
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:22.320
go look for a beater car.
785
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:23.440
Here's the problem.
786
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:25.920
Our good friend Barack Obama did all he could to
787
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:29.280
get rid of vehicles that people could afford, Remember the
788
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:33.159
cash for clunkers deals. All that did was take vehicles
789
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:35.119
off the road that folks that don't have a lot
790
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.800
of money bought to get to work to and from work.
791
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:42.480
Not everybody can go out and spend sixty thousand dollars
792
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:45.159
on a vehicle. And when you combine seven and a
793
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:48.000
half percent sales tax or whatever the number is wherever
794
00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:51.960
you may live, throw in insurance property casual insurance, which
795
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.320
for good drivers is at minimum two hundred and fifty
796
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.639
dollars a month. And that's if you can bundle it
797
00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.039
with a few other things like your house and my
798
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:03.239
ability coverage and an umbrella policy. They just say, I
799
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:07.079
can't make it happen. We have an affordability crisis in
800
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:09.719
this country that I believe is man made. I don't
801
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.239
believe the markets are driving and I believe policy is
802
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.360
driving it. And there's no better example of that than
803
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.679
when you try to buy a new car. I mean,
804
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.000
when was the last time you bought a new car.
805
00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:24.000
It's it's been a while since I bought a car,
806
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:26.880
a new new car. I have not bought a new
807
00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:31.880
car in years, and it's because they are just out
808
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.199
of my price range. And if you start looking at
809
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.079
the value of a vehicle. And this is not meant
810
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.880
to impugne any of the car dealers, because they do
811
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.440
a wonderful job of trying to get you behind the wheel.
812
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:44.679
It doesn't matter who it is, they're all try it.
813
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:46.719
But if you look at it and you say, okay,
814
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:50.480
most we never used to have to add up those others.
815
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:53.039
We never used to have to add up sales tax,
816
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:56.199
We never used to have to add up insurance or maintenance,
817
00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:59.440
But when you have to do that, knowing that the
818
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.320
minute you have that vehicle off the lot, it loses
819
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:04.960
a certain degree of its value, you have to start
820
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.199
thinking soberly about what I can and can't afford.
821
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.760
And now, of course used cars are more expensive too. Well, yeah,
822
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:12.840
you a pre owned A good pre owned vehicle is
823
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:16.760
very present. That's cheap, and in some cases the incentives
824
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:19.320
and things like hey, free this for the next few
825
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.159
years and all that for a new car make it
826
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.119
such that you can't afford not to buy a new
827
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.119
car compared to something that might be even a couple
828
00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:28.519
of years old with the incentives. So I mean, shop
829
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.679
around and see what you can find. But I don't
830
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:34.559
even think it's the vehicles that are the problem, with
831
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:36.880
a lot of people not being able to afford them.
832
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.599
You got a lot of young people who are not working.
833
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:42.760
They're paying off big student loan debts. There's something else
834
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:46.400
that came out about under the Obama administration. Fewer use
835
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:50.280
vehicles thanks to cash for clunkers, and then Obamacare rolling
836
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.960
student loan organizations right into the federal government, so now
837
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:57.599
taxpayers have to pay off your default on the loan.
838
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:01.079
The public university started jacking up the rates of tuition,
839
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:03.840
room and board, and these young people, they're not getting
840
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:05.760
the jobs they thought they would get, their saddle with
841
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.360
student loan debt, and we're all paying insurance rates for
842
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:13.719
every time they mismanage what should be trying not to
843
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.280
have a wildfire across the entire state of California. And
844
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:20.559
you get more expensive vehicles, insurance rates are going to
845
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:22.800
be through the roof as well. And then you don't
846
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:25.280
have any new car or even use cars. You don't
847
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:27.159
have anything to trade in. So now you're paying the
848
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.400
full price of the vehicle. Some people are saying, oh,
849
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.880
just have this go out like seven years, eight years,
850
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.920
and that could be a major problem, major underwater in that.
851
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:41.960
And now you've got even less collateral when you can't
852
00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:44.719
afford the payments, And now you're paying for not just
853
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.840
the next car, you're paying for the last three coaches,
854
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.039
I mean cars you had well, and imagine how much
855
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:52.000
into sports are.
856
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.519
Yeah, and then imagine just how difficult it can be
857
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:56.400
when you jack up miles when you live twenty five
858
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:56.960
miles from here.
859
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:58.920
I'm saying, I don't think it's the car. It's a
860
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:02.880
lot of conditions. But there's Another side effect of all
861
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:08.039
of that, and analysis here from realtor dot com, young
862
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:11.679
adults clock in at work and then head right back
863
00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:16.440
to their childhood bedrooms. Probably shut the doors. Hey mom,
864
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:18.599
I will be in my room playing video games or
865
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.239
will be on my phone. You're like, you're thirty one
866
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:26.320
years old, you get your own play. Still wearing superhero underwear, Well,
867
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:29.280
there's nothing wrong with that if the under rus still fit.
868
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:33.840
I'm going with green lantern. Okay, but then again you
869
00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:35.559
can see that I don't have to tell you.
870
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.679
Well, we had it on the Rosie to Ginozi on Friday,
871
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:40.800
thirty three percent of American and Americans between eighteen and
872
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:44.639
thirty four still living with their parents. That's thirty three percent.
873
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.000
A third of all eighteen to thirty four year olds
874
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:48.239
are still living with their parents.
875
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:53.000
What's that percentage again? Thirty three percent of Americans eighteen
876
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:55.519
to thirty eighteen to thirty four, we're still living with
877
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:58.320
their parents. Yeah, I mean you give a pass to
878
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:01.679
that eighteen collegey, Jimmy, because a lot of people are
879
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:04.639
they're staying home for college. And you can save on
880
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:07.039
room and board if you're not using room and board,
881
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:09.719
I mean room and board to be home, so I'd
882
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:11.760
give them a pass. But once you get to be
883
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:14.800
you know, like the thirty to thirty four year olds,
884
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.119
this is about thirteen percent who still live with mom
885
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:18.519
and dad.
886
00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:20.920
Now understand, of course, that many of them live in
887
00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:23.519
some of the most expensive cities in the country. That
888
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:27.280
includes New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, very
889
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.440
expensive cities. I don't know about you, big guy, but
890
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:33.760
as soon as I turned nineteen, I was out the door. Now,
891
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:36.800
even though I went to the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
892
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.920
I didn't want to live at home and my parents
893
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:41.559
didn't want me living at home. So even though the
894
00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:43.920
minimum wage in those days was four dollars and twenty
895
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:46.800
five cents an hour, which kind of dates me a
896
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:49.639
little bit, I found a way to live on my
897
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:54.079
own in the summertime and in the school year, which
898
00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:55.400
means it's possible now.
899
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:56.719
I didn't have all of.
900
00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:59.320
The expenses that kids believe they have to have now,
901
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.800
young people believe they have to have now, and the
902
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:05.320
technology that exists now certainly didn't exist then. But I
903
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:09.000
think the other issue is I wonder how capable kids
904
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:11.679
are of living on their own when you look at
905
00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:15.159
the helicopter parent culture that has existed in this country
906
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:18.760
for the last generation. I'll do it for you. Don't worry,
907
00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:21.480
I'll do it for you. Don't worry about making the
908
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.679
baseball team. We'll find a team where you don't have
909
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:26.519
to compete that participation ribbon.
910
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:28.079
That's for you. Okay.
911
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.679
We have not equipped them to live on their own.
912
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:35.559
And it's sort of like you take a wild animal
913
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:38.440
out of the wild, you turn it into a pet,
914
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.679
and then to send it back out into the wild.
915
00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:44.400
That's a death sentence because they're not ready. They don't
916
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.280
know how to exist in the wild.
917
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:49.400
Well, and you wonder, then, how if if that's the
918
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:53.199
way you're raising these young people, and you don't want
919
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:55.280
them to have to go out there and leave the
920
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:58.280
nest and make their own way, then how many parents
921
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:02.599
are upset that they're it's into their mid thirties, are
922
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:06.000
still living at home? Hey mom, we need some new
923
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:11.440
sheets from my twin bed. You're thirty three years old.
924
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:14.159
Well, not only that, I mean how many of them
925
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.199
come home. Let's say they have an apartment or they
926
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:20.320
have a plate, but they're constantly at home anyway, Oh,
927
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.159
that happens you know, they're there for meals five times
928
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.280
a week, or they they bring their laundry home, or
929
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.079
they called dad, Hey dad, I got a flat tire,
930
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:33.519
you know, or hey dad, there's a half inch of
931
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:34.440
snow on the ground.
932
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:36.480
I don't think I can make it to work. How
933
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.119
much of that happens. You know, we're probably stepping on
934
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.639
some toes right now with this conversation. Truth hurt is
935
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:46.679
my understanding here. Looking at the last numbers, people do
936
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.880
listen to this radio lastation and if this is a
937
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:55.320
growing thing, now, do you think like so many things,
938
00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.559
O Maaha probably doesn't have the wild swings that many
939
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:03.880
other of your big cities economically a your Chicago, Houston,
940
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:09.360
New York. I'm sure that the percentages aren't that high here,
941
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:12.320
but they're probably higher than they were twenty twenty five
942
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:16.440
years ago of people young professionals in their late twenties
943
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:19.280
and early thirties, I mean early thirties. I was we
944
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:21.119
were having kids. I was having kids. I was on
945
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:25.000
my second home. It was on my fourth marriage. I'm kidding.
946
00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:31.199
He was into my third paternity test. That one's not mine.
947
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.400
Are you sure we already did this test? That is yours? Oh,
948
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:36.920
it's a big issue, Scott. I don't know.
949
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.400
I don't know where we lost, you know, our way,
950
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:43.079
where we got off track because my parents did not
951
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:47.039
Their Their attitude was, I'm getting you ready for the
952
00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:49.320
real world, which means you're going to go through a
953
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.039
little pain and suffering as a kid so you can
954
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.719
develop an immunity to it when you get to be
955
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.880
an adult and you have really serious things happen. And
956
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:01.079
I thank them for that. That that was a wonderful
957
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:04.039
gesture of there. I was not spoiled. My brother and
958
00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:07.880
sister and I were not spoiled. We allowance. Okay, if
959
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.679
we wanted money, we had to go find a job. Okay,
960
00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:13.719
we didn't just get money for waking up in the morning.
961
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.079
We didn't just get stuff, you know, Christmases and birthdays,
962
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that's one thing. But just here take it, you know.
963
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I just I can't believe people raise their kids that way,
964
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but millions of parents do.
965
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Uh don't.
966
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We want you to have a great time. We want
967
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you to have only wonderful memories as a child. We
968
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don't want anything bad to happen to you, and I'll
969
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make sure that. So then they turn eighteen and they
970
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:39.360
are ill equipped to handle the world.
971
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Friday, late afternoon, I'm getting ready to go down to
972
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Memorial Park for the concert. My son's like, Dad, we're
973
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gonna go do the thing. And I guess some I said,
974
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when are you leaving? He's like in about an hour
975
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or so. I said, all right, that gives you enough
976
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time to mow the lawn and clean the toilets and
977
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for that and for that, I'll give you money. No, no,
978
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he said, okay and went right out and did it good. Yeah. See,
979
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you're on the right tra Yeah.
980
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By the way, I like your kids more than you do,
981
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but that's kind of just the way it works. You're
982
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not with them, not with them as much. I only
983
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see them shined up.
984
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And I got up at twelve thirty this morning just
985
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to make sure that they'd left every single light on
986
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downstairs before they went to bed. I thought about waking
987
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them up, going, hey, there's one more lamp that you
988
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didn't leave on down here.