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Executive Director Shonna Dorsey stops by to introduce us to the internNE (powered by Aksarben) initiative and get us up to speed on what’s going on over at the Nebraska Tech Collaborative… I’d like to thank friends of the pod, Richard & Marjorie over at Webberized for their hosting & production assistance on today’s episode!ALSO:* North O Group Kicks Off Voter Registration Drive - WOWT* Suicide Prevention Walk - from KMTV* Nebraska Approves Emergency Regulations for Gender Care - from Nebraska Examiner

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Nate Clark - Program Manager from NMotion powered by gener8tor drops by to tell us all about a great new free opportunity for aspiring business owners called More Founders Bootcamp.

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OMAPOD WRESTLING GLOSSARY FOR THIS EPISODEface (babyface) - heroic; crowd favorite, usually wrestles a…heel - villain; hated by fansbumping - the art of the fall on the mat or groundpromo - an in-character interview or monologue What’s going on outside the ring?* Senator Hunt’s Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed - from OW-H * Grief Group Helps North Omaha Children - from KETV* Douglas County Sherriff’s to Crack Down on Accessible Parking Violations - from WOWT

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GROWMAPODWait, it’s Google’s 25th birthday today?What better way to celebrate than a very special Google / Midlands African Chamber / OMAPOD collabo episode then?! Yes, Google is growing, but don’t worry about giving them a gift… in fact, Grow with Google is actually gonna give us Omahans one… Along with our friends at the Midlands African Chamber Foundation, they’re presenting “Build Your Professional Brand” (on Thurs. Oct. 5th from 5 - 7 pm at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center at UNO) featuring expert presenter Angelina Darrisaw!Hear all about this great event and all the exciting things happening with the growing Midlands African Chamber on today’s pod. Also…GROWING ON IN OMAHA* An engineer laid out the plans for UNMC expansion, and the City Council approved them* Dundee’s Piano building could see future changes* A new Goodwill broke ground in Elkhorn

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Nice to see so many OMAPOD fans out at the Startup Omaha Week Kick-Off Event last night & welcome to the new friends who subscribed!!!I’ll be out at tonight’s Social Event - and will be recording from it, too! So come say hi!We’ve got A LOT of really cool stuff coming up soon!THE BUSINESS OF SHOWWith a tentative deal reached between the Writer’s Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, I thought we’d talk about show business today. And - always remember, it is a business first and foremost. * Omaha natives working in H’wood react - from WOWT* Omaha Community Playhouse Artistic Director resigns, effective immediately - from KMTV* Stevie Nicks to CHI Health Center next spring - from KMTVAnd, also remember - though there are some crazy folks in that crazy biz, many are good people just trying to keep a roof over their heads…THE END

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Molly Shannon & Susan Orlean TOMORROW NIGHT at the Between the Lines Omaha Public Library Foundation fundraiser at the Holland Performing Arts Center! Tix still available right here. (#FUN-raiser)* If you’re not up on #BookTok - as referenced on today’s pod - peep that here.So now that we’re all up on fundraising for the library system, what about other worthy organizations around town???Lemme give you This Weekend in Giving:* The Nebraska Humane Society surpassed its fundraising goal after their biggest event of the year - from WOWT (#pawsome)* The Walk to End Alzheimer’s raised over $85,000 - from KMTV (#hashtagnotappropriateforthisone) * Long-neglected Myott Park receives $1.1 million federal grant - from Nebraska Examiner (#talkaboutGREENspace)GOOD, then!

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Next Week! - Startup Omaha WeekNov. 3rd! - Nebraska Startup Job MixerThird Thurs.! - Scale OmahaFischer Opponent! - Steamfitter OsbornRecovery Grants! - Applications OpenMental Health! - Fredrickson’s PriorityFRIDAY! - Sing Along

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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You can read Erik Servellon’s Omaha World-Herald Op-Ed here. You can watch the Omaha City Council District 4 interviews, as discussed on today’s pod, here.You can watch the Omaha City Council’s District 4 vote here.Councilmember Ron Hug, now officially sworn in, addresses the controversy here.In related news, an update on a requested reinstatement of the Omaha Latino Peace Officers Association here.PLUS:* Offutt Lab identifies WWII POW & MIA troops from KMTV* U.S. Dept. of Education honors two local elementary schools as “National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2023” - congrats to Reeder Elementary & Bess Streeter Aldrich of Millard Public Schools* Final two in ‘Coolest Thing Made in Nebraska’ contest!

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We’re talkin’ funny today - in honor of Mr. DAVE CHAPPELLE taking the stage last night in Omaha - with the wonderful Brooke Barsell - comedian, teaching artist with Nebraska writers collective, foodie, master of improv… We’re also goin’ old school CNN (that’s Chappelle’s News Network) style on this one today:* Cocaine is a hell of a drug* Half Baked* WRAP IT UP!

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