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There’s so much incredible stuff coming next week to OMAPOD that The Government has decreed you can just go ahead and take Monday off to prepare for it! Don’t worry - you’ll get five days worth of entertainment and enlightenment in just four.And since you’ve got that extra day, Flatwater Free Press has launched “Pigs and Power” - a series focused on Nebraska’s governor… Here’s Part One.Epic week - thanks to all the great new supporters I met at the United Way Campaign Kickoff breakfast event on Tuesday and at my 1 Million Cups presentation on Wednesday - I know I said yesterday we’d discuss it today. That’s the only time I’ve broken my ‘don’t tease a guest or topic’ rule - and sure enough…things changed. We’ll catch you up on that Tuesday (wait a second, I just broke it again!)… most likely. See you then - have a great Labor Day weekend!

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Good morning - and welcome to 67 new subscribers! So happy to have you on board…Thanks to all of you who were at my 1 Million Cups presentation yesterday morning at Millwork Commons - we’ll be talking about that on tomorrow’s pod. I was overwhelmed by the positive response and everyone who came out. I continue to be blown away by the response to this - we’ve got some incredible things lined up in the coming weeks and I was so excited to see familiar faces and meet some great new people after the presentation yesterday. One person in particular who was a pleasant surprise to see come out was Mansa Latham (email: [email protected]) - we recorded today’s pod after my event yesterday and he catches us up on what it’s like being in the early stages (week 2 of 16) of the NMotion Venture Studio program.Enjoy!

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ATTN: Journalists, reporters and historians Hi, welcome! Glad to have you here!Make yourself at home… Now go on ahead and click ‘play’ above and listen to the first minute of this amazing podcast to hear specifically what controversial Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was demanding for his vote during the marathon 15-ballot Kevin McCarthy bid for Speaker of the House elections…No, no - you haven’t heard about this anywhere before…Go do it! I’ll wait…Okay, great, now credit OMAPOD for that, thank you very much…Now go back and listen to the rest of it! Then have a look around and stay awhile. You can check out Part One of the interview with Rep. Bacon here - it’s great, too! Regards,Tony

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After hanging her cleats up for good, one of Omaha’s greatest soccer players decided to use the game she loved to do good both for kids in our community and around the world. She’s Monica Bosiljevac, Executive Director of Football for the World - an Omaha-based Foundation that shoots to be ‘the Goodwill of football (soccer) equipment.’They call it football. As in soccer, though. Yes, we get into that. It works like this: They score your used equipment when you’re done with it. They have international connections as well as local projects that can do good with it. The impact can be monumental in the life of a young person - especially those without the means to play the sport. That’s called winning the game of life. So you probably just got a bunch of new gear for the fall season - if the old stuff is just sitting in the closet, well… now you know what to do with it! Ggggggggoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllll!Keep up with ‘em on insta here.

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A must-listen pod today that I’m really proud to bring you…Joe Sexton takes us inside his new book The Lost Sons of Omaha - and updates us on the response of the families of Jake Gardner and James Scurlock to reading about the other side of their tragic story in print.

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Smart people kept telling me I had to get Peter Marlette, GM of Union Omaha on and, wow… We have an episode with his incredible backstory that we’ll release soon - he has an amazing journey going from All-American college soccer star to international soccer player to world-class branding expert to now living his dream of running a soccer club and falling in love with Omaha - but today he tells us about the ‘high stress’ start to this season, sticking it out through the tough times and who he leaned on for advice, and how satisfying it is closing out strong. He looks ahead - both to the exciting finish of this season, and where professional soccer in Omaha is heading in the next five years…So before a different kind of football takes over around here, give Union Omaha a look - information on tickets here - as they make their playoff run.What else?Some say it’s ‘Global Warming,’ some say ‘Climate Change,’ some say it’s just the natural order of things this time of season - but I’ve looked at the stats, y’all - and I can definitively state that the biggest contributor to this heat wave we’ve had this week is the crazy amount of energy generated by so many people around here furiously clicking ‘play’ on OMAPOD this week! I did not know how long it would take to get over 1000 completed plays but I sure did not expect it would happen in hour 27. So thanks to YOU for an EPIC start - but we’re going even bigger next week! See you Monday morning…

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Grab a tall glass of lemonade and (try to) chill with some Northwest Omaha LEGENDS today on the pod - we’ve got Clarissa Love & her daughter, NYC-based poet Shawn Love-Bradley talking about their cultural presentation/art show and book I Have A Voice. The book is available for purchase here.

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Ted Carter may be leaving - but we’re heading back down to The University of Nebraska-Lincoln today for a discussion with the Dean of the CoJMC, Dr. Shari Veil, where we chat about crisis communications and what drew her to become a leading expert in that field; the shifting Omaha and statewide media landscape; creating and developing an eSports program at the college; and how Ahman Green went from pro football player to Professor.

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GOOOOOOOD MORNIN’ OMAHA! And to the many, many new subscribers who jumped on board yesterday - you’ve got great taste - congrats! And welcome!In less than 24-hours of being live so far, yesterday’s pod racked up hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of listens… So, look - I get it - you were out at P!NK late last night and had three too many in an attempt to forget about the ST!NK lingering all over The Chuck from the wretched masses ‘dancing’ and it’s Tuesday and the weekend feels like forever away and the temperature feels like it hates your guts. Take a deeeeeeep breath - hit play right up there and relax… We’re talkin’ libraries, baby! Doesn’t that just sound wonderful on a day like today? Yes, yes it does…And if you want to get tickets to Molly Shannon and Susan Orlean, click here and do it! You deserve it!

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Good morning!Welcome to a new day in Omaha. And a new era.We’re changing, evolving and growing - and, sweating mostly. I’ve been blown away by the incredible support I’ve received and the interest people have shown in this venture - so thank you so much!I walked around The RiverFront after the ceremonial ribbon-cutting on Friday and experienced a brand new perspective on the familiar - and that’s what I hope to offer you as I kick off my own virtual “Grand Opening” with Day One of OMAPOD today. Welcome to an independent new option in the Omaha media landscape. Welcome to OMAPOD!

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