Rosengate and 2:00 closing

Saturday’s show tackled two issues that are fairly hot right now in Omaha:
1. The upcoming City Council vote to extend bar closing times
2. The gate that now surrounds Rosenblatt Stadium and the future of fun at the CWS

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Hail Varsity Framing

Quick promo:  if you are looking to get any sort of sports memorabilia framed, give our friends at Hail Varsity Framing a call.

Hail Varsity specializes in jerseys, programs, posters (including collectable concert posters), art…you name it.  They have extensive experience, and clients include the UNO Athletic Department and all sorts of serious Nebraska collectors.

If interested, call Aaron at (402) 250-2645 or e-mail at hailvarsity@hotmail.com

Our Letter To The Omaha City Council

Nothing new here that we haven’t said on our show (about 10,000 times), nor is it any sort of groundbreaking missive on the virtues of a later closing time for the City.  But, we thought we would share our viewpoint one last time and the letter we sent along to the Omaha City Council.

Here you go…

Dear Council Members,

We are the co-hosts of The Weekly Grind, a weekly radio program on KOIL AM 1180 that is known as Omaha’s only young professionals radio show.

While we do not think so highly of ourselves that we think we exclusively speak for Omaha’s young professionals, we do believe that we have a strong insight into this part of our population, and have learned a lot on this topic in our year and a half researching and preparing for our radio show every week.

You all have an important issue coming in front of you next week, and that is of whether or not Omaha should allow bars, restaurants, and taverns to stay open until 2:00 am.

We all believe that this is a “no-brainer:”  Omaha’s closing time should extend to 2am.

As a city with so much opportunity to recruit young professionals to Omaha, we–as a city–should be doing everything we can to align ourselves with the other top 50 metros of the U.S. so we can sell this vibrant metro area to young professionals and companies on the wonderful ways we differentiate ourselves from similar-sized cities.  By extending our closing time, it is one less way that we potentially negatively differentiate ourselves currently.

We also believe this would be another positive step in gaining commitments from major organizations to hold their conferences and meetings here.  Because, let’s face it:  companies do not select meeting places just because there is a nice room available.  They want somewhere their people will be excited about going to.  The extended closing time adds to this.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly:  this gives business owners further freedom to run their businesses as they see fit.  It gives them the OPTION to keep their establishments open until 2am–it does not force them to do so.

We hope that you take this opportunity to further enable us to recruit exciting events, new businesses, and young professionals to our great city.

Additionally:  should any of you want to share your viewpoint on this subject on the air, we would absolutely welcome you on to our program this Saturday either over the phone or in person.  We broadcast from 10am-11am from NRG Media, 50th and Capitol.

Regards,
Mike Shearer
Jeff Peterson
Bryan Mohr
The Weekly Grind

Big Ten Breakdown

On Saturday’s show, your hosts of the Weekly Grind gave their breakdown of Nebraska moving to the Big Ten. We also heard from former Husker tight end, John Bowling.

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A very sandy Saturday show


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Our guest of honor was Tim McCormack. Tim has a long history of starting and running successful recreational sport businesses. He started McCormack’s volleyball in Millard years ago. Currently, that business is called Digs and it’s an incredibly popular place for sand volleyball in Omaha.

Today, Tim is starting a new venture called Thunder Beach. Not only does Thunder Beach offer sand volleyball, they it will also offer sand soccer – a first for Omaha.

Thunder Beach is also a good opportunity to make some cash as a franchisee.

So if you’re interested in learning more, we suggest you check out the website at thunderbeachUSA.com. You can also contact Tim at 402-953-3054.

Naked Cleaning & Lindsay Lohan

With topics like that, it’s safe to say Saturday’s episode may have been a couple notches above PG-13. But that’s exactly why it was pretty hilarious. Saturday also marked the long-awaited return of Celebrity Headlines. Much thanks to Heidi Montag and America.

Enjoy.

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Saturday, May 22 with Dan Napoli

Another good show on Saturday. If you missed it, our special guest was Dan Napoli, ass-kicker/owner of his own production company called Disconnected MediaThey have a very progressive and awesome business model and they crank out some pretty sweet work. I highly suggest you check them out.

We also got some insight from his 9-year-old daughter, Sophia. Funny stuff.

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Word up.

Saturday’s Show

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Gettin’ Nerdy on Thirty and the ACG


If you missed Saturday’s show, you missed one of our best shows so far this year.
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First we chatted with Brian Gilbreth, founder and president of the Association for Corporate Growth Nebraska chapter. It’s an awesome organization that is going to do some great things for Omaha. To learn more about them, and to register to become a member, visit http://www.acg.org/nebraska And be sure to check the website for a schedule of their upcoming breakfasts at Happy Hollow Country Club, like the one on June 10 with speaker Mike McCarthy of McCarthy Capital.

Our second guest was the lovely and hilarious Wendy Townley, author of Nerdy Thirty, observations and advice from a lifelong nerd. It was a really fun interview and we even gave away a signed copy of Nerdy Thirty, which hits the book stands sometime this week. And if you’d like to meet Wendy, you have plenty of opportunities at these events:

Celebrate the publication of Nerdy Thirty on Saturday, May 22 at Myth in Omaha’s historic Old Market district. From 6 to 9 p.m., receive a free glass of champagne when you purchase a copy – or have an existing copy – signed by Wendy. (Who doesn’t enjoy the bubbly?)

Saturday, June 5, 6:30 @ Omaha Press Club – Listen to Wendy give readings of Nerdy Thirty while you also enjoy inklings from cartoonist / author Jeffrey Koterba, and Are You Going To Eat That? author Michael Campbell. Again, that’s Saturday, June 5 at 6:30 at the Omaha Press Club. A cocktail reception begins at 5:30 p.m., with the three readings starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door, which includes hors d’oeuvres and one cocktail.

At to put the cherry on top of an already great show, we closed it out by talking about the potential Big 10 expansion, with Jeff absolutely land-basting Texas. It was comedy gold.

Thanks again to all our listeners and sponsors. And check out the websites for our guests!

We went there – Arizona Immigration


Oh yes we did. With guest host Nate Hales, Saturday’s show started with an in-depth discussion about the highly controversial Arizona immigration law. Later in the show we lightened it up a little with a discussion about the many benefits of the Berkshire meeting in Omaha. Then the cherry on top was a quick discussion about the possible expansion of the Big Ten conference, and what that could possible mean to the Nebraska Cornhuskers and all of college football.

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Thanks again to all our listeners and sponsors!