Omaha appears to miss it's best shot at a pro hockey team...for now.

Episode Transcript

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You have a lot in common withyour siblings. Like it. You guys
have a lot that you share,are they Is there something that you like
brings you together to talk about?Yeah, it's a mix. I think
that it's a mix. Uh.There are certain things about the four of
us that are make us unique andstand out in certain ways and in our

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personalities, our likes, dislikes,things like that. But then there are
other things that we share a lotof, you know, common enjoyment from
whether it's laughing at the same things, or liking the same sports teams,
or you know, having you know, just similarities. I don't know,
you know, it's it's a complicatedconversation, it is. And I think

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for me, my uh, mypersonal belief is, you know, my
my sister and I are very different. Like we've been very different since we
basically got to high school. It'skind of where the biggest changes were because
we shared a lot of things incommon. And maybe that just the influence
I had because she's younger than me. Where are you are you the oldest
youngest? I am one of thetwo middle kids. I'm second second to

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oldest. Okay, well that changesthings, right because the younger kids are
influenced pretty heavily by the older siblingfor a while until they start kind of
venturing out on their own, kindof developing their own personalities. It's pretty
pretty fascinating stuff. I agree.I think that birth order is a really

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interesting thing to think and talk.But also how the parents raise a kid.
Right Like, the first kid comes, you're kind of learning on the
fly there, right like, likeyou're doing things that you think you should
be doing and stuff. And bythe time the second kid comes around,
you got a little bit more experienceand you might do things a little bit
differently with that child. I cantell you what, as the oldest kid,
I was just like, what theheck, man, why didn't I

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get to do all that stuff?But you know, Calm Sea Compside is
what. Thing in Philadelphia is abig news that has occurred this afternoon.
Five people, officially, according tothe police in West Philadelphia. They are
arrested and multiple firearms were recovered.It was an Islamic religious celebration the end

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of the holy month of Ramadan.There was a gathering there for this.
According to the people who were there, hundreds of people were in attendance for
this. There were people of allages there, according to the police that

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were in this area, and therewere already police there because of the large
gathering that was scheduled, a largevolume of gunfire began, according to Philadelphia
Police commission Kevin Bethel. Now,the police in Philadelphia believed that two groups
in the park started to exchange gunfireagain. This happened two thirty pm Eastern

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time. It's a broad daylight,broad daylight in the middle of a highly
populated area right here where police were. Officers stopped three males in one female
who were running, according to KevinBethel, Philadelphia Police Commissioner, and they

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engaged with the fifteen year old malesuspect. They had to shoot him and
the shoulder in the leg and recoverhis weapon, and then he was sent
to the hospital. One person takento the hospital with a wound to the
stomach, and a juvenile went tothe hospital with a gunshot wound to the
hands. Again, and this isthe for the most part, that's the

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extent of that. I'm not missinganything, am I From what we know,
that's about that's about all the detailsthat we have at this point.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like thesetwo groups had anything to do with the
celebration of Ramadan, which to meis good. It's nice to know that
this was not some religious attack onpeople who were practicing the right to you

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know, freedom of religion in thiscountry. However, this is another likely
gang violence you would figure. Butwe have gone into a stage and again
this is just different places. Thereare a lot of places in America something
like this isn't gonna happen. Butwe are in a place now where guns

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are the answer, ladies and gentlemen, that that is the answer to all
of our problems. These these thekind of behavior that is happening in these
regards. It's it's we're gonna haveguns and we're gonna try to shoot people
and kill people. And that remindsme about the stupid thing that happened to
the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City. Just oh yeah, we're delinquents carrying

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guns and we get angry and thenwe start grabbing our gun and just firing
at people. You know, itmakes you And I'm not an advocate for
violence at all. I mean,certainly, if I were to get into
a hand to hand fight with almostanyone, I certainly would not be interested
in taking part in that, likelybecause I would probably lose. But there

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used to be a time in thisworld, in this country that you settled
your differences without having to shoot eachother. Now it's not all that uncommon.
Gosh. The most famous Broadway playof the in this century is what
Hamilton? What is the climax ofHamilton? Hate to spoil it for you.
I've never seen it. Well youknow the story though, right?

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Not really? How does it end? Some guys in wigs a duel?
Yeah? I have a duel?They have a duel? Yeah, there
you go. See I got there. I put two and two together.
Two guys who hate each other challengeeach other to a duel. Now they
don't just like show up in likepop pop pop pop pop, right,

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They do it in more formal andthey're like rules and stuff. But the
idea is you're going to shoot oneof the one of you, two or
both of you are going to getshot and maybe die. That was two
hundred and twenty years ago. Whatare we doing? Right? How insane

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is this? That was happening thenit's still happening, it's just now we
don't announce it and the wigs aregone and it's not like government officials doing
it in an official capacity. Thatis true. That is true, the
government. You'll stop doing that.Yeah, Tucker Carlson and Dan Crenshaw are
not going to duel. Yeah,no, No, that's a good point.

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Could you imagine though, Hey,if it's all for the clicks that
would get them, that would getthem, and I would not watch me
neither. I'd stay on cartoons dotorg or whatever. I was trying to
think of a Yeah, something thatis not sponsorable exactly. Yeah, okay.

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So basically the point I'm making hereis what happened in Philadelphia today is
just another example of the increase inviolence that the youth of America feel like
is necessary for them to live theirlife. Somehow, I have no idea
how fifteen year old is being toldthat guns are the answer to anything.
But again, I can't speak uponwhat the culture is of these various locations
and the people that they are around. And this, probably more than anything,

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has to do with the lack offamily role models. You could say
the schools and everything, but theschools and a lot of these places are
underfunded and they don't have the abilityto come to reach these kinds of kids
either. It's tough, man,it's a tough situation. But we'll get
you more details as we find out. But I'm relieved to know or learn
that this doesn't seem to have anyindication of any religious targeting. This just

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so happened to be taking place inan area at a park where a large
gathering to celebrate the end of Ramadanwas taking place, even though it had
nothing to do with the actual shooting. Four seventeen is the time when we
come back. We talked about siblingsjust a little bit. I want to
talk about our elderly because there isa notable elderly man who you know,

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I tend to like his work,but paparazzi still follow him around and taking
pictures, and people have bad thingsto say about the pictures. And I
want to investigate this because this isanother thing of where is our society going
and how can we stop it fromgetting too far off the tracks. I'll
explain myself next on news radio elevento ten Kfab Emery's songer on news Radio

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KFAB. Remember what we were talkedabout last week about sports in this market.
You remember that there's a pro volleyballteam and strong over eleven thousand people
per game to their games. There'speople who proposed a new arena in Gretna

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to potentially lure an NHL team.We talked about the viability of our market
potentially being able to be you know, a future side of maybe an NBA
team. You never know, othermarkets similarly sized, at least their cities
similarly sized to ours, could wesupport that maybe? Well, remember I

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told you that the NHL there aresome some teams they have to figure out
what the heck's going on. Well, there was a recent proposal by Assault
Lake City Group for an NHL franchise, like very recent and now within like
days, sources are telling the Dailyface Off, which is a publication for

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NHL News, that the NHL,the Arizona Coyotes, and their ownership group
have made significant progress on a frameworkof an agreement to relocate the Arizona Coyotes
to Salt Lake City and a memois sent to the governors of the league
today. Long way to go,but they say that that is that it

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could be happening that like like thatMatt case, what does this mean for
us? That means Salt Lake Cityif this happens. That's an NBA team
and an NHL team, But youwould think they'd have the infrastructure to make
that work. So many of thesetypes of teams share arenas. Shouldn't be
that big of a deal for themto do that. They don't have to
build anything, right, They couldjust figure out how to work with the

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Jazz to make that that arena workfor them. But this takes one of
the possible chips off the board forthat NHL thing. It's disappointing to see
we were we were a little behindon building that arena. Sounds like what
Salt Lake City got that we don'tmountains, less people, salt less bars,

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Mormons. I mean there's probably Mormonshere. Yeah, probably quite a
bit of them, actually more inSalt Lake City though, Yeah, safe
to say, yeah, higher percentageof the population. What else? What
else do they have? But whatdo we got that's that's better for hockey?
How can we how can we turnthis around? Take to the blocks

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we have? Well, I mean, you need the arena though, Matt,
I mean they're gonna play chi niceas that would be. That is
just not viable. That's why they'reproposing a new one. It's just dah.
Yeah, maybe we didn't have thedental infrastructure. You do need a
good team of dentists if you're gonnahave a whole hot pro hockey team.

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I've heard dentists in Omaha are actuallyquite good at what they do. Well,
then maybe we should you know whatwe need to do. By the
way, if you're a dentist outthere and you're interested in advertising on an
afternoon show, feel free to contactme Emory at KFP dot com. Absolutely,
let's you know what, though,you know who's not going to advertise
on your show. A dentist fromSalt Lake City. Oh yeah, well
of course, I've also heard they'renot very good. Well, how would

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they know. Let's start that theyhave the Book of Mormon. Is a
book that they they read, right, I don't think they use that for
for dentistry. Is there a Bookof Mormon for dentistry? I wouldn't know.
Is it something that people are like, well, this doesn't seem to
be like a real thing. Idon't know. I don't know, but

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I do think it would be acompelling uh, you know, strategy,
counter strategy, just maybe put someput some things out there on the message
boards. Maybe uh, Salt LakeCity doesn't have the right dentists for the
job to house a whole pro hockeyteam. You know, we've got a
good college hockey team in town.You know. Yeah, we're rolling it
down pretty well. We still needthat arena anyway. All right, Well,

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it sounds like that might be somethingthat's happening. If you got thoughts
on it, you can call usat four h two five five eight to
eleven ten. Four h two fivefive eight eleven ten is the number.
You can also email me, especiallyif you're a dentist looking to advertising the
afternoons on this radio station at Emmeryatkfab dot com. Not that I'm soliciting.
I'm just saying it's there. Dowith that information, which you will,
and we'll talk about elderly people thatused to be in the public guy

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who are not in the public eye. Are you comfortable with the paparazzi still
harassing them and are you comfortable withour society having things to say about the
way that they look or act.I'll explain how I feel about it next
on news radio eleven ten KFAB.Emery Songa on news radio eleven ten k

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FAB also Matt in his and hisbio, he says winning is the best
deodorant. M good quote bad quote. Well, I see what he's I
see where he's coming from with thatstank off you. Yeah, by winning

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well in a literal sense, no, because sometimes it requires quite a bit
of sweat, you know, tosucceed, to win, and even winning,
I mean it's stinky with all thatchampagne in there, you know.
Yeah. So if you're talking literally, no, but figuratively, it's an
interesting argument, all right, fairenough, he says. Sources tell the
Daily Face Off the NHL Arizona Coyotesand their ownership group have made significant progress

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on the framework of an agreement torelocate the team to Salt Lake City,
Utah. And then I just sawthe Arizona Coyotes admin on their x account
says we're committed to keeping Coyotes hockeyin the desert and building an arena in
Phoenix, And they shared a videocelebrating the very few good times this team
has had since they became a thingin the mid nineties. Was one of

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those, the Coyote falling off acliff that is the road run No Yah,
Frank Coyote I think i'd just befunny if that made the montage,
you know, if they needed tostretch it for time. Yeah, no,
well it's only thirty seconds long,so yeah, it's there's not a
lot there. And you made theargument, we're trying to figure out we're
wanting an NHL team here, likewe think there might be a chance,

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and there's things about that thing inGretna building an arena for USA Volleyball,
and also like trying to get anNHL expansion franchise or a relocated team here.
This would have been my like,Okay, well, if you can
get that thing figured out in thenext five years, then all of a
sudden, you know, the earsin a Coyotes, they certainly would be
in the mix to potentially do that. We talked about this with the Oakland
A's, right because the A's aregoing to move to Sacramento for three years

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before moving to Vegas permanently, whichis also very strange and weird to think
about. Well, if you gotthoughts on this, you can you're argument
was maybe the best dentists, wehave better dentists here. Who knows,
well, I thought, you know, hockey team, you might lose a
tooth, you're going to need agood dentist. Apparently have better dentists here.

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We can't speak on that. Wehaven't been to Salt Lake City.
Maybybe we can talk to somebody whohas Matt's on the phone line of four
two, five, five, eighteleven ten, Matt, you got something
for us on this. Yeah.So I think one of the things that's
seeing overlooked here is the arena space. I know, we've got the arena
over by U n O out inUtah. They for they have a minor

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league hockey team already. Yeah,so they've the first few years that they
played there, they played in thesame arena as the Jazz played, and
they had you know, the facilitiesthere where they could convert from a basketball
court to a hockey rink day today. But then they built their own
arena there and they've been pretty goodat filling that arena each day. So
I think that might be part ofwhat they're using to convince the NHL that

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they're ready for a national like abig league team. Well that Salt Lake
City put in or like a proposalfor this just a few days ago.
It feels like this it didn't theyjust had put together a proposal I had
read, and now all of asudden, like they're like, oh yeah,
like that actually makes a lot ofsense. Let's just do that.
You know more about sal Lake Citythan I do. What's it like over

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there? Beautiful? It is beautiful. I've told people at my job here,
if you know, I love thejob that I have here, and
if we could take the mountains andthe beauty of that area and bullet out
here, I'd be perfect right here. All right, all right, fair
enough, fair enough. I knowthat a lot of people enjoy that kind
of topography that you have over therein Utah and with those rocky mountains.

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Is the Utah Grizzlies that professional hockeyteam you were talking about, Yeah,
yeah, okay, I'm going tofigure out. They play at Maverick at
the Mavericks Center, and its capacityis twelve thousand, so that's pretty it's
a little small for NHL standards,but it's it's like three times the size
is what they're playing with this arenathat they're playing in at the campus of

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Arizona State right now. They're they'rehaving all sorts of problems, but it's
pretty interesting. Oh We're gonna keepan eye on this. Appreciate the It'salt
Lake City Info. Matt, thanksfor calling in. Thank you. Linda's
on the full line. Four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Hey Linda, what do you got? Hey, So you don't have
much of an argument for no dentistin Utah because a lot of a lot

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of dentists come here to go toCreighton to dental school for Utah and over
their years they're spending awful lot ofthem. Well, well, Matt,
what do you have to say foryourself? I'm looking, I'm scrolling through
page after page the teeth in Utah, missing teeth every which while. Boy,

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I just I'm leaning into this ridiculousstatement. We have better teeth in
Omaha than than Utah. And Ithink that a hockey team would do a
better job here with a better webof dentistreet better better web of care overall
of the chicklets. I don't know, if I don't educated. Well that's

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that's good though, right who wejust like rope them back in over here.
We could just you know, havethem come back and help us get
this team. Well, we'll workon that. Linda, Thanks for the
call. Bye and Matt. Yeah, I talked to a couple of BYU
fans for that show. Remember whenI was over there down downtown for the

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n C Double A Tournament. Theb YU Cougars are playing in Omaha,
and there are a couple of guysthat I talked to on the show.
One was name is Quinn. Theother guy was something else was his name.
But nice guys. They are from. This is weird, okay.

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They were both both born and raisedin Phoenix, where the Coyotes are right
now, went up to BYU andwent to college at BYU in Utah where
the coyotes potentially might move. Andthen they also also we're now they're living

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here. One of them's going toNebraska. One of them's going to Creighton
for medical training. Jeremy was theother guy's name. Sorry, Jeremy looked
it up. Quinn and Jeremy,those guys. Yeah, So I mean
there's some connections for you. They'regetting into medical they're radiology g students.

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So this isn't helping the thing Iwas trying to create here. So the
Delta Center is the jazz arena thatthey have there. It could seed up
to twenty thousand for basketball, forice hockey, it could seed up to
fourteen thousand. That's enough for thisteam. I mean it probably is,
right. I mean, nobody goesto these games anyway, they'd be building

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a team, a fan base fromscratch. All I'm saying is we are
drawing twice as many people that caneven go to the games for the Phoenix
Coyotes or the Arizona Coyotes, forthe Omaha Supernovas. I mean, what
are we doing here? What arewe doing here? Yeah? I mean

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for Pete's sake? Oh, anyway, how do we get Omaha on them?
Like? How do we how dowe accelerate all this? Is there
a way? How do we getthe NHL to be like no, no,
no, no, no, don'tjust just just hold out for a

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few years. Let us figure ourarena thing out and then like, if
we can build it, bring themover, Like we're a way better fit
than they are. Oh yeah,there's a movie for that. You know,
if if we build it, theywill come. I think that's as
simple as it is. And weneed to have that blind faith we need
to have. Aren't the Colorado Avalanchejust sitting there just like hey, those
people probably cheer for us, likewhat are you doing? Why are you
taking some of our fans? Right? Doesn't it isn't that how that works.

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I feel like we're far enough fromlike Denver and Colorado that but I'm
talking about the Coyotes going to SaltLake City, So Lake City is like
between the Colorado Avalanche and like theVegas gold Knights just got there. Yeah,
I don't know. We might havemissed the We might have missed the
boat on the Coyotes. We mighthave to just do the product ourselves and
hope that there's another disgruntled team withthe terrible arena or market situation. We

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could just steal their team, ormaybe you know, they just decided to
expand some more. I don't know. Four forty six. Beyond that,
we will talk about old people andthe thought of why do we hold general
society standards in the same way forthem in some regards but not in others.

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It's kind of a complicated conversation thatI want to have with you.
Next Sunday's Radio eleven ten Kfab,em Ry's songer on news Radio eleven ten
Kfab, we talk about aging peopleand how we talk about them. Matt
case is my producer. Is thereanybody that you know or that anybody that
you is in your family that youwould talk to regularly and you just kind

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of thought to yourself, Man,they did not age well like I'm talking
about I'm talking about their their looks. Uh well, first off, what's
common with my mom and dad's sideis that the older you get, the
better looking you get. Well,that's good to I wouldn't even I wouldn't
even begin to understand. We agelike fine wine, okay from the hills

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of Sicily, I don't think that'salso true. But I that you didn't
answer the question, but you dohear about these people? Yeah? Who
when they get older or you oryou even see right, like you can
make that determination in your brain,not that you're saying it to people out
loud, like oh that person.I mean, you could guess how old
a person might be and be like, oh, well that person looks more

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seventy five than they do sixty.Yeah, everybody, Yeah, everybody age
is different. You know, itis right? Yeah, for sure?
Is it wrong of us to talklike that, to think like that?
And the reason I bring this upis, are you familiar with the actor
Gene Hackman. He stars in many, many fine films over the years,

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and that includes one of my favoritesof all time, Hoosiers, where he's
coach Norman Dale. He's in Bonnieand Clyde, Mississippi Burning. I mean,
there's just all sorts of good stuffthat he's done over the years.
Wow. Yeah, absolutely a lotof great stuff. Now Gene Hackman's ninety

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four years old. Wow, congratsto him. And he has been spotted
for photographed by people in the paparazziwalking around outside in New Mexico where he
lives. He hasn't acted for twentyyears. He's been out of the public

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eye for the most part for thatlong twenty years. He's an old man
now, he looks like an oldman. He's ninety four. Yeah.
I kind of have a problem withhim filming this guy. Yeah, should
you have a chance once you getout of the public eye, just to
like be there, Like, whowas out there looking for Gene Hackman?

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Yeah, that's the question. Man, you're hunting for clicks and you're out
there, I mean, if you'rethat Jean Hackman's the guy, If that's
you and that was your assignment newsto you get a new job. They
don't value you as an employee.Hey go find Gene Hackman. They're just
the guy you sent off to godo something. And then they found him,

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and and then the New York Postwrote a whole big thing about it.
It's like, yeah, he looksold. He doesn't look the same
that he used to when he wasin his prime. The problem there they
probably didn't think that employee was goingto find him. He's a recluse,
so they thought he won't even findhim. We'll never see this guy again.
Finally, get this weirdo out ofour hair, get him off our
payroll. But he finds him.He writes a whole piece on it.
Here we are today. Yeah,yeah, I don't know. That's a

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rough That is a rough, look, I tell you what. I want
to talk about this more into thefive o'clock hour, though, because I
think we need to be a littlebit more sensitive about the way that we
treat talk about even celebrities, evenpoliticians who are getting into elderly age,
if they are trying to actively retireor to get out of the public eye,

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we should let them age however they'dlike to. There are some people,
people that really like the spotlight.Some would rather just live their lives,
and I just it feels awkward tome that we're talking about a ninety
four year old guy like this.We'll talk more about it in the five
o'clock hour news radio eleven tin kfab