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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The friction is existing between the two like political sides
in Israel, and then Y'aho is certainly trying to make
himself as attractive as possible because he wants to remain
in power. But we said yesterday that the far right
or the right leaning people in the government in Israel,
we're unhappy with the idea that there was going to
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be a deal at all because they don't want this
war to end. Now we can say what we want
about you know, if that constitutes genocide, if that constitutes
you know, trying to just completely eliminate a population of
people in whatever it takes to get rid of the terrorists.
But we know, right we know how this operates. If
we've resolved this problem right now, how many years do
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you give it before there's another one that arises in
the region. And that's why it's so imperative for the
United States and the European allies of the United States,
and maybe even places like Katar or Egypt who are
willing to kind of work together to get this stuff
done in the best way that they can and try
to avoid there being a terrorist presence in Gaza or
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really anywhere in the proximity of Israel, even though there
are different groups that exist around the area, but Israel
doesn't even want to mess with that, at least their
far right party doesn't want to mess with that. You
know what they want They want to They want to
just eradicate Hamas to where it no longer exists. And
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I just don't know what the realistic nature of that is.
I don't know if there's a moment where you're just like, okay,
we know that they're gone. Now are you battling an
ideology or are you batting battling specific people. And if
you're battling specific people or an ideology, how far does
that extend to just the citizenship of this area that
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is generally the populace that would share those ideals. It's difficult.
It's difficult to know. And that's why I think getting
to a deal would be the best scenario for the world,
because that could stop fighting. It would eliminate the risk
of this blowing up into a larger regional war. But
like I mentioned yesterday, there's always that chance that if
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you were Hamas and you're trying to change parts of
the conditions here, and that's really the biggest of the
hang ups you might be just sitting there. Let's let
me talk about it like this, Matt. Have you played
Monopoly before. It's been a little bit, but I sure have.
You know, you can make deals in Monopoly where it's like,
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I'll give you one hundred dollars in cash for boardwalk.
That might be a good example because that's, you know,
pretty obvious the boardwalk's worth more than that. But and
I say yes immediately. It's just like I'll give you
I'll take boardwalk for one hundred bucks. And then you're like, no, wait,
that's make it two hundred dollars. I'll give it to
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you for two hundred dollars. Because you're not good at
making deals or you think you asked for too little
and you didn't think that they would accept your terms, right,
It's like, oh, I could have asked for more. Let
me ask for more real quick, you know, changing your
mind after the deal seemingly was made. You know how
that you know you know there are people out there
just like that. You know, it's like, hey, Matt, I'll
give you this bag of tomatoes for five dollars and
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you'll be like, oh, yeah, easy, And I was like, wait, no,
can I have ten dollars instead.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you said yes right away. It makes you think
I could have said seven, I could have said eight,
I could have said twelve.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You didn't, though, exactly. I get that vibe with Hamas.
Every time it seems like there's an agreement on the table,
it's always them deciding they want to change the conditions
or ask for more because they're like, oh, I didn't
expect that to be accepted. Maybe I could get more
out of this deal. What I think if that's the case,
And again I think that, and Yahoo also is under
a bit of pressure from people within his own country
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and in his own government that don't want this to end.
Because HAMAS is still existing. There are still people within HAMAS,
and we can debate like how much of a threat
that could end up being for however long a period
of time in the merit of that, But in terms
of just the negotiation side of this, Donald Trump's not
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playing around. He's not going to play around. And again,
the deal itself, as Rory mentioned, if it gets done
at twelve oh one on January the twentieth, how funny
would it be that this actually doesn't happen or take
place until Trump is in office, so there is no
question about who is the most at you know, most
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responsible for getting this done right, and that might have
something to do with this. I'm just thinking to myself,
Hamas can't be playing around, and I wonder if they're
thinking we're already decimated. You know, most of these guys,
they're in it to the death anyway. It's just kind
of like in their mindset, these are guys that have
no problem, you know, putting their lives on the line
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for what they believe in, which is make why they
are so dangerous because they, oh, yeah, we're fine, like
this is our religion. The people that are you know,
you know, creating these operations, they realize that we have
to to you know, sacrifice ourselves for this. Like there
are many people in world history that have been incredibly
dangerous because they do not care about the consequences of
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their own lives. So I'm wondering if Hamas specifically feels
of their group. We've taken so many losses, all the
leadership is gone. What is just waiting this out to
see exactly what happens and if the United States decides
to come and have a bigger presence in the Middle East,
who might wake up, who might decide that they need
to play some ball. Now, how about that big old
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country with all that oil. How about that big old
country that is kind of operating all these terrorist groups
around the Middle East? Anyway, Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran,
and then you've got a regional war. Hamas has bailed out,
and we continue the fighting for as long as they
feel like it's necessary. Is there a chance that Hamas,
in their brains, their brain trust, is like, you know what,
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forget this, Let's not sign this paper, Let's string this out.
Let's see if we can get Donald Trump in the
United States to overreact. As soon as he gets into office,
and as soon as they come here Iran decides to
get involved in boom, we got a bigger deal and
Israel could still potentially get wiped off the map. The
mission could still be accomplished. That's something that I'm thinking
in the back of my head. If you're Hamas, why
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would you make a deal at this point? What else
do you have to lose? If you really like, if
your goal is to try to destroy Israel? And this
is why I can see the guys in Israel who
are on the further right of the spectrum, telling Benjamin
ET and Yahoo and the people that are doing the negotiating,
we want the hostage release. We want to get thirty
three of our hostages, will trade them some Palestinian prisoners.
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But you know what we want to do after that,
the ceasefire deal. I want the war to continue. I
want to be able to go back out there. I
want to be able to attack these guys who want
us to disappear.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I want to eliminate them.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And unfortunately, the way that this is going to look
is even in self defense, that's going to look like
a genocidal process, right of trying to eliminate these terrorist groups.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Because even if.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You eliminate Hamas, have you eliminated Helma stands for yeah, Hesbula,
you signed a treaty to stop the fighting with them.
Who's to say they're not going to rally and come
back and have another war in ten years with Israel.
Who's to say that, who Thi's aren't going to continue
to do this. Who's to say Syria is going to
get their stuff put together and then they have a
violent takeover and then they also get back into the mix.
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You know, who can we trust, and who aren't we
able to trust and what like? How are we supposed
to predict what's going to happen in the most volatile
area and region in the world. There's no way to know.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm still praying for a resolution to this. I want peace.
If a deal can be met that Israel and the
United States thinks are a good deal, then I want
that to be agreed upon. I don't want to see
people losing their life in a war, especially civilians, for
any reason. I don't root for this stuff. I think
the world's better when we aren't fighting each other. I
would hope that most people feel that way. However, at
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the same time, if that isn't the right deal, or
if the people in Israel feel like there's still an
existential threat to their existence in the Middle East as
we know it until they fully eradicate Hamas, even if
that takes more time, even if that means the United
States has to get somewhat involved, then I guess we
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have to listen to their concerns. That's what being an
ally is. But only time is going to tell on
how serious this is going to get. From now until Monday,
and hopefully that's the end. But if it's not, then
I guess we'll see how Donald Trump handles it, because
he said that we'll be held today if those hostages
are not released by the time he takes office. All right,
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here we go. It's three twenty seven. We'll talk more
when we come back on news radio eleven ten KFAB
and Ree on news radio eleven ten kfab. It's looking
at some of the news we talked about this Iran
and Middle East stuff. I don't I don't want to
do it anymore of this. What do you think like
there's a level I think of sadness that we can
(08:58):
talk about this. And we talked to about Jack Hoffman
yesterday briefly, and it's been great to see so many
tributes to him around the world of sports, but also
just around Nebraska and people remembering him. So that's you know,
it's sad to lose him, but what a fighter and
what he stood for. We had another tough loss today.
(09:18):
They see this Bob Yuker. Bob Uker, you remember Bob Uker.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He was in it. He was in a movie, right,
was he in one of those Major League or something
like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Brewers announcer, former MLB player, but known I think best
as that guy, the announcer from Major League. Just a
bit outside, we were talking about Ken the Hawk Harrelson
and how much of an influence he had on me,
the White Sox announcer when I was growing up. These
are people that like you spend so much time with them, right, Like,
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if you were a Brewers fan, you heard Bob Youuker.
He's been you know, when he started doing the broadcast
for their games the early seventies, he was doing their game.
Still he was doing a tunk of their game as
one of the radio guys. This past season he was
ninety years old. That's a lifetime dude. That people were
listening to Bob Buker and the influence that he would
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have had in just like the like, this is a
guy if you're in media, that's the guy. He had
fun everything that he was a part of. He looked
like he was enjoying himself. He had a lot of
joy to him. He seemed like such a nice guy.
Nobody has any bad things to say about him, and
he got to do what he loved to do. For
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fifty three years he was a broadcaster for the same team.
I mean how incredible is that. We talk about longevity,
we talk about making an impact with people. This is
a guy who made an impact and then he just
happened to, you know, play a really funny broadcaster in
a movie and crushed it in that movie too. Is
there a better announcer like character in a movie? Like,
can you think of one?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, I mean, I don't know if i've actually I'm
not super familiar with that movie, to be completely honest.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Some of the lines, yeah, sure, Like you know, he's
just this lovable guy who I mean, I'll be honest.
Major League is like not, I don't think it's really
that great of a baseball movie. Like I like it
as a movie, but it's not one of the five
best baseball movies, not like Field Dreams or A League
of their Own or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But it's good movie.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But I'm trying to think of like the announcer types,
the guys who do our job. He's iconic, and one
of the reasons he is because he's an actual real
life announcer. He's gonna be missed. Like that is a
guy for me that I mean, he is, like you
could talk me into Mount Rushmore of like radio announcers,
like baseball radio announcers or just announcers in general in
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the career that he was able to make for himself
and the profile he had based on his personality, like
he's he's as big or in as important as anybody
like I put him up with with, like Vin Scully.
I think a lot of people think Vin Scully's probably
the goat baseball announcer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
John Miller.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Maybe remember Sunday night baseball games John Miller and Joe Morgan.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What a team? What a team?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They just sounded like big time baseball. Uh yeah, there's
there there. I could spend more time doing this, but anyway,
tough loss there as in peace to Bob Buker.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Three.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Two other things that are going on. We were talking
about the cash contest, and I just wanted to mention this.
Guess who won in the two o'clock hour, Go ahead,
go ahead, and guess you'll never guess because it's another
one that we've had multiple winners of already this week.
Oh well, is this new to me? Yeah, it's it's
this is a So it's not Corpus Christy. No, although
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we were talking, Corpus Christy got multiple winners. They actually
got a third winner, so they won three times in
a seven hour period. Corpus Christi, Texas. Somebody's breaking the
algorithm over there. What that keyword? By the way, bonus
bo n us bonus into kfab dot com to have
a chance to win. Palm Beach got another one West
Palm Beach. What about East Palm Beach?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is there an East Palm Beach? So bad for those guys.
It don't get much run these days. East Palm who's
East Palm Beach like? Is? I don't think that exists? Yeah? No, West?
You want to you have a East? I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'll look up real quick, West Palm or East Palm Beach.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
East Palm Beach, all right? There is an East Palm Beach. Nope, Nope,
it's just Palm Beach. So there's a Palm Beach in
a West Palm Beach I don't know. And there's a
South Palm Beach. There's no North Palm Beach or East
Palm Beach. Make that makes sense? Well, I guess it's
Palm Beach, but it's just to the west. I guess
it's weird. West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, East Palm Beach,
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South Palm Beach, whatever, I'm going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
By the way, Tampa.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'll be in Tampa tomorrow, so I'm not gonna be
with you. We'll have fun though, it's a it's gonna
be a good time. I'd love to uh post on
social media, so if you're interested in what we're doing
down there.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I think thor is going to be in tomorrow. He is,
That's right. Thorschrock in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Thors Schrock tomorrow, and then Monday is Inauguration Day. I
won't be back in time for that show, but I
think did Scott say he may end up coming in
and sitting in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
From what I understand, unless something changes, Scott will be
here two to six on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
All right, sounds good. One other thing I wanted to
talk about pretty big news announced by the Omaha Supernovas.
Are friends of the Supernovas. They set a new professional
volleyball attendance record. Congrats to them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That was last Friday. Today they made an announcement they're
leaving Pro Volleyball Federation, the league that they helped start.
They are leaving. I mean that's kind of surprising. You
don't hear that every day. The reigning champions, the you know,
not only are they the reigning champions, but I mean
they are hosted the championship. They have a ton of
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people who are you know involved at a high level.
And then we have that you know, competitor, the Love Volleyball,
which kind of is operating very differently, but they started
and they have an Omaha team, well, the Omaha Supernovas
say after this season they are leaving the Pro Volleyball Federation.
Imagine like a team leaving one league, but they are
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not going to disappear. They're actually helping start a new league.
So and it's going to be called Major League Volleyball,
which is the third one in the US. Now, I
don't know what this is going to look like, but
the only team that we know is going to be
in there right now is the Supernovas. So the league
is going to be operated basically the Supernova's ownership group,
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including Jason Derulo and Danny White who helps yeah he's
part of another the Supernovas and the founder of the
Supernova's Danny White. All these got both of them, the
veik Rondive who is the owner of the Sacramento Kings.
He's a part of this, and they's like Kerry Walsh Jennings,
the legendary beach volleyball player who is a multi time
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gold medalist in the Olympics. Well, Major League Volleyball a
going to be this new league and say they've pumped
in over one hundred million dollars to start this thing.
The Supernovas will be one of the teams, and then
also states like Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, Kansas, Ohio,
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and Washington are set to have franchises as well. I
don't know how many of the teams that are in
the Pro Volleyball Federation are going to be able to
survive the Supernova's leaving. I'm guessing this is the sign
that that infrastructure of the Pro Volleyball Federation it's not
going to be able to last. And I'm going to
guess that multiple teams, if their ownership groups want to
keep them alive, are going to try to transfer them
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over into this new infrastructure. But if they couldn't draw people,
if they didn't have support, this as the one thing
that I think Supernova's fans or people within that organization.
We're worried about is that if we stay in Pro
Volleyball Federation, will the league be able to last? If
we're the only team that's drawing, you know, more than
five thousand people for a game. And I don't know
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all of the intendance numbers, but based on my conversations
with people within the Supernovas, is that we were drawing.
We were out drawing everybody by a lot. Maybe this
is kind of designed to find the right markets to
put these teams in and hopefully they adopt these teams
and care about these teams. And they're planning to start
the league next next January.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Quite an awkward next few months for the Supernovas. Who
are you going to be playing in this league? That
them kind of leaving is going to put this league
in peril. You know, they're big time in the league,
but they deserve it. It kind of sounds like this, you know,
they're a little bit too big for the bridges of
this league. You know, they're going where they need to go.
I think this is a good thing, That's what it
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sounds like to say for the Supernovas. I agree. I
think this is much like conference realignment, where a school
says I'm outgrowing the Mountain West Conference. I better jump
in the Big twelve before or that while the getting's good,
right like TCU, did you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You know, you know why?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, I might be ruining a bunch of traditions and
you know, rivalries and stuff, but you know what, this
is actually gonna be better for.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Us in the long run.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I got to take care of us, and I think
that's what this is for the Supernovas. So congrats to them,
but we'll see exactly what the fallout is. And honestly,
this is the kind of thing that if the pro
Volleyball Federation, like like, if you're you're a fan of
the Grand Rapids Rise or the San Diego Mojo or
the Atlanta Vibe or any of these other teams that
you know are weren't necessarily like announced with this, you
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got to be asking like, how can I be a
part of this? Or does anybody care or show up
at any of these other games? Knowing this team is
just going to cease to exist after this year, it's
quite interesting, to say the least, we'll.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Have more on the Way on news radio eleven ten
kfab Emery Sunger. Yeah, you have to objectively stats wise,
if you just buy the book. It does feel like
there's a little bit of tarnish on his star, considering
the one guy he won with left and then he
didn't win anymore. He didn't win anymore because you think
about guys like Phil Jackson. Right. The conversation with Phil was, yeah,
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he had Michael Jordan, you know, but then he went
and won with the Lakers. Now he had Toby with
the Lakers. So but still he he won. Yeah, he
won a b like what nine titles. Yeah, so I
really do feel like the part of the reason, no,
he won more than that, he won eleven I think, so, yeah,
he got more than Leen. Yeah. I remember accounting him
up one day and was like, he's probably wearing some
on his toes at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, So Bill Belichick took the head coaching job at
North Carolina. There's rumors out there industry sources say that
Bill Belichick has not signed that contract. Mmm, it's unsigned,
so he's still recruiting guys, but he hasn't signed the contract.
And there's all these people that are saying this is
giving him kind of this doorway that if like say
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the Raiders or the Bears or the Cowboys call him
up and say, hey, would you like to coach our team?
He could then hop out, and you know that changes
the buyout number that he would have to worry about
or the team that he hires. Just for clarification, this
man has coached zero college teams. Ever, it was kind
of fascinating that he took this job and is like
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doing recruiting and stuff. Like the idea that a seventy
two year old man who's never coached college is going
to learn how to coach college football and be good
at it. It was kind of curious to begin with.
If I'm North Carolina, like what are you doing? Like
why would you do that? And I don't know, how
do we feel about this? This would be the second
time he did that. Remember, he was announced as the
New York Jets coach when Bill Parcells decided to retire.
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Parcells handed him the job. The next day, he shows
up and resigns from that post. I mean, it makes
everybody look really stupid. And then he runs over to
the New England Patriots, so Jets' rival turns them into
a super Bowl winning team. What does this say about
Belichick the guy? If this happens again, If it doesn't happen,
he coaches North Carolina next year, I mean, good for him.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I suppose yeah. I think he probably will at the
end of the day. I mean, what's your endgame of that?
I mean, what a bad look. I mean, I don't
know that. Does he care?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't think he cares. This is a guy that
was actively breaking rules in the NFL to spy on
teams to get additional information. And no matter what he did,
x's and o's wise, that team was well coached, they
were ready to play. They won what seven super Bowl championships?
Six super Bowl championships of six won six super Bowl
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championships in what a sixteen year span? Seventeen year span? Absurd?
I mean, like the Chiefs could go on a huge
run here, and he can't rule that out because they've
already won three. But it's like, it's tough for me
to think that there's ever going to be a team
with a sustained amount of success that the Patriots had
under Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
He's a guy, you know what, He's all about He's
all about the competitive edge. He's finding that everywhere he can.
He is an ultimate strategist. He's a guy with a
military background, and he plans things like a general. He
knows where his pieces are, he knows where their pieces are,
and he knows where to put is exactly on the
battlefield to always get that competitive edge. And it just
seems like he does that everywhere. And that's why he's
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dating someone who's like twenty four. So Bill Belichick does
whatever he wants in life. He really does. It is
It is Bill Belichick's world. We're all just kind of
living in it. He's the main character. We're all a
bunch of NPCs.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
She oh, by the way, first Miss Maine, first runner up,
really Miss Maine USA.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And see, you know what his plan there is. He's
probably he's probably gonna use that as leverage to end
up in date Miss Universe someday. Like it's all a
leverage play. She knows that she's just a pawn. She's
just soaking up that cash while she can. Yeah, it's weird,
weird stuff for Belichick. Well you know what happens with that,
But uh, kind of scummy move if he leaves you
and see hanging. That'd be weird. Yeah, it's kind of
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deflated if you ask me. Oh more of the way
on news radio eleven Tin Kfab
The friction is existing between the two like political sides
in Israel, and then Y'aho is certainly trying to make
himself as attractive as possible because he wants to remain
in power. But we said yesterday that the far right
or the right leaning people in the government in Israel,
we're unhappy with the idea that there was going to
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be a deal at all because they don't want this
war to end. Now we can say what we want
about you know, if that constitutes genocide, if that constitutes
you know, trying to just completely eliminate a population of
people in whatever it takes to get rid of the terrorists.
But we know, right we know how this operates. If
we've resolved this problem right now, how many years do
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you give it before there's another one that arises in
the region. And that's why it's so imperative for the
United States and the European allies of the United States,
and maybe even places like Katar or Egypt who are
willing to kind of work together to get this stuff
done in the best way that they can and try
to avoid there being a terrorist presence in Gaza or
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really anywhere in the proximity of Israel, even though there
are different groups that exist around the area, but Israel
doesn't even want to mess with that, at least their
far right party doesn't want to mess with that. You
know what they want They want to They want to
just eradicate Hamas to where it no longer exists. And
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I just don't know what the realistic nature of that is.
I don't know if there's a moment where you're just like, okay,
we know that they're gone. Now are you battling an
ideology or are you batting battling specific people. And if
you're battling specific people or an ideology, how far does
that extend to just the citizenship of this area that
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is generally the populace that would share those ideals. It's difficult.
It's difficult to know. And that's why I think getting
to a deal would be the best scenario for the world,
because that could stop fighting. It would eliminate the risk
of this blowing up into a larger regional war. But
like I mentioned yesterday, there's always that chance that if
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you were Hamas and you're trying to change parts of
the conditions here, and that's really the biggest of the
hang ups you might be just sitting there. Let's let
me talk about it like this, Matt. Have you played
Monopoly before. It's been a little bit, but I sure have.
You know, you can make deals in Monopoly where it's like,
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I'll give you one hundred dollars in cash for boardwalk.
That might be a good example because that's, you know,
pretty obvious the boardwalk's worth more than that. But and
I say yes immediately. It's just like I'll give you
I'll take boardwalk for one hundred bucks. And then you're like, no, wait,
that's make it two hundred dollars. I'll give it to
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you for two hundred dollars. Because you're not good at
making deals or you think you asked for too little
and you didn't think that they would accept your terms, right,
It's like, oh, I could have asked for more. Let
me ask for more real quick, you know, changing your
mind after the deal seemingly was made. You know how
that you know you know there are people out there
just like that. You know, it's like, hey, Matt, I'll
give you this bag of tomatoes for five dollars and
(03:13):
you'll be like, oh, yeah, easy, And I was like, wait, no,
can I have ten dollars instead.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you said yes right away. It makes you think
I could have said seven, I could have said eight,
I could have said twelve.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You didn't, though, exactly. I get that vibe with Hamas.
Every time it seems like there's an agreement on the table,
it's always them deciding they want to change the conditions
or ask for more because they're like, oh, I didn't
expect that to be accepted. Maybe I could get more
out of this deal. What I think if that's the case,
And again I think that, and Yahoo also is under
a bit of pressure from people within his own country
(03:45):
and in his own government that don't want this to end.
Because HAMAS is still existing. There are still people within HAMAS,
and we can debate like how much of a threat
that could end up being for however long a period
of time in the merit of that, But in terms
of just the negotiation side of this, Donald Trump's not
(04:06):
playing around. He's not going to play around. And again,
the deal itself, as Rory mentioned, if it gets done
at twelve oh one on January the twentieth, how funny
would it be that this actually doesn't happen or take
place until Trump is in office, so there is no
question about who is the most at you know, most
(04:27):
responsible for getting this done right, and that might have
something to do with this. I'm just thinking to myself,
Hamas can't be playing around, and I wonder if they're
thinking we're already decimated. You know, most of these guys,
they're in it to the death anyway. It's just kind
of like in their mindset, these are guys that have
no problem, you know, putting their lives on the line
(04:47):
for what they believe in, which is make why they
are so dangerous because they, oh, yeah, we're fine, like
this is our religion. The people that are you know,
you know, creating these operations, they realize that we have
to to you know, sacrifice ourselves for this. Like there
are many people in world history that have been incredibly
dangerous because they do not care about the consequences of
(05:10):
their own lives. So I'm wondering if Hamas specifically feels
of their group. We've taken so many losses, all the
leadership is gone. What is just waiting this out to
see exactly what happens and if the United States decides
to come and have a bigger presence in the Middle East,
who might wake up, who might decide that they need
to play some ball. Now, how about that big old
(05:32):
country with all that oil. How about that big old
country that is kind of operating all these terrorist groups
around the Middle East? Anyway, Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran,
and then you've got a regional war. Hamas has bailed out,
and we continue the fighting for as long as they
feel like it's necessary. Is there a chance that Hamas,
in their brains, their brain trust, is like, you know what,
(05:53):
forget this, Let's not sign this paper, Let's string this out.
Let's see if we can get Donald Trump in the
United States to overreact. As soon as he gets into office,
and as soon as they come here Iran decides to
get involved in boom, we got a bigger deal and
Israel could still potentially get wiped off the map. The
mission could still be accomplished. That's something that I'm thinking
in the back of my head. If you're Hamas, why
(06:14):
would you make a deal at this point? What else
do you have to lose? If you really like, if
your goal is to try to destroy Israel? And this
is why I can see the guys in Israel who
are on the further right of the spectrum, telling Benjamin
ET and Yahoo and the people that are doing the negotiating,
we want the hostage release. We want to get thirty
three of our hostages, will trade them some Palestinian prisoners.
(06:35):
But you know what we want to do after that,
the ceasefire deal. I want the war to continue. I
want to be able to go back out there. I
want to be able to attack these guys who want
us to disappear.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I want to eliminate them.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And unfortunately, the way that this is going to look
is even in self defense, that's going to look like
a genocidal process, right of trying to eliminate these terrorist groups.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Because even if.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You eliminate Hamas, have you eliminated Helma stands for yeah, Hesbula,
you signed a treaty to stop the fighting with them.
Who's to say they're not going to rally and come
back and have another war in ten years with Israel.
Who's to say that, who Thi's aren't going to continue
to do this. Who's to say Syria is going to
get their stuff put together and then they have a
violent takeover and then they also get back into the mix.
(07:19):
You know, who can we trust, and who aren't we
able to trust and what like? How are we supposed
to predict what's going to happen in the most volatile
area and region in the world. There's no way to know.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm still praying for a resolution to this. I want peace.
If a deal can be met that Israel and the
United States thinks are a good deal, then I want
that to be agreed upon. I don't want to see
people losing their life in a war, especially civilians, for
any reason. I don't root for this stuff. I think
the world's better when we aren't fighting each other. I
would hope that most people feel that way. However, at
(07:53):
the same time, if that isn't the right deal, or
if the people in Israel feel like there's still an
existential threat to their existence in the Middle East as
we know it until they fully eradicate Hamas, even if
that takes more time, even if that means the United
States has to get somewhat involved, then I guess we
(08:13):
have to listen to their concerns. That's what being an
ally is. But only time is going to tell on
how serious this is going to get. From now until Monday,
and hopefully that's the end. But if it's not, then
I guess we'll see how Donald Trump handles it, because
he said that we'll be held today if those hostages
are not released by the time he takes office. All right,
(08:34):
here we go. It's three twenty seven. We'll talk more
when we come back on news radio eleven ten KFAB
and Ree on news radio eleven ten kfab. It's looking
at some of the news we talked about this Iran
and Middle East stuff. I don't I don't want to
do it anymore of this. What do you think like
there's a level I think of sadness that we can
(08:58):
talk about this. And we talked to about Jack Hoffman
yesterday briefly, and it's been great to see so many
tributes to him around the world of sports, but also
just around Nebraska and people remembering him. So that's you know,
it's sad to lose him, but what a fighter and
what he stood for. We had another tough loss today.
(09:18):
They see this Bob Yuker. Bob Uker, you remember Bob Uker.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He was in it. He was in a movie, right,
was he in one of those Major League or something
like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Brewers announcer, former MLB player, but known I think best
as that guy, the announcer from Major League. Just a
bit outside, we were talking about Ken the Hawk Harrelson
and how much of an influence he had on me,
the White Sox announcer when I was growing up. These
are people that like you spend so much time with them, right, Like,
(09:49):
if you were a Brewers fan, you heard Bob Youuker.
He's been you know, when he started doing the broadcast
for their games the early seventies, he was doing their game.
Still he was doing a tunk of their game as
one of the radio guys. This past season he was
ninety years old. That's a lifetime dude. That people were
listening to Bob Buker and the influence that he would
(10:10):
have had in just like the like, this is a
guy if you're in media, that's the guy. He had
fun everything that he was a part of. He looked
like he was enjoying himself. He had a lot of
joy to him. He seemed like such a nice guy.
Nobody has any bad things to say about him, and
he got to do what he loved to do. For
(10:31):
fifty three years he was a broadcaster for the same team.
I mean how incredible is that. We talk about longevity,
we talk about making an impact with people. This is
a guy who made an impact and then he just
happened to, you know, play a really funny broadcaster in
a movie and crushed it in that movie too. Is
there a better announcer like character in a movie? Like,
can you think of one?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, I mean, I don't know if i've actually I'm
not super familiar with that movie, to be completely honest.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Some of the lines, yeah, sure, Like you know, he's
just this lovable guy who I mean, I'll be honest.
Major League is like not, I don't think it's really
that great of a baseball movie. Like I like it
as a movie, but it's not one of the five
best baseball movies, not like Field Dreams or A League
of their Own or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But it's good movie.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
But I'm trying to think of like the announcer types,
the guys who do our job. He's iconic, and one
of the reasons he is because he's an actual real
life announcer. He's gonna be missed. Like that is a
guy for me that I mean, he is, like you
could talk me into Mount Rushmore of like radio announcers,
like baseball radio announcers or just announcers in general in
(11:44):
the career that he was able to make for himself
and the profile he had based on his personality, like
he's he's as big or in as important as anybody
like I put him up with with, like Vin Scully.
I think a lot of people think Vin Scully's probably
the goat baseball announcer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
John Miller.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Maybe remember Sunday night baseball games John Miller and Joe Morgan.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
What a team? What a team?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They just sounded like big time baseball. Uh yeah, there's
there there. I could spend more time doing this, but anyway,
tough loss there as in peace to Bob Buker.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Three.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Two other things that are going on. We were talking
about the cash contest, and I just wanted to mention this.
Guess who won in the two o'clock hour, Go ahead,
go ahead, and guess you'll never guess because it's another
one that we've had multiple winners of already this week.
Oh well, is this new to me? Yeah, it's it's
this is a So it's not Corpus Christy. No, although
(12:44):
we were talking, Corpus Christy got multiple winners. They actually
got a third winner, so they won three times in
a seven hour period. Corpus Christi, Texas. Somebody's breaking the
algorithm over there. What that keyword? By the way, bonus
bo n us bonus into kfab dot com to have
a chance to win. Palm Beach got another one West
Palm Beach. What about East Palm Beach?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is there an East Palm Beach? So bad for those guys.
It don't get much run these days. East Palm who's
East Palm Beach like? Is? I don't think that exists? Yeah? No, West?
You want to you have a East? I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'll look up real quick, West Palm or East Palm Beach.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
East Palm Beach, all right? There is an East Palm Beach. Nope, Nope,
it's just Palm Beach. So there's a Palm Beach in
a West Palm Beach I don't know. And there's a
South Palm Beach. There's no North Palm Beach or East
Palm Beach. Make that makes sense? Well, I guess it's
Palm Beach, but it's just to the west. I guess
it's weird. West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, East Palm Beach,
(13:43):
South Palm Beach, whatever, I'm going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
By the way, Tampa.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'll be in Tampa tomorrow, so I'm not gonna be
with you. We'll have fun though, it's a it's gonna
be a good time. I'd love to uh post on
social media, so if you're interested in what we're doing
down there.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I think thor is going to be in tomorrow. He is,
That's right. Thorschrock in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Thors Schrock tomorrow, and then Monday is Inauguration Day. I
won't be back in time for that show, but I
think did Scott say he may end up coming in
and sitting in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
From what I understand, unless something changes, Scott will be
here two to six on Monday.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
All right, sounds good. One other thing I wanted to
talk about pretty big news announced by the Omaha Supernovas.
Are friends of the Supernovas. They set a new professional
volleyball attendance record. Congrats to them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That was last Friday. Today they made an announcement they're
leaving Pro Volleyball Federation, the league that they helped start.
They are leaving. I mean that's kind of surprising. You
don't hear that every day. The reigning champions, the you know,
not only are they the reigning champions, but I mean
they are hosted the championship. They have a ton of
(14:56):
people who are you know involved at a high level.
And then we have that you know, competitor, the Love Volleyball,
which kind of is operating very differently, but they started
and they have an Omaha team, well, the Omaha Supernovas
say after this season they are leaving the Pro Volleyball Federation.
Imagine like a team leaving one league, but they are
(15:17):
not going to disappear. They're actually helping start a new league.
So and it's going to be called Major League Volleyball,
which is the third one in the US. Now, I
don't know what this is going to look like, but
the only team that we know is going to be
in there right now is the Supernovas. So the league
is going to be operated basically the Supernova's ownership group,
(15:41):
including Jason Derulo and Danny White who helps yeah he's
part of another the Supernovas and the founder of the
Supernova's Danny White. All these got both of them, the
veik Rondive who is the owner of the Sacramento Kings.
He's a part of this, and they's like Kerry Walsh Jennings,
the legendary beach volleyball player who is a multi time
(16:04):
gold medalist in the Olympics. Well, Major League Volleyball a
going to be this new league and say they've pumped
in over one hundred million dollars to start this thing.
The Supernovas will be one of the teams, and then
also states like Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, Kansas, Ohio,
(16:24):
and Washington are set to have franchises as well. I
don't know how many of the teams that are in
the Pro Volleyball Federation are going to be able to
survive the Supernova's leaving. I'm guessing this is the sign
that that infrastructure of the Pro Volleyball Federation it's not
going to be able to last. And I'm going to
guess that multiple teams, if their ownership groups want to
keep them alive, are going to try to transfer them
(16:46):
over into this new infrastructure. But if they couldn't draw people,
if they didn't have support, this as the one thing
that I think Supernova's fans or people within that organization.
We're worried about is that if we stay in Pro
Volleyball Federation, will the league be able to last? If
we're the only team that's drawing, you know, more than
five thousand people for a game. And I don't know
(17:09):
all of the intendance numbers, but based on my conversations
with people within the Supernovas, is that we were drawing.
We were out drawing everybody by a lot. Maybe this
is kind of designed to find the right markets to
put these teams in and hopefully they adopt these teams
and care about these teams. And they're planning to start
the league next next January.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Quite an awkward next few months for the Supernovas. Who
are you going to be playing in this league? That
them kind of leaving is going to put this league
in peril. You know, they're big time in the league,
but they deserve it. It kind of sounds like this, you know,
they're a little bit too big for the bridges of
this league. You know, they're going where they need to go.
I think this is a good thing, That's what it
(17:50):
sounds like to say for the Supernovas. I agree. I
think this is much like conference realignment, where a school
says I'm outgrowing the Mountain West Conference. I better jump
in the Big twelve before or that while the getting's good,
right like TCU, did you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You know, you know why?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, I might be ruining a bunch of traditions and
you know, rivalries and stuff, but you know what, this
is actually gonna be better for.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Us in the long run.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I got to take care of us, and I think
that's what this is for the Supernovas. So congrats to them,
but we'll see exactly what the fallout is. And honestly,
this is the kind of thing that if the pro
Volleyball Federation, like like, if you're you're a fan of
the Grand Rapids Rise or the San Diego Mojo or
the Atlanta Vibe or any of these other teams that
you know are weren't necessarily like announced with this, you
(18:34):
got to be asking like, how can I be a
part of this? Or does anybody care or show up
at any of these other games? Knowing this team is
just going to cease to exist after this year, it's
quite interesting, to say the least, we'll.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Have more on the Way on news radio eleven ten
kfab Emery Sunger. Yeah, you have to objectively stats wise,
if you just buy the book. It does feel like
there's a little bit of tarnish on his star, considering
the one guy he won with left and then he
didn't win anymore. He didn't win anymore because you think
about guys like Phil Jackson. Right. The conversation with Phil was, yeah,
(19:07):
he had Michael Jordan, you know, but then he went
and won with the Lakers. Now he had Toby with
the Lakers. So but still he he won. Yeah, he
won a b like what nine titles. Yeah, so I
really do feel like the part of the reason, no,
he won more than that, he won eleven I think, so, yeah,
he got more than Leen. Yeah. I remember accounting him
up one day and was like, he's probably wearing some
on his toes at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, So Bill Belichick took the head coaching job at
North Carolina. There's rumors out there industry sources say that
Bill Belichick has not signed that contract. Mmm, it's unsigned,
so he's still recruiting guys, but he hasn't signed the contract.
And there's all these people that are saying this is
giving him kind of this doorway that if like say
(19:52):
the Raiders or the Bears or the Cowboys call him
up and say, hey, would you like to coach our team?
He could then hop out, and you know that changes
the buyout number that he would have to worry about
or the team that he hires. Just for clarification, this
man has coached zero college teams. Ever, it was kind
of fascinating that he took this job and is like
(20:13):
doing recruiting and stuff. Like the idea that a seventy
two year old man who's never coached college is going
to learn how to coach college football and be good
at it. It was kind of curious to begin with.
If I'm North Carolina, like what are you doing? Like
why would you do that? And I don't know, how
do we feel about this? This would be the second
time he did that. Remember, he was announced as the
New York Jets coach when Bill Parcells decided to retire.
(20:36):
Parcells handed him the job. The next day, he shows
up and resigns from that post. I mean, it makes
everybody look really stupid. And then he runs over to
the New England Patriots, so Jets' rival turns them into
a super Bowl winning team. What does this say about
Belichick the guy? If this happens again, If it doesn't happen,
he coaches North Carolina next year, I mean, good for him.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I suppose yeah. I think he probably will at the
end of the day. I mean, what's your endgame of that?
I mean, what a bad look. I mean, I don't
know that. Does he care?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I don't think he cares. This is a guy that
was actively breaking rules in the NFL to spy on
teams to get additional information. And no matter what he did,
x's and o's wise, that team was well coached, they
were ready to play. They won what seven super Bowl championships?
Six super Bowl championships of six won six super Bowl
(21:25):
championships in what a sixteen year span? Seventeen year span? Absurd?
I mean, like the Chiefs could go on a huge
run here, and he can't rule that out because they've
already won three. But it's like, it's tough for me
to think that there's ever going to be a team
with a sustained amount of success that the Patriots had
under Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
He's a guy, you know what, He's all about He's
all about the competitive edge. He's finding that everywhere he can.
He is an ultimate strategist. He's a guy with a
military background, and he plans things like a general. He
knows where his pieces are, he knows where their pieces are,
and he knows where to put is exactly on the
battlefield to always get that competitive edge. And it just
seems like he does that everywhere. And that's why he's
(22:05):
dating someone who's like twenty four. So Bill Belichick does
whatever he wants in life. He really does. It is
It is Bill Belichick's world. We're all just kind of
living in it. He's the main character. We're all a
bunch of NPCs.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
She oh, by the way, first Miss Maine, first runner up,
really Miss Maine USA.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And see, you know what his plan there is. He's
probably he's probably gonna use that as leverage to end
up in date Miss Universe someday. Like it's all a
leverage play. She knows that she's just a pawn. She's
just soaking up that cash while she can. Yeah, it's weird,
weird stuff for Belichick. Well you know what happens with that,
But uh, kind of scummy move if he leaves you
and see hanging. That'd be weird. Yeah, it's kind of
(22:44):
deflated if you ask me. Oh more of the way
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