March 12, 2025 • 58 mins
How do we get a Major League Baseball team to Omaha? We might have some competition from Tennessee.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A little bit more goofy than usual. I apologize for that.
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If there's something that you want to talk about that
I'm not speaking about, you can email me Emory at
kfabe dot com, E M. E. R Y at kfabe
dot com. This is a this is a shit family show.
We run it together. I come to the table with
stuff to talk about. Sometimes I just sit down and
I'm like, you know what, I'd rather just be outside
right now? Is that so bad? Am I a bad
person for thinking that? I don't think so. I think
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I just generally a little bit malleable. Isn't it good
to be malleable sometimes? Where you can just let the
world around you kind of mold you depending on how
like the outside forces are around you. You can kind
of work within the parameters and not have to worry
too much about your own being in that moment. You
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can just kind of go with the flow. That's kind
of life I like to live. Makes me think of
that seen in Ghost, the one where Patrick Swayze ends
up inside Whoopy Goldberg's body. Could you imagine what that
was like from the outside, Like, imagine being Demi Moore
and you're like sitting there and all of a sudden,
you're talking to your lover who you can't see because
he's a ghost, and uh Oda May decides that you
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should just, you know, like take over, you should dance
with her. She is being possessed by the body or
the spirit of your ex lover who's dead. So you're
led to believe that your lover is actually in the
spirit of your lover is in o to Ma, who's
a woman sitting next to you, and you just have
to kind of go along with the flow. And then
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all of a sudden, the Righteous brother starts up and
it's just like you forget about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What's the song?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Unchained Melody?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
How does it go?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Don't make me sing it?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You raised me up?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That is?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That is?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That is not a romantic song. Okay, So if you
were with a potential, you know, significant other, and you're
listening to the show and you're thinking about like songs
that could really like conjure up a spark, that's not
one of them. Don't put that on the playlist. Unchained
Melody by the Righteous Brothers. It absolutely is, absolutely is
that's it? Oh my love, my darling, I hung her
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for the word. That's the song. But the Roger brother
starts to here just like, oh, I'm dancing with Odame
like it's my ex lover. Imagine feeling that way. Could
you get yourself there? Could you get yourself to the
point where like, oh, yeah, I'm dancing with my former
lover who's dead now, but it's actually this woman that
I just met.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I don't know. It's a weird.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Premise, but we don't have to see it that way
because they show us that it's actually him dancing with her,
even though it in real life it would be ota
may Good movie. Though. I like the movie, solid movie. Really,
I do like the movie. Well well done by all
in that film. We can we can clown on Whoopi
Goldberg now for her political takes, but that movie made
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her career. I mean after that, she was she was in.
She was a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She's done some great stuff, Like what was the one
where she was a nun sister act? Yeah, that's a
great one.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
She got that because of the ghost performance, like like
being Oda Mae Brown opened those doors for her. She
got her own show. She was on like wood Squares
and stuff. Every day she had she had a lot
going on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean Wood Squares was funny back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, there's a new Hollywood Squares. You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah me either. I don't want, I don't watch. But yeah,
back in the day where it was like Penn and
Teller and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Whoopi Goldberg
and Gilbert Godfreed, like for Godfreed. Yeah, those are the days, man,
they'll take me back. Anyway, we were talking about Greenland.
We're talking about different things that'll be podcasts. You can
find it on the Emmery Stunger podcast page. I just
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saw this though earlier this week. What did I say
about a baseball team? Remind the people you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Talk about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They're not the
Devil Rays anymore. But yeah, oh just the Rays. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've been the Rays since two thousand and eight, for
whatever it's worth, basically when I stopped paying attention the
most things in the world. Yeah, they'll tell people about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, you said that they should come to Omaha and
become the Omaha Rays. But Ray actually stands for like
a dude's name, and he's like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
This is what you said, this is what you said.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
His uncle Ray and that's your mascot and he's just
out there like drinking a light beer lawn.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You said this. I did not say this. This would
be bad. This is how you don't get the team up,
come up with bad ideas like this, and this is
how major League Baseball is. Like, yeah, I don't want
to be there.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's got sunshades on the back of his head, he's
got the mullet Uncle Ray out there. I think it's cool,
the Omaha Rays. Bad idea, bad bad idea. Okay, Anyway,
the idea is that, hey, they're up for sale. Well,
they're not up for sale, but they're being pressured by
Major League Baseball to sell because they're having really hard
time figuring out a stadium deal down there, and the
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current stadium that they're playing in got destroyed by a
hurricane and now they're gonna be playing in a single
a minor league baseball field that is really a nice
spring training facility, and like seventy percent of their games
the second half of the season they have to play
on the road because they're trying to avoid hurricane season.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All that makes sense. Yeah, Is it a coincidence that
today a potential Major League baseball expansion team called the
Nashville Stars dropped a logo and cap is this a ploy?
Is this hey? Look at me? Is this hey? By
the way, uh, we have this all ready to go?
Just you tell us when kind of thing? Or is
this just like, oh, this is happening? Because I after
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watching the Arizona Coyotes pack up and move to Utah
in like a week at the end of the hockey
season last spring, I'm willing to believe anything at this point.
If the race just up and left, nobody would notice
except maybe the ray tank sponsorship at Zoo Tampa. That's
like the one thing that's just like, Okay, I guess
we're gonna need a new sponsor for the ray tank
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because the Tampa Bay Ray baseball team has all their
stuff all over the ray tank at the Zoo. I
was there.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was great. You can feed them, You can feed
the race. Did you see that video of meat feeding
the rays? By the way, huh huh, it's a Have
you fed a sting ray before? Like food? No, you
have like a little fish in your hand and you
like put your hand underwater and you hold it like
an ice cream cone and you hold it underwater and
then they'll just swim up to you and you can
feel like they're belly as like that's where their mouth is,
and then they like grab onto it and you can
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feel like their mouth. It's like that. You know how
if you felt the lips of a horse kind of
like kind of floppy, Like a horse can kind of
like move their lips in a way that it can
like fiddle with stuff. That's kind of what it felt like.
It's just like it was fiddling with my hand to
get the fish and then it swam away. It was
it was cool.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds super cool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can actually feed the rays at Henry Dolly Zoo.
Oh yeah, yeah, so you don't have to go to
Zoo Tampa to do that. That's why I was saying.
It's just like if they move to Omah, they can
just sponsor our RRA tank here. You know. By the way,
there's a bunch of rays that they had in that
stadium that got hit by the hurricane and they're now
at the Florida Aquarium. They packed them all up safely
and they're all somewhere else. For whatever that's worth. Look,
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the Nashville Stars baseball team, if that becomes a thing.
Good for them. It sounds like they're kind of putting
themselves at the front of the line if there's a
team that moves again. Because remember the A's also are
playing the next three years in Sacramento. So you have
two teams in Major League Baseball that are playing a
minor league ball park, and this team, this group of Nationals,
just like, hey, how's it going. Guys. They're not going
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to expand right now. They don't have the infrastructure major
League Baseball to expand. They're doing this so the Rays
can up and move, is what they're doing. So get
in the back of the line. Nashville jerks, Yeah, you
got Music City whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, they got enough over there.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You got your football team, and you got your hockey team,
and you got your college teams, and you're just you
got music and Tim McGraw and you're just a piece
of piece of work over there, you losers. You're trying
to take baseball now too. Get out, get out of here. Yeah,
you had their Triple A team already.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Just leave us alone. Yeah, you know what, leave it.
Leave the Omaha race for us.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah. Yeah, Tampa Bay that dead. We called Dibbs. We
called Dibbs. You got stuff already. We'll get Danny McBride
as the mascot. He can be raised. Every time you
say this, we lose We're losing ground.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Somebody just email it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, don't email in. I do not want to hear
your Some people who like my ideas don't have email. Okay,
they don't have access to a phone either. They might
be drifting around. They might have a lot of access
to other things that are not legal, but that's not
something we're going to talk about. Hey, you know what
if they like me, that's cool. Three sixteen give and take.
That's what it is. Yeah, I go Omaha. Mecca has
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got to be on the phone with them, Like, am
I am I crazy? How are we not calling them
right now? Warren Buffett has eight hundred bazillion dollars. We
can't get him to invest in a major league baseball
team here. Yeah, maybe he should stop building swimming pools
full of cash and actually put that money to good use. Warren, Yeah,
Warren by the rays move him to Omaha swimming around
in his Olympic sized swimming pool full of cash. You
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think he's swimming in that? He is, I've seen it Okay,
that's weird. I would just, you know, like, you have
a big money guy in in the area, let's invest
in some sports teams. He could do that tomorrow. He could.
He could offer five billion dollar dollars for the Tampa
Bay Rays tomorrow and we would be They would be
in Mayflower moving trucks on their way up here.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Maybe we should start a little smaller get like a
pro cornhole team, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Pro cornhole team. Yeah, what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, I'm just saying maybe going right for the MLB
is a little a little bit of a power play.
We should start.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We should let it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're gonna work our way.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We're averaging twelve thousand people a game at professional volleyball games,
unheard of worldwide. I think we're ready for a Major
League Baseball team. As of March twenty twenty five, according
to Axios, the Tampa Bay Raiser valued at one point
five billion dollars one point two five billion dollars. Can
we just can we just for a second here, just
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say hey, how much money is Warren buffet worth. I
don't want to tell anybody how to spend their money.
I'm not that guy like Matt, you need to spend
more money on a haircut like I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's not how you talk to people. Yeah, but you
like my haircut, Tell the people you like my haircut.
I do like your haircut. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
As of February seventeenth, according to the Wikipedia, Buffett's net
worth is estimated at one hundred and forty nine point
six billion dollars. He's the seventh richest man in the world.
I'm Warren. I hate to be this guy, but I'm
gonna ask you for something. One point twenty five billion
dollars isn't a whole lot. When you have one hundred
and forty nine point six billion dollars, you barely even
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notice it was gone. And what you wouldn't even notice,
I would notice, You would notice, the rest of Omaha
would notice, the entire country would notice. It'd be a
good type of notice. Can't we just kind of do this?
Is this okay? Is it okay for us to just
like say, maybe this would be the thing that could
be like your legacy. We can build a new state
of the art baseball stadium that they can play in,
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and you could build that for a few billion dollars,
and we can name it the Warren Buffett Field or whatever,
and Omaha would love this team forever. I'm just saying,
let's not let Nashville cut us in line. Come on, Warren,
I'm count on you. I haven't asked for anything, Warren,
That's all I'm at.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's just like a it's like half an inch off
the top of your swimming pool full of cash. You
wouldn't even know it, not even I don't even think
it would be. That's that's the crazy part. Let's to
rake back into the pool after it kind of splashes
out when you do a cannonball.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Ah. Yeah, I don't know, man, And we can well,
we can't even call like we could call him whatever
you want, Warren, you can do whatever you want with them.
Just bring him here. Just bring them here. If somebody
gets the ear of Warren Buffett, I don't know anybody
out there. If you're listening, you might have like a
little Berkshire Hathaway like back door route to being able
to like actually chat with him about something. Bring this
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up and say that I was talking about I'd love
to chat with him one on one, give him my pitch.
If we got the money behind this I'm sure mec
would be like, oh yeah, let's do that. That sounds
like a good idea. That's all I'm saying. That's what
I'm saying. It's three twenty news Radio, eleventh th in
Kfab and Raise Longer.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So Rosie O'Donnell is apparently she's gone on her TikTok
and she's moved to Ireland, Ireland, and she just, I guess,
hates Donald Trump. Why do we care? Do we know
why we care? Well?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I guess that means there's not going to be like
a league of their own redo unless she can have.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Their own redo. And I hear that it didn't go
so well. It's my favorite movie of all time. I
boycotted the TV show. It's just like, there's no way
you're going to expand on this and modernize this thing
that I love and make me not like it. You're
not you. It was so good the first time you
got to be realistic with me and and they what
they ended up doing was they modernized it up to
where players are openly like LGBTQ plus, which not to
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say there weren't LGBTQ plus women's baseball players in nineteen
forty three when this league was happening, but they certainly
weren't openly like touting it, and they also had you know,
African American players like playing on the white girls baseball
teams and talking about those race relations allegedly. I didn't
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watch the show. I just read about it. And remember
when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrea for basically all
North American sports. It was nineteen forty seven. It was
after these purported events that didn't actually happen. They basically
made it, they fast forwarded it to make it feel
like it was a modern show with all of like
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our current day issues and problems, and that's fine, but
it just wasn't going to stand up to the actual
historic context. That was really awesome with the first show.
At the same time, I really liked Rosie o'dnnell in that. So,
you know, for whatever reason, you know, I can I
can dislike her politics, I can dislike her attitude towards
you know, current things. There's kind of a reason I
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think that Rosie stopped getting work at some point in
the mid to late two thousands. You know, like you
haven't seen a lot of Rosie on television or movies,
but in the early mid nineties. I mean she was
she was wanted like and I didn't dislike her. I thought,
you know, as an actress, she really kind of fell
right into like a lane that nobody else really was in.
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And she was hilarious in a league of their own.
I mean, her and Madonna working together, that was. They
were really good together, I thought, in that movie. And
Madonna really wasn't good in movies. She's really good in
that movie.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Was she in other movies?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think she's in other movies, but she wasn't as
good or as memorable. She actually played a baseball player
pretty well. Yeah, that's a great movie. You were going
to ruin it with me making a dumb modernized TV
show purported to be from the mid nineteen forties. Not
gonna buy it. Read down the line, read welcome to
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the show today. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
As far as I'm concerned, Until the celebrities give up
their citizenship, they're only on vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, and I see that's good. This is a lot
of grand standing. Technically, she can come back whenever she wants,
can't she. Yeah they also yeah, yeah, now see that's yes,
that's a good point. Thanks, So much for the call.
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's a good point. Wouldn't you go live some somewhere
else if you could for a while, If you didn't
like how things were going, you could just run away.
You have the means.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
She's rich, you're saying, if I did have the means, Yeah,
of course, I'd love to go to Ireland and just
live there for a while. Sure, trying to prove a point.
I wouldn't trying to prove a point. Would drink the guinness? No,
you go there and you go on your TikTok. Can
you tell people, Hey, I moved because I don't like
the direction of the country.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Give me attention. Oh, by the way, now I'm gonna
go get my guinness because I'm on vacation. I'm having fun.
If I could live that life, I don't need a
bad president or somebody politically I disagree with to go
live somewhere else for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, but it's a reason that. I mean, you do
it and then you feel better about yourself. It's it's
a double win. You know, you get to take a
really cool vacation and also you get the virtue signal.
While you do it. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
The virtue signaling part of it is just it's too
juicy to pass up. You know, you're just like, oh yeah,
let me virtue signal on my followers is if people
actually care where I live, Rosie, No one cares.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like the reason I'm talking about it is because we
shouldn't care. Who cares any of the celebrities who said
that they were to leave, what does that even mean? Like,
so what who cares? Like if anybody else just decided
to move to Vancouver tomorrow, like I wouldn't notice, Like
if you moved, i'd noticed because I see you every day.
But like random person X from California, like saying, Hey,
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I'm gonna live in Australia for a couple of years. Audios, Okay,
have fun, Like nothing's stopping you enjoy yourself if you
have the means.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
If you would have told me Keanu Reeves lives in Australia,
I would have said, okay, Like what does that mean
to me? It's who cares? These people live different lives
than me. They're they're above me in the pecking order.
They live in the upper crest of society.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There's a lot of people that live in foreign countries
because they just like being there. I got know a
lot of people that love Italy like they would love
to move to Italy in retirement and just live there. Good,
go have fun. Who am I to tell you you
should stay here?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I don't, I don't, I don't know, dude, I just
don't get it. It doesn't make any difference to me.
But congrats, Rosie. We're talking about you on Talk Right
You and Omaha three twenty nine. Hey, we got plenty
of news on the way coming back, including what do
people actually think about this Ukraine ceasefire idea? And why
is there some pushback here? I got some commentary on this.
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Thanks for listening. Call us at four h two, five five,
eight to eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Oh, I'd have to say, they don't exist anymore. Of
a sabertoothed tiger. They're just so cool, you.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Know, but they don't exist anymore. I know, how could
they possibly be? They're extinct, like usually you know, things
that are really good, could you know last a while?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh, you take that back, It wasn't their fault. Society changed, Yeah, well,
global warming got a piece of them.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They got canceled before their prime.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, I bet they did.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Let me think about it, though. I guess the liger's
pretty cool. A lion and a tiger.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, I guess technically a thing that exists. But Napoleon
Dynamite was the one that really put him on the
radar for people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah. I had this neighbor that had this cat. She
just fed that thing. It's a big boy. His name's Garfield.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I regret asking this.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'm sorry. That was three bad answers. Let me find
a good night. I like the regular Bengal tiger at
the three. He's out Zoo is so cool, especially when
he's out there roaming around. She just cool to.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
See Rocker grab some bench son. Anything other than a
jaguar is just not the right answer. Okay then, and
the other very cool. They can do everything. They are
maybe the apex predator of all apex predators on planet Earth.
They can jump, they can run, they can swim, They
are strong enough to take basically anything down. They have
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just incredible instincts and they look awesome. Jaguars. There you go, okay,
Ukraine thirty Day ceasefire proposal. We talked about this yesterday.
If they take this, they said, yeah, we'll do this,
if Russia does this. There are a lot of different
perspectives to this, but I saw our friend Tom Brewer
who was on the show, Colonel Brewer and former Center
Tom Brewer, really respect what he has to say, but
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he talked to some local news outlets and said, only
buys Russia time to build and recruit and have the
ability if we wait too long and we can't get
to a legitimate agreement on how to end this thing.
It's basically just buying Russia time to put together a
finishing blow, essentially. And I respect Colonel Brewer, he's got
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such a great perspective on this, but that's not like
if we're looking for an end to this, if we're
looking for peace, if we're looking for the war to
actually conclude. I think that this is a necessary step
because when was the last time that we had a
big war that we were just like, Okay, we agree
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to end this thing and it's all over with. You kind
of have to get to the first step of just like, hey,
we're going to stop fighting now, and then we're going
to negotiate the American Revolution last major battle was I
have no clue. I'll just say Battle of Hartford. I'm
sure that's a thing that happened. It is a battle
of Yorktown, and the Yorktown happened. It took almost two
years before they signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended
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the war. But you want to know something else, During
that two years, they pretty much didn't fight really at all.
There were some little skirmishes in different remote parts, but
for the most part, a major fighting between the big armies,
Washington's army and Howe's army. They were done, like they
stopped doing it because there was a pretty gigantic surrender
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at Yorktown, and it just took a couple of additional
years for them to get the paperwork figured out. Now,
I couldn't imagine this takes two years to get figured out.
If we get to a ceasefire agreement, but you kind
of have to just agree to stop fighting so you
can get to the table and negotiate. I just think
that that's the case. Hey, appomatics Courthouse right famously was
the end of what.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Last time they served those delicious pancakes. I like so much.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh man, that'd be good pancakes. No, that's when Robert E.
Lee signed the surrender of the Southern Army, the Confederates
surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant in the north. But there
are still some other battles in the western part that
had to kind of wrap up. That surrendered didn't end
the war as much as is it's in the fighting.
It was after that we had to come to terms
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of like, okay, so how are we absorbing them back
into our country? How are like what is necessary? Was
it really something to do to part in every single
guy who is still alive that fought against the Union,
that's what they did. They had to come to an
idea of like how that was all going to look?
It takes time. You have to get it's a step
by step process. You just don't like one day we're fighting.
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In the next day everything's done and we're good. We
signed paperwork. It's great. You got to take one step
at a time. If we're looking for peace, we're looking
to an end to the war. I think you have
to stop the fighting first. And that's why I think
it's a positive now within that same realm, and this
is to Colonel Brewer's point when he talked about this,
if Russia is able to rebuild their kind of strategy,
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their fortification, their numbers, well what does what doesn't that
mean you U Crane can do the same thing if
we're in the process of not fighting for the time being,
if we agree on a ceasefire, doesn't Ukraine also have
the ability to kind of like go back to the
drawing board and just like, hey, if we have to
get back to the fighting, like this is how we're
going to do it. And didn't all of the other
European NATO type countries all say that, hey, we're kind
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of prepared to help you in any way that we need,
especially when we learned that America is going to be
kind of not supporting in the same way that they
once were. That's all I'm saying. I'm just I'm just
saying both sides are going to have equal opportunity to
prepare themselves for the future. Now that doesn't necessarily mean
that I'm right. Did you do you have a favorite
battle like or a favorite war thing that you've like
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to study or watch documentaries or learn about. I know
most people I'm aware of, like World War two, is
kind of there they like to and it helps. We
have like video of that, right, Like there's like some
good actual footage of what World War two looked like.
And there's been great movies and great TV shows kind
of depicting World War Two. There's something about kind of
like the old way, the old style of that. I
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like to read about Revolutionary War, War of eighteen twelve,
stuff like that, when we didn't have all that technology,
we didn't have the big tanks, we didn't have cars.
It was like the guys had a march to and
from all this stuff. You really had to be really
strategic because you didn't have all the protection that you
eventually would have when you got into the twentieth century.
Did you have like a favorite war or something when
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you were learning about like that, you were just fascinated
by more than others because we learned about a lot
of them, you know. And I guess you could go
all the way back to like the Crusades and stuff
like that, although those were like over one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I think the War of eighteen twelve is pretty fascinating
just because they came back. They came back, and they
burned down the White House, they tried to burn the
White House to the ground. They set it on fire, Okay,
so it didn't burn, and so it stayed where it was.
It didn't wasn't there a time where we used to
be in Philadelphia and then they had to relocate.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So that was yeah, So Philadelphia was where the Continental
Congress was operating, but they had to leave, and you
love where they went. They went to York, Pennsylvania. That
was where they fled to because the British Army was
ransacking the East coast and the colonists were losing. The
Continental Army was losing at the time, and to avoid
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being caught up and captured or whatever, the Continental Congress,
the dignitaries that you know weren't fighting, they ran away
and went to York. The first actual capital was in
New York City once we started the constitution. But then
they were in the process even then of trying to
build what Washington, d c. Would become. That wasn't even
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a city. It was just kind of like a nothing area,
but they put it there for a more centralized location. So,
you know, all the colonies felt like they were being
properly represented there. It wasn't like in the northeast. But yeah,
it was built. John Adams moved in like right at
the end, like right before eighteen hundred or so, and
he was eliminated. He was he lost his reelection bid
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to Thomas Jefferson. By the time James Madison got in
less than a decade later, or about a decade later,
was when they came back and tried to burn the
thing down. It hadn't been standing for fifteen years when
the British came back. We don't talk about that war enough.
We don't talk about it enough. Man, do we talk
about wars enough?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Generally? I feel like, what do we need to be
sitting around talking about wars for it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Because it's important to know the fighting that has occurred
and why we shouldn't be doing it again. Think about
the casualties, think about the hardships, think about all of
the things that we had to go through, the anxiety
that people dying, losing their sons, losing their daughters.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's important to learn your history, otherwise you might end
up repeating.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It exactly right. And you know, I'm not a huge
like people want to talk about statues and stuff like that.
That's not the history to me. The history is you
have to immerse yourself in it. You have to read
about it, you have to travel and go to battlefields,
Like you can go to Gettysburg right now and there
will be a tour guide that can take you to
Like Okay, so this happened at this point, And this
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happened at this point. I was at Yorktown. I went
to Yorktown where you can like drive by. They have
a like a website or an app that you can
do like an audio tour while you're out there. And
I was like, and they did a good job of
like rebuilding it, because they weren't. It hadn't been like
saved the way that it used to be, but they
kind of rebuilt it. That the whole battlefield area the
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way that it used to be back when they actually
fought the war in the Revolution, and you can see
like where the parallels are, you can see what the
strategy was. That the audio tour kind of tells you
what you're looking at. And dude, it is powerful to
think George Washington was standing right here accepting the surrender
from that British army. It's powerful stuff. But he's not
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there now, You're right, He's dead.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
R and B.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But that like I don't know, that's how I intake history,
and we need more of that, right And this is
why like this Ukraine war thing, it's not going to
be in all of our textbooks. Obviously, it's going to
be more in a European mindset. But we don't see
wars like this this often. There's a reason for that
because I think we're trying, in our advanced awareness to
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understand that we can coexist together and each country does
have a place in this world. How do we get
to the end of a war? You have to negotiate.
How do we negotiate? Let's stop killing each other first,
Let's get to the table and see if we can
come to terms. And it seems like we're getting to
a positive aspect of that. If if the fine folks
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of each of these countries who are doing the negotiating
decide that yes, piece is what we want to achieve,
that's my hope. Three forty nine, Hey, we got more
coming up. Stick around news radio eleven ten KFAP and
were you songer. It's not cat, it's a it's an
aquatic animal. It's a it's a shark. It's whims not cat.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, take that. Mark.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, thanks thanks for the email, Mark, but we may
have to go back to the drawing board on that.
I saw this. I didn't want to talk too much
about it. But did you know that there's a fast
going on? Are you familiar with Lnton Lenton? Yeah, the
Linten season, Oh Lent? Yeah, Oh sure, Yeah, I know
about Lent. Yeah, So explain to the people with lent is, well, you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Fast something for forty days, right, yeah, so it's generally
more of a Catholic practice, but I know that it's
a hardcore Catholic and the guys have the they put
the ash on their forehead or on ash Wednesday, like
last Wednesday, I think it was, Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean I've never done that because I'm not a Catholic,
but I have done the Lent thing. When I was
in church as a kid, they were just like, yeah,
it's good practice for you to give something up for
forty days. Nowadays people are doing like social media fasts
and you know, you're not supposed to eat certain foods
or something, you know, especially the Catholics, they do like
the fish fry, right, Like that's kind of the big
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thing during the Lent season. Well, have you ever heard
about fasting from a store? If it has control over
your life? I think anything could be a fast. Well,
that's not what this is. This is literally just a
political power part.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's a boycott.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, it's a boycott more than it is a fast,
but they calling it the Target Fast. Reverend Jamal Bryant,
who is a senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist
Church in the Atlanta area, has organized a fast of
Target because they are wanting to do this as a
spiritual act of resistance because Target is rolling back it's
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DEI measures. Remember, Target one of the many companies that
have made the announcement in the wake of the twenty
twenty four election that they're going to kind of do
away with DEI initiatives in favor of, you know, maybe
more consistent hiring practices. And yeah, what do you think
is that going to be effective? Is going to be
on the bottom line? What a turnaround for Target? Just
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you know, a couple of years ago, Man, they had
guys going into their stores boycotting the fact that they
were selling you know, very pro transgender stuff in like
kid sections, right or you know, young person sections, which
is insanely inappropriate, and now here's the turnaround. Within two years,
they're getting boycotted for kind of ending its the EI initiatives.
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If they survived that first wave of that kind of backlash,
if you're a person that would was boycotting with the
transgender T shirt stuff, would you be like, because politically
this is way more. They're doing way more stuff now.
It's just like, oh, yeah, I agree with that, but
you're hearing like the political opposition saying, well, yeah, like
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more boycotting now. Would you go and support them because
that's kind of a politically active thing to do, even
though this is a store that you were protesting against
less than two years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't really think about the politics of the stores
I shop at. I look at the price, and I
also look at the line. And I tell you the
reason why I've been boycotting Target for a while now.
Every single time I go in there, there's not a
checker insight and there is a long line that ropes
around through the jewelry section of people waiting to check
out their own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Stop it, bring back the cashiers. More on the Way
News Radio eleven in camp A b.
A little bit more goofy than usual. I apologize for that.
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If there's something that you want to talk about that
I'm not speaking about, you can email me Emory at
kfabe dot com, E M. E. R Y at kfabe
dot com. This is a this is a shit family show.
We run it together. I come to the table with
stuff to talk about. Sometimes I just sit down and
I'm like, you know what, I'd rather just be outside
right now? Is that so bad? Am I a bad
person for thinking that? I don't think so. I think
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I just generally a little bit malleable. Isn't it good
to be malleable sometimes? Where you can just let the
world around you kind of mold you depending on how
like the outside forces are around you. You can kind
of work within the parameters and not have to worry
too much about your own being in that moment. You
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can just kind of go with the flow. That's kind
of life I like to live. Makes me think of
that seen in Ghost, the one where Patrick Swayze ends
up inside Whoopy Goldberg's body. Could you imagine what that
was like from the outside, Like, imagine being Demi Moore
and you're like sitting there and all of a sudden,
you're talking to your lover who you can't see because
he's a ghost, and uh Oda May decides that you
(01:07):
should just, you know, like take over, you should dance
with her. She is being possessed by the body or
the spirit of your ex lover who's dead. So you're
led to believe that your lover is actually in the
spirit of your lover is in o to Ma, who's
a woman sitting next to you, and you just have
to kind of go along with the flow. And then
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all of a sudden, the Righteous brother starts up and
it's just like you forget about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What's the song?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Unchained Melody?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
How does it go?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Don't make me sing it?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You raised me up?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That is?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That is?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That is not a romantic song. Okay, So if you
were with a potential, you know, significant other, and you're
listening to the show and you're thinking about like songs
that could really like conjure up a spark, that's not
one of them. Don't put that on the playlist. Unchained
Melody by the Righteous Brothers. It absolutely is, absolutely is
that's it? Oh my love, my darling, I hung her
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for the word. That's the song. But the Roger brother
starts to here just like, oh, I'm dancing with Odame
like it's my ex lover. Imagine feeling that way. Could
you get yourself there? Could you get yourself to the
point where like, oh, yeah, I'm dancing with my former
lover who's dead now, but it's actually this woman that
I just met.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I don't know. It's a weird.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Premise, but we don't have to see it that way
because they show us that it's actually him dancing with her,
even though it in real life it would be ota
may Good movie. Though. I like the movie, solid movie. Really,
I do like the movie. Well well done by all
in that film. We can we can clown on Whoopi
Goldberg now for her political takes, but that movie made
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her career. I mean after that, she was she was in.
She was a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
She's done some great stuff, Like what was the one
where she was a nun sister act? Yeah, that's a
great one.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
She got that because of the ghost performance, like like
being Oda Mae Brown opened those doors for her. She
got her own show. She was on like wood Squares
and stuff. Every day she had she had a lot
going on.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean Wood Squares was funny back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, there's a new Hollywood Squares. You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah me either. I don't want, I don't watch. But yeah,
back in the day where it was like Penn and
Teller and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Whoopi Goldberg
and Gilbert Godfreed, like for Godfreed. Yeah, those are the days, man,
they'll take me back. Anyway, we were talking about Greenland.
We're talking about different things that'll be podcasts. You can
find it on the Emmery Stunger podcast page. I just
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saw this though earlier this week. What did I say
about a baseball team? Remind the people you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Talk about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They're not the
Devil Rays anymore. But yeah, oh just the Rays. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I've been the Rays since two thousand and eight, for
whatever it's worth, basically when I stopped paying attention the
most things in the world. Yeah, they'll tell people about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, you said that they should come to Omaha and
become the Omaha Rays. But Ray actually stands for like
a dude's name, and he's like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
This is what you said, this is what you said.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
His uncle Ray and that's your mascot and he's just
out there like drinking a light beer lawn.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You said this. I did not say this. This would
be bad. This is how you don't get the team up,
come up with bad ideas like this, and this is
how major League Baseball is. Like, yeah, I don't want
to be there.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's got sunshades on the back of his head, he's
got the mullet Uncle Ray out there. I think it's cool,
the Omaha Rays. Bad idea, bad bad idea. Okay, Anyway,
the idea is that, hey, they're up for sale. Well,
they're not up for sale, but they're being pressured by
Major League Baseball to sell because they're having really hard
time figuring out a stadium deal down there, and the
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current stadium that they're playing in got destroyed by a
hurricane and now they're gonna be playing in a single
a minor league baseball field that is really a nice
spring training facility, and like seventy percent of their games
the second half of the season they have to play
on the road because they're trying to avoid hurricane season.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All that makes sense. Yeah, Is it a coincidence that
today a potential Major League baseball expansion team called the
Nashville Stars dropped a logo and cap is this a ploy?
Is this hey? Look at me? Is this hey? By
the way, uh, we have this all ready to go?
Just you tell us when kind of thing? Or is
this just like, oh, this is happening? Because I after
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watching the Arizona Coyotes pack up and move to Utah
in like a week at the end of the hockey
season last spring, I'm willing to believe anything at this point.
If the race just up and left, nobody would notice
except maybe the ray tank sponsorship at Zoo Tampa. That's
like the one thing that's just like, Okay, I guess
we're gonna need a new sponsor for the ray tank
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because the Tampa Bay Ray baseball team has all their
stuff all over the ray tank at the Zoo. I
was there.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was great. You can feed them, You can feed
the race. Did you see that video of meat feeding
the rays? By the way, huh huh, it's a Have
you fed a sting ray before? Like food? No, you
have like a little fish in your hand and you
like put your hand underwater and you hold it like
an ice cream cone and you hold it underwater and
then they'll just swim up to you and you can
feel like they're belly as like that's where their mouth is,
and then they like grab onto it and you can
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feel like their mouth. It's like that. You know how
if you felt the lips of a horse kind of
like kind of floppy, Like a horse can kind of
like move their lips in a way that it can
like fiddle with stuff. That's kind of what it felt like.
It's just like it was fiddling with my hand to
get the fish and then it swam away. It was
it was cool.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds super cool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You can actually feed the rays at Henry Dolly Zoo.
Oh yeah, yeah, so you don't have to go to
Zoo Tampa to do that. That's why I was saying.
It's just like if they move to Omah, they can
just sponsor our RRA tank here. You know. By the way,
there's a bunch of rays that they had in that
stadium that got hit by the hurricane and they're now
at the Florida Aquarium. They packed them all up safely
and they're all somewhere else. For whatever that's worth. Look,
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the Nashville Stars baseball team, if that becomes a thing.
Good for them. It sounds like they're kind of putting
themselves at the front of the line if there's a
team that moves again. Because remember the A's also are
playing the next three years in Sacramento. So you have
two teams in Major League Baseball that are playing a
minor league ball park, and this team, this group of Nationals,
just like, hey, how's it going. Guys. They're not going
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to expand right now. They don't have the infrastructure major
League Baseball to expand. They're doing this so the Rays
can up and move, is what they're doing. So get
in the back of the line. Nashville jerks, Yeah, you
got Music City whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, they got enough over there.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You got your football team, and you got your hockey team,
and you got your college teams, and you're just you
got music and Tim McGraw and you're just a piece
of piece of work over there, you losers. You're trying
to take baseball now too. Get out, get out of here. Yeah,
you had their Triple A team already.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Just leave us alone. Yeah, you know what, leave it.
Leave the Omaha race for us.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah. Yeah, Tampa Bay that dead. We called Dibbs. We
called Dibbs. You got stuff already. We'll get Danny McBride
as the mascot. He can be raised. Every time you
say this, we lose We're losing ground.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Somebody just email it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, don't email in. I do not want to hear
your Some people who like my ideas don't have email. Okay,
they don't have access to a phone either. They might
be drifting around. They might have a lot of access
to other things that are not legal, but that's not
something we're going to talk about. Hey, you know what
if they like me, that's cool. Three sixteen give and take.
That's what it is. Yeah, I go Omaha. Mecca has
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got to be on the phone with them, Like, am
I am I crazy? How are we not calling them
right now? Warren Buffett has eight hundred bazillion dollars. We
can't get him to invest in a major league baseball
team here. Yeah, maybe he should stop building swimming pools
full of cash and actually put that money to good use. Warren, Yeah,
Warren by the rays move him to Omaha swimming around
in his Olympic sized swimming pool full of cash. You
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think he's swimming in that? He is, I've seen it Okay,
that's weird. I would just, you know, like, you have
a big money guy in in the area, let's invest
in some sports teams. He could do that tomorrow. He could.
He could offer five billion dollar dollars for the Tampa
Bay Rays tomorrow and we would be They would be
in Mayflower moving trucks on their way up here.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Maybe we should start a little smaller get like a
pro cornhole team, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Pro cornhole team. Yeah, what does that even mean?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, I'm just saying maybe going right for the MLB
is a little a little bit of a power play.
We should start.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We should let it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're gonna work our way.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We're averaging twelve thousand people a game at professional volleyball games,
unheard of worldwide. I think we're ready for a Major
League Baseball team. As of March twenty twenty five, according
to Axios, the Tampa Bay Raiser valued at one point
five billion dollars one point two five billion dollars. Can
we just can we just for a second here, just
(09:43):
say hey, how much money is Warren buffet worth. I
don't want to tell anybody how to spend their money.
I'm not that guy like Matt, you need to spend
more money on a haircut like I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's not how you talk to people. Yeah, but you
like my haircut, Tell the people you like my haircut.
I do like your haircut. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
As of February seventeenth, according to the Wikipedia, Buffett's net
worth is estimated at one hundred and forty nine point
six billion dollars. He's the seventh richest man in the world.
I'm Warren. I hate to be this guy, but I'm
gonna ask you for something. One point twenty five billion
dollars isn't a whole lot. When you have one hundred
and forty nine point six billion dollars, you barely even
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notice it was gone. And what you wouldn't even notice,
I would notice, You would notice, the rest of Omaha
would notice, the entire country would notice. It'd be a
good type of notice. Can't we just kind of do this?
Is this okay? Is it okay for us to just
like say, maybe this would be the thing that could
be like your legacy. We can build a new state
of the art baseball stadium that they can play in,
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and you could build that for a few billion dollars,
and we can name it the Warren Buffett Field or whatever,
and Omaha would love this team forever. I'm just saying,
let's not let Nashville cut us in line. Come on, Warren,
I'm count on you. I haven't asked for anything, Warren,
That's all I'm at.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's just like a it's like half an inch off
the top of your swimming pool full of cash. You
wouldn't even know it, not even I don't even think
it would be. That's that's the crazy part. Let's to
rake back into the pool after it kind of splashes
out when you do a cannonball.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Ah. Yeah, I don't know, man, And we can well,
we can't even call like we could call him whatever
you want, Warren, you can do whatever you want with them.
Just bring him here. Just bring them here. If somebody
gets the ear of Warren Buffett, I don't know anybody
out there. If you're listening, you might have like a
little Berkshire Hathaway like back door route to being able
to like actually chat with him about something. Bring this
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up and say that I was talking about I'd love
to chat with him one on one, give him my pitch.
If we got the money behind this I'm sure mec
would be like, oh yeah, let's do that. That sounds
like a good idea. That's all I'm saying. That's what
I'm saying. It's three twenty news Radio, eleventh th in
Kfab and Raise Longer.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So Rosie O'Donnell is apparently she's gone on her TikTok
and she's moved to Ireland, Ireland, and she just, I guess,
hates Donald Trump. Why do we care? Do we know
why we care? Well?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I guess that means there's not going to be like
a league of their own redo unless she can have.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Their own redo. And I hear that it didn't go
so well. It's my favorite movie of all time. I
boycotted the TV show. It's just like, there's no way
you're going to expand on this and modernize this thing
that I love and make me not like it. You're
not you. It was so good the first time you
got to be realistic with me and and they what
they ended up doing was they modernized it up to
where players are openly like LGBTQ plus, which not to
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say there weren't LGBTQ plus women's baseball players in nineteen
forty three when this league was happening, but they certainly
weren't openly like touting it, and they also had you know,
African American players like playing on the white girls baseball
teams and talking about those race relations allegedly. I didn't
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watch the show. I just read about it. And remember
when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrea for basically all
North American sports. It was nineteen forty seven. It was
after these purported events that didn't actually happen. They basically
made it, they fast forwarded it to make it feel
like it was a modern show with all of like
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our current day issues and problems, and that's fine, but
it just wasn't going to stand up to the actual
historic context. That was really awesome with the first show.
At the same time, I really liked Rosie o'dnnell in that. So,
you know, for whatever reason, you know, I can I
can dislike her politics, I can dislike her attitude towards
you know, current things. There's kind of a reason I
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think that Rosie stopped getting work at some point in
the mid to late two thousands. You know, like you
haven't seen a lot of Rosie on television or movies,
but in the early mid nineties. I mean she was
she was wanted like and I didn't dislike her. I thought,
you know, as an actress, she really kind of fell
right into like a lane that nobody else really was in.
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And she was hilarious in a league of their own.
I mean, her and Madonna working together, that was. They
were really good together, I thought, in that movie. And
Madonna really wasn't good in movies. She's really good in
that movie.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Was she in other movies?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think she's in other movies, but she wasn't as
good or as memorable. She actually played a baseball player
pretty well. Yeah, that's a great movie. You were going
to ruin it with me making a dumb modernized TV
show purported to be from the mid nineteen forties. Not
gonna buy it. Read down the line, read welcome to
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the show today. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
As far as I'm concerned, Until the celebrities give up
their citizenship, they're only on vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, and I see that's good. This is a lot
of grand standing. Technically, she can come back whenever she wants,
can't she. Yeah they also yeah, yeah, now see that's yes,
that's a good point. Thanks, So much for the call.
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's a good point. Wouldn't you go live some somewhere
else if you could for a while, If you didn't
like how things were going, you could just run away.
You have the means.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
She's rich, you're saying, if I did have the means, Yeah,
of course, I'd love to go to Ireland and just
live there for a while. Sure, trying to prove a point.
I wouldn't trying to prove a point. Would drink the guinness? No,
you go there and you go on your TikTok. Can
you tell people, Hey, I moved because I don't like
the direction of the country.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Give me attention. Oh, by the way, now I'm gonna
go get my guinness because I'm on vacation. I'm having fun.
If I could live that life, I don't need a
bad president or somebody politically I disagree with to go
live somewhere else for a while.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, but it's a reason that. I mean, you do
it and then you feel better about yourself. It's it's
a double win. You know, you get to take a
really cool vacation and also you get the virtue signal.
While you do it. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
The virtue signaling part of it is just it's too
juicy to pass up. You know, you're just like, oh yeah,
let me virtue signal on my followers is if people
actually care where I live, Rosie, No one cares.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like the reason I'm talking about it is because we
shouldn't care. Who cares any of the celebrities who said
that they were to leave, what does that even mean? Like,
so what who cares? Like if anybody else just decided
to move to Vancouver tomorrow, like I wouldn't notice, Like
if you moved, i'd noticed because I see you every day.
But like random person X from California, like saying, Hey,
(16:16):
I'm gonna live in Australia for a couple of years. Audios, Okay,
have fun, Like nothing's stopping you enjoy yourself if you
have the means.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
If you would have told me Keanu Reeves lives in Australia,
I would have said, okay, Like what does that mean
to me? It's who cares? These people live different lives
than me. They're they're above me in the pecking order.
They live in the upper crest of society.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There's a lot of people that live in foreign countries
because they just like being there. I got know a
lot of people that love Italy like they would love
to move to Italy in retirement and just live there. Good,
go have fun. Who am I to tell you you
should stay here?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I don't, I don't, I don't know, dude, I just
don't get it. It doesn't make any difference to me.
But congrats, Rosie. We're talking about you on Talk Right
You and Omaha three twenty nine. Hey, we got plenty
of news on the way coming back, including what do
people actually think about this Ukraine ceasefire idea? And why
is there some pushback here? I got some commentary on this.
(17:12):
Thanks for listening. Call us at four h two, five five,
eight to eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Oh, I'd have to say, they don't exist anymore. Of
a sabertoothed tiger. They're just so cool, you.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Know, but they don't exist anymore. I know, how could
they possibly be? They're extinct, like usually you know, things
that are really good, could you know last a while?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh, you take that back, It wasn't their fault. Society changed, Yeah, well,
global warming got a piece of them.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They got canceled before their prime.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, I bet they did.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Let me think about it, though. I guess the liger's
pretty cool. A lion and a tiger.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, I guess technically a thing that exists. But Napoleon
Dynamite was the one that really put him on the
radar for people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah. I had this neighbor that had this cat. She
just fed that thing. It's a big boy. His name's Garfield.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I regret asking this.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'm sorry. That was three bad answers. Let me find
a good night. I like the regular Bengal tiger at
the three. He's out Zoo is so cool, especially when
he's out there roaming around. She just cool to.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
See Rocker grab some bench son. Anything other than a
jaguar is just not the right answer. Okay then, and
the other very cool. They can do everything. They are
maybe the apex predator of all apex predators on planet Earth.
They can jump, they can run, they can swim, They
are strong enough to take basically anything down. They have
(18:35):
just incredible instincts and they look awesome. Jaguars. There you go, okay,
Ukraine thirty Day ceasefire proposal. We talked about this yesterday.
If they take this, they said, yeah, we'll do this,
if Russia does this. There are a lot of different
perspectives to this, but I saw our friend Tom Brewer
who was on the show, Colonel Brewer and former Center
Tom Brewer, really respect what he has to say, but
(18:57):
he talked to some local news outlets and said, only
buys Russia time to build and recruit and have the
ability if we wait too long and we can't get
to a legitimate agreement on how to end this thing.
It's basically just buying Russia time to put together a
finishing blow, essentially. And I respect Colonel Brewer, he's got
(19:18):
such a great perspective on this, but that's not like
if we're looking for an end to this, if we're
looking for peace, if we're looking for the war to
actually conclude. I think that this is a necessary step
because when was the last time that we had a
big war that we were just like, Okay, we agree
(19:40):
to end this thing and it's all over with. You kind
of have to get to the first step of just like, hey,
we're going to stop fighting now, and then we're going
to negotiate the American Revolution last major battle was I
have no clue. I'll just say Battle of Hartford. I'm
sure that's a thing that happened. It is a battle
of Yorktown, and the Yorktown happened. It took almost two
years before they signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended
(20:02):
the war. But you want to know something else, During
that two years, they pretty much didn't fight really at all.
There were some little skirmishes in different remote parts, but
for the most part, a major fighting between the big armies,
Washington's army and Howe's army. They were done, like they
stopped doing it because there was a pretty gigantic surrender
(20:23):
at Yorktown, and it just took a couple of additional
years for them to get the paperwork figured out. Now,
I couldn't imagine this takes two years to get figured out.
If we get to a ceasefire agreement, but you kind
of have to just agree to stop fighting so you
can get to the table and negotiate. I just think
that that's the case. Hey, appomatics Courthouse right famously was
the end of what.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Last time they served those delicious pancakes. I like so much.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh man, that'd be good pancakes. No, that's when Robert E.
Lee signed the surrender of the Southern Army, the Confederates
surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant in the north. But there
are still some other battles in the western part that
had to kind of wrap up. That surrendered didn't end
the war as much as is it's in the fighting.
It was after that we had to come to terms
(21:07):
of like, okay, so how are we absorbing them back
into our country? How are like what is necessary? Was
it really something to do to part in every single
guy who is still alive that fought against the Union,
that's what they did. They had to come to an
idea of like how that was all going to look?
It takes time. You have to get it's a step
by step process. You just don't like one day we're fighting.
(21:29):
In the next day everything's done and we're good. We
signed paperwork. It's great. You got to take one step
at a time. If we're looking for peace, we're looking
to an end to the war. I think you have
to stop the fighting first. And that's why I think
it's a positive now within that same realm, and this
is to Colonel Brewer's point when he talked about this,
if Russia is able to rebuild their kind of strategy,
(21:52):
their fortification, their numbers, well what does what doesn't that
mean you U Crane can do the same thing if
we're in the process of not fighting for the time being,
if we agree on a ceasefire, doesn't Ukraine also have
the ability to kind of like go back to the
drawing board and just like, hey, if we have to
get back to the fighting, like this is how we're
going to do it. And didn't all of the other
European NATO type countries all say that, hey, we're kind
(22:15):
of prepared to help you in any way that we need,
especially when we learned that America is going to be
kind of not supporting in the same way that they
once were. That's all I'm saying. I'm just I'm just
saying both sides are going to have equal opportunity to
prepare themselves for the future. Now that doesn't necessarily mean
that I'm right. Did you do you have a favorite
battle like or a favorite war thing that you've like
(22:38):
to study or watch documentaries or learn about. I know
most people I'm aware of, like World War two, is
kind of there they like to and it helps. We
have like video of that, right, Like there's like some
good actual footage of what World War two looked like.
And there's been great movies and great TV shows kind
of depicting World War Two. There's something about kind of
like the old way, the old style of that. I
(23:00):
like to read about Revolutionary War, War of eighteen twelve,
stuff like that, when we didn't have all that technology,
we didn't have the big tanks, we didn't have cars.
It was like the guys had a march to and
from all this stuff. You really had to be really
strategic because you didn't have all the protection that you
eventually would have when you got into the twentieth century.
Did you have like a favorite war or something when
(23:22):
you were learning about like that, you were just fascinated
by more than others because we learned about a lot
of them, you know. And I guess you could go
all the way back to like the Crusades and stuff
like that, although those were like over one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I think the War of eighteen twelve is pretty fascinating
just because they came back. They came back, and they
burned down the White House, they tried to burn the
White House to the ground. They set it on fire, Okay,
so it didn't burn, and so it stayed where it was.
It didn't wasn't there a time where we used to
be in Philadelphia and then they had to relocate.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So that was yeah, So Philadelphia was where the Continental
Congress was operating, but they had to leave, and you
love where they went. They went to York, Pennsylvania. That
was where they fled to because the British Army was
ransacking the East coast and the colonists were losing. The
Continental Army was losing at the time, and to avoid
(24:13):
being caught up and captured or whatever, the Continental Congress,
the dignitaries that you know weren't fighting, they ran away
and went to York. The first actual capital was in
New York City once we started the constitution. But then
they were in the process even then of trying to
build what Washington, d c. Would become. That wasn't even
(24:34):
a city. It was just kind of like a nothing area,
but they put it there for a more centralized location. So,
you know, all the colonies felt like they were being
properly represented there. It wasn't like in the northeast. But yeah,
it was built. John Adams moved in like right at
the end, like right before eighteen hundred or so, and
he was eliminated. He was he lost his reelection bid
(24:55):
to Thomas Jefferson. By the time James Madison got in
less than a decade later, or about a decade later,
was when they came back and tried to burn the
thing down. It hadn't been standing for fifteen years when
the British came back. We don't talk about that war enough.
We don't talk about it enough. Man, do we talk
about wars enough?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Generally? I feel like, what do we need to be
sitting around talking about wars for it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Because it's important to know the fighting that has occurred
and why we shouldn't be doing it again. Think about
the casualties, think about the hardships, think about all of
the things that we had to go through, the anxiety
that people dying, losing their sons, losing their daughters.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's important to learn your history, otherwise you might end
up repeating.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It exactly right. And you know, I'm not a huge
like people want to talk about statues and stuff like that.
That's not the history to me. The history is you
have to immerse yourself in it. You have to read
about it, you have to travel and go to battlefields,
Like you can go to Gettysburg right now and there
will be a tour guide that can take you to
Like Okay, so this happened at this point, And this
(25:56):
happened at this point. I was at Yorktown. I went
to Yorktown where you can like drive by. They have
a like a website or an app that you can
do like an audio tour while you're out there. And
I was like, and they did a good job of
like rebuilding it, because they weren't. It hadn't been like
saved the way that it used to be, but they
kind of rebuilt it. That the whole battlefield area the
(26:19):
way that it used to be back when they actually
fought the war in the Revolution, and you can see
like where the parallels are, you can see what the
strategy was. That the audio tour kind of tells you
what you're looking at. And dude, it is powerful to
think George Washington was standing right here accepting the surrender
from that British army. It's powerful stuff. But he's not
(26:40):
there now, You're right, He's dead.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
R and B.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But that like I don't know, that's how I intake history,
and we need more of that, right And this is
why like this Ukraine war thing, it's not going to
be in all of our textbooks. Obviously, it's going to
be more in a European mindset. But we don't see
wars like this this often. There's a reason for that
because I think we're trying, in our advanced awareness to
(27:04):
understand that we can coexist together and each country does
have a place in this world. How do we get
to the end of a war? You have to negotiate.
How do we negotiate? Let's stop killing each other first,
Let's get to the table and see if we can
come to terms. And it seems like we're getting to
a positive aspect of that. If if the fine folks
(27:25):
of each of these countries who are doing the negotiating
decide that yes, piece is what we want to achieve,
that's my hope. Three forty nine, Hey, we got more
coming up. Stick around news radio eleven ten KFAP and
were you songer. It's not cat, it's a it's an
aquatic animal. It's a it's a shark. It's whims not cat.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, take that. Mark.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, thanks thanks for the email, Mark, but we may
have to go back to the drawing board on that.
I saw this. I didn't want to talk too much
about it. But did you know that there's a fast
going on? Are you familiar with Lnton Lenton? Yeah, the
Linten season, Oh Lent? Yeah, Oh sure, Yeah, I know
about Lent. Yeah, So explain to the people with lent is, well, you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Fast something for forty days, right, yeah, so it's generally
more of a Catholic practice, but I know that it's
a hardcore Catholic and the guys have the they put
the ash on their forehead or on ash Wednesday, like
last Wednesday, I think it was, Yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I mean I've never done that because I'm not a Catholic,
but I have done the Lent thing. When I was
in church as a kid, they were just like, yeah,
it's good practice for you to give something up for
forty days. Nowadays people are doing like social media fasts
and you know, you're not supposed to eat certain foods
or something, you know, especially the Catholics, they do like
the fish fry, right, Like that's kind of the big
(28:45):
thing during the Lent season. Well, have you ever heard
about fasting from a store? If it has control over
your life? I think anything could be a fast. Well,
that's not what this is. This is literally just a
political power part.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's a boycott.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, it's a boycott more than it is a fast,
but they calling it the Target Fast. Reverend Jamal Bryant,
who is a senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist
Church in the Atlanta area, has organized a fast of
Target because they are wanting to do this as a
spiritual act of resistance because Target is rolling back it's
(29:20):
DEI measures. Remember, Target one of the many companies that
have made the announcement in the wake of the twenty
twenty four election that they're going to kind of do
away with DEI initiatives in favor of, you know, maybe
more consistent hiring practices. And yeah, what do you think
is that going to be effective? Is going to be
on the bottom line? What a turnaround for Target? Just
(29:41):
you know, a couple of years ago, Man, they had
guys going into their stores boycotting the fact that they
were selling you know, very pro transgender stuff in like
kid sections, right or you know, young person sections, which
is insanely inappropriate, and now here's the turnaround. Within two years,
they're getting boycotted for kind of ending its the EI initiatives.
(30:06):
If they survived that first wave of that kind of backlash,
if you're a person that would was boycotting with the
transgender T shirt stuff, would you be like, because politically
this is way more. They're doing way more stuff now.
It's just like, oh, yeah, I agree with that, but
you're hearing like the political opposition saying, well, yeah, like
(30:28):
more boycotting now. Would you go and support them because
that's kind of a politically active thing to do, even
though this is a store that you were protesting against
less than two years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't really think about the politics of the stores
I shop at. I look at the price, and I
also look at the line. And I tell you the
reason why I've been boycotting Target for a while now.
Every single time I go in there, there's not a
checker insight and there is a long line that ropes
around through the jewelry section of people waiting to check
out their own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Stop it, bring back the cashiers. More on the Way
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