No Labels No More | Biden Meets Netanyahu | A's to Sactown

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Em Rie's songer on news radio elevenfaband I'll be honest, I was impressed.
How many times did you hug themachine? Twice? Once per day,
once per day. I was thereon Thursday, and then I went
back on Saturday for the games,even though I didn't have work to do,
and I just stopped in to theparty, say hi to some of
my cyclone people. Hug the machineagain, because when in Rome, Matt,

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you hug the machine. Well,I wasn't going to finish it,
but you know, as you cansee, I'm drinking, Oh, just
a cola zvia. Yeah, adoctor, no, no doctor today,
I'm out. This is my lastcaffeinated can in my fridge. You need
to go shopping anyway, cheers?Do you m hey? You remember that

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no labels party thing? Remember whatthey were doing, tell the people what
they were planning on doing. Well, I remember that they definitely wanted to
be no labels, you know,like kind of when you go for that
teen phase and you don't want tobe called anything. You don't want to
be called very rebellious. Yeah,yeah, like don't put any labels on
me? Yeah, well, Ithink it it meant for something else and

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they had a cool logo. Right, it looked like the no, the
in on no was getting ripped off, and behind it was like a star
and a stripe. I mean it'sa cool logo because right, like no
labels, you have a label onyou to rip it off, scratch and
sniff. No, you just that'snot a label. That's a sticker.
Now this is a sticker, butit's also a label. You know,
when I get a label, youhave label makers, yeah, and then

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the label maker you like, haveit make a label and then you smack
that label on whatever you want tosmack it on, like right right,
Well they do that to us.You know, what would be the label
they give you? Society? Notthis party, this party certainly not four
labels, but society at large.Yeah, society. If there was a
label, pop right there? Whatis it? Hello? My name is

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what is it? One of?My name's Matt. Yeah, but they're
not putting that there. They're labelingyou society labels you what is the label?
Boy? I'll let somebody else dothat for me. But that's what
it's the exercise, Matt. Ifthere was a label and they printed out

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a label and it said this personis and then they smacked it right on
your shirt and you had to wearit because society labels you. That's what
this party is trying to tell you. They're gonna take the label off.
But what's label saying? What's thelabel? I think my label probably is
just like if it was one word, it's probably just like insecure. Oh,

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come on, I don't know.I don't know. It's very insecure
of you to say. I knowthat's how I think of myself. But
maybe what do I permeate? Youlabel me and I'll label you? How's
that? Uh? I'll put alabel on you? What was what was
the wrestling thing we came up withthe name? Yeah, with a good

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wrestling name for you? Oh,I don't know. Do you remember what
it was? Of course comes tomy mind. Related would be okay,
I think passion, passion, passion, okay, all right, the passion
label here, right, and thatcould turn some people off, depending on
what you're passionate about. I'd labelyou well dressed, oh, okay,

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minus the jorts. Well I'm notwearing georts, I know, but you're
well dressed today. You didn't dresslike me. I own one pair of
jeorts. If I see them,the label comes off. Maybe maybe my
label should be Jeorts spokesman. Actuallythat's my label? Can I Can I
have my own label? Now?No Labels doesn't want you to have a
label, Matt. All right.So, anyway, they wanted to run

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for president. They were putting togethera ticket that was going to unify the
two parties and anybody in the middlethat just didn't want to vote for Trump
for Biden, this was your guy. And then all of a sudden,
can I get a dun dun dune? Can he give me a dun dun
dunn dun dun dun? An independentcandidate arose and his name was Robert F.

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Kennedy, Jr. That is correct. And guess what happened. People
were like, Oh, that's thethird part of candidate I might vote for.
And that took all the sting outof whatever this no Labels thing was
actually going to become. Right,Well, fast forward to last week when
US Senator Joe Lieberman unfortunately passed awayfollowing a fall. He was a guy

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that was one of the leaders ofNo Labels. They called him the chairman
in some ways. Eighty two yearsold, was a Democrat. Most of
his life was the running mate forone pop quiz Jillyberman was Al Gore.
It was Al Gore, and thenin four he I ran for the nomination

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but was left in the dust bynot Howard Dean but hanging Chad John Kerry,
John Kerry, And yeah, JoeLieberman's been in and out of our
public consciousness since, I mean it'sbeen twenty years. Unfortunately, his passing
away kind of left them in ahole. And remember the Joe Manchin thing

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they were talking about like different typesof people. This is a kind of
move that you make when you don'tcare about running for office anymore, because,
let's be honest, you're not gonnawin, and you certainly are just
gonna become an enemy of the twomajor political parties. How do you reconcile
that unless you're a Democrat who wantsto eventually turn into like a Republican,

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maybe like a mansion type. Andthis is kind of the bridge. You
become the no labels nominee, Yourun for office, you try to take
as many Democratic votes as possible.You're kind of a surrogate helper for the
Republicans to win the office. Andthen after the smoke settles, and the
dust is cleared or whatever, thenall of a sudden you have the opportunity

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to maybe be welcome with OVID armsto the side that has the power that
you help get them in power.Unfortunately, for No Labels, they say
it is not meant to be.According to the Wall Street Journal, this
was said by No Labels founder andCEO Nancy Jacobson. Today today No Labels

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is ending our effort to put fortha unity ticket in the twenty twenty four
presidential election. Americans remain more opento an independent presidential run in Hungary or
for unifying national leadership than ever before. But No Labels has always said we
would only offer our ballot line toa ticket if we could identify candidates with

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a credible path to winning the WhiteHouse. No such candidates emerge, so
the responsible course of action is forus to stand down. End quote.
Ah yeah, so maybe that.But I also think RFK Junior kind of
took the sting out of whatever thirdparty run they were trying to put together,
and as long as he was justgoing to be an independent, not
hop on with their bandwagon and notbecome like a No Labels party guy,

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the idea I think kind of justwent by the wayside, at least for
now. At least for now,there's not a top tier person that would
have committed the career suicide. Thiswould have been just hop it on and
hop it in, and that's justthat. Now. If you have different
thoughts on this, you want totalk about the No Labels Party, if
you want to talk about the lackof an additional candidate. We certainly know

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there will be multiple third party optionsfor people who do not want to vote
for Biden or Trump. You cancall us at four oh two five five
eight eleven ten. Four oh twofive five eight eleven ten. You can
also email me all show long,even about what you're drinking, because I
have no problem talking about that.Emoryakfab dot com is that line as well.
Super excited to talk to you today. I hope you're having a good

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Thursday. It's news Radio eleven tenKfab Emery song on news Radio e k
fab. Could you talk one ofthe failed Republicans into potentially being this person?
Hey, Republican X, it didn'tgo so well going up against Donald

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Trump, but you know for afact that there's a base of people that
would like to support you you've doneall this campaigning already, why don't you
just kind of shift that from beingthere and over on that side to just
kind of sliding into this no labelsthing. Still talk to your base,
build up your base, and havemaybe an opportunity to move on. Matt

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Case is my producer Matt Let's experimenthere. I'm going to ask you if
there was one Republican that dropped outof the race that No Labels might have
been interested in, that might havethought even just a little bit about maybe
doing this, which person would thathave been? There is a correct answer?

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Okay, Well, the one thatI would think of mostly, which
I'm sure most other people are too, would be Nikki Hayley because she was
second place basically and one she wonat least one primary. Right, she
did one exactly exactly one. Butthey all signed the oath, right,
that's the big thing. Right.They all signed that they were they wouldn't

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be allowed to be on a debatestage if they did not. And this
is why Donald Trump wasn't there.More than anything, he knew he didn't
need to be there, but herefused to sign the oath of basically saying,
hey, I will support whoever theRepublican candidate is, and that's that.
They all did that. However,there was another one. It was
not her. There was another personthat dropped out and was approached by the

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No Label's party. If it's notIcki heely, who do you think it
was? Chris Christy boom baby andyou're you're on fire here? Yeah?
Yeah, but daba do he says? The uh? He was asked,

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is that the that's the kind ofguy that you know. It's just like
what else does he have to loseat this point? Like he is he
going to like serve in Congress again? Is he going to try to be
the governor again? Is he goingto try to utilize that? I mean,
that's a big enough name that Ithink no Label would have gotten some
attention. But what do you havegarnered more than like two percent of the
interests of the vote? Maybe maybenot even? And how responsible is it

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if you're trying to run a unifyingticket, how responsible is it to split
votes amongst third party candidates that arealso trying to run on that platform of
unification? Because isn't that RFK Junior'sbig thing? It really is, we're
trying to bring people together. Idon't I can't talk like him, but

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you know, you know how itwould sound if he said it, right,
don't no, please, don't Okay, no dysphony a voice for you
today, all right. I justthink that this is the responsible thing for
No Labels to do. Now.On top of that, I'm not trying
to be like this guy that's tellingyou that third party candidates are a waste

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of time because they are not.They're not. I think it's important that
people, when they go and practicetheir civic duty to vote, they vote
for a person for office that theythink is right for them. You shouldn't
just be voting one way or anotherbecause you're afraid that society has told you,

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or one of these political parties evenworse, has told you you're wasting
your vote if you vote third party. That's not how it works. Your
vote still counts. It's just goingto somebody who has a much lower chance
of winning. However, it doesindeed change the race, and that,

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to me, more than anything else, is why this isn't important. Now.
Jill Stein's gonna run Green Party CornellWest. I mean he might show
up on the bout too. Younever know, there might be another name
or two. I mean, whatwas it Nevada that were like, there
are four guys that were on thatballot we'd never heard of before for the

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primary. Yeah, and you're justkind of like, who are these guys
and what's the point? What's theguy's name that won the American Samoa thing?
Jason Palmer? Yeah, that's it. I mean, this is the
game that we're playing. But ina general election, that is going to

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drive a ton of people to thepolls, probably outboards. I would guess
one hundred and thirty one hundred andforty million people. I don't know if
it's going to be as many astwenty twenty. But don't you worry.
The two political parties, the twomajor political parties, are going to fear
monger everyone who listens to their rhetoricsto get out because it'll be the end

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of the world as we know itif they lose. And that has moved
people before. I mean, that'sa great motivating tactic for people who are
on the fence, like I betterdo this thing that I'm supposed to do,
vote because the people I listen toon the news say that the end
of the world will be nigh ifI vote for the wrong person or if
I don't vote. But man,RFK Junior lurking as a third party candidate

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as like a unifying person. Whywould you try to split that vote with
him if you really cared about unification. RFK is kind of that guy.
If you couldn't get him to sayI'm running as the No Labels candidate,
He's just running independent, which Ithink is probably the right move right because
he's saying there's not a political partybacking me here. I am just out
here by myself. I'm not goingto have the same tools, are the

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same people that are going to beable to help fund me. I'm not
going to have the same television opportunities. I'm going to be buried by one
or both sides of the aisle asa guy who's trying to ruin the election
for them, instead of this beinga free and open and fair election where
I can run and people who wantto vote for me can just vote for

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me, no matter conscious free,no matter what happens. And the No
Labels Party, I think wanted todo that and got usurped and knocked out
of the way by the idea ofan independent candidate that was an actual independent.
As far as the election is concerned, we know RFK Junior is definitely
more Democrat than he is a Republican. But you're trying to figure out which

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side is going to come harder intothe middle to vote for him in November
than the other. And that's reallywhat's fascinating about this. No labels thought
they would be that alternative. Therewas just no space for them anymore.
And I think it's the responsible thingthat they say, we're out. Nothing's
going to happen as far as we'reconcerned, as far as this November's election
is concerned. Of course, ifyou have thoughts on this, we'll listen

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to you. Four h two fiveto five, eight eleven ten is the
phone number. You can also emailEmmeri atkfab dot com. There's some more
pressure being put on from our WhiteHouse to Israel for an immediate ceasefire.
We'll go through that, and we'llalso talk about this US women's national team
story because now they're at odds withone of their own over opinions on LGBTQ

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Plus, and we will talk aboutthat throughout this show as well. It's
a Thursday Thursday on news radio eleventen kfab. Emery Sunger on NewsRadio eleven
ten KFAB. People are reporting thatJill Biden, doctor Jill Biden, the
first Lady of the United States ofAmerica, is really starting to pressure her

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husband, the President, Joe Biden, to really force Israel to try to
finish up this conflict here, becauseit's pretty clear and obvious that the President
is losing a little bit of groundwithin his own party, people who should
be supporting him over the handling ofthis situation in Israel. Again, we

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are talking about Israel being an allyand to this point, to his administration's
credit, a very staunch supporter ofwhat they were doing on the offensive.
After they were attacked so maliciously byHamas in early October. However, the
rhetoric has changed quite a bit thathey, you know what, Israel might

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not be as good a guys asyou guys think they are, and just
because diplomatically you want to consider theman ally, maybe things are different.
And the president is feeling that becausewhat was it, none of these candidates
or uncommitted I think was the Michiganterm. There's quite a bit of those

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people, there's quite a bit ofthose people that are going out and saying,
I'm not sold on the way thathe's handling this. And this is
politics, folks. As much aswe know, Israel is in the right
and Hamas and their supporters are inthe wrong as far as what's happening there,
And I know there's a bigger story, and we can talk about decades
and decades of stuff before this,or we can talk about hundreds of years

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before this or thousands of years beforethis, because that's really where the roots
of this problem lie. We havea president and that's just trying to get
reelected. And the way that politicsworks is you will do whatever it takes
to get re elected. If youare a career politician, it doesn't matter
what you really stand up for.That's the thing. We talk about him
trying to fix the southern border,and all these Republicans are coming out and

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saying, well, he could fixit real quick by just using an executive
order the powers he already has aspresident. He could just enforce the rules
that we already have. But thatwould be political suicide to other demokratz if
he were to do that, becausewe know that they support the open border
thing. They don't see the southernborder is as big an issue as we
do. Even the sanctuary cities whoare feeling it aren't going to put their

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blame on the administration. They mightbe asking for federal help, which we
also know that the democratic administration that'sin there right now has no problem giving.
However, I sit here knowing thatthe game is being played and knowing
lives are being lost, both inIsrael, in Gaza. You can throw
Ukraine in there as well. Whoknows what the future holds with China and

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Taiwan. North Korea is still outthere. You never know what they might
be up to, and people arelosing their lives, and we are very
lucky that it isn't directly us,right, but we still have this superpower
thing going on where we are consideredone of the superpowers of the world.
Despite weak, spineless leadership that thiscurrent administration seems to have, really giving

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a lot of military aid to Ukraineand trying to support Israel, we still
kind of don't have the same typeof strength on a national or even a
worldwide scale as you'd like us tohave, even the peace through Strength idea.
So it's no surprise to me thatthe rhetoric and the narrative around the

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Biden administration's support for Israel is startingto change. The tune is changing a
little bit, ladies and gentlemen,And it has everything to do with November.
It has everything to do with tryingto win back the people who are
unsure about Joe Biden because they arethe free Palestine people. They say that
was an open air prison for decadesand finally somebody decided they were going to
attack Israel over it. They wantto try to twist and turn and talk

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about every last angle they possibly canthat will divide people in a way that
they can be benefited by. Yousaw a lot of college ca empussis,
and we also had the debate thatthese are twenty twenty one year old kids
that they don't know foreign policy yetthey were told or read a book or
watched a documentary once that said Israel'sthe bad guy and they just ran with

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it. Right. That's kids forhim. That's why a lot of people
don't really find conservative Republicanism until youknow, they advance in age, because
they're told and force fed a lotof stuff that makes them feel like they
know everything, and you know,progressive liberal agendas are the ones that make

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sense to them because they don't knowhow the world works yet. Right now,
I'm not saying some of those peopledon't really believe all this. I'm
just saying that some of them havebeen led to believe things that they don't
quite fully understand. However, thosepeople's votes still count the same as our
votes do. And that's why theBiden administration has now started to really pressure

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Israel as far as this afternoon isconcerned to get to an immediate cease fire
and try to get this thing overwith US. President Joe Biden, is
reported by Reuters, has called foran immediate cease fire as he called Benjamin
Dettan yahoo the Prime Minister of Israel, following that Israeli attack that killed Food

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Aid workers, seven of them earlierthis week. I'm telling you what,
There's been a lot of bad stuffcome out of Israel, and Israel has
been incredibly aggressive. But that attackon that Central Kitchen charity convoy that rubbed
a lot of people worldwide the wrongway, and Joe Biden says, guys,
you're tying my hands. I cannotkeep supporting the cause here if this

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is the kind of thing I haveto continuously defend. So here's the quote
and the quotes in this statement,trying again to reach the potential Democratic voter
who was considering that uncommitted thing whentheir state goes and votes in their primary
or caucus or whatever. And thisis a quote. Biden made clear the

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need for Israel to announce and implementa series of specific, concrete and measurable
steps to address civilian harm, humanitariansuffering, and the safety of aid workers.
The President also made clear that theUnited States policy with respect to Gaza
will be determined by our assessment ofIsrael's immediate action on these steps. So

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what does Israel's plan look like withoutthe big one hundred percent unwavering support of
the credit presidential administration. We haven'tseen that yet, but we will figure
out what is going to happen inthe coming days, I'm sure, and

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Benjamin net Yahoo has not been shyabout responding to these things, letting the
world know what Israel's thoughts are onwhat is happening. White House spokesperson John
Kirby did not elaborate, but saidWashington hopes to see an announcement of Israeli
steps in the coming hours and days. That's what he said, and that's

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what we're going to find out.Is there going to be a response from
Israel that says, Okay, maybewe need to figure out how to get
to the end of this conflict,even if it doesn't mean a total victory.
I'm not so sure. But withoutthe United States really having their back
one hundred percent, does that forcetheir hand? I'd like to know what

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you think about this. Is thispolitical play? Is this a political idea
to try to get himself more staunchdemocratic support knowing that the polls are kind
of pointing the wrong direction for him, or does he really want to get
this thing finished up or even betteryet? Will Israel react? If you
got thoughts on what is happening here, you can call us at four h

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two five five eight eleven ten oryou can email me Emory at kfab dot
com. It is news radio eleventen KFAB. Emery sung on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB. So Sacramento isapparently going to expand their current minor league
baseball facility to house the current OaklandAthletics, who are going to be in

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the process of building what we areled to believe they're building a stadium in
Las Vegas. Again, there seemsto be hang ups with that. It
doesn't seem like it's one hundred percenta done deal as they try to knock
down the old Tropicana and build astadium down there, and that's right along
the strip. I mean, it'dbe sweet, but it's unfortunate that this

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is happening, and it's playing withpeople's lives in a completely different way than
we were talking about before. Thisis the last relic of what was a
great American sports city. There's nothinglike left. The A's have effectively chased
all of their fans from Oakland andthey don't I saw this thing on social

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media going around. They don't allowpeople to bring anything that says Oakland on
it. Anything that says rooted inOakland they confiscate. But it's not like
it's hard to find because you know, how many people are actually going to
these games. Not many. Sothey played the Red Sox yesterday. Now
the Red Sox are a big brand, but they're you know, they're not
a very good team, they're abig brand. Attendance was announced at six

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and thirty six yesh Okay, thethat is half as many are going to
regular Omaha Supernova's professional volleyball matches herein Omaha. You know, if they
if they were willing to move tothe Midwest for a few years, I
say, hey, try the Midwestout. Come move over into Charles Schwab

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Field and play a few seasons.That's while you're waiting on that Vegas situation.
Obviously they don't want to displace themselvestoo awful much, but why not?
Yeah, I mean, what doyou have to lose? Flights and
flights everywhere these days? Okay,So they played an eleven inning game against
the Red Sox two days ago.Announced attendance was five one hundred and eleven

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five thousand, five thousand people toa Major League baseball game in a stadium
that could seed up to fifty thousand. Just a quick note on that former
thought the Oklahoma City Thunder got theirteam. Why because remember the at the
time New Orleans Hornets relocated to OklahomaCity. Yeahsa, Hurricane Katrina got to

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do a little trial run there.All of a sudden, people are like,
you know what, they came out, So they came out like this
is a pretty good space here,Like they've got it. They've got good
infrastructure, good fans support. Andthen the Seattle super Sonics couldn't get an
arena deal in Seattle. Their ownersays, find him out. He sells
to a conglomerate group that he knowswill move the team to Oklahoma City.

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And then they do, and theystill I mean, that's a healthy franchise.
That's a healthy franchise just sitting there, and it's the only one there,
right, I mean, we talkedabout this. When you're really the
only show in town. In someof these smaller sized markets, the support
seems to be there if you promoteyourself properly. There's a lot to do

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in Omaha. There's a lot todo in Omaha. But a Major League
Baseball team comes, or an NBAteam comes, or an NHL team comes
and just like tries it out fora year or two. Do you not
think people will show up to showthem that, hey, we will support
this. I certainly think so.I would be shocked if it didn't happen.
So what's happened with Sacramento here?Does Sacramento like, what what do

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they have to gain by this?Do you say, do they think more
like they're expanding their stadium by likefour thousand people. The Sacramento river Cats,
I think play there. It's SuitorHealth Park right now, it seats
fourteen thousand, and they're gonna getit up to eighteen thousand. The A's

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are drawing like a third of thatright now. Is there a chance moving
the Sacramento that Sacramento its or whateveryou want to call them, will be
like, I'm going to go andcheck this out. Yeah, I'll show
them that Sacramento could absolutely host aMajor League Baseball team, even though like
if Sacramento can, then why couldn'tOmaha? Right, Like, what's the

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is it just locations? It's northernCalifornia still, so it's not too far
of a drive. They have astate of the art Triple A facility that
they think that they can expand justa little bit to make it work.
Worthwhile, the Arizona Coyotes are doingsomething like this in the NHL. They're
playing at the Arizona State Facility thatyou can see it only like six or

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seven thousand right now. Ahithough aretrying to figure out what the heck they're
going to do. They don't evenhave a deal for a stadium right now,
or an arena. I mean,heck, that might be the team
that ends up moving somewhere. Weneed to find one of these NHL teams
and like melt their ice, youknow, sabotage secretly melt their ice and
then all of a sudden be like, hey, you know, you guys
could come to cut some games uphere in Omaha. While you get that

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all sorted out. Coyotes don't needany more help. That's a sinking ship.
Like how quick can you build thisarena in Gretina. That's kind of
the race is on between all thesemarkets trying to vie for maybe where they
could move or maybe a new team. I don't know, got lots of
coyotes out here, I got.Jim also emailed about the Kansas City stadium
situation, which kind of popped upas well. Weird situation considering how dominant

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the Chiefs have been. I'll tryto give you some more information on that,
and more about this United States women'snational soccer team deal where they're hating
each other again. We'll talk aboutthat on news radio eleven to ten kfab