Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2: There was a gunman who hijacked a metro bus and
Speaker 2: led the lapd on a pretty wild chase very early
Speaker 2: this morning, but it ended with one of the passengers
Speaker 2: having been killed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For more than an hour, a bunch of black and
Speaker 1: whites followed this bus as it made its way from
Speaker 1: Vermont Knowles in South Alay North into downtown. Police were
Speaker 1: able to use spike strips on the tires surrounded it
Speaker 1: with a swat team about two am, and that put
Speaker 1: a stop to this.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Started when the suspect got on the bus, argued with
Speaker 1: the driver, shot a passenger as others on the bus
Speaker 1: ran out nine one one began to light.
Speaker 3: Up flood of call to dispatchers.
Speaker 1: Bus driver hits the panic button and triggers the emergency
Speaker 1: message like you said on the light display.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Eventually, the spike strips debilitated the bus to the point
Speaker 2: where I couldn't go any farther obviously, when they stopped
Speaker 2: near Alami and Sixth, that's when police stormed inside with shields.
Speaker 2: One of the passengers was able to escape through a
Speaker 2: window as police came into the bus. Video showed the
Speaker 2: bus driver climbing out of a window and run into
Speaker 2: safety behind an armored vehicle that was out in front
Speaker 2: of it. They still have not yet exactly said why
Speaker 2: the person got on the bus in the first place,
Speaker 2: why he would have shot somebody, but they did find
Speaker 2: one passenger suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Speaker 5: No one else was injured.
Speaker 1: Well, Miss Amy King has an exciting weekend coming up,
Speaker 1: to say the least terrifying weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: You want to go, I will watch your You're gonna
Speaker 1: go instagram live on this.
Speaker 3: We're gonna we'll definitely be putting out a video. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I want it live, Okay, So tell
Speaker 3: everyone what's going to go on. So we're going over
Speaker 3: the edge.
Speaker 4: We're raising money to help out the Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 4: I'll be repelling twenty five stories down the Universal Hilden
Speaker 4: you know, the big black hotel on top of the
Speaker 4: hill by Universal Studios. Yes, yeah, so you know why
Speaker 4: not go jump off that? But we're doing it for
Speaker 4: a really good cause. In it's to actually help people
Speaker 4: who are homeless, not just throw money at them. But
Speaker 4: Union Rescue Mission eighty six cents out of every dollar
Speaker 4: you donate goes right to them. They feed tons of people,
Speaker 4: and they also have housing programs like to get people
Speaker 4: into housing and then help them transition, like help them
Speaker 4: get a ged, help them get a job, and get
Speaker 4: them back into society. So it's why we're behind this
Speaker 4: particular organization. They get no government funding because they have
Speaker 4: dry shelters. That means no drugs and alcohol in their shelters,
Speaker 4: so they're all privately funded. It's crazy, yeah, and we're
Speaker 4: trying to raise money. And I got to tell you,
Speaker 4: Neil just jumped ahead of me in fundraising and I'm
Speaker 4: kind of ticked.
Speaker 3: Where do I go?
Speaker 4: I'll fix it right now. Okay, just help one dot org.
Speaker 4: Just just help the number one dot org. And there's
Speaker 4: a Team iHeart page and then you can look at
Speaker 4: team members and there's Amy and there's Neil and a
Speaker 4: couple other people with Ihearted doing it. And if you
Speaker 4: can make a donation, we'd love it. If it's a
Speaker 4: big one, great, if it's a little one great, whatever
Speaker 4: you can do, we appreciate it. And I'm going over
Speaker 4: the edge Friday at three pm.
Speaker 3: You could come by and watch if you want.
Speaker 4: So anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 4: And of course we would love to get more people
Speaker 4: off the street. So you can't help all of them.
Speaker 4: There's too many. But you can't just help one. There
Speaker 4: you are, Okay, I'm gonna fix this right now. Just
Speaker 4: help the number one dot org.
Speaker 2: So were you just standing on top of the building
Speaker 2: and then someone said, hey, if you're up here, we
Speaker 2: have an idea.
Speaker 5: Maybe we could turn this into a charity event or.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I did watch tom cruise repel into
Speaker 4: the stadium at the Olympics, and I thought that looks fun.
Speaker 5: That may and perfect sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the Union Rescue Mission said, hey, you guys,
Speaker 4: we're doing this fundraiser.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well the best of luck. Thank you again.
Speaker 2: Just help the Number one Just help one dot org.
Speaker 2: Look for the Team iHeart page and then find Amy King.
Speaker 3: I'm putting you over Neil right now.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks, Shannon, I can't have that, I know, right,
Speaker 4: He'll be on the show in a half an hour
Speaker 4: to get back at.
Speaker 3: Me right well.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Also will remind everybody because we're gonna be live at
Speaker 2: our news and bruise at Bjay's Restaurant and brew House
Speaker 2: in Huntington Beach on Beach Boulevard, and we'll make sure
Speaker 2: that we remind everybody again tomorrow. Okay, you appreciate it
Speaker 2: all right when we return. There's a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of secrets about these Disney people. And I'm not
Speaker 2: looking at you, Amy, but I'm totally looking at you.
Speaker 2: Have you been to Club thirty three? Oh, don't say
Speaker 2: it like.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No, she she spent some time there. She's
Speaker 3: not just been there one time. She us still like,
Speaker 3: hang out there? What what are you looking at? I
Speaker 3: believe she may have prolonged a relationship to hang out there. No,
Speaker 3: I did not prolong their relationship to hang out there.
Speaker 5: It sounds like there's a story, and we'll do that
Speaker 5: when we come back.
Speaker 3: Oh darn, I gotta leave right after this.
Speaker 1: I love Disneyland when it comes to a couple things.
Speaker 1: I don't love all these strollers, but I do love
Speaker 1: the nostalgia and I love hearing the details of the
Speaker 1: secrets of Disneyland. And there is a couple that's been
Speaker 1: banned from Disneyland they're suing and they're spilling all of
Speaker 1: these secret details. Diana and Scott Anderson are their names,
Speaker 1: and they estimate they've spent about a million dollars living
Speaker 1: out their dreams at Disneyland. Now they're both sixty years old,
Speaker 1: and from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen they were members
Speaker 1: of Club thirty three.
Speaker 3: Of course, not a lot.
Speaker 1: You don't know a lot about Club thirty three unless
Speaker 1: you're privy to somebody who's been inside, and even then
Speaker 1: people are very cagy about what goes on. It's the
Speaker 1: exclusive private lounge where the wealthiest disney Files escape the crowd.
Speaker 1: You can have cocktails, there's gourmet meals.
Speaker 3: These two, this couple, they.
Speaker 1: Said they would visit Disneyland as many as eighty times
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and blow all kinds of money.
Speaker 2: Think of the thousands of dollars that they're spending on
Speaker 2: hotel rooms, food and drink transportation. They're paying for access
Speaker 2: to the special events, including dining in the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 5: Ride.
Speaker 2: I didn't know you could do that, but for twenty
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks the New Year's Eve parties.
Speaker 1: They say their social circle revolved around friends they had
Speaker 1: met at Club thirty three. In fact, after twelve years
Speaker 1: on a waiting list, they were finally invited to join
Speaker 1: Club thirty three and twenty twelve. They paid fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in sign on fees and dues their first year
Speaker 1: for a Platinum pass, which gave them guest passes to
Speaker 1: bring along their family and friends. And this is where
Speaker 1: their social circle revolved, they said. But it all came
Speaker 1: to a crashing halt when their membership was terminated in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen because the husband, Scott, was accused of being
Speaker 1: drunk inside a Disneyland park. He says he was suffering
Speaker 1: from a medical condition vestibular migrainevestibular thank you, which causes disneyness.
Speaker 1: So they sued to be reinstated. They've lost that legal
Speaker 1: battle that went on for seven years, and now they
Speaker 1: face a huge legal bill and exile from Disneyland.
Speaker 2: So they said, the first four years, like you said,
Speaker 2: joined in twenty twelve Club thirty three. They paid fifty
Speaker 2: thousand and sign on fees. The first four years were bliss.
Speaker 2: They mingled with Hollywood A listers. In twenty seventeen, they said,
Speaker 2: the magic began to fade. Prices went up quality decline
Speaker 2: and ms Anderson was suspended for using salty language.
Speaker 1: Yes, she said she had been drinking at the bar
Speaker 1: when their alcohol service was suddenly cut off after her
Speaker 1: friend split her mirmosa. I'm sure there was more than
Speaker 1: one split mimosa involved with her salty language. Apparently she
Speaker 1: complained to the manager and said the words to the
Speaker 1: effect of what the f is going on? The suspension
Speaker 1: was swift came immediately on the night their membership was
Speaker 1: terminated the same year, twenty seventeen, the husband, Scott, says
Speaker 1: he was with fifteen to twenty friends at Club thirty three,
Speaker 1: that he had two beers and a glass of wine
Speaker 1: over three hours. Right at nine point thirty, he was
Speaker 1: found slumped on a park bench by two security guards.
Speaker 1: They reported back to Club thirty three management that he
Speaker 1: smelled of alcohol he was slurring his words. They were
Speaker 1: terminated on the spot. The jury took just forty five
Speaker 1: minutes of deliberating to rule against them. Yet, you don't
Speaker 1: get to go to Disneyland, get drunk and ruin Club
Speaker 1: thirty three and you know, be slurring your words on
Speaker 1: a park bench in front of children and a jury
Speaker 1: in Orange County take your side.
Speaker 3: That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I've heard of people. I think my I think my
Speaker 5: wife knew some.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody who has an official membership to
Speaker 2: Club thirty three, but I I mean, I'm sure I
Speaker 2: do at some point. It's just not something I asked about.
Speaker 1: This couple claimed that eighty percent of the members sold
Speaker 1: access to the club in return for dinner, drinks or
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars in cash. Other members would
Speaker 1: buy Club thirty three merchandise polo shirts, napkins, handbags, mugs
Speaker 1: and sell it online at a markup.
Speaker 2: And they said that Disney staff members would monitor a
Speaker 2: private Facebook page for Club thirty three members, and if
Speaker 2: members complained on that private page, they would face repercussions
Speaker 2: in the park, they said, celebrity members were afforded special treatment.
Speaker 2: You know why, because they're celebrities. They were able to
Speaker 2: flout the strict rules, like Rebel Wilson. For example, she
Speaker 2: revealed last year that she'd been suspended from the club
Speaker 2: for taking pictures in the bathroom and joked that membership
Speaker 2: was being was akin to being a member of the
Speaker 2: Disney Illuminati. The other there is one Thanksgiving Diane and
Speaker 2: Scott said that they were having lunch in Club thirty
Speaker 2: three and it was closed at short notice. The dining
Speaker 2: room was so that Tom Hanks and his family could
Speaker 2: have a private dinner.
Speaker 1: Scott Anderson said he sued Disney because he believed his
Speaker 1: integrity had been maligned. I became known as the drunk
Speaker 1: in the park. Missus Anderson. Diana now sees Club thirty
Speaker 1: three as a cult. We all laugh and we go, God,
Speaker 1: we were in a cult. We didn't even know it.
Speaker 3: You guys are ass hats.
Speaker 1: That's what you are. I defend Disney. There is a
Speaker 1: new report on the state of parenting in America. Also,
Speaker 1: why is childcare so expensive? We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: stories about that as well.
Speaker 5: Residents of Wyoming have the most positive outlook on life.
Speaker 2: That makes sense to determine where states land on the
Speaker 2: scale of optimism and seeing the bowl half full instead
Speaker 2: of half empty. A yogurt brand did a study with
Speaker 2: the support of a group called Wakefield Research, and your
Speaker 2: Optimism Index score would range from zero to ten based
Speaker 2: on ten different metrics, including how likely you were to
Speaker 2: persevere in challenging situations, how often you exercised, how often
Speaker 2: you eat a healthy breakfast things like that. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Maryland was number five, okay, where Alabama was number four.
Speaker 2: New Jersey was number three, California was number two. Wow,
Speaker 2: and then Wyoming number one.
Speaker 1: Kathy just sent me some pictures. I love burger wars,
Speaker 1: don't you. It's always so much fun. So two days ago,
Speaker 1: USA Today comes out with the best fast food burgers
Speaker 1: in America, and the number one spot was Habit.
Speaker 3: Number two was in and Out.
Speaker 1: Now both based in California, of course, but now everyone
Speaker 1: knows the in and out in your Lax, right. The
Speaker 1: billboard went up the same day that this survey came out,
Speaker 1: and the billboard right outside the In and Out at
Speaker 1: Lax says congrats on being number two in and Out,
Speaker 1: and then the Habit logo and the Habit girl or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then they took out also a a backpage at
Speaker 1: a full ad in the paper deer in and Out,
Speaker 1: and there's a big trophy that says number two. There's
Speaker 1: so much emphasis on winning in today's society. Let's take
Speaker 1: a beat to celebrate the silver medalists, the runners up.
Speaker 1: There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Burger options out there,
Speaker 1: and yours was just voted number two by USA to
Speaker 1: Day's ten Best Number two. That's pretty darn good. So
Speaker 1: here's to you, in and out. Congrats on number two.
Speaker 1: Your friends, Habit Burger and growth.
Speaker 5: Oh that's great.
Speaker 3: It's not wonderful. I love a healthy competition.
Speaker 5: So that statistic that.
Speaker 2: We were talking about was that of the twelve shows
Speaker 2: that won Primetime Emmys just a couple weeks ago, two
Speaker 2: of them Hacks on HBO Max Hacks and Apple TV's
Speaker 2: The Morning Show. Those two are the only two to
Speaker 2: have been filmed in California.
Speaker 1: Other states and countries have been ramping up incentives to
Speaker 1: arrest productions away from California, and it's working. This is
Speaker 1: a warning sign that we are no longer the worldwide
Speaker 1: leader in entertainment.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that we have done as
Speaker 2: a result we being California is right now we have
Speaker 2: a three hundred and thirty million dollar film and Television
Speaker 2: tax credit program, which offers studios and producers credits of
Speaker 2: up to twenty five million based on eligible spending of
Speaker 2: twenty to thirty percent on productions in the state. But
Speaker 2: we may need to triple the size of our program
Speaker 2: and expand the types of productions that can apply for this.
Speaker 2: Just give you an idea of recently, the the movie
Speaker 2: Wicked that is coming out later this year was filmed
Speaker 2: almost entirely in the UK. All of the Marvel movies,
Speaker 2: Think Avengers, Captain America, all those, most of that is
Speaker 2: based in Georgia. Barbie, for example, another huge movie that
Speaker 2: came out last couple of years, filmed.
Speaker 5: Almost entirely in London.
Speaker 2: TV show Why Master Chef, you know, the Gordon Ramsay
Speaker 2: show that's going to be outside the United States for
Speaker 2: the first time. It's going to be out of La
Speaker 2: the Floor, the game show Beat Shazam, the game show
Speaker 2: named that tune. They're all now shot in Ireland as
Speaker 2: part of a production deal that was formed a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago.
Speaker 5: So how do we get this? What exactly happened? They
Speaker 5: said that.
Speaker 2: A time when Hollywood's working class has already seen its
Speaker 2: financial reserves drained by the strikes from last year, a
Speaker 2: bunch of these major production houses are setting up shops
Speaker 2: in other states, even other countries, which generates frustration for
Speaker 2: crew workers find it harder than ever to find employment
Speaker 2: during COVID For example, I knew a guy who was
Speaker 2: working set construction. He picked up and moved for two
Speaker 2: full years because of the restrictions on productions here in
Speaker 2: the state of California, specifically with COVID. If you look
Speaker 2: at the Employment Development Department, the information sectors of the
Speaker 2: largest monthly decline in jobs from July to August, largely
Speaker 2: because of the motion picture and sound recording industries. Jobs
Speaker 2: dropped by four thousand to under one hundred thousand. That's
Speaker 2: about four and a half percent higher than the total
Speaker 2: job count a year ago at the peak of the
Speaker 2: writers and actors strikes. And then you had, of course
Speaker 2: contract negotiations between IATZI and the teamsters that took place,
Speaker 2: and everybody was mad because they didn't trust the workers
Speaker 2: and studios to actually follow through on the promises that
Speaker 2: they were supposedly asking for or making.
Speaker 5: Say.
Speaker 1: One of the major factors is the question of above
Speaker 1: the line pay. California does not permit productions to include
Speaker 1: the salaries of actors, directors, and other top talent towards
Speaker 1: any tax credits, but places like Georgia and the UK
Speaker 1: say that the above the line salaries can be deducted,
Speaker 1: which is a major reason why major films are going there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's real money.
Speaker 2: Not just the actors, but the types of shows. Because
Speaker 2: game shows, commercials, animated films, they're not eligible for those
Speaker 2: tax credits for the moment.
Speaker 3: Is this why you haven't hosted a game show recently?
Speaker 5: That is exactly the reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they went fly you to Georgia to do that.
Speaker 5: They would not right now.
Speaker 2: The issue of how much in total tax credit the
Speaker 2: state's the state allocates to eligible productions. Georgia does not
Speaker 2: have a cap on its tax credit program, which is
Speaker 2: why you're seeing some massive studios. Tyler Perry's billion dollar
Speaker 2: studio that's going up is in Georgia.
Speaker 5: A lot of the Amazon productions that we've seen.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Jack Reacher, the new series on Amazon
Speaker 2: that was filmed entirely in Georgia. They said that Georgia
Speaker 2: has no cap on its tax credit program. New York
Speaker 2: increased its cap up to seven hundred million, and like
Speaker 2: I said, our tax credit program, despite the fact that
Speaker 2: we have a much larger industry, is still capped at
Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty million. The teamster's goal is to
Speaker 2: triple that amount, expand that to one billion, because if
Speaker 2: nothing else. It at least fits the scale of the
Speaker 2: production business here in the state of California. But that's
Speaker 2: going to be a hard sell because the state of
Speaker 2: California doesn't have any money. And I can't wait to
Speaker 2: see Gavenowsom walking around.
Speaker 5: The hallways today. I'd ask him more about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no pictures. Remember, Yeah, the it is beaten
Speaker 3: down the door.
Speaker 1: The Tampa International Airport's going to close at two am
Speaker 1: because of the hurricane.
Speaker 3: They're going to shut down the airport.
Speaker 5: I could see that.
Speaker 3: So that is going to snarl things if you're headed
Speaker 3: to the East coast or through any sort of Yeah,
Speaker 3: just check.
Speaker 1: I mean, airlines are already releasing different alerts for that.
Speaker 1: North Carolina has declared a state of emergency at COORDA
Speaker 1: ahead of Hurricane Helen touching down there. You've got Florida
Speaker 1: A and M, University of Tampa, Florida, State, University of
Speaker 1: Florida all have closed down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're more than twenty four hours away from landfall.
Speaker 1: They said it could be a high end Category three
Speaker 1: with one hundred and twenty five mile per hour wins
Speaker 1: by the time it makes landfall tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: I guess that's good news, and that it's not a
Speaker 5: four or a five.
Speaker 1: It might be a category four. They said during Landfall
Speaker 1: last night at the end of the Dodgers Padres PA
Speaker 1: such a better call. It's always such a better call. Well,
Speaker 1: this was Joe Davis on KLA City.
Speaker 5: Smoke the third me Toronto steps on the back like
Speaker 5: all the way around and turn a triple play ten
Speaker 5: the game been impossible. I guess I would have been
Speaker 5: on sports and at LA.
Speaker 2: But still, I mean the Padres a triple play to
Speaker 2: end the games. But it's the first triple play in
Speaker 2: Padres for the Padres since twenty ten, I believe, and
Speaker 2: only the thirteenth or fourteenth in the history of the franchise.
Speaker 2: Guarantees their spot in the postseason. Now they're two games
Speaker 2: behind the Dodgers for the National League West title.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my buddies Adrian Garcia marquezcuse Me and
Speaker 1: Francisco Pinto, who are the Chargers play by play guys
Speaker 1: for the Espanol and they are outstanding. Sometimes I just
Speaker 1: try to listen to their broadcast, going their studio next
Speaker 1: door and just listen to the excitement and the emotion
Speaker 1: and those guys are exhausted.
Speaker 3: When they are done.
Speaker 1: Calling a game because of all, Yes, it's awesome to
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: Dodgers will take on the Padres again tonight at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: It is Clayton Kershaw Bobblehead Night tonight, First pitches, It's seven.
Speaker 2: Listen every play on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 2: Live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth.
Speaker 5: Stream all of.
Speaker 2: The games NHD on the iHeartRadio app and use that
Speaker 2: keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Well, we got a
Speaker 2: report from the Senate investigations into the attempt to say
Speaker 2: fascination of Donald Trump have revealed some pretty big security lapses,
Speaker 2: as if we didn't see them coming. The only questions
Speaker 2: of the questions, I should say, have only grown since
Speaker 2: then as we deal with this. The Secret Service was
Speaker 2: one of the last nine, one of at least nine
Speaker 2: federal and local security divisions that were supposed to be
Speaker 2: working together that day in Butler, Pennsylvania in July. But
Speaker 2: at that rally, young guy with a rifle borrowed from
Speaker 2: dad was able to outthink, out, smart, outmaneuver the cops
Speaker 2: for more than an hour and a half before he
Speaker 2: eventually fired the shots that came within millimeters of killing him.
Speaker 2: Forecasters warning that Hurricane Helene will intensify as it crosses
Speaker 2: the Gulf of Mexico on a path to Florida. National
Speaker 2: Hurricane Center said it's about five hundred miles southwest of
Speaker 2: Tampa right now. Sustained winds have reached eighty miles an hour.
Speaker 2: They said it's expected to become at least a Category three,
Speaker 2: with its center making landfall in the Big Bend area
Speaker 2: of the Panhandle as soon as late tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oakland won a title in five straight years in the
Speaker 1: seventies baseball's athletics in seventy two, seventy three, seventy.
Speaker 5: Four, Wind Is a Pirate, the.
Speaker 1: Raiders in seventy six, the Warriors in seventy five. All
Speaker 1: three teams played just steps apart at two venues surrounded
Speaker 1: by parking lots and a bart station.
Speaker 2: Now, I can't say they were the greatest venues for sports,
Speaker 2: but they were also built in the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1: I loved the coliseum just because of the memories of
Speaker 1: going and seeing you know, Dennis Eckersley with his socks
Speaker 1: up to his knees and the easy going nature of
Speaker 1: going to an a's game where the players would sign
Speaker 1: autographs after.
Speaker 3: It was so much more user friendly.
Speaker 1: It's like a JV team kind of with the city,
Speaker 1: you know, being the forty nine Ers and the Giants,
Speaker 1: those were always It's like the Lakers and the Clippers
Speaker 1: kind of.
Speaker 3: But I loved going to the call.
Speaker 1: I love going to the Coliseum, even when I was
Speaker 1: working with the Chargers and the station was in complete shambles.
Speaker 1: I mean it would flood, they had rodents, the toilets
Speaker 1: backed up, all the wires were exposed in the belly
Speaker 1: of the stadium. I mean it was a total shole,
Speaker 1: but it was something that stood.
Speaker 3: From my childhood.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But anyway, how.
Speaker 2: Much time you spent at the Coliseum the arena, sorry,
Speaker 2: the Coliseum arena, which was the basketball arena.
Speaker 3: Ye had a couple games throughout my whole life.
Speaker 5: I saw a couple of concerts there, but I never
Speaker 5: saw games.
Speaker 3: I spent much more time in the coliseum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw plenty of baseball these baseball games, which
Speaker 2: is weird because I mean it's a town of just
Speaker 2: over four hundred thousand people. Now that's just that's not
Speaker 2: to say that a town of four hundred thousand people
Speaker 2: can't support a couple of Major League or few big
Speaker 2: League teams because obviously they're drawing from the entire Bay Area.
Speaker 2: But if you think about what has happened, obviously the
Speaker 2: Raiders moved to la for a while and then back
Speaker 2: to Oakland, and then a couple of years ago they
Speaker 2: get lured to Vegas in this beautiful arena that's just
Speaker 2: off the strip in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I think it's the best branded stadium for a team.
Speaker 1: You walk into that place, you know exactly who plays it.
Speaker 2: And then the Warriors get drawn out of the Coliseum
Speaker 2: Arena over to San Francisco, or I should say, back
Speaker 2: to San Francisco from whence they came. And now the A's,
Speaker 2: the Oakland A's are playing their final game in Oakland tomorrow, wow,
Speaker 2: against the Texas Rangers. And I mentioned this to you
Speaker 2: yesterday that apparently the A's team, the players and the
Speaker 2: coaches and managers have been told it's probably not a
Speaker 2: great idea to stick around after the game because we
Speaker 2: don't know what the fans are going to do, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what that The assumption is that they're
Speaker 2: gonna what storm the field fans love, you're gonna ask.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fans love the players, they love the team.
Speaker 1: They've fought so hard it would spend such an inspiring
Speaker 1: thing to watch the A's fans fight for their team
Speaker 1: to have it be sold in everything. They are going
Speaker 1: to crash for a while in West Sacramento at a
Speaker 1: minor league venue. Is that the River Cat Stadium, Yes,
Speaker 1: And then they're going to try to turn their dreams
Speaker 1: of moving to Vegas into a reality.
Speaker 2: And that's still That's the thing is that's still not
Speaker 2: a given that they that they play in Vegas. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's there's other cities that may be more ready or
Speaker 2: would be more willing to have them. So one of
Speaker 2: the problems with sports ownership a lot of times is
Speaker 2: that the people who buy these teams suck, they're awful people,
Speaker 2: and that they just look at it. They're not sports fans,
Speaker 2: which you don't have to necessarily be, but it makes
Speaker 2: a difference in the way that you deal with your franchise.
Speaker 2: And in this case, on Monday, the owner of the A's,
Speaker 2: a guy named John Fisher, released the letter to fans
Speaker 2: and he said staying was in Oakland was our goal.
Speaker 2: It was our mission and we failed to achieve it.
Speaker 1: And then this part highlights what we're saying. Yes, in
Speaker 1: the letter, Loma Prieta, the namesake mountain of that six
Speaker 1: point nine magnitude earthquake that disrupted Game three of the
Speaker 1: World Series between the A's and the Giants, Loma Prieta
Speaker 1: was misspelled. How do you misspell that in a letter
Speaker 1: to A's fans when it meant so very much, not
Speaker 1: just to the World Series and to the A's being
Speaker 1: in the World Series, but to the city that it leveled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my goodness.
Speaker 5: Now there will be sports teams.
Speaker 2: The Oakland Roots are like a second tier soccer team
Speaker 2: that are playing.
Speaker 5: They're trying to build that up.
Speaker 2: I guess they're going to try to lure some minor
Speaker 2: league baseball into town, which is fine.
Speaker 3: Sad, very sad.
Speaker 5: It's very sad what has happened to that city.
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