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Listen and you will know. First of all, if you haven't heard this

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yet, I love this Rod arct on Talk Radio one oh five nine O

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K and rs. I tell you what. We have got a crazy busy

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afternoon the waiting you and you work your way home on this Monday. We

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have got news breaking out all over the place this afternoon, and we're going

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to keep you up to date and give you the latest information we can as

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you work your way home here on this Monday. As I just mentioned,

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hello everybody, welcome to the Rod our Cat Show. Great to be with

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you. Hope you have a fin pen wee can what not? Weather nights

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over the weekend. I know it's cold today, little rainy, maybe a

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little snow in the mountains, but according to the KUTV weather team, as

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you just heard Chase Mention, it's gonna all be gone and the rest of

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the week should be it should be pretty nice. Now, let's start off

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with some of the breaking news that we have today. KUTV are two news

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partners reporting this afternoon that the NHL's Executive Committee has now approved the move of

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the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City. That's according to report, in Sportico.

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Now, the location vote, the relocation vote, i should say,

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according to the story today, now gets passed to the league's board of governors,

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and that board of governors includes all thirty two teams currently operating in the

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NHL. Now, several sources have been reporting for several weeks now that the

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Coyotes are expected to be sold for over a billion dollars to Utah Jazz owner

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Ryan Smith shortly after the team's finale season finale on Wednesday. As Abby just

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mentioned, an announcement could come on Wednesday, possibly on Thursday. Now.

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According to the reported deal, Coyotes owner Alex Morillo will keep the Coyotes name,

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their logos, and trademarks, so if in fact, the Coyotes are

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coming to Salt Lake City, and apparently another report I think ESPN reported the

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other day that the Coyote players have been told get ready to move to Salt

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Lake City because that's where you're headed. So if we do, if this

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all is finalized, and it looks like it's going to be, we will

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get a NHL team with a new name, new logo, new cover,

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new colors, you name it. So it'll be interesting to see how that

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develops. It's going to be a very very busy summer to get this team

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transferred up here. Now, in this hour, we are going to explore

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that. We're going to talk with a reporter who's been following this story with

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the Phoenix Business Journal. It's going to break this down as to how this

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all came about. State Center Dan McKay is scheduled to join us. Of

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course, Utaw lawmakers approved a plan that will allow sales taxes in Salt Lake

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City to go up a bit to help pay for either renovations to the Delta

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Center or possibly a new arena. I would imagine it's the renovations to the

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Delta Center, but we'll dig into all of that. So we've got that.

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Nine. Another breaking story today. This just came down out of why

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this afternoon, the US Supreme Court is going to allow Idaho to enforce its

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statewide ban on puberty blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and sex change surgeries for

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minors. The Court this afternoon, in a six to three decision. I'm

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reading this off one of the wire services that we have ruled that the twenty

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twenty three law may go into effect, though the state cannot apply it to

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the two plaintiffs who have already challenged the legislation. The court granted Idaho's emergency

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request after a district drudge rule that the state government could not enforce the law

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during ongoing litigation. There's a debate over the rights of parents, but at

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this point, the US Supreme Court has allowed or is going to allow Idaho

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to enforce its state wide ban on puberty blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and

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sex change surgery. So, like I said, there's a lot going on today, and you'll want to stay with us as you'll work your way home

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today for the latest information because we'll have it. Abby will have it in

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her newscast as well. Now, I want to start off the show today

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with what happened over the weekend in the Middle East, because I want to

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ask you a couple of things. I mean, help me make sense of

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this if you would back on October seventh, a little bit more than six

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months ago. Now, terrorists with the Hamas organization crossed over the border,

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blew holes in the wall, flew drones, came in on paragliders and invaded

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the Kibbutza's in southern Israel, killing fourteen hundred people and in some cases brutally

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killing them. Israel responds, and Israel responds and says, okay, we've

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had enough of this. This's been an ongoing you know, spit, a

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little ongoing spat, i should say, now, spit spat between Hamas and

4:48

Israel, and Israel said, we're we're having It was the worst terrorist attack

4:54

in Israel's history. Fourteen hundred people were killed. Israel goes in and said,

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we're taking Hamas. Urban warfare is not easy, very very difficult.

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But they go in and they're attempting right now to eliminate Hamas, and the

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world comes down on them and says, you've got to stop this. You've

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got to come to a treaty. How do you work? How do you

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develop a treaty or a ceasefire with an organization who's sole goal is to destroy

5:20

Israel and destroy and kill every Jew on the planet. How do you do

5:25

that? Okay, but Israel is the one that gets criticized. Even our

5:29

own president, well, he says, we stand strong with Israel. You

5:32

know, you guys have got to smarten up and do things right. So

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you have that, and then this weekend, one hundred and eighty six explosive

5:41

drones, thirty six cruise missiles, and one hundred and ten surface to surface

5:46

missiles coordinated from three funds. Were three fronts, with Hezbollah, the who

5:51

Thieves, and Iran challenging Israel's Iron Dome. Now here's the strategy from what

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I've read today about all of this. The slow moving drones were designed to

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swarm the system so the missiles could get through. Guess what they didn't.

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That's an amazing part of the story. The success of those pesky Jews defeating

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Iran's attack just means Iran's attack in my opinion, and I'm not the only

6:20

one saying this today. By the way, it's all for show. Let's

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not be kidding ourselves. It's all for show. I mean, Iran should

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have just held up a you know, held a news confersence. Okay,

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Israel, here comes the drones. They're on their way. You better get

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ready for it. It was all for show for the Arab world. And

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you know, those in Iran who get a very limited view of what's going

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on in the world and world reaction to what Iran has done, they're cheering,

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Oh, we've attacked Israel. Yay. Good for us. Look what

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we've done to the rest of the year of world. We can take on

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Israel. It was all for show, folks. It accomplished absolutely nothing in

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the fact that Israel's defense, along with the help of the United States,

7:05

even some certain Arab allies, stepped in and said, we aren't going to

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do anything about it. You know, nothing's going to happen. Now.

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The question is what should Israel do. You know, there are several choices.

7:19

You know, Joe Biden has told Benny bb manson Yaho, take the

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win, brush it off. You know you're seeing to you know, didn't

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do us any harm. Just brush this off because your defense systems work.

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Today in Israel and yesterday in Israel after the Saturday attack, people in Israel

7:36

are back out on the beaches, going to the bars. Life has returned

7:40

to normal in Israel after what happened over the weekend. And that's what Joe

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Biden is telling bb Netsan Yahoo. Take the win, brush it off,

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show the world that Iran cannot affect you or deter you in any way,

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and move on. Don't attack them. So your country has attacked twice in

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just the last six months. By ham Awsome by Israel. What should they

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be doing? You know, I think that is a decision of the Israeli

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people and the Israeli leaders if they feel something needs to be done, if

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they feel they need to strike quickly against Iran. The United States should be

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in support of that, not saying, eh, take the win, don't

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do anything drastic, take the win. What is Israel going to do?

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I have no idea at this point, I really don't. My guess is

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and just just me thinking, how know how they operate, Use their intelligent

8:33

forces to take out key leaders. Don't launch a big strike against Iran.

8:39

Take out some more of their key leaders. That will upside Iran and they

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won't know what to do, to be real honest, but I think that's

8:46

the way to address this. And who's responsible for all of this? I

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mean, think about this? How on earth has the world allowed Iran to

8:56

regain its strength? Shall we go back to Barack Obama. Barack Obama had

9:03

one goal in mind. Barack Obama wanted to change the way the Mid East

9:07

operates. He wanted to get a little bit harder on Israel and open up

9:13

communications with Iran. That's what he'd been trying to do remember all these deals,

9:18

ending the nuclear deals, allowing the sanctions, leave some of the sanctions

9:22

a little bit. That's what should you know. That's what Obama wanted to

9:26

do, and Joe Biden is following that. Donald Trump temporarily put a stop

9:30

to that. So we are dealing in any of this stuff, you know.

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But Barack Obama and then Joe Biden have relaxed sanctions against Iran, allowed

9:39

the oil money to flow into that country. Allowed by lifting these sanctions allow

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them to direct their money toward their military operations and their plan to just totally

9:50

wipe out Israel, and instead, you know, Iran feels in bolden.

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Now, hey, we can do this. The United States is not going

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to jump down the throat of is real. They're going to tell him to

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back off. And Iran today, So if you look at this from the

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outside and what happened here, this country has now been attacked twice. This

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country should be allowed to do whatever it wants to do in response to it,

10:18

and let them decide. They live there, We don't, folks,

10:22

and they should be allowed to do it. Let them decide the best course

10:26

of action that they think. Now there is a word today that maybe they

10:31

are, you know, BB Nancy Yahoo listening to everybody he's talked to,

10:35

is going to let this kind of okay, it's done. They came after

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us, We brushed it off. Really no harm, no major damage.

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No one was killed except I think a seven year old Arab girl as a

10:46

matter of fact, from what I understand. But the rest of it,

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we're going to back off. We're going to hold off Iran bey on guard

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because we're going to get you somehow. We're going to get you someday. But we aren't gonna worry about it yet. To be interesting to see how

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this all things up. And yeah, you have to look at this. You know, I am I don't know about you, but I am so

11:07

sick and tired of Joe Biden and this don't foreign policy. You know,

11:16

when Iran was threatening Israel, what did he say, don't? When Israel

11:20

wants to respond to what has happened to Iran, what does he tell Israel

11:24

don't? What kind of a policy is don't? Because that's what they're trying

11:31

to do, a policy of don't. Really, that's what's going to be

11:35

effective in all of this. I mean, that's what you have to think

11:37

about. Here in America today, as we look at this, so I

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think we have to leave it up to the Israelis, you know, the

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Hawks they're in Israel will want us write quickly. The more moderists may say,

11:50

let's back off and see what happens here is going to be interesting to

11:54

watch. But the world is sitting on something right now that could be very,

11:56

very dangerous, and we'll just have to wait and see how this plays

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out in the world. Talk a lot more about it during this show today. All right, more coming up on the Rod Arcat show in Utah's Talk

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Radio one oh five nine canters. Well, your hockey fans, that may

12:22

sound very familiar to us. It looks like the Salt Lake City is about

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to get a new NHL team. Where it is late this afternoon that the

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NHL's Executive Committee has approved the move of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City.

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The relocation vote now go now has to get passed by the league's Board

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of Governors, which includes all thirty two teams. Well, how did all

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of this come about and what does it mean in the future? How quickly

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are things going to move? Joining us on our Newsmaker line from Phoenix is

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Brandon Brown. I understand Brandon is a native of Utahi. He's a reporter

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at the Phoenix Business Journal. He's been following this story for Q sometime.

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Brandon, how are you? And welcome to the rod arkitche Thanks for joining

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us, Thanks for having me rod Yeah, I'm a dated from Salt Lake.

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I went to the University of Utah and this past weekend all my friends

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and family been texting me pretty excited that you're still in our hockey team.

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Brandon, How did this all come about? Brandon? What happened? Do

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you think this has been going? This has kind of been headed down this

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road for a long time. Is the biggest problem is the Arizona Counties didn't

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have a great place to play, great home ice. The team in the

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NHL didn't like the arena they were playing in and the west side of Phoenix

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for a long time, they didn't feel that they got the best people out

13:35

there. It didn't get the attention that it should get from as big of

13:39

a city as Phoenix is, and so own a couple different owners tried to

13:43

find new places to play and it just didn't work out. And the latest

13:46

owner in the process of trying to find a new place. Kind of got

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evicted from that arena, and so they've been playing in real small arena and

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they keep making these big plans, but it's been hard for them to make

13:56

it, harder to make it happen they thought it would. Why what do

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you think Phoenix did not embrace the Coyotes at least at this point. Bad

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team, bad location? What was it do you think, Brandon? I

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think the location played a big part of it, but I really think the

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team hasn't played very well. You know, it's been in there since nineteen

14:16

ninety six when they got the Phoenix. They won less than they've won the

14:20

forty two percent of their games, and so that's not great for doing that

14:26

in Phoenix. There's a lot of stuff to do here, you know.

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I talk the team owners from the Coyotes to the Arizona Cardinals. They say

14:35

that we're not just competing with other teams for you know, fans and attention,

14:39

but we're competing with the museums, with you know, movie theaters,

14:43

with shopping, as well as just people's backyard in the winter. It's nice

14:46

to sit in the backyard, you know, and it's you know, eighty

14:48

degrees outside. You can't see that in a lot of other places. So

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you're competing with a lot of different things for people's attention. And when the

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arena was really far away from a lot of people and it was you know,

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the the product and the ice wasn't great, I don't think a lot

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of people showed up. The owner himself. What is the feeling about the

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owner the current owner of the team, Brandon. Yeah, so Alex Morrell.

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He bought the team in twenty nineteen. He's the first Latino owner of

15:15

NHL franchise, and he had a lot of big, ambitious plans. At

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the same time, he wasn't from here. A lot of people were a little not skeptical, but just didn't know what to expect from him. You

15:26

know that he didn't have really any business dealings here. A lot of his business was in Nevada in southern California until it was just a lot of people

15:35

that know a lot about him. So I think there's a little bit of

15:37

that. And then since then, he just he's made a lot of promises and hasn't been able to fulfill all of them yet, and then to this

15:43

point probably won't be able to Brandon. Any thoughts as to how Ryan Smith,

15:46

the owner of the Utah Jazz, was able to jump in front of

15:48

the line because there were several other cities very interested in an NHL franchise,

15:54

but somehow Salt Lake said he jumped in front. How did that come about?

15:58

Any idea? I'm not I don't know the exact way it happened,

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but I would kind of guess it's probably money, right, you know,

16:07

reportedly he's going to be paying, you know, one point two to one

16:10

point three billion dollars for this team. You know, when Alex Merle bought

16:12

the Coyotes in twenty nineteen, he paid There's different reports. We've already the

16:18

business drip. I always reported three hundred million dollars, and that's quite a

16:23

bit more. And you know, I know Ryan Smith has been very active

16:27

and really wanted an NHL team, and it's been growing kind of a sports

16:30

empire there in Salt Lake. And he has the money to do it,

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and he's been successful. The Jazz, while you know, not being the

16:37

best on the court, continue to sell out games and having a lot of

16:41

viewership there. So I think the NHL saw him as a very serious owner

16:45

and having the money to do so they said, let's go for it.

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My sense is, Brandon, final question for you. My sense is that

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Phoenix will not be sad to see the Coyotes go. Is that a fair

16:55

statement. I don't. I don't. I think people might be. I

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don't think people are really surprised that this is happening. And in the past

17:03

few years, you know, attendance the games has gone down quite a bit,

17:06

viewership on TV has gotten down quite a bit. So I think the hardcore fans are going to be really sad. Luckily that the you know,

17:12

there will be a team you know, in Salt Lakes not too far away

17:15

from Phoenix, so they can maybe sure for them, and then there's a

17:18

hope that maybe the owner can actually build an arena and bring a team back

17:22

here again expansion franchise in the future. But I think there are some people

17:26

who'll be really sad. I think a lot of people will just be like, oh, okay, okay, yeah, we're going to go play golfer,

17:33

go sit by the pool for a little bit longer, right, Brandon,

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Is that what they're going to be doing? All right? Hey, Brandon, thanks for the background the information on this and appreciate you. Thank

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you for your time. Have good one, Rod, thank you. All

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right. That's Brandon Brown. Here's a reporter with the Phoenix Business Journal giving

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us a little background on the situation in Arizona with the NHO coyotes. Looks

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like they're on their way to Salt Lake City. Now, when we come back, after we get the news updates, State CENTEREDD McKay will join us.

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Sender. McKay was involved in the legislative action to you know, see

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what Utah can do to help with this move. He'll talk about the implications

18:11

and the impact on taxpayers as a result of this move and what the Utah

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lawmakers have done. We'll talk to him coming up right here on the Rod

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available everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Make sure you downloaded so you can take

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us everywhere. A lot of breaking news today, but another step has been

19:14

taken toward bringing in NHL hockey team to Salt Lake City. Our news partner

19:19

at KUTV is reporting today that the NHL's Executive Committee has approved the move of

19:25

the Coyotes Arizona Coyotes the Salt Lake City. The relocation vote now gets passed

19:30

on to the league's Board of Governors, which includes all thirty two teams.

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Now, of course, a lot of efforts were made during the legislative session

19:37

to do what they could to help Major League Baseball and the NHL get here.

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Joining us on our Newsmaker line right now is State Senator Dan McKay,

19:45

who is actively involved in the NHL move. Senator McKay, how are you

19:48

welcome back to the rod Arquachwa. Thanks for being with us time. Well,

19:52

hey, thanks for having me us. Dan, let me ask you,

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I mean, the questions are going to be okay, what is the role of taxpayers, what would the impact be on tech experience? What kind

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of a plan did you work out? And why do you think you'll be

20:03

beneficial to Utah? Dan? Well, can I start reverse right? Sure?

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Sure? You know everybody's like, well, why why should the government

20:12

do this? Right? I look at, you know, our sports teams.

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In a lot of ways. I look at, say a public park,

20:19

and if your park is you know, if you got a public park

20:23

in your neighborhood, you love it, but it is a total money pit.

20:27

Sometimes the sprinkler's leak that the grass drives up. You go through the

20:30

list. I mean, you know, someone get injured, there's threats of

20:33

lawsuits, all these other things. But you know what, if you talk

20:36

to somebody about removing that public park, you'd, you know, the entire

20:40

neighborhood would go absolutely nuts. And I think about that with our sports teams.

20:45

Everyone loves the Utah Jazz. I mean I hear universally all over the

20:49

place. We love the Utah Jazz. We'd hate to see him go away.

20:53

Even though you know there's risks and of heartbreak with our teams, we

20:57

love them and there's something that goes along with our identity that we all would

21:02

hate to lose. And I think that's that's something you know, to be

21:06

proud of the state of Utah, and it brings people to the state that

21:08

people paying attention to us, and in a lot of ways, adds a

21:11

lot of value to the state. And here's the deal that we laid out

21:15

with taxpayers, with you know, the owners when they originally post the legislature.

21:21

The desire was, you know, to potentially look at a second arena

21:25

somewhere south of you know, south of seventy two hundreds south in Salt Lake

21:29

County and you know, all the way down in the Utah County. And

21:33

there were a lot of conversations back and forth, and what everybody decided together

21:37

was that we were better off leaving you know, the arena in downtown Salt

21:45

Lake and maybe making improvements in the Delta Center or building a second or building

21:51

a new arena that could house both the Jazz and the NHL. And by

21:56

doing that, it then made it a better venue, more viable venue.

22:00

And it takes and what would be an uncomfortable situation is if a second arena

22:06

got built somewhere else, then potentially, you know, the jazz would follow

22:11

and go down there and leave an empty arena downtown, which would be that'd

22:17

be bad for downtown salt Lake. And Utah is unique in a lot of

22:22

ways our capital city and our center of business. So the same city and

22:29

we we'd hate to see a gem like you know, the future home of

22:33

the Salt Lake Olympics and everything else be and have you know, greater homeless

22:38

problems or greater crime problems because of lack of constant use of the arena.

22:44

And so we're we're looking at trying to make ways to make that better.

22:47

And and the taxpayer package that we came up with was we allowed salt Lake

22:52

City and it's it's totally at salt Lake City's options. We gave them the

22:56

option to vote as a city council to implement a zero point five percent tax

23:02

on sales tax. And that sales tax doesn't apply to cars or motor homes

23:07

or large purchases. They're generally purchases that are made you know, they're in

23:12

salt Lake City, and that would be only in the boundaries of salt Lake

23:17

City. And that revenue over thirty year period, you know, creates just

23:22

shy of a billion dollars in present value, and they can use that to

23:26

bond for improvements around both the Delta Center, the Convention Center, and kind

23:30

of that block area and really do what they can to make a very powerful

23:37

sports entertainment area. Senator McKay and would that be contingent, of course,

23:41

for the Jazz and the NHL to stay in downtown Salt Lake City? Is

23:45

that is that the real goal here? If you can't, if we can,

23:49

Yes, that is absolutely. That is absolutely, state leaders and the

23:55

owners of the Jazz are all on the same page that the ideal is for

24:00

everybody to be in downtown salt Lake and to make that downtown salt Lake area

24:04

stronger and better. I know there have been a lot of studies out there

24:08

showing that when government gets involved, it really doesn't work out the way they

24:12

hoped it would. Why are you confident the way you're going about this would

24:17

be a benefit to the community and actually to the taxpayers in the long run.

24:21

Well, I'm confident that we are going to make improvements of downtown salt

24:25

Lake and if that remains you're objective, then you're going to be great.

24:29

If you're worried about ROI, I would challenge somebody to go and try and

24:33

calculate the return on investment in a public park. It's pretty impossible to new,

24:37

but everybody would argue that it does provide a serious value to the community.

24:42

And it's the same way when you look at you know, an arena,

24:45

or when you look at you know, the downtown sports entertainment area.

24:48

People don't have to go very far. Go just outside of YQQ and look

24:52

at the Aloha Stadium and look at what that largely abandoned stadium is used for

24:59

today. It's mostly a swap meet and it is it is an unattractive nuisance

25:04

in the Hawaii and a lot of problems are resulted around the around that stadium.

25:11

And it just shows you what a dilapidated non development area of what happens

25:17

to it when it's not being used. And I think if you have something

25:21

like that happen west of the Convention Center, it will undo all the positives

25:26

that downtown organizations, specifically the LDS Church or sorry, the Church of Jesus

25:32

Christ of Lattery Saints and you know in downtown Salt Lake and City Creek and

25:37

look at the investments of the Olympics. You look at all those things,

25:40

and if you have a crime ridden area around the Delta Center because the team

25:44

leaves, we would all argue, we'd all feel like we've left something.

25:48

I'm done there. And that's why I think as long as our focus is

25:51

from a taxpayer's perspective and from a state perspective, that we're improving that downtown

25:56

area. We're definitely going to achieve that goal too quick. Questions have you

26:00

had much pushback from tax players and are you confident we're going to have an

26:03

NHL team in the next few days. Well, I can tell you that,

26:11

you know, taxpayers are concerned. Obviously, we've had record inflation,

26:15

We've had you know, we've had serious issues as it relates to the state

26:19

and how we dealt with inflation, and so every tax dollar counts. I'm

26:25

grateful that we put this tax on, that we've authorized Salt Lake City to

26:30

have this tax on sales tax, which becomes a consumptive measure, and people

26:36

can make a decision on that consumptive on that consumptive tax. The NHL question

26:41

is always hard. I can just tell you if I was the NHL and

26:45

I put my hat on for one day and I looked around the country and

26:48

I was trying to figure out where should I be. There is no question,

26:52

with all the positives that are going on in the state of Utah that

26:56

Utah is the right place for any professional franchise or profession organization to be investing

27:00

their dollars. Senator McKay always right to having you on the show. Thanks

27:04

for filling us in, and we'll see what happens and what transpires over the

27:08

next couple of days. Thank you, thank you. All right. That's

27:11

State Center Dan McKay of course behind the legislation to help bring an NHL franchise

27:18

here to the state of Utah, and we'll get your reaction to that coming up in the five o'clock hour. Looks like the NHL may be honest way

27:30

to Salt Lake City. Some latest word is that the NHL's Executive Committee has

27:34

now approved the move. It will be up to the league's Board of Governors.

27:38

That means all thirty two teams will have to approve it. But I

27:41

see the season I think ends on Wednesday. We could get an official announcement

27:47

either Wednesday or Thursday that the Arizona Coyotes are on their way to Utah.

27:52

We'll get your reaction to all of this. If you're excited about an NHL

27:56

team coming here, will you buy tickets? What does it mean for the

27:59

city. We'll talk about that coming up in the five o'clock cour all right,

28:02

When we come back, we'll get your reaction to all of this. A lot of news going on today, but big news is it looks like

28:07

the NHL maybe headed to Salt Lake City. Will get your reaction to it.

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oh five nine krs. All right, A lot going on over the weekend.

29:17

It was interesting to watch the developments. You know, you had the situation in the Middle East going on with Iran's attack on Israel, and we

29:23

what knocked out ninety nine percent of the drones the missiles that were sent Israel's

29:29

way, a combination of Israel, the United States, and even some Arab

29:33

countries helping out Saudi Arabia and Jordan to be specific. But then here in

29:37

Utah, there's a lot of talk about an NHL team coming here, and

29:41

it looks like they are a step closer today. As Abby just mentioned,

29:44

the league's Executive Committee have has now approved the move the league's Board of Governors

29:52

and that means representatives from all thirty two teams will need to approve it next

29:56

The players, according to ESPN, were told late last week it may have

30:00

been Friday night that get ready to pack your bags and head to Salt Lake

30:03

City. And this has been something that Ryan Smith, the owner of the

30:07

Utah Jazz, has wanted to do, and that is to bring an NHL

30:11

franchise to Utah. Now Arizona. Right now, they don't have a great

30:17

team, they don't have a great place to play. They're playing at some

30:21

college arena right now that doesn't hold a lot of people. They were playing

30:23

in the same location. I think, wasn't it era the Phoenix Suns the

30:27

basketball team, but they got kicked out because they weren't paying their rent.

30:30

So you know, so you know you're looking at new ownership here. I'm

30:37

excited about it for one reason. I grew up at Upstate New York Northeast,

30:41

and if you live in that part of the country, now hockey has

30:45

become a much more national sport than it used to be. Used to be

30:48

very regional the Northeast, you know, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Detroit, Michigan,

30:53

those areas certainly in Canada, very very big sport. But over the

30:56

years, the NHL has expanded and you have very successful franchises in many cities

31:03

around the country, Las Vegas being one of them, Los Angeles being Wonaville,

31:07

Nashville, Florida. So the NHL is all over and it has broadened

31:11

its appeal. It's an exciting game. I started playing it when I was

31:17

a young guy in little league, you know, hockey, and worked my

31:21

way through and was able to play in high school for a while and really

31:23

enjoy the game. And I still enjoy the game. And I think they've

31:26

tried to speed up the game, you know, Yeah, what's that great

31:30

line? Was it Rodney Dangerfield or Henny Youngman one time? So that I

31:33

went to a fight and a hockey game broke out, you know, And

31:37

I think they've tried to reduce that a little bit. You'll get that occasionally,

31:41

but it is a very fast game. The players are bigger, their

31:45

skills are much much better now than they were years and years ago. And

31:49

you know, you have great competition in the league, and you have some

31:52

great players in the NHL today. So personally, I'm excited about it.

32:00

Tax you know, there was a debate over you know, Greg and I have talked about this. We've taken your calls on this about you know,

32:07

the taxpayer getting involved in this. It's a little bit different now as far

32:15

as the taxpayers are concerned, because as Dan mcage, they'd sendor Dan McKay,

32:19

who ran this legislation through the legislature, got approved by the House,

32:22

signed into law by the governor. It raises the sales tax in Salt Lake

32:28

City yero point five percent, So it's not a huge increase and it's for

32:31

Salt Lake City proper only, is what they're looking at. So can you

32:37

accept that, you know what would it take to get you excited about an

32:40

NHL team here in Salt Lake City? And you just heard me say I

32:45

grew up playing hockey. I mean, I'm from the Northeast. Hockey is

32:49

a very, very big sport back there. Every little town has an arena

32:52

they play, They play when it's eighty below and they still go outside and

32:55

play hockey. Were kind of nuts when I was a kid, but we

32:59

love going outside or indoors to play hockey. It's a fast, fast sport

33:05

and a lot of exciting players. My question is are you excited about it?

33:09

Number one? And do you think it will be successful here? You

33:13

know, the Jazz even though they had I think they had their worst year in ten years this year, thirty one and fifty one. I think it's

33:19

the worst record they've had in a long long time. But fans still showed

33:22

up. There's still you know, fans like to go to a Jazz game.

33:25

Will fans like to go to an NHL game as well? What's going

33:29

to happen with arenas? I don't know yet. Will Ryan Smith decide I'm

33:34

going to I'm going to invest in the in Delta Center right now? Reimage

33:38

that because it's really not built for hockey, but it could be adjusted.

33:43

You could make some changes. Or does he build a new arena for both

33:46

the Jazz and the NHL franchise. Who knows. So there are a lot

33:50

of unknowns out there, but I want to get tonight, engage your enthusiasm

33:54

for this. I love the idea. You know, it may be a

33:58

while before the area. By the way, we get a new name. I mean, the owner, current owner of the Arizona Coyotes, is going

34:06

to keep the name, keep the uniforms, keep the colors. He going to keep it all. So it'll be a whole new feel to this team

34:12

as it comes into Utah. And the names. It'll be interesting to see

34:15

if they come up with a name with two z's on the end, I'm

34:19

gonna scream. I just you know, can't we be more creative than that,

34:22

folks? I hope we can be. But I want to gauge your

34:25

enthusiasm out of all this. You may have questions about the tax implications,

34:30

what that means for taxpayers in Utah. You may have thoughts about well,

34:34

you know, I've never thought of Salt Lake City as being a hockey town,

34:37

so to speak. But hey, I never thought of Nashville or Las

34:42

Vegas being a hockey town. I understand. And I had a brother who

34:45

came out west and we met him in Vegas, and the night before we

34:49

got to meet him, he went to a Golden Knights hockey game down there,

34:52

and he said it was unbelievable. I mean, they put on a

34:57

show in Vegas like you would not believe they won the was it last year

35:00

they won the Stanley Cup or two years ago? I mean, they're really

35:02

really it's a good team. It's exciting to go to an NHL game,

35:07

and it really is a lot of fun to see. So I just want

35:10

to gage your enthusiasm all of this today because it looks like they're headed this

35:14

way. Not official as of yet, as of yet, but the Executive

35:19

Board has approved it. The Board of Governors need to approve it. Probably

35:22

the season ends Wednesday night. I believe it's the last game, so they

35:27

may announce it Wednesday, they may announce it Thursday or Friday, who knows,

35:30

but it looks like it's on its way. I want to get your enthusiasm. Gage your enthusiasm this a day to eight five seven eight zero one

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zero triple eight five seven eight zero one zero, or on your cell phone,

35:39

I want you to dial pound two fifty and say hey Rod, and

35:43

we'll get your reaction to all of this. It is Ron arkentshow on a

35:53

very busy Monday afternoon in Utah's talk radio Want oh five nine Kate and are

35:59

ass live where on the iHeartRadio app Great to be with you this afternoon if

36:02

you're just joining us. Now, we're one step closer to getting an NHL

36:07

franchise here in the state of Utah. As I mentioned earlier, the NHL's

36:12

Executive Committee has approved the move and sale of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake

36:16

City. The Board of Governors need to vote on that now that's probably just

36:20

a formality. The announcement could come later this week. The NHL regular season

36:25

ends on Wednesday. ESPN reported over the weekend that the players who are I

36:30

believe in Canada this weekend playing in a game. We're told to get ready

36:34

to pack their bags and head to Salt Lake City. These schedules, they

36:37

have two different schedules for the NHL, one in which includes Salt Lake City

36:42

on that schedule. Now, how excited are you? I'm a hockey fan.

36:45

I think it's great. I looked at the tax burden of this. Never a fan of raising taxes, but this may be this is a better

36:52

deal I think for taxpayers. Then let's say the baseball stadium deal. Iss.

36:55

That's my opinions, a little bit easier to swallow, even though I

36:59

don't like tax increases, but this one's a little bit easier. Just well,

37:02

I want to get your reaction to it. Eight eight eight five seven

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o eight zero one zero triple eight five seven oh eight zero one zero.

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Are on your cell phone dial pound two fifty and say hey Rod, and

37:12

let's begin and get your reaction to this tonight. And let's go to Mendy

37:15

in Springfield tonight here on the rod Our Kitch. Well, Hi, Mindy,

37:17

how are you hi? I'm great, Rod, good. Hey,

37:22

I'm really excited about it. I'm a huge hockey fan as well. My

37:25

husband's coach hockey at Buyu, my son played there. My husband's Canadian,

37:30

and so you know, I didn't I didn't really grow up loving hockey.

37:34

But I think for Utah we're big sports fans. I think we have college

37:37

teams that people get behind and really get excited about they have with the jazz

37:43

and if it's downtown, you know, and once you go to a hockey

37:47

game, I'm you know, my boys played all the other sports, and

37:51

once you go to a hockey game, hear hook, it's it's like you said, it's so fast. There's so much going on. These players are

37:57

so talented. They're getting hit, they're giving hits, they're passing, their

38:00

receiving a puk. You know, they're shooting. It's a they're really talented.

38:05

There are a lot of games and it's just an awesome sport. It's

38:08

my favorite sport. Now. I love it too, Mandy, you know

38:10

what. And they're bigger than they used to be. And when they hit,

38:14

they really do hit, don't they. Yeah. Yeah, But you

38:17

know we've we've got fans going down to Vegas Knights, you know. And

38:21

I think I think once people can get kind of behind it and go to

38:24

some games, I think they're gonna love. I think they'll love the sport.

38:28

And it fits with Utah, it fits with our weather, it fits

38:31

with the Olympics. You know that. We just have a great venue for

38:35

it. So yeah, all right, all right, mindy big fan.

38:37

Hopefully other fans will embrace it as well. Let's go back to the falls.

38:40

Let's talk with Ken in Salt Lake City here on the rod our Kitcho.

38:44

Ken, thanks for joining us tonight. How are you doing. I'm

38:47

doing well. Thank you Ken? Every other day. Thank you every other

38:52

day when I'm down here. All right. What are your thoughts on this?

38:55

Ken? Mike, Well, you know, I'm a I'm a I

39:00

used to be a Golden Eagles fan when we had Golden Eagles here. Oh yeah, you know, I was kind of heartbroke when they got rid of

39:06

them. And the thing I don't understand is why we have to pay another

39:09

tax for it. You know, if it's fans want it, they'll support

39:15

it. Why do we have to pay a tax on it? You know,

39:19

that's a good question question Well, and I think that's a very valid

39:22

question, Ken, because you know a lot of people are out there, and even Dan McKay said, look, we understand the tax issue is always

39:28

a difficult one for people, and you know times are tight right now.

39:31

I mean, this economy for a lot of people is killing them. Thanks

39:35

Joe Biden. And the tax issue. This is a little bit different from

39:38

the baseball arena this is a sales tax increase in Salt Lake City, Salt

39:44

Lake City property. The mayor and the council will have to approve that.

39:47

I think they're on their way to doing so. But the tax issue is

39:50

one that will ruffle a few feathers and people are going to have to say,

39:54

hey, we'll take it. You know, if it's another point zero

39:57

five percent increase my sales tax in just Salt Lake City. Some people say,

40:01

we can live with it. Some people say no, All right,

40:04

more of your calls. Let's go to John in Midway tonight here on the

40:07

roder kentcho John. Welcome, thanks for joining us, Thanks for having me.

40:12

I appreciate you, Rod, thank you. I'm torn. I've been

40:16

a hockey fan my whole life. I grew up on the border. I

40:21

lived in Montana. I grew up on the border to Canada. We go watch the Triple A hockey up in Medicine. Hat came here to Utah.

40:29

Big fan of artists and old pizza Pelas, Remember Doug Pelosi. Oh absolutely,

40:37

yeah, absolutely, I mean great times in the Salt Palace. Then

40:42

you know, we weathered the the Larry Miller thing that happened, and then

40:46

you know the Grizzlies coming. I'm very good friends with Butch Goring and Kevin

40:50

shoveldy Off. Chevy's currently in the NHL is the GM for the Winnipeg Jets,

40:55

and uh, just longtime family friends with all these guys and lot of

41:00

the players that came to they always, uh, we always had good report

41:04

with them and went to tons of games. And things have changed in our

41:08

lives. We we get to go to a few games here and there,

41:12

but it's affordable. My my thing on this is when the NHL comes to

41:17

town, that's a whole different ticket price. Yeah, and sure it's gonna

41:22

it's gonna eliminate some of the fans because they will not be able to afford

41:28

that level of hockey. I love hockey. I love all hockey. I'm

41:32

I'm I'm very grateful for the fact that we have a great EHL team.

41:38

I remember the old HL days. Hockey has been a part of Utah for

41:43

a long Yeah. I don't think people realize how much of a part of

41:46

the state it has been, do you think, John, I don't think

41:49

they've realized how big hockey is here. It's huge here and the fans that

41:53

are going to the Grizzlies games right now have been it's probably second generation people.

42:00

Yeah, and they're bringing in these I just it's such a family affair

42:06

right now, and it's affordable for the families. I can't see that happening

42:10

with an NHL team. Yeah, that's going to be a real question because

42:15

I understand the tickets to the Vegas games are quite expensive. I've never checked

42:19

it out, but I'm told they're expensive. And how they'll be able to

42:22

adjust and adjust to the economy. Maybe this, maybe this state, in

42:27

this area up and down the wash Sets front, has reached the point where

42:30

there are people who can afford it, and we'll go to the games. We'll have to wait and see. All Right, we've got a lot of

42:35

people weighing in on this. We want to get to your phone calls.

42:37

We'll take a break and get to mirror your calls eight eight eight five seven

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eight zero one zero triple eight five seven o eight zero one zero on your

42:44

cell phone dial pound two fifty and say hey, Rod, we're trying to gauge your interest about the NHL coming to Salt Lake City. More of your

42:50

calls can comments coming in Rod, our catch show on talk radio one oh

43:01

five nine kN rs. All right, welcome back to the Rod oar ketchow

43:08

with you on a very busy Monday hand Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine

43:13

can terrest. I want to get right back to your calls because we could

43:16

get an announcement Wednesday or Thursday of this week about an NHL franchise coming to

43:22

Salt Lake City. A lot of questions around it. They will get new

43:24

colors, new name. The current owner of the Arizona Coyotes is going to

43:29

hold on to all of that, so if in fact they do come here, we'll get a new name, new colors, new everything. And we're

43:35

just caging your reaction to it. Eight eight eight five seven O eight zero

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one zero triple eight five seven O eight zero one zero are on your cell

43:42

phone dial pound two fifty and say hey, Rod. Back to the phones

43:45

we go. Let's hear from Ian tonight here on the Rod ar Ket Show. Ian, how are you? Thanks for joining us? I'm good,

43:51

sir, great hearing you and I love your show, so thank you,

43:54

thank you, thank you very much. What are your thoughts on the NHL

43:58

in Utah? My thoughts are I think it's gonna be the greatest thing that

44:01

Utah has seen since the jazz came from New Orleans. Because a lot of

44:08

new people move to Utah. We can't agree on a lot of things.

44:13

You know. Everybody's got their own football team, their own baseball team,

44:15

you know, but everybody loves sports. I lived in Michigan, born and

44:21

raised passing a California boy. And let me tell you, once you fall

44:27

in love with a team, you know your city goes behind it. So

44:30

if it takes a little bit of tax money to get this steam rolling,

44:34

I'm all about it because how many times in our life do taxes go to

44:40

something that doesn't work. You don't see it, you know, it doesn't

44:43

work for the people, and you know, commenting on one of the other

44:47

callers, you know, people might not be able to afford it, stuff

44:52

like that. But you know, on a special occasion going to a Utah

44:57

NHL hockey team game, how magical would that be for a family, a

45:01

father and son. You know. I live in Vineyard, I work in

45:06

Provo. I'm a manager at a Denny's. I work right next to BYU.

45:10

I see the love that this community has for their cougars. I see

45:16

the the love and the animosity that Utah brings to provo with DYU and it's

45:23

so much fun. Yeah, everybody like they love their team. But if

45:28

we can agree with the team and we all are behind it, I think

45:32

that's the best thing for this state. And I'm all about it, all

45:37

about low taxes. But yeah, let's go, all right, Dian,

45:40

thank you and thank you for listening to the show and your kind comments.

45:44

Back to the phones as we go, Let's go to Andy here in Salt Lake City as well. Andy, how are you welcome, Thanks for joining

45:49

us. I'm doing great ride. Thanks for taking my call. I have

45:54

to disagree with the the duplicitous name nature of the content of the last caller

46:01

statement. I have already drafted a text message to send to Senator McKay as

46:09

a resident here in Salt Lake City, and I just want to read to

46:13

take about five to ten seconds to read it to you. I'm ready to

46:15

hit the submit button. And here's what I'm telling Senator McKay. All right,

46:19

keep it civil, keep it civil. Looks like this looks like Salt

46:23

Lake City is to be the next victim of attempted rape. The very consideration

46:30

of a sales tax shows that this is not economically viable. Why viable projects

46:37

do not require subsidies. Your comparison to the value of a city park suspiciously

46:45

omits the notion that a sports franchise has a private owner, and it shows

46:52

how little you understand about free market economics. I will do everything in my

47:00

power to prevent the transfer of any taxpayer dollars to the owners of sports franchises.

47:07

All right, Andy, here's your piece. You're sending that God,

47:09

I guess you're going to submit it to Dan McKay and we'll let him respond

47:14

to that. We've had him on the show, he explained. But I understand the comparison between the parks and an arena. I thought was a little

47:20

weird too, But that's the way sender McKay want to approach it. All

47:22

right, back to the phones we go. Let's go to Mike in Salt

47:24

Lake City as well tonight. Mike, how are you welcome to the rod

47:27

Arcuat show. I'm fier ot, It's good to talk to you again.

47:31

Listen, I'm really not very happy about this. I live in sli Proper.

47:36

I am not a hockey fan. I am not very happy about the fact that I get to pay zero point five percent more on everything I buy

47:43

in Solid Proper. You're excited about the hockey team you live in k S.

47:46

Still you're not going to pay for it. Well, I've got to

47:50

pay for something that you like or anyone else like. No, but I'm

47:52

going to pay for it. If I come downtown and purchase something, or I come down and have dinner, I'm going to pay for it. And

47:57

there are a lot of people who commute into Salt Lake City. I think

48:00

the number was I thought I heard one time. This may be off. About three hundred thousand commuters come into the city each and every day to work,

48:07

so they'll be bearing the brunt of it. So it's just not going to be Salt Lake City residents alone. But I do understand your concern about

48:15

tax increases. Nobody likes taxing usis I just wrote a big fact check to

48:19

the irs, and I hated it. Well I did too, you know.

48:23

And this is the thing. It's rammed down our throats, those of

48:27

us who live in Salt Lake Proper without any consideration. Nobody asked us.

48:31

They just rammed it through the relictive legislature. So the whole rest of the

48:35

state voted for me to pay hire taxes, and they think so I don't.

48:40

All right, Mike, thank you. Let's go to David and Sandy

48:43

Tonight. Let David way on in this. David, how are you? Thanks for joining us. Well, you know, I agree with both the

48:50

previous two callers. I feel like this is a Roman bread and circus.

48:55

They're entertaining the citizens and distracting them from what they're actually doing. They're going

49:02

to do the same thing down at the point of the mountain with the new

49:06

development. Since our legislature's packed with developers. This is truly a waste of

49:13

taxpayer money. And I see no reason to subsidize a billion oire owner so

49:20

I can pay to watch millionaire players. That's about all I have to say

49:23

on it. All right, David, thank you. We appreciate that,

49:25

added Lehi Tonight here on the Rod or kencho go ahead, Ed, Hello,

49:31

Rod, how are you? I'm doing well? Thanks? Ed?

49:34

All Ed? Okay, I am Ed is the name. I am one

49:39

hundred percent against a single solitary penny going towards a hockey team or subsidizing a

49:50

private business. We still pay a quarter cent sales tax the entire state for

49:54

the UTA, which is a privately owned enterprises, not part of this to

50:00

Utah. I didn't get to vote on that. I've been to three hockey

50:04

games my entire life in Utah, and I've lived here for forty years.

50:10

It's not worth it because I don't think that the Grizzlies are in the black.

50:15

Because the few Grizzly games I have been too, maybe half of that

50:20

e Center, which isn't a very big venue, maybe half of it at

50:23

best, is full. The rest is empty. Yeah, well, I'm

50:30

going to counter that. First of all, it's a minor league team. It's very difficult to draw big numbers to minor league teams, and it's a

50:36

low operating cost. They're supported by the main franchise, and they use minor

50:39

leagues to develop new players to bring them up to the professional level. So

50:45

that's why I think sometimes the Grizzlies and their games aren't as full as you

50:49

might expect. You put a very good team in any arena around the country,

50:52

and if it's basketball, if it's baseball, if it's football, if

50:55

it's hockey, you have a very competitive team I think for and show up

51:00

that's always been my opinion. All right, more of your calls coming up eight eight eight five seven O eight zero one zero, triple eight five seven

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51:08

and say hey Roden. We'll get to more of your calls here in just

51:12

a minute. Welcome back to the Rod ra Ken Show on this very busy

51:31

Monday. Could hispanics determine the outcoming of the twenty twenty four election. We'll

51:37

talk about that coming up a little bit later on in the show. Tonight,

51:42

we'll go live to Israel. We'll get the latest on how the people

51:45

of Israel are dealing with the attack from Iran over the weekend. That's coming

51:49

up here on the Rod ar kenhow just joining us now. It looks like

51:52

the NHL is in fact headed to Salt Lake Study one or two more steps

51:57

need to take place, but the Executive Committee of the League today approve the

52:00

move from Arizona to Salt Lake City. The Board of Governors need to vote

52:04

on it. The season does end on Wednesday, so we could get an

52:07

announcement later this week. We're getting your reaction to it. It will require

52:10

an increase in the sales tax in Salt Lake City. A lot of people

52:14

don't like that idea. There are other people very excited to have the sport

52:16

come to Utah. Let's say you let's go to Betty and Betty an.

52:21

I'm sorry in Oakley tonight, Betty, and how are you? Thanks for joining us? Hey, ro I'm doing great, good good. I just

52:29

think it's corporate welfare. Why should the citizens of Utah or Salt Lake pay

52:38

for a bunch of millionaires to play hockey and a billionaire owner. Why are

52:45

we paying for it? There are private venues they could rent out or bills

52:54

without charging the taxpayers. It's cool it well yeah and you yeah, all

53:04

right, all right, Betty in that's the legitimate question that people have.

53:07

I mean, you know, every time you turn around, we're being nickeled

53:10

and dime to death on taxes. And you know, times are tough right

53:15

now in the economy. A lot of people are struggling with this, and I think there's a very legitimate argument to be made. Lawmakers approved it,

53:22

the governor signed it into law, so Lake City will have to move forward

53:24

with it, and I imagine they will What this all means, how it

53:28

shakes out the benefits of it. It is a it is a wait and

53:31

see game. We'll have to see how it goes. All right, let's

53:34

go to Joel in Spanish for tonight. Here on the rod arcan show Joel,

53:37

how are you? Thanks for joining us? Thanks Rod. I don't

53:42

want to be a downer on this whole thing, but I kind of feel

53:45

the same way as the last few callers with you know, the taxpayers paying

53:51

for it. It kind of feels like paying for a college education that I

53:55

didn't get, and it just kind of reminds me of the same type of

54:01

scenario. I know, you know, it's going to be maybe good for

54:06

the city, but if it costs the taxpayers more money, I don't agree

54:12

with it. If it was gonna mean if it's going to mean tax cuts,

54:16

then that's different. All right, Joel, thank you. Let's go

54:21

to Springville and here from Kurt tonight here on the rod ar. Kancho,

54:23

Hi, Joel, I how are you good? Rod? How are you

54:27

doing? Hey? I used to live in the Dallas area years ago when

54:30

the Cowboys were trying to rebuild their new stadium, and they went to the

54:35

city of Dallas first and gave them the opportunity to put together a tax boond

54:40

to help. Actually, they were going to renovate the cotton Ball to make

54:43

that a whole new stadium, and the mayor of Dallas basically laughed at even

54:46

told them to get lost. And then the mayor of Arlington stuff that.

54:50

We said, yeah, we'll take it. Well, we'll we'll put together the tax bods and whatever you need to build the stadium. And today that

54:57

that stadium produces millions of dollars revenue every week, every time there's an event

55:01

there in Arlington. That stadium brings you millions dollars to that city. And

55:06

so I think there's there's two sides to it. Yeah, I don't want

55:09

to pay extra taxes, but you know what the flip side of it is

55:13

that the revenue that that can bring me to the city of Salt Lake might

55:16

be something worth having. Yeah, an interesting comment, Kurton. You're right.

55:20

I've been down to that stadium in Dallas. It is a monstrous facility.

55:24

But you go there on the game day and I've been to both well

55:28

football games to see the Cowboys play, and there are a lot of restaurants,

55:31

a lot of generational money down there. But there's also a lot of

55:35

money in the state of Texas compared here to the state of Utah. You

55:37

know, it's going to be a question. There are some people who are

55:40

going to love this idea, embrace this idea. I like the idea of

55:45

having an NHL franchise here, do I like the idea of raising taxes even

55:50

just a little bit. I get uncomfortable with that record show that it doesn't

55:53

necessarily work for the communities that this has been done. Some cities have said

55:59

no, and they've made the owners of these franchises go get venture Campbell,

56:02

and that has happened as well. We'll see this will unfold. I think

56:07

all this week, all right, hispanics, the twenty four elections all coming

56:10

up next right here on the rod Ar Kent Show. Also Guide Lived Israel.

56:15

Stay with us. It is our number three of the rod Ar ken

56:36

Show with you on this Monday evening here on Utah Stark Radio one oh five

56:38

nine A and R AT. I don't know how many of you today have

56:44

paid any attention, if any at all, really to the hush money trial

56:50

or former President Donald Trump in New York. This is such a political witch

56:55

hunt. I mean here you have a judge who has donated million dollars him

57:00

and his family to progressive democratic causes. Half the jurors today were disqualified almost

57:07

right away because they already have an opinion on Donald Trump ei their pro or

57:12

con And then you have the judge telling Donald Trump that he has to be

57:16

a trial each and every day, including the day his son Baron graduates from

57:22

high school. The judges said, you cannot go to that graduation and if

57:29

you do, I will arrest you. I think Donald Trump should go in

57:35

my opinion. I mean, this is how ridiculous and disgusting all of this

57:39

is getting. And I hope the American people wake up and see it.

57:44

To tell a father that he can't go to his son's high school graduation because

57:49

he's on trial, give me a break, a couple hours, let him

57:52

go see his son graduating. Come back. And that's where this is just

57:57

getting so ridiculous. And I think there are a lot of people people who

58:00

are looking at this and they just see it as judicial malpractice. All right.

58:06

Speaking of the twenty twenty four election, a lot of variables out there.

58:08

You know, the Democrats got excited over the weekend. It showed or

58:13

Joe Biden inching a little bit closer to Donald Trump. It could be a

58:15

toss up right down. But there are questions about suburban moms, the black

58:21

vote, and the Hispanic vote. Could Hispanics determine the outcome of the twenty

58:25

twenty four election. Joining us on our Newsmaker line to talk more about that

58:30

right now is Alfredo Ortiz. Alfredo is the president and CEO of the Job

58:34

Creator Network and joining us on the Rodarketchow, Alfredo, how are you welcome

58:37

to the show. Thanks for joining us, Ron, Thank you very much,

58:42

happy to be here. Well, let's talk about the Hispanic influence on

58:45

the twenty twenty four election. How big is it going to be? Do you think, Alfredo, Well, in the words of our favorite president,

58:52

huge, but it really is. I mean, I think this particular year,

59:00

the Democrats have done a beautiful job of really pushing Hispanics away, and

59:06

as we've all seen, the polling is really favoring Trump. I think the

59:09

last number I saw was about forty six percent. Remember that on the last

59:15

election he got thirty eight percent, which is just shy what George w got

59:20

at forty percent. But the important thing to Remember I think for Republicans is

59:23

that just because Hispanics poll, well, doesn't mean they automatically get to the

59:29

poll. So they need to make sure that they still create the reason why

59:34

they should vote Republican versus just staying at home. How about the economy right

59:37

now? Is that the issue that's impacting Hispanics in America today in your opinion,

59:42

Alfredo, Well, you know that's the comical thing about the Democrats,

59:45

right, they only are like, you know, they're like a one trick

59:49

pony. They think, oh, Hispanics they care about the border, yeah,

59:52

well yeah, yeah, they care about border security because guess what, the criminality that's coming through the poorest border is impacting their communities. Right,

1:00:00

So that's from that perspective, that's why they care about But guess what they

1:00:04

also care about? Faith, family, entrepreneurship, jobs, the economy,

1:00:08

education, safety, right, I mean, the very much, pretty much

1:00:13

the things that we care about they care about, and so and quite frankly,

1:00:16

Trump does much much better than Biden does on almost every single one of

1:00:22

those The key states of Arizona and Nevada heavy Hispanic populations in both those states.

1:00:28

What do you see happening there? Alfredo, Well, you know,

1:00:31

Job Careers Network actually launched the Hispanic Vote Coalition, and those are two focus

1:00:36

areas for us because when you think about those two states, and there are

1:00:39

a couple other states that really Trump lost by only a few thousand votes overall,

1:00:44

I would say about you know, less than one hundred thousand votes when you combine all those it kunt of for forty three electoral states, enough to

1:00:52

basically get them over the top for presidency. So if you can budget the

1:00:57

Hispanic vote, but in some cases like Arizona, of just by a point

1:01:00

and a half two points, you win Arizona. And so I think that's

1:01:05

why the Democrats are so fearful of what's going on in the polls that they

1:01:10

see. But like I said, the Republican Party still needs to make sure

1:01:15

that they create the case for making Hispanics get to the polls or early voting.

1:01:20

How do you galvanize the Hispanic community, do you think, Alfredo?

1:01:23

I mean, you mentioned they do well in the polls, but actually getting

1:01:28

out and voting is another question. Do you see an effort underway to make

1:01:31

that happen. Well, you know, historically the Republican Party hasn't been the

1:01:37

best at this particular ask. But I do think that because the Democrats have

1:01:43

basically done so far off the off the wagon on this one in terms of,

1:01:47

you know, where they stand on faith and family, attacking basic Christianity,

1:01:52

attacking the family, attacking genders, right, I mean, it's just

1:01:57

I mean, the list just goes on and on. This is so the

1:02:00

antithesis of what Hispanics believe that they're basically making the case of why to leave

1:02:06

the Democrat Party. But I think if you talk to folks, let's say,

1:02:09

in the churches with small business owners that are well known in the Hispanic

1:02:15

community, these folks really are the ones that I think can galvanize the Hispanic

1:02:21

community around things that actually are important to the Hispanics overall. As close as

1:02:27

this election could be, and many people are predicting that, does the Hispanic

1:02:31

community in this country realize that the power that they have right now, because

1:02:36

they could be the game changer? You know, that's a really really great

1:02:40

question, and I will probably say no, they don't exactly realize just how

1:02:47

influential can be. I think that's part of the education process that has to

1:02:51

happen amongst the Hispanic community. And like I said, especially amongst four or

1:02:54

five key states, but they do, I think hold the key to you

1:03:00

know, getting a Republican president of the White House. Now you combine that

1:03:06

too with where the black vote's going, which is definitely moving away from Biden.

1:03:10

Not to the same extent, but if you can even move that a

1:03:14

point or two as well, you combine that the black and Hispanic vote.

1:03:17

I mean, I think Trump wents final question for you, is the Republican

1:03:22

Party doing enough to get out the Hispanic vote in your opinion? At this

1:03:27

point, we're still about two hundred days away from the election, But do

1:03:30

you see efforts underway on the part of the Republican Party to do such a

1:03:32

thing. Well, look, I mean I'm going to be brutally honest and

1:03:37

I'll say no. Like I said, the party's really always been, you

1:03:44

know, kind of lax in terms of addressing the Hispanic voter. And they

1:03:47

usually think if we just get out there ninety days before the vote, that's

1:03:51

enough. Not in this community, you have to be there every single day,

1:03:54

three hun or and six five days out of the year. And so

1:03:58

until we actually see the Republican already put a good faith effort and do that

1:04:01

every single day. It's not enough, No, it isn't. All right,

1:04:08

Alfredo, thank you, love to get you back on the show again.

1:04:10

Thanks for your time. Thank you. All right, all right,

1:04:13

joining us on our newsmaker line. That was Alfredo Ortiz. He is the

1:04:16

president and CEO of Job Creators Network. All right, more coming up on

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rs. All right, the Republican National Committee, formerly headed up by Ronald

1:05:30

McDaniel, has gone through some major changes over the past few months, and

1:05:33

this is a cleaning of the house, trying to get the party and all

1:05:38

the apparatus within the party behind the election of Donald Trump to be President of

1:05:43

the United States. Again, it's cleaned house, and it's now the issue

1:05:47

before a lot of people right now is the issue of election integrity. Joining

1:05:51

us on our Newsmaker line to talk about that is Joe Guy. Joe,

1:05:55

of course is the is the director of Development for Personal Policy Operations, a

1:06:02

former Trump administration official. Joe, thanks for joining us. They're talking about

1:06:06

election and integrity. They're talking about cleaning house. Why is this so important?

1:06:11

Joe absolutely, Rod. I think that it's about getting the right people

1:06:14

into the right places so that the American people feel confident that President Trump is

1:06:19

going is taking this very seriously and that people around him are taking very seriously.

1:06:25

Because the American people see election fraud as a big threat, and they

1:06:30

want to see that the president recognizes that and that the people around him recognize

1:06:34

that, and that they're going to take it very seriously and prevent any malfeasants

1:06:40

or mitigate malpractice. Coming to twenty twenty four, Joe, what about the

1:06:45

personnel, because you're right about the personnel. Was there a battle going on

1:06:47

within the RNC between the old guard of the Republican Party and the new Trump

1:06:53

supporters? Was that the battle? And was this an effort to kind of

1:06:56

clean house? Absolutely, that's what I read about in my article. I

1:07:03

think that the people in the RNC before Nick clean house. I can't speak

1:07:12

for all of them, obviously speaking as an outsider, because I wasn't there,

1:07:15

but you can imagine that because they weren't, you didn't hear them talking

1:07:18

about election integrity. You didn't hear them wanting to take any of this seriously.

1:07:23

And now you have people at the top who the first thing they do

1:07:28

is they come out swing on election integrity. It's it's a night and day

1:07:30

difference on it was under the old regime with Ronald McDaniel there did election integrity?

1:07:36

Was it not one of their top priorities? And that's why Donald Trump

1:07:41

and others wanted to see changes because they know the importance of election integrity and

1:07:45

they wanted to make it the top priority. And do you think it is

1:07:47

now, Joe. I absolutely think that's a big reason why they made that

1:07:56

change. And I think at best she had signaled she had she had and

1:08:01

beiguous signals about the election in twenty twenty, she had statements that were stronger

1:08:09

on it, and then she had statements saying, you know, more ambiguous

1:08:12

things that so doubt and it clearly was not something that she was willing to

1:08:19

fight for. And now you see that they are the first thing, the

1:08:25

first thing they talk about, Joe, obviously, and you point this out

1:08:30

that the new leadership there at the RNC apparently are willing to get their hands

1:08:34

dirty and make some bold changes. Is that what you're starting to see or

1:08:38

is that what you're hearing, Joe, Well, you can see that just

1:08:43

with the continued change in the operation. If there are people there who are

1:08:49

still not on board with the President's agenda or the America First agenda that need

1:08:54

to be replaced with people that are, That's what I mean by bold changes,

1:08:58

getting the right people in the right places and taking the action necessary,

1:09:03

whether that's firing or moving around or whatever it is, to just make sure

1:09:08

that everybody's on the same page and that they can all operate in lockstep to

1:09:11

make sure that President Trump has the best possible chance to get elected in twenty

1:09:15

four How big of a role is Michael Watley and Laura Trump playing in all

1:09:19

of this? I mean, how big of a role are they playing,

1:09:23

Joe? Well, I would say that they probably are, again speaking as

1:09:29

an outsider, just as someone who kind of understands the way organizations work.

1:09:32

If the top two people in the organization are themselves speaking very strongly about this,

1:09:39

there's kind of a cascading effect throughout the organization where people will follow their

1:09:45

lead. That's what leaders do, and that's what they're there for. Do

1:09:48

they have enough time to implement the changes they want to make before November is

1:09:53

coming up? I mean, we're what about two hundred days maybe allude less

1:09:56

than two hundred days away from the election? Joe, Do they have enough

1:10:00

time to make the changes they want to make? Well? I certainly think

1:10:03

that they have time to make a lot of changes. I can't again speak

1:10:08

to the R and C specific changes that they want to make, but I

1:10:12

have a few that I would suggest. As far as election fraud goes,

1:10:15

ending machine voting, allowing effective observation of all election processes, minimizing mail in

1:10:20

voting to the greatest extent possible, cleaning up voter roles, requiring voter ID

1:10:26

and proof of citizenship, and voting on one day and making that day a

1:10:30

national holiday. Obviously, they're not going to be able to get some of

1:10:33

those changes in place, But and again I don't know exactly what they're doing

1:10:38

it. They they're probably mostly focused on voter registration and getting out the vote

1:10:42

and setting up making sure that the legal apparatuses are in place to be able

1:10:46

to combat or be ready for any sort of voter fraud, just mitigating anything

1:10:51

that could be happening like that. Joe, final question for you, looking

1:10:56

over all this and what is transpired in the last month or two with these

1:11:00

changes, how much of a shock to the system were these changes to the

1:11:03

RNC. Was this shocking? Oh yeah, it was shocking to everybody.

1:11:11

And I live in Washington, d C. Everybody was talking about everybody's still

1:11:14

talking about it. I think it gives a lot of hope to people like

1:11:19

myself and a lot of my friends and colleagues who would like to see shake

1:11:26

ups and personnel and make sure making sure that people are getting in when they

1:11:31

should be in and out when they should be out. It's just a very

1:11:35

good thing that gives us hope. On our newsmaker line, Joe Guy talking

1:11:40

about the shakeup taking place at the RNC was about a month ago. Now

1:11:44

the focus needs to be and I think, you know, I hope we have enough time on the Republican side of things. The issue is election integrity.

1:11:50

This could be a very very tight election, and you know, a

1:11:54

lot of people are not concerned so much about the vote. It is the

1:11:58

counting of the vote that people are concerned about. And that's one thing hopefully

1:12:01

people are keeping their eye on as we head to November fifth. All right,

1:12:05

when we come back, we'll go to Israel. We'll get the latest

1:12:08

from Israel. We'll talk with a good friend of the show and get his

1:12:11

reaction to the attack on Israel from Iran over the weekend and how the Israelis

1:12:15

are responding and what their response militarily could be. That's all coming up right

1:12:20

here on the Rod our Ken Show in Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine

1:12:25

kN RS. The Rod Arket Show on Talk Radio one oh five nine kN

1:12:48

RS. All right, welcome back, final half hour. They rode our

1:12:56

kinshow with you on this Monday evening. Don't forget that Jesse Kelly show coming

1:13:00

your way following our news update at the top of the hour. Well,

1:13:03

big news over the weekend, of course, for the first time, Iran

1:13:06

launched a missile attack against Israel. There were drones involved, ballistic missiles,

1:13:12

the air defense, the Iron Dome so to speak, along with the cooperation

1:13:15

of the United States and of course Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which is very

1:13:20

unusual, combined efforts to wipe out about ninety nine percent of the attacks against

1:13:27

Israel. A lot of people were saying, how was that done? But

1:13:29

the question is now, where does Israel go next? Do they launch a

1:13:32

counter effective offensive? Joe Biden has told bb NET and Yahoo. Look,

1:13:39

take the win. Nothing really seriously happened here. You could brush off Iran

1:13:43

and say you could throw everything out us and we still defeated you. But

1:13:45

where does everything go? Well, a short time ago, we had the

1:13:49

opportunity to talk with Amos Giora. Amos is a University of Utah law professor

1:13:55

who lives part time in Israel. He's been in Israel now for several hours.

1:13:59

He landed. We had a chance to talk to him, and I asked, first of all, a miss where do people need to go?

1:14:03

Where do you think Israel is going in its response to the attack from Iran?

1:14:08

I think that Thattanwe needs to listen very carefully to President Biden who told

1:14:15

him that the United States and others support Israel defensively, don't support Israel offensively,

1:14:21

and that's now needs to acknowledge the extraordinary support not only from the United

1:14:28

States, England, I understand France also, but far more importantly, or

1:14:32

at least no less importantly Jordan, if not Saudi Arabia in terms of it

1:14:39

intercepting the drones. That to now who bashes everybody, he's to acknowledge that

1:14:45

without this extraordinary international support supporting Isel defensively, with the results of Saturday night

1:14:51

would have been different. I think that he needs to understand that Gaza war

1:14:59

is over. The salemate means that the Hamas one Metaw will bear responsibility and

1:15:05

greatly sold for the fate of the hostages. And there's nothing more important than

1:15:11

than beginning the process of the day of what it's called here in is the

1:15:15

day after he is in polite English, absolutely beholden to the two extremists in

1:15:24

his government, the finance minister and the Minister of Public Security. He's got

1:15:29

in the other ear against moderates, many governs and God the Eisenhote, but

1:15:34

his political future lies with the extremists. And that is a terrible situation.

1:15:43

So not only do we have geopolitics internationally on the least and or internationally,

1:15:47

but we're also the very complicated politics here in Israel. And you're right,

1:15:51

I have zero faith, trust and competence. And that's now's decision making under

1:15:56

any condition, Amys, what kind of pressure is he under to do something

1:16:00

or give some type of response uh to Iran for what they did. That's

1:16:05

a great question. If he if he listens to the to the two extremeists,

1:16:10

then then he will have to do something. If he listens to the

1:16:14

moderates, then maybe what he would end up doing, which is sophisticated,

1:16:17

is you know the old style attack, something from the mocade our Cia,

1:16:21

where it's an attack in which the Iranians understand that they crossed the line without

1:16:28

the noise of a major attack. And there are ways to sense signals by

1:16:33

attacking particular institutions or particular individuals. I take it back to start next,

1:16:39

which was a very sophisticated computer operations conductive on the base, evidently from the

1:16:43

air visual which attacked Iran's new clear capability. So there are ways to send

1:16:47

operational messages without having to you know, be bombed. Pastic business and now

1:16:53

have that in him at the moment. That's a really excellent question, Rod,

1:16:57

Yeah, yeah, it is a question. What was this Iran just

1:17:01

trying to show off a little bit, knowing that they really weren't going to

1:17:04

do much damage because those drones and because of the iron doment Israel has.

1:17:09

Was this We're just showing off a little bit for the rest of the Arab

1:17:12

world that at least we did something, do you think? Yeah, the

1:17:15

work that's been used to what I learned called performative, and I think that

1:17:23

maybe there is something to that. I mean, they clearly signaled that they

1:17:26

were going to do something in response to the Israeli attack of the Iranian diplomat

1:17:30

General General's diplomat in in the compound in Syria. We didn't have a long

1:17:34

discussion why Israel needed to do that, And I think that the criticism is

1:17:39

the questioning of that decision is justified, and once that occurred, not think

1:17:44

the Iranians had much of an option but to do something, and in many

1:17:47

ways they signaled in advance what they were going to do. I think if

1:17:50

you asked me, they were I think god by surprise by the extent of

1:17:56

three things, one by which not only do the westernal Erica of Western World,

1:18:00

but also the Jordanians came to Israel's and I want to see Israel's defense

1:18:04

to get a vested interest in the drones not landing here. I think they

1:18:06

respies for that too. They surprised that the effectiveness of the iron dronale which

1:18:12

it is, cannot wear. And I think also I think they surprised by

1:18:16

frank or international condemnation. I saw today that they're accusing the world of a

1:18:20

devil standard. We could have a long conversation about that. I think they

1:18:25

from a geopolitical perspective, I don't think they fully appreciate and understood the consequences

1:18:30

of their action. What is your reaction to Jordan's stepping in and getting involved

1:18:34

in this? Apparently they did shoot down some of the drones or missiles that

1:18:38

were headed toward Israel through their airspace. I've never heard or seen anything like

1:18:44

that before, Amos, what's your reaction to very Yeah, so, I

1:18:46

don't know if they thought that the missiles might end up short and end up

1:18:49

on you know, hitting Jordanian targets. In that case, that's obviously justified

1:18:55

self defense. It's the extent of the relations between Israel and joy Is.

1:19:00

There's no doubt that King of Dalla that's in now, as we're say,

1:19:02

in Israel don't invite each other to their kids part midst. But they may

1:19:08

have a vested interest in being anti Iranian rather than make you pro Israeli,

1:19:14

and that they now should not confuse it to On the other hand, for

1:19:16

all of his criticism of of Jordans, he needs to acknowledge the fact that

1:19:20

that Jordanians did something that occurring from theirs of Jordainian self interest, which in

1:19:27

this particular instance of this particular Saturday night, aligned with Israel's self interest.

1:19:32

That doesn't necessarily guarantee anything from tomorrow. Amos, do you expect if Israel

1:19:39

does something, do you expect to happen right away or will it take a

1:19:43

little while? What do you what do you what do you foresee in the

1:19:45

in the coming week, am has any thoughts, So I say that the

1:19:48

defenseman Seryov Galland, who in full disclosure riot service as leg advisor, told

1:19:55

Secretary of Defense Austin that Israel needs to do something and that's something is vague

1:19:59

and a up that it can happen today, tomorrow, next week, next

1:20:02

month. And you know the old line that keep your enemy of off guard

1:20:06

on guard by now responding immediately. This benefit to that which it goes back

1:20:11

to what I think. That's some kind of a sophisticated attack without a large

1:20:15

noise that put you in the front page of the New York Times, sometimes

1:20:19

more successful than allowed attack. And so for nothing. Now we're to call

1:20:26

me what you want. I'll tell them to just stop next as an example,

1:20:29

Yeah, final question it appears. And I saw this article I think

1:20:32

today in our New York Post, Amos was that after the attacks and yesterday

1:20:39

life went on as normal in Israel. People were back out on the beach,

1:20:42

they were into restaurants, they were at the bars, they were life

1:20:45

was normal. There is really just accepting this one as part of life now.

1:20:49

Amus. So the cab driver were picking up at the airport told me

1:20:54

that yesterday morning the streets whom When we drove this today this afternoon from the

1:20:58

airport to our house, traffic was as heavy as usual. Absolutely, the

1:21:02

only way to respond to these things is to get back, whether it's to

1:21:05

the beach or to work, or to the car take your kids back to

1:21:09

school. So yesterday, today, the Monday here Sunday, there was no

1:21:12

school, and today school's back. The only way to respond to these things

1:21:15

is to get back on the saddle. Immediately on our NEWSMAGA line speaking to

1:21:20

us a short time ago from Israel, Amos Giora. He is a University

1:21:25

of Utah law professor who lives part time in Israel, talking about Israel's next

1:21:30

move in a response to the missile attack and the drone attack over the weekend

1:21:32

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