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"Of the single. They all double platinum. And the generally the capital records was fired. Dark ocean darling darker shame thank you for all the joy and pain picture show second balcony was the place with me to check and see go Dutch treat. You were sweet, dark ashamed of darling don't change. Those lights darling don't explain I recall Central Park and fall how you tore your dress what a mess I confess that's not all darker shame darling darker shame thank you for walks down lover's lane I can change hearts carved on a tree letters and intertwined for all time yours and mine that wash fine darker shame and darker shame thank you for she me again though we got our separate ways still the memories stay for always my heart says darker shade I could dunk a little dark and darker shame I said thank you for seeing me again no we go separate ways still every day is far away my heart says darker shade darker shade I'll be the same darker shade. Well mister Newton..
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"Kind of game that goes on between performers, meaning that we don't get along with each other because we compete with each other. The truth of matters is the antithesis of that. We do get along because we understand each other and secondly, if people came to see Elvis, maybe they would on the second night or third night come and see me. Or go and see Frank Sinatra or go and see Sammy Davis or go and see Neil. You know, Neil not Neil, but Dean Martin. So we became really good friends, the whole entertainment end of it, it was not competitive as people might imagine in the least. It was the exact opposite. So I had been asked to be a star, or guest star. On a show called bonanza. Oh, good. We're going to talk about your TV film career. In 19 63, I think. And so it was being shot at paramount motion picture a lot. I'm sitting on the stage learning my lines. And there's a tablet on the shoulder. And I turned around and lo and behold is Elvis. Happens to me too. Imagine that, right? It's God, right? Yeah. And he didn't have on his cape or any of that stuff, but it was always. And I started mumbling what a big fan I was, how much I love this work. And Bonnie said, Wayne, I said, yes. He said, I'm shooting one of my movies next door in the next stage. And he said, my guys in the band told me you were here. So I came over to ask you a question. And I said, sure. Go ahead. And he said, do you know a girl by the name of sandy Farrah? And I said, well, yes, I do. In fact, we're dating. And he said, so are we? So it's competitive in some ways. We both started to laugh hysterically. Luckily, right? And became instantaneous friends for the rest of his life. And he was one great human being. That's awesome. You're a great human being too. You've been so nice. Thank you. Can you share with us some of your favorite memories of your career or the some of the favorite songs you've done? Some of the things you're most proud of. Well, it's interesting because I think it's interesting. It doesn't mean you have to think it's interesting. I have recorded to date 165 albums. We have enjoyed 18 number one records or top ten. Congrats. And it's interesting because some of the songs like daddy don't you walk so fast, that was the first song that really dealt with people getting divorced and the effect it had us on children. Now there have been songs since, but that was the first one. Capital records that I was on the contract too. There was the head of capital records was not thrilled with me. Because I heard this song, it was written in England. And I sent it to capital by virtue of my contract to okay me recording it. They called back and said, no, it's a terrible song. And I started doing it on the stage. To see what the people thought of it. And within a week, I had people coming in with the showroom, asking for that song. So I said, I'm going to record it. Well, the irritated capital tremendously. But I recorded it and I paid for it. Wow. And I took it into the head of the in our department at capital. The single, and he wouldn't be able to look at me. He was very upset. That I had recorded the song in spite of what they thought. And he wouldn't look at me, put it on the turntable, and put his feet on the desk and when it finished, he looked at me and he said, that could be the worst song I've ever heard. Well, the best. The one thing that I like to think of myself is to eat kind of an easygoing guy. The one thing that irritates me tremendously and always has is rudeness. Understandably. And so when he said that, I said, well, look, you have no money in the soul. I paid for it. Why don't you give me my record and my contract? And I'll not guess the shadow on your doorstep. And without looking at his drawer, even he slid the door open, picked my contract up and had it to me. And I took my single and my contract and walked out. And as I did, I must be candid with you. I thought maybe I overreacted. Maybe. Maybe. So I found another gentleman to release the record. It sold 5 million copies.
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"But I ended up with bronchial asthma when I was 7 years old. And was very ill child. So my parents took me finally found a doctor with a license. And they took me to see him. And he called the family and my brother myself and my parents. And he said, if you want this kid to live, you better get him out of this climate. Because he is rocket last month. So we moved to Phoenix, Arizona. And I was 8 years old. And in Phoenix, we had entered a tele contest, my brother and I, the grace of the good man of stairs and you. We ended up having our own weekly television show. 30 minutes a week from the time I was 8 years old until I was 15. And then 15 in agent from California came through Phoenix. So I television show. My parents phone number because you could do that in those days. And got my mother on the phone. He said, I want that kid to try out and Las Vegas. And so my brother and I jumped to board a Greyhound. And came up to Las Vegas, auditioned at the Fremont downtown, and the gentleman who was auditioning us listened to two songs. And he got up, he was going to leave. And I thought, well, back to school. And he looked at me and he said, if we can get you a word permit. He said, I will hire you guys for two weeks. Okay. So we aren't back to Phoenix two days later. We get to call to come back today's stutter two weeks. So that two week engagement turned into a 5 year contract. Nice. So you got to start somewhere. So. It was wonderful, though, because it was the greatest experience in terms of learning. Because people simply had to buy a 60 cent drink, and they could sit there for 6 hours. And if they didn't like you, or like what you were doing, they get up and leave, and if they get up and leave, you're out of work. So it became a learning experience that I will never forget. Simply because anything that could happen on stage happened in that 5 years from maybe a person dying on the showroom. Okay. And how do you handle it on from the sage? Think about it. And people having seizures in the audience, we were flashed a lot. Okay. But it was a learning experience. This is all from the ages of like 15 to 20, right? Right? Is that the ages? Actually. So it was the most wonderful experience in retrospect. As I look back now, I look at the youngsters coming on. In the entertainment business. For the first time, I'm seeing young Native Americans in movies, on television, and it is just fabulous. It's wonderful. And I hope that someone does not take that learning experience away from them. And so I think that if I had anything or any situation that I would have to attribute, what it is I become whatever that is, it would be that 5 years in the launch. Program support by amaranth, for 35 years, Indian country has put its trust in amaranth, providing insurance coverage, strengthening Native American communities, protecting tribal sovereignty and keeping dollars in Indian country are Amarin's priorities. More information on property, liability, workers compensation, and commercial auto needs at amerind dot com. That's a M E R IND dot com. We're listening to an interview with Wayne Newton recorded in front of a live audience in Las Vegas at the reservation economic summit. He was talking about the beginning of his Las Vegas career at the Fremont hotel and casino. About that time his talents were about to take him to a much higher level. It was another milestone in your career. The next one was when I moved from lounges to the main showroom. Okay, I was used to doing the 6 years a night, 6 nights a week, and sleeping until it was time to go to work again. When I moved into main showrooms, we got hit with two shows a night, 7 days a week. So I did when I was working for mister Howard Hughes, which was 15 years of working for him. I did 36 weeks without a day off. It just shows how much you love what you do. But thank you. I think the chance to be around wonderful people, like mistake Hughes, like Kirk kerkorian, like so many people that built Las Vegas until the corporations moved in. Right? I was the first one to play Native American casinos that were bingo halls. Wow. And that's before the gaming started to be okay. We're the government. So you saw the growth of it. The evolution is have you done a lot of tours throughout Indian country at the gaming system? I have we have played almost every Native American casino. That there is, and through to be a part of the growth and a part of the learning experience that our people are now going through. It is just fabulous to watch. It is fabulous. You mentioned a few names. Our producer also mentioned, you know, he probably has some cool stories about Elvis and thanks to tatra. Well, most people want to know about Elvis thinking about him as a performer. My favorite story, he and I became really different. But I didn't meet him until the mid 60s. And he was the giant star headlining the Hilton then. I couldn't go sing because I was working at the same time. And people think, I think it's natural for people to think that there's a..
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"Soldiers. Our people represent the future of the world because. The elderly are respected in the way that they should be. Let's face it, our elders teach us what they have been through. And what they've learned and how to assimilate because that's where the world is sitting, assimilation. And yet, to keep those values that are so important to make us grow and to make us learn and to make us stand up for who we are. Can you expand on the value systems of being indigenous that really resonate with you and that you think could help our modern society if they had had a better understanding of them? I don't think our son society has to understand our indigenous people. I think it's our indigenous people that have to understand the society in which we live. All right? Okay. And so when we are able to assimilate and then find our place any position of power in a position of being able to speak to people and have them understand that you're coming from a different place. I mean, all these daily I smile when I think probably shouldn't at some of the things, but the forest fires that exist today, what is the federal government doing, but now going back to our people and finding out why those things didn't happen. When we inherited the earth. That's true. That's true. Well, indigenous knowledge, we knew the symbiotic relationship between the land and a sustainable way to continue to behave with it as humans. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, we don't over harvest and the previous talk up here was about food sovereignty. Right. Right. Right. So they're moving back to our people to find the answers to the master that they've made. Yes. I mean, something that you said a few moments ago that I think is really applicable to why we are here at res was that part of the process of us, I wouldn't say assimilating, but just gaining more power is being able to then run businesses. Absolutely. Put ourselves in the positions that we're not having to ask for things, but to protect our tribal sovereignty by building companies. Do you want to speak to that, the power of economic development? Well, it's this is going to lift our people to the position that we should be, and that is when you think of the mesh they've made with the inclusion of drugs in our country. And instead of facing it head on, as our people always did, they send any problem like that. Head on. It becomes mind boggling at how long it takes the present group of people who are running the country and designating that these things happen. That they're not dealing with the real problem. The real problem is that the people bringing those problems to us because they've ruined their own countries. Because they had ruined their own countries. So they're coming here thinking if we bring these things with us, then we can control everybody. And to a certain extent, they've been successful. Now, it's changing, I think. And the fact that you're here this week. The fact that we're all here this week. Business leaders, ways of doing things, talking to people, respecting our oldest, you don't put elders out the pasture. You listen to what they've learned. And what they have lived through and what they have conquered, you don't say, you're finished at this age. Next, yes, there's always going to be the age thing, but it should be it should be something that nature takes care of, not man. Love it. Just the way that you speak, you're just very motivational, positive, and I see that you bring that into your career. And you just spoke about age and you're 80 and you don't act like how we would think. How old? How am I? It's impressive. I'm 21. My mother told me pick an age you like and stay there. So I have. Perfect. I love it. So what would you say to people about pursuing their dreams for their entire life? I mean, that just seems to be how you live. That's your existence. I started in show business at the age of four. Because I started singing with my mother in church. And at 5 years old, I had a local radio show, W D BJ and Ronald Virginia, and when my dad left to he was part of World War II, he was a navy in the navy in World War II. When he came back, being a little town that he had been raised in and Fredericksburg, Virginia, Stanford county, he had seen other things, he had seen other places. He had been around other people and so he wanted to travel. And so we did a lot of traveling in my early years. I started to say youth, which is a wrong analogy..
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"Of our reach of our people. And I said, if I have to remove my daughter from the school, I will. And the principle said, I could not agree with you more. We simply will not greater on this, but I can not change the curriculum. The people who inhabit our country as quote unquote leaders..
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"Support by indigenous pact, a healthcare consulting company working to create health equity in Indian country. Indigenous pact offers solutions to fit the needs of your tribe. Their team experts in healthcare strategy, policy and innovation provides a one of a kind plan to solve the issue specific to your community. Indigenous pact works to create three primary outcomes, healing spaces, healthy citizens, and sustainable economies, more information at indigenous pact dot com. Thanks for tuning in to native America calling. I'm Alyssa London. Today we're highlighting an interview with stage and screen entertainer, Wayne Newton. He started performing in Las Vegas at 15, and he is currently performing in his show up close and personal at flamingo Las Vegas. This interview was recorded at the reservation economic summit in Las Vegas. Here's more from Wayne Newton. So then I would think that you'd be pretty excited that some of our tribes are being able to buy some of the Las Vegas Strip. Oh, I am thrilled beyond words. I am thrilled beyond words because. This town has gone through so many of the same problems that our people have gone through. For example, when I came here at 15 years old, you had to be 21 to work one of these hotels. That was the government rule. And they got a special permit for me because I was 15 years old. And the permit said, when Newton can work at the Fremont hotel, he's just not allowed to be in the place he's working. Okay. How does that work? I still haven't figured that out, but when they gave me the schedule, it made a little more sense. We were used to doing maybe one show a week, my brother and I, and when they gave us our schedule of work at the Fremont, it was 6 shows a night, 6 nights a week. 40 minutes on 20 minutes off, 40 minutes on 20 minutes off. In the 20 minutes, it meant that I could not stay in the hotel. I had to go out and stand on the street corner of Fremont. Rules. 6 times a night. Well, there was some ladies working that corner out there. That took really good care of me. And I don't mean that way. I mean, at 15. They took care of me to make sure I got fed. They ain't getting trouble. I ain't going on the wrong path. And the people of the sound are the kind of people that would have crossed the desert and I covered wagon. I mean, the people of the sound, it was built on service. So the people happened to be some of the nicest people in the world that live here. And they took a kid in and kind of a mother and father because my parents did not come up here when I came up here. They came up about maybe two years later. And what started out to be two weeks engagement has turned into a lifetime in this city. And the city truly has the nicest people in the world. Can we give Wayne Newton and applause for his long-standing career? Like truly. It's really impressive. Now I don't think we have many native youth in the audience. Do we have any native youth here? I know we all are youthful. Anyways, people are the point is, I want you to say something inspiring to native youth about pursuing their dreams and making it happen. Because that's what you've done your whole life. Well, the wonderful thing is not and our people here tonight are a perfect example of that. President company included. Thank you. You have not let someone else decide who you are and what you are. And as long as we stay there, it really is quite that simple. And when people would malign me in some form or fashion of my heritage, I felt sorry for them. Because had it not been for our people, they wouldn't be those people who felt sorry for us. Yeah, well, yeah. Let's give that. The revisionist history that takes place in history books. What are some of the ways that you, whether it's through your shows or through your other work that you help to remind people of that? Because you're able to reach so many people with your platform and with who you are. It was interesting to me because when I read the Cherokee trail that they were teaching in school. I gathered my wife, and we went to the school. And I said to the principal, I will not have my daughter taught the garbage. As fact. The chair trail was just another attempt and.
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"Where she should be buried. And I met with a great deal of resistance. I heard doctor Lee, the anthropologist, and doctor Baden, I sent them to London, England to research it. That's when they discovered that I was a descendant of hers. From her first marriage before, the English colony was built at Jamestown. And I think it important not to only understand our roots and where we came from and what our heart and our elders tell us, but the fact that the first settlers to this country were prisoners, including John Smith. They were all released from prison to go to the new world, and build a life. Well, it's that group that the people of Virginia came in contact with, well, that's quite a different group from what history would want us to believe. And so the history of Pocahontas has been terribly destroyed and wrong and so when they were teaching here in Nevada, my first daughter at a school, and they were talking about the Cherokee trail. I happened to pick up her history book and look at it. And it was all lies. It was all written by the people who were trying to destroy our people. And that truly was their that was what they set out to do. And you have no idea how I feel now. That our people have taken the range and are shilling up and building and becoming the people that we are instead of what history has led us to believe that we are. You're listening to an interview with Wayne Newton recorded live at the reservation economic summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wayne Newton is the embodiment of Las Vegas entertainment and advocate for native issues. We'll hear more from him after this break. Author educator and longtime travel chairman, Greg saras new memoir connects his life and experiences with indigenous understandings of the land and culture. We'll talk with him about his new book, becoming story, a journey among seasons, places, trees,.
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"So mister Las Vegas, as someone who produces culture story, which is about showcasing the present day vitality of indigenous culture and also having conversations about identity, where I want to start with today is you telling all of us here in the room and also later when people are listening on native America calling, talk to us about your identity. Okay, my identity is that my mother was full blooded Cherokee and her father was puberty German. So my dad's side, my grandfather was part of one of me. And his wife was pure Irish, so a quarter Irish, a quarter German, and half Native American. And the Native American part of me fills my heart and causes it to be every day as it has my whole life. So I relate to you, and it's about time you got here. I will wait. I love that. And your pride for your culture, even extends to having a ranch in Montana. Can you talk about how meaningful that is to you? Well, it's very meaningful, but we're right next to the reserve in Montana, which is wonderful because that makes me feel right at home. And we have ranch here. My two loves in life were horses. And music, and I didn't know which I love more, but I can tell you what afforded the other. We know you had a very successful performance career. Well, it's interesting because I was born in Virginia. And I am a direct descendant of Pocahontas. Okay. Which I found out about 1980. I had no idea. In 1930. Two, somewhere in there, the government of Virginia passed a law that said, if you were not quite Anglo Saxon, you would be considered black. And so so many of our people burned their papers, they burned everything, my dad would not talk about his heritage. Until he was around 70 years old. So I had no idea growing up in Virginia until I was 8. And I became very ill with asthma. And so the doctors recommended that my family move out of that climate. Because I was sick all the time. And so we moved to Phoenix, Arizona. And that's the first time I ever felt any kind of prejudice. For my heritage, I was called an apple. I was, it did not matter to me what people call me because I knew what was in my heart. And that's connected to this. You know who you are and where you come from and that has fueled a lot of your advocacy work. Yes. Can you talk to us about that? Well, my advocacy work actually started in Phoenix and grade school. I realized that if I was being called names that people considered not to be nice, that the rest of my people were indigenous people were going to do the same thing. And so I found a I found an orphanage in outside of Phoenix and Lavigne Arizona. That took in, orphans, and taught school at the same time. And so I would raise food, money, anything I could do every year, right before the holidays to take them, the food, clothing, and those kind of things, which they were in dire need of. And so that has been a part of my life forever. Yes. But the advocacy work that you've done for getting federal recognition for the tribe of your father's? Yes. That must have been quite the process. They were going through the protestants and Virginia and were coming up against the state government and so I called the chairman chairman green and asked if I could be of any help. And he said, oh my God, yes. And so I had meetings with he and the council. And we then traveled to Richmond, Virginia, spoke to the governor, spoke to the legislative people that were in charge of deciding whether or not the tribe would be recognized. And with the grace of the good man upstairs and it all turns out, they were recognized and now they're going for federal recognition. That's awesome. Well, let's give that a round of applause. Thank you. Federal federal recognition and indigenous identity today. So my tribe, we also have Alaska native corporations that cause us to be recognized. And our native corps see Alaska has recently put to vote amongst our Alaska native tribal members shareholders if we want to allow descendants to be able to enroll. And this is like an ongoing debate in Indian country is how do you define indigeneity and when I spoke recently to a lawyer from Seattle named mister Gabe galanda, who is working on a tribal disenrollment case of the nook sac three O 6, he was asserting it's never been the tribal way to actually, it wasn't our way it was a colonial construct to put our names on roles and have there be a way to be able to chart genealogy otherwise. It was oral history. I just feel that somewhere in there, you can speak to your perspective on what indigenous identity is today, but also your perspective on what it should be ongoing because clearly it means a lot to you. It means so much to me. And I had no idea why I was from the time of the little boy fascinated with the story of Pocahontas and my talk was for real name. And her father, chief Palatin, gave her the name of Paul Khan to switch his laughing child in our language. And. About 1980, I decided that we should go to England and find her remains and bring them back. And hamper buried.
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"This is national native news. I'm Antonio Gonzalez. After 17 overdoses, including four deaths, this spring on the blackfeet nation in Montana, tribal leaders across the state and surrounding states are looking for ways to stop the fentanyl crisis and provide more treatment and care. Montana public radio's Aaron Bolton reports. On Marla owner's 300 acre ranch in the heart of the blackfeet Indian reservation to recalls giving her grandchildren rides when they moved back home from Texas with her son, Justin Lee, little dog, two years ago. So our horses are pretty gentle, they just come out because they really like the horses. They like to ride. But when little dog moved his family into nearby browning, ollinger started seeing signs of drug use, like little dogs, 6 year old stepson, walking around town alone. Hollinger asked her son if he was using opioids. Little dog denied it. But in early March owner woke up to screams coming from the other room. As like what? Through the bedroom. And my son was laying on the floor on the floor. He was up. I didn't know what to do. Little dog was one of four people killed by fentanyl overdoses that weak on the reservation. 13 other people survived overdoses. Stacy Keller sits on the blackfeet tribal business council. To find out how many deaths we had, how many overdoses we had that week and I was just floored. Keller and other blackfeet leaders declared a state of emergency forming a task force that will take on the growing fentanyl crisis here. The blackfeet aren't alone, nationally, opioid overdose death rates for American Indian and Alaska native people soared to the highest among all groups during the first year of the COVID pandemic, according to Joe Friedman, a UCLA addiction researcher with the drug supply becoming so dangerous and so toxic, it requires resources and knowledge and skills and funds to stay safe. The blackfeet nation wants to expand local treatment resources and is working with other Montana and Wyoming tribes to build a regional residential treatment center. Short term tribal officials say they will focus on harm reduction efforts like boosting access to naloxone, which reverses overdoses, as well as access to medications that help people manage their addiction after treatment. For national native news, I'm Erin Bolton. A new mural is underway that will show organs indigenous residents, the call of puya people, harvesting and using native plants, from KL CC and Eugene, Brian bull, reports. The 64 foot long mural depicts native people gathering Camus and other plants. It was done in consultation with elder Esther stutzman. Susan applegate is the designer and artist who's putting the mural on the east side of the doctor Edwin colman junior community center. The community should know that these are just not weeds or something, but they had special relationship with the people, special meaning. It also informs the general population about the people who lived here before white settlement. The mural titled while I am at wetlands of the kalapuya will be done ahead of a July 9th honoring ceremony featuring songs, stories, and Eugene mayor Lucy Venice. It's part of a larger project sponsored by beyond toxics, and the friendly area neighbors equity action team..
RJ Politics
"mr las vegas" Discussed on RJ Politics
"You know if you're using trump's name he Someone's going to. It's going to get to him in some way right. There could certainly be somebody and and and you know we still. We still don't know there's a whole nother can of worms here but we still don't know what former attorney general adam. Lack salt is going to do either. They're still plenty of rumors that he could try and run for governor again. At which point you would think the trump stuff would would come to the forefront immediately because lack salt has has for years now established himself as trump's guy in nevada was was a chair of the campaign here was leading the charge on the voter fraud accusations. And things like that so show. There's there's a lot of time. I will certainly be able to cover. I think it's quite clear that pretty soon honesty we we'd heard. I reported previously that by june july at the latest. They want to have any candidates. Wanna makes a serious run at at. The governorship is gonna need to be in got a need to raise money. They're going to need to get awareness out all this while. Republicans jogging to decide. Who's gonna run. I mean steve cecil x raise money so he selects governing and has has establishing a record of doing the job that he would be running for re election for and things like that. So you're you know you're gonna come out an incumbent you need you need time. You need a year at least of of putting everything together so we'll probably see. I mean i imagine that the posturing within the party and everything like that will get sorted out pretty pretty soon. Yeah and in terms of in terms of trump love if adam salt decided to run for governor instead of what we are assuming in thinking and he's rumored to be running for forced a us senate against catholic orcas master if he decides to run for governor eat clearly being the trump candidate There's only two people in nevada who liked trump more than atom laxa and one is michael mcdonald who who is become a a f- ot of trump. And the other is. Eddie mr las vegas amilton who is running for over on the late lately on the platform of commissioning a A military Military police to run the elections and to prosecute people who are not running elections. The way he wants those the only two people who are more pro-trump then than out so certainly That is the case. And if there is a pro-trump person or maybe even maybe even somebody who's not overtly pro-trump let's say lombardo Is is in the race all it would take would be for one of lombardo's people but one of the martyrs people to whisper in the air of donald trump. A you know this other guy is trying to use your name to run for governor in the state of nevada and And east not really with you and that would be it. Trump would put out a statement. would would be clear about his non endorsement and And that would really go a long way. I think with the base because honestly There are still a lot of people in the republican party. Who are gonna follow. What donald trump recommends they're going to go with the trump name they're going to go with the trump brand and if if trump were to back Ceo lack salt or lombardo over a li Then i think that really will help with the base..
KOA 850 AM
"mr las vegas" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Almost have to sign Justine Simons, who I think is a hell of a good player. You could literally be committing like 26. Maybe $27 million to your two starting safeties. I would have to think that would be That would be the top five of the NFL and maybe in the top half of the top five and they need a quarter cornerback help. That's what they need back there, but both their safeties they're ranked in the top 100, the League of players, not just safety players. Karim's deal was 19 33,002,003 years. $1920 just last year here, so I would imagine there's no, there's no bonus. He probably has no guaranteed money that the Broncos I believe the Broncos should they release cream Jackson could save On their salary cap. I mean, there are economic reasons to contemplate that move for sure. And a couple of others on the team. I mean, you're all cases. In a similar situation. Maybe Corinne takes her haircut. Dad comes back. Yeah, especially if I like her. I think Karim's hell of a player me to his detractors. If that's the right way it is Term. It would say, I'm gonna interceptions. I think he had one interception this year, but he's a tone setter. For me. He's a safety that can play in the middle of the field. But if you want to bring him down I mean, he didn't look like he'd be that guy, but he's that guy. He's that guy that in the box, Concetta sort of momentum in a game simply with A well placed big time hit. Right. He's to me. He's the juice. He's one of the juice. Guys of the defense. I just like the way place and I understand the economics of it. But I would hate I would hate to let him walk out the door. I was a little surprised They didn't play him a cornerback this year, especially last year, too. When they had all the problems, they just kept him at the safety position. What do you think They did that when they had a guy that played corner for nine years in the league? Yeah, but he's He's played nine years in the league, so maybe they already lost a step. Yeah. I mean, I don't think Kareem could play on a regular basis. I don't think Kareem complain corner. I think Kareem is hell of a safety. His his career, and he rightfully mentioned that started a corner. But now I think it's I think it's safety, but they have. They have to have a couple corners, whether in the draft or You know, at a bus stop. You got to find a couple guys in the ever And hopefully Callahan comes back healthy. Is he had a heck of a year. Yeah, until he got hurt. Yeah. If he comes back plays like he did last year, and you get a A either in the draft or trade or whatever. Really solid cornerback on the other side, Even even in the first round, there's talk that they'll take a cornerback. That'll be interesting, too. I think that would be an upset. If the number nine picture they keep. It is not a corner. Minutes in Patrick's retained his name mentioned the kid from Virginia Tech, those of the two top corners on most people's boards. So I would think the Broncos would have an interest there if they keep the ninth overall pick 7 to 0635. Can you get your head around 40 year? Mm. No. Nobody could do that. Nobody. Nobody. I know Wayne Newton. You think when even I don't know Wayne Newton. You make that kind of money. Mr Las Vegas. Rick, is he still there? You were there last weekend. I didn't see him. He's still on the marquee anywhere. He's on the marquee, encouraging people to wear masks. We walk in the airport, he's only worth 50 million. Well, they didn't get his head wrapper. Oh, yeah, my 50 50. Yeah, yeah. 7193861. Thanks Goodness. Thank goodness for this. Russell Wilson story was just thinking there weren't enough or there wasn't enough quarterback speculation flying around this off season, right? Absolutely up. 9 26 is our time. Dave Logan Recluse Kathie Lee With a good morning and Kaylee news radio prescription opioids convey addictive and dangerous..