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Donnybrook Last Call: May 15, 2025
Clip: Season 2025 Episode 20 | 10m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
The panel discusses the use of taxpayer money to keep the Chiefs & Royals in MO and UFO sightings.
On Donnybrook Last Call, the panel discusses the use of taxpayer money to keep the Chiefs and Royals in Missouri, as well as St. Louis's latest distinction: #1 in UFO sightings. a few additional topics that weren’t included in the show.
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Donnybrook Last Call: May 15, 2025
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On Donnybrook Last Call, the panel discusses the use of taxpayer money to keep the Chiefs and Royals in Missouri, as well as St. Louis's latest distinction: #1 in UFO sightings. a few additional topics that weren’t included in the show.
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Interrupt people because we're all right.
The NFL released their schedules over the last few days, but primarily uh most of it yesterday.
And the Kansas City Chiefs have a lot of uh games, Christmas, Thanksgiving, all over the country.
they go to Brazil, but they really don't know where they're going to be playing in the next few years.
The same with the Royals who would like to move to downtown Kansas City.
Uh Governor Kho wanted some uh help financially coming from the state and it made it as far as the Senate and the Senate said no.
They said no to a lot of things this week, but they told the governor, "No, you can buy your own tickets.
You can buy their own stadium.
It's not happening."
All right.
This opens the door to the Chiefs and possibly the Royals moving to Kansas.
For this one, I kind of side with the governor.
We got to keep them in Missouri, don't we, Joe?
Oh, I'm sorry.
You wanted me to get some a bunch of money for billionaires to keep a team somewhere.
Oh, you don't have to like that.
Well, at its core, to help the poor needy billionaires keep a team this I you know what I I mean, I'm really against it on all levels.
So, it would be hypocritical to say, "Well, we really need to see save the Chiefs and the Royals."
The owners want to move it, let them move it, and if somebody wants to give them money, and that's the problem.
Everybody keeps giving them money.
If the world would just go, you know what?
You guys are worth $2 billion.
Build your own stadium.
If they would all say that, then those guys would because you know why?
They make enough money.
They're making money.
Isn't that what Stan Kunky did?
I mean, he he he built his own and broke our hearts, you I mean, and the reason why lawmakers give billionaires money is because billionaires give lawmakers money.
So, it's just this little, you know, the merrygoround just keeps spinning.
But I do think that there is a certain amount of fatigue, you know, in terms of of public monies being spent for this kind of thing.
And uh they're striking while the iron is hot.
The Chiefs are riding high.
The Royals, you know, they're they're trying.
They're about four games over 500 right now.
They've got it going on.
I'm petty and vindictive.
We're back to about Kansas City.
It's always Kansas City this, Kansas City that.
We can't get money to help downtown.
That's right.
And the legislators and the governor wanting to give money to Kansas City for sports.
Well, you know, they were tying those two together if I'm correct that when they were this last minute effort to find some compromise.
The the St. Louis money got tied, I guess, to the to that bill.
And I guess now I'm even petty.
Yeah.
Now I'm going to say like now way to both of them.
I'm so petty.
I still want the 1985 baseball world championship trophy back, which we should have had.
Mr. Dinger, thank you.
You know, I go that way often and every time I drive past that stadium, I'm still mad at it.
You know that I'm You know that I'm married and had two children and three grandchildren with a Royals fanatic.
So I can't even take part in this conversation.
You'll be knocking on the door.
I'll be knocking on the door.
Honey, I'm lock me out.
I I just think it's crazy when we talk about tax money and we all sit here and talk about schools aren't getting this or roads aren't getting, but let's make sure the billionaire owners of these teams get what they need.
It's just absolutely insane that we even kind of have that as as a thing.
Okay.
Well, cardos and blues.
See you.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
No, I mean it's it's fair for one is fair for all.
You know, I mean, you're right.
It's sort of like eminent domain.
I don't like it unless it's a I don't need it for strip malls and and I'll always be against it.
I don't care how cool of a strip mall it is or how cool your sports team is.
You're a rich owner.
Pony up and pay the cost.
Jamie.
Yes.
I mean, part of me really I mean, I would be heartbroken, too.
Cardinals, Blues, all these teams, you know, decide to relocate, but I am I am towing that line that it's like they have enough money and there are so many other worthy causes that, like you said, schools, St. Louis, downtown, so many other worthy causes that need the funds.
And these billionaires with the sports teams do not need those funds.
Has there been a shift because of the pandemic?
Do you think that I mean I think our group think has changed so much and I wonder sometimes if the pandemic has something to do with that?
I I I don't know.
I think it's because as you said like Stan Crockley basically built his own stadium and some other owners have done that.
I guess Jerry Jones was kind of the first much whatever you say about him did build that thing himself.
Well, well, actually, it's very old school.
I mean, it used to be, you know, if you wanted to build a ballpark, you're Mr. Kamisky, you build it and you name it Kamiski Park Field.
I mean, and and everybody built their own stadium.
I mean, this is we're going back to the uh future.
Well, you know, you go back in in those past times, the person who owned the team, that was their job.
They got all their money.
Now, it's billionaires who made it in hedge funds who buy these teams.
It's not like, oh, I I grew up with this team.
I helped clean the locker rooms.
You know, there's no Bill Vex owning the team anymore.
Not Gussy Bush and them.
They kind of had a international brewery, right?
They started the trend of and so they you have this ton of money and so, hey, let's buy a sports team.
It becomes a bobble on your bracelet.
Well, PK Wrigley had the chewing gum factory.
Yeah.
And he was a wonderful owner.
The smallest stadium, too, right?
Well, and in no lights for years years and people are out of their minds.
All right, speaking of out of their mind, if you're not out of your mind.
Okay, we are here.
We go.
All right.
We are not alone.
A uh a a a entity called I think Stackers took all of the UFO sightings in the state of Missouri and we're number one in the St. Louis area.
And St. Charles is not too far behind.
You think you'd be out there in the middle of nowhere where the skies are clear and the stars are bright.
Uh but we're number one.
And I'll just ask the panel now.
We're not going to go into the whole, you know, you know, thing.
But do you lean more to maybe there's something to that or to the I lean to the there's nothing to that.
So I'll start with my cremagin over here to the left.
Joe, I don't know what you're going to say, but I think I have an idea.
I am all the way on the side of no, there aren't unidentified flying objects.
I think we probably should look into has it gone up since marijuana's been legalized?
Are we drinking more?
What I mean, you know, but no, I I I am not a UFO believer.
I also don't believe in ghosts and demonic possessions either.
So, okay.
Now, you do know there are UFOs.
There are things that there's been no explanation for.
Not to say that they're from outer space.
Now, if there's some secret military planes flying, so yes, under the strict definition, UFOs can exist.
The idea that it's some alien extraterrestrial piloting down, not stopping or saying anything, and then taking off again.
No.
Well, I say the truth is out there and and and there's some documentaries called the X Files, and I think you should That's actually not a documentary.
It's not a documentary.
It's not going to tell me Animal House wasn't a documentary.
That was a document.
That was That was actually That's closer to the truth than Xile.
Closer to the truth.
Well, if if Okay.
So, if that's the midway point and we know where you are.
I think I'm sort of I'm I'm on the other side of the midway point.
uh like halfway because I find and I'm not saying that I think that ET is phony home or the little you know Nanu Nanu but I do think I mean just logically speaking that it would be kind of arrogant of us to think that there's nobody or there's no other life out there and you can send any kind of commitment papers to my husband.
Uh he would will happily talk to you in court at my uh at my hearing.
Jamie, we don't Well, I haven't seen one in Kirkwood.
I I was gonna say no, I'm on the no side.
I mean, and I've definitely not seen any in Webster or Kirkwood.
I'm surprised that you're on the no side.
I don't know why.
Oh, yeah.
No, you surprised me there, young lady.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, no.
I'm I'm more on the Yeah.
Yeah.
On the sane side.
Yeah.
All right.
I do watch the shows.
Okay.
I watch Aliens Aliens.
Come on.
Join me.
Join me.
I I I think as Wendy said, I think there's something to all this.
Uh I don't have an explanation, but I I do believe that I I I just believe that we are not alone, as they say on that show.
Ruins the weekend.
I mean, this is nothing new.
This is nothing new.
As I said, I've never met them.
We've never had a cocktail party, nothing like that.
But I I think that there could be something.
And you know, if they came here, they would stop in Chesterfield first.
I would hope so.
You know, I would hope so.
I I don't know.
My guess is they wouldn't even stop at St. Louis.
I don't think they'd stop.
I don't think they'd stop.
They go to Kansas City.
That's right.
They'd go to Kansas City.
We don't have We don't have enough funding, you know.
Well, in Kirkwood and Webster, I have ordinances against UFOs, right?
I mean, sure.
All right.
One time.
All right.
last 30 seconds.
I will say this and this is when I was in Kansas one one night I'm looking up and there was just it was just a light okay and the light went out and then the light like came back on and I was just looking I said like that was unusual and that's all I ever said.
It wasn't a radio tower.
No, it really wasn't.
And it was just one of those things.
So I don't know whether I actually could say I saw what I thought was a UFO or what was going on but it but it really was just it was a light.
It went out, it came back on, it dimmed, and then it went out alto together.
So, I I met a pilot who said that he didn't see it, but his best friend uh saw something.
He said, and his friend said, you know, it was not normal.
There you go.
Well, we are normal.
Okay, we are trust.
And we appreciate you joining us uh for Last Call on YouTube and we'll see you next week on Donnie Brook.
Once again, thank you so much, Jamie Moors.
Have a great week.
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