March 11, 2025 • 51 mins
314 Day is not just a day; it's a full-blown celebration of everything that makes St. Louis sparkle. It is a week-long extravaganza where the city's unique culture, vibrant businesses, and community spirit take center stage. Our guest, Tatum Polk, one of the masterminds behind this annual festivity, spills the beans on how this grassroots celebration has evolved over the past 19 years.
He reminisces about the humble beginnings of 314 Day, where it all started with just him and his buddy Dip rallying the city to embrace its pride during a time of uncertainty. Fast forward almost two decades; 314 Day has blossomed into a globally recognized event that not only highlights local talent but also fosters a sense of community and belonging. We also chat about the exciting lineup of events this year.
It's clear that 314 Day is more than just a celebration—it's a movement that brings people together, honors the city's heritage, and builds a brighter future for all its residents. So, grab your friends, family, and a sense of adventure, because 314 Day is here to remind us why we love St. Louis!
[00:00] Introduction to 314 Day
[00:31] Hosts Introduction and Banter
[01:45] Sponsor Acknowledgment and Community Message
[02:58] Interview with Tatum Polk: Origins of 314 Day
[06:00] 314 Day's Growth and Community Impact
[09:07] Fun Facts and Local Trivia
[11:01] Community Involvement and Future Plans
[16:45] Encouraging Participation and Final Thoughts
[21:21] Sponsor Messages and Upcoming Events
[26:48] JJ Twigs and Old Vienna Collaboration
[27:10] Celebrating 314 Day with Local Businesses
[28:06] Unique 314 Day Events and Activities
[28:21] Challenges in Promoting 314 Day
[28:59] 314 Day Themed Menus and Specials
[31:58] Library Events and Scavenger Hunts
[35:08] Fun Facts and Word of the Day
[36:44] National Days and Observances
[43:56] Humorous Anecdotes and Jokes
[48:45] Conclusion and Farewell
Takeaways:
- 314 Day is all about celebrating the rich culture and community spirit of St. Louis, and it lasts a whole week, not just a day!
- Tatum Polk shares how 314 Day has evolved from a small event to a globally recognized celebration over the past 19 years.
- This year, 314 Day includes a variety of fun events like scavenger hunts and a community cleanup, promoting civic pride and unity.
- The founders of 314 Day aim to spread awareness about St. Louis, encouraging everyone to take part and celebrate their local culture.
- 314 Day emphasizes community involvement, inviting businesses and residents to join in the festivities and help shape a brighter future for St. Louis.
- With engaging events and a focus on local pride, 314 Day is a fantastic way for St. Louisans to come together and appreciate their city!
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314 day is the perfectoccasion to celebrate the people,
places, businesses and spiritof unity that makes it so special.
It is an annual celebrationdedicated to showcasing the rich
culture, unique spirit anddynamic community of St. Louis. We're
going to talk more about thaton St. Louis in Tune. St. Louis and
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Tune. And thank you forjoining us for fresh perspectives
on issues and events withexperts, community leaders and everyday
people who make a differencein shaping our society and world.
I'm Arnold Stricker along withco host Mark Langston.
Howdy, Howdy doody.
I'm aging myself there.
Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
What? I don't have frecklesand red hair, whiskers.
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It's a great day.
It is a great day.
We're in March, you know, we are.
In March and this is. We arein the middle of the week of 314
day celebration. It's just nota day, it's a week.
I like that, you know. Do youdo that with your birthday? Do you
like, have a birthday weekendor birthday week? Yes, we do that
in our house.
Yes.
If your birthday falls on likea Friday or something or a Thursday,
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we do the whole weekend.
I get the Valentine's Dayflowers for my wife about a week
ahead of Valentine's Day.They're a little cheaper and then
she's got them throughout.They last for a couple weeks there.
Can I tell you, I'm luckybecause my cats eat the flowers so
I don't. I don't have to buy flowers.
Oh, gosh. That's your excuse.
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Get a cat.
Get a cat. Right. Get a cat.
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Our return to civility todaydeals with just being a great community
member and say hello to peopleyou pass in the hall at the office.
Even if they say, I'm superbusy and important and they look
like that to you, Perhapsthey're just shy. Your friendly greeting
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might help them feel morecomfortable the next time they see
you. I always try to say helloto folks, Mark.
Yeah, I know. We're all inthis together, aren't we? Yes. Yeah,
you should say, even if we'vegot that, I've got just smile for
crying out loud.
Yeah.
It's not that hard, is it?
I don't think it's actuallyfewer muscles to smile than just
a frown.
They could do a whole show onthis. That's correct.
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314 day. Wow. What a. Now alot of people will think I'm talking
about PI Day. I'm not talkingabout PI Day. That's a big thing.
This is really a St. Louis,what I'm going to call a festival.
314 day. And Tatum Polk, he'sone of the founders and director
of operations for 314 day.Welcome, Tatum, to St. Louis and
Tune.
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Thank you. Glad to be herewith St. Louis and Tune. Let's talk.
So tell us a little bit aboutthe origins of 314day.
I want to know how long it'sbeen going on.
I know that. But I'm going tolet him spill the beans on that.
I'll spill the beans. This isyear 19 for us.
I didn't know it was.
No, I didn't either. That's fantastic.
Yeah. So next year we'rereally excited about year 20, but
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we won't pass over. We'reblessed to be here every day. So
we won't pass over. Year 19.2006 was our first one and we've
partnered with STL, Made andthose guys over there and they really
helped become a catalyst inthe marketing world and help us really
expand over probably over thelast five years. And it's gone from
a small two man team to beinga globally known thing. So with social
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media, you see how fast thingscan move.
Right.
And you see how many implantsand people that leave St. Louis and
go all over the place, butthey stay tapped into St. Louis with
the 314 days. Kind of cool.
What was the impetus to dothis? Are you guys just sitting around
and I'm talking about TerrellEvans, AKA Dip.
Yeah, Dip. Dip and I have beenfriends for a long time and we're
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both St. Louis born and raisedand we really wanted to be cheerleaders
for our city in a time wherethings are really exciting. 2006,
you're thinking the Cardinalswinning the World Series. You're
thinking Nelly is reallypopular. You're thinking Sheryl Crow's
just dropped an album. There'sa lot of things in St. Louis to be
excited about. The blues were,I think they had won a President's
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cup that year or really close.So they had a really good team and
everything was really excitingin St. Louis. But we grew up in the
80s and there was a time withMcDonnell Douglas and Boeing and
the Chevy dealership and allthat stuff. We wanted to just have
a civic pride and make surethat people. The narrative was starting
to change about what St. Louiswas. It was getting more to, hey,
it's a really violent placedowntown. Businesses are leaving
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and we wanted to remind peoplewhat we were and reset a future.
And that was 19 years ago.
Wow, you've got a. I'm goingto read an idea. Not an idea, but
a comment that was made. Theidea was sparked from love, the love
of the city that made us withso much rich history. We believed
it needed to be celebrated andrecognized. So what is it about St.
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Louis with native St.Louisans? Both Mark and I are native
St. Louisans. Also.
St. Louis is the biggest smallcity or the smallest big city. It's
right in the middle there. Andthe more I've learned over this,
19, actually longer than that.But the more I've learned about the
city and its history and itsimpact on Western civilization and
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its impact on America and itsimpact on the Midwest, you come to
find out there's some realgems in this city.
Absolutely.
And it's really great. Peoplethat have come here or were born
and raised here and have goneto do great things that you just
didn't even know they werefrom here. And so that's exciting.
So the more we dive intohistory, the more you have pride
in it.
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You and Dip started this. Youmentioned it was a two man kind of
crew and it's expanded. Howhas it expanded? In other words,
did businesses get on board? Iknow you mentioned the STL. Matter
of fact, folks, go tothestl.com to get a listing of the
events that are going on thisweek or go to 314day.org and you
can get more information aboutthat. But did businesses jump on
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or how was that kind of accomplished?
I think we just networked ourway through St. Louis originally.
It was a really hard deal tomy math. My wife's a math teacher
over at Lutheran North. So itwas PI Day for a lot of people.
Right.
You know what I mean? And wedon't disregard that at all. We love
that. But for us, it wasgetting people to understand that
we needed civic pride. It wasgetting people to understand that
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St. Louis is not just aflyover city. And yeah, it was just
a two man team. We went outand we told a couple people and they
brought into the idea and thatkind of snowballed. And then we realized,
hey, we need to attachourselves. And brands need to attach
themselves to our machinebecause this is what St. Louis is
born on. This is the backs ofthe cardinals, the backs of the blue.
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Like it was so many thingsthat we have in common much more
than we have in difference.And so it gets us to a common place
where we can have difficultconversations but realize that we
have the same goal of makingSt. Louis great.
How many events do you recall back?
I said it was 19 years ago. Iwas grazing my beard.
I can't remember what I did 19minutes ago.
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I don't remember why I walkedin a room.
The question was, do Iremember some of the events 19 years
ago? Our very first event wasmy birthday is March 16th. So 19
years ago.
This is a birthday celebration.
It's just an ego thing.
No.
So it was on a Sunday and sothe 14th fell on a Friday. And so
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I was in the music industryand he was on radio over at Radio
1. We talked about a littlebit. So we just had a lot of influential
friends that were in the musicbusiness. So the easiest way for
us to do it 19 years ago wasjust get us all in the room, everybody
play their best songs. Aconcert, to say the least. It was
just a pop up concert and thewhole city enjoyed it. And we said,
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hey, we can grow this thing.We can do that. And. And that's our
goal. And we've pivoted. We'vepivoted a lot in 19 years. We've
also grown up and we don'thave the same goals and aspirations
as we did as 25 year old kids.Now we have families and we have
to look and say what does thefuture look like? What does St. Louis
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look like for our kids andthat sort of thing. So we have pivoted
more and more to get back tocommunity. That wasn't year one wasn't
designed for feeding theunhoused. We didn't think about that
year but we think that's been.We spend most of our liquid on feeding
the unhoused now.
Yeah. And just speaking to thefamily thing, one of the first thing
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that shows up is a GreatRivers Greenway 3.14 mile self guided
walk and bike ride.
Love it.
Family oriented thing. Andthere's just a ton of variety things
here. 314 day scavenger hunt.
Yeah. That's gonna be fun.
Yeah.
So did you know? I get it. Ilearned stuff about St. Louis all
the time. The city. The city museum.
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Yes.
That's all with the crazyartwork that was like a shoe factory.
It was Brown Shoe Factory.
No.
Yes.
Come on. No, I didn't know that.
Yeah. So that was Brown Shoe.So they're gonna have a scavenger
hunt where they're hidinglittle baby shoes all over the city
museum. And that's kind ofpart of it.
Love it.
So Brown Shoe Company has NewBalance. That's right there in Clayton
Island. And we talk about allthese global brands that we just.
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We turn a blind eye to. Youtake for granted how great this city
is and how much we have to offer.
It really is. There's a RedHot riplet pizza and wings at JJ
Twigs314J@ Central West End Yoga.
Wait a minute. Is Red Hotriplets made in St. Louis?
It's a St. Louis thing.
Get out of here.
I didn't know that.
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Yeah. So Old Vienna is a St.Louis brand.
They're making red hot riblets.
Yeah. So now you see all thesepeople. Be creative with that. I
tell people all the time,that's the chip that united the city.
Everybody's a spicy barbecuething. Barbecue's kind of a thing.
See, I never knew that.
It's got a gooey butter cakeice cream.
You knew that, right? You knewGooey buttercake.
I knew that.
Yeah. My kids love it.
Okay. Ice cream cones. 1904World's Fair.
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Okay.
Pixie sticks. Did you knowthat was the St. Louis thing?
I didn't know.
No.
Dive into that.
Wow.
No, that's the real.
The Willy Wonka movie. Thatwhole. That's a St. Louis.
Get out of town.
The chocolate company was.Yeah, I remember those.
Sugar.
Yeah. I've gone into somerabbit holes.
Wow.
Pixie sticks. Who knew?
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Who knew?
I know also.
No, the hostess fact.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
It was one right on Broadway.
I'm still scared to eat them.
Go to the moon. That'sprobably the best thing to take last
for 60 years. I don't know.
Yeah, I know, too.
Okay, where do you think thisis? Let me back up. How has the community
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responded over the years toall of these?
I think they've respondedgreat with open arms. I think once
we introduced the idea, Ithink one. I think people were like,
man, why didn't I think of that?
Oh, yeah.
It seems so simple.
It is. It's perfect.
But other cities have startedto jump on board. You got Houston,
you got Memphis, Detroit.Probably about 20 cities that we
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can see their numbers andmetrics that have jumped on board
with this thing. And so thecity is gotten the board. People
are volunteering their hours.People Are, you know, volunteering
their resources. That's big,man. That's community in a nutshell.
Being able to help a brotheror neighbor in ways that he can't
help himself is great.
Yeah. You know what's niceabout this? It's not like it's downtown
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or it's West End or it'sForest park or something. It's all
over.
Yeah. It's not just St. Louis,it's the region. It's St. Charles,
it's Edwardsville, it'sBelleville, it's. Anybody who's ever
worn a cardinal cap, itprobably fits right in.
Have you guys been contactedby. I know you mentioned a lot of
cities, but the cities thatmay have the area code, like Springfield
might use 417 and have a 417day or Kansas City have an 8, 16
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day. Have other citiescontacted you guys about something?
Other cities have. Kansas Citywas big this year. They came, they
flew out, we sat with them fora few days explaining the blueprint
ways to get into the Chamberof Commerce, how to work with your
local politicians, how to workwith your local sports teams. So
we're always. We're open bookbecause we've bumped our head 19
years of it. And this is notmy primary job and it's not Terrell's
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primary job. And so we spend alot of time, you know, giving back
and doing that for othercities is great because we, you know,
now we've created foundationswhere we have scholarships. And so
we want people to educatelocal, too. And because what happens
a lot of times is guys comein, they get great educations at
Mizzou, at slu, and then theygo, take that great education, make
other great companies great.Right. So we want people to educate
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local, stay local, work local,grow local.
So where do you see thisprogressing beyond year 20 next year,
like to 25 and 30? And whatare your and Dip's kind of goals
and aspirations for that?
So we really have focused andpivoted again towards the future.
We know that in any goodbusiness you have to go recruit young
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because they're going to beinnovative, they're going to understand
Snapchat and Twitter, and Ihave no idea how that stuff works.
And we have to. We have areverse mentorship program where
we go and we get studentambassadors to teach us as much as
we can teach them. And thefuture of 314 day will be based on
what the future looks like forthem. We'll lay out the groundwork,
but we have to see what theywant. St. Louis, to look like.
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So are you ready to pass thereins over to the next generation
or is it like let's hold thereins at the same time?
No, no, we're not. We're nevergoing to be gatekeepers of this city
because that's not who we are.We're just going to be cheerleaders
and we're going to be loud.And if you can get louder, you know
what I mean?
Another quote here. A lot ofpeople still just thought 314 day
was a party and it was. Butit's always been community. That's
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been the goal.
That's always been a goal. Yeah.
I guess. You know, you've gota lot of good advertisements and
folks, I want to say again,the stl.com just look up 314 day
also 314 day.org I didn't knowthis was 19 years old. I. You and
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I are born raised here. And itdoesn't necessarily speak to what
I'm going to say. It's not alack of marketing or anything like
that. It's just an awarenessthat there's so many things happening.
And how do you raise that tothe top of the pile? That I would
say because there's food here,there's a food deal here. And I think
you guys have really gotten abig media presence this year now.
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Yeah. Yeah.
And I don't know, has it. Isit this the biggest year for media
presence related to that?
I think it's growing. I thinkjust because there's more outlets
and more people want to tapinto it. But I think that the people
have always been doing thework. So that's. I think that is
the really the biggest story.But yeah, for 19 years it hasn't
had this sort of popularity,but we were not going to shun away
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from it either. I mean, we're great.
How has this impacted youpersonally to see this grow like
this?
It is a pinch me moment a lotof times. I just talked about that.
The other day we won an Emmyon nine PBS status show called Living
St. Louis.
Wow. Good for you.
Yeah, they had a 314 dayepisode and they talked about Terrell
and I and. And then they wentinto pockets of different people
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in St. Louis. And I thinkthat's how it continues to grow when
people realize that you areSt. Louis. Without you, this city
is just however many squaremiles as it is. But it's the people
that make this place great.Right. And so as you realize that
you are a puzzle piece in thiscity, you are 314 day. And we wanted
to really emphasize that thisyear with more diversity, focusing
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on the neighborhoods of St.Louis. There's some rich tradition
in neighborhoods and there isin any given 15 minute drive, you're
in a completely different city.
That's true.
You know what I mean? If youleave the arch and go 15 minutes
west, you're in East St.Louis. If you go East St. Louis,
you got west, you go, you'rein Ladue and Clayton, you go south
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city. That's a completelydifferent environment. You go north
city, completely differentenvironment. And. But as we continue
to talk about the ways thatwe're different and by realizing
the ways we're similar, we canbreak down some walls and create
some amazing bridges. And I'msuper excited as, again, as more
people realize what 314 day isand its guts and who it is and what
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it is and that I thinkorganically we'll just continue to
grow and be great.
Sad.
Yes.
Good for you folks.
If you want to become a partof this annual celebration, you can
contact 314day. Like maybe youwant to get on board with something
that your business or maybeyour neighborhood wants to do to
help not only your localcommunity, but the greater St. Louis
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community out. I'm sure thatthey are taking considerations for
that.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Andthat's the thing. So many small businesses
don't have the marketingdollars to go crazy. You know what
I mean? But that's notcreating good products or great service.
Right. And so we just say,attach yourself to us. Let us know
what you're doing. We'll put amachine behind you. Like you said.
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We're getting tons of promoand press and we're getting people
on television that have neverhad an opportunity to be seen. Let
us get behind you. Let's helpus help you. You know what I mean?
If that makes sense.
It does. Yeah.
We've been talking to TatumPolk. He's one of the founders and
director of operations for 314day. Tatum, any last words to encourage
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people to go to theseactivities and be a part of what
you guys have been doing for19 years?
Yeah. I say one. Yeah. Go tothestl.com 314day and see where you
fit. And if you don't fit,submit. Every year we take on what
you're. What is your culturedoing? How are you partying? How
are you giving back? Let ushashtag 314day. I spend probably
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a week or two looking athashtags from 314day and seeing how
other People celebrate it andwhat they're doing and where they
are and the things that theyenjoy and the things that they love
and how do they give back? Oneof the things we look Forward in
year 20 is a community cleanupday. Let's really focus on everybody.
Get a trash bag and just fillit up. Wherever you are, fill it
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up. When I was a kid, therewas a thing called Operation Brightside,
and we just. I remember my momused to say, hey, we're just gonna
go in the alley, and we'regonna pick up as much trash as possible.
And do you would be surprisedby the aesthetics of buildings or
the aesthetics of your community?
No kidding.
What kind of pride that putson you?
No kidding. I'm so with you.
Yeah. Clean up.
We have a thing called Leaveno Trace. Leave no trace.
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Can you teach that to my son?I'm like, I know exactly what you
ate today. I know exactly whatsocks you had on today.
Leave no trace. It's true.Yeah. Can I.
Absolutely.
If you're driving down 44 andyou get off at Jefferson.
Yeah.
The trash is amazing. Yeah, itis. It's sad. It is really sad to
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me. I don't know. People justthrow stuff out the window.
I remember.
What is that about?
I had a Facebook, like,argument almost. I'm sorry.
No, go ahead.
Somebody did it, and they'rein front of me, and I'm like, man,
what are you doing? What? Theycan't be that hard to wait till you
get to your destination.There's gonna be a trash can. There's
gonna be whatever.
Thank you.
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What's the deal? I know.
This is our city, man.
I don't understand that.
Somebody's got to pick it upor it just blows away.
Yeah.
You know, we have an alley,and I go back there, and I'm always
picking up junk. You're right.It looks great. It looks totally
different.
No, it's different sense of pride.
Absolutely. And absolutely.
Even though things might beold and rough when there's no trash,
it's a whole different.
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It's a little different.
It is. It's a whole differentthing. I am with you on this. I'll
come out and help you. I'll be here.
That's one of my things. I'mgonna probably adopt a highway this
year and get out there and dosome more work.
I don't know. There's a lot ofwork on 44.
I know. There's 70 is worse.
Is it?
Yes. Go 15 minutes that way.
All right. I haven't done it.
Yeah. Go from the arch to theairport. It's a tough ride, but it
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is, again, fixable.
It is. I wish somebody tell mewhat they're thinking when they're
just like driving it.
All those problems are fixableand they're not solely on our local
government. That's on people.You know what I mean? Take care of
things yourself, you know whatI mean? You can't. And I don't want
to go down the rabbit hole,but the reality is everybody should
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do their part.
I think that's evidenced by314 day. It's just not one person.
It's just not a few people.It's the community and it's everybody
being involved, supporting thecommunity, taking care of the community
and advocating for the community.
So let's hear it. That's pretty.
I have great inspiration rightin front of me here. Tatum, thanks
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for coming in St. Louis.
And tune it back anytime. Itwas great.
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fun time with Tatum and hisenthusiasm and energy. Mark for 314
day is just unbelievable.
They're doing a great thing.They really are. And I just wish
them all the luck, all thesuccess that they can have. I wish
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they'd do some big event.
Yeah. And that might be on thedrawing board for them. One of the
things and we alluded to this,we didn't allude to it, we did talk
about it was the fact thatsome smaller businesses and smaller
neighborhoods are doingsomething. And I wanted to go through
the schedule because if incase people are just listening, they
can't get to the website. Bythe way, the website folks, it's314day.org
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or you can get a listing ofevents@the STL thestl.com 314day
it's.
It's important to put the.
The STL. The STL.
Yeah. Not just STL. Right, theSTL. Okay.
And the other thing that Ireally enjoy is it's not one day
anymore. It's week ofactivities. This has already begun.
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But there's 314 day at CentralWest End Yoga. They're honoring small
businesses that way. The Imentioned this previously, 314 mile
self guided walk and bikerides on greenways that's sponsored
by the Great Rivers Greenway.They've plotted out seven 3.14 mile
routes across St. Louis City,St. Louis county and St. Charles
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County.
That's great. That's good for them.
Their Maryville BusinessSolutions, which is a student led
and faculty guided consultingInitiative is celebrating 314-day-by
offering complimentarycybersecurity audits for small businesses.
Okay.
Sugar witch. Which is. They'regoing to be doing a gooey butter
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cake ice cream sandwich.That's going on. It's bringing our
tried and true love to stl.The gooey butter cake ice cream sandwich.
The gooey butter cake wasn't enough.
I'm gonna make it a sandwich.And with ice cream. I'm getting fat
just thinking about it. Iknow. It's just.
Wow.
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Really?
I just rub it on my thighs andmy stomach.
My back.
Cliff cave branch of St. LouisCounty. The library is having a tell
us why you love St. Louis.It's part of their 314 day series.
There's the scavenger hunt.314 day scavenger hunt. St. Louis
County Library Rock Roadbranch. Search the Rock Road branch
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to find slices of STL tocreate your 314 day pie.
Yum.
The fluorescent branch of St.Louis County Library is find St.
Louis landmarks around thekids area of the Florissant Valley
branch. Then there's the redhot riplet pizza and wings at JJ
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Twigs here.
Where is there a JJ Twigs inSt. Louis?
5600 Hampton.
Is that right?
Yes. They've teamed up withOld Vienna to serve up some super
tasty specials.
Because I know the only JJTwigs I know of is at the Lake of
the Ozarks. Lake Ozark.
This one's closer. Mark.
No kidding. It's on Hampton.
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5600 Hampton.
Okay. That's a shameless plugfor them.
That's correct.
Wow.
You could get some beautifulfresh cut flowers to brighten Your
Day. And 314 Day. TheBotanicals Design Studio on South
Grand. They are sharing in thejoy of being a St. Louis homegrown
studio. The St. Louis CountyLibrary Mid county branch. They're
celebrating by having notableSt. Louis natives and landmarks in
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their scavenger hunt. And Icouldn't believe this one. You can
ride on Metro and get a freeone day adventure pass and custom
314 sticker designed by thepartners at STL Style House. That's
during the 11th through the 14th.
This is great.
Yeah.
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What other cities do this? Iknow they're trying to copy it but
no other cities are.
Yeah. And it's just not like aconcert. Like sometimes it's like
a street thing.
This is all overcollaboration. I've got like the
whole city.
Two more pages.
I want to hear some morebecause this is really nice.
The McDonald Planetarium 314day illumination at the planetarium.
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So the exterior of theplanetarium will be illuminated with
new colorful limited edition314 day. And that's part of the St.
Louis Science center in Forest Park.
I think that the challenge,and I think Tatum Polk is and. And
Dip are working on it, is toget the word out about all of these
activities that are going on.Yes, I think that's the challenge.
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One thing that lacks and maybeit's me not looking in the right
place, but is there a massivecalendar for all of these things
that happen in the city of St.Louis County? St. Charles county,
maybe on the east side too, sopeople can see and it might exist
and I just might not knowabout it.
That's a problem though, ifyou don't know where it is. Maybe.
What do they have? Get outmagazine and the Post. But nobody's.
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Nobody's getting out.
I know.
Or maybe they're getting outand going the wrong direction.
They're not getting out to getthe newspaper.
So here's 1314 happy hour atCafe La Vie. It's at the Meridian.
Meridian features a sweet menufor 314 day, including gooey butter
cake lattes, gooey butter cakeespresso martinis and a toasted ravioli.
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What?
What a perfect theme.
Yeah.
Just do the 314 menu. Menu.
Yeah.
Hot dogs, ice cream, bluebutter cake.
Pixie sticks, toasted ravioli.
Yeah, the whole.
That would be great. That's agreat idea.
Darn kitten caboodle.
That's a great idea.
Yeah, I know. This is the 314 menu.
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Some restaurants could gocrazy with it.
It's got to include pixie sticks.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
And those hot. Those hotpotato chips, whatever they're called.
Yeah.
All those things that should.As much as you can put in.
All you can eat. Pixie sticks.
Oh, my God. I can't imagine.What do you want? I want the ravioli.
Hot dog and ice cream withpixie sticks.
You remember those pixiesticks used to come in like orange.
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It was paper twirly the paperand the purple and the green.
And you had to be careful howyou open the top.
Yes.
And then squeeze it gently.Squeeze it. Make it round.
Because then you could get itall down.
And if you get any of yoursaliva on the end, it clogs it up.
Yeah.
You got to tear off the topand start over again.
Yeah, exactly. We're Pixy Stixexperts. One of our favorite places,
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Reedy Press. We do a lot ofshows of books and authors with Ready
Press.
They're doing books.
They have 30% off all theirbooks. Why not the biggest discount
of the year?
Perfect idea.
Yes. Flamingo bowl and pinupbowl bowling for $3.14.
See this? Why not? It'sspringtime. People want to get out.
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Perfect time. Also, mini golfand shuffleboard at the Magic Mini
Golf in the loop. $3.14.
Ever been there?
I've not. I've been to the.
A lot of fun. Yeah, totally recommended.
Squire's Restaurant is havinglocal products for $3.14 all day
long. That's Dubuque wholebean coffee. See, we can add coffee
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to this. We could add Dad'scookies to this also.
There you go. Ice cream andDad's cookies you could get.
Yeah.
And one of the Gus's pretzels.
Oh, we're going on and on.
Come on. I got it. We got a menu.
Oh, we do. And there's thesoda, Fritz.
Oh, Fitz's Soda.
Soda, right.
That's right. Fitz's. Oh, my.Is IBC made here?
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I'm not sure IBC retail. Iknow. 7Up used to be. And Dr. Pepper
was exclusively made here.
Right. So you gotta use. Yeah,just hit those brands, too. Wow.
One of my favorite places toeat. Grace meat. And three Ricky's
got some specials offering anold Vienna chicken sandwich. For
314 days, guests can enjoy ared hot riplet marinated chicken
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breast, grilled and seasonedwith. You know what? What? Red hot.
Oh, the red hot old Vienna.Oh, treat me in St. Louis. The Weber
Road county branch is pickingup a passport of facts and locations
about local cuisine.
There you go.
The St. Louis county branch ofEureka Hills. It sounds like the
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library has really got. Ihaven't seen anything for the city
library here. Hello, CityLibrary. Central Library. I know
they have a lot of activities.I do get their calendar. But the
Eureka Hills branch. They sayshow some love to your favorite city
by making St. Louis themedbuttons. And the Jamestown Bluffs
branch of the St. Louis CountyLibrary. They're going to have a
scavenger hunt around theJamestown branch. Casa Don Alfonso's
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elevated toasted ravioli andespresso martinis at the Ritz Carlton.
Whoa.
Those would be elevated HoityToity. You hold them up. Hoity Toity
Lion's Choice sandwiches. Youcan. St. Louis famous roast beef
chain will celebrate 314 dayby offering three OG sandwiches,
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roast beef, turkey or ham foronly $14.
Oh, yeah.
Schlafly's Beer Brew Pubs.They're going to celebrate the St.
Louis holiday with a happyhour. It just goes on and on.
I like that it goes on and on.
I do, too. And this issomething that I think that both
Tatum and Dip have done isjust really let this thing just organically
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grow.
Right.
And not to. And he was sayingjust stay out of the way. Let things
move along and.
Right.
I would love to see moreneighborhoods. I'd love to see some
City of St. Louis librarythings. Gentle hint nudge. Other
restaurants. I love your ideaabout the All St. Louis menu. I think
that's outstanding.
Oh, wouldn't that be great?
That'd be a park thing.
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Oh, that'd be fun.
Yeah.
I want those chips, though. Ihad no idea ever since I tried those
chips. The Riplets.
Yeah.
Love them.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is.
Old Vienna.
Yeah. I didn't know. I had no idea.
I don't know why, but I thinkwe get used to our. We have patterns
and we like to go to certainplaces because they're familiar to
us. We don't like expanding.Some people don't.
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No tariffs.
No tariffs on 314 day.
Here we go.
Only in 314.
Here we go. 618 is going toput a tariff on it.
So we'll double the tariffback on 628.
Seven's gonna do.
Yeah. 401 7. Watch out.
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There's no 573, though.
Oh, yeah.
You can't.
You can't do it. Too bad youguys are out. You guys living in
the wrong area. Missouri.
I know. Okay.
All right.
Okay.
So, yeah, I think of Kansasarea codes. 913.
Oh, they're. Oh, no, that's good.
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Yeah. Then there's a two.Begins with a two. But yeah, if you
got the 202.
Yeah, that's Washington, D.C.they could use.
Some help all year round.
They could use some brotherly love.
But don't go to Philadelphialooking for it. Wow.
Hands on those buttons, please.
But please don't pop thosebuttons until an answer is exposed.
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That's going to lead us to ourword of the day.
Oh, great. Here we go.
If I can pronounce it, is itbrotherly love? Yeah. Philadelphia.
No.
Imperturbable.
Imperturbable.
Can I ask you how you spell that?
Yes, it is. I, M, P, E, R, T,U, R, B, A, B, L, E, P, L, A, Y.
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Imperturbable Imperturbable,let's say like you're imperturbable.
Okay.
Describes someone or somethingmarked by extreme calm, such as a
person or thing is very hardto disturb or upset. Like the imperturbable
disc jockey on public radiowill give you the news just like
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this. The imperturbablecaptain of the Titanic did not panic
when the ship hit the icebergand sunk into the North Atlantic
icy water.
Big mistake.
Nothing disrupted thecontestants. Imperturbable focus
as the price was right.
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Wow. Man.
I know.
The Titanic. I don't know. Somuch wrong there.
Okay, so imperturbable.
That's a great word.
Not getting upset. Beingextreme calm in a disturbing or upsetting
situation.
I try to be. Yeah, I try to becalm. It's hard to be calm sometimes.
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I know. So we're talking about314 day in March. There's 311 day.
That's the rest assured thatall your non emergency services and
requirements will be met. 3 1.
So like being prepared forsome kind of disaster.
I say yeah. It doesn't fallunder the emergency category. If
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you have a legitimate questionabout something, you can. I think
you can dial 311 on yourphone. The 31 system. Exactly. It
helps residents report issues,find out about city services and
solve questions and thingslike that.
Never knew that.
Yeah. It's three and four.Dang. Yeah.
31 1.
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31 1. I'm sorry. I'm all mixedup here with everything. I know.
National Dream day. Today.
I asked somebody, I said, areyou living the dream? And he said,
even nightmares are dreams.
How about Johnny Appleseedday? Remember him?
Yes, I do.
Yep. Johnny Appleseedintroduced the joy of apples. Do
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you eat apples?
I in pie. I do.
Okay. Now this is. I don'tknow. I don't want to be mean to
these people, but NationalFuneral Director and Mortician Recognition
Day. I think it's importantthat we recognize them, but it gives
me the creeps.
I was trying to think of acomeback using the word embalm or
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something like that.
Involving National Oatmeal NutWaffles Day. I know. Don't you like
those?
I like pecan waffles. I hadsome pecan French toast the other
day with strawberry glaze onit. Oh, that's really good.
Oh my gosh. World Plumbing Day.
Is this for businesses or building?
Commemorate the day that yourcities and towns always are sanitary.
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And you should recognize yourplumber. If you're a plumber, you
should not bite Your fingernails?
No, no.
Just saying.
No. I don't know how thoseguys do it. They get down on their
knees and, man, my knees startto hurt.
That's why I get paid the big bucks.
Yeah.
And I. I'm all about it. Itotally understand.
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I do, too.
I do. Don't tell my wife this,but it's national organize your home
office day. Oh, if you wouldsee my home office.
It's organized in a way thatyou know where to find things.
That's weird.
I. Yeah, no, I get that.
Organized chaos.
I get that.
Is it organized chaos?
Yeah, but I know where thingsare. It's not organized chaos, but
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it's. I know where things are.Do you know I like to pile things.
National dream Day.
Yeah, you mentioned that one.
Did I mention that?
Even nightmares or dreams.
Really?
Yes.
Okay. Debunking day. Candebunk things.
Debunk that aren't facts.Facts that aren't facts.
The facts that aren't facts iswhat you want to. Yeah. You don't
want to.
Can I say something about that?
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Oh, yeah, please.
In other words, folks, it'simportant to what's between your
ears really develop that. Andto. And we mentioned this on previous
shows, that sometimes peoplewill listen to one media channel,
but I like to read and listento them all. It gets. Helps me, like,
wow, they're really out thereon that. Or they're really out there
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on that. And there is actuallya website that says where all the
media outlets are as far asbeing center or left or right. Really,
the visual. They have theiricon, their little emblem, where
they are in relation to what'scenter and what's left and what's
right. So it's very interesting.
Never seen that. I'd like tosee that, though. Coming up this
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week, Dow National WorkingMoms Day. Yes, they are. That's the
toughest job.
Our guest last week wrote abook on working moms.
That's true. Let's see. Therewas another one here. Alfred Hitchcock
day is coming up.
Ooh, we should have that.
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Do you remember that? Yes, Iknow. I do, too. Baked scallops Day.
Do you like scallops?
Oh, yes.
Okay.
Yes.
I'm about done here.
Especially with just on somebutter and international.
Every girl Wednesday.
Every Girl Wednesday.
Wednesday. Stand up for womenaround the world for equality, better
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health care, education,economic literacy.
Yes, There's a lot of thatwith the 314 day. Also some celebrations
and things that women aredoing with that.
All right, that's good.Earmuff Day. I don't know why they
have an earmuff Day in March.
Unless it's Alaska.
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Could be. Could be NationalGood Samaritan Day.
Every day should be.
It should be. You're right. Itshould be. Every day should be a
Good Samaritan Day. NationalOpen Umbrella Indoors Day. Did you.
It's like walking under aladder in front of a black cat.
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Were you always told, don'topen that up? Don't open the umbrella
up inside. It's bad luck.
I've heard that, but I. I open.
It up to dry it out and Ishake it.
Yeah.
Open it and close it real fast.
Yes.
Gets everywhere. It's like,why. Why did I even try?
Hey, maybe you're one of thoseprolific new artists.
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Yeah, this is my day. Smartand sexy day. That's me.
Everybody should feel that wayabout themselves.
Popcorn lovers. Shake. Ispopcorn good for you? I don't know.
It is. I don't eat it becauseof my teeth.
It gets.
You get one of those. What arethey called? Maids that didn't pop.
Do you call the.
Oh, is that what they call them?
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Yeah. Call them old.
I never knew that.
And you crunch on that. Andpoo. Poo.
It's the skin on the kernel that.
Gets in between your teeth.
The gum in my teeth. Yeah.
Time to floss, though. Alwayshave to floss after eating popcorn.
Oh, my gosh.
Caramel corn with the. Now,this is big. Where is this? I'm trying
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to remember. I don't know ifit's Nolan's caramel. Caramel corn
and cheese corn together. No,it's Chicago. Oh, yes. They have
a mixes of that. And it waskind of weird, the history of that,
which I don't recall, Ithought was fascinating when I heard
it.
But it's caramel corn.
You eat caramel corn andcheese. Corn that has a lot of cheese
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on it.
Together.
Together.
Oh, they mix them up.
It's really good.
That sounds pretty good.
It's really good.
One last one here.International School Meals Day.
School Meals Day.
Yeah. So there. That's a thingof the past, I think. But I remember
in Washington right now.
We had a school called theYellow Meal.
Ooh, that's scary.
And the brown meal.
Oh, that's even scarier.
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And if you got it on a yellowtray or a brown tray. Oh, my gosh.
Really?
Talk about monochromatic.
So they had two differentmeals. One was on a brown.
It would be a different day.They had tacos.
Oh, I see.
And then they have corn withthe taco. And then maybe they'd put
an orange on there so it's allthe same hue.
Cold corn.
Yeah. Or then they'd have the.The brown meal might be brown rice
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and chicken or something. And then.
Yeah, it's just like I. Idon't miss those days.
No, I don't either.
I know Mark.
People who work in a bank.It's a very ungrateful job. A lady
asked me to check her balance,so I pushed her over. I got fired.
I have pictures of food in myphone here today. I found that if
you treat others how theytreat you, they seem to get very
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upset. Okay, I've said thatone already. That one would not work.
That one would not work. Wayback into the Here we go. I asked
the kid working at McDonald'sif the Shamrock shakes were made
(44:31):
with fresh shamrocks. He wentto ask the manager. So somebody said,
tell me your wildest fantasy.Sleeping through the night and waking
up to a clean house, a fitbody, no wrinkles, laundry done and
put away. A full on buffetbreakfast. Breakfast with no calories
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and a million bucks in my purse.
Yep.
Did you know that golf is theadult version of an Easter egg hunt?
No.
At least for some people it is.
Oh, never mind.
I got a call from atelemarketer and he said he couldn't
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understand me. I told him topress 1 for Eng. A wife, being the
romantic sort, sent herhusband a text. If you are sleeping,
send me your dreams. If youare laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me abite. If you are drinking, send me
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a sip. If you are crying, sendme your tears. I love you. The husband,
typically non romantic,replied, I am on the toilet. Please
advise. Principal says, hey,your child has been causing problems
in school. I said, my childcauses problems at home too. Do I
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ever call you? All right, herewe go.
There's more.
I can't wait to retire so Ican get up at 6:00 in the morning
and go drive around reallyslow and make everybody late for
work.
I know those people get behindthem every day.
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I'm so single right now that Istood on a cliff and shouted I love
you. And my echo replied, Ijust want to be friends.
Sounds like my younger yearsbefore I got married.
Let's see here. I don't alwayslose stuff, but when I do, it's because
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my wife moved it.
We like that one.
I'm on a light diet. I eat bydaylight, moonlight and sometimes
refrigerator light.
Give that another one.
I'm in a Walmart parking lotwatching a woman who can't remember
where she parked. And everytime she holds her remote in the
(47:00):
air, I honk my horn. Now, thisis not me, folks. I didn't make this
one up, folks. But remember,when you're dead, you don't know
you're dead. It's only painfulfor others. The same applies when
you're stupid.
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Wow. That's good. Lesson well learned.
Breaking news. The Earthrevolves around the sun. This may
upset a few people who thinkit revolves around them.
Yep.
(47:43):
While Facebook was down, Imanaged to meet my family. They're
actually quite nice people. Sothere's this husband and wife. They're
looking out the window, andthe husband says, oh, no, our neighbor
died. And the wife says, who?Ray? And the husband says, I don't
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think cheering is appropriate. Karen.
I knew it. I knew as soon asyou said it. Oh, man.
So this guy and his gal aremeeting, and he goes, my name is
Justin. She says, okay, but Ididn't ask. He said, just in case.
Wow. Wow.
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And jellyfish have survived650 million years despite not having
a brain. This gives hope to somany people.
Oh, gosh. Okay.
Oh, my.
Yeah, that's a. Oh, my isright. Oh, my.
I want to encourage everyone,everyone to go to the STL.com 314day
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or go to the314Homepage314day.org and that's
314day.org or the T-H-E-S-TL.com that's it. So that's all for
this hour. We want to thankyou for listening, folks. If you've
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Louis in Tune, I'm Arnold Stricker.
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It.
314 day is the perfectoccasion to celebrate the people,
places, businesses and spiritof unity that makes it so special.
It is an annual celebrationdedicated to showcasing the rich
culture, unique spirit anddynamic community of St. Louis. We're
going to talk more about thaton St. Louis in Tune. St. Louis and
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Tune. And thank you forjoining us for fresh perspectives
on issues and events withexperts, community leaders and everyday
people who make a differencein shaping our society and world.
I'm Arnold Stricker along withco host Mark Langston.
Howdy, Howdy doody.
I'm aging myself there.
Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
What? I don't have frecklesand red hair, whiskers.
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It's a great day.
It is a great day.
We're in March, you know, we are.
In March and this is. We arein the middle of the week of 314
day celebration. It's just nota day, it's a week.
I like that, you know. Do youdo that with your birthday? Do you
like, have a birthday weekendor birthday week? Yes, we do that
in our house.
Yes.
If your birthday falls on likea Friday or something or a Thursday,
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we do the whole weekend.
I get the Valentine's Dayflowers for my wife about a week
ahead of Valentine's Day.They're a little cheaper and then
she's got them throughout.They last for a couple weeks there.
Can I tell you, I'm luckybecause my cats eat the flowers so
I don't. I don't have to buy flowers.
Oh, gosh. That's your excuse.
(01:41):
Get a cat.
Get a cat. Right. Get a cat.
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Our return to civility todaydeals with just being a great community
member and say hello to peopleyou pass in the hall at the office.
Even if they say, I'm superbusy and important and they look
like that to you, Perhapsthey're just shy. Your friendly greeting
(02:23):
might help them feel morecomfortable the next time they see
you. I always try to say helloto folks, Mark.
Yeah, I know. We're all inthis together, aren't we? Yes. Yeah,
you should say, even if we'vegot that, I've got just smile for
crying out loud.
Yeah.
It's not that hard, is it?
I don't think it's actuallyfewer muscles to smile than just
a frown.
They could do a whole show onthis. That's correct.
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314 day. Wow. What a. Now alot of people will think I'm talking
about PI Day. I'm not talkingabout PI Day. That's a big thing.
This is really a St. Louis,what I'm going to call a festival.
314 day. And Tatum Polk, he'sone of the founders and director
of operations for 314 day.Welcome, Tatum, to St. Louis and
Tune.
(03:05):
Thank you. Glad to be herewith St. Louis and Tune. Let's talk.
So tell us a little bit aboutthe origins of 314day.
I want to know how long it'sbeen going on.
I know that. But I'm going tolet him spill the beans on that.
I'll spill the beans. This isyear 19 for us.
I didn't know it was.
No, I didn't either. That's fantastic.
Yeah. So next year we'rereally excited about year 20, but
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we won't pass over. We'reblessed to be here every day. So
we won't pass over. Year 19.2006 was our first one and we've
partnered with STL, Made andthose guys over there and they really
helped become a catalyst inthe marketing world and help us really
expand over probably over thelast five years. And it's gone from
a small two man team to beinga globally known thing. So with social
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media, you see how fast thingscan move.
Right.
And you see how many implantsand people that leave St. Louis and
go all over the place, butthey stay tapped into St. Louis with
the 314 days. Kind of cool.
What was the impetus to dothis? Are you guys just sitting around
and I'm talking about TerrellEvans, AKA Dip.
Yeah, Dip. Dip and I have beenfriends for a long time and we're
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both St. Louis born and raisedand we really wanted to be cheerleaders
for our city in a time wherethings are really exciting. 2006,
you're thinking the Cardinalswinning the World Series. You're
thinking Nelly is reallypopular. You're thinking Sheryl Crow's
just dropped an album. There'sa lot of things in St. Louis to be
excited about. The blues were,I think they had won a President's
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cup that year or really close.So they had a really good team and
everything was really excitingin St. Louis. But we grew up in the
80s and there was a time withMcDonnell Douglas and Boeing and
the Chevy dealership and allthat stuff. We wanted to just have
a civic pride and make surethat people. The narrative was starting
to change about what St. Louiswas. It was getting more to, hey,
it's a really violent placedowntown. Businesses are leaving
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and we wanted to remind peoplewhat we were and reset a future.
And that was 19 years ago.
Wow, you've got a. I'm goingto read an idea. Not an idea, but
a comment that was made. Theidea was sparked from love, the love
of the city that made us withso much rich history. We believed
it needed to be celebrated andrecognized. So what is it about St.
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Louis with native St.Louisans? Both Mark and I are native
St. Louisans. Also.
St. Louis is the biggest smallcity or the smallest big city. It's
right in the middle there. Andthe more I've learned over this,
19, actually longer than that.But the more I've learned about the
city and its history and itsimpact on Western civilization and
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its impact on America and itsimpact on the Midwest, you come to
find out there's some realgems in this city.
Absolutely.
And it's really great. Peoplethat have come here or were born
and raised here and have goneto do great things that you just
didn't even know they werefrom here. And so that's exciting.
So the more we dive intohistory, the more you have pride
in it.
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You and Dip started this. Youmentioned it was a two man kind of
crew and it's expanded. Howhas it expanded? In other words,
did businesses get on board? Iknow you mentioned the STL. Matter
of fact, folks, go tothestl.com to get a listing of the
events that are going on thisweek or go to 314day.org and you
can get more information aboutthat. But did businesses jump on
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or how was that kind of accomplished?
I think we just networked ourway through St. Louis originally.
It was a really hard deal tomy math. My wife's a math teacher
over at Lutheran North. So itwas PI Day for a lot of people.
Right.
You know what I mean? And wedon't disregard that at all. We love
that. But for us, it wasgetting people to understand that
we needed civic pride. It wasgetting people to understand that
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St. Louis is not just aflyover city. And yeah, it was just
a two man team. We went outand we told a couple people and they
brought into the idea and thatkind of snowballed. And then we realized,
hey, we need to attachourselves. And brands need to attach
themselves to our machinebecause this is what St. Louis is
born on. This is the backs ofthe cardinals, the backs of the blue.
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Like it was so many thingsthat we have in common much more
than we have in difference.And so it gets us to a common place
where we can have difficultconversations but realize that we
have the same goal of makingSt. Louis great.
How many events do you recall back?
I said it was 19 years ago. Iwas grazing my beard.
I can't remember what I did 19minutes ago.
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I don't remember why I walkedin a room.
The question was, do Iremember some of the events 19 years
ago? Our very first event wasmy birthday is March 16th. So 19
years ago.
This is a birthday celebration.
It's just an ego thing.
No.
So it was on a Sunday and sothe 14th fell on a Friday. And so
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I was in the music industryand he was on radio over at Radio
1. We talked about a littlebit. So we just had a lot of influential
friends that were in the musicbusiness. So the easiest way for
us to do it 19 years ago wasjust get us all in the room, everybody
play their best songs. Aconcert, to say the least. It was
just a pop up concert and thewhole city enjoyed it. And we said,
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hey, we can grow this thing.We can do that. And. And that's our
goal. And we've pivoted. We'vepivoted a lot in 19 years. We've
also grown up and we don'thave the same goals and aspirations
as we did as 25 year old kids.Now we have families and we have
to look and say what does thefuture look like? What does St. Louis
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look like for our kids andthat sort of thing. So we have pivoted
more and more to get back tocommunity. That wasn't year one wasn't
designed for feeding theunhoused. We didn't think about that
year but we think that's been.We spend most of our liquid on feeding
the unhoused now.
Yeah. And just speaking to thefamily thing, one of the first thing
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that shows up is a GreatRivers Greenway 3.14 mile self guided
walk and bike ride.
Love it.
Family oriented thing. Andthere's just a ton of variety things
here. 314 day scavenger hunt.
Yeah. That's gonna be fun.
Yeah.
So did you know? I get it. Ilearned stuff about St. Louis all
the time. The city. The city museum.
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Yes.
That's all with the crazyartwork that was like a shoe factory.
It was Brown Shoe Factory.
No.
Yes.
Come on. No, I didn't know that.
Yeah. So that was Brown Shoe.So they're gonna have a scavenger
hunt where they're hidinglittle baby shoes all over the city
museum. And that's kind ofpart of it.
Love it.
So Brown Shoe Company has NewBalance. That's right there in Clayton
Island. And we talk about allthese global brands that we just.
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We turn a blind eye to. Youtake for granted how great this city
is and how much we have to offer.
It really is. There's a RedHot riplet pizza and wings at JJ
Twigs314J@ Central West End Yoga.
Wait a minute. Is Red Hotriplets made in St. Louis?
It's a St. Louis thing.
Get out of here.
I didn't know that.
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Yeah. So Old Vienna is a St.Louis brand.
They're making red hot riblets.
Yeah. So now you see all thesepeople. Be creative with that. I
tell people all the time,that's the chip that united the city.
Everybody's a spicy barbecuething. Barbecue's kind of a thing.
See, I never knew that.
It's got a gooey butter cakeice cream.
You knew that, right? You knewGooey buttercake.
I knew that.
Yeah. My kids love it.
Okay. Ice cream cones. 1904World's Fair.
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Okay.
Pixie sticks. Did you knowthat was the St. Louis thing?
I didn't know.
No.
Dive into that.
Wow.
No, that's the real.
The Willy Wonka movie. Thatwhole. That's a St. Louis.
Get out of town.
The chocolate company was.Yeah, I remember those.
Sugar.
Yeah. I've gone into somerabbit holes.
Wow.
Pixie sticks. Who knew?
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Who knew?
I know also.
No, the hostess fact.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
It was one right on Broadway.
I'm still scared to eat them.
Go to the moon. That'sprobably the best thing to take last
for 60 years. I don't know.
Yeah, I know, too.
Okay, where do you think thisis? Let me back up. How has the community
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responded over the years toall of these?
I think they've respondedgreat with open arms. I think once
we introduced the idea, Ithink one. I think people were like,
man, why didn't I think of that?
Oh, yeah.
It seems so simple.
It is. It's perfect.
But other cities have startedto jump on board. You got Houston,
you got Memphis, Detroit.Probably about 20 cities that we
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can see their numbers andmetrics that have jumped on board
with this thing. And so thecity is gotten the board. People
are volunteering their hours.People Are, you know, volunteering
their resources. That's big,man. That's community in a nutshell.
Being able to help a brotheror neighbor in ways that he can't
help himself is great.
Yeah. You know what's niceabout this? It's not like it's downtown
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or it's West End or it'sForest park or something. It's all
over.
Yeah. It's not just St. Louis,it's the region. It's St. Charles,
it's Edwardsville, it'sBelleville, it's. Anybody who's ever
worn a cardinal cap, itprobably fits right in.
Have you guys been contactedby. I know you mentioned a lot of
cities, but the cities thatmay have the area code, like Springfield
might use 417 and have a 417day or Kansas City have an 8, 16
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day. Have other citiescontacted you guys about something?
Other cities have. Kansas Citywas big this year. They came, they
flew out, we sat with them fora few days explaining the blueprint
ways to get into the Chamberof Commerce, how to work with your
local politicians, how to workwith your local sports teams. So
we're always. We're open bookbecause we've bumped our head 19
years of it. And this is notmy primary job and it's not Terrell's
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primary job. And so we spend alot of time, you know, giving back
and doing that for othercities is great because we, you know,
now we've created foundationswhere we have scholarships. And so
we want people to educatelocal, too. And because what happens
a lot of times is guys comein, they get great educations at
Mizzou, at slu, and then theygo, take that great education, make
other great companies great.Right. So we want people to educate
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local, stay local, work local,grow local.
So where do you see thisprogressing beyond year 20 next year,
like to 25 and 30? And whatare your and Dip's kind of goals
and aspirations for that?
So we really have focused andpivoted again towards the future.
We know that in any goodbusiness you have to go recruit young
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because they're going to beinnovative, they're going to understand
Snapchat and Twitter, and Ihave no idea how that stuff works.
And we have to. We have areverse mentorship program where
we go and we get studentambassadors to teach us as much as
we can teach them. And thefuture of 314 day will be based on
what the future looks like forthem. We'll lay out the groundwork,
but we have to see what theywant. St. Louis, to look like.
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So are you ready to pass thereins over to the next generation
or is it like let's hold thereins at the same time?
No, no, we're not. We're nevergoing to be gatekeepers of this city
because that's not who we are.We're just going to be cheerleaders
and we're going to be loud.And if you can get louder, you know
what I mean?
Another quote here. A lot ofpeople still just thought 314 day
was a party and it was. Butit's always been community. That's
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been the goal.
That's always been a goal. Yeah.
I guess. You know, you've gota lot of good advertisements and
folks, I want to say again,the stl.com just look up 314 day
also 314 day.org I didn't knowthis was 19 years old. I. You and
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I are born raised here. And itdoesn't necessarily speak to what
I'm going to say. It's not alack of marketing or anything like
that. It's just an awarenessthat there's so many things happening.
And how do you raise that tothe top of the pile? That I would
say because there's food here,there's a food deal here. And I think
you guys have really gotten abig media presence this year now.
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Yeah. Yeah.
And I don't know, has it. Isit this the biggest year for media
presence related to that?
I think it's growing. I thinkjust because there's more outlets
and more people want to tapinto it. But I think that the people
have always been doing thework. So that's. I think that is
the really the biggest story.But yeah, for 19 years it hasn't
had this sort of popularity,but we were not going to shun away
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from it either. I mean, we're great.
How has this impacted youpersonally to see this grow like
this?
It is a pinch me moment a lotof times. I just talked about that.
The other day we won an Emmyon nine PBS status show called Living
St. Louis.
Wow. Good for you.
Yeah, they had a 314 dayepisode and they talked about Terrell
and I and. And then they wentinto pockets of different people
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in St. Louis. And I thinkthat's how it continues to grow when
people realize that you areSt. Louis. Without you, this city
is just however many squaremiles as it is. But it's the people
that make this place great.Right. And so as you realize that
you are a puzzle piece in thiscity, you are 314 day. And we wanted
to really emphasize that thisyear with more diversity, focusing
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on the neighborhoods of St.Louis. There's some rich tradition
in neighborhoods and there isin any given 15 minute drive, you're
in a completely different city.
That's true.
You know what I mean? If youleave the arch and go 15 minutes
west, you're in East St.Louis. If you go East St. Louis,
you got west, you go, you'rein Ladue and Clayton, you go south
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city. That's a completelydifferent environment. You go north
city, completely differentenvironment. And. But as we continue
to talk about the ways thatwe're different and by realizing
the ways we're similar, we canbreak down some walls and create
some amazing bridges. And I'msuper excited as, again, as more
people realize what 314 day isand its guts and who it is and what
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it is and that I thinkorganically we'll just continue to
grow and be great.
Sad.
Yes.
Good for you folks.
If you want to become a partof this annual celebration, you can
contact 314day. Like maybe youwant to get on board with something
that your business or maybeyour neighborhood wants to do to
help not only your localcommunity, but the greater St. Louis
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community out. I'm sure thatthey are taking considerations for
that.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Andthat's the thing. So many small businesses
don't have the marketingdollars to go crazy. You know what
I mean? But that's notcreating good products or great service.
Right. And so we just say,attach yourself to us. Let us know
what you're doing. We'll put amachine behind you. Like you said.
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We're getting tons of promoand press and we're getting people
on television that have neverhad an opportunity to be seen. Let
us get behind you. Let's helpus help you. You know what I mean?
If that makes sense.
It does. Yeah.
We've been talking to TatumPolk. He's one of the founders and
director of operations for 314day. Tatum, any last words to encourage
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people to go to theseactivities and be a part of what
you guys have been doing for19 years?
Yeah. I say one. Yeah. Go tothestl.com 314day and see where you
fit. And if you don't fit,submit. Every year we take on what
you're. What is your culturedoing? How are you partying? How
are you giving back? Let ushashtag 314day. I spend probably
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a week or two looking athashtags from 314day and seeing how
other People celebrate it andwhat they're doing and where they
are and the things that theyenjoy and the things that they love
and how do they give back? Oneof the things we look Forward in
year 20 is a community cleanupday. Let's really focus on everybody.
Get a trash bag and just fillit up. Wherever you are, fill it
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up. When I was a kid, therewas a thing called Operation Brightside,
and we just. I remember my momused to say, hey, we're just gonna
go in the alley, and we'regonna pick up as much trash as possible.
And do you would be surprisedby the aesthetics of buildings or
the aesthetics of your community?
No kidding.
What kind of pride that putson you?
No kidding. I'm so with you.
Yeah. Clean up.
We have a thing called Leaveno Trace. Leave no trace.
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Can you teach that to my son?I'm like, I know exactly what you
ate today. I know exactly whatsocks you had on today.
Leave no trace. It's true.Yeah. Can I.
Absolutely.
If you're driving down 44 andyou get off at Jefferson.
Yeah.
The trash is amazing. Yeah, itis. It's sad. It is really sad to
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me. I don't know. People justthrow stuff out the window.
I remember.
What is that about?
I had a Facebook, like,argument almost. I'm sorry.
No, go ahead.
Somebody did it, and they'rein front of me, and I'm like, man,
what are you doing? What? Theycan't be that hard to wait till you
get to your destination.There's gonna be a trash can. There's
gonna be whatever.
Thank you.
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What's the deal? I know.
This is our city, man.
I don't understand that.
Somebody's got to pick it upor it just blows away.
Yeah.
You know, we have an alley,and I go back there, and I'm always
picking up junk. You're right.It looks great. It looks totally
different.
No, it's different sense of pride.
Absolutely. And absolutely.
Even though things might beold and rough when there's no trash,
it's a whole different.
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It's a little different.
It is. It's a whole differentthing. I am with you on this. I'll
come out and help you. I'll be here.
That's one of my things. I'mgonna probably adopt a highway this
year and get out there and dosome more work.
I don't know. There's a lot ofwork on 44.
I know. There's 70 is worse.
Is it?
Yes. Go 15 minutes that way.
All right. I haven't done it.
Yeah. Go from the arch to theairport. It's a tough ride, but it
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is, again, fixable.
It is. I wish somebody tell mewhat they're thinking when they're
just like driving it.
All those problems are fixableand they're not solely on our local
government. That's on people.You know what I mean? Take care of
things yourself, you know whatI mean? You can't. And I don't want
to go down the rabbit hole,but the reality is everybody should
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do their part.
I think that's evidenced by314 day. It's just not one person.
It's just not a few people.It's the community and it's everybody
being involved, supporting thecommunity, taking care of the community
and advocating for the community.
So let's hear it. That's pretty.
I have great inspiration rightin front of me here. Tatum, thanks
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for coming in St. Louis.
And tune it back anytime. Itwas great.
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Tune with Arnold Stricker andMark Langston. Wow. That was a really
fun time with Tatum and hisenthusiasm and energy. Mark for 314
day is just unbelievable.
They're doing a great thing.They really are. And I just wish
them all the luck, all thesuccess that they can have. I wish
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they'd do some big event.
Yeah. And that might be on thedrawing board for them. One of the
things and we alluded to this,we didn't allude to it, we did talk
about it was the fact thatsome smaller businesses and smaller
neighborhoods are doingsomething. And I wanted to go through
the schedule because if incase people are just listening, they
can't get to the website. Bythe way, the website folks, it's314day.org
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or you can get a listing ofevents@the STL thestl.com 314day
it's.
It's important to put the.
The STL. The STL.
Yeah. Not just STL. Right, theSTL. Okay.
And the other thing that Ireally enjoy is it's not one day
anymore. It's week ofactivities. This has already begun.
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But there's 314 day at CentralWest End Yoga. They're honoring small
businesses that way. The Imentioned this previously, 314 mile
self guided walk and bikerides on greenways that's sponsored
by the Great Rivers Greenway.They've plotted out seven 3.14 mile
routes across St. Louis City,St. Louis county and St. Charles
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County.
That's great. That's good for them.
Their Maryville BusinessSolutions, which is a student led
and faculty guided consultingInitiative is celebrating 314-day-by
offering complimentarycybersecurity audits for small businesses.
Okay.
Sugar witch. Which is. They'regoing to be doing a gooey butter
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cake ice cream sandwich.That's going on. It's bringing our
tried and true love to stl.The gooey butter cake ice cream sandwich.
The gooey butter cake wasn't enough.
I'm gonna make it a sandwich.And with ice cream. I'm getting fat
just thinking about it. Iknow. It's just.
Wow.
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Really?
I just rub it on my thighs andmy stomach.
My back.
Cliff cave branch of St. LouisCounty. The library is having a tell
us why you love St. Louis.It's part of their 314 day series.
There's the scavenger hunt.314 day scavenger hunt. St. Louis
County Library Rock Roadbranch. Search the Rock Road branch
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to find slices of STL tocreate your 314 day pie.
Yum.
The fluorescent branch of St.Louis County Library is find St.
Louis landmarks around thekids area of the Florissant Valley
branch. Then there's the redhot riplet pizza and wings at JJ
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Twigs here.
Where is there a JJ Twigs inSt. Louis?
5600 Hampton.
Is that right?
Yes. They've teamed up withOld Vienna to serve up some super
tasty specials.
Because I know the only JJTwigs I know of is at the Lake of
the Ozarks. Lake Ozark.
This one's closer. Mark.
No kidding. It's on Hampton.
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5600 Hampton.
Okay. That's a shameless plugfor them.
That's correct.
Wow.
You could get some beautifulfresh cut flowers to brighten Your
Day. And 314 Day. TheBotanicals Design Studio on South
Grand. They are sharing in thejoy of being a St. Louis homegrown
studio. The St. Louis CountyLibrary Mid county branch. They're
celebrating by having notableSt. Louis natives and landmarks in
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their scavenger hunt. And Icouldn't believe this one. You can
ride on Metro and get a freeone day adventure pass and custom
314 sticker designed by thepartners at STL Style House. That's
during the 11th through the 14th.
This is great.
Yeah.
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What other cities do this? Iknow they're trying to copy it but
no other cities are.
Yeah. And it's just not like aconcert. Like sometimes it's like
a street thing.
This is all overcollaboration. I've got like the
whole city.
Two more pages.
I want to hear some morebecause this is really nice.
The McDonald Planetarium 314day illumination at the planetarium.
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So the exterior of theplanetarium will be illuminated with
new colorful limited edition314 day. And that's part of the St.
Louis Science center in Forest Park.
I think that the challenge,and I think Tatum Polk is and. And
Dip are working on it, is toget the word out about all of these
activities that are going on.Yes, I think that's the challenge.
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One thing that lacks and maybeit's me not looking in the right
place, but is there a massivecalendar for all of these things
that happen in the city of St.Louis County? St. Charles county,
maybe on the east side too, sopeople can see and it might exist
and I just might not knowabout it.
That's a problem though, ifyou don't know where it is. Maybe.
What do they have? Get outmagazine and the Post. But nobody's.
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Nobody's getting out.
I know.
Or maybe they're getting outand going the wrong direction.
They're not getting out to getthe newspaper.
So here's 1314 happy hour atCafe La Vie. It's at the Meridian.
Meridian features a sweet menufor 314 day, including gooey butter
cake lattes, gooey butter cakeespresso martinis and a toasted ravioli.
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What?
What a perfect theme.
Yeah.
Just do the 314 menu. Menu.
Yeah.
Hot dogs, ice cream, bluebutter cake.
Pixie sticks, toasted ravioli.
Yeah, the whole.
That would be great. That's agreat idea.
Darn kitten caboodle.
That's a great idea.
Yeah, I know. This is the 314 menu.
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Some restaurants could gocrazy with it.
It's got to include pixie sticks.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
And those hot. Those hotpotato chips, whatever they're called.
Yeah.
All those things that should.As much as you can put in.
All you can eat. Pixie sticks.
Oh, my God. I can't imagine.What do you want? I want the ravioli.
Hot dog and ice cream withpixie sticks.
You remember those pixiesticks used to come in like orange.
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It was paper twirly the paperand the purple and the green.
And you had to be careful howyou open the top.
Yes.
And then squeeze it gently.Squeeze it. Make it round.
Because then you could get itall down.
And if you get any of yoursaliva on the end, it clogs it up.
Yeah.
You got to tear off the topand start over again.
Yeah, exactly. We're Pixy Stixexperts. One of our favorite places,
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Reedy Press. We do a lot ofshows of books and authors with Ready
Press.
They're doing books.
They have 30% off all theirbooks. Why not the biggest discount
of the year?
Perfect idea.
Yes. Flamingo bowl and pinupbowl bowling for $3.14.
See this? Why not? It'sspringtime. People want to get out.
(30:46):
Perfect time. Also, mini golfand shuffleboard at the Magic Mini
Golf in the loop. $3.14.
Ever been there?
I've not. I've been to the.
A lot of fun. Yeah, totally recommended.
Squire's Restaurant is havinglocal products for $3.14 all day
long. That's Dubuque wholebean coffee. See, we can add coffee
(31:07):
to this. We could add Dad'scookies to this also.
There you go. Ice cream andDad's cookies you could get.
Yeah.
And one of the Gus's pretzels.
Oh, we're going on and on.
Come on. I got it. We got a menu.
Oh, we do. And there's thesoda, Fritz.
Oh, Fitz's Soda.
Soda, right.
That's right. Fitz's. Oh, my.Is IBC made here?
(31:28):
I'm not sure IBC retail. Iknow. 7Up used to be. And Dr. Pepper
was exclusively made here.
Right. So you gotta use. Yeah,just hit those brands, too. Wow.
One of my favorite places toeat. Grace meat. And three Ricky's
got some specials offering anold Vienna chicken sandwich. For
314 days, guests can enjoy ared hot riplet marinated chicken
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breast, grilled and seasonedwith. You know what? What? Red hot.
Oh, the red hot old Vienna.Oh, treat me in St. Louis. The Weber
Road county branch is pickingup a passport of facts and locations
about local cuisine.
There you go.
The St. Louis county branch ofEureka Hills. It sounds like the
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library has really got. Ihaven't seen anything for the city
library here. Hello, CityLibrary. Central Library. I know
they have a lot of activities.I do get their calendar. But the
Eureka Hills branch. They sayshow some love to your favorite city
by making St. Louis themedbuttons. And the Jamestown Bluffs
branch of the St. Louis CountyLibrary. They're going to have a
scavenger hunt around theJamestown branch. Casa Don Alfonso's
(32:34):
elevated toasted ravioli andespresso martinis at the Ritz Carlton.
Whoa.
Those would be elevated HoityToity. You hold them up. Hoity Toity
Lion's Choice sandwiches. Youcan. St. Louis famous roast beef
chain will celebrate 314 dayby offering three OG sandwiches,
(32:55):
roast beef, turkey or ham foronly $14.
Oh, yeah.
Schlafly's Beer Brew Pubs.They're going to celebrate the St.
Louis holiday with a happyhour. It just goes on and on.
I like that it goes on and on.
I do, too. And this issomething that I think that both
Tatum and Dip have done isjust really let this thing just organically
(33:20):
grow.
Right.
And not to. And he was sayingjust stay out of the way. Let things
move along and.
Right.
I would love to see moreneighborhoods. I'd love to see some
City of St. Louis librarythings. Gentle hint nudge. Other
restaurants. I love your ideaabout the All St. Louis menu. I think
that's outstanding.
Oh, wouldn't that be great?
That'd be a park thing.
(33:41):
Oh, that'd be fun.
Yeah.
I want those chips, though. Ihad no idea ever since I tried those
chips. The Riplets.
Yeah.
Love them.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is.
Old Vienna.
Yeah. I didn't know. I had no idea.
I don't know why, but I thinkwe get used to our. We have patterns
and we like to go to certainplaces because they're familiar to
us. We don't like expanding.Some people don't.
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No tariffs.
No tariffs on 314 day.
Here we go.
Only in 314.
Here we go. 618 is going toput a tariff on it.
So we'll double the tariffback on 628.
Seven's gonna do.
Yeah. 401 7. Watch out.
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There's no 573, though.
Oh, yeah.
You can't.
You can't do it. Too bad youguys are out. You guys living in
the wrong area. Missouri.
I know. Okay.
All right.
Okay.
So, yeah, I think of Kansasarea codes. 913.
Oh, they're. Oh, no, that's good.
(34:45):
Yeah. Then there's a two.Begins with a two. But yeah, if you
got the 202.
Yeah, that's Washington, D.C.they could use.
Some help all year round.
They could use some brotherly love.
But don't go to Philadelphialooking for it. Wow.
Hands on those buttons, please.
But please don't pop thosebuttons until an answer is exposed.
(35:08):
That's going to lead us to ourword of the day.
Oh, great. Here we go.
If I can pronounce it, is itbrotherly love? Yeah. Philadelphia.
No.
Imperturbable.
Imperturbable.
Can I ask you how you spell that?
Yes, it is. I, M, P, E, R, T,U, R, B, A, B, L, E, P, L, A, Y.
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Imperturbable Imperturbable,let's say like you're imperturbable.
Okay.
Describes someone or somethingmarked by extreme calm, such as a
person or thing is very hardto disturb or upset. Like the imperturbable
disc jockey on public radiowill give you the news just like
(35:58):
this. The imperturbablecaptain of the Titanic did not panic
when the ship hit the icebergand sunk into the North Atlantic
icy water.
Big mistake.
Nothing disrupted thecontestants. Imperturbable focus
as the price was right.
(36:19):
Wow. Man.
I know.
The Titanic. I don't know. Somuch wrong there.
Okay, so imperturbable.
That's a great word.
Not getting upset. Beingextreme calm in a disturbing or upsetting
situation.
I try to be. Yeah, I try to becalm. It's hard to be calm sometimes.
(36:42):
I know. So we're talking about314 day in March. There's 311 day.
That's the rest assured thatall your non emergency services and
requirements will be met. 3 1.
So like being prepared forsome kind of disaster.
I say yeah. It doesn't fallunder the emergency category. If
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you have a legitimate questionabout something, you can. I think
you can dial 311 on yourphone. The 31 system. Exactly. It
helps residents report issues,find out about city services and
solve questions and thingslike that.
Never knew that.
Yeah. It's three and four.Dang. Yeah.
31 1.
(37:24):
31 1. I'm sorry. I'm all mixedup here with everything. I know.
National Dream day. Today.
I asked somebody, I said, areyou living the dream? And he said,
even nightmares are dreams.
How about Johnny Appleseedday? Remember him?
Yes, I do.
Yep. Johnny Appleseedintroduced the joy of apples. Do
(37:48):
you eat apples?
I in pie. I do.
Okay. Now this is. I don'tknow. I don't want to be mean to
these people, but NationalFuneral Director and Mortician Recognition
Day. I think it's importantthat we recognize them, but it gives
me the creeps.
I was trying to think of acomeback using the word embalm or
(38:09):
something like that.
Involving National Oatmeal NutWaffles Day. I know. Don't you like
those?
I like pecan waffles. I hadsome pecan French toast the other
day with strawberry glaze onit. Oh, that's really good.
Oh my gosh. World Plumbing Day.
Is this for businesses or building?
Commemorate the day that yourcities and towns always are sanitary.
(38:33):
And you should recognize yourplumber. If you're a plumber, you
should not bite Your fingernails?
No, no.
Just saying.
No. I don't know how thoseguys do it. They get down on their
knees and, man, my knees startto hurt.
That's why I get paid the big bucks.
Yeah.
And I. I'm all about it. Itotally understand.
(38:55):
I do, too.
I do. Don't tell my wife this,but it's national organize your home
office day. Oh, if you wouldsee my home office.
It's organized in a way thatyou know where to find things.
That's weird.
I. Yeah, no, I get that.
Organized chaos.
I get that.
Is it organized chaos?
Yeah, but I know where thingsare. It's not organized chaos, but
(39:16):
it's. I know where things are.Do you know I like to pile things.
National dream Day.
Yeah, you mentioned that one.
Did I mention that?
Even nightmares or dreams.
Really?
Yes.
Okay. Debunking day. Candebunk things.
Debunk that aren't facts.Facts that aren't facts.
The facts that aren't facts iswhat you want to. Yeah. You don't
want to.
Can I say something about that?
(39:37):
Oh, yeah, please.
In other words, folks, it'simportant to what's between your
ears really develop that. Andto. And we mentioned this on previous
shows, that sometimes peoplewill listen to one media channel,
but I like to read and listento them all. It gets. Helps me, like,
wow, they're really out thereon that. Or they're really out there
(39:57):
on that. And there is actuallya website that says where all the
media outlets are as far asbeing center or left or right. Really,
the visual. They have theiricon, their little emblem, where
they are in relation to what'scenter and what's left and what's
right. So it's very interesting.
Never seen that. I'd like tosee that, though. Coming up this
(40:19):
week, Dow National WorkingMoms Day. Yes, they are. That's the
toughest job.
Our guest last week wrote abook on working moms.
That's true. Let's see. Therewas another one here. Alfred Hitchcock
day is coming up.
Ooh, we should have that.
(40:39):
Do you remember that? Yes, Iknow. I do, too. Baked scallops Day.
Do you like scallops?
Oh, yes.
Okay.
Yes.
I'm about done here.
Especially with just on somebutter and international.
Every girl Wednesday.
Every Girl Wednesday.
Wednesday. Stand up for womenaround the world for equality, better
(40:59):
health care, education,economic literacy.
Yes, There's a lot of thatwith the 314 day. Also some celebrations
and things that women aredoing with that.
All right, that's good.Earmuff Day. I don't know why they
have an earmuff Day in March.
Unless it's Alaska.
(41:19):
Could be. Could be NationalGood Samaritan Day.
Every day should be.
It should be. You're right. Itshould be. Every day should be a
Good Samaritan Day. NationalOpen Umbrella Indoors Day. Did you.
It's like walking under aladder in front of a black cat.
(41:42):
Were you always told, don'topen that up? Don't open the umbrella
up inside. It's bad luck.
I've heard that, but I. I open.
It up to dry it out and Ishake it.
Yeah.
Open it and close it real fast.
Yes.
Gets everywhere. It's like,why. Why did I even try?
Hey, maybe you're one of thoseprolific new artists.
(42:03):
Yeah, this is my day. Smartand sexy day. That's me.
Everybody should feel that wayabout themselves.
Popcorn lovers. Shake. Ispopcorn good for you? I don't know.
It is. I don't eat it becauseof my teeth.
It gets.
You get one of those. What arethey called? Maids that didn't pop.
Do you call the.
Oh, is that what they call them?
(42:23):
Yeah. Call them old.
I never knew that.
And you crunch on that. Andpoo. Poo.
It's the skin on the kernel that.
Gets in between your teeth.
The gum in my teeth. Yeah.
Time to floss, though. Alwayshave to floss after eating popcorn.
Oh, my gosh.
Caramel corn with the. Now,this is big. Where is this? I'm trying
(42:45):
to remember. I don't know ifit's Nolan's caramel. Caramel corn
and cheese corn together. No,it's Chicago. Oh, yes. They have
a mixes of that. And it waskind of weird, the history of that,
which I don't recall, Ithought was fascinating when I heard
it.
But it's caramel corn.
You eat caramel corn andcheese. Corn that has a lot of cheese
(43:06):
on it.
Together.
Together.
Oh, they mix them up.
It's really good.
That sounds pretty good.
It's really good.
One last one here.International School Meals Day.
School Meals Day.
Yeah. So there. That's a thingof the past, I think. But I remember
in Washington right now.
We had a school called theYellow Meal.
Ooh, that's scary.
And the brown meal.
Oh, that's even scarier.
(43:28):
And if you got it on a yellowtray or a brown tray. Oh, my gosh.
Really?
Talk about monochromatic.
So they had two differentmeals. One was on a brown.
It would be a different day.They had tacos.
Oh, I see.
And then they have corn withthe taco. And then maybe they'd put
an orange on there so it's allthe same hue.
Cold corn.
Yeah. Or then they'd have the.The brown meal might be brown rice
(43:48):
and chicken or something. And then.
Yeah, it's just like I. Idon't miss those days.
No, I don't either.
I know Mark.
People who work in a bank.It's a very ungrateful job. A lady
asked me to check her balance,so I pushed her over. I got fired.
I have pictures of food in myphone here today. I found that if
you treat others how theytreat you, they seem to get very
(44:10):
upset. Okay, I've said thatone already. That one would not work.
That one would not work. Wayback into the Here we go. I asked
the kid working at McDonald'sif the Shamrock shakes were made
(44:31):
with fresh shamrocks. He wentto ask the manager. So somebody said,
tell me your wildest fantasy.Sleeping through the night and waking
up to a clean house, a fitbody, no wrinkles, laundry done and
put away. A full on buffetbreakfast. Breakfast with no calories
(44:53):
and a million bucks in my purse.
Yep.
Did you know that golf is theadult version of an Easter egg hunt?
No.
At least for some people it is.
Oh, never mind.
I got a call from atelemarketer and he said he couldn't
(45:14):
understand me. I told him topress 1 for Eng. A wife, being the
romantic sort, sent herhusband a text. If you are sleeping,
send me your dreams. If youare laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me abite. If you are drinking, send me
(45:34):
a sip. If you are crying, sendme your tears. I love you. The husband,
typically non romantic,replied, I am on the toilet. Please
advise. Principal says, hey,your child has been causing problems
in school. I said, my childcauses problems at home too. Do I
(45:56):
ever call you? All right, herewe go.
There's more.
I can't wait to retire so Ican get up at 6:00 in the morning
and go drive around reallyslow and make everybody late for
work.
I know those people get behindthem every day.
(46:17):
I'm so single right now that Istood on a cliff and shouted I love
you. And my echo replied, Ijust want to be friends.
Sounds like my younger yearsbefore I got married.
Let's see here. I don't alwayslose stuff, but when I do, it's because
(46:39):
my wife moved it.
We like that one.
I'm on a light diet. I eat bydaylight, moonlight and sometimes
refrigerator light.
Give that another one.
I'm in a Walmart parking lotwatching a woman who can't remember
where she parked. And everytime she holds her remote in the
(47:00):
air, I honk my horn. Now, thisis not me, folks. I didn't make this
one up, folks. But remember,when you're dead, you don't know
you're dead. It's only painfulfor others. The same applies when
you're stupid.
(47:23):
Wow. That's good. Lesson well learned.
Breaking news. The Earthrevolves around the sun. This may
upset a few people who thinkit revolves around them.
Yep.
(47:43):
While Facebook was down, Imanaged to meet my family. They're
actually quite nice people. Sothere's this husband and wife. They're
looking out the window, andthe husband says, oh, no, our neighbor
died. And the wife says, who?Ray? And the husband says, I don't
(48:05):
think cheering is appropriate. Karen.
I knew it. I knew as soon asyou said it. Oh, man.
So this guy and his gal aremeeting, and he goes, my name is
Justin. She says, okay, but Ididn't ask. He said, just in case.
Wow. Wow.
(48:28):
And jellyfish have survived650 million years despite not having
a brain. This gives hope to somany people.
Oh, gosh. Okay.
Oh, my.
Yeah, that's a. Oh, my isright. Oh, my.
I want to encourage everyone,everyone to go to the STL.com 314day
(48:52):
or go to the314Homepage314day.org and that's
314day.org or the T-H-E-S-TL.com that's it. So that's all for
this hour. We want to thankyou for listening, folks. If you've
enjoyed this episode, you canlisten to additional shows@stlntune.com.
consider leaving a review onour website, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser,
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reach more listeners andcontinue to grow. Want to thank Bob
Berthasel for our theme music,our guest, Tatum Polk and co host,
Mark Langston. And we thankyou for being a part of our community
of curious minds. St. Louis intune is a production of Motif Media
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Louis in Tune, I'm Arnold Stricker.
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