Friiday, June 30, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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And right now I am informed bymy illustrious partner here, Scotty, that
there's a rainbow out there this morning. Wow, hey, Scott, I'm
gonna was it? Was it abrilliant rainbow or how what was it?
It is a beautiful rainbow. Itkind of kind of arcd up and over
Starbucks, you know, oh overStarbucks? What are you getting a freak

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cup of coffee this morning? No? No, but no, it was
a beautiful rainbow. And uh yeah, I mean what a great time to
have a rainbow, right, So, I mean if you're if you're retiring,
the day you're retiring, you geta rainbow in the sky. Things
can't be that bad. I thoughtthere'd be thunderstorms and you know, all
kinds of bow weather mornings. Thenice thing about today, Scott, is

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I do not see and that's notto say there's still isn't some hazard out
there, but I'm not seeing thequality air hazard today, which is the
first day and in quite a fewYeah, yeah, there's a blessing.
Yeah, it's been a hard gothere. The air quality today is what
they call moderate and reading at seventytwo a UV index will still be high.

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Even though there's a thread of thundershowers at nine, and thank goodness,
the grass pollen is still staying upthere. And yeah, I don't
know about you, but the pollen'skind of beat me up the last few
days to have to take care ofthat with anahistamine or whatever you want to
call him. Yeah, anahistamine,uncultistamine, anybody like that. But anyway,

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sixty seven degrees out there right now, we are calm as far as
the wind goes, skies are I'mgonna call mostly cloudy at the moment,
and looking for that high today ofeighty four. Wow do you think that
that week you up there? Scott? Yeah, it does weak you up,
doesn't it? Good upbeat song forthis morning? And I was telling

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Scott the beatbox guy whoa impressive Itwas very impressive. They had a camera
on him while we were doing therea cappella and he was working. I
mean, he had to be sweatingby the time that was over, but
he put all those sounds down andI don't know how they do it.
I where in life did you everthink about being a beatbox guy? Maybe?

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I mean he is saying, yeah, I can't sing, and not
once has occurred to me to makebeatboxing my profession. Yeah, I wonder
where in your life do you beget to do that? I mean,
I've played around with different noises andthings I think everybody does at some point
in life, you know, allthose things. And what was the champagne

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corks sound? Was the the thingthat we did with the finger in the
mouth. Have you ever done thatone? There you go? Yeah,
yeah, nice, yeah, notbad. Still can do it, that's
right. My mouth hasn't stretched outthat much over these years, that's for
sure. But anyway, good morningto you, Welcome to the day,
new mall, the last day forme mel in the morning here on fourteen

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thirty Kasi, and I call itbitter sweet, and it's an end in
the beginning for me, an endof an era, I guess, if
you want to refer to it thatway, in the beginning of retirement,
which I have been everything, includingapprehensive about. But so many nice people

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out there, so many of theretired people I have run across through here,
said you'll be all right, giveyourself a couple of months acclimate,
you know, get get set intoit, and then you'll figure out what
you want to do. But Iknow what I don't want to do.
I don't want to say goodbye,and I'm not and I'll say I'm as
far as airwaves go. Yes,obviously I'm not going to be on the

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radio anymore, but I'm not goingto say goodbye because I'm gonna be here
in town and I'll have the opportunity, and I hope I'm good with this
to meet a lot of people outthere, maybe make some new acquaintances,
new acquaintances of old friends, isthe way I put it. Um listeners

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out there, there's over these manymany years, talk to a lot of
people on the phone and regularly orsomething, but we've never met face to
face. And now I hope toget the opportunity to do that with some
of them coffee clashes. I'm goingto try and find myself a nice coffee
clash to hook onto, uh youknow, morning coffee with some folks or

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something, just kind of hash thingsover. And the one thing I think
I get to do, I thinkI get to complain. Oh yeah,
before you just yeah the field complaints, but well yeah, I mean right
now, yeah, you get tocomplain and people hear it. Yeah,
I mean the problem with retirement.As far as I see, it is
fewer people. Hear you complain,right, well, yeah, but you

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complain more, all right. That'ssort of the sliding scale. As we
get older, we complain about everything. That's our job. I hope people
realize that it isn't we want to, it's our job. It's part of
the description. I had to learnhow to and I've said this many times.
I had to learn how to sitfurther down in my car seats so
just the top of my head showsup so they know I'm old, and

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you know I'm cramped over that steeringwheel. And my god, I'm gonna
do fifteen miles an hour if Iwant to. All of those things.
I got all those privileges coming upnow and looking forward to it, I
really am. And boys, melgonna cash him in. Oh man,
I am out there. I'm thisis my revenge tour coming up, right.

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Yeah. No. I take greatsoulace in the fact that I've lived
in this town for so many yearsand my plans are to finish out my
years here, and it's comforting.I don't know about some people are retiring
and moving off to I'm moving outof Florida. I've headed with these Iowa

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winners or something I would the winters, and now that I don't have to
go out at him, they'll beeasier to take. I think the weather,
the people and everything, and blessedto me in a town like this,
as so many people. It's notjust me. I used to think
it was just me looked through rosecolored glasses, but there's so many people

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I talked to here that are justthankful every day for where they are.
I was down at a local cigardispensary the English Bulldog here on Kellogg and
was talking to that gentleman there,and he is not from here. I

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think he said Wisconsin or something likethat was where he grew up or something,
but was telling me how much heappreciated this city and how much it
made him feel at home the minitystepped foot in it, and how kind
it's been to him. And Ithought, boy, your story. I've
heard your story a thousand times frompeople, especially people who come back after

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going out testing their wings. Alot of those are young people graduated from
Iowa State and said, well,I'm gonna find someplace else or I don't
want to live in Iowa any moreany kid looks off to other horizons.
I think, I said, theyget older, but when they come back,
you really realize what you've got.And now it's going Scott, you

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had a chance to meet my daughterthe other day. I did yesterday while
you guys were calling the game.Yeah, yeah, she's she's a sweetheart.
Thank you. Yeah you talk abouther and els and oh yeah.
I don't have the opportunity to meetEllis. But if he's half as good

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as your daughter and yourself, he'sin real trouble. Daughter, I'll go
with me. He's in trouble,but I would tell you tomorrow's special day
there too. Alice goes for hisfirst haircute. My wife and my daughter
are taking him for his first haircut, which is kind of funny because three

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days ago, the other kids indaycare, who have a little bit older
and a little bit more hair thanmy grandson asked they had their hair put
up in ponytails, and my daughterhad to endeavor. He just insisted that
he needed a ponytail. So Idon't know what she made on the back
of his head, but it's sufficedhim that he had a ponytail. And

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I thought, boy, now you'regonna get all that cut off and that's
not My wife says, well,it's about time he needs to look like
a boy. I said, helooks like a boy to me, when
are you talking about? And whatdoes that have to do with your hair
anymore? I mean, you lookat these young people, you young people
dead gum you uh you know,but the long hair is fashionable again.

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What was fashionable for me to say? Well, you had long hair?
At one point I cleared down onmy hine, um, and uh,
I enjoyed it. It was abit of a caretaking thing, but uh
and wished I had it back now. But but I will tell you the
young people of the day, alot of the young people hair hair hair.

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You're well, you're an example,not so much your hair, but
your beard, facial hair out therenow, um and then the long hairs
back again. And I always rememberhow you tell your boy or a girl
you can't tell from behind when they'rewalking there. And I did, well,
I said, I disagree. Ithink women have a certain gait about

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them that's a giveaway. But butyeah, I can't take that road.
I can't wait. Get your haircut, you punk, you know,
not going to do that. It'sfunny because it brings home the realization of
what my stepdad went through when Igrew my hair and being a World War

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Two veteran and what it represented atthe time was a bit of a form
of protest, et cetera, andthe difficulty he had and the many verbal
exchanges he and I had, andpart of it was over hair, and
I was the full blown, longhaired, bearded guy. Hippie. Hippie

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is my dad. We call behippie, you hippie. I guess that
was a curse, not so muchanymore, I don't think. Man.
You know, at the time,from what I understand and from what I
don't know, it's one of thosethings that just depends on who's calling you
hippie. It was in the tonein which they use. You could be
a hippie and you could be allright, and then you could be a
dirty hippie, you know, youdirty scumbag hippie, and all depending on

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who was saying it. Yeah,just like today, you know it is.
And I will say this much.Some people can carry the long hair
look and others can't. They justjust doesn't fit their facial shape or something
that is all putting about it.But as my wife said, you have

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grown mellow over the years. Shesays, I remember you're talking about it.
I can't believe she's got pink hair. What didn't that Heck, look
blue hair? What is that?That's reserved for the old gals out there?
Look blue hair, they used tocall them. But now I it
doesn't strike me anymore. And I'vejust grown used to it and taking the

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philosophy of you know what, yougot to be you. If being having
pink hair is part of you,then more power to you. If you
like that look or it's comfortable andyou're pleased with yourself, none of my
business. Yeah, I will showyou the same respect. And I show
somebody with dark hair or gray hair, or any kind of hair out there,

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except the blondes. You know,they're dumber and a fence post.
No, boy, that was aI think about those periods of times,
and a lot of folks will rememberPolish jokes when they came out, all
the ethnic jokes that came out,all the blonde jokes that came out.
We've gone through some over the years, that's for sure. All right,
six twenty nine. You know whatagain, I keep the tradition alive.

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I've talked longer than I should,and we will roll into a break and
do the birthday club right after that. Mel in the morning of fourteen thirty
k SI along with my protege ScottKovac Kovac and he's ready to take your
birthdays right now. Yeah, hereare the birthday rules. If you are

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born today, you know June gotJune thirty. If already, oh thanks,
that is the retirement date for oneMel Crippen. We'll get into that
in a second. But if youhave a what's that county there is if
you if you want to reach outwith a birthday on today's day, feel
free, could be yours, couldbe someone else's. All you gotta need

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to do is give us a call. Five one, five two three two,
fourteen thirty is the number, andwe'll go ahead and put that name
in the raffle, and if yourname is drawn out of the hat,
we'll go ahead and gift a freebirthday cake or bouquea balloons from one or
the other of your aims high vs. Again. Five one, five two
three two fourteen thirty is the numberto call. I'll tell you what we

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will take those birthdays up through Julyfourth. Oh, that's right, Yeah,
extend a weekend. Yeah. Iwas gonna say, we won't be
here Monday. I won't be hereever again. But anyway, Yeah,
we could have made the holiday forfourteen thirty on Monday and on the fit
of fourth of July. Obviously nothere, so you can call it in

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the birthdays from Tune thirtieth through thefourth of July. Today, we'll get
him listed and we will draw alittle bit after eight thirty this morning for
a couple of winters of a birthdaycake or balloon bouquet. Once more of
that number five on five two threetwo, fourteen thirty. Take your umbrella

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with you this morning. I've justfired up SI scan radar there. What
do you think Scott's looking like?It could be pretty rough out there as
far as Yeah, it's gonna bewet out there, no severe weather expected
today. But I will tell youI was looking off to the west and
even north and south of us.We are surrounded at this moment thanks to

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the nuclear bubble we live in,but we are surrounded by showers and books
like some thunderstorms off to the westaround gut three Center and Anita Ottoman just
north as Stewart. But here itlooks like mainly just rain, moderate too,
maybe a little heavy boon right nowgetting some rain. Nevada North Nevada

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might be getting a touch of rain. State Center. I just had a
shower, moved through ancony with rain, des Moines some rain, and within
the next oh I would say thirtyto forty minutes, it'll be raining here.
And it looks if this all holdstogether like it could be a very

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rainy Friday here in La A lovelyAmes and your weather report brought you by
Converse Conditioned Air for maintenance or unplannedservice. Give them a call at twenty
four seven to Converse Conditioned Air atfive one, five, two three two
nine eight one two six forty sixmel in the morning, Scott Kovac Kovacs

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me this morning, my last day. I'm just sitting here thinking it's the
last time to go down those stairs. Here just a little bit up here
on the second floor is like mychallenge every day because they don't do stairs
as well, and they scare me. But every day I had to face
those fifteen I know how many theyare, oh, counting them, I

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had to yeah, you know,I was near the top and then I
would plant my fag. So that'swhat all those things are. It's kind
of funny. As we talked aboutmy daughter coming in and clearing off my
awards and some nice cards for people, etc. Taking them home, and
she was crying on the phone tomy wife. She says, it just
didn't I didn't like it. Itwas you know, I didn't realize.

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You know, Dad had so manyawards and things. I'm not bragging,
by the way, awards. Thereare honorariums as far as I'm concerned from
a lot of folks out there thatI deeply appreciate it. And I spent
a lot of humble time here atthis station, thanks to you folks.
But she says, yeah, shesaid it was like putting Dad's life in

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a box. Oh, mine,that seems a little yeah over the top
there. Oh, I don't know. I see, this is the first
time I've met her. Yeah,and she seems like a real sweetheart.
So either she did something right oryou didn't make too many mistakes. Her
mom's daughter. But I would saythis much. I told her I should

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just tell her putting Dad's memories ina box it's a lot better than putting
dad in a box. Oh man, that's kind of grim. Yeah it
is. Mel. I wanted tosay something though I've I've worked with you
here. I haven't worked with youas long as so many people have.
You've had so many people that havebeen with you twenty, twenty five,
even thirty years in the community.But over the past year and three months

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I've had the privilege of getting toknow you really well. I think it's
fair to say, in terms ofhours knowing Mel, I'm really near the
top and being here in three hoursevery weekday morning with you, I'm just
really grown to appreciate what you do. And just you know, all these
people have been saying, you know, Mela pillar in the community, and

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all right, that's true, that'strue. But let me tell you it's
a lot of fun here on weekdayin mornings, and a lot goes on
that's not on air, a lotof jokes and yeah, let me tell
you I'll be blackmail later and againa big slice of humble from my good
friend here, Scott Kovac. ButScott, I want to tell you this
much. If you'd asked me ayear ago or a couple of years ago

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whether I would ever have a morningsidekick, I never anticipated one. I
always thought I'd be doing a solojob through my career, and when you
came on board, it's one ofthe best things that happened to me.
It was nice to have somebody tobounce ideas off of and somebody who is
intelligent, lippy. You know,Hey, they're buddy, hard work and

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it's been my privilege in honor,and I'm so glad that you came into
my life and you did it yearor more. And uh, I'll miss
you in the mornings, Pale.I'll give you a call you should.
You should find out find out ifI have a landline anymore. No,
I don't have one of those.You'll have to give me a call on
a cell phone. But mel I, I really appreciate again so much you've

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done. I can't list it alloff, and the amount of time we
have left in this hour, butI'm really looking forward to well. While
I'll be behind the board here operating, if you're gonna have a great time,
I think they're out at the waterPlant for your final breakfast club.
And if you haven't been to abreakfast club, this is your last chance
to do that. So you needto get out to the water water plant

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pollution treatment controlled thing. Uh,you got a head out there and see
Mel and talk to Mel. I'msure you've heard him on the air for
years. Now as your chance toput a face with a long time name.
It's making him a long time name. My other partner for seventeen years,
Dave Sprau, our sports director.It is also his last day here

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and he will be out at thewater plant with me. He's been kind
enough to go out and set itup for me. I've waited years for
him to do that. But hisparting gift to me, I guess.
But also Dave will be I I'llcall it retiring, but headed off to
other horizons and a good chance tosay thank you to him with all his
sports and local sports and and keepingit real. He'll be out there today,

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so please take the opportunity you alsothank him. Six fifty one.
I'll put some music in your ear. I'm so sentimental and maudlin today.
Understand why I chose this BC andall the old man you'll plays that this

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hard mind embraces all day through thatsmall cafe the park across the way,

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the Children's Carouster, the Chestnut Treatment, lu wishing Well, and I be
seen in every lovely summer's day,in everything that's bride and gay. I'll

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always think of you that way.I'll find you in the morning sun and
where nighties new. I'll be lookingat the moon. Oh, b be

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seeing you in every lovely summer stay, in everything that's bright and gay.
I'll always think of you that way. I'll find you in the morning sun

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and where I'll be looking at them, but I'll be seen. That's double

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meaning for me out there. Ifelt I'll be seeing you because I'm writing
off into the sunset, but I'llstill be here in town. And secondly,
I chose that for a reason becauseof who sings it. And I
have to send that out to JerryDerner and Lynne Scarlett, who are big
Berry Manilow fans. And I waschoosing that song today. It's done by

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several artists, and I thought,this is my last shot and giving those
two wonderful women. They're Berry Manelofixed, they are big Berry Manalow fans.
And I found it by Barry Manilow, and I said, this is
for Lynn and Jerry. This morningso thank you gals for all your support
over the years. And and funpeople to know, just absolutely fun people

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to know. And sheeeesh. AsI am in my last minute before the
bumper plays me out here, Ijust want to say thanks to all of
you. I'll say it again lateron this morning, but I hope to
see you if you can stop bythe open Mouth at the Water Treatment and
I'll be doing the Breakfast Club secondaryday thirty eight thirty till about ten.

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Will be out there. We'll talk, we'll say can, we'll hug,
we'll do what we had to do. I'm Bell in the morning, turning
it over to Captain Covac right hereat fourteen thirty years. Hey, hey,
yes, news Talk fourteen thirty KasimMeling. No wait, I'm not
Meling the morning. Look. Ohthat's just not cool. Uh. This

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is Dave Mel's here. It isthe final edition of the Breakfast Club,
and I want to make sure thateverybody's listening. Nos, if you haven't
heard yet, that everybody is invitedout here to the water Plant to say
so long to Mel and wish himwell in his retirement. Whether you want
to come on and promote anything ornot, You don't have to be on
the radio or anything. If youjust want to say hi to Mel,
this morning's a great chance to doit and say thanks to Mel for three

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decades of service. The metal metaldetector set up. Yeah, yeah,
we're good to go. Security isgood. Yeah, well I'm here,
so obviously security is good. Well, at least I know you can run
fast anyway, you know. Withthat being said, speaking of security,
let's get some secure birthdays in there, and Scott, Yeah, David,

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I'm going to pass it off toyou to do the hi Vy Birthday Club.
Go ahead, all right? Ontoday's date cyclone, Jerry is eighty
four today. Wow, you gottaput a shout out. He doesn't look
at day over eighty two and ahalf. I gotta say, I's gonna
guess ninety. But well, Jerry, you've you've got some well wishers here.

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We also have Keith Sampson, whosebirthday is on Sunday, and right
now, those are the only twonames in the raffle. We're also taking
birthdays for Monday and Tuesday next weeksince their holidays, so keep that in
mind if you want to call ina birthday for the Hivey Birthday club five
one, five, two, threetwo, fourteen thirty is a number today
forget anything. Mo. No,all right, I'm ready to take over

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your show. Oh wait, no, I'm not gonna do that. In
fact, I'm leaving right now.I gotta know I'm gonna stay here.
But anyway, come on out.Love to see you. I'd love to
put a face with your name oryour voice phone voice that I know.
And we'll be out here until aboutten o'clock this morning. So birthday or
birthday club Breakfast Club boy for thirtyyears. Yeah, Breakfast Club begins right

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after this news breaks on the griddle, as dropped that battery into that hot
butter brown and brown piping hot likeas not what we got as hotcakes buffing
up fluffy and sweet. Now wenow the morning at fourteen thirty k is

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I welcome to the Breakfast Club,my house to Breakfast Club. And yeah,
bitter sweet, but really sweet becauseof all the great guests that we
have and folks that have stopped by, and none any more important. And
I see that tongue in cheek,but anyway, rush minutes, rush minutes

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is a time for it. Andabout twenty years ago we haven't we haven't
figured that out yet, Jeff.Have we how long ago? It was
pretty close to twenty years ago.I'm I'm pretty sure that. Yeah.
Jeff and I, as I mentioned, were it was over at a party
at Jeff's house and he and Iwere talking that evening and I said,

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you know, all the big stationshave got rush hour reports, but we
don't have that much traffic for cryingout loud. And I had looked out
my window one morning and I saidseven thirty and I looked out, and
the cars are lined up, Andat seven thirty five there was like no
cars out there. And I thought, well, Jeff, what do you
think, give me a call toMARM. We'll do a rushmanist report.

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And by golly, we thought thoughtof it as a little bit of a
lark. Thought it'd be a dayor two or something like that, and
lo and behold, Mary Greeley MedicalCenter heard it, liked it, and
we were on the air. Myfriend. Yes, And it's been every
day since then, or at leastevery weekday since then. But it's gone
through a couple of different people atthe police department, a couple, well
quite a few actually, probably boughttwenty if you count them all up.

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But yeah, I really thought asa joke this was going to last a
couple of days, and it's unbelievablethat it's lasted twenty years. It really
has, And it's always been fun. It's been informative sometimes, you know,
we could record it and then justplay it back each and every day,
but there are times that we've gottensome important notices out, et cetera,

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and let people know about some ofthe local crime waves that we're going
on. I think car burglaries arethe one of the first ones, are
the worst ones I think of.But yeah, it's it's been a lot
of fun. And I said it, and I was just pointing out that
if you want to go anywhere inthat police department, you've got to do
rush minutes. And I say thatbecause the whole supervisory staff right now,

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current staff, has done rush minutes. I think that's probably true. That
definitely is the secret to my successwas rush minutes and leave it or not.
The other reason I'm here today,and I think you can see it,
is I've got an award for youfrom the police department. And I
appreciate that he would give me asecond. I'd love to read it on
the air. Okay, can Ido that all right? Right? Yeah,

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So I didn't bring my reading glasses, so I got to hold it
a little further way. For morethan thirty two years, Mel has hosted
his show on KUSI Mel in theMorning, which has been a focal point
for community awareness and outreach. Melinvited the Games police representatives for Ames Rushman
It's a segment dedicated to public safety. Mel worked with his self proclaimed LAPD

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standing for Lovely Aimes Police Department toget vital information to the public. His
positive affirmation of the police department helpedbuild community relations and bring awareness to issues
ranging from motor vehicle accidents to burglaries. His quick witted responses and comedic twists
kept listeners interested in public safety initiativeswhich otherwise may not have garnered their interest.

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Mel's advocacy and support for his communitywas never more apparent than his consistent
dedication to local causes that benefited somany. He was instrumental in raising funds
for so many great APD charities eventsto include Shop of the Cop and the
Aimes Fly in the Aimes. ThePolice Department recognizes Mel Crippen with the Outstanding
Citizen Award for going above and beyondthe call of an ordinary citizen. I'm

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trying to gather myself. That meansso much to me and oh my,
this is Oh bless your hearts andoh thank you so much. That literally
is from everybody at the police department. You've meant so much to all of

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us. You've helped us raise fundsfor Shop of the Cop which has just
been an important, incredibly important thingfor the community over the years, and
a lot of other things that you'vedone, and out in the cold with
the truck trying to collect changes,people went by, and so we just
want to make sure that it's recognizedhow much you've meant to the police apartment.
And we're gonna miss We're gonna missyou, We're gonna miss Rushman.

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It's you're not gonna miss me becausethere's a lot of cops that can tell
you. Whenever I see one ofthe cars pulled over, I pull over
and we have a conversation. That'sfor sure. I get caught up.
And it's a family for me.It's been a family affair of my wife
of course, on the department forsome retiring from the department, and has
meant so much to me to knowthe officers, to know their families and

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to know did some of the greatestpeople around. Tough job, and it's
gotten tougher over the years, Iwill say that, but always managed to
come to the forefront with caring,with community relationships, working hard to make
people realize that there's people under thoseuniforms that need to go home safe every

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night and make us safe every dayand night. And Jeff, I can't
say enough. And like I say, you guys won't be strangers with me.
I've got a fact has invited meat some time to come in and
meet some of the new officers,which I don't know. I have a
strange way of approaching the officers.They're out there at three o'clock in the

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morning sometimes when I'm driving by,and I'll pull up because I know I
don't know them. And I rememberone morning I pulled up and one of
the officers was going in the door, and I rolled down my window and
I yelled out, hey, Pig, not a way. Did you want
to introduce yourself to a new officer? Yeah? And he looked a little
apprehensive as he approached my car.There, but I realized to him and

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I explained, and I did thisto you years ago, and I said,
pig, it was its professionalism,intelligence and gallantry is what that stands
for for me. So anyway,but yeah, the new officers, maybe
not. We've got a lot ofnew people. And again you've made our

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job easier by helping us get ourmessages out. So I can't thank you
enough. And I'm I think everybody'sreally gonna miss Rush Minutes. Well we
are, and I will tell youthis much. What's the report today?
Well, it's raining out, soyou gotta be a little bit careful.
If you're out today, you gotto give yourself a little more stopping distance.
If you're out, got a littlebit of construction around anames you want

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to be aware of, So slowdown, get off your phone, and
spend a little less time on socialmedia. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Chief of the LAPD Jeff Huff ThanksJeff, Thank you. Mel you
bet you we're gonna take a break. Remember Rush Minutes is brought to you
by Mary Greeley Medical Center, doingwhat's right. Are you ready? They're

(34:44):
ready for you, Melo in themorning. I'm fourteen thirty. Let's get
to my first guest here, Hey, rating your last day here at mel
in the morning to what we talkabout long time relationships the amcacs. Of
course I was a member many manyyears ago before I was ever on radio.

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But seeing the fine work that theydid and continues to Mike is shorting
on and I'm gonna have to changeMike's here when we get to break.
But anyway, and the great communityefforts that you guys make, and you
found a fun way to raise money. How long doing the half show?

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This is our twentieth year. Weare just wrapping up tonight as the final
concert of the twentieth year. Away to wrap it up because with a
group it's been playing all those twentyyears, It's true. Yeah, we
got to Saucy Jack. It's beenI believe twenty five years for them that
they've been performing. So I heara rumor that they're bringing some charter buses
down from Fort Dodge. They've gota tremendous follow mats for sure. Of

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course they have to bring people infrom out of town. No, not
really, but I will tell youright now that each one of the groups
over there, and I want peopleto know that you don't just walk up
and say we want to play canwe play? No you audition and this
is a very professional operation, professionaland fun and casual and a gathering place

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for folks, whether you're meeting oldfriends or making new friends. Absolutely,
it's a great way to come outand support the community and what the jc's
do and maybe we'll get a fewfew new members of those that want to
help the community do positive things well. Tonight, unfortunately, is the last

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night. This is the final performanceof this season and Saucy Jack of course
on stage, but so many otherthings going on at the same time.
Yeah, we've got United Way whowill be there as our nonprofits come out
support them. They support a lotof organizations here in Story County. We

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also have Carlos Casts and we needWonderland that will be providing food for everyone,
So come on out. We needWonderland. How about that. It's
really good food. I had notheard of them until we started planning for
this and had it and it's absolutelyincredible. Yeah, there you go,
good choice out there, good music, good company, reasonably priced. It

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is five dollars to get in.Children twelve and under are free and we
have twenty bucks get you in thedoor, and three adult beverages and to
tell you what, five until eighto'clock tonight. Now I've got to ask
you, say, have to askyou this all season, and I'm pretty
sure we're going to be all righttonight. Do you have a rain location?

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I know you guys have had rainlocations before, but do you have
an official one? Now? Wedo not, but I checked the forecast
and it's supposed to be eighty twoand Sonny, there you go, there
you go, just six years olderthan me. Eighty two and Sonny,
So look for a great night outat the Benshill last night, to get
together with those old friends, newfriends and everybody. Enjoy great community.

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Yeah, the kids can come downas long as they've got a guardian our
parents, so you got no excuses. Get on down to Aames on the
half Shell tonight and if you wouldfor me, please hug a JC.
Tell them you appreciate it all thatthey do for this community and enjoy half
shall tonight. Thanks Joe, Thanksso we appreciate it. You're more than

(38:37):
welcome. All right, let's seehere, Gracie, come on over.
I know well, you know youdon't move fast for your age. You
know that, don't you. Anyway, Grace Raccoon is here with me the

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amazing Grace Lemonade. Yes, eventhough it's a few weeks away, we
want to make sure we get thepublicity on it, because best show,
young lady that I've known how manyyears we've been doing this. Oh,
I think since I was in middleschool. Yeah. Yeah, And here
she is all graduated and working andgetting ready to continue her education. But

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she also continues in a great effortto support the Blank Memorial Hospital children's hospital
down in Des Moines because she andher sister have benefited from Blank and decided,
you know what, we need todo a little payback here. Yeah.
When I was little, I was, you know, in and out
of the hospital with chronic daily migraines, and so is my sister on my

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age, and so I kind ofwanted to do something to give back to
not only the nurses and doctors,but also the patients down at Blank.
So I started raising money by puttingon a lemonade stand for twenty five cents
a cup at the under My Street. And now here we are, I'm
doing my seventh annual five K walkSash run out of Ada Hayden on July

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twenty second. Yeah, and Iknow what started out. I imagine when
you first planned this and stuff,it was a little bit of strain and
pain involved there. But you guyshave got it down to a fine art.
And I know you would miss itbecause, as I mentioned before,
she and I had the conversation lastyear she finished high school, etc.

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Well are you going to continue withthis lemonade race? I don't think there
was any doubt in your mind.No. I enjoyed doing it, My
family enjoys doing it. I've beenable to talk to countless inspirational kids and
family members about, you know,their own experience down at blank and it
kind of makes you want to continueto do it. So this is an

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amazing thing and I love helping otherpeople out and I love doing it.
I mean, it's it's awesome.There's a reason I call her the amazing
grace and an amazing family, andit's been my pleasure over these many,
many years to know the success raisingover one hundred thousand dollars to help these

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families set ceter down there. Andthey don't necessarily know who you are,
do they? I know, youget a chance to talk with some of
them. I have a couple offamilies who have personally reached out to us
and said, hey, my kidhas started doing a lemonade stand because of
you, so and so, andI mean it kind of just pulls on
the heartstrings a little bit, likeyou have put brought such an impact on

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families that they want to help outin their own way as well. So
this is a great event for thecommunity. And you know, if you
have kids who you kind of wantto blow off the stink on them.
They've been inside for this summer,bring them out at bright and early seven
thirty am. I mean. Andthen we have the actual event at Ate

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and you know it's everything goes towardsBlank, none of it, none of
it goes anywhere else. It's goingto the NICKU this year at Blank.
So it's a special place. Andagain I say special people, and I
want to say good luck in yourfuture. Right it will go well.
You are a well planned, awell laid out young lady, and we

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want to wish you all the best. Thanks to you and your family and
all the great work that you've done. And maybe next year we can get
to get different coffee or something.Yeah, that'd be good. Will I
have to go to Cedar Falls?You might have to. I'm just kidding.
I'll come back all right, Grace, thank you so much. And
again, the Amazing Grace Lemonade Raceis Saturday, July twenty second, and

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again, how do they sign up? You can sign up through run rag
and just look up the Amazing GraceLemonade Race, or you can go on
our instagram which is at the LemonadeRace all our social media's lead. Thanks
Gage, and thank you. We'llbe back with more of the Breakfast Club
after this well in the morning.I'm fourteen thirty k sign out the Ames

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Water Treatment on a stellar for peoplewe have out here and longtime friends and
and just love seeing everybody out here. This is truly an honor to be
here. And what where are yougoing out saying? Do you want him

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to do that? You think thatwill help? All right? He's moving
me, He's moving me. I'malways corraling you to one place or another.
There we go, We're gonna move. I'll move. Let's see here,
let me grab my list and we'llget things going here. In fact,
let's get let's get Beth up.Oh, you don't have to get
up, Beth. Am I closeenough now you think da Okay, Beth

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is here with me, and thatmeans I know from last year and I
know from this year, and we'vehad a conversation last week. But Mike,
Golly, I just can't believe howquickly things are beginning to happen and
Midnight Madness, and I think ofthe first Midnight Madness I was aware of
so many years ago that has onlyimproved year after year. Bath. Yeah,

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so we're still looking forward to it. So the event's going to be
a week from tomorrow and we're hopingfor not having rain like we're having today.
We need the rain today, butwe just do not need it next
Saturday. Yeah, And I'll tellyou what, There's a lot of people
are looking at the weather next Saturdayalways, and I would guess each year
it goes bigger and bigger that againyou'll have a record number of people signed

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up. We sure hope. Sothe best development at Madness is that it's
a true family event, so youdon't have to be a competitive runner.
It's a five k, it's aten k, it's a kid's fun run.
We've got people who route, ofcourse, I've got people who walk,
people who come out with strollers,and it's just a really really fun
family event that the whole family canenjoy. Yeah, and I like it

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because it has grown out only andnot only do they just run or participate
in that way, but do youhave buns of activities surrounding it? We
do. We have inflatables this year, we have those again. Last year
those were a huge hit with thekids. One of the most popular things
too, is the Captain Midnight KidsFun Run. That's free. Kids get
these little capes and it's so funjust to see the excitement of these kids.

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And it's great to see kids,you know, doing something physically active,
and then they can stay around andwatch, you know, mom and
dad run the race as well.No, I'm in trouble. My wife
just showed up. Yeah, butalthough she participated in Midnight Madness. That's
great. We would love everybody toparticipate in Midnight Madness. The deadline actually
for the current rate structure of fortydollars is going to be today and then

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starting tomorrow through July seventh, youcan still register for forty five dollars and
then if you have a last minutedecision and want to come out and runner
walk on July eighth, you cancome up that day and it's just going
to be fifty dollars. Yeah,okay, well worth it as well.
Where it's been fun for me Andas we said, it's it's none a
race for some people, it's justan accomplishment. They've set a goal and

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this is the proof of the puddingfor them. Look, I wanted to
go five k. Midnight Madness iscoming up. I'm gonna go five k
and bike Allie. They do it, and what is almost as exciting,
Beth are the people who line theroutes there to share their particular family member
or friend on That's one of thebest things to see is just you know,

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people meeting a fitness goal, peoplesetting their mind to accomplish something and
then they do it. And thenBeppo's family and friends who come out and
support them. It's just it's justoverall a great day. Well, we
want dub So what's the easiest way. Easiest way is to go to the
website which is aims Midnight Madness dotorg. Okay midnight and this dot org
again. That is a week fromtomorrow, Saturday, July eighth. All

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right, make sure you're there.Be square or whatever they say, be
round. I don't care they getto midnight madness. Beth, thank you
so much, thank you so much, mom my pleasure. Absolutely, Let's
see if I can get the manwho likes an indoor voice. And he's
over there chatting. I'll tell youwhat what, Beth's what we're running up

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against. If we look around theroom here, all my guests are mixed
in amongst the other guests. Youcan't tell who's here and to be on
the radio and who's just here tosupport you on your last show. I'll
tell you what. It's a who'swho though. I will give you that.
And I am humbled, truly humbled. And let me see if I
can attract his attention. Stanley,here he comes, Here he comes,

(47:51):
mister no indoor voice, handicapped,my good friend for many many years.
Another one here he is stand radiofrom actors and you guys are kind of
on an hiatus right now. Well, we just finished pump Boys and Dinets
on Sunday, and I have totell you we had eight performances, six
sold out performance and seven standing ovations. So and I was amazed at the

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number of people who came back andsaw it a second any third time.
They liked it so much. Well, i'm gonna tell you what too bad
for you if you didn't. That'sall I can say. I'm not rubbing
it in your face. But youstill have plenty of opportunities to enjoy performances
at Actors and you've got a greatseason coming up. We have an amazing

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season coming up. We opened theseason with The Play That Goes Wrong and
auditions for The Play that Goes Wrongour July ninth and ten. The auditions
start at seven o'clock. The doorsopen at six thirty. I have been
told there is a copy of thescript at the Ames Public Library if you
want to read the show first.It is a very physical, outrageous comic.

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It is probably the funniest play everwritten. And so it's if you
want to try your hand at comedy. This is the show. The cast
is mostly men, and I don'tknow the split of men versus women.
And there is a very large stagecrew that has to be cast because the

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stage crew really becomes part of theshow. They're not speaking roles, but
they're absolutely necessary to the show,So come on out if you don't want
if you don't want to learn lines, there's still a role for you.
And it is just when I sawit. I saw it in London.
I stumbled upon upon the show inLondon, and as I was walking into

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the theater, they had a largea frame saying Tom Cruise will not be
appearing in today's performance. And thejokes started there and went all the way
to the end of the show.And this is such a technical show one
we'll be able to see what we'reable to do. So July ninth and
tenth, Sunday and Monday, seveno'clock at Actors Good enough, We love

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it, Stan as always. Now, congratulations, I think this have a
great retirement. You have earned itwell. I'll tell you why. Is
through programs like this, etc.Where you and I first got acquainted,
and I will forever be thankful forthat and look forward to crossing paths with
you many times down in the future. You know we're gonna have to have

(50:30):
coffee on Fridays and talk about what'sgoing on, even if we aren't on
the radio. That'd be good.But you got to bring your indoor voice,
Okay, Stan, raybe of coursewith actors. Will you am on,
Mary? Yeah? Mary, allright, Mary Rankin coming over here.
I'll tell you what. We'll takea short break as Mary makes her

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way over to the microphone, andwe'll be back with more Breakfast Club right
after this mail in the morning offourteen three. Ka, Yes, I
and Mary Rankin joins me and anotherIt's just I'm lumped. I'm lumped Mary,
I just I want to break down. I just feel so blessed,

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and you're one of those blessings thatI meant so many years ago, This
young lady and still young at heart. That word that is very yes,
very very well said. Yeah,And I just remember our first meeting.
I remember almost everything about it.She's that impressive and she is so dedicated

(51:36):
to her cause of sustainability, andthat dedication continues here as we get ready
for the Animal College Creek clean upand of course Roma trampage just down the
road. Yes, indeed, youknow College Screak was supposed to be last
weekend and Mother Nature had other plans, so we needed the rain. We

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let mother have the upper hand andwe rescheduled our event so it will be
on July fifteenth, So just tolet folks know can still sign up.
If schedules didn't work for you earlier, they can work now. And that
information is at livegreen dot iastate dotedu, same time on July fifteenth,
ten am to two pm. Yeah. I just keep seeing these people coming

(52:21):
in there, and I just they'reDaryl Vegy of course, longtime friend,
and and and just look across thisroom and you realize how much this has
meant to me. And yeah,as I say, you have been so
innovative in your years into your job. If I call her that, I

(52:42):
would rather say passion. But Roman'sRampage is one of those passions that I
don't know would we call it startedoff humbly, but is far from humble
now it has exploded in a verygood way. And just embrace the entire
community. I mean our entire communityreally rallies around Rama dram Page, whether

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it is looking for all of thosethings you no longer need that you know
you can get to someone that canmake use of them, looking at your
schedule to volunteer time, or justmaking a list of the things you want
to come and purchase. And wehave just been able to provide so much
incredible support to our community nonprofit organizations. And just this week we finalize that
we will have forty seven nonprofit organizationsand I assue student organizations that will be

(53:31):
a part of Rama dram Page thisyear. That's so cool. That is
so cool. In fact, Iwas driving over here and someone had set
out on the curb, I know, And I looked over there and I
said, can I get this inmy car? Can I? You know?
That should be at Ramage rampage andyou know, and that's what we

(53:52):
want people to know. They're saying, well, it's not yet and I've
got something I want to give,but I don't know what to do with
it. But you've got solutions.We do have solutions, So please don't
set it out on the curb now. If you really need to get rid
of it, absolutely at this verymoment, take it down to our resource
recovery center. They will charge youten dollars for a carload, twenty five

(54:14):
dollars for a truckload, and thatcan involve all the furniture, all the
kitchen items, all the household itemsthat you've said we no longer need,
and they will store it for youand they will transport it to the event
when the event takes place, andMary, let's remind him again, when
does that event take place? Froma drain page starts July twenty eighth,

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that is just a donation day,but then from the twenty ninth of July
through August fifth, we will havesales and donations accept it all the way
till the last day, and ofcourse that's half priced day, so we've
got nine days. We're excited tobring the community in and make an incredible
difference as we have been so blessedto having these years that have come before

(54:58):
us. Absolutely well, may asalways thank you for your years of friendship
and continued friendship into the near future, and keep up the good work.
I don't need to tell you thatthat's what you do, and I know
you would agree. And I findyou without an intern or anybody today,
which is a little bit strange.But I know you also have blessed a

(55:22):
lot of young people with experiences thatthey will not forget and that will further
their careers into the future. Andagain words failed me, but thank you
well, mel I can't express thegratitude and the thanks you've been so supportive
of me and my team, allthe sustainability efforts throughout our community. We

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are we are richer, we aremore diversified, we are stronger, we're
more resilient because of all the greatsupport that you have given us. So
thank you, Mel and I'm moresustainable Mary regular of course, sustainability directed
by with State and the City ofAmes. We need to take a break

(56:04):
and get you some news and we'llbe back with more mail in the morning
after this. I'm happy mail inthe morning of fourteen thirty k A s

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I and Tammy, how are you. I'm doing well. I think we're
than happy to see you. Thisbeing my last show and our relationship going
on for many years, I saythat to everybody, but yeah, I
think maybe I should say it's abouttime I retire. But anyway, here

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you are, Chris Tammy Coolbeck withthe Iowa State Center. And what a
wonderful season you've had. And thenyou've got a great season coming up,
don't you. We do, wedo. We just announced our twenty twenty
three twenty four season back at theend of May, and we're still in
priority seating so until July seventh.So I'll run through the shows, but

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you can go to www. DotI State Center, dot i a State,
dot edu and clickhun our Performing Artstab and see all of the shows.
But we start in October with UmPenn and Teller presents The Foolers.
Now, to be very clear,Penn and Teller will not be in the
building. Okay, okay, Wellthat's part of the managing, right,

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That is part of the manage,part of the illusion that you think you
might see them. But these illusionistand magicians were handpicked by Penn and Teller
and it's a Penn and Tellers showthat they've produced. So without them,
now we have this really cool Illuminateis on October twenty fourth, and that
one or placed second in America's gottalent. But it's that black light look

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with um music and dance on thestage, so that'll be great. And
then our orchestra we actually moved itinto the fall. We have snowbirds that
have been telling us that when wehave it in February March, they aren't
in town to see it, soand we did listen, so we're gonna
give it a shot. So allof you snowbirds out there, make sure

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you come to Maneria Symphony Orchestra ofMexico on Tuesday. That one's October twenty
fourth, sorry, Illuminate is thetwenty first, and then we come back
with our kids show Wild Crats,which a funny story about that as we've
been at the resource fair for IowaState Orientation students the whole month of June
and that is the show they're mostexcited about because they grew up on it.

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So anyway, that's in November.Fab four returns, that's a fan
favorite. We have Fab four andMania the Abbot Tribute returning this year,
and then of course the holiday masterpieceMannheim Steamroller on December nineteenth, and then
once we move into the new year, our Broadway starts. Our first of

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three Broadway shows is Jesus Christ Superstar. Towards the end of January, we
have a new multi media event thatwe're trying, the Langston Hughes Project,
which is twelve Moods of Jazz forMama, and it's original jazz compositions written
to Langston Hume's poems and we're workingwith the Ames Writers Collective and we'll have

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some local poems that will be setto original jazz competition compositions. So that'll
be cool and then the crowd favoriteagain, the Very Hungry Caterpillar Show,
which is exactly what it sounds like. It's Eric carl Books. And then
we're bringing back International Ballet. Soit's been a few years I think pre
pandemic. The World Ballet Series isdoing Swan Lake and they are going to

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be doing it with a live orchestralast we heard, so we're excited about
the live music piece of that.And then favorite that has not been here
since I think two thousand and sixis Chanticleer, which is an acapella group
out of San Francisco, Grammy Awardwinning and then I fell that's so big
right now, yes it is.So that's in April. And then we

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also have Mania I mentioned before,the Abbat Tribute is returning, and then
their last two shows of the year, they'll our last two Broadways, which
is Mean Girls on April eleventh andChicago on May fourteenth. That's quite a
line up there, And of courseyou get tickets now, right, Yes,
you can get tickets now a series, So if you buy a lea

(01:00:25):
you can create your own series andpick four shows and get I think up
to a fifteen percent discount. Andthen if you buy just the Broadway it's
a twenty percent discount, and soall of those are available just by going
to our website. You can alsofind it on our Facebook page and then
before you pull the microphone away,we've also announced a bunch of other shows.

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So we just announced the guests wholast week and they will be at
Stevens on October six. Those ticketsare on sale. We also announced one
Night with Tina, the Tina TurnerTribute on December first, and then we
announced home Free which is December fifteenth, which is another acapella group who actually

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as they were coming up a fewyears ago, m Bas spend a week
rehearsing in Stevens, so it's niceto get them to come back. This
will be the second or third Christmasshow with us. Yeah, absolutely excellent.
By the way, I have beenI don't know whether you know this
or not, but I have beenfeaturing acapella groups every morning for the past

(01:01:31):
two months and I just love them, and home Free is one of my
features frequently. They're such a greatgroup, So again a great coup there
as always Timmy, you guys areexcellent, they're great shows, they're great,
affordable prices and in the best venuein the country as far as I'm

(01:01:53):
concerned. See why Stevens Auditorium andget your tickets now, please do so.
You're cheating yourself, You're not cheatinganybody else, that's for sure.
And as always, thank you somuch. It's always a pleasure, no
problem. Well, I before Isay my final words, I do want
to let everybody know we are workingon a restroom project that would involve eight

(01:02:16):
new restrooms on the stage level.So for those of you listening, keep
your eyes opening, your ears peeled. We'll be announcing some restroom information coming
up. But I do want tosay thank you. I mean, I
came to this community and your supportof the arts was important to us.

(01:02:38):
The show was important to us.Your support outside of the show, even
in the studio and just talking anddoing what you're doing playing that acapella music.
I mean, the arts really dosupport a quality of life in a
community, as does a radio stationthat has been local. And your impact,

(01:03:00):
certainly on shows that have happened atStevenson around the community has been in
maths and you're going to be deeply, deeply messed. Well, thank you
so much, Tammy and as always, it's a pleasure to be affiliated with
such a quality organization, and itnever ceases to amaze me each year.
I'm amazed by the wonderful performances,etc. But the wonderful people like Tammy

(01:03:24):
and so many in the past therethat I have worked with. I've been
very blessed. Thank you so much. Thank you. Enjoy retirement. Thank
you. I will I will giveup my best shot. Let me put
it that way. Do we needto take a break scott or I wouldn't
hurt. Okay, why don't wetake a break and I'll try and organize
my next couple of games well ofthe learning. I'm fourteen thirty ks.

(01:03:50):
I. Oh, I'm having abig slice of humble pie today. And
so many wonderful people out quite acrowd Maryland. All of this is fabulous.
I knew it'd be a big party. Oh, it's a big party
with some of the most wonderful peopleI know. And if you can't get
here, that's all right. I'mstill thinking you're wonderful too, so and
a wonderful thing is coming up herevery very soon, the senior show.

(01:04:14):
Yes, we've got we want tomake sure people mark the calendars. August
eighteenth and nineteenth is the twenty seventhAnnual Senior Variety Show, and it's decades
Delhi. So we're celebrating songs andevents from all the different decades. Yeah,
and I noticed right next year herewe have one of the stars out
here. Yeah, star right here, skip and he can tell you a

(01:04:36):
little bit what he's doing. Whatare you up to? Well, now,
I'm still stuck in the decade ofthe sixties, and I saw no
reason to move on. So myfriend Kay Burger and I are doing again
Tyrone and Gladys, which we borrowedfrom the Roland and Martin laugh In Show.

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And you do it so well.You know what, when you see
people perform at the Senior Show,you realize it is a chance to shine
again. It is. The performancesare so polished and so entertaining. In
fact, the show is so goodthey have to do it more than once.
And well, the show is practiced, and we have to be kind

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of polished to get everything in inthree minutes or less, otherwise they kick
us off the stage. Now,Marilyn, is there a hook involved there?
Yes, you won't see it fromthe audience, but there's definitely a
hook. Yeah, three minutes orless and you got to get out of
there. We keep the show moving. It's entertaining for the audiences. It's

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just never a dull moment there yea. And performances there win. They are
the performances of the eighteenth and nineteenthof August. That's a Friday night and
a Saturday afternoon. The tickets willbe on sale the middle of July.
And I want to shout out toour sponsors. The premier sponsor is Northcrest
Community. We have Marquis sponsors ofGreen Hills Community, aims Ford Lincoln and

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Shaffer Auto Body, and a coupleof great grants from CODA and Discover Aims
Well. I'll tell you it's theshow that you don't want to miss and
has grown over the years, aswe say, and again as entertaining as
it can be kept to a minimusskip mentioned three minutes per ect. The

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show runs about two hours, tryingto hold it to two hours. It's
something that is two hours of premierentertainment. And again, get your tickets
available coming up in where'd you saythey get in Maryland? We can get
them at Worldly Goods on Main streetnames, Busies at the North Grandmall,
Burge's Coffer Coffee, the North Shop, and then you can get them in

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Nevada at Sweet Dreams Mattress and inStory City at RSVP office and sales going
on when they come the middle ofJuly. Are you ready? Are you
ready to perform all moos? Butfirst we're ready to walk in the fourth
of July Parade on Tuesday morning,So look for us there and then remind

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us of the route because we getlost. Just follow the car. I'll
be writing in see I have beenhonored by being asked to be the parade
marshal this year, so I am. I've got my U and looking forward
to it. We will see youtwo there, We'll see you around now.
Thank you for everything through the years, and right back at you.

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Thank you. We're going to attemptto talk to a very long time friend
of mine and one of one ofmy first guests on the radio when I
began the show, and I'm justa pal. He's a pal as far
as I'm concerned, and that's cityManager Steve Shanker and Steve, I was

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just I think you were one ofmy first interviews when I first got young
teenage boy that just out of highschool. Yeah, you were training me
how to do that? How didI an interview? How did I do
over the last forty years or thirtyyears? Okaya, I don't think it
could have done that better, andI am so thankful, But I excuse
me, Let see him getting chokedup. But I always tell the tale

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of how lucky I felt we were. And I don't mean embarrassing or anything
like this, but I know Stevewas looking at a job in Colorado when
I first met him. There,he and I had our conversation. We
talked about what was going on,and then after we'd gotten off the air,
you'd mentioned that there was a possibilityyou might be going to Colorado.
And one of the best things thathappened to this community is he didn't stayed

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here and is running a first classcity. Well, thank you very much,
but it's right about me. Iwant to thank you for all the
years you know, your true iconhere in the community. But we like
most about you inject positivism live andI'm impressed. And you know you have

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literally thousands of friends. I thinkyou probably know everybody in this community and
interacted with you So the impact youmade on this community is unbelievable, and
I hope you can take some pridein that as you maybe go on another
part of your life. Well,I can tell you this, and I
say this with no problem. Thiscommunity has given me a thousand times more

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than I've been able to give itback. And the main ingredient that they
have given me is happy. I'vebeen happy every minute of every day that
I have lived here, and thanksto you good folks at this city,
the good folks of the city havemade my life extra special and I don't

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know how getting better that it isnow. Well, we were blessed to
have you here with us, butI got some assignments. Party. We're
gonna think of something for you todouce. You don't just sit on the
couch all day and then bug Chrisdon't. Yeah, and I'll tell you.
Keith's already on me, he says. Hey, now that you're not
working, he says, I thinkI got some things for you to do
at Parks and rec So we'll findsomething for you to do. Yeah,
And that is another honor. Haveworked with Parks and Reck for so many

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years over there, and I knowwhat a great organization that is, and
and of course had the opportunity totalk with a lot of the city departments
in the mornings. And wow,I just feel like I know what's going
on. But you want to talkto Keith. He always tells me great
stories about you and you're umpiring.He's got just great stories. I'm there,
true, but he tells stories aboutyou and you're umpiring. Work.

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Yeah, I'll tell you what.As the players used to ask me when
I quit playing, they said,what you quit playing? Why are you
umpiring? I said? My sitewent You've got some good ones. All
right, Steve, thanks so muchto my friends. I will I know
where you live there you go,all right, well I'll tell you what
that is pretty much gonna do itfor my last to Breakfast Club and uh,

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and I wish I had time totalk to everyone that has blessed me.
So anyway, Dave, even totake a hostage to help you fill
out the show here now I wantto say, take you and Dave.
This is a good opportunity for meagain to say thank you for seventeen great

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years with you and the opportunity towork with a consummate professional, which I
tried not to be. Yeah,I've noticed that, but I guarantee you
I didn't. I wouldn't last nearlyas long if it wasn't for the fact
that I have to work with you. And while we're doing shout outs,
I've completely forgot until now. Idon't know if he's listening, but our

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old news director, Trent Rice,we got to give him some some law
of I don't know how long youguys had been working together before I came
along, but too long, ofcourse, but it was it was pleasure
work with Trent. It's been ajoy working with you, um doing all
these these sports shows. I can'ttell you how many times I'm thinking,
Mel got here at the last second. You'd probably not prepared. He doesn't

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know when he's talking. And thenyou and then we start talking and you're
like, you're pulling stats, you'reyou're you're throwing down some analysis. And
then we'd have some guests on.You'd come up with these questions that are
on the left field. It's certainlyseemed that way anyway, but uh,
you'd come you'd get answers out ofour guests that were totally unexpected and fun.

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Uh to listen to and that's Ithink that's the beauty of your show,
is the spontaneousness of it. Butyou also put people at ease.
You keep a sense of humor aboutyourself, which also I think translates to
your guests and makes it fun totalk to you and not a chore by
any stretch of the imaginations. There'ssomething like in any job. There's some
things about this job that can beat shore, but with you around,

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those were very few and far between. And I gotta say, we got
a nice did you get the textour good buddy Trent Rice, and I
mean very good buddy, and tome was a hard moment to take when
when he left the station, butknowing that he was still in the iHeart
family and doing a great job downin Des Moines, And Trent, we

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love you, We appreciate Dave.I speak for Dave and I all the
times that we had together, andfor all the folks here, and I
mean there are plenty we want tosay thank you, and we need to
take a break. Grab you analmanac today, but that's gonna be it
for me. Meil in the morning, signing off, I love you all.

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We'll talk to you soon. Amil. Yeah, got one more thing
for you, buddy. Yeah,well you've got one more minute to fill
out. Well maybe I do.Maybe maybe it wouldn't be a true son
for mel if we didn't have alittle more time to fill at the end
of the show. Yeah, wewent just a little bit too long to

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squeeze in the Aisle Almondact today unfortunately. But since we have another minute,
was thinking thus shout out to Scottin the studio. And on that note,
we've had the pleasure of having alot of guys who you know,
they work part time for us anddo what we call, you know,
as a board operator as we callit, an engineer sometimes we call it
in the studio, whether it's asportscast or a sports show, a show

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like this, when you're on location, Mal, we need somebody back in
the studio pressing the button. Scott'sdoing a fine job of that. We've
had so many great ones through theyear. I'm not even going to begin
to listen. But we've been verylucky, along with everybody else we've had
the joy of working with, tohave some really great people who've been able
to step up and help out ona part time basis, and that is
greatly appreciated. And I gotta tellyou this much, folks, the special

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shout out to my very very goodfriend Buddy Battler, who took great initiative
here. Let all right, thankyou,