Thursday, June 22, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Mel in the morning. Scott Koakis here this morning, and that's kind
of a nice So I think thatwas originally done by a Taylor Swift?
Is that would that be right?Gosh? You know, I think you're
right. You're the youngster here.I am the youngster. Yeah, so
I want to make sure that Ibelieve credit goes to Taylor if that's the
b y you girls group, acapellagroup, and and did a good job

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there. I decided bringing something maybesomething a little more familiar to some folks
out there, maybe not so muchto some others, but but a good
sound anyway. Yeah, I wasgonna say in an upbeat sound this morning,
which I like another hot one todayit is supposed to be. Gosh,
it's June and we're getting these consistentlyhigh ninety degree weather right now.

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June it is busting out all overthere. You go, what is it
is? Now? The end ofJune? So or or they're about getting
there? Yeah, can't come soonenough anyway, Well we got is July
right on its heels. Yeah.I can stay inside, no, no,
no, I don't even have togo out anyway. Just to kind

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of get you up to date,they're health wise. Pollen count is still
very very high in our area.It's mostly grass pollen, and the air
quality is moderate, not anything thatyou need to be cautious about. Sixty
percent on that and the UV index. Get that sunscreen out, make sure

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you smear yourself up like a pieceof buttered toast. The daytime UV today
is nine. You don't hate evenhave to try and get a suntan today
or a sunburn, as far asthat goes. I always remember years ago
when when DJ's like one of myfavorite names for a DJ, Sandy Shore

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anyway, who would be They betalking about being at the pool or whatever
it is, and about every somany minutes you'd hear him say, all
right, time to turn over,time to turn over, you know,
so you don't fry yourself up there. And and I always thought that was
different, and now and that wasI think it would be unfair to say,

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I don't know how long sunscreen's beenaround. We used some kind of
of liquid cover back when I wasa kid, but my mom never used
it on me. For some reason. I did not burn, I just
tanned. I just got darker anddarker as the summer went along, probably

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something to do with my genet achesor something. But anyway, and my
dad even used to call me BrownBomber, which was a boxer at the
time too, but but that's whathe used to call me as a nickname.
So about my other brothers looked likeradishes. Sometimes they'd be coming through

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both the well. Two of mybrothers were light complexed. They were redheads
and light complexed. That seems togo along with that color of hair.
And then my oldest brother was blondehaired, so they kind of burned easy.
But I'd be strutting my tan around, you know, the bronze god,

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so to speak. But in lateryears, in later years, whatever
that quality was escaped me because Iburned a few times and that was never
any fun. And then, youknow, within the last ten fifteen years,
I had to worry about my headtop of my head because there was

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no cover up there anymore. Itwas all open up to the sun.
And point, there's nothing worse thangetting the top of your head burnt.
I will tell you, I don'tknow, do you have but do you
burn or are you pretty safe onthat side? Yeah? I like you
said, I into kind of brown, I guess, yeah, yeah,

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especially I put on a lot ofaloe after the first brun of that usually
works of the summer, and thatthat seems to help. Yeah. Fortunately,
I think by and large I've beenable to be as healthy as as
might be possible and applying sunscreen andso forth. My wife and daughter are

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both olive skinned, like many Asianpeople are, and they tell you sunscreen,
but they tan up pretty well whenthey when they get out in it.
So yeah, I'm no longer theonly brown Scott in the house.
Well I am bron Scott their goddesses. So yeah, I was just thinking.

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Chris said, I think I knowwhere we're going on vacation now,
Oh where you headed? West?West? Which is I'm not sure that's
the way I wanted to go.But she is hooked and it sounds like
we're back to Vegas. We haven'tbeen there for a couple of years.

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COVID and all that. We justdidn't go just didn't seem like a smart
thing to do. And and uhso she said, I think let's at
least the first trip this year.Evidently we have several coming, but the
first trip is going to be toVegas. Ain't no complaints here for me.
I would go, oh, Ihave a great time in Vegas.

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I mean, I am a gambler. I admitted to being a gambler.
I'm not a heavy gambler, butthat isn't all we have found. And
Chris reminded me. She says,you remember the first time he took me
to Vegas. I said, yes, I said, I know that was
out a wedlock. I'm a littleashaved, but anyway, she said,

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you didn't take me gambling hardly atall. You took me around to different
features and shows and different things outthere. She said, I really had
a good time. And she saidit didn't drop a nickel in a slot
machine, or didn't play craps oranything like that. She said, we
just went out and enjoyed the otherfeatures of that city. And you took
me up to Hoover Dam and wevisited that, so we kind of I

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think she was looking for reassurance becauseshe knows I do enjoy dropping a nickel
or something like that somewhere. ButI told her, I said, you
know, we'll make it what wewant to make it, and don't worry
about that. We spent a lotof time pool side out there, which
the weather was nice, and thepool was just gorgeous, and sipping a

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few cocktails next to the pool andwatching the sunset over the desert was pretty
cool. So I think I didn'targue with her because I do want to
go eat on one of our trips. I do want to. I do
want to visit a Civil War battleground. I do want to. I do
want to get back to New YorkCity, and I do want to get

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back to DC. So those areall trips I've made before. But Vegas
used to be a yearly go forus, just a yearly stop number one.
I'm in the don't ask me how. I've never been able to explain
this. Somehow. I am inthe Las Vegas high Rollers Club. Really

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yeah, it sounds exclusive. Ithought it was, yeah, And I
get all kinds of nice things fromthem. Free rooms sometimes at very nice
places like we one year we stayedat the Biloxie and that's not cheap.
You can get cheap rooms in Vegas, There's no doubt, but that one.

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I've got three free days, somany free meals and buffet and U
and I. All I had todo was show him I have a card
that says I'm in the high RollersClub. Now I don't know, maybe
it's expired or something. Down willstill be that way, but I'm going
to check on it. All I'mgonna do is all I have to do

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is make a phone call and say, well, hey, I'm coming out,
can you get me some accommodations andand you know, we'll see what
they got for me. So itcan be a cheap vacation. Um.
Air flights are usually cheap. Youcan find a pretty good cheap air flight.
But I told her I would liketo drive again. I like driving,

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and it's once you get through Nebraskaand the east side of Colorado.
Those are the bears, aren't theyThey're horrible? Oh man, sorry,
Nebraska. I mean somebody has tobe there and uh it, I listen.
I like Nebraska a lot better inTexas. But anyway, um,

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it's forever going through you. Yougot to go all the way across that
state. That's a big state,yep, end to end, end to
end, and there's nothing, thereis nothing. That's the only state I
know that has to buy scenery,you know, or build it. You
know, they get that stupid arcover the inner state that they built,

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like the Saint louis not Near's bagor anything or as tall, but it's
over and it's a it's a touristattraction. Anybody should come up and they've
got to walk away in windows init. You can go up on there
and look at traffic. I mean, what is there? You know,
maybe there's a cattle feedlot nearby orsomething. I don't know, But Nebraska

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is sadly like listen, don't evercompare this state to Nebraska. Yes we
grow corn, yes we grow beef, but we also have scenery built in.
And I've said this for years.I said, the state tree of
Nebraska SKA is the telephone pole.Um. There's because the dryness of the
land, et cetera. Um,their trees tend to be more brushy or

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shrub like or not very tall.Um. So there's not a lot of
that to look at. Um.So getting across in eastern Colorado, it's
the same way, flat and dryand nothing to look at there. But
boy, when those mountains come intoview from there on out, it's scenery.

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Yeah. Yeah, And I loveI love driving through the mountains.
Um. And there's no challenge fora car, no like the Rockies,
Oh, no doubt Oh, that'swhen you know what your engine is made
of. That's that's where your transmissionpays its dues. Well, there used
to be at what was it LookoutI think Pike's Peak maybe at Lookout Mountain,

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uh, Lookout Mountains. Supposedly theburial place of Buffalo Bill. Oh
really yeah, at the top.But they must have cut him up because
I know several burial places for oldbuff Bill. But but there and then
Pike's Peak um named after Zebulon PikeUm. And that's a that's a really

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cool first name. You like that, you know? Yeah? That or
a spray paint for a car,yeah, or maybe some sort of yeah
use yeah. Yeah. But there'sa place at the bottom. There's like
a little garage or something on thatservice station that will reset your carburetor on

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your car for the thin air atthe top or your car has a tendency
to chug a little bit. Sure. Yeah, so I don't know where
it's a gimmick or not. Um, I've never stopped there and never had
it done. I just drove upand my car seem to go fine.
But but uh, yeah, sothe thinner air my dad always us stopped

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there though all right, Bill,Yeah, we're back here, Joe,
can you take the Chuggle logo outof our car here? And and we
would ride up to the top.But as I said, last time I
went up to the top, Igot light headed. The air was so
thin, and I'd gotten used tothis thick isola air down here, and

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and my grandfather couldn't even go upthe top. We'd have to he would
just go into a restaurant or somethingdown at the bottom and sit there until
we got back down because he hada heart condition, and they just told
him, oh, yeah, yeah, don't make that trip. But anyway,
so I said, if we're gonnago, and I would like to
drive that I want to route usso we can. I want to hit

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at least two or three National parksbecause I got my free pass, and
I would like to go visit myold town out there, Central City,
Colorado. I'd like to go upthere for a day. Last time I
went, I was humiliated, asmy wife. I told my wife,

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I said, I'll show you whereI went to grade school here, And
we walked up and well walked insidethe door, and the lady there said,
that'll be two dollars, and Isaid two dollars. What isn't this
still the elementary? Well it was, but now it's a museum, you
know, so how does that makeyou feel old? You know, I

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don't know. I'd literally take yourelementary and turn it into a museum.
Museum Clark Elementary School out this iswhere mel went to school. Yeah,
that's why they talked into a museum, you know. Pay my dues there.
So and I reluctantly gave her twodollars. I was going to say,
hey, I used to get herefree, you know, but but

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it was kind of neat to see. And it still had the old desk,
and we had the desks that stillhad the ink well holes cut out
at them where they used to useink wells for the pins and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, so I thoughtthat was kind of neat. But anyway,
Chris got a good laugh out ofit. Okay, old man,

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there we are at your elementary museum. Anyway, So I'd like to stop
there. And then I'd like tostop at Red Rock Theater just outside of
Denver. It's a show if therewas one, I would, but if
not, just to show it toChris. I had not done that yet.
And and then hit on out andpick out various things, like I

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say, some National parks or thingsalong some sites along the way, and
not be in a hurry. Becausethe last couple of times I went out
to Vegas, I drove straight through. I mean it took about twenty three
hours, and I drove and droveand drove and drove. We didn't stop.
We didn't do, you know,much of anything except to grab a
bite. And I'm not gonna dothat again. I don't have to anymore.

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So we're gonna take our time androute one way to go out there
and route another way to come back, so it'll be a true vacation,
ladies and gentlemen. But anyway,I think she's telling me the middle of
July. And when she said tome, she says, I think we're
gonna take our Furst vacation in themiddle of July, around the eighteenth or

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so, because rag Bry is comingto town. I need to be here
for that and the school will bestarting, and I gotta make sure we're
ready for that. At Syridet AndI said, I understand, that's all
right. I said, I'll seeif I can get that time off,
and she goes you don't have todo that anymore, dear, you're retiring

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a week from this Friday, shesaid, all the freedom in the world.
Yeah, and that's why. Andit was funny because it's such a
habit. She goes, you don'thave to see if you can get that
time off. It's yours. Anytime you want is yours. And and
well that's going to take some gettingused to too, so I'll have to
ask myself what I can get timetime off, you know. But anyway,

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what was nice to hear is thatshe's planning on traveling with me more
than I thought she'd be able toso, but she's restricted by obviously work
conditions. She's got several, um, what do you want to call him?
Meetings and stuff. She's across thenations. I think her next one
is in August down near Biloxi,Mississippi. Then she has one another one

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uh in Orlando. And I didn'trealize they had that many meetings to go
too, but she's already been goneseveral times and now she's got another one
she's going to attend and uh,and I won't be going with her,
even though I could. I don'twant to say thirty five. We better

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get some news. But before wego, I gotta take a break,
and you gotta do birthday club.I'm running behind the dog this morning.
It's a beautiful morning out. There'regonna be a little hot, little warm
later on. But take advantage ofthese nice temperatures. Good time. A
lot of people taking advantage and headingout on their morning constitutional as we Ah,

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Yeah, I excusily going a morningconstitutional. Yes, you know who
was it? I think it wasTrent Rice once asked me, what do
you mean by constitutional? Do youknow who referred to it as a constitute?
I don't know who is it?Harry S. Truman, the President
used to go out every morning hecalled it. He would take his morning
constitutional walk. So there you go. We gave me the answer, also

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the quest. Kid. You can'tdo much more than that. We've got
lots more to talk about things thatyou share. Yes, coming in extended
the service of the end of theday. Kevin Burke from discovered Ames who'll
be in to talk about Its aboutforty But let's stay with us. I
got back and Mel in the morning. Oh wait a minute, Mark,
let's try this. Okay, Markyou there, Good morning, Mel,

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Good morning, how are you,my friend? I'm doing good. How
about yourself? I'm doing good nowI found that button. Yeah yeah,
I mean you'd have been sitting inthe car talking to yourself. So I
was there for a second. Wellsee, and I do. I do
all the time, so I mean, it's nothing new for me. But
you know you're saying, oh my, you know, is there something.

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Okay, I'm gonna get off track. First of all, let's tell everybody
how are we looking traffic wise?Very good? Yeah, so right now
we have nothing going on on traffic, so the streets are should be clear
ready to go for you out there? All right, there you go and
just obey the law and you'll bejust fine. I was gonna say,
it has really been bugging me lately. Yeah, it seems and you are

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in the job, but it seemswe are having more assaults on officers.
I know there's always that risk,but it seems like, I mean,
we're just talking about the seventeen yearold who got the driver of the car

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taking him to Eldora, beat him, beat him and stole the vehicle and
went on a little bit of arampage. There. There's the teenager up
around Iowa City that or Glenwood,I think Glenwood or something like that who
beat the officer up there and escaped. I was when I was talking to

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Chris last night, I said,I'm really upset over this. She goes,
well, she says, I'm nota cop anymore, But I said
it. I have so many friendsfriends that are, and I just it
seems to me that people and Iknow we work hard on community policing and
then no harder than we work hereon community policing. But I don't know,

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are do you think the officers areappearing This is really asking for an
opinion, Mark, and you don'thave to answer. They just don't want
to. But maybe appearing too softto some of these jerks, Yeah,
I don't. I don't know,Mel, It's I'm sure there's you know,
a combination of reasons all the wayaround. You know. Part of

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me, I feel like some ofthese people there's there's just no care on
what could happen. I know,it's just um, they don't. We
don't want them to fear the police, but at less respect them. Yeah.
Well, and even they I don'tknow if they really necessarily care what
happens to them. You know,you see, you know, the gun

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violence is up, and you know, I would think, oh, okay,
I do this, I get caught, then what happened? You know?
Yeah, I mean I don't wantno repercussions of going into jail or
Yeah, but I don't know,It's just it seems to to not be
a concern for some Yeah. Well, you know, if you do the

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crime, you got to do thetime. Uh. Yeah, yeah,
we were we were talking about thisa while back and uh, and I
don't know, you know that wasthat was mentioned a few times by by
a couple of people. And letme, you know, I would certainly
agree. Let me drain you alittle bit here. And again I'm I'm
just looking for your opinion. Butto me, you're one of the experts
out there. How long have youbeen in law enforcement? I'm going to

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hit twenty three years here in afew months. And I and I'm I'm
saying from whence, from whence youstarted to where we are now. Uh,
it's changed a lot, hasn't it. It has changed so hot.
Yeah. Uh, things have changed, you know, and and um,
most probably for the good. Yeah. You know, my one of my

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my boys is has been talking aboutlaw enforcement, and you asked me all
the time, you know, westart talking about it, I said,
these you know, keep your keepyour options open. You're still you know,
he's going to be a senior inhigh school, but yeah, coming
in the fall. You know,it's just one of those things. I'm
not necessarily diverting him away from lawenforcement. But he always he always thinks

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I am. But you know,it's just it's a different world than what
it was when I started. Well, And Chris said this when she retired,
She said, she doesn't think thatshe could have picked a better time.
She said, the respect seems tohave diminished somewhat in some cases and
confrontations. And of course he was, you know, along all of the

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adverse. A few bad apples outthere right right who tarnished the badge,
to be honest, tarnished the badge. But people tend to judge are officers
by one person rather than who theyare as an individual. And that always

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botherished me. Yeah, I youknow, the neat thing was, we
still get quite a bit of peoplethat will come up to us. You
know, I think last week alone, I had two or three people just
come up out of their way thankme for what I do. Yeah,
so that's that's nice, you know, that is much appreciated when when that

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happens. Well, here's my thing. This has been my last word on
this, but my whole thing comesout to this is just as much as
we thank our veterans for their service, we ought to thank the veterans of
the police Department two for their serviceeach and every day. Thank you,

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Mel. Yeah, well, thankyou Mark, and yeah, yeah,
yeah, you have the guys thatare on the front line. I'm I'm
sitting back here thinking about you guysand and praying for you and your families
and everybody that each day you doget to go home safe. Yeah,
you know, just like when youstarted the conversation off with, you know,
the assaults and things you just youdon't know. Yeah, well you

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never know. I mean you couldyou could think somebody is gonna be nice
and friendly to you when you approachhim, but all it takes a second
and it all changes. That's forsure. All right, my friend,
will you go out there, you'dbe safe today? And thanks for the
call. Very good. Thanks Mel, Thanks Mark, have a great day.
Bye, Sergey. Mark Watson withthe LAPD This Rushman is brought to

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you by Mery Grievy Medical Center doingWhat's Right. Seven fifty four. Let's
get with my good friend Gabby Edwardsof Parks and Recreation here names good morning,
Gabby, good morning. I justlove your name. It just says
cheerful, cheerful, cheerful, Itry to be so is that and now
is that short for Gabrielle? Correcta very, I'm right for something.

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Scott. Scott's sounded over there.It is astonishing. Yeah, and you
and your pronunciation, sir, notbad for me anyway, parsion wreck.
I could say what's going on?But I only have a few minutes.
You've got You're busy all the time, yea. So I'm the city forest
er here in Aimes, within Parksand Recreations, So I manage all of

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the trees across town. And oneof the things that we have been working
hard on this spring is our bigspring tree planting program. Yeah, and
so over the course of it happened, mostly in May, we planted over
one hundred and eighty trees across town. And I was just looking at my
numbers this morning, and out ofthose one hundred and eighty trees. I

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planted around thirty different tree species.One of the things we're always trying to
do is increase the diversity of thetrees that we plant by planting a wide
variety of different types. Yeah,so that way we're not faced with a
big, big loss of a veryparticular tree that we're in right now with
their in ladashbour. Well, Iam going to take advantage of you right

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now because I just lost two orAsh trees out of my front yard.
I love them. They were big, they were beautiful, and then they
were ugly. I am I wantto replant two trees out in the front
yard. Could I come to youfor advice? Yeah, yep, You're
always welcome to call me any citizen. Can I can talk through kind of

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what we planted the spring and whatwe planted in the fall, what has
done well, what you know,maybe I would avoid in certain situations,
depending on if your yard is veryshady, or if you have overhead lines,
or there are some things to thinkabout when you're planting trees. Yeah
it's not very shady now, Yeah, right anymore? I miss them,

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I really do, and I'm I'mproud of us being a tree city.
Thirty nine years. Yeah, andI was gonna One of the things I
wanted to ask you too, isI understand there is a rebate the city's
offering a rebate on some trees.Correct. We have what's called a native
Tree rebate. You can get toit through through our website. It is

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a listing of a bunch of differenttypes of trees that qualify as part of
this rebate program, and it's areimbursement rebate. So you'd actually plant the
tree or by the tree planted,and then take a picture of it planted,
kind of put together a little mapabout where you planted it, and
submitted back to the city. Thatthen gives you back a rebate and you
can get seventy five dollars back throughthat rebate program for up to two trees.

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Okay, so if you plant twotrees, you can get one hundred
and fifty dollars, which is greatbecause right now the running costs of trees
at local nurseries are well into thetwo hundred dollars depending on this species,
So it makes it makes a difference. Yeah, Well, I'm going to
get it done and I am goingto try and adhere to that. I
always appreciate little help there, andI appreciate you calling in this morning.

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Thank you so much. Yes,thank you all right, Gabby, you
take care you too. Bye bye. And that is Gabby Edwards with Ames
Parson Recreation. She is the CityForests. And yep, I did I
sought pre advice. I'm cheap.Trees aren't, but I'm keeping they're a
little cheaper. To get that rebateabout that. I'm el on the morning.

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He's got go back. We'll beback after a five hour mel in
the morning. I'm fourteen thirty.Kid is eight seventeen, and the Maestro
is in the house. And let'ssay good morning to michaelmo. Good morning
Mike, Good morning Mail. Goodto see you. Good to see you
too. And we got a concertin last week. We did, and

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we've got another one coming up thisevening. Yeah, it is Thursday night.
It is hard to believe. Yeah, yeah, what you got,
what's got on the docket. Oh, We've got a wonderful concert tonight.
Chad Zanka is our vocalist. Heteaches voice at Iowa State and he's just
won some teaching awards at Iowa State. He is amazing and he's singing singing
selections from South Pacific and a JoshRobin tune called you Raised Me Up in

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Oh I know that one he is. It's a beautiful song, oh yeah,
and a beautiful voice. Yeah,it's gonna be a lot of fun.
And actually I'm gonna play a littlebit of saxophone. I'm doing a
saxophone solo with the group tonight.What do you play? It's a piece
called Persuasion by Sammy Nestico, andSammy Nestico was the was kind of well
known as the arranger for the CountBasie band. So it's a it's a

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very jazzy ballad and beautiful, lushso humantic harmony. Get a chance to
shine and yeah, I get achance to play a little bit. Yeah,
I don't get a chance to playenough. So I always think that
because I know how talented you areand and uh up their leader of the
band. But once in a while, I'm sure you get that play once
in a while. Yeah. Iused to play, you know one time

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in my life when we lived inthe in Akron, Ohio. Used to
play a lot of shows and everythingthat came through, all the Vegas type
acts, played all of those thingsand a lot of that where you like
studio musician, They did not reallystudio stuff, but it was the nightclub
things that came through a lot ofmotown acts, the Spinners, the Four
Tops. I played shows probably fiftyshows with the Temptations. Uh, and

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we're seeing the Temptation show in DesMoines in a couple of weeks. We've
got tickets with that. Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, the Roquetts, Ringling
Brothers. You are a hidden trade, all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
you know, a lot of thatwork doesn't exist anymore, even in
Vegas. A lot of that hasbecome digitized, and uh, you know,
they'll have maybe a live rhythm section, and I just, yeah,

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it's not what it used to be, you know. And I'm I'm upset.
Maybe I'm wrongfully upset. But thisJohn Lennon Paul McCartney song that they're
bringing out with artificial voice. JohnLennon's voice is reproduced through artificial intelligence.
It bothers me for reason. Imean, I'm sure it'll be nice and

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it'll sound great, but it's notauthentic. It's not authentic. And I
said, well, maybe they canstill get the Beatles back. You know,
there's nothing like live music. Youknow, you can record things,
you prove that every Thursday, yeah, yeah, but you to hear something
live. There's just there's just somethingthat Yeah, and it's it's part of
the community and being out among youryour friends and neighbors and people. Yeah,

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it's a great you know, eighto'clock, it cools down at night.
It's a perfect time to get outsideand beautiful and enjoy it, enjoy
this while we can. Yeah,exactly right. And they've been spraying out
there for mosquitos. Yeah. Yeah, it hasn't been banned at all,
not at all. It's been prettyideal and tonight will be an ideal night.
Yeah. Yeah, we're doing somethingspecial tonight too. At the end,

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as you know, we always concludewith a SUSA March. We're doing
an interesting Susan March. One ofhis last marches. He wrote it the
year before he passed away, calledthe Aviators March, and we're performing that
and we're going to recognize the rededicationof the Ames Airport to the James Herman
Banning Aimes Municipal cool. So theyjust did that this past Saturday. We

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thought we would recognize that that's apretty significant it is naming and a pretty
significant person in the history of Aims. So we thought we would recognize that
with a unique Susan March at theend tonight. This is this town really
demonstrates a lot of its history andthe diversity that was involved in that history,

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and I take pride in that.Yeah, well said, yeah exactly,
yeah exactly. Yeah. So youdon't know what then and what he
did. I'll admit I didn't untilthey decided to name it after him.
I really wasn't aware of his existence. Yeah, very impressive and a very
important person. Yes exactly, yeahexactly. Yeah. Uh what else you
got out? Oh, we've gotfun stuff. We're doing a medley from

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the Mamas and the Papa, somusic from like nineteen sixty six, so
very good, a lot of thatwith some light classical music, ragtime piece,
a little jazz, basin street blues. Uh so, as we say
a little something for everybody and saluteto Ukraine as as uhlwa. As always
we're keeping that going. So it'llbe a fun concert tonight. It always

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is and beautiful. It's a greatcommunity. You'll see your friends out there.
It's okay to kill the grass withsome foot tap and it's right and
uh, enjoy, just enjoy.And you know, looking ahead next week
we have our patriotic concert were justprior to the fourth of July, and
that's one where we recognize all veteransand members of the armed forces. So

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we know a lot of those thoseindividuals join us for that special concert.
Then that will be next week.See, that was an education for me
too, because it's a small thing, and yet not that small. Was
when we found out that during thenational anthem that the veterans could salute rather
than remove their hats. Yeah,true, yeah, and uh, I

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remember when I told John Burnette Larkinsthat he goes really and yeah and uh
and it was an education and Ithought it was cool something I did not
know. Yeah, and I hereannounced more often at other places, that's
right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. And we do
have a lot of veterans a names, yes, we do. You know

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we have. We've had a legacyof band members from the Anderson Paul and
Paula Anderson, their their son anddaughter were in the band and Paula's father,
John Burns, played trumpet in theband for many years. He was
the band director at Name's middle schoolback many years ago, and they come
out to all of the concerts andhe's a World War two veteran and that's

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amazing he's up there. Yeah.Yeah, so there's veterans of all ages.
Yeah. My wife says, shealways tells me, and she didn't
get say this very often, butshe's proud of me because I will go
out of my way to thank aveteran. Yeah. I will walk a
block if I see you know,I'm thankful when they wear their hats and

(34:39):
stuff saying what they're veterans of,etc. But if I can see it
from a block away, I'll walkthat block and go over there and say
thank you. John Burns is aspecial guy. It's a very special family.
The end. Yes, yeah,all right, starting at eight started
eight o'clock tonight. Yeah, BanshellPark sounds great and the cost is the
same. It's free admission. Herewe go, and yet it's priceless.

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Will suck. Thanks Mike, thankyou, sye, so good to your
buddy. All right, palay seeyou next week. All right, Mike
Lemo the maestro aims municipal band inconcert tonight, and you can hear that
concert on Sunday during our encore performance. We will have Softball tonight on fourteen

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thirty k SI. But we willrecord that concert so you can hear the
encore performance, which is actually theperformance on Sunday mornings at nine o'clock here
on fourteen thirty. And we'll takea break and I'll be back Melo in
the morning on fourteen thirty Mail inthe morning on fourteen thirty k s I

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E twenty six Amber, you wereso kind this morning when the Maestro showed
up. You said, I'll wait, I can wait, go ahead and
do the maestro first. Yeah,not not a problem. Well you're young,
you can afford to wait. Ohsure, yeah. Me, I
had the crowd of my way in. But anyway, good to have you
here. Thank you, thank you. I want to thank the Extension Service

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once again. A little retirement giftfor me which I appreciate in a lovely
card and that you guys always touchmy heart. Anyway, So well,
you've been very gracious to us overthe years, so we appreciate you now.
Well it's easy to be gracious tosuch an important organization. Well,
thank you. Yes, yeah,so work never stops and you and I

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were just talking about the County Fairof course coming up here in July.
Yeah, it's we are playing likecrazy. It's July nineteenth through the twenty
third. It's a youth fair,but the public is welcome to ten and
come out and see all the projectsthe youth have been working on and watch
an animals show, see some exhibitors. Talk to the youth, Yes,

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definitely. They will impress you somuch. And if you are worried,
if you're one of us old cootsor something worried about the future, there
would be nothing more reassuring than talkingto the youth of fourage. And I
will tell you that they are amazingpeople and I always love talking to them.
They let me know how dumb Iam. Sometimes It's pretty amazing what

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they can do that. Some ofthe projects they bring in are just incredible.
I'm like, how did you dothat? I could never do that
myself. So yeah, yeah,what else you got going on? Um?
Well, this Saturday coming up,we are going to be at the
Ames Main Street Farmers Market, somaryon Belinda would be there from it's from

(37:37):
eight to twelve thirty and they're gonnahave an activity surround that's themed on the
very Hungry caterpillar. So we invitethe to come over to the booth kind
of check out the activity with thekiddos, um and then if you're not
young at her or you can beyoung at hard and still participate or um.

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We also fruit piece of recipe thatwe're gonna be handing out. So
cool. Yeah, that's nice.Yeah, we're pretty excited. We love
being at the main street farmer's market, just getting out in the community.
It's so exemplary. I don't knowwhat people think about this so much,
but how much farmer markets play intothe history of our country and of our

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our community, etc. Because thatwas the way years ago trade was done
right, right, was through afarmer's market. But anyway, Yeah,
it is fun to be done there, and it's so community oriented and you'll
see people you know and you'll meetpeople you don't know, and everybody,

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much like the Extension service, willbe very talkative, ready to you know,
come on up, ask him aquestion, challenge them. Yes,
please, we love it when youcome up and ask us questions as well.
With that theme we're going to talkabout then, So we're gonna be
at the Farmer's Market this weekend Saturday, and then July eighth as well.

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We kind of have two events happeningat the same time. So we'll be
at the farmers Market on July eighth, and then we're also going to be
at Banshell Park on July eighth fromten am to noon. And so that's
with raising readers a story County.We're gonna have some activities for school as

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children and families and with that,we're gonna have a little kind of game
for them to come from the BanshellPark to the farmers Market, kind of
back and forth type of thing forso we're excited for that. Haven't running
through traffic, no, well,safety first, come on, all right,

(39:50):
all right, it'll be fun.Yeah. So I kind of went
off and talked a little bit backinto July, but kind of backing up
here, um into next week,we have some art days for youth coming
up in Kolo, So we're atthe Colo Community Center on June twenty seventh.
K through third graders are invited tokind of just explore our elements and

(40:12):
principles and principles um create an artproject with us. And then on June
twenty ninth. That's for the fourththrough eighth graders, so definitely excited for
that. Hoping we have quite afew spots open to hoping to get a
few more filled up here this week, So sign up right, yeah please,
yeah, don't miss out. No, it's your loss. Um,

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let's see what else I could talkall day about programming. M the are
We have a farm Day on Julyeleventh at the is Su Dairy Farm.
So that's from eight fourth through eighthgraders, So gonna join us out at
the dairy farm learn about agriculture,kind of do dairy production. Um,

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that's quite one of our popular programrams for the summer and Amber. I
understand you'll be milking a cow.Oh yeah, no, definitely not,
but if you get lucky, youcan see the cows being milked. Yeah,
parlor, you got to be thereearly. Yeah. Yeah. I
always bray because I know how tomilk a cow. Oh good for you.
I've learned it years ago and it'sbeen of absolutely no use to me.

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I think I've tried it once atthe State Fair and that was enough
for me. Yeah. Yeah,that's why they invented those machines. Yes,
yeah, yeah, I'm thankful forinnovation there. Yeah, there you
go. Anything else we need tomention, um some kind of upcoming things
UM. In July seventeenth, actually, our Master Gardener program, big program

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is going to open registrations for ourfall training. So I like to kind
of tell you about it in advanceso you can kind of it doesn't start
to the fall, but registration iscoming soon. So our Master Gardener program,
it's for volunteers, UM. Sothey do some great things, some

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things that are current Master Gardeners aredoing here in Story County. UM,
we have a great group of peoplethat are actually volunteering at donation gardens,
so they are harvesting vegetables and donatingthem to the food local food pintry.
Yeah. I like the master It'sit's huge in this area. Yeah,
it really is wonderful. Yeah.I don't know how many Master Gardeners there

(42:30):
are, but but I think everytime I talk to someone, oh yeah,
I'm a Master Gardener. Yeah,I bow down and you know,
kissed the ring and do all thosethings. But it is a great program.
And if you're you get the brownthumb that I was born with,
it might be something might help youout. Yeah, definitely interested in volunteering

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and learning more about gardening. Um, we welcome you to join us,
get registered and then of July hereand a lot of the entryways into our
city, et cetera are attended toby master gardeners, especially if the involved
plants, et cetera. Right right, yeah, all right, well listen,
thanks for coming. You got onemore thing. One more thing about

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this is in August. Okay,all right, just set the date yesterday,
So I want to give you asave the date. Yeah, is
it my birthday? No? Well, when's your birthday? August August seventh?
Second? Oh well sorry, right, all right, go for it.
Okay, August seventh, we aregoing to hold our farmland leasing meeting

(43:34):
at one thirty at our office.So I just want to give your heads
up on save the day to peoplehave been calling asking about it, so
kind of learn about the newest catrental rates and um terming your firm land
value and much more. Of course. Yeah, farmland leasing is big in
this state. Yes, yeah,I know. My ex wife's grandmother used

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to own just tons of acreage downin Dallas County and she leased it all
the time, especially since her husbandhad died right, And he didn't farm
anyway. He was a hardware storeguy. But but she was an amazing
woman. She would not write inthe car. She just didn't like writing
in cars. But every year shewould land a plane on her farm.

(44:21):
Oh wow, and then go upand check out all her acres in the
plane the crops were doing. Yeahcool, very neat. Yeah. Yeah.
Died in a plane crash. No, I'm kidding, not a car
crash anyway. Amber, thanks somuch for coming. Yeah, and give
my thanks to all the folks overat Extension for making these years here when

(44:44):
as you folks drop in as pleasureableas can be. Well, thank you,
Mallie, appreciate being here. Ijust want to give a shout out.
If you do have Master Gardner questionsor youth program questions, to give
us a call at her office.It's our phone of verse five one five
three three seven one six zero one. All right, thanks kiddo, All

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right, thank you. I'll domy best. You're always cool. Mel
in the morning. I'm fourteen thirtyk A s I. It is a
Thursday around eight forty seven, andwhen I get with my good friend from
Discover Ames Kevin Burke, Hi keV, good morning, Mel. It's great

(45:25):
to be here. It's always goodto have you here. And uh again,
I was just looking at the calendar. Oh I don't know what I
can have nothing to do, keV. All right, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, well, I know youwere talking to the Maestro earlier, and
of course you know, uh,their concerts are amazing there. It's such

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a great time for what the AmesMunicipal Band does and the variety of stuff.
I think that their concerts at BanshellPark on Thursday nights are great well.
And I think the big surprise wasthe Maestro's going to be performing.
Yeah, do some saxophone, souh yeah, you know that all the

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those that can do and those thatcan't teach, h something like that.
But now he's gonna get up thereand say, hey, I can do
as well as teach, so right, yeah, it'll be Yeah. When
I was coaching, man, itwas always kind of the old joke,
those who can't coach, you know, yeah, that's kind of the same
thing. Just give us a chance, keV. That's all I say,

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you know, right right, Yeah, it looks like a really busy weekend
coming up, as usually well itis, you know, there's always good
music that's happening. Um at Oneof the new one new venues that has
some entertainment is Friday night over atMucky Duck. Yeah, they've got Corbett
Reeves will be Friday at six thirty. But you know, there's just so

(46:54):
much live music, and I justthink it is so fun that we've gotten
more and more venues and performers throughout, not just on the weekends always,
you know, but it is heavythis weekend starting tomorrow at Mucky Duck.
Alluville also has performances by Pixie andthe Party Grass Boys. Yeah, all

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night interesting. I was, youknow, I Mucky Duck is one of
my favorite businesses here in town.And the only reason I say so it
is from whence Mark started down hereby the Octagon, and when he first
put the Mucky Duck out there inthat building, I thought, oh gosh,
I don't know about this location.Oh gosh, I you know,

(47:40):
and I was so apprehensive. Butboy, has he turned that into a
treasure. Yeah, I know.When he first opened it down there,
I was kind of the same wayas this going to work, and he's
made at work and it's such aunique place. It really is very popular.
It's cool about it. Yeah.Yeah, and he's part of the
reason. He's he's got a greatpersonality. And the food's okay, what

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do you think? Yeah, Iknow if I need fish and chips,
I know where I'm going. Absolutely, absolutely. I do want to mention
Also, we were talking to standRaybe about pump Boys and diy nets at
Actors and last week was their openingweekend in Kevin. They got two standing

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ovations and that's why I heard that. I heard that as well, and
that's awesome. You know, thisis the last weekend for that show,
and sounds awesome. That's gonna beFriday and Saturday at seven thirty in the
evening, and then also they havea matinee on Sunday at two. Yeah,
so it sounds like a pretty neatshow. Yeah it is. It's
an unusual one. It's a challengingone. And when you get to standing

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ovations, that's that's a real cluethat maybe you did it right right exactly.
Yeah, I'm curious. Do youknow what the Central Iowa Junk Aunt
is? Well, I actually Ido. My wife has participated, I
should say it has purchased some thingson that junk jaunt in recent years.
So it's kind of a antique Idon't want to say collectible, but kind

(49:17):
of an antique tour. If youwant, you can visit a number of
places that are in Jewel and StoryCity as well as Aims and some other
locations and it's just kind of takeyour time on Friday or Saturday and even
Sunday afternoon to visit a number ofplaces if you're into those kind of things.

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And guess what, I always gowith the old saying, one man's
junk is another man's treasure. Absolutely, yeah, chance to find out if
there's some treasure out there. Yeah, Because I said to my wife,
are you going to do that thisweek? She goes, well, I
do need an old milk jug.And I'm like, what do you need
a milk jug for? Well,another planter's she's she's got a green thumbs,

(50:00):
so she has some pretty cool potsand plants, and so she wants
an old milk jug. So shemay be out there this weekend as well.
Yeah. Hey, I also wantedto mention mel that tomorrow tickets for
the guess Who, a new concertthat was just announced about that's going to

(50:21):
be October sixth, But tickets goon sale tomorrow for that and I'm going
to assume, being as to whothey are, that they will they'll sell
out very quickly. I would,I would think. So. I mean,
they've got some of the classics thatI love, American Woman and these
Eyes and uh you know they've they'syeah, little Pinball Wizard. I like

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that too, So right, yeah, yeah, we really had had exceptional
shows. They're at C Why Stevensand that's for sure, and they continue
to be that way. They certainlythey do. They do a great job.
You know. We've got Farmers Marketthis weekend on Saturday down on Main

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Street from eight to twelve thirty againa lot of kids activities and music and
bake goods, flowers, all kindsof produce a lot of fun, fun
things happening down there as usual.Oh yeah, In fact, we were
just talking to the Extension Service.Gonna have some fun things for the kids
down there tomorrow and a great socialmeeting place for all of us down there

(51:31):
to Farmers Market. It is itis. And then also our Rymond Garden
has their Pollinator Fest weekend. It'sa family event and it's from ten to
two on Saturday, I go believe, and it's a neat opportunity for kids

(51:55):
and adults to experience what and tolearn about what the pollinators do and how
important it is to our whole ecosystem. Yeah. Absolutely, And it's been
a test late maybe with the bsituation, but I think it's improving.
I hope it is. I knowthat the DNR is getting more involved in

(52:19):
doing some things to help promote that. But that sounds like a fun activity
for again for kids and adults.And by the way, if you're out
there, take advantage of the IowaRegional Literly Show, right, And that's
from Newton to Floor on Saturday.So they've got a couple of activities that
are happening out at Ryman this weekend, and a couple of other chances to

(52:42):
get some local music. Alluvial's gotJason day West and the barn Swallows,
I like that name. And thenCornbread opens up with some music again the
Morning Bells, right, yeah,right, and even Prairie Moon has music
on say, Burning Sensations another greatlocal favorite. Yeah, and then Roosevelt

(53:06):
on Sunday has Sunday Night has theRhythmatics performing. So a lot of great
music. Yeah, I was gonnasay Burning Sensations, Burning not Burning.
Burning Sensations will also be appearing atthe jac's Halfshell this Friday night. Right,
Oh that's right, I didn't Imissed that one. Well, it

(53:30):
is on the calendar. Yeah,I see that. I don't see that.
I don't see that. Yeah,we can't remember everything, my friend.
But I just happen to remember thatbecause I did the promo for it.
But but anyway, great chance thereto help the jac's out help themself
some good music, some libation andtreats. I've got them all right,

(53:52):
And also talking about Burning Sensations.They are also one of the acts that
will be performing at rag Brye onthe main stage before Hairball performs on the
twenty fifth of July. So Idid want to mention that tonight. I'm
sorry. This afternoon and tonight wewill have two town hall meetings that we're

(54:15):
going to be putting on at CityHall and the Chamber, the Council chambers,
and one is at one o'clock thisafternoon and the other is at six
o'clock tonight. It's just a townhall meeting. We'll be giving some updates
on road closures, events that willbe happening in and around rag Bye campgrounds,

(54:36):
and just trying to inform the residenceof what to expect when Rag Brye
arrives. I would tell you mywife has nothing but accolades for the committee
that is putting this together. Shesaid they function as one unit in one
hand knows what the others doing,and she's very much impressed on how things

(54:57):
are coming together for rag Brye.And you still need some volunteers, don't
you, Yes, we do.Yeah, we need a little over four
hundred total volunteers, and I knowthat we've got close to three hundred,
but we're there's always more that we'reneeding. We're finding other areas well,
maybe we need some extra volunteers hereand there. So I know we need

(55:20):
still well over one hundred volunteers tohelp us throughout the day and into the
evening downtown. So people can goon to our website discoverams dot com and
click on the Red bry link andand see what's available for volunteering. And
we also need some help from ourlocal residents, so those that are willing

(55:43):
to host some writers. So we'vegot over two hundred requests from writers looking
for a backyard or a basement ora spare bedroom, or driveway to park
in RV or something like that.So we're still looking for housing for our
writers. I will tell you I'veinvited Kevin to the Breakfast Club tomorrow.

(56:04):
We're going to expand on the needsfor Rag Brye as well as other things
out there. I do want toremind folks coming up to an event here
in the next few weeks, MidnightMadness will return to That's right. I
was the old director for Magnine Madness. I wondered that year I wasn't all
right, Kevin, listen, havea great weekend, enjoy yourself, and

(56:28):
I will talk to you tomorrow morning. Hey, thank you mail. I
have a great day, all right, buddy, Bye bye. That's Kevin
Burd But discoverys go to that websiteall kinds of things, all kinds of
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