Thursday, June 29, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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He's talk fourteen thirty k A sidesix seventeen on your Thursday Morning Dave Sprout
alongside Scott Covac filling in for Melin the morning. He was taking one
final day of vacation today. Howabout that. Good morning to you,
Scott, one final day of it'sa landmark event. Yeah day tomorrow,
Yeah yeah. Mel is wrapping uphis career tomorrow, is going off into

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retirement. But he's got one morebreakfast club coming up. He'll be at
the Ames Water Plant and everybody isinvited to come out and say hi,
even if you don't even want totalk on the radio, if you just
want to say hi to Mel andwish him well in retirement, everybody is
welcome to do that. Come outto the water Plant. Mel. We'll
be there around seven thirty and we'llprobably keep him busy through the end of

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the show. We'll try to tryto do that anyway. We got to
keep him on here as long aspossible. It's the very last second possible
for Mel. So join us outthere tomorrow if you can. If you
want to uh, say hi orgoodbye to Melich every way you want to
look at it, that's cool too. And if you do have something to
promote, by all means, everybody'swelcome to stop by. If we're talking

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about a community event, nonprofit organization, the fundraiser or some variety, anything
like that, we'd love to hearabout it. So stop by the Breakfast
Club for the usual breakfast club shenanigansas well. Tomorrow at the Aames Water
Plant, a little Men at Workfor you this morning. You're familiar with
Men at Work I'm sure, yeah. I mean that song, of course,

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is a very well known work oftheirs, probably their best known song
as a group. Went. Iwent with that one this morning because today
is the seventieth birthday of mister ColinHay, the lead singer and primary songwriter
for Men at Work, And Ijust remember that songs like that, and

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they had a couple of other hitsongs that were constantly on the radio and
was sort of this part of thiseighty era surge of interest in Australia in
general, peaking with the Crocodile Dundeemovies of course, and we all remember
those right anyway. Colin Hay bornon this date in nineteen fifty three.

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He was actually born in Scotland andhis family moved to Australia when he was
fourteen, and apparently he fell inlove with Australia starting when he moved there
fourteen, because I mean he wrotean ode to the entire country that we
just heard right there and became abig hit song. H The formation of

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Men at Work actually began in nineteenseventy eight when Hay met Ron Steikert and
they started playing and performing together,and then they teamed up with Jerry Spicer
and Greg Ham and Uh. Eventuallythey became known as Men at Work,
put out their debut album in nineteeneighty one. I think that song uh

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down Under, I think that wason that album. It came out in
nineteen to eighty two and they weredone as a group by nineteen eighty six.
Wow during early in nineteen eighty six. But Hey went on to a
fairly successful recording career as a soloartist, although nothing quite at least in

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this country, on the level ofthe Men at Work success he had.
But he's recorded a bunch of studioalbums. He's done a lot of touring
all across the country. He waseven part of All Star or Ringo Stars
All Star Band for a time,or at least in early two thousands,
he was part of the part ofa tour with Ringo Star, which but

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that was fun touring with a beatlebacking up. You know, he's very
into peace and love. Anyway,Happy birthday to Colin Hay for men at
Work and uh many and many othersongs and and uh music related uh projects.

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It was actually part of the Olympicceremonies when they were held in two
thousand in Sydney. He was partof the closing ceremonies. Him with the
other guys from an at Work theykind of reunited to perform at the closing
ceremonies, which is that's pretty prettybig deal too. Also celebrating a birthday
today. And I want you,I want to know if you're familiar with

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this name, Fred Grandy, notat all. It doesn't ring about you
don't remember Love Boat Star Fred Grandy? No, When when did that come
out? That had been like thesixties? Right? Do you do you
know what the Love Boat is?Oh? No, I mean it's a
TV show, that's yeah, youthink that came out in the sixties.
To you, they have no idea, You truly have no idea. The

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Love Boat came out in nineteen seventyseven and seasons on ABC. As I
remember anyway, Grandy laid the loveBoats purser, which I don't even know
what that position does, but hisname on the show was Gopher because his

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job was to go for stuff.I guess to whatever. And then a
few years later Fred Grandy became aUS Congressman for the state of Iowa.
Grandy was originally from Sioux City.He grew up there and actually, as
a young man before he got intoacting, he was a staffer for an

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Iowa congressman, a speechwriter for WileyMayne, who represented what was then the
sixth Congressional District of Iowa in thehome district for Fred Grandy. The Sioux
City native and then the incumbent inthat district, Berkeley Bedell, decided not

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to run in nineteen eighty six,so Grandy jumped into the campaign and defeated
his opponent by two percentage points.Who yeahs like the sort of presidential elections.
It's very it was a very closerace. Grandy. It was a
Republican probably still is uh served fourterms in Congress and then went on to

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become a radio host, because that'sthe easiest job in the world, just
being a radio host. Anybody cando that, right. All you gotta
need to know is how to talk. That's right. That's anyway, Grandy.
If you're curious what he's doing thesedays, this is from Wikipedia,
so take it for what it's worth. I'm not going to follow up or
do any further research. Uh.Grandy has been a Senior Fellow for National

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Security Affairs at the Washington based Centerfor Security Policy, a far right,
anti Muslim Washington, DC based thinktank. Hmm, that's proud of you,
Fred, Proud proud to be afellow IO and you're involved in a
project like that anyway. Happy birthdayFred Grandy, who is seventy five today,

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And happy birthday to Colin Hay who'sseventy years old today. And a
happy birthday to you if you havea birthday today, and happy birthday too.
Someone you might know who has abirthday today, that's right. And
if you do someone, If youdo know somebody with the birthday, whether
it's yourself or someone else, giveus a call and we'll add the name
to the high Vey birthday list.Give away a free birthday cake or Balloom

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bouquet or maybe two of those whoknows. Later this morning five one,
five, two, three two,fourteen thirty years, the number four,
the Highvey Birthday Club and for allelse all other dealings here with the stock
fourteen thirty KSh Morning, Mel,It's Betty remember me. I'm a here
with Steph from Signpro. We're hereto thank you for being our friend,

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a cherished friend. Mel. Youmake me smile when I turn on fourteen
thirty. Sign Pro wishes you manyfun adventures in your retirement mail. It
was a great day when you cameon board at Kasi. Congratulations Mel on
your illustrious career. We love you, Mel. We all love Mel.

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Of course once again the final breakfastClub with Mel in the morning tomorrow morning
at the Aimes Water Plant. Allare invited to if you would like to
wish Mel. Well, if youwant to wish Mel ill, I mean,
that is certainly your right, butwe would request that you maybe not
use that opportunity. And if youdon't like Mel, just don't come.

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Yeah, if you're not a fan, I mean that's okay. I don't
know why you're listening, but youdon't have to be there. Yeah,
you don't have to show up.That's fine. We don't want any trouble
on Mel's last day. Today.Today is a really good day because today
is National bomb Pop Day. Huhyou know what a bomb pop is?

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Are we talking about a lollipop stylething? I don't know what I'm gonna
do with you. You don't seemto know anything important, like who Fred
Grandy is. No, they're they'rea delicious frozen treats, not not ice
cream necessarily, sort of more likea popsicle. And of course what what's

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really great about them is that they'reyou know, red, white, and
blue, and I they've been astaple for a long time. Actually,
the bomb Pop was invented in nineteenfifty five in Kansas City, Missouri.
And uh, that's I think thatis a brand name. It's not.
I mean, there are others thatare maybe other ice cream or frozen treats.

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I should say that maybe resemble thebomb pop. But you know,
the bomb pop is like Kleenex.You know, it's a brand name,
it's a it's a thing. ButI mean it's gonna be on the warm
side today. We've got this nastyair in our face today and we could
all use a little break. So, you know, if the ice cream
man I was rolling by. Uhthat that's how I always got my bomb

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pops when I was a kid,because I don't remember, and they might
have been available in stores when Iwas at age, but for one,
we didn't really buy a lot.We had ice cream around, you know,
but we didn't buy like frozen treatslike bomb pops would be just kind
of generic U ice cream or um, what am I trying to think of

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frozen you know, treats, butnot necessarily bomb bob. Bomb pop felt
like a really special event when anice cream guy would come along, ice
cream truck came through my neighborhood.It was on, man, I was
my mom was sprinting. Well,my mom's not listening, so I can
admit this. I would sometimes stealmoney from my mom's purse to go to

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the ice cream. Don't tell mymom ice that she Actually I got caught
on so so it's not a bigsecret. But I was a little kid.
I didn't know any better, andI wanted a bomb pop. Man,
come on, nothing's coming between meand the bomb pop. Yeah.
So you know, if you're onthe social media, you want to celebrate
Bomb Pop Day, you can,you know, post your picture with your

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bomb pop. I think you canget them in stores now. You don't
have to necessarily wait for you forthe ice cream truck to come rolling through
your neighborhood. Use hashtag National bombPop Day. If you're sharing your bomb
pop on social media. I'll seeif I might have to see if I
can hunt one down. It's it'sthe near nearly perfect summer frozen treat,

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I think because and the flavor ofthe bomb pop is really hard to define
except for sweet. I mean it'sjust generically sweet, which is perfect because
I mean, who cares. That'sit's hot. I'm the thing is melting
fast. I gotta consume it fast. Let's just wolf it down. Don't

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worry about flavor or anything. Justenjoy your your bomb pop and that that
feeling that comes over you when youthat frozen treat first hit your mouth and
you're like, oh, this isso good on a hot day. Enjoy
it. Six thirty one. Timefor news update on Newstalk fourteen thirty KSI
six forty three. On a Thursdaymorning, Dave's Brouse got Covac filling in

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from mel in the morning was takenas a final vacation day today and then
wrap up his a preretirement career tomorrowand then right off into the sunset,
never to be seen or heard fromagain. No, we'll probably here.
We'll probably hear from some capacity oranother in the future, hopefully mel and
everybody else. Uh, isn't beingbothered too much by this Canadian wildfire smoke

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that's bothering us something again you weretalking about. Yeah, with the weather
conditions, it kind of looks likeit's foggy out there, but it's really
more smokey anything. As I noticedwhen I walked out of my house this
morning, it was just like,oh so a little foggy. Oh no,
wait, that's that's smoke. Yeah, that's not cool. Luckily for
me, I'm lazy and I don'tdo much, so this hasn't hasn't affected

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me. You know, I'm notbig on physical activity and the like,
so it's not like I've been outthere, um, putting myself at risk.
I kind of hung out outdoors alittle bit yesterday, but I mean
I was just sitting there watching baseball, and so I'm okay, are you
doing okay? You don't have anybreathing issues. Do Yeah, you know,

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I don't, but I do commuteon foot. Yeah it's not it's
not that far, but I do. I do take a brisk walk here
when I'm when I'm getting here inthe morning, and so I just took
a little bit of a slower walkto get here and doing my best to
keep my lungs healthy. But yeah, yeah, it is rough and you
I don't know whether you can saythat you taste it or how to exactly

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describe it, but it's not theintense feeling of like it was standing by
a campfire, but there's some sortof residual feeling of some sort that just
doesn't feel good. Yeah, it'sa little bit like that. And apparently
this this pattern is going to continuefor a while where were either are going
to see this mess with the Canadianwild fire smoke or we're gonna get sweltering

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heat. I think we're getting alittle of both today. I guess it's
not gonna be like sweltering. Ninetyone isn't too bad for a high forecast
today, but the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administrations Weather Prediction Center tells us that
the two hundred thirty five out ofcontrol Canadian wildfires, combined with a weather

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pattern this kind of stuck are creatingthese issues for us, and they're showing
no signs of letting up in thenext week or so, which is about
as far out as their predictions go. But the weather pat terns effect on
this is it basically you know,you you see if you watch the weather
forecast or see a weather map,you'll see like a low pressure system and

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the rotation there over you know,just across multiple states. It's very large
area, but the rotation is kindof counterclockwise as you look at it,
so uh, to the west,you know, it's pulling the air and
the smoke down from Canada, andon the east it's pulling up hot air
from the south. So if you'reon one side, you're you're drowning in

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smoke. If you're on the otherside, you're you're you're sweating, you
know, like a I was gonnasee a sweating like a dog, but
dogs don't sweat, you know whatI mean. You're you're sweating, Yeah,
you're you're you're you're perspiring to ahigh degree. So and these,
I mean, these conditions aren't reallyexpected to change much and the fact and
what's really remarkable is that we're noteven into the heart of Canadian wildfire season,

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which I mean, it won't surpriseyou to know that it's been unusually
warm and dry in Canada so farthis spring and summer. And usually you
don't really see a whole lot ofwildfires from our friends in the north until
July rolls around, and we've alreadyseen plenty early, so I mean,

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this could get worse. Yeah,it's scary to think about a record thirty
thousand total square miles have burned inCanada so far and put that into perspective.
If you combine all of those firesinto one area, it would be
about the size of North Carolina.Just say, yeah, this take of

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like an entire state on fire,and you get a sense of how many
fires there are. I mean,we're talking about two hundred thirty five out
of control wildfires. That's not that'snot the total number. That's just the
ones that are out of control inCanada so far. Uh. In fact,
it was I saw today too thatactually this story came out yesterday,
but NASA is reporting smoke from wildfiresin northern Quebec has reached Europe. The

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Space Agency says satellite imagery from Mondayshowed smoke extending across the North Atlantic Ocean
to the Iberian Peninsula, France andother parts of western Europe. Wow,
that's amazing. I don't think aboutit, isn't it. Thanks Canada for
the secondhand smoke. Yeah, comeon, guys, put out your fires
already. Are we helping them?I mean it makes sense that we would

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send like some something up there tohelp them out. Yeah, that's a
good question. I really don't know. I don't know if it would help
even or are they just like,hey, we got this and we're like
we're doing and you can handle it. No, I don't Yeah, I
don't know that that would be aninteresting interesting information to have if if any

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US agencies are providing any support.Of course, you know, in this
country, we're probably gonna have,if not already, we will have our
share of wildfires probably this summer iscoming up, so you got to take
that into consideration. That's just kindof depressing to think about all this,
uh, this nastiness between the smokeand the heat we're expecting in this summer.

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Standard toes and people are advised to, you know, make it a
daily habit, just like maybe youcheck what the high is going to be
with the cloud cover, whether therewill be rain. Also check the air
quality conditions because that's gonna be perhapssomething that changes on a day to day
basis. We have the air qualityadvisory for half of I was basically I

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think the High thirty five corridor tothe east is under the advisory through midnight
tonight. And you know, maybeanother advisory comes into tomorrow or the least
hopefully at least slight improvement tomorrow,but I don't know. We're gonna have
to wait to see what the weatherpeople tell us there. Yeah, you

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gotta be gotta be prepared, Iguess pretty much every day. Just be
ready for tough conditions one way oranother. Six to fifty on a Thursday
morning, and a reminder that wehave the Birthday Club open five one,
five, two, three two,fourteen thirty. If you are someone you
know has a birthday today, we'llput them on the High By birthday list
later this morning, pick a winnerof a free Hivey birthday cake or balloon

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bouquet over there, choosing from theAmes Highves sixty nine degrees with clouds and
smoke and fog. This morning Anew stalk fourteen thirty Kasi who stalk fourteen
thirty k A s I at sixfifty two on a Thursday morning, and
I think Scott just got a birthdayclub call. We did, Yeah,
what do we have? We have? So pardon me? Susan mort feeds

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and wanted to wish her a happybirthday. We could use a lot,
a lot more. Yeah, wegot plenty of room to add to that
list. Five one, five two, three to fourteen thirty is the number
to add to the Hive birthday list. I've found a story here that makes
the President more relatable to me thanever. It's it's been revealed apparently that

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President Biden has started using a CPAPmachine. I use one every night basically,
um, it's a machine that helpstreat sleep apnea. If you're not
familiar the CPAP machine cp AP thatstands for continuous positive airway pressure. I've

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probably been using one for about fiveyears now or so, and let me
tell you, it makes a hugedifference in the quality of sleep if you
have a sleep apnea issue. ThePresident has disclosed since two thousand and eight,
A History with sleep Apneau. Bidenused the machine Tuesday night, according
to White House officials, and thenon Wednesday yesterday. The imprint lines on

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his face could be seen when heleft for a speech in Chicago. And
if you're not familiar this, thisseapat machine, it's got a mask that
you basically strapped your face and itblows air down your throat to open your
passageway so you can breathe, uhfreely while you sleep. And now you
probably notice this melt. Probably knowsnobody. Everybody's too polite to point this

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out if they see it on myface. But I notice it in the
morning, certainly when I wake upand look at myself in the mirror,
I've got these I got these imprintsacross my chief at least this morning,
I got these imprints across my cheekwhere the strap goes that holds the mask
in place. Right, So I'mlike, I get self conscious of good

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people see these things, but usthe the larger um factor there is that
uh yeah, I sleep about amillion times better um with the seatpap machine.
So my vanity is not going toget in the way of actually using
it. It's if you're not familiar. The seatpap machine is a motorized device
that pumps air through a mast toopen a sleeper's airway. About five million

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Americans have tried them. According tothe American Medical Association, about thirty million
people in the US are thought tohave the condition, although only six million
are diagnosed. So, if youhave a sleep apnea, the throat and
tongue muscles relax and block the airwayduring sleep, and so people with sleep

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apnea can stop breathing sometimes for upto a minute and hundreds of times each
night, and then you wake upwith loud gasping or snoring. And there
there have been times and I don'twear my seapap would I maybe take an
afternoon nap and I'll notice that I'llwake up. I'll be up, and

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you know, because I've stopped breathingand my lung my body is basically forced
to force air out, so andI could feel my heart beating rapidly sometimes
too, when I when I'm ifI don't wear my seapat machine, which
is one of the reasons you wearit. Not only you know the poor

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quality of sleep that affects you,but also that puts a lot of pressure
on your heart when you stop breathinglike that, and that's a big factor
for seapap users like myself, andto keep your heart in a normal rhythm
and less, you know, putless stress on your heart. It's uh

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and you don't necessarily notice this.I remember going through the process of being
diagnosed and getting the seapap machine.You don't necessarily notice how much sleep you're
losing because you're in this state ofmind while sleeping that you don't remember stuff
or when you are. They callit well, the term that uses arousal.

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You get aroused from your sleep becauseyour airways got off. Don't necessarily
remember that or even fully understand thatyou are kind of waking up from a
sleep, and so it's more likeyou're in a shallow sleep as opposed to
a deep sleep. That's not amedical term. But you find that you
are more tired through the day.And once I started using the Sea Fat

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machine, I was finding myself lesstired as my day went long because I
was getting better quality of sleep atnight. So here's to you, President
Biden for taking the steps to geta healthy night's sleep and take care of
yourself. We've got a news updatecoming your way in just a moment.
We have the Dextination coming in rightnow. News Talk fourteen thirty, News

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Talk fourteen thirty, KSI seven twentyfour On your Thursday morning, Dave Sprout
along Scott Kovac filling in from Melwho's taking a vacation day today. We
still have the birthday Club. Wedo not here five one five two three
two fourteen thirty as the number tocall us if you want to know,
if you would like to let usknow who has a birthday today. You

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already know who has a birthday today. We just want to know what
you know, and maybe you couldwin. Maybe uh yeah, maybe,
yeah, you'll call in a winner. We have just the one name so
far right now. Happy birthday toSusan Mortfit. Susan, Happy birthday,
Happy birthday to you if if youwant to get your name included here,
maybe enter the raffle here for someoneelse. Five one, five two three

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two fourteen thirty as the number tocall. And yeah, well around eight
thirty. Hey, we usually announceour winner or winners. Sometimes it's more
than one. We do have roomwe have we pick out two if we
have more than one entry, sothere's plenty of room on the birthday list.
And you know, just the sheriff'sam of hearing your name on the
radio is enough, right, that'sor to surprise someone who needs a cake,

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you can just hear your name onthe All right, cake is better,
I admit, or balloons, butwhatever you choose. But yeah,
five one, five, two,three, fourteen thirty. Let us know
who is having a birthday today.We'd love to hear about it. We'd
also love it if you would stopby tomorrow morning at the Eames Water Plant
to join Mel for his final editionof the Breakfast Club. The final edition

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of Mel in the Morning is thathe will rolling to retirement after tomorrow's show.
And it doesn't matter if you're outthere to promote something. If you
are, that's great, certainly welcometo join Mel on the radio live there.
But if you're not looking to promotesomething, you just want to say
so long to Mel, or wishhim well and all the best in his

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retirement. You could certainly do thatas well. We won't. You don't
have to be on the radio oranything if you don't want. You just
want to say, you know,quick thanks for me to melf or his
many years of service here on fourteenthirty KSI give him a little hat on
the back and send him on hisway. You can certainly do that.
He'd love to see you. Idon't care who you are. Mell's just

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kind of guy who likes everybody think, or almost everybody, it seems.
Anyway. He'll be at the waterplant starting around seven thirty tomorrow morning for
the breakfast club. And then whathappens after that? Many people have asked
us. Many people want to knowwhat happens once Smel goes away, and
the answer that I have at leastis I don't know. That's is that

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can be well circulated. That's that'salso that's also your understanding in the situation,
Scott. So the question is whathappens, and hopefully we'll have a
better answer for everybody on Friday.We will be honest. I doubt we
will, but well maybe I'll besurprised. I'll tell you this much.

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The new the next morning show host, if there is the next morning show
host here, I don't know what'sgoing to happen, But to whoever it
is, it's not going to beme, uh because Tomorrow is also my
last day at fourteen thirty, andyou're gonna be at the water treatment I'm
going to head out there to thewater treatment plan as well to say goodbye

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to Mel and m Mel is planningon joining me tonight for Eames High Softball,
which will be my last Eames Highsports broadcast, which is a little
bitter sweet too. My decision toleave is not related to Mel's decision or
leave. Just to make sure it'sweird that we're both leaving on the same
day. I know the timing ofthat is intentional. I wanted to make

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sure I was here for the durationof Mel's tenure here. But my you
know, Mel made his decision likeseven months ago to retire. Yeah,
he gave he gave some advanced warning. This company's than the one going on
anyway. I made my decision toleave about a month ago or so,

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and I won't get into the reasons. It's not worthwhile. It's it's just
time, just time for me tomove on. I'm not planning to leave
town personally like Mel. He's youknow, he's hanging around. He's not
going to some retirement village in Floridaor something like that. Um, I
don't know what I'm gonna do next, but I'm fairly certain barrying something out

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of left field that's too attempting topass up. My plan is a standtown.
So i won't be on the radioanymore, but I'll be around and
hopefully I'll run into folks and I'llstill hopefully still make it out to some
aimes high sporting events too, eventstoo. And not to sell yourself short,

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but you also, I mean,Mel has been here for thirty plus
years. I think it's thirty twoplus years. Uh, Dave, you've
been around for quite some time aswell. Seventeen and a half years.
That's that's a while. It's justprobably seventeen years longer than I ever expected.
I think is in the same boat. He came on board, didn't

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realize how fast the time was going, and then realize he loved what he
was doing. Yeah, yeah,and I was. You know, I'd
never lasted at a job more thanthree years, and so I didn't expect
I would last much longer than thathere. And turns out, um,
I found a home here and it'sbeen great. And I found a home
in Ames too, uh, inin a you know, larger sense,

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and so that's a big part ofwhy I'm staying around um but won't be
won't be here on the radio anymore. And that's it's kind of kind of
tough, but also also it's kindof it is time. It's probably for
my best interest, I can tellyou that much, to h to move

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on and try something new, andI have no idea what that's going to
be even as of today. Soyou know, there's a lot of a
lot of doubt, a lot ofquestion marks in the future for both myself
and the station itself. But weknow one thing that Mel will be live
for the breakfast club at the AmesWater Treatment Plant tomorrow morning starting around seven
thirty and everybody is welcome to comeout and wish him the best. Seven

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thirty one right now on your Thursdaymorning. It is a kind of gloomy,
small smoke field is morning so farseventy one degrees with light winds currently
in Aimes into time for eight NewsUpdate, News Talk fourteen thirty KSI seven
forty three on your Thursday morning.As we eagerly anticipate a call from the

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Ames Police Department any minute now,we'll get our traffic update our Rush Minutes
Report, as we like to callit, and it's presented by Mary Greeley
Medical Center, and hopefully we'll geta call here shortly. I wanted to
kind of discuss, no know,not only what's happening with traffic this morning,
but we sometimes talk with either youknow, the police commander that we

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have, you know every week,Dan Walter, or the daily reports from
our police officers out in the streetsabout some of the training they do.
And we talked earlier this week actuallywith fire department did in training and police
department does training for driving. Bothwho were happening recently, And I'm sure,
but I want to confirm this withsomebody who knows. I'm sure that

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there's basic sort of medical training forpolice officers, particularly with CPR. So
I've found a story out of Michiganthat's both kind of heartbreaking but also heroic
in a way. A Michigan policeofficer is being credited with saving the life
of a two year old girl whosemother had stabbed her and tried to drown
her. What I know what,Lieutenant Aaron Phipps broke through the door of

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a bathroom Saturday, pulled the girlfrom the from a bathtub and performed CPR
on the two year old, revivingher. The two year old was taken
to a hospital and is in astable condition or last known condition was stable
condition. It took about a minuteto revive the girl after the officer or

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the lieutenant broke through the door there, and the whole instant is on his
body camera. I don't know ifthat's public, and I don't know if
anyone if you would really want towatch that beyond hard to watch it in
a sense. A teenage sibling ofthe two year old had called nine one
one for help. Officers, includingLieutenant Philips. Phips broke into the residence

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and found a woman holding the girlunderwater in aid bathtub, and the mother,
Jessica Edward Ricks, is charged withassault with intent to murder and child
abuse, and bond was set atfive hundred thousand dollars. We'll let that
take care of itself. But it'sremarkable to think about how that training,

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that CPR training that might have feltlike I might have felt like quite a
chore at the time or something likethat, but actually it turns out to
help save a life, much lessa two year old girl and the difference
between a police officer who's first torespond to a scene like that being able

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to immediately jump in and provide CPRin that situation instead of waiting for an
ambulance or someone else to come alongand perform CPR or treat the two year
old. That's just it's kind ofincredible story, it really is, And
that's why police officers are trained ina lot of different things. And I

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know that can sometimes all spoil alot of strain on police officers because they
have to deal with a variety ofsituations. But CPR training, really that's
something anybody can do and it doesn'ttake all that long from what I understand.
Of course, I am not CPRcertified by any means, although I

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mean I probably should. You should, probably we should all get this kind
of training because you never know whenyou can come across the situation where you
could help somebody or even potentially savea life. And the same is true
with ADS, which defibrillators that areyou know, found now very commonly in

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all types of facilities. I thinkthere's a law that mandates that they are
available to high school athletic films.If there's not, there should be but
there's been several stories nationwide about howhaving an AED on hand at like even
a high school sporting event, Icould go into cardiac arrest or or something

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like that, you know, duringone of these events. They're rare,
but they happen. And having theAD on hand along with somebody who knows
how to use it, yeah,somebody who's been trained and knows how to
use it. And that doesn't evenhave to be a medical professional. It
could just be somebody like you wereme who happens to know how to use
one of those things. And Ithink a lot of coaches, I would

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hope a lot of coaches athletic trainers, which are becoming a scarce resource in
a lot of areas, hopefully knowhow to use those and those small,
relatively simple, very commonly available sortsof training can meet in the difference between
somebody living or somebody dying in anemergency situation like this one in Michigan or

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something like it could happen. Youthink about Damarrow Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills
football player who suffered cardiac arrest onthe field during a game, and if
not for the availability of an AEED, they're at the stadium. Probably would
have died right there, but theywere able to treat him. And you

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know, not only is he stillalive, but actually back played football is
expected to play this season. Sothat's a good reminder. I guess for
all of us that a little bitof training in a basic sort of medical
procedure can be the difference between lifeand death for for somebody. It's seven

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forty nine. Thanks to Mary GreeleyMedical Center for presenting our Rush minutes.
Hopefully the police just forgot to callor they're not too occupied with a serious
situation this morning, but we advisesalways stay safe on the road, stay
safe with the air quality today,to keep that in mind as you're going
about your activities today. Again,Rushman is report brought to you by Mary

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Greeley Medical Center, doing What's Righton Newstalk fourteen thirty KSI, News Talk
fourteen thirty KSI, seven fifty oneon a Thursday, and we welcome the
resource Recovery Plans Superintendent for the Cityof Aimes, Bill Schmidt. Bill,
good morning, how are you doing. I am doing wonderful. It's great
to be on the air with you. Oh, it's great to have you
on the air with us, andwe got a few topics we want to
touch on, So let's jump rightin and start with the food waste a

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Virgin program. What's the response beenlike that here in the city of Aims,
it has been fantastic. We havea lot of people that bringing their
food waste down to it they collectedin their home. Some buy a bucket
from us, but a lot ofpeople are just using something they have already,
maybe an ice cream pail or anold tupperware and collecting their food waste,
you know, the banana peels,the potato peels, egg shells,

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coffee grounds, and they're bringing itdown to us. Here at four twenty
East Second Street, on the northside of a building, there's a big
kind of salmon color dumpster there andthey dump that material there and then we
work with a vendor who takes thatout and compost it. So it's working
out really well, and people reallyappreciate the opportunity. They can't maybe can't
do composting in their backyard. Itgives them a chance to keep those organics

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out of the food waste and putit into a good juice. I got
one of those buckets from the citya few years back, and I'm glad
I did it because my regular garbagestinks a lot less now that I could
put you know, my melanrynes andthings like that into the bucket, seal
off the bucket and it you know, keeps it from from the garbage getting
all stinky. That's the main benefitfor me anyway. And there's a lot

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of people said, they said,you know, I always thought it was
just my garbage. It's stunk andexcuse me, stinks. But yeah,
when they got the organics out there, they realized that's really what it was,
and don't have as many fruit fliesand all those other things flying around.
Yes, that's a nice benefit too. Yeah, another program that you
got, I know, you gotthe dumpster out there where you just right
next to the food waste diversion dumpster. But there's also several other places where

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we can take a glass in forrecycling. And we're not talking about the
bottles that you could you know,you pay the deposit on, but other
glass materials that need to be disposedof. Have you got a good way
of doing that? Yeah, atthe at Fairway and the parking lots and
IVY at the gas stations, onthe west side of all these and the
backside of Wheatsfield, and then here, as you said, here at the

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resource Recovery plant, we've got bigyellow bins that people can put their bottle
glass into. You know, maybea pizza, sauce, marinara sauce,
pickle jar olive are items like that. If you have old the fingernail polo
should straight up, just take thetop off, you can throw that in
there. Uh. We take thatand we work the company down in Kansas
City that crushes that up, sortsout the brown glass, and the rest

(40:15):
of it goes to make a fiberglassinstallation, which is very helpful to reduce
the amount of heating and air conditionthat's required. I probably should have asked
this some time ago, because I'veI've used those dumpsters as well to get
rid of some glass I had around, and mostly for me that comes in
the form of candles, like I'llget the sending candles that come in the

(40:35):
glass jars, and when it's timeto go throw those away, there's still
there's always still some wax in there. Is that an issue at all?
It is not that that's fine,there's no problems that their process will remove
that and it doesn't create any problemfor them at all. That's good to
know. So I keep doing whatI'm doing. You're all you doing the
right thing, for sure. I'mtrying. I'm at least, and we
can't forget now. It's always abig deal, but we got to start

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thinking about RAM and ramp page rightaround the corner it is. It's four
weeks away already, Holy child.It will start on July twenty eighth with
people dropping items off and people candrop items off all through that week,
from the July twenty eighth through Augustfourth. At next Friday, they can

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drop items off and we take thoseand we have nonprofit vote agencies that the
people volunteer their time to those agencies. I don't have the final account.
I think we're up over forty agenciesthat have volunteer to work this year.
And then people can buy items fromJuly twenty ninth August fifth, So all

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of our volunteer slots are all filledup already, which is great. But
now what we need people do iskind of take a look around the house
and in the garage and you know, let maybe you have that you don't
need any more. That's just kindof sitting there and bringing it down and
donate it. And then while you'rethere donating, please feel free to do
some shopping. You know there's somethingelse that you needed. And it's really

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taking a look at the you knowthat reuse per you know, the first
thing you reuse, reduce, recycle, you know that that first thing is
we want to do is reuse.So there's a lot of good items out
there that people don't need that somebodyelse can use. And the great thing
it is all the proceeds go backto the nonprofits, which is fantastic to
help them do what they like todo within the community, so it stays

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all here locally. Yeah, I'vefound some nice margains for myself through the
years. Last year I found anold drill set, which isn't very new.
It's just i mean, it's courted, it's fine, it's you know,
it's good for what I need aroundthe house, and it's certainly better
than going to the store and maybebuying some huge but drill set that's more
powerful than I need, and youknow, just h is unnecessarily large and

(42:49):
expensive. I mean I got thisfor cheap, and you know, for
what I need around the house.It gets the job done and you don't
have all the extra package, andit would be on that new one that
then has to go somewhere. Yeah, there's a people who say, what
all you have down there for sale? Is like literally everything. I mean,
there's all kinds items down there,so and the most common things furniture

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of course, and shelving and thingslike desks and chairs and couches and things
like that. I've seen down therequite a lot. I bought myself a
little TV stand a few years ago, which came in pretty handy because I
have too many TVs. But thatworked out nice for me too. Yeah,
and a lot of kitchenware, youknow, platonotspan, silverware, all

(43:29):
that stuff. So I did haveone more thing I wanted to mention Roget
about thirty seconds fireworks. We're comingup on the fourth of July. If
you have a firework that does notgo off, or you have fireworks that
you don't want or need, pleasebring them into us. Don't throw them
in the garbage. Fireworks and shreddersdo not work well together. That's a

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good point. Thank you so much, Bill. We appreciate the time and
enjoy the upcoming Oliday. Thank youtoo. Bill Schmitt, the Resource Recovery
Plants Superintendent, joining us this morningon News Talk fourteen thirty KASI News coming
up, Iowa Almanac next seventy.Let's Talk fourteen thirty KSI eight fifteen.

(44:10):
On a Thursday morning, Dave Sprousegot Kovac phil In for Mel in the
morning. We're just warming up forhis final day coming up tomorrow. He'll
be at the Ames Water Plant forthe Breakfast Club. Everybody's invited to come
down and wish Mel the best.If you want to say so long,
you can do so. Right now. We are joined by Michael Gallimo,

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the maestro himself, director of theMunicipal Band. Michael, good morning,
Good morning to you. Good tohave you a long as we preview tonight's
concert. What's on tap for theBig Shoe? Thanks, Well, we've
got a really big shoe tonight.This is our Patriotic Concert Riacter, the
fourth of July, so it's gonnabe a lot of red, red,
white and blue music. We recognizeall veterans and members of our armed forces.

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We have an Armed Forces Salute thatwe do annual, and so we
like to see the veterans and membersof the armed forces out there tonight,
but it's it's again, it's allpatriotic music. Miles Morgan will be our
vocalist. He's singing selections from theMusic Man, what could be more American
and more Iowan than that? Andthen he's doing a medley of George M.

(45:16):
Cohen selections Yankee Doodle Dandy and You'rea Grand Old Flag and some others,
and then lots of SUSA. We'redoing the Liberty Bell March. Of
course, we conclude with the Starsand Stripes Forever. Shenandoah is going to
be performed the like Cavalry overture,and we're doing a really neat piece called
Jefferson a Vision for America that hasnarration with it, and John Burnette Larkins

(45:39):
will kind of narrate us through that, and a wonderful selection called the home
Front Musical Memories from World War Two, a lot of those kind of big
band tunes that were popular back inthe forties, and so it will be
just a wonderful concert tonight. Iwould like to add that the municipal band
will also be in the Independence DateParade nixt Tuesday, so you can see

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them there and I've understand that Meilis going to be the Grand Marshal for
the fourth of July parade Nicks ateleven am down on Main Street, so
he's just a little bit excited foryeah. Yeah, And we are going
to recognize Mel at our concert onthe thirteenth on July thirteenth, so that's
coming up after this patriotic concert wehave tonight, So next week we will

(46:25):
have mail out there and we'll getto honor him as well and thank him
for all the support he has providedto the municipal band as well as Kasi.
We are indebted to all of youfor supporting us for so many years
and for these weekly broadcasts that we'vedone with Mel. I've been doing them
for at least twenty something years,twenty one years, and I know he

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was doing them with Home Regards yearsbefore that. So we are we are
very, very grateful to Mel andKasi. And we won't have a live
broadcast this week's concert because we havea high softball until you live tonight,
but we will have a well areplay of sorts if you will, we'll

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play it back on Sunday morning atnine am. If you can't make it
out there tonight. Uh, andwe do want to caution everybody if you
think it might be best to stayhome. We won't blame you considering the
air quality conditions this evening, butyou guys will do your best to make
it a more joyful night. I'msure. Yeah, it's it's just crazy
with all of that, but wewill be out there performing tonight and we

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hope people can join us eight o'clockfree concert. Just you know, bring
your lawn chairs, maybe bring alittle bit of bug spray, although those
haven't been bad this season yet,yeah, not yet. But we'll be
out there. We will be performingtonight. The group sounds terrific. Miles
Morgan is a terrific vocalist. We'relooking forward to having him with us.

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And looking ahead to next week.We mentioned the concert next Thursday, we'll
feature mail. Following that, onthe Saturday, July eighth, we will
be performing at the Boon They hosteach year the Iowa Municipal Band Festival,
and we'll be performing at that eventon Saturday July eighth at eleven am and
that's held at the Herman Park Pavilionin Boone. That's always a big event.

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That's the thirty first annual Iowa MunicipalBand Festival. Wow, that's that's
gonna that's gonna be a lot offun. Yeah, it's just down the
road. Yeah, it's it's alwaysneat to performing there. It's it's an
interesting pavilion. It's it's all shaded, uh, and the sound is kind
of kept in there. So it'sa very different acoustic setting than what we
have over at Banshell Park, andwe look forward to that every year.

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That's that's always very special. Andwe're gonna find out how you guys measure
up against you know, other bandsfrom the state. Right. Well,
we hold our own way think prettygood. We're pretty proud of what we
have. Yeah, absolutely all right, Mike, thanks so much. And
again tonight eight o'clock. Anybe apre concert entertainment tonight? No, we
do not. Tonight we are weare not doing that other than Flag Day
and a few other things, butno pre entertainments will come on out.

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Eight o'clock is the concert. AndDave, thank you for for supporting us
in Kasi. We are we arevery grateful to you. I'm always glad
to have you. Mike. Thankyou. Michael Glimo director of the Ames
Municipal Band, joining us again tonight'sconcert eight o'clock at Benshell Park in Ames.
This is News Talk fourteen thirty kSI News Talk fourteen thirty KASI eight

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twenty two on your Thursday, seventyfour degrees in Aims with a kind of
a hazy sky with the wildfire smokedrifting down our direction. We're joined now
by our good friend Vicky Newell,who runs the Primetime A Live program at
Mary Greeley Medical Center. Vicky,good morning, good morning. It's good
to have you as always. Iknow you wanted to see Mel one wow.

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But we'll make your work for it, and you have to come out
to the water Plan tomorrow exactly,and that is my plan. I can't
do this for twenty two years withhim and not have the opportunity tomorrow to
congratulate him and thank him for allhe's done. He's been a great representative
for not only prime Time Alive,but also for Mary Early Medical Center,

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and so we of course are happyfor him, but we'll miss him.
It's interesting to think, though,you've been doing this with mel for twenty
two years, but he was agood like ten years into it already right
right, So my predecessor, PhyllisKrause, came down here starting I think
in nineteen ninety five when the programstarted. So we've been talking about Prime

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Time Alive on the radio with Melfor what now twenty eight years, and
I've been doing twenty two of thelast twenty eight. So yeah, yeah,
you just kind of build a rhythmand routine, and it's crazy to
me how much then we get toknow each other personally and about his family,

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and you know how he's doing andwhat he does outside of radio.
So he and I talked. Isaid, we need to go to lunch
sometimes, talked about doing that justto stay in touch. That's a good
it's a good plan. I'm surehe will appreciate that because I know how
much he enjoys your visits on theradio. You are too kind, Dave
and me. I'll bet some folksthat were listening, like back when it

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all started for for Primetime Alive,they were folks listening thinking, well,
that's that's way off in the future. I won't be eligible for that program
for a long time, and nowhere we are, you're probably eligible.
Find well, Dave, count mein that bucket of people. When I
started. When I took over theprogram, I was in my mid thirties,

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you know, thinking, oh,there'll never be a day that I'm
you know, old enough to bea primetime alive member. And then now
I've been a member for several years. So um. But you know,
one of the great things for meis, you know, not only have
I been with this group for along time, so I feel like I
understand what their wants and needs are, what I'm of that age group too,

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So I can just kind of sitback and think, huh, what
do I want to learn about?What do I want to know? What
will help me live well in agewell? And so that definitely helps with
my programming. Let's jump in tothis week's programming. What's coming up?
We have two programs coming up inJuly. We've finished our June programs and

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so we have two coming up inJuly. The first one is Wednesday,
July nineteenth, two pm. It'sin Bessie Meyer's auditorium, but it is
also offered virtually for those who wouldrather stay at home. It is weight
management for older adults. So RachelMcCabe, who is a nurse practitioner with

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the Iowa Weight Law Specialists and theyhave a clinic right inside Mary Greeley.
She's going to talk about why beingat a healthy weight is important as we
age those challenges of losing weight asan older adult, and then what are
some tips that she has for usto lose weight and maintain a healthy weight.
So that one I think we'll havea great turnout for that. I've

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visited with Rachel several times and havetalked to some people who've worked with her
and said she's fabulous. So I'mreally looking forward to that program. And
then the next one that we havein July is it's called Stop the Bleed,
Save a Life, and that isTuesday, July twenty fifth, And

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yes, I know that's the daythat Ragby comes to down. It's in
the afternoon, two o'clock. It'sonly offered in person due to the nature
of the program, and so youmight want to if you're signed up for
that or going to you might wantto allow a few extra minutes to get
to the hospital for that program,since we will have lots of visitors here,

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but we have one of our paramedicsdestined draz I believe it's how you
say it is giving the program andit's hands on practice of applying direct pressure,
packing a wound and using a tourniquetto stop bleeding. And this is
a national initiative that there just waswe were seeing some large scale events happening

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where there's bleeding, but this couldjust be something that happens at home people
that could be saved if people knewhow to stop the bleed. And it's
pretty easy to learn and to teachand to have available what you do need
at home. And I think alot of people just feel a little more
comfortable if they've seen a demonstration andcan actually do some hands on themselves.

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So that is the other program thatwe have in July. Excellent. Now
it's the some of the air qualityissues we're experiencing like today and in recent
weeks. Has that affected any ofyour programs? Uh, you know what,
it has not so far it hasnot, fortunately, you know.
And what's great now, one ofthose great things about COVID is we all

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became very savvy at using Zoom andthose other virtual options. And so if
somebody's not comfortable coming out on aday to a program, and this is
great because it's you know, inthe middle of winter. If you don't
want to leave your home, thevast majority of our programs, you can
just sign in online and still getto participate in the program, get the

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information. And we also record allof our programs and put them out on
YouTube for people to view at alater time if they're not free during the
actual program. So we have lotsof options available to people so they can
stay home and stay safe. Andfor people looking for more information or find

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out how to sign up, what'sthe best way to do that? You
know, the best thing is togo to our website MGMC dot org slash
PTA and that is to sign up. That's how you sign up for programs.
That's where you can join Primetime Alive. There's an information on there and
then that's also we're in the midstof renewal right now for our members,

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so you can renew online as well. All right, Vicky, always glad
to talk to you, and we'lllook forward to catching up with you tomorrow
as we celebrate Mel's retirement at theBreakfast Club. Well, great, thanks
for having me, you bet.And before we move along to a news
update, Scott, do we haveany more Birthday Club entrance for today,
we do not. Okay, sowe got the one. We have one,

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so it's really easy to pick awinner today, it is. I
like how that works out. I'mpicking picking the second slot, the one
that's blank. No way, let'snot do that. We have the wonderful
Susan mort Vedd, who is turningsixty five today. I've been authorized to
say that she's she's eligible for primetimeA lot she is. Isn't that nice?

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So that isn't that the case?I missed that? Well, we
were saying that it's possible that ourwinner of the club is in fact eligible
for primetime of absolutely fifty fifty andbetter. There you go. She should
have been a member for fifteen yearsby now. Well, Susan, we
want to wish you a happy birthdayand let you know the Primetime alive is

(57:15):
something you can do if you're notalready and you're you're a winner. And
another thing you can do is claimingfree birthday cake or balloon bouquet from the
from a name's Ivy if you're choiceLincoln Center. There you go, all
right, she already expressed a preference. Yeah, there we go. All
right, congratulation Susan happy birthday toyou, thanks for being a part of
the birthday club. Another birthday clubtomorrow, of course we're going to cover

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I think we're going to cover abunch of days tomorrow because we've got not
only the weekend coming up, butwe have holidays on the third and fourth.
At least, our company is recognizingthe both the third and the fourth
Monday and Tuesday of next week asholidays, which means nobody will be here
to take birthdays. And so Iguess we get like a five day weekend

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worth of birthdays tomorrow. So keepin mind if you are some when you
know as a birthday from Friday throughTuesday of next week through July fourth,
let us know and keep the numberhandy five one five two three two fourteen
thirty eight thirty one. Time fornews update on Newstalk fourteen thirty k SI
oh Man. Goodness, we're liketwenty minutes ish away from today's edition.

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The start of the inflation vacation giveawayshere on Newstalk fourteen thirty k s I,
starting just after nine o'clock running throughsix six thirty or so when we
give it out the final well we'lllove you. We're gonna cut it short.
I guess I forgot. We gota use high softball tonight starting for
forty five, So like four thirtys will be the last keyword of the
day for you. But we've gotplenty of chances to win tomorrow and through

(58:45):
the coming weeks for the inflation vacationthousand dollars giveaway. Just be ready to
text to win when you hear thekeyword. Coming up. Just a couple
of minutes here we are scheduled tobe joined by Kevin Burke from the Games
Convention and Visitors Bureau for his weeklyhis weekly visit with us. Now I

(59:07):
don't want to steal his thunder,but I also want to make sure to
let you know about a couple ofthe Fourth of July activities that are coming
up next week, of course,and the big big ones here. You
got the fireworks on the night ofthe third Monday night, and the location

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is the same, but there aresome changes because you might have noticed if
you've gone past, say Holton Coliseum, the parking lots in that area and
see, oh there's there's a lotless parking available because there's are those are
pretty torn up in some areas rightnow. So the parking lots available are
on the east side of Jack TriceStadium, Lots S three through S eight,

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and Lot eighty five E also UMlots A one and A three right
over by the Alumni Center, aswell as lots B two and C two
east of Stevens at Auditorium. Youcan also go to parking lot to G
two and G three, which aresouth of Jack Trice Stadium. So you
can also go out to Rhyman Gardensif you want to watch the fireworks from

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there. They stay open until thefireworks show is done out there at Ryman
Gardens, which seems like a coolplace to watch some fireworks. And then
the Fourth of July Parade is Tuesdaymorning at eleven am. They start on
the western edge Main Street, youcome around on background on Fifth Street,

(01:00:34):
and then it finishes right in frontof City Hall and our very own male
in the morning is going to bethe Grand Marshal. That's pretty cool.
That is pretty cool. Now.It's been a while now, but Ames
native and NBA veteran Harrison Barnes wasthe Grand Marshal for the fourth July Parade.
Was right after he was on theGolden State Warriors team that had just

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won the NBA Championship, and hewas riding in the Converse with the NBA
Championship trophy. I don't know ifMel can match that. I mean,
he is a big deal. Hemight put like a microphone and a headset
next to him. Yeah, agiant a giant microphone. There we go,
a giant microphone and he can pointout to people and then he can
kind of hold out into the crowdand maybe you have a megaphone on the

(01:01:20):
car. So oh yeah that liveinterviews true, Yeah, that's absolutely gonna
be necessary. What that would actof fun? Yeah, somebody get mela
megaphone here. Who's in who's incharge down there? I don't know.
You can got to pass the megaphoneover when he's interviewing his subject. And
actually I don't think he'll interview anybody. He wouldn't interview it it was just
yellow people. It's Mel. Bringa megaphone. Yeah, yeah, no,

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no, somebody's got to bring itfor him. Oh, trust the
way things work around here. Ifthat, if I've learned anything that you
have to bring the stuff to Mel. Mel's not going to bring himself.
That's that's just a wake up dude. But uh, that should be fun
on the fourth with the parade,and that starts at eleven am. I've
watched a few from right here inthis very building as they go past Main

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Street, because we're we're right alongMain Street, got windows that look overlook
Main Street. We're right at thestart of the parade. The upside is
I can watch the parade from airconditioned comfort. Nobody's in my way,
no sunburn, no crowding, sidedownside. I don't get any candy.
Oh yeah, there's a window there. Dave is stealing candy from the little

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kids as it comes in. ThatThat would be what I do if I
were actually to go outside and watch. So it's the I'm not gonna try
to pretend that I wouldn't steal candyfrom children. Okay, I'm comfortable enough
with myself to know that if there'scandy at a parade, I'm shoving the
kids out of the way. I'mgetting I'm getting the candy, and that's

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all there is to it. Justlet's just to be clear. Yeah,
okay, some other options for yourIndependence Day holiday. They've got fourth of
Julay Fourth of July Celebration Slater startsMonday night. They've got some live music
at Nelson Park and they'll have thefireworks down there. They've got a carnival

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there and Nelson parkins later starts atsix o'clock on Monday evening and runs throughout
the day on Tuesday as well.On the fourth, Later goes all out.
Man. Yeah, they've got theThe concert is the Craft Brothers,
that's Craft with a k UH.Then they hit the stage at eight,
go to about eleven thirty Monday night. The UH fireworks display and later starts

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at ten o'clock Monday night, andthen their parade starts at ten o'clock Tuesday
morning, and that'll run for aboutan hour, and they have a community
band and chorus concert UH also inSlater on the fourth They've got a climbing
wall, horseshoe tournament, sand volleyballcompetition all on two day. That's it's

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gonna be hopping down there Slater.Let me tell you. Nevada also has
a lot going on for Independence Day. Their parade starts at ten am and
that'll be along Sixth Street between Eand N Avenues. Generally speaking, after
the parade, give yourself a rootbeer float or chicken noodle dinner at the
Legion Auxiliary hosted by the Legion Auxiliary. It's at the Legion Post on Sixth

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Street there in Nevada, the Communityban also will perform. They'll have some
free treats there before the fireworks show. It starts at dusk on an Independence
Day there and at Nevada. Freesnow cones, popcorn and bottle of water
starting at eight o'clock at Score Parkin Nevada on the fourth of July,
and then the fireworks are set offon the east side of Score Park there
for Nevada's big Independence Day celebration.It's eight forty six. We're gonna step

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aside for a moment and then we'llhave our weekly visit with the Ames convention
of his or I should say thankAims and Kevin Burke himself Discover Aims,
Thank Aims. Do whatever you wanta yes. Kevin Burke joins us next
on new Stock fourteen thirty KSI newStock fourteen thirty KASI eight forty eight on

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a Thursday, and as promised,we are joined by Kevin Burke from Discover
Aims. If I can finally getthe name of that, right, Kevin,
Good morning, Good morning game.Yeah. You know, there was
a time when we used to becalled Visit Aims, and then it was
changed think Aims, and then wewere Sights of Aims, and you know,
we we have now landed on DiscoverAims because we really it's great that

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people think of Aims, but Ireally want them to discover Aims and visit
and see all the great things thatwe've got here in the community. So
yeah, discover Aims. I knowit's it's still new for a lot of
people wondering who the heck heerd,who are these people discover Aims, But
that's all we do, so exactlyright, Uh, Discover Aims dot Com
is the website too if you wantto check out of the events coming up

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or we'll just uh, we'll letKevin list them off here for us.
We've got some live music starting tonight in fact, right yeah, with
the Aims Municipal Band and their traditionalpatriotic theme tonight with the Fourth of July
theme obviously just around the corner.So I know you talked about the Fourth
of July and the Independence Day activitiesthat are going to be happening even But

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one of the things I wanted tomention about the fireworks is that you know,
our aims fireworks are a part ofthe Discover Ames Community Grant, and
so our residents don't pay for ourfireworks. Our visitors do, which is
really unique, and it's it's greatthat we're able to coordinate that and organize
that as part of our agreement withthe city, and so we utilize the

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community grant to pay for those fireworks. But you mentioned earlier on some of
the parking lot changes, but wefeel well, we're going to have adequate
parking, particularly with those the grasslot that's available along University. It's going
to be great viewing for the fireworks, and we will have parking attendance in
that lot to help direct people sinceit is a grass lot. So we

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still want people to encourage people tocome out and view the Aimes fireworks on
Monday night. It's like a sneakpreview of football tailgating too. Yeah exactly,
Yeah, yes, it is.It is, but it'll be a
great show. We've increased the numberof actual fireworks for the show, so

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we're pretty excited about what to expectfor Monday night, excellent. What's coming
up on the weekend Before we getinto all the fireworks and patriotic fun fun,
we still have a full weekend ofactivities ahead. Well we do.
You know you mentioned music kicking offtonight, but there's a lot of music
that's going to be happening, asthere has been all summer so far,

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and we'll continue but tomorrow night withAims on the Half Shell. It's their
last night for Aims on the halfShell for the season. And actually we're
giving away two free tickets to tonight'sconcert. If people go to Discovery Ames
facebook page or Instagram and they likeit and make a comment, they'll be

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entered into a drawing and that drawingwill be noon today for Games on the
Half Shell tomorrow night. Oh sorry, I was distracted. I was just
opening up my Instagram app here andthere absolutely absolutely so. And then you
know, also on Saturday night,a Louville has been having some great concerts.

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They've got Strutton, Jimmy and thegoose Bumps. And then also on
Saturday night at Cornbread they've been havinga lot of great entertainment there. They've
got Dang Felt on Saturday night,and then Roosevelt Sunday Night has always been
great too. That starts at seveno'clock and that's stranger than fiction, so

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a lot of great music. Ineed to get out to one of those
Roosevelt concerts. I haven't been.Yeah, it's a fun time. It's
it's really great. H you know, it's it's more like a neighborhood,
but it's really fun. Now forthe fireworks coming up on Monday nights,
the list of time on your upsitesees nine thirty. Is that kind of

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a hard and fast ruler. Wewait until maybe it gets dark enough.
It's probably going to be the eightthirties probably, or nine thirties a little
early, it's probably going to becloser to nine fifty. That's when it's
dark enough to to actually launch them. Depending upon how how overcast it is.
If it's overcast, we may beable to go a little bit earlier,

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but typically it's around nine fifty iswhen we actually launch. That's all
right, more time for tailgating andthere you go, there you go.
I do want to give a shoutout. We've does take a lot to
put these on. It's not justlaunching of the fireworks, but also the
volunteers that we need to you know, secure the area around the fireworks,

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and we work with fuel U,great local group that provides the volunteers for
that and they do a great joband wanted to give a shout out to
them, but also with I issuePolice, AIMES, Police Ames fire it's
a real coordinated effort to put onthe fireworks. Yeah, it takes a
village, as they say, andshout out to all the folks who make

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it happen. That's great that you'rethere so I can be here just kicking
back and enjoying it. Yeah,it's not selfish from you at all.
Right, No, not at all, not at all. But also on
the fourth, you know, Iknow you mentioned the parade, but before
the parade, they've had a traditionalfive k on the fourth and they've renamed

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that the Bill burg And five kon the Fourth. And as you may
know, you know, I coachwith Bill Bergen for about seventeen years,
so it's a real neat honor thatthey've named this event after him. And
this is a five k road racethat actually is around eight to Hayden Park
and it benefits for chip Our Homesand community services. So it's also part

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of our Discovery's Community Grants. Sogreat event and great to have the honor
named after great track coach here atIowa State and Hall of Famer here at
Iowa Stayed Bill Berg and a legendand the truest sense of the word.
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean hewas brought a team that traditionally was seventh

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and eighth in the old Big Eightto almost dominance of the Big Eight and
then when it went to he retiredright before it went to Big twelve,
but just really dominated in cross country, indoor and outdoor track. And that
was indoor track one. We didn'teven have an indoor track, so it
was pretty amazing the teams that wewere able to put together with his leadership.

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Now, uh, this four theJuly praide coming up. That one
I hear they just picked some randomguy to be the Grand Marshal. Yeah
that's what I'm an old guy wholives in town. Yeah or something like
that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I think that's an awesome
honor. I when I heard that, I was like, that's great.
I'm I'm so happy they did dothat because it's well deserved. He's been

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such a champion for the community andso to be named the Grand Marshal I
thought was pretty awesome. Yes,or Ol Mel Crippen will be uh waiving.
He's been practicing, he's ready togo, and he you know how
much he hates being the center ofattention. But he'll deal with it.
I'm sure, Yeah, I'm surehe will. He'll he'll do great.

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How many people do you know howmany people will generally turn out for the
big Fourth of July pray? Youknow, I honestly don't know. Um.
You know, our focus has alwaysbeen on the fireworks, because that's
what we're in charge of. We'rein the parade actually because we're promoting Rag
Brye and promoting that. We stillneed we still need host to host some

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writers. We've got over two hundredrequests of groups of anywhere from two people
up to maybe twelve people that arelooking for a home that they can either
camp in their backyard, park inRV or maybe a spare bedroom or a
basement or something. So everybody hasa little bit different needs and so we're
promoting that as well as we stillneed a lot of volunteers, over two

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hundred volunteers that we need to helpwith rag Brye, So we'll be promoting
that in the parade absolutely all right. For folks who are interested or just
curious about what goes into volunteer forrag Brye, how could they get more
information about that, Well, theycan go to discover aims dot com and
quick the reg Brie link and there'slinks for that. They could go in

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and sign up to volunteer and seethe different opportunities as well as what the
writers are looking for. If thosethat are looking for a host, you
can kind of go in there andsee what they're interesting, what they need,
and see if it's what you mighthave available. So it's a pretty

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easy process off a Discovery aims dotcom. I also wanted to just thank
our rag bry sponsors because it doestake a lot of local support from all
the different city departments, university departments, but it does take financial support too.
And our platinum sponsor Central Iowa BorderRealtters, our Gold sponsor Chevron Renewable

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Energy Group, and our cardinal sponsorsAlliant Energy and Summit Carbon Solutions. So
I just want to give a shoutout to them because they've done supported this
event to make it a great event, Kevin, I gotta be honest with
you, we really don't have aclue as to what's going to happen after
tomorrow in terms of the show andin terms of your weekly visits. But

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just no, they've been appreciated.We hope they will continue in some form
or another, but we're kind ofwaiting ce mode on that one. But
Kevin as ours, thanks for yourtime. Thank you, Dave appreciate it,
and it's been great being on andwe really wish Mel the best time.
I'm going to be out there tomorrowmorning. Great, we'll see you
there. Kevin Burke from Discover Amesjoining us for his usual Thursday visit.

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Don't forget tonight Ames High softball doubleheaderwith four Dodgs coming up for forty five
free game and then the breakfast clothtomorrow starts at seven thirty. Mel.
We'll be here sick, but he'llbe out there at the water plants starting
at seven thirty, and everybody isinvited to come by and just say so
long to now as you. They'restopping to retirement s Scott, go back.
I'm Dave sprou Thanks for listening toNew Stock fourteen thirty