Thursday, June 8, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Scott Covanc here with Mel in themorning. Mel, how is it going
here? Going good? Scott gotyou up in the captain seat again.
Yeah, you did such a goodjob. Yes, yeah, I thought
we'd do an encore performance. Well, thank you, sir and much appreciator.
And I would tell you right nowthere's a good song that That is
an excellent song. That was agroup called Straight No Chaser. They're off

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the West coast there and formed innineteen ninety six in college and enjoyed there
each other's company so much. You'vekind of held it together through the years
and gratefully. So that's a greatsong this morning. Yeah, great cover
of an Adele song. If i'mRan, I know not I am.

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I'm about positive familiar with the song. I'm not familiar with the original artist.
Yeah, yeah, I believe shewrote and pioneered that tune. We
you know, there are some reallygreat days designated on the national calendar.
Today. Oh I've got a favorite. You know what it is? Yeah,
yep, We're gonna go through acouple of these. One we have

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is World pet Memorial Day. Ohno, that's that's when you stick up
a sign for Rover Ran Well,I'll tell you what. Of course,
I have a story, but manymany years ago, when my best friend's
father rest my best friends soul andhis father's soul. But when I was

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working on the farm just south ofDes Moines, thinking I wanted to be
a farmer, learned very much overthat summer that I didn't want to be
a farmer. I had to bea lot smarter than I was. But
I was doing the menial task,painting the barn, painting the fence,
doing all those things. And oneday my friend said, Dad wants us

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to head on out grab a showball, and I said, what's going
on? He said, We're gonnahead over to the cemetery. And I
thought, what this is really rural? You know, did your uncle dye
or something. Are we, youknow, gonna dig a hole there?
And he said no, We're headingto the pet cemetery. And that is

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the first time I became aware thatthey had pet cemeteries. And we went
over there and dug a grave orI don't know what animal it was,
but there were headstones. There was, you know, to my beloved Rover
and to the my damned Chibbaba orsomething like that. But there was little

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dedications there, and there were flowersdecorated on some of them, and I
was just I was taken aback becauseI'd never realized they had one. And
the next thing I know, I'mdigging a grave for somebody's pet. So
I know how attached people get.Now. My wife has had all our
pets since we've been married cremated,and they're in an urn in our living

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room. Very decorative, earn,but still spooks me out a little bit.
And as I said, a coupleof weeks ago, she came home
from her parents because her parents movedback to Oregon for good, and and
came walking in and she had acouple of sacks with her and I said,

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what's in the sacks? And shesaid, well, this one,
don't you touch And I said whyshe said, that's my sister. Oh
yeah, So I had her sister'scream crematorium or cremations there and we're still
trying to figure out what we're goingto do with those. Um. You
know, she wasn't too keen onme saying put him in the pattern,

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but yeah, yeah, I youknow what, It's all psychological, isn't
it. Though? It must itmust go along with you know the sort
of thing. You know, WorldPet Memorial Day. Don't It doesn't sound
like you specifically need a grave.Maybe it's just sort of a remembrance of
the animal. But what what doyou do with the carcass? I don't
know. Well, I guess youjust bury it somewhere. Well, and

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I was thinking back years ago whenI was a kid, and we would
have a pet die and would getthe burry over in the backyard. Dad
would dig a hole. We'd havea little ceremony in Mami. That was

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our dog's name, our our petdog, a little dog. My mother
named it Mami in honor of MamieEisenhower, President Eisenhower's wife. But uh,
but yeah, burried in the backyard. I wonder how many how many
backyards have got the remains of apet in him? That's an excellent question,

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you know what I mean? Thereare there are some really random other
days here. Yeah, Um,World Oceans Day, Um, National Name
your Poisoned Day? Yeah I don't. Yeah, that is that a drinking
kind of day? Yeah, Iwould have to assume. So name your

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poison National Oopsie Daisy Day? Now, have you ever used that term oopsie?
Daisy. Yeah, uh yeah,maybe a couple times in my life.
It's just not something that escapes mylips at her often. I think
I think I used it a fewtimes when it's growing up. It was
a rather common term when I wasgrowing up, but I think I used

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to use it. I may haveused it once in my first marriage too,
when I dropped a bowl and brokeit and I was trying to It
was one of my wife's favorite bowls. I don't know why you have a
favorite bowl, but one of herfavorite bowls, and it broke, and
I go, oops a daisy,hoping that that would smooth it over,
a cute little phrase, you know, oops a daisy. Oh, it

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was an accidant, you know,accident. But that didn't help me much,
I'll be honest. I thought shewas gonna oops a daisy met down
the front steps, but fortunately thatdid not happen. No, we still
we still have milair. I explainedto her. I explained to her,
when you're a kid and you're notdoing dishes, which we did, My

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brothers and I always did the supperdishes, et cetera, and if you
dropped a glass and broke it orsomething, like that. You felt really
bad, you felt you almost depressedyou a little bit. I broke,
you know, one of our someof our glassware. It seemed more serious.
But after we were married, asI explained to my ex, I
said, you know what, that'sour bowl. That's our bowl. No,

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it's going to puny shows for breakingit or dropping it. Maybe you
are me, but you know it'sit's not as serious an offense as when
we're growing up, which maybe it'sgood that we feel that responsible women are
growing up. My favorite national daytoday is World Brain Tumor Day. What

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do you do to celebrate that?Yeah? Sure, it's a light subject.
Why yeah, what do you?I mean? What do you?
Happy Brain Tumor Day? Yeah?Thank you. I'm just not going for
that one. I'm not either.Maybe you celebrate the I don't know.
Uh, they are more effective inhandling brain tumors than they were years ago.

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But World Brain Tumor Day, whatdo you do? Get together with
somebody who had a brain tumor orsomething? Maybe just an acknowledgement that it's
still an issue. Oh and uh, Now, the thing about brain tumors,
they're kind of they're kind of secretive. I mean, depending on it,
where it's located, etc. Butit's not one of those things you

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expect to go to doctor to say, oh I am I doing it.
We'll give you a CT scan,blah blah blah. Oh, by the
way, we found a brain tumor. Yeah, and that's never good news,
good or the world that we don'tgo. Oh, it's like it's
June eighth. Yeah, yeah,Oh, it's World Tumor Day. Yeah.
Yeah. And then the word thatgoes with that that you just never

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want to hear, it's called inoperable. Oh man, this is this is
a real bummer of a way tostart a morning mail. We got.
We gotta pep this up a littlebit. Well, I just wonder why
they would have world Well, yeah, no, I totally understand. Yeah,
it's also National best Friend's Day,now, I see. I like
that one. Yeah, I likethat one. And how many and I

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really mean this, how many BFFsdoes one have in this day and age?
How many people designate somebody as theirbest friend? And that they have
more than a best friend, Theyhave several best friends? I know I
do. If you ask me toname my very best friend, I couldn't

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do it. I have so manypeople that are dear to my heart.
I don't know whether they consider anhonor. Hey I heard your mail.
Crippen's best friend. Oh really,oh one more across the bear. But
yeah, I just uh, it'sI like so many people, and as

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I say, I hold them closeto me that it's hard for me to
just designate any one of them abest friend. Well, let's go ahead
and take a quick break and we'llbe right back here with Scott Kovac and
mel in the morning. You're listeningto Scott and mel in the Morning right
now. It is six twenty ninein the morning, and we are here
with some of the events of theyear. But before we get to those,

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before we get to the anniversaries thatland on today's day, June eighth,
we've got something even more special foryou. That is, you know,
more interesting perhaps than a pet.Brave I call it. I call
it close to the home, closeto a home. There we go,
yeah, yeah, and of coursewe're talking about the High v Birthday Club.
We have a blank sheet right now. Nobody emailed me along those lines.

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Nobody has called me yet this morning, but you can go for it
right now, five on five twothree two, fourteen thirty. That's five
on five two three two, fourteenthirty, And give me that name of
the person who's having a birthday andtheir phone number, and then a little
bit after eight we'll be drawing fora birthday cake or balloon bouquet from one

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of the aims high vs. Againfive one, five two three two,
fourteen thirty. The Birthday Club isnow in session. You're listening to Scott
and mel in the morning here onfourteen thirty k SI. Right now it
is six forty six am. Wehave a big old storm. It looks
like rolling in and it's question asto how much we'll cover or hit aims,

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but we're right on the edge ofit and it could be significant.
We're looking at probably a ninety percentchance of rain coming up here in the
next hour. Yeah, and thenit'll be gone, and then it'll be
gone. Then it be gone,we get sunshine and we'll get steen.
Not too steamy today though, seventyfour that's pretty pretty temperate. It sounds
like it's going to keep the temperaturedown just a bit. Yeah. I

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would tell you that Ricky Nelson doin that last song. Yeah, the
Son of Ozzie Ozzie Nelson and desMoines's sweetheart Harry had Hilliard his wife.
Anyway, Yeah, this was oneof the earlier renditions by Ricky when he
was trying to be recognized as somethingother than a child actor. He was

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up in his adolescent years sixteen seventeenyears old and wanted to be a pop
star, a rock star. AndI don't know if he ever really made
it, just I guess he did. He became bitter. He became bitter
because it was songs like this thatmade him popular. But he thought they

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were what do I say to sophomoric? Too simple? Little bo bob Yeah
and so, and he went ontour. Yeah, and every time he
would get up on the stage thereand start singing some of his new stuff,
the crowd would boo really and uh, yell and scream for Bebop Baby

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or a couple of his other songsout there. And that's when he wrote
the song about the garden um Um. But it was a song lamenting the
fact that he wanted to sing bettersongs, more meaningful songs, and uh,

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and the public wasn't having it,wasn't having it. I went to
a garden party. It was Iwent to a garden party. You know,
I don't remember that song at all. Yeah, yeah, that was
him his own way of complaining abouthis situation. Um. It may have
gotten somewhat better after that, buthe that into the world of drugs unfortunately,

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and of course he was killed ina plane crash. Um. And
they found on the plane what theythink was the cause of the crash was
they were using some kind of beautanelighter to fine tune their drugs a little
bit may have caused a fire onthe plane. And oh yeah, now
was this the day the music diedthat we're talking about that? No,

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no, no, no, thisis different. No, Ricky wasn't with
Buddy, Okay, all right,Buddy's was snowstorm related more than anything.
Okay, And uh yeah, DonMcLean made it pretty clear that it was
Buddy Holly's plane crash. There wasa lot of start Jim Crowchy died in
a plane crash, and uh,several rock groups around that time. It

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seemed like it. It seemed likeit. Um. I was I always
was a nervo fire. But youalways heard the horrendous things out there,
like a basketball team all wiped outplane crashes. Yeah, and we heard
Iowa State suffered a loss in aplane crash with the track, some track

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people that crashing into Moine. Infact, my older brother was one of
the guards around the wreckage down there, and he said it was just sad.
It was just as sad as itcould be. Um. And of
course, as I've mentioned before,my first fight, we landed in a

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soybean field. Wow, you don'twant to do that on your first flight.
You would like to land at thelocal airport. And we had We
had a mechanical problem with our plane, and I could see how that might
inspire confidence for future flights. Ohand I tell you, and as I
used to explain Old fatt Emil hadto set up front to balance the weightload

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on the plane, so I hada front row seat as we came down
in the beans, so to speak. Yeah, but a very capable pilot
landed us safely, did a littledamage to the plane. I will tell
you this much. We did nottake off from the bean field the next
day. Yeah. Yeah, butyeah, I'm I'm a nervous fire.

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Have you flown much, you know, not for years? Okay, not
for years. The last flight Itook was actually before meeting Virginia, almost
exactly before meeting Virchina, and thatwas, gosh, it would have been
ten years ago, just over tenyears ago. So yeah, I enjoy

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taking flights. It's kind of abummer that I haven't taken a flight recently.
I just haven't needed to. Yeah, there really hasn't been any occasion
for me to do so, andI really I have to make the occasion
myself. Virginia and I going onvacation of some sort or visiting relatives,

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what have you, but just haven'tdone so yet. Well, and now
I've been imported by my wife,it will be flying a little bit more
as their parents. I moved backto Oregon, so we will fly out,
not drive out. We have drivenout there before and I enjoy it,
but it's a long trip. Andshe said, well, you know,
we'll get more time to spend withthe parents. We're more time to

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go do what we want to do. And there's no doubt about that.
But last flight I took, theone out to Seattle, Washington, was
so cramped. Yeah, and Idid not enjoy it at all. And
that's when Chris declared, from nowon, it's business or first class.
Oh wow, Well that that bumpsit up enough. She's got money.
I don't, but you know,i'd have to wing, walk or something

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to to get to my destination.But no, and I agreed with her.
I said, if I have tofly, I wanted to be as
come trible as I can be.And I I told her, I said,
I'd charge her if I thought Icould afford it. But it's I
flew with private pilots. We usedto charge the planes right out here at

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the Ames Municipal Airport to our destinations, to a lot of our destinations.
And thoroughly had confidence in my pilotand the aircraft itself. I knew the
mechanics, you know. Everything wasto not say that something couldn't go wrong.
Obviously it could. We wouldn't havelanded in a soybean field. But

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perfectly comfortable. And I got tosee the things some people never see,
like I got to see Saint almostfire, really yeah, off the wings
of our plane. Just a bluekind of swirling flame that was out there.
It was, and that's quite thephenomenon. I've never I've never seen
Saint almost fire. Yeah, Andin fact, when I talk about it,
I almost feel like it's some sortof mystical thing that it maybe it

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really doesn't exist, but it's somesort of metaphysical, cosmic kind of thing
that would come out of a comicbook or something, but it's not well.
And then the other thing that maybeyou can describe it a little bit
melot. I don't know how manyof our listeners. We were going through
a storm situation, to be honest. I think it was a snowstorm just

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outside of Chicago and looked out onthe wingtips and it was like a beautyane
lighter or something. There are littleflames swirling around the wing out there.
And the other thing that was garyto me was the first time that our
plane iced that was accumulating ice onthe wings, etc. And they a

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lot of people are wearing, especiallyin the smaller planes, that they have
bladders on those wings and when theice accumulates so far, the pilot will
inflate those bladders and it will breakthe ice and it will fly off.
But it's a little just growing.When you hear that ice hit in the
side of your plane, yeah,boom boom, you know. But yeah,

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But like I say, I'm alwayshad confidence in our pilots. The
only time I didn't. The onlytime I didn't was when when we were
flying out of Stillwater, Oklahoma,and we had just finished a game for
I was stayed down there and goton our plane and started to take off.

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Johnny Orr was behind us, andthe team plane was behind us,
and we were first up on therunway and started to take off, and
one of the engines showed flames boom, yeah, and the and the pilot
looked over at me and said,don't worry about it now. It'll extinguish
itself when we get in the air, of course it will. Yeah.

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I'm listening to Scotland Mill in themorning at six fifty five. We're headed
up and into the seven o'clock hour. We hope you'll stay with us on
fourteen thirty. Hey, yes,seven fifteen am here on fourteen thirty.
K. Yes, I you're listeningto Scott and mel in the morning.

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Yes, yeah, very very good. Right now. You know, of
course, we've got that storm kindof headed in right now. It's just
that light sprinkling of rain currently heaviernorth, little little heavier north, little
heavier north. If I looked atradar, right sar SI scan radar indicates
well, up Fort Dodge, maybethirty minutes ago they actually had a thunderstorm

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up there, So and it lookslike that's what's rolling in for us.
We'll just have to we'll just haveto see um right now. Though it's
it's interesting looking at the weather reporthere hearing a lot about smog, and
again the smog is really burning forestfires up in Canada that are riding away

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weather pattern right on down to NewYork City. And it's not just New
York, it's a lot of theEast coast there in general, but in
New York in particular, we're lookingat a very unhealthy air quality. Is
that and that is the actual designation. We're looking at two oh three on

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the index for air health as itwere, the standard. The default is
a reading of one hundred. Yeah, so this is skyrocketed whise the normal
limits as it were, the orthe standard, qualifying specifically as very unhealthy.

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And right here talking about health effectswill be immediately felt by sensitive groups
or for example, people that haveasthma or OCPD and should avoid outdoor activity.
Healthy individuals are likely to experience difficultybreathe and wrote irritation consider saying indoors
and rescheduling outdoor activities, which theydid. On the professional level. They

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had canceled baseball game, a soccergame w NBA game that was scheduled to
go on yesterday, but it wasso bad out there they felt it would
jeopardize the health of the fans.And I will tell you right now,
I have never been in a situationwhere I have been told don't go outside,

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and it just scares the dickens outof me. It is rare.
Yeah, yeah, And we couldhave been in that situation but for the
weather pattern that's out there. AndI find it ironic that I was doing
a story about them canceling events becauseof the Canadian forest fires, but then
the Canadian Golf Open was going tostart up there, So evidently that weather

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patterns enough. The golf course isall right, but it's carrying the smoke
down into New York City. NewYork City is how do I put it?
It would be subject more vulnerable asfar as air condition. Number one.
The traffic that's in that city anyway, with the amount of people that

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they have, is already in jeopardy. I remember years ago, the big
stories. We're always on the WestCoast when it came to air quality in
California has done a lot in thateffort. They are the prime example of
something can be done. If you'veever driven out to California, are coming

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off the interstate, etc. Itisn't hard to spot Los Angeles. And
you know how you do it?Look at the sky, big gray cloud
over it. I mean, it'sbeautiful when their skies are clear, but
if they's beautiful when the sun's sunis setting too. For what might be
the reasons, but when that smogsets in, and it doesn't do it

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as much as it used to,but when that sets in, it it
just makes that whole city look uglyand dirty. Might compare it with Detroit.
Uh sorry, Detroit. Ten's there, but but I was never impressed
with Detroit and actually never really impressedwith Los Angeles to be honest. Well,

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in Los Angeles, I think isthere's so much culture possible that you
can you can experience there the heartof the movie making business, right yea,
but yeah, years ago, Ilast time I visited LA would have
been guys, twenty years ago.Yeah, And I remember looking out watching

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the sunset and looking at the glorioussunset that was occurring, and I thought,
wow, that is something else thatis not something you see every day.
My friend said, yeah, it'svery beautiful. You know why it
looks like that? And I said, I don't know, it's just gorgeous.
He said, it's the small Yeahit is. It's like going through

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the clouds sometimes here in Iowa.And I just I always get a kick
out of it. Because one year, our ABC Promotion convention and the National
Association of Broadcasters convention was in inLos Angeles, and I went out and
I took my assistant with me sothat he could experience it, because I

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was about to move out of myposition and he was about to move into
it. So I took him outthere and he had never seen the ocean
before. So we had a littletime off there and I said, I'll
tell you what, Let's drive downto Santa Monica Pier and you'll experienced a
couple of things. It's pretty fascinatingjust to see it, and if you
want to, you can dip yourlittle pities in the water there and say

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that you touched the ocean. Andgot him down there and we got found
a beat close to Santa Monica,and he got out, took his shoes
and socks off, and he wasjust gonna walk down into the water a
little bit. He wasn't gonna walktoo deeply into it. And I'm standing
back. I have no intention ofdoing it, but I said, you
go ahead, I'll wait for you. You don't have to hurry. And

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he went down there and he hadn'tstepped about four feet out there and let
out a scream. Really yeah,I said, what's wrong? What's wrong?
He says, octopus. I steppedon an octopus. And I said,
I kind of doubt that ry,but no, no, and he
reaches down and he pulls his thingup and it was what we referred to

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back then as an afro comb,the plastic combs, the pick like a
pick to keep your afro in goodshape. And I died laughing. It
was just hilarious. Stepped on anoctopus. But anyway, Yeah, I
never never wanted to live in LosAngeles. As I've said before, just

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have yourself a little earthquake and it'llif you're a good old Iowa and that's
enough. Yeah, round shaking underyour feet is a little unsettling. There's
in Saint New York City. Again, I'm fascinated by it. I am
fascinated by the lifestyle, but notwhat I would want to share. So

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yeah, it is just hustle andbustle, and people are West Coast.
How do I say this? Peopleare friendly, they'll smile and talk to
you. There's more of a Midwestatmosphere out there, but New York they'll
smile and talk to you, andthe next thing they're asking for a handout.
I mean, well, when Ithink are typically of the Northeast,

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I think of rather abrupt, hardnosed conversations, rough sarcastic, you know
that kind of thing. They're inhurry. Yeah, they're in a hurry
to get nowhere, but they're ina hurry. You can get out of
their way. I guess that's whyI've stayed here. Well, once again,
maybe they're just getting out of thewhole smog deal, the whole fires

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from from Canada, leaving that smokedown there on the eastern seaboard. Yeah,
of course, we wishing the best, of course, hope to Canada
that they get their situation figured out. You're listening to Scott and mel in
the morning here on fourteen thirty kSI. The time is currently seven twenty
four, seven forty three in themorning here on fourteen thirty k SI.

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You're listening to Scott and mel inthe morning. Right now. We have
one to come with us here,the none other than our own Mark Watson.
Sergeant Mark Watson. How you doingtoday, sir? I'm doing fine.
How about yourself? We're doing prettywell, pretty well. Yeah,
And we would remind folks this is, of course you're rush minutes report brought

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you by Mary Greenley Medical Center andMark. Anybody needing that medical center this
morning, at least as far astraffic goes. No, not as far
as traffic. I think you know. We're setting well right now. We
do have an officer down on Ibelieve he's on Highway thirty. I'm headed
down there now. But yeah,we believe some chunks of the brig word

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possibly taken out, possibly uh hitby a vehicle and some taken out of
the bridge. So we're headed downtaking a look at that. Okay,
Yeah, I see you needed tosay that since a little quicker was because
when he started out, he goeswe have an officer down and and then
then went on with it and boy, I never want to hear. Yeah,

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we have an officer down. Yeahright, my apologies, No,
no, no, I just justwhen I first heard that, I got
the tails and you continued on andh is the vehicle still there? Is
the bridge just damage? Well Ithink the bridge is just damage. We
sound like we have a plate ormaybe a partial plate, so I know

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we have some uh some things we'rein the works right now, so hopefully
we can find that vehicle if itdidn't stop nearby. Mark, I'm just
trying to remember. Were you everon the bike patrol? Yeah, I
still still in part of bike controlteam. Okay, I just wondered,
are you guys out yet? Iknow you're we're coming to near full a
full regiment as far as the policego, but are you able to get

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the bike patrol out a little more? Um? You know, we try,
We really try to get them out, especially when we have special events
and things like that going on.If I know some officers will get out
there. Some officers have been outalready on bike yeah yeah. And then
you know, we did the Mayor'sBike Ride, which is always kind of

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neat to do. Like I likethe bike patrol because it was and I
you know it because you were onit. But uh, and not that
you you have always been very personableand approachable, but that bike patrol kind
of when it takes the cruiser outfrom around you and leaves you out in
the open, people are more likelyto talk to you. Yeah, they

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really are, you know. Andsometimes we think the uniform has something to
do with people not wanting to talk, but I don't know, it's just
kind of different when when they seeus on bike. Yeah, it almost
brings a whole a whole new differentfeel and uh, it's really neat you
like you can say, we talkedto a lot of people. Um,
and it's not necessarily we're on patrollingon bike. No, certainly, there's

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always a part of that, butit has officers. But yeah, a
lot of it is just getting outthere, making community contacts and seeing what's
going on. Yeah, and it'slike the block parties, etc. Yeah,
absolutely, Yeah, do you getout there and do that. I
think my favorite vehicle that you guyshad, which just was hilarious to me,
was the segues. Yeah. Wedon't have the segue anymore, I

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know, but that was rodeo timefor the officers. It was, it
was it was interesting to ride.You know, you certainly wouldn't want to
want to wreck or even you don'twant to wreck a bike in front of
other people when you're out out ofcontrol and either. But yeah, that
was a little tougher and and toride. We had some officers that really

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really loved getting out there on thesegue. Yeah. Whatever happened to the
segue guys, I mean whatever whateverhad died it dine, I mean,
well, batteries went down or Yeah, they were expensive to keep running,
I think too, weren't they markIn matter of fact, they were.
Yes, I was gonna mention thesame thing because it took two batteries and

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they were they were really expensive.So there were times, I matter of
fact, I was in charge ofthis in the segue and I had to
go up there and up to Minnesotaand get a couple of batteries for that.
That's a long trip. Yeah,it was not a not a not
a great fun trip at all,But especially so segways are gone and we
try to use them, use thebike as much as we can. Yeah,

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I was, I was gonna say, I was trying to remember who
it was they got bucked off theseguay. Uh, and I seemed to
think it was Dan, but I'mnot sure. I think I think uh
sorry, Groners has been knocked offa couple of times. And you probably
remember Officer Nordy. Oh yeah,I'm absolutely remember. Yeah, he he,

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he loved. He would come inalmost daily nightly when we were on
nights, wanting to ride that segue. He got out there quite a bit
for in the evenings when they haduh, you know, things going on
in the parks and and uh yeah, we would see it frequently up at
the half Shell. Yeah, thehalf Show, you bet. Yeah,
yeah, I just wondered. Butuh, I'm glad to hear the bike

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patrol is back into activity again andand hopefully we get to see them out
there a little bit more. Uh. The only danger in that is,
you know, when they're wearing thosebike shorts and they've got those chicken legs,
those big, pale chicken legs goingaround up. Yeah. Well,
mel, it is almost seven fiftyin the morning. We don't want to
be thinking about that right now.All right, thank you, thank you

(34:15):
for saving me. We gotta getmoving along here, but really appreciate you
calling in on the Rushmanist Reports.Mel, can we get a rolling r
there? You can. You've beenlistening to the Rushmanist Report here with Sturgant
Mark Watson by fourteen thirty K Mark, have a good day. Yeah,

(34:37):
gentlemen, thank you. All right. You're looking at seven forty nine in
the morning here on fourteen thirty KSI. You're listening to Scott and Mel in
the morning seven fifty one. You'relistening to fourteen thirty k s. I
M right on the line here withMel and myself. We have Liz Calhoun

(34:57):
list How you doing, good morning. I'm doing well. How are you,
Scott? We're doing pretty well.We're doing pretty well. Hey yeah,
oh, she remembered me. Igot you. All right, I'm
that incidental guy. Anyway, thismorning's Scott's driving the bus. But uh,
you're not running the way the weatherhas been going. You're not running
out of stormwater, are you.No? If we've had some nice little

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rains recently, M yeah, justabout right, you know, to keep
saying green and growing. Yeah,and hopefully folks are utilizing these rains.
I know. I was telling Scottmy wife's really disappointed because the rains helped
my garden grow and she was thinkingI'd be a failure at that. But

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yeah, it does go a longways, you know, definite beats some
nice little gentle rain way better thanirrigation. I gotta I gotta promise from
her when she comes back. She'sover in Coralville right now for the bus
rodeo. I don't know, butanyway, she says, when she gets

(36:04):
back, then she will take meout and help me pick out a rain
barrel. Oh nice, Oh that'sexciting. Yeah, I am excited over
it. Yeah. I wanted toget a plain one, one of the
plain pottery kinds, so I canpaint it myself. Huh yeah, yeah,
you can customize it, and yeah, that's great. It doesn't take
much rain to fill one of thoseup, and we have the city has

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rebates available fifty dollars to help youto defray the cost of putting one of
those in and you can put inup to two per years, so that's
you know, yeah, definitely greatreuse of a rainwater. Now, Liz
understand, of course you're the stormwateranalysts for the City of Aims. Not

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only do we have rebates for rainbarrels, but I understand that there's a
couple of other rate rebates on theway if people are interesting. Yeah.
Yeah, So we have a Nativelandscaping rebate, which if people wants to
take an area of their yard andconvert it to native plants. Um,
it's a great, great way tohelp pay for some of that. Up

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to three hundred fifty dollars we willreimburse on that. And that one is
definitely taking taking hold people. There'smore people catching wind of that and deciding
to to not mow as much intheir yard and instead replace it with the
with the natives. And it couldalso do native turf, which grows and
slower than the cool season grasses andum, so that's an option there too.

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Yeah. And um so we hada native tree rebate recent plants or
native tree up to two per yearfrom that and get um seventy five dollars
off each tree. And there's that'sthat's a fairly new rebate. Um and
I'm thankful for it. Yeah.I just had to have two trees cut

(38:00):
down in my front yard and we'regoing to replace them and I'm going to
take advantage of the rebate. Yeah, yeah, that's great. We were
finishing up our fiscal year and westill have money available. That's that's usually
a question we get from people becausethat's that's in the application, like if
funds available and wet. We stilldo have those funds available for the year.

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So um, then July first startsa first, a new year,
so we'll definitely have have the moneythere if people want to take advantage of
those rebates. Well, and that'sone thing I've always been proud of this
city for is just concern over someof the natural things out there that need

(38:42):
to be custodian and uh and thenoffering rebates to make sure people remain interested.
Yeah, sometimes it just takes thatlittle bit of extra incentive to get
people to do it, you know. I think a lot of times we'll
talk to people and they'll be like, yeah, I've been wanting to do
that, and they see that there'sthere you know, they can give a
discount and that it's just sometimes thatextra little little push to get them to

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get them over over the hump offor us, you know, not just
an idea, but actually implementing it. What do you think, Liz,
I get your opinion on this.I'll just put some Iowa Prairie grass instead
of I got to replace some grassin my yard. Maybe go with Iowa
prairie grass and I won't have toever cut it, will I Yeah,
we have a little patch at thenorthwest corner of City Hall. If you

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want to see what it looks like. It's it's called blue Grama and it
grows just like six inches tall atthe most. Yeah and um yeah,
we it goes to see it receivesum, it's it's great. Uh you
know, it's it's got kind ofthat more rural look, but you don't
you don't have to mow it itand it actually doesn't better in the heat

(39:52):
of the summer. It will dobetter than than typical um, cool season
grass which comes to brown out let'sthink, gets hot and dry. Oh.
Thanks, thanks again, appreciate it, Liz, appreciate Liz Calhoun,
store water analyst for the City ofAames, thanks so much for joining us,
Liz. Yeah, thank you guys, yea, thank you. Bye

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bye. All right, and we'recoming up to the top of the hour
here, looking like just another hourhere, mel Yeah with you and me.
When Liz mentioned the paragraphs over thereby the parking lot at City Hall,
that parking lot is a wonder initself the way it was designed and
to control the water runoff, etcetera. There, it's kind of an

(40:36):
a ecological wonder in itself. SoI am I'm I'm very proud of the
seriousness that this city and the university, et cetera foots towards ecologically being smart.
Yeah, project, you're listening toScott and mel in the Morning here.
Thanks for squandering another perfectly good hourwith us. We've got another one

(40:57):
coming up. Would you like eightfifteen in the morning. You're listening to
fourteen thirty KSI Scott and mel inthe Morning. Mell's just stepped out here
for a little bit. I've gota couple of people from Extension with me
though I su Extension and now ifI'm not right, it is gosh.

(41:19):
You guys have a couple of toughnames there. What who do I have
here? Um, my name isCamilla Slusher. I'm the County Youth coordinator
for a Story County Extension. Ido a lot with four h and youth,
especially coming up. We've been preppingfor the Story County Fair July nineteenth
through the twenty third. Oh cool, that's that's coming up, and what

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about about a month's worth of days? Yeah, super quickly and here I've
got Yeah, I'm Belinda. I'mthe the food Nutrition educator with Story County
Extension. Okay, great, Sowhat you obviously you have the events with
the Story County Fair coming up.What else do you guys have coming up
on the schedule? Um, thissummer, we have a lot of summer

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youth events that are for all youthand Story County. They have all different
themes to them. If you havea youth have certain focus areas. But
that one's coming up. So nextTuesday, June thirteenth, at the Story
County Office, Um, we're doingFouragers and Training slash Fourage Project Day for

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those kindergarten through third graders and thenfourth grade and up, just to day
to work on Fourage Fair projects thatthey can bring to the Fair, that
they can exhibit, which includes arts, communications and civic engagement STEM and so
much more. Great. Yeah,the fee is twenty five dollars a participant,

(42:53):
fifteen dollars per fourage member and fifteenper additional siblings. So okay,
great, So a pricing structure there'snot too expensive, right, Yeah,
Yeah, we'll be having all thesupplies for them and helping them get get
all the stuff ready for the fair. So as you are interested in it,
you can call our office five one, five three three seven sixteen o

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one. And there's a couple otherprograms going on this coming up. Yeah,
Blenda, can you tell us aboutthose? Oh? Yeah, absolutely,
Um, next week we also haveBabysitting Basics, and so that's for
fifth grade and older. So studentsthat want to increase their confidence in being
a babysitter are welcome to come andthey'll do an intro to like first aid

(43:37):
and what to do in case ofan emergency, and I'm sure there's lots
of other things. They get totake a binder with information, I'm pretty
sure, so lots of information forstudents there to prepare them to be babysitters
and have fun. Especially this summer. You know, there's a lot of
baby need for babysitters. So that'sthat's unique because I think what I often
think of a babysitter, I thinkof somebody that just comes along and watches

(43:59):
the kid, you know, butyou have a lot more going into that.
Yeah, what all is included inthat information? Oh? Great question?
Um, there's um, there's justkind of uh the youth get more
ideas of Activitivia sure activity is andyep. Um just also what to do

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in case of an emergency. Actually, I got band aids and all the
things, uh to have in casethere's an emergency. Well, I wanted
to say thank you too both firstof all for taking the time to come
out here, um, but alsojust your involvement. Of course, you
guys are both Iowa State students.Is that Greig? Yes, we both

(44:42):
graduated. I just graduated okay,yeah, and I graduated last year.
So alumni team now that's right.Well, and thanks so much for coming
in and sharing those events with us. We really appreciate it, um,
and and it's it's very valuable tous. Is anybody want to give a
shout out to Yeah. This monthin June, we're also celebrating some birthdays

(45:05):
in the office. We've got Donovan, Amber and Patrick I'll have June birthday,
so we'll just give a shout outto that. All right, Happy
birthday to the extensions people. Great, Well, thanks so much for stopping
in. Really appreciate you guys takingthe time. It's a lot of good
information there. Thanks a lot ofthings on the schedule. If people want
to find out more or want toreview those dates and times, where should

(45:28):
they go? They should go toour website story Counting Extension. If you
just look that up, we'll comeright up. Or they can call us
at five one, five, threethree seven sixteen oh one. Great,
Can I hear that number one moretime? Yeah? Five one, five
three three seven one six o one. All right, Thanks to you both.

(45:52):
You guys, have a good morning, eight twenty two at fourteen thirty
k SI. You're listening to Scottand Melon. The morning here on your
would be Thursday morning. If I'mpaying attention here, we have, of
course the Breakfast Club coming around tomorrowup at Electric of the Electric Department of
the city. Mill is going tobe out there and he's going to be

(46:15):
talking to everybody from seven thirty toeight thirty. If you've got a special
person you want to nominate to comein and talk for your organization, it's
pretty easy to send him in betweenseven thirty and eight thirty in the morning.
No will talk to them and beable to get a little more information
out there about your special event ornonprofit organization's needs. Right now, I'm

(46:38):
here with Mike Galimo. Mike,how you doing good? Good? Doing
great? How are you doing it? I'm doing pretty well. Yeah.
So now right off the bat,I think I'm sure most of our regular
listeners recognize your name and and what'sgoing on here. There's going to be
some information about music. Can yougive us some specifics? What do we
have coming up? We've got aconcert tonight beames to be insiple and this

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is supposed to be our second concertof the season, but actually it's our
first concert of the season as wewere rained out last week. That's right.
Yeah, that was coming down thereat the moment. It was a
good call. Yeah, it wasa good call. So we need to
do that, but it was necessary. But we're excited about tonight. In
addition to the concert, it's alsoAims City Council Night, so members of

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the City Council, the Mayor willbe out there tonight providing free special ames,
water and cookies to everybody and lotsof goodies and so it's it's always
it will be a special night,that's right. Nothing gets more special than
having Mayor John Hala Andrew there yougo, yeah, and names water and
names water. Yeah, we dohave good water, so it would be
a fun concert. We have avocal soloist tonight. Jennifer Rogers is going

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to be with us. She isthe assistant choral director at Iowa State University,
a superb voice, and she's doingtwo pieces with us. Gabriel's Oboe
by an Italian composer, Ennio Morricone. Nobody knows that name, but he's
done lots of film films in Italyand one film score that he did in

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the US that is just really hauntingwas The Untouchables with Sean Connery and Kevin
Costner. Remember, but there's ahaunting alto saxophone solo that's that's used for
Sean Connery and there, at anyrate, it's a beautiful piece. Uh
and she sounds terrific. And thenshe's going to follow that up with a
nineteen forties Uh Andrew sister piece calledby Mere biss Do Shane, which is

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it's that you might not recognize thetitle, but it's the boom boom boom
boodoo boop boo and a lot ofpeople have called it. A lot of
people when they first heard it didn'tknow that there was one line in German.
So a lot of people, includingmy wife, thought it was my
dear mister Shane, and actually ifyou do a Google search for my dear

(48:50):
mister Shane, it comes up asthis tune. So oh really it's one
of those titles that kind of there'sa word for that thing, exact consistently
delivered. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But it's it's a fun tune and
again nineteen forties kind of a youknow, swing tune, which is a
lot of fun. But the group'splaying all kinds of pieces tonight. They're

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doing a Beatles medley, they're doingseventy six trombones. We've got a mambo
in there. Uh, we're doingprelude to Act three of Low and Grin
by Wagner. So it's a littlebit of variety. It's a lot of
variety. We have a little tributea prayer for Ukraine that that we've been
doing, and as always, weclose with a Susa March. So uh,

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it's just a lot of fun.It's out at Bandshell part tonight.
We started eight and the price ispretty good. It is free. Oh
so that's a little a little onthe high side. Yeah, yeah,
and we can little spend. Yeah, it's it's uh, not too bad.
And we tell people bring bring alawn chair. You know, some
people bring blankets. I think lawnchairs work a little bit better, especially

(49:53):
if the grass gets a little wetteror something like that. But you can
see better with a lawn chair.So, but the group sounds great.
We've had a couple of rehearsals anda lot of this music we were preparing
to play last week, so youknow, we've had an extra rehearsal on
it and it's going to be agreat concert tonight. And I know Ames
TV twelve is going to be outthere filming tonight too, so it's it's

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going to be a big night forus fancial part tonight. Now what I'm
sorry, what time does that kickoff again? Eight o'clock p Yeah,
And you know, in past years, some years going back a few we
used to have pre show entertainment thatwould start at seven fifteen, and we've
we've kind of stopped that. Peoplemove up a little bit closer and um
with after COVID, we kind ofreevaluated that and found that no people were

(50:38):
they were there for eight o'clock,so they're they're there to kind of watch
that show. So um. Butwe'll be out there tonight excellent, excellent
and again free. And if youget there early, you get the best
seat. Just bring your own seat. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
And you know there are some benchesand things out there, but those go
pretty quick. And there's people thatpicnic out there before the concerts, and

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you know, they're an area withthe swing sets where the kids can go
out and play and stuff like thatduring the concert. It's it's wonderful,
but we we always say we havesomething for everybody. We try to have
something for everybody's musical taste and everyage, and it's it's kind of a
diverse program It certainly sounds like you'vedone that. Yeah, the diversity of
the of the programming of the musicthere sounds like it'll be a lot of

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fun. Yeah, it will be, Yeah, it will be. And
the group is terrific, very dedicatedband members. They work hard and we
look forward to presenting these programs everyThursday. So we're out there every Thursday
in June and July eight o'clock.Great, and do you have anything special
coming up that you would like tohighlight? Next week is Flag Day,
so at seven forty five, wedo a special tribute Aimes Boy Scout Troop

(51:45):
one sixty nine will be out thereand the Ames Elks they help us present
a Flag Day ceremony which is whichis beautifully done. And the week after
that then we have a Patriotic programwhich is right before July fourth. So
there's always something that's relevant to thecalendar and holidays and things coming up,
so there's there's always something special.Well, there we go. Thanks again,

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Mike. I really appreciate you takingthe time out, you know,
venture by Melon morning once again,very familiar to the fourteen thirty k SI
studios I know, and just wantto say thanks again and look forward to
talking to you next week. Thankyou, Scott, and we appreciate this
appart of KASI being out there recordingthe concerts as well. We appreciate it

(52:28):
all right, everybody, time iscurrently eight twenty nine. You're listening to
fourteen thirty k SI. We've gotsome news coming up eight thirty eight.
Here on fourteen thirty k SI.Scott Kovac here joined by the one,
the Only Dave Sprout David Morning.Thank goodness, there's only one less competition
right. Wow, that's one wayof looking at it. Yes, that's

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true. And so we are lookinglike there was a very ominous looking threat
of storms moving through the area.We're looking at ninety percent about an hour
and a half ago, and thingshave toned down, if you will.
We're down to only about fifteen percentprecipitation, so that that storm system has

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moved over. Still very severe conditionsas far as air quality goes out in
New York City, hazardous to justabout anyone's health. We're not looking at
people that have breathing problems anymore ASTHMAor OCPD. Yeah, it's bigger than
that. Now it's a recommended thateveryone's stay indoors with clean filtered air.

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That's probably a good plan. Ithought that they canceled a couple of Major
League Baseball games last night in theEast Coast, and Yankees game in New
York and Phillies game in Philadelphia,both because of their quality last night,
And so we'll see see if they'rea pole to play today. I don't
know what it's gonna be like outthere today. Yeah, if it maintains
the same level of shall we sayclarity, no one's going to be out

(53:59):
there in that I want to bein the stands either by clarity. Based
on the pictures I saw on socialmedia, this guy was completely orange in
New York City. I mean,it's it's wild to see some of the
images coming out of there. Yeah, you got the lights of New York
City just being dampened right there atstreet level. UM, pretty intense.
So we're looking at a couple ofgames coming up here for Eames High School.

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We got one coming up tonight toactually two going up tonight, two
softball games. Mason City is intown, so I got the conference slash
divisional rivalry, and the conference isdivided into divisions, and Ames in Mason
City they're in the same division.So always always a little extra spice,
you know, of course, uhto that. But yeah, that's gonna

(54:45):
be fun. Four forty five tonightfor a pregame and then the double header.
Yeah, and that's that's home rso right here in names, uh
baseball team is also playing Mason City. So if you had out there,
you can kind of you know,you pay one in price, you can
go back and forth between the twobaseball on softball, that's pretty frequent,
especially with division games. I thinka lot of the conference games too.

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Um, they'll have the same opponentsplaying doubleheaders at both baseball on softball.
So it's a fun way to goabout it, I think, and it
makes for a lively atmosphere. Andif you can't make it. There is
a sports director here atop what Inever heard of him. I never heard
him. Dave's probab will be doing. It's played by played for the softball

(55:29):
team. That's every Yeah that wegot softball games tonight. So we had
baseball last night. That was aI heard it was a blow poor Hoover.
Uh you have twenty four to five. Wow ys Mel said it lasted
four innings, Yeah, three anda half. Three and a half,
I mean because they just didn't haveto bat in the bottom of the fourth.
It's such a big kay that themercy rule came into play there.

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So yeah, that's kind of howthat works. That's I don't I don't
remember in the time I've been here, which is only a little over a
year. Um, any blowout atthat level, did I miss one?
It's been probably been a long timesince I've seen a team on either side
win by that wide of a marginin a baseball or softball game. Um

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so yeah, that's it's unusual.Um, it's unfortunate. Uh that I
mean the Des Moines schools have theirvarious struggles trying to get just to get
enough kids out to even participate inthese sports, much less the resources to
coach them up and and and uhyou know, get the get the best
out of them at the same time. So that's um, you see it

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with various schools and some you know, Hoover usually has a pretty strong boys
basketball program. Um, but someof the other sports they're they're not as
strong. And you see that allover some some teams or some schools might
have a strong program in one areabut just don't have the the number of
students or the caliber of athlete tobe competitive in other sports. Right.

(57:00):
I mean, I know, somereally small schools traditionally you've had multiple sports
just simply because you want to fieldsomebody. You got the whole whole high
school has to go out if you'relooking for baseball, and the whole high
school has to go out if you'relooking for football, And um, I
don't we wouldn't play any any teamslike that. When I say Aames High

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wouldn't play any teams probably not,probably not schools that small. Sometimes you
see my games, you know,in baseball and other boys sports are in
the four A the highest division,and the girls it's five A the highest
division in some sports. And sometimesthey'll play a team, I like in
softball Mason City. Might I shouldlook this up? I think they're on
the four A level now that youknow there are five classifications, so things

(57:45):
are a little more spread out.Um. But they're also in the same
conference and have been for a longtime. Uh the the um. Well,
it's not unusual, say maybe youknow a five A or a four
A school to take on a threeA or sometimes even a two way school
like I don't think Gilbert and Ballardor two A three A something like,

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but I you know, Aims willplay at Gilbert, Nevada Ballard, you
know sometimes in non conference games inbaseball or softball or some other sports even
but it helps it one. Youknow those schools are close by, and
they also do a pretty good jobof a fielding you know, competitive teams
in those sports, and of courseit's a lot more fun I think in

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many cases when you know that inthe community, you know the other schools,
right, Yeah, I mean,you might be able to find in
a better match with another four Ateam, but if they're coming from halfway
across the state, Yeah, what'sthe point. Yeah? Yeah, And
you know, you know, Hucksor Ballard or Gilbert or you know whatever
is other school. They don't wantto to travel a million miles to take
on a high quality opponent, eitherwhen they can just take on Aims or

(58:52):
maybe another Story County school or nearbyschool that's also you know, similar enrollment
size, right, yeah, isthere when when you look forward? Of
course we're coming up near Gosh,already near the end. You know.
We had Lyle Fetters, the AmesI Flee director on last night for a
bit and he was saying that,yeah, we're I mean, it feels

(59:13):
like the season just started, butbasically we're about halfway through it. I
mean the last night it was thenineteenth game of the season for the Aames
baseball team, and that's about halfwaythere. So, um, looks like
we got Kevin Burke ready to go, we should uh, let's take a
break instead of answering the phone anduh, and we'll return and Scott will

(59:35):
talk with Kevin Burke from Discover Aimesyou're listening to fourteen thirty K Yes,
I it's eight forty seven in themorning, and we have let's see who
who's on. Who do we haveon the line with us here? Kevin
Kevin Burke, Kevin Burke with discoverAmes Kevin, How are you doing?
I'm doing great. How you doing, Scott? Pretty good? Pretty good?
Now. I know whenever you comeon, you've always got something interesting

(59:57):
to say about something that's going onin the community. What are you at
this day? Well, there's thereis a lot happening. I mean there's
you know, we have discovered aims. We're here to keep our residents educated
and up to date and informed onthe events and the happenings in the community.
But we're also here to to bringevents in because it certainly makes an

(01:00:21):
impact in our community, uh,economically and just overall quality of life.
And right now a couple of showsthings that are happening in town. We
have the America Hasta Society conventions goingon a gateway. They've got some opportunities
that are open to the public onSaturday and Sunday. We also another event

(01:00:43):
is the Iowa Button Show. Andso if you're into buttons, uh that
also, they also have some opportunitiesthat are open to the public as well
on uh Friday and Saturday. Soa couple of you show. This is
Dave bro I got a for youabout the button show. Sure are we
talking? Are we talking about likethe kind of buttons maybe like a political

(01:01:05):
campaign or something like that you pinnedon yourself, or the kind of buttons
that you sew, like on ashirt and such. That's a great question.
Well, I'm glad I asked it, and you know, I I
assume that it was the button likeyou keep your clothes. Yeah, it
could be used on your clothes.I guess we'll just have to go there
to find out, right, that'sright, Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

(01:01:27):
So I've literally never heard of anythinglike that, so I just had
to ask. Well, you know, last year we hosted uh well,
I wish I could remember what thename is, called Vectorians Association or something,
and it was coined tokens from likesubways and bus tokens um that people
collect those, and we hosted thatconference last year. So there's a conference

(01:01:52):
and an association for everything. Yeah, you can find a bunch of other
people who do the same. Sothere there are some unique things, but
you know, there's always a lotof entertainment that's happening in town. Um.
You know, tonight at A Louisville, you've got Forrest mccurran and the
Great Caesar's Goat uh performing it upat A Louville and Great Caesar's go To

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one of those bands that will beperforming on one of our stages at Redbright
too, So it's kind of kindof a neat local band, uh,
And that's a great venue up atA Louisville. And then we've also have
obviously the municipal band who got rainedout last week for their show and hopefully

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that at Banshell tonight will be ableto perform. Yeah. Yeah, Michael
Gallimo actually earlier on actually earlier thishour in fact um talking about that going
on on tonight. Yeah, andthe rain out as well. Do you
have anything else that maybe weather contingentwe should be looking out for and praying

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with the rain holds off? Well, you know, there's aims on the
half Shell, which is also aband shell, but that's tomorrow night.
So uh, you know, there'sI think a lot of our things,
even uh, you know, PrairieMoon has music that's going to be on
Sunday, UH Cornbread as their Fridaynight live entertainment, and then Roosevelt has

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UH their event on Sunday night aswell. So there's there's a lot of
live performances UH some in, someout, and just a great opportunity no
matter what you're interested in. Ithink that there's something for you out there,
Dave, if you referenced Rag Brye, Kevin and I got a couple

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questions on that. First. Sure, they had an advanced team come through
town this week, that they havesome folks who like ride the entire route
just to make sure that I guesseverything is in order. Was the Was
the Discovery Aims involved in that,Yes, we certainly were. Yeah,
So they ride the route. Theystart Sux City on Sunday and came into
town to simulate the ride on thedays that they would be coming into town.

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And they arrived Sunday around five o'clockand we met them up at the
Ames Middle School and rode in withsome of our board members. We had
some city officials, Commander Tuttle withAames PD and Brian Phillips with the City

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of Ames, a City Manager's office, so we had quite a few people
that rode in with them and thenrode into the stadium and across the bridge,
and then we also visited about somelogistical things with campgrounds, but they
had had an excellent visit and thenwe sent them off the next morning by
seven o'clock. There you go.That's gonna be I think a lot of

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people are gonna have fun with thatroute that goes around the stadium and then
you cross over the new pedestrian bridgethere too, right, correct, correct,
And so that's a unique thing we'dWe feel that it'll be really fun
for riders to experience the stadium.We've changed some of the round around the

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stadium so that way they'll go aroundthe hillside the north side of the stadium,
because that's the best view without havingto go into the stadium or you
know, into one of the wellsto be able to get into the stadium
to see the scoreboards and the stuff. So um, after they do that,
they'll be able to experience a syHawk trophy and that this is the

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only place in the state that peoplewill be able to see that. We
are excited about that as well.I'm sure all the Iowa fans on the
Rider are really looking forward to that. Anyway. I've heard from several of
them that said, well, Idon't know if i'm you don't have an
alternative? Yeah, exactly not thisyear. Um. The other rag By

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question I had you met, youknow, mentioned Great Caesar's Goat is among
the performing the bands who are performingright downtown here where we are. Uh
do you do you happen to havethat list of performers in front of you?
Sure? Yeah, yeah. Sowe'll have two stages. Our main
stage which will be on Main Streetclose to Douglass and that will be facing

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west, so that'll be our mainstage that'll have Stranger than Fiction that will
be in the afternoon, and thenBurning Sensations, another great local band at
six o'clock, right before our headlinerof Hairball at eight thirty on the main
stage. And then at the wehave the first National Bank stage, which
will actually be on Burnett facing MainStreet, and that kicks off at two

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o'clock with Great Caesar's Goat and thenFox Pen at four thirty, Buck Miller
Swagger Band at eight o'clock and thenthe Cherry Pickers at nine o'clock. So
we'll have two things going on andsomething for everybody. We think it's going
to be just a phenomenal nine.Yeah, it sounds like quite the full
bill there. Yeah, it's youknow, other than Hairball. All the

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bands are relatively local Central Iowa bandsand that was important to us because we've
got some great entertainers, great performers, and we want to do to give
them a platform or an opportunity tobe a part of rag Brye. Now
correct me if I'm wrong, butthe trip from Aims to de Moine,

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that particular leg of rag Brye tryingto get what a hundred thousand riders trying
to set a world record? Isthat right? Right? Right? Yeah?
I hope they don't give to onehundred thousands because that's going to be
a lot of people on the road. But the record is something like forty
three thousand, and it's an eventthat was in I believe, Italy,

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and that's the record that they're lookingto break. And so between Aims and
des Moines they will be heading outof Aims on South Dakota to through Slater
and then to Polk City and ultimatelyover to Ankeny, where they'll get on
Highway sixty nine, so that'll bewhere they'll do the actual record count is

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on sixty nine, and then fromthere they'll go straight to the state Capitol
on sixty nine and then from thereover to Waterworks Park. So a short
day, but we think it's goingto be a really awesome day. We
know a lot of people are comingto Aimes the night before to experience the
entertainment and then ride down to DesMoines, and we were prepared for that,

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and we're prepared for people come inthe morning of getting dropped off or
looking for a place to park.So we've all of those logistics will be
on our website, discover ams dotcom. Did you have an estimate,
Kevin at this point as to whatto expect just in terms of riders and
support staff and people just coming tovisit and experience, you know, all
the happenings with right Bray, youknow, Dave, I wish I did

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that. We're all guessing right now. We communicate with Des Moines pretty early.
I just had they're planning and sowe're all kind of guessing. Red
Bride's number for registered riders is abouttwenty nine thousand now, that's up significantly
from where they normally are and obviouslyhave what you call bandit writers, writers

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that aren't registered. We feel thatthere's a lot of normal bandits that this
year I've decided to register to bea part of this record. Not that
you have to be registered, butwould this being the fiftieth anniversary, people
want to be a part of itand registered. So we feel that some

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of the normal traditional bandits would aregetting registered. So it's still hard to
tell. I mean, thirty thousandriders for the week for red Bright,
that's that's a lot of people.That is a lot of people. If
we're looking to set that record.How far do people actually have to ride?
Do they have to go all theway to des Moines to set that
record? You know they're they're doingthe county in Ankeny. I don't know

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any of the specifics on it.Uh so no, it's had just had
one spot that they will need tothat they'll do the count and I don't
even know how they're doing that.Some guy with a clicker or just one
guy. Yeah, let real fast, Yeah, good luck. I know
that if they're worried that if theyget too many people then people would be
walking, well, then they don'tcount as writing into this record, so

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there is some some concerns that Redbry has, But they're working on all
those logistics and I'm not sure howthey're how they're playing that yet, but
I'm sure we'll learn more. Allright, Well, we're looking forward to
that already. Kevin, thanks alot for your time this week. Have
a good one. Thank you.Have a great day you too, And
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