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News Talk fourteen thirty K A sI six seventeen On a Tuesday morning,
Dave Sprout along with Scott Kovac fillingin from Mel in the morning. Mel
Kripten taking another vacation day today.He'll be in tomorrow as well as Friday,
for his final day with us hereat new Stalk fourteen thirty K s
I. Nonetheless, you know,despite our sadness at Mel's leaving, we
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can still enjoy a little Whitney Houstonthis morning. Do you enjoy a little
Whitney Houston from time to time?Scott, I do. Why wouldn't you?
Why wouldn't I? That's more ofa rhetorical question. You don't have
to answer that. I was goingto give you an answer anyway. The
song we enjoyed this morning from WhitneyHouston, I wanted to ask with somebody
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hit number one on the Billboard Hotone hundred on this date in nineteen eighty
seven, which just feels like sucha long time ago now, but also
doesn't feel like such a long timeago at the same time. I was
like thirteen when this song hit numberone. Anyway, so I'd like to
think I'm not that old, Butguess what I'm I'm that old. Yeah,
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yeah, it's it's it's been it'sbeen a it's been a while anyway.
That was actually the fourth number onesong for Whitney Houston and the uh
the song we heard this morning.I Want to Dance with Somebody was one
of four songs off the same albumto make number one. This came off
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her second album, and three othersongs from that same album actually reached number
one for Whitney Houston. I Wantto Dance with Somebody was written by George
Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, a marriedcouple, and they actually they had their
own performing act they recorded under thename Boy Meets Girl, and they wrote
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that song thinking they would record itthemselves, and then Clive Davis, who
was the head of Whitney Houston's recordlabel, said no, that's not gonna
happen. We're gonna give this toWhitney. She's gonna have a number one
hit with it, and you can, uh you know, try something else.
So yeah, it worked out okayfor pretty much everyone. I don't
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know if it would have reached numberone had it been recorded by somebody else,
probably not, because Whitney hus imean she's already you know, making
a big name for herself as anartist at that time. Um, but
you know, the songwriters, eventhough they didn't get to record it themselves,
they still get all that sweet sweetpublishing money from from a number one
hit. Whitney Houston with one ofher many number one hits there and yeah,
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it worked out okay, And that'smaybe the signature song for Whitney he
was I don't know, she hasso many huge hits, it's hard to
that one to me is one ofthe greatest for sure. Yeah, that's
I mean, it's certainly up there. Um, it's it's one of those
songs. It's one of the firstthat come to mind when I think about
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Whitney Houston and her career. AndI mean, she's got a ton of
hit songs out there, so you'reyour mileage may vary depending on your personal
preferences, but there's there's certainly alot to choose from. I found it
kind of interesting. I think itwas last year that they came out with
the biographical music film about Whitney Houston'slife. I think it was last year.
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Didn't do very well, so it'sall kind of got lost in the
shuffle. But it's I mean,it's hard to pull off that formula,
especially now it's kind of getting clichedand worn down, and people are probably
not terribly excited about another musical biographymotion picture. So Hurst didn't do particularly
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well, But um, Whitney Houstonis gonna be remembered for a long long
time based on her many, many, many, many hit records. Did
I say she had many because shokay, just to be clear, many
hit records for Whitney Houston. Hey, it's a Tuesday. It's June twenty
seven, six twenty one on NewsTalk fourteen thirty KSI it was Talk fourteen
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thirty k s. I had sixtwenty three on your Tuesday morning, Dave
and to Scott filling in from allin the morning. And I just my
greatest wish for you and everybody elseout there today is to enjoy National ice
Cream Cake Day. Oh hey,that's a good one. I mean,
as if we need an excuse toenjoy a good ice cream cake, today
is National ice cream Cake Day asusual. I don't know who you know
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decides what day it is, butnominates who cares that sikes National ice cream
Cake day. I mean best ofboth worlds, right, ice cream and
cake? Yeah, although does itdoes it have to have like a traditional
cake mixed with ice cream. It'sjust ice cream in the shape of a
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night of a cake, right,That's basically yeah, ice cream cake.
There's been kind of cake combined icecream. Um, well, we'll have
to just go get one, Iguess, and then do some experiments,
by which we mean eating the wholething ourselves. Oh, that would be
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that would be terrible. Um.If I'm going to enjoy, it's gotta
have chocolate in it. So itdoesn't have to be all chocolate, but
it's got to have chocolate in there. That's just how I am. Anything
chocolate, I'm pretty much. AndI don't mean white chocolate or dark.
I mean actual milk chocolate. That'sthe only real chocolate to me. But
anything with that and it is good, And an ice cream cake is no
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different. Cho Well you have badtaste buds, but anyway. Uh.
The origin of ice cream cake actuallyremains a mystery. Um, we don't
really know, I guess much aboutwho invented the ice cream cake, although
I don't know if it takes aterrible amount of genius to say, what
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if ice cream in shape of cake? I mean, well, it's it's
like the lady who invented the chocolatechip cookie she passed away this past year,
and it's one of those things.It's like, no one thought putting
chocolate chips into a cookie. Cookie'salready existed. Did she invent the chocolate
chip or the chocolate chip cookie?The chocolate chip cookie? Somebody else invented.
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Chocolate chips existed before the chocolate chipcookie. Yes see, I would
have thought that they were invented forthat express purpose, but they weren't.
Yeah, there you go. See, we're learning all kinds of things about
delicious, delicious foods today. Umyeah, so let's all get out and
get ourselves an ice cream cake.I presume you know Dairy Queen has them,
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right, Um? Who else isit? I don't does culvers do
like, well, they don't evendo ice cream. They have frozen custard,
which is different. I don't knowif they do frozen custard cakes or
who else might have ice cream?Cakes are a high ve. Speaking of
cakes, they have your traditional birthdaycakes or whatever other kind of purpose you
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want. You want a cake?Four? I don't know if they do
frozen cakes. Yeah I don't.I don't think so, but it might
be out. But yeah, speakingof High Ve, they present the U
the Birthday Club every two year onnews Talk fourteen thirty ks Hive, of
course. And you can call ina birthday, whether it's your own or
someone you know. Uh. Fiveone, five two three two, fourteen
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thirty is the number to place acall. And let us know who has
a birthday today five one, fivetwo three two, fourteen thirty. And
then later this morning, sometime beforenine o'clock you're on eight thirty ish,
let's say we'll announce a winner ortwo of a free birthday cake or balloon
bouquet if you're not into suits fromthe Ames High Ves. So let us
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know who's got a birthday five one, five two three two fourteen thirty.
Should we put Spider Man on thelist on the on the birthday? It's
possible, Well not actually, Imean not the character of Spider Man,
but Toby maguire, who portrayed SpiderMan in three films. It's birthday today,
Yes, all right, he's fortyeight, No way, yeah,
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forty eight. He's probably doesn't lookat pretty young looking guy for forty eight.
I guess no, I guess itwas four. He's been in four
Spider Man movies because I forgot aboutthe most recent one where you have like
three different Spider Man's or is itspider Man, spider Man, spider Man
the poor Rola. So yeah,you had the trilogy originally with Toby McGuire,
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and then he came back for whatit was a couple of years ago,
him and Andrew Garfield and Tom Hollandall in the same Spider Man movie
portraying three different Spider Man's. Howmany? How many spiders get spider Man?
Do you really get to say spiderMen, spider Man, spider Man?
That's kind of fun spider Man's.I like spider Man's, but I
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don't know why, just because it'sdifferent. It's different from like the plural
of man or woman, where it'sa designator of general human existence, right,
But Spider Man, he's a veryspecific superhero, fictional character. I
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think it's because it's fictional that Iwant to say spider Man's or to Maybe
it just sounds funny in my headand I keep laughing on myself every time
I say it. Anyway, Happybirthday, Spider Man's or at least Toby
McGuire also cellaring a birthday today.Is someone I'm sure you've heard of,
jj at jj at Abrams, jjAbrams, director, director, screenwriter,
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TV producer, movie producer. He'sdone, done it all pretty much right
on the screen. He's done it. Yeah, he uh what. He
wrote and directed two of the lastthree Star Wars flicks, and he was
one of the creative forces behind Law, which was quite the TV phenomenon for
a while there. I liked toshow. He had a show called Alias,
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which was kind of a spied actiondrama. I liked that show a
lot. I though that was reallygood. And I liked his first,
uh, Star Wars movie quite alot, The Force Awakens. That was
That's a fun flick. The secondone he did, which was what The
Rise of Skywalker, had its moments. He does really good at you know,
action pieces and some of the battlestuff from from that Star Wars movie.
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Very good, very well done.Yeah, the whole Rise of Skywalker
was the ninth film, is thatright? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
in the sort of prime Star Warsmovie Timeline. Yeah, um it just
some of the narrative didn't hold upfor me in that movie. It just
didn't quite make sense. But nonetheless, JJ Abrams, writer, director,
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producer. He is fifty seven today, so he's probably got he's got a
lot of work left in him.He'll be pumping out new movies left and
right. I'm sure all right.If it's your birthday or someone you know,
let us know five one, five, two, three two fourteen thirty
will add the name to the HIVbirthday list and pick a couple of winners.
Later this morning, right now atsix thirty time for a news update
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on Newstalk fourteen thirty KASI six fortyone on Newstalk fourteen thirty k A s
I Dave sprowlongside Scott Covac filling himFROMEL in the morning today, as we
present you with maybe the gutsiest attemptto rob a Las Vegas casino I've seen
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in a while, in the sensethat you know, you don't come in
guns blazing, or you know,stick them up and say hand over the
money or anything that a Vegas casino. You don't do that. What you
do is you call the the casinoand tell whoever answers the phone you're the
owner, and that you have tohand over like a million dollars because that's
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apparently what somebody did in Las Vegas. This, uh, this whole investigation
started ten days ago when the CircleHotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas reported
a possible scam to Las Vegas Police. A person from the hotel's security office
told detectives an unknown person had contactedthe casino cage it's where they keep the
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money, just to be clear,and they claim to be the owner of
the hotel, asking for three hundredtwenty thousand dollars for an emergency payment to
the fire department. There's there's alot of red flags coming up here.
What do you think, Scott,I it doesn't sound quite like Oceans eleven,
but that's exactly what came to mymind. You're reading my mind,
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and that's a scary proposition. Butyes, yeah, in Ocean's eleven.
If you haven't seen that movie,it's only been twenty two years. It's
a fantastic movie. First of all. I mean it's just very watchable,
very enjoyable. Scott, George Clooneyand Brad Pitt, Matt Dave and Julia
Roberts all being very charming, veryroguish, and they come up with this
whole you know, scheme of manipulationsand and uh, you know, and
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boy did they plan it out.They really do plan it out, and
they execute it beautifully, right,and everything works out for him. Uh,
this not quite as involved. Youknow, this is pretty straightforward to
think about it. Just really justpick up the phone and say, let's,
uh, you know, let's tryto fleece this this casino hotel for
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some money. The employee. Thecasino employee eventually ended up giving more than
one million dollar, handing over morethan a million dollars of the casino's money
to this scammer here. So thefirst the first red flag is one,
why would the casino owner call meperson who just works in the cage.
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And actually this person is a cagesupervisor. So they do have some management
to build. But I gotta imaginethere's at least a couple layers of management
between the owner and the cage manager. There must be several cage managers.
I mean, you don't work twentyfour hours a day to make sure that
the money isn't still n out ofthe cage, right or whatever? The
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cage manager does. I don't know. There's got to be some level of
management between like the like the theowners, like the CEO of High Art
Media is going to contact Scott directlyalready. Look, look, Scott,
you need to hand over three hundredthousand dollars of k A size money to
the h and we have that lyingaround tower. Yeah, had handed over
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to the fire department. Red flagnumber two, red flight. Why am
I the cage manager, being theone responsible for giving money to the fire
department? And two? Why dowhy do we have to give money to
the fire department in the first place? That doesn't make any sense. I
know, I might say, I'mI go to my manager with this,
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say do you know anything about howis this supposed to work? And then
maybe you go up the chain ofa command a little bit, and you
know, somebody who deals with thefire department on a regular basis might be
able to say, no, that'snot how the fire department works. Because
that's not how the fire dempart works. They don't call you and say,
look, we need to Well,the person who was impersonating the casino owner
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told the cage manager that the firedepartment needed to do a check on the
fire extinguishers, and they would needa payment for further safety devices. I
don't I don't understand how this isthe cage manager's job or why the cage
manager would think it's their job todo that. The cage supervisor brought the
money in four installments to the unknownperson at different offsite locations. The payment's
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totaled three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
five hundred thousand dollars plus three smallerdeposits, resulting in a total of one
million, one hundred and seventy thousanddollars. The employee believe she was on
the phone with the hotel's owner andtexting with her manager. So that's a
new miracle. Now that the manageror what you believe to be the manager
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is involved, and maybe all right, you start to think, oh,
I guess this is a although stillif your manager is just simply texting you
to tell you to do something likethis, yeah, that's I don't follow
up phone call. Maybe maybe atweet to the probably social media project.
Way, Yeah, I don't know, because I would imagine if you are
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a cage supervisor. You would knowwho your supervisor is, who your manager
is, who to go to,whose office to visit in person, to
talk to and say, hey,wait a minute, is this on the
up and up? What's do youknow anything about this? And I would
think I would hope that if amanager had actually sent a genuine text best
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to someone and then that person followsup in person just to make sure it's
they probably wouldn't get mad about thatbecause you're taking the initiative to protect the
casino's money, which is of avery high priority for casinos, right kind
of way they're there. Yeah,So a twenty three year old guy named
Eric Goodieris has been arrested and chargedin connection with this this fraud. He's
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charged with theft of more than onehundred thousand dollars, which I guess is
probably a higher level of crime thantheft of less than one hundred thousand right
now, I don't know if theyapparently that's the top level one hundred thousand
or more. It's the most mostfelonious you can get anyway. Detectives tracked
the vehicle involved in the suspected thatfinding its registered owner. Please suspect the
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car belonged to Goodieris's aunt, withwhom she lived, with whom he lives.
Please also surveilled to home seeing adifferent car arrive and then leave with
Godieris and another man. Please searchthe car, finding no money in it.
At that time. Around the sametime, policecerned obtained a warrant for
a search of the home, findingidentification belonging to Gurus Gudieris and a large
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bag of US currency bundles together withthe name Circa written on the bundle.
Now, that is probably a prettybig tip off right there. Police arrested
Goodier's June eighteenth, later discovered itnearly eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Police don't know, or at leastdidn't as a yesterday. This is a
report from a Las Vegas TV stationthat I'm I'm reading to you. Then
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the station as of yesterday didn't knowwho got the remaining way, So they
recovered eight hundred and fifty thousand dollarsat least about three hundred thousand dollars left
over, But they don't know exactlyor they don't have an accounting of that
money, or at least police haven'tshared that with anyone. And the guy,
the other guy who got in thecar with Goodierras before Gudierras was arrested,
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has not been detained or charged asof yet. Gudieris faces a similar
charge out of a county, aMosquite county. I guess it's a county
charge as a city state charge.Whatever. This guy, this guy said
to himself, and at twenty threeyears old, you could pretty much talk
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yourself into a lot of things thattrust me. I was twenty three years
years old ones and he could convincehimself, yeah, I can get away
with this. I'll just pretend tobe the owner of the casino. And
the thing about now. On theone hand, back in the old days
of Las Vegas, when the mobran everything, you'd never know this guy's
name, right, The police wouldnot be involved. This guy would be
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in a barrel at the bottom ofa lake mead or something like that.
You know. So, what,of course, has happened in the last
thirty forty years in Las Vegas isthat these casinos have become more corporate.
They're larger, you know, facility, I mean literally the buildings are bigger,
right, There's more space in thesecasinos, they're more hotel rooms,
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and um, there's more of acorporate structure. The circa the casino Questionnaires
owned by a pair of brothers,Derek and Greg Stevens, who own I
think a couple of other casinos inLas Vegas as well, and they built
a circuit and open in two thousand. So I don't know that. I
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guess that doesn't qualify as a momand pop kind of operation. But you
know, there there's some light likethe MGM Grand literally owned by MGM or
whatever their parent company. I mean, there's a lot of very large corporate
interests involved in In Vegas hotels now, and even if it's you know,
two brothers who own this hotel,they're still probably fairly dense corporate structure involved.
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I wonder if that isn't part ofthe problem is that, say MGM
had a corporate structure that has contingenciesfor odd behavior like this, that that
could be I mean, in thecorporate structure, there's probably a lot of
biography, and as I mentioned,probably a lot of layers, and maybe
maybe people don't really communicate face toface anymore with their managers and maybe that's
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what opens the door for a guyto just call up and say, uh,
listen, I need to take threehundred grand out of the cage and
bring it to me because I'm thefire department or whatever, or no,
because I don't know goes out thehotel casino. You need to deliver this
money to the fire department for me. Oh, and the guy who represents
you meet the guy here at notat the fire department itself, not that
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you'd meet at some other place tohand over the money. Just trust me.
I own the casino, so Iknow what I'm doing here. Yeah,
I don't know. It's it's it'spretty wild. You can just pick
up the phone instead of, youknow, gathering ten of your closest buddies
in the underworld to run a massivescam to rob a casino. But maybe
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that just happens in the movies.It's six fifty two on News Talk fourteen
thirty k SI. News Talk fourteenthirty KSI six fifty four on a Tuesday
morning. It's June twenty seventh.We're celebrating birthdays today. If you have
one, or if someone you knowhas one, let us know it.
Five one, five, two threetwo, fourteen thirty To have any birthdays
yet, Scott, and on thelist we do. We have a couple
here, all right, we havebarbe foul and see if I can read
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my own hand right we're discussing handwritingyesterday and how we can't read our own
handwriting. True today, still truetoday? Lily Ellis Lily is the other
contestant. All right. They're inthe drawing for a free birthday cake or
balloon bouquet from the Ames High vesAnd we have a plenty of space to
add to that list. Five one, five, two, three two,
fourteen thirty If you or somebody youknow has a birthday today, now,
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if we all lived, if welived in Korea right now, we'd be
on the verge of becoming younger.How's it well? In Korea they are
this is from the Korea Times.They're they're looking at getting rid of their
traditional method of counting a person's ageand officially adopting the internationally recognized system.
In fact, I guess they're gonnastart tomorrow. They're gonna implement what you
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and I consider to be the kindof traditional way of counting birthdays. You're
born on a date, one yearlater, you turn one year later,
you turn two, etcetera, etcetera. I don't need to walk through all
the way through this. No,it comes like year after year. You
know, you know how this trickystuff, but I've got a grasp with
yeah. So, traditionally, inthe system they've been using in Korea,
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the day you are born, you'reconsidered a year old, and then you
gain a year on the following firstof January, so you don't have to
age another year to be considered anotheryear older. So consider, for example,
if you were born on June twentyseven, Now you are automatically you're
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born. You're one year old inthe eyes of the government or whoever official
record. Then come January one,less than six or a little six months
from now, let's call it sixmonths from now. You would turn two
on January one, and your agewould and then so imagine if you were
born on December thirty first, Okay, you're one, you turn one because
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you're born that day. The nextday you turn two. That's how the
accounting has worked in Korea for formany years. But now they are actually
going by what is basically the internationalstandard is we know it now, and
so if if you are maybe twentytwenty one, your your age might drop
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down to as much as nineteen,Like a twenty one year old could suddenly
become nineteen tomorrow in Korea because they'rechanging the way they account this, So
we have actually found a way toget younger. Thank you Korea. We're
all suddenly younger people six fifty sevenon a Tuesday. And again, if
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you're getting older or know someone else, at least for today, share it
with us five on five two threetwo, fourteen thirty for the high By
Birthday Club and news Talk fourteen thirtyk Who's Talk fourteen thirty Kasi At seven
thirteen on a Tuesday morning, I'mDave Sprout along with Scott Kovac filling in
for Mel in the morning, takinga little vacation today. He'll be back
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tomorrow. Then he takes another vacationon Thursday, so it'll be David Scott
again, and then on Friday,Mel we'll wrap up his KASID career with
the final edition of the Breakfast Club. He'll be at the Ames Water Plant
starting at seven thirty, and everybody'sinvited to come out whether you want to
actually you know, talk on theradio or not. If you have something
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to promote. That'd be great obviously, But I think this is really going
to be more about Mel on Fridaythan anything else. I don't know,
just a haunch on my part,Scott, you know, I think that's
the case. And really, whenwe say anyone is welcome to attend,
we mean anyone. Yeah, ifyou can hear Dave's boys, Yeah,
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if you can hear my voice,you're welcome. Just come on by.
Yeah, and you just want tosay quick hi, Jake, Mel hand,
He'll do that for you. Youmight say you're you might think you're
staying a quick high, but Melhas a way of roping you into like
the conversation and you don't even realizethat he's he's sucked you in. He's
uh, he's that engaging. Andthat's why he's been um so good at
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doing the morning thing for three anda half decade. I mean a long
time, a long time. Overthirty two years. Yeah, man,
that boggles my mind. That's almosttwice as long as I've been here.
That's uh, that's really something.But if you if you get a chance,
if you want to swing by theAames Power Plant on Friday morning,
seven thirty or so, probably right, up until the end of the show.
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Really at nine o'clock, Mel willbe visiting with folks and talking with
anyone who wants to promote a localevent, whether it be a fundraiser or
a nonprofit organization, or just anexcuse to get people together. We're all
for it. So we'd love tohear about that too. If you want
to stop by the Breakfast Club onFriday morning, that'll be at the Ames
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Water Plant. You're on Newstalk fourteenthirty k SI. So we have on
tape now more or less officially acertain former president more or less admitting to
holding classified documents. I mean thatmight be where we're at. I'm not
entirely sure if this is going tobe enough to convict the guy, but
it's really fascinating stuff, as youmight have heard during the Fox News Radio
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update or might have come across inyour own, you know, news gathering
this morning. Anderson Cooper three sixtyon CNN last night played an audio recording
that includes new details from a twentytwenty one meeting at which former President Donald
Trump discussed this holding secret document hedid not to classify, but decided he
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would share. Nonetheless, the recordingwas taken from a July twenty twenty one
interview that Trump gave in his Bedminster, New Jersey resort. And what's I
don't know if it's ironic or howyou want to classify that the purpose of
that interview with Trump was not totalk about Trump. The interviewer was working
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on a memoir of former Trump chiefof staff Mark Meadows. So Trump,
somehow, in an interview that's supposedto be about someone else, made it
about himself. If can you believethat? Can you believe Donald Trump would
do such a thing, try toturn the conversation onto himself. I suppose
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as possible. I know, it'ssuch a selfless you know, polite individuals
such as him would never do that. The Special Counsel's indictment alleges that those
in attendants at the meeting with Trump, a writer, a publisher, and
two of Trump's staff members were shownclassified information about a Pentagon plan of attack
on an unspecified foreign country. Thisis not I don't The prosecutors probably didn't
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want this to get out there,but CNN got a hold of it,
and um they played it on AndersonCooper three sixty last night. And so
I took a little bit of thataudio that they shared last night. This
is less than two minutes. Butwhat I'm really want you to pay attention
to get your ear right up closeto the speaker or whatever, and listen
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to the rustling of papers. Youcan literally hear as Trump and others speak.
One of the other voices, you'llhear a female voice. Uh is
a Trump staffer, I believe,um kind of in the background there.
But what you're gonna hear most isTrump just ran. Don't even worry about
what he's rambling on about. Justmostly focused on the fact you can literally
hear the paper rustling as as Trumpspeaks. Let me see that I wanted
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to attack around. Isn't it amazingto have a big policy persisting just came
up? Look, this was him. They presented me. This is off
the record, but they presented methis. This was him. This was
the Defense Department in him. Wow, we looked at him. This was
him. This wasn't done by me. This was him. All sorts of
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stuff pages wrong at a minute.Let's say here, yeah, I just
found isn't that amazing? This totallywins my case, you know, except
it is like highly this is secretinflor Look look at this. You attack
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and Hillary would put that out allthe time. Anthony Wainer, By the
way, isn't it incredible? Yeah? I was just saying because we're talking
about it and he said he wantedto attack or run, and what he's
fish it's just done by the militarygiven to me. I think we can
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probably less this president. I couldn'tbe less, No, I can't,
you know, but this is thatinteresting. It's so cool. So I'm
looking, we hear and you probablyalmost didn't believe me, but now you
believe me. It's incredible, right, It brings him, brings him coach
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and push, okay, and thenthe end he's asking somebody to bring him
Coca Gola. I mean, this, this guy, he's uh, here's
a piece of work. I don'tknow if you're aware of this, but
Trump's a different breed of cat.I want to jump back to a couple
of things from this audio. Uh, this little bit right here, isn't
it amazing to have a big pilot? He was just he just came out.
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Isn't it amazing? I've got abig pile ready. He's just I
mean, is he not just basicallyshowing off all of the amazing classified information
that he's allowed to have in hispossession. Apparently, yeah, allowed him
to himself, even though he admitslater on it's not the classified this stuff
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is. It's classified him from He'sjust waving around showing it off to people,
bragging. I mean, I don'tknow, really out of character for
Trump to brag about something, buthe's there bragging about having these classified documents
in his possession. What do youmean, where did the documents come from?
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Is this from his private stash orhis life? Well, yeah,
of course, I mean yeah,I don't know. It's interesting that this
recording wasn't made at his resort inNew Jersey. Whereas I think the photos
we saw when the indictments first cameout, um were you know, the
stacks and stacks of boxes around marLago and in the bathroom, you know,
with the I mean, there's aniconic image if there ever was one,
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stacks have classified documents in boxes inhis bathroom. But this is different,
So I don't know. He mighthave might have decided, uh,
you know, left Marlago to goto New Jersey for this interview and decide,
you know, I'll take a fewof these classified documents with me just
in case I need him. Theynever know. Uh yeah, I mean,
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I mean to try to figure outwhat's going in that this guy's head
is a very difficult task. Outsideof the idea that he wants to make
it all about himself and make himselffeel like he's great or whatever and that
he can do whatever he wants.That's basically the prevailing thought probably going on.
And Donald Trump's added any particular time, is like, isn't this great
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what I'm doing? This thing?I can get away with it because I'm
me and therefore I'm special and don'thave to follow the rules. I mean,
that's which is which is will beinteresting to me because we talk about
following the rules and talking about himdeclassifying information as being something he should have
done prior to leaving office. Isthat something he could have done? But
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I've bet there's a process to that. I don't know how how much I
don't know if you, as apresident, you can just declassify things with
a stroke of a pen or whatever, and he could have maybe started that
process or done the signature thing heneed whatever needed to be done to declassify
these documents, and maybe he did. Maybe he tried to declassify some of
these and it didn't work out,and so it didn't happen. But he's
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it's just so arrogant and so selfcentered that he thinks he can just do
whatever, and he could just andit's not just. It doesn't just stop
at I'm going to take these,bring them to my home and keep them
in the bathroom. It's also Iam going to show these off to people.
I am going to explain to peoplehow cool I am and great I
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am by by demonstrating to you herehere, look at this, Look at
that I got this classified document.Would you like to know what it says?
Here it is? And I mean, that's just amazing. And I'm
really looking forward to the day thathe is behind bars because if if he
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if they can't convict Trump of thiscrime, I don't know what else you
can do. Of course, thisdoesn't prevent him from being the current Republican
front runner for next year's election.This is all pretty cool, I guess
with a lot of his supporters.And as an example of that, this
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was from the Associated Press. FormerPresident Donald Trump was honored as the Men
of the decade in a Michigan countyhe lost twice. He was honored this
we uh as the Oakland County RepublicanParty's Lincoln Day dinner, where he was
named by the party as it's Manof the Decade. Now, as we
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all know, you when you giveout an award like Man of the Decade,
and it's probably no accident it's Manof the Decade. Uh. You
you've taken nice You take a yearwith a nice round number in it,
like twenty twenty three. Oh no, wait, wait, wait, that
probably doesn't. Do you think theymade up this award just so they could
give it to Donald Trump? Youknow, there's a distinct possibility I could.
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I definitely get get that impression.Um. And it's also interested this
happened in suburban Detroit and not onlydid he you know, he lost the
popular vote in that county both timeshe ran for president, but he's also
widely um criticized, He's blamed,let's say, he's widely blamed for the
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line of the Republican Party's majority inMichigan. The Republican Party had ad majorities
in Michigan. It really controlled thestate kind of like the controls Iowa now
through about twenty nineteen, but Trumphimself proved to be so unpopular among voters
in that state that Democrats were ableto vault into the positions of power majority
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in leadership since twenty nineteen. Butnonetheless, don't tell, don't try to
tell Republicans that Donald Trump is unpopularor that he's probably not the guy to
lead your party to victory. Becausehe is, he must be your twenty
twenty three Oakland County, Michigan GOPMan of the Decade. It's a mouthful.
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Yeah, I need to find Idon't know. Maybe I don't know
if there's any details, further detailsthat they explained why Donald Trump is the
Man of the Decade, or ifthey explain what the qualifications are to be
Man of the decade, or whythey handed out a Man of the Decade
in twenty twenty three instead of waitingtill a decade to be over. Until
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until waiting us you got a roundnumber like ten or thirty. That's just
an excuse. I mean, thewhole point of Trump being in Michigan in
the first place is because he's runningfor president again, So they probably came
up with this award. So theyget more attention and we're giving it to
them. So here we are.It's seven twenty six on Tuesday, June
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twenty seven. On Newstalk fourteen thirty, Kasi, are you about to mow
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fourteen thirty Kasi, Dave sproutlongside.Scott Kovac Phillion from mel in the morning
for your Tuesday at sixty two andsome hazy sunshine this morning in Aimes.
I'm not sure if that's affecting anyone'scommute. Hopefully we'll find out soon how
the community is going. We don'thave anyone on the line yet from the
Eames Police Apartment for our rush minutesreport, but they can call in any
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second. That's part of the partof the fun, right Scott. Anything
can happen in any second. Mightget a call here. We might not
if they're terribly busy, but we'llhopefully hear the latest on how traffic is
going. I can offer you thismuch. We got the phone ringing right
now, so hopefully we'll get ourreport here shortly, and I'll wait to
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tell a little story from what Iobserved yesterday. Observes some uniquely bad choices
on main Street just yesterday. Butfirst and foremost, let's introduce Scott.
Who do we have on the linethis morning? We have Lieutenant Rop on
the line, Heathrop joining us thismorning. Lieutenant. How are we doing?
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Hey? What's shaking? We aredoing good? How are you?
I'm doing pretty well and I hopetraffic is moving along this morning at Aames
we are gosh, this is likea number of days in a row where
we're looking really good out there,all the way across the county. Just
more and more road construction. Butit's necessary, so we gotta gotta get
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her done. We are We shouldbe used to that by now. I
don't know about that. We can. I'll never get used to it,
I feel like, but I dounderstand the importance of it and keep our
wonderful roads here in La drivable.I've been passing through the was it twenty
fourth and Staying construction fairly regularly lastfew weeks, and that's slightly confusing,
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I guess, yeah, But youknow, you kind of you get a
sense of where those cones are andyou just stay in between them. You're
just fine. Yeah, it's alittle tight up there. Um. Last
week I had a car stall rightin the middle of those cones. We
got removed and all that good stuff. But there is light at the end
of the tunnel. If you lookat that northbound lane on Staying at twenty
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fourth, um, you can reallysee it looks like it's been widened a
little bit. Uh. It's anice road and when that's finished that I'll
probably alleviate some of the traffic upthere. And it looks really good.
So we're looking forward to getting thatfinished. Absolutely. Now I need to
Uh, I don't need to.I'd like to vent a little bit,
heath if I do it, weall need we all need to vent sometimes.
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Yeah. I saw some interesting parkingstrategies on Main Street and Names yesterday
and it's this all happened within abouta five to ten minute stretch. I'm
serious. I've never seen anything likethis in such a short amount of time.
But first of all, I goup to my favorite pizza place here
on Main Street. Absolutely we'll goname Mondays is, well, we'll go
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nameless, but we all know whoit is. And Mondays the thin pizza.
But go ahead, the thin pepperoniis my favorite. Go ahead,
there you go. So I'm I'mdriving up there, I'm looking for a
place park. I'm heading east.I see a couple slots open in the
parking on the westbound side, whichis the north side of Main Street.
But I'm like, well, Ican't get in there, can't. I
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couldn't possibly turn left into those parkingstalls that are facing the opposite direction.
So I went up to the amand I turnaround, and then I'm waiting
behind a couple of cars as carscoming from the other direction decide to go
ahead and take a left into theangled parking stalls, which made my head
wand exploded. And within thirty secondsof each where this happened twice on the
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same stretch of Main Street, andme and you know, like three other
cars are sitting there waiting for thesepeople to sort out because you you make
that turn. First of all,is that even legal? It's probably you
know, I guess I would thinkit's legal. Typically you can make a
U turn anywhere where there's not asign that says no U turn. But
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again, this is kind of whyit's frowned upon. It is because it
becomes a trap a issue people aremaking that making that wide left turn in
a really tight spot to try toget into those those parking spots. It's
cutthroat some day, so absolutely,and I know everybody wants to get their
slice of pizza. I mean,I get it, and there's a sense
of urgency. But the thing is, you know, you try to make
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that turn. You can't make thatturn. No, there's not many cars
that can turn that sharply that youcould just go straight into the angled parking
spot. So you gotta back up, and you gotta go forward. You
got back up, and you gottago forward. And meanwhile, these cars
are piling up, you know,behind you, And so that drives me
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nuts. Number One, I goingI get my pizza. By the way,
one of these people who part,you know, in this enraging manner,
they're still milling about outside trying tofigure out how to use a parking
meter. So maybe that tells mesomething about intelligence. Level, and so
I'm heading back the other way.I'm heading west now on Main Street,
and I get to the end ofMain Street, just right out in front
of our station here, and there'sthe Wells Fargo on the other side.
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And the car in front of memoves over into the opposite lane, so
it's now driving against traffic, andthen backs into an angled parking spot.
This I have never seen before.Huh, that's interesting unless they were loading
or unloading something from their trunk rightat their business there. But yeah,
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that's you don't don't drive an oncomingtraffic and don't back into those spots.
That's not how they're designed. Ican't believe the thought would even occur to
somebody to move into a lane whereyou're going to the opposite of traffic and
then and then you back up intothe meter angled parking spot. Hey,
you didn't have anything going on,you weren't. No, you didn't have
any place to be, So okay, first, that is true. I
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was never It wasn't on the clockor anything. But man, I I
let a lot of things get tome when driving, and I have to
vet myself from time to time.And I'm glad you're here heath to let
me share that with you. Yes, well, here, I have a
similar story. But this happened whenI was on vacation out in California,
and you can probably really recognize thatit's it's a gonna be a crazy out
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there with just the number of people. We were trying to get down to
the beach, and we got luckyand we had a parking spot. The
car was backing out right in frontof us, right the parking spot in
the car had just driven by that. Well, they stop their car in
the road as the car is backingout, and the passengers get out and
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they go stand in the parking lot. They had already driven past the parking
spot, and I was next inline, and I bit my tongue.
I started rolled down the passenger windowof my wife's yelling at me, don't
say anything, but I've got thisnineteen year old kid in the back seat
who who who is able to gethis window cracked and yells at him.
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I'm like, oh boy, herewe go, and we just kept on
driving. Yeah. Yeah, it'salways toompting when h I see somebody being
an idiot on the roadways to yellyeah, yeah, keep it to myself.
I rolled the windows and then icecream. Yeah, breats, think
about it. Is it really worthit? In ninety nine point nine percent
of the time, it's not.So you just never know what kind of
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person you're gonna counter when you youhave that road rage. All right,
Lieutenant Heathrop, thank you for theupdate. Thank you for letting me vent
a little bit and stay safe onthe roads day. Okay, sounds good.
I'll see you tomorrow. All right. Heath Ropp joining us for Rush
minutes. That's tended by Mary GreeleyMedical Center on Newstalk fourteen thirty KASI seven
fifty two on Newstalk fourteen thirty kA s I Dave Sprout with you alongside
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Scott Covic filling in for mel thismorning, and we are joined now by
We're Chicken's the Aims Fire chief Rich. Good morning to you. Hey,
good morning, Daves, morning,Scott, good you along. Thank yeah,
thank you for acknowledging Scott. Veryfew people I appreciate. What's the
latest, chief with the Games firedeparment these days? Yeah, So we're
busy, we're we're always constantly trainingand today we'll see if you're out by
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the Airings Airport and you see firetrucks driving around in circles, it's not
because we're lost. We're actually outthere doing training. So the next three
days we'll have crews out with theSiglar parking lot practicing our driving skills,
maneuvering skills. We have a skillstation that all the firefighters will go through
at least once a year, ifnot twice a year on driving the fire
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engines and getting them around and makingsure that we're operating safe. So if
you see it's out there, that'swhat we'll be up to today. So
I rather based on what you saythere, I gather that this isn't like
specific to those facilities that you're trainingfor. This is more of a general
it's just a good spot to practiceyour driving skills. Yeah, exactly.
We have different maneuvers that they haveto do. We have cones set up
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that they'll have to drive through tosimulate different turns, different docking, different
ways to get the apparatus through aserpentine and backing up. So driving a
fire engine, it's not everybody getsto do it, so we want to
make sure the people that do getto do it are are highly trained because
when we're out there was spun anemergent. Sometimes people don't always pull to
the rights and follow the law.They get a little bit nervous, and
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so we want to make sure thatwe have a highly trained people that can
get around people who maybe don't alwaysknow what to do when they see a
fire apparas behind them, which isalways to pull over to the rights and
stop and let the vehicle pass youand then you can go about your way.
I've been there. I've been thatthat idiot who doesn't get out of
the way because, like I mighthave the radio on so loud that I
don't care the fire engine or thesirens. So maybe another reason to turn
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the radio down a little bit soyou can hear emergency vehicles. Yeah,
unless you're listening to Mela, ofcourse, that's that's a given. Richie.
Also, I think you kind oftouched on something I wanted to ask
you too. You mentioned that youkind of have a specific role there as
as certain members of the fire departmentare are specified as as drivers. How
do you determine, you know,which guys is kind of voluntary or do
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you pick out some guys? Hey, I think you might might be good
at driving the fire truck. No, So all of our members are acquired
to be drivers, say okay,but we rotate them through. So we
have people that have been driving fora little while that have more experience that
then share it with the newer people. So we rotate all of our people
through just because you never know who'sgoing to be gone or who needs help
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on another shift, so everyone getsto do a little bit of everything.
When is the last time you comeacross the scene and you have to park
in such a way that maybe youhadn't had a chance to practice before.
Is that something that happens once ina while. It does the probably the
biggest thing we run into as avehicle. You get a you know,
around thirteenth Street, or you havea road that has a turney lane in
it, and somebody's in the turneylane. We come up behind them on
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an emergency call and they're just notfor sure what to do. So there's
times usually where we kind of havethe serpentine around people and cars that are
stopped. Which if you're in themiddle of the road and you're not sure
what to do and you camp safelypull over to the right, just stop
we'll get around you. We'll makeit work. So that's good. That's
a good answer to another question Ididn't know I had is what, yeah,
what to do if you're kind ofstuck there in the middle in a
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turn lane when an emergency vehicle ofany kind I guess pulls up. Yeah,
absolutely, just the best thing youcan do is stop and we'll if
we need you to move, we'llkind of help move along. But for
the most part, the best thingyou can do if you can't get over
to the right safely, just stopwhere you're at and we'll get around you.
So that's that's what they'll be outthere doing today is training on how
to get around cars. So andso if the truck needs me to move,
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what do you used to lay onthe horn get out of the way
and all. Honestly, yeah,there's sometimes that we haunt the hornet.
We don't want to make people nervous, but at the same time, if
we need people to get out ofthe way, that's what we have air
horns and sirens for us to helpclear the road ahead. And you know,
working with our public Works group,they've done outstanding job of especially in
our Artillier roads of having those partof a traffic engineering system that allows when
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a call comes in to actually startclearing the road ahead of us by use
of an optocom And pretty soon that'llbe going to more of a digital system
where the call will come in,it'll know through our computer aided disc batch
what route we're going to take,and they can start clearing intersections, you
know, two to three blocks aheadof where we're coming. So there's nickels
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there. Do you ever are youever able to maybe contact the police department
and get a like a police escortso to speak. Well, they're just
usually in the way to be onday, so they're usually heading to the
same emergency. So if anything,we're kind of looking out for each other
and making sure when we come toan intersection that they're not coming as coming
from the opposite direction, so wecan be safe. We don't get there,
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we can't we can't help you out, so we gotta get there safely,
all right, real quick? Thattraining that you're doing today, when
and where will you be doing thatagain? Yeah, that'll be from probably
about eight o'clock until probably four thisafternoon out of Sigler near Airport Road,
So it would have help for folkswho typically drive out there to maybe avoid
that area. Yeah, yep,it's a pretty low traffic area. But
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if somebody's out there, they havekids and they want to see fire trucks
driving around. There's this spot whereyou can park and just observe. Week
We encourage people come out and seethat. A Hey, thanks so much
for time, Ranch appreciate it.Thank that's Ames Fire Chief Rich Higgins joining
us this morning on a Tuesday.You're on news Talk fourteen thirty k A
s I sixty two degrees on ourway to a high five today, News
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Talk fourteen thirty KSI fourteen and ahalf minutes past eight o'clock. As.
Uh, well, I'm Dave Sproutand that's the Scott Kovac we're filling in
for mel in the morning, who'susing a little vacation today. We'll be
back tomorrow incidentally, But it's mypleasure, our pleasure, Scott. I'm
sorry, I don't want to beselfish, but our pleasure with your oversight
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there. Yeah, yeah, we'llwork it out later in the parking line.
Our pleasure to welcome Jean Krassey,the President CEO of the United Wave
of Story County. Gene, goodmorning, Good morning, Scott, good
morning day. How are you both. I'm well, I'm doing okay,
Yeah, and uh, we're gladto have you. Normally, you know,
we put the spotlight on a partneragency who works with the United Way,
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but we every so often got upwith the spot on the United Way
itself here in Story County. Sowe're glad to have you long to do
that. Gene, well, thankyou, and I want to thank Kasi
for being able to do this forour partners and for United Way of Story
County all these years. Really doappreciate the two of you, but we
also appreciate mel and all the workthat he's done to help promote human services
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in Story County. So he's he'son vacation today, but I'm sure he's
listening. So hopefully not because we'regonna say nice things about Melan. We
just his ego gets so big wheneverwe try to say something nice about Melanie
just absorbs it all. But nowit's it's it was it wasn't. I
don't know how this all started.In fact, was it Mel's idea was
a United Way or I guess youknow I've been with United Way thirteen years,
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and I believe this was always happening. So I think it started back
in nineteen fifty three when United Waybegan, and we are now seventy years
old, so that at the rightnow must have been two. Yeah he
started. It's just a little guy, just a young whippersnapper, so I'm
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not sure. But it's been agreat opportunity for our partner agencies to come
on and talk a little bit aboutwhat's happening in Story County, talk about
the needs, talk about the programsthat they are working on, talk about
the outcomes that are happening, andtalk about the impact that those dollars that
individuals contribute to United Way help usdo here at United Way and throughout Story
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County. So I know that it'sI know our listeners are excited to hear
a little bit more about agencies.United Way of Story County. Of course,
like I said, has been herefor seventy years, we have only
existed because of the support of thecommunity. We get over two million dollars
donated in our annual campaign. Wealso look for grants and other opportunities to
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help bring revenue into the community sothat we're able to support programs and services
that are impacting individuals and families.So how many at this point do you
know off top of your head ofhow many different agencies the United Way Story
County works with. Right, wehave thirty four partner agencies, and of
course you all know about Story County. The asset process, which is the
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four funders, United Wise, StoryCounty, City of Ames, Story County,
and Iowa State University. We pullour process together, so agencies just
submit one application to all four funders. We have over twenty volunteers community volunteers
that serve three years at a timeto help us with this process. They
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help look at the programs, theylook at the needs, they look at
the agency. They also look atthe outcomes of those programs and then they
make recommendations back to the individual funders. So those four funders, this last
year which will start July one withthe new dollars, over four point eight
million dollars was allocated through this process. Pretty impressive, and that's been around
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since nineteen eighty five, I believeif you talk to former assistant city manager
Bob Kindren, it started before that. Even Wow, it's been a long
time partnership and I want to giveyou a chance, Gene, to brag
a little bit about United Way ofStory Counting, particularly. I know you
have some staffers that you work with, people who with the United Way.
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They're on the payroll, but they'rereally given a lot of their own time
and efforts into this, and Iknow that it's something you greatly appreciate.
I do. You're absolutely right,and I'm very, very very fortunate to
be surrounded by such passionate, hardworking and dedicated individuals. I'll start with
Kristin Pates, who's our Resource developmentdirector. So she's been with the organization
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for fourteen years, so she evenhas more years than I have. We've
got Emily Randall, who are whois our excuse me, operations director,
and she's been with us a littleover three. We've got Anaka Mundel who's
our Community Impact director. She's beenwith us four And now I'm going to
start thinking really hard. Ali Prussia, which is she's the one that's listening
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right now. She's our marketing directorand she's been with us. Wow.
She started as a vista, sothat's how dedicated she is because she was
doing a year of service before shestarted on the payroll. Actually, we've
got Andy Fish, and we've gotMorgan or excuse me, where Riyah Morgan,
who are both our associate directors ofCommunity Impact. And last, but
certainly not least, is Kelly Wearson. She's the one that puts all the
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information in our database. I'm surroundedby wonderful staff, and equally as important,
we have a very dedicated board ofdirector. So if you have a
chance and can visit our website,because I won't rattle off their names in
their time, but if you visitour website, you'll see who the board
is. And we've had of reallygreat board of directors over the years,
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and then community partners like KSI,the City of the County. I was
staying, I mean, we've justhad wonderful partners that have helped make these
seventy years so incredibly wonderful for notonly me and my staff, but the
staff that came before us. Areyou seeing any particular agencies or areas of
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need that might be a little moreacute than others right now? Well,
there's always a need, but Ican tell you this that we just finished
our Live United food drive, Soa big shout out to the community for
helping to make that possible. Oneof the things that I noticed when I
first came to United way way backin twenty ten was that food insecurity was
really a situation that looked like itwas getting dire. Fast forward to March
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of twenty twenty, we saw whathappened with the pandemic. There was a
lot of supplements to help individuals andfamilies, and believe it or not,
but some of our community food pantriesactually saw a decrease in usage. Now
that those supplemental things are over andthe snap benefits are less, we've seen
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an incredible uptick in the usage atfood pantries. And what they've reported to
us is that they're actually seeing newindividuals and families weekly, not not just
you know, here and there,but weekly. So the food drive really
helped stock many of the shelves.We've got over twenty food pantries in Story
counties. So if you didn't knowthat number, yes, Scott just gave
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me a while. If you didn'tknow that number, it's because we're a
giving community. We're giving a carryingcounty, and small groups are starting food
pantries to make sure that the needsare met for their friends and neighbors.
Well, it's just pretty much yousay there that the need has kind of
gone up since the I shouldn't sayend of the pandemic, but since uh,
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you know, there's less government assistancenow related to the pandemic, and
that means that there's more demands onyou, which is a little counterintuitive because
it's easy to say, well,things are going better now everybody's back at
work or everybody's you know better,and we can get out and do things
again. But also some of thoseu some most assistance programs, or at
least the increase in assistance programs hasgone away, and that means more people
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are coming to whether it's not aWay or the other local agencies for help.
You're absolutely right, that is true, and things are good because there
are communities that are stepping up incommunities within Story County that are stepping up
and meeting the needs of those individualsthat are that are hungry and their kids
are hungry, and they're adults arehungry. So we've just got lots of
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partners that are helping us do that. You know, we knew that there
was a discrepancy between those that havethe financial resources and those that don't.
We knew that exist. It reallycame to light even more during the pandemic
and it's certainly not going away rightnow. So we continue to see the
needs increase. We continue to lookto our community to help partner, to
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help determine solutions. And there's lotsof solutions that we can be working on,
and we are working on them,including things like grade level reading,
making sure our kiddos are reading atgreat level by the time they graduate to
fourth grade, so that they're onthe track. They're they're on that academic
trajectory to graduate from high school andhopefully go on to either a profession or
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a college or trades, you know, so they are successful and they can
make a living that's going to feedtheir family. Well, Jeane, we
could probably talk all day about whatthe United Wata Story County does, but
if if folks want to find outmore, it looks like you got a
great website for that. We dohave a great website. And I do
want to say that our Golfer Kidsis August fourth. Alie's gonna yep,
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Friday, August fourth. I justlooked at the calendar. We have openings
for teams, so if KSI wantsto get a team together and go golfing
and just shut down the radio stationfor that day, it's a great opportunity
to learn. We have partner agenciesactually at the holes talking to our golfers.
We raise money for grants that impactfamilies and individuals. And like I
said, we're seventy years old,but we're going strong and we're going to
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keep going excellent. And more informationyouw story dot org is the website,
phone numbers five one, five two, six, eight, five one and
four two. You can stop inand say hey, just around the corner
here, it's three fifteen Clark Avenueand find out more. Just ask for
GENE right ask for Gene. Orif you are in need of services,
dial two one one. It's informationand referral service. And that same website,
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that phone number, that office.You can make donations or find out
more about making donations if you wantto help out. And again, not
just the United Way of Story County, but all the partner agencies here in
Story County. Gene always glad tohave you down. I know that you
were planning to see mail today,but we can we can give them a
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hard time. Maybe on Friday,if you want to stop by the Breakfast
Club and just say hi to Meiland wish him well on his way out.
The everybody's welcome to stop buy onFriday at the Ames Water Plant.
We'll be there, thanks so much. Gean Cressey from the United Way of
Story County, joining us for weeklyUnited Way a minute here on Newstalk fourteen
thirty k A s I say twentyseven on a Tuesday, July twenty seven,
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Newstalk fourteen thirty k s I withyour pal's Dave and Scott here filling
in from Mel. But one thingyou can never fill in for is the
high Vy Birthday Club. There's onlyone. We do it every day,
but there's only one a day.That's what I'm trying to say. That's
right away. We would like towish happy birthday on of course we are
looking at June twenty seventh today TusiaJune's twenty seventh. Want to wish Barb
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Foul a happy birthday and Lily Ellisa happy birthday as well, and wanted
to let each of you know.We'll be giving you a call find out
exactly which high Ve you'd like topick up your birthday cake from and of
course that birthday cake is free courtesyof high V. How then it works
out nice. We got two highV so we can give away two birthday
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club prizes. That's right, prettymuch worse for me, yeah, isn't
it. We are expecting high inthe middle eighties today on eighty five eighty
six degrees. We're in the midsixties and sunny at the moment. Although
darn Canadian wildfires are blanketing us withhaye, they're back to giving us and
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there aren't any air quality warnings ornotices for our area today. I don't
know if we'll see that. Thereare some areas in the Midwest that have
had some issues with air quality dueto this haze and the wildfire smoke and
all that. And I don't know. There's a rain that we are more
or less expecting tonight that can maybewash some of this stuff out of the
atmosphere. I don't know. Iwould hope, so, one would think.
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But we've still got that sort ofjet stream coming down from Canada,
so I'm sure it'll be replenished shortly. The well, I shouldn't speak to
how likely exactly these showers are.I guess its like forty fifty percent chance,
so you never know. I wasvisiting friends in the Twin Cities last
weekend, and the forecast for lastSaturday going, We're looked it up on
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Friday, We're going, we wantto do some stuff to go to these
places. But forecasts it's gonna rainall day. You know how much of
rain, like for five minutes.So we really didn't do anything. And
you know, I could have goneout and done some stuff, but every
time we looked at the forecast,it's like, oh, it's gonna rain
in an hour or two. Idon't even know what. No point to
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go on us, No no rain. Meanwhile, there was some rain coming
through here, yeah, over theweekend, and we could use more of
that. I mean, I guaranteethat let's a little shot of that.
It's helpful to the farmers. Butyeah, you know, some consistency across
the calendar wouldn't hurt. Oh,you ask any farmer, and I know
if you, I'll tell you aninch of rain a week and then the
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rest of the time nice and sunnyfor the crops to absorb the sunlight and
grow, and then you get therain to moisturize the fields, and that
would be just about perfect. ButI have never known a season with perfect
weather, at least as far asfarmers are concerned. Anyway, eight thirty
it's time for a news update onnews Talk fourteen thirty KSI News Talk fourteen
thirty KSI eight thirty eight and justa few minutes we are expecting to hear
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from Ames Squeeze Commander Dan Walter withhis weekly update on I guess generally speaking,
how we stay safe, What's what'shappening with the police department and the
rest. Speaking of staying safe,you know every parent wants to make sure
their kids stay safe online, andsocial media companies are under more scrutiny in
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pressure to to add privacy features aswell as measures to protect kids and teams
from online bullying and other problems thatyou know, affect their mental health basically
when they're online too much. Sothe Meta people, who if you don't
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know by now, that's the parentcompany of Facebook and Instagram. They're adding
new parental supervision tools and see features. But the cats here is that the
features require miners and their parents toopt in, raising questions about how effective
the measures would be which is it'sit's a tough balance because I know a
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couple of I know a few teenagers, not not many, but they're clever
bunch. I don't know, Scott, if you ever tried to get away
with anything as a kid. Ohobviously, right, yeah, we all,
we all did. And it justseems so much easier if I have
social media that I can keep mysocial media activity away from my parents because
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I got my own email address,got my own account for Facebook or Instagram
or what have you, and Ihave my own password and my parents don't
have to know, do they Unlessthey're actually on Facebook and Instagram too.
Maybe they might see my account popup there and then I get in trouble.
I suppose that's always possible, right, I suppose you could unfriend mom
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and dad, block mom and dadso they don't see here your your posts.
Yeah, that's always an option.Uh yeah, So one of the
measures Instagram is taking here will they'llthey'll send a notice to teens after they
have blocked someone, encouraging them tolet their parents supervise their account. The
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ideas to grab a kid's attention whenthey might be more open to parental guidance.
I don't know. Tell me,uh, I don't really think I
would be very responsive to Instagram tellingme, you know what, you should
check with your parents, because that'syeah, teenagers are very responsible like that.
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If a teen opts in, thesystem will let parents set time limits,
see who their kid follows or isfollowed by, and allows them to
track how much time the miner spendson Instagram. It does not let parents
see message content. Would think that'dbe pretty important too. Yeah, but
that's that's just me. But again, it all comes back to the kid,
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the account holder basically deciding to optin on that that plan where they
could just say no. And thequestion is if you opt in, can
you opt out? That's a goodquestion. Yeah, I don't. I
don't know that. Um one ofthe measures here. I'm trying to find
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this in this Associated Press story thatI came across. Okay, here's one
meta again. The parent company ofInstagram and Facebook, they're adding a parental
supervision tool to the their messenger feature. That's part of Facebook. You know,
they got the thing you could sendprivate messages. The opt in feature
lets parents see how much time theirchild spends on the messaging service and information
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such as their contact lists and privacysettings, but not who they are chatting
with. Um. Again, itsounds like they're trying to strike a fine
balance. Yeah, and maybe justmissing the mark. Yeah, kids under
thirteen are technically banned from social media, but come on, come on,
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we know they're on the TikTok's andthe Instagrams and the facebooks and all of
that. Beginning today, Meta willencourage, but not force, children to
take a break from Facebook, whichis already something they're doing on Instagram.
After twenty minutes, teenage users willget a notice to take time away from
the app. They want to keepscrolling, they can just close the notification.
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Oh that's good, it's been twentyminutes. Maybe you should stop.
NOPEO, stop bothering me. KindOf like my wife when she sets time
limits that are provided by Apple inthe iPhone, you can kind of say,
Okay, I don't want to spendany more than this amount of time
in a given day on my iPhonebecause she'll scroll and scroll, just like
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so many people doom scrolling right.Uh, But she ends up in a
position where she goes, this isenough, this is I don't want to
do any more than this. Amount. But then the next thing that happens
is you just clear it. Youknow, this says you spend enough screen
time. It's like would you liketo continue? It doesn't like shut off
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the hap for you. It doesn'tgo blank. That's enough for your own
good. Yeah, you need tostop here. Which, Yeah, I
kind of tend to get get downthe rabbit holes a little bit too on
the social media and Instagram, Igotta admit tends to stuck me in more
than I would like to admit.Like Twitter, I'm not comfortable admitting it,
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but I can't admit I spend toomuch time on Twitter. That's it's
just a given and it probably won'tchange. Uh. But Instagram, I
don't go there frequently, but whenI do, I end up spending more
time on there than I don't knowif I've ever been on Instagram for twenty
straight minutes. That feels like alot like that kind of update yourself quickly
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since it's primarily images. Yeah.TikTok actually has its own a sixty minute
time limit for users under eighteen,but they can bypass it by entering a
pass code set by either the teenor their parents. Right again, you're
letting teens decide am I going toobey the rules or am I not going
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to obey the rules? And thesearen't even really rules, are they?
So why would I go along withit? They're just fronting And the way
this looks, all you really haveto do is say why did they do
this if it's so easy to circumventAnd the answer is because at least they
can say they did it right,We've we've put a measure in place.
Of course, we want you tokeep using our service, but we put
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in a measure so the kids don'twatch too much, right exactly. It's
it's kind of you know, itgets back to protecting yourself against lawsuits,
right, you're making sure well,if if a kid, if our parent
maybe sues and said my kids spendtoo much time on Instagram and now they
have mental health problems, you needto pass and then you can say,
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well, look, we provided thesemeasures that we can't force you to do
anything, but we we put thisstuff in there. So yeah, it's
it's tricky. I'm not a parent, and probably for the best because trying
to manage a kid's social media time, that's got to be one of the
biggest challenges of parenting. Yeah,it's it's up there, because I mean,
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it makes you not only vulnerable tothe mental health issues that can come
along with you. You see otherpeople's posts and say, well, I'm
not as good as these people orI'm not living this life that I want
to live other people are, andyou know, gives you sense of inferiority
and kind of messes I'm sure messeswith your head, kind of mess with
mine too. And I'm a reasonablywell adjusted adult much less you know,
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not even an awkward teenager. Andfor the record, every teenager is an
awkward teenager, even if they don'tnecessarily show it. But we don't always
recognize that, especially when we areteenagers. We see other people and again
even now as a full grown adult, look around at other people's social media
and say, wow, that thatperson really has their life together. Why
can't I be like that? Andso yeah that I mean, in a
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teenage mind that's still developing, youcould easily see that swerving into not swerving,
that's a bad word for it,but you know, turning into depression
maybe or some other kind of meltmental health issue that says, well,
I'm not I'm not up to snuffas a human being, which come on,
none of us are. It's notthat we're all great, it's that
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we're all just kind of in thesame boat here of trying to figure out
what we're doing. But social mediamakes it so easy to give people an
impression, Oh, my life isso together. Look at this beautiful home.
Well it's the one corner of thehome you bother to clean, or
you know, it's the one timeyou go out to a fancy meal,
but you're gonna put pictures of thatup days. Or look at that selfie.
It's so incredible. They look amazing. Oh there's a reason this because
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they kept taking that these selfies untilthey got one that's amazing. Yeah,
that's true. And I saw apost once on social media. It showed
you, like an example of aphoto somebody took at this lakeside spot that
just looks so tranquil and peaceful,and it's like, you know, it's
given the impression, oh, you'reliving this life of togetherness and you're one
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with nature and all that. Andthen it showed an image from I think
an aerial image or just a widerview of that area and the line of
people waiting their turn to take theirpicture at the same spot. I mean,
it really lists the veil on alot of social media, but it
does. It's like I'm the onlyone here you. I mean, you
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take the picture from the right angleand it looks like you're the only one
there and you're enjoying this peaceful existenceby the lake, and no you're not.
You're just one of one hundred peoplein line to get this nice picture
and you know, look like you'reyou're living a better life than you actually
are. I don't know, it'slike you'd be like waiting in line to
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get a picture with Mickey Mouth atDisneyland and then making it look like you're
the only person at Disneyland or whatever. I mean what Disneyland is designed to
be. Wow, just you.It's all about the magic of the magic
Kingdom, right, It's that momentin which you are unique and everyone and
everything is perfect and along with awhole bunch of other people. They can
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say that a lot about tourist destinations. Yeah, that's right. And I
think a selfie kind of shows canshow exactly what you want it to.
Yeah, I mean exactly if youcontrol the impression of yourself, you give
to others. That's right. Thisis marketing and advertising. Foreign individual buy
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that same individual. We're all we'reall marketing ourselves. That's right. Yeah.
Anyway, good luck parents dealing withthe social media for your kids,
because man, I don't know thatthey're they're giving you much help, and
I'm certainly not in a position togive you much help. Eight forty nine
on a Tuesday morning, sixty eightdegrees and hazy sunshine in Aims. This
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is News Talk fourteen thirty KSI,News Talk fourteen thirty KSI eight fifty one.
As we welcome Aimes Police Commander DanWalter to the show this morning,
Dan, how are we doing today? Hey, I'm doing good. How
are you, Dave? I'm well, I'm doing better than that toilet and
I'm a park that you guys puton Twitter this week. I know,
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I know that wasn't good. Anotherexample of sometimes these shenanigans that cost a
lot of money is it's gonna costseveral thousand dollars to do that repair,
and sounds that it was a fireworkthat went down the toilet. Apparently maybe
they did the damage. And lookingat the picture here, just to give
people a sense who might not haveseen it. The bowl is basically completely
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destroyed in multiple pieces on the babyseat is still there, but man that
they yeah. Uh, someone madethe comment on one of these that you
know, pretty soon there won't beany bathrooms open. And I think that's
a good that's a good comment.Right. We've had uh, folks lighting
toilet paper on fire and some ofthese restrooms at the parks and now this
and so not not a good situationdoesn't make it good for the rest of
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us. Speaking of fireworks, itis prime time. Are you staying busy
with those calls? They're just starting. We're starting to get some calls on
the overnight. You know. Thehard thing about that is, uh,
you know, they come in late, late at night, they light off
one or two, especially this timeof year, and they're gone, So
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it's hard for us to h tocorrect behavior. Um, and it's a
remindered everybody to try to keep themto July fourth, try not to do
them late at night, and rememberyou can't do them in the city limits.
And my advice is just leave itto the professionals. Come out out
on the night of the third watchthe fireworks show. Plenty of good parking
available, you know, around Hiltonand Jack Trace to watch them. So
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h maybe just leave it to thefolks who you know, actually do this
for a living. Yeah, andthey'll put on a better show, I
promise than you're going to see insomebody's backyard the last two minutes until they're
and and then they know we're coming. So yeah, leave it to the
professionals. And uh, if youif you're gonna do it, even though
there's that window, I think peopleare more understanding if it's on July fourth
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and it's before you know, midnightor eleven o'clock. That helps. If
you're on the countying gonna put ona little show. Well, well,
the police spartment's role be uh duringthe firework show on the third and h
are you directing traffic helping parking thingslike that? Yeah, for the most
part, that's that's really all wedo is are down there helping the traffic
right after the show, right beforeit um and and really it's it's for
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the last several years it's gone onwithout really any issues and really predominantly just
done traffic control. That's good toknow people are at least behaving themselves for
the duration of the fireworks show andtraffic I don't probably not quite comparable to
game day traffic, but as closeas we get in the summer, yeah,
you're probably right. It's probably aboutas close as we get and we
can handle it. I mean,it works. To be patient if you're
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there, give yourself a little extratime. Know that everybody's leaving as soon
as that show gets done, soit's gonna take some time for us to
clear it all. Right, Whatelse has happening in anything trending out there
in the world of crime we needto know about now. You guys had
a good segment there about social mediaand all that goes on, and we're
still seeing a lot of young folksthat are posting, you know, pictures
of themselves or video and then andthen getting scammed quite frankly saying that you
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know, either solicit this or giveus as much of money or we're going
to post your video or photo onlineand to all your friends. And so
just a reminder to have that conversation, use these type of things where we're
having this conversation right now, togo home and have that conversation with you
on ones not to post photos andnot to talk with people they don't know
on social media. Oh, Dan, I know we don't have a lot
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of time, but I'm curious toknow how often do you have to deal
with the situation when a person perceiving, say in Instagram, has a very
low self esteem. Does that relatein any way to things that you see?
Oh? Sure, yeah, Anduh, you know, we see
things like this with social media.You know, you go back twenty years,
twenty plus years when I started,and something we never even dealt with,
and now it's all the time,and it's unfortunate, but particularly right
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now, we deal a lot withthese um when people are demanding money because
they've have a head of a photoor something that's been that they're threatening to
release. And so that's a bigpiece of what we see now, probably
more so than the other. I'msure AI won't make that any worse.
No, And we just, uh, we've had a lot of discussions about
AI, because he really becomes whatis real what isn't real, and it's
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going to make things hard to navigatingthe future, I think. And speaking
of social media too, I knowyou've talked about this before, but say
you're going on your summer vacation,or maybe you're out of town for the
Independence Day weekend coming up. Maybewait to show the pictures on your social
media so you don't tip off theout right. We know everybody wants to
get those photographs out right away,showcasing where they're at and the great beach
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scene and so forth. It betterto wait. We do see a lot
of burglaries, particularly in names becausepeople leave for a longer period of time,
especially students. Wait until you're backbefore you broadcast that you've been away
on vacation. That's a good idea. Now real quick too, just well,
we got a minute and a halfhere, but we were talking with
Rich Higgins down at the Fire Department. I know you guys have your fierce
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rivalry with your dent from the firedepartment. But they're doing some some driving
training today and we were talking aboutthat with him earlier. Where do the
police go, how frequently to thepolice kind of do refresher courses on driving?
H and where does that usually occur? Yeah? And where can we
watch pitt maneuvers? So interesting enough, we have we also have drivers training
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next week. We do it onan annual basis at a minimum, and
so we'll do that training at differentlocations throughout the throughout the city and county.
This time we're doing it a lotof parking types stuff and backwards driving
that kind of thing at her andwe're doing it at the Plex Community Church
Christ Community Church up north and sowe're kind of usually looking for big,
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wide open spaces and sometimes we're limited. We've also done it at the I'm
forgetting the name of it right atthe moment, but the kind of the
expo where they home the host theFarmers Show every year is that the Hanson
Highway thirty thank you, So we'lldo it there because there's a lot of
a lot of wide open space andless ability for us to run into something.
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All right, Well, hopefully youguys stay safe out there. I
believe next Tuesday is corporate holiday,so we won't have a show for you
to be on next Tuesday. Andactually, to be honest, beyond that,
we don't know what's happening since melis retiring on Friday. But if
you and the rest of the policebarm wanting to come out wish mel Well
in his retirement, stop by thewater Plant on Friday morning. We'll be
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doing a show from there starting atseven thirty sounds good. I think we're
planning on being there and since wewon't talk, wish everybody be fourth in
the BC. YE back at you, Thank you so much, Thanks Dave.
Commander Dan Walter joining us from theAge Police sparment this morning for his
weekly visit again next next Tuesday,being a holiday, were not a visit
with the commander, but hopefully we'llvisit with him regularly no matter what happens,
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and ask him Friday coming up now, we'll go back tomorrow and then
Fridays a light show, so hopefullystay with us A new Stock fourteen thirty
day as I
News Talk fourteen thirty K A sI six seventeen On a Tuesday morning,
Dave Sprout along with Scott Kovac fillingin from Mel in the morning. Mel
Kripten taking another vacation day today.He'll be in tomorrow as well as Friday,
for his final day with us hereat new Stalk fourteen thirty K s
I. Nonetheless, you know,despite our sadness at Mel's leaving, we
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can still enjoy a little Whitney Houstonthis morning. Do you enjoy a little
Whitney Houston from time to time?Scott, I do. Why wouldn't you?
Why wouldn't I? That's more ofa rhetorical question. You don't have
to answer that. I was goingto give you an answer anyway. The
song we enjoyed this morning from WhitneyHouston, I wanted to ask with somebody
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hit number one on the Billboard Hotone hundred on this date in nineteen eighty
seven, which just feels like sucha long time ago now, but also
doesn't feel like such a long timeago at the same time. I was
like thirteen when this song hit numberone. Anyway, so I'd like to
think I'm not that old, Butguess what I'm I'm that old. Yeah,
(01:03):
yeah, it's it's it's been it'sbeen a it's been a while anyway.
That was actually the fourth number onesong for Whitney Houston and the uh
the song we heard this morning.I Want to Dance with Somebody was one
of four songs off the same albumto make number one. This came off
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her second album, and three othersongs from that same album actually reached number
one for Whitney Houston. I Wantto Dance with Somebody was written by George
Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, a marriedcouple, and they actually they had their
own performing act they recorded under thename Boy Meets Girl, and they wrote
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that song thinking they would record itthemselves, and then Clive Davis, who
was the head of Whitney Houston's recordlabel, said no, that's not gonna
happen. We're gonna give this toWhitney. She's gonna have a number one
hit with it, and you can, uh you know, try something else.
So yeah, it worked out okayfor pretty much everyone. I don't
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know if it would have reached numberone had it been recorded by somebody else,
probably not, because Whitney hus imean she's already you know, making
a big name for herself as anartist at that time. Um, but
you know, the songwriters, eventhough they didn't get to record it themselves,
they still get all that sweet sweetpublishing money from from a number one
hit. Whitney Houston with one ofher many number one hits there and yeah,
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it worked out okay, And that'smaybe the signature song for Whitney he
was I don't know, she hasso many huge hits, it's hard to
that one to me is one ofthe greatest for sure. Yeah, that's
I mean, it's certainly up there. Um, it's it's one of those
songs. It's one of the firstthat come to mind when I think about
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Whitney Houston and her career. AndI mean, she's got a ton of
hit songs out there, so you'reyour mileage may vary depending on your personal
preferences, but there's there's certainly alot to choose from. I found it
kind of interesting. I think itwas last year that they came out with
the biographical music film about Whitney Houston'slife. I think it was last year.
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Didn't do very well, so it'sall kind of got lost in the
shuffle. But it's I mean,it's hard to pull off that formula,
especially now it's kind of getting clichedand worn down, and people are probably
not terribly excited about another musical biographymotion picture. So Hurst didn't do particularly
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well, But um, Whitney Houstonis gonna be remembered for a long long
time based on her many, many, many, many hit records. Did
I say she had many because shokay, just to be clear, many
hit records for Whitney Houston. Hey, it's a Tuesday. It's June twenty
seven, six twenty one on NewsTalk fourteen thirty KSI it was Talk fourteen
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thirty k s. I had sixtwenty three on your Tuesday morning, Dave
and to Scott filling in from allin the morning. And I just my
greatest wish for you and everybody elseout there today is to enjoy National ice
Cream Cake Day. Oh hey,that's a good one. I mean,
as if we need an excuse toenjoy a good ice cream cake, today
is National ice cream Cake Day asusual. I don't know who you know
(04:27):
decides what day it is, butnominates who cares that sikes National ice cream
Cake day. I mean best ofboth worlds, right, ice cream and
cake? Yeah, although does itdoes it have to have like a traditional
cake mixed with ice cream. It'sjust ice cream in the shape of a
(04:48):
night of a cake, right,That's basically yeah, ice cream cake.
There's been kind of cake combined icecream. Um, well, we'll have
to just go get one, Iguess, and then do some experiments,
by which we mean eating the wholething ourselves. Oh, that would be
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that would be terrible. Um.If I'm going to enjoy, it's gotta
have chocolate in it. So itdoesn't have to be all chocolate, but
it's got to have chocolate in there. That's just how I am. Anything
chocolate, I'm pretty much. AndI don't mean white chocolate or dark.
I mean actual milk chocolate. That'sthe only real chocolate to me. But
anything with that and it is good, And an ice cream cake is no
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different. Cho Well you have badtaste buds, but anyway. Uh.
The origin of ice cream cake actuallyremains a mystery. Um, we don't
really know, I guess much aboutwho invented the ice cream cake, although
I don't know if it takes aterrible amount of genius to say, what
(05:57):
if ice cream in shape of cake? I mean, well, it's it's
like the lady who invented the chocolatechip cookie she passed away this past year,
and it's one of those things.It's like, no one thought putting
chocolate chips into a cookie. Cookie'salready existed. Did she invent the chocolate
chip or the chocolate chip cookie?The chocolate chip cookie? Somebody else invented.
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Chocolate chips existed before the chocolate chipcookie. Yes see, I would
have thought that they were invented forthat express purpose, but they weren't.
Yeah, there you go. See, we're learning all kinds of things about
delicious, delicious foods today. Umyeah, so let's all get out and
get ourselves an ice cream cake.I presume you know Dairy Queen has them,
(06:46):
right, Um? Who else isit? I don't does culvers do
like, well, they don't evendo ice cream. They have frozen custard,
which is different. I don't knowif they do frozen custard cakes or
who else might have ice cream?Cakes are a high ve. Speaking of
cakes, they have your traditional birthdaycakes or whatever other kind of purpose you
(07:06):
want. You want a cake?Four? I don't know if they do
frozen cakes. Yeah I don't.I don't think so, but it might
be out. But yeah, speakingof High Ve, they present the U
the Birthday Club every two year onnews Talk fourteen thirty ks Hive, of
course. And you can call ina birthday, whether it's your own or
someone you know. Uh. Fiveone, five two three two, fourteen
(07:28):
thirty is the number to place acall. And let us know who has
a birthday today five one, fivetwo three two, fourteen thirty. And
then later this morning, sometime beforenine o'clock you're on eight thirty ish,
let's say we'll announce a winner ortwo of a free birthday cake or balloon
bouquet if you're not into suits fromthe Ames High Ves. So let us
(07:50):
know who's got a birthday five one, five two three two fourteen thirty.
Should we put Spider Man on thelist on the on the birthday? It's
possible, Well not actually, Imean not the character of Spider Man,
but Toby maguire, who portrayed SpiderMan in three films. It's birthday today,
Yes, all right, he's fortyeight, No way, yeah,
(08:13):
forty eight. He's probably doesn't lookat pretty young looking guy for forty eight.
I guess no, I guess itwas four. He's been in four
Spider Man movies because I forgot aboutthe most recent one where you have like
three different Spider Man's or is itspider Man, spider Man, spider Man
the poor Rola. So yeah,you had the trilogy originally with Toby McGuire,
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and then he came back for whatit was a couple of years ago,
him and Andrew Garfield and Tom Hollandall in the same Spider Man movie
portraying three different Spider Man's. Howmany? How many spiders get spider Man?
Do you really get to say spiderMen, spider Man, spider Man?
That's kind of fun spider Man's.I like spider Man's, but I
(08:58):
don't know why, just because it'sdifferent. It's different from like the plural
of man or woman, where it'sa designator of general human existence, right,
But Spider Man, he's a veryspecific superhero, fictional character. I
(09:22):
think it's because it's fictional that Iwant to say spider Man's or to Maybe
it just sounds funny in my headand I keep laughing on myself every time
I say it. Anyway, Happybirthday, Spider Man's or at least Toby
McGuire also cellaring a birthday today.Is someone I'm sure you've heard of,
jj at jj at Abrams, jjAbrams, director, director, screenwriter,
(09:45):
TV producer, movie producer. He'sdone, done it all pretty much right
on the screen. He's done it. Yeah, he uh what. He
wrote and directed two of the lastthree Star Wars flicks, and he was
one of the creative forces behind Law, which was quite the TV phenomenon for
a while there. I liked toshow. He had a show called Alias,
(10:05):
which was kind of a spied actiondrama. I liked that show a
lot. I though that was reallygood. And I liked his first,
uh, Star Wars movie quite alot, The Force Awakens. That was
That's a fun flick. The secondone he did, which was what The
Rise of Skywalker, had its moments. He does really good at you know,
action pieces and some of the battlestuff from from that Star Wars movie.
(10:28):
Very good, very well done.Yeah, the whole Rise of Skywalker
was the ninth film, is thatright? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
in the sort of prime Star Warsmovie Timeline. Yeah, um it just
some of the narrative didn't hold upfor me in that movie. It just
didn't quite make sense. But nonetheless, JJ Abrams, writer, director,
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producer. He is fifty seven today, so he's probably got he's got a
lot of work left in him.He'll be pumping out new movies left and
right. I'm sure all right.If it's your birthday or someone you know,
let us know five one, five, two, three two fourteen thirty
will add the name to the HIVbirthday list and pick a couple of winners.
Later this morning, right now atsix thirty time for a news update
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on Newstalk fourteen thirty KASI six fortyone on Newstalk fourteen thirty k A s
I Dave sprowlongside Scott Covac filling himFROMEL in the morning today, as we
present you with maybe the gutsiest attemptto rob a Las Vegas casino I've seen
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in a while, in the sensethat you know, you don't come in
guns blazing, or you know,stick them up and say hand over the
money or anything that a Vegas casino. You don't do that. What you
do is you call the the casinoand tell whoever answers the phone you're the
owner, and that you have tohand over like a million dollars because that's
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apparently what somebody did in Las Vegas. This, uh, this whole investigation
started ten days ago when the CircleHotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas reported
a possible scam to Las Vegas Police. A person from the hotel's security office
told detectives an unknown person had contactedthe casino cage it's where they keep the
(12:18):
money, just to be clear,and they claim to be the owner of
the hotel, asking for three hundredtwenty thousand dollars for an emergency payment to
the fire department. There's there's alot of red flags coming up here.
What do you think, Scott,I it doesn't sound quite like Oceans eleven,
but that's exactly what came to mymind. You're reading my mind,
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and that's a scary proposition. Butyes, yeah, in Ocean's eleven.
If you haven't seen that movie,it's only been twenty two years. It's
a fantastic movie. First of all. I mean it's just very watchable,
very enjoyable. Scott, George Clooneyand Brad Pitt, Matt Dave and Julia
Roberts all being very charming, veryroguish, and they come up with this
whole you know, scheme of manipulationsand and uh, you know, and
(13:07):
boy did they plan it out.They really do plan it out, and
they execute it beautifully, right,and everything works out for him. Uh,
this not quite as involved. Youknow, this is pretty straightforward to
think about it. Just really justpick up the phone and say, let's,
uh, you know, let's tryto fleece this this casino hotel for
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some money. The employee. Thecasino employee eventually ended up giving more than
one million dollar, handing over morethan a million dollars of the casino's money
to this scammer here. So thefirst the first red flag is one,
why would the casino owner call meperson who just works in the cage.
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And actually this person is a cagesupervisor. So they do have some management
to build. But I gotta imaginethere's at least a couple layers of management
between the owner and the cage manager. There must be several cage managers.
I mean, you don't work twentyfour hours a day to make sure that
the money isn't still n out ofthe cage, right or whatever? The
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cage manager does. I don't know. There's got to be some level of
management between like the like the theowners, like the CEO of High Art
Media is going to contact Scott directlyalready. Look, look, Scott,
you need to hand over three hundredthousand dollars of k A size money to
the h and we have that lyingaround tower. Yeah, had handed over
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to the fire department. Red flagnumber two, red flight. Why am
I the cage manager, being theone responsible for giving money to the fire
department? And two? Why dowhy do we have to give money to
the fire department in the first place? That doesn't make any sense. I
know, I might say, I'mI go to my manager with this,
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say do you know anything about howis this supposed to work? And then
maybe you go up the chain ofa command a little bit, and you
know, somebody who deals with thefire department on a regular basis might be
able to say, no, that'snot how the fire department works. Because
that's not how the fire dempart works. They don't call you and say,
look, we need to Well,the person who was impersonating the casino owner
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told the cage manager that the firedepartment needed to do a check on the
fire extinguishers, and they would needa payment for further safety devices. I
don't I don't understand how this isthe cage manager's job or why the cage
manager would think it's their job todo that. The cage supervisor brought the
money in four installments to the unknownperson at different offsite locations. The payment's
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totaled three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
five hundred thousand dollars plus three smallerdeposits, resulting in a total of one
million, one hundred and seventy thousanddollars. The employee believe she was on
the phone with the hotel's owner andtexting with her manager. So that's a
new miracle. Now that the manageror what you believe to be the manager
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is involved, and maybe all right, you start to think, oh,
I guess this is a although stillif your manager is just simply texting you
to tell you to do something likethis, yeah, that's I don't follow
up phone call. Maybe maybe atweet to the probably social media project.
Way, Yeah, I don't know, because I would imagine if you are
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a cage supervisor. You would knowwho your supervisor is, who your manager
is, who to go to,whose office to visit in person, to
talk to and say, hey,wait a minute, is this on the
up and up? What's do youknow anything about this? And I would
think I would hope that if amanager had actually sent a genuine text best
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to someone and then that person followsup in person just to make sure it's
they probably wouldn't get mad about thatbecause you're taking the initiative to protect the
casino's money, which is of avery high priority for casinos, right kind
of way they're there. Yeah,So a twenty three year old guy named
Eric Goodieris has been arrested and chargedin connection with this this fraud. He's
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charged with theft of more than onehundred thousand dollars, which I guess is
probably a higher level of crime thantheft of less than one hundred thousand right
now, I don't know if theyapparently that's the top level one hundred thousand
or more. It's the most mostfelonious you can get anyway. Detectives tracked
the vehicle involved in the suspected thatfinding its registered owner. Please suspect the
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car belonged to Goodieris's aunt, withwhom she lived, with whom he lives.
Please also surveilled to home seeing adifferent car arrive and then leave with
Godieris and another man. Please searchthe car, finding no money in it.
At that time. Around the sametime, policecerned obtained a warrant for
a search of the home, findingidentification belonging to Gurus Gudieris and a large
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bag of US currency bundles together withthe name Circa written on the bundle.
Now, that is probably a prettybig tip off right there. Police arrested
Goodier's June eighteenth, later discovered itnearly eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Police don't know, or at leastdidn't as a yesterday. This is a
report from a Las Vegas TV stationthat I'm I'm reading to you. Then
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the station as of yesterday didn't knowwho got the remaining way, So they
recovered eight hundred and fifty thousand dollarsat least about three hundred thousand dollars left
over, But they don't know exactlyor they don't have an accounting of that
money, or at least police haven'tshared that with anyone. And the guy,
the other guy who got in thecar with Goodierras before Gudierras was arrested,
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has not been detained or charged asof yet. Gudieris faces a similar
charge out of a county, aMosquite county. I guess it's a county
charge as a city state charge.Whatever. This guy, this guy said
to himself, and at twenty threeyears old, you could pretty much talk
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yourself into a lot of things thattrust me. I was twenty three years
years old ones and he could convincehimself, yeah, I can get away
with this. I'll just pretend tobe the owner of the casino. And
the thing about now. On theone hand, back in the old days
of Las Vegas, when the mobran everything, you'd never know this guy's
name, right, The police wouldnot be involved. This guy would be
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in a barrel at the bottom ofa lake mead or something like that.
You know. So, what,of course, has happened in the last
thirty forty years in Las Vegas isthat these casinos have become more corporate.
They're larger, you know, facility, I mean literally the buildings are bigger,
right, There's more space in thesecasinos, they're more hotel rooms,
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and um, there's more of acorporate structure. The circa the casino Questionnaires
owned by a pair of brothers,Derek and Greg Stevens, who own I
think a couple of other casinos inLas Vegas as well, and they built
a circuit and open in two thousand. So I don't know that. I
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guess that doesn't qualify as a momand pop kind of operation. But you
know, there there's some light likethe MGM Grand literally owned by MGM or
whatever their parent company. I mean, there's a lot of very large corporate
interests involved in In Vegas hotels now, and even if it's you know,
two brothers who own this hotel,they're still probably fairly dense corporate structure involved.
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I wonder if that isn't part ofthe problem is that, say MGM
had a corporate structure that has contingenciesfor odd behavior like this, that that
could be I mean, in thecorporate structure, there's probably a lot of
biography, and as I mentioned,probably a lot of layers, and maybe
maybe people don't really communicate face toface anymore with their managers and maybe that's
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what opens the door for a guyto just call up and say, uh,
listen, I need to take threehundred grand out of the cage and
bring it to me because I'm thefire department or whatever, or no,
because I don't know goes out thehotel casino. You need to deliver this
money to the fire department for me. Oh, and the guy who represents
you meet the guy here at notat the fire department itself, not that
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you'd meet at some other place tohand over the money. Just trust me.
I own the casino, so Iknow what I'm doing here. Yeah,
I don't know. It's it's it'spretty wild. You can just pick
up the phone instead of, youknow, gathering ten of your closest buddies
in the underworld to run a massivescam to rob a casino. But maybe
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that just happens in the movies.It's six fifty two on News Talk fourteen
thirty k SI. News Talk fourteenthirty KSI six fifty four on a Tuesday
morning. It's June twenty seventh.We're celebrating birthdays today. If you have
one, or if someone you knowhas one, let us know it.
Five one, five, two threetwo, fourteen thirty To have any birthdays
yet, Scott, and on thelist we do. We have a couple
here, all right, we havebarbe foul and see if I can read
(22:23):
my own hand right we're discussing handwritingyesterday and how we can't read our own
handwriting. True today, still truetoday? Lily Ellis Lily is the other
contestant. All right. They're inthe drawing for a free birthday cake or
balloon bouquet from the Ames High vesAnd we have a plenty of space to
add to that list. Five one, five, two, three two,
fourteen thirty If you or somebody youknow has a birthday today, now,
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if we all lived, if welived in Korea right now, we'd be
on the verge of becoming younger.How's it well? In Korea they are
this is from the Korea Times.They're they're looking at getting rid of their
traditional method of counting a person's ageand officially adopting the internationally recognized system.
In fact, I guess they're gonnastart tomorrow. They're gonna implement what you
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and I consider to be the kindof traditional way of counting birthdays. You're
born on a date, one yearlater, you turn one year later,
you turn two, etcetera, etcetera. I don't need to walk through all
the way through this. No,it comes like year after year. You
know, you know how this trickystuff, but I've got a grasp with
yeah. So, traditionally, inthe system they've been using in Korea,
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the day you are born, you'reconsidered a year old, and then you
gain a year on the following firstof January, so you don't have to
age another year to be considered anotheryear older. So consider, for example,
if you were born on June twentyseven, Now you are automatically you're
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born. You're one year old inthe eyes of the government or whoever official
record. Then come January one,less than six or a little six months
from now, let's call it sixmonths from now. You would turn two
on January one, and your agewould and then so imagine if you were
born on December thirty first, Okay, you're one, you turn one because
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you're born that day. The nextday you turn two. That's how the
accounting has worked in Korea for formany years. But now they are actually
going by what is basically the internationalstandard is we know it now, and
so if if you are maybe twentytwenty one, your your age might drop
(24:42):
down to as much as nineteen,Like a twenty one year old could suddenly
become nineteen tomorrow in Korea because they'rechanging the way they account this, So
we have actually found a way toget younger. Thank you Korea. We're
all suddenly younger people six fifty sevenon a Tuesday. And again, if
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you're getting older or know someone else, at least for today, share it
with us five on five two threetwo, fourteen thirty for the high By
Birthday Club and news Talk fourteen thirtyk Who's Talk fourteen thirty Kasi At seven
thirteen on a Tuesday morning, I'mDave Sprout along with Scott Kovac filling in
for Mel in the morning, takinga little vacation today. He'll be back
(25:26):
tomorrow. Then he takes another vacationon Thursday, so it'll be David Scott
again, and then on Friday,Mel we'll wrap up his KASID career with
the final edition of the Breakfast Club. He'll be at the Ames Water Plant
starting at seven thirty, and everybody'sinvited to come out whether you want to
actually you know, talk on theradio or not. If you have something
(25:47):
to promote. That'd be great obviously, But I think this is really going
to be more about Mel on Fridaythan anything else. I don't know,
just a haunch on my part,Scott, you know, I think that's
the case. And really, whenwe say anyone is welcome to attend,
we mean anyone. Yeah, ifyou can hear Dave's boys, Yeah,
(26:07):
if you can hear my voice,you're welcome. Just come on by.
Yeah, and you just want tosay quick hi, Jake, Mel hand,
He'll do that for you. Youmight say you're you might think you're
staying a quick high, but Melhas a way of roping you into like
the conversation and you don't even realizethat he's he's sucked you in. He's
uh, he's that engaging. Andthat's why he's been um so good at
(26:32):
doing the morning thing for three anda half decade. I mean a long
time, a long time. Overthirty two years. Yeah, man,
that boggles my mind. That's almosttwice as long as I've been here.
That's uh, that's really something.But if you if you get a chance,
if you want to swing by theAames Power Plant on Friday morning,
seven thirty or so, probably right, up until the end of the show.
(26:56):
Really at nine o'clock, Mel willbe visiting with folks and talking with
anyone who wants to promote a localevent, whether it be a fundraiser or
a nonprofit organization, or just anexcuse to get people together. We're all
for it. So we'd love tohear about that too. If you want
to stop by the Breakfast Club onFriday morning, that'll be at the Ames
(27:17):
Water Plant. You're on Newstalk fourteenthirty k SI. So we have on
tape now more or less officially acertain former president more or less admitting to
holding classified documents. I mean thatmight be where we're at. I'm not
entirely sure if this is going tobe enough to convict the guy, but
it's really fascinating stuff, as youmight have heard during the Fox News Radio
(27:41):
update or might have come across inyour own, you know, news gathering
this morning. Anderson Cooper three sixtyon CNN last night played an audio recording
that includes new details from a twentytwenty one meeting at which former President Donald
Trump discussed this holding secret document hedid not to classify, but decided he
(28:03):
would share. Nonetheless, the recordingwas taken from a July twenty twenty one
interview that Trump gave in his Bedminster, New Jersey resort. And what's I
don't know if it's ironic or howyou want to classify that the purpose of
that interview with Trump was not totalk about Trump. The interviewer was working
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on a memoir of former Trump chiefof staff Mark Meadows. So Trump,
somehow, in an interview that's supposedto be about someone else, made it
about himself. If can you believethat? Can you believe Donald Trump would
do such a thing, try toturn the conversation onto himself. I suppose
(28:47):
as possible. I know, it'ssuch a selfless you know, polite individuals
such as him would never do that. The Special Counsel's indictment alleges that those
in attendants at the meeting with Trump, a writer, a publisher, and
two of Trump's staff members were shownclassified information about a Pentagon plan of attack
on an unspecified foreign country. Thisis not I don't The prosecutors probably didn't
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want this to get out there,but CNN got a hold of it,
and um they played it on AndersonCooper three sixty last night. And so
I took a little bit of thataudio that they shared last night. This
is less than two minutes. Butwhat I'm really want you to pay attention
to get your ear right up closeto the speaker or whatever, and listen
(29:30):
to the rustling of papers. Youcan literally hear as Trump and others speak.
One of the other voices, you'llhear a female voice. Uh is
a Trump staffer, I believe,um kind of in the background there.
But what you're gonna hear most isTrump just ran. Don't even worry about
what he's rambling on about. Justmostly focused on the fact you can literally
hear the paper rustling as as Trumpspeaks. Let me see that I wanted
(29:59):
to attack around. Isn't it amazingto have a big policy persisting just came
up? Look, this was him. They presented me. This is off
the record, but they presented methis. This was him. This was
the Defense Department in him. Wow, we looked at him. This was
him. This wasn't done by me. This was him. All sorts of
(30:22):
stuff pages wrong at a minute.Let's say here, yeah, I just
found isn't that amazing? This totallywins my case, you know, except
it is like highly this is secretinflor Look look at this. You attack
(30:45):
and Hillary would put that out allthe time. Anthony Wainer, By the
way, isn't it incredible? Yeah? I was just saying because we're talking
about it and he said he wantedto attack or run, and what he's
fish it's just done by the militarygiven to me. I think we can
(31:11):
probably less this president. I couldn'tbe less, No, I can't,
you know, but this is thatinteresting. It's so cool. So I'm
looking, we hear and you probablyalmost didn't believe me, but now you
believe me. It's incredible, right, It brings him, brings him coach
(31:34):
and push, okay, and thenthe end he's asking somebody to bring him
Coca Gola. I mean, this, this guy, he's uh, here's
a piece of work. I don'tknow if you're aware of this, but
Trump's a different breed of cat.I want to jump back to a couple
of things from this audio. Uh, this little bit right here, isn't
it amazing to have a big pilot? He was just he just came out.
(31:57):
Isn't it amazing? I've got abig pile ready. He's just I
mean, is he not just basicallyshowing off all of the amazing classified information
that he's allowed to have in hispossession. Apparently, yeah, allowed him
to himself, even though he admitslater on it's not the classified this stuff
(32:22):
is. It's classified him from He'sjust waving around showing it off to people,
bragging. I mean, I don'tknow, really out of character for
Trump to brag about something, buthe's there bragging about having these classified documents
in his possession. What do youmean, where did the documents come from?
(32:42):
Is this from his private stash orhis life? Well, yeah,
of course, I mean yeah,I don't know. It's interesting that this
recording wasn't made at his resort inNew Jersey. Whereas I think the photos
we saw when the indictments first cameout, um were you know, the
stacks and stacks of boxes around marLago and in the bathroom, you know,
with the I mean, there's aniconic image if there ever was one,
(33:06):
stacks have classified documents in boxes inhis bathroom. But this is different,
So I don't know. He mighthave might have decided, uh,
you know, left Marlago to goto New Jersey for this interview and decide,
you know, I'll take a fewof these classified documents with me just
in case I need him. Theynever know. Uh yeah, I mean,
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I mean to try to figure outwhat's going in that this guy's head
is a very difficult task. Outsideof the idea that he wants to make
it all about himself and make himselffeel like he's great or whatever and that
he can do whatever he wants.That's basically the prevailing thought probably going on.
And Donald Trump's added any particular time, is like, isn't this great
(33:50):
what I'm doing? This thing?I can get away with it because I'm
me and therefore I'm special and don'thave to follow the rules. I mean,
that's which is which is will beinteresting to me because we talk about
following the rules and talking about himdeclassifying information as being something he should have
done prior to leaving office. Isthat something he could have done? But
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I've bet there's a process to that. I don't know how how much I
don't know if you, as apresident, you can just declassify things with
a stroke of a pen or whatever, and he could have maybe started that
process or done the signature thing heneed whatever needed to be done to declassify
these documents, and maybe he did. Maybe he tried to declassify some of
these and it didn't work out,and so it didn't happen. But he's
(34:40):
it's just so arrogant and so selfcentered that he thinks he can just do
whatever, and he could just andit's not just. It doesn't just stop
at I'm going to take these,bring them to my home and keep them
in the bathroom. It's also Iam going to show these off to people.
I am going to explain to peoplehow cool I am and great I
(35:02):
am by by demonstrating to you herehere, look at this, Look at
that I got this classified document.Would you like to know what it says?
Here it is? And I mean, that's just amazing. And I'm
really looking forward to the day thathe is behind bars because if if he
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if they can't convict Trump of thiscrime, I don't know what else you
can do. Of course, thisdoesn't prevent him from being the current Republican
front runner for next year's election.This is all pretty cool, I guess
with a lot of his supporters.And as an example of that, this
(35:46):
was from the Associated Press. FormerPresident Donald Trump was honored as the Men
of the decade in a Michigan countyhe lost twice. He was honored this
we uh as the Oakland County RepublicanParty's Lincoln Day dinner, where he was
named by the party as it's Manof the Decade. Now, as we
(36:12):
all know, you when you giveout an award like Man of the Decade,
and it's probably no accident it's Manof the Decade. Uh. You
you've taken nice You take a yearwith a nice round number in it,
like twenty twenty three. Oh no, wait, wait, wait, that
probably doesn't. Do you think theymade up this award just so they could
give it to Donald Trump? Youknow, there's a distinct possibility I could.
(36:34):
I definitely get get that impression.Um. And it's also interested this
happened in suburban Detroit and not onlydid he you know, he lost the
popular vote in that county both timeshe ran for president, but he's also
widely um criticized, He's blamed,let's say, he's widely blamed for the
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line of the Republican Party's majority inMichigan. The Republican Party had ad majorities
in Michigan. It really controlled thestate kind of like the controls Iowa now
through about twenty nineteen, but Trumphimself proved to be so unpopular among voters
in that state that Democrats were ableto vault into the positions of power majority
(37:25):
in leadership since twenty nineteen. Butnonetheless, don't tell, don't try to
tell Republicans that Donald Trump is unpopularor that he's probably not the guy to
lead your party to victory. Becausehe is, he must be your twenty
twenty three Oakland County, Michigan GOPMan of the Decade. It's a mouthful.
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Yeah, I need to find Idon't know. Maybe I don't know
if there's any details, further detailsthat they explained why Donald Trump is the
Man of the Decade, or ifthey explain what the qualifications are to be
Man of the decade, or whythey handed out a Man of the Decade
in twenty twenty three instead of waitingtill a decade to be over. Until
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until waiting us you got a roundnumber like ten or thirty. That's just
an excuse. I mean, thewhole point of Trump being in Michigan in
the first place is because he's runningfor president again, So they probably came
up with this award. So theyget more attention and we're giving it to
them. So here we are.It's seven twenty six on Tuesday, June
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twenty seven. On Newstalk fourteen thirty, Kasi, are you about to mow
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fourteen thirty Kasi, Dave sproutlongside.Scott Kovac Phillion from mel in the morning
for your Tuesday at sixty two andsome hazy sunshine this morning in Aimes.
I'm not sure if that's affecting anyone'scommute. Hopefully we'll find out soon how
the community is going. We don'thave anyone on the line yet from the
Eames Police Apartment for our rush minutesreport, but they can call in any
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second. That's part of the partof the fun, right Scott. Anything
can happen in any second. Mightget a call here. We might not
if they're terribly busy, but we'llhopefully hear the latest on how traffic is
going. I can offer you thismuch. We got the phone ringing right
now, so hopefully we'll get ourreport here shortly, and I'll wait to
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tell a little story from what Iobserved yesterday. Observes some uniquely bad choices
on main Street just yesterday. Butfirst and foremost, let's introduce Scott.
Who do we have on the linethis morning? We have Lieutenant Rop on
the line, Heathrop joining us thismorning. Lieutenant. How are we doing?
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Hey? What's shaking? We aredoing good? How are you?
I'm doing pretty well and I hopetraffic is moving along this morning at Aames
we are gosh, this is likea number of days in a row where
we're looking really good out there,all the way across the county. Just
more and more road construction. Butit's necessary, so we gotta gotta get
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her done. We are We shouldbe used to that by now. I
don't know about that. We can. I'll never get used to it,
I feel like, but I dounderstand the importance of it and keep our
wonderful roads here in La drivable.I've been passing through the was it twenty
fourth and Staying construction fairly regularly lastfew weeks, and that's slightly confusing,
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I guess, yeah, But youknow, you kind of you get a
sense of where those cones are andyou just stay in between them. You're
just fine. Yeah, it's alittle tight up there. Um. Last
week I had a car stall rightin the middle of those cones. We
got removed and all that good stuff. But there is light at the end
of the tunnel. If you lookat that northbound lane on Staying at twenty
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fourth, um, you can reallysee it looks like it's been widened a
little bit. Uh. It's anice road and when that's finished that I'll
probably alleviate some of the traffic upthere. And it looks really good.
So we're looking forward to getting thatfinished. Absolutely. Now I need to
Uh, I don't need to.I'd like to vent a little bit,
heath if I do it, weall need we all need to vent sometimes.
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Yeah. I saw some interesting parkingstrategies on Main Street and Names yesterday
and it's this all happened within abouta five to ten minute stretch. I'm
serious. I've never seen anything likethis in such a short amount of time.
But first of all, I goup to my favorite pizza place here
on Main Street. Absolutely we'll goname Mondays is, well, we'll go
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nameless, but we all know whoit is. And Mondays the thin pizza.
But go ahead, the thin pepperoniis my favorite. Go ahead,
there you go. So I'm I'mdriving up there, I'm looking for a
place park. I'm heading east.I see a couple slots open in the
parking on the westbound side, whichis the north side of Main Street.
But I'm like, well, Ican't get in there, can't. I
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couldn't possibly turn left into those parkingstalls that are facing the opposite direction.
So I went up to the amand I turnaround, and then I'm waiting
behind a couple of cars as carscoming from the other direction decide to go
ahead and take a left into theangled parking stalls, which made my head
wand exploded. And within thirty secondsof each where this happened twice on the
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same stretch of Main Street, andme and you know, like three other
cars are sitting there waiting for thesepeople to sort out because you you make
that turn. First of all,is that even legal? It's probably you
know, I guess I would thinkit's legal. Typically you can make a
U turn anywhere where there's not asign that says no U turn. But
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again, this is kind of whyit's frowned upon. It is because it
becomes a trap a issue people aremaking that making that wide left turn in
a really tight spot to try toget into those those parking spots. It's
cutthroat some day, so absolutely,and I know everybody wants to get their
slice of pizza. I mean,I get it, and there's a sense
of urgency. But the thing is, you know, you try to make
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that turn. You can't make thatturn. No, there's not many cars
that can turn that sharply that youcould just go straight into the angled parking
spot. So you gotta back up, and you gotta go forward. You
got back up, and you gottago forward. And meanwhile, these cars
are piling up, you know,behind you, And so that drives me
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nuts. Number One, I goingI get my pizza. By the way,
one of these people who part,you know, in this enraging manner,
they're still milling about outside trying tofigure out how to use a parking
meter. So maybe that tells mesomething about intelligence. Level, and so
I'm heading back the other way.I'm heading west now on Main Street,
and I get to the end ofMain Street, just right out in front
of our station here, and there'sthe Wells Fargo on the other side.
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And the car in front of memoves over into the opposite lane, so
it's now driving against traffic, andthen backs into an angled parking spot.
This I have never seen before.Huh, that's interesting unless they were loading
or unloading something from their trunk rightat their business there. But yeah,
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that's you don't don't drive an oncomingtraffic and don't back into those spots.
That's not how they're designed. Ican't believe the thought would even occur to
somebody to move into a lane whereyou're going to the opposite of traffic and
then and then you back up intothe meter angled parking spot. Hey,
you didn't have anything going on,you weren't. No, you didn't have
any place to be, So okay, first, that is true. I
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was never It wasn't on the clockor anything. But man, I I
let a lot of things get tome when driving, and I have to
vet myself from time to time.And I'm glad you're here heath to let
me share that with you. Yes, well, here, I have a
similar story. But this happened whenI was on vacation out in California,
and you can probably really recognize thatit's it's a gonna be a crazy out
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there with just the number of people. We were trying to get down to
the beach, and we got luckyand we had a parking spot. The
car was backing out right in frontof us, right the parking spot in
the car had just driven by that. Well, they stop their car in
the road as the car is backingout, and the passengers get out and
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they go stand in the parking lot. They had already driven past the parking
spot, and I was next inline, and I bit my tongue.
I started rolled down the passenger windowof my wife's yelling at me, don't
say anything, but I've got thisnineteen year old kid in the back seat
who who who is able to gethis window cracked and yells at him.
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I'm like, oh boy, herewe go, and we just kept on
driving. Yeah. Yeah, it'salways toompting when h I see somebody being
an idiot on the roadways to yellyeah, yeah, keep it to myself.
I rolled the windows and then icecream. Yeah, breats, think
about it. Is it really worthit? In ninety nine point nine percent
of the time, it's not.So you just never know what kind of
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person you're gonna counter when you youhave that road rage. All right,
Lieutenant Heathrop, thank you for theupdate. Thank you for letting me vent
a little bit and stay safe onthe roads day. Okay, sounds good.
I'll see you tomorrow. All right. Heath Ropp joining us for Rush
minutes. That's tended by Mary GreeleyMedical Center on Newstalk fourteen thirty KASI seven
fifty two on Newstalk fourteen thirty kA s I Dave Sprout with you alongside
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Scott Covic filling in for mel thismorning, and we are joined now by
We're Chicken's the Aims Fire chief Rich. Good morning to you. Hey,
good morning, Daves, morning,Scott, good you along. Thank yeah,
thank you for acknowledging Scott. Veryfew people I appreciate. What's the
latest, chief with the Games firedeparment these days? Yeah, So we're
busy, we're we're always constantly trainingand today we'll see if you're out by
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the Airings Airport and you see firetrucks driving around in circles, it's not
because we're lost. We're actually outthere doing training. So the next three
days we'll have crews out with theSiglar parking lot practicing our driving skills,
maneuvering skills. We have a skillstation that all the firefighters will go through
at least once a year, ifnot twice a year on driving the fire
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engines and getting them around and makingsure that we're operating safe. So if
you see it's out there, that'swhat we'll be up to today. So
I rather based on what you saythere, I gather that this isn't like
specific to those facilities that you're trainingfor. This is more of a general
it's just a good spot to practiceyour driving skills. Yeah, exactly.
We have different maneuvers that they haveto do. We have cones set up
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that they'll have to drive through tosimulate different turns, different docking, different
ways to get the apparatus through aserpentine and backing up. So driving a
fire engine, it's not everybody getsto do it, so we want to
make sure the people that do getto do it are are highly trained because
when we're out there was spun anemergent. Sometimes people don't always pull to
the rights and follow the law.They get a little bit nervous, and
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so we want to make sure thatwe have a highly trained people that can
get around people who maybe don't alwaysknow what to do when they see a
fire apparas behind them, which isalways to pull over to the rights and
stop and let the vehicle pass youand then you can go about your way.
I've been there. I've been thatthat idiot who doesn't get out of
the way because, like I mighthave the radio on so loud that I
don't care the fire engine or thesirens. So maybe another reason to turn
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the radio down a little bit soyou can hear emergency vehicles. Yeah,
unless you're listening to Mela, ofcourse, that's that's a given. Richie.
Also, I think you kind oftouched on something I wanted to ask
you too. You mentioned that youkind of have a specific role there as
as certain members of the fire departmentare are specified as as drivers. How
do you determine, you know,which guys is kind of voluntary or do
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you pick out some guys? Hey, I think you might might be good
at driving the fire truck. No, So all of our members are acquired
to be drivers, say okay,but we rotate them through. So we
have people that have been driving fora little while that have more experience that
then share it with the newer people. So we rotate all of our people
through just because you never know who'sgoing to be gone or who needs help
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on another shift, so everyone getsto do a little bit of everything.
When is the last time you comeacross the scene and you have to park
in such a way that maybe youhadn't had a chance to practice before.
Is that something that happens once ina while. It does the probably the
biggest thing we run into as avehicle. You get a you know,
around thirteenth Street, or you havea road that has a turney lane in
it, and somebody's in the turneylane. We come up behind them on
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an emergency call and they're just notfor sure what to do. So there's
times usually where we kind of havethe serpentine around people and cars that are
stopped. Which if you're in themiddle of the road and you're not sure
what to do and you camp safelypull over to the right, just stop
we'll get around you. We'll makeit work. So that's good. That's
a good answer to another question Ididn't know I had is what, yeah,
what to do if you're kind ofstuck there in the middle in a
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turn lane when an emergency vehicle ofany kind I guess pulls up. Yeah,
absolutely, just the best thing youcan do is stop and we'll if
we need you to move, we'llkind of help move along. But for
the most part, the best thingyou can do if you can't get over
to the right safely, just stopwhere you're at and we'll get around you.
So that's that's what they'll be outthere doing today is training on how
to get around cars. So andso if the truck needs me to move,
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what do you used to lay onthe horn get out of the way
and all. Honestly, yeah,there's sometimes that we haunt the hornet.
We don't want to make people nervous, but at the same time, if
we need people to get out ofthe way, that's what we have air
horns and sirens for us to helpclear the road ahead. And you know,
working with our public Works group,they've done outstanding job of especially in
our Artillier roads of having those partof a traffic engineering system that allows when
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a call comes in to actually startclearing the road ahead of us by use
of an optocom And pretty soon that'llbe going to more of a digital system
where the call will come in,it'll know through our computer aided disc batch
what route we're going to take,and they can start clearing intersections, you
know, two to three blocks aheadof where we're coming. So there's nickels
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there. Do you ever are youever able to maybe contact the police department
and get a like a police escortso to speak. Well, they're just
usually in the way to be onday, so they're usually heading to the
same emergency. So if anything,we're kind of looking out for each other
and making sure when we come toan intersection that they're not coming as coming
from the opposite direction, so wecan be safe. We don't get there,
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we can't we can't help you out, so we gotta get there safely,
all right, real quick? Thattraining that you're doing today, when
and where will you be doing thatagain? Yeah, that'll be from probably
about eight o'clock until probably four thisafternoon out of Sigler near Airport Road,
So it would have help for folkswho typically drive out there to maybe avoid
that area. Yeah, yep,it's a pretty low traffic area. But
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if somebody's out there, they havekids and they want to see fire trucks
driving around. There's this spot whereyou can park and just observe. Week
We encourage people come out and seethat. A Hey, thanks so much
for time, Ranch appreciate it.Thank that's Ames Fire Chief Rich Higgins joining
us this morning on a Tuesday.You're on news Talk fourteen thirty k A
s I sixty two degrees on ourway to a high five today, News
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Talk fourteen thirty KSI fourteen and ahalf minutes past eight o'clock. As.
Uh, well, I'm Dave Sproutand that's the Scott Kovac we're filling in
for mel in the morning, who'susing a little vacation today. We'll be
back tomorrow incidentally, But it's mypleasure, our pleasure, Scott. I'm
sorry, I don't want to beselfish, but our pleasure with your oversight
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there. Yeah, yeah, we'llwork it out later in the parking line.
Our pleasure to welcome Jean Krassey,the President CEO of the United Wave
of Story County. Gene, goodmorning, Good morning, Scott, good
morning day. How are you both. I'm well, I'm doing okay,
Yeah, and uh, we're gladto have you. Normally, you know,
we put the spotlight on a partneragency who works with the United Way,
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but we every so often got upwith the spot on the United Way
itself here in Story County. Sowe're glad to have you long to do
that. Gene, well, thankyou, and I want to thank Kasi
for being able to do this forour partners and for United Way of Story
County all these years. Really doappreciate the two of you, but we
also appreciate mel and all the workthat he's done to help promote human services
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in Story County. So he's he'son vacation today, but I'm sure he's
listening. So hopefully not because we'regonna say nice things about Melan. We
just his ego gets so big wheneverwe try to say something nice about Melanie
just absorbs it all. But nowit's it's it was it wasn't. I
don't know how this all started.In fact, was it Mel's idea was
a United Way or I guess youknow I've been with United Way thirteen years,
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and I believe this was always happening. So I think it started back
in nineteen fifty three when United Waybegan, and we are now seventy years
old, so that at the rightnow must have been two. Yeah he
started. It's just a little guy, just a young whippersnapper, so I'm
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not sure. But it's been agreat opportunity for our partner agencies to come
on and talk a little bit aboutwhat's happening in Story County, talk about
the needs, talk about the programsthat they are working on, talk about
the outcomes that are happening, andtalk about the impact that those dollars that
individuals contribute to United Way help usdo here at United Way and throughout Story
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County. So I know that it'sI know our listeners are excited to hear
a little bit more about agencies.United Way of Story County. Of course,
like I said, has been herefor seventy years, we have only
existed because of the support of thecommunity. We get over two million dollars
donated in our annual campaign. Wealso look for grants and other opportunities to
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help bring revenue into the community sothat we're able to support programs and services
that are impacting individuals and families.So how many at this point do you
know off top of your head ofhow many different agencies the United Way Story
County works with. Right, wehave thirty four partner agencies, and of
course you all know about Story County. The asset process, which is the
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four funders, United Wise, StoryCounty, City of Ames, Story County,
and Iowa State University. We pullour process together, so agencies just
submit one application to all four funders. We have over twenty volunteers community volunteers
that serve three years at a timeto help us with this process. They
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help look at the programs, theylook at the needs, they look at
the agency. They also look atthe outcomes of those programs and then they
make recommendations back to the individual funders. So those four funders, this last
year which will start July one withthe new dollars, over four point eight
million dollars was allocated through this process. Pretty impressive, and that's been around
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since nineteen eighty five, I believeif you talk to former assistant city manager
Bob Kindren, it started before that. Even Wow, it's been a long
time partnership and I want to giveyou a chance, Gene, to brag
a little bit about United Way ofStory Counting, particularly. I know you
have some staffers that you work with, people who with the United Way.
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They're on the payroll, but they'rereally given a lot of their own time
and efforts into this, and Iknow that it's something you greatly appreciate.
I do. You're absolutely right,and I'm very, very very fortunate to
be surrounded by such passionate, hardworking and dedicated individuals. I'll start with
Kristin Pates, who's our Resource developmentdirector. So she's been with the organization
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for fourteen years, so she evenhas more years than I have. We've
got Emily Randall, who are whois our excuse me, operations director,
and she's been with us a littleover three. We've got Anaka Mundel who's
our Community Impact director. She's beenwith us four And now I'm going to
start thinking really hard. Ali Prussia, which is she's the one that's listening
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right now. She's our marketing directorand she's been with us. Wow.
She started as a vista, sothat's how dedicated she is because she was
doing a year of service before shestarted on the payroll. Actually, we've
got Andy Fish, and we've gotMorgan or excuse me, where Riyah Morgan,
who are both our associate directors ofCommunity Impact. And last, but
certainly not least, is Kelly Wearson. She's the one that puts all the
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information in our database. I'm surroundedby wonderful staff, and equally as important,
we have a very dedicated board ofdirector. So if you have a
chance and can visit our website,because I won't rattle off their names in
their time, but if you visitour website, you'll see who the board
is. And we've had of reallygreat board of directors over the years,
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and then community partners like KSI,the City of the County. I was
staying, I mean, we've justhad wonderful partners that have helped make these
seventy years so incredibly wonderful for notonly me and my staff, but the
staff that came before us. Areyou seeing any particular agencies or areas of
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need that might be a little moreacute than others right now? Well,
there's always a need, but Ican tell you this that we just finished
our Live United food drive, Soa big shout out to the community for
helping to make that possible. Oneof the things that I noticed when I
first came to United way way backin twenty ten was that food insecurity was
really a situation that looked like itwas getting dire. Fast forward to March
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of twenty twenty, we saw whathappened with the pandemic. There was a
lot of supplements to help individuals andfamilies, and believe it or not,
but some of our community food pantriesactually saw a decrease in usage. Now
that those supplemental things are over andthe snap benefits are less, we've seen
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an incredible uptick in the usage atfood pantries. And what they've reported to
us is that they're actually seeing newindividuals and families weekly, not not just
you know, here and there,but weekly. So the food drive really
helped stock many of the shelves.We've got over twenty food pantries in Story
counties. So if you didn't knowthat number, yes, Scott just gave
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me a while. If you didn'tknow that number, it's because we're a
giving community. We're giving a carryingcounty, and small groups are starting food
pantries to make sure that the needsare met for their friends and neighbors.
Well, it's just pretty much yousay there that the need has kind of
gone up since the I shouldn't sayend of the pandemic, but since uh,
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you know, there's less government assistancenow related to the pandemic, and
that means that there's more demands onyou, which is a little counterintuitive because
it's easy to say, well,things are going better now everybody's back at
work or everybody's you know better,and we can get out and do things
again. But also some of thoseu some most assistance programs, or at
least the increase in assistance programs hasgone away, and that means more people
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are coming to whether it's not aWay or the other local agencies for help.
You're absolutely right, that is true, and things are good because there
are communities that are stepping up incommunities within Story County that are stepping up
and meeting the needs of those individualsthat are that are hungry and their kids
are hungry, and they're adults arehungry. So we've just got lots of
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partners that are helping us do that. You know, we knew that there
was a discrepancy between those that havethe financial resources and those that don't.
We knew that exist. It reallycame to light even more during the pandemic
and it's certainly not going away rightnow. So we continue to see the
needs increase. We continue to lookto our community to help partner, to
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help determine solutions. And there's lotsof solutions that we can be working on,
and we are working on them,including things like grade level reading,
making sure our kiddos are reading atgreat level by the time they graduate to
fourth grade, so that they're onthe track. They're they're on that academic
trajectory to graduate from high school andhopefully go on to either a profession or
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a college or trades, you know, so they are successful and they can
make a living that's going to feedtheir family. Well, Jeane, we
could probably talk all day about whatthe United Wata Story County does, but
if if folks want to find outmore, it looks like you got a
great website for that. We dohave a great website. And I do
want to say that our Golfer Kidsis August fourth. Alie's gonna yep,
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Friday, August fourth. I justlooked at the calendar. We have openings
for teams, so if KSI wantsto get a team together and go golfing
and just shut down the radio stationfor that day, it's a great opportunity
to learn. We have partner agenciesactually at the holes talking to our golfers.
We raise money for grants that impactfamilies and individuals. And like I
said, we're seventy years old,but we're going strong and we're going to
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keep going excellent. And more informationyouw story dot org is the website,
phone numbers five one, five two, six, eight, five one and
four two. You can stop inand say hey, just around the corner
here, it's three fifteen Clark Avenueand find out more. Just ask for
GENE right ask for Gene. Orif you are in need of services,
dial two one one. It's informationand referral service. And that same website,
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that phone number, that office.You can make donations or find out
more about making donations if you wantto help out. And again, not
just the United Way of Story County, but all the partner agencies here in
Story County. Gene always glad tohave you down. I know that you
were planning to see mail today,but we can we can give them a
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hard time. Maybe on Friday,if you want to stop by the Breakfast
Club and just say hi to Meiland wish him well on his way out.
The everybody's welcome to stop buy onFriday at the Ames Water Plant.
We'll be there, thanks so much. Gean Cressey from the United Way of
Story County, joining us for weeklyUnited Way a minute here on Newstalk fourteen
thirty k A s I say twentyseven on a Tuesday, July twenty seven,
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Newstalk fourteen thirty k s I withyour pal's Dave and Scott here filling
in from Mel. But one thingyou can never fill in for is the
high Vy Birthday Club. There's onlyone. We do it every day,
but there's only one a day.That's what I'm trying to say. That's
right away. We would like towish happy birthday on of course we are
looking at June twenty seventh today TusiaJune's twenty seventh. Want to wish Barb
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Foul a happy birthday and Lily Ellisa happy birthday as well, and wanted
to let each of you know.We'll be giving you a call find out
exactly which high Ve you'd like topick up your birthday cake from and of
course that birthday cake is free courtesyof high V. How then it works
out nice. We got two highV so we can give away two birthday
(01:03:52):
club prizes. That's right, prettymuch worse for me, yeah, isn't
it. We are expecting high inthe middle eighties today on eighty five eighty
six degrees. We're in the midsixties and sunny at the moment. Although
darn Canadian wildfires are blanketing us withhaye, they're back to giving us and
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there aren't any air quality warnings ornotices for our area today. I don't
know if we'll see that. Thereare some areas in the Midwest that have
had some issues with air quality dueto this haze and the wildfire smoke and
all that. And I don't know. There's a rain that we are more
or less expecting tonight that can maybewash some of this stuff out of the
atmosphere. I don't know. Iwould hope, so, one would think.
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But we've still got that sort ofjet stream coming down from Canada,
so I'm sure it'll be replenished shortly. The well, I shouldn't speak to
how likely exactly these showers are.I guess its like forty fifty percent chance,
so you never know. I wasvisiting friends in the Twin Cities last
weekend, and the forecast for lastSaturday going, We're looked it up on
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Friday, We're going, we wantto do some stuff to go to these
places. But forecasts it's gonna rainall day. You know how much of
rain, like for five minutes.So we really didn't do anything. And
you know, I could have goneout and done some stuff, but every
time we looked at the forecast,it's like, oh, it's gonna rain
in an hour or two. Idon't even know what. No point to
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go on us, No no rain. Meanwhile, there was some rain coming
through here, yeah, over theweekend, and we could use more of
that. I mean, I guaranteethat let's a little shot of that.
It's helpful to the farmers. Butyeah, you know, some consistency across
the calendar wouldn't hurt. Oh,you ask any farmer, and I know
if you, I'll tell you aninch of rain a week and then the
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rest of the time nice and sunnyfor the crops to absorb the sunlight and
grow, and then you get therain to moisturize the fields, and that
would be just about perfect. ButI have never known a season with perfect
weather, at least as far asfarmers are concerned. Anyway, eight thirty
it's time for a news update onnews Talk fourteen thirty KSI News Talk fourteen
thirty KSI eight thirty eight and justa few minutes we are expecting to hear
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from Ames Squeeze Commander Dan Walter withhis weekly update on I guess generally speaking,
how we stay safe, What's what'shappening with the police department and the
rest. Speaking of staying safe,you know every parent wants to make sure
their kids stay safe online, andsocial media companies are under more scrutiny in
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pressure to to add privacy features aswell as measures to protect kids and teams
from online bullying and other problems thatyou know, affect their mental health basically
when they're online too much. Sothe Meta people, who if you don't
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know by now, that's the parentcompany of Facebook and Instagram. They're adding
new parental supervision tools and see features. But the cats here is that the
features require miners and their parents toopt in, raising questions about how effective
the measures would be which is it'sit's a tough balance because I know a
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couple of I know a few teenagers, not not many, but they're clever
bunch. I don't know, Scott, if you ever tried to get away
with anything as a kid. Ohobviously, right, yeah, we all,
we all did. And it justseems so much easier if I have
social media that I can keep mysocial media activity away from my parents because
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I got my own email address,got my own account for Facebook or Instagram
or what have you, and Ihave my own password and my parents don't
have to know, do they Unlessthey're actually on Facebook and Instagram too.
Maybe they might see my account popup there and then I get in trouble.
I suppose that's always possible, right, I suppose you could unfriend mom
(01:08:02):
and dad, block mom and dadso they don't see here your your posts.
Yeah, that's always an option.Uh yeah, So one of the
measures Instagram is taking here will they'llthey'll send a notice to teens after they
have blocked someone, encouraging them tolet their parents supervise their account. The
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ideas to grab a kid's attention whenthey might be more open to parental guidance.
I don't know. Tell me,uh, I don't really think I
would be very responsive to Instagram tellingme, you know what, you should
check with your parents, because that'syeah, teenagers are very responsible like that.
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If a teen opts in, thesystem will let parents set time limits,
see who their kid follows or isfollowed by, and allows them to
track how much time the miner spendson Instagram. It does not let parents
see message content. Would think that'dbe pretty important too. Yeah, but
that's that's just me. But again, it all comes back to the kid,
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the account holder basically deciding to optin on that that plan where they
could just say no. And thequestion is if you opt in, can
you opt out? That's a goodquestion. Yeah, I don't. I
don't know that. Um one ofthe measures here. I'm trying to find
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this in this Associated Press story thatI came across. Okay, here's one
meta again. The parent company ofInstagram and Facebook, they're adding a parental
supervision tool to the their messenger feature. That's part of Facebook. You know,
they got the thing you could sendprivate messages. The opt in feature
lets parents see how much time theirchild spends on the messaging service and information
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such as their contact lists and privacysettings, but not who they are chatting
with. Um. Again, itsounds like they're trying to strike a fine
balance. Yeah, and maybe justmissing the mark. Yeah, kids under
thirteen are technically banned from social media, but come on, come on,
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we know they're on the TikTok's andthe Instagrams and the facebooks and all of
that. Beginning today, Meta willencourage, but not force, children to
take a break from Facebook, whichis already something they're doing on Instagram.
After twenty minutes, teenage users willget a notice to take time away from
the app. They want to keepscrolling, they can just close the notification.
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Oh that's good, it's been twentyminutes. Maybe you should stop.
NOPEO, stop bothering me. KindOf like my wife when she sets time
limits that are provided by Apple inthe iPhone, you can kind of say,
Okay, I don't want to spendany more than this amount of time
in a given day on my iPhonebecause she'll scroll and scroll, just like
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so many people doom scrolling right.Uh, But she ends up in a
position where she goes, this isenough, this is I don't want to
do any more than this. Amount. But then the next thing that happens
is you just clear it. Youknow, this says you spend enough screen
time. It's like would you liketo continue? It doesn't like shut off
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the hap for you. It doesn'tgo blank. That's enough for your own
good. Yeah, you need tostop here. Which, Yeah, I
kind of tend to get get downthe rabbit holes a little bit too on
the social media and Instagram, Igotta admit tends to stuck me in more
than I would like to admit.Like Twitter, I'm not comfortable admitting it,
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but I can't admit I spend toomuch time on Twitter. That's it's
just a given and it probably won'tchange. Uh. But Instagram, I
don't go there frequently, but whenI do, I end up spending more
time on there than I don't knowif I've ever been on Instagram for twenty
straight minutes. That feels like alot like that kind of update yourself quickly
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since it's primarily images. Yeah.TikTok actually has its own a sixty minute
time limit for users under eighteen,but they can bypass it by entering a
pass code set by either the teenor their parents. Right again, you're
letting teens decide am I going toobey the rules or am I not going
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to obey the rules? And thesearen't even really rules, are they?
So why would I go along withit? They're just fronting And the way
this looks, all you really haveto do is say why did they do
this if it's so easy to circumventAnd the answer is because at least they
can say they did it right,We've we've put a measure in place.
Of course, we want you tokeep using our service, but we put
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in a measure so the kids don'twatch too much, right exactly. It's
it's kind of you know, itgets back to protecting yourself against lawsuits,
right, you're making sure well,if if a kid, if our parent
maybe sues and said my kids spendtoo much time on Instagram and now they
have mental health problems, you needto pass and then you can say,
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well, look, we provided thesemeasures that we can't force you to do
anything, but we we put thisstuff in there. So yeah, it's
it's tricky. I'm not a parent, and probably for the best because trying
to manage a kid's social media time, that's got to be one of the
biggest challenges of parenting. Yeah,it's it's up there, because I mean,
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it makes you not only vulnerable tothe mental health issues that can come
along with you. You see otherpeople's posts and say, well, I'm
not as good as these people orI'm not living this life that I want
to live other people are, andyou know, gives you sense of inferiority
and kind of messes I'm sure messeswith your head, kind of mess with
mine too. And I'm a reasonablywell adjusted adult much less you know,
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not even an awkward teenager. Andfor the record, every teenager is an
awkward teenager, even if they don'tnecessarily show it. But we don't always
recognize that, especially when we areteenagers. We see other people and again
even now as a full grown adult, look around at other people's social media
and say, wow, that thatperson really has their life together. Why
can't I be like that? Andso yeah that I mean, in a
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teenage mind that's still developing, youcould easily see that swerving into not swerving,
that's a bad word for it,but you know, turning into depression
maybe or some other kind of meltmental health issue that says, well,
I'm not I'm not up to snuffas a human being, which come on,
none of us are. It's notthat we're all great, it's that
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we're all just kind of in thesame boat here of trying to figure out
what we're doing. But social mediamakes it so easy to give people an
impression, Oh, my life isso together. Look at this beautiful home.
Well it's the one corner of thehome you bother to clean, or
you know, it's the one timeyou go out to a fancy meal,
but you're gonna put pictures of thatup days. Or look at that selfie.
It's so incredible. They look amazing. Oh there's a reason this because
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they kept taking that these selfies untilthey got one that's amazing. Yeah,
that's true. And I saw apost once on social media. It showed
you, like an example of aphoto somebody took at this lakeside spot that
just looks so tranquil and peaceful,and it's like, you know, it's
given the impression, oh, you'reliving this life of togetherness and you're one
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with nature and all that. Andthen it showed an image from I think
an aerial image or just a widerview of that area and the line of
people waiting their turn to take theirpicture at the same spot. I mean,
it really lists the veil on alot of social media, but it
does. It's like I'm the onlyone here you. I mean, you
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take the picture from the right angleand it looks like you're the only one
there and you're enjoying this peaceful existenceby the lake, and no you're not.
You're just one of one hundred peoplein line to get this nice picture
and you know, look like you'reyou're living a better life than you actually
are. I don't know, it'slike you'd be like waiting in line to
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get a picture with Mickey Mouth atDisneyland and then making it look like you're
the only person at Disneyland or whatever. I mean what Disneyland is designed to
be. Wow, just you.It's all about the magic of the magic
Kingdom, right, It's that momentin which you are unique and everyone and
everything is perfect and along with awhole bunch of other people. They can
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say that a lot about tourist destinations. Yeah, that's right. And I
think a selfie kind of shows canshow exactly what you want it to.
Yeah, I mean exactly if youcontrol the impression of yourself, you give
to others. That's right. Thisis marketing and advertising. Foreign individual buy
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that same individual. We're all we'reall marketing ourselves. That's right. Yeah.
Anyway, good luck parents dealing withthe social media for your kids,
because man, I don't know thatthey're they're giving you much help, and
I'm certainly not in a position togive you much help. Eight forty nine
on a Tuesday morning, sixty eightdegrees and hazy sunshine in Aims. This
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is News Talk fourteen thirty KSI,News Talk fourteen thirty KSI eight fifty one.
As we welcome Aimes Police Commander DanWalter to the show this morning,
Dan, how are we doing today? Hey, I'm doing good. How
are you, Dave? I'm well, I'm doing better than that toilet and
I'm a park that you guys puton Twitter this week. I know,
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I know that wasn't good. Anotherexample of sometimes these shenanigans that cost a
lot of money is it's gonna costseveral thousand dollars to do that repair,
and sounds that it was a fireworkthat went down the toilet. Apparently maybe
they did the damage. And lookingat the picture here, just to give
people a sense who might not haveseen it. The bowl is basically completely
(01:17:56):
destroyed in multiple pieces on the babyseat is still there, but man that
they yeah. Uh, someone madethe comment on one of these that you
know, pretty soon there won't beany bathrooms open. And I think that's
a good that's a good comment.Right. We've had uh, folks lighting
toilet paper on fire and some ofthese restrooms at the parks and now this
and so not not a good situationdoesn't make it good for the rest of
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us. Speaking of fireworks, itis prime time. Are you staying busy
with those calls? They're just starting. We're starting to get some calls on
the overnight. You know. Thehard thing about that is, uh,
you know, they come in late, late at night, they light off
one or two, especially this timeof year, and they're gone, So
(01:18:39):
it's hard for us to h tocorrect behavior. Um, and it's a
remindered everybody to try to keep themto July fourth, try not to do
them late at night, and rememberyou can't do them in the city limits.
And my advice is just leave itto the professionals. Come out out
on the night of the third watchthe fireworks show. Plenty of good parking
available, you know, around Hiltonand Jack Trace to watch them. So
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h maybe just leave it to thefolks who you know, actually do this
for a living. Yeah, andthey'll put on a better show, I
promise than you're going to see insomebody's backyard the last two minutes until they're
and and then they know we're coming. So yeah, leave it to the
professionals. And uh, if youif you're gonna do it, even though
there's that window, I think peopleare more understanding if it's on July fourth
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and it's before you know, midnightor eleven o'clock. That helps. If
you're on the countying gonna put ona little show. Well, well,
the police spartment's role be uh duringthe firework show on the third and h
are you directing traffic helping parking thingslike that? Yeah, for the most
part, that's that's really all wedo is are down there helping the traffic
right after the show, right beforeit um and and really it's it's for
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the last several years it's gone onwithout really any issues and really predominantly just
done traffic control. That's good toknow people are at least behaving themselves for
the duration of the fireworks show andtraffic I don't probably not quite comparable to
game day traffic, but as closeas we get in the summer, yeah,
you're probably right. It's probably aboutas close as we get and we
can handle it. I mean,it works. To be patient if you're
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there, give yourself a little extratime. Know that everybody's leaving as soon
as that show gets done, soit's gonna take some time for us to
clear it all. Right, Whatelse has happening in anything trending out there
in the world of crime we needto know about now. You guys had
a good segment there about social mediaand all that goes on, and we're
still seeing a lot of young folksthat are posting, you know, pictures
of themselves or video and then andthen getting scammed quite frankly saying that you
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know, either solicit this or giveus as much of money or we're going
to post your video or photo onlineand to all your friends. And so
just a reminder to have that conversation, use these type of things where we're
having this conversation right now, togo home and have that conversation with you
on ones not to post photos andnot to talk with people they don't know
on social media. Oh, Dan, I know we don't have a lot
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of time, but I'm curious toknow how often do you have to deal
with the situation when a person perceiving, say in Instagram, has a very
low self esteem. Does that relatein any way to things that you see?
Oh? Sure, yeah, Anduh, you know, we see
things like this with social media.You know, you go back twenty years,
twenty plus years when I started,and something we never even dealt with,
and now it's all the time,and it's unfortunate, but particularly right
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now, we deal a lot withthese um when people are demanding money because
they've have a head of a photoor something that's been that they're threatening to
release. And so that's a bigpiece of what we see now, probably
more so than the other. I'msure AI won't make that any worse.
No, And we just, uh, we've had a lot of discussions about
AI, because he really becomes whatis real what isn't real, and it's
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going to make things hard to navigatingthe future, I think. And speaking
of social media too, I knowyou've talked about this before, but say
you're going on your summer vacation,or maybe you're out of town for the
Independence Day weekend coming up. Maybewait to show the pictures on your social
media so you don't tip off theout right. We know everybody wants to
get those photographs out right away,showcasing where they're at and the great beach
(01:22:05):
scene and so forth. It betterto wait. We do see a lot
of burglaries, particularly in names becausepeople leave for a longer period of time,
especially students. Wait until you're backbefore you broadcast that you've been away
on vacation. That's a good idea. Now real quick too, just well,
we got a minute and a halfhere, but we were talking with
Rich Higgins down at the Fire Department. I know you guys have your fierce
(01:22:27):
rivalry with your dent from the firedepartment. But they're doing some some driving
training today and we were talking aboutthat with him earlier. Where do the
police go, how frequently to thepolice kind of do refresher courses on driving?
H and where does that usually occur? Yeah? And where can we
watch pitt maneuvers? So interesting enough, we have we also have drivers training
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next week. We do it onan annual basis at a minimum, and
so we'll do that training at differentlocations throughout the throughout the city and county.
This time we're doing it a lotof parking types stuff and backwards driving
that kind of thing at her andwe're doing it at the Plex Community Church
Christ Community Church up north and sowe're kind of usually looking for big,
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wide open spaces and sometimes we're limited. We've also done it at the I'm
forgetting the name of it right atthe moment, but the kind of the
expo where they home the host theFarmers Show every year is that the Hanson
Highway thirty thank you, So we'lldo it there because there's a lot of
a lot of wide open space andless ability for us to run into something.
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All right, Well, hopefully youguys stay safe out there. I
believe next Tuesday is corporate holiday,so we won't have a show for you
to be on next Tuesday. Andactually, to be honest, beyond that,
we don't know what's happening since melis retiring on Friday. But if
you and the rest of the policebarm wanting to come out wish mel Well
in his retirement, stop by thewater Plant on Friday morning. We'll be
(01:23:53):
doing a show from there starting atseven thirty sounds good. I think we're
planning on being there and since wewon't talk, wish everybody be fourth in
the BC. YE back at you, Thank you so much, Thanks Dave.
Commander Dan Walter joining us from theAge Police sparment this morning for his
weekly visit again next next Tuesday,being a holiday, were not a visit
with the commander, but hopefully we'llvisit with him regularly no matter what happens,
(01:24:18):
and ask him Friday coming up now, we'll go back tomorrow and then
Fridays a light show, so hopefullystay with us A new Stock fourteen thirty
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