Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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There you go. Basics is thegroup out of speed? Then? Uh
what a nice harmony? There Agood song, upbeat song, little monotonous
in the lyrics, but nonetheless goodsound to start your day off with.
Mel On the Morning's got Kovack.You here with me this morning, and

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you always get me with that theKovac. Yeah, yeah, I'm giving
you important It's like a sports announcer. Well, it's what you want people
to grab hold of. Oh Igot to hear this guy. Yeah,
this this Kovac guy, um orwhatever. Business opportunities the news? Huh
what what? What business? Ahitman? Oh? What I here?

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A hit man? Yeah? Didyou hear that in the news? Yes,
well only only because we looked intoit together. But but I was
just ridiculous. I tried to lookup how many hit man sights there are,
and there's several out there, andmost of them are men as a
parody, year satire or a joke, but maybe one that would draw in

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a seventeen year old to have aseven year old killed. I so ridiculous,
I'm yeah, and I apologize.We of course apologize to Nancy Grace
for grabbing that story first. Kindof ruined a happy minute later. Yeah,
yeah, but what is going on? I mean, seriously, I

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don't know. I mean, wetalk about the mental health issues out there,
but what in the world. Well, and and folks, if you
haven't seen it, um, thisnews came down the wire, right that
a seventeen year old attempted to hirea hit man to put out a hit
on a seven year old. Yeah, I mean, what in the world

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is going on? I didn't getinto it too deeply, and they didn't
have a lot of details on it. I am assuming a lot here.
I'm assuming these two might be fromthe same family. I'm assuming that and
sibling rivalry at its worst. Ioh, I'd just be fuddled by this.

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And when I see something like this, and I guess you kind of
float it buy and you I mean, if you're listening to this story,
you're going, oh my god,and then it goes away you don't think
about it anymore. But it isn'tgoing away from me. It's just the
pure terror in me to think thatthere are human beings that think along this

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line. You know. I guessit's easier to swallow if it's an adult,
and it shouldn't be. But butthe innocence of a child seven years
old? What could this kid?Now, don't get me wrong, I'm
sure my folks thought about a hiton me when I was seven. But
you know, what can that how'llpossibly be doing that would irritate that's seventeen

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year old so much to have themrubbed out? Well, and again,
it's just like you said, it'sseven year old, and that seventeen year
old has got to be as aboutas bright as a box of rocks here
because one in the world. Well, and then going on there the other
side of this is well, now, maybe the kid, now, let's

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give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he's parking his trike where she
puts her car or something like that, and and he's a little cantanker says,
oh Berbeway Drake where I want to, I'll have you killed, you
know. Uh, it's ridiculous,It's ridiculous. Um. Now give her
credit to she loved him enough tohave somebody else to kill him up,

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a complete stranger come here and killhim. Yeah, yeah, so there
there is some concern there, Yeah, that she does some fever. It's
there that would have that done.But boy, I saw that story this
morning, said no, no,I can't. This has got to be
a parody. This has to besomebody put this in as a choke,
and it's not. It's not funny. And she's been arrested and the parents

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have been informed. And again,I do not know the relationship between the
seven year old and the seventeen yearold, but I'm assuming it wasn't good.
I'm guessing not. Yeah, maybeshe wanted a cigarette and he wouldn't
give her one. I don't know. I You hear about bullying and all
those things going on, and youkind of understand that I grew up with

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the bullying and when I was inschool was a lot milder. It seemed
like it. Maybe it was bad, but we didn't have the communication channels
to bully twenty four hours a day, which we do now. And you
know ours was punching the nose,get a black eye something like that?

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Was where was that? Or what'syour lunch money? I won't go ahead
because I brought my lunch. Youeat that crappy sandwich my mom put in
there. Uh you know it,Really, there's the alternative, buddy.
You can have the sandwich. Hereyou go, pal, look at the
grease on this bag. Look atthe grease on this brown bag. Man,
do you want that? Really?Do you want that? Because that's

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what you're getting. I'd love that. I'll tell you what, if you
steal my lunch, I'll give youa survivor T shirt. Uh, one
of those things. But yeah,and I was I bullied. I don't
know if I say yeah. Iwas bullied a couple of times and I
ended up uh in a fight totake care of the bully. And I

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was fortunate because the bully lost bothtimes because I was dirty. Uh.
You know, if there's one thingthat I learned from my older brothers was
never fight fair, never fight fair, um and uh and never fail.
And I, by this law,never failed to throw the first punch,

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never failed to throw that first punch. And the reason behind that was we
saw so many fights when I wasgrowing up where guys would stand there to
there to each other's face and you'rewaiting for the first punch to be thrown,
and they'd go, you hit me, and the other guy would say,
no, you hit me first,No, you hit me. Well,

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then you figured out they didn't wantto fight to begin with. I
mean, why are they here andwhy are we here to watch, you
know, get to the main eventsalready. Folks. Oh it was it
was shameless. I mean really,we would come out of school. We
knew and I've mentioned this before thebillboards was the place for a fight.
And you went over behind the billboardsacross the street from our high school,

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and the two competitors would stand outthere, and the rest of us students
would form a circle around him towatch the goings on. And I feel
bad about it now, but youdidn't dare because he had a good crowd
out there. You didn't dare notfight. And nobody ever stepped in to

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stop it except I did. Onetime I did. And I've told this
story before. His friend of minewho was kind of bullied by this this
guy and decided that he had toprotect himself and had brought a knife to
the fight. Whoa, Yeah,it was a butter knife, oh,
which I think would hurt more thana regular knife because they're not pointed,

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they're rounded up there. It's moreeffort. It's like you know, running
with round edge scissors instead of youknow, some sharp edge scissors. So
yeah, and when I saw himout the butter knife number one, I
thought, well, he really can'thurt him with it. But secondly,
he shouldn't have it. And Iwent out and I just took it away

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from him and kind of told themto his face. I said, you
know, you're gonna have to takeyour lickings. But because I can't watch
something like this. So so itwent on after that, and he got
the crap beat out of him.But what the heck, you know,
he didn't stab the guy. UhNo, there are mel advocating for no

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holds, barred holds. We gottado it without a better night. Well,
I wanted a cage match. Wecouldn't find any fencing, right,
Yeah, so it had to dothe old ring around the fighters. Yeah,
the old ring around the fighters.And it was funny when somebody would
get punched so hard they fall backinto the crowd, and then somebody in
the crowd would get mad and punchthem before they could get up and go
out. I mean, it wasyes, ruthless. Yeah, it was

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ridiculous. This is what it was. But I tell you, back when
I was in junior high at Lincoln, it was a Lincoln Junior High school,
so they mixed in the junior highwith the high school. Was not
a good idea, never was agood idea. And those those older guys,
it was an era of the greasersas a gringoes as we call them,

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and they were constantly they felt likethey had to have a fight every
night and would get out there intheir high heeled boots and swept back hair,
and you know if somebody dropped amatch that all their hair would go
up in a flame of fury.The only thing you bought to those fights
was a box of baking soda toput out the fire in case their hair

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caught fire. But but yeah,but there was something every night you just
automatically walked over the billboards he wasfighting that night. Did you have you
get to the point where you hadbets, have a little I don't remember
anybody betting, you know, ifyou if you had money, you took
the risk of having the gringoes grabit from you. Oh yeah, oh

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you got enough to bet, I'lltake that. Uh So anyway, six
twenty nine, at least one thingI know, we didn't hire hit Man.
We took care of our own problems. Yeah, yeah, exactly right,
six twenty nine. We got aspot to get to him. Then
the birthday Club I mel in theMorning. He's Scott Kovak six forty six

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mel in the Morning, and Kovakis here with me, and I'll tell
you what Scott. Just hearing aboutthe half Shell coming up this week reminds
me that coming up later this morning, we're going to be talking about I
Heearts twenty twenty three music festival inLas Vegas. And if you're out there,
if you've experienced it before, youknow you want to go. The

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stadium that has held at seats twentythousand people. It's not many. That's
not many when you consider it's anationwide festival. Got some great names coming
in which are keeping secret right now. But it's always really yeah. But
I will tell you beginning this morning, we're going to start a contest and

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it's going to be win your ticketsbefore you can buy them. Ah yeah,
and it's going to run for aweek. It will start the actual
contest, we'll start at nine o'clock, but we'll a little bit after seven
this morning. We'll announce the beginningof the contest. Then three times a
day you will have the opportunity witha keyword to get registered to win tickets

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before you buy and this is morethan just going to the concert. This
is getting you out there. Theywill fly you and a companion out two
days, hotel stays, et ceterain Las Vegas. And there's so much
to do out there, and itisn't just gambling. There's just so much
to do anyway. But then yougo to the concert and just absolutely enjoy

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yourself. And it's always more enjoyableif you get to go on the house,
so to speak. So I don'tknow, there may be backstage passes
or maybe all kinds of other benif it's involved, But you can't win
if you don't play and be listeningup nine o'clock, one o'clock this afternoon
and five o'clock to night. There'llbe a keyword out there. Then go

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to the website, get yourself earth. I think it text to two hundred
two hundred, two hundred two hundredto be registered to win. So anyway,
we'll get your more details on thatas the morning goes along. I
can't think of a better place tohave an nice rock concert I assume rock
and a mixture than Las Vegas.Well, there's so many things you can

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do out there. You're you're notlimited to just even a really great concert,
yeah, or a really great festival. There's so many other things you
can do well. Vegas is fascinating. I mean, I know it's a
devil's showcase for some people out there. And there certainly is the very unusual

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opportunities out there. If you wantto collect pornography, just grab the cards
there. I can at you outon the street there and you're going,
what what's this? What the heck? And always there's a few of the
course line dancers that are walking downthe street in costume, et cetera.
And you, you know, you'redrooling all over your shirt and and all

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those things out there. And uhand then men, I know you you
put on an act like you don'twant those cards. I know you do,
because your wife's walking right beside youfor crying out loud. You were
by yourself, you'd have a pocketfull of cards, That's all I know.
Uh. But anyway, so there'sthat. Yeah, but there's a
lot to do, and occasionally youeyeball a celebrity. It's possible, and

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you can even probably see another singerin concert. Oh yeah, when you're
not there. Yeah, your showsout there are fabulous. I mean,
not only would you get to goto this one for free, but if
you want to put a little jingyou might get into a very well known
name that's performing out there. ThenI know, circ to Sola's always got
a show going on out there,and then they're the normal things. Have

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dinner. I always suggest this oneis dinner at the ex Caliber. Why
why they're specifically because they have joustingduring your dinner. They have jousting.
I mean, if you go tothat place down there, you buy or
you get reservations, you go downyou have a meati evil kind of dinner

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where you're eating with your fingers.You don't get silverware or anything, but
you get a nice plate of food. Uh, and you even your fingers
and they're jousting out in front ofyou. Uh. Real jousting, yeah,
real jousting horseback. They're on horsebackand they're boom. You know you
gotta be kidding me here, No, I'm telling you true. Yeah really

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yeah. We um. Chris andI went when we were out there last
time, and it's pretty amazing,pretty amazing, and it's fun. Let's
see, what's the word, uh, the word you have to yell or
something like that is new ras themarine word, but it was something else
that the crowd yells, and youeach sit in a section that has a

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what do I want to call ita color? Let me say color something
like that represents one of the jousters. So you get to root for your
jouster out there, and then ifnot, you get him beheaded one of
those things. But it's a lotof fun. It's just different kind of
entertainment. It doesn't cost much.I don't think it costs you much more
than dinner out there, but you'rethere. It made me feel funny eating

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with my fingers, but it wasentertaining, to say the least. And
if you just walked around and theBellagio and their fountain show, which costs
you absolutely nothing. It goes ona couple times an hour or something like
that, and you stand there andwatch these fountains dance to the music basically

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shoot up in the air and differentcolors and things and it goes to certain
musical piece they're playing. Very fascinatingto watch. There's I can't think of
where this is at out there,but there's like a pirate's fight. There's
a volcano that they have that goesoff, and this is all free.
You're walking down the street and thenext thing, a volcano goes off over

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here, and then you know,the fountains are jumping up and singing and
yeah, so you want to getout to the music festival, let me
say that. Have someone else paidthe freight and you can do that.
You win before you buy. Comingup after nine o'clock this morning on fourteen
thirty. That's oh, I didn'twhat did I not choose a piece of

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music for air? I was busyhere this morning, but you know what,
I am never at a loss tofind us some music this morning,
and I will do that, comingup right now on fourteen thirty k SI.

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If I can get it in theright spot, well forget it.
No, I'll do it. I'lldo it. It's there, it's supposed
to be there, hm seven fifteenmail in the morning. I'm fourteen thirty
k SI. Scott Kovac of coursewith me, as he is each week
day. And Scott, I didnot realize this, and I apologize to

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our veterans out there. But todayis D Day, the celebration of D
Day, the invasion of Normandy duringWorld War Two. Just one hundred and
fifty thousand soldiers attacked and gained avictory. That became the turning point for
World War two in Europe. Yeah, which of course led to a long

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slog to v E Day, rightO v E Day and then v J
Day. Eventually it was yeah,they said, the ward end all wars.
I still hope it is. Wellit wasn't. Obviously we had the
Vietnam referred to as a conflict,not a war, like Korea was referred
to as a conflict. But it'sa war, and all around the world,

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I mean, no one got thememo. It's like we're gonna stop
war, and no one appreciated theI feel very fortunate. I grew up
in tense times the Cold War,and those at times were very tense.
Of course, we used the Russianmissile crises in sixty two. Yeah,
they're always the st Yeah, alwaysthe threat of nuclear action by both sides.

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We saw some disarmament inside there.The Cold War actually warmed up and
then cooled down to icy as thewall in Berlin came down and and we
seem to be getting along pretty good. We had dismantled a lot of our
nuclear weapons on both sides, Um, how likely do you really think that?

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Well, do you think we reallydismantled our weapons? And they dismantled
just certain ones. Yeah, theystill kept some intact. Oh yeah,
and uh it's it's a thing.Here's my thing now. Is a word
I hoped would never pop up againis nuclear And mister Putin seems to uh

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like to use that word, asdoes the Korean North um um dictator?
Uh North Korean dictator? Um m, yeah whatever, Yeah, Una.
The thing is is, I don'tlike when people throw that word around,

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and they think that throwing it aroundwith the word strategic. Uh, these
are nuclear weapons that would be nothuge, They would be used strategue and
be more limited in the effect theywould have. I don't believe that for
a minute. And I just youknow, in Iran is poking it nuclear,

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establishing their nuclear weapons again. Ijust don't like care in that word.
And what do we do about it? I mean no, what do
we do about it? I meanyou can't do much of anything except continue
negotiations and hope that sanity reigns andthat both sides realize the amount of destruction

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and the effect on the atmosphere thatthe use of these weapons would have Who
do I worry about the most.Putin, for all his evilness, is
I think less likely to use them. But Kim Young Soon, I just
have no doubt. He's nuts andhe'll do whatever he has to. He

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has no regard for life freely,and he's the one that makes me the
most nervous. China again, Ithink, despite all the irrational things that
they're doing right now, doesn't wantwar with the United States as much as
we don't want war with them,because war proves one thing only that there

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are no winners in war. Thereare victories, but there are no winners
because of what transpires during them andthe loss of life involved in property,
etc. It's hard. And youcan come out and say that we won,
we're not fighting awhere. Well,yeah, that's true, but the
damage has been done during those activities. I always say it's a war as

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a winless kind of situation out there. So yeah, And I didn't realize
how much I thought. I don'tget overly nervous because I am doing something
maybe foolish, and in thinking thatin the end, people, the people
who aren't really realize the devastation thata nuclear war would have nobody would win.

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Nobody. You can't control radiation andfallout and things like that, you
know. No. One of thethings that's really disturbing is if you see
a picture of the Earth from orbit. Yeah, and you can see that
little little slice, that little crescentthat is our atmosphere over the entire globe.

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It's like an onion skin. Yeah, it's an onion skin. And
for things to travel through the atmosphere, it travels very rapidly. Yeah,
as we can obviously tell what firesup up in Canada. We experience these
things so rapidly. And if youthink about it in terms of nuclear fallout,
yeah, or even natural causes avolcano, it can darken the skies

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in some cases historically for years.Let's say Mother Nature doesn't need any help
in causing problems on this Earth,but why take that back. She does
need help. She needs the helpof the human race to realize how fragile,

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how fragile our atmosphere is, etc. And the continuance of certain practices
will make it even more fragile.And we are seeing we're seeing the consequences
right now. You look at thedrought situations, earthquakes, all those things.
If you're If you're biblical, theseare all signs of the end the

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arm mcgeddon, so to speak.If you're not, then these are acts
of nature. But they have becomemore violent, They have become more how
do I want to put it,more destructive over the years, in rather
than maybe rather than I'm not sayingwe shouldn't worry about the possibility of nuclear

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destruction, but I think we needmore to worry about the natural part,
the climate, part of our ofhow we live and how we deal with
it in hoping that awakening comes soonerthan later. Yeah, and it needs
to. And one of the thingsthat I am really interested to find out

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about. You know, we knowthat there are obviously huge impacts in terms
of global warming on global warming madeby the human race, but I am
really fascinated to know, and Ihaven't looked into this extensively, but what
our plans are if something happens withthe natural world, with Mother Nature,

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as you're saying, like a volcanothat goes off. I know there was
one during the Middle actually I believethere were three that happened in concert.
During the Middle Ages. We endedup in the Dark Ages with some darkness
when three of these volcanoes went offand we had a tremendous amount of ash
in the upper atmosphere that to sucha degree that crops across Europe. Oh

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yeah, and they're terrible, terriblefamine based on simply the fact that it
was dark enough that plants wouldn't getthe light that they needed to grow.
Well, you know, we arealways fascinated by meteors and asteroids, et
cetera that are passing close by ourplanet. The effect they have sun spots,
We're beginning to understand them a littlebit more, and solar flares and

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the effect they can have here thatbecause of the atmosphere up they're not being
as able to to what do Iwant to call shield shield our Earth a
little bit more. So, Idon't know, I know there must be
plans in effect. I think ifthe meteor or whatever is found to be

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coming towards Earth, we everybody's beenworking on plans to dissuade it, to
rearrange its its trajectory. But whenit comes to Mother Nature, there's not
much we can do. And thatthat volcano that I'm talking about actually occurred
in five thirty six, A da little before my time, largely considered

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to be the worst year to bealive. I'm glad you missed that,
Mel. Yeah, it seems likeit might be a strong contender, says.
It's actually an article in Forbes backfrom November sixteenth of twenty eighteen,
and it just talks about how cropsfailed, famine took hold of devastating plague
swept a few years later, endedup wiping out about twenty percent of the

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Mediterraneans world population. Yeah, andgoes, you know that can have an
impact when we I wonder why wedon't think about that. These are things
out of our control. You thinkabout volcanoes. How do you control a
volcano? Oh? Exactly? Yeah. I mean, and I don't know

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whether we have any bearing on thatand can we can we even take precautions
against it? This is something I'venot looked into, and I don't think
I will. I'm not aware ofit. Yea. I think the only
thing that we can do is predictit. I think as best we can.
I mean, you think about thewhat is it? Boo? Why
can I think of it? Now? Yellowstone out there, everybody worried about

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it blowing up and in wreaking,havoc. These are all things that we
may have to deal with someday.I'm hoping not. But those are things
that are kind of out of ourcontrol. That we do the best we
can. If yeah, it goesbig cable and that, um, I

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don't know. Like I say,we've got bigger fish to fry than nuclear
war. Nuclear war would be achoice of somebody some idiot here, or
idiots a combination of idiots. Nuclearwar would be something we can control that
does not have to happen. Butas far as Mother Nature goes, she's

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pretty much got all the equipment,Derek, havoc or be kind, But
we certainly have some control and they'rein their respect that we don't want to
irritate her, you know what Imean, Yeah, and do what we

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can clematically, etc. And Ithink we are. I think in the
most part that the generation, thenow generation whatever is Wizy whatever wherever we're
right now, is very very consciousof environment. And we've seen great inroads
in attempting to have an effect,not using certain things plastics, etc.

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Substituting other things for those cleanups.I mean, look, we're doing the
College Creek clean up coming up herein about a week or so. And
you might not think that means much, but it means a lot more.
I mean, every little bit thatwe do and that moves us closer to
treating the environment with the respected deservesmakes a difference. All right, Well,

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Taylor, just gotta gear up.Yeah, I got a man up
and make this happen. RN.Yeah, We're gonna take a break.
We'll be back with more of melin the morning. I'm fourteen thirty mel
in the morning. I'm fourteen thirtyk A S. I tie now for
your rush minutes report, and I'mjoining me again this morning. Sergeant Chad
is with me. Chad Loving HeyChad, how are you, my friend?

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How are things going this morning thusfar? Hey? I am doing
well. How about yourself? No, I'm doing well now. I got
you on the phone. Yeah,yeah, absolutely, My day's always better
when I get to talk with you. Oh, thank you, my friend.
I enjoy talking to you too,you know, And you're the most.
You got the award for showing upat Breakfast Club the most? Oh

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did I already huh? Yeah?Yeah? Did you get that award?
It's a cash award. Oh,I was waiting for it apparently that's somebody
else grabbed that before I got Ohthat's not right. That's just not a
right. But anyway, I appreciateyou being here this morning. How are
we looking so far? Absolutely okay, so far this morning? The sun
is shining and people are out movingaround. Actually quite if. There's actually

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quite a few people out this morning, surprisingly already, but a lot of
people out walking around. I knowit's going to get a little warmer today,
so I'm sure everybody's trying to beatthe heat a little bit too.
So yeah, so far, sogood. Absolutely. I I don't know,
did you hear this story this morning? I was just in shock,
and I don't know why I wouldbe anymore. Nothing should shock me,

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but with the seventeen year old triedto hire a hit man to kill a
seven year old. Oh no,I have not heard that story yet home.
Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah,she went to a parody website it's
called rent a hit Man dot com. Oh goodness, and went to that
and then, thank goodness to peopleat that site realized the seriousness of what

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was being requested and reported it tolocal police up in storm Lake. But
yeah, a seventeen year old wantingto hire a hitman to kill a seven
year old Chad. I can't evenI have no words for that. I
don't even know what to say aboutthat, other than wow, I know
it's something you hope you never runup against. But glad that it was

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nipped in the bud. Yeah,absolutely, because you don't know where that
would have ended up. Who knows. Well, I know my parents tried
that, but it didn't. Backthen, it wasn't it as feasible.
But yeah, yeah, they didn'thave a website to go do then.
Yeah, you know what, itwas amazing because I went to look this
up. There's like six or sevendifferent higher hitman websites, no kidding.
Yeah, Now, I don't knowif any of them are serious. Yeah,

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I wonder how that even? Howdoes that work out? What's the
threshold for reporting that? Obviously aseventeen year old at seven open? Yeah,
I mean it's okay for an adultthen to do that. I don't
think so, but apparently think not. And I hope we never have to
deal with it. But right,wow, okay, all right, my
friend, Well listen, I willlet everything. I'll let you hit the

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roads there and you lecture that rockguy about you know, he's job.
Yeah, I'll have a word withhim here this morning. I'm gonna see
him a little bit later here thismorning, Salt. Call him to your
call him into your office. Lethim know. Yeah, I'll call him
into my office. That's one idea. All right, Chad, listen,

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you have a great day to dayand we'll talk to you again soon.
This sounds good. You guys havea great day too. Thank you.
Thanks. That's Sergeant Chad Loving withthe LAPD. Give us a call.
You got the all clear this morning. Just use the usual precautions and you
should be just fine. No slowdowns other than construction. And of course

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this little rushmanist report brought you byMary Greedy Nickel Center doing What's Right Mail
on the morning. I'm fourteen thirtyk s. I'm always thrilled when I
get to talk with a good friend, and no better friend than Aime's Animal
Shelter and Animal Control supervisor Ron Edwards. Ron, good morning, my friend,
Good morning mail. How are you? I am well? Are you

(33:19):
usually up this early? I'm nutsusually well? Then double thanks to you
this morning for joining me, andI know you are at a very very
busy place the Animal Shelter. Andright now you have got a special.
I feel like I'm doing a commercialhere, but especial going on through June.

(33:42):
That's exactly what it sounds like.So June is adopted cat months and
to celebrate and to help us getfrom cats adopted, we're doing discounted adoption.
We have adult cast six months andolder for twenty five dollars and all
the important part of that is thatwe're going to keep our same adoption criteria.
We're not going to just because wewant to get casts adoptive. We're

(34:04):
not going to reduce our standards.Yeah, but we want to get these
cats into their forever homes. Andif you think they know about twenty five
dollars can adoptions, that includes everything. They're Spader new or they're Raby vaccinative,
microchips, everything. Yeah, yeah, what would that normally cause Ron,
it's our adoption fee is normally onehundred dollars per count. Look at
the discount on that, folks.That is that is a big sale going

(34:27):
on down there at the Games AnimalShelter. Yeah, and listen, they've
got lots of inventory. We doall colors, all colors, pipes,
you know everything, everything you need. But like I said, they do
come with everything. They've had alltheir vaccinations ready to go. We've got
a large selection. I really dosound like it's commercial nail. Well,

(34:50):
you know what day it's the truththough, And these these kid eas,
these cats need homes. They needto as much as the animal shelter takes
care of them, gives them thebest care possible. There's nothing like individual
care, that's for sure. Yep. Yeah, and it's it's not at
home. We realize and understand that. But you know, we've had those
two hoarding cases that really started usoff the kitten season we call this really

(35:15):
started us off behind, you know. And we only have twenty eight cat
adoption kennels in our adoption area.Yeah, and I have twenty eight cats
right now on on the website ifthey go to the website, which is
AIMES Animal Shelter dot org. Nowyou mentioned six months are older concluded in

(35:35):
this an nunder six months, hundersix months, those are one hundred dollars.
However, we are doing specials onkittens where they adopt one and they
get a buddy for free. OhI like that. Yeah, So there's
no charge for that second adoption.We always encourage that because you know,
like we lead a busy life andall of us do, it's nice when
we're at home that they have abuddy there with them to play with and

(35:55):
spend time with. Yeah, Bogo, got a bogo go in there,
sales guy. All kinds of stuffhappening out the exammal shelter. Yeah,
and again, we know that you'vebeen overcrowded for a while. We know
that you'd like to get some expansiongoing, and you know, anything we
can do to help ease the loads. Have you ever since you've been here

(36:17):
on been without cats? Absolutely not. Yeah, Yeah, that's what I
was thinking. Yeah, we've takenmore cats than dogs and rabbits and all
the other critters that we get in. So we definitely have more cats than
we ever do. And this isa year that we have more than we've
ever had. Dust for shirt.Yeah, and I like the buddy idea
that you've got going there. Myson who has two cats, always has

(36:40):
two cats, he said, becausethey entertain themselves. Absolutely, They play
with each other way that we don'tplay with them, and commun stay with
each other. So it's really importantto every buddy and even for the adults
too, you would encourage a secondbonded pair. We actually have a few
bonded pairs that are already together intoshelter that they're looking for their forever homes.

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Yeah, and I was going toask you, I know, what
is the program for foster parents foryour animals out there? How does that
work? Yeah, So we dohave a dedicated foster program that is actually
regulated somewhat through the state, sowe have to be careful in how we
do that. But the way thatworks typically is it kittens that are either

(37:23):
don't have a mother and need tobe a bottle fed or moms with kittens,
and it could also be puppies too, although we don't typically see the
unweaned puppies like we do with acat, and they care for them in
their home until they're old enough tocome back to the shelter to be adopted.
So we couldn't do it without ourfoster parents. We have about thirty

(37:43):
cats and foster care right now,so in addition to the ones that we
have at the shelter, those catseventually need to come back when I have
a cage available, and I don'tnecessarily have those kennels and cages available for
them right now. So that's whywe're hoping we're going to clear out the
shelter in the month that you andbe ready for the summer months that are
gonna hit us hard with lots ofkittens and and other cats that are needing

(38:06):
their homes. Yeah. I know. Our dog was a foster dog,
so to speak. That's how weran across. My friend was foster parenting
him, and and we fell inlove with him, well, my wife
and daughter did. But now youlove him, I do. I have
to admit it. He's a pal'sa We won't we won't tell anybody.

(38:30):
We won't tell your listeners, allright, because I yeah, because I've
acclimated. I don't know what Ido if he wasn't there. But you
talk about buddy. My wife's goneso much anymore with her new job that
he's my buddy and he's your companionyou have to talk to in the mornings
and the evenings. And oh yeah, my wife says, she says,
you know, you do wake meup when you go in to get let

(38:52):
the dog out. And I said, what do you mean, she says,
because the only thing I hear isgood morning Mac. How are you?
You know? And I'm saying shutup, be quiet, there you
go away? Yeah, Ron,what what's the location for people to get
to? Yes, definitely go toour website AIMS Animal Shelter dot org.

(39:12):
All the informations there. All right, sounds good, get on out there,
get yourself a kitty cat there ata reduced price, and kittens.
We got a bogo going on.It's the Aimes Animal Shelter. When my
special thanks to you Ron has alwaysfor joining us this morning. Thank you,
Mel. All right, buddy,bye bye, And that's Ron Edwards
with the Animal Shelter. Check itout Mel on the morning. I'm fourteen

(39:35):
thirty k s I eight sixteen.I have a surprised guest. What are
you doing, Jerry? Oh,the truck bust have showed up. Yes,
the truck is here and we havea handful of Kawanna lumber huh.
And it's a busy day. Yeah. And we are taking course with Jerry
Journers. She's with the Newton TimeKawanians here in our fair city. And

(40:00):
got some good news. And Ireported the other day that your shoe collection
has been a success. It wasa huge success. First time venture,
had no idea what to expect,and my old Morrow and his crew really
led the charge and the community hada huge response. We are loading up

(40:21):
over five thousand shoes, twenty fivehundred and twenty five pair we had.
We had enough shoes this morning tocome in and we have our one hundred
and six bags. So you dothe math one or six times twenty five.
I can't do it. I can'teither. That's why I'm in radio.
You know. There you go,there you go. I don't have

(40:42):
to think. Yeah, yeah,but I'll tell you what, what a
wonderful, wonderful idea this was,and helping people without shoes, and you
know what, I don't think wethink about that much. I think we
think some of these people go withoutshoes because that's what they do in that
country, But no, they can'tafford no, exactly. And we have
a little bit of everything here,men's women and children, work shoes,

(41:06):
dress shoes, lots and lots ofgym shoes, athletic shoes. Yeah.
Yeah, the community really really cameout and of course our Kawana's team one
and took them all up. Soyeah, and you got my wife shoe
collection of can we have Emeldis shoesin here? Oh, Emeldis shoes are
there, believe me. And she'sstill got plenty at home, so yeah,
she's not doing without. Well.Actually I had thirty seven pairs from

(41:30):
my own closet and surprised myself.Yeah. Well, and my daughter came
over and we took two great,big fifty bags to the big garbage bags
full of shoes. Well we thankPaula too. Yeah. Well, you
know, Paula will throw anything ofmy wife's away unless she wants it.
And we got that that team care. Well, congratulations to you folks.

(41:53):
Thank you. Like I said,I have actually heard about this a few
years ago, and I've always wantedto do it, and it didn't ever
seem like the time was right orthe manpower was right, And for some
reason, this was it. Andso in our one hundredth years service we
added a new project and several peoplewho have asked if we're going to do

(42:14):
it again, and it's like,well, I think it was well enough
for Seed that we should. Now. I don't know if we can do
it every year because we get towait for shoots to accumulate again. Yeah,
I'll put it this way. Thenoontime Colonians have a lot of soul.
Ha ha ha. And right nowwe're putting it on the truck.
Putting on the truck. They're goingto be solas here before long. And

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yeah, the truck hold in andit had picked up bags from another collection
site. I don't even know whatcounts. Yeah, and they have fifteen
bags. Goodness, Well, beproud. I am be proud those who
Yeah, so so mel thank youfor helping promote it and for getting the

(42:59):
word out. And just a huge, huge thank you to the people of
Aims and the surrounding area who supportedit. We don't know for a couple
of weeks what has turned out asa fundraiser for us, but we know
we kept all these shoes out ofthe Lantilly. We got shoes on feet
of people who need it. Yep. And I'll tell you what. Thanks
to you and all those noontime Kauanians. It gives so much to this community

(43:21):
all the time. And thanks forcalling in this morning. I get to
see you again on Friday, Ithink, yeah, yeah, we have
a birthday to celebrate, So hopefullyI'll see you on Friday and we can
talk all about it all right.Give my regards to all the Quanians there
this morning. And Jerry, youknow I love you. I'll talk to
you soon, all right, Thankyou you beat bye bye Jerry Dirner with

(43:44):
noontime Kawanians a successful shoe drive.And I said, it's a busy morning,
Brianna's here from irley Ball, anduh, what do you think,
did you? Uh? Did youhave shoes you could give? I didn't
hear about it. Actually now I'mkind of regretting it. I need to
clean out my closet. Well,I'll tell you what. It's good to

(44:05):
have you here this morning. Anireley Ball of course, one of the
agencies supported in part by the UnitedWay of Story County. And a very
very we're hearing about it all thetime, A very very busy irelely Ball
and very very busy consciousness going onabout the mental health problems. Yeah,
we're definitely staying busy over here.We do a plethora of services at ireley

(44:30):
Ball anywhere from intakes to psychiatric medications, therapy, community based services, and
our mobile crisis team is local tothe Ames area as well. Yeah,
and as I say, busy,Brian, Oh, yes, busy yeah,
is it busier. You've been thereseven years now, have you seen
a drastic increase in the people utilizingthe service? Yeah? So, Actually,

(44:52):
in our mobile Crisis team specifically,I've been with them for about four
years and this year we have continuedto hit record break numbers every month.
Tell us about the mobile crisis group, what do you do? Yeah,
So, our Mobile Crisis Team canbe accessed by anybody in the community that's
experiencing a mental health crisis, Sothere really isn't any criteria. It could

(45:15):
be someone just having a bad dayall the way up to someone experiencing suicidal
ideation, paranoia, just needing totalk to someone. But that team can
be accessed by the new nine eighteight National hotline or the Your Life Iowa
crisis line. So when someone callsin, then our team can respond in
a pair of two. We canmeet them wherever they need in the community

(45:36):
and really just be that neutral supportfor them. Are these usual in person
meetings then yep. Our team isfully in person, so they can expect
a team of two to come tothem and kind of sit with them and
work through whatever they're dealing with inthe moment. I think the key as
we go through these different stresses.This is much more stress society that we
live in than I ever grew upwith. I can tell you that,

(46:00):
or maybe we just kept it secret. I don't know. Yeah, there's
definitely a lot going on in themental health world, and it's not an
easy one to navigate, so itcan be difficult for folks to find the
resources they need. Yeah, andI think that there's still people reluctant out
there to recognize their own problems.They a lot of us grow up saying,

(46:21):
you know, deal with it,it's part of life. You can
deal with it, you don't,you know. As a matter of fact,
I lived with the stigma that ifyou had to go seek mental health
you had a giant problem. Yeah, there's definitely some stigma there. I
think it's improved over the years thatwe still see it. It's really interesting
with our mobile crisis, because becomein an unmarked car and it really is

(46:43):
just average joes meeting people in theirhomes. So with those folks, we
get a lot more of the populationthat I think are still afraid to make
that leap and actually get through thedoor of a mental health clinic and receive
resources and it's like anything else,you need to recognize it early or it
can fester and grow. Yep.Yeah, I always like to compare it

(47:06):
to physical elements sometimes. You know, if you get a cut and it
gets infected and you don't treat it, it can really escalate quickly. So
just like that, mental health isthe same. If you let it go
and treat it, it can kindof fester in itself. Are we finding
it more prominent in or maybe it'sjust recognition in an older demographic. I

(47:27):
mean, obviously I think of kidstoday that have so many stressors. Gosh,
with mobile crisis, we serve allages. So I used to say
zero to one hundred, and thenwe saw with someone one hundred and two
anymore. But really we have seena spike in some of our kiddle calls.
For sure, I think just thestressors of going back to school after
the pandemic, but we've seen itacross the board and especially in our elderly

(47:52):
population as well, and we wantto we want to stress that you make
that contact as soon as you knowor have any indication that you might be
dealing with something that it's been impossiblefor you to deal with. M Yeah,
No one should have to struggle alone. I always say that just calling
nine eight eight or your Life IOWAis such a good first step and they

(48:15):
can help you get where you needto go over that crisis line too.
What what do you do about stress? Oh gosh, you know, practice
what you preach, right, Andthat's the hardest part. So for me
in particular, I just because itis a stressful job. It is.
It's a stressful job, so it'san important one. We debrief a lot
with staff when we have difficult casescome in, just to make sure we're

(48:37):
taking care of each other. Butin my personal life, I have a
one year old Oh my goodness,automatic stress. Yea blessing. So with
it being nice outside, he's kindof my little go too. Oh yeah,
oh god, I have a oneand a half year old grandson and
and I just my heart lights upevery time I see him. So yeah,

(49:00):
I can imagine what you feel asa mama. Yeah. Brings a
lot of joy to our hearts.Yeah all right. If people need more
information on how they can avail themselvesof your services, how do they do
that? Yeah? So for ireleyBall in particular, we have ireleyball dot
Org that I'll take you to ourwebsite for all the community based services clinical
services that I talked about, butfor a mobile crisis you can contact nine

(49:22):
eight eight or your Life Iowa whichis eight five one or sorry eight five
five five eight one eight one oneone. All right, sounds great,
And of course again we want toremind people you are supported in part by
the United Way of Story County.Yes, thank you so much. Yeah,
and we thank you out there because, as I tell you every week,

(49:45):
you are the you in United Way. We just couldn't do it without
you. Brianna, thank you somuch for coming in. Yeah. Thanks.
Mel In the morning, I'm fourteenthirty k Yes, I Scott Kovac
rejoins me. What a busy morningpath it has been. I'm busy more
A good one, absolutely absolutely,a lot of a lot of interesting guests
on a lot of interesting conversations.It was great to hear the noontime Kawanne

(50:07):
and Shoe drive was such a success. Indeed. Yeah, those those folks
worked hard at getting the word out. We were happy to be a part
of that promotion and to see itcome to fruition. Yeah. I have
been invited to join them once Iretire or anytime, I'm sure, but
giving that very serious consideration and beproud to be with a group like that

(50:31):
and all they do here in thecommunity, with Miles Morrow and Jerry Derner,
and what an a bitchous occasion thatwould be to be with those all
stair people to be great, greatious. Speaking of being with some important people,
I will be doing that again thisFriday for the Breakfast Club. And

(50:52):
as we do when we are withthe City of Aims, we're moving location
again. I was at water Treatmentlast week, had a wonderful time,
lots of good guests in this weekI am where gosh, mel I don't
I don't remember, but I knowthat we're alternating, so not this weekend,
but the weekend following your back atwater treatment. Yeah, and then

(51:15):
another location and then back to waterTreatment for the last day, My last
day, last day of mel Crippenover thirty two years here on KSI doing
the mel In the Morning show.That's the moniker mel in the Morning.
You are mel in the Morning.And if you're going to catch mel in

(51:35):
the Morning for his last show.Yeah, it's going to be the thirtieth
of this month of Friday over thewater treatment plant. You cannot miss it.
It doesn't matter whether you have anythingto say or not on air.
Just show up and let Mel knowyou appreciate his work. Well, I
will tell you what the City ofaims and the alternating places the city Electric
Services, nitro services, Yeah,will be it. And as John Dunne

(51:59):
from water treatment and don Come fromElectric services say, they don't mix,
they don't mix. But I willtell you the ever lovely ever vescentt ever
giving. Susan Guiazda, who isthe public relations officer with the City Aimes,
has kindly said, and I'm gonnaput this out there, Susan,

(52:21):
I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds. But she has asked me if I
would stay around after the breakfast clubon June thirtieth for about an hour and
give people a chance to come byand say hi and etc. And so
if you would like to, Iam going to stay after the breakfast club
for those who would like to stopby. We'd like to say thank you

(52:45):
to them. He could say hito me, and I'll say thank you
to them for making this such anunexpected and glorious career in broadcasting, one
that I never thought I was goingto be a part of one I never
wanted to pursue, but I amso glad that I did. But it
found you anyway, it found me, and for some reason I fit.

(53:07):
I don't know how. I'm suchan odd ball and I didn't figure I
would fit that well. And ofcourse special thanks to Betty Bowdler, who
hired me to begin with here whenshe owned the station and was so gracious
to throw the dice, so tospeak, and and give me a chance.
And I will be eternally grateful toher and so many I was thinking

(53:32):
the other day of people who havepassed through the portals of this station since
I've been here, and I'm solucky. I just you know, I
think with great emotion about my goodfriend rich Fellingham, who has since passed,
who was an inspiration to me asI came to work here, who

(53:53):
helped me through the hoops of learningthis business. And Dark Danielson, who
now works for Radio IOWA, butwas the assistant news director at the time
I came here, and his generosityin showing me the ropes, and more
than generosity, it was patience.They're patience in working with me because you

(54:15):
know, put me next to afence post. I'm as dumb as the
fence post. And they showed greatpatience with me. Other gentlemen that have
gone on to I don't know better, I don't think better things, but
maybe some bigger things. Kyle Martin, who is over in Marshalltown I think

(54:35):
now we're in a station there,who showed the old guy what he should
do and what was needed. JamiePhillips went by Jamie Phillips Grout was his
real name, Jamie Grout, andhe is I think Ian Newton right now,
but also was so patient with me, etc. Matt who now works

(55:01):
up in a Minnesota radio station,who was good. Pete By who left
radio to become a banker. Butanother guy he just I'd just been so
honored to work with these different folks, and each one taught me a little
bit of something. And I've alwayssaid patience is the biggest thing they gave

(55:23):
me, because I'm a slow study. I think you've experienced that, my
friend, that well, you've gotthe expertise of having done this so long.
I mean, it really is ablessing, whether you know it or
not. Mel At being such amember of the community for so long.
Even just listen to the voices thismorning on air, so many people coming

(55:45):
in or over the phone. It'sjust a great opportunity to again. I
really think that the breakfast clubs comingup, not just the one at the
end of the month, but taketake the opportunity to say hi to mel
Um, whether it be at thewater treatment plant or the electric plant,

(56:05):
stop on by, say hi tomel Love it absolutely seven eight thirty.
When when the breakfast club runs,you never know, Mel may stick around
for just a little bit longer.In each case, Oh, I'll stay
around until they want to throw meout one of those things. U.
And as I say, the honorof serving such a great community for this
many years is UH is a deadI'll never be able to repay um and

(56:32):
UH. It is not going tobe easy to walk out the door.
And it just is not UM.But my wife's convinced me it needs to
be done. You need to doit so UH and I have to live
with her every day, so she'sgot a little bit of sway with me.
I wanted to mention my wife isplanning a informal goodbye the night of

(57:00):
June thirtieth, and we will beover at torrent over here the microbrewery here
in town. And he's been sokind to say, yeah, come on
over whatever, nothing special except I'llbe there and you come on answer cash
bar, who whole bit there.But we'd love to have you stop by

(57:20):
there too and get a chance tothank you and say so long and see
what happens. Now. Many ofyou are questioning Mel once you leave,
what they're going to do with thestation, and I can honestly say I
don't know. I really I don'tknow what their plans are. I don't
either, Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we're still kind of

(57:43):
in the dark night. They're makingup their final decisions here. We should
know within the next week, Iwould think. But we're being very honest
with you and we're not trying tobe evasive. We want to know as
much as you do. And mywife says, well, why should you
care? And I say, youcan't invest thirty two years in a radio

(58:04):
station and in a community and notcare about it, even when you're you're
stepping out the door. And Ido care very much about what happens.
But I assure you I have nosay in it. I am just on
the way out, as they say, and again, one of the most
difficult decisions I have made in mylifetime. And I hope I don't regret

(58:30):
it. It isn't that awful.I won't. My wife won't let me
regret it. But believe me,we'll stay in touch somehow. I might
not be on the airwaves, butI'll be out there. So look out,
you know, put your pitchforks,your tarm feathers away. I'll be
out of your ears soon. Here. All right, we need to take
a break. We'll be back withmore Mel in the Morning with Scott Coback.

(58:54):
Collback mel in the Morning. I'mfourteen thirty kas and I talk about
something of service. I hope you'relistening to me right now because some of
you are out there dealing with unnecessarypain and that hurts me because I am
trying to give you a possible solution. For the last few months, it

(59:16):
was new to me. I didsome research on it. It makes perfect
sense. Hey, it's me melin the Morning, and I just want
you to know. You can stopwith the steroids. You can stop with
the thought of surgery, you canthought about downtime not going to have it.
There's a better way for you toget some lasting relief, and it's
to go to QC Kinetics and findout what regenerative medicine is. No,

(59:42):
you don't have to go online.All you have to do is give them
a call. It's a free calland it's a free consultation. I will
give you a little idea what Iknow about it. They use healing properties
from your own body and they takethose, they concentrate them, and then
they put those right back in yourbody into your achy joint and that will
stop pain. You will be surprisedhow quickly that may stop your pain.

(01:00:06):
You can restore and repair that damagetissue and get you taken care of.
No more knee pain, no moreback pain, no more shoulder pain,
hip pain, arthritis pain. Yeah, the satisfaction reports are incredible. And
again I want to emphasize there's nodown time. So let's get rid of
the old fashioned ways of dealing withthose joint pains. You don't need surgery,

(01:00:30):
you may not need more medication.What you do need is to give
a call to QC Kinetics. Here'sthe number. I'm gonna give it to
you a few times. So gettime, grab that pain or pencil.
Five on five two five nine twelvetwenty seven. Five one five two five

(01:00:53):
nine twelve twenty seven. One moretime free consolation for a pain free life.
Give this number a call five onefive two five nine twelve twenty seven
QC Kinetics. There you go.Yeah, I didn't get my call from

(01:01:14):
the PD again. I'm gonna haveto you know, I'm gonna have to
have to demoted, demote, promotethe leadership or the from the commander.
I don't want to have to goabove his head. Ye, Commander Dan
Walter there forgotten me a couple ofweeks here, but I do not forget
the police Department and the wonderful jobthey're doing. You know, I went

(01:01:35):
to their Facebook page again this morning, and I wanted to share one of
the stories with you. And someof you may be familiar with Officer Jen
and she is out there. She'swith the public frequently making calls and giving
an opportunity for you or your kids, or any of these citizens here a

(01:02:04):
chance to get to know those officersin a personal manner. And I think
that's important. I think we needto relate sometimes that uniform, that uniform
overwhelms, overwhelms our perception of who'sunder it and who they are and what

(01:02:25):
they are and what they are ashuman beings that have taken on an awesome
responsibility of protecting us, protecting usour families, our kids, when they
themselves have families and kids. Butsomebody, the saying goes, has to
do it, and most of themare there by choice. They didn't have

(01:02:49):
to do it. They did itbecause they wanted to, They felt a
responsibility and know they can make adifference in a community. The neighborhood trailer.
Are you familiar with that, Scott, No, I'm not. It's
a neighborhood trailer that the city puttogether a few years back that has tables
and chairs and games and things init. So if you're having like a

(01:03:10):
block party or something along those lines, you give them a call, you
reserve it, they bring it out, deliver it to the site, and
then you set up whatever you've gotset up. And usually once the not
only police officers but fire department,some of them will show up at your
doings, introduce themselves and gladly takea plate of food down there, you

(01:03:32):
know, get to know the kids. I've always said. My wife said,
the thing that really bothered her alot was being in a store or
something like that in uniform and thekid is acting up and then having the
parent point at her and say,if you're not good, she's going to
take you to jail. And shesaid, it just kind of made me

(01:03:55):
cringe because we're not going to dothat. But it gives you a good
chance to speak to these officers aspeople. And I think most of the
time in this community there's a greatamount of respect for what our police department
does and for what they accomplished andsituations they have to deal with. I've

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always said, whenever you see therollers, that's what I call the lights
on the light bar in your rearview mirror, you think you've done something
wrong or what's happening here. AndI especially stress this when we talk about
mental health problems. And now they'vecome out with a new arch group that

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goes out and handles a lot ofthe mental health calls that come in,
and the officers get involved only ifrequested, because the sight of a uniform
oftentimes creates more tension and more stress, but sometimes it's necessary. But anyway,
Jena is out there and mixing itup with folks and getting to know

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him. And I saw a storyabout a young girl that she meant at
one of these neighborhood situations, whogot to talk to her understand what she
was about, and she also gavethem her address and how to get hold
of her, knowing that she wouldbe safe that whenever there was danger or

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trouble could call on the police departmentto be there and help. So I
just wanted to say, even thoughDan maybe tied up in busy and didn't
get to us, but we dousually get together around five Tuesday mornings,

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and I think I appreciate him callingin and getting us caught up to date.
But also I would invite you togo to the Ames PD facebook page.
Where's a lot of stories in thereand some history is what I like.
They've got a picture on there rightnow of an accident that happened in
nineteen forty of an old that lookedlike an old model A or something that

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ran into a more modern car.There, not injuries, but some damage
done and just an interesting little storyto go along with it. And again,
if you get a chance to speakwith the officers, if you get
a chance to say thank you,shake a hand, smile, any one
of those things. I wave constantly. I know people probably think I'm a

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big suck up, but every timeI see a police car and i'm in
trapping, I'll give away, I'llgive a yell. And yes, I'm
prejudiced because I know them, andthat's a privilege I hold very very dear
to my heart. But anyway,as the wife, as I refer to
myself as a retired police sergeant,and I referred to that in case you

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are not aware that when Chris wentinto law enforcement, there were not a
lot of women on the department here. Not only was she a female officervice,
she was also a minority in beingAsian, and they had She just

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kind of relished that position and appreciatedit. But the books and information they
give out to spouses was geared specificallyfor wives, not for old men like
me out there. So I calledmyself a wife, an officer's wife,
and I've said this before. Thewives of the other police officers embraced me

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in that position and understood where Iwas standing there. It was it took
a lot of understanding. It tooka lot of psychological help for me to
accept my wife as a police officer. I mean not only for departments to
accept them, but for me toadjust my life to her life and try

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to make myself a little bit worryfree when she was out on the streets
there and thanks the community for that. Anyway, that's gonna do it for
today. Tell you well, wegot lots going on. We want to
share it with you. Scott Kovacand I mel in the morning, welcome
back tomorrow morning. That's no threat, that's a promise, and we want
to see you too. That's righthere a news Talk fourteen thirty K.

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