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New Stalk fourteen thirty KS six sixteenOn Wednesday morning, Dave Sprout alongside Scott
Kovac filling in for the vacationing melin the Morning. Scott, Good morning
to you, Good morning to YouTube. If you feel a little funky in
your soul after listening to the JuniorWalker in the All Stars, yeah,
it makes you feel a little somethingin the morning, kid, to kick
off your day. Today's the anniversaryof Junior Walker's birth. He was born

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on this date in nineteen thirty onein Blytheville, Arkansas. And Uh,
in case you can't tell, JuniorWalker is the guy both uh singing the
lead vocals as part of the groupJunior Walker in the All Stars. And
he's the guy also won the sacksthat was actually his signature deals He's really
better known for his sax playing thanis singing. Not that that scene was

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necessarily bad. That's a great time, but I liked it. Yeah,
but they yeah, the uh thesacks playing. Uh, that's that's what
really uh brought Junior Walker to theuh the forefront. Junior Walker was born
in blithe Middle, Arkansas, movedto South Bend, Indiana as a kid,
and then moved up to Michigan afterbeing drafted into the army. He

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lived in a Battle Creek, Michiganand performed around that state, signed to
a small record label in the earlysixties, a label was later bought out
by Motown, so Junior Walker becamepart of the Motown stable and that song
Shotgun became a big hit in nineteensixty five, reached number four on the

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Billboard Hot one hundred and number oneon the Billboard R and B chart.
He also has a couple of otherhit songs. I'm a road Runner,
which is I think a pretty greatsong. What does it Take to Win
Your Love from nineteen sixty nine alsohit the top five. That's a pretty
great song too, guys, Imean, obviously some great saxophone in that

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one. Walker had died of cancerat the age of sixty four in nineteen
ninety five, and he's actually buriedwith a marker just ribe with his birth
name Autry Dwalt Mixon Junior, aswell as his stage name of Junior Walker.
I don't know where that name camefrom, but but yeah, it's

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there. Nonetheless, Yeah, that'sthat's how he's known. That's pretty great,
some pretty Great Songs from Junior Walker. He was inducted into the Rhythm
and Blues Foundation in nineteen ninety five. That song Shotgun was inducted into the
Grammy Hall of Fame in two thousandand two. Junior Walker and the All
Stars were voted into the Michigan Rockand Roll Legends Hall of Fame in two

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thousand and seven. I didn't knowthey had one of those. Yeah,
did you know that there's an IowaRock and Roll Hall of Fame? I
knew there was something along those lines. Yeah, I don't know what that
is, dude, Junior Walker,but I'd imagine at this point every state
has well I don't know. MaybeI don't know if Delaware has like a
claim to a rock and roll Hallof Fame, the Alaska Delaware. Yeah,

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I have no idea, who knows, But nonetheless we know at least
two states just should get in Iowathat have rock and roll Hall of Fame
all of their own. I Idon't know that Iowa has many actual rock
and roll acts who originated in thestate, but yeah, well that's that's
maybe all the more reason to havean Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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There there are quite a few umlegendary rock and roll acts who've come
through the state, and at leastone or at least three I guess who
died in the state. But anyway, we want to keep things cheery on
here the morning instead of talking abouttalking. Yeah, we're just gonna kick

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it with Junior Walker. The AllStars celebrate Junior Walker's birthday, born on
this state in nineteen thirty one.Mel's gonna burn off some vacation days in
the coming weeks here because Lord knowshe's not gonna get enough rest. Hey,
it's the end of the month,comes anyway, So I'll be here,

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Scott will be here tomorrow. Melwe'll be back on Friday. He'll
be doing his breakfast club thing atthe water Plant if I'm not mistaken for
Friday morning, so you can joinhim for that. If you have a
nonprofit organization or a community event topromote your both quo always welcome to stop
by at the Breakfast Club, whichwill be at the Water Plant on the

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thirteen Street Friday morning, seven thirtyto eight thirty. Live with Mel in
the morning and speaking of things tocelebrate, Yeah, the Birthday Club always
were celebrates absolutely five one, five, two three two, fourteen thirty is
the number two call if you orsomeone you know has a birthday today,
and we'll get those names on thebirthday list. We'll pick out a couple

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of winners and those folks can pickbetween a free birthday cake or balloon bouquet
from the Games High ves Once toget five one five two three two fourteen
thirty is the phone number four theHive Birthday Club on News Talk fourteen thirty
KSI Sick twenty three on new Stockfourteen thirty k SI Dave and Scott filling
in for mel in the morning onyour Wednesday. It is June fourteenth,

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and you know what that means.I don't know what. You are terribly
unpatriotic and do not respect our flag. It's flag day, oh Scott,
the anti American Kovacs over here,I hate America written across as shuret even.
I mean, I don't even knowwhat's going on that I kid,

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I kid, but today, yes, it is Flag Day as observed every
June fourteenth. That is because itwas on this date in I believe it
was seventeen seventy seven that the USflag, as we more or less know
it was officially adopted. And nowlet's see if anti American Scott can remember

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who is credited with designing the original, the very original, very first US
flag. So the original head onlywhat thirty and stars? Yeah, oh
gosh, I know. It wassomeone who sewed the flag. There you
go. It was someone who sewedthe flag. Was it an atoms?

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No, it was Betsy Ross.Betsy Ross, All right, way to
go, Betsy. You forget thatname. I don't know Scott hates America.
I think we're learning some very importantthings come because they don't know.
Flag Tribua. That's right, right, That's the most important thing to know
about America is the flag. Anyway. The national flag, which became known

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as the Stars and Stars, wasbased on the Grand Union Flag, which
was a banner carried by the ContinentalArmy that also consisted of thirteen red and
white stripes. According to legend,Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new Stars
and stripes, was consisted of acircle of thirteen stars against the blue background,
and maintained the thirteen red and whitestripes. The legend goes at Ross

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designed the flag at the request ofGeneral George Washington. However, there's really
no historical evidence to support that everhappened. Uh, that either it was
Betty Ross who designed the flag,or that it was George Washington's request or
any of that stuff. But youknow what, you can't prove it didn't
happen either. So we're gonna print. Yeah, Washington, are you gonna

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be like Scott and say, uh, this flag is is no good because
we don't know who designed it.Come on, right, come on,
that's hurtful days. I'm gonna beon you about this whole morning. Much
fun for me. I'm enjoying thismuch anyway. Uh. The first UM
observance of Flag Day was actually heldin eighteen seventy seven on June fourteenth,

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on the one hundredth anniversary of theadoption of the Stars and stripes. UH.
The US flag has flown from allpublic buildings cross country, UH,
basically since since it started. Really, isn't it uh? In In the
years after the first Flag Day,several states continue to observe the anniversary and
official capacity, but the official UHcongressionally designated Flag Day was June fourteenth,

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nineteen forty nine, and so sincethen it's you know, it's on all
the calendars, and it's observed bymany UH on an annual basis. The
current design of the flag, whichfeatures how many stars Scott, yes,
exactly how many stars on the currentflag? Let me let me count,

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I think. Just do your best. You don't have to count them all.
You should just know. I'm lookingat my phone. Hates American hates
American hates the flag the most unpatriotic. I'm up to ten so far.
Yeah, you can count twelve anyway. The fifty fifty star American flag was

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adopted in nineteen fifty nine. Ofcourse, with each new state being entered
in the Union, a new starwas added to the flag. So the
flag as we currently know it wasactually designed by a guy named Robert G.
Half who was seventeen years old atthe time. He was one of
more than fifteen hundred people to designto submit a design to President Eisenhower in

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the late fifties there to revamp theflag, UH to honor, you know,
the forty ninth and fiftieth states.All right, mister an America.
Do you don't remember the forty ninthand fiftieth states? Well, Alaska is
the fiftieth. No, Alaska isa forty ninth and then now now now
I'm the one who can't figure itout why why I think isiftieth. But

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anyway, so that's that's how weknow the flag today. Well, it's
the last two states. They canfight it out for who's forty ninth and
who's fiftieth. Yeah, I guessthat's Uh, that's there. That's their
problem. It's their American rights,yeah, right, as Americans, unlike
Scott, Americans who love their countryand observe Flag Day. Oh. Today

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is also I don't know if thishas any relation. Today is also National
Bourbon Day. Uh, this oneI might even celebrate harder than Flag Day.
It's a possible, yea, withall these Unamerican accusations. I don't
know, the Bourbon's looking pretty good. Bourbon. Yeah, Scott's gonna have
to go home and throw back somebourbon to uh the to recognize the official

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spirit of America Bourbon. Uh.As you might know. There there's the
there's a sort of myth around that, kind of like how Champagne in order
to actually call Champagne, it hasto come from the Champagne region of France.
That's that's where the although anything elseis just sparkling wine. There's a

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myth that in order to be bourbon, it has to come from Kentucky,
but that's not true. Bourbon hasto actually consist of at least fifty one
percent corn. And it's and it'swhat they call the Mashville which is and
you can, yeah, the restof it, you can make anyway.
You can make up to you canmake it all if you want. You
can make it conty nine percent ryeor wheat or whatever variety you want to

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mix together. But it has tobe at least fifty one percent corn.
And it has to be aged,um to a certain a certain number of
years, I can't remember. Itmust be aged or stored in charred oak
barrels. And um, it can'tbe more than eighty percent alcohol, which

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I think is probably for the best. That's one eighty percent alcohol, a
lot of alcohol. Um wow,that's the minimum. The minimum proof,
which is double the alcohol content wasone twenty five. The maximum proof is
one sixty. And I believe that. Um, I can't find it here,
but I think it has to beaged a certain number of years to

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be called bourbon. And it's reallyconfusing for a per person who drinks.
Bourbon. You know, I wouldlike to just say it's from Kentucky.
It's bourbon. No, that's no, that's not true. You can get
you can get bourbon from Iowa.You can get bourbon from any other state.
I've had bourbon that was made inTexas. I've had bourbon that's made
in Iowa. I've had bourbon fromIt's Kentucky, though, so it's not

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bourbon. Now you're hating on Iowaburbon in addition to your hate hatred of
America. I'm pretty sure it's whiskey. It so happens. I was.
I went to the Templeton Ride Distilleryand so cool Saturday, little little day
trip, Yeah, which was fascinating. It was very interesting. Um and

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I learned I didn't know this,that they are in the process of making
a bourbon. Now where risky whiskeyyou know, risky whiskey whiskey bourbon in
the sense that it you know,it doesn't have to be fifty one percent
corn. You can make it anything. So rye whiskey the way Templeton makes
it. They it's ninety five percentrye and five percent malted barley, and

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of course those two ms are notgenerally produced in Iowa. He's not very
common, but they're still they're bringingthat stuff into this little town and Templeton
of Templeton, which consists of likefour hundreds some people, and they're making
all kinds of are not all kindsof a few variety of whiskeys. And
I learned that they are actually inthe process of making a bourbon, because

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why not. You're in the middleof all this corn, so it's pretty
easy to get um. The thingis, though, that it's not on
the market yet because they're still agingthe bourbon. It's got to sit there
for a while. And so Iam sitting here counting down in the days.
I don't know when the months storeguides that it's gonna be a couple
of years. I think a yearor a year or two away from Templeton

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Bourbon. But when Templeton Bourbon,right, because I really like Templeton rye
um, when Templeton Bourbon comes along, I'm definitely gonna gonna get some of
that try it. I as anaside too, from my visits Templeton.
You know, you do the tourand you get a little tasting of a
couple different varieties of what Templeton makes, which are only available at the Templeton

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and Right gift shop. Apparently there'snot on the market, king go to
liquor store. Finally, the oneI brought home is a ten year aged
whiskey. But I believe it's acorn based whiskey and it's not. It's
not. It's either doesn't have enoughcorn content to be bourbon or it's not
aged enough to be bourbon, whateverhowever you want. Well, it's it's
ten year eight, so it's funny, old enough. I probably not um

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enough corn content and be called bourbon, but nonetheless it's pretty good. So
that's one way if you want tocelebrate bourbon, you know, bourbon.
There's probably a national whiskey Day.I'm sure there's a national ye wi,
there's probably a national you know whateverspirit day. But there's a flag day.
There's got to be something to drink. Yeah, yeah, exactly,

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Raise grab some bourbon, Raise atoast to the old stars and stripes,
and and and curse Scott for beingUnamerican on your breast. Sixty three A
new stock fourteen thirty KSI stalk fourteenthirty k SI six forty six that is
the Beatles. Oh you might youmight have heard of that. So I

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have heard of that one yesterday Ithought maybe I shouldn't credit it to the
Beatles because there's only one Beatle actuallyheard on that recording, whether you talk
about the vocal or the instruments,the only Beatle who appears is Paul McCartney.
Of course, wrote the song,sang the song, played the guitar,
and then they added the strings later. So there's no John, there's

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no Paul, there's no ringo exceptwe do know except just Paul McCartney.
Except we do know that all Beatlessongs are by Lennon and McCartney. Not
true, but anyway, that isodd who everyone is credited for it.
I think that's part of what createdthe tension between Lennon and McCartney, is,
Hey, I don't want my nameon that, but the contract said

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it's both of you, okay,first and foremost. Not every song was
written by Paul Lennon, Paul McCartneyand John Lennon, but they're both credited
on every song. No, they'renot credited on every Beatles song. You
are aware of this, right,I mean you're not. You are a
where George Harrison wrote some songs ingalStar wrote, yes, yeah, all

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right, let's make sure we're clearon that. Yesterday, the song you
just heard, was recorded at leastthe bulk of it was recorded on this
date in nineteen sixty five, which, according to what has been at least
recorded onto Wikipedia, our nation's mosttrusted resource. Yes anyway, um also

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were most American resot Absolutely McCartney andthe other Beatles tried a variety of instruments
for that song. Paul actually wroteit on a piano, and um,
George, it was George Martin,their producer, who persuaded McCartney to just
play the song on his epiphone Texansteel string acoustic guitar and then later overdubbed

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the string quartet that you hear there. Uh. The recording of Yesterday was
done in two takes on this datein nineteen sixty five, and UH,
take two, just a little triviathere. Take two is the master take.
Uh. A few days later McCartneycame back and recorded some additional vocals

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and the string quartet was overdone.That was the Uh, that was the
version that was you know, releasedto the uh, the public. Um
not only is that perhaps the mosticonic Beatles song gets hard to pick out,
like what is the most iconic Beatlessong, but that would definitely be

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in the running. It we mightbe getting another Beatles song. In fact,
it looks pretty likely. This hasbeen in the news the last couple
of days, so you might beaware of this already. But Paul McCartney
is saying that a new Beatles recordis coming out using a vocal by John

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Lennon that was taken from an olddemo recording and they're using artificial intelligence to
separate John Lennon's voice from whatever elseis on that recording. Well, it's
going to be turned into a Beatlesnow. Is a fascinating use of AI.
Yes, that's pretty cool. McCartneytells the BBC that the technology was

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used to separate the Beatles voices frombackground sounds during the making of Peter Jackson's
twenty twenty one documentary series The BeatlesGet Back. The news song is set
to be released later this year,according to McCartney, So did you watch
the Getback documentary? I actually watchedthe last episode of that with the rooftop
concert and everything. Yeah, ohman, it was intense amazing. Well,

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because there isn't any real voiceover inthe documentary, it's just in their
voices. Yeah, it's just that'sthat's where the AI came in. Uh.
There'd be you know, recordings ofconversations or uh the guys you know,

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yeah, playing the tune chat orplaying some tunes, and you know,
Peter Jack used AI to kind ofseparate those sounds and you could hear
more clearly than ever what the Beatleswere playing, what they were saying,
what they were talking about, andprovided a real, you know, as
you mentioned, really fascinating look athow they created the music that was vibrant.

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I mean like when you're sitting therewatching and it's like, oh man,
I do feel like I'm in theroom, I do, yeah,
totally. And so now that that'sthat same technology there there somebody apparently is
taking those vocals from John Lennon,which are recorded in nineteen seventy eight.
Well actually McCartney didn't get specific aboutit, but people who I guess no

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things. According to the Associated Pressthat it's widely believed that the song will
be the nineteen seventy eight tune Lennonrecorded on as a demo called Now and
Then. Now demo recording is notyou know, if the finished product by
any meats right. It's kind ofit's sort of a rough draft of a
song almost. It's just maybe,you know, John Lennon his guitar,

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Paul and his piano just kind ofgoing through the medley and the lyrics of
a tune just to get a senseof you know, give a sense of
how assounds to the other guys inthe group, and you know, just
get some ideas down on tape.But so Lendon recorded this song, or
at least part of a song calledNow and Then in nineteen seventy eight the
demo. That demo was included ona CA set that Lendon's widow, Yoko

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Ono, later gave two Paul McCartney. So now McCartney's going to turn it
into a Beatles song, And Idon't know how they're going to do that
with George Harrison, you know thatfor quite a while. Now, I
don't know if they have any AIthat can bring back his voice. I'm
sure they's that's pretty cool. Artificialintelligence can be a scary prospect because you

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can you can basically create fake versionsof anything. It feels like these days.
But the use of the AI here, I guess it's a little bit
more. I'm a little more comfortablewith it because you're just you're just using
an existing recording. You're not manipulatingit to create something different. You're just
taking or an existing recording, makingit clearer and giving you the opportunity,

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I guess to turn it into likea real record. Well, you know
what's fascinating to me about it too, is, of course, the Beatles
broke up in what seventy Yeah,and so to take a bit of artistry,
a bit of song thinking that comesfrom seventy eight, it's kind of
expanding the Beatles cat blog in time. That's kind of cool. I like
that. Yeah, So Paul describesthis as the last Beatles record. Paul's

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gonna turn eighty one in a fewdays, so maybe the line would not
be with us much longer. AndRingo's getting up there and they're the only
two left. So yeah, thismight be the last Beatles record. I
guess we'll be on the lookout forthat. Six fifty three on a Wednesday
morning. This is new Stock fourteenthirty KSI let's not make this perfectly clear
because other people don't seem to getit. It's not the Field of Dreams

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game. If it's not being heldat the Field of Dreams. We had
it on our local sports you justheard it there the instead of a Field
of Dreams game. According to theSan Francisco Chronicle, which should be credited
in that report but is not.Anyway, the Chronicle is reporting that the
Giants and Cardinals are going to playa game at rick Wood Field. I

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believe it's called in Birmingham, Alabama, the oldest professional baseball stadium in existence.
They're not going to call at theField of Dreams game. Obviously,
they're not going to call it thatbecause it's not being held at the Field
of Dreams. This is going tobe something. This will be held instead
of the Field of Dreams game,which has been played in Iowa the last

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two seasons. They're not holding itthis year because of renovations at the Field
of Dreams, and then next yearthey're going to hold a game in Birmingham,
Alabama instead, which is absolutely agreat choice to hold this kind of
event because not only is it theoldest professional baseball stadium in the country,
it's got a I mean by thatdefinitional. It's got a ton of history

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there. That was a minor leagueballpark for a long long time. It
was also home to a Negro Leaguesteam for many many years. Willie Mays
played there when he was in theNegro Leagues. A lot of a great
players game through there, either asminor leaguers or Negro leaguers. So it's
like a ton of history. Andit's one of the few stadiums left.

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But it's not the Field of Dreams. It's not the field. It's one
of the few stadiums left that actuallyregularly held um negor league baseball games.
I'm sure they're I don't know ifFenway Park Wriegly Field held Negro league games.
Those are the tool. Those arethe only stadiums left that pre date
the end of the Negro Leagues.Um Yankee Stadium, uh Kemiskey Park,

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stadiums like that. In fact,they held Negro League games, but those
games those stadiums don't really exist,I mean the sense that Yankee Stadium does
it. There is a Yankee Stadium, but it's not that Yankee steam.
So let's all agree not to callit the Field of Dreams game, because
that's yeah, something like something likethat six fifty eight. Time for Text

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Nation on newstalk fourteen thirty k SI. Here's Talk fourteen thirty kven thirteen on
a Wednesday morning, Dave sprou herewith you Scott Kovac alongside filling in form
Mel in the Morning, who's burningoff a couple of days of a vacation.
He's he's going to sprinkle in somevacation days between now and the end

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of the month, you know whenhe goes on permanent vacation. Yeah,
I don't mean that he's euphemism.He's retiring, he's not dying, right.
Yeah. Well, let's make asfar as we know that's that is
the the thirtieth of this month,the last breakfast club as we know it
with Mel and people have got tobe there. Melo obviously have more information

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on Friday about that particular breakfast club. So if I have this right,
he's at the water plant this week, then the Electric Administration Office again next
Friday, and on the thirtieth thefinal Mel in the Morning and the final
breakfast Club with mel will be atthe water plant once again. So that's

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that's the plan. We discovered somethingrecently mel and I we were curious about
this. Yes, the company wework for, righteous kind folks that I
heart media. Uh, they donot pay out unused overtime part ways with
the company man. So Mel decided, you know what, I'm gonna hear
some of those vacation type days then, And I get it. I completely

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am on board with that, becauseI mean, let's face it, the
guy's been mailing it in the lastsix months. Anyway, we know that
I can't. I can't. Igotta give Mel a hard time. So
we'll be here not only through nineo'clock this morning, we'll be here again
tomorrow and a couple of days nextweek, I believe, and much to

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our Yeah, well we'll be uh, we'll be in and out here kind
of. But I think we'll havethe whole crew together in a manner of
speaking, at least for the uhthe final day of Mel. In the
morning on the thirtieth, as Melwill be out and about, I might
have to go out to the waterplant and and hang out with Mel because
he's gonna need crowd control at thefinal breakfast club. Well, not only

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that, but I mean security.There's gonna be so many people. Yeah,
they're they're gonna be lined up.Everybody's gonna want a picture with Mel
or you know, talk to Mel, shake hands. You know, everybody's
gonna want a piece of Mel onthe last day that he's on the air.
So I'm probably gonna have to goout there and do crowd control make
sure that. Yeah, I mean, we don't. We don't want to

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see like when Elvis was, youknow, performing in the fifties and the
kids were ripping his clothes off afterthe concert. I mean that could happen
to Mel. I all the teenagersare gonna no wait, no, that's
probably not not gonna be teenagers.And no, probably nobody's gonna rip his
clothes off. I would imagine notwell, I don't even imagine any of

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that. Yeah, yeah, wedon't even want to imagine that much.
Let's see it in real life.That's very understanding. Yeah, especially at
seven fifteen in the morning. Idon't I don't want to even think about
I don't. We don't need it. But uh yeah, that's the plan.
So if you are looking to becomea part of the Breakfast Club with
Mel, you got three more chancesto do it, including this Friday,

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seven thirty to eight thirty at theAims Water Plant water pollution Control facility or
something like. I believe that's theofficial name. We'll just call the water
Plan. It's it's the big buildingout there in thirteen. You know what,
You know what I'm talking about,the one that's this water plant.
Yeah, the one that's I mean, there's a sign right now then,
yeah, absolutely, use so keepthat in mind. Also keep in mind

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the Birthday Club is open five one, five two three two fourteen thirty is
the number for you to call andlet us know who has a birthday today.
Could be yourself, could be someoneyou know, and we'll get those
names on the list. We'll picka couple names off that list later this
morning to receive a free birthday cakeor balloon, bouquet, whatever their choice
from the Aims High v So wehope that you will contribute to that.

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I actually have submitted the name ofa close personal friend of mine, close
personal friend. His name is DonaldTrump. Oh and he turned seventy six
today. That I don't have hisnumber. I've topped my head. I
don't have his I could probably maybeI could find his lawyer's number. We

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could that he's been Uh, he'sbeen dealing with a lot of lawyers.
I don't. I don't keep intouch with my friend Don real tight,
but I mean we keep tabs oneach other. And I noticed he did
he had a court appearance. Yes, I'm sure it's nothing, just a
minor thing he's done. I mean, he's been arrested before, so I

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mean it's not like this is new. I mean, and it's unfortunately.
Some people just they're the type ofpeople have run ins with the laws from
time to time, and don youknow, he's one of those people.
But I'm sure he doesn't mean anyoneany harm. You know, what strikes
me is really interesting. I wasabout to call you mel there for a
second. I've been called words Iknow, maybe not maybe not no,

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But Dave, one thing that strikesme if you ever heard at any time
Donald Trump be called Dawn. No, I guess you know it's funny calling
that because we have that kind ofyou have that kind of relationship. But
it just strikes me as interesting.I have never, once, until you
said that, heard him called Dawn. That's actually interesting to me. Dot

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do we call him the Donald?He's been called the Donald from time to
time. The Donster. No,that's no, no, I don't think
anyway, just trying to be familiaranyway. Um, yeah, the guy
just trouble seems to find him.I think that's you know, those type

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of people. I mean, they'rethey're good, well meaning people. They
just always seemed to be running intotrouble with the law and getting arrested and
going to court. It's not theirfault, right, just because that happens,
Just because there's this pattern of behaviorthat could be potentially law breaking or
even violating national security. I mean, just that could happen to anyone.

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I think we need another candidate.I'm for the birthday clove. Oh you
know, I was thinking about forpresident for the primaries. I love.
I mean there are there is awide field of candidate. I don't know
if I would call the field wide, but there are a few anyway,
in terms in terms of ideology anyway, Let's get that number again, five

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one, five, two, three, two, fourteen thirty A few or
a friend or former president or whatever, anyone you know or no of who
has a birthday today. Uh,let us let us know and we'll pick
out some winners. Let me justright, if we pick don Trump's name
for as a winner. Do youthink he'll go for the birthday cake or
the balloon bouquet. I've actually puthis name off to the side in the

(32:01):
margin. None. Let's come onnow, well, because well, I
guess we don't have his phone number. It's gonna be hard to contact.
If you know Donald Trump's phone number, let us know and then we can
then we can call him and lethim know if he wins the High By
Birthday Club. Yeah, it's prettysimple, right, just send a chopper

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to come pick it up. Yeah, yeah, exactly, all right,
uh, seven twenty Maybe it mighthave a few boxes of documents in that
chopper. Seven twenty on a Wednesdaymorning. This is new Stalk fourteen thirty
k SI seven twenty two on Newstalkfourteen thirty k S sides Dave that's me
and Scott that's him filling it frommel in the morning. Today's a couple

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of vacation days here this week.I gotta admit I am fascinated by this
story out of Iowa City. Andyou know, we we probably don't want
to throw a lot of love overto our friends at the University of Iowa,
but I am very less. I'mvery fascinated by this automated driving system
that they're they're testing out, uhthe ADS for Rural America project. It's

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testing the use of automated driving technologieson high speed rural roadways to examine and
understand unique needs of rural environments whileworking towards solutions. Then Bruce safety and
mobility, get all that jargon there. Yeah, Yeah, so you've got
a van that drives on gravel roads. Yeah, And that's that's one of
the fascinating things about it is thatyou know a lot of why didn't they
just say that we've got a vanthat drives on gravel roads. It's the

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whole academic thing. Oh you can'tuse simple language when uh, corporate world
is like that too. But anyway, let me check. One of one
of the fascinating things about it isthe fact that they are using rural roads
and particularly gravel roads, which areunmarked. And if you've ever driven a
vehicle, I've driven my parents havea vehicle that has those sensors that kind

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of read in a manner speaking outon exactly how's works. So I'm going
to use terminology that's probably not entirelyaccurate. But it can tell whether there's
a line on the road, whetherit's the line on the you know,
the right side there that you knowand where the next step is going into
the ditch or whatever, or theyellow line in the middle where the next

(34:13):
step is going in the other lane. So you can take your hands off
the wheel for a bit and it'llstay between the lines, right. But
that doesn't work on a line ona road that isn't marked, such as
a gravel road. You'll just endup in the ditch. In that case,
if you take your hands off thewheel, that's bad news. But
this automated driving system that they're they'restudying over at the University of Iowa actually

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is, at least the part ofwhat they're testing is how effective it is
on unmarked slash gravel roads. Andpart of their their goal here is to
provide transportation rural America for maybe folkswere disabled, or elderly, or or
just um just try to make itsafer to travel, because as we point

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may have heard in our news storyor will shortly that about half of all
traffic fatalities in America happened on ruralroads, even though only nine of the
US population lives in rural areas.UM, so that's that's pretty fascinating how
that all works. And they hada demonstration apparently yesterday and UH showed folks

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how they They have like a setroute that's mapped out on a on a
GPS. So that's probably part ofwhy they can do this without having road
markings to keep it between the linesthey have. You know, the GPS
hasn't hasn't marked out, but itdoesn't mean it's exactly going to work,

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so that's whether they're testing out.They had this vehicle that is and it's
a vehicle you probably see. It'sbasically a Just Afford shuttle vehicle that's got
the the doors that open on thefront kind of like a bus. US.
It has doors in the front,also has a door in the rear
for the mobility import impaired to getwheelchairs or scooters or whatever into the vehicle.

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They have a trained safety driver anda co pilot in the vehicle at
all times, so it's not totallyunmanned and the safety driver can take control
manually if needed. UM. It'sthey describe it as easy as taking a
vehicle out of cruise control. SoI guess it's just you press a button

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and then the safety driver can takeover. And they also have a co
pilot who's monitoring all of the automatedsystems in the vehicle as they you know,
log everything that that happens. Basically, so they're they're driving a forty
seven mile loop and I guess theystart an Iowa City, goes south to

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like Kelowna and the Riverside and ifyou're familiar with that area, they have
stops at the Iowa City Marketplace,Hills Community Center, Riverside Casino, and
the Cologna Public Library using marked,unmarked and unpaved roads. And there's also
studying. This isn't a short termthing. They're studying various weather conditions.

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They're studying how this works in seasons, at a time of day, construction
areas, and so that they're mappingthis all out, and I think it's
really fascinating. I'm kind of fascinatedby the whole idea of driverless technology in
the first place. I think manypeople are we hear a lot of stories

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about how badly that can go,So it's probably a good thing they have
the safety driver in the vehicle atall times. Just in case the whole
GPS thing doesn't work out. Butthey you know, they have that whole
Driver Safety Research Institute over at theUniversity of Iowa, which is why they're
equipped to to do a study likethis. So I'm gonna I'm gonna be

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interested to see how this plays outand what they learn over there. They've
learned some pretty fascinating stuff about drivingand traffic already at that that institute,
and this, this, this isthe next step, I guess. I
don't know, if we get toa future where maybe we have even larger
vehicles or like buses or something topeople allow people to commute from a rural

(38:19):
area to to a larger city,uh, maybe to get groceries or just
go to work or whatever. Idon't know. This could be this could
be big. It could be big. Yeah, might might not be anything.
That's the it's a bus. Imean, I would hope that there's
a safety driver behind the wheel thereif it's navigating on its own. Yeah,

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But that's the thing. I mean, can we get this to the
point where maybe we don't need asafety driver in there at all? Is
that? Yeah? Is that athing? It just takes time it's gonna
it's gonna take a lot of time. Um, but yeah, this this
could teach us saying a lot ofthings, not only about how to how

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these automated systems work in rural areas. But maybe yeah, as a commuter
vehicle, maybe it becomes something that'slike Syride would have like self driving buses
someday. I don't dare I dreamof such a thing. I don't know
who knows. I think I thinksomething like I said, I think something
like that will come along eventually.Yeah, but I don't know how near

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in the future. For now,anyway, I like my bus driver.
We'll just keep it that way forthe moment. Do you feel safe?
You don't. We don't. Youdon't have a car that's well established,
that's true. I don't have thatproblem. Do you do? You take
the bus pretty regularly? The yes, I take Syride just about anywhere where
it's a where it's a real distancething. It's a little bit tricky because

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sometimes you have to manage your time. A lot of the buses, especially
during breaks, don't run all thatlate, so like late at night,
ye mean, yeah, yeah,in the evening in general, not late
as in behind schedule. No,Actually, that's the thing. Syride is
remarkably on schedule. Of any publictransit system I've ever worked with. Syde

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is probably the best prompt, veryprompt. I haven't been out of sy
Red bus and ages. I can't. I can't even remember the last time
I used to. This is embarrassingreally looking back. So I lived in
an apartment building on South Fifth,the old South Fifth, down by the
Boys and Girls Club, when Iwas a student. And there's a Syride

(40:27):
stop like half a block away,block away something like that. I didn't
go there to get the bus.I drove to the commuter lot at Hilton
and got on the bus there toget onto campus now, because I didn't
want to walk at half a blockin the cold, and I can be
in my car, but then youknow, and you get out, you
get in the shelter and you stayout of the cold that way. But

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I just I could have just walkedaround. They're not driven the car at
all. College students are dumb.It is what I'm saying. College Dave
was no exception, exactly right,seven thirty one on a Wednesday morning.
This is Newstalk fourteen thirty KSI sevenforty two on Newstock fourteen thirty Kasi Dave
alongside Scott of course, as wefill in form melt in the morning,

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and we are awaiting our usual callfrom the Games Police Department for the Rush
minutes report, and that, ofcourse is always brought to you by Mary
Greeley Medical Center. I'm never quitesure how to take it when they don't
call, they don't call in.Are they just are they stiffing us because
we're not mal or just st ttaking a little person? Are they stock
in traff Is there a traffic situationthey're dealing with and this don't have time

(41:32):
to call us. I hope that'snot the case. Yeah, I remember
it involves a crash or something.Exactly last week it was a fifteen car
pile up at the intersection of LincolnWay and Duff and fifteen cars. Fifteen
cars also included a school bus,yikes, and an oil tanker. That's
no good, No, that isbad news. Hopefully no bad news on

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the road this morning. Give usa heads up if if you know of
anything, but at the moment wedo not have a representative of the Eames
wexpartment on the line. Maybe they'llcall in momentarily here. But I hope
nobody uh you know has aniche.Oh wait here we go. I think

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we got our call right now.Good morning, Good morning Chad with EAMESPD
Hey Chad, Dave and Scott herewith you on the air live. Is
Mels taking a vacation day, Soyou're hope we don't You don't mind the
backups coming in here? Oh gosh, no, absolutely, We're always happy
to talk with you guys too.Good good Chad. Are we having any
backups or issues on the roads thismorning? And Anames, we are not.

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Everything is looking a okay at themoment. At the moment, of
course, it's a reminder with theconstruction out there, always changing and always
in progress, it seems. Butjust be careful out there by the way.
Have you seen what's going on behindour building here? I have not
actually been up there. The folksat Century Link or something that they've dug
some big holes in our parking lotback behind the station. The wax this

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alleyway that runs between US Bank andour building and Nami over there to our
north and you've got the Credit Unionover here. This little alleyway. It's
a little bit trickier to maneuver ifyou're coming through it. So if you
come through the ATM or the drivethrough line over it at US Bank,
usually come this way, and maybeyou use that that alleyway behind our building,

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you gotta be extra careful. Youcan get through there, but it's
almost like a slalom course the waythat they have these big holes dug up,
and I don't know how long it'sgonna take. I didn't. I
didn't know that they were digging thatup back there. I know they've been
doing some replacement work in the alleywaysas far as some of the utilities and
things, but um, I'm wonderingif that's part of that progress. But
wow, yeah, I have abeen back behind your building yet. I've

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also noticed the it's a short stretchof Lincoln Way near the campus. I
think it's near the Joefrey building thatthey have down to one lane. And
I've seen some Century Link vehicles aroundthere, so they must be doing some
work there too. Sure, yep. And there's like I said, it's
kind of all over town. Itpops up and they they start digging into
things, and I know they're runningsome utility work down on south Duff too.

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I've seen them working on the sideof the road there too, so
um lots of lots of summertime construction. And we should mention two just to
give folks the heads up who mightbe using the sixth Straight and Duff intersection,
particularly on that that west side.If you're you're driving east on six

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and just before you get to theDuff intersection, there's a lane closure there
as well. There is, yep, or we'll be starting tomorrow at least.
Yes, that's my understanding. Yep. They're gonna do some work there
too as well. It's just maybea half block, but it's still going
to be significant. Is right thereon that Duff intersection they're doing water valve
abandonment project. I don't even knowwhat that means, but nobody wants to

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be abandoned. Yeah, you're watervalve. Sounds interesting anyway, right exactly
right the eastbound right turn lane.Let me let me go back a little
a bit here and start and getthis right. A mid block on sixth
or a section of the eastbound turninglane and bicycle lane will be closed and
all eastbound traffic will be shifted intoone lane. The eastbound right turn lane
will reopen near the intersection with GrandAvenue. Other traffic flow through the six

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Street and Grand Avenue intersectional remain unchanged, So just a little extracaution around that
intersection. If you're you're in thearea, Absolutely good, afinitely. Now
I have a question for you thatit might seem a little weird, but
stay with me. What's the mostunusual vehicle you've encountered or maybe even just

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heard of encountered when it comes tomaybe theft or chase or anything along those
lines. Unusual vehicle. We've hadsome four wheelers that we've gotten involved with
in the past. Bicyclists are alwaysinteresting. We've had some bicycle if you'd
call it a chase of a bicycleso to speak, with people trying to

(45:54):
get away from us on bicycles,which is always interesting because if they can
rite of course yards and things likethat, and we can't very easily.
So uh yeah, we've had someinteresting encounters at times. And I do
remember there was a it's been manyyears ago, but somebody was on a
motorized cooler, oh, not necessarilytrying to get away from it. I've

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seen those around the tailgating lots Yeah, you get those little motor on them
and they'll We've had a somebody ridingone of those that we had to stop
because they were causing problems. Buthow about heavy construction equipment ever, I
haven't had knock on one of thosethat I this This is the story out
of Southern Illinois last months. Itmight have caught onto it, but guy

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named Timothy Jay Baggett of Carbondale,Illinois, I guess was late for the
airport, so he decided to steala backhoe and drive it to the airport.
Okay. The first tip that somethingwas amiss when was when somebody noticed
a back hoe parked at the VeteransAirport of Southern Illinois and mary In,
Illinois on May eighteenth. Sheriff deputieswere called out there. A short time

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later, the owner of the backhoo arrived on the scene and said the
equipment belonged to his company and thatit had been parked on a job job
site and was stolen Timothy Baggett.According to the Sheriff's office there says they
say that Baggott stole the back hoo, drove it nearly ten miles to catch
a flight at the airport and theguy he got his flight and made it

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out to a Nevada and that's wherehe was arrested. Oh wow, yeah,
I mean extra effort for I guesstaking your construction equipment with like you're
I'm late for the airport. Igotta I gotta find a vehicle to get
me there fast. Oh there's abackhoe. I'll just take that. I
feel like they'd be faster vehicles.Maybe it might be. Maybe it was

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just closest to him, and hesaid, all right, well yeah,
and you don't have to worry aboutparking. I guess one of those you
can claim that you're doing construction inParkett anywhere. I suppose. According to
security camera footage, Baggett arrived andparked the back hoo in the airport parking
lot, then walked from the backhoo carrying a guitar case and entered the
airport lobby where you got it.Oh, he got on a flight to
Portland. Actually, but you endedup being arrested in Nevada. I guess
that's what they tracked them down.So wow, Yeah, he brought us

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a guitar with him too. Hey, you know you could sing a song
about his adventure with the Baco atthe airport. That is something that is
a story to tell for sure.Hey, Chad, thanks so much for
the time and to stay safe outthere today. You guys too, have
a great day. Thanks so much. Bett Chad Loving with the Ames Sweet
Sparman joining us for the Rushman InsReport. That's brought to you by Mary
Greeley Medical Center on Newstalk fourteen thirtyKasi eight fifty one On Newstalk fourteen thirty

(48:30):
Kasi, Dave and Scott filling infrom l in the Morning, joined by
Keith Abraham, the Parks and Recreationdirector for the City of Aames. Keith,
good morning, Good morning. Howare you two doing. I'm doing
well. I'm doing all right.Good, good, good, beautiful morning.
It is a good day to getout and do some parks and recreation
related activities such as well, Idon't know, play golf. I don't

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want to brag, Keith, butI made my first golf reservation for the
year, and so Friday morning,I'm gonna be out at Homewood hacking it
up. Oh well, it's goodto just take it easy in the course,
then I'll do my best. Yeah. That was around. Yeah,
I was thinking you were going tosay that you had your first hole in
one or something like that. Iwish. Yeah, well that is one

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of the activities that that we haveor one of the facilities. Homeward golf
course, um is looking great.Pat Wienie and his staff do a great
job of getting things uh um lookingreally good. And then Nate Pete's with
the clubhouse and in reservations and staff. So so if you're looking for something
to do, it's a great course, um nine holes. You can get

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it done quickly. Um. Wealso have obviously the firm an aquatic center,
which looks like we've got enough guards. We've been open with all amenities,
so it's a great improvement from wherewe were last year at this time.
A lot of different things going onthere. Ane's is su ice Arena,
the community center, so so justa number of facilities that we have

(50:00):
that you can do and birthday partyopportunities if you want to do something get
out of the heat, be somethingyou could do at the ice arena.
However, I should mention you knowcoming up here in about a week or
so, we will be closing theice arena until about mid August. For
some Uh, we're going to bereloveling the sand under the ice and doing

(50:22):
a major project there and so getout and enjoy those facilities. But we
have a lot of other activities andprograms you know, just we talked about
from an aquatic center, you know, swim lessons. We always want people
to be safe around the water andknow what to do, so sign up

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for those swim lessons. You know. One thing that David Scott that people
aren't aware is on Friday mornings fromnine thirty to ten thirty, we do
an adaptive open swim for people withphysical, intellectual developmental disabilities and we don't
charge anything thing for it. Soif if you have if you're a caregiver

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and you have somebody that falls intothat category, be a great opportunity to
bring them out and enjoy the water. People that do come have a great
time. You have to sign upfor that in advance at all or do
you know it. Nope, youjust need to show up again Fridays from
nine thirty to ten thirty. Youknow, one thing, we just had
our first twilight swim on Monday night, eight fifteen to nine thirty. We

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started those last year and those havebeen received well, so we have those
upcoming on June twenty sixth, Julytenth, and the twenty fourth. Now
this would be something that you know, Mel would be in favor of.
I'm not sure if you guys wouldsign up, but princess Pool Party and
the super hero Pool Party we havethose coming up. Princess Pool Party is

(51:51):
the Saturday the seventeen, will bethere, yeah, undoubtedly. Yeah,
at out at the firm An AquaticCenter. And then you know, superhero
Pool Party is in July on thefifteenth. Mail is going to go to
that without any superhero guard. Hefancies himself a superhero, so he's going

(52:12):
to show up as himself Hilt asa kid. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Yeah, there you go like weall did when we were kids.
Right. Um. So, JuniorLifeguarding is something that we're doing for eleven
to fourteen year olds, really tryingto get those individuals that may be interested
in life guarding. M the campguard until they're fifteen, but if you're

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in an eleven fourteen age group,we have a class next week starting on
Monday, June nineteenth, and thenwe have another class on the week of
July tenth, We also have UMsummer camps that started this week and you
can register buy week if you ifyou want. The remaining five camps that

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we have is Exploration Week on inFitness and Pollywood Serfs up Carnival Week.
So that's really for you know,roughly UM, you know, kindergarten to
sixth grade individuals and we have thembroken up into three different camps. We
have Camp Funshine Junior campers and thenUM I think it's Camp to see something

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like that for the for the olderkids, and then tennis lessons. You
know. One thing. You know, if you guys like painting, we
do have a painting class for kidson June twenty third. So it's about
our level of skill I think whenit comes to painting for sure. Yeah
yeah, yeah, and we're actuallydoing that out at the ice Arena.

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We did one UM this past schoolyear and it actually went really well.
UM, so we're offering into again. UM. Kids come in to get
a blank palette and then we havea person that kind of just walks them
through how to create a picture ascene and then when they get done,

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it's something that they take home.And we do have another option you can
just sign up for the class,or you could sign up to do open
skates and then do the painting,you know, right after that. Kind
of a two for one though.Hey, Keith, we're running out of
time. We gotta let you go, but we appreciate all the info in
real quick. What's the website toget all kinds of info on Ames Parks

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and recreation? Yeah, you cango to City of Aames dot org or
amespark rec dot org. Outstanding stuff, Keith. I'd tell you to stay
busy, but it sounds like youalready are, so let's you go and
get back to it. All right, all right, thank you so much.
You've got to have a great one. That's Keith Abraham, the Parks
and rec director for the City ofAims. Dave here along with Scott.

(54:45):
We've got more to come and thebirthday club is still open. Five one,
five, two three two fourteen thirty. If you want to add to
the name, add a name tothe list. You're on News Talk fourteen
thirty. Ki, it's eight fourteen, it's Wednesday morning, and it's Dave

(55:07):
sprout Long. It's got Kovac fillingin for Meil in the morning for today.
We'll be back tomorrow as well,and then Mel is back at the
water Plant for the breakfast club onFriday eight morning, and you can stop
out there if you want to promotea nonprofit organization or a local event,
community organization, anything along those lines. You're welcome to stop by and see

(55:28):
Meil at the morning at the EamesWater Plant on Friday seven thirty to eight
thirty, along with all the otherfun stuff he does for you know,
his usual fun and games. Yeah. Also keep in mind we have the
Birthday Club open for a little bitlonger. Five one, five, two,
three two, fourteen thirty is thenumber if you want to give us
a ring and let us know whohas a birthday today and then we could

(55:49):
pick out some winners for a freeHIV birthday cake or balloon bouquet. Later
this morning, as you're out andabout, you might notice little Hazy out
there again. Today we got apparentlymore smoke from the Canadian wildfires descending upon
us, and it's going to getworse. I guess today today might get
a little a little bad in thoseterms. More smoke from Canadian wildfires that

(56:14):
are expected to drift over Iowa thisweek, causing hazy skies and airport air
quality across the state. This isfrom the Register. Alexis Menace, a
meteorologist for the National Weather Service inDe Moins, is high level smoke is
expected over most of the state beginningtoday. It's coming from wildfires in Canada,
which has been affecting air quality acrossthe US about past a month or

(56:37):
so. There's a possibility smoke couldlinger throughout the rest of the week,
although weather patterns are favorable for itto dissipate more quickly. But let's look
like a National Weather Service De Moinesoffice put out a tweet yesterday with a
little gift Jeff animation whatever with thedisplaying on a computer computer model kind of

(57:02):
forecasts for today in terms of thesmoke, and it looks like it's gonna
be pretty heavy as we get intothe evening. It does, you know,
so be prepared for that. Ifyou have respiratory issues or other such
ailments that might cause breathing problems,you'll want to maybe stay indoors, keep

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the econ, close the windows sothat those that smoke doesn't doesn't bother you.
The Register here talk to Brian Hutchinsfrom the Eyowa Department National Resources air
quality staff. He says, uhthe air quality system tracking. The air
quality tracking system run by the federalgovernment predicts air quality across Iowa will be

(57:46):
moderate. Air quality on Thursday isnot expected to exceed ozone standards, so
it could still pose health risk tothose who are extremely sensitive dozone in the
air Hunctions warns that air quality indexescan change rapidly as whether patterns changeably.
Not too bad, but man,it's it's still kind of a bomber when
we get these beautiful summer days withno clouds, it's very nice, bright

(58:09):
sunshine. Everyone's for these darned wildfiresof these Canadians can't put out fire,
right, guys. Come on,guys, it's not like forests are new
to you. Don't you know youcan turn out to fire, turn on
the hose there. Hey, that'swhat I know. True. But no,

(58:29):
it's obviously it's a major issue inCanada with the wildfires. I mean,
they're actually seeing a lot of areadestroyed by fire. So I guess
it is worse for them probably thanit is for us. And what was
it last week we saw those picturesgoing around from a gast coast. Yes,
it was incredible and New York Citylooked practically orange in the middle of

(58:51):
the day because wildfire smoke that haddrifted down into that area, looking like
a very intense fog of orange.Yeah, it's kind of a large well,
it looked like armageddon. Yeah,like, oh, this is what
the end of the world looks like. So when that comes, you'll be
prepared. You'll know what color skyto look for. I guess starts in

(59:13):
the Eastern time zone. Yes,apparently, Uh, those weird, weird
pictures because it also I mean Isaw tweets from folks who live on the
East coast talking about how dark itwas in the middle of the day or
in the middle afternoon really and justfeeling like kind of like twilight or night
even because it was so so darkbecause of those because of that smoke that

(59:37):
was coming out from the wildfires.So hopefully nothing quite that bad or nothing
bad at all here in Iowa,but there's going to be some degree of
an issue at least, you know, maybe the haze doesn't get worse than
what we're seeing now, and it'snot it's not really too bad right now.
We've definitely seen worse in recent weeks, but that could be up today

(01:00:00):
and affect the air quality. Sothat's just something to be aware of.
I guess as the Diggo street,it doesn't. You know how we got
these really light winds today. That'sso they're not pushing that smoke out of
our area and onto somewhere else.So as nice a day as it's going
to be, that would be theloan issue, I guess for for us,

(01:00:22):
especially if you're if you have sensitivelungs or other respiratory issues, then
you'll want to be aware of theparticulate matter. Yes, in the air
today. We've got got a wholesomething from Scott coming up next. Ye.
And we have your birthdays. Yes, your birthday Okay, we don't

(01:00:43):
have is gout. My friend Donwe were talking about earlier, my buddy
Don, Donald Don Trump. Youmight know Donald Trump born this day.
Yeah, he's seventy seven. Ithink I said seventy six earlier. Yeah,
he seven any seven today, whichmakes about two years younger than my

(01:01:04):
dad. It's kind of weird tothink about. But anyway, did you
dad have birthday today? No?He his birthday was in April. But
nonetheless, we have we have aprovisional entry on the birthday club. Mister
Don Trump. We don't have anyonewants to call him in. Do we
say he's mister Don Trump of NewYork City or mister Don Trump of Florida.

(01:01:30):
He's a Florida man. We haveFlorida man Don Trump on the birthday
list today. I just like touse the phrase Florida manu. So if
you have one to add, wevery very much would appreciate having somebody else's
name on our birthdays. Maybe wescared off people by pointing out that whoever
has a birthday today has to sharetheir birthday with Florida man Don Trump.

(01:01:52):
Anyway, it's a twenty one,a new Stock fourteen thirty K. Yes,
I think I jumped the gun therea moment ago. But I'm just
so eager Dave here Scott alongside.Of course, I was so eager to
share, or for Scott to sharewhat caught his eye this morning. Yeah,
there's this article. Actually looked atit yesterday. It is about headlines

(01:02:13):
Colombian children rescued in jungle had beenfleeing for their lives. Now, if
you haven't caught up in this storyup to this point, there's actually four
kids that went down, their motherand two others in this plane. The
adults were killed upon impact, itsounds like, or shortly thereafter in the
case of the mother. But thereare four kids in the range from age

(01:02:37):
twelve on down to an infant thatwas taken care of by the other three.
And this happened in the interior thejungle area of We're talking deep deep
jungle, jungle, deep jungle,deep enough that the dialect as such that
the origin itself of the of thewhere this plane took off from is generally

(01:03:00):
considered unpronounceable, at least by thejournalists who wouldn't put it down. Wow.
So again, these are indigenous peoplesand they say they were fleeing from
a millet of violent armed group asit were. Uh, And so the
parents are actually the mother of thesechildren wanted to get them out of the

(01:03:20):
area it was, it was thatbad. She was concerned that they might
be pressed into service, even ata young age, to work for this
armed group. And so they wereon the lamb they're fleeing, and unfortunate,
of course, the plane went down. But remarkably, that was forty
days ago. So those four childrenfour zero days. These children survived for

(01:03:45):
forty days in the jungle before beingfound by rescue crews. Wow. Um,
it's just incredible. How does howis that even done? And that
that article article details it a littlebit in that is the indigenous ceremonies and
rituals and training actually prepared in particularthe twelve year old uh for being able

(01:04:09):
to forage in the jungle uh andkeep them safe from what predators are out
there. And it's just incredible.Everyone's amaze. How did these kids last
that long in the jungle. It'sjust phenomenal. So they at least,
or at least the oldest one,right, it had some kind of training
maybe, I guess you might saysome experience because they were already living I

(01:04:30):
guess deep in the jungle right there. They're they're as indigenous peoples. They
had a reservation where apparently a lotof this training was just something they would
do around that age. And thetraining paid off in a big way.
Yeah, very good way. Idon't want to say it's a cheat or
anything, but I mean they're atleast somewhat accustomed to living off the land

(01:04:53):
and are familiar with that. Yeah, at least what to do in that
situation. And again somehow they madeit. They guess apparently they were eating
some route, they had some sortof flower or grain that was in the
plane that they were able to takeoff of emergency packs that were located in
the plane. Just stratched me asincredible. And apparently when they recovered these

(01:05:13):
kids yesterday, there was very little, uh wrong with them. They were
somewhat malnourished, but they had survived, you know, and we're weak and
we're hungry still, but had madeit. And we're at a position where
they could all be restored to fullhealth just given a bit of time.
No broken bones, no broken bonesexactly, Yeah, just okay, just

(01:05:39):
hungry, just need probably needed tobe connected to an ivy and rest a
bit in a hospital. And that'swhere they are right now. Now that's
incredible. Yeah, I can't evenimagine, right Like, if you took
me to the forest, you know, just a mile out of town,
I I'd be hopeless. I wouldn'thave it. Where am I going?
What am I to a burning campfire? And he will still get lost?

(01:06:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, I wouldn't stand a chance. I
mean, determining what kind of plantlife might be edible or not edible or
poisonous, or trying to like capturemaybe an animal or something like that and
try to cook and eat. I'dbe no chance. I mean I'd be

(01:06:21):
done and done. Not only isthis rainforest a rainforest, but it literally
is a rainforest. It rains aboutfourteen hours a day in that interior part
of the jungle, so somehow thekids were able to survive that as well.
It's interesting about rain people. Youknow, you're staying the rain,
you're gonna get pneumonia or something.Rain doesn't cause its numale. I mean,

(01:06:43):
if it's cold and wet, thenyou stay colder than you would be
otherwise. And arguably in the jungleit's warmer rain, right that to be
said. But still just even theenvironmental conditions outside of that not exactly easy
to walk around. No, no, yeah, yeah, I would have
been toast. Good job kids.Leslie is the good job kids. Yeah.

(01:07:03):
Leslie is the name of the twelveyear old who pulled things together for
the rest of that young family.Um, it's just amazes me, especially
the infant. The infant was allright, this kid that was I guess
less than a year old. Um, they were able to care for and
keep alive. So I know whoI want on my team comes to the

(01:07:27):
survivor. Um, do you know, I know if the article get into
this, well, what what happenswhen these kids? Now? Are they
like? Uh? Is the stateor the government taking care of them?
That's an excellent question. It doesn'tdetail specifically what's going to happen. But
the father of two of the kids, uh is present. This is the
grandmother of those children. Oh,it's good, good that they have family

(01:07:50):
then, yeah, and it's it'svery sad. I mean, of course
the mother having passed away yea um, but thankfully some family there to still
to still be they're with him.But I guess the moral of the story
is, if you're in the interiorof Columbia in the rainforest, look out
for a kid named Leslie. Yeah, she can probably help you. Are

(01:08:10):
you Lastlie? Can you can youhelp me with this? No? I'm
a panther? No, No,I'm actually one of the armed gorillas.
Yes, part of the armed militiaMilicia and yeah, deep in the jungle
there. And that's the other dangerousthing. I mean, they could have
come across these militia types just atany turn. Yes, yes, that
would have been that certainly would havebeen possible. Yeah, if they had

(01:08:31):
a close call with that move,yikes. Not not a situation I want
to be in by any means.Luckily, um, hopefully I won't have
to deal with that, but younever know. You never know, Dave,
and you're in Iowa. Yeah,try to possibly maybe not possible.

(01:08:54):
Yeah, any any labor on mypurpose, It is not a good idea.
We're gonna close off the article upwinners today, but we do have
another round of birthdays tomorrow. Keepthe number handy five one, five two
three two fourteen thirty is number two. Call. Maybe we'll have another former
president on the birthday list tomorrow.I don't know. I haven't looked ahead
yet to see you as a birthdaytomorrow, but if you know, somebody
just keeping keeping in mind here,we'll start taking birthdays tomorrow during tomorrow show

(01:09:17):
of course, from six to nineright here on new Stalk fourteen thirty k
A s I it is eight thirtynew Stalk fourteen thirty KASI eight thirty eight
on Wednesday morning, Dave sprou herefilling in four mel in the morning along
with mister Scott Kovac Mel enjoying aday of vacation, and he'll enjoy another
day of vacation tomorrow. So hopefullyyou'll enjoy another day with Scott and myself

(01:09:41):
tomorrow, though I mean, Scottmight have to take leave of us to
start what I'm certain will be agreat gig as the new host of Wheel
of Fortune. Congratulations Scott, Ihear you're you're the next in line.
You're the guy to take over forPat's a jack, Jack, said Scottie,
And I said, yeah, saidmister Kovac. You're gonna need to

(01:10:03):
do your thing. Your country iscalling upon you. Take up your take
up the mantel, pack up themantel, Wheel of Fortune. Wheel of
Fortune, because forty plus years.Uh, he's been on since nineteen eighty
one, my entire lifespan, orat least virtually my entire lifespan. I

(01:10:24):
was born in eighty. Yeah,this guy has been on the air with
Wheel of Fortune my entire life.I'm thinking about, and not only you
know, when he started Ronald Reaganas president, he was in his first
year as as president. Now thatit just feels like such a long time
ago now because it is a longtime ago now. Yeah, and there

(01:10:46):
so dark, it's not too sodark. Survived. He survived, Come
on anyway. Unlike President Reagan's attemptedan assassination, Wheel of Fortune has been
bringing us joy for more than fortyyears and just one host, of course,
the co host, Miss Van andWhite, who has been there all
the way as well, turning overthose letters, and the search is on

(01:11:15):
for a new host. Pat sayJack announced yesterday that he will retire.
Um so some of the names beingthrown around in addition to Scott of course
as the next host of Wheel ofYou're favorite. You're the favorite, but
you got some pretty stiff competition.But the people love me. The people
do love Scott. I can Ican vouch for that. How about Maggie

(01:11:36):
say Jack, Pat say Jack's daughter, there's an option. You know,
nothing says Hollywood more than a NEPObaby because he just hand it over to
your kids. Um. Pat's daughter, Maggie say Jack, has been a
social correspondent since twenty twenty one,providing backstage digital contact content and has remained

(01:12:01):
enthusiastic about Wheel in the face ofher father's departure. She commented on social
media, it's been so much workingwith my Dad, and we're looking forward
to even more fun in season fortyone. Uh now, Maggie say Jack
has actually filled in for Van ofWhite before doing the whole letter turning thing.
I guess they don't really turn lettersanymore. She just like pressing the
letter magically appeals. But anyway,Uh so she's been on Wheel of Fortune

(01:12:28):
I guess in a capacity previously nowin terms of the social thing as well
as actually allan camera doing doing theletters. So how about our our another
one of our co workers in additionto Scott, mister Ryan Seacrest. Hey,
you know our neighbors station there isliterally the next studio over on your
FM down. We got him onlike hours worth of content there Monday through

(01:12:50):
Friday. He is there. Yes, So because Ryan Seacrest's name is being
thrown around, uh apparently he uhis no longer on that little morning TV
show he did with Kelly Rippa.Apparently I don't keep up with he's just
not interested in the spot. Well, maybe he left that show so he

(01:13:13):
could take over Will of Fortune.Maybe maybe he's playing three D chess here
while we're just all sit back andwatching interesting. Ryan Look, Seacrest is
an omnipresent in media for no reason, and he knows what he's doing right,
right, he knows how to insinuatehimself. He's on the New Year's
Rock and Eve, He's on IHeart Radio across the country. I mean,
I wish has been American Idol.Yeah, you know he's he's right,

(01:13:38):
Seacrest man. Somebody introduced me tohis agent. Yeah, no doubt
so he uh, at least onepersonal parent mate mine or might not know
some things. Considers Ryan Seacrest tobe the leading candidate for a place has.
Of course, this individual has nevermet Scott, doesn't know Scott's dynamic,

(01:14:00):
magnetic, charming personality, but heremembers me from the breakfast club,
right sans every Friday as you banterwith mel maybe a happy birthday club.
I don't know, we're going tofind a connection here, exactly right.
How about Whoopie Goldberg? That wouldactually be a lot of a fortune.
Apparently whoopee. I think this wason yesterday's edition of the View. They

(01:14:21):
were talking about it and turned outJeopardy co host Ken Jennings was on that
show. On this show, yes, if I have this hour, I
could be completely wrong, but thethe topic of taking over Wheel of Fortune
came up there. During that discussion, Joey Behar, one of the cost
on the show, said, whoopeewatched the job, and then Goldberg said,

(01:14:44):
yeah, I want that job.I think it would be tons of
fun. So she's in. She'sdone the Hollywood Squares things before. Yeah,
remember that old show. She wasa producer and the center square on
Hollywood Squares from nineteen ninety eight totwo thousand and four. So she she
knows the game show bit right.She's prepped and ready to go. We'll
see how right, We'll see howit works out. I don't know.

(01:15:06):
I don't know. Speaking of KenJennings, you're I guess he's part to
him and Mimbi alic are like explainingtime as the hosts of Jeopardy, right,
and I find Ken to be arather charming presence. I don't watch
a lot of Jeopardy anymore. Iused to watch quite a bit, but
then when when Alex trebektat, Iwas too sad to keep watching. But

(01:15:28):
I think Ken Jennings does. Ihaven't really watched much when Mimbi Alck is
on, but they, you know, they had the whole the like the
guest hosts like Aaron Rodgers, who'sa future Hall of Fame quarterback in the
NFL, hosted many episodes during thattime of of Jeopardy, and a lot
of people said he did a reallygood job, which is interesting considering he's

(01:15:49):
a bit of a weirdo in reallife. So I don't Maybe maybe Aaron
Rodgers will throw his hat in thering. I, Um, you know,
you got Steve Harvey, who's doesthe family Feud. Maybe he could
take over. You think you shouldstick with family for keep that I mean

(01:16:14):
both. Nobody says you can't doboth. Oh that's true, that's true.
If it doesn't stress him out,I'd take that for it absolutely.
Um who else I'm trying to think, you know, since you know Aaron
Rodgers took a shot of Jeopardy,trying to think an out Like sports personalities,
who could be host of a gameshow? Like imagine Charles Barkley.
He does the NBA thing, andhe's very dynamic and sometimes controversial, sometimes

(01:16:39):
very funny. He'll say things totallyoff the coff that are kind of weird
but also oddly hilarious. Um,I could see, I don't I don't
know. It would be organized chaos. I think it was Barkley. The
flavor, the tenor of the game. It's gonna revolve around the personality the
next person. It is not goingto be say Jack, we know that.

(01:17:00):
Yeah, people that are trying tomake it say Jack plus one.
I think they're going to be disappointedshould they strictly, uh pursue that.
I think there's more possibilities in badYou're just gonna have to center center the
game around somebody else. Yeah,you can't. Can't try to be the
guy you're replacing. Right, That'swhy I don't come in here and be

(01:17:21):
like Mel. I'm not trying tobe like Mel. Mela is Mel.
We don't need two Mels for betteror worth. There's only one Mel to
go along to go around. Hopefullythere's only one Dave. You know.
Actually there's a lot of Daves outthere. But anyway, I you know,
maybe I should take my shot.We'd be we'd be in direct competition

(01:17:43):
with each other for the Wheel ofFortune. Gig Scott, I don't know,
well that would be bad. Ihave see Kress's agent. I literally
have the job I gotta play.I'm gonna I'm gonna throw my hat in
the ring. Just see what happens. Oh, I mean, what could
possibly go wrong? But Dave Davidsprou as host of Wheel of Fortune,

(01:18:04):
I can think of several things,but none at this time. Well,
it'll be interesting to see. Idon't I've never been much of a wheel
watcher, as they say in theWheel of Fortune biz. Um, but
it's it's an iconic game show.And I mean, like going back to

(01:18:25):
literally nineteen eighty one, there wasfamily feud at the time. I think
I can't take it too many othergame shows that were popular in that era.
Of course, as we're going backto our as we mentioned earlier,
respective childhoods here, so memories aren'tgreat. And Jeopardy came along after you

(01:18:45):
know, Wheel of Fortune and becameits own kind of juggernaut. Um,
but I do. Now you gota lot of it seems like, you
know, they've brought back a lotof game show like the ten thousand Dollars
Pyramid. There's been a reboot ofthat, you know you have, So
you got some some older ones,you got some newer ones like the name
that Tune type show with Jamie Fox. Um, there's one I've been seeing

(01:19:11):
some advertisements for while I was watchingthe NBA Finals and you know, advertising
ABC shows on there, and hehad I think it's Kelly Rippa, who
hosts this one game show where youhave like a grandmother and a grandchild,
or like an old guy and ayoung guy from the same family, like
a kid, literal kid and anold person from the same family, and
they're supposed to identify like cultural touchstonesfrom their generations. But it's like the

(01:19:38):
old person trying to identify something theyoung person might relate to, or the
young person trying to identify something theold person would relate to, maybe very
much like you and mel I'm sure. And I of course, you know,
I saw all these advertisements for theshow during the NBA Finals and I
can't, for the life from meremember it because I have no intention of

(01:19:59):
watching it. But you know,there has been, it seems like there
have been in the last maybe fiveyears, something of a game show revival.
I think game shows kind of comeand go, and I think that's
what's so phenomenal about Jeopardy and Wheeland Family Feud, is these these are
good game shows. The formula thatworks, Oh you need is a good

(01:20:21):
host to kind of set it off. Um, we've had some long run
guys here, Yeah, a longlong run lady there too in Vanah White,
Yeah, Vana, all indications areshe staying on the show. She's
gonna keep doing everything. And Isaw another article point she would be a
candidate for the host and then youhave to, I guess, bring in

(01:20:42):
somebody else to do the letters.But you know that's something worth considering Vanah
White as the host of Wheel ofFortune. Yeah, I kind of liked
the idea. And I haven't seen, you know, but she certainly knows
how the game works. That's yeah. There were there were that's for sure.
In the in the way Melod' said, yeah, there have been some
occasions. Um, and I don'trecall why, like pats A Jack had

(01:21:03):
to missing chows in Fanna filled inas the host. So just give her
the keys. I guess, Idon't know. We'll see. It's it's
going to be. We're all gonnabe on the edge of our seats.
We know Wheel isn't going down underthey're gonna right host. Yep, they're
gonna they're gonna find a host.Whether it's the right host. Well,
take a couple tries. Well,but if they pick, if they pick

(01:21:24):
Scott, then it is the righthost. We know, well, undoubtedly,
yeah, because you got you gotthe secret Scott Scott, He's he
is the Juggernaut. Now eight fiftyon a Wednesday morning. This is Newstalk
fourteen thirty ks. Portions of thefollowing program will be recorded, not this
portion though, eight fifty two ona Wednesday morning. I mean, what,
I know what time it is ifI prerecorded that, or maybe I

(01:21:46):
just guessed, maybe I just gotit. Who knows? Scott here,
Dave with you here, uh aswe fill in for Mel in the morning.
We'll be back tomorrow. Mell's takinganother vacation day. It's gonna have
a few sprinkles through the next fewweeks leading up to his final day on
the thirtieth. But Mel, we'llbe back this Friday and each Friday for
the rest of June anyway, forthe Breakfast Club. And this Friday he'll
be at the Eames of Water Plantand you can stop out there to promote

(01:22:12):
whatever you want to talk about.Basically, I mean anything non commercial is
is good. So stop by orjust say hi to Mel. That's cool
too. He likes he likes that. One other thing I wanted to talk
about this morning, the fans ofthe or a great many fans of the
Oakland A's baseball team pulled off areverse boycott yesterday. How does that work

(01:22:35):
well? A boycott, yeah,typically means you avoid buying a certain product
or service because you have some sortof objection with it. Whereas a group
of fans got together and started thismovement in Oakland to say we need to
buy a bunch of tickets and actuallyshow up for the game and show that
we support major League Baseball here inOakland, because it's been a terrible year

(01:23:00):
and maybe a terrible couple of yearsfor for the A's because they've been trying
for a long time, many yearsnow to try to get a new stadium
built in Oakland, and various roadblocks, they can't find the location that works
for everybody who's concerned about that,And as major professional sports teams tend to
do, they want the government,either of Oakland or a state of California

(01:23:24):
or somebody you know along that topay for part of the stadium. And
the people in the Oakland city leadersare like, you know, we got
other problems than to pay for evenpart of a stadium. You're literally a
billionaire, build your own stadium.And so it all comes it's coming to
a head in recent weeks, andit looks like the A's are going to
in the next few years at leasta move to Las Vegas, and the

(01:23:46):
wheels are motion there for an actualnot only a new stadium, but actual
funding for it, at least partof it coming from the state of Nevada,
so as fans. As a result, they have this old, decrepit
stadium and the A's have not putany money into making that a fun place
to go to the ballpark. They'veliterally, literally have had sewage leagues in

(01:24:09):
past years. Earlier this year therewas a possum found in one of the
broadcast booths, Yeah, living inthe stadium. They've had all kinds of
issues, and they've put a reallybad team out on the field, like
they are a lousy team. Sofans have not been showing like incredibly low
numbers of fans turning out for thesegames. And what, at least a

(01:24:32):
certain group of fans was concerned aboutis that people would look at that and
say, people in Oakland don't careabout major League Baseball, which isn't the
case. It's a lousy stadium,it's a lousy product. That's why nobody's
turning out. So they put onthis reverse boycott to say, yes,
we support, we want major LeagueBaseball in Oakland, but we also want
a good team, and we don'twant to get soaked for you know,

(01:24:53):
paying to pay for a new stadium. But yeah, but we do care
about Major League Baseball. So theygot they got this whole movement together here
and they got twenty seven thousand,seven hundred and fifty nine the paid attendance
for yesterday's game, the highest easilythe highest turnout for an A's game in

(01:25:16):
Oakland this season, and actually thehighest attendance since August to twenty eighteen.
And people were into the game too. They were, I mean, they
were having fun and channing out.Of course, they were also kind of
expressing their anger at A's management aboutwhat's going on. So we'll see if

(01:25:38):
the message got through. I'm notentirely sure that's the case, but anyway,
I'm almost I almost talked all theway through our friend Nancy Shaw.
Nancy, I'm sorry for no problem, no problem. I figured you were
talking when it would just go tovoicemail. But no problem. Well I'm
glad you did. I not onlyhave about a minute and a half for

(01:25:59):
you. We can talk, wecan say a lot. Okay, let's
let's give it a shot. Nancy, let rip, all right, let
it rip. So I don't wantpeople to forget. We have free yoga
in the park this Saturday morning atnine o'clock at Banshelle, so don't forget
about the free fitness class we have. Of course, Homewo is open and
going strong, So don't forget tosign up for golf, especially if you're

(01:26:21):
a dad and you go with apaid member this Saturday or I'm sorry,
this Sunday morning. It is freefor dads to golf. Don't forget.
We have a new fitness session startingin less than two weeks, so June
twenty six, our second summer fitnesssession is starting and if you register for
three classes, you can attend onlimited classes, which of course includes outdoor

(01:26:45):
classes which is very fun, somake sure you get in. It's We
have a lot of offerings for peopleyoung, old, new to exercise,
those who want high intensity a headHow am I doing? You're doing fabulous?
We have about thirty seconds left,Nancy. You got a lot of
in there in a short time.Keith, you know, Keith Abraham was
on with us earlier. He covereda lot of ground. Oh I'm sure

(01:27:08):
he covered a lot. So yeah, so it just don't forget they fit
this summer. Come see us.If you're not sure what class to come
try, then of course you cantry one for free, um and definitely
get in on something and get movingthe summer. Yeah, man, we
gotta we gotta do that now,only a few seconds here, Nancy.
I'm sorry, but with air qualitykind of questionable today and tomorrow that might

(01:27:30):
affect any outdoor classes. It won't, um we we. I haven't really
felt it to be as terrible asyou know, like it was in New
York, So at this point intime it will not. But another place
to go outdoors and get a greatworkout. And of course this firm an
aquatic center that is going strong andwe have a lot of aquafitness classes out
there. Excellent. Nancy, thanksfor putting up with me. Thank you,

(01:27:53):
you have a wonderful day, youtwo, and goodbye. Do it
again next week with Nancy Show fromthese Parks and Markets Department. Thanks to
Scott, Thanks and thanks you forlistening to news Talk fourteen thirty k side
this morning. We'll be back tomorrow. Get filling for mel in the morning.
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