Wednesday, June 21, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to your summer. Yeah,first day of summer today, although you
would think it's been for about thelast week or so with the temperatures like
they are and the lack of rainthat we've had. But yeah, happy
first day of summer there, Scott. Yeah, you too, me.
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm readyfor summer. I'm ready for fall,
to be honest with Yeah, Iwant to. I've had all the hot

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I want. Yeah, I justgetting started. Yeah, that's the thing.
And get you look at the temperaturesnow now as we're gonna get warmer
as we go along in the summer. I mean, guys, what yesterday
is ninety a right, eighty ninenine? Yeah, today similar high forecast
and again what tomorrow as well,ninety or plus ninety plus. I don't

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know how I can get warmer.I mean it will, well you can,
Yeah, it can get a lotwarmer. I remember as a kid,
there was a summer we went throughthat it actually had gotten up to
one hundred and four degree in DeMoines on hundred and forty degrees and didn't
matter. My mom still threw usoutside, gotta get the kids out of

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the house. Yeah, we wereout there. We were about melted.
Uh no, you know why.It's funny and I think about that.
We didn't have a shirt on.I think we were barefooted. We're out
running around outside there and sweating liketroopers. But we had no desire to
go in. I mean, wewere kids. We played and the heat

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just part of playing, I guess. And then when we finally went in
and she's called, oh, youkids, shouldn't have been out that long
and you threw us out, momand it. But the thing I was
thinking about is we didn't have airconditioning either, so it wouldn't have been
much cooler inside. Fact, wewould have been a little warmer. Maybe
it was a big house, hugehouse. It was my aunt's house.

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It was basically living downstairs and Ithink three apartments upstairs. Then we lived
him on the upstairs apartments. Butthey had a nice big yard. It's
no longer around. It was takendown for roads and things down in des
Moines, down towards the center ofdes Moines, down around the ingersall Woodland

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cemetery area, might grade school's gone. All there is is a little plaque
there recognizing that it was there andin the houses and things I loved that
house. It was so cool becauseit had the old back stairway inside the
house, so you had a grandstairway as you came in that took you

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to the apartments and things. Andthen there was what they called they called
the servants stairway in the back daysof old the servants would use that back
way to do their things and notinterrupt the front and the proceedings going on.
And then there was a servants quarters, a butler's quarters halfway up those
stairs, and it set off thebackside, kind of off on its own

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there. So that's we made thatour playroom since the butler was long gone
as soon as we came in,I think he left. No excuse me,
I'm a leitch there, but yeah, it was just kind of a
cool place. It was. Itsat on a hill and if you looked
out the back windows you could seethe Governor's mansion and things like that.

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So there was a fun place andonly a few blocks from school, so
we could walk to school in prettysafe fashion. There were a couple of
bad roadways up there, but Imean traffic wise, and then my uncle
Ray's bar was about two blocks downthe streets, so we knew if we
wanted some barbecue chips or a bagof peanuts, we could down and bag

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them off Uncle Ray and maybe geta pepsi or something. So it was
a luxury palace for as kids,not so much for Mom. I mean,
you know, she had to paythe rent, and my aunt charged
her rent, and she would anybodyelse. My mom, I'm insisted on
it. She was in the thronesof divorce at the time and was working
a couple of jobs, and myaunt did not want her to pay fodder

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all the way through. But mymom says, no, I've got to
carry weight here. I got tolearn to carry weight. I got to
take care of the kids, gotto do this. And again, I
would say my mom was my greatestinspiration in my life in never shirked responsibility,
worked hard all her life, andshe put up with me. So
yeah, she's a hero in mybooks. But yeah, and as far

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as this heat's going, how youhandling it? You don't not too bad?
Yeah, of course. Virginia andthe attic apartment, Yeah, got
a little AC unit in the windowthere in the bedroom that's working just fine,
But I need to install one inthe living room as well. Yeah,
yeah, I just need to getaround to it. Virginia said,
hey, I appreciate it to putthat in. I was like, all,

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ruh, they aren't. I'll goaround to it. The nice thing
about it, they aren't as expensiveas they used to be. No,
yeah, must yeah, I was. I was thinking back my folks.
First, they took them forever toget a window unit in our house.
And yeah, I forget what itwas that my dad would always bring up
things like it was a rivalry orsomething. That baby's a five thousand btu

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and I'm going, oh, really, Dad, yoh, okay, is
that like horsepower? What is that? You know? And uh? And
again I've mentioned this before that therewas the the day my mom called installation
and profanity Day, and that wasus putting that dark thing in that window
every year. We would pull itout when in the winter and put it

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in in the spring. And itwas heavy, well waited five thousand BTUs
friends. Yeah, And there wasno way, easy way. There was
an easy way to do it,but it certainly it was not my dad's
way. It was had to bea specific way, a specific time.

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And the profanity did not come outof my father. It came out of
my mum's next to youngest son,and boy, I had a vocabulary.
She didn't think I had. Butthat air conditioner inspired me. Lived up
your end a little higher their son, you know, oh my. But

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anyway, I hope you're staying coolup there. I was telling Scott.
Chris is on my back, Imean in a good way. But she
is so afraid I'm going to beout in the heat too long that she
is checking in with me every twohours to make sure I'm in the house.

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I was telling Scott. I wentout and cleared out the jungle corner
of our yard at a jungle corner, and I do have a yard service,
but they don't seem to want tomess with that. And I think
it's the chimpanzees that scare them,that are hanging up in the trees down
there. But I went out yesterday, I said, that's it. I
can't I can't look at it.It just bugged me, and nobody was
doing anything about it. So Igot out the weed eater and the long

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more I went down and I wentto hacking and cleaning that up down there,
and and I was out probably alittle longer than I should have been.
But I was not. I didnot get heat exhausted. I didn't
stay out that long, and thenI would after I got that whacked down,
I worked up alongside the house anddid some whacking up in there,
and and it got things done.And she was pretty upset when she got

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home. She was glad that itwas done, but she said, by
no means did I intend for youto do that. I was going out
myself, and I said, well, and in no way did I intend
for you to do that. SoI was bored. I knew I could
handle the weed whacker, and Ijust went out and cleared the land.

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I said, I don't think we'llplant anything on it, but yeah,
and I will tell you when Icame in, I was feeling it.
I wasn't exhausted, and I madesure I drank plenty of liquids, and
I took breaks along the way,sat on the patio a couple of times.
I would get a little bit ofit done, stop and sit for
a minute. But yeah, andthen I would just wait for her call

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about every two hours. Are youall right? Are you sitting inside the
house, the air conditioning on aright temp for you? Blah blah,
blah blah blah blah blah. AndI said, you know, it's funny
now because since I've gotten older,and I never ever understood why my grandparents
kept their house at eighty four inthe summer. It was just And now

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I do it a little bit,and not not eighty four. But when
we have the air on, Chrislikes it around in seventy seventy two degrees,
and I find if I'm just sittingthere working on the computer, reading
a book or something, I geta little chill. I get little chill
at that temperature. So she'll comehome and it's, you know, seventy
seventy two degrees, and we findout that males get a blanket on this.

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I pulled up over himself. What'sgoing on? It's just a little
chill, honey. Well, it'sthe transition I think between the outdoor heat
and the indoor cool. It canbe so dramatic. Yeah that I think
the our bodies, it can beshocked, shocking. And I think the
older we get, maybe we chilla little bit easier. I don't know,

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maybe it's circulation, maybe it's somethingelse, but I finally understand that,
man, you'd go and you betterbring a towel with you if you
went in my grandparents house. Thatheat was up so much. It's like
it was cheaper in a sauna oneof those things. But they weren't.
They were moving along just like it'sthe way it should be. Anyway.

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Hey, six twenty eight, melin the morning. He's got co back
with you here on a wind daymorning, the first day of summer.
And I'll tell you what we'll getthe first day of summer. Names for
the birthday club coming up right afterthis mail in the morning, Scott Covac,
I'm fourteen thirty k SI. Itis six forty three on Wednesday,

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June twenty first, The longest thelong I gotta say that differently. Yeah,
the longest day of the year.That's two. No, it's just
you get a drag out long schoolenough. Yeah, you gotta go the
longest day of the year. Yeah, yeah, and lost day of the
sunset around eight fifty three this evening. Yeah that sounds that sounds about right.

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Yeah, But anyway, I'm nota big fan of of course the
daylight savings time, but that wouldn'tmatter. I mean, the light's going
to be the light. It doesn'tmatter what time's time we set on it.
But anyway, so this is gonnabe the longest, the summer solstice,
longest day of the year. Andit's also a great day to get

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the sun right in your eyes.Yeah, that's pow Friday, the eye
you know, knock your retinist loose, so to speak. It is also
a national I like this one.I had to choose. I have to
choose today. Did you see allthese days? There are a lot of
national days today, National days today, But I think I'm gonna go with
one of which is National Daylight AppreciationDay. I will not celebrate that.

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Um, it's hard to sell celebrateNational Seashell Day if you're in Iowa,
when you're in the No Coast,it's hard to do folks. Yeah,
National Peaches and Cream Day sounds tasty. And wonder how I celebrate then,
Yeah, I've got I was tryingto find one that might be more meaningful
here World Humanist Day, which isfunny because it's also on World Peace and

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Prayer Day. Yeah, Peace andPrayer Day. I could dig that one.
Yeah, I think that's uh.Do you think do you think that
one or the other got on themap first in the World Humanist Day or
the World Day, and the otherwas like, oh no, you know
we're going on that day too,this day of the National Day of the
Gong. I don't know why thatis. I mean, that's celebrating Chuck

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Barris and the Gong Show. Idon't know, but I'm going to go
with World Peace and Prayer Day,Okay. I like that one. I
was watching the news this morning,and not to get political, because you
know, every once in a while, I slip off the cracker, so
to speak. But the players socheesy. They were covering a thank you.

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They were They were covering the women'smovement during this next election phase out
there, especially as far as abortionrights go. And it was interesting to
hear the talk, to hear themovement, and to hear the influence behind
the movement and how much it's goingto be involved courtwise, legally, etc.

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Where states can actually rebel against thenational trend of gonna abortion right away,
or you can't have an abortion,you can't even for health, even
for incest, any of that offthe books. Nope, we don't do
abortions in this country. And Iwish that were the case. I wish
that we're not unnecessary evil. AndI call it evil. Maybe that's the

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wrong term to use too. Ifyou are here's my thing, I'll give
you my goal on at kids,and you'd be mad at me, and
you know, get the torches outand stuff I get. I'll hand out
the torches. Yeah, I'll seehow back later with the tar and feathers.
But I've got my lighter here.Um, I'm going to speak from

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my own experience that I used toget up said. I was raised Catholic.
Abortion was not anywhere in our language. And my first wife and I
were trying the first few years ofour marriage. We're trying really hard to
have a baby, really hard,and having no success. And then i'd

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hear about somebody whom my daughter gotpregnant. Well, we went and got
her an abortion, and I'm I'mgoing to say this, Psychologically, their
daughter might not have been ready formotherhood, but I would much rather And
I told them this, I said, I would much rather see your daughter

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carry the baby and find it athome rather than abort it. Because we've
been trying and we haven't been anyof them to have one. And so
I that's kind of the way Ifelt. But when I when I see
ancestor, I see rape or orsomething that would affect the mom's health,

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that might endanger her life. Ican see where it might become a necessary
thing. It might become a necessarything. So am I anti abortion?
Yes? In in cases if Ithink there's every chance this could be a

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healthy baby, and it is,what what would I call it? By
accident baby? I guess because youwere ignorant, you were young, You
and Billy decided to do the thing, and and uh, this little life
shows up in you because you didn'tuse proper precautions, et cetera. Um,

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then I think, uh, youcarry it out, and then you
if you cannot accept responsibility. Thereare families out there I think would would
like to have that child and raiseit. But that's, uh, that's
up to you. That's one ofthose things. And and it's going to

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be very controversial still. But Itell you, incest, rape or health
concerns, you gotta do what yougotta do, you know how what?
And I kind of got this questionin a in a roundabout way because my

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wife had several miscarriages, and inone of those, the doctor actually said
to me, said do you theremay come a time during this pregnancy that
you're going to have to choose betweenyour wife and the baby. Where do
you go? Not a choice onmy mind. Yeah, of course you

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have to go to the partner.And frankly, it shouldn't have to be
your decision either. It should alwaysbe your spouse and the safe Yeah.
Well, I mean I can't Ican you imagine. I can't imagine that
as a question unless we're talking abouta third world country, right, Yeah,
well I kind of felt that waytoo, But um, I will
tell you after I lost my firstfiance in a car accident, Yeah,

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there's no way, no way Iwas going to lose another wife. So
the doctor actually asked you that.He said, there may come a time
where we'll have to make a decision. Wow, that is amazing. I
can't believe that. You know,there would be this point in which well
and a partner were asked to makea decision about that person's life. I

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would certainly hope, but I thinkhe was trying to prepare me for the
worst if it would come up tothat. And then he also qualified that
by saying, it may be thatwe might not be able to save you
either one of them. That's terrible. It was terrible. I was pretty
young and pretty stupid. Now I'mold and stupid, but boy, that

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may have been one of the timewas like the doctor was kind of stupid
too well, I don't know.I mean, I appreciate him being up
and honorable on it, but woof, I was in no mental state where
I could have made an intelligent decisionanyway. All right, it is summer
there, I'm off the box.You have your own opinion, and I'm

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glad you do, and you're totallyentitled to it. My opinion is we
need some music and let's continue withour summertime celebration. Let's get caught up
with the Jamie's. I don't know, is the voice combination or whatever.
It irritated me no end and theyplayed it to death the year it came
out, and uh yeah, Ithink summertime. Was there a time that

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it lost its meaning to you,Scott? I mean there was a time
where they're saying about going swimming everyday and doing this every day that that
only went up to a certain age. Yeah, I would say eighteen both
for you and then uh Bratt andthen maybe college. You know you have
have opportunities during the summer, butyou know, during the summer, I

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was always working. Yeah, whetheror not that college summer jobs never amounted
to a hill of beans when itcame to college. The cast of college
for me, Yeah, spending moneynever never seemed to be to make it
out of the summer with any moneyto put towards the fall. Some some
incidents, some some miss miss miscarriageof justice, I would occurred it on

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swimming and stuff. I know youyeah, but I yeah, I don't
know. I think it was aboutthirteen or fourteen for me. I went
to work at fourteen, I meanon a job other than a paper route.
I went. That's when I wentto dishwashing at a local restaurant in
Dey and my employment never ended afterthat, I mean, and from job

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to job to job. But Iwas always working. So summertime didn't mean
anything the except that I had moretime to work. And that's mostly I
did. I had okay spending money. My parents got most of my money.
They needed it, so they gotit. Uh one of those situations.
But yeah, summertime as per prettyfourteen was oh boy, I'm out

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for the summer. I don't haveto work. I can play right my
bike, play sam lock ball,do all the things I want to do
and not have to worry about anything. But boy, at the age of
fourteen, it kind of said,well, I'm gonna keep working, I'm
gonna keep do this. I'll helpout more if I can, and and
it kind of went away as atrue vacation, a true don't do anything

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except what you want to do.There were things you had to do at
that age. For me, Iwas just thinking about that right now,
and I think there's still kids outthere. Sin. I love summer,
man. I don't have to doanything. I'm gonna lay in by the
pool. Some raise sounds good tome. Yeah, it sounds good to
me that some block. I wishsome block. Back then, we didn't
have it. We were tough,we went out there, we did come

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on in Carcinoma. We'll take someof you. Yeah, that's on the
way to start the morning mail.No, we're gonna start summertime today.
It is started. You're a partof it, and we're gonna celebrate it
with you all morning long. Mailon the morning, it's got toback on
fourteen thirty. Mail in the morning. I'm fourteen thirty k A s I

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oh, summertime, summertime, somesome summertime. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't get as excited. Itis, like I say, it
isn't the break we've to get whenwe were young and got out of school
for the summer. But it isfor most of us out there, vacation
time, especially when the kids areout, and you know, it's the

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time that the whole family can gettogether and and get out on a little
vacation. Now, we didn't geta lot of vacations when I was young.
Number one, we just couldn't affordhim, you know, not to
take the whole family. There waswell, we wouldn't take the whole fame.
My two older brothers were basically outof the house when I was growing
up. One was living with anaunt a mile or two away. That

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was after my after my mom's divorce. She can only take care of so
many of us. And I hadan great aunt to be honest and great
in so many different ways that tookone of my older brothers in and clothed
them, sent him off to school, and made sure he got the things
he needed. And then my olderbrother was already into service. So it

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left me and my younger brother andthen my parents to go on vacation,
and we didn't. We just couldn't. If we did go on vacation,
look out nearest relative, you goand sponge off them for a few days.
And we had and they were verygood about it. I mean,
we vacation one summer for about threedays up in Mason City, Iowa,

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with an aunt and uncle up there, and we his kids had a great
time. I don't know what mom'stime was, but it was at anything
special about except we were away fromhome and it felt like a vacation.
You get to go to the beachkind of thing. We went over to
Clear Lake, yeah, yeah,not far away, but I mean yeah,
the No Coast beach, yeah,the Road coast, yeah yeah.

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And then we would go out toColorado where I still had an aunt out
there in uncle, and we wouldgo out there and visit and stay with
them for a few days. Andthen it was always only two or three
days. We didn't want to overstayour welcome and always had fun because as
kids, we had fun, notexpensive fun, and we'd just I guess,

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did the same thing we do athome. Except we were doing at
Colorado, we weren't doing it inIowa, and we felt it was a
different atmosphere. And you go outin the backyard of my aunt and uncles
and there'd be the rockies back there. You could see the mountains quite clearly,
So just a different atmosphere or something. You kind of felt you were
on vacation. And one time,well part of the vacation was as we

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came back, my folks would stopand I'm trying to think of the name
of the town, but they hada museum there. It used to be
sponsored on billboards along the highway.Stop at the size and Size museum,
and so Dad would stop there.We would They had a motel connected up

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in a restaurant to it, andwe would stop there and we'd go in
the Mendon, Nebraska I believe isthat Mendon, Nebraska, and we would
go visit the museum and we wouldeat at the restaurant. So that was
kind of a special vacation. Otherwise, Mom would pack sandwiches and stuff,

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and we would stop at what wasthen very common a roadside park, and
what that would be as a littlepull off the highway, and it would
have a picnic table and maybe arestaurom if you're lucky, and we would
stop there and eat peanut butter sandwichesor something and some kool aid or something.
But we were on vacation, itwas okay, really what anything special?

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But at that time it does itwas, And now I think,
am I wrong? I don't know. It's been so long since I've been
there. You know, vacations aremuch more sophisticated. You've got to go,
you've got to have a destination,and once you get to that destination,
there has to be something to do. And Chris and I are having
this talk right now because we're talkingabout going on vacation but not quite sure

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where we want to go, andwe're debating between East and West for a
change. Now used to be Westall the time. Oh we're going out
to Colorado. Oh we're going toLas Vegas. Oh we're going and Chriss,
what do you think about East thistime? Oh we're going to Chicago.
Oh we're going to New York.Oh we're going to d c.

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Oh we're going to Boston or oneof those. And I one of the
things I've always wanted to do wasvisit a civil War battleground like Gettysburg.
Yeah, exactly right, And that'sreally what I want to do. So
we're entertaining that idea right now.I'll do it, do it. No,
that's what I'm saying. I'm justyou're retiring. Last day of the

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month, Friday, Yeah, getout of here, leave, you know,
enjoy the last last breakfast club witheverybody, and then hey, hit
the road. Why not, Well, that's what we're talking about. And
she's saying about middle of July orsomething. Her birthdays on July tenth,
and then the middle of July shethought, um, well, let's why
don't we go? Then? Whydon't we go? Then I have to

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we have to consider my daughter's birthday. We dare not be gone when her
birthday comes. But although I knowPaula would say go ahead, it does.
Yeah, you know, I thinkI think you should, Mel.
I mean, yeah, you're you'reworth it. My wife knows you're worth
it. My first retirement, youmake that Getty's worth thing happening. For
sure. I think we're going toI really do think I'm I want to

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go East this time. And Ialways said West is a vacation in East
is history and I'm a history buffand I have a lot of things I
want to see, a lot ofthings I want to experience. I want
to go to the Smithsonian again.I want to go to Arlington, all
the all the touristy kind of thingsyou do in Washington, DC. We'd

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love to go to New York.My wife has never been to a Broadway
show, so see if we canget tickets to want it. Maybe do
in New York. I'm not moreI you know what, I'll be honest
with you. More than two daysin New York would be enough for me.
I'll do. I have a coupleof things I want to do,
and then I can get out ofthere. Boston. I'm not sure what

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I would do in Boston. Iknow one thing I would do. I'd
visit my friend out in that area, Amol Peterson, my East Coast producer,
and his lovely wife Nikki. I'dlove to stop buy and see them.
It's been a while. So that'sthe other alternatives. No matter where
we go, I know people thatwe can stop and see. If it

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were only for that, I shouldbe grateful. But but to pick up
a few x in life that Iwanted to do, I did a lot
of reading on the Civil War,and Gettysburg, I think would be the
idea. There a lot of CivilWar battlefields towards the East coast, but
Gettysburg would be the ideal as faras I'm concerned. You know, four
scoring seven years ago, our fathersbrought forth a new nation conceived in Oh,

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I'm not going to go through thewhole thing I had. I had
to read that every day for sixyears. Really yeah. Wow. I
went to Abraham Lincoln High School andaround the state we had our home room
was in the auditorium, and aroundthe stage were the words to the Gettysburg
Address. So I would read thatalmost every morning. Every morning I would

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see that, And I don't thinkI could do the whole thing now,
But there was a time where thatwas imprinted on my mind, and it
was such an important part of history. And the fact that it was written
on the train to Gettysburg on theback of an envelope evidently um just held

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about a meaning and what was saidin it. The words were so powerful
and at a time when this thechaos this nation was in I had never
seen the lights of before. Andit's the simplest language too, yes,
well that and with the exception ofthe illustriousness of saying four score and seven
years ago. Right, yeah,so how much score it's twenty years or

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twenty A score is twenty okay,right, so you four eighty seven years.
He could have just said eighty sevenyears, but he spoke a little
harder. But you know, honestly, and bellis just a little but the
simplicity of the language, just howbeautiful that speech is in it's in as
concise as it is, and onone of the bloodiest battlefields out there,

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and he he knew his audience,he knew his audience. And yeah,
always impressed by that one. That'sto me, that's one of the greatest
pieces of history literature that there thereis. But anyway, yeah, so
maybe maybe each one of one ofthe greatest pieces of oratory. Yeah,

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I would certainly, certainly. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna research
everything, well, I really am. I'm gonna look, I'm gonna find
this a lot plenty of stops.So they do not say on the road,
you're on the road. What kindof vacation is that when you're in
the car, you know, butyou have stops in between that you can
visit and take your time. Andas when Chris said, she laughed at

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me because she goes, well,I'm thinking we'll go on vacation around the
eighteenth of July. And I said, well, that's fine for you,
but I gotta see if I canget get it off out of habit.
She said, old man, youare off beginning June thirty. You don't
have to look. We need toremind people again to meloware which of the

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locations for the breakfast club. You'llbe at the water plant right, will
be at the water plater plants,And the city has kindly decided to have
a kind of open house after myshow that day there at the water Plant
and have invited folks to stop byand say goodbye. I guess basically in

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a lot of different ways from nineto ten that morning. So we think,
Susan Guianist and the folks at thecity, we're doing something little extra
for me. And I always saythis city has given me much much more
than I've been able to give it, and I deeply appreciate it. So
and my wife says, okay,she said, you got to be a

(31:52):
big boy. I said, whatdo you mean, she says, no
crying. She said, you area crier. You know you're a crier.
You get him, she says,you keep your emotions under control,
and uh, but no crying.You can't cry when you're saying goodbye.
And I just I told I don'tknow when I said, I'm gonna do
my darned ust God, I'm gonnatell you I am so darned emotional folks.

(32:16):
And I admit it. I freelylet loose with my emotions. I
try and control them, and Iend up sounding like this, no,
that kind of thing. So Iwas. It was like Sunday on Father's
Day and a simple thing like acard from my daughter. Open the card

(32:37):
up, starting She's good at pickingnice, sappy kind of cards. Opened
the card up, I start readingit and I started that. My wife
said, no, no, no, no, no, we're I'm in
public, We're at a restaurant.You don't cry. You cry every time
you open up your Father's Day card. And I said, I know,

(32:58):
but it's so sweet sentiment is soshe said, no, you hold it
together now, and I did,but I was tempted. I was right
on the edge of tier city.And again last night and I say this
because I wasn't there crying, butI was emotional about it. I got

(33:19):
a card through the mail yesterday andit was a Father's Stay card and it
was from Chris's folks, wishing mea happy Father's Day and hope it's the
best that I've ever had, andhow proud they were of what I've accomplished
in things, and retirement coming up, and all kinds of nice sentiments.

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And when Chris got home, Iwas there and I did my best look
look and she goes, what AndI said, I got a Father's Day
card from your parents. And shewas incredulous. She goes what. I
said, I know, thirty twoyears I have been their son in law
and I have never gotten a Father'sDay card. And she says, I

(34:04):
know. It's unbelievable, isn't it. And I said, well, it
sounds like maybe they're close to forgivingme for marrying you. So maybe maybe
thirty three will be the magic year. But this is a good sign things
are smoothing over finally. Anyway,it did feel good. I have to
tell you, because I haven't thirtytwo years ever gotten a Father's Day card
from my in laws, not thatI expected, but it was nice when

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I got it, and I'm gonnakeep it. I'm gonna put it somewhere.
I'm framing it or something so thatif they come to visit us,
which they never do, they'll seeit framed up there. And when they
asked me, I'll see that isthe first time, and I will tell
him how much that card means tome, that's for sure. Seven twenty
eight will take a break. I'mmel in the morning. He's got Kovac,

(34:52):
and we will be the same characterswhen we come back. Mel in
the morning, I'm fourteen thirty kas. Oh my, I don't know,
but strike up the band. Giveme some confetti, Lieutenant heath Rop joins
me. Now for Rushman, It'sbrought you by Mary Greeley Medical Center,

(35:12):
doing what's right? Where you band? Pal, I have not been here,
I'll tell you that much. Weu took a little family vacation out
to the West coast and spent sometime in San Diego and the Palm Spring
area. How well, I knowyou celebrities like to go to Palm Springs.
Yeah, we're definitely not celebrities.Oh okay, well we do fairly.

(35:35):
That's where they used to go backin the day. Yeah, they
did, they did. I figured, you know, if Sinatra were alive,
you probably run across him something likethat. But yeah, yeah,
you bet. And how was thevacation. You know, I think California
gets a lot of bad press,right, Um, you hear a lots
of different viewpoints. And quite honestly, we went out there and we had

(35:58):
a great time. People were onlyit wasn't overpriced. Traffic was a non
issue other than on our way backto the airport. It was a little
crazy. Yeah, but you flewout. You didn't drive out. We
flew out and had a rental car. Yep. Yeah, yeah, well
it sounds great. It was didGego Zoo. We did not do the
zoo, but we did get thebeach a couple of times. I know

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that wasn't on the agenda. Yeah, so maybe next time. But we
hear there's a great zoo. Butum, now, did you have friends
of relatives out there or was itjust you and earth? Yeah? Just
so the wife and kids had neverbeen out on the on the West Coast.
I've been out there a couple oftimes and it knew how great it
was out there, so that wewere able to get cheap flights so long

(36:42):
time ago because we were looking fora vacation place and yeah, hey these
look pretty cheap, let's go.So that's how we ended up there.
I've not made it to San Diegoyet either. It's great, Yeah,
great, I hear it. It'svery, very nice. And Palm Springs
was not on my to do list, but it was nice too. Um.
You know, so San Diego issupposed to be sunny and beautiful and

(37:02):
in seventy five every day. Yeah, the three days we were there,
it was a little bit rainy andcloudy and high of like sixty two.
That didn't prevent us from getting outand doing stuff though, you know,
so lots of stuff to do,lots of sight seeing, lots of free
stuff, which we like free.Yeah, i'd been there before. It
was cool. Yeah, I'll tellyou what palms. We stayed in Palm

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Desert, which is like ten minutesfrom Palm Springs. I loved it there.
Yeah, it was hot during theday, but when you if you're
at the pool and you got acold drink in your hand, it's okay.
But you know, you could bedown in the desert or you could
be up in the mountains hiking atthe same time, and it was great
love. I loved the Palm Springsareas well. And I imagine it was

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tough on you, my friend,being the bodybuilder you are out there on
the beach. Yeah, yeah,I don't think so, way past my
prime. So I'll tell you whatthough, maybe maybe I shouldn't. Well,
okay, I'll share this story.Okay. Uh so we hiked down
this cliff to this beautiful beach,and you know, there was a very

(38:07):
liberated manh is you know, midseventies, Yeah, down on the beach.
So it was a just a goodlearning experience or everybody wasn't put it
that way, was in his alltogether? Then he wasn't his all together.
Yeah, We're like, oh,well, all right, whatever,
we're gonna go this way. Well, you know, I have to say,

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we men who are in our seventiesare beautiful specimens of manhood. Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, I'm now I'mtempted to go out there. I'll
send you the photo. How's that? Oh no, no, that's you
took a picture of course, alsogonna be yeah, what's my friends that
aren't on vacation. I don't feelsafe anything like, well, that's like

(38:50):
a lot of photos on vacation becauseoh yeah, the environment, the scenery
of the activities that we were ableto experience. How many times do you
get to see a naked seventy exactly. You didn't make a zoo, but
in a way you did, right, So I guess we could bring that
around and say that's not okay todo what the anzioa. No, you
know a little bit different out there. I was saying about heitting down to

(39:13):
Lake Laverne today. Maybe you knowbeaches in Lake Flood. Yeah, as
long as you do it on Iuse property, you can do whatever you
want. Yeah, you didn't haveto deal with it there, Yeah exactly,
Yeah, all right, Hey,how are we looking out there today?
You know, we're looking really goodall the way across the county.
Knock on wood. No accidents toreport. Um. I did notice that
construction is still going on when Igot back to town. Oh yeah,

(39:36):
we saved it for you. Yousaved it for him, and I appreciate
that. And I know you bringthis up every once in a while.
What do you what are you callingwhen somebody rolls to this stop sign California
role and that's a real thing outthere. And I don't think they used
turning signals either, So yeah,yeah, well, I turning signals are
optional, aren't they. Yeah,they're really not. Oh now that's a
good question. Yeah, if youif you're turned, let's say one of

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your turn signals go down. Yeah, if you use an arm signal,
does that still count You're you're doingokay? Then yep, we'll work with
you on that, all right.And you know what, you should use
a turning signal every time. Butthe way the state code reads, um,
as long as it doesn't have reallyan effect on any other traffic in

(40:21):
the area, Yeah, then you'reokay. Or if there's no traffic in
the area, you don't got touse it. But okay, I mean
just general practice, use a drinksignal. Well, I know that my
right side turn signals acting up.It doesn't work all the time, it
works part time. Oh, soI want to know that if I'm going
to put the guys out there andjust wait for you, you know,
put the L signal out the window. It should be all right, that's

(40:44):
right, should be just fine.All right. I don't know if the
people behind you, I will knowwhat that means. But as long as
they don't, you got a defense. Well as I don't raise my middle
finger, I think I'm okay exactly. Don't do that either, all right,
my friend, Hey, welcome back. Good to hear from you.
I had a great vacation and we'lllook forward to talking to you again this
week. He sounds good that thisweek I'm already on days off plan That

(41:07):
just right, Jeezy. You gottaease back into these things. Next week
I'll be back. No, youwon't. You'll be down at Camp Dodge
getting trained on how to be acop again. Good one. Probably use
that, all right, pal,I have a great day to day.
Thanks see all right, buddy,bye bye. And that's the chi rop

(41:27):
back from vacation and bringing us arush minutes report. Sounds like we're all
clear out there for traffic so far. Mel. In the morning of fourteen
thirty case seven fifty one, intime for me to get with the ever
lovely health Promotion Coordinator Casey Shuman thismorning for City of Aames. Casey,
Good morning, Good morning, Mel. How are you. I am wonderful.

(41:49):
I'm concerned about you, but that'sokay, that's okay. We were
just discussing a little bit of vacationbefore we went on the air, folks,
And Casey is going to one ofmy unfavorite places, well in a
way, Texas in the summertime,but she's going to San Antonio. So
I had to say, I agreewith that. If you're going to Texas,

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San Antonio is a spot i'd goto. Yeah, And Texas we're
unfortunately going in August, and Texasis already hot enough as it is,
but we're going the hottest time ofthe year. Of course, is that
healthy? Well, we can docertain things to make it healthy. And

(42:30):
we are experiencing what spring Texas weatherhere, I guess. Yeah, as
we get up to ninety degrees againtoday, Yeah, it seems alurly for
that, does it to you?Case I know, yeah it does usually
you know, you think about thedoc days of summer being in July and
August, but yeah, we're kindof experiencing them now. Yeah, exactly

(42:50):
right. And but we as folksof the Midwest that experiences whether often,
should be aware of certain things wecan do to make it tolerable. Yes,
definitely. So sun safety for onething is super important. So um
sunscreen of course, and that includeseverybody. M No matter how can you

(43:13):
are, you should still wear sunscreenand it should be at least thirty SPF
or higher and it should protect againstUV A and UVB raise. And I'm
wondering now we talk about that,it's like the UV raise today are at
eight? Is the top ten?I think? You know, I actually

(43:35):
don't know. That's a great question. And who can I go to now?
I don't know anyway, I'll lookit up for next time. But
it's very high. I know that. Yeah. Yeah, And you know,
in addition to sunscreen, even whenit's hot, you should try to
wear clothes that will protect you fromthe sun. So you know, lightweight,
sweat wooking, long sleeves are great, hats are great, Polarized sunglasses

(43:59):
are great, especially on the skinand the UV race, etc. Don't
mistake a cloudy day to be unthreatening. Yes, you can still get burned
even when it's cloudy. And yeah, that's something that a lot of people
don't even think about. Yeah,oh it's cloudy day. I don't need

(44:20):
anything, yep. And I tellyou something I am notorious for. I
almost always have a hat on allyear long. It doesn't matter what the
weather is. But I don't thinkenough people wear hats when we get on
a sunny day. They just goalong their way. And you know,
I don't know about the other people, but the top of my head is

(44:42):
just fair ground first on burn.Yeah, And you know, it doesn't
matter if you have lots of hairor very little hair. I mean,
the top of your head is theclosest to the sun exactly, the most
likely to get burnt. And thatskin there is really sensitive to um.
On the top of your head andyour face, those are really common places
to end up with skin cancer MAnd as we talk about these various things

(45:07):
out there, if you do geta sunburn, is there any special treatment
that's best for well, um,you know, using aloe it's always good,
and you can usually find it aslike a spray or a gel,
probably at any pharmacy type store likea Walgreens or whatever. And then just

(45:28):
kind of in general, trying toavoid wearing certain types of clothing that really
rub on it really hard. Sowe're something that's like loose and flowy so
that you're not rubbing directly on thatsunburn. Now, if you start peeling,
should you let the peeling take careof itself or do you work with
it? Yep, just leave italone, let it do its thing and

(45:49):
don't pick at it. Yeah,you know, and there are people out
there for some reason enjoy that.But oh I know, I know,
right, Yeah, yeah, youdon't pick on me, That's all I
can say. But yeah, yeah, and what's the kids? The kids
you know in summertime to get outsideplaying at center like that, and sometimes
I think we lose track of them. But we got to keep them hydrated.

(46:09):
Yes, definitely, hydration is reallyimportant. Um. If you don't
stay hydrated, you are at riskof heat illness UM like heat stroke,
heat cramps, heat exhaustion. Sokeep an eye on those kids. I
had, Josh, yeah I did. But last year, man, I

(46:30):
was out umpiring and I was outfor like eight hours straight. Yeah,
and I the after effects were notworth it. No. UM. A
lot of times what it looks likeis, um, you are super hot,
but you're not sweating, right,that's a concern, um haleness,
muscle cramps, tiredness, weakness,confusion, fast heart rate. UM.

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So if you notice those symptoms inyourself or someone else, UM, get
them to a cooler area. Yeah, give him an ice. Yes,
there you go. All right,well, we've got all those tips from
Casey, so listen up, dowhat she suggests. Watch yourself, be
smart and pace yourself, I thinkis another big part of it. Just

(47:14):
don't overdo yep, definitely, allright. Casey has always appreciated enjoy texas.
Don't thank you, don't forget yoursunscreen, I won't. All right,
listen, we'll talk to you soonagain. All right, thanks Casey.
Ye bye, bye bye. Andthat's Casey Schumann, who is the
health promotion coordinator for the city ofAIM's gonna be a hot one today.

(47:35):
Everything she said is appliable, especiallythat sunscreen. Apply it before you head
outside today, whether you're working oroff to the pool. That's going to
be important for keeping you healthy,keeping your skin healthy. Seven fifty seven
mel in the Morning. We'll takea break from news, weather and sports.
Then you'll be back for eight o'clockon fourteen thirty Mel in the Morn.

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Learning from fourteen thirty, Ki andI kind of felt obligated to play
this next song because nobody does itlike her. We had the a cappella
version by Mosaic earlier this morning summertime, but the best version ever done was
by the late great Janis Joplin.What do you think, let's hear it,

(48:22):
mel Let's critique it. I thinkI think we should come back from
the song and critique. Yeah,well, you know what, I always
think about it because I had therare opportunity of meeting her one time,
and it was not out in anytravails or anything. I paid to meet
her because I went to one ofher concerts down at Veterans Auditorium in Des

(48:42):
Moines and got a chance to justsay hello, didn't. I mean,
it's a long conversation. Hello,This is Melkrivin, This is Janis Jomplin.
Hi. Janis big fan, whichI was. I was a big
fan because she was such a rebelliousperson and I'd liked rebels back then,
and she certainly was one, anduh tragically was the cause of her own

(49:06):
death through over indulgence. But butboy, nobody had a voice, and
nobody had a delivery, and nobodyhad a stage presence like Janis john Foin.
So here it is summertime, allright, young man, give me
your assessment to that. You see, she has a unique voice. Yeah,
I don't, I don't hear anybodysinging like that in contemporary music.

(49:27):
No, Um, maybe it's maybethat sound is still out there somewhere,
but it's it's in some pocket ofindie music that I heard I thought had
a sound similar. That was JoeCocker. Yeah, yeah, cocker head
that could have that rough, raspysome people called a whiskey voice. Maybe
maybe a little sounding like Tom Waits. Well, Tom Waite would be another

(49:49):
good one. Yeah, you'd beon it. Um. I like it
and they controlled it so well andit brought what do I want to see?
Did it bring emotion in some waysthat it's put more meeting or feeling
into the lyrics in the way itwas song. What what moved me more

(50:09):
was the guitar rather than her boys. Really mellowness of how the guitar was
wasn't rock and roll. It wasShe's kind of a simple picking a lot
of feeling to it. Yeah,and then you throw her voice in on
that and to watch her perform thatsong she would. And that's why I
mentioned Joe Cocker because she had acocker look about her. Not a cocker

(50:30):
spaniel well kind of, but still, Um, she had that emotion look
when she sang and did a lotof closed eye singing as she hit some
of those notes, etc. LikeI said, I don't think she's a

(50:50):
gal you'd bring home to mom.I think she was very opinionated, very
forceful, and you knew she wasthe leader of the band. Excuse me
get the hiccups again. But shewas a pleasure to watch. It was
an unusual performance, to say theleast. And I have mentioned this before

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that before she performed, she walkedout on the stage in the credit Yo
joe yoh okay. And as shewalked across the stage, you know,
she had something in her hand,and it was a fifth of Jack Daniels
and she set it down on thecorner of the stage and explained that she
and her bass guitarist every once ina while needed to hit a jack to

(51:37):
get through these concerts. And sureenough she would walk over there, grab
that bottle and take one of thebiggest swigs I'd ever seen a lady take.
I didn't see a lot of ladiesthat drink jack to begin with,
or her bass guitarist would walk overand hit that bottle, but very up,
straight forward, this is how weget through these cots. Yeah,

(51:57):
yeah, and I was very saddened, and she lost her life. I
thought it was a great loss toAnd she's the kind of woman. You
wonder what would she be like today? I mean, the era or the
times of her popularity were very specificallyduring the peace movement, And how would

(52:22):
she have melo. I am guessingshe would have mellowed because she'd be in
her seventies now. But what wouldshe have been like had she gone?
Yeah, you wonder about a lotof those tragic, tragic early deaths out
there of some very talented people.And yeah, I can never can I

(52:44):
I just think it's the dangers oftoo much popularity combined with boredom and money.
They have so much money that theyget bored there. I've always said
I wouldn't want to be a billionairebecause and that might sound strange somebody,

(53:07):
but because I could do anything Iwanted to do. I mean, within
the law would be my whole parameters. I know, with billions, you
could probably do it outside the lawtoo. Yeah, well you probably could.
But what I'm saying is I wantto go to California. Okay,
so charter a jet, go buya jet, have your own pilot,

(53:27):
you know, Oh, I'd reallylike to have a corvette. Okay,
go out and buy one. You'vegot the money, Go ahead, you
can have everything you want. Don'tyou think wife could get boring? Man?
It all depends on perspective. Yeah, And like I say, and
I've been called a dad gummed wellmaybe not that kind socialist. Somebody says

(53:49):
you're a socialist. You're a socialist. And I mentioned this many times.
With the Iowa lottery or the Biglottery, the powerball, when he gets
up to two hundred million, threehundred million, then make two hundred or
three hundred millionaires. Don't make itjust one person who is going to have
more money and they know what todo with or how to handle it.
Make yourself one hundred or two hundredmillionaires out of their figure system. Out

(54:14):
that instead of one big galigosh kindof a millionaire, you have one hundred
or two hundred galigosh millionaires out there. And for most people, a million
dollars would take care of a lotin their lives, I mean bills,
etc. Set up the kids forcollege, depending of course you. I

(54:35):
think maybe the caveat is you'd havea financial advisor for them, because it
is amazing to me how many peoplecan go through that kind of money and
actually work themselves into debt again.So yeah, when I made that suggestion,
and there is a gentleman up inSioux City, Iowa who used to
listen to our sports show on Sundaysfor me at Sunday Sports Show BJ and

(55:00):
I, and he called in hehad to go. This is how much
trouble he went to he had.He said, I have to go outside
of town on a hill at oneof the parks here to get reception of
your station. And that was beforeiHeart and the streaming stuff, and so
he had to go outside to getenough radio signal to pick up this station,

(55:23):
which to me was amazing. You'retalking su City, Iowa up in
the north northwest corner. But hesaid I would listen and I heard you
today and I had to call inbecause Mel, you're a socialist. And
I said what And he said,no, what you want to do with
that money and how you want todo it, it's just a socialist thought.

(55:43):
And I said, call me whatyou want. I think it's the
right thing to do. Whether thatmakes me a socialist or not in your
eyes, that's Okay, at leastyou heard what I had to say.
And whether you agree or disagree,it really doesn't mean a hill of being
seither one of us, except thatI just think that's the wisest way to
spread the wealth, to spread thewealth that you make. You know,

(56:07):
you've got one hundred two hundred taxpayersout there that are going to spend some
money, and instead of one bigglob going to one person who is ill,
usually in most cases are ill advisedon how to spend that money.
That's why when there's a big lotterylike that, I'm glad. When it's

(56:29):
an office that wins, or youknow, the warehouse floor people fifteen or
twenty of them put in to buythe ticket and then they spread it amongst
them. I'm much rather see thatthan just one person, unless it's me
to win all that money. AndI don't even know. You know what
I haven't paid attention lately is it'sbeen very big of you. I don't

(56:50):
know. Yeah, I'm just it'slike out of my mind, out of
sight, and I'm assuming it's notvery big. Probably forty fifty million not
enough for a guy like me toconsider, you know, when it gets
close to where it makes me thinkthat I need to get another job,
then I'll go. But anyway,there you go, just some thoughts.

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Denis Joplin, thank you for thattreasure you left with us. Mel in
the morning. I'm fourteen thirty kas. I wanted to get Scott's opinion on
Summertime Blues. Yeah, that hasan edge? Did you like it?
I enjoy it? Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. That was a group called
Blue Cheer, which is credited basicallywith perhaps being the first heavy metal man,

(57:40):
the first wow, the first heavymetal band. Them and Deep Purple
another group. I don't know whetheryou're familiar with them. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah. They rose to numberfourteen on the Top one hundred with
that song Blue Summertime Blues, andthey broke up. They were there in

(58:01):
the six late sixties, early seventies. Then they broke up, and then
in two thousand and nine they attempteda revival, didn't quite go like they
wanted, and the lead guitarist inthere ended up a pizza maker. Really
Yeah, I had his own pizzajoint. Yeah, I hope it was
his own. I'd hate he wasworking in there. Yeah, did you

(58:23):
get that pizza yet? No?And here's another amazing fact about Blue Cheer,
What's Up. They although they performed, they were not included on the
Woodstock album. And they did performit, Yeah, and they thrilled the
crowd. They went crazy when theyget up there and played. And of

(58:45):
course heavy metal was not big timethen, and it was actually one of
the reasons they were excluded from theWoodstock album. Interesting, so it just
didn't make the cut, didn't makethe cut. As I love that song,
I always did. I just thoughtit was as you said, I
think the word is correct edgy.It was just deep guitar riffs and the

(59:14):
delivery was harsh and hard good goodhard rock. And yeah, it reminds
me. I was telling Scott thata friend of mine, and it's funny.
It's a friend of mine whose nameI can't remember. I can remember
his sister's name, Bonnie. Shewas quite fetching, but is not so
much. He wasn't fetching, butboy could he play guitar. And he

(59:37):
had such a sharp edge on it. And wherever he went he played in
groups and he would break into aguitar solo and oh my god, I
mean he would that solo would goon for like three or four minutes,
and he's like playing the heck outof the strings would catch fire on the
guitar. He was playing it sohard. And I told Scott, I

(59:57):
said, the worst part was sothen they would come back out of the
end intrumental and the singer of thegroup would get up to sing again,
and the crowd would be yelling,do more guitar, Do more guitar.
That singer looked so dejected and like, oh man. And eventually this guy
took off, this friend of minetook off and enjoyed I think a pretty
dog on good career in Austin,Texas playing down there. But that was

(01:00:21):
the hot spot to go at thattime, Austin, Texas, which it's
a hot spot in so many waysas far as I'm concerned. As I
was telling Casey this morning when shesaid she was going to San Antonio for
her her a wedding but also theirsummer vacation, and I said, I
can accept San Antonio as being agood spot in Texas to go vacation.

(01:00:43):
If you're going to go, yougot to go down and do the river
walk and all the good things thatthere are in San Antono. See the
Alamo, see it and remember it. And then Austin is maybe one of
the other more beautiful parts of Texas. It's actually grass and it's a little
hilly and things like that, andyeah, that maybe the only two spots

(01:01:07):
in Texas I can think of thatI would want. No, I would
never want to live there. Igot to take that back. I rethought
it even as I was going tosay it. I think I could live
there. No, I couldn't.I just could. It's Texas. But
the thing being San Antonio. Iguess if there was a spot, if

(01:01:28):
I had to make a choice,somebody said, all right, we're not
going to send you to prison,We're gonna send you to Texas. No,
send me to prison, send meno. But if you're going to
send me to San Antonio, sendme to San Antonio. The beautiful river
walk and great restaurants and just overallit would be an entertaining place to be.

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But you can't get all the Texasinto San Antonio, so that would
be one. I have never everin my life thought about vick asaning in
Texas, and I never will.But I will admit I would like to
see the Elimo, and I wouldlike to take the riverwalk. Those are
two things I'd like to do.If I could do that in one day

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and get the heck out of there, I'd be all for it. I
just that would be its came songleft Texas and he's good. Now.
See, my wife says, well, when we go to Tech, if
we ever went to TEXTA, Isaid, don't worry about let's name talk
about it. I don't want togo there. And she said, well,
I kind of would like to gothe fix her Upper people, the
house people. They've got the programfix her Upper down in Waco. My

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wife said she would like to meetthem. She chipping whatever his wife's name
is, that they seem like they'rejust down to earth people. Yeah,
I know, don't worry, I'llget it. There you go. He's
trying to indicate I have a phonecall. I'll go like, oh I
had a phone call. She'll tryagain. Here in just second. It's

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Nancy Shaw with Aames Parson reck.But if I Waco to me, it
was interesting, I don't. It'snot a not a town that i'd want
to go to. But anyway,and let's say good morning to Nancy Shaw,
mean, welcome morning you picked upthe phone thing you, Well,

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you're welcome. Well, I haveto talk to you. Hey. Have
you ever vacationed in Texas? No, I have never been to Texas.
Oh and do you want to?Well, sure, but maybe not in
the summer. I was just tryingto pick out beauty spots in Texas.
I named two, maybe three.I heard San Antonio as beautiful, that's

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the one. Yeah. And thenI have I know a gal who goes
down to Texas every um winter andshe she goes away soft, but she
says it's absolutely beautiful. Mission MissionTexas. Oh, I don't remember.
It's way south down there. Iknow my late x in laws used to
oh yeah, every every winner theyloved it. The yeah people. I

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mean, I know people who goto Texas and the winners just love it,
and people who go to Arizona andthe winners just love it. So
I think it's just, you know, given the choice, I'd probably go
Arizona. Yeah. I mean,I don't know. I don't know either,
but you can think about it alittle bit. Huh. Yeah.
I've thought about it over the years, and I've been to Texas many times.

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Have you do you like Texas?Um? Where I went was not
the garden spots. The only oneAustin, which nice. Yes, I've
heard Austin is really nice, butLubbuck Waco not so much either. Yeah.
I don't really want to go toWakeo. But those are only because
I went down for sporting even Ohright, yeah, of course you did.

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And they were like one day in, one day out things, right,
so you didn't get a play ina college station was Yeah, it
was different because it is really amilitary school. Oh yeah, yeah it
is. Yeah, I mean theydid. They were like marching on campus
between classes. I don't know whatwas going on, but not my style.

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Why not be my style of college? Yeah me either, no marching
and no short haircuts. No,no, anyway, I had to have
hair just to cover up my face. But anyway, Oh oh, that
wasn't a nice thing to say aboutyourself. Well I always say I say

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it first so I can beat otherpeople. But yeah, it's self defense.
You can say anything you want itbuy yourself. Yeah, okay,
you Going yoga in the park hasbeen great. We've had three classes and
the weather, of course, hasbeen amazing all three of them. Lots
of shade. It's really nice.To have. You know, we moved
it two years ago. We movedit to I AM and we get much

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more shade. We're not fighting withthe sun. Yeah, that's much Temperatures
are more tolerable and it's cooler andpeople are ready to start their day earlier
on the weekend so they can goto Farmers Market, etc. So yeah,
it's been great. We have onemore week and then we do have
a week off of course for thefourth of July weekend because you know that's

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party party city and aim. Ohyeah, and I get to be the
chief party here. Do you areyou going to be in the parade.
I'm the parade marshal. I'm gonnahave to come see you. Yeah.
Before that I was only parade sheriff, but now I'm going to be parade
marshall. Who are you gonna throwcandy? I don't think she's riding with

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me. Okay, that was agood one. That was really good.
Yeah. I don't know what they'regoing to have me throw. I've been
offered some foam footballs, oh,which I think would be fun, would
be fun. Yeah, that's alot, though you wouldn't eat a lot.
That parade is. Yeah, alot of people, which is so

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wonderful that was established how many yearsago, and it's such a tradition now
and I'm so proud of it.And it came out of a leadership aims
class. I remember that, yeah, and they were ames was in sad
need of a summer celebration. Yes, And I remember so when our kids
were a little I remember walking aroundwith him on the fourth of July going

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there is nothing. No, itused to be good in a couple of
ways. Was the fact that whenthe jac's had it, Yeah, and
they had all the games going ondown at Brookside, and then they had
the flag the first time I'd everseen a flag disposal. Oh really,
Yeah, I remember that, andI will tell you well, the American
Legion did it. Okay, Icried, Well that it means they had

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the veterans doing it. It wasso emotional. I would say, that's
so meaningful it was, and tome especially I'm an old Glory fan and
so yeah, well, yeah,I was growing up. They used to
have a carnival. Do you rememberthat, Yes, I do, yeah,
down at River Valley Park. Yeah. I ran it one year as

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a JC. I was in chargeof it. Yeah, do you really?
Oh my god, saw I rememberthat? And then we will go
across to the cemetery to watch thefireworks. Fireworks exactly right. Well,
look we took up all your time, except so much going on to check
it all out online aamesparkrek dot org. All right, Nancy, thank you.
I will talk to again next week. That sounds wonderful, Thank you,
mal Actually I won't. Yes,I will one more time, one

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more week. All right, okay, bye, bye bye, have a
great day, Nancy. Show butDames Parks and Recreation on fourteen thirty.
Tell you what. I'll see youtomorrow morning at six am or whenever you
get there. Here with me melin the morning. I'm fourteen thirty