Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Six eighteen in the morning here onfourteen thirty KSI, this is Scott Kovac
sort of sitting in the captain's chairwith Mel right next to me. Mel
courteously giving me a little space hereto get a little practice in as a
radio guy. Mel, how isthe morning treating you? It's good and
I would like to go by morning. No more Kovac, no more ka

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morning morning. Yeah, there youare give me the harsh tones here this
morning. I am well, I'mkind of relaxed here. I almost dozed
off during Smooth Operator. There isn'tthat a perfect song when it comes to
acapella. Yeah, it doesn't getany better than that, showcasing acapella,
great harmonies and individual performances mixed upwithin it. And I'll tell you it's

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been fun these past few weeks findingthat acapella song. It's been a bit
of a chore and that I wantto find something that's also recognized by a
listening audience. Yeah, and youknow what, there is a recognizable song
if if there was one classic classicwell, I know if you call it
rock and roll, but definitely astrong oldies vibe. It's hard to miss

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that one when it comes to popmusic history. Oh yeah, And I
wanted to turn our attention briefly tothe wildfires that we're having up in up
in Canada right now. Oh they'rehuge, they are massive, and it's
affecting us here, and in particular, it's affecting New York. Mel We

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were just talking about that. Mysister lives in Brooklyn, New York,
and right there in that whole massivemetroplex or whatever you want to call it,
that super city area, they're dealingwith some extreme pollution they are coming
in from those wildfires. It isone hundred is the flat level VPA puts

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out there for beginning warnings, andNew York hit one fifty one today now.
From one hundred to one fifty,it's recommended that those with possible ailments
that are affected by the air qualitytake their time monitor that and kind of

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slow down here. When it hitsone fifty one, it affects everybody.
It's not dangerous, but it's uncomfortablefor a lot of people out there,
and we here have been. Oh, Northern Iowa and Northwest Iowa has suffered
a bit under this, a bitmore than we have. But I think
if I'm remembering this morning's whether qualityor air quality for our area is moderate.

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Yeah, and you can see that, Yeah, you can definitely see
that you go outside, I mean, Melan, I can see that looking
out the window. Yeah. Andour windows dirty and our window, I
don't know whether it's our window,yeah, compounding that or if it's just
the sky. No, and thesky and you may have noticed I'm as
I was telling sky and I said, I love azure blue skies. And

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that is the deepest, darkest blueI can think about there and a few
white fluffy clouds just make me feelthat much better. But if you if
you've looked at the sky, it'salmost got a gray shade. I think
it does, Yeah, I thinkit does. Yeah. Yeah, I
can't wait till that clears out.And I don't know are We're gonna have
to wait until the forest fires goby by or or Joe the winds change

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and they say the rain, ifwe should get rain this afternoon, will
help that. Yeah, Well,I certainly hope we do get some rain.
Yeah, got some nice rain yesterdayafternoon or evening. And uh one
one thing that that I want tostep on this real quick here, mel
Um. We're having announcements. Again, this is a quick shift in uh

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in TRANSI transition here in terms ofconversations, we're talking about the pollution of
the air. Whenever I think aboutpollution, I think of it is that
a plaical issue. And of coursewe're right in the middle of a political
season starting up what is essentially ayear and a half before the general election.
Way too early, way too early. But there are all sorts of

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candidates announcing on the Republican side,and gosh, I think it's who do
we have? Who's announcing today?Mike Penn, Mike Pence, Well,
former Vice president Mike Date is expectedto announce officially at a gathering in Ankony
at the FA Center down there,and we'll make it official today. Yesterday

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I was going to say Lou Christie, but no, Chris Christie, no
relation. I'm pretty sure announced hisrun for the presidency in twenty twenty four,
and he, of all the candidatesout there, probably had the most
baggage to carry in He and MikePence have one thing in common. Well's

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that President Trump threatened both their lives. So yeah, yeah, so that
that's their common bond. But Christie, after the Bridge fiasco that he faced
in his own home state, wasvery apologetic and kind of shunned it off
a little bit yesterday in his announcement, as he says, you know,

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everybody makes mistakes, and he admitagedthat was a big one for him,
but he says people also deserve thechance to prove that they have changed their
lives around him. That second chance, Yeah, which is a lot a
lot that we see in our currentcancel culture. Yeah, saying hey,

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I get a second chance. Alot of times that doesn't mean anything to
anyone. No, no, Andsince the bridge fiasco did not affect the
entire country, it was more ofa hometown problem, big one, and
you know, maybe that won't affecthis campaign as much. Maybe I don't

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think that's a subject you bring upa lot of even if you're his opposition.
Well let's let's go ahead. We'regonna go through a commercial break and
be right back. Of course,this is Scott Kovac captain ing here for
mel in the Morning, six twentysix here on fourteen thirty kis I you're
listening to Scott Kovac h sitting inhere sort of for mel in the Morning.

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All the Morning is still here,but I'm behind behind the big Mike.
Yeah, Scott's Scott's the boss today. I kind of have to bow
down. I've got my traveling papershere. He's got it in front of
me. He said, you know, if things go awry, you need
to sign on. We splits vow. Yeah, we're out of here.
We're gonna. We're gonna jump ship. We're taking a station car too,

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and we're going. We're going.We got it loaded with gas. We
got our luggage in the back.We're ready. We're gonna go for the
border, accept them, not theCanadian border, because we want to steer
clear of those wildfires. Yeah,and it's got you you. We jumped
into politics a little bit this morning. I think skims the surface of what's
out there and the numerous candidates theRepublicans have put up, but not so

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many years ago Republicans were in charge. And one thing I want to when
you talk about politics and we thinkto talk about Republicans going back, venturing
back into the classical what I thinkof classical history of conservativesty making me feel
old, yes, yeah, yeah, well before I was born mel Yeah.
On this date, nineteen sixty six, Ronald Reagan was nominated for governor

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of California. Yeah. Now Iwasn't there, No, but I did
spend a lot of, you know, years growing up in California as a
grade school kid. That's where That'swhere I experienced life as it were.
Yeah, but I wanted to hearyour thoughts. Is that something that affected
you in any way? Mel thatthat nomination. Again, we're not talking

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about the presidency of the United States, but just the governorship of californ Is
that something that was in the airthen? Is that it was? I
don't want to call it shocking.Ronald Reagan was a unique individual. He
had his fingers in so many differentpies and he was a lot of us

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here in Iowa considered him a hometownboy, even though he was not born
here. He spent some time andwith his note this folks radio career.
And I want to clarify this rightnow, I'm not running for president anyway,
but Dutch Reagan, as he wasknown here in Iowa, was a
sportscaster with our sister station mothership downin Des Moines who and was well beloved

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by Iowan's and him getting into politicsin California, I think always the question
of is he drawing on his fameas an actor or as experiences in life.
And I think I think we werepleased here in Iowa. Maybe we
were more pleased knowing he wasn't goingto be leading our state and comfortable with

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the fact that he might be leadingCalifornia. And certainly that announcement opened up
doors of politics for him until hebecame president of our own country. Yeah,
And when we look at that,I know that for myself, as
I was growing up in my teenyears, in particular, the whole mindset
of the sort of classical conservatism thatReagan had pioneered in so many ways that

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had a tremendous impact on my life, especially at the time and as a
teenager listening to Rush Limbaugh, thatwas something that definitely had an impact on
me nowhere ashamed, yes, okay, wherever that took me politically, and
then of course my interest in broadcastingeven as a teenager. This is something

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that his impact, his later impactmoving forward out of governorship of California and
entering into the national stage of politicsas it were, changed the landscape.
I don't think America would look Iknow America wouldn't look the way it does
now without the influence of that presidency. Well, and the thing is,

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it was an honorable presidency, andReaganism is still a measuring stick. A
lot of republic and still measured thesuccess of their party by or what the
goals of that party should be.Refocusing in what one would call Reaganism and
his positive effect on everybody out there. A sad ending to that administration.

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I don't not too bad, butyou know, the rumors were that he
was beginning to suffer from some dementia, and his beautiful wife and very knowledgeable
wife, Nancy, was kind ofhelping him through that final year or so.
But yeah, it's interest. He'skind of an example of where you

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can come from and where you cango in this country with a humble career
in radio sports and in all theway up to governor and then president of
this country. It's a great countrywe live in. It is doors open
up. Tim Scott in his campaignhas already hit the what I call ground

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level of politics. I was raisedby a single mother. She worked sixteen
hours a day. I had toclimb the rungs of the social ladder to
get where I am today. Andlook I have the chance to become president
of the great country we live in, and that that grit that pull myself
up by my bootstraps mentality in alot of ways, that that's American spirit

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to begin with. But to seeit brought out onto the stage like we
do now, it doesn't happen.It wouldn't be happening. I don't think
without the influence of Ronald Gregha again. Now six thirty two in the morning,
and you're listening to fourteen thirty Kasi, Scott Kovac and mel Crippen right

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here, six forty four here onfourteen thirty KSI, this is the mel
in the Morning Show, and Melis gonna take it away here with the
Birthday Club. I'm putting on sunscreen. He's putting on sunscreen. Look out,
folks, gonna get the Birthday Clubout here this morning. I've done
this for a while, Scott,so correct me if I screw up.
Oh all right, all right.If you have a birthday to day,

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know someone who's having a birthday today, please share that information with us at
five on five two three two,fourteen thirty. We can't mention those birthdays
if you don't give us a calland we know you're proud of those folks,
You're glad to know him, andwe want to celebrate their special day
with either a birthday cake or balloonbouquet from one of your aims high Vs.

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And we'll draw for a couple ofwinners after eight o'clock this morning.
But now's the time to get themregistered again. The number five one,
five, two, three two,fourteen thirty is the high Ve Birthday Club
on fourteen thirty ka SI six fortynine. Here in the morning on fourteen

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thirty k SI. Speaking of mornings, there's mel in the morning seated next
to me. He's kind of lookingover at Scott Kovac making sure that I
do things at least half as well, maybe maybe a quarter as well as
he does. And then everything Iam. I'm going to tell you right
now, I'm I'm in fear.I'm not so much of you. Oh
board there, but you'll do whatI haven't done in thirty two years.

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What's that? Have a perfect showwhatever. I like to think that was
going to happen, but there's Scavinas it could. That's why I'm a
little nervous. There. I gota record to protect. There is a
zero chance of that as we areon me though he got on me,
I may sabotaged you just to youknow, yeah, just to just to
make sure my record holds. Butanyway, hey, I want to wish

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happy birthday this morning to Sharon Marwick. She's having a birthday to day and
we just got to call in.So happy birthday, Sharon. Hope you
have a wonderful day planned ahead ofyou. I'm sure the husband has a
few surprises, can and well anyway, if not, maybe we can surprise
you with that birthday cake or balloonbouquet a little bit after eight this morning.
What else is going on today?Well, we've got national days,

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so for of course June seventh,we've got the National World Food Safety Day.
I hate to think of food asbeing unsafe, but yeah, I
did something last night and my wifethinks I was foolish. But we bought
a different brand of milk. Yeah, and I opened it up and went

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to port my glass and it wouldn'tcome out. What Yeah, And I'm
and I looked down in it andmy wife explained to me, she says,
that is the fat milk. Fatrise to the top of the of
the gell On the milk we bought, and it actually clogged the top,
so I couldn't get some. Wehad to take and you had to kind
of dig the milk fat out,and all of a sudden, I didn't

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want a glass of milk. I'mserious, I had just I looked down
and it reminded me because two daysbefore our milk had expired and I dumped
out some cottage cheese into the sinkas bad as it gets after it expires,
and it was a kind of waypastic swaying. So then I get

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this milk out and it looks verysimilar to what I was looking at and
the other one. But it's supposedto be good. Yeah, oh yeah.
My my wife gets in there andshe digs it out, gets it
all of them that pours me aglass of it, and lo and behold,
a chunk of that milk fat wentsliding into my mouth. I honestly,
I almost lost it. I almostlost it, and I didn't.

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I couldn't. I couldn't drink it. I'm sure it'll be better today.
There's mel yelling orginized yeah something,And it made me think, because you
know, I was legalized the saleof raw milk now, I mean you
have to be licensed, they haveto clear it. But farmers can now
sell raw milk to customers who wantit. Not my thing not. There

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is a reason, ladies and gentlemen. I think they came up with homogenization.
I think it was to make theproduct better and make it safer for
all of us out there. Andthe amounts of different milk. My mom
and dad would go to the storeand buy milk. That's all there was.
It wasn't half and half. Itwasn't. I mean, there was

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cream, but there wasn't two percent, one percent, all these different percents
you can get skim milk. Theywould go well, actually they wouldn't even
go to the store and have itdelivered at home. Just tell the milk
man how many bottles of milk youwanted, or you know, got some
cottage cheese. Yeah, they deliverthat too. But obviously this well before
my time. But how how wasthat? Like, was it one of

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those things you had to wait?Like? You know, was it random
intervals that the milkman came. No, he came on certain days, certain
days, certain days, and youwould because the times he came. He
was an early guy, you know, the old saying there. The old
saying was milkman, keep those bottlesquiet, you know, those kinds of
things. But they would leave anoat if they wanted something extra, leave

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an oat in one of the emptybottles and he would bring that up.
But usually my folks had a standarddelivery pretty much figuring out what we need
and what we don't need, andthey would have these metal boxes outside,
insulated metal boxes, and the milkmanwould come up and put your product in

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that metal box and head on downthe road. But the milkman was what
do I call it, a personalfriend, it seemed like because of what
he did and when he did it, and a lot of folks out there
got to know their milkman by theirnames. It was kind of a neat
thing going on. And then allof a sudden, I don't know what
there was. Obviously they thought itwas not as profitable, that the milkman

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was not needed as much. Peoplego to the store and get their milk,
etc. And I, for one, it was pretty sad to see
that service disappear. And it waslike when we said goodbye to the iceman.
Oh there was an iceman too,Oh yeah. Because before the electric
refriger Still, a lot of peoplehad ice boxes and they would leave a

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note up in the window, tobe a little card they put in the
window, and it would have anumber on it, and that would tell
him how big a chunk of iceyou wanted for your ice box, and
he would do that, and wekids in the summertime would wait for the
iceman to come along, because ouriceman would chip off a few pieces of
ice for us if we could getbut before he delivered the piece, and

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he would give us the ice pieceto kind of cool our mouths, cool,
cool it down a little bit.Yeah, yeah, Well, folks
were coming up at the top ofthe hour, seven o'clock is right ahead.
I wanted to let you know thatmel In the Morning is still very
much here and we're sort of cocaptin by the way, he is still
here. We've got some celebration ofmel In the Morning coming up later this

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month, but I wanted to letyou know we're right here right now.
This is Scott Kovac and letting youknow that you're welcome to be here with
us on fourteen thirty k SI andwe're glad that you've chosen to spend this
bit of your morning with us again. Another hour coming up right after this.

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It is seven fourteen in the morninghere on fourteen thirty KSI, there's
a Scott Kovac here with you inthe captain's chair. Mel in the morning
is guiding me along and what wouldseem a moderate pace thankfully my pace,
Mel's pace. Yeah, which islazy, lazy, Yeah, I'm pretty

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lazy. But which brings us tothe fact that June seventh is National Running
Day. In no way, Yeah, it's not happening. Are you.
Did you ever a jog or anythinglike that? You know, I used
to do some a little bit ofhigh intensity interval training if you're familiar with
obviously jargon sounds like it involved sweat. Yeah, yeah, um, I

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I have never I honestly say this, I've never run in my life really
well. I mean, yeah,I was out playing and we play tag
and things like that, yeah,as a kid, but officially, uh,
never ran because I can't. Ijust don't have it in my soul.
When jogging first became popular, yeah, you know, and everybody was

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out jogging. Everybody was out runningand running and running. And there's still
a lot of people still do jogging. Is there a form of exerci eyes.
But I can remember some of themost embarrassing times in my life was
at school and they would have thesetrack and field kind of events. We'd

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have the Park Avenue relays, soto speak, and they'd get me up
there and let's say it's the fortyyard dash. Sure, yeah, they'd
have to put like a chalk markby my foot to see that I moved.
I was that slow. You know, everybody else was across the finish
line and I'm just taken off.I was just slow as a turtle.

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I was steady and true. Iwould always finish the race, but it
would always be dead last. AndI mean no doubt about dead last at
that time, so running wasn't there. I had a coach in high school
says, well, mel I wantto trade the hurdles, and then I
can't run. What am I gonnado? Can I build up enough speech
to get over a hurdle? Hisbiggest regret. He set me up and

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I ran toward that hurdle. Igave a leap and like a gazelle,
look at Yeah, well, Icaught my toe on the hurdle. Oh
went down, and it knocked thewind out. I mean it took him
five minutes to clear the track withme down there gasping. Yeah, So
the coach never asked me to dothat. He wisely put me in a

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different field a bit. The shotput, the shan put, how did
that go? Not well? Notwell? I mean you still have it
was the style. Yeah, Iwas embarrassed by the style they were teaching
me. Well, you've been downover here, and you get down there
and then you go to throw theshop put, raise your arm up and
grunt, you know, that extrapush there. And I still stunk.

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I mean I just was not justnot good at a track and field was
not my thing. Uh yeah.So as far as running goes, to
all of you who go out thereand run, I admire you. I
respect it. And I want tosay this about runners because I've seen him
in all shapes and forms, atall kinds of speed. And to you

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fatties out there and listen, Iknow because I'm one of you. But
go out there, keep your pace, stay determined, and it will pay
off. It maybe a thousand milesdown the road, but it will pay
off. And don't let anybody dissuadeyou, because that that old guy driving

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by in the car is admiring youand saying, keep it up, keep
working at it. It eventually isgoing to have a positive effect on your
life. And that really is frommy experience, smell that's that's a level
of intensity there. That just thededication. Really, I think really any
sports or any exercise comes down tohow much you want to devote to it,

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you know. And the other thing, honestly, is commitment. It's
a lot easier to do something repeatedlyif you've got a coach and a designated
time to be there right, whetherit be high intensity, maybe moderate intensity,
or just trying to get get outof the house and do a walk,
it's a lot easier if someone elseis willing to commit. Tell you,

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when I go by an older personwho's out there with the walker,
the metal walker and walking and continuingto walk, and I know how hard
that is not I don't know,but I do know because I get older.
But they stay at it. Youknow, maybe something has happened in
their life and they said, youneed to get out, you need to

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walk, you need to do this. I so admire those people, and
I know they're doing it to stayalive. Basically, and I do.
Nancy Shaw would slap me in theface. I admire people who exercise.
I just I don't do it enough. I walk a lot. I walk
probably three or four miles a dayover the course of a day, but

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I don't exercise near as much asI should. And my wife is on
me all the time to get itdone. My doctors on me all the
time to get it done. Soif running your thing, more power to
you. I will always remember mylovely wife getting ready to do the Chicago
Marathon. And she got up toI never thought she would, but she

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got up. She was doing twentysix miles a day. Wow. Yeah,
it was taking her a few hoursto get it done, but she
got out there and she would getit done. And here we were a
week before the marathon. Wow,she's coming back from doing her twenty six
miles. Misstepped on our front porch, twisted her ankle. It never got
to run it. Oh wow.I felt so bad. Foh yeah,

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but it's the National Running Day here, folks. Mel and I just kind
of cruising along here. We'll bewith you in just a moment. We've
got about a two minute break withour sponsors. While Mel and I will
run back and forth here in thestudio seven twenty two, here in the
morning on fourteen thirty K s I. You're listening to mel in the Morning.
Let's mel In the Morning's Show andScott Kovac behind the wheel right now,

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just learning from melas I kind ofsit in the Captain's chair and figure
this stuff out kind of. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a luxury,
that captain's chair. You know,you put your feet up, it's
so like you can push a littlebutton there and yeah. Yeah, it's
like a big Barco lounger that goesinto cruise mode. Yeah, and start
feel Do you feel the power thatcomes with that chair? Yeah? Well

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it's cushy, it's it's comfortable.Well, you're bringing that. I mean,
you've had to wake me a coupleof times and you can't kind of
doze off. Yeah, it's hardto tell when I'm awake or or a
sleep. It is the thing tokeep your eyes closed. My wife claims
I talk at my sleep, ohand very conversingly. So well, the
thing about it is, I tellher I really don't care because I have

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no secrets. I have nothing.I'm going to divulge. You know,
you can't interrogate me. Oh yo, what'd you do with it? What?
Yeah? Big? Wake up?I got a big hot light on
me and yeah yeah, sweating andone of those interrogation moments. You've got
the needle nose buyers ready to pullout my finger names. Oh yeah yeah,

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but we don't do that at seventhirty in the morning. Well we
wait till eight thirty. Yeah,okay, at least one of those things.
I just I'm just amazing. Idon't want to get back on politics,
but how big will this Republican fieldbe? Man keeps expanding, doesn't
it? Is there any more room? I mean, do you do you,

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as the Republican chair say that's it. That's it. That's our limit.
No one else. I'm trying tothink of who else might want to
But who's left, right, KimReynolds? Maybe our governor. We'd like
to stab at it. She couldbe the chair, you know, uh,
Sarah Palin of this this group?What about this is one I'm very

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curious about. What do you thinkabout Elizabeth Cheney? I don't know whether
she would get the Republican backing thatshe needs. I think She's a very
intelligent, very fort right, veryhonest. You might not like everything she
does, and if, obviously,if you're a Trump fan, you don't

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like her. Yeah, but I'mimpressed with her. I think I think
she has presidential potential. I dotoo. Yeah, Um, I'm interested
to see how much pressure Joe Bidengets for the nomination. I everybody's thinks
he's a shoe in right now,and I think he should be with what

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he's done. And I know someof you disagree with me, and that's
fine, that's just my own opinion. I wanted to make that clear.
And I am prejudiced. I amtired of people pointing out his age as
a disadvantage. I am of anocean as I get older, that age
is an advantage. It gives usa wider scope of what we need to

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accomplish in life, and hopefully thewisdom to do so. But yeah,
quit knocking him on age. Ifyou're gonna knock him on age, get
a life, because that's just toodarn easy. That's too darn easy.
And I think anybody can look athis record and see his activities in politics
for the most part, to havebeen upright and straightforward, and his age

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has nothing to do unless something catastrophicwould happen, like he would have a
stroke or some debilitating situation would arise. Didn't stop Ronald Reagan. He was
suffering from dementia in his last years, but we don't want to get to
that point. In some ways,if he could accomplish his goals, I

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would love to see him retire.I would love to see him go out
graciously as a former president. Butyou know, I don't know who who
would you put up against him?And that well, obviously there are probably
some presidential wannabes out there, butI don't know if they would choose this

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time to run. Sure, wouldthey step forward now against Joe Biden?
Or let Biden write out his presidentiallegacy and then maybe twenty one, twenty
twenty eight, it will be interestingse with the Democrats to put forth.
Yeah, and will we I'm justwondering in my lifetime whether I will see

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a woman president. That's an excellentquestion. Yeah, I think it's possible.
I do think it's possible. Ilike Nicki Haley, not that I
vote for her, but I dolike her. I think she's an Intelli
gim woman. You mentioned Liz Cheney, she would be one up there.
I'm a big Kamala Harris fan.I think Kamala Harris's downfall is becoming vice

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president because vice presidents don't often succeedup to the presidential level because people don't
say what would they do when theywere? Well, they don't do as
much as some people, thinking theydo more than other people know. But
I think she's a capable candidate too. Well, hey, we've got plenty

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more of the show to go.You know, whether or not we necessarily
agree or disagree on anything, well, yeah, it's a fascinating to your
st Yeah you do. Yeah,wait till we're off. Oh okay,
I know how your language. Yeah, our politics, you know, get
kind of fierce in here once themics are off. Yeah, all right,
we'll be right back. Seven fortyam here on fourteen forts pardon me,

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fourteen thirty k as I forget whereyou were? Yeah, I got
confused. I thought maybe we haddifferent hole letters all of a sudden.
Sometimes you do. We're ready though, for the I can't roll that thing
Rushmenace report? And how can youhelp me out there about Rushman? There
we go, there, we goright again, give it a shot.
Not gonna happen, which is unfortunatebecause we currently have a fifteen car pile

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up on the south Dove and HLincoln Way. Yeah, and a school
bus on fire. These rushmen reportsand thank god they're boring. Yeah,
it's quite rankly. We don't havea lot of accidents. We just lost
a oil tanker there. Yeah,oil tanker ran into a deer truck or

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something. I don't know. It'sall piling up in the middle of that
intersection. Oh isay? A beertruck is uh flipped over right Highway thirty
and then there will be a trafficThere will be a traffic jam as people
hunt for it. Nope, thatkicks mine. That kicks mine. No,
it's not. We're all clear thismorning again, and I like it
that way, and you know,if it's that way every day, that's

(33:07):
fine with me. And we shouldalso tell you that your rush minutes report
is brought to you by Mary GreeleyMedical Center. You know what they're doing,
what's right, Scott. They aren'tdoing what's right. Yeah, so
so should you. And that isbuckle up, keep those kids buckled up
and safe in that backseat. Donot be distracted when you're driving, and

(33:29):
just make driving your full responsibility.And remember don't leave those kids and dogs
in the car when it's hot outsideseven forty four in the morning here on
fourteen thirty KSI wanted to let youknow that we have a beautiful morning up
ahead, even if it's just becausemel is here in the studio. I'm

(33:52):
not kind of pretty this. Helooks gorgeous, radiance blowing. As I
was going through my clossic they usuallydressed in the dark. And my my
wife, who is leaving town again. She is coming back, by the
way, and that's fortunate, Ithink so. But you lucked out there.

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Yeah, she's going to the busrodeo over in Coralville for the stage
of Iowas, so hit it overthere for the next few days. Gets
back on Saturday afternoon, and soI could turn the light on this morning
and not disturb her. She wasalready up packing and getting ready to hit
out the door. But I willtell you right now, I found my

(34:35):
Hawaiian shirts. They were kind oftucked back in the closet, and I
said, it's time to be Hawaiian. By the way, you hung up
on him you hung up on him, hung up on the Rushman's report?
Was that? Who was that?Was that rush That was our Rushman's report?
Calling in? Just a tad laid, just a tad laid. We

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thank them for calling in anyway,Yeah, anyway, Yeah, So I
found my Hawaiian shirts this morning,like three of them, and I like
to wear them. They're comfortable,they're airy, they're light looking and uh,
you know, uhnahna kola uh.Kind of a situation for me.
Do you speak Hawaiian at all?You know, you know whatever that means

(35:20):
Hawaiian something Maka took to that.That that Christmas song which oh oh oh
yeah, you know the one I'mtalking about, Mellie Khalili, Makalli,
khaliki maca maca, Yeah, Iknow something like I just know a few
words. I know the word fora woman, which is wahini. I

(35:43):
know for keep out kapu and everybodyknows aloha, yeah, which can be
either hello or goodbye. I meanthose are the three words you need,
right yeah, Hello, goodbye anduh and woman and keep out? Was
that rn? Yeah? I alwaysgot a kick out of. And I'm

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going to mention his name. Hehas since passed, but he was dean
of the Drake Graduate School down there. His name was Earl Canfield, and
Earl was about as straight forward,strait laced, a guy that you would
know, no profanity or anything wouldleave his lips. But his favorite joke

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because he thought he was being alittle bit riskay, and we we we
young men, would be sitting thereat the dinner. I would often have
dinner with the Canfields and we wouldbe sitting there having dinner and Earl would
go and he did it to artathis wife. I know he did,
but he would go. You kidsknow that I was over in Hawaii about

(36:51):
a week ago. And we sayno, Earl, I wasn't aware of
it. And he said yeah,he says, my wife gets mad at
me. And I said, well, why would that be, Earl?
And he said, because she thinksI went to Hawaii to get a lay.
Oh yeah, double and andre ladiesand gentlemen, and and we would

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laugh and Earl would get a bigkick out of he was risk gay for
once, straight straightforward. I'd neverknown anybody as straight and narrow as Earl
Canfield. His son just the opposite. And that's why his son was my
friend. But we were at hiswedding. IRV was her son's name.
And IRV got married and his momhad a dinner, the rehearsal dinner the

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night before, and we were sittingin their big dining room, beautiful home,
and she had prepared a dinner thereand she made cream puffs. And
I had never had cream puffs before. Yeah, I was. I had
a limited life at that time,life like yeah, yeah, And I
had not had the exposure. Andshe had cream puffs and she was very

(38:00):
proud of her cream puffs. AndI was sitting there and being the courteous
gentleman I was. I said,Hey, excuse me, can somebody pass
me those infected biscuits? What?Yeah, I saw them infected biscuit,
infected biscuits. I thought I hadnever been punched in the face by a

(38:23):
woman yet, but I thought forsure out of those chairs. And Irv's
ride did not Earl. Canfield andhis wife were high society. I mean,
they were just absolutely etiquette formed andeverything. And IRV was marrying a
girl whose family was a military familykind of but traveled around the country,

(38:50):
so we're not quite as sophisticated.That was an interesting dinner was an interesting
dinner and I will always remember it. But yeah, the infected biscuits line
didn't go over worth it darn well? Right now, time for us to
get with who who do you say, Scott? It sounds like Vanessa is
on the line, folks. DoesVanessa have a distinctive voice? Hey,

(39:13):
sister, how you doing? Hello? I thought i'd call in early to
break up that conversation that was goingon. Yeah you didn't. What sounds
about run well? And we thankyou for that, Vanessa? Yeah,
for sure the world. Yeah,hey, I was gonna say every morning
she's on saving the world. Thereyou go, I tell you her and

(39:35):
I have battled many battles over theyears here and I've enjoyed every one of
them. But well, and it'sit's Scott Kovac here, Vanessa. If
you I don't know if you rememberme as Mel's sidekick, but we've swapped
roles and so Mel in the morningis kind of cruising along temporarily as my
sidekick as we go ahead and getme some training here. Well, yeah,
we're gonna happy to get you sometraining. After he's been with me,

(40:00):
I will need it. Yeah,big big Dun's coming up here before
long. Yes, the airport.I'm excited for it exactly. We're going
to be dedicating our Aims Municipal Airportto James Herman Banning on June seventeenth at

(40:22):
ten o'clock at of course, theairport which is located in South Aims.
And you know a little history onJames Herman Banning. He moved to Aimes
in nineteen nineteen to go to IowaState University. And he was the first
African American to receive his pilots licensefrom the US Department of Commerce. And

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he was a flagging instructor in WorldWar One and a veteran and so um.
He also threw flew the first coastto coast and while he was in
Aims he also had a little bitmechanics shop and he named his plain Miss
Aims and so I know, andso on Saturday morning, June seventeenth,

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we will unveil that dedication to him, and his great nephew, Christopher Hart
will also be there to share alittle bit more about his legacy and and
we also are going to have aplay the actors that does the James Thurman

(41:30):
Banning Play for us the country they'regoing to be there as well, because
they're going to be doing a renditionof his life at the June Team celebration
later on that day at the banShaw Park starting from twelve to four thirty,
and they're going to be doing thatplay around two thirty at the band

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show on Saturday. So it isa festive time, a South time of
celebration, and we're excited to bringthis to Aimes, both for the unveiling
and for the June Team celebration aroundJames Herming Banning. You know, Vanessa,
I am always in wonder of whatdrew such great African Americans to this

(42:19):
community. I mean, you thinkJack Trice, you think mister Banning,
We think Vanessa Baker Latimer, Yeah, George Washington, Carver, all of
those. Have you got any feelfor that? Uh? You know,
um, back then, you canonly go where you were accepted. Yeah,
until there, So we were aheadof the game, I'm afraid.

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So's I'll tell you what. I'mhappy. Oh my god, I'm excited.
What talent, what adventurers? Whatwhat a great claim to fame?
Uh? And you know what I'mwhat also makes me proud is we seen
about it. We put it theforefront. We let people know how important
these people were to the success ofthis community exactly, and where their success

(43:07):
and their education allowed them to dogreater things to not only for our state,
for our entire country. I agree. I agree. I was so
pleased to see the rededication coming upand who had been chosen to be honored
by it, And it really waskind of a hidden success story for many,

(43:30):
many years, and when it cameto the forefront, I think we
were all a bit amazed at whathappened. Yep, And everybody goes,
oh, well, because I've hada lot of like really, and I'm
like yes, and so yeah,Aimes, it's a little history spots,
a little unknown history spot that eventslike this make us that much known across

(43:53):
the country and across the state.And you can find this out when Vanessa
talks about it. And the onlyway for Vanessa to talk about it is
for me and mel just to shutup for one minute, and we can
get the news out. We canhear that, we can hear the history.
See that's Vanessa's claim to theme.She can get me to shut up
for a minute. Two of you. It's a challenge, that's we will

(44:16):
get through it. But no,seriously, we just asked everyone to mark
your calendars for the seventeen to comeout to the airport. We're going to
have, you know, a littletreat afterwards. You get a chance to
meet his great nephew, meet someof the actors, and then just celebrate
that and then head down to theBanshell for the rest of the June Team

(44:38):
celebration. And the City of Amesis a huge sponsor of this event.
And we're also going to have likelive music, food, food trucks,
games, face painting and more atthe bench shall We have all of our
city departments that are going to bethere at the police, fire parks and
rack staff just to just give youinformation and everybody just have a good time

(45:01):
and celebrate Juneteenth, which is anational holiday now, so yes it is.
We're excited about celebrating that for oursecond year here in the City of
Ames. All right, Vanessa,as always, you bring as important and
good news and you know I lovetalking to you anytime as you as well.

(45:22):
And I got some words in deathwas something. Have a wonderful day.
We'll see you, take care,bye bye, Right, It's Vanessa
Baker Ladimer. Normally we talk housingand what's going on, but she is
involved in so many different ways ingetting the word out. And again the

(45:42):
rededication of the airport and Juneteenth celebrationdown at the band show. Make sure
again, as I emphasized, withany holiday, that you recognize what we
are celebrating. Why you have thatday off. Juneteenth is kind of one
that not everybody gets the day off. But that's true, Yeah, but
I do, and I believe todayis actually the anniversary of the first Juneteenth

(46:07):
in Texas. Oh if all rightbelieve it or not, so well it
works out. Tell you what we'renot done. Still can call the Birthday
Club very quickly two three two fourteenthirty two three two fourteen thirty we'll announced
our winner after the eight o'clock power. You're with me morning, got Kovak

(46:30):
on fourteen thirty a A at SIeight fifteen in the morning. Here on
fourteen thirty K s I. Thisis Scott Kovac captaining the ship for once.
Mel is my sidekick. Today.I'm standing by the life mel Mel
in the morning, ready to launchthe light boat. If I take this
thing down, I'll be going downwith the ship. But we have on

(46:52):
the line. Here, we haveone the only Amy to Lashman. How
are you doing this morning? Oh? We just lost Amy up off the
Uh yeah, she'll be giving usa call back. Yeah, she's perfectly
capable. Yeah. Ay, ofcourse is the communications officer for Theame school

(47:14):
district. Here we go, Let'stry for her again. Let's try again.
Hi Amy, Amy, are youhere with us? Oh no,
not yet. Tried it again.Punch it again. Right there she is,
Hi Amy, Hello, how areyou? Yeah? I'm good.
I'm sorry my phone. Yeah.Well wait a minute, So I can't

(47:37):
blame Scott you could, you canblame me, It's all right. Yeah,
I won't feel too bad. Yeahyou feel I feel so bad.
You had to use that lifeboat.Oh oh no, the lifeboat is far
from even launched yet. Yeah.We got a long ways to go before
this. Because I can have confidencethat you'll rescue us. I know that

(47:58):
you will come right back to us. So Melville throw me of the life
preserver here at some point. Butright now we have you front and center,
so can't be that bad. Wellthat's wonderful. Yeah. Well,
and it's summertime, so nothing goingon with the schools. You guys take
it off. Everybody takes it offfree and easy, right, Yeah,

(48:23):
not not everybody. There's still quitea few people who are here finishing up
things for the school year and thengetting ready for next school year. That's
it. It never stops. Itis an endless cycle. And yeah,
and what you usually involved in thesummer is getting involved in future projects.

(48:45):
Yeah, and really taking time toset goals for the next year and really
just kind of align our focus onwhat we need to be thinking about for
next school year, because it doesgive you a moment to kind of clear
your head and think without just theday to day things that are going on.

(49:07):
So, yeah, there's a lotof that going on and strategizing for
the next school year and what areour needs and how do we get those
done? Yeah, and as acommunications officer, you are always being inventive
on how to get the word outto the community. Well, we're trying,
and we're listening. I mean,we're listening to feedback and input that

(49:30):
comes from our families and the community. And I mean that's part of our
strategy going into next school year ishow do we just keep growing how people
know what's going on in the district, you know one of the things I
find interesting here, Amy, yousend us a little email here not too

(49:51):
long ago, gosh, we thinkit was earlier this morning. But talking
about podcasts, and you have apodcast with David Lee, and that there's
registration still open for twenty three twentyfour school year. Tell us a little
bit about these podcasts. Any Yeah, So the district does have a podcast.
It's called the Amazing Education Podcast.We launch an episode roughly about once

(50:15):
a month. Sometimes we'll do acouple in a month, but we just
recently launched one. Actually, Ithink it might have been a week and
a half, a couple of weeksago, and this one was with Ames
High graduating senior David Lee. Sowe have a lot of really remarkable students.

(50:36):
I could probably do a podcast aday if I just sat down and
talk to all of our remarkable students. But David is the youth representative on
the YSS Corporate Board of Directors,and he is someone who's just always looking
at how he can make an impacton our community. And one of the

(51:00):
impacts that he's doing, particularly withYSS, is he has been training for
a half Ironman triathlon and he hasdocumented his training on his Instagram account.
It's really quite interesting to watch.He joined the swim team so that he
could become a better swimmer. He'sdoing all these things to be ready for

(51:22):
this half iron Man triathlon, whichis also a fundraiser. Got everything going
into this, Yes, so heis looking to raise money for Yss's Rosedale
shelter. And so, I meanyou think about the time and dedication that
he has put into training for this. On top of it was his senior

(51:45):
year, you know, getting readyto graduate, figuring out, okay,
what's next, all of those things, and here he is training for this
half Ironman triathlon to give back touse in our community. M So it
was really a fun conversation. Davidis a real dreamer, and David is

(52:07):
somebody who thinks that anything is possible, that anything funds for Rosedale. Of
course, how can people out therelistening to this contribute to his fund Yeah,
so if you, if people wantto, he have a YouTube channel.
Um, he's on every available socialmedia. He's called David the Dreamer.

(52:31):
So it's David da Dreamer and youcan give the information about how to
contribute to this fundraiser. It's it'sso amazing when we hear these stories about
students and how they are really lookingto be active members of our community.

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And David is just one example,but it's a it was a great opportunity
need to sit down and talk tohim and really get his thoughts on why
that's important and you know why ahalf iron man triathlon. He could have
done other things, Yeah, buthe decided to do this A lemonade stand.

(53:14):
Yes, I mean, well Ilook at that. That's another prime
example of a student who actually graduatedthis this last of graduation in May,
and you know, did did abunch of things to give back to our
community. And those are the storieswe just love to tell, and I

(53:35):
am so grateful that I get totell those. You know, one of
the things that is really powerful tome when you're talking about that is just
the raising of funds for Rosedale.My wife and I live on that same
city block just just up I thinkabout five houses, and that is that
is something that really hits me howpowerful it is that that kind of reaching.

(53:57):
You know, a hand up isthe is fart little to say as
to what Rosedale is about, butjust the high high angle, I guess
of call it's a steep climb foreveryone there. And my heart goes out
every time I hear somebody talking aboutcontributing to Rosedale or gosh, it's just
a phenomenal, phenomenal effort for anyonethat even walks through those doors. Yeah,

(54:21):
and David has really taken the opportunityto sit down with youth in that
shelter and hear their stories and figureout how he can contribute to making an
impact and making a difference. Andthe fact that he sat down with some

(54:42):
youth in our community that maybe sometimesfeel like they don't have a voice.
Yeah, he really felt like hehad the power to make change and he
could speak on their level. Thatis the advantage that he has. It's
better than some old goat like mewalking in and preaching anything is better with
yeah, you know any one thingit is I like, Yeah, after

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so many years. First of all, my association with YSS has been very,
very strong since it's beginning. Butsecondly, uh, David is a
prime example of what I think ispart of the education of our students here
in this city, whether intentional ornot, that we are able to teach

(55:32):
them the importance of philanthropy and itruns deeply through our school system. It
really does. And like I said, David is just one example, but
I encourage everyone to go out andlisten to his story because it's very empowering

(55:54):
to anyone. It doesn't matter ifyou are a use in the school system
or you are someone who's been inthe community for thirty years. It really
inspires you to take a step tomake one little change. And you know,
one of the things that strikes meabout all of this is just the

(56:14):
heart that both of you, butin particular with Mel retiring at the end
of the month, just highlight Melhow much you've done with United Way and
how much you've done with YSS andall of the things that go into this.
I think a big thank you goesto you too, melm what you've
done. Oh, I will sayit again that this community has given me

(56:37):
much much more than I've given it. And the bill will never be paid
in my eyes, but I'm thankful. I am really thinking. Wow.
Amy's a good example of it.You know, her and I met many
many years ago here and it's beenfun for me in to watch her as
she progresses through her career. Itjust it's gratifying it's just absolutely gratifying and

(57:00):
I feel very very fortunate in thatrespect. Well, we got David covered
pretty good, but you've got othernews, Amy. Yes, So it's
still that time period we talked about. Okay, we're starting to think about
twenty three twenty four school year.So if you have not registered yet,

(57:20):
go out there today register your students. It's super important to get this done
as soon as possible because, believeit or not, the summer's going to
fly by. I think we allknow that, and we have to begin
rostering these kids. We have tothink about schedules, We have to look
at you know, classroom sizes andwhat kind of space is available in our

(57:46):
buildings. So we want people togo out and make sure that you say
that you have students who are goingto be in the district next year.
Also, that is how you canrequest transportation, and it's very important that
we get those requests prior to Augustthird, because we have to take some
time to figure out the route andwho's on what route and where are they

(58:09):
going, and the timing and thestops and the drop offs and all of
that. So it takes a littlebit of time to coordinate all of that.
So really we just want to makesure that we are serving the families
in our district to the best thatwe can, and in order to do
that, we need to know who'sregistered to be in our district. So
go out there today on our website. You can register right from there and

(58:32):
the website website is aimscsd dot org. Grains Well, thank you so much,
Amy, Thank you. Any newson faculty or anything like that,
are we sitting well, there areany new editions, etc. Um.
Well, we do have a coupleof new associate principles that will be coming

(58:55):
into two of our elementary schools,both very familiar names in our district.
Anthony Yar, who was previously anassociate principal Aims High, will be going
to Fellows Elementary and joining the administrativeteam there. And then Austin Riedeman,
who was previously an instructional coach atEdwards Elementary, is now going to be

(59:19):
an associate principle in that building.And then, as I've talked about before,
we do have four new principles startingin our district. We have new
principles at Aims High, Aims MiddleSchool, Sawyer Elementary, and Meeker Elementary.
So We hope as people see thosefolks out and about in our community
that you welcome them and let themknow how great, amazing Aims is.

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Yeah, and I will tell youwhat, there's no doubt the Aimes School
District has very high principles. Oh, Amy had no words for me there,
you know. Yeah, I shouldhave known it is coming, but
you caught me on that one.Now, all right, kiddo, Well

(01:00:05):
listen Amy until we talk again.Have a good time, and we'll await
your news. Yes, thank you, thank you, all right, see
litter Amy, Bye bye. Eightthirty nine in the morning. You're listening
to fourteen thirty KSI Scott Cole backbehind the microphone. Melas given me a
shot at doing the big job here. Yeah, and he's taken on the

(01:00:27):
menial task of the happy birthday Claude. I don't call it me. It
is not menial, No, becauseyou you keep me honest every morning.
He's always pointing and saying, heyand listen, Scott. I hope you
know this as bad a time asthey gave you much appreciate it, and
I'm glad you're here. Oh well, thanks, Mel. What do we
got for those birthdays? I gotone one only. What the heck is

(01:00:51):
wrong with you people out there?Huh? It was a light birthday month.
Anyway, today Sharon Marwick is havinga birthday. Sharon is our Birthday
Club winner of a birthday cake orballoon book from your Aims Highves. I
also want to remind you that theBirthday Club expands on Friday. It takes

(01:01:13):
in names for Friday, Saturday,and Sunday. I do that because I
want you guys to start thinking aboutthose people out there, you know that
deserve to have their birthdays recognized,and know how much how glad we are
that they are here sharing this earthlyplaying with us. And also on Friday,
we'll share a lot of information withyou about what's going on in this

(01:01:36):
town. What's going on, notabout you and your neighbor. I know
you got a little skirmish going onthere, and you shouldn't have thrown those
eggs at his house, but stillor the rocks, yeah whatever, or
kidnapped his dog. But the wholething comes down to we got the break
in here. Yeah. Anyway,the Breakfast Club coming up and we will
be this week at the AIMES ElectricServices Building in the conference room. There

(01:02:00):
just as you come in the frontdoor and don com will share. He
promises me first class pastries and somecoffee, first class coffee. So there
is just enough reason for you tostop by. But if you have an
event that you want to promote,there's not a better place than the Breakfast

(01:02:20):
Club. We sit there, wehave a good time, we have conversation,
you'll meet new people. Plus wecan get more people to come to
your event because they become aware ofit. And we do that by allowing
you five to seven minutes of interviewabout the upcoming event and getting that information
out there. I suggest to thoseof you who do have an event coming
up that you give it two tothree weeks of lead time so that we

(01:02:45):
can put at top of mind ofthe listeners out there. Some of you
will come up the very week ofI've got a bake off go on tomorrow
morning, and that's not enough leadtime. I'm not discouraging. You still
need to come up. And evenif we catch a couple of beers,
you got two more people than youwould have had. But the Breakfast Club

(01:03:06):
Friday morning, seven thirty to eightthirty, and again this week where had
Electric Services aims Electric Services conference roomover by Banshell Park. And that being
said, you are invited. Youcan email me at Mel Crippen at fourteen
thirty Kasi dot com saying I wouldlike to come or here's the big one.
You can just show up. I'llwork in somehow, that's for sure.

(01:03:30):
You're listening to Mel in the morning. This is Scott and the Captain's
chair Mela is coaching me along whereI would normally said, yeah, it's
it's kind of fun for me.I kind of laid back here, you
know. I've had a big Cubancigar here and smoking in the studio.
Is it go with my hat?My yeah? Yeah, I was in

(01:03:51):
Fedora. Yeah, nice there andme Lax got them Hawaiian shirt on.
Scot's over there. Sweat and bulletsone bullets, Yes, you can win
sweating bullets. Win sweating bullets,you know, three times across the day.
Once I believe it's nine o'clock,one oh six, five oh six.

(01:04:15):
We have keywords that are in thereand it's a win. Before you
can buy tickets to one of thebiggest music festivals in the country. It's
held in Las Vegas. It isthe issue there the ir Yeah, I
as you know, it's the iHeartMusic Festival. It has grown so much

(01:04:39):
over the years. They can seetwenty thousand people there and they have numerous
great acts coming in. But rightnow, you could win a pair of
tickets which will include airfare and hotelstay in Vegas during the festival just by
sending the keyword to texting the keywordto two hundred two hundred. You would

(01:05:02):
text that to two hundred two hundredand then you will be entered in the
random drawing to win a pair oftickets to the iHeart Musical Festival twenty twenty
three. Don't be left out inthe cold. In fact, it'll be
very hot in Vegas when that thinggoes on in September. But when before

(01:05:23):
you can buy on fourteen thirty kasiand again those times to be listening for
the keyword are one oh six andexcuse me, I'm up here in a
little bit one oh six and fiveoh six. All right again the number
to call or text two hundred twohundred. All right, I covered that,

(01:05:48):
Scott, there you go. Yeah, how about that? Yeah,
I would like to go to thatmusic festival sometime. Yeah, I just
number one. I love Vegas.I have a good time in Vegas,
and as I have emphasized, thereso much more to do. It is
just if you were just a peoplewatcher in Vegas. It is beyond belief.

(01:06:09):
I mean there are people from allparts of not just the country,
but the world. They're very internationalinfluence. There great restaurants, great entertainment
at the local clubs, etc.Want to dance, you can dance.
Want to swim, you can swim. And you know, if you want
to be homeless, you can behomeless. Oh all right, Yeah,

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I'm really fought about that option.Yeah, I don't know. Is there
anything going on with that thing?No, nope. We've got a line
lit that we can't pick up,which is unfortunate because there's a special person
we'd like to talk to. Ohand she'll be calling here very very soon.
And again we talked with Nancy Shawevery week on Wednesdays. As to
what's transpiring with Ames Parks and Recreation. I will tell you very much,

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Scott. Watching the Ames Parks andRecreation Department grow. Oh. I think
it is one of the largest growingdepartments in the city of Aims because of
the added responsibilities that have been thrownin there. Ada Hayden was a new
responsibility for him. Some of theseother parks that have been developed, the

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community garden is. I think there'sa couple of community gardens now here in
Aimes. I know the one thatis right off there off of thirteenth,
oh, right, but right afterthe railroad tracks, right by Northwestern,
Yeah, right by the Northwestern there. Yeah, that's been there for I
think that might have been the firstone, the very first one. Yeah,

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And it's kind of fun for meto watch the folks who are using
that as they go in. There'squite a diversity amongst who's using that,
and they really take good care ofthat corner, which is nice now they
know they developed one I think outin West Aims, and I think there
may be one in South Thames.I'm not quite sure, but I love

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the idea of a community garden.I know there's so many people such as
yourself. You're you're a third floorhigh fire and have no space for a
garden. Actually, actually we do. Yeah, our landlords design need a
Denario whom we've developed it. Virginiahas some flowers growing out there, just
a few vegetables, you know,so yeah, we have a little bit

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of space. But I think contactingthe city would be the way to go.
If we were too someone were towant to, um, well,
I would tell you this much youneed to. I think the next thing,
the next thing you should do isbeg the landlord to let you do

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some lawng care and uh and getthe experience and maybe doing some grass cutting
or you know, trimming the hedges. I think your landlord would be gracious
enough to let you have those duties. That'll make you a more well rounded
character, cutting the grass as wellas using the garden. Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah. Right now on the line, we have our one and only
Nancy Shawn giving us a call aswe talk about all things aims. Hi,
Nancy, how are you doing?Oh, I'm great. How are
you guys? Pretty good? Anotherbeautiful day, it is indeed it is
indeed. What do you have goingon today? Well, we have always

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lots going on, lots coming up. We want to make sure people remember
yoga and the park has started.We have classes every Saturday at nine am.
We had a great turnout and abeautiful day last Saturday. Now yoga
in the park. Where does thatend up being the park? Well,
that is at the Banchell Park andit is a free class hosted by various

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yoga instructors from yoga studios all overAims. So people can come and enjoy
the beautiful park and attend free yogaand it's just really an amazing experience.
So people really need to just tryit once and they'll be hooked and then
they you know, they can walkdown to the Farmer's market afterwards or go

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to the library and um, allof course with them walking distance. So
in the park, yeah, takea shower first place, but not after
yoga. Well, I see,I'm not that familiar with yoga. Come
on, I'm not. I meanI have I think the concept of it,
but it's not like sweating to theoldies. There's there's the hot yoga
stuff. They're hot yoga and actuallyonce in a while the bend Shell Park

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is hot yoga. Yeah yeah,oh yeah, we have had hot yoga
in the park before. But thisSaturday, I don't think. So it
does look like there could be achance of rain, so people do need
to check our hotline if it israining, we have if it's not a
pouring down rain. Um, wehave taken the yoga class up under the

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Bend shell because the risers of courseare up from the Daniel concerts of course,
which we had to cancel last week. So hopefully tomorrow's mother is perfect,
which I think it will be.Yeah. Um, so make sure
you check the hot line in badweather. But it is a beautiful,
beautiful way to start your Saturday morning. Hey, Nancy, something I haven't

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heard about lately that was a hotitem. It seemed like a couple of
years ago, was tai chi ohTaichi is very very very hot. Yes,
still going well. Actually, weunfortunately we have been having classes here

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through this spring and then our instructorm she left to other job opportunities,
So okay, we aren't offering herright now, but I am in the
search for a new instructor and Ihope to get one by fall or winter.
It has been so big and it'sjust such a great, great um

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class for older adults to take.Now, if we have somebody who's listening
right now, Nancy, and theythink, wow, I love Taichi,
we hope there's at least one personlistening to it. Yeah, yeah,
we go, we go on thatassumption most Yeah, well that's exactly it.
If somebody. You never know whereyou're going to meet that person,
and how would they get a holdof you if they thought, oh wow,

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there's a need there. And Ilove tai chi. They just call
me five one five two three ninefive three five three and easy. I
will tell you tai chi. Iwas not familiar with it, and I
made fun of my older brother whodoes tai chi. I did so not
nice. Well, it's because Ithought it was a joke because I pulled

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up one day to his home andhe was out back on his deck doing
tai chi. Oh that's so cool. Yeah, and I thought he was
like doing slow motion karate. Wellyou know it does, yeah, I
mean it does have similarities exactly,Yeah, except it's much slower. It
is slower, much much slower,and it's very balance oriented. We do

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have a balance, strength and stretchclass here, which is I would be
a wonderful class for people to takewho are looking for that balance aspect um.
And there are classes with some strengthand of course flexibility combined, so
we have a class of that.Actually outdoors out at it a hate in
the summer, which I have farhas been just an amazing landscape. Yeah,

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awesome, well, thank you somuch, Nancy. We're running out
of time, all right, Well, thank you yeagain. Just give us
a call to three nine five threefive zero or Amespark wrec dot org.
Thanks Nancy. Doctor soon sounds great. Bye bye bye. And that's gonna
about wrap it up for you andme. No, well, I would

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tell you what I talked to Nancyevery week, and I know I should
be I feel it kind of.It's because I never really exercise. You
never really exercise other than taking awalk now and then, and I guess
that's better than nothing. But well, we can walk right out of here,
Mel, we'll do that. Imight run. I might right,
I've never run in my life,and I might give it a try.

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Here we'll watch the steps. Yeah, yeah, okay, thanks again for
listening. This is Scott Kovac signingoff from Mel in the morning. We
love your games.