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I guess we'll commit a DGS.
It is Thursday, weeks flying by.
Oh yeah.
Of course, it helps when you only have half a show.
That's true.
Certainly helped the perception of time today.
Just what was it?
Last week, Andrew, were you in there last week when we were talking about the virtues of the half loaf of bread?
Yeah.
Yeah, because David told us he bought the, you know, I forget the name of the brand,
but it comes in the half-lose.
Lewis.
Lewis, there you go.
And we talked about how brilliant that is for people that if you don't have a family of four,
well, your bread is going to be sitting around, not going great.
This is kind of that, right?
The radio version of that.
We got a half loaf of bread today.
So we'll take you up to five o'clock.
Redbird rush hour will pop in at five o'clock.
Dave will be back on Monday.
I, he had a blast last night.
And I'm, I'm not going to even try to recount what we saw in the video.
But I mean, he'll, he'll tell you all about the experience down there.
He's had himself a pretty, pretty great trip in the game.
He experienced last night of the world baseball classic with Venezuela and the Dominican.
And certainly going to be a hell of a story.
But he's back on Monday.
We got Dave Murray in about 20 minutes or so.
I met in about an hour.
We'll bring our legal analyst Brad Young in and talk a bit about the city county stuff
that Sam Page brought up today.
Be interesting to get his take on it eventually.
We'll, we'll go deeper into it because right now it's just kind of being floated as a,
ah, maybe this would be a good idea.
It's, you know, and we'll see if there's any further discussion that goes along with that.
Ray, why don't we just get things started?
Like, wait, I mean, we're mid show.
It's always a little weird going mid show because it's not like build up from the beginning.
But let's just dive in.
Let's do, let's do throw back Thursday.
All right.
March 12 back in the day.
132 years ago, it was 1894.
And they sold the first bottles of Coca Cola.
1894.
Was that the version that had cocaine in it?
I would assume so.
Look out.
I'm sipping on a little cocaine right now.
And just to think, what that became, right, this invention, invention from, you know,
the late 19th century is now like a powerhouse, right?
It's a juggernaut.
The Coca Cola company.
It's pretty crazy.
It was a five cents fixed price of five cents.
Pretty much everywhere you went.
They didn't have dynamic pricing in 1894.
That's bottle.
And it stayed that way for.
It did stay pretty cheap for a long time, right?
I mean, it was less than 50 cents a bottle when I was a kid.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
If I, I don't remember precisely, but I'm almost 100% that we could, for like, for $1.50,
you could get a pack of baseball cards, a bottle of what it was Mountain Dew.
We always got, but Mountain Dew and a candy bar of some kind.
You could get that all for a buck 50.
Nice.
That was pretty sweet.
114 years ago in 1912, they founded the Girl Scouts of America.
They started selling those cookies.
Man, I have, so I'm so mixed on the cookies.
Why do you say that?
They're too delicious.
Well, no, they're fine, but too much fun to support a good cause and get delicious cookies.
Well, I do like supporting the costs.
And we buy them every year because obviously it's a good cause.
And we usually get them from our next-door neighbor.
The, the, the, I'm torn on it.
A, because, and this, this is the same complaint I had about the Boy Scouts and their popcorn that
they were selling back in the day.
It's just too expensive for what it is.
It's just, it should be a little bit less.
I, I think for the, the, the, how good the cookies are because I do think they're quite good.
They are.
They're not bad.
I'm willing to pay a slightly over premium.
I'm not trying.
And I think I got like six boxes from that boy.
I'm not trying to be a smart ale.
What is the cause?
Well, I mean, it's a good question.
My understanding is that a portion of the proceeds benefit your local Girl Scout troops.
So the one that you're buying them from, they use that for activities and things along those lines.
So they get some revenue.
That's the portion though.
Right, right.
You just blew my whole, you just blew my whole mentality.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know how much of that goes to that.
That's probably something we could look into.
Well, because I was just thinking of Pim.
Remember sweet little Pim.
Yeah.
It was like they told her she couldn't join.
Yeah.
She took her and she set this record selling like a hundred and twenty thousand boxes of cookies.
And on one hand, it's very heartwarming.
It's very sweet.
And on the other hand, it's like, why the heck do they need to sell a hundred and twenty thousand boxes?
There is no way the troop she's in is seeing a hundred and twenty thousand boxes worth of profits.
You know what I mean?
So that's just my question.
Sorry if I'm making anybody mad out there.
Rachel's good.
I think I'm allowed to ask the question.
Rachel, you just put it all in the atmosphere.
I'm just asking questions.
I am.
I'm just asking questions.
I'm not saying if you're listening, cancel my order.
No, don't do that.
This has messed my whole brain up.
I'm not saying it's bad.
It's just let's dig a little deeper when we say it's for, when it's for a good cause.
It's like, well, what's the cause?
I don't know what that is.
You actually say a really interesting thing.
I would advise anybody, even I'm not going to name names, but some of the very large charities out there.
Make sure you do your due diligence before you ever donate to a charity.
Primarily because a lot of them are not doing the things that they say they're doing with them.
There you go.
Okay.
And by the way, you're not making that allegation about the Girl Scout Cookies.
I am not making that allegation about the Girl Scouts.
No.
No one's making any sort of allegation.
I'm just saying 100 and 20.
I mean, I buy them every year.
They're not getting all those profits.
They better start answering some questions.
Andrew, the inquisitor.
I'm getting, no, I'm talking about a couple other very large charities that I know.
Okay.
Not what people think that they are.
Okay.
If you dig a little deeper.
Let's go back to Throwback Thursday now that everyone in the Girl Scouts is mad at me.
Sixty-nine years ago in 1957, Dr. Seuss published The Cat in the Hat.
Man, that book stressed me out as a kid.
It did?
Yeah, because when thing won and the cat in the hat is already ruining those kids' lives.
He's coming in, he's making a mess.
In their house.
They didn't ask for that.
They didn't ask for that.
Right.
They didn't.
And it's like, oh, we're going to be in so much trouble.
And then he's like, I got some friends coming over.
Thing one and thing two.
I was melting down inside every time those two showed up.
Because they only brought chaos with them.
And they look nasty.
They look like a couple of little freaks.
They do look crazy.
They're crazy here.
So.
This is probably going to be a really ridiculous question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Is the cat in the hat in the white stripes?
Yeah.
Is it supposed to be real?
Or is that the symbol of the kids making the mess themselves and blaming it on the cat in the hat?
Kind of like the Calvin and Hobbs thing.
Not to ruin it for everybody.
But Hobbs is his imaginary friend who is also a stuffy.
No, Hobbs is a tiger.
Oh, you read it?
I don't think I think that the children don't like that the mess is being created.
Right, right.
When I'm just I'm trying to get through is the point that they were pretending that it wasn't them.
They did it.
Or is it real?
Like it could just be that it's real.
I haven't read the book in a long time.
So the question is, is it a real cat or are these children's kids a friend?
Are they saying, are they sending this up in their head like playing with an imaginary friend and saying,
okay, well, we can tell our parents we didn't do it because it was the cat in the hat.
Or is it just straightforward?
This is a cat in a hat who's destroying everything.
Let's dive in.
Do a deep dive.
I've got the lick of PDF.
Let's see.
Let's see if there's any like a lore like, you know, like common conspiracy theories surrounding the cat and the cat.
I mean, when you look it up, there's a tab that comes up that said,
is the cat in the hat in the kid's imagination.
Go to the cat's wigapedia page, scroll down to controversy.
So, but according to this, this is, this is from Wikipedia.
So take it for whatever.
But it says that the, this is the first Dr. Sus book in which the fantasy characters,
like the cat and his companions are not products of the children's imagination.
So they're real.
There you go.
They can't really.
He solved it.
Screw everything up.
Yeah, so he was kind of a jerk then.
But then didn't he help him?
Did he help him clean it?
It's been a long time.
Yeah, it's been a long time for me too.
I feel like it gets cleaned up before mom gets home.
Right.
That's true.
Nobody got in trouble.
Okay. Good.
Yeah.
But I don't know if the cat helped.
I really don't.
Yep.
All right.
52 years ago in 1974, Kathie Lee Crosby became the first Wonder Woman on TV.
She was replaced by Linda Carter in November of 1975.
So I didn't know this.
I did not know that, because that's, she became Kathie Lee Gifford, right?
Uh, I don't think this is her because the way this is spelled
is not like.
Oh, it's different.
Okay.
Yeah.
Uh, I know Kathie Lee as in Kathie and Regis begins with a K.
Okay.
I believe it is.
Different.
Different.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
It's a T.H.Y.
Kathie Lee Crosby.
Yeah.
We only knew the Linda Carter version.
Or at least all it's all I remembered as a kid.
Man, I, you got to give it to the 70s.
Like you could just start a TV show.
It completely recast the main character.
Well, a year later.
Nobody notices.
Nobody notices.
We love you.
Yeah.
Nobody even notices.
It's like 33 years ago in 1993.
Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.
She served until January 20th of 2001.
She died in 2016 at the age of 78.
What, uh, what year did you say she was put in there?
1993.
Oh.
That would have been a year before she was our commencement speaker at the University of Miami for graduation.
Whoa.
Was that cool?
Not really.
She was boring.
She was really not an exciting public speaker.
Obviously very accomplished human being very smart.
All that.
But like new, let's put it this way.
All those college kids were looking around going, okay, you can stop now.
It's hot.
It's like 96 degrees.
It was outside.
We were all just ready for everybody to stop talking.
Joel and the chat confirming everyone helps clean up the situation.
Thank you, Joel.
Created by the cat in the hat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
30 years ago in 1996, Weird Al released his ninth comedy album.
Oh, my goodness.
How many albums does this guy have?
This album was called Bad Hair Day.
And it featured the song's Amish Paradise and Gump.
I don't know those two, but I've any Andrew was.
Oh, yeah.
Real into those.
Were you into?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, very much.
When I was a kid and any of my brother, both when he first came out, it was a really big deal for all of us.
When we were young, but then it kind of like, okay, it's funny for a while.
The movie with Daniel Radcliffe is really spectacular.
Really?
Yeah.
It's got one of my favorite gigs in any movie ever.
He seems like a good dude, Weird Al.
I thought you meant Daniel Radcliffe.
Yeah, he seems like a good dude too.
Both of them.
I wouldn't call him a dude though.
He's more of a chap.
He's British.
He's a bloke.
17 years ago in 2009, Bernie made off pleaded guilty to scamming $18 billion.
From Wall Street and Fetsters.
This is one of the largest cases of financial fraud in US history.
And man, people were really mad because he took from the rich people.
That's going to say that's what you really get in trouble when you steal from the rich people.
You will pay.
Yeah.
You steal from the rest of us.
You'll be fine.
And then 11 years ago in 2015, hot ones premiered on YouTube.
You guys ever watched that?
Yeah, I've seen it.
Yeah.
It really depends on the gas.
Yeah, it's not regular fix, but like when you see somebody on there that you think they're funny or they're interesting.
Yeah, it's funny.
It can be.
When you get to, when they get to the last round or two, it's pretty hilarious.
For some of them, they freak out.
They're like, oh my god.
What did I do?
That's pretty fun.
So yeah, the misery of other people, a famous people is fun.
To make this going to be a jail.
Yes.
Here on some weird Thursday.
Weird because it's short.
Name's not here.
But I thought that weird.
It's just weird because everything's jammed together after a ballgame.
So we got Dave Murray coming up in a few minutes.
And then after that, we'll see if this roller coaster is going to continue.
Today's not bad.
It's barely at least when it's sunny out.
It's not as windy.
Yesterday was worse because it was dark out for most of the day.
It felt like it because it was cloudy and it was super windy.
It's a little bit better today.
We'll see what Dave says.
If it stays the same as the roller coaster that he described yesterday.
I'm going to guess that we're probably just going to need to buckle in and deal with it.
Ride the wave through March.
And then we've got at four o'clock, Brad Young's going to join us.
We'll talk a bit about the idea of the city and the county coming back together.
And there's a couple of stories out there about it today.
We'll get Brad's analysis on that.
And let's see here, five o'clock Redbird rush hour.
And then of course, the countdown to opening day.
So there are only two more countdown to opening day shows.
And that'll be these next couple of weeks.
And then of course, two weeks from today, we have opening day on Camelax.
So is there for you guys, I know you guys love opening day two.
Is there something that's like that to you on your calendar every year that's like,
I mean, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, it's Christmas morning.
It's New Year's Eve.
To me, it's opening day.
Opening day is the best day of the year.
You guys have that outside of like the holiday, the regular traditional holidays.
Like this is this is it.
I'm dying for this every year.
Yeah.
It's this opening day.
Just opening day.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Yeah.
I mean, it's pretty fun.
I'm trying to think of something to compare opening day two.
And I wouldn't even compare it to like Christmas or something.
Right.
It's different.
It's just a totally different thing.
I compared opening day in St. Louis to what opening day is to St. Louis,
to what Marty Graw is to New Orleans.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Similar like a local holiday that everybody's into yet.
What's that?
The ticket, Lady Jennifer of Coons.
Well, many thanks.
Good, sir.
Here is my discover card.
They accept a discover at Renaissance Fairs?
Yeah, they do here.
Discoverers accepted at the places I love to shop.
Get it with the times.
With the times.
You're playing the loot.
Yeah, and it sounds pretty good, right?
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I'm Brian.
I work at United Health Care.
So Brian, why do you care?
I care because I don't want to leave anybody behind.
I oversee one of the biggest resource center in United Health Care.
I see people walk in in my office every day, just like my parents.
They have no idea about the health care.
I feel like they are my uncles, aunties.
I treat it as people, my family.
I'm Brian, and I'm committed to care.
Sylvain Sylvain.
Hi, it's back here on TGS here on a Thursday.
Mr. Glover is still on vacation.
He'll be back on Monday here on the Airwaves.
And obviously with great stories to tell about his time down in South Florida.
Rachel, Zimmerman, Andrew Stolls, Kevin Wheeler.
Of course, our buddy Dave Murray joining us here for his daily 330.
How you doing, Dave?
I'm doing great.
I know Dave is listening.
Dave, stay.
Don't come back on Monday.
No, he's coming back on Tuesday.
Oh, well, you don't want to.
It's too late.
He's already going to be back tomorrow, I think.
Oh, okay.
That's okay.
Because tomorrow is good.
Yeah.
Okay.
So just today's good.
Okay.
But you still got to endure Monday and Tuesday with us.
Yes.
You just don't want to be traveling on those days.
Is that what I'm hearing?
I don't want to be after a week in Florida.
You don't want to.
Oh, I get you.
You want a buffer.
We're doing.
Got you.
Yeah, we got a buffer.
Yeah.
He's riding the roller coaster with us.
Yeah.
I've decided to call it Mr. Toads Wild Ride.
That's a throwback to it.
All you youngies out there.
Disney.
It's a Disney ride.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Andrew, you've been on Mr. Toads ride, haven't you?
I have not because it looks stupid.
And when you go to one of the things about going to Disney is that,
even the stupid rides have like a three hour wait.
And you're like, well, you know, I can.
Well, yeah.
I could prioritize a little better.
You've got to get the lightning pass.
Come on.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't think it exists anymore in the Florida one.
I feel like it used to in Disney World.
Yeah.
I'm not sure it exists anywhere.
I think if it was there, I'd been on it because I've been on it.
I've been at that park with children.
Yeah.
You know, my little sister was born eight years ago.
My little sister was born 18 years after me.
So we were there when I was in college and then my daughter.
So if it was there, I was on it.
But I know it well because it was a legendary,
like, kiddie roller coaster kind of thing, right?
Right.
Yeah.
I feel like Rachel had something to say.
I was going to ask you a question about Disney,
but then I decided it wasn't the time.
Because we're doing the forecast.
We'll do it after the forecast.
Okay.
We'll come back to question about Disney.
Okay.
Okay.
This is a strap yourself in and, you know, pull up your chair and relax.
I got a lot to tell you.
Okay.
And it's going to be a lot to process.
Okay.
We're quiet tonight.
Partly cloudy skies.
It's okay outside right now.
It's about where we should be.
It's a little breezy overnight.
45.
Hey, handle that.
Friday.
Fine.
Partly to mostly sunny.
Windy much of the day.
63.
Friday night.
Partly cloudy.
38.
Saturday.
Nice.
Best day of the weekend.
Partly sunny.
Breezy.
66 degrees.
Saturday night.
The clouds come in.
38.
55 for the overnight low.
Sunday.
Right out of the gate.
Rain and thunderstorms.
Gusty winds.
69 degrees.
Now, I do think there'll be some severe weather.
We're way far out here talking about details of severe weather.
Right now it looks like extreme south of us.
I don't not sure at this point it bubbles up into the St. Louis area.
But a very unsettled day on Sunday.
Sunday night.
The bottom falls out.
We turn colder and we turn colder very quickly with a mix of rain and wet snow going over
to snow, 22 for the overnight low, which we're sticking with.
We talked about this yesterday.
Could be some thunder.
That shakes everybody up in St. Louis.
And there could be an accumulation of one, maybe two inches of wet snow that goes to
dry snow Sunday night into Monday morning.
Today partly sunny, windy snowflare is blowing around.
Wind gust could be up to 35, 40 miles per hour on Monday.
The high temperature Monday, 29 degrees, wind, wind chills will be in the single numbers.
Monday night, the wind comes down 14 for the overnight low Tuesday, 35 for the high.
And we're in the 60s and 70s come Thursday and Friday.
Holy crap.
Yeah.
Well, I've talked to the folks like space mountain, Mr. Toad's wild, right?
Yeah.
You have a bad back.
Don't get on space.
That's really terrible.
It's funny.
I don't want to.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt if it was that did I, did I step on your toes?
Yeah.
I just want to, I talked to the folks at Eckerts Farm today.
And obviously it's been a very warm start to spring across St. Louis.
We had the 86 earlier this week.
Most of the trees right now are in what they call the pink stage.
They're just starting to bud.
And they're very concerned about 22 degrees Monday morning, 14 degrees Tuesday morning.
So keep, keep records in your, in your thoughts and in your prayers because they're hoping
they can get through this, but it's going to be, it's going to be a struggle, I think.
Yeah.
It's probably less practical for them because it's a business that's, you know, doing
a lot of things to do.
I know down in Florida when freezes come, they do various things like cover the trees.
Yep.
Try to keep some of the heat in, is that a thing where people can do, whether you're
at home or whatever.
Yeah.
Turn the sprinkler on, you know, create a layer of ice on the plant and, and the keeps
the temperature right around the freezing point.
Oh, really?
Instead of, wow.
I didn't know that.
Teens.
You know, covering this is, this is going to be such a cold snap that, you know, fruit
trees and stuff, 25, 26, they're okay.
Okay.
You know, there's trees and bloom.
Those blooms are going to get smashed, and, you know, as far as, like, certain flowers
you may have up, people have P and E's that are starting to bloom.
I cover them up, but it's, it's going to be tough.
But don't cover them up, don't cover them up tonight, don't cover them up tomorrow,
don't cover them up Saturday, cover them up during the day on Sunday, and it's just, it's
going to be, it is going to be Mr. Toads Wild Ride, no matter what Andrew thinks about
the ride.
All right, Rach, back to your Disney question.
Okay.
So whenever I hear things, like, it's a three hour wait for a ride at Disney, are you really
just going on like three rides the whole day, and that's it?
No, I'm kind of exaggerating.
They're, they're, you know, but they can be out of busy if you go there the wrong time
of year.
Like if you go Christmas week or you go during spring break air season, you might, you
might only get on a handful of things.
Yeah, you might have hit like 90 minute weights on, on, on, they're usually not more than
about 90 minutes.
No, not with the passes that Dave was talking about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The lightning pass.
I had an aunt and uncle who have been passed away for many years, but they lived around Disney
in Orlando.
Oh, okay.
And they, they went all the time, anybody who visited, they would go and we would get
up like at five in the morning and get there at six in the morning and they would have
it all mapped out.
Here we are.
Here's, okay, this is the first ride, second ride, third ride, fourth ride, run, run, go,
go, go.
Pretty much.
Gotta get it all.
Yeah.
And then Rachel, there are ways that you can schedule like a time slot that you will go
and then you'll get an align that's only got, you know, a handful of other people.
So you're waiting maybe 30 minutes instead of 90 minutes.
If you go during this a lot of time slot for you.
Yeah.
Like, is everyone in a bad mood sometimes?
Well, it's a mix, it can be, it can be, I've seen it like most days, everybody's happy
as hell.
Right?
They got their Mickey ears on and they're super happy the day and spent a while because
I learned when I was in college, we learned when to not go, you know, you go at the start
right times a year and you're going to have a great experience and it's pretty much happy
all the time.
It's not bad.
The problem is that the rides are absolutely worth waiting like 90 minutes or which
ones there.
Some of them are almost all of them.
I waited the ones that you would wait.
Mr. Toad, obviously.
Not Mr. Toad.
No, I mean, the ones that you would wait 90 minutes for, I tell you something, I're absolutely
worth it.
Maybe the most miserable 90 minutes I've ever spent in line at anything ever in my
life was waiting 90 minutes to get on the Dumbo ride with my little sister when she
was about four.
It was 90.
You know, it's a Florida, right?
Or in California, right?
It's going to be hot.
You're there's nothing covering the line at Dumbo and you just, and then it's just
a carnival ride.
You just sit in the little Dumbo and you go up and down while you're spinning around.
It's not a big, but man, the kids love it.
The kids, that's what it's all about.
My grandson loves Dumbo, right?
Yeah.
And I'll really let you know because we're taking him.
They're coming in, not next week, but the week after we're going to be a Disney land
for two days.
Okay.
So I'll let you know and how upset I will be.
Yeah.
This time of year, you're probably, it might be busy.
It's spring break, time-ish.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got, we've got our tickets and you have the reservations and all the stuff you
have to jump through, all those whoops you have to jump through.
And we went through Triple A and the guy at Triple A, he said, because we bought two-day
passes.
We're coming home each day, but two-day passes and then we have a third day for just Janice
and I.
Oh, that's nice.
Nice.
He said, you know, you've got several months to use it, but he said, go Sunday afternoon.
He said, the people who've traveled here to go to Disneyland have left.
They're leaving, yeah.
Yeah.
And the people who are here, they have school the next day or work the next day and
they leave.
Disneyland is really interesting because I've been told it's a place for locals and we went,
when we went last year with my brother and we went out for his wedding, it was night
and day.
Like in the morning, nobody there.
And then once it hits like three, four o'clock in the afternoon, it is packed.
Yeah, because they spend it, they want to spend the evening there.
Everybody goes after work, they go after school, and all of that stuff.
Gotcha, gotcha.
So that would be definitely locals, yeah.
Interesting.
There you go.
Any more Disney questions, right?
No, I was, I just, I hear that, it's good to know that Andrew's exaggerating a little
bit.
I mean, when you get a new ride, though, it can be like difficult, like when we went to
animal kingdom, handful of years ago, eight, seven or eight years ago, the new ride was
the avatar ride.
And if you didn't book a time reservation, you were going to wait two and a half hours
to get on it.
We got lucky.
We just found one that popped open as we were walking into the park because we were trying
for days to get a slot.
And I'll be honest with you, if I had waited 90 minutes for that, it was worth it.
It was that good.
It's a super ride.
Oh, wait 90 minutes for anything.
I'm going to tell you something.
That one would have been, that one was worth it.
It's one of those, you're, you're on a, like, you know, like a speeder, right?
You're supposed to be on one of the, what are the animals, what are the flying animals
called?
I forget birds.
Dumbo.
No.
No.
Whatever.
The dudes that you fly on, you're supposed to be on one of those.
You're kind of like almost horseback, but it's all video screen around you.
So it's moving, but you're experiencing the video and it's pretty cool because it simulates
flight.
You feel like you're flying.
It's pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
Flying in the avatar universe was pretty cool.
Highly recommend.
Nice.
Yeah.
We'll try.
Well, that's not next week.
It's the weekend.
Oh, nice.
Andrew.
Andrew, I want you to, you two, Mr. Toad's ride.
Pretend you're honest.
Yeah.
It'll be stupid.
Thanks, Dave.
Hi, TGS.
On a Thursday.
A little short show today, but having fun with it anyway, I want to get some fun facts
in, Rach.
Yeah.
About three percent of births result in twins.
Three percent.
Three percent.
Huh.
I don't know why, but that seems high, even though it makes sense.
I think it's funny how twins seem to run in families.
Like I know a family that has like, man, I would have to sit here and count.
Like all of the siblings have had twins.
Really?
Yes.
Holy crap.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
And that happens like over and over again.
I feel like if you have one set in your family, like there's a high likelihood of them popping
up again.
I could be totally wrong, but just what I've observed.
Okay.
Here's another fun fact.
St. Lucia is the only country in the world named after a real life woman.
Really?
It was named after St. Lucia of Syracuse by the French.
Syracuse in Greece?
Uh, by the French who are the irons first.
Syracuse, yeah.
Must be.
Yeah.
I don't think it was Syracuse in New York.
It was just whatever, you know, Native American group lived there at that time that wouldn't
have been the same thing.
No.
Okay.
And since we were just talking about Disney in the last segment, some of the names that
Disney considered for the seven dwarves include Chesty, Tipsy, Jumpy, Dirty, Sleezy and
Awful.
You're going to lose your job.
You need my love, baby, I'm so bad, that's for God's sake.
Five on DGS, Dave out until Monday, making his way back to St. Louis after a really nice
time down in Florida, spring training and world baseball, classic and food and drinks and
everything else with his good buddies.
And of course, he went with Michael Kelly and Tom Akramins, obviously down there, a lot
of them, a lot of the three of them, the three amigos hanging out.
Look at all the stories starting on Monday, when Dave is back, Rachel's here, Andrew's
here.
I'm here.
Obviously continuing with our normal DGS type stuff, and that means bringing in our normal
guests like Brad Young, who's one of our Camelax legal analysts, political analyst as
well.
And this, this Brad, I don't know where this story is going to go, which of your hats
you need on first.
It's been in our news all day long.
It's been in the news, obviously, because Sam Page talked about it, but, uh, Rachel,
what was it a couple of weeks ago?
We had Donna Baringer in, yeah, maybe two weeks ago.
Also talking about some concepts along these lines with the city and the county, Brad.
So go ahead and, uh, set it up the way you want and put on whichever hat you want first.
Well, thanks wheels.
Yeah, this is really a merger between the hats that I wear.
If you asked, if you asked me some dad questions, you know, that would kind of fill out the
trifecta.
Yeah.
But, uh, but no, here, what Sam is recommending and we have to read between the lines, because
there's really only two ways that this merger could happen.
You remember back in 2019, better together, that was plan A and plan A required that the
Missouri State Constitution be completely changed.
Now, to do that, it would have required a passage by the entire state.
So Joplin gets to vote on it and Gerardo gets to vote on it, et cetera.
It didn't matter what the city or county did.
All it mattered was the statewide vote.
That was what better together planned.
That tanked.
So what I believe Sam Page is recommending is really the only other way that this could
be achieved.
There's only two ways.
Uh, in the second way, you have to look to the Missouri Constitution article six and
it spells out because this was done when the city of St. Louis did not want to be associated
with the townies and the hillbillies out in St. Louis County in 1876.
So they separated.
If you look at what the Constitution says, it says, and I'll make this as brief as possible,
it says that the two have to create a 19 member board that nine people are put on the board
by the city nine are put on by the county one by the governor.
They have to vote on and create this panel would have to create the plan over a period
of years to consolidate government, police departments, public utilities, so forth.
And then once that plan is developed, it would have to be voted on by both the city and
the county and the city and county would have to approve it by a majority.
Okay.
So in your evaluation and looking into all of this, make sense, not make sense.
I mean, you know, when we look around the country, similar size cities to to to St. Louis,
either, you know, on the smaller side and certainly on the bigger side, they're only what
three or four other cities of any magnitude that are not a part of the county that they
are attached to.
Mm hmm.
Well, again, you have to look at this, I think, through, uh, number through them through
three different ways.
Okay.
Because the legal number two is the practical number three is the emotional.
Okay.
So if you look at it in the first way by the legal, uh, the city tried to put together, uh,
this 19 members called the board of freeholders, they actually tried to do that in 2019.
The county had theirs, the governor had their had his recommendation, but the mayor recommended
people, but the, but the board of all of them and never could get their act together to
vote on anybody.
Mm hmm.
That was one of the reasons why this whole thing fell apart back in 2019 is because the
city board of all of them couldn't agree on, on their, on their nine member picks.
So from a legal side, if this were to be happening again, the city would have to get their act
together, presumably the county could put members, the governor would, but the city would
have to agree on nine people.
That's a potential problem.
If they don't, the whole thing falls apart.
Number two, the practical.
I don't, I think in any logical, non-emotional way of looking at it, a merger from the city
in a county would make sense because you would be pooling resources.
I mean, a lot of the cops out in the county don't do a lot.
I mean, they're, they're there, but they're not as busy as the ones in the city.
You pool that together, make it all one, one, uh, police department, make it all one municipal
department, uh, that would probably make sense from a distribution of resources.
Number three, the emotional, uh, they're, I will grow hair before this happens.
Okay.
I'm just, I'm just telling you, because of the emotional component here that, that people
in the city, per see, or people in the county perceive and into, into large mayor correctly.
So the city is, is in debt, uh, there, there's a lot of mismanagement.
Well, so is the county.
They can't, and so is the county, but the county, they could cut their budget.
They're not necessarily in debt, but you've got companies that are fleeing the city for
the county.
Yeah.
Uh, and, and so that 1% earnings tax issue is, is, is, is really eliminating itself because
eventually the city's going to go broke.
So, but emotionally, people in the county don't want to care for the city.
They don't want to financially carry the burden that the city has created.
So practically, I just don't see any way this would ever happen because of the emotional
component.
Brad, I'd like to get your opinion on something and I, I feel, uh, I apologize, it's a little
off track, but it does, it does relate into what we're talking about.
So one of the reasons the CM page gave is, you know, why this could be a good idea is St.
Louis County headquarters is having all these issues and they're going to have to move
and maybe they could move downtown.
As I'm looking into this, the estimated cost to update the current St. Louis County
headquarters for fire code compliance and the asbestos issues would cost more than 100
million dollars.
Does that number sound insanely high to anyone else?
Uh, it does sound brand build a brand new building for less than that, can't you?
You can.
And that's why there, there's really nobody talking about trying to revamp the current
St. Louis County headquarters because of that cost.
Uh, I've had a lot of cases, I've dealt with over the years, uh, dealing with asbestos
and, uh, buildings that have asbestos or buildings that aren't up to code, it costs a fortune,
uh, to, to, to go in and revamp existing structures and in this instance, as we all said,
it would either cost the same, I don't know if it would be cheaper, but it either costs
the same or maybe slightly more to get a brand new building without all of the headaches
of having an old building.
So that's why literally no one is discussing rehabbing the existing St. Louis County
headquarters.
Yeah.
I mean, I just, I still don't even know why that number is even out there.
It just seems I'm glad to hear that it's a non starter.
Yeah.
No, no one's talking about that and no, and no one, you know, you, you, you talked about
Donna Barringer, you talked about Sam Page, uh, and people can talk about it, but literally
that better together plan in 2019, that was the first effort, and I think that was completely
funded by Rick Sincfield, but, uh, the, that, real, that plan was really had momentum and
was moving in that direction.
I wouldn't say the necessarily the right direction, but was moving in the direction towards
a merger until the city board of Alderman could not vote on those people, and that's what
collapsed the entire process that, and, uh, it later came out, uh, that, uh, the, the
St. Louis County executive at the time, uh, oh, who's the guy that did, uh, jail time?
His name is Stanger.
Stanger was going to be the, uh, the Han Show Supreme, I don't remember what the title was,
but he was going to be the mayor over the entire St. Louis region, and, uh, a lot of people
didn't like that either.
So for those reasons, it fell apart.
So unless we see number one money, because nothing happens without money, number one money,
number two, a plan, and number three, a big, uh, big personalities on all sides of the
aisle being behind this, unless you see those three things converging on this issue, just
people talking about it, it's just going to be that it's going to be talk without any
necessarily action or momentum.
It's fascinating.
I obviously, the, the, you need those first two things to come together.
You have to have a plan and you have to have money.
So let's say you get those down.
Do you think the right people could sell it?
Now again, I don't really have a side in the yes or no good or bad, do it or don't do it.
Um, I don't live in either place.
I live in St. Charles County, uh, but I know that everybody from the mayor's office to
the county's office to St. Charles County, we have Steve Elman in all the time.
They're always talking about how the way the city goes, the way the region goes.
And we need, uh, it just, there has to be a way that makes more sense than what we do now,
which is you're running a deficit in the county.
The city's obviously flagging in, in, in, in some ways, doing better in other ways.
But like, what makes sense?
Cause, and I obviously, when, since doesn't always win, as you point out, there's the emotional
side of it, but I don't know that I think the emotional side makes a lot of sense.
It's either the numbers and the ideas line up or they don't.
Well, again, I'm just going to contrast with what we learned about better together from 2019.
The reason that the, the better together people chose plan A, and that is just bypass,
the whole, uh, Missouri Constitution article six and go straight with just amending the
Constitution directly. The reason they went with that and, and the inside people talked about
this, I was in a meeting, uh, where I heard it explained just like this, that they did not feel
that St. Louis County would approve it. And so if St. Louis County wouldn't approve it,
then it's going the article six route wouldn't work. And so they chose to just amend the
Constitution directly because people in, in, in Joplin aren't going to care and they're going to
vote for it. So even in 2019, there was an understanding, and I believe that was because of
polling data that they commissioned in 2019 that, uh, that people in the county don't want to feel
like they are funding the saving of the city. And if you look at the last seven years,
do you think that attitude has changed at all? And, and I would expect not. So even if you had
the money and the personalities, I don't believe it would be practically possible to convince voters
in the county that this is a good idea. Interesting. So even if there's evidence that shows that it
will make their services better and there, and, and maybe help them out of their budget deficit,
that emotional side is going to be tough, you say? Well, I don't know that it would. In fact,
no, I don't know. I don't know that even absent that evidence. I mean, you have to have, you know,
line, line up the numbers and show them to us. Right. But I don't even know that the numbers
would, would prove that out. You know, in other words, the, the, the argument, I think, would have
to be not that it's better for you individually. You know, your, your police isn't going to get better
in the county if it merges. The schools wouldn't necessarily be impacted. The fire districts would be
separate as they are now. So really what you're talking about is police and taxes. And I still think
if you merge the city and the county, the county would have to pay more taxes to pay for what's
going on in the city. So the argument would be that if we merge this, we can totally revitalize
the St. Louis area, create a greater heartbeat for the state of Missouri. And that would benefit us
all. And that's kind of subjective because if you've got an old lady in the county saying,
why should my taxes go up to help people down on Broadway? I don't know that that selling
the heartbeat is going to be stronger is going to overcome that, that recalcitrant position to say,
I don't want to pay more in taxes to help people I'm never going to see.
Brad, you're the best. Thanks for jumping on. My pleasure.
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There is a Costco customer who is suing Costco over the tariffs,
because Costco is trying to get their money,
recoup their money from U.S.
customers.
They're one of a bunch of companies, yep.
So this customer is saying,
well, Costco is now poised to be paid twice for the same tariff burden.
I guess they raise their prices in order to cover the tariff.
Everybody did, right?
Well, I mean, most did, yeah.
Right.
But I mean, this customer brings up an interesting point.
It's like, okay, so if you raise the prices on us to cover your costs for the tariff,
and then you're suing the government to get your money back for the tariff,
you're just making a ton of money here.
You're doubling up.
Yeah, and the customer gets nothing.
We get screwed is what we get.
So we'll follow that one.
I got to be honest with you.
I don't know what the legal standing is.
There may be down the road.
We'll have Brad talk about that.
But if that's the way that it plays out now, if it's a company that can demonstrate,
hey, we didn't raise our prices.
We kept them the same.
We ate the difference.
Fine, fine.
You get to keep your tariff refunds all good.
But if you're a company that raised prices to cover tariffs,
and then you get that money back,
you should damn well find a way to give that back to your customers.
Why should you get to double dip?
I love you Costco and I hope you're not doing that.
But no double dip in that.
Cool.
I know you love Costco,
but wheels, it is almost certain that they are.
Of course.
And look, if I owned a business, I'm sure I would do it too.
I mean, that's what happens in the world of business is the cost is passed on to the consumer.
But in a case where you get to recoup a cost,
you should then,
I don't know if be required to, but I don't know why not be required to.
Why shouldn't it be the law that the company can't double dip on something?
We have laws about like price gouging and things along those lines and times
of emergencies. If you, if you raise your prices and get that money that way,
why should you get the double?
Why shouldn't you have to refund it or find a way somehow to give your customers a break?
So Tesla is betting big on a car with no steering wheel wheel.
So it's called the cyber cab.
It's basically like a full self driving software.
It's looking like it's the kind of thing where you will do like a driverless ride
hailing network. So it's not one that you own yet.
The problem with the cyber cab or the thing that's got people pausing a little bit here
is if there would be some sort of issue, there's no manual override and there's nothing
for a passenger to grab onto. I saw a Waymo taxi downtown today and I was all excited.
I'm like, oh, and when I got up next to it, I was excited to see the car driving by itself,
but there was a dude in there driving the car and he looked at me like I was crazy for looking
at me. But I mean, it's good that Waymo has that. They have the option for a human to drive the car
if need be. These these cyber cabs, they they're not going to come with that option.
We should people will nervous about that.
Absolutely have the ability to override the auto mode.
Yes.
When you find yourself below.
Thursday on DGS day back on Monday, Rachel, Andrew, Kevin, all hanging out here did it again.
It's third person thing again. I don't mean to. It's just weird not to say that way.
Let's finish up headlines. Right. I know you got some more that we didn't get to in the last
segment. Yeah, I got a couple more here. The consumer federation of America non-profit is
estimated that people estimating that people in the US are losing $119 billion a year to fraud.
So that is far above the reported 16.6 billion in losses that the FBI reported in 2024.
They say this because only about 14% of scams are reported. So these estimates,
estimates based off of that and investment schemes are the biggest drain out there.
Do you think people, what do you guys think on why people don't report them?
Do they just think nothing's going to happen? So don't bother. That's kind of how I look at it.
Yeah. Maybe. And maybe they're maybe sometimes they feel embarrassed.
Could be. Yeah, I guess if you got taken for quite a bit of money, it could be embarrassing.
But man, I thought I could get it back. I might suffer.
I wonder how often you just don't know. Good point.
That's true. I also wonder and we're all just wildly speculating here. But if you're losing a lot
and then you realize you got scammed, I wonder how many people are like hiding that from their spouse.
And it's like, man, if I report this, then it's going to turn into a whole thing.
I don't know. Probably a lot of these factors and kind of sprinkle out in different percentages.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, Elon Musk. Everybody's favorite person. Well, he's the richest person alive.
He has $582 billion in his, he's just really leading the billionaire pack.
I think the other billionaires might feel kind of bad because they're not nearly as rich as Elon.
Number two is going to be Larry Page. He only has $257 billion.
Slacker. Yeah, I bet he feels like a loser.
Oh, that whole group of people, something else.
The 40th edition of this list of the richest people alive counts 3,428 billionaires worldwide.
That's up by 400 from last year and the most since the ranking began in 1987.
Their combined wealth is $20.1 trillion. Okay. That's up 4 trillion from a year ago.
Oh, you know, at least they're not hurting.
And one more story for you.
Homeland security has restarted global entry. I'm sure you've seen these stories about these
long airport lines. I mean, TSA is really going through it. This is all happening because
there is a partial government shutdown. I kind of don't understand the point of that because
it's like we shut down certain parts of DHS in order to protest ice, but ice is still being
funded. It's just the people who have nothing to do that.
Right. Let's not mess with TSA. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me,
but there was a lot of pushback not funding global entry because people pay a lot of money to
be a part of this program. And then it's like, it's just not available. So they they have restarted
that in the last couple of days. Okay. We just know there's no way to do things simply.
Just the way it is, whether it's any county stuff or it's state stuff or it's national stuff,
we just don't know easy path. That's true. I guess it's because we suck like humans. We just
we're weird. Sometimes we're logical. Sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're cooperative. Sometimes
we're not. Yeah. And whenever you get like large amounts of money involved, it becomes impossible
for people to compromise or come to any sort of resolution. So, you know, it's just sad.
The American people end up suffering. Never the people who are like actually making these decisions.
Yeah. Hey, the billionaires are making money. So that's all that matters. They're doing well. They're
gaining. So no matter what what we get, it's okay. Because those guys are the ones that feed the
swamp. So, as long as they're happy, you ever button there is happy. And the rest of us
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as people, my family. I'm Brian and I'm committed to care.
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