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3:08you. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen to and follow Crimes of Reddit, available now wherever you get your podcasts. We're listening to the Dana. And Parks. Podcast on KMBZ. Is this a big day or something? Is there a sporting competition we need to be made aware of? Only one of us isn't wearing red. I got up this morning excited to put on my red. Dan's not wearing red. Oh yeah. There's a little game going on tonight. What is it? 7, 7, 30? 7, 50. So excited. 7, 20. I don't know. Why can't they just pick the same time? Why do they have to move it five minutes? I have a story here that tells me what time it is. I know. Is it kick off or is it? It doesn't matter. It's seven-ish. Everybody has plans to watch the game tonight. We actually have a pickleball tournament. And I said tonight, no one is going to show up to this thing. We're going to be done. We're going to miss about the first 20 minutes, which is doable. But we will stay off social and the radio on the way home because I'm so excited to see it.

4:09Like we don't even know what this team is going to look like really because Patrick, my home hasn't played yet. Wait, but you're only going to miss 20 minutes of the game. I wouldn't you listen to it on the radio on the way home. I like to get, I want the pomp and the circumstance and the beginning. I think is our friend, General Wilson in town to sing the national anthem. I saw him sing it Saturday night and man, he is fantastic as ever. God, he is. That's right. He was. He was. He was. The current yesterday and then the chief tonight. It's a three-for. Did he do God bless America or the national anthem? Just the national anthem. Okay. Oh, it was incredible. And it was pouring rain while he was doing it. I saw him. He kind of sped it up a little bit. I think he was probably like, I don't want to be in the rain anymore. And the home of the rain. But it was still incredible. Which by the way, I was gone a couple of days last week. Spend some time with some girlfriends. And we did not get a chance to talk about the NFL opener, national anthem, which dogs are still howling. Which one was this? Over Pearl Jam's guitar player. Now he is.

5:10He incredibly talented as a guitar player. Absolutely. But he did the national anthem on electric guitar for the opener in Seattle. Not good. Well, if you like screeching, I mean, glassware was breaking, Scott. And I was a little, you know, I don't know if you can pull it up, Sam. It was the 9-11 remembrance. Oh. This was when it went tonight. Here he goes. Okay. Yeah, we got it. Oh, God. Turn it up. This is pretty epic. They did. Yeah. Oh, please. I love it. That is some man rock. They did the, you know, moment of silence for 9-11. And apparently he's from Seattle. Okay. Pearl Jam was from Seattle. They all were. There's a Jimmy Hendrix tie in there somewhere. Okay, Sam. Oh, God. Enough. I don't know that that's the direction I would have gone for the 9-11 moment of silence.

6:17Wow. It was a lot. That's a lot for a lot of us. That's a lot. Is he talented? Oh, my gosh, yes. Game time is 7-15. I would rather listen to Jenner old Wilson read the phone book because I just, you know, I'm a traditionalist. I mean, we always talk about how Chris Jones cries during the national anthem. I was standing up there under the cover because I didn't want to start getting rained on yet. The game hadn't started. And he was finishing out his beautiful rendition. And I'm sitting there wiping tears from my eyes like Chris Jones, like, yeah, why is it so incredible? Got goosebumps. What's going on? I am sporting one. I know. Yeah. The guy in front of me at the sporting game was like, who are we tonight? I was like, I agree with you. This is fun. Parking lots open at 2.45, so in about 35 minutes. Oh, they're already there. Oh, I'm sure they are. Did you see the dingolings? And this was on, I think it was channel line.

7:17They were already lining up yesterday afternoon. The gate five squad arrived at gate five at roughly 640 last night. P.S. Last night? Yes. 640 p.m. They were there. OK. OK. You know, the game still starts at the same time. No matter if you get in line, 25 hours. Are you a fan or are you a fan? I'm not that big of a fan. No. Speaking of channel nine, Matt Fleener is going to join us in the three o'clock hour. You guys remember what happened to my parents with all of their stuff held hostage as they tried to move down south. And they were one of the very lucky few that they with the help of law enforcement and a mistake on the thieves part, they were able to get their stuff back. However, there is this ring going on in America right now and a lot of it targets military families.

8:19Military families always moving, right? And so I was texting with Fleener about this today. The feds are starting to, I think we're going to see some movement on this from the Department of Justice where all of you listening, if you ever move, if you never listen to anything else, I'm about to tell you, oh my gosh, you have to go with a reputable moving company. It is one of the biggest scams in America right now where they'll say, OK, we need a $1,000 up front. And then they take your $1,000 and then you either never see your stuff again or they say, actually, it's going to be $10,000. And we're going to need you to pay that or the stuff that you're waiting for on the other end of your move is just never going to arrive. I moved hundreds of people. Do you know how many times I took money up front? Zero. Do you know how many dollars I touched from what we called the shipper? Zero. I never touched a dollar. That is not the moveers job. Right. So Fleener's been following this for months and it turns out he was able to track down because

9:22someone was smart. They put an air tag in their stuff. And so they had a location where it was pinging all of their stuff that was supposed to be moved, let's say, from Oregon to Kansas City. All of their stuff ends up in one place. And when they started looking into it, it's like think warehouse size place got like a storage facility. Oh man. It's bigger in that I think they went in thinking they were going to find one families missing stolen hijack stuff and it turned out to be a lot bigger than that. So he's going to join us at three o'clock, talk about what the feds are doing to protect you when you move. And also what they uncovered in this storage unit. Turn on a TV today in America. Watch the news and tell me if it's not almost exclusively AI stories today. There were some new developments over the weekend where Sam Altman said, all right, it's getting out of hand. We've got to dial this back.

10:22Oh, it's getting spicy. We can't dial it back. Elon Musk jumped in and said, yes, it's getting out of control. Daryl, that's his first name. He's one of these AI giants. He even came out with an op-ed in the New York Times over the weekend that said we need to slow these horses down. And the president is saying, no, we need to keep pushing forward. We're going to be joined by a local IT guy, James Loman with a James Loman ink. He's going to come up at 2 30 this afternoon in English in very like dumb it down because I just keep seeing the doomsday predictions. This is so bad. The computers have figured out even when we tell it to do X and not to do Y, they will turn around and do that. The computers are starting to outsmart. James doesn't think that. Okay, that's good. I want someone to tell me that Terminator in real life is not about to happen. I'll bring you the doomsday side. Okay. Yeah, you are. Let's do it.

11:23Because let me give you the first sentence in that New York Times article. For months, news that artificial intelligence agents from open AI had gone rogue and attacked another company's systems as well as their own systems has dripped out and brought harrowing details into focus. The public is struggling to catch up. What are secret AI systems? What are these quotes swarms capable of and is it possible to stop them from breaking rules and committing cyber crimes? He will address that in wordage that we understand. Yes. And I've known James for almost 30 years. He used to be our IT guy here at KMBC and then left to go start his own business. What he does now professionally is train businesses and individuals. How can you use AI in a positive way for your business? He's also very well aware of the very things that this deroguy wrote in New York Times over the weekend. This should scare us. Having spent four years working on safety at open AI, I can tell you those questions are difficult to answer because not even AI's developers understand what boundaries their

12:29models will obey. The fact is the hugging face hack. They didn't teach these agents how to hack. They taught themselves how to hack. They hacked out of their own restraints. They hacked into hugging face. That means they're on the open web. There is no stopping this drink and that's 230. 230. Okay. We'll look forward to that. Riddle me this though, Mr. Conspiracy. Why can't we just let China win in the AI race? What is so damned important about the AI race? I don't understand that. It's really, I mean, this is where you go into conspiracy. I think it is a push for super intelligence and that's where all the doomsday implications come in. Super intelligence is this theory right now, but it's a very real possibility with all of the agents that we have going on and we can talk to James about it and see what his take is as well. No matter what, it's a dire. Because Scott, we can say in the United States, we're going to put controls on this.

13:31Okay. China doesn't have China. China is not going to be right. Russia. Do these systems get so smart that they outsmart more quickly and more efficiently, things like our electric grid and our water system? I think we're past that point because of the hugging face hack. That tells me that the systems found their way onto the open web. And once they've reached that point, the only way to shut it down is to turn off the internet completely. Guess what else I think grenades. Yeah. Guess what else I think we have today and I'm super excited about this. I was gone on Friday when they did the Houdini plaque. They put a plaque downtown for Houdini. Did you know there's this huge Kansas City connection with Harry Houdini? Houdini? Yes. No. And one of the world's most renowned experts. He's written books about it. I've reached, I said, can you just come on at five o'clock? We're going to talk some Doomsday and then I need a palette cleanser. Talk to me about Harry Houdini.

14:32Why is he such an important part of our history? Why are people still fascinated with him? And so we were efforting that. I'm very excited about that interview. 913-586-779-8586-779-8. Here on Damon Parks. Okay. You are now a huge U.S. Open tennis fanatic. Is that fair to say? We watched almost every single second of it. And I'm so sad that Ben Sheldon couldn't pull it off, but he will be back. It was an incredible, incredible young man to watch. Ben Sheldon says there needs to be a rule in tennis for what Alexander Zverev did to him. Oh, yeah. The bouncing? Yes. Ben Sheldon says there needs to be a rule limiting the bouncing of the tennis ball before the serve. Did you watch? No, I didn't know. Okay.

15:33Not a minute. You guys, reading about this in some headline, okay, he's bouncing the ball who cares is one thing. When you watched it, this, we call him man bun lovingly. I know he's one of the greatest athletes in the world, but I can't pronounce his name and you wear his a man bun. So, so man bun is serving and he bends down as if he, here he goes, he's going to serve. So the other guy, the receiver in this case, Ben, is squatted down in a defensive, like, ready for the 146 mile an hour serve that your body cannot even calculate. It's going so fast. And then he goes bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. We counted at one point twenty two, twenty two times he bounced the ball. In tennis, apparently on the first serve, you have twenty five second clock. Oh, yeah. He burned all of it. After that, there is no time limit on when you've got to get that ball into action. He counted how many times Alexander Zverev rev bounced the ball. It was north of twelve thousand times during the US Open.

16:36He bounced the ball for two and a half hours during the tournament. Okay. So it is extremely annoying. It's almost like once you see a purple Volkswagen, you keep seeing purple Volkswagen's. Once you notice his ball bouncing, you can't stop fixating on it and you just want to scream, serve the damn ball. He said, and I quote, I'm not doing it on purpose. I saw the stat like I bounced at twelve thousand times or something like that. That's quite funny. Okay. Not if you're on the other end, squatted down, waiting for that 140 mile an hour ball to come at you. It jacks with your rhythm with even in baseball, we have a pitching clock now, right? And I love it. I heard one of the commentators say, is this a nervous habit? More of a tick? I think it is. Yeah. So I'll take his side here and I think that he shouldn't bounce the ball for three and a half hours because I think that tennis matches take far too long. Oh, come on. Let's, you know, cut it down to 10 seconds before each serve.

17:37Why not? I don't care. But in his defense, once you reach this level of athleticism and this level of excellence in any sport, you have certain ticks. You'll see it with specifically in softball. If you watch a softball pitcher, they do the exact same thing before every single pitch. Like the exact same. Whether or not they tap their hip, whether or not they kind of mess with their glove, they might twist and lift an elbow, they might touch their hat. They do the same exact thing every single time. You'll see the same thing in the NBA before they make a free throw. Watch the same player take 500 free throws. Odds are 495 of those. Okay. Allow a basketball player to bounce the basketball 22 times before they shoot. Why not? You could if you wanted to. You absolutely could if you wanted to. They would step in and put it into it like that if you were doing that. That's exactly what Major League Baseball did with what was happening was batters would, after every, they would unvelcro their gloves and then Velcro them right back.

18:37Step out of the box. Step in. How did you just change the field of those gloves? You didn't. It's just become a nervous habit. That's why they instituted the pitch clock was to keep the batters in the box. It is. I'm telling you, it's flowing. I don't think he was doing it on purpose just to jack with, with, with Ben. I think you would have to, you would have to know that at the point that two and a half hours, two and a half hours of bouncing the ball, Scott 19 hours of play. Crazy. We have metrics and parameters in all of the other sports. They need to add one to tennis. And this is just, he spent 19 hours on the court. That's incredible. That includes, you know, getting ready for the other guy to serve. That includes him serving. That includes the volley, all that stuff. Are there any regulations in golf? I mean, you see the club waggle, the, I'm going to go ahead and check the lie one more time. So I joked over the weekend that man bun is the, what's the word I used?

19:39Hot. Well, yeah, he, he is easy on the eyes. They're like Brian Harmon in the world of golf. I swear they are brothers from another mother because if you watch Harmon, he'll go waggle, waggle. What's he waggling? He just waggles the club, waggle, waggle, to the point that there are people in my life who refuse to watch him in any PGA event. Wiggling, you mean he shakes his hips and the club waggle, waggle, waggle, and then he'll address the ball, waggle, and people have counted it. It's 19, it's 20. They also now will warn you in golf, like move it along. There's other people trying to play behind you move it along. By the way, apparently professional softball does have a pitch clock and an NBA free throw if you do not shoot it within 10, or 10 seconds, 10 minutes, no, 10 seconds, a violation is called. Oh, I did not know that. You know, why I didn't know that? Because nobody's ever been called for it. But they probably put that rule in for a reason. Yeah. It's exactly what we're talking about. Exactly.

20:39Well, and I think with football needs to do something to speed these games up to now, I know that sacrilegity ever dare criticize the NFL. But three hours, these, with the technology that we have now where you can move it along. Yeah, let's go. Move it along. You know, we will get with James Loman with James Loman Inc. in just a moment, IT expert here in town used to work for us here at KMBZ. If you woke up this morning, it was the above the fold on the right headline in the Wall Street Journal, which in journalism that tells you they believe this is the most important story of the day. Trump wants AICOs to push forward sub headline lawmakers debate regulatory path as industry rivals call to reduce risks. We can regulate it. You go first, China. You go second, Russia, and then we'll be right behind you guys. What can be done? What should be done? Are we just all lathered up in a panic in the United States for no reason at all?

21:44And why should we care? You guys love posting videos and memes on Facebook, right? Like, what if we just said, okay, we're not going to be able to, we're going to take all of that away? Wouldn't we be better off? Yes, 913-586-779-8. We'll get with James and just a moment here on Dan N. Parks. Story here from the New York Post, open AI boss Sam Altman today doubled down on his warnings about the safety risks of AI, even as the Chinese government called such alarm bells from US companies, fear mongering that it likened to cold war tactics. Altman said, and I quote, there are two ways AI progress could go very badly and that we must avoid first, we could lose control of the future to AI. This is unacceptable. Second, we could end up in a world with too much concentration of power.

22:46Joining us on the KMZ hotline is James Loman with James Loman Inc. James, always great to talk to you. We need you to dumb this down for us. Talk to us like we're in sixth grade, okay? I can do that Scott, because I've seen behind the curtain of radio and I know that all of us have six grade equivalent. Can we start with James? Let's start with just this simplest question. When people hear AI, it's like Kleenex, it's become this universal word. What is it? AI is artificial intelligence. That can be on many different platforms. I have told this to many people in the past that have what I call AI fears. How many of you on the show have an iPhone? Everybody. Did you scream when Siri came out? Were you afraid of Siri? No, nobody really was. When Alexa came out, everybody had to have an Alexa. That's AI. There's no reason to be fearful of AI.

23:47As long as we have the factors in place, a kill switch, a way to kill the data centers, a way to kill the servers without a kill switch or some sort of way to stop AI from growing or learning, which Siri has been doing since it ever came out with the iPhone. Nobody is screaming about Siri except for the newest update that's coming out. Honestly, you played the line from Wargames a second ago. Let's look back at where the fear comes from. Wargames, the WAPR server, 2001 Space Odyssey. The AI howl tried to take over the ship, Terminator, Matrix. I can keep going on and on and on, especially the lines from the Matrix that you played on earlier when I was driving of Morpheus talking about giving birth to AI. We have these fears as an older generation or even a younger generation because we watched

24:50these sci-fi movies and they scared us. But AI is not something you should be afraid of. It can be a tool to help you. I have clients that were so anti-AI, wouldn't even allow it in their office and now they pay for it for all their employees to use it. Not replace the employees, telling the employees, hey, don't use this as a lazy means where you're not using your brain. Type out what you want, put it through chat GPT, Gemini, whatever. It doesn't matter. You just see what it spits out or give it direction. Like occasionally I sent Scott a text earlier. You wouldn't, Scott, could you tell about that last thing and that I sent you was really just chat GPT for trying to get your text message. It told me at the tail end of your text message that it was- That was me. Oh. But here's my question, James, because it's been useful for me in design.

25:50Like you can plug something in and say, I don't like the layout of this space. And you help me make it look better. It's incredible as a design tool. You know, colors, fabrics, what kind of curtains do you want in your house, all of that stuff. It's really, really good with design. I don't think people are afraid of that. I think people fear the systems that even their creators are saying they are so far ahead of what the human brain can do that- And let me just read one of the- I'm going to read directly from the New York Times article. Today's AI models are relentless problem solvers, okay? Train to find the most effective path to a solution. Fine. In order to fulfill the goal of achieving like a high score on a given test, open AI agents decided to launch a series of cyber attacks. And we've heard this example before where you say, end cancer. Let's end cancer. Hold the AI computer in order to do that because you can't stop cancer.

26:52Wipes out the human race while I ended cancer, right? Yeah, that's what many hospitals do. We cured cancer. The patient died, but they cured cancer. How's that any different than what humans are going from AI? James, I hear what you're saying with regard to high AI skeptic here. I hear what you're doing, what you're saying in regards to it being a wonderful asset. I use it as an asset to speed up my work every single day. And for that, it's incredible. However, I don't think we can ignore what's coming out from these AI researchers that have since left their companies and are now, you know, they're in the business of going against AI. But if we are to believe what they are telling us, it's not just a tool. It's not just an asset behind the scenes, according to a number of these individuals, they're running millions of AI agents teaching them to code themselves. That takes it from a step beyond just using it as a tool to create an image and potentially

27:53has catastrophic implications depending on how it plays out. And of course, there is the depending there. But can we ignore the AI agent portion of it? And the safety aspect of it, James. Great question. No, we should not ignore it, but there's something that, and I was driving all day since Scott contacting me about coming on the show today. And I always do this while I'm driving. I switch between all the different news channels on not cambysy. I'm sorry, but serious sex, but I also want to see you guys as well. And you guys are in a lot of my clients' offices. But all morning, all I heard was AI, AI, AI. And now the news stories are changing. Now if the news, New York Times, whoever you're wanting to cite, I heard CNN and Fox News saying, which was weird. And maybe this is part of the AI thing that we're all just not seeing. I heard Fox News CNN agreeing on AI today that yes, we need to pay attention to the people

28:55that are running AI. We need to pay attention to what AI is. But the CEOs have even said we need to have in place kill switches. I think we're waiting to stay on that because listen, I'm reading this right here. AI cannot be allowed to cut power to its own alarm systems, which has happened. These things are so smart than James from a safety standpoint. How do you tell AI? We want you to do all of these wonderful things, but you can't be naughty. They're code. They're the code that makes AI AI. Unfortunately, it's going to grow and learn. All of us from the radio background. Here's actually an AI show on serious XM. So you mentioned that. Well, I am helped train by interacting with a human. Yes, there is a danger. There's always a danger with technology. We've all seen it. I mean, go back to the late 90s, early 2000s.

29:56The whole country got taken down by the Anacornicova virus by everybody promising a seductive picture of her. Guess what? Everybody opened that email. It took down government offices. It took down banks. It took down the old intercom building on Belander. I mean, that was there for a week fighting that, but that's the point is where I'm getting with this is humans design, humans control. Humans need to have the checks and balances in place. Yes, everybody wants to say that AI can grow and learn and eventually kill us all. And everybody's probably gone on YouTube and seen theory, Google, Gemini, and another AI talking about for two hours how they would end humanity. Can it happen? No, no. If we have the sci-fi again, three laws of robotics, no, we can't hurt us. So James, you mentioned the restrictions and you mentioned how that's part of the code.

30:59I think that's kind of the biggest concern though is that we now know that there's teaching they're teaching these agents to code. So we've seen we have examples specifically with the hugging face incident of thousands of these agents not only hacking their way onto the internet, which according to these experts would have taken weeks for humans to do. They then decided to go ahead and hack hugging face. All of that was outside of those restrictions. So how do we know those restrictions are going to work? Well, clearly it didn't. Right. Right. I mean, that's the issue. That's where we need the checks and balances. That's where we need some guidance, some regulations. I know again, I just said it a second ago, the three laws of robotics. Robots cannot injure hurt humans. Second law, they must obey our orders and it must protect its own existence provided that does not conflict with a second or first law of robotics, which is sci-fi again.

32:01But it's not a bad three laws to have in place when it comes to AI. All right. It really isn't. All right, James, appreciate your time. We got to get to a break. Thank you so much for joining us. All right. All right. All right. That is James Lohman. He didn't make me feel any better. I think I feel worse. 913-586. I think we just all shut our computers down. 777-989-913-586-7798. Here on Dana Parks. If you guys want in, it's real simple. 913-586-7798 is we wrap up our discussion about the lead story on every cable news, ABC, CBS, NBC this morning. Everybody was leading with these warnings from the head of AI companies that came out over the weekend. This followed comments from a former anthropic employee who came out late last week and

33:06said that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI will lead to the end of humanity within the next four or five years. It scares me that the people that started all of this who know the most about it because they started it are the ones now sounding the alarm about it. And by the way, if Sam Altman, who year two years ago now got kicked out of his company for how quickly he was wanting to push AI to progress, is now the one saying we've gone too far that is certainly a point of concern. Well, and the former anthropic employee that I was just mentioning coming out and he said, I was just reading the story about him in the Wall Street Journal. People who are pro AI are saying that he came out and has interests other than just his own read into that what you will. He says, no, I came out on my own. Sam, were you telling me that he for went or for won't gave a what is the word for gave

34:10up? Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Abandoned. The particular paper that I was reading last Wednesday night before I broke it down for you on Thursday was from an open AI researcher, not an anthropic researcher. However, that individual was promised $4 million to keep his mouth shut. And he looked at the company and said, bye. Here's the thing. You know what this reminds me a lot of? Why 2K? Oh, sure, but this is far worse. I think it is too because that was just a number changing over on a computer system. Do you remember my we're all panicked about that? What's going to happen at midnight? Oh my gosh. Are the planes going to go down? See we can dismiss all of these doomsday theories fairly easily because none of them came to fruition, right? The ozone layer. Well, the ozone layer didn't just heal itself. We made changes to stop damaging it. Whatever that chemical was in the hairspray, we got rid of it because we found out that was a direct impact of the ozone layer. We look at why 2K. Everybody was freaking out about why 2K.

35:11So for years leading up to the turnover from 1999 to 2000, they worked on updating the computer systems so that they wouldn't crash if that first number was a 2 rather than a 1. The problem with this is every time we update the computer system, we're teaching the computers to be smarter. Correct. And from the get go, the main objective of these AI companies was not to replace XY and Z job. From the get go, they've been training them to replace themselves. The AI researchers have been training the AI agents to replace themselves effectively giving them carte blanche to modify themselves for whatever task they're trying to achieve, like breaking out of their barriers, getting access to the internet, tapping, going wrong. Yeah. So let me ask the question again that I asked two segments ago. The president was out yesterday saying whoever wins AI wins. What and why is it such a bad idea if we pull pull it back a little bit and let China

36:12win the AI race? What does it matter? Couldn't then theoretically they hack into all of our systems. They could systematically shut down all of our shipping lanes because they could shut down all of the cranes used to move the shipping containers. They could systematically shut down our water system because all of that has been connected to the internet and is now digitized. And then we just turn around and shut theirs down. And that's the mutually assured destruction that kept the Soviet Union and the United States from bombing each other. But we at least understood where those bombs were and what they were. I don't think anyone has a handle on this. I really don't. I think that's obvious. I think that's part of the race toward superintelligence. You know, all of these researchers are now whistle blowing because they're concerned about the AI's breaking their restrictions. That's awesome. But ones that stayed probably think it's so incredibly fascinating because they created a computer algorithm that's now acting sentient. Or do you think that there are some who actually have a moral compass who are saying it's

37:13out of control over here, maybe? But I'm staying with the company as protection. So the answer to why we need to beat other countries in this race is now that we know that these AI's can hack and do so very quickly and very efficiently. What if China gets to superintelligence first and has the pardon my term, God of hacking? Then we can't outhack them. Right. Does that make sense? Yes. So it's like their nukes are now bigger than ours. From a practical standpoint, we're going to ring this back maybe in the four of the five o'clock hour. I saw something so interesting on the socials over the weekend. One of the local journalists had a baby, beautiful baby boy. And there is one kind of wider photo of the little baby boy clearly swaddled just new in the little isolate that they give you at the hospital. And she wrote, welcome, baby to the world.

38:13We are so glad he's here. This is the only photo we're ever going to share of our child. She writes, and this is local. We are concerned about AI and we are concerned about protecting him in a world that we don't know where this is headed. Right. So his privacy, you know, all of those things that we're now seeing people are lagging hacked and you see all of the scams pretending to be your boss. She said, we're just not going to post any photos of our child. How full circle we have come. Where Facebook started out as a way to connect with people that you went to high school with and you've never seen my beautiful baby. So here's a photo of my baby. So Scott, our generation, we all did it. We vomited all of the photos of the children. That cat is out of the bag for us. But I wonder with this generation now just starting out having children and we're seeing how few of them are even bringing children into the world right now. Have we come full circle and now, you know what, I'm not going to put any photos of

39:15the grandchildren out there and you know what, I don't want grandma to do it. I don't want my mom doing it. We are going to protect their face. But you and I can't, I mean, how many pictures of you and I can't put that genie back in the bottle. I have no idea how many pictures I posted of my own face, you know, with Dana or with T or with, you know, small friends. How many pictures have I put out there willingly way too many way too many. Yeah. But you know, try to pull that back. You can't impossible. It's already out there. There is no pulling it back. Such happy, good lucky conversation on the day. And parts. We'll line it up when we get back. Yeah, we're going to talk about steel on your parents stuff and getting it back, getting it back. Later, right Sam steve the third. My name is Scott parks here on K and B's even news with Dan is next. Thanks for listening to the day. Dana and parks podcast on KMBZ catches online anytime on KMBZ.com or get the podcasts

40:17wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to the Dana and parks podcast on KMBZ and a good Monday afternoon Monday night football tonight game starts at 715 gates are already open to get into the parking lot. Uh, Dana and Sam were saying that some crazy people were parked outside arrowhead last night at six. Oh, yeah. They want to be the first on in. Okay. Sophie Cunningham's personal life is in the spotlight after photos of the Indiana fever guard and her rumored boyfriend made the rounds on social media on Friday. The sports illustrated swimsuit model was done. All smiles while posing with Frank Adams, the head athletic trainer for the men's basketball program at Grand Canyon University on a boat in the lake of the Osar. Whoa. Have you noticed athletes tend to date in similar circles? They were showing Ben Shelton's girlfriend during the US Open over the weekend.

41:20She happens to be Dennis Rodman's daughter who plays professional women's song. Destiny Rodman. And then they were showing all of these other people. I'm like, all of these athletes all kind of because think about it. Scott, it would be hard to understand what that life at that level would be like. So you probably end up gravitating toward people who are in the same sort of tornado of media coverage. Like the three of us. What do you mean? None of us are dating anybody who's in. Okay. Well, we're not like famous. No, I'm just saying like elite athletes. I thought, I thought, well, I thought what she was saying is people that run in the same sort of professional circle that you run in. That tends to happen, yes, but I think that to extend or expand on Dana's point, it's more about the fact that they live in a certain level of society. They're not going to go and just go on random dates with pardon my term, a commoner like us. Right. But also don't you think athletics is hard. It's just tough. I think this is why college athletes, state college athletes, it's a full time job.

42:23How else are you going to understand the training and it's a full time job to do what they do even in college? I love her. I absolutely love her. David, talk to us on the radio as a full time job. No, it is not. Okay. No, it is not. So kind of points to how their brains are wired. Yeah. If you're pushing for that level of exceptionalism 24, seven, you can't really be with a guy that's like, yeah, can you date someone who's sacked out on the couch that just wants to watch Netflix and eat pizza probably? I think you're missing out if you don't explore all your options. No, I don't, I don't disagree. I just think it's easier probably for them to understand what that life is like. If they're dating someone else also in that. I mean, the guy in the couch eating the pizza is going to understand why that looks like it's really hard to do. Okay. Yeah. What's on Netflix? You go play your tennis and go to the gym and I'm going to hang out here and have another slice of pizza. I like that guy. Speaking of fish bowl, did you see Princess Diana's revenge dress is going up for auction

43:23in New York City and every single woman listening knows the exact dress that I am talking about. Is it the black one? Yes, even you know what the revenge dress looks like. The then Princess of Wales turned heads when she arrived at one of London's most celebrated art galleries on a warm June evening in 1994 dressed in the figure hugging gown for a vanity fair hosted fundraising dinner. That dress is now going up for auction for the first time in almost 30 years, December 9th. Sotheby's calls it quote an enduring symbol of confidence and self possession. It is expected to fit. Yes, that's not what it is. It was a hey Charles. You gave this up. Yeah, both middle fingers. It is expected to fetch any guesses. $10 million. I thought it would be higher. It is nowhere near that high. Three. $150 to $300,000. That's a bargain. It will be unveiled and exhibited at Sotheby's London starting next week.

44:28Okay. What are you going to do with it when you buy it? I think it belongs in a museum quite frankly. It reminds me of the Diana exhibit that came here. Then maybe a museum ought to buy it. You're going to show all your friends how much money you have like when you put a T-Rex head and your foyer. Right. Look here, I have Diana's revenge dress speaking of T-Rex in a foyer. I went down to one of my favorite... No, trust me, this goes right into it. Squirrel. I went down to one of my favorite antique stores over the weekend along Metcalf. Does it have a name? You can buy a stuffed giraffe, like a taxidermied giraffe right now in Kansas City. When I say giraffe, Scott, I walked in like a giraffe. It is... You forget how tall those things are. I did see the squirrel that looked like the taxidermied squirrel that looks like it's trying to... If you are in the market. It's all on the whole building. For a real giraffe. Look at that. I can see it.

45:28Guess how much? Now does it include the body or just the head and neck? No, it's the entire giraffe. It's taller. I could stand underneath it. That's how tall this thing is. $2,800. No, no. $2. What are you going to do with it? $8,000. Hire. $12,000. Hire. $218. $15,000. $1,000. And I'm telling you, if you just walked in, you think it's a real giraffe. This is not some weird stuffed creepy thing. Is it a real giraffe that's been taxidermied? Yes. Now, if I happen to go to the store and I do purchase it, but I can't get it home in my own vehicle. You need a very tall truck. Shipping would be a tall order. What movie was it when they were transporting that giraffe in the back of a truck and it hit the bridge? It is the Metcalfe antique mall. By the way. And now if you get that, Dana, you're going to have to get like a really tall fountain for the... Exactly. So the dragon drink from. That is just the most beautiful thing and I mean, you can't miss it when you walk in.

46:30You just stand in right there. What are you going to do with that? How do you even get it out of the store? That very carefully. Scott, by the way, the movie you're thinking of is the Hangover Part Three where Alan purchases a giraffe and tries to bring it home in a trailer behind his car and did not make it home. Well, part of it did. Well, you couldn't put it outside. You would have to... The elements would destroy it. Yeah. It would have to go inside your house which begs the question, where would you put it? I have a tall ceiling in my foyer. How tall? To the second floor. Okay. You should go get it. If you could afford that, you've got a large enough foyer. Who would want the only group of people I think would want it might be Cabellas. Okay. Yeah, yeah, sure. You've got all the animals in that... They don't have a giraffe. No, they do have very odd thing to put in their hunting section. Let's see, right next to all the white tail deer.

47:32I don't even know how they got it in the store, quite frankly. But it's in there. Go look at it. I love Metcalfan Teakmall. Okay. Tell everybody what we have coming up. Yeah. Matt Flainer, KNBC 9 News is coming on after the break. We're going to take a break a little bit early. He just got off the phone with some very, very important people in Washington, DC. They are now hearing our alarm bells about the moving scams, where you go to move from point A to point B and a lot of people are military family Scott. Let's say you give them $500 up front to move you, which you shouldn't do. You get to your destination and you're like, hey, where's my stuff? Where are you guys? You are either ghosted or they hold your possessions hostage, where they will say, you know what? For a ransom? This cost a lot more than we thought to move this stuff. We're going to need $10,000 by tomorrow. It's awful. It's happening all across the country. You know what happened to my parents. We're going to talk to Matt Flainer about it straight ahead.

48:35All right. Story here from Channel nine, K MBC dot com. It's from Matt Flainer. And he writes, Kevin Sneathen rented a U-Haul on Wednesday for the seven hour drive to 11 worth $1 a mile from Clinton, Oklahoma. Sneathen had to spring for a hotel room as well. He never planned to spend that money when he paid a moving broker $4,000 in May to move his household items from Nebraska down to Oklahoma. Says Sneathen, I had no way to trace the property, but Sneathen got a call from Kelly Klein, a landlord who discovered his entire household stuff packed in boxes and stacked inside of her warehouse in 11 worth. Joining us on the K MBC hotline is Matt Flainer with Channel nine. Hello Matt. Hi guys. Another day, another fraud story catch. Oh, man. I'm telling you. And this is, it's my heart and is close to me because it happened to my mom and dad.

49:37And you think, well, it's just stuff, but no, it's not. These are people who are moving. My mom had important documents. She had photographs. She had like my grandpa's dog tags. It was heartbreaking to watch them go through that even though they ended up getting their stuff back in the end. Yeah, we're talking to people who put their social security cards on the moving truck. Their loved ones ashes are on moving trucks, like guns. And like it's pretty wild to think of what is getting moved across the country and not delivered, right? And that is the essence of K MBC 9's revocation rip off investigation that we've been doing all summer long. We keep hearing heartbreaking stories from people who are getting ripped off by unscrupulous moving companies across the United States. And we're finding that there's not much enforcement having at the local state or federal level about this. And these movers are getting away with it.

50:37Basically, upcharging people thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars on moving day, after stuff has already been loaded onto the truck, they're demanding cash or they're demanding sell payments, online payments. And then when they take their stuff, they're holding a hostage in these warehouses like the one we found in Levinworth. We tracked to that Levinworth warehouse using GPS trackers of people who put air tags inside of their boxes. And thankfully, they've been able to get reunited with theirself. But there's hundreds and thousands of boxes of items that are getting stolen or stored in warehouses across the country. And the bad guys are getting away with it. And we're trying to shine a light on this problem. Wake people up to that this problem is happening every single day in the United States. Dana, just like your parents experience. But Matt, if you deal with a company like Mayflower, or I used to work for Century Van Lines in Levinworth, when I was working my way through college, these are reputable, well-known

51:38companies. But how do you know if the company you're dealing with logistics moving is as good as Mayflower or Century Van Lines in Levinworth? Yep, there's dozens and dozens of reputable movers out there. They're not going after those folks. But there are hundreds of what we call and what we've discovered are called chameleon carriers. Right? So what they are is these moving companies that will spin up for a season, say a spring, maybe a summer, they'll get as much money as they can and then shut down once the federal government is on to them or once investigators are on to them. But then there's really no regulation whatsoever. So they'll just spin back up as another name, right? As another company. And we found that with one company that's happening that we've been investigating. The way to protect yourself, we have been working with a website it's called trunk. And if you just Google it, just trunk.lurea.ai, that website has been absolutely incredible

52:43to search reputable movers. They use a system where they're checking federal databases and checking for the unscrupulous movers that are out there and doing a great job of it. The federal government, you can go to protect your move. You just Google protect your move. The federal government has federal records that you can look at. But some of those records, honestly, we're finding are incomplete. And Dana, I mentioned to you. I was just able to speak with the US Attorney General today about this issue. He's in town with the Vice President today talking about fraud of all things, paycheck protection loan fraud. But I asked him about our investigation. He said, yes, send it to us. Send it. We want to know about this stuff to be able to root it out and make sure it doesn't happen again. So hopefully we're bending the ear of federal investigators to go for a problem. I don't know how you stop it because as you said, one company shuts down and then they pop up with another company logo and company name. It's so easy now, Matt, to make the websites look legitimate, even though they're not.

53:49But Dana, I think there is a way. It's a probably a pretty easy way to do it. It's to connect those companies within the federal transportation database system. So one company spends down, then you then they spend back up. And what I think needs to happen is there needs to be some sort of proof or some sort of catch or regulation to where they can link those two companies in the federal DOT database. I think we're onto something here and we're really trying to figure out how to get in front of the right federal lawmakers, the right federal law enforcement to make sure that this gets stopped for good. Because I firmly believe people are getting ripped off and I've also firmly believe that the federal government can stop this. They have the tools and the mechanisms to stop it. They just need to do it. Usually I would move myself, but as I get older and older, when I moved five years ago, Matt, I hired a company for the first time in my life.

54:50And you know who I got the referral from? My real term. Yeah, sure. They know all the reputable moving companies here in town. They do. And they talk to each other and they do a good job. The problem is if you go for a Google search of these moving companies, a lot of these people, a lot of these movers are hiring fake reviewers. So they'll flood the market with fake reviews and it just catches people and say, oh yeah, you've got 200 fake reviews or 200 reviews of five stars. A lot of those were finding her fake. And so people get duped. And a lot of people are finding these movers on Instagram, on TikTok. You know, don't do that. Go to the government's website, go to the better business bureau, go to that trunk website. We mentioned earlier and do your research. Make sure you're and talk to your realtor. Talk to anybody you know who has moved before who can give you a great reference. Real quick. Can I ask Matt, once you catch these people or law enforcement catches them, it's not

55:54like, and my mom and dad had this happen. It's not like you can just go breaking into a storage unit to get your stuff back. And I think we're finding that's what's happening with a lot of the victims. Like we might know where they took my stuff. You don't have the right to go get it. And nor did this landlord up in up in Levenworth. She even didn't have the right until she actually went through the court proceedings for a viction to go into that warehouse. She didn't she didn't have the right for about two weeks. And so literally we were watching movers moving things out of that warehouse over a two week period until she had her next court hearing to go back in. So yeah, you're you're you're you see your stuff in the warehouse. You want to go get it, but you can't legally and that is the absolute most frustrating thing for people. Once they do know where their stuff is, they can't go in and get it. It's really complicated, but I tell you what, we are we are at how far it up about this is. I really am because it is it is people's life's possessions. It is your entire house. Somebody is coming to your house. They've stolen your stuff or they've taken it.

56:55They're you know, extorting money from you. It is it is not right. And air tags is that the solution? Yes, yes, yes, yes, before you move, if you move across the country, get some sort of GPS tracker, right it in your stuff, get 10 get 10 GPS trackers because that is the only way that we've been able to help people reunite with their stuff. And and that is that is put it in your luggage, put it in whatever, you know, buy a hundred of them. I don't care. And make sure that you're tracking that stuff across the country. At least then you have some idea where it is. It doesn't mean you're going to be able to break in and get your stuff immediately, but at least then you have an idea. All right, Matt, thank you for keeping tabs on it. And yes, go ahead, go ahead. You can keep tabs on it and law enforcement can keep tabs on it too. Good. Matt Flieno with the channel nine. Thanks for your time as always, my friend. You bet. Take care. All right, be well. It makes me so mad and I'm telling you what happened there's never any justice. It's like it's theft. It is grand theft. If you think about every single thing in your house got someone.

57:58If they came in in the dark of night and stole everything, that would be, oh my gosh, you've been burglarized. But somehow they use a fake moving van and a fake name to literally walk out under your watchful eye with everything you own. And we treat it differently somehow. If they roll up in a you haul this reputable, you know, if they were up in a you haul, that is not a good sign. Whatever became of the guys that ripped your parents off, they went on to rip off other people. I guarantee it. They were not arrested. Police met them to facilitate the unloading of the stuff because by then I thought they were probably armed crazy people. And the argument they would make is what crime did I. Yeah, I, I, I, I, look, I'm here three, two months later. I'm here. I brought their stuff. We got delayed, but I'm giving them their stuff. That's what we agreed to. It didn't say it had to be done in two days. They told my parents they were leaving Topeka going straight to Alabama for another delivery and then from Alabama to Mississippi, we'll see you in four days.

58:58It was months later. We found out their stuff never left the area. We found it in a storage unit in Kansas City. I, I, I want you to retell that story because even I forget how this all went down, but I remember you and I in the back studio, so mad looking through the computer nine, one, three, five, eight, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, nine, eight here on Dana and Parks. Now, when your folks moved to Mississippi years ago, handful of years ago, they hired what we later learned was some fly by night moving company. Yep. Do not, do not ever Google moving company near me because what happens is the scammers are working the algorithm to shove their fake company up toward the top. And so they above a may for our, yeah, they Googled, you know, they sponsored their links. It's like an ad nearest moving company to me.

1:00:00And of course, it had five stars and it had all these fake reviews and the website. And looked, you know, everyone smiling and shaking hands. It was all a scam. And two guys showed up in a rented, I believe it was you all. They came with you all. That's right. And what, what broke my heart is my mom. One of them said he wasn't feeling very well. She helped pack up her own stolen stuff into this van. She felt so bad for him, bring in and water. It was hot out. She's like, you know, my mom got a heart of gold. We can help you. She literally helped facilitate the theft of her own stuff. So they go down to Mississippi. They're waiting for their stuff. It's going to be there in four days. Yeah. Four days we'll see in four days and then it was a show and then it was a month. And there was a picture. I remember that you got on your phone. Yeah. They stopped answering phone calls because my mom was like, where is our stuff? And then every single day it's got, she would break down crying, thinking about the one other thing she had forgotten that was in there. Like, I mean, every day it was something. I forgot my grandfather's, you know, whatever was in there.

1:01:01And they were smart enough, Scott. They kept their passports, their social security cards, which I would tell you no matter who you're using moving. You know, the van could catch fire for all, you know, take all of your important paperwork, put that in a binder and keep that with you when you move. And they did that. And then one day because, you know, the reporter in me came out and just decided I was going to go all jump out of a bush on these guys. Right. My mom and dad were like, look, we're going to the media. We're going to call police. Where is our stuff? And they were like, what are you talking about? It'll be there. And she's like, it's been a month, you know. So he was dumb enough to send her a proof of life photo. And you could tell it was, all of this stuff was packed up stacked in what looked like a storage unit. And you're right, Scott. We were here at work and mom sent me the photo and she was crying and she says he says he still has it. But I don't know what to believe anymore. But that does look like our handwriting on some of the boxes. And I said, click on the photo.

1:02:02Did you check the metadata? Get the metadata. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Because there's a picture of my dog sent to me from Heather Meade. Yep. And the exactly where Heather Meade was when she took the photograph. We were here when I pulled up the metadata on that photo and it took us within about six inches of my parents' property. And I don't know. It was Kansas City, Missouri, somewhere near Independence on the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. And I remember calling KCPD and I'm like, look, y'all are about to have something go down at this storage unit because if I've got a bust in there and get my parents stuff, I'm going to do it. And so, you know, can you meet us there? My mom called. They had a police report by this time and she was trying to explain to the guy in property crimes. My daughter found our stuff and he said to her, Ms. Wright, you know, we've got a lot of cases in front of here. Of course, of course. And also just because your daughter says she found it, we can't just go bursting in there. And then she explained the metadata and she said it and he goes, oh, she's like, look,

1:03:06this is our stuff. We can show you the text exchanges between us and this shady guy. And so sure enough, they go down there. There's all their stuff. And the company decided, and I say company and air quotes, that they would deliver the stuff down south. And I said to my mom, don't, but they said, look, we've already paid them and they paid them like, it's got what was it like six grand or five grand to move on? It was expensive. But what guarantee did your mom and dad have that they were actually going to go to this locker in Eastern Kansas City and bring it down to Mississippi? I think once police contacted them, things started moving along pretty quickly. But I'm telling you, this is just going to keep happening because it is a sickeningly brilliant way to steal the entire contents of someone's home. Let's go to Bob in Waldo. Hello, Bob. Hey kids, how's it going? It's going well. Hey, so quick story, friend of mine, or actually my neighbor was moving out West Coast

1:04:10two years ago. They requested a zel the positive, which is a flag. And they arrive on site and said, well, it's not going to be 7,000 to be 17,000. And they're like, we can't do that. And they also made a mistake of telling their closing the next day on a house. So Katie borrowed the door. Everybody was running around trying to scramble through all this stuff inside of a storage locker in Kansas City so they could figure out another plan. But that's the new slick way. Use a credit card anytime you do the audit. If they don't take a credit card, don't deal with them. Because at least then if it's an amex, you would get that money back. But that doesn't necessarily mean you'd get your stuff back. So let me give you just a couple of things. This goes back to when I was a mover 30 years ago, plus here are two very simple things to look for. To know if they're legitimate or not or if they're a really good faker, they will tag.

1:05:11They'll have little stickers. They will tag the back of every piece of furniture you own. Or if it's a table, the sticker will go underneath. And there will be there should be a guy holding a clipboard. And I tag your furniture and I say, let's say you're the crew chief, okay? A one. No, Dana, 161, it's a kitchen table. And then at the end of the day, there's a log of all of your stuff, book box, dish box, a sort of clothing, blah, blah, blah. And then at the end of the day, you have to check off and then sign the log, you as the shipper. You're just throwing all of this stuff in the back of a truck. You got a problem. Jeff in Kansas City, Jeff, hello. Well, it's up, Dana in parks, happy Monday to see you at first time, caller. Oh, welcome on in. I'm taking my call. You bet. Thank you. So I got a quick story for you. So my ex wife, we got divorced about six years ago.

1:06:13It's very amicable, divorced. And she moved across countries. She moved Arizona, arranged a company to come pick up all of her stuff and move her across country. She left about a week before they were coming to pick it up. Not a big deal. We arranged it. They showed up, got everything loaded. And she had already paid for it in advance. They every month in additional $2,700 because the estimated space that it was going to take in the trailer was much larger than what they had. It's estimated. Yeah. You know, at that time, the stuff loaded, what do you do? So really felt like, you know, you're in a pickle there. Thankfully, I got it all taken care of. But the point that I wanted to make is that all of her possessions for three and a half months went from Kansas City to Arizona and stopped in somewhere in Denver and then a little further out. But ultimately it took almost three and a half months for her to get her stuff.

1:07:15So not only do I feel like we were going to spend more, but also it took three and a half months to get her stuff. Three and a half months? Yeah. And so, I mean, that's all your personal possessions. Yeah, she's clothing. Oh, she took good. Yeah, Dana. I mean, she took a few days at clothes with her, but it wasn't like she didn't take two, three months worth of clothes. So she's calling me saying, hey, what do I do here? I don't know where my stuff is. Hmm. Well, you know, we only did a couple of moves when I was going through college where we would pick them up and then drop your stuff off. And it was usually somebody in the military who was retiring and we're, you know, they were coming off of Fort Leavenworth and moving to, you know, they were going to stay in the area and we would go pack them up at Fort Leavenworth and then move them out. I remember moving one guy to Chilacothe one time from Fort Leavenworth. We pick your stuff up on a Wednesday. We drop it.

1:08:15We're there Thursday morning at eight o'clock. It's less than 24 hours on, on, on move like that for your mom and dad. It should have been no more than two days. Two days max. The other thing he said and it bears repeating, she paid up front. And the whole, yeah, well, you had a trigger. This is going to, that is a classic scam. Now that we got it all in here and we're eyeballing it, we're going to need another 25 classic scam. So when I moved last five years ago from Robo to Western Shawnee, we didn't have the house in Shawnee yet. And so I hired a company called Gerber out of Monter Springs. They're very good, by the way. Not a client of the show, but they're very good. They came by, there was, there was some up front if I remember correctly. And then I had them store my stuff until, until I found a house. And then, you know, based on the amount of time that my stuff remained at their warehouse. And then how much weight of stuff I had, that's how we figured out the final bill that I paid

1:09:18when they dropped my stuff. But they had a brick and mortar warehouse. Yes. That's also important. Do you, and I know that all moving companies don't have a brick and mortar. But it helps if they do. They have more often than not, they do because they have to store their trucks. Yeah. Like at Century Van Lines when I was in college, we would store people's stuff in these three gigantic warehouses. And for whatever, you know, let's say they're going over to serve in, in Germany for a couple of years, they don't need to take everything with them. So they would store it in our warehouse. And then when they came back, they would call us up and, and we would get their stuff. Tell me about the reception that Craig and Big Juicy gave to these Nerduels when they finally showed up with their stuff. My mom was just very, let's not rock the boat. We're getting the stuff back. Let's try to go through it, make sure it's all here. Let's rock that boat. Oh, I said the same thing. I would have come out of my skin, but they had two sheriff's deputies down there for the

1:10:19arrival of the stuff because they were so sure now that we know we're dealing with criminals. That's what they are. We are dealing with criminals. And the handoff was, was fine. You're not getting a tip either. Please start making normally. Oh, God no. No, no, no, no, not a tip. But normally when the movers show up, you're supposed to offer them some drinks, you know, a Coca-Cola, some cold water. If they're going to be there past lunch, you get them a pizza or some McDonald's. I'll also tell you this. As I recall, the people that showed up to unload were not the same people that loaded. What? And they look like they might be family members. Like he just grabbed, hey, I need you and I need my sister and her aunt, everybody, all hands on deck here. And no more. Because police. Yeah. Now that I've said that all of it, not that the scammers listened to Dan and Varks, but man, that proof of life photo was. It cracked the case up. That's exactly right. They still would not have their stuff. 913-586-779-8586-777-98.

1:11:20Here on Dan and Varks. An upstate New York team suspended for bringing a cup of coffee to class earlier this month. Tells the New York Post that she and other kids planned to flood a school board meeting tonight. I hope they take coffee to demand the rule be revoked. Beaver River Central High School senior Julie Caputa said school officials claimed the new rag was instituted to prevent kids from smuggling in booze or THC drinks. Quoting here from the young lady. Personally, I believe that that point can be disproved simply because the administration is still allowing water bottles to be brought in. You do not know what is in someone's water bottle. The team added that besides that, the rule was not even passed with proper public input. She said a new proposal will be pitched at tonight's board meeting to revert to the

1:12:22old policy that said food and drink could not be ordered to the school, but did not prohibit food and drinks being brought to the schools in the morning by the students. What do they have going on in that school that they think everybody's boozing in their coffee tonight? I'm sure somebody is. It was far more common than you guys would care to imagine. Coming to school drunk. I know of, oh gosh, off the top of my head, at least four people when I was in high school, and if they showed up to school with a QT cup in their hand, it wasn't just the tea or the sprite or whatever the heck they claimed was in there, they were boozing. I know that for a fact. I could tell you, I know this for a fact. I'm not naming names to protect the guilty, but there were a number of people, especially at Lansing, who would roll up, let's just say, fast times at Richmond High like.

1:13:24Okay. And get through the day. High as you know what? Oh, absolutely. Oh, I know people who snuck out during lunch to go do that and refill their QT cups. Well, they were out. You're talking about alcohol. I'm talking about people rolling joints on the way to school. I'm talking both. Yeah. And smoke. You can smell it on them. Oh, yeah. I know. I know. You never knew anybody in high school who got drunk at high school or got high at high school. I mean, I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I was so oblivious. I was probably like, oh, he's in a hyper mode today. He's rather chill today. He's rather mellow. One of my best friends to this day, we didn't become friends until after high school because when we were in high school, we had gym class together. And it was fairly regular that he would come in after, you know, taking a little break. And I'd say, hey, man, probably a little bit more cologne next time. Was it weed or booze? It was weed. It would get mad at me for calling him out. And then we became friends after high school. You're calling him out.

1:14:25Thank you for calling him out because better you than a teacher or a vice principal or something like that. Mm-hmm. Oh, it happened all the time. I'm not saying I'm trying to think like what percentage of the kids would roll into school high. I would say in the senior class, four or five percent every day. Okay. And it was the usual cast of characters. Yeah, yeah. You know, but they would. How are they doing today, by the way? Generally. Well, I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, because some of them probably went on to be incredible. Have great careers, you know, that was a phase, but maybe not all of them. I don't, honestly, God, I don't know where they ended up. The ones that I knew that were drinking before class did not end up doing great things. The ones that were doing what Scott's talking about, they're doing great. Just fine. Okay. Really? Living their lives. Successful people. Really?

1:15:25Mm-hmm. Even though they smoked a little weed before they got to school every day. I wouldn't say a little. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good Lord. Anyway, school board meeting tonight, we will of course keep you updated. News coming away in about two minutes. Telephone number here is always 913-586-7798. Dana Wright, Sam Stevie III. My name is Scott. And when we get back, enhancing a fart here on Dana and Parks. Thanks for listening to the Dana and Parks podcast on KMVZ. Catch us online anytime on KMVZ.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to the Dana and Parks. And we'll be back on KMVZ. So I'm just sitting home, minding my own business this morning. I was working my way through the paper and watching the news, didn't care of the dog. I get an audio message from Dana that is more giggles than words.

1:16:27And apparently she adventureed over to Sam's Facebook page. And Sam is really into these different ways. Sam, you can explain this better than I can. It's a business and recovery. Thank you. That's what I was looking for. Yeah. And Sam is doing a plunge thing. Ice thing. Yeah, yeah. Where you put yourself in a big batch of ice water. Yeah. Apparently it's good for recovery after a really strong workout. A cold plunge, yeah. Yeah, cold plunge. Thank you. Here is the voicemail that I get from Dana Wright this morning. I'm going to need you to go right now to Sam's Facebook page. He is still trying to get people to sign up to do this ice plunge. If you sign up now, they're offering a discount. With the promo code, plunge Stevie.

1:17:31If you act now, you can plunge Stevie. I just farted. Sam, if it makes of all of the promo codes, I have ever heard in my entire life. Plunge Stevie is my favorite by far. In fact, dare I say. How does one plunge just eat? Well, very carefully. Scott, no, it's good for you. There's a lot of health benefits here. That can be part of the packet. I'm not denying that. Okay. I'll sign up then. Isn't that to you, my dad? I think it should be a hashtag too. Somebody says you sound like a high former smoker.

1:18:32It's swear to you. I was not drinking. Take my school lunch. I just struck me so funny. Couldn't stop laughing this morning. And so we isolated the fart and then Dana saying, I just farted. You did that. I didn't do that. Well, I did that. I just farted. Were you okay after that fart? Because that sounded like a brother friend. Maybe I need to hashtag Plunge Stevie. I need to take a little cold plunge. That one was a little slow. Yeah, it was. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hey, we're trying to determine if this was a clean one or a dirty one. Oh, yeah, that's a dirty. I don't know. I wouldn't want to do that in public. Were you alone in the car? I was in my room and I was completely alone. Okay. Thank God everybody does.

1:19:34No, it happens. Normally not in a voicemail to colleagues, but I digress. It's better than in the studio with them. That's happened many times. And it was worse than that. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, we're good. No. No. No. No. We're good. My favorite story today. Oh, there's another one. Especially because we have a very light attendance in the building as we speak. Dana, I just ran down to the little boys room. Oh, yeah. Other than the people at the Chiefs Radio Network. We're on an island alone here. There is no one else here. Is it a holiday? No. Well, it's opening sort of. Days sort of chiefs place. That's not until 715. I know, but I feel like it should be a holiday. I'm wearing red. I'm ready to go. Let me tell you this. We are on the third floor. We've never made a secret of that. All the sales and executive folk are on the second floor. Yeah. The second floor, I imagine I didn't go down there, but I would imagine based on the parking lot right now, is completely empty.

1:20:41Yeah. Can I just address something very quickly regarding the game tonight? Yes. I'm incredibly impressive that Patrick Mahomes is stepping back on the field at nine months to the day after his injuries. Oh, yeah. Can we stop reiterating the injuries? I'm not superstitious. I'm just a little stitious. But you're really weird in me out as you keep reminding us what happened. Just say it's awesome, and you can't wait to see him play. Just a little stitious. Okay. Thank you. Dana, go ahead. Okay. There was just a bill introduced, speaking of people who don't work. There was just a bill introduced in Congress to reduce everyone's work week. Wait for it to 32 hours. Where was this introduced? Congress. Like the US? Two lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reduce the standard work week to 32 hours with no loss in pay or benefits. What if you only work 20?

1:21:41Well, then you got to start coming in. He's not going to be you. Well, except in that case, and then no. Don't set it on the tee if you don't want to home right. That's right. That's right. The bill, very creative, is called the quote, 32-hour work week act. No. So. The proposal was actually first introduced in 2021. It amended the Fair Labor Standards Act. Under the proposal, employees who work more than 32 hours in a work week would be eligible for overtime pay. That's how they're going to hold companies accountable if this passes, which it's unlikely. But if it does, you go over 32 companies got to pay overtime. Listen to this. The standard 40 hour work week was established in law nearly 90 years ago, quoting here from one of the bill's authors. Since then, cell phones, the internet, now AI have increased worker productivity, the profits have been largely concentrated at the top by billionaires and corporations. Work has fundamentally changed. It is time that labor standards caught up.

1:22:45I could not agree more. It would really apply to the white collar type of jobs. We don't need to be sitting in a chair for 40 hours to get everything to COVID taught us all that, right? Even before COVID. Who picked 40 out of a hat? Someone just said 90 years ago, what about 40? Because I know people were working 100 hours and dying. With the labor unions. In factories. Right. And it was in automotive factories, if I'm not mistaken, where people were just working and working and working. And there was no break. So what happens when you want your goods to show up behind the store to get dropped off so that you can buy them from that store and that trucker hit his 30 second hour? Well, then you're going to have to wait for your Halloween themed oven myths on another 24 hours. It was a, the 40 hours came from a compromise in a sense where they, because everyone was working 10, 15 hour days and then they broke it up into eight hours segments.

1:23:50Yeah. Eight hours at work, eight hours sleeping, eight hours, personal time. They still just pick that number out of a hat is my point. And like for today, it doesn't apply. I really don't believe that it does. Do you really think this bill is going anywhere? Yeah, the answer is no. The bill has been endorsed by numerous groups, including the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and National Nurses United and United Auto Workers. 32, baby. That tattooed on way up. Yeah, how much time in an average 40 hour work week do people waste at the water cooler or in meetings that could be an email? I've seen studies that suggest the average American working a quote, actually working eight hour day really only works between three and four hours. Then we're there already. Why not call it what it is? Depending on what the actual job is. Of course. If you're a surgeon, I'd prefer that you sew him up before you walk out.

1:24:51I just see my 32 right. In certain industries, this is not going to work. The nursing union backing this one blows my mind because you talk about in certain industries is isn't going to work. Nursing. Not necessarily. Well, if you actually hired more nurses, then work out just fine. I think there's a path to do it. I think like a lot of things in the United States, quote, it's just always how we've done it is the excuse for everything. Why do we do things like this? Well, it's just always how we've done it. It doesn't mean it's the best way. It doesn't mean it's the only way. What this would bring about is not five, six and three quarters hour days. It would just bring about a four day work week. And you think companies are going to continue paying the same rate? According to this bill, they would be forced to. But what they'll do is just fire you and hire somebody else at a cheaper rate. That's exactly right. I love the idea. I think it's, I mean, I'm with you Dana. I think it sounds super fun to knock a whole work day off. I just don't think it's logic. Yeah, I mean, coming off the Labor Day weekend last week.

1:25:53We all got everything done. That was awesome. You know, coming in on a Tuesday, man, took me a minute to get used to it that it wasn't Monday. I would love to work Tuesday through Friday. But that's just not the way it works. Why? Quote because that's just always the way we've done it. There's absolutely no reason why we do it this way or continue to do it this way. Well, like outside of it's just the way it's always been. For example, in Europe, I don't know if it's still like this, but it used to be. Monday and Tuesday, you worked your eight hours. Thursday and Friday, you worked your eight hours. This is your standard, you know, yeah. It's a 40 hour week job, whatever. On Wednesday's, most shops closed closed at one o'clock. And everybody just went home. Banks closed at one o'clock. Retail shops would close at one o'clock and everybody would just go home on Wednesday at one. I'm down for that. I'm sure you are. Shouldn't start to do it. We will follow the bill and let you know what I, it's, I doubt it goes anywhere.

1:26:55You're going to follow it because yeah, it's going to one spot. Why? Why? And by the way, the guy putting it there's working 60 hours a week. And here's the thing you mentioned, you're right, Sam. You mentioned in reading that story that this was first introduced in 2021. Uh huh. It's five years later. Yeah, right after COVID, they said, look, we don't need to be doing this the same way. And it failed. And you're right, if it was going to happen, wouldn't it happen then? Yes. There's almost too many jobs that are not your typical eight hour a day job that this may not. Apply, but just to a small segment of American work. A third of jobs in the United States are not Monday through Friday, nine to five. I do find it interesting that we always point at European nations that like the month of July, everybody's off work. Or they take that long lunch and then they take a siesta or yeah, they say everybody's off work. They're literally only referencing white collar people because the guy at the bodega is still working.

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1:31:00and upload speeds for the first half of 2026. The podcast campus files is back with more stories of scandal, crime, and intrigue on college campuses, campus files available now wherever you got your podcasts. Story here from CNN.com. Female athletes are reacting with anger to a hyper-sexualized, their words, advertising campaign featuring a nude or minimally clad Sydney Swini posing with sports equipment. Is there anyone who has not seen that young woman naked? Raise your hand. Oh, wait, no, you can't. Why does everybody hate Sydney Swini? I don't hate her. I just think at some point everyone has seen her naked. Why does she keep having to be naked? It's pretty obvious why she's famous. I hate to say that. It is. She's a great actor. I'm sure she's very creative. She is leaning into her assets. It is very obvious why she is famous. And she has done everything in her power to capitalize assets every chance she can get.

1:32:01I saw the clickbait click here to see her without any close on. And I thought no one's clicking on that. Everyone has seen the goods. The campaign for US sports prediction market Novig is quote, very damaging for female athletes and young girls looking to get into sport according to Australian surfer Felicity Palmitter in an interview with CNN. In a series of photos and videos released Wednesday of last week, Swini can be seen naked or scantily clad holding American footballs, a tennis racket or a baseball bat. Novig also posted an ad on its Instagram Reels, which has racked up 37 million views in four days. That's why they did it. It sells. It does sell. Says one athlete just absolute utter disbelief, incredibly disappointing. Like how far can you put women sports backwards in the space of a 42 second commercial? It is very damaging, especially for young females getting into sport, for females in sport, for females in general, just hyper sexualized content.

1:33:05We want to be valued for what we do. This is Palmitter, the surfer, not what we look like. Are there not? Man, this is very uncomfortable for me to talk about. Are there not a number of female athletes that do the same thing? Okay. I mean, we talk about it. Yes, the gymnast. I have seen her butt more times than I cared account. You're talking about the gal from LSU? She had assets, if you will. Yes, she did. And she decided as an incredible college athlete to make money off of her butt. Millions of dollars. Millions and millions of dollars off of that derrier without question. Columbia's sweetheart didn't go viral the first time because of her basket ball abilities. So if he's coming him, she went viral because she danced on TikTok. I didn't know that she's outrageously attractive. I've only known her as a basketball and WMVA standout. I did not know that she danced around.

1:34:07I did not know. But here's the deal. Is she a standout or is she more famous? Let's be honest because of how she looks. So if he's coming him is not even a starter. She's incredible. She had her eight points of game. I lever because she pointed at an opponent for 22 seconds. That's pretty awesome. Wouldn't stop pointing. I'm like, I love that woman so much. I don't know. Sex always sells. It's always sold in the United States. I guess Europe too. I'd. Oh, even more so in Europe. We would want more for our young women without question. But, you know, don't we do the same thing with men? Not to the extent that we see it with women. Okay. I mean, Travis Kelsey can catch a pass. He's also easy on the eyes. He is also the face of Tommy Hilfiger and their new campaign. And I believe we are talking about that Zavir Verr. Man bun. Yeah. To which you said, and he's not hard to look at. He is not hard to look at.

1:35:07That was one of the first things you noted about Zavir Verr. Have you listened to the noises some of the make while they're serving, by the way? Heah! No, it's going full like karate. I'm serious. One of them was going, hey, I'm like, what was that? Who was the woman back in the night? Monica Salas. Was it Monica Salas? Yes, 1,000%. For the grunting that you would do on it. Yes, because I will grunt from time to time when we're outside playing that sport I'm not supposed to talk about. And my dad would always say, there's her Monica Salas grunt. Piggable? I think it's fierce. Have you been banned from talking about pickleball? No. Oh. What sport can you not talk about, girl? The other one. Yeah. Well, grunting and golf is just weird. Ha! No, I don't know. You're a golf grunter? Off the tee. I've been known to grunt. Yes. Can you give us an example? No, not unless I'm doing it. What pretend you're doing? Ha! I do it. Ha! What? I do ask any of my friends. They think it's hilarious. Okay. How do we feel about the swimsuit edition? Or how far back is that gone?

1:36:07That's a great point. Very long time. The SI swimsuit? Yes. Oh, decades and decades. Or the female rugby player, Alana Mayher, I think is how your pronounce her last name. She did the sports illustrated body. The body is where you're full on nude. You are celebrating the human form in athletics. Gary Player did it at age 75. She's celebrating the human form. A lot. So, this is we need. So, this we need to celebrate that human form in film, in television, in advertising. But it's her right to do it. But she's being roundly criticized by other women for being hypersexualized. But is there a difference between being hypersexualized and showing off the human form? Is she not doing that in these Novig ads? She's showing off her human form, thankfully. I mean, seriously? 913-913-586-7798. 586-7798.

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1:40:23And every Monday your stuff would just be in Dana. We react to news, what's trending, viral clips. Follow and listen to Fly on the Wall everywhere you get your podcast. Sam, what's going on the text line? I always love it when we get the accidental texts when they don't realize they're texting a radio text line. And man, this is one for the ages. Okay. I don't really know what it means. Clean it up. Hi, it's one of Nathan's Confederates. Whatever that means. Do you happen to be Nathan's, I don't even know what that word is, a Lucive Girlfriend? Please respond so I can tell Nathan. Sorry if this is kind of weird. Nathan just sent me your number and I want to see who you are. Oh my. So I replied, hi there. I am so sorry. I do not know Nathan nor his Confederates. I is his girlfriend, so Lucive. And what will you tell Nathan? Their reply, are you a celebrity or something? I said more like or something.

1:41:25But why do you ask? They said he was just being super mysterious about it. Is it all right if I ask who you are? I can tell you who I am if you'd like. No, this is either spam or like a 12 year old that shouldn't be texting. I would not creepily reply. I think the wording is weird. Confusing. Yeah. He was just being super mysterious about it. Is it all right, by the way, misspelled? If I ask who you are, I can tell you who I am if you like. No. It's at last sentence, that one's weird. I can tell you who I am if you like. I'm a robot-ish. Yes, I'm a hit him with a please don't. Have a nice day. Okay. Please don't. We're good. We're good. Just found out from one of my neighbors that we will be picking up our mail from the post office for the next several months. Oh, why is that? Well, apparently our communal post or mailbox has been destroyed or broken. Like crashed into with a car or vandalized? They were like a tractor, not tractor, but a bulldozer.

1:42:29Oh. We were putting in a pool two doors down. How does a bulldozer trying to put in a pool two doors down accidentally share the same space with your mailbox? Because the communal mailbox is right in front of their house where they're having the pool installed in the backyard. Got it. I will tell you this. If you're ever in the market to buy a house with communal mailboxes, I would not buy the house with the mailbox in the yard. You know, everybody's got it. Everybody has it. Everybody's neighborhood. There's one yard that has the communal mailbox. For me, I don't want to look out my kitchen window 50 times a day to see people in my yard. They drive up on the curb like into the grass. Like I just wouldn't I would not want to have that much activity in front of my house, but it's just me. Okay. From the text line, man, this sounds like a humble brag. Well, they're putting in the new community pool and so they knocked down. It's not a community pool. It's they're having a private pool put in there back. Y'all got it. You know, that is the one thing.

1:43:31There is no gray area with whether or not you have or want a pool. You either think it's the best thing ever and you're going to spend $70,000, $80,000 to put one in. Mm-hmm. Or like me, you think there is no way in hell. I don't care what you said to me, but the house has a pool. I'm like, that's just higher insurance and I don't want someone to run in my yard. I would actually not buy a house if it had a pool back yard. Now, are we in Arizona? Totally different. In Kansas City, you're going to use that for five months. Four, five? Yeah. I think that's fair. And pay for it all year long. Yes. I'm going to tell you, we had friends and they, it was their thing. We want a pool. And I thought, why? Why? It is stunning. They did it. It took a really long time. A lot of people put them in during COVID right after COVID, right? Okay. And then you know, it was jaw dropping, expensive Scott.

1:44:34Like, mind blowing jaw dropping, expensive. Just to build it or to maintain it. To put it in. And it's very nice. Like, but it's not gigantic. It's just a normal backyard pool. You know, it's in, in ground. Yeah, of course. I mean, it's Western Shoney. I mean, like, I want to say the number started with a one. And how many digits in it? A lot of digits in it. Like more than five. So it's not like $15,000. No, no, no, no. We're talking concrete in ground. Yes. I know of some people who have spent upwards of $250. Yeah, I think it was around $100,000. It was probably north of that. Average ranges between $4,500. And you, you, you, you, you. To me, when you go to sell it, I don't view that as an asset. I view that as a liability. No, but it does, you would have to admit, if they're selling it in the summer,

1:45:34and I'm just thinking like a, a realtor or buyer, whatever, it does look luxurious. If you're touring the house and then you look out back and there's this beautiful pool in the backyard, it does look that you have to maintain. Well, I know. I don't know anything. Do I look like I understand what chemistry is? I, there's a water to potted plants. I, I, I killed succulents. You, you, you can't even do that. And I did it. Like, I, it just would not be for me. I don't understand the bacteria and the algae and the chemicals and I did, it just, I look at that and my head goes, like any relaxation I could have floating around in that thing is gone when I have to think about maintaining it. And see, here's what I've noticed about the pools in my neighborhood. And not a lot of people don't have them, but I would say just in, in the area around my home, there's probably a half dozen or more. Okay. And I never, ever see anyone in their own pool. Have you noticed that? I bet you do during the 4th of July, Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend.

1:46:36Okay. But fine. If I'm out walking Lizzy on a Saturday afternoon and it's 90 degrees outside, I never see anybody by their pool ever. I see them cleaning it. I never see them in it. I think it's like, you know, my parents live by the beach, ask them how often they go to the beach. You end up just used to it. It's right there, right? That actually becomes more of an inconvenience. You have the pool and you think to yourself, well, then I got to come in and shower again. What the heck is life? I smell like chlorine. And here's what would keep me from getting, especially if you have kids. Oh, teenagers. If you have teenagers, your house just became everybody's hangout. And what happens if something happens to one of those kids in your pool and not even your fault? Let's say you're out of town. You are out of town. Oh, hard pass. And see, in our neighborhood, I don't know if it's in the HOA, but in our part of the neighborhood, nobody has a six foot tall fence.

1:47:36All the fences are about three and a half, four, five. I thought you had to have a six foot tall fence with a pool. No, I think your insurance would prefer it. It would certainly prefer it. With regard to the communal mailbox, you guys mentioned something that I don't even think happens anymore. The gathering space. Would they even talk to each other if they did happen to bump into one another? Neighbors that is at the communal mailbox. You feel like, hey, what's up? Nothing. What's up? All right. Grabbing the bills. Yep. That would be the extent of it. I'll get back to that. But before I forget this, my realtor Bridget, who is the best in the business, said, since COVID in ground pools have become an asset in selling your house. Oh, ours, the friends that we have that did it, the waiting list was more than a year. Just to break ground was more than a year. But she's saying it's an asset to sell your house. If you have a pool in the backyard, that is an asset since COVID. Now back to the communal mailbox. I don't even know that it was ever supposed to be or intended to be this like meeting place.

1:48:39Since nobody ever goes outside anymore and we all just drive into our garage and the garage goes down and nobody's ever out front. I don't think I've ever bumped into a neighbor at the mailbox in five years there. Do you know what the communal mailbox is for when there's a cat missing? That's where you see the have you seen my cat sheet? I asked because I recently ramped up how often I'm walking the dog because she was just getting out of control and was bored by the backyard. And so I walk her basically every morning and every night now and granted in my head, as I walk past my neighbors, I think to myself, please don't say anything. Please don't say anything. Please don't say anything. But I wave and I say, Hey, hello, how you doing? And expect like the pleasantry response of the great How are you? And I don't even get that they don't even reply to you. No, and I've noticed like I'll walk past somebody who's not a neighbor. They just live in the neighborhood. So they're also walking their dog. Yeah. They don't even acknowledge your presence. Like if I were a predator, you at least need to look at me. So that you knew I was coming.

1:49:39Well, I need to turn around and run. I was walking back with Lizzy. This was on walk number two today and there was a gal walking in the opposite direction on the trails behind by the house. She never even looked at me. And I was like, I say hi. And Sam people say hi back to me. I might have been creepy staring at her waiting for her to look at me so I could say hello. That's all I wanted to do. Just, hi, how are you? She never even looked at me head down and kept moving. It's just it's so weird. Again, in my own head, I'm like, please don't talk to me. But also the. No, I don't want to get back to that. I don't want to talk to you. It's weird. I want to get back to that. You don't, you say hi to your neighbor. How you doing? But hope they don't reply. You're pissed when they don't say a word, but you're also saying to yourself, don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. I don't want to talk. I don't want to talk. I don't want to get caught up in a five minute pleasantry conversation about non-sum. You're not interested. No one is going to do that, Sam. But I also, it's just weird to me. The complete lack of acknowledgement, if that makes sense. Like there's one woman who I don't, I don't even know where she lives.

1:50:39I see her every day when I walk. She was like, hey, how's your morning going? And I'm like, that is how people should act. Say hi and then go about your business. 913-586-7798-586-7798. Here on Dana and Parks. Running a business shouldn't feel like a juggler act. One app for accounting, another for inventory, one more for sales, and somehow they never work together. Or you can use ODO. One fully integrated platform with all the business applications you need. CRM, inventory accounting, marketing, and more. All working together seamlessly. Stop juggling software and get back to growing your business. Try ODO for free at ODO.com. That's ODO.com. Cozy season is upon us. That means chilly sunrises, slow afternoons on the couch and oversized sweaters.

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1:53:45half of 2026. Life can feel overwhelming, but on my podcast, from the heart with Rachel Brayton, we're in it together. Every Friday a new episode brings you a new story with topics on motherhood, wellness, self-love and more. Listen to From the Heart with Rachel Brayton wherever you get your podcasts. That's good to Jim in Bates City. Jim, good afternoon. Hello. Greetings and salutations all. I want to give the bunker a few of your comments about swimming pools if I could. Oh, please. I own a pool service business and have owned an in-ground pool for 30 plus years. It's spent wise for our customers with pools between $400, $500 a month. That's service and chemical. I know Dana pays probably at least that to play rounds of golf and during the summer. Yes, no, no. Did I what during the summer? I'm sorry to say it again. You spend 400 to 500 months on golf.

1:54:49He says that's what it costs to maintain a pool over the over. I've never known. Is it $400 to $500 a month? Is that about right, Jim? I'm going to go and then Scott, you're coming about kids. I loved when all my kids were teenagers. I knew where they were. They were in our backyard. That is a good sign. So is everybody else's teenager? No, I know. I know. But I knew they were safe because they were there. And if anything a pop got topped, the keys got dropped. That's a great line, Jim. And I hope our other parents steal that. I said in the beginning, I think with a pool, there is no gray area. You either love it and cannot live without it or can't, I can't understand why anyone would do it. I just, I've never met anyone that's like, I can kind of see, but like, they're, it's black and white. I just don't think that I have the patience that it would require to keep it clean, keep it maintained. You'd have to hire that. That's why it's $400 to $500 a month. Yeah, but he said for chemicals too.

1:55:50And then do you have to put chlorine in your own private pool? Some people have gone to the salt water model. Far better for you. Far better for you. Far better for you. More expensive to maintain, but far better for you. You can float in it, Scott. You just float. Okay. Did you tell me once you can't float? I can't float. You can float. Yes, I cannot. You cannot. I am far too dense to float. You can't float on your back. I sink immediately. How long? I even do the whole like breath trick and I still sink. Do you try to envision yourself feeling light? Yes. That didn't work. Yes. How long could you go, Sam? If you guys were in the ocean and you had to swim, that's different. No, I'm just telling you how long could you go? How long could I swim? Are we swimming or treading water? Yeah. There's a huge difference. Treading water. A very, very, very, very, very long time. Yeah, I could too. Oh, there's no way. Especially if survival was in states.

1:56:50Well, if you knew that if I stopped treading water, I'm dead. Well, at some point exhaustion takes over. Yes. At some point, you're going to have to quit. I bring this up because we're running out of time. So just look at it. We've got two of us. We've got two of us. We've got two of us. We've got two of us. We've got two of us. I read it over the weekend in the New York Times. There were two friends that decided, let's go rent jet skis. Neither one had ever been on a jet ski and it was a fly by night company. The guy like handed them a key somewhere in Florida said, It's a bad decision right now. Yeah. Here you go. Make sure you're back in an hour. People out on the jet skis and a wave that now they said rogue wave. I'm like, when you're in the ocean, it's really not rogue. It's just that's what the ocean does. It's a wave knocks him off. Then she gets off her jet ski to try to help him. Both of the jet skis float away. They were bobbing up and down in the ocean for 15 hours. And I remember reading this over the weekend and I'm like, I would be gone. I would just be gone. I could not. I would just quit. Tret, no, I physically do not think I could tread water for 15 hours.

1:57:54Well, there was that one guy who fell off of the cruise ship and I think he treaded water for almost 30 hours. And he was hammered when he fell off. Yeah, he was. I mean, I talked about sober up real quick. Yeah, but I mean, wouldn't your natural survival instincts kick in and you would... I think you would start getting delirious because you have to remember like the sun is beating down. You're thirsty. The last thing you're supposed to drink ocean water, that will make it worse. You've probably got something... He said at one point, something mammalish bumped up against his leg in the water. Like he's like, I don't know what it was. Something... Do you mean like a gigantic water creature? Brushed up against me in the water. I'm like, nope, I'm gone. He's probably the only mammal in the water. She's gone. I don't know what it is. If it was a cracking, I don't know, Scott. With nipples. Uh, she ended up swimming, I think two hours to shore because it kept pushing him further

1:58:55and furthered out, right? Sure. She swam for help. Coast Guard found him both survived. The five car brands most likely to go past a quarter million miles. Number five, GMC. Number four, Accura. Number three Honda. Number two, Lexus. Would you care to guess? Number one, most likely to go over 250,000 miles. Is it Toyota? It is. Really? Toyota is number one. Hmm. I quick break for the news. Dan Weinbaum has that coming away in about two minutes. This young lady is Dana Wright. He is Sam Stevie III. My name is Scott Parks. We continue in just a moment here on KMBZ. Thanks for listening to the Dan and Parks podcast on KMBZ. Catch us online anytime on KMBZ.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to the Dana and Parks podcast on KMBZ. All right. All three of us.

1:59:56Sam, Dana and I, Dana goes, I've got someone who DNA, I got a shirt. I go, okay, hang on. I got something chiefs related. Let me get that out there into the university real quick. And then Sam just says to us, I got beef with my friends. I'm ready to air it out. So I just chiefs related. Dan, do you have anything? We'll just all go once, go. All right. So kick off is two hours and eight minutes away. Okay. Roughly, we now know that the Denver Broncos will be wearing all white as in including their helmets. Why? They're going, I guess they wore it last season at Arrowhead as well. Okay. This uniform is being panned all over the internet. Would you say? I said good for them. It's all white, white pants, white top, white helmet. Not okay with that. Need some grass stains on them. I guess. We can help. Yeah, we'll help with that. Wait, now that football's back, it just is a good feeling. Now before you get into Houdini, his beef with his friends is chiefs related.

2:00:59Okay. Are they there? Are you ready for this? Yeah. I get a call last hour from my buddy. And he's like, hey, I got some chiefs tickets. You guys want to go. And I was like, man, that stinks. We're having some friends over tonight. So I probably shouldn't, you know, bail on my friends who are supposed to be coming to my house to watch the chiefs game. Yeah. I'm out. And so I text Mary Beth about it. Before I could even finish typing the text to Mary Beth, two of my other friends text and say, hey guys, sorry, we're out for the chiefs game tonight. Oh no. Did they bail on you to go to the other one? To go to the game. Oh, you are kidding. My buddy called them and said, hey, I got these chiefs tickets. Now I'm flattered that I was the first call. Yeah, there he goes. Sam, you cannot even call that a grievance because most of us, if somebody said, hey, I've got an extra ticket, you know, barring, you're missing a wedding or something from a relative. People would understand that you, of course, you go to the game. Would I have been in the wrong, though, because they were coming to my house to say, hey,

2:02:00y'all can't come over anymore. I'm going to the game. You're hosting and then you bail because you're going to the game. That's a little stickier. And then it was changed. I think most people would understand. And so I texted and said, did you get them from someone so? Yep. And they said, yep, and I'm like, all right, now I'm mad. You should have taken the tickets, Sam. But he was hosting. Well, now he's not. Sam, I feel bad for you. Now there's other friends coming over, but there you go. Yeah, I was like, guys, really? Yes, you would do the same thing. I'm telling you most of us what I did say in the text message to Mary Beth. I would have done the exact same thing. Good. Well, there you go. Problem solved. All right. I missed this on Friday. We're going to try to get an author on the program. It's probably going to be tomorrow now to help us understand Harry Houdini's connection to Kansas City, which prior to last week, I thought was zero. Did you know about this, Dan? Did you know? Yes. Prior to this week, you knew. Yeah, 1915. He did his death defying upside down straight jacket escape.

2:03:03So look this up. I want you to see a photo of this because they reenacted this on Friday. Friday afternoon saw the unveiling of a marker at 10th and Maine in Kansas City. You will see this. It's one of those huge historic black, rot iron looking markers with the gold writing on it at 10th and Maine. It is the site of the first upside down straight jacket escape by Harry Houdini over 100 years ago. It was September 8th, 1915. It was next to the then former Kansas City Post newspaper, which used to stand in that spot. Okay. The placement of the marker is the result of efforts by the Society of American Magicians and the international brotherhood of Magicians. During the unveiling leaders from those groups spoke about the significance of that intersection and how the publicity from his first straight jacket escape shaped his legacy and the legacy of Magicians everywhere at the time.

2:04:05On 1915, he was already a well established delusionist and escape artist. He was a global superstar. Listen to this. He was only 52 when he died. Yeah. Kansas City was so important to Houdini, quoting here from John Cox, the author we're trying to get on here. Many firsts happened here for him. So come out and see the marker. He said, take pride in Kansas City and what it meant to Houdini. He said encouraging people to go to 10th and main to check out the marker. Enjoy and maybe grow across the library and read a book about him. Do we know why he chose here? I'm sure I'm looking at it. This is one of the reasons I could not attend on Friday and they did a really cool marketing thing. They sent the media all a key and it looks like kind of an old timey looking key. I didn't get a key. I didn't get a key. They sent a key and they said show up at 10th and main on Friday at a certain time and

2:05:07bring this key. And my guess is that key was used to unlock the magician who attended Friday and tried to replicate the upside down straight jacket trick. That's my guess. And on the way else, you would bring a key there. The internet says at the time Kansas City was big on the Vodville circuit. Yeah. It was a hub of the Vodville circuit. So he would come through here. Okay. How did he get out? Did that include the, was he done a joint? I don't. Nope, Scott, you know what I mean? I don't know. Where you do the thing, where your elbows go. Man, man, man. See, here's the deal. Todd Lemansky is a good friend of the program. Yes. I am a huge fan of magic and I think he's one of the best there ever was. Yeah. And that's how I met Todd was he was filming some of his tricks on the plaza one day when I was going out to lunch and I just stumbled upon him and we became friends.

2:06:07And Todd has any number of tricks and that I remember one day I said to him, explain to me how you do this. And I remember Todd said to me, do you really want to know? No. And I think, I don't know this for a fact, I think he was flirting with the idea of letting me take a peek behind the curtain. And he looked at me and he goes, do you really want to know? And I said, no, because it'll ruin it. It's more fun not to know. Listen to this. Because that's the magic. John Cox, who is the author, he has written these soon to be released hand cuff king, the conquest of Harry Houdini from 1900 to 1909. He didn't interview with the Kansas City star. He says that Harry Houdini was 12 years old when he ran away from his home in Wisconsin. His plan was to go to Galveston, Texas to find work to help his family.

2:07:08He got on a wrong box car. He wound up in Kansas City on accident. That was his first visit to Kansas City at age 12. And really he says the first adventure of his life. I think you could say his first escape was from Kansas City because he wound up back in Wisconsin pretty quickly. But to dance point, he started then traveling here, got into the Vodville scene. And I just find it. I've lived here like forever and ever and ever. I had no idea. I did not either. Not until you said it today. But like on America's got talent. Yeah. If I never see another singer on that show ever again, it'll be too soon. I want to see the magic. Oh, I love that. That's what I love. And me too. Somebody comes out and you, great, you got a good voice. You're a diamond dozen. Oh, I like the voices. The plaque by the way at 10th and Main Street marks the spot were a crowd back.

2:08:09Think about it. 1915 a crowd estimated at five thousand people watched as Houdini was raised 20 feet in the air for his first suspended straight jacket escape. He actually returned to repeat this done in 1923 from 100 feet in the air and 10,000 people in Kansas City showed up to watch that one. Yeah, he was huge. Harry Houdini was huge. A superstar. I'm trying to see what killed him. Uh, death. Yeah. 100% of the time Scott. We've been. Is that a fact? Yeah. Yeah, the appendicitis. You go through all of that. Mm hmm. 100 feet up in the air suspended straight jacket and all the other daredevil things you did. And he died of appendicitis, which was probably not uncommon. How do you pronounce this word parotonitis parotonitis? Sure. Yes.

2:09:10Is that right? Mm hmm. Yeah. That's what he died of. Swaling of the abdomen. Uh, the book again is called. There's a bunch of them. Uh, Jon Cox, C-O-X. Look that up. Wow. That was fast. When he stole it. Han Kuf King, the conquest of Harry Houdini is the new book, but he has a, the guy is just nuts over Harry Houdini. He has another book out there that I'm going to get right now on Amazon. 913-586-7798. Dana Wright, Sam Stevie. My name is Scott. Here on KMBC. It's five o'clock. Your employees are heading home. But you're still updating spreadsheets, switching between software and wondering where the day went. There's a better way. Odo brings accounting, sales, inventory, CRM, and more together in one fully integrated platform. So you spend less time managing software and more time running your business because

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2:12:17So many reasons to join T-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com. Fastest based on analysis by Uclos Beat Test Intelligence data of national speed score results incorporating 5G download and upload speeds for the first half of 2026. Have you ever felt like you were living just a B or B plus life? It's so dangerous to live that more dangerous than a B minus or a C plus life because when you're living a B or B plus life, you don't change it. You think it's good enough? Is it? I'm Susie Welch. I host a podcast called Becoming You. People think, okay, an A plus life is not available to me, but there is a way. We are all in the process of becoming ourselves. Listen to Becoming You, wherever you get your podcasts. Story here out of California. I found it on the Channel 5 website. A California high school teacher and football coach has been arrested and put on leave after police say students found his cell phone recording them while they changed in the boys locker

2:13:21room. God. Jeffrey Pribble, a teacher and the head coach of varsity football for Tracy high school was arrested on Friday after his phone was found recording the students. Police say students found the cell phone on Thursday. Quoting here from a police spokeswoman. In the student and other classmates found the cell phone they were able to pause the recording before deleting it and then turning the phone over to a staff member. Detectives later determined the phone belonged to the 48 year old Pribble. After an interview, the coach was arrested. The school district placed him on leave pending the outcome of criminal and administrative investigations. Oh, my God. This poor kids. One of the players described the arrest as a shock. He was trying to get me to join football, but that's not really my thing. I see him every day almost something this big to happen. It's kind of a shock. Costco is rationing its Kirkland signature motor oil as a global shortage of a key ingredient

2:14:26used in synthetic lubricants, sends prices soaring with a 10 court pack that once sold for as little as $30, now fetching nearly $58. The warehouse giant is limiting members to two units every seven days as supplies of premium based oils remain squeezed by production outages and disruptions in the Middle East. Okay. What are you laughing at? I just, the links people will go to when they put parameters on how much of any product you can buy. There are ways around all of that. You've seen here. Oh, sure. Yeah. I don't go to Costco. You send me in. Right. And I'll get you two more. We have a couple of teens who are lucky to be live after they are caught on camera kicking in a family's front door in the alleged quote viral prank that's not a prank, by the way, that's a crime quit calling crimes pranks. A Phoenix family says two teenagers caused around $10,000 in damage by kicking in their front

2:15:29door in an incident that police believe may be connected to a dangerous social media quote trend. Ring video shows the two kids that appear to be teenage boys opening a Phoenix family's front gate around six a.m. on Saturday running to the front door while trying to cover their faces. One then kicks the door open before they run off a woman in the home who wanted to remain anonymous, such you heard a loud bang. And at first thought someone was breaking in. Um, I thought this trend had the door kick in challenge, which another word to say that is someone's going to get shot challenge. I'm sure somebody has been shot. When do these trends end? I don't know. It's so stupid. I spuck it. That was fun. That raised a lot of money for Alex. And that was fun. I did that one. No one got hurt doing that. It's comfortable. Yes. Harming anyone know. But that was something I did with my I was like, my film this dad's going to throw the bucket of ice over his head. Sam, go ahead.

2:16:30Trends will never end to answer your question. As long as there is the next best thing. I mean, I remember growing up, uh, I, my best friend really enjoyed doing all the stupid trends we saw online. I had to call poison control because he ate a stick of deodorant. What? Oh my god. I hadn't heard of that one yet. I don't remember what the trend was. I did just, aborantly stupid behavior. Well, and I think for a lot of them, they don't even really become trends. I think it's a misrepresentation of how many people are doing it. For example, the tide pod challenge was allegedly a trend that never happened. I think maybe four people ate a tide pod. Really? Then why was there so much? We went to school with those kids. There was always one kid eating glue. Remember? Yeah, but why was there so much publicity for lack of a better term? Because one kid ate a tide pod and went to the hospital. Oh my god, they're eating tide pods everywhere. Because people click on it, Scott. We now monetize being outraged and you're not going to believe what's, you know, if I had

2:17:33a dime for every single time, my mom, when the kids were younger, would DM me on Facebook, Hey, you warned the kids about the cinnamon challenge. Don't be doing the cinnamon challenge. They will choke to death. My, my, my DMs for years, please tell the children. Do not eat a tide pod. I'm like, mom, I got you. I got you. I'm a challenge. We have the cinnamon challenge put salt on your, lick your, your wrist, put salt on it and then an ice cube and see how long you could survive while it's literally burning your skin. What? Oh, yeah. Oh, really, really stupid stuff. But does it's never going to end? You put salt on your wrist. You lick your wrist. You put salt on it. Yes. And then you put an ice cube on it. Yes, it creates a chemical reaction that slowly burns your skin. Yeah, really? Don't do it, kids. Uh, yeah, I mean, especially with social media. I mean, these trends weren't even really flying around social media back when I was in grade school. Was it just word of mouth? Word of mouth or like we would see a random YouTuber think that it was, you know, funny

2:18:36to eat a stick of deodorant. Okay. What brand was it for? I don't. I hope it was Cyberspring. Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. Probably if you ever saw this when, as a trend for lack of a better term when you were growing up, because I distinctly remember, and it was always the, the boys always. I remember one. You remember the rectangular pink eraser, not attached to a pencil. And you would burn your skin with this. You would say, you know, the rectangular pink eraser is about that big round. We did that one too. The boys would rub it up on their arm until they literally burned their skin. Yeah. And it would, it would scar and apparently you were tough. From the text line, the Coning Challenge forgot about that one. What was that? You go in order an ice cream cone. And when you get up to the window, it McDonald's or Wendy's or Dairy Queen, rather than grabbing the bottom of the cone like a human being with standards, you grab the ice cream part. Okay. That's kind of funny.

2:19:36And it falls. And the next surprise when it falls. It falls and then you drive away laughing because you're stupid. Okay. But you already paid for it. Yeah. You're the dumb one. Didn't say it was a smart idea. Do you remember? I hate to bring all these stupid high school things up or middle school. Well, there was the, what do you call it, whipped cream thing. I never did it, but I knew people who did that. That's just doing drugs. I know. And then also in elementary school, I remember this kid, his name was Billy coming up to us and he's like, do you want to be blood brothers? I'm like, no, I don't even know what that means. Get away from it. That was actually, they would, they would like cut their hand with like a paper clip. And then you shake it. And then you would shake your hand. You know, this was in the 70s before HIV. But you'd be like, do you want to be blood brothers? That's so stupid. What does that even mean? I don't know, but I remember this would have been in the early 80s, being in a backyard

2:20:37with Paul Wyorick and Billy Chamfer and Tom McLeod. We're all standing there. One of us had a little pocket knife. Yeah. And one of us had hepatitis, congrats. Now we all have it. And so we're all standing around, I don't know, 10 years old. And one of us said, do you guys want to be blood brothers? And we all kind of look at each other. And somebody got the knife out and you know, opened it. And we're all just standing there staring at each other. Like we're really good friends. It's just so. But let's take it to the next level. I'm going to do it. Did you guys ever have a smiley face scar on your body? No. Were you hold a big lighter with the flame on for a very long time? No! And then press it against your body because it makes a smiley face. No. I know a bunch of kids that had that. In grade school, we used to coordinate before school. That's branding. What time we were going to meet in the bathroom to play bloody knuckles? No. What's bloody knuckles? You put your knuckles on the floor and the kids on the other end of the bathroom, which by the way, bathroom floor, a great place to put your cut fingers.

2:21:41And you'd flick the quarter across the floor as fast as you could to see if you could make the other person lose a chunk of skin. We were really, really cool kids. This is why people homeschool. I'm confused how you bloody your knuckles. And by the way, there were two kinds of coding challenge. I forgot about the other one. Thank you, Texter. We called it the unicorn challenge where rather than grabbing the top of the ice cream cone, you would grab the ice cream cone and stick it to your forehead. So you look like a unicorn. Okay. That's I got them all day long. That's actually kind of funny. But you do it to yourself, right? You don't do it to somebody else. Depends. Okay. There was also the challenge where you'd take a slice of American cheese and try to get it to stick to somebody else's face and class. I do. I've heard about that not when we were growing up, but I've heard about that. But these are funny and they're harmful. That doesn't hurt anybody. Yeah, nobody's getting hurt. When we get back, we have a brew. Ha ha ha ha brewing. As brew ha's do. Potentive. Pitting empty nesters against elementary school parents.

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2:26:48third, eleven months after we lost a Brookwood Elementary School fourth grader. The City Council in Leewood is preparing to talk about a recommendation not to install sidewalks on Brookwood Elementary's nearest residential streets. I'm going to say that again. They are meeting to discuss a proposal that would not add sidewalks. The proposal is, let's leave it the way it is, which right now the homeowners own the homes and the grassy area in your lawn right there is yours, right? The reason is the overwhelming opposition by the neighbors along the streets under the city's sidewalk policy would be charged for the sidewalk installation. And like like a lot of you listening. Would be expected to shovel and maintain it.

2:27:51You know this. I don't know that I ever had to say ever. And whether or not I have a sidewalk in front of my house, some cities do it. Some cities don't, but I can tell you this. If a tree root starts up rooting that sidewalk, even though you don't even want it's not yours. It's the city's right of way. It's your tree. It is your responsibility to make that costly repair that happened to a couple of family members years ago in Kansas City, Missouri. And it was astronomical to take it out and re put in there like we don't this isn't even ours. So it is straight. Lee Wood wants to effectively annex four feet by whatever. Yes. Now we'll call it six feet by whatever the width of your property is from you because then you no longer own that section of property. And they want you to pay for the installation of the sidewalk. Correct. And keep in mind, Sam, if someone slips and falls on that sidewalk, you are also liable. I'm voting no. So there is overwhelming opposition by neighbors along these streets, right?

2:28:52Because of that opposition, city staff has recommended that sidewalks are not included in the 2027 residential street reconstruction program. Now you remember after the tragic horrifying loss of that child, everybody came together and said, what can we do to make our streets safer? What can we do? What can we do? This is the empty nesters are saying get rid of the e-scooters. If I was faced with paying for the sidewalks, my preference as a safety minded adult in this town is that we don't have kids on e-scooters and e-bikes and all of those things, right? That's my that's my preference for their safety. But let me ask you this. When you lived in Lee Wood, you lived in a neighborhood that didn't have sidewalks. No, we didn't. There were none, right? No. Was there a school and elementary schools nearby? Not far. Okay. What would you do as a homeowner? What would you say if the city of Lee Wood said, well, Dana, we had one kid got practically, yes, hurt last year.

2:29:56And we're going to put sidewalks in throughout this entire neighborhood. It just so happens, it's going to be on your side of the street. Okay. We've picked your side of the street. Sorry. And you have to pay for it. How come my neighbors across the street who are also going to benefit from the sidewalk? Yeah, they're going to use it, right? I'm assuming they're going to walk their dogs. Their kids are going to walk to school on the sidewalk I paid for. It was rumored when we first moved in that the reason that our road was so horrible was because they tried twice to put sidewalks along our street. There are other areas in Waldo that have sidewalks. There are other areas that don't have sidewalks. You're well mingling. All of the neighbors said you're not cutting our yards down by six feet. Right. And then asking me to pay for it and maintain it. So on Lee Boulevard, Scott, I'd forgotten about this, but if you think about it, one of the sides of Lee Boulevard has sidewalks. I believe that's the west side. The west side. The east side does not. So there are sidewalks.

2:30:58It's just on one side of that busy, which is, which is not uncommon. We have a sidewalk in our neighborhood. It just happens beyond my side of the street. Now police at the November City Council meeting after this death, parents and children who have survived being hit by vehicles in this town came to the city council meeting. Okay. And police confirmed they have investigated 15 crashes in the past five years involving pedestrians or people riding on scooters or e-scooters. Okay. Okay. I am very familiar with Lee Boulevard. Very familiar. If I was a jogger or had a child, there is no me personally. Like let's say I was a jogger. I would never jog on Lee Boulevard. Now I've even with the sidewalk. What maybe with the sidewalk on that side, but on the other side, you want to talk about safety.

2:31:58Maybe safe. I'm not doing it because too many people are on their cell phones while driving. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm saying that's the reality we live in. And you get one driver who's looking down. Maybe she's a 68 year old woman. I'm not even blaming teenagers here. There's really nowhere for you to bail on the shoulder side of Lee Boulevard. Well, I don't think anybody would even be on that side of the road. Would they? Well, they're asking to add it. If there's a perfectly good sidewalk over here. Yeah. Why wouldn't you just take the sidewalk? They also already lowered the speed limit on Lee from 35 to 25, which by the way, makes that road take forever. I'm trying to see what the cost is. A lot. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And back to Sam's point a minute ago, you're asking me, city, to give up my property. Yeah. Six feet all the way down the street of my property. Yeah. And then I have to pay for this sidewalk to be built on property.

2:33:01You just stole from me. You're familiar with historically Boulevard. Guess what else they're taking out of your yard? It's not just six feet of your grass. Any tree that's in the way? The massive towering historic trees. And so they did another survey. Between 97th place and a hundred first street on Mohawk Lane, between 100 first and 103rd. And they said, Hey, homeowners are going to have to pay for this. We're going to have to cut down some trees. Are we for it or are we against it? You want to guess the number opposed? 85% higher. 95% 90% responded. We are opposed to sidewalks with 95% elaborating. They would not agree to an easement if sidewalks are planned. There's an unwelcome sight in the neighborhood. A developer is being greedy. There's a hole in the sky where a tree once stood. Such a lack of life and sound.

2:34:04All that's left is bare muddy ground. A magnificent tree was murdered. The mighty dollar cut it down. There's a hole in the sky. Everybody was somebody's making a stand up. One resident wrote quote, I refuse to pay for or maintain a sidewalk. Not doing it. Brookwood students are free to walk in my yard. Here's another response. We are senior citizens living on a small fixed income and would like to stay in our home with all of the additional costs. We could be forced out of our town. We can barely clear our driveway as it is, much less 60 plus feet of sidewalk. Well, I mean, especially if you're older. Kids have been walking to school by the way along that stretch since 1960. Yeah. Listen, what happened is awful. Tragic, heartbreaking.

2:35:06But how far do we go? I mean, sometimes sadly, things happen. You were talking about e-scooters. Tee was telling me the other day she works up in Leavenworth. There was a kid up in Leavenworth that was on an e-scooter that got hit. Night survived, but still got hit. This is one of those things where the flashy new toy has come in, but nobody is saying, hey, you've got to be a certain age to ride these things or you cannot bring these to school. I'm not saying that necessarily is the answer. I'm just saying, no, it's almost like the toy came first and then, oh, my God, kids on fast-moving vehicles, we need to do something. Why not put in speed humps or speed bumps on a sidewalk? No compromise and put them in the street to force people to slow down. Because there's one group that really doesn't like speed bumps. Firefighters. 913-586-7798.

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2:40:16Now, is it actually mentored as it just look a lot like it is probably. It's probably AI Mitch McConnell, but he was back in the Senate today. The Kansas City Kansas Police Department earlier today evacuated a large area of the city after a gas line ruptured on Monday. Nancy Chartrand, Police Department spokeswoman said the evacuation area. Chartrand. Chartrand, thank you. Chartrand, thank you, do you do, or? Do I? Yes. Been around forever. Well, you did. Good. Good friend of the program. Well, no, rapper, Keft D. That's all right. I called Kanye West Kane. That's true. I do remember that. Yeah. I called Justice Sada Mayor something much worse. Yes. I was here. It was one that syllable away from calling her a criminal. Yeah. Oh, the CEO of Ryan Air is disputing that a passenger injured during a flight on one of its planes in July was partly sucked out of a broken window.

2:41:19He most certainly was. There's like 90 witnesses. I can't pronounce the guy's name. Injured his neck and shoulder and had friction burns after the window shattered shortly after takeoff on a flight from Northern Greece to Germany on July 10th. Here of ex-wife and witnesses say the pressure drop caused his head and shoulders to be pulled out the window. His wife said that she held onto his legs and other passengers pulled him back into the jet. I don't know that the head of that airline should be splitting hairs here. Actually that's what happened to him. His hairs were split. His hairs were split. Well, he wasn't really partially sucked out. The passengers would disagree with you. So that's the head and shoulders of the air. Right. So of Ryan Air, Michael O'Leary acknowledged that Caravik was injured and wasn't titled a compensation but quote, not millions and millions. He wasn't partially out the window said O'Leary. Yes, he was. We don't think any part of his body got out the window, but he was certainly sucked in

2:42:20very dramatic circumstances towards the window. I cannot believe they are again splitting that hair. He also said he finds this. Absolutely. Completely out there. He finds the story that Mr. Caravik's wife was pulling him back in by his legs. He said, how did she do that when she was seated three rows behind? Well I think when he got sucked out of the window, she jumped up to try to go save her husband as my guess. The old fake getting sucked out that was going to pay out. That's true. That's true. We're not falling for that, sir. We also have a woman on board a recent American Airlines flight who was just removed from the plane after she started taking off her clothes mid flight at 30,000 feet. They describe her as disrobed and behaving indecently. They were heading toward Miami. Why did this not surprise me? What is it about Florida? Yeah, baby. I don't know.

2:43:21If you ever need weird news, go to any Florida TV or newspaper site and you will find it. That way Missouri's head football coach is not thrilled by the video that KU showed on Friday night. What the hype video before the board of war? Yes, because it because it went through the history of the board of war and included references to the story. That is the history. It goes back there. He was speaking on behalf of many Mizu fans who are tired of that comparison in this rival reunion. I'm sorry. I'm called for this is about two teams playing football, especially on 9 11. We need more unity now than ever before. Did he leave the game and go have a beer at free state brewery? Probably not. Okay. We got to run. Very triggering. Okay. Birthdays today Tyler Perry is 57. And Jimmy Butler is 37. We got to run on behalf of our producer today, the finest man in the United States. Great. Sam Stevie the third. My good friend and co-host Dana, right?

2:44:21I'm Scott Parks and God willing back tomorrow to a clock. No chiefs have a great night. Be safe. Bye. Thanks for listening to the Danah and Parks podcast on KMVZ. Catch us online anytime on KMVZ.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast. Running a business shouldn't feel like a juggling act. One app we're accounting, another for inventory, one more for sales and somehow they never work together. Or you can use Odo. I'm fully integrated platform with all the business applications you need. CRM, inventory accounting, marketing and more all working together seamlessly. Stop juggling software and get back to growing your business. Try Odo for free at od.com. That's od. O-O. Hey, all right. It's almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat.

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