FULL SHOW 9/9/2026

0:00You're listening to the Dana and Parks podcast on KMBZ. Why are you still here? Your shift has ended Michael Mackie. Your duties have ended. Your services have been performed, but there's spillover. And I didn't, I didn't want to leave. Are you referring to yourself as spillover? I spill it. You are spillover. There's spillover. So I wanted to just hang out with you nerds. It's so glad. I know. Number one, I hope it rains today. And number two, I can't stop watching tennis. How are you? Are watching tennis out of the corner of your eye? And by out of the corner of your eye, I mean, you're not looking at me at all. You're full on watching. Tell you why do they insist on putting these matches during the day? Well, they don't. They play them at night. Oh, and three in the morning, Michael, I tried to stay up. I made it to about 11 p.m. Watching that a sexy spaniard, which one? Oh, he was a sexy spaniard. Versing our American. Yeah, it looks like Alcatraz. Look, versus our American player.

1:01I fell asleep with the TV on around 1130 thinking, oh, how long can this go on? The answer is 3 a.m. It went on until 3 a.m. He's the one who likes to just gratuitously for no reason, lift his shirt up and wipe his brow. And this is a sweat event. Give everyone a free, free show. It's thirst trap on the court. You're supposed to be watching the play on the court, Michael. I'm not. I'm not. Okay, but Sam, I don't do you know who we obsess about? We I should not say that backtrack. I obsess over the 15 year old ballboys and ballgirls who are supposed to remember when we were in elementary school, you would play that game tree and you would just freeze. You have to be like a tree. Have you watched the 15 year old ballboys and ballgirl trying so hard to blend in to the back of the mat? Oh, they try so hard. And then when they offer up a tennis ball to one of the pros, do not look them in the eye. Do not look at pro in the eye. They don't. They stand there frozen. You got to see it to believe it with two balls in the hand.

2:04Like deer in headlights terrified. And so I look this up last night, thousands of children vie every year to be there. They're one of the only people that's not a pro or a coach allowed on the court. And it's like, I've never seen you so excited. You're standing up. I'm in defensive position showing how quiet I would be a horrible ball retriever. You're right. Yes, you were. I mean, like, hello, you sexy spaniard. What are you doing? I'm going to ball your balls right here. Okay. Sometimes they pose like a tree and sometimes they trip and face plant into the metal wall. And sometimes they raise around the arena. And they're faint. They are not allowed breaks. Can you get the video off YouTube? Oh, God, that poor child. So he goes and he throws like four balls at the player. Whoever I have no idea who these people are. And he's looking at one. He doesn't like it for whatever. There must have been a scuff. No, the pros look at him and throw him back if they don't want that ball.

3:05And they they bat him back or hit him, bracket them back or whatever you call it. And this poor kid ends up with two balls. Too many. And then runs to the back wall. The problem is that this pro tennis players get ready to serve. And the kid face plants into the wall. Face plant. Listen, you can hear it. Yes. Ball one, ball two. Oh, that was so quiet. Oh, that was yeah. That's the one we want. She goes. Damn. Damn. Just like I'm so sorry. Someone helped that poor child. It was like a Batman sound effect. And I'm like, I'm so glad that kid face planted into the wall. Finally, this game is interesting to me. You are not allowed to say that because I have come around to watching soccer. And I am here to tell you not because of me. It it Scott. It is so exciting. And we watched the women. We watched the men.

4:06I don't understand the coaches are now all wearing ball caps that say things like farmer's dog food. And we were talking about this. You might know Michael. How much are they being paid? All of the money to sit there wearing matching ball caps that say farmers dog. That's it. That's it. And the other day, some of the coach all wearing Carvana. Do you honestly think any of those people have ever purchased a car? Absolutely. From a vending machine. They might get the farmers dog because that's expensive. Do you think it's like $100,000? Easily. To sit just you're going to be sitting there anyway. Yeah. Watching your player that you coach here put on a hat that says data and parks, whatever. Just throwing that out. Just happy to find out that the coaches were actually the ones getting paid. I would have assumed that US tennis would have taken in all that money. No, no, no, no. These are all side. I read I did a deep dive. They're all side deal. They're side gigs. Speaking of side gig. I don't care. I'm so happy you are because it was a year ago this week, a year ago today.

5:08Today that you have four minutes was released. Oh, it's the anniversary. Congratulations. Well, today the audio book comes out starring one Dana Wright, Michael McConn. Stop it. Am I prominently displayed? Have you seen your names are prominently displayed on audible on Amazon? Stop it. Yes. so much fun reading that and by the way Scott and I am not even mildly kidding. I almost did the entire thing in one take. We redid one of the sentences and I was like I can stick around and do more. You liked it. I haven't heard it. I don't. Forward by Cindy Wilson of the B-52s. Red by Dana Wright. On Valentine's Day, 1977, my life changed forever. That was the night my brother and I and three other deadbeats performed for the very first time, simply for the fun of amusing ourselves and a living room full of friends who had all gathered for a birthday party. The whole thing had started five months

6:10earlier after a round of exotic drinks at a local Chinese restaurant. That led to a wild, slightly inebriated jam session. It was such a hoot that we decided to do it at the upcoming party. Needing a name, we called ourselves the B-52s. If someone had told me that at that party, I would launch a long career in music and also meet my future husband, another story all together. I would have asked them what they were smoking and did they have any more of it. But the band took flight and after almost five decades, we're still doing it, spreading dance on the street. That's not something that is possible fun far and wide. Throughout my years as a performer, I've been interviewed more times than I can count. One thing that I'm really on. And it's definitely Dana's voice. What's weird is I'm reading as if I am Cindy from the B-52s, which I am not. Does she talk like that? No, but Dana did try to do with a subtle Southern accent and I went, No.

7:11I said, can I scream 10 roof rusted at the end? No. And then we have a clip from Radio Gaga on this chapter 39. You guys have your own chapter. Let me hear it. 10 years ago, the show was an up and coming success story. From day one, it was this intoxicating blend of pop culture, water cooler fair, and local newsy stories that typically had folks in a dither. Then the show took off. I mean, we are talking stratus, theoric ratings. The weirdly chaotic chemistry and ping pong banter between Dana and Parks was infectious. Everyone religiously started tuning in. Talk about birds of a feather. She's like a lunatic magpie chattering away and cackling. And he's like a crabby Sam Eagle from the Muppets, keenly aware, astute, and not going to take crap from anyone. Thus when Parks foolishly asked me to sub for Dana, I was immediately intimidated.

8:12I'm not intimidating. Parks yelled at me when I announced my hesitation. During my initial appearance on the show, I couldn't get a word in edgewise. I stammered, I stuttered. OK. But a complete sentence, and that wasn't in the cards. That's so far. That's approximately 20 minutes of me meekly talking into the microphone. Scott lambasted me during the show's first commercial break. Look, Mackie, I brought you in here to talk. And you've done anything but he said with lock jaw. So chime in or else I mean it. Either start talking or get out. That's a true story. That's a true story. That is a true story. I think I embellished a little bit for the audio book, but that is a true story. Well, that was a tiny bit of dramatic flair, but he did yell at me. And I wanted to beat him to death with the microphone. I didn't even know him. That's when you and I were besties. Oh, I love him. And I was just randomly filling in. Happy one year. That is amazing. Thank you. What is one your diamond? I don't know, maybe. Paper. I believe it's wood. What?

9:13So, okay. High five. Yes, it's the high five anniversary. Tis the high five. And where can people find your audio book? The audio book that just came out today is on Audible and Amazon and soon on Apple. And I'm so excited. Thank you guys for having me. Congratulations. You really didn't have a choice. I was going to be in here whether you like it. We know. Get out. Get out. He'll be back tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Live out here on KMBZ. It's already Wednesday afternoon. Hi. It's hump day. The NFL starts tonight. Oh, yes, it does. Yeah. Oh, Dave. You're gonna love this. My son. Wait, my son, who was it? Someone in my life yesterday says there is a new sort of sports. What do you call it when you pick players? The fantasy draft league, right? Yeah.

10:13They are in a new league, you guys, that I can get behind. I don't understand. I don't think I would do well in a traditional fantasy football. Pick your player week to week league. I just, it's not my thing. I think you're right there. Their new league Scott, you pick one team in almost every sport and it goes year round. There's a draft, okay? So follow me here. You pick NFL, you get an NFL pick. You get an NFL player or team team. You get a college pick. You get college basketball. You get NBA, hockey is in there. I don't know how many of my players are. I don't either, but you know what they were saying to me the other night? They said it makes sports that you otherwise would not necessarily watch. It gives you something to do in the law between your favorite sport. You get an MLB team, like all that stuff. And I thought, you know what that's something I could do? Who would you rent a belt team big? I would make the chiefs. That was enjoyable. A year round all sport.

11:15Survivor league of sports. That's what it is. Okay. Interesting. And who would your major league baseball team be? Well, I would, I like to pick with my heart. So what you're saying is you have no intention of winning. I was so sad to see they lost last night. It was so close. We have switched over to tennis. I'm in my tennis era now. But yeah, I mean, are they statistically eliminated? No. You know, I think there's the which tells you how bad the American. Yes, right? They just keep hanging on. They're not hanging on by much. I believe it's a point one percent chance of making the playoffs. Well, and I think hanging on would indicate that they're winning enough games to stay in contention. Yeah. The bar just keeps getting lower. So he gave me the number last night. And if you want, I'll share it with you. We would have to win the next 18 games. And I think we get to lose one. What do you think the odds of that happen? And all of the other teams would have to lose some.

12:16So you know what? Keep cheering for them. They have to win 18. I think there's like 20 left. They have to win an overwhelming majority of what's left. I think I will spend my Tuesday nights watching Ted Lasso, which was awesome last night. Oh, man, they hit it out of the park. I felt like. Why are people poo-pooing this? I felt like the whole season quite frankly was really forced. The jokes felt forced. The dialogue felt forced. I don't know what it was. It was almost like they should have closed the book after three seasons and let it go. Last night they hit their stride again. It's incredible. And it wasn't the final episode was it? No, it's like episode five or six. Six was last night. I think there's going to be at least four more. If season two, they threw in two extra. So there could be up to six more. Which by the way, those two extras that they put in the middle, the Christmas episode and something else were the worst. I know, but like it's lost episode. Yeah. Well, that was art apparently that I did not understand. I will tell you the the choices that we have of what to watch are so overwhelming.

13:21And I think the one thing we can all agree on with Ted Lasso is not only do we support that because it's Jason Sadekis, but we support that because it's good. At the end of the night when you watch that, you feel good. I agree. I dare you to say that after watching cable television news or I may I murdered my fill in the blank. All of the murder attainment that's out there. I do. We don't watch the news at night. No, no, I don't either. We should celebrate it because it's good. Yeah. And last night, I'll just say this about episode six, not going to spoil anything. The final scene of episode six was like, wow, did it get you in the fields? No, it was a wow. It was a page turner. Okay. Okay. So you can't wait for episode seven now. What's in a cliffhanger? Yes, it was. Also a return of a character from the previous seasons that will just have you rolling on the floor. Well, you can say who it is. It's on like all over the internet. It's Jamie Tart. Yeah, Jamie Tart comes back, but how he comes back.

14:21Yeah. Oh my God. Good because I've missed him. We also have a programming update for all of you long time Dana and Park's listeners in what amounted to the dumbest 30 seconds of our lives. So many of you have been asking and you calling on Festivus Friday and you say, why can't you update what you say at the beginning and the end of the podcast? Because many years ago, I just went, hey, you're listening to the day in Park's podcast. Thanks for tuning in. And you know, that did probably not quite hit the market. It was like the Christmas episode of Ted Lasso. You know, you got to spy. And so I'm back there in the studio today. I came in early to work today, which never happens. Went to the back of the studio and I popped my head out and I said, hey, why don't you guys come back here and we will give the people what they have asked for. We will finally update that thing and we did. It took 28 seconds of our lives. Sam, can you play a little bit? You're listening to the Dana and parks on KMBV.

15:22Sam, you sound a little nasally. Oh, I am very nasal. We're going to have to redo it again. Now once my nose clears up, no, I like it. And then here's the outro and buds. Thanks for listening to the Dana. And parks podcast on KMBZ catches online anytime on KMBZ.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast. Well, that's so hard. No, I just had to say and parks both times. It's very simple. You sound incredibly bored. And I told you, I told him to sound bored. He rocked it. Thank you. Yeah. New iPhone is coming out. It is foldable. The first foldable iPhone ever, it's called the iPhone Duo fold, it's open like a book. Would you care to guess? By the way, the screen is going to be 80% larger than the latest iPhone Pro. Basically a smaller iPad that happens to fold in half. Why? Why? Is there a seam? I don't understand. You know what we fold books?

16:23You know what we don't fold? Fones. Yep. Sam, go ahead. Do you want the answer for why? Because they can. Because the Android, the LG, the Motorola Samsung, they all have folding. They came out with the folding phone seven years ago. Do you know anyone with a folding phone? I knew a couple of people when they first dropped couple seven years ago. And I got to see one granted they worked in a dirty industry. So there was a lot of dirt around their phone, but they opened that screen up and what it was supposed to be a perfectly clear square screen had a line right down the middle of dirt and gung. It's going to look like the cup holder in my car. And what makes even less sense to me and part of the reason why they're doing this and why Android did it initially was because of everybody's push for the Motorola Razor, the phones of old, right? But you can't slam a smartphone folding phone. The whole reason that the flip phone was satisfying is because if somebody made you

17:26mad, you could hear the sound of the plastic hitting itself as you gave them the FU button, saying we're done with this conversation. You do that with your glass screen and it's going to shatter. You can't slam it shut. By the way, the foldable Android is one of their least selling models. It's only a fraction of their sales. Would you care to guess what the new iPhone is going to cost minimum? Four grand or something stupid? Two thousand dollars. No. I am, I like nice things. You know that. I'm not a clothing shopper. I'm not like, but I don't, you know, I like design things. I have never been a person that feels some need to run out and get the new phone because usually the only update is we've added another camera. Well, I, which by the way, they had in the pipeline the year before, before the year before that. We're going to add another camera. Now there are apparently three cameras on the back of an iPhone. Mine still has one. Mine's always dirty.

18:26I don't know. Is that two? Well, no, you might have three. Yeah. I don't know. Mine has the three camera lens as well. I don't even know what they do. Do you know how to pick between the three? I don't even know what they do. I pulled the camera out. I zoomed where I want to zoom and I clicked the button and man, it's super clear, but ridiculous. The saddest part about this is, and Scott, I mentioned this to you out in the newsroom, no matter what price they charge, no matter how dumb the upgrade is, there will be a line around the building at every Apple store in the country when that thing drops. Because fools and their money are easily parted. I still have an iPhone eight, an eight, which came out a decade ago. I don't know if that's a bragging point, but I'm proud of you. Well, just like with my blackberry, I'm going to, I'm going to keep it until it dies. What, what other product outside of the cell phone can you think of where the next new big thing comes out and everyone stands in line to get it? Because we, I don't know why with this particular product, we all do that.

19:27We don't do it with a laptop and that's about the same price. When was the last time you saw a line wrapped around like a best buy because a new laptop was coming out? It doesn't work with any other product, but the phone I don't understand why. It would work and this is a horrible example. Like when a professional sports franchise is offering up their season tickets for the first time. Okay. People will line up for those things. But when you're talking about a physical hold it in your hand, use it product. I can't think of one. I mean, back in the day, concert tickets, but not in 2026. Well, I mean, they do in a sense on how they wait in the queue online or whatever. Right. And still today, like Jackson County can get in line first for chiefs tickets for now. And people will still do that. I don't know if they have to stand in a physical line anymore, but they used to, they used to have to go out to Arrowhead and get in line. Great. A couple of great points from the text line and all of these are cult like situations. Apple is a cult like situation. I know I'm a Samsung guy. It just is. I don't know why Starbucks when they release a new tumbler.

20:29Okay. Whatever reason people feel the need to line up around the block. Okay. I did. Well, I did like that's a good example. I did like the Kansas City coffee mug every member, every city got a mug. There was a Chicago mug. I didn't stand in line to get one, but I remember thinking that kind of be cool to have. Game consoles. Not so much anymore, but that used to be a big one. I waited in line multiple times at midnight for a different call of duties that came out. Is it call of duties or calls of duty? I think because it's the name of a game, it would be call of duties, but I hear your point. It should be calls of duty. What about when GTA 6 comes out? It's never happening. Oh, um, Pokemon cards. Do people get in line for that? Oh, yeah. Do they really do? I tell you, I saw those random dudes at Walmart over like perusing that aisle. I'm like, what are these guys doing? Where they've been released from their mom's base. I don't know. I thought it was fairy odd, but it's a thing.

21:29Scott. Okay. 913-586-779-8586-779-8. Here on Dan and Parks. Story from the New York Post, a serial pooper is on the loose in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. Video shows the woman openly squatting on video. Oh, there's video. Do not go away. You will get results. Show the woman openly squatting on a sidewalk at the corner of Gossian and barrington avenues. These are in front of like bajillion dollar home, Scott. As Walker stroll by, she's also seen weeping. Because she doesn't have a toilet apparently. Traumatized residents. Traumatized residents. Tell Fox 11, the woman has been using the neighborhood as her personal toilet for years. Oh, come on. With one resident saying they see it quote, every morning and they say it is getting worse.

22:30Okay. And then someone like that because this is a mental health issue. She has got. We have them committed. Where would one do that? Where would one do that? I don't know. This is always the problem with these stories. Quoting here from one neighbor, Wendy Kush. She was walking her young. Not toosh. Does she own a dispensary? Sorry. Sorry. Said that the woman was squatting one morning. She was walking her daughter and her dogs. And the woman. The pooper. Started yelling at her that she was going to kill me and started lunging at me. So, so look, all, you know, those jokes are easy in juvenile and write themselves. What do you do with a situation like that? Scott, you can't. Is that illegal behavior? I would assume so, right? It's disgusting. It's vile. What do you do? You could put her in jail. The sheriff's offices are going to say we're not equipped to handle a serial pooper. They're not a mental health services.

23:33How do you force mental health services or medications on somebody who doesn't want it? And who pays for it? She is an adult, right? Who pays for it? I don't know. I don't know like that the answer is even bringing back the institutions that were shuttered in what the 80s. Who? Our homeless population skyrocketed when they shuttered those. They did. And now we all have the constant conversation of, is it homelessness or is it mental health problems? I see the same man with a like push cart for lack of a better word, filled to the brimless stuff, walking back and forth around the station almost. It's definitely weekly if it's not every day. And I often wonder like what is that a veteran? Does he need help? What, you know, is he an addict or both or, you know, what happened in his life that led him to this point, right? What do you, I don't understand what you do or how to fix it. I have said this a thousand times on this program.

24:34This is the unsolvable problem of America. How do other countries handle this? Institutions. Mm-hmm. Or they just don't report about it. The only reason this is a news story is because it's happening in a very nice neighborhood around a million dollar homes. This is not the first individual to drop their pants and go number two in the middle of a crowded area. It happens all the time. It happens. A couple years ago. Well, but see, we knew about that because it happened in Leewood. I'll tell you this. I think I was on vacation with this happen. So a couple of weeks ago, someone posted a photo on Facebook walking by somewhere where it was like bridge adjacent in Kansas City. And they tagged the city. They tagged the mayor and they said this is disgusting. Someone needs to do something. We walk by this every day. Look at the trash. Look at the Narcan. Very little shocks me anymore. After all the years that we've been in this business, Scott, there's very little where you're like, oh my God. And it was one of those photos where you zoom in under this bridge.

25:38There were probably six or seven bodies. Human beings. Oh, you showed me this picture. Yes. Oh my gosh. Sam, in various levels of passed out, uh, or sleep, we don't know. Or asleep or clearly massive issues in their lives. Some of them had clothing that was not covering appropriate areas of their body. And the, I don't think the person was a bad person or a mean person for posting it. They were literally like, this is not okay. This is the United States of America. This is near a park. What are we doing here? Scott, I don't know. You look at it and you go, oh my God. Wow. And then most of us, you avert your eyes and you move on with your day. Thank God. It's not you. You know, but, but what is the solution? What is the answer to this problem, whether it's somebody in Brentwood and Sam's right?

26:39The only reason this story is getting any legs and ends up in a New York tabloid is because it happened in a neighborhood where really rich people live. Now, I don't see homeless people defecating on the sidewalk every single day, but I live in Waldo. I see homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk every single day. On the sidewalk? On the sidewalk, on the bench in front of a business. This is why they removed some of the benches. You remember that and it was controversial. They removed benches at some of the bus stops and replaced them with a leaning pole. They took them all out downtown. Or a bench that had a bunch of arm rests all the way across it so you couldn't lay down on it. And then the way the park near my house, they have figured out how to remove those arm rests. Oh, really? Yes, the arm rests are on the ground next to the benches and they are asleep on the bench. They never cause a problem. I walk by them every single morning. And are they passed out? There are some are asleep, some are just sitting there and watching the sun come up, reading a book. They're just people.

27:40Within their lives. I know. I know. Well, when you get off on 20th Street downtown, like you're going to, you know, the crossroads or something with a garment district, they're under that bridge. It always ends up back in the news around December in Kansas City. When the temperatures really, the bottom falls out. It is so cold. Then we all start talking about it again and then spring rolls around and it's, it goes away. Problem doesn't go away. No, the coverage was away. And the coverage is always the same thing. There are resources available. You can't force someone to get help. Money is not the answer. Seattle tried that. Spend $100,000 per homeless person and it didn't even make a dent. Were you here when the homeless couple outside of a fast food restaurant lost control of their dog and the dog bit, the dog bit a child and the restaurant is being sued.

28:46Because they didn't kick the homeless man and woman off the property. They were living in their car. They were living in the just park there and then a dog gets loose. So then it's in the news again because someone's gotten injured, right? It's only when temperatures are so cold, it's deadly or something goes wrong in Lawrence behind Johnny's man and a woman just trying to take a walk along the river. And guess some lunatic starts chasing them with a machete. And it's back in the news again. It's almost a problem that no administration or politician, I don't want to say they don't want to fix it. You can't. How? You can't. Even if you really with all of your heart wanted to make that problem go away, money does not do this. We saw that in Seattle. You throw $100,000 at every man, woman and child. The problem isn't better. It's worse. That is correct. Unless you want to start putting people in mental institutions against their will. Medicate them against their will.

29:48Well that was part of the problem. Why they shut down in the first place is because it became so expensive to do the actual treatment that they needed that they just started giving everybody frontal lobotomies. Because if you're a vegetable, you can't act out. Yeah, but you can't act. We don't want to go back to that. No, absolutely not. But I mean, we've tried money. It didn't work. There are places in Kansas City and throughout Kansas City where homeless people can go and stay or people who are not mentally healthy can go. But nobody wants it in their backyard. Remember the proposal to put a homeless shelter over there near I-35 and I think it was 95th Street. The old La Quinta. That's right. The residents around that property lost their ever loving minds. You would too, Scott. I would. You're damn right, I would. I don't want that in my backyard. And so if I don't want it in my backyard, you're not going to want it in yours.

30:50Sam, I'm assuming you wouldn't want it in yours. Nungu. Then where are you going to put it in an industrial park? I don't know. Then where do they go get food unless you're going to provide it there. And you know who doesn't want it in the industrial park? The people who own businesses in the park. Oh, yeah. Someone in our family ran a trucking business many years ago and it happened to be in the West bottoms like a lot of those trucking type businesses are. And he would talk about regularly coming out and having issues with people who were loitering. And he always told this story. He got into his car one day, heard a rustling and turned around and there was someone just sleeping in the back of his car. Oh my. And he said, buddy, you can't be in here. You have to go. So the industrial park is everywhere you decide, let's put something here to fix this. There's going to be somebody that goes, uh, uh, both mental, no.

31:51And mental health is a real problem in these United States. I don't think anybody can deny that. So the only way you can force, medicate people, and I'm not saying that we should is if you hold them against their will, but what crime have they committed being alive without a house or an apartment? They've committed no crime. Pooping in public might be a crime. What is going to say? But you can't hold somebody indefinitely just because they've pooped in public. Otherwise, every boy scout needs to be institutionalized because I pooped in public. Okay. Okay. 913-586-779-8586-779-8 here on Dana Parks. It's got a Stephen in independence. Stephen, hi. We're doing well. Ah, I'm glad you're here. So you know, a lot of people. I'm not doing exactly. There are people who are just a touchable where they're at.

32:54There's a touchable living in the street. I come up to California. There's a guy named Kevin, very well known in the city. He lived underneath the bridge. He was extremely wealthy, but he loved living off the streets. He was perfectly saved. He just, people just don't want to change their country where they're at. And they don't want to know what to do. Stephen, thank you for the call. He just says some people just, they're happy. Happy where they are. Because they're mentally ill. Nobody wants to live on the streets. Maybe you'll find one wayward free soul who says, I want to live off the grid. I want to live on the streets. This is where I'm comfortable. This is where I'm happy to find. But I would bet if you pulled homeless people in America, 99.9% of them say they wish they were not on the street.

33:56I was running in San Diego one summer when I was out there working the fair system. And this homeless person was sitting on a bench. It was like 6.37 o'clock in the morning and they were calling me over. And of course, my first thought is, I don't have any money, dude. All I have is my watch. And he starts following me. And I'm like, okay, what's going on? And I ended up having like a 30 minute conversation with the guy. He was very wealthy. Graduate of KU. The reason he flagged me down is because I had a Kansas shirt on. And he was like, I just like to live on the beach. When I have a debit card, I have a credit card. I have a bank account with a lot of, you know, a commas in it. I just like living on the beach. When you say working the fair, you mean when you were a car. I was slaying a dip. I wasn't a car. Okay. You said you were a car. No, no, no. I was inside the building. And the car he's actually kind of looked down on us. Those are the guys that put together the car. Car needs work the rides and the game. The Ferris wheels that nobody should ever put their kids on. Come on over. Try your hand at the bouncy ball into the bucket game. Oh, when I was a kid, my goodness.

34:57You can do it. Everybody does it. You always just wanted your dad when I was like four or five to try it like 50 times to get you the bear. It's national teddy bear day by the way. Is it really? Who happy national teddy bear day? First of those for five dollars, ten for two. Get one in and get the prize. How do you think the guy who guesses your weight does it? Oh, they're real. And world of fun. Really good. But they're young. I don't know how they do it, but they heard good. Charles in Kansas City. Hello. Hello. How are you doing? We're doing well. Thank you. I just wanted to comment on the fact that there are lots of places for people to go. And I live in Old Northeast just outside of downtown. I live within walking distance of a couple of places. But if you've ever been homeless or dealt with homeless people, if they have anything, they're trying to recover their dragon rounds and bags of goods, or they got a dog, you can't take any of that stuff into the shelter.

35:58You can't take it back into the shelter. You're shopping cart into the shelter. So if you're a little bit above nothing, the shelters all turn you away. Now, if we have, again, the city, we have a VA village that's all tiny homes. So things like that, veterans are very prone to taking on a pet. And there's some stability and stuff. But you can't go. There are a lot of places that aren't available for you if you've got a puppy. You say you live in the proximity of some of these homeless shelters. Do you ever have issues with them? I have gotten, I'm a bleeding heart in my soul. But I've gotten, you know, I just don't respond to people who are asking me for money at the gas station or whatever.

36:58But some of them I have conversations with. And, you know, I've had help some guys up. You know, I have access to helping people get in. My wife used to be a social worker. Helping people get into facilities, which can't help somebody get an ability if they're desperately hanging on to something. Whether it's an animal or white goods or whatever it is. It's a great point. And I understand, too, the shelters from a liability standpoint can't have the dogs. Can't have the dogs. Can't have alcohol. Can't have drugs. And it's such a comfort. I'm sure. That's the only friend that I have that doesn't judge me, right? Probably the only friend you have. And that in and of itself is sad. When we come back, we have an update on the Amazon cargo plane crash. What was done and what was not done as all of those events unfolded that left to the deaths of so many people in the van on the ground.

37:58It's puzzling. I will tell you that. It's very puzzling. Okay. Dana Wright, Sam Stevie III. My name is Scott Parks. The news is next here on KMBC. Thanks for listening to the Danah and Parks podcast on KMBC. Catch us online anytime on KMBC.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to the Dana and Parks podcast on KMBC. It's raining in Kansas City. I forgot what it looked like. Oh, man. From maybe seen news. Are my windows up? This is too late to ask that question. I think it already blew through here, Sam. It was poor. Does everyone ask that at the same time or might windows up? Two American men are just two wins away from winning this year's US Open in what would be a major breakthrough for American tennis. Americans Ben Shelton and Francis. Tiafo. Tiafo, thank you. Did you not stay up till 3 30 in the morning watching it? No.

38:58I didn't say it. How long it went. I didn't watch it at all. Oh, what? One marathon quarter final matches overnight on Tuesday setting up a semi-final showdown that guarantees an American man will play in Sunday's final match. In Sunday's final in New York. Okay. Shelton is number eight. Francis is number 11. They're so fun to watch. The last American man to play in the US Open Finals was Taylor Fritz in 2024. So it's not unheard of. The last American man to win the Grand Slam was Andy Roddick in 2003. Coca-Cola is scheduled to play a Russian on Wednesday in a quarter finals match. I think she's doing that right now. Yes, she is. Okay. Is that why the flag next to her name is just the color blue is because she's Russian? I don't. I am not familiar with the Russian flag. Well, it is. It's a white stripe red stripe and a blue stripe or a white blue and red.

39:58But member of the Olympics, they had to. If they were allowed to compete this past time, but at a previous Olympics, they had to. Lotify March in with a rather nondescript flag. You are correct, Scott Russian flags are not shown at the US Open because tennis governing bodies require athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete as neutral parties without a national symbol similar to the Olympics. Okay. What's the latest on this cargo crash? I didn't even get their national anthem. I'm an update that and then I want to talk about target real quick. So there is a puzzling update to the Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five on the ground, I believe. That plane weighed more than 100 tons. It remained airborne, quote, deep into the runway. It's left rear gear continuing to bounce along the pavement as the pavement rapidly disappeared ahead by the time that plane reached the end of the runway.

41:09The jet was still barreling forward at 130 miles an hour. Here's where it gets. Odd data from the flight data recorder, which has a hours and hours and hours of information on it. They said show that seconds before the crash, the throttles were set to full power. There were no indications that speed breaks or thrust reversers were deployed during the incident. Both systems are designed to slow a plane, obviously. Speed breaks by using aerodynamic surfaces and thrust reversers by diverting air from the engine. Neither were deployed during the incident. Sounds like he way overshot the runway. Why? And rather than pulling back up initially tried to go through with the landing realized I've got way too much weight.

42:12I've got way too big of a plane tried to pull back up. That's why the throttle would have been full at time of crash. And obviously with that much weight, you're already down on the ground. You're not getting back up. By the way, on its third flight of the day, the aircraft hurtled across a small grassy patch through a chain link fence with razor wire. Concrete barriers designed to keep cars out of the secure area. Crumbled as the jet headed straight for a four lane road. One of the things I read a couple days ago was the very, very inexpensive sort of duh solution. And that is wait for it. Gravel. Or they were also saying a retaining wall for airplanes, not for cars. Multiple airports have installed. And I don't even want to use the word install. They scatter gravel where the runway ends. You just put gravel a whole bunch of gravel. Let's say for a football field, you put gravel. That in and of itself is designed to stop a speeding plane that either makes a mistake.

43:17We don't know what this was. The whole thing seems very odd. Yes, I agree with that. But the gravel is not mandated. Many airports have done it. The NTSB has suggested it. It's not mandated. Why not? I don't know. Does anybody find it odd that obviously a certified and trained pilot overshoots a runway like this? I mean, they were halfway down the runway before the wheels even touched the ground. It's not uncommon. I learned that from a retired B-52 pilot, B-52 pilot, not the band the plane. Thank you. Who I sat next to on a flight back from California. And it was a great conversation learned all about aviation until we got to MCI and we're starting to land. And he goes, oh, come on, buddy, put it down. Come on, put it down. And I'm like, what are you, what's going on? And we finally get down safely. And he goes, yeah, I mean, every time I'm in a commercial jet, he said, every time I'm in a commercial jet, they waste thousands of feet of runway before they put the plane down.

44:21And it's just the pilot. I have no idea. I'm just speculating now. Being concerned about doing it correctly, I guess. I don't know. The other big issue here is. Did you tell him that his commentary and play-by-play was not helpful? I did in the moment. I'm like, can you shut up? Thank you for your service, but stop. Yeah. The thing that I can't figure out with this Amazon plane is that Miami has runways long enough for cargo planes. This particular runway is not a really the shortest runway at Miami. And I say long enough, I'm sure that it's 9,000 feet long. Yeah, I'm sure that you put a plane down on that runway, a cargo plane safely. But if you have longer runways and you have a fully loaded cargo jet, give them the longer runway. This jet had contact lenses on it, 32,000 pounds of contact lenses. Contact lenses. Yeah. I wear is what was on that plane. The pilots, by the way, did not inform air traffic control of any problems with the plane prior to the landing attempt.

45:29And by the way, with regard to the reverse thrusters and the air breaks, those do not deploy, according to the internet, until the plane is stable on its wheels. So that back left wheel was still bouncing. The plane would not allow the reverse thrusters to kick in yet. In theory, because if you're not stable on the ground and the reverse thrusters kick in, you're just going to smack the ground really hard. I don't know. Okay. But that would make sense on why those didn't start. Okay. All right. Can we explain please just for news, sake, not for calls or a topic, what the heck is going on in Missouri? Everything changed after we got off the air last night. We are going to have Sam explain it because he has researched it so heavily. All the news stations have it. It's at the top above the full Kansas City star. And now let's talk that the Secretary of State, Missouri, might be in contempt of the Supreme Court.

46:29Whose maps are they supposed to be following with respect to the elections and Sam, where do we stand today? So the tit for tat has been the new 2026 congressional map, which was actually a 2025 congressional map. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that that was unconstitutional. 20 attorneys general sent it to the Supreme Court who said we're not deciding. That was the update we gave you last night sending it back to the Missouri Supreme Court decision. Right. The Secretary of State in Missouri had hinted that he's not going to follow the Supreme Court's decision. The federal judge somewhere, I don't even know where, said that because the new map had already been approved, that the 2022 map and the 2024 map are now void and or invalid. So legally, they have to use the 2026 map. What? I don't know what's going on. What? To make this all even stickier, the general election ballot had to be finalized yesterday. Okay.

47:29So I don't know what we're going to get in November. I don't know what map we're going to be voting for. If you live on the Missouri side, go to the ballot and... Find out. A judge is going to have to decide. But a judge has decided. Well, and he says no, the 2026 map is now in effect, right? The judge ruled that it had to be the 2020, the federal judge ruled that it had to be the 2026 map because in his opinion, since that one was approved, whatever that means, the previous maps are now null and void. But the Supreme Court in their decision to not take up the case, effectively sided with the Missouri Supreme Court, who said it had to be the 2022 map, not the 2026 map. So now it's going to have to be appealed back to the US Supreme Court and they're going to have to take this up. And to make it all even stickier, people voted in the primaries for if we revert back to one of the previous maps, candidates that they're not going to be

48:30then voting for in the general election. My head hurts too, but that's where I have a question. If you were voted in under one map and now they're changing the maps, you can't go back and reverse that course, right? Candidates were selected based on map A. If they now say that that map is illegal, do those results stand? Like for example, I don't know who the Republican nominee is in the fifth congressional district, which is a manual cleaver's district. It's not Jacob Turks, stop the jokes. If he was, or if he won the nomination from outside of what the 2024 map said was the fifth congressional district, is he still the nominee? Even though he doesn't live in the district, you're bringing up even more concerning points about this whole kerfuffle. And the guy who ended up winning the Democratic nomination in the fourth district,

49:30that's Mark Alford's district, does he live in the Kansas City area or somewhere out in rural Missouri? In theory, you could live along the west side of truce and be in the fourth district or fifth district, whichever one offers in. And have won the primary. And now if we use the 2022 map, you don't even live within 20 or 30 miles of the district. You're running for it. And we'll look this up later, but what do you do with the nominee who potentially doesn't even live in the district that he's nominated for? Right. You're asking a lot of great questions, Scott. I wish I had any answers. Okay. No idea. Dana Wright, Sam Stevie, my name is Scott. You're on KMBC. This will be the last thing we say about it, but we just, if the 2022 and 2024 congressional maps

50:30in Missouri are upheld and yesterday's refusal to consider by the US Supreme Court stands. Okay. The Democratic nominee in the fourth district, that's Mark Alford's district, no longer lives in the district because he lives downtown. Oh, God. The Republican nominee for the fifth district, that's a manual cleaver seat and district. He does not live in the district anymore. What they need is an armchair somewhere in the district. By the way, according to Missouri State Constitution, representatives must live in the district. They're district story here from Fox four, Dominic Miller, one of the accused shooters at the 2024 Kansas City Chief Superbowl really. The reshooter. You can say it. The reshooter who took a plea deal earlier this year is now facing a two count federal indictment. After investigators say he was found with handguns during a traffic stop this summer. According to an unsealed federal complaint filed on September 5, 21 year old Miller was arrested on Tuesday

51:35and charged with one count of felon in possession of a firearm in one count of possession of a machine gun. The federal indictment comes after Miller entered a plea deal back in March in connection with the chiefs rally shooting that left one woman dead and 20 injured. For those of you who do not remember this idiot killed a woman at the chiefs rally allegedly. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He was not convicted. He was not convicted. She died. He fired the fatal shot and because of the way our Missouri gun laws are written to protect farmer Bob in rural Missouri, they claimed at the prosecutor's office they could not bring murder charges against him because, quote, I felt fear because one guy was shooting at another guy. Okay. Fast forward after they let him out. He basically did time served after a woman died. Just okay, you can go just go be it be on your best behavior.

52:38March 9th of gunman person and people were rightly outraged that this happened mass chaos in panic downtown. And then just bye bye, you get to go home. Have a nice life, sir. He is the man who has been caught with the machine gun in his trunk. Because of that, I giggle. I feel so much joy that this idiot will now go back to prison under a law that has some teeth in it. He is a felon in possession of a weapon. Why do we? So if we can't get him for the murder of Lisa. Lopez Galvin. Lopez Galvin. He will at least now go away. How long was he out before? He was released in late March. He was arrested in late July. And by the way, he made it four months. It would have been a routine traffic stop, but he allegedly, according to the indictment,

53:39was driving a vehicle that had mismatched plates. Huh. Wonder what that indicates. So he's smart too. And the machine gun and the firearm possession were one and the same because again, according to the indictment, both of the blocks that were found in the vehicle prior to the arrest, because he also had a warrant out for his arrest out of Wichita. It just keeps getting better. Out of Setswick. Yep. Uh, both of those blocks that were found in the car had what's called switches on them, which is a modification that makes them fully automatic. They've been converted. Yep. Right. Um, when they found the firearms, he said, I don't know anything about that and requested a lawyer. Believe he said that he just bought the car and it wasn't registered yet. Right. Tell it to a judge. Here's what I'm going to say about this idiot. Thank God he is back behind bars. And I pray no one was killed in the four months that he was out roaming. Can you imagine, Scott? Like we talked about this when they let him out. This is not a good person. This is not someone you want to cross at a red light.

54:41Like this, this, a woman died. Okay. Can you imagine somebody else being mowed down by one of those weapons? Because the way the Missouri law was written, he got to just walk out of jail. Sam, can you explain what the, yeah, I'm, I'm a little sticky on this one because I feel like it's a little more convoluted than that. It's not the Missouri law and how it was written. It was all because of one Missouri Supreme Court decision that said for whatever reason that some homeless person in St. Louis, who stabbed another person, was justified in using fatal force because they felt verbally assaulted. It is the interpretation, Scott, of the Stand Your Ground Law. And I will, I will let me just remind them of the case. Sam, it bears repeating so that people understand this. Yes, please. It was a case out of the St. Louis area. Two women get into a verbal altercation. And one of the women says to the other woman, I'm going to, is it Wally Wampus?

55:43No, it is. Molly Wampus. I'm going to, she said, I'm going to Molly Wamp you, which is to beat you into a whole lot. I would have had to have said pardon me. Can I look that term up? Yeah. She says, I'm going to Molly Wamp you. The other woman then pulls out a knife, I believe, and stabs her to death. Yes. And then goes to court and the judge rules because of the way your, the Stand Your Ground Laws are written. She said she felt fear because she didn't want to be Molly Wamp. Who does? And therefore she cannot be charged for the death of this woman who said I'm going to Molly Wampus. And it was on that decision that everything, yes, that everything else has been based. Because if I can say to you, Scott, I'm going to Molly Wamp you and it's completely reasonable for you to stab me to death. Then this idiot at the chief's parade, someone pulls a gun, he pulls a gun, you now see a gun, I felt fear. The argument to drop the charges was that the Jackson County prosecutor's office could

56:46not specifically determine who yelled first in the altercation now that we're allowing verbal assault as grounds for fatal force. Is the over under on his argument in court or his lawyer's argument in court being that his client was cased by the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. Good. How would he have been cased with a plate that didn't belong to him? They spotted him, recognized him, started following him everywhere. The better question is if you go back to March, uh, third or ninth when it was revealed that this idiot was going to get out, the whole conversation you and I had, and I think Sam, you were in on this at the time that he will be back in jail because people like this do not think the rules apply to them. And in the chief shooting case, it didn't sadly, it didn't, right? A woman lost her life and no one, no one has to answer for that. They're going to get him like they got Gregory Breeden on bad check writing charges. They will get him on the weapons charge because he's so stupid.

57:49I remember because the fell in in possession of a firearm charge on the federal level is five years. No, five, I thought it was 10. Okay. It's 15. Is it now 15? He is facing, uh, well, actually, I'm not sure which is which one of them is 15, one of them is 10. No, I think Dana's right. If memory, it used to be five years on the fell in possession of a firearm charge. That is correct. Um, I thought they had increased it to 10. I certainly reserved the right to be wrong. Maybe the machine gun is the 15, but yeah, he's facing up to 15 years in prison. Good. One, one, three, five, eight, six, seven, seven, nine, eight, five, eight, six, seven, seven, nine, eight. Here on Dana and Parks. Store here shoppers are being target, Ted. The big box store has been tracking your shopping habits through chips planted in its shopping carts.

58:50Oh, yeah. And it says here, you can toss out your tinfoil hat because an employee has confirmed this technology in a recent tick tock. The employee goes by the moniker Elijah P on the platform posted a tick tock showing where the tracker sits on the carts. It's on the inside. He in this video, he shows where, you know, there's a, you would need a screwdriver and I'm not saying you would open it, but there's this little red plate, you know, target shopping carts are red. There's a little plate. He is claiming that inside that plate is some system that when you are perusing up and down the aisles, it follows your movements as like how much time Scott did you spend in the men's clothing aisle? How much timed, you know, where did you turn after leaving produce and did you pause and for how long up at the cash register in front of the candy aisle?

59:51But they don't know who I am. Well, yeah, but the in store security folks can go and look and see, okay, well, Scott Parks was in the CD aisle for 48 minutes. But where did he left? He didn't buy any CDs. That's really weird. So let's go back and look at the cameras and oh, look, there's Scott Parks stuff in CDs down his pants. Allegedly. I would never stay with him. Is it more for tracking theft, Sam, or is it to better understand and then preference? Cache in on if you will, our meandering habits. I think it's both. I think it is certainly with this whole weird dynamic pricing thing they have going on where they fluctuate prices based on the demand for certain products at certain times of the month. And I think it's also the security to make sure that you're not stealing stuff. But even if I stole something, you would have to go back because you wouldn't know that something had been stolen yet. That's what the cameras are for.

1:00:52Right. And if you didn't catch me stealing two CDs, you would have to know, okay, some CDs were stolen, apparently, our inventory is lower than it should. I am made and then Lizzie, who's stealing those? Well, I would. Then they would have to go back and figure out the time frame that those CDs were there and then weren't there. Yes. Target does not care about tagging you for two CDs. Target claiming it. No. Well, yes. But Target cares about tagging you for those two CDs and putting it in the file. The next time in you come in, you do it again. They put you in the file. Once that file reaches $950, they will charge. Yeah, but let me ask you a question. Don't they already know what our habits look like based on the receipt? Every single time you're in there, they know how long you were in there. They know what you bought. They know your name. Your name. They know when you bought it. What time of week?

1:01:53What time of day you were there? Which is why I think it's also theft driven. I think it's maybe more about theft than the dynamic pricing, Huha. See, no, why am I? Say Huha. I did. You. I don't know. Do you know what that is? I've gotten kerfuffle. I've, I try to come up with terms. I feel like you should maybe come up with a different term. My brain's in a fog. I don't know what's going on. I know. It's been a rough week, man. As the only member of the show who has one of those, I'm going to use a different term. I'll pick a different term. Hogwash. Is that better? That's better than Huha. Do not Google that term on your work computer. Please. After he came out, I was like, you know what that is? That's not what I'm going for. Anyway, causing mass mayhem. They're stealing stuff. Target wants you to stop. If the tree falls in the woods, does it really fall in the woods, Sam? Is that a CD in your pants? Are you just happy to see it?

1:02:54I'm happy. I'm just happy. As I was saying, before Sam dropped an inappropriate word on the radio, why am I coming to the defense of target? Maybe it's as innocent as, please. What are you going to hang on? We've laid out this section next to the groceries and then this section on the other side of that section. And it doesn't seem to generate enough attention the way we want it to. It could be as simple as market analysis. You could be correct. I know from my previous job that they would take that into account how long do people linger in certain portions of the store? Is it because our store design is flawed and they're getting bottled nectar? Is it because that's where the hot products are? Do we need to spread out the hot products? Things like that. By the way, the headline is interesting to me because the company that makes this technology,

1:03:57which is basically just a chip in a shopping cart, right? It's their shopping cart. And this partnership almost 10 years ago, the tech in the cart thing first hit stores back in, wait for it, 2017. So why were you just now hearing? Why are we just now hearing about it? Oh, they've been stalking you inside targets and one arts and any big box store really for a very long time. Are they not allowed to? It's their store. They watch you on their cameras. Oh, they're most certainly allowed to. And these are their shopping carts. Do they not have a right to know where their carts are? They obviously didn't know at the time that they ended up in our parking lot and we raised them with people in them, which was awesome and needs to be brought back. But do they not have a right to chip their own equipment? If you said to me, it's the anti theft GPS thing. So you know, you can only in some parking lots now, the cart, you can only go as certain

1:04:59like radius from the store and then the wheels lock up. Do you know that? No. Because, oh yeah, because the carts are expensive. We've looked this up like one shopping cart is actually expensive. They are nice. Right, very heavy plastic. Great for racing. Yes, they are. I don't even remember what my point was. If you crossed the barrier of the edge of the parking lot, the wheels lock up and you said the little chip was for that. So we can track these carts down because they're so expensive. I don't think people would have a problem with it. Now that you say, well, actually we're following you around the store, I just have more questions than why? You've got my receipt that is attached to my credit card. This is attached to my name. Which why do you need to know which direction I go or I don't know how long I parked the cart outside of the bathroom because all of a sudden I've got to use the restroom. And you receipt that has your name on it because you swipe your card is a better indicator of what you like and what you would normally buy than me randomly going down the calendar aisle and not buying a calendar.

1:06:01Right? I was looking for a shortcut over to home improvement. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it plays into all of it. It will never know. The trick is they don't want you to know. Are you a store? Let's take a grocery store. Are you a store wanderer or do you make a list go specifically where you know you're going and then check out? I don't make a list, but I buy a lot of the same products over and over and over again. And I'm not going to say I never go down the aisles because I do coffees on an aisle, but I try to hang out on the outside of the grocery store as much as I can. Were the healthiest stuff lives? Yes. Fresh meats, vegetables, fruits, all that stuff. Do I sometimes get a hankering for some Doritos? Yes. And I go down the chip style. But no, I know exactly what I want. I don't dislike going to the grocery store. I like grocery shopping, but that is not an hour long thing.

1:07:03I sent tea to the grocery store. I may never see her again. And I go to the grocery store. I'm in and out in less than 10 minutes. I know what I want. I don't write a list. So you're probably not the customer they want. They want the day in a room and all around. And I think we love it. I think she never thought she's going to buy it. Yeah, we're out of tomatoes, but let's try this. I'm more willing probably to try different things. But you're more of an impulse buyer than I am. Sure. I mean, you would go into target, for example, tell me if I'm wrong. You would go into a target and say, oh, I didn't know I needed this mirror. Right. This is a really nice mirror. Much more so with home goods than I am with grocery shopping. Like I'm not going to be like, I've never tried scallops because I hit the way they smell. Let's try those. They're on sale. I would never do that. But with home goods, it's why honestly, I swear. I sort of stopped grocery shopping at target because it's way too easy to wander over and be like, I could use a headband today, even though I've gotten nine at home. You know what I'm saying? In a grocery store, there's not a lot of, there's some, there's like that aisle where you

1:08:07can buy a happy birthday America hat or something. But for the most part, grocery is grocery. Well, and that's why it could so easily be explained away through market analysis of we had no the target effect of you come in for two items. You're spending at least a hundred bucks. We want to make sure we get those items that are most often looked at in front of your face so you don't have to go looking for them. Do not give out the result from the US Open because some people are recording this. I know. I'm not going to give out the result. I'm very excited to go home and watch it. Okay. 9135. Welcome back to your own show, Dana. 9135. Thanks. Glad to have you back. 913586. 77798586. 77798. Here on Dana and Parks. Let's go to the phones Adrian in KCK. Hello. Oh, my. Hey, how's it going?

1:09:07It's going well. Do you have your windows down? No, I do not. Oh, but I will take you off from our Bluetooth. We appreciate that. Oh, that is so full of pictures. Okay, hang on. Adrian needs a moment. We'll give him one. Stephen and Olathe. Hello, Stephen. Hey, thanks for taking my call. So why does they need to know where you're at and the store? It's because they are not with technology with these electronic price tags where you can go into say like walmers. Sam is wicked, wicked smart. He knows how to market to us. So they are making those electronic tags, price tags and they have it to where you can go into the app. And you're walking down that aisle and you press a little button that says show me where it's at and there's a light beacon.

1:10:09And so the reverse of that is they know that you're there. They know you're on that aisle. So why not just beacon you over to something that they think that they want to market and change. Okay. All right, Stephen, thank you for the call. Let's try Adrian again. Hello. All right. Sorry. No problem. Well, yeah, I was just going to basically say what he just said. I worked for a big box retailer for several years and this has been around for, I don't know, 20 plus years. The large retail pharmacy that I worked for, they didn't use chips but there were like these modules in the ceiling that would track the traffic patterns of the customers. And basically in a retail store, a lot of these retail stores, especially the big boxes, all of the shelves have basically real estate value. So they're tracking those traffic patterns to figure out, you know, Coke may want to be on this end stand.

1:11:10Pepsi may want to fight for this. Freedom, whatever. It's able to assign a value to that because we know people walk through this area all the time or, you know, they're going to see this display first thing. I never thought this would hang on Adrian. And thank you for the call. Do companies like say Coca Cola? Do they pay for display space or is that they really? Yes. So spaces, especially the in-stand size panels, display, special display areas, those have a value to them. So the company is able to sell that value by showing work customers can to congregate or how they travel through the store. I just thought that the end displays were for the, you know, the respective store to make more money because it's right there in front of you. Now it is a valued marketing position. So those retail stores are able to squeeze extra value out of those spots.

1:12:12Thank you for the info, man. All right. Okay. Have you also noticed that competing products are never put next to each other? Like the Diet Coke and the Diet Pepsi could not be farther away? But I didn't know that the end display was something that companies actually paid for. And if their products are not in that spot. Oh, yeah. The distributor who comes in and restocks it because a lot of times it's the distributor that actually restocks it will throw a fit. Huh. By the way, we have another update in the Missouri Congressional map. I can't. I can't. No, no. The eighth circuit court of appeals denied to take up the issue. So we still have no idea what's map we're going to be voting on. If you miss a segment, maybe you missed our congressional talk earlier. Don't go back and listen to that on podcast. Listen to something else that we did on podcast. You can follow us on Apple podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. The news is next. Thanks for listening to the day. And parks podcast on KMBZ catches online anytime on KMBZ.com or get the podcasts wherever

1:13:19you get your podcast. You're listening to the day. And parks podcast on KMBZ. What'd you say Sam, this song needs a country remake? It does. It needs a deep twang, deep voiced country remake. Give me a sample. What? Me? Yeah. It's your idea. I'm not a country singer. Okay, never mind. Do it. Do it. I'm not good on the spot. You know, every time I try to do an accent on the spot, it comes out the same way and it's the wrong one. Do it. No. Okay. It is the extra second heard round the world. The, the, the mid American conference has submitted official paperwork. Yep. Um, to the end of, and see double, and double, and see the end of the, and see the end of the, oversight committee. They want Western Michigan recognized as the actual winner of their game last weekend against Michigan.

1:14:19Didn't they storm the field and then have to unstorm it? I watched some of that game. We did not watch the very end of it, which was apparently very controversial. I don't understand how there were zero seconds on that clock and then they put back one. Apparently, they're arguing that the clock you see on TV or in the stadium is not the official game clock. Is not always in alignment with the official game clock. Okay. It almost never is. I can't ask you this then. If that is the case and I don't deny that, why don't we see this sort of outcome all the time where there's a discrepancy that really changes the outcome again. Because usually a Hail Mary touchdown doesn't occur with just one second left. It's extremely rare. We saw it in one chiefs game last year and I think there was one other NFL game where everybody thought it was over. Nope. Just kidding.

1:15:20You get one more play. People are mad about the outcome of that game. It's not like they were expected to win. Well, I know, but they almost did. They almost did. You know, I mean, is it going to make or break their chance to get into the not invited tournament? Maybe there is no not invited tournament college football. But if you were an alum, Sam, or you were cheering for that team and David versus Goliath, you would be furious. I understand the anger. I just, I don't think they can overturn it. Well, you can do play the game again. No, there Western Michigan, well, Western Michigan, by the way, is not part of the appeal. It's the mid American con. It's the conference doing this. Correct. Saying the initial clock should stand, which means they win. Correct. Saying they were out of time. The Hail Mary pass never should have occurred. Therefore the touchdown should have never occurred. We should have, sorry, Western Michigan should have won the game. We want you to give it to our member school.

1:16:20But the clock that we is displayed in stadium and the clock that is displayed on TV is just started by some random producer in a studio. Well, we're kicking off. Go ahead and hit the button. Or up in the press box. In the studio. Press box. Yes, thank you. The hottest home upgrade in America right now might be a locked gate at the end of a driveway, a new study. I love this. I love this. That half of American adults would pay above market price for a house in a neighborhood with a gated or controlled entrance. And nearly a third say that they would shell out at least 6% more for the privilege. The numbers come from a survey of a thousand American adults. By the way, the company behind it is a company that installs automated driveway gates. People state data backs up at least part of the trend homes in gated communities. Here it goes. Already carry a roughly $30,000 premium over.

1:17:21Ungated properties. What makes a survey notable isn't just the price tag that buyers are willing to eat. It is the disconnect between how dangerous people think their neighborhood is and how safe they actually feel inside of it. Okay, listen to this. You can make statistics say whatever you want. Crime numbers show that in homes in gated communities, they have a roughly 33% lower burglary risk than homes in open neighborhoods. Okay. However, the physical gate may not even be the reason why is it a correlation or a causation like everything else, right? But while crime may be lower, is it because in a gated community, those houses are going to be a million dollars or higher, let's say in wealthier suburban areas where crime is already lower.

1:18:22They're also more likely to have a home alarm system or cameras, ring doorbells that would catch the look of the thief or thieves as they're trying to get in. Crimeanologist warn that physical barriers often lead residents to neglect basic safety habits like, I don't know, locking your doors, shutting your garage because you tend to overestimate the protection provided by the quote gate. Let me read this to you. 69% of respondents, which we can interpret to be 69% of Americans say that they have a security camera or video doorbell. Yeah. Right. And checking the footage has become something close to a nervous habit. A third of camera owners tell me if this is you say they check their feed multiple times a day. Nope. You do not check your feed. You don't want to check it when something funny happens. If someone slips and falls up the stairs that used to happen all the time and we'd get

1:19:25a text from the kids, you know, someone so failed on the stairs again. Or like I told you, there was some eight point buck in our yard the other day. I pulled it up to see if the cameras caught this gigantic, beautiful beast of an animal on our front yard, which it did not. So maybe Johnny wasn't telling the truth. Maybe he made that. Maybe it wasn't eight points. Maybe it was 26 points. Do the points have to be even, by the way? Can you have like five on one antler and six on the other? That would be an anomaly. Oh, okay. I don't have to be, but I only check mine to Dana's point when something happens, like despite the fact that I have two no soliciting signs on my front door. Some guy still decided to ring my doorbell at about 345. Get off my grass. Today? Yeah. I, is, is it, does the gate make you safer or does it just make you feel safer? Based on what you read, crime is down in communities, but then you would expect it to be right? You would expect it to be only because of the correlation that if you have that gate,

1:20:29the homes inside it are probably very expensive, Lock Lloyd. And there's going to be lower crime out there anyway. Or the criminals can't get their car in to get to your house and anything they take out of it would have to be relatively small so they can jump the fence. They're not taking a TV out of a gated community home. You would have to be more creative. You would have to be really creative. Let me ask you this. What about the ADT sign in your front yard? Do burglars even look for that anymore? Well, they sell fake ones. Oh, yeah. Um, I don't know. Well, the sign is real. If, if, if the, yeah, thank you, Sam. It's a fake sign. It's a hologram. I recognize that sign. That one's fake. If, if the ring doorbell camera was preventative in nature, there would be no more home burglaries period because almost everyone has one. Well, you would cover your face. Yeah, you would think the property crime numbers would have gone to almost zero since the

1:21:35really widespread use of the ring doorbell camera. Instead what we see is the somewhat grainy footage at night of someone coming up to the door and has, does anyone know who this is? You know, you see that on the, on the neighborhood like Facebook websites or, or the woman that kept going around the loon that kept going around slashing tires in Waldo. You would think there would be no crime like that. Everybody knows everyone has a ring door camera. Well, I think she might have had a screw loose, but yes, my best security measure is Lizzie. Oh, yeah. That dog would eat your face off if you came into the house. Telephone over here is 913-586-7798. 586-7798. Dana Wright, Sam Stevie III. My name is Scott Parks here on KMBC. I'm sorry, Sam. What were you saying off here just a moment ago?

1:22:35We're of course watching the US Open. Dana is now as big of a tennis fan as she is baseball fan and is obsessed with the US Open. So we've got it on all the TVs. And I just can't help but notice that every time they go to a break, you know, they just finish their third set. What a big wall tread carefully with so much swagger. Like they throw the ball up. They smack it behind them with the racket and they walk like my don't stank. It's like dude, you're carrying a racket. Do you know? Oh, you watch your mouth. Chill out. Do you know how athletic you have to be to some of those matches going for like seven hours? Yeah, we're dead after 20 minutes. I am not arguing they're not athletic. It's just the amount of swagger that they walk with. I think they should walk. Interesting. As much swagger as they would like. Like with a ball boy or girl, hands them four balls and they, they picked the two they want and they tap it back without even looking at the kid. Why not walk it over? Because Scott here you go, young man.

1:23:36I'm not going to use these two. No, tell me you're playing an Alita sport without telling me you're playing an Alita. I swing a racket. No, I think you're wrong. I think you are 146 miles. Yeah, they do. I ask you, do you think we could even return like anyone? And before I could even get towards out our tennis pro, where we play pickleball goes, no. Do you think you could catch a Patrick Beham's pass from how far? 30 yards. Yeah, sure. No, you couldn't. Like thrown really hard. It's like on the run. No, he hit you on target. You lost me at run. No. Okay. Brisk walk. I think most of us could not compete in any level for any amount of time at that level. That is correct for any time. Correct. Correct. Okay. I'm not dismissing their skill. It's just they just it's a level of pompous in there.

1:24:38Every step of the way. Because I think to be that good in your sport at that level, you have to know you're that good. Lean into it. In fact, I'm glad you brought this up, Sam. I asked last night, I'm being absolutely serious. Sorry, Scott. That's all right. Where is the tipping point for any of you listening that maybe had a D1 or D2 college athlete? Okay. Where is the tipping point in an athlete's young formative years where you have a five year older, a six year old who picks up a tennis racket and is hitting it over the net. Okay. Or you have a five or a six year old who's running around on the soccer field, holding the coaches hand. We all do that at a heritage park, right? Yeah. Dayway to hell. At what age, Scott, do you think you might know that there might be something there? Because the world is full of children who can hit a tennis ball with a tennis racket. Where is the tipping point in football, in baseball? Yeah. Where you're like, okay, wait a minute, because we live in an America where we tend to tell

1:25:42parents that all of our children are, quote, elite if you just pay extra money a month, right? And we all know it's a racket. Pun intended. It's a racket. So as somebody who coach for youth sports for 20 years, it's all soccer, all girls. Only three players I ever coached went on to play at the collegiate level. Three. Earning a scholarship. And out of how many players? Well over a hundred, probably with all three teams, 150, 200. You know, if you count the ones that played for one season and they didn't like it and left or you know, went to another team or whatever. I knew on two of them when they were in middle school that they would probably get a college scholarship. Okay. The other one was a late bloomer. And I knew when she was, I think, a freshman in high school, this kid is one of the best

1:26:43players I've ever coached. Yes. And do you think their parents knew at age six or eight or? I don't know about at that age. I didn't coach him that young, but I know that the two, they were both goalies. I knew when they were in middle school that they had a unique talent. And I told their parents, because I only coach wreck. I didn't coach elite. And so with one, her name was Gray, is Gray's. And she ended up getting a scholarship at Northwest Missouri State. And I told her parents when she was in middle school, I said, you need to put her in a lead. I've taken her as far as she can go. And good on you for recognizing that and saying that. Well, I wanted to keep her on the team. She was that good. I mean, she was fearless, but we only had one practice a week, one or two games on a weekend. Right. And that wasn't enough for her to become as good as she later became. Have you heard about this? They're, who's telling me last night, there's some academy in Florida. And I know that they do this for golf.

1:27:44I did not know about the other sports. He heard there is some academy in Florida where you send your kid away, high school age kid away. And it is an academy for all sports at the level where we think these players are going to go big. So you could be a football player. You could be a swimmer or tennis. I said, whenever you qualify, you can't just pay the money, right? I think you have to qualify. And so part of the day is, yeah, we're going to figure out how to get you your diploma or GED. However, they do it. But the majority of your day is you are honing your skills in whatever sport. That seems crazy, right? Well, it, yes, it does. I think if we've learned anything from Johnny Manzell is that you can have any amount of skill. Yep. And if you don't have the discipline, you're not going to get to where you want to be. Now, he was a special case because he had so much skill that he messed around and found his way to the NFL. But it was a very storied situation with him that he clocked a total of, would you like

1:28:48to guess how many iPad minutes is what they called it because they looked at all of their plays on iPads. They did all of their, right. They're, they're footage viewing on iPads. Anything that they did to hone in their game, they did on iPads. Where is Johnny Paycheck now? As is broke. As a pro player, care to guess how many minutes he clocked on the iPad. Do not tell me zero. Throw minutes on the iPad. He did not even unlock it one. So he had the skill. Yes. He had the, the, the golden gates open for him. He had the arrogance and then refused to participate. Not. And he didn't do it through college. He didn't do it through high school. In fact, he found in college and I've watched a bunch of documentaries on him because he is a wild individual. In college, he started caring for a couple of games and his play got worse. Okay, that's like the one guy that says, if I had been wearing my seatbelt, you know, if I had him in the world. I'd beat, yeah, I'd be dead if I was, you know, there's always that one person.

1:29:49I'm so good. I drive better when I'm drunk. Like there's always the one person who says these ridiculous things and you're like, no, that's not how this works. Well, you see your question of can you know it five years old? The answer is no. I mean, you can take a five year old with very little skill and enough discipline and turn them into an elite athlete. But, but, oh, international soccer is a little different in that regard. Like Lionel Messi, I believe was being courted by, by international professional teams. Like young. I think at the age of nine or 10, he was that much better than everybody else that he was playing. It happens every blue moon where some phenom comes along and international coaches are just like, wow, who is this kid? If you look up, this is what you Google elite sports boarding schools. Yeah. They are grades nine through 12. It's exactly what it sounds like. And there's a ton of them in Florida.

1:30:50Parents send their kids off to military schools. You know, and nobody thinks anything of that, you know, good on them. They're going to go serve the country possibly someday. Why not send them to, if you really think that your kid is that good, and they're going to go off and make millions and millions of dollars. And once they're retired, never have to work a day in their life. Why not? Or are you robbing them of their teenage years? And I can see it both ways. One of the academies it's called IMG Academy. Very, very, very, very good. Should be IMG, because I'm sure the bill is something. Sure. It has 29 multiuse fields, 58 tennis courts and 18 whole golf course, double-sided driving range, three weight rooms, a 5,000 seat stadium spread out over 478 acres. It is the most prominent and well-established American sports academy in rolling, 1600

1:31:52students. Phil in Overland Park. Hey, good afternoon. Scott, how are you, brother? We're doing well, my friend. Thank you. So, my three oldest of my nine grandkids either are now playing at D1 level or have played. The oldest is a young lady. She played four years of D1 basketball. There's two brothers. One's playing in a power four school right now, and the other one's playing in another football championship conference. I'm just not going to identify the schools better. That's right. I can tell you that we knew with each of those kids that ate great now. God touched them, but all of them, because they all had size and they had coordination that was evident when we watched them play as kids. And there was no question where all of them were going to end up. And they just knew it. We did, because you can see them.

1:32:53Now, I will tell you, one of the boys we thought was going to be a basketballer. He's a football player. The next brother is a football player. The oldest one was the young lady, and she was a basketball player. Up here, six other grandkids. Are you seeing similar talent in them? The three of the six are playing at a pretty high level right now, but none of them are that far along, because there's a five-year gap. Got it. So, the oldest one of those is an eighth grader this year. And it remains to be seen. But it'll be fun to watch, because there's at least the potential there. And we're hoping something could happen that would be just that much fun for those kids too. And I'm glad you said fun, because the kids have to enjoy it. By the way, around 70% of graduating student athletes from this IMG in Florida secure a roster spot to play their sport at the collegiate level. 70%. What about the other 30? They're just not good enough to go to college and play, and you just wasted tens of thousands of dollars?

1:33:53I don't know, Scott. 911358677985867798 here on Dana and Parks. So R.E. Lionel Messi, I misspoke. He was discovered at the age of 13 by Scouts from Barcelona, which is a major soccer franchise in Europe. He made his start for Barcelona when he was 17 years old. Okay. He had gone pro by 17. You want to guess how much it costs to send one of your kids to this academy in Florida if they will accept you. And a amount I don't have? $100,000 a year. They better go to the pros. One of the Google, yeah, right? And then think about the stress that you're putting on the athlete. You know, one of the questions I saw online was like, how do people afford to do this? And the response was.

1:34:53Second mortgage. Massive personal and financial sacrifice. And second mortgage was listed. So you're going to mortgage your house. You really better go pro. But how unfair is that to the kid? Well, look at somebody like Tiger Woods. I mean, he really enjoy your time there just to remind you we're going to be homeless if this doesn't work out. He was a phenom. He was a child prodigy. There is no doubt that he was incredible at his sport. He had a gift at a very young age. Because his father forced it on. Toddler. Yeah. However, had he not gotten the militant training that he got from his dad and the militant discipline to continue that training, would he have been great into his 20s into his 30s, 40s, 50s while he did, you know, have his problems. Yeah. No matter what, no matter how bad the pain got, he was still in the gym two, three, four hours a day. He was on the tonight show when he was four. Three. I thought it was three. Three. On the tonight show with Johnny Carson when he was three.

1:35:59Check us on that. He was very young. Very. I've seen the clip. He's very young. Well, you're doing that Nate in Overland Park. Nate, hello. We already went tonight. Oh, so to Christy. Christy. Although I loved his story. Christy, hi, go ahead. Hi, Dana. It's funny that you were just saying that because Novak, Jokovic, they just came out with a documentary on, I think it's through prime called Wolfen Winter. And his discovery story is basically watching tennis court be built by his home and a coach that had been a coach of Monica, Salis, saw him watching her due clinics and she just brought him into the court and very quickly noticed that he had a talent. And by the age of 12, she had told his family he could be number one in the world. She had taken him as far as she could. And they sent him to a, like an academy in Germany at 12 years old, completely by himself.

1:37:00Yeah. Yeah. It paid off, but at what cost? Yeah. And you should really watch the documentary because the brothers talk about, you know, kind of being overshadowed because everything was being put into Novak and yes, it paid off. But I do think there's a level of discipline and commitment that you just see in certain kids. Yeah. And that's really where it comes from is when they on their own go out and practice and work hard and, you know, watch the game, not just being sent to practice like a lot of us here with our kids, they come home and want to play video games. I mean, there's, there's just a different life for those athletes. Yeah. All right. Christy, thank you for the call. You want to hear the crazy information I just found? Yeah. He was never on the Johnny Carson show. What was it? It was the Mike Douglas show. No way. Look at that Mandela effect. Huh. Uh, two years old. Two years old. Two years old. Mike Douglas show. And then he appeared again on a show called, that's incredible in 1981.

1:38:02Yes. At the age of five. Hmm. Okay. But I feel the same way about, I think you might be robbing them of their childhood. Just like when, you know, how do you know that somebody is a genius and at the age of twelve is going off to university, right? Mm-hmm. And are they not being robbed of their childhood? And I think the answer to that is yes. However, okay, go ahead and put them in class with kids are on age and their board stiff. Well with the athletic academies, you're at least around other driven, you know, actually elite athlete. I don't feel like you would sacrifice all that you would need to sacrifice at that price if your kid really wasn't a standout athlete. At least with those schools, they're surrounded by other kids sort of in the same boat away from home. But do they go to prom? Do they have a home coming? I don't know. And that environment by the way drives them to be excellent as well.

1:39:03Oh, sure. And good teammates. Yes. Mm-hmm. Uh, NBC News. Families interest in their kids education is falling. In many high income countries, a school system struggle with plunging test scores according to newly released results, uh, taken about 15 year olds around the world. 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries, uh, we're asked about their average scores in math, reading and science, all were at their lowest point in the history of this survey among highly developed countries. China, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea had the highest marks. Estonia, United Kingdom and New Zealand also did as well. The United States interest in your child's education is dropping. Okay, but as the Yalbot member of this program, I remember my mom and dad caring when report

1:40:05card time came. Mm-hmm. Like how were your grades? Okay. I don't know that they went to all of the parent teacher conferences. I, I didn't with my own kids. I remember saying like, there's four of them. If there's an issue, please call me. If they're getting great grades, I don't, we're good. I was the same way. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I remember very specifically, my parents just expected me to get my stuff done. There was no pouring over my homework and like, I think growing up in the late 70s and early 80s. We were just expected to get the stuff done. Yep. I'm not saying they didn't care, but there wasn't this, I don't know like, I felt obligated to be directly involved with the homework. I think when my kids were younger, in a way that our parents never were involved. When did you stop at what age or grade did you stop going to teacher conferences? Oh, elementary school. Once they were, once their grades were fine in middle school, I remember saying like,

1:41:07you know, you know where to find me if something is wrong. I will be the first person there if there's an issue. Shonda and I would go to every elementary school parent teacher conference. Yeah. And then I remember when Sarah went to middle school out in, I think it was in 1X, the school. It was way far away from the house. But I remember going to one parent teacher conference and they set up in the gym and you just worked your way around and you know, they each have their own table. Right. And I was a classroom anymore because they have multiple teachers and you would just go from table to table to table and kind of like a fast dating. Right. Right. Speeding. Thank you. And I remember every one of Sarah's teachers said she's great. She's doing fine. She's getting an A in my class. And by the six or seventh one, I just got up and walked out and I never went back. And I did. I do not feel guilty about that because I felt guilty about it.

1:42:09And now looking back, I'm like, we don't all have to be doing all of these things. I truly believe that. But to what benefit would I have received if I had gone, just you telling me my kids doing fine? I know that because I see the report card and the girls knew when it came to math, you had to call Uncle Steve when it came to writing something you went to dad. And because I would prefer, but would prefer you figure it out. Sure. But, you know, like with Maya, she would come to me with a math question and I'm just like, go get my phone. We're going to talk about brother. Why are we even going through this exercise? You know the answer. I call Uncle Steve. He's the math guy. I think our focus here is a bit misaligned. You guys did still care about your kids' education. How many times did you ask your kids what they learned in school that day? Every night. Tell me something you did today. That's specifically what this study is about. That's right. And they found that if parents asked one time during the week, they averaged 35 points

1:43:09higher on test scores. Parents who asked one time, that means according to this study, parents aren't asking at all. The trick is you can't say how is your day today because they're all going to say the same thing. It's not fine. No. But to Sam's point, and this is not the first time that we've seen this statistic that all you have to do is ask your kid, what did you learn today? Not how was school born? Because you're right about that. What did you learn today? Give me one thing. And their scores go up 35%. That's all takes. Is that correlation or causation? I don't know the answer to that. So in 2022, 57% of parents talk to their kids about problems they might be having in school. That dropped to 46% in 2025. 58% of parents talked about the future of education in 22. That is down to 52%. It's basically just showing even mild interest. But you can't just ask them how was school. You have to say something to the effect.

1:44:10You have to be active about it. What did you learn today? Give me one thing. Give me two things. And then they know that you have a vested interest in what they're learning in school. And if you don't, what message are you sending to the kid? I always hated that question too. I'm not in school anymore. Quit asking. Tell me one good thing about your day. 913-586-7798-586-7798. Here on Dana and Parks. 913-586-7798. Let's go to Denise in Overland Park. Hello. Hi. How are you? We're doing well. Thank you for asking. Well, just regarding the article you had read, I read something similar and it suggested asking what was the funniest thing that happened today. So I asked my six-year-old granddaughter, this is in first grade, what was the funniest thing.

1:45:10And she said, Kane, wouldn't start farting all day. Well, that would be funny. It was. But you know what? Even more important than Port King was the fact that I said, oh, did that in our breeding? Oh, we didn't have breeding today. We had such and such things I wouldn't even have known about otherwise. So anyway, that's my go-to question now. What was the funniest thing that happened? Or is it who farted today? Yeah, you could just ask that. Who farted today? Just giving the name to Denise. Just giving the name. Denise, thank you. I'm the first day you guys. You do the same. Take care. The TSA is actively considering allowing TSA pre-check passengers to bring water bottles through security checkpoints. At a select number of airports in the coming months, the potential change would be rolled out initially to airports equipped with newer CT screening technology that can distinguish water from other liquids, vodka, and identify potential threats. What do you mean?

1:46:10I'm assuming that the bottle would have to be unopened. It's my energy drink. There's ways to tell if it's vodka or not. By taste? No, you shake it and one makes bubbles that stick around and one makes bubbles that don't stick around. I didn't know that. I learned that getting back on the cruise ship. Oh, look at you. Oh, really Sam. Now, this drives me nuts one because I've never heard of somebody making a bomb out of water and two because I have been escorted out of an airport because I forgot to empty out my water bottle. Was it in a pre-plastic water or did you have like a yeti? I take a refillable water bottle everywhere I go and I had a swig, probably an ounce of water in the bottom of the bottle. It went through the little conveyor belt scanner thing and they were like, you got water in here and I was like, yeah, it's a water bottle. Oh, you're that jerk. Maybe you're attitude that led to the outcome we're talking about here. I offered pouring it out. I offered drinking it because it's one drink.

1:47:11No. I got escorted out by three cops. Wow. Drink it or did you pour it out? Outside they made me pour it out. They would not allow me to drink it. I had to pour it out and then I walked back in and I said to the kind officers, now can I go back up front and they said, no, you got to get back in line. Always remind yourself that it isn't the worker who came up with the ridiculous rules by which we operate. Yes, Sam. It's a water bottle. Dana Wright, Sam, Steve, the third. My name is Scott. We got news coming up in two minutes. Thanks for listening to the Dan. 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 podcast on KMVZ. All right. So ESPN is out with their 61 NFL insiders and analysts and their predictions for the upcoming season which starts tonight. Tonight is the Seahawks and the Patriots last year's Super Bowl.

1:48:14Okay. First time I think since 2012 that last year's Super Bowl is the first game of the following season. Okay. Would you care to guess who they picked to win and list all the teams that each analyst and reporter picked. But who do you think gets the most votes? I don't know. I'll tell you who it's not. Philly. No, AFC chiefs only get two of the 61 votes. Oh, the and there these reporters and analysts are all over the map. But the three teams I see that get the most are the Broncos bills, the bills. Yeah. I was going to guess them and the Bengals really NFC. They did that too. The Rams get the overwhelming number of votes. Well, they're there. Yeah. They're stacked. Yeah. They make the Lions a number. Several have picked the Eagles and the Cowboys.

1:49:16Your Super Bowl winner. Only one person picked the chiefs out of 61. I'm going to go Rams. Rams are the overwhelming favorite. Really? Yes. Huh. Now, I hope they print that report off. And I hope that they highlight every vote that Patrick Mahomes didn't get. And I hope that they put it on his front doorstep every day until the Super Bowl MVP. A ton of them are saying Joe Burrow. Okay. What? Yep. Okay. Josh Allen gets a number of them. Patrick Mahomes gets one. No, two, two. Two? Yep. Yep. You can doubt him. Yep. I think it's fuel. I think you go right ahead and doubt him. Well, and how many votes did Moe did the chiefs get? Two. I bet you the number two appears after some wins this season. You know, Patrick Mahomes, he's known to do those subtle little get back at you. He's counted to nine. He's counted to four.

1:50:17When I'm 13, I would print that entire list off and just highlight the two that picked me and put that up on my mirror. Yeah. A Florida high school football coach has been fired. Three games into the season already. It's his first year leading this team first and last. Uh, yeah. Uh, it's a high school in Florida. They are on three to start the season. Okay. And the scores combined have been 166 for the other teams. Oh, blesses, or zero for his. Okay. They haven't scored a single point, not one. Not one point. And he has been fired in his first season at the school. His Florida second only to Texas in their just rabid thirst for football wins at that level. At the high school level. Oh, yeah. Probably Texas is without a doubt number one. My cousin still lives in the Dallas area.

1:51:19And you would think it was a semi-proteam or slightly higher at the high school near her house. It is, it is a stadium. And it makes me happy if that is viewed through the appropriate lens that this is something that brings the community together, brings in a lot of money. Of course, it brings in money for the school that then they get new, you know, tech for classrooms. If it's done well. And the coaches are paid hundreds. Oh, thanks. Oh, yeah. Well, they are. Yeah. I mean, football is king in Texas. And when they tell you that, it's the truth. And by the way, did you see Sam? They have, they have outed. I don't know what verb to use. They zoomed in once again on an attractive young woman in the stands at one of these games. Would you leave the women alone? Please.

1:52:19The college football trend is back. The college football means that we have to identify exceptionally attractive women in the stands. All right, Musberg. This poor girl has gone viral and she is a beautiful young woman. Oh, just let them go enjoy the game. We have had one weekend of college football so far. One and a half if you don't count week zero. The one girl that has gone really viral is one of four that has been highlighted so far. I don't know if we need to tell these camera crews stop doing this. Obviously, it's good for viewership. Otherwise, they wouldn't keep doing it. Well, yeah, I mean, a lot of guys are at home watching the game. The one girl that went mega viral. She already had a private Instagram page, but that does not stop people from still harassing her to send her a message. harassing her. She's gotten one message that said, quote, bankrupt me. Oh my gosh. 15 hundred red blooded Americans just decided to apply the Florida.

1:53:2415 hundred red blooded Americans. Look at that. Justice. I don't apply to Florida. Stake. Are you kidding me? I thought that was Musburger. That's that was that was. Okay. Yeah, that was you throw the football around and maybe that someday could be yours. Kids, kids, you grab your dad and you grab that football and you go all back right now. Weirdo. No. From the text line, if you think those girls aren't hoping to be quote that girl, you're crazy. Well, no, I don't think at the point that you have to lock down your social because creepy men from around the world are DMing you. No, that's so weird. Sam. It's very weird. I think it's a trend that needs to stop. You remember that is how Pamela Anderson was discovered. At a football game. If you go back and look, she was, I don't know how old she was probably 19 or 20 in the stands at a college football game.

1:54:25And it was just that. I think they either panned over and saw her. I don't remember if it was a still photo or video, but from there, someone contacted her and said you, you really should get into modeling. 1989. Yeah. The stadium camera man zoomed in on her on the jumbo tron at LeBots in a LeBots beer t-shirt at the BC Lions football game in Vancouver. And look up the photo, Scott. She is just a normal, beautiful young girl. And I wonder if you asked her today if I could go back and change things. What I want that one and a billion moment where a camera guy zoomed in. Why wouldn't she? Because it wrecked her life. She went on to make millions and millions of dollars off of a stolen tape that was made privately on their wedding night. She made, she made money on Baywatch and she was in a handful of movies. I can't name a single one, but she was in movies. If you have not seen that documentary, I stront the one that she participates in.

1:55:29Pamela and Tommy, I think. Drongly urge you to watch that documentary. It changed every, it changed every opinion I thought I ever had about her. Well, and maybe why is it only women? Maybe I want to be that guy. Hot mug shot guy. Hot mug shot guy. I want to go to a college game and go viral just because I'm good looking. Wow. One thing's highly of his own looks. I know, definitely not. Huh. A lead researcher at Addenthropic, one of the world's leading AI firms said today he believes there is a more than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade. I saw this story in the stack and I thought, let's not, let's not. He resigned today in protest. He says there is a better than 10% chance AI could kill all humans. His words not mine within the next decade.

1:56:31Quoting here, we really do believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is greater than 10% within 10 years. Great. Good times. I'm telling you. I wonder why nobody wants to have kids anymore. I'm telling you, war games is starting to look more and more realistic. You've seen all the memes about, oh gosh, what's her name? Linda Hamilton. All of the memes about Linda Hamilton, where remember in Terminator, they put her in a loony bin because she was screaming about tech and the fact that the robots were going to take over the world. That movie came out in 1984, I think, a year after war games, the original Terminator. And then Terminator 2 came out in 1991 when they do come back. Yeah, yep. Am I wrong to be a little anxious? No, I think you're 100% right.

1:57:32Is it possible just to shut all of it down? We had Facebook five years ago without all of this discussion about AI and data centers. Is it possible just to shut everything down? No. Why? The cat's out of the bag. First of all, you would have to have all of the countries agree to do it. I think China is going to agree to that. China, you go first. We're all just going to on three. We're all going to shut down. Just like cutting out greenhouse gases. Who's going to be the first country to do it? Well, and forgive me for going sci-fi for just a moment, but I don't think it's really sci-fi anymore. I think it's the reality that we live in today based on all of the information that we have today. The issue is to shut it down now. We would have to shut down all internet servers period. There is no going back to Facebook. There is no going back to pre-algorithm because the way that we have designed this entity, because that's what it is. It's no longer an algorithm. It is an entity is to protect itself. Well, then let me rephrase the question. Is there a way to slow it down?

1:58:33Not without unifying as a world against the big scary problem. And that's never going to happen. Okay. Great. 913-586-7798. Good talk. This is another very happy topic coming up on day nine one three five eight six seven seven nine eight. Story here from CBS news Kevin Reddington, the lawyer for Lindsey Clancy said today he will ask for the case against his client to be thrown out after hearing from a number of jurors in the case. Reddington telling CBS mornings he will present a motion to dismiss on September 29th and now some of the jurors, the 11 jurors, it was 11 to one. Some of the jurors in the 11 are now speaking out. And they gave an interview to I believe it was the NBC affiliate in Boston.

1:59:34Two of them dead. Yep. Sam, I think we have some of that audio to play. We do. Okay. While you're looking for it Sam, just real quick, there was nothing that either of those women said that shed any new light on any of this. It's on a bulldog. He admitted he had reasonable doubt after we watched that video of the interview. I think that's when it was he admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms. I was so excited. I actually do with three forms I had a fill out and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one and then he said, but I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of incident. He would not interact with us and try to understand. We read him on numerous occasions the definition of a reasonable doubt from Judge Sullivan's

2:00:36instruction. He actually said one day in the end, why don't we have the judge come in and read it again and we were like, no, we have it in front of us. We don't need that and we would highlight it and so and so this is the definition of reason of doubt. But he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children. What? Chase Louise, where did you come from? He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children. How dare he? He had the hardest time coming to grips with the fact that she viciously murdered her like that sentence alone explains why he was like, no, there has, there has to be some punishment here. Do you buy the argument that some have posited that he was a rogue juror, a stealth juror? Somebody who tells the lawyers what they want to hear so they can get onto a case with

2:01:40an already preconceived verdict? I don't think there is ever going to be an acceptable resolution to this case. I don't. Huh. Okay. I don't care where they try it. I don't. You would not want to be on that jury. You would not want to be on that jury. No, I would not. I don't want to be on any jury. Ever. But if you had to list the cases that you don't want to participate in, this would not be one. This would be the front and center. You do not want on this jury. There's chatter online that this juror had a calcium bed. There's no confirmation of that. I want to make that very clear. Oh my gosh. Very clear that there is no confirmation of that, but there is chatter online that he had to have some calcium bed. And that's why he held out. They're also taking the stance of, of course, one man had to come in and try to steal the rights from a woman. But what if that one man truly believes there, there has to be something, something has

2:02:42to be done or we are all going to live in a world where, quote, somebody snaps and we just go, well, and we've already seen that in one case and it's happening right now in Chicago. So although I believe that mom's been, she's been charged. Well, so is Lindsey Clancy. But he had the hardest time getting off of the fact that Lindsey viciously killed her children. I hear what she said. And I think I hear what she's trying to say. And she doesn't word it properly because they both, now I did learn a couple of things from this interview. Number one, they were so convinced that he was going to come off the fence, so to speak, that the four woman had already written up verdict sheets three different times and signed them. You also learn in this interview that the verdict was going to be if he did come off the fence, it was not going to be a straight up acquittal. It was not guilty by reason of insanity. And I think God, there's some, you know, semblance of reasonableness there that he held out.

2:03:49How many people Sam, honestly, and I talked to a buddy of mine about this a couple days ago, he was the holdout on a jury in Kansas City. And he just said, you would not wish that on anyone. Pressure. My friend was the holdout. And in that case, this should make none of us feel good about the system under which we operate. He said, I understood the law. I understood the burden of proof and what the law says about it. And the prosecutor did not meet that burden of proof period. So everybody else was for guilt. Everybody else was for guilty. And when you looked at the law, they just didn't have the goods on this guy. He said, it got to the point where people in that jury room here in town in Kansas City. We're saying things like, look, you know that even if he didn't do this, there's something else he has in his background. Would you want to live next to this guy? What was his a murder trial? It was not.

2:04:49Okay. Drug or weapons related. And he said, are you listening to the, he goes, are you listening to the words coming out of your mouth? They maybe didn't prove it in this case, but you know he's got something in his background. He's got something else in his life. Right. I'm going to sleep just fine at night because I don't think this is a good guy. Well, he said, like, that might be the case. That's not what we're here discussing. And you guys make fun of me because I can't stand the jury system in the United States. I think it's wrong. I think it's the best that we have. I think a lot of the system is incredibly flawed. I'm sure he's one of them. I would not, if I was accused of a crime, that I did not commit, and I knew I didn't commit it. The last thing I would want to do is entrust 12 people. I don't even know. Yes. With my future. Yeah. That's a thing. Like, you know, he's probably got something in his background. How many times do you think it's been said in a jury room? Listen, 11 of us think he did it.

2:05:50Yeah. You're the only one who thinks he didn't just come over and let's go home. I don't want to spend another eight hours tomorrow sitting in this room trying to deal with you. Yep. And how many of us would buckle under that? I'd like you're being bullied. I'd like to think I would not. I'd like to think it. But then what I'd be called a rogue juror for doing that, a stealth juror because I truly believed in this person's innocence or guilt. And now I'm a rogue juror. Maybe you're wrong. Maybe the 11 of you are wrong. You know, I always say that two things can be true at the same time. Like in almost every scenario, we could, we could use that in the stories that we bring you on Dane and Parks every day. When we come back, we have an update. Do you remember the Missouri license plate caused an uproar because people said this is racist. There is a racist among us. You got to get rid of your license plate. Someone tracked down the driver. Someone did their job as a reporter.

2:06:50And when we get back, we're going to tell you what is the intent behind the plate that Scott has been in their family since the 1970s. Before we go to break, whether updates him, KNBC 9 News reporting severe thunderstorm morning for Cass Jackson Johnson and Lafayette counties in Missouri through 6 p.m. Quick break 913 5 8 6 7 7 9 8 here on Dane and Parks. Sam, before Dane gets to our next story, can you give us that weather update again real quick? Yeah, I'm looking over at Channel line right now and it appears to have been extended. Cass County Jackson County, Missouri Johnson County, Missouri Lafayette County, Missouri all under thunderstorm severe thunderstorm warning. Storm counties until 6 p.m. Other counties until 6 15.

2:07:51Okay. All right. We first told you about this Missouri license plate the other day. And if I saw it, if I'm being honest, if I saw it in traffic, I'd probably be like, oh, are you sure about that one? We now know the meaning behind it. And I said the other day, I have a feeling this is going to be familial. Not racist, but familial. And it is. A Missouri man has now changed his license plate following reports that it contained a derogatory term. The family name, I'm just going to say it once. Say it all day. The guy's name is Stephen March, Cinque March, Cinque. Okay. He is 73 years old. They have had that license plate since 1979. His last name is March, Cinque. Yep. And that is the nickname they have gone by for years. Is that name minus the mark?

2:08:52Correct. Okay. He says he is one of seven brothers. All of them were called that growing up. It was his father's nickname as well long past away, right? It's just always been a thing. Ever since I can remember, he says we never thought. We never imagined this was any kind of slur. How do you not know that? Well, I, yeah. I mean, if I saw, again, if you saw that in traffic, you, you'd probably go. It's a slur for Asian people. It is. Yeah. Um, so they have turned it in. He says they recognize that the word has another very derogatory meaning it certainly was not the case with our family. This is our name. It's never used derogatory Lee. And they have changed their plate. Good. It's a slur. I'm sorry that the nickname everybody in the family went by is a slur.

2:09:56But it is part of their name. What if that was their actual last name? Yeah. I'm sorry, but you can't be on a plate. Your last name is offensive to some people and it's considered a slur. He also said there were times like his brother with grandchildren in the car was getting flipped off by other drivers. And so, you know, at that point, I'm being on, I'm surprised it took them this long to be like, you know, maybe we should, even though everyone around town knows this is our name, maybe we should rethink this. But that's the story behind it. And I thought it was going to be. But there was a Kansas plate that drew controversy in Southern California because it wasn't even a custom plate. It's just a random one that they were just given. The letters three letters J A P. And I believe that license plate was recalled by the state of Kansas. It was. And they got a different one. Somebody says on the text line, that is insane and stupid. Listen, their name is not the five letter word that starts with a C and ends with a K

2:10:58and rhymes with rink. That's not their last name. But apparently, according to the family is a nickname that everybody in the family goes by my BS meter starting to go off. I'm sorry. Everybody in the family goes by the same nickname. They've had the plate since 1979. They just re up that personalized plate every year. And now they've gotten rid of it. I think I don't know that there's any other option. So from the text line, I call BS. If it's part of your last name, get over it. Well, but I feel like I could think of some other examples that I'm not going to share. But sometimes words are not considered necessarily. Well, let me rephrase. Sometimes words are created, especially during wartime with an enemy that is of a different race primarily for the sole purpose of dehumanizing them. And I get it. I understand it. But for I use this example with Dana.

2:12:01Japan is known as nipon. NIPP O N. There is a derogatory term to refer to Japanese people that contains half of that word. The first three letters of that word of the name of their nation is nipon. Okay. He told me this during a break, Sam. I had no idea when in fact, when you were trying to explain the word, I thought you were trying to say a female, well, may have bought it or two, but breast. Yes. Anyway, that became a derogatory term primarily, but maybe not exclusively during World War II to describe Japanese soldiers or just Japanese people. What if your last name was NIPP? My first thought would be nipple and why would you want that in a license plate? Well, it's my, it's my family's last name or that's my nickname. I would, I'm not saying I would change that name, but I, you know, I mean, there are

2:13:04certain names when you hear it. It's like, okay, whoo. Dr. Richard Pound. Yeah. I mean, at some point do you not say, okay, like someone thought this was funny however many years ago, but like kids are now getting bullied, right? So let's, but there anything wrong with just changing your family's name. I don't think there is people do it all the time. I would bet, especially if it has, yes, anything questionable or, or if you're, like, if your family's last name is notorious for somebody else doing something really bad, or a body part, I would say you do you go change your name. There is a quarterback in the NFL whose last name is PENIX PENIX. I probably would have changed that one. What if your grandfather was proud and it means something to your family and your last name is PENIX? I know. I'm just saying, like I think it has to be up, it has to be up to each individual.

2:14:06And if it sounds like a body part, you always have to think Scott about the second grader. My heart goes out to the eight year old that is growing up with that. Who's going to be made fun of? Yeah. Young man went on to become an NFL quarterback and his has the last laugh, right? He's a starter. But do you think for a minute that when he was eight years old, seven years old, his friends, or let me rephrase classmates didn't call him PENIX? Of course they did. Yeah. I mean, well, but that applies to anybody with the name Richard or last name Johnson. But you know what? That's kind of a couple of Johnson's and great school. They did not make it easy. Does that kind of that name, maybe not? I don't know how high up the ladder Richard is. It's sort of like Linda and Julie. Yeah. It was a name for our generation and the generation before. Yeah. Pam.

2:15:07Pam, yeah. Louise. 911358677998. If you guys want to weigh in. Okay. What about Seinfeld and the Asman plate? Oh, various. Very funny. I don't think you can have a 55 by the way. I think that's one of the ones that the states have flagged. What about As Kicker? Probably not. What if you really are an As Kicker? We had one personalized plate in the family for a brief amount of time. You had to write and I did it right down here at Johnson Drive for Markway. You had to write down what is the meaning behind this. And in our case, it was extremely obvious. Well, it's not a car plate, right? It contained my daughter's name. And so it was very obvious. Here's her driver's license. This is what we're doing. So I don't know unless you lie, how you get something like that past the screeners. Well, this particular plate we're talking about would have been easy to pass.

2:16:10You would have just written down, it's my nickname. The screener looks up, says, okay, your name is Marchink. You're good to go. What is the purpose since you have one of a vanity plate? I don't know. They're cool. They're cool. I think it's fun. Like I now forever, I will have a license plate that says six foot sand that I can hang on my wall. Yeah, you put it on your wall. Yeah. You know, people collect those. I don't, I've never understood it. But you go. I'm going to get the custom one in Missouri too. You go to like antique stores and like people sell license plates. I don't. No. Some of them just license plates. Why? I have no idea. Okay. Now, I did see one in my neighborhood today and it's an older Kansas plate and actually it's two older Kansas plates and they used it as the roof of a birdhouse. Okay. And that was kind of cool, I thought. Yeah. You know, it's an old plate. You can't use it anymore. So make the roof of a birdhouse out of it.

2:17:10No. 913-586-779-858-677-798. Here on Damon Parks. Is it possible he meant Ubla? I think I was going for hoopla. I don't know. Okay. I was able to find it again. Are you? No. It's okay. Let's go to Mike and Karney. Good afternoon. Hello. Hey guys. My oldest boy when he got his first car, he got personalized plates and it was B.A. W.S. We are in a small town and the cops actually went to the DMV because it's privately owned DMV and complained to the lady that runs it that they need to pay attention to what kind

2:18:14of plates they're letting out because they thought it was like a play on words for like basketballs. It's V.A. W.S. Blake Austin Woodrow sweet is his name. Oh, it was just so it was his initials or an acronym? Yes. It's his initials. Yes. I mean, why was that a, I'm confused. We don't need to spell it out or say it again, but they thought that it was a play on words for B.A. L.L.S. Really? And it's his initials. Okay. Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate. Sure. If it is your name, why can't you have it? Who decides that your name is offensive? Don't you know? I mean, I'm not disagreeing. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate because obviously dude, get over it. He's been in term for a long time, long before the 70s. I had a principal one time named Richard Long. You want to know what name he went by? No, I don't. Scott. There was a NASCAR driver, Richard Trickle and he did not go by Richard.

2:19:15Okay. But like the Noah character who plays college sports, not even going to, please not even take that as a last name. Yes. Could he put that on a license plate? No. No. And you know the announcers are trying real hard every week not to say his last name. You know. That's a great throw by even though for the touchdown. It might be your name. That license plate is issued by the state. You don't have the right to put anything you want. Wait. Now you're making my point for me on that plate. Are you not? Yeah. I'm just saying it even though you have a good explanation for it, does not mean they have to greenlight it. 913-586-7798. Andy in Kansas City. Andy, hello. Hey Scott. Yeah, just calling into a agreement with your point. I think that family knew pretty well that their nickname was a racist term.

2:20:16Yeah. And I'm sure they thought it was funny to be for their buddies to call the white guy. We got it. We got it. We got it. And so I agree. And I give props to this marching for finally stopping the license plate, cutting it down. Andy. Yeah. And I find it, Andy, extremely hard to believe that they didn't know that their nickname, even if it dates back 70, 80, 90 years, I don't care. What do you say? We've never had a problem with it before. Well, I find that hard. Where's they from? Where's they from? Like what part of Missouri are they from? Like I mean, if it's a, you know, small town with not a lot of agents, they probably can say that however they want and not have to worry about it. And they probably thought it was funny to call the white guy. At the point that people are flipping you off in your car when you're grandchildren with you, do you not go? Okay, you know, that's bright time. Why are we getting the middle finger everywhere? We get a middle finger. I'm using my turn signal. Is it? Stan in the least of it. You get the last word. Hello.

2:21:16Good afternoon, guys. So you guys touched on selling license plates, old license plates? Yeah. And in the state of Missouri, I had a 1979 RX-7, I bought Pobby 5 or 6 years ago. I found a 1979 old red Missouri license plate. You go to the DMV, they check the number and the, you know, that's on that license plate. And as long as it's not in use, I actually registered my car with that license plate and drove around that 79 RX-7, excuse me, with a 79 license plate on it. Oh, that's pretty cool. As long as no one's using the number. Exactly right. I don't know if you can do it in Kansas, but you can in Missouri. Okay. Somebody says, is this not a violation of freedom of speech? No. Driving is a privilege. We got to run on behalf of our producer today, the finest man in these United States, the great Sam Stevie III, my good friend, he co-host Dana Wright. My name is Scott Parks and God willing. Back tomorrow to a clock.

2:22:17Have a great night. Be safe. Be well and be good to one another. Good night. 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.