
HOUR 1: Nearly 25 years since 9/11. How do you appropriately commemorate such a tragic day?
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The Dana & Parks Podcast — HOUR 1: Nearly 25 years since 9/11. How do you appropriately commemorate such a tragic day?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
You're listening to the Dana and parks podcast on KMBZ. I'm just glad he didn't say hoot nanny. Yeah. We're hankering. I got hankering for some Dorito chips right now. I'm Johnson speaking of hankering and hoot nanny. We are long overdue for a buzzword with a buzzby. Ooh. Is today the day. What about hankering? You hankering for a buzzword? I don't think so. Hankering for some cooler temperatures. Well, we already got those. So you can't be hankering for them anymore because we just got them. I've never been so ready for fall in my life. I can't remember a time. I mean, it's already my favorite season, but this has been just awful. I'll tell you on was it Tuesday that was the hottest day or Monday? I think Monday was much hotter than Tuesday. Okay. Monday got to like 150 degrees outside or something. Yeah. The surface of the sun. Yeah. We we were coming home from a coyote versus acme. By the way, welcome commander Jesse Reed. How do you mean today for Dana? Howdy.
And the other voice you know, recognizes Dan Weinberg. Dan Weinberg from Florida. The smooth baritone is back. The berry wide of news. They were celebrating Labor Day. They were asking on the text line, where's Dan? We need him to read us our news. No more ABC, please. Hmm. So you're back. Welcome. Welcome to ABC, dude. They just don't report the news like Dan Weinbaum reports the news. Naturally. Of course. So anyway, we come back from coyote versus acme on my early Monday afternoon, it was like 330 or something when we got home. And I mean, I was sweating in an air conditioned car. And I told T. I've always told Sam I'll never complain about how hot the summer gets because he doesn't want to hear it when I complain about how cold, how much I hate the winter in Kansas City. And I said, that ends today because this is too much. It is. And now what is it? What is the current temperature outside right now? Like 78 or something nice and cool.
I don't know. It feels like winter time right now and it's just normal. I had to slap on a long sleeve to walk the dog this morning. It was confusing. Yeah. It's a muggy 73. A muggy 73. I did. I burped my house this morning. It was so cool outside. You guys burp your house. Is that where you open the windows? I open all the windows. If you have an attic fan, turn on the attic. So I sat and read the paper this morning while T was getting ready with the back door open. It was lovely. Good here. The football team practicing. Anyway, I don't want to get jipped on fall either. Like I don't. I don't want summer to overextend into the fall months and then fall ends up lasting just one month and boom, we're right in the winter. See, is that more so us as human beings fixating on the negatives than the positives? Because I have the same thing where every year I feel like we only get two weeks of good weather in the spring and we only get two weeks of good weather in the fall. I think that's real. If you go and look at the weather archives, it's actually not real.
We get it for like six, eight weeks, but it feels so good that we're not paying attention to. So that time flies by and then all the sudden it's cold and we're like, what the heck? We didn't even get a phone. Actually, if you look at the numbers, you did. Can I say I like that you're just natural, positive, mental attitude towards that to to focus on the positive and not the negative. That's great. And it's still summertime. So yeah, technically, yeah, that's true until what the 21st of this month. That's right. It's still summer. All right, story here from Fox four. Kansas City Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt says the team's new stadium across the state line, read that wine. That county will likely not be called Arrowhead Stadium. Hunt spoke with Fox four this morning ahead of the chiefs home opener, discussing his family, read Thursday. Can somebody explain read Thursday to me later in the show? Okay, I didn't think so. And once ahead for the upcoming season, but the biggest news that he shared centered on the team's new domed stadium in KCK for the first time.
Hunt directly addressed what the soon to be home of the chiefs will be called. And despite its historic legacy and symbolism, he confirmed Arrowhead will likely be getting a new name, quoting here from Clark Hunt. I don't think we'll call it Arrowhead, but we wanted to make sure there were enough elements in the design that reminds every fan who is attended a game at Arrowhead about what a great stadium that is as long as it's not insert your corporation name here and then stadium at the end of it. That's all I care about here and damn teed. That's what it's going to. That's got zero personality. Do we get the pitchforks out now or do we wait until now for the Missouri side fan? Who said I will never, ever, ever attend a chiefs game in the state of Kansas. Now they're really not going to attend a chiefs game in Kansas because the stadium is not going to be called Arrowhead. And by the way, the red Thursday situation is they felt weird celebrating something on
the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Oh, so it's just this Thursday. Is that not Friday? You know, I respect that. Yeah, I respect that. So you could go around to the McDonald's, whatever the bank branches, I forgive me, I forget and get your new season flags today, but they will not be doing any celebration of course because the focus is all on September 11th tomorrow. Okay. I'm just as long as it's not like how Black Friday used to be the big shopping day after Thanksgiving and now it's turned into basically Black November. Black Friday starts on the first of November now for shopping. Well, an Amazon Prime days feels like we have one every three weeks. Yeah. By the way, it's fine that you promote McDonald's. Our partners at high V are also have will also have flags throughout the day. My sincere is to Paul. That's fine. High V and get a flag. Yep. With regards to the name, are we surprised? Let me ask you this. All three of you, I'll start with you. Okay. And then we'll go, we'll go around the half minute or if seniority.
Yes. Even when it opens in WINDY County, are people still going to say they're going to the game at Arrowhead? Just like, I mean, sandstone has been called a mill. I don't even know what it is right now. Azura or cricket. I don't even know anymore soon to be closed soon to be close. Soon to be closed stone. There goes that positive mental attitude. The only name change that has ever really stuck has been T-Mobile Center. Yeah. When it, you know, it used to be Sprint. Now it's T-Mobile and there's no geographical move for those places. No, but I mean, they tried to rename the Grandview Triangle and oh, no, no, I take that back. Kaufman Stadium caught on because it used to be just royal stadium. Oh, okay. I didn't even know that it used to just be royal stadium. Yeah, after you and Kaufman, yeah, they tried to Kaufman Stadium. It's been so long now. It's been a long time. So will people still call it Arrowhead? I mean, reflexively, I think possibly.
Yeah, I mean, not if we come up with a really cool name. You have, I don't know, you see this all over. Like I found out about this, you know, fosters is the beer that they drink in Australia. It's kind of like their version of Bud Light. And it's very common in Australia. You just say, throw me a fosters and really they're just saying, give me a beer. That matter what kind it is, but that's just the slang term they use. It could be something like that. But then also, I didn't know people in Australia sounded like a tough guy to you. Yeah, throw me a fosters. Mate. Oh, yeah, I know. I need to I need to workshop that one. It's not like my Christopher Walkin. Yeah, guys, guys. Guys, guys. Are you going to call it? Are you going to call it? Guys? Yeah, I don't know. What would I call it that? I don't think so. I mean, Arrowhead to me is kind of gritty. And I don't think this new stadium is going to be that way. I'm sure it'll be very nice. Sam, I think if you're a naysayer, you're going to call it Arrowhead. I think if you're welcoming the new stadium, you're going to call it whatever the new stadium name is. I just hope they do it right.
I have faith they'll do it right. Well, what does that mean? Like don't name it huggies stadium. Or something like that. Let's try to come up with it. It's going to get involved. Diverse. Something chief affiliated. Like I don't want to go to depends stadium. Are they going to win today? For the Monday night matchup for Monday night football coming to you live from the old TV stadium. Oops, I crap my cap. Oops, I crap my steps. I think it's going to be 50 50. Okay. I think I'm still going to call it Arrowhead. I am, I am so past the corporate branding. And I hate the word branding. I can't believe I just said that. But that's what it is. The corporate branding of major sporting and concert venues. I think it also depends on how many people it does. It's crap my pants. Basically, from what I'm understanding, it's going to be hard to even as the as a normal
season ticket holder to get season tickets. There's going to be so it's going to become such a corporate event now anyway. Well, we are from what I understand of what's going to happen with the ticket situation. We are named it based off of the renderings because of the roof. The Pringle. Pringles. The Pringle. Do you see it? I think Morton Ampitheater really needs to get their arms around salt stone and make that their own, even though it was Sam Stevie's idea, salt stone. That's what they should call it. Morton's salt stone. Not Morton Ampitheater. Morton's salt stone. Do you think and, you know, we can't speak to the legacy of Lamar Hunt anymore than Clark can, of course, but what do you think Lamar would say about all of this? I hear both sides of the argument and we heard about it in the stadium moving conversation of Lamar wanted to bring the sport to new communities. That would be the pro stadium move side of it.
The anti was that he was dead set on Kansas City and Kansas City itself. Well, but that was that was a different time as well. I can't speak for Lamar Hunt. I only met him a handful of times. But I'm sure that Clark Hunt, you know, and I don't care where they play. I don't care if they just keep playing at Arrowhead. I'm still going to cheer for him. If I can afford it, I'm still going to go see them every once in a while. But man, my couch is a great view. What is? Somebody says on the text line, why not call it the Lamar Hunt dome? The problem with that is there's no money in it. And we live in a time now where, I mean, my God. They're naming the field. Geha, you know, Geha field at Arrowhead Stadium from the text line. Arrowhead 2.0. I don't think we're getting that one. They could star bond stadium. They could lean into the whole Kansas thing.
Oh, they're not going to do that. The sunflower bowl. No, Toto field. They're going to do everything they can possibly do locally to not remind you they're in Kansas. The dog Toto, by the way, not the band. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I think just in case. Totally on this for Scott, totally unnecessary clarification. 913 586 777 988 commander Jesse Reed in for Dana, right? My name is Scott Parks here on KMBC. So a couple of quick programming notes. I'm going to get a call out to Dave Helling, reporter extraordinaire to join us on the program. Hopefully sometime tomorrow. This is an S show. It's the only way to describe it. What is going on with the. And we don't talk politics, but this actually impacts every single voter in Missouri and potentially
in other states as well. The US, this is from the Kansas City star. Then I'll get to our other programming mind here in just a moment. The US Supreme Court again rejected a push to use a more Republican friendly map in the 2026 election. Read that the new map that came out earlier this year has been rejected again twice now by the US Supreme Court. Basically, they're saying, didn't we already tell you this once? What is with all this federal judge nonsense? Where it's still up in the air. There still will be continued at legal battle about this. And I can't wait to hear Dave's breakdown. The story goes on to say that leaves the Missouri Supreme Court's decision, suspending the maps and requiring the state to use the maps that were passed in 2022. But as we reported yesterday on the program, that would mean this is how screwed this screwed up. This is Jesse. That means if they're going to use the 20 and I have no problem with them throwing out
the 2026 map, it is Jerry Mander. There's no other way to look at it. But Jerry Mandering has been going on since nothing new. I mean, you and I were learning about Jerry Mandering when we were kids. They said earlier, it was in my social studies textbook in seventh grade. Yeah, this is not something that just started a handful of years ago. But here's the problem as we reported yesterday. If they do use the 2022 map, you have to remember that the primaries were under the 2026 map. That's the issue is you're changing the map mid election cycle. So the democratic nominee in the fourth congressional district who would go up against Mark Alford, lives in Kansas City, Missouri, which if you use the 2022 map is now in the fifth district. The Republican nominee in the fifth district running against a manual cleaver, the incumbent now lives in Mark Alford's district again.
The two nominees from their respective parties in the fourth and fifth districts in Missouri don't live in their districts under the US Supreme Court's ruling today. Yeah. So this is very confusing. And we will try to get Dave Helling on the program for tomorrow. Yeah. Anyway, Oh, and Alex Smith is going to do the drum honor. He's going to be the drum honor. I'm on that. That'll be a really good response, I think. Alex Smith. Oh, yeah, the city loves him. For sure. And his story, I mean, it's just so compelling. See where are we going here? There was another programming. Oh, yes. Thank you for telling me that. Sam to the rescue. I got I got a note from James Loman. Okay. Earlier today, reminding us if we would be so kind as to announce that the Tobin Lawton Garden show this Saturday from six to 10 is going to be a memorial show for like of a better term to the great legendary Toby Tobin who died this past weekend.
And so instead of, you know, telling you don't buy sweet gum trees and don't plan a Bradford pair. And here's how you can fix your dishwasher. The things that have attracted all of you to that show for decades and decades. This this Saturday is going to be exclusively calls about Toby. Okay. Now, I'm sure if you threw in a quick, you know, that's a dead grass. I'm sure they're going to answer that, but they want this show to be centered around the life, the legacy of Toby Tobin. I'm going to stop by and hang out for a while. It's it's going to be. I actually saw a photo. I can't remember which one of you or if it was just on the station website, but I saw a picture of him sitting in this very chair that I'm lucky to sit in here as a guest today and kind of gave me goose bumps. I think it was taken recently. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. It's really cool. That he sat in this chair right here and talked on this microphone spoke into that microphone for many, many years. Much better than I did probably. No, that's not true. That's not fair at all.
Tomorrow is 9-11, the 25th anniversary. This is tough. Hub 9-11. This is always tough. I was talking to my, I was picking up my youngest daughter Evelyn from volleyball last night and she was asking me a lot of questions about it. How old are you in 2001? I was 21 years old and I was a senior at the Naval Academy, which has the crow's, crow flies. Anapolis, Maryland is really very close to Washington, DC traffic usually makes it a longer drive, but as the crow flies very close and I that day was one of the most surreal days for any of us. They can remember that, but just, I just remember the campus going on lockdown. My friends roommates, dad was a three star admiral at the time and his office was in the Pentagon and was hit. Just happened to be in a meeting on one of the other areas. His office was destroyed. His office was destroyed. So he would have been dead had he been in his office at the time. Oh my. Yeah. And I remember coming back from classes, they, they after that or third or fourth
the class of the day, they just cut everyone loose and said, go back to your rooms and we're on lockdown until further notice. And I remember I got back to my room as soon as my roommate did and I just, we literally came around the corner to our room at the same time, face to face. And I just stared at him for like what seemed like an eternity. He's probably like 10 seconds. And I said, do we know anything? And he says, I haven't heard from him yet. He knew exactly what I was asking. And through the grace of God survived. But yeah, this is a tough day. Tomorrow is going to be even tougher. Oh, yeah, I can still remember I was getting, I was the news director at the radio station at the time. And I had just had my first shot. Well, I didn't have a shot. I just had Sarah. And I was getting Sarah ready to go to daycare, which was a lady literally, like three blocks from our house. And she took care of like three kids and Sarah was one of them. And I was getting ready and I had good morning America on.
And I remember the anchors, if I'm not mistaken, were Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson. And you know, back then, I know this is hard to believe Sam. I used to wear a suit and tie to work every day. I don't buy it. I don't. That is the truth. I need to see Pixar. It didn't happen. Okay. Did the pants have like a built-in liner? What? Mr. Camille. Don't go there. Don't go there. Come on. But anyway, I'm getting Sarah ready, you know, getting her dressed and getting ready to put her in the car seat. And I hear, I think it was Charlie Gibson. One of the two doesn't matter. Say a plane has just struck the World Trade Center in New York. They didn't even have pictures of it yet. They were still just in the in the in the good morning America studio. And I'm like, oh, that's unfortunate. And I thought all I could think was, you know, a little some sightseer just got too close to the World Trade Center. A little prop plane and maybe had a health emergency or heart attack or
something while piloting this little plane. And I thought this is no big deal. And then finally they got pictures from it. And it, I mean, you remember what it looked like. I was like, this is going to be bigger than, but I still kept thinking it was an accident because only one of the trade centers had been hit. Obviously, K.A.M.B.C. We went to ABC News and wall to wall coverage from New York on what was happening in Manhattan. And I'm driving to the the daycare lace house. I drop Sarah off and then I get back in the car and I'm coming to the radio station. And that's when I hear whoever it was say another plane has just hit the World Trade Center. That's when you know, yeah. And you know, who was it was not saying I'm done. Peter Jennings. And he said, this is no longer an accident. And I, and I just, I was like, wow. What the hell is going on? Yeah. Mass chaos.
Yeah. Mass chaos for days. 913-586-7798-586-7798. Here on Dana Park's. Yeah. 5845 rights. I was listening to Nolan Ellen on K.M.B.C.'s morning news. I had the TV on, but the volume was down. I will never forget. Yeah. That's true. That is one of those places or one of those times I, you don't forget the place you were. Yeah. When it happened, what was the story you were going to tell? Oh, yeah. It was just about that day. I remember. And you were a senior, yeah, I was senior at the Naval Academy, you know, a lesson a year from graduation, the rear, you know, the end is approaching. And everyone in my class very excited to graduate. And, and I'm sitting in a civil military relations class. I remember.
And we were watching a documentary as part of our class. And the instructor, the professor came in and turned on the lights and turned, turned the show off and said, Hey, everybody's dismissed from class. It's kind of weird. And her plane has hit the World Trade Center. That okay. So we left our classroom and kind of started all wander into the main commons area of the academic building we're in and everyone else is getting released from class. And everyone's kind of looking at each other like what's going on. And they had little TVs in there, kind of like a waiting room, like a lobby almost. And so there's a couple hundred of us packed in there in our uniforms, Navy cadet, midshipmen uniforms just couldn't hear, you could hear a pin drop in there. All watching the TVs. And it was right around that time where the second plane hit. And there was no gas per hush. They came over the crowd just dead silent as that second plane hit real time. We're all watching the TVs. Just if you imagine, you know, a couple hundred people in uniform just staring at a TV. And the guy next to me never met him in my life couldn't pull him out of a lineup. Just kind of says out loud. What everyone's thinking goes, well, it looks like we're all going to war soon.
And that kind of struck me right there. I said, man, I'm listening here from graduating. And this looks like this might be something that defines our class and our future generation of folks about to go out there into the military. How'd that make you feel? I mean, man, there was almost no emotion for a while. I don't know how that kind of stuff affects you guys in the moment. There was no real emotion at the moment. Just kind of like this cold, detached feeling almost of what's happening, very confusing. It wasn't until I saw, and I'm sure you guys all have seen this. And it's a thing I almost can't watch anymore, but watching people jump out the building. That's when I, I guess the horror of the situation really affected me. And still, still something that I can't watch without getting emotional. And yeah, so somebody I follow on Facebook, I can't remember who it is at the moment, but it's somebody, you know, semi well known, I guess, national figure of some capacity.
But they reposted the picture of, I believe he was nicknamed Falling Man, which, yeah. But he's going head first out the window and I know exactly what you're talking. He has his hands behind his back. And there's almost this surreal calm about him. Complete surrender to the situation. Yeah. Yeah. And, but I looked at that and I hadn't seen that picture in a long time. And I was just like, God, you know, and all these memories come rushing back about what it was really like that day, 25 years ago tomorrow. But I read some of the comments on this person's post with this picture and there were hundreds and hundreds of comments. And a number of people said this picture should never be posted again. This, this man knew what his fate was going to be. And he did this because he couldn't take the pain of whatever that pain was up there any longer.
And so he just threw himself out the window. And I don't know if I agree with. I would, I'm with you on this as hard as that is to watch. The emotions that you feel that you're bringing up, that, that I'm bringing up, you actually need to feel those. So, so we can realize how the gravity of that moment. It's the same thing as watching war movies, you know, I remember seeing save it private, saving private Ryan. So he's really gritty war movies that really portray things like D day and like the, the horror of that situation. And these are really important things for us, whether it's movie or whether it's real life footage there to remind folks of the reality of those situations. I think we can continue to just kind of go about our days and just kind of forget about it in September 11 can become another day. But it not only does it honor them, but it really honors the reality of like this actually happened. This is part of our history and it is something we need to continue to be vigilant about. I, I wonder though at some point, people like you and I who remember 9 11 where we were, when does it not have the same emotional impact?
Is it just when people are aged die off? Because think about December 7th. Yeah. All right. It's commonly known as Pearl Harbor Day. It's not a national holiday. But when December 7th rolls around, I recognize, oh, this is the day that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. But most of the people old enough to remember December 7th, 1941 are not alive anymore. Yeah. And in a, you know, that's why I appreciate when my daughter gets curious about this or kids that that weren't alive or people that don't remember that don't have a memory associated with it. I ask about it because you can, you can have them look at this and go, Hey, you know, this, this doesn't explain the rights and wrongs of our country and how we acted afterwards and all that and what led to, you know, extended conflict and you can have debates about all that. That's a healthy thing to do. But at least explains in some aspect, kind of where our country was at that time and why we went down that road, whether you agree with it or not.
But, you know, I heard somebody speaking, this is not my own original thought, but it made me think the other day talking about what the anniversary coming up that if that had happened in today's age, you know, this September 11th happened before the iPhone before live streaming before there were cell phones, but you couldn't. Yeah. You couldn't record it on your phone. Yeah. Think about now how even worse that would be how more striking that would be that now, you know, everyone's fate that was stuck in that building was sealed and other some phone calls and some things that got out, you know, that's the last remnants of what we know happened there. Now we live in this age of live streaming where same thing happens now you're going to see on Facebook live on streaming platforms, people panicking and freaking out and, you know, buildings collapsing and you're watching it live and happen from the people. That that it's happening to I could even fathom what that would be like 913 586 777 988 let's go to Chris in ropo. Hey Chris.
Hello. So I was the night supervisor at the Vanguard call center. I've told you about this before on previous phone calls there in the building that you're working in right now. Yes, we used to this building used to be the headquarters for Vanguard, did it not? That's correct. It did. Anyway, so I got called in early and you know, we kind of looked out in that it happened at such a time that all of our aircraft were in their home airports for that time of the day. So we didn't have any diversions to deal with or anything like that. The only thing that we had to deal with were people who, you know, were connecting in Kansas City. We had some red eyes that were coming in from the west, coming from the west coast. And those planes were continuing on to the east coast.
And, you know, so those people had to deal with hotels and those were basically the only people that were stranded because all of our other planes were on the ground. They weren't even up in the air at the time. So we kind of looked out there. I remember, you know, the big one everybody knows about is of course, the land or newfoundland with all the transatlantic flights. But I do remember that it was either great bend. I'm sorry, garden city or Dodge city out in southwest Kansas had a number of planes that were diverted there because the order from the FAA was you get down. And now we don't care how far away your destination is you go to the nearest airport that you can. You know, so there were a lot of aircraft that were sitting at little bitty fields in the middle of nowhere until they could take off.
And we spent a bunch of time because we didn't know not know how long it was going to be until we were going to be allowed back up in the air. And then on top of that once once it happened everybody was so afraid to fly that we had to really, really cut down the lower the cost of plane tickets. That's what led to vanguard going out being the first airline to go bankrupt because in 9-11 we actually see business. July of of 2002 so we didn't even last a year after that because it got to the point that. You know, we weren't even making our operating cost back. Chris, thank you for the call. Yeah, and your memories. You know, it was one of the most beautiful things that came out of which sounds weird to say. But I don't if you remember that very evening watching some folks that are still in Congress even today. Both sides of the aisle standing on the steps of Capitol Hill and singing God Bless America I think.
That's right. And the weird thing out of some of these tragedies is you also get to see and you see this anytime there's really bad things that happen. I feel like you see the best of humanity as well. You see kind of an almost an idealistic idea of what you wish it was every day of people that come from different backgrounds different thought philosophies. On the coming together. Idea that you're talking about. I always think about George W. Bush standing on top of the rubble in New York with a megaphone and somebody with a megaphone and somebody screams out, we can't hear you. And he says, well, I can hear you. And soon whoever knocked down these buildings are going to hear from all of us. I mean, that transcends politics I think. And sides of the aisle for sure. 913-586-7798 Commander Jesse Reed in Ferdinand Wright. Sam Stevie III. My name is Scott here on KMBC.
One of their greatest. Man, man, man. We are working behind the scenes to set up a couple of interviews tomorrow to talk about the 25th anniversary. Okay. By the way, did you guys see the price of gasoline on the way in today? Did it jump again? Went up 20 cents overnight. It is now at 399. Okay. Yep. A story here from NBC News. The price of oil surged again today with Brent Crude. Sir, passing $107 per barrel for the first time since May. And US crude oil jumping above 100 per barrel. Also its highest level since mid May. Did you do a primary driver of the move in oil prices? Of course, was President Trump's comment Wednesday night that he is not looking for a deal with Iran? The president also said that he did not expect oil prices to fall until right after the November midterm elections.
quoting here from the president right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down and we will get them down. Commodities experts warned though that oil prices as measured by Brent, Brent Crude could rise to $120 a barrel or even as high as $150 per barrel if the stalemate with Iran continues to drag on. And there is a story in the Wall Street Journal today that in private conversations, members of the administration are telling the president that the war with Iran may last the rest of his presidential term. Oh, goodie. Yeah. No, I'm serious. I didn't bring the paper. It's in the newsroom. I'll go get it in a minute. But yeah, there's a story in the Wall Street Journal today that the war with Iran may last until or past January 2029. I know that I am king skeptic about like literally everything, but specifically about this whole gas price thing, skeptic or conspiratorial.
Sure. The latter. Not the farmer. Her barrel in 2008 hit $150 a barrel. In 2008. Gas topped out at $4.11 inflation adjusted. It would have been an average of 580 across the country. How does that compare to today? I am not buying all this hogwash that it needs to be this expensive because of a conflict going on in Iran, because of the world market, because our reserves are at it. I'm not buying it. I'm also not buying the whole prices jump. So gas prices jump immediately. But when oil barrel prices go down, oh, sorry, it's going to be eight months before your gas prices go down. Markets in the short term. I don't care what you're talking about. Oil stocks, anything. They're very volatile and they're emotional. Well, Wall Street's emotional. It is. Commander, just to read, filling in today for Dana, right? I just learned he'll be in tomorrow for a couple of hours as well.
Yay. Don't get looking forward to it. Don't don't don't kill me text line. But it'll be the same in Scotch show from two to three and then during Festive is Friday. Okay. All right, right now. Dan Wyman, he has your news coming up in two minutes here on Dana and Parks. Thanks for listening to the Dana and Parks podcast on KMBZ. Catch us online anytime on KMBZ.com or get the podcasts wherever you get your podcast.
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