HOUR 1: Remembering a true legend. After 40+ years on KMBZ, Toby Tobin passed away over the weekend.

0:00You're listening to the Dana N. Parks podcast on KMBZ. And a good Tuesday afternoon. What everybody enjoyed their extended weekend if you had one. We are more than aware of the news that is affected this broadcasting family. The passing of Toby Tobin over the weekend. And we have a number of people that are going to come in. We will talk about Toby Tobin his just legendary career. 40 years. 40 plus years on KMBZ. His dad did the show before him. I did not know that until today. Now his brother Mark continues on every Saturday morning from six to 10. Sam called me over the weekend on I think it was Sunday morning. And I know you have a very close connection with the Tobin family as well. And produce their show and did the news on their show. Man. He was, Dana used the word a giant.

1:01And he really was. I mean, I got the phone call and working in this business, you know that we always have something to say. And I got the call and they told me what was going on. And I didn't have any words for the first time in a long time. I was just like, you're lying. And then you called me. And you called me and I said, give me a second. I need to sit down. And I mean, because when I first came here in December of 96, it was to read the news on Tobin show. On Toby Tobin show. And he was, and I mentioned this in a Facebook post, he was genuine. He was so kind and so funny. And I was just telling the story to his brothers out in the newsroom. Mark, I mean, I was in my early 20s. Yeah. I was in my early 24, I don't know. And I was nervous. And I knew who Toby Tobin was. Everybody did.

2:01And I remember I did a newscast. And I was, this was at the old building in Westwood. And I go back and I sit in the newsroom. And Toby comes up to me during a commercial break and he goes, hey, stay in the business. I think you might have it. And I was like, I mean, for a young kid like me, I was like, wow. Yeah. You know, that meant everything to me. And he's the same to me. I mean, he used to tell me every single Saturday morning at some point he'd come out of the studio and say, keep doing what you're doing. You know, Scott Park started out reading the news on my show. And I'd say, thank you, Toby. I appreciate that. I'll keep doing it. Johnny Vincent, to me over the weekend, he said, because he's a lawn guy. Very deliberate specific about his lawn, like so many of you are. And he said, all of my lawn, the shrubs, the lawn, the trees, he said, it's all Toby Tobin. He said, I listened religiously. Everything I know is because of that show. And you think about like what you want your legacy to be. Someday we will all be gone.

3:01What do you want your legacy to be? And what a uniquely beautiful, impactful legacy that Toby leaves in every blade of grass in the spring. Oh, sure. And the trees that you see around us and the shrubs, you know, we would be driving. I remember at one point, he, I said, look at those beautiful white flowering trees. And this was maybe a year ago. And he goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because those are invasive. That's actually a weed. We do not want those. And I was like, how do you know that Toby Tobin? No, if he liked your product and recommended it on the air, say, if you know this, if he liked your product and recommended it on the air, he could make your career. Oh, yeah. And he absolutely meant it. I mean, it was always 100% genuine. If he told you he loved the product, he used it on his yard. And we'll get into some of the many stories about Toby coming out. But it was always funny that the man who always had to have the perfect yard was always tearing up his yard to see if there was a better way to do it. To see if I can get a little better next time.

4:01And you know, the big green pastures upstairs are a whole lot greener after this weekend. Oh, awesome. Because he's taking care of them. Really well said. We went and saw coyote versus acme over the weekend. I feel that if only we were in the last two hours hoodie Senator, and neighborhood. That guys were going to be excited. You know? It happens that you're sick today out on mid Epic January. And you're also getting so excited. Yeah, it happens a couple of days back, I see a lot more sun, when the Colorado Roads Pasteur just sent me to see white guy directly. I think, when his voice asked me don'tverständ it, they might ask me to get him. Funny those cartoons were how violent they were very violent. It is a movie with Will Forte and John Cena is in it. It's very well written. It's very well acted. I found it creative. And then there are cartoons in it, sort of like who killed Roger Rabbit, but way funny. It's animation meets live action. And have you forgotten about the birdseed

5:04over the bomb in the middle of the road? Don't get me wrong. We enjoyed the movie. Meet me. But when I got done, I called Sam and I said, you might want to wait for this to come in on streaming. It's good, but it's not great. Oh, I was entertained. I was entertained, but I didn't think it was two hours of nonstop laugh. We were sitting in a row. I'm sorry for the guy who sat in front of you. Oh, let me just tell you, we were sitting in a row. When we got there, it was just you and I. And then I popped up to get a Diet Coke right before the preview started. And I come back and there are like 12 eight year olds in the row that we share with all of these kids are now there. They're there for a birthday party. He says to me after the movie, you laughed harder than they did because it's so stupid. You guys, it is just stupid, mindless, funny. I think word is getting around that it's a good movie. Great movie. Whatever. T and I went to the 130 yesterday in Western Shawnee. We could not sit next to each other.

6:08No, no, we went to a matinee. Yeah, could you sit next to each other? We were able to find two seats together. Our text line is 913-586-7798. If you want to pass on a note to Mark Tobin or Mike Doherty, please text us. They're all here. They're going to be joining us in just a moment as we remember the life and the legacy of Toby Tobin. I wish we were visiting on different circumstances, but joining us in studio is Mark Tobin, Mike Doherty and Brian Pippen as we remember and honor the legacy of one of our own Toby Tobin, who passed away over the weekend. Mark, it's only fitting that we start with you and our condolences to the Tobin family and to the many, many people who knew Toby and called him a friend. Well, I really don't even know how to thank you and so many people.

7:17I've reached out. I got a call Sunday morning from Mark. I was out of town and Mark said, Brian, can you help me? You're the first one I'm calling outside the family and we need to let everybody know. I said, I'll call Sam. I said, we'll take it from here. I know what to do. You don't need to do anything. We got it under control. So Toby let a really private life away from the microphone and since he's passed, it's just overwhelming to me the outpouring of of well wishes and sympathy and I knew he touched a lot of lives, but to see it has just been actually very cool and very humbling and I really don't know how to thank so many people for the sympathy and I remember and Toby. I was going to ask you, Mark, did you realize or did anyone in the family realize the extent to which you shared him? No, not at all. Toby was just my brother. Well, there was a big day,

8:24age difference between Ben Toby. He's 15 years older than I am and so my earliest memories of home, Toby had already moved out of the home and I didn't really look at him as a brother growing up. He was more like a father figure to me. My dad, Jack died when I was when he was 58 and Toby was the one that was there through all of my trials and tribulations and again, he was more like a father to me than he was a brother. Let our listeners understand like how did it all start? Did you guys always just have this beautiful lush, incredible lawn? Were you always the yard of the month? How did this all start? It was quite the opposite. So my dad, Jack, started the radio show back in 1963 and so dad would get a lot of different products to try and my younger brother, Gary and I were still at home back in those days and we made it a point to make sure it absolutely tear up the yard. I remember one year somebody that had these new kind of lawn mowers that used sticks to control them, almost like a little golf cart. Well, we had two of them and we made an

9:28obstacle course in our yard and dad finally put his foot down when we had turned the entire lawn into dirt but it was kind of a running joke that Jack Totem's lawn was the worst in the neighborhood because dad was always trying to slip mouse or we were busy and just had a time to do it. Now Toby was a little bit different. Toby was a perfectionist and his lawn was the best in the block but he was crazy. I mean, he would every year he would kill his lawn out and try a new grass back in the early days when we started to open lawn. There was always a different variety of grass that was coming out. There was a tad to be better and greater than something else and he killed his perfectly perfect yard and converted over to something else just to try something else but yeah, he was definitely a perfectionist when it came to that. Well, when you talk about sharing him and you talk about the impact that he's had and we of course talked about him on the morning show this morning. All of the text message that we are getting of course are about how people themselves

10:28are impacted but also how they listen to Toby with their dad or they listen to your dad with their dad and they feel like they're losing a piece of their dad as well now that we've lost Toby. Well, so dad did the show in 1963 and dad had a bad habit. He was addicted to fishing. And dad would hear that the crappie might be biting and he called Toby the night before and it got where when dad would call in the evening Toby would answer the phone and say, let me guess I'm doing the show tomorrow. That's how this started because of your dad's fishing habit. There's a picture of your dad in the back hallway. Oh, I with Dan Henry if you don't know who that picture is, it was your dad Henry and I don't remember. Toby told us one time. But it's a big picture. Big framed picture up on the little Dan Henry from Channel 4 weather. Is that the one with a bucket of sand and dad? Somebody has like a truce can and this looks like somebody has a little cane. Your dad is holding a like a stick or something big ship

11:32fishing ride. Yeah, that's right. I don't know the story behind that but so dad came down with cancer and passed and Toby took the show over in 1983 and Toby didn't want to do it. He did not want to do the radio show. You know dad had some big shoes to fill and Toby didn't want to do it. And there was two reasons why he did and first and four well most it was my mom and my mom wanted him to do it. She did not want my dad's memory to be gone and that was primary reason that he did it but the other thing was Toby worked in retail garden centers for a lot of years and it really irritated him that people could go to three or four or five different places and ask for advice and they get four or five or six different answers and Toby wanted to be that voice that people could trust whether it was for advice or for services or for business recommendations and he took that very seriously and a lot of people rough ruffled a lot of feathers

12:34and a lot of people didn't like Toby for that because he was very opinionated about that but he was dead set on doing what he thought was right and a lot of people would say well he's just doing it because he's getting money for it and that was not Toby not Toby the Alnbrine you can attest to this. Toby would never take anything for free now once not ever no he had to pay for everything that he had. Oh, and he was adamant about it. I mean matter of fact he was writing the check before you could even get the total out. Right. Yeah, that was not going to happen with Toby Tobin. You weren't going to get anything past that man. He had standards and Toby vetted people before vetting was even a word. You don't even understand vetting. You know, don't even get me started because I got to be honest with you. One of the things that I was always afraid of was Toby Tobin because you don't meet his level of expectation. You are not going to be on that man show. I have seen several of his guests as panel of experts come and go. I've seen yeah, and I've also seen someone walk out of the studio and he says that person will never be back on my show again.

13:40So you had to meet his level of standards or you were going to be here. Like talk about like just the overwhelming sort of communal. We all have this communal interest in making things look nice outside and you see other people do it. And as a new homeowner or an established homeowner, we all have questions. We all have frustrations. Maybe you're like Toby and you're one of those people that was just born with a green thumb for most people. It's so confusing and I love that you brought this up, Mark, that like he would get agitated that no one seemed to have any answers. Just tell me what I needed to. And he filled the void. He had to walk a tight route quite often because quite often what he was recommending was contrary to what you were seeing and still today. More still with now. There is still things that are being said and recommended depending on the source. And it's even worse now with the internet because you can go out and allegedly find things that are more times not not accurate. See, I'm being diplomatic. But he he did. As Mark said,

14:49he ruffled a few feathers because it was so contrary to what you were reading and seeing. And he truly enjoyed helping people. And that truly he took that so serious and he didn't want to give that information because that was his reputation. That was the other point that he would never recommend talking again with Brian mentioned. He never wanted to encourage or recommend anything that he did not truly believe in. That's why he said he vetted things before the work. He was tried or used it himself or absolutely he would do that. And that's what I always had so much respect for him after being with him for 40 something years. Well, in YouTube can attest. I mean, how when he did see that passion when he did see that excellence, he just clung to you guys. He did. Yeah. And what did that feel like? It was an honor. Well, you may say it was an honor. I don't know. I had a target on my back for 40 years. Well, if you. If you have a shot, you're easy. No, don't start. No, easy. It's been a while since you and I've

15:52been disclosed. Yeah, no, you don't start. You need to separate the two. Anyway, I wanted to add one more thing before we go ahead for a topic. Toby's listeners and Toby's, I'll call them my customers. It was almost a cult because unless Toby Tobin recommended it, they wouldn't use it. I've been inside customers houses and every single one of Toby's experts or businesses that he recommends, that was what that customer used. And you could see it throughout their house and it showed and they even said to me many times. Toby doesn't recommend it. I'm not doing it. I don't, I don't use it. It's one thing, though, to be as knowledgeable as he was and your dad was it's an entirely different space to turn that into a broadcast show. That works. And especially today in the era of a billion people have something to say in quote, I want a

16:52podcast about fitness or whatever. Like there's so much noise out there in our, if I had a dime for every person that told us, I'm thinking about starting a podcast and I always say, don't unless you really passionate about your hobby and you've got extra money to spend and you just want to do it. Don't for him to be able to do what he did for so long with such a niche, you know, space as long garden flower shrubs is really a testament to, to his legend. And he loved it. He absolutely loved it. The passion you could see it. He would sit back in the chair and fold his arms. He absolutely loved it. That was just that that made Toby Toby and he lived his life every single day the exact way he wanted it. And not everybody can say they did that. No, and he was good at mixing it up. So it wasn't just 100% long garden. Yeah. You know, and back in the day, he was having, he had a lot of small individual hardware. Remember in the day when we had nothing with privately small, small, say young hardware nuts and bolts, nuts

17:56and bolts and and Luangati, he had all those owners on back in the day. Man, we admire. And DIY stuff so they can answer all the little simple DIY questions. And they were great. They knew things. Well, and I said at the beginning of the show today, Toby, if he liked your product, could make your career. Oh, I can tell you right now I wouldn't be where I'm at today without Toby Tobin. There's no question about it. He absolutely exploded my business businesses. Stick around gentlemen. It's a sad day, but I wanted to celebrate the life that was in his Toby Tobin. We have Brian in here, Mike and of course, Toby's brother, Mark. We'll continue in just a moment. If you'd like to send a message to the guys, you can text us 913-586-7798.

18:58All right, joining us in studios, Brian Pippen, Mike Dordey and Mark Tobin, the younger brother of Toby Tobin. I don't need to tell you who Toby Tobin was, but he passed away over the weekend and he is and will always be regarded as a legend. Tell us something we don't know. Oh boy. Well, that's easy. No, I don't. He never missed a show due to snowy or inclement weather. You could count on one hand how many shows he actually missed. It was three. Three shows is only missed in 43 years. Two years. Oh my gosh. Three. And the last one, so Toby had been diagnosed with bladder cancer two and a half years ago and he had to have his bladder removed and his prostate removed and he asked me to fill in that Saturday and so I did the show for him and from his hospital after having cancer surgery, he would call in to do the live reads.

19:59Lane there was every tube imaginable hanging out of it and he didn't trust Mark to do the live reads. And rightfully so. So he said, didn't pre-record it. No, no, no, not going to let it air. Call him from his hospital bed. From his hospital bed. That's not going to do it any other way. Wow. So that's commitment. Yeah. Yeah. So it was two and a half years later now and Toby has been doing great and so it was two months ago, cancer returned and it was a small area by where his bladder had been removed. So they started doing radiation and chemotherapeutry and so on. I mean, he was doing great. I mean, one thing Toby loved to do him and EJ every day and I'm talking seven days a week every day. They would go to first watch restaurant over off 40 highway and independence. Those people, they were his adopted family and he was their adopted father. They loved they had a first watch every seven days. I'm serious seven days a week. And

21:03but Toby did that and so have you notified first watch? Oh, we've been there a couple of times. Toby, they wanted to go there. We've been there last two days. So again, he was doing really good with these treatments still going to first watch and this past week, same thing and he had radiation treatments Thursday or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Toby would always call me after the show on Saturday. He was the first one to either call me or text me and he'd always tell me you'd great show. You did great. He said, so the last part of our show we call it the happier. The last part of the last hour, one of my granddaughters were calling and telling a joke and then one of the guys will chip in and I will too. And he would say the girls jokes were great, but Mark how many times do I have to tell you I do the jokes? After all those years, I could never get if he was being serious or if he was joking. Well, I knew which one it was. Well, I can tell you what it was. It was real. He did not want you messing. It was tongue in cheek,

22:07but he did not want you. I kind of felt that. Yeah. Over the years, but did any large corporation ever sweep in and say, we want you to come work for us? He was so knowledgeable. He could have left and gone to do anything. And I'm guessing that just wasn't what he wanted to do. There was so much I don't know because you know, Toby and I had our lawn service and Toby and EJ ran the business and my brother Gary and I did the work. Yeah. And so there was so much I didn't see and I don't know if that happened. I don't know of it, but he wouldn't have gone anywhere. He loved the business and he loved being here and didn't have time for anything else. Yeah. The phones are still ringing. I hope. Do not call in asking about your U-bushes right now. You know, but the story about how he came on KMBZ is a great story about that. If you could you share that? Yeah. So, you know, dad again, he started the radio show in 1963 and Toby filled in for him

23:09whenever dad wanted to go fishing, but after dad passed away in 1982, Toby took over the show full time. Well, this is on WDF. Yeah. And they wanted to cut his salary in half and Toby wouldn't get to have it. He didn't need to do the radio show. So he told him I'm done. And that was on a Friday and the following Monday on our recorder at the office, Toby went in Monday and there was four offers from different radio stations for him to take the show over there. And one of the messages was from KMBZ and that just happened to be his favorite radio station. So he didn't even entertain the other. Wow. Other three. He met with KMBZ that day and was on the air that week. Wow. There was a time when it was a Monday through Friday show with him up mistaken. Oh, yeah. We start when I did not realize that I started very shortly after Toby started doing it. I knew and I got connected with Chuck Brasher if you remember him with Country Club Tree Service. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Chuck was a good friend of Jacks and Toby's. So Chuck was on and Chuck

24:10mentioned to Toby. He said, I got this young kid that knows trees. Can I bring him down sometime? And I remember hearing him say, I heard, oh, Toby Tobin. Yeah, I want to meet this guy. This is royalty here. And so I came down and did a couple of shows with him. And then Toby said, how about Dirty? Come. I get this is a funny story. So he said, so Toby ended up saying, well, how about if Dirty just comes down and replaces you permanently, Chuck? And I stood back and I said, that's fine. I can. I'll do that. And at that time, we were doing a show. I think that's when we were doing Noon to One five days a week. And so the first time I came down to do the show, I brought all my textbooks from Kyle. I mean, I had an armful of like a kid going and I said, I'm on the on the counter. And Toby looks to me. I'll never forget with that desk tear. Oh, yeah. He looks to be so what are those? I said, well, those are my books. He said, what for? I said, well, if I get a question, I can look up the answer. He said, don't you ever bring a book in this

25:15studio again. If you don't know the answer. Yeah. And so to this day, we we joked about that. That I brought this my encyclopedias of trees, trees and everything else. We need take a break. No, he ever stumped pun intended. I know. Well, there's ever someone that called in where he said, I do not know the answer to that question. Not with grass and not gen. Not with gardening grass or general tree questions. And a lot of a lot of do yourself step to. He just had such vast knowledge. He was just an amazing encyclopedia. He could read something once and he retained it. Yeah. And that's he was naturally curious. And he would ask all of his guests and whatever and the people that he've met over the years, he was naturally curious. He read a lot. And so he would ask these, especially the hardware guys about stuff. So that's how he learned all that. But we did. We did. The show was at one point, noon to one, seven days a week, then it went six to seven at night, five days a week. And did I say seven days a week, five days

26:17a week, noon to one? That's when coming down to Cambridge. It was cool because we used to have, I got to meet a lot of celebrities. Oh, sure. It's still cool. I'm not quite as cool today. You want to say. And then we have time for a story. Yes, we do. Please. Something that you don't know. So Toby went to rockers college and he had decided that he wanted to be a doctor. This is a good story. So he went to observe an operation. And I don't remember with some kind of a vein operation. I don't know if they're coast veins or what it's dripping. I don't know what it was. But he wound up getting blood splattered on his face. And he passed out and woke up in a hospital bed and wound up spending the night there. And the doctor came to Toby and Toby said to Toby, I think you better consider staying in the family business. I can remember when I bought my first house in a place in 1998. And I was reading the news on Toby show. And I went to him and I said, we just bought this brand new house. And what do you recommend for trees in the yard? And he says,

27:22I'll tell you what I don't recommend. Bradford pairs. He hated them. Silver maple. And I said, we were just at the nursery. And I kind of like these sweet gum trees. And he said, he goes, put that in your yard and I'll come cut it down. I'll see. Struck that L3 of your ideas. That's a kind of impact. Don't we have? I mean, this was years ago. And he still remembers. And he still remembers. And that's a sweet thing. He and all of us is, yes, try to convey on the show. Is to yeah, people would ask us all the time, what's your favorite tree? I said, rather tell you what my least favorite is because that's the one you're going to recommend. Right. Yes. Mark, one of the things I love about this is that in the age of the internet and social media and AI and Google, all of the listeners could have very easily just asked a computer. What do I do about my lawn or my flower beds or which trees? And year after year after year, they kept coming back to your brother and now to you. And I hope that that is a comfort

28:23to you and your family. Oh, it is absolutely. I mean, I don't have words for that. And I do worry about that. You know, with so much information available at your fingertips, you know, why would you listen to a call and show? But the thing is with the internet, you can't believe what you read. There's so many places. There's all terrier motives for the information that you get. And that's not us. You know, we're here because of we want to give information that we honestly believe in and recommend just like Toby did. This is what Toby, this is a seed Toby planted. And we want to continue to grow it. And it's just giving good information and businesses and services that you can trust. And business and the information is Midwest based. That's the key is that it's what works here in our backyard, not Texas or up in New York. Well, I think you know, Toby and by extension, you mark it's comforting to listen on a Saturday morning. It is. You know, somebody just wrote in wake up, make coffee, turn on Toby.

29:26You know, and everybody I was doing that when I was in my 20s. I have a our accountant is Toby's accountant. And when the theme music plays, which you're nice enough to do that at the top of the hour, he says it just has a calming effect on me. And I can't even begin to tell you how many people wish that they could find this theme song. And I I don't know where it came from or where it is. But it used to be when I would fill in the few times I did for Toby that theme music would come on. I'm like, oh, you know, I'm. Yeah, yeah. Oh crap. And but now it's the same way. I love it. And so many people enjoy that. And they can relax on the weekend. And what's his legacy going to be? Alaska three of you. Oh my standards. Now, when I think Toby to be told, but it's just that level of standards, you gotta meet that level. I can't I can't think of any other thing to describe Toby, but that ethics is natural

30:30caring of people and natural caring of wanting to help people. That's really what it's all about. Passion. Passion. The passion for the industry. All industries actually. Yeah. If it was underneath your roof, that passion or on your property. Yeah. Yes. Toby just helped people not only in the community, but the businesses without wanting anything in return. And he helped and never took and he never did. And I think that's his probably greatest greatest asset was everything that he did and didn't expect one thing in return. Toby would talk to his listeners, even off air. And he would even call them. And sometimes they would write into the station or they would call the station, as to speak to Toby, they had a problem with concern. And he would take the time. You would take it a 10 on one. You better believe it. He would intervene. And if there was a problem, if he couldn't get you on the air, he would take your call. Yeah. Or send us in there to take the call. But if

31:31there was an issue with one of his panel of experts, he would step in and intervene and make sure that that person was taken care of. Wow. Hands down. There were a couple of times when we've we got a call. And I couldn't figure out what the problem was by the discussion. I said, well, where do you live? Because I was going to call her and go back. She goes, I only live about two blacks from the studio. And Toby says, get out of here, Dordi. Get her address on the air. You're going to go to our house. Yeah. Yeah. He dispatched his over. Can you stop by anywhere? Don't you have it during the show and came back. And then I had to report to Toby on the air. Oh, was a nice lady. No, it was no big deal. That's like three blocks from here. Well, Mark, we hope you feel this entire town's arms wrapped around you and your family. And I know what a difficult time this is. And we're just so sorry for the loss, but so thankful for you to have shared him all of these years. Thank you. Mark Tobin, Mike Doherty, Brian Pippen.

32:32Thank you guys for your time. Thank you. Really do appreciate it. So I don't remember what year you should be dancing was a hit by the Bee Gees, but it was around that time that a farmer decided to plant some sunflowers just west of here toward Lawrence. And we are right in the middle of peak sunflower season at Grinter farm. And on just a whim on Friday, it was so hot out, but I said, why don't we hop in the car and go look at the sunflowers at Grinter farm? And if you've never been, it will take your breath away. If you think, look, I know what a sunflower looks like. There is nothing like this in these United States. Have you ever been before? I had been many years ago with the girls. They were probably seven and nine years old. It's been open since the 1970s. It is a farm. It is not, it's, they've got a

33:35little country store there that was closed by the time we got there. I'm telling you go at sundown, it is magical. The word is magical. I have never been. I have never been. You drive like you're going to Lawrence and then you take this exit and there's a gravel road and you park on their field. It's a private thing that has become this gift to the public. They do not charge, which they should, by the way, billionaires if they did. But the farmer's wife is in this like release thing on Facebook last week and here are the rules. Please do not urinate. Please. We do not have bathrooms here. When we got there, Scott, the sun was almost setting. There were a couple of photographers there taking family photos. It is so vast. You don't have to ever see another person. You, you just kind of wander in and you're just surrounded by the most stunning. It's just, it's almost indescribable how beautiful it is. You can stay 20 minutes. You can

34:37stay three hours and we snap some photos. Oh wow, look at the pictures. It's just takes your breath away and we're in the middle of you got about two weeks because it's been so dry and then it goes away until next season. The story from Channel 5 says the extreme summer heat and dry conditions are threatening to cut the sunflower season short. I posted those pictures on Facebook. There's going to be so many people going and I'll tell you exactly it's on still well road. Why applaud their charity but why not charge five bucks? Because farmers wife said it just this feels right to us. Doing it the way we do it just feels right that this is a communal asset. One to be treasured. They're in the 23,000 block of still well road in Lawrence. It is actually Lawrence. But it took us about 20 minutes to get there. You hop out just on a win you want. Your job will hit the floor. I'm telling you Scott as silly as that sounds.

35:38I'm seeing the pictures. I just kept saying look at how many there like it just goes on for miles and miles. And so go see it. You'll be glad you did. All right. Quick break for the news. Sam Steve of the third Dana Wright. My name is Scott Parks here on KMBZ. Thanks for listening to the Dana and Parks podcast. Remember you can catch us online anytime at KMBZ.com.