Ep 84 - Take a Second Look | Steve McPheeters on Sikeston's Future

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Alright, Bulldog Nation, it's time to get in the dog house.
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You're listening to the dog house, the voice of Sykes.
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What's up, Bulldog Nation?
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Bright and sunny and hot.
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Hot day.
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But it's a particularly sunny day after the Bulldogs are 2-0.
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2-0.
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First time since 2021.
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They opened the season that year beating Curlersville and Dexter.
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And then they later beat Charleston to go three and seven that year.
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Okay.
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So that was the last time that your Bulldogs started off 2-0.
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I have a feeling my opinion will be better than 3-7 this year.
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How about that?
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I think so.
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I think I if we don't get 500, I'll be surprised.
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I think 500 is a is a realistic goal for us.
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So with that being said, I'm Micah Harris.
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I'm Matt Tanner.
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Welcome to episode 84.
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Sometimes Sometimes they all run together.
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Yeah.
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I feel like sometimes the days are long and the weeks are fast.
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They all run together.
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Yes.
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Well, because before I've caught myself saying it, and then I listened to it, and I'm and then I put the graphics up there and I'm like, dang it.
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That was 75 instead of 74 or whatever.
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So that's why I glanced down real quick.
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I'm like, this is 84, right?
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So yes.
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Yeah, because we did 83 and a half last year.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Welcome to again episode 84.
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We're excited about our guest we've got coming on.
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He's a storyteller.
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He is a storyteller.
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We've the last two weeks we've had storytellers.
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Those guys know how to capture an audience, and we've had terrific response to that.
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And by the way, I'm I'm going to look again.
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I'm going to give an updated Some of those numbers are impressive.
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I'm getting I want to give an updated view.
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And I'm not saying this because we're to boast.
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We're saying thank you.
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Thank you.
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81,000 views now, Micah, on our Facebook page in the last 28 days.
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That's awesome.
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That's up a hundred percent.
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I mean, we're usually we're in the fifty thousand.
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Yeah.
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And I looked at well, let's just pull up TikTok real fast while we're doing this.
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It was around thirty-five the other day, wasn't it?
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Yeah.
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Last twenty-eight days.
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Almost thirty-six thousand.
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And YouTube was over twenty.
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So we've hit we've hit our hundred thousand and blown right past that in views.
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And so thank you.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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I I don't I that's all we can say.
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Thank you for liking, sharing, reviewing, commenting, subscribing, all of the following, all of the things that you can do.
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Received a lot of comments this week, you know.
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We did.
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We were you know, Mike and I went to the the visitation this week, and uh I mean I didn't realize that many people watched.
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No, no, well, I mean I I I see the numbers and I know but it was very nice to hear from it.
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Lori Copeland, Zach Sexton.
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Boy, I'm gonna name a few and then I'm gonna forget now.
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What was the lady in front of us that works at Three Rivers?
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Oh, Deanna.
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Deanna Harris.
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Thank you to those folks for just saying, hey, we listened to it, we think it's great, kind of those things.
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Very nice.
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We we appreciate that very much.
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That's nice, nice to hear, and and we're we're glad it's well received.
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We're we plan on continuing.
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We do, we do.
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We're already still planning the 100th.
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Yep, we are, we are.
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And you know, Micah, I I keep thinking, I'm like, man, why don't we just record like five or six?
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I'm like, Micah keeps saying that.
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We just get them done.
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But the problem is we're still gonna have to come back and record our the pre-show.
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And so we you know, we've got them scheduled and so we've got we've got some ideas.
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I mean, we are we are improving because we were getting out and we know what we can move our life around to it too, because it yes.
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Yes, we can.
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And I but we I enjoy it.
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I do.
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I mean, and like I would not trade a night or two a week to do anything else.
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Thank you.
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I I I agree.
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Well while I while I was thinking when we mentioned this, this the shows now we're still gonna have them come out on Saturdays because we're recording Saturday morning to talk about the game from the previous night.
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It's gonna be a little later in the morning, and probably the YouTube's gonna be the next day because it just takes me some time to edit.
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When we don't have a when we when we can do it all on one time, like during the off season, so to speak, I've got time to do to edit the the video, and and that takes longer.
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I can literally I can crank out the audio portion in probably a half hour.
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Once we get it all recorded, I can kick it out really quickly.
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I just the the YouTube video editing just takes a little longer.
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So I try to give myself a little grace and and get it done part of Saturday, and then even into Sunday sometimes, and then get it out.
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So just bear with us.
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It'll be a little later in the morning before we get these episodes out, but we they will they will we still plan on coming out on Saturday.
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Maybe we should switch it.
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I don't know.
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I like getting them out on Saturdays, that seems just to be a good time, and then we can get the YouTube video out the next day.
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So we something we can talk about.
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But anyway, we do try to get them out consistently.
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Yeah, that that's that's that's what we want to do is just have a consistent time.
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You can expect it.
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You know, I know the Acorp Sports one when it comes out, they do it Monday.
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I think they record Sunday mornings is what they told us.
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And they come out on Monday mornings.
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Yeah, I just it works better for me able to, you know, because those guys, that is their job, right, so to speak.
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You know, and I I've got to do it on my off time.
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So it makes sense for me to get it out on Saturdays.
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We'll we can we can talk through that.
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But if if there's any significant changes or something like that, we'll we'll let you know.
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Well, absolutely, we'll let you know.
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But with that being said, big time shout outs to Mercy Phoenix, your healthcare staffing solutions, EMTs, EMS, RNs, CNA's, LPNs, all the above.
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And they are actively looking for folks.
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I was thinking I've seen a post this week from and we I know we both shared it.
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Go to their page and like it too.
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Yes, there you go.
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Go to the go to their Facebook page and like it.
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Go to Mercy Feel.
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Especially if you're in that field and you know, or even if you're not, go there and like it.
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It's a local business that is providing jobs, they're providing a tax base for us, they're paying taxes in Sykeston, they're buying things in Sykston that supports our city, their real estate taxes support our school, and they're Sykeston folks.
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So just go support them.
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Go just it's a neat idea to have them just to follow them and follow our other two sponsors that I'm going to mention here in just a second.
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Follow Greengrass Guys, your local turf management specialist.
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Go follow their page.
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The Mercy Phoenix is Jodie Cheney and his wife Karen Cheney and their sons.
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Tucker's involved, Tanner's involved a little bit, and then their oldest Tyson is a little involved as well.
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So go follow them.
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Go follow their page.
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And you know the we know the Bizzles, David and D.
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Bizzle with Greengrass Guys.
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That's a great idea, Micah.
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Go f go go like their pages.
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Go share them.
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Go follow them.
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Support them.
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And if you need that done, either of those services, reach out to them, patronize those folks because they are supporting, again, not just us on what we do, but they support our town too.
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They're very supportive.
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And I I was proud, kind of like a kind of like a proud papa.
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I texted them both yesterday and said, hey, we've basically blown past 100,000, and here's here's here's what you're here's what you're getting.
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And so they were both very happy and proud and just couldn't be excited.
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And also our our third our third partner is the bunker golf 365, right by actually right behind my bank.
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They're right next to Buffalo Wild Wings.
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Go in there and get your golf geek on, as I call it.
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Go in there and geek out with all the the track man technology is just it's top-notch.
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That's just it's just it's just what it is.
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Andrew McDowell, Brandon Copeland, those guys will get you fixed right up, and you can go in there to pay, kind of pay as you go, or you can have uh a membership and go in there, and there's different levels and all that stuff, and so I'll let them talk through that.
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But we're proud that they're partnering with us as well.
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And our shout-outs, Luke, he's got the audio visual stuff, and we didn't put it up here on this, but I'll have a now I gotta remember to tell myself to do this to go put our logo over the black TV that's behind us.
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Normally Luke has a he has it when our guest is on.
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I just just forgot to do it this morning to turn it on, and it's a little bit takes a little bit of time to do that.
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So he's at work this morning, so we'll give him a pass.
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Erin, she's our our hostess, and she's upstairs and finally starting to feel a little better.
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I think she had food poisons this we food poisoning this week.
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She was whew.
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It was it was a rough, rough couple of days at the well, not for me necessarily, but it was rough for Aaron this past week.
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So shout out to Justin, our general counsel, general nuisance.
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He should be around today.
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He's coming around today?
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I think so.
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Okay.
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Well, let's hurry up and get done so he doesn't want to come on the show with us.
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Shout out to Tucker Cheney again for our video editing.
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Appreciate his help and support with that.
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Derek James, Brian James for their sports history, sports lore, information, background, behind the scenes, kind of all the all the stuff that goes along with that.
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We appreciate them very much.
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And last but not least, Tyler Anderson Twisted Arrow Woodworking and our cool sign on the wall.
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Please like, share, follow our page on the doghouse on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, and comment, review, all those things.
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And again, we we're just so honored that that we have that much, we have that traction and and and we want to continue to to grow.
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And we've we've got some got some really cool guests kind of lined up, and we've got some really cool names that we've gonna start reaching out to and and uh we're gonna have a lot of really, really good content.
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Thank my wife for letting me come over this morning as she's home.
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What?
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She got the cupcakes made for the birthday party.
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There we go.
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It's Maggie Joe.
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It's today.
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It's today.
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Okay, I wasn't sure if it was the other night.
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Yeah.
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Maggie Joe, our well, your granddaughter, my great niece, is turning a big She's a three nature.
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She's a oh, she's definitely a three nature.
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She's turning three, going on 13.
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There's no doubt.
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That girl is something else.
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Give her a big shout out for happy birthday too.
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Absolutely.
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Happy birthday, Maggie Joe.
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And uh you can catch our podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Our Heart Radio.
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What did I miss?
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Oh, and our our our embedded player on our website, thedoghouse.bussprout.com.
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And you can listen to all the episodes on there and go back and check them out, please.
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We've had a really nice rash of say rash, rash, nothing wrong.
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Really nice run of some days, some good numbers of the podcast people listening to them.
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Man, YouTube, the numbers are wow.
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I mean, they're not like viral, but you you can you can look at the trend line that's kind of going on.
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Everybody kept telling us to get on YouTube.
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Yeah, yeah, they did.
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And so it's it's really picking up the clips.
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That's what's driving, I think, a lot of the views.
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I have that that I was using Opus clip, but it's a long story.
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Now it's got a this app called Vizard, and it it takes our YouTube videos and breaks them down into those short clips, you know, 30 seconds to a minute, minute and a half.
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You can watch kind of the kind of like almost like a highlight reel, basically.
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And it puts those in highlight form and does some b-roll footage and does things like that.
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So it's it's that's really helped, I feel like, push our numbers too.
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And so again, we we just we can't thank you enough for listening.
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And if you need to get in touch with us, you can email us at doghouse.sy sent at gmail.com.
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If you're interested in partnering with us, please reach out to us.
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And if you're interested, some swag, reach out to us.
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And I've I've considered doing like a adding some merch on our website, or maybe even changing up our website.
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And I I still I I've I've still got to research it.
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We've got a website, but I'm not sure I can put merch on there because it's through our podcast hosting site.
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Maybe I can.
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I don't know yet.
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I've got I've got to research that.
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So again, kind of as we grow, we're trying to trying to grow, and you know, maybe maybe what I'm thinking about merch again, just hats, shirts, koozies, you know, uh Yeti coolers.
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No, I'm kidding.
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This just stuff like that.
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So let's talk for a bit, Micah, about the big game last night.
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Was your uh Micah and I were texting during it.
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I bailed on Mike at the last minute.
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I I I apologize to Micah.
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Now I'll apologize publicly.
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I took off yesterday afternoon, had some stuff to do around the house.
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I needed to get my yard mowed, and I did, and man, it I just got too hot.
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It was Micah pulled up about five o'clock.
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We were gonna go over there a little bit early.
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And I said, and I had already texted him and then he didn't reply.
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And I called him, he was like, I just pulled up, and I'm like, Man, Micah, I'm so sorry.
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Oh, you're good.
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I was I'll be honest with you, I think it worked out.
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I would have loved to went, but I mean, it was it worked out better.
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My sister was home.
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Oh, good.
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Got to spend some time with her.
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Yeah.
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We watched a football game while Becky make cupcakes.
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Yeah.
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That probably and we had some friends uh ended up coming over, uh, Carter and Angie Long.
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They're in town, and so they came over and Brian and Emily came over.
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So it worked out probably for all of us.
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But it was just that was the the air.
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First play of the game was awesome.
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Unbelievable.
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I mean, like grabbed that out of nowhere.
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Just Campbell Boyce with the pick six and take it to the house.
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And you know, we were jumping around high fiving.
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I thought, all right.
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We're gonna roll here.
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I did, I really did, and it was kind of a up and down, or at least it was for me.
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Emotions kind of up and down.
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You you do that, and then you're like, okay, and we stop them and all right, here we go.
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And our you know at times we we we moved the ball pretty good.
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I was I was so worried because Dexter was on the field on offense so long, I was worried that our defense was gonna be but we didn't.
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We we we held.
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I mean our defense was was particularly good last night.
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Ended up giving four giving up 14 points.
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Our I thought Dexter watched some film and coach Coach Jay, as they call him, Coach Chad Jamerson, who we've had who's had on here as a guest in the doghouse.
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I I thought he just stacked the box and kind of dared us to throw it.
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And I I thought early Jace completed a couple really nice touch passes for some big yards, and I think it started to soften up soften them up a little bit.
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Then we didn't connect on a few, and then Jace, I by the way, I hope it's I hope he's not seriously hurt.
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I hope it's a sprained ankle or something like that.
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That's what it looked to be.
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But and then later on I noticed I thought we were going to try to kick a field goal late in the even in the second or the whichever one.
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A little bit now, we're like on the 20 or something like that.
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Yeah, I thought we might try it again, but I think Jace was too hurt.
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He's the holder, and so I don't think he could he could hold.
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Now that could be a problem coming up.
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We got a week to work on it.
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Yeah.
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I mean, hopefully, hopefully he's back.
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Yeah, hopefully he's okay.
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And I thought I thought Bennett Rollwing did Oh no.
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Banks, excuse me.
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That was Banks as a quarterback, wasn't it?
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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Banks was a quarterback.
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Did tremendous job filling in.
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He didn't connect on first five or six passes and I I can't remember what grade is he?
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Is he he's uh I think he's his junior.
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Yeah.
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But he's really not got a lot of playing time.
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I mean, he's probably got some reps in practice, which it's not game speed.
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I was thinking game speed.
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Uh that that would be the only thing I would say is is like feeling comfortable back there.
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Yeah, I think and we you know, I think one thing if you if you go back and look, I think helped us in that instance.
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Now you want your starter in there, obviously, but we almost went to like a spread.
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We weren't under center anymore, lining up in the power eye and all that stuff.
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It was more like a like a spread, and that's what ended up how we scored that touchdown.
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I I think you'll see the offense evolve as the season goes.
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Yeah.
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I mean typically defense is usually ahead of the offense most tim most most teams.
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Right now, unless they're just a juggernaut at the offense.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Right now we're a little one-dimensional, and that's you know, that's just where we are.
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At the end of the day, Micah, we're 2-0.
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I I'll tell you who made a huge impact last night.
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Besides, I thought Bennett rolling, have he picked up that hook and ladder that or la what is a hook and ladder or hook and lateral?
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Hook and lateral, I think it's a lateral.
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I think it's lateral.
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Some people call it hook and ladder.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I think it's the hook and ladder.
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Coach Emerson loves that play.
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I mean Let me go back, by the way.
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I'm gonna go back.
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That's been about 10, 15 years ago.
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At least.
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Dexter beat Sykston on the very last play from scrimmage on a hook and lateral or hook and ladder to beat us and scored.
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And Coach Jay was trying to do it again.
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Tot different coaches, but same thing.
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The big thing was we were there.
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We we would have it wouldn't have busted loose anyway.
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Right.
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I mean, we were right.
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We I don't I think if he had fumbled on if he'd have kept caught it, we'd been there to make the tackle.
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Yeah.
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I thought both the roll roll wing roll wing boys played great.
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I thought I thought Sam McGill was a beast last night.
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He played really good.
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Jared Waters.
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Yeah.
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Jared, what a tank.
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I mean, like just I was I'll be honest with you, when it's short, like it's like fourth and whatever, Jared makes a play almost every time.
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He does.
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I I was surprised he didn't get it more, and we talked about that here.
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I there had to be something that the coaches saw that they that they didn't like with him getting the ball.
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I don't I don't know what it was.
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There was something packing it in there and they were he couldn't pretty well.
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Well, he fumbled the ball too.
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Jared did?
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Yeah.
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Oh, he did on that short.
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Yes, he did.
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Yeah.
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Kind of stretching for the extra yard.
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That's right.
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I forgot about that.
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Yeah.
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There was something that they didn't like in that setup to get to not give him the ball.
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Not saying we don't give him the ball because you gotta give him the ball.
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He's your horse, give him the ball.
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I mean, and and and um Hulk did a really good job.
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He did.
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Shout out to Christian Gibson.
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What a huge play.
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You know what's funny?
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Both teams.
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Oh, let me back up.
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Last year, you remember Dexter had a was that a punt return?
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No, it was a kickoff return when we kicked off to them, and Devin Turnbow took like a bouncing ball and took it back.
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That's exactly what Christian Gibson did.
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It was kind of bounding.
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He bobbled it, not bobbled it, but it took him a second to pick it up.
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And the next thing you know, they were overpursued.
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I'm gonna be honest with you, on offense, Dexter last night, when they would kind of bobble the ball a little bit, that's when they picked up yardage.
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It would be because I know that's probably just trying to get out of lanes and and lose.
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I mean, it would be You're overpursuing, and that's exactly what happened on that kickoff.
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And Christian Gibson hit fifth gear in about three steps.
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He was gone.
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He was gone.
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I mean, I don't I I I I I watched the highlight last night.
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I don't remember who it was.
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I'm sitting here trying to think, but he wasn't he, he was barely at midfield, and this guy he was going like this, and all he had was the kicker, and there was no way he was touching Christian and whoever it was, maybe it was Mason King.
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I couldn't tell he was going like this.
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He barely hit the 50.
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He knew he was going to the house.
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Yeah.
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Oh and then Ty Murray caught him.
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That was funny.
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Yeah.
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Ty Murray caught him and ran in the end zone with him.
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That's great.
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Big play.
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That could be that could that could be big back there with Tyane and Christian deep on returns.
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Agreed.
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I think I think they'd be good.
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They provide some some speed that we haven't had in in a minute.
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You can run some stuff out of that too.
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Yes.
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I I thought Lane, they threw at Lane a lot.
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He was covered.
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I I think they saw that and they covered him up.
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But you know what?
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Lane made a big play.
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And and as we talked about uh right before we came down here, we might have had a guy downfield a little early, but you know what, Micah?
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Not cheating.
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I mean, it just they didn't they missed it.
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I'm sure there was plays that were missed throughout the whole game.
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Of course, of course there was.
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Of course there was.
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And I I mean, like we we talked about that when Joe and Joe Bill was on here.
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Yeah, I mean, like, they're gonna they're gonna miss it.
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And and and Bobby pointed it out last night, and he and I texted afterwards, and he was right.
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I I I I think they missed it.
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But sometimes, Micah, when you're turning programs around, sometimes you just need a break.
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Well, that's what we said up Sarah, too, is is these are games we would have lost in the past.
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Yeah.
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In the last the past couple years.
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We would have lost this game.
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Well, we lost this last year.
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Now I'm a bluff.
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Yes, and we lost to Dexter.
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I felt like had more.
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We now it wasn't on a call necessarily, but it was just kind of a fluky play.
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I thought we contained uh contained as a relative word with Devin Turnbow.
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I mean he's a division one athlete, but I thought we did a good job on him and all of a sudden he got loose and they scored and then they went on to win.
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Where had you know, you go back and look, you don't ever know.
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But this type of play, I think I think it's gonna catapult us.
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I think it's I think it'd be a maturing point.
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Like those are the remember we talked about the winning culture, yeah, kind of building that culture.
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Yeah, these are things that we'll I mean like did we get a goal line stand last night?
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No, but uh we did hold them.
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Well we kind of did.
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We did on the the 25.
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I mean like they were in the red zone almost.
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So I mean like we did that twice in the in the in the overtime.
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In the overtime.
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And back to back, as a matter of fact, because they got it, we got it first, and they were on defense first, and then when you go into the second overtime, it's flipped, so they get to stay right on the field again, and I thought, oh man, this may hurt us.
00:23:41.180 --> 00:23:43.819
Well, our kids bowed their neck again.
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I th I thought Sam McGill was awesome.
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I thought I thought our whole defense was awesome.
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Our kids were battling through cramps.
00:23:49.339 --> 00:23:51.579
I thought Wesley Patterson, he battled cramps all night.
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He had a cramp in the first quarter.
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I know, and he battled them all night, and those kids was it it wasn't pretty.
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I mean, go I we don't have the stats, it's just too soon.
00:24:04.620 --> 00:24:07.819
Yeah, we had Jared's fumble, we had a pick.
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Would we have two, maybe three turnovers?
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Two or three, maybe.
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Is that it?
00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:21.019
Okay, so we had two.
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We had some penalties where we had them third down and we jumped and then we had an illegal substitution.
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And again, those things we can clean up.
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But we we made the winning plays at the winning time.
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We did.
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And it was a big it was a big game.
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I mean, like I mean it was a tough week for those kids too.
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I was just headed there, yes.
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You know, first off, or not first off, let me say.
00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:56.299
Huge props to Dexter and their fans and their administration and their school district.
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Thank you for the support that you showed to our kids to our town.
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They they wore blue, you know.
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I saw a lot of them had an arm thing on or soccer.
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Or a shirt or something.
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Yeah, they had socks on.
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A lot of their fans had blue on.
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Thank you.
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I know, I mean, I've seen stuff I saw on Facebook where Charleston had a deal and said, hey, you know, we might be rivals on the field, but we're, you know, I I forget how they said it, but we're teammates now for or whatever how they said it.
00:25:28.380 --> 00:25:29.740
New Madrid did.
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I understand that a couple of schools sent like flowers, maybe Jackson and Cape.
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I I can't recall.
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Because Miss Jennifer Hotchkins, Aaron told me, she said I just saw a page, something on Jennifer that she Jennifer Hotgus that she shared.
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I think it said Jackson and maybe Cape.
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What that that's class stuff there, guys.
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That that's classy stuff.
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And for those that hear this, and please tell those folks that did that from from Micah and me, from the doghouse, from Bulldog Nation.
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That's that's that's classy stuff.
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That's that's big time, that's supporting kids when we needed it.
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And and you said it, Micah.
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Talk talk a little bit about that, about what you think those kids were kind of going through.
00:26:15.900 --> 00:26:18.059
I mean, that's kind of right up your alley.
00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:22.539
I'll be honest with you, I've never really I've never had a to do what they did this week.
00:26:22.620 --> 00:26:22.779
Yeah.
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I mean, uh not not reality.
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I mean like usually when I when a when a something like that happens, life stops for you.
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Life continued for those kids.
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Yeah.
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I mean Yeah.
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And I mean I I know that's they had to practice this week.
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They had they had to go they had to go to they didn't have to, but several of them, a lot of them were at service.
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Well, I would say it was a there was a lot of people there.
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And you know, it's it takes guts.
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I mean, and and and I'm sure many of them were thinking about it.
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Of course they were.
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And shout out to the soccer team.
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I don't know if you saw the pictures.
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I wasn't at the game.
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That would have been well, we were recording.
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It was Wednesday where they they beat uh again, shout out to the soccer team 3-0 now, beat Marion five to two, and they showed some kids after the game.
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I think it was Jason Rudisil or there was Mark Grimes or one or both of them.
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They had their shirts pulled up and it said like Sullivan 70 had 73 on there and L L A S.
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By the way, when you s I had to ask Renee Grimes what L L A S stands for, that's live like Avan Sullivan.
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Okay.
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I didn't know what the heck that was.
00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:45.100
Only thing I I Googled it or I typed it in there and like that urban dictionary and it said love you like a sister, and I'm like, I don't think that's it.
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That's I mean and he was he he was full of life.
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He was these kids will remember him the rest of their life.
00:27:53.100 --> 00:27:54.860
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They will.
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They will.
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And you know, maybe there was maybe provided a little help there at the end.
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A little inspiration for sure.
00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:04.380
I know those kids.
00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:10.220
It was it was cool that they allowed Avon's dad, Chris, or Silk.
00:28:10.620 --> 00:28:11.420
To be an honorary captain.
00:28:11.819 --> 00:28:12.779
Honorary captain.
00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:18.779
He he said something Bobby was telling me uh say Bobby, Bobby offered.
00:28:18.860 --> 00:28:26.460
Bobby offered it does Acorp Sports is a friend of mine as well, and to Micah and others, and he he was texting me after the game and asked, was it okay?
00:28:26.539 --> 00:28:27.579
And I was like, Yeah, it was great.
00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:29.420
He said, You guys probably couldn't hear.
00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:31.420
On TV we couldn't hear.
00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:33.100
Uh no, we couldn't.
00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:34.700
I couldn't hear what Silky said.
00:28:34.779 --> 00:28:39.180
It was piped through the PA.
00:28:39.819 --> 00:28:44.380
The PA at the stadium, it just wasn't piped through the TV, so we we couldn't hear it.
00:28:44.620 --> 00:28:48.779
So that was that was really cool of them to allow him to do that.
00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:52.940
And you know, he actually the news last night kind of covered a little bit of that too.
00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:53.740
They did.
00:28:54.299 --> 00:28:56.700
They did, and I couldn't.
00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.860
I'll have to give Silky credit because I'm not sure I could do that.
00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:02.059
I don't think I could either.
00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:03.660
I when I seen him, I was like, whoa.
00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:04.380
Yeah.
00:29:04.700 --> 00:29:14.220
Well, at first when we were watching the game and it they were they kind of had the camera on the sideline, and we were looking, and I was like, they go, Who is that down there?
00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:16.140
I thought it was Frank Killian.
00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:24.460
Frank is uh is an official, but he's also a teacher here at Sykes, and he's a retired superintendent from Richland, and I've known Frank for years and years and years.
00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:26.140
And he he calls football.
00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:27.740
It took me a little while to recognize it.
00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:30.059
Yeah, and I go, What looks like Frank?
00:29:30.140 --> 00:29:34.140
And then we're like, I think that's Silky.
00:29:34.299 --> 00:29:35.339
And then we started talking.
00:29:35.420 --> 00:29:37.740
I I'm I'm not sure I could have done that, Micah.
00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:43.740
I couldn't either, but I I you know more hey, props to him for being able to do that.
00:29:43.819 --> 00:30:24.050
Yeah, I'm I'm not sure I could have done it that quickly.
00:30:24.370 --> 00:30:27.090
But needless to say, it was a really good win.
00:30:27.170 --> 00:30:31.410
I I wish we had some stats on the game, but the only stat that matters is 20 to 14, right, Micah?
00:30:31.650 --> 00:30:32.050
That's correct.
00:30:32.130 --> 00:30:36.930
I'll be honest, when when I said when I seen Lane kind of get free there, I was like, oh, we're going.
00:30:37.170 --> 00:30:38.290
Yeah, we're good to go.
00:30:38.529 --> 00:30:44.529
And as we talked about, it was kind of a not not a botched play, it was just a low snap, and kind of everything gets thrown off.
00:30:44.690 --> 00:30:51.490
And most of the time those things will lead to kind of an incomplete pass because everybody's kind of out of sync and you're not in rhythm.
00:30:51.730 --> 00:30:53.090
Well, this time it helped.
00:30:53.170 --> 00:30:55.810
As as we talked about, it helped Dexter early.
00:30:56.210 --> 00:30:59.650
The only thing I could think of, I don't know how I don't know how far.
00:31:00.290 --> 00:31:04.850
Like if I don't know how far Lane was when he caught the was he behind the line of screen?
00:31:05.170 --> 00:31:06.130
See, we looked at that.
00:31:06.290 --> 00:31:07.890
We went back and watched it a few times.
00:31:07.970 --> 00:31:09.810
I think he was about a step in front of the line.
00:31:10.050 --> 00:31:10.290
Okay.
00:31:10.370 --> 00:31:14.050
That's that's because behind the backfield would have been a is technically a handoff.
00:31:14.130 --> 00:31:14.690
Right.
00:31:15.090 --> 00:31:18.850
So I think he was, but it happened so fast.
00:31:18.930 --> 00:31:25.570
And you got listen, man, those guys have been out there in that heat, and you know you know what they missed it.
00:31:25.810 --> 00:31:26.769
I'm gonna be honest with you.
00:31:26.850 --> 00:31:29.410
I I know I that that I'm trying to kind of change something a little bit here.
00:31:29.570 --> 00:31:29.730
Yeah.
00:31:29.970 --> 00:31:31.970
Did you see that throw that Ty made?
00:31:32.290 --> 00:31:34.370
He slung that thing.
00:31:34.930 --> 00:31:37.810
He looked like his brother throwing it from the hip full court, you know what I mean?
00:31:38.370 --> 00:31:41.410
Yes, Ty Murray, yes, great point.
00:31:41.570 --> 00:31:44.290
Thank you for bringing that up, Micah, because we talked about that.
00:31:44.610 --> 00:31:45.730
Holy crap.
00:31:45.810 --> 00:31:51.410
He's because when he came in, I thought, uh-oh, I bet we're gonna run a sweep because he's fast.
00:31:52.450 --> 00:31:58.370
And we did, and then he stopped and slung that, and I went, holy cow.
00:31:58.690 --> 00:32:03.410
He just slung, I don't know, maybe maybe 45, 50 yards in the air.
00:32:03.650 --> 00:32:05.410
And looked effortless.
00:32:06.610 --> 00:32:09.570
I mean, I know it didn't connect, but man.
00:32:09.890 --> 00:32:10.450
He slung it.
00:32:10.930 --> 00:32:11.490
Athletic.
00:32:11.650 --> 00:32:12.769
Yes, he's athletic.
00:32:12.850 --> 00:32:16.130
And I well, actually at that point, Lane I thought did a good job of actually breaking it up.
00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:17.009
He did, yeah.
00:32:17.170 --> 00:32:21.090
So we so kudos to Dexter for covering it too.
00:32:21.490 --> 00:32:22.290
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:32:22.370 --> 00:32:27.090
Because you can you can get your head turned and look there in that backfield not paying attention, and you got somebody wide open.
00:32:27.330 --> 00:32:29.250
I mean, it's on film now, y'all.
00:32:29.490 --> 00:32:30.610
Yeah, that's right.
00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:31.410
That's right.
00:32:31.570 --> 00:32:32.130
That's right.
00:32:32.290 --> 00:32:38.529
I know the kids it was a lot of adversity last night, a lot of ups and downs, uh, really emotional.
00:32:38.930 --> 00:32:41.810
And win, lose, or draw.
00:32:41.890 --> 00:32:47.970
I was proud of how they handled it, and you know, it's just even better that that we got the win.
00:32:48.450 --> 00:32:50.850
That that's that's pretty pretty simple way to say it.
00:32:51.009 --> 00:32:54.290
But it was an emotional week.
00:32:55.810 --> 00:33:02.210
And I feel like I feel like Coach Minor, you know, he when he puts a lot of his posts, just remember to pray.
00:33:02.290 --> 00:33:04.450
He'll have the Bradshaw family.
00:33:04.610 --> 00:33:08.930
I can't remember some of the you know Cadence Comeback and all of these things that he lists on there.
00:33:09.009 --> 00:33:09.490
You know what?
00:33:09.570 --> 00:33:11.490
Remember the the Sullivan family in your prayers.
00:33:12.050 --> 00:33:13.570
And the Pride family.
00:33:13.730 --> 00:33:20.130
That's they're you know, Chris is originally from New Madrid, but you know, the Pride family.
00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:29.730
We all know the Pride's from from this area, and they're a staple to our to our community, you know, starting with Mr.
00:33:29.810 --> 00:33:32.450
Pride, Miss Pride on down.
00:33:32.610 --> 00:33:39.730
And so remember, remember that whole that whole family in your in your prayers and they're gonna need it.
00:33:39.970 --> 00:33:40.610
They are.
00:33:41.810 --> 00:33:45.730
And you know, with that, Mike, I want to end we want to end on a positive note, right?
00:33:46.050 --> 00:33:48.290
I mean that's uh we certainly want to do that.
00:33:48.370 --> 00:33:51.810
But again, the Bulldogs are 2-0 going into next week.
00:33:51.890 --> 00:33:53.570
We got Jackson at home.
00:33:54.050 --> 00:34:01.570
Oh, on a positive note, we just read in just read in the article that Leroy Atkins and Julian Beard will be honored in the Hall of Fame.
00:34:01.810 --> 00:34:02.130
There we go.
00:34:02.370 --> 00:34:05.490
Conducted into the Hall of Fame, I'm assuming this Friday night, it looked like.
00:34:05.730 --> 00:34:07.250
Yes, I think you may be right.
00:34:07.410 --> 00:34:11.889
And so again, first home game, come out and and and support the Bulldogs.
00:34:12.130 --> 00:34:13.650
It's gonna be a tough one.
00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:17.090
Jackson's Jackson's different.
00:34:17.329 --> 00:34:19.730
And they just went over to Kentucky and beat.
00:34:20.210 --> 00:34:21.730
Yeah, you said they hammered somebody up there.
00:34:21.969 --> 00:34:30.369
I can't remember what the score was, but they it was like over, not just over into Kentucky, like it was over around Lexington or Louisville, somewhere around the city.
00:34:30.529 --> 00:34:31.009
Lexington.
00:34:31.250 --> 00:34:31.889
Yeah.
00:34:32.210 --> 00:34:38.210
Well, let's let's try to get the good team.
00:34:38.769 --> 00:34:42.849
Uh yeah, they're they're gonna be good, and it's gonna be it would be a Herculean effort.
00:34:43.409 --> 00:34:45.730
But we're we're gonna we're gonna go compete.
00:34:46.130 --> 00:34:46.690
We're gonna go play.
00:34:46.769 --> 00:34:47.809
Yeah, we're gonna go play.
00:34:55.489 --> 00:34:57.489
I promise you, Jackson will know they had a game Friday night.
00:34:57.650 --> 00:34:58.769
Yeah, that's that's what we want.
00:34:58.929 --> 00:34:59.489
We want to know.
00:34:59.570 --> 00:35:00.849
We want them to know that.
00:35:01.170 --> 00:35:05.730
And so with that being said, Micah, let's uh let's get on to our guest.
00:35:05.889 --> 00:35:06.529
How about that?
00:35:06.929 --> 00:35:07.570
Sounds good.
00:35:07.650 --> 00:35:12.369
I enjoy it because it it was it was a hoot listening to him and oh he's yeah, he's great.
00:35:13.409 --> 00:35:13.570
Mr.
00:35:13.809 --> 00:35:13.889
Mr.
00:35:13.969 --> 00:35:24.769
Steve McFeeder's got lots of stories, lots of lots of helpful things uh for our town, and he's been he's been a part of our big part of our history.
00:35:25.009 --> 00:35:27.809
He's a huge supporter of everything that'll make you think too.
00:35:27.969 --> 00:35:28.529
Yes, he will.
00:35:28.690 --> 00:35:31.329
I mean there's a couple things in there of housing, you know.
00:35:31.809 --> 00:35:32.769
Never considered it that way.
00:35:32.849 --> 00:35:33.889
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:34.369 --> 00:35:45.329
There there's one I I won't I won't steal his thunder quite yet, but we may start using that that we may hashtag it like we do our rising tide lifts all boats.
00:35:45.409 --> 00:35:48.369
Yeah, we may start using his comment as well.
00:35:48.929 --> 00:35:55.969
So anyway, that being said, just hang on just a second and we'll be right back with our guest this week, Mr.
00:35:56.049 --> 00:35:57.089
Steve McFeeders.
00:35:57.489 --> 00:36:00.929
All right, we are back with our guest after that short break.
00:36:01.170 --> 00:36:02.129
We're here with Mr.
00:36:02.210 --> 00:36:03.409
Steve McFeeders.
00:36:03.889 --> 00:36:06.129
Micah, you ready to go?
00:36:06.289 --> 00:36:07.089
I'm ready to roll.
00:36:07.170 --> 00:36:07.649
Me too.
00:36:07.809 --> 00:36:08.609
Me too.
00:36:09.009 --> 00:36:15.969
Our guest today is someone who spent decades serving Sykston through business, banking, economic development, and community leadership.
00:36:16.210 --> 00:36:27.969
Steve McFeeders has served a as as a community bank president, led the Sykston Area Chamber of Commerce, worked with Naranda Aluminum, and remains active in economic development and civic organizations throughout the area.
00:36:28.210 --> 00:36:36.849
Many of you also know him from McFeeder's beat on KYMO, where he highlights the people and positive stories of Sykston and Southeast Missouri.
00:36:37.009 --> 00:36:42.449
In 2024, Steve was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his years of service to our community.
00:36:42.609 --> 00:36:48.529
Today we're talking about his journey, how Sykston has changed, and where he believes our community is headed next.
00:36:48.769 --> 00:36:49.329
Steve?
00:36:49.649 --> 00:36:50.609
Welcome to the Dog House.
00:36:51.009 --> 00:36:51.329
Thank you, man.
00:36:51.889 --> 00:36:52.129
Absolutely.
00:36:52.369 --> 00:36:53.329
That was a nice intro.
00:36:53.409 --> 00:36:54.529
You know me better than that.
00:36:55.489 --> 00:36:57.009
Well, you know, we got to make it positive.
00:36:57.489 --> 00:36:58.049
Yeah, you do.
00:36:58.210 --> 00:36:58.609
You do.
00:36:58.690 --> 00:37:04.609
And I'm glad you're doing the show because you two are talking about the positive things.
00:37:04.849 --> 00:37:05.170
Correct.
00:37:05.409 --> 00:37:06.849
We've got to do more of that.
00:37:07.250 --> 00:37:07.730
We do.
00:37:08.049 --> 00:37:18.529
Well, I think we sometimes as a community and things like that, I don't know that we tell our story the best.
00:37:18.609 --> 00:37:24.049
And I'm not saying that what we do is perfect, but we're we're certainly trying to tell our our story.
00:37:25.329 --> 00:37:34.369
You know, to to add to that, Matt, we all know uh the Sykes and history, it was where Southern hospitality began.
00:37:34.609 --> 00:37:35.250
That's right.
00:37:35.809 --> 00:37:42.690
So people coming through here for rodeo and also for a little restaurant that throws rolls.
00:37:42.929 --> 00:37:50.210
I mean, it's amazing at where people come from, but I always tell people you need to take a second look.
00:37:50.529 --> 00:37:58.529
A lot of times people look at us and they'll pull up the demographics or whatever and say, Oh, it's a nice town, and so on and so forth.
00:37:58.769 --> 00:38:04.449
But if they take a second look, they'll see it, especially today.
00:38:04.769 --> 00:38:16.049
Two new elementary schools, yeah, the new Bulldog Hall, the YMCA, the North Industrial Park, you know, the town itself.
00:38:16.449 --> 00:38:16.929
The hospital.
00:38:17.569 --> 00:38:18.129
Oh, absolutely.
00:38:19.489 --> 00:38:21.809
Hospital, yeah, 800 plus employees.
00:38:21.889 --> 00:38:22.369
Yeah.
00:38:22.769 --> 00:38:26.210
And the rehab where I'm going now, it's a great place.
00:38:26.769 --> 00:38:30.690
It's just there, it's deeper than you can see on the surface.
00:38:31.730 --> 00:38:37.730
I take people through downtown to see the new police station, the BMU building.
00:38:37.809 --> 00:38:39.969
I don't care what you say, it was worth it.
00:38:40.289 --> 00:38:40.529
Agreed.
00:38:40.769 --> 00:38:41.969
It's a beautiful facility.
00:38:42.609 --> 00:38:48.849
And downtown, it's slowly coming around and hosting lots of events.
00:38:49.009 --> 00:38:51.969
So you have to you have to talk about those things.
00:38:52.289 --> 00:38:52.690
Agreed.
00:38:52.769 --> 00:38:53.569
I totally agree.
00:38:53.969 --> 00:39:01.969
I think sometimes we forget that you try not to boast, and we're not trying to do it in a boastful way, but you have to tell your story.
00:39:02.210 --> 00:39:02.449
Sure.
00:39:02.690 --> 00:39:04.929
And it's not we're not trying to pat ourselves on the back.
00:39:05.409 --> 00:39:08.929
Even in the last couple weeks, I mean, we've got Jeremiah's reopened.
00:39:09.089 --> 00:39:09.250
Yeah.
00:39:09.409 --> 00:39:09.649
Yep.
00:39:09.969 --> 00:39:11.889
That was very good.
00:39:12.049 --> 00:39:14.609
And they're trying hard to make that work.
00:39:14.849 --> 00:39:15.250
That's right.
00:39:15.489 --> 00:39:21.649
But you you go to the Malone, you come, you go to North or South Maine, you see a lot of activity.
00:39:21.889 --> 00:39:22.210
Mm-hmm.
00:39:22.449 --> 00:39:25.969
Well, there's a big uh farmers market pavilion going up down there.
00:39:26.210 --> 00:39:26.769
That is correct.
00:39:27.009 --> 00:39:29.489
That's from the one of the grants they got.
00:39:29.649 --> 00:39:29.889
That's right.
00:39:30.129 --> 00:39:34.049
And it'll be multi-purpose, can be used for for different things.
00:39:34.210 --> 00:39:36.129
So all those things count.
00:39:36.369 --> 00:39:43.730
One thing that really, besides the schools and what's happened the last few years, that was huge.
00:39:44.049 --> 00:39:44.529
Agreed.
00:39:44.690 --> 00:39:52.529
And well, I'll tell you what, the the bond where we got the new we got Lee Hunter.
00:39:53.569 --> 00:39:55.730
What I guess what else did we get with that?
00:39:55.889 --> 00:39:56.529
Lee Hunter.
00:39:56.609 --> 00:39:58.929
Oh, and the safe room at the kindergarten.
00:39:59.730 --> 00:40:03.809
Uh basically a gymnasium kind of safe room, safe space for them.
00:40:04.210 --> 00:40:05.409
That was a tax increase.
00:40:05.489 --> 00:40:09.489
And Steve, that thing passed by like 30 votes or 32 votes or something.
00:40:09.569 --> 00:40:17.569
And it was in, if you recall, it was in June of 2020, because April of 2020 was COVID, and they pushed everything back.
00:40:17.730 --> 00:40:23.089
And I felt like we had a lot of positive momentum going into that April.
00:40:23.170 --> 00:40:24.529
And then, of course, you know, here we go.
00:40:24.609 --> 00:40:29.489
We hit this crazy once in a hundred years or whatever.
00:40:29.809 --> 00:40:30.289
Yeah.
00:40:30.449 --> 00:40:35.170
And it passed, like I said, by 30 30 votes or 32 votes.
00:40:35.409 --> 00:40:36.609
That's all that was enough.
00:40:36.690 --> 00:40:37.170
Uh yes.
00:40:37.489 --> 00:40:38.449
But it took a big effort.
00:40:38.690 --> 00:40:39.170
Yes, it did.
00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:41.489
We're missing two other big projects that are going on this year, too.
00:40:41.730 --> 00:40:44.369
Right now, the fire department fire station is going up very nice.
00:40:44.529 --> 00:40:45.569
On Malone, it's very nice.
00:40:45.649 --> 00:40:47.489
Building gonna be a big difference.
00:40:47.649 --> 00:40:50.529
I think it's gonna have an economic impact on Malone.
00:40:51.329 --> 00:40:52.210
That'll help them minor.
00:40:52.449 --> 00:40:53.009
That'll help them.
00:40:53.329 --> 00:40:57.730
Well, I mean, and then SCTC, like on Maine, that's a big thing for Malone.
00:40:57.809 --> 00:40:58.449
That's on Malone.
00:40:58.529 --> 00:40:59.009
Yeah, Malone.
00:40:59.250 --> 00:41:00.289
That's that's fabulous.
00:41:00.449 --> 00:41:01.250
It's unbelievable.
00:41:01.489 --> 00:41:05.329
And then and then the drainage that they that they worked on all spring.
00:41:05.489 --> 00:41:08.849
Oh, and and you know, to on Malone in the middle of town there?
00:41:08.929 --> 00:41:09.089
Yeah.
00:41:09.489 --> 00:41:12.449
To kind of drain off that bonus hill that runs off water there.
00:41:12.529 --> 00:41:14.369
I mean, that's that's a big deal.
00:41:14.529 --> 00:41:15.329
That's a big deal too.
00:41:15.569 --> 00:41:23.649
And then we have a local, well-known Richard Montgomery taking the Sykeston Country Club and giving it a rebirth, if you will.
00:41:24.049 --> 00:41:24.369
That's correct.
00:41:24.529 --> 00:41:27.649
Yeah, we had Kevin on probably about two or three months ago.
00:41:27.889 --> 00:41:38.769
Two or three months ago, and just just it was it's just uh just Aaron and I talk about this all the time about how blessed we are for Mr.
00:41:38.929 --> 00:41:39.730
Richard, Mr.
00:41:39.809 --> 00:41:52.690
Alan Keenan, and I can go on and keep naming names of people that were fortunate enough to have them in town and give back to the and not just give back, we're talking about to the level of it they give.
00:41:53.250 --> 00:41:59.409
Well, the short time I was the Chamber of Commerce director, the mayor was Alan Keenan.
00:41:59.569 --> 00:42:00.210
Yep.
00:42:00.529 --> 00:42:04.690
And uh really appreciate what Alan has done for the community.
00:42:05.250 --> 00:42:08.849
Started with his dad, you know, and uh I knew his dad and mom.
00:42:09.009 --> 00:42:12.049
Yeah, just a good family, Larry DeWitt.
00:42:12.210 --> 00:42:12.449
Yep.
00:42:12.609 --> 00:42:14.529
His fabric is known throughout the world.
00:42:14.769 --> 00:42:16.129
Throughout the world, that's a correct.
00:42:17.329 --> 00:42:21.489
And then I watched over the years as places like TetraPak.
00:42:21.730 --> 00:42:25.329
Well, they closed places all over the country and the world.
00:42:25.489 --> 00:42:26.289
They're still going.
00:42:26.449 --> 00:42:26.849
That's right.
00:42:27.170 --> 00:42:27.969
Still going strong.
00:42:28.769 --> 00:42:33.649
And of course, the two most important things, and I'm getting ahead of myself for any questions.
00:42:36.609 --> 00:42:38.210
Yes, yeah, we want it to be a conversation.
00:42:38.529 --> 00:42:49.009
I think the two most important things that set the table was the purchase of land of the industrial park after Frito Lay didn't pick us.
00:42:49.170 --> 00:42:50.609
We finished second.
00:42:51.809 --> 00:42:52.690
I didn't remember that.
00:42:52.769 --> 00:42:54.289
I I kind of remember that story.
00:42:54.609 --> 00:42:56.129
We were probably in high school having fun.
00:42:56.529 --> 00:42:57.089
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:57.489 --> 00:43:09.889
But when they bought the land on the north where it is now, yeah, north where you have Oregon, where you have Do It Best, you have Magnum, which is the old the coal storage unilever.
00:43:10.449 --> 00:43:15.809
And so if we'd have had the land shovel ready, we might have got that.
00:43:16.049 --> 00:43:21.489
And the second thing that happened was the higher education center.
00:43:21.730 --> 00:43:26.609
Yes, I do recall because at the beginning you had Southeast and Three Rivers.
00:43:26.690 --> 00:43:27.009
Yeah.
00:43:27.250 --> 00:43:30.289
Okay, they fight a little bit over money, and we love them both.
00:43:30.529 --> 00:43:31.250
Right, right.
00:43:31.569 --> 00:43:34.929
But we now have Southeast and Three Rivers.
00:43:35.089 --> 00:43:35.409
Right.
00:43:35.649 --> 00:43:38.210
And those that's huge for I agree.
00:43:38.449 --> 00:43:44.210
The nothing against that one, the Southeast, but the Three Rivers building is just gorgeous.
00:43:44.449 --> 00:43:44.929
Oh, it is.
00:43:45.089 --> 00:43:45.730
It's beautiful.
00:43:46.049 --> 00:43:52.529
Well run in Southeast with uh Brad Hodson, the new president of I met him.
00:43:52.849 --> 00:43:56.210
They are focused again on the region served.
00:43:56.369 --> 00:43:56.609
Yeah.
00:43:56.769 --> 00:43:59.730
And they opened a new daycare facility.
00:43:59.969 --> 00:44:01.329
It was which is very needed.
00:44:01.569 --> 00:44:02.210
Yeah, very needed.
00:44:02.769 --> 00:44:07.089
I think that's needed for even to be a traction for jobs to come in or factories.
00:44:08.210 --> 00:44:08.289
Yeah.
00:44:08.369 --> 00:44:11.489
Because that's one of the biggest probably things that we've struggled with.
00:44:11.889 --> 00:44:16.529
So you can you can go down the list and you can check off a lot of things that set the table.
00:44:16.929 --> 00:44:22.449
We're we're JC just broke ground on the three million dollar project stage.
00:44:22.769 --> 00:44:23.009
Yep.
00:44:23.089 --> 00:44:27.089
And then we're the school just this past spring, we passed a bond.
00:44:27.170 --> 00:44:40.049
We're adding on uh a wing on Wing Elementary, and then a new wing on Lee Hunter, and we're gonna repurpose the Southeast School to special services.
00:44:40.210 --> 00:44:43.409
We've got an autistic center that's out at Three Rivers.
00:44:43.649 --> 00:44:47.969
We're gonna bring it on campus, and and we're so we're not getting rid of that facility.
00:44:48.049 --> 00:44:48.929
We're still using the facility.
00:44:49.250 --> 00:44:49.969
It'll have useful.
00:44:50.369 --> 00:44:50.690
Exactly.
00:44:50.769 --> 00:44:54.289
Just it's sort of like Southwest was when I went to grade school there.
00:44:54.369 --> 00:44:59.329
Now it's an alternative school, but it still has a useful life for the school district.
00:44:59.569 --> 00:45:00.129
Absolutely.
00:45:00.449 --> 00:45:02.129
And so that one will be as well.
00:45:02.369 --> 00:45:11.170
And we're getting a new work um c it's called a or we're calling it a performing arts classroom where the the band shell will come down.
00:45:11.730 --> 00:45:18.289
And it will have classrooms, an orchestra, band, choir, kind of all that in there.
00:45:22.129 --> 00:45:23.409
It's time for change.
00:45:23.569 --> 00:45:24.210
It's old.
00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:26.049
It's just old.
00:45:26.210 --> 00:45:26.849
It just is.
00:45:27.009 --> 00:45:27.489
It is old.
00:45:27.809 --> 00:45:30.449
But a lot of talent came out of that building.
00:45:30.690 --> 00:45:31.250
No question.
00:45:31.649 --> 00:45:32.529
No question.
00:45:32.769 --> 00:45:33.009
Mr.
00:45:33.170 --> 00:45:33.969
Curry, Mr.
00:45:34.049 --> 00:45:38.369
Collins was there, and Kevin told us quite a few stories about Mr.
00:45:38.449 --> 00:45:38.929
Collins.
00:45:39.089 --> 00:45:43.889
Not all good, but in the country club, when I was talking about this the other day was something.
00:45:45.730 --> 00:45:49.089
Yeah, he he said it was almost like a speakeasy in the basement of the country club.
00:45:49.409 --> 00:46:00.049
When they bring in they bring in people like orchestras that would come to Cairo and when when when the Capone and guys were from Chicago were New York.
00:46:01.809 --> 00:46:02.049
Okay.
00:46:02.129 --> 00:46:11.170
Well who when the syndication was in Cairo, I guess coming down from Chicago, they would have bands come in and play, like the big bands or whatever.
00:46:11.489 --> 00:46:11.969
Well, Mr.
00:46:12.129 --> 00:46:12.849
Collins, Mr.
00:46:12.929 --> 00:46:16.529
Keith Collins knew some of those guys and have them come to Sykston and play.
00:46:16.769 --> 00:46:17.009
Yeah.
00:46:17.250 --> 00:46:26.529
Cairo had back in the 60s and 70s, they had nightclubs, Harpers, a Chinese place.
00:46:26.929 --> 00:46:30.049
They had activity at a place called King Tuts.
00:46:31.569 --> 00:46:32.690
I remember King Tuts.
00:46:32.929 --> 00:46:35.649
King Tuts was very ran out about the time you were in the world.
00:46:35.889 --> 00:46:37.009
Well, I I mean I've never been.
00:46:37.089 --> 00:46:38.289
I just heard stories about it.
00:46:38.769 --> 00:46:40.049
I know somebody your age has been.
00:46:40.289 --> 00:46:41.969
I mean most of them.
00:46:42.289 --> 00:46:42.609
Yeah.
00:46:43.569 --> 00:46:45.009
Not me, but thanks, Micah.
00:46:45.409 --> 00:46:46.609
It ran out by the time I got there.
00:46:46.849 --> 00:46:47.170
That's right.
00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:49.569
No, I I'd heard I'd heard all those places.
00:46:49.649 --> 00:46:59.809
And so yeah, I knew just looking back at some history, not to go way off on a tangent here, but I Cairo at one time had the tiger by the tail, so to speak.
00:47:00.049 --> 00:47:04.289
Yeah, I think I saw where it was like uh 17,000 people at one time.
00:47:04.769 --> 00:47:05.569
Oh my gosh.
00:47:05.730 --> 00:47:06.289
No kidding.
00:47:06.690 --> 00:47:10.449
Back at the turn of the 19th century or sometime in there.
00:47:10.609 --> 00:47:12.769
I don't but they were bigger.
00:47:12.929 --> 00:47:13.250
Yeah.
00:47:13.409 --> 00:47:16.769
And with the two rivers and the rail, they were supposed to be the big town.
00:47:17.009 --> 00:47:21.329
That's why I heard that that was supposed to be the next, like Chicago, is what I'd heard.
00:47:21.730 --> 00:47:25.809
Now one thing I want to add to the economic development component.
00:47:26.049 --> 00:47:26.449
Yes.
00:47:26.929 --> 00:47:34.449
The education, the quality of life, the YMCA is perhaps one of the best things that's ever happened.
00:47:34.609 --> 00:47:34.849
Yep.
00:47:35.409 --> 00:47:36.210
In Southeast Missouri.
00:47:36.529 --> 00:47:39.889
Was that late 90s, early 2000s, I think?
00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:42.769
Jeff Partridge, I think, came in the in the 90s.
00:47:43.009 --> 00:47:43.329
Okay.
00:47:43.409 --> 00:47:43.569
Okay.
00:47:43.809 --> 00:47:45.089
And helped organize it.
00:47:45.170 --> 00:47:50.369
And once again, a group of people, Alan Keenan, Ben Mohan Richard.
00:47:50.690 --> 00:47:52.449
Richard, Megami Jim Hux.
00:47:53.009 --> 00:47:54.129
Don't want to leave anybody out.
00:47:54.449 --> 00:47:54.690
Right.
00:47:54.929 --> 00:47:55.569
Steve Sykes.
00:47:55.809 --> 00:47:56.049
Sykes.
00:47:56.289 --> 00:47:56.609
Yep.
00:47:56.849 --> 00:48:02.049
All those guys laid the foundation and then had to raise the money.
00:48:02.210 --> 00:48:07.329
And everybody, you see all those names, everybody took a level they could handle.
00:48:07.649 --> 00:48:09.250
On the oh the bricks you're talking about?
00:48:09.649 --> 00:48:09.809
Yeah.
00:48:10.609 --> 00:48:13.250
And so it it took a community effort.
00:48:13.409 --> 00:48:17.089
And when I go in there now, the walls are down.
00:48:17.809 --> 00:48:20.289
We all are the part of the same town.
00:48:20.609 --> 00:48:23.329
You know what I'm I that is a place.
00:48:23.409 --> 00:48:25.009
It is a gathering place for everybody.
00:48:25.170 --> 00:48:25.569
Yeah.
00:48:25.730 --> 00:48:26.049
Yeah.
00:48:26.449 --> 00:48:27.969
There are no Yeah.
00:48:28.049 --> 00:48:31.730
It doesn't matter what color your skin or who you are or where you are.
00:48:32.289 --> 00:48:34.369
People are like each other.
00:48:34.529 --> 00:48:34.849
Yeah.
00:48:35.009 --> 00:48:36.369
They're good for each other.
00:48:36.609 --> 00:48:38.529
And it's a magnificent place.
00:48:38.769 --> 00:48:50.129
It's I'm on a there's a they have a like a creed or something, but basically it's not just it's the body and the mind and soul and holistic.
00:48:50.529 --> 00:48:50.690
Yeah.
00:48:50.769 --> 00:48:51.009
Yeah.
00:48:51.089 --> 00:48:56.289
And I I forget how they said, but basically it's for the whole person, not just physically.
00:48:56.690 --> 00:49:00.129
I mean, you can go in there and get in better physical shape, but it's for more than just that.
00:49:00.289 --> 00:49:03.809
No, listen, that's a well, I mean, right now that we're using it for church.
00:49:03.969 --> 00:49:04.369
Yeah.
00:49:04.690 --> 00:49:06.529
Because we don't we don't have a church building right now.
00:49:06.849 --> 00:49:09.089
And we're we're we've been in there almost a year now.
00:49:09.649 --> 00:49:10.210
Oh, is that right?
00:49:10.529 --> 00:49:11.089
In the back.
00:49:11.329 --> 00:49:11.489
Yeah.
00:49:11.730 --> 00:49:15.089
Well, actually, you know, where the uh by the pool, like the little party room.
00:49:15.889 --> 00:49:16.529
Community room.
00:49:16.609 --> 00:49:17.089
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:17.250 --> 00:49:17.409
Yeah.
00:49:17.489 --> 00:49:17.730
Yeah.
00:49:18.210 --> 00:49:20.210
We we've been in there for about a year.
00:49:20.369 --> 00:49:25.089
We hopefully be in our church by the October, maybe.
00:49:25.409 --> 00:49:31.250
I don't want to say like we're not having an opening day, but we uh that's another key component of our churches.
00:49:32.049 --> 00:49:36.289
Without our churches and our faith, none of this would matter.
00:49:36.609 --> 00:49:37.170
Agreed.
00:49:37.409 --> 00:49:41.809
And churches are going through some turmoil, you know, times have changed.
00:49:42.529 --> 00:49:49.250
Well, I think the way that we have to kind of not saying the message is still the same, but the way we present it is going to be different.
00:49:49.569 --> 00:49:49.889
That's right.
00:49:50.049 --> 00:49:50.849
I mean it's right.
00:49:51.009 --> 00:49:55.649
And that's what we've kind of thought about, try to think about is we've been building a church.
00:49:55.889 --> 00:50:04.929
I mean, I I attend First Assembly, not trying to and then we've had that property out there since 1998, and we're just now moving church on the church property.
00:50:05.170 --> 00:50:05.329
Yeah.
00:50:05.649 --> 00:50:07.809
They sold the facility there on King's Highway.
00:50:08.129 --> 00:50:08.289
Right.
00:50:08.449 --> 00:50:08.849
I knew that.
00:50:09.170 --> 00:50:12.289
And to uh to to uh uh Spanish-speaking ideas.
00:50:12.690 --> 00:50:13.170
I did see that.
00:50:14.049 --> 00:50:16.289
Well, we could use about 10 John McAfee's.
00:50:16.609 --> 00:50:17.809
Well, isn't that the truth?
00:50:18.129 --> 00:50:18.929
He's a fine man.
00:50:19.250 --> 00:50:20.690
What a fine gentleman.
00:50:20.849 --> 00:50:22.129
I totally agree with you, Steve.
00:50:22.449 --> 00:50:24.369
And he was a citizen of the year.
00:50:24.609 --> 00:50:24.849
Yes.
00:50:25.170 --> 00:50:29.170
And he wasn't able to come, but he we had him on here and he talked about that.
00:50:29.329 --> 00:50:31.649
He was in he was in Branson or something.
00:50:31.730 --> 00:50:32.049
That's right.
00:50:32.369 --> 00:50:35.969
He was at uh uh I think a pr uh oh my goodness.
00:50:36.210 --> 00:50:40.449
He was at some church leadership thing or something.
00:50:40.690 --> 00:50:44.369
Well the community shelter workshop after Keith Kirk died.
00:50:44.609 --> 00:50:46.049
I couldn't think of a better guy.
00:50:46.289 --> 00:50:47.089
Agreed than John.
00:50:47.489 --> 00:50:47.649
Agreed.
00:50:47.969 --> 00:50:49.489
That is another that way, you're right.
00:50:49.569 --> 00:50:51.329
I mean, like I should have thought about it.
00:50:51.409 --> 00:50:57.569
I mean, I think is it tomorrow they're having like a little celebration kind of a community thing there tomorrow?
00:50:57.809 --> 00:50:58.210
I'm not sure.
00:50:58.609 --> 00:50:59.089
The workshop?
00:50:59.250 --> 00:51:00.849
Yeah, and I'll be after this coming up.
00:51:01.089 --> 00:51:02.210
He's doing that a lot.
00:51:02.690 --> 00:51:20.369
He told me a story of one of his one of the the people that go there and work, and I know him and you know him, and I'm not gonna mention any names, but he said they had a kind of a hard job to do that one day, and uh he decided he wasn't feeling too well.
00:51:20.690 --> 00:51:25.730
So he said, Okay, we'll call your call your mom and and see what she says.
00:51:25.889 --> 00:51:27.329
And so he called his mom.
00:51:27.489 --> 00:51:29.170
She said, Oh, good, you're coming home.
00:51:29.250 --> 00:51:31.329
I got a whole bunch of things I want you to do.
00:51:31.569 --> 00:51:33.889
And he says, I'm feeling better.
00:51:34.849 --> 00:51:36.369
Suddenly he figured it out.
00:51:36.690 --> 00:51:40.369
John would have the skill set to do that.
00:51:40.609 --> 00:51:41.809
Oh, of course.
00:51:42.129 --> 00:51:42.769
Of course.
00:51:42.929 --> 00:51:47.889
You know, he has the temperament, yeah, the ability to kind of think on his feet.
00:51:48.049 --> 00:51:48.929
Oh, I totally agree.
00:51:49.009 --> 00:51:52.690
Yeah, I I think I hold him in very high regard.
00:51:53.009 --> 00:51:56.129
Uh, let me ask you guys, you think we have enough coffee shops?
00:51:57.489 --> 00:52:01.649
Well, if you ask my wife, no, yeah, but I'm sure she has her favorite.
00:52:01.809 --> 00:52:02.289
Oh, she does.
00:52:02.529 --> 00:52:03.489
Oh, I'm not complaining.
00:52:03.569 --> 00:52:04.849
They're all coming here for a reason.
00:52:05.089 --> 00:52:05.409
Yes.
00:52:05.730 --> 00:52:09.089
Coffee sales doubled since 2015.
00:52:09.649 --> 00:52:10.289
No kidding.
00:52:10.449 --> 00:52:10.609
Yep.
00:52:10.769 --> 00:52:11.250
No kidding.
00:52:11.489 --> 00:52:13.009
So that's why you're seeing a lot of this.
00:52:13.170 --> 00:52:16.210
And uh kind of a kind of a nationwide phenomenon thing.
00:52:16.529 --> 00:52:21.730
Aren't they kind of an easy I mean, I know there's an economy like they're pretty easy to start up to, aren't they?
00:52:21.889 --> 00:52:22.210
Oh yeah.
00:52:22.449 --> 00:52:25.569
Come in on a flatbed and put them down.
00:52:26.049 --> 00:52:28.289
Well, that's what they did with the taco jobs.
00:52:28.449 --> 00:52:28.849
Yeah.
00:52:29.089 --> 00:52:31.489
Well that seven brew is the same thing.
00:52:31.809 --> 00:52:37.170
Now, Starbucks, they had they had to go in and uh rehab because it was a previous what the heck it was.
00:52:37.569 --> 00:52:39.409
Zaxby's Zaxby's, yeah.
00:52:39.730 --> 00:52:43.889
And that that was just the they didn't have the service.
00:52:44.529 --> 00:52:45.409
They had the product.
00:52:45.569 --> 00:52:45.809
Yes.
00:52:45.969 --> 00:52:47.329
And they have a big chain.
00:52:47.569 --> 00:52:47.809
Yep.
00:52:48.289 --> 00:52:49.889
And they well they close the one in K too.
00:52:50.129 --> 00:52:54.529
How important I mean, like you you've you've been at economic development a lot and stuff like that.
00:52:54.690 --> 00:53:06.449
How important is that to a community to have labor force ready to they look at that right off the top, and that's why you have to get them to take a second look.
00:53:07.489 --> 00:53:09.009
That's that's why you do that.
00:53:09.170 --> 00:53:25.009
Now, I'm gonna make a statement here, and I don't think anybody takes it wrong, but you know, someone will say, Well, you've got all these Mexican restaurants, all these Chinese restaurants, and all this, and I said, There's a reason they do so well.
00:53:25.649 --> 00:53:30.210
They come to work, they work, yeah, and they provide a good product.
00:53:30.369 --> 00:53:30.690
Yeah.
00:53:30.929 --> 00:53:33.409
And you might throw the Greeks in there too.
00:53:33.649 --> 00:53:36.049
You look at Jay's, it's amazing.
00:53:36.210 --> 00:53:36.449
Yeah.
00:53:36.690 --> 00:53:41.250
And uh Tom down at the Grecian, those folks work hard.
00:53:41.409 --> 00:53:41.649
Yep.
00:53:41.809 --> 00:53:43.569
And the people That's a fair point, Steve.
00:53:43.969 --> 00:53:44.609
That's a fair point.
00:53:44.929 --> 00:53:46.129
People show up for work.
00:53:46.289 --> 00:53:46.449
Yeah.
00:53:46.929 --> 00:53:47.329
I agree.
00:53:47.409 --> 00:53:47.730
I agree.
00:53:47.889 --> 00:53:52.289
And I think I think that's I don't think it's something that we're lagging.
00:53:52.369 --> 00:53:57.250
I think maybe we we we could do better at is is is is to show up.
00:53:57.569 --> 00:54:05.489
Yeah, and I think when they look at available property to do a study, and they may say, Oh, we need 50 jobs, 50 people.
00:54:05.809 --> 00:54:08.449
And sometimes you go, where are you gonna get the 50?
00:54:09.409 --> 00:54:09.649
Yeah.
00:54:10.289 --> 00:54:14.369
But but I mean I think I think that starts with our education system in a lot of ways.
00:54:14.529 --> 00:54:14.690
Yeah.
00:54:14.929 --> 00:54:21.969
Like, you know, that's why we athletics, all those things like band and all that play a role in teaching people how to be committed.
00:54:22.129 --> 00:54:24.609
I I I think commitment is a big thing in life.
00:54:25.009 --> 00:54:25.409
It is.
00:54:25.569 --> 00:54:29.889
But you know, there are people that maybe don't get taught that at home or whatever.
00:54:30.210 --> 00:54:30.369
Right.
00:54:30.849 --> 00:54:31.170
Right.
00:54:31.409 --> 00:54:38.210
And um if they're just out there on their own, the importance of understanding what it takes to be successful.
00:54:38.609 --> 00:54:42.289
But I think hope is a big part of like creating that in people, you know.
00:54:42.849 --> 00:54:46.690
If they see hope, then they can try to strive for it.
00:54:47.089 --> 00:54:50.210
And speaking of that, we got a ministry in town, Spread Hope Now.
00:54:50.690 --> 00:54:52.129
And then one just a few weeks ago.
00:54:52.449 --> 00:54:54.289
Fabulous one unbelievable stuff.
00:54:54.449 --> 00:54:58.210
Some of the stories they told us just almost give you chills.
00:54:58.529 --> 00:55:06.289
And Mary Ann Moyer, she's just a sweet lady and just works hard, and all the people that are there, the warming center.
00:55:06.769 --> 00:55:11.250
I mean, and there's I don't know, 50 plus churches that support that.
00:55:11.409 --> 00:55:11.649
Yeah.
00:55:11.809 --> 00:55:12.609
That's a great work.
00:55:12.929 --> 00:55:13.250
I agree.
00:55:13.730 --> 00:55:14.449
Totally agree.
00:55:14.769 --> 00:55:24.369
I think the other area where you talk the foundation of economic development right now, it's too costly to build a house almost.
00:55:25.009 --> 00:55:27.329
Well, that was what uh uh Mike.
00:55:27.969 --> 00:55:29.089
Mike was talking about last week.
00:55:29.250 --> 00:55:30.210
Yeah, we've talked about it.
00:55:30.529 --> 00:55:31.730
Was the affordable housing.
00:55:31.969 --> 00:55:34.369
Now, I don't know, I don't know what that means.
00:55:34.529 --> 00:55:35.809
I don't know how we fix that.
00:55:36.129 --> 00:55:36.929
You see it, Matt.
00:55:37.009 --> 00:55:39.809
You know, by the way, people say there's too many banks.
00:55:40.049 --> 00:55:43.170
Hey, that is a that is a sign of a healthy community.
00:55:43.569 --> 00:55:49.009
Don't increase the you know, it's kind of the same thing that with with we got too many Mexican restaurants.
00:55:49.170 --> 00:55:50.049
Well, they're all making money.
00:55:50.210 --> 00:55:50.369
Yeah.
00:55:50.769 --> 00:55:51.569
So are all the banks.
00:55:51.649 --> 00:55:54.049
So don't I mean we pay a lot of taxes.
00:55:54.369 --> 00:56:03.329
Yes, property taxes and sales tax and income tax and the uh all the stuff that we do and the donation.
00:56:03.489 --> 00:56:04.929
So yeah, exactly.
00:56:05.009 --> 00:56:05.409
I agree.
00:56:05.489 --> 00:56:06.929
I uh it is a healthy town.
00:56:07.250 --> 00:56:15.089
But the biggest I see it, and you see it, I'm sure, Matt, a fifteen hundred square foot home built today.
00:56:15.489 --> 00:56:19.649
If you can get it f for under two hundred dollars a square foot.
00:56:19.889 --> 00:56:21.649
Yeah, that means three hundred thousand dollars.
00:56:21.730 --> 00:56:22.609
That's insane.
00:56:23.170 --> 00:56:27.009
And then what we're seeing is a lot of building in the Benton area.
00:56:27.170 --> 00:56:30.049
And I think Benton's got a lot of upside to it.
00:56:30.690 --> 00:56:36.929
In fact, I think we need to say, hey, come on into the you're part of the Sykeston area in New Madrid there.
00:56:37.089 --> 00:56:37.329
Yes.
00:56:37.649 --> 00:56:39.569
But they can buy land cheaper.
00:56:39.809 --> 00:56:40.289
Yeah.
00:56:40.529 --> 00:56:45.409
They mean I don't know if they have to stay to the same code we do here.
00:56:45.809 --> 00:56:46.929
I think that's part of it.
00:56:47.250 --> 00:56:47.969
That's part of it.
00:56:48.210 --> 00:56:52.289
So the cost to build is less, but they still have good school systems.
00:56:52.529 --> 00:56:53.089
Yes, they do.
00:56:53.329 --> 00:56:56.769
They we've got to get deeper into that game somehow.
00:56:57.009 --> 00:56:57.250
Right.
00:56:57.489 --> 00:57:02.609
I don't know how we do it until you know costs come down and rates come down.
00:57:02.929 --> 00:57:09.089
But if we had we're we're sitting right now in an area, Scott Matthews.
00:57:09.730 --> 00:57:11.489
I've known Scott for a long time.
00:57:11.649 --> 00:57:14.449
Yeah, he made this land available.
00:57:15.170 --> 00:57:16.690
Exactly where we are sitting.
00:57:16.929 --> 00:57:18.769
And and look what happened.
00:57:18.929 --> 00:57:24.769
I think this is the maybe the second largest voting precinct in New Madrid County.
00:57:25.009 --> 00:57:25.730
I think that's right.
00:57:25.809 --> 00:57:26.210
Yes.
00:57:26.449 --> 00:57:29.569
And so it filled up all the way to the highway.
00:57:29.969 --> 00:57:32.369
If we can create that overpass, well, it's there.
00:57:32.529 --> 00:57:36.769
We just gotta get it they gotta get it on the plan, they gotta get the money.
00:57:36.929 --> 00:57:40.849
Now I know Mayor Turnbull is working on that and everybody.
00:57:41.089 --> 00:57:41.569
Yep.
00:57:41.889 --> 00:57:45.009
But we've got pla we got some places to build.
00:57:45.089 --> 00:57:47.409
I just don't know the cost factor.
00:57:47.730 --> 00:57:48.049
Right.
00:57:48.289 --> 00:57:54.210
I think the developer, the city, and the county are trying to figure out who's gonna pony up and pay for it.
00:57:54.369 --> 00:57:59.730
That's that's basically the story that I and it's always been the developer that pays for it.
00:57:59.889 --> 00:58:10.369
But if Scott and his family hadn't opened up this part for development in the last 20, 25 years, oh yeah, we'd be the size of Kenneth.
00:58:10.529 --> 00:58:10.769
Yes.
00:58:10.929 --> 00:58:16.929
Well, where Lowe's is, I mean, all of that, all of that area out there too, Applebee's and all those things.
00:58:17.329 --> 00:58:18.210
Boot Hill.
00:58:18.929 --> 00:58:19.009
Right.
00:58:19.170 --> 00:58:19.329
Yeah.
00:58:19.489 --> 00:58:20.049
Boot Hill.
00:58:20.129 --> 00:58:20.369
That's right.
00:58:20.449 --> 00:58:21.489
Boot Hill Mental Health.
00:58:21.889 --> 00:58:26.769
One thing I was gonna tell you a while ago, we were talking about this, we talked about the education.
00:58:27.170 --> 00:58:34.129
I'm on a school board and we had a joint meeting with the chamber, let's see.
00:58:34.369 --> 00:58:35.409
I'm not thinking.
00:58:36.529 --> 00:58:37.409
I think that's right.
00:58:37.489 --> 00:58:38.289
I'm trying to remember.
00:58:38.529 --> 00:58:55.969
But one of the things that Marcy Lawson or Taylor, or one of them, Taylor Deere, one of them said, was that when they are when prospective companies are considering our town, one of the questions they ask, one of the top however many questions, when is the last time you passed a school bond?
00:58:56.049 --> 00:59:00.449
And anything over five years, yeah, they that's a negative.
00:59:00.609 --> 00:59:02.369
Well, thank goodness we just passed one.
00:59:02.690 --> 00:59:04.769
Now, I got another great one for you too.
00:59:04.849 --> 00:59:06.769
I brag on our chamber all the time.
00:59:07.969 --> 00:59:10.210
So they got the money to do the post.
00:59:10.369 --> 00:59:15.089
Of course, Kathy Medley, who is a uh a girl I just thank the world of.
00:59:15.329 --> 00:59:22.769
Very, very highly, and what worked with a lot of us characters over the year, over the years, but you got a one-stop shop.
00:59:22.849 --> 00:59:35.889
Yep, you can go in and talk to these ladies, you know, Katie, Haley, Taylor, Marcy, and the other girl, Gwen, Molly.
00:59:36.129 --> 00:59:37.009
Yes, that's right.
00:59:37.089 --> 00:59:37.409
That's right.
00:59:37.889 --> 00:59:38.369
She's new there.
00:59:38.609 --> 00:59:38.849
Uh-huh.
00:59:38.929 --> 00:59:39.809
Just getting ready to say.
00:59:40.049 --> 00:59:42.210
And so you leave that place.
00:59:42.369 --> 00:59:47.889
Would you rather have people go in and talk to them or old fat guys in suits?
00:59:49.170 --> 00:59:50.929
I have to agree with you.
00:59:51.170 --> 00:59:52.929
I know, I agree with you, Steve.
00:59:53.569 --> 00:59:55.649
And you know, they're they do a great job.
00:59:55.889 --> 00:59:56.289
They do.
00:59:56.369 --> 00:59:57.889
They are all very talented ladies.
00:59:58.129 --> 00:59:58.289
Yeah.
00:59:58.449 --> 00:59:59.489
I told very smart.
00:59:59.730 --> 01:00:03.409
I like how they even combined and are looking regional.
01:00:03.569 --> 01:00:06.289
I mean, like the Sykeston Regional Chamber.
01:00:06.449 --> 01:00:06.609
Yeah.
01:00:06.769 --> 01:00:10.609
And also, we've mentioned this name on here before, and I need to get in touch with him.
01:00:10.769 --> 01:00:12.609
I think Steven Birch was a visionary.
01:00:12.849 --> 01:00:13.409
Oh, definitely.
01:00:13.730 --> 01:00:22.769
I've said that for Yeah, Stephen had a forward-looking thing and and wanted to make that possible for to get everything under one roof.
01:00:23.170 --> 01:00:28.609
And he saw it from I think Paragold or Jonesboro, or maybe both.
01:00:28.929 --> 01:00:29.489
And I'll tell you what.
01:00:29.569 --> 01:00:31.730
I'll tell you what, we w I went to Paragold a couple weeks ago.
01:00:31.809 --> 01:00:32.049
Yeah.
01:00:32.210 --> 01:00:37.409
And I remember I I actually went to Arkansas State for like one half a semester.
01:00:38.369 --> 01:00:39.569
You had a cup of coffee there.
01:00:40.289 --> 01:00:41.089
A half semester.
01:00:41.170 --> 01:00:41.969
That's a good one there.
01:00:43.089 --> 01:00:48.849
I decided to come back home, but I remember going through Jonesboro, and that was in '93, somewhere around there.
01:00:48.929 --> 01:00:49.009
Oh.
01:00:49.329 --> 01:00:52.690
And man, I we went down there a couple weeks ago, and I'm like, I didn't even recognize the place.
01:00:52.849 --> 01:00:53.649
Oh, it's blown up.
01:00:53.809 --> 01:00:54.929
They've grown into each other.
01:00:55.089 --> 01:01:02.929
No, we took this, I think it was 2011 or 12, uh, Brian Self, his wife Dana's from there.
01:01:03.250 --> 01:01:03.730
That's correct.
01:01:03.969 --> 01:01:08.849
And uh we had Sue, I'm trying to think of her, she was the head of the chamber.
01:01:10.529 --> 01:01:10.690
Okay.
01:01:10.929 --> 01:01:11.809
She came up.
01:01:12.369 --> 01:01:14.849
That's all about this time that this happened that I remembered.
01:01:15.489 --> 01:01:16.929
Did a session with us.
01:01:17.089 --> 01:01:19.649
We went down there and looked at what they'd done.
01:01:19.809 --> 01:01:27.170
They expanded their city limits, but they were the same size as Sykeston around 1990.
01:01:27.409 --> 01:01:31.170
And she said, gee, I wish I had your highways.
01:01:31.489 --> 01:01:31.969
Right.
01:01:32.129 --> 01:01:39.730
Yeah, but they still they had to have a lot of cooperation and they had to have some land too that people were willing to develop.
01:01:39.969 --> 01:01:40.289
Yes.
01:01:40.449 --> 01:01:43.809
And again, I think that's that's the key for us.
01:01:44.049 --> 01:01:48.690
I know the Westridge family bought this around three rivers.
01:01:49.089 --> 01:01:49.489
Three rivers.
01:01:49.969 --> 01:01:52.609
And that'll, you know, when the cost acres is that.
01:01:52.769 --> 01:01:53.569
Ah, gosh.
01:01:54.049 --> 01:01:55.969
Couple hundred, four or five hundred?
01:01:56.049 --> 01:01:56.369
I don't know.
01:01:56.609 --> 01:01:58.210
I don't want to sp I don't want to speak.
01:01:58.289 --> 01:02:00.369
I'd get a phone call from Scott.
01:02:01.569 --> 01:02:01.730
Okay.
01:02:01.969 --> 01:02:03.009
Scott, don't call me.
01:02:04.289 --> 01:02:04.690
Yeah.
01:02:05.009 --> 01:02:08.449
But it's out around there and it's out of the flood zone.
01:02:08.690 --> 01:02:09.250
Yes, right.
01:02:09.569 --> 01:02:09.730
Right.
01:02:09.969 --> 01:02:10.289
It's good.
01:02:10.369 --> 01:02:11.969
It's still Sykeston School District.
01:02:12.129 --> 01:02:12.529
That's correct.
01:02:12.690 --> 01:02:14.449
Bob Buchanan made sure that you're going to be able to do that.
01:02:14.609 --> 01:02:15.089
Yes, he did.
01:02:15.250 --> 01:02:15.809
Yes, he did.
01:02:15.969 --> 01:02:22.769
And uh so you know, if if we can just figure that out, people would move here.
01:02:23.089 --> 01:02:33.089
Salcedo Road, when that was built, you know, if we there was a section, I know there's some land available now that wasn't before.
01:02:33.329 --> 01:02:38.289
If you can get the cost right, you could do a little neighborhood back in there.
01:02:38.609 --> 01:02:39.730
Off Salcedo Road?
01:02:39.969 --> 01:02:40.609
Salcedo.
01:02:40.690 --> 01:02:44.769
That's just an idea, you know, closer, closer to the complex.
01:02:45.009 --> 01:02:45.569
Oh, yeah.
01:02:45.730 --> 01:02:45.969
Yes.
01:02:46.210 --> 01:02:50.449
And then some of that through there, Steve, is zoned some commercial.
01:02:51.329 --> 01:02:51.409
Yeah.
01:02:51.649 --> 01:02:52.849
Some of it's agriculture too.
01:02:53.489 --> 01:02:56.449
Well it is right now, but I think he's saying it's just got potential.
01:02:56.529 --> 01:02:56.690
Yeah.
01:02:57.009 --> 01:02:57.170
Yeah.
01:02:57.329 --> 01:03:00.369
And then on the other side of the kindergarten you have more expensive houses.
01:03:00.449 --> 01:03:03.569
So but there are neighborhoods you could do.
01:03:03.730 --> 01:03:07.730
I mean, Collins North Acres that was developed in the 70s.
01:03:08.129 --> 01:03:09.730
Just think if it kept going.
01:03:09.889 --> 01:03:10.210
Right.
01:03:10.369 --> 01:03:14.609
And people had the opportunity to live here, I think they would if they could afford it.
01:03:14.929 --> 01:03:15.329
Agreed.
01:03:15.489 --> 01:03:15.889
Agreed.
01:03:15.969 --> 01:03:16.609
I agree with you.
01:03:16.769 --> 01:03:17.730
That's opportunity.
01:03:17.889 --> 01:03:18.529
Agreed.
01:03:18.690 --> 01:03:19.569
Agreed.
01:03:20.769 --> 01:03:27.649
I was talking to Rick, and you told me once, and I had forgotten, but you're a you're a Scott City boy.
01:03:27.969 --> 01:03:29.809
Yeah, actually, uh sorta.
01:03:30.369 --> 01:03:30.929
Sorta.
01:03:31.009 --> 01:03:32.609
I was born in Pauper Bluff.
01:03:32.849 --> 01:03:33.170
Okay.
01:03:33.329 --> 01:03:34.529
I'm not a mule.
01:03:35.329 --> 01:03:36.210
Thank goodness.
01:03:36.369 --> 01:03:36.769
Yeah.
01:03:37.009 --> 01:03:40.529
And my early element my dad worked for Wetterow Foods.
01:03:40.690 --> 01:03:40.929
Okay.
01:03:41.250 --> 01:03:46.769
In my early elementary aid grades, I went to Campbell and Malden.
01:03:47.009 --> 01:03:47.250
Okay.
01:03:47.649 --> 01:03:49.809
And then I actually Rick did say that.
01:03:50.049 --> 01:03:51.730
Malden through the ninth grade.
01:03:51.969 --> 01:03:52.210
Okay.
01:03:52.449 --> 01:03:54.049
Malden was a thriving town.
01:03:54.449 --> 01:03:54.690
Agreed.
01:03:55.809 --> 01:03:57.409
Wasn't there an Air Force base there at one time?
01:03:57.569 --> 01:03:57.730
Yeah.
01:03:57.889 --> 01:03:59.329
Yeah, that it was already gone.
01:03:59.730 --> 01:03:59.889
Okay.
01:04:00.369 --> 01:04:02.369
I think there are about 7,000 people.
01:04:02.849 --> 01:04:04.449
There's about half that there now.
01:04:05.250 --> 01:04:07.649
And that is a huge runway, by the way.
01:04:07.969 --> 01:04:09.649
Three 5,000 foot runways.
01:04:09.889 --> 01:04:10.049
Yeah.
01:04:10.129 --> 01:04:10.369
Ours.
01:04:10.609 --> 01:04:11.250
We have one.
01:04:11.730 --> 01:04:11.969
Yeah.
01:04:12.049 --> 01:04:12.289
Yeah.
01:04:12.449 --> 01:04:12.609
Yeah.
01:04:13.089 --> 01:04:14.690
So you're talking about upgrades.
01:04:14.849 --> 01:04:16.210
That's another upgrade recently.
01:04:16.449 --> 01:04:16.609
Yeah.
01:04:17.170 --> 01:04:17.489
Oh, yeah.
01:04:17.649 --> 01:04:17.730
Yeah.
01:04:18.289 --> 01:04:19.409
To the to the airport here.
01:04:19.489 --> 01:04:23.089
But resurfaced the runway and just just repainted it, restriped it.
01:04:23.329 --> 01:04:34.449
But the one mm the Maldon Industrial Park, it's got a lot of potential, of course, with Barry Michelle Aycock there and others that uh, you know, that's what I appreciate about them.
01:04:34.609 --> 01:04:36.690
They they love the area.
01:04:37.009 --> 01:04:40.849
They've invested in the area and it's got two fine individuals.
01:04:41.089 --> 01:04:51.889
And so when we see these people, there's a guy that came through and did a uh video of the dying towns along the railroad.
01:04:52.289 --> 01:04:58.449
So he came in and it's on YouTube, and he did did one of them all, then went through downtown.
01:04:58.529 --> 01:04:59.329
There's nothing there anymore.
01:04:59.569 --> 01:04:59.969
You know what?
01:05:00.049 --> 01:05:01.569
I think I've seen that, Steve.
01:05:01.889 --> 01:05:06.449
And he went through downtown, he went through it, and there's nothing there anymore.
01:05:06.609 --> 01:05:07.809
It was thriving years ago.
01:05:07.889 --> 01:05:08.210
Uh-huh.
01:05:08.369 --> 01:05:10.690
Everything's moved out on business 25.
01:05:10.849 --> 01:05:11.089
Right.
01:05:11.250 --> 01:05:15.089
He didn't bother to tell people this is where the town's gone.
01:05:15.250 --> 01:05:15.329
Oh.
01:05:15.649 --> 01:05:16.609
And then he went to Bernie.
01:05:16.849 --> 01:05:17.250
It's a little bit.
01:05:17.489 --> 01:05:18.529
And then he went to Parma.
01:05:18.609 --> 01:05:19.250
It's a little bit different.
01:05:19.489 --> 01:05:20.690
And then he went to Dexter.
01:05:20.769 --> 01:05:22.769
And you know, that's out there.
01:05:23.009 --> 01:05:23.329
Right.
01:05:23.569 --> 01:05:25.649
People don't wouldn't know the difference.
01:05:25.809 --> 01:05:28.210
We've got to figure out ways to combat that.
01:05:28.529 --> 01:05:29.009
Agreed.
01:05:29.170 --> 01:05:29.489
Agreed.
01:05:29.969 --> 01:05:30.690
It's agreed.
01:05:31.009 --> 01:05:34.529
The community where you are, you gotta make it the best it can be.
01:05:34.769 --> 01:05:35.170
I agree.
01:05:35.649 --> 01:05:36.049
I agree.
01:05:36.210 --> 01:05:39.569
We've got a lot of other, I mean, like like you said, interstates are here.
01:05:39.649 --> 01:05:40.769
I mean, like the two.
01:05:41.250 --> 01:05:41.969
I have two of them.
01:05:42.210 --> 01:05:42.849
I mean, yeah.
01:05:43.170 --> 01:05:52.529
I'm I was gonna try to get the updated traffic count of the traffic that passes by here, but it's unbelievable.
01:05:53.569 --> 01:05:54.049
Amazing.
01:05:54.369 --> 01:05:56.529
And you know, just come take a look.
01:05:56.929 --> 01:05:58.369
Do you remember some numbers from past?
01:05:58.529 --> 01:06:01.250
I mean, like oh gee, they're pretty.
01:06:01.329 --> 01:06:07.250
I know here on South Maine, what's it close to 30,000 cars a day?
01:06:07.489 --> 01:06:08.289
Holy crap.
01:06:08.529 --> 01:06:08.769
Really?
01:06:09.009 --> 01:06:11.569
And there was um a study done by Dr.
01:06:11.649 --> 01:06:17.969
Cherry at SEMO about half the workforce comes in here to work every day, lives elsewhere.
01:06:19.409 --> 01:06:20.049
We've talked about that.
01:06:20.210 --> 01:06:25.329
Yeah, East Prairie, Charleston, New Madrid, Benton, Kelly, Chaffee.
01:06:25.569 --> 01:06:25.969
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:26.210 --> 01:06:27.329
All the way to Scott City.
01:06:27.409 --> 01:06:27.569
Yeah.
01:06:27.889 --> 01:06:27.969
Yeah.
01:06:28.210 --> 01:06:30.929
Even people in Dexter come to work at oh yeah.
01:06:31.009 --> 01:06:31.170
Yeah.
01:06:31.409 --> 01:06:32.769
We've got a lot of jobs here.
01:06:32.849 --> 01:06:35.569
We just need more housing to support them.
01:06:35.809 --> 01:06:35.969
Right.
01:06:36.129 --> 01:06:37.489
We've got a great school system.
01:06:37.649 --> 01:06:37.889
Yep.
01:06:38.129 --> 01:06:39.009
That's improved.
01:06:39.170 --> 01:06:49.809
But back to uh to Malden, I was it's funny, and I had a basketball coach by the name of Laverne Garner.
01:06:50.129 --> 01:06:53.649
So it's in the seventh grade, and I'm already like five nine.
01:06:54.369 --> 01:06:58.609
And by the way, we used to say this about Steve playing basketball.
01:06:58.769 --> 01:07:00.929
He never met a shot he didn't like.
01:07:01.089 --> 01:07:09.250
So well, you gotta remember the one four on four team Tom Fowler, Kendall Ayers, Ronnie Baker.
01:07:09.409 --> 01:07:11.170
The only time we got a shot is when we saw.
01:07:11.569 --> 01:07:13.809
Stole an inbound from her own team.
01:07:14.049 --> 01:07:14.609
Fowler.
01:07:14.849 --> 01:07:16.049
Oh, you got a rebound.
01:07:16.369 --> 01:07:17.889
Fowler would never pass.
01:07:18.369 --> 01:07:19.409
Are we talking about Churchly?
01:07:19.649 --> 01:07:19.809
Yeah.
01:07:21.009 --> 01:07:21.409
Oh gosh.
01:07:21.809 --> 01:07:25.649
But you know, so he nicknamed me Big Dog.
01:07:26.289 --> 01:07:30.289
So 50 years later, I can go back down there and somebody go, Hey, Big Dog.
01:07:30.609 --> 01:07:31.489
Are you serious?
01:07:31.889 --> 01:07:32.929
That is hilarious.
01:07:33.170 --> 01:07:35.170
But after that, I moved to Scott City.
01:07:35.250 --> 01:07:36.449
My dad worked for Wetter out.
01:07:36.849 --> 01:07:37.089
Okay.
01:07:37.170 --> 01:07:37.409
Okay.
01:07:37.649 --> 01:07:38.929
I ended up a Ram.
01:07:39.089 --> 01:07:39.329
Yeah.
01:07:39.409 --> 01:07:39.730
Yep.
01:07:39.889 --> 01:07:47.089
I got to play uh baseball and football for Willie Wilfong, longtime football and baseball coach.
01:07:47.409 --> 01:07:50.289
There was some Wilfong's playing a couple years ago up there.
01:07:50.929 --> 01:07:54.529
And then that our coach uh Jim May, he's from Scott City.
01:07:54.690 --> 01:07:55.170
Correct.
01:07:55.329 --> 01:07:57.089
He played for Willie in 89.
01:07:57.170 --> 01:07:58.929
I played for him in 69.
01:07:59.649 --> 01:08:00.210
Really?
01:08:00.529 --> 01:08:01.250
I wish him well.
01:08:01.329 --> 01:08:02.529
He's going to do a good job with it.
01:08:03.089 --> 01:08:12.609
Listen, we I feel like we pulled off he's a great hire.
01:08:12.929 --> 01:08:13.170
Yeah.
01:08:13.489 --> 01:08:14.449
Unbelievable hire.
01:08:14.849 --> 01:08:16.529
He actually has some ties to Sykston.
01:08:16.689 --> 01:08:19.969
He is related to you, you remember Steve Gillaland, don't you?
01:08:20.129 --> 01:08:20.529
Oh yeah.
01:08:20.609 --> 01:08:20.849
Yeah.
01:08:21.089 --> 01:08:24.210
Miss Donna, Steve's mom, and Jim.
01:08:25.409 --> 01:08:26.449
Maybe their sister.
01:08:26.609 --> 01:08:27.089
Somehow.
01:08:27.170 --> 01:08:28.129
There's some relation there.
01:08:28.210 --> 01:08:30.449
So we got some ties here to Sykeston.
01:08:30.689 --> 01:08:33.009
I think, listen, I think we got Coach May.
01:08:33.089 --> 01:08:35.250
I think we I think we're hitting a run direct.
01:08:35.889 --> 01:08:37.250
I think we hit a home run with that, didn't we?
01:08:37.409 --> 01:08:40.129
And I told you the other day, I can't.
01:08:40.449 --> 01:08:44.449
It was it was how long has Coach Holyfield been here?
01:08:45.009 --> 01:08:45.729
Since 98.
01:08:46.210 --> 01:08:47.969
98 was his first year.
01:08:48.049 --> 01:08:48.289
Okay.
01:08:48.529 --> 01:08:50.449
So we're we're closing in on 30.
01:08:50.769 --> 01:08:57.969
I r I remember talking to Coach McFerrin, and they were talking about hiring him.
01:08:58.449 --> 01:09:01.409
Hollifield, he said, he's gonna be a great coach.
01:09:01.729 --> 01:09:02.689
Linus said that?
01:09:02.929 --> 01:09:03.809
He said that.
01:09:04.049 --> 01:09:05.409
And look what's happened here.
01:09:05.489 --> 01:09:12.129
He set a standard by which these kids are go out and represent us and they do well.
01:09:12.449 --> 01:09:19.089
You know, there's plenty plenty things you can not do well, but the majority of those kids do really well.
01:09:19.569 --> 01:09:20.849
They do well in life.
01:09:21.729 --> 01:09:27.170
And Shannon did a tremendous sh she got her school back.
01:09:28.130 --> 01:09:30.369
And and with the help of the board and everything.
01:09:30.609 --> 01:09:31.889
Yes, that was the feeling.
01:09:32.050 --> 01:09:32.289
Yes.
01:09:32.449 --> 01:09:34.130
I don't it came back.
01:09:34.689 --> 01:09:35.889
I couldn't agree more, Steve.
01:09:36.130 --> 01:09:41.010
And her enthusiasm, that's what it takes to make something special.
01:09:41.090 --> 01:09:41.409
Mm-hmm.
01:09:41.569 --> 01:09:44.050
Is that enthusiasm which they both have?
01:09:44.210 --> 01:09:45.809
The record speaks for itself.
01:09:45.889 --> 01:09:52.369
And of course, he and Brian James and the the whole group there, Brian was a heck of a point guard himself.
01:09:52.609 --> 01:09:54.210
Brian was a doggone good player.
01:09:54.369 --> 01:09:56.210
He was and uh good guy.
01:09:56.369 --> 01:09:59.649
So those are the kinds of things that make a community strong.
01:09:59.809 --> 01:10:00.130
Yeah.
01:10:00.369 --> 01:10:06.289
And I told the coach Otterfield, I hope you coach till you're at least my age.
01:10:07.090 --> 01:10:08.050
Listen, you talked to him.
01:10:08.130 --> 01:10:10.449
He said he wants to go to 70 or at least.
01:10:11.569 --> 01:10:12.849
He needs to go longer than that.
01:10:13.010 --> 01:10:15.090
I thought he's 16.
01:10:15.809 --> 01:10:16.689
Forget how old he is.
01:10:17.090 --> 01:10:19.329
Coach Bess went to like 80, didn't he?
01:10:19.649 --> 01:10:20.849
I totally agree.
01:10:21.170 --> 01:10:22.050
I agree with you.
01:10:22.369 --> 01:10:29.010
But uh, I do remember was talking about the Scott City days and the Class M regional.
01:10:29.329 --> 01:10:35.729
We had uh Matthews, Notre Dame, Scott Central, Oran.
01:10:36.689 --> 01:10:39.170
So which one did you want to play in the first round?
01:10:39.409 --> 01:10:41.489
I don't know that I want to play of any of those guys.
01:10:41.729 --> 01:10:44.369
And all those teams were unbelievable.
01:10:44.689 --> 01:10:46.529
Gene Best was a coach for Oran.
01:10:46.930 --> 01:10:47.170
Yes.
01:10:47.489 --> 01:10:47.889
I recall.
01:10:48.529 --> 01:10:48.849
I don't recall.
01:10:49.329 --> 01:10:50.529
No, you don't hear the story.
01:10:51.250 --> 01:10:52.130
I knew that.
01:10:52.449 --> 01:10:52.930
Yeah.
01:10:53.250 --> 01:11:00.369
And so if you're looking at your basketball schedule, what team do you not want to play?
01:11:00.930 --> 01:11:01.809
Suston.
01:11:03.489 --> 01:11:05.809
You know they're gonna give a hundred percent.
01:11:05.970 --> 01:11:06.210
Yeah.
01:11:06.689 --> 01:11:07.489
Oh, you mean right now?
01:11:07.649 --> 01:11:07.970
Right now?
01:11:08.130 --> 01:11:09.250
Oh, oh, oh, absolutely.
01:11:09.489 --> 01:11:11.809
Yeah, I transitioned about it.
01:11:11.970 --> 01:11:12.369
Yeah, you did.
01:11:12.449 --> 01:11:24.529
Yeah, well no, listen, I've I considered Greg, Brian, Derek, Will, Caleb, all those guys on the staff, personal friends.
01:11:24.769 --> 01:11:27.970
And sometimes it's a challenge to get to find some games.
01:11:28.050 --> 01:11:36.050
I mean, you know, we gotta play the C MO conference games, and you got the C MO conference tournament, and we can find games, but they're two hours away.
01:11:36.210 --> 01:11:37.250
And you're St.
01:11:37.329 --> 01:11:37.489
Louis.
01:11:37.809 --> 01:11:44.210
Riding on those those yellow dogs, as we call them, are not the most they're not built for comfort for long trips.
01:11:44.529 --> 01:11:45.090
They're just not.
01:11:45.409 --> 01:11:47.010
They're built for economy.
01:11:48.529 --> 01:11:53.170
Every now and then you'll get a team around that feels like they're gonna have a good year and and they'll put us on the schedule.
01:11:53.409 --> 01:11:53.729
They will.
01:11:54.050 --> 01:11:54.449
They will.
01:11:55.010 --> 01:11:59.409
But and what the other the coach from Father Tolton.
01:11:59.729 --> 01:12:00.449
Father Tolton.
01:12:00.529 --> 01:12:00.689
Yep.
01:12:00.930 --> 01:12:03.889
What what he said about playing here, the atmosphere.
01:12:04.130 --> 01:12:04.369
Yep.
01:12:04.529 --> 01:12:06.449
You're not gonna find it very many places.
01:12:06.769 --> 01:12:11.329
No, we've had he said that and someone else.
01:12:11.809 --> 01:12:14.289
Well, the Webster coach I was very complimentary.
01:12:14.769 --> 01:12:14.930
Yeah.
01:12:15.090 --> 01:12:17.329
So he wanted that they wanted to come down and play.
01:12:17.729 --> 01:12:22.529
So you want to capture, we talk a lot about community and enthusiasm.
01:12:22.769 --> 01:12:26.050
You got to capture that, and everybody's gotta find their niche.
01:12:26.130 --> 01:12:26.449
Yeah.
01:12:26.609 --> 01:12:29.090
And do what you can to make your community better.
01:12:29.170 --> 01:12:29.329
Right.
01:12:29.569 --> 01:12:34.289
I mean that that's that's always been my philosophy, and I watched other people do it.
01:12:34.449 --> 01:12:34.689
Yeah.
01:12:34.849 --> 01:12:35.889
I didn't come up with it.
01:12:36.289 --> 01:12:36.449
Right.
01:12:36.609 --> 01:12:37.329
No, right.
01:12:37.649 --> 01:12:44.210
Yeah, I I feel like I'm emulating the the folks that I saw before me.
01:12:44.369 --> 01:13:04.609
And the the Steve McFeeders, the Rick Adams, Scott Matthews, the Steve Sykes, Rob Mitchell's, the the I I again I could name a hundred more, but those guys that said, okay, we gave to our community.
01:13:05.090 --> 01:13:08.130
It it it blessed us, and we're giving back.
01:13:08.210 --> 01:13:13.329
And that and again, that's why I don't want to speak for Micah, but that this is part of what we're doing too.
01:13:13.409 --> 01:13:14.689
We've been blessed by this community.
01:13:14.930 --> 01:13:18.130
I I think I think I think we're just I mean, I know it's been around for a little while.
01:13:18.210 --> 01:13:21.489
The leadership from the the chamber, like the the leadership sexton.
01:13:21.649 --> 01:13:22.369
The leadership, yeah.
01:13:22.449 --> 01:13:23.569
Yeah, I think it's been good.
01:13:23.809 --> 01:13:26.130
I think it has been good, but I think it'll it's gonna get better.
01:13:26.449 --> 01:13:26.689
I agree.
01:13:27.010 --> 01:13:28.609
I think as it's continuing to get better.
01:13:28.849 --> 01:13:30.769
I've not done it, but I mean I've seen a lot of things.
01:13:31.250 --> 01:13:35.329
Well, you learn about all the institutions and how they work, you meet other people.
01:13:35.569 --> 01:13:35.809
Yeah.
01:13:36.609 --> 01:13:48.849
And people the the thing I'm the most excited about, go to the chamber, go to that group, the young families on the school board like Katie.
01:13:49.170 --> 01:13:49.489
Yep.
01:13:49.729 --> 01:13:53.809
Different ones that have so much enthusiasm, they're dug in here.
01:13:53.889 --> 01:13:55.250
Yes, they're not going anywhere.
01:13:55.409 --> 01:13:55.809
Right.
01:13:55.970 --> 01:13:56.289
Right.
01:13:56.529 --> 01:14:01.729
And and I've not seen it like that in 50 plus years here.
01:14:02.130 --> 01:14:04.529
That's the we talked about this with Mike.
01:14:04.689 --> 01:14:18.689
We're starting to see a group of adults now, young adults, bringing going to school here, maybe going to Missouri, or Ole Miss or Mississippi State or wherever they're going and coming back and starting a family here.
01:14:18.769 --> 01:14:21.170
And to me, that's that's a healthy sign.
01:14:21.250 --> 01:14:22.609
That's a that's a terrific sign.
01:14:22.769 --> 01:14:24.769
Now, not everybody comes back, and I get that.
01:14:24.930 --> 01:14:25.170
No.
01:14:25.409 --> 01:14:29.170
But but if you can get those to come back, more than ever.
01:14:29.569 --> 01:14:29.970
Yes, sir.
01:14:30.369 --> 01:14:40.050
I know this may not be on the same level, but I I remember a couple years ago we went I've been to Tijuana twice over into Mexico, and in 1993 was the first time I went.
01:14:40.289 --> 01:14:44.050
And it you could tell that it was just a border town, you know what I mean?
01:14:44.289 --> 01:14:46.369
No infrastructure or anything like that.
01:14:46.529 --> 01:14:56.369
Well, when we went, I went back in 2017 and we were at a a place and there was some people from Mexico that lived there.
01:14:56.609 --> 01:15:02.449
And and I I kind of commented on the difference because the roads, I mean, they weren't great, but they were a lot better.
01:15:02.609 --> 01:15:06.369
There was better sewage, there was better all all kinds of we still didn't want to drink the water and stuff.
01:15:07.010 --> 01:15:17.970
But but he talked about how people had gone to like United States and and seen that infrastructure that they had there and was bringing it back to Mexico.
01:15:18.529 --> 01:15:23.889
I mean, and I and I I think that's what you see when you see people go away to college, come back.
01:15:24.050 --> 01:15:27.649
You know, they're bringing knowledge back of what they differ perspective of something.
01:15:28.050 --> 01:15:33.010
Different perspective of what they it's you know, it used to be like when I came here.
01:15:33.329 --> 01:15:38.210
I came here in 1973 to work at KMPL radio.
01:15:38.529 --> 01:15:40.050
Well was that 1520?
01:15:40.609 --> 01:15:43.090
1520 on your dial, that's okay.
01:15:43.489 --> 01:15:48.050
Steve obviously has the radio voice, but it's it's now K S I M.
01:15:48.130 --> 01:15:49.409
Oh no, K R H W.
01:15:49.729 --> 01:15:51.569
KRHW, it's a Withers station.
01:15:51.809 --> 01:15:52.369
Sorry, yes.
01:15:52.689 --> 01:16:03.170
Back then, originally I think there were 10 business guys in the community that got that started, and a guy named John David bought it from Minnesota.
01:16:03.329 --> 01:16:05.170
He owned it several years.
01:16:05.250 --> 01:16:07.090
It was a CBS affiliate.
01:16:07.329 --> 01:16:07.729
Really?
01:16:07.970 --> 01:16:12.449
And so I'm in ra I knew I wanted to get into radio in high school.
01:16:12.609 --> 01:16:14.769
I just well, with a voice like that, you have to.
01:16:15.010 --> 01:16:21.090
Well, and then you know, Rush Limbaugh was on KGMO as Rusty Sharp.
01:16:21.569 --> 01:16:22.289
No kidding.
01:16:22.449 --> 01:16:24.689
Yeah, he was a great top 40 DJ.
01:16:24.930 --> 01:16:26.449
Oh my gosh, I didn't know that.
01:16:26.689 --> 01:16:29.729
Yeah, and he graduated in 69 from Cape Central.
01:16:29.970 --> 01:16:31.250
And there were different ones.
01:16:31.409 --> 01:16:38.849
Had a brother-in-law and a radio at KBOA in Kenneth and it was like radio was everything right then.
01:16:39.170 --> 01:16:39.489
Right.
01:16:39.729 --> 01:16:42.369
And so I wanted to get into that.
01:16:42.930 --> 01:16:48.130
I got it came down to KMPO for$150 a week.
01:16:48.689 --> 01:16:50.529
You thought you had more money than you could spend.
01:16:50.769 --> 01:16:51.409
I did.
01:16:52.609 --> 01:16:56.130
You could get a whopper fry and a drink for two bucks.
01:16:56.769 --> 01:17:05.489
So I came down here, CBS Philly, it was on the air, and then I got into the sales part and the sales management.
01:17:05.649 --> 01:17:12.529
But the best thing that ever happened to me was in 1974, February 1st.
01:17:12.689 --> 01:17:15.729
I had my one and only blind date.
01:17:16.529 --> 01:17:19.809
And I just happened to meet the prettiest girl in the whole town.
01:17:19.970 --> 01:17:20.289
Yeah.
01:17:20.609 --> 01:17:28.769
And a friend of mine was working with me at the station, and she said, uh, this girl's got to go to events.
01:17:28.849 --> 01:17:34.369
She really doesn't want to go anyone from Sykston because she's too well known here.
01:17:34.529 --> 01:17:39.010
And I said, Now, what are you trying to pass me off here, buddy?
01:17:39.729 --> 01:17:41.889
And uh he said, No, she's really nice.
01:17:41.970 --> 01:17:43.970
I said, What is what does she look like?
01:17:44.130 --> 01:17:45.329
He said, She's pretty hot.
01:17:45.489 --> 01:17:46.529
I said, Okay.
01:17:47.729 --> 01:17:48.689
I'll give it a shot.
01:17:49.010 --> 01:17:50.369
Suddenly you changed your mind.
01:17:50.449 --> 01:17:52.849
Yeah, I've I've always had the well, she's really nice.
01:17:53.090 --> 01:17:53.649
She's really nice.
01:17:54.050 --> 01:17:55.170
Oh boy, here we go.
01:17:55.329 --> 01:18:01.090
And then uh she had two little boys that I got to adopt, and we had another one, and Patty.
01:18:01.729 --> 01:18:04.210
That's the best decision ever made.
01:18:04.449 --> 01:18:04.689
Wow.
01:18:05.889 --> 01:18:07.889
We're going on 52 years.
01:18:18.449 --> 01:18:19.409
She still smiles.
01:18:19.729 --> 01:18:20.130
Yes.
01:18:20.449 --> 01:18:23.489
And uh I wouldn't wouldn't do it any other way.
01:18:23.729 --> 01:18:23.970
Yes.
01:18:24.210 --> 01:18:25.729
Because that helps you.
01:18:25.889 --> 01:18:28.609
It helps you when you want to go home at night.
01:18:29.569 --> 01:18:31.010
Think about that, guys.
01:18:31.729 --> 01:18:33.569
You know, you want to go home at night.
01:18:33.809 --> 01:18:34.769
Oh yeah, right.
01:18:35.090 --> 01:18:47.010
And my oldest grandson in the Navy, uh, Stephen's boy when he was twenty, his girlfriend was nineteen, he calls me from Pensacola.
01:18:47.090 --> 01:18:50.449
He says, Hey Papa, I think we're gonna go ahead and get married.
01:18:50.609 --> 01:18:52.689
They they'd spent about a year apart.
01:18:52.930 --> 01:18:55.329
I said, Mason, you think you're ready for that?
01:18:55.649 --> 01:18:57.170
He said, Let me ask you something.
01:18:57.329 --> 01:18:57.729
Uh oh.
01:18:58.050 --> 01:19:00.689
How long have you and your friends been married?
01:19:00.930 --> 01:19:13.569
And I started thinking about all the people I went to church with, all the people I knew, the majority of them had been married 30, 40, 50 years.
01:19:13.809 --> 01:19:17.970
And I started, I I was telling him that, and he said, that's what we want.
01:19:18.369 --> 01:19:22.210
Well, not not trying to, I mean, kind of back, I I've heard it put this way.
01:19:22.449 --> 01:19:25.010
Our grandparents had short engagements, long marriages.
01:19:25.170 --> 01:19:27.010
Now we have long engagements, short marriages.
01:19:27.170 --> 01:19:27.970
Yeah, yeah.
01:19:28.289 --> 01:19:31.489
But that's that's important to a community.
01:19:31.889 --> 01:19:33.090
I think when you know, you know.
01:19:33.409 --> 01:19:33.889
Yeah.
01:19:34.050 --> 01:19:46.050
Yeah, I I know I knew, and 50 years later at a wedding, at a wedding anniversary celebration at the church, this lady comes up to me and says, Son, you married up.
01:19:46.210 --> 01:19:48.130
I said, Yes, ma'am, I know I did.
01:19:48.369 --> 01:19:50.609
And she said, No, I mean way up.
01:19:51.010 --> 01:19:53.809
And I said, Okay, I'll take that.
01:19:54.289 --> 01:19:55.250
I'll take that.
01:19:55.569 --> 01:19:57.970
You you got married quick because you didn't want to let her go.
01:19:58.289 --> 01:20:00.369
No, seven months later we got married.
01:20:00.449 --> 01:20:02.689
So I was not I was not far off that with Aaron.
01:20:03.010 --> 01:20:04.289
I was a lot quicker than y'all two, man.
01:20:04.449 --> 01:20:05.569
Well you are.
01:20:05.809 --> 01:20:06.449
He was.
01:20:06.849 --> 01:20:07.409
He was.
01:20:07.569 --> 01:20:09.090
He married my sister pretty quick.
01:20:09.170 --> 01:20:14.289
But like you said, you find one and you kind of got her, you kind of got her snookered a little bit.
01:20:14.369 --> 01:20:17.090
She didn't really know, so you gotta hurry up and latch on to it.
01:20:17.250 --> 01:20:21.329
And then they figure out quick what you can pull over their eyes and what you can't.
01:20:21.489 --> 01:20:23.010
And there's not a lot you can.
01:20:23.170 --> 01:20:23.329
No.
01:20:23.489 --> 01:20:23.649
No.
01:20:23.889 --> 01:20:24.609
No, not at all.
01:20:24.930 --> 01:20:25.729
You're too smart.
01:20:25.970 --> 01:20:26.609
Absolutely.
01:20:26.769 --> 01:20:27.170
Absolutely.
01:20:27.409 --> 01:20:28.529
But that's what we need.
01:20:28.689 --> 01:20:29.010
Yes.
01:20:29.970 --> 01:20:33.809
And then another thing gives me hope is the churches.
01:20:33.970 --> 01:20:34.289
Yep.
01:20:34.529 --> 01:20:38.930
I see a lot of the churches growing and young people coming back to church.
01:20:39.010 --> 01:20:46.130
And uh there's a there's a there's a I I don't know what you call it a revival.
01:20:46.289 --> 01:20:52.369
So I and and not a revival in the sense of one service as a revival, but there seems to be a coming to faith.
01:20:52.849 --> 01:20:53.729
I don't see more.
01:20:54.050 --> 01:20:56.769
Well, I think make Mason and Caitlin are a big part of it.
01:20:56.849 --> 01:21:03.809
I think there's a a a revival of youth at the gonna be at the Hayborn, I think at the I did see that.
01:21:04.130 --> 01:21:05.090
I mean like in November.
01:21:05.250 --> 01:21:06.369
I think it's November the 14th.
01:21:06.689 --> 01:21:07.649
Yep, I did see that.
01:21:07.809 --> 01:21:08.050
Yep.
01:21:08.689 --> 01:21:11.090
But just and not just here, I'm talking about across the country.
01:21:11.329 --> 01:21:14.289
Yeah, you're yeah, I think I think it's happening.
01:21:14.449 --> 01:21:20.130
We people went are figuring out being normal is okay.
01:21:21.649 --> 01:21:28.930
You the wife and the kids and the life together and the blessings and challenges that come from that.
01:21:29.010 --> 01:21:29.170
Right.
01:21:29.409 --> 01:21:30.210
It's okay.
01:21:30.449 --> 01:21:30.849
Right.
01:21:31.090 --> 01:21:34.130
And a lot of places they weren't taught that that's really okay.
01:21:34.609 --> 01:21:37.010
I'm gonna be honest with you, I think Charlie Kirk had a big part in that.
01:21:37.250 --> 01:21:38.050
Oh, sure he did.
01:21:38.210 --> 01:21:38.609
Yeah.
01:21:39.170 --> 01:21:40.449
There's no no question.
01:21:40.529 --> 01:21:41.970
And that's coming up.
01:21:42.369 --> 01:21:56.609
His he would take on uh I I remember one in particular that this kid was talking to him and said, uh, you know, my dad's a conservative, my mom's liberal, they fight all the time.
01:21:56.769 --> 01:21:59.329
And I'm just sick of being there and hearing it.
01:21:59.569 --> 01:22:05.329
Charlie Kirk said, Young man, the Bible says you're to honor your father and your mother.
01:22:05.649 --> 01:22:06.210
That's correct.
01:22:06.369 --> 01:22:11.569
You can't pick your father and your mother, but you're supposed to honor them so things may go well.
01:22:11.729 --> 01:22:12.130
Yeah.
01:22:12.369 --> 01:22:14.930
And I thought that is sound advice.
01:22:15.409 --> 01:22:15.649
Agreed.
01:22:15.809 --> 01:22:18.529
You know, I know he can he could have been polarizing him.
01:22:18.689 --> 01:22:21.409
We don't want to get into politics.
01:22:21.649 --> 01:22:28.689
We don't we try not to get into politics here, just but I I don't I think that's more than politics because I think Charlie Kirk was first a Christian more than he was.
01:22:29.090 --> 01:22:29.409
I agree.
01:22:29.649 --> 01:22:30.210
A concern.
01:22:30.529 --> 01:22:30.769
I agree.
01:22:31.170 --> 01:22:31.489
I agree.
01:22:31.649 --> 01:22:31.889
Yeah.
01:22:32.130 --> 01:22:32.689
I agree with you.
01:22:32.930 --> 01:22:42.369
And I see see things in town, I see youth groups and churches growing and people meeting needs, and that's kind of the center of the church for a lot of people.
01:22:42.689 --> 01:22:42.930
Yes.
01:22:43.090 --> 01:22:44.130
The center of their lives.
01:22:44.289 --> 01:22:44.529
Yes.
01:22:44.769 --> 01:22:46.050
And uh that's a good thing.
01:22:47.010 --> 01:22:47.889
Good for the community.
01:22:48.210 --> 01:22:48.849
Totally agree.
01:22:49.010 --> 01:22:50.210
And good for them, of course.
01:22:50.369 --> 01:22:51.729
I mean, good for that family.
01:22:53.170 --> 01:23:03.329
When you after you came back, worked at the radio station, and then then you went to Virginia, is that what we talked about?
01:23:03.489 --> 01:23:06.689
Do you mind telling that story real quick how that how that kind of all played out?
01:23:07.170 --> 01:23:09.970
I had we were talking before, and uh that's a cool story.
01:23:10.289 --> 01:23:13.090
It was I had worked in broadcasting.
01:23:13.729 --> 01:23:15.250
That's what I'd done.
01:23:15.569 --> 01:23:25.970
Worked a little bit in after KMPL, let me think for a minute, I got into KSIM and owning part of it and managing it.
01:23:26.210 --> 01:23:31.409
And that was about 76 to about 19, 79, 80.
01:23:31.970 --> 01:23:51.809
And we did real well with the station, and that's when the mall was hopping, and we were running around doing live remotes everywhere, and oh yeah, people had you know, we just were doing well, and then it changed formats, and then I got bought out and went to another station up in uh Jackson Cape area.
01:23:52.050 --> 01:23:52.210
Okay.
01:23:52.609 --> 01:23:53.809
Didn't do as well there.
01:23:53.970 --> 01:23:55.170
There's too much competition.
01:23:55.649 --> 01:23:56.769
There was a lot of competition up there.
01:23:57.010 --> 01:24:09.649
I learned some lessons, life lessons, and I learned that I needed to kind of meditate and listen to God a little bit and find out what what he wants for your life.
01:24:09.809 --> 01:24:14.849
And um so CBN Christian Broadcasting Network was going.
01:24:15.010 --> 01:24:22.930
They had the CBN Cable Network, they had the 700 Club show, and some of the other faith shows on that channel.
01:24:23.170 --> 01:24:35.329
And I sent audition tape off after praying for a continental radio network, which was across the country, to do news for them, news on the hour.
01:24:35.569 --> 01:24:43.090
And didn't think that much about it and just remember praying and saying, Well, if it's your will, God, that's fine.
01:24:43.329 --> 01:24:51.489
If not, you know, I just I just want to follow your path and lead me, and that's my faith.
01:24:51.809 --> 01:25:20.210
And lo and behold, I get a call from David Folk coming from WSB in Atlanta, and I'm working with John Rivers, who used to do Power Line, a nationwide syndicated uh contemporary Christian show, and from there went into the CBN News part of it and traveled the country every other week doing stories that would run as specials on the cable network.
01:25:20.609 --> 01:25:28.689
News pieces that ran inside the 700 Club and other programs, and I got to do some things I never even thought possible.
01:25:29.010 --> 01:25:33.250
My first assignment was the KGB in the UN.
01:25:33.970 --> 01:25:35.010
The KGB?
01:25:35.250 --> 01:25:49.250
Yeah, in the UN, that was the topic, so I had to go do a live stand-up, my first time on television, and do uh about a three-minute report and not just freak out.
01:25:51.250 --> 01:26:00.449
And I did, and that worked out good, and I got to cover uh two Democratic national conventions, two Republican national conventions.
01:26:00.609 --> 01:26:10.289
Yeah, got to interview a lot of people in DC and New York and come back and put the pieces together, and so that part of it was was cool too.
01:26:10.449 --> 01:26:14.930
I got to do some of those things I never dreamed were possible.
01:26:15.170 --> 01:26:26.130
And then we decided it was time to come back here, and that's when I met with Rick Adams and and he offered me the job in public relations marketing.
01:26:26.369 --> 01:26:26.930
I remember that.
01:26:27.090 --> 01:26:32.449
And he wanted me to teach the lawn officers how to go out and make calls.
01:26:32.849 --> 01:26:34.130
It's not that hard.
01:26:34.369 --> 01:26:34.609
Right.
01:26:34.769 --> 01:26:35.489
It's simple.
01:26:35.649 --> 01:26:36.050
Right.
01:26:36.289 --> 01:26:38.609
But at the time in banks, you know.
01:26:39.889 --> 01:26:41.889
You sit in the office that you come to me.
01:26:42.449 --> 01:26:43.649
I don't go out to you.
01:26:44.609 --> 01:26:52.289
And that's you know, now we all it's it's pretty simple, but it won't at some point in time it wasn't.
01:26:52.449 --> 01:26:56.449
So I did that for about seven years until it sold.
01:26:56.529 --> 01:26:57.809
They sold the mercantile.
01:26:58.130 --> 01:26:58.449
Yes.
01:26:58.769 --> 01:27:08.130
And then the chamber of commerce thing for two and a half, three years, and then to Naranda recruited me, and I was there eleven years.
01:27:08.369 --> 01:27:09.329
I didn't realize that.
01:27:09.569 --> 01:27:11.889
And then where were you?
01:27:12.289 --> 01:27:14.050
You I know you I you recall this.
01:27:14.130 --> 01:27:14.930
We've talked about it before.
01:27:15.090 --> 01:27:17.170
Kyle Alcorn and I worked.
01:27:17.489 --> 01:27:21.809
Tourism we did the tourism office at the outlet mall.
01:27:22.050 --> 01:27:24.849
That would have been early nineties.
01:27:25.170 --> 01:27:25.970
Early nineties, yeah.
01:27:26.210 --> 01:27:27.649
That's when Outlet Mall was built right up.
01:27:27.970 --> 01:27:28.449
Yeah, yeah.
01:27:28.689 --> 01:27:28.849
Yeah.
01:27:29.010 --> 01:27:31.809
And we did a got a grant or something.
01:27:31.889 --> 01:27:32.529
I I don't know.
01:27:32.609 --> 01:27:33.409
I don't remember how that was.
01:27:33.889 --> 01:27:37.809
You ran the tour you're Kyle and I worked, we had the tourism office.
01:27:37.889 --> 01:27:47.889
He would work, we were open ten hours or whatever it was, and I'd take five and he'd take five, and we would, you know, I'd work in the morning for a while and I'd work in the afternoon, and we'd go back and forth working there.
01:27:48.130 --> 01:27:53.010
And then so that would have been I would have been in college.
01:27:53.250 --> 01:27:53.489
Yeah.
01:27:53.729 --> 01:27:54.849
Had to have been in college.
01:27:55.170 --> 01:27:58.289
You had to come you had to come to me get your check signs.
01:27:58.449 --> 01:27:58.689
I did.
01:27:59.170 --> 01:28:01.250
I had to go to Steve and pick up our check.
01:28:01.889 --> 01:28:02.689
That's exactly right.
01:28:02.930 --> 01:28:04.210
But you guys were good with people.
01:28:04.609 --> 01:28:06.289
We had we we had fun doing that.
01:28:06.449 --> 01:28:11.250
We had to people they would come by there and we had information about the area.
01:28:11.409 --> 01:28:11.649
Yeah.
01:28:11.809 --> 01:28:13.090
The river heritage.
01:28:13.329 --> 01:28:13.489
Yeah.
01:28:13.649 --> 01:28:13.970
Tourism.
01:28:14.369 --> 01:28:15.649
Tourism was what it was called.
01:28:16.050 --> 01:28:16.849
I think I remember that.
01:28:17.010 --> 01:28:17.329
Yeah.
01:28:17.489 --> 01:28:27.649
And we would ask them because we went to Kyle and I went we went down and worked with the ladies at in Marston at their that Yes.
01:28:29.170 --> 01:28:29.809
The welcome center.
01:28:29.889 --> 01:28:30.210
Yeah.
01:28:30.369 --> 01:28:36.210
We went down there and worked for a little while and saw kind of how they did things, and we would Jan Farenberg.
01:28:36.449 --> 01:28:36.769
Yes.
01:28:36.930 --> 01:28:37.250
Yep.
01:28:37.409 --> 01:28:37.970
Yes.
01:28:38.289 --> 01:28:42.289
And we would track we would do what they did.
01:28:42.369 --> 01:28:44.849
And they would ask where they're from and how many are in their party.
01:28:44.930 --> 01:28:46.369
And we would track all this stuff.
01:28:46.529 --> 01:28:51.889
We'd have all these statistics and stuff from where they were and who was you know how far away and what they were doing in the area.
01:28:51.970 --> 01:28:53.250
And people would tell you.
01:28:53.409 --> 01:28:55.970
Not everybody, but most people would say, We're from St.
01:28:56.130 --> 01:28:57.569
Paul, Minnesota, or whatever.
01:28:57.729 --> 01:28:57.970
Right.
01:28:58.130 --> 01:28:59.970
And there's five in our party or whatever.
01:29:00.050 --> 01:29:02.289
So yeah, and it and the stores were packed, man.
01:29:02.849 --> 01:29:05.170
They were before online sales.
01:29:05.409 --> 01:29:05.809
Yes.
01:29:06.050 --> 01:29:08.529
And it was Phil Boyer built those.
01:29:08.609 --> 01:29:09.569
They were built great.
01:29:09.649 --> 01:29:09.889
Yes.
01:29:10.210 --> 01:29:11.250
Anytime Boyer built them.
01:29:11.649 --> 01:29:12.930
Something, it's not going anywhere.
01:29:13.170 --> 01:29:13.489
Right.
01:29:13.729 --> 01:29:18.689
And it was the place to be, and then it got phased out, you know.
01:29:18.930 --> 01:29:23.010
It still has some use, but it it's just the way it is.
01:29:23.250 --> 01:29:29.809
What what worries me about the future is Amazon I'm not gonna say anything bad about 'em.
01:29:30.130 --> 01:29:36.930
There's nothing bad to be said, except what local baseball team have they ever sponsored.
01:29:37.409 --> 01:29:39.889
That's a that's a great question, Steve.
01:29:40.050 --> 01:29:41.090
I I agree with you.
01:29:41.329 --> 01:29:42.050
I agree with you.
01:29:42.449 --> 01:29:51.489
There's it's you know, uh you see this uh as you get older, but they say the more things change, the more they stay the same.
01:29:51.649 --> 01:29:52.210
Right.
01:29:52.930 --> 01:30:04.609
I remember as a kid ordering from JC Pennies or looking or or Sears, looking through the big that's a that's a company that somebody needs to do a study on like with Sears.
01:30:05.809 --> 01:30:07.809
Because they should have been the they should have been Amazon.
01:30:08.050 --> 01:30:08.289
Yes.
01:30:08.529 --> 01:30:10.609
They were they were Amazon at that time.
01:30:10.930 --> 01:30:15.250
But I mean they didn't carry but but you I don't recall this.
01:30:15.329 --> 01:30:29.569
I I I don't rem I don't recall this specific part, but I remember in really young and my mom there being a guy that would come around once a week or every other week uh selling vacuum cleaners and vacuum cleaner parts.
01:30:29.889 --> 01:30:39.889
We had a Kirby and mom would buy bags and belts and the beater bar, whatever it's called, and the brush.
01:30:40.210 --> 01:30:42.769
She would buy those and they would go door to door.
01:30:42.849 --> 01:30:43.170
Yeah.
01:30:43.329 --> 01:30:50.130
Well, I I I wasn't alive at this specific time, but I've seen videos and my parents talk about it.
01:30:50.289 --> 01:30:51.729
The milkman would come, right?
01:30:52.210 --> 01:30:53.729
Well, what's Walmart doing now?
01:30:54.050 --> 01:30:55.329
They're delivering your groceries.
01:30:55.569 --> 01:30:55.729
Sure.
01:30:56.050 --> 01:30:57.010
They are schwans.
01:30:57.409 --> 01:30:58.050
Schwans?
01:30:58.210 --> 01:30:58.369
Yeah.
01:30:58.689 --> 01:31:02.689
The the grocery stores used to deliver to these, I think all these.
01:31:03.170 --> 01:31:03.889
Yes, they do it.
01:31:03.970 --> 01:31:04.609
That's right.
01:31:04.849 --> 01:31:08.289
And so again, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
01:31:08.369 --> 01:31:14.210
We're just doing things that I wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me before too long we started having full service gas stations again.
01:31:14.529 --> 01:31:18.289
Yeah, no, that's an idea that could work when gas goes down.
01:31:19.090 --> 01:31:21.489
It's it's gonna be hard to add a premium on there for that.
01:31:21.970 --> 01:31:28.449
I did I did decide, and nothing against the company that owns it, but I'm not interested in DoorDash.
01:31:28.849 --> 01:31:35.010
Especially they a guy get got arrested, they had a nude DoorDasher trying to deliver.
01:31:35.489 --> 01:31:37.809
I would have I'd I think most people would have an issue with that.
01:31:38.130 --> 01:31:41.649
And then the other part is do I really want them casing my house.
01:31:41.970 --> 01:31:43.569
Well, there's there's some truth to that.
01:31:43.970 --> 01:31:45.649
So, but some people like it.
01:31:45.729 --> 01:31:48.689
You know, it's convenient and uh it's just change.
01:31:49.010 --> 01:31:53.889
As you get older, my good friend Lloyd Smith tells me we're curmudgeons.
01:31:54.130 --> 01:31:55.090
So we're you know what?
01:31:55.170 --> 01:31:59.569
That's another guy we need to get on what some stories that guy can tell.
01:31:59.970 --> 01:32:04.769
He he changed the the landscape of he and uh the Emersons.
01:32:04.930 --> 01:32:05.010
Yes.
01:32:05.329 --> 01:32:09.489
The entire landscape, political landscape of the southeast Missouri.
01:32:10.050 --> 01:32:10.449
Agreed.
01:32:10.769 --> 01:32:12.529
It took a talent to do that.
01:32:12.689 --> 01:32:13.649
It took a lot of effort.
01:32:13.970 --> 01:32:15.489
I think very, very highly of Mr.
01:32:15.569 --> 01:32:15.809
Lloyd.
01:32:16.050 --> 01:32:16.369
Oh, yeah.
01:32:17.329 --> 01:32:21.649
Of course, I was gonna say, I think even more highly of Miss Marless because she's put up with him for so long.
01:32:21.889 --> 01:32:22.369
That's right.
01:32:22.529 --> 01:32:23.889
We agree on that, man.
01:32:25.569 --> 01:32:27.250
He is he is fantastic.
01:32:27.409 --> 01:32:27.649
Oh, yeah.
01:32:27.889 --> 01:32:29.809
I think I think he's he's top notch.
01:32:30.050 --> 01:32:30.609
He's a loyal friend.
01:32:30.849 --> 01:32:31.250
Yes, yeah.
01:32:31.329 --> 01:32:32.849
And old East Prairie boy, too, right?
01:32:33.170 --> 01:32:34.449
Lower East Prairie.
01:32:35.010 --> 01:32:35.970
Lower East Prairie.
01:32:36.210 --> 01:32:36.369
Yeah.
01:32:37.090 --> 01:32:39.090
Man, that's that's almost new matter county now.
01:32:39.329 --> 01:32:39.649
Yeah.
01:32:39.970 --> 01:32:41.489
Well, they're not sure where it is.
01:32:41.569 --> 01:32:43.649
It's out way out in the days.
01:32:44.609 --> 01:32:47.010
It's 20 miles to Dorina Ferry.
01:32:47.090 --> 01:32:47.970
You can get lost out there.
01:32:48.130 --> 01:32:48.689
Oh, there's no doubt.
01:32:48.849 --> 01:32:51.010
I'm from Mississippi County, so there's no doubt.
01:32:51.090 --> 01:32:53.170
We well, we we let him in here.
01:32:53.329 --> 01:32:56.769
My my sister snuck him in the back door because he's from Mississippi County.
01:32:57.090 --> 01:32:57.729
Here's what I thought.
01:32:57.809 --> 01:33:06.769
You got all these series, you know, the Marshalls and all this Mississippi County as a series show or for television.
01:33:07.489 --> 01:33:09.329
Just the stories from Mississippi County.
01:33:09.569 --> 01:33:12.369
I think there in New Madrid County could have some stories too.
01:33:12.689 --> 01:33:13.569
I agree with you.
01:33:14.130 --> 01:33:22.210
You know, the Boot Hill counties are like the the the stories you're about to see are true.
01:33:24.930 --> 01:33:25.649
Like Florida Man.
01:33:25.889 --> 01:33:25.970
Yeah.
01:33:26.210 --> 01:33:27.010
Protect the innocent.
01:33:27.409 --> 01:33:28.930
Protect the innocent, yeah.
01:33:31.809 --> 01:33:36.609
So after you you were Chamber, Naranda.
01:33:37.729 --> 01:33:39.090
Went back into banking.
01:33:39.170 --> 01:33:40.369
I did some consulting.
01:33:40.609 --> 01:33:40.930
Okay.
01:33:41.090 --> 01:33:50.050
There's three bankers that I've worked with that I consider my friends and that I learned a ton from.
01:33:50.449 --> 01:33:54.130
Rick Adams, Gordon Waller, Steve Milling.
01:33:54.369 --> 01:33:54.609
Yep.
01:33:54.769 --> 01:33:54.930
Yep.
01:33:55.649 --> 01:33:56.849
We we all work together.
01:33:57.409 --> 01:33:58.930
And you know what's funny you say that.
01:33:59.090 --> 01:34:01.409
Look at the banking tree that's came from Rick Adams.
01:34:01.649 --> 01:34:02.289
Oh, I know.
01:34:02.369 --> 01:34:05.010
Yeah, it's his designs all over town.
01:34:05.250 --> 01:34:05.569
Yes.
01:34:06.369 --> 01:34:16.130
And the buildings, and then Gordon, who's I didn't even talk about we should we didn't I didn't even mention that when he was on here, but yeah, look at the And Gordon originally from Malden.
01:34:16.369 --> 01:34:16.849
Yes, he is.
01:34:17.090 --> 01:34:22.289
He was in the ninth grade when I was no, I he was a senior when I was a freshman.
01:34:22.529 --> 01:34:26.369
He had a a Mustang convertible and I had a bicycle.
01:34:27.809 --> 01:34:30.689
He had a little cooler mode of transportation, sounds like to me.
01:34:30.930 --> 01:34:36.769
And then uh Steve Millington, of course, who worked with uh Gordon and Rick and I there.
01:34:37.250 --> 01:34:40.289
And then he came from a banking family, bank advanced.
01:34:40.449 --> 01:34:40.930
Yes, you know.
01:34:41.250 --> 01:34:41.569
Correct.
01:34:41.809 --> 01:34:46.210
I think uh you say, Steve, I think you were born with a banker's suit on.
01:34:46.849 --> 01:34:50.130
And uh he just had he was just good at it.
01:34:50.289 --> 01:34:51.649
Yes, he was a good man.
01:34:51.889 --> 01:34:52.210
Agreed.
01:34:52.289 --> 01:34:55.409
And well, Jeff Sutton worked there for you guys for a while.
01:34:55.489 --> 01:34:55.569
Yeah.
01:34:55.809 --> 01:34:57.809
I saw Jeff recently looks good.
01:34:58.769 --> 01:35:01.489
Uh and he's back and that's great, doing good.
01:35:01.809 --> 01:35:04.289
And uh you make you make friends, you know.
01:35:04.369 --> 01:35:05.409
You don't of course.
01:35:05.970 --> 01:35:06.449
Of course.
01:35:06.609 --> 01:35:10.689
We're all in the same industry, but it's not it's not a room for all of them.
01:35:11.010 --> 01:35:11.970
That's that's exactly right.
01:35:12.050 --> 01:35:13.250
There's enough healthy.
01:35:13.329 --> 01:35:13.489
Yes.
01:35:13.649 --> 01:35:17.970
If you come in a town this size and you go, well, we got two banks, that's not good.
01:35:18.210 --> 01:35:18.529
Right.
01:35:18.689 --> 01:35:19.010
Right.
01:35:19.170 --> 01:35:19.569
Agreed.
01:35:20.289 --> 01:35:23.090
You know, it's that money flows and turns over.
01:35:23.889 --> 01:35:25.489
Oh I agree with you, Steve.
01:35:25.970 --> 01:35:29.970
And so all right, then you it's hard to keep up with me.
01:35:30.529 --> 01:35:31.809
No, no, listen, it's okay.
01:35:31.970 --> 01:35:34.369
We can we can chase we can chase rabbits.
01:35:35.649 --> 01:35:38.769
Chamber, Miranda, consulting.
01:35:39.090 --> 01:35:40.369
Where'd you go first?
01:35:41.569 --> 01:35:42.849
Uh to first state banking trust.
01:35:43.010 --> 01:35:43.889
First state banking trust.
01:35:44.050 --> 01:35:44.529
Okay, that's right.
01:35:44.849 --> 01:35:45.170
That's right.
01:35:45.649 --> 01:35:47.170
And then I was there four years.
01:35:47.329 --> 01:35:47.569
Yep.
01:35:47.729 --> 01:35:49.970
I'm kind of like a one-term president.
01:35:51.409 --> 01:35:56.930
And then uh MRV, a guy who used to be in the market here, Doug Watson.
01:35:57.090 --> 01:35:57.970
Doug Watson, yeah.
01:35:58.050 --> 01:35:58.930
I know Douglas.
01:35:59.090 --> 01:36:01.170
They were doing a startup bank in Cape.
01:36:01.409 --> 01:36:05.250
And I thought uh at the time it was a pretty good opportunity.
01:36:05.489 --> 01:36:05.889
Right.
01:36:06.130 --> 01:36:07.889
I was there four years.
01:36:08.449 --> 01:36:13.409
And we yeah, one one term of the administration.
01:36:14.529 --> 01:36:20.449
And then uh then uh we opened the branch here and I retired for a year.
01:36:20.529 --> 01:36:21.409
I actually retired.
01:36:21.649 --> 01:36:27.090
I don't know that I knew that in 2017, and like a bad penny just turned up again.
01:36:27.489 --> 01:36:31.970
Well, Kevin Esner from Kelso worked for Capital Bank.
01:36:32.130 --> 01:36:33.649
Yeah, fine young man.
01:36:33.809 --> 01:36:37.170
He came down to to run the MRV bank.
01:36:37.569 --> 01:36:38.769
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:36:39.090 --> 01:36:44.369
And he he had had cancer and it came back and he passed at 52.
01:36:44.529 --> 01:36:45.010
Oh no.
01:36:45.329 --> 01:36:46.930
And he's a tremendous guy.
01:36:47.090 --> 01:36:47.329
Yeah.
01:36:47.489 --> 01:36:50.689
The Esners in Kelso, you know, going to high school in Scott City.
01:36:50.769 --> 01:36:51.010
Yeah.
01:36:51.170 --> 01:36:52.449
Those folks in Kelso.
01:36:53.090 --> 01:36:55.569
Was he was he related to I call him Robert?
01:36:55.649 --> 01:36:57.170
I think he goes by his brother.
01:36:57.409 --> 01:36:58.210
Oh, no kidding.
01:36:58.449 --> 01:37:02.050
What seven Esners and they all live within three miles of each other.
01:37:02.369 --> 01:37:02.449
Really?
01:37:02.609 --> 01:37:04.369
Well, I su I sure think a lot of Robert Esners.
01:37:04.609 --> 01:37:05.010
Oh, yeah.
01:37:05.090 --> 01:37:05.889
They're all good people.
01:37:06.130 --> 01:37:06.529
Yes.
01:37:06.769 --> 01:37:37.569
And so Doug was trying to find somebody to to run it and was it he couldn't find anybody, and I was trying to think, and I had talked uh some some other banks had called and showed interest, but I remember talking to Steve Millington, that he was looking for a place for an ATM and when got the opportunity here because we became a tenant of that, but we also that whole strip center we were involved in.
01:37:37.729 --> 01:37:42.130
So it just made sense and uh it worked out pretty good.
01:37:42.369 --> 01:37:42.689
Yeah.
01:37:42.930 --> 01:37:49.809
But uh I've not been I've been in the what the heck's the what's the what's it called now?
01:37:49.970 --> 01:37:50.609
Clarity?
01:37:50.849 --> 01:37:54.769
That it was uh it's got a different name now.
01:37:54.930 --> 01:37:59.889
Those guys have bought and sold and built and they know what they're doing.
01:38:00.130 --> 01:38:01.329
Oh no, no, for sure.
01:38:01.569 --> 01:38:04.769
They've really they're I think socket, maybe that is.
01:38:05.010 --> 01:38:05.489
It is socket.
01:38:05.649 --> 01:38:07.250
I just matter of fact, I've seen the sign on them.
01:38:07.489 --> 01:38:11.970
Yeah, it's but they're with Gleason and E B and Keith Davidson.
01:38:12.210 --> 01:38:13.170
Keith Davidson, yeah, yep.
01:38:13.649 --> 01:38:14.130
Socket fiber.
01:38:14.609 --> 01:38:15.250
That's I think that's right.
01:38:15.489 --> 01:38:17.170
And those guys know what they're doing.
01:38:17.489 --> 01:38:17.889
Absolutely.
01:38:18.130 --> 01:38:32.849
And they're sought sought after for smaller towns and upgrading their services and then yeah, it's it's they really that's another example of entrepreneurs that we have here in the just phenomenal.
01:38:33.409 --> 01:38:37.250
You know, I think Rick tell me, did we mention this?
01:38:37.569 --> 01:38:41.329
I think Rick and maybe Steve Matthews has mentioned this before.
01:38:41.649 --> 01:38:52.210
Didn't the Haas family didn't they start the the first coin operated like the little pony things that you ride?
01:38:52.449 --> 01:38:53.889
Weren't they right down here at Haas?
01:38:54.289 --> 01:38:55.250
Haas Machine Shop?
01:38:55.329 --> 01:38:56.130
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
01:38:56.369 --> 01:38:58.130
I think that's like the first one in the country.
01:38:58.609 --> 01:39:00.050
It goes back a long way.
01:39:00.369 --> 01:39:00.529
Yeah.
01:39:00.609 --> 01:39:00.769
Yeah.
01:39:00.930 --> 01:39:01.090
Yeah.
01:39:01.329 --> 01:39:02.210
I don't know if that was Mr.
01:39:02.289 --> 01:39:03.170
Craig or M Mr.
01:39:03.250 --> 01:39:03.809
Craig's dad.
01:39:04.130 --> 01:39:04.529
Dad, I think.
01:39:04.689 --> 01:39:05.010
Yeah, Mr.
01:39:05.329 --> 01:39:05.809
And then Mr.
01:39:05.889 --> 01:39:06.689
David's dad.
01:39:06.930 --> 01:39:07.090
Yeah.
01:39:07.250 --> 01:39:07.809
I think yeah.
01:39:08.050 --> 01:39:09.250
Yeah, he was a fine gentleman.
01:39:09.329 --> 01:39:09.489
Yeah.
01:39:10.050 --> 01:39:10.930
I didn't I didn't know him.
01:39:11.250 --> 01:39:12.930
They have a sister named Kate, too.
01:39:13.010 --> 01:39:13.970
She lives here now.
01:39:14.130 --> 01:39:14.289
Okay.
01:39:14.529 --> 01:39:15.970
She's in Colorado for many years.
01:39:16.130 --> 01:39:16.609
So Okay.
01:39:16.769 --> 01:39:17.970
Well, I sure think a lot of Mr.
01:39:18.050 --> 01:39:18.930
Craig, I can tell you.
01:39:19.170 --> 01:39:19.649
Oh yeah.
01:39:19.809 --> 01:39:22.609
There's there's so many good people agreed here.
01:39:23.329 --> 01:39:23.569
Agreed.
01:39:23.729 --> 01:39:24.210
You know, I'm not sure.
01:39:25.010 --> 01:39:25.729
Of course, Miss Penny.
01:39:25.889 --> 01:39:26.849
I can't leave Miss Penny out.
01:39:27.090 --> 01:39:29.569
Oh yeah, no, Miss Penny's the boss lady.
01:39:29.889 --> 01:39:30.529
There's no doubt.
01:39:30.689 --> 01:39:30.930
Yeah.
01:39:31.090 --> 01:39:31.569
No doubt.
01:39:31.889 --> 01:39:34.449
And you know, I wasn't from here.
01:39:34.769 --> 01:39:35.170
Right.
01:39:35.329 --> 01:39:38.369
But you've you've you're just about from here now.
01:39:38.689 --> 01:39:43.090
I oh yeah, I am now, but marrying that pretty girl didn't hurt.
01:39:43.489 --> 01:39:43.809
No.
01:39:44.050 --> 01:39:45.970
That bought you some street cred, Steve.
01:39:46.210 --> 01:39:57.090
Well, it's like I used to go to reunions because she was a class of 67, two years older, but she looks 10 years or 20 years younger.
01:39:57.409 --> 01:40:01.170
These guys would come up to me and they'd go, How'd you get hurt?
01:40:02.210 --> 01:40:03.170
I don't know.
01:40:04.449 --> 01:40:05.970
I have a cool radio voice.
01:40:06.130 --> 01:40:07.409
That's the only thing I can think of.
01:40:07.729 --> 01:40:08.609
I don't know.
01:40:08.849 --> 01:40:11.889
That's like any other man should know, provide security.
01:40:12.050 --> 01:40:14.130
If you women see security in men.
01:40:14.449 --> 01:40:15.970
Yeah, a radio guy.
01:40:16.130 --> 01:40:16.369
Yeah.
01:40:16.689 --> 01:40:17.970
But but I mean, I'm just saying though.
01:40:18.130 --> 01:40:23.250
I mean, like that I mean, I'm I'm telling you, security is the number one thing that most women are looking for.
01:40:23.489 --> 01:40:24.050
Yeah, that's true.
01:40:24.210 --> 01:40:26.050
They've got that for that's true.
01:40:26.289 --> 01:40:28.849
Their mothering instinct and families and all that.
01:40:29.010 --> 01:40:30.769
That's all all so important.
01:40:30.930 --> 01:40:34.769
But you know, too, right now, we have a unique opportunity.
01:40:34.930 --> 01:40:46.529
Would you rather live in a crowded, crazy crazy, a big city, especially a blue state one.
01:40:48.289 --> 01:40:49.489
Getting political again.
01:40:50.529 --> 01:40:56.689
But would you rather fight that traffic, the crime and all that, or live in a small town?
01:40:56.930 --> 01:40:58.849
Not that we not that we don't have crime.
01:40:58.930 --> 01:40:59.250
We do.
01:40:59.489 --> 01:40:59.809
Right.
01:40:59.970 --> 01:41:00.210
Right.
01:41:00.529 --> 01:41:05.409
But you know, we I'm gonna tell y'all what though, flock cameras and and the the well, that's a big deal.
01:41:05.729 --> 01:41:07.170
Spot the shot spotter.
01:41:07.250 --> 01:41:07.569
Yeah.
01:41:07.729 --> 01:41:10.050
That's changed crime throughout the United States.
01:41:10.369 --> 01:41:10.689
It has.
01:41:11.090 --> 01:41:13.010
Yeah, those shot spotters are a big deal for us.
01:41:13.409 --> 01:41:13.889
Yeah, sure.
01:41:14.210 --> 01:41:15.250
It's a DPS.
01:41:15.729 --> 01:41:16.050
You're right.
01:41:16.529 --> 01:41:23.729
I mean, like which my sister and I live in, they live just outside of Decatur, Alabama.
01:41:24.130 --> 01:41:25.809
And like Huntsville is growing.
01:41:26.930 --> 01:41:31.329
It's basically Decatur and Huntsville, and they live in a little town called Hartzell.
01:41:31.569 --> 01:41:36.210
And when she was driving, she worked in Decatur and Huntsville at one time.
01:41:36.449 --> 01:41:39.970
Like it was it was like every day she was complaining about sitting in traffic.
01:41:40.130 --> 01:41:40.609
You know what I mean?
01:41:40.930 --> 01:41:53.889
And it was it was and you know, I mean it it's well Aaron's brother lives in Spring Hill, Tennessee, south uh just south of Nashville, and it looks like in a good way it's exploded.
01:41:54.050 --> 01:41:54.369
Yeah.
01:41:54.609 --> 01:41:57.889
It's I mean, they have absolutely outgrown their infrastructure.
01:41:58.050 --> 01:42:03.409
I mean, they've you've got two-lane roads and you've got there's no telling the traffic count they have there.
01:42:03.489 --> 01:42:05.569
And you won't talk about taking forever to get somewhere.
01:42:05.889 --> 01:42:08.369
Yeah, north, southeast, west of Nashville.
01:42:08.689 --> 01:42:09.090
Yes.
01:42:09.170 --> 01:42:09.329
Yes.
01:42:09.729 --> 01:42:11.970
North going into Kentucky, it's exploding.
01:42:12.130 --> 01:42:12.449
Yes.
01:42:13.090 --> 01:42:26.289
You know, it's it's uh a great uh Dolly Parton showing her values fit pretty well with with folks and uh you know, Nashville's they've got a problem with too much growth.
01:42:26.689 --> 01:42:28.689
They do, they do, you know if that's possible.
01:42:28.930 --> 01:42:30.689
I think we talked about this in Mike last week.
01:42:30.769 --> 01:42:35.250
I actually I don't want to live there, but Aaron and I, we actually enjoy Chicago.
01:42:35.409 --> 01:42:36.930
I think it's a beautiful town.
01:42:37.170 --> 01:42:37.649
Oh, it is.
01:42:37.889 --> 01:42:41.970
We enjoy it's we can get on a plane and we can be there in an hour, go from Cape.
01:42:42.130 --> 01:42:42.449
Yeah.
01:42:42.609 --> 01:42:44.930
We we we think it's a beautiful town.
01:42:45.409 --> 01:42:47.970
But you don't go strolling on the south side at night.
01:42:48.130 --> 01:42:49.569
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:42:49.809 --> 01:42:52.050
Or during the day, you know the good places to go.
01:42:52.369 --> 01:42:55.170
Yeah, we're we we try to stay on the beaten path most of the time.
01:42:55.409 --> 01:42:55.569
Yeah.
01:42:55.729 --> 01:42:58.369
Yeah, we don't we don't stray far from there, but it's a beautiful city.
01:42:58.689 --> 01:42:59.409
With a lake and there.
01:42:59.889 --> 01:43:01.090
Yes, yeah, it's beautiful.
01:43:01.170 --> 01:43:02.210
We we think about it.
01:43:02.289 --> 01:43:04.449
And the they have a major league baseball team there?
01:43:05.010 --> 01:43:08.130
Well, we don't the the the White Sox, is that what you're talking about?
01:43:08.369 --> 01:43:08.930
Yeah, right.
01:43:09.889 --> 01:43:11.329
We don't talk about much the other way.
01:43:11.569 --> 01:43:12.689
The Gubs are good this year.
01:43:12.930 --> 01:43:13.649
They are good.
01:43:14.050 --> 01:43:19.170
I just keep wondering when the Cardinals are gonna stop playing experimental baseball.
01:43:19.489 --> 01:43:20.050
Oh my gosh.
01:43:20.289 --> 01:43:21.010
We're about three years away.
01:43:21.170 --> 01:43:22.210
I was gonna say we're a couple of years ago.
01:43:22.369 --> 01:43:23.170
We're about three years away.
01:43:23.329 --> 01:43:24.369
Yeah, we're a couple years.
01:43:24.689 --> 01:43:31.010
But you know, what they used to trade for a couple of players that would make the difference.
01:43:31.090 --> 01:43:31.250
Yeah.
01:43:31.409 --> 01:43:33.250
Like the 06 World Series team.
01:43:33.409 --> 01:43:33.809
Yep.
01:43:34.130 --> 01:43:35.649
I remember this back in 85.
01:43:35.729 --> 01:43:37.729
You remember they picked up Cesar Sedano.
01:43:37.889 --> 01:43:38.130
Yeah.
01:43:38.930 --> 01:43:41.409
From the Astros, was a huge pickup.
01:43:41.649 --> 01:43:45.250
It was right at the trade deadline, and they said they you know they rented him.
01:43:45.329 --> 01:43:46.289
I think that's what they call it.
01:43:46.369 --> 01:43:50.210
If you just keep them to they you rent them for that year, but he was a huge pickup.
01:43:50.609 --> 01:43:54.769
But the 06 World Series, David X9, most valuable player.
01:43:54.849 --> 01:43:55.090
Yep.
01:43:55.569 --> 01:44:01.090
Didn't they pick up they had Scott Rowland, Matt Holiday, Jimmy Edmonds, center field.
01:44:01.409 --> 01:44:02.369
Who was the right fielder?
01:44:02.529 --> 01:44:03.250
Larry Walker.
01:44:03.489 --> 01:44:04.769
Larry Walker from Colorado.
01:44:05.170 --> 01:44:05.409
Yes.
01:44:05.569 --> 01:44:08.050
And later was it Bergman from the Astros?
01:44:08.609 --> 01:44:09.329
Oh, Lance Bergman.
01:44:09.489 --> 01:44:10.130
Yeah, Bergman.
01:44:11.010 --> 01:44:11.329
Berkman.
01:44:11.569 --> 01:44:11.809
Burton.
01:44:12.130 --> 01:44:12.689
Berkman.
01:44:13.090 --> 01:44:13.489
Thank you.
01:44:13.649 --> 01:44:14.050
Yes.
01:44:14.369 --> 01:44:17.729
And you look at that 2006 and 2011.
01:44:17.809 --> 01:44:19.250
That wasn't an accident they had.
01:44:19.729 --> 01:44:19.970
Nope.
01:44:20.289 --> 01:44:21.649
They had uh, I don't know.
01:44:21.809 --> 01:44:25.090
To me, they've got some good young players, but you've got to have some established.
01:44:25.569 --> 01:44:30.529
Well, I th but I think they've got to develop the farm system so that they can pick up players like that, though.
01:44:30.609 --> 01:44:30.689
Yeah.
01:44:30.849 --> 01:44:35.250
I mean, like they why go why go blow everything you can when you know you can't win it.
01:44:35.329 --> 01:44:35.729
You know what I mean?
01:44:35.809 --> 01:44:38.369
Like, we we went from no farm system to now.
01:44:38.449 --> 01:44:39.970
This time bloom is there.
01:44:40.050 --> 01:44:40.210
Yeah.
01:44:40.369 --> 01:44:42.289
We've got one of the top farm systems now in the city.
01:44:42.449 --> 01:44:43.649
Yeah, that's what that's what they're saying.
01:44:44.449 --> 01:44:45.569
Yeah, one of the top farm systems.
01:44:45.970 --> 01:44:48.289
Because he's going after pitching, he keeps clicking pitching.
01:44:48.369 --> 01:44:53.090
I mean, like he we went from I can talk forever about cardinal baseball.
01:44:53.250 --> 01:44:58.130
I'm with you, but and so I and so let's roll back here.
01:44:58.210 --> 01:45:00.769
I know you're you're with First Midwest Bank now.
01:45:00.930 --> 01:45:02.289
Good fine folks, by the way.
01:45:02.529 --> 01:45:03.649
I know I know, yeah, sure.
01:45:03.729 --> 01:45:05.489
I know I know a lot of those guys.
01:45:05.729 --> 01:45:06.930
Of course, I know John Libel.
01:45:07.090 --> 01:45:08.449
I think he's terrific.
01:45:08.689 --> 01:45:09.569
He was on here a couple weeks ago.
01:45:09.889 --> 01:45:10.130
He was.
01:45:10.289 --> 01:45:12.369
John was on here a couple when we had the rodeo on.
01:45:12.609 --> 01:45:15.889
And he yeah, he was uh on KFS last night.
01:45:16.050 --> 01:45:17.010
I was just well, I was there.
01:45:17.090 --> 01:45:23.889
I went to the I wasn't on there, but I was in the back and he was talking about the expansion and the the new stage and all that stuff.
01:45:24.050 --> 01:45:30.609
It's pretty pretty special stuff that I I think that's gonna be I mean like it's gonna be big for the rodeo, but I think it's gonna be bigger for other things, too.
01:45:30.769 --> 01:45:33.090
Yeah, I mean yeah, it's got potential for other things.
01:45:33.409 --> 01:45:33.569
It does.
01:45:33.729 --> 01:45:34.769
I mean, like you talk about that.
01:45:34.849 --> 01:45:46.769
I mean, like I seen something a couple weeks ago where I was reading for Cape and the university, is like partnering to be able to do events at like Hawk Stadium, Show Me Center, and the the the river campus.
01:45:47.170 --> 01:45:48.289
River campus is beautiful.
01:45:48.529 --> 01:45:49.569
That's a beautiful facility.
01:45:49.809 --> 01:45:57.569
It is a beautiful like trying to you like be more partners in that than I mean, and I think we I think we do that around here too.
01:45:57.809 --> 01:46:05.649
I would it's funny you mentioned that and something we hadn't talked about yet, and we've talked about it on other with other guests, the partnership now.
01:46:05.809 --> 01:46:21.809
And I don't know what took us so long because I know there's been a whole lot of smarter people than than me and before me, and but the partnership we have now with the city and the school and the hospital and the business community to n I I think it's as as good as it's ever been.
01:46:22.130 --> 01:46:22.689
It's strong.
01:46:23.090 --> 01:46:23.409
It is.
01:46:23.809 --> 01:46:25.729
Everybody's pulling in the same direction.
01:46:26.050 --> 01:46:26.689
That's the key.
01:46:27.090 --> 01:46:33.649
And you know, personal agendas aside, I think for the most part, there's some things, you know.
01:46:34.210 --> 01:46:39.970
Actually, I I probably shouldn't say this, but in Cape they fight a whole lot more than we do here.
01:46:40.849 --> 01:46:41.729
I agree with you.
01:46:42.050 --> 01:46:44.050
When it comes to economic development, I agree.
01:46:44.130 --> 01:46:45.809
And I and it's a great town.
01:46:46.050 --> 01:46:47.250
It's Cape's a great town.
01:46:47.489 --> 01:46:49.489
And uh I know I'll be uh guard.
01:46:49.649 --> 01:46:50.849
He's I don't I don't know him.
01:46:51.010 --> 01:46:53.489
He's an enthusiastic guy, he'll be a good mayor.
01:46:53.649 --> 01:46:53.809
Okay.
01:46:54.289 --> 01:46:58.289
I think that's probably why the partnership type stuff they're talking about with the university.
01:46:58.609 --> 01:47:03.489
And then also a new a new university president, too, in the last couple of years.
01:47:04.050 --> 01:47:05.250
He's a he's a nice man.
01:47:05.489 --> 01:47:12.130
He's he's uh young enough, he's seasoned enough, he's got all the tools and he follows through.
01:47:12.369 --> 01:47:14.769
I met him with a Sykston native.
01:47:14.849 --> 01:47:18.769
Yeah, Miss Tracy, well, it's not Crow, Tracy Glenn, and Jeff Glenn.
01:47:19.090 --> 01:47:29.970
Jeff's from New Madrid, fine, very good friends of ours, and they wanted uh Aaron and I were at a basketball game and they wanted us to they he they know him and they introduced us to him.
01:47:30.130 --> 01:47:33.569
What I You don't want to get in a fight with the Glenn boys.
01:47:34.930 --> 01:47:36.769
No, no, they're big.
01:47:36.930 --> 01:47:41.809
Yeah, they're big and Doug they're good people, they're great people.
01:47:42.050 --> 01:47:42.769
I agree with you.
01:47:43.010 --> 01:47:46.930
But we've got you know, the thing, let's talk about Cape for a minute.
01:47:48.050 --> 01:47:52.609
Yeah, let's talk really bad about him because KFVS doesn't come down unless there's something bad going on down here.
01:47:52.769 --> 01:47:54.849
So I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
01:47:55.409 --> 01:47:58.050
If you're trying to get people to move here, okay.
01:47:59.250 --> 01:48:02.050
And I did a lot of that for Naranda.
01:48:02.689 --> 01:48:04.289
I managed the industrial park.
01:48:04.769 --> 01:48:09.090
I did their communications training and development.
01:48:09.729 --> 01:48:20.849
But a lot of times people moving to the area, engineer, manager to work at a place like the old Naranda, the wife has never been to small town.
01:48:21.090 --> 01:48:31.010
They're used to bigger towns, so they look here and they look in Cape and they think, well, I okay, she wants to live in Cape, I'll make the long drive back and forth.
01:48:31.329 --> 01:48:36.689
But a selling point for us should be Cape's only twenty-six miles.
01:48:37.170 --> 01:48:44.930
Yeah, you can live here, we got good schools, we got a lot of the amenities what we don't have, they probably do.
01:48:45.729 --> 01:48:48.609
And uh so they're only twenty-six miles away.
01:48:48.769 --> 01:48:49.090
Right.
01:48:49.329 --> 01:48:59.170
And that's the way I would I have sold the area because you can't just put it into one Sykeson or just Cape, they're looking at the region.
01:49:00.289 --> 01:49:09.170
And although formerly our market primarily is Scott, Mississippi and the Madrid County and Stoddard to a certain extent.
01:49:09.729 --> 01:49:10.930
That's our core market.
01:49:11.170 --> 01:49:11.409
Right.
01:49:11.649 --> 01:49:13.329
Their core market is there.
01:49:13.569 --> 01:49:18.849
But if you're gonna sell something, you look at Scott County's 38,000 people.
01:49:19.250 --> 01:49:24.609
I was gonna say 40, roughly, is what I think below 40, but close to 40.
01:49:24.930 --> 01:49:25.090
Yeah.
01:49:25.329 --> 01:49:26.210
Cape's 80.
01:49:26.529 --> 01:49:28.050
Oh, geez, I didn't know it was that big.
01:49:28.289 --> 01:49:30.529
So there's 120,000 people.
01:49:30.849 --> 01:49:34.210
Then you had uh Mississippi, Namad, Perry County.
01:49:34.369 --> 01:49:34.609
Yeah.
01:49:34.849 --> 01:49:37.090
Along that I-55 corridor.
01:49:37.250 --> 01:49:37.649
Uh-huh.
01:49:37.809 --> 01:49:42.130
And you're you're out in uh you're not out in the middle of nowhere.
01:49:42.449 --> 01:49:42.769
Right.
01:49:42.930 --> 01:49:43.250
Right.
01:49:43.489 --> 01:49:46.849
You were two hours from those arcs, or I mean two hours.
01:49:47.090 --> 01:49:49.090
Hour and ten minute drive to Ban Buren.
01:49:49.329 --> 01:49:49.729
Yep.
01:49:49.970 --> 01:49:51.889
You got the lakes in Kentucky.
01:49:51.970 --> 01:49:55.250
It's it's how you sell it and how you package it.
01:49:55.569 --> 01:49:57.569
Well, you're halfway between two major cities.
01:49:57.889 --> 01:49:58.369
Yeah, St.
01:49:58.449 --> 01:49:59.170
Louis and Memphis.
01:49:59.729 --> 01:50:06.369
So those are things you gotta look at when you're you're trying to sell the community and and tell the story.
01:50:06.449 --> 01:50:10.289
And once again, I think take a second look at Sykeston.
01:50:10.930 --> 01:50:12.609
That's a great, that's a great way to put that, Steve.
01:50:12.769 --> 01:50:14.289
I've not heard it like that.
01:50:14.369 --> 01:50:16.369
Should become our sl slogan.
01:50:16.849 --> 01:50:18.130
I'm gonna write that down.
01:50:19.090 --> 01:50:20.050
Compliment of Mr.
01:50:20.130 --> 01:50:21.090
Steve McFeeders.
01:50:21.409 --> 01:50:22.930
Take a second look.
01:50:23.250 --> 01:50:25.729
I've got the copyright on that, but no idea.
01:50:26.449 --> 01:50:27.170
No idea.
01:50:27.409 --> 01:50:27.569
Okay.
01:50:27.889 --> 01:50:29.090
Share it, use it for me.
01:50:29.409 --> 01:50:29.970
I love it.
01:50:30.210 --> 01:50:32.449
So we talked a little bit about this earlier.
01:50:32.609 --> 01:50:35.250
You mentioned we've done some good things.
01:50:35.409 --> 01:50:38.529
We bought the North Industrial Park.
01:50:38.609 --> 01:50:40.849
Now we've got a South Industrial Park in Carlisle.
01:50:40.930 --> 01:50:42.130
What a magnificent building.
01:50:42.449 --> 01:50:51.329
Yeah, that's a what what are some other things that you recall that we've done, had a lot I'd say maybe foresight and done some things that that were that have turned out well.
01:50:51.409 --> 01:50:52.449
What do you what do you think?
01:50:52.769 --> 01:50:55.569
Well, I think we've hit most of the list.
01:50:55.809 --> 01:51:04.849
I just think uh uh with a Y, the hospital, the uh higher education center, okay the schools.
01:51:05.090 --> 01:51:05.329
Yeah.
01:51:05.569 --> 01:51:07.329
I think we I think we've hit that.
01:51:07.489 --> 01:51:07.729
Okay.
01:51:08.050 --> 01:51:11.090
The thing we're that's missing is more places for.
01:51:11.809 --> 01:51:12.369
People to live.
01:51:12.609 --> 01:51:12.930
Yeah.
01:51:13.090 --> 01:51:13.489
Yeah.
01:51:13.889 --> 01:51:14.130
Here.
01:51:14.529 --> 01:51:16.609
So we can grow here.
01:51:16.849 --> 01:51:17.250
That's right.
01:51:17.489 --> 01:51:24.369
Now, if you look at the 63801 zip code, I think there's like 23,000.
01:51:24.689 --> 01:51:25.010
Right.
01:51:25.250 --> 01:51:25.569
Right.
01:51:25.889 --> 01:51:27.889
I think we need to use that.
01:51:28.210 --> 01:51:28.529
Agreed.
01:51:28.769 --> 01:51:31.409
There's 20, there's the little towns around us.
01:51:31.649 --> 01:51:36.609
It doesn't include all of them, but it may go to them, like Bertrand or Matthews.
01:51:36.689 --> 01:51:37.889
They have their own zip code.
01:51:38.130 --> 01:51:38.529
Right.
01:51:38.769 --> 01:51:45.489
But in that area, we've got 23,000 homes or zip code and in that area.
01:51:45.649 --> 01:51:52.930
We need to 20,000 is kind of a breaking point where a chain would come in or not.
01:51:53.250 --> 01:51:53.409
Yes.
01:51:53.569 --> 01:51:54.529
And so agreed.
01:51:54.930 --> 01:51:55.489
Just that.
01:51:55.649 --> 01:51:56.449
Take a second look.
01:51:57.329 --> 01:51:59.889
You know, I'm I of course I'm very biased.
01:51:59.970 --> 01:52:01.409
And so and I realize that.
01:52:01.569 --> 01:52:08.050
But we've got what Dyersburg has, and they've got Chick-fil-A and a Marshall's and TJ Maxx are one of them.
01:52:08.289 --> 01:52:09.809
And I'm thinking, well, wait a minute.
01:52:10.050 --> 01:52:11.729
Yeah, we're we're too close to Cape.
01:52:12.369 --> 01:52:12.609
I know.
01:52:12.689 --> 01:52:13.649
I think that's a lot of it.
01:52:14.050 --> 01:52:18.689
But I've I told the the guy that has the franchise in Cape, which is very successful.
01:52:19.329 --> 01:52:21.329
I said, I don't know what the rules are.
01:52:21.649 --> 01:52:28.449
You come down and put one on the south end of Sykston, it would the cars would be around it.
01:52:28.769 --> 01:52:34.449
Just like and one time he said, Yeah, I think about 10% of my business is from Sykston.
01:52:34.689 --> 01:52:35.569
Oh, there's no doubt.
01:52:35.729 --> 01:52:36.849
So I wouldn't surprise that.
01:52:37.170 --> 01:52:42.369
But you could you could pick it up and you have to to sell that because it's it's very possible.
01:52:42.689 --> 01:52:43.250
Agreed.
01:52:43.409 --> 01:52:43.970
Agreed.
01:52:44.130 --> 01:52:44.609
Agreed.
01:52:45.010 --> 01:52:46.689
I'm sure there's rules within Chick-fil-A.
01:52:47.010 --> 01:52:49.329
Yeah, I don't think I I don't I think you can only own one.
01:52:49.489 --> 01:52:50.609
I don't think they let you know.
01:52:50.689 --> 01:52:52.930
You know, like McDonald's, you can own you know a hundred of them.
01:52:53.329 --> 01:52:56.849
You own an area when you like Taco Bell and McDonald's, you own an area.
01:52:57.090 --> 01:52:57.250
Right.
01:52:57.489 --> 01:52:58.609
You franchise the whole area.
01:52:58.769 --> 01:52:59.170
Oh, okay.
01:52:59.329 --> 01:53:01.729
I don't know how that, but I think with Chick Chick-fil-A, and I think you can.
01:53:01.889 --> 01:53:05.569
In the subway, they'll sell you a franchise and sell somebody one across the street.
01:53:05.889 --> 01:53:13.889
There's I can't remember her name, but there's a lady from West Plains that has 28 McDonald's franchises.
01:53:14.130 --> 01:53:14.289
Yeah.
01:53:14.449 --> 01:53:15.809
Well, there's a guy in Cape that doesn't.
01:53:16.529 --> 01:53:22.529
And she he sold those at the but we need to get her over here sometime.
01:53:22.930 --> 01:53:31.329
I c I can't think of her name top of my head, but you know, her story grew up in a McDonald's franchise that her mom and dad had.
01:53:32.449 --> 01:53:38.050
She's like the single largest owner of franchises at McDonald's.
01:53:38.130 --> 01:53:39.889
And by the way, like that.
01:53:40.449 --> 01:53:40.930
I agree.
01:53:41.090 --> 01:53:42.849
And I'm going off on a tangent.
01:53:43.010 --> 01:53:46.289
Have you seen that movie about Ray Kroc?
01:53:46.529 --> 01:53:47.010
Oh, yeah.
01:53:47.250 --> 01:53:48.050
That's a great movie.
01:53:48.210 --> 01:53:53.010
Ray Croc was the kind of the I guess technically he wasn't the founder of McDonald's.
01:53:53.090 --> 01:53:56.930
There were some the brothers and it was kind of McDonald's was two brothers.
01:53:57.010 --> 01:53:57.250
Yeah.
01:53:57.649 --> 01:54:00.130
And he tried to sell them shake machines.
01:54:00.210 --> 01:54:01.090
Shake milkshake machines.
01:54:01.409 --> 01:54:03.170
They would do two at a time.
01:54:04.050 --> 01:54:06.289
And then he talked them into franchises.
01:54:06.930 --> 01:54:08.369
They weren't moving fast enough.
01:54:08.529 --> 01:54:09.329
He just took it from them.
01:54:09.569 --> 01:54:16.849
Yeah, I forget how it's it's a The Food That Made America or something like that on the Discovery Channel.
01:54:17.649 --> 01:54:18.449
There's a movie about it.
01:54:18.689 --> 01:54:19.649
I can't remember.
01:54:19.809 --> 01:54:21.090
Uh was Michael Keaton.
01:54:21.170 --> 01:54:22.210
Didn't he play Ray Crock?
01:54:22.289 --> 01:54:22.689
Is that right?
01:54:22.849 --> 01:54:23.489
I can't remember.
01:54:23.569 --> 01:54:24.210
I'd have to.
01:54:24.449 --> 01:54:25.250
I can't remember either.
01:54:25.809 --> 01:54:26.210
Seems right.
01:54:26.369 --> 01:54:26.930
Maybe not.
01:54:27.170 --> 01:54:35.569
But it was is a is a good movie and interesting how they he said, We're not a hamburger place, we're a real estate company.
01:54:35.729 --> 01:54:37.090
That's what they've shifted to.
01:54:37.170 --> 01:54:40.050
It was leasing the but anyway, I we're getting way off on that.
01:54:40.210 --> 01:54:40.369
Yeah.
01:54:40.529 --> 01:54:41.729
It was interesting.
01:54:42.529 --> 01:54:49.010
In 2024, you were given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the local chamber.
01:54:49.170 --> 01:54:50.529
Sykes, what do we call it?
01:54:50.689 --> 01:54:51.649
Sexton Regional Chamber.
01:54:52.769 --> 01:54:53.010
Uh-huh.
01:54:53.250 --> 01:54:58.769
What what what does that what does that encompass that you that you that you're aware of?
01:54:58.849 --> 01:55:02.449
I mean, you either old or oh that's part of it.
01:55:03.809 --> 01:55:06.050
I know I was I was very surprised.
01:55:06.930 --> 01:55:09.489
They do a good job with a couple of those that they surprise people with.
01:55:10.050 --> 01:55:21.889
And the idea that, you know, someone's done their part toward the growth, promotion of the area consistently over their lifetime.
01:55:22.449 --> 01:55:28.449
And uh I hope I have, and I can think of a lot of other people who deserved it more than me.
01:55:28.609 --> 01:55:29.489
I d didn't seek it.
01:55:29.649 --> 01:55:30.369
I had no idea.
01:55:30.609 --> 01:55:31.170
No, right.
01:55:31.409 --> 01:55:33.809
I was totally surprised by it.
01:55:33.889 --> 01:55:39.489
But it has to be somewhat well, humbling, of course, I'm sure.
01:55:39.889 --> 01:55:40.210
Oh, yeah.
01:55:40.609 --> 01:55:42.210
But but shocking.
01:55:42.449 --> 01:55:42.930
Yeah.
01:55:43.250 --> 01:55:49.090
But rewarding that and I know you weren't seeking it.
01:55:49.170 --> 01:55:49.970
I I I know that.
01:55:50.050 --> 01:55:51.489
I've known you for a long time.
01:55:51.729 --> 01:55:54.369
But it's rewarding that somebody else saw that too.
01:55:54.449 --> 01:55:54.609
Yeah.
01:55:54.849 --> 01:55:55.010
Right?
01:55:55.329 --> 01:55:56.769
Or a group of people or whatever.
01:55:57.090 --> 01:55:59.970
I guess I just can't shut my big trap.
01:56:00.449 --> 01:56:04.769
I I'm always promoting Sykeson.
01:56:04.930 --> 01:56:05.250
Uh-huh.
01:56:05.809 --> 01:56:14.210
And you know, it's it's been good to me, and I've had some opportunities and some platforms to say, hey, come take a look.
01:56:14.449 --> 01:56:14.769
Yeah.
01:56:15.250 --> 01:56:25.889
What what is there something particular that is it is it just because where you landed, or is there you know, we talked about this the other day on the phone.
01:56:26.050 --> 01:56:30.369
You know, we think Greg and Shannon Hollifield talk about how special our town is.
01:56:30.529 --> 01:56:30.769
Yeah.
01:56:30.930 --> 01:56:34.130
That they've they see it from not being here.
01:56:34.369 --> 01:56:34.769
Exactly.
01:56:35.010 --> 01:56:44.369
And sometimes we that have been here a long time kind of forget, and that's why I know it feels sometimes it feels like we're tilling the same ground again, but that's why we're telling this story.
01:56:44.529 --> 01:56:52.849
Is that what is that why you give because you think it's special or because it's home, or what what it Well, because of the opportunity here.
01:56:53.569 --> 01:57:02.449
And I was, I guess, over the years in my different positions, I was always for the community.
01:57:02.689 --> 01:57:02.930
Okay.
01:57:03.170 --> 01:57:04.449
I like the community.
01:57:04.930 --> 01:57:07.250
I think there are things we can improve on.
01:57:07.409 --> 01:57:12.210
I think there has been vast improvement since I first moved here.
01:57:12.449 --> 01:57:12.930
Totally agree.
01:57:13.090 --> 01:57:16.289
And there are always a group of people wanting to do that.
01:57:16.529 --> 01:57:26.769
And as I watched and as I got older, that group kept getting a little bigger and a little bigger to where you have a majority of people thinking that way.
01:57:26.849 --> 01:57:29.250
That's when things start to happen.
01:57:29.409 --> 01:57:29.569
Yeah.
01:57:29.809 --> 01:57:38.210
And I hope I was in that majority all along, in whatever position I was in, that'd say, hey, this is a great town.
01:57:38.689 --> 01:57:40.050
We've got wonderful people.
01:57:40.289 --> 01:57:41.729
You need to take a second look.
01:57:41.889 --> 01:57:42.210
Yeah.
01:57:42.529 --> 01:57:48.769
And I was always the membership chair for the Lions Club, and getting people into that.
01:57:48.930 --> 01:57:50.369
Some of them will wish I hadn't.
01:57:50.449 --> 01:57:51.409
No, I'm kidding.
01:57:52.449 --> 01:57:53.889
That's a joke.
01:57:54.210 --> 01:58:02.369
But you know, just and uh people coming to the community, it's like, let me show you around a little bit.
01:58:02.529 --> 01:58:06.609
And uh I I've done that many, many times.
01:58:06.849 --> 01:58:08.210
And why am I here?
01:58:08.369 --> 01:58:09.889
Because I I love it here.
01:58:09.970 --> 01:58:10.210
Yeah.
01:58:11.010 --> 01:58:12.289
Community's been good to me.
01:58:12.449 --> 01:58:12.609
Yeah.
01:58:12.769 --> 01:58:16.449
We've got a lot of good things, we've got a lot more things we want to do.
01:58:16.769 --> 01:58:21.329
That enthusiasm for community and doing your part, yeah.
01:58:21.489 --> 01:58:25.809
Whatever that part is, none too big or too small.
01:58:26.130 --> 01:58:31.010
Just be there to to leave the community better than you found it.
01:58:31.170 --> 01:58:31.409
Yeah.
01:58:32.210 --> 01:58:36.849
And we did that several times on higher education.
01:58:37.090 --> 01:58:46.369
It was a collective effort on the industrial park, just like a collective effort recently on the schools, the expansion of the schools.
01:58:46.609 --> 01:58:54.930
And so if we can get another we just need another section or two of housing where we could say, hey, we've got we've got the room.
01:58:55.090 --> 01:58:56.050
Come join us here.
01:58:56.289 --> 01:58:56.849
Right.
01:58:57.170 --> 01:58:58.930
So I I don't know if I answered the question.
01:58:59.329 --> 01:58:59.729
No, I don't.
01:59:00.050 --> 01:59:00.769
No, you did.
01:59:00.930 --> 01:59:01.329
You did.
01:59:01.569 --> 01:59:03.889
I always try to be on the positive side.
01:59:04.050 --> 01:59:04.210
Right.
01:59:04.449 --> 01:59:06.769
See the glass half half full.
01:59:07.170 --> 01:59:07.489
Yes.
01:59:07.809 --> 01:59:08.930
Instead of half empty.
01:59:09.170 --> 01:59:09.649
Agreed.
01:59:09.970 --> 01:59:12.769
And that's just the way I operate.
01:59:13.809 --> 01:59:18.689
Not and and as we say here, and I think you said it earlier, not we're not turning a blind eye.
01:59:18.769 --> 01:59:19.970
We know not everything's perfect here.
01:59:20.050 --> 01:59:22.930
Oh it's not this is not utopia, so to speak.
01:59:23.010 --> 01:59:24.449
We we we know that.
01:59:24.769 --> 01:59:30.210
But the the negative always gets press.
01:59:30.930 --> 01:59:34.449
It always finds a way to someone to talk about it.
01:59:35.010 --> 01:59:35.809
Oh, absolutely.
01:59:35.970 --> 01:59:41.170
And we just feel like what we're doing again, what we're doing too is uh shine a light on the good stuff too, right?
01:59:41.409 --> 01:59:47.329
Yeah, once you get that majority of people pushing in the same direction, yeah, things start to happen.
01:59:47.649 --> 01:59:47.970
Agreed.
01:59:48.130 --> 01:59:52.689
And even if it's by 30 votes it happened.
01:59:52.930 --> 01:59:54.050
Yes, it was a blessing.
01:59:54.289 --> 01:59:55.809
Yeah, it's a real big I remember.
01:59:55.970 --> 01:59:57.649
Wasn't the rodeo only started by one vote?
01:59:57.889 --> 01:59:57.970
Yeah.
01:59:58.769 --> 01:59:59.329
Did you know that?
01:59:59.569 --> 02:00:00.529
Uh no, I wasn't.
02:00:00.609 --> 02:00:01.250
I'm not sure.
02:00:01.489 --> 02:00:04.689
This I I think wasn't amongst the JCs or something.
02:00:05.010 --> 02:00:05.970
One person wanted it.
02:00:06.130 --> 02:00:13.250
One no, they voted to have a rodeo back in the and at one vote, passed by one vote.
02:00:13.489 --> 02:00:16.210
Can you think of where our town would be without it?
02:00:16.529 --> 02:00:19.170
It would be not so well known.
02:00:19.409 --> 02:00:19.970
Correct.
02:00:20.210 --> 02:00:20.609
Correct.
02:00:20.769 --> 02:00:22.050
Yeah, rodeo and lambda.
02:00:22.289 --> 02:00:31.649
I think I think they I think what the I think I seen something earlier in the maybe last week or something, that it had like an eight million dollar impact the week of the rodeo or something.
02:00:32.210 --> 02:00:34.289
Oh, at least a lot bigger.
02:00:34.529 --> 02:00:38.369
I I can't remember if it was eight million, it might have been more now, but it was I know it was at least it was a big number.
02:00:38.529 --> 02:00:38.769
Yeah.
02:00:39.010 --> 02:00:39.329
Yeah.
02:00:39.569 --> 02:00:43.569
But I think I think we've got a a pretty good future here too.
02:00:43.889 --> 02:00:44.689
Agreed.
02:00:44.930 --> 02:00:55.809
And and that's that's well if so can you elaborate like what are some things that you feel like maybe would be ideal maybe to strive for in the future?
02:00:56.130 --> 02:01:00.529
Well, I mentioned I'm beating the hit drum on housing, housing, housing.
02:01:01.170 --> 02:01:04.210
Uh course retail's development.
02:01:04.369 --> 02:01:05.729
That's getting tougher.
02:01:05.889 --> 02:01:06.369
Yeah.
02:01:06.689 --> 02:01:07.409
Overall.
02:01:08.210 --> 02:01:09.409
Do we still have the TIFF district?
02:01:09.489 --> 02:01:10.289
You're on the I all right.
02:01:10.449 --> 02:01:11.090
Let me back up.
02:01:11.250 --> 02:01:12.449
Are you still on the IDA?
02:01:12.609 --> 02:01:12.849
Yes.
02:01:13.090 --> 02:01:13.970
Industrial envelopment.
02:01:14.609 --> 02:01:17.489
If you show up for meeting, you find out you're the president.
02:01:19.329 --> 02:01:21.569
Industrial Development Authority.
02:01:21.889 --> 02:01:22.050
Thank you.
02:01:23.250 --> 02:01:24.769
Yeah, they and that meets as needed.
02:01:24.849 --> 02:01:25.010
Yeah.
02:01:26.449 --> 02:01:26.689
Yes.
02:01:26.849 --> 02:01:28.930
And uh I think think very highly of Chip as well.
02:01:29.170 --> 02:01:36.689
I think recently the reason new restart facility at Missouri Delta, some bond financing that got that done.
02:01:36.930 --> 02:01:42.769
And then the apartments on you know where the old cream castle is.
02:01:42.930 --> 02:01:43.329
Uh huh.
02:01:43.649 --> 02:01:46.210
The the public housing right by Scott Manor.
02:01:46.449 --> 02:01:50.689
Scott Manor that is getting ready to be totally refurbished.
02:01:50.930 --> 02:01:51.250
Oh.
02:01:51.489 --> 02:01:59.250
And it a company's doing that, and they're gonna replace everything, redo everything, and we we need that too.
02:01:59.569 --> 02:02:00.050
Agreed.
02:02:00.210 --> 02:02:00.529
Agreed.
02:02:01.329 --> 02:02:03.889
I think I think it's about a six million dollar project.
02:02:04.130 --> 02:02:04.609
Oh, wow.
02:02:05.090 --> 02:02:06.210
Rehab project.
02:02:06.689 --> 02:02:12.930
And there's different things that come our way related to community development for the hospital or whatever.
02:02:13.250 --> 02:02:13.569
Right.
02:02:13.889 --> 02:02:15.970
Do we still have the TIFF district?
02:02:16.289 --> 02:02:18.609
You know, I'm not 100% sure.
02:02:19.010 --> 02:02:20.050
Is that a separate committee?
02:02:20.210 --> 02:02:20.609
Yeah, that's right.
02:02:22.210 --> 02:02:22.289
Okay.
02:02:22.529 --> 02:02:22.769
Yeah.
02:02:22.930 --> 02:02:24.289
And Marcy would know that.
02:02:24.529 --> 02:02:24.689
Yeah.
02:02:26.369 --> 02:02:28.529
Where it runs now, or if we still have one.
02:02:29.010 --> 02:02:31.010
That's called tax incremental financing.
02:02:31.170 --> 02:02:31.250
Right.
02:02:31.489 --> 02:02:34.689
And I'm going to give a super elementary version of it.
02:02:34.769 --> 02:02:53.409
But basically you take property that's not generating any sales tax revenue, and you once it becomes uh you have to put infrastructure in, the developer gets super elementary, part of the taxes that it creates to pay back the infrastructure.
02:02:53.809 --> 02:02:55.970
So it gives them an incentive to develop something.
02:02:56.529 --> 02:02:57.809
They front the money and they get it back.
02:02:58.050 --> 02:02:58.449
Exactly.
02:02:58.529 --> 02:03:00.609
Over over time as the taxes come in.
02:03:00.769 --> 02:03:05.090
And I don't know a super super simple way to describe it.
02:03:05.489 --> 02:03:06.210
That's basically it.
02:03:07.010 --> 02:03:09.649
It can get a lot more complicated.
02:03:10.529 --> 02:03:13.649
But that but that would incentivize somebody to put to develop a piece of property.
02:03:13.809 --> 02:03:15.729
Aren't they doing some of that like on the federal level now?
02:03:16.289 --> 02:03:22.130
I think we're well there's those tax credits, those are a little bit different, like tax cred federal tax credits and state tax credits.
02:03:22.289 --> 02:03:27.329
I think Mississippi County have filed for something recently that come out of the Trump administration.
02:03:31.729 --> 02:03:32.930
I think that's exactly what it was.
02:03:34.849 --> 02:03:40.369
Those are a little bit different, but there's different details, you know, with each one.
02:03:40.529 --> 02:03:45.090
But yeah, the idea the idea is there to meet when and as needed.
02:03:45.250 --> 02:03:56.689
And there's been some good projects and I've missed some uh over the years, but we're there and got good people on it, and they can look at it and see if it's a good thing and vote for it.
02:03:56.769 --> 02:04:03.010
It usually we usually don't see something unless it's really almost, you know, it's a good idea.
02:04:03.409 --> 02:04:03.729
Right.
02:04:03.889 --> 02:04:04.369
Right.
02:04:05.889 --> 02:04:10.609
So how did tell us how the McFeeders beat came to be.
02:04:10.930 --> 02:04:19.250
Oh, that was uh and Steve, for those that don't know, Steve is on I I thought it was like Fridays, but you said Tuesday.
02:04:19.329 --> 02:04:19.649
Uh no.
02:04:19.729 --> 02:04:20.689
Yeah, Tuesdays and Fridays.
02:04:20.849 --> 02:04:21.809
Tuesdays and Fridays, yeah.
02:04:22.050 --> 02:04:24.609
On on KYMO 105.3.
02:04:25.170 --> 02:04:25.809
No, no, no.
02:04:25.970 --> 02:04:26.689
98.9.
02:04:27.010 --> 02:04:27.409
There we go.
02:04:27.489 --> 02:04:27.889
There we go.
02:04:27.970 --> 02:04:28.369
Sorry about that.
02:04:28.689 --> 02:04:31.250
That tower you see on top of the hill at Morley.
02:04:31.489 --> 02:04:31.970
Yeah.
02:04:32.210 --> 02:04:33.250
They own that now.
02:04:33.489 --> 02:04:34.130
Oh, okay.
02:04:34.289 --> 02:04:38.289
So they have a signal, of course, you can go to online with their app anywhere.
02:04:38.769 --> 02:04:39.010
Right.
02:04:39.250 --> 02:04:43.569
But they have a signal now that goes almost to Perryville.
02:04:43.889 --> 02:04:44.050
Right.
02:04:44.130 --> 02:04:45.409
I I heard they're in Cape now.
02:04:45.729 --> 02:04:47.170
In Cape, primary in Cape.
02:04:47.329 --> 02:04:48.769
Of course, a lot of stations in Cape.
02:04:50.130 --> 02:04:57.809
We just talked about that when Barney Webster was a 50-year broadcaster in Mississippi County.
02:04:58.050 --> 02:05:04.050
And he passed away, it's been probably twelve, fifteen years ago now.
02:05:04.609 --> 02:05:10.130
And he was uh my first job in radio was at KYM on East Prairie.
02:05:10.689 --> 02:05:16.050
I was going to school to Simo, playing in a band, drove down to East Prairie.
02:05:16.210 --> 02:05:20.130
They played country in the morning, top 40 in the afternoon.
02:05:20.369 --> 02:05:23.090
And I said, I like to work in radio.
02:05:23.170 --> 02:05:24.050
I've always wanted to.
02:05:24.210 --> 02:05:25.569
He said, Can you read?
02:05:25.809 --> 02:05:27.409
I said, Sure, I can read.
02:05:27.489 --> 02:05:33.170
He said, Okay, here's the farm market, here's the farm market report you're on in five minutes.
02:05:34.449 --> 02:05:36.210
That was my audition.
02:05:37.090 --> 02:05:39.010
And so I read it.
02:05:39.170 --> 02:05:40.449
He said, When can you start?
02:05:40.529 --> 02:05:44.289
And I said, Well, I can be down here by noon tomorrow.
02:05:44.529 --> 02:05:45.409
He said, Great.
02:05:45.569 --> 02:05:47.090
I said, Does it pay anything?
02:05:47.250 --> 02:05:50.930
He said, Oh yeah, a buck six, a buck sixty an hour.
02:05:52.529 --> 02:05:54.930
And uh gas was a quarter.
02:05:55.409 --> 02:05:56.289
Right, right, right.
02:05:56.529 --> 02:06:10.769
So I did that for about a year and a half, and he ran that and he fell on some hard times, and some local businessmen over there, Kevin Maynard, Marty Hutchins, and John's story, uh Tom Beattie, who is an engineer.
02:06:10.930 --> 02:06:17.809
They they bought it, they got Reed to come on the air, and and I just wanted one of them to do well.
02:06:18.210 --> 02:06:23.889
And I said, let's let's do something over here highlighting things that are happening.
02:06:24.050 --> 02:06:24.289
Yep.
02:06:24.449 --> 02:06:28.449
Sometimes I have guests on, sometimes it's just he and I chatting.
02:06:28.529 --> 02:06:29.010
Yep.
02:06:29.250 --> 02:06:33.809
On Tuesdays, it's Mike Jensen and I, and there's not enough time in the day.
02:06:34.050 --> 02:06:37.250
I was gonna say they cut y'all off about six hours later.
02:06:37.569 --> 02:06:39.409
And I get a big kick out of jingles.
02:06:39.569 --> 02:06:43.329
I mean, he's one of my best friends, and he's just uh he's a hoot.
02:06:43.489 --> 02:06:43.970
Oh my god.
02:06:44.210 --> 02:06:54.050
Here's a guy who started a free paper in the 70s and ended up buying out the uh you know the daily paper.
02:06:54.289 --> 02:06:57.649
And uh as we as we when we had him on last week, we called it.
02:06:57.809 --> 02:06:59.729
I've heard it termed the daily slander.
02:07:00.050 --> 02:07:01.569
He goes, Oh, I've used the term myself.
02:07:01.809 --> 02:07:02.609
Yeah, right.
02:07:03.090 --> 02:07:07.729
And here he is now uh running the Christian Academy and loving the kids.
02:07:07.809 --> 02:07:11.649
And I asked him if it was very lucrative and he said Yeah, right.
02:07:12.050 --> 02:07:16.849
And he's but but he did say he is paid in hugs and he's overpaid.
02:07:17.090 --> 02:07:17.649
Yeah.
02:07:17.889 --> 02:07:22.130
And I know they had some kind of challenge he put him through.
02:07:22.289 --> 02:07:24.609
And maybe they are they gonna shave his head?
02:07:24.849 --> 02:07:27.489
They've he had to dye his hair pink.
02:07:28.449 --> 02:07:28.930
So he had to do it.
02:07:29.250 --> 02:07:30.289
Somehow I missed that.
02:07:30.689 --> 02:07:31.889
I wish I would have seen that.
02:07:32.130 --> 02:07:39.489
But uh anyway, uh it's um he's a great guy, another one that's uh been very influential in the community.
02:07:40.050 --> 02:07:40.769
Agreed.
02:07:41.090 --> 02:07:41.489
Agreed.
02:07:42.050 --> 02:07:43.809
You know, where were we?
02:07:44.050 --> 02:07:46.449
Oh, we're just we were just talking about McFeeder's beat.
02:07:46.609 --> 02:07:47.970
Oh, yeah, McFeeder's beat.
02:07:48.289 --> 02:07:52.130
And so when Reed and I get on last Friday, I talked to Jason Bean.
02:07:52.449 --> 02:07:53.010
Oh yeah.
02:07:53.489 --> 02:07:54.609
State Senator.
02:07:54.930 --> 02:08:02.210
And I introduced him, said, here's a man who's literally outstanding in his field, because Jason's also a farmer.
02:08:02.449 --> 02:08:03.010
Yes.
02:08:03.489 --> 02:08:10.689
And uh he's a good one to go to on how are things going with agriculture and on the political scene.
02:08:10.849 --> 02:08:15.729
If you're gonna have something downtown, wine fest or whatever.
02:08:15.889 --> 02:08:25.250
Yeah, I I'm gonna miss Kathy Medley tremendously because we tried to talk about hey, this is on Fridays, this is what you can do.
02:08:25.329 --> 02:08:27.569
You got there's a lot of things you can do.
02:08:27.889 --> 02:08:28.449
Go do.
02:08:28.769 --> 02:08:30.609
You don't have to travel far.
02:08:30.849 --> 02:08:31.250
Right.
02:08:31.409 --> 02:08:33.329
And uh we have that's always a fun event.
02:08:33.409 --> 02:08:37.170
Yeah, and so we highlight what's going on uh this weekend.
02:08:37.409 --> 02:08:41.090
Tomorrow I'll have Barry Erhan on for Benton Neighbor Day.
02:08:41.329 --> 02:08:41.809
Yep.
02:08:42.289 --> 02:08:45.970
I went up to Benton Neighbor Day last year.
02:08:46.289 --> 02:08:47.649
I don't know if you've been up there.
02:08:47.889 --> 02:08:48.930
It's been a while.
02:08:49.809 --> 02:08:52.130
There's a lot of people there, yes.
02:08:52.369 --> 02:09:03.809
And uh I've got a program for 19 from 1971, and my band, the Chimes of Freedom, played the 1971 Neighbor Day.
02:09:04.210 --> 02:09:05.170
Are you kidding me?
02:09:05.409 --> 02:09:09.489
And my girlfriend at the time won Miss Neighbor Day.
02:09:10.449 --> 02:09:13.010
So I guess I only you know know Queens.
02:09:13.170 --> 02:09:13.809
I don't know.
02:09:17.250 --> 02:09:17.809
Oh my god.
02:09:18.210 --> 02:09:19.489
Patty was a Miss Sykston.
02:09:19.729 --> 02:09:19.889
Right.
02:09:20.369 --> 02:09:21.090
Right, right.
02:09:21.329 --> 02:09:25.090
Anyway, uh great event, small town Americana.
02:09:25.409 --> 02:09:25.809
Right.
02:09:26.050 --> 02:09:30.529
Recently, Tracy Bird played for David Russell's.
02:09:30.769 --> 02:09:31.729
Yes, I want to watch it.
02:09:31.889 --> 02:09:32.369
I was out there for that.
02:09:32.449 --> 02:09:33.090
It was a good good time.
02:09:34.609 --> 02:09:36.769
Can you believe how many people were there?
02:09:37.090 --> 02:09:37.489
I can't.
02:09:37.569 --> 02:09:37.889
I can't.
02:09:38.050 --> 02:09:40.449
And not counting all the people who were at the rodeo that night, too.
02:09:40.689 --> 02:09:44.449
Yeah, and David got run over by a train that day in the raid.
02:09:44.769 --> 02:09:46.050
But he's uh he's okay.
02:09:46.289 --> 02:09:47.970
He's he's coming along.
02:09:48.050 --> 02:10:08.210
But there's another guy that's an entrepreneur that has done a lot for a community and just you know that Matt, you and I both, I think, when you meet someone in banking, especially, that has been very successful but very low-key, aren't they the best people?
02:10:08.529 --> 02:10:09.329
Unbelievable.
02:10:09.569 --> 02:10:10.210
Unbelievable.
02:10:10.449 --> 02:10:12.449
You know, they don't shine the light on themselves.
02:10:12.689 --> 02:10:13.010
Nope.
02:10:13.090 --> 02:10:13.489
Nope.
02:10:13.729 --> 02:10:16.369
They they just do what they do and they do it well.
02:10:16.609 --> 02:10:16.930
Right.
02:10:17.090 --> 02:10:18.289
And they figured it out.
02:10:18.449 --> 02:10:20.289
And that's that's a blessing.
02:10:20.449 --> 02:10:22.130
This community's full of people like that.
02:10:22.449 --> 02:10:22.930
Full of it.
02:10:23.010 --> 02:10:23.729
I agree with you.
02:10:23.970 --> 02:10:24.609
I agree with you.
02:10:24.849 --> 02:10:26.769
And that that makes it special too.
02:10:26.930 --> 02:10:27.250
Yeah.
02:10:27.409 --> 02:10:27.809
It does.
02:10:28.050 --> 02:10:28.529
I agree.
02:10:28.689 --> 02:10:29.250
I agree.
02:10:29.489 --> 02:10:33.010
Well, Steve, we're down to the what we call the lightning round.
02:10:33.170 --> 02:10:33.489
Okay.
02:10:33.649 --> 02:10:39.250
And it's kind of a this or that and short answer, and I don't know that you've got short answers in you, but we'll go that way anyway.
02:10:39.649 --> 02:10:41.889
You know, just just give me the high sign.
02:10:42.210 --> 02:10:42.689
Oh, we're good.
02:10:43.649 --> 02:10:48.289
30 seconds and yeah, no, no, it's all good.
02:10:49.409 --> 02:10:59.409
If you could sit down with the next generation of Sexton leaders and give them one piece of advice about taking care of our community, what would you tell them?
02:10:59.970 --> 02:11:03.250
Make your community better than you found it.
02:11:03.569 --> 02:11:04.689
That's your goal.
02:11:05.090 --> 02:11:11.170
Whatever you're doing, it whatever the job is, whatever you're doing, leave it better than you found it.
02:11:11.329 --> 02:11:12.369
And don't quit.
02:11:12.609 --> 02:11:15.409
Don't ever give up because you're doing the right thing.
02:11:15.569 --> 02:11:16.210
Yep.
02:11:17.409 --> 02:11:20.849
Who was the most influential person in your life?
02:11:21.170 --> 02:11:22.849
Besides my wife.
02:11:24.529 --> 02:11:25.970
She's always first.
02:11:26.529 --> 02:11:28.130
Probably my mother.
02:11:28.689 --> 02:11:28.930
Okay.
02:11:29.170 --> 02:11:31.090
She was my hero, Genevieve.
02:11:31.329 --> 02:11:31.649
Okay.
02:11:31.970 --> 02:11:34.210
And and my dad too.
02:11:34.289 --> 02:11:34.449
Yeah.
02:11:34.849 --> 02:11:37.010
He traveled a lot, but my mom was a rock.
02:11:37.170 --> 02:11:37.489
Yeah.
02:11:37.729 --> 02:11:38.210
Yeah.
02:11:38.449 --> 02:11:38.769
Okay.
02:11:40.449 --> 02:11:44.689
Banking, chamber work, economic development, or radio?
02:11:44.930 --> 02:11:46.529
Which one was the most fun?
02:11:46.849 --> 02:11:47.970
All four.
02:11:48.849 --> 02:11:50.849
Well, it sounds like you're running for political office.
02:11:51.170 --> 02:11:51.649
Yeah, right.
02:11:51.809 --> 02:11:52.529
Uh no.
02:11:52.769 --> 02:11:55.489
I you know, taking care of people's fun.
02:11:55.649 --> 02:11:55.809
Yeah.
02:11:55.970 --> 02:11:56.210
Agreed.
02:11:56.449 --> 02:11:57.889
Helping people agreed.
02:11:58.050 --> 02:11:59.010
Is the most fun.
02:11:59.170 --> 02:12:02.130
Uh radio at one time was the most fun.
02:12:02.289 --> 02:12:04.609
It's different now, but it's still good.
02:12:04.930 --> 02:12:06.609
There's still a place for it.
02:12:06.930 --> 02:12:17.250
And I like to one thing I've always enjoyed, and Matt, and you may be the same way, there's two people that you know that need to meet each other.
02:12:17.729 --> 02:12:20.769
They've never met each other, but you know 'em.
02:12:21.329 --> 02:12:44.210
And you're and you know them well, and you build that trust with them, and they trust you, and you go, you know, I I got a guy over here that you need to meet, because you guys have something in common, and you might be able to help each other, and then or whatever it is in business, and you put those two people together, and then sometimes they strike a deal, sometimes they don't.
02:12:44.449 --> 02:12:44.930
Right.
02:12:45.170 --> 02:12:52.849
But I'm always if you can put two people together, it's gonna make their businesses better or make things better.
02:12:52.930 --> 02:12:54.289
I I really enjoy doing that.
02:12:54.609 --> 02:12:55.409
I do too, Steve.
02:12:55.729 --> 02:12:56.289
I'm with you there.
02:12:56.609 --> 02:12:57.329
It's fun.
02:12:58.849 --> 02:13:02.449
Your favorite Sykston tradition or event?
02:13:03.010 --> 02:13:06.289
My favorite Sykston tradition or event?
02:13:06.930 --> 02:13:11.170
Well, you know, uh it's good to see how people come together for rodeo.
02:13:11.489 --> 02:13:11.809
Yep.
02:13:12.369 --> 02:13:13.889
That that's always good.
02:13:14.609 --> 02:13:19.170
I think the Cotton Carnival Parade is still That's at the top.
02:13:19.409 --> 02:13:20.449
It's still way up there.
02:13:20.689 --> 02:13:23.090
You know on those Saturday mornings.
02:13:23.569 --> 02:13:29.250
And how can you do any better than high school sports?
02:13:30.130 --> 02:13:30.449
Okay.
02:13:30.769 --> 02:13:31.090
I agree.
02:13:31.409 --> 02:13:37.250
I'm way too old, you know, to go, but I love it when I see people compete.
02:13:37.409 --> 02:13:46.529
And then of course when we've got teams like we've had and basketball and that's been so and I sometimes have to watch from afar, but I enjoy it so much.
02:13:46.769 --> 02:13:57.889
But every community, that community pride within the soccer, softball, baseball, football, whatever sports is is still very meaningful.
02:13:58.529 --> 02:13:58.769
I agree.
02:13:59.170 --> 02:14:01.329
And you were by the soccer field last night and it was full.
02:14:01.569 --> 02:14:01.729
Yeah.
02:14:02.689 --> 02:14:03.809
And they were televising it too, right?
02:14:04.130 --> 02:14:04.849
That was on TV.
02:14:04.930 --> 02:14:05.649
I watched it last night.
02:14:05.889 --> 02:14:07.569
Or you or Acorp excuse me.
02:14:07.809 --> 02:14:09.329
Bulldog Nation Network.
02:14:10.210 --> 02:14:12.289
That A A Corp's doing a great job.
02:14:12.529 --> 02:14:13.569
I've heard you on there too.
02:14:13.889 --> 02:14:14.130
Thank you.
02:14:14.289 --> 02:14:18.210
Well I have two other guys that were with me that are really, really good.
02:14:18.529 --> 02:14:22.369
And again, the best part of it is I'm behind the camera, not in front of it.
02:14:22.449 --> 02:14:23.809
So Well, that's okay.
02:14:23.889 --> 02:14:25.329
You need to get on there or something.
02:14:25.649 --> 02:14:27.889
No, I'm on this I'm on the back side of it.
02:14:28.130 --> 02:14:29.250
Makes it better.
02:14:29.729 --> 02:14:32.210
Best piece of advice you ever received.
02:14:34.689 --> 02:14:45.970
Probably from a Christian perspective in business or in whatever you're doing, make sure you're equally yoked with the person.
02:14:46.849 --> 02:14:47.409
Oh yeah.
02:14:47.649 --> 02:14:51.809
Becoming unequally yoked that has different goals than what you have.
02:14:52.689 --> 02:14:56.689
And as a Christian where you put you try to put God first.
02:14:56.849 --> 02:14:57.170
Yeah.
02:14:57.409 --> 02:15:01.170
Now let me remind you, there's a lot of rascals in the Bible.
02:15:02.289 --> 02:15:03.329
That is true.
02:15:03.569 --> 02:15:04.529
But that is true.
02:15:04.769 --> 02:15:07.970
But they were saved by faith through Christ.
02:15:08.210 --> 02:15:08.449
Yeah.
02:15:08.689 --> 02:15:13.489
And so I learned a lesson early on, even before I went to CBN.
02:15:13.729 --> 02:15:18.210
Make sure if you're going to partner up in something that you're equally yoked.
02:15:18.449 --> 02:15:19.250
That's great advice.
02:15:19.729 --> 02:15:25.649
Because you can get into something and then your your whole life is driven by different things.
02:15:25.809 --> 02:15:26.050
Yeah.
02:15:26.210 --> 02:15:28.050
You need to weigh that out before you do it.
02:15:28.369 --> 02:15:29.889
That's a good that's great advice.
02:15:30.050 --> 02:15:31.409
That's really good advice.
02:15:31.649 --> 02:15:33.329
Well, you gotta learn to fail the time.
02:15:33.889 --> 02:15:34.369
That's right.
02:15:34.449 --> 02:15:35.329
That's right.
02:15:35.809 --> 02:15:39.970
One person from Sexton's past you'd love to sit down with and talk to.
02:15:40.529 --> 02:15:41.970
No longer with us?
02:15:42.369 --> 02:15:42.930
Sure.
02:15:43.970 --> 02:15:48.050
There was a guy that I was I call him a good business friend.
02:15:48.210 --> 02:15:50.930
I really liked him because he was so humble.
02:15:51.170 --> 02:15:54.210
And he started off with basically nothing.
02:15:54.609 --> 02:15:56.210
And he was funny.
02:15:56.529 --> 02:15:58.449
And uh it's Jerry Pulling.
02:15:59.010 --> 02:15:59.809
He was a friend.
02:16:00.130 --> 02:16:00.369
Mr.
02:16:00.449 --> 02:16:02.369
Jerry was a fine, fine gentleman.
02:16:02.689 --> 02:16:07.170
And I was with him one time with another high school classmate.
02:16:07.250 --> 02:16:14.130
He's a little older than me, but they said when he first came to school in Charleston, he's he was a big man.
02:16:14.369 --> 02:16:14.769
Yes.
02:16:15.010 --> 02:16:16.050
And a strong man.
02:16:16.369 --> 02:16:16.609
Yes.
02:16:16.930 --> 02:16:18.529
Did mechanic work and all that.
02:16:18.609 --> 02:16:24.289
And there was this one kid in I think they were eighth grade or something that kept bothering everybody.
02:16:24.369 --> 02:16:30.130
And and this guy was on the phone and Jerry was listening, and he didn't know what he's gonna say.
02:16:30.210 --> 02:16:42.530
And he said, Jerry, I remember that time that kid was bothering everybody and and the old junior high over there, and you took him by the ankles and hang hung him out the window and told him, Are you gonna stop acting the square?
02:16:43.090 --> 02:16:45.569
And and then he pulled him back in.
02:16:45.809 --> 02:16:48.050
Oh my goodness, I could I could see the school.
02:16:48.210 --> 02:16:48.370
Yeah.
02:16:49.010 --> 02:16:50.370
That wouldn't happen today.
02:16:51.809 --> 02:16:55.649
But maybe that's why they got all single-level schools over there now.
02:16:56.130 --> 02:17:03.809
But I mean, there are other people too that are still uh if you ever meet a guy like Don King, he's got beautiful stories of good man.
02:17:04.130 --> 02:17:04.850
What a fine gentleman.
02:17:05.250 --> 02:17:05.729
Fine gentleman.
02:17:05.970 --> 02:17:07.010
We've got so many examples.
02:17:07.170 --> 02:17:09.569
I agree because it's you're gonna leave somebody else.
02:17:10.130 --> 02:17:10.450
Right.
02:17:10.690 --> 02:17:16.130
And I I was thinking of some folks a while ago when we were talking about some of the guys that uh uh Jim Hux.
02:17:16.450 --> 02:17:16.610
Yeah.
02:17:16.850 --> 02:17:23.489
As some of the guys that I that I've not emulated myself, but that I see that what they've done for our town.
02:17:23.649 --> 02:17:23.889
Mr.
02:17:23.970 --> 02:17:25.649
Jerry, I missed him a while ago.
02:17:25.729 --> 02:17:34.450
What a yeah, what a he was mayor and involved in the Lions Club and all the things and and oh and Kenny Rogers.
02:17:34.930 --> 02:17:35.649
Kenny Rogers, yes.
02:17:35.970 --> 02:17:36.290
Big time.
02:17:36.610 --> 02:17:37.569
Yes, yes.
02:17:37.970 --> 02:17:39.329
And he he was funny too.
02:17:39.569 --> 02:17:42.690
Yeah, I miss I really thought I really I liked Mr.
02:17:42.770 --> 02:17:43.329
Jerry a lot.
02:17:43.569 --> 02:17:44.129
Yes, I sure did.
02:17:44.610 --> 02:17:50.369
So there are others, and yes, I don't know if this is true, and I don't want to Floyd Farrell.
02:17:50.690 --> 02:17:51.329
I know Floyd.
02:17:51.569 --> 02:17:53.409
Floyd and his dad Flair.
02:17:53.969 --> 02:17:56.690
They were good friends with my father-in-law.
02:17:57.090 --> 02:18:05.889
And I like the story I heard about Floyd was his uh teacher told him if he didn't do better in school, he'd end up being a ditch digger.
02:18:07.170 --> 02:18:08.610
Well, I guess technically he is.
02:18:09.649 --> 02:18:10.770
Well he showed her though.
02:18:10.930 --> 02:18:11.170
Yeah.
02:18:12.049 --> 02:18:13.889
I'd say he got the best end of that deal.
02:18:14.209 --> 02:18:22.690
I love those stories though about people that just just made it because they're unique or they had a unique idea and they worked hard and they focused on it.
02:18:23.489 --> 02:18:23.809
Yes.
02:18:24.049 --> 02:18:27.649
There's others, I mean, you could sit there and think of them all day long.
02:18:27.969 --> 02:18:28.289
Yes.
02:18:28.450 --> 02:18:30.049
Yes, I agree with you.
02:18:31.569 --> 02:18:32.610
Got a couple more.
02:18:32.850 --> 02:18:34.289
Complete this sentence.
02:18:34.610 --> 02:18:47.569
Sykston is at its best when people realize what they have and they're w willing to put their best foot forward.
02:18:47.649 --> 02:18:51.329
Now, what I mean by that is you are an ambassador.
02:18:51.969 --> 02:18:53.969
You're either a good one or a bad one.
02:18:54.209 --> 02:18:54.369
Yeah.
02:18:54.610 --> 02:18:55.809
Well one one or the other, yeah.
02:18:56.049 --> 02:18:56.610
One or the other.
02:18:56.690 --> 02:18:56.930
Yeah.
02:18:57.170 --> 02:18:59.729
And first impressions mean a lot to people.
02:19:00.049 --> 02:19:03.329
And you're either gonna go, boy, I hate it here.
02:19:03.409 --> 02:19:07.010
It's just we don't do this and that, and I think, well, why don't you move?
02:19:07.889 --> 02:19:12.450
And or the second thing is, you know, we're not perfect, right?
02:19:12.610 --> 02:19:14.930
But we got a good town and we're trying hard.
02:19:15.010 --> 02:19:15.250
Yeah.
02:19:15.409 --> 02:19:16.690
But we're gonna keep trying hard.
02:19:17.010 --> 02:19:23.889
And that attitude, once you get it, and I think we got it right now, we're gonna continue to move forward.
02:19:24.129 --> 02:19:24.450
Yeah.
02:19:24.770 --> 02:19:26.369
What what do you always say?
02:19:26.610 --> 02:19:27.409
It's the pain.
02:19:27.729 --> 02:19:30.530
Oh, you're either gonna go through the pain of discipline or the pain of disappointment.
02:19:30.610 --> 02:19:31.250
Which one do you want?
02:19:31.409 --> 02:19:31.649
Yeah.
02:19:31.809 --> 02:19:32.049
Yeah.
02:19:32.129 --> 02:19:32.209
Yeah.
02:19:32.450 --> 02:19:33.329
That's Nick Saban.
02:19:33.409 --> 02:19:33.569
Yeah.
02:19:34.289 --> 02:19:36.049
I don't know if he stole it from somebody else, but I know it.
02:19:36.850 --> 02:19:38.049
He was a pretty good coach, yeah.
02:19:38.129 --> 02:19:39.489
He kind of he was okay.
02:19:39.809 --> 02:19:40.209
He was okay.
02:19:40.450 --> 02:19:43.170
He's a bet he's a better on TV than he was coaching.
02:19:43.729 --> 02:19:44.049
Yeah.
02:19:44.129 --> 02:19:45.729
Well I enjoy him better.
02:19:45.809 --> 02:19:46.530
I mean, I know.
02:19:47.409 --> 02:19:49.409
I'm sitting here looking at the Mizzou score now.
02:19:49.729 --> 02:19:50.209
I know.
02:19:50.450 --> 02:19:53.569
What if we can't beat Pine Bluff, we might as well.
02:19:53.809 --> 02:19:54.369
Well, we're beating them.
02:19:55.569 --> 02:19:56.129
We're beating them.
02:19:56.209 --> 02:19:57.649
As we can pack it in.
02:19:59.010 --> 02:19:59.889
Last one.
02:20:00.209 --> 02:20:03.010
Actually got I got another kind of statement after this.
02:20:03.250 --> 02:20:06.289
What stories about Sykston do we not tell enough?
02:20:07.010 --> 02:20:17.329
Well, there's multiple stories about successful people from here who start who started basically with an idea and expanded.
02:20:17.409 --> 02:20:18.450
We need to tell that.
02:20:18.610 --> 02:20:30.450
We need at one time I thought when I was putting together economic development marketing material, is we are not just selling to the outside, we're selling to the inside.
02:20:30.770 --> 02:20:31.170
Agreed.
02:20:31.489 --> 02:20:32.049
Yeah.
02:20:32.369 --> 02:20:40.770
You've sell to the people if they believe in what we have and here, and you educate them, that's why that leadership program is so important.
02:20:42.049 --> 02:20:46.610
We've got things here that you may not use, but other people do.
02:20:47.329 --> 02:20:53.409
So that to me is we're selling on the inside too, so we've got ambassadors.
02:20:53.729 --> 02:20:57.170
And sometimes people just say things out of ignorance, you know.
02:20:57.329 --> 02:20:57.569
Right.
02:20:57.889 --> 02:20:58.930
I have certainly.
02:20:59.170 --> 02:20:59.409
Right.
02:20:59.809 --> 02:21:00.049
Right.
02:21:00.369 --> 02:21:03.969
You know, say you say something out of something you don't even know what you're talking about.
02:21:04.129 --> 02:21:04.450
Right.
02:21:04.690 --> 02:21:06.049
Find out what you got.
02:21:06.530 --> 02:21:16.610
I think, of course, I've and you you may have told him the same, but I think Rick Rick Adams needs to write write a book because he told us some stories about some of the people that were from here and the things that they did.
02:21:17.329 --> 02:21:18.129
Autozone?
02:21:18.450 --> 02:21:19.329
Autozone.
02:21:19.889 --> 02:21:20.289
Mr.
02:21:21.010 --> 02:21:27.889
Somebody's Charlie Stamp was with John Deere, like uh the president of something in John Deere.
02:21:28.209 --> 02:21:29.809
Something to do with Caesar's Palace.
02:21:30.049 --> 02:21:34.770
Well uh Hex was that there's some Hex out of Cape.
02:21:35.090 --> 02:21:38.530
Yeah, but they were had something with Morehouse with the doctor.
02:21:38.770 --> 02:21:39.170
Oh, okay.
02:21:39.329 --> 02:21:40.049
Yeah, something to do.
02:21:40.129 --> 02:21:40.530
I have to go.
02:21:40.610 --> 02:21:41.969
I Rick's really good at all.
02:21:42.289 --> 02:21:43.010
Oh my gosh.
02:21:43.409 --> 02:21:48.610
And just the stories, that's what I we I love to hear that.
02:21:49.170 --> 02:22:01.649
He talked about like I guess somebody they the Hex and there were partners with buying that land that between I guess the old downtown Vegas and the strip where the strip is at now.
02:22:02.209 --> 02:22:02.930
In the airport.
02:22:03.010 --> 02:22:04.610
So like they were very instrument.
02:22:05.010 --> 02:22:06.930
If I remember correctly, you said I'm trying to remember.
02:22:07.010 --> 02:22:08.770
Yeah, we've had a lot of podcasts.
02:22:11.809 --> 02:22:15.250
Yeah, but only Rick Rick was number 50 and you're 84.
02:22:15.329 --> 02:22:17.090
There's a lot of there's a lot of talking between Latin.
02:22:17.649 --> 02:22:17.969
Yeah, right.
02:22:18.049 --> 02:22:19.569
And I can talk with any of them.
02:22:19.969 --> 02:22:20.610
No, I know.
02:22:20.770 --> 02:22:21.809
I'm just trying to remember.
02:22:22.930 --> 02:22:24.129
I'll share one quick story.
02:22:24.369 --> 02:22:25.329
Yeah, please.
02:22:26.129 --> 02:22:31.729
1978, Walmart, store number nine.
02:22:31.969 --> 02:22:32.289
Yeah.
02:22:33.010 --> 02:22:35.569
First store here outside of Arkansas.
02:22:35.729 --> 02:22:37.170
Oh, now I did not know that.
02:22:37.329 --> 02:22:37.729
Yeah.
02:22:38.049 --> 02:22:40.129
The first store out of Arkansas.
02:22:40.289 --> 02:22:42.770
And Sam Walton used to come up here regularly.
02:22:42.850 --> 02:22:55.649
He was a friend with uh Charlie Matthews, Bob Matthews, Scott, all those, because the first store was in the Midtowner Village, which Charlie and Janice Matthews, huh?
02:22:56.049 --> 02:22:59.729
And so they opened in 68.
02:23:00.289 --> 02:23:02.450
I wasn't here then, I was still in high school.
02:23:03.329 --> 02:23:06.450
They opened the the Walmart stores in 68?
02:23:06.770 --> 02:23:07.729
Well here in 68.
02:23:07.969 --> 02:23:11.010
They all they opened in Sigston in 1968.
02:23:11.329 --> 02:23:11.809
Oh, really?
02:23:11.969 --> 02:23:12.209
Yeah.
02:23:12.369 --> 02:23:13.170
Oh wow.
02:23:13.409 --> 02:23:18.690
So in 1978, they were having their 10-year anniversary.
02:23:18.930 --> 02:23:25.569
And by then they had, I think, 30 or 40,000 square feet in the midtown village.
02:23:25.969 --> 02:23:30.369
And they used to advertise on local radio, and I had KSIM.
02:23:31.090 --> 02:23:35.250
And we'd go out there, we'd go to Homestead and do live remotes.
02:23:35.489 --> 02:23:36.369
I remember Homestead.
02:23:37.329 --> 02:23:41.170
Uncle Briggs came there one time and Robin was there.
02:23:41.329 --> 02:23:42.049
Burt Ward.
02:23:42.289 --> 02:23:43.250
Yeah, Bert Ward.
02:23:43.329 --> 02:23:43.969
Oh yeah.
02:23:44.209 --> 02:23:55.809
Well, this time it was the 10th year anniversary, and Sam Walton was coming in, and they bought a live remote, about a 10-minute live remote, 15-minute whatever it was.
02:23:55.969 --> 02:24:01.969
And you know, and they they ran spots with us, and we said, sure, we'll go out there and cover it.
02:24:02.209 --> 02:24:06.209
So I get I introduce uh Sam Walton.
02:24:06.450 --> 02:24:07.409
Are you serious?
02:24:07.649 --> 02:24:09.329
I hand him the mic.
02:24:09.649 --> 02:24:14.129
He talked for an hour live on the radio.
02:24:14.369 --> 02:24:16.209
Oh no commercial breaks?
02:24:16.450 --> 02:24:17.010
Nothing.
02:24:17.170 --> 02:24:19.250
Oh do you think I was gonna stop him?
02:24:19.489 --> 02:24:20.610
No, I wouldn't have.
02:24:20.850 --> 02:24:23.649
No, he was a is there a recording of that somewhere?
02:24:24.129 --> 02:24:24.850
I don't know.
02:24:24.930 --> 02:24:27.090
I I wish there was, but probably not.
02:24:27.409 --> 02:24:28.369
Oh my gosh.
02:24:28.610 --> 02:24:31.250
And he talked for an hour.
02:24:31.729 --> 02:24:36.530
I seen some wow, I seen some pictures not too long ago of him being at the grand opening in Charleston.
02:24:36.850 --> 02:24:41.170
That would have been in the 70s because I mean like mid, maybe around 78, probably.
02:24:41.409 --> 02:24:46.289
Yeah, he went he went to the stores up as long as he could and did the walkthroughs.
02:24:46.369 --> 02:24:46.530
Yeah.
02:24:46.770 --> 02:24:49.889
Even up until whenever he died in the early 90s.
02:24:49.969 --> 02:24:50.289
Yeah.
02:24:50.530 --> 02:24:51.329
He would fly.
02:24:51.409 --> 02:25:00.530
There were several guys from Sykeston that went on to work for Walmart Corporate and retired there young with the stock.
02:25:01.170 --> 02:25:17.090
And I think uh the story was even with Sam Walton, he would uh like my father-in-law had an asphalt company and he did the parking lot, and Sam Walton asked him if he wanted to be paid in cash or with stock.
02:25:17.729 --> 02:25:20.129
And he said, I think I'll take the cash.
02:25:20.610 --> 02:25:22.369
Now he bought the stock later, too.
02:25:22.690 --> 02:25:24.530
Yeah, wow at the same time.
02:25:24.770 --> 02:25:29.649
And there were people that worked at the Walmart here that did really well.
02:25:30.289 --> 02:25:31.409
I said they've done okay.
02:25:31.729 --> 02:25:32.049
Yeah.
02:25:32.289 --> 02:25:33.729
People in the store that worked.
02:25:33.889 --> 02:25:34.289
Uh-huh.
02:25:34.369 --> 02:25:34.690
Uh-huh.
02:25:35.010 --> 02:25:38.450
And that was duplicated all over all over the country.
02:25:38.770 --> 02:25:39.569
All over the country.
02:25:39.649 --> 02:25:40.209
And wow.
02:25:40.530 --> 02:25:44.129
If you've ever been to uh Bentonville, it's quite an experience.
02:25:44.450 --> 02:25:45.649
I ha I have not been there.
02:25:45.889 --> 02:25:46.450
Never been there.
02:25:46.530 --> 02:25:46.690
No.
02:25:47.090 --> 02:25:52.690
There's every corporate uh company has an office in Bentonville.
02:25:52.930 --> 02:25:57.889
And uh I was involved one one time with the leadership conference down there.
02:25:58.049 --> 02:26:03.409
I got to kind of facilitate it, and it had some of the past Walmart brass.
02:26:03.809 --> 02:26:05.889
How far is Fayetteville from Bentonville?
02:26:06.850 --> 02:26:07.489
It's not far.
02:26:08.610 --> 02:26:10.850
Maybe when we go see the Arkansas game, we'll go down on Friday.
02:26:11.010 --> 02:26:11.250
Oh, yeah.
02:26:12.530 --> 02:26:13.809
Fayetteville's very close.
02:26:14.049 --> 02:26:19.489
Yeah, we're Micah and I and my brother, we've started is this our sixth one?
02:26:19.809 --> 02:26:23.969
So we've been to Auburn, we've been to Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma.
02:26:24.129 --> 02:26:26.129
So this will be our fifth year.
02:26:27.569 --> 02:26:28.289
Just four.
02:26:28.450 --> 02:26:33.409
We're we we're trying to go to the SEC schools, all the SEC schools away.
02:26:33.729 --> 02:26:36.690
When Missouri, like Missouri's playing, like we're going to Old Miss this year.
02:26:36.850 --> 02:26:38.049
No, y'all went to Vanderbilt.
02:26:38.289 --> 02:26:39.649
We went to Vanderbilt, but I'm not counting.
02:26:39.889 --> 02:26:41.649
They didn't go with me, they left me here.
02:26:41.889 --> 02:26:43.329
But you were jerks.
02:26:44.289 --> 02:26:45.010
Jerks.
02:26:45.489 --> 02:26:46.049
That was fun.
02:26:46.209 --> 02:26:46.850
We're gonna go back.
02:26:47.090 --> 02:26:47.329
I know.
02:26:47.409 --> 02:26:48.690
I know I'm giving them a hard time.
02:26:49.090 --> 02:26:50.369
It's my brother and my brother-in-law.
02:26:50.450 --> 02:26:52.770
If I can't give them a hard time, who can I give a hard time to?
02:26:53.090 --> 02:26:53.409
That's right.
02:26:53.489 --> 02:26:56.129
You know, brother-in-laws or brother-in-laws.
02:26:56.530 --> 02:26:56.770
That's right.
02:26:57.250 --> 02:26:57.969
That's right.
02:26:58.209 --> 02:27:04.289
And the last one, we need we and I've written a bunch down too, but you got three people.
02:27:04.450 --> 02:27:07.569
Who would who should we get on here as a guest?
02:27:07.809 --> 02:27:08.850
Who would you recommend?
02:27:10.129 --> 02:27:11.250
Don King.
02:27:13.170 --> 02:27:16.610
His stir uh and uh Okay.
02:27:16.930 --> 02:27:19.889
I don't know if Floyd would come on or not, he'd be a good one.
02:27:20.209 --> 02:27:21.170
Oh my gosh.
02:27:21.569 --> 02:27:22.049
Yes.
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But some of the the people that that were instrumental are maybe some of the uh the ladies that were instrumental.
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That's a good good idea.
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That'd been involved in leadership for a long time.
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And there's a new you want a Sykstonian, right?
02:27:45.409 --> 02:27:46.209
We didn't mean about it.
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Yeah.
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Well, if you could get the SEMO president, he's good.
02:27:51.010 --> 02:27:52.289
Oh Brad Hoss.
02:27:54.690 --> 02:27:57.649
And that's that's HOD, correct?
02:27:57.729 --> 02:27:57.809
Yeah.
02:27:58.610 --> 02:28:06.450
And uh Missy Missy Marshall retired, you know, from Twin Rivers and uh how about Maggie Rose?
02:28:06.930 --> 02:28:07.569
Yes.
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If you could I don't know how I we can do some remote stuff.
02:28:11.809 --> 02:28:12.209
Mm-hmm.
02:28:12.369 --> 02:28:12.610
Yeah.
02:28:12.850 --> 02:28:13.969
She's very talented.
02:28:14.129 --> 02:28:14.770
Yes.
02:28:15.170 --> 02:28:19.329
Yeah, we're supposed to have uh Brady Barkey and Asimo A.
02:28:19.489 --> 02:28:22.049
D and Nate Saverino, the assistant AD.
02:28:22.369 --> 02:28:22.850
Yeah, good.
02:28:23.250 --> 02:28:25.170
So I I make it get to Brad.
02:28:25.250 --> 02:28:26.369
I might get him on here.
02:28:26.530 --> 02:28:30.289
If especially if he's trying to bridge some gaps.
02:28:30.610 --> 02:28:30.850
Yep.
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Is in the growth.
02:28:31.969 --> 02:28:35.489
And we and last summer Lloyd Smith.
02:28:35.729 --> 02:28:36.209
Oh yeah.
02:28:36.289 --> 02:28:36.530
Yeah.
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I got him on here.
02:28:37.649 --> 02:28:41.729
Last summer we get to do uh Riley Palmer and uh Brad Cohen.
02:28:42.049 --> 02:28:44.610
The men's and women's coach, basketball coaches at SEMO.
02:28:44.770 --> 02:28:47.489
So Lloyd uh can articulate very well.
02:28:47.649 --> 02:28:49.170
He's been on that board to go.
02:28:49.649 --> 02:28:52.209
Is he on is he off there now or is he still on?
02:28:53.010 --> 02:28:53.170
Yeah.
02:28:53.250 --> 02:28:53.649
Yeah, yeah.
02:28:53.889 --> 02:28:54.289
Still on.
02:28:54.610 --> 02:28:55.729
I Yeah.
02:28:55.969 --> 02:28:56.610
I need to get him.
02:28:56.850 --> 02:29:02.930
I just we just we just saw him not all that I mean I see him from time to time, but saw him not all that long ago.
02:29:03.170 --> 02:29:04.209
I need to give him a shout.
02:29:04.369 --> 02:29:05.010
You are correct.
02:29:05.090 --> 02:29:06.770
That's exactly who we need to get on here for sure.
02:29:07.010 --> 02:29:08.610
And there's a that's a great list.
02:29:08.850 --> 02:29:09.489
It is new.
02:29:10.129 --> 02:29:10.770
No, there's others too.
02:29:11.010 --> 02:29:11.329
Oh, of course.
02:29:11.489 --> 02:29:12.690
No, no, no, of course.
02:29:12.930 --> 02:29:13.250
Yeah.
02:29:13.729 --> 02:29:15.409
We're we're already into October.
02:29:15.489 --> 02:29:17.889
I like, listen, if we can schedule for a year out, it'd be fine by me.
02:29:18.049 --> 02:29:19.409
Well, we're still looking for our hundredth guest.
02:29:19.729 --> 02:29:21.649
Yeah, we're we're on eighty-four, Steve.
02:29:21.729 --> 02:29:25.010
You're eighty-four, and we're trying to we're trying to make plans for a hundred.
02:29:25.250 --> 02:29:26.690
We want that to be our milestone.
02:29:27.010 --> 02:29:30.610
When I I was 75 when I played football.
02:29:31.090 --> 02:29:31.489
Huh?
02:29:31.809 --> 02:29:33.090
Oh, number 75.
02:29:33.250 --> 02:29:34.049
I was like, what?
02:29:36.049 --> 02:29:36.530
Gotcha.
02:29:36.690 --> 02:29:37.010
Gotcha.
02:29:37.090 --> 02:29:38.930
Well 84, that's a wide receiver number.
02:29:39.170 --> 02:29:40.690
Oh, yeah, I don't think so.
02:29:41.329 --> 02:29:41.649
Wide.
02:29:42.129 --> 02:29:43.250
So did you play at Scott City?
02:29:43.569 --> 02:29:44.770
Did you play at Scott City either?
02:29:45.170 --> 02:29:45.329
Yeah.
02:29:48.129 --> 02:29:55.409
I threw the ninth grade on the I never will forget when uh John Brown from Popper Bluffs.
02:29:55.569 --> 02:29:56.049
Oh yeah.
02:29:58.369 --> 02:29:59.090
I think he did.
02:29:59.250 --> 02:30:00.289
He played from Mizzou.
02:30:00.530 --> 02:30:01.569
Oh yeah, yeah.
02:30:01.809 --> 02:30:06.289
And he was a ninth grader, and we were playing junior high, of course.
02:30:06.369 --> 02:30:11.010
We had the eighth and ninth grade team, and he got off the bus with his shirt off.
02:30:11.250 --> 02:30:14.690
And I wanted to ri start crying and run home to Baba.
02:30:16.369 --> 02:30:18.209
He was a man amongst boys.
02:30:18.450 --> 02:30:18.850
Uh-huh.
02:30:19.090 --> 02:30:20.129
I've heard stories about him.
02:30:20.450 --> 02:30:20.610
Yeah.
02:30:20.770 --> 02:30:22.129
He was quite quite a player.
02:30:22.289 --> 02:30:22.530
Yeah.
02:30:22.610 --> 02:30:22.850
Yeah.
02:30:23.010 --> 02:30:23.649
Yeah.
02:30:24.129 --> 02:30:30.770
And then the the one encounter that I had the my junior year in high school.
02:30:31.649 --> 02:30:36.049
For some reason, we played Sykston in basketball.
02:30:36.209 --> 02:30:43.010
We never Scott said he never played, but that year we played at the Armory because it was the year before the fieldhouse.
02:30:44.770 --> 02:30:52.209
So I was the sixth man, and I was supposed to go in and stop whoever their high scorer was.
02:30:52.930 --> 02:30:56.450
Sykston's high score at the time was a guy named Fred Calhoun.
02:30:56.610 --> 02:30:57.329
Fred Towns.
02:30:57.409 --> 02:30:58.610
I I've heard that name a lot.
02:30:58.690 --> 02:31:00.129
I heard he's passed recently.
02:31:00.450 --> 02:31:03.010
Yeah, but he was an unbelievable player.
02:31:03.250 --> 02:31:03.889
That's what I hear.
02:31:04.049 --> 02:31:09.729
And and quite a uh it's not that he wasn't serious, he just liked to have fun.
02:31:09.969 --> 02:31:14.289
So I come in the game and he goes, Hey, what's your name, dude?
02:31:14.530 --> 02:31:17.809
And I told him, he said, We're gonna have some fun.
02:31:18.610 --> 02:31:23.809
He was about 6'5, he posted up, went up above the rim, you couldn't dunk.
02:31:24.129 --> 02:31:27.409
I remember I don't again, I I remember reading about those days when they came up.
02:31:27.569 --> 02:31:30.690
And he dropped it in, and on the way down, he goes, What do you think of that?
02:31:30.770 --> 02:31:32.770
And I said, Well, you know I can't stop that.
02:31:34.369 --> 02:31:38.530
And he would just talk it the whole time, going back to court.
02:31:39.170 --> 02:31:40.049
He sounded like Larry Bird.
02:31:40.289 --> 02:31:40.450
Right.
02:31:41.250 --> 02:31:41.489
Right.
02:31:41.649 --> 02:31:44.049
But it was nice trash, it wasn't right.
02:31:44.450 --> 02:31:48.770
So he scored a couple more under the basket, you know, spinning in the air.
02:31:48.850 --> 02:31:52.930
And we go down the court one time and he said, I'm gonna let you shoot.
02:31:53.569 --> 02:31:55.250
And he let me shoot, and I made it.
02:31:55.329 --> 02:31:56.610
He said, That's it.
02:31:56.930 --> 02:31:57.569
No more.
02:31:57.809 --> 02:31:58.289
Yeah.
02:31:58.610 --> 02:32:00.129
But uh he was quite a talent.
02:32:00.450 --> 02:32:01.170
That's what I hear.
02:32:01.329 --> 02:32:02.129
That's what I hear.
02:32:02.450 --> 02:32:03.649
There's a picture.
02:32:05.889 --> 02:32:10.129
I think it's it's either in Greg's office or somewhere in the field house.
02:32:10.289 --> 02:32:14.690
He he was jumping center on the first game that they played there.
02:32:14.850 --> 02:32:19.170
That was against who'd say that was against Numadrin, maybe or something.
02:32:19.329 --> 02:32:20.129
Who are we talking about?
02:32:20.369 --> 02:32:21.569
I was talking about that with somebody.
02:32:21.729 --> 02:32:22.049
Yeah.
02:32:22.369 --> 02:32:26.049
I can't remember, but that was that was pretty interesting to see that.
02:32:26.209 --> 02:32:29.729
But well, Steve, we have learned a lot.
02:32:29.969 --> 02:32:32.690
Thank you for taking some time to come talk to us.
02:32:32.850 --> 02:32:33.649
Yeah, it was fun.
02:32:34.129 --> 02:32:35.569
And talk about our town.
02:32:35.809 --> 02:32:39.250
And this will come out with some this will be Saturday.
02:32:39.329 --> 02:32:42.289
We'll be out Saturday, late Saturday morning.
02:32:42.530 --> 02:32:44.690
And again, thank you very much.
02:32:44.850 --> 02:32:46.209
We appreciate what you've done.
02:32:46.289 --> 02:32:49.729
Congratulations to again your lifetime achievement.
02:32:49.809 --> 02:32:51.010
That's a that's a big deal.
02:32:51.250 --> 02:32:52.129
In my book, it is.
02:32:52.289 --> 02:32:52.850
That's a big deal.
02:32:53.329 --> 02:32:54.690
It was a big deal, it was.
02:32:55.010 --> 02:32:56.049
I really appreciated it.
02:32:56.209 --> 02:32:56.530
Yeah, yeah.
02:32:56.690 --> 02:32:57.409
Yeah, absolutely.
02:32:57.569 --> 02:32:57.969
Absolutely.
02:32:58.129 --> 02:32:59.809
And keep keep shining the light.
02:33:00.049 --> 02:33:01.649
That's what that's what we try to do.
02:33:01.729 --> 02:33:01.889
Yeah.
02:33:02.049 --> 02:33:03.489
That's what we plan on doing.
02:33:03.729 --> 02:33:10.289
And so we end we end all of our broad, we end all these podcasts with go dogs, and so that's how we that's how we finish them, right, Micah?
02:33:10.450 --> 02:33:10.690
That's right.
02:33:10.770 --> 02:33:10.930
All right.
02:33:11.250 --> 02:33:12.850
All right, you are Micah Harris.
02:33:13.010 --> 02:33:14.049
I'm Matt Tanner.
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Thanks for listening to The Dog House, episode 84, Mr.
02:33:17.170 --> 02:33:18.209
Steve McFeeders.
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Go Dogs.
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That's gonna do it for this episode of The Dog House.
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