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Problem Corner is an iconic radio show that has become a vibrant community hub. Callers engage in a wide array of discussions, ranging from local political debates to community commentary and casual advertisements for listeners looking to buy, sell, or trade personal items.
The show's rich history is marked by its association with several prominent local figures. Notably, Dennis Egan, a former mayor of Juneau, was a key personality in shaping the show's direction in the 1980s.
As a testament to its enduring relevance and appeal, "Problem Corner" has etched its name in the annals of Alaskan broadcasting history. It's not just a radio show but a cultural landmark, celebrated for being the longest-running radio show in Alaska.
Welcome to Problem Corner, Alaska's longest running radio show. Connect and discuss the topics important to Juneau and all of Southeast Alaska. Call (907) 586-1800, and subscribe to the podcast at kinyradio.com. Powered by Princess Cruise Lines, Alaska Laundry and Dry Cleaning, Juno Power Sports, and Dawson Construction.
Speaker 2:Well, good morning. Good morning. Hello, and welcome to Prom Corner. I'm your host Wade Bryson, and Prom Corner is a community service of KINY. The purpose of the program is to swap and trade items non commercially and to discuss issues that affect the community.
Speaker 2:Programs not intended for businesses or something that would require business license such as firewood sales or arts and craft or services like day care providers. The other restrict category home sales and rentals. If you're in need of any of these services, you are more than welcome to call in. We must restrict the sale and purchase firearms, licensed gun dealers, other business owners are welcome to purchase advertising on Problem Corner. Alright.
Speaker 2:Give me a call here. 586-1800. You can always send a text, (907) 586-1800, and that will get your message over here. We're getting to that garage sale time of the week. If you got a garage sale coming up this weekend, let us know.
Speaker 2:I got a call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 3:Good morning. I have some classic vinyl record albums from the sixties for sale. And, if anybody's interested in them but can't come to them to see them, I would be glad to take them to them so that they can see them. And then, also, I have a couple of water jugs that I'm giving away. One's six gallon and one's five gallon.
Speaker 3:They're both in perfectly good condition. There's absolutely nothing wrong with them, and I'll deliver them. And then I'd like to ask the folks who have the garage sales if they would please write down their addresses on the signs they use to advertise them in bigger letters or numbers so that they're easier to read.
Speaker 2:You're on with that.
Speaker 4:And
Speaker 3:my my number is, (907) 796-9397.
Speaker 2:9397. Alright. Well, I tell you what, let me send some folks your way and see if somebody wants to pick up those records or water jokes from you today.
Speaker 3:Okay. Thanks, Wade, and have a good weekend.
Speaker 2:You have a good week too, sir. A gentleman has vinyl records. You can give him a shout and discuss the titles or he'll bring them to you. 95779693977969397. And yes, unfortunately, not everybody listens to the sage advice from Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:The only thing you need to write on your garage sale sign is your address. An arrow might help but we've all passed by a garage sale sign where they tried to write like clothes and toys and tools. Like, the garage sale we we all garage sales are similar. Would you agree to that? That they so, just the address nice and big that will get your folks to you, for the garage sale.
Speaker 2:Alright. Speaking of garage sales, we got a huge garage sale shop sale at 10008 Crazy Horse Drive, ten to 3, on Saturday. It's the red condo behind old color view. And so that's a contractor shop sale, Saturday ten to one, 10008 Crazy Horse Drive. So you head down Industrial.
Speaker 2:I believe that's take a right on the Crazy Horse and you'll see the color view in there. Look for the red condo behind that. Yeah. And so if you're thinking about a garage sale or what else makes a successful garage sale? Are there any garage sale experts out there?
Speaker 2:Are there certain items that have, like, garage sale demand? I have been looking to talk with somebody that has more garage sale experience. I got another call. Maybe they got the answer for me. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Morning. This is Problem Corner. Yeah. I got a big idea about on getting hired in.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 4:We got a person to yeah. We got a person who knows the world. She doesn't belong. She's gotta step down because she is Filipino. Okay?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Hey. You're welcome, buddy. Alright. You have a good day. Alright.
Speaker 2:2¢ on that. $5.08 $6.01 800. Come and join us. 586-1800. Come and join us on air.
Speaker 2:I know. This gentleman has his RC remote controlled airplane. And so if you're wanting to get into the remote control airplane hobby, this gentleman can help you out. He has a hangar nine cub. He's willing to trade it for 40 or 60 size helicopter or a large drone.
Speaker 2:The electric cub has floats on it. He wants $350 for it. You could have your own little remote control plane. And that phone number 90720968102096810. Alright.
Speaker 2:586-1800. Send me a phone call now. You can come and join us. You can send me a text, and I think I have a little bit of room on email. So go ahead and send me an email.
Speaker 2:Ayr@kinyradio.com. Alright. I have an email here. Tim is selling his twenty ten sixteen foot Hughes Craft boat. Comes equipped with the Yamaha 60 horsepower with a four blade prop, a HydraShield, an eight horsepower kicker, removable cover, electric downriggers, wet tank, radio, Garmin fish, temp, depth finder, automatic bilge, gas, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 2:Derby ready. Oh, I was waiting for it to mention the derby. All it's fully equipped and ready to fish the Derby, and that is 2097675. 2097675 for a boat ready for the Derby. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Hey. Hey. James McCants. How are
Speaker 6:you doing this morning, sir?
Speaker 2:James, hey. You gotta be careful. You can't use this platform or to advertise anything political, but you're welcome to share your thoughts on any topics that we have.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. No. No. No. 100%.
Speaker 5:Actually, the reason why I wanted to call
Speaker 2:was Okay.
Speaker 5:Tomorrow, the veterans dinner.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go.
Speaker 4:Five to
Speaker 5:yeah. Yeah. Five to 07:30. Doors open at five. I believe we start serving at six, and it goes to 07:30.
Speaker 5:So and I know you guys have the, you know, sign on your door there at you guys' facilities. But, yeah, tomorrow, five to 07:30. Any veterans or families love to see, everybody there. It's free. So come one, come all.
Speaker 5:Love to have everybody.
Speaker 2:Alright. So James McCants, you are a veteran. Is that correct?
Speaker 5:Yes, sir. Yes.
Speaker 7:I am.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you for your service. And now are you gonna be eating or serving at the veterans dinner?
Speaker 5:I'm gonna be serving and eating when I can. I remember you were here last year too. Think you did a lot of serving and try to eat.
Speaker 2:Oh, you you can't eat until the the thing's over. I've definitely discovered that. Don't try to make a they'll give you a to go container at the
Speaker 5:end. Right. Right.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. We had we had plenty of leftovers last year. So again, we wanna get everything served this year. So again, veterans and families, no one's getting turned away. Just love to have the best turnout we can for everybody.
Speaker 5:And it's national Alaska National Card Day. Oh, really? What we're celebrating. Yes, sir. Yep.
Speaker 2:Alaska National Card Day. Well, thank you for sharing that with me. Well, James McCants, thanks for the call in, and I will read I'll tell everybody about the veterans dinner.
Speaker 5:Yes, sir. Perfect. Appreciate you. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2:Have a good day, sir. Alright. That's James, everybody. He's inviting all veterans to the veterans dinner. Pretty sure that was in Centennial Hall.
Speaker 2:They use their somebody call me back if that's incorrect or send me a text. But that's where the Veterans Center was last night or, last year. Sorry. Man, and they went all out too. So it's not just like one kind of meat.
Speaker 2:It's like you had your pick. So there were ample meats to choose from, ample sides. I thought they even had a big old cake. So to thank all of our veterans on Alaska National Guard Day, six to 07:30PM. And I didn't get that date.
Speaker 2:If somebody has that, I will, take a look for it. I should take one more note. Alright. But the veterans dinner is coming up. Somebody let me know exactly what day.
Speaker 2:I think he said tomorrow. Shoot. I didn't write it down. 586-1800 come and join me. Thank you.
Speaker 2:They said July 30, which is tomorrow. James, thanks for that. He was able to post on or text Problem Corner. Alright. Awesome.
Speaker 2:So tomorrow, night starting at 6PM, you could probably get there a little bit early, 05:30 ish, 05:45 ish. And, again, thank you to our veterans and, appreciate the veterans group, putting on that thank you dinner form. Alright. 5861805861800. Somebody sent me a message.
Speaker 2:I heard about the, a restaurant downtown who specialized in one type of product accidentally ran out. They sold more there than they had and there was a mix up. And so, as shipping to Juneau becomes, they had a glitch and they were not able to, be open, on a night or two. And so they there was a lot of really angered comments directed them at that business for social through social media. I wanted to somebody who did have a restaurant for a very long time here in town, let you know that man, stuff happens.
Speaker 2:And when you're dealing with food, it's even more critical that your shipping process is perfect because, I've definitely had an entire freezer shipment worth of food get thawed out on its way to town. And having a little bit of patience for businesses that are dealing with things that are outside of their control, think would be a great way for a community to respond. Oh no, that happened. That's awful. Seven day a week businesses, it takes like a catastrophic catastrophically bad thing to happen like our product didn't come in so the things that we sell aren't here.
Speaker 2:Things are delayed. Things it could be sitting here, but if there's 10 containers on top of it, those 10 containers are getting unloaded first. I mean, it's just how it works. So appreciate somebody sending us a text on that, and I would just remind everybody and nobody's being malicious. They didn't get their product.
Speaker 2:They weren't able to be open again. I don't think berating the staff or management is the appropriate thing. Let's we all live in Alaska. We all have to get our stuff shipped up here. Alright.
Speaker 2:5861805861800. If you got 2¢ on anything. Somebody was saying thank you. They were trying to get it explained to folks, and they did have to close through a weekend. So, hopefully, everything is up and running and rolling forward without any further issues.
Speaker 2:Alright. 5861805861800. I got a few minutes left for you. I'll take a ABC News break. This person has a cat food and a cat tree for sale.
Speaker 2:They're looking for $50 for it. $796,910.02. If you need some cat food and a cat tree, you might reach out to this person. 796-9102. That's a 907 number.
Speaker 2:796-9102 if you're looking for a cat treat and some cat food. Alright. Maybe chat with another cat person. 586-1800. Go ahead and give me a shout here and come and join me.
Speaker 2:This person says hello. They have AT and T prepaid phones for sale. No dings or anything. Send a text. 508564.
Speaker 2:508564. I got a call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hey. Was Bobby. It's Bobby.
Speaker 2:What's going on, sir? How are you?
Speaker 4:Oh, just another beetle for being in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2:Excellent. What you got going on today?
Speaker 8:I would like to piss him
Speaker 4:on for a minute. Can I piss him on for a minute?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Well, I know, I love search. They, you know, they give us free medical, and it's a multibillion dollar industry, you know, that thrives off of, what do you call it, Medicaid and stuff like that and everything. And and they pay they pay very, very well. You know? And they have very great benefits and such.
Speaker 4:Like but a couple of days ago, I spent almost an almost an hour and a half calling over and over and over. And I know somebody who works at such, and I said, I can't you know, I called them, and they said, can't get through. What the heck's going on? And and they went and checked on them. And in the front there were the answer phones and everything, stuff like that.
Speaker 4:I went through a couple avenues, and they were just they told me that they were just sitting there, not answering phones and stuff like that. Like I mentioned, they pay very well, you know, and, you know, it's a life and death industry or whatever you call it. It's a life and death thing, and when they when they hire people who, are nonchalant with the life and death industry, it's wrong. It's simply wrong. Hello?
Speaker 2:I'm listening to you, sir. You want to get it out and express your frustration. So you didn't actually see the lady sitting behind the counter. You're just taking the information on somebody shared with you that they were sitting behind the counter not answering the phone?
Speaker 4:Yeah. I I called and called and called over and over and over because I have a a health issue that that's, you know, life and death, and there's a ton of people that are are going through just what I'm going through. But when you hire people that don't do their job, don't take it serious when it's a life and death industry, somebody should be fired. And, you know, I'm I'm I'm kind of pissed, frustrated. You know?
Speaker 4:And is there anybody else out there? I know there's a ton of people out there that are going through the same thing I am going through where you call search over and over and over and then answering the phones. You know, it's it's it's nonsense. Anyway, that's my my frustration of the day. But
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, hey. I appreciate you calling and sharing that. I hope you feel better after getting it off your chest, sir.
Speaker 4:Okay. Alright. Thank you, It'll be back in the door.
Speaker 2:Alright. Okay. 586-1800. I got another call. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Live
Speaker 2:on Problem Corner. Alright. Are you I thought I had somebody there. Are you there? Oh, I chickened out.
Speaker 2:Give me a shout back here. 586180586, 1800. Then, yeah, give us a shout. I got a couple minutes left. 586, 1800.
Speaker 2:That will get you on air with us. That worked. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hi. This is Deborah. Here. Have a I'm having a moving sale.
Speaker 2:Excellent.
Speaker 8:And I have a long list, and I don't expect you to write it all down.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 8:Okay?
Speaker 2:Well, go ahead and read it off. We'll be entertaining. There you go.
Speaker 8:Okay. Two twin beds, one floral couch, very, very comfortable. It's a tapestry. I have a Cherry Hutch and a Cherry Curio cabinet, and they're both in perfect shape. Really very nice.
Speaker 8:I have a where? Oh, the the curio cabinet has white and glass and perfect shape. I have two large prints, one of two polar bears and one of two wolves, very well framed. They're larger prints. They might be interesting to some commercial people, but they're very nice.
Speaker 8:Let me see what I have here. I wrote a list, but I can't read it.
Speaker 2:I've run into that sometimes.
Speaker 8:Print a frame. And, also, I used to be Canvas Unlimited, and I am selling all the equipment and stuff in my shop. If anybody is interested in scissors, zippers, material, presses for grommet, button press, and stuff like that, please stop by and we can make a deal.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am. Alright. Sounds like you got some neat stuff there. What's the phone number?
Speaker 8:Okay. I'm on 1790 Fritz Cove Road.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's easy enough.
Speaker 8:And the number is (907) 723-2901.
Speaker 2:2901. You're on Fritz Cove.
Speaker 8:Correct.
Speaker 2:Alright. 723-2901. Did I get it right?
Speaker 8:Yes. You did. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:You are welcome. Alright. A move in sale. You were listening to all those great items she has. She used to run Canvas Unlimited since they've got some of that equipment.
Speaker 2:Maybe get into a little canvas making. That moving sale will be at 1790 Fritz Cove. You could probably get better times and information at 90772329017232901. Alright. I got about a minute if you squeak in 586-1800.
Speaker 2:Otherwise, I will read what was this one? Woo hoo. Alright. So this is a business that is wanting to advertise on Problem Corner. I'll get to I'll send Devin, to chat with you and then that way we can help get you on to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:I think that'll be how we do it. Alright. Well, I tell you what, no calls. Let's just go to a commercial. I'll be right back with more Problem Corner on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to Problem Corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:All Alright. Welcome back to Problem Corner. Give me a call here. 5861805861800. You can get on there and talk about something.
Speaker 2:Alright. I also have emails, air k I n y radio dot com. Alright. On behalf of Bartlett Beginnings, I want to let you know about our local World Breastfeeding Week celebration, event that's happening Saturday, August 1, this upcoming Saturday, 10AM to noon at the Twin Lakes Shelter. The purpose of the event is not only celebrate the health and social benefits of breastfeeding, but also to create community and connections for families with young children regardless of feeding choice.
Speaker 2:We are partnering with the Juneau Family Birth Center, Valley Medical Care, Southeast Childhood Collective, Parents as Teachers, Bustin' Out Boutique, Foundations Physical Therapy, Southeast Burst Collective, and Ray Bell's Photography among others to put on the gathering. The advertising flyer is attached. Bartlett Beginnings would like to spread the word about this celebration and extend an invitation to all the all in the community who would like to join. They wanna advertise it on KNY. That's what we're doing here.
Speaker 2:Alright. I'll talk more about that in a moment. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Wade. I got a question. You know, on this thing that that was just on the taco text taco on on your number?
Speaker 2:Yep. There's a whole bunch of them that come through.
Speaker 8:So does
Speaker 20:can you does it matter if
Speaker 5:you do it once or 10 times? Do you get 10 entries or or once you've done it, are you just in and you're in?
Speaker 2:I've seen some people just enter once, and I am seeing some people enter multiple times. I will have to check out one of the, radio station folks and find out what the situation is there. I'll try to get answers for you. Yeah. We'll sign up again.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and enter your name again in and if it only registers you once, no harm, no foul.
Speaker 6:Okay. Thanks.
Speaker 2:Glad to do oh, I was hoping he had something fun to chat about today. The only thing, local politics, is that Monday yeah. Monday at 04:30 marked the end of the municipal election registration period. And so we've got a race, only one assembly seat is uncontested. There are three people vying for two school board seats.
Speaker 2:There are two people running for one of the incumbent seats. One of the open seats, only had one contender, Mila Cosgrove for her brace. Mila was the deputy city manager when I first served on the assembly. Don't recall exactly when Mila retired, but talk about somebody who understands operations. Her seat her race is uncontested.
Speaker 2:And then like I said, one of the open race races has four individuals signed up for it. And the reason that impacts you is because one, you're gonna get to vote for one of them. But two, the more candidates in a political race, the more the topics come to light. And so they by having a contested race, more of those challenging questions will be asked. And so that's what's going on.
Speaker 2:If you got 2¢ on that, It ends at the, like, at the end of July and then the campaign season when, folks will start to have, like forums or, questionnaires sent out, probably starting in about two weeks, somewhere around there. They might get one or two notices now, but then they'll get a whole bunch, towards the end of August and they really think of the last couple of weeks of August and the first two weeks of September to be a campaign season for this local municipal election. Ballots, the hybrid ballots that get mailed to you. You can mail them back or you can put them in drop boxes or you can deliver them to the two in person, election sites that happened like the last two weeks, last ten days of September. It's something like that.
Speaker 2:So you'll be able to, make your decision, hopefully by September 16 or somewhere around there, whatever the day the ballots hit your mailbox. And so that is how the local municipal election is, gonna work this year, timing wise, forum wise. They were gonna put a question on do we bond and borrow money to, do some of the capital projects, or not? And they chose not to because they do have a lot of questions are being asked on this year's ballot again. The three year temporary tax that we vote on every three years, it might be more than that, every five years.
Speaker 2:But every handful years, the citizens of Juneau are asked, do you want to continue funding police, fire and a handful of other city services with a temporary 3% sales tax? That question is being asked again. The other questions that are being asked are two more citizen bond initiative or citizen ballot initiative questions are, do we, free up the mill rate cap? Last year, citizen ballot initiative lowered it to nine instead of the previous 12 mills. The question asked is do we wanna reverse that and go back up to 12 mills?
Speaker 2:That's one of the questions. And the second question that is being asked is would you like to add 1% to the summer sales tax? And that is a separate question than the 3% sales tax question. So those are gonna be some of the questions that need to be answered when you go to vote. If you're not a candidate and you got 2¢ on something, you are welcome to give a shout and say your 2¢.
Speaker 2:Should we be increasing the mill rate or does a capped mill rate hold the assembly's feet to the fire? That's kind of the question in nutshell. We will find out because we're the same questions are being asked again for a second year but in a slightly different manner. Alright. If you got 2¢ on that, by all means, 586-1800.
Speaker 2:You can send a text to that (907) 586-1800. I can answer any of your questions too. Oh, I did want to remind everybody, the local world breastfeeding week celebration event is happening, Saturday, the first, this coming Saturday, starting at 10AM at the Twin Lakes Shelter. So go celebrate breastfeeding. Not the easiest thing for me to read, I gotta say that.
Speaker 2:Alright. I survived. I'm just thinking my daughters would all be teasing me right now. Okay. Jason wants to know or Jackson wants to know he has two small refrigerators that he wanted to take to the junkyard, but was told they need to have certified documents saying that the Freon gas has been removed.
Speaker 2:They could not direct me to who does this. Do you know who removes Freon gases? Thank you. So, yes, refrigerators are one of the peskiest things to throw away because of the refrigerant gases. There are two or three refrigeration companies in town.
Speaker 2:I know one of them, long building technology would be one that you could maybe reach out to. How can I say this in a correct manner? Hypothetically, if you had a small refrigerator that the refrigerant system has a glaring hole in it because of for whatever reasons, that may be an adequate way, and again, this is all hypothetical, that a metal recycler might be able to deal with your metal refrigerator. If they can see, oh, it's very clearly a busted refrigerator with no Freon in it, maybe that that hypothetically, that might be a scenario. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air. Why oh, I missed the button. There you go. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air. I missed. How's going? How's it going? Good.
Speaker 7:I am in Haines.
Speaker 2:Hello to Haines.
Speaker 7:And I did hello. I I did send in an email, but I had I had some more stuff that I I thought I could add to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Let's do it. So I'm looking for your email now.
Speaker 7:So I'm looking for some unfrozen silicone, like, five to 10 tubes, wider clear spine, and then shoes, size nine, women's, and and or sandals or both, size eleven men's, sneakers preferably, and rain pants, universal, and flat screen smart TV, free if possible, and then also a water catchment tank or water storage tank. I'm not sure what you would call it. I thought there might be somebody out there who, excuse me, who got on city water and had their you know, didn't have any more use for their their water storage tank.
Speaker 2:Oh, gotcha.
Speaker 7:Okay. And and then and then also a a phone, an unlocked phone.
Speaker 2:Alright. And is this Corey?
Speaker 7:This is Corey.
Speaker 2:That's it. I found it. Yeah. Alright. Let me see what I can do for you.
Speaker 2:I'll reach phone number. You're in Haines. How would folks get this stuff to you from Juno to Haines?
Speaker 7:Well, there might be folks in are are you broadcasting in Sitka too?
Speaker 2:I think they can hear in Skagway. I don't know if they're listening all the way in Sitka.
Speaker 7:Well, there there could be people all over along between here and there listening.
Speaker 2:Oh, sure.
Speaker 7:And so, you know, hey. We we still got a mail system.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah. Let's, let me, read your stuff off and see what we can help you find, sir.
Speaker 7:Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 5:Appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Glad to help. Alright. Gentlemen in Haines looking for some stuff. If you can help them with size nine, women's shoes or sandals, size eleven men's shoes, rain pants, hopefully a free flat screen TV, a water storage tank, a small plug in radio, and silicone that has been unfrozen. So I think it means that hasn't frozen and thawed.
Speaker 2:They're looking for five to 10 tubes. 321-2853. 321-2853. Alright. Good luck.
Speaker 2:If you can help that gentleman out. 586-1800. I got about ten minutes left in the show. If you had questions or answers for some of the things that we've asked, give us a shout here. 586-1800.
Speaker 2:That's a text as well. Let's see if we got any new text in here. Oh, nothing too fun or fancy. Alright. 586-1800.
Speaker 2:I was talking about, the local election. Oh, not this weekend, but the following weekend, the Salmon Derby. This is the eightieth Golden North Salmon Derby. How awesome is that? Celebrating eighty years.
Speaker 2:I don't think there will be Problem Corner if they're broadcast in the Salmon Derby on Friday, but that's okay. They're broadcast in the Salmon Derby throughout, the Juno Radio Center or the Juno Media First Center. So that way everyone can hear the up to date Salmon Derby announcements, and there are so many people that participate in it. And I can't think of another event in town that has so many people come in to participate in that activity. Maybe gold medal days because you're bringing in teams.
Speaker 2:So I'll go ahead and I'll agree that gold medal tournament brings in more, south Easterners or that brings Laskins to town. But the Golden North Salmon Derby, like there's so many stories about people that either fished in the derby when they were young or they had won a derby or got the scholarship from the derby. We hear that story a whole bunch and it just seems like folks really come out for the Salmon Derby and it's a an entire community thing. Hey. I just hope that your Salmon Derby weather is pleasant this year.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Hi. Hey. Last week, there was a fellow on that was talking about the Sweetheart Lake Dam. Okay. And and he said that the city manager had written a letter to the regulatory commission stating that she didn't feel that they should be awarded, I don't know what it is, you know
Speaker 8:A permit. Yeah. Permit.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 6:But under what authority does she do that?
Speaker 2:The answer is so awful. I can't even read it on the air. I can't tell you. Find me in public and I'll share with you.
Speaker 6:Oh, okay. Well, I Yeah. You know, I feel that I mean, I really didn't pay any attention to the Sweetheart Dam project until
Speaker 2:the fall. $125,000,000 project coming into coming through Juneau. And if we produce more electricity, people will be able to buy more electricity. And
Speaker 6:Well, AELP doesn't want the competition.
Speaker 2:That's
Speaker 6:exactly think that's appropriate. And, also, unless she was asked to do that by the assembly and who are representatives of everybody in town
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 6:I don't know that she has the right to to write a letter like that. And it just bothers me that it was done. And I don't know anything more about it, but it just aggravated me when the fellow was talking about it and I thought Yeah. You know,
Speaker 2:I I don't don't think you're wrong.
Speaker 6:Well, I hope other people in town will talk about Keep
Speaker 2:asking that question. Yeah.
Speaker 6:Economic. It's a it's a big economic boom for our town, and AEL
Speaker 4:and
Speaker 6:P is a private corporation. You know, you cannot guarantee them not to have competition. At least we the city shouldn't be doing that. And, anyway, I'm I'm in favor of the Sweetheart Lake project because I think it holds great things for our future. But, anyway, I just was wondering if maybe you and all your wisdom knew something about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I wish I didn't. Yeah. Sorry about that. No.
Speaker 2:Find me.
Speaker 6:I understand. Alright.
Speaker 2:Thank you, ma'am. Alright. Bye. Alright. Here is the saddest, most upsetting part of the Sweetheart Lake saga that has been going on way too long, more than a decade now, that the Sweetheart Lake electricity project, in order to get his electricity, the electricity from Sweetheart Lake to where the new customers would be, they'd have to pay a wheeling fee and that is the amount of money that he that Sweetheart Lake I forgot the name of their corporation, would have to pay the ALMP as a wheeling fee is about a million dollars a year.
Speaker 2:And because of how electricity or electric companies are set up, that would be a million dollars a year that would come off of Junoites rates. So it would give the total town a collective million dollar discount just because of the wheeling fee that would be created by having Sweetheart Lake. And Alright. Like I said, I wish I didn't know. Anybody else got 2¢ on it that wants to share with everybody?
Speaker 2:You are welcome to come in Juneau Hydro Power. Thank you for that. It is the Juno Hydro Power project that would bring a 125 to a $150,000,000 project of private funded money, not government. There'd be private money coming in through our town. 200 workers making Davis bacon wages, which are 2.5 times minimum wage.
Speaker 2:So real wages for real project that has a real financial impact to the community of Juneau because of the extra power being produced. Like I said, if anybody's got 2¢ on that that they would like to, share with everybody, Feel free to. 5861805861800. That will get you on air. And you can also, send me the text for that at that 586-1800.
Speaker 2:I read Corey's stuff he's looking for in Hanes. Oh, Tim wanted to let everybody know. Artificial intelligence aided phone scams. Oh my gosh. This is the part that I worried about about AI.
Speaker 2:So AI is now assisting scam artist to replicate a loved one's voice to fake a family emergency such as a loved one got into a car accident, is in custody, and needs you to transfer money into her account to pay bail. Loved ones need money for any kind of emergency. AI scams, you have to be even more careful, because of AI. Did nobody watch the Terminator movies? I feel like all of these people that are, like, making AI more competent, like, didn't watch what happens the moment that AI we build a machine that can then duplicate itself.
Speaker 2:That's it for us. I mean, they're just gonna be like, yeah, humans don't worry about it. You don't have to do anything. Don't lift a finger anymore. We've got this.
Speaker 2:And I do kinda like I I don't wanna say I believe that but, Facebook, Meta, whatever you wanna call them. I'm pretty sure that was the company. So they took two artificial intelligence computers and they let them talk to each other. And the very first things that the computer did, the artificial intelligence did was speak in a language that no one could understand. They started communicating to each other digitally like in a secret code that people couldn't understand.
Speaker 2:They unplugged them immediately. So, yeah. Thank you, Tim, for filling us in on that. That does kinda give me a little anxiety that that is awful that they can use fake people's voices to fake an emergency. Wow.
Speaker 2:Crazy. Thank you for, letting us know of that new awful scam. Alright. Five eight six one eight hundred. We talked about taking two small refrigerators to the junkyard.
Speaker 2:Talked about a couple of hypothetical alternative options. One more call here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 21:Yeah. Pretty soon, we'll have an army of AI robots.
Speaker 2:Oh, they already have some. Yeah.
Speaker 21:And and they and they said they're boosting production. They said everyone can make them. They're making it in record as fast as they can. And they said their argument is, they said, when these soldiers go out, they follow orders.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Until they don't.
Speaker 21:They they they they have no conscience. Okay? For them to go out and kill the enemy, they will kill anyone in their way.
Speaker 2:Yes. That is what the movie portrayed. There's no doubt about that. Alright. Well, thanks for the call.
Speaker 2:I wanna switch gears as we're getting to the end of Problem Corner. What was the number for the guy who had the old records for sale? If you were looking you're the person that was looking for the vinyl record, 79693977969397. And with that, it is time to end the show. I wanna thank everybody for calling in, tuning in, hanging out with us today.
Speaker 2:We got Katie will be here tomorrow. So go ahead and send those emails or text in, and she'll be to get those, questions answered for you. And remember, on Problem Corner, there are no such thing as problems, just solutions we've yet to discover. Have a great rest of the day. I'm Wade.
Speaker 2:I'm out of here.
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