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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 noncommercially and to discuss issues that affect the community.
Speaker 2:The program is not intended for businesses or something that would require business license, such as firewood sales or arts and crafts or services like daycare providers. The other restricted categories, home sales and rentals. If you're in need of any of these services, you are more than welcome to call. We must restrict the sale and purchase of firearms, licensed gun dealers, other business owners are welcome to purchase advertising on Problem Corner. Just call 586-3630.
Speaker 2:I got all the way to the end of the disclaimer before I slipped up
Speaker 3:that That's how it shows his muscle memory for you, Aiden.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir. Well, hello, hello. In case this is your first time ever listening to Prom Corner, it's my first show back. And thank you, Justin, hanging out with the show, hanging out with me for the show. Hey, how about give me a call, 58618005861800.
Speaker 2:We can get, just Are the phones not working?
Speaker 3:It says it's registering on my right there. Hopefully
Speaker 2:the phones are working. I did walk into the studio and I'm still allergic to technology, so that wouldn't surprise me if the phones went off a little bit. 5861805861800. That will get you in the air or get you on air here and oh, man. We can start talking about Prophet Corner again and some of the local stuff that's going on.
Speaker 2:Do you have something to sell, something to trade? Ben, you got a Justin, you got an email there?
Speaker 3:No emails yet, but as always, you can submit emails by going to kinmyradio.com. Just go to that contact Us tab, and there's different categories, just click Problem Corner, and that's how you could get in. So it does look like our phone system is registering, so we
Speaker 4:are not able to take calls at this moment, but
Speaker 2:So you brought me back from Prom Corner, but then didn't let me take phone calls.
Speaker 3:I know, our phone does not want us to cooperate today.
Speaker 2:Alright, well you take a moment and play with the phone system, Oh man, I think I see if I can't bring one or two things up to speed here. I tell you what, the biggest thing that I wanted to share with everybody after joining on Prom Corner, I had a daughter get married in December, Mary Ellen. And Mary Ellen was born and raised in Juneau. She was actually born in my bedroom that I still have now. Yeah, we did a home birth for Mary Ellen and I could point to the spot in my bedroom, that was where Mary Ellen was born.
Speaker 2:And then this solstice winter solstice, the December 21, she got married to Isaiah Unzicker. Ah. And Mary Ellen Unzicker now. And man, it was just awesome to have Mary Ellen get married. It was as cool a day as when she was born.
Speaker 2:What's the word? You fix Looks like a hammer. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3:I should just start whacking phones with a hammer. But the phone systems are back online, so give us a call at (907) 586-1800.
Speaker 2:5 8 6 1 8 0 0. Give me a shout. Let me know what's been going on. Oh, that did get it. So I just pushed this one.
Speaker 2:Right? Yep. Alright. Good morning. Welcome to Prom Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I wanted to bring up the Douglas Crosswalk over by Breeze in it.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 4:It's got rear ended that stops for someone to cross the road. And, you know, that when they put those lights in a Floyd Dragon and over by Duck Creek and even on the backside of Foodland when they're crossing the the highway there Yep. It's really easy to know that there's somebody trying to cross the road. I don't know why the city won't do something like that for that inter
Speaker 2:It's the reason why is it's a state road. It would have to be state action because I know exactly which crosswalk. It's going up to Foster Avenue. Right?
Speaker 4:Yep. Yep. And that's the only place you can cross on on Douglas Highway when you get down to the end before the bridge.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know. And if I hadn't been driving with my wife one night as we were coming home from being in Douglas, she absolutely would've hit a person there because I could tell that everybody was getting ready to stop. So you're what you're talking about is a pedestrian controlled light where it flashes and let people know because you're right. You can't so the person two or three cars back can't see the the little pedestrian wearing all black crossing the street, and you do get that that somebody's gotta slam on their brakes. And if in this day and age, everybody likes to try and see how good they are at looking at their phone while they're driving.
Speaker 2:And, yeah, I feel for you, buddy. But state DOT would be the correct entity that could put a pedestrian control light there. Does that help?
Speaker 4:It doesn't help me. I don't live over there, but it
Speaker 3:would help.
Speaker 2:It would help everybody from not getting in an accident there. Okay. The next time I run into what is it? Mister Goins over at DOT that we could do it. Chris, are you listening?
Speaker 2:Maybe somebody's listening. David, are you over there? Alright. Well, let's see if we can get that information to the right DOT expert.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I mean, it just seems like it would make so much sense to save lives by putting a light in.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir. But you how to remember, one of the rules for government is you can't use too much common sense. It doesn't work.
Speaker 4:Alright. Thanks.
Speaker 2:Hey. Thanks. No. Glad to. You as well, sir.
Speaker 2:Alright. 5861805861800. What do I gotta hit that button?
Speaker 5:Yep.
Speaker 2:Alright. I cleared it out. That's almost like it's my first day back or something.
Speaker 3:Looks like we do have a call, I'm not seeing the light flip up on the board.
Speaker 1:Good morning, welcome to Prom Corner. Hello? Heard that one.
Speaker 2:Good morning, welcome to Prom Corner.
Speaker 1:Oh, here we go. Good.
Speaker 3:Press the drop button and then take the phone call.
Speaker 2:Alright, we go.
Speaker 1:Almost there.
Speaker 2:Alright, I have officially broken It's okay. The phones. We've been abusing
Speaker 3:those during Golden Everest week, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I can't believe alright, so maybe we have this one. Good morning, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live if not on the air. So maybe we'll take a little bit earlier of a commercial break, Justin, we can get a little bit further in the show and we can take that commercial break sooner rather than later because it looks like people are trying to call.
Speaker 3:We do have a call.
Speaker 2:So Let's try it.
Speaker 3:Let's poop that.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hey. Just glad to hear that you're back, buddy.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, I'm back for today. So far, let's take it one step at a time or one day at a time, if you don't mind. But yeah. No.
Speaker 2:I I missed you guys, I felt like I had so much information to share and no one to share it with. And I it it's really good to hear your voice, sir.
Speaker 4:Right on. Just glad to hear that.
Speaker 2:Right on. Alright. Well, hey. Thanks for that. So I'm gonna try and just kick right over to the next call.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Brom Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hey, Wade. I'm glad to hear you. Senator Wade.
Speaker 2:Oh, no. I didn't get a promotional. I was going, it's just good old Wade. How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 6:Pretty good, Wade. So I'm glad to hear you. I'll let you go. Alright. I had to say, I think I said, that's gotta be Wade because the phone's acting up.
Speaker 5:There it was. Exactly. Right? You
Speaker 6:take care now.
Speaker 2:Hey. Really good to hear your voice, sir. Alright. Let's keep rolling, man. I think I was hitting the wrong button.
Speaker 2:Had to have been the wrong button. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Oh, man. Why are you back on the air?
Speaker 2:I know. I missed you and I wanted to chat with you. Alright. Oh, I know. I got nervous too and I had to pod that up there as well.
Speaker 2:Alright. But thanks for letting me share the winter wedding with having my first kid get married. And if you run into me, it is the screensaver on my phone. I haven't been like that proud of papa. Like, I I know I had baby pictures that I showed people, but I didn't show everybody as many pictures.
Speaker 3:Like, you've going around and everyone's like, look, my daughter's going, she's married. Yeah. I got a son-in-law.
Speaker 2:I feel like I paid way more for the wedding than I did for the home birth. Maybe that's a little bit this cost way more than that. Little kickback. Yeah. But it was absolutely just such a super cool moment and Mary was happy and Isaiah was happy and I looked around, everybody's smiling and it was just such a fun day.
Speaker 3:It's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Alright. 5861805861800. So, Justin, do people not sell stuff on Prom Corner anymore?
Speaker 3:People have been selling stuff. I could go back to what was sold yesterday or called in yesterday and go down the list
Speaker 2:and Go down the list. Because I've and that was the other reason why I wanted to rejoin Prom Corner. I have run into like a dozen different things that I wanted to get rid of on Prom Corner, and I just didn't do it. I probably should've just emailed it in, it would've been easier.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Definitely always welcome to shoot us emails and at knyradio dot com. But yesterday we had a fair amount of folks calling in. So some lady had a broken dresser looking for a new free dresser or a pretty cheap dresser. They're able to pick up if needed.
Speaker 3:So they're also thrown out that they are a house cleaner or a yard worker. So if you're interested in a work service or you have a dresser for this lady, you could call (907) 209-6819. And it's gotta be a big enough dresser to fit a TV on top. And then earlier yesterday, we had a guy selling some fake snake skin boots for $25 a pair and they're size tens. And he also had 80 18 inch studded tires.
Speaker 3:So if you're interested in those knock off snakeskin boots or those 18 inch studded tires, you could call at (907) 321-5569.
Speaker 2:Were those cowboy boots do you think that
Speaker 3:I think they were cowboy
Speaker 2:style boots. Yeah. With faux snake skin. I think
Speaker 3:that's what they were. Alright. And that was all that called in yesterday for stuff being sold. So that was a few few items.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, problem corner has always been famous for the level of used tires that we have moved through the economy. There's no doubt about that. Upcycling, right? If you sell something or give something away, you don't have to pay to dispose of it.
Speaker 2:And so sometimes just giving something away makes it Is that It's just the easiest way to deal with it. No, I hear you. Alright, we'll give them another minute or two. Five eight six one eight hundred five eight six one eight hundred. Alright.
Speaker 2:Let's give this phone thing a try. Just push the button in. Right? Yep. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Prom Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hey. I'm calling from Huna. Just welcome me way back.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Hello to Huna. How are you doing today? Oh, alright.
Speaker 3:I guess we're just doing a short brief welcomes today.
Speaker 2:Hey. I love you guys. I miss you too. So I did wanna say go Huna and go Angoon, and I do believe my my favorite response during gold medal week is I hope your team wins. That's the best that I can hope for you.
Speaker 2:Alright. 5861805861800. Maybe we'd sneak one more in and what's that one say about what you got up there?
Speaker 3:This is just our voting stuff, so I kinda get all the emails for our folks that are voting for ACDC in Vegas at the moment, so that's also going on. I believe we have a QR code over at Subway as well.
Speaker 2:I do wanna give a shout out to the guys at Subway, and I should give a shout out to the folks at the Bike Doctor too. The only people I told that I was headed here this morning were staff members there. I think everybody's listening and they were excited to have they know I'm gone for that hour. I guess that's just a little relief for everybody there. Well,
Speaker 3:we almost let it slip yesterday with them, Browning, because I was telling our fellow co hosts here on Problem Corner that you were returning.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 3:we're trying to keep it hush-hush, but it almost slipped out yesterday. So I'm glad that we were able to keep the surprise of your return to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because until about twenty minutes ago, I wasn't even sure about it. So and I'm glad it all worked out. Yeah. Good. What do you say we go to take a commercial break and we come back?
Speaker 2:We will maybe do a little bit more dead air or some thirty second hellos. Alright. We'll be back with more problem corner on KINY.
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Speaker 2:Alright. Welcome back to the show. Give us a shout. 5861805861800. We got a call.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hi. Hello.
Speaker 5:Know when the radio station will be working at Angoon.
Speaker 2:When will the radio station be on in Angoon? Do you know that answer?
Speaker 3:I thought we addressed that issue. I was not aware that we weren't fully back on in Angoon.
Speaker 2:Oh, I think you just made a difference, ma'am. They will get it corrected.
Speaker 4:It's been out for over a week now.
Speaker 3:I was I was aware of the droppage the past week, but but I was I I brought it up with our management staff, and that was I thought we were directed at, but I will track that down as soon as we're done with Problem Corner today.
Speaker 2:Alright. Okay. Thank you. Well, thanks for giving us a shout and letting us know. Let's go on.
Speaker 2:I got another call here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Are you back from good, or are you just showing off today?
Speaker 2:Well, I was showing up today, and most likely, I will show up next week as well, but I I don't I don't think I'm gonna do it every day. In fact, we know I'm not gonna do it every day. I think this one day a week so I could come and join you guys and share the different info that of the different meetings I go to. Tuesday seemed to be like a really good day because it's the day after most assembly meetings. And so any of the relative information that you guys are gonna wanna know about, I can bring it on Tuesdays and keep some of that local content there and, yeah, and doing it one day a week, I think, that'd just be better for everybody involved.
Speaker 4:That's fair enough. Okay. I was just checking. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Well, it's really good to hear your voice. I absolutely love hearing these voices that I recognize. So, yeah, give me a shout. Let me recognize your voice too. 5861805861800.
Speaker 2:What has been going on? We do have the short term rental task force. I believe we set it up to be eight meetings. I happen to be chairing the short term rental task force and that is dealing with short term rentals, Airbnb, VRBO, and how it works with our city housing stock. And so if you have questions about that or 2¢, we're in the middle of that right now.
Speaker 2:Now we got a phone call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Good morning. I just wanted to say it's good to hear a familiar voice on Problem Corner. How many years did you do this?
Speaker 4:Have you been doing this, Wade?
Speaker 2:Like, sixteen or seventeen. I wanna
Speaker 4:say the I was gonna say.
Speaker 7:I was gonna say it's been a few years.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I was Dennis Egan's sub for the last year that he did prom corner full time, and then he became a senator, and that's when I and I wanna say that was, like it was about sixteen and a half years of prom corner full time or something. Something like that.
Speaker 7:I'm sure flew by.
Speaker 2:You know, life does seem to fly by.
Speaker 7:Shout out to that the lions club Junior lions club for always putting on gold medal every year and doing an excellent job. And I know it's a lot of this year round, I don't know if a lot of people realize that this year, it's a year round deal that they go through and they do a good job and just wanna say thank you to them.
Speaker 4:And everybody have a good
Speaker 7:gold medal. Good luck to all the teams over here. Have a good day, Wade.
Speaker 2:You too, buddy. I hope your team wins. Alright. Giving everybody a shout out, and thank you to the Lions Club for hosting gold medal every year. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:And we're recording most games that we're broadcasting. So if you do miss games that we're broadcasting, you could always find them on our podcast tab
Speaker 2:Get out of here.
Speaker 3:Kimyradio.com. So we got Sunday's games, and we got I still gotta upload the last night's games, but they will be up before this afternoon. So if you want if you missed yesterday last night's games here on KMI, you could check them out on our website.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. It's about time that they have, like, a TiVo system for those sporting events so that people could listen to the game at your convenience instead of live. I know that I don't think I've watched a live TV show, and I don't even know how long. Everything is a stream because you don't have to watch commercials, and it you watch the show what you want. You don't have to miss anything.
Speaker 3:And I think the last live thing I watched was the Logan Paul Mike Tyson fight. That was probably the first live thing I've watched in a long time. I'm not gonna jump too far into that Jump too far.
Speaker 2:That was that scares me because not everyone succeeds coming out of retirement, and I'm like, I'd hate to fall on my face here and No. And pull a Mike Tyson on problem corner. Okay. We don't wanna do that.
Speaker 3:Not gonna be like that. Nope. Not at all.
Speaker 2:Alright. Hey. Give us a shout. 5861805861800. Hey.
Speaker 2:That young lady was looking for a dresser, but I know that my wife has been looking for dressers. If anybody does have a dresser that they wanna sell, I I know dress dressers have a sometimes a premium on them always. 723-6526 if you have any dressers for sale. I know those are a active like everybody needs dressers as they're trying to I think it's gear up for tourist season right now. And so a whole bunch of businesses and landlords for that matter are are trying to get people employed and places set up and paint walls painted prior to the events, and it's yeah.
Speaker 2:Full fledged, everybody's trying to get ready for the season, and that probably includes getting rid of furniture and stuff like that. Any oh, what's that one say?
Speaker 3:We got an email just welcoming you back, Wade. It's great to have some normalcy back on
Speaker 2:the
Speaker 3:Oh,
Speaker 2:well, really glad to be back, and send me those topics. The one thing that I did like before we could take topics and work on them for a few days. That was my only That wasn't the only It was one of the concerns, how well could we handle a topic if I'm only talking about it one day a week? Could it pass before we get the information out there? So, if you guys want specific information about some of the topics, just give me a heads up so that way we can dig into them.
Speaker 2:Like the short term rental task force, we've had five meetings so far, maybe six. It's hard to keep count. And so what we're doing is we're putting together what legislation or regulations for short term rentals would be in Juneau. And then we're not the next meeting, but the two meetings after that, we're gonna be scheduling those for public testimony. So we're gonna have like two days.
Speaker 2:Okay. That two different sessions where the community can come out and testify on how they feel about short term rentals or what they think the direction should be with the city.
Speaker 3:Oh,
Speaker 2:good. And when are
Speaker 3:those dates again for that public testimony?
Speaker 2:I don't have the dates, I will get them and bring them in. It's not this Thursday, the next meeting is the next Thursday, which I think is April 3 maybe? I think that
Speaker 3:sounds right for Thursday.
Speaker 2:And so that will be Yeah, we'd have to go find a calendar. But I'm pretty sure that'll be the next short term rental task force meeting, and then we'll go into public testimony will be the two meetings after that.
Speaker 3:And we did get another email actually kind of about the renting stuff.
Speaker 2:So
Speaker 3:how come rent rent to own isn't a thing anymore? And why please explain why we need a third roundabout. So rent to own and a third roundabout.
Speaker 2:I would imagine that it goes on to a liability. And it probably is not as advantageous to be a rent to own person. Companies that do rent to own are considered predatory. If you ever heard of an Aaron's rental or a rental center, I wanna say before the bike doctor, I was looking at that type of business. So why would I not rent out stuff?
Speaker 2:Like if I'm always looking for dressers, why not have something where I can just one of the things I carry dressers and that would make a whole lot of sense. And looking at that, what I discovered rent to own, you generally pay 200 to 300% of the cost.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Right? And if you just get a regular bank mortgage, you could be at like 100%, like you borrowed 400,000 for a house, you paid 800,000 back over thirty years. That's like a good scenario. Those the rent to own, at least for furnishings, over like a two year period or a three year period, you could pay 300% of what that cost is. And it was just not fair to the folks that are doing that.
Speaker 2:And then you also run into if you don't have the right mechanism, let's say that you're renting to own a car or renting to own a house, and they gave you a decent down payment, and then they're paying a monthly payment, and then halfway through the agreed upon term, they wanna back out. Well, whoever the owner was at the first time who was carrying the note, they're most likely gonna have a mess. They're not gonna get that get it whatever they rented to own back in the same condition that they made that agreement Oh, okay. So, we've heard of people used to try and buy cars here with payments on problem corner and there's just so many times they don't work out. If you're paying on a car for a year and the engine blows up halfway through the year, has a major brake job or something where they couldn't afford to get a transmission issue fixed, then they still have a payment to a regular citizen that's not a banker, that doesn't have, like, those same mechanisms.
Speaker 2:And so it's it's ugly, messy, filled with liability. Oh, yeah. And it's just better to sell it to somebody. And if they need financing, go there's places that do trailer financing. There are places that do home financing.
Speaker 2:You can go to your bank to get a car or boat loan, and you could probably use there's probably some Internet based, like, cash loans. You could go buy like a bike, and they'd give you like a $700 loan to buy the bike. And but then they their rent or a financial institution, they have the mechanisms to carry notes, whereas a Joe Blow doesn't. And if the person doesn't come through, then you're looking at you'd have to go to, like, court or small claims court or something. So sounds easier than it than it really is.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's the best way to to put it. 586-1800 did that gentleman have another question on that email? 586-1800 or k I n y radio dot com. Then you can click that Prom Corner link. What do you got next?
Speaker 3:Yeah, their second question was asking about why do we need a third roundabout, but I have not heard that of the proposal.
Speaker 2:We need a third roundabout like we need a third hole in our head. So here's the justification, the explanation that you will receive if you dig into DOT and why they freaking love roundabouts. They lower crash impacts, so they produce less violent car crashes because just the nature of how it's designed reduces the speed of everybody involved. The problem is, is that what do you figure? In your driving experience, would you say a quarter of the people, half the people, two thirds of the people don't adequately understand the principle of a roundabout.
Speaker 2:Like, I would say the number's high. I don't wanna guess at a number, but
Speaker 3:I've noticed with the with the two oldest roundabouts, like Auk Bay's Roundabout and Douglas Roundabout, whenever I'm there, people follow the rules. Like, there's
Speaker 2:They just keep going.
Speaker 3:They're signaling their intent, but with the, like, the Steven Richards and the one by Floyd Dryden
Speaker 2:It's brand new.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Those ones, whether you're going around or you're going straight through, there's not much signal in your intent. So if you're coming from Stephen Richards back out and you're going out towards like super barrier area, half the time I don't see a signal line or vice versa when you're coming out of Stephen Richards going around towards the glacier or whatnot, there's no signal. I remember we had some folks on DOT here talking about why it was laid out that way and why it was angled, which totally makes sense because like, Oh, we got the hump because it forces you to look where you need to be looking. So it's like, okay, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it's just like the signal of intent is the main thing I've noticed with roundabouts. If not going straight, signal your intent so people know that you're going around the roundabout and vice versa.
Speaker 2:And I do believe that there are DOT tutorials, there's YouTube tutorials. If you're showing up at a roundabout not quite sure what to do and you're hearing horns, like people are hitting their horns, maybe maybe just check out one of the how to navigate a roundabout. The third roundabout that this person is referencing is the roundabout at the Mendenhall Boulevard, Mendenhall Back Loop. That corridor, years ago, I had just gotten on the assembly, got funding to have three roundabouts in a row on Backloop Road.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Speaker 2:And at the time, Floyd Dryden was a middle school with no intention of not being Floyd Dryden in the middle school and so, we couldn't have gotten Floyd Dryden fixed with a roundabout without accepting the Duck Creek roundabout, even though that intersection was only like six years old at the time. Yeah. They didn't have complete funding to do the third roundabout. It came through with additional DOT funding in a later project. But that was the original plan back in 2018, '20 '19.
Speaker 2:Alright. Prior to the pandemic, the plan always was to have those three roundabouts. I don't know if there was like a testing for it or somebody got roundabout happy, but they have discovered that it lowers the rating of the crash because their side impacts as opposed to head on or t bones Mhmm. And those have the highest level of injury. And so you're you're making it slightly safer.
Speaker 2:Juneau does participate in a thing called Safe Streets for All. And over the last couple of years, I wanna say we've gotten half a million dollars.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:$500,000 for programs that help staff time, that help reduce the traffic fatalities. Essentially, it's designed so that people don't die while they're driving. So that's a good thing. Right? Focus on energy, make sure that everybody's kids get home to them.
Speaker 3:I've noticed on my neighbor no. My my neighborhood that I grew up on, Otaku Boulevard, that the speed limit signs have these bright orange flags on them. I've been noticing that around town a little bit where it's like, Hey, pay attention to the speed limit. We're putting these bright flags on the speed limit signs and telling you that there's children or young kids in the neighborhood. So it's Yeah, I'm seeing it kind of pop up as far as street safety goes, which is good to see.
Speaker 2:Oh, well, yes. And who can't get behind something like safe streets for all? And along with that note, do we have to take a commercial break and then we're coming to the end?
Speaker 3:Yeah. We're right there at the time.
Speaker 2:Alright. Let me just throw out blue jeans look super dark in the dark. So you think, oh, I've got these blue jeans on. I'm I'm gonna be seen enough. No.
Speaker 2:Your blue jeans look black at nighttime. So keep that in mind. You're not as reflective as you thought if you're just wearing jeans. Alright. We'll be back with a little bit more problem corner after these messages on KI and Y.
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Speaker 1:listening to problem corner on KINY, bringing neighbors together for generations. From the days of Dennis Egan to today, we're proud to continue the tradition of lively debates, community insights, and local connections here on KINY.
Speaker 2:Alright. Welcome back to the last segment of Prom Corner here. Go ahead and send your emails in, k I n y radio dot com. Click on the Prom Corner link. Whether you got something to sell or something to say, we are taking questions off of that.
Speaker 2:And you can always give me a call, 5861805861800. And you can come and join us on air and ask all kinds of questions. What all kinds of all the different stuff that we have. 5861805861800. and I were chatting about some of the topics that have been covered on Prom Corner over the last
Speaker 3:Few months.
Speaker 2:Eleven months. It's been about eleven months since it was the February that I came off air and at the March, it was right around that time. Affordable housing and housing and man, we have thrown the kitchen sink and housing from the city level. The affordable housing fund is in its, like, fourth or fifth round of funding projects. And so we are looking at all the different possibilities of what could be done, and they're trying to rewrite some rules.
Speaker 2:Title 40 9 is the development code for the city, and DeMichel is his last name, Rob, is his whole job. The only thing he's responsible for right now is rewriting or cleaning up Title 49.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And so if there's anybody here that lives in a house, bought a house, buys a house, rents a house, everybody is impacted by title 49. The more complicated title 49 is, the more expensive the housing is. The cleaner Title 49 is, we could start to reduce costs to housing, nickels at a time. Alright. We got a call.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Why are you back on? You're ramble on
Speaker 6:way too much. Nobody can
Speaker 2:Well, we've been waiting for calls and waiting for emails. So if you wanna give us a call with stuff, that's how so when the calls come in, I stop talking and let you guys talk. I know it's people are still confused how the show works, I guess. And so if no one's calling, then I'm talking because we're not allowed to have blank air. Isn't that correct?
Speaker 2:That's Yeah. That's a no no. And so do we have emails? 586-1800 because that's another way to 586-1800. And that gentleman went to say nobody can get through.
Speaker 2:The problem is people aren't trying to call to get through. That's how that happens. Here we go. Good morning. Welcome to Prom Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Welcome back, Wade.
Speaker 2:I'm glad to be back. How are you today?
Speaker 8:I am very well. And you?
Speaker 2:I am doing great. I was a little nervous coming in today, but I'm feeling good now that we're kinda doing it.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Well, you got lots of people who enjoy your information and and love to share of it. So thank you.
Speaker 2:Glad to do it, ma'am. And that is, like the motivating factor of why I'm like, yeah. When Cliff called and said, hey, can you do Tuesdays? My initial gut reaction was like, oh, I don't know if I'm if that's the right answer for me, but then I was thinking about what now? Because I come across stuff like the short term rental task force and the affordable housing thing.
Speaker 2:And I remember when the the river flooding and the Hesco barriers, I was right in the center of that conversation, and I wasn't able to share all the information. And I was just like, god, this wasted information on me. We need to get this info to everyone.
Speaker 8:So Well, I believe I think that education is power, and sometimes we don't get that information. So Tuesdays will be an informative day. Thank you.
Speaker 2:That's very sweet of you. I really appreciate it. Thank you for that call. Alright. And then if there is stuff that you guys wanna hear about, then let me know that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'll be more than happy to dig into a topic or place a call to somebody and find out what are those other fun topics, especially when we're talking about housing and housing issue impacts every single person in the community. So I figured that would be a really great topic. Another call. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Brom Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Well, thank you, and welcome back. And those are
Speaker 4:all great topics, and especially you coming back to keep that alive.
Speaker 2:I'm glad to. I can't wait to talk to you again.
Speaker 4:Alright. You have a wonderful day.
Speaker 2:You have a great day too. So, yeah, we'll call it Tuesdays, and we'll have all kinds of good information. And Yeah. Mondays is the majority of my meetings happen on Monday nights. And so Tuesday just seems it'll all be like fresh in my mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And this is what we did last night. And Man, I'm surprised no one's asked about the Huna Totem Corporation dock, the Icy Straight Point dock. The potential fifth dock in Juneau, we have had hours, hours of meetings about that. And we actually had public testimony a couple of Mondays ago and I thought a topic like that, we would have been inundated with 100 people wanting to testify and it ended up only being like eight or nine.
Speaker 9:Wow.
Speaker 2:People. Yeah. So if you got questions about that, I'll see what I can do. We got another call. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Oh, thank you for taking my call and welcome back. However, I wanted to say, is it a possibility that you can kinda help out with the we don't have a bus that goes over to Global?
Speaker 13:And it's Yes.
Speaker 5:I've heard of that.
Speaker 8:To try to the highway.
Speaker 2:Yes. Global did not think of that when they opened up their branch over there. They just thought, hey. What a great we can own our own building and own the land, and there they forgot to say how will the non car drivers get to our location? The one potential that I've heard is that Fred Meyer Intersection could one day be a controlled light intersection.
Speaker 2:Like, that's on the docket to turn that intersection into just another light, and that would be the solution for Global. But you're, like, the fourth person to ask me about that, and I know that every person that used that bank that doesn't have a car is looking for a new bank, unfortunately.
Speaker 8:Oh, no. I don't do that now. But the thing is is that if they took the number at six bus express bus, it used to go to the airport, and from there, it's a straight place to go. But the man told me it's the timing. Yeah.
Speaker 8:So I don't know. But maybe you could figure it out or somebody. Okay? Thank you so very much, and welcome back.
Speaker 2:And is this good gravy? Oh, shit. I'm gonna Oh, I'm pretty certain that that was good gravy. If not, correct me. Okay.
Speaker 2:So what do we do at the end of the show these days is we're coming down to the the last couple of moments. Had a I'm in training, so forgive me.
Speaker 3:Were you there a recap of stuff that people called in to be sold or we kinda try to squeak in another call or emails and
Speaker 2:Well, I tell you what, in the next thirty seconds, somebody squeezes a call in, I think we'll be good. Cool. Other than that, we can go down. Just I love you guys. I miss you guys.
Speaker 2:I definitely would encounter topics right here, the community discussing a topic, and I'd have all these answers that people are looking for. And that became the thing that I missed about Prompt Corners that I would have like this this great level of information and I couldn't share with anybody. Which
Speaker 3:something we definitely missed on Problem Corner like all of our other hosts and stuff. They're also a wealth of knowledge, but obviously it takes some homework to get up to that point to talk about the topics where you are in the assembly, you get all this information right there. Like you said, it's fresh in your head. So that way you could come on problem corner, share it out and definitely all stuff localized in our community. So yeah, I'm glad that we have you back on the program, and look forward to many more great episodes of Problem Corner with you, Wade.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we were calculating prior to the start of the show that I'm roughly somewhere around 4,000 problem corners roughly. Today, I was the most nervous of all 4,000 of those. So yes, I'm looking forward to another problem corner. So that's gonna do it for the show today. I wanna thank everybody for calling in, tuning in, and for those of you that said hello, it is really good to hear your voice.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to talk to you again. And, man, I'll see you next time. And remember, I'm problem corner. I'm Wade. I'm out of here.