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Speaker 2:And good morning, Juno. KINY ninety four point nine FM. Actually, not FM at the moment, but eight hundred AM, or you can stream us on kinyradio.com or on the free Juno Media Center app. It is Friday Problem Corner. You know what that means.
Speaker 2:It's me, Justin Miller, hanging out with Kenny Solomon Gross. And we're here to wrap up the week for a good note or Shana, just wrap things up.
Speaker 3:Wrap things up. You know, we're we're all we've been trying to do a lot of positive shows on Friday and a lot of fun shows. So hopefully we'll do that. I I know that hopefully the audience isn't down too much because the the FM side is down. But of course, like you say, you know, you can always stream this.
Speaker 3:And if you've got an Alexis, I know you probably can't hear me, but Alexis, play KINY radio and it's gonna pop right on. That's what I do every morning.
Speaker 2:Oh, be careful. Some I've I've had that happen while I'm driving down the road and, like, some of our rate like station stuff back in the day used to say, like, oh, ask Alexa or ask Siri or whatnot, and then your phone goes off. It's like, oh.
Speaker 3:You know, also too, I maybe there maybe there who knows who's gonna be listening to us today, but you can always podcast us or play the podcast. Maybe you could talk a little bit about that, Justin, on this.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I try my best to keep the episodes updated. Like I yesterday uploaded yesterday's program. And so yeah, if you miss a program or you wanna listen back and tune in, we'll see what past conversations were, you could stream us on your favorite platform, whether it be Spotify or Apple Music. I think we're also on Amazon Podcasts.
Speaker 2:So we're on multiple platforms. So it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:So anywhere where you get your podcasts, you're gonna be able to listen to us.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Definitely.
Speaker 3:And I know that I've gone back and you've told me, hey, I had an interesting subject matter and I've gone back and listened to your subjects and heard you speak before. So it's really great. It's cool. You know, we kind of were talking before we came on the air, which we always do. You know, and I'm like, you know, Justin's a couple of years younger than me.
Speaker 3:And we were kind of talking about voting and stuff and all everybody's had their ballots out now probably since, I guess the nineteenth, is that So, was at the you know, a lot of people have voted. I'm actually leaving town tomorrow, so I've already voted. My wife has already voted. I asked Justin if he's voted and he's all set to do. He's got his ballot all ready to vote and stuff.
Speaker 3:We talked, you know, since he's been on the show, how much his finger's really on the pulse of our community because of of our callers, you know, and our listeners who who come out there and and point out some subject matters that maybe you wouldn't even think about, you know, as as as a younger person that's that's really kind of, you know, you're like into the music scene here, you know, you're you're a ski instructor up at Eagle Crest, you're maybe sometimes you're not quite involved with the community.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And like I was saying before we got on the air, like when I joined the radio station back in this crazy thing back in 2021, when I first came back due to COVID, and it's like, holy cow, I hear everything that's going on here in Juneau. I know what's happening with our local politics and our community, what issues are going on, what is needed. And it's like, it's really it's a really cool gig being here on the airways with y'all. So it's it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 3:And your tentacles are out there on all the different subject matters and stuff. So it's it's really great to hear I I love it when we get a caller to come in and we're all set maybe to talk about, you know, homelessness or something like that, and someone come and bring another subject up, and we spend the, you know, the hour talking about that. Right. We're always looking for that kind of things.
Speaker 2:So phone lines are open. Remember, we are on eight hundred AM at the moment. We are working diligently to figure out what's going on with our FM transmitters. So we are gonna be flying someone up to Heintzelman Ridge, which is where our equipment lives for our FM transmitters, and we'll be trying to get that back up in operational order. I do get I did get a couple emails, though, so let's take a peek at that.
Speaker 2:This one's kinda directed towards some movie theater, Kenny. So they this person says that they saw something scary. I went to the movies and looked up looked at the ceiling. That was scary. I thought I saw a face where a panel was missing.
Speaker 2:Is the theater haunted? Why is this senior discount 65 when other places is 55? Being honest, I see kids sneaking candy in. Why it's so expensive?
Speaker 3:Well, there's a lot there.
Speaker 2:There is a
Speaker 3:lot So first of all, I don't think the theater is old enough to be haunted.
Speaker 2:Probably not.
Speaker 3:It's not.
Speaker 2:Maybe the downtown theater back then.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I don't know. I've been running around the downtown theater all my life, I've never been never thought it was haunted. So definitely it's not haunted. We did a pretty big roof project this year.
Speaker 3:So we're working on putting the ceiling tiles back. We're just making sure that there's no leaks going on. Senior discounts, you know, we just kind of started at 65, it's been 65 like that forever. I think that, you know, as now the baby boomers are getting older, I think, you know, it's possible that our company could revisit that, but right now it's 65. And of course, it's always a problem with people sneaking candy.
Speaker 3:Know, when I was younger, I was like really diligent about, you know, what do you got in there? What are you doing? I hate to admit it. I'm a little bit I'm a little bit less diligent on it. I mean, it's it's really important that that you, you know, don't bring any outside food, but there's some things that we don't sell.
Speaker 3:You know, we don't sell coffee. So I let people bring coffee in.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:There's also people that have some dietary restrictions that maybe they can't have popcorn with certain additives that our popcorn has. So we'll let people bring in snacks like that, kids that have kind of maybe even diabetes or something like to accommodate those needs. Great question.
Speaker 2:That was a good question.
Speaker 3:You know, again, too, the local theater owner been in our family since 1897, we appreciate this community support for our business for the years and years and years, and and we really try our hardest, my sister and I, to to make sure that we have a welcoming property for everybody to come and enjoy.
Speaker 2:Oh, good. Yeah. That was that was you kinda unlocked the core memory there, especially, like, with the snacks. I remember back in the day, like, as soon as I was able to start driving, my mom would honestly, like, would actually would send me and my brother when my brother started driving me, because my mom loved the movie theater popcorn, so she would send us to the theater just to go pick up popcorn for her. We'd like walk through, buy some popcorn, and walk out.
Speaker 2:So that was a core memory that we'd always do for my mom back growing up.
Speaker 3:You know, I was talking to some people actually from up north that came down this week and they walked around our theater with us a little bit and the guy run the theater up in Wasilla and talking about concession stands, know, how important your concession is to your business. I mean, that's really kind of what helps drive the engine of our business. Juno, this community was so welcoming to us during the pandemic. You know, we were shut down a 100%. I mean, movie theaters were hit probably harder than most businesses the country.
Speaker 3:Actually in the world, you know, because people didn't want to go to communal settings. You know, one of the things about enjoying a movie is watching it in a communal setting. And that was scaring people with the COVID thing. So people kind of talk to us about what you're saying here about concessions. And after a couple of months, we actually opened up our concession.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you remember this. On Friday and Saturday nights, we opened it up from like 05:00 to 07:00. And I remember our first couple of days, the people of Juno, I just can't thank them enough, they came out in lines just for our concession stand.
Speaker 4:Oh wow,
Speaker 3:that's awesome. And it really kept us going, you know. It kept us going as far as keeping our employees working. We were very fortunate. We kept our key employees, all of our managers stayed on with us and our administrative staff too.
Speaker 3:And then we were able to bring back some, you know, of our of our frontline staff too to work during that time.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It looks like we got our first call of the morning. Let's get Right. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Hey. Good morning.
Speaker 3:Good morning.
Speaker 5:So it must be a little bit of a delay because I'm listening. Ahead and turn that down. Alexa, volume down, way down. Hey, Ziggy. Pause.
Speaker 5:I forgot this one's name.
Speaker 3:It sound like you sounds like you got a little bit of that down going on on you too then.
Speaker 5:A little a little bit of down Downs, d o w n z.
Speaker 3:D o w Yeah. This this here is my brother. This is this is Jeff Downs.
Speaker 2:Oh, awesome. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5:Well, thank you. I figured I'd call. Is this your last show, Kenny?
Speaker 3:It's not my last show, but it's getting there. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be not here a full time, so I won't be doing every Tuesday with Justin from now on Tuesdays and Fridays, but I will be coming back. And Justin and I are kinda trying to talk about maybe some remote ways, but this is my last show for a couple of weeks. Glad you called.
Speaker 5:Well, know, because I'm trying to recruit you. I want you to start doing my podcast with me.
Speaker 3:I we can definitely do that. I think I think we could probably do better than the Kelsey brothers.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah. Maybe. Well, I don't know about that. I I'm I'm just not physically fit. I can't I well, maybe I could take on Tyson.
Speaker 5:That's about it.
Speaker 3:Well, we both got dad bods.
Speaker 6:This is true.
Speaker 5:No. And remember way back in the day, what did we call dad? Buzz. Buzz. Exactly.
Speaker 5:Know? So I think that we're we're both in that category now, brother.
Speaker 6:So
Speaker 3:so, Jeff, have you you're you're you're from from Portland area there. So are you guys going having a local election going on right now?
Speaker 5:You know, there's I think there's, like, some small municipal kind of things going on right now. But if you wanna talk about Portland, I wanna tell you that it is a war zone. My god. I'm I am kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 5:There is no war going on in Portland. There is no violence. There are a few protesters that are around the Ice Building, and they've been there for months. You know? And it it escalates a little bit, but it's around one little tiny building.
Speaker 5:It's not the city of Portland, which is what? I mean, if you look at the the metropolitan area of of Portland and you consider, you know, the surrounding areas, you know, it's two and a half million people, and there's no there's no riots. There are no fires. There is no there is no people get well, some people get shot in the street, but that's just an occasional thing. You know?
Speaker 5:It happens everywhere. But but, yeah, there's there's no reason for them to call in the army or call in the National Guard or anything.
Speaker 3:I don't
Speaker 5:know. I'm I'm sorry if I got dealt with political political No. No.
Speaker 3:We're we're we're trying to keep it keep it casual on Yeah. On on Fridays. But so so your municipal elections around there, are they in October too? Are they they different time of the year than than us up here in Juneau?
Speaker 5:You know, I we just had an election at the beginning of of September, and it was for just two bond issues. And, you know, it's really weird too because I I'm kinda torn. Before I I was a homeowner, I would always vote yes on any kind of bond issues because it didn't really affect my taxes. But now that I'm a homeowner, I, you know, I gotta think about it twice. But but I I actually voted yes on both on their school issues.
Speaker 3:True. True. Awesome.
Speaker 4:But
Speaker 3:Are you excited about the Mariners going to the the playoffs?
Speaker 5:Oh, it's incredible. Yeah. And, you know, I'm I'm actually happy the Yankees are gonna go too, man. You know? Because do now do the Mariners and the Yankees play each other in a playoff if they they both win their their series?
Speaker 3:Yes. They do. And then they'll play to see who points the World Series or to who goes out to the World Series.
Speaker 5:I'd love to see Seattle beat New York.
Speaker 3:That would be nice too. I'd like to see I'd like to see the Seattle and the Dodgers play in the World Series
Speaker 2:this year. That'll be intense. That would
Speaker 3:so, Justin, you got any questions for my brother?
Speaker 2:What's the weather out like there out there?
Speaker 5:You know, it's we're in the sixties today. We have been for a couple of days. We had, like, rain for a few days, a lot of fog this morning, but we're actually, over the next three days, supposed to get back up into the high seventies.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow. So Jeff
Speaker 5:And we haven't had any freeze any freeze yet, which is good because my tomatoes are blooming really late this year.
Speaker 3:So Jeff, Justin's gonna talk a little bit about his brother for here.
Speaker 2:My brother? Your brother? Oh, yeah. I have a five year I have five year gap with my brother. He's turning 32 tomorrow.
Speaker 3:He's older than you. Right?
Speaker 2:He's older than me and, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5:So just a couple year age difference between you and Kenny. Yeah?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Yeah. So so Justin wanted to give a shout out to his brother because
Speaker 2:Yeah. So my brother, Jesse Miller, he is a cross country coach here in Juno for the Juno Ducks, Crimson Bears and track and field UAS alumni. He ran cross country and track for the Seawolves up there, and he found his way back to Juneau this fall this coming summer. He's been he was living up in up in Anchorage since, like, 2017 after he graduated from college.
Speaker 3:And,
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm I'm happy to have my brother back in town. So, Jesse, if you're listening, happy birthday to you tomorrow. I'm looking forward to our family dinner tonight out at the Island Pub.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Happy birthday, Jesse. Jeff, say happy birthday to Jesse.
Speaker 5:Happy birthday, Jesse. Hey. What time is dinner?
Speaker 2:Like, 06:30.
Speaker 3:06:30. Okay. I'm I'm be
Speaker 5:it'll it'll be 07:30 my time. Okay. I'll be there.
Speaker 3:Hey, Jeff. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 5:Alright. You guys have a
Speaker 7:great day.
Speaker 3:We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 8:Alright. Bye.
Speaker 2:Bye bye.
Speaker 3:Well, I know my brother's streaming us, so someone's hearing us out there.
Speaker 2:Yes. Folks are streaming. I know folks like to stream us still. Like, if if you're sitting in your office, I know folks either stream us on their computer or vice versa. A lot of shops in town just kind of
Speaker 3:stream.
Speaker 2:Like, I know O'Reilly's plays a KXJ in their store a lot. I was popping in there, and I was like, oh, you guys are playing KXJ in here. Awesome. So
Speaker 3:And I I play it on my computer too. Looks like we got another call.
Speaker 2:We do. Let's get one.
Speaker 3:Good morning. You're live and on the air on problem corner.
Speaker 9:Hi. Just wanted to let you know that if you don't
Speaker 5:know, FM is working in Hawk Bay.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:That's that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm glad
Speaker 9:to let you know.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you so so much. Appreciate it. Appreciate you listening to the show today. You got anything on your mind you want to talk about?
Speaker 7:Oh, no. No?
Speaker 3:Alright. Did you vote already? Yep. Oh, great.
Speaker 2:Good deal. Great. Alright. Well, thanks for calling and letting us know that we're on in Auk Bay. So maybe someone touched the magic button and now we're back on.
Speaker 2:So I'll I'll double check, making sure we're on air after the program today.
Speaker 3:Alright. Thank you, sir, for the call.
Speaker 7:Sure.
Speaker 3:Alright. We'll go right to the phone lines. You got another call there.
Speaker 2:We do. Let's go for it. Alright. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 10:Yes. I I would like to wish my granddaughter, Cecilia Perez, a happy birthday wish for Saturday.
Speaker 3:Awesome. That's that's '32,
Speaker 10:I think.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're '32. Wow. Your your daughter's the same age as my brother because my brother's birthday is also tomorrow. He's turning 32.
Speaker 6:Oh, nice. Happy birthday
Speaker 10:to your brother.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Happy birthday to your child.
Speaker 10:October is gonna be a busy month for us.
Speaker 3:And it's your granddaughter. Right? Oh, granddaughter. Granddaughter.
Speaker 8:Yes. She's over there at
Speaker 10:the she works over the the bank across from Glenmark's.
Speaker 3:Oh, super cool. Wish her
Speaker 6:a happy
Speaker 10:birthday if you see her.
Speaker 3:Cecilia. Cecilia. Yes.
Speaker 10:Saturday.
Speaker 3:Saturday. October 4. Awesome. Well,
Speaker 10:thank you, We're gonna mention
Speaker 3:it a couple times on the air today. Cecilia Sweet. 32.
Speaker 10:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 10:From her grandma From her grandma. And her mom and family and her son, Ezra Awesome. And Jason.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Well, thank you.
Speaker 10:Thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you for the call.
Speaker 10:Have a great weekend.
Speaker 3:You too.
Speaker 6:Bye bye. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:Well, that's great. We got a couple birthdays already. Got your brother.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Got Cecilia.
Speaker 3:And then you got Jess.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And we do got another call. We got some calls rolling in now.
Speaker 3:Good morning. You're on problem corner. You are live and on the air.
Speaker 9:Good morning.
Speaker 3:Good morning.
Speaker 9:I'd like to wish my niece Summer Dawn Marvin a happy birthday today.
Speaker 3:Summer Dawn Marvin. Happy birthday.
Speaker 9:Yep. She's out there somewhere.
Speaker 3:She's out there somewhere.
Speaker 9:I hope she hears me. Her interview officer. Alright. Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 6:Thank you for You
Speaker 2:as well. Bye.
Speaker 11:God. You
Speaker 3:know, I I gotta tell you something that that, you know, I don't know if they still do it on KINY. I I listen to KINY every morning. I don't listen to because I go back and forth between the sports show and and Cliff's show. Mhmm. But one of the big things on KINY when I was growing up and is listening to the the disc jockeys, Ron Davis or whoever was there, Fats or Kelly, it was the birthday, you know, and it was so fun.
Speaker 3:I just love wishing people birthdays.
Speaker 2:I might need to talk to Cliff and bring back the birthdays. I know we kind of went away from that in the morning show for a little bit there when with birthdays, you could get a Juno Froyo card. So I don't know, maybe we got to
Speaker 9:bring something back.
Speaker 3:Turn the wheel and win a card. I just remember when my son was his first birthday, you know, it was happy birthday, Shane, buddy. Love your mom and dad. I mean, it it was just really great to do that on the radio.
Speaker 2:So maybe we got we got we got birthdays on Problem Corner, and maybe we gotta bring them back on the mornings.
Speaker 3:We That's great.
Speaker 2:We do got a call. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Well, it is. It's a birthday day.
Speaker 3:Birthday day. It's a birthday day.
Speaker 6:Hey. Hey, movie guy. Yes. Have you seen the Saturday night live split on the Movie Guy? It's hilarious.
Speaker 6:You need to watch it. I
Speaker 3:I will. I probably have, but I do have this memory issue where I've so much stuff that the content just kind of dish dishes disappears, and then I watch it again and I go, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Yeah.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 6:I think this is new only in the last, like, year.
Speaker 3:Oh. And
Speaker 6:it it's really funny. Anyway, you seem to like to have throwback movies sometimes. What about less older people, Gone With the Wind on the big screen?
Speaker 3:So, you know, I'm I'm not opposed to doing that. The the biggest thing for that is is the film company, that's MGM. Mhmm. You know, will they allow us to to play it? And then what kind of terms do they play it?
Speaker 3:And then if they make you play it for a certain period of time, you know, we Gone With The Wind might do very good for like a weekend or a day or two, but it wouldn't be it wouldn't sustain for two weeks. So Oh, no. We're we're not opposed to that, but it all depends on what the film company is is out there for. Right now, we're working on trying to do some we do in the summertime, like, a free film work in the summer series, and I'm working Yeah. Together.
Speaker 6:That's so nice for the kids over here across the street. They they just love going over there.
Speaker 3:We're hoping to do that again this this winter too. But, again, the problem is I'm having problems getting content. Oh, okay. So we're we're working with the with the film companies, and and, of course, I'm starting in August, September, and and they're saying, why are you worried about Christmas now? It's like, well, you gotta do this.
Speaker 3:I gotta get out there and get to the sponsors and
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Make sure you get an advertising stuff. So I it's really great to hear, ma'am, that that how much the kids appreciate it. And I hope you come come too and bring family members.
Speaker 6:Yeah. I know it's
Speaker 5:a little far to walk, and
Speaker 6:it's too short to call caravan. So I wouldn't do it. But maybe for the kids, something like they probably haven't seen it. The Wizard of Oz on the big screen. Now I would come to that.
Speaker 3:It's that's
Speaker 6:probably cab to get over there.
Speaker 3:Oh, nice. So I've actually got tickets at The Sphere in Las Vegas in December to see the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2:In The Sphere?
Speaker 3:In The Sphere. They're developing a showing of it and I got a friend in Ketch Ikan and said, I'd love to go see that. And I told my wife about it, so we got four tickets and we're gonna go. And I've never been to The Sphere. I mean, much time as I spend in Vegas, we've never been there.
Speaker 3:So our first experience Is is gonna be
Speaker 4:this movie
Speaker 6:screen or it's a play?
Speaker 3:It's actually a movie screen. My buddy went my buddy Eric went, and he said it was phenomenal.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine being in the sphere and just being, like, stretched out.
Speaker 3:Like she said things are dropping from the ceiling, and and he said to be in Level 3, so that's where we got tickets. So we're
Speaker 2:we're pretty
Speaker 3:excited about it. That's awesome. Hey, ma'am. Thank you for the call. Thank you for
Speaker 6:the Yeah. I'm gonna get off of here so other people can get on. But thanks for the movies. Movie guy.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you for the call. We appreciate it.
Speaker 6:I'm Justin. Bye. Alright.
Speaker 2:Bye bye. Always good hearing from you.
Speaker 3:One more call before we go to break?
Speaker 2:Let's go for it.
Speaker 3:Alright. Good morning. You're on problem corner. You are live and on the air.
Speaker 9:How's it going, man?
Speaker 3:Good. How you doing?
Speaker 9:I'm doing good. Hey.
Speaker 6:We were talking about, like, movies and stuff.
Speaker 9:I I was wondering what if are you guys is it that twentieth century you've ever been open up again? I was always wondering about Well,
Speaker 3:we aren't. Gross Alaska, we actually sold that property this summer. Oh, really? Yeah. Don't know what the new new owner's intention is.
Speaker 3:I know that that they got a grant from the city, so they're working really diligently to get those apartments up and running. There's like 25 apartments in that building. They're working on that right now. If you go down, down Front Street, you'll see a bunch of dumpsters and Construction going on. Construction going on.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So yeah, excited about getting some more some more downtown housing going, so it's really good to see that.
Speaker 6:That's cool. Yeah, man. That that building is so old. Yep. My gosh.
Speaker 9:Right on. Well, no, I was just checking to see, man, because I I would be
Speaker 6:cooler to have, like, a
Speaker 5:movie theater downtown. I know there's, like,
Speaker 7:the Nickelodeon theater, like, by the
Speaker 2:By City Hall.
Speaker 9:By the Wharf City Hall. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It it Yeah. In that building. Yeah. Unfortunately, when COVID hit, it kinda really destroyed that that part of our business, and we never were able to recover after COVID at the 2016.
Speaker 6:COVID COVID was the worst. Oh
Speaker 9:my gosh.
Speaker 3:It was the worst. And then, you know, know, like movies, the film companies aren't aren't putting out as many movies as they used to. So even if we were able at that time to open up at the twentieth, we wouldn't have been able to play product. We wouldn't even have movies to play.
Speaker 9:Oh, bummer. Oh, man. That's that's a bummer.
Speaker 6:Well, thanks, man. I I was just
Speaker 9:wondering to see how you
Speaker 6:guys are doing. I I listen
Speaker 9:to you guys, you know, a couple times a week. And, yeah, just wanted to you know, I didn't really have anything else to talk about, but yeah.
Speaker 3:Make sure you keep coming to the valley.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 3:We we got a we got a big movie opening this week. It's only for the weekend. It's Taylor Swift. You know, she just dropped her album today. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Life of a show girl. So we're Oh. We're only showing five shows of it. So it'll be tonight, two shows Saturday, Tuesday, Sunday, and that's it.
Speaker 3:Life of a show. Wow. And I know
Speaker 9:Wonder if Travis Kelce's in there with her with her.
Speaker 3:Well, I I did hear an interview today, and she says that that a lot of the songs on there's twelve twelve songs on this album are kind of, you know,
Speaker 4:what do
Speaker 3:you call inspired by her life and what's going on right now and and how happy she is with her and Travis.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Well, can you imagine those kids are gonna be set for life.
Speaker 2:Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 9:No work at all.
Speaker 3:And then if they got talent, oh, that'd be even better.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 9:Alright, fellas. Well, hey. You have a good day, and I'll be listening to you. Thank you so much, man.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much too. Appreciate your call.
Speaker 5:Have a great weekend. Great Friday.
Speaker 3:You too. Happy Friday to you.
Speaker 9:See you, buddy.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:That's great. That's love getting calls like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's awesome. Looks it's 11:35, so let's take our commercial break, and we'll be right back with more problem corner here on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to problem corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:And welcome back to problem corner here on KINY on this Friday, October 3. It's me, Justin Miller, hanging out y'all from the Gold Belt Dream studio along with
Speaker 3:Kenny Sullivan. And we're here
Speaker 2:hanging out y'all to wrap up the week, and we've had quite a handful of birthday shout But before we came back on the air, you want to make a special shout out.
Speaker 3:I do. You know, my my brother kind of said this is gonna be, you know, one of your last shows, and probably not be on here as often, Justin and I've talked about it. But one of the things that I really want to talk about is my amazing wife. My amazing wife this week just completed thirty years with the state. Awesome.
Speaker 3:And it's just amazing. I'm amazed by her how much knowledge she has. She's a deputy director for the Department of Health. How dedicated she is. You know, if anybody had any kind of preconceptions of what a state worker is, my wife is probably one of the most hardest working people I've ever met and just really is dedicated to what she did.
Speaker 3:I'm just so proud of her to be able to accomplish thirty years I with the don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 2:It's a long time to be in a state field. And you're saying she kind of was in different realms of the state, but thirty years for the state of Alaska. That's a
Speaker 3:long Thirty years for the state. And she did have a couple of breaks in service, you know. She probably could have retired in in 2017 if she would have stayed. Because she started working when she was 18 years old for for the state. So, you know, she's still fairly young and gets to retire with all the great state benefits and she's taken me along with her.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty excited about that. Long for the journey. Yeah, it's great. So if anybody knows my wife Raquel, please wish her congratulations on a job well done in the state of Alaska, I think is gonna miss her for the job that she's done.
Speaker 2:Most likely, especially when you're in that position for that long. You're going you're definitely going to be greatly missed.
Speaker 3:And if anybody knows my wife, my wife is like the the last person that wants any kind of, you know, shout outs or anything. She's she's very humble on on what she is. Well, we're shouting you out, Raquel,
Speaker 2:here on the program today. So take take the kudos and the praise and enjoy the time after I hate to use the word retirement, but time yeah.
Speaker 3:Retirement. Retirement. Retirement.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And we do got a call, so let's jump right to it.
Speaker 3:Good morning. You're on Problem Corner, and you are live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Hey. Good morning. Thank you. I was just wanted to comment relative to the Monday night the media pool meetings. And I attended three hours is about all I can endure, but I went through all of the Goldbrot presentation as well as Derek Boss, chief boss of JPD.
Speaker 5:And one thing relative well, I listened to the whole thing, and his bullet points were pretty direct and to the point and and a means of path forward to for the community relative to interaction with Juneau police and what their changes are gonna be. And the escalation, for example, into dispatch as well as the policies of state and Alaska Police Offerage Council. But in the end, he made a comment that affected me, and I had an event with Juneau Police Department. And I won't go deep into it, but the point was I felt like I was being profiled. And I mentioned that.
Speaker 5:And I had one on one with the police chief over that, and he was respectful enough to listen to what I had to say. In the end, though, after all of the good words that he had to say, I was a bit disappointed relative to his comment about me personally in my May interaction with you in the police department, of which he said at the end of the day, I was out having dinner with family, and his commander, Garza, came up to me in a private setting with my family and was stating how he was tried to explain the day and what happened and why I got profiled and which exceeded the Terry stop, which also came into a felony stop level, which I had no suited no crime. Mhmm. So that's the nuts and bolts to that summary. And so but at the end, he said, well, commander Garza came up and kind of apologized and offered to buy me a drink.
Speaker 5:And I was sipping on a beer, and and I said, you don't need to do that. And then chief Derek Boats said, well, that was indicative of his people, of which he kind of said, I'm sorry by buying me a drink. And I told him he didn't have to, but he did anyway. And I I really was upset after he left it on the table and walked away. And I, you know, I told him he didn't need to do that.
Speaker 5:And, anyway, the bottom line is I didn't really want to drink the beer, and I was really upset after. And, you know, I'm indigenous people, and I think it's wrong that the police department think that they could buy off a situation by alcohol to an indigenous person. That just doesn't fit well with me. And what's that have to do with the price of tea in China? You know, I'd I'd rather talk towards the the interaction, direct bullet points, and and the wrongdoings of my constitutional rights.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:Great. With that, I'll let you go. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you for the call. Thank you for the call. Yeah. I I guess at the committee of the whole meeting this week, chief boss laid out some some new bullet points, like he was saying that JPD is going to try to step up and make sure that, you know, when when they're having interactions with the citizens that that everybody's following the same protocol. So I, you know, knows how I feel about it.
Speaker 3:I think JPD does a good job for what they have. Unfortunately, it's not always perfect. So I'm glad that Chief Boss noticed that and said that too. And I know that gentleman's called us before, so I'm glad he got the call and say what he had to say today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember him calling a while ago and really giving us the details of that interaction of what happened. So, yeah, I'm glad that that's kinda happening, like steps are being made to make sure everyone's following the same protocol and everyone treats every citizen the same way. And so I'm I'm like you're saying, I have full faith. JPD is doing what's right.
Speaker 3:Yep. And I really believe Chief Boss is committed to this community.
Speaker 2:He is. I've I've had had interactions with him. He's very involved, and he really wants to do a good service to this community. So I commend Chief Boss to all of his work that he's making, and we do got a call. Hi.
Speaker 2:Oh, hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 21:Yeah. I stay out here in one of your or one of the low income houses.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 21:Anyways, I've been having problems with my neighbor. She's been writing about me and everything. You know, I I tell my landlord, and I I don't know. My landlord said she talked to her last week, and then, you know, just just like last Friday, give or take, she went in, started writing about me again, you know, calling me c u n t and everything. I mean, literally, just blasting it on her window.
Speaker 21:My landlord said she was gonna take care of it, and and she maybe she did. I don't know. This is, like, the second time. It's it's all blasted on her window, and I don't know what to do. I don't know.
Speaker 6:So I I'm in a bind.
Speaker 3:So have you
Speaker 21:And I also have two kittens. You know? My number is 419-8420. If anybody has any suggestions or anybody wants my cat, you know? This lady calls me all kinds of names, puts it on her window, and and and it's very sad.
Speaker 21:It's sad, and I I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3:Great. Well, thank you for the call, man. We'll we'll get the get the word out for the kittens and stuff. And, you know, if someone's harassing another person and bullying him, stuff like that, you know, and the landlord's not helping her, you can always call JPD. They can come out there and try to mitigate that.
Speaker 3:Definitely. Hope she gets that taken care of.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Me too.
Speaker 3:She's got a couple cats that she wants to give away, kittens, she said.
Speaker 2:Two kids looking for a home. 419-8420 is the number to call if you're interested in any of those kittens.
Speaker 3:Alright. And I'm sure she'd like to hear your thoughts on being bullied, I guess, I would say.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. I'm right there with you, Kenny. If that behavior is still happening, I believe there's harassment protocols that GPD could go through and, like, not really like what's the word?
Speaker 2:Mitigation. Yeah. Mitigation. Not really like an order, like, oh, you can't be near me or anything like that. Like a protection order away from that neighbor.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, we do got a couple calls, so let's jump right to it.
Speaker 3:Good morning. You're live and on the air with Problem Corner.
Speaker 8:Good morning, gent oh, yeah. Still morning. Gentlemen. Hey. Kenny, for you yeah.
Speaker 8:I mean, I was thinking you probably from what you said about your wife, you probably you're not sleeping on the couch anymore. But at the end, you since she's almost young, she's still kinda young.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, I
Speaker 8:I don't know.
Speaker 9:I can't tell
Speaker 8:you that was gonna happen today.
Speaker 3:I I can tell you. Anybody that that knows me and my wife, they know that I outkicked my coverage. So
Speaker 8:Okay. Anyway, something that you I don't know if you can think about, but with the movies there, have you ever thought of doing a double feature of some of the movies had that have been done in Juneau? And you know what's you know the two I I'm thinking of. But you know what they what you know what's the first one I remember?
Speaker 3:Which was that? Well,
Speaker 8:I told you about this flying saucers one. Right.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 8:But there's another one that happened in the nineties. Mhmm. You know that? It it show it was shown shown in Judah at the opening. It it was limbo.
Speaker 8:Limbo?
Speaker 2:I have not seen
Speaker 6:that one.
Speaker 8:Come on. I Wait. Limbo. Limbo. Joe Joe Gassino and Chris Kiscofferson and there's a bunch of other people.
Speaker 8:A lot of locals were in that movie. That that had this picture of the shrine, the oldest shrine, and trying to fit trees from out there in the background. Yeah. Are you telling me you don't remember that movie? It's Limbo?
Speaker 3:Yeah. It was Limbo in in 1999. John Salus was it was filmed in Juneau, Alaska. It was set in Juneau, Alaska. And me and the shots were there.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Yeah. I think kind of a nice double feature for, you know, reasonable cost to maybe go to people interested in in some of the movies that are actually done here in Juneau as a something maybe before the summertime. But, anyway, I thought I'd mention that. And that's all I have for today.
Speaker 3:That's great.
Speaker 8:Oh, wait a minute. Wait. Nope. Before I let you go, hey. There's a good scam out there going on, of all things, Facebook ads.
Speaker 8:Now you've seen the, post of Blake Sheldon trying to give away all these these Yeti totes and everything like that. He didn't send the just pay the shipping fee of, like, $15. And but as it turns out, I checked out my my my my credit card bill, and it had it was and I called the company out. That's that $15, not for not for shipping charge, but an actual chance to win one of these YETI packs there.
Speaker 4:And
Speaker 8:so, of course, they tell you it's the ad it's a AI Blake Blake Sheldon thing there. But and they can then two days later, they charge you another $75 to say, now you're in you're entering a contest. It's like a contest thing that you pay. So luckily, I had Bank of America who immediately reversed the charges because they would even though I had and I contacted the company and they were said that, well, yeah, it's it's not our problem that the third party m order this, I mean, whoever they are, the advertisers are saying something different. It sure is your problem.
Speaker 8:But anyway, so people watch out for that Blake Sheldon ad on on some of these Facebook ads that come up all the time. Anyway, that's my three cents for today.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Wait. And Justin and I have talked several times about scams, you know, they Yeah. They that are out there.
Speaker 3:You gotta be really careful about that. Thank you for your call, sir. Yeah. Hey. Hey, Justin.
Speaker 3:I've got a hospital board meeting.
Speaker 6:I have
Speaker 3:to attend here in a couple minutes, so we'll take this one last call. Okay. I'm gonna leave a minute or two early today.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll take them on the air. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 2:Oh, we lost our call.
Speaker 3:Oh, lost them. So give us a
Speaker 2:callback if you wanna get on the program. We got a few more minutes left of the show. A lot of birthday shout out today. So one another re echo to all those birthdays. Happy birthday to Cecilia from family and grandmother.
Speaker 2:You're sharing a birthday tomorrow. Cecilia, happy birthday.
Speaker 4:Happy to
Speaker 3:tomorrow. Same age as?
Speaker 2:As my older brother, Jesse Miller. So and then tomorrow or today, we have a birthday for Summer, Don Marvin. Happy birthday to Summer. And then we had the lady calling just a little bit ago with two kids looking for a home. The number to call is (907) 419-8420, and we got some calls back on.
Speaker 2:Let's get them on the show.
Speaker 3:Good morning. You're live and out of the air on problem corner.
Speaker 12:Good morning.
Speaker 6:How are you doing?
Speaker 3:How are doing?
Speaker 12:Good. I'm I'm glad that you called those kittens that are looking for homes kids because that's that's what happens when you get when you get fur babies.
Speaker 3:Well, Justin and I are both really big animal lovers, so I know that Justin brings his his his baby to work with him every day and and they are joined at the hip. The radio station And here is very
Speaker 12:did you get your fry bread?
Speaker 2:I got the fry bread, Rhonda, but sadly, Kenny missed out on it. But it was very good. Thank you so much for that again.
Speaker 12:You're welcome. And thank you for the gift cards. That was amazing.
Speaker 2:Of course. I wanted to share something with you since you shared something with me, so I hope you find good use of those gift cards. That's right.
Speaker 12:Well, thank you. I wanna know we're in a government shutdown.
Speaker 7:Right.
Speaker 12:I've been trying
Speaker 21:to call the
Speaker 12:PFD office because I did not get my PFD. I even went on social media and talked about it. Just like, did people get their PFDs? And I got responses.
Speaker 2:Go ahead.
Speaker 12:I just wanna know what happened. What how come nobody's answering the phone calls there at, the PFD office?
Speaker 3:So, the PFD is is state. It's not federal. Mhmm. I know that that governor Dunleavy said that that they're gonna keep the state open for as long as they possibly can. So, you know, my guess is why they're not answering the PFD office is there's probably a lot of people out there in the same situation as you, Rhonda, that hasn't gotten their check and is wondering where it happened.
Speaker 3:Mine did come in. Mine went direct deposited. Mine too. It did come in. So I know my wife got hers too.
Speaker 3:So hopefully you'll be able to get answers soon to that. Hey, Rhonda, and everybody on the air, I just want to thank you guys very much. I'm going be gone for a couple of weeks and I'll see you guys when I get back here on Problem Corner And Jess is gonna finish this show up.
Speaker 2:Alright, Kenny.
Speaker 4:Thank you
Speaker 2:so much.
Speaker 9:And safe
Speaker 12:travel mercies wherever you're going, and congratulations to your wife. That's amazing. And, just, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thank you so much. Thanks for calling Rhonda, and thank you again for that fried bread. I hope you have a good rest of your day and a good weekend.
Speaker 12:Alright. Thanks. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye bye. Alright, mister Kenny. We'll see you in a few weeks. Appreciate you as always.
Speaker 2:Thank you. And then we do got one more call before we gotta wrap up the program. So let's get them on. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Hey. I'd like to wish my niece, Florence Wright, a happy birthday today. I hope you Hopsing.
Speaker 2:Uncle Hopsing.
Speaker 7:And tomorrow, my niece, Lisa Brown's birthday, wish her a happy birthday.
Speaker 2:Lisa Brown.
Speaker 7:And my son Luther James Lee was born on her birthday. His birthday is tomorrow too.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. A lot of a lot
Speaker 7:of options And
Speaker 2:then who who was her that you said? I actually did not write down that name. So who's that first birthday?
Speaker 7:Florence. Right?
Speaker 2:Florence?
Speaker 7:It was today.
Speaker 2:Alright. Today birthday. Awesome.
Speaker 7:And Lisa Brown tomorrow and Luther Lee tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Luther Lee. Alright. I will shout out all our big happy birthday shout outs here in a couple minutes. So thank you so much for calling with that, and hope that your family has a good birthday today and tomorrow.
Speaker 7:Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. No problem. Thanks for calling. Yes. Lots of lots of birthdays today.
Speaker 2:I'm glad it's been a good happy birthday Friday. So down to our final minute of the program. We did get one email. One last birthday shout out. Christian Baker also has their quarter of a century birthday tomorrow.
Speaker 2:They're saying thank you for all your continued support and making most of my hair fall out. Your efforts don't go unnoticed. Have a great day, son. Love you more than mom does. And if you tell her that, dinner's off tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Dad, what a what a great message to your son. So a big happy birthday to Christian Baker. Quarter of a century. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 2:A couple years ago, I turned that number two, so I could definitely share that feeling of hitting that quarter century. We also had the big happy birthday shout out to Cecilia going on tomorrow. And then today, Summer Don Marvin. And then we had the big happy birthday to Florence today from Uncle Hopsing. And then tomorrow, happy birthday to Lisa and Luther.
Speaker 2:Well, folks, hope you had a great or have a great rest of your Friday, and I will catch you guys next Tuesday. I'm gonna be sad not having Kenny here in the studio with me, but we will work with that and make it happen. So join Ben Brown this coming Monday and then be hanging out with me on Tuesdays and then Thursday, Fridays going forward as I'm filling in for Katie Bosler. So, yeah, it's gonna be a full October this year. Get ready for your spooky season.
Speaker 2:Get your decorations. Might be a little too early to snag your pumpkins for that. So hope you guys have a great Friday and a great weekend. I'm Justin Miller, and I'll catch you guys next time here on Problem Corner on KINY.
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