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Speaker 2:So if you would like to call into the program, got anything to sell, garage sale to advertise, community topic or anything, even a bad dad joke. I always appreciate one of those. Go ahead. Give us a call at (907) 586-1800. You can also text that number and we can receive them or you can shoot us an email at air@kinyradio.com.
Speaker 2:So there's just a couple of things that I wrote down as far as things happening community this coming up weekend. It looks like someone had put up a post about a fun color photo walk. And it sounds like you just get together and walk around our beautiful community and take some pictures. And, they're saying you don't need any special, photography, quality camera. Just having a basic phone would work.
Speaker 2:And that is happening tomorrow, Saturday, August 1 at 3PM, and they're going to be meeting at the Twisted Fish. So if you are a photographer or even an amateur photographer and just wanna go out on a nice stroll and get some cool pictures with some nice people, go ahead and head over to the Twisted Fish tomorrow at 3PM. Also, the completion of the Hesco barriers for the midterm, solution has been completed and now it we're in the waiting period. There's really good resources and information available on the city website, and they have evacuation directions and instructions for those people who are in the inundation zone. So it's definitely worth it to go to the city website, check that out, get informed on what you may need to do depending on what area of town you're at and and then make sure that you just are as prepared as possible and have your plan set up and the different and the different contacts for all different scenarios.
Speaker 2:And we got a text here. What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho cheese. I remember that one from elementary school. Still good dad joke.
Speaker 2:Here's another one from them. What did Tennessee? The same thing, Arkansas. That's good. I like play on words.
Speaker 2:Alright. And let's see what else we got here in the email sections. Alright. So we've had an individual in the community doing some amazing work over at the Douglas Cemeteries, and they've been working on restoring the cemeteries since April 2021. And they have all sorts of community partners getting together on this.
Speaker 2:They're doing some really awesome stuff, cleaning it up, showing the respect that the deceased deserved in our community. And if you are interested in helping out with those efforts or, you know, going and being a part, donating, anything like that, you can give them a call at (907) 500-5802. And, maybe next week, we all have some among the program to talk about the efforts that they've been putting in there and update on the progress. Alright. And we just got another email here.
Speaker 2:It was like, do you know how we would contact or who we would contact regarding pooling water on sidewalks on the road to Thane Road? I saw an elderly tourist slip on the slimy water on the sidewalk. Thankfully, she got up and uninjured, but it is very dangerous and wet even on sunny days. Oh, that is interesting. I will have to look on the parcel viewer or talk to, Public Works and see exactly who, is responsible for that roaded area.
Speaker 2:But if it's water pooling up on a sidewalk, that seems like definitely, you know, if it's in the town area, it would probably be on the municipality. So I'll poke around a couple areas and see if it's something that's already on someone's radar. And if not, if we can get some sort of thing to address that because we definitely don't want people slipping on the thing that they're supposed to be walking on. So thank you for bringing that to my attention. Alright.
Speaker 2:Once again, if you wanna call into the program, have anything you wanna talk about, chat about, questions to ask, anything to get off your chest or do advertise any type of garage sales, you can go ahead and give us a call here on the program at (907) 586-1800. You can also text that number or shoot us an email at air@kinyradio.com. Alright. Some other events that are happening in the community. The Juno Softball Association is having a sunset whale watch cruise.
Speaker 2:This will be going on tomorrow, August 1 from 05:30PM to 08:30PM, and it'll be leaving at Stater Harbor. Now there's a QR code online that you can scan for your reservations, but I think on the flyer, they're saying that you could purchase the reservation on-site as well. It sounds like a gonna be a pretty fun event. The Softball Association is amazing with wonderful people. Statter Harbor with all the work that's been done there recently is looking better than it's ever looked before and I'm sure it'll be a nice evening with some cool people.
Speaker 2:Okay. We got an email here. This individual is recovering from a surgery and needs assistance with a light house cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, and folding laundry, approximately two to four hours per week, flexible hours. Pay starting at $30 an hour. If you're interested in helping out this individual, you can call or text them at (907) 209-2647.
Speaker 2:If you have a little bit of extra time and are willing to help this individual who is having trouble getting around their place, they are willing to compensate appropriately. Once again, their number is (907) 209-2647. Got another call. Let's get them on here. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 3:I'm doing good. Hey. I'm getting an echo here. About a month ago, I found a buoy floating in off bay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And it had a dungeness crab pot attached to it. And I pulled it in and let it, you know, be so it wouldn't drift away, but it was drifting all over the place. And so I imagine somebody down at Smugglers Cove or somewhere in Aunt Bay lost a crab pot, but there's no name on the buoy. There any No. Or nothing?
Speaker 3:Nothing. Nothing. Oh. So if someone could call up and describe exactly the buoy, the the crab pods, the the big container, you know what I mean? They know what it was.
Speaker 3:Okay. I'd be more than willing to
Speaker 4:get it back to them.
Speaker 2:Great. What's a good number that they can reach you at?
Speaker 3:(907) 209-9240.
Speaker 2:9240. Alright. We'll shout that out a couple times for you here.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Alright. If you are missing one of your crab pots from the Auk Bay area, this gentleman found an unmarked buoy that had one attached. If you call him and can describe it, he'd be happy to get it back to you. That number is (907) 209-9240 if you are missing a crab pot. And for some of the people that I know who've been setting them lately, the crabbing is pretty dang good.
Speaker 2:So don't wanna be missing out on the potential catch. Alright. And before we go to the first commercial break here, I can primer this one up. Everyone has seen or read about Mark Zuckerberg's yacht being in town and hanging around the community. My question to all you is, has anyone seen him doing anything in town or heard of any of his activities?
Speaker 2:You know, the yacht's been here for a while now, see the helicopter flying around, but, you know, haven't heard much of how he's experiencing the town. So if you have a little insight to that, go ahead and call us on the program, (907) 586-1800, or any celebrity visiting in town. I know there's always a handful that come through, and, it's always fun to hear what kind of, things they're going and experiencing that. So with that, we'll go ahead and take the first commercial break here. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2:We'll be right back with Problem Corner on ninety four point nine FM eight hundred AM.
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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 the program here. Thank you for tuning in to ninety four point nine FM, eight hundred AM. I'm Nano Brooks with you here wrapping up the week the right way. We are, before we had left for the break, I was mentioning Mark Zuckerberg's yacht and the fact that he's been in town for a while now. And just wondering if anyone's seen him out and about doing anything and what that might be.
Speaker 2:Always always curious, you know, what kind of experience these individuals are looking to have within the community. Or not even him, just any any celebrity that you might have seen around town this season. You know, it seems like each year we get a handful and it's always it's always fun to to see some big shots coming around. Another thing that I have noticed and have been hearing from a lot of people in the community is, you know, the bears are just out and about and loving the garbage right now. They're getting into people's cans left and right almost every day, it seems like, making messes all over the place.
Speaker 2:So just a friendly reminder to make sure that your garbage is, you know, secured, it's stored in appropriate areas. And if you have to keep it out in areas where they keep getting knocked down, A trick that I had always used when I was in areas that were a lot more bear prone is getting a ratchet strap on the back axle and then bring it around to the front lip, and you can get, you know, that extra cinch down and, you know, a garbage guy can figure it out, but the bears have a little bit of a harder time. So just a friendly tip and also, you know, just making sure that your garbage isn't going out too early and, just setting setting out a nice dinner plate for some of these, hungry and bold bears. And last night, we, had the veterans dinner that was over at the Salmon Creek Klingon Haida facility, and it was a great turnout. Lots of awesome people, good speeches, good grub, and just a fun time.
Speaker 2:I wanna thank everyone who made that possible and everyone who came out to enjoy it and thank all the veterans for their service to us. And let's see. What else do we got here? I'll just run back through a couple calls that we got earlier. There was that individual who had found what he described as a pretty nice saw, around the Oak Lake area that might have dropped off of someone's work vehicle or, fell off during transportation.
Speaker 2:If you're missing any, saw tool like that, you can give them a call at 90732 excuse me, 321-4646, describe it to them, and be more than happy to get it back to you. There's also in that same vein, individual found a, blank buoy with a crab pot attached. No markings or anything on it, but if you're missing one and can describe it to them, you can call that number at (907) 209-9240. And just to reiterate the garage sale that is going on tomorrow, that's at 3033 Wood Duck Avenue. That's gonna be happening from 8AM to noon.
Speaker 2:So if you wanna go there and check out anything else, but if you have a garage sale or any type of item you'd like to sell or any topic that you wanna chat about, go ahead and give us a call here on the program at (907) 586-1800. You can also shoot a text to that number or send us an email at air@kinyradio.com. Now I know that it is we got all sorts of excitement on the political sphere when it comes to the state and then also the municipality, the state race, huge candidate pool for governor, lots of people with lots of ideas. The primaries are going to be coming up where you will be voting for one individual to go to the general election. And it's not the ranked choice voting that we would have conducted in the general election.
Speaker 2:It's just a one person vote to see who moves on from the primary. And also within this year's voting on the state level, there will be the question whether or not to repeal a ranked choice voting. And I know that's come up a couple times and, you know, the people always come out and have their voices be heard. So if you have any thoughts or discussions to have around the state elections and the topics on the ballot, go ahead and give us a call or, we also have the filing period for the municipal elections that ended, and we have a handful of candidates, only one uncontested seat, and, and then one contested school board seat. So it should be another pretty interesting election around here in the community.
Speaker 2:And we got a caller. Let's get them on. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 4:Hey. I got I'm doing great. Liking a little bit of rain.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I know. It's it's very welcome
Speaker 7:for me to smell.
Speaker 4:Don't you love that smell? Yes. It's called tetracor.
Speaker 2:You know what? A really interesting fact about that is that our sense for that smell is like seven times greater than a shark's sense for blood and water.
Speaker 4:I hear it. I mean, I I believe it. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Was pretty cool.
Speaker 4:Four people if you want some cool science. Well, one note, there's weird feedback when we call you, just FYI. But what I actually wanted to chat about, just throw in my 2¢, is about the ranked choice voting repeal vote. Yeah. I just gotta say it's crazy, man.
Speaker 4:We've voted that into law.
Speaker 12:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:And every year since then, they've tried to repeal it and it failed. So I think the bigger story is when you vote something into law, shouldn't there be, like, five years, ten years before we can try to repeal it? It's crazy. Try we voted it for law, and then I think they've tried to repeal it three times now.
Speaker 2:Right. That's an interesting notion. I I like the idea of a grace period or, a purgatory period. It's
Speaker 4:just baffling. And then also on that note, I don't know if you've seen the commercials for repeal ranked choice voting. How offensive are those?
Speaker 2:What did they say? No. I haven't.
Speaker 4:I I don't really wanna see it. If you watch TV, you'll see them on air. But insinuating things against I don't even wanna say it, man. But if others who have may have seen it, I'm surprised the native community is not up in arms. They're using, native American imagery, to kind of prove their point on why it should be rejected.
Speaker 4:It's quite alarming. But I just wanna throw that out there. If something is law and we voted it as law, it should be, like, five years, ten years before they can try to repeal it. It's really weird. I mean, we voted it as law, and then they tried to repeal it three times.
Speaker 4:When are they gonna get enough to enough? Alaska wants ranked choice voting.
Speaker 2:Right. Well
Speaker 4:and Thanks for the program, Nano. No.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much for the call. I appreciate it. And that's a great point. You know? It's and it gets applied in lots of other areas where you have to have, like, some sort of grace or probationary period before something can, you know, be moved, changed, or undone.
Speaker 2:You know, I know why that doesn't get applied to things like citizens initiatives because it's the people going out and doing stuff. But I don't I don't see a strong downside of giving a little bit of time to see how something works across the board, you know. It's like if all you do is spend all your time trying to change what was done the year before, then no real progress gets made. Got another caller. Let's get them on.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 12:Hey. Good morning, Hannah Nano.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Hey.
Speaker 12:I'd like to first of all, thanks. Thanks for your help last night over there at the Veterans dinner.
Speaker 2:Oh, no problem at all. Happy to do it.
Speaker 12:You you had had the best hot water we ever had.
Speaker 2:I enjoy washing dishes. I I like making things clean.
Speaker 12:It looks like you and Jesse were having a good time over there.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. No. He'd meet he Jesse came there. We both were there till 9PM washing dishes. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 12:But you had you had a you had Paul over there, and, of course, you had that new candidate there at McCann. I think the name is James McCann. Something like that. He was over there helping out too. It's kinda that was kinda cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And and Ella was there too as, like, had had a a strong a strong presence of representatives.
Speaker 12:On the rack over there with all that steak on it. That was that was a great big turnout. Go over 240 people, but I really appreciate it. So and I'll talk to you next time about what
Speaker 11:you need to hey. Before I forget, does this does
Speaker 12:the city have a state excuse me. Does she have a flower? You know, the state has the forget me not. We should have the fireweed. Maybe you can introduce that.
Speaker 12:Maybe that will get passed.
Speaker 2:That's not a bad idea either. Well,
Speaker 12:you know, I I talked to the tourists enough, and they they've asked me about that. And I said, well, the fireweed's out in full bloom. Unfortunately, it's not the state flower, which what it should have been because it's natural and unlike forget me now, which was reintroduced to Alaska some 100 ago. Yeah. But, anyway, that's that's kind of may hey.
Speaker 12:That'd
Speaker 2:be Yeah.
Speaker 12:Bring up to the family.
Speaker 2:That'd be a fun thing
Speaker 12:to flower.
Speaker 2:That'd be a fun thing to bring to the community to have them do a vote on, but I'm afraid, skunk cabbage might win.
Speaker 11:Well, that's but that
Speaker 12:that's skunk. That's fiber. That's the bear food. Anyway, I'll let you go.
Speaker 2:Hey. Thank you for the call. You have
Speaker 12:a good Alright.
Speaker 2:We got another caller. Let's get them on here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 13:Yeah. Fine. Fine. Good morning. Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 13:Thanks for your program. Referencing that, earlier call, what struck me about the ranked choice voting and the and the one time I think that we've had a repeal at vote before us is that the spending on retain ranked choice voting was 90 to one, not nine to one, but 90 to one, and it was all outside money. So money from any place but Alaska. So it always struck me to ask the question, and I don't have the answer, why do all these people, not Alaskans, want us to have ranked choice voting that they're willing to spend so much money money, 90 to one, to have us keep ranked choice voting? What in the world is their motive?
Speaker 2:You know, I have an observation from when all that kinda started coming down the pipeline to Alaska. And there was videos going and circulating, and it was under the claim of being a grassroots campaign and explaining that the this ordinance, you know, enacts ranked choice voting, takes away dark money, and does all these great things. And, you know, at the time, I'm like, oh, man. This this seems seems awesome. And looking back on just how that campaign went about, you know, the claim of, like, the grassroots aspect and stuff.
Speaker 2:But the video I was watching had, like, six Hollywood megastars in it, had a very high production value. And now I'm looking back on them, like, I wonder how how grassroots that was, you know, to get a bunch of Hollywood actors and stuff.
Speaker 13:Yeah. Yep. Well and and and and and why why do the people willing to spend that money? Why do they care?
Speaker 2:Right. You know, it is definitely a weird a weird piece that gets used on the political stage a lot. And it seems like, you know, there's always some sort of lawsuit coming from states down south into our state. And it's just like, I don't think that we go and sue all these other states over all sorts of stuff they do, but everyone seems to be very focused on what we're doing here.
Speaker 13:I agree. I I think must be people who wanna control us see us as a cheap date.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing. Alaska is the Alaska is the last great land of opportunity where it's like, you know, there's so few things around that if you just get something set up and stick to it, you're probably gonna do alright.
Speaker 13:Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Yep. Well, I do think Alaska is the only state that that had ranked choice voting and hasn't repealed it yet.
Speaker 13:I think I think there's a handful of other states that tried it and got out of it, and I think Alaska is the only one that has retained it.
Speaker 2:I know there's a whole swath that, like, banned it too. Yep.
Speaker 13:Yep. So, anyway, I'm afraid I oppose ranked choice voting. And this upcoming primary, because of ranked choice voting, it's not really a primary.
Speaker 2:Well, no. The the primary is the old school way. It's a one vote on the primaries. The general is where ranked choice will be applied.
Speaker 13:That's true. But before ranked choice voting, this primary, for me as a registered, Republican, I would not have seen, say, Tom Bagich and JKT, etcetera, on my ballot.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 13:My ballot would have only had Republicans. But now the primary, which isn't really a primary that we're gonna have in a few weeks, it's a dress rehearsal
Speaker 14:Mhmm.
Speaker 13:Sort of for ranked choice voting. It's not really a primary.
Speaker 2:I get what you're saying.
Speaker 13:Before this, anybody who wasn't a registered Democrat could ask for a Republican ballot, and likewise, anybody who wasn't a registered Republican could ask for a Democrat ballot. Mhmm. But people, who were registered as Republican or Democrat couldn't get the other party's ballot. And so my ballot before ranked choice voting would have had Clint Bishop and and certainly, Bernadette Wilson and Shelley Hughes, etcetera, but it it wouldn't have had, Tom Bagich and JKT, etcetera. And now it just has everybody thrown in there.
Speaker 13:So from my perspective, it's not really a primary.
Speaker 2:That's a very good perspective. You know? I didn't think about it like that, but there's definitely merit to that thought.
Speaker 13:Yep. So anyway, that's my well, thank you for your time. Thank you for your program. Appreciate it very much. And and, Nano, thank you for all the hard work you're doing on the assembly.
Speaker 2:Hey. That's I'm happy to do it for the community I love and the wonderful people of this place.
Speaker 13:Have a great weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You as well, man. Thank you for the call. Alrighty. I've got another color.
Speaker 2:Let's get them on. Let's see if this is them again. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 15:Well, unfortunately, I like the sun better than the rain, but then again, we live in Southeast. So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2:You know? Get some sun tomorrow. Who knows? It's Juno. Yeah.
Speaker 15:I might get lucky. You know? So anyway, yeah, you had a couple of conversations here earlier. The guy about the ranked choice voting and how how we try to repeal it and everything. Well, I never voted for it in the first name place because I don't like ranked choice voting.
Speaker 15:To me, it's one person, you know, one one group of people, know, governor, and there's three runners, and they've all you know, vote for the one you want. And then they turn around and say, oh, well, guess what? We're gonna go down and pick out who's had slot numbers two, three, and four.
Speaker 11:Right.
Speaker 15:And it's like, why why are they picking numbers out of out of one, two, three, or four? There's only one person running, and that's the only vote should count. You know? So at that point, they lost me. If they if they did something like like, you know, do that, Ed, but didn't have turn around and have a runoff against each other against the two higher runners, then I wouldn't have problems, but we don't do that.
Speaker 15:They go to the ranked choice voting and go, well, this person with number three vote votes had the most, so he's gotta be in the lead for this group. And it's like, no. That's not how it should be. And the other thing was this last person was mentioning trying to figure out where all that money was coming from for a ranked choice voting from down south. Well, it's the same group of people that are out there trying to make illegals of voting out of eight people here in the in The United States, and it's the only way they can win.
Speaker 15:Because I'll tell you what, if everybody voted the way they're supposed to in this and looked at this as a country type thing rather than a selfish rule, you know, me, me, me thing, they'd be down the tubes and, well, they're already going down the tubes. I mean, the communist are taking over their damn party. So
Speaker 2:You know, I'd I'd say that there's a lot that's being left for desire for the two party dichotomy in general.
Speaker 15:Yeah. I I mean, like I said, I don't mind multiple people in there running for a single position, but to turn around and let ranked choice choose the winner is it it you know, because there's too many people playing with numbers at that point because we can't guarantee, and they're telling us, oh, well, this is what it is. Well, it should not be that way. You know? I mean, we we've survived two hundred and fifty years with voting for a single person with a single vote, and it seemed to work just fine.
Speaker 15:Why do they want ranked choice voting? Because then they have a chance to screw with the numbers.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. No. I've I've definitely heard that from lots of other people too. And, you know, the the the arguments for is, you know, the breaking down the disparage of the two party system, And that's something that's attractive definitely for younger people. But the one person, one vote, you know, that is the precedence of the country.
Speaker 15:Well, that goes right down the same lines that that, you know, I believe it was said for a long time there that Lisa Murkowski was on that brought the rank choice voting to the floor and all that kind of stuff. Well, she needed it to win because, you know, she's not a republican. She's she's in fact, she's nothing. You know? I mean, she didn't have a legal party because of health.
Speaker 15:Republicans kicked her out of the party a few years back, you know, because she was so lousy. And also, at the same time, she's in the teacher's hip union hip pocket, and that's a leftist organization there in itself. You know? And they love to keep our children dumb. Dumb people are easily misled and guided and told to do things, and they obediently do what they're told because they they don't have enough, how would you say, the ability to think a subject through and come to a conclusion on their own.
Speaker 15:And they love those kind of people because they they they they turn into Marxists.
Speaker 2:Well and one thing I can say politics aside and everything, our delegation between Begage, Sullivan, and Murkowski is like they have all been busting their butts for Juneau and getting us resources for the Glacial Lake outburst flood. So it's like they they're at DC talking about our town, and then, you know, it is it is what our delegation should do.
Speaker 15:And and if it wasn't such a national news thing, they wouldn't even be there, you know, because there's only things that catch the national attention if they start looking at doing things. You know? So I'm I'm and, firstly, only one of that whole group you just mentioned that I have anything good to say about is baggage. You know? I've met him, talked to him a couple of times, and, you know, I I, at first, did not believe in him because I'm his father and his grandfather were hardcore Democrats.
Speaker 15:You know? And the idea that he could come out of that family and be a a republican was almost hard to believe. But after having some conversation with him and watching what he's been doing and the way he's been voting, it's like, woah. I like this guy. You know?
Speaker 15:He's not so dang bad. And same thing with Pattola. I gave her a chance. I voted for her the first time, so I thought she was a new new face and a new new idea. But then she became a politician, and that was the end of that.
Speaker 15:Even no matter what she says, she says she has no million dollar backers. That's because the Democratic Party is throwing all money at her because she's a good talking point for them, and and they like that.
Speaker 2:Hey. I you know? And we got another caller, so we'll wrap this call up. But Beckage did just get something passed to where they can't do trades for members of congress or their spouses. And it's like
Speaker 15:That
Speaker 2:that that's a huge thing that, you know, makes a lot of people upset. So it's like, that was a really good thing to do.
Speaker 11:If you look
Speaker 15:at the other there's a couple others sitting there catching on to that because I've hated that forever. You know, just like I they all have nepotism. Yeah. That's the reason I didn't vote for her. She nepotism gave her a job in the first place.
Speaker 15:She should've, you know, took over his thing, but then ran normal and everything, but she never did. So anyway, yep. No. You've got it all there. And, what can I say?
Speaker 15:You know, pleasant one, and maybe we'll see you on the road one of these days.
Speaker 2:Alrighty. You have a great weekend. Thank you for the call. Alright. Got another caller.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today? Thanks for waiting patiently.
Speaker 14:Yeah. So far as this, constantly voting for, to repeal ranked choice voting is concerned, it's really just a bunch of people that wanna self perpetuate their own jobs. They're they're we're gonna vote for ranked choice voting again. And then next year, they're gonna come back there again, create their own jobs, pay themselves whatever they feel that they're worth. And they're just they're just creating their own jobs.
Speaker 14:That's going to go on and on and on. So we're going to vote it back again, and they're gonna be back again next year. And then we'll vote it back again next year, and then they'll be back again three years from now, four years from now until they finally get the message that, you know, ranked choice voting is something that we voted in. And, the people who voted in the first time are gonna vote it in the second time, and they're gonna vote it in the third time, they're gonna vote it in the fourth time. They're not gonna change their vote just because they're nagging us.
Speaker 14:Mhmm. And so far as the the there was a garage sale in Wood Duck Avenue. What was the address again?
Speaker 2:That is 3033 Wood Duck from 8AM to noon.
Speaker 14:8AM to noon. Okay. 33033?
Speaker 2:Correct.
Speaker 14:Okay. Great. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thank you for the call. Alrighty. Alright. And with that, we are coming up on the tail end of the program.
Speaker 2:Got enough time for another call here. Last year, go ahead. Give us a callback, caller. We'll get you on as the last talk of the program here. There they are.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 10:Good. Thank you. I am having a yard sale
Speaker 12:Okay.
Speaker 10:Tomorrow starting at 08:30. It's at 5327 Shawn Drive. It's just past Silver Bow Construction. It's right across from the Yoga Path in the Costco area.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 10:I have a lot to offer. It's I've got tons of kitchen items, electronics, office supplies, baskets. If you stop by, you'll definitely find a treasure to take home.
Speaker 2:Nice. Great. And you said that was from 08:30 till when?
Speaker 10:Till I close in the afternoon.
Speaker 2:Alright. That's what people like to hear. Okay. You for the call. We'll shout that out here as we wrap up the program.
Speaker 10:Okay. Great. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you. You have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 12:You too. Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Bye. Alrighty. And with that, we are here at the end of the program. That garage sale is starting at 08:30, and it's located at 5327 Sean Drive in the Costco area. Thank you everyone for tuning in today with me here on Problem Corner ninety four point nine FM, 800.
Speaker 2:Sorry about the beginning of the program where we were off of streaming, but got it all sorted out and it'll get smoother as the weeks go on. And as you go into your weekend, remember to just do what you can to put some positivity out in the world. Do something kind for someone, anyone, a stranger, family member, hold the door for someone, say please or thank you, help someone carry something heavy out of their car. It's those little things that we do for one another that makes things a lot better and it becomes contagious. And then other people in turn go and do great things for other people.
Speaker 2:And soon you start this wonderful butterfly effect of positivity and that's how you can really change the tides of, you know, feelings within humanity and society. With that, thank you for tuning in to Problem Corner here on Friday. We'll see you on Monday. You all enjoy your weekend and the rest of the
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