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Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. I am your Tuesday host, Connor Lindrum, joined today with by Wade Bryson. How are doing, Wade?
Speaker 3:I'm doing great. How are you today, Connor?
Speaker 2:I'm doing fantastic. And I gotta say, I'm so glad to be back. It's been about a month since I've been here on the air, and we are in the brand new studio.
Speaker 3:Isn't it gorgeous in here?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so nice. Oh my god. The baffling is beautiful. We got a brand new board. And, also, wonderful listeners, precious listeners, my best best friends who I love to hear from, though I never get to see your excellent faces.
Speaker 2:Today, our phones are not plugged in yet. We are going to be having them online very, very soon. But for today, if you want to have your items for sale, if you want your events promoted, if you wanna do a shout out to some family here for celebration, I want you today to text (907) 586-1800. Or, of course, you can always email us at air@kinyradio.com, and I will be reading out your words on your behalf. I promise to not skip anything and keep everything in as long as it's kosher for airwaves.
Speaker 2:But yeah. So this way you could imagine, like, writing me an audiobook that I'm gonna read for you. So, you know, like, feel free to use your big words, use a metaphor. I'm gonna try and bring it to life for you. And we actually have one text already here for us today.
Speaker 2:There is a garage sale Saturday, June 6, 8AM to one, major attic and shop cleanout. There's miscellaneous exercise equipment, a weight bench, barbell with plates, a BOSU ball, don't know what that is, free weight rack, assorted free weights. They also have some other sports equipment. They've got cross country skis and poles. They've got men's ten and a half size boots and women's eights, and they have dry suits.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. Dry suits, five ten dash one seventy pound sign. I don't know what that means for dry suits, but if you know dry suits, that's there. Miscellaneous holiday decor, they've got lamps, baskets, pottery, new Barbies that have never been used. Maybe that means still in box.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure. Some collector Barbies. So, yeah, Barbies having kind of a heyday. Lots of stuff. This is gonna be Saturday.
Speaker 2:The address is 16440 Glacier Highway. There will be signs out. The address again is 16440 Glacier Highway. That's Saturday, June 6 from 8AM to 1PM. Go check it out if you want some exercise equipment.
Speaker 2:I've been working on trying to exercise a little bit more myself. I've got a bad back, and I've been really bad at protecting my bad back. He telling you, you gotta get a strong cord and strong glutes. And I've been like, yeah. Or maybe I'll just lay around and do nothing.
Speaker 2:And that hasn't been working. So I've been going to therapy, trying to get into exercise, and, yeah, you know, starting out, starting to feel a little stronger. Do you exercise much, Wade?
Speaker 3:I do like to exercise. Yeah. I have a membership at the one of the clubs, and I feel guilty every day that I don't go. So I think that's it's it's the best use I'm getting from that club is the is the guilt of not going. But, yeah, I do like to go when I have enough energy because it does make me feel better.
Speaker 3:And the ironic part is when I don't have energy, I probably be better off going to the gym anyways.
Speaker 2:It's this very paradoxical thing where you think like, oh, I don't have any energy. I can't go exercise. I don't have any energy. I need to rest. Yes.
Speaker 2:But really, when you go and you activate your body and you use it, even though you may have, like, some initial fatigue right after, as long as it's, like, a manageable amount of activity, it actually gives you much more energy for the rest of the day.
Speaker 4:You know?
Speaker 2:If you wake up, you've got some your different, like, hormones and steroids moving through your body that your body creates naturally that sort of like, I am alive and I am moving and this is my body. You just feel more, you know, active. You know, very central to my philosophy, my viewpoint of the world is that and I think people forget this a lot. You know, we think of ourselves separate from nature, but we are animals first. You know, we are.
Speaker 2:We are. We're animals first. It's good to remember that, like, you know, we have, these bodies that are, you know, expecting to be used to climb, to crawl, to carry, to, like, you know, do all these things. And the more you do that thing, the body is gonna be happier. And that means you're gonna be happier because your brain is an organ
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In your whole system. It all fits together.
Speaker 3:Now and a doctor would tell you use it or lose it. And that you just couldn't have a better simple phrase for it. Yeah. I need to get running or walking or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Absolutely. Well, it's a very exciting time here in Juneau and for all of Southeast Alaska. It is celebration. Woo hoo.
Speaker 2:Technically starting tomorrow, but, you know, everyone's here in town. There's a lot of events going on. Happy celebration to everybody, both from Juneau and visiting us here. Thank you so much, SHI, for putting on this incredible event every other year. It is always so wonderful to feel Juneau so alive, so full of life and culture and vibrancy.
Speaker 2:If you have anyone that you're here to see during celebration or if unfortunately you weren't able to make it this year, give us a text at (907) 586-1800, and I will read your greeting and your well wishing aloud on air for anyone tuned in during this pre celebration day. I've got this awesome little text reader on my computer, so I'll be able to read it out to everybody. And we also still have email air@kinyradio.com. Speaking of exercise, Wade, I hear there's been a lot of bikes in your life lately.
Speaker 3:There have been a lot of bikes in my life lately. So it was on your Problem Corner show that I announced that I had sold Subway and was trying to retire, but then I've had an opportunity. I'm gonna go work with Ken at the bike doctor.
Speaker 2:So cool. We love that.
Speaker 3:I went and did training, so I got certified. I actually knew what I'm doing, or I know what I'm doing now, kind of. I'll put parentheses on that. But man, I cannot begin to express how much more I love what I'm doing again. I really liked being a Subway business owner back in the early years as I was growing and learning and somewhere along the way where you're just doing it, it lost some of its luster.
Speaker 3:And to be back at something that I'm learning and grown again, man, I I have a really, really good time at work these days.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's really beautiful. That's really special. Know? It's it's it's hard to find
Speaker 3:work that you love, that you I hadn't had it in a little bit.
Speaker 2:Keeps you good like that. Oh, we've got a text coming in. Woo hoo. Alright. We've got a birthday wishing.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday to Marilyn Payton. Happy birthday, Marilyn. I hope you're listening. And, you know, here's an interesting thing that I'm gonna now add to my announcement about sending in a text. And if you just sent in that text message to Marilyn, my system doesn't have your contact information.
Speaker 2:So I'm just getting phone numbers. Instead of reading everyone's phone number out loud and being like, it's from this phone. Feel free to sign your texts like my mom signs all of her texts to me. And so that I know who it is sending in this message so I can also give you credit if you wanna be identified. So feel free to send another text letting us know who is wishing a happy birthday to Marilyn Peyton.
Speaker 2:This is from Dwight Peyton. Dwight, thank you so much for sending in your name.
Speaker 3:I love it when they're listening while you're talking and and responding in real time.
Speaker 2:It's great. We're having a little conversation. Thanks a lot, Dwight. There you go. So Marilyn, we hope you're having a wonderful birthday.
Speaker 2:I too am a summer baby. I'm an August birthday. This is great for me too, Dwight. This is so interesting having this conversation with you while you're texting me. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyways, everyone, please send a text in if you have any other well wishing, or if you wanna talk about what you're excited about with celebration. Celebration is such a huge I mean, such an important event. I'm so glad that you're not driving while you're texting, Duane Dwight, excuse me. But there's all these, like, smaller events that are attached to celebration. One of the ones that I always love is, like, the big entrance.
Speaker 2:But I also am a big fan of the Toddler Regalia review. What? Yeah, absolutely. Is for HIV- How
Speaker 3:is that not the most adorable thing ever?
Speaker 2:It is. It absolutely is. And SHI puts up photos on their website and it's absolutely adorable. It's really, it's also really beautiful, you know? How neat is that?
Speaker 2:It's neat. It's so neat. And it's also great to like, remember that, like, you're never too young to participate in your culture, whatever your culture happens to be. You know, it's a it's a part of who you are. And the more you get to interact with it, the better.
Speaker 2:And like these children are so lucky to have this opportunity to sort of like
Speaker 3:You were gonna say when it was?
Speaker 2:Oh, so this one is going to be let me see. Oh, and then
Speaker 3:today from yesterday's conversation while you're looking that up, the boats are supposed to be landing downtown around 02:00 today.
Speaker 2:Oh, great.
Speaker 3:So if you were wanting to go experience the landing of the canoes, I might get there before two. I would probably head downtown about one because you're not gonna be able to anywhere No. Even remotely close to it. We do know that's
Speaker 2:gonna be I
Speaker 3:don't actually know that.
Speaker 2:You know what? Follow the big crowd of people.
Speaker 3:Follow the be
Speaker 4:able to
Speaker 2:find it. Juneau's not that big a place.
Speaker 3:Know? Somebody out there listening right now knows where they're gonna be landing. They could share that with us.
Speaker 2:If anyone wants to text me and help this poor adult Connor brain who doesn't have all of his ducks in a row, Tracy's Crab Shack is what I'm getting from Dwight. Dwight's saying that Tracy's Crab Shack is being where Landing's gonna be.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Because you've got the the 16 B Docks right there. So that would make sense that that's where they're going. We were able to we checked out the icebreaker was kind of that area when that was here. And you're right by the open decking, and so I think they called it the Archipelago Lot.
Speaker 3:And so you have a really large area that everyone's gonna be able to congregate in.
Speaker 2:You ever been to the Buoy deck, the like bar in the Coast Guard building?
Speaker 3:A very, very long time ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I used to go to salsa nights there.
Speaker 3:Okay. I've heard about that.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Absolutely. It was so much fun. There was there used to be this really vibrant dance scene here. Mean, there's still dancing in Juneau, but, like, there used to be this annual event.
Speaker 2:They were hosted by my dance teachers, organized by my dance teachers, Heather and Antonio. It was just this transformative thing. It was like the folk fest of dance. It was like Memorial Day weekend. It was like four days.
Speaker 2:And during the day at Centennial Hall, they would have the ballrooms all split up into three ballrooms, and there would be, you know, hour long dance classes of all these different kinds. You'd have, like, country two step, but you'd also have, like, Argentine tango and piccata and song. And then, like, there'd be a little gap where everything's closed down. And then in the evening, there'd be these huge dances where they combine all of the ballrooms. And they got, like, I think they got a band from Cuba one year.
Speaker 2:They got instructors from Argentina. Like, it really was this, like, incredible, like, global community feeling, and I learned how to do a lot of dancing. I used to be a pretty good tangoer. I don't really know how to tango anymore. Now it's really just a salsa, like, merengue, cha cha, little swing.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You like to dance?
Speaker 3:I was just thinking as you were talking about it, I was kinda glad that they don't have those classes because I have a feeling that my my wife would want me to go take dance classes with her, and I haven't danced since I was probably 19. I don't know if my body could handle it.
Speaker 2:Oh, your body you just start small you small know, like any sort of exercise, want to take it easy at first. But man, I don't know. It's really hard to think of times that are quite as like happy as when you really just like stop thinking about what you look like and you just let yourself dance to music, whether you're alone or you're with a Like, it just makes you so happy. Your body just wants to do it.
Speaker 3:When you're feeling the music. Okay. I can get how that would be.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. We've got another text coming. Yeah.
Speaker 3:The next time I feel the music, I'll I'll see if I can't practice dancing a little.
Speaker 2:Okay. We've got a citizen here. Feel free to send in your name because I do not have everyone's phone number memorized, but we just got in some community commentary. This is so great. This is first time emojis have been involved in, I think
Speaker 3:In Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 3:Is great. We don't have emojis in Problem Corner. Alright.
Speaker 2:Our community member, they really, really need to put in many stop signs stop sign emoji at each end of some crosswalks, monkey with face covered, and parents really need to teach their children to stop before entering a crosswalk. Came pretty dang close to hitting a young lady who all of a sudden entered a crosswalk head exploding emoji. Summer is here. There is a ton of traffic and a ton of pedestrians. Four stop sign emojis.
Speaker 2:It's true. Driving in Juneau in the summer is a practice in constant vigilance, especially if you are downtown. Listen, I mean, tourism is an important industry, and I'm not gonna say that, like, you know, no tourist should ever be here. That's not how I feel. But I am sure we've all had that special flavor of rage when you're just trying to walk.
Speaker 2:You're just trying to walk to the Red Dog. You're just trying to go down the street and it's like, I have to walk in the middle of street or I'm not getting anywhere. And, you know, and then all these big bags of stuff just jumping in the middle of the street when you're trying to drive. I never try and drive downtown if I can avoid it in the summertime unless it's like midnight.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Exactly. And they have those they're called stanchions. They're the metal poles that I I wanna say are about two feet high, and they have the chains in between them. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:My understanding is that the stanchions kinda work, that they do reroute people to crosswalk areas, but, yes, Juno's jaywalking situation, I guess, would be what any tourist town would experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Absolutely. I'm sure we're
Speaker 3:not unique in it.
Speaker 2:Oh, we got another text coming in. Alright. This one's from Julie. I have a new phone for sale and a I believe it's a Roku Fire Stick. Both new.
Speaker 2:Please call or text (907) 500-8564 to get in touch with Julie if you're looking to buy a new phone or you wanna have a Roku Fire Stick. Very useful for watching TV. You can plug in it at any TV that has, like, a USB receiver, I believe, is how that works. And hey, man. We're always out here looking for new phones.
Speaker 2:So please hit up Julie Julie by call or text to 907508564. So it's a it's celebration, but it's also not the only thing happening this week. Tonight is my weekly pub trivia that I run at Devil's Club.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Forgot about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Please come by. We have a good time usually. I'm really interested if it's going to be either really packed or completely empty because of celebration. I feel like it's gonna be one way or the other.
Speaker 2:So come on by. You need $2 cash. All that money goes into a pot. First place gets 75% of the pot. Second place gets 20% of the pot, and second to last place will get the last 5% of the pot.
Speaker 2:So the more people come, the bigger the pot. And, yeah, we do that every week, 02:00 at Devil's Club downstairs at 07:00. It is not uncommon for it to fill up. So if you wanna get a good seat, I'd say come no later than 06:45. All right.
Speaker 2:We're getting down near the bottom of the hour. But before we go into our little ad break, I also want to talk about another event that I'm helping with on Thursday. So Lily Hope is organizing an event that is going to be held next year, the Northwest Coast Textile Symposium. So this is gonna be a huge event where people from all over the Northwest Coast who are all different textile artists in different native traditions, but especially in Chillcat and Ravenstail Weaving are gonna be able to come together, and it's supposed to be a huge conference about sharing information, about learning different techniques, about sharing culture, and it is gonna be a really incredible experience, but that's next year. This Thursday at the rookery, you can come by from four to six, and you can learn about the event.
Speaker 2:And there's also gonna be some live music. Please come by. You can hear a Lily Hope talk about what next year's symposium is gonna be. If you're here for celebration, but in your community, you are a weaver or you know weavers or you know weavers in the North West down South or in Canada who are helping, like, preserve and evolve and shape their artistic and textile culture, they wanna know about this. So please come by on Thursday to the rookery from four to six.
Speaker 2:Hear more about the symposium for next year. It's free to attend. There's gonna be live music, and it's gonna be a really good time. Yeah. You'll actually see me out on the street waving people down to telling them to come in.
Speaker 2:So if you see me standing outside being like, come check it out, you know you're in the right place. So we're gonna be heading off into our little radio ad break here in a second. But I want to remind people during the break, if you have anything that you want to wish to the attendees of celebration or you've got any questions about our community or anything you want to know from Wade or I, please text us at (907) 586-1800 and include your name in the text because I don't have your phone number saved. I'm very popular, but I'm not that popular. And you can also email air@kinyradio.com.
Speaker 2:It is 11:28, and it is June 2 on Tuesday. I'm Connor Lindrum, and I will see you very, very soon.
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Speaker 1:Now back to Problem Corner, where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to Problem Corner with Connor and Wade.
Speaker 3:Here we are.
Speaker 2:I hope that you're getting those thumbs warmed up to text us at (907) 586-1800 with any questions or comments that you have. Anything you wanna know about celebration, we can help a little bit. We're not perfectly informed, but we know a little. And it's a really exciting time to be in Juneau. I was saying before that we or I am helping at an event on Thursday where Lily Hope is going to be doing a kickoff event promoting her twenty twenty seven symposium.
Speaker 2:So if you wanna learn more about that, please come by on Thursday. Ashley Young is gonna be performing, and it is going to be so good. Ashley Young is one of the best musicians I've seen in, like, the last five years. She's so captivating. She's so so it creates such beautiful music.
Speaker 2:So please, at the very least, come by and listen to some wonderful, wonderful stylings by Ashley Young. It's a free event. It's a great time, and we are waiting for your texts. (907) 586-1800 or shoot us an email. I have a few also from yesterday that I'm gonna replug out into the world.
Speaker 2:From Julia, we've got a Samsung phone for sale. Give a call or a text to 907508564. And then we also have another message from Rich Etheridge. Oh, your local responders need your help. The assembly is considering closing down the Douglas Fire Station to become landlords and generate a few dollars to plug the giant budget hole.
Speaker 2:Douglas Fire Station is part of the fabric of our community, especially on Douglas Island. If you support your local firefighters and their mission, contact your assembly and ask them not to undermine the department that is always there for us and maintain the Douglas Firehouse. So go ahead and reach out to your assembly if you wanna fight for the Douglas Fire Station. Thank you so much, Rich.
Speaker 3:And let's see. And you know who Rich is. Right? I don't. He is the previous fire chief who just retired.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see.
Speaker 3:And so if anyone would know how important the Douglas Fire Department is to the community of Juneau, it would be the previous fire chief because he would have he would have known how that fire department impacts the rest of the community. Yeah. He just is gonna have that insight. And so and if you live on Douglas, West Juneau, Douglas, you should we need to have that Douglas Fire Station, and even having that, it still doesn't put the entire community within the ten minute zone that you try to have a first responder. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So shutting down the Douglas Fire Department would put community members' lives at risk. Mhmm. It's that simple.
Speaker 2:I don't mean to make too much light, but also it means on the July 4, you can't go to the barbecue there, which is such a bummer. I I wanna go get my firefighter hot dogs.
Speaker 3:Wow. I didn't even think about that, but think about how much of a part of the fourth of July festivities they are.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. You know what I mean? Like, there's like, fourth of July has two halves on the day. First half's downtown, second half's on Douglas. That's how I live.
Speaker 2:I I, like, you know, go check out the parade, enjoy being downtown, and then I usually walk. Honestly, I just walk from downtown all the way over to Douglas and because, like, trying to manage your car over there is crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah. There's no
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Parking over there.
Speaker 2:Let's just go over there and talk with some firefighters, eat some delicious food, show them the gratitude. I mean, there's there's so many people in this town that wouldn't be alive without them. Mean, they're they're working every day saving lives. Well, the
Speaker 3:fire department's role in putting out fires is really small these days. Firefighters respond to medical emergencies nine times out of 10, and the number's probably even higher. It's probably like 9.5, 9.9. Every time the 911 is called, it is the majority is medical emergencies that that's what the firefighters are trained to respond to. And so it's it's not like that we would put out less fires in the community, but it would put a it would make it way harder for the community to be able to have early response.
Speaker 3:Like, you could live in part of the community that doesn't get a response. Yeah. Or let's say that we don't have Douglas and the downtown gets a rather alarming emergency. And so the entire downtown fire department is committed to something, car accident or structure fire, and then something happens on Douglas. Well, there's just nobody there to respond.
Speaker 3:I mean, we'd be literally setting our community up for unknown tragedies that could happen in the future by not having a Douglas Fire Department. I just I hate that that we're in that level discussion because it's gonna be a choice between, well, do we keep Douglas Fire Department open or do we shut down another organization in Parks and Rec? Do we wanna really pick between a pool and a fire department or a library and a fire department? But the budget cuts that the city is facing, those are the questions that the assembly is being forced to answer right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well said, Wade. We do have a new text in. So we just got a text in. I don't have a name for this individual.
Speaker 2:So please go ahead and please send your name if you're listening right now. But we have someone who is offering their skills for any sort of odd job work. They can clean garages. They can clean house. They can do yard work.
Speaker 2:They are on disability, and it was recently shortened and reduced to just about $700. And so I was trying to play catch up. They have two cats, and they're trying to take care of them and themselves. And they say that they are willing to do just about any kind of work. If there's elder care or yard care or, you know, maybe you need your house painted.
Speaker 2:They really enjoy helping others, and their number is (907) 209-6819. And that's from Eleanor Alice Morgan. Thank you so much, Eleanor, following up with that. And, also, Eleanor's saying that she has great weed whackers, saws, broom and dustpan, yard tools, wants to offer help in Douglas, but is pretty sure they can get just about anywhere where you might need some aid. So it sounds like they have a lot of their own equipment for doing some yard care or some house care.
Speaker 2:So if you're looking to you know, there's a very interesting thing that I think that people don't talk about very much, which is that there are help is not a one way thing. It's not a river. It doesn't flow like that. There is a reciprocity in soliciting help and in accepting help. And there are benefits to those relationships and those dynamics that run really deep, both psychologically and communally.
Speaker 2:And it is true that, like, there's so much pride and self respect that comes in, like, helping each other in ways that is not about like, oh, you need something? I'm just gonna give it to you and walk away. Not that that's bad. You know, I do that. Everyone does it.
Speaker 2:That's an important part of the human community equation. So, you know, if you're out there and you just, like, you want your lawn mowed, you want your hedges trimmed, you want your windows washed, please reach out to (907) 209-6819. Go ahead and help Eleanor and help yourself and let Eleanor help you. Let us all help each other, and we'll all be better for it.
Speaker 3:Connor, I'm really glad that you said that because one of the phrases I used to use is that if you wanna help yourself, go help someone else. It's just great therapy when you're focused on providing assistance or help to another person. Takes your worries off of your problems, And when you're benefiting somebody else, like I said, if you want to help yourself, go help someone else.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. 100%. There's yeah. And, you know, I think you really see kind of like a reflection of that in certain parts of our society right now. Like there we're living in kind of a scary, tumultuous time here in our country.
Speaker 2:And in response to that, there's been a lot of mutual aid organizations growing up in communities all over the country of people like gathering their own supplies and organizing their own networks to support each other and to make sure that people aren't being left behind and to help people who are in bad situations, who just need a little bit more community help or a lot more community help. And, you know, the people who are doing that organizing, putting that together, like they all have their own problems too. And they are called to that work because they see that it is necessary to living in the world that we want to live in, where people prioritize each other's care and well-being. And there's a million teeny tiny ways to do it. So if you're out there and you want to have your bathroom cleaned or your dog walked or whatever, please reach out to Eleanor Alice Morgan at (907) 209-6819.
Speaker 2:And if you got anything else going on, give us a text. (907) 586-1800, or email us air at KINY Radio dot com. So it is gonna be first Friday this weekend. Lot of great stuff going on in Juneau as usual. The Marie Drake Planetarium is going to have a show going on.
Speaker 2:The Marie Drake Planetarium runs on donations. I always love going there. It's such a special place. I surprised my wife with a date there once, and it was really fun. Just was like, I'm taking my audacious, like, where are going?
Speaker 2:I'm like, I'm not gonna tell you. And we went and we watched some movie that got projected up on the dome. It was really wonderful. There's gonna be stuff going on at Juno Woolies, Annie Kales, Hearthside Books, the pottery jungle. Harbor Mountain Brewing has a local jewelry artist per who's gonna be sharing their wares there.
Speaker 2:And, oh, Spice is gonna have some live music in their cafe. Go check that out. And Kindred Post has a pop up print shop. You know, it's gonna be first Friday. So if celebration isn't your scene and you wanna go check out some other stuff, just go out, be in the town, be part of the community.
Speaker 2:There's there's so many teeny tiny little elements to what makes a community. And a lot of times it just means like going and being in the same place and participating in the same activity. What the thing is matters, but what matters more is participating and being there and seeing and being seen. And it gives structure and opportunity for community members to talk with each other about what's going on, to share news about what's happening. I really just am a big proponent of just, like, getting out there and rubbing shoulders with everybody in town.
Speaker 2:It's it's a lot better than everyone staying home and looking at their phones. I sound like I'm a thousand years old.
Speaker 3:No. First Friday is just for that. You have so many people that you only see in city community functions like First Friday. I've definitely been through a few First Fridays, and you see so many Junoites out there that you just hadn't seen in a
Speaker 2:little
Speaker 3:while. And they usually have at least one or two deals in each shop that is featuring first Friday visits.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Absolutely. It's a it's wonderful.
Speaker 3:Especially in the summertime.
Speaker 2:Everyone wants to go outside.
Speaker 3:And Friday nights have slightly less cruise traffic than, say, like the middle of the week, like a Tuesday afternoon. Good. Friday night is not too bad of a time to head down for first Friday. Good. I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna give one more plug for this event that's coming on Thursday that I'm working on. This is going to be the symposium kickoff. So what is the symposium, you ask? Well, in 2027, Lily Hope is organizing along with many other artists from all over the Northwest Coast, the Northwest Coast Textile Symposium. Now that's not till 2027, but if you wanna learn more about it, come on Thursday night to the rookery from four to six.
Speaker 2:Listen to Ashley Lunk Young excuse me. Ashley Young play some excellent music. Listen to Lily Hope talk about weaving and about the symposium that's coming up. And if you know any weavers or if you know anyone who wants to learn about weaving and from anywhere from, you know, the Northwest to British Columbia to the rest of the state, We want them to know about it. And so if you've got people coming in through celebration and you're like, you need to hear what Lily Hope has to say about this event next year, drag them on.
Speaker 2:It's free. It's fun. It's gonna be great. Let me see. I've got a text here from someone.
Speaker 2:Are they open only one day a week or regular schedule? Shoot me a text again, mystery messenger, and let me know who you're talking about. Who's only open one day a week, or is it a regular schedule? Because I'm not sure. I've said so many things so quickly.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you're referring to. So shoot me another text, and I will let you know if I know. Yeah. So it's gonna be Thursday night. And also tonight, $2 trivia Tuesday at Devil's Club.
Speaker 2:Connor Lindrum is the host. I write all the trivia myself. People are surprised. There's all these sort of, like, national and international trivia businesses that, like, everyone gets the same questions or you get to pick a topic and they generate I
Speaker 3:was gonna ask what your topic was tonight, but it sounds like you do all topics.
Speaker 2:I have a little bit of a format. I do a the first round's always music. Second round is always local trivia. And local, I say, is like Juno specific or Southeast Alaska specific. And then after that, it's just whatever I feel like writing trivia about.
Speaker 2:I do tend towards pop culture and hard science, but I really try to mix it up. And I also like solicit topics from people, so I have like kind of a running list of like, you know, because I've been doing this for almost two years. I'm running out of ideas. And it's a lot of fun. You know, people keep coming, so I think it's a good time.
Speaker 2:I have a good time doing it.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say, how many useless trivia facts do you know now? That's gotta be amazing.
Speaker 2:There's not enough airtime in the world for me to go over it all.
Speaker 3:We'll bring a trivia pursuit I game,
Speaker 2:would be I'm so good at it. Okay. So we got a follow-up from our texter. So they were asking about the landfill schedule. Are they open only one day a week or a regular schedule?
Speaker 2:I don't know off the top of my head. Let me
Speaker 3:I have that answer.
Speaker 2:You do?
Speaker 3:The landfill is open to the public Saturday mornings from eight to noon.
Speaker 2:Saturday mornings from eight to noon, listener.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So if you'd unless you're you're a contractor with one of their, I guess, a permit, and that's so you have like a contract with them that you're on auto pay. That level of customer does have five day a week, six day a week access because it's set up in a different so what happened is a handful of years ago, OSHA started cracking down and said, you can't let your citizens or your public go to the dump face. No one does that anymore. But Southeast Alaska, Juno, had such a culture of we throw our own trash away at our dump, why would you not let us do that?
Speaker 3:Well, you know how rules become rules, become more rules, become more rules, and that's what changed. And the local folks that are the local workers here, they had no say in that policy change. And unfortunately, them enforcing their new company's policy, Junoits did not respond favorably, which then put the company on its defensive. And they're like, well, everybody's gonna get mad at us, we're just trying to do business correctly.
Speaker 2:Well, right here, I'll be like, the, like, you know, like, the the public doesn't get fined. Do they get fined?
Speaker 3:Exactly. And they were given out, hard hats and, reflective vests because people were going to the the dump face Mhmm. Not properly outfitted. And they tried to do, like, loaner helmets. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Someone left a mess in one of the helmets and gave the loaner helmet back full of human waste. Yeah. After that, they're like, nope. We're We're done. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And so we now have a dump that June whites can go to from eight to noon. Here's the better solution. Here is the solution, and this is what we've talked about for years. If you have large objects, leave them next to your trash cans. If you call 780-7800, when the trash truck comes to your house, they'll pick up your extra stuff
Speaker 2:for told them.
Speaker 3:If you told them, and it's way less than if you try to bring the stuff to the dump yourself. So why not call 780-7800? I mean, I've got it memorized. Yeah. Because then you can dispose of your larger objects, your your garage clean out for a fraction of the price if you went and go went to go drop it off yourself.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, thank you so much for the download, Wade. I learned something today.
Speaker 3:For trivia night.
Speaker 2:Don't dump at the dump. But listener, that's gonna be Saturday mornings from eight to noon is when you can go there and dump yourself. And oh, we've got another message, another birthday wish for Marilyn Payton from her son Tyler. That's so sweet, Tyler. Happy birthday, Marilyn.
Speaker 2:Should we sing happy birthday?
Speaker 3:No, we don't sing happy birthday on Prom Corner, but we probably should take that last commercial break is what I was thinking.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It might be about that time. Alright, everybody. I've had a great time. I'll be back next week.
Speaker 3:Well, now we got a commercial break and then we finish the show. We're not the end of the show.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Great. Excellent. Alright. We'll see you very, very soon, y'all.
Speaker 3:With more Prom Corner on KINY. Right?
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Speaker 11:We have a mostly clear sky this morning. It's gonna be sunny and warm today. Temperatures in the mid sixties by noontime, 70 for the high later on this afternoon. Clear overnight, not as cool, our low 45. And for Wednesday, partly sunny with a high 69.
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Speaker 2:And that's the end of our Problem Corner, ladies and I
Speaker 3:think we have alright. So this was totally my fault. We had two breaks yesterday, but we only had one break today. We have four minutes left of time that we can either take calls or not take calls, we can take texts. You can read emails one more time.
Speaker 3:I was gonna make the announcement that you had read a garage sale announcement at the beginning of the show. Mhmm. And Problem Corner is perfect for garage sales.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:So if you're having a garage sale this week, send us that text, (907) 586-1800. And, Conor, if you want to mention that other garage sale one more time.
Speaker 2:No problem. So it's gonna be Saturday, June 6 from 8AM to 1PM. It's a major attic and shop clean out. They're getting rid of a bunch of exercise equipment like a weight bench, barbells with plates, free weights, as well as some cross country skis with poles, boots in men's and women's, 10 and a half men's and eight in women's, a dry suit, a bunch of miscellaneous holiday decor, some Barbie collectibles never used, lots of stuff, and that's at 16440 Glacier Highway. There will be signs out.
Speaker 2:That's 16440 Glacier Highway from 8AM to 1PM.
Speaker 3:And where do you think 1600 Glacier Highway is? Is that closer downtown or do think that might be out towards
Speaker 2:like 16000.
Speaker 3:16000. Yeah. So that's gotta be
Speaker 2:I think it's gonna be I think that's gonna be out near the ferry terminal.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say it sounds like it's out there. So my best advice, as somebody who's advised on garage sales for a while, say the major cross street. So if you are at 16000 Glacier Highway, say we're half a mile down or further north from the ferry terminal, or we're just on the other side of Lena Loop, or whatever it might be. If you're in the valley, say the cross street. Because if you're on, let's say, Long Run, which side of Long Run are you on?
Speaker 3:Birch? Which side of Birch are you on? So Yeah.
Speaker 2:But also, you just, like, get in the neighborhood, there's pretty signs out.
Speaker 3:There will be signs bunch
Speaker 2:of stuff outside. So, yeah, obviously, the more info you give us, the better. 16440 Glacier Highway is what we've got for today. Sure. We are taking a guess that that's out by the ferry terminal, and there will be signs out according to their text.
Speaker 2:So give a look at that. Oh, we got another garage sale coming in, Wayne. Hey. Hey. I told you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You did. So we have garage sale just past Lena. I'm gonna assume it's also gonna be on Saturday Yep. Because that's garage sale day.
Speaker 2:So a garage sale just past Lena. If you're already heading out to
Speaker 3:Mine. Check it out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah. One at sixteen 04:40, just keep going. Go check out the garage sale just past Lena. Don't make them drive all the way to town to go to the dump.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Well, and then if you're planning on having a garage sale, I thought another lovely suggestion is tell your neighbors, like, two or three weekends out, hey. I'm gonna have a garage sale on, like, the last weekend of June. And if you can get two or three people to have a garage sale on your street, now all of a sudden, you got a hot street for garage sales that can keep folks down there.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna interrupt you real quick. We got another quick question. See if we can fit it in our last couple of minutes. Sure. Is there going to be another trash roundup?
Speaker 3:Oh, I used to have an inside scoop on that. I do not. My suspicion would be because of budget cuts Mhmm. And they're trying to figure out, you know, where are we gonna cut all the budgets. A program like that would probably be something that they just wouldn't do this year because it does have an expense to the city.
Speaker 2:Sure. I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 3:I don't even heard of this. They put dumpsters in a couple of key locations and just let everybody dispose of the stuff that they could. And that is like a city service. Cool. They did it in Lemon Creek.
Speaker 3:It was supposed to be open for a whole week. They filled it in four days.
Speaker 2:I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So but there's a cost to that, and if the city can't ever get two nickels together because of all the mandated restrictions in our tax revenue, we won't have programs like that. I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying that's one of the natural consequences of reduced tax Yeah. Or reduced tax base.
Speaker 3:Man, I think that brings us to the end. Sorry. I got us I messed up and got us there early.
Speaker 2:Hey, man. That's okay. We're here now. Low impact problems. That's
Speaker 5:okay. Hey.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 2:Low impact problem. Corner. You know? It's listen. If you don't have a problem on Problem Corner, then what are you doing here?
Speaker 2:My name is Connor Lindrum.
Speaker 3:I'm Wade. It has
Speaker 2:been our honor and our pleasure, and I will be back next week. Enjoy celebration. Enjoy first Friday, and enjoy the sun.