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What would you tell him or her as now this is international now this story and apparently the AI generated monkeys got in get in the way of the real search of the monkeys.

I mean it's a fun story.

It's a kind of a sad story because what's happened to the poor, you know, animals.

But Joe, this is a popular story, huh?

>> Oh, very popular.

I mean, it, you know, it's, you know, everybody sits around and thinks of journalism and they'll sit around and editors will have these meetings and we'll the Congress did and a study show and every like how about those monkeys that I mean, you know, so readers are going on.

Now, I I feel bad on this because I am basically probably the least interested person in St.

Louis about this story.

My whole family has just been like, >> "How about these monkeys?"

And I'm like, "Yeah, okay.

How about it?"

You know, and then they're sending me the memes of Monkeys by the Art Museum of Monkeys on the Arch or whatever.

And I'm like, you know, so God bless it.

Go on the Post Dispatch and read all of our monkey stories thousands of times.

But yeah, I hope the monkeys are safe wherever they are.

They're just nasty little animals, though.

I hope somebody doesn't get hurt by one of You know, I I'd like to uh give a nod to the readers of the Post Dispatch, you know, because sometimes there's stories that they'll close comments on.

You know, they we don't want to have any comments on this because it's going to be too hard to monitor.

And when I saw that monkeys missing in North St.

Louis, I thought, I bet we're not going to have comments on this, not allow them.

And I looked to see and there were comments and everybody behaved and everybody was kind of having a good time with it and I thought, you know, maybe it's how few readers we have anymore.

They're just they're just a bunch of old hippies now.

I I don't know.

But but I was pleasantly surprised that we had comments and they were all, >> you know, having fun with it, >> right?

Yeah.

Good point.

Good point.

>> I love that.

Uh, you know, we all kind of needed something happy.

This has already been such a tough year news-wise, like some big stories that are just so heavy and sad in the national media outlets.

And then to just be like, "Oh, there's these monkeys on the loose and everybody's making these AI like jokes about them."

And it's like, you know, this has been a good moment for St.

Louis.

Like, and yes, I've heard from friends all over the country mocking us for these monkeys, but it brought us together as a community.

Wendy, >> Ebony and Ivory and we are we should just let some loose.

>> Every once in a while let an animal loose.

>> You said we weren't clown so central in St.

Louis last week.

Does this help us or hurt our >> I You know what?

As long as they spell our name right and get our location right on the map.

Seriously, if it just it maybe it maybe it alerts people to there was a CBS Sunday Morning story about the art museum exhibit and of course the German artist's name is come flying right out of my head >> and some >> Kefir Kefir fabulous and so keep the spotlight on us.

I don't care if monkeys are at the art museum swinging from one piece of art to the next.

That's fantastic.

Um, but yeah, the Daily I mean when the Daily Mail talks about your monkeys then then that's >> Stephen Coar did like five minutes.

>> Stephen Coar did five minutes.

Yeah.

>> So we're out there.

By the way, those of us old enough to remember and Bill, you might not have moved here yet.

Uh, spitting co that was a big story for like two weeks and this is when the news was serious and the paper was large.

The news was the most watched thing on television.

Right.

it that was >> well I wasn't here then but you know I live right by Forest Park so I would take you know walk with my kids and now my grandkids there and I would make up little stories about did you hear about that bear that got out of this zoo or the lions and you know you talk about old St.

Louis, >> the first thing when I saw the monkeys was I thought about the spitting cobra and how that was a huge panic.

Oh yeah.

>> People were walking around wearing sunglasses because spit 10.

They end up finding it in a drain within the zoo's compound.

>> But it was like it could be loose anywhere in the city and people were going crazy.

Mid late 70s I want to say.

>> Yes, it was right.

We were we were worried about the spinning cobra getting to Kirkwood.

Iaught caught the bus 44 and just zipped out there.

>> Took a helicopter.

Yeah.

>> Well, those animals travel.

I mean, study on coyotes.

Look at that.

>> And if you were a cobra, wouldn't you want to be in Kirkwood, you know?

Oh my gosh.

>> Oh, exactly.

And a spinning cobra.

No.

>> In all honesty, when the brown bear like made an appearance in Kirkwood, that was a big deal.

>> Yeah.

Going to the farmer.

You guys have a a low threshold there because not much happens in Kirkwood.

>> It's very quiet.

>> Other than your your credit rating.

>> Had to work that in.

>> Bear, she brought it up.

I did.

Right.

All right.

Back in the day.

We're going to stay there.

There may be a new owner of Six Flags.

And Six Flags means a lot to some of us.

Myself.

I went to the largest concert ever held there.

Casey and the Sunshine Band.

So both shows.

Were you there, Wendy?

>> I was there.

>> Oh my gosh.

We were both there.

It was quite something.

We all got a memory.

What's yours, Wendy?

Other than maybe that one, too.

>> Okay.

So, in 1976 and maybe 1975, my friends Nidita and Terry and Dawn and Judy Palm, who rest in heaven, we would go out.

I mean, it was a big big deal to get our seasons passes, to talk our parents into getting seasons passes.

And you had your picture taken.

So, we were like hair, you know, aquinet just all over the place.

and saw Casey in the Sunshine Band.

Would that just be crazy if we were sitting right next to each other to talk to each other?

But but but >> it would be very St.

Louis.

It would be if a picture if a picture showed up on on my computer screen of us that's you and that's surprised I would not be surprised.

>> Six degrees of separation.

>> But um I think I think it was it was like you said just a right of passage and um when the screaming eagle that was 76, right?

Because that was the that was a bsentennial and until that time it was the the mine king.

>> Yeah.

Whatever.

That was the That was the roller coaster.

>> Engine Joe's Runaway Mine Train.

>> Yes.

Yeah.

>> Yeah.

I think Engine Joe's Cave was just That was the one we wrote.

That was the one that smelled funny.

>> So it smelled like mildew.

I mean, it just smelled like mildew.

Doesn't it sound Aren't you sorry you missed it?

>> I'm not sorry I missed that.

>> No, but but you had So you had you also had Tom's Twister.

Okay.

Which was probably responsible for more upset stomachs than anything else.

Just looking down into >> Yeah.

You're you're not selling this well, Wendy.

Well, I but he asked for memories and then the what was the Chevy show?

The Panorama.

I would get sick in the Chevy show.

I would get nauseated in the >> Futurama.

>> Was it Futurama?

Whatever.

But I mean, it was just it's it's a great great memory.

And whoever they are, I hope they take care of it.

>> I think Dan Martin got a start there doing caricatur.

Oh, I bet he I can see the young Dan Martin, the future Mr.

Weatherbird.

>> Well, you got you got the past.

You said that because the reason guys would get a pass was because there was a bunch of gals like Wendy and Dawn with their aquinet hair.

So you'd all go around and and the girls wouldn't want to go on any rides because it would mess their hair up.

>> Guys would try to see how wet you could get on the log flume.

Oh yeah.

>> You know, it was like how soaked can we get on this thing?

But I got to tell you, my embarrassing one get has to do with a concert.

So we're in high school.

I'm listening to Led Zeppelin.

I'm listening to Black Sabbath.

Hard heavy metal rock.

Me and two other guys quietly.

We had a teacher who worked at Old Glory Amphitheater >> had tickets for Olivia Newton John and we're like, "Can we get tickets for you?"

And he's like, "You guys are listening to me.

We Yeah.

Do you like her music?"

Uh, not really.

>> We like the way she looks when she's singing.

>> So, here we are with our black Led Zeppelin t-shirts at an Olivia Newton John concert.

It's like, "Why did you go?

She's kind of hot."

It's like 16 years old.

my embarrassing moment that I get was sitting there hoping nobody would notice.

>> Yeah.

You were wearing your sunglasses.

>> And then they had these giant Henry VII like turkey legs.

Remember that you could like they could feed six people in a family, >> right?

And weird thing is there was no alcohol at six legs back then.

And now there's adults.

They're like, could I go someplace where there was no alcohol for four or five hours?

I guess I could.

>> I I did it then.

I could do it now.

>> It's easier when you're 12 or 13.

>> Absolutely.

That's not to say people didn't bring alcohol in.

Oh, true.

With >> the diaper bag, >> pretty much.

All right, Bill.

Hey, you're hobnobbing with the Slooh athletic director last night talking about this possible move to the Big East.

The point shaving scandal had not broke yet.

Right.

Right.

>> Although I bet he was aware, >> and and my hobnob being involved saying hello.

But uh you know the the whole Big East thing you know with uh Senator Eric Schmidt writing a letter to the conference and I asked hey what do you guys think of that and of course got the standard well we're just trying to win the A10 championship but you know it's something to think about more or less.

Everybody seemed you know mildly enthused about it and you know me who you know I like the Big 10.

I don't think they should be out of the Midwest and the Packton should be on the coast.

I have to say I think and if Slooh could afford to play against you know financially to get the players to play against Xavier and all uh >> all well Dayton they're in now they're with all all those teams in in the Big East and field trips to Butler to HL st fields fieldhouse I think it'd be really cool it would be an upgrade and they're already you know having to go to the east coast post for most of their games.

So, it isn't like they're in a little Midwestern league.

Now, >> I thought what struck me funny was I I wrote the story about Schmidt and um Houston, senator from Ohio, who's asking for Dayton to be a member.

And what I loved though was St.

Louis's response reminded me of Bull Durham and sports cliches because basically what May said was basically we just play them one game at a time.

We we love the A10.

who would love to be in the big house.

There's no doubt about it.

>> And we just do one show at a time.

Thank you for joining us.

We'll see you next week on Donnie Brook and Last Call.