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>> Hey, thank you for tuning in to Last Call on this uh day before Halloween.

Well, Joe, golf carts.

We discussed it um a couple of weeks ago, I guess, and now the move is on that maybe you can't drive a golf cart through a park.

And I'm I'm kind with the with the anti-golf cart in the park crowd.

How about you?

>> I love golf carts on golf courses.

>> Okay.

There's things that were made for cars.

They're not golf carts are not them.

Okay.

And and this idea that somehow where has my life been since I haven't been able to drive a golf cart everywhere?

Seems like generations survived without golf carts to get around.

So yes, get them out of the parks.

Get them off the streets.

>> I like them in the parks.

somebody who lives right by Forest Park and walks in it all the time.

It slows cars down if nothing else.

Oh, that it does.

>> Well, yeah.

And they're so cheerful.

You know, a car is like you're in your own little bubble.

You're just, you know, you're closed off to the community around you.

You see people in a golf cart, they say hi.

They're often smiling.

They're often used to the wind.

No.

Exactly.

that that comes on.

>> I'm serious.

Like the happy golf cart driver and that's why we just let him go anyway.

>> I've been drinking.

I'm happy.

I'm 12.

I'm driving.

Exactly.

>> There's no seat.

I mean, and then now they want them retrofitted with headlights and safety apparatus.

Um, what what I can't figure out though is how they how they coexist with cars on the hill because, as I said, you practically have to smother your arms in, you know, extra virgin olive oil to get through some of those streets.

So now you've added golf carts to the mix.

I think there's a reason that Matt Devote, the olderman who represents the Hill, is the person who's been pushing this so aggressively because in most neighborhoods where you have golf carts, you kind of have wide open streets and people are so happy to have the neighborhood golf cart crew.

And then in the Hill, it's you're really vying for space.

Like that's got to be our most congested neighborhood.

So I get that people there are like, "What is this doing parked on my sidewalk?"

In most parts of town, that's not an issue at all.

It's perfect for sort of like the shortterm toodling around the neighborhood, making pals.

>> Yeah.

>> What side?

Sidewalk.

Oh, they're for walking.

>> So, when you have a golf cart parked in there, that keeps it hard from walking.

>> Well, I think the reason people are on the hill are parking on the sidewalk is they don't have the extra space for parking on the street, which is what happens in every other city neighborhood where there's a lot of golf carts.

They're just parking as if they were a car.

>> What did Rashene Aldrich say?

He said, "St.

Louis has a 100 problems.

Golf carts aren't one of them."

I am with him >> because he believes it's the >> Sharon Tyus said that first.

He got that from >> Sharon Sharon.

Sorry, Sharon would never.

>> But they're more Got me on that one.

>> They're more concerned about the four-wheelers or the >> Yeah, these ATVs are running a muck.

Those are truly terrorizing people.

And I guess technically they're illegal and yet we can't really get the cops to take much action against them.

They have taken some.

I don't want to get a call from Mitch McCoy.

Mitch, I know they have seized many ATVs, but they are still running a muck.

rather have them focus on that.

>> Well, I'll tell you what, in Milwaukee, they probably have golf carts everywhere, but they've also used a strategy of uh bringing in kind of the um not so well-known sports, fencing, uh major triathlon is held there and they've really made a keen interest and apparently to according to a story in the business journal, it's having a huge impact on their downtown area.

Um St.

Louis is always looking for something, you know, to turn us around.

And granted, we're going to have the NCAA first two rounds and we've had some major, you know, NCAA events here, but what about these smaller niche?

>> Well, we have like world figure skating championships coming here.

I think our sports commission is very motivated to land this stuff.

They really are proactive.

They get like no taxpayer funding and most sports commissions they're competing against get some.

So, I think they're punching above their weight here.

I'd love to see them get even more resources for what they're doing.

I will say I spend a lot of time in Milwaukee.

I have a bunch of family members up there.

It is lovely and it is kind of like it's coming along like you can sort of see it becoming cooler and more young people want to go there.

But I think at heart it's kind of fundamentally a St.

Louis kind of city.

Somebody could go to Milwaukee, write about what they're doing, right?

They could write that same story about us that grass is always greener in a different Midwestern city.

And I hate to be, you know, bummer mom, she delivers, but >> that is like Milwaukee is a great city.

It is like it's baby Chicago.

I mean, it really is baby Chicago.

>> It is a lot smaller than St.

Louis and it is freezing cold on the winter Michigan.

>> No, the summers are lovely.

I I will I will summer there.

Summer becomes scenic.

Sure.

>> You know, and the fact that it's a natural this is a natural the Mississippi is that's a working the port of St.

Louis is where it's a working river.

I I think >> I I >> Viking cruises like docking, you know.

>> I don't I I think the point that Sarah made is is is what needs to be said again, but even stronger.

>> Reporters get sent somewhere to do a story, a travel story.

They don't come in and go, "Man, this town's the pits.

That's not why you're there.

So, you're going to pick out all the entertaining things."

And I agree, that story that could be written about Milwaukee, could maybe be written about Omaha, could be written about De Moines.

You go to places, you find things to do.

St.

Louis is a great town.

It's the thing is is that when you talk to people who live in a town, so in Milwaukee, because you don't know when someone comes from out of town, that reporter, all the Milwaukeeans are going to tell all the good stuff.

My guess is you get four Milwaukeeans together, they got all kinds of complaints about their city.

They're just not going to share them with you.

>> Well, so and and the weather.

I mean, somebody brought up the weather, you know.

Uh Jack, my son, went to University of Wisconsin and he said that if you get a kid to come to Wisconsin in September or October on a Saturday, football Saturday, he said that kid will go there for sure.

He said, "But if they go there in November, December, they won't come back."

>> Yeah.

And he's a bit like that.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> All right.

Well, Elwood Blues has stepped into the uh Donnybrook right now.

And I'll tell you what, being from Chicago, it gets very, very, very cold up that way, let me tell you.

Well, anyway, we've had some fun with Halloween uh tonight.

And so, sir, I want to ask you because >> you've got kids, little ones, and this is always a really sweet time.

I know we got tales about our kids dressing up for Halloween and having fun.

So, one, where are your kids going to be?

And two, are you going to dress up for Halloween?

>> Oh, man.

Okay, so let's do the kids because that's that's the better question.

Uh, so my 10-year-old, uh, she and her besties are all M&M's, so she's the blue M&M.

It's adorable.

My younger daughter still doesn't get that you have to do a costume that people over the age of 15 can recognize.

And so she's this character in Zombies 4, which is a movie streaming on Disney Plus.

And like, it's just kind of this cute little outfit and everyone's like, "Who are you?"

>> So it's not going over too well.

>> Her mom.

>> Yeah.

Everyone knows her who's like younger than a pre-teen.

Uh, so for me, I've already been to three costume parties this year with three different costumes.

And I am so costumed out.

I am not doing it.

>> What are you dressed up as?

>> I was the uh the pill popper from White Lotus 4.

>> I was I went to a yacht rock party, so I had to wear my little captain's hat and then I went to a '9s rave and I had a nose piercing.

I went all out this year.

It >> Not that's for next year.

>> Borrow his beret.

>> I will ask that.

>> Well, you know, she was blonde.

She she dyed her hair.

You'll look this up.

I like this.

People of our age will get it.

>> And the kids the kids today put so much thought into the costumes.

And when we were all trick-or-treating, there were these little like polyester pajama one piece things that our mothers would put us in.

There was a little piece of plastic that had a a mask and then a rubber band that hurt like you know what like around the back the back of your head that was like held together with some kind of little contraption thing and it would break like after two houses if if if you even made it to two houses.

So you know those were some that was a good old days and I was made by a company called Cooper.

They made Cooper costumes and they were on and they would have you'd go into a store and there would be the Lone Ranger and Superman.

All the men characters looked the same.

The facial thing was the same.

And then they would have this little one piece jumper that would either be this made out of gauze or uh paper.

They were highly flammable.

Highly flammable.

>> I would say one year my favorite was my youngest daughter Blaine went as me.

But was it did she go as you as Percy or >> with the She wore a fedora and had like two or three of my uh media classes with my picture on it.

I think she finished like highly in the in the class thing.

So, all right.

Around the table, favorite Halloween candy.

>> Paydays.

Paydays.

Okay.

All right.

Don't see those too much anymore, especially the little ones.

Did you have a favorite Wendy?

>> Kit Kat.

Still today, forever.

Always.

>> All right.

Sarah >> Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

>> Bill, >> Three Musketeers.

>> All right.

I was three musketeer person, too.

>> Well, how about that?

>> I would eat all these.

>> Did you separate your candy when you got home?

>> Yeah, we did.

>> My dad used to make us do that.

And the anything made out of gummies, not a that kind of gummy, Bill, but the gummy things were very big, too.

>> I'm not giving gummies.

>> No, don't do that.

And then there was always the neighbor that gave you an apple be like, "Yeah, >> we got apples."

Oh, some people gave change some one year uh they were I think the family was actually really big in tennis and they gave everybody a tennis ball.

I thought that was cool.

>> Right.

So, do you trick or treat?

Do you go door tod door?

>> I take my little one door to door.

Yeah, we've already done it once.

We're doing it again tomorrow.

>> Where were you going door to door before?

Thank >> Well, Compton Heights, uh my neighborhood does it the Saturday before Halloween.

You will just find people now have to keep Halloween turning into like a month.

It's exhausting.

There's a reason I have multiple costume changes, you know.

>> Don't you live in Chesterfield now?

What is going on?

>> It's like Chesterfield in the city.

>> Cityester.

>> It's urban Chesterfield.

>> Oh, I know.

I'm going to walk off the shelf.

>> Urban Chesterfield.

>> All right.

Well, anyway, everybody have a safe Halloween.

I think that's the most important thing.

Watch out for golf carts.

Watch out for cars.

Watch out for the kitties.

And thank you for watching Last Call.

We'll see you next week on Donnybrook.