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We are on uh just about in the weekend and this weekend, October 11th, a uh 10th and 11th, a movie shot in St.

Louis about a St.

Louis with a lot of St.

Louis scenes is going to open at theaters, not only here, but nationwide.

It's called Soul on Fire.

Stars William H. Macy and others.

Bill, you've seen it.

And since this is a rare occasion, a movie being shot in St.

Louis, do you think it's a matter of civic pride that people should go to the theater and watch this movie?

>> Well, I think they'll enjoy it if they do.

Uh, civic pride.

I don't I did feel a certain civic pride.

I mean, Jack Buck, who was legendary character, how iconic is he?

He is a big star in this.

And uh John O'Leary, the young young man, not so young anymore, who it's about was is a heroic figure.

And Tiffany's Diner in Maplewood on Manchester is seen in it.

And I've always liked Tiffany's Diner.

And I So I I think it's a good thing to go see a movie about St.

Louis, made in St.

Louis.

>> Go ahead.

>> There's all these little St.

Louis spots throughout this movie.

You can tell they film the entire thing on location and so you could have fun watching this and just being like, "Oh, there's Mercy Hospital.

Oh, here's uh the St.

Louis University uh dorm."

It's also a really good uplifting story.

Um, it's not my kind of movie in that it's not cynical and dark, but man, I was so touched by it.

I was like crying and my husband, he's going to kill me for saying this, but he was sitting there and I'm like, "Oh, he's crying."

Like, there was not a dry eye in that house.

I emailed Sarah after she saw the movie and she said it just wasn't dark enough for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought she sounds like a girl after my own heart in terms of movies.

But when it comes to civic duty, um I don't know about civic duty.

I mean, I think we should all be inspired to go and see this incredible story.

But I'd like for the folks to start with maybe in terms of civic duty, paying their personal property taxes and getting their tags and that kind of thing.

voting.

So, let's not make it too hard on them trying to pass civics class.

>> I I mean, I probably won't go see it because it it doesn't >> You'll I mean, I probably won't.

>> You'll watch it when it's on Netflix.

>> On Netflix, it come on cable like I do with a with a lot of movies.

But, I mean, >> then I revoke his St.

Louis.

>> I don't think you're obligated to go, you know, see a movie because the late Jack Buck is in it or >> Well, how about uh Terry Shnook from Shnooks?

who's, you know, right >> the producer or whatever.

>> You know, you know who's not in it?

>> Me.

I got >> Hey, next movie I'm available.

Right.

>> It's not Guys and Dells at New York.

>> No, I'm talking No.

Uh, Pulp Fiction Tomb shot in St.

Louis.

Just cursed throughout the entire thing.

>> No, that Terry Shnook is an amazing guy.

Do you know uh he lives among us and he has four Tony's and he was nominated for four others, but this is his first foray into Hollywood.

And I hope that we can put them across the finish line so that maybe more movies will be shot.

>> And it's a great thing that movies are shot here, that television programs can be shot here.

Uh that that that we have the tax credit again that we didn't have for a long time.

Those are good things.

I'm just making fun.

I may not go see this movie, but I want every movie, every commercial, every television program, as many things as we can get to St.

Louis.

That's good for us.

>> That's right.

Wendy, want to ask you about uh front page above the fold story in the Post Dispatch that people were picking up litter on Gravoy.

And also this week uh KOV channel 4 had a story that there was litter uh of unusual kind, a basketball billboard on 270 near Manchester.

And in both cases, people are kind of asking why is there so much litter in our town?

And this is a recurring story.

Uh it seems as if we talk about it, talk about it, read about it, read about it, and the situation is not getting better.

>> Well, being a uh social scientist as I am because I'm on social media.

I that makes me an expert.

Uh seriously, I do think that we have become since since co I'm not going to blame the tornado because that's that's too recent.

But since co >> there is a whole lot of it's all about me and the rest of you are just supporting players in a movie about me.

So if it is inconvenient uh for me to hang on to the garbage in my car, then I'm just going to throw it out the window because it's all about me.

We all have our own little talk radio stations on social media where we, you know, sort of chart the course for the day and the way the discussion goes.

And I think it's it's a lot like this.

You know, we used to actually think about the greater good.

What's sad for me is like driving to Westport every day that I I don't do that anymore, but I would see I've mentioned it before.

I'd see coffee tables, end tables, couches, lamps.

I mean, it was like what happened?

But load, you know, that I think truckers are not securing the loads like they used to.

I think there's a whole lot of oversight that isn't happening anymore.

So, it makes me sad and very sick to see it.

But what's really sad is that I'm not seeing it as much as I used to.

I'm not even What I mean is I'm not noticing it.

>> I was just lest you think that this is not a true story.

I was traveling to the other side of the state on Monday morning and when I was on 270 north headed toward 40, I saw the basketball goal and my first thought was, "Oh, basketball goal on the side of the highway."

Kept right on driving.

didn't feel any obligation to dial like a you know 911.

It's a just FYI there's a whole like basketball goal on the highway.

So you know you become immune to it in a way.

I think that there are I don't know how many people were dedicated to picking up trash on the highway precoid or 10 or 15 years ago.

But I think the amount of trash has increased while the number of people or hours that are devoted to keeping the highway clean have been reduced.

So the two things together have led to more stuff.

>> I I feel like MDOT kind of made a mistake with killing its adopt a highway program.

They said, "Oh, having these volunteers out there, we're worried about the risk to them and it's more trouble to supervise them than it's worth."

I I don't know.

I feel like that has made the highways worse.

I will also say if you if there are any neighborhoods that you go to in the city at least where you don't see a lot of trash around, I have now become aware that that's because there's a couple of dedicated volunteers in those neighborhoods who are just going out like multiple times a week to just clean things up.

It just seems terrible that that's what this all rests on.

And yet that is what it rests on.

>> And and what what is the solution?

I mean, could we should we arrest people for or find them?

>> Pick up the litter.

>> Just make them pick up the litter for chain gang.

>> It's tough to find if someone's throwing it out.

>> Oh, I like that idea.

>> Arizona does have uh not chain gangs, but they use the incarcerated and they pay them.

And you got to admit, if you have if you face 24 hours or 23 hours a day in a cell and the choice is can you want to go out and pick up some litter, you'll take care.

If I were the St.

Louis County like police chief, all right, I would have after the basketball goal was taken off the highway, I think I would have went to the whoever and said like, "Listen, I know this is going to cost money, but let's mess with somebody.

Let's let's dust this thing and find some fingerprints and see if they match anybody."

show up and say like, "Hey, >> we have your fingerprints on a basketball goal that we're find just just >> to terrorize somebody a little bit and to get it in the paper that we trace this back to you and like you know just just to let you know people >> I I think there's something inside the u beltway I when I go beyond the St.

Louis proper area and beyond the county and I start getting into you know Chesterfield, Lake St.

Louis and and far I don't see the the litter out there and I wonder if MDOT is doing a better job of picking up the litter elsewhere because when I drive to Columbia, which I do every once in a while, I don't see around.

>> But that's concentration of people, too.

I mean, I didn't see as much as I can driving from Washington State to you got in St.

Charles and St.

Peters.

>> I like this conspiracy theory.

Like, it's not that we're messier in the city.

It's that we're being neglected by >> Moist.

We're we're the financial engine as far as providing most of the taxes, >> right?

Exactly.

It's not going to us.

>> The money should be spent on picking it up since we generate so much in the gasoline tax which goes to MODOT.

That's my theory.

But you're right.

>> Alvin terrorizing a few is like right just get it out there that hey >> why not instead of like weatherbird you know jailbird like right next to weatherbird where somebody who somebody you know oh weather bird litterbug and then have like a shame.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

I'm I'm >> I think that's a big that that is an untapped resource.

>> Final topic and then we'll spring you all.

Uh Alvin Roosevelt High School decided to end its football program this season after four games.

Uh tragically, they lost a coach who died.

Another coach, maybe the head coach, got ill, and they're only down to 20 players right now.

So, these guys are just sitting around now after school, not playing football.

Couldn't something have been done?

>> Well, I think if it happens in the middle of a season, you can't disperse the players to go play elsewhere with other teams.

Uh had it happened before the season, maybe you could have figured out something during the season.

It's tough.

Um because you lost the coaches, but I've heard that, well, why don't you just let them play?

They're gutsy kids and want to finish.

You can't do it with 20 because that is a safety hazard.

And I know they want to play, but I really don't think there's anything that you can do for those kids right now.

>> That's that's so sad.

Like I hate that so much of sports in America is becoming something that like rich kids can do who can like pay for the expensive club infrastructure.

And it's we're making it harder and harder, >> but there aren't enough kids in >> Well, this is indicative, too, that we have too many schools in the city for the number of kids.

I mean, when you have a high school team, a high school in the city that can only get 22 kids or 30 kids out for >> and they lost.

Some people left the team and all that.

They had more.

But if you start this, let's say you start the season with 30 kids, there's a chance that you might have to end your season because of injury, defections, whatever.

Kids move a lot in the city unlike other municipalities, you know.

I think I think Misha should have given the special dispensation and said, "Okay, if you can find another team to play for given the circumstancers would have gone to the star schools and the kids that just wanted to play football would have just said, "We don't want you."

Right.

Good point.

Hey, and on that note, we uh hope you join us next week for another edition of Last Call.

Have a good one and don't forget your civic duty.