400 Episodes of St. Louis in Tune: A Retrospective

Interview00:00:00

This is St. Louis in Tune's 400th show.Wow.Folks, you have a great treat in store for you.Welcome to the 400th show of St. Louis in Tune and thank you for joining us for fresh perspectives on issues and events with experts, community leaders and everyday people who make a difference in shaping our society and world.There's the Pistachio Gallery.I'm Arnold Stricker along with co host Mark langston.

Mark00:00:38

Oh, yeah.

Arnold00:00:39

400.

Mark00:00:41

I can't believe it.

Arnold00:00:42

Oh my gosh.Yeah.Thank you, folks.Thank you.

Mark00:00:47

Thank you all very much.

Arnold00:00:48

Thank you.

Arnold00:00:48

Thank you.We're glad that you joined us today.Want to thank our sponsor Better Rate Mortgage for their support of the show.You can listen to previous shows, the previous 399@stlintune.com where you can follow us and leave a review.Mark, it's just a.This is the ninth season 400 shows.Yes.Thank you for the band.Thank you, band.Appreciate that.You're in tune also.That's very good.We've got everything going here, folks.Just beware.I was looking back at previous episodes and compiling some things.But first of all, I want to do our thought to ponder.Ah.Because we always do that.And Mark has some special days of the days at the end here.Here's our thought to ponder today.The difference between ordinary and extraordinary or extraordinary is that little extra.The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.Jimmy Johnson.

Mark00:01:48

Ah, I like that.

Arnold00:01:50

Yeah.Jimmy Johnson, I believe.Football coach for Florida State University.

Mark00:01:54

Yeah.

Arnold00:01:55

And a lot of good football.You know, Vince Lombardi, even the Alabama coach, Nick Saban has some great quotes.

Mark00:02:06

It's gotta be hard to motivate those young college kids.

Arnold00:02:10

Yeah.

Arnold00:02:11

You know what's even harder is motivating pro athletes.

Mark00:02:14

Yeah.

Arnold00:02:14

Oh, because they're making more than the coach.They make more in like baseball.They make more in one inning or two innings than the manager does.

Mark00:02:22

Yeah, but we're gonna have a strike.

Arnold00:02:25

Yeah.

Arnold00:02:25

Because we're not making enough money.

Mark00:02:27

We gotta cap something.

Arnold00:02:28

I don't know what I was thinking.Mark, back to the matter of fact.Here's a story from the first show when Ellie Wharton was the general manager and she was co host at the time.And I thought the show was going to be recorded.We were live at the time from 1 o' clock to 3 o'.Clock.We actually had a two hour show and it was challenging to do two hours.

Mark00:02:47

What year, do you remember what year this was?

Arnold00:02:50

We started in 20.We actually did a preview in 2017.We were we live in 2018 in January.

Mark00:03:00

Okay.

Arnold00:03:01

So that's kind of where we were.But we did some previous shows in 2017.So you've go 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.We're nine years in.

Mark00:03:13

So you were not the English or the math teacher?

Arnold00:03:16

No, I like math.

Mark00:03:17

But he's counting on his.On his finger so much.

Arnold00:03:21

Yeah, he could watch that on the video.No, the story was.So we were supposed to start at, I thought 1 o', clock, go to 1 to 3 o'.

Mark00:03:28

Clock.

Arnold00:03:28

That's what I thought.Ellie said, well, I'm sitting at home and just chilling and it's about six minutes to 11 and I get a phone call from Ellie.Where are you at?I'm like, oh, I'm sitting in the living room.She goes, we're starting at 11 o'.

Mark00:03:42

Clock.

Arnold00:03:42

And I'm like, what?I said, I thought it was one o'.Clock.She goes, no, it's 11.So luckily I was only about a mile.I lived about a mile from the station, maybe a mile and a half.And I think I arrived at 10:59, just really got in the car and drove quickly to the studio.

Mark00:04:02

You didn't break any laws.

Arnold00:04:04

I know.I drove the speed limit the entire way.

Mark00:04:06

Okay.It stopped at every stop sign.

Arnold00:04:08

I stopped at every stop sign.

Mark00:04:09

One, two, three, and then go.That's right.

Arnold00:04:11

And got there and we did the first show.Luckily it doesn't start right at 11 because there's some top of the hour identifications and things like that.Yes.So that's, that's like an inside story from the first show.

Mark00:04:25

You were late.

Arnold00:04:26

I was late.

Mark00:04:27

No, you weren't.

Arnold00:04:28

You were one minute early.

Mark00:04:29

No prep time.

Arnold00:04:30

I would have been late had I not answered the phone.

Mark00:04:32

Wow.Yeah, I guess you didn't get the memo then.

Arnold00:04:36

No, I misunderstood.So Ellie Wharton, who is the gm, was the co host for a couple years and then Mark was GM and co host and the rest is history.

Mark00:04:46

I know.And they, I know.They said, you're going to love this.You're going to love this.This guy went to U City High School.And I went, what?Wait, what?He went to where?U City.I wonder when he graduated.What, 1970?I'm not going.Yeah.And I know this guy.He's in my yearbook.Yeah, I know.We drew like a mustache on you and threw darts at you.Yeah, we put an arrow through your head, I think.Big gash on your cheek with stitches.True.

Arnold00:05:21

Appeared like ZZ Tom.That's it.

Mark00:05:22

We dressed you up real good in that yearbook.

Arnold00:05:24

There you go.

Mark00:05:28

Yeah.So it was wow.And we've had fun ever since, actually.

Arnold00:05:31

It has been a great time.And I was going back to the show description because, folks, when you start something and you're trying to brand or market or whatever, and you come up with, yeah, this is what I think it is.And I remember we were talking about our first show description.I did everything, people, places and things.And then I listed virtually everything we did.We talked about education, finance, food, health, housing, humor, justice and sports.And it's just a mouthful.And then you try to involve people.And what goes back to what's the purpose of the show?And it's really to inform in a open format and things that people don't maybe generally hear or maybe don't generally think about.And things that are local, things that are kind of regional, things that are national and international.And so that's where we came up with fresh perspectives on issues and events with experts, community leaders, because community leaders have a.Their finger on the pulse of things that are going on in the community and maybe what needs to enhance or improve.And then everyday people.There's people out there just like you, listener, who maybe you're an expert at something or maybe you're doing something that nobody knows, but it's making a difference in your family, in your neighborhood, in your community.And it goes unnoticed.And we have those kind of people on.And that's what shapes our society, that shapes our world.

Mark00:07:02

I know.And it was called St. Louis in Tune.That's a nice name.But the only thing I ever had about it is that it reaches so far beyond St. Louis.

Arnold00:07:15

Yes.

Mark00:07:16

I guess it's because it comes out of St. Louis, but boy, does it reach issues and just things that change our lives all across the board, all across the United States, and even across the world.We had some shows about Ukraine and what's going on.

Arnold00:07:33

We talked to experts about what was the Ukrainian war.

Mark00:07:36

So, yeah, so we really.It's always been something that maybe it has the name St. Louis in it, but that.That'll fool you.It's really a fool.It fools you.

Arnold00:07:47

Yeah.And here's some other trivia, folks.Is that the original name was In Tune.

Mark00:07:52

Oh, that's right.

Arnold00:07:54

And we changed it to St. Louis in tune to kind of identify a little bit.And the In Tune portion, this is another background.I'm a. I'm a musician, was a band director and music teacher.And this is an homage to my musical background.Matter of fact, the logo.If you look at the logo carefully, it's a tuner and it's a tuner.Like you would go in band, you would go up to the tuner and you would play a certain note and it would.It.There's an oscillator there and it would tell you whether you were sharp or you were in tune or you're flat.And so it's kind of homage to that also.

Mark00:08:29

Ah, look at that.See, you learn something every time you tune into this show.

Arnold00:08:34

You do.You do learn something.And we have a variety of things we're going to talk about over nine episodes.There's just a lot of.Obviously, 399 episodes.

Mark00:08:44

Yeah.

Arnold00:08:44

But we want to highlight a couple.And Mark will talk about some.I'll talk about some.Here's one right out of the box.It's the Beatbox Champions.And this is, I think 02 mark.This is the Beatbox Champions.And they were beatbox champions on YouTube and got all this following.And they're St. Louis's they live in Pacific, Missouri.Okay, we're going to hear this.Parents, this is a good one for you.If you.If you can't.That's a joke.Okay, here we go.

Mark00:09:18

Sorry, I'm going backwards.Okay.Okay, here we go.

Arnold00:09:20

I had a great opportunity to meet.No, not that one.

Mark00:09:24

Is that right?Okay.

Arnold00:09:26

No, not that one.

Mark00:09:27

Where's the producer here?

Arnold00:09:28

Okay, get that board.

Mark00:09:29

It's got to be this one here.

Arnold00:09:30

There we go.

Arnold00:09:31

So do you incorporate humor in what you're doing in your.In your Beatbox?Is there a way to incorporate humor?

Arnold00:09:37

We do sometimes.

Arnold00:09:38

Yeah.

Arnold00:09:38

I guess it depends on how we feel at the moment.Yeah, definitely.

Arnold00:09:42

I mean, you know, there's no, like, like a laugh.A laugh.I mean, come on now.

Interview00:09:48

I've never done that.

Arnold00:09:49

Oh, it's a new technique.

Arnold00:09:52

Okay, wait, we just copyrighted that.We trademarked it.

Arnold00:09:56

So let's see if we can do that.Watch those royalties.

Arnold00:09:58

Running those royalties.Yeah, I can see Forbes magazine now.

Arnold00:10:01

Okay, so they're gonna.They're gonna try this now.Okay, this is, this is some laughter.

Arnold00:10:05

Total improv here.Okay.Laughter.All right.That's actually pretty.Oh.

Arnold00:10:48

Huh.

Arnold00:11:00

That's actually pretty nice.

Arnold00:11:03

That is my child, folks.That is my child.

Arnold00:11:10

I'm sorry.Go ahead.Because I'm gonna.

Arnold00:11:12

I'm going to continue to do that all day.

Arnold00:11:15

I can see a whole seat DVD on that.Be sure and remember where you got your start.

Arnold00:11:21

Attributed to in tune.

Arnold00:11:24

All should be made too.

Interview00:11:28

Elliot Arnold.

Arnold00:11:29

No, last Name that way.No sponsors, nobody.All money goes to Ellie and Arnold.So that was Ed Cage, Nicole Paris and Ta Paris Cage.And they.It's a family.Dad and daughter.Do the beatboxing.Wow.And.And we were just started laughing.And it's like.Add the laugh to that.And that's what they did.And I thought that was.That was an interesting.You don't hear that very often.

Mark00:11:59

No, no.Have you ever seen Men in Black?

Arnold00:12:02

I have.

Mark00:12:02

They have a guy that goes.Makes that kind of sound.Anyway, never mind.

Arnold00:12:07

It's very interesting.So we also had Ms. Mazuri on.

Mark00:12:11

Yeah.

Arnold00:12:11

And she even brought her big gold shoe that she wore.And we had Wesley Bell on.Congressman Wesley Bell.When he was running for the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County.He was on.We interviewed him.He was in studio.

Mark00:12:25

Yeah.

Arnold00:12:25

And that was fun.

Mark00:12:26

Before.Way before he was famous.

Arnold00:12:28

We've done a lot of shows on history.Founders of the federal government.

Mark00:12:32

The Negro League Baseball Museum.I know you did that in the very early episodes of the.The show.

Arnold00:12:39

Yes.

Mark00:12:39

But we picked it up later on, I think.

Arnold00:12:41

Yes.We did a couple of those with the Negro League Baseball Museum.There's a couple.

Mark00:12:46

Which is a fascinating museum if you've never been there.

Arnold00:12:48

Oh, my.And it's right next to the Blues Museum up there.Or I should say the Jazz Museum.You should go to that.It's one ticket you can buy.And you can go to both museums.There's another portion of.Very near to that that's.It's kind of the African American history of Kansas City.And that's very fascinating too.

Mark00:13:05

Interesting.

Arnold00:13:08

We do a lot of things for local nonprofits because it's tough for them to get their name out there.And things like the Safe Connections and the Woman's Safe House.These are nonprofits that help women in need, whether they're in battered situations or whether they need some safety or need some assistance in some way like that.Tiny Superheroes is another local matter of fact.It's a Webster Groves group.Not for profit.And what they do is they.They give capes to children who have some kind of.What I'm going to.My reference is choose to a disability to give them a feeling that their disability is not going to prevent them from becoming who they really are.

Mark00:13:51

Yeah.

Arnold00:13:51

And it helps them become a superhero.And it's really good program.We need to go back and revisit that.

Mark00:13:57

Yeah.And they are superheroes.

Arnold00:13:59

Yes.Those little guys had a lot of artists on.Anthony Benton Goode, who is Thomas Hart Benton's grandson and he.We interviewed him.That was a lot of fun.Miles Davis House over in East St. Louis.That was a great time.That's a great place to go visit too, folks.The Miles Davis house over in East St. Louis had building levees.That was very interesting show where we talked about what levies do from some local municipalities or cities.It's basically what they're doing is they're raising to protect their land and then shoving the water further downstream, faster and wider.

Mark00:14:40

Yeah, yeah.

Arnold00:14:41

And so it's like, do we really think about when Chesterfield builds a levee, what that's going to do to further on downstream?

Mark00:14:50

No, they don't.No, they don't think about it.They don't.I'm telling you, they don't.

Arnold00:14:54

No.We've done a lot of shows on Martin Luther King, did a lot of his speeches.Folks, if you get a chance, you need to just go to YouTube and listen to some of his speeches.We played several of those on the air and just unbelievable kinds of inspiring kinds of things.And I probably should mention specifically what those are, but what a great man he was.

Mark00:15:16

Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

Arnold00:15:18

Oh, yeah.

Mark00:15:19

One of my very favorites.There's a book out, I think, that has all of.All of the speeches and letters that.

Arnold00:15:25

He's written that would be fascinating.

Mark00:15:26

And it is.And that's actually the letter from the Birmingham Jail.If you've never been.I wish I could read it to you, but it's pretty interesting.

Arnold00:15:35

Speeches are very fascinating thing, just not from Martin Luther King.But you go back and you listen to some speeches from John F. Kennedy.You go back to listen to some speeches from Harry Truman or FDR or figures, historical figures.Very interesting the things they're saying and how they say them.The speechwriters were really on top of things.

Mark00:15:55

Yeah, it's.And it seems like each one of those people in history had a speech, at least one or two speeches that were.Wow, you just hit that out of the park.Even Ronald Reagan.

Arnold00:16:07

Yes.

Mark00:16:07

Great communicator.He has some great.He had more than one great speech, I think.But.

Arnold00:16:12

And even before they became like maybe famous or a president, sometimes as a senator or a governor or a congressman, they.They had some very, very pointed speeches.One of the most fascinating interviews I think we did was from a gentleman who was 98 years old at the time, and he was on the USS Missouri and when the Japanese signed the surrender.As a matter of fact, he was on the Missouri when it was launched in, I think, the Brooklyn Naval Yard.And Then he was on it for a kind of.I want to call it the maiden voyage.But what they do is they kind of work out all the bugs.And then he was on the Missouri when they went through the Panama Canal.He talked about how there was like an inch or two on the side just to get through.He was on the Missouri when they did a battle at Iwo Jima, and then he was on the Missouri when they signed the surrender.And we're going to listen to a portion of that interview right now.I had a great opportunity to meet Petty Officer Third Class Machinist Mate John Atkins.And I want to thank Steve Dotson, who's the post commander of American Legion Post 111 in Shrewsbury.He introduced me to John.He was on the Missouri from the time it left Brooklyn shipyard, through the Panama Canal to Pearl harbor, where they were bombarding Iwo Jima, then down to the surrender of the Japanese, and then back up to New York.So he was on the ship that entire time.For those of you that don't know what a machinist mate is, that's working.

Arnold00:17:46

In the engine room, so hot, close to the danger.Right.

Arnold00:17:51

I would think beneath the water.

Arnold00:17:53

Beneath the water.So he didn't see sunlight for a long time.

Arnold00:17:56

No.

Arnold00:17:57

Amazing.

Arnold00:17:58

So we're going to hear John Atkins, Petty Officer third class, Machinist mate, when did you hear that the ship was going to be used for the signing of the Japanese surrender?

Arnold00:18:09

It was.It got around through the ship quite a bit.The South Dakota was messed up, too, so that they thought they were going to be signed up.But there's one thing new about all of it.If Roosevelt would have lived, he'd have been signed on to New Jersey because they had put elevator on there so he could go up and down in.But he thought in a wheelchair.A lot of people ask me, why did they sign it on the Missouri.I always say to him, who was the president?

Arnold00:18:44

Makes perfect sense to me.

Arnold00:18:46

Yeah.

Arnold00:18:47

So how did the announcement come through that this was going to take place?And I think it was, what, September 2nd or the first part of September?Some.

Arnold00:18:55

September 2nd was.

Arnold00:18:57

Okay.But you knew.

Arnold00:18:59

Oh, we knew about it before.Okay.Yeah.Another thing, too, about when it was signed, we had to wear whites.If you couldn't be on deck, nobody was allowed on deck with the blue tinge.

Arnold00:19:14

Too many pictures were going to be taken.

Arnold00:19:16

Yeah.

Arnold00:19:17

Too many films were going to be made.So you find out.And was everybody on the ship supposed to be on deck?You don't know.

Arnold00:19:25

But all them Guns was loaded.They were ready in case the Japanese come out and attack the reserve they were going to.And the guys talked them out of it because they said, if you do, they'll drop atomic bombs on the rest of the city.But they didn't know we only had two.

Arnold00:19:51

So where were you when the signing took place?

Arnold00:19:54

I was on the after deck.I was back by number three turret.We had stations, and we always had to go on deck for that.And I told the chief back there, I had to go to the bathroom, run right through that ship, Got up there, and I got up there in time to see the Japanese sign and one other one.And I figured, you better get back there.So I got down and got back out there.

Arnold00:20:20

The signing took place on starboard signing.

Arnold00:20:23

On the captain's deck.

Arnold00:20:25

Okay.On the captain's deck.

Arnold00:20:26

Okay.

Arnold00:20:26

Yeah.

Arnold00:20:27

It's not down on the main deck.

Arnold00:20:29

It's there.Okay.

Mark00:20:31

Okay.

Arnold00:20:32

And I hear there is now a plaque there.

Arnold00:20:35

Yeah.When, after the war was over, we stopped in Hawaii, and that's where they put that plaque in the deck.

Arnold00:20:42

I saw pictures of the Missouri right by the Arizona, and they.And it's just a powerful picture.You have the Arizona Memorial, and then the Missouri is just looking right at it.And the beginning of the war and the end of the war right there within close proximity of it.

Arnold00:21:00

That was the theory.By having the Missouri as a museum in Hawaii.It started on the Arizona and ended down to Missouri.

Arnold00:21:11

That was John Atkins, petty officer third class, machinist mate, who served on the USS Missouri during 1944 and 45.

Mark00:21:20

Wow.

Arnold00:21:21

Matter of fact, right around that time was the 75th anniversary of the USS Missouri.And we talked to the executive director of the USS Missouri Memorial association in Hawaii.And it was just.It's incredible.That picture, folks, you need to look at that picture.Matter of fact, you can go to st.lntune.com and go to season number two.And that's the picture that he's talking about, or that I'm talking about, where you have the Arizona Memorial, that white building, and then right behind it, facing you is the USS Missouri with the guns just looking right out at you.

Mark00:21:57

That's great.That was like five minutes of an interview there.I would love to hear that whole show again.

Arnold00:22:03

It was a fun show.It was a fun show.And they had a kamikaze plane come into the Missouri, crash into the Missouri.And John had some very interesting things to say.Unfortunately, about three months after we had the interview, he passed away.So I was very fortunate to get that time with him.And those are stories that just get lost.

Mark00:22:23

Wow.

Arnold00:22:24

The one about the guns were all loaded.Who would know?

Mark00:22:27

Yeah.See that?I find that fascinating to know and that everybody had to wear whites on there and I didn't.Why did I not even think that?Why was why they did it on the Missouri?Because of Truman, of course.Good for Truman.

Arnold00:22:38

Was it going to be on any of the other state battleships?

Mark00:22:41

Yeah, good for Truman.

Arnold00:22:42

Everybody talks about the New Jersey and.

Mark00:22:43

I always wondered, wow, I'm pretty proud we signed that thing on the Missouri.Now I go, oh, of course.

Arnold00:22:48

And if you don't know how big a battleship is, oh my gosh.If you get a chance to go out to Pearl harbor, it's huge.It is absolutely huge.So we go to.We're keeping going down to a variety of seasons here.Season three, can money really buy an election, folks?That's a great one to listen to, especially right before the election that we're coming up to.That's a really good one.We did some things on prostate cancer, suicide prevention, education, the knowledge gap.Red Summer.That's a book that talked about the red summer of 1919 in East St. Louis and the riots that happened there.We had an interview with the owner of Cole, the deaf dog.He's an educational.The dog is deaf.And he goes into with his master's teaching.His master's a music teacher.He goes in there and it's like a service dog.And then they go to old folks homes.And now the guy who owns him has four dogs that have disabilities.Ed Wheatley came in And Ed's our St. Louis in tune.His baseball historian who comes on.He's been on six times.He's been in.

Mark00:23:55

He always has a great time.

Arnold00:23:57

Oh my gosh.Great stories, too.

Mark00:23:58

He does have tremendous stories.And they did something with the.He's part of the Browns.

Arnold00:24:02

Yes, they.

Mark00:24:03

The Browns historical thing where they do that big luncheon every year.

Arnold00:24:07

Oh, yeah.

Mark00:24:08

So Ed is.He's a wealthy.He's a fun guest.And make sure that you tune in next time he's on because he is.He's always got a book coming out.

Arnold00:24:15

Matter of fact, we need to interview him about the Rawlings gloves.That's the.A book that he recently put out.And we got to get him on the show about that one.

Mark00:24:22

Yes, I'd like to see hear his take about that big Rawlings glove on top of that building.

Arnold00:24:27

Yeah, Westport.

Mark00:24:28

Yeah, that Rawlings glove.

Arnold00:24:30

I know this Arnold Stricker along with Mark Langston of St. Louis and Tune where this is our 400th show.We are going back and doing some highlights here and talking about them.Mark, let's play a highlight joke.Parents, this is a good one for you.If you can't.If the kids are out of the house and you can't get them in there, it's a sad way to do it, but it's very funny.An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you, your mother and I are divorcing.45 Years of misery is enough.

Mark00:25:02

Pop.

Arnold00:25:02

What are you talking about?The sun screams.We can't stand the sight of each other any longer.The old man says, we're sick of each other and I'm sick of talking about this.So you can call your sister in Chicago and tell her.And he hangs up, frantic.The son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone.They're not getting divorced.If I have anything to do with that.She shouts, I'll take care of this.She calls Phoenix immediately and screams at the old man, you're not getting divorced.Don't do a single thing until I get there.I'm calling my brother back and we'll both be down there tomorrow.Until then, don't do a thing.Do you hear me?And hangs up.The old man hangs up his phone, turns to his wife and says, okay, they're coming for Thanksgiving.Now what do we tell them for Christmas?That's a good one, isn't it?

Arnold00:25:43

That is very good.

Arnold00:25:44

I love it.That.

Arnold00:25:45

But that is so funny that the kids think that they could tell their parents what to do.Right?You're not going to do this.

Arnold00:25:49

Yeah.

Arnold00:25:50

So a police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street.But Officer, Sorry.That's okay.

Mark00:25:57

Okay.

Arnold00:25:57

That's all right.We.We'll go back to that one.And that's.Folks, some of we enjoy what we do.We have fun.There's some serious shows where we don't do any humor.And then there's some shows that I told a joke.Ellie fell out of her chair, literally fell out of her chair at the studio.And we've.We.Some of our fun shows have been like one hit wonders to hear these songs.

Mark00:26:23

I love that.

Arnold00:26:24

Or some of the Mondegreens where you think you hear what the words are, but they're actually not.

Mark00:26:29

That one of my.Those are some of my favorite shows.

Arnold00:26:31

Yeah.Then annually we.We do some Hanukkah and Christmas songs.The worst Christmas Christmas albums of St. Louis in tune.

Mark00:26:40

Wow.

Arnold00:26:40

The Christmas songs.And some of them are just terrible.Hilariously bad.

Mark00:26:46

Yeah, they're just terrible.

Arnold00:26:47

It would be great for a.It would be a great gift.You would give that with a fruitcake and a ugly Christmas sweater at an ugly Christmas sweater party.

Mark00:26:56

That would work out fine.Oh, my God.

Arnold00:26:58

Those are some things.So keep going.We did some things on Medicare.We did some things on 9 11.Great interviews.Matter of fact, I just.We just had the 25th anniversary.I shouldn't say anniversary.The 25th remembrance of 9 11.So check that out.That's on the very first page of the website.STL in tune dot com.Human trafficking.We talked about the Tulsa Massacre.Matter of fact, the author of the book was down on Black Wall street at the time in Tulsa when we were interviewing her.That was a. Oh, that's right.

Mark00:27:30

Yes.

Arnold00:27:31

Ethics and leadership.Matter of fact, that individual, you can hear him, he has his own podcast.And that's fun.Oh, here's a good one.Transparency in leadership.Mark.Unbelievable.Wow.Is that.

Mark00:27:44

What a concept.

Arnold00:27:45

Wow.Season four, folks.You can check that one out.James Meredith.Everybody remembers James Meredith.He's the first black student allowed in the University of Mississippi.Or if you're from Mississippi, it's Mississippi.And all right.And wonderful time with him.He doesn't give many interviews, and we were very fortunate to interview him.Oh, and the Betsy Ferrara murder.That's a big thing in St. Louis.We had the attorney on.

Mark00:28:10

Yes.

Arnold00:28:11

For Russ Faria.And that was fascinating.That was fascinating.

Mark00:28:17

Yeah, it.Yeah, it very really was, folks.I hate to be like that, but yes, it was very fascinating.

Arnold00:28:23

That was.It was very revealing about how conniving individuals can be.And I pronounced her name.It's Betsy Faria murder.And Russ Faria was her husband.He was accused of murder and actually went to prison and come to find out that there was another woman who framed him and set it all up.And now she's in prison for murdering, having murdered somebody else.So it's a.The saga continues.It's very fascinating.We had Code Talkers, the original Code Talkers, and had a book on that from World War.Actually World War I and World War II freedom suits.That's something that happened here in the St. Louis metropolitan area.That was a big thing.African Americans in aviation.You want to talk about a great show?And I've continued to have a relationship with this individual.He goes around the country and talks about his father, who was instrumental in developing the ability for African Americans to be Involved in aviation in World War II.Matter of fact, his dad was instrumental in the Tuskegee Airmen founding.So that was very fascinating show we had.

Mark00:29:35

It's amazing.

Arnold00:29:36

Yeah.

Mark00:29:36

To just listen to this list.It's amazing.

Arnold00:29:39

And people go, what's your show about?

Mark00:29:42

How do you.

Arnold00:29:42

Everything.

Arnold00:29:43

Yeah.And that's what I tell them.I say it's something that interests me, whether I see it on television or hear it on the radio or I'm reading it or something like that.And I'm like, wow, that's interesting.I don't know anything about that.Doesn't mean other people don't know about it.But I try to stay well informed.And sometimes it's history things that I miss.Sometimes it's just everyday people who are doing some things out there that are really important.

Mark00:30:09

That's how it is.

Arnold00:30:10

John O' Leary was on.He's a St. Louis guy and now.

Mark00:30:13

He's got a big movie.

Arnold00:30:13

He's got a movie out.His book's wonderful.

Mark00:30:16

And we had him on before anybody really knew about him.He was just coming out about his plight and his.The fire.

Arnold00:30:24

Great guy.Great guy.And that ties in actually with an interview that we just did last week.And the interview that was talking about how a woman whose son has this hearing.I don't want to say disability, but he has a disease.It's a congenitive congenital chromosomal disorder.So he loses his hearing.And she actually knows.John.John did the preface for her book.It's like all this stuff kind of comes circle in a circular kind of thing.Life in St. Louis is like a big, small town.

Mark00:31:03

Most of the people we've interviewed, too, now, there are some, like the Garth Brooks interview that we did.Some of those people, PLA Media, I think it was, which comes up later.But most of the people that we interview, my point is that they're from the St. Louis area.They're from right around here.There's some really great stories and great people that are right here in our community.

Arnold00:31:23

Yes.

Mark00:31:24

And it's great that we're giving them a voice.

Arnold00:31:25

Yes.And their reach is national because of what they're doing.But it's international because we're on the web here.We're on the Web.Space, hope and charity.This is a woman who was told as a junior high student by her science teacher, you're not going to amount to anything.And she grew up, she wanted to be a NASA astrophysicist, and she actually is an astrophysicist for NASA.But along the Way she lost her husband and her son in a freak wave that swept them out to sea in Oregon.It's an unbelievable story.There's a movie about it also, another individual, Irina Sendler, who is a woman who saved over 2,000 Jewish children from the ghetto in Warsaw.And unbelievable kind of story there.How about a Picasso painting that was stolen from the St. Louis Art Museum that still hasn't been found, but there's a book called Chasing Picasso and we interview the author and she gives a little inside skinny on who she thinks did it.That's a great book.

Mark00:32:37

During that season, too, we did an interview with a dentist.I think it was your dentist.

Arnold00:32:41

Yes.

Mark00:32:42

And actually I enjoyed that interview.

Arnold00:32:44

Chuck Fusner.

Mark00:32:45

Yeah.Because I was like, okay, should I brush my teeth up and down to go with the.Whatever.The way my teeth are.No, don't do that.He was very insightful about teeth and the good part of teeth.

Arnold00:32:58

And he explains it very well.

Mark00:32:59

He does.

Arnold00:33:01

He really does.

Mark00:33:01

I was like, I need to go to this dentist after it was all over with.But it was really great.You might think that a dentist.You're going to interview a dentist.How can that be interesting?It was truly a very interesting show.It really was.

Arnold00:33:14

Yeah, it really was.

Mark00:33:15

It was very.Yeah.A lot of insight there.

Arnold00:33:17

We had interviews with someone who does hostage negotiation.And these are hostages that you will know from the news.And this is the back.The back scene.He is involved in the vaccine and he wrote a book about all that.Also, we.We talked to the son of the president of the white supremacy organization.

Mark00:33:38

Yeah.

Arnold00:33:38

And how scary.He changed his.He was raised with this white supremacy mentality and how he changed his perspective on that.That's a.That was very interesting show.We had a lot of.We interviewed a lot of music people like the guy who.Rick Schuller, who does the John Denver tribute.Matter of fact, he was in studio and played.

Mark00:33:59

That was a very enjoyable.

Arnold00:34:01

That was fun.He's good.

Mark00:34:03

Really?I thought John Denver was sitting right there.

Arnold00:34:05

He looks like him and he sounds like it.

Mark00:34:07

Yeah.

Arnold00:34:08

And then a local.A local legend, Freddie Lee's Gourmet Sauce.Freddie Lee came in.He brought us some gourmet sauce.Or it depends on what store you get it.It might be ghetto sauce, but it's great sauce, folks.Oh, my gosh.You need to get some.He's on Amazon, so you can get some Amazon.Freddie Lee's Gourmet Sauce.

Mark00:34:26

And the.The brains behind the operation, his wife.

Arnold00:34:29

Yep.

Mark00:34:30

And he admits it.

Arnold00:34:32

Yeah.I went to his Manufacturing plan place.

Mark00:34:35

Okay.

Arnold00:34:35

And.

Arnold00:34:36

Oh my gosh.

Mark00:34:36

Right here in St. Louis.

Arnold00:34:37

Right here in St. Louis.

Mark00:34:38

I think a credit union here.Local credit union.I don't know if I should say who it is.I know I will.St. Louis Community Credit Union.I happen to know.Shameless Plug gave him.Gave him a loan.They believe in that kind of folks that are just starting out.Yeah.And they gave him a loan.And he is just.He's.It's.It's going gangbusters.Except for that one outlet that didn't like the ghetto Sauce.

Arnold00:35:04

The name Ghetto Sauce.

Mark00:35:05

So they had to change it to what?American Sauce, American Gourmet sauce, something like that.But I like yellow sauce.It doesn't.

Arnold00:35:12

It is what it is.

Mark00:35:13

It is what it is.And that's where he.His heritage is.And that's right.Anyway, we could talk about that forever, but.Yeah, that was great.And I still use it.

Arnold00:35:21

Yeah, we do too.Fritz Bauer.Do you know about Fritz Bauer?He was the Holocaust hidden hero.He was the guy that drove the behind the scenes Nuremberg Trials.And if it wasn't for Fritz Bauer, there may not have been the Nuremberg trials.National Stuttering Association.We had some guests on from the National Stuttering association, the Neon Museum, which is here in St. Louis.Harry Weber, who does the sculptures outside of Busch Stadium and around the United States.We had Harry on.

Mark00:35:54

Harry is great.Last time I was down at the.At the ballpark, I was looking at the statues and you can see H. Weber and he did two.How many did he do?A couple extras that air.

Arnold00:36:06

Molina.

Mark00:36:07

I have a family member who works for the Cardinals and Albert Pujols and he has been in the basement and seen them.

Arnold00:36:13

I believe there's also a Mark McGuire, but it may never see the light of day.

Mark00:36:17

And he did that.How old is he?How old was he?

Arnold00:36:20

Harry is 83 right now, I think.

Mark00:36:22

And he was.What?Didn't he do these because he felt like he was just trying to.

Arnold00:36:27

The Cardinals felt like we want to kind of keep the same kind of flow and Harry does a great job and we want to get these done before Harry's not able to do them.

Mark00:36:34

Any longer, however that might happen.

Arnold00:36:35

And they kind of knew Yachty and Albert were shoe.

Mark00:36:39

Insu.Ins.Yeah.And Mark McGuire.So there's a Mark McGuire statue somewhere?

Arnold00:36:46

I believe so.

Mark00:36:46

You believe so?Are you telling things that these are the exclusive on St. Louis in tune?

Arnold00:36:52

That's right.

Mark00:36:53

So Mark McGuire statue somewhere.

Arnold00:36:54

Hey, and you remember the bread Monk?He's across the river in the Alton area.Father Dom.

Mark00:37:03

Oh, Father Dom.

Arnold00:37:04

We had Father Dom.

Mark00:37:05

Okay, I remember Father.

Arnold00:37:06

We'll have to have Father Dom on before Thanksgiving and get some bread recipes or something.

Mark00:37:10

Amazing recipes he has.

Arnold00:37:12

Oh, gosh.Crazy.

Mark00:37:13

Father down.I know.It's like, really?

Arnold00:37:16

Tariffs.Oh, we did a show on tariffs.See, folks, we don't kind of like lightweight stuff.We attack.What is it about tariffs?So if something's happening in the news and it's like, it's confusing people because of the media or because of who's talking on the media.Let's get to the heart of things and we try to get to an expert.I don't like to get somebody's opinion that's just kind of out there in the media.We go to a source.We go to somebody who's got some credibility behind them.They're either teaching at a university, they've done several.It's like that's their expertise on tariffs or expertise on XYZ education or music and.Or we try to do that.I'm not going to get somebody on here who's got some opinion that you and I could have.So let's get the facts and then let's make decisions on our own.I feel it's important that we present the facts to you and you can investigate it and believe it or not believe it.I'm not going to swing it one way or the other.No, stop.What I'm supposed to do.

Mark00:38:14

No.

Arnold00:38:14

Hear that?The rest of the media.

Mark00:38:17

No, you don't.No, you don't.Yeah, I want to go back to tariffs.I'm so mad about there.

Arnold00:38:23

So do you like wine?

Arnold00:38:25

Yeah.

Arnold00:38:26

We had famous sommelier Andre Mack on, and he was talking about his whole life, and he owns a winery now, and he's got a.He's got this.He's a venter.He's a great guy.Very great.

Mark00:38:38

I'm shaking my head because he didn't bring any samples.Free samples.I know.It's like most people come bearing gifts and they have.Give you a book or they give you, like.Yeah, here's what I make.Like the priest, he had bread, I don't know.

Arnold00:38:50

But gourmet sauce.

Mark00:38:52

Gourmet sauce.I know we got that from Freddy, but why not wine?He could have brought some wine, maybe brought some grapes.That would have been fine, too.I would have done the grapes and the wine with the bread and some olive oil and some cheese on.Yeah, let's.

Arnold00:39:06

Let's hear another joke, Mark.

Mark00:39:08

Another joke.Let me see.I don't Know if I can.

Arnold00:39:11

I've got one here.I've got one.

Mark00:39:12

Okay, because I think we got a.

Arnold00:39:13

I think you can do some of your days of the day.

Mark00:39:16

I know.Can I say.Let me see what this is.One second.We're.This.We're flying by the seat of our pants here.Hold it.It's the fanfare.I. I was going through some of the archives.We have so many different things in the archives, but that was one of the fanfares we did.But.Yeah, go ahead with.You have a joke.

Arnold00:39:36

I sure do.A friend of mine was the backup journalist that covered the local gym.He was the bench press.Oh, here's one.A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire.Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane.It will be waiting for you at the airport, he was assured by his editor.As soon as he got to the small rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the Runway.He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, let's go, let's go.The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air.Fly over the north side of the fire, said the photographer, and make three or four local level passes.Why?Asked the pilot.Because I'm going to take pictures.I'm a photographer and photographers take pictures, said the photographer with great exasperation.After a long pause, the pilot said, you mean you're not the instructor?

Mark00:40:24

Oh, gosh.

Arnold00:40:26

A shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar.After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks tentatively, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?To which she responds by yelling at the top of her lungs, no, I won't sleep with you tonight.Everyone in the bar is now staring at them.Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed, and he slinks back to his table.After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes.She smiles at him and says, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you.I'm a journalist and I've got an assignment to study how people respond to embarrassing situations.To which he responds at the top of his lungs.What do you mean, $200?

Mark00:41:07

Oh, no, that works.Okay, go ahead.

Arnold00:41:16

What do you get if you cross a sports reporter with a vegetable commentator?

Mark00:41:21

Oh, stop.That's not.

Arnold00:41:25

Woman telephoned her local newspaper to let them know that she had just given birth to 18 children.The reporter didn't quite hear the message and said, would you repeat that?Not if I can help it, replied the woman.

Arnold00:41:36

Yes.

Arnold00:41:39

Wow.

Mark00:41:40

Oh, the stretch marks.

Arnold00:41:43

You have some days of the day.

Mark00:41:45

There are a couple of.It's quite a.It's quite a. Yeah, there's a.We can start off with this.This one.This.This will bring you back to the 60s.You were around in the 60s?

Arnold00:41:55

Absolutely.

Mark00:41:56

National no bra Day.

Arnold00:41:58

Okay.

Mark00:42:00

When I was in the 60s, there was no bras.

Arnold00:42:03

Burn your bra.

Mark00:42:04

It was.It was all about that kind of thing.And now the guys need bras.The men.Boobs.Was that what they call man boobs?

Arnold00:42:10

That's correct.

Mark00:42:11

I don't know what.

Arnold00:42:11

I'm just going to keep passing that on to you.Mark.

Mark00:42:16

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.International Skeptics Day.

Arnold00:42:23

They don't practice the National Day of Risk and Recovery or something.They're skeptical.

Mark00:42:28

National face your fears Day.

Arnold00:42:30

That's every day.

Mark00:42:32

I don't remember.It's National Eminem Day.I can't remember what the M and M means.I think it's Martin and Miller or something, the two guys that came up with it.And I believe I'm just going from.It's the Navy's birthday too.But I.And I think that kind of coincides.I think it was originally made for the armed services.

Arnold00:42:54

It stands for Mars and Murray.

Mark00:42:56

That's it.

Arnold00:42:56

The last names of the co creators.

Mark00:42:58

There you go.Mars and Murray.Thank you.

Arnold00:43:00

Originally made for World War II soldiers.

Mark00:43:02

That's what it was.And they put the candy hard crust on it so it wouldn't be melt.So how do you like to say Good Navy birthday too?

Arnold00:43:08

Yeah.

Mark00:43:09

Yorkshire Pudding Day.I don't know if you like pudding.International Day of failure.

Arnold00:43:16

What for some people, I could name them, but I won't.

Mark00:43:19

English Language day.We need.We can all use some people.

Arnold00:43:25

Is that from England or is that from the United States?

Mark00:43:28

Oh, good question there.Breast Cancer Awareness Day.All right, there's a good one.That's one.I don't know why that goes with National Bra No Bra Day, but I'm not poking fun.I'm just saying it's quite a coincidences there.And that's.That's a few of the many that I know.

Arnold00:43:44

Here's another one.Three men, an editor, a photographer and a journalist are covering a political convention in Miami.They decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour.Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp.As they rub the lamp, a genie appears and says, normally I would grant you three wishes.But since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish.The photographer went first.I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St Thomas with no money worries.The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to St. Thomas.The journalist went next.I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht, cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries.The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.Last but not least, it was the editor's turn.And what would your wish be?Asked the genie.I want them both back after lunch, replied the editor.The deadline for tomorrow's newspaper is in about 10 hours.

Mark00:44:38

Oh, that's a bummer.I thought I was gone.

Arnold00:44:44

When we first started the show, we didn't have a website.Got a website now, stluntune.com and we have this huge staff of people that we rely on to do all this stuff.

Mark00:44:58

Yeah.

Arnold00:44:59

And folks, just to let you know, it's Mark and me and things that go to social media, I'm doing those.The website.I'm doing those.

Mark00:45:08

Booking the guest.

Arnold00:45:09

Yeah, booking the guest.That's me.Yeah.

Mark00:45:11

So I think I did one guest in the whole 400 shows.

Arnold00:45:16

That's okay.That's okay.So it's when things don't get done in a timely manner, you can blame Arnold.Okay.And.But I encourage you to go to the website because there's.All the shows are there.I work to try to get information on them.

Mark00:45:32

There's a lot of background.I really like the website and because you've got photographs and a lot of information about the guest, it's not just here's the podcast or whatever.

Arnold00:45:43

Right.

Mark00:45:44

The broadcaster.It's.There's information about the guests, their book, how to get it, those kind of things.It's a one stop.

Arnold00:45:51

Oh, one stop shop.

Mark00:45:53

Yeah.

Arnold00:45:53

Contacts for the authors or whoever's on the show.The guest.

Mark00:45:57

If you like what you're hearing, you'll be able to go further with it.

Arnold00:46:00

You can leave a review and would appreciate those.Those are always appreciated.And we're on every major podcast platform, Apple, everywhere, worldwide.

Mark00:46:09

Yes, we are worldwide.

Arnold00:46:11

So it's good to be able to support local things that are going on.Is good to support state and regional things, national things, international things.

Mark00:46:19

Oh yeah.

Arnold00:46:20

And just kind of get some.Not oddball things, but things that people don't necessarily know about.I mean like the Nikola Tesla rock opera.

Mark00:46:29

Oh, yeah.

Arnold00:46:30

How about that, folks?

Mark00:46:31

That was really good.I would.Yeah.

Arnold00:46:33

You know about the Nikola Tesla rock opera.We did a show on that.

Mark00:46:38

Yeah, the Tesla guy.

Arnold00:46:40

Yeah.

Mark00:46:41

Yep.There's a lot of fascinating, interesting things going on around us and we touch on a lot of that.Try to touch on what we can.Scratch the surface.

Arnold00:46:51

Yeah.And does anybody listening right now, like the Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon.Our next episode is going to be talking to Jessica Radloff who's a New York Times best selling author.She wrote the book the Authorized Big Bang Theory, Definitive Inside Story, the epic hit series.And she's going to be talking about her new book, Young Sheldon the Juicier Than Meemaw's Brisket Inside Story.And that's coming out this.Right now.It's coming out.So she's going to be on in episode 401.

Mark00:47:22

It's gonna.Yeah.That's interesting.I started liking Young Sheldon after it was its first run.Initial run, whatever they call.So the reruns is what I started with watching.And I guess the kid got too old or something.I don't know what happened.But they stopped.But it was fascinating.

Arnold00:47:37

Yeah.It's tough to keep things going like that.

Mark00:47:40

Yeah.But boy, they did.They took.That was an offshoot of the.Yeah.Which is interesting.

Arnold00:47:45

A lot of times the offshoots don't make it.

Mark00:47:47

No.That one did pretty good, though.

Arnold00:47:49

It did.

Mark00:47:50

It did pretty good.And if you haven't watched it or checked it out, just sit down and watch it.

Arnold00:47:54

Check it.

Mark00:47:54

All right.Yeah.It'll work out for you.Okay.

Arnold00:47:57

A lot of episodes.

Mark00:47:58

Yeah.

Arnold00:47:58

So, Mark, it's been fun kind of reminiscing and going back on some of the 400 shows.

Mark00:48:05

And there's 400 more.

Arnold00:48:06

399.Yeah.There's 400 more to go.And sometimes we do like 42 a year.Sometimes we've done 75 because we've doubled up some things.

Mark00:48:16

Right.

Arnold00:48:16

Depends on what's going on.

Mark00:48:18

There are the holidays we try to spend with our family.

Arnold00:48:20

Exactly.So we give ourselves a break.Or summer chickens.

Mark00:48:26

Yeah.That's true.So.But boy, there's a lot of new, fresh stuff that we're always pouring out there.

Arnold00:48:33

There's people always giving new material out too.

Mark00:48:35

Why isn't there.I'll tell you right now.And we talk about it every day.I know there's so much to talk about.But there's so much we don't talk about too.

Arnold00:48:43

Yeah.And it's tough to sort through things that we know that you want to hear.Listeners.And that doesn't really interest me.But I like it.Mark likes it.We're gonna do it.If you listen to it, great.If you don't, great.Yeah, just listen to the next one or the previous one.

Mark00:49:01

It's.It's wonderful stuff.

Arnold00:49:03

Go.Stlintune.com folks.Stluntune.com so that's all for this hour.Thank you for listening to Show 400.If you've enjoyed this episode, you can listen to additional ones@stluntune.com where you can follow us and leave a review.Thanks to Bob, Bertha Sell and Bob does a great job with our theme music.Bob.I need to have Bob on the show.

Mark00:49:23

Why haven't we.

Arnold00:49:24

We need to.I need to get a hold of him.To do that, I want to thank our sponsor, Better8 Mortgage, our co hosts, Mark Langston.Mark, great job.Thank you, sir.

Mark00:49:32

You did pretty good yourself.

Arnold00:49:34

Alrighty.We thank you, folks, for being part of our community of curious minds.St. Louis in tune is a production of Motif Media Group and the US Radio Network.Remember to keep seeking, keep learning, walk worthy and let your light shine.For St. Louis in tune, I'm Arnold Stricker.Sam.