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We're going to you Jason, your batting leadoff here on our first topic, and that is the city of St. Louis announced, I think surprisingly last week, that it would no longer be conducting alley recycling.

People put these recycle bins in the alleys and then of course the material that's supposed to be recycled goes in them.

If you live in a single family home that is next to uh that is not next to an alley.

I guess you're still going to have single stream recycling, but there are going to be some recycling centers established in the city and people will be able to drive with their cans and glass and whatnot.

What do you think?

Well, I used to live in the city.

I used to live in St. those Hills and it was nice to be able to, you know, walk in the alley and just put recycling in the recycling bin.

Um, I think a lot of people may not want to take time out of their day to go a half a mile or a mile away depending on how many of there are there.

But I think that like there was a pretty compelling argumentation that this was costing a lot of money.

There was a lot of contamination.

Um, it's not like us bougie folks in Richmond Heights who have a, you know, a a recycling trash can and we put it on the the side of the road and Republic Services takes it away.

Um, I think it's it'll certainly be interesting to see how much money it saves and how people adapt to this new system.

I like that they had a figure they could put that so much of the recycling is contaminated that it cost the city like over $600,000.

I like that they put a number on it.

At the same time, I think any effort to recycle is a good one.

And yes, in Kirkwood, we do have the individual recycling things and one of the best recycling centers in the country.

So, I guess I'm biased.

So, anything you can do to recycle, not you.

Every city should be trying.

Kirkwood was at the lead with Francis.

Yeah.

Uh Colombia was also at the lead, but you know, a tornado in April wiped out their uh material recovery facility and they're not doing anything in Illinois, right?

Columbia, Missouri.

Oh, Columbia, Missouri.

Yes.

Well, it it's hard to know exactly what can be recycled.

Yes.

You know, I mean, like, can can I recycle this or how about my pizza box if it still has, you know, that's a big no no at our house melted on.

That's a huge no no at the pizza places I go to.

one, you know, national chain, other little small place, both little boxes say recycle.

So, I'm confused like what are you not supposed to do?

I have talked to other women who are married to men who put cheesy pizza boxes in the recycle and their heads spin around just like mine.

There there's a letter to the editor this week in the post by Brian Elsa who writes us once in a while.

He lives in Leoo but used to live in the city of St. Lewis and he writes that people were putting their doggy uh droppings in the recept.

But see that's people make mistakes or people just are silly or not really into it.

I don't know.

I think people who have the the receptacles at their house.

I think we really do try to do a good job.

Oh yeah.

I think there people are putting the wrong stuff in.

Well, I understand that.

But it does say on the little thing says what you should and should not.

Yeah.

You don't know.

That's what I mean.

you not sure what boxes can go in there.

And then you always hear somebody in the neighborhood saying, "Well, you know, they just put them all together, don't you?"

I mean, you know, there there is some of that cuz a lot a lot what 40% on some loads goes to the landfill.

Yeah.

Which is a big problem and it's costly.

So, I think it'll be this is going to be worth watching to see if it's not only saving more money, but whether people adapt to the new But didn't we say though that those basic services that is a mayor's, you know, that is do or die for a mayor.

So, good for her.

Well, she's eliminating a basic service, but she's increasing the amount.

Well, improving is the idea.

We'll find out.

Trash pickup.

If if people drive to the recycle center, some people might just lazily put the recycled stuff in.

Well, at least the alleys will be cleaner.

Charlie, if you're if you're What was they didn't they say in increasing trash pickup by 100%.

How How is that a bad thing?

Yeah.

Well, it's not a bad thing.

Although, I thought to myself like, I wonder where those trash receptacles are going to be, you know, fire stations.

Yeah.

Okay.

We'll see.

Bill Mlullen, um it was announced this week that more FBI agents are coming to the St. St. Louis, but there wasn't any announcement as to how many.

So, we don't know if it's two or 10 or whatever.

Uh, are you skeptical or are you applauding this?

Oh, well, I think it's a good thing.

I mean, the St. Louis police are low on manpower and I think it's kind of a daydream that we're ever going to get back to the numbers they used to have.

And they can work with the federal agents.

I mean, a matter of fact, when uh Kim Gardner was the prosecutor and wasn't doing cases, the feds were take picking up a lot of the load.

you know, the DEA people were doing drug cases the city used to do.

And I I think that the city police can use help in these joint task forces uh will be will be good.

And I I'm not sure if we if we noted the passing of the great Mr. Webster from the FBI and the CIA, but uh that's what the first thing I thought of when I William Webster.

I yeah, that was it was notable to me that it was said like a record investment, but they couldn't say how much money or how many people.

Um I know it said it was going to be fighting violent crime, which I think that Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Natural Law Party, Green Party, I think we're all pretty antiviolent crime.

Um but there is a lot of distrust with this administration across the board.

We just spent a lot of time talking about the FBI's leadership not being uh particularly without controversy, but it doesn't necessarily mean that like the agents who are coming in are going to be doing anything unethical or unlawful, right?

I think the leaders of the FBI, I mean, it's it's very political right now.

obviously Cash Patel and Andrew Bailey, but over the years when I had to deal with FBI agents, they were really just cops with uh a different kind of badge.

I thought my dealings with them that they were highly intelligent individuals held to a higher standard and FBI agents like coming to St. Louis, I'm still wondering what you going to do because I don't think I don't see my FBI FBI agent that I'm investing in busting some hoodlums and stuff like that.

That's up to the police.

Like I just think they should be doing something for the national security and all that.

I I really got not problems with it, but I'm just like, you know, ain't Dillinger dead?

I mean, what can we find something?

How many campus shootings though have there been in the last 72 hours?

I mean, I think were there two today or two two reported today?

So, uh, you know, you you think of the FBI, you think of counterterrorism and that meaty stuff.

Well, the US attorney's office too would always have a task force to work with the city cops, right?

And and I think this could play into it.

I I think I think actually uh the FBI is working on that case in Clayton where three cars were firebombed about uh things like that.

And by the way, I was not calling police officers unintelligent.

I'm just saying that there was Do you find it strange like we're two years ago Republicans were saying, "Oh, we're going to have the Second Amendment Protection Act so that the local police could not cooperate with the feds when it came to gun crimes."

Charlie, there's no crime.

Hypocrisy is now legal.

I I don't know if you heard that.

Well, also, you know, most of the crime that we are really concerned about in the city of St. Louis would be gun crime.

I mean, mostly.

And yet, uh, Senator Schmidt, are you in favor of any sensible gun regulations or gun laws?

The key word there was sensible, Charlie.

Yeah, I'm I'm not saying taking them away.

No, no, I'm just saying like, yeah, I'm asking Eric Eric Schmidt and others for some sensibility.

I You bang your head against that.

I I I also have the uh theory that Eric Schmidt caused crime because he's the guy behind Senate Bill Five, which said that no municipality could raise more than 20% of its operating revenue through traffic tickets.

And so, like it or not, cities just stopped enforcing a lot of traffic laws.

I actually asked him, "Isn't that literally defunding the police?"

and he did not like that question in but it was a good question but it is actually you know if they have less money for uh police because they're not getting as many tickets and they can't re get recoup the revenue they are that is an example of getting less money y so but I do think that there was a reasoning for that because a lot of those police departments were very predatory against yeah but have you seen the streets lately I mean they're out of control we all know that right note to myself steal Jason's line about um defunding police Yeah, exactly.

Hey, uh, too many topics and too little time, but in the next 40 seconds, it turns out that FanDuel, maybe the biggest giant ever in sports betting, Alvin, is not going to uh have the untethered uh betting contract in the state of Missouri.

Well, I'll tell you what.

Um, yes, when I make my visit over to uh the uh DraftKings site on Illinois, I like DraftKings.

Circa, I don't know how they ended up in it.

I I'm telling you, NFL owners can own up to 2% I think in these gambling conglomerates for some reason.

I don't know if the Hunt family is in it, but I smell the Chiefs in this.

You know, it's good to see a real underdog story in FanDuel lose, but they're they they they're going to still operate because they're they're linking up with St. Louis SC.

So, it doesn't really have any anything more than just a feel-good story of the little guy beating the big guy.

When does sports betting begin in Missouri?

December.

December 1st.

How could an NFL owner even own 2% of that?

It's It's the NFL.

They do what they want.

We could talk an hour on that.

Well, unfortunately, we don't have an hour.

Thank you, Alvin.

Thank you, Jason.

And thank you for joining us.

We'll see you again next week.