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I was just saying that uh this is my first Last Call but actually it's not my first Last Call it's the first one on YouTube Bill and Joe um the presses are going to be stopped at the Post-Dispatch and as a guy whose dad was a pressman I know the pride that he took in his work and um it's kind of a sad day when that announcement was made yes it was but that story by Hannah Wyman was so good I mean it just really got to me how she talked about those men how much they cared or they talked about that the her I should say they took such pride in their work and it's just the newspaper industry kind of you know falling apart sailing into the uh uncertain future and now you know the being printed in Colombia means that we're not going to have next day Cardinal scores next day blue scores it it's a sad day but Hannah Wyman just did a great job yeah I 72 people lose jobs 48 fulltime I mean so first and foremost for such a dedicated group of people uh and a fun group of people printers were always a great group of folks to hang around I remember you know the guys with the cigars in their mouth and the folded paper hats you know and just ink stained wretches of of True Form it's something romantic about it for people who work in newspapers and I'm sorry to see that go uh and I hope all those who still are of age to keep working I hope they all find great jobs and they're all happy and thank you for all you did for us for so many years totally agreed you know am I the only one though that especially this week when you think of the printing presses being in Colombia and you think of I70 and you know things can happen and some presses being I mean some of the the newspapers actually being stranded in this the the thing is is that we're printed uh the St Louis American we're in uh Washington Missouri right I my first thought when I first started the American is man there's going to be some Thursdays with it never missed a one I don't know how that works but we have never missed a one great you know it's interesting there have been so many delivery problems for people who are print newspaper subscribers that it would be hard to know like did the papers not arri from Columbia or is it that my delivery guy couldn't get down my snow packed side street you know it really is the final mile that's the hard part not the conveying it from the highway that's true exactly and I will say this at my first newspaper in Danville one of the joys that I did when I first started it's a experience that very few people do when you write a story and you're able to go down there and get one of the papers right when it comes off the press it's a feeling that I'll I'll never forget especially as a young reporter so one of our legislators we're going to have an official zoo animal now we got the Missouri Mule and the Bears are on the flag and you know all that but you know I was thinking that we had to have an official zoo animal I think it should be the bat because we have them in Missouri everywhere and you know when you get a bat in your house how you know any other you scream horrified but you're not supposed to kill them and it's one of those things that we don't just we don't do them in you're like oh you got to save the bat I'm IFI but we got to save the bat so I say the bat what say you Joe I'm going to go I'm going to go back into Old St Louis history since it's a zoo animal remember back when I was in high school or college a spinning cobra got loose got loose from the zoo and the whole neighborhood around the zoo shut down everybody was seeing a spitting cobra they're on the news going it can shoot poisonous venom 15 ft and it'll blind you and everything they ended up finding it in the drain you're still on the zoo property but you know but people were seeing it in uh by the arena they were seeing it in FL I think it's up here you know and for like three days the city was like careful of a spitting cobra so w with the lack of anything else I'll say let's make spitting cobra or zoo animal I I'd go with the bat on alant just because I remember your story about the bat at your House's little bat hanging down and one of your daughters saw it and said Daddy what's this and you took I thought it Wason went out there to like poke at it all of a sudden like battle do it raise it and drop I'm running through the yard screaming with a broom in my hand the girls are laughing at point in memory of that I'll go look actually that's one reason I picked the bat because I'll never forget that that's fantastic I will take I'll take uh Kathleen Madigan has a very we're going to talk about Nikki Glazer in just a moment it's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to female comics these days but Kathleen Madigan if you've ever heard her talk about noodling with the catfish I mean let's just lean into this whole SEC thing that we've got going on right now and we're just going to be you know like we'll be the catfish because that's you know they stick their arms in these holes in the river and pull out these kid like a little too uh little a little too rustic for this girl but okay I'm going to top this I'm going to go deeper down into the mud of Missouri Rivers I'm going to say the hellbender now there's two things that people know about the Hellbenders you know they're also called snot otters there these little salamanders that live in Missouri streams one is that they are not good-look well that is true of most missourians let's be honest uh look here pres company other than you find people our modeling contracts we're not a Gooding people this is something that we all know about ourselves and then second of all is they were so badly endangered they were almost to the brink and they battled their way back and could that not be like a nice inspiration for us that we too can come back love you know I like that too the other truism about him is if you've been a reporter in St Louis at a St Louis newspaper for any length of time you have written a hellbender story I know when they look around the room when I was new and they go who's the new guy hman hman I got a story for him and it was a save the hellbender Camp you know go going along with the hell Benders and Wendy's idea about the SEC how about CW daddies yes you know I remember reading a story that in Missouri we had some people get sick because apparently they were eating raw croad and somebody at the CDC which is in Georgia said what's wrong with you people in Missouri yeah when Georgia calls you out bad all I want to say before we move on to Nicki Glazer I'll I'll say that when I was a kid people in Forest Park used to have where they undo uh umbrellas and sing them and pull up and eat the they'd cook them I guess they did that so our own Nicki Glazer Kirkwood High School graduate uh going into the Kirkwood Hall of Fame with yours truly I you know I I'm G to keep saying that as but uh apparently she did a tremendous job uh on the Golden Globes last Sunday so she made us all proud Wendy this was this was such a Triumph I'm not kidding I mean this was whatever the baseball equivalent is of the World Series and a grand salami home whatever um this is the toughest room in chiz seriously and they have a history of snark to the nth degree and sometimes it make it makes you squirm and I've seen Nikki Glazer I think she is she has just rapidly you know just climbed up that comedy ladder which is the most difficult thing in the world to do some of her stuff I've seen that have has made made me kind of score myself so I was a little nervous and I thought oh my God our whole reputation is on the line she killed it she absolutely killed it her jokes were Flawless they were just biting enough to make it interesting without being cruel I have never been prouder of of you know the just just our stature when you talk about the Kathleen Madigan or when you talk about Cedric the Entertainer you know we've got a lot we've got a lot to be proud of here and she is she has finally officially officially officially arrived she has arrived and I think her move to St Louis has been so good for her she is such a smart person and was doing really well prior to the pandemic but when everything got shut down she moved back to her parents house and then later decided you know what I'm going to stay I'm going to get this uh condo in the Central West End I'm going to put down Roots here I think it's been great for her career it gives her a little bit of an Outsiders perspective and she was always so smart and so funny and just the nicest person and so it's so exciting to see it happen for her it is it really is now you guys were I guess watching football I don't I don't watch award shows at all I never have I don't like them um a little congratulatory well the worst part of uh when I was a film critic for about five years at the post I had to watch the Academy Awards I lo award shows I just no matter what they are I don't care what the award is you're giving good luck congratulations I'll read who won tomorrow take five minutes of my time so yeah I didn't watch it because of that not because and I will follow up before we get out Joe and say this I know exactly when I stopped watching them when dancing with Wolves beat Good Fellas for Best Picture in the 90s I said I'm done I'm never watching another award show and I have never watched another award show but hey thank you for watching us on YouTube watch us on 9 PBS next week on our regular format at Donnybrook and then jump back over here on YouTube I'm hearing we're really popular over here we're having a good time join us next week