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So, the treasurer, Adam Lane, had gotten a lot of parking tickets and he basically just wrote them off as he could because uh he's the treasurer.

Uh is this one of those it's great to be the treasurer situations, Joe?

>> Yes, it is.

I mean, it's great to have any of these state offices in this city.

Uh, yeah, I get it.

It's supposed to be Oh, well, if you're on official business and then he says, "Well, I've got this little hanger.

I just forgot to hang it up."

See, I would remember that if it was free parking, I'd remember to throw that up there.

So, I think he should have shown community spirit and went ahead and paid the ticket.

It's not that expensive unless he was late on paying and they built up.

But, you know, instead of showing you're above it, say, "Hey, I didn't follow the rules.

I should have put my little uh door hanger up, but I didn't.

So, here's my 20 bucks."

That's what he should have done.

But just abolish these offices, please.

>> Yeah.

See, my my first my first thought was was, "Oh, wow.

Really bad optics, but at least it's not the sheriff's department."

That was my That was my first thought.

>> That's our standard, Wendy.

>> That is our standard, too.

If that's our standard.

Well, you know, you were kidding me earlier about being from Chicago and Yeah.

Well, you know, here in St.

Louis, I can remember having lunch at Charlie Getos and people would park outside, they'd get tickets and, you know, after they ate lunch and they get the ticket and they'd come back and go, "Charlie, can you take care of this?"

They go, "Sure, you can take it."

>> I mean, and that's just the way the good old days.

>> So, it's hard for me to be too upset.

>> Well, small cities, too.

when I was in Dam.

I mean, it would have looked better if you if you got caught.

He got caught.

So, >> yeah.

I think, you know, with these hang tags, this was a Ryan Croll story at St.

Louis magazine, and he said, you know, I would do this for any city official who has a hang tag, if they accumulate a parking ticket, I will just forgive it for them, too.

To me, that seems really backward.

If you have the hang tag, you have to use this responsibly.

Otherwise, the city is using resources to have the the parking meter people out there handling this.

it's a waste of their time.

And so this is something where you should once you get the ticket, you should pay the ticket.

>> About a month ago here at this show, I didn't have my little pass to get into the parking lot.

And I thought, well, they won't be coming around.

It was a cold night or something.

And they did come and and not being an official, I paid my $20.

There you go.

Well, good for you.

You a big city, small small town in Danville.

We used to have what they about once every six months they'd have like what we called Ali Ali income free Friday and they would call like people at the city who knew the reporters would say like hey it's Friday whenever you got tickets or whatever just come down and just pay whatever you can you might have $70 a ticket say like I got $12 good fine they just that's how they handled it but get this you're a reporter you saw people from TV reporters police officers elected officials people who were lot made more got more money than I did.

We were all down and we just smiled like, "Oh, you got the call, too."

Yeah.

You best believe we didn't report on that.

Yeah.

Sarah, in uh the city of St.

Louis, SLPS, they're considering starting school later in the day.

Now, it I guess it wouldn't take away the time spent at school.

You think this is a pretty good idea?

Now, it's based upon, I guess, sleep studies.

>> Oh, yeah.

I think it's a great idea.

Like if you know anything about teenagers, their bodies just are like determined to sleep late.

And so to have a a school day start at like 7:30 a.m.

And so in some cases, I'll be out running in the morning before I get my kids up, it's like 6:00 a.m.

and there are kids standing out there in the dark waiting for their bus.

Breaks my heart.

It is It is better for learning.

It is better for absenteeism if you can kick that backward.

What is unfortunate, SLPS was very seriously looking at doing this move to a later start for this next school year and they have now come and said we can't do that.

Like we have too many operational stuff we have to figure out.

There's probably a3 to5 million cost associated with doing this because it would decrease the number of bus routes.

It seems so unfair to the kids.

I would love to see some philanthropist just step up and say this is the one thing I can do that would help the St.

Louis public schools because it would.

>> No kidding.

I remember it was always good when that first class you had, especially in high school.

I was too afraid sometimes of the nuns in grade school to do it.

But in high school, it's like, "Okay, is this teacher for my first hour one I can put my head down and go to sleep on?"

You know, because I just wasn't.

You're just not ready.

And especially if you're in high school, 16 years old, and you had a job after school, you were working at some restaurant you didn't get off till 11:00 or midnight.

I mean, so yeah, just instead of starting at 7:30, start at 8:30 or 9 and then move the dismissal time.

I get to where you don't want to have kids go to school less, just later.

>> Just later.

>> And I don't understand why it would cost so much more.

>> I know.

So, they do three laps with all the buses, three different routes every driver handles.

So, they would have to get more bus drivers involved if they shrunk that to two different routes.

So, it is a logistical complication for sure.

And it's also apparently some parents are like this affects after school stuff like what should be the most important here?

It's being able to be awake during your first class.

>> Well, and I don't particularly I mean I remember standing at the bus stop when I was a kid, you know, and it was dark for part of it, but that scares the heck out of you today in 2020.

>> We have a there we there's a school bus stop for us and the high school one does.

They are out there very early and they're out there very early and it's cold outside.

But I will say this that um getting to school and getting to school on time is something that I think just should be done.

And I don't think you have to I don't think you have to change the school start time.

And put it this way.

I know that every school district is different and you should try anything you can to drop truency in the city of St.

Louis.

I don't think starting school later is going to address that problem in the way that they think it is.

I agree with you there.

I think it has I I think the good idea part of that is is that minds will be working better.

I think you would find that roughly the same number the same kids who were late for 7:30 are going to be the ones who are late for 8:30 or 9:00 if they're being delivered.

>> And I'm assuming not just public schools.

This should be something that go in every school.

And I went to schools a lot of times where the only way you got there was carpool or somebody's parents or that.

And some people are just late.

Some people are just always late.

>> Common sense wise, I agree with you.

However, they have done studies in other districts that this does reduce like chronic absenteeism.

There are some kids that just have such a struggle to get up in the morning and then they're like, don't even go.

>> And I do understand also about catching the bus and there's bus problems and transportation problems on on top of that.

So, anything that would work I am for and I understand that the studies that was I found that story actually quite interesting because of the science of it and I I I will say this that proper rest and recuperation is a big thing in pro sports now and they study it and they do say like the guys who get and gals who get the proper rest and all that actually do perform a little better like earlier in practices.

It's not like kind of like a game day thing, but but just so there's something to it.

We'll see how it turns out.

Okay.

The Cardinals, as we know, have lost like 1.3 million over the past three years in attendance.

It was like 600,000 less last year.

They got some problems.

They have a young team maybe not going to do as well as we are used to in St.

Louis.

So, to combat this problem and get people to the ballpark, Bill, they're going to have a ticket where you can just stuff your face with as many hot dogs and Coca-Cas as you want to, I think it's $29.

And I'm not sure if that $29 is the ticket and the food, but I believe it is.

All right.

Now, is this gamesmanship or gluttony, Bill?

>> Well, it's both, but I approve of both of those things, Alvin.

And >> and the idea of I might start going to the games just to eat.

I mean, if you didn't have hot dogs, take care of it a couple of days.

I mean, I I think it makes sense.

And you know, one of the complaints that I hear the most about going to sporting events is how expensive it is if you have kids because you're already paying money for your tickets and then the if the kids want a hot dog or this or that and you say no, then you've ruined everybody's day and all of a sudden you thought, why did I even buy tickets for this?

So, if you can have some deal where for a $29 a reasonable price, everybody can eat as much as they want, I think it's a great idea.

>> Uh if if >> and better even than late school starts, >> but if we could get the hot dogs on the school buses and start late, then we've got a win-winwin.

Yeah.

The the more nitrates the better, the more sodium uh the better.

They're obviously just trying to get people to the ballpark.

I miss I get up at 6:00 in the morning and go for a run while the rest of us are sound asleep.

>> You You're I don't think you're going down there and stuffing your face with hot dogs.

>> I I do love a ballpark hot dog.

I'm serious.

Like I love hot dogs.

But here is my objection with what the Cardinals are doing.

They are limiting it to like two nosebleleed type sections, which I get.

Otherwise, everyone in St.

Louis would be buying these tickets.

I feel like this is all going to be a scam where when you get up there the concession stands are just going to have like one guy working and you'll be in line for like forever and it's like oh but you could go downstairs and get stuff.

It's like you just put them on notice.

>> Well, personally I I think what we need is a Donny Brook investigation of the 29 >> where all five go places and we'll see how it goes.

What I'm really disappointed in is this didn't happen when I was in college because I could have put a hurting on those hot dogs.

>> Before we go, I was gonna say this to my son-in-law Tyler.

We're going to try this out because I want to see how many hot dogs and bombers he can't eat because he probably could knock it out.

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