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And hey, look, you know, tariffs and times are changing in America, but the good fireworks people who sell them are kind of like having to raise prices and are having trouble getting inventory.

Ah, to me this is a good thing because fireworks are just a little bit out of control in people's neighborhoods, in people's yards.

They got housesers now.

I don't mind a little pop and crack here and there, but man, what's going on now is just out of control.

I know everybody at this table agrees with me, right?

Uh, sorry.

I know I'm going to get run out of town and especially my neighbors in South City.

Everyone hates fireworks so much because they go off for like three straight days.

They're already going off in the county.

The dogs are so upset that the kids can't sleep.

I love fireworks and I know they're dangerous and I would never ever play with a firework or allow my ch children to do so, but when they're going off, it is just the best feeling.

Fourth of July is my favorite holiday.

I am very worried that with these tariffs, my neighbors are going to get a great night's sleep and I'm going to miss my favorite holiday.

The dog Yeah.

The dogs will not need therapy for the Fourth of July holiday.

Yeah.

I It It's really hard for me to to to be very sympathetic to these these folks who, you know, this is our whole year.

This is our year and I agree with you.

Fireworks are absolutely beautiful.

They're spectacular and they make plenty of Fourth of July perfect for folks.

But we do have a as we keep saying we do have quite a few municipalities and each municipality has its own thing.

So if Ted Drews can adapt to the fact that okay in the summertime we have the concrete and then in the winter time we do the Christmas trees.

you know, you need to diversify, if you will, Mr. Fireworks guy, you know, um, and, you know, because he's like, we're gonna be destroyed.

We're gonna be ruined, you know, and I understand that's tough, and I'm I don't mean to be flippant about it, but you have to have an alternate plan.

Well, and this tariff thing, this is not just a temporary problem for Missou's fireworks industry.

The the state lawmakers have passed some big new restrictions on fireworks.

has always kind of been the capital of of crazy fireworks going off everywhere when nobody knows what they're doing.

That's over.

They the state uh legislature has finally decided that they don't want that anymore.

So, it's the end of an era.

I'm not in love with fireworks, but I I do feel for my dog Harvey because he can't stand them.

But I do feel for the business owners, though, because even if you know we can't really relate or sympathize with them, that's what a big part of their livelihood is all about.

And they've been run around with the tariffs and the shipments coming late.

Some of them are saying that it's not coming until after like July 8th for the 4th of July.

I mean, they're really losing a lot of business.

Well, maybe we'll have Labor Day fireworks.

Labor Day fireworks.

That'll become a secondary thing.

Labor Well, you know what?

When when we had the drought, um I think that was 07, a lot of municipalities couldn't do their big fireworks show.

So, we did it in downtown Kirkwood um in the like on New Year's Eve.

It was like 12° outside, but it was wonderful.

It was like beautiful.

So, we we we adapted.

Right.

You don't like to hear this, Alvin, but I think Webster Groves has the best fireworks.

Hold it.

I go to both.

I go to both and we got them beat.

That's all I'm going to say about that.

By the way, one quick story on that.

One time my wife bought some fireworks on the way to Oklahoma during the summer and uh I guess she used a card and we got on every reactionary mail list in the world and I was worried about it, you know, for years like, "Oh, what list are we on now?"

And now we're we're patriots.

We're American Heroes.

I might get to go to the White House fireworks show.

All right, speaking of fireworks, Fourth of July is right upon us.

And if you go down to see the fireworks and hang out in downtown St. Louis, you're also going to get a drone Superman ad.

Come on.

Are we commercializing the Fourth of July?

I think this is terrible.

Horrible.

St. Louis guys involved, right, Wendy?

We have um we have ads in public restrooms.

We do.

So, I I I think we we passed Tacky about 150 miles ago.

Um, I I don't know that anybody would even blink, if they'd even notice that um that there were ads for Superman at a at a fire at a Fourth of July celebration.

Everything is sponsored today and people are getting used to it.

Yeah.

And like Superman Fourth of July, like you know, it kind of has that same vibe.

But man, I mean, the fireworks downtown, that's my fireworks show.

And so the idea of like, oh, I, you know, I'm going to listen to the band.

I'm sure it's going to be great.

And then I get my 10-minute drone show that's an advertisement for Superman.

And then I get my fireworks.

I just know the result of this is my kids are going to be like, "Mom, you're going to take us to Superman, right?"

And I hate superhero movies.

So, I'm personally opposed to this advertisement.

It is.

It is an homage to James Gun, though, St. Louis native.

So, that's pretty cool.

He's a local local.

There you go.

All right.

Okay.

I just I I could do without the advertisements, you know, for Superman or anything else.

I mean, you're down there to like, you know, God bless America, right?

We could start wearing little patches on our uh clothes.

Oh, like NASCAR.

Oh, we could wear jumpsuits and everybody have like Yeah.

The Yeah.

Oh, that'd be Oh my gosh.

And by the way, Ted Drews would say Wendy, you know, hey, we have Ted, we still saw concrete in the winter.

Yes.

Those will be the letters this week, right?

Right.

Ted Drews hater up there.

Ted Drew bear.

Okay.

All right.

Meanwhile, this is another national story.

uh Donald Trump wants no negativity as far as uh in our national parks and uh I guess how did he list it or things that aren't unpatriotic.

Um, and so I guess I don't know if that, you know, you know, before the Civil War, what was going on is listed as unpatriotic.

And how do you mention what went on at Gettysburg unless you mentioned that the South was there and had to be, you know, turned back and, you know, at our own uh, old courthouse, obviously Dread Scott decision, their statue in the front, and then there's there's a statue in the back honoring the those that filed um, legal lawsuits for their freedom.

So, uh, in reading what has been said over the last, uh, few days, people are very confused about this, and I am, too.

But, you know, this is about standing up for what is right, and I just hope that enough people don't back down.

Well, we had 7,000 people take to the streets in St. Louis County.

It seems like a a good thing.

I don't know.

I mean, if you would think if the federal administration starts coming after historically accurate displays at a place like the old courthouse that that would be something that we could all agree on, like we want these to be educational and tell the the unvarnished truth about American history.

It would be devastating.

Well, I'm just thinking about on Junth here we are and outside the civil courts building there is a freedom suits memorial that pays tribute to the hundreds of slaves who fought for their freedom at the old courthouse.

Now, I know it's not on the National Mall, so maybe it's not subject to the same.

I think it is.

It's part of federal.

I mean, goodness.

I mean, that there's something that I was not taught, you know, at Leoo High School.

I mean, this is an education for the current generation and our generation.

It It's hard.

It's hard to believe that we cannot Well, well, let me stand up for the president here.

I think a parking lot at the old core, you know, we could take that courthouse down, have more parking.

Goodness.

There's no need.

Oh, don't don't before the letterw writing campaign starts, right?

Don't don't give him any ideas, right?

Right.

But I mean, seriously, how do we when it's when it's Dread Scott and when it's a historical uh you know, any kind of a location, Little Bigghorn, when it tells an accurate uh when it when it gives an accurate depiction of what happened there and you know, historically maybe we were not always respectful of this particular group of people or that particular.

How do you how do you how do you change all of history?

How do you alter that?

That's right.

That's That's right.

Yeah.

Read George Orwell, you know?

I mean, yeah.

I just can't figure out how you alter, right?

You just rewrite history.

Well, I think that one thing we are acknowledging is you can't.

And so, this is one where I mean, what are you going to do?

Are you going to close Gettsburg?

Are you going to close these places?

This is one of those, you know, this is just one of those things that it's very, very, very important to me.

By the time they hashed all this out, I think we would probably be on to the next president.

And once again, people have to stand up and they have to fight and they have to uh, you know, say what they want to do, but also go.

All right, that's the most important thing.

The 7,000 people that were out, hey, if you got a problem with it, go down to the old courthouse, visit it.

Oh, just today at the soldiers memorial, they're going to start, it's going all summer long in regard to um uh honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, which momentarily we're taken off the Department of Defense website, things like that.

Just go down and support.

Now, I'll leave you before we go.

Superman was an illegal alien.

He had no papers.

He came from another planet.

He would be chased out of the United States of America right now.

Just think about that as we prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July.

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Thanks again, Jasmine.

Thanks, guys.