Mike Elam stops by- h4

0:00What you're listening to presumably doesn't suck, so neither should your sound system. Sonos lets you listen seamlessly from room to room. Same great sound, expertly tuned, astonishingly clear. It's not magic, but it's not not magic. I don't want to be like a stray. Welcome back guys, DG has some KMOX. Happy Thursday, few minutes past 4 p.m. I am headin out of town tomorrow to go see the girl at KU and she's having a party at her house. Ooh. Here, warm it up, Chris. Here we go, brother. Now, when you say house, you mean sorority house or her house house? The classic college progression it seems to me is dorm and then sorority or frat if you

1:06go Greek. If not, most kids get really kick ass apartments. Yeah. I remember telling Nick when he had his apartment, I'm like, you're never going to live like this again until you're 45. Just know that. Some of them have some really cool places. Yeah, really. Mizzou has some great places. And then the progression is you move in with a couple of buddies into the monster's house. And that's where we're at here. So you go from the nice apartment to the, oh my god, is this house going to stand? When we drove away, Maureen was tearing up. I'm like, I know it's always tough, right? She's like, no, it's the house. I'm like, are we bad parents? She's like, well, all the other ones look like that. No, I think all young people should live in that situation just to get a taste for it. You had it too easy. You lived at mom and dad's house, typically nice. You go to college, your dorm is nice. As you mentioned, then you get into the really nice, whether it's a flat house or on campus apartment. At some point, you need to live in the real world because when you're done, you're probably

2:09living in a crappier place. This is true. When my daughter was touring campuses, we went to Truman State and I love to Truman State. Well, so Meckens like, I really like the school. I really like all this stuff and then she started looking at the housing. To your point, you start in the dorm, but at Truman, there's really not nice housing outside of the dorm. We were looking at some of the Greek houses and I'm like, is that not condemned? That flat house looks like Delta Tau Kai and should be turned down right now. I think that's going to fall in on itself. And she's like, I don't really know if I want to go to school up here. Nick was the same. Truman was great academically. Yeah. I think it's still the best value in the country. Well, they call it what the Harvard of the Midwest. Harvard Midwest. And I understand why because there is nothing to do in Kurgsville except go to school.

3:11Yeah. My buddy, Dr. Rob Hagen went there and he told Nick, he's like, it's a great school. I had a great time. Everybody said, if there's ever been a college that's like high school, like you know everyone at the college. Oh, I could see it is not a big town. Yeah. He's like, yeah, okay. I don't know if this can be heard. Did you have that college experience? No, I went to Arkansas State in Jonesboro. I started there and I joined Sigma Pi fraternity, which it was weird for us because in Jonesboro, only teaks had a house. Everybody else either had like a dorm wing that everybody lived in. Did they are? Well, we had the saying, if you can't go Greek, go teak. If you can't go teak, go home. It was just that kind of thing. But we had an alumni who built an apartment complex with a house in the middle. So when we had our meetings and parties and stuff, we had like a little what we called house. It was it was a big open space that was about four rooms with a kitchen. And that's where we did that.

4:11But we had 24 apartments and two bed, two bath apartments. And we all lived in that. And that was pretty cool. To Kevin's part, that was we were enjoying that part of apartment. And then when I left that, I moved to a monster's house with three of my buddies who were my fraternity brothers. And we had some amazing parties there. My job in college was working at KJBR. And one of the jobs that I had to do was board up in Cardinal baseball games that originated from KMOA. Pretty cool. It's funny how life is. It's really does. Everything comes back to KMOAX eventually. But I'm driving home from a West Coast game at like one o'clock in the morning. And as I drive down the street to my house, there are cars on both sides of the road. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? I had to drive through two neighbors yards to park in my yard.

5:13Seems reasonable. There were so many cars there. And I opened up the door to walk in my house and the guy's like, hey man, how you doing? Welcome. You want a beer? And I'm like, sure. Who are you? He goes, he introduced himself. I had no idea who this guy was. And I'm like, who's house is this? He goes, I don't know. It's a great party. And I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Well, two doors down was a sheriff, a deputy who lived down there. And he came by about 30 minutes after I got home and was knocking on the door and somebody opened the door and then slammed it in his face. And I'm like, oh, that's not great. So I went out and talked to him because I was like the only sober one there. And he said, tell you what, I'll give you a half hour for everybody to go home. If not, I'm calling my friends and we're going to come in and start arresting all of you. That's reasonable. I could have been worse. I appreciate the heads up, man. And we will start sending people home right now. So you were a party or in college?

6:15Uh, yes and no. So I have my party side, but I also worked a radio job while I was there. So I got my stuff done to a point. I didn't finish because I ran out of money. And that's where I joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy Corpsman and then ended up on the 32 year degree planet, Lyndon Wood. Okay. Thank God for LCIE, right? Yeah. So that got us there. How was your military service? It was only Naval Reserve. So it was, it was not exciting. But I've, I enjoyed it. What's funny is, if someone shot me right now, could you take care of me? Depending on how, I could get you to, I can keep you alive until somebody gets there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I can do IVs. I could, if you get shot, I could do a sucking chest move. That's right. Yeah, exactly. So I know how to do all that stuff. That's pretty cool. I can fix you with that. Although remind you, it's been 37 years since I did that.

7:15So I wouldn't bank on my medical training. It's been a minute, right? We'll show you me today. Yeah, not today. Maybe tomorrow, but we'll do that. It meant a lot to me though. But what's funny is, less than a year after I got my discharge papers and I left was when the Iraq war started. With the senior George Bush and started that and my field hospital unit actually went. So if I would have stayed in Arkansas, because I got the job at 971 that we were talking about with Trish a few weeks ago, if I hadn't gotten that job, I wouldn't have moved to St. Louis. I still would have been involved and I would have gone to Iraq. When did you and Morin work together? Was that hot 97? No, we worked together when she was at WIL and I was at the river. Okay. And we moved to Creef Corps. So we moved to the Palace of Umballus. Yeah. Because that's when I've still never been in there. Have you not? No. It used to be a great building. I have no idea. I've definitely not interviewed there a few times. That's good to know. Thanks.

8:16Thanks. Thanks so much. Yeah. WILs, what was your favorite place to live in college? I didn't live any place nice. Well, you were playing ball. We had regular old dorms that were basically just what do you call it, Cinder block walls that were painted. So it was nothing special. The second on campus thing was just an apartment building that was probably built in the 1940s or 50s. It's an operational now. Oh my god. Yeah. None of those things are even either tearing all of those things down and building brand new buildings and things like that. And then we lived off campus one year. So the one off campus was probably the nicest one, but it wasn't like nice. It was just okay. Baseball players had different living accommodations when we were at Arkansas state. Then the football and basketball. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we had the same apartment buildings. Like each sport was kind of our baseball build like apartment building was kind of one spot. And there were a couple other people mixed in there. And then the football buildings, they were all kind of the same then.

9:19And I got to say the baseball apartments that I lived in were that was easily the worst apartment I've ever lived in. It was awful. And Rachel lived in the Kim and Mo dorms like I did just Kim, but yeah, I went to community college and I worked throughout college. So I didn't I don't have any of these fun stories. Neither do I. Neither do I really. No, I lived at home with my mom and dad went to S.I.U. Rand Track didn't study much. And when I went to law school at Wash U, everyone was Ivy League, you know, and they all had these stories. And I said, well, it would muffie and I. And I just I felt so left out. And it was then that I said, if I have kids, one thing I'm going to insist on is that they go to college and they go away. Yeah. And yeah, accomplished, accomplished. There's value to that. There is like being on your own, even if it's just a few hours. Our oldest went to Lindemwood. He got a great scholarship and went to Lindemwood. And he lived in the dorm his first year. And then after that, he's like, yeah, I never want to do that again.

10:21I really like having my room and having my big bed and being able to come and go like. So he ended up just commuting the last three years and lived at home and like, well, you really have a college experience. Yeah. But Megan went to Central Missouri. And it was that kind of reason. Because Jennifer and I were stupid. Was that? It's stupid. Is that central most day? Yeah. Morene's niece went there and she was wearing a sweatshirt. Oh my God. She's, oh yeah, call me stupid. Call me stupid. You never heard of that before. Yeah. So my dad went to S.I.U. Carbondale. I tell you that. No. So mom and dad met at Hannibal Grange and then that was a two year school back then. And then after he graduated, he finished up his four year at S.I.U. How was dad's birthday? Had's birthday was great. It's funny. I was just telling Rachel what a difference a week can make, right? So last Saturday he turned 94. Monday had a stroke. Yesterday he's on hospice.

11:22Oh my God. So we're probably going to lose my dad in the next couple of days. I'm so sorry. Thanks. It's been a challenging week. How is he? He's not good. Like not at all. Is he out of it? Yeah, he doesn't know anybody. He doesn't know my sister. And she's there. And I was just talking to him and we were talking about the baseball playoffs and what's going on and how the Cardinals will be good in two years. So hang in there because the record for our family, and I may have told you this, 95 and 8 months is the record for Elam. And what 94, I'm like, dude, you're two years. This is legit. You could get there. And then he just had that happen and it all changed. And I put an update on Facebook and it's the picture that I took with him the day before I left when I was up there three weeks ago. And it's one of those kind of things.

12:22Andrew and I were just talking about it. He was talking about, you know, losing his mom and how quick things change like that. But I was reading all the comments and you know, you're dealing with everything and you're fine to a point. And then something just triggers and you're like, wow, I'm just a blubbering mess all the sudden. But you know, dad was a Southern Baptist minister for nearly 60 years and he touched so many people's lives over that. And I knew it. But reading the comments that people put on there, you know, he married us, he baptized me, you know, he led me to faith in Christ or he was our music minister. He sang at our wedding, he, he counseled me with this, you know, we love your dad. He was so great. I remember him when I was a kid and I mean, you just have all those things. You start seeing these memories that people have and you're like, I'm so thankful that

13:27he was my dad. That's really sweet. Yeah. So it's, it's going to be tough a week as we go forward. But you know, it's life changes, man, life changes quick. And you, you learn to appreciate what you have and how things are because you never know. But it's, I appreciate all the people who have, have gone on my Facebook page and commented about, you know, thoughts and prayers and, and I appreciate that. But the folks in, you know, Donovan and Piggit and Barryville and Heinzville and Huntsville, you know, he was a pastor at Eolia up here, you know, and, um, Elm Baptist Church in Mexico and you, you see these stories that, you know, 70 years ago and you're just like, wow,

14:28what a legacy. I know. I'm, I'm very proud of him and I'm very proud of the life that he led. Can't do much better. You know, he can. I need four years. It's like Andrew was saying, hey, you know, Southern Baptist minister, he's got some pull with the big guy. I'm like, any man, he's got chips in the bank, right? So he's, he's, he's going to be good. We love you, buddy. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. I'm going to be strong because she wants. Sometimes it feels like the news is full of things that have never happened before. And that is not exactly true. In fact, it may have happened this very week, hundreds or thousands of years ago. I'm Sally Homes, host of the podcast History This Week from the History Channel. Trade embargoes, Thomas Jefferson tried them. Rent too high. We've been arguing about that for a while. Each episode is proof. The past isn't that far away. Listen to History This Week, available now on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. How many times have I cried today?

15:32As you can see, Dave, you're going to need, uh, you're going to need an extra gummy tonight. Dude, it's been a wild show. It's like four. Yeah. Yeah, 24 days. The night is young. Three. I've had three cries and one blubbering. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the curse of being Scottish. But you know, you know, a lot of say like not being silly or anything. Every single one of those moments makes sense. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. And one of them was more of a cool, like happy. Like this is really impressive, you know, with Addy. Yeah. Yeah. If you're a crying during throwback Thursday, that would might have been a lot of weird. But I agree with you. Yeah. What was the thing you brought up during that would nobody reply to? The first thing when I was like, they made it a national park. That's it. If you'd cry to that, now we got a problem. He became a national park. Yo simmity. Sometimes you guys will at least give me like a.

16:36That was pretty bad. It's like, it's silent. I was all like, oh, I can't come up with anything. I hope somebody old does. Donald Trump called it yo simmata. He did, really? Oh. We're like reading it off the telepropter. Yes. I think it was doing that. I'm not going to. Yeah. I get that one. It was his first administration. Oh, was it? Yeah. Yo simmite. I can. I love it. I'll get him on. I'll get him on for it. I mean, it affairs a lot of people. It's a word you've heard, but maybe not seen written out when it's that. Maybe you'll get it a little bit more. He was his zone and out. He's teleprompter time. Even then, he was 78 and only like, I think you're being a little too. If you're 78 and have sound enough mind and body to be elected president, should be able to read. He should know what you're simmating is. Maybe I just have extra compassion because I've had my, I've had my, uh, your own moment. I'm not in my style. Yeah. You see, um, you know, he designed the, um, SI contract with all the SI people.

17:37Uh-huh. But underneath his signature, it says president of the United States, not united. Yeah. Like, like Johnny, like the quarterback. Pretty much. Who is writing this stuff and not dude? Like, didn't they put it through Microsoft Word? I did. I didn't use AI or maybe they did, but that's probably why it's wrong. Yeah. Missed. Missed spelled the name of the country. Sorry. Sorry. I don't want to get it wrong. Every time you guys say SI, I think of sports. I do too. That's why it's such a stupid thing. Yeah. Because sports illustrated is SI. It's like, we're going to get MLB. Yeah. We're going to call it. Majority. We're going to call it NFL. Don't put it past them. He would totally do that. Geez. Oh, good times. What you guys doing tomorrow? How's the show tomorrow? I don't know. Normal Friday. Like good stuff. Figure it out when we get here. I'm going to be hanging out. Oh, I don't think we'll break today's record though for cries.

18:38I don't think there's any. Without me here. That's like losing Reggie Jackson. Yeah. I'm the new Mr. October. What you're listening to presumably doesn't suck. So neither should your sound system. Sonos lets you listen seamlessly from room to room. Same great sound. Expertly tuned. Estonishingly clear. It's not magic. It's not not magic.