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**Marv: Welcome**
Welcome to The Marv In The Morning Podcast. Now, here’s Marv. We welcome you to another episode of The Marv In The Morning Podcast on The Fort Lost In The Woods Podcast Group, brought to you by St. Robert Auto Supply, Sieger Toyota, The Pulaski County Health Center, STR Glass of St. Robert, The VFW Post 3168 in Lakeway, TK’s Pizza, Bale’s Construction, The Bank of Crocker, Paul’s Furniture, and Shelter Insurance Agent Dave Hallett of Richland. Well, here we are.
At the end of the second month of 2026 and I know what you’re all saying. Where did the two months go? Well, I don’t know about you, but February is the shortest month of the year and yes, it went by quickly. January, at least for me was a long month with some extremely cold weather for a bit, coupled with a blast of snowfall that gave us 6 to 12 inches and below zero temps this part of the country has not seen in a long time.
This week started below normal, but has improved since and soon the landscape will be turning that lovely spring color, green. It may take a little time, but getting there could be nice.
We’re going to try something a little different on the podcast this week. I do have a guest, but instead of talking about one or two specific subjects, it’s going to be a potpourri of things as we are joined again by Steve Law, one of my colleagues at the radio station for several years. Steve, a retired army vet and radio personality is still at the station, but does not have an air show because the music is being pumped in, because it’s cheaper on the station to use a music service, than it is to have live and local air personalities.
It’s not working as well as the corporation who got rid of the local talent at all the stations they owned in Missouri, including KFBD and KOZQ and KJL. Hoped it would. But apparently, they were struggling and had to find a way to cut costs before they sold the stations. While at the station, I wanted to do a two-person show with back and forth banter, while sticking in some music for filler.
We don’t have the music on the podcast because I’m too poor to pay royalty rights to artists who make millions. What we do have, some info, thanks to the current administration in Washington, some opinions, some humor, and hopefully, we can make this interesting and entertaining. And if it goes well, we may do it again down the road and maybe with some other radio personalities because I do know a few.
Steve Law and yours truly, we’re coming up next.
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**Interview**
Marv: We are joined on the podcast today, another returning guest, Steve Law, a colleague of mine as I mentioned earlier, at the radio station for several years. One thing I always wanted to do through the and I had a chance to do this early on in my career and that’s do a show with two jocks.
Steve: Oh, boy.
Marv: Just sitting there, you know, shooting the breeze and talking about things that pop up in the news and stuff like that. We had um, my old boss Clay Hallett, who’s Dave’s dad, and his mom, ran the radio station. Now if it were up to his mom, we’d have been country all day long.
Steve: I like that.
Marv: Yeah, Millie was, still is, a big country fan. Clay liked to roll the dice a little bit. He did a few different things and we did a show. We were country during the day, and then uh, about I think 5:00, 6:00 in the evening, we turned it into uh, Sounds of the 80s. And Mike Stewart and myself uh, did an evening show and we played basically songs that were pop songs, rock songs of the 80s and um, had a good time doing it. We were, matter of fact, on the air uh, the day John Lennon was killed. And so we heard about that in the morning and then by the uh, evening time, we had built up a show because we spent all afternoon uh, putting it all together. Uh, and that was good, but I really wanted to get to um, do a show with two of us and Warren, Uncle Warren, would sit in the back in the news and he would throw comments in once in a while. My wife when she did listen to the show, she always said, she goes, you need to get Uncle Warren on there more often and you two banter back and forth. But, you know, radio station we can’t you can’t do that. You can’t afford two jocks and taking up too much time. We talked about that prior uh, to the interview. I always wanted to do a show with you.
Steve: Wow.
Marv: Because
Steve: I’m I’m flattered.
Marv: Well, I like your personality and you’re um, you’re you know a lot. You know, besides the fact that you’re an army vet, um, you were also in the music business, in the radio business, uh, prior to that. So, that’s what we’re going to kind of do today, just talk a little bit about stuff that’s popped up. And I want to the things, you’re from Minnesota.
Steve: I am from Minnesota.
Marv: A Minnesotan and you’re the closest thing to a Canadian that uh, I’ve I’ve met. I do know a guy who lives up in Canada, but he’s from uh, Pulaski County. Um, Minnesota of course has been in the news.
Steve: That has.
Marv: Uh, with uh, ice agents. Yeah. Uh, pretty much going in and taking over and what what’s your take on this on your, your state.
Steve: It’s unfortunate. The whole thing’s unfortunate. The whole thing is unfortunate. It’s it’s just a situation that escalated in may in ways that and and and honestly, you know, I have I I guess I have opinions on it, but I I feel terrible about the situation we’re in in the world right now because right now, we have negative things and then negative comments on the negative things and then negative comments on the negative comments and the negative and the negative and the negative and the negative. And I’m I’m I’m 60 years old and I’m sick of negative. I am. I I think what’s happening, what happened in Minnesota was unfortunate. And what happened in Minnesota could have been held or taken care of and handled much differently. And I know that there are people in the world that just crave attention and crave power and crave um, I don’t know, crave a a a platform to whatever they believe. And I have my beliefs. You have your beliefs. We all have our beliefs. If your belief is different than somebody else’s, I get it, but the negativity upon the negativity, upon the negativity. I’m just I’m so sick of it, Marv. And and and I just don’t like to do do it. And I don’t like to hear it and I don’t like to see it. So, I guess in my response is is it everything that happened is very unfortunate. And and and it should have been handled differently. And I guess that’s that’s all I really want to say about it.
Marv: Yeah, I don’t know what I don’t know what your politics are, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat. I’m one I’m one Yeah, I’m the same way. I’m a swing voter. Best person for the job.
Steve: Thank you.
Marv: And um, the last two times Trump has ran. Uh, he ran against Hillary Clinton and I voted for Trump because I didn’t think that Hillary Clinton needed to be president at the time. And then he ran against Kamala Harris and I liked Kamala Harris, but she just didn’t show me I she really didn’t have the chance to show what she could do as president because she was second in command behind Biden. And you never heard her talk about a whole lot of things. And so, you know, I went I went the other way, but again, a being a swing voter, you want to be you want to vote for the person who is going to help yourself and your community.
Steve: Yes.
Marv: And I have voted Republican for several years now because the Republicans are for defense.
Steve: Yeah.
Marv: And where do we live? We live in a military community.
Steve: Yes.
Marv: And when the defense budget goes up, things prosper in your community. And that’s one of the reasons I’ve continued to vote, um, Republican over the course of the last several years. There was times that I have voted Democrat on the other side.
Steve: True. Yes.
Marv: Uh, but um, as far as this community, you want your community to prosper. And with the Republicans, like I said, they’re all for uh, defense. So, you know, that’s one of the reasons I voted the way I did.
Steve: Well, political parties, it it like everything else in the world, when they’re first when when things are first organized in their purest form, they’re usually organized for the best intentions possible. And then through the years and through generations, they warp into different situations. And I don’t I don’t belong to a political party. I don’t believe uh, I I believe the majority of America really is more centric than they are left and right. The problem is is that the people in the center don’t care to expound as much as the people on the left and the right. So, you hear more from the outsides than you hear from the middle. And to me it’s it it just feels like in their purest form, the two the two major parties that we have right now in their purest form when they first started were for the right intentions. But through the years with corporations getting involved and different situations happening, I believe they’ve warped into situations where we may need to reform them and start with different political parties or something. But then again, you do that and they start on their pure form and they’re fine and then they get warped again. So, political parties are political parties. People are going to be what they want to be. I am who I am. I believe in what I believe. Um, as far as the uh, as far as, you know, the the the the guy who’s president right now, he was, you know, he defeated Kamala Harris. I believe this is okay. I’m going to throw my opinion out here for once and and and and I may get you know, berated for it, but the day that Uncle Joe Biden was sworn into presidency. If the Democratic party was had the foresight, what they should have done was they should have said, all right Joe, you’re in charge and we want you to be in charge and we want you to run again. But we know that you’re getting older. And so we’re not going to, you know, the the in the background, the DNC could have said, let’s let’s get a backup contingency plan in case four years from now Joe shows that he doesn’t want to run or maybe doesn’t have the capabilities to run. So that if something happens, we have a backup plan. I’ve said this to many people at the beginning of the political thing back in 2023, 2024. I said, I hope the Democrats have a backup plan in case Joe is incompetent. And sure enough, come June, July of 2024, Joe decided, you know, I just I can’t do it. Well, then they had to scramble. And I’m not saying that Kamala Harris wouldn’t have been a good choice, but if they would have given her plenty of time beforehand to say, hey, just in case Uncle Joe can’t make it, let’s get you in here or, hey, let’s get, you know, somebody else in here as a backup plan, not saying we’re going to kick you out, Joe, but just in case. They would have had a better chance, I think. Now, I can’t say that because hindsight is 2080, obviously, and we don’t know, but that’s just my beliefs. So, there you finally got an opinion out of me, Marv, and it’s a political opinion, which I don’t like to give.
Marv: Okay. Well, I’m sorry that I had to drag that out of you.
Steve: No, no, no. I’m I’m fine with that. I’m fine with that.
Marv: You know, I heard you say one time, um, over the course of um, say the last 15, 20 years, has your life changed because of the President of the United States, be he Democrat or Republican?
Steve: No. No, I mean, I I guess when I was in the military, uh, having a Republican president always meant I got a bigger raise, but other than that, it was there was nothing really. I’ve the decisions that they make are the decisions that they make. You know, they have they have their position in their in their life. Um, I have I fortunately, I know there are some people that have been affected by decisions that that that the president makes and that the Congress makes and that but fortunate for me, I’ve been very fortunate that in my lifetime, really, the things that they have done haven’t personally affected me and I’m not saying that because I’m privileged or because of anything like that. I just know that I live my life the best way that I can and live it so that it’s not affected by what’s happening. Now, I know there are people that get seriously affected by decisions that are made and I empathize with them and I reach out to them and I want to help them and I try to make sure that I make the best decisions for voting so that they don’t get in those positions. But in my personal lifetime, you know, when somebody decides that they want to change the name of a building because they have an ego. That doesn’t affect me, negatively, positively, in any way, shape or form.
Marv: Earlier this year, actually late last year, uh, we had one of those situations where um, some of our friends, colleagues, workers in this community uh, were affected by the government shutdown.
Steve: Yes.
Marv: You know, um, and I don’t know what it did uh, to to your finances.
Steve: Nothing.
Marv: Yeah, it did nothing uh, to mine either. But uh, some of our friends were certainly affected by it and now we’re continuing to get this. They got a partial government shutdown again. So,
Steve: I had a good friend that was that worked at the fort during that that 40 45 day shutdown and it’s it’s in my opinion, it doesn’t need to happen if you look forward and if you try not to be against each other and try to be for each other because when you’re voted in, you’re supposed to be for the people, not just the certain people. And you have to work together and I know there are people that have been in Congress for years and years and years and they’re steadfast in their ways and they have maybe somebody influencing them monetarily to do certain things. But that’s not working for the people. That’s working for some some of the people. And that’s that’s sad.
Marv: Yes, it is. Have you watched any of the Olympics?
Steve: I did. I did. I watched a little bit of it. I’m I’m it’s it it was tough. I’ve had a lot of things going on with uh, you know, announcing for the SNT basketball games and different things. And it’s it’s been um, it’s been a busy week been a busy winter, but I I watched a couple of the things. I watched uh the for the the Bobsled and a couple of couple of hockey games and stuff like that. I love that the hockey team won. Um, to me, it was great that they finally won for the first time since 1980. It’s a little bit of a bittersweet because they’re playing with professional players now instead of the amateurs, so it was a little bit more of a, you know, boost for morale in 1980 when the amateurs beat the Russians and the Finland and the Finlanders and stuff like that. But yeah, it was fun. Did you watch them?
Marv: Yeah, well what pissed me off, I don’t get US. I don’t get USA TV, okay? Because where where I live and I’m not putting a bird bath on my house.
Steve: Oh, yeah.
Marv: You don’t get USA TV? So what do you get? Iranian TV?
Steve: Oh yeah.
Marv: There you go. I do get NBC. Uh, but I couldn’t watch the women beat the Canadians. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I got to see the men.
Steve: The men.
Marv: Play.
Steve: That was a heck of a game.
Marv: It was a great game.
Steve: That was a heck of a game.
Marv: And I you know, the Canadians just outplayed the USA. But it was the goalie.
Steve: He was tough.
Marv: Connor Hellebuyck.
Steve: He was tough.
Marv: Yeah, he was outstanding and the USA came away with the gold medal and it’s probably good because I think if the Canadians would have won, Trump would have jacked the tariff on him, more than they are already, but at least the USA came away with the gold, so we didn’t we didn’t hear anything from our president about that. What one one thing I want to talk about also, uh, have you seen Nancy Guthrie. Of course, Savannah Guthrie’s mother. Um, this has been all over the tube. And well and I have no problem with it being all over the tube.
Steve: Oh yeah. That’s tough. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Marv: Uh, but how many other people are abducted that you hear nothing about? But because she was a celebrity and on the Today Show. You know, and I have, like I said, I really have no problem with that. I just I just wish the best for the Guthrie family.
Steve: Oh yeah.
Marv: I do too. And and it’s sad that that that these things happen in this world and that there are people in this world that do these kind of things and whether it’s a celebrity’s mother or an unknown person’s mother or whatever, it’s just wrong and it’s sad that there are people that decide that they want to do things like this. I’ve said this a million times. I’ve never ever understood how somebody can look at somebody else and say, by the way, I don’t like you, so I don’t want you to live anymore. How do you get to that point? And I know that there’s lots of mental situation. You know, there’s there’s mental diseases out there and I oh my gosh, I I empathize and I feel terrible for people with mental diseases, but I just in my own personal life, I’ve never looked at somebody and said, I don’t want you to live anymore. How do you do that? I don’t I don’t get it.
Marv: Yeah, and you were in the military and sometimes in self-defense is a different situation. Yes. But, you just, you know, someone has an opinion that you disagree with or somebody looks at you the wrong way and you decide that you’re going to alter their life permanently because of that. That’s it’s it’s silly. It’s this is the negative upon negative that we’ve got in this world right now. And I I just wish we had positives coming out somewhere, somehow. And maybe maybe we can, you know, it it has to start at a grassroots level. If you’re more positive about situations and if you see negative situations and you disagree with them, you can do that, but you don’t have to add negativism to that negativism. Add some type of positivism to it. Some somehow, some way, change, affect change in a positive way.
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**Interview**
Marv: Back with Steve Law, colleague of mine at the uh, radio station. Again, we’re doing something a little bit different here on the uh, podcast today. Normally I get a guest on the other side of the uh, microphone here and we talk about one or two specific subjects that they’re, you know, involved in. But with you, we’re going to just just kind of shoot the breeze. Would you like a headset? Um, I know you’re probably.
Steve: No. I’m okay right now. I use yes, usually the headsets are fine, but we’re halfway through already and you already screwed me up by not having it. I’m just kidding.
Marv: Um, you were in radio for a while before and even in your military career on and off. What are some of the most embarrassing things that’s happened to you in radio? I can.
Steve: Yes.
Marv: Well, you think about that. I can share the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me in um, radio and that was uh, getting arrested on the air. Um, back and I can’t remember what year it was. They had a big drug bust that uh, came through St. Robert where they had a couple of narcs from uh, Fort Wood, uh, that came in some of the bars and some of the establishments here in town and we’re buying weed and stuff like that. And um, there was a bag of pot in a friend’s jacket in my car.
Steve: Oops.
Marv: And we were going to go, we were going to use it on a float trip. You know, that’s what it was for because we were going on a float trip that weekend.
Steve: And you were going to float.
Marv: Yeah, we were float. Um, anyway, he had it in his uh, jacket and he sold it to this narc. He said, go out in the car and get it. Well, they got my license plate number and that’s how I went down.
Steve: Oh, so you were actually on the air when they came in?
Marv: On the air and they walked in at 8:00 o’clock, right after the birthdays. They walked in and um, said, come on, you’re coming with me.
Steve: Okay.
Marv: Yeah, that was uh, and then thank God for my boss Millie. She kept me. She did not have to do that. She could have she could have canned me. But once I explained it to her, you know, anyway.
Steve: Yeah.
Marv: That’s funny.
Steve: That’s funny.
Marv: Long No, it’s not. Long story long story short. I got a misdemeanor out of it and a slap on the wrist and stuff like that. But that was very embarrassing. Another one, you know, we do the uh, school lunches.
Steve: Oh, yeah.
Marv: Oh, yes. You know, uh, one day I and I didn’t proof it and that’s one thing. Uh, anyway, we’re doing one of the lunches and I said in today at and I I don’t know what school it was. But I said they’re having ham quickies and by the time I got done with the vegetables, I kept looking at that quickly. I said, oh my gosh. This is on the air. I said, I feel like such an idiot at this point in time. Um, those are ham queshes, not quickies. You know, yeah, my face is red. Clay our our news director at the time. She looked at me and she start laughing. She goes, your face is kind of red. And I said, you don’t believe how embarrassed I am right about now.
Steve: Oh, they’re queshes.
Marv: Because.
Steve: But you know, you’re human. Congratulations.
Marv: Yeah. That’s one of the things. I am human. How about you?
Steve: I do remember the one of the first times I was on the air here. I was doing the the the community calendar and they had the uh, the the farmer’s market down in Rubidoux Park and I said farmer’s market blah, blah, blah, blah down in Rubidoux Park blah, blah, blah, blah, because you look at the French pronunciation of it and it’s Rubidoux Park and and and Mike comes in and goes, it’s Rubidoux. And I just laughed and said, yeah, okay. Yeah. He goes, no, no, no. It’s Rubidoux. I said, what? He goes, yeah, that’s how they say it here. I’m like, okay. So, I guess yeah, so that was I don’t think that I have had very many embarrassing things. Um, I’ve just made mistakes on time. It like that saying Rubidoux instead of Rubidoux. But in all honesty, I’ve never been arrested. Sorry. Um,
Marv: That’s good.
Steve: We did a and in the in the in the mid-90s between my work at a country station and a pop station. I worked at a little um, talk radio station called WMFG in Hibbing. And I had a uh, a partner Nancy Paling. We did a um, a radio auction on on and we used we just had fun with it. We had so much fun with it. We uh, we would do things just we tried to make each other laugh. And and one of the things we always had was a um, coupons for food or beverage. And I always I would always just say it real fast because that’s how I talked, you know, for food or whatever, blah, blah, blah. And we got off the air one time and she goes, you know, she goes, when you say that, it sounds on the air like you’re saying Hooter beverage. And I said, oh, really? She goes, yeah. I said, so okay. So, I just chucked that away and you know, we’re doing something and then one day we were just doing our thing and I was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, for for Hooter beverage, blah, blah, blah. And I just said it that way perfect and she couldn’t she couldn’t finish the show. She was laughing so hard, so that’s one of the things I had fun with, but it didn’t wasn’t really embarrassing, so.
Marv: Oh, okay. Well, I’m sorry. I’m not an embarrassing guy.
Steve: Well, I don’t I have no shame.
Marv: I have had I’ve had more than my fair share over the course of the years.
Steve: But it’s been fun to do different styles. And like you, you’ve worked at the you worked at the same place for years, but you had different genres of music and it’s fun to adjust your style for the different genres of music. You know, when you’re when I was working at the country station, it was high energy and stuff like that and then I worked, you know, doing that talk radio was a little bit different and then working at the pop station, you had to be a little more jumpy and weird and stuff. And, you know, and then to get into the older stuff and doing the news, you have to have a more serious tone and you can’t, you know, so it’s it’s kind of fun to um, adjust your style for different styles.
Marv: Yeah, we had that when uh, KJL took us over. Um, you know, we were uh, basically uh, country music. Yeah. And I was a top 40 country jock and I talked, you know, and like you said, you pick up the tempo and um, the athletic not athletic director, but the program director uh, for KJL, um, came in and he said, I want you to slow your approach down because we’re going to um, the adult contemporary. You know, and I want you to just know sports. You can get pumped up with sports all you want. He goes, but when you get to this adult contemporary, we need to slow you down a little bit and smooth things out a little bit more. That was the hardest thing for me to to try to do. But luckily, I was able to uh, pull it off. I guess I was. I don’t know.
Steve: Okay. Yeah.
Marv: It reminds me of the on WKRB when Johnny Fever did the morning show and he was all hyped up and pumped up. He he quit like in the first season and then came back and they didn’t have his time slot, so he had to do the midnights. So he turned his he changed his name from Dr. Johnny Fever to heavy early and he had to learn how to just talk real slow. This is heavy early and then it was like, you know.
Marv: Did you watch a lot of WKRB?
Steve: Oh, I religiously it’s it’s the reason I’m in radio.
Marv: Yeah, same Oh, really? Oh yeah, same here. The uh, turkey drop. I don’t know if I ever told you this.
Steve: Oh, yeah.
Marv: The turkey drop was a real story.
Steve: Really?
Marv: It happened out of Bloomington, Illinois. Okay. And I found this out when I was doing basketball games. Buffalo, Missouri had a radio station at the school. Yeah. And they had a disc jockey as a former disc jockey as their teacher. And I called down there and talked to him about getting a place to call the Waynesville Tiger, Buffalo basketball game. And he told me he was from uh, Illinois and he’d been in radio before and that was the same time that uh, WKRB came on with the turkey dropping. He goes, let me tell you, that’s a true story.
Steve: Yeah.
Marv: I said, what? And he told me about this and um, it happened up in uh, Bloomington. They tied and I think it was $50 bills to these turkeys. Wow. And they dropped them over the top floor of this department store who was putting all this on. Yeah. And when you found the $50 bill, you could keep them. Sure. Well, they dropped these turkeys and on the top floor of this department store were all their furs. Okay. These turkeys went right through the roof. Oh, no. Destroyed. I don’t know how many millions of dollars worth of these furs. They had turkey guts all over them. Uh, I I asked him. I said, did they ever find the $50 bills? He goes, they couldn’t find the turkeys.
Steve: I was going to say.
Marv: You know, but when he told me that, I just started laughing. And my boss, Clay, at the time he just he hated that show. Really? Oh, yeah. He was so real. Because it was so real. Exactly. Yeah. He could just could see his jocks doing some of the stuff that they pulled off on WKRB. Oh, it’s absolutely true. They they they they they said that the the the ratings weren’t very good at the beginning. And so they kind of moved it and they put it on hiatus. And then other the local radio stations started calling the network saying, we need that show back on the air because that’s giving us popularity. So they brought it back up and and yeah, they said it everything was so true to form. And of course the the besides the turkey drop, the most the most important episode they did was after the Who concert, when those uh, when the the Who played in Cincinnati and uh, they opened they had open seating and people pushed through the door and 11 people were crushed to death running to the stage and stuff. They did an episode off of that. And you know, it was more serious a very serious one about, you know, concert seating, open seating and all that. And it was so powerful. The network was afraid to put it on, but uh, what the the the creator Hugh Wilson did is he sent a copy of it to the Cincinnati City Council to watch it before they decided. And Cincinnati City Council said, this is perfect. This is this this is such a beautiful tribute to these people and to what happened. And so they put it out on the air and a few months later the law was changed to ban open air open seating in Cincinnati. So, that was pretty poignant that they could do something like that, you know.
Marv: Yeah, it’s a shame that show went off the air and it’s a shame we’re out of time. Yeah. Unfortunately, we are. Sorry. That’s all right. Steve, thanks so much for joining us.
Steve: I had fun.
Marv: Yeah, me too. And I hope everybody out there. We tried to do this again if uh, we get some if we get some good ratings. We’ll try to do it again.
Steve: Let let next time must talk about different flavors of vinegar or something silly.
Marv: Okay.
Steve: Oh, I’m just kidding.
Marv: That’ll work. Steve again, thanks a lot. We’ll be right back, folks.
Did you get us switched over to Shelter Insurance? Actually, I found a deal online. You did. Does your deal come with award-winning customer service? Oh, I’m not sure. Does the deal include a local agent? Doesn’t actually say. Can we create a customized plan that fits our needs? Let’s just call the local shelter agent. For insurance that fits just right, find a shelter agent near you. Or a free insurance review for auto, home, life, farm or business insurance. See me, Dave Hallett, your Shelter Insurance Agent in Richland.
113 years and still going strong. That’s The Bank of Crocker, who opened their doors in 1911 when Crocker was a small railroad town. And while they’re still a small town, banking services from The Bank of Crocker are as modern as any financial institutions in the big cities. Android and Apple Mobile Banking apps let you do your banking from anywhere around the globe. And at bankofcrocker.com, online banking is just a click away. They’ve also added branches in Waynesville, St. Robert and Richland through the years. It’s a world apart from what it was back in 1911, but the personal hometown banking service has not changed. The Bank of Crocker. Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender.
**Sports**
Marv: Time for some sports as usual on the podcast. This week, the District basketball tournaments are crowning their champs and winners move on to the sectional and quarterfinal rounds. We recorded this podcast earlier this week, so we don’t know who is moving on as of yet. Richland and Lakeway are two Frisco League towns hosting District tournaments, and three Frisco League teams have number one seeds. Both the Dixon Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs drew top seeds in their tournaments. The Bulldogs play at Lakeway, the Lady Bulldogs at Steelville. Crocker’s Lady Lions have the top seed at the Class 2 District 9 Tournament at Richland. The Frisco Leaguers were scattered out from Wabelo to St. Elizabeth, Steelville, and a couple in Texas County, along with the two Frisco League sites. Waynesville will be in Republic for the girls and just west of St. Louis at Marquette for the boys. Their districts are coming up next week.
It was nice hearing John Rooney and Ricky Horton, the voices of the St. Louis Cardinals back on the air last weekend calling the spring training games for the Redbirds. That continued this week, and this weekend, weather permitting, they’ll return and just listening to spring baseball is good for the psyche because that means spring, no matter what the weather, is getting closer. NASCAR had a repeat winner in the second race of the season and for the second straight week, Tyler Reddick’s number 45 crossed the finish line and got the checkered flag at Atlanta last Sunday. Reddick also won the Daytona 500 the previous week, giving team owner, NBA basketball legend Michael Jordan, his second victory in as many weeks. Kind of reminds me of when he was playing. Jordan didn’t lose too many.
**Outro**
Marv: We’re back with a wrap after this.
In these days of texting and emails, words, phrases and names are shortened to letters. It doesn’t change anything, it just makes things easier. That’s the case of STR Glass, a St. Robert establishment since the 60s. Still the same great service when it comes to auto glass, windows, shower doors and anything to do with glass. And when it comes to fixing chips in your windshield to prevent cracking, there’s none better. They’re still in the same location on VFW Memorial Drive and still have the same phone number, 336-4122. They’ve just shortened their name from St. Robert Glass to STR Glass, but will never shorten their services to you, the customer.
As women, we are often the caregivers to others, but tend to neglect care for ourselves. Mark this year, your year for good health with the Show Me Healthy Women program at the Pulaski County Health Center in Waynesville. If you are between the ages of 21 and 64 years old, have no insurance with a fixed household income, you can qualify. There’s no time like the present to take care of you. For more information or to make an appointment, call 573-774-3820 or stop by the Pulaski County Health Center at 104 Ashley May Lane in Waynesville.
Are you tired of all the games that other furniture stores play? At Paul’s Furniture, we’ve got the biggest name brands at the guaranteed lowest prices. You come in, you’re going to see that price on it. The next time you come in, it’s going to be the exact same price because we always have the best deals, the best prices, and the biggest name brands with free delivery. We’re going to do whatever it takes to earn your business at Paul’s Furniture. That’s what’s made us the number one furniture store in Pulaski and Phelps County for the last 30 years. If you’re tired of the games that others play, come see us at Paul’s Furniture.
Thanks to my producer Tracy for putting this together. Thanks to you, my podcast faithful, and for those just coming aboard. And thanks to my sponsors, St. Robert Auto Supply, Sieger Toyota, The Pulaski County Health Center, STR Glass of St. Robert, VFW Post 3168 of Lakeway, TK’s Pizza, Bales Construction, The Bank of Crocker, Paul’s Furniture and Shelter Insurance Agent Dave Hallett of Richland. Again, thanks to all. Join me next week for another episode of The Marv In The Morning Podcast, when we hope to get an update on all things coming from the county’s health department and a look at what Pulaski County can look forward to. Until then, be safe as we head toward March and the start of spring. Later.