And now, from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's garage logic, with rookie on production, Chris Reaver's director of social media, John

Heiden the newsroom, and occasionally Kenny from the crabby coffee.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and keeper of crime sense, your mayor,

John Doors.

I'm taking the enforcement.

See if they'll let me do it.

You guys aware of a television show called Empire?

Yeah, I am not.

Yes, my wife watches it.

It is about a family and friends of a record label.

It's like a dynasty.

It's a modern day, dynasty or falcon crest.

Very successful show on Fox.

And Jesse Smollett is one of the cast members.

Yes.

What does he do?

Is he a rapper?

A performer.

And they encounter all sorts of obstacles, and there's in fighting and so forth.

And it's about the end of January.

He insisted that he was attacked in a homophobic racial assault.

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