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You'll have to excuse the bounce in my step, the joy in my voice on this Thursday, a beautiful late summer day.

As I have read and consumed more news about the Kansas City

star and its fall from the very top of media in Kansas City. And we talked about this maybe

six or eight months ago about subscription numbers and the number of people that read the Kansas

City Star as it is really shot itself in the foot.

We've known the newspaper industry was dying and changing, certainly, but surviving.

And at the same time, the star decided to go hard left in a part of the country that is not hard left,

and it's just killing them.

And the glee, you from me is, I'll give you my headline here. I've sort of changed. Okay, we're coming

up on two years of doing this podcast. We're coming up, we're nearing two years. And in the very

beginning, I thought it was very important to get on other media outlets

and promote the podcast, get on television, do things if the star would do it, get on radio, do all

these other things. Any possible way I could spread the word that we were doing the podcast, I thought

was very, very important. The point that I missed is there are no big media outlets in

Kansas City anymore. They don't exist. The sports radio stations where I used to work are,

their audiences are one seventh, what they used to be 20 years ago, one seventh. I know this because

I see the numbers. We used to have 14 shares and now

there are two shares. That's one seventh in my book. So one seventh, the audience of what sports

radio was 20 years ago. It's the same thing with the star. It's the same thing with local television

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