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No, this is even better.

We're poring through the last 12 months here in our Metro in quiz show style.

With us on this Yuletide romp, our Dana , 50% of Dana and parks to the six on KMBC Radio across town.

And with a much earlier wake up call is Pete Mundo, who tracks out local news weekday mornings from 6 to 10 on KCMO talk radio.

Soon to be out the door, but at least for a few days longer.

Still at the Kansas City star Dave Helling.

And also around the cozy confines of our Yuletide side table, the best dressed man in Kansas City Media from the Call newspaper, Eric Wesson is with us.

Thank you all, by the way, for joining us on our sleigh ride.

Our first stop is a multiple choice question of all the stories making news in Kansas City over this past year, which story had the greatest impact on our metro?

Now, before we answer, here are some options for you to jog your memory.

Having lived through the nagging disappointments in frustration associated with the labels, unaccredited, this moment is surreal.

We celebrate.

Now.

We roll our sleeves up and we got to get.

Back to work.

Was it the Kansas City School district that gained full accreditation after 20 years, then loses its superintendent and announces a massive school closing plan?

Was it Kansas City being picked to host the World Cup?

Kansas voters rejecting the value than both amendment or the big Kansas mystery company.

It turns out to be Panasonic and a $4 billion project to build electric vehicle batteries in Johnson County.

It was the year Missouri legalized marijuana and the year Kansas City lost its largest private employer is soon it sells to Oracle and shutters its world headquarters.

All righty.

Dave Helling, did you pick one of those stories or something completely different?

Came close neck.

Remember the category greatest impact, not just the biggest story.

That's exactly right.

I wrote down the Kansas abortion vote, but more broadly, the turning of Johnson County from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party over time, if that holds, and that's a big if.

But if it holds, Democrats having control not just of the county government, but city governments as well, will have a great impact on the metro area.

That's the most important development.

What did you put down data this.

One got in right under the wire and I mean right under the wire within the last week or so.

It shows the greatest impact certainly that this will have on everybody.

And I think nationwide is the independent schools announcing they are going to a four day week.

If you look at the news cycle on that and the ink that was spilled over that, people all over the country are watching independent.

They are the largest school districts so far to say we're cutting back to four days.

It's not about money for the teachers.

It's about time they are looking at independence as the model and other teachers and other districts are looking at independence now going, Now, wait a minute, maybe I want to go work over there.

If this is successful and independence, I will see this reverberate in 2023 across the entire country.

I think we start seeing schools that afford it.

But if.

They all go to full days, we also get to the point, well, to get a competitive advantage, they will have to go to three days.

Or two.

Okay, I'll do that at work first.

We'll see how it works.

Pete, what did you put down as the story with the greatest impact in 2022?

Well, the impact to me, it's a national story that impacts, I think, what Dave was talking about, and that is the overturning of Roe, its impact on value them both and then its impact too.

And I think the Sharice Davids race as well.

I think that that that national ruling obviously had a huge impact in everything we saw in Kansas politics over the last four or five months.

Eric.

I put the increase for Kansas City, Missouri Police Department from 20% to 25, done on a statewide ballot initiative.

So people in Joplin, people in Springfield, down in the barrio decided that we in Kansas City need to pay our police department more money.

Well, you get the next question first, Eric.

And are you going to complete the sentence for me?

The news story.

Kansas City would most like to forget in 2022 was blank.

Oh, I put on that one.

Some of the November elections, those commercials, the things that people said about each other and how grimy it seemed like it was.

As it got closer to the Election Day.

David.

Put down two things.

First, Mission Gateway Drive by that site some time and just want that story to go away.

I mean it just to wish it away if you can.

So I think that's important.

The other thing is and I want to say this carefully.

I think we spent far too much time in 2022 talking about transgender athletics.

I know for people who are involved in that directly, it's very important and I don't want to diminish that.

But for the vast majority of citizens, it's kind of a non-issue.

And yet it showed up time and again on your television screen.

This summer and fall.

And I think that that wearied a lot of people.

Dana.

The reaction to the Brittney Griner release is what I want to forget.

Since when, as Americans, do, we not celebrate the return of a kidnaped American?

That is when she is a woman, she is black and she is gay.

And what a stain and an embarrassment.

The reaction to her release has been, and not just in the United States, but I would argue globally.

Hopefully in Kansas City, too.

So it would make it a local story.

Pete, I guess my colleagues are not upset about the ad commercials that are all back then.

I don't know.

I mean, either way, I'd like to forget and I don't know how many other Kansas City in two with me value them both.

The way that went crashing down by 20 some odd points.

A lot of good folks worked hard on that.

Obviously didn't turn their away and it was a total blowout and I'd like to forget it.

Well, next up, Dana, a multiple choice question for you.

And it's our Person of the Year.

time magazine just named Ukraini Volodymyr, Zelensky, it's Person of the Year.

If I was picking Kansas City's Person of the Year, I would choose Patrick Mahomes, the city's unifier in chief and still the most popular personality in our metro or government.

Laura Kelly defying the odds to win reelection and now being heralded as a national model for how Democrats can get elected across the country.

Kris Kobach, The comeback kid who defied arguably even greater odds to become the next Kansas attorney general.

Or is it John Sherman going bold in unveiling a $2 billion stadium in downtown baseball village, or Dave Helling, who retires after more than 40 years in journalism?

All righty, Dana, you get to do the cover person.

First of all, Person of the year is always Dave Helling.

Mahomes is always the baseline person of the year.

This year it has to be John Sherman.

I've been saying on this very program, Build baby, Build how many years have I sat here and said, Build , baby, Build ?

I do think he will end up changing Kansas City's skyline for the better in the most impactful way since probably Kay Barnes.

Get that stadium downtown.

I cannot.

Wait.

I have to say, of all of the we asked our viewers this and that was the number one choice.

And we had people like John Zimmerman, thank you for writing in saying this could have a generational impact.

So that was.

But was that the old person of the year?

But it was not.

Oh, I pick Dave.

I don't people outside the studio with pitchforks so I can't do it to him.

But anyway, I'm going to go with B, I'm going to go Quinton Lucas, think about this.

All right.

He is going into 2023 with zero competition in the mayor's race.

This is a guy who promised to get murders under 100 a year.

We are heading towards a year.

That's going to be the second highest homicide rate in city history.

It doesn't really get any attention.

And he's done a good job building up a base and he's got a huge, huge fund to to run his campaign with.

And he's got no competition for mayor.

So he had a really good year from that standpoint, too.

We've had Quinton Lucas, John Sherman.

Did you pick somebody else?

Eric I picked somebody else.

I picked Calvin Wainwright and I stole the concept from Dave.

He was also Calvin Wainwright, his.

Second Calvin ran.

Why was a community activist leader in the black community.

He works with kids with basketball.

He was a mentor.

He was a positive mentor person around.

He was a minister.

His wife was a minister.

He died.

He had some health issues.

He died, but he was by far he had the largest funeral of anybody I've ever seen in Kansas City.

Let me just first say that putting my name on the same list with Patrick Mahomes is appropriate, just appropriate.

That's the best way to put it.

Actually, he said the same thing to us that he was on the same list.

As you know, I'm Dave Hollings.

Retirement is the most overreported story of all time.

I think a couple of things we always use.

I try to use this segment, Nick, to talk about people we've lost.

That includes Charlie Wheeler, the former mayor, the transitional political figure of the 1970s, really in Kansas City, although his service continued for decades after that, when Dawson, of course, the great quarterback and great broadcaster, we forget that sometimes.

But he was an amazing journalist as well as being a great football player.

And then my boss, Michael Lindenberger, who passed away unexpectedly just a couple of weeks ago, he was new to Kansas City.

He was going to make an impact and he'll be missed.

You have a very crowded Time magazine Person of the Year cover because you've got all those people to thank.

All righty.

Fill in the blanks for us.

The biggest winner in Kansas City in 2022 was blank.

The biggest winner was the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.

They got a raise.

We're virtually doing nothing different than they'd done the last six, seven, ten or 15 years.

The biggest winner I'm sorry, promo code.

Dana is the state of Kansas legalizing sports betting by far $160 million bet in the first month.

All of that's going to go to some mystery sports enhancement.

And if you look at the numbers rolling in, wow, Kansas got it done.

Missouri did not.

Kansas is the biggest winner.

Laura Kelly.

Kansas, by the way, has made $5.25 in revenue from sports gambling.

Picked that up a little bit.

The winner was obvious.

Dennis Pyle, the independent who ran for Kansas governor, may well have cost Derek Schmidt the election.

So yeah, he's a big winner.

I also put down Mike Kelly in Johnson County, the new county chair.

That's a that's an important job for a person who's an up and comer on the scene.

And then Tony Luetkemeyer, who's the guy who pushed all of this police funding on the state, he actually was able to cram down his vision of police ing on the citizens of Kansas.

Did you want to do another one?

And now that you have the chance, Pete, I'm ready to go.

The biggest winner, the biggest winner is Sharice Davids.

Look at that race.

A lot of people had it being pretty close in the third District.

She blew it up by 12 points larger than her margin two years ago.

It resulted in me having to run a naked lap around the radio station, too.

So I'm a loser.

She's a winner.

And as a Christmas gift, we're not going to replay that video for you on the show.

Dave Helling, complete this sentence.

The person who lost the most in Kansas City this year was blank.

But Missouri Eric Greitens, who ran for the Senate and even indoor and earned this quasi endorsement of Donald Trump.

And he finished well out of the money.

Let's hope Eric Greitens is gone from our political community permanently.

Dana.

It has to be the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department and the international horrifying debacle that is former detective Roger Galinsky.

They are going to have to go back and look at every single case that detective ever touched.

It's going to cost millions.

He is accused of raping poor black women, accused of paying off sex traffickers.

It is a story that needed to be in the headlines decades ago where it has the Justice Department.

Ben, I think the feds are finally here on this prop, by the way, to KC.

You are to the Kansas City Star, to the pitch.

All of that work, I do believe, led to this point and his finally his two indictments in that case.

Eric.

The Kansas City College newspaper building, we were on the list to get $600,000 from the city for the rebuild KC money that they got government money through the culvert.

We were on a list to get that and suddenly we vanished off the list, they said, because the computer went through, because they we look we moved to Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.

They said that the computer removed everything that had Kansas City on it, but it kept the Kansas City Crime Commission and it kept the Kansas City Health Department.

So as a result.

You would think you were the biggest loser.

We're getting done.

But you can get that money back when you open your new, new stand at the new airport.

Isn't that happening?

And it's going to be the Kansas City code name on it.

Yes, but that's a separate entity.

Then the building, the building's a nonprofit.

We're fixing that.

On donations from older people that are sending five, $25 and $50 checks.

And to help us fix that building.

Pete, who did you put down or which organization, even as the biggest loser in 2022?

I don't think they're an organization.

But, you know, we got back to school this year.

Finally everyone's back in the classroom.

How about the all the pedophiles, alleged pedophiles and all these classrooms in the Northwest Belt and substitute teacher Shawnee Mission North Center?

I'm glad these people all got busted.

But the idea that these folks are creeping around our classrooms in our kids is disturbing.

Dana, right.

To fill in the blank question for you.

The most over reported story in our metro this year was blank.

Man, I got to go with Taylor Swift tickets.

And who got him and who didn't.

My goodness, If you were in that line 10 hours trying to get tickets for the holidays for your family, I'm sorry for you.

The wider implication of that story is Ticketmaster is a monopoly.

It needs to be broken down.

Everyone likes to go to concerts.

Whether you love her or you hate her.

The system needs to be changed.

Get the bots out of that system.

The most overreported story.

Eric Tyreek Hill leaving the Kansas City Chiefs.

Oh my goodness, you got interview still going on.

We're 14 weeks into the season and every time you watch a Chiefs game, one of the commentators mentioned Tyree, if they had Tyreek Hill, if Tyreek Hill was here, he's still doing interviews.

It's gone.

It's water under the bridge.

Let it go.

Pete.

Anything Soccer World Cup, KC Current stadium.

Oh, let me let let me give you a numbers my numbers back it up here.

26 million Americans watch the World Cup final last weekend, right?

26 million.

The first Sunday night football game of the year.

Buccaneers, Tom Brady, Dallas Cowboys, 24 million people are not isn't a soccer in this country, as the diehard soccer fan insists it's overblown.

We're now in bed with an organization like FIFA that you can't trust and there's going to be issues there fighting corruption.

All right, Dave, So.

We should tell Pete, by the way, the teams in the World Cup were France and Argentina.

So exactly like a local game had more.

We'll talk to.

You.

At least that's what I get.

Most of the reported story is the chiefs going to Kansas.

I think that people are really focused on that.

I just don't think that's a possibility.

And by the way, sports gambling in Kansas isn't going to pay the freight.

Not even this one.

Give it up.

All righty.

Erik, complete this sentence for us.

The most underreported story of the year was blank.

Missing black women in the metropolitan area.

It got some recognition, some footage as the numbers grew, but that was way in September and October.

So black women coming up missing is probably the most underreported story.

Data by 2030, adults age 65 and older are going to outnumber children.

We keep hearing this term peak 65.

If you've not heard about it, look it up.

Peak 65 is going to hit in 2023, 2024, where more people will be turning 65 than at any other time.

We do not have long term care facilities.

We do not have enough saved.

We do not have the infrastructure for that wave that is about to hit.

One half of U.S. households are projected to be at risk for not having saved enough for retirement.

That is going to affect all of us.

It's coming, they say.

And on January 1st, a baby born on January 1st as a 50% chance of living to 100. Who's going to look after all of these folks?

So we're going to be at.

Who's who's going to pay for it.

Absolutely.

Pete, actually, piggybacking off of Dana, there are 7 million able bodied men between 25 and 54 out of the workforce.

It is a continuing problem.

It was a problem pre-COVID.

It's gotten worse.

post-COVID, you know, these are people that are not having families, not getting jobs.

And that's a societal problem that has to be addressed.

And what was your underreported story, Dave?

Well, I have several candidates, but I'm going to go with the water crisis in Kansas.

I think that there's been some great work, by the way, by public media in Kansas City and other places talking about the drought in western Kansas.

But we are not immune to a water shortage in the Kansas City region.

And we may as the climate changes, we need to do a much better job of paying attention to those challenges in water.

Well, Dave, you go first on the next question, which we're actually calling Pick a gift.

It sounds simple enough.

You are responsible for giving a gift to one metro area public figure this holiday season.

But who would receive the gift?

And when he or she hastily breaks open that wrapping paper, what would the gift be?

Okay.

First, a box of chocolates for Nick Haines, the person who gathers the feast.

He deserves the applause of the entire community.

And second, good luck charm for Stacy Graves, the new police chief in Kansas City, Missouri.

She's going to need every bit of luck so that she can get to try and get her hands around this department and its problems in the community.

She will not be helped by the Board of Police Commissioners, which is the worst organization performing an oversight function that I've seen in 45 years as a journalist.

It was an outstanding pick.

First female fire chief, first female police chief.

Bravo, Kansas City.

My gift is for every male politician from small town Kansas and Missouri all the way to Washington, D.C., I gift you a no trespassing sign.

Stay out of my uterus.

Pete.

Well, my colleagues are cheap.

I'm giving a $48,000 check to Jean Peters Baker, which covers three years of law school at, um, Casey Center or back to law school.

Learn how to prosecute criminals.

We talk about the problem in this town, and we want to blame the police department, the Board of Police Commissioners, Mayor Lucas having a soft on crime.

Prosecutor Send her back to law school.

Eric The one that I would give a gift to, it would be Patrick Mahomes.

And I would give him an offensive line so that he doesn't have to run around and the back field because his tackles are letting people get through the offensive.

That might be a more expensive gift than yours.

Peter.

Coming up next, we break out the crystal ball to get our panelists predictions on what we can expect together in this year call 2023.

But before we do, let's take a quick look back at how well our panelists did in forecasting the future last year.

We are going to pick an outsider for Kansas City police chief.

There's no question about it.

True or false, Sharice Davids loses Reelection in GOP Wave False.

So when Derek Schmidt oust Slaughter, Kelley is governor of Kansas.

I think true.

I think true.

It's a Republican year.

It's a Republican state.

True or false?

Eric Greitens is elected U.S. senator in Missouri.

Yes.

Yeah.

Don't go to sleep on Vicky Hartzler.

True or false?

KC Royals dropped plans for a downtown ballpark.

Clearly not stable.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Folks, they really want.

We move forward with East-West streetcar line.

True, true.

The Kansas City Star ceases print edition.

It becomes online only newspaper.

No true.

Faded day.

We didn't get to that downfall.

All righty.

So based on those answers, he may want to take our panelists predictions with a pinch of salt or perhaps a barrel of salt.

But here goes, Pete.

Man, don't complete the sentence.

I don't own a crystal ball, but if I did this is what I'd see happening in our metro in 2023.

Quinn Lucas has a great 2023 gets reelected.

March Madness is here, a new airport terminal.

There's going to be world Cup conversations.

Well, maybe downtown baseball.

He is going to have himself an outstanding 2023.

Dana, I don't have a crystal ball, but I do think that airport is going to open.

I think we should name it after a dead person.

My only thing in 2023, if you are going to name the airport, name it after someone who has passed, naming living buildings, after living people has not worked out well in the history of either state.

Two things Eric Schmidt swears in in the United States Senate and will take remedial high school education programs on the Constitution and the way our government works because he clearly doesn't understand that.

Now, the other thing is, I think one incumbent on the Kansas City Council will lose his or her reelection race.

Ooh, Eric.

I'm going to defer with Dana, but agree naming the airport.

But my choice would be Sly James, all other mayors, I think, except for Kay Barnes.

I have something in the city this named after them so I would say name it after Sly.

He worked hard.

What about Mayor Mark Funkhouser, International Airport?

He doesn't have anything named after him.

Those metal plates that he had removed.

When there's a hole in the street, we can name that after.

He already can't.

Bash.

Yeah.

All right.

Before we end our show, it's a fast paced, true or false round until the buzzer blows.

True or false?

In 2023, Kansas City voters approve a new downtown ballpark.

False, false.

False.

But they should.

You don't think it's going to happen?

I think there.

Will be a vote, not in 2023.

But they said they they said they could do it in.

All.

Well, of course, gargoyles don't believe in reality.

They have a lot of things They have that.

Surprise me.

All righty.

True or false?

In 2023, Kansas City begins construction on a new streetcar line to the stadiums.

False.

False.

Wow.

Okay.

You're a hard crowd.

True or false?

In 2023, Kansas lawmakers finally approved medical marijuana.

True?

You always said they were going to be the very last.

These two other states had.

Too much money in it.

And they're looking across the state line going, oh, look at that.

They'll do it already.

True.

Or false?

A stunner in the mayor's race as Quinton Lucas draws a last minute high profile challenger.

False.

Nobody is false.

Nobody knows.

It's the time.

The can still have to wait four years and it's an open seat.

People will wait for that option.

All right.

All right.

Chastain All right.

He is waiting and Chastain says he and he may have a shot at this.

True or false?

Josh Hawley says he won't run, but former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo makes it official.

He's running for president.

True, true.

And Josh Hawley will run.

He says one.

Note from one side of the Capitol to the other.

Okay.

He'll run like that, but he won't run for president.

All right.

True or false?

Jason Kander makes his return to politics as he announces he's running for governor.

And false.

False.

I think that's false as well.

You do?

Yeah.

He he obviously has a role to play and a voice in neck, but I don't think it's an elective office.

It's a difficult thing running for office.

People don't understand that.

And I just don't think that's how he can contribute or wants to contribute false.

Boswell spoke in 2023.

True or false?

Emanuel Cleaver announces he will not seek reelection to Congress.

False or.

False?

Really?

How long does he want to be there?

Long as he can be there.

And he's not Now he's going to be in the minority.

It's not as much fun.

He feels that he's making a difference.

And as someone told me and is very close to him, he wouldn't know what else to do.

Yeah, he would know something.

No.

The other thing to keep in mind about the Rev is he can use the revenue.

I mean, he, you know, it pays $175,000 a year.

It's a pretty good deal.

All righty.

And true or false, the Kansas City Star ceases its print edition and becomes a strictly online newspaper.

Keep bringing that up.

I'm just asking.

No, no, no.

I don't.

I don't.

You now free it.

Well, right.

And I think that's false.

Although my retirement it may be prompting discussions and you may not have anything on the place paint.

What did you put down?

No comment.

No comment.

False.

All righty.

We are out of time.

Thank you for being such terrific guests.

She is 50% of Dana and parks weekdays from 2 to 6 on KMBZ talk radio Dana wright and retiring star newsman Dave Helling, who we hope will continue to be an important presence on this show as he relieves himself, spares himself the everyday show of the Kansas City Star.

Thank you, Dave.

From the pages of the Kansas City call newspaper, Eric Wesson has been with us 6 to 10 weekdays at KCMO Talk Radio.

Pete Mundo thank you for being part of this show, too.

And I'm simply your host, Nick Haynes, from all of us here at Kansas City, PBS.

We wish you a festive season filled with whimsy, frivolity and merriment.

And not a lot of host will tell you that.

And of course, be well, keep calm and carry on.