If you're a KS95 Loyal Listener there will be a KS95 Loyal Listener PRE-SALE soon for the hit Broadway musical that is coming to the Twin CIties. If you're signed up as a KS95 Loyal Listener, an e-mail about the pre-sale will be arriving in your in-box soon! If you're not, click back to the main page, follow the prompts, and sign up. But that e-mail only goes out to current KS95 Loyal Listeners so hurry!

 I had the good fortune to travel to Chicago over the weekend to see "Wicked" with my wife. It's awesome and yes, it lives up to the hype. Although I don't consider myself a theatre guy, I was breathtaken on more than a few occasions, especially when "Wicked" becomes sinister! The scene with a hovering Elphaba is terrifying so you may want to keep the tiny tots home. ( I am not a parent, but I was once a kid, and if I was under 8, I'd be freaked! ) However, the story also weaves in side-splitting humor, cliff-hanging drama, sweet and tender messages of love and friendship, great use of the entire stage and fun characters. "Wicked" is the whole package, but be ready to be worn out ( in a good way ) after the performance.

We'll also have "Wicked" prize packs during the 25 Dollar Pyramid at 8:10 each morning this week and one of our 5 qualifyers this week wins a family four pack of tickets to see "Wicked"!

"Wicked" opens at The Orpheum November 5th. Look for that special KS95 Loyal Listener e-mail about the "Wicked" pre-sale soon. Sign up NOW if you're not: http://ks95.com/llc.shtml

Thanks for listening to the Greg and Melissa show weekday mornings from 5-9am on 94.5 KS95 and I'll see you on the radio!

Check this out next time you're feeling sorry for yourself.

An 8-year-old Kentucky boy can do it all-- play baseball, football, soccer. And he does it with one leg.

 Adam Bender takes his position behind the plate, resting on his right knee. When a runner rounds third looking to score, Adam jumps up and holds his ground.

 At bat, his athletic skill and balance allow him to take a full swing, and he usually makes contact. He hops to first base as quickly as he can. If he's safe, he uses crutches to run the bases. When he gets thrown out, he hops dejectedly back to the dugout.

Pretty inspirational...next time I don't feel like walking the dog or getting off the couch to do something, I'll think of Adam....and probably lay back down again! What an awesome story.

Thanks for waking up with Greg and Melissa each weekeday morning on KS95 and I'll see you on the radio!

I can't express our gratitude enough to the dozens of KS95 listeners who gave up their Saturday to come help with the Hugo storm relief. It was a fun, challenging, sobering and ultimately satisfying day of volunteering. Here's part of an e-mail I had written my mom and read this morning on our show. Below that is some video Melissa and I took while there.

We went and cleared/picked up debris from the Hugo storm damage.  It's like nothing I've seen before.  What used to be a pretty residential street is just a trash heap. I am amazed only the one child died.  If there's one thing I learned today is that you have no chance unless you're in the basement.  I think 90% of what I picked up; siding, shingles, insulation, dry(wet)wall, lumber, glass was the size of my hand or smaller.

You definitely do not want to be in your garage if it is facing the storm. Houses stood, but garages were gone if they faced the storm. A car becomes a deadly weapon. We were located where the tornado first touched down. The cars there looked as if they had been car-bombed in Baghdad; glass blown out, bent, dented enough where makes and models were unrecognizable.

You try to imagine what those few moments must have been like for that neighborhood. It's as if Godzilla walked diagonally across this community swiping his arms and kicking at things indiscriminately and disappearing. Getting down at eye level and seeing it is heartbreaking.  

Again, thanks for helping and thanks for listening to the Greg and Melissa Morning Show.

We'll see you on the radio.

 After several stories about people stealing gasoline by driving off without paying, some wondered-- Why isn't there a law to require all consumers to prepay at the pump?

 One gas station owner in Minnesota says two outside pumps are pre-pay all day long, "because they're easy access to exit the lot". But when she tried to make all her pumps prepay, it cost her business.

 She "noticed dramatically a loss in volume".

That's why many stations have hesitated going to all prepay. Even though they're losing money because of drive-offs, they worried about losing even more money if customers were inconvenienced.

 BUT-- that thinking has shifted with the rising cost of fuel.

The owner says, "You don't make money from fuel to start with, then to have a drive-off is just astronomical. It can take a whole month to recoup it".

She started an association that would like to see a law to mandate prepay. That way there's a level playing field, and no station would have an advantage.

 Some cash-paying customers don't like to go inside the store before pumping, guess how much it will cost, then pump, then return to the store to get change.

(In California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada, pre-pay is the norm. In New Jersey and Oregon, the law doesn't allow consumers to pump their own gas, so drive-offs are not a problem. In many cities, local governments are mandating pre-pay because their police departments do not want to deal with the burden of investigating drive-offs.)

The gas station owner said she doesn't see the downside to a uniform standard. She says, "Customers will see lower cost in the price of fuel if our overhead's down."

Me, I like standing outside my car at my favorite Holiday Station Store and watching the gas tank-tvs they have on 'em. Think I'll get a lawn chair and invite the wife and neighbors out to watch too and have me a hill-billy happy hour right there at the pump! The only drive-off I do is when I leave the handle still stuck in my gas tank!

Thanks for listening to us, Greg and Melissa on KS95...gotta run, I have some outdoor charity at 11:51am today but it looks like rain, so I'll be preparing for a big Friday morning show and I'll see YOU on the radio!