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From YouTube: City Spotlight November 2011
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Mayor Frank Cownie interviews JC Wilson of House of bricks (Des Moines Iowa) and Robert "Words" Taylor of Wisdom Beyond Words and Poets Unleashed about the entertainment scene in Des Moines and what they both have to offer. For the Green Segment Mayor Cownie visits with the City of Des Moines Engineering deartment abotu the installation of eco friendly windows into city buildings.
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A
Hi
I'm
Mayor
Frank
County
in
this
month,
I'm
in
the
house
of
breaks
to
talk
with
owner
and
operator
JC
Wilson,
an
author
poet
and
CEO
of
poets
unleashed
Robert
words
Taylor,
moved
to
stop
by
City
Hall
and
speak
with
mark
dingus.
With
the
city
engineering
about
the
long-awaited
City
window
replacement
project
stay
with
us.
We're
going
to
be
right
back.
A
A
A
B
Started
on
merle
hay
road
driving
by
one
day
and
noticed
it
was
the
bar
live
music
venue
was
Connie's
lounge
and
it
was
closed
and
I.
I
think
the
band
I
was
playing
in
the
flying
marsupials
had
a
future
date,
their
new
the
owners.
Well
enough
to
call
him
up
say:
what's
going
on
with
your
closed
bar,
it.
B
Two
of
us
I
had
a
drummer
in
tow
and
it
turns
out.
We
found
three
other
guys
that
needed
a
drummer
and
I.
Think
I
got
a
sympathy
vote.
They
really
wanted
a
drummer
I
think
they
took
me
because
I
was
of
him
or
something
like
that.
So
yeah
five
guys
ended
up
making
noise
for
years
and
a
lot
of
different
levels.
Yeah.
C
B
B
C
B
Maybe
that
included
moving
on,
we
were
blessed
to
have
faith,
take
care
of
us
that
way,
because
but
also
real
estate
agents.
We
we
looked
around
from
what
was
available.
We
started
to
dialogue
here
at
the
hammer,
medical
building,
he's
sixth
and
granted
east
village
and
and
again
never
looked
back
and.
A
A
B
A
Good
so
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
how
how
does
a
house
of
bricks
operate?
You
have
live
bands
in
here
you
every
night
or
you
just
do
it
a
certain
nights
of
the
week
and
I
mean
I
said
we
got
a
construction
projects
going
on
yeah
here.
Tell
us
tell
us
everything
that's
going
on
and
how
you're
dreaming
to
see
the
future
of
yes.
B
It
was
always
a
live
music
venue.
That
was
the
number
one
reason
that
to
be
a
destination.
Let's
say
the
number
one
reason
to
to
come
was
the
live
music
moving
down
to
the
east
village.
Here
six
years
ago
we
bought
a
full-blown
kitchen.
So
we
we
had
another
reason
to
show
up
the
the
food
angle
and
a
good
kickin
little
lunch
is
here
and
dabbling,
catering
and
and
the
patrons
that
might
be
watching
the
show
will
have
a
sandwich.
B
B
I'll
have
a
dialogue
with
with
anybody
at
any
anything,
any
reason
to
kind
of
come
here
too.
I
guess
what's
best,
for
our
business
is
to
have
people
coming
here.
So
if
there's
a
private
space
needed,
we
have
space
and
we
just
talked
to
them
about
the
scope
of
the
show
and
make
it
happen,
however,
needed
whether
it
whether
it
be
we've
had
people
use
this
back
room
here
for
meeting
the
ongoing
card
parties.
The
just
plain
private
parties.
B
A
To
us
a
little
bit
about
some
of
the
acts
that
you've
had
in
here,
because
I
know
that
you
often
you
do
all
ages
shows
time
to
time.
And
how
do
you
give
us
an
idea,
some
of
the
acts
that
you've
had
in
the
past
and
then
some
of
the
more
should
we
say
adult
bands
or
whatever
it
is
that
that
don't
cater
maybe
to
that
younger
crowd.
B
B
B
An
ongoing
thing,
every
other
Tuesday
first
third,
fifth
Tuesday's,
an
open
mic
comedy
night
and
but
very
well
done-
is
there's
a
strong
group
of
local
comedians.
It's
mostly
local,
but
you'll
have
some
people
driving
through
and
they
that
that
is
fun
if
you've
never
seen
it
but
I
dog,
the
all
genres
of
music.
B
You
know
where
we're
misted
I,
don't
see
a
lot
of
country
go
through
here
country,
music,
for
some
odd
reason
that
maybe
the
show
will
help
some
country,
acts
and
country
entertainment,
call
us
up
and
get
on
the
books
here,
but
it's
all
types
for
both
all
ages,
so
all
ages
is
almost
out
of
is
a
different
animal
because
of
a
they
showed
up.
I
think
those
all
ages,
kids,
the
younger
ones
below
21,
don't
quite
have
the
mortgages,
yet
don't
quite
have
that,
so
they
have
a
little
expendable
cash.
B
So
a
lot
of
people
want
to
do.
Those
shows
now
des
moines
has
an
ordinance,
whereas
we
to
be
all
ages,
we
have
to
be
finished
by
nine
so
that
shoves
the
whole
show
before
nine
guess.
What,
after
nine
now,
we
have
this
whole
place
for
another
show
that
has
to
be
21
and
up
being
after
nine?
There
is
the
reason
it's
got
it's
almost
because
of
the
ordinance
that
we
all
age
or
not.
Okay,.
B
A
B
Nice
thing
about
that,
he
is
going
to
starting
after
the
first
year
he's
going
to
make
an
all-ages
say
what
poetry
all
ages.
He
wants
to
appeal
to
that
younger
generation.
So
watch
for
that
too
that'll
be
on
the
opposite.
Thursday
third
Thursday,
we
always
just
say
what
first
Thursday
will
be.
The
grown-up.
A
A
B
C
B
A
B
A
B
A
A
D
A
A
D
Start
writing
poetry
started
probably
in
about
about
2005
is
when
I
started.
You
know,
as
a
child
I
had
some
few
struggles
with
my
mother
that
I
thought
I
was
over
and
I
thought
it
didn't
affect
me,
but
later
on
in
life
as
I'm
trying
to
date
and
women,
and
all
of
that
I
noticed
like
a
week,
I'm
missing
something
here,
so
it
started
to
come
out
then,
and
I
knew
that
you
know
that
had
an
effect
on
me.
D
A
D
Of
it
most
of
it
is
written
pre-planned
a
lot
of
times.
I
do
get
into
to
the
moment
where
I'm
really
filling
a
poem
and
I'm
really
I,
don't
want
it
to
end.
The
audience
is
reacting
the
right
way
and
they're
standing
so
I.
I
may
add
a
little
a
little
bit
and
just
add
some
things
to
it
and
just
really
speak
from
the
heart.
D
D
A
D
Do
we
we
do
speak
to
a
lot
of
a
bunch
of
young
people,
but
mostly
we
just
want
to
talk
to
people
that
that
understand
that
there's
something
else
in
them
that
they're
not
truly
exposing
it.
You
know
our
goal
is
to
perform
in
such
a
manner
that
we
inspire
someone
else
to
reach
their
dreams
to
pursue
that
passion
to
expose
their
hidden
talents.
We
want
them
to
be
heard,
be
seen
and
just
pretty
much
be
unleashed.
That's
the
that's
the
whole
theme
of
what
we
do
so
talk.
A
D
D
I
can't
remember
the
name
right
now,
but
it
was
a
detention
center
for
young
men,
all
right,
woodward
academy,
okay,
so
that's
the
name
of,
and
I
started
working
there
and
I
found
that
those
young
men
had
some
of
the
same
hurt
some
of
the
same
pain
and
they
were
going
through
some
of
the
same
things
as
being
raised
in
a
single-family
home.
So
I
started
a
program
there.
First
and
I
asked
my
boss
and
she
she
was.
She
heard
it.
D
I
did
a
proposal
for
and
she
loved
the
idea,
and
we
started
this
six-week
program
and
the
progress
that
you
sing
from
these
young
men
was
incredible,
and
so
the
boss
wanted
me
to
do
it
again
and
I
end
up
getting
a
long
term
contract
to
continue
to
do
the
workshops.
Well,
from
there
I'm
telling
my
wife,
late,
hey,
who
we're
on
to
something
I
want
I
want
to
do.
This
is
what
I
want
to
do.
This
is
this.
D
Is
my
passion
not
only
do
I
want
to
perform,
but
I
want
to
teach
other
young
people
how
to
perform
I
want
to
teach
them
how
to
get
on
this
stage
and
and
speak
with
conviction.
So
from
there
you
know
we
wrote
a
book
wisdom
beyond
words
about
my
life
and
how
it
happened,
and-
and
you
know
how
I'm
pursuing
this
dream-
and
we
started
the
organization
with
the
beyond
words.
Well,
we
contract
with
different
agencies
that
work
with
those
low-income
housing,
families
or
adults.
We've
done
some
workshops
with
mitchellville
correctional.
D
A
D
Is
it
was
something
that
that
I
had
to
constantly
think
about,
but
I'm
a
Christian
Christian
man
and
men
of
God
so
I?
Definitely
it
was
revealed
to
me
that
you
know
the
way
that
I'm
getting
to
people.
The
way
that
I'm
allowed
to
minister
to
people
is
to
my
poetry,
what
am
I
using
in
poaching
words,
so
I
identify.
You
know
what
words
it
seems
so
simple
and
many
people
when
I
first
said
it
like.
Oh,
that's
boring,
but
it
was
true.
Then
this
is
this
is
what
the
tool.
D
A
D
A
D
B
D
A
D
Can
I'm
a
facebook,
king,
alright,
so
Facebook
guru
here
so
I'm
always
on
facebook?
You
can
reach
me
on
facebook
at
words,
Taylor,
okay,
wo,
RDS
taylr.
You
can
also
reach
me
on
my
website,
which
is
wisdom
beyond
words.
Org
I'm,
going
to
poets,
unleash
dot,
org
website
and
you'll,
see
that
it's
like
a
mini.
You
24
poets,
to
come
in
post,
poems
blogs
things
like
that.
So
you'll
see
my
my
account
up.
There.
D
A
A
C
The
big
points
were
energy
efficiency
as
well,
given
the
oil
bargle
back
in
the
early
1970s,
and
so
some
of
that
technology
that
was
incorporated
in
those
windows
at
this
time
was
the
state-of-the-art
at
the
at
the
end
of
the
70s,
but
again
had
just
lost
its
useful
life
in
terms
of
its
durability
and
such
so
in
2009,
we
had
an
opportunity
to
tap
into
some
of
the
stimulus
dollars
from
Washington
and
through
a
match.
Those.
C
A
A
C
A
Now
it
I
remember
the
original
frames
on
the
the
aluminum's
that
were
in
there
before,
and
it
always
seemed
like
there
was
a
in
terms
of
keeping
out
the
cold.
The
frame
itself
would
be
his
cold
that
seemed
like
in
the
winter
on
the
inside,
almost
as
it
was
on
the
outside,
and
there
was
a
like
a
transfer
of
that
coldness
right
straight
through
the
frame
of
the
window
itself.
C
C
It
also
will
conduct
heat
as
well
during
the
summertime,
although
it's
not
as
noticeable
cold
obvious
is
because
we
have
a
greater
temperature,
extreme
utopia
inside
and
outside
temperature,
to
minimize
that
we
looked
at
what
the
industry
calls
a
thermally,
broken
frame,
and
let
me
just
tip
this
up,
which
is
basically
composed
of
two
pieces
of
extruded
aluminum,
with
a
thermal
break
that
separates
the
two.
So
in
this
type
of
construction,
aluminum
on
the
outside
does
not
actually
touch
lumen
on
the
inside
okay.
A
C
What
we're
looking
at
is
a
plastic
composite
material
that
has
thermal
expansion,
characteristics
similar
to
the
aluminum.
So
as
the
aluminum
moves,
this
moves
with
it
in
first
generation,
thermally,
broken
frames
a
lot
of
times.
The
plastic
didn't
move
as
freely
as
the
aluminum,
so
sometimes
you
had
failure
or
breakage
of
the
frame,
but
we're
into
like
third-generation
composite
materials.
For
that
area.
That
you
see
is
black
here
in
this
frame
and
because
of
that
thermal
characteristics
of
the
frame
are
greatly
improved
over
what
was
original
that
we're
replacing
how.
A
B
C
A
C
C
As
I'd
mentioned,
the
fact
that
the
glass
is
more
transparent
from
the
historic
perspective,
historic
folks,
like
that
from
an
energy
perspective,
it
helps
us
on
our
lighting
costs
and
we
anticipate
being
able
to
deal
amp
a
number
of
light
fixtures
within
city
hall.
Given
the
bump
that
we
get
from
the
natural
light
coming
in
okay,.
C
A
C
A
A
A
year
one
when
it
is
a
good
temperature
outside
that
they
feel
they'd
like
to
have
that
same
temperature
inside
plus
the
fresh
air.
So
thank
you
for
giving
us
sort
of
an
update
on.
What's
going
on
to
all
of
our
listeners,
we're
going
to
keep
showing
you
some
of
the
ideas
we've
shown.
Libraries
we've
shown
City
Hall
we're
trying
to
lead
by
example
and
give
you
opportunities
to
actually
come
down.