Community Connection - April 24 2026 -Tina Cosby with contributing Analyst James Patterson and later Pike Twp Constable Candidate Paul Woods - Community Connection With Tina Cosby

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Justice, opportunity and well being for children on Praise Am
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
FM, and good afternoon. Welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosby.
Today is Friday, April the twenty fourth, Happy birthday, shechrmbau.
As you know, it is primary election season. If you
didn't know, you haven't been listening. That's true, you have
not been listening to Community Connection. But that's okay. We're
here to remind you. Early voting underway with more locations

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opening tomorrow, which is really exciting. More on that shortly,
By the way, I voted. More on that shortly. Yeah,
I made it down there, made it down in our
second hour. Another candidate for office. Speaking of primary election season,
another candidate is going to be here to ask for
your vote. Also today, what else another chance for you

(00:51):
to win a pair of free tickets for DJ Geno's
celebration of Choirs coming up next month at whose haul
May thirty first to be exact. So please keep listening
for your chance to win that set of tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Tina, we actually have two opportunities again, yeah I was,
I'm looking at uh there was a little update, So
I say we have two chances.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, if you say two, we'll do two. Because Gino
did ask let's get some more saving around this, and
I said, okay, two two pair, four pairs.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
So we'll do maybe twelve two each.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Time, two four tickets, four individual tickets, two pairs.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
We'll do a b at different times. So we'll leave
it up to you because you're the one in.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Chick and if somebody's calling now, we're not doing it,
just shiit, we're not ye. He's like, see the line
light up to people? Can they smell it? They can
take in the water.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
But let's go ahead and bring in our contributing analyst
James Patterson. James, good morning, well, actually, good afternoon. Good afternoon.
I'm losing track of time. How are you today, James.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
I'm doing excellent. How are you, Tina?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hi HOI I'm doing well. I'm doing well. You got
a little competition in the weather there. My I was
taking my grandson to school this morning and he said, yeah,
he said, you know, it looks like it's going to
rain today. And I said, I said, well, I'll share that. Yeah,
So I was going to share that with you. That
That was his that was his analysis. He said, he said,

(02:24):
those storm clouds look like rain, don't they? And I said,
storm cloud That's exactly what he said. And I said, okay,
yeah they do. They do look like rain. But I
was going to run that past you though, James.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Oh, it's in the kid's blood.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It is blood. Yeah, yeah, he's We have conversations. I
tell you when when it is my data taking, we
have conversations.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
That child never ceases to amaze me. I'm telling you,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Know where he got storm clouds. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Maybe he's been listening to James when James.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is you know, I would say so, but he's supposed
to be in school. I hope he's not listening.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
So the story, the works and the works he comes
up with.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
The vocabulary strikes me.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, but you know what, Yeah, I don't think he's
He's unusual in that aspect because if you ever talked
to the average four and five year old today there,
they talk like they're grown Have you noticed that? That's
not like they're grown in in the negative disrespectful sense.
But people don't talk. But you know there's a thing. Now,

(03:33):
you don't talk baby talker, you don't talk down to
them you talk to them as if you're talking to
another person. And I think a lot of them pick
up on that because he's He's not the only one.
I mean, there's there's there's youngsters in his school. There
there's family members, and they talk to you just like
they're they're sitting you know, we're all sitting down as
adults talking.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
So I did the baby talk thing?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You didn't?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Never did?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Were you instructed not to do so?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Or that was a personal just a personal choice, because
I think, well, I remember a couple of people having
an issue where they did that for so much their
child eventually had trouble understanding or saying things in a
certain way because the whole family was baby talking two three,
four years old and the child had trouble, you know,

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saying certain things.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now, my daughter says that that she teaches young younger
first grade kindergarten. She said that not necessarily baby talk,
but not necessarily letting them know their government adult names.
And she said she's had a few in each class
that she said she's been doing this four or five years.
She said she's had a few in each class that
she has had to remind them and let them know

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no your name is James William Anthony Johnson or whatever
not man or man or poo pooh, yeah, man and
a little bit baby Junior. You know all of those
apartment apartment Yeah, that was a friend of mine in Atlanta.
She she was a teacher. She retired as a teacher,

(05:02):
and she gave us some interesting apartment was one of them.
Little Pistol was another one.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
James, those names you know, I haven't, but you guys's
discussion does not surprise. No, it's because it's the media,
you guys.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You yeah, you know what it could be exposure. Yeah,
because they're the shows, the cartoon I mean, he sings
old school yeah songs you know from the seventies and eighties.
He knows them, but trolls the you know, the media
so to speak, or the the what is it, the
the movie cartoons, TV series, all of those. Yeah, and

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they they talked to youngsters in adult ways as well.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
So yeah, they're just they're just being bombarded with a
thousand different messages that we didn't have when we were
growing up.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, that's I mean.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
I remember walking home with the girl that I had
hoped to marry one day.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh your wife listening I'm okay, okay, okay, good man.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
You know, Beverly, she was just beautiful. She was my idol,
you know, in junior high school. And and it seemed
like it, you know, it was like maybe a ten
minute walk to her house, but it seemed like it
took an hour. That's that's the kind of thing that
you know, I was. That's how time passed for me,
you know, personal and the experience of another person and

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interaction and talking, and that was a highlight. Now it's
like if you don't have Instagram, if you don't have Facebook,
if you don't have Snapchat, if you don't have social
media this account or that account, if you aren't on
it all the time and know what they're saying, then
you're out of the loop. And so you've got to
get all these messages and take them in all the time,

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translate them, transmit them, regurgitate them, you know, think about them,
dwell on them. And that's a lie. And then plus
you got school, and you got your parents and you
got your peers. It's a lot to deal with.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It is, yeah, for good and bad, as they say
at the altar, for better or for worse. I mean,
and we've talked about that so many times, the double
edged sword that is social media. But the problem is
we have to you know, the electronic aspect of things
and now rapidly approaching AI aspect of certain jobs. I mean,

(07:22):
you have to we have to embrace it, meaning we
have to learn it. It doesn't mean that we have
to use it, uh in excess for for wrong or whatever.
But if you want a job nowadays, just coming out
of college, I feel sorry for a lot of kids
that did not have fundamental or basic classes that you know,
like you and I had typing or keyboard or whatever. AI. Yeah,

(07:45):
AI is basic now and so they're you know, you
have to have any you have to embrace it. But
you know the rest is up for debate. But well
it you got to know it or you can't. How
are you going to be employed if you have no
idea about the fundamentals of it.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's very true.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah, absolutely, and that you know that's in the news
today too. I mean we can talk about that later.
I was looking at that today and I'll get to
the weather in a minute. But how you know AI
is impacted by is part of the reason why they're
building all of these building to build more and more
of these data centers around, including in Marion County, which

(08:23):
they are getting resistance to and elsewhere. And there's some
news on that, but the whole thing is really tied
into this information age we are in now. But yeah, yeah,
that's that's what's happening.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, data centers, they're they're gonna see it. Seems like
there's some there's some collective efforts, you know, from from
Washington on down to slow the roles, so to speak,
as Congressman Parson was explaining, And I think that that's good,
not that AI or anything else is bad, but you
cannot release it into the stratosphere much like we did

(08:58):
the Internet and have it the wild wild West again.
If we've learned anything from the Internet, we've got to
learn uh that AI, well, it's good. We have to
have some kind of.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Boundaries on it and undar what kind of impact has
And you're mentioning Washington. I think Constant Carson told us
on Wednesday when he was with us that he was
going to introduce a bill the following day, which is next.
But you know, there's still more news locally. But anyway,
you want me to get to the weather.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
If you want. Looks like there's storm clouds, looks like
it is going to rain, storm clouds, rain.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
In fact, in fact, your your grandson is partly correct. Yeah,
we will have some some spotty showers around, but overall
we can a pretty nice day ahead of us. Today.
We've got some rain showers around, his little grandson said,
But the spotty showers will be very very widely widely placed.

(10:02):
I mean they won't and certainly not all day. They
won't be everywhere, and certainly not all day. Folks could
find themselves under one of these stray showers. But it's
possible that some people won't see any rain at all, Yeah,
at all. In fact, just a few minutes before it
came on the air, teen Eric, I looked outside my

(10:23):
office window and there was a sort of a coating,
but it didn't cover a rain. It didn't cover the
whole street and didn't come. It was spotty. And now
the sun is back out. So that's kind of where
we're looking at today. Not everyone's gonna see rain. It
was seventy five degrees and we came on the air today,
and we should go up a couple more degrees if
that sun wins out. Because this front is diving to

(10:47):
the south and east, and the really brunt of the
rain that forecasters thought we were going to get is
diving south. In fact, it's going to bring a beer
weather mornings to mid Southern states like gonn to see, Mississippi,
a little bit of Alabama. That's where the brun of
it's going to the mid South. But we're gonna we are
fortunate to h to miss that. So we should have

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rain chances for you know, this afternoon and later today,
Like I said, spotty and nature. But once that rain
pushes out completely to the south and east, we're making way,
folks for a b u tiful weekend Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
You guys, I ran my car through the car washy history.
Oh so I'm hoping.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
I do hope that.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, I'm hoping I'm on the misd side. You know what.
I used to hear folks say, you know, it's raining
on one side of the street and not the other.
And I used to think, how in the world can
that happen? But I've seen it. Have you all seen that? Yeah?
Literally raining off, yeah, one side of the street and
not on the other. So I'm hoping that it stays
on the other but if not, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
But it's clean.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's clean. Yeah, it's gonna be clean until the next timmer.
I don't have one of those executive things like you got, Eric,
I just and what I need to do is get
you know, I'm going to really rock this old school
my my, what do you call it? Outdoor hoses?

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Water hoose?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh yeah, I need to get a new one, and
then I think I will enjoy on a nice day now,
not too hot, not too cool, just washing it, old school,
just taking the hose out and spreading it down.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I haven't done that in a lot.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
You haven't done that in a long time either, But
it feels good. Plus I need a new hose.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
And plus don't forget about the economics of that. You're saving.
What what do car washes cost now, you guys are
well car crew.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Between ten to twelve for just a regular.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
One and then twenty all the other stuff.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, including the undertow, because that's what you want
is to get all of that salt that has set
in there from the underside of the vehicle and get
it off so it doesn't corrode and rushed you out
in a few years.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, the under the under is key, you know, I
used to my my grandfather used to tell us that
to take you know, when remember that car. You can
get wax now from the car wash or whatever. They'll
just put it on, but in the in the tin
can uh turtle wax.

Speaker 9 (13:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
He would always say, you're talking about salt, James, put uh,
you know, one coat on in the spring and another
cold on in the fall, and it'll help with your
exterior in terms of salt build up and things. And
I said, well, how's that? He said, because the wax
is on there, and you know, and uh, I have
I didn't do it twice or anything, but I have

(13:37):
done that before as well. And then I know some
other folks they just have wax but on it. But
apparently wax a couple of times a year helps with
the outer And then like you said, James and Eric,
the under uh with the car washes, what they do
you have to get because we are salt territory, we
certainly are, yes, And it.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Just sticks on there. A lot of people don't, you know,
they don't wash their cars in the winter all let
the ranges do it, you know. But that's not getting that.
And that stuff is powerful. That salt that they put on,
it's really really potent, I should say, I mean because
it melts.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Then do they still mix it with like molasses remember
back or whatever? They yeah, well salt and you know,
because the molasses of course, the sticky and it Hilton's
the salt stay in place.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
They may they mayn't.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Just but if that's the case, then that salt is
going to stay on there.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
A little bit.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Neighbor who lives down the street, he's not a next
door but he is moving. His house went up for
sale and he it's only been here three four years
and he's from Indiana. I understand, but he's moving back
to Florida because he can't take the winters. His house
is up for sale. But yet he moved from Florida
because of the hurricanes.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Okay, well weather.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
That's not like my nephew and his wife. And they
have great careers as people who I guess you would say,
uh people who uh they they are in the medical
field and they serve people as uh, you know, people
who need help with their muscles and and their their

(15:22):
their bodies in in in forming muscles and uh you know,
I don't know exactly what you would call it, but uh,
they what they did was they moved here, uh, well
to central Indiana from Florida because you know, things down
there are just more great for them. So they moved

(15:45):
here to central Indiana and you know, in the Lafayette area,
beautiful home everything. But as it turns out, he was
allergic to cold weather. Now, yeah, they're going back to Florida. Yeah,
I mean so that with what you said, what I was.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Saying, going back to Florid.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, we were talking, and well we got it is
open lines, uh, and we can review. We do have
a guest, Paul Woods, running for a small claims court
town constable and his offices in Pike Township. There are
several several running and he is one who may have
heard his ads on our station. But anyway, we're going

(16:32):
to be talking with him at two o'clock open lines.
We can review of course the rest of the way.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
And in between, so three one seven for eight zero
thirteen ten, three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten,
we have a caller waiting. I'll let y'all guess. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Therapist.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's what they worked here physical therapists. Okay, okay, yeah,
they make well, they can work anywhere, they can set
up shop anywhere.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yes they can.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
And you know they can even work virtually because you
can do those videos. I mean, you don't have to
necessarily always have hands on.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
But it's true.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
They have a lot of flexibility with with their Well,
good for them, I'm sorry to hear that, but yeah, they.

Speaker 8 (17:14):
Love it here.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
They love their church and everything. They love it, I'm
telling you. But if it wasn't for that, but you know,
we still have people moving in Indiana.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
I mean we do. That's true.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, good for them. Okay, Jeff, go ahead. How are
you hey, guys, How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (17:29):
Happy Friday?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Happy Friday?

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Happy Friday? Hey, Tina, James Eric.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
I know you guys are not legal scholar, but you
guys are world class journalism journalists. What's your say on
this administrat trying to sue the Southern Property Law Center.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
That horrible and as a matter of fact, they're trying
to sue it. People should look up that story because
when I read Jeff that they're suing them for misuse
of funds, paying the people who you know, you put
in a place to uh, informant in performance.

Speaker 10 (18:10):
But Jack, what they weren't working with the federal government,
they won't work. Yeah, the federal government suits them when
they knew everything they were doing.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, it's lunacy. It is lunacy. And I look for
that to be dropped as well. Oh yeah, it's like
they dropped in the lawsuit against UH, the investigation DJ
investigation UH into the Fed chair Jerome Powell. It's dropped.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Do you think it's a case of just throwing something
against the wall hoping that is stick.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, and just let everybody out there know that they're
still there. And and again you have to throw some
red meat to the base because he does have a.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Well, you know, the a Medgica crowd, the America crowd
is like a bunch of drug addicts. You know, they
feel over racism is suject and you got to give
him more. You know, it's almost like a junkie one drug.
And now this is the kicker. Donald Trump is going
to remodel Washington Mall. When doctor King gave his speech,
m hm, and he says, when doctor King gave us,

(19:15):
I have a dream speech. He Donaldson had a bigger
crowd than doctor King.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Had a bigger crowd.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, and you know what, and and thanks Jeff, And
that's uh, that's again, it's it's part of the lunacy
that that exists there.

Speaker 7 (19:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
And the one thing that I will say is historic
preservationist and some of the others are are mounting blocks
uh to these plans or the these attempts. And you know,
he he's running out of time in terms of in
terms of how much longer he's going to be in Washington,
d C. And so these court cases, as he very

(19:51):
well knows, they take time. So I'm thinking that the
legal blocks and the legal challenges to all of these things,
including the historic pres challenges and the height all of
that stuff's gonna take a long time to get so
it may just go by the wayside, dude.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yeah. Time the Indie Star story from April twenty first.
On April twenty first. This week, more Hoosiers are voting
early in Hamilton and Marion County. So far. That's the
ultimate stop gap for him, yeah, is to get out

(20:29):
there and vote. And that's what people are doing in
large numbers.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes, and I'm not.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Gonna Yeah, We've got some news on that that's coming tomorrow,
right know you hinted towards that. As far as the election.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh yeah, the primary election. There are eight more sites
here in Marion County are going to open. And I,
as I was telling you guys, I voted yesterday. It
was a little bit of a hiccup. I wouldn't even
see a hiccup, but it kind of caught me off
guard because I went to the City County Building and
I'm gonna tell this real quickly because we got several
callers waiting, and I want you all to get in too,

(21:03):
but I will tell you this. I went to the
City County Building, went to the Delaware street side, and
if anybody that's ever been down there, it's all elections
all the time. The signs, the candidates, everybody's out there
and everything. When you walk in, everything is blocked off.
Everything there is. And then if you get beyond the blockade,
there is what do you call it, a detector, metal

(21:26):
detector and a conveyor belt, you know, kind of like
what you have at the airport. So there's only one
way you can go, only one way you can go.
So I was walking up the ramp getting ready to
make my left hand turn into the clerk's office, and
an armed sheriff's deputy came up to me and said,
excuse me, ma'am, where are you going. He stepped right

(21:46):
to me and I said, I said I'm going to vote,
and he said, oh, okay, well then yes, right there
on your left. And I was like yeah, and I
mean I was thinking, yeah, I know that where James
and Eric. When I tell you there was nowhere else
to go, there was nowhere else I could be going.
I didn't understand why that was, but I you know,

(22:07):
it's just kind of like, really, dude, you know what.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
What was sheriff's Stepani?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yes, he was in brown.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, James, go.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Ahead, No, I mean, uh, Sheriff Forrestall is running. I
mean he can't run anymore, so he won't be running.
But the two people who are running and givest him.
I just read about that this morning. They could be asked,
but you can still ask him.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Terry Forstall, you ask him, Yeah, yeah, I want to
ask what that is?

Speaker 6 (22:39):
What is that? What was that?

Speaker 11 (22:41):
You know?

Speaker 2 (22:41):
I told Eric, I said it was so so obvious.
It would be like me standing inside the bathroom with
four stalls right there, and then the bathroom attendant coming
up and says, may I help you? What is it
you want? You know, I'm in here. There is nothing
else I can do here, but yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
I mean, he needs to stick to what he's doing
and garden the building and leave your first Amendment right along.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I mean, And then after that, it was it was
just all gravy. It was just all gravy because they
were very very very nice, very talkative, and you know,
we want to share some information. They're looking for help
on election day and they're willing to pay. So we're
going to share that with our listeners as well. Very shortly.
But let's go back to the phone lines. Dana, you
have a comment, Go ahead. How are you hey? How

(23:27):
you guys doing doing well?

Speaker 6 (23:28):
How are you well?

Speaker 8 (23:30):
I'm well. I just two things. I just want to
encourage everybody to vote, you know, that's my thing. It's
like bo bobo, and I want to say to everybody,
this is my main aggravation is if you vote for
the same people over and over again, you're gonna get
what we got right now. I think we need leadership
that's willing to take, you know, a change. I mean
to be honest with you, so I'm encouraging.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
People don't just keep voting for the.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
Same person who you only see round election time. I go,
say a particular pousa's name, but it's like, I don't
know what they do, I don't know what they've added
to and I don't think that seats are supposed to
be lifetime appointments. I feel like if you haven't gotten
done what you want to get done in eight or
ten years, then this might not be your spot. And
so to me, I just encouraging people to look deeply

(24:14):
into the candidates and don't just go with familiarity or
because they look like me or what have you. I
just want people be thoughtful about this decision. We have
a lot on our you know, there's a lot on
our place here.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, yeah, and you know what, Thank you, Dana. I
appreciate that. But you know, in addition, I want I
want to add a footnote to that, because we are
in a day and time where you know, if someone
you know like she, she makes a good point. Don't
just vote for somebody because it's the habit or that's
what you're supposed to do. But when you have to
analyze this person versus that person who is going to

(24:49):
be in my best interest whether or not I've voted
for him, I don't know how many times. Who's going
to do the most for me? There will be nobody
that will be perfect. Let you know, let's let's make
sure that we understand and that because candidates by their
very nature are imperfect. But who is going to be
the best candidate for you and your interest when everything
is weighed in the balance. And I think that was

(25:11):
a dynamic that was really missed, uh with with Kamala
Harris versus Donald Trump? Who is going to look out
for me more? You know, when when you get down
to it, you gotta go down to the very basics
and you know, analyze, learn about the candidates and if
they're not doing what you want them to do in office,
let them know what you're not doing. And you can vote,

(25:33):
you know, vote against them if you want. But sometimes
you have to because because new folks that are new
on the scene, it's so easy to come on and say, hey,
if I were in there, I'm going to do X,
Y and Z, and I'm going to do this, and
I'm going to do that if I'm in there, and
look at what happened on the national few. That's exactly
what we're battling. Now. If I get in there, I'm

(25:55):
not going to start any new wars. If I get
in there, I'm going to do uh, I'm going to
lower prices on the same day. If I get in there,
we are not going you know, you see what I'm saying.
So yeah, yeah, I do.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
And that's particularly you're absolutely perfectly right, Tina. And that
particularly applies to the general you know, specifically because but
not not all the way, but sific exactly general, because
that's binary. It's two people. You're gonna have one Democrat,
one Republican in most races. I mean, you know, during

(26:28):
the presidential years you'll have a Green Party or something
like that for president. But in the primary, what DAYA
is talking about? Yeah, you research them. But the main
thing is even in primary, when you have four or
five candidates, who's just on the scene saying this is
going to do this, this, this and this, and but
what has the person done who's been in office in

(26:49):
that office?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
So you're right, yeah, And in a lot of primaries,
if you look and study it, there's a lot of
people that have run for either that very office or
other offices on the regular they're out there running for
an office just hoping, you know, kind of you know,
kind of hoping something's gonna catch And you have to
be wary of that too, because people are going to
make promises. They'll they'll say what they want you to

(27:11):
hear or what they think you want to say, but
watch what they do or what they have done, and
if they record their record, and if they've never held
political office before, that's where you have to be really
really discerning.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
And and a change for the sake of just making
a change, that's not necessarily what we want to do
as voters. Either just to change, we gotta we got
to make sure that they're in our best interest and
that they either have worked on our behalf doesn't have
to be in office, but have done things on our behalf,
or you know, are pretty good for their word that

(27:45):
if they say they're going to do it, they are
going to do it. So I heard you, Yep, yep, yep, indeed, Okay,
we we got several more colors and we will get
to you right after this quick break.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's community connection with
Tita Cosby brought to you by Child Advocates, a champion
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Speaker 2 (28:16):
And we're back with Community Connection Tina Cosby here with
our contributing analyst James Patterson and of course our producer
Eric Garns. James and Eric, let's let's go straight to
straight back to the phone lines because they are kind
of full, so yeah, let's go. Marvin go ahead. How
are you.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
Good afternoon? Tina and the team?

Speaker 12 (28:38):
Good afternoon, one hundred And I know you all heard
me share that on and I understand exactly what you
all were saying. But what Dana said, I think we
need term limits for congressmen and congress people and senators.
You know, we look at Mitch McConnell, mine Don Grassley.

(28:59):
Those people almost have had to be and need to
be carried out.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
In the hospital.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, one representative just died in office, a Republican.

Speaker 13 (29:14):
My whole point is, yes, Uh, as much as I
like Andre, you do a good job, but I think
it's almost like you maybe you'd start developing if you
if you think there's still more work that you.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Can do, maybe develop a successor.

Speaker 13 (29:29):
But I'm I'm one hundred percent with Dana. Of course,
I'm gonna do what you all say. Who's in the
best interest Now, nobody's running that I think would would serve,
you know, would serve what we need better than I'm
going with the person. But I would hope that that
person would look and say, we need you know, it's.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Time for me to move on.

Speaker 13 (29:49):
But it's hard to do when you get that kind
of power that comes with being a senator or a congressman,
or even if you look locally at our city county council.
Because my comment was going to be I love the
death she if you got last.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Nerves, she'll get on it.

Speaker 13 (30:03):
But this woman cares about in Annapolis, she cares about children,
and she one of the things she always tried to
get me to see, she said, Marven is more about
classism than racism. And I look at the black community
here in Indy, there's a big divide between I think
what I call the elites in the black.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
Community and then the regular people. You know, a lot
of your elite are.

Speaker 13 (30:30):
Supporting these educational reforms that's dismantle in IPS, which is
totally disconnected. They try to think that that's just a
small group. When people hear about even people who don't
have their children in IPS, hear about the things that
on they don't agree with it, but you know, and
and then you look at a lot of at least
their kids have never even been in IPS, don't even

(30:51):
go to charter schools, you know, but they're getting, especially
with a lot of our local politicians, they're getting a
lot of reform money. And I think that's a big
spot where we need. And I think that's the thing
that gives me about the primaries and stuff. When people
are in these safe seats, you know that that feeds
in to just staying forever, because I think that's time.

(31:12):
I see a lot of our people on tea and
there's some there's even some loco and I'm not gonna
hold you up uh offices.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
I don't even think we need.

Speaker 13 (31:19):
I see them on on Facebook, you know, at the
office making videos. I'm like, when are you working or
what is it that you even do? But I look
at our community. I look at these streets that look
like a pair of gens has been patched up, and
I'm thinking our city needs sometimes this connection where people
think that our city is in a good, good shape.

(31:42):
But that's why I think you need different voices.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
If you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
Sometimes go down there, because I see a lot of them.

Speaker 13 (31:47):
Partying, and you know, I see them on Facebook always
at the dinner.

Speaker 14 (31:51):
And they're eating good and they're.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
Having a good time.

Speaker 13 (31:54):
What are they doing to make Indianapolis actually a better
place to live? And I'm not knocking them off, but
you look at a lot of our counselors have been
there fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
It's time for change.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, and thank you, Marvin. I appreciate that, and I
certainly understand the term limit and you know, change and
things of that nature. But I look at it as
in terms of productivity. You know, they are they just
in office, holding the office and not doing anything, or
are they sage power brokers who their experience is important

(32:28):
for those newcomers and the new ideas that are in there,
you know. So I can see a balance, I can
see a mixture. But just being in the office for
the just the sake of being there, No, that's always
been wrong. But I don't think that it's right to
use as a barometer. You've been there too long, so
you don't know anything. We need to get new whatever.
And I point to on the national scene, someone like

(32:51):
a James Clyburn. What is he? James eighty five, eighty
six years old? But look but he's not he's not
just take enough space. I mean, the man is influencing policy.
He is, he is doing things. You know, he's bringing
people along, and he has decided to stay for at
least one more term, but eventually he's going to go away.

(33:12):
But what I'm saying is you look at what they produce,
what they have to offer. Is there are they going
to be helpful to those new ones that are coming in?
Because then overall, you know there's going to be attrition,
there's going to be coming and going, and you know,
term limits I don't know. I mean, that's up to
the voters. But all I'm saying is we can't necessarily
judge the effectiveness of a person just because or I

(33:36):
shouldn't say the effectiveness judge that a person should no
longer be there because they've been there for so long.
I think that that's a flat that that's flat. You
have to look at what that person has done, is
doing and can contribute to continue to do somebody that
you don't want to, you know, leave you. Oh, I
don't want them out of here. They can look at
what they do. Oh if they leave, guess what this X, Y,

(33:57):
and Z is going to happen. They may have been
in office as long as somebody else. But d am
I making my Do you understand what I'm saying?

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Do you get yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I
was just looking at this story while you were talking,
and and you make you make a good point. It's
five members who died since the current Congress in January. Yes,
we're between ages of sixty five and eighty seven. All
of them were almost eligible for Social Security, although you know,

(34:27):
federal employees don't really get it. I don't think they
have this other plan. But the point is that when
is it time to go?

Speaker 15 (34:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:36):
And what were they doing while they're there? I mean,
if they've been sitting there for just taking up space
and using it, why do they need to be there?
I get right?

Speaker 6 (34:44):
They get that. And then there's the sage part, the
wisdom part. You know, you are so good at what
you do, you are natural leader? Should you go just
because you're this age? But we need you, We need
your wisdom.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
We need your need your guidance.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Yeah, your guidance to persuade your experience. There's that argument,
and then there's what Marvin and Dana were saying that, Hey,
you've been there at ten twenty years, you ain't dead nothing,
You're no bill. You're taking those space. Yeah, so I'll
see your point.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, And that's the only that's the only caveat I
have to that. But I I really don't have a
problem with folks just sitting there and doing nothing for
I mean, look at Chuck Grassley again, we're talking on
the national What is he doing? Yea know, was he was?
He he's nineties. What does he do? Their whole lot
they're blocking in space yet.

Speaker 11 (35:37):
Yeah, they're block voting, place holding and block voting, preventing
legislation just because the president says vote against it because you're.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Focus and they're not acting at independent legislators thinking things
through individually for what is best for everyone, what my
party wants.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, And we have a great example of that right
here with the very governor who is not acting independent
and in the best interest of who's your citizens. I mean,
he's clearly acting at the behest of the president. So
uh and carrying those out estella, go ahead. How are you, Tina?

Speaker 15 (36:15):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm well, thank.

Speaker 15 (36:16):
You, thank you for the continued excellence that you delivered
to your listeners.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
You're very kind. Just just talking.

Speaker 15 (36:26):
Okay, tell me if I have been asleep or what here?
Did I hear the governor say last year that he
was going to decrease property taxes?

Speaker 6 (36:42):
Did I hear that?

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, relief they were talking about.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Yeah, they did pass something. But it's uh, you know,
you have the devil is in the detail, so to speak.
You have to read it. I mean, it's a cat,
but they are so you know, there are certain aspects
of it that don't apply to in every case. But
go ahead, sella yeah, okay.

Speaker 15 (37:07):
So that's why they are going to increase class sizes, uh,
and all of that all over the state. Some schools
are already closing. And you cannot teach a first grader
to read if they are thirty first graders in a classroom,
I'm sorry, And you can't do that for kindergarten also.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
If they're too.

Speaker 15 (37:29):
But I wanted to tell you that our property tax
bill increased by five hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty
cents from last year.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a formula percentage slash cap
formula that I am not familiar with, James, you familiar
with what the formulas says. But there, yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
It's depending on which category you're in. Okay, But I'm
looking for my notes because I want to give these
to Sella, because I know somebody who had the same issue.
And what they did is you can appeal Sella and
you can some release. You just have to go to
Indy dot gov and then you go to the the

(38:16):
assessor's page and then you can say you you click
on appeal your taxes subjective. So here it is right here,
I got my notes Indie dot gov. And then you
click on services and then you go to the assessor's page.
You want to go to the assessor's page. And then
there'll be two ways that you can appeal, a couple

(38:36):
of ways at least, if not more. One is you
can appeal objective and one is you can appeal subjective.
And you want to choose subjective and then you put
in there you know, there's no way my my taxi
should have went up this much. My house is not.
The value of it has not gone up that much.
I still have repairs to make. I've only if I

(38:57):
did improvements, whatever they were, they weren't that much. So
you can and you can call the Assessments office and
give specific instructions to and I'll give you that number, okay,
please three one seven three two seven mm hm four
nine zero seven three one seven three two seven forty

(39:21):
nine oh seven and they'll walk you through it. Yes, man,
very much.

Speaker 15 (39:25):
I appreciate that, but I just wanted to know if
I had been asleep at the wheel or something, but
apparently not. You know, they do that anyway, you know,
just like the tax cut that was supposed to go
to help people, and who got the tax cut top
of the at the very top of the food chain.

Speaker 6 (39:45):
You know, we know that, Yes, I mean you know.
I'll tell you it's the money has gone to help
them and their priorities, which is not the working class
and the middle class people.

Speaker 15 (39:55):
It's just not okay, Yes, and I'm driving all over
the street hoping I don't meet an oncoming car to
avoid potholes.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know there.

Speaker 15 (40:07):
Yeah, Well, thank you, but that is very helpful information.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Thank you, and thank you for that James, you had
it right there, so yeah, you must have been on
it right there.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's ridiculous. People can call the
professor's office. Wasn't that numbers again? Three three one seven,
three two seven, nine seventeen. You don't have to take
that because a lot of people have told me that
their property tax has gone up this year, and that
is something that you can appeal because it's a subjective

(40:38):
judgment on the part of the assessor.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, uh three one seven zero thirteen, Tim, Greg,
go ahead, how are you Greg?

Speaker 14 (40:50):
Are you there?

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yes? Hey, how are you good?

Speaker 14 (40:53):
I go into another room.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
When I was waiting, I wanted to challenge you.

Speaker 14 (40:58):
I usually I usually because the information you all give.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
Is usually pretty accurate.

Speaker 14 (41:03):
But I was thinking today when you all had I
think it was Daniel and yesterday talking about Mendoza and
as far as his drafts.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, I think you were.

Speaker 14 (41:17):
I think you are figure if there was any other
Indiana Indiana.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Right off the top of Surrids and we didn't know,
and we honestly it was just cross talk, truly. We
we hadn't researched it or anything. We were just talking.

Speaker 14 (41:31):
About, right, do you know who you forgot?

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Who do we forget?

Speaker 14 (41:36):
Greg Odham who played for Lawrence yea from Lawrence Lawrence
Norris and he didn't play for an Indiana school, or
he played for in Indiana high school, but he didn't
play for an Indiana college. He went if you remember,
he played one year for Ohio State and they were
runner up in the in the championship and he he

(41:59):
went first, I don't I don't remember what year, but
he went first in the NBA draft several years ago.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Okay, okay, I did not know that he had a
very short career though very injury prone. He had a
lot of injuries and some situations that didn't allow for
a lengthy NBA career. Sorry to hear.

Speaker 14 (42:18):
I think he almost said, I don't know if you
ever heard of real bone disease?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah something.

Speaker 14 (42:22):
I think he almost said that because he didn't he
didn't play one full season. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Oh really, I thought he played one.

Speaker 14 (42:31):
Well, he may have played part of a season, but
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, first overall in the two thousand and seven NBA
drafts Portland Trail Blazers. That's it, right, right, that's it.
So hopefully he made some money, and I'm sure he did.

Speaker 15 (42:46):
He did.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah, I appreci you did. Oh well, thank you for that.

Speaker 14 (42:49):
On Facebook every now and then, he's one of my
Facebook friends, so I talked to him every now and then.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Hope he's doing well. I hope he's doing well. That's
all right, all right, Well, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Appreciate I didn't know that, so so James, Uh, as
we were saying earlier, we've got got another candidate in
for at the top of the hour, some of the
other things that we talked about. I don't know if

(43:13):
you were here, I can't remember, but you know there
in the city County Council meets again in full council
with summer coming up. Uh, there could be stricter curfews
voted on in terms of cutting back on the youth
violence problem in the city, especially during the summertime. So uh,
the the curfew could be even stricter. So we're going

(43:35):
to keep an eye on that.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
And then what what I mean, it's not it's a it's.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
A it's not a punitive measure.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
It's not punidt not meant to punish them, or restments,
room behind bars or lock them in the juvenile center.
They take them to a holding place, and I understand
there are going to be resources there, you know, for
them also, and there will be counseling and until their

(44:05):
parents arit. Until their parents arrived they pick them up,
they'll try to reach some a responsible guardian to come
get them and say, look, we've got to curf you
out and you don't know where your child is, so
you need to come pick them up over here, which
I think is a good idea.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, yeah, indeed, indeed, I haven't had any updates lately
on the sixteenth Street bridge, but you know, we're keeping
an eye on that as well, and because Prace is
coming up. But back to the early early voting, one
of the poll workers there at the clerk's office was

(44:42):
asking me to take a picture of a flyer that
they have there and it says help your community vote.
Become a poll worker. You could earn up to two
hundred and forty dollars to help your neighbors vote. To
learn more, visit poleworker Indy dot gov, poll worker Indie
dot gov. Ohle the o l L Worker Indie dot gov.

(45:02):
And that's a great thing. That's a really good thing.
And you can go to Indy dot gov as well
if you just want to, you know, find out more.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
But which is obviously an election that has stirred a
lot of interest. I mean you voted yesterday, Career.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yes, I did. It was real easy.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Tell us about your experience, Well you told us about.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
The share of Yeah, that that just kind of that
just kind of threw me off a little bit. But
it did not break my spirit because I was happy.
I had a good time. It was wonderful talking to everybody,
and I told them all down there that I would
say hello to them on the radio today. So hello everybody,
including formerly Harwell. I forget Amy's last name, Amy Hardwell.
Amy's been you know, a steadfast volunteer in the elections

(45:45):
for a number of years, and a whole lot of
other folks down there. So there are people down there
doing their civic duty. They're doing it with the smile,
they're very helpful, very very clear about instructions, and you know,
it just couldn't have been more pleasant experience. But the
City County Building is not for everybody. So James, guess
what Tomorrow Tomorrow, Tomorrow tomorrow, eight more places open up.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Yeah, and are you gonna name them because I can.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Well go ahead, go ahead, you go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
Well, just before I do that, I remember on Wednesday,
we talked about this kind of unusual early voter turnout
turnout in Hamilton County and in Marion County. In Hamilton County,
for example, the county just north of Marion County where
we are, they had as a Friday, April seventeenth, so

(46:41):
that was approximately one week ago, one thy six hundred
and thirty one residents who voted by the It was
the eleventh day of early in person voting there, and
they had that was almost double the number of the
people from the mid term in Hamilton County in twenty

(47:01):
twenty two, when they had eight hundred and ninety eight
people voted at that time, so almost doubled it. And
then I mentioned that we had that same day April seventeenth,
in Marion County, twelve hundred nineteen people voted compared to
five hundred and seventy one in twenty twenty two, which
was more than double. And I thought about it as

(47:22):
how is Hamilton County beating us? And it's because they
have more voting centers. Voting centers open when voting began
on April seventh. Now that's going to change tomorrow. We've
got eight more sites coming online. It was the City
County Building only until tomorrow where Tina voted yesterday, and

(47:45):
tomorrow we'll have opened the Decatur Township Government Center, the
Franklin Township Government Center, the Indianapolis Public Library, Fort Ben Branch,
the Indianapolis Public Library, Pipe Branch, Crane Or Park, Perry
Township Government Center, Saint Luke's United Methodist Church Place, Yeah,

(48:11):
my spot spot, and Warren Township Government Center. Man, I
don't I'll look up the addresses for them all for
the next time and I'll have them.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Yeah, well we'll I'll have we can have the addresses.
But the but you know, all you need to know
is in every township there is you know, there there's
a there's an early vote center.

Speaker 7 (48:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
And so in some of them there might be too,
but they're out there and they're open and ready for
a business. And as you said, James, whether it's Hamilton County,
that was the other thing I forgot to share, and
that was I asked, how's business? And they kind of looked,
they said, they nodded their head and smiled like, yeah,

(48:53):
it's been it's been good exactly exactly now. When I
went there was no way, but they said it comes
in waves, which is normal, that makes sense, but steady
and good business and certainly a lot more activity, uh
than past primary elections. So Reverend Francis, let's let's see
if we can squeeze him in real quick. We wanted

(49:14):
to talk about Indiana athletes. Reverend Francis, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
How are you h tinhigh sperience? Eric, part of the
conversation about the Indian Indiana and Indianapolis athletes. But I
thought you all were talking specifically about Indiana university football players.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
No, no, no, no, just from the state of Indiana,
any Indiana grown products, I guess, so to speak.

Speaker 7 (49:41):
So you know, if we open up the lens, we
can talk about Mike Conley, who also played with Greg
Odin at Lawrence Nord, who's currently playing in NBA for
the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Speaker 6 (49:53):
Yeah, talking, they're doing good?

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Did he did? He was he a number one draft pick? No,
se we were talking specifically about number one, the pinnacle,
that the top in that game, and he no doubt
was the first rounder. He no doubt was the first rounder,
but we were having a hard time finding a number
one pick because you're considered the best in the game.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
We've had a whole lot of first rounders, a whole
lot basketball, football, baseball, like the t.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
Yeah, talk about Jason Gardner who plays.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
North Central north Central.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
Yeah, if we go way back, we could talk about
Oscar Robposite. It depends on how far back you want
to go, I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Yeah, and a good point it is, Reverend Francis, thank
you so so very much. And yeah, we would never
say Indiana has not had first round because.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
Athletes.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Oh absolutely certainly is.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yeah. But but but at the Pinnacle number one. Uh,
that's that's that's up there. That's rare air. Uh. And
Greg Odam, thank you, Greg, Greg? Yeah, uh Greg, yeah,
mister Greg. Yeah, and uh he know Greg Owans the
ones Okay, he called he got that one that was

(51:23):
that was absolutely correct. But Odam was a seven footer though.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
Wasn't he He was.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Everybody they were just chomping at the bid to get him.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
They were, man, you know, Unfortunately that's what happened. Sometimes,
you know, you take a chance on an athlete, and
that's what it is. It's a chance because you don't
know if they're fully healthy or not. And in this
case he wasn't unfortunately. Yeah, but he was a great talent.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
He was.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Yeah, he was. Yeah. Well, congratulations, it did happen last night.
Fernando Mendozo of Indiana University didn't was the number one pick,
did become the number one pick. And his teammate Omar,
let's see was Omar.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
I just saw his name earlier.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
I did too, and I just had it anyway, he was.
He was the number thirty pick. There were first rounders
from like Notre Dame and Produce. I think that so
Indiana did very very Omar Cooper Junior, Omar Cooper Junior.
That's it so Indiana. As to to Reverend Francis's point,
not only did they have the number one pick, we
had several first round picks. I think there's what forty

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in the first rounds of like thirty five or forty.
So Indiana was well represented. And congratulations all those millionaires,
and we wish you well. Well all of them are millionaire.
You go on the first round, you're a millionaire, an
instant millionaires right there on the top there It is there.
It is Hey talking a little bit more politics coming up.
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
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one HAFM.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
And we're back with Community Connection. Tina Cosby here, our
contributing analyst James Patterson with us, and of course our
producer Eric Garnes is here. And Eric and James, you
remember what we promised off the top of the show,
other than James's weather report.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Well, we have something to give away.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and so as as we
do as sometimes we can. We're gonna let James pick
a number, but we're gonna limit James, because you know,
James will have eighty two. James will.

Speaker 6 (53:50):
We won't get out of here together the phone at
three oh five, I know.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
So we're gonna ask between one and ten. James, Okay,
I'm going to give you nine man nine nine okay,
nine nine nine, what is that in German?

Speaker 8 (54:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Nine night? Well, right now, we are going to be
giving away free tickets one pair, two one pair of
tickets to DJ Geno's Celebration of Choirs. DJ Geno's Celebration
of Choirs coming to Clues Memorial Hall on the campus
of Butler University May thirty first, starring Ricky Dillard with

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special featured guests Vincent Bohannan and s O V and
the Chicago Mass Choir, as well as five local choirs
that will open the show. So if you are ready
out there in listening land, and especially you know who
we're talking to, y'all at y'all at work, listening y'all,
get get ready.

Speaker 6 (54:50):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Yeah, it's very very good, very very very very good.
And I'm gonna when when I say go, when I
say ready, set go, James, You'll say ready set go, right, Yeah, okay,
call it if you are If you are the ninth
caller to the number three one, seven, four, eight, zero,
thirteen ten, you will win a pair of tickets to
DJ Geno's Celebration of Choirs coming up May thirty first

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on the campus of Butler University at Clues Memorial Hall.
And so ready to James, Okay, go ahead and give it a.

Speaker 6 (55:22):
Ready, don't touch it yet, ready go.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Alrighty, alrighty, alrighty. So we're gonna put Eric to work.

Speaker 8 (55:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
He's back there working feverishly to get through that phone line.
The number that it's the sea of Blue, James. You
should see, it is unbelievable, how cooking it. But you know,
also at the top of the show, as we promised,
we're talking to candidates for the upcoming primary. You know,
we vote. We certainly want you to vote, but we
also want you to hear from those asking for your vote.

Speaker 6 (55:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
And one such person is here with us in the
studio right now. He is Paul Woods, a Democratic primary
candidate for Marion County Small Claims Court, Pike Township Constable.
Mister Woods, welcome, how are you today? Yeah, well, I
don't know about legendary, but we'll take that. So can
we hear can we hear you again? Let's see?

Speaker 4 (56:14):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Oh there you are, there, you are You were so
far away. So, first of all, congratulations on your campaign.
Tell us a little bit about yourself for voters who
may not know you. Who you are and why you're running.

Speaker 16 (56:28):
For office again. My name is Paul Woodson, running for
the Pike Township office. Live here in Indianapolis, lived on
Pike Township for like the last seventeen years. Raised and
born here in Indianapolis. Went to IPS schools, graduate Fromrington
High School, attended Vincent's University with an aviation degree there,

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but just stayed. A military veteran of thirteen years of
armed services, been in some law enforce for thirty five years,
in a small busines as owner that's been serving my
community for twenty five or correction twenty eight years, dealing
with the funeral home industry.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
So why is it that you want this office? You
want to become the constable.

Speaker 16 (57:13):
Well, the main thing two things. I want to give
the residents a choice. That's the first thing.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
That's good. We talked about that earlier.

Speaker 16 (57:22):
Yes, and as a military veteran, people have died years
ago for the sacred right of a choice to vote.
So that's one of the reason I got into it. Secondly,
I wanted to improve our township because you know, if
you do little for your township, it looks worse and
it goes downhill. Too much as given, too much as expected,

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and I want to do some things in Pike Township.
That'll be a precedent when it comes to assisting the
courts when it taking our own runs, when it deals
with landlord tenant things. Because ipd's over works, they get
those civil calls, they don't like going to them because
they don't show up and say here, here's the phone number,

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call the small claims court called the constable. I want
to get in office joint in some public private partnerships
where we can have deputies in our township so when
those calls come out, you got to come see us anyway.
So we're going to come to you and help assist
that and take that burden off the IMPD so they
can handle the more criminal offenses because our just civil

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and over the years a lot of constables the job says,
deliver your papers called court cases. That's the bare minimum.
We don't want to do the bare minimum. We want
to be more in the community and more responsive to
the community because you have to see us at the end,
and emails will be out there in the forefront and
people know the process.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
So James, I don't know about you, but I have
to admit when I see that term constable. I don't
automatically know what it is that a constable does, do you, James,
are you familiar?

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Yeah? I do. Basically what they do is day like
the bailiff of the small clean court, and then they
also serve subpoenas and they assist in evictions for homeowners.
You know, somebody unfortunately loses their home and they have
to be evicted. Then the uh constable works with the

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shared But I think, yeah, I could, we could probably
tell us better. But go ahead.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Yeah, no, I was. I was going to ask, so
have you ever worked in this capacity before? But James,
you go ahead and ask your questions.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
Well, yeah, he'll he'll probably answer it, because I wanted
to say too. To start off, mister Woods, thank you
for being here because I have seen your You're signed
everywhere everywhere. I'm telling you everywhere, and I heard from
folks who at least one person who knows you that
you are a police, a sure veteran. Can you tell

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us a little bit about that and then tell us
what the small Queen's Court, the original question does. What
the constable does in the small Queen's Court.

Speaker 16 (01:00:11):
I'll start at the end and working way back on
the small claims court, deals with eventions, deals with any
kind of court summings paperwork that has to be delivered
to an individual to give them their due process to
come to court. They handle anything under ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I was going to say, what's the uh, that's the cap?
The cap? Yeah, ten thousand under yes, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:00:35):
So that alleviates people from having to go to the
big circuit courts, which will be a longer delay in
the circuits courts, or rather keep you in the township,
which you know as a resident, I'd rather go to
my township. I don't want to go to New Justice
Center or wherever, go to my local small claims court.
So that's the gist of the nutshell of dealing with

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the court and in the summons and so forth. Yes,
I've done various police jobs between Good Special Deputy Reserve,
Rocky Ripple, Washington Township Councils Center, Township and Reserve, and
Sheridan Police Department. So I've done a variety of different

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departments over the years and try to stay active.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Why is this job so important?

Speaker 16 (01:01:25):
I think that the true importance of this job is
educating the public, because, like you said, a lot of
people don't know what the counscol does and who they are.
And when you're there, you're the bad guy most of
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
So you walk around, do you have security?

Speaker 16 (01:01:40):
You are the security?

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:01:43):
So when you come there, the landlord's called and got
a judge's order from the judge say this person needs
to be gone or should have been gone. So you
have to go over there and see what's going on
and say, hey, judge gave you this to this date
and time, you should have been gone. If you have
an hour to get most of the belongings and the
rest of this stuff that the landlord has to put
in safe keeping for so many days so you can

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come back and retrieve it. So most of the time
when you have to go out there, it's not a happy,
warm feeling. And the bad thing that when you go there,
if there's children involved, you have to show compassion. And
that's one thing I noticed a lot of officers. They're
so eager to get there and on to the next one.

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The human compassion element is gone. Yeah, they're just saying
get out and sorry for your love pretty much. But
we want to let the people know that we understand
their plight, and just because they're behind or god behind,
doesn't make you a bad person. Because anybody missed two
or three checks, you'll be seeing the same constable coming
your house.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Yes, true, you know this is a pretty crowded field.
It looks like there's there's four four in the Democratic primary,
and so I guess my question to you would be,
why are you the better candidate than the other three,
including the incumbent Pike Township Constable.

Speaker 16 (01:03:06):
I think my proven success and my proven work history
in those industries have given me a broad base to
deal with the public and show empathy and compassion because
you know, one of the business deal with the funeral
home dity, so you're doing people with high emotions at

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the time. So you know, that has taught me that, hey,
everything is not run by a clock. People's real loved ones.
It's emotional, it's a sensitive time, so the time element
of the clock goes out the window. So it's taught
me more patient. Dealing with the military has taught me that,

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you know, we get up, we get going early, we
get the job done. There's no dragging our feet that
kind of stuff. We're out there getting it done. And
the third piece that I think that, like I said,
I want to do differently. There's no knocks on the
other gentleman that's in office because he's doing basically what
the job requires. But if you can do more and

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get federal grant money to be in the public to
help your citizens, why not Other than complacency and just
doing the bare minimum, I think you can do more.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten. Three one
seven for eight zero thirteen ten. Our guest is Paul Woods.
He is a Democratic primary challenger candidate for the Pike
Township Constable's office. You have any questions for the candidate
for candidate Woods, please feel free to give us a call.
He's asking for your vote. Three one seven for eight

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zero thirteen ten. Three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten.
James take it away.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Well, I'm just gonna ask him about talking about the
signs I see everywhere for Paul Wood cons Constable's race.
It also says on the signs that he's a veteran.
Did he did he talk? Did you talk yet about
mister Woods, your your veterans experience and what did you
do as a veteran.

Speaker 16 (01:05:08):
Thirteen years in the army and then doing one of
my deployments, disabled veteran, that'sed up my shoulder pretty bad.
So and over time you carry that rucksat and you
get bad feet, you get bad ankles, and you just
learn to deal with it because it's not going to
get him better. But yes, being a veteran, like I said,

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there's no slacking. As we say in the military, high speed,
low drag. We get up and we get going. And
people often ask me, but when do you sleep? I said, well,
I'll sleep when the Good Lord calls me home. Until
the end. I need to keep moving.

Speaker 13 (01:05:44):
Uh huh.

Speaker 16 (01:05:45):
So that's my model. And I want to make Pike
Township like I said the leader in the rest of
the townships. And uh, I'm going to challenge people to
for their vote, and once we get in, I want
you to come out of Park Township because my watch
me work.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
One of the fastest growing townships is we learned yesterday
from another candidate who is an incumbent the trustee Andnette Johnson.
So one of the fastest growing townships. But there are
other townships and we certainly will be talking with them
as well. But does the fact that Pike Township is
one of the fastest growing townships in Marion County. Do

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you see that as presenting any special set of circumstances
for the constable to navigate once in office?

Speaker 16 (01:06:32):
No, because my thing is the workload is going to
do what it does, So whether people get behind or
stay current, it is what it is. But we'll have
to stay on top of it. And like I said,
there's a million that I was with the grants out
there that we can apply for, and no additional tax
payer dollar is going to be done what I want

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to do. And I'm also one of the things that
what I've plans to do is I'm given twenty five
percent back of my salary. Because there's sometimes people come
to court and the judge may ask them, hey, have
you worked out an agreement? Know your honor, Well, you're
supposed to have another five hundred dollars payment in blah
blah blah. And that's where these public partnerships I want

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to come together because with my twenty five percent putting
into this pot each month, and then whatever the public
private septing put in, that maybe only be four thousand
dollars for that month. But if you can help ten
people come in that day and it judge says, you're
supposed to have four hundred dollars, you only have one
f where there's a little pot of money over there
for the private sector who cares about the community like

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I would. And let the judge say, okay, there's private
money over there. This is going to buy you sixty
more days, ninety more days, and they may resolve it
between that time with the landlord get caught up or whatever.
So you know, I think doing a small part will
make you feel and rest better that knowing, Hey, I'm
helping people. Look my little bit pieces I can along

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with the public private sector.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
James, I know you hear that.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Oh no, no, I just wanted to ask him, what
do you What do you see as the biggest challenge
for people running for petitions like constable to uh, you know,
getting getting the word out about their candidacy and about
the election. Previously, we in midterm elections like this one,

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we had you know, low uh voter participations, particularly in
Marion County. It's picking up this year in a big way.
But what do you see as the biggest challenge of
getting your message out about your candidacy? And I think
you've run before haven't you, mister Wood.

Speaker 16 (01:08:39):
Yes, I ran uh four years ago and was three
hundred votes short.

Speaker 6 (01:08:43):
Yeah, it was really close.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Yeah, what necessitates a recount though, you'd have to find
some anomolies. Oh okay, three hundred votes so yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah,
but anyway, go ahead please.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
I didn't mean, yeah, what's what's the biggest challenge to
get in there? But you've o seen the signs everywhere,
so you seem to be honest this time.

Speaker 16 (01:09:01):
Well, I appreciate that. It's a lot of work sometimes
I feel like that show words waldough because you go
down the street one day that signs there, next day
it is it, and you're back putting another sign out.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
So oh yeah, I know what that's about. That's local politics.

Speaker 16 (01:09:14):
Yeah, that's the leg work. So you won't getting to
sleep to the elections over with. But you know, I
learned that you only can fuss and bit or so,
you know, whine so much it's just gonna eat actually,
so just let it go and put another one out
and keep going and uh uh the day you know,
elections coming up, and soon it'll be over with.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
H So, uh three hundred but that margin of three
hundred votes James, uh is, yeah, that that's me. That
wouldn't that automatically trigger a recount? But I guess perhaps not,
and maybe it only does so in certain races with
so many people. You're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's
all relative.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
But that's that's very close, and I applaud him for trying.
I mean, you know, it kind of goes back to
what Dana and Marvin were saying, just choices, you know, choice.
If they've been in there and they've done a great job,
that's you know, that's great, look at that. But you
got in this race, particularly the incumbent and mister Woods

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are look like to me equally qualified. So the candidates
have to distinguish themselves. And he was very close last time,
so I think that, uh, you know, I applaud him
for trying again because he was really so close.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
You know, James, you make a good point. And uh,
the the incumbent, uh constable is veteran of law enforcement
as well, So what does distinguish you? You know, what
should you know if looking at just the person in
the office now and yourself, not even counting the other two,
because I'm sure they have campaigns that they've launched as well,

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But in terms of replacing the person who's currently there
with similar backgrounds that you have, especially law enforcement, which
you know that there's a point made about that. What
does distinguish it's a difference.

Speaker 16 (01:11:07):
I think the difference is my ability dealing in the
private sector, dealing with the funeral homes. I have a
deep level of compassion for people because I see it
firsthand every day with these deaths and up close with families.
And then secondly, what difference me from my opponents is

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I'm going to take a forward approach. There's money out
there because if you don't take a forward approach to
help saving your community and doing the bare minimum, it's
going to go downhill. And the first thing we've learned
over the years is if your community goes down, the
school's closed, homes, vacancies, people move out, property tax, property

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based value goes down. So something little is putting deputies
out in the community. So when they're not getting those calls,
they may be in a visible area where there's a
lot of known leggy drug take activities, but if they're
there and witness it, they can notifying PD and and
need be detained someone and so forth.

Speaker 6 (01:12:12):
They don't, you know, yeah, they don't. And that's a
good point about the community. The quality of the community,
the services there, you know, constable, small claims, cord fire, police.
That's why people stay and that's what makes it hot. Tina,
I just heard from somebody who ought to know. It's
a trusty. I met Johns is also running, and she

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said that she just texted me, Tina, to pass us along.
She ought to know she's a trustee. That it's one
hundred vote difference. So if it's if it was a
hundred vote or less between mister Woods and the incumbents.

Speaker 15 (01:12:45):
But.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Numbers trigger an automatic recount. Okay, so one hundred, yeah,
one hundred, okay, okay, well, thank you, thank you for that. Yeah,
thank you. One hundred or fewers. So in the indication
so far, in terms of polling as to how this
race may be shaping up, because it's more crowded than most,
it's more crowded than most on the Democratic side, But

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so any early indicators.

Speaker 16 (01:13:11):
I try to keep even killed the optimistic. The last time,
I worked pretty hard to come up short. This time,
I even though I've worked harder, reaching out to different
groups to make sure they're aware who I am and
what I plan on doing, so I don't want to
be blindsided. So I'm just going to keep it even

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killed and keep my head down and keep grinding away,
as they say, until the last boats cast on the fifth,
and we'll see what happens. But I'm just proud of
the work that we're doing and getting the word out
because a lot of people have no clue about the
whole process. And I run across people and they say,
I just thought. One my property manager says, you got

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fourteen days to get out. I have to do that. Well,
you can go to small claims court and let the
challenge and let the judge see if it's even a
lawful eviction. But they are so nervous, and they they're
so scared they leave and go sleep in their cars,
and the stories that I heard, it's just horrific. So
the amount of people that didn't know they had a
choice just blindsides me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Yeah, well, that choice is not usually spelled out in
that notice either, So nope, nope, it's not so that.
Yeah then, and so perhaps an education campaign like you
talked about, yes, you know, might be you know, so
what is again our guest is Paul Woods. He is
running for the Democratic Party's nomination for their candidate for

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Pike Township Constable. I have the Republicans? Do they have
the Republican side have it?

Speaker 16 (01:14:46):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Oh, I look at that. That's that's my fault. I
should have. But we're talking about the Democratic primary and
the four that are there. What would you say? Okay,
before we have to let you go, we need to
know your website or how people I can get ahold
of you. And I guess your thirty second elevator speech
is to choose me, don't choose me.

Speaker 16 (01:15:07):
You can go to my website Paul Woods pts dot com,
see a little bio about me, a couple of interviews
and so forth. But my elevator pitch to my community
in Pike Township is we don't sleep out here in Pike.
It's growing fast. I want to be the first one
to put our deputies out of the courtroom, out in

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our neighborhoods. It's being visible firsthand with the people so
they may see us when they ask have a question,
they can just flasus down to ask us. We're going
to have the information with us in the cars and
here's your rights, here's what the process has to be
if you've been asked and be evicted. And the last
piece is, like I said, I want to be known

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as that constable that cares. So that's why I'm putting
twenty five cent of myseldar because I don't have a
disabled veteran, a small business owner, two businesses. It's not
about the money, It's about helping the people so who
need a chance and understand the rules and level of
playing fields so they don't get victimized again by some
of these shady landlords out there who will just get
out tomorrow in twenty four hours. And these people are

(01:16:10):
scared and they just run.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Run indeed, and the website once more, Paul Woods pts
dot com And where are you on the ballot?

Speaker 16 (01:16:20):
I'm start at the bottom of the best and where
you back up?

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Okay, okay, well thank you mister Woods. James. Any final
thoughts or questions before we have to let mister Woods go?

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
No, And just are you really not going to get
much sleep until election? David?

Speaker 16 (01:16:35):
That's how it goes election day and I normally I
crash about two or three in the morning, and I'm
back up about six o'clock doing something, replacing signs or
just doing something.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Wow politics, the signs go down, they go up, they
go down, James, you know that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
So I know what's that about.

Speaker 7 (01:16:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Folks wasting trees and stuff. That's what they're doing, you know.
But it's all and well, good luck to you, thank you,
good luck to you, and you keep us posted and
all the best.

Speaker 16 (01:17:05):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
All righty, thank you, and we'll be back with more
community Connection. The lines are still open three one, seven, four, eight, zero,
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Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
FM and we're back with Community Connection. Just finished a
good session with yet another candidate. We got several more
coming up and guess what, James, the week of the election,
guess who we have coming on with us and old
favorite Miss Cordelia, Miss Cordelia Lewis Burks. She said, Tina,

(01:18:24):
I'm back, and you've been on my mind. I said,
Miss Cordelia, you pick a day and we will move
heaven and earth to get you on, because that's how
much I respect Miss Cordelia. But she she's been through
a lot, but she still cares about her community, and
she still cares about these elections, and she wants you

(01:18:46):
to understand what she wants you to know that you
need to know if that makes sense, so you know,
it's all about caring and communicating and keeping our community
up to date on what's important. And so she wants
to come on. So she'll be on the day before
the election. She'll be on. In the meantime, we've got
commitments from Gregory Patrick, who was running in the Democratic

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primary for Marion County Sheriff, and we have a semi commitment.
I'm not sure, but we're working that out with Kelvis
Williams also running for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of
Marion County. So we got a lot more. Let me
see who else have I have several more scheduled and

(01:19:30):
we'll get to that as well. But before we go
too much further in the show, we're going to keep
our promise. We got another set of tickets, but we
got to find out James and Eric who won the
last set, because when I see Eric, when I see
the lights, see the lights tell a whole story. James,
you got to come in here, you see and and
different color lights and all kinds of stuff. And when

(01:19:51):
I didn't see the right color light, I knew that
that caller could either could not stay on, was it
work or whatever? So Eric, what happened?

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
Well, she was at work, And.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Oh my goodness, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
All of our winners of late have been at work.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
I don't know any of them that happened.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
They've all called from, which is great, it is. It's
wonderful they're able to listen to the streaming.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
They're working, they're streaming.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
I think what excites folks more, especially out there in
the in the stratosphere and it and everything. They're streaming.
They're streaming, which is utilizing and taking advantage of a
technology that radio simply didn't have before.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
That's very true.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
So you know, in addition to getting in your car,
turned on your radio or going online, they are streaming.
So that's we applaud that.

Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
And you know what, that almost shows you that a
lot of people are in jobs that are linear. I
mean they can focus on their job yet have something
in their ear where they can hear what's going on
as well. They're not just, in my view, taking a
chunk out of their workday to just listen and do
nothing else. They're working while they are, you know, also listening.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
Let's stop that sentence halfway. They're working.

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
They're working.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
They are working. They're working. So we applaud that, and
we're real happy for y'all that are working. So keep up,
keep it up, keep up the good word.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Lolita, Lolita, Heitch was our winner. She has dollar nine
got the tickets to the dj g NO Celebration of Choirs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Okay, Lolita, congratulations again. Usually when when folks are working,
they have a very short time too.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
Yes, she did a very short time. She did say
she's probably going to take a good friend of hers,
maybe a best friend.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Okay, that's nice.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
So that's a good thing. So lolita heitsch, congratulations.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Congratulations, you have the opportunity to take somebody, so that's true. Yeah, indeed,
so we are right now before we have to get
off the air, we'll go ahead and give away the
second set of tickets. Sounds good to be second set
of tickets. So Eric, you want to pay the you're
you're the man at the at the at the helm. Yeah,
go ahead and pick pick number between one and ten.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
One in ten, I'm gonna say number eight.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Okay. If you are a caller, huh number Okay, good number.
If you're caller number eight to the number three one
seven for eight zero thirteen ten. If you are caller
number eight to the number three one seven for eight
zero thirteen ten, you will win a pair of tickets
to DJ Gino's Celebration of Choirs coming up May thirty,

(01:22:30):
first Campus of University at the Lovely Clues Memorial Hall.
It is going to be a phenomenal Geno production, as
they all tend to be, you know how, Geno does
it all right? Tonight tonight, tonight, extra loud and extra large,
extralout at Extra Large, starring Ricky Dillard, special featured guest

(01:22:53):
Vincent Bohannan, SolV the Chicago Mass Choir, five local choirs
with local choir directors and voting the Reverend Doctor Carliggins
from Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, James Andrew from Total
New Beginning, James andrews my No Hall, New Direction Church,
Sherry Garrison from Eastern Star, and Bryson Robinson from Light
of the World. Now, if you don't happen to get in,

(01:23:17):
you can get your tickets at any time. They're on
sale now at Clues Memorial Halls Box Office, Cluse Memorial
Hall Box Office, or at d j geno dot net.
That's d is in dog j is enjoy g g
g G is in go e n O. You know
DJ geno dot net, DJ than I but no, that's okay,

(01:23:41):
I just slowed it down. That's usually. But anyway, djgo
dot net. If you'd like to buy your tickets, I
have no idea what the price range is, but I
know the price range of free is certainly one that
I really like. All free free ninety nine is the folks,
So good good luck. Eric will let you go to

(01:24:01):
work and sift through all those callers. James, we were
talking about the elections, early voting. I'm sure you and
your wife have plans to vote. Are you going to
vote on election day or early?

Speaker 6 (01:24:14):
I would be early, And I'm glad you brought up
elections because Tina, I'm going to stay from time to time.
You know, I talked to you about before where I
live in my township, which happened to Pike Township, and
the streets. We've talked about the streets before. So here's
what I did. I called my district councilman, Reverend doctor

(01:24:35):
Carlos Perkins April on April twenty third, what's today the
twenty fourth. That was yesterday, Yeah, regarding calling me back,
because I had some questions about the streets over here.
They've got more money now. So from time to time
I will tell you I've written down April twenty third.
I will try to call him at least once a week.

(01:24:56):
He hasn't called me back yet from yesterday, to see
if he calls me back. Now, not just me and
my township, there's eight other townships. But I just from
my point of view, I have put out a call
a request to my confidence, doctor Collins Perkins, because I
would like to know what streets are in line to
be paid. They've done. I have to give them, you know, kudos.

(01:25:18):
They have strip patched Georgetown Road, Guyan Road, but there's
seventy fourth Street between Michigan and Guyan Road. Well really
Georgetown Road needs some help, need some love. And then
also Rotabah Road where there's two excellent schools are So

(01:25:39):
I'm looking for a callback. I'm hoping, but that's just
in my personal view. If I were just a caller
calling in, I would point this out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, and it does work. And to a person,
every city, county councilor who has ever been on this
show has said they welcome that, they ask for that
feedback and assistance too, because they may not always be
able to get back with their constituents on that very day. Uh,

(01:26:07):
but they do like to get back. They like to
hear about things. They like to hear about things before
they become too much of a problem.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
Yeah. Yeah, I actually had his number calling three one seven.
He gave it to us while he was on the
air seven seven oer. So I'll keep trying for to
you every now and then now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
All shiate it or not, he's called he not Yeah, yeah, indeed, indeed,
yeah he was. He was willing to come on because
it wasn't just you. There were several of his members,
of his constituents in his district who had a concern
with not you know, non response, lack of a response
in terms of questions and things being asked and concerns

(01:26:49):
being addressed. So good for you, James. I hope that that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:54):
Well, you know, kind of goes back to what Dana
and Marvin we're saying. I mean, and you too, I mean,
if they're doing a good job, hey perfect, you know,
but you're nitipo. Elections are next year, so we're going
to keep our eye on it. This year we are
played as full with these elections national and local and
state elections, but those are coming as well. So hey,

(01:27:18):
what what have you done lately? That's the question.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Yeah, you know, two things, two articles that I don't
know if we've I know, we haven't had a chance
to get to that. Our good friend Mark Russell, director
back you know, over at the urbanly cassentis the one
was and I didn't bring it down here and I
should have let me look it up in my phone.
But it was a young man who was accused of

(01:27:42):
appointing a weapon and firing a weapon at a police officer,
later to be released from jail and charges dropped attempted
murder and some other charges dropped after body worn camera
video showed exactly the opposite or anyway proved that no
way could that have happened, And so he was released

(01:28:02):
from jail. Uh and the charges were dropped by the
Mary County prosecutor because the narrative and the probable cause
effidavit and the video from the body worn camera simply
did not square, simply did not exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:28:18):
And I mean this, this this made national news and
this team see what's his name is Dalleen d A
I L. E. And Drewer.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Yes, yes, that's the one, Yeah, Drewer.

Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
The police narrative, the probable cause affidavit or what's the
document they wanted to use to bring charges against them,
that he made a gesture like the trigger, but did
not fire the gun. He looked down at his gun
as if he were quote surprised by this, police wrote

(01:28:56):
in a Facebook post announcing as rest it was a
Facebook post or not probable cause and then it also
our officers were faced with rapidly escalating and extremely dangerous
situations in which firearms were pointed at officers. I m
p D Chief Tanya Terry was quoted as saying in

(01:29:16):
the post, in each moment, our officers responded with professionalism
and action, maintained control under extreme pressure, and prevented what
could have been tragic outcomes. However, our witnesses and also
Brewer himself said that is not what happened, and the

(01:29:39):
officers could not provide beyond their posts evidence backing what
they said, including you know, the bodyworn cameras which showed
something else.

Speaker 15 (01:29:52):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:29:52):
The prosecutor decided not to because what what mister Brewer
said what happened was the at let's see this person
called okay. A seventeen year old veteran, no excuse me.
A seventeen year old veteran sergeant Robin Fraser, was a
police officer her body worn camera. She drove to a

(01:30:16):
position to position her vehicle in front of Brewers and
got out and approached the Honda. In the one page
probable cause AFFI David here Is, Fraser wrote that she
saw a Brewer's friend with a long gun in between
his legs, but she wasn't able to see Brewer's hands.
As she stepped closer, she said, Brewer appeared to be

(01:30:36):
pointing a revolver toward her at the door panel. And
then let's see. Brewer said, that's not what happened. He said,
as soon as she got up to the car, I
didn't touch anything. As soon as she said raise your hands,
I raised my hands. I didn't touch nothing at all. Quote.
And then she said step out of the car. I

(01:30:58):
might as well comply, he said, So she ordered him
to open the vehicle door, and then he did. Sergeant
Fraser could see an ar style gun between Brewer's leg
and a revolver next to his foot, you know. And
then Fraser said Brewer moved his left arm, which prompted
her to pull her firearm, ordering him not to move.

(01:31:19):
Oh thank god she didn't pull the trigger because she
could have, said she felt for a dangerment of her
own lines. But Michail Oliver, who witnessed the encounter at
Riverside This was near Riverside Park, said Brewer and his
friend were calm and quickly and quietly complied. Oliver said
she also overheard an officer's voice shake as she told

(01:31:40):
other law enforcement officers enforcement at the scene, he pointed
a gun at me. That's not what apparently occurred.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Thank goodness for body warn cameras. And we have to
Mark is right. We got to keep her eye and
remain aware of things like that in you know, coming
because that's just that's just too much. It's just too much,
and you know, a tragedy could have occurred, and it didn't.
Thank God. Also some of the things that happened over
the week. And I don't remember if you were here

(01:32:09):
or not, but Andrea Hunley, former state Senator Andrea Hunley,
as you know, the worst kept secret in the city.
She's running for mayor. She is not going to seek
reelection in the state's forty six district and she will
join declared candidate Boposily in terms of the democratic the
Democratic field, So good luck to her. Also, kudos and

(01:32:34):
hats off to an Arsenal Technical High School robotics team.
They're headed to the World Championships in robotics for the
first time ever in the school's history. Actually I think
first time ever for a school in Indianapolis and Marion
County and so way way way, hats off to Arsenal Tech.
We're yeah, we're going to give the team. The seniors

(01:32:55):
are Jared Lewis, Brandon Rodriguez, an Angel cause Me, and
junior Miguel Marlows cos Me c O s M cos Me.
They designed and built their own robot over the past
year and again they are going to be uh competing
in the ve X the VEX Robotics World Championships. It

(01:33:16):
says Texas Team X text Team X Team X from
Tech is the first IPS high school team to reach
the Robotics World Championships, and so we certainly do wish them.
We wish them well. Uh in that And I'm not
sure if you were aware of this either. I don't
know how often you you eat out or whatever, but

(01:33:38):
Eric and I were. I was quite amused that Michelin,
you know, the famed restaurant and God Guide not God Guide,
is adding Indianapolis for the first time. So it's it's
not as, it's not like all of that. Yeah, it's uh,
you pay, you pay, you pay, you pay, but at
least you get a little a little love. And we'll

(01:33:59):
see how they that turns out, because they will be
sampling and and trying and seeing what restaurants are deserving
of a Michelin star or two or three. I think
four is the one she can get. We have a winner.
We have a winner.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
Let's go here. I'm going to congratulate. It is Serena Davis. Serena.
Are you there?

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Thank you for your page Sharena, congratulations, thank you, thank you. Okay, So,
so how did how did you get in the boy?
Was it first time? First time you got in? First time? Trying?

Speaker 7 (01:34:40):
First time?

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Try?

Speaker 9 (01:34:41):
Actually no, ma'am, so I tried multiple times. I just
kept I was collared and I love h I think
it is twice. So color three and then color eight.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Oh wow wow, yeah in it?

Speaker 7 (01:35:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
So, so what what do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
How are you going to spend that?

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Yeah? Well, indeed, indeed, how do you plan to spend
the evening? You're gonna take somebody with you or are
you gonna what are you gonna do?

Speaker 15 (01:35:12):
Am?

Speaker 9 (01:35:13):
So, I'm going to surprise a friend who really really
wanted to go, and she's been praying on it. So
I told her I was going to try my hard.

Speaker 8 (01:35:23):
To to try to get some tickets.

Speaker 9 (01:35:24):
So I'm going to surprise hers.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
I love that and answered prayer. Gino's gonna love that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
That's awesome answer to prayer.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
Indeed, so are You're not at work though, right, so
we can talk to you for a minute, No, ma'am, indeed, indeed, indeed. Well,
thank you so much for listening and congratulations. I hope
you really enjoyed the show. Any particular favorites, uh in
the lineup that that you especially want to see, or
that that that your friend especially wants to see. And

(01:35:58):
we're losing her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're losing Serena.

Speaker 4 (01:36:03):
Looks like we're losing. Are you still with us? Are you?

Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
But anyway, we do want to wish you well enjoy
the show. Thank you so much for calling and listening.
And hey, well I don't know if we'll have any
more next week. Thank you, Serena. Congratulations.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
See, I I'll have to check.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
You know, what's going to have to happen. Gino's gonna
have to make another run through through the office, go
through there, and he'll stick his head in my office
and say, Tina, what's going on? What are you doing?
Come on? Come on? And so hopefully if Gino see
the good news is the good news for all of
you out there who have called and who have not
been able to get through. The show was not until

(01:36:40):
the thirty first, So you got a minute or two
certainly have. And if I'm a betting person, I would
be willing to bet that Gino might have another drop
coming real soon.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Well I would think so too. Yeah, how about you, James,
you think.

Speaker 6 (01:36:53):
Oh yeah, you have Gino another ever weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
Yeah? Yeah, So James, before before we had offered the weekend,
anything in particular you wanted to remind us of or
that we didn't get.

Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
Yeah, a couple of things here you mentioned, just to
kind of tagalong on what you said about the mayor's
race and Senator Andrew Hungry jumping in. There's three candidates
there now courts. Former City County UH Council president Bob
Osley is in there along with you know, as we
just mentioned state senator, former state senator uh well Indiana

(01:37:25):
state senator and not running for re election, and also
uh in recent days David Bride b r I d
oh he did, yeah, longtime city employee and former union
leader also launched his so he got three. Yeah. And
then the last thing that I'll say that I'll bother

(01:37:46):
you guys with today is uh. I also received a
couple of emails I think the same one Sina got
from Mark Russell. And this is a story that we
have into now perhaps if I have time a gonna
read it and you look at the research, but it
talks about this study that finds it's called thinking instead

(01:38:09):
of starring ye, about boys and men in Indiana falling
behind educationally. You look at why and just in a
nutshell real quick, but we can get into it at
at a future time. They they're from that social media
and too much content on that is really playing a

(01:38:31):
big role because what they say is and this happened
in my time in back in my time in high
school too, that boys do really well, you know up
until high school and then the floor gops out. So
we got to figure out why and this study doesn't
hm well instead of staring.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Yeah yeah, I've heard and read other studies that the
decline starts as early as third grade too, especially for
black and brown young boys, just boys, not the girls.
That which is really weird. They and it had to do.
I think they had narrowed it down to reading decline
that if they are not proficient at reading by the
third grade, they have a tendency to fall me. There's

(01:39:15):
a lot. But yeah, let's let's let's look into that.
We can get some educational folks in here too, experts
to sort of sort out some of that for us.
That that is.

Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
The report that they say, Man, they're all right, and
then when they get to high school. But anyway we
can look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Yeah, yeah, indeed. Alrighty, So you guys have a good weekend,
stay dry today. Good weekend is just ahead. Maybe I
can get my car out of the rain before it starts,
I don't know, save a car wash. All right, Willemore
Junior on the radio. Your nephew is up next until
then for Eric and James until well, not until Williemore

(01:39:54):
Junior until Monday. We'll be back on Monday. Lots more
for you coming up next week. Everybody, please be safety well,
stay informed. For everyone here, I'm Tina Cosby and this
is community Connection.

Speaker 6 (01:40:06):
Yeah,

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