Community Connection August 27th, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WTOCAM W two three six c are Indianapolis, discussing the
issues that matter to you and keeping you informed with
what's happening in and around Indy. It's Community Connection with
Tina Cosby, brought to you by Child Advocates, a champion
for justice, opportunity and well being for children on Praise

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Speaker 2 (00:25):
And good afternoon, and welcome to Community Connection. I'm TENA Cosby.
Today is Wednesday, August the twenty seventh. Three one seven
four eight zero thirteen ten. Three one seven four eight
zero thirteen ten is the number to the show. I
apologize for the lateness of our arrival, but when equipment
breaks down on you, including printers and all kinds of

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other stuff, it always happens right before you have to
do what you need to do. It just never fails.
So put us behind just a couple of minutes, but
we're here. I'm going to be here until until three o'clock.
Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten is the
number to the show. On the show today, the city's
first ever reality TV show is about to launch, and

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we're going to hear all about it from the executive producer.
That's coming up in our second hour. Also in our
second hour, Danny Bridges with the Indianapolis Recorder is soon
to be on the road starting tomorrow, so he won't
be here tomorrow. That's why he's joining us today with
his weekly sports report. That more coming up in our
second hour. Three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten.

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Three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten is the number.
The lines are open for whatever you may want to
share talk about for this very first hour. But clearly
there's something that we all need to know about I
want to share, and that is that there has been

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yet another unthinkable act of gun violence against innocent children
here in the United States of America, you know, the
greatest anyway, United States of America. Innocent children gunned down
again today in a school. This one was earlier this morning,
just before around eight, around the eight eight o'clock hour,

(02:15):
eight thirty, something like that happened in Minneapolis. Police say
a lone gunman armed and shooting all three. He was
armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. He
was shooting a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol, targeting youngsters
at a Catholic school. Who were praying again. They were

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in the pews of the church, the chapel there at
the school rather praying as part of a back to
school worship service, a back to school early morning mass.
Okay three one seven for eight zero, thirteen to ten.
Now at last report, two children were killed there, ages

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eight and Teneen other people were injured fourteen children injured,
three adults injured. The hospital reported just under an hour
ago that seven of those injured children are critical. They're
being sent to different places within the city trauma centers.

(03:18):
I didn't get exactly all that, but as for the shooter,
police say he is dead and that from all indications,
he shot and killed himself. He was reportedly seen dressed
in black perhaps combat fatigues. Apparently started shooting this one.
He thought it through and again from what I've been

(03:41):
able to ascertain reading watching reports and all kinds of
other things, he started shooting and through the outside. He
started outside, so he started shooting through the glass of
the chapel, and then he was targeting kids. After the
glass you know, was shattered, and I guess climbed through
the window where he continued shooting in going into the building.

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He apparently had time to barricade a couple of exit
doors with two by fours so that no one could
get out. There was word as well that some type
of smoke bomb was found or smoke bombs were found
as well, but apparently were either not deployed or only
partially deployed enough. I wasn't clear because I was getting,

(04:30):
you know, just going to different stations. Although I did
listen to the officials and I did take the official
word from the mayor and the chief of police, and
from what between the two of those officials, this gunman
apparently researched everything, planned it, carried it out, and then

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ended at all so that he would not have to
take responsibility for the action. To me, sounds like an
act of terrorism. And why we're calling these people school
shooters or shooters or what have you. Instead of terrorists,
they're domestic terrorists. We have a terrorism problem in this

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country that knows no boundaries. Children, children, children are being killed.
And as one of the senators I believe it was
Amy Klovishar, who represents you know, she's from that state,
she says, if this doesn't change anything, then then what will?
Because you know what's gonna happen. You know what's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
We don't know what his motivations were. We don't know
whether he should or shouldn't have had access to a shotgun,
a pistol, and what was it. I want to get
it right. He had a shotgun, pistol, and a rifle
shooting a rifle. A shotgun and a pistol. Those are
the three guns that they say, I want my guns

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and meal guns don't kill people people. That is a sickness.
There is a sickness that people cannot convince their lawmakers
to get behind just common sense gun regulations to prevent
the slaughter of the innocence. These kids, these people are

(06:19):
being slaughtered. They're being slaughtered. And I don't understand how
a simple, a simple like an age requirement. It has
to you know, it has to oversee, you know, has
to go against what eighty percent of the country say
they would support. I don't get it. And one of
the one of the anchors on CNN or somebody was saying.

(06:44):
Somebody was telling one of the anchors, I think they
were interviewing somebody to get their response, and uh, I,
you know, I hesitate to say it, but the word
from the White House, the one that sits there in
the chair, Uh, something about pray with me. And then
somebody that was one of the experts that was he
said he didn't want to hear anymore about thoughts and prayers.

(07:06):
Something needs to be done. You know, they've been saying
something needs to be done for the longest. Two is
being normalized, just like he and those antics that he
performs and does and all that. It's just all being
normalized because nobody is standing up to anybody. I guess
I don't know, why do you need to gun down children?

(07:29):
Just like the people that were you know, in the
church several years ago, the Bible teacher and all the
folks that were there for a prayer service. These people
were black. They were gunned down, killed, slaughtered. Nobody had
any problem. Well, you know, we're sending our thoughts and prayers.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
It just defies any if anybody says that this nation
is not sick with guns. Somebody tried to argue that
point to me the other day, that we are not
sick and there's not the guns and what have you.
And he he was a statistic whoever he was, He
said he was a male in his early twenties, didn't
say what his ethnicity was or anything like that. Seemingly

(08:14):
in his early twenties with some combat fatigues and whatever,
but he he hit the profile of the average American
according to statistics. Because statistics stats, you know, there are
so many guns in this country that it would average
out to every American when we have three hundred million Americans,
so that they have, so there would be nine hundred

(08:35):
million guns then, right, because there would be three guns
per every American. That's the average. That's how many guns
we have in the United States of America. And I
don't have a problem with people having firearms to protect themselves.
I don't have a problem with people hunting or what
have you. I don't have It's not that, But how

(08:58):
that continually gets so conflated with b s about the
Second Amendment. I don't want to hear any more of that.
I can't. And as far as processing, how can we
continue to process stuff like this on a regular basis?
How as a country and you know a lot of

(09:19):
you all have called me out about how I feel
about guns.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's okay.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm not going to change how I feel. And I'm
not going to change what I think, but anyway, anyway,
So here's what's going to happen. All of these lawmakers
that could do something about it, And I guess I
do want to go back to the one that sits
in the chair up on Pennsylvania Avenue, because he has
written hundreds of executive orders about anything and everything on

(09:46):
this planet, including professional football teams changing their names and
wanting the colors of this changed and wanting this change,
and that he could right now, right now talk about
his thoughts and prayers. I don't even think he knows
how to spell prayers, but I don't know. I've never
seen the spells. But he could right now issue an
executive order that would take some of the edge off

(10:08):
of some of this if he wanted to. And who
in the world is going to believe a man that
doesn't even know how to quote a Bible verse? But
you know, what does he say, two Corinthians or what
have you? Who is going to believe somebody like that
it even has prayer in their in their in their being.
He knows how to pray. It's just words. It's just

(10:29):
words thoughts and prayers, words, words, words, words, prayer without
what in faith without action?

Speaker 5 (10:37):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know what I'm saying. I'm getting all I don't
want to get to too. But but faith without works
is dead. Yeah. Uh, so don't throw don't. I don't
want to hear it. And it's not that I am
not a a believer or a Christian or a person
of religious values and that that has nothing to do
with it. And I don't want them to throw it.

(11:00):
It's a it's a it's a what do you what
do you call that? Camera? It's just a saying. Now,
it doesn't mean it's empty. It's an empty phrase. Yeah,
all words, no action, empty phraseology. And so that's what.
Uh the U? I wish I could remember who it was,
but like I said, I was trying to catch up

(11:21):
with reading and looking and I couldn't have agreed with
them more. But I say this after every one of
these and the number of mass shootings. Do you know
in the United States of America there have been almost
three hundred mass shootings so far this year. Now, I
don't know about school shit this year. And you're going

(11:42):
to tell me we don't have a problem with guns
and gun violence. This man, he's whoever he was set
up stalked out, planned a terrorist attack on innocent children
who were praying in a church, much like the one
in South Carolina, and and you know countless others they

(12:02):
they they they they set up and plan and carry
out terrorist attacks in churches. Anyway, I cannot That's why
I didn't play any sound from the high ranking officials,
because I don't want to hear about their thoughts and prayers.
I don't want to hear that. Maybe I don't know.

(12:23):
I don't want to hear it because that that's just
as infuriating as what that what that person did. We
don't know the story, and I guess we'll find out
more of the story, but frankly, the news coverage, I
don't want to hear the news coverage because you know
what they're gonna do. We're gonna we're gonna do an investigation.
And everybody's done their jobs. We want to thank law enforcement,
we want to thank first responders, we want to thank

(12:44):
the hospitals. Yes we do, but that is not what
the problem is. Of course, people are going to do
their jobs. We need them to do their jobs, but
that's not the problem. Why do they have to do
their jobs so much Why does this keep coming up
over and over and over. Nobody addresses that whenever one
of these happens. Nobody addresses the core of the problem,

(13:05):
the root of the problem. Nobody thoughts and prayers. Thoughts
and prayers we have. Will you pray with me? I
think that's what Trump said, Join me in pray for
we can get out on faith. Three one seven four
eight zero thirteen ten. Three one seven four eight zero
thirteen ten.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
I do.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
My heart does go out to the families that experienced
this today and to the ones that are reliving it
all over again, the ones that are reliving it black
and white. This is you know this, This this crosses
all it's it's an equal opportunity crime. It goes across

(13:43):
all platforms, all demos, all demographics, It goes across everything.
And when there's no respect for children, uh and uh
for worship in church, some of these so called a
Christian fundamentalist or what have you, they should be outraged
that their churches are being attacked by terrorists. But I

(14:04):
bet you what, they'll fight you to the ground to
be able to keep guns in the hands of those terrorsts.
I bet you they will uh. Three one seven four, eight, zero,
thirteen ten. Joe, go ahead, how are you.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
Teen? Of my My condolences civil families, And my heart
just breaks because I do have three grand sons here
in Indianapolis Centre in school and fired down in Florida,
and I got our little grandson to start a kindergarten.
So it just s braks my heart.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, the kids that were killed were eight years old
and ten years old, ten, eight and ten. And you know,
I too have a grandson, and you know he's in preschool.
But I mean, we all but you know what, something
the mayor said that I really liked, I really appreciated
because he was nearly in tears, but he asked anyone

(15:01):
listening not to think of this incident as their kids,
like as Minnesota's kids, think of them as your kids,
because when this happens here, it's happening to every child
in America, because children across the country are being traumatized,
whether they're school and church or whatever is being shot
up or not, just by the mere thought. My daughter
is a teacher, she said they I called her. She said,

(15:23):
they just conducted an emergency drill, a lockdown drill, earlier
this week. I think it was Monday, and she said,
goodness gracious. So yeah, but even if I didn't have
a grandson in preschool or a daughter in a school,
that even if that were not the case, I would
still feel the same, and I'd still say the same.

(15:46):
It's just it's just I don't understand the insanity. I
don't get it. I just don't.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
It's all about memory me. Why manufacturers are the money
in the hands of these Republicans who are chickens to
do anything to protect our kids, and not only our kids,
the inner city and everything else. Yeah, they're pumping gruns
in here like it's going crazy. Yeah, but to set

(16:17):
up a call, there's a call. I'm not going to
call any names that has been calling me in and
making these statements. And this weekend on Saturday, I heard
the same statements made on the Tommy Brown showing the
Pastors Show, about the same thing. And after I heard it,

(16:41):
I sat down and I wrote a response, and I
just want to read it real quick. If it's okay,
I'm not calling any names.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well without saying I know exactly who you, and I
think our listeners do too, But do go ahead. I
appreciate your I appreciate that, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Okay, I have changed the name colored to black, so
where it says blacks, he used the word color.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
I must respond directly to a statement shire last week
by one of your listeners, remarks that claimed black people
have never built anything, that black female leaders are a
joke and it's slavery or a punic. That's what I
just lost my computer. Okay, that slavery was somewhere somehow

(17:32):
preferable to Black Americans, even when as far as to
say that Egypt is not in Africa, an error both
laughable and shameful. I not only heard these words on
your show, but it was repeated on Saturday Morning talk Sellers.
These comments, these comments are not just offensive, they're historically foughts,

(17:57):
morally bankrupt, and dangerously They're responsible. Black people have built, created,
and led across centuries and continents. Ancient Africa civilization like
Mali Nubai, the Great Zimbabwe established thriving cities, global trade routes,

(18:21):
and centers of learning long before Europe rose to prominence.
Here in the United States, black labor literally helped build
this nation. The White House itself stands on brick slave
by enslaved hands. Black invaders have advanced medicine, engineering, science, politics,

(18:48):
and the arts, and black women leaders like Shirley Franklin
to Karen Freeman Wilson has got major cities with integrity,
strength and vision to suggest that black people are better
off as slaver. That's not only ignorant, it is a
violent rejection of human dignity. Slavery was a system of

(19:10):
humanization and brutality, and no person should ever be reduced
to property. That such words came from a black man
or a colored man makes it even more painful, raising
the question what does he teach his own children about
who they are and where they came from. As a

(19:31):
United States veteran, I took an oath to defend the
rights of all Americans, including his right to speak. I
still find it heartbreaking to hear such poison repeated on
public airways. We must reject lies, embrace truth and the
horror of full humanity and legacy in every community. Only

(19:54):
then can we move forward with the honest and respectful
dialogue our best nation. That's what great needs. And I
hope that that person hurt what I've just written. Yeah,
and that was written from my heart.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
It was beautifully written and so so very true, and
I appreciate you taking the time to share that with us, Joe,
And well done, is all I can say. And you know,
we all we all know, we all know.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I think the only one that may not know is
the one who's spouting it, you know, because I think
most of us, you know, we have some extremely intelligent
callers that are well read, well versed, well informed all
kinds of things. And nobody's buying that. I would hope
not anyway, But you say, you're right. It's disappointing because

(20:50):
if you think of what if you think of one person,
one black person thinks like that, what are your thoughts
about other black people that think like that? That's uh?
That that in one And my I guess my My
question is always why what? What's what are you trying
to prove? You know, what is it that you're trying
to prove? And the answer is usually always, well, I

(21:12):
want the truth. I want people to know the truth.
So you know, I guess truth depends on what reality
you live in, you.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Know, and reality he's living in a reality or Trump? Well, yeah,
we all know what reality that is. Yeah, And the
bottom line is that, uh, it's here, people, twenty twenty
five is here, and we're getting ready to experience something
that none of us thought would ever happen. But it's

(21:40):
getting ready to happen.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
If we actually, Joe, it's happening as we speak. You know,
all of it is taking place as we speak. There
is a and Joe, thank you. There is a website
called the Project twenty twenty five Tracker, and what it
tells you is how much or what percent of that
plan has been executed or carried out up to this point.

(22:05):
And I haven't checked the tracker yet for a while,
I should say Project twenty twenty five tracker, and it
gives real time updates as to what all is going on. Yeah,
so tracker. Okay, there we go. Let's see overall progress.

(22:30):
The total objectives were three hundred and seventeen involving thirty
four agencies, and right now, eight months, almost nine months
into the administration, they are at forty seven percent of
their goal. Right now, forty seven percent of their goals.
So when I told Joe that, you know, he said

(22:50):
about to have a wee. It's underway and they're basically
halfway there. In less than a year. Go look it
up Project twenty twenty five tracker trac t R A
c k e R Tracker t R a c k
e R. Look it up and it goes into a
lot more a lot more detailed than what I'm able

(23:11):
to do on the show. But I'm, you know, just
overall to give you the summary. They're halfway there and
he hasn't been in the office a year. So yeah,
it's underway, right now, underway right now? Uh three one, seven,
forty zero thirteen ten, Sam, go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Ooh, I've been paying, I've been painting.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
Okay, I'm going to connect the dot number one hip
pop Chrissy.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Right, So we're pro life.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
We're No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
You can care less about the kids that are here.

Speaker 7 (23:49):
You can care less about okay, don't talk to me
with your hipocrisy.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mess about you for pro life.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
You should be for pro life.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
With the baby is dagone born.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
You should want to make sure that pro with your
pro life, that that baby has adequate food, has adequate shelter,
has adequate medical needs.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Don't talk tell me about pro life.

Speaker 7 (24:14):
And then, time after time after time after time after time, tennis.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
And children walk to school or go to school on a.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Bus to have someone killed in town many times?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
How many times?

Speaker 7 (24:31):
The pro life and oh well you know, but no,
you're not pro life. You're about pro your your power. Now,
pro life is pro power, that's what you're about. I
can't take the hypocrisy. So if you're about dagon pro life,
then you gonna make sure the mama and the baby

(24:51):
gets what they need. So the mama baby's a pride.
If you are pro life, you will be outraised. Both
would be outright, like tell no, none of my wife
is not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
No, no more. Enough is enough. But no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
But your pro life you're a hypocrit. You are a
big fat hypocrit. If you don't care. Okay, abortion, okay,
because you don't want the white girls to have the abortions, right,
you need to really Yeah, I guess a white woman
told me that.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, listen, pro life is pro life.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
For a child going to a school should be feeling safe.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
How many other countries have school shootings?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I think great Britain, the United States leads the planet,
we lead the world. There's nobody even close that even
comes close to us and yet and still but yeah,
and they say pro life, but you allow your babies
to be gunned down, your children to be gunned down
in church services on the regular, and do nothing about
it but offer thoughts and prayers.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Oh yeah, No, you're a hypocrite.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
They're hypocrist.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Gosh, don't talk about pro life.

Speaker 7 (26:09):
Don't even say don't even have it come out of
your lips when you were That's the worst thing you
could do is you don't want to protect the baby.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
And they need to take that get here.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
You don't want to feed them, you want you don't
want to make You want.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
To make sure they don't have any health care? Who
are a ship for crite.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
That it is about pro life, and y'all ain't it.
And it's about time we stand up in fact who
you are liars and hypocrists like that that that man,
that orange man in the in the in the White House.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, and thank you saying I appreciate it in here.
You know, your passion is real, just like all of
the rest of our passion. And you know, sometimes it's exhausting,
other times it's maddening. But when you the rank hypocrisy
of we, you know, we want to save children, and
we want to say yeah, but she let it. You're
making them sitting ducks. They're ducks on a pond every

(27:06):
school in America because you won't take a simple a
simple gun, a simple measure to at least have some
type of semblance, some type of sanity around the possession
or the use of handguns. But so how can you

(27:26):
not make that discussion? Just like you know, Prosecutor Mirrors
was here the other day and he was saying that
he wanted to have a discussion with the governor about
what the real problem is when it comes to violence.
But he said, the governor doesn't want to have that
discussion because when we drill down to what the real
problem is, the governor doesn't want to talk about it
because that's not that that's not his position, and that

(27:47):
that means the unlimited access to guns, the states permitless
gun law that we have enacted, and just the unbelievable
proliferation and the easy access to guns in our city,
in our state, in our country. Yeah, I would believe
that as well, Prosecutor Mirores, I don't think there's any

(28:09):
Republican out there unless they want to call in and
say sol that wants to have that discussion, not a
real one. We'll be right back right after this. If
you're on the line, stay right there, we'll get to
you shortly.

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Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yes, and we're back with Community Connection. Got a lot
of stuff to get to a little later in the show,
including our sports segment with Danny Bridges and the executive
producer of a new Indianapolis based reality TV show about
to premiere, So we're going to get to that in
our second hour right now, folks are on the phone lines.

(32:54):
Let's see who's next, mister Russell, go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 8 (32:59):
You know, in spite of the craziness going on, as
most reasonable people see, uh, there are some right lights
that seem to be emerging. I don't know if you've
heard about the organization called Madded Voters dot O r G.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (33:22):
They just put up a billboard anyway there. They have
come out against the registricting big time. They work also
work because and uh, some people are starting to stand
up against the craziness, which is encouraging. So I just
want to point out out. Yeah, and uh, basically we

(33:48):
we're witnessing right before our eyes what I call the
web of evil because they're using the same tactics of
proper againda and whatnot they have been used uh throughout history. Uh,
Jim Jones comes to mind with this craziness. Uh, there

(34:10):
are others, uh you know, some of gods that try
to take advantage of people and meet them down the
primost path. And we're sitting it right before our eyes.
And there's an expression, don't get it twisted that people use,
and these people have gotten it twisted.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, and just going in the full force.

Speaker 18 (34:32):
Now this guy is supposedly dressed in black, yes, and
uh yeah, I had all these you know, and then
he then he took his own life. Now, while we
had to dress in black and camouflage or whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
That's terror. That's what terrors do, mister Russell. And thank you, yeah, yeah, yeah,
thank you. I appreciate that. And we're talking about the
shooting that happened at the Minneapolis Catholic school earlier this
morning that killed two children, injured seventeen people, including fourteen
other children, three adults. The shooter is dead. Police say
he killed himself. And as mister Russell was saying, he

(35:12):
was dressed in camouflage. It was totally planned out. It
was just all planned out. And I mean, by the
very definition of what a terrorist attack is, that's exactly
what occurred.

Speaker 19 (35:21):
He had.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Barricaded himself in, he shot. He started from the outside
and worked his way in. So he shot his way in,
starting with the windows and shooting the kids as they
sat there praying in the pews of the back to
school mass back to school worship service that they always
have and it's always a nice time. My kids went

(35:44):
to Catholic High School and they talked about it. We're
not Catholic, but they went to one and they talked
about that, and they said that was something that they
look forward to because, you know, not the mass. And
then it was always a big social thing where everybody
got to reconnect after being gone all summer and things
of that nature. So it's it was an opportunity to
pray for the kid, you know, for the kids to pray,

(36:06):
and they were praying apparently as the gunshots rang out,
and as he worked his way into the school, climbing
through the windows that he shot out and barricading doors
with two by fours and then shooting some more before
ultimately taking his own life. Yeah, quite a bit there,
three one, seven, four, eight, zero thirteen ten, val go ahead.
How are you?

Speaker 6 (36:26):
I'm fine?

Speaker 8 (36:27):
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 20 (36:29):
Things I wanted to say to clean up. I agree
with you one hundred and ten percent. Thank you every
thing you said. I've called the show before and I
keep pushing one thing everywhere I go if they will
let me push it. You got to start somewhere being

(36:53):
crazy or I can use that word, let's say having issues.
I'm gonna say again, a child's formative years are over
when they're five.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
I think you said your daughter was a teacher.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
You shut it down.

Speaker 20 (37:10):
I would love to sit down and have a meeting
with the mayor because the same way they make it
mandatory that you have to have immunizations for your children,
we need to have some type of mental checks for
these kids. I cared for a kid who was down

(37:34):
thirty four or thirty five. This was before kindergarten, had
all the signs of schizophrenia. I was told by everybody,
including his parents, schizophrenia doesn't start until twelve years. Well,
he was taking noosed later after trouble.

Speaker 16 (37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (37:54):
And another thing in prison seventy This came from York State,
their Bar Association. Family percent of the people that are
locked up deal with mental health or some type of

(38:16):
addiction or emotional problem.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, and vow that, thank you, thank you for that.
And that's a very good point, a very accurate point.
But I think it's a point prior to the main thing.
And if we keep the main thing, the main thing,
and that is the proliferations of gun, proliferation of guns
in our country and the easy access to that by
people who should not have guns, because that's where the

(38:39):
problem lies, you know, mental health and things of that nature.
You're absolutely correct, but he's got mental issues which we
don't know that he did or didn't. Why is it
so easy to get a gun? See? You know it
always gets back to that, It always goes back to that. Ron,
Go ahead, How are you lovely?

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Tina?

Speaker 21 (39:00):
Home well?

Speaker 16 (39:01):
And I hope you are too. And I've already told him.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
I'm wishing him all the best, Tina.

Speaker 16 (39:06):
I have not gotten a response back to my email
from Congressman Carson. Again, I'm going to say this, we
need to invade their Republican town halls and turn them
against one another, because other than that, we don't have
the numbers. Then I want to say, why is there
no written response to Project twenty twenty four twenty five?

(39:29):
You just commented on all the things that he's managed
to accomplish in those seven months or so he's been
Why is there no written response to.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
That written response from whom?

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Pardon me?

Speaker 22 (39:46):
Who?

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Would the written response come from?

Speaker 8 (39:52):
The Democrats?

Speaker 4 (39:54):
The people who are complaining about it.

Speaker 16 (39:59):
If if the Republicans wrote down there twenty twenty five,
as they have said, oh they wrote it down whatever, whatever, whatever,
So you know, they wrote it down, so you know
what it is because it's written. There was was three
hundred pages down, hundred pages. All we got to do
is take take take note of that and write a
response to it.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
I don't think at this point, you know, And I
appreciate your call round, I really do, thank you, thank
you for your call. But at this at this point,
I'm sorry, he said, please don't, but he's saying a
written response. You can write all you want, and you
can write and respond to things all you want, but
I think things are beyond you know, putting a written

(40:40):
response on the record. Yes, that's there's nothing wrong with
doing that. But what's needed more are action items, a
call to action. A written response is not necessarily always
a call to action. Uh, And I don't know that.
I think what the country is just begging for in
terms of a response. You put out a written response

(41:01):
to something like Project twenty twenty five, and it's gonna
go over like a lead balloon at this point because
of the way emotions are. At this point, the way
emotions are, let's go back to the phone lines. Jeff,
go ahead, how are you.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Hey, then?

Speaker 21 (41:17):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I'm doing well, doing well, thank you.

Speaker 21 (41:19):
I just want to say I appreciate Sam, I appreciate
mister Phillips, and I appreciate Joe. You're spot on. And
we know who that character is.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
That's Larry.

Speaker 21 (41:29):
Larry's a troll. He's a self hating troll. He belongs
in a minstrel show.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Well, I mean we if we know who it is, okay,
but I'll.

Speaker 23 (41:40):
Just keep it one hundred And I'm gonna tell you something, Tina.
You know, you know they talking about taking civil rights
away for the voting rights. You know, these guys are
playing around and we should playing around.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, And that's all I was saying. And Ron made
a good point. What's the response? A written response is
fine because it's part of the record, But nobody respects
the record, nobody respects the rules, nobody respect People don't
even answer subpoenas anymore. And that's supposed to be a
court of law, you know, people in that in that
uh under that tent, so to speak. So I just
think the old way of doing things is pass a right.

(42:14):
Now there has to be something else, something other, And
I but I do agree that there should be a response,
But how what kind of coordinator respon.

Speaker 21 (42:23):
You know, people protesting all over this country. But I'm
gonna say it is, and I'll get up the phone
and it just ain't Larry.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
We are other.

Speaker 21 (42:30):
I'm gonna say it is. I'll here who gets upset
or math?

Speaker 4 (42:33):
I don't.

Speaker 21 (42:34):
I got more respect for those four legged coons than
I do for the for the two legged ones.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
I'm gonna say it.

Speaker 21 (42:39):
Ice cute snoop dog stephen A Smith Sage did all
these cellouts you know who are willing to sold their
soul for white supremacy. Yeah, I said it, white supremacy.
And uh, I tell you what I believe in the
Second Amendment. Enough for little children. But you let me
catch some white some guy in a white shee coming
around my house.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
So I yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
But but should they be shooting and picking off kids
in school and and having access to whatever they want,
high power to assault weapons, weapons of war there? You know,
there has to be some sanity brought into that conversation.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
And just like anything else. And I draw this analogy
all the time that I had a harder time, I
bet I know I had a harder time picking up
a prescription uh that contained something I don't even know
what it was. It's some kind of controlled substance that
I didn't take it long because it I mean, but anyway,
I had more of a problem picking that up then

(43:35):
I would have had had I gone somewhere and picked
up a gun and bought a gun. I know that
for a fact. That is backwards as all get out,
and it's crazy and it it just the one thing
I did notice, though, is that some of the so
called uh, you know, unbiased and straightforward reporters are getting

(44:00):
a little worn down by it. They're getting a lot
worn down because I can't tell you how many of
these incidents they've had to cover as well as we have.
And they've heard it all, they've seen it all. They
know the drill, they know the template. I could tell
you the template. This is how it's going to go,
and then it'll go right back to where it is,

(44:22):
and nobody will get out there and press these lawmakers
who systematically consistently refuse, refuse to even enter into a
conversation about any type of common sense gun regulation. None
but cigarettes, lottery tickets, whatever it is. In your prescription medications,

(44:45):
you got to go through a little bit of a process.
You got to go through a lot more of a
process to do all of those things than you do
to carry a gun, including or especially in Indiana, which
has the permitless carry legislation that they pass despite despite
objections over objection over objections by prosecutors, law enforcement agencies,

(45:08):
police chiefs, sheriffs all over the state. Not one was
in favor of this, and they did it anyway. They
did it anyway. So we got you know, we know
we've got a problem, and every time the problem rears
its ugly head, we you know, we get upset and
we say things. But this here, here, here's how you

(45:29):
get to the root of it as well. Those people
who are steadfastly turning a deaf ear to what we
keep saying, they need to go. And the only way
they're going to go is if they're voted out of office,
and they cannot be voted out of office. If all
of us stay home and say, well, I'm sitting it out,

(45:49):
or that's not my thing, I don't care, it doesn't matter,
they're all the same. That cannot continue to happen. Because
what is happening now is you can see in that tracker.
You can take a look and see how much of
the country is being taken over step by step, page
by page by going to the Project twenty twenty five
Project Tracker, and it'll even tell you what areas and

(46:11):
what agencies that they can check off of their box.
They've got the boxes checked on forty seven percent of
what they have been trying to do to this country.
And yet we still we and and so who wasn't
somebody who was saying, well, Indiana so republican. That doesn't
Indiana went Democrat before for a president Obama. Indiana has

(46:34):
gone Democratic before for governor heaven By, what's his name,
Frank Obannon, Joe Hernan. You know Indiana has been You
know it can be done. You just have to have
the right attitude, the right messaging, the right everything. It
can be done. Indiana's no, it's not impossible here. So

(46:58):
I'm just saying, And something happened. Somebody said, we don't
have the numbers. Maybe we get people to have the
numbers with us. Okay, maybe we get the right message
and the numbers will come. Because, of course not. Obama
didn't win just on black voters in Indiana. He won
a coalition, a team built coalition in Indiana, and in

(47:19):
other places as well. He barely lost his second term,
but he won that first one hands down. Won it here.
So if it could be done, then it can be
done now. Maybe it'll be done differently in terms of
getting everyone to coalesce around certain things. But these state
lawmakers that are allowing for carnage in our streets and

(47:42):
cities across the state of Indiana, they got to go.
They have got to go. And how hard is it
to vote them out? You got, well, you got to
show up and do it, kind of show up and
do it. So anyway, I so so so very hate

(48:03):
that that is happening to the people in Minneapolis because
it just brings back memories of all the others. I
so very hate that we have the embarrassing number of
over two hundred, maybe close to three hundred mass shootings
in the US alone since January of twenty twenty five.
That's embarrassing. It's also frightening. We got to start paying

(48:26):
and the easiest thing for us to do is to
get ourselves to those polls. Every opportunity that we get,
there's going to be another opportunity. We need to remember
what we're thinking today. We need to remember what we're
saying today and every day, and I guess if I
have to remind everybody, I will, But this can't continue.

(48:47):
It's just not sustainable this model. We can't. Sooner or
later we're not going to be able to send our
kids to school because they're not safe, or are going
to have to put them up in some of these
you know jails that are or are fortresses that are armed,
and I mean that are armed, that are set up
for armed people to come at them. They're gonna have

(49:10):
to move. Maybe what's gonna have to happen. Rather than
pass a common sense gun regulation like raising the age
to get a gun from eighteen to twenty one, or
repealing and amending the permitless carry, maybe instead of something
like that, they'd rather spend money building schools. Build all

(49:31):
new schools, Build all new schools that are bulletproof and
that perspective shooters can't get in, and then you give
all the kids a pistol.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
That was a comedy routine that the old, old old
seventies show. I didn't watch, of course, I didn't watch
it when it was in you know, live, but and
having since watched it in reruns. There was a an
episode where Archie Bunker was on an editorial. That was

(50:03):
when TV stations used to allow citizens to come in
and give an editorial on a newscast, and he was
talking about his idea of how to stop At that time,
plane hijackings were just they were just in huge numbers.
They were they were, they were there. They were trying
to figure out how to stop all of these hijackings
of plane. And he said, a check in, you give

(50:24):
every every passenger a pistol, so that when the hijacker says, hey, everybody,
this is a hijack or whatever, then all the passengers
can pull out their pistols and shoot the hijacker. It's insane,
I mean, it's warped logic. But we may be trending
that way because I think they would rather spend the
money millions and billions of dollars on different facilities that

(50:48):
that don't make schools as vulnerable than raising maybe raising
the minimum age to get a gun. I think they'd
rather do that, raising the minimum age to get a gun.
But how hard is that? But it's more expensive to
do it the other way. But I think they'd rather
do that than go against the gun lobby, I really do.

(51:08):
It's just one thought. Anyway. I would never say don't pray,
because what I'm saying is that it sounded like a platitude,
you know, thoughts and prayers. Of course, of course, of course,
of course we pray for those poor families and the
kids in that community, There's no doubt about it. But

(51:28):
when talking about how to stop this, don't tell me
that you have as a lawmaker, you have your sending
your thoughts and prayers. Because it falls on deaf ears.
It rings hollow, rings, very very hollow, and a lot
of Americans are getting tired of hearing it, especially from
the main one that had the audacity to send a

(51:52):
message about praying with him today for the folks there.
But switching gears again, it's uh, did I you know
the it's funny Cameron that the pickles you can put
yourself in. I felt like Lucy Ricardo this morning, because, well,

(52:13):
I I take my grandson to to daycare. That's one
of the one of my chores. I drop him off
in the mornings because his mom can't, so I take him.
She has to be at school earlier than when the
daycare opens, so he's he's pretty smart. He knows how
to open the door, he knows how to unbuckle his

(52:34):
car seat, he knows how to do all that stuff.
So I think, I'm thinking I'm smart, and I put
the child child protective locks on the back, you know,
in the back seat, on both doors, right in the back.
So he had an appointment this morning before he went
to daycare that I had to take him to to
get his hair cut. And so we're on a street

(52:58):
where I didn't want him on decide that the cars
were coming in, so I put him in from the
sidewalk and then I said, well here, I'll just get
back here with He said, Nanna, don't get don't get
hit by a car. And I said, no, I'm not
going to get hit by a car because I'm going
to sit right here beside you and buckle you up.
And he said, oh okay. So then I buckle him
up and I go to get out of the back door,
and I can't because the child locks her on right.

(53:22):
So I take my keyfob and I try to open
up the back door. I can't wow because the light
and I try to do my hand, I can't do anything.
So the only thing I could do was to climb
from the back to the front, and he was laughing
so hard I thought he was going to find He said,
you look funny. I said, yeah, I know, but had

(53:43):
locked myself out, so that looked like something Lucy Ricardo
on I love Lucy would have done. But that thing
works and safety first, and I tell you what, you
cannot bypass that. You have to literally go The only
way to open that door is from the outside ind
you cannot do it from the inside out. And I

(54:04):
believe you me. I tried. I tried. I tried. I
mean I tried to, you know, you know, flip the
lock whendn't doew it. Tried to open it up the
key fob wouldn't do it. Kid cannot get out and
he could neither could the grandmother, so she had to
climb over.

Speaker 6 (54:23):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (54:25):
It was.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
It was interesting. And then I finally got up to
the front and was able to get out, walk around
and make sure that he was buckled in properly.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
But that was that was.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
That was a little like comedy this morning. So it
was fun. Got a lot of stuff to do. Let's
see who's oh Danny, Danny Bridges should be calling in
about two o'clock, it would switched from me locking myself
out of the car to Danny Bridges and Sports, and
then we're gonna go to the executive producer of a

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two point thirty. But right now, let's let's take a
quick break, and when we get back Danny Bridges and
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And it is time now for sports with Danny Bridges, Recorder,
The Indianapolis Recorder Sports writer Danny Welcome back. How are you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
Is this community Connection with Tina Cosby?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
So I'm told I guess, I guess today.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
I haven't maybe not tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:00:33):
I haven't gotten a check in a while for.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
This same here, same here.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
I asked for your payables department if you could transfer me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Yeah, let's get together. We both do that. How about that?

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I'm doing well? How about yourself? I hear you're a
busy man traveling and in the air and this, this.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
Beautiful weather is the highlight of my day. I mean,
it's only like fifty five degrees this morning. When I
went outside to walk the dogs, and I just I mean,
it's gonna get warmer again, obviously, but I love the fall.
This is a prelude to the fall, I think, and
and I just can't wait till we have this thing

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constantly locked in.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yeah, that is my favorite season of the year, Fall
because it's so colorful, it's warm, it's just it's it's
just as nice as it could be. And by the way,
it happens every year, and I just have to talk
about it. But it's interesting to see retailers jumping ahead
of the game. They started last month with Halloween and

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Christmas stuff. Never any Thanksgiving stuff early, but it's always
Halloween and Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Alleen.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Think about it. Yeah, I think. And my mother is very,
very favorite. She said, no pressure, just family, folks getting
together and having a good time over a nice meal.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
She loves a gigantic meal. A gigantic meal. Professional sports,
You kid, didn't get a lot better than that. But
you know, I am. I'm always thankful you think about Thanksgiving.
We've got a lot to be thankful for, and I'm
thankful for the opportunity to connect with your listeners are
the ones who even the ones who send me some

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emails wondering if I'm crazy, But at any event.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Here we are okay. Yeah, I get those emails too,
and I don't don't think they don't wonder. They just
tell me that I'm crazy. So they never asked me,
am I.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
They just tell me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
And that's okay too, That's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
The cuts what ninety to fifty three happened? What yesterday?

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
Yeah, they're down to business. And I don't think there
are any major surprises in the Colts world. I mean,
you know, I thought I didn't know if they would
keep three quarterbacks. I thought they might put Riley Leonard
on the practice squad and maybe carry an extra linebacker
or defensive player, you know, what have you, but maybe

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somebody that could help him in the secondary. The cat Juju,
and that was I think that was a big surprise.
On the other hand, it was probably enough to raise
an eyebrow someone in that Categer. He's already employed the
Dolphins that picked him up.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
So Juju Brents a young man from Indianapolis, Warren Central,
I believe, wasn't it didn't. He go to Wrow and
a very good defensive player. The coach drafted him in
the second round about three years ago, so a pretty
high draft pick to cut, wouldn't you think?

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
I thought he was in the fourth round? Was it
the second Apo Juze?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, let me look,
I could be wrong, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
You know, well, either way, that was the draft they
hope would work out better than the tenure that he
was there. But he had some injuries, if he had
some performances that weren't necessarily all bro caliber, I think
that's a revolving door of sorts for the Holds. Unfortunately,
the secondary has been and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Uh, you got the four part right. It looks like
he was a forty fourth overall pick soul would that
be round two?

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
I guess that would be second. But I never thought
he was in a high draftic caliber type of player.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I thought he was a solid Yeah, second round, second round,
that's what it says.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
But but I you know, they had need, and I
think that drove them to that pick more than perhaps
what he may have accomplished in his career to that point.
But he's already picked up a contract with the Dolphins.
He'll be fine, and they need helping their secondary, and
it'll be interesting he'll be sitting up for them when
they play the Pols on opening Day here at Lucasol Stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Okay, so you say the Dolphins picked him up.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
Yeah, I believe they have offered him a contract. I
think that's where we're heal.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
In that villain.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
So yeah, injury and things of that nature. So we're
all set to go, what is it next? What's the
what's the first game?

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Again?

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
Next Thursday, there will be a game that involves the
I believe it's Philadelphia and Dallas if I'm not mistaken.
At Philadelphia on Thursday Night football. I think that's what
that is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Hmm, I don't know. But the Colts don't play until.

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
The seventh of September. They play a week from Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
And they play Miami correct at home. So Juju possibly
could be playing against his old team.

Speaker 6 (01:05:30):
Well, that shouldn't be overly traumatic for him. He's seen
what they've got at the wide receiver position. He knows
those guys, so maybe he'd be he could be helpful
to the Dolphins. But I think those are two teams
that are under heavy scrutiny from a standpoint of coaching
as well as their general manager. Aspect as well. Miami.
You know, Mike McDaniel seat is hot too, There's no question.

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So we've got two teams that could be playoff contenders.
But there's a lot of football to be played and
a lot to be seen and to see how they respond.
And I may be putting the cart wait in front
of the horse and saying the Colts could be a
playoff contender, but everybody is undefeated right now, so maybe
that's what they're looking at.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I don't know, play I don't know. I guess maybe
I refuse to. It's not I mean, it's not even
a bad feeling or a sad feeling. I just I'm
kind of like, okay, you know, just kind of whimsical
about them. It would be nice to watch them play,
but I won't get too well.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
They've maybe got to win nine or ten games to
get there. That's what it's going to take. I'd say
probably ten, ten and seven will get in. And you know,
all this stuff about heading into the final two weeks
and needing this team to lose and that team to
lose so you can get in. It's not the way
to sneak in the back door. It's better than not
making the playoffs at all. But they've got a very

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tough road to hope. And people talk about this quarterback
position circumstance, and certainly that is a focal point, but
there's other places on this football team than the horsepower
as well, and so we're gonna find out quickly. I
think in terms of the month of September, if they
can play, if they can come out of September two

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and two, that's probably a pretty good month for them.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
So hmm, what what what are you working? Do you
have an article coming out tomorrow in the Recorder?

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
Is that correct?

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
Yeah? Yeah, tell about I wrote about Anthony Richardson, and
I think the byline says something of the sort, Uh,
don't worry, you're gonna play this year.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
I guarantee.

Speaker 6 (01:07:40):
I mean, he's gonna get a chance to play. And
there's two reasons for that. The NFL is a brutal game.
Daniel Jones hopefully won't get hurt badly, but something's gonna
come up, you know, maybe it's a maybe it's a
sore shoulder, maybe it's a CAF injury. Uh, and maybe
he just doesn't play well enough. They want to put
Richardson and see if they can get a spark out
of him. But he's going to play again, and I

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basically said, look, you know, you've got to make sure
that you're prepared mentally and physically. You have to be
the first guy at practice, the last guy to leave
the weight room. Keep yourself focused. You know, he's twenty
three years old at his biggest asset. In my opinion,
this young man is a talented athlete. Is he going

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to be a great quarterback? Don't know. We just don't know,
and maybe he never will be. But he's as good
as a lot of backups are in the NFL. He's
going to be employed in the NFL. Maybe his zip
code will change, we don't know. But he's going to
get a chance to play this year and hopefully he'll
respot to it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Interesting because okay, well maybe, so what was the what
was it? Daniel Jones? He just was kind of generic.
Wasn't necessarily putting up the numbers that everybody wanted. Is
that why he was so open and available?

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
Well, he had a rough spot in New York obviously.
As far as the team are, Bnbay did make the
playoffs one year with him at quarterback. He did play
last year for Minnesota, and I think he realized he
wasn't going to be the starter there and he had
an opportunity to compete for a starting job in in Annapolis.
So far that's worked out. But I think he is

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better than pedestrian, but he's certainly not all pro material.
I think he's an accurate short passer. He is relatively mobile.
He's not Anthony Richardson in that category. But you know, look,
I stand by this. Anthony Richardson's going to have to
play this year. He's going to get a chance to play,
and he just needs.

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
To be ready.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
I'm sure he's not happy, and maybe his agent isn't uppy.
Who knows, but that's nothing new in the NFL. INFL.
He's going to get a chance to play, I'm sure
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Yeah. Yeah, So what else you got, Danny? What else
is going on?

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
Well, we've got the final IndyCar race of the season
this weekend in Nashville. The champion has already been determined.
Actually the first two places first day, second place in
the series has been determined, but there's three or four
guys clumped together who could finish third.

Speaker 20 (01:10:06):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
It's a really neat race track in terms of a
noble that's high speed. There's some banking involved on the track.
So it's a good uh, it's a good fan opportunity.
If someone's willing to make the four and a half
hour drive, they can pick that up on Fox Sports.
Hopefully they have YouTube TV like I do, because Fox
and YouTube are fighting and the contract expires I think

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here in about forty eight hours.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
But yeah, I saw that. Do you think they're sorry,
go ahead? Do you think they're in the I have
no idea.

Speaker 6 (01:10:35):
And I know that YouTube has a lot of subscribers
who want Fox. I'm one of them. But for thatn't
happen and for a while, and you know, I'll probably
go to Walmart or some some box store and buy
a fifty dollars inten and hook that up and get
Fox locally. So one of the two will prevail.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
I have I have a well FS one and two,
all of those, it would be this sports right right right?

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
The sport would lose.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
You would lose it, lose that. But you say you
think they're close to a deal.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
Well they always say they aren't, and they always start
spreading the crawler on the screen. Hey, you know, contact
your cable provider, whatever, But it makes sense for them
to get a deal done. It's it's business. And you know,
YouTube TV has a lot of money, not as much
money as Fox does. So we'll see how it turns out.

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But I know there's a big college football game on
this Saturday at twelve noon on Fox, so YouTube subscribers
like myself may not get that. I'll be in Nashville.
I'll figure out a way to get the game. But
the point is, uh, you know, college football is upon us.
Texas is going to roll into Columbus, Ohio House seat

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at noon this Saturday. That's a big game. LSU and
Clemson are going to play Saturday night. I think it's
seven point thirty on ABC or ESPN, one of the two,
I can't remember which. Those are big games and that
just shows that these programs are recognizing that they need
to be tested early. If you lose a game, you
still have the bulk of the season to get in

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the playoff picture with one loss, I think two asses
makes it difficult but not impossible. But uh, you know,
Indiana University places this time.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
I was going to say, what about the prospects for
IU and Purdue. The hometown teams, well, Idame to a degree,
although they don't claim Indiana.

Speaker 6 (01:12:30):
Let's let's let's look at it this way. If Indiana
can't beat Old Dominion at home, they might as well
just cancel the rest of the season. I'm gonna leave
this out. Okay, that's that's how I feel about their
non conference schedule, Like a lot of teams, is very
very methodically hand picked for victory purposes. But they're not
the only team that does that. But who's going to struggle.

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I think they'll be a little better than last year.
But that's not saying, ah, you know, you've got.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
Me on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
I think there are going to struggle. Yeah, okay against.

Speaker 6 (01:13:04):
A beat ball state, but I don't think produce a joga,
not just yet. I think they'll have their issues this
year as a whole, especially in conference play. Maybe I
haven't looked at their they're a non conference schedule. It
may be tailored for success as well, but they're going
to have problems in the regular conference season from a
standpoint of talent and depth. But I do believe they'll

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be better than they were last year. Okay, Notre Dame.
I it'll look they they've got a great running back,
they've got a big offensive line, but they're going down
to Miami. I'll say this, I think Miami wins a
close game opening Day against Nottre Dame, but it wouldn't
surprise me if it goes the other way. I think

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you have to wait for three or four games, both
in the NFL and collegiate football to determine who's really
got something. And then in college it's tough because that's
the non conference of your schedule. Maybe you have to
wait a couple more weeks and get tested by someone
in your own conference. But I think the NFL is

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just up in the air the first month of September
to see who's healthy, who's going to make an impact,
who's got a free agent that's you know, that's playing well,
and just you know, injuries as a whole. I mean,
it's just it's just hard to say. That's why I
say if the Colts come out of September two and two,
they're probably going to be pretty happy.

Speaker 31 (01:14:26):
Much about high school football, it seems like I had
heard something about a couple of schools going back and
forth between four uh four A five four, five and six.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
They're they're swapping places periodically. Is that strictly on enrollment numbers?

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
I believe. I believe enrollment dictates that. But I will
be honest with you. Uh, And I don't get I
don't pay a whole heck of a lot of attention
to high school sports. So I'm going to make a
disclaimer there work hard. And whether it be football or
cross country or baseball or basketball, Uh, they work very hard.

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Both boys and girls sports are concerned. I guess when
it rolls around the playoff time, I pay a little
bit more attention. But you know, to me, class tournaments
are good and bad. The bad part is I miss
everybody being in the same tournament. You know, I'm old
enough to remember when basketball was that way. On the

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other side of the coin, it does a level of
playing field to where a small school can play against
another small school for all the marbles as far as
football and basketball are concerned. So you know, it seems
like to me that you know the five A and
do they have a six A? We've reached that point,

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I think we do.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
I think it's from six to one, isn't it right, Cameron?
From six to one?

Speaker 32 (01:15:55):
It's five for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
But yeah, well, policy, know enrollment, dictation's policy, and then
then we see in some cases similar types of schools.
Center Grove has always been a football powerhouse in the
last five six, seven years. Cathedral, Yeah, so those those
are the teams that we I mean, Carmel has had

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their presence as well. I just I just kind of
feel like these are talented young people. Some of them
are more talented than others. Some of them will play
schoss Ship Division one level of football, some will play basketball,
some won't. But it's great that, you know. And I

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firmly believe that someday NIL money will get down to
the high school level. I really do believe that. Yeah,
for the blue chip players only though, for the blue chip.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Players really and I really do it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
I think it will at some point. I'm not talking
this year obviously or two years from now, but eventually
there's going to be an unsavory element to high school football,
more so than there's ever been dreamed of it. But
that aside, it's still fun and occasionally I do this.
I'll seek out to a high school football game and
the stands. If it gets alongsided at halftime, I'll leave.

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But I try to pick on games that are teams unfamiliar.
Maybe it might be Cathedral versus you know, another good
team in Indianapolis. Or I've went up to carnivalfore and
set in the stands and watched a football game. I
went to Cinegra one time and watch the football game.
So I have an interest, but I don't follow it
close enough to try to articulate in any manner that's

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even shall we say, remotely accurate about Hey, this team's
rating number one, why is that? Et cetera. You know,
it's usually who has the best offensive line, who has
the talent a quarterback. It kind of like runs like
college and pro football.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well anyway it is. It is on
what do you Friday, Friday, high School, Saturday, College and
Sunday the Pro Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. No, Sunday, Monday
and Thursday is the pros.

Speaker 6 (01:18:07):
To be big college games? Saturday the shoot in the evening,
and then Ohio Date and Texas at noon. And I
can't imagine. I understand Fox as a contract to put
a game on every noon, all right, every Saturday at noon,
but find them I want day game on at seven
thirty pm for the national audience much bigger TV rating.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Yeah, that makes sense, makes sense. So I heard very
briefly that CC Caitlin Clark has their own signature shooting
at with Nike with her initials. I guess is that?
Did you hear about that?

Speaker 6 (01:18:40):
Yeah, I'm really glad to see that, because really, yeah,
I'm really starting to wonder how she's gonna pay the
light bilt, won't you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Well, yeah, she's she's got Yeah, we're worried about her poverty, yews. Actually,
let's see how much it is the deal.

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
That is a strategic move on Nike's part, and it's
also a good or good move on her part as well,
to align herself with a company that can market her
image accordingly I have. I've been watching from highlight packages
of the Beaver, and obviously they've been devastated by injury.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Oh my goodness. It's like, yeah, I still believe.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
She's got a slight tear in her going. I don't
believe she's got a string going. I'm not a doctor.
I don't have any information on the inside. She's been
out long enough to wear a slightly strained going would
not be nuts possible to pull badly and not torn
in For her sake. I hope so. But my point
is I've been watching some highlight packages a little bit

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more than I would, and they had that run where
they won four or five games in a row without her,
But you know, they've had more injuries since then, so
they may or may not make the playoffs. They're not
a threat to go very far as they do, but
I have I'm wondering why, in street clothes on the bench,
is this young lady feel the ability to or the

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entitlement to mouth off to referees during timeouts. That is
really something that has proposed to me at quite a bit.
I get it athletes have been yelling at referees since
the inception of the game, but when you're in street
clothes and you're not playing, I don't think that's a
good look, and I don't think it goes well with
the officials. I've seen officials just walk away from her.

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I've seen a couple of them engage with her, which
surprises me. She's going to get teed up on doing that,
and that's not good.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
For the team.

Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
On the other hand, the way they're playing right now,
with all the injuries, they're doing the best they can.
I get it, But I just don't. I think she
lacks focus on what is truly important right now, which
is be supported to your teammates, rehab the best you can.
You can't come back this year. I get it. As
I wrote before, you should stir out, let her heel up.

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But that to me is just not a good look,
and it's just not good for her or the team.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
No, I would agree, and believe you me, I've gotten
several and I'm not exaggerating, several text messages questioning that
very behavior and as to why it was allowed to
continue and why the coach didn't, you know, didn't chill
it out a little bit, you know, calm it down.

Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
Yeah, I mean, let's spot address the referees number one
and number two. You're not even in uniform. You know,
it's not your fault that your herds, But you know,
I think if you're in street clothes, you should probably
stay on the bench. I get it. They like to
get up for the huddle during the timeouts, and that
seems to where she's been making most of her hey,

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if I can say that way, But I don't understand it.
It's not an old school thing to me. It's just
a common sense thing. I don't think you want to
agitate a referee when you're not even playing. That's just
my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Speaking of which, and I've been at and I think
I know the answer, but I'm not sure. So say,
for instance, if you're injured, right and you're not able
to play, you're not allowed to dress? Or is that
just a personal choice because she could dress and sit
on the on the core on the bench with the
rest of the team if she wanted wright or maybe
she couldn't well because of her status.

Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
If you can't play, you need to be deactivating and
have someone active on your roster who can't.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
It comes down to that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:21):
But again, I at the risk of redundancy, why any player,
let's take her out of the equation, why any player
wants to be vocal adamantly about this year. And I'm
not saying that the calls that she's questioning are correct,
it's the reactionary, you know, let the coch handle that

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it reads and which well, I think, I think I
Fever will have a decision to make in the off
season how they're going to address their basketball team in
terms of what their style of play is going to be,
what who they're going to look for for certain, and
components of their game. I mean, there's some talent on

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that team that's not named Caitlin Clark. Can they blend
together betterly? Can they be more cohesive? You know, when
they won five games in a row or so without
her there, I thought to myself, you know what, they're
playing pretty well considering you know, she's out and other
people you know were banged up. Now with was a
Cunningham had a knee injury, and I forget who the

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other lady was that went down there. They're not a
threat in the playoffs, obviously, but but there is a
core there and can they add to that in the
in the off season with an acquisition, a trade, what
have you, a draft? Can they add to that and
make themselves even better for next year? Everyone's got to
get healthy, but I think everyone has to be focused

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to and I'm not so sure that the dilemma of
injuries and disparity and losing basketball games that hasn't impacted
them in a way that's you know, rather profound, even
though they did wine. I think my woopers are what
twenty points? Of course, I don't know much about the
Seattle team though, so well.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Apparently, yeah, they've gotten them three times in a row.
I think, or they swept this series with them in
the season from what the announcers were saying last night.
And I don't know, but yeah, I don't like that either, Danny.
It's not a good look. And she needs to say down.
It's not her lane. It's not her lane.

Speaker 6 (01:24:24):
I would agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Yeah, that's just. But anyway, so you're driving down to Nashville.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
I'm gonna do that. Anybody wants to go, they're welcome
to go, but there are there are some prerequisites. You
don't have to help pay for gas, but you do
have to feed me.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Sounds like a good plan there, you know, feed me,
and I know where.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
I know where the restaurants are between her in Nashville.
Trust me, there's a good place to eat. There's a
good place in Kentucky, and there's also a good place
in Tennessee before we get to the race tracks, so
no one, no one can say, hey, I'm sorry, there's
nowhere good to eat. That's not gonna flush.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
But you gotta be stopping both of them right on
one down one probably okay, okay, But the.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
Point is this is uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:07):
This is a really good track for any car. It's
got some banking, it's an oval.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
I do believe that even though the championship has been decided,
there are drivers in this race who are capable of
winning and then need to win. There's a lot of
things going on. Will Power still hasn't heard from his employer,
Roger Finsky, is whether or not he's going to be
back with that team. I tend to believe he will
get a one year deal that's guaranteed, perhaps the second

(01:25:33):
year with a team option of sorts to where he
would be bought out if they don't want to employ him.
Marcus Erickson at Andretti Racing is kind of up in
the air. There's been rumors about could he be on
the move For lack of a better term, I think
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(01:25:57):
those are their two most visible drivers. Even though Josephew Garden,
Scott McLoughlin at Penske are certainly people to keep an
eye on, and and you know there's there's other there's
other players in the market as well. You know McLaren Andretti, Ganassi,
and Penske are the big four in no particular order.
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(01:26:19):
Car Race that Nashville will be some really good racing
and for those who can't make it or choose not
to travel, you can watch.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
It on Fox maybe on Sunday if you don't have
you on TV.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
Yeah, well there's a lot of other os and ourn't
YouTube you can watch. You can watch the race on
Fox Sunday at two o'clock Eastern time nationally.

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Indeed, i have YouTube TV as well, Danny, so I'm
going to be watching.

Speaker 27 (01:26:42):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
I do like it.

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I do like it a lot of all the ones
that I've had. Do you have YouTube TV, Cameron or
you don't?

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Yeah? I I have that Abo Max.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
And Okay, yeah I don't.

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Uh, I don't.

Speaker 26 (01:26:55):
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I didn't do any of the premium channels, and I
guess I'm too cheap. But well, but think about it.

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I like the thing I like about It's deeper than
what I had previously. And also Brandon's point, uh, I
can if I want to pick up HBO. All I
got to do is you know, I can just hit
that icon on my screen and pick it up. Yeah,
you know, whatever the monthly radio is. You can make

(01:27:23):
your choices that way. But uh, if there's a show
on HBO I want to follow. In the past, I
was a fan of like Sopranos or dead Wood or
uh uh prib your Enthusiasm. I always had to have
HBO then. But I look at their lineup. If there's
not something I like, I'm like, yeah, I'm not going
to get it this month anyway. But it's a month
to month thing on the pay channels, And I like

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that Danny's point because we will be having another unrival
season for the women at the w's over.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (01:27:49):
That's the reason why HBO max to be able to write.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Okay, yeah, that's good. That's cool. Alrighty uh Danny, safe
travels and we will talk with you next time. Have
a good time.

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Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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AM thirteen ten ninety five point five.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
And we're back with Community Connection a quick public service announcement,
but an important one. Today is the final day for
in person common and input about the AES rate increase request.
We've been talking about it. There have been a set
of four public meetings scheduled. We talked about all the others.
Tonight is the last one. This is an in person

(01:37:22):
opportunity to tell state regulators, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
the IRC, why you feel the increase should not be granted.
It starts tonight at six o'clock. It's going to take
place at the Fort Event Center at Fort Harrison State Park.
It's going to be in the Blue Hair and Ballroom,
six to two North Post Road, six to oh two

(01:37:45):
North Post Road. Again, this is tonight at six o'clock.
This is your last opportunity, and it's going to be
at the Fort Event Center at Fort Harrison State Park.
If by chance you cannot make it tonight out to
the Fort at six o'clock, you can still submit your
written comment all the way up until September two. Not
a whole lot of time, but it'll give you more

(01:38:07):
time if you can't make it tonight, And you can
find the online format in dot gov slash o UCC
slash contact dash us again. I in dot gov slash
O U c C slash contact dash us. Okay, so
again tonight six o'clock Fort Harrison Event Center, Fort Harrison

(01:38:29):
State Park, the Fort Event Center, six oh two North
Post Road at the Blue Heron Ballrooms. So if you
can make it there and let them know what you think.
So appreciate everyone attending the last ones or the past ones,
and all of those who are going to submit written requests.
We really appreciate you getting involved like that as well.

(01:38:50):
Our next guest has been here with us before, but
never about something as exciting as what she's about to
tell us about. It is a new reality TV show
about to premiere based right here in Indianapolis called Indie Bosses.
The executive she's the executive producer of Indie Bosses and
she is Patrina Williams. Patrina, welcome back to community connection.

(01:39:15):
This has to be a really exciting time. How are
you doing?

Speaker 8 (01:39:19):
I am doing good.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
It is very exciting time for us at Indie Bosses.
So we're very excited.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Everybody loves reality TV. The reality TV show, so Indie
Bosses is based in Indianapolis. What is it about and
why is it here in Indianapolis.

Speaker 5 (01:39:38):
So Indie Bossas is based. The based of Indie Bosses
is entrepreneurs that are making a difference in our community.
Oh okay, they are business owners. One thing I wanted
to share with is basically, you know, putting us on
the map. You have different reality TV shows in Atlanta, Miami,
New York, but what about Indianapolis. What are we doing
here in Indy? So I wanted to make sure that

(01:39:59):
we can make some noise to the world to let
them know what we're doing here.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Yeah, this is the first ever for Indy for something
like this. Why entrepreneurship.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Basically, I'm an entrepreneur myself and I helped over two
hundred plus people to become business owners. And I wanted
just to you know, put us on the you know,
highlight us and just let people know what we're doing
in Indy and allow people to know, even in Indy
or anywhere else in the world, that you can become
entrepreneurs and make a difference in your community.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
So, how many episodes have you shot so far?

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
We've done one episode. We have to shoot for eight days,
ten twelve of our days and our episode is now finished.
I got it in my hands before yesterday, so I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
So where are we going to be able to watch this?

Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
So right now the gold is to We don't have
a network yet, but we will release after the sixth.
You'll be able to see the trailer which we are
sharing that episode on September six where I'll tell you
a little more about But right now we are shopping
networks to see who's going to pick us up and
for the moment and more probably be like YouTube you'll

(01:41:13):
be able to say a clip of it. We haven't
decided where we're going to put it yet now yet.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
So how does one get on Indie Bosses? How does
one get on the show?

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
Well, we already finished our for the first season. We
have everybody that we're going to have right now second season.
Once we shoot our second season, we will put a
I'm sure we'll put a cast call in for a
couple more people. And let me backtrack, let me say
that we are probably eventually be looking for another mail

(01:41:43):
for Indie Bosses, but I haven't put it out there yet,
but that is something that we're going to look at.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
So how does the game work?

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
How did you know?

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
What are the rules?

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Just if you want to be an indie boss, basically
you have to be a boss. I'm not saying that
you have to have your own business, but the CEO
of a company. I just want to make sure that
you can bring it, whatever you bring to the show,
that we can basically market you on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
So are you are you the host?

Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
I'm the owners?

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
Oh you're the owner? Okay, okay, yeah, so you will
be I guess screening and fielding all of the entrepreneurial
want to be is right.

Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
Right, And I'm also on there too. It is surrounded
by me because I have so many people to become entrepreneur.
So I am one of the main characters.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
On the show now, okay, And how long will it be?

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Our first episode right now that we will be showing
on September sixth is forty five minutes forty five minutes long.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
And how many participants do you have?

Speaker 5 (01:42:52):
So right now we have a total of nine main
characters and then we have support of staff court of
cast members which we have like nine.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
So obviously, if one of the nine makes it through
all the way to the end and gets the ultimate
is the what is the prize waiting at the end?
Of the end of the show or end of the session,
so to speak.

Speaker 5 (01:43:16):
So it's not one of them type of reality shows.
The reality show is basically showing that we can work
together in our community culture. So we did for Yell
for the Culture event about a month ago, and we
brought the city out and we just gave back to
our community. And it was a really great event. We

(01:43:36):
brought we had celebrities in the house and we just
did We had a great time giving back to our community.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, now I got it. I think I
was just trying to figure out how it all works
and how it's all going to work out. So you
are having your gala slash premiere within the next few days.
Tell us about that and what we can expect with that.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
So September sixth is our gala. It'll be our first
time showing everybody the first episode of Indie Bosses and
after it's a red carpet event. Red carpets, so you
gotta dress. You gotta be dress to impress to be
in the room. And basically we're just gonna bring the
city out, bring the media out so they can see
what we're doing here in Indy. And one thing I'm

(01:44:17):
excited about is most people leave Indy to to get
put on the map, but we're gonna stay in Indianapolis
so we can put Indy on the map.

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
So what what kind of businesses are booming in Indianapolis
that entrepreneurs can get involved in.

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
So we have homecare that is a part of the show.
We have people that does locks, music, skin what's the
word I'm using skincare. I'm sorry, I got skincare business.

(01:44:57):
It's just different people that's on show have different business.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
So yeah, yeah, So if people wanted to go to this,
is it still possible to go to the premiere or
has everything been sold out?

Speaker 5 (01:45:11):
So it's still possible. All of our VIP tables are
sold out. We had a total twenty five VIP tables.
We do have general mission tickets that are still available,
so they can go on event Bright, Indie bosses on
event Bright and get their tickets from there.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
Okay, so event Bright is the place to go, yes, miam.
Now will there be on site ticket purchases to the
galer or do you have to purchase your ticket in evance?

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
You have to purchase it in the vance. We are
at the Sheridan Hotel keyston at the crossing, so we
have to do our headcount so we could be able
to make sure we see all the people that's in
the room.

Speaker 2 (01:45:47):
So this is going to be a keystone at the
crossing at the Sheridan. Yes, Neil, all right, what time
does it start?

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
It starts at seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
Seven o'clock Indie Bosses Reality show. Wow, that that sounds exciting.
I can hardly wait to hear how it goes and
see how the show continues to grow and progress. I
mean it sounds like you might be onto something here.
This is pretty neat.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
All righty, thank you, and again if people want to
go to the premiere, they can do.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
What if you want to go to the premiere, you
can go. You can find Indie Bosses on event right. Also,
if you want to follow Indie Bossies, its Indie Bosses
dot com and on Instagram. It is Indie Bosses on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
Well, congratulations for Trina Williams on Indie Bosses and keep
us posted on how things are going. Really, you know,
really happy for you and really really excited. This is
a this is a fun thing. And you say the
first one's in the can and you got more coming,
so we can hardly wait, can hardly wait to you.
All right, thank you? Uh and so yeah, that's uh boy,

(01:46:53):
that's uh boy. That's coming up very very quickly. That's
a Fridays know the pre media event. The event is Saturday,
September sixth. I'm looking at the media information Saturday September
the sixth, seven o'clock shared an Indianapolis Hotel at Keystone
at the Crossing. So congratulations to Patrina Williams who is

(01:47:16):
the executive producer of Indie Bosses and she's also the
president and CEO of Business as Usual Consulting, where as
she says, she helps businesses and entrepreneurs get going. So
you know, she's she's doing what she knows. They say that,
you know, if you want to make something of success,
go into a business that she knows. So she's going

(01:47:37):
into the business of the business that she knows. So
Indie Bosses, mark that downe that keep that in mind.
Indie Bosses. Again, I want to remind everyone that tonight
is the final night, the final night for public comment
regarding the AES utility rate hike request. The ae S

(01:48:00):
tility rate hike public hearings are coming to a close tonight, Wednesday,
eight twenty seven, at six pm. Again at six pm
is your chance to be in person and let utility
regulators know how you feel about this request to raise
the price of electricity here in Indianapolis by the AS Utility.

(01:48:23):
Tonight's meeting is going to be at the Fort Event
Center at Fort Harrison State Park, six to two North
Post Road, six to two North Post Road. That's going
to be held at the Blue Heron Ballroom, the Blue
Heron Ballroom, and again the hearings start at six o'clock.
If by chance you haven't been able to make any

(01:48:45):
of the four in person meetings, some of you are
very comfortable with submitting written comment to the commissioners, and
you can You can do that right now. You can
do that at any time. They're going to be accepting
written comment through September second. Written comment is going to
be accepted through September second. And you can download or

(01:49:09):
go get the form.

Speaker 27 (01:49:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
It might be a writeable form that you can do
right there online, but anyway, the website is for the
form for your written comments. The website is i in
dot gov slash o u c C slash contact dash
us I dot gov slash O u c C slash

(01:49:32):
contact dash us and that is the address if you
want to go ahead and submit your written comments. And
written comment again will be taken through the second of September.
Second and next month in September is knocking at our door.
I do believe knocking at our door anyway. That is

(01:49:52):
all the time we have for Community Connection for right now,
but we'll be back tomorrow and until then, be safe,
be well, and by all means stay informed. Williemore Junior
on the radio is up next for everyone here, thanks
for listening. I'm Tina Cosby in This is Community Connection

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