Community Connection August 7th, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WTOCAM W two three six c are Indianapolis discussing the
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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 Tina Cosby.
Today is Thursday, August the seventh, three one seven four
eight zero thirteen ten. Three one seven four eight zero
thirteen ten is the number two Community Connection and the
lines are open. The lines are open right now three
one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. And on the
show today, our sports guy with the Indianapolis Recorder, Danny

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Bridges is back with us. That's going to be in
our second hour. Danny's going to have a lot to
talk about. We got the Colts in action tonight. I
think the Fever are also in action tonight. And we
never did get a chance to really talk about Bubba
Wallace winning because we were We just got a lot
of stuff to talk to Danny about. So we're gonna
talk to Danny in hour two. Also today another chance

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to win free State Fair tickets as well as a
pair of reserved seat tickets to see Gospel Great Marvin
Sap Sap Marvin Sap Marvin Sap yeh at the at
the Gospel Music Festival at the State Fair on Sunday,
August seventeenth. I wanted to make sure I got the
date right again. The lines are open three one seven

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four eight zero thirteen ten three one seven four eight
zero thirteen ten. So let's go ahead and get this
out of the way. So let's give away the Marvin
Sap tickets. Seventh caller. Seventh caller to the number three
one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten will win a

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pair of reserve seats reserved seating reserve seating for the
Gospel Music Festival at the Indiana State Fairs Sunday, August seventeenth,
featuring They're Great Marvin Samp. A number of other acts
are going to be there, including some local ones. I
got to get the exact list on those, but anyway,
our lines are open three one seven for eight zero

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thirteen ten. The seventh caller will win a pair of
reserved tickets reserve seating to the Gospel Music Festival at
the Indiana State Fair on Sunday, August seventeenth. We heard
from I can't remember who was somebody yesterday speaking of
the State Fair that the stricter enforcement of the juvenile

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and unaccompanied miners policy is going well, that the Fair
is being very diligent following through one what they said
they would do. So, you know, so far, so good.
So there's that. But I wanted to share a couple
of things with you. You know, the Vice President is
here in town today and I'm going to get to

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that in just a minute. But something that they're both
disturbing stories the Vice President being here and this one,
this one first saw on Fox fifty nine. The other
stations are picking it up as well. But what we
are hoping is not Again I will say, what we
are hoping is not a sign of things to come,

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but certainly something to keep our eyes on. Remember when
I always say at the end of the show, be
aware and be informed. Well, the Fabor card Glick Neighborhood Center,
that's its seventy first and Michigan Road is going to
temporarily close due to financial hardship. Again, this is a
neighborhood community center on the northwest side of town that

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is going to temporarily close due to financial hardships. And again,
like I said, I first saw this on Fox fifty
nine and they're reporting that an Indianapolis community center is
temporarily closing its doors as financial hardships threatened to a
valuable resource that has served the North Side community for
more than forty years. For more than forty years, the

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Faborcard Glick Neighborhood Center located at twenty nine to ninety
West seventy first. Again, that's right there at the intersection,
just a tad bit west of the intersection of seventy
first in Michigan Road. They're going to close on August fifteenth.
The closure also includes the childcare center. What a nightmare,
meaning parents who depend on the neighborhood center for childcare

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are going to have to make other arrangements. Yeah, childcare,
that is an absolute nightmare. The Faborcard Glick Neighborhood Center
stress that the closure was only temporary, though a reopening
date has not yet been determined, so this could linger
on into next year. I mean, we don't know. Nobody
really knows. The board at the Glick Center cited financial

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challenges as the reason behind the closure and stated and
intensive audit will be under taken during the shutdown. We
hear that in June the center underwent a leadership change,
and then in July they were attempting to curb the
financial strain by reducing staff considerably. And again this is

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according to a Bicard Click Neighborhood Center spokesperson. Fox fifty
nine goes on to report that the center said it's
financial hardship stems from overstaffing and overextending financial assistance to
more than three hundred families that the center serves monthly.
The center is saying their priority focus right now is

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working to support the families that are going to be
impacted by this temporary closure, and particularly the families that
use the childcare program. The center said, we are working
with local childcare programs in neighborhood and surrounding areas, as
well as the United Way of Central Indianapolis and other
partners who can connect families with alternative or alternate options.

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The center stated its goal is to reopen on solid
financial footing with new leadership and better management practices in place.
So here's the thing that I think is concerning about
this and they're spending it nicely. You don't have to
shut down to do a financial audit, you don't have
to shut down to realign the services and things of

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that nature. You shut down because you don't have the
money to stay open. And them saying that we're going
to do an audit and looking out those things are fine.
And I'm not saying that I know more than what
they've reported or more than what was shared with Fox
fifty nine. But when you look at businesses and things
of that nature, they, you know, within they keep going.

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You know, if they're providing an essential service, something as
essential as childcare, you keep going. You just make the
cuts along the way. And so if they made significant
or what the word was, considerable cuts in July and
they're having to close the doors in August before August
is really here, I mean, we're not even to double
digit dates on August yet, there's something seriously seriously wrong,

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something seriously going on. So, as I said, I hope
this is not a sign of things to come, but
ladies and gentlemen, this could very well be a sign
of things to come because of the deep and intense
and severe budget cuts that are taking place across the
board that the Republican lawmakers, the Republican president and everybody

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that wants to please him have made and the people
who are going to be paying the price, or their
families with children. You're seeing it play out in lifetime
right here, right now with that Glick Center. Now, Indianapolis
has I think upwards of maybe a dozen the city
of Indianapolis a dozen neighborhood multi service centers, neighborhood community centers.

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The Glick Center is the first that's actually had to
close its door. I have been told that others have
had to make, you know, streamline some things. But you know,
who's who's who's hurt. Who's who's the most hurt. These
children and their parents and the families. That's who's hurt.
They're not they don't care about millionaires having tax breaks.

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And I can't really necessarily say that this is associated
with the time, but it's associated with something either somebody's
running scared, the money is drying up, and things of
that nature. So we hope, we hope that this is
an outlier as opposed to a sign of things to come.
But I'm just telling you, keep your eyes open, keep
your eyes and ears open. The the number of the

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key centers here around the city. Keep an eye on those,
and they include the CHRISTA. More House, Community Alliance for
the Far east Side or Cafe Concord Neighborhood Center, the
Edna Martin Christian Center, the Fabit card Glick Neighborhood Center,
which is temporarily closed with no opening date yet published
or reported, the Flannerhouse, the Hawthorne Community Center, John H.

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Bonner Community Center, La Plaza, the Martin Luther King Multi
Service Center, Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center, the Shepherd Community Center,
And if I didn't name one or two of them,
I apologize, but these are just the ones that came
up with a quick search, but it was more than
a dozen. And the services that you know, we work

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with a lot of these. We work with the Shepherd Center,
we work with Cafe, We work with a lot of
these neighborhood community centers, and the services they provide to
their communities are absolutely positively invaluable because a lot of people,
when they don't have this is who they rely on,
in addition to maybe the township trustees or others, they
rely on these neighborhood centers to fill the gap and

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if they're being strapped. Oh boy, so again I just
found that very very concerning. So we'll certainly keep an
eye on that. Let's go back. It looks like we
have a winner for the well with the tickets for
the Marvin Sap Yes, yes, the Gospel Festival at the
Indiana State Fair on August seventeenth. They got ahead of myself.

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The winner is on the line, Pastor Joseph Reeves. No, oh,
I'm sorry, we have a winner. Oh my bad, my bad,
my bad. Just scratch that. Too many things going on.
I'm looking at the wrong screen. Beverly velsquest is the winner? Okay, Well,
Beverly wants you.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
That works.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I think she's on a roast.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
On the phone. Ah okay, well, congratulations Beverly. We're happy
that you're going to be able to go, and thank
you for listening to us. You know, here, here's the
thing here. We get a lot of people that are
working or whatever, and folks saying, okay, they've got their
headphones on or they're there, what do you call the
ear earbuds in and they're oh, they're just a work

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and they're listening to us. I love it listening to
us getting Oh, well, I don't know if I'd go
that far, but maybe but so Uh, it's it's good
that we're here for people that do want to listen.
And I'm glad that that Beverly was able to get
the free tickets and the hope hopefully she'll enjoy the

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show on Sunday, August seventeenth, that's the last day of
the fair. Uh. And Marvin Sapp and a number of
other acts are going to be on stage at the
Hoosier Lottery Free Stage. So congratulations Beverly.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
And we still have State Fair tickets to give away,
so stay tuned. Perhaps you can win a family four
pack of State Fair tickets now. The phone lines are
open three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Three
one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten. Got a couple
of other things to get to you, including get to
including the visit from the Vice President JD. Vance. But

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I already called your name. You're in Q. So let's
go to Pastor Joseph Reeves. How are you, Pastor?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm doing great, Tina. Good to hear your voice there.
I buy tell you when you said gave a shout
out there on the ticket win I said, man, that
sounded pretty good.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know what you got, I got a screen to
the to the director. I mean, then I got a
screen down to the right, lower and whatever. And if
I'm talking and not paying attention to my screens, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah. But anyway, anyway, it's understandable.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Listen, you got some great topics on your shoulder. I
really wanted to call in on yesterday, but I wanted
to just share just a little bit. I used to
be in law enforcement there. I used to be one
of the school resource officers for Heritage Christian you know,
back in the day when we have to go through
the psyche vows and all all that type of stuff
dealing with the weapons. And I was listening to a
couple of the callers talking about, you know, the fact

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that you got all these different groups that are doing
things and whatnot. And I understand them types of things,
but when you look at, you know, the attitudes of
people that are carrying guns today, it is a totally
different picture. And law enforcement that, you know, for the
most part, was really just you know, not agreeable. When
the governor decided to say anybody can carry a gun,

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you know, for the most part, you know after age eighteen,
but I wanted you to hear this real quick. I
wanted you to listen to this. Why because I tell
you it was on my heart last yesterday. But listen
to these statistics here and this is in nineteen ninety two.
Listen to this the movie The Kids Killing Kids. The
following statistics were produced Australia thirteen murders, Britain thirty three murders,

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Sweden thirty six murders, Japan ninety seven murders. Listen to this.
The United States of America thirteen thousand, six hundred and
twenty murders by.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Kids killing kids.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
And we can't seem to think once again that you know,
you got irresponsible individuals. And like you were saying yesterday,
it's not the fact that people cannot have and all
that type of stuff that we're not taking away nobody's writes.
But the attitude is is understand how they're getting things
right now, how they're you know, what they're doing with them,
either their mindsets, they're they're you know, in their developments

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and and the attitudes that they have nowadays. It is
a total different environment than what it was back in
the day. And so nineteen ninety two. You got in
the United States thirteen thousand and six hundred and twenty
murders by kids. Something needs to be adjusted, and we're
still with the same attitude of making America great. America

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has never been great good at the most, because we
got when you talk about statistics, we're high in everything.
We're high in you know, abortion, We're high in murder,
We're high in suicide. We're high, you know, in drug use,
We're high in a divorce rate, we're high in all
types of stuff. And we're talking about this place is great.
What we need to be doing is thinking about how

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if you want to make it anywhere near great, what
that would look like, because you know, we're just like
everybody else. We got struggles, we got issues, and we
got leadership that really need our prayers because they do
not know what they're doing. And for individuals who haven't
experienced the military, I spent thirty, you know, twenty seven

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years in there. I did thirteen and a half law enforcement.
I did chaplaincy for three years, and bottom line, we
have some needs in this country today. And so my
prayer is as you continue to share what you're sharing,
hopefully somebody will get up and say, you know what,
they got a point, and I'm going to stand up
in the gap to help, you know, make decisions and

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changes because we need help. And so I just wanted
to share that with you.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's all, well, pastor, I appreciate you sharing that. And
the statistics are you know, they're just eye opening. But
when you think about the number of mass shootings. I
heard last night one of the they were talking about
the mass shooting on the army base and thankfully no
one was killed. Five people were in It was in
Fort Stewart in Georgia. But they said that so far

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this year, nearly three hundred mass shootings in the United
States of America so far this year. So far this year,
nearly three hundred mass shootings in the US. And you
can't and the statistic that I last saw, I don't
have it right here in front of me, but I
remember it that the United States averages three We're the
most armed nation on the planet, averaging about three guns

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per person, three guns per person in the United States
of America. And people are talking about they need more guns,
what about you know, it just it just makes no sense.
And if there are that many here, then they need
to be regulated in a reasonable, sensible way. The mindset

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and the the attitude that's that's a difficult fever to break.
You just really can't. But it's not. I think most
responsible gun owners, more than eighty percent of the nation
agrees that we need some kind of reasonable gun un
you know, gun laws, reasonable gun laws. It's just that
the people that that eighty percent are elected are doing

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things their way. They're not listening to the nation. They're
not listening to their people, they're not listening to the
constituents that clearly want reasonable. Reasonable. When I say reasonable,
how hard is it to raise an age reasonable gun restrictions?
And when you can't even get that far, you got
a problem? And people hear that the gun lobby, they

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won't say that the United States has a problem, despite
those numbers that the pastor just shared, and despite what
we see every day every day, shootings, shootings, shootings, mass shootings.
People are becoming desensitized to it, but they can't seem
to They just can't seem to get get it through

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to the lawmakers that you know, all the majority in
a lot is certainly here, can't seem to get it
through to them that what's wrong with common sense gun lows,
what's wrong with it when we've got all of this
insanity going on over here, what's wrong with with a
simple a simple thing over here? Anyway, that's my take.

(18:12):
Thank you, pastor, thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Three one, seven, zero, thirteen ten, And again you're welcome
to call in this first hour. Just some other developments
real quick, and we'll go back to the phone lines.
Vice President J. D Vance is in town today and
has met with Indiana Governor Mike Brown already. I believe

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he was either about to leave or went to a
fundraiser or a private fundraiser, but anyway, they were meeting
about a possible redistricting plan for Indiana, much like the
controversial one that is being proposed right now in the
state of Texas. Now, I pulled this off real quick
from the Indianapolis Star because I was able to go

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over there to do the reporting. But according to the Star,
Governor Mike Brown was non committal about the prospect of
redistricting here in Indiana. Following a meeting with Vice President
JD Vance and Indiana legislative leaders at the state House
on August seventh and that explains all of the high

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security in downtown indianaplis driving into work this morning. So
but anyway, non committal, non committal. What's wrong with no,
that's not it. But anyway, So The Star goes on
to report that when asked by reporters if the group
came to a consensus on redrawing the state's congressional maps

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ahead of the twenty twenty six mid term elections, Bron said,
we listened. He also described the conversation as pretty good.
House Speaker Todd Houston and Center pro Tim Roderick Bray,
both Republicans, did not answer questions from reporters. Following the
meeting with Vance. Now the VP Vance no Bron, Bron posted, okay,

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Bron posted on x ex Twitter as Joey Read calls
it next Twitter. We discussed a number of issues, and
I was pleased to highlight some of the great things
happening in Indiana.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
The push in Indiana, according to The Star, where Republicans
already hold seven of the state's nine US House seats,
comes as the Trump administration, as we were saying, is
looking to Republican led states to initiate mid decade redistricting
in order to pad the GOP majority in the US
House of Representatives prior to the twenty twenty six midterms. Basically,

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fix it, rig it, make it go in Trump's direction,
make it go in the Republican's direction, even if you
have to cheat. The party breakdown currently stands at two
hundred and nineteen Republicans to two hundred and twelve Democrats.
The effort underway in Republican led Texas, where new congressional
maps could give the GOP as many as five additional seats.

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Remember he calls around and ask for stuff and gets it.
He got indicted for it, but yeah, I just need
so many votes, and come on, give me some more
seat seats. That isn't anyway, y'all. Can y'all see that?
Can y'all hear that? Anyway? As many as five additional
seats Texas Democrats fled the state on August third to

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disrupt legislative process. The legislative process which would approve those maps.
Political analysts now say back here in Indiana that if
Governor Braun caused a special session for redistricting here in
the state of Indiana, Republicans could easily redraw maps in
northwest Indiana to flip the first Congressional district, currently held

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by US Representative Frank Moran Mervan. That would put the
state at eight Republican seats to one Democratic one. And
you know which the Democratic one is Andre Carson. And
they said redrawing the seventh Congressional district in Indianapolis, held
by longtime US Rep. Andrea Carson, to get the state
to nine Republicans, a clean sweep here in the state.

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That would pose more challenges trying to redo Representative Carson
the seventh district. Any breakup of the deep blue Democratic
voters in Marion County could make other Republican House districts
more vulnerable to future elections, according to the analyst. Then,
according to this report from the Indianapolis Star, the Prospect,
now this is what happened downtown the Prospect with Jadvans

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coming to town to talk to the governor Mike Brown
about like, hey, why don't you do you know, redraw
these maps so we can get Indiana just through a
clean sweep, have all nine US congressional districts republic and
let's do that, okay, And that way we can have
more and more for Trump. So that's you can't make
this stuff up anyway. The prospect was met with thunderous

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opposition for more than one hundred Hoosiers, who trickled into
the State House earlier this morning and formed a vocal
throng by the new By the time Vance arrived, the protesters,
organized by the nonprofit organization Mad Voters, led out a
chorus of booing for more than a minute straight, and
so on and so forth. So yeah. In an environment

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where most GOP representatives in Congress no longer hold town
halls or respond to constituents calls, again, they are not
doing what they're supposed to do, which is the people
put them in office. They work for the people. And
they're like, no, we're gonna do what we want to
do because this is what Donald Trump wants. And then
we're going to not talk to you because we got
to do what Donald Trump wants and not the people.

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And redrawing the maps is letting them choose the voters
instead of the voters choosing them. That's what they're trying
to do. That's what they're trying to do, and that's
why it infuriates me to no end when people say
I don't vote because it doesn't matter. If your vote
didn't matter, why in the world would people be going
to all of these measures and doing all of these

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at best, at best unethical. I mean we can say illegal,
but but at best taking all of these unethical steps
to get your vote or to neutralize it or to
toss it out. Why they know the value some of
us don't. I guess they know the value. You know,
It's like anyway, again, I don't want to get too

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far off into the weeds on that one, but I
did want to tell you they're asking can we do
it here in Indiana. They're already working it out in
Texas trying to figure out how to do it in Texas.
Indiana with the supermajority legislature, supermajority in the House, supermajority
in the Senate, a governor who was just a clear

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rubber stamp of Donald Trump, they would get no resistance
in Indiana trying to make Indiana a clean sweep. And
if they get their way, they may, you know, this
is what annalysts say. I don't know. Republicans are pretty bold.
They may try to take Andre's district or redraw it
and make it mostly Republican as well. So yeah, yeah,
there's a lot there. There's a whole, whole whole lot there.

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And he came to Indiana. He didn't come here to
talk about the Epstein case telling you. He came to
talk directly to Governor Braun.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
And when I say talk, uh, there is speculation that
there could be something in it for the state of
Indiana if Braun does it, like maybe bribe. I'm thinking
he's either here to bribe or extort, you know, like
I'll give you this if you do it, or if
you don't do it, I'm gonna take this away. That's
the way I see the conversation going. But maybe I'm

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a little bit too cynical. I don't know. But we'll
find out. We'll find out very shortly. Bron being noncommittal
is a little surprising. I can't imagine that he wouldn't
just jump on the bandragon and say yeah, hey, yes, yes,
of course anything. We need to make America great again,
because that's why we need to cheat and rig elections

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for Donald Trump. Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten.
Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten is our number,
mister Russell. Go ahead, how are you.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
The parents that just spoke. I just wanted to command him.
And we need more of that.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
You know, absolutely, absolutely we.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Have we have to get the truth out to the
people that are trying to suppress the truth every way
they can. Uh. This is not anything new. Uh. You
can look at history and recent history. Uh is World
War two. This is what happened in Germany. Germany had

(26:27):
a democracy before the hiplowrites took over, and the way
they took over was using the same tactics as the
current federal administration is using. And but you know, teeny,
your show is weather Press Air. But we don't have
enough of these kinds of shows. Unfortunately. If you look

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at at the broadcast spectrum across the country, we're in
a fight, and we're fighting with a knife against people
with a case.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Absolutely, and and you know, if you suppressed the truth,
you have things that happened, such as what happened in
Fort Stewart.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Uh yesterday when the sergeant shot four soldiers. He complained
about racism. And people are not gonna take it anymore.
I can remember back in the day, the Vietnam War era,
and uh. Uh, one of one of the I used
to stop at a particular store, and one of the

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Caucasian uh salesman he said, he said, when when when
the black soldiers come back from Vietnam, you know, the
country is is gonna uh find out what has been
done to the Black community all these years, and they're
not gonna take it anymore. Well, that that really didn't happen,

(27:57):
uh to the degree he was talking about with a
lot of restraint. And there's been a lot of restraint
in terms of the memberies of the black community. But
you know, when it's like a volcano. Okay, nobody likes
a volcano when they erupt, but when you get the pressure,
it's gonna erupt. And unfortunately these people don't I don't

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know whether they don't understand or don't want to understand it.
But if they keep calling this stuff on with unfairness,
they're gonna they're gonna find out how nature takes care
of things, so to speak. Yeah, this is nature and
people are no different from anybody else. You put quessure

(28:43):
on something and there will be a response. So I
hope people wake up before it's too late.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, we all do, we all do, mister Russell. But
you're right about pressure points and people can only tolerate
so much. But you know, when you have everyone subservient
to the whims of just one man and making that
one man uh look good at whatever cost, that that's
out of balance. That is so out of balance. And

(29:10):
you're right, sooner or later things get out of balance,
they go tumbling down.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
So, m.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Do you do you know back in the back in
the comic strip days that they used to talk about
cavs C A D you know, and say a person
was a cad, not C A T, but C A D.
But anyway, if you look up the definition of the cad, uh,
you see we have one in the White House. Unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, well it.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Seems like a benign term, but it's very accurate.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Well, I'll have to do what what comic strip was that,
mister Russell.

Speaker 9 (29:49):
Oh there was this was I can't remember back in
the day, you know, uh look becoming uh uh scripts,
you know they use different words were they were quite
an education actually look back on it, and they would
have different.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Different uh terms and scenarios. But that that word cad.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, he's a cad. All right, I'll uh skid, all right,
thank you, mister Russell. Appreciate it. Hey, we got to
squeeze a quick break in. If you're on the line,
stay right there, You'll be right after the break. We'll
be right back.

Speaker 10 (30:32):
H m hm.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
H m hm.

Speaker 12 (30:49):
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Let's get back to the conversation. It's community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (35:07):
FM, and we're back with Community Connection three one seven
for eight zero thirteen ten. Let's go back to the
phone lines as promised. Dave, go ahead. How are you.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
I'm fine? How about you?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'm well? Thank you.

Speaker 7 (35:22):
When Donald Trump introduced the these terroriffs, a lot of
the economists came out and said it wouldn't work, and
that we would be in a recession and that the
inflation rate would go up and we'd have terrafors. But
none of that has happened, and these so called experts

(35:45):
have been wrong time and time and time again. The economy.
If you if you just look at Milton Freeman, Milton
Freeman has to say one of the best economists ever
because he managed.

Speaker 25 (35:56):
The rigging economy.

Speaker 7 (36:00):
Tariffs don't There could be a one time adjustment to tariffs,
but they don't cause inflation. What causes inflation is overspending
by the government. That's what causes inflation. And that's what's
happened over these last i'd say eight nine, ten years,
just overspending by the government.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
And Trump wasn't a part of that. So Trump's not
a part of the overspending Trump.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
Yes he overspent, yes, but he had the Yeah, he
was unfortunate when when the what his fault though, was
get and he spent a lot of money that he
didn't need to spend, but he spent it. So it's gone.
But I think if, if, if Powell would get off

(36:52):
of his duff and lower the interest rates with the
other what the other countries have done their their interest
rates aren't nearly as high as ours. You could see
people being able to buy houses and investor money. So
it's it's a shame, but there's nothing you can do

(37:14):
for it for at least six months. That's when he
turns up.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
So but.

Speaker 7 (37:22):
You know, the market took a big hit by the
funds managers selling us the stock market short, and it's
just when it didn't get what they wanted out of it,
they all had to get back into the market again.
And the S and P was up like twenty eight
percent over the last four months.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
So it.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
The market knows something and they know what with all
the investment minds coming into the United States and being
able to write off a new factory or equipment and
do it in one year is a big a big
draw and it's and I know a President Trump's going

(38:06):
to try to get these the drugs to get back
come back to the United States because ninety percent of
our drugs are not made in this country. So it
has to get back in this country. That's all there
is to it. And with this, with these deals there,
I think they will move their manufacturing back into the country.

(38:31):
And I think we're going to have a great economy
starting the end of this year in the next year,
So all the naysayers will be if they didn't get
in the market, Yeah, they're just going to be out,

(38:51):
that's all. You look at Nvidia. We got down eighty
four dollars now it's one hundred and seventy two to
one hundred and seventy eight dollars, okay, And that only
happened in the within four months m hm. After I
got down that low and came back up. So you
can't manipulate these markets like the fits that the hedge

(39:15):
fund fund fund managers did and drive it drive it down,
and that's just.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Just not right.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, it's all.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Worries to Okay, Well, I appreciate that, Dave, thank you
for your call. Appreciate it. And I really believe you.
You believe that there were so many, my goodness, misleading
and false conclusions that Dave had. That's why I let

(39:47):
him go. I let him go. I didn't I didn't
challenge him on anything. I just let him go. But
I can tell you ninety five percent of what Dave
just said is wrong. And it's as clear as the
day is long, the economy is starting to take a tumbule.
Tariffs never work, okay, But I'm not gonna get upset

(40:10):
about that, because, like I said after Dave's call, I
really believe that he believes that. All I can say
about Dave say about that Dave is thank God, I'm
not drinking out of the same kool aid picture that
you are, because I would we would be in trouble.
And You're right. By the end of this year, we're
all gonna see. And the picture that we'll see, I

(40:31):
think will be starkly different than the one you're trying
to paint. But we'll see. And I appreciate your call,
but ninety five and I don't even know what the
five percent of what you said was correct. But we're
not drinking the same kool aid, and we certainly do
not agree. And that is just so much there to challenge.
And I'm not an economist, but even I know that

(40:52):
you slap tariffs like crazy. On the end. These aren't deals.
Their extortion. He's not dealing with they anybody he sees
threatening them, you know, either pay or else. That's not
a deal. It just like everything else. Really, Advance may
be extorting Braun as we speak. We don't know. They're
not deals anyway. Uh three, one, seven, four, zero, thirteen ten.

(41:16):
I got something I want to play for you if
we have time, if we have time, but I want
to get to these these two calls, and then if
we have time, we'll play that. Dorothy, go ahead, how
are you?

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Hi?

Speaker 25 (41:28):
Thank you, Tina. I want I just comment on a
couple of things I just learned after being here ten years.
I saw the whole picture of I saw the whole
picture of Indiana, and I was surprised to learn that

(41:50):
you had nine districts and only two of them are democratic.
And before I've called and say, I've wondered, have you
had had a democratic governor? So now I can see why.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah, we've had we've had democratic governors. Yeah, have you Yeah? Yeah,
Evan by, uh what's his name, Frank Obannon, Joe Hernan. Yeah,
we've had them, but you know it's and yeah, but
go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 25 (42:17):
Oh okay. And one of the other things I wanted
to mention was, uh, the the the problems with some
of the younger people that are out on the streets.
I think the city is trying to do a good
job of controlling that them being out late and all

(42:41):
that kind of stuff. And I think about the young
men who are out killing each other, and uh, they
don't think about the little young girls who need little friends.
Later on in life. There won't be any left be
out there killing each other. So that's not good. And
I wanted to give kudos. I'm talking about two or
three different things. Kudos to the managers that are trying

(43:05):
to make in Annapolis the sporting capital tool of the world.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, the amateur sports if they already lay claim to
that title, is the amateur sports capital of the world.
We'll see if they actually, if we actually do become that.
It's interesting.

Speaker 25 (43:21):
Well, they're bringing in a lot of good games in
here and the people are really supporting them. That's real
good to see that on TV. I wish I could
go to a lot of the sport things that I
see on TV in Annapolis is supporting and I think
they're the managers of the city for that are doing

(43:43):
a good job of that. But if Indiana, for instance,
try to bring in a nuclear plant and bringing in
prison control things, these are black marks I think against Indiana.
I don't think that's good. I think, uh, Indiana so
far is doing good. People get along, you can.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Go to stores.

Speaker 25 (44:06):
People are friendly. These people that come in here, they
said this is a friendly place, and they're right. Even
me living here, I don't see too much.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
If I may ask, where'd you live, Dothy, where'd you.

Speaker 25 (44:17):
Live on the east Side?

Speaker 2 (44:19):
No? No, No, where did you live before moving to Indianapolis.

Speaker 25 (44:22):
I've lived a lot of places. I've lived in Florida, Alabama, Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I used to travel a lot.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Okay, Okay, I got it.

Speaker 25 (44:30):
Yeah, I've lived. I've been around. So I think so far,
what I see in Annapolis, especially, I don't know about
the other little counties of town, but doing good. And
I just like to give kodos to the people who
are really trying to make this a nice sports capital
of the world, and that they are working hard to

(44:51):
keep people safe and enjoy coming here to enjoy sports,
spending all that money especial people overseas that come in here. Yeah,
and you know the speedway when they have so I
think they're doing that good. But I don't think it's
gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
If you were talking about a nuclear.

Speaker 25 (45:09):
Plant coming in here. Yeah, I don't like the idea
of the ice is putting in another prison. Why we
need so many prisons.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Well, because that's part of and thank you, Dorothy, I
appreciate your call. Some of that stuff's going to happen.
I mean, unless you know, barring a miracle, some of
that stuff is going to happen because of who we
have in office where our window of opportunity comes. Because
we have elected democratic governors before, we have elected a

(45:38):
democratic president from a ruby red state before in two
thousand and eight when we elected Barack Obama. So it
can be done. But the you know, the Republican control
and the Republican supermajority control over so many things in
our city, well in our state. City is in Marion
County in Indianapolis are Democratic leaning uh and minority. But yeah, uh,

(46:02):
but that's from a state level.

Speaker 26 (46:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
As far as the the the what do they call it,
the alligator Altcatraz that they're planning on putting here in Indiana,
I don't see anything stopping that freight train, but we'll see.
But I do appreciate your call and thank you for
the compliments. And it's good that your experience living here
in Indiana has been a good one, A good one,
not positive one. And so that's that's a that's a

(46:25):
great call, Dorothy, thank you very much. Marvin, go ahead,
how are you. I'm doing well, Tina, you doing doing well?
Thank you.

Speaker 27 (46:34):
I just think, you know, and I try not to
get depressed about it could have me rid of Trump,
and I will never understand it. But where we're at,
and I think this big push Tita is not because
he just wants He knows that if the Democrats get
back in that Epstein's list, that fair hide is going

(46:56):
to be made public. And we know Trump is on it.
And I think that has been the one, the one
case that even his supporters don't want to support a possible,
you know, pedophile. So I think they're trying this redistricting
push to try to because I believe and I can

(47:17):
still be wrong team. We've been wronged some three times before,
but that could be the one incident that could get
him impeached because who wanted to support a person, you know,
who's aecused of being you know, a pedophile. So I
think that's the big push to try to redistrict.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
I'm glad to.

Speaker 27 (47:37):
See the Democrats is sending up because God knows, we
have just been sick of watching them get rent over.
I mean literally, the Republicans have been running over the Democrats.
I think they should have released that epsteam listen, and
I mean, you were running against the dirty person.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
You gotta play.

Speaker 28 (47:55):
Dirty, you know.

Speaker 27 (47:56):
If they had that unless why not release it and
maybe that to help with the election. And so you know,
you know, we we always our forever first lady. When
they go low, we go high. But sometimes you just
got getting the mother, Yeah we got we gotta win elections.
And when you got the things that can help you

(48:18):
do that they forgot. That's gonna have to put trying
to play nice and just play the game with the
hands that have been helped. And that's all I got
to say. I'm ready for him to fight. I mean,
we can get through this. It's gonna be a lot
of things that we can't stop. Just face it. In Indiana,
Democrats have our uphill battle and stopping anything with supermajority.
But what we can do is fight and give the

(48:38):
people a reason to fight, because right now people are
just being lack a day ago that Teama, oh well,
Trump will be done in four years, you know, And
that's the way people are looking at it. But that
because the Democrats in my mind, and there's not a
big it's starting to be an opposition showing no, this
is the dangers of the things that he's putting in
place that can affect us for twenty thirty years down

(49:00):
the line. And when people begin to hear and see that,
that will mobilize them even more than what they already are.
So Democrats, I know they you listen to Tina show,
fight with tickets. You're being passive with because of the
Chuck Schumer trying to play politics as you know, the
old politics just not working in the era of Trump.

(49:21):
And that's all I've got to say.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Thank you, Tina. Yep.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Indeed indeed, And so we may not be able to
write kids, I don't. I think it's about ten minutes.
So now, well, there we have time. Okay, this is
something I wanted to in the interest of educational and
social awareness. I want to play a clip from the
old Phil Donahue show. This hosted by the late Phil Donahue.
The guest was Minister Lewis far Khan, the longtime leader

(49:46):
of the Nation of Islam, and the purpose of the
clip I want everybody to be under to understand, and
I want to be perfectly clear. The purpose of this
clip has nothing to do with religious views or endorsements
of a religion or any any of that any any
kind anything of that nature. But it's a look back
at what Middle America was thinking and saying thirty five

(50:08):
years ago, and to look at how Minister Farakahn articulated
the country's history about race, class, and more. I want
you to listen, and then, uh, well, I just take
a listen. Just just take a listen.

Speaker 16 (50:22):
I would just like to say that I am terrified
that even you, someone who's obviously educated, has given up
hope completely.

Speaker 29 (50:29):
Like when when you call upon.

Speaker 10 (50:30):
Us, you say white folks, you say black people, Jewish people.

Speaker 24 (50:33):
Why can't we come together?

Speaker 3 (50:34):
We obviously can come together, We just have to.

Speaker 30 (50:36):
We just have to find a way to do it.
The desire is good, but the reality is the total
opposite of your desire. And unfortunately, as a young lady,
you are not in the position of power to make

(50:57):
the decisions to make America. May I, you know, as
an audience of intelligent people, I would like to just
take a moment to say to you, and I really
don't think you fully understand what has happened to these

(51:18):
people that you look at as second class or inferior
citizens in this nation. Black people who were brought to
this country were stripped of their names, language, culture, religion, God,

(51:38):
and taken totally away from the history of themselves. Here
are thirty million people who don't wear their own names,
they wear your names, who don't speak their own language.
They speak English, which is.

Speaker 15 (51:54):
Not their language.

Speaker 30 (51:55):
They never never were allowed their own cultural expression of Africa.
Don't you realize that when you turn a people upside
down and inside out, then sell them not for a day,
not for a year, but for three hundred years, and

(52:16):
deny us the human right to know, to read a book,
to learn to understand, and then after three hundred years
of that, you allow us into the church.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
But by that.

Speaker 30 (52:30):
Time, you've painted Jesus white, God white, the angels white,
and then all these black people have been subjected to
a form of white supremacy which produces in the reverse,
a black inferiority. And this is fulfilling what Jesus said.
As a man thinketh so is he. And as long

(52:52):
as our people think the way they think, we will
never be able to do what we as a people
should do to correct our condition.

Speaker 31 (53:00):
Excuse me, I was brought up in quote Bedford starvingson
in my time, But I would like to say what
scares us is?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
I think we hear violence?

Speaker 30 (53:13):
The young lady said, she's afraid of violence. And isn't
it sad that we who have been the victims of
so much violence now white fear violence from us. We
do not have a history of.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Killing white people.

Speaker 30 (53:34):
White people have a history of killing us. See, and
what you fear?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
May I say this, sir, what you fear?

Speaker 30 (53:45):
And it's a deep guilt thing that white folks suffer.
You are afraid that if we ever come to power,
we will do to you and your father's what you
and your people have done to us. And I think
you are judging us by the state of your own mind,

(54:06):
and that is not necessarily the mind of black people.

Speaker 16 (54:10):
Okay, I've been listening in this corner right here, and
I've heard a whole lot of negative things from the
white people here. When you're trying to explain yourself, the
white people don't want to hear you explain yourself. They
drown you out. They start already trying to drown you
out and talk over you. There's a certain amount of
white arrogance here, and they don't want to listen to
what black people are saying. They don't understand because they
don't want to understand. I've heard a woman here say,

(54:31):
go back to Africa. Somebody said we have a black holiday.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
What does that mean?

Speaker 23 (54:34):
What he did not say that?

Speaker 16 (54:36):
He said, if we have a choice, what some of
us can go and some of us. There's no understanding
in here.

Speaker 27 (54:42):
People are just trying.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
To talk to those arrogant persons.

Speaker 30 (54:46):
You know, when you tell us go back, please remember
where you came from. And when you want to relegate
somebody to a specific place, just remember what your origin
is in this world.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
Please.

Speaker 30 (55:06):
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I want you
to understand that you wherever you are on the earth.
You are not a native anywhere. You came there and
took it from the native people who are there. So
please don't talk about going back, because if others talk
to you about that, where would you go.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I agree with you.

Speaker 32 (55:27):
Someone said we don't agree with you.

Speaker 29 (55:29):
I agree with you.

Speaker 32 (55:29):
That we live in a racist society. Just as I'm racist,
some of you are being racist. And the fact that
you're calling me a white folk. I realize that things
that I have, thinks say things that I have. Things
that I have, I realize I most of them I
may have gotten because I'm white, and I am privileged
because I'm white. But I do feel guilty.

Speaker 33 (55:52):
There are feelings of guilty from.

Speaker 32 (55:54):
Being white, and I realized that. But you're building walls.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
We build walls this high.

Speaker 32 (55:58):
We're separated right now. People are on this site and
the black people are on that side. Now, I mean,
I feel that you are prejudiced towards white people.

Speaker 30 (56:07):
Where it becomes it becomes apparent more and more as
we listen to each other and trying to talk to
each other, that we don't perceive reality the same, and
as we're talking about either reconciling differences or separating, it

(56:30):
becomes clear that if two people are looking at the
same thing and perceiving it so differently, then the two
people are operating under a different stimulus. And so when
the young lady says I am prejudiced, to be prejudiced
means to.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Judge before the fact.

Speaker 30 (56:50):
After four hundred years of living and experiencing, we're not prejudice.
We are looking at the reality of what we have
suffered and continue this up.

Speaker 34 (57:01):
Are you there?

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Don't We need to begin with education, begin with rewriting
the textbooks in America to tell the truth about blacks
and whites in America in context.

Speaker 30 (57:10):
Yes, yes, please please.

Speaker 31 (57:12):
For one second, ye, that's what I wanted to Minister Farrakhan.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
The education system.

Speaker 31 (57:19):
Our children right now are being miseducated. What can we
do so that we can inform our children, educate our
your And it's sad because white folks don't know anything
about black history. And it's pathetic that white folks have
to wait till February to find out that we were slaves.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I would like us to speak to what.

Speaker 31 (57:41):
Are we going to do to improve the education of
this whole society which have cheated them from the educive
from our true heritage.

Speaker 30 (57:52):
May I respond. I said in the first segment it
was a crime of omission as well as a crime
of commission, and that crime has affected both white and black.
White folk have been made to believe that the history
of civilization begins in Egypt, and that Egypt was a

(58:14):
white civilization, and that many whites have been made to
believe that black folk were just in the jungles of Africa,
running around with no clothes on and never contributed anything
to the advancement of civilization, while at the same time
there are Masons and shriness. Some of your parents are

(58:35):
Shriners and Masons, and they put on the fares of
the Muslim people, and what they're studying is the true
history of the black people of this earth. I think
if the proper education were given to black and white,
we could come away with a healthy respect one.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
For the other.

Speaker 30 (58:58):
I want to clear this that I don't think black
people disrespect the tremendous accomplishments that white folk have made.
But if white folk do not know what black people
have contributed to the advancement of civilization, it leads to
a disrespect of a whole segment of the population. And

(59:19):
this is why today I will say that black children,
as much as we need education, we don't want to
go to these schools because the food that we are
being fed is not proper. But any one of us
can go into the schools where there's no discipline, where
there's madness in the corridors, and we can stick to
our youth and get their attention in a matter of moments,

(59:43):
because we are teaching them that which their souls yearn for,
that is a proper knowledge of self. And if they
won't give it to us, we have the responsibility to
give it to ourselves.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And again no particular endorsement of
any particular kind, but his grasp of history and how
he presented that, Nina, I remind you all that that
was thirty five years ago. Thirty five years ago. That
is a conversation that could have been held right here

(01:00:17):
on this show, or any talked right today. It very
easily could have it, you know, So the question thirty
five years ago. But by the way, Minister fare Kain
just turned ninety two in May. But he's still out there,
he's still fighting. Yeah, he's not as not getting around

(01:00:37):
like he used to. But you know he still has
the fight. But what do you think? Do you think
we progressed, regressed, or remained the same from thirty five
years ago. I'd be curious to find out what your
thoughts are, and we'll get those right after the break.

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Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
And we're back with Community Connection. Just played about a
nine ten minute clip from the phil Donnashu show back
in nineteen ninety of Phil Donahue's guest was Minister Lewis
far Khan, and he was talking to a group of
middle class Americans, mostly white, but some black, one or
two blacks, and was questioned about the state of Black America,

(01:06:25):
the state of racism, the institutional the institutionalization of racism.
There was a whole lot more in there, but he
said a lot of things that were historically completely I mean,
they were absolutely accurate. But one of the things that
he said that really applies to today is that the

(01:06:49):
best situation would be if white and blacks were both educated,
If both whites and blacks were educated about you know,
as a black person all educated about the majority culture.
We're all educated about white achievements, you know, fourteen and
ninety two Columbus Ail the Ocean. I mean, you learn
all that other, but you know, getting one day or

(01:07:12):
maybe even one month out of the year to learn
or to hear about black history is that's just not enough.
And so if all children, black, white, whatever, could learn
about each other's history in a progressive way. He made
an excellent point that we would all be in a
much better place. That we would all know each other's history.

(01:07:35):
And I think with the brazen efforts to eliminate which
it was written down. It was written down in Project
twenty twenty five, which was a blueprint for erasing diversity,
equity and inclusion in the United States of America. But
with these the DEI initiatives throughout the state being wiped
out by the governor, DEI across the country being wiped

(01:07:59):
out by the President, and things of that nature, you know,
taking Jackie Robinson out of the you know, out of
the history books, out of the government history books, and
the Museum of African American History, the Smithsonian wanting to
you know, just all of it, altering and rewriting Black

(01:08:19):
history so that it doesn't you know, reflect badly on
you know, white people. The thing of about black history
is it doesn't have to reflect badly on anybody. It
just is that's what it was, and you know it
and you learn from it and you move forward. But
this thing about let's let's be nicer, we don't want
to hear that part of black history is just so damaging.

(01:08:42):
And I think his point about let's you know, if
both black people and white people were educated, we would
be in a much better place. So there's that. So
we you know, we can take a look maybe later,
maybe tomorrow during open lines as to whether you feel
as if we're if we've progressed past that, uh that

(01:09:04):
that conversation that Minister fire Hunt had on the Donahue
Show thirty five years ago. Have we regressed or are
we pretty much in the same place. I would make
an argument for all all three, but in due time,
I guess we'll, you know, we can figure that out.
But anyway, we're gonna move on to our as promised,

(01:09:27):
our sports segment with Danny Bridges from the Indianapolis Recorder. Danny,
are you there? Hello, let's see. Yeah, there he is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
There we go, there we go.

Speaker 5 (01:09:42):
They're back here.

Speaker 28 (01:09:43):
I'm back. I'm better than ever. I'm handsome, I'm modest,
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
I love that modesty, I really really do. Modesty is
just is just a beautiful thing, beautiful thing to see.

Speaker 28 (01:09:54):
So you've been okay, I've got a truckload of it today.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
You got a truckload. Okay, you've been okay, Yeah, I have,
I have.

Speaker 28 (01:10:03):
I've had a big day today and the sun is shining. Uh,
it's just a good day for a lot of different reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
But do tell about your big day. Yeah, tell us, Well,
I had a.

Speaker 28 (01:10:15):
I got up, I walked the dogs. I'm gonna give
you the whole thing, right, Okay, I got up and
I walked the dogs. So they were they were outrageously rowdy.
One of them got up at five and one got
up at six. I got up at six thirty. You know,
they don't control everything, but mostly so. Then we did
the walk. We came back. I had a balanced breakfast
which included Captain crunch with with real blueberries from the

(01:10:37):
grocery store.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Oh oh, real blueberries. You didn't get the crunch berries. Okay, Yeah,
that was a healthy that was a healthy twist on it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:10:44):
Then then then, of course the two percent of milk,
and then uh, a load of laundry. And then I
went down to the Holy Land today in Greenwood. I
say holy because that's where I was I went to school.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Oh okay, the.

Speaker 28 (01:10:57):
First high school as a child. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:10:59):
Today is the anniversary of my mother's death fifty four
years ago. The only woman I was ever loved succumb
to cancer. So I went down to put some roses
on her grave, and that was a good day for reflection.
The sun was shining. We talked a little bit. She says,
do you have on socks? I said, no, I don't, Mom,
And we had a pretty good talk. And then so

(01:11:20):
I tried as smoothie today at an Asian tea place.
It's pretty good too. The company there wasn't bad either.
So there's my day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Okay, Well, it sounds like especially the tribute to your
mother and may.

Speaker 28 (01:11:34):
She can tell you no I can. It sets up
to other people to determine if there's anything right about
me or good about me. But if there is, it's
a direct byproduct of her.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Absolutely, absolutely, Danny. So where do you Where do you
want to start? You know, the last time we were
so rushed, and I do want to apologize. That's why
I was making up for it a little bit, giving
you a little bit more time today. But we didn't
even get a chance to talk about Bubba because Bubba
Wallace winning the brickyard four hundred or did we We
didn't get to talk about that well a little bit.

Speaker 28 (01:12:04):
But let me take a look back. You said you
were giving me more time today. It's because the people
outside of your studio was signed saying they wanted to
hear more from me and they.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Wanted on the Yes, that's true, that's true. We do.
We do pay attention to our protesters.

Speaker 6 (01:12:19):
No, it was.

Speaker 28 (01:12:20):
It was a phenomenal day at the Annaplismotor Speedway for
a couple of reasons. Number one, that the significance of it.
I mean, the first black driver to win on the oval,
that's that's a big deal. When he not race is difficult.
But this guy has had a lot of ups and downs.
He's got talent. For whatever reason, he I think he's

(01:12:40):
better on the longer tracks and the super speedways that
he is on the smaller or perhaps road courses, even
though he's been respectable in the ladder of the three.
But he has he's outspoken, he's charismatic, he is talented.
He's got everything a sponsor would want. But if you
don't win a lot of races in that car or

(01:13:03):
any carr or f one, that eventually that charm with
all this falls off. But I think he's in a
very secure spot. I mean that team is owned by
Denny Hamlin and some guy named Michael Jordan, so we
know the money's there, and they've got plenty of blue
chip sponsors. He's got a nine months year old child,
he's happily married. I think he's experienced the maturation process

(01:13:27):
in a way that will make him a better man,
and certainly from a driving perspective, there's always room to grow.
But I just think that it's interesting to me that
he is always in the running on a on a
big road course, I mean on a big track. He's

(01:13:47):
a player, and that that's important too, because those are
their marquee.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Events well, and and he hadn't won for a while,
so this one was right on time, wasn't. It got
him right back in the that was.

Speaker 28 (01:13:58):
But it's interesting he's say that he's been in the
he's been up front when it counted toward the end,
and things just hadn't panned out for him for whatever
the reason may be. But I was happy for him.
I talked to him advance of the race and we
had a nice conversation and we were able to talk
again after the race. Jimmy McMillan was part of that conversation,
and you know Jimmy very well. And I asked, I

(01:14:21):
asked Bubba Wallace what he thought Wendell Scott would think
of his victory, who, of course was the first African
American to race a NASCAR and he won a race
and at the Jacksonville Speedway beat a guy named Richard Petty.
So that's pretty good. Yeah, And he smiled, He smiled
and said, I wish he was here. He'd had some
conversations with his family and things of that nature. But

(01:14:44):
it's interesting we forget so much in our society. You know,
people forget about someone that they're not doing well, or
they get older, you know, whatever the case may be.
But there's a rich history of black participation in motorsports
in this country, and we could probably talk a whole
afternoon about that sometime if we wanted to. But people

(01:15:06):
forget about the pioneers, and Wendow Scott was certainly one
of those. And Bubba Wallace has done nothing that would
make Wyndow Scott feel anything but proud.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Yeah, indeed, Well, kudos and hats off and congratulations to
to Bubba. And you know, we'll be keeping an eye
on now he's back in the Minx. So Danny big
night to night Sports, you know, for you know, for
sports fans. The fever play and then no, no, no, no,
it's the opposite. The Colts play their first preseason game

(01:15:38):
in Baltimore and then a late night game for the
Fever out West min Minnesolynks Minnesota Links, Sha, Minneapolis. Yeah. So,
any thoughts about how this first, I guess Anthony Richardson
gets the start of this first preseason game.

Speaker 28 (01:15:56):
Well, I'm preparing the column, which we'll go into too deeply.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Okay, you're preparing it. Okay, yeah, you can.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
You can.

Speaker 28 (01:16:02):
You can read it next week. But I think the
Colts have hedge their bets with bringing Daniel Jones in.
I get that you need a competent backup, but let's
face it, Uh, this is a critical year for Chris
Balder as a general manager, as well as Shane Stike
and the head coach. When you've got a new owner
and people can say, oh that's Gimmers, they start her.
She's her own person, she's a new owner, she's a

(01:16:24):
new individual. She has to be reckoned with and I
don't think she's going to allow the Colts to get
any worse than they currently are. By that means they
need to make the playoffs and maybe even win a game. Uh,
or you can see a hiring sign up. Yeah, I

(01:16:45):
think it's a very good chance, a good chance of that.
So if that being the case, I don't want to
hear about how close the competition is in training camp
or how good Daniel Jones is. Look, Anthony Richardson, this
is his team. This is his job to lose. If
he comes out and makes smart decisions and uses his
athleticism in addition to his arm, he will be fine.

(01:17:07):
Now people will say, well, hey, you know he's had
three years blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
I get it.

Speaker 28 (01:17:11):
I get it. He's reckless, he doesn't hide from contact,
and sometimes he makes some bad decisions. And there are
times when he looks like a phenomenal athlete and a
great quarterback. There's just too much of it being inconsistent.
So I think he'll play a couple serious tonight. You'll
see Daniel Jones probably to night as well, and the
coach I don't think have to make a quarterback decision.

(01:17:33):
As long as Richardson's healthy, He's going to be in
the lineup until he self destructs.

Speaker 4 (01:17:39):
Danny I got a question on the preseason real quick
Shador Sanders. The announcement was made that he'll be starting. Initially,
he wasn't the starting for preseason, but he will be
starting tomorrow against Caroline Panris. I want to get your
thoughts on that. Considering all the hooplah surrounding the Sanders family.

Speaker 28 (01:17:53):
This summer, well, look, I need to give him an opportunity.
I drafted the guy who's been in camp. You know,
Flacco is going to start for the Cleveland Browns. We
know this, we know, but we also we also know
that Joe Flacco is what forty one years old? I
think maybe almost forty two. Yeah, that's that's not good
in the NFL. I mean, you know, I wish I

(01:18:15):
was forty two again, but I'm not playing pro football.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
So there's that, right.

Speaker 28 (01:18:19):
The bottom line is, let this guy play tonight. I
hope they play in the entire first half. If he
throws ten interceptions, great, If he throws ten touchdown passes, great,
It is correct. You're right, I'm sorry. I want to
see him play as well. The spotlight's on him for
the obvious reason. Look, he's got some athleticism, He's he's

(01:18:42):
shown some flashes at Colorado against college competition. This is
a big jump for him. But who can say, I mean,
who can Why can't he be a backup in Cleveland?
Why can't he make the team and be slotted in
the depth chart in a sense where he knows where
he's at and if it's if his number gets called,
he gets an opportunity. But I'm gonna say this, I
think he plays tomorrow night decently. I don't think he

(01:19:05):
embarrasses himself. I don't think it will be an all
pro performance. But you know, if he completes seventy percent
of his passes, doesn't throw an interception, and they can
get a scoring drive, he's had a pretty good night.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Okay, Yeah, he's He's number four on the depth chart.
Wasn't he the most recent?

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
They made the announcement that he'll be starting, and two
of their quarterbacks are injured. Can he Pickett? And the
other quarterback? Canurse name right on the top of my head.
They both have injuries sustained in preseason training, so they're gonna.
Of course Fla is not gonna. It's not doesn't make
sense for him to start in the preseason games. So
that's why they said will be starting tomorrow against the Panthers.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, but back to the Colts, So you're you're thinking
that we won't see a whole lot of any of
any of the starters or you know, projected starters are
Team one.

Speaker 28 (01:19:51):
You're gonna see some starters play tonight. I mean, I
don't think you're going to see the entire squad as
far as that's concerned, but you know, you'll have a uh,
you'll have a number of guys who see some action tonight.
But look, you're also gonna get see some guys that
they're not sure about, you know, and do we want
to keep this guy, do we want to on the

(01:20:11):
practice squad, what have you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Yeah, that's pretty much.

Speaker 28 (01:20:14):
That's important too, though, you know, you have to cultivate
a roster. It's not just a matter of how many
people you know you have on each side of football
in the starting role. You've got to have a bench,
you've got to have a practice squad. So with that
in mind, you're going to find that tonight is important
for a lot of reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Yeah, yeah, and that's but that's the other reason they say,
don't put too much emphasis on a win loss in
terms of the preseason. So many other things are going
on behind the scenes, and a lot of these players
are trying to you know, they're fighting for their lives
or for their jobs. You know some of them that
aren't the obvious uh Team one or you know, Slot one.

(01:20:52):
But yeah, well.

Speaker 28 (01:20:53):
There's at least fifteen guys tonight that won't make the team.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
I mean, give or take to be the first cut
too on it.

Speaker 28 (01:21:00):
Yeah, so look, it's a matter of they know who
they're going to probably cut, but they're also on the
fence maybe with a handful of guys who they want
to see what they can do. But uh, look I
would say this, Uh, if you see a guy tonight
perform well and he's on the the fringe of perhaps

(01:21:23):
not making the team, maybe you maybe he gets another
week to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Show you something earned himself a job. Yeah. Indeed, indeed, Hey,
your your buddy Jeff is on hold for you, Danny.
Let's let's go to Jeff. Jeff.

Speaker 25 (01:21:34):
How are you, hey, Gina, Cameron, Dan, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Oh well, well, well, oh well you're doing okay.

Speaker 28 (01:21:42):
Very well? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Oh no, real great.

Speaker 39 (01:21:45):
Oh listen, Uh, I think the Coles are going to
do very well because uh, I think Jim Mersey's daughters
are in a good place because.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Do you tell maybe because you.

Speaker 39 (01:21:58):
Know the sexism part. They got approves of the old
boys club that ye know women can't sac see, and
I think that's gonna go kind of will in your
favorite I don't they they will is very no expense
to get the players.

Speaker 17 (01:22:12):
That they need.

Speaker 39 (01:22:14):
And also I get Roger Goodell is taking seriously about
a forty team league.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Have you already talked about that?

Speaker 25 (01:22:22):
About expansion?

Speaker 28 (01:22:23):
Whatever?

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
I heard about extending the schedule one more game.

Speaker 28 (01:22:32):
I think they'd like to see teams in other countries
and perhaps some simultaneous play. I don't know how that
would work into an expansion of the league or a playoff.
Woman bet to address this point about the new ownership, Uh,
there's no question in the NFL is a good old
boys club. That's always been that way and always will
be that way. But there's also a young lady now

(01:22:53):
who has an opportunity to distinguish herself as a businesswoman
and someone who can run the franchise. She has been
around her father long enough to know sure the the
basic ins and out. She probably knows who is his,
who his allies were, and who his enemies were, and
that will be helpful as well. But I don't think

(01:23:14):
people will be disappointed with her. Now you know, nobody can.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Look at us.

Speaker 28 (01:23:21):
No, I just I just think you got to give
her time. But her first make her first major decision. Well,
people will probably say, well, I'll wait a minute, but
just depends if it's a personnel decision, if it's an
operational decision. But she's articulate, she's intelligent, and you know what,
it's her time, and uh, I don't think there's any
reason at this point to feel that she's not capable

(01:23:43):
and uh competent and can hold her own in a
room full of owners And that will happen eventually, owners meetings,
et cetera, to where they're all in the same room
and she has to distinguish herself that way. But uh,
I think she's got what it takes. And I'm pulling
for okay.

Speaker 39 (01:24:00):
And it is so if they do go with this expansion,
what city than your mind are prime candidate and you
can you know, as they said there, it might be
a couple of Canadian city that might.

Speaker 28 (01:24:12):
Be the MiGs And I'll hang up, Well, if I
was a player, I'd want to play in the French
River area with.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
You, Tina. That would be good. I guess No, I
don't know.

Speaker 28 (01:24:23):
I don't know. I mean as far as the NFL
expansion and domestically, you know, in the United States, what
have you. I really don't know. I mean, if you
look at the map, it's pretty well saturated with teams. Uh,
you know, just about every point in the country. I mean,
you start on the East coast and you got two
New York teams.

Speaker 5 (01:24:41):
Uh.

Speaker 28 (01:24:41):
You work your way down in the Midwest, you've got
the Bengals, You've got the Colts, regardless of what division
they're in. The further south, you've got Carolina, Atlanta. Last
time I checked, there's what three teams in Florida. So
when you had the other direction, you run into New Orleans,
you run into Dallas and Houston. Uh. Oh, go up
to the midwest again, there's Kansas City, cross back over. Uh.

(01:25:05):
You know, there's a little bit of a baron area
out there. But I don't know where you'd stick a
team at. I mean, here's the bottom line. For someone
to have a team, they've got to build a stadium.
You build a stadium, you get a team. You also
get a Super Bowl. That's how it works. So somebody
wants to step up with I don't know, five billion dollars.
They'll probably get a little attention.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
All right, thank you?

Speaker 28 (01:25:27):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Are you done? Danny with Jeff?

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Okay, Yeah, when you say build it and they will come.

Speaker 28 (01:25:38):
Well, look, I mean remember people forget about who Bill
Hudna was. I know, Tina, you know who he is. Yeah,
and he had a vision if we're going to have
a professional sports franchise, specifically in an NFL team, we've
got to build a stadium before we get the team,
and then you start to negotiate with someone who's not

(01:26:00):
happy with their current lease or who wants more money,
et cetera. We know what happened. You know. It wasn't
by I mistake. It was by design. I don't know
that that had the Colston mind specifically, but he knew
that somebody out there would be attracted to a brand
new stadium and a sweet financial deal supplied to them

(01:26:20):
by the Capital Improvement Board. So it's it's not a
it's not a secret on how you get a team anymore.
It's a matter of when the NFL is ready to expand.

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Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
And we're back with community connection with our good buddy
from the Indianapolis Recorder. Sports writer for the Indianapolis Recorder,
Danny Bridges. Danny, a lot of stuff that we are
catching up on today. I can't wait to hear well. Actually,
I'm going to read your column next week. You told
us about it. I heard a little bit about it,
so it's going to be pretty good. So we got

(01:33:21):
the Colts in action tonight and then after that a
late night game for the Fever My question to you, Danny,
do you think that there's any possibility that Caitlin Clark
will be able to return before the end of the season,
because I think time is running out for her to
get back into that lineup.

Speaker 28 (01:33:39):
Good question. She's certainly somebody that they want to come back.
But I always point to Lebron James when we talk
about and this is public as far as her injury
is concerned, its tip Wine injury. And remember how insistent
he was about I know my body. I know when

(01:33:59):
I not having abdominal pain, so therefore I know when
I can get out there and run the floor and
do the things that makes me valuable to this franchise. Now,
I don't know the extent of her injury, but anytime
you start messing with the abdominal wall of your body,
that causes a lot of discomfort, and it can happen
in a number of different ways as far as how

(01:34:20):
you aggravate it or maybe even reaggravated, so they have
to be extremely careful. There's two factions here. There's a
world class medical staff at her disposal, and I mean
that respectfully. Pacier's Sports Entertainment have phenomenal doctors and phenomenal facilities,
They have specialists, they can outsource things too. She couldn't

(01:34:41):
be getting better medical care in my opinion. That being said,
there's also no one knows what she's feeling except herself.
Can she play in pain? She did before and that
didn't work out too. I think she reaggravated the thing.
To be honest with you, but this is not something
that you want to mess around. If you don't want
this thing lingering, you don't want it reoccurring, and you

(01:35:03):
certainly don't want her having problems with it, you know,
when they come to camp next year. I mean, I'm
being long term with this thing. So look, they are
playing a pretty balanced level of basketball without her. Would
they be better with her? Absolutely? There's got to be
a way to capture what they're doing and lend her
back into what she was accustomed to as well. Somebody's

(01:35:25):
minutes are going to go down when she comes back.
How does that impact their attitude their disposition? Who can say?
But yeah, your point is very valid, Tina. They will
they play a forty four game season, is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Yeah? That's half of what four games?

Speaker 28 (01:35:42):
So yeah, it's it's they're getting to a point where
I don't think they want to put her on the
hate where she's not going to play list, but I
think they want to be real careful about when she does.
And right now, you know, with the last five or
six games, they played pretty spirited basketball. The ball has
moving around. I've watched highlight packages. I'm not gonna act

(01:36:03):
like I watch all the games because you know, you
and I've talked about that before. The w NBA is
a different brand of ball. I keep an eye on it,
but I don't follow it religiously. But I know how
to read a box score, I know how to watch
a highlight package, and they have had a pretty good
run in her absence. Does that work on her psychologically
to try to come back sooner? I hope not, because

(01:36:25):
if you reaggivate this thing again, the whole process starts.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
All starts all over again from scratch day.

Speaker 14 (01:36:31):
When they get reaggravated.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
When it comes to a grain injury, do you have
an option to get surgery and not do surgery? Cause
I know that that was something they talked about with
Lebrian Well.

Speaker 28 (01:36:39):
I had, I had, I had a seat about a
year ago. You know, I hope nobody finds this offensive.
But I had a hernia repair, okay, And you know
I underestimated what that would be like as far as
where it was at in your body, as far as
you know your abdomen. And that's what we're talking about,
abdominal pain, abdominal wall, abdominal muscles, et cetera. And I

(01:37:03):
can tell you it's painful. It is now. I don't
know the degree of her growing. Was it a tear,
is it a strain? No one's talking about that. We
know she's having problems with it. I just again, people
much smarter than me are involved in her case as
well as her own input on how she's feeling. It

(01:37:26):
can become something they don't want it to be. Everybody
wants to win. Everybody wants to see her. So it's
a matter of, hey, look what are we going to
do without her? And they know what they'll do and
bringing her back, they've got to be careful too. You
got to manage those minutes. You got to put her
in a situation where she's not overextended. So a lot

(01:37:46):
of different moving parts here. Do they need her back?

Speaker 22 (01:37:49):
What?

Speaker 28 (01:37:49):
Heck, yes they do. Do they want her back? Well,
that's even a dumber question. But when they get her back,
that's really the million dollar question.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Yeah. But you know what, though, Danny, did you know
her coming back? I mean that that that unit, those
units are moving around like well machines, and so when
she does come back, it is going to throw things
off a little bit. There will be another period of adjustment.
We just hope that that, you know, it's it's as
seamless as possible, because everybody knows there, you know, everybody

(01:38:20):
knows everything. They're they're really they've really been fun to
watch the last five or six games.

Speaker 28 (01:38:24):
So people, people a lot smarter than me, have said
this already, but I'll go ahead and chime in. There's
some talent on that team that's not uh named Caitlin Clark,
and I mean that respectfully. Well, there's some there's some
young ladies out there that can run the floor. They
are athletic, can shoot the basketball, they can handle it,
they've got some moxie. You know, they stand up for

(01:38:47):
themselves in situations where they be rebounding or you know,
defensive contacts. So the women's game is intriguing to me
in the sense that it's much more physical than people
will ever imagine. I think in some ways. If you
don't think it is, just focus on what goes underneath
the basket. Don't pay attention to where the ball is.

(01:39:08):
Just look at the action underneath the bucket and you'll
understand it better. That's just my take.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Yep. Indeed, indeed, so Danny, by the way, pick give
me a number. Pick a number between one and ten.

Speaker 28 (01:39:22):
I'll go with six.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
Okay, six caller to three one seven, four eight zero
thirteen ten. Three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten.
The sixth caller will win a family four pack two
the Indiana State Fair. Now six caller wins. Good luck
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(01:39:45):
family four pack to the Indiana State Fair, and you
can thank Danny Bridges for calling your numbers. See your
calling plays, Danny, Your call them plays like the athletes do.

Speaker 28 (01:39:55):
I'm always available to escort a pretty lady to State
Fair if she's got free passes.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Free. That's the operative word, isn't it?

Speaker 28 (01:40:03):
For the absolutely I'll I'll take care of the snacks
when we get there.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Indeed, indeed, hey, Danny, the pacers made a little bit
of news by saying that they are going to now
start inserting Benedict Mathern into the starting lineup. Were you
did you see that coming or did that surprise you?

Speaker 28 (01:40:21):
Well, it looked logical to me. Ah, it's well only
because of their substitution patterns historic clu. This is a
big year for him in the sense that Donald, you're
this deal, he gets an opportunity to play even more
showcases skill. I firmly believe if he stays healthy, he'll
have an above average year and there'll be plenty of

(01:40:44):
people interested in him when it comes time to sign
a new contract, including the Pacers. So I think they
want him back. I think the price will be the
big issue. I think we learned that with Miles Turner
and ben Ben mcmathan will have no shortage of offers
as long as he stays healthy and can be productive.
I just I firmly believe that, and I think the

(01:41:07):
Pacers wanting back. But I think they're also going to
look and make sure that they're making the right decision
long term. And how many dollars can they tie up
in a long term contract with him?

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
Yeah? Yeah, So Tyrese Haliburton obviously the biggest news I
guess coming from Tyree's is that he got engaged a
couple of weeks ago. Yeah, so, well, you know.

Speaker 28 (01:41:28):
That's that's an interesting thing to bring that up. First
of all, congratulations to him, and congratulations and his Beyonceake.
I don't know her, but certainly I have seen her,
and I hope that they have a long, happy life
and they have children and everybody's happy, right m But
the other side of that is it didn't take the

(01:41:49):
media very long to what I consider to be somewhat
of an invasion of privacy. Yeah, they released a little
bit of information in a photo, but every time I
turned around and looked at the television set of the Radiots,
I was getting updates about him getting engaged, and I
thought to myself, this is a bit much. I thought
they deserved a little bit more of a of a

(01:42:10):
privacy thing. On the other hand, that's just me. Maybe
I'm totally wrong and don't understand how social media impacts everyone. Look,
he's got millions of people that are interested in every
move that he makes, and certainly everyone's wanting him to
cover and play basketball, and he has coveted locally as
the most popular pacer without question. But I would say this.

(01:42:31):
I think I would just went off and got married
and told everybody afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Well, you know, they it seemed to be a pretty
big deal on social media, so it was. Yeah, it
was quite choreographed though. I think he had hired a photographer.
They had a part. I mean it was well planned
and so yeah, there was Yeah, the public was invited in,
is what I'm saying.

Speaker 28 (01:42:51):
Well, okay, maybe I'm off base. Maybe he wanted I
think he wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
To make it a thing because when you look at
how orchestrated and everything it was somebody put in one
of the pictures because he apparently got down on one
knee and they said they were worried about him with
that boot down down on his good knee. But he
I guess he got the job done. But yeah, it
was professionally done. You could just tell. Yeah, it was
very and.

Speaker 28 (01:43:16):
To think that I was quite the roomo when I
proposed to my late wife and her favorite restaurant.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
But look, where's her favorite restaurant?

Speaker 28 (01:43:23):
Where was her favorite I forget it was her favorite restaurant,
but I think it was. It was a French restaurant.
It was out there on the highway sixties road sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, is just
sha Yeah, I think it was something.

Speaker 28 (01:43:39):
Yeah, there we go. But my point is, uh, now
that you mentioned that, maybe it's about how they wanted
to share things and how they do things.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
What was I think it kind of was.

Speaker 28 (01:43:51):
You know, I'm I'm uh. I'm forty years older than
Tyree is at least forty years older. So he he's
he marches to li bit of a different beat. Social
media is a big thing in his life, and that's
how he communicates with his fans. I wish him the best.
I thought it was over the top, but you know what,
it doesn't matter what I think. Let's hope those two
were happy for about I don't know, sixty seventy years

(01:44:13):
from me.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Yeah, well, they've been together for quite a while. They
went together and it was significant, I think, and where
he proposed, because he proposed on the court there at
Iowa State University. Yeah, and so that's where they first met.
I think she was a cheerleader and he was a
basketball player. And after that, you know, the rest was history.

(01:44:35):
Several years later I think six seven years later, and
he went back to where they first met to propose.
So it was very well orchestrated.

Speaker 28 (01:44:43):
Well again again and to think all I could come
up with was some French onion soup and a bag. Yet,
but it was a really nice rain.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
It was a beautiful ring.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Yeah, I bet it was, Danny. What a beautiful setting.

Speaker 38 (01:44:57):
French.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
You know, their French is romantic, you know, it's kind
of romantic. So you know, I don't know if any
Napolis has any good French restaurants anymore. I know there
used to be one Latour that was straight downtown and
that one was out a little ways, but I think
both of those have closed. And when I say French restaurants,
I mean, you know, like very very high end. I

(01:45:17):
mean you go to Latour downtown and they you know you,
your name is printed on your napkin, and they would
give you these matches. I didn't smoke, or I don't smoke,
but I.

Speaker 28 (01:45:28):
Remember Latura was on top of the Unnatural Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes, that's where it was.

Speaker 7 (01:45:33):
Yes.

Speaker 28 (01:45:34):
We only ask people who've been around a little bit
longer remember Latura. But you're younger than I am, and
so you still remember. And that's impressive.

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Yeah, well went there for I didn't. I didn't eat
THEES cargo. I didn't eat the S cargo.

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(01:46:14):
tickets to the Indiana State Fair. And speaking of the fair,
speaking of food, Danny, speaking of food. When whenever I
hear Indiana State Fair, I'm thinking food, I'm not looking
at the I'm not looking at the blue ribbon. Well
maybe i am. Maybe I am looking at the different
recipes because I have been in there before. Not the rides,
not the agriculture, not the animals, none of that stuff.

(01:46:35):
I'm going straight down the midway and seeing what I
can eat. How about you? Have you been to the
fair yet and do you have a favorite fair food.

Speaker 28 (01:46:43):
I haven't been to the fair because it's a little
warm out for my taste. Okay, I think I think
the staples for me would be like that pork chop
and then a near of corn that's been what roasted
or prepared mm hmmm, that would be the staples. And
then I would have to have to have something in
terms of dessert, so that would probably be a blueberry

(01:47:04):
milkshake over there by the dairy area where they have
a dairy thing by the old hooks rerex door or
maybe even uh if I can't get that, then uh,
I don't know, maybe probably one of their exotic fried
oreo things.

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Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
You know what something I of course, I mean the
fair comes once a year, so you got to be
a little deck of it, you know, behave in that
way once a year. But I I like the fried
veggies and I haven't had a funnel cake slash elephant
ear in years. Uh yeah, and those are those used
to be good, but I they I don't know. Danny.

(01:47:44):
We have a caller that has a question for you, Raymond.
Go ahead, how are you.

Speaker 28 (01:47:50):
Right? How you doing doing good?

Speaker 29 (01:47:55):
Dan? I would call because I know that most of
the time he makes it coment about.

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
The NY five hundred and the race track and everything.

Speaker 6 (01:48:04):
A couple of weeks ago, uh, my job went to
a like to the new uh race car. Uh, museum,
and this was so awesome.

Speaker 29 (01:48:20):
It intweged my interest to want to go to a race.

Speaker 27 (01:48:24):
Now I'm years old.

Speaker 29 (01:48:27):
I'm sixty years old, and I had no desire of
ever going to the racetrack in my life, and I
constantly hear you guys talking about it, but it's like
and when I went there, it really picked my interest
because I realized all the cars and all the.

Speaker 27 (01:48:44):
Wonderful things that they had going on there.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
I'm like, man, this is so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
So where you which which which one are you gonna
go to? Yeah? Right, Man, which which where you're gonna go?
Where you're gonna go watch a race?

Speaker 27 (01:48:57):
I don't know, I really don't. I don't know the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
Recommendations. Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:49:04):
First of all, I think he's spot on about the museum.
It is remarkable what they did there. Jason van Sikel
is a curator there, and they've done a fabulous job
with that. They've kept history and they've also brought it
concurrent up to date as far as all the different
cars and what have you. I would say Indianapolis five

(01:49:26):
hundred is a must. And if you will leave your
contact information with the good people here at the radio station,
we can follow back up, and we'll make sure you
get an opportunity to get in Annapolis Motor Speedway in
the month of May. I know some guy out there
named Jimmy McMillan who's always interested in people coming out
for the first time and experiencing what is going on

(01:49:49):
out there. So we can make that happen and see
how you like that. But I'll need some information to
follow up. You'll need to keep it in mind to
you and maybe phoning back into the station April next year.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Okay, So Raymond, uh that Danny, You're very kind. That's
so nicey you, thank you very much. It is very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
You know, Danny loves his racing. He loves his racing
so well.

Speaker 28 (01:50:11):
Perfect. That's a perfect segue into the race this weekend
in Portland. Roles below is really close to clenching the
driver's championship. That'll be on Fox at three o'clock Eastern
on Sunday. You can watch qualifying and practice on Saturday
on FS one as well. So the IndyCar season is
reaching a point where you know, it's quite possible we'll

(01:50:35):
have a champion after Sunday's race and still have two
races left on the calendar, which is good and bad.
Good from a standpoint that one driver has been dominant.
Bad because you know, there's not much left to cheer
about in terms of the last two races. But who knows,
maybe it won't happen Sunday, and maybe it'll go on
the way to Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (01:50:53):
Yeah. So, Danny, are you going to any of the
final races, including the one coming up this weekend.

Speaker 28 (01:50:59):
I'm not going to Portland. I'm gonna work kind of
remotely on that. And but what I'm going to do is, uh,
I'm going to uh go to Milwaukee, and I'm also
gonna go.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
Oh yeah, Raymond, you're gonna have touch Uh Raymond hung
He hung up. Raymond, Well, maybe he can call back.
Call back if you're listening, Yeah, call back, Raymond, And
because we need your contact information, Cameron will take it,
uh and we'll get that over to Danny as soon
as possible. I think that might be Raymond call him back. Uh,
but uh yeah, if you're there, Raymond, just give it

(01:51:32):
back to give the info to uh to Cameron. Yeah.
So uh so, uh, the the the races you know,
winding to so you say, hello, has been dominant. He's
the dominant one.

Speaker 28 (01:51:42):
Yeah, I mean the record for victories in the season
is ten. He's got a he had he had mid
Ohio in the bag and ran off the course very uncharacteristically.
Or you have nine wins, you you're talking about rarefied
air when you start talking about a J. Floyd Scott,
some al Ancer junior in terms of people who have

(01:52:03):
amassed a lot of victories in one season. So but
he's so level headed, he's so calm, he's articulate. I
think he's grown a lot in the last two and
a half years. And it wasn't that long ago there
was a contractual war between McLaren and Ganassi Racing as
to who owned his rights to retain him as a driver.

(01:52:24):
You know, he wanted to go to McLaren and maybe
end up in the Formula One World But bottom line
is his next contract with Ganassi will be significant because
he has dominated in a way these last two years
that is quite special. If you're an IndyCar fan, you
must be an Alex Poulofan because I tell you, the
guy is so much fun to watch. Be a road course,

(01:52:45):
a street course, a small level or a super speedway,
all the different disciplines are in his well house and
he is one talented driver.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
All right, Well, I do believe we have Raymond's info,
and so we'll make sure that you two connect any.

Speaker 28 (01:53:00):
To do that sometime will be happy.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Indeed, anything we forgot about Danny before we have to
let you go.

Speaker 28 (01:53:06):
No, I appreciate the opportunity for the extended segment. I
would like to know though, there's a rating system for radio.
What's called sweeps or or is that television? What radio is?
What arbitron ratings?

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
That's how that works, right, Uh, it depends on what
book you buy out of it. I'm gonna have to
brush up on that because I know all of the
television stuff and I don't know which book Nielsen was TV. Yeah,
Nielsen and Arbitron were the Arbitron back in the day.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out, Danny, because
I can't really speak to that. I have to know what.
So what are you talking about? The ratings? Hello? Hello, Hello? Okay,

(01:53:45):
Well he didn't get that one out. We lost his call,
uh and we got to get out of here. So Danny,
you know, we can find out. I'll find out what
you were talking about maybe we can talk offline. Uh anyway, Uh,
that is all the time we have for right now.
Willimore Junior on the radio is up next our website
Praisindie dot com. Please continue to be safe, be well,
and stay informed. We do have some breaking news. There's

(01:54:07):
been an explosion what authorities are calling a chemical explosion
in Noblesville. A lot of the residents there have been
asked to shelter in place. It's near downtown, they say,
a water treatment plant. So if you know anybody in
Noblesville or you live there, get back in. Res Authorities
want residents to stay inside. This is a developing situation,

(01:54:30):
so you know, we'll find out a little bit more
about it. But the Noblesville Downtown Square water treatment plant
not too far from their chemical explosion. So far no injuries,
but be safe out there in that area. If you are,
be safe and shelter inside until they get it under control.
That's all the time we have. We'll be back tomorrow.

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