Community Connection - May 13 2026 - Tina Cosby with Contributing Analyst James Patterson and Tracy Pruitt Mental Health Facilitator... - Community Connection With Tina Cosby

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
One.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, wrong pump and I don't know, but I did.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
I yeah, crazy.

Speaker 4 (00:07):
Still I still don't understand what he did to mess
that up, because if he gave him thirty three dollars,
he was supposed to Okay, go ahead, Well, how much
did did you pay for?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I paid for fifteen, which was my purchase.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Okay, So if you paid for fifteen, and did you
pump all the gas I pumped?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I pumped until it stopped. It was like fifteen dollars
and thirty two cents or something like that.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh, fifteen thirty two okay, but you paid him what
you pumped.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I paid the man who gave the clerk thirty three
dollars cash. I eventually to settle it because it just
simply wasn't going through the young man's head. I asked
the young man, please put fifteen dollars and thirty two
cents on that man's pump where his car is when
you put it on, put it on there, and then
I will pay for that off of my car. And

(01:02):
I said, that'll take care.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I didn't understand how he paid thirty three and then
you pumped the gas and then all you owed him
was fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Because I didn't pump thirty three dollars worth of gas, right.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
And you said, was yours filled up? Because don't you
have a hybrid anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I have a hybrid. I that was about as much
as I was going to use. I mean I was
fifteen thirty two.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I got you. It was confusing.
I think the best thing to do is just what
you did. Give the man what you what you pumped
into your car. If he had paid for that pump
or yeah, and then that was the difference.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, take the credit off that, take the rest of
the credit off my pump, and put that credit over
there on his with the fifteen that I just paid.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Exactly. Yeah, it was a.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Person cannot he just could not cut it.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Just woo me.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
But I mean, shouldn't have the guy shouldn't have paid
in cash. That would have never happened. Well, and he
used a card, it would have been so easy, I
guess for the clerk.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
But he may not either. There are a lots of
people that simply just do not They don't care for cash,
and they should, they should be able to do. And
and if he in the first place, if the guy
says put because like I said he was across the way.
If he says, can you put thirty three on seven
or whatever, how in the world could you confuse he

(02:31):
had to be at pump seven, eight or nine, because
I was the one all the way across and it
was one, two and three. So how in the world
do you go to three from set? I mean I
he just wasn't watching it.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
And there still would have if he put thirty three
on the pump you were pumping, there still would have
been money left on.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
That pump, exactly exactly. That's why I told him take
the credit off of that and transferred the rest of
it over there to him, or.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
You could have given him what you did the fifteen
thirty two or whatever you pumped and it told him
to come around there pump the rest of it and the.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, yeah, I could have done that, because that the
rest of it was still on that pump. But I
think he had cleared that pump by the time. Yeah,
he had.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Whatever rights that it needed to be.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Exactly Welcome to my world last night.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
When was a listener, gosh a number of months ago,
let me have ten gallons of gas. Oh yes, if
you had said.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I want to look at me in the head.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Would have had.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
But did do you guys ever find that difficulty when
you're when you're dealing with real customers. You know, sometimes
this is frustrating and dealing with AI. Yeah, you know,
when you deal with someone that's either unengaged or just
not knowledgeable, or they only think one way, they can
only see things one way. They can't see forward or
backward or end around or whatever. Because I had the

(03:54):
solution seconds after it happened, and he kept saying.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, no, no, you have the You have the most
i'd say, interesting episodes in your life. I mean, you
go back and tell us all these things happened. That's true,
you know where I mean, I don't know, you write

(04:20):
a book.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I'm telling you. Sometimes I look up and I wonder
what what star am I under today? I mean, are
we in a retrograde mercury or what?

Speaker 6 (04:29):
You know?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
All these people talk about the stars on the line
just writing. I don't know. Maybe it's because I try
to be patient too, and I was trying to be
very patient.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, that woman was right. You were you were to
be committed for, you know, not taking off because although
a lot of people would not, you still have some
that would just jump in their car and they're gone.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, say the heck with you, buddy, I'm out of here.
You know, no, I couldn't do that. Man may it's
his heart earned money too. Everybody's you know, everybody's got know,
we all got our hard earned money we got to
look after. So but anyway, Yeah, that we were talking
about car washing, I was just thinking what happened right
before I went to this. So that's at that time,

(05:11):
after that Eric and James, I decided to take a
leap of faith. What what difference does it make if
it rains tomorrow? Get your car washed? Anyway, go for it.
So after all of that, after unraveling and untangling all
of that, treat yourself to a car wash. And that's
one that therein lies the story. So and like I said,
took a leap of faith that it wouldn't rain, and

(05:33):
it didn't and it's not going to for a minute
or two.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So good.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, you just have these incidents. I'll tell you, you
got a story to tell every time you come on
the air well testimony.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, sometimes sometimes it gets like that. But onto the
business at hand. Let's see, James, you weren't here the
first of the week. Yeah, you know what, let's uh well,
we talked about uh some more devastating. I can't consider

(06:11):
it all devastating. If it's a million five million, this
is seven million. IPS announces a seventeen million dollar I'm sorry,
seventeen million dollar Central Office reduction to stay afloat, to
be able to stay afloat. So that was you know,
that was pretty you know, we had a lot of

(06:31):
engagement with that particular piece of news, and I you know,
you got to wonder how much more they can take.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
I mean, you know, yeah, did did that group? Did
that group take over the mayor's Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
They were, they were a part of it.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, they were part of Okay, So you know, part
of their their charge or their their responsibility is the
budget of IPSUS. So I'm not surprised at all. The
budget and transport, including transportations, I'm not surprised at all.
I mean, they can't you know, totally subplant the elected

(07:12):
board of IPS Board of Commissioners, which they're trying to
do anyway. But you know, part of their responsibility is
their budget, their funding, so you know, to jump in
and cut like that, it does not surprise me one bit.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, And pertaining to transportation, the extracurricular buses, you know,
the late buses that it's talking about, those are going
to be cut back. But you know they're also cutting
back on vendor contracts, athletics offerings, and different things, pre
k funding adjustments. So yeah, there's there's that, There's a

(07:52):
lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
So yeah, I mean it impacts a lot of people.
Every time. I can see why you guys generated a
lot of interest in this subject because every time you
mentioned something about Indianapolis public schools, it cutes a lot
of lives. And you know what's happening now as they

(08:14):
are trying to incorporate the charter model into the you know,
the public education domain as much as some people say
as much as anyone in the country outside of Louisiana,
which has the most New Orleans I think, of any
school district, I'm just not surprised at what they'll do.

(08:39):
But you know, people are still fighting to try to
keep our schools traditional public schools, and it's a it's
a it's a battle.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Indeed, Hey, let's go, well, I kind of call it
three one, seven for eight, zero, thirteen ten. We can
take calls three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten
Samuel L. Jackson, haven't talked to you for a while.
How are you doing?

Speaker 8 (09:01):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (09:02):
H him brig Hello that Tina Eric and seventh James.
How you guys doing?

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Huh? How go mister Jackson?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
All right, I'll go good.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
All right.

Speaker 10 (09:13):
Look at I got three scenarios, uh and they all
get news.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
One I'm gonna surprise you.

Speaker 10 (09:19):
I'm gonna have to let you come over and see
for yourself, you know, when I get ready.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
But the first one is.

Speaker 10 (09:24):
This company called uh three.

Speaker 11 (09:28):
Angel Transport, three Ages Tradport, Okay, and they are hiring
uh any one that have a box truck with a gate,
box truck with a gate.

Speaker 10 (09:45):
They're paying four hundred and fifty.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Dollars a day.

Speaker 10 (09:48):
Crow who yes, if uh you could texte him at.

Speaker 11 (09:54):
This?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
See what his phone numback for your food? Numb at
Oh there we goes.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Three one seven that one two eight.

Speaker 11 (10:04):
Duel eight seven eight at three one seven that was
two eight Buel eight seven eight.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
You know those at those rates, those daily rates, I
can see people renting a box truck from U Haul
Enterprise or somewhere else just to just to get to
the you know, investing in a rental just to get
to the rate.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Right.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Well, well when you say a box truck with a
gate too, do you mean like a lift gate or
what kind of gate are you talking?

Speaker 10 (10:34):
Yeah, a lift gate?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 10 (10:38):
And uh, this is peaking a contract, so you get
all your money at one time. They don't take out nothing.
It's you're ten ninety nine at the end.

Speaker 7 (10:44):
Of the year, okay, okay, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, okay,
ten ninety ninety, which means independent contractor yeah, exactly what
you pay your but you pay your own taxes.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
And the second one is, uh for those you know
that part time, I would say look for a part
time job, or you can call that same number and
you can use your car. They pay you one hundred
dollars a day. Let's do part time work for them.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Mhm for you?

Speaker 10 (11:16):
Are you, uh any one need a point time job?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Uh is open?

Speaker 10 (11:21):
Uh, same numbers, same company.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
H so ja.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
I mean it's not like they use your car like
a lift driver or uh no.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 10 (11:34):
You use your car to transport uh. Uh different products
from point A to point B. You will lose use
the box truck to transport product from point at to
point B.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
What's the name of the company, Uh.

Speaker 11 (11:47):
Three A Transport eight E G E L c A
R E E eight E G E L Transport.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, they need, well certainly need to look up and
make sure there they're legit. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Oh, they legit because I work for them.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
M well, yeah, but you know we need to know
their license and you know we can't.

Speaker 12 (12:09):
Oh oh absolutely, Oh yeah, they definitely.

Speaker 10 (12:11):
That's what I did when I looked up because I
worked part time for them because I'm a retirem military guy.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Oh yeah, they definitely legit.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
And they have other employed.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
They they got some open for those who you know,
looks for unemployment.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Okay. And the fire one is how to lo your
thank you sees.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
I'm going to invite Pinter.

Speaker 10 (12:34):
I'm gonna invite you and yo be had Eric. I'm
gonna invite you and yo be half.

Speaker 12 (12:39):
Dame.

Speaker 10 (12:39):
I gonnavite you and your behalf. And if doctor Brown,
if you listening, I'm gonna invite you and your side
kick Thomas Griffins. Okay, gook here, ladies, Jeffen and I'm
not gonna say anything I got two scenarios that is
a solution to our problem here in Annapolis. And I'm

(13:00):
gonna invite you guys over tuone Hans paper stood, so
hold on, okay, you gonna love this two not one, baby,
but two okay. Oh and the last one Marmorrowing Day weekend.
We have a huge yard sails and we have a
whole lot of depens to.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Be give a wink all right, So.

Speaker 9 (13:25):
If you myself okay nick wa some freeze de pins.

Speaker 10 (13:29):
Come on WI say out a huge yard field. Uh,
that is my Morrow's Day weekend. Uh, Saturday, Sunday and
Monday we playing.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (13:39):
Now for those of you that want to come, uh,
I don't want to give my address over the air,
so email me at tm T I M three three
four four fist fight of emails and I'll give you
my address and you can come on over and get
those freeze and theyve be deal a little bit of
shop because we got a full lot of stuff. Oh
my god, I never we believe know how twenty five Yeah,

(14:02):
we don't cumulate so much self, just particularly I didn't
know how he had so much stuff.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
I really don't.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
But anyway, that's my thulf for today, and I hope
you guys have a bless everybody's all everybody don't open Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yes, yes, for mama. Sam sounded like geno.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Okay, okay, okay, sounded like you know, all right, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam,
that depends, man depends. Are back on the scene. They
are back, all right, okay, thank god, all right, thank you.
Well he'd make a good sales.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh absolutely, yeah, he really would.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
He can say yeah, yeah, he's uh, you know, he's
quite dedicated to what he's trying to get accomplished, and
you can hear that in the passion in his voice.

Speaker 12 (14:54):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
So what else? What else we got? James? There was
some breaking let me see. Yeah, right before we came
on the air. Everything is breaking though. That's that's how
it's always, uh, of course that's to happen. Yeah, it's
always breaking. But there was something that had happened to
me see.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
In the meantime, speaking of Memorial Day, Triple A apparently
is saying they are expecting record record holiday travel despite
gas prices which basically are hovering around five dollars. Yeah, yeah,

(15:36):
it says here, despite pain at the pump with gas
prices hitting the highest level since twenty twenty two. Triple
A experts say Americans are refusing to cancel their summer
kickoff planned. Triple A predicts forty five million Americans will
hit the road or skies this Memorial Day weekend, even
as gas and airfare costs climb.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
He doesn't say what that forty five million compares to
last year's numbers of.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
The unofficial start of summer travel Man transportation data provider
and Rix warrens that drivers should prepare for heavy congestion.
Let's see for those looking to avoid the worst Sunday. Uh,
I mean there's a silver lining for flyers around trip. No,

(16:28):
it doesn't say how it does, but it does say
they're expecting records. So I'm assuming more than more than.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Last year because I'd heard that it was just going
to be a flightly and.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh this is just one source.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Is it just trip Yeah? No, no, no, no, no.
If it's if it's up a little bit, if it's
up thirteen, I mean, if it's up one hundred people,
that's a record, because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a record,
because last year was a record. And because I'm just

(17:02):
wondering people are saying that, you know, the economic climate,
the high prices for food, the high prices for fuel,
gasoline both UH diesel and regular unleaded jet fuel, and

(17:25):
and just those recurring costs that the costs that sort
of you know, arise because everything else is going up,
service costs, you know, because the product costs more than
you have to. You know, your labor costs going to
be higher. So I'm just just waiting to see what

(17:48):
the full impact of that is. But I don't know
if it's going to uh slow the economy, but I
suspect it will. Though I suspect it will, uh you know,
I just I just think people are trying to cut
back where they can and and and you know, things
like entertainment, eating out at restaurants may get hit first

(18:13):
because those are things people can do without. But I
don't know, Tina. It could be that, like Triple A
is trying to say, people are just saying, forget it,
I'm gonna go anyway. So I do know this, that
credit card debt has risen quite a bit. People not
only are you depleting their savings, but some of them

(18:35):
are using credit cards too, you know, to keep up
with what their with their their living expenses, which is.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Very concerning. Yeah, extremely so. Yeah, but let's go ahead
and take a quick break and we'll be back with
more community connection right after this.

Speaker 8 (19:06):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's community connection with
Tina Cosby on Praise Am thirteen ten ninety five point
one FM.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
And we are back with community Connection, Sam. That depends
man getting some traction there. So folks interested in Yeah,
they are what he was what he was sharing. That's
good though. We all need to look out for each other,
take care of each other.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's good to James out the good point about the economy.
And I don't know. I don't see it, but I
guess people are just going to pay it. I don't
know that. That surprised me.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, you you're absolutely right about forty five million. I
look it up on break and I saw the story
you pulled up too, and Time had the same thing.
Forty five million people are likely to travel fifty miles
or more from their homes, and this is a slight
increase from last year, according to Time, when forty four
point eight million people travel during the Memorial Day long weekend.

(20:04):
So a couple hundred thousand more expected, So yeah, like
increase of those thirty nine point one, the vast majority
expected to travel by vehicle, and a little less than
four million are projected to fly.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
I thought, you know, to save gas when you're driving,
you say you want to drive a little slower, seems
to me, and I drive. I drive the Interstate back
and forth every day to work and from home since
I don't live in Marion County, and I got to say.
People are not driving slower on the Interstate. I mean
they're they're run over. Oh you do. I mean if

(20:43):
I'm driving seventy three, because the speed them at seventy
in a large part of where I drive, And if
I'm at seventy three, seventy four, even seventy five, people
past me like I'm sitting still.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, I'm going.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You're trying to save gas. I'm trying to save going
a little bit slower.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
No, they'll run you right over. And if you speed up,
they'll speed up too. That's true, to try to pass you.
I mean, I don't know what what's the competition, what
what's this all about? I mean, you got to get
ahead of me.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
For what I saw where the Indie Chamber is considering
changing the nickname of Indianapolis to speed City. Speed city, Yeah,
that's what.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
What is what nickname are they looking to replace?

Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't I don't know circle City. Maybe I'm not sure.
I speed city, I guess in relation to the five hundred,
but I thought in relation to the interstates. Yeah, why not.
But no, speed City that's what they're considering.

Speaker 12 (21:42):
Hum.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
So, I don't know that it's nice.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's different speed city as opposed to city, I think,
as opposed I think as opposed to Circle. I did
see that. I heard it on one of our sister stations,
Shawn Show, as a matter of fact.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Hmmm, talked about that.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
That doesn't no, maybe something else. Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
James, what's what's on your mind? What do you all?

Speaker 4 (22:11):
I was, I mean, what you guys, what you guys
were just talking about, you know, the speed of cars,
particularly what Eric was saying. I was just looking up
this story because it made something click in my mind.
Indian Aples Metropolitan Police are investigating after a pedestrian was
struck and killed on the Far east Side Monday afternoon.
This is Wednesday, Monday, May eleven. Can you see And

(22:36):
it seems like a whole lot of people are being
hit while they're walking on the street or road. And
I was particularly interested in this case because the fifty
eight year old and tours it's this was the story
I saw. One woman was walking to work. I don't

(22:58):
know if this is Miss Torres, but she was walking
to work her school. She worked at a school, Tina,
she worked at a school. And that's what caught my eye.
I mean, I'm just saying that the speed demons, it
seems like every week at least we get somebody, and

(23:19):
that that may not be true. I mean, fifty two
weeks in a year. I know you ain't got fifty
two people, but it seems like very frequently people are
being hit as they walk along the road. We can't
even walk along the road. And I know we don't
have a lot of sidewalks in some areas in Indianapolis,
but you cannot even walk along the road without danger

(23:39):
of being hit. And mostly and in this case, the
the the culprit took off so that you know they're
investigating trying to find it. But I mean, that was
just something that came to my mind. What's you know,
what's shaking the day? I don't know. A lot of

(24:02):
stuff going on both here and nationally. One thing that
bothers me. Oh, there is some good news out of
South Carolina. So, uh, President Pro Tim Rod Bray of
Indiana the Indiana Senate, you have company. You have a
president of the Senate Republican in South Carolina who also

(24:26):
refused to go along with redistricting in South Carolina. As
of this week Monday or Tuesday, the vote came down
and not enough of them voted for it to pass.
So South Carolina, South Carolina's lone black district, which is

(24:47):
the guy's name escapes me right now? Who is it?
Tina the the representative.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm looking at him right now.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Cliburn, Jim Cliburn, James Clivern. Yeah, will for now be safe.
But South Carolina joins Indiana in Republicans. They're refusing to
go along with Trump's plan to rig the elections with
jerrymandering and basically eradicating seats where people elect taxation without

(25:22):
representations what they wanted, where people elect a black representatives
to represent them mostly black voters.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, I saw that that came down as something that
was that was breaking. Yeah, and I saw a tech
not a text a post a social media post by
Bacari sellers sellers, So yeah, he was. He was saying,
that's good news. Yeah, the uh, the other news nationally internationally,

(25:56):
the I don't understand it, but there it is, and
we can mention it very quickly. But Trump's visit to
China to ask them to help him in the war,
and they're on the other let me stop. They're helping

(26:17):
you on and He's like, can you help? Do you
not read the room, buddy? You cannot make it up?
Save your gas? Say you know how much gas it
takes to get to the other side, I mean to
get to the far East? How much gas?

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Era?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I mean?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, he's their hat in hand, because you know, he.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Told his exhausts in a dilemma.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
I mean, you know, they closed the straight up hor
news and I probably shouldn't. He can't open it because
America's Yeah, his own party is saying, you're not putting
troops over there. We're not gonna allow that.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Oh really, Now, I'd have to see that to believe it, James, Okay,
I'd have to see that that them taking a stand
like that to really talkers. Are they saying it out
loud or behind closed doors, because you know, we often hear,
well they say this publicly, but behind closed doors, this
is what they're saying. Now, if they're saying it out
loud and not worried about him getting a hold of it,

(27:27):
then maybe I'll believe half of it. But so I'm sorry,
where did you hear? Did you hear that they're saying
it out loud?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I heard out their own mouth.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Oh okay, well, there you go, there you.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Go, And you know what they've got at least fifty
thousand troops on ships and basis in that area, and
I know what it is to be on a ship.
They're just sitting there. Okay, he can't move them because
not only would his party maybe some like Tina said,
maybe they'll be like Republicans always do, talk and then

(27:59):
when it him to the vote, they'll support him. But
the people of this country would not stand. I don't
think for a whole lot of casualties in a war
that they think he started war of choice, they say,
But I would.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Love to believe that. I really hope that that's the case.
I really do, James, you know I do. But you know,
if past is any indication where do where would we
put our hope that that may be the case.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
You know, I'm just saying that he hasn't done it yet,
and he's over there trying to get the leader of
China to put pressure on Iran kind of gets a
lot of their oil from the Middle East and they
ain't getting.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Goodness. But you know what, James, I do agree with
you in that. I think maybe what you were saying
was regardless of how they behaved in the past, at
some point in time, it's a bridge too far. Yeah,
is that what you're Okay?

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Okay, I am because look, I like I said, I
was on those ships. I know it takes a lot
to keep We had like co many We had like
one hundred and eighty people on our ship and it
was just a little destroyer and we have to eat.
We had to always brondevous with supply ships to get

(29:29):
you know.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Food, food and fuel too, right, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, Mail, you know, I mean it takes a lot
just to keep one ship going around in circles out there,
a lot a lot of gas.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Save the gas, save the gas. Yeah, So.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
You know, he's kind of on he's on the fence.
What you know what, what does he do?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, well he put hisself in this position. He did
blame himself. And well except.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Barack Obama did it, you know, Yeah, yeah, it was
it was Barack Obama and Biden and the do nothing Democrats. Yeah,
they did it. He didn't do it. Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I didn't see that, James, and I couldn't help but
laugh out loud.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's like, really, no, that's what. He's over there, and
he's got all kinds of oligarch types with him. I
mean Elon Musk going to China. They had a visa,
they had a city bank, they had a whole list
of all of these business people, oligarchical types. I guess

(30:45):
that are on that that we're on the plane with him.
They're all going over there to get a little piece
of the pie. They're all just like.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Are you making money now? Making money?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
No? Saving lives and keeping our young people and out
of harm's way.

Speaker 13 (31:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
I mean that that just and his his son, who
represents all of his business interests. One of his sons.
I think at least two do. He's got what three
three sons to you know, run his businesses. Yeah, one
of them was with them. Yeah, and so it's like man, y'all,
and maybe at some point in time the voting public

(31:25):
will have had enough and it'll be a bridge too far, hope.
So I hope that they can put pressure on the
elected officials.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
You know, yeah, yeah, I do too. I hope people
Tina rise up.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
I do too, James, more so than anything, I hope
people rise up. Let's go to the phone lines. It
looks like Jeff is called in. Jeff, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
How are you, hey, Jayta?

Speaker 12 (31:50):
James?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Eric, how you guys doing doing good? Doing good?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Good? Hey? Did you watch more than jodas early earlier today?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now? You know what, maybe there might have been five
or ten minutes of it that was on, But I
was pretty busy this morning. I mean it may have
been on in the back. What happened? What was going on?

Speaker 4 (32:08):
You know?

Speaker 12 (32:08):
Thinking of Eric Trump. He had this idea of the
Trump cell phone year about that no iPhone and people
put you told me, hey, send us somebody, we'll see
your iPhone. I remember a year ago and nobody had
received your iPhone.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Ye yet I remember, Well, you know what, if they
are dumb enough, if they are at this point in time,
at this point in time, given the track record and
the history if they're dumb enough to do it. So okay,
so what yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 (32:39):
Money is but this is the Trump iPhone is top
of the line. Blah blah blah blah. And nobody hadn't
and no one hasn't seen them yet. None of the
mag of people.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Hadn't gotten any refunds either, right, thirty day refund No, no, no, no.

Speaker 12 (32:53):
No, no reping o. You know, the only difference between
Jim Jones and Donald Trump Donald trouble charge you to
dreat the kool aid. So anyway, but uh, Trump did
say this morning, my only goal is to keep a
Ryan from getting a nuclear weapon. I don't care about
the economy.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, so what was it? Yeah, I said that yesterday.
What was it that was on Morning Joe this morning
that I probably missed, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Was about the iPhone?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
About the iPhone?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
That was it? Okay?

Speaker 12 (33:24):
Yeah? And it uh basically they they basically they said
the same thing you said. Oh yeah, you ain'tetting young
refunds back. No, you can forget about you. That ain't happening,
you know, So you know, I mean, you know, I
you know, anyway, these.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Drinking Yeah, I just hope people sund maybe they will.

Speaker 12 (33:48):
I don't know, but I just think, you know, Mark
Twain once said, it's easy to fool some one, to
to convince them that they've been fooled.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
M that's well, you know what, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Here's a story by this media outlet called The Independent,
and it says that Trump posts Tina more than fifty
times before he left for China. More than fifty times
because this story appeared yesterday, So before you left more
than fifty times. In nonsensical late night ran on True Social.

(34:27):
Here's some of the stuff he said. He posted fifty
times on True Social late on Monday, reiterating longstanding grievances
and unfounded conspiracy theories against political adversaries. His posts included
baseless accusations against Barack Obama, alleging a cool plot and
saying that this is the kind of guy there, following

(34:49):
say that, saying that he prevented Hillary clinton prosecution. Obama
prevented Hillary Clinton's prosecution. He also targeted figures such as
Jack Smith, Mark Senator Mark Kelly, and he reposted a
clip of Taulci Gabbert appearing on podcast suggesting Joe Biden

(35:09):
was infirm and Kamala Harrison the real power behind the
throne during Biden president.

Speaker 14 (35:16):
I mean just crazy that she was an absolute disgrace
and a failure as BP, especially on the border where
he Yeah, it's just so yeah, but what are they
just senseless up all night.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Texting and doing crazy things. So we're not surprised, I
I guess maybe we'll be surprised when somebody decides to
step in and, you know, take a and do something something.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
About something that's obviously not right.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
With the vers obviously obviously, Bobby, you have a comment,
Go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah? I got three things to say. One, you know,
whatever a business, a big business is going to take
over another business, the first thing they do is cut people.
It sounds like the people that that's eliminate the job
from I p s. Well, the people that work there,

(36:14):
they don't have to sit up there and look at
their face and get rid of them because the other
people don't know them, so they're they're not really hurt
over in it. Well. My second thing was I was
going to my son's struck me last night and it
was up there around fifty second in college. Okay, there
was a bunch. I'm gonna say like this. There was

(36:36):
a bunch of white people up there and they was
on the corner with signs and everything saying, you know,
the saying things about we don't want no ice, and
they had other things like you know, going against truck.
And I was so happy to see those people up there.
And my other my last thing I want to say is,

(37:00):
you know, I want the tickets to Tamla Man the
day before the show. I have never got my tickets yet,
so she because she told me that they would come
coming to ticket Master. So anyway, on the day before
the show, I never got him, and then it was late,
so it was already too late to call her. So anyway,

(37:23):
I called her that morning of the show and I
got her, but she was going to be busy all day,
and she said, well, I'm gonna try to do something
at least after after three o'clock. So I looked at
my phone and I see those tickets on on my

(37:44):
in my email. So I just want to know. I
just want to hope that she's probably listening and maybe
she can get a good smile off her face.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
At Taylor Man.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
No, the your promotion, your promotions motion.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
But I can tell you something, Bobby.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
The majority of tickets now are a are electronic. I
can't say all, because there's some that are still paper,
but the majority of tickets to events now are electronic,
and it can be very confusing. It can be extremely confusing,
and if you don't check your email on the regular,
you could miss it because you're thinking, Okay, I'm going
to get it this way, I'm going to get it

(38:24):
that way, or what have you. And the ticketing process
that these companies use now makes me a little nervous
because all you need is one little computer glitch and
you go to an event that you've already bought her
that you're ticketed for, and they're like, well, you're it's
not working. You know it doesn't work, so you can't.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Can me say one more thing to because I called
ticketmatter that day and they said they had no record
of it. So, like I said, when I called her,
she got everything straight now, so that's good. I was thankful. Yea,
A good job.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Good, all right, thank you, Well, I'm glad. Thank you comedy. Yeah,
good Joyce. What's good today? What's going on are you doing?

Speaker 15 (39:06):
Thanks for taking my call after yees, Yesterday's scenario. I
was just speaking on the speeding or thinking about the speeding,
because I'm in a residential neighborhood and i be seeing
them do forty down the street where ain't no school
bus posted, and then stop signs are missing, and it's

(39:28):
just like it's a scenario set up for disaster. And
I've caught Mayor's Action numerous times, and I have several
case numbers, but nonetheless the issue has not been resolved,
which is concerning in this area that I live in.

Speaker 13 (39:51):
Yes, have you called it?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Who's your counsel? Who's your council person?

Speaker 15 (39:55):
I'm not quite sure. I call the Mayor's Action Center.
Would that be bonds all by and bye? Or eight
I doll three one seven three two seven four six
two two? How about that?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
How about are you opposed to contacting your direct representative
in the council district in.

Speaker 15 (40:16):
Which representative all these distractions and constant issues are becoming
more than an.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Okay, Joyce, I'm trying to help you out with a
possible solution. I mean, you know, after a while, you
either have to you have to do something or just
deal with it now that that's your only option. I mean,
you're you're complaining about it. You tell me you have
no use for your counsel person. I don't know what
else to say. I mean, we can listen to your complain.

Speaker 15 (40:44):
Over here upstreet from Holy Angels.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
I'm sorry, twenty one.

Speaker 15 (40:48):
Won't you tell me please?

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Oh wait a minute, you're you're saying why y'all.

Speaker 15 (40:55):
Want to try to separate and differentiate?

Speaker 3 (40:58):
No, you see there you go. You don't have to,
you don't have to. We're trying to help, but you help, well,
then you're joy Yeah it what's across street? What in
MLK twentieth twenty fourth twenty where Holy Angels twenty Holy Angels? Yeah,
that's about twenty eight eight MLK Yeah, okay, that's close

(41:24):
to thirtieth and MLK Okay, okay, hold on, we're getting.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Okay, let me see you fight it here.

Speaker 15 (41:31):
That's a cott concern.

Speaker 13 (41:38):
Carson, you're even speaking of I'm just speaking of reality situations.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
But well it's all reality. It's all reality. We're just
trying to find your direct city County council representative, neighborhood advocate.
Do you have do you have an h O is
neighborhood advocate?

Speaker 13 (41:57):
Does that mean h no?

Speaker 15 (42:00):
No, I'm in a gentrification area trying to be eliminated
after forty years a resident. Okay, okay, that person you
speak of so highly, who who was the name of this?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Ooh, Joyce, come on now a yah, yeah, because you're
being cynical, We're trying to help and you still be
in cynical ctly like I'm gonna be this. We're trying
to help you.

Speaker 15 (42:28):
Okay, what's the name?

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Well, okay, Joyce, just listen in Okay, I'm gonna look
for it while we go on listening on our you
know what, have.

Speaker 15 (42:40):
A directory of who is in these areas, maybe just
to suggest it, because that seemed to be the show
stopper every time I call. But I would think Julia Couston's.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Over It's that's the US That's a US congressional district.

Speaker 15 (42:57):
My brother that had issues with.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, I'm looking to see I'm looking at the map.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
If she knew what district that she lived.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
In, that would help, But she's okay, I'm looking at
the map right now, okay, and we're okay. Uh is
between downtown and up They're up to thirty eighth Street
and straight.

Speaker 15 (43:24):
Through to normal, dividing us up so it's sort of compute.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Okay, yeah, I know you're waiting. We're trying to see this.
This is something that you know, what if you give Eric,
I tell you what, why don't you do this because
it'll be automatic off when we get off the air.
Give Eric your address and then we will go to

(43:55):
the website where you put your address in and it
tells you exactly who your counselor is.

Speaker 13 (43:59):
Okay, I'm a Eric.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
He's right, he's right here. All you gotta he can get.

Speaker 13 (44:07):
Your carrying to keep clarity.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
He's right here, he's gonna he's talking to you. Now,
stay on the line. Give him your address. We'll plug
it into the website and it'll kick out your what
council districts you're in? OKAYO have your You know, it's

(44:34):
kind of like they you know what they always tell you, James,
if somebody's drowning and water, don't try to help them.
Wait till they settle down and then go get them.
That's what it feels like, trying to help her. You know,
we no centicism, no negativity whatsoever. We're just trying to help.
We're just trying to help. So Eric's getting the number,
and then we will announce what district she's in and

(44:56):
who her counsel person is as soon as we get
that address, and we'll plug it into that website. James,
how about that?

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Yeah, it sounds good. I think I know it, but
I'm gonna wait.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
You check.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
I had an idea too, and I yeah, I know
it's between two two different folks, but I'm not gonna
say so, okay, all right, we'll be right back. Thank you, Eric,
thank you for your patience. You welcome, James, thank you
for your patients. And Joyce, thank you for your patience.
So we'll be right back, and we're back with Community

(45:36):
Connection on the air right now with us today, of course.
Eric Garn's our producer and our contributing analyst James Patterson
visiting with us today. We're so glad you are all here, James, Eric,
did we were we clear? Did we get something?

Speaker 2 (45:51):
We're still sorting. We got the information, and I, you know,
I was trying to said, I gotta go, we got
to continue the show. We'll be back.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Oh got the information, I got the address.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I got that much, so I told her we'll announce
it once we find out.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
So that's James. We have that address, so we are
we've got to break through here.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah, there's a breakthrough that has happened.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
So she has accused us of trying going to that
play every single time she calls, but she's never done it.
So we'll do it.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yeah, we definitely.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Oh yeah, if he gives me the address, I can
nail it because yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Well yeah, because it is one of two. I think
you and I are thinking of the same too, Eric,
can you I have it?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
James, I'll I'll email it to you.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
You want to email it?

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
In the meantime, let's move on. We have a guest.
And according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration and estimated sixty one point five million American adults,
and we're just talking adults, roughly one in five adults
are battling some form of mental illness. As we were

(47:01):
saying at the top of the show, May is mental
Health Awareness Month, the perfect time to continue to educate
the public, to continue to reduce the stigma associated with
mental health, and to stress the importance of mental wellness.
Here with us now is Tracy Pruitt. She is the
Mental Health facilitator at the Sandra Eskonazi Mental Health Center

(47:22):
right here in the city of Indianapolis.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
Ms.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Pruitt, welcome to the show. How are you.

Speaker 16 (47:27):
I'm good, Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Oh well, good, Well, we're excited to have you, I
tell you. So this this is a very important time
in the calendar. I think the other month that's just
as important is September, which is Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month.
And you know, we talk so many times throughout the
course of the year about mental wellness and good mental health.

(47:54):
So just overall, right here, May what's today, the thirteenth,
only twenty six How would you say we're doing both
as a community here in Indianapolis and as a country
in general.

Speaker 16 (48:07):
Well, I would say we're doing better. Oh okay, I
would say we're doing better. The fact that I think
in the next five days I have three different interviews
about mental health and mental health awareness. So I do
think that we are getting the word out. We still
have work to do, but we are doing better. Yeah,

(48:30):
people are starting to see, starting to recognize mental health
awareness months, starting to recognize that mental health is real.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
And that we need to have the talks about it.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
I found it interesting that this agency that put out
the statistics with adults just adults only, we're not even
talking about our young people. That they are jointly putting
out these numbers. And that is substance abuse and mental
health experts have long talked about the intersectionality of the

(49:04):
two and the difficulty in getting the larger community, I
guess wellness community to recognize that intersectionality. So how significant
is it that these two have joined forces to put
out these numbers.

Speaker 16 (49:19):
So it is very interesting and it's wonderful. I'm glad
that you asked that question. So substance use is a
mental health disorder. Oh, so we are even trying to
decrease and break that stigma of individuals believing that substance use,
whether it's alcohol or drug use, is a mental health disorder.

(49:41):
But it is actually a mental health disorder use or abuse.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
So we say.

Speaker 16 (49:46):
Use, Oh okay, So we've changed the language.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Oh okay.

Speaker 16 (49:51):
We believe recovery is possible. And so there's a difference
between substance youth. So we want to talk about person
first language and that substance use, an individual would have
to say that they're abusing substance or alcohol.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
So if someone has a drink a glass of wine
at a dinner, is that a mental health concern because
you're us that you're using the substance to enjoy your dinner.

Speaker 16 (50:16):
It be if they are person, Yeah, if they are
a person that has acknowledged and it's shared that they
have alcohol, misuse, say disorder.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Yeah, So the language around it has changed from use
to use.

Speaker 16 (50:32):
Use, And just like we used to see addiction clinics
and now we see recovery centers. And so even for me, Tina,
this is you know, I've been doing this work for
over twenty plus years, so I'm still having to change
the language.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
And that's what we're doing.

Speaker 16 (50:52):
This is why we want to decrease stigma, so people
can have these conversations that we're having right now.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
So if I understand you correctly, the understanding of it
all is evolving absolutely as opposed to just this is this,
this is that, and this is this absolutely. Yeah. Yeah,
let's talk about stigma a little bit because in our communities,
black and brown and minority communities, there has long been

(51:20):
long held stigmas surrounding mental health, and we say it
all the time, you're either not prayed up enough or
you're weak, you know, suck it up, get over it,
and what have you. Some of that we've learned has
has been learned behavior. Some of u's been survival, survival
of a people because you you know, you didn't have

(51:41):
time to for self care, I guess because you're trying
to get out of the woods to get to the north,
you know, to get or whatever. So a lot of things,
a lot of different I don't know, along the way,
have just always been you know, glossed over to the
point where it just didn't even exist, right to the

(52:02):
point where it didn't exist.

Speaker 16 (52:03):
So those things that we heard, like you just need
to be strong, I don't have time to break down,
and so we don't do that, yes, and so what
we're no, we've heard that we don't we don't do that.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
We don't just pray about.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
It, pray about it and don't talk about it. Pray
about it.

Speaker 16 (52:20):
And prayer is actually a coping skill when you are
a person who may be experiencing a mental health disorder.
And uh, there is so much research around prayer and
just what prayer or setting intentions, what it does to
your body and so that is definitely a coping skill.

(52:43):
But one of the things, especially in the black community,
we talk about being strong. We talk about if you
you know in the past, because we're getting better, we're
getting better, But we talk about you just have to
be strong. But you can be strong and still be broken.
You can be strong and still recognize that you need

(53:06):
help and learn how to process your emotions. And so
that is one of the things that we're really trying
to do when we talk about breaking stigma. I have
the pleasure of going throughout Marion County teaching youth mental
health First Date. I also used to teach adult mental
health First Date, and we and the purpose of it
is to decrease stigma and bring awareness to mental health,

(53:30):
to mental health disorders and just the mental health field.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Three one
seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Our guest Tracy Preut.
She is a mental health facilitator at the Sandra Esconazi
Mental Health Center right here in the city of Indianapolis,
and she is here on the occasion of May being
Mental Health Awareness Month. James Patterson, our contributing analyst, is
also on the line with us and James.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
Are you there, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, I can. I can't. I just have one more
question than I'm gonna let o because I want to
follow up before it flies out of my head. Ms brout,
What do you think are the contributing factors that are
fueling our acceptance and the fact that we are now
embracing the fact that mental health is a real thing.
Mental wellness is a real thing, and there's no shame

(54:18):
in saying I need help, or I would like to
be better, or you know, better at coping or what
have you. What is fueling that embrace and that acceptance
because the good news you were just smiling from here
to ears said, we're doing better, We're doing better. What's
fueling the fact that we're getting better?

Speaker 16 (54:35):
So one of the things that I know people talk
about the Alpha generation. I love them because they okay,
they talk about their mental health and they talk about
it freely, and so we're starting to get just generations
to talk about mental health.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
The other thing is.

Speaker 16 (54:55):
I'm not a big television watcher, but I've seen more
in the media, yeah, that people are talking about mental health.
We have our athletes talking about mental health. I think
the last Olympics with so many different athletes that talked
about living with mental health disorders and was just very
free about talking about their mental health. And so, as

(55:17):
we know, media leads a lot, and so with media leading,
I think people are just more active there were accepting
to talk about it at least have those talks.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
What do you think about the fact that so many
more churches of color are saying it's okay to get
a therapist. You know, they even have ministries therapy ministry.
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 16 (55:44):
Well, at works, I can't even talk about it, but
I think it's great. I know that my church and
the church that I belong to, we do a lot
of mental health initiatives.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
I think it's wonderful.

Speaker 16 (55:55):
Number One, I love hearing pastors say that they have
mental health therapists, that they go to a and that
they go to a therapist. What I do know is
a lot of things that we think that we're dealing with,
the underlying root is mental health. When we talk about

(56:16):
people of color, we have generational trauma. We have posts
a slave trauma, you know, and so to be able
to start recognizing that even the way we handle certain things,
it starts.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
Post slave in WHOA, whoa?

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Okay, that's good three one seven for eight zero thirteen
ten three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten Our
guests Tracy Prewitt, an expert in the mental health field,
in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, which is throughout
the entire month of May. So if you have a
question or want to join the conversation, feel free. Three
one seven for eight zero thirteen ten. James, I'm sorry,

(57:00):
just had to get there because, you know, questions fly
out of my head real quick if I don't, yeah,
fly out real quick.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Yeah, miss Prue. I just want to kind of stand
that same line of questioning that Tina started off regarding
substance uses of mental health disorder? How do you define
how would you define if you had to write it
down or speak it out, if you were speaking a
mental health disorder? How would you define that? Well?

Speaker 16 (57:31):
Thanks for the question, James. I think that this will
help other people as well. So a mental health disorder
is defined by a change in the way a person thinks,
feels an act and it disturbs their day to day
living and status and their relationships with others.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Okay, and dependent on dependent on you know how that
is defined and who is being shall we say, diagnosed
with with a mental health disorder? How would you depending
on the person being treated or addressed, how how would

(58:14):
you treat? What are the ways to treat mental health disorder?

Speaker 16 (58:19):
So there's a lot of ways to treat mental health disorders.
It could be therapy, it could be talk therapy, it
could be intensive outpatient, it could be medication, it could
just be coping skills. And and everybody does not have
to go to a therapist. Everybody doesn't have to continue

(58:41):
to go. Some people go to a psychologist once every
three months and then they go to they do talk
therapy weekly or bi weekly.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
And medication yea too. I mean some sometimes it's it's
it does sometimes it rises to the level of medication.
Some times it doesn't. Yeaheah, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
Yeah, and one of those go ahead, James, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Well, I just want to say that. So behavior that's
different from normal behavior. Are there other sort of markers
that you look for for somebody really maybe needing some
assistance in this area, you know, besides every I mean,

(59:25):
could you be specific, like, are they quieter more to themselves?
Is it irrational behavior? Sleeping patterns, What is it that
really would make them stand out as somebody who might
need help.

Speaker 16 (59:39):
So let's go back to the one about normal behavior
that's subjective. So when we say behaviors, I want to
go back to what I said earlier that your behavior
im keyed being able to work or go to school,
function daily, or having satisfied and relationships all the other

(01:00:02):
things that you said, those are some signs and symptoms. Yes,
it could be mood swings, it could be so yeah,
maybe a person that's normally a talkative person that's engaged
in conversation, maybe if you start noticing over time that
they're more withdrawn, that may be a sign.

Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
And so we look for signs and symptoms. We listen.

Speaker 16 (01:00:27):
So symptoms are things that an individual will tell you
that they're going through, and signs are seeing things that
we see. So that's behaviors that we would see. And
those are the emotions that you know we are able
to see. And so yes, those things that you said.
But I think it's very important that we have to

(01:00:47):
end this walk about mental health and mental health awareness
to maybe challenge our own self and not say normal
behavior because normal behavior and my family's gathering is loud,
we're all talking at the same time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
That's our norm.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
A lot of people would call that dysfunction.

Speaker 16 (01:01:04):
And you know some yeah, everybody wasn't dysfunction, but.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Yeah, my family too being loud. And there are some
people that might look at that and say, oh my good. Yes,
that's normal.

Speaker 16 (01:01:19):
Absolutely, But the norm for my neighbors next door that
live next door, they're very quiet people when they get together.
So I think it's important to not necessarily say normal behavior,
but just to say behavioral changes that we see, and
we see over a period of time. So maybe I
am I'm very loud, and just I'm loud, I take

(01:01:42):
up space, but I'm actually really tired today I didn't
get a lot of sleep, so uh, you know, tomorrow
I said, I am going to go to bed early
and I'll be back to my loud self. And so
you wouldn't want to say just because today that I'm quiet,
but over a two week period, start seeing that I'm
not myself, then that those should ask for ourself concerns. Yeah,

(01:02:06):
look for patterns, looks for patters. Absolutely, Yeah, indeed.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Three one
seven four eight zero thirteen ten talking about Mental Health
Awareness Month and the good news. The good news is
we are making progress. That that's good. Uh, and we're
talking about it right now. And if you have any
questions or want to join the conversation, please feel free
to do so. Mister Russell, you have I'm sorry, James,
were you down before we go to mister Russell?

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
Yeah, go ahead, thank you, James.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Yeah, mister Russell, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
How are you hey, folks? Uh? Good topic and it's
so quilical at this point.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
Back in the day, there was a play that was
very popular. I think it was called Don't Bother Me
I Can't Cope.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Yeah, yeah, Broadway.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
So uh, just wanted to ask the guests how much
does coping play in your assessment? In other words, is
there like, do you keep record of how the society,
and say, just in the United States, for instance, how

(01:03:15):
the society in the United States is coping. And we
have so many pressures that seem to come in and
particularly at this time, you got pressures from all angles,
and uh, I just wonder is anybody like keeping a
record of how society is measuring our how people are

(01:03:38):
coping in general? Is there any standard. I guess you
could say, so.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Yes, that's a really good question.

Speaker 16 (01:03:45):
And so there are So we do have statistics, and
statistics have changed after COVID. One of the statistics is
that we are having more people that are having mental
health visits, but generally we we only have about seven
point four percent of individuals that have mental health visits

(01:04:07):
every year, and it's because of stigma, awareness costs. These
are things that are causing low percentages as far as
with mental health visits. I think that it's important for
us as we're having these conversations, just asking people like
how are you doing, and not letting them give you

(01:04:28):
an answer of fine. Tell me what does fine mean?
Being able to look, as you said Tina earlier, look
for patterns, and just also within your own self, not
just a lot of times we're going to look at
other people's people, but look at yourself and say, like,
what's different with me?

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
What are your stressors? Yeah, you got to think about
and you brought up COVID, and I have to ask.
I mean because a lot of a lot of folks
who have come in and we've talked in this space,
have talked about how COVID in terms of mental health,
mental wellness was a game changer for a number of people.
And how can you tell as we continue our march

(01:05:10):
out of you know, we get further and further away
from COVID, the impact that COVID may have had with
somebody that might be having challenges now or today. And
I understand that that's especially important with young people who
had a lot of isolation that they normally wouldn't have
that they did have with COVID.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
And not just young people that they get the bad
wrap with adults.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
No, no, no, they need more embracing, more help. The
young folks need more help because they were you know,
we we yeah, but anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Y yeah, I think that.

Speaker 16 (01:05:39):
Well, let me tell you one of the good things
that I think came out of COVID is, as you
said earlier, that more people are talking about mental health.
We had some game changers as far as even some
people don't go to they don't go in the office
to see a therapist, they see therapy, they see seek
therapists online. So so the availability is better. We have

(01:06:07):
more conversations where people have talked about, you know, just
these coping skills or the lack of coping skills. COVID
slowed us down enough to recognize, like, oh my god,
I can't sit still, so maybe I do. Maybe I
am living with some anxiety, or maybe I am living
with some sadness or depression, you know, just losing loved

(01:06:32):
ones and not being able to, you know, the Greek process,
not being able to come together. We know, people of color,
we like to come together in community, and so a
lot of times, you know, you people lost loved ones
during COVID and was not able to come together. And
so one of the things I say for those individuals,
you can always plan for a birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
You can still memorialize that person.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
And so.

Speaker 16 (01:06:58):
These are some of the things that have come People
are starting to talk more, as I said, and starting
to recognize that it's okay not to be okay. The
other thing, and you mentioned telemedicine. The other thing is
we're starting to recognize that mental health is health, not
just physical health.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
Mental health is health, is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Health indeed, and should be treated as such. Absolutely, because
we've had and I'm sure you're familiar with the analogy.
If someone had diabetes or asthma or any other kind
of chronic disease, you wouldn't tell them, well, pray about
it and go on. It has to be treated as such,
and so these are it really is an illness that

(01:07:41):
has to be treated specifically. Like you said, prayer is great,
it's great, but you know it's a diagnosed condition, so
therefore has to be treated as such.

Speaker 16 (01:07:52):
So I love you said that because I would tell
people that if someone was having an asthma tack, you
would hand them their beautyl inhaler with your right hand
and your left hands you lay at hands on them
and praying. And so we don't we want to do
the same thing with mental health. You want to We
don't want to just say pray about it. We want
to say, you know, there are people out here that

(01:08:13):
can help you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Our guest Tracy Preud, she is a mental health facilitator
at the Sandra Esconazi. Our good friends at the Santra
Esconazi Mental Health Center Love Santra Escanae. You guys are
always so willing to come in and share with us,
and we really appreciate it. So yeah, I appreciate that tremendously.
Tracy Pruitt, did I did not say Elliott did I
no good? Because that was in my head anyway, Tracy,

(01:08:36):
I have to be careful sometimes I get to talking
so fast. Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten.
Tracy Prewitt three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten
is here with us from Esconazi. Reverend Phillips.

Speaker 11 (01:08:47):
Go ahead, Hey, how you doing, Tina?

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
And to your guests, I know this is mental health.
We and uh, this is a good topic what we
need to talk about. But every now and then some
people's not comfortable of going to people like mental health
because I believe. I believe that when people know they

(01:09:17):
got problems with that and they they they's not gonna
be feely free.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
They might know they got a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:09:28):
With mental illness. Yeah, I was born with my mental illness,
but I still if I need some help, I know
who to call on that. You know, I know how
to call on somebody and mental health or I pray
about it at the same time. But a lot of

(01:09:51):
people don't don't feel comfortable talking to people like mental
health or people or when they see a preacher or
something they don't want us. They don't feel comfortable because
they know them people.

Speaker 6 (01:10:12):
They in they mind, they think that.

Speaker 9 (01:10:15):
People is going to make front of them or or
or or do everything. But but but when you but
when you, if you suffer with that, it's good to
talk to somebody. And and because see we're all going
but we all have some type of mental illness.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Well, Reverend Phillips, we have. We have stressors and situations
every day. But I think we're talking about and and
please Miss Prude by all means, uh, step in there
and clarify for us, because I I don't think it's
fair to say that we all have some sort of
mental illness. Now, are you meaning something different than what

(01:11:03):
you're saying, Reverend Phillips.

Speaker 9 (01:11:05):
No, what I'm saying is we all got some type
of problem. Well, I'm trying to say we all got
some type.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Of okay, but those problems should not be labeled mental
illness though, because it might.

Speaker 9 (01:11:18):
Not be related to mental illness. Some people got h
you know and something with uh drug additions.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Okay, Well, we're gonna let miss We're gonna let Miss Prue. Okay, Well,
thank you, Reverend Phillips. I appreciate your calling. We're gonna
let Miss Pruit weigh in on that. Uh, if you
have five more minutes, just five more minutes, Misspruit, we
got to get a break in here and then when
we come back because we have one more call that
wants to get to you. Thank you. We'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (01:11:52):
Hyah.

Speaker 8 (01:12:00):
Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
Tina Cosby on Praise AM thirteen ten ninety five point
one FM.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
And we are back with Community Connection and our guest,
Tracy Pruit. Tracy Prewit, she is our guest with the
Sandra Esconize Mental Health Center. We are so happy you
are here today in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month,
which is the month of May, the entire month of May,
and we can't let the entire month may be overshadowed

(01:12:30):
by so many other things which are good things, but
this is a good thing too, and we you know,
we got to bring it up. We got to make
sure everybody is aware of it, and the awareness is key.
So Miss Prewitt, go ahead. You wanted to answer a
couple of points made by our last caller.

Speaker 16 (01:12:45):
Yes, so one of the things Reverend Phillips was saying
that some individuals may not want to talk about mental health.
This is why we have to decrease it. This is
why we have to have this conversation. So one of
the employees here was saying before we started the show, like, oh,

(01:13:06):
I'm just a little anxious. So it's like, here, take
a minute. I was like, do you know that ments
helped to decrease anxiety? And so we have to just
have those conversations as well. I wanted to lift up
something that he said. He said, everyone suffers. So a
part of decreasing stigma is that we have to change

(01:13:27):
our vocabulary. Even if someone does have a mental health disorder,
they are not suffering, they are living with it. That
is just one part of who they are.

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
So we want to start talking person first language.

Speaker 16 (01:13:42):
So we want to take words like suffer out and
say living with And then as far as I don't
think everybody has a mental health illness every that's something
that has to be diagnosed. You may have mental health challenges.
We all can have a mental health challenge. A mental

(01:14:02):
health COVID was a mental health challenge, right, it changed the.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
Way we do things.

Speaker 16 (01:14:08):
A death could be a mental health challenge. Just moving
could be a mental health challenge. Or someone that you
care about moving, especially with young people when their friends move.
But that doesn't mean that you have a mental health illness.
Is mental health illness has to be diagnosed. But even
if you're diagnosed with the mental health illness, Tina, we

(01:14:30):
believe that everybody can recover. Recovery may look different from everybody,
but everybody can recover.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
To the best of their ability.

Speaker 16 (01:14:40):
And so if we start looking at things like this
when we talk about mental health awareness, this is how
we have to make people aware and that we have
to change our language and we have to believe that
people can get better.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
How does recovery relate to a cure? Because there are
some I have been it's been explained to me that
there's some conditions I guess if you will that are
a chronic that people like you say, learn to live
with may not necessarily be cured, but recover to the
point where it can be sustained. Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Yeah, yeah, just like I mean, well, asthma, I mean.

Speaker 16 (01:15:24):
I was just going to say asthma, high blood pressure.
So if we start looking at mental health the same
way that we look at asthma or high blood pressure,
I often say, what if I'm doing a talk or
if I'm teaching a trainee like you, we don't walk
around and say hey, asthmatic, even if Tracy is living

(01:15:44):
with asthma.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
We don't walk around.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
And say hey, or hey diabetic, or.

Speaker 16 (01:15:47):
Hey diabetic or diabetic or high blood pressure.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
We don't say these things.

Speaker 16 (01:15:52):
And so if we're not doing this for the medical health,
we don't want to do that. We want people to
want to ask for help and want to know that
there are places out there that can support them and
you know, shout out to Santra Esca Nazi. One of
the things people don't realize that we are a certified
community behavioral health clinic. People say that you can't get

(01:16:14):
in to see a therapist. One of the things that
we do you you will have your first visit within
ten days. If you don't have insurance, that's okay. You
can go on a sliding scale. And so there are
services and there are services out there for people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
So I want to get back to real quick and James,
I'm gonna go back to you as well. But I
want to get back to the language burbage around it,
because how important is it we talk about you know,
you change the language and people, oh, you changed the
word here, you change the word there. But the overall
affect and impact of changing the language.

Speaker 16 (01:16:56):
The language change is so important because if keep people
feel stigmatized, it's going to be hard for them to
ask for help. And so let's just take for instance,
I'll say my name Pruit, So if you know, I'm
a Pruet, so you know, we have neighborhoods where and

(01:17:16):
people may say things like, well, you know, all the
Pruits are crazy. So if I decided, maybe I decided
I'm going to get help. I realized I recognize there
are some things I have, some stressors. I've heard about
this whole mental health thing, and I want to get help. Well,
if other people, if Tina, if you start just using

(01:17:37):
the word crazy loosely, I was.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
Going to say the use of the word crazy itself.

Speaker 16 (01:17:42):
Yes, And so all of a sudden, I have this stigma.
You just talk in and you're saying crazy. But even
though we have a relationship, it may deter me from
coming to you, because just that word alone could make
me think you're looking at me like other people. Yeah,
and so we want to be very mindful of the

(01:18:04):
language that we use, the things that we say. I mean,
when we know better, we do better. And so crazy
is a word that is a stigmatizing word.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
It's also a term of endearment. And so how do
you separate, you know, like I might, girl, you're so crazy?
Well yeah, understand, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:18:21):
And so what I do with my friends? You know,
we don't want to use that word. Okay, let's think
of another word that you can use.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Wacky you whacky self sounds yeah, but think And so
that's I mean, everybody is not it's not going to
take the training that I train, but all of us
in here right now now we have water cooler conversations
to challenge people. Yeah, and yeah, that's that's because I've
heard so many people use that as a term of endearment.

(01:18:51):
And so you're saying, don't use it as a term
no finding out what's what's the substitute? I just said
wacky probably is bad too.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
You a hot man us or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
You're a man something like that.

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
Okay, yeah, and I'll tell you another big one. I
know people have said it the month of May. We
want to stop saying things like this weather's bipolar.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Oh that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
People say bipolar.

Speaker 16 (01:19:18):
But what if you what if you're sitting with a
person who lives with bipolar there's nothing on our forehead
that says I'm a person living with my polar disorder.
So if you're saying that, could you be offering some
stigmatizing words towards them? Thinking nobody has to tell you
that they have a mental health UH disorder, just like

(01:19:38):
nobody has to tell you if they have a health
health a health concern. So we want to just be
mindful of those words that we're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Okay, I just had a quick question and if I could,
uh misbrue, do you find more black men now willing
to come in for uh counseling? Because generally black men
we don't you know, We're like I'm good, I'm fine,
everything's cool, I'm great, I'm all right. That's for women
because women generally talk more than men do. So have
you Are you finding more men are willing to come

(01:20:08):
in own? And you mentioned pastors earlier, so that's a
good sign.

Speaker 16 (01:20:11):
I think yes, And we're having more men to come
in and talk about mental health and seeing a therapist.
And to be honest, I work outside of ESCONAZI and
with some other organizations, and we're having trouble not having
enough black male therapists.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
And so it's yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:20:35):
Yeah, So you are finding more black men that are
are seeking therapy, which I think is great. You don't
have to be in therapy forever. And I share that
I'm a therapist that has a therapist. I don't miss
my therapy appointment.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
You would almost have to, though, wouldn't you. Yeah, Tina,
I mean you see what I'm saying. I can't imagine
all of this coming to you and and sorting it
out and doing, you know, and helping and things what
a therapist does, doing the therapy thing, and not being
able to have a therapist. It just it just seems
absolutely yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:21:07):
Yeah, And so I think just having these conversations letting
people know that it's okay, I think black men in
particular are starting to learn a vocabulary for their behavior,
how they feel, and that everything is that I'm not angry,
maybe I'm scared, maybe I'm feeling a little perplex And

(01:21:30):
so not only a black man going to therapy, black
men are doing group therapy as well, and it is amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Even in my father's generation. Yeah, he's embracing it. He
likes absence, like, yeah, he likes going James, go ahead.
I'm sorry to mean.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
Yeah, miss true. I just want to pick up on
that word. You you all were just kind of bantering
about crazy because my neighbors said it, and not that
way you know, he's crazy or he's crazy. We were
just talking about something and kind of what he had
seen that day or within recent days, and he says,

(01:22:10):
he remarked, Man, it's crazy out here. I mean, I
mean in earlier before you came on, we were talking about,
you know, people acting like they own the road and
this is kind of the norm out there. Eric talked
about how he goes seventy three and he'll get run
over if he doesn't get out of the way. You know.
So I guess my question is, you know you behavior

(01:22:34):
societal behavior, because you said that what you're doing you
see an improvement, things getting better. If you juxtapose that
with what my neighbor was saying, it's getting crazy out here,
how do you do how do you reconcile those two
kind of scenarios that are are we talking about two

(01:22:57):
different things? The behavior of society which people think kind
of at least not as good as it used to
be overall, but to individual cases where you say you
think it's getting better, can you. Does that make sense
what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
Well, yes it does.

Speaker 16 (01:23:15):
So one of the things you said that you were
just talking to your neighbor before the show.

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
No, no, this was several days ago.

Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
So you know what I challenge you.

Speaker 16 (01:23:25):
I challenged you to go back and say that, Hey,
I was listening to a mental health show on mental
health awareness and they were talking about decreasing stigma and
how the word crazy could be stigmatizing and that if
people feel stigmatized, they may not ask for mental health.
So I'm going to challenge you to go back and say, hey,
let's think of some different words we can say, and like,

(01:23:48):
I mean, I know, I let me be honest, I've
said the word crazy, and I said it along. I
used to say it all the time, but until I
realized and reckoned that with myself that that could be stigmatizing.
I don't want to do anything that would keep anyone
from getting the help that they may need. Now for

(01:24:09):
you know me and you may be chopping it up.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
I think I was trying to just get to the
point of do you think societal behavior as a whole
is getting worse or better? I mean, you're right about that,
and you know that's probably not a word to use,
especially around a person who needs some assistance, you know,
in mental health treatment. But do you do you in
what you're seeing in your treatment at Estnanzi Mental Health Center,

(01:24:35):
do you think it's getting worse or better?

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
Well, I can't say that. I can't say that. I
can really answer that.

Speaker 16 (01:24:42):
What I'll say about society is we live in society
now that everything is available. You know, we can find
out things within a matter of seconds. So yes, I
can say we do see more violence. But also I
don't know if you heard where men are also getting
mental health treatment, so that could balance out.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
I'm not for sure.

Speaker 16 (01:25:06):
I don't want to say in particular that, but what
I will say is, no matter what is going on society,
there are different places that we can go. There are
different things that we can do. We can talk to friends,
we can remove ourselves from unsafe situations, we can just

(01:25:29):
have these t talk to someone that's trusted about some
of the things that are going on. And I can't
do this by myself. We all have to do it.
This has to be a call. This is a call
for all of us.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
So what you're saying is it's not okay to assign
crazy to a person. And it's not okay to assign
crazy to use as an adjective in a conversation. It's
just not okay to use it in either situation.

Speaker 5 (01:25:53):
No, okay, and we all have to do better.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Okay, Okay, we got it. Freddy, you have a question.
You have been very generous with your time. By the way,
we're not gonna not gonna hold you too much longer, Freddie,
go ahead. Do you have a question?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Hey, you know, actually not a question. Just really want
to first of all, hello and hello to your panel.
I want to actually boast in Braggs you talk about
the men's and mental health or more ben is coming
out and celebrating their mental health as I call it.
I just want to boast in brag on Bishop Preston
t Adams amazing Grace Christian Church who they just had

(01:26:30):
last weekend, actually just had their mental health first annual
Mental Health Conference, a huge event and at Ivy Tech
with the Family Resource Center at the White Holland Doctor Holland.
Just wanted to boasting brag again on the good work,
great work that they're doing with men and mental health.
They host a every Saturday every third Saturday of each month,

(01:26:54):
a men's roundtable to a great group of about thirty
to forty men building just faith and mental health together,
hosted at different churches. So this one of the Boston
bragg on my Bishop again Bestop presidency Adams and the
great work that he's doing. And actually this weekend at

(01:27:15):
the Amazing Grace Church they're actually having a mental health
awareness kind of a conference, not really a conference, but
just a celebration mental Health Awareness Month, celebrating that at
our church.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
This, Uh, that's that is great.

Speaker 16 (01:27:34):
Great, Yeah, you're absolutely right. They're doing some great work
when it comes to men's mental health.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
Yeah, and it also branched off to the women's and
mental health to lady Lady Greta Adams also started this
uh with the ladies and mental health. That's every for
every fourth Saturdays, every morning Saturday of each month.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
So so so yeah, there's big thing that's fantastic and
year round efforts, not just I mean focus, the focus
of this month is very very important, but when we
see support year round and throughout the calendar year, that
just underscores and kind of puts an exclamation point on
on this. Yeah, that's that's fantastic and uh hey, keep

(01:28:20):
up the great work over there. Appreciate appreciate you ladies,
thank you, thank you, appreciate it. And uh so, James,
any other questions before we have to let our guests go.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
No, no, no. I think miss Kruet represented herself well.
I get born she works for Askenazi mental health centers
can get Yeah. Do you get most of your your
referrals from uh mental health professionals or people walk in

(01:28:52):
the hospital. That's what I think.

Speaker 16 (01:28:55):
Yes, so we get most of our referrals as andres
Kanazi come from the primary oh, from the primary care doctors.
I mean, we just worked very well together with Esgonazi
Health as well. And as I said before, people can
walk in and not just Esconazi. Adulton Child is also

(01:29:17):
a certified community behavioral health clinic here and as I
said that, you with certified community behavioral mental health clinics,
you are seeing the individual scene within the first ten days.
We're so serious about this, where you know, not only
am I talking about Esconazi Health talking about adultant child.

(01:29:38):
There is help out there and and and people can
pay at the level they can afford.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
Fortunately, how do we how are we going to measure it?
How are we going to measure the progress? How are
we going to measure you know what they talked about
with doctor Preston Adams Church, Major Grace Christian Church and
the work, the one you're doing others. How do we
measure you know in Indiana always measuring stick. How do

(01:30:06):
we measure the progress?

Speaker 16 (01:30:10):
So that's that's a two threefold question. So we could
look at we could measure it by how many mental
health visits people have. We could measure it by how
many calls the police have, which approximately about eighty percent
of our police calls are mental health calls.

Speaker 6 (01:30:28):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:30:29):
And if people are saying if it's a mental health call,
and then if their critical response yeah too, yeah, yes,
And so I mean there's a there's different ways. I
mean one of the things I think I would measure
by mental health visits.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
Okay, that that's.

Speaker 16 (01:30:46):
And I'm saying me. I'm not speaking for anybody else,
but I would say me. But you know, the more
we talk about it, the more things are talked about
and normalize, I think the measurement is when we normalize
mental health and treat it as health, we will see
the outcome treat.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
It as Healthcare. Yes, alrighty and if anyone wants to
know more, find out more about the center Asconazi Mental
Health Center, even get in touch with you.

Speaker 16 (01:31:14):
How what are the what's the contact The contact number
is three one seven eight eight zero eight four nine
to one. Again that's three one seven eight eight zero
eight four nine to one, Tina. Thank you so much
for allowing me to come on today in.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
The website Asconazi.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
Health Esconazi Health dot edu.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
Escanazihealth dot e d U A great website. Appreciate it.
Before we sign off, Eric James, were you all able
to find out what happened? Or you find out the
information for Joyce?

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Yes, James James.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Okay, what do you got to you?

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Go ahead?

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
Yeah, mister twelve bop Osley.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Okay, number is.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
He put his cell phone number out there, so I'll
give it to you, okay, okay, three one seven Joyce
three three two zero eight seven seven three three two
zero eight seven seven bop Hostly is your council.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
There's your counselor, Joyce, and you have the number. Okay, Joyce,
you got the counselor and you got the numbers. So
you are in council District twelve bop mostly is your
counselor his number three one seven three three two oh
eight seven seven. Give him a call and let him
know what's going on. Okay, James, Eric, thank you both
so very much.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
You were welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
Yeah, very much. And I also want to thank you again,
Miss Bruitt, thanks for coming in. You have to come back.
The door is always open. Okay, door is always open.
We appreciate it. That is all the time we have
for right now, for community connection. Our website is praise
Indie dot com, well and more. Junior on the radio,
y'all's nephew. Okay, forget tomorrow. You know what. Thank you, Eric,

(01:33:05):
You're welcome, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:33:07):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
You guys, we did promise tickets today, so bear with us.
Guess what. Double treat tomorrow, Double tree, double treat tomorrow.
We're gonna give away two sets tomorrow, okay two and
then again on Friday. But this, this conversation was just
so good. It was really good, and so we we
we we went past our time to hand out the tickets.
But you'll enjoy twice as much tomorrow, Okay. True Okay,

(01:33:31):
there we go. All right, thanks everybody for listening. As always,
we'll be back tomorrow and again, remember two opportunities tomorrow
to get those tickets, two opportunities. We promise not gonna
let it go, all right. Indeed, is that it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Eric, That is it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Okay, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
We're done.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
We're done.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
You've got the close and I got Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
See y'all tomorrow. Okay, Well, thanks for listening.

All Episodes

Community Connection - May 13 2026 - Tina Cosby with Contributing Analyst James Patterson and Tracy Pruitt Mental Health Facilitator...

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

Hey Jonas!

Stuff You Should Know

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Community Connection - May 13 2026 - Tina Cosby with Contributing Analyst James Patterson and Tracy Pruitt Mental Health Facilitator...