December 5, 2025 • 51 mins
Week in review day before Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A champion for justice, opportunity and well being for children.
On Praise Am thirteen ten ninety five point one FM.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And good afternoon, and welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosmy.
Today is Wednesday, the twenty sixth of November. Eric Garn's
here with us today, of course, Eric is Thanksgiving Eve.
I guess you have today Thanksgiving Eve. Yeah. Yeah, And
I'm about as discombobulated as I could possibly possibly be.
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I'll get that paperwork to you. That's how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Doing great, doing wonderful. It's pretty busy for me too downstairs. Yeah,
a lot of going on, getting ready to go into
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So holidays and everything. Talking about a big move.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh that's true. That's gonna discanbopulate things even more.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I know. And I was setting up some stuff that
you have to set up in order to do that,
and lost a little bit of track of time reading
all the emails and following all the directions and getting
into all these days like.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh yeah, show me how to set that up. I'm
not gotten there yet.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I'm working on it, you know. Once it leaves my head, Eric,
it's God, It's God is God. So but I will
do what I will do whatever I can to help you.
I promise, I promise. Yeah, So we have a as
we were telling you yesterday, we have a little bit
of a programming note for you.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Operations are closing down the building, the station. We're closing
uh in about less than an hour. So we're gonna
we're gonna stay with the ship until it's time to go.
So we're gonna be signing off a little bit earlier today,
an hour early. I'm gonna go from one to two,
but we'll still have a show. We'll still have a show,
but it'll just be from one to two because the
doors are going to close and we're all going to
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be told go home, go home, go home, and get
out of here. Uh. So it is Wednesday, and so
let's go ahead and bring in our contributing analyst James Patterson.
James here for an abbreviated version of community connection, if
you will. How are you doing.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm just combobulated too. Let me join the club.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, it's weird. It's a weird feeling, I don't know.
And all of a sudden, the weather has just changed
and it's it's really dramatic outside now. The wind and
the leaves it's just too looks almost like looks like
a Halloween night or something, you know, more so than
a the night before Thanksgiving of the day before. How
are you doing, James, I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Doing pretty good. And yeah, teen of the scenario couve
Fit October thirty, first Halloween. Because it is h I
won't use the word spooky, but it's kind of hairy.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it's an eerie, eerie feeling. It's just a strange
And the leaves are flying like crazy, going everywhere. Yeah,
the wind.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
So so if you didn't what wrake your leaves in
your yard, don't.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Worry about or if you any leaves.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, I'm hoping mother nature. There were a lot of offers,
you know, folks are going around, Hey, I can pick
up your leaves, like rig up I said. You know,
I'm gonna let mother nature take care. I Am not
even gonna bother with trying to bag them up and
go into the uh going to the money and try
to pay it. Uh No, because by the time we
hit spring, you won't even see a leader gone. They'll
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be gone.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah. Yeah, they just think, Yeah, they tend to disintegrate,
don't they.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They really do and for are they I'm not a
I'm not a good gardener or lawn person. Whatever are
they good for? I don't know what you call them? Fertilizer?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I I you know, I'm
blessed enough to have a place, you know, a single
family home, but I lived in apartments for for years
and years and years. But I mean growing up in
the Midwest, you know, you you experienced the four seasons
and uh so yeah so uh I when I got
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a lawnmower, although we had lawmoards, I remember the hand
push lawnmoarers, but when I got a power lawnmower, I
generally didn't rake as much as I, you know, as
much as some people say you should do, or as
much as other people do, or as much as maybe
some people say I should have done. I just run
that lawnmower over it. And that what I call mulches.
(04:13):
Yeah yeah, mulch of the leaves, and it fertilizes the
lawn for next bring to me, because it puts those
leaf ingredients back on the ground and the winter weather,
you know, help them to soak in. So yeah, I
think that's a great idea to do that. Do it
that way.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, so James. Yeah, and you know what, done,
Consider it done. Consider it that nobody nobody not at
the household. No, I too, am fortunate enough to have
a single family, you know, home and a lot of
yard work, right. But but we get it done. We
get it done. Hey. You know what, speaking of yard
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work you were talking about, you remembered what kind of
lawnmar were you talking. Were you talking about the the
old fashioned ones that had that cylinder like blade, Yeah,
that you pushed, Yeah, are familiar.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I pushed those for I mean, like young people go
around today and they knock on your door. You know,
they got to push power lawnmower, push gasolene engine lawnmower.
I did that with a hand, push lawnmower. Yeah. And
you know, and that was good exercise and stuff. You know,
back when when we were little, you know, kids children
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and I don't like say it little children. And we
you know, we made us some Hamburger money, some Coca
Cola money. Uh. And sometimes we helped helped our families.
You know, we could help our families get with the
food bill. Uh. You know, a good way to get
to know your neighbors. But that that was that was
a way to uh for for for for young people
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to learn how to work, you know what I'm saying,
to learn responsibility, to learn how to work and to
be uh you know, to be rewarded for the work
with pay. And it taught a good lesson I think
to individuals.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The work is never that is
never a problem in terms of teaching a lesson because
it does, it does, and valuable ones, ones you can
carry with you. It's it's called an ethic.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
People talk about your work ethic. And once you learn
an ethic, you don't forget it and it does carry
with you throughout life. So those are good lessons life
lessons to learn. I just I think those those lawnmowers
now are so to speak, are in museums. I've not seen.
There may be some people still around somewhere that still
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use them. I know. My great my great grandfather had one.
I was fascinated with it when I was younger because
it wasn't motorized, you know, it was like, yeah, you
had that little sound.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
A neighbor of ours had one. I think I used
one once just to see what it was like a kid.
It's like heavy, Yes, very heavy. I thought it was,
but I I it was there more and it was.
They were older family and it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It wasn't from you.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Do you guys, do you guys want want any inkling
of the weather report or what?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well? What you got?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, you guys pretty yeah, yeah, you guys pretty much
said it cold and cloudy and a day inside basically,
you know, with the cooler temperatures, we're gonna have cooler temperatures.
And here's the kicker, strong winds today. Oh yeah, we've
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got yeah, you feel that when you're out there, either
one of you. Yeah, So we've got to win advisory
and effect for central Indiana until seven o'clock this evening.
Winds will gradually diminish through the afternoon. Uh. It was
around thirty eight greeze as we came on the air today,
you guys, and temperature that was. Enjoy that because that's
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that's gonna be the high. We'll be gradually dropping throughout
the rest of the day. Believe it or not. We
could see some some some spurts of snow flurries here
and there, uh today, but overall we'll have a cold, cloudy,
late fall day, on the day before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, somebody would Some friends of mine were talking
and I was, in fact, I was telling one of
our guests yesterday that I've got some some folks coming
in for Thanksgiving that we're a little concerned about the weather,
you know, traveling because they'll get here okay, but you
know going back, you know on Saturday or Sunday, snow,
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possibility of snow. I've got some other friends this weekend. Yeah,
I got some other friends that they were going to spend,
you know, to spend some time with some family in Chicago,
in that Chicago area. Is it supposed to Yeah, so
I think that that they've been watching it for the
for the weather too, to see if there's going to
be in somewhere in our vicinity. I guess possibility of
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accumulating snow, James, And if you heard that.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I did. I do possibly anticipate that
for the weekend. They're not quite sure on the on
the track of that yet, but we right now, right
kind of in the middle of it, that we could
get you know, some snow. And the further you go north,
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the the heavier it would be, particularly up towards Chicago
and around the lake, the Great Lakes. So yeah, that
that's the possibility that we're still fine tuning that. But yeah,
that that is definitely a possibility.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
One of the things I've learned in terms of reading
between the lines and meteorologists slash forecasters say we're fine
tuning something and it's pretty close to the time when,
well it was today today is when Wednesday? Yeah? Good,
and so they're talking about twenty six Saturday or Sunday.
So yeah. Precipitation, especially frozen precipitation, is one of the
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hardest things to nail down. From what I've understood is
that is that your understanding.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Well, you've been TV for for many, many years, so
you walk worked right alongside some of the best some
of the best weather forecasters we do with the best equipment.
But even if you have the best equipment, a change
that when will shift that precipitation twenty thirty miles forty
fifty miles one way. And that's why they say it's
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until you nail it down, because all of the instruments
and stuff can't really tell that tracked until maybe twenty
four to forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Out there were there were two folks that I watched
and I've you know, I've known Medira Alogis and you know,
and one of the best. She went on NASH. She
went on to be national Janice Huff. We worked together
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was very, very good. But there
are three though that I knew that did this. There
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are several others I'm sure that do. But Janice, uh
back in the way back in the day. This is
taking you way back. Stand the weather man A Wish
and Randy Allis before every four before they went on
the air, every day, every single time they went outside
and looked at the sky really yes, and they they
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would look because they said, despite all this equipment and
everything else, I can get an idea of how what
the equipment is saying syncs up with what I'm seeing.
And they always wanted to trust their their eyes. Yeah,
always did, always did.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Even and they had radar, you know, the satellite, you know, Doddler.
Doddler feel there's nothing that can replace the naked eye
looking at it with the naked eye.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's right, Randy, Randy swore by it. I don't know
if he got it from Stan or that was just
something Randy brought with him. Stan would always do it too.
They right before, Well, I wish you didn't have to
really go outside because they had these huge windows, window
from ceiling to floor windows and you could look. Now
they I guess at times they would go outside, but
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they could see what they needed to see right there.
What they could see was what the equipment didn't show them.
And sometimes yeah, sometimes they just said it just feels
good to look, just to take a look, see what.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, think about it, you know, Keane and Eric, why
do you think they send those hurricane hunter planes into
the into the eye of the of the hurricane and
so they can you know, so they can get right
close up and see the speed of the winds that
are circulating in that storm, and you know, the the
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amount of precipitation that it's producing and how fast it's moving.
Only close up can they get that. So instruments can tell.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You a lot.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
That's why you know everybody's AI AI. Hey, I'm just
gonna wait until AI is fully you know, uh implemented
and and what do they call it, uh developed and deployed.
I guess that's the word I'm looking for. Fully deployed
because that's when you will see the uh, the negatives
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that you know, what it what it can't do, and
all this stuff about what it can people are putting
all their money and the stock market and AI. So
you know, we'll see how that shakes goes.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Always limitations, so always this this great new thing, always
a limitation.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Absolutely. I think you still need the human aspect you've
got to have.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That's right, that's that's what. That's what, that's what you're
saying here. That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
AI is fine. I think AI is fine too as
an assist to assist, but I don't think it should
run everything. That's just that's a that's a slippery slope
that you can't come back up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But you know, there there are youngsters, children of my
grandson's age and younger he's four, and I'm talking about
younger that that younger than him, who already they don't
know that they're using AI. But I saw one pick
up a phone and say hey Siri, X, Y and
Z or talking to you know, talking to a cell phone.
(14:40):
This is younger than him, who's he's four. Now he
he does it too, which is frightening it. But but
what I'm saying, is it's so integral to their world
as it is right now, as they're coming in more
and more and more into the world, uh, that I
don't know that they would know how to do without it.
Hey Sarah, Hey Siri, play a song, or hey sirih
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I want to hear I want to hear Ferdinand. I
want to hear the soundtrack of ferd Yeah. Just and
the radio because it's it's hooked up, it'll play. It does.
And I'm like, well, why didn't I think of that?
Because here I am going on YouTube trying to find
YouTube playing it through, and he says, just, hey, Siri,
play Ferdinane and my car through my radio thing. It
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plays soundtrack, Yeah, the Bull, you know the Bull. And
it is John Cena who narrated the story. I've never
watched fer Nan from start to finish, but I know
the soundtrack. But anyway, yeah, So I worry about them
not having the balance that we do and understanding the
difference and understanding that there has to be a balance
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between man and machine. You have to have it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, you know, but that I saw a story in
Consumer Reports.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
It said that it's a new survey and this ties
in with I guess gen Z and texting. It said
that messaging scams have jumped in the past year, and
it might surprise all of us that gen Z is
getting hit the hardest because they're the ones who have
somewhat dependent on it more than we have, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, and so they have it, and reports of attempted
scams from gen z ors if tripled.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
How about that story you guys. Did you see that
about those guys that were caught robbing ATM machines?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
And Eric, did you see how they did it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I didn't see how they did it, but it was
what do they call it? I saw that story.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, they pulled up to an ATM tina and they
hooked up their software.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
They hooked.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Malware.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, well that's software. Yeah. They hooked up their computer
through I guess Wi Fi or whatever to the ATM
machine and then uploaded malware and then they were able
to uh cause the money to be dispersed, uh you know,
to them. Yeah. Yeah, So I mean wow, I mean
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that that to me, that just kind of illustrates the
the dangers, the fallacies of all of this technology and
all of this Oh we got to get it faster
next year, corporation, we gotta get it faster. We got
to get it faster. And and what what are what
are the you know, possible pitfalls? What what's what's the
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risks here? So that that you you got to think
that through. But a lot of companies who are profit driven,
and I'm not just trying to pile on corporations, but
they a lot of them don't really think things through.
They just are too worried about the bottom line today.
See what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Maybe wanting to be first with the technology that can
maybe be part of it too.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You think, yeah, well, however it translates, you know, into
finding because they yeah, they think they you know, they
act first and think later because they're chasing chasing that bag,
as the kids like to say, chasing the bag, and
they make a lot of mistakes doing that, a lot
of mistakes. So James uh and Eric, we were kind
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of free flowing here, no scheduled guests, open lines, and
wee can review I guess so to speak, and maybe
even the week ahead because by the time we get back, boy,
we'll be in full swing. The lighting of the Christmas
tree will have taken place. Friday night, Friday night, Yeah,
after Friday after Thanksgiving, day after day after tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, and uh, just a just a whole bunch of things,
you know, just full full on into the season. So
we'll we'll see how that how that goes. But yeah,
I know, but but like I was saying, Eric and
I are just kind of there's you know, when you're moving. Yes,
there's there's a lot to it because we're gonna we're
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gonna be doing kind of like a little hybrid type thing, right,
going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Back and forth, then here and there, and totally new equipment.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Totally new equipment. But it has to talk to each other,
and until it does, we're going to have to be
in different locations for a day or two, couple of
days exactly, which doesn't matter to anybody, but it's it's
kind of like, ah, so you won't be able.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
To see each other, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, I may as well work from home. Back in
the day, Remember how we used to you you weren't here,
but broadcast, James, wasn't it. We broadcast from home during
COVID for about a year, didn't we, James? Yeah, Yeah, yeah,
about a year.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And it just you know, we just did what needed
to be done and just kept that information pulling out.
So there were a little there are a few quirks
and little.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You know, I still have my I have my little
mini studio that Nick and John the engineer set me
up with. They sent home a little suitcase and here's
your access point. You know, hit one, boom, here's your mic.
You know, if all else fails, just call in. But
it worked out really really well, and I kept it.
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I I mean, they said, well, just keep it because
you never know the next whatever might come and we
we all, you know, there could be a serious snowstorm,
it could be anything, and we still have to be
on the air. So I'm glad I have on air
capabilities at home in my office. So a little bitty.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, you got through it, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We got through it, and and we stand ready to
do it again if necessary.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yah.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I mean it shows that it can be done that way.
You know what shows that that hey, you you adapt,
you change, and you go forward and do your job.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah. So so we're gonna be doing a little bit
of that for the next couple of weeks, probably until
the end of the year, maybe by the first of
the year, everything will coalesce and come together as it should.
But until then, we're gonna Hey, we're gonna sold your on.
We are going to solder on. So James, Uh, let's
go back to the phone lines. We've got time today.
We've got time to talk to folks on the phone.
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Three one seven for a zero thirteen ten, three one
seven for a zero thirteen ten.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Let's go to line one. Sam. That depends man, Sam,
Good afternoon, everybody, Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
How are you, brother, James? The weather man? Mid is
that's why stuff is coming down real fare down here,
mores Will.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Is that where you are?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, that's where I am.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
A few miles Sam's every man, south of Mary County,
but uh, not that.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So far because the outcast is that out past the airport.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Uh no, you know what I'm thinking, a craft airport
that way more.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So uh southwest?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Okay, southwest? Yeah? Yeah, and tell us why are you? Yeah?
I mean, are you out in the cold? You're not there?
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Yeah, I'm out here, you know, you know, I was.
I was doing some running around, right and I'm like, dude,
it's supposed to be boys. When do they do it
because we got so many people out here. These stores
are packing. Yeah, and I'm like, wait a minute, I
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thought we supposed to be staying at home.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Maybe they didn't get the message.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
It amazing, okay, but I didn't want to say. I
don't let you guys know what is going on out here.
Oh yeah, the white stuff coming down, my fact, is
coming down right here at Washington and uh oh what
are the Washington and oh Ron the Reagan? Okay, yeah,
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coming down, yeah, coming down. It must be coming. It
must be coming east because I just left the south
and I just left the west. They've got to be
going east coming down.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That's that's Hendricks County.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's up that way.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, so that's right next door. And like I said,
we you know, we will see some bursts of I'm
looking out the window and I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I was looking for it to do you say, I don't.
I don't see anything, Eric.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I know it's coming your way, I believe is.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It coming, but usually it usually comes from west to
east right Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah, that's the way the wind is falling today.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Almost just say ninety ninety of our weather systems that
once in a while we'll get a rare uh a
rare opposite direction, but east west it is okay.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Look at y'all have what having Thanksgiving? And and uh
you don't shout too much and I see you next
time you get back. Oka. Damn, how did that?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Uh? How did that turn out? With the uh just
real quick? Uh Michelle Sanders, Uh, you were helping them out,
which was very.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Oh my god, it turned out better than what it
was because they needed now for one day, they needed
the U haul for two days, and so she called me.
She was worried about Uh, mister Jackson, I need a
two days quit work and miss moved then.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Okay, you can have it too days.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
So they still have it, okay, and they're supposed to
be turning it back in at four o'clock today.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
So so precious of you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We really thank you. Thank you. Sam. You're you're kind,
You're far too kind, and we appreciate it. Thank you,
thank you?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
All right, all right? Thanks sure?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Uh three one seven for zero thirteen ten, three one
seven for zero thirteen ten. James, I want to get
back to that that blackout boycott as well, because Sam
reminded us that we need to remind everybody else Uh,
to to support each other in this in this this
way guy. Uh, the real debra? Go ahead? How are you.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Hey? Good afternoon, mister mister James, mister Eric. How are
you guys doing the real debra? I'm I am, well
it's in here cutting onions. I wanted to comment about
the at M. I went to my bank about a
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week ago, uh, maybe a little bit over a week
and it kept I put my pen, I put my
card in, and I put the pin number in and
it kept saying wrong pin, wrong pin. So so I
went to the other one and uh on which is
on the inside, and I noticed there was a police
(25:54):
officer there and he had his lights on something. Okay,
I I rolle my went no down and I asked him.
I said, are you here for the ATM? He said no,
it's something worse than that. So I'm thinking, oh, lord,
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you know, I don't know since he's there. When I
put my card in, you have to put your card
in for the door to open up, said, and uh,
you know. I got in, and so the staff were
coming outside and I said, what's going on with the
ATM and the and the manager? I asked her was
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she the manager? She said, yeah, she.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Said, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
I said, well, when you when I put my card
in and I put my pin number in, it says
it's the wrong pin and it kept saying that. She said, huh.
She said, well, let's let me go out and let
me look at it. Well, the ATM that's inside, uh
and before you get in the bank. It took my
p But I just want to let y'all know, be
(27:02):
careful because there, you know, I don't know how people
have enough time with that camera there to do what
I saw those those four guys. Yeah on the news,
but just be careful. You know, if you have to
go inside the credit union or the bank and if
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you have to have them give you your money, that way,
it's a lot more safer. I just don't trust the
ATM anymore at all. And so when the police said
he's there for something much worse than that, well, heck
you out here and I'm armed, So I'm not really
concerned about I need to get my money, so I'm
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not you know, I'm not if you're there and this
few other people there. I just wanted to get my
money and go. But yeah, be very very very very careful.
I would just go inside and you know, do with
the old fashioned way with the withdrawal slip, if you know.
But who has time for that? But that's what I
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would do.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's what we have time for it. We just have
to make time for it. We had time for it
before we had we didn't before we didn't have time
for it, we had time for it.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yeah, APM is.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Kind of kind of wacky, you know, especially in today's world.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
So just be careful.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Because I didn't see anything on the news, but of course,
you know, you really probably won't see much about that
on the news, but you know, and I'm gonna put
it out there. It was PNC, So I just want
everybody to know that PNC is uh was had some
(28:44):
some wacky d going on at the ATM. But I
I'm a member of Credit Union as well, and so
you have to be careful there too. It doesn't matter.
So I just wanted to let y'all know that, please
have a blessed Thanksgiving. If you're traveling, be saved. It's
not every it's not it's not you, it's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So are you are you going to be home for
the Thanksgiving holiday?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I'm in here, I'm I'm I'm actually cutting onions right now,
trying not to cry.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You're making your Are you making your dressing? Cutting up
your onions for your dressing?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Yeah, I'm cutting up my vegetables because what I want
to do is just make everything, put in the refrigerator
and then just bake it. So the potato salad and
the I'm I'm doing chicken and dressing because my turkey
has not thought and I doubt if it's going to
be thought.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Uh oh you know.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
It's yeah, yeah, it's it's a big turkey, and so
it's not thought. I had some chicken. So I'm just
gonna do chicken and dressing and let that, you know,
and do a few other things, uh the chicken and
dress and a sweet potato, you know, stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Like yeah, I mean, you know, you don't have to
have turkey every time. Oh, but but.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know how to have things go. You want a turkey,
But I'm just gonna cut it up. I'm going to
smoke it and I'll have that turkey probably for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
If it's God's will.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
You guys are happy Thanksgiving, Please be safe, be blessed,
and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Love, y'all love you to thank you to you. All right,
all right, We're gonna take a break here and be
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Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
And we're back with Community Connection on this Thanksgiving Eve.
We're live tomorrow and Friday, we won't be you'll hear,
you'll hear music, and then we're back live on Monday.
Just wanted to make sure you had that programming note.
We were talking about shopping and James, you want to
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remind everyone about the boycott that has been called for
this Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Absolutely, Tina, because it has expanded, and the reason it
has expanded because several groups have joined together have banded
together and they sort of coalesced around this statement, we
ain't buying it. In fact, we ain't buying it. Uh
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w E e I n T b U y I
n g I T is a website. We buying it
dot com Tina. People can go that. And what they're
asking for really is a targeted kind of So so
let me listen, listen, hear me out. It's a targeted boycott.
They're targeting Target, Home Depot, Amazon, and Amazon. And Amazon
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does a whole lot of business over this time, and
in fact, all three of those do. And the reasons
that they're targeting of each each one, there's a reason
for each one, and they listed it. And remember we
had mentioned this earlier about the blackout. So they joined
with blackout groups, uh, minority groups, black and brown groups
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in in the we Ain't buying it group and also
the no Kings Day group. They all joined together. Okay,
So the reason that they are not going to encouraging
people not to buy from Target is because Target rolled
back its DEI initiatives. So that's good. Good for black
people who this administration, I think and brown people especially
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has made war on and for Amazon for donating one
million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund. And also Home Depot
because the US Department of Homeland Security said Home Depot
is they notify Home Depot and Home Depot is working
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with Well, the US Department of Homeland Security denies it,
but people who are looking at it say, Home Depot
is working in tandem with ICE and you know other
security agencies in their immigration pushed. I mean, they are
arresting people in Home Depot parking lots, even on their property.
So that's why those three target Amazon Home people. From
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when Tina from beginning to well actually, uh, the one
group started on the twenty fifth, but it's officially beginning
tomorrow through Cyber Monday. And here's what they encourage people
instead to spend their money at small local businesses to
spread the word about the boy and to spread the
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word and to spread the word about the boycott. So
there's where we.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Are, alrighty, there's where we are speaking of shopping. You
and I we ran into each other in the grocery store.
You were seriously getting down to James was getting down Eric.
He was doing it Greens in the past, he had
he had his colleagues in his in his shopping cart,
and he was he had those coupons working. I had
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left mine over the visor in the car because I
had only come in to get one or two things.
When I do the shopping like James was doing, I
do the same thing he does. This was at Kroger.
I do the same thing. I have the the little
envelope and I have all of those, and I think,
what is it your algorithm or what have you? They get?
They know what you buy and dig digital in the
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printed ones, and so they tend to give you discounts
on what you tend to frequently buy.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Absolutely, And that's the algorithm you were talking about. And
they I got that from the from the printed coupons,
that part, but the digital too, they kind of you
know that I don't get everything that I shop for.
But yeah, go ahead with your story.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That was talk. We were just talking comparing notes and uh,
you know, talking about how to cook certain you know,
just just doing it.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
He was.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
He was good.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So, James, are you a super shopper?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Let me just say I try to shop uh in
uh smartly and intelligently and you know or deals, I mean,
you know, just like moms all over this city this county,
this state, this looking for deals, not only moms, but
in my case, dads too, looking for deals in the
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midst of this, this tariff fiasco, in the the affordability fiasco,
and it's a man made and we all know who
did it created problem that. So I'm trying to get
the best value for the dollar, is what I'm trying
to do with you.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah. So yeah, but it was it was fun, you know,
it is fun. I I'm pretty much done with everything
I need to have. Are you done with your shopping?
You guys don't.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yeah, And I'm not like a real debris yet. I'm
not cutting onions yet, but that may come. Yeah, I'm
pretty much done with it. And I was so happy
to see you know, they're getting prepared for that Mobil
Sanders Thanksgiving Giving giveaway. You and Eric have done so
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much to support that this year at the WTLC. And also,
you know, I saw some other organizations black Firefighters, the Colts,
the patters given away food. I mean, that's what it's
all about, the Urban League, I mean giving away food.
I mean, you know, we've got to come together because
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we've got lots of work to do to protect the games.
That we've made.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah. Yeah, and boy, if there was ever a time
to open your heart and give, the time is yeah,
right now. The time is absolutely now. So there was
somebody sent me a text message that there was a
turkey givet Oh No, no, it wasn't a text message.
It was it was a post that I was reading.
(37:47):
I believe that one of our guests from a couple
of days ago, Larry Smith, the CEO of the Father
and Family Center, and he was talking to somebody was
giving away turkeys and he was saying that the line
was four blocks long. Oh my god, wow, I think
that was on LinkedIn, Larry. If I'm not mistaken, I
think it was on LinkedIn.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I mean our twenty five dollars and up thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Up, aren't they? Crazy? Crazy?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Crazy, crazy government shut down where people couldn't even get
their snap benefits supplemental supplemental nutritional assistance program, you know
for food. I mean they couldn't get it. And they
our friend up there in the White House went to
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the Supreme Court when states were going to give the
You know, I don't want to go off on a tangent.
It's a day before giving, but you know, what he did.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I know, I don't even want to go into because
every it's like a hurricane. You know who was that
little character on Charlie Brown comic strips from years, you know,
years ago, did everywhere he went to just a swirl
what was his name, pig Van, Big Van, just a
little tar. Everywhere pig Pin went there was just a
(39:02):
swirl of miss.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I was also thinking of the Tasmanian Devil.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah that was that was another comic strip, but this
was this was a pig Pen. He just looked like
a little tornadoes around him everywhere he went. And you know,
let we'll give everybody a break because guess what. Tomorrow
there's gonna be more Trump mess. The day after that
is gonna be more mess. The day after it's mess, mess, mess, mess,
mess every single day.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Ye so, and we have to keep our close eye
on it because, like I said, I think you know
those Epstein files. They voted almost unanimously. There was one
novo in the House of Representatives, the Senate in the
Congress voted unanimously to release the I mean, that's it's
a law.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Now.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
They are within that thirty day window, the thirty day
limit where Pam BONDI there turned has to release that.
So to me, that's what he's most fearful of because
he fought it so much, Tean Eric. And so I
think that anything that he does from you know, sending
(40:06):
the military the seventh Fleet or not seven fleet, but
the the UH Navy UH carrier battle group off the
coast of Venezuela, uh, you know, trying to bully Ukraine,
inst accepting accepting outrageous terms, uh, basically a surrender to Russia,
to uh, you know, a bullying uh even Indiana state
(40:32):
legislators to try to vote his way. I mean, everything
that he's doing is trying to take attention off of that.
So he will become more erratic, I predict. And so
that's why we have to keep an eye on him.
But for for God's sake, like you said, Tina, can
we breathe for one day? Right?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Absolutely, I'm all about breathing about. Let's go back to
the phone line three one, seven, eight, zero thirteen ten. Joe,
go ahead, How are you, Joe?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
You guys doing doing great, doing great? I wish you
guys a happy holiday. Talking about cooking earlier and uh, yesterday,
my grandson's helped. Uh, my wife and I get all
of my collar greens out from our garden.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Wow, it kind of late. They didn't hurt them. THEA
hasn't heard them.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
You leave your collar greens out there because you want
remember that real hard freezer we had.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah, they were.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
They were laying all over and my wife said, they're dead,
my turnip greens. They were laying all over, but when
that warm weather came, they popped back up and said, hello, Joe,
we're here.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
When you leave them out, uh, and they hit that
that heavy frost, it sweetens up the greens and they
become more tender, and you can even tell the difference
in the flavor. So you leave them out until Yeah,
you leave them out until they freeze. I just got
them in yesterday because of the weather, the wind and
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everything that was plumbing. So I put them out in
my garage. And this morning my wife and I got
up and uh, we picked greens and wars greens. So
I'm ready to I'm ready to cook greens and getting
ready to make some of my famous Joe's yam pies.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Wow, potato pies, potato pie and a yam pie.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
You do know the difference between a yam and the
sweet potato, right, remember this yam above, sweet potato below.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Okay, okay, and what that means.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Sweet potatoes grow below the ground. Yams grow on a bush.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Oh, so is there better?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Is there better of the two?
Speaker 4 (43:07):
They are similar in taste. But you guys, have you
ever had like a white sweet potato?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
No, I've heard of them.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
No I have it.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
You know, you guys need to sometimes taste. They got
the yellow ones, the gold ones, then they got the
white ones, and we go down to Mississippi and we
get them at the sweet potato farm and we buy
white sweet potatoes. Uh uh uh. And also the yams.
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I'm not the yams, but the yellows in red sweet potatoes.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
So I thought that they always thought they were the
same thing, just different. They were just called different things
interchangeably yam sweet potatoes. But I guess not, No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
They taste different. I mean it's just like a collar.
You can get a vat, which is a large leave,
or you can get a Georgia southern. And then they
got another and they all row differently and have a
little bit of a different taste. Have you ever heard
of a rape green or ape. It's actually a mix
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between a turnip and a collar and it doesn't boat
when a turnip and it gets warmer. Turnip with boat
and go to steeds. It will keep growing like a
collared green and then it will give you but the
flavor of it is totally different. But it gives you
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a dark green leaf. And they grow them down south
a lot. And I used to get the seas and
grow them here, but they're hard to find anymore.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Yo, you are quite a culinary expert.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Me not the expert. But James, I'll tell you something.
One thing you said that my daddy taught me a
long time ago. What did you say? Going around and
getting them making a little bit of money makes you
do it makes you learn how to work.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
Yeah, learned response and how to work. Yeah he does.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Yeah. Yeah. And my daddy at a young age used
to get me up and help and break up those
clods and help plant this food for the family. Now
he did the weeding, but I helped him with with
with the garden, and he taught me how to do that.
(45:40):
He did. And he told me, if you grow your
own food and you got some uh uh, if you
got a fishing pole. Fish and grits will fill your
belly up.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Uh, that's true. That's true, a tall.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
Part of it.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, so what are you gonna real quick do with
the yams again? You're gonna make make up?
Speaker 4 (46:08):
I make, Yeah, I make pies out of them, just
like sweet potatoes. I've already made for sweet potato pies.
I've made those, and I'm gonna make two yam pies.
And I've got some uh liquor. I'm getting ready to
make some homemade vanilla extract.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Okay, now now it's really tall cotton.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm gonna make a couple. I'm gonna make a couple
of bottles, a few bottles out of bourbon and a
few bottles out of a good vodka and let them
set for about four or five months in vanilla beans,
Madagascar vanilla beans.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
And this so you need to write a book. Yeah,
I'm gonna say most of that knowledge.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
And yeah, well, but it was a group of people.
But one of my famous recipes is Georgia peach ice cream,
where you don't feel the peaches and it will knock
your socks off. And I heard you say something, Tina
(47:23):
yesterday about something that slap your mama, chittens.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Not slap your mama, but Aunt Bessie's.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
What was that somebody?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
I said, I would kick a butt if somebody puts
a red bucket of Chickling's in front of me, I'm
kicking the bucket. I ain't doing it.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Talking to him, you said something about sweet poteato pie.
H they just haven't they were.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Talking about Somebody asked which was which did I prefer pumpkin?
And I said I had to say pumpkin because I've
never had a good sweet potato pie.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
And then you guys talked about Patty and label too.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Let me tell you this, riding on the Tina, I
can bring a sweet potato pride down there that will
make you smack your mommy.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Okay, hey, she knows too. Okay, don't forget that.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I do know James's address.
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yes, great, great, Thanks. Say a prayer for our Lawrence
Mayor because she's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Okay, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Prayer for you guys to have a good Thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you. And uh speaking
of saying a prayer and good words over the holiday,
Tomorrow is Thursday, and normally we have our Thursday sports
segment with the Indianapolis Recorders. Danny Bridges, he's a sports
writer for the Recorder, in case she didn't know, and
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he visits with us when he can on Thursday afternoons.
But he sent me a beautiful text and I'm going
to read some parts of it to you. I mean,
it's just nice. It says tomorrow is about giving thanks.
I'm very thankful for everything you've done for me, and
very thankful for the opportunity. This is the most important part.
Very thankful for the opportunity to connect with listeners. Have
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a great thanksgiving Danny Bridges. So he truly looks forward
to connecting with you out there. He looks forward to
the discussions where everybody doesn't agree, because you know Danny,
Danny likes to stir the pot. And so that was
so very nice. He didn't have to do that. That
was so very nice him. So we thank you, We
(49:45):
thank we thank for you. We're thankful for you as well, Danny,
because you bring, you bring something different every every time
you come. And even though we don't know a whole
lot about racing, and you love it, you're teaching us
so nothing I know nothing about raising, but I think
I know a little bit more now thanks to you,
and I'm very grateful for that. So thank you, Danny,
thank you, thank you, thank you. So appreciate that. But James,
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you got all those greens and everything ready to go.
Speaker 5 (50:10):
Yeah, hey, there, washed and cut and ready to go.
So I hope that you and Eric have a wonderful
time off and Thanksgiving holiday and beyond.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Same to you, James, Same to you and Eric, the
same wishes to you and your family. Yeah, thank you,
thank you. We're like I said, we had a little
bit of a shortened show today, but we got in
here and I appreciate you being here with us too. James.
We'll be back on Monday, starting a new month, a
new week, and a new month and the final month
(50:44):
of the year, and we're gonna we're gonna close it
out strong. We're gonna close it out strong. It's been
a good one and an even better one is coming up,
so we're looking forward to that. So we will talk
to everybody next week again. Be safe, be well, Thank
you for listening. Williamore Junior on the radio is up next.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
And good afternoon, and welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosmy.
Today is Wednesday, the twenty sixth of November. Eric Garn's
here with us today, of course, Eric is Thanksgiving Eve.
I guess you have today Thanksgiving Eve. Yeah. Yeah, And
I'm about as discombobulated as I could possibly possibly be.
(00:28):
I'll get that paperwork to you. That's how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Doing great, doing wonderful. It's pretty busy for me too downstairs. Yeah,
a lot of going on, getting ready to go into
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So holidays and everything. Talking about a big move.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh that's true. That's gonna discanbopulate things even more.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I know. And I was setting up some stuff that
you have to set up in order to do that,
and lost a little bit of track of time reading
all the emails and following all the directions and getting
into all these days like.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh yeah, show me how to set that up. I'm
not gotten there yet.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I'm working on it, you know. Once it leaves my head, Eric,
it's God, It's God is God. So but I will
do what I will do whatever I can to help you.
I promise, I promise. Yeah, So we have a as
we were telling you yesterday, we have a little bit
of a programming note for you.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Operations are closing down the building, the station. We're closing
uh in about less than an hour. So we're gonna
we're gonna stay with the ship until it's time to go.
So we're gonna be signing off a little bit earlier today,
an hour early. I'm gonna go from one to two,
but we'll still have a show. We'll still have a show,
but it'll just be from one to two because the
doors are going to close and we're all going to
(01:46):
be told go home, go home, go home, and get
out of here. Uh. So it is Wednesday, and so
let's go ahead and bring in our contributing analyst James Patterson.
James here for an abbreviated version of community connection, if
you will. How are you doing.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm just combobulated too. Let me join the club.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, it's weird. It's a weird feeling, I don't know.
And all of a sudden, the weather has just changed
and it's it's really dramatic outside now. The wind and
the leaves it's just too looks almost like looks like
a Halloween night or something, you know, more so than
a the night before Thanksgiving of the day before. How
are you doing, James, I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Doing pretty good. And yeah, teen of the scenario couve
Fit October thirty, first Halloween. Because it is h I
won't use the word spooky, but it's kind of hairy.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it's an eerie, eerie feeling. It's just a strange
And the leaves are flying like crazy, going everywhere. Yeah,
the wind.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
So so if you didn't what wrake your leaves in
your yard, don't.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Worry about or if you any leaves.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, I'm hoping mother nature. There were a lot of offers,
you know, folks are going around, Hey, I can pick
up your leaves, like rig up I said. You know,
I'm gonna let mother nature take care. I Am not
even gonna bother with trying to bag them up and
go into the uh going to the money and try
to pay it. Uh No, because by the time we
hit spring, you won't even see a leader gone. They'll
(03:15):
be gone.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah. Yeah, they just think, Yeah, they tend to disintegrate,
don't they.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They really do and for are they I'm not a
I'm not a good gardener or lawn person. Whatever are
they good for? I don't know what you call them? Fertilizer?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I I you know, I'm
blessed enough to have a place, you know, a single
family home, but I lived in apartments for for years
and years and years. But I mean growing up in
the Midwest, you know, you you experienced the four seasons
and uh so yeah so uh I when I got
(03:51):
a lawnmower, although we had lawmoards, I remember the hand
push lawnmoarers, but when I got a power lawnmower, I
generally didn't rake as much as I, you know, as
much as some people say you should do, or as
much as other people do, or as much as maybe
some people say I should have done. I just run
that lawnmower over it. And that what I call mulches.
(04:13):
Yeah yeah, mulch of the leaves, and it fertilizes the
lawn for next bring to me, because it puts those
leaf ingredients back on the ground and the winter weather,
you know, help them to soak in. So yeah, I
think that's a great idea to do that. Do it
that way.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, so James. Yeah, and you know what, done,
Consider it done. Consider it that nobody nobody not at
the household. No, I too, am fortunate enough to have
a single family, you know, home and a lot of
yard work, right. But but we get it done. We
get it done. Hey. You know what, speaking of yard
(04:51):
work you were talking about, you remembered what kind of
lawnmar were you talking. Were you talking about the the
old fashioned ones that had that cylinder like blade, Yeah,
that you pushed, Yeah, are familiar.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I pushed those for I mean, like young people go
around today and they knock on your door. You know,
they got to push power lawnmower, push gasolene engine lawnmower.
I did that with a hand, push lawnmower. Yeah. And
you know, and that was good exercise and stuff. You know,
back when when we were little, you know, kids children
(05:26):
and I don't like say it little children. And we
you know, we made us some Hamburger money, some Coca
Cola money. Uh. And sometimes we helped helped our families.
You know, we could help our families get with the
food bill. Uh. You know, a good way to get
to know your neighbors. But that that was that was
a way to uh for for for for young people
(05:50):
to learn how to work, you know what I'm saying,
to learn responsibility, to learn how to work and to
be uh you know, to be rewarded for the work
with pay. And it taught a good lesson I think
to individuals.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The work is never that is
never a problem in terms of teaching a lesson because
it does, it does, and valuable ones, ones you can
carry with you. It's it's called an ethic.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
People talk about your work ethic. And once you learn
an ethic, you don't forget it and it does carry
with you throughout life. So those are good lessons life
lessons to learn. I just I think those those lawnmowers
now are so to speak, are in museums. I've not seen.
There may be some people still around somewhere that still
(06:36):
use them. I know. My great my great grandfather had one.
I was fascinated with it when I was younger because
it wasn't motorized, you know, it was like, yeah, you
had that little sound.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
A neighbor of ours had one. I think I used
one once just to see what it was like a kid.
It's like heavy, Yes, very heavy. I thought it was,
but I I it was there more and it was.
They were older family and it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It wasn't from you.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Do you guys, do you guys want want any inkling
of the weather report or what?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well? What you got?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, you guys pretty yeah, yeah, you guys pretty much
said it cold and cloudy and a day inside basically,
you know, with the cooler temperatures, we're gonna have cooler temperatures.
And here's the kicker, strong winds today. Oh yeah, we've
(07:43):
got yeah, you feel that when you're out there, either
one of you. Yeah, So we've got to win advisory
and effect for central Indiana until seven o'clock this evening.
Winds will gradually diminish through the afternoon. Uh. It was
around thirty eight greeze as we came on the air today,
you guys, and temperature that was. Enjoy that because that's
(08:07):
that's gonna be the high. We'll be gradually dropping throughout
the rest of the day. Believe it or not. We
could see some some some spurts of snow flurries here
and there, uh today, but overall we'll have a cold, cloudy,
late fall day, on the day before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, somebody would Some friends of mine were talking
and I was, in fact, I was telling one of
our guests yesterday that I've got some some folks coming
in for Thanksgiving that we're a little concerned about the weather,
you know, traveling because they'll get here okay, but you
know going back, you know on Saturday or Sunday, snow,
(08:54):
possibility of snow. I've got some other friends this weekend. Yeah,
I got some other friends that they were going to spend,
you know, to spend some time with some family in Chicago,
in that Chicago area. Is it supposed to Yeah, so
I think that that they've been watching it for the
for the weather too, to see if there's going to
be in somewhere in our vicinity. I guess possibility of
(09:18):
accumulating snow, James, And if you heard that.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I did. I do possibly anticipate that
for the weekend. They're not quite sure on the on
the track of that yet, but we right now, right
kind of in the middle of it, that we could
get you know, some snow. And the further you go north,
(09:41):
the the heavier it would be, particularly up towards Chicago
and around the lake, the Great Lakes. So yeah, that
that's the possibility that we're still fine tuning that. But yeah,
that that is definitely a possibility.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
One of the things I've learned in terms of reading
between the lines and meteorologists slash forecasters say we're fine
tuning something and it's pretty close to the time when,
well it was today today is when Wednesday? Yeah? Good,
and so they're talking about twenty six Saturday or Sunday.
So yeah. Precipitation, especially frozen precipitation, is one of the
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hardest things to nail down. From what I've understood is
that is that your understanding.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Well, you've been TV for for many, many years, so
you walk worked right alongside some of the best some
of the best weather forecasters we do with the best equipment.
But even if you have the best equipment, a change
that when will shift that precipitation twenty thirty miles forty
fifty miles one way. And that's why they say it's
(10:54):
until you nail it down, because all of the instruments
and stuff can't really tell that tracked until maybe twenty
four to forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Out there were there were two folks that I watched
and I've you know, I've known Medira Alogis and you know,
and one of the best. She went on NASH. She
went on to be national Janice Huff. We worked together
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was very, very good. But there
are three though that I knew that did this. There
(11:24):
are several others I'm sure that do. But Janice, uh
back in the way back in the day. This is
taking you way back. Stand the weather man A Wish
and Randy Allis before every four before they went on
the air, every day, every single time they went outside
and looked at the sky really yes, and they they
(11:45):
would look because they said, despite all this equipment and
everything else, I can get an idea of how what
the equipment is saying syncs up with what I'm seeing.
And they always wanted to trust their their eyes. Yeah,
always did, always did.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Even and they had radar, you know, the satellite, you know, Doddler.
Doddler feel there's nothing that can replace the naked eye
looking at it with the naked eye.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's right, Randy, Randy swore by it. I don't know
if he got it from Stan or that was just
something Randy brought with him. Stan would always do it too.
They right before, Well, I wish you didn't have to
really go outside because they had these huge windows, window
from ceiling to floor windows and you could look. Now
they I guess at times they would go outside, but
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they could see what they needed to see right there.
What they could see was what the equipment didn't show them.
And sometimes yeah, sometimes they just said it just feels
good to look, just to take a look, see what.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, think about it, you know, Keane and Eric, why
do you think they send those hurricane hunter planes into
the into the eye of the of the hurricane and
so they can you know, so they can get right
close up and see the speed of the winds that
are circulating in that storm, and you know, the the
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amount of precipitation that it's producing and how fast it's moving.
Only close up can they get that. So instruments can tell.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You a lot.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
That's why you know everybody's AI AI. Hey, I'm just
gonna wait until AI is fully you know, uh implemented
and and what do they call it, uh developed and deployed.
I guess that's the word I'm looking for. Fully deployed
because that's when you will see the uh, the negatives
(13:43):
that you know, what it what it can't do, and
all this stuff about what it can people are putting
all their money and the stock market and AI. So
you know, we'll see how that shakes goes.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Always limitations, so always this this great new thing, always
a limitation.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Absolutely. I think you still need the human aspect you've
got to have.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
That's right, that's that's what. That's what, that's what you're
saying here. That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
AI is fine. I think AI is fine too as
an assist to assist, but I don't think it should
run everything. That's just that's a that's a slippery slope
that you can't come back up. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But you know, there there are youngsters, children of my
grandson's age and younger he's four, and I'm talking about
younger that that younger than him, who already they don't
know that they're using AI. But I saw one pick
up a phone and say hey Siri, X, Y and
Z or talking to you know, talking to a cell phone.
(14:40):
This is younger than him, who's he's four. Now he
he does it too, which is frightening it. But but
what I'm saying, is it's so integral to their world
as it is right now, as they're coming in more
and more and more into the world, uh, that I
don't know that they would know how to do without it.
Hey Sarah, Hey Siri, play a song, or hey sirih
(15:02):
I want to hear I want to hear Ferdinand. I
want to hear the soundtrack of ferd Yeah. Just and
the radio because it's it's hooked up, it'll play. It does.
And I'm like, well, why didn't I think of that?
Because here I am going on YouTube trying to find
YouTube playing it through, and he says, just, hey, Siri,
play Ferdinane and my car through my radio thing. It
(15:24):
plays soundtrack, Yeah, the Bull, you know the Bull. And
it is John Cena who narrated the story. I've never
watched fer Nan from start to finish, but I know
the soundtrack. But anyway, yeah, So I worry about them
not having the balance that we do and understanding the
difference and understanding that there has to be a balance
(15:45):
between man and machine. You have to have it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, you know, but that I saw a story in
Consumer Reports.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
It said that it's a new survey and this ties
in with I guess gen Z and texting. It said
that messaging scams have jumped in the past year, and
it might surprise all of us that gen Z is
getting hit the hardest because they're the ones who have
somewhat dependent on it more than we have, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, and so they have it, and reports of attempted
scams from gen z ors if tripled.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
How about that story you guys. Did you see that
about those guys that were caught robbing ATM machines?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
And Eric, did you see how they did it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I didn't see how they did it, but it was
what do they call it? I saw that story.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, they pulled up to an ATM tina and they
hooked up their software.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
They hooked.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Malware.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, well that's software. Yeah. They hooked up their computer
through I guess Wi Fi or whatever to the ATM
machine and then uploaded malware and then they were able
to uh cause the money to be dispersed, uh you know,
to them. Yeah. Yeah, So I mean wow, I mean
(17:19):
that that to me, that just kind of illustrates the
the dangers, the fallacies of all of this technology and
all of this Oh we got to get it faster
next year, corporation, we gotta get it faster. We got
to get it faster. And and what what are what
are the you know, possible pitfalls? What what's what's the
(17:42):
risks here? So that that you you got to think
that through. But a lot of companies who are profit driven,
and I'm not just trying to pile on corporations, but
they a lot of them don't really think things through.
They just are too worried about the bottom line today.
See what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Maybe wanting to be first with the technology that can
maybe be part of it too.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You think, yeah, well, however it translates, you know, into
finding because they yeah, they think they you know, they
act first and think later because they're chasing chasing that bag,
as the kids like to say, chasing the bag, and
they make a lot of mistakes doing that, a lot
of mistakes. So James uh and Eric, we were kind
(18:26):
of free flowing here, no scheduled guests, open lines, and
wee can review I guess so to speak, and maybe
even the week ahead because by the time we get back, boy,
we'll be in full swing. The lighting of the Christmas
tree will have taken place. Friday night, Friday night, Yeah,
after Friday after Thanksgiving, day after day after tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, and uh, just a just a whole bunch of things,
you know, just full full on into the season. So
we'll we'll see how that how that goes. But yeah,
I know, but but like I was saying, Eric and
I are just kind of there's you know, when you're moving. Yes,
there's there's a lot to it because we're gonna we're
(19:11):
gonna be doing kind of like a little hybrid type thing, right,
going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Back and forth, then here and there, and totally new equipment.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Totally new equipment. But it has to talk to each other,
and until it does, we're going to have to be
in different locations for a day or two, couple of
days exactly, which doesn't matter to anybody, but it's it's
kind of like, ah, so you won't be able.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
To see each other, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, I may as well work from home. Back in
the day, Remember how we used to you you weren't here,
but broadcast, James, wasn't it. We broadcast from home during
COVID for about a year, didn't we, James? Yeah, Yeah, yeah,
about a year.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And it just you know, we just did what needed
to be done and just kept that information pulling out.
So there were a little there are a few quirks
and little.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You know, I still have my I have my little
mini studio that Nick and John the engineer set me
up with. They sent home a little suitcase and here's
your access point. You know, hit one, boom, here's your mic.
You know, if all else fails, just call in. But
it worked out really really well, and I kept it.
(20:24):
I I mean, they said, well, just keep it because
you never know the next whatever might come and we
we all, you know, there could be a serious snowstorm,
it could be anything, and we still have to be
on the air. So I'm glad I have on air
capabilities at home in my office. So a little bitty.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, you got through it, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We got through it, and and we stand ready to
do it again if necessary.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yah.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I mean it shows that it can be done that way.
You know what shows that that hey, you you adapt,
you change, and you go forward and do your job.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah. So so we're gonna be doing a little bit
of that for the next couple of weeks, probably until
the end of the year, maybe by the first of
the year, everything will coalesce and come together as it should.
But until then, we're gonna Hey, we're gonna sold your on.
We are going to solder on. So James, Uh, let's
go back to the phone lines. We've got time today.
We've got time to talk to folks on the phone.
(21:22):
Three one seven for a zero thirteen ten, three one
seven for a zero thirteen ten.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Let's go to line one. Sam. That depends man, Sam,
Good afternoon, everybody, Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
How are you, brother, James? The weather man? Mid is
that's why stuff is coming down real fare down here,
mores Will.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Is that where you are?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, that's where I am.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
A few miles Sam's every man, south of Mary County,
but uh, not that.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So far because the outcast is that out past the airport.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Uh no, you know what I'm thinking, a craft airport
that way more.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So uh southwest?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Okay, southwest? Yeah? Yeah, and tell us why are you? Yeah?
I mean, are you out in the cold? You're not there?
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Yeah, I'm out here, you know, you know, I was.
I was doing some running around, right and I'm like, dude,
it's supposed to be boys. When do they do it
because we got so many people out here. These stores
are packing. Yeah, and I'm like, wait a minute, I
(22:32):
thought we supposed to be staying at home.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Maybe they didn't get the message.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
It amazing, okay, but I didn't want to say. I
don't let you guys know what is going on out here.
Oh yeah, the white stuff coming down, my fact, is
coming down right here at Washington and uh oh what
are the Washington and oh Ron the Reagan? Okay, yeah,
(23:03):
coming down, yeah, coming down. It must be coming. It
must be coming east because I just left the south
and I just left the west. They've got to be
going east coming down.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That's that's Hendricks County.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's up that way.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, so that's right next door. And like I said,
we you know, we will see some bursts of I'm
looking out the window and I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I was looking for it to do you say, I don't.
I don't see anything, Eric.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
I know it's coming your way, I believe is.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It coming, but usually it usually comes from west to
east right Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah, that's the way the wind is falling today.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Almost just say ninety ninety of our weather systems that
once in a while we'll get a rare uh a
rare opposite direction, but east west it is okay.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Look at y'all have what having Thanksgiving? And and uh
you don't shout too much and I see you next
time you get back. Oka. Damn, how did that?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Uh? How did that turn out? With the uh just
real quick? Uh Michelle Sanders, Uh, you were helping them out,
which was very.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Oh my god, it turned out better than what it
was because they needed now for one day, they needed
the U haul for two days, and so she called me.
She was worried about Uh, mister Jackson, I need a
two days quit work and miss moved then.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Okay, you can have it too days.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
So they still have it, okay, and they're supposed to
be turning it back in at four o'clock today.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
So so precious of you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
We really thank you. Thank you. Sam. You're you're kind,
You're far too kind, and we appreciate it. Thank you,
thank you?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
All right, all right? Thanks sure?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Uh three one seven for zero thirteen ten, three one
seven for zero thirteen ten. James, I want to get
back to that that blackout boycott as well, because Sam
reminded us that we need to remind everybody else Uh,
to to support each other in this in this this
way guy. Uh, the real debra? Go ahead? How are you.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Hey? Good afternoon, mister mister James, mister Eric. How are
you guys doing the real debra? I'm I am, well
it's in here cutting onions. I wanted to comment about
the at M. I went to my bank about a
(25:31):
week ago, uh, maybe a little bit over a week
and it kept I put my pen, I put my
card in, and I put the pin number in and
it kept saying wrong pin, wrong pin. So so I
went to the other one and uh on which is
on the inside, and I noticed there was a police
(25:54):
officer there and he had his lights on something. Okay,
I I rolle my went no down and I asked him.
I said, are you here for the ATM? He said no,
it's something worse than that. So I'm thinking, oh, lord,
(26:14):
you know, I don't know since he's there. When I
put my card in, you have to put your card
in for the door to open up, said, and uh,
you know. I got in, and so the staff were
coming outside and I said, what's going on with the
ATM and the and the manager? I asked her was
(26:37):
she the manager? She said, yeah, she.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Said, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
I said, well, when you when I put my card
in and I put my pin number in, it says
it's the wrong pin and it kept saying that. She said, huh.
She said, well, let's let me go out and let
me look at it. Well, the ATM that's inside, uh
and before you get in the bank. It took my
p But I just want to let y'all know, be
(27:02):
careful because there, you know, I don't know how people
have enough time with that camera there to do what
I saw those those four guys. Yeah on the news,
but just be careful. You know, if you have to
go inside the credit union or the bank and if
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you have to have them give you your money, that way,
it's a lot more safer. I just don't trust the
ATM anymore at all. And so when the police said
he's there for something much worse than that, well, heck
you out here and I'm armed, So I'm not really
concerned about I need to get my money, so I'm
(27:45):
not you know, I'm not if you're there and this
few other people there. I just wanted to get my
money and go. But yeah, be very very very very careful.
I would just go inside and you know, do with
the old fashioned way with the withdrawal slip, if you know.
But who has time for that? But that's what I
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would do.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's what we have time for it. We just have
to make time for it. We had time for it
before we had we didn't before we didn't have time
for it, we had time for it.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yeah, APM is.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Kind of kind of wacky, you know, especially in today's world.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
So just be careful.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Because I didn't see anything on the news, but of course,
you know, you really probably won't see much about that
on the news, but you know, and I'm gonna put
it out there. It was PNC, So I just want
everybody to know that PNC is uh was had some
(28:44):
some wacky d going on at the ATM. But I
I'm a member of Credit Union as well, and so
you have to be careful there too. It doesn't matter.
So I just wanted to let y'all know that, please
have a blessed Thanksgiving. If you're traveling, be saved. It's
not every it's not it's not you, it's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So are you are you going to be home for
the Thanksgiving holiday?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I'm in here, I'm I'm I'm actually cutting onions right now,
trying not to cry.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You're making your Are you making your dressing? Cutting up
your onions for your dressing?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Yeah, I'm cutting up my vegetables because what I want
to do is just make everything, put in the refrigerator
and then just bake it. So the potato salad and
the I'm I'm doing chicken and dressing because my turkey
has not thought and I doubt if it's going to
be thought.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Uh oh you know.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
It's yeah, yeah, it's it's a big turkey, and so
it's not thought. I had some chicken. So I'm just
gonna do chicken and dressing and let that, you know,
and do a few other things, uh the chicken and
dress and a sweet potato, you know, stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Like yeah, I mean, you know, you don't have to
have turkey every time. Oh, but but.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know how to have things go. You want a turkey,
But I'm just gonna cut it up. I'm going to
smoke it and I'll have that turkey probably for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
If it's God's will.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
You guys are happy Thanksgiving, Please be safe, be blessed,
and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Love, y'all love you to thank you to you. All right,
all right, We're gonna take a break here and be
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Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
And we're back with Community Connection on this Thanksgiving Eve.
We're live tomorrow and Friday, we won't be you'll hear,
you'll hear music, and then we're back live on Monday.
Just wanted to make sure you had that programming note.
We were talking about shopping and James, you want to
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remind everyone about the boycott that has been called for
this Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Absolutely, Tina, because it has expanded, and the reason it
has expanded because several groups have joined together have banded
together and they sort of coalesced around this statement, we
ain't buying it. In fact, we ain't buying it. Uh
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w E e I n T b U y I
n g I T is a website. We buying it
dot com Tina. People can go that. And what they're
asking for really is a targeted kind of So so
let me listen, listen, hear me out. It's a targeted boycott.
They're targeting Target, Home Depot, Amazon, and Amazon. And Amazon
(32:25):
does a whole lot of business over this time, and
in fact, all three of those do. And the reasons
that they're targeting of each each one, there's a reason
for each one, and they listed it. And remember we
had mentioned this earlier about the blackout. So they joined
with blackout groups, uh, minority groups, black and brown groups
(32:50):
in in the we Ain't buying it group and also
the no Kings Day group. They all joined together. Okay,
So the reason that they are not going to encouraging
people not to buy from Target is because Target rolled
back its DEI initiatives. So that's good. Good for black
people who this administration, I think and brown people especially
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has made war on and for Amazon for donating one
million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund. And also Home Depot
because the US Department of Homeland Security said Home Depot
is they notify Home Depot and Home Depot is working
(33:37):
with Well, the US Department of Homeland Security denies it,
but people who are looking at it say, Home Depot
is working in tandem with ICE and you know other
security agencies in their immigration pushed. I mean, they are
arresting people in Home Depot parking lots, even on their property.
So that's why those three target Amazon Home people. From
(34:00):
when Tina from beginning to well actually, uh, the one
group started on the twenty fifth, but it's officially beginning
tomorrow through Cyber Monday. And here's what they encourage people
instead to spend their money at small local businesses to
spread the word about the boy and to spread the
(34:21):
word and to spread the word about the boycott. So
there's where we.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Are, alrighty, there's where we are speaking of shopping. You
and I we ran into each other in the grocery store.
You were seriously getting down to James was getting down Eric.
He was doing it Greens in the past, he had
he had his colleagues in his in his shopping cart,
and he was he had those coupons working. I had
(34:49):
left mine over the visor in the car because I
had only come in to get one or two things.
When I do the shopping like James was doing, I
do the same thing he does. This was at Kroger.
I do the same thing. I have the the little
envelope and I have all of those, and I think,
what is it your algorithm or what have you? They get?
They know what you buy and dig digital in the
(35:11):
printed ones, and so they tend to give you discounts
on what you tend to frequently buy.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Absolutely, And that's the algorithm you were talking about. And
they I got that from the from the printed coupons,
that part, but the digital too, they kind of you
know that I don't get everything that I shop for.
But yeah, go ahead with your story.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That was talk. We were just talking comparing notes and uh,
you know, talking about how to cook certain you know,
just just doing it.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
He was.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
He was good.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
So, James, are you a super shopper?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Let me just say I try to shop uh in
uh smartly and intelligently and you know or deals, I mean,
you know, just like moms all over this city this county,
this state, this looking for deals, not only moms, but
in my case, dads too, looking for deals in the
(36:04):
midst of this, this tariff fiasco, in the the affordability fiasco,
and it's a man made and we all know who
did it created problem that. So I'm trying to get
the best value for the dollar, is what I'm trying
to do with you.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah. So yeah, but it was it was fun, you know,
it is fun. I I'm pretty much done with everything
I need to have. Are you done with your shopping?
You guys don't.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yeah, And I'm not like a real debris yet. I'm
not cutting onions yet, but that may come. Yeah, I'm
pretty much done with it. And I was so happy
to see you know, they're getting prepared for that Mobil
Sanders Thanksgiving Giving giveaway. You and Eric have done so
(36:58):
much to support that this year at the WTLC. And also,
you know, I saw some other organizations black Firefighters, the Colts,
the patters given away food. I mean, that's what it's
all about, the Urban League, I mean giving away food.
I mean, you know, we've got to come together because
(37:19):
we've got lots of work to do to protect the games.
That we've made.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah. Yeah, and boy, if there was ever a time
to open your heart and give, the time is yeah,
right now. The time is absolutely now. So there was
somebody sent me a text message that there was a
turkey givet Oh No, no, it wasn't a text message.
It was it was a post that I was reading.
(37:47):
I believe that one of our guests from a couple
of days ago, Larry Smith, the CEO of the Father
and Family Center, and he was talking to somebody was
giving away turkeys and he was saying that the line
was four blocks long. Oh my god, wow, I think
that was on LinkedIn, Larry. If I'm not mistaken, I
think it was on LinkedIn.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I mean our twenty five dollars and up thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Up, aren't they? Crazy? Crazy?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Crazy, crazy government shut down where people couldn't even get
their snap benefits supplemental supplemental nutritional assistance program, you know
for food. I mean they couldn't get it. And they
our friend up there in the White House went to
(38:30):
the Supreme Court when states were going to give the
You know, I don't want to go off on a tangent.
It's a day before giving, but you know, what he did.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I know, I don't even want to go into because
every it's like a hurricane. You know who was that
little character on Charlie Brown comic strips from years, you know,
years ago, did everywhere he went to just a swirl
what was his name, pig Van, Big Van, just a
little tar. Everywhere pig Pin went there was just a
(39:02):
swirl of miss.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I was also thinking of the Tasmanian Devil.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah that was that was another comic strip, but this
was this was a pig Pen. He just looked like
a little tornadoes around him everywhere he went. And you know,
let we'll give everybody a break because guess what. Tomorrow
there's gonna be more Trump mess. The day after that
is gonna be more mess. The day after it's mess, mess, mess, mess,
mess every single day.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Ye so, and we have to keep our close eye
on it because, like I said, I think you know
those Epstein files. They voted almost unanimously. There was one
novo in the House of Representatives, the Senate in the
Congress voted unanimously to release the I mean, that's it's
a law.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Now.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
They are within that thirty day window, the thirty day
limit where Pam BONDI there turned has to release that.
So to me, that's what he's most fearful of because
he fought it so much, Tean Eric. And so I
think that anything that he does from you know, sending
(40:06):
the military the seventh Fleet or not seven fleet, but
the the UH Navy UH carrier battle group off the
coast of Venezuela, uh, you know, trying to bully Ukraine,
inst accepting accepting outrageous terms, uh, basically a surrender to Russia,
to uh, you know, a bullying uh even Indiana state
(40:32):
legislators to try to vote his way. I mean, everything
that he's doing is trying to take attention off of that.
So he will become more erratic, I predict. And so
that's why we have to keep an eye on him.
But for for God's sake, like you said, Tina, can
we breathe for one day? Right?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Absolutely, I'm all about breathing about. Let's go back to
the phone line three one, seven, eight, zero thirteen ten. Joe,
go ahead, How are you, Joe?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
You guys doing doing great, doing great? I wish you
guys a happy holiday. Talking about cooking earlier and uh, yesterday,
my grandson's helped. Uh, my wife and I get all
of my collar greens out from our garden.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Wow, it kind of late. They didn't hurt them. THEA
hasn't heard them.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
You leave your collar greens out there because you want
remember that real hard freezer we had.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah, they were.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
They were laying all over and my wife said, they're dead,
my turnip greens. They were laying all over, but when
that warm weather came, they popped back up and said, hello, Joe,
we're here.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
When you leave them out, uh, and they hit that
that heavy frost, it sweetens up the greens and they
become more tender, and you can even tell the difference
in the flavor. So you leave them out until Yeah,
you leave them out until they freeze. I just got
them in yesterday because of the weather, the wind and
(42:13):
everything that was plumbing. So I put them out in
my garage. And this morning my wife and I got
up and uh, we picked greens and wars greens. So
I'm ready to I'm ready to cook greens and getting
ready to make some of my famous Joe's yam pies.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Wow, potato pies, potato pie and a yam pie.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
You do know the difference between a yam and the
sweet potato, right, remember this yam above, sweet potato below.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Okay, okay, and what that means.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Sweet potatoes grow below the ground. Yams grow on a bush.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Oh, so is there better?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Is there better of the two?
Speaker 4 (43:07):
They are similar in taste. But you guys, have you
ever had like a white sweet potato?
Speaker 2 (43:16):
No, I've heard of them.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
No I have it.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
You know, you guys need to sometimes taste. They got
the yellow ones, the gold ones, then they got the
white ones, and we go down to Mississippi and we
get them at the sweet potato farm and we buy
white sweet potatoes. Uh uh uh. And also the yams.
(43:41):
I'm not the yams, but the yellows in red sweet potatoes.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
So I thought that they always thought they were the
same thing, just different. They were just called different things
interchangeably yam sweet potatoes. But I guess not, No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
They taste different. I mean it's just like a collar.
You can get a vat, which is a large leave,
or you can get a Georgia southern. And then they
got another and they all row differently and have a
little bit of a different taste. Have you ever heard
of a rape green or ape. It's actually a mix
(44:20):
between a turnip and a collar and it doesn't boat
when a turnip and it gets warmer. Turnip with boat
and go to steeds. It will keep growing like a
collared green and then it will give you but the
flavor of it is totally different. But it gives you
(44:40):
a dark green leaf. And they grow them down south
a lot. And I used to get the seas and
grow them here, but they're hard to find anymore.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Yo, you are quite a culinary expert.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Me not the expert. But James, I'll tell you something.
One thing you said that my daddy taught me a
long time ago. What did you say? Going around and
getting them making a little bit of money makes you
do it makes you learn how to work.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
Yeah, learned response and how to work. Yeah he does.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
Yeah. Yeah. And my daddy at a young age used
to get me up and help and break up those
clods and help plant this food for the family. Now
he did the weeding, but I helped him with with
with the garden, and he taught me how to do that.
(45:40):
He did. And he told me, if you grow your
own food and you got some uh uh, if you
got a fishing pole. Fish and grits will fill your
belly up.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Uh, that's true. That's true, a tall.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
Part of it.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, so what are you gonna real quick do with
the yams again? You're gonna make make up?
Speaker 4 (46:08):
I make, Yeah, I make pies out of them, just
like sweet potatoes. I've already made for sweet potato pies.
I've made those, and I'm gonna make two yam pies.
And I've got some uh liquor. I'm getting ready to
make some homemade vanilla extract.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Okay, now now it's really tall cotton.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm gonna make a couple. I'm gonna make a couple
of bottles, a few bottles out of bourbon and a
few bottles out of a good vodka and let them
set for about four or five months in vanilla beans,
Madagascar vanilla beans.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
And this so you need to write a book. Yeah,
I'm gonna say most of that knowledge.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
And yeah, well, but it was a group of people.
But one of my famous recipes is Georgia peach ice cream,
where you don't feel the peaches and it will knock
your socks off. And I heard you say something, Tina
(47:23):
yesterday about something that slap your mama, chittens.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Not slap your mama, but Aunt Bessie's.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
What was that somebody?
Speaker 2 (47:39):
I said, I would kick a butt if somebody puts
a red bucket of Chickling's in front of me, I'm
kicking the bucket. I ain't doing it.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Talking to him, you said something about sweet poteato pie.
H they just haven't they were.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Talking about Somebody asked which was which did I prefer pumpkin?
And I said I had to say pumpkin because I've
never had a good sweet potato pie.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
And then you guys talked about Patty and label too.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Let me tell you this, riding on the Tina, I
can bring a sweet potato pride down there that will
make you smack your mommy.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Okay, hey, she knows too. Okay, don't forget that.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
I do know James's address.
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yes, great, great, Thanks. Say a prayer for our Lawrence
Mayor because she's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Okay, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Prayer for you guys to have a good Thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you. And uh speaking
of saying a prayer and good words over the holiday,
Tomorrow is Thursday, and normally we have our Thursday sports
segment with the Indianapolis Recorders. Danny Bridges, he's a sports
writer for the Recorder, in case she didn't know, and
(49:02):
he visits with us when he can on Thursday afternoons.
But he sent me a beautiful text and I'm going
to read some parts of it to you. I mean,
it's just nice. It says tomorrow is about giving thanks.
I'm very thankful for everything you've done for me, and
very thankful for the opportunity. This is the most important part.
Very thankful for the opportunity to connect with listeners. Have
(49:24):
a great thanksgiving Danny Bridges. So he truly looks forward
to connecting with you out there. He looks forward to
the discussions where everybody doesn't agree, because you know Danny,
Danny likes to stir the pot. And so that was
so very nice. He didn't have to do that. That
was so very nice him. So we thank you, We
(49:45):
thank we thank for you. We're thankful for you as well, Danny,
because you bring, you bring something different every every time
you come. And even though we don't know a whole
lot about racing, and you love it, you're teaching us
so nothing I know nothing about raising, but I think
I know a little bit more now thanks to you,
and I'm very grateful for that. So thank you, Danny,
thank you, thank you, thank you. So appreciate that. But James,
(50:08):
you got all those greens and everything ready to go.
Speaker 5 (50:10):
Yeah, hey, there, washed and cut and ready to go.
So I hope that you and Eric have a wonderful
time off and Thanksgiving holiday and beyond.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Same to you, James, Same to you and Eric, the
same wishes to you and your family. Yeah, thank you,
thank you. We're like I said, we had a little
bit of a shortened show today, but we got in
here and I appreciate you being here with us too. James.
We'll be back on Monday, starting a new month, a
new week, and a new month and the final month
(50:44):
of the year, and we're gonna we're gonna close it
out strong. We're gonna close it out strong. It's been
a good one and an even better one is coming up,
so we're looking forward to that. So we will talk
to everybody next week again. Be safe, be well, Thank
you for listening. Williamore Junior on the radio is up next.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
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