Community Connection With Tina Cosby December 18th 2025 | Sports Highlights, Health Updates, and Local Issues - Community Connection With Tina Cosby

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And good afternoon, and welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosby.
Today is Thursday, December the eighteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
As we've been telling you all week.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Eric Garns is on vacation, and the magnificent B Swift
from our Sister's Season one hundred point nine is here
with us on the board.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Swift. How's it been going so far?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's been cool.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
It's not bad day, little rain, and you know, it's
not as cold as it's been all week, so I'm
excited it. It felt so good yesterday and this morning
walking out the house and seeing the snow was melted
and the sun was shining.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I can do with the rain.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I can deal with it too, as long as you
don't have to stand out in it. Yeah, rain, I
said it so.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Many times here.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
The rain is the worst.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I remember when I used to have to do reports,
you know sometimes when they'd send reporters out and tell
you to tell the public don't come out because it's dangerous.
But they send us out there, right.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
One of the worst conditions I did.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I didn't necessarily mind the cold so bad, and even
the snow it was a dry whatever kind of snow,
but the rain, you just could not get comfortable because
it just kind of soaks in and just just hangs
on you.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So I don't I love the rain as long as
I don't have to be out in it.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm not mad at that.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
On our show today, our sports guy with the Indianapolis Recorder,
Danny Bridges, he's gonna stop by one more time before
the start of the new year. By the end of
this year, this will be Danny's last show of twenty six,
twenty six, Okay, Tina, clear your mind, one thought at
a time, his last show of twenty twenty five. As
we head into twenty twenty six, he'll no doubt have

(01:35):
all the latest on the local sports scene, as well
as what he thinks was the local sports.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Story of the year. Have you ever thought of that?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I mean, you're you're really ooh, you're really in that
in that lane, You're in that culture, You're in that
environment all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
And that's a good one. I think it's got to
be between it has to be. It has got to
be colts related. I feel like coaches. Yeah, I mean
when you look at and you look at what they've
done this year, I mean from it's got to be
that from from grabbing old man rivers to Daniel Jones

(02:12):
Indiana Jones putting on the way people.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not anybody expected.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Nobody expected Daniel Jones to come out and have the
season he had with the coach. Everybody was, oh, that
was stupid while we signed him, what about ar and
that man took us on like an eight and four
record before breaking his little leg or tearing it whatever,
he messed up.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
But he broke one leg and toward the Achilles on
the other.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
That's crazy. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's about as bad as remember when the Fever were
in the playoffs and Kelsey Mitchell her body just lost up.
I mean she didn't get a cramp or her whole
body cramped.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, No, that was serious. So yeah, I feel like
it's the sports story gotta be. To me, it's probably
Coats related. I would think, I think passed so coach
related still stays with with coach.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That stays with the coach.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
His daughter took over, making history not necessarily the first
females to be the owners. But that's a that's a
trio there. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Danny chees.
Danny is a huge, huge racing enthusiast. Uh and our
listeners let him know about that a lot of times
because they don't always follow motorsports. But he may think

(03:22):
of something along the lines of Bubba Wallace.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, that might. I don't know if that's the sports
story of the year, because.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Maybe maybe Michael and them beating NASCAR in court, Yeah,
that could be it.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
He got a lot of ways he can go.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
He does, he does.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
There's a lot of things he can pick and choose from.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
So I think he's gonna work. He's gonna work motorsports
in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
That is Danny. Also, today we're still getting did we
do its like a gesture? We got to today? That's
what I thought.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
And you know when it hits me because so if
sometimes we get so involved in the conversations and then
losing track of time, and we were trying to troubleshoot
some issues yesterday that we totally totally got off track.
So guess what you all get to benefit from that
because we're going to give away two sets of tickets

(04:16):
to the David and Tamala Man Love and Relationship Tour.
The tour starts in April of twenty twenty six and
they're going to be here close to the end of
the month, so we're going to get a fairly fresh,
you know, a fairly fresh production because they're just starting
they're just starting out in April, and ours is going
to be April twenty ninth at the old National Center.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
The over there at the marath Theater. Do you ever
go over there much?

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Well?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I love it, Yeah, I'm over there all the time.
I was just there.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Gucci Man had a symphony show. Oh yeah, yeah, he
came in the symphony. Some members from the orchestra performed
with him. He had Indianapolis's own trap Orchestra, which was
about twenty twenty five members that played behind him with
the string section and the full band.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
So it was really good. It was really fun time.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I was gonna say, how'd that go?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Really good to see young Indianapolis dressed up in tuxes
and gowns.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
It was. It was a really good show. I really
enjoyed it.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
Well.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Swift to make.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Sure that we do not do not make the same
mistake we did yesterday.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I did. I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'll take it now.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Will makes like you say, we got caught up in
good convo yesterday and the Alvin and the Chipmunk effect,
and we are.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Keeping our fingers crossed that it's not gonna repeat itself today.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
So let's just go ahead and give away a pair
right off the time. You can do that, right, You
want to pick.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
A number, which caller, Let's go six.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Caller number six. Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
If you are the sixth caller to the number three
one seven for a zero thirteen ten, you will win
a pair of tickets to the David and Tamala Man
Love and Relationship Tour. Everybody, most of y'all know, most
of us know. We know who David and Tamala Man are.
If you have ever seen anything that Tyler Perry has
put on TV or stage, know who David and Tamil

(06:02):
mister Brown.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
But I think I told you this before. We all
know people.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
That dress like that, and most of them, not most,
not all, but a lot of them and are family.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I had a couple of great uncles that that reminds
me of, and that's why I think I love the character.
I could just be like, oh, right there, my great
uncle Ralph.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
So yeah, but there were some uncles.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
These were not necessarily uncles, but they were such good
friends and my fathers that they were uncles, and they
thought that you couldn't tell them they wasn't fly with
their little stendy brim hats and stuff that didn't make
no sense.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
And I know somebody like that, I'm not gonna college
name because he might be listening and the call my
dad like.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
What's wrong with your son? Okay, let's give them a reminder.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
If you're listening via the the app to make sure
or the web if it, if it pauses gives you
a loop, just hit play again and it should automatically reset.
I think they're working on that problem, so we might
not have it today, but just in case, just in case,
if you are, just do that and you should be
very good. So just a reminder. If you happen to

(07:14):
catch us and we're looping and looping and looping and looping,
just hit play again and it should work perfectly fine.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Just keep working with us, you know. And that's a
great reminder. I'm glad you had that. Well, Hey, if
you're the sixth caller, you're gonna win the ticket. Swift
is gonna work the phones right now. I just wanted
to share with everyone a quick public health and safety
update for you. This is coming from the Marion County
Public Health Department, and they say, actually, this is hot

(07:42):
off the presses, so to speak. So what they're saying is,
in response to a steady increase in flu activity and RSV,
hospitals in Marion County are making plans to begin temporary
restrictions for visitors. So again in Indianapolis and Marion County

(08:03):
are in the process of putting plans together to start
temporary visitor restrictions. The Health department goes on to say,
influenza like illness reported by patients at hospital er departments
in Marion County is on the rise, with the highest
activity among infants and children in the zero to seventeen

(08:25):
age groups.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
So that really is alarming.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
With the highest increase infants in children ages zero to
age seventeen, RSV activity is the highest.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
In the zero to four age group. So the flu
zero to.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Seventeen age group RSV the highest in the zero two
four age groups. So please be aware and be diligent
about not spreading germs, keeping your hands clean.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Just all kinds of the usual.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
The usual, just the usual, absolutely, And the chief Meta
Officer and the director of the Marion County Public Health
Department Doctor Virginia Kane is making the request as part
of a patient visitor policy of the Indianapolis Coalition or
Patient Safety to help protect hospital patients and staff. It
says here, hospitals in Marion County are going to start

(09:17):
the temporary visitor restrictions during the week of December twenty second,
twenty twenty five. Those hospitals include, let me get to
no visitors. Oh well, the restrictions include okay, all of
the hospitals in the county. So what they're saying is

(09:37):
the restrictions include no visitors with symptoms of illness such
as sudden onset fever, cough, headache, muscle joint pain, sore throat,
and running nose. No visitors under the age of eighteen.
Some facilities may allow younger visitors or make exceptions to
visitor restrictions based on specific circumstances, and we kind of
know what those are. Visitors should check the hospital's website

(09:59):
or call in advance to learn more about the specific
restrictions that each individual hospital. Any exceptions when visitor restrictions
will begin that hospital will also be posted.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So let's see here it is the County.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Hospitals participating in the temporary visitor restrictions include those within
the Community Health Network, Franciscan Health, Indianapolis Ascension, Saint Vincent,
Indiana University, are You Health, and Sydney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital.
So this is going to start next week. Looks like,
all right, next week?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do we have a winner yet?

Speaker 8 (10:34):
Do?

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yes? We do.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
We bring them to the line.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hello up, hold on, I got to get him on
the right thing. There we go, Hello, Hello, Hey, what's
your name?

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, listen, we want you to know that you are
collared number six today.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Good graduates. Is Connie. I'm sorry, I said, congratulations.

Speaker 9 (11:05):
Oh, thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
How'd you do it? How did you did you get
in on the first time?

Speaker 8 (11:13):
No third time?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Ringing and ringing and ringing.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
And I said, I'm just hold and wait. Okay, that
was pretty pretty slip, pretty smart strategy.

Speaker 10 (11:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I've had some people tell me that they keep two phones,
or they'll call two phones, just keep it on speed dial.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Mm hmm. This one guy told me, he said, I
used to wear y'all out of tels.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
He said, I would get the I would just do
two phones, and I would just keep it on speed.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dial until I kept winning.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
But the other thing is now, I don't think people
can do that as much because the computer will kick
you out if you've won within the last thirty days.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is that right? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, pardon, that's not
a problem. Huh problem with me, not at all? That So,
so who are you going to take with you to
the show?

Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh haven't signed?

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, probably my daughter?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Okay, okay, that's you know, Christmas is yet to come,
so that might be a nice Christmas gift for somebody.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, Well it's gonna be my birthday in April.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So oh oh, that would be.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Nice to go to for my birthday.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Merry Christmas and happy birthdays.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, congratulations, congratulations Connie.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Thank you so much for listening. We are happy for you.
I hope you enjoy the show. Whoever you take with you, Yes,
I'm trouble.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
All right, Okay, you stay on the line, Connie. I'm
gonna get some information from.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
You, okay, all right, alrighty.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Congratulations again to Connie, who said it took her three times,
but she made it in and she was the sixth
caller two three one seven, four, eight, zero, thirteen ten.
We got another pair to give away today, so stay tuned.
If you didn't get in this time, you will be
able to get in maybe the next time. We might
do it again in an hour, we might do it
last hour. We got to figure out when we can

(13:02):
work it in, but we will get it in today.
We're going to get two ends today. That's one, got
one more to go. But again, just wanted to if
you are just tuning in. We just got a you know,
a notification and alert from Mary County Public Health Department.
The director and Chief Medical Officer, doctor Virginia Kane, is
going to start requesting visitor restrictions at all county hospitals,

(13:28):
including Community Health Network, Franciscan Health, Indianapolis Ascension, Saint Vincent,
Indiana University Health, and Sydney and Lois Escanazi Hospital. Doctor
Caine says that there basically has been a spike in
flu like illnesses and RSV and they want to get

(13:48):
that under control.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
The biggest group, the biggest age group with.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Influenza appears right now to be the zero to seventeen
year old age group. ARESVAC is the highest in the
zero to four age group. Again, this is according to
Marin County Public Health Department and these are the numbers
for Indianapolis and mary In County. So the visitor restrictions

(14:13):
are expected to go into effect starting on Monday next week,
December twenty second, and the restrictions include you can't visit
with symptoms of illness, sudden onset fever, cough, headache, muscle
joint pain, sore throat, and running nose. No visitors under
the age of eighteen unless special circumstances allow, and visitors

(14:38):
need again to check their hospital's website called the Facility
in advance to learn more about their specific restrictions. Maybe
I didn't see masking here, but given the fact that
the Marin County Health Department is taking these precautions, it
might not be a bad idea to mask up anyway.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
If you're going into a.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hospital to visit someone, I think that pretty much.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I just do it. As a matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
If I'm going into a hospital, I always wear a mask,
whether there's an alert out or not, because, let's face it,
I mean, there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
That He's the truth. A lot of germs are in hospitals.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
As soon as you walk in, as soon as I
walk in the emergency room or the entrance, I feel
like I done got attacked by germs.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Just me.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Do you automatically put on a mask?

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yes, if I got one, I putting one on before
I even walk through the door.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yep, I keep one.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
I feel like it's just a German fested area, unfortunately.
I mean it's the hospital, right, Yeah, so I just
I definitely feel like that.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do you get catch colds and stuffy?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
I can't remember if I do or not.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, you know what I know you Well, you've got
a little one too.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Since my grandson's been here, I have caught more colds
and sniffles because he gets it and he's done with
it in two days.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, and then it's on us for two weeks, like exactly.
My I have a nephew. He has to be like
eight months and he when I went to see him
the other day, he was sick.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
I wouldn't pick him up. I'm not touching. Your germs
are terrible, like Germany germs are bad.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
But the babies, Yeah, their germs will knock you down. Well,
I don't want no baby cold.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
She's older, so she's you're right, you're right, he see
my my grandson's four.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, those codes are kind of you used to him.
But the baby when they get you sick, they get
you sick, get you sick. Yeah, I mad to like
you know arms, I'm like, no, leave me alone brow.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Today today, Uncle to see you later. Indeed.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Uh, you know you were talking about the warmer weather
and the one thing I wanted to uh to bring up.
And I know this is probably gonna get some folks going,
but the potholes. Uh you yeah, you haven't been on
the show, you know, Swift.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I had to buy three brand new tires this this year.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
You just said three because I'm a seven seven seven
and three realms.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
No, rock Otto loves me.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I bet they do.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Rocato loves me. So shout out to whoever ain't fixing
them potholes. And I like DPW. I try to always
give them they props. But there's potholes on the highway
side streets, main streets, getting on the highway, getting off
the highway, on the side of the highway, on the curve,
there's a pothole. The parking lot is a pothole. Wherever
you go, it's a pothole. It needs to be a
doctor Seus's book.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I've always said that whoever runs the city of Indianapolis,
if they would to point a potholes, are somebody whose
job is to do nothing but look after potholes. Do
you know, have them filled? Take where they are? Just
their whole job every day, all day is potholes. But
here's what happened to me the other day. And I
was I just dropped my head because I knew that

(17:42):
the tire was just gonna go boom. But I got
lolled to sleep because you could tell that the surface
had been resurfaced, that they look good. Everything looked really
really nice. And then all of a sudden I hit boom.
And I mean it, it felt like I had just
gone into another one and I could just almost hear
the air coming out of it half but it didn't.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
But I got see that's that's the other part about it.
You get LOLd of sleep because it looked good.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Now some of those areas where it just looks like,
I don't even know what you call it, it just
a little horrible that you know, No, you gotta go
around here and there and everywhere. But they have fixed
a lot of areas, they've resurfaced, they've made it look nice,
and then all of a sudden, you hit a pothole.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
It's like you can't win.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Like you said, you hit that pothole so hard. You
just know. I hit one to day.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I just I knew I was gonna be late to work.
I'm like, oh, it's I'm just gonna wait for it
because it's coming. But it didn't happen, but I was
waiting for it to go blol.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Do you hit yours in the dark, daylight.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Or it doesn't matter. Can't see them regardless day or night. Yeah,
they're terrible.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I've the ones that I've hit have been two times.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Two of the two of them were in the rain
when I couldn't see, and then one was.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
One was kind of dusk like I still couldn't see.

Speaker 10 (18:58):
But.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Anywhere.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Just wanted to let everyone know, please, please, please be
careful with the potholes because they are they're back, and
with the weather being warmer and now the snow, the
contraction it extract country. You know, basically, they go out,
it comes in, you know, uh, and that is a

(19:22):
danger and so I know we have talked about it.
I don't know how many times. But yeah, so there
there it is, and the Mayor's Action Center.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
They can hire me to be the potholes are I
would be. I would take pride in their job and
make my crew take a picture every time we put
some potholes up because it's a lot. But I'm just
gonna tell you it's gonna be. It's gonna take time
because it's a lot of pitholes. It's more potholes than
it is crew members. Yeah, so just be patient with us.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
We're gonna fill them.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
We've we've tried to look into it so many times
and it's just like, well, it's the money, it's the staff, this.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
And so that.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I will say that this the the state Department keeps
our highways and roads a lot neater.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
But I can tell them where a couple of potholes
and chunks are, Yeah, I can right in the middle.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're like, wow, well anyway, don't Like I said, it's
it's the warm. The weather's warmer, and so there's going
to be more potholes now.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Absolutely, it was cold.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
It was extremely cold. It was sub zero cold. And
now it's going to be warm, almost like spring like warm.
So you know what's going to happen, so be careful
out there.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
I've got Victoria on the phone.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh Victoria, you have Victoria, Victoria, go ahead, how are you?

Speaker 9 (20:39):
I'm truly blessed.

Speaker 8 (20:40):
And whenever I make it out, I mean I think
I'm supposed to be making it out tostfully this.

Speaker 9 (20:46):
Weekend to go home.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
But before I just want to say thank you, Tina,
and you out for everything.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
And yes, I made it down to the church.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Just about to ask if you made it into well
they said there were a whole one for you anyway,
so you were good.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
You were good.

Speaker 9 (21:02):
Yeah, two girl, they helped too.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
Okay, Ah, the fileholes are terrible even I'm going up
Allisonville now going.

Speaker 9 (21:10):
Towards Noblesville, and they're miracles. Tinda. All have a very
important question, ask you, because even if I can hear
you all through the day.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Or not, once I get there, I know what time
you hit this station at.

Speaker 9 (21:25):
One o'clock every day.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
But my thing is I have a great nephew and yesterday,
before I went to pick up the boxes, I had
got a call from my niece saying she needed to
go pick him up from school and take him to
the hospital. Came when I didn't know about it, but
I went and I sat there with him, and to

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make a long story short, he was playing in the
classroom and him and some little boy was playing and
the boy pushed him down, which separated his index and
his middle finger.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Well, these kids came from Chicago.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
Him and his little brother. They went there for the summer.
They came home in.

Speaker 9 (22:06):
The middle of school year.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
And he's in the area of thirty six in Brows
as well as going to the little school down there
by the Baltimore Apartment. So today when I got up,
she had called me and she videoed me with my
great baby niece because they do it every morning. And
I wanted to take him to the juvenile center to

(22:31):
give him an explore. I wanted to ride past her
last night to let him see how dark it is.

Speaker 9 (22:37):
I don't know how the assistants go.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
When it comes to the obedience and keeping the kids
from getting corrupt.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
I know about the little boys thing. I know about
the little girls things because my sister in law, she helps.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Run the governor thing, Evelyn Davis, and I've helped many
of many a kids.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
But I wanted to take this kid.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Pass there to see how dark it is because you
got told everything. So I talked to the juvenile this morning,
and the juvenile told me, well, the guy, he kind
of rushed it and he had no attention on.

Speaker 9 (23:18):
Helping me.

Speaker 8 (23:21):
Try to speak to someone to see if I could
get a tour with this little boy, to show him
that this is not fun.

Speaker 9 (23:31):
I just want to know for a lot of these parents,
these young parents out here, how.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Can they do their children when they needed some desperate assistance.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
Because when we were in.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
School school seventy one, when our teachers went out of
the classroom, whether they were going to the office, the
nurse room, or whatever, they would have the intercome home,
and they knew the voices of the kids, and they
knew which child would be the inner of the classroom.

Speaker 9 (24:01):
If they stepped out of the room to.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Speak to someone else or to go next door to
another room, but they had the intercom on man, they
would know which child did what.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
And I just you know, the rain. I'm loving to
be up this morning because God really blessed me in
another day, Rain knows whatever. I'm grateful to be alive.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
But the thing is my spirit riding up Allisonville Road
right now.

Speaker 9 (24:28):
My spirit is so tempered.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
And so falky because I'm gonna pick this little boy
up out of our seven kids today, I'm picking them
up and I'm still take them down there, whether we
go in or not.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
But I wanted to know if this is not a
game when it gets.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Have other attempts at intervention been tried, or are you
at your wits end? Or is this the first Uh
you know, this is the first time you're trying to
do something.

Speaker 8 (24:55):
If he's been haun Tina, he's done a couple of things. Boy,
it was a little boy that was down by Keith
Stone when they gave all that thing I think for Mike, Okay, Uh,
a little boy came right running past the house. I
mean he was flying and it was a little boy
that they had been hanging with.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
But this little boy flying whether the next thing I know,
I'm watching this police. It's IPD right behind them.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
Yeah. Yeah, but I don't know what it's gonna take
because they're very disrespectful. Uh they mind me because I
get on, you know, And today I'm just at the.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Witch to the point where I'm going down there. I'm
gonna let their.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Mother go somewhere.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
If I have to take a belt, like Mama said,
a belt without a buckle. I'm a strike them whether not,
but I'm just going to it.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I don't I don't know that the severity of the situation.
But stay stay right there, because I gotta I got
an organization you may want to get him enrolled with
h It's called Reach for Youth, and I'll get you
the number. We got to take a break right here,
but stay right there. I'll talk to you right after
the break and we're back with Community Connection. Tina Cosby

(26:17):
here with b Swift from one hundred point nine Indiana Fever,
the Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis Community.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Mister Swift, mister Swift, Victoria is on the line in Victoria.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
You were you were expressing frustration over a problem with
a young man.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
How old is he? Thirteen?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Perfect?

Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yeah, and he's been suspended school once they're at this
school by the apartment and like I told him, had
it been him, he would have been expelled.

Speaker 9 (26:47):
Yeah, you can't go to no school.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah yeah, I you know, again, I don't know the
extent and I don't know the case, but there's an
organization that I think works really really well, and they
are put together specifically to catch kids before they become
justice system involved, before they get involved in the system.

Speaker 8 (27:08):
And it's well familiar with that, Tina, not to cut
you off. And like I said, my sister in loud
Ellen Davis, she runs the Little Girls part.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Now, this one wasn't separate. This was called was it
called Reach for Youth?

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah, that's back.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
I don't know his name is Darren or I don't
know what his name is.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
But over there on I think it's Washington Boulevard.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Yeah, yeah, But I still want the numbers, Okay, I
want the number.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, thirty five oh five North Washington Boulevard, the number
three one seven nine five nine.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Three seven nine two zero five nine oh.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
And they do some good work with the kids, they really.

Speaker 9 (27:53):
Do, Okay. And thank you so much because I just
loved you.

Speaker 8 (27:58):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
I can't you and express how.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
Much love I have for you all because it gets
me through the addiction that I fight daily. It gets
me through the mentality that goes on through the world,
not just through it Iniananeapolis, and you all have so
much to share with people and to help people with.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
And I just pray that.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
Who's ever listening that they would just use you all
because that's what it means, it means to come together
and not apart. You know, Yeah, thanks so much much,
because my heart is just right now, my heart is
really heavy, and I got tears in.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
My throat, not in my eyes, but in my throat
because well.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
The frustration is unreal and we want to protect them
so badly from what we see the possible roads that
they're going down.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
And I understand exactly what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (28:49):
And you know, but I heard the pastor say the
other week. It was pastor out of it was Jeffrey,
and he said, we cannot we cannot tell them not
to do this because when they told us not to
do it, we did it and we.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
Still had to go through the experience of life.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
So coming around now, you can't tell them don't do this,
don't do this, don't do this that.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Don't have the experience of life.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
But still try to give them some type of good direction.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, yeah, I want to show him how to put
the cold water on the hand after they've done stuck
it on the stove, after you've told them fifteen times
not to do it.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
You know. Yeah, it's it's that, you know, I understand
that dynamic. Yeah, but uh yeah, keep.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Your head up and say try to say I know
it's hard. Try to stay as positive as you can,
and uh yeah. The Reach for Youth is a good thing.
It's a really good organization. I think highly of them myself.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
So well.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
I'm getting ready to call him because I want a
tour as soon as he get out of school today.
I want him to go somewhere to see and here
that it's no fun. You know, they used to have
a scare straight program. I think it's straight.

Speaker 9 (30:07):
Didn't scare them, you know, And.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
Today I think, if you did it the right way,
give them the look of.

Speaker 9 (30:15):
It for themselves. I don't want to work with them.
I don't want to be with them.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
I want them to go with the person that's going
to leave, and I want him to explain because I
talked to him real good at the doctors last night,
and when I said at that hospital out there on Ritterer,
I said, for about five hours yesterday, even as I
did what I had to do, but the gratitude that
I show to this family of my nieces and my

(30:40):
nephew's family, I take very serious action with these kids
because they motivated me every day that their dad was
away incarcerated. They motivated me, they encouraged me, and they
gave me some type of stipulation, being that I wasn't
with my own kids and I haven't spent that kind
of time with my grand children.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
And I am a good mother, I'm a good person.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
But sometimes when you don't have leadership and you don't
have nobody to explain your experiences, you end up in
situations like incarceration, death, drugs, and stuff like that, and
it's it's a it's a serious situation out here in
the world.

Speaker 9 (31:21):
It's stuff.

Speaker 8 (31:22):
Not here in Indianapolis. It's all over, you know. And
I just want to be able to reach out because
death is coming to our children before us, and I want.

Speaker 9 (31:32):
To go before my children.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
I don't want my children to go.

Speaker 9 (31:35):
Before me, you know.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
And it's hard.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
It's hard, it's really I understand, and I really appreciate
Thank you, Victoria, thank you, and uh you know, all
the best to you, and just keep keep going, keep
keep at it, because we don't want to get frustrated
to the point of inaction, you know, doing nothing.

Speaker 8 (31:53):
An amen, Amen, Amen.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Thank you, appreciate you. Yeah, I feel her, I feel
her frustrat and when they're at that.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Age swift, you gotta catch them.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
You gotta catch them. And I mean sometimes you feel
like you're with send. I had a thirteen year old
boy once and I'm like, ooh, and he's thirty now.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, but I mean, it just it just it.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
You know, sometimes there are influences that have nothing to
do with you.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
They come before you.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
I was just thinking the other day, like I appreciate
my father a lot because it was times he would
tell me there were certain people I couldn't hang with,
and of course fourteen fifteen year rebellious.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
And you want to hang with these people.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
And then I had a couple of friends at six fifteen, sixteen,
get seven years in prison, getting nine years in prison,
and he'll look and be like, now you see what
I'll be saying. And I'm like, I wouldn't be who
I am if I didn't have him to or my
mom or my uncle, whoever it was, you know what
I mean, to keep me away from some of them
things and have those conversations. And it's tough because as

(32:59):
a teenage you're smelling yourself, as they say, right right, yeah,
you're smelling yourself. So you think you know it all
and you know what's right and you know what you
should do and what's cool and what's not until something
happens and it's too late.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
So yeah, my grandmother was like, we spend more time
because my parents both my parents work, and there were
five of us and so we spent like she demanded
that we were with her because she didn't want anybody
else to keep us anyway.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
But she would say, you know, you'd be.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Hanging out with somebody and playing, don't you go around
that person again?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
They're hoodlums. And I'm like, why would you say that?
That's not nice? I don't care.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm not going to tell you exactly what she said,
but the summation was she didn't care their hoodloms. And
you watch and see they not you know, nothing good
is going to happen with all that stuff they're going
to be doing. And I mean to a person, she
was absolutely correct, absolutely and and and guarded us like,
you know, like there was no tomorrow, she said, And

(33:59):
I think it was so crazy. We sometimes we can
even go out of the yards with she wouldn't let
us all the yard, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Because that stuff's out there and y'all not gonna be
a part of.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
My grandmother who lived on thirty thirty in New Jersey,
wouldn't let us go out there yard for nothing.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
No better not and nobody else better coming.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, don't let nobody else in if I don't care
how you know them, better talk to them on the
other side of the fence. But you not going out
and exploring. I used to be so upset, like this
is crazy what you mean? I can't but yep, so yeah,
I get it. Like you say, you appreciate it later
when you watched things happen unfortunately, and you'd be like, man,
I could have been right there. Yeah, okay, you might

(34:38):
have knew what you was talking about this.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Time sitting there crying over my books because she didn't.
Because you don't get your then back in the day,
get your lessons, sit down and get your lessons.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I don't want to You're gonna do it anyway, you know.

Speaker 9 (34:51):
So.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
But yeah, there's a lot to it there there, There is,
just it's just hard. It's a different time, But then again,
it's not a different time. Kids they respond to sometimes they.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Want structure, Yeah they do.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
You know, you work with young folks all the time swift,
you know that some things that are that are unending.
You know, they want to know structure because they want
to know that there's something expected of them. If they
think that that there are no expectations of them, and
nobody's going to be thinking, well, I'm going to be
disappointed if you do this and.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
That, then it is you know, they are kind of rudderless.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
So some old fashioned things like you know, I expect
this out of you, this is this is what we expect.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
That's not so bad.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
It's not bad.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
And like you say, it's that's the standard for not
just them, but for themselves later on the lives because
then it's a well, when I go to school, I
know my expectations is, or when I'm going to work,
I know my personal expectation is. So it's setting that
goal in their brain. At first, it don't seem right
to them, but it to start locking in as they
get older and as things pop up, so it definitely
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
And it's hard for parents when kids start pushing back
because like you were just saying the other not pushback,
but when they transition from one phase to the other.
I mean you were saying from Barbie dolls to you know,
kind of preteens. Yeah, you were enjoying that one phase,
and before you got a chance to enjoy that, here
comes another.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
One another like and for me these phases, I have
talks with not just Germany, but certain cousins. I know
who her favorite cousins ish. So I didn't listen to
my dad a lot. I listened to my uncle a lot,
so I think, yeah, my uncle was my main man.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
It's like my brother. So I listened to him.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
So it's things he could tell me that I would
pay attention to more, even if my dad.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
And I just had that.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
With my nephew who's going to high school next year,
we had a conversation about school. He's either going to
Cathedral or Shatar, and I gave him my breakdown on
which school I think he should choose.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
He was like, that makes so much sense. I said.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
The crazy part is this the same conversation your daddy had.
And I know he had this with you because he
called me after he had it to have the same conversation,
and he was like, well, it just sounds so much
better coming from you.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's the same conbo. But I get it.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Because I was like that so now I even have
conversations with Germany's older cousins that I know she adored.
Germany got friends that are seniors in high school. Yeah,
she do like they love her. So these are people
I can have conversations with when I can't get through.
And I'm like, can y'all call y'all little homegirl and
tell her ABCD for me?

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Because y'all look like gold to her.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
So she would listen to y'all and you know what
I mean, And they will, and then they'll call back
and be like, yeah, you'll probably see a little change,
and I'm like, now you can do it. Say thank you, right,
Because sometimes it's about the messenger shooting the message, and
sometimes we're parents, so it comes across hard or tough.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
But that cool uncle, that cool brother, that cool homie on.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
The streets that you know that they gravitate towards can
say the same thing to you and they listen.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, a little.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Dollar and God lover.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
She has a heightened sense of awareness about it all
because she has been just a system, and yes, she
knows what it is and what it takes.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
So it's hard.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
It's probably harder for her to take a step back
and maybe think, like you said, maybe if I get
somebody else whatever. So, but she'll get it together.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
The main thing is she cares.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
And that's that's that's part number one.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's the part number one.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
So, Uh, the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
We just talked about that yesterday, did Yes.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
We did.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, that's the that's the group that was asked to
create a more efficient and equitable education system, uh for
I p S by the Indiana State Legislature.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Okay, this is just a.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Set of recommendations that this this alliance that was put together,
h was asked and the last night they voted on
what their recommendations were going to be and the recommendations
that they were going to share with lawmakers.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
And it was contentious. Uh. There were people that were
in protest.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Which is it was people.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Mad, people mad, shame, shame.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, I've seen that video. They were mad. One person
got carried out. Yeah oh really, Oh I had to
find that video.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Somebody got carried out, they got.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Up here go.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh my okay, okay, okay, I see it.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Recommend chartersko okay. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
It was upset, but they have every right to.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, yes, eight of the nine Alliance members voted in
favor of the new governing body, with members that are again,
this is all a proposed nothing has been put down
in writing or whatever. This is just what they're gonna
propose or recommend to lawmakers who asked them to get
themselves together to make these recommendations. The nine member board, boy,

(39:45):
there's there's a lot. Yeah, it got ugly. So anyway,
eight there was one person that withheld her vote and
she said she could not be The IPS superintendent Alicia
Johnson said, the reality is we have too many school
within our boundary which drains resources were inadequately funded to
offer the full spectrum of services to the most vulnerable

(40:07):
students in need.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
She voted for the recommendations.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I've seen that.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Superintendent voted for the recommendations, adding it's clear there's deep
care in the audience and we're not going to meet
everybody's expectations or everyone's desire. The mayors said in a
statement that he thinks the recommendations reflect a more unified
approach across all school types. The other side, and this
is Tina Algren, she's an IPS teacher and member of

(40:34):
the Alliance who voted against it. And what she said
was status quo has never been an option. But I
cannot live with the idea of telling already marginalized families
that the only way that they can get the things
they've asked for is in exchange for diminishing their power
at the ballot box. So this proposal would greatly diminish

(40:57):
the power of the elected officials, the elected bar Bard members,
because board members are elected by IPS. So yeah, the
large group of parents, public school advocates, okay, they came
out and community members. This is from AXIOS for vocal
about their disappointment with the recommendations, particularly the role hawk

(41:19):
Set would have in appointing the board because hawk Set
would get to appoint the board. The mayor, some of
them argued, shouldn't be responsible for the schools within IPS
boundaries when the officeholder is elected by the entire county.
And so that gets back to the unigov.

Speaker 7 (41:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Dion points out all the time that the the mayor.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Excuse me, residents of Lawrence get to vote for mayor
of Indianapolis, but Indianapolis residents do not get to vote
for the Lawrence mayor.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
I didn't know they voted. They can, oh, Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, but and it's because of the way UNIGOV is
set up.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
There's certain that.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
So several charter school advacy groups release statements and support
of the recommendations. Now, the recommendations are going to go
to state lawmakers who can file legislation until mid January.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Let's see what.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
These recommendations were. Okay, the recommendations. Nine member board would
be made up of three IPS board members, three charter
school leaders and three at large members with the expertise
and relevant subjects like facilities, management, logistics.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Or working with vulnerable student populations.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
The recommendations would require all members to live within the
IPS district. Okay, that's something a little different than charter schools.
The mayor would designate the chair, The mayor would tell
who the chair is going to be, and the elected
IPS board would continue to operate its own schools, aside
from the transportation, school buildings, enrollment and in accountability system

(42:55):
that would govern all schools within the area.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Well, if you take all that away from the school board, what.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Do they have they have?

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, there's that so yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Let's yeah, we got a phone calling, yes, Jeff, Okay, hey, Jeff,
what's going on?

Speaker 7 (43:14):
There? You go?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Hey, there you are. How are you doing?

Speaker 9 (43:15):
Jeff good?

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Good?

Speaker 5 (43:17):
It is open lines.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah, I guess if you want to talk.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
I was.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
We were just catching folks up. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
Did you see that in sanity last night?

Speaker 2 (43:28):
That was next. That was next.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
During his nationwide address last night, Donald Trump declared that
America is on the brink of an economic boom, that
he's bringing down high prices faster than anybody has ever done.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Their eggs is down eighty I don't know what market
he shop at. I ain't se.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
So that means they had to pay you. They would
pay you to take drugs rather.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Than uh that gas in some places is as cheap
as a dollar ninety nine a gallon. Somebody forgot to
tell BP that because I got some gas this morning.
It was three dollars and forty nine yea, yeah, triple
asas the national average is right at two dollars and
ninety cents a gallon.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
So there was more.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
But I would say ninety five percent of what he
said and boasted about was not true. So that, yeah,
that was that was one of the you know, I lied,
I didn't lie. I just didn't tell the truth. So
I said I was gonna watch as much as I
could until I couldn't watch anymore.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I didn't turn it all.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I didn't turn the same I was going to.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
And I was just like, I'm going to see any
end and just see the fact checked at this point,
because I don't even want to hear the bull.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
It's beyond gas lighting. It's pathological.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Yeah, and you don't care and.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
You don't get I don't know how people can. Can
you know? The Democrats is Joe Biden is so his fault?
I inherited a mess. No, you're creating a mess.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
And all that.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Yeah, it's Obama's fault.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
It's it's the Democrats, it's Biden.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
It's the abominaal Snowman's fault is the likeness monster's fault,
it's the h Did I miss any Bigfoot?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
You forgot about Bigfoot?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
But no, I just I just couldn't. And I think
that that's that's.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Healthier than watching him and just feeling myself just get crazy,
because how can any body that has I I don't know,
how can they not recognize the people around him that
put him in front of that microphone, not recognize that
this man is so out of touch with reality.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
He's not he's not it's not there. It's just not there.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
I mean, well, she was basically total on him as
she said, he's he has a personality of an alcoholic.
Uh uh, even though you say claim he doesn't drink
and then he claimed that. Uh.

Speaker 10 (46:00):
Anyway, but I'm almost say that, I'm gonna hang up.
I'm gonna hang up. I mean, if people to put
that band, you didn't go to see a psychiatrist, you
really do well, you know, I mean, if you're out there,
you listen to me, you vot to put that man,
you need a psychiatrist.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
What are people who voted for him really paid attention?
I think so many people are.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You know, this is the politics, Jeff, that we like
to be entertained. We like for people that have.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Entertainment. Doesn't help. But with the gas bills and the
gas but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
That you got to be entertained and the entertainment. They
want to feel.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Good, you know, Like I say this a lot.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
The emotions that you get at a ballgame or at church,
you know, it's got those are all highs and.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
And really emotional fields.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
If you will all the fields and they like that
in their politicians, and that's.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
That's kind of what they vote for.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
But when you think about, uh, the politicians throughout history
who have been that charismatic that have taken you to
that level, there are precious and few, not even politicians
that have had to hold the president's the presidency. There
they come along, you know, their generational talents, but not
all of them have that. And I think, you know,

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it's kind of like an addict trying to chase that
high that first time.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Voters are like that in a lot of ways. They're
just they're still trying to to chase that person that
can take him there and make them feel good. And
he talks tough and he's funny and he's uh, he
doesn't let people walk all over him.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
Yeah, well and I think that plays a big part, right, Yeah,
he don't let people and he talks tough, and people
like what he talks. It makes it gives him some
sort of confidence. Well, if he said it, then it's
gonna happen. Yeah, you gonna see about that, you know.
But like I said, I think everybody will feel the
pain come next year. I think that's when they'll see it,

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you know, Like I just pulled up. He was just
signing the thing about marijuana, restricting the class, reclassifying it
from like A one to a three or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
You know, of the hundreds of executive orders that he's signed,
you don't have many of them he's read from start
to finish.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
One maybe negative one.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
He hasn't read a single one.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
I could believe it.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
I mean that that was that was reporting. That's not
Tina saying that that's reporting. He just wants to sign things.
And they handed to mister president. This is what so
and so and such and such. Oh okay, mister president,
this is for X, Y and Z. Give him to him,
like you know, there's feeding lunch. He just wants to
sign it.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
He did, And I think him signing it is somebody
getting a big check that's getting.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Those pushed through.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
And he's like, all right, and they done, toty, that's
a ten million dollars one, that's fifty million, that's.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Twenty million, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
And I'm making an assumption, so I don't want nobody
be thinking I'm but that's just what I see.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
I think it's a cash game. For him. Cash is game,
cash definite, King Indie.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Hey, we're gonna take it.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
What doesn't seem Hey, you know what, we still have
another set of tickets to give a Wasteles Stay tuned
plus Danny Bridges with the Indianapolis Recorder is also on
tap for the second hour, So stay with us.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
And we're back with Community Connection And as promised, we're
gonna give away another set of tickets today to the
David and Tamala Man Love and Relationship Tour coming to
Indianapolis April twenty ninth, the Old National Center Love and
Relationship Tour. They know what they're talking about. They've been
married thirty seven years. They have been married for thirty
seven years, so they have seen it all and.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
They're bringing it to the stage for you.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
And if you'd like to go absolutely free, we'd like
to send you. We're gonna give away two tickets right now.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Swift. You called the number six.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Last time, you do this time, let's do nine this time?

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Oh you're gonna do nine? Okay, okay, caller number nine.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
If you are the ninth caller to the number three one, seven, four, eight, zero,
thirteen ten, three, one, seven, four, eight, zero, thirteen ten
Caller number nine, you win a pair of tickets to
the David and Tamila Man Love and Relationship Stage Show
Concert Tour.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
All of that, they're gonna put a lot together April
twenty ninth at the Old National Center.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Caller number nine, Engine Engine number nine.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Good luck, good luck. Give us a call.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
And we will give you the tickets. If you are
a caller number nine. You know, we've been talking a
lot about things that are happening on you know, the
local level of the school board ips, the state level,
the state legislature, all kinds of stuff, and it's it's
just that right now is a good reminders.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
We look at the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
A lot of times we take inventory about what's happened
in the year past, the past year, what we look forward.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
To in the coming year.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
One of the things that we probably should put on
our list is to check the status of our voter registration.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Voting is certainly not the only thing that you can
do to effect change in your community, but it.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Is one of the most powerful, one of the most
sustaining things that you can do in your community. And
we need to show up and show out. The first
step is voter registration. As with when you vote, check
on your voter registration. Have somebody else in your family,
have everybody check on their voter registration, the status, make

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sure everything is updated, current and that you're still on
the voter rules the website.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
To do so with your phone. You got your phone
in your hand, you can do it right now.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Indiana voters dot i in dot gov check for yourself
or anywhere around the state. This is statewide. This isn't
just Indianapolis and Marion County. Indiana Voters dot i in
dot gov to check on the status of your voter registration.
I will say that there are people who have been

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all of a sudden purged from the roles, mysteriously purged.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
You need to get back on.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
If you have a change in like an address or
any kind of status, make sure that that change is
updated before it is too late. We've got plenty of
time and it's just something you can do in just
a couple of seconds. It only it takes less than
I don't know, a minute, maybe less than three minutes
to do that.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
So check your voter registration. But we're not telling people
just to register to vote.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
We're suggesting that register to vote and then plan to vote.
Register to vote and then plan to vote. Because we've
said it so many times, we really don't necessarily have
a voter registration problem here in Indianapolis, Marion County, and
even the state of Indiana. We have a voter participation problem,
not registration participation. So once you check on your registration,

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if you register to vote, put your plan in action
and plan to take somebody with you.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Take somebody with you. Do at old school.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I remember back in the day, and I've told you
all this, I don't know how many times, and the
old neighborhood, everybody went together. Folks got and and the
older folks, older than the old folks. They used to
get dressed up in their Sunday like they're going to church.
That's how proud they were to be able to go
and vote and have their voices heard. It was a big,
big deal. Fish frying outside, folks getting together. It was

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just giving each other rides, all kinds of things. It
was truly a sense of community. And in a lot
of ways, the souls to the polls and some of
the other efforts around town, those are just those are
the same thing. Those are along those lines. But don't
think of voting as a singular thing. Think of it
as a community thing. Always say take somebody with.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
You this year when you vote, take two or three
people with you.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Load up the car, Load up the car, kind of
like you know, load up the car with those tickets
we were giving away. Remember those swift to the oh
yeah nights of Christmas, nights of lights at the State Fairground,
which is still going.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
On, by going on and will be until New Year's e.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
New Year's e out of the fairgrounds. More than a
million lights, uh and you know, one price and as
many as you could pack into the car, Carlo. So
do that with think about that with voting, you know,
like you know, let them be be their worst night mare.
Take as many people as you can take to the party,
because that's the best the way we have to look
at it as a party. So again, Indiana voters, dot

(54:32):
I in dot gov. Check on the status of your
voter registration if you're not there or whatever, update it.
If you have not registered to vote, please do so.
Once you do, register to vote and check on your status.
Make your voting plans right now. November be here before
you know it. Just make sure you're gonna take somebody
with you.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
So there's that. Do we have a caller number nine yet? Swift?

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Melissa.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
The phone hung up, so I'm trying to see if
she calls back. She was there, Solissa, sue, Melissa.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
I got to call her out. D call back. I
can see when you call.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Okay, Okay, here, Danny's.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Here, Danny's here.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Oh my goodness, Danny, Danny, Danny, Hey, you suck in
on us.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (55:13):
I've been waiting patiently. I don't like to be on
the hold, but since you're talking about something much more
important than me with vote, with voter registration, I would
certainly I certainly yield to that anytime.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Okay, did you call back?

Speaker 3 (55:27):
She's on here.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Hold on, Danny, hold.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
On, We're gonna put you a little. Don't bring Melissa
in with you. Hold on, Danny, Melissa.

Speaker 9 (55:35):
Hi, it's Melissa.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Hi Melissa, congratulations.

Speaker 9 (55:39):
Oh my goodness, thank you. The call was disconnected.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
I sent you all a chet and chat and everything freaking.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Out because I'm like, oh my goodness, I don't want
to miss my tickets.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
So Danny, Danny, Danny, this is Melissa. She won the tickets.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Well, I'm congratulations, young lady. I hope that you enjoy
yourself with your Oh my goodness, Oh.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Yeah, so are you fans of the man's.

Speaker 9 (56:06):
Absolutely is going to be so excited and I think
he just came home.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Okay, well, I tell you what We're gonna let you
get to the business of sharing the good news. Congratulations,
Thank you so much for listening to us, and I
hope you and your husband enjoy the show.

Speaker 9 (56:25):
Okay, we will, I promise.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Thank you. Good luck, Melissa. So Danny, Danny, Danny.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
Yeah, we gave way tickets to a David and Tamila Man.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Good brief. Here we go David and Tamala Man loving.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Relationship towards the Old National Center coming up in April.
So we had two sets of tickets to give away today,
so we gave those away at the top.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
But somebody is touring the country telling people about relationships
and love and getting paid for it.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Well they're they're movie stars and gospel recording stars as well.
They are really really prominent in all the Tyler Perry
movies and productions, TV, movie, stage play.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
So that's why they're getting people to come out Okay,
that's cool.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
I wasn't familiar with the relationship pieces.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
They've been married thirty seven years, so.

Speaker 5 (57:18):
They I could give people really good relationship advice on
what not to do, but we don't. We all can
charge him for that. Yeah yeah. Indeed, before we get
started on a much more serious note, it appears that
NASCAR driver retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle died in a

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plane crash today in North Carolina. It was just as
this is breaking relatively recently. It unfortunately looks as if
his family may have been a board on that plane
as well, meaning wife and children. I hope, I hope
that isn't the case. I hope he isn't on that plane,
but unfortunately they have tied the wreckage as far as

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the identification numbers that are on every airplane. Back to
his title, so he was a phenomenally good person. Had
a good fortune of meeting him several times in association
with the Brickyard four hundred and he was a former
champion in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. He also in the

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truck series. I believe he won nineteen NASCAR races, was
a runner up in the Points Championship, one year and
I think he started over five hundred NASCAR races, So
a tremendous loss to America, to human kind, not just
those who are NASCAR fans. And it hasn't been officially announced,

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but there's been enough breaking news of it, as well
as people that are close to him releasing statements. So
such a bummer to hear that today.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
Yeah, owned by formerly owned Bible. They hadn't said anything yet.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
So yeah, we're sure that's that's that's good to hear.
And look, somebody died today that their plane crash, and
that's horrible. Yeah, I hope. I would hope that nobody
ever has to experience that, and it would be great
to see that he was not that person. But that
doesn't marginalize.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
So otherwise somebody owned by driver.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Yeah, but it appears that he was piloting that plant,
so did he fly?

Speaker 2 (59:35):
I didn't know a.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Lot of NASCAR guys have their pilot license, and you
know they it's the quickest way to get out of
a track when it when everything's over with. So I
hope that that report is uh inaccurate. But for what
it's worth, I thought I would start off by talking
just briefly about that.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah, and all I had seen, I mean, you all
are far further along in the news developed muster and
I than I am, because I had just seen that
a private plane went down in North Carolina. Uh yeah,
and tails are that That was the last I'd seen,
And then I had to switch to a bunch of
other things, and I was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Like wow, so wow, wow, wow wow.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Yeah, because I mean, not not meaning to be labor
a point, but that was kind of you know, that
was Kobe Bryant's thing. I don't think he piloted himself,
but he liked the flying to get quickly from one
point to the other.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
You avoided traffic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
And you know a lot of the other hassles that
go along with you know, with the sport.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Yeah, well Kobe was famous for flying to Laker games
and not having to bout traffic for that. He didn't
do it every game, but he did it quite a
few games. And it's uh, you know, aviation is a convenience,
it's a luxury generally speaking, it's relatively safe, specifically commercial aviation.
And and I want to make it clear, Uh, the

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plane that Greg Biffel owned or did own, ever, it
may wash out here, uh is allergic. We're not talking
about a prop plane, but well just just just a
very technically advanced aircraft. So let's hope that everything is okay.
But I don't think there would be this much talk

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about it and alleged reports and people close to him
releasing statements if it wasn't true. Boy, I sure hope
that everybody's wrong. I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Yeah, indeed, indeed, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
Yeah, so Danny, uh we uh wait does it seem
like twenty twenty five is almost over already?

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Well, yeah, I'm okay, okay, I'm almost uh you know,
I'm halfway to another birthday and I can't believe this
year is over. And not just from the sporting world,
but you know, it seems like the older I get
faster things move and yet I'm not slow or I'm
not fast enough to keep up. But yeah, you know,
it's uh here we are at the end of the year,

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literally and uh so much to talk about in terms
of sports. There's obviously a lot more important things than sports,
But as far as sports goes, Indiana had a great
year in terms of if you look at everything that
came off during the calendar that the continual regents of
AU football, the Pacers in the NBA Finals, historic Indianapolis

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five hundred victory. Uh, That's that's enough for one year,
right there. But there's other things as well. I mean,
obviously there were new basketball continues to do well. I
think you have to look at the Fever and they
made a great playoff run despite having the injuries that
they did. There's a lot of things that went really

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positive in Indianapolis and Indiana in the year of sports.
But uh, you know, I guess it depends on what
your favorite sport is in terms of how big the story,
you know, resonates. But for me, I think the Pacers
getting to the NBA Finals is number one and probably
one A would be a historic in Annapolis, five hundred
victory for Alex Bulla, who dominated the series the entire season.

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People can argue those points, good, bad, and different. Certainly
the resurgence of IU football has been a big, big deal.
But uh, I mean, just those things alone, that's a
year's with the good memories, right there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
So I was I was asking Swift because he's he's
in the sporting world with the Pacers and the fever
and so forth, and what he thought the the sporting
story of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Was for you know, for our area.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
What what do you think, so you said the Pacers,
You thought it was the Pacers.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
I think you'd have to give it to that. Yeah,
I think that getting to the NBA's finals would be
the d story. I mean, there's a lot of sub
stories from that. Obviously, the injury to Tyrese Halliburton games
then it was was woeful to watch. And hopefully he
can continue his recovery and continue to play basketball at

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a high level. I sure hope that's the way it
turns out. You never know what those types of injuries,
but you certainly are hopeful that the young man can
come back and play at a similar high level. But
you know, I do believe that, you know, the Alex
Pelow's dominance in any car and then winning to Nanapolis
five hundred for the first time in his career is
certainly very very noteworthy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Uh hey, I look at.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
The fevere playoff run is very interesting and very noteworthy
as well, considering the number of injuries they had and
for them to progress the way that they did. I mean,
you know, they they just about got to the w
NBA Finals, and that's a heck of a season for
any team, but certainly woman that's depleted with great injuries

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like that. So and not just Caitlin Clark. Everyone wants
to point to that and say, well, we didn't have
Caitlin Clark didn't have.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
A lot of Yeah, everybody was.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Hurting, brought in people and signing the you know, short
term contracts, and uh, I just think it did an
excellent job in terms of, you know, putting together what
they could, putting a you know, a massive band aid
on it and saying, hey, we're going to play ball here,
and very gritty, very gutty performance by the Fever. As

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to pertain to the playoff run, well, swift.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Son, you want to share you said that you thought
it might.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Be Yeah, I got Coats right now.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Like I didn't even think because I've put the Pacers
so far back in my memory because I hate thinking
about their Game seven that it's just every time you
think about that, it just haunts me. But I mentioned
the Coats would probably be up there right now for me,
looking at how they started the season questionable with the
quarterback situation, everybody was wondering and then Danny Dines Indiana

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Danny Indiana Jones came in and turned the season around.
Nobody expected that man to have the winning record he
had to old Man Rivers coming in and last week
and almost winning us a game like nobody expected Grandpa
to come in and be as good as he was.

Speaker 5 (01:06:08):
Well, that's true. I was holding off on the Colts
and see what happens during these next three games and
maybe a retrospective. Well, you can't deny they started well.
I think one thing that worked in their favor that
in terms of their schedule, they've got a tough schedule
to finish the season. They really have had, and I
think the schedule was a little lighter in the previous
say seven or eight first games, what have you. But

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there's no denial that Daniel Jones played well, the offensive
line played well. Jonathan Taylor was exceptional and continues to
remain a very prolific running back. So all those things
came together. I mean, the Colts defense has been their
Achilles heel. No pun intended because they do have a

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player who's got a injury of that nature. But look,
the Colts are going to be fine for two reasons.
Number one, this is a rabid fan base and number two,
this is a rabbag fan base. They they I think
they showed people that, you know, hey, we're headed in
the right direction. And people will say, well, if Jones
hadn't gotten hurt, we'd've done this, we've done that. Well,

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we won't ever know that, but I will say this that,
you know what, San Francisco comes to town Monday night
and they've had a ton of injuries themselves, but they're
not They're not infallible. You know. Tell me, if the
Poles can win two alleys next three ball games, they're
in the wildcard situation. And wouldn't that be something if

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they were still able to somehow get into the playoff
picture even as a wildcard had been to hit the road,
that would be a heck of a way to put
a cap on the season. I'm not so sure they
can't be done, but I will say that it's a very,
very tough road. When you start talking about the forty
nine ers at home, then you've got to play both
Jacksonville and Houston again, So it's going to be a

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tough road. I hope for them. Uh, they've made it
interesting again. They've made fans feel like, hey, I got
a little bit of return on my investment this year
with my ticket, that type of thing. And uh, the
off season will be interesting. Uh, they'll get another quarterback
GM on their hands. Can Jones recovering time for the
first of the year, the first game of the year.
I don't think so, I don't think no way, yeah no,

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So with that in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Mind nine months, but I think what I think they'll
do is I think they'll be honorable and resigning.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Yeah, I think you have to. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
Yeah. I don't think it's a great move to give
him a lot of money long term, I would. I
think fit has to come to an agreement of you know,
if we appreciate what you've done, we're behind you, We're
going to continue to support you. And here's a uh, you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Know, three million, five million something.

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
Just I don't know what it's gotting to take or
what it would take. But I also think, and this
is an interesting take I think because it's but because
I think it's realistic, is that they're going to have
I think they need to bring Anthony Richardson back and
talk about him in a backup role if he's not
going to be their starter because they opened the window

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I noticed for his twenty one day practice reach coming
off of IR I don't know that we're going to
see him again this season or not. I be honest
with you, I would like to for two reasons. Number one,
you know, just give him another opportunity, and number two,
you know, maybe you're showcasing a young man that is

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a masset that someone wants to triper. He's still awfully young,
he's still awfully raw. I haven't closed the book on
his NFL career. I'm not. There's got a lot of
people that say that around here, but I think he's
got too much athleticism and too much strength as a
potential football player. I'm saying football player. I think this

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quarterback to be just tossed away. If you had a
healthy Anthony Richardson's when Edie Jones went Bobby wouldn't be
having this conversation. On the other hand, it was a
freak accident. We know what it transpired. Up to that point.
He's had a he's had a pretty difficult last six
or seven months. But I know the Colts probably told

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him that they were going to make it a open
competition in training camp, but it was. And you give
a guy fourteen million dollars to come to your team,
you know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Yeah, you know, you know who your starter is based
off the money.

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
And I don't think that's a reflection on Richson as
much as as that's our investment strategy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Yeah no, And I think I think he needed to
sit down.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
He's never had it to me a vet to learn from,
So I think when you and even though Danny might
not have been the greatest where he was, I think
he was a great tool to pick up from. And
I think Anthony could learn from that sitting on the sideline,
watching understanding, being able to watch film break things down
to help make him better because he's a really young
kid who was put into the fire and probably didn't

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have the correct mentor to help guide him. So I agree,
I don't think we get rid of him. I think
we bringing back. I don't think Danny plays next year,
but I think you have to. That man played on
a broken leg for three games. There's no way you
cut that man. You get that man some money and
say thank you if you back when we need you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
If not cool, you can go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
But we're gonna keep you for one more year out
of respect of you putting your body on the line
for us. And I think we have an open QB
competition next year, and I think you can go back
to Anthony or anybody at that point.

Speaker 5 (01:11:28):
Yeah. Well, I also think that it's possible that Jones
could draw us some interest on the free agent market
that could drive up his price a little bit, because
even when players are injured, you look at the the
great medical facilities and doctors and all the things that
they have at their disposal, and you loo look at

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them too. This guy's got to rehab hard and he's
gonna come back, and so you kind of take a
chance on that occurring in some senses. Uh, there's no
doubt in my mind, if he'd finish the season healthy,
he would have had some Uh. Oh, I don't know
how big his offer would be, but it would be,
let's put it this way, be more than fourteen million.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
No, that being the case. He may he may still
draw some intros, but I guess it just depends on
where he wants to be and what he wants to
do with the rest of his playing career. And uh,
that'll all take care of itself. I mean, that'll happen.
I think you'll have the the Daniel Jones situation for
lack of a better term, resolved internally before they get

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to the NFL combine, I really do, which obviously is
a precursor to the draft. But you know, they don't
have a high draft pick. So that's a quandary for
quarterback either it's a free agent or as a trade,
and that's gonna be that's gonna be hard.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Do we have any clearer picture now than we did
several months ago of how the ersay, uh you know,
the newer say owners, the girls, the women are going
to run things or are we still waiting for I
don't know, some kind of an indicator that I.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
Think that's a that's a good question. I think you
probably won't know that until the smoke claers from the
end of the season. Now, there's a couple of ways
I think it could happen, and I guess there's more
than just two ways. But the two that come to
mind is she can say, you know what, I don't
think I want to start over, and she could release

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the general managers. Yeah, and in theory, In theory, I
don't think that's going to happen, for the record, but
it could. She could if she chose to do that.
She wouldn't have to get anybody's permission, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
For sure.

Speaker 5 (01:13:48):
The other side of the coin is she could look
at what's happened, what she thinks can be built upon
and bringing back the leadership groups specifically Balord and Ssiching
or at least another year, and move forward from that.
If I had to guess, I'm thinking she probably won't

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clean house. But I think a lot of it could
depend on what happens for the last three games of
the year, and not so much for the winner to
lose them, but how things are played. And you know,
how competitive were you And you know, we don't know
what the internal vibe is at the at the Cult
training center out on fifty sixth Street. It may be

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really good in terms of the relationships she's fostered with
the current regime for lack of a better term. You know,
she's very close to the she's very close. I don't
think there's anything going on that she's not aware of.
And that being said, she'll have a decision to make
and that'll be interesting to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Say the least college football playoffs, how many teams should
be in it, what do you think of Indiana University's
chances and other things. Yeah, it's coming up shortly. We'll
be talking about that right after this. We'll be right
back and we're back with Community Connection. Danny Bridge, a

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sports writer for the Indianapolis Recorder, joining us and Danny.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
We're just kind of wrapping up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
The end of the year in one of the biggies
at the end of the year is college the college
football Playoffs. We've talked about this in years past, about
how many teams should be in it, and you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Have your opinion, and that's fine, You're welcome to share it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
But what do you what do you think of this
year's selections and what do you think.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
I use chances are going to be well.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
I think there's too many teams in the playoffs. I've
said that before. I think six would be twenty six.
I won't I won't. I won't bore you with the
top six teams because my I cast never fails to meeting. Plus,
I don't want to upset any of your listeners. I
do believe Indiana would be in that six teams. That
would be in the tuveted playoff. Think you you start

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off with the three through six plane, the first two
get a bye, and then you go from there. But
I'm troubled by the selection committee and the process on
how things are arrived at. I knew that there would
be a couple of teams in there that weren't strong.
And with all due respect to Tulane and help me

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out with this, Oh jamis, they don't belong. They don't
belong in the playoff. Now here's how you take care
of it. You sign an agreement that said those types
of teams if they did certain things and could get
in the Conference playoff blah blah blah, could get in.
Just say when it comes, when that contract expires, or

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for that matter, there's an out option, just say we're
not going to do this anymore. And then then they say, oh,
we're gonna see you. Oh we're gonna settle it out
of court, and money changes hands and they can go away.
It's that simple. They're still gonna want a piece of
the pie. But once you pay them and get that
behind it, and that's no reflection specifically disrespectfully to those institutions.

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There's just such a gap between the quality of football,
and I think we're going to see that this weekend
and when they take the stage again. A lot of
kids that on those particular teams that play really hard,
they were good high school players. They have left it
all on the field, blood, sweat and tears. I get it.
But there's just a reason that only so many teams

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make the playoffs in the pros. That same track of
things should be emulated in the college game. That's just
my take. I think Indiana has a chance to distinguish themselves.
I think I think the biggest two big things that
concern me is first of all, having three and a
half weeks between games is just way too long. You

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can only practice so much, you can only game plan
so much. We're talking about young men who are as
focused as they possibly can be, I'm sure, but still
there are distractions. There will be distractions in California as well.
I don't necessarily feel that's going to be a downfall
as much as that the idle time between games. There's

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got to be something that can be done about that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Well, Western rehab what you know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
That's that's kind of the positive spin that's put on it.
The buy that the higher seeds get the buy gives
you time to you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Know, kind of heal. You get beat up throughout the season.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
But the rest can be so dangerous as well. Not
playing is dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
Rehabs the edge off maybe swift or what do you
think you gave me too long to sit down and
get rusty?

Speaker 7 (01:18:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Okay, three and a half weeks is a long time.
If it takes that long to recover, that you're probably
not healthy enough to be playing football now. I will
say there are some cases, certainly, if a guy's got
a nagging injury, that could be extremely beneficial to his
uh particular team. But I just think it takes too
long to get to the nitty gritty And that's just

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me being greedy, or that's just me saying common sense,
probably somewhere in between the two. But for the life
of me, three and a half weeks that's your reward.
I get it from the standpoint of if you really
had some a bunch of nagging injuries. But I don't
think you look at uh the teams with the buyer
of anyone who's got, hey, we're gonna get this guy back.

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Most of them are relatively healthy after the playoff games
were went about. But you know, I still feel the
best two teams in America today are Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Now, a lot of people, yeah you you, you messed
up on there. We didn't hear you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
It went out Ohio, Ohio State, and then and then
it went out who.

Speaker 5 (01:19:41):
Yeah, I'll have State in Georgia are the best two
teams in the tournament. So okay, I really hate, I
really hate if the committee has got them on the
same side of the bracket. I will go another step further.
Whoever wins the game between those two will win the
national championship. So I hope that that was clear. Could

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you hear that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
Yeah, that's why nobody's saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Danny, I don't think.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
The starting trouble d I didn't you ask me for.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Okay, Okay, you like starting trouble Danny is okay, I.

Speaker 5 (01:20:18):
Have a handicapper at heart. I'm wrong. There's a couple
of dark horses in there. I think I feel one
team that you better not sweep on too much is Oregon.
I think they had continually gotten better after Indiana took
care of them. Must of their home park, and they
have an interesting quarterback in terms of his athleticism, So

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don't shut the door on them. So let Indiana get
to the title game. I think so, but I'm will
tell you this, So whatever between Oklahoma and Alabama plays
Indiana and then it's a very formable opponent no matter
which one of those teams advances.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Would Alabama I don't think.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
Well, again, I disagree with that from the eye test perspective.
Look how the middle part of their season transpired and
who they played and who they beat on the road.
Oklahoma and Alabama is a rematch Oklahoma or Alabama. Alabama
turned the ball over three times in a short period
of time. Again Oklahoma in the first game. I think
whoever wins that game has an excellent chance of being Indiana.

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On the other hand, I think Indiana could beat them,
so that should be a really good ball game to
watch the winner of Oklahoma and Alabama versus IU. But
I don't think Indiana will take them lightly. But both
those teams have the ability to beat Indiana in that
football game just as well as Indiana could certainly advance,
So that will make it a good playoff atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
To repeat, I'm not a fan of this. Shout out
to them au Boys for knocking them off. But I
do like I do like Ohio State, and I see
where you're coming from with that, right, Like I was
very surprised that we beat Ohio State. I'm not gonna
see here and lie, I think we have a great
football team.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
You said we are you did you play for the Who's.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
No, I'm just represented for the state. That's all. That's
all wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
I just wanted a point of qualification. There's nothing wrong
with fandom.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
No pure fandom. I think I was a great football team.
I'll be the first to say it. Like I wasn't
so that they was going to beat o State, like,
but I think they're showing something. And like last year
I thought was a fluke season, I'm like they strength
of schedules this season definitely made me believe a little
bit better. I don't I'm not gonna see here and

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say I got to win in the national Championship. No,
but I don't. You know, but I don't know about
some of that. I don't know that I think they can,
though I will say I think they can.

Speaker 5 (01:22:43):
I hope, I hope for all the IU fans things
go well. I don't have it necessarily a dog in
the fight. But just the eye test that I have
applied here. I look at that fourth quarter of that
big championship and the thing that concerns are good about
Indiana was how quickly and how efficiently Ohio State moved
the ball on long drives twice in the court. Now

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they came up empty. Indiana won the game. There's that's
in the rearview mirror. It doesn't matter, but I think
you have to look at that, and I just feel
like that Ohio State and Georgia are the two best
teams man for man, and if they play each other,
I believe they're going to I think whoever wins that
game takes all the marbles eventually. But you know, look,

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I know it's been a heck of a year for
Indiana football. I'm interested to see how they can sustain
it after this season. That I think that's even a
bigger story and hope, hopefully, hopefully they can do that.
But but when I look back and I talked about
Sulaine and I talked about James Madison, they're in and

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good luck to them, and you know, hopefully they'll put
on a good, a good show, a good effort, but
I would not have been disappointed to see you not
your game or Texas seasons. That's me, That's just me.
I was looking forward to seeing number four at Notre
Dame play one more game at least, But now I'm
gonna have to catch him in the NFL, and hopefully

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he'll stay healthy and he'll have a great NFL career.
But look, we can argue, excuse me, debate brother then
and who's gonna win for the rest of the week.
But I've made my selections. I'm gonna live with them,
and I'll be more than happy to let you poke
me about them if I'm wrong. And I know you're

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gonna say how smart I was if I'm correct, Danny,
let me. That's pleasant.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Let me ask you a question while we just talk.
In national football. Next year, and I'm sure you've seen
the articles, Notre Dame automatically get to bid if they're
ranked number twelve, and I think it's another team that's
as if yet next year, Notre Dame automatically gets a
bid into the playoffs if they're ranked top twelve. The
power for schools whoever wins the conference championships, they get

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an automatic buy in to the championship.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Do you think that's fair game right there, Danny.

Speaker 5 (01:25:04):
Well, it needs to be tweaked, and I'm not sure
how you do the tweaking. Whoever tweaks can be second guests,
and that would be my department because I love to
do that. But realistically, I'm not really sure on what's
fair and equitable. I do know this, I feel this
way with all my heart. I do believe that Notre
Dame and Texas are both that are football teams. That
be Uwaine and James Madison. That doesn't mean James Madison

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and Tulaine didn't distinguish themselves to some degree this year,
because they did. However, I'm not you know, I'm not
good typical that are names football fan. I'm not the
typical IU back football fan. And by that meaning those
particular camps feel they could beat Notre Dame. Fans think

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we could beat the Super Bowl and if we could
just get him to the South Bend, Indiana, it's the
same way. Well, if I could just get him to Bryman,
I think we could beat him. Now that's not the case, obviously,
and more importantly, there's nothing wrong with the rabid fan base.
They do a lot of things, including right checks to nil.
So there's a side of that that is totally irrelevant

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to how I think belongs in. But look, I said,
as it got bigger there would be problems as far
as the number of teams. I'm starting to look like
a profit, But realistically I don't. I don't think there's
any reason to expand the tournament anymore. I still think
the basket Man's Basketball Tournament is too big. But regardless

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of all that, it's the money that drives it. And
if I'm the television networks putting out the billions of
dollars collectively, I want as many games as I can get.
I understand it. I understand how the business aspect works.
I just don't agree with it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
Okay, have a caller that would like to weigh in
on the convo. Would you say, mister Rusky, yep, guy.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:26:54):
Hey? Oh Danny, I agree with you in terms of
load of game. I'm thinking with travesty that they were
not in the in the playoffs, I think that they
would have been probably the national champions. A lot of
people disagree, but and I don't understand how they lost
those first two games, but they improved UH tremendously since

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those losses, and particularly with with uh Jeremiah Love Uh.
He was just an outstanding runner. And to me, running,
even though passing has kind of taken over in terms
of a lot of the percentage of the offense, I

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think running is It's to me, running is football. So
I think it was just the travesy that that UH
Notre Dame was not allowed to play. I think they
would I agree with you in terms of I think
Jargon and Notre Dame would have been the two best
seams this year.

Speaker 5 (01:28:00):
Well, I would say this to you. You made an
interesting point. Everyone looks at the wins of what a
team has as far as they were looking at their losses.
I mean, they lost to Miami and they lost to Texas,
and those are the two excellent teams this year. Both games, well,
the A and N game at South ben was like

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a one to two point loss, and they were coming
from Miami at the end and ran out of time,
even though Miami clearly outplayed them most of that football game.
So I guess we could dice it up. I just
felt like they took care of business of their schedule
and they lost the two premier teams have a problem with
the two or three loss team in the tournament. I
just don't depending upon who you play, what the end

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results were, how that team that you lost to progressed
for the rest of the season. In other words, how
influential was that defeat. And that doesn't sound right because
people always going to talk about who you beat, who
you beat, well, who you lost to. I think it
should matter a little bit. Again, we can go into
that dark hole is known as the Committee, and we'll
never find their way out totally. But I do I

(01:29:03):
do believe Russell that. As I said, I think Good
Dame of Texas would have been okay to get into
the tournament in my opinion, But hey, what do I know.
I'm just modest and handsome.

Speaker 7 (01:29:14):
And you know another thing I think, I think, uh,
the way football is playing it is always the way
the ball bounces. I think you has a I think
I used kind of starstruck this season, you know, so
I wouldn't be surprised if they end up winning the
magical Championship. But then also I go back to to

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the pro situation. Uh, the fact that we have a
situation in the NFL to these quarterback situations. I think
that it's time for them to take another look.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
I'm back, Yeah, yeah, we got out there. All I
can simply say about that his call is he had
he made a couple of really good points. I don't
know if Notre Dame being excluded as a travesty or
just an oversight. Maybe it's somewhere in between the two.
I felt they belonged in. I felt Miami belonged in

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as well. But I keep going back to Tulane and
James Madison. We wouldn't be worried about who didn't get
in if they were sitting in their respective slots. Again,
with all their respect to both of those football teams
and those educational institutions. That's just my take, though, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:30:40):
Does Notre Dame not being a part of a power
conference hurt them?

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Well, here's what doesn't hurt them, A sixty million dollar
annual contract with NBC. That's where they can point to that. Again,
it's not all about money, but it is, and certainly
from a championship. For when you want a championship in
college football or college basketball, you have a distinctive advantage

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with recruiting, whether it be traditional recruiting or the transfer
portal that gives you a bit of a leg up,
and not to mention all the merchandise sales that you're
going to accrue. I mean millions and millions of dollars.
Notre Dame as an institution sits on a pile of
money that if you climb to the top of it
would probably be higher than the Empire State Building. I mean,
it's a very very rich institution, both historically for education

(01:31:31):
as well as football and the business of football. Again,
keep that NBC number in mind. Sixty million dollars a
year from NBC to have the broadcast rights to their games.
That is an incredible number and it's will only probably
go up if Notre Dame can continue to play well.
It's no coincidence that the new athletic director at Notre

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Dame this is his first season, came from NBC Sports
as an executive. Think about that for a minute. There's
some training, but he's a he's he's a quite a
he's quite the executive he is. He's got a great resume,
so he can he can deal with the negotiations, not
with just his old employer, with anybody that wants to

(01:32:17):
be on the Notre Dame train, wants to buy a ticket.
So that's that's a good business. Really quite, it's really
good business. But I uh, you know the prestige that
goes along with Notre Dame. I thought the tournament would
include them. I thought the selection committee would put them in.
I was wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
Yeah, probably, Like Swiss said, just another little reminder of
a little backhanded reminder. Hey, you all are independent, and
we don't like it that that should be it shouldn't
be that thing. But you know that seems have been
been where Notre Dame is plenty of times. So I
mean sometimes tournament. I mean, look at all the times
that Notre Dame has got in that they should not

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have even been close.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
So I mean, it happens. It happens.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
I don't I don't recall them getting in when they
weren't you know, a legitimate selection. I don't recall that.
I will do this.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Well, what you're going to ask me that, but let
me find it is a fair question and it's something.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
You can email me that quickly, yeah, very.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
Very quickly, before we have to go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:25):
What do you think of the heisman Danny and of
a Diego Diego.

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
I think that the Heisman is not what it once was,
but it's still a very I mean, there was a
time when truly the best football player in America got
that award. It became a quarterback competition several years ago.
I certainly feel that the young man from Indiana, Mendoza

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had a phenomenally and deserves the accolade. But I could
have just as well seen uh, mister Love out of
Notre Dame getting that award as well. The response from
the Vanderbilt quarterback. I think it was tongue in cheek.
I don't think it was that big of a deal.
I think somebody put a microphone in his face and
asked a tough question, and.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Yeah, that was all social.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
I think he was just in this feelings which he
as you know he has, right, that's how he felt.

Speaker 5 (01:34:20):
He posted that after he posted that after a rather
difficult interview, but he didn't. He owned it. He owned
it so and you know he had a great year
as well they have.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
It was just interesting. It was just interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
Yeah, I mean why not. But to your point or
your question about what about the Heisman, I think it's
still a important award. I just wonder if the lesser
hasn't worn off it. But I do believe being sponsored
by Nissan, the winner gets a free car, and that's
pretty cool. Didn't Well, you know, I just I just

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don't have much use for awards. Once you start paying players,
they become employees, not students. And I've said that a
zillion times and people take aim at me all the same.
Oh you can't say that, Well, yeah I can, and
I honestly believe that you shouldn't have to go to
English class if you're being paid a million dollars a
year to play football. Now, if you want to pursue
a degree and you want to do that, then that's great.

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What power to your education matters? But uh, I look
at guys receiving big ni O money as employees, not students,
and as a result, I don't think they should have
to get that but eight o'clock and then go to
a chemistry lab. That's just me though.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Okay, so what else we got before we have to
let you go?

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Because the next time we'll be able to talk with
you will probably be yeah, in January, the first week
of January.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
So well, there's two things I want to say. There's
something very there's something very important that needs to be said.
I want to thank everybody to listen to your show
and tolerates my my segment. I also want to thank
everybody who listens to your show who reads the Dinnapolis Recorder.
Those are very important things to me, and I don't
take them lightly. I do believe that we all have

(01:36:12):
an obligation at Christmas time to reach out. We all
know somebody who's struggling a little bit, who's having difficulty.
Give them your greatest asset for Christmas, some of your time,
a plate of food, a visit, a small token gift,
something of that nature. Spend some time with someone less

(01:36:32):
fortunate with the holidays. It will repay you tenfold.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
I guarantee you absolutely, absolutely, and Danny and any major
plans for the holidays going out of town or you
sticking close.

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
No, I'm going to be I'm going to be local.
I'm going to be well fed, and I'm going to
get some dessert too. So I'll try to break the
Guinness Book of World Records for Christmas consumption. I did
come up short last year, but I gave it a
good run. I hope, I hope everybody reflects on what's
important about the holiday season. There's the obvious religious connotation

(01:37:07):
about the birth of Christ, but there's also other elements
to the holidays where we can all do something for
someone less fortunate. And again, at the risk of redundancy,
I hope all of your listeners will think about somebody
they know we might be struggling just a little bit.
Maybe brightening up their Christmas is just a tad by
giving them some of your time, a plate of food,

(01:37:29):
a small gift, and more importantly, the fellowship that goes
along with you simply being there with them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Thank you well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you,
Danny and.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
We everybody at the station. I just I just think
about the fact that you tolerate me week after week.
You should probably get it. You probably deserves something more
than a Merry Christmas albucation. But one of these days
I'll show up with something to eat and we'll talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Okay, okay, always something to eat. I love it all right,
Well with you next year, and that is all the
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Community Connection With Tina Cosby December 18th 2025 | Sports Highlights, Health Updates, and Local Issues

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