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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, a sunny No, it's rainy, rainy afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, gee, way to give people's hopes.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So I know it for just a minute. Well, they
probably thought she's such an idiot. Why would she think
it's sunny, Harry's I mean, that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
They would say if he was talking about herself.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Me, I'm such an idiot.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Doesn't get any she can't forget any It.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Can be authentic and not nice.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Are you know what? You know how I always think
this is the first day by I.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have never figured out how you think. I have worked
with you for twenty years and I still don't know
how you think. Oh my god, I'm Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's Jenny. Yeah, Island's here.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm eating some ice cream. Happy National ice Cream Day.
We'll talk about it more during Food News.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It is ice cream Day. It is, but it's also
for those of you that are watching. Look, I have
a shirt on.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, what happened July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Today is Moonday, on this day in history, anniversary of
the first lunar landing in fifty some years.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh my goodness, yeah, I remember watching it on the
Black and White TV.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I got this if you just are looking for a
fun one day trip and you're a space nut like
I am. That we went to Neil Armstrong's hometown, which
is Wapa Canetta, Ohio. No far, nice little drive. We
did that on the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing,
and it's just a great They have a really cool
museum with a space rock, a moon rock.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It used to be a big deal. Thing's right, material
coming back right.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
All kinds of stuff. So it's really a cool little
quick trip and it was really special on that day.
But yeah, I'm a moonnut, so I'm a space nut.
July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
She's also very unlucky. A lot of you don't know
that she has gone down to Titusville so many times
to see a launch.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And I say she went to the Moon.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, No, she went to Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Titusville.
But at Titusville is the city round there. You've never
seen a launch ever, you've been down there every You've
got the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Luck the whole Shuttle program.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I will never buy a lottery ticket when I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
My husband and I hate to fly so he'd make
him drive, he'd drive me, he'd drive us every and
there would be no launch, weather, mechanical problems, whatever, And
it was never never to be.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That I ever got to see one. I did see
the last Apollo launch a Saturn five, and it was
amazing to see them. But I anyway, that's just my luck. Okay,
what else? Honesty in history too? This is interesting. Sir
Thomas Clifford all Butt was born an English physician. He
invented the short six inch clinical thermometer. Before that it
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was a foot long.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
How'd they get it up?
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Near mind, never mind.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It seems all but.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, twelve inches all but you know, I don't, well, it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was a foot long before this guy comes along. Wow,
let's see what else? What else was new nineteen eighty nine?
Oh wait, before we get to that. Let's because this
is a new audience. Sometimes we have a new audience.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We're a new audience.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Never want to say congratulations to the city, because you
really did. Everybody involved in the WNBA All Star Game,
all the events, it really was phenomenal from what I
understand from people that were there and visiting. And as
I mentioned before, I saw somebody from New York that
had never been to Indianapolis, didn't want to come to Indianapolis,
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didn't know what she'd expect in Indianapolis, but had the
best time and she wants to come back to Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So you all did such a good job. The volunteer teams.
I saw Chultze down on the circle.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, Bob Schultz.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, you know that they've got a crew of volunteers
that are already always there and they enjoy it. Their squads.
You know, they've got their own clubs and I bet
they leve tattoos. But they're just great for Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They really are so Pacer Sports and entertainment. All of
you Indiapolis Downtown Inc. Visit Indy a great, great thing.
Saw Tyrese Haliburton at the game. Saw him. He was
there and having a great time. He was just sitting
in a chain in a seat. That was pretty cool.
Caitlin Clark, she was everywhere. She knew she had a
job to do because she wasn't gonna actually play close
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and she I think she was everywhere all the symposiums
and everything. But it was really awesome to see and
you all saw them in their black shirts or black
T shirts that you know, it's time to pay us
what we're worth.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It did raise a good question. Can I play a
little question, pease.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Where does your w salary stack up against your deals
with state farm GATORYE, Nike. That's a good question, you know. Honestly,
I feel like that's where we're really fortunate, is that
we have those other deals. And I think that's one
of the things that were in the room fighting for,
like Fi said, is you know, we should be paid more.
And hopefully that's the case moving forward as the league
(04:55):
continues to grow. I think that's something that's probably the
most important thing that we're in the room advocating about.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It is growing, and I'm happy that they're continuing to
get the credit.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
But yeah, just.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Didn't there to do a nice job. That's called dancing
on the nose of the alligator. When you know you're
on a really hot topic and you could go either way.
She did a really good job answering that question.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
She really did. Anyway, everybody had a great time, and
congratulations to all of you that works so hard to
make that happen. Coming up seventy five years ago this summer,
there's a Hoosier inventor that patented cruise control. Now that's
a great story writer, a Hoosier. But here's the thing.
He was blind and he invented all kinds of stuff.
And we're going to talk to his grandson after the
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break right here on ninety three WIBC. While you're taking
your summer road trips over the next couple of months,
I bet you're going to turn on the cruise control
from time to time.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What you might not know is that cruise control was
invented by a Hoosier. Ralph Teeter born in Hagerstown, Indiana
in eighteen ninety and Ralph Teeter was a blind engineer
who revolutionized the automotive industry with his inventions. A book
was written about this great American story, and now a
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documentary which began streaming this week. It's called Blind Logic
the Ralph R. Teeter Story, and here to talk about
it is mister Teeter's grandson, Ralph Meyer. Ralph, thank you
so much for joining us today. Tell us about your grandpa.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
When we were growing up as children, the subject of
blindness never were spoken. If you read my mother's book,
you'll know that his main goal in life was to
be normal and treated normal just like any other sighted person.
And so part of that was not speaking about blindness
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and being a topic. So he had his ways of
compensating and we just sort of grew up with those
as the natural paradigm, so we didn't really question too
much why things were done or how they were done.
So it wasn't until I was probably twelve thirteen before
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I even thought about the fact that he was blind.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
When did your grandfather lose his sight?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
His barb site until age five, and he had a
pocket knife accident. He was prying open a drawer and
the knife slipped, and it seems hardly possible, but he
ended up stabbing one eye. And then over the course
of a year, he had a sympathetic alpamia, which means
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that the good eye became like the bad eye and
it failed as well. Back back then they didn't have
the medical science to understand how to treat that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But even after he lost his sight, he continued to thrive.
He became an engineer.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yes, he was really the first engineer in the US
to from engineering school at the University of Pennsylvania. That
was part of his effort to be normal, is to
take on just the same occupation as anybody else sited.
Would that was underesting in automobiles and engineering, Well, let's.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Get right to it. In the opening, I mentioned that
so many are driving in their summer trips right now
and they are using cruise control and probably don't even
realize or think about where it came from. But it
came from the invention of a hoosier. Ralph Teeter tell
us the story of what inspired him to invent cruise control.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, probably the easiest way to understand what inspired him
is to ride in a car with multiple drivers and
close your eyes and try to anticipate what's going to
happen in that car, and before you know it, your
body will be going forward, backward, left and right. And
some drivers are lots of other drivers than other drivers,
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and he just thought to himself, you know, not have
something that would help people drive at a constant speed.
It would be a safer thing to do because they
could concentrate on their steering, and it would save fuel
for a better economy, and it would just make it
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a safer condition on the road. So also it's a
much more relaxing way to drive because you're not worried
about what your speed is, and whether you're speeding, you know,
breaking the law, or going too slow when you bify
the law. So it really does take the load off
your mind and let you relax.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Did he call it cruise control at that time?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The first name for it was speed a Start, and
that was named by my grandmother.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There was a book written about his great American story,
and now a documentary which began streaming this week. It's
called Blind Logic, The Ralph R. Teeters Story. How long
ago did he get cruise control patented?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
He first conceived of it back in nineteen thirty six,
and then it took him almost twenty years to realize
actual production of the device, and part of that was
disruption from World War Two and union activity at the
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factory and all kinds of things kind of slowed that
process down. But he was mostly concerned about developing something
that would be safe. And when people first heard about
cruise control actually locking the speed of an automobile, well
then they had a big fear about running off the
road and going out of control. So it was very
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very seriously tested and proven to be safe by all
of the automotive companies.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
How was his invention cruise control. How was his invention
received at that time?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I have all the documentation back of those years, and
in the later years of development there was a stantial
public education process and there were actually little test units
and all the dealers that had a cruise control looked
up and you could walk up to the thing and
operate the system and simulate how it would work. And
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then Chrysler was the first one to choose the system,
and I was in nineteen fifty eight and it was
on the Imperial. A couple of years after that, almost
all of the automotive companies had adopted the system. It
wasn't widely used as an option in nineteen seventy four
when they had the Lall embargo and everybody had to
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get the maximum gas mileagele then all of a sudden
it became really really popular in standard on most vehicles.
So it's been sort of the invention that keeps on
giving year after year. And now they're basing all the
automatic car functions on having cruise controls. So actually the
Smithsonian rated the invention as the very first automatic driving
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invention for the car.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Was your grandfather, Ralph Tater involved in any other inventions
or industries beyond cruise control.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Actually, yes, early on in his career he invented a
automatic gear shift, which is a hydraulic system that automated
shifting gears in a car. It's not exactly like automatic transmission,
but it was sort of the same concept. That did
not get wide acceptance like the crust control did, but
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he had it way before the time. He developed a
self propelled lawnmower. Wow, he developed a door knob system
with a lock. Instead of turning, you pushed and pulled
the doorknob to open it. Those are for sale on
ACE Hardware Now. It's so cool, but that pattern ran
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out before before it was an accepted. He invented a
number of things that weren't necessarily focused on his abilities,
and that's what kind of has amazed me later in life.
You know, why would he spend all his time in
venneck throusbraul when he never gets to drive a car.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is Ralph Meyer. He is the grandson of Ralph Teeter.
The documentary Blind Logic The Ralph R. Teeters Story is
available right now on major digital platforms like Amazon, iTunes,
Apple TV, Google Play, and Microsoft. It is also available
on demand through your cable providers. Is there anything else, Ralph,
you want our listeners to know about your grandfather.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, he was, of course a hoosier from Indiana and
he lived here all his life, though he traveled up
to Detroit many many times. We haven't mentioned anything about
his hobbies. His hobby was building Chriscraft type wooden boats
up at Lake Wallwi. See. He built three or four
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of those, and he dropped the Teeter Hartley motors, you know,
And that's in the documentary. But what's not in the
documentary which he bought one of the famous hydrofoil boats
that was racing up in Detroit, and he brought that
down to Wallasee and as a blind man, he ran
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seventy miles an hour up and down like Wallace. Theer
he was in at the indianaplis five hundred from the
very beginning. And they were there because their company made
piston rings, and all the drivers wanted to have perpetual
piston rings. Matter of fact, many of the drivers wanted
Ralph Peter to put the rings and their engines, and
so they would bring the race cars to Haggers down
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they'd sit there in the plant and rebuild the engines,
and then he'd be in the pits, you know, and
practice and race day and he'd sit there and listen
to the engines and feel the hoods and he'd give
them recommendations on how to tune their engines to get
the bet stout put so matter back to He's a
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track official.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
One year blind logic than Ralph our teeter story available
on all major digital platforms Amazon, iTunes, Apple TV, and
Google Play and Microsoft. And our guest Ralph Meyer. His
grandfather was Ralph Teeter. Thank you so much for sharing
his story. What an inspiration to all, truly, Ralph, thank
you so much. We appreciate it. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, it's been a pleasure, Terry, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Denny. You know how we found this guy, I don't know,
Ralph Meyer. Dana that checks in with us every Saturday
on the Home and Garden Show, you know Dana, And
she's been to some of our remotes and she loves
crafting and she's really a cool lady. That's her brother
in law is Ralph Meyer. And she was telling this
story and about how it was getting ready to debut
on social on all the platforms digital platforms and she said,
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it's a great story. And I too found it to
be a great story.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It is a great story truly.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
All right, it is ice cream Day. We've got a
great ice cream story for you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Im out right front of us, right in front of us.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes one, we are supporting local at the South Bend
Chocolate Company. I've got the their newest flavor, the Dinosaur
Egg ice cream. It's colored green, has some little cookie
cake bits in there as their ice cream cake flavor,
the Dinosaur Egg. That's what it's called.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Do you know why avocados?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wait, okay, well we were messling with Terry said it
was lime and avocado and mint, and no, it's just
vanilla ice cream with some cookie cake bits in there
for the dinosaur egg. The chocolate tear. And the businessman
behind South Bend Chocolate Company is actually a dinosaur export
and he yes, yeah, he goes and digs up dinosaur
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egg bones.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So I think this is a well, let's do it
all right, But until then, let's take a break. Let's
get to some news. We've got a couple couple, Well,
we got about thirty minutes left with you here at
w IBC. I do want to think everybody it's watching
us also as we stream on YouTube. Thank you for that,
and we'll get you some news and then we're coming
back and we'll talk more. Thanks for joining us. It's
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the first day on ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We played lots of basketball all around Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You betcha, it's been a fantastic weekend. Before we do anything,
it's twelve thirty four. Thank you for joining us here
on first day. I'm Terry Stacy, Denny Smith is here,
Kylon Taling, Denny.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We have very special birt We have a birthday. One
of our buddies is mister Fulton Maraz and he joined
us yesterday in studio and played a little song for us,
a Ricky Nelson song. But today's your birthday brother. Happy birthday, Fulton.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Happy birthday, Fulton. You're one of our favorites. Let's go.
It's a good one. Thank you. Thank you for stopping
by to see us yesterday. To Emily and Jason, thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And former taker of the house who dated one of
my wife's friends, Paul Manwiler, turned seventy six today. He
is ourst Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What a big day at the birthday to all of you,
absolutely two you bet you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Everyone on YouTube, Freddie ld.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Oh, they were calling you out. They wanted to know
why you were ignoring them. I had to cover for
you and say you were busy, which you were anyway.
Libertarian Dragon, Freddie, Kathleen and I miss everything, Terry Miller,
all of you. Thank you for thanks you for being
a part of the show with us.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, thank you very very much. And for those of
you that are just listening to us too over the airwaves. Well,
the WNBA All Star Game is over, and I hope
everybody had a fantastic time. The Bounce on Monument Circle
yesterday brought twenty five hundred kids downtown. It was so fun.
But at Finkel, I almost said at Finkel at Hinkle
Field House one of the very best TBT. The Basketball
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Tournament Regionals kicked off, co hosted by Butler alums known
as All Good Dogs and IUB basketball alums known as
Assembly Ball. It's a one million dollar winner take all event.
And I spoke to co founder Dan Friel before the
games and I asked him how the tournament was born
eleven years ago.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Honestly, it was just kind of like the modern day
equivalent of two guys talking about sports at a bar,
my buddy, John and I, who have been friends since
we were twelve. We were just kind of spitball on
different ideas about what we would do if we were
going to start sports from scratch, and we kind of
stumbled upon this. It wasn't a business idea, It just
was like two guys talking and the more we started talking, emailing,
texting about it, the more we realized that there was
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really something here. And we start launched it in twenty
fourteen sort of as a test run to see who
would play, and you know, we've kind of taken off
from there. This is the twelfth tournament that we're going
to run this year, which is really really hard for
me to believe.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's so cool. So really making that dream come true,
that idea come true, it couldn't have been easy, right,
And so tell me about that first year.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
But first year was hilarious because you know, it was
a five hundred thousand dollars prize in the first year
and we were coming into this without any real background
in basketball. Specifically John had played college basketball, but other
than like, we didn't really have the connections that people
would normally have to start something like this, and we
just put the word out and we hope that people
would show up. The first game that we ever played,
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I'll never forget this, there were maybe ten people in
the stands. It came Work from Syracuse who hit the
national championship winner for them, a guy named Well. Anyways,
it came Work and others showed up to this first
game with ten people in the stands. The whole thing
took off. It was unbelievable. And then you know, from
that point forward, we just kind of tried to build
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it year over year. There's been a lot of ups
and downs over the years and a lot of challenges,
but it's been so much fun to do technely.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Did you think after that first year, when there were
ten people in the audience and you'd put out all
this money, did you think, Okay, we can't do this anymore?
What did you think? Did you want to give up?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Well, it wasn't necessarily that I had taken a leak
of absence from my job to do TV two that
first year, and I went back to that job and
not a lout got done over those four to five months.
But then when we rebooted it for twenty fifteen, everybody
was all in with two feet and you know, we've
just done everything we can to make this work over
the years. I think the success is bearing that out
of attendance numbers have been fantastic. Fans like you know,
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Butler fans and Indiana fans and all the folks in
Indianapolis have been so great over the years to us,
and you know, we hopefully just continue that over the overtime.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You know, excuse me, is it okay? Can I ask you?
What did you do before? I mean, you said this
has got to be a full time job now right
it is?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I'm a I'm a lawyer. About background, and I had
done a federal prosecutor. I was doing white call it
crime in public corruption in New Orleans and you know,
suffice it to say, nobody liked it when I called
them as a federal prosecutor. And now I get a
lot of phone calls that I'm on the other end
of now, So that's been a big, big change for me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You mentioned John obviously a co founder. What was he doing?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
John was a producer of television shows in Los Angeles
that have a great background in comedy, and we're just
both are huge sports fans. We both grew up in
Boston and you know, really at the height of the
Celtics and the Red Sox and you know, when the
Patriots started winning again and everything else. And so we're
huge Boston sports fans and we've always shared a great
friendship sports. And for us, this again, it wasn't something
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that we necessarily started talking about as a business. It
just was kind of two guys talking and obviously that
turned into something much bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You're back here in Indianapolis, as we said, at Hinklefield House.
It really is Indiana's basketball cathedral, a real historic treasure.
What do you love about Hinklefield House?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Just the history of it. You know, John and I
obviously are huge fans of Hoosiers and when we had
first conceived of this idea, one of the initial places
that we wanted to play these games was Hinklefield House.
And for years we tried to make it work, and
luckily last year we were able to make it, make
it happen in real life. But the place is just
such a treasure. I was actually talking to Mike Freeman
from Butler earlier this week, and you know, he had
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recently been to Fenway Park, and I think that you
have very few sort of national historic legendary type facilities
like Fenway, Wrigley Field, Hinklefield House, Freedom Haul in Louisville
where we're playing over there. So there's like just a
handful of these types of places left that have survived
through the ages. And I think that the longer that
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place is around, more people are going to, the more
people living will appreciate just how special it is to
be able to play there.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Part of the beauty of them is the intimacy of
those arenas. How many regional tournaments are going on.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yeah, We've got eight regional tournaments all happening this weekend.
They start on Friday, so four of them will start
on Friday, the eighteenth, and four of them will start
on Saturday, the nineteenth. The one at Hinkle starts on
Saturday the nineteenth, two pm is the first game. So yeah,
we're kind of all over the country right now. We've
got regionals in Virginia at James Madison in Lexington and
on campus at University of Kentucky, Louisville, Wichita, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Syracuse,
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and in West Virginia as well. So we're kind of
all over the map right now. I think really nailed
the last couple of years, is that matching these alumni
teams with the historic arenas that people are used to
seeing them play in is really just a great experience.
And I think, as you know, Terry, like at hinkle Fieldhouse,
you can't find a more as you said, intimate location.
The fans are right on top of the court. If
you go to Butler games normally and maybe you don't
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have the best seats, can get them at TVT and
you're sitting right next to these players and these legendary players.
And the thing that's fascinating to me too is that
some of these guys that you saw in college are
way better now than they were when they were twenty
twenty two years old, because now they're playing professionally overseas.
You know, these guys are playing TVT, are playing all
over the world. They all come back for the summer.
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They you know, come back to year over year over
year to keep playing. And it really is just a
great experience for fans for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And a great experience for them too, right I'm guessing
they love this that.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
The players have sat Yeah, I mean I think that
you know, you're if you're traveling twelve hours in a
bus to play somewhere in eastern Europe and you have
an opportunity to come back and play in front of
five thousand fans plus at pink Hinkelfield House where you,
you know, kind of made your name in the game.
That's just an unbelievable opportunity for them. And I think,
you know, beyond that, some of these guys played it
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maybe you know, mid major schools or smaller schools not
on national TV. Their parents or their family haven't seen
them play in five or ten years, because they've been playing,
like I said, somewhere in the far flung reaches around
the world, and they come back and they get to
play in this environment. These games are televised on Fox,
streamed around the world on YouTube, and it just is
a great opportunity for them as well. We have a
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lot of guys that do so well in TBT that
they end up getting better contracts. We've had scores and
scores of players over the years that have earned the
NBA deals out of how they've played in TBT. So
it really just is an awesome environment and experience for them.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
As well.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's pretty cool that is co founder of TBT Dan Friel,
and the games go through the twenty third at hinkle Fieldhouse.
Go to tboops dot com for more info. Food news
is next right here on Whoop Woop ninety five.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
See it's National ice Cream Day.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Makes her happy? Well, thank you to you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
First day ninety three WIBC. I'm Kylin talling Terry. Stacy's
over there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
This is our food news portion of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Let's talk a little bit about ice cream, and let
me tell you the average price of a half gallon
of ice cream is now up to six forty nine
half gallon.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I haven't seen that price yet, but that's it's somewhere,
so that's still pay price.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'm still paying it. It doesn't matter how much it
goes up. I'm still going to be buying it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I'm still buying you know, great value.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know that's up nearly thirty three percent since June
of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now a lot, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Don't want to be paying that. I'll have some ice
cream food deals for you to enjoy. But hey, let's
get to our guest for the time, shall we.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
During Food wonderful news.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You should support local today because there are plenty of
places for you to celebrate around Indiana. And there's one
I would like to spotlight today. Moo and Lou Frozen
Treats over in Lawrence near Fort Ben fifty six in
Post and we have Lacey Lou, one half of Moo
and Lou Frozen Treats, here to celebrate with us. Happy
National ice Cream Day, Lacey.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Yes, Happy National ice Cream Day.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The story about your shop is inspiring and it continues
to impact the community around you, guys, and I want
to talk about it, share with us about the inspiration
behind Moo and Loo Frozen Streets.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yeah, of course. So Mattie is my sister. Obviously, her
nickname Mattie MoU is what we would call her. She
was the light of our family. She was our little
angel here on earth. She was born with special needs,
but she still had such a bright personality and she
has taught us so much about what really matters in life.
(27:27):
She unfortunately passed away unexpectedly in twenty fourteen. Sorry, I'm
trying not to cry.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, that's all right, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
So she unexpectedly from complications from a gallbladder surgery. So
definitely like weren't prepared, and obviously you never expect to lose,
you know, your nineteen year old sister or you know,
your child, you know. So we went through some grief
counseling and through our years of grieving, and our grief
(28:00):
counselor really inspired us to like do something positive in
her memory. So that's how we started our nonprofit called
Mattie Smiles and we do random acts of kindness in
her memory. And so through that process, every year on
her angel versary, the day that she passed, we would
hire an ice cream truck through our nonprofit, and we
(28:21):
would pay that ice cream truck to give out free
treats to our local first responders, firefighters, police officers, government workers,
all of that kind of stuff. It got a little
expensive and it got kind of hard to find trucks
that wanted to like go to a bunch of different
places in the same day.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So it was actually Dave.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
He's actually my stepdad, but it was actually his idea
to kind of start something of our own, and so
we did some research. We found a snow cone machine
and started doing snow cones just in a tent at events,
and then the next year we found our trailer, so
we started that started expanding our menu. So now we're
(29:03):
on our seventh year with our mobile trailer and our
brick and mortar at fifty six and posts has been
open about a year and a half ish and we
still tie in our nonprofit a lot with our MoU
and loo business. I mean, what better partnership, because I mean,
how can you not walk into it ice cream? You know,
going to get ice cream, and you know you're already smiling,
(29:25):
probably because ice cream makes everything better.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It does.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It does make everything a little bit better, and you
donate a portion of every sale goes back to Mattie Smiles.
Is that how the ituld kind of works? Correct?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Yes, our business helps support our nonprofit for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, and it does give you a smile. And one
of your signs outside your shop says, ice cream solves everything.
And I know ice cream is one of my go tos.
And this brick and mortar location that you have right
just as you said, just under two years, it's cute
as can be. Please describe it for our listeners, your
decor and your other side, even your back patio that
(30:03):
customers can enjoy thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
So, our idea obviously behind our business was to brighten
people's day, make your day better, just bring a smile
to people's faces. And that's a big part of how
we wanted to tie in Mattie Smiles with it too.
So we would with a lot of color. I love color.
Colorful things make me really happy. So you'll walk in,
(30:28):
We've got it's. The walls are purple, We've got beautiful,
colorful lanterns on the ceiling. Yeah. We just recently opened
up our back patio, so we've got colorful tables and
like games for people to play. Also games inside our shop,
like board games and all that. We just want to
be a place where people come and make memories and
(30:51):
enjoy their time together. We're not just the ice cream shop.
We want to be, you know, somewhere where people come
and make memories and really you know, just enjoy their time.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Sure, absolutely, moo and lose frozen treats and more. Do
you still do you still have the trailer? Do you
still take it to events and and uh and corporate
affairs and all kinds of things.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Of course, yes we do. Our trailer stays stays very
busy during the summer. We actually have two events today
that we're going to, so that's awesome. Yeah. One of
the things that we're actually doing today, the City of
Lawrence is doing their backpack giveaway. Oh yeah, so our
trailer will be given out pre snow cones to the
(31:35):
kids that are going out there. So again that's another
thing that we can do with our business side of
our nonprofit is be able to use our trailer to
do acts of kindness like that.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It's so it's really truly awesome. You know. So, now
how does being a I mean, being a part of
a family owned business, you know, so how does it
feel now to I mean, you're successful? It's successful, right.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Yeah, it's definitely growing and it's really crazy to think
about because none of us ever thought we would be
doing this in our life. Like I originally was going
to nursing school and then I actually graduated from you
Lily School of Philanthropy.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Wow wow, And so.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
I really, folks wanted to focus on our nonprofit, but
then this, you know move when Move started to so
we're just kind of doing both, which is awesome and
it's you know, it can be stressful to work with
your family, like everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I feel with Terry, don't worry good.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Good and bad good and bad days. But still you
know what you're doing and with the nonprofit owner and everything.
This is just the path you're on. You know, this
is where where that door opened and you're going a
whole different direction. But still you know you're doing You're
making people.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Happy and thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yes, what the goal is right keeping.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Exactly, yeah, And that's what we keep in the back
of our minds all the time because you know, running
a business is really hard.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Can't and it's and it can be really stressful, and
some days you wonder, like what did we get ourselves into?
But you remember the bottom line of why we started
it and where we want it to go, and that's
what gets us through every day. And you know, remembering, yeah,
remembering Maddie's smile and knowing that she's proud of us.
(33:32):
So that's what gets us through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
We're talking with founder Lacey Liu of Mow and Lou
Frozen Treats, and you are more than an ice cream shop.
You have mentioned your snow cones. Can you talk about
some of the other treats of all kinds that you
offer while supporting local through and through absolutely so.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
We do obviously carry ice cream. We have over thirty
two flavors in our shop and we get that from
Sunday's Homemade. They're located at seventy ninth in Fall Creek.
They've been making their own ice cream for many years.
Their award winning ice cream we get. We have root beers.
(34:09):
We like to do root beer floats. We get it
from Triple X made in West Lafayette, Yew. We do
snow cones. We have premium Sundays such as like Brownie Sundays,
Turo Sundays, Banana splits, all that amazing stuff, slushies, milkshakes, coffee,
baked treats.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
We do it all.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I cannot wait to visit. Fifty six in Post is
where you're located in the Lawrence area. You've got your food,
You've got the truck, the trailer that goes out to
So if anybody would like to know more, how would
they find? You're all over social media? You have websites.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Yes, we have a website Muloofrozentreats dot com. We are
on Facebook, Instagram, Yeah, and we're located at fifty sixth
in Posts right by, right down the street from Fort
Harrison State Park.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Okay, check thank them out.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Moo and Lou Frozen Treats over in Laurence, Lacy Lou,
thank you so much for taking time this Sunday, on
National ice Cream Day to be a part.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Thank you guys so much for having us again.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That website Moolu Frozen Treats, Moo l o Ufrozen Treats
dot Com. Some quick frozen food, some ice cream deals
for you sub zero we have one downtown. They're doing
a free scoop of their Big Blast from two to
four pm today. Greaters just celebrating ice Cream Day and
they're one hundred and fifty fifth Birthday with one dollar
and fifty five cent cones, free frosty, free Daili bar,
(35:33):
free soft serve ice cream at Burger King, with any
other purchase in their apps, lots of deals. Enjoy your
ice cream today.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, and have a good
week ahead. Thank you all so much for joining us again.
We've got some heavy rain moving in and out this
this day, so just keep it tuned right here to
ninety three WIBC news is next,
Good afternoon, a sunny No, it's rainy, rainy afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, gee, way to give people's hopes.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So I know it for just a minute. Well, they
probably thought she's such an idiot. Why would she think
it's sunny, Harry's I mean, that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
They would say if he was talking about herself.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Me, I'm such an idiot.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well that's nice.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Doesn't get any she can't forget any It.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Can be authentic and not nice.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Are you know what? You know how I always think
this is the first day by I.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Have never figured out how you think. I have worked
with you for twenty years and I still don't know
how you think. Oh my god, I'm Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's Jenny. Yeah, Island's here.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm eating some ice cream. Happy National ice Cream Day.
We'll talk about it more during Food News.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It is ice cream Day. It is, but it's also
for those of you that are watching. Look, I have
a shirt on.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, what happened July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Today is Moonday, on this day in history, anniversary of
the first lunar landing in fifty some years.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh my goodness, yeah, I remember watching it on the
Black and White TV.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I got this if you just are looking for a
fun one day trip and you're a space nut like
I am. That we went to Neil Armstrong's hometown, which
is Wapa Canetta, Ohio. No far, nice little drive. We
did that on the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing,
and it's just a great They have a really cool
museum with a space rock, a moon rock.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It used to be a big deal. Thing's right, material
coming back right.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
All kinds of stuff. So it's really a cool little
quick trip and it was really special on that day.
But yeah, I'm a moonnut, so I'm a space nut.
July twentieth, nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
She's also very unlucky. A lot of you don't know
that she has gone down to Titusville so many times
to see a launch.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And I say she went to the Moon.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, No, she went to Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Titusville.
But at Titusville is the city round there. You've never
seen a launch ever, you've been down there every You've
got the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Luck the whole Shuttle program.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I will never buy a lottery ticket when I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
My husband and I hate to fly so he'd make
him drive, he'd drive me, he'd drive us every and
there would be no launch, weather, mechanical problems, whatever, And
it was never never to be.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That I ever got to see one. I did see
the last Apollo launch a Saturn five, and it was
amazing to see them. But I anyway, that's just my luck. Okay,
what else? Honesty in history too? This is interesting. Sir
Thomas Clifford all Butt was born an English physician. He
invented the short six inch clinical thermometer. Before that it
(02:42):
was a foot long.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
How'd they get it up?
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Near mind, never mind.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It seems all but.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, twelve inches all but you know, I don't, well, it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was a foot long before this guy comes along. Wow,
let's see what else? What else was new nineteen eighty nine?
Oh wait, before we get to that. Let's because this
is a new audience. Sometimes we have a new audience.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We're a new audience.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Never want to say congratulations to the city, because you
really did. Everybody involved in the WNBA All Star Game,
all the events, it really was phenomenal from what I
understand from people that were there and visiting. And as
I mentioned before, I saw somebody from New York that
had never been to Indianapolis, didn't want to come to Indianapolis,
(03:30):
didn't know what she'd expect in Indianapolis, but had the
best time and she wants to come back to Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So you all did such a good job. The volunteer teams.
I saw Chultze down on the circle.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, Bob Schultz.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, you know that they've got a crew of volunteers
that are already always there and they enjoy it. Their squads.
You know, they've got their own clubs and I bet
they leve tattoos. But they're just great for Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
They really are so Pacer Sports and entertainment. All of
you Indiapolis Downtown Inc. Visit Indy a great, great thing.
Saw Tyrese Haliburton at the game. Saw him. He was
there and having a great time. He was just sitting
in a chain in a seat. That was pretty cool.
Caitlin Clark, she was everywhere. She knew she had a
job to do because she wasn't gonna actually play close
(04:16):
and she I think she was everywhere all the symposiums
and everything. But it was really awesome to see and
you all saw them in their black shirts or black
T shirts that you know, it's time to pay us
what we're worth.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It did raise a good question. Can I play a
little question, pease.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Where does your w salary stack up against your deals
with state farm GATORYE, Nike. That's a good question, you know. Honestly,
I feel like that's where we're really fortunate, is that
we have those other deals. And I think that's one
of the things that were in the room fighting for,
like Fi said, is you know, we should be paid more.
And hopefully that's the case moving forward as the league
(04:55):
continues to grow. I think that's something that's probably the
most important thing that we're in the room advocating about.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It is growing, and I'm happy that they're continuing to
get the credit.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
But yeah, just.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Didn't there to do a nice job. That's called dancing
on the nose of the alligator. When you know you're
on a really hot topic and you could go either way.
She did a really good job answering that question.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
She really did. Anyway, everybody had a great time, and
congratulations to all of you that works so hard to
make that happen. Coming up seventy five years ago this summer,
there's a Hoosier inventor that patented cruise control. Now that's
a great story writer, a Hoosier. But here's the thing.
He was blind and he invented all kinds of stuff.
And we're going to talk to his grandson after the
(05:37):
break right here on ninety three WIBC. While you're taking
your summer road trips over the next couple of months,
I bet you're going to turn on the cruise control
from time to time.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
What you might not know is that cruise control was
invented by a Hoosier. Ralph Teeter born in Hagerstown, Indiana
in eighteen ninety and Ralph Teeter was a blind engineer
who revolutionized the automotive industry with his inventions. A book
was written about this great American story, and now a
(06:09):
documentary which began streaming this week. It's called Blind Logic
the Ralph R. Teeter Story, and here to talk about
it is mister Teeter's grandson, Ralph Meyer. Ralph, thank you
so much for joining us today. Tell us about your grandpa.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
When we were growing up as children, the subject of
blindness never were spoken. If you read my mother's book,
you'll know that his main goal in life was to
be normal and treated normal just like any other sighted person.
And so part of that was not speaking about blindness
(06:46):
and being a topic. So he had his ways of
compensating and we just sort of grew up with those
as the natural paradigm, so we didn't really question too
much why things were done or how they were done.
So it wasn't until I was probably twelve thirteen before
(07:10):
I even thought about the fact that he was blind.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
When did your grandfather lose his sight?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
His barb site until age five, and he had a
pocket knife accident. He was prying open a drawer and
the knife slipped, and it seems hardly possible, but he
ended up stabbing one eye. And then over the course
of a year, he had a sympathetic alpamia, which means
(07:38):
that the good eye became like the bad eye and
it failed as well. Back back then they didn't have
the medical science to understand how to treat that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But even after he lost his sight, he continued to thrive.
He became an engineer.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yes, he was really the first engineer in the US
to from engineering school at the University of Pennsylvania. That
was part of his effort to be normal, is to
take on just the same occupation as anybody else sited.
Would that was underesting in automobiles and engineering, Well, let's.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Get right to it. In the opening, I mentioned that
so many are driving in their summer trips right now
and they are using cruise control and probably don't even
realize or think about where it came from. But it
came from the invention of a hoosier. Ralph Teeter tell
us the story of what inspired him to invent cruise control.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, probably the easiest way to understand what inspired him
is to ride in a car with multiple drivers and
close your eyes and try to anticipate what's going to
happen in that car, and before you know it, your
body will be going forward, backward, left and right. And
some drivers are lots of other drivers than other drivers,
(08:55):
and he just thought to himself, you know, not have
something that would help people drive at a constant speed.
It would be a safer thing to do because they
could concentrate on their steering, and it would save fuel
for a better economy, and it would just make it
(09:16):
a safer condition on the road. So also it's a
much more relaxing way to drive because you're not worried
about what your speed is, and whether you're speeding, you know,
breaking the law, or going too slow when you bify
the law. So it really does take the load off
your mind and let you relax.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Did he call it cruise control at that time?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
The first name for it was speed a Start, and
that was named by my grandmother.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There was a book written about his great American story,
and now a documentary which began streaming this week. It's
called Blind Logic, The Ralph R. Teeters Story. How long
ago did he get cruise control patented?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
He first conceived of it back in nineteen thirty six,
and then it took him almost twenty years to realize
actual production of the device, and part of that was
disruption from World War Two and union activity at the
(10:18):
factory and all kinds of things kind of slowed that
process down. But he was mostly concerned about developing something
that would be safe. And when people first heard about
cruise control actually locking the speed of an automobile, well
then they had a big fear about running off the
road and going out of control. So it was very
(10:41):
very seriously tested and proven to be safe by all
of the automotive companies.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
How was his invention cruise control. How was his invention
received at that time?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I have all the documentation back of those years, and
in the later years of development there was a stantial
public education process and there were actually little test units
and all the dealers that had a cruise control looked
up and you could walk up to the thing and
operate the system and simulate how it would work. And
(11:14):
then Chrysler was the first one to choose the system,
and I was in nineteen fifty eight and it was
on the Imperial. A couple of years after that, almost
all of the automotive companies had adopted the system. It
wasn't widely used as an option in nineteen seventy four
when they had the Lall embargo and everybody had to
(11:37):
get the maximum gas mileagele then all of a sudden
it became really really popular in standard on most vehicles.
So it's been sort of the invention that keeps on
giving year after year. And now they're basing all the
automatic car functions on having cruise controls. So actually the
Smithsonian rated the invention as the very first automatic driving
(12:03):
invention for the car.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Was your grandfather, Ralph Tater involved in any other inventions
or industries beyond cruise control.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Actually, yes, early on in his career he invented a
automatic gear shift, which is a hydraulic system that automated
shifting gears in a car. It's not exactly like automatic transmission,
but it was sort of the same concept. That did
not get wide acceptance like the crust control did, but
(12:35):
he had it way before the time. He developed a
self propelled lawnmower. Wow, he developed a door knob system
with a lock. Instead of turning, you pushed and pulled
the doorknob to open it. Those are for sale on
ACE Hardware Now. It's so cool, but that pattern ran
(12:55):
out before before it was an accepted. He invented a
number of things that weren't necessarily focused on his abilities,
and that's what kind of has amazed me later in life.
You know, why would he spend all his time in
venneck throusbraul when he never gets to drive a car.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is Ralph Meyer. He is the grandson of Ralph Teeter.
The documentary Blind Logic The Ralph R. Teeters Story is
available right now on major digital platforms like Amazon, iTunes,
Apple TV, Google Play, and Microsoft. It is also available
on demand through your cable providers. Is there anything else, Ralph,
you want our listeners to know about your grandfather.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, he was, of course a hoosier from Indiana and
he lived here all his life, though he traveled up
to Detroit many many times. We haven't mentioned anything about
his hobbies. His hobby was building Chriscraft type wooden boats
up at Lake Wallwi. See. He built three or four
(13:57):
of those, and he dropped the Teeter Hartley motors, you know,
And that's in the documentary. But what's not in the
documentary which he bought one of the famous hydrofoil boats
that was racing up in Detroit, and he brought that
down to Wallasee and as a blind man, he ran
(14:20):
seventy miles an hour up and down like Wallace. Theer
he was in at the indianaplis five hundred from the
very beginning. And they were there because their company made
piston rings, and all the drivers wanted to have perpetual
piston rings. Matter of fact, many of the drivers wanted
Ralph Peter to put the rings and their engines, and
so they would bring the race cars to Haggers down
(14:43):
they'd sit there in the plant and rebuild the engines,
and then he'd be in the pits, you know, and
practice and race day and he'd sit there and listen
to the engines and feel the hoods and he'd give
them recommendations on how to tune their engines to get
the bet stout put so matter back to He's a
(15:03):
track official.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
One year blind logic than Ralph our teeter story available
on all major digital platforms Amazon, iTunes, Apple TV, and
Google Play and Microsoft. And our guest Ralph Meyer. His
grandfather was Ralph Teeter. Thank you so much for sharing
his story. What an inspiration to all, truly, Ralph, thank
you so much. We appreciate it. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, it's been a pleasure, Terry, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Denny. You know how we found this guy, I don't know,
Ralph Meyer. Dana that checks in with us every Saturday
on the Home and Garden Show, you know Dana, And
she's been to some of our remotes and she loves
crafting and she's really a cool lady. That's her brother
in law is Ralph Meyer. And she was telling this
story and about how it was getting ready to debut
on social on all the platforms digital platforms and she said,
(15:51):
it's a great story. And I too found it to
be a great story.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It is a great story truly.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
All right, it is ice cream Day. We've got a
great ice cream story for you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Im out right front of us, right in front of us.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes one, we are supporting local at the South Bend
Chocolate Company. I've got the their newest flavor, the Dinosaur
Egg ice cream. It's colored green, has some little cookie
cake bits in there as their ice cream cake flavor,
the Dinosaur Egg. That's what it's called.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Do you know why avocados?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wait, okay, well we were messling with Terry said it
was lime and avocado and mint, and no, it's just
vanilla ice cream with some cookie cake bits in there
for the dinosaur egg. The chocolate tear. And the businessman
behind South Bend Chocolate Company is actually a dinosaur export
and he yes, yeah, he goes and digs up dinosaur
(16:45):
egg bones.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So I think this is a well, let's do it
all right, But until then, let's take a break. Let's
get to some news. We've got a couple couple, Well,
we got about thirty minutes left with you here at
w IBC. I do want to think everybody it's watching
us also as we stream on YouTube. Thank you for that,
and we'll get you some news and then we're coming
back and we'll talk more. Thanks for joining us. It's
(17:09):
the first day on ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We played lots of basketball all around Indiana.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You betcha, it's been a fantastic weekend. Before we do anything,
it's twelve thirty four. Thank you for joining us here
on first day. I'm Terry Stacy, Denny Smith is here,
Kylon Taling, Denny.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We have very special birt We have a birthday. One
of our buddies is mister Fulton Maraz and he joined
us yesterday in studio and played a little song for us,
a Ricky Nelson song. But today's your birthday brother. Happy birthday, Fulton.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Happy birthday, Fulton. You're one of our favorites. Let's go.
It's a good one. Thank you. Thank you for stopping
by to see us yesterday. To Emily and Jason, thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And former taker of the house who dated one of
my wife's friends, Paul Manwiler, turned seventy six today. He
is ourst Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What a big day at the birthday to all of you,
absolutely two you bet you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Everyone on YouTube, Freddie ld.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Oh, they were calling you out. They wanted to know
why you were ignoring them. I had to cover for
you and say you were busy, which you were anyway.
Libertarian Dragon, Freddie, Kathleen and I miss everything, Terry Miller,
all of you. Thank you for thanks you for being
a part of the show with us.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, thank you very very much. And for those of
you that are just listening to us too over the airwaves. Well,
the WNBA All Star Game is over, and I hope
everybody had a fantastic time. The Bounce on Monument Circle
yesterday brought twenty five hundred kids downtown. It was so fun.
But at Finkel, I almost said at Finkel at Hinkle
Field House one of the very best TBT. The Basketball
(18:44):
Tournament Regionals kicked off, co hosted by Butler alums known
as All Good Dogs and IUB basketball alums known as
Assembly Ball. It's a one million dollar winner take all event.
And I spoke to co founder Dan Friel before the
games and I asked him how the tournament was born
eleven years ago.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Honestly, it was just kind of like the modern day
equivalent of two guys talking about sports at a bar,
my buddy, John and I, who have been friends since
we were twelve. We were just kind of spitball on
different ideas about what we would do if we were
going to start sports from scratch, and we kind of
stumbled upon this. It wasn't a business idea, It just
was like two guys talking and the more we started talking, emailing,
texting about it, the more we realized that there was
(19:23):
really something here. And we start launched it in twenty
fourteen sort of as a test run to see who
would play, and you know, we've kind of taken off
from there. This is the twelfth tournament that we're going
to run this year, which is really really hard for
me to believe.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's so cool. So really making that dream come true,
that idea come true, it couldn't have been easy, right,
And so tell me about that first year.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
But first year was hilarious because you know, it was
a five hundred thousand dollars prize in the first year
and we were coming into this without any real background
in basketball. Specifically John had played college basketball, but other
than like, we didn't really have the connections that people
would normally have to start something like this, and we
just put the word out and we hope that people
would show up. The first game that we ever played,
(20:09):
I'll never forget this, there were maybe ten people in
the stands. It came Work from Syracuse who hit the
national championship winner for them, a guy named Well. Anyways,
it came Work and others showed up to this first
game with ten people in the stands. The whole thing
took off. It was unbelievable. And then you know, from
that point forward, we just kind of tried to build
(20:29):
it year over year. There's been a lot of ups
and downs over the years and a lot of challenges,
but it's been so much fun to do technely.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Did you think after that first year, when there were
ten people in the audience and you'd put out all
this money, did you think, Okay, we can't do this anymore?
What did you think? Did you want to give up?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Well, it wasn't necessarily that I had taken a leak
of absence from my job to do TV two that
first year, and I went back to that job and
not a lout got done over those four to five months.
But then when we rebooted it for twenty fifteen, everybody
was all in with two feet and you know, we've
just done everything we can to make this work over
the years. I think the success is bearing that out
of attendance numbers have been fantastic. Fans like you know,
(21:04):
Butler fans and Indiana fans and all the folks in
Indianapolis have been so great over the years to us,
and you know, we hopefully just continue that over the overtime.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You know, excuse me, is it okay? Can I ask you?
What did you do before? I mean, you said this
has got to be a full time job now right
it is?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I'm a I'm a lawyer. About background, and I had
done a federal prosecutor. I was doing white call it
crime in public corruption in New Orleans and you know,
suffice it to say, nobody liked it when I called
them as a federal prosecutor. And now I get a
lot of phone calls that I'm on the other end
of now, So that's been a big, big change for me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You mentioned John obviously a co founder. What was he doing?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
John was a producer of television shows in Los Angeles
that have a great background in comedy, and we're just
both are huge sports fans. We both grew up in
Boston and you know, really at the height of the
Celtics and the Red Sox and you know, when the
Patriots started winning again and everything else. And so we're
huge Boston sports fans and we've always shared a great
friendship sports. And for us, this again, it wasn't something
(22:02):
that we necessarily started talking about as a business. It
just was kind of two guys talking and obviously that
turned into something much bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You're back here in Indianapolis, as we said, at Hinklefield House.
It really is Indiana's basketball cathedral, a real historic treasure.
What do you love about Hinklefield House?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Just the history of it. You know, John and I
obviously are huge fans of Hoosiers and when we had
first conceived of this idea, one of the initial places
that we wanted to play these games was Hinklefield House.
And for years we tried to make it work, and
luckily last year we were able to make it, make
it happen in real life. But the place is just
such a treasure. I was actually talking to Mike Freeman
from Butler earlier this week, and you know, he had
(22:41):
recently been to Fenway Park, and I think that you
have very few sort of national historic legendary type facilities
like Fenway, Wrigley Field, Hinklefield House, Freedom Haul in Louisville
where we're playing over there. So there's like just a
handful of these types of places left that have survived
through the ages. And I think that the longer that
(23:01):
place is around, more people are going to, the more
people living will appreciate just how special it is to
be able to play there.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Part of the beauty of them is the intimacy of
those arenas. How many regional tournaments are going on.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yeah, We've got eight regional tournaments all happening this weekend.
They start on Friday, so four of them will start
on Friday, the eighteenth, and four of them will start
on Saturday, the nineteenth. The one at Hinkle starts on
Saturday the nineteenth, two pm is the first game. So yeah,
we're kind of all over the country right now. We've
got regionals in Virginia at James Madison in Lexington and
on campus at University of Kentucky, Louisville, Wichita, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Syracuse,
(23:37):
and in West Virginia as well. So we're kind of
all over the map right now. I think really nailed
the last couple of years, is that matching these alumni
teams with the historic arenas that people are used to
seeing them play in is really just a great experience.
And I think, as you know, Terry, like at hinkle Fieldhouse,
you can't find a more as you said, intimate location.
The fans are right on top of the court. If
you go to Butler games normally and maybe you don't
(23:59):
have the best seats, can get them at TVT and
you're sitting right next to these players and these legendary players.
And the thing that's fascinating to me too is that
some of these guys that you saw in college are
way better now than they were when they were twenty
twenty two years old, because now they're playing professionally overseas.
You know, these guys are playing TVT, are playing all
over the world. They all come back for the summer.
(24:20):
They you know, come back to year over year over
year to keep playing. And it really is just a
great experience for fans for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And a great experience for them too, right I'm guessing
they love this that.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
The players have sat Yeah, I mean I think that
you know, you're if you're traveling twelve hours in a
bus to play somewhere in eastern Europe and you have
an opportunity to come back and play in front of
five thousand fans plus at pink Hinkelfield House where you,
you know, kind of made your name in the game.
That's just an unbelievable opportunity for them. And I think,
you know, beyond that, some of these guys played it
(24:52):
maybe you know, mid major schools or smaller schools not
on national TV. Their parents or their family haven't seen
them play in five or ten years, because they've been playing,
like I said, somewhere in the far flung reaches around
the world, and they come back and they get to
play in this environment. These games are televised on Fox,
streamed around the world on YouTube, and it just is
a great opportunity for them as well. We have a
(25:12):
lot of guys that do so well in TBT that
they end up getting better contracts. We've had scores and
scores of players over the years that have earned the
NBA deals out of how they've played in TBT. So
it really just is an awesome environment and experience for them.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
As well.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's pretty cool that is co founder of TBT Dan Friel,
and the games go through the twenty third at hinkle Fieldhouse.
Go to tboops dot com for more info. Food news
is next right here on Whoop Woop ninety five.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
See it's National ice Cream Day.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Makes her happy? Well, thank you to you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
First day ninety three WIBC. I'm Kylin talling Terry. Stacy's
over there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
This is our food news portion of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Let's talk a little bit about ice cream, and let
me tell you the average price of a half gallon
of ice cream is now up to six forty nine
half gallon.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I haven't seen that price yet, but that's it's somewhere,
so that's still pay price.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'm still paying it. It doesn't matter how much it
goes up. I'm still going to be buying it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I'm still buying you know, great value.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know that's up nearly thirty three percent since June
of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now a lot, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Don't want to be paying that. I'll have some ice
cream food deals for you to enjoy. But hey, let's
get to our guest for the time, shall we.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
During Food wonderful news.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You should support local today because there are plenty of
places for you to celebrate around Indiana. And there's one
I would like to spotlight today. Moo and Lou Frozen
Treats over in Lawrence near Fort Ben fifty six in
Post and we have Lacey Lou, one half of Moo
and Lou Frozen Treats, here to celebrate with us. Happy
National ice Cream Day, Lacey.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Yes, Happy National ice Cream Day.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The story about your shop is inspiring and it continues
to impact the community around you, guys, and I want
to talk about it, share with us about the inspiration
behind Moo and Loo Frozen Streets.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Yeah, of course. So Mattie is my sister. Obviously, her
nickname Mattie MoU is what we would call her. She
was the light of our family. She was our little
angel here on earth. She was born with special needs,
but she still had such a bright personality and she
has taught us so much about what really matters in life.
(27:27):
She unfortunately passed away unexpectedly in twenty fourteen. Sorry, I'm
trying not to cry.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, that's all right, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
So she unexpectedly from complications from a gallbladder surgery. So
definitely like weren't prepared, and obviously you never expect to lose,
you know, your nineteen year old sister or you know,
your child, you know. So we went through some grief
counseling and through our years of grieving, and our grief
(28:00):
counselor really inspired us to like do something positive in
her memory. So that's how we started our nonprofit called
Mattie Smiles and we do random acts of kindness in
her memory. And so through that process, every year on
her angel versary, the day that she passed, we would
hire an ice cream truck through our nonprofit, and we
(28:21):
would pay that ice cream truck to give out free
treats to our local first responders, firefighters, police officers, government workers,
all of that kind of stuff. It got a little
expensive and it got kind of hard to find trucks
that wanted to like go to a bunch of different
places in the same day.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So it was actually Dave.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
He's actually my stepdad, but it was actually his idea
to kind of start something of our own, and so
we did some research. We found a snow cone machine
and started doing snow cones just in a tent at events,
and then the next year we found our trailer, so
we started that started expanding our menu. So now we're
(29:03):
on our seventh year with our mobile trailer and our
brick and mortar at fifty six and posts has been
open about a year and a half ish and we
still tie in our nonprofit a lot with our MoU
and loo business. I mean, what better partnership, because I mean,
how can you not walk into it ice cream? You know,
going to get ice cream, and you know you're already smiling,
(29:25):
probably because ice cream makes everything better.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
It does.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It does make everything a little bit better, and you
donate a portion of every sale goes back to Mattie Smiles.
Is that how the ituld kind of works? Correct?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Yes, our business helps support our nonprofit for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, and it does give you a smile. And one
of your signs outside your shop says, ice cream solves everything.
And I know ice cream is one of my go tos.
And this brick and mortar location that you have right
just as you said, just under two years, it's cute
as can be. Please describe it for our listeners, your
decor and your other side, even your back patio that
(30:03):
customers can enjoy thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
So, our idea obviously behind our business was to brighten
people's day, make your day better, just bring a smile
to people's faces. And that's a big part of how
we wanted to tie in Mattie Smiles with it too.
So we would with a lot of color. I love color.
Colorful things make me really happy. So you'll walk in,
(30:28):
We've got it's. The walls are purple, We've got beautiful,
colorful lanterns on the ceiling. Yeah. We just recently opened
up our back patio, so we've got colorful tables and
like games for people to play. Also games inside our shop,
like board games and all that. We just want to
be a place where people come and make memories and
(30:51):
enjoy their time together. We're not just the ice cream shop.
We want to be, you know, somewhere where people come
and make memories and really you know, just enjoy their time.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Sure, absolutely, moo and lose frozen treats and more. Do
you still do you still have the trailer? Do you
still take it to events and and uh and corporate
affairs and all kinds of things.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Of course, yes we do. Our trailer stays stays very
busy during the summer. We actually have two events today
that we're going to, so that's awesome. Yeah. One of
the things that we're actually doing today, the City of
Lawrence is doing their backpack giveaway. Oh yeah, so our
trailer will be given out pre snow cones to the
(31:35):
kids that are going out there. So again that's another
thing that we can do with our business side of
our nonprofit is be able to use our trailer to
do acts of kindness like that.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
It's so it's really truly awesome. You know. So, now
how does being a I mean, being a part of
a family owned business, you know, so how does it
feel now to I mean, you're successful? It's successful, right.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Yeah, it's definitely growing and it's really crazy to think
about because none of us ever thought we would be
doing this in our life. Like I originally was going
to nursing school and then I actually graduated from you
Lily School of Philanthropy.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Wow wow, And so.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
I really, folks wanted to focus on our nonprofit, but
then this, you know move when Move started to so
we're just kind of doing both, which is awesome and
it's you know, it can be stressful to work with
your family, like everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I feel with Terry, don't worry good.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Good and bad good and bad days. But still you
know what you're doing and with the nonprofit owner and everything.
This is just the path you're on. You know, this
is where where that door opened and you're going a
whole different direction. But still you know you're doing You're
making people.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Happy and thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yes, what the goal is right keeping.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Exactly, yeah, And that's what we keep in the back
of our minds all the time because you know, running
a business is really hard.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Can't and it's and it can be really stressful, and
some days you wonder, like what did we get ourselves into?
But you remember the bottom line of why we started
it and where we want it to go, and that's
what gets us through every day. And you know, remembering, yeah,
remembering Maddie's smile and knowing that she's proud of us.
(33:32):
So that's what gets us through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
We're talking with founder Lacey Liu of Mow and Lou
Frozen Treats, and you are more than an ice cream shop.
You have mentioned your snow cones. Can you talk about
some of the other treats of all kinds that you
offer while supporting local through and through absolutely so.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
We do obviously carry ice cream. We have over thirty
two flavors in our shop and we get that from
Sunday's Homemade. They're located at seventy ninth in Fall Creek.
They've been making their own ice cream for many years.
Their award winning ice cream we get. We have root beers.
(34:09):
We like to do root beer floats. We get it
from Triple X made in West Lafayette, Yew. We do
snow cones. We have premium Sundays such as like Brownie Sundays,
Turo Sundays, Banana splits, all that amazing stuff, slushies, milkshakes, coffee,
baked treats.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
We do it all.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I cannot wait to visit. Fifty six in Post is
where you're located in the Lawrence area. You've got your food,
You've got the truck, the trailer that goes out to
So if anybody would like to know more, how would
they find? You're all over social media? You have websites.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Yes, we have a website Muloofrozentreats dot com. We are
on Facebook, Instagram, Yeah, and we're located at fifty sixth
in Posts right by, right down the street from Fort
Harrison State Park.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Okay, check thank them out.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Moo and Lou Frozen Treats over in Laurence, Lacy Lou,
thank you so much for taking time this Sunday, on
National ice Cream Day to be a part.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Thank you guys so much for having us again.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
That website Moolu Frozen Treats, Moo l o Ufrozen Treats
dot Com. Some quick frozen food, some ice cream deals
for you sub zero we have one downtown. They're doing
a free scoop of their Big Blast from two to
four pm today. Greaters just celebrating ice Cream Day and
they're one hundred and fifty fifth Birthday with one dollar
and fifty five cent cones, free frosty, free Daili bar,
(35:33):
free soft serve ice cream at Burger King, with any
other purchase in their apps, lots of deals. Enjoy your
ice cream today.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, and have a good
week ahead. Thank you all so much for joining us again.
We've got some heavy rain moving in and out this
this day, so just keep it tuned right here to
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