First Day with Terri Stacy – August 10, 2025 - Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Denny started it.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's constant fighting. We're really the we're really just a
happy family.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, really are happy. We truly are, and you're part
of it. And thank you for being here.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
It's interest be the middle child in this family.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
You're so you're forgotten, you are so right.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I am the middle child in this family. Good afternoon
to you all. Thank you for being here. It's another
hot one lookout for one another. Be safe out there
today and the rest of the week. There's no end
in sight, so whatever you're doing, lots to do here
in the city. But good afternoon, and welcome to our
number two of the first day. Two three nine nine
three nine three is our number. And thank you for

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watching us too. We're streaming live on YouTube. Now you
see Kylin's beautiful face. That's our phone number and joining
us on the phone. I'm so excited to talk to
him because I really like him. Marion County's forty eighth
mayor in office from twenty eight to twenty sixteen. Greg
Ballard is here.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi, Maara Ballard.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
How are your every guy's doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We're good house, Winnie, Greg.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
Everything's really good for us. We just had our daughter
and her our two grandkids from dever End last week.
So we're all in a good mood.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm glad. I'm so glad. I'm glad life is good
for you. You've written another new book, just released last week.
It's titled Urban Republican Mayor My Story And if you
don't know, if you're new to our area, Greg grew
up here in Indianapolis, got his education here, he stayed here,
decided to return here after his years, many years of service.

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He loves this city, but the city can.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I can I still call him the mayor? Do I
still do that? What's the protocol?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh, it's probably better calling mayor than colonel. I mean,
I mean it's the closer of the two.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Okay, Well, anyway, many things, but your love of this place.
But the city has changed since you were the mayor.
Do you still love it like you used to?

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Oh? Sure that the people are terrific and I love
being being around everybody. You may remember I moved down
to Mertle Beach for a couple of years. But as
soon as we moved down there, we almost knew we
were going to come back at the two year mark,
and we did because we wanted to come back. We
missed all our friends. We missed everything that happened, We
missed the race, We missed all of it. And if

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you grew up here in India, it kind of kind
of keeps you here, at least in a heart, almost
all the time. So I love being here. We're just
outside of Indianapolis, ree Frank, but two minutes from getting
into the city, and I could get anywhere and went
very fast, as I did last night.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
You were so well remembered, sir. You went door to
door against an incumbent mayor and you beat him as
a Republican, and I think the whole world was shell shocked.
But it was because you had a people campaign instead
of quips and fancy you know, brass bands and door knockers.
You just did it the hard way, and then you

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set the pace by just being common sense. People thought
you were a slow talker. I thought you were a
quick thinker, and your management style was just so perfect
for what the city needed at the time. Is always
is that in the book.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
That is the book. Actually most of it, two hundred
pages of the book are a two hundred or three
hundred are what we did in office. But it's interesting
that you mentioned that A campaigned that way. That was
largely due to lack of money.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, you really didn't have any money.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
He didn't know. I had to go know door.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
To do our true speech hold.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
But I also I also think that the management style
that you talk about, I think people really appreciated because
I thought the stability and the moderation, just doing the
right thing for the right reasons was not really it
was what people really appreciated about our administration.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
We talk about so much happening in Indie right now
and how we love it for the city that it is,
and like the fever up and coming, the All Star Games,
the swim. So much is happening in Indie right now.
But you made stuff happen in India and brought it
up with you. What do you miss about being mayor
and being more involved with the city.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, that's a great question. I really loved being around
the people of Indianapolis and get asked all the time
I was the best part about being the mayor, And
I frankly said, it's the same thing all eight years
and I still say today, which is I see people
doing good works on behalf of others that most people
don't see it won't be on TV, it won't be
in the newspaper. But people are helping each other all

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the time here in the city of Indianapolis, and it's
really special to see. There's a real good heart for
people around here. They tend to work together. And as
the mayor, I was able to see so much of that,
and so I was blessed to be able to watch
all that.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Why did you want to be the mayor? Though?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I mean a Persian golf veteran for anybody that doesn't
know a Persian Gulf War veteran, a twenty three year
career in the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
And then but what made you want to be the mayor?

Speaker 5 (05:00):
There's actually a couple gentlemen who asked me to be
the mayor. He said, no one is running on the
Republican side. You have the skill set to be the mayor.
It's just a couple of guys that most people don't know.
They were just friends of mine, and so I started
looking into it. He was right, no one was running,
and because no one wanted to get beat. I didn't
have that problem because nobody knew me anyway.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
So he enjoined the Marine Corps, and I don't know
how you did it. My father was father in law,
was a captain in the army, and he had this
funny saying. He said, there's nothing more dangerous than a
second lieutenant and a compass. So, well, right, what are
the leadership? What leadership did you learn in the corps
that really helped you as a mayor?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Actually, the one that was the most beneficial to me
was the ability to focus. They when you're the mayor,
even when you're running from mayor, there's people trying to
distract you all the time and throw you off your
game and try to throw this in seeing how you're
going to react to it. And that was constant throughout
the eight years. But I was very much focused on

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what we were trying to do, and I had people
around me who were just really, really smart. I had
the best people in the world, and we just stayed
focused on what we thought was the right thing to do,
and we did not get distracted by others who are
trying to throw a wrench in the works.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is there You call yourself an urban Republican, So how
do you define that urban republican? Is it different from
traditional conservative Republicans.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, I think it is, and the title is there
because there are no or virtually no urban Republican mayors
in the country. Big cities do not have Republican mayors.
It's extremely unusual. And the top twenty five cities in
the country right now there might be two, and they're
in southern areas, and they're in red cities, if you will.

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A Republican mayor in a blue city is just the
rarest of political commodity, it really is. So that's what's
that's right off the bat. That is different. But I
think we are doing this thing moderately, governing moderately. As
I tell people, governing at the city level is a
practical experience. It's not ideological. There are things that have

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to be done or should be done that any mayor
tries to govern ideologically is probably doing all the wrong things.
So we focus on what we thought the city needs
to do and need to move forward with. And I
end up be frank with you, in the in an
urban setting, there's a lot of different ethnicities that maybe
are not as present in suburban and rural communities, and

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you have to understand those communities and appreciate those communities
and understand why they're there and they go to work
and they have maybe different viewpoints at time, but they're
all Americans and they want to do the right thing.
So that part I think Republicans can get a little
bit better on. And I think people appreciated the fact
that I went to their events, I talked to them
all the time. Of course, having winning as my lady

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was was key to all that, because everybody loved my wife.
He still does still do well. Yeah, yeah, you know
we've been married forty two years now, and you know
it's better than ever. So it's I just I think
people liked that about us, that we were just we
were not out being flame throwers, are doing this, and

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that we're trying to do what was best for the
citizens of Indianapolis, and I think that came through.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, I agree, Greg. Now I'm gonna ask you a question.
Can you wait for a minute while we take a
break or do you have you.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Got to go?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:32):
No, I'm fine, Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Joining us is former Marion County Mayor Greg Ballard. His
new book, just released last week, is titled Urban Republican
Mayor My Story. And we'll continue with our conversation after
this break on ninety three WIBC.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's twelve nineteen and this is the first day.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm Terry Stacey, along with Denny Smith and Kylon Tally,
and we made a friend in Greg Ballard many many
years ago, it feels like, but he was our forty
eighth mayor here in the city. He and or he
was in office from twenty eight to twenty sixteen. If
you're just joining us, we've been talking to Greg Mayor Ballard.
Thanks for sticking around with us. Your new book, Urban
Republican Mayor My Story, and Kylon is up first.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, I'm curious about this story because how do you
decide to write a book about everything that you've done?
Where do you even start with something like that?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Or why or why?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, exactly, that's a great question.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
I was actually working on another book at the time,
but I talked. I was at a little gathering with
a couple of my chiefs of staff and somebody else
that worked prominently within the administration, and they wanted to
capture They told me they want to capture what we
did in office because they have worked in other administrations
of their office holders' offices. And they said we should

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capture what we did, because what we did and how
we did it and why we did it was so
much different than anything they had experienced also, so they
wanted to capture it. And of course they all had jobs,
and I was kind of semi retired, so it kind
of fell to me to do it. But I want
to like to write the books anyway, and so that
we just wanted. I wanted to have a record of it.
And plus it's a bit of a memoir too. It

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is a memory of Frankly, there's how I grew up,
a few pages about how I grew up, there's my
time in the Marine Corps, and then most of it
is about what we did in offices the mayor. So
it's a good encapsulation of everything that my life has
entailed so far.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Somebody said to me when they told me when I
said to them, you were going to be on the
show today, they said, oh, I bet he wants to
do this again.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Maybe he'll run again for mayor. And I said, well,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Maybe that's an every other day ask of me, and
I get that routinely, and especially in the last couple
of cycles running for mayor. But I think my time
was kind of past. I'm a little older now. I
still think about running for office somewhere else, and everybody
says they'll support me no matter what I do. But
I don't know I can make it more difference in

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the office or more of a difference out of office.
I'm just not sure. But I'm not fifty anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Either.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Do I understand that Mayor Vallard joins us and one
of the questions I've always wanted to ask you, and
I understand it's part of the book. I have not
read the book, but I'm looking forward to it. In
the nineteen nineties, under Bill Clinton's administration, we had Riffra,
you know, religious freedom, and of course that came to
the States and it got all screwed up with the States.
But in twenty fifteen, Mike Pence signed it and it

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was championed by conservative lawmakers. We watched this perception of discrimination.
We saw a national backlash and everything. Give me your perspective.
You were very critical of Riffra, and I imagine you
still are. Share with me just a little bit of
that chapter that I'm going to read next time.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
So the chapter is Titler's an entire chapter on it,
and the title chapter is the religious freedom law. That
was not about religious freedom exactly. So that should tell
you something about all that. And I go into it
as I will tell you. It's a different take than
most people saw, but they have to understand it was

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my perspective. It's my view of what was happening and
why they were doing it, and it was I had
already announced I was not writing again and in like
October November the previous year, and this happened in March
of fifteen, my last year, and it was the tensest
ten days of my administration easily, because I'm going against
my friends, people that I know, and it was very

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it was very difficult on me, and we had to
do what was right, and for some reason they weren't
seeing it over at the State House. They finally did,
but they got what we called the fix on it.
If you will, I remember it was just still wasn't
still wasn't right.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
That was about discrimination. The fix was that it could
not be used to justify discrimination for sexual orientation, you know,
gender identity, any of that. So I think the fix
tried to fix it. But the fix was an inn
at the time that you were grouchy about it, and
I you know you played it well.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
I mean, you have to read the chapter. I have
to say that because I want you to buy the book.
I want to write the book. But you'll see it, sure,
sure you'll see it. You'll see at the beginning the
genesis of it all, which is really kind of fascinating.
But then how they played it out, it took it
took quite a while before they figured out, Oops, we
made a big mistake here.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Redistricting is a hot topic right now. Any thoughts on redistricting.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
That's a good question. But I it seems to me
that seven to two Republicans is pretty good right now,
and I don't know why we would want to mess
with that and pret ourselves in the national limelight for that. Again,
that seems wrong to me. We tradition. I'm a big
I'm big for norms. What's been the way we've done it.

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It's worked for us for decades and if not centuries.
The every ten years since this seems to have done
the trick. I think we should stick with that.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Can I ask you another interesting question, because this was
in the news last week and I thought it was
interesting and in the UK they're going to allow in
the next British Prime minister election, they're going to lower
the voting age from eighteen to sixteen. Should sixteen year
olds be able to vote in any election, whether that's

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school boards to president of the United States?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
What do you think about that, sixteen year olds?

Speaker 5 (14:23):
I think that's silly, I wondered.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Don't be bashing, say your sixteen year olds.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Just I sure didn't know much about politics at sixteen, so.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
I'm not sure brains are fully formed by the age
of thirty right here.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Right, I agree, especially not the male brain. We've learned that.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Oh my god, I'm not a big fan of that.
And you know, let those folks go through high school
or what I can't remember what they call it over
in England, but let them get through high school. The
only reason you may remember it used to be twenty
one not so long ago, And the only reason they
went down to eighteen really is because they said, well,
we could draft people for war, but they can't vote.
And I think that was the main emphasis to move

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it from twenty one to eighteen. I'm not I wouldn't
be opposed to do back up to eight twenty one
to be honest with you, I think eighteen olds are
a bolt. But to be frank, they don't vote in
big numbers anyway.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
If we're talking hot topics.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Hey, wait a minute, bucke up, sir, you're about to
get You're about to get a big one right here.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I just have a question about tariffs, because well, Trump
has just recently added an extra twenty five percent tariff
on Indian goods, and you went on the You were
on WISH TV's All Indiana Politics this weekend to share
insight on this. Can you share your thoughts on this
new tariff, especially compared to some of the others he's
put on some various cads.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Was I on All Indian and Politics this morning? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
You were, Well, it was nice.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Don't actually I did the newscast, even newscasts few days ago.
They must have just played that on them.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Oh they did, They re shared it.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Okay, you're not getting out of this question.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
No, no, no, I'm you know, I'm I'm very open
about this that I think the tariffs are. I don't
think there's a plan. It doesn't look like there's a
plan to me. But we are now in an awkward
situation where this is my opinion in thirty years, I
think India is the lynchpin country of the world. They're

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the biggest democracy right now kind of leaning towards Russia
and some authoritarian notions. And now we are going to
the tariffs on them because of Russian oil. Now you
know as well, you know it was like many people
do that. I think oil has been bad for national

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security and international relations for decades now.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
So you wrote a book about it, I did, I did.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
And Russia, you know, half of Russian money comes from
oil and gas exports there as I like to say,
they're a mediocre country without their oil and gas exports.
They can't do the warn you greink without oil and
gas exports. So now we're in a position where we're
going to put sanctions on somebody, a nation that we

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should be courting, like India. We should we should be
making solidifying their democracy, not kind of pushing them away
from US and the rest of the West. And so
it's very awkward right now because we are essentially punishing
them for doing something that their economy needs right now,

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and we should we should be doing this differently, and
we should not be punishing India at all, because I'm
just here to tell you, in thirty years, I think
most people are going to see that India is going
to be absolutely key to how the world turns out.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
We really don't want to keep you too much longer,
but Greg Ballard has joined us. I have one question
for you. Is there anything you regret as.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Mayor there's not? Overall, I wouldn't say I try to
get done what I could get done. I'd like to
think we were in there to do all those things
that could not be done financially and politically, and things
that have been kicked down the road. Somebody kicked the
can down the road. We tackle all that stuff. I

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would have liked to have done the Criminal Justice Center
the way we wanted to do it, but at least
it got done. I thought the way we were doing
it would have been much more fiscally responsible, but you know,
it is what it is. That's not how politics works.
But other than that, nothing really comes to mind. I
was so proud that we kind of created a new
generational leadership. If you look where all my people are
right now, they're kind of running half the state and

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I'm very proud of that. So I don't have too
much to regret it to be regretful about. And I
think I did my best. I worked my tail off
for eight years and then I moved on.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
And we appreciate it too.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
And this is former Mayor County, former Marion County mayor
and author Greg Ballat, also a veteran, and his latest book,
released just last week, is titled Urban Republican Mayor My Story.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Where can we get it? Greg?

Speaker 5 (18:58):
Amazon is the place to go right now, or I
you press, you can rct to the publisher's website also
if you want to do that. It's kind of a
hot topic. It's number two nationally in a couple of categories,
which is really nice. That's the number one, number one
new release in city planning and urban development, so it's
there are people buying it right now.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
That's so cool.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Pretty much, pretty good number. So I hope it stays
up there for you. Bet.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Congratulations, congratulations Also follow him at Mayor Ballard on X.
Thank you so much for your time, Our best to
you and to Winnie and your family, and you're always
welcome here.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Greg, Thanks so much for your time today.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. I hope you
guys have a great day.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
You do the same. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
This is the first day on ninety three WIBC. It's
twelve thirty six. Good afternoon to you, and thank you
for joining us here on the first day. I'm Terry Stacy,
Kylin Tally is here and Denny Smith, so tell.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Us about State Fair. Girl you've been out there.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Also want to mention this because this is and I
really will, but this is so cool. Denny and we
not talked about this at all, and I'm ashamed of us,
mostly me.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
But the Floyd's Knobs Girls.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Softball they're going to the championships.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, they're representing Indiana and the girls Little League World Series.
They won state regional. Now at the Little League World Series,
they knocked off the defending champ, earning them their first
Little League Softball World Series title. Today they will play
Pennsylvania in the championship game at three o'clock on ABC.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
So congratulations to Floyd's.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Knob, which Knobs, which is about one hundred and fifteen
miles southeast of Indianapolis, right on the border near the
heel of our Indiana.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
I've first heard about that town and you'll never guess
who talked told me about it was Kent Sterling.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I thought it was around Brown County.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
No, No, it's way down by the river. Floyd's something,
Floyd's Knobs.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
So I guess I just thought it was around Brown
County somewhere.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
But Kent Sterling's mom was very active in the politics
down there. I think it was politics. And I just
heard was Judy and I just fell in love with her.
But Kent told me all about Floyd's Knobs. It's a
cute little t's.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
A tiny little place, I think, a durable.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's okay, my hometown Salem, right. You go a little
bit more south and then you've run into New Albany
and Floyd'sknob and it's beautiful, many different trees, kind of
similar to Brown County. So I'll give you a little
bit of credit there. But you just go through the
hills and there are houses everywhere.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Just it's it's very hilly down there, and it's so cuteiful.
The hardest thing is to remember that it's plural, both of.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Them Floydoyd's Knobs, because both of Floyd's knobs Floyd's right.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's how we remember it.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
It's not Floyd's knob. It's plural knobs to multiple. Yeah,
it sounded a little bit when you were a kid.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
But that's but no, But this is such a big deal,
and I'm telling you I have not seen really any
anything about that.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's probably going to change. Remember when the Brownsburg Boys
went right, But I.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Mean that was from the time we followed them from
the plane out there to they sent me. I went
to the Little League World Series to be with them
the whole week.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Let's see if the media catches up.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I hope so, because this is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Again at three o'clock on ABC today, that's our Indiana team.
And I'm just a little sad that we hadn't reached
out to try to find them much before now. But
congratulations you okay, so Kylin stay fair. Yes, this is
the second weekend of the State Fair.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
This song you heard just a little bit ago. This one,
yeah one, It's one of our favorites on It's such
a cute song.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's a Christian song.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
It is Chris Tomlin, who is going to be on
the free stage tonight. You can go check them out.
Seven thirty is the start of that. If you want
to get in early because those they fill.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Up, Yes, they do fill up. But a fun night ahead.
Just everybody, just stay comfortable and take your time. And
it's on another hot day out there, so again they
close tomorrow, closed on Monday, but then back again for
two dollars Tuesday. Now I want to ask you guys
about this. Okay, So I just saw this story. This
is about parents going on job interviews with the younger

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younger generation.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Going with them too.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
A majority of Generation Z job seekers, which one is z, Kylin?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Mine? Oh, it's yours, It's I'm jen Is that the
very low yeah, the very last before now this next generation,
the young ones are young baby kids.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
You're so much You know what you have Since I've
known you in the last forty five years, right four
or five, you have been mature beyond your years. Why
is beyond your years? And lots of things you don't
know about Kylin, but she really is.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
He will be told to say it.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah he knows that too, gen Z.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
To put the dates on it. Yeah, late nineteen nineties
to early twenty tens, okay, gen Z.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Gen Z, Okay, So I'm right, what's behind you?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
And then I is that like just the alpha yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, according to July or to the July twenty twenty
five survey from Resume Templates, which I guess is an organization,
seventy seven percent of gen Z respondents adminuture bringing a
parent to a job interview, and fifty three percent said
their parents had spoken with a hiring manager on their behalf.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
I just think that's so wrong. I have done so
many job interviews of people. I might just discount that completely.
You're on your own.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
You should be on your own, and parents gott.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
To let go. If we're going to let people vote
at eighteen, if Instar sixteen or whatever, cut the apron strings,
let them go out sink or swim and learn from
you know, success or failure. But to would I would
not do that.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I will say I appreciate that they're supporting them through that.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Do that before the interview, though, Do you a mock
interview with them exactly? There are some examples. No, let
them take h let the birdy fly from the nest.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I'm guessing that your parents didn't take you. That's what
I'm saying that that older generation. I'm sure your parents
didn't because this is kind of something new and it
says the dependence persists when young people enter the workforce,
with seventy three percent of respond it's seventy three said
they've had their parents help complete work assignments.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's three out of four a parent needs their ass
kick for that. No, I got no.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Regularly having a parent talk to their current manager, and
one in six hiring managers also reported gen Z applicants
using their phones during the interview.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
You know, the one that really bothers me is when
I hear somebody say I need a mental health gay.
What in the world is a mental health day.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, we've talked about that too, Terry with taking sabbaticals
and taking some time off, and a lot of companies.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Used to call that vacation or Saturday.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, now they're doing did any some of the companies,
some of the more you know, the more newer companies
run by younger people, they're offering sabbaticals where you take
maybe you take three months off, maybe you take.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Two of us after three or five years worth of work.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
You don't have that, I guess, I will say, especially
in healthcare, they're offering it because healthcare is so hard
on you mentally.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
As a as a care taker or caregiving.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
I will make this offer to our listeners. Okay, I
have a list of questions that I used to ask
people in interviews and they're just called Denny's questions. If
you'd like a copy of that to prepare your granddaughter
or your grandson or even your care and ask you
the question. Yeah, all right, do it? All right, I'll
ask you a question right now. Okay, you're applying for
the job. The first thing I ask you.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Is with the Pacers, because i'd like to work.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
For the Pacers. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Miss Stacey? Oh gosh, okay, right there. With that question,
I'm going to find out whether this is an interim
interim job. No, we're just going to be a career. Yeah,
I can ask you who is the best supervisor you
ever had and why?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Those are good questions to ask, they really are.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
But if you are new to the job world, right,
so you're eighteen, let's say you don't you just go
right in at eighteen?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, twenty two?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
All right, so you've never had a job and you
didn't go to college, you don't go to question have
your career. If you want questions for your kids, grandkids
or whatever. Send it to me at Denny at WIBC
dot com, and I will send this back to you. You
can use it any way you want. You'll notice that
there are some plumbing questions in there. You'll notice that
they're some financial questions in there, because I was in
the plumbing business and I was in the financial business.

(27:04):
But I'll give you the questions and you do the
mock interviews with your kids.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I think it's a great idea and that's how you
should be helping them, But I don't think you should
actually take them inside.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Molly cottlem let them stand out.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
We are at a really strange point. Someone they're younger
than I, she's probably in high school. We were talking
about a project that we're working on. She's like, you
know what if you just run into a wall, like,
just look it up on chat GPT, let them write
it for you. Oh no, no, not quite. So you
know what, whenever I feel stupid, just remember that we've

(27:38):
earned stuff, like myself earning a bachelor's degree without Chat GPT.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
You sure did, come on, you sure did.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Here's a little bit of a statistic. How much of
the United States energy is used on chat GPT right now,
just chat GPT. What percentage of our twelve percent is
being used? And the people that are using that are
probably in their thirties or less.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, I will call myself out. I did use it
for the poem last week because well, yeah, I mean
we have.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
I've used it to twelve percent of our energy.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, because I don't understand everything so clearly when it
comes to technical stuff. But is that where the why
data centers are popping up? Yes, that's what.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, and it's it's the problem is is that we
are going to be subsidizing these industries. These industries need
to pay their own way if they're going to use
that much electricity. Don't put that on my duke bill now,
don't put that on my age is No, No, you
know they they and we're begging these people to come
and come to Indiana. No, we're giving them too much.

(28:41):
And if we're giving more energy infrastructure, my gosh.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
People are fighting, like I mean, people are fighting hard
to keep these data centers out of here. They really
are across all of across our state, because I don't
know if our state, probably all over the country. I'm
only focusing on Indiana. But I watched through social media
and Henry County and Knightstown they're trying to build one.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
They tried to build one.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
In Greenfield, and if they put them Plainfield down south,
I mean they.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Put those in. We're going to need to grow our
infrastructure a minimum of ten percent per year for the
next five years. Do you think do you realize how
much energy production that will take?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
You could understand it.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I wish we did get one of these folks that
are trying to build that is leading the way and building,
like is knocking at the door in Henry County or
we need to get it to understand what it is
and what it's doing. Professor, I didn't realize it took
energy from I guess I just don't understand it.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
But I know we don't want them.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, and these people use chat chept and I'm not
I'm not getting on your case, Kylin, but the ones
that are trying to be polite, Oh, good morning, I
hope you're having a good day. Do you realize how
much energy that conversation takes a chat too? No, it's
a large language model and they're burning up all this
electricity to be nice to damn machine, just say I
have a question about Mayor Ballard's term. Okay, and then

(29:56):
because when.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
You really asking, saying thank you, that other stuff, it's
just burning up energy.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
It's a large language models. It's good to know it's
all mathematics.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Being efficient is one thing, but taking away from yourself.
Let's let's come on.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
You've got that right Kai.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
See she's so smart, wise beyond her years. She's like
an old owl. Okay, it's twelve forty six. We're gonna
do food news next, right, that's what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yes, save me geez next.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's the first day ninety three, WIBC. It's twelve fifty
Terry Daddy mean Kylon.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Just because she told you know, you said to me.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Do you know, Kylon?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Thanks for joining us here today for a few more minutes. Anyway,
Oh it's food news.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
You don't come even.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I want to shout out the fever real quick, because
they had a ninety two to seventy one and they're.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Feeling it was a thumping on Chicago.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Oh man, it's Caitlin coming back.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well not yet. She's feeling a little bit better, but
with all the point guards out hopefully she'll.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
There's a little bit three are out hill.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah yeah, but they I think it's kind of nice
that they're sharing the spotlight, getting to develop even deeper
than what they are already. And that's kind of what
Stephanie had said yesterday in the locker room after their win.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Just overall like strong team effort.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
We've talked about it all year.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
We're resilient and we're deep, and both of those things
allow us to do some things that other people might
not think we can.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
We are bigger, we are brighter than the meat.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Ay.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Then love it. And they're playing again on Tuesday, and
you know, I have some other sports news. Can we
do that? During food news.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Said about Tyler Zellich, you're the boss. Did you see
the Tyler Zelich IndyCar or IndyCar?

Speaker 4 (31:42):
So e strenity fell off his car and broke his collar.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean, he that was one of the scariest ones
I've seen in a long while, when it's not necessarily
a crash, it's just standing and then and then his
left leg got stuck and he fell straight back and
he hit the concrete and he was not moving and
it was terrifying. It really was one big hit like that.
But yeah, collar bone and concussion probably, But that was

(32:10):
a scary moment, and he was scheduled to race today.
I don't believe that's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
No, there's no way, no. But that was scary.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Anthony Richardson was back on, Oh.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Thank you lady, ladies. Is this food news?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I don't know she wants to do.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
She wants to talk about sports. Oh do you want
to What were you going to say about Anthony?

Speaker 4 (32:29):
He's got a got a wacky finger? But they taped
that bad boy up.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
The picture of it. Seeing the picture of the pinky, actually,
oh my gosh, sorry.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
You know what fuck up? You know a finger?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
When I played eighth grade basketball, I just located my
finger too. They taped it up and they put me
right back out there. Sitdy said go and.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I went some dirt.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Eighth grade, ladies, eighth grade Okay.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I just am very excited for the preseason game that's
come to Lucas Oil this next Saturday, one pm against
the Green Bay Packers. And whoever is going to be
going out to Lucas Oil is going to be seeing
some new menus across the whole venue from the concessions
to the sweets wherever you're gonna be, so let's get
some insight on it. Last week I got the chance

(33:18):
to talk with Sidexo Lives, executive chef of Lucas Oil
Stadium's David Direk about the menu and so he could
share a little bit about what it was going to
be offering.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
So in the concessions world, we're doing a bunch of
different and new sandwich concepts. We've got our brought sandwich
that we use fish or farms to provide the brat
patty for. We've got a buffalo meat chicken meatball sandwich.
We're doing the voting of our two hot dogs here.
I know what my favorite is. I don't want to

(33:49):
sway the vote, so I'm not going to say it
out loud. However, they're both delicious either way, whichever one wins,
everybody is gonna love them.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
And then over in.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
Our sweets, we've got pork fritter and waffles and we're
using local Swayze pork tunderloin fritters. We've got banana split
moose cups, so a nice little sweet treat. And then
my personal favorite is the brisket hallapeno pep popper tater
tots with the ranch dip that is also local as well.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Whoever came up with this creation, I'm assuming someone from
your team or else a collaboration, but that one is
the one that took me most by surprise to be completely.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Honest, that that was one of my creations. It's something
I created a long time ago at another property when
I was in Oklahoma, and I've since just adapted it
to work better for Lucas Oil Stadium.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
And it works well. Chef's Kiss if I will. You
mentioned all of these local brands and organizations that are
working with you talk about the importance of being able
to shop local and partner with some of them.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
I think it's important for everybody, whether it's me as
the executive chef of a big building like this or
just at home. I think shopping local and staying low
cool is important for the community. It's important for sustainability.
It's just a better way to do things. So we
as as much as we can throw little touches at

(35:12):
all of the items in this building, we do that locally.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
You talk a little bit about sustainability as well. Last
season you debuted the new culinary rooftop garden here at
Lucas Soil. Talk about that and using some of your
own herbs and your fusions and your dishes. Drinks.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Absolutely, so we use an item not shown here one
of our new salads. We use our fresh basil that's
being grown upstairs for that. We also use the jalapenos
upstairs for the tater tots, and then we use some
of our other herbs and peppers for garnishes and things
for other dishes we're doing here.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Now you're from originally from Chicago, but you're here and
you've embraced the Hoo's your hospitality. Talk about how you've
used some of that in what your offerings are for
this season and for the fans in general.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
So, I think one of the biggest things, especially in
Indianapolis is the pork fritter, which is why we wanted
to elevate it on the sweets end of things by
doing it on a waffle. Is a pork fritter and
waffle sandwich with a nice spicy sweet slaw. And I
think just the staying local piece is really how we

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focus on keeping things Indiana and Indianapolis as well.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
The hallapeno popper is obviously a favorite, and we've liked
the dogs. Do you have a favorite of the concession
eats that you have for this year?

Speaker 6 (36:35):
I think it's a tie between the Fisher Farms brought
sandwich and the chicken in the Buffalo chicken meatball.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Sandwich Chicken Meatball's great. Anything else people should know for fans,
for anyone else coming to Lucas Oil this year, anything
you're excited.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
About, We're excited about all of it. We're just we're
ready for the building to be full of fans again.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
My gosh, they're ready for it too. David Direk, the
executive chef with Sudexil live at Lucas Oil Stadium. Thank
you for taking the time.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate you all.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Love seeing him, love being back at Lucas Oil Stadium.
And the hot dog of the season, like he mentioned,
is going to be the Korean barbecue dog with pork, halapeno,
coleslaw and kareema as voted on by us. And then
here is the pork fruiter for you.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
I show what I had it. This is from Tuesday
Tuesday Food.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Tom Oh, here we go. Where's the camera.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
You're going to spill that all over your.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Beautiful with bacon jam.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Oh man, I bet that's so good.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
I can't be a shame I didn't have any.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
But go on, Terry, I'll get you a media passed
for Saturday, youse.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Don't you love me anymore? Well?

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I love our fans.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Well, what about me, Terry?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
We don't need more of you.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Thank you, Thank you all for listening today. Have a
great rest of your week. We'll talk to you next time.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
News is next