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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The red light opens your mic.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're not ready at all.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Here you are here, I am everybody wore and running
that you should make a one woman act out of
this last five minutes.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm really so I try so hard to be so together.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Tangled, prepared, all of your arn water.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh Kylin, did you turn out? Please tell me the
camera's not on.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Nope, they're not on.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I have a sorry bloody eye.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You don't want to see that. Guys, It's still I
still have this diye situation. How's everybody doing? This is
the first day show on ninety three w IBC. I'm
Terry Stacy along with Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
She's been winking at me all morning.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, you don't want to see that either.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I thought you were a pirate for a minute, but
you've just been winking at me.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's just awful. Kylon Talley is also here.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
High and what a Sunday it is, and a pretty
nice week ahead, I'd say, really, yeah, we've got the
Pacers coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh well, you mean with events and stuff to weather.
I always go right to weather, which it's we need.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Trying to make up for the weather.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's scary weathers. You know what it is. It's sweater weather.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's fifty four degrees, but we have a wind chill
of forty two degrees. That's what it feels like on
your bare naked skin. Puts your clothes on.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And the leafs are finally changing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Can I tell you a story that's icky for those
of you that use valet park not have it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I just want you to think about this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So we are attached to a very swanky hotel and
our garages we share.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Garage, say the Conrad. I mean it's a beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So the valets again, you know you're gonna get the
young valets all over the city, all over where there's
a valet.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
They're usually a young.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Imagine ninety miles an hour in an closed parking garage.
That's what you got to do.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What you gotta know they're driving your car crazy fast,
because first of all, they're usually in like a really
fancy car. They're driving really fast, but they also want
to get you in and out of the hotel. But
today today, while driving quickly through the garage, this one
was picking his nose and then putting it on your
(02:16):
steering wheel. Oh no, well no, I don't know if
he's put on your steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But that was what I was.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He's touching somebody's cars steering wheel.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You could actually see him picking his nose.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, if that garage is basically empty and so there's
very few of us down there, so they really do
have a lot of room to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Do you know what a jammer is? Do you know
what a jammer is?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, when I was driving.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Jeeze, I didn't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, I'm just going to tell you that the
things that you see jammers when you when you are
in rush hour traffic you look to lane next to
you and somebody's either trying to brush their teeth in
their rear view mirror while they're driving driving ninety mile
an hour. I know there's the best one picking is it?
And you go, how can you do that?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And draw? My gosh, that is you know it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Truly is you feel like when you're in your car
like that, nobody sees you.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Everybody sees you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, you're just You're just in your car that
nobody sees you know what you're doing on the inside.
I watched a woman driving along Oleo Road and she
was sign languaging while she was driving as the phone
she was she was signing to the person on her
phone that she was watching and signing with both hands.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This is just such a crazy time, Kylin.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yes, well, I think there's some kind of FBI hack
if you will that if you if you're following someone
and you don't want to seem suspecting that you're following
this person, pick your nose when you're driving by them,
and then they'll be like, oh no, they're just doing
their own thing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's I don't know where I heard that from.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Wow, you said the FBI, Kylin heard it from the FB.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, was going to ask some little agent.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
On your motorcycle. You've got to have two hands. You
can't do anything. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Do No, you can hardly wear bugs off your visor.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well, I just thought I would share that story to
you those that use valet.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Parking that you know the people, Wow, just be careful,
just maybe you want to just despite where you are.
I think it may be cleaning the steering wheel after
you have belly parking would be good, because I'm guessing
that wasn't the first yet crusty water. I don't know,
but all I could think of was, Oh my gosh,
he's about to drop this car off to somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
If you're going to treat this show like a fraternity house,
you're going to have to wait for well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Anyway, Okay, so guys, we've got a great show for you.
We're here for two hours. Kylly, tell me when I
need to stop. Colds have a big game today. How
about the Colts you guys? I swear I never thought
we would be five and one.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We could have been six in one had not been
for show voting, could be.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Today's Today we go six and one and just amazing.
They're out in Los Angeles four oh five game. Yeah,
poor Anthony Richardson, you know, oh my gosh, the facing accident,
ra with the holy things that we all use, right,
the rubber bands that people all use, and tell me
you haven't thought about it at once and maybe if
this thing would snap.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It would be but they you know, you trust them,
right to the orbital the orbital area?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Was it on his? I thought it was his shoulder?
Oh what is it?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Kylon? Is it on it? I always know that I
thought it was orbital. I bet it is shoulder.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I feel like it was not his Yeah, I feel
like it was his shoulder.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh, it's just I just feel bad for him, Just
feel bad for him, placed on injured reserve and just
again Oh no, look, I've got it right here.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The resistant band snapped and hit him in the face.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Orbital bone, orbital. Oh man, I bet that was awful.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know, in the gym, guys use those things and
they'll step in them and so they could do pull
ups easier and then their foot slips and it comes
right up and hits their goodies. And there's lots of
videos about that type of stuff. And it's not just
guys that happens to they're women too, because they want
the assist in doing their pull up.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
A little heart felt story from last Sunday. Yes they
won against the Cardinals, but also the Colts cheerleader Micah,
she got engaged in the end zone.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Sweetest video that came across my.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Feed this week. Pretty cool. I mean, it really is
pretty cool. Colts cheerleaders getting the little one of them
was able to sign a young man, a little boy,
and that was a very special moment.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And then Blue.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I saw Blue and I don't know which game it was,
but I followed Blue, and Blue took a baby out
of the audience and then continued to hold this and
looked like a brand new baby and in his big,
giant furry arms and carried him on the field and
hung on to him and picked him up and kind
of it just was a pretty cool again scene, very popular,
number one mascot in all the land.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Stop, would you give your baby to a mascot to
go out on the field.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, I could only think of when I was thinking
about how long he had the baby and how careful
it must have been. Somebody that had known the baby.
I mean, somebody that knew Blue maybe personally when he
doesn't have his hat on in his head.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Okay, that's right, he's not real.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Okay, guys, we're going to I think it's probably time
for us to go, I think, so we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Coming up, we are going to talk about something pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Pacers have their first home game this Thursday, regular season game,
and there is a great news service that is available
for those that are visually impaired or blind, and I
think it's pretty special. So we're going to talk to
the CEO of Mind's I coming up here after the
break on ninety three WIBC. Earlier this week, it was
(07:39):
announced that starting this season, blind and low vision fans
can experience Indiana Pacer games at Gamebridge field House like
never before through a new partnership with a nonprofit called
Mind's Eye, and we're.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Going to hear how it works.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But joining us now to talk about this incredible technology
is the president and CEO of Mind's I, Jason Fraser.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Jason, it's great to have you with us. How are you.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It's great to be here. I appreciate you for having
us on today to talk about audio description.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, listen, this technology is so cool and for a
pacer fan that is visually impaired, what will does technology
do for this their experience?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It will do a lot for experience because in Basin
Sain Louis area, we do this for the singles Cardinal games,
singles Blues games, and also a single city sc the
MLS Club here in sing Louis as well. And what
we've already discovered from doing audio description for those events
is brings everybody to the full experience. So when we
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go to a game, someone who's SIDO likes myself and
I will go there and I'll watch the game of course,
the what's going on in the rink or the cord
or the field, but also there's so many things that
make it the full experience a part of the going
to a game. Whether it's the waves going on in
the crowd, whether it's the mascot throwing down from the rafters,
whether it's the dam in the court, those are all
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parts of the game they experience. So we describe everything
from the play by play or from the game action
to those tings that I mentioned and plus more so
that way we give that blind, visually impaired fan the
full experience of attending the live sporting event.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So walk us through how this system works for fans.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So we will do about this year for the Pacers exclusively.
We'll do twenty gate home games. So what fans can
do is go to the Pacers website and they can
sign or the Mind's Eye website and find out which
games that we're going to be providing the service for.
They'll technically have the sign of it makes it easier
for us. They register in advance and let us know, Hey,
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I'm going to be here, So we've got to make
sure we account for him and have an idea. But
there's an app called Live Voice with the fans down
out the Live Voice Live Voice app. Once they get
in there, we get a code and that code will
be an audio description for the Pacers game. And they'll
just bring our own headphones and just sit there, know,
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be able to listen to the live audiobscription if they
don't register there. It's also that code is available guest
services for them to grab as well when they go
to the game. So some fans who just walk into
the game and maybe there's an other shore or if
you walk by me and it was just white Kane
awarenes stay yesterday and you know I see a white
Cane and you don't know about audio description. Of course
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I want you to register and get that full experience,
so we'll also tell you in person as well.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, go to Pacers dot com if you would like
to sign up for this.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And again, does this cost any money?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
No, it is that the service is absolutely free for
anyone who purchased a ticket to the event. So that's
what I said it. We do not only do we
do sporting events around the Seals area, and we hope
to bring this more to the Indianapolis area. As well,
but we do live theater, we do help out with
museums and have the artifacts described as well, So we
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do it's a lot of different ways, so we just
want to make sure and it's free in every actually
we do it in so as long as the fan
has a ticket or access to that venue or that
building or that event, it is free to them. For
our description is free for that fan.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Who's describing it, who's doing the describing for those that
are visually impaired and that are using this program, this system.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
So the person describing that each event is going to
be a mind's eye trained describer. So our describers are
go through about a three week process of learning how
to describe things. They'll actually go to shadow training describers
and events and then we will kind of send them
out of there ready to go describe sporting events or
whatever else we have. But for the Pacers Games, you'll
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have a trained describer. They're live in person describing that event,
describing there. For now, most people will hear my voice
because I'm the one mainly doing a lot of the
Pacers games this year. I think I'm I think eighteen
of the twenty are going to be mean.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
As somebody that's going to get to be a describer.
That's kind of cool. You're going to be going to
many games.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah. Now, you know, I'm you know as a person
who is has been in this industry. Now I've been
at minz At for thirteen years. I'm a grandson of
My grandmother was visually impaired, So I always joke around
and say growing up, and I tell people, I was
already describing the prices right on TV as a kid.
I didn't know that's what I was doing. I was
just telling my grandmother what was happening. So now fast
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forward all these years later and going to go to
NBA games, which I'm an avid sports fan too. I
can remember the days of you know, watching the Pacers
with Reggie Miller and Rick Smith and all those players
playing up you know in those days, and you know,
going on to Jermaine o'meil and future Pacers and the Pacers. Now,
it's just incredible being able to be a part of
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that and actually bringing that to fans because we also
have a core group of fans working with BOSMA and
Indianapolis also a hotbed for beat baseball to adapted. Oh yeah,
and so we already know our people in the community
have been going to games and checking it out and
giving us our feedback already, and it's just been incredible
and overwhelmingly positive of just how much it's meant to them.
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So We're excited to be a part of but I'm
definitely excited to be a part of it. One of
the things that I thought was pretty cool from a
fan some the time someone who's blind evers im paragos
have been that's not already described. They are basically depending
on their side and Padre to give them a lot
of the feedback because even though you had the radio
feed in at a game while you're there, it's a
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twelve to fifteen second delay. So if you're so everybody's
celebrating the basket that blind sided individuals probably nudging the person,
Hey what just happened? You know what just went down,
and then they had to get to play by play
from that person who's telling them, hey, this happened or
this is what's going on. The jumbo tron. One of
the spectators and during the pilot events, his fiance he
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told his fiancee Sai, hey, he was telling me what
was happening. I was missing things. He's giving me the
feedback what I was missing, and I was like, and
I was like, that's kind of cool to reverse that
sit situation. And I feel like that's when it's done right.
You see, where you've given the person the information that
they can actually engage in the conversations in real time
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of things that are happening in the game and also
be the informative things that are happening that someone's missing
it as part of the experience as well. So I
think that's one of the one of the cool feedbacks
we did receive.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It cool.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Jason Fraser is here, president and CEO of MINDZI, mindsiradio
dot org and the genesis of the partnership between Minds
II and the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
How did that conversation begin that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Sixty three to separation. We always talk about our partnership
began two ways to one way. I just mentioned Beat Baseball.
We have a Beat Baseball team. We actually just Minds
I just hosted the Beat Baseball World Series two years
in a row in twenty twenty four twenty five, So
a lot of people in the Indianapolis community when they
came in for the World Series We also hosted an
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audio description game with the Saint Louis Cardinals, so people
went back saying, hey, I wish this was done you
know somewhere here. Fortunately for us, one of the key
composed of starting sports audio description in Saint Louis, Warren
Carl who now works for the Pacers, actually start out
to sing Louis Blues when we started it with the Blues,
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so now she's the thing they have was Pacer so
that it was just a perfect you know, yeah, that
perfect sync up there like you kids can't make that
story happen, and it just it's worked out that way
both all the worlds can all the dots connected.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And here we are before we let you go again,
this is Jason Fraser, President and CEO of Mind's Eye
minsiradio dot org. If you want to get signed up
for this.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
The Pacers will have this technology in place beginning very
soon and they'll have twenty games for those that are
blind and visually impaired.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
You see. Now, bring your Bluetooth headphones and we'll be
there next Thursday for the home opener.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh fantastic.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
It guess it's under So we're getting up. We're starting
off accessibility with.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
The bang, Right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
It's gonna change the way you've just been doing things
from social gatherings to when you go to a game.
Being that person. Like I said earlier, you can inform
the person what's happening. Maybe in some cases there's things
in the court or things that happened during a Gandy
may not realize there happening, like what does Boomer look like?
You'll find that out. What is going on when there's
a halftime show with the jump rope crew? What are
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they doing that? Describing that so you'll get the full experience.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Well, how would you describe Boomer?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh? Man, you're putting me on the spot. So I
just remember one of the games we described. I remember
the description was was right Fordson blue panther mask out
with a yellow mohawk, wearing a white Indiana Pacers jersey,
coming down from about ninety feet from the catwalk with
a Let's Go Pacers banner behind him. So I remember
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the So, yes, you this, We'll get in trouble with
that without our with our audio description director Megan Harms,
who she's a lot of the key parts of the program,
and she's ab a fan of mascots. If I don't
describe the mascots, I get in trouble with her. So
I had to make sure we described the maskot.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Jason, thank you for this.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Thank you for your time, but thank you for what
you've come up with for those that are blind and
visually impaired, making this experience a whole new a whole
new ballgame, if you will. For those that are coming
to the games. We'll begin next Thursday at the home game,
and if you want to sign up, do it at
mindsiradio dot org or you can also go to Pacers
dot com and sign up for the service.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's great to have you with us. Jason. Thanks thanks
again for your time. It's a beautiful thing you're doing.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Thank you, No, I appreciate you forgiving us and time
to shed light on it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It is eleven twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We've got Denny's Dollars and Cents coming up in the
next half hour, and.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The scariest story ever told.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The news is next fifty two degrees in downtown Indianapolis.
And yeah, it's not very pretty out there today, but
there's still a lot going on. I kind of wanted
to look ahead to oh, I was going to tell
you the scary story one night.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh, wait a.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Minute, if that's not a Sunday, I don't know it is.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Wait a minute, and you listen.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm sorry, we don't have the YouTube up and running.
I have a bloody eye. You don't want to see that.
It's weeping. It's Kylin. Would I would love for her
to turn hers on camera and then turn this one
over to Denny. Jenny allow that he won't, he won't
let us do it.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Maybe go ahead, ye, dollars and cents, you get some
Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So I got a nice shirt onto.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yes, you do your spooky story. I want to take
because I love scary stories, did you?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Growing up? I loved scary stories. My mom and dad the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Best scary storytellers. And I just loved him, I really did.
But the shortest scary.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Story ever told.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's so good, you guys, it's too just just very short.
It's by Frederick Brown and it's titled Knock and it reads,
the last man on Earth sat alone in a room,
and there was a knock at the door.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh, I get it. It's a story.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh you got a story that is true, That is
the scariest short story ever told. Huh, how about that?
It didn't even involve the government. It was just a
story the last man on Earth and he gets a
knock at the door. Boom, there's your shortest scary story
evers alrighty there, Okay, So here we've got coming up
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this week. We've got I wanted to let you guys
know because we would love to see you. Next weekend.
We are going to be at a Colt's tailgate. You guys,
I can't believe they let us do this. I know
we'll be at the Slippery Noodle, which, by the way,
is haunted, so we can't wait to be there and
be a part of the haunting and also the tailgate.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Come and meet Kylon, com and meet Denny.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'll be there eleven into one, and I know that's
a four oh five game, but we start tailgating at
eleven with all the specials and everything.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Will we be drinking, Yeah, Denny, We're getting.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
We're all going to be drinking.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
We're all going to be drinking and chewing chewing on.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
A nice hamburger Slippery noodleburgers.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So come on out and see us next Sunday again
eleven to one. We will be at the Slippery Noodle.
We would love to see you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay again, does management know that we're going to They.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Set this up for us.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Really they want people to see that we really are
cool people.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Does management know we're going?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's us, You're sending us out and we're listen, come
with games and prizes people.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, Kylin's a model, you know, actress model.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And then Terry the sunshine of the room. If it's
another gloomy Sunday, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I will be celebrating my fortieth anniversary in marriage and
in working here at WYBC. So I really do wish
you would come out. And you don't have to bring
me a president or anything. You don't do that, but presence,
the presence.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
This would be my present.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
A ninety eighth National FFA Convention is coming. It's back
October twenty ninth through November. First the city getting ready
for that. We've got IHSAA Football Playoffs coming up. October
twenty fourth kicks off on Friday for Class A one
A through five A, and then that tournament pairings that
follows the tournament pairings that were announced on October twelfth.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I didn't even hear the pairing show. Don't even know.
We've got the.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Pacers NBA season underway coming up this week. Pacers hosting
Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday at Gamebridge Field House in Indy, Kylan.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Well, this last week, did you see the Starting Five
Netflix series premiered?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Did you see it?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Uh? It follows the five superstars chosen for that season,
and Tyrese Halliburton was one of them, along with Kevin Durant,
Jaylen Brown, Shake Gilgers, Alexander and James Harden. Here's just
a little bit of the trailer because it gave me chills.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Okay, didn't he don't cry.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We were to lose the Game seven, and I would
think about that game.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I love his voice forever.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
We know James Harden, We know that Kevin.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Durris, I could do everything. We're witnessing a change of
the guards.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
You're gonna hit them with this.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
If they choke a lead off, you gotta watch the back.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Now, it's just people praying on my downflour to do
all this and then like fall short.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That would be insane to me.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I'd sacrifice pretty much anything to win a championship, and.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Boy did he that's just a little clip of the
trailer that you would see for the starting five. And
within this, Reggie Miller sat down and had an interview
about Tyrese Halliburton, and one of the questions that he
was given was what do you say to the people
who are now doubting and questioning Tyrese Haliburton after his
injury and still moving forward, especially because he's not going
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to be playing this season.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
All I will say is, look at game six, in
Game seven of the NBA Finals. They will never ever
be a question of a guy's heart will determination his game.
No one will ever second guess any decision that he
ever makes. Again, he risked it all. He risked it
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all for a franchise, for a state, for an organization.
How many guys in life, how many women in life
are willing to risk it all, risk it all? But
this comes back full circle moment to what's it like
to be a Hoosier and to play in Indiana. I'm
not playing for myself. I'm playing for that dude, playing
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for that dude, I'm playing for these people. That's what
it's like to be an Indiana Pacers. So thank you, Tyrese.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I love it. Oh my gosh, that was fabulous. That
was fabulous.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I started watching it and I it's good. I started
breaking it down reliving that last game. So if you
want to relive a little bit of last season before
this season opens on Thursday, check it out.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The starting five terrific.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, starting again. I'm excited about this season. I really am.
Starting on Thursday. See what happens?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Can I nerd out for just a second. Yeah, Okay,
when you listen to that audio that KAI played right
at the beginning, with the audio and with the voices
and the sound effects, your audio cortex, which is on
either side of your ears, is twice as large as
your visual cortex. You will remember that more than if
you had seen it on television.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I guaranee you it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Totally makes sense. I was actually crying watching this trailer.
It's just, oh the chills.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It's some Pacers news that was released yesterday. They announced
that the team waved Cameron Payne the guard, and so
now they are going to be relying heavily on the
rookie guard, Taylor Peter and to fill that void of Tyrese.
So got me in it, especially after last year and
(24:50):
by the way your soccer dudes won two oh.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yesterday, they're hanging onto the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They struck early and hard. They were playing really well.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Also on Thursday, the Indiana Conference for Women.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Oh that's right, tickets are still available.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
They've still got them if you want to go Indiana
Conference for Women dot com. And they're also on social
media too if you want to get a ticket for
that one great speakers coming in for that one, one
day only event, largest of its kind here in the Midwest.
So yeah, if you want to be a part of that,
ladies love to have you. Also, I want to mention
that this we're going into week four of the federal
government shutdown that continues. You know that will be news
(25:26):
yesterday David, my husband, part of the federal government, heard
it could last as long as Thanksgiving. Oh. I know
there's a lot of you don't give a crap about this,
but there is starting to hurt a lot of those
that are working. So you know, I know, you say, well,
they're going to get their money, but yeah, but if
we've got to wait until Thanksgiving to get a check,
(25:47):
it's a little rough, rough for us and rough for mini.
So that continues to happen this week, and what else.
I think we've covered everything that's going on, and listen,
there are more stories redistricting. I'm sure it's going to continue.
I heard Mike back with come out and say that
this could happen beginning in November. So that's right around
the corner with our chestory. Despite what everybody, you know,
(26:08):
nobody wants this.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I read a study where they took people psychologically and
for six weeks they got them off social media and
their phones. Now, think about that, for six weeks. The
first week was terrible. By the end of the sixth week,
they were emotionally stronger, they were happier, their lives had
changed for the better.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And so I wish we could do that, right, I
mean I wish I wish I could do that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I don't think I can't either. That's my source of communication,
and I just don't know. I wish I could.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Would you take the best?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know what, we all have that ability to shut
off Facebook and shut off all the social media. You
have that ability to just use your phone. You do
have that ability. We have that ability. I have that ability.
But will I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But I do look at it less.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I will tell you I look at it less, and
it's just because I just have come to know myself
that it's it's affecting me. Sometimes I've read it and
and I know it's time to stay away from this
for a while.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I will say I turned off my notifications notification.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I know i'd so yeah, literally for everybody. If my
mom calls, I'm like, okay, I will get back to it,
because that instantly takes off so much anxiety instead of
hearing the Snapchat, the Facebook, the Instagram notification pop off.
And to think that we are only at the superficial
level of using social media in comparison.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
To some of these kids growing up, right, how.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Can you go into that you're better at that than
I am. But my grandkids they've got that phone on
all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
And someone a teacher had posted on Facebook the other
day saying how crazy it is to know that some
of these kids know how to swipe on a phone
before they know how to hold a crayon.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
That's no doubt. I believe that I do. They I
believe that I do. I really do.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's such a babysitter for many I think oftentimes, and
if I had been a parent, I don't know if
that I might have used it the very same. Unfortunately,
it just feels like sometimes when I'm watching it's it's like,
for the here, do this, if you're gonna cry, here,
here do this wife, and play on this phone for
a while. When they're really little, play this game on
the phone. It's so it's a little bit of a
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babysitter for some Okay, all right, we do want to
talk about the World Food Championships. We were out there
yesterday with Home and Garden. It is happening today. Today
is the.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Final table, and I know we need to get to
dollars and since are we doing?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, how are we doing? We want to get to
dollars and stance. But I also want to get an
update for Team Indiana in case any of you are
heading out there today for the final round.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
It's pretty cool. I watched kids yesterday for a while.
Are amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Starting tomorrow at the convention center, the E M S.
E MT from around the United States is starting. Oh,
that's that's right at that convention tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Okay, So should we get to have we got time
to do World world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Do you want to wait, Denny, how long do you
think we'll up or your.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Dollars go for it real quick. It's just about Crooks.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The what's the update.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We have Team Indiana out there and so we've been
watching their progression.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The week in finals was the first category.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
This morning's bright and early at eight a m. And
so our Team Indiana for that one with Danny McDonald.
He was taking place in the finals, so we'll see
how the championship turns out for him.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So he makes it to the final table.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
He's in the final rounds right now while still waiting
for the final judging results. Seafood is also taking place
right now. That's with Sharon Oakshall Indiana. We've got the
chef finals going on. I don't believe we had anyone
advance for that one. A couple took place yesterday for Indiana.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Travis hitch was from Bloomington. He did not advance. Is
that what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Okay, but congratulate. Yes, these are all just honorable mentions
for everybody who moved on, But there are still so
many different chefs who competed across the board.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Our noodle champion from last year is now Colly Hilton. Yeah,
he's in the vegetarians team.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He is in that one.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
He's the finals for that one that'll go to Hiltree.
But he's he's in that final round. Yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
These are chefs that prepare for you every day, you know,
and they're competing in this and it's such a big deal,
a lot of money to be won, and it's a
super funny event.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I know, the weather is not so great today to
be outside.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
They've got a lot of the live fire, a lot
of cooking goes on outside. But anyway, if you're interested,
go to World Food Championships dot com. We've got dollars
in since coming up next, Denny, you want to tease it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
A bit, Well, let's just say that there's a lot
of people sixty five hundred out of one hundred thousand
don't get what they're paid what they should get in
their paycheck. Oh, it's criminal. What's been going on?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
This has been a topic that I have not fully understood,
but we rank high on this list when it comes
to we'll do the.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Study and everything, but when your employer fails to pay you,
there's some legalities going on here.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So we'll understand that when we come back with Denny's
dollars and cents. Thanks for joining us here. It's the
first day ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, everybody, here we go on this gloomy sunday.
Here we go. You know the what to do?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You've got a friend and Denny. Oh, you got a
friend and Denny.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I know you guys are family, but I love it
when you're saying, well.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Doesn't that make it even better because we are family?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh no, I've heard I've heard my family say yes,
you just.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Remember what your friend Denny said. Oh, you've got a
friend in Denny.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Everybody who ever got a paycheck has been hourly at
one point.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Denny, guess what Today's the thirty eighth anniversary of Black Monday.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yes it is, Yes, it is. How about that? And
it wasn't it seems like it should have? Well, what
was it? It doesn't matter. It was the anniversary of
Black Monday.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Black Monday.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
When the Dow financial crash happened. Anyway, I thought you'd Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I was terrified I wouldn't be able to make peril
that Oh my gosh, it dropped in nineteen eighty seven,
it dropped the equivalent of seven hundred points back then,
which was a ton. That would be like dropping ten
thousand points right now.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That's what I was going to wonder about the comparison product.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Everybody's pucker string was pulled up pretty tight, and I
had seventy plumbers on payroll, and I had to make
a payroll, and I didn't know whether the banks were
going to open. In fact, Fred Heckman called me. Remember
Fred Heckman from the newsroom. He and Snuffy were real
good friend. Stuffy was out of town and Fred said,
what are you hearing from the street. I said, everybody
scared to death. Fred, that's amazing that I can't believe
(32:20):
I remember that. Oh well, hey, listen, you all have
been on payroll from at one point of your life
where you got a paycheck and you turned in your
hours for working. But you've heard it of identity theft,
and you've heard of data theft, but what about wage theft.
There was a study done by this law firm out
of Los Angeles, and they wanted to see how many
people had been screwed out of ours or had been
(32:41):
asked to work overtime after they were forced to clock out.
And you can't believe some of the shenanigans that go.
And I'm not saying that that employees are without fault,
but when I see some of the shenanigans that employers
are trying to pull, this has got to stop. And
(33:02):
I was an employer at one point. I had twelve
hundred and fifty employees in six states, and it was
it was known within our company that the paychecks come first.
If somebody's not going to get paid, it's going to
be management, and it's going to be somebody else. But
it's not just minimum wage violations. You know. I've always
tried to figure out how do people in restaurants or
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in food service get paid, because they get their tips,
but they may only be getting like two dollars and
ninety cents an hour, six dollars an hour for that.
But what this study showed is that Indiana is the
number one state where employer where employees are getting screwed
out of money on their paychecks. In Indiana's number one,
I mean I would have thought Los Angeles, California, New York,
(33:45):
New York, I would have thought about it. No, and the.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Board here because because in the old days, you'd get
a check. You'd physically get a paycheck and you would
look at that check and you knew how many hours,
how many hours it turned in. You really paid attention.
Then we went into you know, deposit, you can have it, Yeah,
automatically deposited. I stopped looking at that, even though I
have the ability to do it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
No, you mind.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And it's not that your employer might be bad. It's
that mistakes can be mad.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Mistakes can be bad, and maybe we're not so good
at catching them or paying attention to it. Until when
how do we found Have these mistakes been found by
the employees?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The employees find them, but legally there's not a whole
lot they can do. Now, we're not we're not attorneys.
We're not in wage an hour and whatever. And even
the state of Indiana, who has very strict wage in
our rules, you know a lot of this is going unseen.
So making a clock out and making you keep working,
that's that's wage theft. Shaving time off your paycheck, that's
(34:45):
that's wage theft. Skipping overtime pay when you work more
than forty hours a week, that's wage theft compared to
wage and our look at your eyes, we've all had
to do it all right. But this twenty twenty five
study by the Sharazi Law firm, they used the United
State's Department of Labored data and they found that Indiana
had the highest rate of wage theft violations in the country,
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over sixty five hundred per one hundred thousand. That means
six and a half percent of us who turn in
our hours might be getting screwed. Now things have changed
a lot, because, like we're on the ADP system. ADP
system is minute by minute. Okay, it didn't used to
be that way. It used to be that if you
got to the quarter hour, you got paid for the
half hour. So guys knew exactly I had plumbers that
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they were accounting geniuses. They knew how to get to
twenty three after the hour so that they could get
those seven minutes for free, drove Jane, who is our
payroll mistress.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But I'm not saying that employees are without fault. What
I'm saying is that employers better clean up their act
because if this gets into a class action lawsuit within
a certain firm. In fact, one restaurant was found. This
was in Indiana, down in Evansville, three hundred thousand dollars
they had shorted their employees and they just filed bankruptcy.
(35:59):
I went out of business.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So nobody got that money.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Nobody got the money, right, but everybody, when you think
about it, it was its pennies, and it's nickels and
dimes yea, And that's maybe a dollar here and there.
But so next time you hear the phrase wage stuff,
remember that it's not an obscure legal term. It really
does take place. It's it's not just wrong, it's widespread.
And Indiana's leading the nation in this nonsense. Now here's
(36:25):
the thing. We are leading the nation with the most
type of claims like that we're twenty six. Then getting
it back, now, does that suck or what?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That's terrible?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Number one is the ones that get good, the ones
that get it back or California and New York and
those those places are just wackad do. I don't know
how they do it. But stand up for yourself, be
nice and just say hey, I don't think this calculation
was right. But don't be afraid to stand up for
yourself because there are honest employers out there who will
do everything to make sure you get paid. And the skunks, well,
(36:56):
they need to be decented and maybe that's coming.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Okay, thank you, Denny Paul, that's Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Thanks bred Heckman on black.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Uh, we've got another hour to go. Will you stay
with us?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Would YOUA?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
We'd love to have you back. But first, Today's top stories.
That's next on ninety three w IBC
The red light opens your mic.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're not ready at all.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Here you are here, I am everybody wore and running
that you should make a one woman act out of
this last five minutes.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I'm really so I try so hard to be so together.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Tangled, prepared, all of your arn water.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh Kylin, did you turn out? Please tell me the
camera's not on.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Nope, they're not on.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I have a sorry bloody eye.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You don't want to see that. Guys, It's still I
still have this diye situation. How's everybody doing? This is
the first day show on ninety three w IBC. I'm
Terry Stacy along with Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
She's been winking at me all morning.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No, you don't want to see that either.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I thought you were a pirate for a minute, but
you've just been winking at me.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's just awful. Kylon Talley is also here.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
High and what a Sunday it is, and a pretty
nice week ahead, I'd say, really, yeah, we've got the
Pacers coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh well, you mean with events and stuff to weather.
I always go right to weather, which it's we need.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Trying to make up for the weather.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's scary weathers. You know what it is. It's sweater weather.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's fifty four degrees, but we have a wind chill
of forty two degrees. That's what it feels like on
your bare naked skin. Puts your clothes on.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And the leafs are finally changing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Can I tell you a story that's icky for those
of you that use valet park not have it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I just want you to think about this.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So we are attached to a very swanky hotel and
our garages we share.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Garage, say the Conrad. I mean it's a beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So the valets again, you know you're gonna get the
young valets all over the city, all over where there's
a valet.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
They're usually a young.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Imagine ninety miles an hour in an closed parking garage.
That's what you got to do.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
What you gotta know they're driving your car crazy fast,
because first of all, they're usually in like a really
fancy car. They're driving really fast, but they also want
to get you in and out of the hotel. But
today today, while driving quickly through the garage, this one
was picking his nose and then putting it on your
(02:16):
steering wheel. Oh no, well no, I don't know if
he's put on your steering wheel.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But that was what I was.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He's touching somebody's cars steering wheel.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You could actually see him picking his nose.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, if that garage is basically empty and so there's
very few of us down there, so they really do
have a lot of room to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Do you know what a jammer is? Do you know
what a jammer is?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, when I was driving.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Jeeze, I didn't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You know, I'm just going to tell you that the
things that you see jammers when you when you are
in rush hour traffic you look to lane next to
you and somebody's either trying to brush their teeth in
their rear view mirror while they're driving driving ninety mile
an hour. I know there's the best one picking is it?
And you go, how can you do that?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And draw? My gosh, that is you know it?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Truly is you feel like when you're in your car
like that, nobody sees you.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Everybody sees you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, you're just You're just in your car that
nobody sees you know what you're doing on the inside.
I watched a woman driving along Oleo Road and she
was sign languaging while she was driving as the phone
she was she was signing to the person on her
phone that she was watching and signing with both hands.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This is just such a crazy time, Kylin.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yes, well, I think there's some kind of FBI hack
if you will that if you if you're following someone
and you don't want to seem suspecting that you're following
this person, pick your nose when you're driving by them,
and then they'll be like, oh no, they're just doing
their own thing.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's I don't know where I heard that from.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Wow, you said the FBI, Kylin heard it from the FB.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, was going to ask some little agent.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
On your motorcycle. You've got to have two hands. You
can't do anything. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Do No, you can hardly wear bugs off your visor.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well, I just thought I would share that story to
you those that use valet.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Parking that you know the people, Wow, just be careful,
just maybe you want to just despite where you are.
I think it may be cleaning the steering wheel after
you have belly parking would be good, because I'm guessing
that wasn't the first yet crusty water. I don't know,
but all I could think of was, Oh my gosh,
he's about to drop this car off to somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
If you're going to treat this show like a fraternity house,
you're going to have to wait for well.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Anyway, Okay, so guys, we've got a great show for you.
We're here for two hours. Kylly, tell me when I
need to stop. Colds have a big game today. How
about the Colts you guys? I swear I never thought
we would be five and one.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We could have been six in one had not been
for show voting, could be.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Today's Today we go six and one and just amazing.
They're out in Los Angeles four oh five game. Yeah,
poor Anthony Richardson, you know, oh my gosh, the facing accident,
ra with the holy things that we all use, right,
the rubber bands that people all use, and tell me
you haven't thought about it at once and maybe if
this thing would snap.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
It would be but they you know, you trust them,
right to the orbital the orbital area?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Was it on his? I thought it was his shoulder?
Oh what is it?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Kylon? Is it on it? I always know that I
thought it was orbital. I bet it is shoulder.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I feel like it was not his Yeah, I feel
like it was his shoulder.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh, it's just I just feel bad for him, Just
feel bad for him, placed on injured reserve and just
again Oh no, look, I've got it right here.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
The resistant band snapped and hit him in the face.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Orbital bone, orbital. Oh man, I bet that was awful.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You know, in the gym, guys use those things and
they'll step in them and so they could do pull
ups easier and then their foot slips and it comes
right up and hits their goodies. And there's lots of
videos about that type of stuff. And it's not just
guys that happens to they're women too, because they want
the assist in doing their pull up.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
A little heart felt story from last Sunday. Yes they
won against the Cardinals, but also the Colts cheerleader Micah,
she got engaged in the end zone.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Sweetest video that came across my.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Feed this week. Pretty cool. I mean, it really is
pretty cool. Colts cheerleaders getting the little one of them
was able to sign a young man, a little boy,
and that was a very special moment.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
And then Blue.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I saw Blue and I don't know which game it was,
but I followed Blue, and Blue took a baby out
of the audience and then continued to hold this and
looked like a brand new baby and in his big,
giant furry arms and carried him on the field and
hung on to him and picked him up and kind
of it just was a pretty cool again scene, very popular,
number one mascot in all the land.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Stop, would you give your baby to a mascot to
go out on the field.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, I could only think of when I was thinking
about how long he had the baby and how careful
it must have been. Somebody that had known the baby.
I mean, somebody that knew Blue maybe personally when he
doesn't have his hat on in his head.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Okay, that's right, he's not real.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Okay, guys, we're going to I think it's probably time
for us to go, I think, so we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Coming up, we are going to talk about something pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Pacers have their first home game this Thursday, regular season game,
and there is a great news service that is available
for those that are visually impaired or blind, and I
think it's pretty special. So we're going to talk to
the CEO of Mind's I coming up here after the
break on ninety three WIBC. Earlier this week, it was
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announced that starting this season, blind and low vision fans
can experience Indiana Pacer games at Gamebridge field House like
never before through a new partnership with a nonprofit called
Mind's Eye, and we're.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Going to hear how it works.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But joining us now to talk about this incredible technology
is the president and CEO of Mind's I, Jason Fraser.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Jason, it's great to have you with us. How are you.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
It's great to be here. I appreciate you for having
us on today to talk about audio description.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, listen, this technology is so cool and for a
pacer fan that is visually impaired, what will does technology
do for this their experience?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It will do a lot for experience because in Basin
Sain Louis area, we do this for the singles Cardinal games,
singles Blues games, and also a single city sc the
MLS Club here in sing Louis as well. And what
we've already discovered from doing audio description for those events
is brings everybody to the full experience. So when we
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go to a game, someone who's SIDO likes myself and
I will go there and I'll watch the game of course,
the what's going on in the rink or the cord
or the field, but also there's so many things that
make it the full experience a part of the going
to a game. Whether it's the waves going on in
the crowd, whether it's the mascot throwing down from the rafters,
whether it's the dam in the court, those are all
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parts of the game they experience. So we describe everything
from the play by play or from the game action
to those tings that I mentioned and plus more so
that way we give that blind, visually impaired fan the
full experience of attending the live sporting event.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So walk us through how this system works for fans.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So we will do about this year for the Pacers exclusively.
We'll do twenty gate home games. So what fans can
do is go to the Pacers website and they can
sign or the Mind's Eye website and find out which
games that we're going to be providing the service for.
They'll technically have the sign of it makes it easier
for us. They register in advance and let us know, Hey,
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I'm going to be here, So we've got to make
sure we account for him and have an idea. But
there's an app called Live Voice with the fans down
out the Live Voice Live Voice app. Once they get
in there, we get a code and that code will
be an audio description for the Pacers game. And they'll
just bring our own headphones and just sit there, know,
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be able to listen to the live audiobscription if they
don't register there. It's also that code is available guest
services for them to grab as well when they go
to the game. So some fans who just walk into
the game and maybe there's an other shore or if
you walk by me and it was just white Kane
awarenes stay yesterday and you know I see a white
Cane and you don't know about audio description. Of course
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I want you to register and get that full experience,
so we'll also tell you in person as well.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, go to Pacers dot com if you would like
to sign up for this.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And again, does this cost any money?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
No, it is that the service is absolutely free for
anyone who purchased a ticket to the event. So that's
what I said it. We do not only do we
do sporting events around the Seals area, and we hope
to bring this more to the Indianapolis area. As well,
but we do live theater, we do help out with
museums and have the artifacts described as well, So we
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do it's a lot of different ways, so we just
want to make sure and it's free in every actually
we do it in so as long as the fan
has a ticket or access to that venue or that
building or that event, it is free to them. For
our description is free for that fan.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Who's describing it, who's doing the describing for those that
are visually impaired and that are using this program, this system.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
So the person describing that each event is going to
be a mind's eye trained describer. So our describers are
go through about a three week process of learning how
to describe things. They'll actually go to shadow training describers
and events and then we will kind of send them
out of there ready to go describe sporting events or
whatever else we have. But for the Pacers Games, you'll
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have a trained describer. They're live in person describing that event,
describing there. For now, most people will hear my voice
because I'm the one mainly doing a lot of the
Pacers games this year. I think I'm I think eighteen
of the twenty are going to be mean.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
As somebody that's going to get to be a describer.
That's kind of cool. You're going to be going to
many games.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah. Now, you know, I'm you know as a person
who is has been in this industry. Now I've been
at minz At for thirteen years. I'm a grandson of
My grandmother was visually impaired, So I always joke around
and say growing up, and I tell people, I was
already describing the prices right on TV as a kid.
I didn't know that's what I was doing. I was
just telling my grandmother what was happening. So now fast
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forward all these years later and going to go to
NBA games, which I'm an avid sports fan too. I
can remember the days of you know, watching the Pacers
with Reggie Miller and Rick Smith and all those players
playing up you know in those days, and you know,
going on to Jermaine o'meil and future Pacers and the Pacers. Now,
it's just incredible being able to be a part of
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that and actually bringing that to fans because we also
have a core group of fans working with BOSMA and
Indianapolis also a hotbed for beat baseball to adapted. Oh yeah,
and so we already know our people in the community
have been going to games and checking it out and
giving us our feedback already, and it's just been incredible
and overwhelmingly positive of just how much it's meant to them.
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So We're excited to be a part of but I'm
definitely excited to be a part of it. One of
the things that I thought was pretty cool from a
fan some the time someone who's blind evers im paragos
have been that's not already described. They are basically depending
on their side and Padre to give them a lot
of the feedback because even though you had the radio
feed in at a game while you're there, it's a
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twelve to fifteen second delay. So if you're so everybody's
celebrating the basket that blind sided individuals probably nudging the person,
Hey what just happened? You know what just went down,
and then they had to get to play by play
from that person who's telling them, hey, this happened or
this is what's going on. The jumbo tron. One of
the spectators and during the pilot events, his fiance he
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told his fiancee Sai, hey, he was telling me what
was happening. I was missing things. He's giving me the
feedback what I was missing, and I was like, and
I was like, that's kind of cool to reverse that
sit situation. And I feel like that's when it's done right.
You see, where you've given the person the information that
they can actually engage in the conversations in real time
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of things that are happening in the game and also
be the informative things that are happening that someone's missing
it as part of the experience as well. So I
think that's one of the one of the cool feedbacks
we did receive.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It cool.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Jason Fraser is here, president and CEO of MINDZI, mindsiradio
dot org and the genesis of the partnership between Minds
II and the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
How did that conversation begin that.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Sixty three to separation. We always talk about our partnership
began two ways to one way. I just mentioned Beat Baseball.
We have a Beat Baseball team. We actually just Minds
I just hosted the Beat Baseball World Series two years
in a row in twenty twenty four twenty five, So
a lot of people in the Indianapolis community when they
came in for the World Series We also hosted an
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audio description game with the Saint Louis Cardinals, so people
went back saying, hey, I wish this was done you
know somewhere here. Fortunately for us, one of the key
composed of starting sports audio description in Saint Louis, Warren
Carl who now works for the Pacers, actually start out
to sing Louis Blues when we started it with the Blues,
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so now she's the thing they have was Pacer so
that it was just a perfect you know, yeah, that
perfect sync up there like you kids can't make that
story happen, and it just it's worked out that way
both all the worlds can all the dots connected.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
And here we are before we let you go again,
this is Jason Fraser, President and CEO of Mind's Eye
minsiradio dot org. If you want to get signed up
for this.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
The Pacers will have this technology in place beginning very
soon and they'll have twenty games for those that are
blind and visually impaired.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
You see. Now, bring your Bluetooth headphones and we'll be
there next Thursday for the home opener.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh fantastic.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
It guess it's under So we're getting up. We're starting
off accessibility with.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
The bang, Right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
It's gonna change the way you've just been doing things
from social gatherings to when you go to a game.
Being that person. Like I said earlier, you can inform
the person what's happening. Maybe in some cases there's things
in the court or things that happened during a Gandy
may not realize there happening, like what does Boomer look like?
You'll find that out. What is going on when there's
a halftime show with the jump rope crew? What are
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they doing that? Describing that so you'll get the full experience.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Well, how would you describe Boomer?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh? Man, you're putting me on the spot. So I
just remember one of the games we described. I remember
the description was was right Fordson blue panther mask out
with a yellow mohawk, wearing a white Indiana Pacers jersey,
coming down from about ninety feet from the catwalk with
a Let's Go Pacers banner behind him. So I remember
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the So, yes, you this, We'll get in trouble with
that without our with our audio description director Megan Harms,
who she's a lot of the key parts of the program,
and she's ab a fan of mascots. If I don't
describe the mascots, I get in trouble with her. So
I had to make sure we described the maskot.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Jason, thank you for this.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Thank you for your time, but thank you for what
you've come up with for those that are blind and
visually impaired, making this experience a whole new a whole
new ballgame, if you will. For those that are coming
to the games. We'll begin next Thursday at the home game,
and if you want to sign up, do it at
mindsiradio dot org or you can also go to Pacers
dot com and sign up for the service.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
It's great to have you with us. Jason. Thanks thanks
again for your time. It's a beautiful thing you're doing.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Thank you, No, I appreciate you forgiving us and time
to shed light on it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It is eleven twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We've got Denny's Dollars and Cents coming up in the
next half hour, and.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The scariest story ever told.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The news is next fifty two degrees in downtown Indianapolis.
And yeah, it's not very pretty out there today, but
there's still a lot going on. I kind of wanted
to look ahead to oh, I was going to tell
you the scary story one night.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh, wait a.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Minute, if that's not a Sunday, I don't know it is.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Wait a minute, and you listen.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm sorry, we don't have the YouTube up and running.
I have a bloody eye. You don't want to see that.
It's weeping. It's Kylin. Would I would love for her
to turn hers on camera and then turn this one
over to Denny. Jenny allow that he won't, he won't
let us do it.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Maybe go ahead, ye, dollars and cents, you get some
Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So I got a nice shirt onto.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yes, you do your spooky story. I want to take
because I love scary stories, did you?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Growing up? I loved scary stories. My mom and dad the.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Best scary storytellers. And I just loved him, I really did.
But the shortest scary.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Story ever told.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's so good, you guys, it's too just just very short.
It's by Frederick Brown and it's titled Knock and it reads,
the last man on Earth sat alone in a room,
and there was a knock at the door.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh, I get it. It's a story.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh you got a story that is true, That is
the scariest short story ever told. Huh, how about that?
It didn't even involve the government. It was just a
story the last man on Earth and he gets a
knock at the door. Boom, there's your shortest scary story
evers alrighty there, Okay, So here we've got coming up
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this week. We've got I wanted to let you guys
know because we would love to see you. Next weekend.
We are going to be at a Colt's tailgate. You guys,
I can't believe they let us do this. I know
we'll be at the Slippery Noodle, which, by the way,
is haunted, so we can't wait to be there and
be a part of the haunting and also the tailgate.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Come and meet Kylon, com and meet Denny.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'll be there eleven into one, and I know that's
a four oh five game, but we start tailgating at
eleven with all the specials and everything.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Will we be drinking, Yeah, Denny, We're getting.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
We're all going to be drinking.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
We're all going to be drinking and chewing chewing on.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
A nice hamburger Slippery noodleburgers.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So come on out and see us next Sunday again
eleven to one. We will be at the Slippery Noodle.
We would love to see you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay again, does management know that we're going to They.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Set this up for us.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Really they want people to see that we really are
cool people.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Does management know we're going?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's us, You're sending us out and we're listen, come
with games and prizes people.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, Kylin's a model, you know, actress model.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And then Terry the sunshine of the room. If it's
another gloomy Sunday, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I will be celebrating my fortieth anniversary in marriage and
in working here at WYBC. So I really do wish
you would come out. And you don't have to bring
me a president or anything. You don't do that, but presence,
the presence.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
This would be my present.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
A ninety eighth National FFA Convention is coming. It's back
October twenty ninth through November. First the city getting ready
for that. We've got IHSAA Football Playoffs coming up. October
twenty fourth kicks off on Friday for Class A one
A through five A, and then that tournament pairings that
follows the tournament pairings that were announced on October twelfth.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I didn't even hear the pairing show. Don't even know.
We've got the.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Pacers NBA season underway coming up this week. Pacers hosting
Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday at Gamebridge Field House in Indy, Kylan.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Well, this last week, did you see the Starting Five
Netflix series premiered?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Did you see it?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Uh? It follows the five superstars chosen for that season,
and Tyrese Halliburton was one of them, along with Kevin Durant,
Jaylen Brown, Shake Gilgers, Alexander and James Harden. Here's just
a little bit of the trailer because it gave me chills.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Okay, didn't he don't cry.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We were to lose the Game seven, and I would
think about that game.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I love his voice forever.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
We know James Harden, We know that Kevin.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Durris, I could do everything. We're witnessing a change of
the guards.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
You're gonna hit them with this.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
If they choke a lead off, you gotta watch the back.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Now, it's just people praying on my downflour to do
all this and then like fall short.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
That would be insane to me.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
I'd sacrifice pretty much anything to win a championship, and.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Boy did he that's just a little clip of the
trailer that you would see for the starting five. And
within this, Reggie Miller sat down and had an interview
about Tyrese Halliburton, and one of the questions that he
was given was what do you say to the people
who are now doubting and questioning Tyrese Haliburton after his
injury and still moving forward, especially because he's not going
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to be playing this season.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
All I will say is, look at game six, in
Game seven of the NBA Finals. They will never ever
be a question of a guy's heart will determination his game.
No one will ever second guess any decision that he
ever makes. Again, he risked it all. He risked it
(23:11):
all for a franchise, for a state, for an organization.
How many guys in life, how many women in life
are willing to risk it all, risk it all? But
this comes back full circle moment to what's it like
to be a Hoosier and to play in Indiana. I'm
not playing for myself. I'm playing for that dude, playing
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for that dude, I'm playing for these people. That's what
it's like to be an Indiana Pacers. So thank you, Tyrese.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I love it. Oh my gosh, that was fabulous. That
was fabulous.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I started watching it and I it's good. I started
breaking it down reliving that last game. So if you
want to relive a little bit of last season before
this season opens on Thursday, check it out.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The starting five terrific.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Okay, starting again. I'm excited about this season. I really am.
Starting on Thursday. See what happens?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Can I nerd out for just a second. Yeah, Okay,
when you listen to that audio that KAI played right
at the beginning, with the audio and with the voices
and the sound effects, your audio cortex, which is on
either side of your ears, is twice as large as
your visual cortex. You will remember that more than if
you had seen it on television.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
But I guaranee you it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Totally makes sense. I was actually crying watching this trailer.
It's just, oh the chills.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It's some Pacers news that was released yesterday. They announced
that the team waved Cameron Payne the guard, and so
now they are going to be relying heavily on the
rookie guard, Taylor Peter and to fill that void of Tyrese.
So got me in it, especially after last year and
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by the way your soccer dudes won two oh.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yesterday, they're hanging onto the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They struck early and hard. They were playing really well.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Also on Thursday, the Indiana Conference for Women.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Oh that's right, tickets are still available.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
They've still got them if you want to go Indiana
Conference for Women dot com. And they're also on social
media too if you want to get a ticket for
that one great speakers coming in for that one, one
day only event, largest of its kind here in the Midwest.
So yeah, if you want to be a part of that,
ladies love to have you. Also, I want to mention
that this we're going into week four of the federal
government shutdown that continues. You know that will be news
(25:26):
yesterday David, my husband, part of the federal government, heard
it could last as long as Thanksgiving. Oh. I know
there's a lot of you don't give a crap about this,
but there is starting to hurt a lot of those
that are working. So you know, I know, you say, well,
they're going to get their money, but yeah, but if
we've got to wait until Thanksgiving to get a check,
(25:47):
it's a little rough, rough for us and rough for mini.
So that continues to happen this week, and what else.
I think we've covered everything that's going on, and listen,
there are more stories redistricting. I'm sure it's going to continue.
I heard Mike back with come out and say that
this could happen beginning in November. So that's right around
the corner with our chestory. Despite what everybody, you know,
(26:08):
nobody wants this.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I read a study where they took people psychologically and
for six weeks they got them off social media and
their phones. Now, think about that, for six weeks. The
first week was terrible. By the end of the sixth week,
they were emotionally stronger, they were happier, their lives had
changed for the better.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And so I wish we could do that, right, I
mean I wish I wish I could do that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I don't think I can't either. That's my source of communication,
and I just don't know. I wish I could.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Would you take the best?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know what, we all have that ability to shut
off Facebook and shut off all the social media. You
have that ability to just use your phone. You do
have that ability. We have that ability. I have that ability.
But will I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But I do look at it less.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I will tell you I look at it less, and
it's just because I just have come to know myself
that it's it's affecting me. Sometimes I've read it and
and I know it's time to stay away from this
for a while.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I will say I turned off my notifications notification.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I know i'd so yeah, literally for everybody. If my
mom calls, I'm like, okay, I will get back to it,
because that instantly takes off so much anxiety instead of
hearing the Snapchat, the Facebook, the Instagram notification pop off.
And to think that we are only at the superficial
level of using social media in comparison.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
To some of these kids growing up, right, how.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Can you go into that you're better at that than
I am. But my grandkids they've got that phone on
all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
And someone a teacher had posted on Facebook the other
day saying how crazy it is to know that some
of these kids know how to swipe on a phone
before they know how to hold a crayon.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
That's no doubt. I believe that I do. They I
believe that I do. I really do.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's such a babysitter for many I think oftentimes, and
if I had been a parent, I don't know if
that I might have used it the very same. Unfortunately,
it just feels like sometimes when I'm watching it's it's like,
for the here, do this, if you're gonna cry, here,
here do this wife, and play on this phone for
a while. When they're really little, play this game on
the phone. It's so it's a little bit of a
(28:13):
babysitter for some Okay, all right, we do want to
talk about the World Food Championships. We were out there
yesterday with Home and Garden. It is happening today. Today
is the.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Final table, and I know we need to get to
dollars and since are we doing?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, how are we doing? We want to get to
dollars and stance. But I also want to get an
update for Team Indiana in case any of you are
heading out there today for the final round.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
It's pretty cool. I watched kids yesterday for a while.
Are amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Starting tomorrow at the convention center, the E M S.
E MT from around the United States is starting. Oh,
that's that's right at that convention tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Okay, So should we get to have we got time
to do World world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Do you want to wait, Denny, how long do you
think we'll up or your.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Dollars go for it real quick. It's just about Crooks.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The what's the update.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We have Team Indiana out there and so we've been
watching their progression.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The week in finals was the first category.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
This morning's bright and early at eight a m. And
so our Team Indiana for that one with Danny McDonald.
He was taking place in the finals, so we'll see
how the championship turns out for him.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So he makes it to the final table.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
He's in the final rounds right now while still waiting
for the final judging results. Seafood is also taking place
right now. That's with Sharon Oakshall Indiana. We've got the
chef finals going on. I don't believe we had anyone
advance for that one. A couple took place yesterday for Indiana.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Travis hitch was from Bloomington. He did not advance. Is
that what you're saying?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Okay, but congratulate. Yes, these are all just honorable mentions
for everybody who moved on, But there are still so
many different chefs who competed across the board.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Our noodle champion from last year is now Colly Hilton. Yeah,
he's in the vegetarians team.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He is in that one.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
He's the finals for that one that'll go to Hiltree.
But he's he's in that final round. Yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
These are chefs that prepare for you every day, you know,
and they're competing in this and it's such a big deal,
a lot of money to be won, and it's a
super funny event.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I know, the weather is not so great today to
be outside.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
They've got a lot of the live fire, a lot
of cooking goes on outside. But anyway, if you're interested,
go to World Food Championships dot com. We've got dollars
in since coming up next, Denny, you want to tease it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
A bit, Well, let's just say that there's a lot
of people sixty five hundred out of one hundred thousand
don't get what they're paid what they should get in
their paycheck. Oh, it's criminal. What's been going on?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
This has been a topic that I have not fully understood,
but we rank high on this list when it comes
to we'll do the.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Study and everything, but when your employer fails to pay you,
there's some legalities going on here.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So we'll understand that when we come back with Denny's
dollars and cents. Thanks for joining us here. It's the
first day ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, everybody, here we go on this gloomy sunday.
Here we go. You know the what to do?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You've got a friend and Denny. Oh, you got a
friend and Denny.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I know you guys are family, but I love it
when you're saying, well.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Doesn't that make it even better because we are family?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh no, I've heard I've heard my family say yes,
you just.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Remember what your friend Denny said. Oh, you've got a
friend in Denny.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Everybody who ever got a paycheck has been hourly at
one point.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Denny, guess what Today's the thirty eighth anniversary of Black Monday.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yes it is, Yes, it is. How about that? And
it wasn't it seems like it should have? Well, what
was it? It doesn't matter. It was the anniversary of
Black Monday.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Black Monday.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
When the Dow financial crash happened. Anyway, I thought you'd Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I was terrified I wouldn't be able to make peril
that Oh my gosh, it dropped in nineteen eighty seven,
it dropped the equivalent of seven hundred points back then,
which was a ton. That would be like dropping ten
thousand points right now.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That's what I was going to wonder about the comparison product.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Everybody's pucker string was pulled up pretty tight, and I
had seventy plumbers on payroll, and I had to make
a payroll, and I didn't know whether the banks were
going to open. In fact, Fred Heckman called me. Remember
Fred Heckman from the newsroom. He and Snuffy were real
good friend. Stuffy was out of town and Fred said,
what are you hearing from the street. I said, everybody
scared to death. Fred, that's amazing that I can't believe
(32:20):
I remember that. Oh well, hey, listen, you all have
been on payroll from at one point of your life
where you got a paycheck and you turned in your
hours for working. But you've heard it of identity theft,
and you've heard of data theft, but what about wage theft.
There was a study done by this law firm out
of Los Angeles, and they wanted to see how many
people had been screwed out of ours or had been
(32:41):
asked to work overtime after they were forced to clock out.
And you can't believe some of the shenanigans that go.
And I'm not saying that that employees are without fault,
but when I see some of the shenanigans that employers
are trying to pull, this has got to stop. And
(33:02):
I was an employer at one point. I had twelve
hundred and fifty employees in six states, and it was
it was known within our company that the paychecks come first.
If somebody's not going to get paid, it's going to
be management, and it's going to be somebody else. But
it's not just minimum wage violations. You know. I've always
tried to figure out how do people in restaurants or
(33:23):
in food service get paid, because they get their tips,
but they may only be getting like two dollars and
ninety cents an hour, six dollars an hour for that.
But what this study showed is that Indiana is the
number one state where employer where employees are getting screwed
out of money on their paychecks. In Indiana's number one,
I mean I would have thought Los Angeles, California, New York,
(33:45):
New York, I would have thought about it. No, and the.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Board here because because in the old days, you'd get
a check. You'd physically get a paycheck and you would
look at that check and you knew how many hours,
how many hours it turned in. You really paid attention.
Then we went into you know, deposit, you can have it, Yeah,
automatically deposited. I stopped looking at that, even though I
have the ability to do it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
No, you mind.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And it's not that your employer might be bad. It's
that mistakes can be mad.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Mistakes can be bad, and maybe we're not so good
at catching them or paying attention to it. Until when
how do we found Have these mistakes been found by
the employees?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The employees find them, but legally there's not a whole
lot they can do. Now, we're not we're not attorneys.
We're not in wage an hour and whatever. And even
the state of Indiana, who has very strict wage in
our rules, you know a lot of this is going unseen.
So making a clock out and making you keep working,
that's that's wage theft. Shaving time off your paycheck, that's
(34:45):
that's wage theft. Skipping overtime pay when you work more
than forty hours a week, that's wage theft compared to
wage and our look at your eyes, we've all had
to do it all right. But this twenty twenty five
study by the Sharazi Law firm, they used the United
State's Department of Labored data and they found that Indiana
had the highest rate of wage theft violations in the country,
(35:06):
over sixty five hundred per one hundred thousand. That means
six and a half percent of us who turn in
our hours might be getting screwed. Now things have changed
a lot, because, like we're on the ADP system. ADP
system is minute by minute. Okay, it didn't used to
be that way. It used to be that if you
got to the quarter hour, you got paid for the
half hour. So guys knew exactly I had plumbers that
(35:29):
they were accounting geniuses. They knew how to get to
twenty three after the hour so that they could get
those seven minutes for free, drove Jane, who is our
payroll mistress.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But I'm not saying that employees are without fault. What
I'm saying is that employers better clean up their act
because if this gets into a class action lawsuit within
a certain firm. In fact, one restaurant was found. This
was in Indiana, down in Evansville, three hundred thousand dollars
they had shorted their employees and they just filed bankruptcy.
(35:59):
I went out of business.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So nobody got that money.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Nobody got the money, right, but everybody, when you think
about it, it was its pennies, and it's nickels and
dimes yea, And that's maybe a dollar here and there.
But so next time you hear the phrase wage stuff,
remember that it's not an obscure legal term. It really
does take place. It's it's not just wrong, it's widespread.
And Indiana's leading the nation in this nonsense. Now here's
(36:25):
the thing. We are leading the nation with the most
type of claims like that we're twenty six. Then getting
it back, now, does that suck or what?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
That's terrible?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Number one is the ones that get good, the ones
that get it back or California and New York and
those those places are just wackad do. I don't know
how they do it. But stand up for yourself, be
nice and just say hey, I don't think this calculation
was right. But don't be afraid to stand up for
yourself because there are honest employers out there who will
do everything to make sure you get paid. And the skunks, well,
(36:56):
they need to be decented and maybe that's coming.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Okay, thank you, Denny Paul, that's Denny Smith.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Thanks bred Heckman on black.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Uh, we've got another hour to go. Will you stay
with us?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Would YOUA?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
We'd love to have you back. But first, Today's top stories.
That's next on ninety three w IBC
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