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Speaker 1: For that mental wellness conversation and that mental wellness check. The person leading that way or leading the way with that is going to be coming up in our second hour. Later this hour, community activist Ebony Chappelle joins us, not only to share news of a celebration of our freedom, but also to underscore just how very important that celebration is, party with a purpose, if you will.
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Speaker 2: That kind of vibration is going to be going on around this.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Ebony's going to be with us probably sometime around 1.30 or so.
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Speaker 2: Although, yeah, about 1.30. Okay, I got it. Yep, 1.30. Right now, lines are open for whatever may be on your mind. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310.
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Speaker 1: As we go to open lines, we must bring in our contributing analyst, James Patterson.
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Speaker 2: James, how are you?
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Speaker 3: I am really, really good, Tina. How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, doing great, doing great.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that sounds kind of corny, doesn't it? I'm really, really good.
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Speaker 1: No, no, it doesn't sound corny. It sounds refreshing, because I tell you what. You ever say, how you doing? And somebody unloads a truck.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I've been there.
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Speaker 1: They unload the 53-foot semi-truck on you.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's like, okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but that's what you.
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Speaker 5: Ask, right?
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Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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Speaker 2: That's what you ask, and so then you say, yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly. You say, no, no.
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Speaker 3: I feel sorry for you, but hey, what can I do to help you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you do. You listen, and you pay attention. Yeah. the the weather james.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's uh you know it's a beautiful day again temperature.
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Speaker 3: Wise gorgeous out there yeah thank you yeah a little cloudy out there but.
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Speaker 2: Hey cloudy yeah surprising yeah.
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Speaker 3: We got a beautiful fall day in store for us today yeah today y'all today there's a Saturday. Got a cold front slowly sinking down from our northwest. Places like Chicago is getting pummeled right now with rain. And South Man is in the bullseye, so they'll be getting some in northern Indiana. But the bulk of the rain should reach central Indiana tomorrow. Not until tomorrow. And I've got a window right now of late afternoon, early evening for that rain to reach us. tomorrow, and then we'll get really, really saturated on Friday. But for the rest of the day today, if you've got outside activities, you are good to go and early tomorrow. However, we could see, because this front is slowly sinking southeastward, We could see our northern counties, Hamilton, Boone, and the other northern counties in central Indiana could see a sprinkle here and there, pop-up shower even. And even the metro area could grab one. But for the most part, looks like we look like we are going to have that rain stay north of us for the time being. This afternoon should be mostly cloudy. And then I'm expecting the sun to pop out later this afternoon. Certainly by time folks are heading home for that evening rush hour. It's already 75 degrees as we came on the air today. And temperatures, we expect them, especially if we get that sunshine that I'm looking for, to rise up into the low to mid 80s. So we should have, we were expecting, 80 degrees, over 80 yesterday. I think it was like 81. Today, we should get up to that mid-80s mark. So we'll see if we make it there. It just depends on if we can hold those clouds up north and have that sun come back.
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Speaker 2: Cloudy and warm. Cloudy and warm. And some rain coming a little bit later. You know, rain held out for quite a while.
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Speaker 4: It has been. It's been pretty dry for a while.
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Speaker 3: It has been dry and sunny and beautiful, really. I mean, you know, temperatures started out in the, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Perfect, perfect. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. Lines are open. Let's, yeah, let's take a call.
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Speaker 1: We've got some other stuff to talk about, but we'll go ahead and take a call first.
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Speaker 2: Let's see who we have. Jeff, is that Jeff?
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Speaker 4: That is Jeff.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, how are you?
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Speaker 6: Hey, Tina. Hey, James.
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Speaker 2: Hey, how are you?
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Speaker 3: Hey, hey.
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Speaker 6: I got some Caitlin Clark news.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 6: Oh, did you see the Senate hearing yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Senate hearing?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what he's talking about with Jack Smith. I saw a few minutes of it, and I had to turn it off when that one senator called Smith a dirtbag. It was so unprofessional. It was just such an ugly... ugly, ugly thing to do.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 2: You know, he said, as far as I'm concerned, you're a dirtbag.
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Speaker 1: And just, you know, it was very performative and.
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Speaker 6: Good theater, I guess. Oh, but it all blew up in his face, Tina.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it did? I didn't watch the rest.
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Speaker 6: What happened? Oh, my God. This clown, Eric Schmidt, If you also Google, he's also a white supremacist. He gave a speech about a year ago saying that only white people made America great. Blacks, indigenous people, Native Americans, Asians, and Hispanics never contributed nothing to America. But that's another topic. But he was trying to pin Jack Smith to a basketball game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and yes, indeed, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: That he was honestly trying to recall being there and said he doesn't recall being there, didn't recall being there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to pin him to a ballgame, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Instead, thank God for Senator Klobuchar. Do you mean the Iowa Hawkeyes?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that part. I saw that part, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, and now this guy, he's running for Congress. I think you owe Jack Smith an apology, and, you know, he doesn't want to apologize, but he's getting really reaped across the coals with this one. It was humiliating. This guy just humiliated himself. A U.S. senator.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Well, the fact that he could even call one of his, you know, not a colleague, but, you know, call and have his fellow colleagues on that committee see him call a witness a dirtbag.
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Speaker 2: It was just so unprofessional. It was just ugly.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, she was talking about Iowa Hawkeye, and he was in another state, you know, that night.
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Speaker 2: It was funny.
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Speaker 6: I mean, do you mean, are you mistaking Maryland for Georgia?
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, so I thought these guys, I thought Maga was so, you know, uh, but also this guy's a white supremacist.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's his.
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Speaker 1: Again, I was, you see, you have to understand how I watch coverage sometimes and sometimes it watches me. And so certain things, no, seriously, cause I'm busy and I'm doing things and I'm trying, because if I could just sit down and watch it.
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Speaker 2: I could have caught all of that.
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Speaker 1: But I did catch, they were trying to get him, uh, you know, say that he was in Atlanta, uh, watching at a Hawks game.
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Speaker 2: And they had a, what do you call it, a text message chain that.
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Speaker 6: With Fannie Willis.
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Speaker 1: With Fannie Willis, yeah. And they wouldn't let him see it. They wouldn't let him see it. They held it up real fast, and then they took it down. And then when, you know, Senator Klobuchar came up and said, are you talking about, you know, X, Y, and Z? And when I heard that, then I had to go out and somebody else came in the office.
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Speaker 6: And so.
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear how she followed up, but thank you for sharing that.
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Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: He said, I think you got the Atlanta Hawks mixed up with the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So you've got an NBA team mixed up with a women's basketball team.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he said he.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to see Kaitlyn Clark, didn't he? That's right, he did.
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Speaker 1: He said, I wanted to see Kaitlyn Clark that night.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because she was playing the Maryland Terps.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Are you mistaken? Yeah, are you mistaken? The Maryland Terps with the Golden State Warriors?
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Speaker 2: The Atlanta Hawks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, man, these MAGA people are just so hilarious. But guess who they got? You know, but guess who their fearless leader is? So it speaks for itself. So I just had to say that. But yeah, but this Eric Schmidt guy, yeah, he went from the Schmidt show to the art show. But anyway. He said, but he's also saying that black people and Native Americans didn't contribute nothing to America.
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Speaker 2: What state is he from? Let me look and see.
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Speaker 6: Missouri, Missouri.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's from Missouri, too.
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Speaker 6: Oh, okay. Yeah, with that other bum, Josh Hawley.
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Speaker 2: Hawley, yeah, when running out of there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the coward, the coward.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Coward.
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Speaker 6: So I know that's local stuff, but we've got to realize who we're dealing with. Who we're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: We absolutely do.
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not only twist or distort the facts to to, you know, to where they fit their narrative, but don't even ascertain the correct. They don't even get the correct that, you know, at least be, you know, at least be factual and twist it that way. But when you're on, you know, you're in two different states and two different.
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Speaker 2: Times, you're what are you doing? What are you trying?
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Speaker 1: You're making stuff up, pulling things out of the air.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Exactly. So I just had to bring it up because it was just spectacular to see this maggot humiliating himself. I called him a maggot. Hope you Republicans hear me. He's a maggot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have to look on social media, look online and see what the comments were after that.
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Speaker 6: Oh, this guy's a piece of work, Tina. Yeah. I mean, he's a he's a known bigot, a known bigot and a U.S.
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Speaker 3: Senator.
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Speaker 6: And he can't even get his he doesn't know the difference between women's basketball and NBA basketball players. So, no.
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Speaker 1: Well, then, you know, voters have to do better. Voters are going to have.
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Speaker 3: To do better. Exactly.
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Speaker 6: We got to do better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to do better.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: I guess no, neither you or James or Eric heard that or saw that exchange.
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Speaker 11: I think I saw the headline, but I didn't get to watch it. Something else is happening. How about you, James?
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Speaker 3: I didn't see it. I heard that Jack Smith was in front of a committee, and I figured how that would have went with the Republicans in control and what they thought of what he did by trying to bring charges forward. against the president, you know, for what he did, which I thought were lawful charges. But once Donald Trump got back into office, the Justice Department, of course, dropped all that.
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Speaker 1: And the revenge tour began. They started kicking people out that worked on the case and those that have just incredible, unthinkable loyalty to the lie.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: They are out there peddling it as well. A lie that has even created legislate, pieces of legislature.
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Speaker 2: Legislative things. And laws, laws based on lies, I guess the easiest way to say that.
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Speaker 4: Laws based on lies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of across the country, laws have been passed based on the big lie.
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Speaker 4: Based on lies.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the big lie is, of course, one of the major ones, I mean, choose and pick your lie because there's a bunch of them but the major one is that he lost to that he that he did not lose to rather joe biden in the 2020 election and he did lose to joe biden by seven million votes um and that's a lot of votes to lose by but you know i can understand if it was a few votes in ukraine you know that that some of them might not have uh should have been legitimate here or there votes, but 7 million votes. And, um, there were like 60 court cases, court challenges, all of them, every one of them did not succeed. Every one of them, um, were not successful for those who brought those lawsuits regarding the election. Every last one of them, at least 60, there might've been more. And then also, um, You know, he he continues to to lie about it. And he was able to escape what Jack Smith was going to bring. And that one of the charges and also Fannie Willis, the prosecutor in Georgia, was going to bring this charge about him trying to begin a vote. All I need is how many thousand ever it was that he was asking the secretary of state to find. So he's guilty of what he is claiming others did to him.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Want to be mobster.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do it.
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Speaker 1: So, but yeah, but you know, the thing that really gets me is people are seriously, seriously in pain at the grocery stores and at the gas pumps because this economy is just not getting better. Every time you go into a grocery store, something you bought maybe a couple of weeks ago when you bought groceries is even higher this time than it was two weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: And you know, that, that.
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Speaker 1: Continues and continues and continues. I pulled up to a gas pump this morning. I mean, my goodness, how, I guess it can go as high as it needs to go. Speaking of which, um, One of the most loyal Trumpists that we know of, because he's right here, Mike Braun, even he's sensitive to some of it, some of the current pain, because I guess this morning he extended the gas tax holiday for the seventh time in a row, six or seven, anyway, seventh time.
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Speaker 2: He's extended it again.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been since, was it March, I think, of this year was the first one.
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Speaker 2: And we're in. Yeah, that's probably.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, it's extended through November the 4th. November the 4th. Because he is even sensitive to what Hoosiers are going through. And for the Senate to be up there grandstanding and, you know, having performative theater.
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Speaker 2: Well, theater is performing. That's redundant.
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Speaker 1: But, you know, putting theater up there for America to see so that they can please the almighty Trump in their minds is ridiculous and tone deaf and cruel, actually.
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Speaker 2: I mean, well, oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point about the gas and the groceries. And remember, do you guys remember eggs? Do you guys remember the word grocery? That is what the president ran on. We're going to lower the price of groceries, particularly eggs. We're going to get eggs down. We're going to get groceries down. That is what he won on, is groceries. And to get to the point where, and this is where the Republican Party has to realize that when you have leadership that is going in the opposite direction of, uh, instituting policies that impact the people in a negative way, then you've got to abandon him because he doesn't care about you. He made $ 1 billion for his first year in office. He's made another billion for a total of $ 2 billion for his second year in office. He doesn't care. All he cares about is dollars. He doesn't care about people. And when you lose the ability to have sympathy and empathy for people, everyday working people. That is what this country has the largest middle class working class on the face of the earth. That's why everybody wants to come here because everybody can get a house and a car, you know, house with a garage and a car and, you know, send their children to do better than they did to school. So if you lose that, then you've lost it all, all of it. And that's what their problem is right now. And they're worshiping him because he's a racist and some of them don't understand. That's not all of it. You know, you've got a country that's multicultural and you have to treat everybody the same and lean on their gifts. Lean on the gifts of the diverse country because everybody's got something to give. And that's what they don't understand. Really, they don't.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: And I just back it up even a little more. And you're correct. He did tout, hey, I'm going to bring the price of eggs down. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. But he was also running against a candidate that America was never going to accept. So it didn't matter what he said or what he promised. As long as it wasn't her, then we'll go ahead and take our chances with him. And for that, voters got what they asked. Even though it was a smaller margin than most, But still, I, you know, I just.
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Speaker 3: Well, partly that, the bigotry that showed through on that with a black woman candidate.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And the bigotry that showed through that with him being the bigot, you know, the bigot in chief.
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Speaker 3: It's a fair point, but it's still resting on us. I don't know what percentage of people went to the polls, but if people, and I think, I believe I could say this truly, more people... if you were to ask, take a poll of all American voters, more of them would have backed Kamala Harris, but they didn't follow through.
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Speaker 2: They didn't follow through.
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Speaker 3: It's a little bit on us too, but it's, yeah, it's also Americans who will not accept a black woman as a commander in chief. And they need to get over that because it's coming one day.
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Speaker 2: They will not accept a woman period.
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Speaker 1: Hillary wasn't black and she, you know, uh, well, Shirley Chisholm was black, uh, There's just so much, so much is there. And the misogynistic ways, I mean, America may have, you know, we have, like you say, everybody wants to come here and work and opportunities or what have you, but there's some deep seated stuff under the surface that comes to the surface when it comes to things like national elections that we are just like, we're in the stone ages compared to some other countries just like ours.
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Speaker 3: We are.
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Speaker 2: We just are.
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Speaker 3: You know, we, we, we haven't got there yet. Like you said, those conditions of the heart, we haven't got there, but it doesn't mean we can't. There's always opportunity to change. And so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Uh, opportunities that present themselves, you know, all the time. I don't know if she is going to run again. I don't know who, who the Democrats have on the bench. Uh, but, um, It's gonna be interesting, I hope. I was just watching, now talk about being encouraged and that there's always hope. I was just watching, Uh, now I was watching this as I was putting my stuff together to come down here.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it was a national report and one of their, I believe it was for NBC.
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Speaker 1: Again, I switched so much cause I want to see who's got what, but I think it was NBC and they interviewed voters in Texas. In that one county where the Republicans reduced the number of polling places by 30 to 40 percent in predominantly black and brown communities, you know, that that situation where they did a man on the street. person on the street. They did a man on the street. And I tell you what, these folks were even madder. I mean, it's kind of like stirring up, you know, you poke the bear because they're like, oh, really? Now I really am upset. Now I'll go wherever I need to go to vote. And I, yes, I'm going to vote. I'm going to, I don't care where I have to go. And so what that has done has made some folks more determined. But it was so blatant, James, the racism. And it was so blatant because This reduction was done in, again, predominantly brown and black communities.
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Speaker 3: My guess is it was Tarrant County. I'm guessing now. Tarrant County, and that's Fort Worth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I believe that was what I saw.
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Speaker 2: But they.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. They are mad, and they should be. And they're Republicans.
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Speaker 2: They're going to vote.
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Speaker 3: I know Jeff, if he were on here again, he would say, yeah, yeah, it's still their fault. Even though they regret it, I don't accept that.
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Speaker 8: But.
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Speaker 3: They genuinely regret it.
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Speaker 6: But, you know, they had.
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Speaker 3: Their chance, like you said.
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Speaker 1: By comparison, contrast, I think the reporter did a really good job because she looked into a predominantly Republican, a predominantly GOP county, area in that county, GOP area in that county.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And there were polling places literally directly across the street from each other.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's how plentiful they were, but predominantly white and predominantly GOP-leaning in that particular area of the county. And they had all they wanted and then some. They even had places. I mean, the camera could show the proximity. They were directly across the street. Tell me that's not late.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And it is by design.
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Speaker 7: And.
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Speaker 3: You know when Jasmine Crockett, I think she ran and they pulled some stuff like that. But go ahead, Tina.
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Speaker 2: No, no. Brother Man wants to get in on the conversation. So, Brother Man, go ahead. How are you?
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Speaker 6: Hey, Ms. Tina and James and Eric.
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Brother Man.
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Speaker 6: They're trying to do something to the guy, that Jack Smith guy that was over that.
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Speaker 6: January 6th.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: We were talking about that. Hey, Thomas, I have to tell you, these white folks ain't right. Ain't that but a bunch of bigots and racists. And they got a man in the White House trying to put this country deeper and deeper in debt. Every time you look around, he's bombing somebody. He's all this. Gas prices are going down tomorrow, the next day. The liest man I've ever seen in my life. I knew a guy I worked with lied like that. I used to stay away from him. He just lied all the time. And that's what Trump does. Trump just lied. He needed to pay that woman $ 5 million for raping her. That's what he needs to do.
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Speaker 2: I think he, did he already?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. He was ordered to pay.
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Speaker 2: They took the funds out.
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Speaker 3: The money was in escrow, and the judge released it.
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Speaker 2: The judge released it, yeah, so she got paid.
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Speaker 3: But it's another $ 83 million that he's contesting that she won as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh, damage, probably, yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's in another case, because after he got in, he besmirched her. Oh, defamation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, defamation.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah.
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Speaker 6: You guys are on the right subject. These people that don't want to vote, they ain't got to worry about it. When gas go up to $ 10 a gallon and they can't buy food, they'll wish they had a vote again. Because these white folks, Brown and Trump and all those people that's in the Republican Party, they ain't doing nothing but making food out of these poor people that's working hard every day. trying to feed their families, trying to pay their bills. That's a shame.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 1: All right, brother man, thank you. We're going to stay on top of it. We just have to stay aware. We have to stay aware.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Russell, go ahead. How are you?
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Speaker 12: Good afternoon, folks.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 8: Just wanted to say that if anybody won't be able to vote on Election Day, November 3rd, You can make an application for an absentee ballot right now by calling the Marion County Election Board, and they'll send you out an application for an absentee ballot. So you can do that right now.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 8: Also, as you have been mentioning, Monday is the last day for the deadline for voter registration, generally speaking. Just wanted to remind folks about that and pose a question to you. Is there anything the Trump administration has done since they've been in power that you can say benefited the United States of America? Is there any one thing that comes to mind?
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Speaker 2: Any one thing regarding what?
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Speaker 8: That benefits the United States of America that the Trump administration has done since they've been in power.
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Speaker 12: You know, they want to stay in power. They're doing everything to stay in power, but what, why should it be in power? Is there any one thing you can think of that has benefited the country?
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Speaker 7: Nope.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Wish I had the Jeopardy music right now.
00:26:30
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:26:31
Speaker 2: James.
00:26:34
Speaker 3: I can't think of anything that administration has done to benefit the people. I can think of things that they've done to benefit themselves.
00:26:40
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:26:41
Speaker 3: Try to take credit for the twenty five hundred dollar. Was it was it twenty five hundred dollar checks or twelve hundred fifty checks? Whatever those checks were during the pandemic that we got. He tried– the Congress passed that, and then he made them put his name on it, on the Treasury Department, to put his name on it to take credit for that. But I do not– that's why he lost by 7 million votes. A lot of people didn't think he did anything as well. So, no, I do not, especially his second term. He has done nothing but hurt people. He has fired people. He has made the government worse, services worse. He's taken away health care. He's taken away food. He's taken away SNAP benefits. You name it, he's taken it away. And yet, that would be one thing if you're going to make things more efficient, but you are enriching yourself and your family and your cronies at the same time. That doesn't seem like, you know, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a duck.
00:27:37
Speaker 8: It's a duck.
00:27:39
Speaker 12: But, you know, you've heard of highway.
00:27:41
Speaker 8: Robbery, right?
00:27:43
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:27:45
Speaker 12: There's a new term, outer space robbery.
00:27:48
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:27:50
Speaker 8: This administration is out of space for robbery, so that's a new term that might get into the lexicon of the country.
00:28:00
Speaker 4: Okay.
00:28:01
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. All right. Thank you, Mr.
00:28:03
Speaker 3: Russell.
00:28:04
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
00:28:04
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr.
00:28:05
Speaker 5: Russell.
00:28:05
Speaker 3: Hey, Tina, I'm going to— it sounds like you were sounding a little fuzzy at one point.
00:28:11
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
00:28:12
Speaker 3: My, I'm going to hang up and call right back.
00:28:15
Speaker 6: Okay. Okay.
00:28:16
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take a break.
00:28:18
Speaker 7: Okay.
00:28:18
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break and we'll see what, what, what may happen when we come right back.
00:28:25
Speaker 3: Okay. Thank you.
00:28:34
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back. James, is that a little better? Is that better?
00:28:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's better, Tina. It might have been on my end, so I did something over here that should clear it up.
00:28:48
Speaker 5: I hope.
00:28:48
Speaker 2: Okay, all righty.
00:28:50
Speaker 1: Well, we are going to welcome James, our first guest for today.
00:28:56
Speaker 2: She's not a guest, though, what do they say? You're not a guest. She's just our good friend.
00:29:03
Speaker 1: And community activist, Ebony Chappelle, Director of Brand and Community Strategy for Free Press Indiana. One of our former colleagues here at the Indianapolis Stations of Radio 1 as well. Just an all-around great gal, though. We just love Ebony. So she is with us today to tell us about ARCFest, I do believe.
00:29:25
Speaker 2: Is that correct, Ebony?
00:29:27
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:29:27
Speaker 9: Thank you so much, Tina and James. First of all, I just want to say... Congratulations on everything amazing that has been happening over there. And I'm just grateful that you guys extend your platform um to us to promote the things that we have going on thank.
00:29:45
Speaker 1: You yeah well it is our pleasure our pleasure indeed and you all keep a lot of good things going so yeah it's great it's great that we stay in touch so yeah you've.
00:29:55
Speaker 9: Been okay absolutely I have been doing great. I've been doing great. I've been sick in event mode, getting ready for ArcFest, as you mentioned. So for those who have not heard about it or heard the ads on the radio or seen it online, ArcFest, A-R-C-Fest, is happening this Saturday at the campus of IU Indy, formerly known as IUPUI. And this is our contribution to America's 250th birthday. We know that that happened this year, and there's a lot of events happening around that that are focused on patriotism and things like that. So this is our contribution to it, recognizing the quote and being inspired by the quote from one of, you know, what I believe to be one of the greatest Americans that ever lived, and that's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., about the arc of the moral universe being long, but it bends towards justice. So this one-day event is free as all ages. We're going to have panel discussions. We're doing a candidate forum for the Secretary of State, which we will be electing a new Secretary of State this November in just a matter of weeks. We will have live performances all day. People can come and get registered to vote. They can go on walking tours with Samson Livingston. I mean, it's just action packs all day long, starting at 10 a.m. there on the campus of IUI.
00:31:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Freedom of the Press.
00:31:26
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:31:26
Speaker 2: Is that going to be addressed at all?
00:31:29
Speaker 9: That will absolutely be addressed. We actually have a panel discussion with people who are members of the Black Press and Black leaders in local media. So that will be taking place during the day as well. It's going to be a discussion about the... Contributions of the Black Press Then and Now. So that is a panel discussion. Our very own Oshia Boy, editor-in-chief of Mirror Indie, will be on that panel. And it'll be moderated by Dr. Sherry Williams, who's a renowned media scholar based out of American University in Washington, D.C. We are also going to have a conversation about creatively imagining the next 250 with local writers and historians. Kisha Tandy from the Indiana State Museum is going to be on that panel. We're also going to do something where we're mixing lectures with stand-up comedy and improv with a group called Study Hall. So we're going to have four guest lecturers get up and give a five-minute lecture on a topic of their choice having to do with the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and democracy. And then there will be an improv group who will help bring those lectures to life in their own unique way. So we're going to hit on a lot of that on Saturday.
00:32:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:32:52
Speaker 1: Any concerns or thoughts on what's been happening lately, especially the last couple of weeks with, you know, the Trump administration banning, you know, barring media outlets and, you know, playing with court orders, you know, taking them all the way up to the. You know, just playing around with them, basically not obeying and not following the orders.
00:33:16
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that?
00:33:18
Speaker 9: Yes, lots of thoughts. One, I think it is just par for the course of what we've seen come out of this administration, which is a total disregard for.
00:33:29
Speaker 9: Norms when it comes to recognizing the power of the press and allowing them to do their job and hold power accountable. So it's just par for the course. And there is truly an attack when it comes to freedom of expression and freedom of speech in our country. So for me, I think it's all the more reason why platforms like yours are so important, why the work that our reporters do day in and day out is so important. we have to stick with it no matter what is happening in the White House. It's all the more reason why we have to hold the line and do what it is that we do as truth-tellers and people who speak out and make others informed. It just amplifies the importance of our work.
00:34:15
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:34:15
Speaker 1: James, anything you wanted to ask or add to that? I mean, we haven't talked since that.
00:34:22
Speaker 2: But anyway, go ahead.
00:34:23
Speaker 7: Well.
00:34:25
Speaker 3: I haven't talked to Ebony in a long time. I'm glad she's here. What a resource and a source of history. This woman has done a lot of work in this community to keep us focused on what is happening now, how we can help, how we can move things along. She's a true, true community voice and worker organizer as well. I wanted to ask you, Ebony, about arc fest and uh it's going to be this saturday at uh hein hall indiana university indianapolis and it says 875 west north street on my card here where is that exactly on the campus so people will know how to get.
00:35:07
Speaker 9: Here yeah thank you so much james um so how people can get there hein hall is the building that is cat a corner from the student center on uh IU Indianapolis' campus. Y'all, I am trying so hard not to say their former name.
00:35:25
Speaker 1: It sticks with you, doesn't it?
00:35:29
Speaker 9: Like the joke, you know, his mama named him Clay, I'm going to call him Clay. His mama named him IUPUI.
00:35:35
Speaker 8: It sucks, so I'm trying really hard.
00:35:37
Speaker 9: But I digress. So it's Catacorner from the Student Center on IU Indianapolis' campus.
00:35:45
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I know what student center is.
00:35:47
Speaker 9: Yeah. So when you are looking at it, it is that building that is diagonally across from there. It sits right close to the hospital as well. And it is the best parking garage is the University Tower Garage. And this building sits at the intersection of of North and Blake Streets. We are also, I'm gonna have a lot of signs and balloons and flags and different things to let people know where we are because it is a beautiful, beautiful area. It has a beautiful courtyard. So there we're gonna have live music out in the courtyard, different performances and stuff going on all day. card games if people want to sit and reflect on some of the things they might have heard in the auditorium, in the lecture hall area, and come out and enjoy space with each other. But I'm going to put up every piece of decoration possible to let people know where we are because it's a beautiful space and we want people to come out and enjoy. So yes, it is located at the intersection of North and Blake Streets, Catta Corner from the Student Center and the University Tower parking garage is where it should be. So if you guys remember back in the day, some of your listeners might remember this, there used to be a hotel on IU Indianapolis' campus. Hein Hall is attached to that building. So that's where we will be. It's a building that used to be the hotel that is on that campus.
00:37:23
Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
00:37:24
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:37:24
Speaker 3: I am so glad that they have events scheduled for young people, you know, music, performances. I think it says on here, improv comedy shows. And cultural storytelling. And she mentioned, Ebony mentioned the card tables. Because, because, because we need the 30-somethings coming up beginning on October 6th in Indiana for this vote, Ebony. We need the 30-somethings, the 25 through 40.
00:37:53
Speaker 8: We need that group.
00:37:54
Speaker 3: How are we going to, you of anybody in this city, Ebony Chappelle, should know how we get these people to the polls.
00:38:02
Speaker 6: Tell us.
00:38:04
Speaker 10: Yes.
00:38:04
Speaker 9: So, you know, if I had a magic wand and a bag full of money, I would go and pick everybody up and drive them to the polls. And then we would have a good, nice party afterwards. That's a dream of mine. So I'm just putting that out into the atmosphere. But one of the things that we are going to do is we've partnered with some people in the community who do voter registration and voter advocacy programs. So what we're going to do on Saturday and leading up to Saturday, we actually have a partnership with United Way where they have helped us be able to print voter zines. So zine, Z-I-N-E is short for magazine. So that's just a different type of publication. It's like a little pamphlet. It's really colorful, and it gives information on how to vote, how to register to vote, what offices are on the ballot, how to print, how to get a sample ballot. So we have distributed those to community centers all over the city. They are also available at all of the Central Library, Indianapolis Public Library branches, and we will have a boatload of them at the event on Saturday as well. Another thing that we're doing, you can get registered to vote right there at the event. We will have MAD voters present. We will also have Live Free Indiana present that will be registering people to vote. answering questions that they have about voting and just letting them know what's at stake. I think one of the biggest things that we have to overcome when it comes to voting and engagement in our city, because registration, we do pretty good on registration. We just suffer when it comes to the actual turning up and going out to vote part. And I do see a shift happening. And I think a lot of that has to do with education. Because once people get educated and they understand how this impacts them, it helps to cut down some of that apathy. Because for a long time, we as a community, as a people, have been apathetic and feeling like it doesn't matter. My vote doesn't count. But as we see here, right here in the state of Indiana, we saw an election for senators that three votes, three votes their way, three votes the other way, three votes back and forth. And to think that it would come down to that in a municipal election is wild to think about, but it happens. So I think all of that in the news, people are concerned about data centers. People are concerned about voting. People are concerned about affordability. Now we have the thing going on with our will tax. I mean, people are highly concerned about these things. So I think us as people in the media being able to connect what's happening, excuse me, what's happening in the world with the direct call to action. Like, you can vote and you can make changes this way. I think it's helping get people empowered. But we're doing everything we can to make sure people are armed with the right information as they head into the polls.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: And you know what, Ebony, and I'm really not trying to be funny, but it harkens back to that old, as they say, Big.
00:41:06
Speaker 2: Mama used to say, if you can't hear me, you can feel me.
00:41:10
Speaker 1: And meaning if you're not listening to what we're saying and not educating yourself, you're feeling the pain.
00:41:18
Speaker 2: You know, you're feeling the relevance of the pain.
00:41:21
Speaker 1: And and so so many people are feeling it, whether they're, you know, knee deep in what happens every night or not or every other night or what have you. But people are feeling things which is making them probably want to. So I think the feel the fact that what everybody is feeling regularly and often is real. And I think that, too, is cutting into a lot of the apathy because.
00:41:43
Speaker 2: Folks don't want it.
00:41:44
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, well, how many more trips to the grocery store can I tolerate or can I afford if every time I come things are higher and higher and higher?
00:41:53
Speaker 2: And, you know, we've cut and cut and cut.
00:41:55
Speaker 1: And so I also think that some of the feels that are taking place right now, the pain from this administration, the pain from this last election, that, too, is going to cut to cut in on some.
00:42:08
Speaker 2: Of the apathy that you were talking about as well.
00:42:11
Speaker 9: Absolutely. And I certainly hope so. I hate that so many of us are out here suffering and experiencing things. You know, I'm sure each of us on this call could share a testimony of some foolishness that we've had to navigate in recent times that you just sit and you think. I can't believe I'm having this conversation right now. I can't believe this is what I'm experiencing right now. I can't believe my bills are that high. Like, any way you cut it, listen, I think all of us have something to contribute to that conversation. So that part of it sucks, but if that's what it takes to wake us up and.
00:42:46
Speaker 2: To get us alert to what needs to happen, you.
00:42:49
Speaker 9: Know, that's what it takes because we think about stuff that, you know, people went through in the past and things had to give. It had to give at some point in order for that pendulum. To swing back the right direction.
00:43:00
Speaker 1: Folks had to say, no, no, no, can't take any more of this and will not.
00:43:04
Speaker 2: And as I.
00:43:05
Speaker 1: Was saying earlier, I don't know if you heard me or not, but I loved the report that I saw right before I came on the air.
00:43:10
Speaker 2: And I think it was a tear. I think it was. They didn't say.
00:43:14
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say which one it was, but it probably was, as you said, James Tarrant County. where folks are just more determined than ever to vote now that they know that some of their locations have been taken away from them and they know that they have been targeted as a minority, that they don't want your vote.
00:43:33
Speaker 2: They don't want you to vote.
00:43:35
Speaker 3: This is an attack. It's an attack on democracy. It's an attack on our way of life. It's an attack on our wishes and our desire that our children will have better than we had, more, better education, better housing, better jobs, better ownership. We need to move into ownership right now. The time is now for us to have ownership. And so they're trying to go take us back exactly the opposite direction, which we fought so hard and so many years. fought so hard for literally literally bled.
00:44:07
Speaker 9: And died yeah absolutely yeah.
00:44:10
Speaker 1: Yeah So, Ebony, you know, we buried the lead, or maybe we didn't emphasize it.
00:44:15
Speaker 2: This thing is free, free.
00:44:16
Speaker 9: Well, we're creating context.
00:44:17
Speaker 2: Okay, we're creating context, yes, indeed. But, yes, indeed, context is everything. Free is even better.
00:44:24
Speaker 1: And this whole gathering is free of charge.
00:44:30
Speaker 2: It is free.
00:44:31
Speaker 1: How often do we hear that in today's economy with events?
00:44:35
Speaker 2: Not often enough.
00:44:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, not often enough. And the richness that is going to be... um obtained if you attend this arc fest yes this saturday i mean you're you're going to be so enriched and and so much more knowledgeable and and coming forward you're going to be you're going to be better going you know coming away from it than you when then you when you started with everything that's there you can't help but be a little bit better a little bit more informed a little bit more aware and you know like you say feeling good too because there's going to be fun mixed in as well But yeah, opportunities to do these things that are free in our communities are shrinking.
00:45:14
Speaker 2: And so they are shrinking.
00:45:16
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 9: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: It's up to you guys for being able to do that.
00:45:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:45:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:45:21
Speaker 9: Thank you, Tina. I appreciate that. You know, it's one of those things where there are so many people in our community that are trying to, you create.
00:45:30
Speaker 8: Spaces like this.
00:45:31
Speaker 9: And it is very, very difficult without the financial backing, without the energy and the support of the community. You know, these things couldn't happen. There is a boatload of people I could thank right now. I'm going to have to find a whole nother time to do that. But I do want to say, yes, this is going to be completely free. And like you said, our goal with this is that people would come, they would be empowered, they would be energized, and they will also be aware of who else in their community is standing right alongside them, you know, fighting for and believing in the same things. We don't have to agree on every single thing. That's impossible. But one thing that we can, you know, land on is the fact that Our future deserves better, whether that's the future of our children, the future of our communities, the future of this thing we call democracy, like if it is to have a future moving forward, it's going to take all of us. bending that arc towards justice. So yeah, totally free. It's going to be beautiful weather on Saturday all day. So it's just going to be a lovely time to come out and enjoy yourself, take in the day. And even if you just pass through from one thing to the next, because there are other things happening on Saturday as well, we recognize that. Just come through, you know, taking a walk with Samson around Indiana Avenue and having him educate you Um, on, on everything that's involved there, um, having some tea. I don't know if you guys know about Minty, but he's a huge tea influencer that's all over Instagram and TikTok. He's going to bring some of his delicious tea, um, and stocking in and enjoy with people. So it's just going to be a really, really, really beautiful time. Great music. Yeah, fpinews.org if you want to register.
00:47:19
Speaker 2: What is it again?
00:47:21
Speaker 3: Hind Hall, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, right?
00:47:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was given the registration if you want to register.
00:47:31
Speaker 2: Do you want folks to register?
00:47:32
Speaker 9: If you want to preregister, and you don't have to register, you can just pop up. But if you want to preregister, the website is SPINews.org slash ARCfest. And Tina, I don't know if you guys have the ability to put it up on your website or anything when you do the show, but yeah, the website is SPINews.org slash ARCfest. If you would like to pre-register and see what the full schedule of the day is. Otherwise, walk-ups are 100% welcome. You just walk up, like James said, we'll be at a high hall on the campus of IU Indianapolis Saturday, this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And it's going to be a beautiful time.
00:48:23
Speaker 2: Indeed.
00:48:23
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:48:23
Speaker 3: Hey, Ebony, one more quick question, Tina. October 17th.
00:48:29
Speaker 6: Thanks.
00:48:30
Speaker 3: On October 17th, they are going to have another across the nation, including Indianapolis, No Kings Day. Have you guys or any organizations you're partnering with, is that on your radar screen? Are you going to in some way work with them or have representation for that October 17th event?
00:48:50
Speaker 9: Yeah, so thank you for mentioning that. I know that our newsroom is always out covering what's happening in the community, so they try to be everywhere. We are a very small but mighty team, so I wouldn't be shocked if some coverage ends up on our newsletter or website following the event, because that's our contribution as media and as community-censored media is to be in the midst of things and bearing witness to it so that we can bring that information out into the public. So we try to keep our ears to the ground and gather up and cover as much of that information as we can.
00:49:31
Speaker 6: Wonderful. Indeed.
00:49:34
Speaker 1: Ebony, thank you, thank you, thank you. I know Saturday is going to be fantastic. And SPINews.org slash ARCfest is the website.
00:49:45
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
00:49:45
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes. And that's F as in free, P as in press, and I as in Indiana.
00:49:52
Speaker 3: Oh, F.
00:49:52
Speaker 9: F-P-I.
00:49:53
Speaker 8: No worries. Yep.
00:49:55
Speaker 9: SPINews.org slash ARCfest. It's going to be a great time Saturday, 10 to 6. at IU Indianapolis Fine Hall.
00:50:07
Speaker 2: Okay. All righty.
00:50:08
Speaker 1: Well, I know it's going to be great. And, again, thank you for bringing that to us. We really, really appreciate it.
00:50:14
Speaker 9: Of course.
00:50:14
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys. I'll take care of it.
00:50:16
Speaker 7: All right.
00:50:16
Speaker 2: You take care of it.
00:50:18
Speaker 9: You too.
00:50:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. And, like I said, the more non, you know, free. I guess we just say free. Non-admission time. You know, and I know that there's some organizations, you have to charge admission because you have to do what you have to do.
00:50:32
Speaker 2: But, you know, if there are.
00:50:34
Speaker 1: A number of opportunities to where you don't have to in today's economy, that's fantastic.
00:50:39
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
00:50:40
Speaker 3: Yeah. And to be on a university campus, they're going to have live entertainment, you know, including comedy, musical performances, storytelling, registering people. I mean, they're going to be alive, Tina. They're going to be alive. really out there doing what university campuses have done historically in times like this is to get motivated, get moving, and get people going. So that's what's good about ARCFest coming up on Saturday.
00:51:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know what? I forgot to ask. I think this might be the first annual. I don't know.
00:51:10
Speaker 8: It is.
00:51:11
Speaker 12: Oh, it is.
00:51:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:51:12
Speaker 8: It is.
00:51:13
Speaker 6: Inaugural.
00:51:14
Speaker 3: Inaugural.
00:51:14
Speaker 2: Inaugural.
00:51:15
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:51:15
Speaker 1: So, yes, come out and support them if you can because this is really great, something to do all day on Saturday.
00:51:22
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:51:23
Speaker 1: And it is hard not to say ooey-pooey or IUP.
00:51:26
Speaker 2: It's hard not to say that.
00:51:28
Speaker 1: I feel her completely about that because there's a lot of, you know, things just change and you just, you know, it just gets cemented in your mind and you're like.
00:51:37
Speaker 4: Ooh, okay.
00:51:38
Speaker 2: Okey-dokey.
00:51:40
Speaker 1: So, yeah, like you say, the weather, Eric and James, is going to be great. A little bit of rain over the next day or two.
00:51:47
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
00:51:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of rain.
00:51:49
Speaker 3: Friday. And it should be out of here. And then this event is on Saturday. It's supposed to come through Friday and then clear up Friday. I mean, the bulk of it coming through Friday, but clear up by later Friday, by the evening, especially. So to clear us out for the weekend.
00:52:06
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:52:06
Speaker 2: Really? Midday, right? Or did you say that or something? I thought it was like midday. Midday Friday.
00:52:13
Speaker 3: Well, I said the rain would be coming, dropping in through here tomorrow between mid-afternoon and early evening. But, and then, you know, continue on through Friday morning. But yeah, that's what forecasters are saying, like midday. So somewhere around there. Okay.
00:52:32
Speaker 2: All righty, all righty.
00:52:33
Speaker 1: So let's step away for just a couple of quick seconds, and we'll come right back for our next guest.
00:52:41
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
00:52:50
Speaker 10: WTLC AM, W236 CR, Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:53:07
Speaker 1: And we are back, just about to head into our 2 o'clock hour with our contributing analyst, James Patterson, and of course, our producer, Eric.
00:53:17
Speaker 2: Two more minutes, Garns.
00:53:20
Speaker 3: Two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:21
Speaker 6: Two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:24
Speaker 1: But, yeah, before we get to our next guest, I guess we've made some national headlines, at least in sporting, in the sporting world.
00:53:33
Speaker 2: There was a fever playoff game last night.
00:53:36
Speaker 4: That's right.
00:53:37
Speaker 1: And they beat the defending champion. And I mistakenly said three-time MVP. She's four-time MVP.
00:53:44
Speaker 7: Oh.
00:53:44
Speaker 2: Uh, Asia Wilson.
00:53:46
Speaker 1: And apparently, um, some, one of the fans, uh, uh, according to Asia and according to the video pointed a finger at her and started to started toward her and she left the court and went and started back toward him. And so everybody's waiting to see what the league will do. And now the, the reason being she's, Like the best player there is in the WNBA.
00:54:12
Speaker 2: I don't care what anybody says.
00:54:13
Speaker 1: You look at the numbers and they'll knock you down in terms of what she accomplishes.
00:54:18
Speaker 2: And she's a winner. She wins. She's an MVP.
00:54:22
Speaker 1: She's a multi-national WNBA champion. But if she gets suspended for that, then she may not be able to play the next game, the deciding game of this series, because now it's tied one to one.
00:54:38
Speaker 2: And she is a bit, but you know, the aces, the Las Vegas aces are so.
00:54:42
Speaker 1: Good that I don't know, even if for, I think it's an outside chance that she gets suspended. I don't know that the league will suspend his biggest star, but they.
00:54:55
Speaker 9: May, but.
00:54:55
Speaker 11: What do you think Danny would say about that?
00:54:58
Speaker 1: Well, they need to learn how to defend without fouling and rebound more. That's his patent line for anything.
00:55:07
Speaker 2: Pertaining to the WNBA. So, no, I didn't see it.
00:55:12
Speaker 4: No, I didn't see it.
00:55:16
Speaker 1: No, I didn't see it, so I don't know. But, frankly, it was nice that the Fever had pushed it to a third and deciding game.
00:55:28
Speaker 4: The deciding game will be happening, yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker 2: Happening. They are up against a mighty, mighty force there.
00:55:35
Speaker 1: The defending champions, and the four-time MVP, likely five-time MVP.
00:55:42
Speaker 4: And it's on their court.
00:55:43
Speaker 2: It's on their court in their town.
00:55:45
Speaker 8: In their town.
00:55:45
Speaker 2: With their refs and their balls and everything. So we'll see.
00:55:49
Speaker 4: Their crowd, everybody.
00:55:51
Speaker 1: But national media has just– James, were you aware of that? Did you see any of that, or have you been privy to any?
00:55:57
Speaker 3: I saw a headline, but I didn't get into the story. I didn't see what happened. And I don't put that– pass any ban not only anywhere they're.
00:56:08
Speaker 2: Out of control they are out.
00:56:10
Speaker 3: Of control and I think they're serving don't they serve alcohol at the games you guys don't they do.
00:56:16
Speaker 1: That probably they don't need alcohol I wouldn't even they're rabid fans I.
00:56:24
Speaker 3: Would be surprised if they didn't serve.
00:56:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure they do I don't think that was an alcohol fueled thing they're just their their rep well yeah i guess it could have.
00:56:36
Speaker 3: Been yeah it could have been.
00:56:37
Speaker 2: And then that's what the problem is yeah really.
00:56:41
Speaker 3: I mean i'm not saying he was but i'm saying he may not have had anything but the behavior period uh at games and this goes all the way down to little league i mean you've had fathers arrested for charging on the field and stuff like that i mean It's a ball game, okay? A ball game. So why are you getting your blood pressure? Sure, you want your team to win, but you cheer for them, and you don't go off the deep end, especially against another player if that's what happens.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's so much more to that, though. There has to be. There's so much more to.
00:57:21
Speaker 1: That, and I think a lot of it with Indiana fans, because it's not the first time Indiana Fever fans have misbehaved.
00:57:29
Speaker 3: It's all over the place.
00:57:30
Speaker 8: It's all over.
00:57:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
00:57:32
Speaker 3: I know.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: But I'm saying what I'm saying, James, without saying it, you name it. But what I'm saying is it's intensified in the WNBA with the Caitlin Clark factor.
00:57:41
Speaker 2: OK, so there there's. Yeah, you're right.
00:57:46
Speaker 1: Everywhere from Little League, from T-Ball, you know, to where the kids don't get a T-Ball. You know, parents have gotten into it there. But what I'm saying is there's there's just a lot more to it. Because there are ongoing, if you look on social media, you'll see a lot of the vitriol that some of these fans, these fever fans have for other players in the WNBA. And that is out of control. I think the league needs to do a little bit more about that.
00:58:16
Speaker 3: I don't know what, I agree with that. But I do think, to her credit, and I don't know how often she's done this, maybe you all can tell me, But I have heard, and I'm not trying to defend her, she can defend herself, Caitlin Clark say, you know, I don't need the haters as fans, basically, is what she said.
00:58:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah.
00:58:35
Speaker 3: Maybe she could do more, but, you know.
00:58:38
Speaker 1: I think at this point it's the league. I mean, she's done, she said what she said, I guess.
00:58:43
Speaker 6: I don't know.
00:58:44
Speaker 1: But anyway, it needs, that should never have happened. The fan, you know, a fan has, you behave, you sit there and you enjoy the game and you have fun. but you have no right to personally take on a player.
00:58:58
Speaker 4: You just don't. Yeah, remember what happened, what was it, 2004 with the Pacers?
00:59:02
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Tyrese Halliburton.
00:59:04
Speaker 4: World Meta Peace.
00:59:05
Speaker 2: Oh, Meta World Peace. That was Malice in the Palace.
00:59:07
Speaker 4: Malice in the Palace.
00:59:09
Speaker 2: That was, you know. With the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton's dad.
00:59:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, his dad. He held up the towel to Giannis, I think, and said, this is what we do. Right, right. And that kind of thing shouldn't be happening.
00:59:21
Speaker 2: No, it shouldn't be.
00:59:23
Speaker 4: Really shouldn't.
00:59:23
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:59:24
Speaker 3: Well, you know what? it's like we talked about, you know, the supporters of the president. We can't deny that racism is out there and that people are racist. They are. They just are.
00:59:36
Speaker 2: Racist and tribal.
00:59:37
Speaker 4: You cannot legislate it away, that's for sure.
00:59:41
Speaker 3: And in this instance, the fever fans have been a problem in particular all over social media and in the arena. They have.
00:59:51
Speaker 6: I mean, it's a fact.
00:59:52
Speaker 3: I mean, I agree with you on that.
00:59:53
Speaker 1: There's a whole bubble around the Caitlin Clark a space, if you will. And so anything that, that actually this came about after I think Asia Wilson was, it wasn't Caitlin Clark.
01:00:08
Speaker 2: She was, No, she defended Sophie Cunningham. It was Sophie Cunningham.
01:00:11
Speaker 3: She was defending her. She was defending her.
01:00:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Sophie Cunningham.
01:00:16
Speaker 8: The one who loves, you.
01:00:18
Speaker 3: Know, NASCAR. She was defending her. So that shows you the players don't have this animosity between themselves. It's the people.
01:00:27
Speaker 2: It's the fans.
01:00:28
Speaker 4: The fans.
01:00:28
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:00:29
Speaker 2: Keyboard bullies. Yeah, keyboard bullies, a lot of them are.
01:00:34
Speaker 1: You know, I would love for the temperature to get down and just let these professionals and amateurs and kids, just let.
01:00:41
Speaker 2: Them play and enjoy the game.
01:00:43
Speaker 8: It would be good.
01:00:45
Speaker 1: So, you know, I hope that they get it all fairly worked out, whatever it is.
01:00:49
Speaker 2: But Indianapolis.
01:00:52
Speaker 1: And the Indiana Fever game made national headlines for, you know, dubious reasons.
01:00:57
Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
01:01:00
Speaker 1: As we were saying earlier, today is the 30th, the last day of the month of September, and the month of September is a lot of things, including, as you heard here so many times, Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, which kind of focuses the lens on mental health, mental wellness, the importance of it all, and everything else that goes with it. And our next guest is providing virtual and telehealth mental health care in terms of where her lane is in all of that. And she's here now to tell us about an upcoming virtual forum.
01:01:42
Speaker 2: And her name is Dr. Alina Smith.
01:01:44
Speaker 3: Dr.
01:01:44
Speaker 2: Smith, welcome. How are you?
01:01:47
Speaker 10: I'm doing well.
01:01:47
Speaker 13: How are you doing today, Tina?
01:01:49
Speaker 2: Doing well. Thank you. Thank you. So tell us a little bit about what you do. This is the virtual space.
01:01:56
Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot of spaces in mental health and mental wellness area, but we haven't talked about the virtual and online space.
01:02:05
Speaker 6: Sure.
01:02:05
Speaker 13: So I am the owner-founder of Choice Behavioral Health Network, which is a DBA of Choice Therapy LLC. So I am a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. The services that we provide are psychiatric evaluations. The primary focus is medication management for various conditions. For example, depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar, all services. you know, are telehealth, so they're virtual. So what happens is you would go to the website and, you know, you would select, request an appointment. You will do that and see us virtual. Everything is private. Everything is HIPAA compliant. And so we service actually several states, but, you know, we're throughout the entire Indiana. We do accept all insurances. And for those that don't have insurance and have to pay out of pocket, there is a sliding scale for that, which would be, you know, agreed upon individuals.
01:03:11
Speaker 2: So tell us about.
01:03:14
Speaker 1: Virtual versus in-person when it comes to mental wellness and about your upcoming event.
01:03:22
Speaker 4: Sure.
01:03:22
Speaker 13: So the difference is what you're asking me?
01:03:26
Speaker 1: You know, maybe there's an advantage to one or, you know, yeah, just the, I guess the You know, the differences, yeah, I guess could be the word, yeah.
01:03:36
Speaker 13: Okay, sure. So a lot of the times when people, you know, don't have access to transportation, a lot of people are in rural areas, you know, the point of being in a virtual space is to provide flexibility and convenience, you know, to everybody, right? So, you know, you can sit in your car if you're, let's say you're a lawyer, right? a doctor, you're busy and you're just, you don't have a lot of time, but you really would like to get help with some issues that you have. You can run in your car and be able to just log on and, you know, get a session done right then and there. So it's more for convenience and filling the gaps for needs because there's such a big need overall. And it's really hard sometimes for people to get to a physical location. Now there is a plan next year, to become a hybrid space where there can be an option for both because sometimes, you know, when you have, because I see ages five and up, so it's across the lifespan. So some kids can do good with virtual and then some can't. Some elderly can do good with virtual and some cannot. So there will be more options, you know, for a physical space later.
01:04:51
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:04:52
Speaker 2: James, by all means, go ahead.
01:04:54
Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks for joining us, Dr.
01:04:56
Speaker 6: Smith.
01:04:57
Speaker 3: I'm intrigued by this online talk here on mental health. Tell me, and you're a mental health professional, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, so you can actually prescribe drugs, for instance, for treatment. So tell me, Why do you think this is important these days? Do you think that there are people who are in need of mental health services that are not getting those services? Is that what you believe is going on right now? Or what's the importance of your forum that's coming up on Saturday as well?
01:05:38
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah.
01:05:41
Speaker 13: Some people, yes, they do need support, but don't know where to start or they're worried about being judged. Others struggle to fit in the fit appointments around work, family. So, yes, to answer your earlier question, medications are prescribed electronically. Whatever your pharmacy is, it will just get sent there electronically. You'll be notified that it's ready and, you know, you can pick it up. In terms of the panel, that's happening actually October 3rd from 11 a.m. to 12.30, there's going to be a mixture of different mental health professionals. What we're going to be doing is, so the panel is called Mental Health Talks with Dr.
01:06:21
Speaker 6: Smith.
01:06:22
Speaker 13: So I'm bringing real conversations about mental health with things like depression, ADHD versus anxiety, which is really important because the two overlap and the two are so confused with a lot of people in the population. And so we want to give a really clear understanding so that you can understand what is actually happening with you, which one it is, okay, to make that more clear. And so, you know, in order to tune in on that, you can follow me either on Facebook. It's going to stream live on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn, actually. So you can follow me at Dr. Smith. I'm sorry, at Dr. Alina Smith. That's A-L-I-N-A Smith. on either one of those platforms in order to tune in. And there will be at the end an opportunity to, you know, ask questions. You know, we won't be able to answer every question, but there will be a space, a community space on Facebook for the questions that didn't get answered so that I can circle back and make sure everybody's answers, I mean, questions get answered.
01:07:31
Speaker 1: Is there a cost to register or... get the link to this forum, or is this free and open to the public?
01:07:39
Speaker 13: It is free and open to the public. So as long as you are following me, you will get notified once the live stream happens on either one of those platforms. So yes, it is free to the public.
01:07:52
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:07:52
Speaker 2: So what.
01:07:53
Speaker 3: Go ahead, James.
01:07:55
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
01:07:55
Speaker 3: Well, I want to drill down a little bit more, Tina, about the conditions that would be treatable as far as this looks like a great panel, at least a very accomplished panel we'll be hearing.
01:08:09
Speaker 8: And Dr.
01:08:11
Speaker 3: Smith said that there are different ones. The ones that I see on the promotions material are grief, that they'll be looking at depression, anxiety versus ADHD and self-love. I wanted to really zero in on depression. Can a person be depressed and not know it? And if so, I believe your answer is going to be so. I'm not a doctor, but What would be the signs of depression and not knowing it, Dr. Smith?
01:08:40
Speaker 13: Well, there's actually layers to that answer. But in short, someone may think, oh, I'm just tired or stressed without recognizing depression. It can actually show up as simple things like losing interest in things they usually enjoy, pulling away from people, irritability even, sleep or appetite changes, difficulty concentrating. And, you know, they may still go to work and smile while struggling privately. And so, you know, if those changes last around, you know, two weeks and it affects your daily life, it's worth, you know, reaching out for an evaluation. And just to circle back to the difficulty concentrating, and that I'll go more in depth in the panel, but that is where a lot of people will want to be seen and they think, oh, I can't concentrate, I can't focus, I have ADHD. And, you know, that's why we're going to explain, you know, the difference because a lot of these, you know, can overlap.
01:09:43
Speaker 9: Okay.
01:09:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting. And you're saying that because you start off saying that you guys could treat such conditions with medication. So if people join you online on this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1230 Eastern Time and, you know, you follow up with them or however it goes, you can actually treat them with medications going forward. Did I have that right? Did I say everything right there?
01:10:17
Speaker 9: Correct.
01:10:18
Speaker 13: So the website that you would find us on is www.choicebhn.com. And that's B-H-N, B as in boy, H as in Harry, N as in Nancy. So that's the website that you can go to to request an appointment. And it has a lot of information about the services that we offer, that we offer, what we treat and so on and so on, what states we're in, the insurances we accept. It's A lot of detailed information, and, you know, I'm more than happy to answer, you know, any questions if there's anything on there that you don't understand. But, yes, they can have an appointment. We can go through an assessment to kind of find, you know, what their baseline is, what their pain points are, what they're struggling with so that they can, you know, be treated for whatever medication works best, you know, for them.
01:11:09
Speaker 6: So, Dr.
01:11:09
Speaker 1: Smith, who might best benefit from this program? I guess, webcast, online event, this online forum panel discussion coming up this weekend, this Saturday. Who are you talking to that you're, who would you encourage to take advantage of this?
01:11:30
Speaker 13: Well, we have a lot of topics. I would say anyone, anybody who wants to better understand mental health for themselves or for someone they care about, especially people people who are navigating some of those topics such as, you know, grief and depression, anxiety, ADHD, those who are feeling overwhelmed, you know, you don't need a diagnosis to join, you know, and we're not going to diagnose that day. It's very informational, right? So it's a chance to learn, hear different perspectives and feel more comfortable with seeking support because, you know, one of the biggest things that I'm seeing now is, that you wouldn't have seen back in the day, you know, is more and more people are seeking help. So one thing I really like to stress is that asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength. And, you know, it's okay to not be okay. And so I'm seeing more and more people reaching out, seeking help.
01:12:26
Speaker 2: That's great. That's great.
01:12:28
Speaker 13: Before, you know, we don't want to talk about anything or they were scared to talk about things, you know, before.
01:12:34
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:12:35
Speaker 3: Can you give us that website again? Because I want to write it down. People may call Tina later and say, where was that? How can I get on that webcast? So can you give us that website again?
01:12:49
Speaker 13: So the website is choicebhn.com. So that's C-H-O-I-C-E, B as in boy, H as in Harry, N as in Nancy.com.
01:13:02
Speaker 1: And the name of the panel is Mental Health Talk with Dr.
01:13:06
Speaker 2: Alina Smith. Is that correct?
01:13:08
Speaker 9: Correct.
01:13:09
Speaker 13: And each month there will be a different topic. So when you follow me, you'll always know what's coming up because there will be different panels, different specialists that you can tune in and get more educated on different things.
01:13:24
Speaker 3: Well, wonderful.
01:13:25
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for doing this. I really appreciate you sharing that.
01:13:28
Speaker 1: And the virtual space is an important one. And so- Hey, wherever help is available, we want to let our listeners know. So thank you again. Mental Health Talk with Dr. Alina Smith.
01:13:40
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
01:13:43
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:13:43
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.
01:13:44
Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for coming on.
01:13:45
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
01:13:46
Speaker 8: Indeed.
01:13:47
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, that's an area we don't often think much about, James, the virtual space.
01:13:52
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:13:53
Speaker 1: I know it was used a lot during COVID because I know some people who were in therapy who said that they had to do all of their appointments online, or there was one person, older, had to do it over the phone. But again, when COVID, you know, when we were released from COVID, the restrictions, they went back into, they didn't stay online.
01:14:16
Speaker 2: But she's, that's her space. That's her lane online.
01:14:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
01:14:22
Speaker 3: Dr. Alina Smith, or Alina Smith, she's a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. And then on the panel, she's got D- Anaya. Anaya. Did I say that right?
01:14:35
Speaker 8: Anaya.
01:14:35
Speaker 3: I think it's Anaya. That's right. You're probably Anaya. She's Founders Adventures of Grief Girl, excuse me, Creative Grief Guide, Grief After Dark Podcast. And then Dion Smith, Mental Health Life Coach, Specialized in Addiction Counseling. And then Arianne. Arianne Nicole. Nicole. Nicole Coil.
01:15:00
Speaker 2: Coil.
01:15:00
Speaker 5: Coil.
01:15:01
Speaker 3: Coil. Yeah, she's a MSN, APRN, FNPB, Personal Development and Well-Being Strategist. So quite an outstanding panel, it looks like, on paper, simply. And I want to say this one thing that she said emphasized that back in the day, back in our day, or my day, particularly, people will be reluctant to come forth if they thought they had some mental health issues and didn't know how to deal with them. You know, back in the day, we wouldn't talk to our pastor or, you know, did that. We went to church. But nowadays, people are, as Dr. Smith said, coming forward. So that's why this might be a good opportunity for people.
01:15:46
Speaker 4: So, James, more men seem to be coming forward too, which is good.
01:15:49
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:15:50
Speaker 11: Because, you know, men typically, especially us black men, when it comes to things like that, I'm good.
01:15:56
Speaker 6: Oh, no.
01:15:57
Speaker 2: I'm good.
01:15:58
Speaker 8: I'm good.
01:15:58
Speaker 4: I'll figure it out. I got to figure it out.
01:16:01
Speaker 1: But, you know, surprisingly, and there have been admissions on this very show, a lot.
01:16:05
Speaker 2: Of pastors are in therapy.
01:16:07
Speaker 4: That's very true.
01:16:08
Speaker 2: And they say it's maintenance.
01:16:10
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:16:11
Speaker 1: Because if you think about what a pastor absorbs every week, every.
01:16:18
Speaker 2: Day, they go through a lot.
01:16:19
Speaker 1: So it truly is therapeutic to be in therapy with a therapist.
01:16:26
Speaker 2: It makes sense. Pastors have a big job.
01:16:30
Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure on them. Every week they have challenges. They've got a flock that they have to keep In the fold, so to speak.
01:16:41
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:16:42
Speaker 3: And, you know, they've got other things to deal with, you know, physical things, buildings, you know, keeping the lights on. I mean, it's a lot.
01:16:50
Speaker 2: It's a lot. Absolutely.
01:16:53
Speaker 1: And I respect and admire those that say, hey, I'm in therapy.
01:16:58
Speaker 2: You know, it helps me to be better to the people that I pastor.
01:17:05
Speaker 3: It's not that you're out of your mind or anything. It's just talking to someone. It's counseling is what it is, professional counseling. And you do that with your parents or with a close friend. But these people have studied these moods, grief, depression, anxiety versus ADHD, self-love. Those are the ones they're going to be talking about in that mental health talk you talked about. And so they are professionals, so they can add a different perspective to that. a more informed perspective in a lot of ways from their point of view.
01:17:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, indeed, indeed. Well, we thank her for that, and I appreciate her coming on. Like I said, we utilize every space we have. So, yeah, something for everybody. James, we will say this again, and I made a pledge that every day until the election, we're going to remind people of election deadlines, voter registration deadlines. Early voting, you know, every opportunity that there is to get out there and have your voice heard, we want to remind you of. This Monday, October the 5th, is the last day. That's the deadline. That's the cutoff. So think about Sunday, October 4th. Think about Sunday, October 4th, because your last day to register to vote in the November election in Indiana, in the state of Indiana, is Monday, Monday, October the 5th. Tuesday, October the 6th, is the first day. So the last day to register is on that Monday, the 5th. The first day to vote early in Marion County, in Indianapolis, in Marion County, well, in the state, I think, in the state. The first day for early voting is Tuesday, October the 6th.
01:18:50
Speaker 2: 6th, right? Tuesday, October the 6th.
01:18:54
Speaker 1: And so with the importance of all of that, check your registration, make sure you're still on the rolls, make sure that it is active if you are still on the rolls. Make sure your designation says active. Get everybody, make sure, check on others. You know, it's kind of like, this is a storm. It's kind of like during a storm or an emergency or whatever.
01:19:16
Speaker 2: Check on others to make sure they're good too.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: When you go to vote, After you register, get in your mind, or after you check your registration, have your plan to vote already in your head.
01:19:27
Speaker 2: What you're going to do. Are you going to vote early? Are you going to vote day of? Where are you going to vote?
01:19:31
Speaker 1: Who are you going to take with you? Because I encourage everybody, take somebody with you. Take a whole bunch of somebodies with you. I wish I had gas cards to give to everybody.
01:19:42
Speaker 3: I'm like Ebony. We really need those 30-somethings. I say something because 25 to 40. We need those people. And I was going to ask Ebony, and I think Mr. Russell said something, but I was going to ask Ebony about the social media. Tina, you and Eric are better at that than me. Back in the... with the.
01:20:07
Speaker 3: The first– when Biden won and before that, they were so sick of the current president that the rappers and all of the iconic leaders of the youth, of the younger or the– not the millennials, but after them, Generation X and Y and all, they were– They were pushing the people on social media to vote. And I was wondering, do you guys see that now?
01:20:39
Speaker 1: I have seen on social media reminders about voter registration. Again, I haven't seen a whole lot of the other, but I suspect that it's going.
01:20:47
Speaker 2: To be there, if not already.
01:20:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen reminders, too.
01:20:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, just basically reminders, voter registration reminders. Baby Boomers James.
01:20:56
Speaker 2: 46 to 64, Gen X.
01:20:56
Speaker 1: 65 to 80.
01:21:00
Speaker 2: Millennials. So after millennials are Gen Z.
01:21:03
Speaker 4: Gen Z.
01:21:04
Speaker 2: Gen Z.
01:21:05
Speaker 1: 97 to 2012. So after the millennials are the Gen Z.
01:21:09
Speaker 2: Prior.
01:21:10
Speaker 3: We need the Gen Zs.
01:21:12
Speaker 2: You want the Gen Zers.
01:21:14
Speaker 3: What came after the Gen Zs?
01:21:15
Speaker 6: There's another one.
01:21:16
Speaker 2: Gen Alpha.
01:21:18
Speaker 3: Gen Alpha. Yeah.
01:21:19
Speaker 7: 2013 to 2028.
01:21:20
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:21:20
Speaker 4: So they would be 2013 to 2028.
01:21:23
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:21:27
Speaker 3: Some of them would be coming in, let's see, 2013. No, they're not.
01:21:32
Speaker 6: They're not.
01:21:33
Speaker 3: They're not ready to vote yet. But we need the Gen Z's. We need those.
01:21:38
Speaker 2: We need the boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z. We need them all.
01:21:42
Speaker 1: We need the party, the generational groups, all of them.
01:21:46
Speaker 2: But, yeah, a special emphasis. You know, anybody.
01:21:49
Speaker 1: So so what you're saying, James, is the Gen Zers set out the the election?
01:21:56
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not going to regress. I'm not going to go back and accuse nobody. But we need them now. We need these– I'm going to call it 30-somethings because it's before 30 and it's after 30. I'm going to call it 30-somethings. That's going to be my– we need the 30-somethings right now, today, to– well, we're going to start on Tuesday.
01:22:16
Speaker 2: I need to look and see. I'm going to look at some voting.
01:22:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:22:20
Speaker 4: And so it's possible, too. Some of them have been misinformed, obviously. Some of the Gen Z and not knowing certain things.
01:22:29
Speaker 1: And again, Gen Z 1997 to 2012.
01:22:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:22:34
Speaker 4: 1997 to 2012. Yeah.
01:22:36
Speaker 1: And Millennials 1981 to 96. So I've got a Millennial and a Gen Z-er.
01:22:41
Speaker 4: Millennial and a Gen Z-er. I've got a Millennial.
01:22:44
Speaker 2: You've got a Millennial, I've got a Millennial, and then I also have a Gen Z-er.
01:22:48
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I got a millennial, but we need them, all of them, particularly those young people, because they are becoming the majority, the majority population. And they've got to realize that they will take, you look at history, they will take away what you have if you let them.
01:23:11
Speaker 2: They're taking it now. They're taking it now.
01:23:14
Speaker 4: That's what's happening.
01:23:16
Speaker 1: Taking whatever they can snatch. You know, they're taking it right now.
01:23:21
Speaker 6: And it won't even bat an eye.
01:23:23
Speaker 3: Can you imagine a man as president and he's going to make $ 2 million? His salary is like, what, $ 500, 000? Look it up. $ 500, 000 a year or a little bit more. I don't know. I'm just guessing it's around that. But, you know.
01:23:40
Speaker 3: A billion, two years in a row, no president in history would have enriched himself like that. None of them. So that's, that's where his and his, and the memorials to his, his, his presidency and his life. That's what he's interested in. An arc, a tore down the East wing without getting any approval from anybody. Just push the law. Go ahead.
01:24:07
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, James.
01:24:08
Speaker 11: Tina, I've been really surprised by that initially when that started happening.
01:24:11
Speaker 4: I really didn't think that would ever happen. that they would allow... Well, he's trying to.
01:24:16
Speaker 1: Get lawmakers to pass a law to put his face on Mount Rushmore.
01:24:21
Speaker 3: That's true.
01:24:22
Speaker 2: That's twisted and out of balance.
01:24:24
Speaker 4: And it happens normally after you're gone. Yes.
01:24:27
Speaker 3: It's not while you're still here.
01:24:28
Speaker 1: All of this stuff is twisted and out of balance, and people are normalizing it.
01:24:33
Speaker 3: It is really.
01:24:34
Speaker 1: Anybody else would be in a straitjacket, and I'm not trying to be funny, and I'm not minimizing mental health, but come on.
01:24:41
Speaker 2: If you think about it and put it all together... It makes no sense.
01:24:45
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. It's not balanced.
01:24:48
Speaker 11: Those things shouldn't even matter to you.
01:24:50
Speaker 1: Well, but when they do, when they do, then you got to get good.
01:24:58
Speaker 3: That shows you have no humility. You, you know, you're a narcissist. You have no humility whatsoever. You're self-promoting and self, you know, you have self, what's the word? I mean, he's holding himself up as some god or something, you know. So that is what the people apparently are rejecting, if the polls are true. And we saw this before, Tina, where they polled one way and then we'll see.
01:25:29
Speaker 2: And it turned out another.
01:25:30
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, I don't take— And really, what people are saying in anger to reporters, while it was encouraging to hear— There's no guarantee that when election day comes or the time comes to to punch that computer screen or however they vote, that they may not go the other way. So we just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope that, you know, that right will prevail.
01:25:58
Speaker 2: Over the twisted nature of things.
01:25:59
Speaker 3: Well, the farmers, they're paying six, what is it, Eric?
01:26:03
Speaker 1: How much is diesel today?
01:26:07
Speaker 2: $ 6.
01:26:07
Speaker 9: 99.
01:26:07
Speaker 2: I saw it, $ 6.
01:26:07
Speaker 8: 99.
01:26:08
Speaker 2: Last week, Eric, you said it spiked to $ 7.
01:26:09
Speaker 6: 01?
01:26:09
Speaker 2: $ 7.
01:26:09
Speaker 10: 03.
01:26:10
Speaker 4: Oh, $ 7.
01:26:10
Speaker 5: 03?
01:26:10
Speaker 4: Last week is what I saw it for.
01:26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've seen it.
01:26:15
Speaker 6: At $ 6.
01:26:15
Speaker 7: 99.
01:26:15
Speaker 3: I mean, they can't even get their crops in.
01:26:16
Speaker 7: No.
01:26:17
Speaker 6: They can't get their crops in.
01:26:18
Speaker 4: Not with that amount.
01:26:19
Speaker 3: I mean, you know.
01:26:20
Speaker 1: There was something, and I don't want to talk about it too much because I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't understand the dynamics of it. But there was something that I glanced at that the governor has given farmers permission to use some kind of alternative diesel.
01:26:37
Speaker 7: Oh.
01:26:37
Speaker 2: So that that can take their costs down.
01:26:40
Speaker 4: Alternative.
01:26:41
Speaker 2: It's a diesel.
01:26:42
Speaker 1: It's a form of diesel, but it'll take their costs down.
01:26:46
Speaker 2: And I need to. That's why I'm saying I shouldn't say alternative. Anyway, let's go. No, I'm going to look it up because I did.
01:26:54
Speaker 3: He'll try anything.
01:26:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's trying to find a relief for them.
01:26:57
Speaker 4: So it's not the E, what is it, E85? No, it's not that. That's not diesel.
01:27:03
Speaker 2: That's an alternative. It's called something else. But let's go back. You want to take a break?
01:27:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's take a break.
01:27:08
Speaker 2: We can take a break. Yeah, and I'll find that for you.
01:27:10
Speaker 6: Okay. Sounds good.
01:27:12
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
01:27:17
Speaker 10: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
01:27:29
Speaker 2: Okay, I found out what it was, James.
01:27:32
Speaker 1: It was Dyed Diesel, D-Y-E-D, Dyed Diesel.
01:27:36
Speaker 2: Eric, what do you got?
01:27:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got Dyed Diesel.
01:27:39
Speaker 11: It's red-colored, untaxed diesel fuel, legally allowed only for off-road use such as farm equipment, construction machinery, and other non-highway engines. Now, using it in a highway vehicle is illegal. Carries fines starting at about $ 200.
01:27:57
Speaker 1: But he has approved the use of it for farmers to lower their costs, their diesel costs.
01:28:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the next 30 days, according to the stories I'm seeing.
01:28:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:28:08
Speaker 1: He's been doing all of it 30 days at a time, I think.
01:28:12
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:28:12
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:28:13
Speaker 3: All of the um it says uh braun braun september 30th order now permits farmers and timber harvesters to use that fuel that you guys just named for any farm related activity including in semi trucks for the next 30 days so you know he knows this is harvest time he knows they're fuming about the diesel prices he's trying to do anything he can he says it's because of who but his other reasoning, I believe, is to try to help the president and his party as well, because people are so outraged about the prices.
01:28:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's that. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. Got a few minutes to do a little open lines.
01:29:01
Speaker 3: 317-480-1310.
01:29:02
Speaker 2: Reverend Phillips, go ahead. How are you?
01:29:05
Speaker 7: How you doing, Tina?
01:29:08
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, sir. How are you?
01:29:11
Speaker 7: Jeff, well, I heard the lady was on there earlier. She said she had a program. that she was trying to start. And then I know it's time for voting time. And, you know, I always cast my early vote in. I cast my early vote in early.
01:29:47
Speaker 1: So, Reverend Phillips, are you talking about Ebony with the event this weekend, or were you talking about Dr. Smith with her online event this weekend?
01:29:56
Speaker 7: I think it was a lady was on there earlier.
01:30:00
Speaker 2: Well, there were two. There were two earlier, two ladies.
01:30:04
Speaker 6: There were two of them?
01:30:06
Speaker 1: Well, we had two different segments, ladies.
01:30:08
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out which one. Are you talking about Ebony?
01:30:11
Speaker 7: I think it was.
01:30:14
Speaker 6: I think it was.
01:30:14
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:30:15
Speaker 3: She was talking about that.
01:30:17
Speaker 7: She got her office on what was that, Bright Street or something?
01:30:21
Speaker 2: On what street?
01:30:23
Speaker 7: On Bright Street.
01:30:30
Speaker 2: Was it another day?
01:30:32
Speaker 3: What was she talking about, Reverend Phillips? Tell us what she was talking about.
01:30:38
Speaker 7: They were talking about one lady, I think she said she was going to educate.
01:30:45
Speaker 2: Oh, Ebony.
01:30:47
Speaker 4: That's what I thought, Ebony.
01:30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ebony.
01:30:50
Speaker 3: The event this weekend at Indiana University.
01:30:53
Speaker 2: ARC, yeah, ARC Fest. Yes, ARC Fest.
01:30:56
Speaker 6: ArchFest.
01:30:56
Speaker 7: Oh, okay. Cool.
01:31:00
Speaker 2: Did you need information on that? I'm sorry, go ahead.
01:31:04
Speaker 7: Information on that one.
01:31:06
Speaker 1: Okay, it's Saturday, and it's going to be at Indiana University in Indianapolis right here, the old, formerly known as IUPUI.
01:31:16
Speaker 11: Hein Hall is where that is. That's at 875 West North Street.
01:31:22
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
01:31:23
Speaker 11: Here at Indy, 46202. It's free, open to the public, and you can register online.
01:31:29
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know how to do that.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: Oh, you can also just show up.
01:31:33
Speaker 3: You can just show up.
01:31:34
Speaker 4: It's free.
01:31:35
Speaker 7: I can show up.
01:31:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can just show up.
01:31:38
Speaker 7: And I just heard y'all encourage people to get out and vote. Study who y'all want to vote for. And bring somebody with you.
01:31:57
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:31:58
Speaker 2: That is our wish.
01:31:59
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
01:32:01
Speaker 7: If you're the first time voter, you get a big old plow.
01:32:07
Speaker 2: A big old what?
01:32:09
Speaker 7: Big old plow, you know.
01:32:12
Speaker 2: Oh, a big applause. A round of applause. A round of applause.
01:32:15
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
01:32:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there are any first-time voters calling into the show, they definitely will get the applause.
01:32:20
Speaker 11: You'll get the applause for sure if you're a first-time voter.
01:32:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, first-time voters.
01:32:24
Speaker 1: And, you know, hey, parents, pay attention to your kids' ages, you know.
01:32:29
Speaker 2: 18 and over can vote.
01:32:30
Speaker 4: That's right.
01:32:31
Speaker 2: We need them desperately. We need them as well. We need all of them, all of them.
01:32:36
Speaker 5: Yep.
01:32:37
Speaker 7: Everything is now. I think people.
01:32:40
Speaker 8: Should get out and vote.
01:32:41
Speaker 2: Well, we agree. All right. Thank you, Reverend Phillips. We certainly appreciate it.
01:32:46
Speaker 13: All right.
01:32:47
Speaker 2: We have another caller. Is that Jay?
01:32:49
Speaker 4: Yes, it is. Jay is on four.
01:32:52
Speaker 5: Hey, good afternoon, guys, James and Tina. I'm glad to hear from you. I listened to you. Good afternoon.
01:32:58
Speaker 2: I listened to your doctor.
01:33:01
Speaker 5: Have you guys ever asked a question? Because it is very important. Many of our doctors, psychiatrists, or mental patients, their self, And just like a fat boy who got trained to be a trainer, they educated themselves to help, which is good. It's not a negative, please. Don't take it wrong. Have you ever asked them if they ever had a mental health?
01:33:26
Speaker 2: I have. Yes, I have.
01:33:28
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:33:29
Speaker 5: Have they ever said they have?
01:33:31
Speaker 1: Uh, all, every, uh, mental health professional that I've ever asked that question of has, uh, responded in the affirmative that they too are in therapy because that's, that helps them with their, just like we were talking about with pastors.
01:33:46
Speaker 5: A whole lot of pastors that baby, but pastors say, Jesus only, we're not going to a man.
01:33:50
Speaker 2: Come on.
01:33:51
Speaker 5: You already know what happens.
01:33:52
Speaker 2: Well, no, they're not. That's changing. They're not all saying that.
01:33:56
Speaker 5: And I'm glad. Some are like that, Jay.
01:33:59
Speaker 6: You're right.
01:33:59
Speaker 3: Some are like that.
01:34:00
Speaker 2: Some are.
01:34:00
Speaker 5: Some are like that. So I'm just not saying all of them. We can't say all people. Just like there's good cops, but five were bad. Five came into my home without a want while I was in Eskenazi Hospital to get my A kicked by five people walking. security that have got fired from other districts in Eskenazi. I've told this story, and y'all say, oh, that's so sad, and ain't nobody did nothing. Most people say complacent in the church, on the radio. I just talked to the guy this morning. The prosecutor was on. They listened, and there was one lady, Deborah, they called and asked about the Eskenazi incident. Eskenazi has told them, it was I, ma'am, sir, whomever's listening. They said, we're working on it. They're not working on anything. They have to wait till I do what I do, and my middle name is Sue, and I do. This is ridiculous. We have a complacent city. Y'all talk all the time. Much of it is good, but when are we going to do something?
01:35:01
Speaker 2: Are you represented by an attorney?
01:35:04
Speaker 8: Not yet.
01:35:06
Speaker 5: Not for that case. Not for that case.
01:35:08
Speaker 13: Okay.
01:35:08
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with the legal services that are available?
01:35:11
Speaker 5: Girl, come on. Let's not call legal services. I have some good names. I would like to have first.
01:35:18
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:35:19
Speaker 1: No, I'm just offering in case you did not. There are legal services that are free.
01:35:24
Speaker 5: I don't need free, baby. I go pro bono or at this.
01:35:27
Speaker 2: Time, I'm willing to pay. Pro bono is free.
01:35:31
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. But there's attorneys that will take it free. Yes, I know. And there's also some that will require you to pay. I'm willing to do it because it could be your child. Five security officers in Eskenazi's General Hospital, which is now in Eskenazi's rubber room, beat a 72-year-old black woman and... They are not working on it because no one's asking questions. You guys sit complacent until it happens to your child. Then we all march for you and pray for you. And I P-R-A-Y, not P-R-E-Y, like some are doing in my case. And I already know.
01:36:09
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry.
01:36:09
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
01:36:10
Speaker 5: I sound so sarcastic, sweetheart.
01:36:12
Speaker 6: No, no.
01:36:13
Speaker 2: When did this happen?
01:36:13
Speaker 3: In the end of July. See, sometimes things.
01:36:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:36:23
Speaker 2: End of July this year?
01:36:25
Speaker 5: This year, baby. The astronauts will be still off the chain because they was general hospital. I was born in 55. So, baby, they still got the same racist practices.
01:36:35
Speaker 3: I know that Mayor Indy... Didn't Mayor Indy do an expose on that, Tina, about... I think that their focus was on.
01:36:44
Speaker 5: They didn't have me on the panel, baby.
01:36:47
Speaker 3: Their focus was on... Incidents involving... Oh, security.
01:36:51
Speaker 2: Security.
01:36:53
Speaker 4: That was this summer, I think.
01:36:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was this summer.
01:36:56
Speaker 5: They were all white, which made it racial there. and made me, as a senior citizen, makes it a good case.
01:37:04
Speaker 2: Okay, ma'am, how can we help you? What would you like? What would you like for us to do?
01:37:07
Speaker 9: You know what?
01:37:08
Speaker 5: I haven't done anything yet. This isn't the first time I've called. I talked to the prosecutor earlier today.
01:37:12
Speaker 2: Okay, so how can we help you?
01:37:13
Speaker 5: All I'm saying, people stop sending complacent and talking. Get up and do something for real. Talk is key. If we don't have any action, they're just laughing at us. Believe it. And God is waiting for us to get the power.
01:37:27
Speaker 6: He gave us.
01:37:27
Speaker 1: What would you like to see done?
01:37:29
Speaker 3: We've been talking about voting. I'd like to get her, Tina, her... her take on, is that something that you would say?
01:37:35
Speaker 5: You want to know about voting, baby? I took my kids. I have five of them. I have 22 grandchildren. I have six great-grandchildren. I have three veteran children. I have two active Army children. My youngest daughter is a nurse practitioner. I took her as a young girl to vote. Do I think she's voting now?
01:37:53
Speaker 6: No.
01:37:54
Speaker 5: My son, construction worker. Do I think he's voting now? No. What that team you said, between that age or whatever, up to 40, they... complain, but they ain't doing it because they hear us talk. They see us fight at the games. The little kids are fighting in preschool. My friend's child just got, you know, they're watching us. We just do a lot of talking.
01:38:15
Speaker 2: Okay. Again.
01:38:18
Speaker 3: Well, I think voting is very important.
01:38:20
Speaker 10: It is.
01:38:20
Speaker 6: Oh, it is.
01:38:22
Speaker 5: And like I said, since 18, my dear, check my record. I have voted every year. One time I voted for a Republican by mistake. I vote straight Republican. That was a mistake. But I was trying to get one person. But that machine, they know how to get us because, you know, we talk about it, but do nothing about it.
01:38:41
Speaker 2: What is doing?
01:38:43
Speaker 1: What is doing, ma'am? What what is doing? What does that look like? That's what I'm getting at. What would you like to see done?
01:38:50
Speaker 5: I would like to see all these machines tracing us, tagging us in our neighborhoods, getting lights and plates. That's what the prosecutor talked about. But it's been happening since 1997. Did you guys know that? They track us all over the city. They follow the pastors to the mistress's house. They don't tell it all. But let me tell you, baby, you call 911. See how long you hold. See how many times you get.
01:39:14
Speaker 3: Hung up on.
01:39:15
Speaker 2: See how long it takes the police to come.
01:39:17
Speaker 5: We have problems.
01:39:19
Speaker 2: We just keep talking. There's no... Well, I understand that. That's what I'm doing. That's what... Okay, so.
01:39:25
Speaker 5: Somebody hears me. Somebody.
01:39:27
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:39:28
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:39:30
Speaker 6: Thank you, Tina.
01:39:31
Speaker 5: I love you, in fact. I like you, James. Yo, my daddy's name is James.
01:39:35
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that.
01:39:38
Speaker 5: Okay, I hope I get some response. I won't crump.
01:39:42
Speaker 9: Thank you.
01:39:44
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am. Yeah.
01:39:46
Speaker 7: Um.
01:39:49
Speaker 2: We were looking for, you know, I was looking for something a little more concrete. I understand. And you know what? Sometimes people just need to vent.
01:39:57
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:39:57
Speaker 2: You know, it's just a vent.
01:40:00
Speaker 7: And you know what?
01:40:00
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:40:01
Speaker 3: She said a lot of things. Maybe somebody out there heard her and they have a.
01:40:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have something that can help.
01:40:06
Speaker 4: Something that can.
01:40:07
Speaker 8: Help, yeah.
01:40:07
Speaker 3: Support her or, you know, ask her a question.
01:40:10
Speaker 7: So.
01:40:11
Speaker 3: We take all viewpoints.
01:40:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, we are.
01:40:13
Speaker 4: Because we're not attorneys. We're not doctors.
01:40:15
Speaker 2: No.
01:40:16
Speaker 1: I was looking up attorney information for her to get an attorney. Yeah, but she did not want that. But that's okay, you know. Times you got to vent.
01:40:26
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:40:28
Speaker 1: James, had you heard about this plan? We talked about this. Was it yesterday or the day before?
01:40:33
Speaker 3: Yesterday.
01:40:34
Speaker 1: The Washington Grand Hotel Resort and Conference Center planned for Washington Square Mall.
01:40:40
Speaker 2: For the Washington Square Mall area. Have you heard anything about that?
01:40:44
Speaker 3: I was able to listen to you all for a little bit yesterday. I was really, really.
01:40:47
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can find.
01:40:51
Speaker 3: I did hear a little bit of Eric talking about that and you, Tina. And it was news to me. I wanted to look it up, but I never got time. I got to bed last night. I was exhausted and I was like awake for like two minutes and then my eyes were shut.
01:41:06
Speaker 6: So, no, I'd like to know more.
01:41:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll send that to you. I'll send the flyer to you. I'd like to know more, too.
01:41:13
Speaker 1: There's going to be a community meeting coming up the 22nd of October. I want to know more, too. I'm going to look some more. I'm going to look this up. But apparently there is a hotel resort and conference center planned for the area that once housed the Washington Square Mall, I guess, or in the Washington Square Mall area. The meeting is going to be at the Warren Central Administration Building. Doors open at 6. There's going to be a presentation and then questions and answers right after. But the world-class hospitality, dining and retail, jobs and opportunities, community investment, this is, I guess, this is going to be hosted by the Washington Grand in plan for Indianapolis.
01:42:02
Speaker 2: Together we build more.
01:42:04
Speaker 3: I'd like to see it, Tina, because Malls like the Washington Square Mall, Lafayette Square Mall, they need to do something for them. Those of us who remember when those malls were in their heydays in the 80s and 90s, those were great places to go to take your family. They're a huge collection of buildings, a mall. Inside, there's lots of possibilities for that space. You guys just talked about how you went to the Universal Circus at Lafayette Square. And now, you know, there's all kinds of possibilities for those spaces. So I hope that it turns out to be true with the planning. When's the meeting?
01:42:50
Speaker 2: The 22nd of October.
01:42:54
Speaker 1: I was looking for the 22nd, yeah. And like I said, I got to believe that the developers are hosting this meeting for the community to ask questions.
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Speaker 2: About But, again, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I've not heard of anything like this going before the city county council.
01:43:10
Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's all, but it was sent to me by somebody that lives out that way because they got the flyer and wanted to make sure I.
01:43:20
Speaker 3: Where?
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Speaker 6: 22nd?
01:43:21
Speaker 3: Where is it supposed to be?
01:43:24
Speaker 1: It's going to be at the Warren Central Administration Building.
01:43:28
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:43:29
Speaker 6: Okay.
01:43:30
Speaker 2: Warren Central Administration building.
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Speaker 3: October 22nd do they have a time on.
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Speaker 1: There 6 o'clock doors open at 6 presentation 630 to 715 questions and answers from 720 until 8pm let me see if it's in this I'm trying to find.
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Speaker 6: You would think they'd want that publicized more.
01:43:52
Speaker 1: Well the 22nd is still a little bit away so um um.
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Speaker 2: Let's see. Let me see if I can find it. I don't remember what folder I put it in. Did I send this to you, Eric?
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Speaker 4: I was looking for it. I don't think I have it. I thought I did. Let me look through again. I'm looking.
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Speaker 3: That's a Thursday anyway.
01:44:15
Speaker 4: Let me go back over.
01:44:18
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I'll find it. I'll find it for you guys because I printed it. Oh, you know what? Hold on. Let me see. I'm sure.
01:44:28
Speaker 1: Speaking of Universal Circus, there's a couple of.
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Speaker 2: Pictures. You know, it was so... It just covered all the bases. It hit all the... It had the right feel to it.
01:44:45
Speaker 8: It was very.
01:44:46
Speaker 4: What you share was very.
01:44:47
Speaker 2: It hit all the right spots, yeah.
01:44:49
Speaker 4: Colorful, too.
01:44:50
Speaker 2: Well, I printed it from somewhere. I know I did.
01:44:53
Speaker 7: So.
01:44:56
Speaker 2: That's not it. That's not it. Anyway, I will find it. I don't want to, you know, hold up too many people's.
01:45:04
Speaker 3: No, but I'm glad you brought that back up because that's another, you know, another event that's happening. We'll try to find out more about it. But it's significant.
01:45:15
Speaker 1: I think it's extremely significant. And again, I haven't seen anything anywhere. Not that it hasn't been published or talked about or. Or something like that. Not that maybe I just missed it.
01:45:28
Speaker 4: It's possible. There's a lot, as we all know, there's a lot going on. So many things happening every day. All kinds of news and happenings and events.
01:45:39
Speaker 2: Top results.
01:45:40
Speaker 7: Mail.
01:45:41
Speaker 4: Redevelopment of that mall would be great. It would be great. And that's been somewhat happening at Lafayette Square, too. It's been happening.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:45:50
Speaker 3: I know a couple times there were big plans, you know, and they kind of just tampered down over there at Lafayette Square. But those are two key malls and key areas where a lot of people live around those areas.
01:46:03
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:04
Speaker 3: You know, they could support legitimate development over there that would be inviting and appealing to the communities.
01:46:16
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:17
Speaker 11: You may recall the redevelopment of Glendale, how that went.
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Speaker 2: Has Glendale been fully redeveloped?
01:46:25
Speaker 11: Glendale, there's a lot. They've added apartments. They've added some other stores. There's a new Culver's there on Keystone where.
01:46:33
Speaker 4: The used to be O'Charlie's. It's Culver's there and they've added some other businesses in. Also among 67.
01:46:42
Speaker 3: It has drawn businesses.
01:46:44
Speaker 10: It has.
01:46:44
Speaker 3: It's not the same concept it used to be where it was an inside mall.
01:46:48
Speaker 4: Right, it's an outdoor.
01:46:48
Speaker 3: But it's kind of where you drive up. But you think about the outlet mall in Edinburgh.
01:46:55
Speaker 4: Oh, Edinburgh. Oh, yeah.
01:46:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, people drive all the way down there for that.
01:46:59
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:59
Speaker 3: And those are outside, so that concept could work. But I hope they can somehow save the ambience, the way that the buildings are made, those malls. At Washington Square and Lafayette.
01:47:13
Speaker 4: Definitely.
01:47:16
Speaker 1: By the way, I was out, speaking of Lafayette Square, I was out that way for the circus.
01:47:24
Speaker 2: And one of the shortcuts I took, Eric, you know.
01:47:27
Speaker 6: I've talked about this.
01:47:28
Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
01:47:30
Speaker 1: I had to stop because I was in line and I saw the sign that said we're closed.
01:47:36
Speaker 6: Oh.
01:47:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a closed sign on there. Yep, yep, yep.
01:47:44
Speaker 1: This is really weird because I printed it off of something.
01:47:48
Speaker 4: You shared it on the... Well, I think you shared it yesterday on the air.
01:47:53
Speaker 2: I know I did, and I've got the... See, I've got this right here.
01:47:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, that right there.
01:47:56
Speaker 2: So that means I printed it off something. It was on camera, so it's... Isn't that terrible?
01:48:00
Speaker 4: It happens.
01:48:01
Speaker 3: We'll get it. You'll find it.
01:48:03
Speaker 2: We'll find it.
01:48:03
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
01:48:04
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would be curious. I suspect, again, that it's developers, but I don't know how far it's gotten. Because I, you know, each week or each month I go over the agendas of the city county council and I haven't seen this. But then again, I may not have known what I was looking at, too, because a lot of these things are coded and.
01:48:25
Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
01:48:26
Speaker 4: You know, what have you.
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Speaker 3: You talk to them, city county council, once a month, right?
01:48:31
Speaker 2: At least, yeah, at least, yeah.
01:48:35
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:48:35
Speaker 3: So, you know, you got a big question for him right away.
01:48:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure do.
01:48:40
Speaker 1: Sure do, sure do, sure do. But I've got to find it for you guys, too. We will resume this conversation.
01:48:49
Speaker 2: That is all the time. Because you hear the music, James.
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Speaker 13: I hear it playing.
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Speaker 11: You know, I tried not to play it, but I'm looking at the clock going, oh, Willie Moore is.
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Speaker 2: Going to play it. He's looking at the clock.
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Speaker 4: And he's going. I got to play the music.
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Speaker 2: Willie Moore. Willie Moore Jr. on the radio is up next.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, as always, for listening. Our website is praiseindy.com. For James and Eric, I'm Tina Cosby, and this is Community Connection.
Speaker 1: For that mental wellness conversation and that mental wellness check. The person leading that way or leading the way with that is going to be coming up in our second hour. Later this hour, community activist Ebony Chappelle joins us, not only to share news of a celebration of our freedom, but also to underscore just how very important that celebration is, party with a purpose, if you will.
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Speaker 2: That kind of vibration is going to be going on around this.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Ebony's going to be with us probably sometime around 1.30 or so.
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Speaker 2: Although, yeah, about 1.30. Okay, I got it. Yep, 1.30. Right now, lines are open for whatever may be on your mind. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310.
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Speaker 1: As we go to open lines, we must bring in our contributing analyst, James Patterson.
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Speaker 2: James, how are you?
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Speaker 3: I am really, really good, Tina. How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, doing great, doing great.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that sounds kind of corny, doesn't it? I'm really, really good.
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Speaker 1: No, no, it doesn't sound corny. It sounds refreshing, because I tell you what. You ever say, how you doing? And somebody unloads a truck.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I've been there.
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Speaker 1: They unload the 53-foot semi-truck on you.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's like, okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but that's what you.
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Speaker 5: Ask, right?
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Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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Speaker 2: That's what you ask, and so then you say, yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly. You say, no, no.
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Speaker 3: I feel sorry for you, but hey, what can I do to help you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you do. You listen, and you pay attention. Yeah. the the weather james.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's uh you know it's a beautiful day again temperature.
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Speaker 3: Wise gorgeous out there yeah thank you yeah a little cloudy out there but.
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Speaker 2: Hey cloudy yeah surprising yeah.
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Speaker 3: We got a beautiful fall day in store for us today yeah today y'all today there's a Saturday. Got a cold front slowly sinking down from our northwest. Places like Chicago is getting pummeled right now with rain. And South Man is in the bullseye, so they'll be getting some in northern Indiana. But the bulk of the rain should reach central Indiana tomorrow. Not until tomorrow. And I've got a window right now of late afternoon, early evening for that rain to reach us. tomorrow, and then we'll get really, really saturated on Friday. But for the rest of the day today, if you've got outside activities, you are good to go and early tomorrow. However, we could see, because this front is slowly sinking southeastward, We could see our northern counties, Hamilton, Boone, and the other northern counties in central Indiana could see a sprinkle here and there, pop-up shower even. And even the metro area could grab one. But for the most part, looks like we look like we are going to have that rain stay north of us for the time being. This afternoon should be mostly cloudy. And then I'm expecting the sun to pop out later this afternoon. Certainly by time folks are heading home for that evening rush hour. It's already 75 degrees as we came on the air today. And temperatures, we expect them, especially if we get that sunshine that I'm looking for, to rise up into the low to mid 80s. So we should have, we were expecting, 80 degrees, over 80 yesterday. I think it was like 81. Today, we should get up to that mid-80s mark. So we'll see if we make it there. It just depends on if we can hold those clouds up north and have that sun come back.
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Speaker 2: Cloudy and warm. Cloudy and warm. And some rain coming a little bit later. You know, rain held out for quite a while.
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Speaker 4: It has been. It's been pretty dry for a while.
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Speaker 3: It has been dry and sunny and beautiful, really. I mean, you know, temperatures started out in the, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Perfect, perfect. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. Lines are open. Let's, yeah, let's take a call.
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Speaker 1: We've got some other stuff to talk about, but we'll go ahead and take a call first.
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Speaker 2: Let's see who we have. Jeff, is that Jeff?
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Speaker 4: That is Jeff.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, how are you?
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Speaker 6: Hey, Tina. Hey, James.
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Speaker 2: Hey, how are you?
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Speaker 3: Hey, hey.
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Speaker 6: I got some Caitlin Clark news.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 6: Oh, did you see the Senate hearing yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Senate hearing?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what he's talking about with Jack Smith. I saw a few minutes of it, and I had to turn it off when that one senator called Smith a dirtbag. It was so unprofessional. It was just such an ugly... ugly, ugly thing to do.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 2: You know, he said, as far as I'm concerned, you're a dirtbag.
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Speaker 1: And just, you know, it was very performative and.
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Speaker 6: Good theater, I guess. Oh, but it all blew up in his face, Tina.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it did? I didn't watch the rest.
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Speaker 6: What happened? Oh, my God. This clown, Eric Schmidt, If you also Google, he's also a white supremacist. He gave a speech about a year ago saying that only white people made America great. Blacks, indigenous people, Native Americans, Asians, and Hispanics never contributed nothing to America. But that's another topic. But he was trying to pin Jack Smith to a basketball game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and yes, indeed, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: That he was honestly trying to recall being there and said he doesn't recall being there, didn't recall being there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to pin him to a ballgame, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Instead, thank God for Senator Klobuchar. Do you mean the Iowa Hawkeyes?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw that part. I saw that part, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, and now this guy, he's running for Congress. I think you owe Jack Smith an apology, and, you know, he doesn't want to apologize, but he's getting really reaped across the coals with this one. It was humiliating. This guy just humiliated himself. A U.S. senator.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Well, the fact that he could even call one of his, you know, not a colleague, but, you know, call and have his fellow colleagues on that committee see him call a witness a dirtbag.
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Speaker 2: It was just so unprofessional. It was just ugly.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, she was talking about Iowa Hawkeye, and he was in another state, you know, that night.
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Speaker 2: It was funny.
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Speaker 6: I mean, do you mean, are you mistaking Maryland for Georgia?
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, so I thought these guys, I thought Maga was so, you know, uh, but also this guy's a white supremacist.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's his.
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Speaker 1: Again, I was, you see, you have to understand how I watch coverage sometimes and sometimes it watches me. And so certain things, no, seriously, cause I'm busy and I'm doing things and I'm trying, because if I could just sit down and watch it.
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Speaker 2: I could have caught all of that.
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Speaker 1: But I did catch, they were trying to get him, uh, you know, say that he was in Atlanta, uh, watching at a Hawks game.
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Speaker 2: And they had a, what do you call it, a text message chain that.
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Speaker 6: With Fannie Willis.
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Speaker 1: With Fannie Willis, yeah. And they wouldn't let him see it. They wouldn't let him see it. They held it up real fast, and then they took it down. And then when, you know, Senator Klobuchar came up and said, are you talking about, you know, X, Y, and Z? And when I heard that, then I had to go out and somebody else came in the office.
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Speaker 6: And so.
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear how she followed up, but thank you for sharing that.
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Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: He said, I think you got the Atlanta Hawks mixed up with the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So you've got an NBA team mixed up with a women's basketball team.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he said he.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to see Kaitlyn Clark, didn't he? That's right, he did.
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Speaker 1: He said, I wanted to see Kaitlyn Clark that night.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because she was playing the Maryland Terps.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Are you mistaken? Yeah, are you mistaken? The Maryland Terps with the Golden State Warriors?
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Speaker 2: The Atlanta Hawks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, man, these MAGA people are just so hilarious. But guess who they got? You know, but guess who their fearless leader is? So it speaks for itself. So I just had to say that. But yeah, but this Eric Schmidt guy, yeah, he went from the Schmidt show to the art show. But anyway. He said, but he's also saying that black people and Native Americans didn't contribute nothing to America.
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Speaker 2: What state is he from? Let me look and see.
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Speaker 6: Missouri, Missouri.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's from Missouri, too.
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Speaker 6: Oh, okay. Yeah, with that other bum, Josh Hawley.
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Speaker 2: Hawley, yeah, when running out of there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the coward, the coward.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Coward.
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Speaker 6: So I know that's local stuff, but we've got to realize who we're dealing with. Who we're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: We absolutely do.
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not only twist or distort the facts to to, you know, to where they fit their narrative, but don't even ascertain the correct. They don't even get the correct that, you know, at least be, you know, at least be factual and twist it that way. But when you're on, you know, you're in two different states and two different.
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Speaker 2: Times, you're what are you doing? What are you trying?
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Speaker 1: You're making stuff up, pulling things out of the air.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Exactly. So I just had to bring it up because it was just spectacular to see this maggot humiliating himself. I called him a maggot. Hope you Republicans hear me. He's a maggot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have to look on social media, look online and see what the comments were after that.
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Speaker 6: Oh, this guy's a piece of work, Tina. Yeah. I mean, he's a he's a known bigot, a known bigot and a U.S.
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Speaker 3: Senator.
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Speaker 6: And he can't even get his he doesn't know the difference between women's basketball and NBA basketball players. So, no.
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Speaker 1: Well, then, you know, voters have to do better. Voters are going to have.
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Speaker 3: To do better. Exactly.
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Speaker 6: We got to do better.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to do better.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: I guess no, neither you or James or Eric heard that or saw that exchange.
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Speaker 11: I think I saw the headline, but I didn't get to watch it. Something else is happening. How about you, James?
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Speaker 3: I didn't see it. I heard that Jack Smith was in front of a committee, and I figured how that would have went with the Republicans in control and what they thought of what he did by trying to bring charges forward. against the president, you know, for what he did, which I thought were lawful charges. But once Donald Trump got back into office, the Justice Department, of course, dropped all that.
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Speaker 1: And the revenge tour began. They started kicking people out that worked on the case and those that have just incredible, unthinkable loyalty to the lie.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: They are out there peddling it as well. A lie that has even created legislate, pieces of legislature.
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Speaker 2: Legislative things. And laws, laws based on lies, I guess the easiest way to say that.
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Speaker 4: Laws based on lies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of across the country, laws have been passed based on the big lie.
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Speaker 4: Based on lies.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the big lie is, of course, one of the major ones, I mean, choose and pick your lie because there's a bunch of them but the major one is that he lost to that he that he did not lose to rather joe biden in the 2020 election and he did lose to joe biden by seven million votes um and that's a lot of votes to lose by but you know i can understand if it was a few votes in ukraine you know that that some of them might not have uh should have been legitimate here or there votes, but 7 million votes. And, um, there were like 60 court cases, court challenges, all of them, every one of them did not succeed. Every one of them, um, were not successful for those who brought those lawsuits regarding the election. Every last one of them, at least 60, there might've been more. And then also, um, You know, he he continues to to lie about it. And he was able to escape what Jack Smith was going to bring. And that one of the charges and also Fannie Willis, the prosecutor in Georgia, was going to bring this charge about him trying to begin a vote. All I need is how many thousand ever it was that he was asking the secretary of state to find. So he's guilty of what he is claiming others did to him.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Want to be mobster.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do it.
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Speaker 1: So, but yeah, but you know, the thing that really gets me is people are seriously, seriously in pain at the grocery stores and at the gas pumps because this economy is just not getting better. Every time you go into a grocery store, something you bought maybe a couple of weeks ago when you bought groceries is even higher this time than it was two weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: And you know, that, that.
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Speaker 1: Continues and continues and continues. I pulled up to a gas pump this morning. I mean, my goodness, how, I guess it can go as high as it needs to go. Speaking of which, um, One of the most loyal Trumpists that we know of, because he's right here, Mike Braun, even he's sensitive to some of it, some of the current pain, because I guess this morning he extended the gas tax holiday for the seventh time in a row, six or seven, anyway, seventh time.
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Speaker 2: He's extended it again.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been since, was it March, I think, of this year was the first one.
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Speaker 2: And we're in. Yeah, that's probably.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, it's extended through November the 4th. November the 4th. Because he is even sensitive to what Hoosiers are going through. And for the Senate to be up there grandstanding and, you know, having performative theater.
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Speaker 2: Well, theater is performing. That's redundant.
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Speaker 1: But, you know, putting theater up there for America to see so that they can please the almighty Trump in their minds is ridiculous and tone deaf and cruel, actually.
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Speaker 2: I mean, well, oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point about the gas and the groceries. And remember, do you guys remember eggs? Do you guys remember the word grocery? That is what the president ran on. We're going to lower the price of groceries, particularly eggs. We're going to get eggs down. We're going to get groceries down. That is what he won on, is groceries. And to get to the point where, and this is where the Republican Party has to realize that when you have leadership that is going in the opposite direction of, uh, instituting policies that impact the people in a negative way, then you've got to abandon him because he doesn't care about you. He made $ 1 billion for his first year in office. He's made another billion for a total of $ 2 billion for his second year in office. He doesn't care. All he cares about is dollars. He doesn't care about people. And when you lose the ability to have sympathy and empathy for people, everyday working people. That is what this country has the largest middle class working class on the face of the earth. That's why everybody wants to come here because everybody can get a house and a car, you know, house with a garage and a car and, you know, send their children to do better than they did to school. So if you lose that, then you've lost it all, all of it. And that's what their problem is right now. And they're worshiping him because he's a racist and some of them don't understand. That's not all of it. You know, you've got a country that's multicultural and you have to treat everybody the same and lean on their gifts. Lean on the gifts of the diverse country because everybody's got something to give. And that's what they don't understand. Really, they don't.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: And I just back it up even a little more. And you're correct. He did tout, hey, I'm going to bring the price of eggs down. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. But he was also running against a candidate that America was never going to accept. So it didn't matter what he said or what he promised. As long as it wasn't her, then we'll go ahead and take our chances with him. And for that, voters got what they asked. Even though it was a smaller margin than most, But still, I, you know, I just.
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Speaker 3: Well, partly that, the bigotry that showed through on that with a black woman candidate.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And the bigotry that showed through that with him being the bigot, you know, the bigot in chief.
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Speaker 3: It's a fair point, but it's still resting on us. I don't know what percentage of people went to the polls, but if people, and I think, I believe I could say this truly, more people... if you were to ask, take a poll of all American voters, more of them would have backed Kamala Harris, but they didn't follow through.
00:18:21
Speaker 2: They didn't follow through.
00:18:24
Speaker 3: It's a little bit on us too, but it's, yeah, it's also Americans who will not accept a black woman as a commander in chief. And they need to get over that because it's coming one day.
00:18:36
Speaker 2: They will not accept a woman period.
00:18:39
Speaker 1: Hillary wasn't black and she, you know, uh, well, Shirley Chisholm was black, uh, There's just so much, so much is there. And the misogynistic ways, I mean, America may have, you know, we have, like you say, everybody wants to come here and work and opportunities or what have you, but there's some deep seated stuff under the surface that comes to the surface when it comes to things like national elections that we are just like, we're in the stone ages compared to some other countries just like ours.
00:19:12
Speaker 3: We are.
00:19:13
Speaker 2: We just are.
00:19:14
Speaker 3: You know, we, we, we haven't got there yet. Like you said, those conditions of the heart, we haven't got there, but it doesn't mean we can't. There's always opportunity to change. And so.
00:19:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
00:19:28
Speaker 1: Uh, opportunities that present themselves, you know, all the time. I don't know if she is going to run again. I don't know who, who the Democrats have on the bench. Uh, but, um, It's gonna be interesting, I hope. I was just watching, now talk about being encouraged and that there's always hope. I was just watching, Uh, now I was watching this as I was putting my stuff together to come down here.
00:19:54
Speaker 2: Uh, it was a national report and one of their, I believe it was for NBC.
00:20:01
Speaker 1: Again, I switched so much cause I want to see who's got what, but I think it was NBC and they interviewed voters in Texas. In that one county where the Republicans reduced the number of polling places by 30 to 40 percent in predominantly black and brown communities, you know, that that situation where they did a man on the street. person on the street. They did a man on the street. And I tell you what, these folks were even madder. I mean, it's kind of like stirring up, you know, you poke the bear because they're like, oh, really? Now I really am upset. Now I'll go wherever I need to go to vote. And I, yes, I'm going to vote. I'm going to, I don't care where I have to go. And so what that has done has made some folks more determined. But it was so blatant, James, the racism. And it was so blatant because This reduction was done in, again, predominantly brown and black communities.
00:20:58
Speaker 3: My guess is it was Tarrant County. I'm guessing now. Tarrant County, and that's Fort Worth.
00:21:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:21:04
Speaker 3: And yeah, I believe that was what I saw.
00:21:08
Speaker 2: But they.
00:21:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. They are mad, and they should be. And they're Republicans.
00:21:13
Speaker 2: They're going to vote.
00:21:15
Speaker 3: I know Jeff, if he were on here again, he would say, yeah, yeah, it's still their fault. Even though they regret it, I don't accept that.
00:21:21
Speaker 8: But.
00:21:22
Speaker 3: They genuinely regret it.
00:21:24
Speaker 6: But, you know, they had.
00:21:25
Speaker 3: Their chance, like you said.
00:21:26
Speaker 1: By comparison, contrast, I think the reporter did a really good job because she looked into a predominantly Republican, a predominantly GOP county, area in that county, GOP area in that county.
00:21:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:21:41
Speaker 1: And there were polling places literally directly across the street from each other.
00:21:48
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:21:48
Speaker 1: That's how plentiful they were, but predominantly white and predominantly GOP-leaning in that particular area of the county. And they had all they wanted and then some. They even had places. I mean, the camera could show the proximity. They were directly across the street. Tell me that's not late.
00:22:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And it is by design.
00:22:15
Speaker 7: And.
00:22:17
Speaker 3: You know when Jasmine Crockett, I think she ran and they pulled some stuff like that. But go ahead, Tina.
00:22:23
Speaker 2: No, no. Brother Man wants to get in on the conversation. So, Brother Man, go ahead. How are you?
00:22:30
Speaker 6: Hey, Ms. Tina and James and Eric.
00:22:33
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
00:22:33
Speaker 3: Hey, Brother Man.
00:22:36
Speaker 6: They're trying to do something to the guy, that Jack Smith guy that was over that.
00:22:44
Speaker 6: January 6th.
00:22:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:22:46
Speaker 6: We were talking about that. Hey, Thomas, I have to tell you, these white folks ain't right. Ain't that but a bunch of bigots and racists. And they got a man in the White House trying to put this country deeper and deeper in debt. Every time you look around, he's bombing somebody. He's all this. Gas prices are going down tomorrow, the next day. The liest man I've ever seen in my life. I knew a guy I worked with lied like that. I used to stay away from him. He just lied all the time. And that's what Trump does. Trump just lied. He needed to pay that woman $ 5 million for raping her. That's what he needs to do.
00:23:35
Speaker 2: I think he, did he already?
00:23:37
Speaker 3: Yeah. He was ordered to pay.
00:23:38
Speaker 2: They took the funds out.
00:23:40
Speaker 3: The money was in escrow, and the judge released it.
00:23:42
Speaker 2: The judge released it, yeah, so she got paid.
00:23:45
Speaker 3: But it's another $ 83 million that he's contesting that she won as well.
00:23:51
Speaker 2: Oh, damage, probably, yeah.
00:23:53
Speaker 3: It's in another case, because after he got in, he besmirched her. Oh, defamation.
00:24:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, defamation.
00:24:02
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah.
00:24:05
Speaker 6: You guys are on the right subject. These people that don't want to vote, they ain't got to worry about it. When gas go up to $ 10 a gallon and they can't buy food, they'll wish they had a vote again. Because these white folks, Brown and Trump and all those people that's in the Republican Party, they ain't doing nothing but making food out of these poor people that's working hard every day. trying to feed their families, trying to pay their bills. That's a shame.
00:24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
00:24:38
Speaker 1: All right, brother man, thank you. We're going to stay on top of it. We just have to stay aware. We have to stay aware.
00:24:45
Speaker 2: Mr. Russell, go ahead. How are you?
00:24:47
Speaker 12: Good afternoon, folks.
00:24:49
Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
00:24:50
Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
00:24:51
Speaker 8: Just wanted to say that if anybody won't be able to vote on Election Day, November 3rd, You can make an application for an absentee ballot right now by calling the Marion County Election Board, and they'll send you out an application for an absentee ballot. So you can do that right now.
00:25:14
Speaker 6: Okay.
00:25:18
Speaker 8: Also, as you have been mentioning, Monday is the last day for the deadline for voter registration, generally speaking. Just wanted to remind folks about that and pose a question to you. Is there anything the Trump administration has done since they've been in power that you can say benefited the United States of America? Is there any one thing that comes to mind?
00:25:55
Speaker 2: Any one thing regarding what?
00:25:58
Speaker 8: That benefits the United States of America that the Trump administration has done since they've been in power.
00:26:03
Speaker 12: You know, they want to stay in power. They're doing everything to stay in power, but what, why should it be in power? Is there any one thing you can think of that has benefited the country?
00:26:24
Speaker 7: Nope.
00:26:25
Speaker 6: I don't know.
00:26:26
Speaker 1: I mean, Wish I had the Jeopardy music right now.
00:26:30
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:26:31
Speaker 2: James.
00:26:34
Speaker 3: I can't think of anything that administration has done to benefit the people. I can think of things that they've done to benefit themselves.
00:26:40
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:26:41
Speaker 3: Try to take credit for the twenty five hundred dollar. Was it was it twenty five hundred dollar checks or twelve hundred fifty checks? Whatever those checks were during the pandemic that we got. He tried– the Congress passed that, and then he made them put his name on it, on the Treasury Department, to put his name on it to take credit for that. But I do not– that's why he lost by 7 million votes. A lot of people didn't think he did anything as well. So, no, I do not, especially his second term. He has done nothing but hurt people. He has fired people. He has made the government worse, services worse. He's taken away health care. He's taken away food. He's taken away SNAP benefits. You name it, he's taken it away. And yet, that would be one thing if you're going to make things more efficient, but you are enriching yourself and your family and your cronies at the same time. That doesn't seem like, you know, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a duck.
00:27:37
Speaker 8: It's a duck.
00:27:39
Speaker 12: But, you know, you've heard of highway.
00:27:41
Speaker 8: Robbery, right?
00:27:43
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:27:45
Speaker 12: There's a new term, outer space robbery.
00:27:48
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:27:50
Speaker 8: This administration is out of space for robbery, so that's a new term that might get into the lexicon of the country.
00:28:00
Speaker 4: Okay.
00:28:01
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. All right. Thank you, Mr.
00:28:03
Speaker 3: Russell.
00:28:04
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
00:28:04
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr.
00:28:05
Speaker 5: Russell.
00:28:05
Speaker 3: Hey, Tina, I'm going to— it sounds like you were sounding a little fuzzy at one point.
00:28:11
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
00:28:12
Speaker 3: My, I'm going to hang up and call right back.
00:28:15
Speaker 6: Okay. Okay.
00:28:16
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take a break.
00:28:18
Speaker 7: Okay.
00:28:18
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break and we'll see what, what, what may happen when we come right back.
00:28:25
Speaker 3: Okay. Thank you.
00:28:34
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back. James, is that a little better? Is that better?
00:28:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's better, Tina. It might have been on my end, so I did something over here that should clear it up.
00:28:48
Speaker 5: I hope.
00:28:48
Speaker 2: Okay, all righty.
00:28:50
Speaker 1: Well, we are going to welcome James, our first guest for today.
00:28:56
Speaker 2: She's not a guest, though, what do they say? You're not a guest. She's just our good friend.
00:29:03
Speaker 1: And community activist, Ebony Chappelle, Director of Brand and Community Strategy for Free Press Indiana. One of our former colleagues here at the Indianapolis Stations of Radio 1 as well. Just an all-around great gal, though. We just love Ebony. So she is with us today to tell us about ARCFest, I do believe.
00:29:25
Speaker 2: Is that correct, Ebony?
00:29:27
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:29:27
Speaker 9: Thank you so much, Tina and James. First of all, I just want to say... Congratulations on everything amazing that has been happening over there. And I'm just grateful that you guys extend your platform um to us to promote the things that we have going on thank.
00:29:45
Speaker 1: You yeah well it is our pleasure our pleasure indeed and you all keep a lot of good things going so yeah it's great it's great that we stay in touch so yeah you've.
00:29:55
Speaker 9: Been okay absolutely I have been doing great. I've been doing great. I've been sick in event mode, getting ready for ArcFest, as you mentioned. So for those who have not heard about it or heard the ads on the radio or seen it online, ArcFest, A-R-C-Fest, is happening this Saturday at the campus of IU Indy, formerly known as IUPUI. And this is our contribution to America's 250th birthday. We know that that happened this year, and there's a lot of events happening around that that are focused on patriotism and things like that. So this is our contribution to it, recognizing the quote and being inspired by the quote from one of, you know, what I believe to be one of the greatest Americans that ever lived, and that's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., about the arc of the moral universe being long, but it bends towards justice. So this one-day event is free as all ages. We're going to have panel discussions. We're doing a candidate forum for the Secretary of State, which we will be electing a new Secretary of State this November in just a matter of weeks. We will have live performances all day. People can come and get registered to vote. They can go on walking tours with Samson Livingston. I mean, it's just action packs all day long, starting at 10 a.m. there on the campus of IUI.
00:31:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Freedom of the Press.
00:31:26
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:31:26
Speaker 2: Is that going to be addressed at all?
00:31:29
Speaker 9: That will absolutely be addressed. We actually have a panel discussion with people who are members of the Black Press and Black leaders in local media. So that will be taking place during the day as well. It's going to be a discussion about the... Contributions of the Black Press Then and Now. So that is a panel discussion. Our very own Oshia Boy, editor-in-chief of Mirror Indie, will be on that panel. And it'll be moderated by Dr. Sherry Williams, who's a renowned media scholar based out of American University in Washington, D.C. We are also going to have a conversation about creatively imagining the next 250 with local writers and historians. Kisha Tandy from the Indiana State Museum is going to be on that panel. We're also going to do something where we're mixing lectures with stand-up comedy and improv with a group called Study Hall. So we're going to have four guest lecturers get up and give a five-minute lecture on a topic of their choice having to do with the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and democracy. And then there will be an improv group who will help bring those lectures to life in their own unique way. So we're going to hit on a lot of that on Saturday.
00:32:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:32:52
Speaker 1: Any concerns or thoughts on what's been happening lately, especially the last couple of weeks with, you know, the Trump administration banning, you know, barring media outlets and, you know, playing with court orders, you know, taking them all the way up to the. You know, just playing around with them, basically not obeying and not following the orders.
00:33:16
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that?
00:33:18
Speaker 9: Yes, lots of thoughts. One, I think it is just par for the course of what we've seen come out of this administration, which is a total disregard for.
00:33:29
Speaker 9: Norms when it comes to recognizing the power of the press and allowing them to do their job and hold power accountable. So it's just par for the course. And there is truly an attack when it comes to freedom of expression and freedom of speech in our country. So for me, I think it's all the more reason why platforms like yours are so important, why the work that our reporters do day in and day out is so important. we have to stick with it no matter what is happening in the White House. It's all the more reason why we have to hold the line and do what it is that we do as truth-tellers and people who speak out and make others informed. It just amplifies the importance of our work.
00:34:15
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:34:15
Speaker 1: James, anything you wanted to ask or add to that? I mean, we haven't talked since that.
00:34:22
Speaker 2: But anyway, go ahead.
00:34:23
Speaker 7: Well.
00:34:25
Speaker 3: I haven't talked to Ebony in a long time. I'm glad she's here. What a resource and a source of history. This woman has done a lot of work in this community to keep us focused on what is happening now, how we can help, how we can move things along. She's a true, true community voice and worker organizer as well. I wanted to ask you, Ebony, about arc fest and uh it's going to be this saturday at uh hein hall indiana university indianapolis and it says 875 west north street on my card here where is that exactly on the campus so people will know how to get.
00:35:07
Speaker 9: Here yeah thank you so much james um so how people can get there hein hall is the building that is cat a corner from the student center on uh IU Indianapolis' campus. Y'all, I am trying so hard not to say their former name.
00:35:25
Speaker 1: It sticks with you, doesn't it?
00:35:29
Speaker 9: Like the joke, you know, his mama named him Clay, I'm going to call him Clay. His mama named him IUPUI.
00:35:35
Speaker 8: It sucks, so I'm trying really hard.
00:35:37
Speaker 9: But I digress. So it's Catacorner from the Student Center on IU Indianapolis' campus.
00:35:45
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I know what student center is.
00:35:47
Speaker 9: Yeah. So when you are looking at it, it is that building that is diagonally across from there. It sits right close to the hospital as well. And it is the best parking garage is the University Tower Garage. And this building sits at the intersection of of North and Blake Streets. We are also, I'm gonna have a lot of signs and balloons and flags and different things to let people know where we are because it is a beautiful, beautiful area. It has a beautiful courtyard. So there we're gonna have live music out in the courtyard, different performances and stuff going on all day. card games if people want to sit and reflect on some of the things they might have heard in the auditorium, in the lecture hall area, and come out and enjoy space with each other. But I'm going to put up every piece of decoration possible to let people know where we are because it's a beautiful space and we want people to come out and enjoy. So yes, it is located at the intersection of North and Blake Streets, Catta Corner from the Student Center and the University Tower parking garage is where it should be. So if you guys remember back in the day, some of your listeners might remember this, there used to be a hotel on IU Indianapolis' campus. Hein Hall is attached to that building. So that's where we will be. It's a building that used to be the hotel that is on that campus.
00:37:23
Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
00:37:24
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:37:24
Speaker 3: I am so glad that they have events scheduled for young people, you know, music, performances. I think it says on here, improv comedy shows. And cultural storytelling. And she mentioned, Ebony mentioned the card tables. Because, because, because we need the 30-somethings coming up beginning on October 6th in Indiana for this vote, Ebony. We need the 30-somethings, the 25 through 40.
00:37:53
Speaker 8: We need that group.
00:37:54
Speaker 3: How are we going to, you of anybody in this city, Ebony Chappelle, should know how we get these people to the polls.
00:38:02
Speaker 6: Tell us.
00:38:04
Speaker 10: Yes.
00:38:04
Speaker 9: So, you know, if I had a magic wand and a bag full of money, I would go and pick everybody up and drive them to the polls. And then we would have a good, nice party afterwards. That's a dream of mine. So I'm just putting that out into the atmosphere. But one of the things that we are going to do is we've partnered with some people in the community who do voter registration and voter advocacy programs. So what we're going to do on Saturday and leading up to Saturday, we actually have a partnership with United Way where they have helped us be able to print voter zines. So zine, Z-I-N-E is short for magazine. So that's just a different type of publication. It's like a little pamphlet. It's really colorful, and it gives information on how to vote, how to register to vote, what offices are on the ballot, how to print, how to get a sample ballot. So we have distributed those to community centers all over the city. They are also available at all of the Central Library, Indianapolis Public Library branches, and we will have a boatload of them at the event on Saturday as well. Another thing that we're doing, you can get registered to vote right there at the event. We will have MAD voters present. We will also have Live Free Indiana present that will be registering people to vote. answering questions that they have about voting and just letting them know what's at stake. I think one of the biggest things that we have to overcome when it comes to voting and engagement in our city, because registration, we do pretty good on registration. We just suffer when it comes to the actual turning up and going out to vote part. And I do see a shift happening. And I think a lot of that has to do with education. Because once people get educated and they understand how this impacts them, it helps to cut down some of that apathy. Because for a long time, we as a community, as a people, have been apathetic and feeling like it doesn't matter. My vote doesn't count. But as we see here, right here in the state of Indiana, we saw an election for senators that three votes, three votes their way, three votes the other way, three votes back and forth. And to think that it would come down to that in a municipal election is wild to think about, but it happens. So I think all of that in the news, people are concerned about data centers. People are concerned about voting. People are concerned about affordability. Now we have the thing going on with our will tax. I mean, people are highly concerned about these things. So I think us as people in the media being able to connect what's happening, excuse me, what's happening in the world with the direct call to action. Like, you can vote and you can make changes this way. I think it's helping get people empowered. But we're doing everything we can to make sure people are armed with the right information as they head into the polls.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: And you know what, Ebony, and I'm really not trying to be funny, but it harkens back to that old, as they say, Big.
00:41:06
Speaker 2: Mama used to say, if you can't hear me, you can feel me.
00:41:10
Speaker 1: And meaning if you're not listening to what we're saying and not educating yourself, you're feeling the pain.
00:41:18
Speaker 2: You know, you're feeling the relevance of the pain.
00:41:21
Speaker 1: And and so so many people are feeling it, whether they're, you know, knee deep in what happens every night or not or every other night or what have you. But people are feeling things which is making them probably want to. So I think the feel the fact that what everybody is feeling regularly and often is real. And I think that, too, is cutting into a lot of the apathy because.
00:41:43
Speaker 2: Folks don't want it.
00:41:44
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, well, how many more trips to the grocery store can I tolerate or can I afford if every time I come things are higher and higher and higher?
00:41:53
Speaker 2: And, you know, we've cut and cut and cut.
00:41:55
Speaker 1: And so I also think that some of the feels that are taking place right now, the pain from this administration, the pain from this last election, that, too, is going to cut to cut in on some.
00:42:08
Speaker 2: Of the apathy that you were talking about as well.
00:42:11
Speaker 9: Absolutely. And I certainly hope so. I hate that so many of us are out here suffering and experiencing things. You know, I'm sure each of us on this call could share a testimony of some foolishness that we've had to navigate in recent times that you just sit and you think. I can't believe I'm having this conversation right now. I can't believe this is what I'm experiencing right now. I can't believe my bills are that high. Like, any way you cut it, listen, I think all of us have something to contribute to that conversation. So that part of it sucks, but if that's what it takes to wake us up and.
00:42:46
Speaker 2: To get us alert to what needs to happen, you.
00:42:49
Speaker 9: Know, that's what it takes because we think about stuff that, you know, people went through in the past and things had to give. It had to give at some point in order for that pendulum. To swing back the right direction.
00:43:00
Speaker 1: Folks had to say, no, no, no, can't take any more of this and will not.
00:43:04
Speaker 2: And as I.
00:43:05
Speaker 1: Was saying earlier, I don't know if you heard me or not, but I loved the report that I saw right before I came on the air.
00:43:10
Speaker 2: And I think it was a tear. I think it was. They didn't say.
00:43:14
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say which one it was, but it probably was, as you said, James Tarrant County. where folks are just more determined than ever to vote now that they know that some of their locations have been taken away from them and they know that they have been targeted as a minority, that they don't want your vote.
00:43:33
Speaker 2: They don't want you to vote.
00:43:35
Speaker 3: This is an attack. It's an attack on democracy. It's an attack on our way of life. It's an attack on our wishes and our desire that our children will have better than we had, more, better education, better housing, better jobs, better ownership. We need to move into ownership right now. The time is now for us to have ownership. And so they're trying to go take us back exactly the opposite direction, which we fought so hard and so many years. fought so hard for literally literally bled.
00:44:07
Speaker 9: And died yeah absolutely yeah.
00:44:10
Speaker 1: Yeah So, Ebony, you know, we buried the lead, or maybe we didn't emphasize it.
00:44:15
Speaker 2: This thing is free, free.
00:44:16
Speaker 9: Well, we're creating context.
00:44:17
Speaker 2: Okay, we're creating context, yes, indeed. But, yes, indeed, context is everything. Free is even better.
00:44:24
Speaker 1: And this whole gathering is free of charge.
00:44:30
Speaker 2: It is free.
00:44:31
Speaker 1: How often do we hear that in today's economy with events?
00:44:35
Speaker 2: Not often enough.
00:44:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, not often enough. And the richness that is going to be... um obtained if you attend this arc fest yes this saturday i mean you're you're going to be so enriched and and so much more knowledgeable and and coming forward you're going to be you're going to be better going you know coming away from it than you when then you when you started with everything that's there you can't help but be a little bit better a little bit more informed a little bit more aware and you know like you say feeling good too because there's going to be fun mixed in as well But yeah, opportunities to do these things that are free in our communities are shrinking.
00:45:14
Speaker 2: And so they are shrinking.
00:45:16
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 9: Yeah.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: It's up to you guys for being able to do that.
00:45:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:45:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:45:21
Speaker 9: Thank you, Tina. I appreciate that. You know, it's one of those things where there are so many people in our community that are trying to, you create.
00:45:30
Speaker 8: Spaces like this.
00:45:31
Speaker 9: And it is very, very difficult without the financial backing, without the energy and the support of the community. You know, these things couldn't happen. There is a boatload of people I could thank right now. I'm going to have to find a whole nother time to do that. But I do want to say, yes, this is going to be completely free. And like you said, our goal with this is that people would come, they would be empowered, they would be energized, and they will also be aware of who else in their community is standing right alongside them, you know, fighting for and believing in the same things. We don't have to agree on every single thing. That's impossible. But one thing that we can, you know, land on is the fact that Our future deserves better, whether that's the future of our children, the future of our communities, the future of this thing we call democracy, like if it is to have a future moving forward, it's going to take all of us. bending that arc towards justice. So yeah, totally free. It's going to be beautiful weather on Saturday all day. So it's just going to be a lovely time to come out and enjoy yourself, take in the day. And even if you just pass through from one thing to the next, because there are other things happening on Saturday as well, we recognize that. Just come through, you know, taking a walk with Samson around Indiana Avenue and having him educate you Um, on, on everything that's involved there, um, having some tea. I don't know if you guys know about Minty, but he's a huge tea influencer that's all over Instagram and TikTok. He's going to bring some of his delicious tea, um, and stocking in and enjoy with people. So it's just going to be a really, really, really beautiful time. Great music. Yeah, fpinews.org if you want to register.
00:47:19
Speaker 2: What is it again?
00:47:21
Speaker 3: Hind Hall, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, right?
00:47:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was given the registration if you want to register.
00:47:31
Speaker 2: Do you want folks to register?
00:47:32
Speaker 9: If you want to preregister, and you don't have to register, you can just pop up. But if you want to preregister, the website is SPINews.org slash ARCfest. And Tina, I don't know if you guys have the ability to put it up on your website or anything when you do the show, but yeah, the website is SPINews.org slash ARCfest. If you would like to pre-register and see what the full schedule of the day is. Otherwise, walk-ups are 100% welcome. You just walk up, like James said, we'll be at a high hall on the campus of IU Indianapolis Saturday, this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And it's going to be a beautiful time.
00:48:23
Speaker 2: Indeed.
00:48:23
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:48:23
Speaker 3: Hey, Ebony, one more quick question, Tina. October 17th.
00:48:29
Speaker 6: Thanks.
00:48:30
Speaker 3: On October 17th, they are going to have another across the nation, including Indianapolis, No Kings Day. Have you guys or any organizations you're partnering with, is that on your radar screen? Are you going to in some way work with them or have representation for that October 17th event?
00:48:50
Speaker 9: Yeah, so thank you for mentioning that. I know that our newsroom is always out covering what's happening in the community, so they try to be everywhere. We are a very small but mighty team, so I wouldn't be shocked if some coverage ends up on our newsletter or website following the event, because that's our contribution as media and as community-censored media is to be in the midst of things and bearing witness to it so that we can bring that information out into the public. So we try to keep our ears to the ground and gather up and cover as much of that information as we can.
00:49:31
Speaker 6: Wonderful. Indeed.
00:49:34
Speaker 1: Ebony, thank you, thank you, thank you. I know Saturday is going to be fantastic. And SPINews.org slash ARCfest is the website.
00:49:45
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
00:49:45
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes. And that's F as in free, P as in press, and I as in Indiana.
00:49:52
Speaker 3: Oh, F.
00:49:52
Speaker 9: F-P-I.
00:49:53
Speaker 8: No worries. Yep.
00:49:55
Speaker 9: SPINews.org slash ARCfest. It's going to be a great time Saturday, 10 to 6. at IU Indianapolis Fine Hall.
00:50:07
Speaker 2: Okay. All righty.
00:50:08
Speaker 1: Well, I know it's going to be great. And, again, thank you for bringing that to us. We really, really appreciate it.
00:50:14
Speaker 9: Of course.
00:50:14
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys. I'll take care of it.
00:50:16
Speaker 7: All right.
00:50:16
Speaker 2: You take care of it.
00:50:18
Speaker 9: You too.
00:50:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. And, like I said, the more non, you know, free. I guess we just say free. Non-admission time. You know, and I know that there's some organizations, you have to charge admission because you have to do what you have to do.
00:50:32
Speaker 2: But, you know, if there are.
00:50:34
Speaker 1: A number of opportunities to where you don't have to in today's economy, that's fantastic.
00:50:39
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
00:50:40
Speaker 3: Yeah. And to be on a university campus, they're going to have live entertainment, you know, including comedy, musical performances, storytelling, registering people. I mean, they're going to be alive, Tina. They're going to be alive. really out there doing what university campuses have done historically in times like this is to get motivated, get moving, and get people going. So that's what's good about ARCFest coming up on Saturday.
00:51:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know what? I forgot to ask. I think this might be the first annual. I don't know.
00:51:10
Speaker 8: It is.
00:51:11
Speaker 12: Oh, it is.
00:51:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:51:12
Speaker 8: It is.
00:51:13
Speaker 6: Inaugural.
00:51:14
Speaker 3: Inaugural.
00:51:14
Speaker 2: Inaugural.
00:51:15
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:51:15
Speaker 1: So, yes, come out and support them if you can because this is really great, something to do all day on Saturday.
00:51:22
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:51:23
Speaker 1: And it is hard not to say ooey-pooey or IUP.
00:51:26
Speaker 2: It's hard not to say that.
00:51:28
Speaker 1: I feel her completely about that because there's a lot of, you know, things just change and you just, you know, it just gets cemented in your mind and you're like.
00:51:37
Speaker 4: Ooh, okay.
00:51:38
Speaker 2: Okey-dokey.
00:51:40
Speaker 1: So, yeah, like you say, the weather, Eric and James, is going to be great. A little bit of rain over the next day or two.
00:51:47
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
00:51:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of rain.
00:51:49
Speaker 3: Friday. And it should be out of here. And then this event is on Saturday. It's supposed to come through Friday and then clear up Friday. I mean, the bulk of it coming through Friday, but clear up by later Friday, by the evening, especially. So to clear us out for the weekend.
00:52:06
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:52:06
Speaker 2: Really? Midday, right? Or did you say that or something? I thought it was like midday. Midday Friday.
00:52:13
Speaker 3: Well, I said the rain would be coming, dropping in through here tomorrow between mid-afternoon and early evening. But, and then, you know, continue on through Friday morning. But yeah, that's what forecasters are saying, like midday. So somewhere around there. Okay.
00:52:32
Speaker 2: All righty, all righty.
00:52:33
Speaker 1: So let's step away for just a couple of quick seconds, and we'll come right back for our next guest.
00:52:41
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
00:52:50
Speaker 10: WTLC AM, W236 CR, Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:53:07
Speaker 1: And we are back, just about to head into our 2 o'clock hour with our contributing analyst, James Patterson, and of course, our producer, Eric.
00:53:17
Speaker 2: Two more minutes, Garns.
00:53:20
Speaker 3: Two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:21
Speaker 6: Two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, two more minutes, he's Garnay.
00:53:24
Speaker 1: But, yeah, before we get to our next guest, I guess we've made some national headlines, at least in sporting, in the sporting world.
00:53:33
Speaker 2: There was a fever playoff game last night.
00:53:36
Speaker 4: That's right.
00:53:37
Speaker 1: And they beat the defending champion. And I mistakenly said three-time MVP. She's four-time MVP.
00:53:44
Speaker 7: Oh.
00:53:44
Speaker 2: Uh, Asia Wilson.
00:53:46
Speaker 1: And apparently, um, some, one of the fans, uh, uh, according to Asia and according to the video pointed a finger at her and started to started toward her and she left the court and went and started back toward him. And so everybody's waiting to see what the league will do. And now the, the reason being she's, Like the best player there is in the WNBA.
00:54:12
Speaker 2: I don't care what anybody says.
00:54:13
Speaker 1: You look at the numbers and they'll knock you down in terms of what she accomplishes.
00:54:18
Speaker 2: And she's a winner. She wins. She's an MVP.
00:54:22
Speaker 1: She's a multi-national WNBA champion. But if she gets suspended for that, then she may not be able to play the next game, the deciding game of this series, because now it's tied one to one.
00:54:38
Speaker 2: And she is a bit, but you know, the aces, the Las Vegas aces are so.
00:54:42
Speaker 1: Good that I don't know, even if for, I think it's an outside chance that she gets suspended. I don't know that the league will suspend his biggest star, but they.
00:54:55
Speaker 9: May, but.
00:54:55
Speaker 11: What do you think Danny would say about that?
00:54:58
Speaker 1: Well, they need to learn how to defend without fouling and rebound more. That's his patent line for anything.
00:55:07
Speaker 2: Pertaining to the WNBA. So, no, I didn't see it.
00:55:12
Speaker 4: No, I didn't see it.
00:55:16
Speaker 1: No, I didn't see it, so I don't know. But, frankly, it was nice that the Fever had pushed it to a third and deciding game.
00:55:28
Speaker 4: The deciding game will be happening, yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker 2: Happening. They are up against a mighty, mighty force there.
00:55:35
Speaker 1: The defending champions, and the four-time MVP, likely five-time MVP.
00:55:42
Speaker 4: And it's on their court.
00:55:43
Speaker 2: It's on their court in their town.
00:55:45
Speaker 8: In their town.
00:55:45
Speaker 2: With their refs and their balls and everything. So we'll see.
00:55:49
Speaker 4: Their crowd, everybody.
00:55:51
Speaker 1: But national media has just– James, were you aware of that? Did you see any of that, or have you been privy to any?
00:55:57
Speaker 3: I saw a headline, but I didn't get into the story. I didn't see what happened. And I don't put that– pass any ban not only anywhere they're.
00:56:08
Speaker 2: Out of control they are out.
00:56:10
Speaker 3: Of control and I think they're serving don't they serve alcohol at the games you guys don't they do.
00:56:16
Speaker 1: That probably they don't need alcohol I wouldn't even they're rabid fans I.
00:56:24
Speaker 3: Would be surprised if they didn't serve.
00:56:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure they do I don't think that was an alcohol fueled thing they're just their their rep well yeah i guess it could have.
00:56:36
Speaker 3: Been yeah it could have been.
00:56:37
Speaker 2: And then that's what the problem is yeah really.
00:56:41
Speaker 3: I mean i'm not saying he was but i'm saying he may not have had anything but the behavior period uh at games and this goes all the way down to little league i mean you've had fathers arrested for charging on the field and stuff like that i mean It's a ball game, okay? A ball game. So why are you getting your blood pressure? Sure, you want your team to win, but you cheer for them, and you don't go off the deep end, especially against another player if that's what happens.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's so much more to that, though. There has to be. There's so much more to.
00:57:21
Speaker 1: That, and I think a lot of it with Indiana fans, because it's not the first time Indiana Fever fans have misbehaved.
00:57:29
Speaker 3: It's all over the place.
00:57:30
Speaker 8: It's all over.
00:57:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
00:57:32
Speaker 3: I know.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: But I'm saying what I'm saying, James, without saying it, you name it. But what I'm saying is it's intensified in the WNBA with the Caitlin Clark factor.
00:57:41
Speaker 2: OK, so there there's. Yeah, you're right.
00:57:46
Speaker 1: Everywhere from Little League, from T-Ball, you know, to where the kids don't get a T-Ball. You know, parents have gotten into it there. But what I'm saying is there's there's just a lot more to it. Because there are ongoing, if you look on social media, you'll see a lot of the vitriol that some of these fans, these fever fans have for other players in the WNBA. And that is out of control. I think the league needs to do a little bit more about that.
00:58:16
Speaker 3: I don't know what, I agree with that. But I do think, to her credit, and I don't know how often she's done this, maybe you all can tell me, But I have heard, and I'm not trying to defend her, she can defend herself, Caitlin Clark say, you know, I don't need the haters as fans, basically, is what she said.
00:58:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah.
00:58:35
Speaker 3: Maybe she could do more, but, you know.
00:58:38
Speaker 1: I think at this point it's the league. I mean, she's done, she said what she said, I guess.
00:58:43
Speaker 6: I don't know.
00:58:44
Speaker 1: But anyway, it needs, that should never have happened. The fan, you know, a fan has, you behave, you sit there and you enjoy the game and you have fun. but you have no right to personally take on a player.
00:58:58
Speaker 4: You just don't. Yeah, remember what happened, what was it, 2004 with the Pacers?
00:59:02
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Tyrese Halliburton.
00:59:04
Speaker 4: World Meta Peace.
00:59:05
Speaker 2: Oh, Meta World Peace. That was Malice in the Palace.
00:59:07
Speaker 4: Malice in the Palace.
00:59:09
Speaker 2: That was, you know. With the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton's dad.
00:59:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, his dad. He held up the towel to Giannis, I think, and said, this is what we do. Right, right. And that kind of thing shouldn't be happening.
00:59:21
Speaker 2: No, it shouldn't be.
00:59:23
Speaker 4: Really shouldn't.
00:59:23
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:59:24
Speaker 3: Well, you know what? it's like we talked about, you know, the supporters of the president. We can't deny that racism is out there and that people are racist. They are. They just are.
00:59:36
Speaker 2: Racist and tribal.
00:59:37
Speaker 4: You cannot legislate it away, that's for sure.
00:59:41
Speaker 3: And in this instance, the fever fans have been a problem in particular all over social media and in the arena. They have.
00:59:51
Speaker 6: I mean, it's a fact.
00:59:52
Speaker 3: I mean, I agree with you on that.
00:59:53
Speaker 1: There's a whole bubble around the Caitlin Clark a space, if you will. And so anything that, that actually this came about after I think Asia Wilson was, it wasn't Caitlin Clark.
01:00:08
Speaker 2: She was, No, she defended Sophie Cunningham. It was Sophie Cunningham.
01:00:11
Speaker 3: She was defending her. She was defending her.
01:00:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Sophie Cunningham.
01:00:16
Speaker 8: The one who loves, you.
01:00:18
Speaker 3: Know, NASCAR. She was defending her. So that shows you the players don't have this animosity between themselves. It's the people.
01:00:27
Speaker 2: It's the fans.
01:00:28
Speaker 4: The fans.
01:00:28
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:00:29
Speaker 2: Keyboard bullies. Yeah, keyboard bullies, a lot of them are.
01:00:34
Speaker 1: You know, I would love for the temperature to get down and just let these professionals and amateurs and kids, just let.
01:00:41
Speaker 2: Them play and enjoy the game.
01:00:43
Speaker 8: It would be good.
01:00:45
Speaker 1: So, you know, I hope that they get it all fairly worked out, whatever it is.
01:00:49
Speaker 2: But Indianapolis.
01:00:52
Speaker 1: And the Indiana Fever game made national headlines for, you know, dubious reasons.
01:00:57
Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
01:01:00
Speaker 1: As we were saying earlier, today is the 30th, the last day of the month of September, and the month of September is a lot of things, including, as you heard here so many times, Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, which kind of focuses the lens on mental health, mental wellness, the importance of it all, and everything else that goes with it. And our next guest is providing virtual and telehealth mental health care in terms of where her lane is in all of that. And she's here now to tell us about an upcoming virtual forum.
01:01:42
Speaker 2: And her name is Dr. Alina Smith.
01:01:44
Speaker 3: Dr.
01:01:44
Speaker 2: Smith, welcome. How are you?
01:01:47
Speaker 10: I'm doing well.
01:01:47
Speaker 13: How are you doing today, Tina?
01:01:49
Speaker 2: Doing well. Thank you. Thank you. So tell us a little bit about what you do. This is the virtual space.
01:01:56
Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot of spaces in mental health and mental wellness area, but we haven't talked about the virtual and online space.
01:02:05
Speaker 6: Sure.
01:02:05
Speaker 13: So I am the owner-founder of Choice Behavioral Health Network, which is a DBA of Choice Therapy LLC. So I am a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. The services that we provide are psychiatric evaluations. The primary focus is medication management for various conditions. For example, depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar, all services. you know, are telehealth, so they're virtual. So what happens is you would go to the website and, you know, you would select, request an appointment. You will do that and see us virtual. Everything is private. Everything is HIPAA compliant. And so we service actually several states, but, you know, we're throughout the entire Indiana. We do accept all insurances. And for those that don't have insurance and have to pay out of pocket, there is a sliding scale for that, which would be, you know, agreed upon individuals.
01:03:11
Speaker 2: So tell us about.
01:03:14
Speaker 1: Virtual versus in-person when it comes to mental wellness and about your upcoming event.
01:03:22
Speaker 4: Sure.
01:03:22
Speaker 13: So the difference is what you're asking me?
01:03:26
Speaker 1: You know, maybe there's an advantage to one or, you know, yeah, just the, I guess the You know, the differences, yeah, I guess could be the word, yeah.
01:03:36
Speaker 13: Okay, sure. So a lot of the times when people, you know, don't have access to transportation, a lot of people are in rural areas, you know, the point of being in a virtual space is to provide flexibility and convenience, you know, to everybody, right? So, you know, you can sit in your car if you're, let's say you're a lawyer, right? a doctor, you're busy and you're just, you don't have a lot of time, but you really would like to get help with some issues that you have. You can run in your car and be able to just log on and, you know, get a session done right then and there. So it's more for convenience and filling the gaps for needs because there's such a big need overall. And it's really hard sometimes for people to get to a physical location. Now there is a plan next year, to become a hybrid space where there can be an option for both because sometimes, you know, when you have, because I see ages five and up, so it's across the lifespan. So some kids can do good with virtual and then some can't. Some elderly can do good with virtual and some cannot. So there will be more options, you know, for a physical space later.
01:04:51
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:04:52
Speaker 2: James, by all means, go ahead.
01:04:54
Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks for joining us, Dr.
01:04:56
Speaker 6: Smith.
01:04:57
Speaker 3: I'm intrigued by this online talk here on mental health. Tell me, and you're a mental health professional, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, so you can actually prescribe drugs, for instance, for treatment. So tell me, Why do you think this is important these days? Do you think that there are people who are in need of mental health services that are not getting those services? Is that what you believe is going on right now? Or what's the importance of your forum that's coming up on Saturday as well?
01:05:38
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah.
01:05:41
Speaker 13: Some people, yes, they do need support, but don't know where to start or they're worried about being judged. Others struggle to fit in the fit appointments around work, family. So, yes, to answer your earlier question, medications are prescribed electronically. Whatever your pharmacy is, it will just get sent there electronically. You'll be notified that it's ready and, you know, you can pick it up. In terms of the panel, that's happening actually October 3rd from 11 a.m. to 12.30, there's going to be a mixture of different mental health professionals. What we're going to be doing is, so the panel is called Mental Health Talks with Dr.
01:06:21
Speaker 6: Smith.
01:06:22
Speaker 13: So I'm bringing real conversations about mental health with things like depression, ADHD versus anxiety, which is really important because the two overlap and the two are so confused with a lot of people in the population. And so we want to give a really clear understanding so that you can understand what is actually happening with you, which one it is, okay, to make that more clear. And so, you know, in order to tune in on that, you can follow me either on Facebook. It's going to stream live on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn, actually. So you can follow me at Dr. Smith. I'm sorry, at Dr. Alina Smith. That's A-L-I-N-A Smith. on either one of those platforms in order to tune in. And there will be at the end an opportunity to, you know, ask questions. You know, we won't be able to answer every question, but there will be a space, a community space on Facebook for the questions that didn't get answered so that I can circle back and make sure everybody's answers, I mean, questions get answered.
01:07:31
Speaker 1: Is there a cost to register or... get the link to this forum, or is this free and open to the public?
01:07:39
Speaker 13: It is free and open to the public. So as long as you are following me, you will get notified once the live stream happens on either one of those platforms. So yes, it is free to the public.
01:07:52
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:07:52
Speaker 2: So what.
01:07:53
Speaker 3: Go ahead, James.
01:07:55
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
01:07:55
Speaker 3: Well, I want to drill down a little bit more, Tina, about the conditions that would be treatable as far as this looks like a great panel, at least a very accomplished panel we'll be hearing.
01:08:09
Speaker 8: And Dr.
01:08:11
Speaker 3: Smith said that there are different ones. The ones that I see on the promotions material are grief, that they'll be looking at depression, anxiety versus ADHD and self-love. I wanted to really zero in on depression. Can a person be depressed and not know it? And if so, I believe your answer is going to be so. I'm not a doctor, but What would be the signs of depression and not knowing it, Dr. Smith?
01:08:40
Speaker 13: Well, there's actually layers to that answer. But in short, someone may think, oh, I'm just tired or stressed without recognizing depression. It can actually show up as simple things like losing interest in things they usually enjoy, pulling away from people, irritability even, sleep or appetite changes, difficulty concentrating. And, you know, they may still go to work and smile while struggling privately. And so, you know, if those changes last around, you know, two weeks and it affects your daily life, it's worth, you know, reaching out for an evaluation. And just to circle back to the difficulty concentrating, and that I'll go more in depth in the panel, but that is where a lot of people will want to be seen and they think, oh, I can't concentrate, I can't focus, I have ADHD. And, you know, that's why we're going to explain, you know, the difference because a lot of these, you know, can overlap.
01:09:43
Speaker 9: Okay.
01:09:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting. And you're saying that because you start off saying that you guys could treat such conditions with medication. So if people join you online on this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1230 Eastern Time and, you know, you follow up with them or however it goes, you can actually treat them with medications going forward. Did I have that right? Did I say everything right there?
01:10:17
Speaker 9: Correct.
01:10:18
Speaker 13: So the website that you would find us on is www.choicebhn.com. And that's B-H-N, B as in boy, H as in Harry, N as in Nancy. So that's the website that you can go to to request an appointment. And it has a lot of information about the services that we offer, that we offer, what we treat and so on and so on, what states we're in, the insurances we accept. It's A lot of detailed information, and, you know, I'm more than happy to answer, you know, any questions if there's anything on there that you don't understand. But, yes, they can have an appointment. We can go through an assessment to kind of find, you know, what their baseline is, what their pain points are, what they're struggling with so that they can, you know, be treated for whatever medication works best, you know, for them.
01:11:09
Speaker 6: So, Dr.
01:11:09
Speaker 1: Smith, who might best benefit from this program? I guess, webcast, online event, this online forum panel discussion coming up this weekend, this Saturday. Who are you talking to that you're, who would you encourage to take advantage of this?
01:11:30
Speaker 13: Well, we have a lot of topics. I would say anyone, anybody who wants to better understand mental health for themselves or for someone they care about, especially people people who are navigating some of those topics such as, you know, grief and depression, anxiety, ADHD, those who are feeling overwhelmed, you know, you don't need a diagnosis to join, you know, and we're not going to diagnose that day. It's very informational, right? So it's a chance to learn, hear different perspectives and feel more comfortable with seeking support because, you know, one of the biggest things that I'm seeing now is, that you wouldn't have seen back in the day, you know, is more and more people are seeking help. So one thing I really like to stress is that asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength. And, you know, it's okay to not be okay. And so I'm seeing more and more people reaching out, seeking help.
01:12:26
Speaker 2: That's great. That's great.
01:12:28
Speaker 13: Before, you know, we don't want to talk about anything or they were scared to talk about things, you know, before.
01:12:34
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:12:35
Speaker 3: Can you give us that website again? Because I want to write it down. People may call Tina later and say, where was that? How can I get on that webcast? So can you give us that website again?
01:12:49
Speaker 13: So the website is choicebhn.com. So that's C-H-O-I-C-E, B as in boy, H as in Harry, N as in Nancy.com.
01:13:02
Speaker 1: And the name of the panel is Mental Health Talk with Dr.
01:13:06
Speaker 2: Alina Smith. Is that correct?
01:13:08
Speaker 9: Correct.
01:13:09
Speaker 13: And each month there will be a different topic. So when you follow me, you'll always know what's coming up because there will be different panels, different specialists that you can tune in and get more educated on different things.
01:13:24
Speaker 3: Well, wonderful.
01:13:25
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for doing this. I really appreciate you sharing that.
01:13:28
Speaker 1: And the virtual space is an important one. And so- Hey, wherever help is available, we want to let our listeners know. So thank you again. Mental Health Talk with Dr. Alina Smith.
01:13:40
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
01:13:43
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:13:43
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.
01:13:44
Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for coming on.
01:13:45
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
01:13:46
Speaker 8: Indeed.
01:13:47
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, that's an area we don't often think much about, James, the virtual space.
01:13:52
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:13:53
Speaker 1: I know it was used a lot during COVID because I know some people who were in therapy who said that they had to do all of their appointments online, or there was one person, older, had to do it over the phone. But again, when COVID, you know, when we were released from COVID, the restrictions, they went back into, they didn't stay online.
01:14:16
Speaker 2: But she's, that's her space. That's her lane online.
01:14:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
01:14:22
Speaker 3: Dr. Alina Smith, or Alina Smith, she's a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. And then on the panel, she's got D- Anaya. Anaya. Did I say that right?
01:14:35
Speaker 8: Anaya.
01:14:35
Speaker 3: I think it's Anaya. That's right. You're probably Anaya. She's Founders Adventures of Grief Girl, excuse me, Creative Grief Guide, Grief After Dark Podcast. And then Dion Smith, Mental Health Life Coach, Specialized in Addiction Counseling. And then Arianne. Arianne Nicole. Nicole. Nicole Coil.
01:15:00
Speaker 2: Coil.
01:15:00
Speaker 5: Coil.
01:15:01
Speaker 3: Coil. Yeah, she's a MSN, APRN, FNPB, Personal Development and Well-Being Strategist. So quite an outstanding panel, it looks like, on paper, simply. And I want to say this one thing that she said emphasized that back in the day, back in our day, or my day, particularly, people will be reluctant to come forth if they thought they had some mental health issues and didn't know how to deal with them. You know, back in the day, we wouldn't talk to our pastor or, you know, did that. We went to church. But nowadays, people are, as Dr. Smith said, coming forward. So that's why this might be a good opportunity for people.
01:15:46
Speaker 4: So, James, more men seem to be coming forward too, which is good.
01:15:49
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:15:50
Speaker 11: Because, you know, men typically, especially us black men, when it comes to things like that, I'm good.
01:15:56
Speaker 6: Oh, no.
01:15:57
Speaker 2: I'm good.
01:15:58
Speaker 8: I'm good.
01:15:58
Speaker 4: I'll figure it out. I got to figure it out.
01:16:01
Speaker 1: But, you know, surprisingly, and there have been admissions on this very show, a lot.
01:16:05
Speaker 2: Of pastors are in therapy.
01:16:07
Speaker 4: That's very true.
01:16:08
Speaker 2: And they say it's maintenance.
01:16:10
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:16:11
Speaker 1: Because if you think about what a pastor absorbs every week, every.
01:16:18
Speaker 2: Day, they go through a lot.
01:16:19
Speaker 1: So it truly is therapeutic to be in therapy with a therapist.
01:16:26
Speaker 2: It makes sense. Pastors have a big job.
01:16:30
Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure on them. Every week they have challenges. They've got a flock that they have to keep In the fold, so to speak.
01:16:41
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:16:42
Speaker 3: And, you know, they've got other things to deal with, you know, physical things, buildings, you know, keeping the lights on. I mean, it's a lot.
01:16:50
Speaker 2: It's a lot. Absolutely.
01:16:53
Speaker 1: And I respect and admire those that say, hey, I'm in therapy.
01:16:58
Speaker 2: You know, it helps me to be better to the people that I pastor.
01:17:05
Speaker 3: It's not that you're out of your mind or anything. It's just talking to someone. It's counseling is what it is, professional counseling. And you do that with your parents or with a close friend. But these people have studied these moods, grief, depression, anxiety versus ADHD, self-love. Those are the ones they're going to be talking about in that mental health talk you talked about. And so they are professionals, so they can add a different perspective to that. a more informed perspective in a lot of ways from their point of view.
01:17:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, indeed, indeed. Well, we thank her for that, and I appreciate her coming on. Like I said, we utilize every space we have. So, yeah, something for everybody. James, we will say this again, and I made a pledge that every day until the election, we're going to remind people of election deadlines, voter registration deadlines. Early voting, you know, every opportunity that there is to get out there and have your voice heard, we want to remind you of. This Monday, October the 5th, is the last day. That's the deadline. That's the cutoff. So think about Sunday, October 4th. Think about Sunday, October 4th, because your last day to register to vote in the November election in Indiana, in the state of Indiana, is Monday, Monday, October the 5th. Tuesday, October the 6th, is the first day. So the last day to register is on that Monday, the 5th. The first day to vote early in Marion County, in Indianapolis, in Marion County, well, in the state, I think, in the state. The first day for early voting is Tuesday, October the 6th.
01:18:50
Speaker 2: 6th, right? Tuesday, October the 6th.
01:18:54
Speaker 1: And so with the importance of all of that, check your registration, make sure you're still on the rolls, make sure that it is active if you are still on the rolls. Make sure your designation says active. Get everybody, make sure, check on others. You know, it's kind of like, this is a storm. It's kind of like during a storm or an emergency or whatever.
01:19:16
Speaker 2: Check on others to make sure they're good too.
01:19:19
Speaker 1: When you go to vote, After you register, get in your mind, or after you check your registration, have your plan to vote already in your head.
01:19:27
Speaker 2: What you're going to do. Are you going to vote early? Are you going to vote day of? Where are you going to vote?
01:19:31
Speaker 1: Who are you going to take with you? Because I encourage everybody, take somebody with you. Take a whole bunch of somebodies with you. I wish I had gas cards to give to everybody.
01:19:42
Speaker 3: I'm like Ebony. We really need those 30-somethings. I say something because 25 to 40. We need those people. And I was going to ask Ebony, and I think Mr. Russell said something, but I was going to ask Ebony about the social media. Tina, you and Eric are better at that than me. Back in the... with the.
01:20:07
Speaker 3: The first– when Biden won and before that, they were so sick of the current president that the rappers and all of the iconic leaders of the youth, of the younger or the– not the millennials, but after them, Generation X and Y and all, they were– They were pushing the people on social media to vote. And I was wondering, do you guys see that now?
01:20:39
Speaker 1: I have seen on social media reminders about voter registration. Again, I haven't seen a whole lot of the other, but I suspect that it's going.
01:20:47
Speaker 2: To be there, if not already.
01:20:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen reminders, too.
01:20:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, just basically reminders, voter registration reminders. Baby Boomers James.
01:20:56
Speaker 2: 46 to 64, Gen X.
01:20:56
Speaker 1: 65 to 80.
01:21:00
Speaker 2: Millennials. So after millennials are Gen Z.
01:21:03
Speaker 4: Gen Z.
01:21:04
Speaker 2: Gen Z.
01:21:05
Speaker 1: 97 to 2012. So after the millennials are the Gen Z.
01:21:09
Speaker 2: Prior.
01:21:10
Speaker 3: We need the Gen Zs.
01:21:12
Speaker 2: You want the Gen Zers.
01:21:14
Speaker 3: What came after the Gen Zs?
01:21:15
Speaker 6: There's another one.
01:21:16
Speaker 2: Gen Alpha.
01:21:18
Speaker 3: Gen Alpha. Yeah.
01:21:19
Speaker 7: 2013 to 2028.
01:21:20
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:21:20
Speaker 4: So they would be 2013 to 2028.
01:21:23
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:21:27
Speaker 3: Some of them would be coming in, let's see, 2013. No, they're not.
01:21:32
Speaker 6: They're not.
01:21:33
Speaker 3: They're not ready to vote yet. But we need the Gen Z's. We need those.
01:21:38
Speaker 2: We need the boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z. We need them all.
01:21:42
Speaker 1: We need the party, the generational groups, all of them.
01:21:46
Speaker 2: But, yeah, a special emphasis. You know, anybody.
01:21:49
Speaker 1: So so what you're saying, James, is the Gen Zers set out the the election?
01:21:56
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not going to regress. I'm not going to go back and accuse nobody. But we need them now. We need these– I'm going to call it 30-somethings because it's before 30 and it's after 30. I'm going to call it 30-somethings. That's going to be my– we need the 30-somethings right now, today, to– well, we're going to start on Tuesday.
01:22:16
Speaker 2: I need to look and see. I'm going to look at some voting.
01:22:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:22:20
Speaker 4: And so it's possible, too. Some of them have been misinformed, obviously. Some of the Gen Z and not knowing certain things.
01:22:29
Speaker 1: And again, Gen Z 1997 to 2012.
01:22:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:22:34
Speaker 4: 1997 to 2012. Yeah.
01:22:36
Speaker 1: And Millennials 1981 to 96. So I've got a Millennial and a Gen Z-er.
01:22:41
Speaker 4: Millennial and a Gen Z-er. I've got a Millennial.
01:22:44
Speaker 2: You've got a Millennial, I've got a Millennial, and then I also have a Gen Z-er.
01:22:48
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I got a millennial, but we need them, all of them, particularly those young people, because they are becoming the majority, the majority population. And they've got to realize that they will take, you look at history, they will take away what you have if you let them.
01:23:11
Speaker 2: They're taking it now. They're taking it now.
01:23:14
Speaker 4: That's what's happening.
01:23:16
Speaker 1: Taking whatever they can snatch. You know, they're taking it right now.
01:23:21
Speaker 6: And it won't even bat an eye.
01:23:23
Speaker 3: Can you imagine a man as president and he's going to make $ 2 million? His salary is like, what, $ 500, 000? Look it up. $ 500, 000 a year or a little bit more. I don't know. I'm just guessing it's around that. But, you know.
01:23:40
Speaker 3: A billion, two years in a row, no president in history would have enriched himself like that. None of them. So that's, that's where his and his, and the memorials to his, his, his presidency and his life. That's what he's interested in. An arc, a tore down the East wing without getting any approval from anybody. Just push the law. Go ahead.
01:24:07
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, James.
01:24:08
Speaker 11: Tina, I've been really surprised by that initially when that started happening.
01:24:11
Speaker 4: I really didn't think that would ever happen. that they would allow... Well, he's trying to.
01:24:16
Speaker 1: Get lawmakers to pass a law to put his face on Mount Rushmore.
01:24:21
Speaker 3: That's true.
01:24:22
Speaker 2: That's twisted and out of balance.
01:24:24
Speaker 4: And it happens normally after you're gone. Yes.
01:24:27
Speaker 3: It's not while you're still here.
01:24:28
Speaker 1: All of this stuff is twisted and out of balance, and people are normalizing it.
01:24:33
Speaker 3: It is really.
01:24:34
Speaker 1: Anybody else would be in a straitjacket, and I'm not trying to be funny, and I'm not minimizing mental health, but come on.
01:24:41
Speaker 2: If you think about it and put it all together... It makes no sense.
01:24:45
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. It's not balanced.
01:24:48
Speaker 11: Those things shouldn't even matter to you.
01:24:50
Speaker 1: Well, but when they do, when they do, then you got to get good.
01:24:58
Speaker 3: That shows you have no humility. You, you know, you're a narcissist. You have no humility whatsoever. You're self-promoting and self, you know, you have self, what's the word? I mean, he's holding himself up as some god or something, you know. So that is what the people apparently are rejecting, if the polls are true. And we saw this before, Tina, where they polled one way and then we'll see.
01:25:29
Speaker 2: And it turned out another.
01:25:30
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, I don't take— And really, what people are saying in anger to reporters, while it was encouraging to hear— There's no guarantee that when election day comes or the time comes to to punch that computer screen or however they vote, that they may not go the other way. So we just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope that, you know, that right will prevail.
01:25:58
Speaker 2: Over the twisted nature of things.
01:25:59
Speaker 3: Well, the farmers, they're paying six, what is it, Eric?
01:26:03
Speaker 1: How much is diesel today?
01:26:07
Speaker 2: $ 6.
01:26:07
Speaker 9: 99.
01:26:07
Speaker 2: I saw it, $ 6.
01:26:07
Speaker 8: 99.
01:26:08
Speaker 2: Last week, Eric, you said it spiked to $ 7.
01:26:09
Speaker 6: 01?
01:26:09
Speaker 2: $ 7.
01:26:09
Speaker 10: 03.
01:26:10
Speaker 4: Oh, $ 7.
01:26:10
Speaker 5: 03?
01:26:10
Speaker 4: Last week is what I saw it for.
01:26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've seen it.
01:26:15
Speaker 6: At $ 6.
01:26:15
Speaker 7: 99.
01:26:15
Speaker 3: I mean, they can't even get their crops in.
01:26:16
Speaker 7: No.
01:26:17
Speaker 6: They can't get their crops in.
01:26:18
Speaker 4: Not with that amount.
01:26:19
Speaker 3: I mean, you know.
01:26:20
Speaker 1: There was something, and I don't want to talk about it too much because I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't understand the dynamics of it. But there was something that I glanced at that the governor has given farmers permission to use some kind of alternative diesel.
01:26:37
Speaker 7: Oh.
01:26:37
Speaker 2: So that that can take their costs down.
01:26:40
Speaker 4: Alternative.
01:26:41
Speaker 2: It's a diesel.
01:26:42
Speaker 1: It's a form of diesel, but it'll take their costs down.
01:26:46
Speaker 2: And I need to. That's why I'm saying I shouldn't say alternative. Anyway, let's go. No, I'm going to look it up because I did.
01:26:54
Speaker 3: He'll try anything.
01:26:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's trying to find a relief for them.
01:26:57
Speaker 4: So it's not the E, what is it, E85? No, it's not that. That's not diesel.
01:27:03
Speaker 2: That's an alternative. It's called something else. But let's go back. You want to take a break?
01:27:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's take a break.
01:27:08
Speaker 2: We can take a break. Yeah, and I'll find that for you.
01:27:10
Speaker 6: Okay. Sounds good.
01:27:12
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
01:27:17
Speaker 10: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
01:27:29
Speaker 2: Okay, I found out what it was, James.
01:27:32
Speaker 1: It was Dyed Diesel, D-Y-E-D, Dyed Diesel.
01:27:36
Speaker 2: Eric, what do you got?
01:27:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got Dyed Diesel.
01:27:39
Speaker 11: It's red-colored, untaxed diesel fuel, legally allowed only for off-road use such as farm equipment, construction machinery, and other non-highway engines. Now, using it in a highway vehicle is illegal. Carries fines starting at about $ 200.
01:27:57
Speaker 1: But he has approved the use of it for farmers to lower their costs, their diesel costs.
01:28:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the next 30 days, according to the stories I'm seeing.
01:28:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:28:08
Speaker 1: He's been doing all of it 30 days at a time, I think.
01:28:12
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:28:12
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:28:13
Speaker 3: All of the um it says uh braun braun september 30th order now permits farmers and timber harvesters to use that fuel that you guys just named for any farm related activity including in semi trucks for the next 30 days so you know he knows this is harvest time he knows they're fuming about the diesel prices he's trying to do anything he can he says it's because of who but his other reasoning, I believe, is to try to help the president and his party as well, because people are so outraged about the prices.
01:28:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's that. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. Got a few minutes to do a little open lines.
01:29:01
Speaker 3: 317-480-1310.
01:29:02
Speaker 2: Reverend Phillips, go ahead. How are you?
01:29:05
Speaker 7: How you doing, Tina?
01:29:08
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, sir. How are you?
01:29:11
Speaker 7: Jeff, well, I heard the lady was on there earlier. She said she had a program. that she was trying to start. And then I know it's time for voting time. And, you know, I always cast my early vote in. I cast my early vote in early.
01:29:47
Speaker 1: So, Reverend Phillips, are you talking about Ebony with the event this weekend, or were you talking about Dr. Smith with her online event this weekend?
01:29:56
Speaker 7: I think it was a lady was on there earlier.
01:30:00
Speaker 2: Well, there were two. There were two earlier, two ladies.
01:30:04
Speaker 6: There were two of them?
01:30:06
Speaker 1: Well, we had two different segments, ladies.
01:30:08
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out which one. Are you talking about Ebony?
01:30:11
Speaker 7: I think it was.
01:30:14
Speaker 6: I think it was.
01:30:14
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:30:15
Speaker 3: She was talking about that.
01:30:17
Speaker 7: She got her office on what was that, Bright Street or something?
01:30:21
Speaker 2: On what street?
01:30:23
Speaker 7: On Bright Street.
01:30:30
Speaker 2: Was it another day?
01:30:32
Speaker 3: What was she talking about, Reverend Phillips? Tell us what she was talking about.
01:30:38
Speaker 7: They were talking about one lady, I think she said she was going to educate.
01:30:45
Speaker 2: Oh, Ebony.
01:30:47
Speaker 4: That's what I thought, Ebony.
01:30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ebony.
01:30:50
Speaker 3: The event this weekend at Indiana University.
01:30:53
Speaker 2: ARC, yeah, ARC Fest. Yes, ARC Fest.
01:30:56
Speaker 6: ArchFest.
01:30:56
Speaker 7: Oh, okay. Cool.
01:31:00
Speaker 2: Did you need information on that? I'm sorry, go ahead.
01:31:04
Speaker 7: Information on that one.
01:31:06
Speaker 1: Okay, it's Saturday, and it's going to be at Indiana University in Indianapolis right here, the old, formerly known as IUPUI.
01:31:16
Speaker 11: Hein Hall is where that is. That's at 875 West North Street.
01:31:22
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
01:31:23
Speaker 11: Here at Indy, 46202. It's free, open to the public, and you can register online.
01:31:29
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know how to do that.
01:31:31
Speaker 2: Oh, you can also just show up.
01:31:33
Speaker 3: You can just show up.
01:31:34
Speaker 4: It's free.
01:31:35
Speaker 7: I can show up.
01:31:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can just show up.
01:31:38
Speaker 7: And I just heard y'all encourage people to get out and vote. Study who y'all want to vote for. And bring somebody with you.
01:31:57
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:31:58
Speaker 2: That is our wish.
01:31:59
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
01:32:01
Speaker 7: If you're the first time voter, you get a big old plow.
01:32:07
Speaker 2: A big old what?
01:32:09
Speaker 7: Big old plow, you know.
01:32:12
Speaker 2: Oh, a big applause. A round of applause. A round of applause.
01:32:15
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
01:32:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there are any first-time voters calling into the show, they definitely will get the applause.
01:32:20
Speaker 11: You'll get the applause for sure if you're a first-time voter.
01:32:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, first-time voters.
01:32:24
Speaker 1: And, you know, hey, parents, pay attention to your kids' ages, you know.
01:32:29
Speaker 2: 18 and over can vote.
01:32:30
Speaker 4: That's right.
01:32:31
Speaker 2: We need them desperately. We need them as well. We need all of them, all of them.
01:32:36
Speaker 5: Yep.
01:32:37
Speaker 7: Everything is now. I think people.
01:32:40
Speaker 8: Should get out and vote.
01:32:41
Speaker 2: Well, we agree. All right. Thank you, Reverend Phillips. We certainly appreciate it.
01:32:46
Speaker 13: All right.
01:32:47
Speaker 2: We have another caller. Is that Jay?
01:32:49
Speaker 4: Yes, it is. Jay is on four.
01:32:52
Speaker 5: Hey, good afternoon, guys, James and Tina. I'm glad to hear from you. I listened to you. Good afternoon.
01:32:58
Speaker 2: I listened to your doctor.
01:33:01
Speaker 5: Have you guys ever asked a question? Because it is very important. Many of our doctors, psychiatrists, or mental patients, their self, And just like a fat boy who got trained to be a trainer, they educated themselves to help, which is good. It's not a negative, please. Don't take it wrong. Have you ever asked them if they ever had a mental health?
01:33:26
Speaker 2: I have. Yes, I have.
01:33:28
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:33:29
Speaker 5: Have they ever said they have?
01:33:31
Speaker 1: Uh, all, every, uh, mental health professional that I've ever asked that question of has, uh, responded in the affirmative that they too are in therapy because that's, that helps them with their, just like we were talking about with pastors.
01:33:46
Speaker 5: A whole lot of pastors that baby, but pastors say, Jesus only, we're not going to a man.
01:33:50
Speaker 2: Come on.
01:33:51
Speaker 5: You already know what happens.
01:33:52
Speaker 2: Well, no, they're not. That's changing. They're not all saying that.
01:33:56
Speaker 5: And I'm glad. Some are like that, Jay.
01:33:59
Speaker 6: You're right.
01:33:59
Speaker 3: Some are like that.
01:34:00
Speaker 2: Some are.
01:34:00
Speaker 5: Some are like that. So I'm just not saying all of them. We can't say all people. Just like there's good cops, but five were bad. Five came into my home without a want while I was in Eskenazi Hospital to get my A kicked by five people walking. security that have got fired from other districts in Eskenazi. I've told this story, and y'all say, oh, that's so sad, and ain't nobody did nothing. Most people say complacent in the church, on the radio. I just talked to the guy this morning. The prosecutor was on. They listened, and there was one lady, Deborah, they called and asked about the Eskenazi incident. Eskenazi has told them, it was I, ma'am, sir, whomever's listening. They said, we're working on it. They're not working on anything. They have to wait till I do what I do, and my middle name is Sue, and I do. This is ridiculous. We have a complacent city. Y'all talk all the time. Much of it is good, but when are we going to do something?
01:35:01
Speaker 2: Are you represented by an attorney?
01:35:04
Speaker 8: Not yet.
01:35:06
Speaker 5: Not for that case. Not for that case.
01:35:08
Speaker 13: Okay.
01:35:08
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with the legal services that are available?
01:35:11
Speaker 5: Girl, come on. Let's not call legal services. I have some good names. I would like to have first.
01:35:18
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:35:19
Speaker 1: No, I'm just offering in case you did not. There are legal services that are free.
01:35:24
Speaker 5: I don't need free, baby. I go pro bono or at this.
01:35:27
Speaker 2: Time, I'm willing to pay. Pro bono is free.
01:35:31
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. But there's attorneys that will take it free. Yes, I know. And there's also some that will require you to pay. I'm willing to do it because it could be your child. Five security officers in Eskenazi's General Hospital, which is now in Eskenazi's rubber room, beat a 72-year-old black woman and... They are not working on it because no one's asking questions. You guys sit complacent until it happens to your child. Then we all march for you and pray for you. And I P-R-A-Y, not P-R-E-Y, like some are doing in my case. And I already know.
01:36:09
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry.
01:36:09
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
01:36:10
Speaker 5: I sound so sarcastic, sweetheart.
01:36:12
Speaker 6: No, no.
01:36:13
Speaker 2: When did this happen?
01:36:13
Speaker 3: In the end of July. See, sometimes things.
01:36:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:36:23
Speaker 2: End of July this year?
01:36:25
Speaker 5: This year, baby. The astronauts will be still off the chain because they was general hospital. I was born in 55. So, baby, they still got the same racist practices.
01:36:35
Speaker 3: I know that Mayor Indy... Didn't Mayor Indy do an expose on that, Tina, about... I think that their focus was on.
01:36:44
Speaker 5: They didn't have me on the panel, baby.
01:36:47
Speaker 3: Their focus was on... Incidents involving... Oh, security.
01:36:51
Speaker 2: Security.
01:36:53
Speaker 4: That was this summer, I think.
01:36:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was this summer.
01:36:56
Speaker 5: They were all white, which made it racial there. and made me, as a senior citizen, makes it a good case.
01:37:04
Speaker 2: Okay, ma'am, how can we help you? What would you like? What would you like for us to do?
01:37:07
Speaker 9: You know what?
01:37:08
Speaker 5: I haven't done anything yet. This isn't the first time I've called. I talked to the prosecutor earlier today.
01:37:12
Speaker 2: Okay, so how can we help you?
01:37:13
Speaker 5: All I'm saying, people stop sending complacent and talking. Get up and do something for real. Talk is key. If we don't have any action, they're just laughing at us. Believe it. And God is waiting for us to get the power.
01:37:27
Speaker 6: He gave us.
01:37:27
Speaker 1: What would you like to see done?
01:37:29
Speaker 3: We've been talking about voting. I'd like to get her, Tina, her... her take on, is that something that you would say?
01:37:35
Speaker 5: You want to know about voting, baby? I took my kids. I have five of them. I have 22 grandchildren. I have six great-grandchildren. I have three veteran children. I have two active Army children. My youngest daughter is a nurse practitioner. I took her as a young girl to vote. Do I think she's voting now?
01:37:53
Speaker 6: No.
01:37:54
Speaker 5: My son, construction worker. Do I think he's voting now? No. What that team you said, between that age or whatever, up to 40, they... complain, but they ain't doing it because they hear us talk. They see us fight at the games. The little kids are fighting in preschool. My friend's child just got, you know, they're watching us. We just do a lot of talking.
01:38:15
Speaker 2: Okay. Again.
01:38:18
Speaker 3: Well, I think voting is very important.
01:38:20
Speaker 10: It is.
01:38:20
Speaker 6: Oh, it is.
01:38:22
Speaker 5: And like I said, since 18, my dear, check my record. I have voted every year. One time I voted for a Republican by mistake. I vote straight Republican. That was a mistake. But I was trying to get one person. But that machine, they know how to get us because, you know, we talk about it, but do nothing about it.
01:38:41
Speaker 2: What is doing?
01:38:43
Speaker 1: What is doing, ma'am? What what is doing? What does that look like? That's what I'm getting at. What would you like to see done?
01:38:50
Speaker 5: I would like to see all these machines tracing us, tagging us in our neighborhoods, getting lights and plates. That's what the prosecutor talked about. But it's been happening since 1997. Did you guys know that? They track us all over the city. They follow the pastors to the mistress's house. They don't tell it all. But let me tell you, baby, you call 911. See how long you hold. See how many times you get.
01:39:14
Speaker 3: Hung up on.
01:39:15
Speaker 2: See how long it takes the police to come.
01:39:17
Speaker 5: We have problems.
01:39:19
Speaker 2: We just keep talking. There's no... Well, I understand that. That's what I'm doing. That's what... Okay, so.
01:39:25
Speaker 5: Somebody hears me. Somebody.
01:39:27
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:39:28
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:39:30
Speaker 6: Thank you, Tina.
01:39:31
Speaker 5: I love you, in fact. I like you, James. Yo, my daddy's name is James.
01:39:35
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that.
01:39:38
Speaker 5: Okay, I hope I get some response. I won't crump.
01:39:42
Speaker 9: Thank you.
01:39:44
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am. Yeah.
01:39:46
Speaker 7: Um.
01:39:49
Speaker 2: We were looking for, you know, I was looking for something a little more concrete. I understand. And you know what? Sometimes people just need to vent.
01:39:57
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:39:57
Speaker 2: You know, it's just a vent.
01:40:00
Speaker 7: And you know what?
01:40:00
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:40:01
Speaker 3: She said a lot of things. Maybe somebody out there heard her and they have a.
01:40:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have something that can help.
01:40:06
Speaker 4: Something that can.
01:40:07
Speaker 8: Help, yeah.
01:40:07
Speaker 3: Support her or, you know, ask her a question.
01:40:10
Speaker 7: So.
01:40:11
Speaker 3: We take all viewpoints.
01:40:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, we are.
01:40:13
Speaker 4: Because we're not attorneys. We're not doctors.
01:40:15
Speaker 2: No.
01:40:16
Speaker 1: I was looking up attorney information for her to get an attorney. Yeah, but she did not want that. But that's okay, you know. Times you got to vent.
01:40:26
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:40:28
Speaker 1: James, had you heard about this plan? We talked about this. Was it yesterday or the day before?
01:40:33
Speaker 3: Yesterday.
01:40:34
Speaker 1: The Washington Grand Hotel Resort and Conference Center planned for Washington Square Mall.
01:40:40
Speaker 2: For the Washington Square Mall area. Have you heard anything about that?
01:40:44
Speaker 3: I was able to listen to you all for a little bit yesterday. I was really, really.
01:40:47
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can find.
01:40:51
Speaker 3: I did hear a little bit of Eric talking about that and you, Tina. And it was news to me. I wanted to look it up, but I never got time. I got to bed last night. I was exhausted and I was like awake for like two minutes and then my eyes were shut.
01:41:06
Speaker 6: So, no, I'd like to know more.
01:41:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll send that to you. I'll send the flyer to you. I'd like to know more, too.
01:41:13
Speaker 1: There's going to be a community meeting coming up the 22nd of October. I want to know more, too. I'm going to look some more. I'm going to look this up. But apparently there is a hotel resort and conference center planned for the area that once housed the Washington Square Mall, I guess, or in the Washington Square Mall area. The meeting is going to be at the Warren Central Administration Building. Doors open at 6. There's going to be a presentation and then questions and answers right after. But the world-class hospitality, dining and retail, jobs and opportunities, community investment, this is, I guess, this is going to be hosted by the Washington Grand in plan for Indianapolis.
01:42:02
Speaker 2: Together we build more.
01:42:04
Speaker 3: I'd like to see it, Tina, because Malls like the Washington Square Mall, Lafayette Square Mall, they need to do something for them. Those of us who remember when those malls were in their heydays in the 80s and 90s, those were great places to go to take your family. They're a huge collection of buildings, a mall. Inside, there's lots of possibilities for that space. You guys just talked about how you went to the Universal Circus at Lafayette Square. And now, you know, there's all kinds of possibilities for those spaces. So I hope that it turns out to be true with the planning. When's the meeting?
01:42:50
Speaker 2: The 22nd of October.
01:42:54
Speaker 1: I was looking for the 22nd, yeah. And like I said, I got to believe that the developers are hosting this meeting for the community to ask questions.
01:43:04
Speaker 2: About But, again, I don't know.
01:43:06
Speaker 1: I've not heard of anything like this going before the city county council.
01:43:10
Speaker 2: I don't know.
01:43:11
Speaker 1: It's all, but it was sent to me by somebody that lives out that way because they got the flyer and wanted to make sure I.
01:43:20
Speaker 3: Where?
01:43:21
Speaker 6: 22nd?
01:43:21
Speaker 3: Where is it supposed to be?
01:43:24
Speaker 1: It's going to be at the Warren Central Administration Building.
01:43:28
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:43:29
Speaker 6: Okay.
01:43:30
Speaker 2: Warren Central Administration building.
01:43:32
Speaker 3: October 22nd do they have a time on.
01:43:35
Speaker 1: There 6 o'clock doors open at 6 presentation 630 to 715 questions and answers from 720 until 8pm let me see if it's in this I'm trying to find.
01:43:49
Speaker 6: You would think they'd want that publicized more.
01:43:52
Speaker 1: Well the 22nd is still a little bit away so um um.
01:44:00
Speaker 2: Let's see. Let me see if I can find it. I don't remember what folder I put it in. Did I send this to you, Eric?
01:44:06
Speaker 4: I was looking for it. I don't think I have it. I thought I did. Let me look through again. I'm looking.
01:44:12
Speaker 3: That's a Thursday anyway.
01:44:15
Speaker 4: Let me go back over.
01:44:18
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I'll find it. I'll find it for you guys because I printed it. Oh, you know what? Hold on. Let me see. I'm sure.
01:44:28
Speaker 1: Speaking of Universal Circus, there's a couple of.
01:44:38
Speaker 2: Pictures. You know, it was so... It just covered all the bases. It hit all the... It had the right feel to it.
01:44:45
Speaker 8: It was very.
01:44:46
Speaker 4: What you share was very.
01:44:47
Speaker 2: It hit all the right spots, yeah.
01:44:49
Speaker 4: Colorful, too.
01:44:50
Speaker 2: Well, I printed it from somewhere. I know I did.
01:44:53
Speaker 7: So.
01:44:56
Speaker 2: That's not it. That's not it. Anyway, I will find it. I don't want to, you know, hold up too many people's.
01:45:04
Speaker 3: No, but I'm glad you brought that back up because that's another, you know, another event that's happening. We'll try to find out more about it. But it's significant.
01:45:15
Speaker 1: I think it's extremely significant. And again, I haven't seen anything anywhere. Not that it hasn't been published or talked about or. Or something like that. Not that maybe I just missed it.
01:45:28
Speaker 4: It's possible. There's a lot, as we all know, there's a lot going on. So many things happening every day. All kinds of news and happenings and events.
01:45:39
Speaker 2: Top results.
01:45:40
Speaker 7: Mail.
01:45:41
Speaker 4: Redevelopment of that mall would be great. It would be great. And that's been somewhat happening at Lafayette Square, too. It's been happening.
01:45:49
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:45:50
Speaker 3: I know a couple times there were big plans, you know, and they kind of just tampered down over there at Lafayette Square. But those are two key malls and key areas where a lot of people live around those areas.
01:46:03
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:04
Speaker 3: You know, they could support legitimate development over there that would be inviting and appealing to the communities.
01:46:16
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:17
Speaker 11: You may recall the redevelopment of Glendale, how that went.
01:46:23
Speaker 2: Has Glendale been fully redeveloped?
01:46:25
Speaker 11: Glendale, there's a lot. They've added apartments. They've added some other stores. There's a new Culver's there on Keystone where.
01:46:33
Speaker 4: The used to be O'Charlie's. It's Culver's there and they've added some other businesses in. Also among 67.
01:46:42
Speaker 3: It has drawn businesses.
01:46:44
Speaker 10: It has.
01:46:44
Speaker 3: It's not the same concept it used to be where it was an inside mall.
01:46:48
Speaker 4: Right, it's an outdoor.
01:46:48
Speaker 3: But it's kind of where you drive up. But you think about the outlet mall in Edinburgh.
01:46:55
Speaker 4: Oh, Edinburgh. Oh, yeah.
01:46:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, people drive all the way down there for that.
01:46:59
Speaker 4: That's true.
01:46:59
Speaker 3: And those are outside, so that concept could work. But I hope they can somehow save the ambience, the way that the buildings are made, those malls. At Washington Square and Lafayette.
01:47:13
Speaker 4: Definitely.
01:47:16
Speaker 1: By the way, I was out, speaking of Lafayette Square, I was out that way for the circus.
01:47:24
Speaker 2: And one of the shortcuts I took, Eric, you know.
01:47:27
Speaker 6: I've talked about this.
01:47:28
Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
01:47:30
Speaker 1: I had to stop because I was in line and I saw the sign that said we're closed.
01:47:36
Speaker 6: Oh.
01:47:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a closed sign on there. Yep, yep, yep.
01:47:44
Speaker 1: This is really weird because I printed it off of something.
01:47:48
Speaker 4: You shared it on the... Well, I think you shared it yesterday on the air.
01:47:53
Speaker 2: I know I did, and I've got the... See, I've got this right here.
01:47:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, that right there.
01:47:56
Speaker 2: So that means I printed it off something. It was on camera, so it's... Isn't that terrible?
01:48:00
Speaker 4: It happens.
01:48:01
Speaker 3: We'll get it. You'll find it.
01:48:03
Speaker 2: We'll find it.
01:48:03
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
01:48:04
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would be curious. I suspect, again, that it's developers, but I don't know how far it's gotten. Because I, you know, each week or each month I go over the agendas of the city county council and I haven't seen this. But then again, I may not have known what I was looking at, too, because a lot of these things are coded and.
01:48:25
Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
01:48:26
Speaker 4: You know, what have you.
01:48:27
Speaker 3: You talk to them, city county council, once a month, right?
01:48:31
Speaker 2: At least, yeah, at least, yeah.
01:48:35
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:48:35
Speaker 3: So, you know, you got a big question for him right away.
01:48:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure do.
01:48:40
Speaker 1: Sure do, sure do, sure do. But I've got to find it for you guys, too. We will resume this conversation.
01:48:49
Speaker 2: That is all the time. Because you hear the music, James.
01:48:53
Speaker 13: I hear it playing.
01:48:54
Speaker 11: You know, I tried not to play it, but I'm looking at the clock going, oh, Willie Moore is.
01:48:58
Speaker 2: Going to play it. He's looking at the clock.
01:49:00
Speaker 4: And he's going. I got to play the music.
01:49:02
Speaker 2: Willie Moore. Willie Moore Jr. on the radio is up next.
01:49:05
Speaker 1: Thank you, as always, for listening. Our website is praiseindy.com. For James and Eric, I'm Tina Cosby, and this is Community Connection.
