Community Connection - August 3, 2026, Tina Cosby with William Oliver - Rev. Larry Bates & Leon Taylor

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Speaker 1: On Praise AM thirteen ten ninety five What FM.
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Speaker 2: And good afternoon and welcome to Community Connection. I'm teena Cosby. Today is Monday, August the third. Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten. Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten is the number to the show. The phone lines are open, as for the usual they're always open.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten is the number.
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Speaker 4: Eric, Happy Monday, Welcome back from the weekend.
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Speaker 5: How are you you two doing great? Had a good weekend and it'd be back. Yeah, maybe through the rains. Yeah, flooding here in India.
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Speaker 4: At least it was.
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Speaker 2: It was not one of those weekends to stay out all day and cook out and it just it simply wasn't. But it was a good weekend to get some stuff done if you had to stay in.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a few things done, did you side?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: What it was a good weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, had I had had a lot of stuff that I got completed. So so the weather rain is out of here for a while.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, rain is uh gone for a little bit, which is good news. Looks like we'll have sunshine all the rest of the afternoon. Seventy four as we came on here a few seconds ago. I got to reach eighty before sunset tonight. Sunset's getting a little earlier, as you may notice, minute by minute, I know. Ah yeah, then tonight mostly clear, about sixty one. Tomorrow right around eighty three. Maybe some fog early morning. Otherwise it's Sunday.
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Speaker 6: Should be good.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, good, okay, Well on the show today, got a couple of giveaways for you, and we love that. My listeners love it too, Yeah, because the phone line's light up like never before.
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Speaker 4: We have free things we're going to give away.
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Speaker 2: One is a family four pack to the Indiana State Fair, of course, which is that's about the time to do it, because we're going.
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Speaker 4: To be out at the fair on Friday, that's true, on opening day.
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Speaker 2: The other a set of tickets to Daniel in the lions Den plus The Est Story Now that's coming to town December the fifth, at the Mura Theater at the Old National Center. So stay tuned, everybody listening, and stand by, yeah for your chance to win.
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Speaker 4: We surely will. Right now.
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Speaker 2: It is only the first week of August, the first few days of August actually, but the fall mid term elections are rapidly approaching and Tuesday, November third, twenty twenty six, it's like it's tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Just tell you're right about that? You're right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So with us right now to outline their voter engagement plan of action is panel assembled by former City County councilor William Duke Oliver.
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Speaker 4: Duke Oliver.
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Speaker 2: He is also a lifetime member of the NAACP, so advocacy is in his blood.
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Speaker 4: Counselor Oliver, are you there?
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Speaker 7: Yes, we are here.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, thank you and for bringing that panel together and for joining us today.
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Speaker 4: So who all do you have? Do you have with you?
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Speaker 7: I'll let him and announce them failed?
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right, go ahead panel? Who else?
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Speaker 7: This is very bait oh Bates, Well welcome.
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Speaker 3: How are you today?
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Speaker 4: I'm well, how are you?
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Speaker 7: I'm doing good.
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Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just here trying to support Duke. And Duke wants me to name a church's community lifelike Christian churches. Okay, we're located on Millersville Road, So yeah, we're trying to get people energized.
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Speaker 7: Tina.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, Well then yeah, aren't we all? And I'm glad that you all are heading heading up another effort, So that is fantastic. I'm happy that you're here with us today.
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Speaker 4: So who else is with you?
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Speaker 9: My name is Leon Taylor, and I have a barbershop. I'm located at thirty forty four. Are shy and dry.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You've been in the business for a while, haven't you, mister Taylor?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, over fifty years the location.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, because I cousins that I saw over the weekend hadn't seen for a while.
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Speaker 4: They used to get their hair cut there and in there. They're in their sixties.
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Speaker 6: I don't know the same.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, Leons, Leons, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sees family institution. So well, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 4: Did I miss anybody?
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Speaker 7: No, No, there may be a couple of becoming later on, but we're prepared to visit.
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Speaker 4: Sch out to okay, reach out to it. Okay.
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Speaker 2: If anybody else would like to join the you know, there's certainly more than welcome, and you know, we'd be happy to bring them in on the call.
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Speaker 4: But this panel is good. It is good.
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Speaker 2: So I'll start with you, Pastor Bates. What what are you? What is it that you're looking to do? I know you said voter engagement. Maybe I should say, how are you looking to do it?
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Speaker 3: Well, we're trying to get there's a there's a demographic and I was talking with Leon earlier, uh, from fifty down to about twenty that this this group does the thing be engaged. So that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to focus on those twenty to fifty year olds just to get them engaged in what's going on because they seem to be apathetic. This is me speaking now, not all of them, Please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Not all of them, but a large majority of them seem to be unconcerned about what's going on in the country. Now, how we're trying to trying to do it, I'm just I'm trying to use my church, but I'm trying to talk to as many young people personally as I can and get them to encourage other young people. Tina, That's kind of where I'm coming from.
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Speaker 2: So Reverend Bates, let me ask you this, is this the status that you feel is now or is this the status that you were described that you're describing from the past election, Because I mean, can we still gauge that this demographic twenty to fifty year olds are no longer are remain apathetic I guess, for lack of a better phrase that some people have described or do you think that I don't know. Do you think it's still that way?
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Speaker 3: I personally think it's still that way, Okay, okay. And I'm basing this on who I'm talking to, Okay, not statistics from any poles or anything.
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Speaker 7: I'm just talking. I'm basing this on who I talk to.
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Speaker 3: I talk to a lot of I try to talk to a lot of young people to motivate them to understand where we are in this country and why we are where we are in this country. So it's it's I still think it's that way.
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Speaker 4: You do, okay, Okay.
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Speaker 2: So that's concerning because you would think, well, yeah, based on what you say, because we all get different impressions from when we're out there, out and about. So what is it that they're saying they want or they would like to see to get engaged? Have you gotten that far in the conversation?
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Speaker 3: Well, not really, because it's it's almost like I don't care. It's like, well, you know, if I voted, it doesn't matter. They're going to do. This is the kind of stuff right here. They're gonna do what they want you anyway. I hear a lot of that, and I'm saying, one vote. I try to make them understand one vote matters. Every vote matters, but one vote particularly matters your vote, because if we're voting for a positive and a negative, I'll just use it that way, and the positive is going to be great, but the negative is going to be terrible if you don't vote it was a negative vote.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah it may well.
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Speaker 2: Of course it makes sense to me. But in terms of making it makes sense and making it relevant to those who feel like it is irrelevant, that's that is the task.
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Speaker 4: That's the challenge.
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Speaker 2: So so, mister Taylor, barbershops and beauty shops have long been called the places where all the problems of the world are solved. You know, everybody discusses everything and barbershops and beauty shops. So what is your take from what you've been hearing or ascertaining from the conversations that have been taking place in your shops.
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Speaker 9: In your shops, well, you know the border shops fabilities that has the ears of the community, you know, place before it happens. We know about it too, and that's something good. But I want to make sure that all my clients get registered for the now army lection. It's so important because we don't understand and know how much power we had. We had to get the right people in those positions in order for us to grow. Remember that the constitutions says that the power is in the people, so we had to We are a democracy, so the power is in that democracy. So once we pulled together and make that democracy democracy stronger, we can overrule Trump and his intentions of making it worse for us. We don't want to dig tater to overrule democracy. It's too strong. All we have to do is work together and make that democracy stronger and stronger, and just look just he lets it's gonna start us doing. Because this is stark of getting power back to the people.
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Speaker 4: So what is it? What do you intend to do?
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Speaker 9: Like I said, I'm gonna make sure all my clients are registered to vote. I'm gonna go around to different barberships and make sure the registration is there for them to vote so we can get that power back in office.
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Speaker 2: Counselor Oliver, do you have and if you don't. That's fine, we can, we can look it up. But you have any idea how many registered voters we have voters that are eligible to vote just I guess in Marion County, and how many that we have out there that are unregistered that could be eligible to vote? I mean, what are what kind of numbers are we looking at?
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Speaker 7: UH until anticipating that we might get a turnout from one or more of those UH registration vote registration from city, county, building through non partisans, and that's what they governed the elections and elections sites in Marion Counties and that day. I don't have it in front of me, but I have a little bit in front of me about it. Turnout the percent out now since we kind of piked out once they picked out it had turnout on the President Obama on the ballot, UH when he and it started following down after that. We had fifty eight in twenty twelve in Marie County voted. That means that mean is that forty two fifty eight voted. Forty two did vote. In twenty twenty four, it dropped down to fifty five percent in Marion County means fifty five voted forty five didn't vote, and that's where challenging me and many others. We're getting Lord and Lord down to the fifty percent level.
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Speaker 2: H We just got to do more, and that is eligible voters, right, Voters that are eligible to vote, got out right.
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Speaker 7: Now try to get as many people raped as we can. We support of the guaranting of people, which is the churches, the barber shops, and the beauty shops.
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Speaker 2: You know, okay, go ahead, So what someone getting ready to say something?
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Speaker 7: What Leon Taylors doing his bob shop and what Reverend Bates is doing at his church, and others out there are doing it also, but not enough. We got to put more efforcause our vote holders are falling down. We had if you're a state wide candidate for governor, lieutenant governor's counting on voter turnout from me heavy democratic blue county like Marion County to vote more people to help statewide candidates. Now locally we could we could do more turnout. That's what we That's what that's why I'm here trying to advocate that. And we do that first by registration, but in October when the early votering sites opened up. That's when the phone banking and we go with everything and many others because telling them, you know, I've heard your co hosts others, speaks a lot about the history doing right after President Lincoln and the proclamation in eighteen sixty five, after that reconstruction, you had the right to vote. You know, they could let you vote under a certain criteria, but they could let you vote. And we had African Americans elected to Congress during the period from eighteen sixty five to eighteen seventy five. And then the president at that time and his cohorts say they getting too much reconstruction. They took that away because we've getten too many African Americans voted in the Congress. That lasted for about fifteen years, lasted fifteen years, twelve years, and they took that back. Andy started making it difficult for African American others to vote, many difficult, so that freedom of voting lasted, lasting fifteen years without the black colds and things like that. Now we're under the civil rights thing movement criteria that took place during the Voter Rights Act in the sixties, et cetera, et cetera. That lasted how long about forty years? Now that they want to take that back. The others that look at the achievement of many of our children, many of young adults are doing the right things, college, et cetera, et cetera. And those that look at that and said, wait a minute, I'm better than that person. How come they got a car or whatever, they got a house and I don't have it. So they got the president and his administration want to remove all that that come up to that twenty twenty five. Right now, they're doing the same thing, want to do the same thing they did against. My grandfather was born in eighteen eighty one and that is yet knew how many beans was in a jar to be able for the boat. They bring that back right now, make it more difficult. And that's why we're out here trying to do what we're doing. Hold on with the others are doing it, but we want to do we get a different outcome. Do more of registration and of course increasing the turnout by explaining to how what we're going through as citizens of our country, what we're going through, and what the president and the administration wants to do is targeted many of color.
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Speaker 2: You know, you touched on something there that makes me think because oftentimes it's been discussed on this show that what we have at least here and probably across the country in various municipalities, counties, town cities, whatever municipality is a city, but that it's not necessarily a voter registration problem. It's a voter participation problem. Now registering people to vote, Yes, we need to register people to vote. But I wonder what else can be built into that message When you're saying register to vote and then come up with a plan, or you know, register to vote and then vote, or register to vote and share your plan or take somebody with you, there's got to be something beyond Yeah, that's what you're saying.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's got.
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Speaker 2: To be something beyond that to at least try to hammer home the message. Now, there's going to be you know, there's gonna be some that no't matter what you say or do, how well you craft, and you know, there's gonna be some. There's always one. I used to be told by my grammar, there's always going to be one or two, which.
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Speaker 7: Means voted candidates for the one that motivate many others.
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Speaker 2: Candidates can motivate, yeah they do, and can, but they shouldn't.
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Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 7: In October when the early voting sites open up, then me and many others would be on the phone phone thinking of giving out rats and educating persons and educating them to go vote at the early voting site.
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Speaker 4: Well they you know, yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Reverend Bates, go ahead.
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Speaker 3: I talked to a young man, young African American man over the weekend. He was fifty four years old, and I was talking to him about voting, and he he voted for that negative person. Am I gonna call his name? But anyway, I asked young man, I said, okay, you you're fifty four years old. I'm seventy three years old. I said, I'm on Social Security, I have a pension. I'm concerned about keeping my Social Security and my pension and my medical benefits. Now at fifty four, he's a a little ways away from retirement, okay, So he's not thinking in terms of losing or he hasn't even gotten his Social Security yet. So I'm trying to make these people understand that the benefits that you think you can enjoy in the future may not be here because of who is in office making laws that dictate whether or not we keep things that we already have. I don't know if that made sense or not.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It makes absolutely perfect sense. The other way, you know, with Social Security, you don't have a choice. So if I've been forced since I was sixteen or seventeen years old to pay into a system and had no choice whatsoever as to whether or not I paid into it, I mean, I get most people don't have a choice, and then I can't. You know, it's supposed to be a savings account for the most part, as you said, and I can't get it when I'm supposed to because somebody said they want to give more money to the top one or less than one percent in the country, And no, no that's not that's one motivator.
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Speaker 4: Okay, but.
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Speaker 2: You're right when you're But fifty four is close enough, close enough, because I think, yeah, I think at age fifty you start getting AARP notifications, and at fifty five in a lot of areas you're considered a senior citizen because you can get certain discounts, so you're certainly in range and in that area. So to be unengaged or disengaged is a concern in terms of how the political connects to your social and your everyday living. It all connects, It all connects.
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Speaker 7: Let me let me say this.
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Speaker 3: I retired Ford Motor Company. Praise God, I was a UAW member.
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Speaker 7: God.
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Speaker 3: We were negotiated some excellent medical benefits that I enjoy right now. Okay, if my benefits were taken away from me, I had open heart surgery in two thousand and four. I've had subsequent surgery since then.
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Speaker 7: If I pay for.
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Speaker 3: Those surgeries out of my pocket teens, I would be homeless on the street. I wouldn't have any money. I wouldn't have anything to pay for them. While they will make me pay for those If I get sued by an insurance company, I have to a corporation can write it off. So really trying to say I'm saying the benefits, you know, I hear people. I heard people say, well, you know, I don't think Medicare Obamacare is a great thing. Well, okay, if you have no care, no, I think it would make a difference.
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Speaker 7: Then.
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Speaker 3: So we have people who are ignorant. I don't mean that in a derogatory sense. I just mean that I'm saying that they have ignored what the whole purpose of having Medicare and Medicaid and all these other things help people who don't have the funds or the ability to.
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Speaker 7: Take care of themselves.
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Speaker 3: So young folks need saying that what they may be enjoying now could possibly be gone in the future. LEI wants to say it.
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Speaker 9: Another thing that you said earlier, Larry, is that we had to be influence especially the younger kids. They had to be influenced somebody that's like an athlete, movie star, because still listen to them and we can get hold of them to tell them how important it is for.
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Speaker 3: Them to register and to vote.
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Speaker 9: I think it to go further with because people like forty five, they understand the situation that we in. They understand what we're going to turn in the United States back to a dictatorship. They understand. For the younger people, they don't really understand. So we need somebody to really enforce that to make them learn how important this vote rest and vote to the right town.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Tim, let me say something about, uh, what what many are doing across the country is what you're doing, and they bring that message to the public. What we're talking about here today. Early voter voter turn out what we could do different. They can get a different results that we want, and that is to increase the turnout, the voter turnout. We have many, many people right to vote. We talk to the one and increase the turnout all over the country. This conversation is taking place right now in Detroit, in Chicago, in newe New Jersey, Los Angeles, California, voter turnout. What we're going through now is what our four parents went through, after doing and after reconstruction rights that they had. It been dimnutes and taken away from them. This happened to us right now in real time. He's saying it puppetly. He not had mine a curtain or a mask. They're saying things right now over the earth. They don't use curse words. They just smile and say, we want to take our country back to read twenty twenty five, twenty twenty five projective. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're we're in the middle of it.
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Speaker 4: We're bluetarn for completely erasing diversity in the United State States of America.
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Speaker 7: We're in the middle of it. What happened a young man down in Mississippi on that boat. Those things happened. But when the government itself thanks by saying, uh, it didn't happen that way. Yeah. You know, we're seeing these things right in the press. I'll have to go back one hundred and twenty years to see what happened when reconstructed is happened right here?
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Speaker 4: Seven?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three one seven for zero thirteen. Can we have a caller that wants to I guess, uh, engage with you the panel? Brother man, are you there?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: How are you doing, Tim?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing well. How are you?
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Speaker 10: Duke and Leon?
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Speaker 7: Hey?
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Speaker 10: I know uh, Duke I grew up in the same neighborhood Duke Oliver grew up in, and he was on twenty eighth Street. I was on twenty seventh Street. They told me they talked to me about Boat when I turned eighteen. These people are not telling their kids anything about Polton. These kids all they think about is music and partying, and they're gonna wake up to a system where they're gonna be locked out of everything. So they if their parents don't speak up try to help them, they're not gonna get anywhere in this world, in this United States, Because you got a guy in the White House. Now, he's a white nationalist, and that's the way it's going. He is doing anything you want to do, and the Supreme Court is back in him. Anything he wants he gets because all the Supreme Court is white for two. So what do you think of three? Maybe that Mexican lady. Hey, they're not gonna give them nothing until the Democrats get back. I can make these people pay their taxes so we can continue to get our Social Security and medicare. I retired from Christier Cooperation that found your on TIBs in nineteen ninety two when I was forty nine years old. I've seen the handwriting on the wall then in ninety percent white supervisors and ninety percent black employees. So you see what we had. Ten percent of the supervisors were black, and most of them I knew, and I got lot with the white boys tried to run over me. That's why I left EUDARE. They try to fire me three times. I was up for suspension three times. And I was used to doing the right thing. My granddaddy had a trucking business and we big right and he paid us right. Okay, I think the salary wasn't the problem in christ At some of these other places, it was the supervisors.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they say, yeah, they say, a good manager is what keeps your company going. You know, when you have a bad one, it's it's it's troublesome. But you know, thank you, brother Man. I appreciate your call. The one thing I do want to I mean, we talk about and you on the panel have mentioned the people you're hearing from and who you're hearing about.
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Speaker 4: You know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: And I have to say that I've been pleasantly I've been pleased with some of the conversations that some younger.
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Speaker 4: People have had with me because they're curious. There.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of them are curious. I don't think all are apathetic. I mean you've you've got a certain percentage that. Yeah, like I said before, no matter what you do or how you say it, or whatever you do, you're not going to reason. But I think for the for the most part a curious and want to know and want to participate, but don't quite know how. And to that back to brother Man's point, maybe we have not been as active as we could have been or as outgoing as.
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Speaker 4: We could have been or should have been several years ago.
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Speaker 2: And making sure that you know, we kept that word out there that we kept you kept it relevant, so to speak, because I will say, what you're expressing on the panel is a very real thing, and that is how do you make it relevant and get folks excited about the fact that I am relevant. My vote is relevant, voting is relevant, and I must participate if I am to remain relevant and not just you know what, you got to serve or somebody in a caste system or in a monarchy, so that there's.
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Speaker 4: A huge challenge there.
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Speaker 2: And I you know, this is a good step. All I'm saying is this is a good step. But but I'm also saying that I have encountered, you know, certainly on this show, Don't get me wrong, Certainly on this show, I've encountered the apathy that you all are talking about, and it's disappointing. But I've also from very young people, you know, encountered Hey, I have a question, la la la, such and such and such. And I listened to the questions and where they're coming from. And I don't know if it's in our school system, I don't know, but there certainly has been a disconnect.
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Speaker 4: It's not that they're not wanting to vote.
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Speaker 2: A lot of them, but I think a lot of them don't know how or don't know how to connect the dots.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're chounting and looking at it from looking at from my whole angles and how we get a different outcome than what we've been getting. Can't do the same thing, same outcome.
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Speaker 4: No, No, we got something else.
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Speaker 2: Is because they're not the same as we were, you know, we you know, every generation is different.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll be eighty three on my next birthday in November.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, right around elections in the early and mid sixties, world was you know, trying to get in it becad.
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Speaker 7: Others in the Carolina, in the South, trying to get educate, advocate for the right to vote and equal Yeah. Yeah, So I come through that period and come out of that period under the Civil rights movement, and some games are made on hiring and promotion and discipline and all kinds of things, and the court systems, the prisons and everything changed a little bit. You know, we've getting a little better, you know what I mean, education, college graduates. And now I'm in a period where they want to remove that you know, changed history that I'm looking right at.
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Speaker 11: Them and yeah, yeah, yeah, they do but we have we have competition in areas that we've never had to deal with before, meaning the Internet, at social media.
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Speaker 2: You know, so many you know, we're not as was it. Tony Lamont was saying a couple when we before we got knocked off the air due to technical issues, but he was we were talking about the bell to bell cell phone band in the state schools, and he was saying, he's noticing the gap or the inability to reach certain kids because there is a concept of what has been called the village that that has either collapsed or no longer exists. And so in a lot of ways, there's so many, like you say, challenges and hurdles that we have to learn to navigate. And there was a not meaning to minimize or whatever. But there's a very successful basketball coach, women's basketball coach, Don Staley University of South Carolina, and she had won championships before by just doing, you know, running her program the way she ran it, doing things. And then all of a sudden, as you know, each year comes in more you know, different different kids, different youngsters, and she said, I don't know these, you know, I don't know how to reach them. I don't know I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, And she said, rather than she didn't lower her standards, but she changed her approach. And she said part of that approach was meeting them where they were, not to say that they didn't still have the same set of expectations, but just trying to figure out how to you know, this is how I'm going to have to connect or this is how we can connect to get to where we need to get to. And she said, so far that has worked, and it continues to work. So what I'm saying is I can see that dynamic at play with the demographic, the twenty eight to fifty year olds. Because they didn't come up the way so many of those before them did, they do have a lot more challenges in front of them and just being told, hey, this is what are not just but being told and shared the history that doesn't seem to be landing as well as perhaps maybe something else will. I don't know what that something else is, uh, but were there's got to be out there, and it's got to be right there in front of our faces. That's why I love the fact that everybody's out there trying sooner or later, you know, we're gonna say Eureka, bingo, that's it. That's how you know there it is. But I think the history, the recitation of the history maybe living at reven Okay, hold on, you know what, hold your thought because we got a couple of calls and I got to get a break in here, so let's pin that and we will be right back.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise Am thirteen ten ninety five point one FM, and.
00:31:53
Speaker 4: We're back with Community Connection.
00:31:54
Speaker 2: Have a wonderful panel here with us talking about voter registration, voter engage, voter engagement more so than voter registration. We have William Duke Oliver, lifetime member of the NAACP and former City County Councilor, Reverend Larry Bates, senior pastor at the Community Lifeline Christian Church, and Leon Taylor, owner of Leon's Barbershops on the Well, primarily founded on the city's east side. I won't say they're all on the east side. And thank you all so much because you're all getting out there and you all are have pledged to work together to increase voter turnout and to get more voters registered. You have a targeted demographic and that is young, young Americ, young Indie, young Hoosiers. I guess between the ages of twenty and fifty for more engagement. And right before the break, I shared a sports analogy and it may be too over maybe an oversimplification, but then in a lot of ways it kind of applies because using what had worked before in terms of getting national championships for this particular coach wasn't landing anymore, and she didn't want to lose them.
00:33:04
Speaker 4: She wanted to keep And you know, once she changed her.
00:33:07
Speaker 2: Approach, she didn't change her standards, it didn't change a whole lot of other things. But once she changed her approach, which she called meeting them, where they were all of a sudden, like I said, eureka, wallet, they're back to winning national championships. And so I say that there's got to be some kind of a route like that, or there's got to be a lesson in there somewhere for us who are not reaching this critical demo to try to connect and get them to become more engaged in voting and more engaged in the political system. So that is indeed a challenge, but you all are tackling the challenge, and I appreciate what you're doing. I appreciate your saying it, staying here with us to talk about it. Counselor Oliver, you said you wanted to refer to Reverend Bates.
00:33:54
Speaker 4: So Reverend Bate, Yeah.
00:33:56
Speaker 7: Well say the climate that I grew and what it was for generations to go. So what on face with today is? It is a different clientele? Uh, someone an artificial intelligence, the media and social media, others can get between myself and my son were that age when I teach him at home. When a parent keeps a child at home, she's exposed to other information. Did he gets that I didn't give him by her? Yes? And all parents are faife with today? Right? Wrong? What's good? Bad? But that child has media and other social things they get between.
00:34:40
Speaker 2: That's who you're competing. You're competing with a lot more than we ever did.
00:34:44
Speaker 7: Yes, I got a three year old great granddaughter three years old.
00:34:49
Speaker 6: She.
00:34:52
Speaker 7: Operates.
00:34:52
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, that's the truth.
00:34:55
Speaker 7: I have to see that I got when you get about ten, I got to ask her what to do?
00:35:00
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:35:01
Speaker 4: Ten? Are you're being generous?
00:35:03
Speaker 7: Try find so they had something to take? Okay, go ahead, and I want to back up.
00:35:13
Speaker 3: We have a lot of young people who are doing great things, absolutely lots of them. They tend to get overshadowed by those who aren't. I won't make that clear. I'm not saying all of our young folks are terrible. I'm not saying that at all. Over the weekend, we just gave some scholarships to two young men at our church. One has a full right to Northwestern, the other had a full ride to produce.
00:35:39
Speaker 7: Okay, so they're.
00:35:40
Speaker 3: Doing what we had them both in a program we called the Blossom Programs, and our church kind of guided.
00:35:46
Speaker 4: Them absolutely absolutely.
00:35:48
Speaker 3: But I want to go back, and I want to go back to I know my daughter's gonna hate me for this, but I'm gonna go back to my daughter.
00:35:54
Speaker 7: Uh.
00:35:55
Speaker 3: My daughter's about fourteen years old, and I don't even remember what I was disciplined her for. But she grabbed the phone and called nine one one.
00:36:04
Speaker 10: Okay.
00:36:06
Speaker 3: My wife hung up the phone, and they called back, and I told my I told my wife, I said, I said, answer the phone. I said, because they're coming. Regardless of whether you answered or don't answer it, they're coming. They have to by law Okay, so they came, uh, and I'm gonna condense this story. Ultimately, what they told my daughter was I had a right to discipline her and what I was disciplining her for was proper, Okay. And here's what I told my daughter. I said, if you ever die nine one one on me against it needs to be your address, Okay, because love won't live here. Now, now, what's my point to that story?
00:36:43
Speaker 7: King?
00:36:44
Speaker 3: My point to the story is that we raised We've allowed a generation to be raised that were able to rebel against their parents because the system said call now one one on your parents.
00:36:56
Speaker 7: Uh.
00:36:57
Speaker 3: And we've got two generations. This is my opinion again say all of those people in those generations are or are not.
00:37:05
Speaker 7: Right or wrong.
00:37:06
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that at all. And I'm saying we got two generations. One of those generations came from some people who said, and I'm gonna put myself in that generation. I'm not gonna discipline my kids like my parents discipline me.
00:37:18
Speaker 7: And so they.
00:37:19
Speaker 3: Allowed their kids to do things that probably they didn't get to do because they were disciplined for it. So part of what we're doing, and I understand what you said about don what's their last name?
00:37:30
Speaker 4: Oh, Staley.
00:37:31
Speaker 2: Again, it was over simplification perhaps, but it's a.
00:37:35
Speaker 3: Great analogy, okay, because she's able to reach the kids. Part of what I'm hearing then is communication. If you don't tell me what's wrong, I won't know what's wrong. But if I tell you what I think is wrong, then you tell me why you think it's right.
00:37:52
Speaker 7: Does that make sense?
00:37:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, both on both ends that you have to recognize something's not right.
00:37:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, Yeah, Yeah.
00:38:01
Speaker 3: There's a communication gap. I'm willing to listen to young folks. I'm totally willing to listen to them. I expect the same thing. See, respect to me is dual. It's not just singlar. If I respect you, you will respect me. That that's just the way. And I was taught to respect my elders. A lot of people address us guys as hey og, and some people think that's the term expeeriment. I don't necessarily receive it that way because I feel like sometimes you think I have no worse, I have no value, I have nothing to add, And I think just the contrary our experiences, if they would take them, can take them further.
00:38:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what I do like the point you made that a minority, the deeds and actions of the minority is overshadowing the majority. Because the majority of young people out here are what.
00:39:00
Speaker 4: They're supposed to do.
00:39:01
Speaker 2: It's why they're not getting the recognition. The majority of young people are just wanting to they don't. You know, a lot of young people they don't want to go to certain events and parties and everything else because they say, you don't know who's going to act right and who's not. So I mean it's yeah, maybe there probably is too much focus on the ones that aren't doing what they should be doing, and maybe more focus on the ones that are doing because there are a lot. Again, I would say numbers would dictate that the majority of our young people.
00:39:29
Speaker 4: Are doing what they're supposed to be doing. So let's go.
00:39:32
Speaker 2: We had some folks waiting on the phone line. Go ahead, mister Russell on line three, go ahead, How are you.
00:39:38
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, gladly here you seem to start panel. Good afternoon to them. Also, I think they're right on time. You know, we're about ninety days out from the mid term general elections coming up in November. Right, long time on this subject, But you know, Uh, sometimes reality can can help out in terms of a case like this. It's because what we have now we have as the well I think it was the Temptation. They had a song called the Ball of Confusion. Yeah, what what we have is a ball of confusion. We have a leader, so called leader that's taking it, taking us into very dangerous waters. Uh literally, Uh, he probably he's.
00:40:35
Speaker 7: Gonna have to.
00:40:38
Speaker 8: I hate to say it, but they're gonna probably reinstate the draft and they're probably gonna be drafting men and women. So these these youngsters, uh you know, when when they're faced with that, that that are kind of clear the air and and they'll realize they got the uh rein in this this so called leader by voting and then staying on top of who whoever they voted for after that, because this is no longer a play thing. We are in a very dangerous situation. And uh, the the the fact that we went in tennessee Iran situation got sucked into it. Ah. You know, like I said, if you look at the geography of Iran in Afghanistan, you see that the only way to accomplish what uh Donald Trump wants to accomplished it's gonna have to have ground troops and it's gonna be another uh Land war. It's gonna have to be to do what he wants to do because the atomic facilities that they have. Now I didn't go to West Point where I try to stay on the point. Uh Basically you have the atomic facilities in Iran are in a mountain and they're deeper than the.
00:41:59
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, exactly what the thing.
00:42:02
Speaker 8: Bombs that we have. So not only that, but we are expending Patriarch missus, we're explaining a lot of ammunition. Yeah, the Ukraine situation here the Middle East, we're spending ammunition.
00:42:18
Speaker 4: We've rain but he's all but stopped to a to Ukraine for the most part. But mister Russell, yeah, Well.
00:42:23
Speaker 8: What I'm saying is we're in a situation where we're at risk, nothing at risk.
00:42:29
Speaker 4: Well, you know you don't think he has this.
00:42:32
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's gonna clear clear there.
00:42:35
Speaker 2: I don't consider and that's true that when younger and thank you, mister Russell. I appreciate your call, but I don't consider a fifty four year old a young person. It might be younger when you compare it against a social security age or retirement age, what have you.
00:42:50
Speaker 4: But there's a whole lot of folks.
00:42:51
Speaker 2: In between the ages of twenty and fifty in this demographic that our panel is looking to target. That you know, there's some there's there's the different levels of understanding, I will say, with each generation. So and what mister Russell was talking about is logic and all kinds of other things in truth and reality, none of which current administration has any use for.
00:43:15
Speaker 12: Uh.
00:43:15
Speaker 2: So, at some point in time, uh, you know, it's going to become more and more apparent to more and more groups. And I am so glad that this panel is out there ahead of everything, at least giving people the opportunity. Let's let's let's talk. Let's register to vote, Let's hear your voting plan. Let's do if I understand all you correctly, that that's what you're going to be out here doing.
00:43:37
Speaker 4: Let's go.
00:43:38
Speaker 2: Let's go back to uh let's go back to the phone lines. Jeff online too, How are you doing, Jeff.
00:43:43
Speaker 8: Hey, good Monday to you, Tina.
00:43:45
Speaker 4: Good Monday.
00:43:47
Speaker 13: You know, we got three branches of government executive, the President, the legislative, the House representing the US Senate, and the judiciary. Supreme Court, but no one talks about there is a fourth one and nobody knows what the fourth one is. And the fourth win is the most powerful the people, all right, the other three work for us. So yeah, Thomas Jefferson one says, if you want to function in democracy, you gotta have a well informed electric and we don't have that right now because he we're all too caught up in culture not policy. See if it was about policy, Kamala Harris will be there right now. You know it's about culture.
00:44:29
Speaker 10: Well, I ain't vote.
00:44:30
Speaker 13: For no woman or she's married to a wife man.
00:44:33
Speaker 7: She ain't.
00:44:33
Speaker 13: She ain't one hundred percent blacks. And I have to think of swing at the clergy. I mean you appreciate it. Well, woman's places in the house, and she ain't got no bites in corporate America, you know, I hate to see it. Also, also, we gotta quit look at the celebrities for advice. I ain't taking no political buy from stoop Dog and Little Wayne, you know, because see, in America, we got this problem. We always want to equal with wisdom, want to quate income with intelligence. Some of the most ignorant people are rich. Look what we got sitting in the White House right now. And another thing is we got to treat twenty twenty six as if it's twenty twenty eight, because if we can get the Democrats back in office in the House, in the city, we have probably in Donald Trump.
00:45:23
Speaker 2: But Jeff good Point, good Point treats vote in twenty twenty six like his twenty twenty eight.
00:45:29
Speaker 4: Lease, hold him account, hold him acount.
00:45:31
Speaker 2: About our panel. That's exactly what they're trying to do. So what we need to.
00:45:34
Speaker 4: Hear and what we need to find out, I'm interested, Oh okay.
00:45:37
Speaker 13: I'm interested with what the fifty four year olds said to the preacher about what he brought to his attention about medicaid.
00:45:43
Speaker 2: Medicare you know, okay, we'll go ahead, reverend, Reverend Base, go ahead, Okay.
00:45:48
Speaker 3: What he told me was he not afraid of the future. And you know I tried to go ahead, brother.
00:45:56
Speaker 10: Oh so yeah, go ahead, finish.
00:45:58
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying, as I was talking to him, he was he was simply telling me he's not afraid of anything political or whatever.
00:46:06
Speaker 7: I told him.
00:46:06
Speaker 3: After well, you know, well, I'm a child of the King. I fear nothing and no one. So it's not about about that it's about the fact that he could lose it and so well, you.
00:46:17
Speaker 13: Know, but you know a lot of Jews feel like Hitler was talking a lot of meths until it was too late.
00:46:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. Uh.
00:46:29
Speaker 2: And and so the warning signs are there. They've been there, We've been you know, they've been out and over and over again. And you just have to figure out a way, as as your preachers say, Reverend Face, make a plane. We got to figure out a way to make a plane, but make it relevant. And there again, I keep saying, lo is the challenge. Thank you Jeff for your call. So Jeff says he's interested in what you all are doing and are going to be doing. So before we have to let you off the air, tell us what you're you know, how people can actually connect with you in a coin way and you know, follow what you're doing and help out if they want.
00:47:04
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, first of all, Tina, I want to say that Community Lifeline Christian Church is having praise in the parking lot and we're at thirty nine twenty nine Millersville Road this Saturday from ten to four. We're going to be there, not only registering people, but encouraging people to vote. So, and we have a sister. I'm going to give her a shout out to Lord Smith who is an ambassador for our church. She is constantly working trying to get people motivated to register and to vote. So that's what Community Christian Community Lifeline Christian is doing.
00:47:36
Speaker 7: Okay, yes, I think le, But let me say Lee, what are you going to be doing at the barbershops the other bard.
00:47:43
Speaker 9: What I'm going to do is make sure all these barbershops and future shops get registered one way at another, marking sure they have applications to get registered. That's right, that's my job.
00:47:55
Speaker 4: So this is not going to be a one off.
00:47:56
Speaker 2: I mean, this is going to be ongoing with various events and activities all the way up until the registration deadline in October?
00:48:04
Speaker 7: Correct?
00:48:06
Speaker 8: Correct?
00:48:07
Speaker 7: Really voted? Yeah?
00:48:08
Speaker 2: And early yeah, right after the registration deadline and then the next day is early voting.
00:48:12
Speaker 4: So yeah.
00:48:12
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:48:13
Speaker 2: So keeping the message out there at the forefront and counselor Oliver, what are you going to be doing?
00:48:19
Speaker 4: Are you going to be working on behalf of the NAACP?
00:48:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, everybody working For myself, I stopped my own household. I pointed out to every individual directly, you stopped their own household. May sure they raised to vote, your own household, voted in, really voted in October, your own household. After that, then I go next door to my neighbor. He raised him to vote, did he vote? Encouraged him to vote in twenty twenty four the day that came out, they showed that day that they showed everybody that voted Man counties. If you voted, if you signed in to vote, right, I mean it's recorded. If your name is not on that list on that data, get in vote play the simple you did you did not vote. But most of the people that I know, at least half of them, did not vote previous elected in twenty twenty four. They did not vote, They did not vote.
00:49:19
Speaker 2: But if you here, here's another foul, you know, just incorrect information out there that if I didn't vote in the last election, I can't vote in this one.
00:49:29
Speaker 4: That is patently.
00:49:31
Speaker 7: Folks, the should vote. Can we got to pass Are you ready to vote?
00:49:34
Speaker 2: If you're registered, you can vote. It doesn't matter if you voted last election or not. And that folks need to know that too, and that that's just another one of those urban myths going around.
00:49:44
Speaker 7: And what what what all of us? And we're not the only ones out there now, there are others wanted to be here this afternoon, other passes might not be saying. Back to the church they called Lincolns, I mean that's where I go. We read the people before service and at the service, and other churches doing that years ago. That's what we get back to.
00:50:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the riots to and from the polls, the barbershops and solds to the polls, all of those, all of those outreach efforts are so so very needed, and I'm glad they're going to be in place again, uh in the fall. And I'm glad that you all are keeping us informed and keeping our community aware of everything that's going on.
00:50:23
Speaker 4: And like I said, even though all good, it needs to go on. Yeah.
00:50:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, because we're in the middle of what happened two one of the years go reconstructed. We're in the middle of it all over again. Revenue basebook close out for things yeahean.
00:50:41
Speaker 3: Every day is an opportunity to speak to whomever you're talking to about what we're talking about right now. And that's what I try to do so, Yeah, well, thank you again. We're trying to motivate other churches, you know, everybody. Some churches have this attitude that politics don't belong in the church. I think that's exactly where it belongs. And we have we have to be careful because, uh, if we're, if we're not, if we're what's the word inactive in trying to inform our people.
00:51:08
Speaker 2: Is going to be our Yeah, well it equates to me to putting blinders on, betting blinders on. Just just just look straight ahead, don't look to either side, figure out what's going to just look straight at No that I and I probably will get in trouble for that as well, but I I would.
00:51:22
Speaker 4: Agree with you wholeheartedly.
00:51:24
Speaker 2: And there was another pastor that came on and said, you know, basically expressed the same point of view that of course we're going to be you know, active in our church, and we're going to encourage voter registration because these are our social expressions of faith. You know, there's a lot of ways you can expect, these are our social expressions of faith, and so therefore it definitely belongs that that was That was his his point and and and his point of view, which is very similar to yours and frankly quite quite frankly similar to mine. I as as somebody said, I'm not going to take it back because this is truly what I believe. But it and and when we talk about the village concept, business owners like like mister Taylor, you know, the churches like like you and yours, uh, social and civic organizations like the NAACP, it takes that and then some for for it all to work. And so the fact that there's a coalition, just a little mini coalition right here on my show today, on this panel, is a prime example of what we all talk about the.
00:52:26
Speaker 9: Barbershop, which to say something I just want to add one time before we get off there.
00:52:32
Speaker 3: We had motivation.
00:52:33
Speaker 9: We had Martin to King, we had just motive motivating us to vote younger and older. That's what we don't have now that we did have then. So that's what we had to come up with. Somebody can motivate us as a whole.
00:52:49
Speaker 2: Well, we also need we also need to call us around a singular no. No, we have to call us around because that it was easier for the Martins and the olcoms and everybody else, right, because there was a coalescing around the same thing, a similar thing.
00:53:06
Speaker 4: So what we got to figure out is what are we all going to coalesce around?
00:53:09
Speaker 7: You know?
00:53:09
Speaker 4: And then I think, you know, leaders develop as a result of a common thing.
00:53:13
Speaker 7: But what President what President Trump is saying and doing and all across to do? What we do? What can we do? Yeah? We were failed to fight back back Rachel and voting to determine out of that mid term ballot in November.
00:53:32
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, thank you all so so very much. William Duke Oliver.
00:53:37
Speaker 2: Thank you, Reverend Larry Bates, and uh, mister Leon Taylor, thank you all so much again again, thank you, and we will be talking again and.
00:53:45
Speaker 4: Keep up the great work.
00:53:46
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you all coming together, uh to give an example of what we all are going to have to do to get through this thing.
00:53:53
Speaker 4: We'll be right, yeah, we'll be right back right after this.
00:53:57
Speaker 9: M hm.
00:54:03
Speaker 1: WTOC AMW two three six C are Indianapolis Broadcasting from the Praise ind Indieghos Studios, Indigo Boldly moving Indy Forward. It's community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM thirteen ten ninety five point one.
00:54:19
Speaker 4: FM and we're back with Community Connection. Just had a good segment. First segment, first hour.
00:54:25
Speaker 2: We had with us a former city county councilor and a lifetime member in AACP, William Duke Oliver, Reverend Larry Bates, senior pastor of the Community Lifeline Christian Church, and Leon Taylor, owner of the Leons barbershops.
00:54:39
Speaker 4: And they're all concerned about the same thing.
00:54:42
Speaker 2: They all have different viewpoints, but they all had one particular focus in that demographic. Was I guess men and women ages twenty to fifty. To get them more engaged, I get them registered and then get their plans to vote. And I think that that is one message that if we don't hammer home any message for any particular election season, it is register and get a plan. Register and plan plan register, tell us how you're gonna vote. You're gonna vote early, you're going to vote the day of Where are you going to vote? Put your plan together. I don't It's not like I don't want to hear about registration because a lot of times people think, well we registered twenty five hundred vote, Okay, Well, how many plans.
00:55:27
Speaker 4: Did you get?
00:55:28
Speaker 2: How many you know, how much of a commitment did you get from that twenty five hundred And it's not to say that registering, And again, please don't misunderstand what I'm because a lot of folks like to twist your words too, And the point being is that we have to we have to move beyond registration. Registration, yes, but we have to move beyond it. And when you have fifty percent of eligible voters, which means registered, so you don't have to register anybody. When you have fifty percent of eligible voters staying home.
00:55:59
Speaker 4: Yep, But how many more you need to register?
00:56:03
Speaker 6: True?
00:56:04
Speaker 2: So it's not that we don't we Yes, there are people coming of age every single day who we need to get in there and get them registered.
00:56:12
Speaker 4: We absolutely do.
00:56:14
Speaker 2: But if we're going to target this twenty to fifty year old demographic, which is where a lot of the problems lie, we got to have incorporated in that message of registration a plan, Yeah.
00:56:26
Speaker 4: A plan, a plan, and some kind of something else. I don't even know what else, something else, but yeah.
00:56:32
Speaker 2: And so that is why I was really happy to hear from these three because they're already thinking ahead, they're trying, they're doing their you know, faith based, civic based, and business all three have their own opinions, but they all three have the.
00:56:46
Speaker 6: Same goal, the same goal. They'll less around that.
00:56:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and so I thank them and I thank them for the discussion. But it's truly a challenge. Anybody that says it's not is smoking grass or something.
00:56:59
Speaker 4: I don't because it is. It's a challenge, challenge especially.
00:57:03
Speaker 2: Among voters that have been typically disenfranchised and that are exhausted, tired, suspicious, not trusting.
00:57:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a challenge.
00:57:14
Speaker 2: But you know, we got to meet that head on, and I hope many many more are are willing to to step out there like like these three and and by all means, you know, come on and share with us.
00:57:26
Speaker 4: We want to know more about it.
00:57:29
Speaker 5: Ideas, how to get there, demographic I would think they have some ideas.
00:57:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, I hope it doesn't get down to where, you know, where Trump is. What is that they're trying to erase DEI is basically would be erasing minorities and women off the face of the United States of America. So if you erase DEI and erase the history and everything, what's the next? Get y'all out of here? So you know, maybe mass deportation when it starts to I don't know, I don't know. I'm laughing, I don't know. Maybe that's that might be the plan all along, because they move pretty quickly, and they still got a lot of time. Yeah, still got a lot of time to get a lot of a lot of dirt in there. So we we have to, we have to, we have to load up and get ready for Eric. Praise Indy, as we said before, is giving listeners the chance to win tickets to see Daniel in the lions Den plus The Esther Story is taking place at the Mura Theater at the Old National Center, coming up December fifth, December fifth, at four pm, so you can have your tickets all locked in. Might be a nice Christmas outing that might be, or a Christmas gift to someone birthday birthday. Yeah, indeed, So if you would like tickets to see Daniel in the lions Den plus the Yesther Story, December fifth at the Old National Theater. And I say December fifth because that's around the holidays. People are in town, out of town. So this is December fifth. This isn't tomorrow or next week or even next month. This is coming up in December but if you still would like to go and would like to enter for your chance to win, what's what's the magic number today?
00:59:13
Speaker 4: Eric for Daniel in the line?
00:59:14
Speaker 6: Well, since it's since it's going to be a December fifth, why don't we take caller.
00:59:18
Speaker 2: Five, caller number five to three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten, three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten. If you are the fifth caller two three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten, you will win two free tickets. Two free tickets to see Daniel in the lions Den on stage plus the Esther Story taking place at the Mirah Mura Theater. Say that isn't that a Mira, It's like the rah Yes Murra Theater at Old National Center. December fifth, December five, that's the number five, five at four o'clock in the afternoon, no doubt. So we are putting it out there. Lines are open three one seven for eight, zero thirteen ten looking for caller number five. If you are caller number five, you will win. Good luck, good luck, good luck to all of our.
01:00:12
Speaker 4: Listeners out there.
01:00:13
Speaker 2: We can't wait to give away these two free tickets for Daniel in the lions Den plus the Estra Story so some really really nice stage presentations that are going to be coming up. Three one, seven, for eight, zero, thirteen ten. Eric is busy on the line taking your calls right now, so he'll be back with us shortly. I'm sure when he comes back he will have a winner. So as I say good luck to each and every one of you, some things that I wanted to share with you, guys we were talking about, well last week we did a lot with the schools heading back, and with each passing day, more and more schools are going back in session. Today is August the third August, the third mon August and going back to school today Franklin Township Community School Corporation, the Greenfield Central Community School Corporation, Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Speedway Schools Speedway Schools. So you all congratulations, you're back in school today Tomorrow, August fourth, Anderson Preparatory Academy, the Attica Consolidated School Corporation, Eastern Howard School Corporation, the Greensburg Community Schools, green Wood Community School Corporation, Hamilon and Heights School Corporation, Nettle Creek Corporation, Northwestern School Corporation, and Union School Corporation. Not last, but not least certainly not least Zionsville Community School. So you guys are on deck, You're up next, Okay, so you will be going back tomorrow. Congratulations to all that went back today Monday.
01:01:56
Speaker 4: It's kind of interesting.
01:01:57
Speaker 2: I was sharing with some of my co workers, including you, Eric and some others, about having some family in town from out of state over the weekend, and we were all, you know, it was a bunch of cousins, and we were all wax, you know. We were all reminiscing about how it when we went back to school. It was always after Labor Day, the day after Labor Day. And they were saying, it just doesn't feel normal, it doesn't feel right because a lot of states are doing it. And I said, yeah, a lot of states are doing it.
01:02:27
Speaker 4: And I see it.
01:02:30
Speaker 2: In my own house because, like I said, my daughter teaches, and she's but you know, and the teachers always go back well.
01:02:37
Speaker 4: Before the students do. Teachers always go back well before this. So I would suspect that.
01:02:43
Speaker 2: These schools that open today and then the ones that are on deck to open tomorrow, teachers have probably been back for at least five six maybe up to ten days, depending on how long their pds were, And Tony Lamont explained to US PDA is professional development days, and some schools pds are longer than others.
01:03:02
Speaker 4: Some spread them out over the course of the year.
01:03:04
Speaker 2: Long story short, they're usually there early getting ready for the kids. It's as simple as that they go early to get ready for our kiddos and the youngsters and the teenagers and there everybody else in between.
01:03:15
Speaker 4: So always a good thing. And again congratulates went back on a great day, a nice day.
01:03:22
Speaker 2: The other thing I wanted to share with everyone, this one not so much fun news, but remember when Trump started the war and gas prices just went crazy out the you know, they just went crazy, skyrocketed. Well, we in the state of Indiana were able to enjoy what basically the gas tax was suspended gas tax Holiday, and I think it was extended once before, and I think you can only you can only do it by laws so many times and you have to do something else. Well, anyway, all of that ends at midnight on Thursday, so Friday, if you're waiting until Friday to fill up, you might get a little sticker shot because prices, gas prices are expected.
01:04:16
Speaker 4: Despite I think that.
01:04:18
Speaker 2: I will go ahead and you know, just go ahead and fill up one last time while the prices are down low, I haven't really been filling up even when they were, you know, lower, So just keeping if I go out of town or go somewhere where I need a lot of gas, but I just kind of keep mine between a half and three fourths of a tank just because by spend you and then you know, my card doesn't use so much gas anyway. But just telling you, guys, get ready, get ready, get ready, because midnight I think it's eleven fifty nine Thursday, twelve o one Friday morning, boom, there we go. So and Indiana has been known across the country as having some of the lowest gas prices in the country. And I do believe all that's going to end at the end of this week. Three one, seven, eight, zero, thirteen to ten. Oh oh oh, oh oh. I will go ahead and say that for this one, I believe we have a winner. So we still have one more giveaway. We have one more giveaway before we end the show today, and that is for a family four pack to the Indiana State Fair. But the Daniel and the Lions den tickets I do believe have been claimed. Eric is working on the particulars right now, so we.
01:05:37
Speaker 4: Want to we want to give you.
01:05:40
Speaker 2: Sometimes the winners can come on the air with us. Sometimes they cannot.
01:05:45
Speaker 4: We just have to wait and.
01:05:46
Speaker 2: See a lot of you that listen you're streaming, or you're at work, or you know, the traditional way of listening to the radio in the car.
01:05:55
Speaker 7: You know.
01:05:56
Speaker 4: I guess there's still some that do that, but we have an awful lot who.
01:05:59
Speaker 2: Stream from wherever they are, and we appreciate you, We really really appreciate you. By the way, Eric was telling me that there had been some issues with streaming over the past several weeks, I dare say even a few months off and on with our website and our app and finally, finally, finally, finally, it looks like our engineers have found a stream team at corporate higher levels, much much higher than here, have finally been able to locate the source and have since corrected it. So we are hoping and keeping our fingers crossed that that grimlin that has been frustrating so many for so so very long, that that grimlin has been exercised now and we can all listen without interruption or without a continuous commercial loop, and some other things that.
01:06:55
Speaker 6: Were I heard something about.
01:06:57
Speaker 12: No.
01:06:57
Speaker 4: I was just saying that.
01:07:00
Speaker 2: We, you know, over the last several weeks, even a few months, and you had told me that there are some listeners calling in saying irustrating trying to listen online or through the app. And I was just saying, a lot of a lot of people do stream the show, they really do. And so, uh, yeah, do we have we have a winner.
01:07:18
Speaker 6: We do have a winner. I'm going to go to the phone right now and let's see Donna. Are you there?
01:07:24
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Oh, I can feel all the energy. I can feel it.
01:07:33
Speaker 6: It's Donna Kendrick.
01:07:35
Speaker 4: Oh, Donna, how are you. It's been a minute. I'm doing good. It's been a minute. But you are a winner and a half.
01:07:42
Speaker 12: I tell you.
01:07:45
Speaker 3: You know how to do it.
01:07:47
Speaker 4: You know how to do it.
01:07:49
Speaker 12: Yeah.
01:07:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, So have you ever seen this production, this stage production?
01:07:56
Speaker 9: No?
01:07:56
Speaker 8: I had not, And I'm greatful on my aunt who's younger than me, but she's my aunt's and let her know guess where we're going.
01:08:07
Speaker 2: That is very nice, very nice. You know, that's one of the first stories you learn in Sunday school it is. Yeah, it was one of the few, first few one of them, and yeah, yeah, and I would be curious to see how it's staged.
01:08:23
Speaker 8: To say that, I'm like, really, how.
01:08:30
Speaker 4: Are they going to do it?
01:08:32
Speaker 12: Now?
01:08:32
Speaker 9: I was going over the story in my mind.
01:08:34
Speaker 4: I'm like, me too, Yeah, me too. But you know what, people in the in the arts are very creative.
01:08:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I've been to a couple of productions recently, one in the winter months when it was cold out at Beef and Boards and it was a murder mystery.
01:08:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was snow. It was supposed to be snow, and darned if they didn't have snow.
01:09:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, they duplicated it in a window, a large window, and you know, somebody, one of the actors went to the to the window and said, oh my goodness, there's a snowstorm and it looked like there was a snowstorm through that.
01:09:11
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know how they did it.
01:09:12
Speaker 6: That's amazing.
01:09:13
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't doubt the creativity at all at all. Yes, indeed.
01:09:20
Speaker 2: Well, Donna Kendrick, congratulations, thank you for listening, and thank you for taking your auntie.
01:09:26
Speaker 4: She's got to be very very pleased. I'm sure to go see the play.
01:09:30
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you you too, indeed, thank you bye bye, and so in that night.
01:09:36
Speaker 6: That is nice. Her first time ever winning anything with us, Oh okay, very first time.
01:09:42
Speaker 4: I thought that first time, well, bless her heart. So that's why I hope she really enjoys it. And it's not.
01:09:49
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes when you when you look forward to things and activities, it's good to have that locked in.
01:09:54
Speaker 4: I got my ticket ready to go to think about that the planet. All I got to do is just wait for December fourth to be here exactly.
01:10:02
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:10:03
Speaker 2: But anyway, while you were on the phone taking care of our callers, I was talking about the gas tax holiday.
01:10:11
Speaker 4: Midnight.
01:10:12
Speaker 2: Oh is it midnight midnight on Thursday, not tonight midnight on Thursday. So you may want to just for the good times. You may want to go ahead and fill up before price is spike. There's no they cannot.
01:10:25
Speaker 4: Go down when the gas tax is removed.
01:10:27
Speaker 6: That's true.
01:10:29
Speaker 2: When the gas tax holiday, I'm sorry, when the gas tax holiday you know, expires, when it's going to be ugly, they're going to spike. They're gonna go higher, they're gonna go up. And then I was just you know, a couple more schools today and then tomorrow. Uh, you know who to look forward to over the weekend. You know, there was supposed to be this big kind of faltered, didn't it.
01:10:54
Speaker 12: Uh.
01:10:54
Speaker 2: The first advertised pro ice, you know, mass rally, deportation.
01:10:59
Speaker 6: Rally, Yeah, was going to be and.
01:11:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, it went over like a lead balloon.
01:11:05
Speaker 6: I think.
01:11:06
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:11:07
Speaker 2: It was initially supposed to be in Fishers, but I guess it got Fishers said noop, not in our backyard, and so moved.
01:11:17
Speaker 12: Yeah.
01:11:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was moved to a privately held field near Greenfield.
01:11:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, Greenfield. Yeah.
01:11:26
Speaker 2: And according to multiple reports and I guess even picks from inside. The event was held under a tent. Of course, we had heavy rain. Rain, had about one hundred folks. That's well short of the thousand, two thousands planned. A featured speaker was former US Border Patrol official Greg Vino. Also included pre recorded Lieutenant Michael Beckwett in General Todd Todd Rakeita.
01:11:58
Speaker 8: Uh.
01:11:58
Speaker 4: They had previously.
01:11:59
Speaker 2: Advertised as the nation's first mass deportation rally.
01:12:03
Speaker 4: Wow a rally.
01:12:05
Speaker 7: Huh.
01:12:05
Speaker 6: Well it didn't happen quite like they had hoped.
01:12:10
Speaker 4: The last minute venue change, I guess, and the rain and the rain.
01:12:15
Speaker 2: Just didn't generate enough support for the event. But you know, here we got our buddy Abdula kim Shabba. His reporting is that organizers were struggling to find a location in Fishers, that nobody wanted to rent their haul for that, so fishers again, Fishers pushed back and so yeah, even Abdul reported the Greenfield things so much ado about nothing.
01:12:45
Speaker 4: It sounds like, yeah it does.
01:12:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, weather interfered, of.
01:12:50
Speaker 2: Course, to weather interfered, but come on, weather changes a little, but not from thousands.
01:12:57
Speaker 6: To one hundred, that's true.
01:12:59
Speaker 4: So good for Fishers for pushing back and saying not in my backyard.
01:13:03
Speaker 2: I mean, you know that, and back with it. So it's just uh, I guess it just wasn't the Yeah, it wasn't the love Fishers wanted in there.
01:13:15
Speaker 6: Not in there, not in their city.
01:13:17
Speaker 4: Yeah you want that?
01:13:18
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:13:19
Speaker 4: So and we also, ah, yeah, let's go ahead. We also have in our midst.
01:13:29
Speaker 7: What do we have?
01:13:30
Speaker 4: We got one more t giveaway?
01:13:31
Speaker 6: Yeah we do, before we're done yet.
01:13:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got one more giveaway and this is to the Indiana State Fair, AM thirteen, ten and ninety five PM.
01:13:40
Speaker 4: Want to send you and your family, take somebody with you. Just like voting, when you go vote, take somebody somebody with you, Take somebody with you.
01:13:49
Speaker 2: Well, this is for a family four pack to this year's Indiana State Fair, opening Friday August twenty, August seventh, August seventh, and running through Sunday, August twenty third. August seventh through the twenty third, closed on Mondays, but other than that the seventh through the twenty third. Don't look for it on a Monday because they will be closed for resets on Mondays. If you would like to win, give us a call. Let's see, we will take of dijit do what day is it?
01:14:18
Speaker 12: Caller?
01:14:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, August seventh, let's take caller number seven, caller number seven. If you are calling number seven to the number three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten three one seven, four eight zero thirteen ten, you will win a.
01:14:31
Speaker 4: Family four pack. That means four, not one, not two, not three, but four.
01:14:37
Speaker 2: Free absolutely free tickets to the Indiana State Fair. Opening for free tickets, opening Friday, August the seventh, and running all the way through Sunday, August twenty third. Again closed on Mondays, but other than that they are going to be opened up and out there and by the way, by way of announcements and uh pro rhyming note, programming wave now it's the programming note. We will be their live Community Connection will be their live at the Indiana State Fair on opening day, Friday, August seventh, from one until three p m. I don't know if I would love. I'm going to ask promotions if I can have some tickets to give away.
01:15:20
Speaker 6: Well, it would be pretty cool if you could.
01:15:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very nice.
01:15:23
Speaker 2: I have some tickets to give away because I think we should be we should be okay, Yeah, I.
01:15:27
Speaker 6: Need to mention too, if you can win with us once.
01:15:30
Speaker 4: Every thirty days, once every thirty thank you.
01:15:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, once every thirty days, you can win. If you won in the last twenty five you can't win.
01:15:39
Speaker 7: Huh.
01:15:39
Speaker 6: The computer won't even let me put your name in if you oh you get kicked out' it's it won't. It's like no or anyone. It's not been long enough. So once every thirty days you can huh.
01:15:49
Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's fair. Yeah, and the computer to we.
01:15:53
Speaker 5: Don't have to calculates say hey, no, you won twenty five days ago.
01:15:58
Speaker 4: So three one seven zero thirteen ten.
01:16:01
Speaker 2: Three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten is the number to call if you would like a family four pack to the Indiana State Fair, opening Friday, August seventh, will be there live and running through Sunday, August the twenty third.
01:16:16
Speaker 4: Lots of stuff to do at the fair.
01:16:18
Speaker 2: Free concerts out of the you know at the Yin Yang, free concerts and exhibits, and you name it. Discounted food days, discounted part all kinds of stuff.
01:16:28
Speaker 4: It's the Indiana State Fair. Everybody looks forward.
01:16:30
Speaker 2: To it once a year. Three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten. We're looking for callin number seven. We are looking for calling number seven. If you are number seven today, you will win that family four pack to the State Fair. We are going to take a quick break right now if we can. Eric, I know you're busy on the phones, but if you can throw us to a break, we'll be right back.
01:16:51
Speaker 1: Right after this, let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM thirteen ten ninety five point one FM.
01:17:08
Speaker 2: And we are back with Community Connection on this lovely first Monday in the month of August Monday, August third, a programming note on Friday August seventh, third, worth.
01:17:23
Speaker 4: Fifth seventh.
01:17:25
Speaker 6: Is that seven?
01:17:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, today's the third, fourth, sixth seventh. Yeah, yeah, that's it.
01:17:30
Speaker 2: Friday August seventh, We're gonna be live about the Indiana State Fair with Community Connection. We are in the process right now of finding out who caller number seven is. I do believe that Derek has caller number seven. And as soon as he finishes up getting all of the particulars and doing all the particulars.
01:17:50
Speaker 4: We will go back to Eric Garney.
01:17:53
Speaker 2: Yes, Eric Garney with our winner for the family four pack to the Indiana State Fair talk. You know, the State Fair is different for a lot of people. You know, some go just strictly by their own admission to eat. Might be me anyway, No, do I do a lot more. I do like to see some of the exhibits, and if my grandson is with me, for he loves the animals and the livestock.
01:18:22
Speaker 4: He just can't get enough.
01:18:23
Speaker 2: And they even have a petting zoo out there where you can feed I think the goats or some kind of really really really laid back lazy animals that you can feed, carrots and some other things too. He loves that if I go by myself, you know, I'm I'm looking.
01:18:41
Speaker 4: To see you know.
01:18:42
Speaker 2: One of the things I really like is the cooking, the winners, the blue ribbon winners of like the pies and the who has won and done the best.
01:18:53
Speaker 4: Job with X, Y and Z. I always like that. Not too fond of the smells in.
01:18:59
Speaker 6: The lives the mixture smells that.
01:19:02
Speaker 12: Yeah.
01:19:03
Speaker 4: But again, if you have the little one with you or the little ones with you, they that's the first thing they want to see. I want to see you.
01:19:09
Speaker 6: I want to see the Yeah.
01:19:10
Speaker 2: In addition to wanting to ride, everything that comes about one hundred bucks.
01:19:15
Speaker 6: Like what.
01:19:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, yeah, because it takes uh, it takes these tickets. I had forgotten, you know, my kids are you know, thirty such.
01:19:25
Speaker 2: I mean, but I don't recall it being as expensive because say, for instance, you have to buy Okay, they have these by so and I'm just making this up. This is not what their charge. I have no idea, but it's fairly close. Ten tickets for fifteen dollars or something like that. So one ride might be six tickets.
01:19:47
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:19:47
Speaker 6: Those tickets go pretty fast.
01:19:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so go ahead, and.
01:19:51
Speaker 6: It seems like the ride.
01:19:52
Speaker 5: Doesn't well, sometimes doesn't last as long as your ticket you're on.
01:19:56
Speaker 2: Okay, and it's and bless their hearts, I know everybody has to have a job with these people that are running these rides look like they.
01:20:03
Speaker 4: Could just go get into bed and sleep.
01:20:04
Speaker 6: It's like, what is it?
01:20:06
Speaker 4: Why do carnival people have to look so distressed.
01:20:10
Speaker 6: Maybe they've been up all night, maybe working on getting it all together.
01:20:14
Speaker 4: They travel, travel with the you know with they're.
01:20:17
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, they travel across the country.
01:20:19
Speaker 4: I have yet to see one that looks happy.
01:20:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, think about it. You're right about that. I agree. It's like.
01:20:26
Speaker 2: You give me my grandson a ride, Yeah, give me a little bit of a smile. But but they're there and they're working and they're making an honest living, and I applaud them for that.
01:20:37
Speaker 4: I just wish they had a little bit happier.
01:20:40
Speaker 6: I agree, of applaud We have our winter.
01:20:44
Speaker 4: We do have a winner.
01:20:46
Speaker 2: Winn Okay, okay, okay, Well hold on if if you're calling now, you can hang up because we have a winner. So you can call back later, maybe tomorrow we might have some more tickets for you. Tomorrow we'll see if we can do up some more.
01:21:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, lean on, come on, come on, very well. Anyway, who is who is the winner.
01:21:11
Speaker 6: Is Patricia Grayson?
01:21:14
Speaker 4: Patricia Grayson? How are you?
01:21:20
Speaker 12: I'm fine?
01:21:20
Speaker 4: Congratulations, thank you? Yeah. So is this the first time you've won with us?
01:21:28
Speaker 12: No? Actually, I want last year around the pair I went to the Gospel Oh, the Gospel show.
01:21:35
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, you probably got the VIP tickets because that's what we were giving away. Yeah, exact, vi P wonderful, wonder well before we go, how was last year in the VIP section for the Gospel It was wonderful?
01:21:53
Speaker 9: Okay, you appreciate it, yes, okay, George.
01:21:56
Speaker 4: So, so now that you've got the four family, the Family four Path, what are you going to do it?
01:22:02
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take you every year.
01:22:03
Speaker 12: And my son and the two kids we go, so this year I'm gonna take them and we don't have to worry.
01:22:08
Speaker 4: About pants, just the rides and the food that yeah, they get.
01:22:16
Speaker 2: But you know what, yeah, but you know what, it's so nice to be able to take and and get free admission.
01:22:22
Speaker 4: That's just it's just a nice thing. And I'm so glad you won.
01:22:26
Speaker 12: Eric.
01:22:26
Speaker 4: I mean, how did you?
01:22:28
Speaker 12: I'm very thankful.
01:22:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, how did you do it? Did you have a did you have a plan? Did you have a strategy?
01:22:34
Speaker 12: I got last year driving in my car on the way to work, and I did the same thing.
01:22:37
Speaker 6: She's on the way to work right now.
01:22:39
Speaker 4: Oh, she's on her way to work right now.
01:22:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, Patricia. How many times did you have to call when you were calling in today?
01:22:45
Speaker 3: Uh?
01:22:45
Speaker 12: Well, I kept calling and it said the phone was in the service. And then the last time I called, it started ringing and I said okay, and then I stayed on a little longer and there I won.
01:22:55
Speaker 6: There you were Wow, that's something on this end. We never know what's going on. We just see the lines light up. We can just sit ready, all right.
01:23:04
Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, thank you, congratulations, Yes, indeed.
01:23:08
Speaker 9: All right, greatly appreciate it.
01:23:10
Speaker 4: Thank you. The ladies rocked it today. Hellas y'all got it. Y'all got to get on the stick there beating a step up.
01:23:17
Speaker 2: Well, we'll get you, we'll get you another chance tomorrow, more tomorrow, tomorrow.
01:23:22
Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, so very quickly recap. We did give away a set of tickets to Daniel and the Lions.
01:23:29
Speaker 2: Then coming up in December at the old National Center, the Mira Theater, and gave away our family four pack just now, just now, just now, And that's for any time during the fairs.
01:23:43
Speaker 6: Run exactly anytime.
01:23:45
Speaker 2: It starts on Friday the seventh and goes through Sunday with the gospel show on stage.
01:23:52
Speaker 5: That's right, that's a four pack of tickets so you can take other people with you enjoy yourself at the State Fair.
01:23:59
Speaker 7: Now.
01:23:59
Speaker 4: Admission is no joke, you know, that's true.
01:24:02
Speaker 5: It's uh, it's a little different than it was, you know, some years ago, like everything a little bit.
01:24:08
Speaker 6: But yeah, we're helping out where we can give meds away.
01:24:12
Speaker 4: However, we can help out the economy.
01:24:14
Speaker 6: That's anyway, because we know, we know what it's like.
01:24:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, and families, people still want it. Nobody wants to sit at home. I'm broke. No, I can't afford it. No, I mean, you know. So it's a very nice thing and I'm only too happy to be able to do it.
01:24:28
Speaker 5: And Tina, there's something else to you just if you like, if you really loved listening to Praise Indy, Praise Indy thirteen to ninety five point one, you can take us with you, as a lot of people do wherever you're going.
01:24:38
Speaker 6: MM, download the app to your phone. It's free.
01:24:41
Speaker 5: When you do, you can register there to win tickets to the State Fair as well.
01:24:45
Speaker 4: Ah, so you don't have to call.
01:24:47
Speaker 6: You don't have to call. There's another way to win. So just download our app to your phone and register on that app and you're set. And again it's free. It doesn't cost anything to.
01:24:54
Speaker 2: Take us with you.
01:24:55
Speaker 4: Love it, love it, love it, love it. Are we trying to help or what?
01:24:59
Speaker 7: Everything?
01:25:00
Speaker 6: Doing everything we can? That's right. So we'll have hopefully more tomorrow.
01:25:04
Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, I think so. I'll finally got some good folks here there we do.
01:25:08
Speaker 2: They'll take to make you have indeed three one seven for eight zero thirteen ten we can do open lines the rest of the way out three yeah, four eight zero thirteen ten three one seven four eight zero thirteen ten for whatever may be on your mind. Uh, we wanted to recap what we've done so far today in case you missed it. Really a very good example of a community coming together to form a village to address voting participation. Voter participation which is oh so very important, oh so very important. They have a target demographic that they want to hit, and they got a plan and I love that.
01:25:48
Speaker 4: And so when they called and said, hey, can we share, I said, of course.
01:25:51
Speaker 2: And if anybody else has a plan that they want, everybody's not going to do the same thing. Everybody's not going to be the same, but everybody can be on the same page about increasing voter participation.
01:26:03
Speaker 4: So you know, we all people have different.
01:26:05
Speaker 2: Ways of looking at things, seeing things, different philosophies.
01:26:07
Speaker 4: Those are fine. They don't mean that one is better or worse than the other. They're just different.
01:26:12
Speaker 2: But if the common denominator is the same, if the comedy, if the goal is the same, then we can figure it out. We can work it out. And that's what I loved about about our guest. It was you know, former City County councilor William Duke Oliver. And he also is very involved with the Souls to the Polls program that we have every year, which churches and faith based organizations provide rights free rides, especially during early voting, but on election day as well, free rides to the polls and back.
01:26:50
Speaker 6: How easy is that?
01:26:51
Speaker 4: How easy? And his gas is it?
01:26:53
Speaker 8: Oh?
01:26:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the gas holiday, going is there any way we can convince them. I'm sure not. Did you extend that a little bit longer?
01:27:02
Speaker 2: I you know what, I'm not going to get into that because I no, seriously, I have no way of it. I don't know the legislative think of the jig of that. I do know that there was one extension.
01:27:12
Speaker 6: That's true. I think that you're yeah, I think.
01:27:14
Speaker 2: There was one, and I think that that might have been all that was allowed by law pending some other kind of action. So it would take another kind of action for him to do that.
01:27:24
Speaker 4: I don't know what that is. Midnight Thursday, midnight Thursday.
01:27:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, it was a former counselor, Oliver, who, like I said, also works on behalf of the NAACP. Reverend Larry Bates also very community minded. He's a senior pastor at the Community Lifeline Christian Church. Pastor Larry Bates and then.
01:27:43
Speaker 4: Leon Leon Taylor.
01:27:45
Speaker 2: Leon's barbershops found it out there on the city's east side, and he he is an institution in and of himself.
01:27:52
Speaker 4: His barbershops are an institution. So you know, most folks know.
01:27:56
Speaker 6: I haven't but went to him for years. Yeah, I was a little kid and forever he went to Leon's.
01:28:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I was saying, I have a cousin He's you know.
01:28:06
Speaker 2: He he grew up in Leon's and teenager all through high school through college Leons, Leons.
01:28:12
Speaker 6: And my uncle was always Leon's Eric gets your hair cot over.
01:28:15
Speaker 4: Leon's have to be confused with Leon's Taylor exactly, totally different, totally different. I don't know if they're even still in business.
01:28:23
Speaker 6: I don't know. They were downtown forever.
01:28:28
Speaker 4: Truly right there were they not too far from stout Shoes, Yeah, right on uh Delaware, Delawares around the Mass on Mass.
01:28:38
Speaker 5: I think Stouts on Mass and then leon was on Delaware near Saint Claire or somewhere not.
01:28:45
Speaker 6: Far from within walking Yeah, exactly. IPS Education, yes, Senate, not far from there at the time.
01:28:52
Speaker 4: Speaking of IPS, the state's largest school system.
01:28:54
Speaker 2: To the best of our knowledge, to check the numbers, it's getting close between I and Fort Wayne. In fact, I think from year to depending on how the count goes, sometimes Fort Wayne has a larger number, but for the most part, the state's largest school system. We'll be back up and and open on August the tenth, Monday, a week from today, So get ready ips.
01:29:16
Speaker 5: And they'll have a chance to at least enjoy in the opening day at the fair, in the whole weekend weekend.
01:29:22
Speaker 6: Some of the other schools are back already.
01:29:24
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, oh the Fair. I don't know how they do it.
01:29:28
Speaker 2: I don't know, neither do I or any of those big exposition type things like Indiana Black ex Bowl, the State Fair.
01:29:35
Speaker 6: Yeah. Gen Con that was just this weekend, this past weekend.
01:29:40
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, is this the largest From what I understand, it's the largest gen Con convention in the world, is right here, right here at Indianapolis.
01:29:51
Speaker 4: So it's a gaming it's a gaming board game right, board game.
01:29:54
Speaker 6: Gaming gaming.
01:29:56
Speaker 2: We had a we had a producer here that that love used to used to here sky and would save up vacation every year for that. Really yeah gen Con, Yes, yes, and that you know you'd see people dressed up. We forgot to mention that last week.
01:30:14
Speaker 6: That's true.
01:30:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, But the money that changes hands when that thing was a big money and big stars althought, don't ask me to name any of them.
01:30:23
Speaker 6: There're been a lot of big stars right that have come through to be a part of You go to.
01:30:27
Speaker 2: Those But I had no idea that there was such an interest and love of board games.
01:30:34
Speaker 5: Neither did I until It's like, I've never been to gen Con, but I've always seen people, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people.
01:30:42
Speaker 2: Well, my daughter was in high school and college. She used to work at oh gosh, it was right across from PF. Chang's downtown at Circle Center. I can't remember the name of it, but it was one of those restaurants and she would say, oh, my goodness.
01:30:57
Speaker 4: You have They would come in in full come yeah.
01:31:02
Speaker 2: And she said it was different than Halloween, because you know, Halloween was temporary.
01:31:07
Speaker 4: She said, Mom, I think some of these folks don't.
01:31:09
Speaker 2: Take these offter I think that they really get into character and they live it.
01:31:15
Speaker 6: I think so too.
01:31:16
Speaker 4: And I said, all you're kidding. She said, no, no, they're very serious.
01:31:21
Speaker 6: I've witnessed the same thing when we were down on the Circle.
01:31:24
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
01:31:25
Speaker 6: I remember seeing people walk around for lunch there and then the swords and the whole thing there in full costume.
01:31:31
Speaker 4: Full costume.
01:31:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:31:32
Speaker 2: And again Halloween, you know, it's just temporary a few hours and they play and have a good time. But these people seriously and well, I don't know.
01:31:41
Speaker 6: That convention was founded in nineteen sixty eight, where it doesn't say where, but it was nineteen sixty eight, and of course it was wrapped up on the second downtown at the Convention Center here at Lucas Oil as well.
01:31:59
Speaker 5: But the longest, longest and largest running tabletop gaming convention, the largest then over seventy thousand people attend.
01:32:12
Speaker 6: Daniel, it's pretty cool.
01:32:15
Speaker 2: It's hard to get a family together over a game of Monopoly, it is, yeah, my uh I step. Someone was in town a couple of weeks ago and he was like, whatever happened to that? Because he was he was playing with my with my grandson, his nephew, and he said, whatever happened to that?
01:32:36
Speaker 4: The game where you.
01:32:37
Speaker 2: Put the tweezers and the thing, because he was he was looking at his his Nintendo switch and all those games or whatever.
01:32:44
Speaker 4: He said, don't kids do that anymore?
01:32:46
Speaker 2: Operation? I told him, I said the name of it is Operation. And he was just cracking up. He said, I don't think kids would know how to do I said, well maybe not, but then I know that when we bring them out and play and say hey, let's play this, or you know, if we do, I think people will get away from the screen because always.
01:33:06
Speaker 4: Too much screens your eyes a little bit, rest.
01:33:09
Speaker 2: Your eyes a little bit because the screen time is Oh, it is so so again. Thank you to to the to mister Taylor, Reverend Bates and Counselor Oliver. Thank them again and I know we'll be hearing from them again. But voter registration is good, but we gotta we gotta, we gotta turn up and turn out.
01:33:32
Speaker 7: You just have to.
01:33:34
Speaker 4: And when somebody finds that magic potient bringing no, seriously, it is as wide as it is long. Uh, and I don't know what the answer is.
01:33:44
Speaker 6: Maybe somebody is working on it even as we talk about it. They're working on it. They're trying to make it happen.
01:33:51
Speaker 2: But if you can target, if you can identify a demo that that has been not as active, then you should be able to identify, other than age, the characteristics of that demo. Not saying that they haven't already, but you can break that demo down, and the breakdown sometimes the story is in how you break down that demo or what you come up with once you've broken down that demo. Does that make sense? It does because it could be mostly men, it could be mostly women. It could be mostly professional, it could be mostly working class, It could be it could be so many different categories. And one thing about numbers is they don't lie. And so once these these demos are broken down into smaller numbers or at least subsets of what have you the story? And perhaps maybe the answer to how to approach the story is right there in those numbers, if we look closely and critically and analytically enough to come up with, you know, with what could be an answer. I don't know, but I've always been told that numbers don't lie, and sometimes the answers are right there. You just have to kind of look at it. So maybe if we look a little closer, uh, and and keep working at it and break it down, and maybe that's something that a group you know, like there, you know, uh, counselor counselor Douke Oliver and and his Maybe they're looking at at one lane and then maybe the other lane of volunteers could be the numbers crunchers, the what do they call them, the the actuaries of.
01:35:25
Speaker 4: The insurance industry.
01:35:27
Speaker 2: Maybe they could be uh, they could give that down and hand that over to some folks. There's there's just a lot of ways that we can all work in conjunction with each other, uh to uh to attack this thing, because it's going to have to be attacked from all sides, Tina.
01:35:40
Speaker 6: Someone called in and mentioned what about rides for early voting?
01:35:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, people that most of the polls. Yeah, there are rides.
01:35:51
Speaker 6: For early voting and people wanting to volunteer or there is there a way to find out I guess how people could volunteer their time to be to get someone to the voting.
01:36:01
Speaker 2: Yes, counselor oliver. If they want to call back, I can give them his uh information. Oh okay, you have them call back and leave their info and then I'll share with him.
01:36:13
Speaker 4: Okay, and let's see doctor Posley is involved in that as well.
01:36:22
Speaker 6: So they all have a network.
01:36:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a network there souls to the polls that would be happening.
01:36:28
Speaker 6: Early voting rides, free rides for early voting.
01:36:30
Speaker 2: Well, that's where they're most active because on election day it's just you have one opportunity. But what they do is pick people up and they typically are there right after service.
01:36:41
Speaker 6: Okay, that's right, because they did that.
01:36:43
Speaker 12: Yeah.
01:36:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're there right after your church service. You just come right out, get on the bus, shuttle or whatever trolley whatever they have, and they take you down to vote early wherever that location is city county building, you know, one of the branches, what have you. And then after everybody finishes, can take you back to the church and you can get in your car and head on home. But yeah, most of the work with the souls to the polls is done in early voting, I must say, if not most, at least half, because they can't get as many numbers as they get every year just just going one day. True, true, I can't get the numbers in one day. So they got very successful. And frankly, I think that's the point to get you there early.
01:37:25
Speaker 6: Get there early, to get your vote in. I have to worry about trying to get there on the day out.
01:37:31
Speaker 2: I walked for the last several cycles from our building on the circle.
01:37:36
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, we were pretty close there to what.
01:37:38
Speaker 4: I don't know that I'll do that.
01:37:40
Speaker 6: I was just going to ask you.
01:37:42
Speaker 4: I was thinking, yeah, it's only a mile.
01:37:46
Speaker 7: Is it a mile?
01:37:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's only a mile, I guess that.
01:37:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, because we're are.
01:37:50
Speaker 4: We we're ten and circle is zero. So from zero to ten, that's one mile is one mile.
01:37:57
Speaker 6: I think I would think we're just outside of the mile square.
01:38:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, just outside, just outside. And so it might be a pleasant day to get to get to get to work a little early. One day they go down and then walk down.
01:38:12
Speaker 4: Pleasant.
01:38:12
Speaker 2: It might be a nice brisk fall day. Yeah, early November. It's not late, so it might be a nice brisk all day day for a walk. Yeah, go down early.
01:38:21
Speaker 7: Vote.
01:38:21
Speaker 4: I always always go early.
01:38:23
Speaker 2: I always tease myself and say I don't want them to run out of ballots or computers or anything like that, so I go and get it in early.
01:38:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I was telling you, Yester, you know, we went out for a birthday dinner. This wasn't voting, but.
01:38:36
Speaker 5: Pretty big party. And we were at a restaurant and they ran out of baked potatoes.
01:38:43
Speaker 7: They had none.
01:38:44
Speaker 6: I mean, we're waiting, wanted the plays I get to bake.
01:38:48
Speaker 4: We're out.
01:38:48
Speaker 6: We ran out and ran out of baked potatoes. They had none, none left, so they had to substitute fries in place in the baked potato. No potatoes, they were out.
01:39:00
Speaker 2: I know you've been to these chicken places. Can I have us out of chicken.
01:39:07
Speaker 4: But you're a chicken place?
01:39:08
Speaker 2: How do you run out? And then they have the nerve to ask you, what else would you like me atk or something? Since you don't have any chickens chicken place.
01:39:20
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just sit there and look like with all what you don't have? You you got chicken on your sign right.
01:39:28
Speaker 6: And you have no chicken and you have no chicken. Well this yesterday it was family and friends.
01:39:34
Speaker 4: Did they serve a lettuce? I'm sorry, I.
01:39:37
Speaker 6: Don't think any. Well, yeah, there are some ordered salads, so I we all went.
01:39:42
Speaker 2: Out to eat yesterday as well as a family, and we went out and I'm trying to think.
01:39:47
Speaker 4: I think there.
01:39:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, some folks had salad, salad or salad on their I know my aunt had a taco what a shrimp taco?
01:39:59
Speaker 9: Was there?
01:39:59
Speaker 7: Salad?
01:40:00
Speaker 4: Lettuce and there? So yeah, there was some that had yeah, and then they.
01:40:03
Speaker 2: Certainly trimmed and decorated the food with the salad and the greens and things like that.
01:40:08
Speaker 4: I mean, you don't have to eat those they eat them, but some people do.
01:40:17
Speaker 6: Yesterday there were someoneho actually had a salad with their meal too. Okay, okay, So yeah.
01:40:22
Speaker 4: But you know, I please, I gotta get it. I got to get a contract with Cosco.
01:40:27
Speaker 2: I was at Costco's a couple of days ago and they were demoing this olive garden.
01:40:33
Speaker 4: I need olive garden. Okay, y'all come on, send them money. They were dear olive.
01:40:37
Speaker 2: Garden dressing, salad dressing, and they had cups full of lettuce with the salad port over and I noticed, I said, why isn't it because usually if you're in Cosco, folks are swiping that food up right and left, and the lettuce, the salad mix with the with the salad dressing was just nobody had touched it. I said, because I know Costco doesn't want that liability, so I don't know.
01:41:00
Speaker 4: I have to be safe. I have to be someone.
01:41:03
Speaker 2: Actually I ate a couple because I love that salad dressing. But I was fine, I'm fine.
01:41:08
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:41:08
Speaker 5: We had a salad on Friday right left work. We had this big chicken salad that we like.
01:41:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was fine.
01:41:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, fine, Well sadly, not meaning to bring it down, but this is a harsh reality. It looks like the State of Michigan has reported the first two yeah, two deaths from the cyclospora outbreak. So whoever the caller was, it said, oh, I know.
01:41:38
Speaker 4: Who it was, and you're making a big deal. And nobody died. Yes, somebody did.
01:41:42
Speaker 2: Somebody did, and if it goes unchecked for too long, of course somebody is gonna die.
01:41:46
Speaker 4: And here we have it. So that is what we know of. Those are the deaths that we know of.
01:41:52
Speaker 6: That's true, and that's what we know of.
01:41:53
Speaker 8: It.
01:41:54
Speaker 5: That said, they both had significant underlying health conditions that may have been affected by absolutely.
01:42:01
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to be perfectly healthy to be able to be on the toilet for five days in a row, and then you can't. I mean, so if you have any competing health issues, this this could be and we said that before. You know, this could be deadly for certain people. So it's not you know, it's not that anymore, and so please be careful. But I the way I look at it, those who are serving lettuce uh and and other produce, they probably feel like they're in pretty good whatever, and I guess, yeah, they're they're pretty good standing. But we still don't have a defined, definitive source. So you know, keep being careful. But sty they had the name of the lettuce that I was eating. They had the name right, they have you know, they displayed the package right there.
01:42:51
Speaker 4: So there that was That was it.
01:42:54
Speaker 2: M So the moral to the story is be careful, keep keep and keep washing your hands. And because from what I understand, they may be changing their position on how it is being transmitted. Okay, yeah, that's that's the latest thing I heard from a person in the healthcare field that chose not to be quoted, but that that's just something they're looking into, right, it makes sense. Yeah, but they're thinking it may not be let us alone.
01:43:24
Speaker 6: That's good to investigate every area they're investigating on.
01:43:28
Speaker 2: But that's all the time we have for right now. Is always thank you for listening. Williemore Junior on the radio is up next. Our website is Praiseindied dot com. We'll be back with you tomorrow at the State Fair live on Friday. For everyone here, I'm Tina Cosby and this is Community Connection.