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**Community Connection: Navigating the Complexities of Voting and More**

This week on Community Connection, Tina Cosby and her producer Eric G dive into the intricacies of voting in Indiana, discussing the importance of registering to vote and the challenges that some citizens may face. They also tackle the topic of the death penalty, specifically a recent botched execution in Tennessee that has left many questioning the state's handling of the situation.

The conversation touches on the economic pinch that many people are feeling, with the cost of everyday items like salads and meals becoming increasingly high. Tina and her co-host also discuss the concept of convenience stores and the idea of making art more accessible to the average person. They also delve into the world of sports, discussing the Indiana Fever and the controversy surrounding the team's treatment of one of its players.

But the main focus of the episode is on voting, with Tina and Voter Education Contributor, Executive Director of Common Cause Indiana, Julia Vaughn discussing the deadline to register to vote in Indiana and the importance of making sure one's voter registration is up to date. They also talk about the challenges that some citizens may face, including being purged from the voter rolls and the need to request an absentee ballot. With the election just around the corner, this episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in staying informed and exercising their right to vote.

So don't miss this episode of Community Connection, where Tina and her co-host tackle the tough topics and provide valuable information on how to navigate the complexities of voting in Indiana. Listen now and make sure you're prepared for the election!

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Speaker 1: WTLC AM, W236 CR Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
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Speaker 2: And good afternoon and welcome to Community Connection. I'm Tina Cosby. Today is Monday, Monday, Monday, all day, Monday, all day, Monday, October the 5th. Welcome to the show. Glad you are here with us. Eric, you're laughing because we just have to... We have to just emphasize Monday.
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Speaker 3: We have to.
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Speaker 4: Monday, Monday.
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Speaker 3: And you said all day. I love it.
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Speaker 5: All day long.
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Speaker 2: Monday, indeed.
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Speaker 3: All day is Monday.
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Speaker 2: All day is Monday. It's a great Monday. A wonderful looking Monday.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Weather is just an extension, I think, of the weekend, to be honest.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: The weekend was like this.
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Speaker 2: The weekend was absolutely lovely.
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Speaker 3: Wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 2: Enjoyed it. Enjoyed it. Did you have a good weekend?
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Speaker 3: You know, I did. I had a good weekend. I was a part of something for Pace downtown on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: I emceed an event, the three-on-three basketball game over at Bicentennial Plaza right outside Gainbridge. It was a full-day event. A lot of fun. Got a workout. I wasn't playing ball, but I was emceeing, so the voice was a little rough yesterday morning and even this morning. But I think it's coming back now for the most part. But it was a lot of fun. Weather was great. And then my wife and I went out for dinner after church. And I was telling you off the air, we had two salads. And these salads were, you know, there was a meal. Had some bread that came with it. And I think we decided to get some spinach dip. And, okay, I'm not going to say where. It wasn't Ruth's Chris, but you would have thought so.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you're saying.
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Speaker 3: Price-wise. And it was like we had two salads. She had a salad. I had a salad. Nice size. Almost $ 90, the tip included, for two salads.
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Speaker 2: Did you all happen to look and see what the tax is, what the food and beverage tax is now at restaurants? I need to look at it because I went out this weekend, too, to eat. And it just seemed incredibly high.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so it wasn't just me.
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Speaker 2: No, no. And I had a gift card that offset some of the costs. I mean, I didn't get that much. I didn't even get a Coke. I had water with lemon. I didn't get an appetizer. And it was still with the tip, which was automatic because our party was larger. Don't get me going on that.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And the taxes... It was more than $ 50. Was it really?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I need to look at that bill.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the entree I think was like $ 23 or $ 24 or something like that. I mean, it was less than $ 25. It was $ 23 or $ 24.
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Speaker 3: Maybe $ 24.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember. But I do remember it was just under $ 25.
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Speaker 3: More than $ 20, just under.
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Speaker 4: But again.
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Speaker 2: Because I was with a party, so to speak, and they added on their automatic gratuity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, automatic.
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Speaker 2: And then I looked at the taxes, and I'm like, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: I got to check that out on ours and see if it's there, because we didn't, neither one of us thought about the taxes at that point. I thought, well, maybe we've been out to dinner before, and it's like, it seems like it's gone up. So maybe they're hitting us in taxes.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you know what? It wasn't just... I did... You know what? I take that... Okay, here's the thing. There was a $ 10 dessert that I... And I don't really eat desserts, but I got to take home. So it was $ 35. It was $ 35. And it ended up being over $ 50.
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Speaker 3: Over $ 50.
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Speaker 2: I forgot about the dessert. Probably because I don't eat desserts.
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Speaker 3: I got to check the taxes.
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Speaker 2: And I was asked to bring a dessert.
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Speaker 3: I got to look at that. Because I do know, it's been a long time ago, I stopped at the Double Arches. This has been, gosh, 10 years.
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Speaker 2: Don't say the name.
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Speaker 3: Oh, oops.
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Speaker 7: I didn't.
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Speaker 6: You didn't.
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Speaker 2: You didn't say the name. I'm with you. I'm right there with you.
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Speaker 3: I stopped by there. I didn't know they had something called an eat-in fee.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 3: Eat-in fee. It was on the ticket, on the receipt.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 3: They charge you for eating inside the restaurant. Yeah. Now, if you don't go in, they don't. I'm sure it's still there. So an eat-in fee. Eat-in fee. It was just called eat-in, and it showed the amount that I was being charged in addition to what I paid for on the bill.
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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: I'm serious. It hasn't been 10 years. It's been less than 10 years.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 3: So I was surprised. I said, well, this is new to me. I'm being charged because I'm eating inside as opposed to taking it with me.
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Speaker 2: Y'all can have your inside. You can have all your lights and heating or cooling or whatever. Y'all people getting ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 2: They are getting ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: Eat in fee. I'm like, I didn't, I didn't know. So I just, cause I normally, you know, you'll look at your receipt and go, okay, okay, you're good. Or you expect it to be whatever.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: I was just going to say that was, that was, I thought, well, when did that start? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, again, a $ 10 dessert and a $ 23, $ 24, that's $ 34, $ 35 tax. It was more than 7% sales tax. There's a food and beverage tax thing. I'm going to have to. And I wanted to look at that. And then the automatic. And I, too, am not going to name the place.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: But here's what got me. They said that they could not seat us because we had a party. We thought it was going to be 10 and ended up being only eight. And again, I'm not the hostess. The hostess was just venting to me. The person who was hosting was just venting to me about what had happened because they had gotten there early to make sure we had seats for everybody. And they said they don't see, it was a Saturday night and they don't see more than seven at a time. And she, I think she had a reservation and she's, they said, well, we can't honor that reservation because we don't see it more than seven. And she said she escalated it and took it all the way up to the manager and talked to everybody that she could talk to. And she kept apologizing to us because as a party, we did not get to sit together. It ended up only eight of us being there, right?
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So they had four of us at the area we requested the 10 or the 8 to 10, which was a real, real, real long row. So they had four. They let us have those four in the booth in the back in the corner. It was that comedian that used to say that. I think it was Flip Wilson or somebody years ago in the booth. But anyway, it was all the way in the back. And then across the aisle, we weren't sitting together. Across the aisle, they had us in an elevated booth. But in no way, shape, or form were we able to sit together, right? We were just close by, so... We walked back and forth between the tables.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 3: You couldn't sit?
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Speaker 2: No, no, no. So when the ticket came, when our tickets came, they treated our bill as a party greater than seven. So we all got charged, even though we weren't sitting together. To me, that's two separate tables.
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Speaker 3: I totally agree.
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Speaker 2: But it wasn't my party, and it was not my protest to make, because... First of all, I noticed we were there 30 to 45 minutes later, and the exact area that we had asked for, 10 people were seated there. Now, we were not told that there was a... Now, it could have been at the time. Again, I'm not the hostess, the person who arranged this party. But in fact, I was getting ready to tell the person who arranged it. I said, I'm going to tell it because somebody else at our table pointed out, well, look, they've got... eight it was nine people not ten eight and then there was another one that joined they gave them that area and they told us we couldn't.
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Speaker 3: Have it you couldn't have it because you had a party of so i said.
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Speaker 2: Well i'm gonna tell she said no no no because if you tell so and so they'll they'll go off and and it's no don't do that i said okay i won't i said i'll leave it alone i said but it sure isn't a very good look you see those kinds of things and so those those are the kinds of things and then So, you know, the seating, I'm like, okay, maybe there was a miscommunication because, again, I wasn't there. I just showed up and sat down in the secondary area they put us in.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, and if there was a miscommunication or what have you, so be it.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: They had to save that for somebody else. I don't think so based on— and this person is pretty smart, pretty intelligent, and very— very good about things like that because that's what she does. So I don't doubt that she said they have a policy that they don't seat more than seven. But to look exactly right in your face and see that not only eight, but nine people were seated in the exact spot that we asked for, that was problematic enough. But then to put us, to separate us so that we weren't able to sit together, but then to charge?
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Speaker 3: That doesn't make, something's wrong. I would have been talking to the manager. about that. At the end of the night, say, hey, this is what happened. You're charging us that we're all together, we're not.
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Speaker 2: Mine came to, like I said, I didn't get any water, and I just got the to-go dessert to take home, to take the dessert home. And $ 35, it had to be. Yeah, it was. And then with their automatic gratuity that they gave to all of us, even though we weren't together and we were not to be seated together, because we were more than seven, they still got their money, their extra money. But I noticed also in addition to the automatic gratuity. Yeah, it is an odd number, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: In addition to the gratuity, I noticed that the taxes, restaurant taxes were a little bit higher. I've got to look at that. I wish I knew what they were.
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Speaker 3: I have to check.
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Speaker 2: But I'm like you. A $ 23, $ 24 meal and a $ 10 should not cost you well over $ 50.
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Speaker 3: No. And for us, two salads.
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Speaker 2: $ 54, $ 55.
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Speaker 3: Two salads and spinach dip, almost $ 90.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: With the tip.
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Speaker 2: Mine was well over $ 50.
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Speaker 3: And these were good salads.
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Speaker 2: Oh, were they?
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Speaker 3: Still, they were very good, but not worth that amount of money.
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Speaker 2: My meal was average. It was okay.
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Speaker 3: Ours was good. I could have bought maybe a few groceries.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, it just it just goes to show that we're feeling the economic pinch.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
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Speaker 2: You know, just just the the the cost of a salad or the cost of an entree or whatever. They're ridiculous. And then all of the things, all the extras that have to be tacked on to it. But like you said, you and you and your wife had a really nice time. I enjoyed the party and I was not the stinker at the party, although I could have been. I was not. I behaved. I looked at it and squirmed and didn't like it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2: It's not for you to say, Tina. Not for you to say. And everybody had a good time. But I will not be, for me, now I know where you went and it's fine.
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Speaker 3: I think you told me to off the air.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. And for this particular place, I've never really gone there anyway.
00:11:39
Speaker 3: Oh, you've never been there?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I've been there. What I'm saying is I've never patronized.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
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Speaker 2: Because I've just never cared for it. The first time I went there, I didn't like it. But I've been there two times since because this last time because of a party. Well, actually, the time before, another person wanted their party there. So I go, I don't care. It's not about me.
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Speaker 3: I've been there. We've been there a few times. And this last time we were there wasn't very good.
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Speaker 5: No we were.
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Speaker 3: Disappointed food's real pedestrian it's like it's changed or something.
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Speaker 2: It has and that's what now some of the folks at the party they talked about the food oh did they and how some menu items had changed and it wasn't as good as it once was so but so we weren't alone in that no we weren't alone but i i have no interest in going back there not on my own yeah well but i'm i'm i'm a trooper i i'm a i'm a team player and if You know, that's where they want to go. Everybody, you know, that's where the group wants to go.
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Speaker 3: I go. My wife said, this is it for this place.
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Speaker 2: She did.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to come back. This is that's just ridiculous. I agree.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But and I'm not a cheapskate, you know, not at all by any means.
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Speaker 6: No, no.
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Speaker 2: You know, I like a sale, but I also like to pay. I like to have a say so. And I understand, you know, if somebody has to work a big party. But if you're working a big party, work a big party. You weren't working a big party. You were working two different tables on two different sides of the aisle. So that's not a big party. But I like, and if there is, there was also a place on there for additional tip.
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Speaker 3: Now that gets me right there. Additional? It's like you've already figured it in. It's already been included. Why should I give you an additional tip? Yeah. What's that for?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the same thing. I went to buy a bagel.
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Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 2: I went to buy a bagel. They literally pulled it out of the bin.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: Dropped it in the bag and then hit the thing. And the screen said, would you like to leave a tip? I kind of got the thing out of the bag myself.
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Speaker 3: Let me go over there. I'll get it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get it right now.
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Speaker 3: Two steps. That's crazy. It is crazy. That's where tipping is out of control.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, aggressive tipping.
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Speaker 3: Aggressive. I think on the East Coast, I've heard it was about a year or so ago, maybe two, they were adding what they call a kitchen fee. Yeah, finding all these fees.
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Speaker 2: And that was supposedly.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's a way to thank the kitchen staff for the excellent food. Well, I've thanked you with the tip, I thought.
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Speaker 2: Would you have heard tip share? Tip sharing, I guess.
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Speaker 6: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: But I like to have the say-so as to whether or not I felt like the service was warranted and deserving.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the automatic tip that was on my bill Saturday, it was fine. I mean, you know, the waitress did not do badly, and it was fine. But it by no means rose to the level of additional. Well, ours was great.
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Speaker 3: We've been there before. And the tip, you know, I've always tried to tip well. But it wasn't included. And I looked at that for a moment and I thought a lot of lettuce, $ 90 of lettuce.
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Speaker 2: I had some strawberries and some greens and you had some greens in a, in a appetizer, spinach greens.
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Speaker 3: Spinach greens, and a little bit of pineapple. It's like, okay. So she said, this is it. I said, I agree.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But all in all, we both had good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we did. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's worth noting and sharing with our listeners. When you go out, pay attention.
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Speaker 3: Oh, do pay attention to that.
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Speaker 2: Especially now in these economic times because certain extra fees can be added to your bill or to your check. And if they don't add up, question it because it's getting there. I mean, even if you go to the place you call the double arches and you sit down and have something to eat in there, check and make sure.
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Speaker 3: Check it.
00:15:37
Speaker 2: What do you call it? The eat-in. It was an eat-in fee. Eat-in fee.
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Speaker 3: Now, they don't call it a fee. It just says eat-in. But it is a fee.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: To eat in.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:15:46
Speaker 2: So it's just as good sitting out there in your car.
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Speaker 3: It sure is.
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Speaker 2: Get all you need from the condiments and the napkins.
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Speaker 3: Take it out to your car.
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Speaker 2: Take it out there and sit down in the car that you don't pay for or are paying for.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
00:15:58
Speaker 2: But you don't need to pay their rent.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of, Tina, there was a story. I don't know if you heard about it. A woman who was, this was on TikTok. Mm-hmm. She, I don't know if I want to say the name of the store. It's well known. Wally World. Out in Kansas, I think. She made a purchase. I think she was going to buy a Chef Borardee. And it was on sale for a dollar. A dollar a can. So she thought, I'm going to buy some of this. That's what it, you know, showed on the thing, on the scanner. Price, I can't think of what it's called. Anyway, so she gets the register, scans it. Now, the actual regular price is $ 1. 34. is what it was. So it rings up at the register, $ 1. 44. But it was on sale for a dollar. So she's like, why does it say a dollar on the shelf? And it's more than the original price was, which was $ 1. 34. They wanted her to pay $ 1. 44. But it was on sale for a dollar. So she said, definitely check. Because sometimes I've heard stories, they can change those prices because they're electronic now. between the time you leave the shelf and get to the register. And I would hope that's not happening. But the electronic, I'm sure you've seen the electronic price tags, or for lack of a better word, on the shelves now. A lot of the stores can change it electronically. They don't have to do any stamping or anything.
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Speaker 2: You know what's bugging me? I'm seeing more and more of just barcodes underneath products and no prices.
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Speaker 3: I've noticed that too.
00:17:31
Speaker 2: And it's like, how are you supposed to know what you're paying for or what you're buying? And sometimes you don't know until you get to the counter.
00:17:39
Speaker 3: That's true.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:17:40
Speaker 3: Sometimes you don't know.
00:17:41
Speaker 2: Get to the checkout, you don't know.
00:17:42
Speaker 3: And it's like, wait a minute, what word?
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Speaker 2: But yeah, they can change those things electronically anytime they want.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. Anytime they want. And I don't think that's fair.
00:17:51
Speaker 2: I was at a store yesterday and they wouldn't accept my coupons.
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Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: And I had them, they finally got it to go, but I wasn't leaving because it was a dollar off.
00:18:02
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you're trying to save money.
00:18:04
Speaker 2: It says store coupon not accepted and they had to reprogram something. To make it accept my coupon. I don't care what you have to stand here and do, how long it takes.
00:18:12
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, I'm going to get my money.
00:18:14
Speaker 2: So get your money. So stand up for yourselves.
00:18:16
Speaker 3: Happened to us, too, at the store. And my wife, she's good about that. She knows how to find the bargains. And we've come through the register a few times. And she's like, hold it. We get the redone. We turn around. We have to go back to the service desk or whatever it is and say, hey, they overcharged for this, this, this, and this. She's watching that receipt on it. very closely indeed.
00:18:38
Speaker 2: Yeah you gotta watch gotta watch everywhere you are enjoy yourselves but and and you know do what you can but just always watch because every penny counts nowadays every penny count 317 480 1310 317 480 1310 is the number to the show the lines are open As always, and on the show today, the return of our voter education contributor, Julia Vaughn. That's coming up in our second hour. She's going to talk about a lot of things, including including voter protection, voter protection. Also, she's going to talk about the fact that today is the last day to register to vote in the state of Indiana. I was up about 6 o'clock, maybe a little bit before 6, 5.30 this morning, and I was going down the list of everybody's voter registration. No, I did. I was going myself, my two adult, my two young adults, my father, my sister, my nieces, everybody that I knew that I could check, that I had their birthdates and years, I checked. And thank goodness everybody was current Oh, that's good. And there and active. So we saw no issues whatsoever. But you've still got time to do that. But today is the last day. Joey's going to talk a little bit more about that.
00:20:00
Speaker 3: The last day is today, most definitely.
00:20:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then tomorrow is the first day. Where we really got to get down and get busy.
00:20:06
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
00:20:07
Speaker 2: Get busy, busy, busy, busy, buzz, buzz. We got to get busy. So again, Julia and voting and all that good stuff coming up in our second hour. So please stay tuned for that. Some of you had some questions you wanted to ask Julia. And I'm sure she's only too happy to answer them. Now, Julia is going to be with us every Monday to and through the election, November 3rd. She's going to be with us every Monday. With the exception of next Monday, which is Indigenous Peoples slash Columbus Day holiday.
00:20:41
Speaker 3: That's right. It's a holiday.
00:20:44
Speaker 2: Her company, she has to be somewhere for the company. Anyway, she's going to join us that Tuesday. So that'll be the only variation. Other than that, she's with us every Monday. Next Monday, which is Columbus Day, federal holiday. Next Monday is a federal holiday. So she will be with us on Tuesday of next week.
00:21:03
Speaker 3: Are we off that day?
00:21:05
Speaker 4: No.
00:21:05
Speaker 3: Okay, we work on that day.
00:21:06
Speaker 2: We get a couple of good holidays.
00:21:08
Speaker 3: We do.
00:21:08
Speaker 2: We get Juneteenth.
00:21:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, Juneteenth.
00:21:11
Speaker 2: What's the other one?
00:21:12
Speaker 3: Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:21:13
Speaker 2: MLK Day, yeah. Duh.
00:21:16
Speaker 3: That's early, early in the year, right there.
00:21:18
Speaker 2: Early in the year. Well, early year, mid-year.
00:21:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, early, mid.
00:21:21
Speaker 2: Early and mid-year. Those are two that we get consistently, and so I don't mind working.
00:21:29
Speaker 3: Neither do I.
00:21:29
Speaker 2: I don't mind working at all. And, you know, so.
00:21:33
Speaker 3: Because we know Columbus didn't really. Discover America? Did he? Did he?
00:21:38
Speaker 2: He stumbled upon it.
00:21:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, he stumbled upon it.
00:21:41
Speaker 2: Someplace.
00:21:42
Speaker 3: I think it was the West Indies.
00:21:44
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:21:45
Speaker 2: Got lost.
00:21:46
Speaker 3: Got lost. Yeah, he did. America was already here. Okay, I'm done.
00:21:49
Speaker 2: You can't discover something that's already here.
00:21:51
Speaker 3: No, you can't.
00:21:52
Speaker 2: Anyhow, that is the only deviation from the calendar. So I want you all to know. that you can rely on every Monday, with the exception of next Monday, and then she'll be here with us that Tuesday, the next day. So more on that, again, coming up in our second hour. Right now, though, the lines are open, 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310, for whatever may be on your mind. Eric, we can do the weather now. We kind of did a little preview just looking out the window.
00:22:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did.
00:22:28
Speaker 3: Teased it a little bit. We can take it all the way here now. I love it. I'll tell you, I'm looking up at the sky right now. It is a beautiful, beautiful blue. All the sunshine. It's 68 right now. That's what it is currently. We've got some winds out of the northeast at about 12 miles per hour. Going for a high of 73 this afternoon. That's nice. And then tonight, 45. Tomorrow, how about 74? And then on Wednesday, 80. And sunny. Sunny all the way through Friday at this point. Looks good. Should be a good week. Love it, love it. 68 now as we came on the air, as James would say, about 24 minutes ago. So still there now. Going for 73 this afternoon, a little later this afternoon.
00:23:13
Speaker 2: The start of fall break for a lot of youngsters.
00:23:17
Speaker 6: Already?
00:23:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, well. Yes. Some point in time throughout this week and then I guess throughout the month, the rest of October, fall break.
00:23:27
Speaker 3: Oh, man.
00:23:28
Speaker 2: My grandson goes on fall break after Friday.
00:23:31
Speaker 3: Really?
00:23:31
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:23:32
Speaker 2: He just got there, too. But I don't know. August.
00:23:35
Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
00:23:36
Speaker 2: First week of August.
00:23:37
Speaker 3: I guess for us, for me, it seems like it's just been.
00:23:39
Speaker 2: There was no such concept when I was in school back in 19-nothing. No. No, no, no, no, no. Now, there was the thing that we always looked forward to were parent-teacher conferences.
00:23:52
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:23:52
Speaker 2: Because we would get out a day and a half. We would get out a half day the first day, and then the next day we'd have all day.
00:24:00
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:24:01
Speaker 2: And that was about it. And that was always in the fall.
00:24:04
Speaker 3: That's true. Always in the fall. Yeah, yeah, so.
00:24:07
Speaker 2: We always look forward to parent-teacher conferences. So this new thing, this new language that we had to learn, Fall Break.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: Fall Break. It's like, well, really?
00:24:16
Speaker 5: Okay.
00:24:16
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:24:17
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:24:19
Speaker 2: So there's that. You sent me something that was really intriguing regarding Metro Blocks, Eric.
00:24:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Metro Blocks.
00:24:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, the data center.
00:24:31
Speaker 3: Data center.
00:24:32
Speaker 2: Scheduled to... appear, I guess, or scheduled to build, rather.
00:24:37
Speaker 3: In Martindale.
00:24:37
Speaker 2: In Martindale, yeah, in the neighborhood. So what do you got?
00:24:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Indy Economic Development Incorporation, they're having a meeting on the 7th from 530 to 7 at the Frederick Douglass Park there at 1616 East 25th Street. Yeah, as you know, back in April, they approved for the data center Metroblocks to build on that vacant lot of 25th and Sherman Drive, which used to be a drive-in decades ago. And Indy Economic Development, a nonprofit that acts as the city's economic development organization, organized, I'm sorry, negotiated nearly $ 56 million in tax breaks on property and equipment for Metroblocks. In addition, the $ 56 million in Savings, tax savings for Metroblocks, a potential tenant of the property could save, are you sitting down, up to $ 339 million on the purchase of new equipment. How did that happen?
00:25:38
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:25:40
Speaker 3: And at the community meeting, residents can learn more about the tax incentive package and potentially community benefits. If you're interested in attending, you have to fill out a register and fill out a form. I'm sure on the website. This is from Wish TV that I'm reading. The Metropolitan Development Commission is expected to hold a public hearing and vote on the tax abatements at 1 o'clock p.m. October 21st at the CCB, City County Building. And that story came from Mirror Indy, which Wish TV shared. This is where I got that from.
00:26:16
Speaker 2: Talk about a package.
00:26:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a package. $ 339 million on the purchase of new equipment. Wow. For Metroblocks.
00:26:28
Speaker 2: Y'all better get to these meetings.
00:26:30
Speaker 3: Go to the meetings.
00:26:30
Speaker 2: Go to the meetings.
00:26:31
Speaker 3: Let them know. Let them know. So again, the Indy Economic Development Incorporated, they're hosting a meeting, 530 to 7, October 7th, and that's just a few days away, at Frederick Douglass Park. It's 1616 East 25th Street. That's in the.
00:26:50
Speaker 3: Recreation center. Yeah.
00:26:52
Speaker 2: Well, tonight, um, city County building, uh, the last public meeting, uh, public hearing, so to speak, um, on the mayor's budget, 2027 budget tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. Yeah. City County building. Um, I believe it's seven o'clock usually.
00:27:14
Speaker 3: Sure.
00:27:15
Speaker 4: Anymore.
00:27:15
Speaker 2: I make absolutely sure I double and triple check. Um, but yeah it's the last opportunity you know before the you know the final yeah and it's on the budget.
00:27:31
Speaker 3: So it's open open to the public public hearing public hearing can be there make your feelings known as to whether or not forward or against yeah it's 7 7 o'clock 7.
00:27:46
Speaker 2: O'clock tonight most of them do at 7 A full council meeting and final 2027 budget public hearing.
00:27:55
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow.
00:27:56
Speaker 2: Tonight at 7. So a full council and the final public hearing on the 2027 budget.
00:28:04
Speaker 7: Wow.
00:28:04
Speaker 2: So that's also coming up tonight. So let's go ahead and take an interesting request by the attorney of that woman who was not fully executed in Tennessee.
00:28:16
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
00:28:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to tell you what he wants now.
00:28:19
Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
00:28:19
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
00:28:20
Speaker 7: All right.
00:28:33
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:28:44
Speaker 2: And we are back with Community Connection on this beautiful Monday, October the 5th.
00:28:51
Speaker 3: Wow.
00:28:52
Speaker 2: Beautiful fall day.
00:28:53
Speaker 3: Beautiful fall day. Love to save this back for when we have all that snow and it's 15 degrees outside.
00:28:59
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: Yeah. Um, Did I hear you correctly? No rain in sight for the foreseeable future?
00:29:05
Speaker 3: No rain in sight for the foreseeable future all the way through, let's see, actually through Sunday.
00:29:12
Speaker 4: Oh, my.
00:29:12
Speaker 3: Saturday.
00:29:13
Speaker 2: Through Saturday?
00:29:13
Speaker 3: Through Saturday.
00:29:14
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take that.
00:29:15
Speaker 3: Highs in the 70s, 80 on Wednesday, but in the 70s for most of the week.
00:29:21
Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love it. Yeah, last week we heard the, I don't know what you call it.
00:29:30
Speaker 4: Oh.
00:29:30
Speaker 2: Horrifying news.
00:29:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, horrifying.
00:29:34
Speaker 2: It was horrifying in a number of... And again, this is no... disrespect or no ignoring of the victim.
00:29:43
Speaker 3: Right.
00:29:44
Speaker 2: Uh, or the victim's family because they suffered a horrific trauma.
00:29:49
Speaker 4: True.
00:29:50
Speaker 2: Uh, with the, the loss of their loved one, uh, more than 30 years ago. But, uh, you know, fast forward that time and the person, responsible, found to be responsible for carrying out that horrific crime, you know, underwent some pretty horrific conditions herself as the state of Tennessee was trying to put her to death. They couldn't do it. After two doses of the lethal drugs that she was supposed to have, she was still alive and breathing. And so they had to rush her to the hospital where it's still not clear what her condition is, but from what I've been reading if it's true, as you say, between the lines, she's on some kind of a life support or whatever.
00:30:38
Speaker 3: I saw that. Yes.
00:30:39
Speaker 2: And, and so Eric, you and I were, we're talking about this and it's like, so what does this state, by the way, you're, you were right last week. One of the, the, the, the commissioner or the head of DLC or whatever it was resigned.
00:30:54
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:30:54
Speaker 2: Behind that resigned behind that. But, Here's the thing. Let's let's give this a thought. And I I've never known. You know, I guess I've never processed how I feel about or felt about the death penalty one way or another. But here. OK, they're going to they have to because she's not they have to save her life. So what is the state going to do? Are they going to save her life and then go back and kill her?
00:31:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, really? That's good. We we talked about that.
00:31:23
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: And what will they do? It's like save her life and then kill her.
00:31:26
Speaker 2: Save her life so they can go ahead and kill her. And legally, I understand that there is a warrant for her death. And so legally, they would legally be forced to carry out that warrant.
00:31:37
Speaker 3: Right.
00:31:38
Speaker 2: But, you know, in the natural, simply speaking, they're going to save her life so that they can kill her.
00:31:45
Speaker 3: Exactly.
00:31:46
Speaker 2: So that is why her attorney, Stephen Farrell, is advocating for her death row sentence to be commuted.
00:31:53
Speaker 6: Right.
00:31:54
Speaker 2: Citing the failed execution as punishment enough for her crime. Uh, the attorney Farrell emphasized that attempting another execution would not bring justice for Pike's crime and called on Tennessee governor Bill Lee to spare her from future attempts at execution. Her physical state following the botched execution is uncertain with Farrell stating, we don't really know the prognosis yet and may not for several days. Um, Assume she's unconscious.
00:32:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would assume.
00:32:27
Speaker 2: Critical condition, I would assume. I don't know about life support or whatever, but, you know, maybe not even. I don't know. I don't know.
00:32:35
Speaker 3: They've said nothing more so far.
00:32:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. Her attorneys clearly criticized Tennessee officials for the failed execution, citing problems with the intravenous lines that resulted in the pentobarbital flowing into her body instead of her bloodstream. She was sentenced to death for the murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming she was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid at the time of the crime. So, yeah, but anyway, her attorney is asking that they commute her sentence, I guess. She's not asking that they vacate it.
00:33:17
Speaker 3: Just commute it. Okay.
00:33:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be commuted.
00:33:22
Speaker 3: Commuted.
00:33:22
Speaker 2: So probably life in prison without any possibility of parole, I would guess.
00:33:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably so.
00:33:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. 317-480-1310.
00:33:35
Speaker 6: 317-480-1310.
00:33:35
Speaker 2: Continue to follow that particular story. That's a dilemma and a half.
00:33:40
Speaker 3: It is. I mean, I personally wouldn't want to be the governor.
00:33:44
Speaker 2: No, and probably the commissioner who resigned probably did so. Self-preservation because... He did so before he was removed because when you resign, you get to maintain all your whatever benefits and what have you. You resign or you retire, and that's how that goes.
00:34:02
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.
00:34:05
Speaker 2: That doesn't protect him from civil liability and probably doesn't protect him from any criminal liability, I guess, if such an investigation is launched, I would suspect. I don't know. Just saying.
00:34:20
Speaker 3: And would it even affect those who were trying to administer it? You know, if it were, I don't know who, you know.
00:34:26
Speaker 2: Well, I think it has to be prison officials.
00:34:28
Speaker 3: Prison officials, but I wonder if it would be, I don't know, if they have a nurse. Qualified immunity.
00:34:36
Speaker 2: It couldn't be anybody in the medical profession, I wouldn't think, because that would go directly against.
00:34:40
Speaker 3: Oh, that would go against. Yeah, yeah.
00:34:42
Speaker 2: So it couldn't be any kind of.
00:34:44
Speaker 3: Have to be prison officials.
00:34:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have to be. I guess they could be trained in.
00:34:48
Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah, maybe trained in how to do it.
00:34:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, trained in how to do it.
00:34:52
Speaker 6: Wow.
00:34:53
Speaker 2: And I don't blame medical officials for not wanting that, you know, you don't want that liability. Plus, that goes against what you're licensed to do. You're licensed to save lives.
00:35:04
Speaker 3: Save lives, not take them.
00:35:06
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:35:06
Speaker 2: I do know that this is a, there have been so many concerns about the racial, Lopsidedness. And I think that's an understatement of the number of the people who have been placed on death row. An understatement.
00:35:26
Speaker 3: That's an understatement, sure. Definitely is.
00:35:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. Saw online where Donald Trump has hit the road and is going in states.
00:35:45
Speaker 2: That seemed to be in trouble and now is telling people when he was trying to get them not to use mail-in balloting or early voting, he's now telling them use early voting and vote early, vote early, vote early. And vote like I am on. He's maintaining that people who vote should vote like he is on the ballot. He is maintaining that he will give, and I want to get this right, every American... $ 5, 000 if the Republicans maintain control of the government.
00:36:21
Speaker 3: Now, wouldn't you consider that bribery? Of course.
00:36:28
Speaker 2: Okay. Add it to the list of all the other.
00:36:31
Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure I was.
00:36:33
Speaker 2: Yeah. Emoluments, clauses. I mean, I would consider accepting a nearly half-billion-dollar jet an issue.
00:36:41
Speaker 7: Yes.
00:36:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that would be an issue initially when that happened.
00:36:46
Speaker 2: It would if you had the system of checks and balances actually working the way it should.
00:36:51
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:36:53
Speaker 2: Instead of people just falling in line and being yes men that are in elected office. And they should go.
00:36:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:37:00
Speaker 2: They should go.
00:37:01
Speaker 3: They should.
00:37:02
Speaker 2: Because they're not working for the people. They're working for one man. And it's not what they were elected to do.
00:37:09
Speaker 3: Not at all.
00:37:09
Speaker 2: Not elected to work.
00:37:10
Speaker 3: Not at all.
00:37:13
Speaker 2: Anyway, he's promising the checks, the $ 5, 000 checks. But if anybody out there is going to vote for Republican slates because they think they're going to get a $ 5, 000 check, check your mailboxes and see where your tariff checks are. Check your mailbox. See where they are.
00:37:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, the tariff.
00:37:38
Speaker 2: And what's the other one? There was one other one that he promised that hasn't come through yet. So if y'all not tired of waiting, go ahead and do what he asked you to do because you think that this professional liar is going to give you $ 5, 000. Go ahead.
00:37:59
Speaker 3: $ 5, 000. $ 5, 000. Didn't someone call in last week and say the, I think it was someone's brother who said they were going to vote for him. Or they'd vote that way so they could get to the 5,000.
00:38:13
Speaker 2: Some of our listeners. I believe it was Samuel.
00:38:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it.
00:38:19
Speaker 2: Was his brother. His brother told him he was going to go ahead and vote Republican so he can get that check.
00:38:23
Speaker 3: Get the check, yes.
00:38:26
Speaker 2: You're not going to get a check. You're not going to get a check. But, yeah, and.
00:38:35
Speaker 2: Uh samuel l uh made you know he made good points too because you know that i think he said it was same conversation where he asked had he ever voted he said for what and he said there was a problem right there not not known but you know not not just just samuel l but a lot of people and if we think long and hard enough we've all got somebody uh in our families who uh i know i definitely do we we have a couple of folks, and you just stay away from the conversation because you can't penetrate that.
00:39:07
Speaker 3: No, you cannot.
00:39:09
Speaker 2: Only pain at the pump and maybe pain in the grocery store will, maybe.
00:39:14
Speaker 3: That pain hasn't lightened at all at the gas pump or at the grocery store. No. I got to get gas when I leave today to go home.
00:39:24
Speaker 2: How much how much are you paying?
00:39:26
Speaker 3: Oh, I've almost kind of lost. I think it's like three.
00:39:31
Speaker 2: Oh, you use regular.
00:39:32
Speaker 3: I use regular. Sometimes I'll go with the mid grade. I have a small engine, but I have to, you have to use, I.
00:39:40
Speaker 2: Have to use, no, not premium. I have to use mid grade or I do have an option, mid grade or premium. So I stay with the cheaper option. Once a month or so, I'll fill it up with premium, you know, like maybe go up to Costco. Costco, send me a check.
00:39:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, come on. Sponsor the show, Costco.
00:39:59
Speaker 2: Sponsors, please. But I'll go there as, you know, being a member, you get your gas a lot cheaper. And they only offer two options, regular or premium.
00:40:09
Speaker 3: Oh, so there is.
00:40:10
Speaker 2: There is no middle.
00:40:10
Speaker 3: No middle.
00:40:11
Speaker 2: Regular or premium. So maybe once. I'm out there, so I'll fill up with the premium, and then the rest of the time, my drive-around gas. It's kind of like your good shoes and your dress shoes. My drive-around gas is my mid-range.
00:40:25
Speaker 6: Mid-range.
00:40:26
Speaker 2: If I've got some driving to do, like out of town or more sustained than not, I'll get the good stuff to premium to put in there.
00:40:34
Speaker 3: It seems.
00:40:36
Speaker 2: Nutty, but that's kind of the way I have to rationalize it and actually fund it.
00:40:41
Speaker 3: What have you been paying for premium?
00:40:44
Speaker 2: For premium, the cheapest I found was the other day, and I just did a little. The cheapest I found was $ 4. 15. The average, for the most part, is like $ 4.
00:40:57
Speaker 3: 54.
00:40:58
Speaker 2: That's for mid-range.
00:41:01
Speaker 3: I almost went mid-range last week, and I said, ugh. Not yet. I have, but at these prices, I have not.
00:41:10
Speaker 2: There's no reason to. And that's the thing. If I don't have a reason to, why pay extra?
00:41:14
Speaker 3: Right.
00:41:14
Speaker 2: Now, the last time I looked at premium, it was $ 4. 99.
00:41:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, see, that would have me, well, if you have to have it, you have to use premium.
00:41:26
Speaker 2: If you have to use it, and there's some cars that don't, yeah, there's some cars that'll only run on that.
00:41:30
Speaker 3: That's it. You have to pay that five bucks a gallon.
00:41:32
Speaker 2: I would encourage you all to get down to the city-county building and vote early.
00:41:36
Speaker 3: There you go.
00:41:36
Speaker 2: There you go.
00:41:38
Speaker 3: Definitely.
00:41:38
Speaker 2: Or if it doesn't bother you, you're not upset about it. And, you know, I am kind of— I am rather surprised that we're not hearing more complaints about that.
00:41:47
Speaker 6: I am, too.
00:41:48
Speaker 2: Not only from our listeners, but from America, I guess.
00:41:52
Speaker 3: It seemingly has been pretty quiet.
00:41:54
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:41:54
Speaker 3: You've not heard a lot of protesting or any of that. Just people are paying it.
00:41:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they figure this is par for the course. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so also I saw something online about, it's called an inconvenience store.
00:42:14
Speaker 3: Oh, inconvenience?
00:42:15
Speaker 2: An inconvenience. You know, you talk about convenience stores. And it says here, two Seattle-based artists have transformed a former 7-Eleven into the inconvenience store. It's a pop-up art gallery featuring quirky... and un-quirky, quirk, quirk, I said quirky, sounded like I said quirky, uh, quirky and unnecessary items, um, has worked from over 70 artists with prices ranging from a dollar to 10,000, certainly inconvenient. Uh, the idea is to make art more accessible to the average person. And I know I like to go in once a week and buy a $ 10, 000 piece of art.
00:42:59
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I would too.
00:43:01
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:43:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd love to do that.
00:43:02
Speaker 2: Who wrote this thing? Curators Lillia Deering and Marianne Carter sought abstract interpretations of mundane convenience store items from artists to create unique and special pieces. So, for example, this exhibit includes items like a Bluetooth landline, That plays a single U2 song.
00:43:29
Speaker 3: Really?
00:43:30
Speaker 2: What is a Bluetooth landline?
00:43:31
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you.
00:43:32
Speaker 2: I don't know.
00:43:34
Speaker 3: Landlines used to be for the phones back in the day before mobile phones, cell phones.
00:43:40
Speaker 2: Pre-tangled USB cords. Pre-tangled?
00:43:43
Speaker 3: Pre-tangled.
00:43:45
Speaker 2: And a yardstick candle that shrinks when it's used.
00:43:49
Speaker 3: Wish I could have come up with stuff like this. So they're making money off of this?
00:43:52
Speaker 2: Making money off. I got a bunch of stuff in my garage.
00:43:55
Speaker 3: Pre-tangled? I could have.
00:43:58
Speaker 2: USB cords. I got... You know how people have their junk drawer? Yes. I've got a cord junk bag. And probably most of these cords in this junk bag don't fit anything that is up and usable. I just have to get rid of them. But then you never know.
00:44:14
Speaker 3: You never know. You might need it at some point.
00:44:16
Speaker 2: Something might come up. So I got to get over that mindset, though. If I need it, I need it.
00:44:20
Speaker 1: Wow.
00:44:21
Speaker 6: Um.
00:44:23
Speaker 2: Hopes to challenge the concept of convenience stores by offering one-of-a-kind, long-lasting items that contribute to making... Oh, this is in Seattle.
00:44:31
Speaker 3: You know, unique Seattle. Okay, Seattle. You know, there was a time I wanted to live there.
00:44:35
Speaker 5: Seattle, Washington?
00:44:36
Speaker 3: Seattle, Washington. Never been there, but wanted to live there because I heard so many good things about it and the weather. I know it's not always sunny like this there, but... Always wanted to, at one time.
00:44:47
Speaker 2: I heard it's very green because it rains a lot.
00:44:49
Speaker 3: That's what I've heard. And it doesn't get freezing cold, supposedly.
00:44:52
Speaker 6: Oh, really?
00:44:53
Speaker 3: Because the weather systems go up over and around Seattle. So I don't think they get much snow, if any. I didn't know that, yeah. If they do, it's kind of a rarity, I think. But I thought, oh, Seattle, the Space Needle. But then I changed my mind. I said, that's a long way from family.
00:45:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Oh, by means or by ways of a follow-up, I just wanted to, all weekend long, you know, social media is a powerful thing.
00:45:23
Speaker 3: You were right about that.
00:45:25
Speaker 2: You know, I need to start, we got to do more. Because so many people saw the Angela Davis interview. Well, in addition to the other stuff with the Hall of Fame thing. The Angela Davis interview. And I was at church yesterday, and a couple of people said, oh, we enjoyed the, and I'm like, wow. Because sometimes I'm just in a bubble in my head, and I don't think that people, but they are, they are paying attention. I need to bring my, well, I got my computer.
00:45:58
Speaker 3: And also watching online.
00:45:59
Speaker 2: My other computer down here.
00:46:00
Speaker 3: Watching us right here.
00:46:01
Speaker 2: Because I need the screen here, and so I would need another computer here. So you could have one there. To be able to interact online, because it's hard to go back and forth between people. Two screens. So remind me to bring down.
00:46:10
Speaker 3: Bring you out tomorrow.
00:46:11
Speaker 2: Laptop tomorrow. And that way we can do more interaction because this thing, you know, the social media is.
00:46:17
Speaker 3: It's big.
00:46:18
Speaker 2: I've been dragged into it kicking and screaming. You know me.
00:46:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
00:46:23
Speaker 2: But, you know, it's a double edged sword. I won't deny that. But it's.
00:46:29
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:46:30
Speaker 2: So anyway.
00:46:30
Speaker 3: You can you can watch us. Also.
00:46:33
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:46:33
Speaker 3: YouTube.
00:46:34
Speaker 2: YouTube.
00:46:35
Speaker 6: Facebook.
00:46:35
Speaker 3: We're there.
00:46:35
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:46:37
Speaker 2: And finally, the Colts won in London.
00:46:39
Speaker 3: Finally.
00:46:40
Speaker 2: Finally, in spite of themselves again.
00:46:42
Speaker 3: In spite of themselves. That's true.
00:46:45
Speaker 2: I just don't get that. I love Jonathan Taylor, though.
00:46:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jonathan.
00:46:49
Speaker 2: He can run that ball. Jonathan, run it. My old coach used to say, that boy can run that ball.
00:46:54
Speaker 5: He can run.
00:46:55
Speaker 2: And the fever, a little bit of controversy with what I think, y'all may think differently, but what I think is a case of, the general manager, Amber Cox, throwing Kelsey Mitchell under the bus. Because the long and the short of it was, Amber Cox put out a statement. The fever had been getting a lot of heat for people complaining about the racist and MAGA-like fan base that follows Caitlyn Clark online and some other things. the Asia Wilson going into the stands to address a fan who stood up and pointed and was walking toward her and all of that. And so I guess the GM decided, Amber Cox, that she had had enough of everybody on, because it was a social media firestorm, that she had had enough of everybody saying that the Fever fans were racist and unruly and blah, blah, blah, and said not one single fan has ever been from a fever game escorted because of bad behavior by the rules. And so in her exit interview for the season, Kelsey Mitchell missed fever the last eight years. Just, you know, you can't, I mean, you talk about blood, sweat, and tears has been donated, given to that entire organization. She said that based on her experience, a lot of things has been tough. It's been really tough, especially when you play. with somebody like Caitlin Clark. She said, the organization is great or incredible, but when you are a fever girl playing on a team with someone like Caitlin Clark, it is not easy. It is not easy. And she said, the things that have gone into my DMs over the last couple of years have just been crazy and it's hard to play for fans who you know some like you and some don't. And so, For Amber Cox to say that any criticism of Fever fans being whatever they're being criticized for badly is not based in reality is directly going against what this very, very good, very credible player, soon to be a doctor of... of letters that's right soon to be dr kelsey mitchell was saying why would she she's got the receipts and and when you're talking dms that for those who direct messaging threats racist names two or three years of that that gets old And it gets very difficult to play with. And so what she was saying was, yeah, it does exist. She's not saying that the organization did it. She said the organization is incredible or has been incredible, but it's a difficult thing to do. And I think for the general manager still to not have walked anything back is not a good look. And so the firestorm continues. And so there's talk that Kelsey Mitchell may be leaving.
00:50:04
Speaker 3: There's been some discussion.
00:50:05
Speaker 2: Some discussion about her leaving. That was more than an exit interview for the season. That might have been her swan.
00:50:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like seeing people. Bye.
00:50:13
Speaker 2: It's been nice. Then they're talking about the coach may be fired at Shake-Up and all kinds of other things. So the underlying criticism is that nobody is taking good enough care of Caitlin Clark. The coach is not coaching well enough and players aren't giving it. It's just, it's off the, it's out of control in a lot of ways. But there are, I think most of the fans that go there to the games physically show up. I think they're probably, there are, you know, there's season ticket holders and many of them have been through the good and the bad pre-Caitlin. And so that's not there. But you have to acknowledge if one of your best players says it's a difficult environment it's a difficult landscape now that that we're here where we are with this particular player that it's difficult to navigate you've got to acknowledge that and not say it's not based in reality.
00:51:09
Speaker 3: Right and as you said she's got the receipts.
00:51:12
Speaker 2: She's got the receipt so what more does she have to do or say uh i think she said more than she needs to i think she's not more, you know, maybe she could say more, but I think what she said speaks for itself. And I think the fact that the longer we go without that fever GM, either walking it back, clarifying or, or validating what Kelsey has to say or had to say, I think that that says a lot too. So, you know, it's, it's going to be interesting. So yeah, while the Colts are winning, they're on a win streak. Um, the, uh, the, the professional women's basketball team could be a hot mess and, you know, in the coming days. And if it is, so be it. Um, you know, there's not for us to say, but, um, if I were to say, um, that, yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out, whether they fire the coach, whether they, whether Kelsey Mitchell stays, whether, you know, anything else of, of, significance happens, that's going to be interesting because that place is, yeah.
00:52:22
Speaker 4: 317-480-1310.
00:52:22
Speaker 2: You want to squeeze one quick call in here?
00:52:25
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker 2: Is that Mark?
00:52:26
Speaker 3: That's Mark.
00:52:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark, go ahead. How are you?
00:52:29
Speaker 7: Good afternoon.
00:52:30
Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
00:52:32
Speaker 6: Just to comment on your Indiana fever.
00:52:37
Speaker 5: Kelsey Mitchell is actually better player than.
00:52:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
00:52:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:52:43
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:52:43
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:53:08
Speaker 4: That's my comment.
00:53:09
Speaker 3: Thanks.
00:53:10
Speaker 2: I'll wait to see the show.
00:53:11
Speaker 4: You guys have a great day.
00:53:12
Speaker 2: Thank you.
00:53:12
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mark.
00:53:13
Speaker 2: And, you know, oddly enough, the controversy isn't over who's the better player.
00:53:19
Speaker 3: That's true.
00:53:19
Speaker 2: The current controversy is not over who's the better player because if you ask me, hands down.
00:53:23
Speaker 7: Oh.
00:53:24
Speaker 2: Hands down.
00:53:25
Speaker 3: Hands down. And it's been said by many.
00:53:27
Speaker 2: Kelsey Mitchell is way better than Kaitlyn Clark. Way better. So that's– I would put that to bed. That's not the issue.
00:53:35
Speaker 3: It's been said here and outside.
00:53:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, and outside. The issue is what is Indiana's professional women's basketball team going to do to support the best player– that they've had on the team, how are they going to support her? And what are they going to, are they going to continue with the illusion that this is all made up and nothing has happened and, and, you know, it's not based in reality or are they going to come to the table and say, you know what, maybe we didn't see what we should have seen and we're going to do our best, uh, to no longer facilitate these, these, these comments. And we're certainly not going to add to.
00:54:12
Speaker 3: The environment, you know, they have to do something. Something's got, You would think.
00:54:18
Speaker 2: But then again, if they don't, that.
00:54:20
Speaker 3: Says a lot, too. That does. And if she's gone, it's their loss.
00:54:25
Speaker 5: Well, yeah.
00:54:25
Speaker 3: Their loss. I think a big loss, personally.
00:54:28
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:54:28
Speaker 2: Because you've got to tamp that down. You have to. You just have to tamp it down. And it's so unfortunate. It's just so unfortunate.
00:54:36
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00:54:45
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00:54:46
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00:54:51
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00:54:53
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00:55:06
Speaker 2: We love that.
00:55:07
Speaker 3: So when they're home again, check it out. They're playing Pittsburgh. You know what?
00:55:13
Speaker 2: They should win that game, too.
00:55:15
Speaker 3: They should win. I hope so.
00:55:16
Speaker 2: They should win that game, too.
00:55:17
Speaker 3: I hope so. Keep the momentum going.
00:55:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep the momentum going. You've got the best running back.
00:55:22
Speaker 3: You have.
00:55:23
Speaker 2: In the entire league.
00:55:24
Speaker 3: So make it happen.
00:55:24
Speaker 2: Just give it to him and say, go.
00:55:26
Speaker 1: Jonathan, go.
00:55:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's ready. He's always ready to go. He's like, let me have it.
00:55:30
Speaker 2: Give him a couple of blocks and let him go to work.
00:55:32
Speaker 3: Exactly.
00:55:32
Speaker 2: I think they'll win more games than not. I think so, too.
00:55:35
Speaker 3: I hope so.
00:55:36
Speaker 2: And I'm just, you know, it's all about love, Coles. I ain't hating on y'all.
00:55:40
Speaker 3: Neither am I.
00:55:41
Speaker 2: We want to see everybody do well.
00:55:42
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. And stay healthy.
00:55:45
Speaker 2: And stay healthy.
00:55:46
Speaker 3: Stay healthy.
00:55:46
Speaker 2: It's hard to do in the NFL.
00:55:47
Speaker 7: It is.
00:55:48
Speaker 3: It is. It's a man's game, for sure.
00:55:50
Speaker 2: Truly, indeed. Well, we're going to take a quick break and be right back with more Community Connection. Julia Vaughn coming up right after this.
00:56:09
Speaker 1: WTLC AM, W236 CR Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:56:26
Speaker 2: And we are back top of the second hour on this Monday, October the 5th. And Eric, we'd like to welcome back.
00:56:32
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:56:33
Speaker 2: For the season going all the way up to the election. She's here. She's here. Julia Vaughn, executive director of Common Cause Indiana and our voter education contributor. Let's give her a hand and welcome her back for the season.
00:56:46
Speaker 4: Yes.
00:56:47
Speaker 3: Here we go.
00:56:47
Speaker 2: We got it. OK. Julia, how have you been?
00:56:53
Speaker 6: Well, I've been hanging in there. If only I got that kind of ovation when I walked into the State House.
00:57:01
Speaker 2: We'll see what we can do to arrange that. Well, they're not exactly warm, huh?
00:57:08
Speaker 6: You know, I've had warmer welcomes, you know, lesser affairs.
00:57:14
Speaker 2: It means you're doing your job. It means you're doing what you have to do. So today is important. I was alluding to that at the top of the show, but I'll let you take it away.
00:57:27
Speaker 6: It is the deadline to register to vote here in Indiana. It comes way too early, but it is what it is. So if you are not registered, if you have moved, you need to update things today. because after midnight tonight, it will be too late. I also encourage people, even if you have been registered for decades, you vote every election, be sure to go to indianavoters.in.gov. You can also go to the Marion County website and check your voter registration, because funny things happen. I've talked to too many people whose mother, you know, relatives, something happened, and all of a sudden, They disappeared from the voter rolls. And let's not forget that our Secretary of State, Diego Morales, did hand over our voter file to the federal government last year. And we really don't know what they did with it. So even if you know that you're registered, go and check because, again, you won't have time to re-register until after the general election. So voter registration deadline today. And then early voting starts tomorrow. It will be just at the county clerk's office until two weekends before election day. But if you are eager, if you just can't wait, I know there are people who compete to be the first person in line down at the clerk's office to vote. So if that's you, you know, get on your mark and go because tomorrow is your day.
00:59:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed. And just backing up a little bit about the disappearing from the voter registration rolls, Cousins, mysteriously, for whatever reason, her father, who is 85, just disappeared. And she said she had talked to some other people, and it seems like, not entirely, because there are other folks that had nothing, you know, they're not even close to 85, But it seems like there's an inordinate number of people who are over the age of 80 who are being, you know, purged from the roles. Now, this is according to her. Have you heard that?
00:59:41
Speaker 6: I've heard of people's parents. Now, I don't know if they were in their 80s, but I've heard of several people who I checked for my mother and they weren't there. So it is odd. Now, you know, we do know that if you are a naturalized citizen, Because of some new laws that Indiana passed in 24 and 25 that were implemented earlier this year, they have been purging a whole lot of people who are naturalized citizens from the rolls because they used outdated data from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to do this citizenship cross-check. And anyway, we know because of the lawsuit that we were engaged in that a bunch of people have been purged. So particularly if you are a naturalized citizen, they were supposed to notify you with a letter from your county election board, but these letters did not have to go out certified mail. So we know a lot of people did not receive the letter. If you didn't respond to it within 30 days, you were purged. So again, if you know any naturalized citizens, if there are folks in your community who who are recently naturalized, let them know to check their voter registration before midnight tonight. There are going to be a lot of people who show up to vote and are told, no, you're not on the list anymore. And, you know, it will be too late for them to do any remedy. Well, technically, because they've been wrongfully purged, they could get a certificate of error or But, you know, that that becomes very complicated, particularly if you're trying to vote on Election Day. So, again, better be safe than sorry. Check that voter registration and make sure nothing funny happened to yours.
01:01:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:01:35
Speaker 2: And naturalized citizens, especially as far as my cousin and her father, he was born in New Albany.
01:01:43
Speaker 6: That's a foreign country to some.
01:01:47
Speaker 2: I know it is. Yeah, it is so. But yeah, there's that. So I guess we'll stop right here real quickly because we want our listeners to know what they want to know. Jeff, you have a question for Julia Vaughn?
01:02:03
Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
01:02:05
Speaker 5: You're following the polls and everything. Right now, you know, even the Republicans are acknowledging that they're going to get worked over on November the 3rd, that they're going to get pretty beat up. And now you've got Donald Trump's saying that he's going to call in DHS agents or call martial law. Do you think that they are putting themselves in the middle of a cash 22? Because, you know, they're going to get, by all indications, they're going to get creamed at the polls. The Republicans and the Democrats are going to do very well. And if they do follow up with these threats about sending people to these polling booths, Homeland Security, whatever. People are going to say, well, you know, you can't call a file because you've been saying this for almost a year that you were going to enact martial law or send the agents to these polls. And the courts, you know, the whole goal isn't to tie up these and just come to the election, the courts, whatever, because Republicans are in a no-win situation. They're going to look bad either way. Well, yeah. So I just want to get your perspective on it.
01:03:17
Speaker 2: So on the declaration of martial law, thanks, Jeff. Appreciate it. Or sending troops, if you will, to the polls, Julia, what's the guidance there?
01:03:30
Speaker 6: Well, certainly we need to be prepared for anything. I think that those kinds of extreme situations where the federal government is bringing in troops, I think that is is not likely to happen and particularly not likely to happen in a place like Indiana. It's more likely in blue states where, you know, Trump sees the governor and others as unfriendly to him. So I do not think that is something that we really is likely to happen here in Indiana. But we need to be prepared for all kinds of things because As Jeff said, the Republicans are desperate and, you know, they stand to lose some seats in the state legislature. I understand the fifth congressional district is looking competitive.
01:04:19
Speaker 2: So any time you have people who are at risk of losing power.
01:04:23
Speaker 3: Then.
01:04:29
Speaker 6: They can do desperate things. But what I want to encourage your listeners to, I think it is really important for people to vote early because there's just less chance of things happening during a 28-day early voting period than on election day. So I encourage you to make a plan to vote. And if you can vote early, I encourage you to do so. I also want to let folks know that we will once again be deploying volunteers for the election protection project. You know, that's the national coalition, more than a hundred organizations led by the lawyers committee on civil rights under law. So we are, excuse me, the recruiting training volunteers who will be out at targeted polling locations, keeping an eye out for any kind of, you know, problem that, more than like declaring martial law or bringing homeland security at polling places, what we are more likely to see here in Indiana is some Yahoo in a pickup truck with a Confederate flag coming around the polling place yelling ugly stuff. And unfortunately, much of that is covered under First Amendment. There's not a whole lot you can do about that. But You know, that's just the kind of stuff that we see year in, year out, not this organized stuff by the government. Don't think that's likely to happen here. But what is happening already is I fear this is going to have a chilling impact on voter turnout. You know, public opinion, people are asked, do you fear intimidation or some kind of violence at the polling places? And every year, the people who say yes increases. So, you know, that has a chilling impact. So people think, oh, it's dangerous. I don't want to vote. So that's why I encourage you to vote early. And if you can go in a group, if you can take somebody with you, you know, there's always strength in numbers. So I just want to encourage people to plan ahead, make that voting plan, go take somebody with you. if you can vote, and if you see anything irregular, if you see anything that causes you to pause, I want you to call the election protection hotline and report it because that's how we get that kind of thing stopped. So again, that number is 866-OUR-VOTE. That translates in numbers to 866-687-866. But, you know, we'll be prepared for any kind of trouble that anybody tries to pull around the election.
01:07:26
Speaker 2: Julia, another caller has a question about ICE. Brother Man, go ahead. How are you?
01:07:31
Speaker 7: How are you doing? Tina, you and the lady. Julia, yeah. Yeah, Ms. Julia, do you think that he'll try to put the ice people out there on people trying to vote?
01:07:46
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:07:48
Speaker 6: I think it's unlikely. You know, again, I think that's more likely to happen in blue states than in red states like Indiana, but... Just a few weeks ago here in Indianapolis, we saw that surge. I mean, my organizer, my co-worker was out at an apartment complex on the Far East side registering voters when I showed up and went after one of the landscaping crew. So we know they're out there, right?
01:08:20
Speaker 4: But again.
01:08:23
Speaker 6: Here in Marion County, I think the county is thinking ahead and making provisions for should this kind of thing happen. Law enforcement, there are laws that say you can't show up at polling places. You can't try to impede voters accessing the ballot through intimidation by any kind of law enforcement. Again, I think we're more likely to see individual actors doing stupid stuff That could end up intimidating than we are to see the government deploy law enforcement at polling places. And if they do, that's again, when you get in touch with the Marion County Election Board, because it is their call to move to get them out of there and observe state law that again says you cannot use law enforcement to intimidate voters.
01:09:19
Speaker 2: And I can get it, the election board number to call.
01:09:23
Speaker 6: We'll get it.
01:09:26
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. We'll get it before.
01:09:28
Speaker 6: It starts with 327. Yeah.
01:09:34
Speaker 2: I know all of those prefixes down there. And so in terms of what individuals should do, even if they suspect that they see ICE or what have you, just proceed as you would? Well, report it. Report it, yeah.
01:09:51
Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah, call the hotline. I mean, that's really important because while Marion County Election Board has the authority to deal with it, we want to know when this is going on. So that's really the number to remember is the 866-OUR-VOTE or 687-8683 because we will communicate with the Marion County Election Board directly. it can be difficult to get through on their public number, frankly, on election day. It runs busy all day. So, you know, but we need to be aware of where this is happening because, remember, we're a vote center county.
01:10:28
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:10:28
Speaker 6: And so you can vote anywhere. Anywhere. And so we want to get the word out to people. If there is something bad going on at, you know, the church over there on the west side, there are, you know, within a couple miles, other locations. So, I think that's the thing to do. If you see something that makes you uncomfortable, then find the next closest polling place where you can vote without any fear of intimidation or a problem. Yeah, yeah.
01:10:58
Speaker 2: And so the hotline number is basically what you need. We do have the number for the Marion County Election Board, but as you said, Julia, the hotline number, 866-OUR-VOTE. But the Marion County Election Board, 317-327-5100. 317-327-5100. But again, 866-OUR-VOTE. Let's take another quick call. Marsha, go ahead.
01:11:23
Speaker 3: How are you?
01:11:26
Speaker 1: Hello.
01:11:27
Speaker 6: I'm trying to find out, is there any new rules for first-time voters and high school, college voters?
01:11:38
Speaker 4: Any new?
01:11:38
Speaker 6: Very good.
01:11:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead. And the question is, any new rules for first-time voters and college voters? Thank you, Marcia. Appreciate it. Go ahead.
01:11:47
Speaker 6: Depends on where they go to college. If they go to a public university here in Indiana, which would be Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State, Indiana State, University of Southern Indiana, or Ivy Tech, then they can no longer use their student ID to vote. So that is the one major change for college students. Public universities no longer can use their student ID to vote, so they are going to have to get an Indiana driver's license, an ID card, or a passport. So very good question. It, again, only applies to public universities. So if they go to Butler, Marion, they've never been able to use their student ID to vote because those are private schools. So big change. And we are definitely working in college towns like Bloomington, West Lafayette, to make sure that students understand that because, you know, don't want them to show up with out a driver's license or an id or passport uh thinking they can use that student id because that was another unnecessary change to make voting more difficult that our legislature passed.
01:13:14
Speaker 2: Yep um solution in search of a problem i guess as always But I do want.
01:13:21
Speaker 6: To emphasize, you know, that there has been a lot of talk right over the spring and summer about the SAVE Act. That was federal legislation and in other bills. So recognize that none of those passed, you know, so you don't have to worry about a different ID requirement if you're not a public university student. But there's a tremendous amount of confusion because of all the talk about, well, am I going to have to prove my citizenship? Do I need to go get a passport? You know, that sort of thing. So nothing passed at the federal level, but the college ID bill did pass here in Indiana.
01:13:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:14:00
Speaker 2: Good to know. Good to know. So the Election Protection Project, the website is protectthevote.net, protectthevote.net. The hotline is 866-OUR-VOTE, 866-OUR-VOTE.
01:14:13
Speaker 3: Correct.
01:14:18
Speaker 2: Most of the elections coming up are pretty standard, with the exception of the Secretary of State's race, which apparently, from what I understand, has become quite competitive. There's going to be a debate coming up in the next couple of days, I believe on Wednesday?
01:14:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Indiana Debate Commission is holding the first debate for the general public, will be aired statewide. So exciting because we do actually have a competitive statewide race here. Doesn't happen very often, but, you know, a buy is running. And so that last name will carry you a long way. And, you know, it's very interesting that former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is running as an independent. And what I find so significant and interesting about that is that how he does will have significant impact on other independent candidates in the future. Right now, if you want to run as an independent, you're not affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic Party, you have to go out and collect a lot of signatures from voters in order to qualify for the ballot. And that's why we don't have very many independent candidates. It is a very hard job to go out and collect those signatures. So if former Mayor Ballard gets at least 2% of the vote, which he's almost certain to do, then that means that independent candidates will have automatic access to run. They won't have to go out and collect tens of thousands of signatures to run statewide. They would have automatic ballot access. if he gets to 10% of the vote, then independents would start having conventions and nominate their candidates that way. So it could have tremendous impact on the choices that voters have here in Indiana. My opinion and that of my organization is that we don't have enough choices. Usually it's between a Republican and a Democrat. Occasionally you'll get a Libertarian candidate, but very difficult and very rare to have independent candidates on the ballot. So this could have a lot more impact than just who gets elected to be the chief election officer, which is increasingly a very important office in our state. And, you know, former Mayor Ballard has been talking about some very interesting things, things that I don't think the major party candidates would be talking about if he hadn't brought them up. For example, the need to mail every voter in our state a voter guide so they have a real understanding of what's on the ballot and how to cast their ballot.
01:17:22
Speaker 2: That is the most common, one of the most common concerns that have come up on this show is that You know, who's running? How can I tell? How can I find out more? Especially when judges, the question is, should this judge be retained? How do you find out about him? What do you know? And even the Secretary of State's office. I mean, very briefly, can you summarize exactly what the Secretary of State does and why this election is so very important?
01:17:50
Speaker 6: Right, right. You know, it is so common in other states. many states mail every registered ballot. And, you know, some of the other secretary of state, it would cost about two and a half million dollars to do this every election.
01:18:05
Speaker 2: I love that.
01:18:06
Speaker 6: I think that is money well spent.
01:18:09
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:18:10
Speaker 6: I cannot tell you how many basic questions we get from voters who just, you know, don't have experience voting. They need answers. They may or may not have internet access. Sure, some of this information is available online, but that takes some real time and effort to sit down. And again, not everyone on this planet has access, unlimited access to the internet. So just having it arrive in your mailbox. I've talked to so many voters who lived out on the West Coast where this is really common, and they talk about how their family would take like a Sunday evening to all sit down with their voter guides and go over, like, what do you think about this public question? You know, here's what I think, but what do you think? And it absolutely made voting more of a community activity. which I think can only be a good thing. We need to start talking about issues with our friends, with our families, so that we have a better understanding and we are more prepared to vote. And I think this is particularly important for young voters. We know that our voter turnout in Indiana is bad. but it's particularly bad for young voters. So this is a great way to just get everybody on the same page in terms of the mechanics of voting, the issues that we're being asked to decide, the candidates who are running. It would be a great thing. So again, I appreciate that the independent candidate in the Secretary of State's race has talked about some things that I don't think that the regular two major party candidates would be talking about. Another example is the need to administer elections in a more nonpartisan way, which we have had none of that for the past four years. Diego Morales has used his office in an extremely partisan way. So I just appreciate that some of these issues are bubbling to the top and I would like to invite listeners. My organization is having a watch party for the debate on Wednesday night, and we're going to be down at the Rask Eller. We thought that would be perfect for October. Got an Oktoberfest theme going.
01:20:40
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Oktoberfest German type. Yeah.
01:20:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, we will have some worst platters and some sausage kraut balls. I mean, you know, you can't get enough of that.
01:20:50
Speaker 5: No.
01:20:51
Speaker 6: So come on down. We will provide the refreshments. You can have a beer or whatever it is you would like to drink. But we're all going to watch the debate together and we'll have a little conversation, a little bit of fun. I can also, I'm going to be recruiting election protection volunteers. So if you'd like to be one of those folks who's out at polling places on the lookout and helping voters, providing them with information about their voter rights, come on down to the Rathskeller, 630 Wednesday evening. And I can give you all of the details and we can have some bratwurst and watch the debate together.
01:21:31
Speaker 2: What time does it start?
01:21:32
Speaker 6: 6.30 to 8.30. The debate starts at 7, but yeah, come on down at 6.30.
01:21:37
Speaker 2: The Rathskeller downtown, yeah.
01:21:39
Speaker 6: The Rathskeller down on East Michigan, yeah.
01:21:42
Speaker 2: So Julia, who would be a good person? I've got one person in mind already because I've been looking to schedule a person who, a human voter guide, so to speak, that can explain what each office is and not necessarily tell you who to vote for or whatever, but just explain what each office is and why the office is important to the voter. Anybody you can think of that comes to... If so, you can just send me and shoot me an email or whatever, but I'm going to get that scheduled probably within the next... We don't know more than a week or so.
01:22:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I can think of a couple of academics. Actually, my board chair would be great. And then he's got some colleagues down at the University of Indianapolis who I think would be great, would be great at that. Yeah.
01:22:25
Speaker 2: OK, well, yeah, I can. Well, if you can just shoot me an email and copy them on it and let them know that I'm looking to schedule that soon, that would be great as early voting starts tomorrow. So I probably should have scheduled a little sooner.
01:22:37
Speaker 3: It's.
01:22:38
Speaker 6: Scary how fast this election.
01:22:40
Speaker 2: Season is moving.
01:22:41
Speaker 6: But again, that's why it is so important to make that voting plan. Do not leave it to the last minute because stuff happens. So get yourself a plan together. And we always say this every year, it's the most important election ever, but I think it You know, literally might be true this year.
01:23:02
Speaker 2: Trump's all the others. Literally, no pun intended. Mr. Russell, very quickly. You have a question. Go ahead.
01:23:11
Speaker 7: Yes.
01:23:11
Speaker 4: First, I'd like to say we appreciate you and Common Cause and other organizations that are working.
01:23:20
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:23:21
Speaker 4: To make sure that our most important right is protected, and that is to vote. fairly. And also, I had a comment that in terms of voting and information, I think it's to the 22nd of this month that people can, if they don't think they're going to be able to be able to vote on Election Day, November the 3rd, that they can request an absentee ballot, an application for an absentee ballot. And If they get that absentee ballot, I think that application for that has to be made by the 22nd of this month. But it also has some specifications about voting on that application and might help clear up some things, particularly for young voters or voters that there might be some question about them voting. Also, they had a college fair in North Central last week and Some of the students were not going to be 18 by Election Day, but they were being told by some of the workers that they might be able to work on Election Day and get paid. Do you have any information on that, Julia?
01:24:47
Speaker 6: Yes. Thank you for mentioning that.
01:24:50
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr.
01:24:51
Speaker 6: Russell. great opportunity for high school students. There are some requirements. You've got to have a certain grade point average. You have to get permission from the administration of your school. But yeah, if you're at least 16 here in Marion County, they are happy to sign up high school students to work at the polls and it's a paid position. So absolutely. Thanks for that reminder, as well as the reminder about absentee by mail. You're right. The 22nd of October is the deadline for the application and And again, I want to encourage people, as soon as you get that ballot in the mail, vote it and get it back, because we all know that the mail isn't getting any faster, and it has got to be at the clerk's office by 6 p.m. on Election Day. Here in Marion County, you do have the option of hand-delivering your ballot on Election Day. So that's an option we have in this county. But most people, you know, if you voted by mail, you want to return it by mail. So just encourage you to turn it around as quickly as you can to make sure it gets there on time and your ballot gets counted. Yeah.
01:26:12
Speaker 2: And that's by what, 1159 on Thursday, October 22nd.
01:26:15
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:26:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:26:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is the deadline for the application.
01:26:20
Speaker 3: Indeed.
01:26:21
Speaker 2: Indeed. Julia, as always, thank you. We will see you next week, not Monday, but next Tuesday. And we're looking forward to that.
01:26:29
Speaker 7: Wow.
01:26:30
Speaker 2: A lot of stuff to do, short time to do it in. So we're going to stay on it.
01:26:33
Speaker 5: That's right.
01:26:34
Speaker 7: Indeed. All right.
01:26:34
Speaker 6: Thanks so much.
01:26:35
Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll see you later.
01:26:36
Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
01:26:37
Speaker 2: And we'll be back right after this.
01:26:46
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
01:26:58
Speaker 2: And we are back with Community Connection. Just finished our first election season, if you will. Interview with our voter education contributor and the executive director of Common Cause Indiana, Julia Vaughn. Julia always makes herself available, and we cannot thank her enough. To our listening audience, every election season and this year, this season is no different. One of the more important things, everything that she talked about was important, but if you don't get anything, please get this number for the Voter Integrity Protection, the Election Protection Project. the Election Protection Project. The website is protectthevote.net, protectthevote.net, the Voter Integrity Hotline. If you see anything, notice anything going on, anything at all, you can call this hotline. It's available 24-7. The number, 866-OUR-VOTE, 866-OUR-VOTE. If you just want the straight numbers, 866-687-8683. 866-687-8683 is the number for the voter integrity.
01:28:25
Speaker 5: Hotline.
01:28:27
Speaker 2: I loved what she talked about with the voter guides that are mailed out in states other than Indiana, because those voter guides cover a lot of questions that a lot of our listeners ask every year and every cycle, every election cycle. Julia is going to get us information on human voter guides who can explain without, you know, we're not going to tell you who to vote for or whatever, but just explain what each office is what each office does and why it's important to you. And not only is the Secretary of State the chief elections officer, it's good that this office is competitive and higher profile than it usually has been. And you're not just going to cede ground to whatever the party is in power, which lately has been Republicans just automatically get it. So there's going to be a lot of, you know, there's just going to be a lot to to learn and to know and in as julia said in a short period of time in a short amount of time yeah so we're going to do our best i uh i'm also going to get in here uh as soon as i can get a hold of her and maybe somebody will hear uh on the air miss cordelia who miss cordelia is not as diplomatic uh she will tell she will speak her mind but She's a veteran. She is a national voting, you know, national political strategist, a veteran who has seen it all, knows it all and can lay it right out there for you in black and white. Very plain. So and volunteers. And she says, Tina, you need to get me on. And I'm like, Miss Cordelia, you name it. You tell me. And and so we're going to get Miss Cordelia as well. But as Julia said, some academics that can clearly explain to you what each space on the ballot represents, what each office represents. So I promised, and I mean that, we're going to get that for you sooner rather than later. So I'm going to wait for Julia's email and get in touch.
01:30:45
Speaker 3: That is valuable information to have.
01:30:48
Speaker 2: Very valuable information. It's very valuable.
01:30:50
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many people that, don't know and that'll help to bring understanding sure so many don't.
01:30:56
Speaker 2: Know yeah a lot of people don't a lot of folks don't but um uh here we go let's see what is this uh oh i've heard of that um someone just sent me a recipe for uh marry me chicken.
01:31:13
Speaker 3: Pasta really yeah i've never heard of.
01:31:16
Speaker 2: It oh it's all over the internet um.
01:31:18
Speaker 3: There Okay, I chose I've been falling behind.
01:31:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, marry me stuff. Marry me. I thought it was something about the election, but it wasn't. And I don't like to be rude. So I said, what are you doing? I'm just looking at, I thought it was something. Most of the time when I get text messages from one to three, it's all related to the show. So that's why I get it. But marry me pasta. And I guess I'll make it, I guess.
01:31:49
Speaker 4: I don't know.
01:31:50
Speaker 3: Sounds like it might be good.
01:31:51
Speaker 2: It might be. It very well could be. I love being able to look out the window here. Have you ever seen those folks on TV, the commercials where the people come right to you.
01:32:04
Speaker 3: To fix your... Oh, yes, to do your windshield.
01:32:06
Speaker 2: It's happening right now.
01:32:07
Speaker 3: I think I saw a guy, I saw somebody pull up out there.
01:32:09
Speaker 2: It's happening right now.
01:32:10
Speaker 3: It's happening at this moment.
01:32:11
Speaker 2: A technician is doing his thing.
01:32:13
Speaker 3: Isn't that something? It is. Watch it happen.
01:32:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch it happen. But back to the business at hand here.
01:32:20
Speaker 7: Yes.
01:32:20
Speaker 2: Business at hand here. Today, 1159. 1159 is your last opportunity, your final opportunity to register to vote, to check your voter registration, to make any changes to your voter registration. Make sure you are there, that you are active and ready to go. And I kid you not, Eric, and I said this earlier. If I didn't, I'm repeating myself, so, you know, whatever. I must have done about 12 of them this morning. Did I tell you that already?
01:32:51
Speaker 3: You did, but go right ahead.
01:32:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I think I did about 12. Yeah, I did say that earlier. Maybe 12 if I count all of them, but I was checking for everybody. And then I sent out two mass emails. I probably didn't share this earlier. I sent out two mass emails with two different groups and encouraging them to spread in their network. Let folks know. So I had everybody up early this morning checking theirs and those around them because it's just, you just don't know.
01:33:25
Speaker 3: Well, with the strange things happening, people being purged for no reason. That's something I'd like to have an answer to.
01:33:31
Speaker 2: Well.
01:33:32
Speaker 3: Why is that happening?
01:33:33
Speaker 2: Because they, anything to muddy the water.
01:33:36
Speaker 3: It certainly looks that way. It really seems that way.
01:33:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:33:40
Speaker 3: With everything going on, you know, you have to do this. This is changing. This is this. Let's say this. Let's throw all that word salad in there.
01:33:47
Speaker 2: Yes, all of it. And so it's the the urgency cannot be understated, overstated, I should say. We cannot overstate how important this is, because after eleven fifty nine tonight, it's on.
01:34:06
Speaker 3: That's right.
01:34:06
Speaker 5: It's on.
01:34:07
Speaker 6: It is.
01:34:07
Speaker 2: It's like if you're not in there, you're out.
01:34:10
Speaker 3: You're out. You're out.
01:34:11
Speaker 2: If you're not in there, you are out. IndianaVoters.com or Indiana, what is it? There's a more direct site, but IndianaVoters.com. There were some people who were saying that when they went to that website, they saw a donation page. I don't know what their internet was directing them to, but I told them, go back, do it again, and you'll go directly to IndianaVoters.in.gov.
01:34:33
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
01:34:35
Speaker 2: So is indianavoters.com is the easy one to remember.
01:34:39
Speaker 3: Indianavoters.com.
01:34:40
Speaker 2: Indianavoters.com. It will not, if the landing page is something to donate, go back out and do it again and it'll get you right to check. And right in the middle of the page, a blue page, a blue landing page, and in the middle is check my voter registration and iPod. promise you. It cannot. It is physically impossible for it to take more than 35 to 40 seconds.
01:35:04
Speaker 3: Carefully enter that information in those keys.
01:35:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, make sure this is carefully entered, but I just can't see how it can take very much longer than that. It's that easy, folks.
01:35:13
Speaker 3: Less than a minute.
01:35:14
Speaker 2: It is that easy. It is so easy. Now that I do appreciate. Indiana makes it easy to do that. You don't need a whole lot. All you need is your name and your date of birth and the county of residence. That's it. And you put all that in there. Computer goes to work and the computer machine goes to work and kicks it right back out. And it'll say submit. And then you go to the next screen and it'll say success.
01:35:40
Speaker 3: Success.
01:35:41
Speaker 2: You are active.
01:35:42
Speaker 3: You're active.
01:35:43
Speaker 2: You're an active voter in Marion County or Kosciuszko County or whatever county you are. You are there. And so.
01:35:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so, so, so, so, so, so, so very important. And we're looking for a great turnout. We're looking for a super-de-duper turnout on November 3rd. But I would agree. I cannot agree more with Julia Vaughn that we want to encourage everyone, if you can. And I know it might be going against traditions or It could be going against how you usually do things, but this year is different. So if you can, vote early. Vote early. We can't hand out, but if you vote early, call into the show, tell us, we'll give you an applause line.
01:36:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
01:36:40
Speaker 2: That's free.
01:36:40
Speaker 3: We can do that. We can do that.
01:36:42
Speaker 2: We can't give away anything of value or substance or anything like that. We can't do that.
01:36:48
Speaker 3: Can't offer you $ 5, 000. Can't do that.
01:36:50
Speaker 2: No, but we can do some other things.
01:36:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
01:36:53
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:36:54
Speaker 2: So give us a call. 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310. Let us know if you voted early, what your voting plan is. If you are going to vote early, let us know what your voting plan is for when you do vote. If you plan to wait all the way to election day. But I'm telling y'all, I mean, I can't tell you what to do But I can certainly, as Julia says, encourage you to do the safe thing, the smart thing, the wise thing. That's how you counter the shenanigans. That's how you counter it. You counteract it by always being a step ahead. They can't take that away once you cast that vote early.
01:37:41
Speaker 3: That's true.
01:37:41
Speaker 2: If you wait until Election Day, which I'm not raining on anybody's parade that wants to wait until Election Day, but there's so many variables that can take place that can happen on Election Day. They can't get to everybody with early voting. They can't.
01:37:56
Speaker 3: No.
01:37:56
Speaker 2: How are they going to cover all of us if we all spread out and vote early?
01:38:00
Speaker 3: Vote early? It's like they can't now.
01:38:01
Speaker 2: They can't. And so now at the city-county building, if you're so inclined, as she said, to make a trek downtown— And do it or two weeks before the election, that weekend, two weekends before the election. All of these satellite places are going to open up. Flood them. Flood them. Make it a day. Go, you know, grab them. Get a crew together and y'all go vote and then go get something to eat. Well, I don't know. But they cannot. You know, if we work together and there's power in numbers and that's that's so true. There's no way that that ice or whoever can get to it. They can't. They can't get to everybody. And if we all make a conscious decision to make sure we get it done early, we have already we've already beaten the curve.
01:38:54
Speaker 3: Exactly.
01:38:54
Speaker 2: We got ahead of the curve. We got ahead of it. So I'm just saying that that would be a great thing to do. We can vote early. I know I'm going to vote early. I wish it was as short a walk as it was.
01:39:07
Speaker 3: You could just walk right down and be there.
01:39:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we were down at the Emmes building downtown.
01:39:13
Speaker 3: You could just walk over.
01:39:13
Speaker 2: You could just walk over, yeah.
01:39:15
Speaker 3: A couple of walks.
01:39:16
Speaker 2: But that's okay. I don't care, you know, because if I think about how far some of those who predated me came before me had to walk, and probably, what do you call it, uphill, backwards, and in heels. The old saying goes... What was that Ginger Rogers said? She did the same thing Fred Astaire could do, only backwards and in heels. Yeah, and that's true. But I'm just saying the obstacles that were put before those who came before me are nothing. You know, I'm talking a few extra blocks. I mean, we went from one or two blocks to one mile.
01:39:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, one mile.
01:39:51
Speaker 2: It's exactly one mile, isn't it?
01:39:53
Speaker 3: I think it is exactly one mile.
01:39:54
Speaker 2: I think it's exactly one mile.
01:39:56
Speaker 3: We are outside of the mile square now, but still.
01:40:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. We're right at a mile.
01:40:01
Speaker 3: Just at a mile from there.
01:40:03
Speaker 2: And so it might be good if I get here early enough. And I might. I might be able to.
01:40:08
Speaker 3: Just swing by.
01:40:09
Speaker 2: Swing on down. Knock it out.
01:40:12
Speaker 3: Get it taken care of.
01:40:14
Speaker 2: And again, it is at the clerk's office, the Marion County clerk's office, which is at the city county building, which is located downtown, 200 East Washington Street. It is directly, it sits directly in between Delaware and Alabama.
01:40:28
Speaker 3: That's it.
01:40:29
Speaker 2: Delaware is one way north. Alabama is one way south. Just think of Alabama south, the south. Alabama is the south.
01:40:37
Speaker 3: Alabama south.
01:40:37
Speaker 2: South, go one way down south, way down Alabama south. And the city-county building sits in between those two streets, sits in between those two streets. It is the easiest, shortest route if you enter from the Delaware street side because that is the side of the building where the clerk's office is located. And all you have to have is your driver's license. All you have to have is your driver's license. And Julia made a wonderful point for our young people, because we want you all to be able to have as stress-free and an easy day as possible as well. We don't want anybody locking y'all out. And so for students who are at our public, the state's public universities, She named them Indiana University, IU, Purdue, Ball State, Indiana State University, University of Southern Indiana or Ivy Tech. You will need, you must have your driver's license or a passport to show as proof of identity. You may no longer use your student ID to vote. And again, that is only for our students in state schools. public institutions, IU, Purdue, Ball State, Indiana State, University of Southern Indiana, or Ivy Tech. That is a big change for the public universities, which previously were, students were able to use their student IDs no longer due to recently passed legislation. You must have a valid driver's license, license or state-issued identification card, or your passport. Any of those three will get you in and serve as proof of identification to be able to vote. So fortunately, there are no deadlines to get a driver's license or a state-issued ID. You can get those in a day. There's no deadlines for those.
01:42:49
Speaker 3: That's true.
01:42:50
Speaker 2: As long as they're valid. So you can get those anytime if you don't happen to have one. Passports, you probably ain't going to get one.
01:42:56
Speaker 3: No, that's going to take some time to get one of those.
01:42:59
Speaker 2: Even if you put a rush on it, I think a rush is like two to three. Well, I don't know. Maybe.
01:43:05
Speaker 3: You might, but why risk it?
01:43:07
Speaker 2: I wouldn't roll the dice on that.
01:43:08
Speaker 3: I wouldn't risk it on that.
01:43:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's an express thing. Other than driving directly to Chicago? Chicago? I guess it's the closest passport issuing station in Chicago. But so there's that. And I'll remind every one of these again. But, yeah, for our students, you know, y'all, a lot of the thing of it is most students in college and high school, whatever, aren't listening to this show because they're in school.
01:43:38
Speaker 3: They're in school.
01:43:39
Speaker 2: So I'm depending on those who do listen to share the news. with the students so that they will know as well because everybody can't listen to one to three. Everybody just can't do it.
01:43:52
Speaker 3: That's true.
01:43:52
Speaker 2: But those who can, can share.
01:43:54
Speaker 3: Let them know.
01:43:55
Speaker 2: Let them know. Spread the word.
01:43:58
Speaker 3: Get it out there.
01:43:59
Speaker 2: Spread the word. But by all means, please, please, please make sure you and everyone in your orbit is registered to vote by 1159 tonight because after tomorrow it's going to be on and it's going to be a sprint. It's going to feel like a sprint because these deadlines are going to come up very, very quickly.
01:44:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, here we are now. It's like the fifth already.
01:44:19
Speaker 7: I know.
01:44:19
Speaker 2: We started talking about this a month ago.
01:44:20
Speaker 3: We did. And it's like, here we are.
01:44:22
Speaker 2: And it's here right now.
01:44:23
Speaker 3: It's here now.
01:44:24
Speaker 2: So there we have it. And we will be reminding you of the numbers, the rules. The websites and everything else from now through Election Day. Again, Julia Vaughn is going to be with us every Monday, with the exception of next Monday, which is Columbus Day. It's a federal holiday.
01:44:42
Speaker 3: Federal holiday.
01:44:43
Speaker 2: Columbus Day slash Indigenous Peoples Day and the like. She'll be with us that following Tuesday.
01:44:51
Speaker 6: Right.
01:44:52
Speaker 2: But other than that, she's here on Mondays.
01:44:54
Speaker 3: On Monday.
01:44:55
Speaker 2: And is going to stay with us through to and through the election, so. We appreciate that. And yeah, I think that that is about they're going to have their their watch party for the secretary of state debate down at the Rathskeller downtown. I think it's right off Mass.
01:45:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's right there at Mass and New Jersey and Michigan.
01:45:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, right in that little triangle. Yeah, it's a it's a German, very heavily German. It's a German restaurant.
01:45:24
Speaker 5: It is.
01:45:25
Speaker 2: It is the big the big pretzels and the sauerkraut and the sausages.
01:45:29
Speaker 3: I've never eaten there. Have you?
01:45:31
Speaker 2: I have gone to, you know, when I, yes, I have.
01:45:36
Speaker 3: You have.
01:45:36
Speaker 2: Parties, parties there. I've never gone there as just me going out to eat at the Rats.
01:45:40
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:45:42
Speaker 2: But I've gone to parties there.
01:45:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been there for events.
01:45:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, for events and parties. There's a theater attached.
01:45:48
Speaker 3: Exactly.
01:45:49
Speaker 2: Just not too far from there, the Athenaeum.
01:45:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Athenaeum Turner. It used to be called Athenaeum Turners, but Athenaeum.
01:45:55
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, the Athenaeum Turners, yeah, indeed.
01:45:57
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
01:45:57
Speaker 2: I've been to that theater and then I've been to the restaurant, but we always had plated or it was one was a buffet and one was just a plated dinner for all of us. But I've never gone just to just to know as a patron. Kind of heavy. You said kind of big old German food is kind of heavy. You certainly don't walk out there with just a salad.
01:46:20
Speaker 3: No, you don't. You don't. You're walking out with some weight.
01:46:23
Speaker 2: You're walking out with some good old heavy food. Weight, indeed.
01:46:26
Speaker 7: That's true.
01:46:27
Speaker 3: Indeed, indeed.
01:46:28
Speaker 2: And that's this Wednesday from 630 to 830. Every debate starts at 7. So, yeah, come down and join them. And they're also always looking for volunteers. And so we want to keep that out there as well. And there are people who have called looking for things to do. You know, how can I volunteer? How can I help out?
01:46:46
Speaker 3: So.
01:46:46
Speaker 2: This might be an opportunity. I think that's all we have for right now. At least that's all we're going to be allowed to do because time is running out.
01:46:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, the clock is ticking.
01:46:57
Speaker 2: The old clock on the wall.
01:46:58
Speaker 3: I'll say this. It's very nice out, Tina. I think right now the weather service is 69.
01:47:04
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
01:47:05
Speaker 3: Nice. Crystal clear blue skies.
01:47:07
Speaker 2: Got some reports to do, though. I want to go outside and play, but I got to do.
01:47:10
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I want to go play golf.
01:47:12
Speaker 3: Oh, hey, playing. You could get a game in still. Probably all this week at some point.
01:47:16
Speaker 2: I don't know how to stop. But anyway, I got to get my report done. Yeah, all this week. Yeah, I will get a game in or two this week. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Anyway, that's all the time we have for right now. As always, thank you for listening. Our website is praiseindy.com. Willie Moore Jr. on the radio is up next. Please continue to be safe, be well, and stay informed for everyone here. I'm Tina Cosby, and you've been listening to Community Connection.

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