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Speaker 2: Helly, my name is Nigel Jason Hammer right over there

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Speaker 2: with a very special in studio guest.

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Speaker 3: Matt Bear brings his medium's shirt into the studio.

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Speaker 4: How are you, my friend?

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Speaker 1: I'm fantastic, Thanks for having me and everybody and hi YouTube. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Oh night.

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Speaker 3: Before we get into the gas tax, because I want

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Speaker 3: to get your thoughts on that. Like anything road related,

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Speaker 3: we turn to you as the expert on so the

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Speaker 3: gas tax kind of relates to that. Any closures construction

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Speaker 3: we need to be aware of this weekend, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We have a big time closure coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Ed it's south sixty five seventy.

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Speaker 4: What is there a big time opening?

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Speaker 3: Like, I don't think you've came in here and said, guys,

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Speaker 3: can you believe it?

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Speaker 4: Big time opening this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Do you remember Hyperflex back in the nineties. That was

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Speaker 1: a good one when that opened up. What did we

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Speaker 1: have wait to buy? Southbound sixty five seventy coming up

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Speaker 1: this weekend starting tonight, and that's closing from the Norse

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Speaker 1: Sput down to Fletcher Avenue, and that's all part of

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Speaker 1: this I sixty five on the south side where they're

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Speaker 1: building an extra travel late in both directions, so they're

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Speaker 1: having to shut down this portion this weekend from the

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Speaker 1: North Split down past Washington Street, So that's not going

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Speaker 1: to be accessible. If you try to go continue from

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Speaker 1: southbound sixty five to southbound sixty five downtown while you're

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Speaker 1: heading over to the east side, you're gonna get pushed

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Speaker 1: off on the eastbound seventy continuing through the North split. See.

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Speaker 3: And this is like after the final four weekend where

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Speaker 3: everything was closed. This doesn't sound like it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: any better, Matt. This is gonna be a tough stretch man.

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Speaker 3: And the good news on the final foreclosures, we had

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Speaker 3: a couple of them down that we're still going on

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 1: They are clear. I just checked Meridi a Street able

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Speaker 1: to walk out and look around the corner, and that

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Speaker 1: has reopened, and yeah, it's just in time for the

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Speaker 1: closure of the North Plait and Ben all the lanes

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Speaker 1: on Pen are open too, so that's going to help

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Speaker 1: out downtown commuters tonight. I would think all this.

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Speaker 3: Is is like if you if you see a teeter totter,

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Speaker 3: you know, like on the playground, the fat kid at

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Speaker 3: one kid on one end just moves to the other end.

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Speaker 4: That's all that's happening here.

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Speaker 3: One side goes up, one side goes down, but it

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Speaker 3: never is good.

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Speaker 1: That's the perfect analogy. Actually good and that's the fat kid.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and that's part of the thing in this

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Speaker 1: project that we're talking about. This expansion of sixty five

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Speaker 1: is going on into next year probably we're talking maybe

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Speaker 1: early later spring. Yeah, where they're still doing the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: So throughout this summer expect lane restrictions and closures in

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Speaker 1: this particular area. I'll have them all for you. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, that Washington Street entrance ramp is close to

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Speaker 1: south about sixty five seventy. That's going on till the fall.

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Speaker 3: This past weekend, the Final Four was here and Dave Portnoy,

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Speaker 3: the head of Barstool, was doing like his videos and

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Speaker 3: pizza reviews. During one of his pizza reviews, he was

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Speaker 3: complaining about how all the streets were closed in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Man, I was worried about that a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: mean I had the reviews I've seen in the final

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Speaker 1: four have just been glowing. Indy pulls it off again.

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Speaker 1: Andy does it again.

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Speaker 3: We always do this, Joe Hawks said, and Ryan Meers

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Speaker 3: better thank their lucky stars that Indie sports corporate visit.

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Speaker 4: Indy are so good at their jobs.

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Speaker 1: I thank the leadership that was here before them, Hutt

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Speaker 1: and Nut, you know, Ballard, all these guys that were

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Speaker 1: I mean it were really blessed to have those guys

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Speaker 1: a pothole. It's possible. And when you look at Capitol

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Speaker 3: Yeah, any closer to the government hotel almost being done Because.

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Speaker 4: They got that thing up really quick.

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Speaker 3: I thought, my god, they're really you know, all systems

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Speaker 3: go on that because it's their pet project.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like it's.

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Speaker 4: Kind of slowed a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when the city's involved, it will go up in

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Speaker 1: a week. Isn't that amazing? It's yeah, I'm thinking the

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Speaker 1: end of the year on that, including the reopening of

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Speaker 1: at sixteenth in Capital that's not going to be done. Actually,

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Speaker 1: the hospital itself isn't going to open promptly for another

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Speaker 1: year and a half. So word, yeah, Oh it's a monster,

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Speaker 1: get sick just so I can check in. It's it's

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Speaker 1: the Methodist Hospital. It's going to be the new I

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Speaker 1: contact man, we go back in the er man.

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Speaker 2: Is that what they're doing Methodist is expanding and building

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Speaker 2: a total new facility.

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Speaker 4: Is that what that is?

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Speaker 1: A whole new jam. It's going to be a whole

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Speaker 1: new figure. They're going to turn the old Methodist into

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Speaker 1: offices and another Uh okay, maybe I heard a burn unit.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me if I'm wrong on that, But there's going

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Speaker 1: to be other things going on across the street. But

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Speaker 1: that Capitol Avenue, you know, those lane restrictions are killer

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Speaker 1: for people coping from midtown or the North Side. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of this we have to put up with

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, we knocked out the final four

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Speaker 1: and that was so much fun, but then we have

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Speaker 1: like you said, it's the Sea Saw, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: the end fact kid on the Sea Saw. So that's

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Speaker 1: what we're dealing with.

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Speaker 4: Matt, bear with us.

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Speaker 3: One more thing on construction before we talk about some

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Speaker 3: other stuff. So the sixteenth Street Bridge, a lot of

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Speaker 3: people are complaining that closing it down is going to

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Speaker 3: cause a lot of businesses some problems, commuter problems.

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Speaker 4: We've got Long's Bakery in the mix. Now.

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Speaker 3: The Long's Bakery people are like, hey, we need you

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Speaker 3: And along with like Almost Steakhouse and a couple other

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Speaker 4: That name carries a little weight around here.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and these people have tried everything over there. They

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Speaker 1: just had a meeting I believe it was on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: with dBW. They're able to voice their concerns and their

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Speaker 1: concerns are valid. You know, they're losing this huge corridor

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Speaker 1: for two years starting in June. This sixteenth Street bridge

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Speaker 1: over the White River on the west side's happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's odd, it's odd, and they've said please, They've pleaded

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Speaker 1: with everybody, please, can we just have a partial closure?

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe one lane in each direction now has

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Speaker 1: safety concerns, which I get, but there you really want

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Speaker 1: everybody to work together and hopefully find another avenue here

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Speaker 1: because we love Long's Hallville is working their asses off

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Speaker 1: to become a better neighborhood, a safer neighborhood. They've made

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Speaker 1: so much progress. You just love the fact that these

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Speaker 1: people are trying to make their neighborhoods something for everybody.

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Speaker 1: And the citizens over there are good. And the problem

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Speaker 1: is when this bridge closes, not only do you lose

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Speaker 1: a commuter route, you separate these neighborhoods. It gets more

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Speaker 1: dangerous and it's just it's going to halt some progress

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Speaker 1: over there. I hope that's not the case. It's just

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Speaker 1: the way I see it. But it is on right now.

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Speaker 1: It's going to start in June. In this bridge is

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Speaker 1: supposed to close for two years, and the bridge is

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Speaker 1: falling apart. I mean something has to be done. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're talking about the yards has to be fixed,

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Speaker 1: the bridge deck has to be fixed. We're talking a

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Speaker 1: complete overhaul of this sixteenth Street bridge. It has to

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Speaker 1: be done. The man, you want to find a better

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Speaker 4: I guess people just wonder why it takes so long.

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Speaker 3: You look at a state like Florida, and I get it,

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Speaker 3: apples and oranges, different states, different governors.

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Speaker 4: But a hurricane comes through.

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Speaker 3: DeSantis has that bridge rebuilt in like a week and

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Speaker 3: a half. We're talking about the sixteenth Street bridge just

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Speaker 3: needs repairs, and you're telling me like two years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the two years whether put it in the

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Speaker 1: pedestrian path and the bike path they're going to widen

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Speaker 1: that make it more pedestrian friendly. But again, a two

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Speaker 1: remember when they're redoing the bridges College Avenue, Central Avenue,

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Speaker 1: a lawsuit between the contractors in the city. It's like,

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Speaker 1: are these Dan bridges ever going to reopen? Bridge repairs

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Speaker 1: seems like it takes forever. That's what they're doing on

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Speaker 1: the northeast side construction with clear pat They're rebuilding bridges, reconstruction.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Washington Street. And then you have the

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Speaker 1: sixteenth Street bridge built in nineteen forty and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: take two years to reopen up. It blows my mind.

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Speaker 2: I say one thing, as a Boone County resident, Easter

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Speaker 2: Sunday Easter weekend over there at Whitestown, that bridge over

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Speaker 2: sixty five leading over to Trader's Point Church. They're going

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Speaker 2: to have to do something about that. Yeah, it is

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Speaker 2: a absolute mess. I loved all the clamoring. I love

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Speaker 2: the people trying to get to Trader's Point for Easter

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Speaker 2: Sunday service and Saturday the night before. But it was

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Speaker 2: a fifty minute track.

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Speaker 1: That's a church too, isn't a huge church?

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Speaker 2: And that bridge from Whiteestown over to Trader's Point is

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Speaker 2: a huge is a problem they're going to have to.

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Speaker 1: Do something off.

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Speaker 4: You guys sound like Samuel L. Jackson and snakes on

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Speaker 4: a plane.

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Speaker 1: I have had it.

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Speaker 2: These mother bridges on these mother bleakan stnes.

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Speaker 4: On a bridge. All right, Matt Bears in studio with us.

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Speaker 3: You'd made a reference earlier to the hyper fix of

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Speaker 3: God twenty thirty years ago, back when that was happening

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Speaker 3: on four sixty five.

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Speaker 1: I believe it was.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember when they almost.

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Speaker 3: Had it done and some drunk a hole came barreling

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Speaker 3: through there late at night one night and.

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Speaker 4: Calls like another two weeks of construction.

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Speaker 1: It's the delays are ambine anywhere. If that doesn't show you,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what. Look at a southbound four sixty

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Speaker 1: five on the east side. That's a trash truck fire

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Speaker 1: that they're still working on cleaning up. Two right lanes

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Speaker 1: blocked in traffic and stopped back to east fifty six

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Speaker 1: Street four delay of fifty five minutes. Also southbound sixty

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Speaker 1: twenty two minute delay. Eastbound seventy to layed eight minutes

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Speaker 3: Got some spotty showers sixty five at the American Standard

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Speaker 3: Cooling Weather Center. All right, So this past week we

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Speaker 3: saw Governor Braun come out and say there's a thirty

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Speaker 3: day holiday on the gas tax in Indiana. The gas

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Speaker 3: tax thirty day holiday. They'll evaluate it once that time

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Speaker 3: period is up to see if they need to extend it.

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Speaker 1: What say you, I just wasn't too impressed with it. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: any kind of time where we don't have to pay tax,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy about it. I hate pay gas taxes. I

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Speaker 1: hate paying taxes. It's seventeen cents a gallon, and you

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Speaker 1: know that comes out say we rounded up twenty cents

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Speaker 1: a gallon, okay, and we're looking to pay periods here

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Speaker 1: and how much it costs the average consumers. So you

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Speaker 1: get this twenty cent a gallon. Break that comes out

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Speaker 1: to three twenty a week, six forty a pay period,

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Speaker 1: and twelve eighty a month just on a gallon that's

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Speaker 1: going to be a sixteen gallon tank, so you know,

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Speaker 1: an average car basically that's the average size of a

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Speaker 1: tax sixteen gallons. So I'm thinking twelve eighty a month.

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Speaker 1: And then you look at it. The excise tax is

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Speaker 1: still in, like the thirty six cents, right, and the

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Speaker 1: federal gas tax is still in and I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: and then you even compounded with the fact that the

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Speaker 1: diesel gas isn't the tax on that is still very

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Speaker 1: much in play for diesel gas, so the truckers are

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Speaker 1: still paying that gas and.

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Speaker 4: Quote Adam Sandler, diesel gas sucks my ass.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, and I'm not a politician, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know politics like the three of you here. It's but

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Speaker 1: it seems to me, if you wanted to really relieve

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Speaker 1: and our pocketbooks, you know, and make things a little

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Speaker 1: less expensive, that you would put that gas text on

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Speaker 1: the diesel the lower shipping cost a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: then you know it can return to us through the

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Speaker 1: grocery stores or whatever else. Seventeen cents it is nice.

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Speaker 1: I'd like, seventeen cents. I want that for the people

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Speaker 1: that are coming in, say forty minutes and forty minutes

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Speaker 1: out on the daily. You know, they're filling up two

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Speaker 1: three times a week. So yeah, I want that seventeen

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Speaker 1: cents for them. I just didn't get excited about it

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Speaker 1: like everybody else did. I'm I'm happy for them, but

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Speaker 1: seventeen cents just seems like a low number to me.

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Speaker 1: What else can we do?

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Speaker 4: We're very cynical on this show.

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Speaker 2: I understand it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't get to over tax us, tax the

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Speaker 3: but Jesus out of us, give us a little break

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Speaker 3: and go you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's kind of the feeling I got.

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Speaker 1: And I know the rule out was like whoo, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: look what we did for you. Guys, better be thinking

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. I was just like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a big damn deal.

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Speaker 4: You're still paying better than nothing. But that's where the

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Speaker 4: bar is right now better right?

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Speaker 1: We have a very low bar again underneathing I want

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Speaker 1: and people have brought up interesting points. We eliminate the

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Speaker 1: gas text because the tolling's coming and the gas text

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Speaker 1: is going to be it's more for maintenance and projects

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Speaker 1: to low wind projects. While the tolling is going to

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Speaker 1: be for like one hundred and part of it is

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Speaker 1: sixty two miles. I believe of the entire ice.

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Speaker 3: We've been paying a top five gas tax in the nation.

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Speaker 3: Can anybody say our roads are better? Can anybody say

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Speaker 3: anything is better since this has been implemented.

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Speaker 1: It's a hell of a good point. My fear being

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Speaker 1: that the roads could get worse without that gas.

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Speaker 4: There's no way that's possible.

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Speaker 2: That's such a great slogan too. They should have used

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Speaker 2: it for property tax. Hey, better than nothing.

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Speaker 1: Better than nothing. You Hoosiers better be happy with us.

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Speaker 1: I worry, you know, and I'm not talking about singles

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Speaker 1: opening up on the roads or anything, but the roads

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Speaker 1: are garbage. I want the roads to be maintained. And

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Speaker 1: it's not just here at idiot Appolis. So I would

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Speaker 1: like to see more than yeah, suspend the gas test

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Speaker 1: for thirty days, but I'd like to see a plan

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Speaker 1: put together where we could have a long term relate

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Speaker 1: on this that does clude I seventy tolling as well.

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Speaker 4: Matt.

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Speaker 3: If somebody wants to reach out to you, maybe they

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Speaker 3: got a tip, Maybe they got a traffic update.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they want to talk sobriety stuff with you. How

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Speaker 4: can they find you?

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Speaker 1: I am a recovery nolcoholic and I love to help.

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Speaker 1: You can find me at Matt in Traffic. Shoot me

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Speaker 1: a message on Facebook. This seems to be working a lot.

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Speaker 1: Shoot me a message on Facebook. I'd love to talk

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Speaker 1: to you. I'm very, very blessed to be alive and

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Speaker 1: here today. Thank you you're the man, Matt. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: God bless you guys. Thank you.

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