1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Another round of gunfire. Oh yeah, wonderful Friday night. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 2: Man. 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: And I was downtown, Yeah on Friday night. 4 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 3: We're around for it. 5 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Investigation underway after several buildings parked cars shot up covered 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: with bullet holes. This was around two point thirty am 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: late Friday, early Saturday. Officers responded to Monument Circle on 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: the reports of shots fired, and when they arrived, they 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: noticed that some buildings businesses on Meridian, Maryland Washington Street 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: all riddled with you know, gunfire. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: Nothing in this building, but I am. I gotta tell you, 12 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: I'm going to miss working in this building, but moving 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 3: further north when we switched studios with our corporation. I 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: think I'm looking forward to that, I really am. And 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 3: you were out in this Yes, you were out late 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 3: Friday downtown, baby boy. I had some real fomo with 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: you and Crystal going to uh c mrr yeah and 18 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 3: uh at Crackers Cosmic Club. Saw was a Crackers comedy club? 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 3: Is that even a I don't even know. We left Deer. 20 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: Creek and then we hit have a Nice Day Cafe 21 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: and then stopped off at Crackers. 22 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 3: Do right Helium. 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 2: Uh. 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 3: First of all, how was the show? 25 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: It was hilarious? When he told us his show was 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: interactive again this is Murr from Impractical Jokers. He told 27 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: us how it was going to be. But then when 28 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: you see what he does, the way he works the crowd, 29 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: Like he was getting people to give them their cell 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: phones and texting their dads, these ridiculous things. And but 31 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: at one point he had one of his guys go 32 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: out on the streets of Indy with the camera and 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: he was telling them to he was a ridiculous thing. 34 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 3: He was telling us about that aspect of a show. 35 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. This was the nine to fifteen 36 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: comedy show. By the time we left, and that show 37 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: was over and we hung out a little bit afterwards. 38 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: By the way, MYRR loves you guys loves the Hammer 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: and Nigel show like always talks about how fun it 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: is to come on this show. 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: That's awesome. 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: There was nobody out, like I couldn't believe it. This 43 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: was a sixty degree Friday night in downtown Indy around 44 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: eleven fifteen, eleven thirty, okay, and it was like a 45 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: ghost town. Now Clayton Anderson's Country Bar had a pretty 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: good line. 47 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: Oh, I still haven't been there yet. 48 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: Our guy Clayton's doing really well over there. The comedy 49 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: club was full. It was about three hundred and three 50 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: fifty strong in there. But man, go out into the streets, 51 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: there was nobody there. MYRR sent his comedian guy out 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: to do man on the street stuff. There was nobody there, 53 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: so we started screwing with cops. 54 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 3: And that's a great idea. 55 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe, Nige, how dead downtown was on a 56 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: Friday night at eleven thirty where the weather was decent, 57 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: it was like sixty degrees. 58 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 3: What's that a function of? Do you believe? 59 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: I feel like this is a lot of people don't 60 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: want to go downtown, whether they don't feel safe. Maybe 61 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: they feel like it's too expensive. But I feel like 62 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: it's a safety thing more than a price. 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 3: But Helium was full. Clayton's Club where I think that's 64 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: the old hard rock Yes, cafe was doing pretty well. 65 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: He had a line out the door, but that was 66 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: the only place. Ok, like there was nobody standing in 67 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: front of Not to throw these businesses under the bus, 68 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: but like Kilroy's or Brothers, I mean like when I 69 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: was twenty three, twenty four, twenty five years old, those 70 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: bars in Meridian Street would be packed, there'd be people everywhere. 71 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: It was a ghost town. 72 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 3: Did in November, even in November on a six it 73 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 3: was a warm night, it was, and then a couple 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: hours later shootings. I think it was a dispute from 75 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: what I hear from the news reports. Dispute and people 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 3: were firing at each other. 77 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: So my question is, how are indie businesses okay with this? 78 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: How are you okay with this if you're a business owner. 79 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: It was a beautiful Friday night, sixty degree, unseasonably warm, 80 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: and there was nobody hardly downtown. And what bothers me 81 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: is that the Indie Chamber thinks this is great because 82 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 1: they keep endorsing the same candidates. The Indie Chamber endorsed 83 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: Joe hawk Set his last mayoral run, the same Joe 84 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: hawk Set that left many businesses to fend for themselves 85 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: while he was allegedly off to a rehab facility missing 86 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: during the riots. But yet they keep in this so 87 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: they think it's fine, and listen, it wasn't because there 88 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: was a lack of police. They were everywhere, good cars 89 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: were parked at like the end of Georgia Street, the 90 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: other end of Georgia Street. There was another police vehicle 91 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: that blocks Meridian Street so traffic can't go. 92 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: You noticed a palpable, a presence of police force even 93 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 3: though there wasn't that many people downtown. 94 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: Correct like it's on their schedule to make sure downtown 95 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: is secure. And man, they did a great job. You 96 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: couldn't turn any direction without seeing an impd car. They 97 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: did a great job, and they were just letting people 98 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: do their thing. They weren't out there intimidating anybody or whatever. 99 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: They did a great job. But there was nobody downtown. 100 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: So how does the chamber endorse this? Here with a 101 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: response to basically all the things that I'm saying about 102 00:05:53,680 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: downtown right now? Yes, Ai Mayor Joe hoggseett, Well you don't. 103 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: He's voted for this. What the hell did you expect? 104 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 3: Look? 105 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 2: Crazy shit happens when you party naked. There are some 106 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 2: people who feel like I should resign. I'm a horrible 107 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: mayor and an even worse person whose personal life is 108 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: in shambles. I love bottles of liquor. I mean I 109 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: really really really really really really really really love bottles 110 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: of liquor. But I'm not going to resign AI Mayor. 111 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: Joe Hawk said on the current state of downtown ending well. 112 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 3: Thing Hogg said and I have in common. I really 113 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 3: really really really really really really enjoy bottles of liquor.