Intro

Erika Malone 0:00

This week on Beyond the Headlines. See what the buzz is on Barkersville with our special guest next morning. Look at the impact of severe weather this past week. Clark Pleasant Schools seek a referendum in November, and the County Museum unveils America 250 exhibit. From the Daily Journal, this is Beyond the Headlines, a local news podcast focused on story shaping Johnson County. Welcome to Beyond the Headlines. My name is Eric Malone, and I have a very special guest today. If you're listening from Vargersville, you've probably seen his face around. So yeah, if uh you want to introduce yourself. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Good to see you. Dax Norton, town manager, town of Vargersville.

Erika Malone 0:38

Yeah, yeah. Nice to have you here. Thanks for coming by. Uh and we want to talk all about the buzz on Vargersville. It's uh it's been growing. So, and this is just going off 2020 census data. The population was 9,560, and today it's estimated between like 12,000 and 14,000 residents now. So it's known as one of the fastest growing communities in Johnson County and one of the fastest growing communities in the state. And as I-69 expands, you guys plan to grow with it. Yeah. So can you tell me what um why is Barkersville seeing this growth now and how are you guys keeping up with it?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Well, that interstate has a lot to do with it, right? So um a lot of people don't know we're 18 square miles. That's a that's a larger footprint, it's not it's not 12,000 people or what would

Bargersville in Focus

SPEAKER_01 1:22

have been the original smaller footprint of Bargersville. The the annexation happened in 2010 area, and that expanded this out to that very large, much larger footprint. And so the reason for that was to take in I-69. Yeah. So it opened, what, coming on two years? Hasn't even been opened, fully open. Yeah. And that was August of 24. Hasn't been fully open for two years. That has a lot to do with the interest in Bartersville from the perspective of access to Indianapolis, obviously, access to the airport is huge. Um but you can you can get to the north side. A lot of stuff that goes on on the north side of Indianapolis fairly easy by going to Rebel West from Bartersville. So ease of access, um closer Indian University. And I would argue that a lot of people will live in the area because of the nature of the area. Yeah. Graphically it's a little different. You start the rolling hills.

Erika Malone 2:19

It's a little more rural.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yeah, it's it's not rolling hills of of southern Indiana. I know Martinsville was to be the gateway, but we can steal that from Yeah.

Erika Malone 2:28

Got some competition there.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

You know, and it's a little bit easier sometimes to get downtown from South Side than it is a north side. Now, with growth and congestion, that ease goes away. So we weren't pay close attention to those.

Erika Malone 2:44

Yeah. Well, and you've had a lot of, you know, a lot the with the population group, you've had a lot of uh, you know, residents settle in, you know, new housing developments and things like that. Tell me, you know, you you're you uh have a downtown master plan, so kind of tell me a little bit about that, as well as kind of your roadmap to invest, you know, into yeah, housing and uh different developments within Parkersville.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

You know, I think the the residents that are moving in, they're new and there's uh a lot of them. So and what we heard, what I've heard, what I think some of our council members have heard from going door to door, is stay the course. We want amenities, we want to be able to walk and be connected to to places that we want to take our families. That would be some retail spots, maybe some commercial spots, some micro office spots downtown. So that was why the downtown master plan came in, came to be. Was there was really no ground level vision for how Baldwin in Maine would keep its character on the railroad, but yet expand to the modern world and provide those amenities. I see it all the time where I live. I live in a prominent spot in downtown Bruggsville. The trail goes right through uh my front yard. Right. And I see the families all the time. But they're coming to a limited amount of um especially retail amenities. There's definitely no ice cream, there's ice cream, you can get to a lot of one of our really nice businesses. There's no ice cream shop, right? There's no there's on Barter Plaza, it's a great place to sit and enjoy. But where we're, you know, I guess today we're on this podcast sitting in downtown Franklin, which is the county seat. We understand there's gonna be a lot more commerce here. There's limited commerce, there's there's great commerce growing uh with the with tax man, sellers market, yeah. Coffeehouse five, and I'm at mid Lilis table's gonna open and the ball is open now. Is it got a little bar? The upseller. I'm no I'm gonna miss somebody. Hope gallery is great, and you stopped in there again. And their mission is great. Coffeehouse five, I think I've probably already said, but to add to those amenities, that's what people have said. Some additional um things to come.

Erika Malone 4:58

Yeah, some social aspects, entertainment, you know, things like that as well.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

And so that's why the expansion of downtown. And the vision of downtown is uh what Senate Bill won. You know, planning changes a little bit, and it's more people in a smaller footprint. Now, that doesn't mean you just grow to grow. And we know that. Right. So that we have to be very wise about how that growth happens, that you know, Barcel's not gonna probably be a a town or city of 90,000 people like Fisher's. That's not a goal. It's it's uh regulated slower growth. And I think that sometimes the growth that's happened it's misperceived as this very fast and rapid growth. Yes, Greenwood is building more houses to our north than Barisdow's brought on in the last five years.

unknown 5:50

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

There's you know, we also have neighbors that are growing right on our border. Yeah. And people see that as well.

Erika Malone 5:57

Yeah. So it can get kind of kind of confusing of where that growth is happening. But with the downtown master plan, you're also seeing some new developments as well with um with the Jefferson that's coming. Uh, that's gonna be a $59 million mixed use development. Um so kind of tell me a little bit about that. That's also gonna add some retail space.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yeah, I know that uh I wasn't here. I know uh I went to the flea market historically as a kid. Um, I know there was some controversy there. But but things things change. Right. Uh things move on, things change. This is one of those changes where you're gonna take a piece of ground that um is now gonna produce economic output and be a really nice place for people to live um and provide a housing product that we don't have right now. Yeah, that's well doesn't have that housing product, uh housing product that my daughter could live in. She actually has to live in Dowtop India, is where she chose to live, because it wasn't that product for Irisville. Uh once again, small footprint, right? So 10 acres, 260 units, uh, so that's a lot of people with some high income amounts if we ship to an income income tax-based way of bringing in revenue to provide services. Because that's what we do. We we want to, and our goal is to provide the best services in the state. The vision of the town government is to make your life better tomorrow than it was today. Do we succeed at that every day? No. Or is are we always growing and listening to the residents of what that means? Yes. And so some of that is we do have to look at the revenue that's produced by the developments that are made so that we can continue providing those services to the current residents and providing to the to the ones that are coming in. And that's why we have to be very uh um how do I say uh careful, pointed about who comes in, when it happens, how it's phased in, and uh understand that sometimes if infrastructure is not keeping up with development, we've probably lost control. Right.

unknown 7:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

So Jefferson's a great example of 11,000 square feet of retail on a corner that really doesn't have much economic output except for uh a couple gas stations, um, a car washed in occasionally you'll see somebody there. Some beast in restaurants around the corner and other other other service businesses, but the car will change.

Erika Malone 8:13

Yeah, I mean eleven thousand square feet of retail is you know is quite a bit, so you will see some new shops and stuff there too, or you might see some maybe local businesses who didn't have a brick and mortar um go in there as well, you know.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

No space right now, really, for a mom and pop, uh an entrepreneur to rent in Burrisville. Yeah. Just to start their business. So a big part of the downtown master plan is creating that entrepreneurial ecosystem, micro office. Yeah. We're here at all the time. Uh our newest project is the expansion of tax men hospitality.

Erika Malone 8:47

Yeah. I we we just did a story on that.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

So great story on it. And that adds 15,000 square feet of office. Yeah. Um, and it's in high demand. It adds the HQ of Tax Man Hospitality Group, expands two of their current businesses and adds another with the Dut Pen Bowling or the family.

Erika Malone 9:06

Yeah, the entertainment aspect is interesting, you know, is an interesting part of it.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

So good baras could yeah. So that's the same thing with what Jefferson might do. Yeah, it might not be retail, it might be micro, it might be micro office. We're a a create a member of the creative call artists, a music podcast, we're sitting here a you know podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Musical recording podcast could be producing uh yeah, uh unique artisan soap. Bring that up because that happens in National Ideal.

Erika Malone 9:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

But that's that's what sure.

Erika Malone 9:40

Yeah, awesome. Yeah, well, and you know, speaking of kind of uh with developments and housing and things like that, I know uh with the Jefferson that kind of brings more more of maybe a high-end uh type of living. Uh, how is the town uh filling gaps with other various housing um housing types as well? Because to bring in retail, you have to have various types of housing.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

And studies have shown across the nation and uh very easy to access data that you have to have housing type diversity. That's what we so um council uh has asked, uh council president Greenwood and others uh uh have asked, I think that uh councilperson Pfeiffer Pauls, uh Renel and Moore have all asked this. Can we create a policy that we can follow to by per not my percentage, but so that we can make decisions that do bring in diverse housing types. So those types are workforce housing, those types are multifamily in different stages. Class A, workforce multifamily, transitional multifamily, uh, senior assisted living or senior not assisted living. We're developing that plan now. You'll see it soon. Okay. We have a live linked agendas, we have a draft in the house right now that's gone in front of our new director of planning and zoning and our senior planner. They're looking at it. The council will then look at it, and I think it's a really good plan for how we'll bring in a diverse housing type mix. We know that's what makes a healthy community.

Erika Malone 11:17

Yeah, I look forward to seeing that. Uh, and then another development that's kind of um on the horizon, as well as Iron Horse as well. That's been talked about um quite a bit. So that's kind of more of a generational project, and that's going to be planned over hundreds of acres, I think over 800. So kind of tell me a little bit about how that's going.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Yeah, you know, not a town project, not anything driven by town government, by town staff. Uh, that was Fulti and the owners of the ground came together. Fulti put their master plan together and let, you know, they have every right through state statute to petition the plan commission to to listen to them out and to present their PAD and in and consider. There's substantial public ass there that the redevelopment commission would then kick in as well. So there's two two boards there that have a lot of decision making to go through, then obviously the council. Right. I heard that's a long way to go.

Erika Malone 12:10

Uh they do. They're filming the project.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Right back at the beginning process again, they're doing another neighborhood meeting. That neighborhood meeting is completely a multi-neighborhood meeting. It's a requirement of our PUD process, of which process that they have to hold that, but it's nothing to do with the town. They they they have uh put out the flyers and the limitations for that. And then here we go with uh PUD committee. We have a new PUD review committee that's changed in the last year.

Erika Malone 12:38

Which is new. I don't think any other town has that. Yeah, so it's new.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Uh other towns have it.

unknown 12:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Towns in the northern part of the metro having we kind of mirrored ourselves off that so we can do things correctly. PUD review committee will take their time. They will thoroughly vet whatever is placed in front of them from this particular petitioner. Then they give a recommendation to the bank commission, then gets a recommendation. The council there's uh there will be multiple opportunities for the public, not just at the neighborhood meeting, but in the this actual governmental process to come in and say, listen, hit the brakes, too much too soon, right? Concerned about traffic. We've we've already heard that. We we know that in inside the building. We're we're we're concerned about traffic as well.

Erika Malone 13:21

Yeah, I know that would be a big concern as well.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

So they they have to do a fiscal impact analysis, they have to do a traffic study, not just a small traffic study, but they have to do a very thorough encouragement. Is it a traffic study as part of the process to submit their application to the PD review committee? And to do uh environmental studies, uh water sewer capacity. They have to go in and see, you know, at what point does it cause a sewer plant to be overcapacity, and they would then have to upgrade that plant. Uh water, we're in pretty good shape, but we want to pay attention to water, right? We'd overuse water and overdevelop and then say, oh, oops, we're out of water. We're we're paying close attention to that, which is why I told you in the beginning, you can't just grow to have a number. Uh you have to know that number. I think this council's done a good job of understanding what that number is to keep the town easily accessible, but give the amenities that the that the current residents are wanting, but then keep the the feel of what our has been and what it will be in the future.

Erika Malone 14:22

Right. Yeah. And that's good that you know the public will have opportunities to uh kind of voice their um you know their opinions throughout the uh the process and with any other development that comes through, there's always that process there as well.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

So I would urge the public, uh you know, social media is social media is what it is. There's so much predetermined how do I say this? There's a lot of misinformation.

Erika Malone 14:48

Yep. It's a constant battle we struggle with every day.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Well what I whenever I rarely will respond to a post where there is misinformation, I will put my cell phone number and I'll put my email address and I'll say, call me, text me, email me, I will get you all the accurate information you need. There's nothing to hide. We do live link agendas now, right? So the public sees the packet that the council sees.

Erika Malone 15:11

Those are very helpful.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

I rarely get anything back when I do that. But I would urge people before uh posting anything to call us and we'll give you everything you need to know so that the factual information is being disseminated through social media channels. A lot of our residents who aren't even on that. As a matter of fact, the majority of our residents uh don't even take part in social media channels of the 12,000 people at 200.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

And so but we want everybody to be able to do that.

Erika Malone 15:49

Of course. Yeah. Well, I know uh you got some exciting things coming up in Bargersville. So uh I know you have cultural soundscapes that just came out. Yeah, so uh there's an arts commission now, and uh what are some other things you want to share with our listeners?

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, arts commission is great. They met this morning, kind of do uh it's not just public art, they're not just meeting to say let's put a mural there or uh uh I'll take Mayor Barnes tree and round about, which I will steal, we will steal his uh ease council. I just wanted to know that. Uh, because they did that tree in that roundabout. It's really about art and the creative economy as economic outliers. Can we develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem where the creative economy thrives and Barcel becomes known as nationally as one of the centers for the growth of the creative economy? Creative economy is a lot of things, right? Visual arts, musical arts, art, engineering, welding is in the creative economy. There are so many different categories that are in the creative economy. So the arts commission is really looking at art as an economic development driver. And then they are also looking at it from the perspective of public art and uh keeping a consistent message across the town. Yeah. Public art comes in. A great group. You're gonna see a portal soon. There's gonna be a creative creative economy directory uh that people can be a part of. We'll unveil that soon to the website. As website changes are made. Uh yes, Soundscapes is great. Yeah. Soundscapes is uh all about that.

Erika Malone 17:20

Well, speaking of portals, I just saw on the website that there's a new uh artist portal there too. So yeah, so local bands can come in and uh I assume, you know, sign sign up for that.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

And you know that way you know who they are, what their art is. It won't just be bands, it'll be everything I just mentioned. It'll change over time and evolve. So there's some good stuff happening. It's all because of listening to the rest. Residents want oh, trails. They want all the biggest things is traffic. So pay attention to traffic, keep it as safe as possible and flowing. They want traffic, so we're doing some pre-major traffic studies. And wow, trails, trails, trails, trails, and parks, parks, barks is a huge part of the ask we have from our residents. So we understand that there's limited dollars for those things, but you know what? We'll we'll if we're smart, and I think this is very good counsel, they fund their priorities, and their priorities come from the public, and we just figure out a way to to make those things happen without causing an excess tax burden on the phone.

Erika Malone 18:25

Yeah, awesome. Well, it all sounds great, and I know Barterville is just gonna keep growing. We could probably talk more about it for hours, but I'm sure we'll have to we do an economic development session.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Yeah, I haven't even gotten into come see us. You want to build your industrial, you know, if you're if you're a corporate HQ at the interstack, get some industrial aspirations south. Come see us as well because we're a major player in the industrial commercial corporate field.

Erika Malone 18:51

Yeah, absolutely. And you know what, we could always have you on again to talk about economic development. So have Jane.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

We'll have Jane in here. Yeah, economic development director show show have a good time.

Erika Malone 19:00

Awesome, yeah. Well, thanks, Dex, for coming on, and uh we're gonna take a break and be right back. Well, your business to reach our listeners in Johnson County and beyond. Reach out to the Daily Journal by calling 317-736-2730 to ask about our advertising opportunities.

Roundtable: Severe weather impacts county

Erika Malone 19:19

All right, and welcome back. We are uh out of a round table and uh I got uh Nathan here with me. How are you doing? Hello, I'm pretty good. How are you? I'm doing well. Um, we've had a lot of severe weather uh this past week. Uh it's it's been kind of sketch.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

It's well, it's just kind of weird because there's so much stuff uh before the storm, and there's so many things of like, you know, oh, it's going to hail. Um, you know, this is what the storm is blue. And so it's always just so unexpected. And I think it's always just so unexpected when it's going to happen too, because it just it's just very random. I mean, it's just weather, but you know, I never expect it to be very bad. And then it turns, you know, there's sirens going off and there's stuff going on on my phone. And I'm like, well, here we go. But yeah, I I just I, you know, it's it's very unexpected.

Erika Malone 20:13

Yeah. I know we were looking at the weather this past week just because uh we knew there was uh severe weather coming, so we wanted to keep residents um informed. The the hail kind of concerned me for a little bit just personally, because I was like, oh, I I do not want my car to be dented. But we didn't get any hail as far as I know. So but let's take a look at uh some of the weather that we had this past week. Um so as you know, we we put out some stories about this, but uh Johnson County uh kind of avoided major damage despite the severe weather. Um Wednesday night officials, Stephanie over uh she's the director for emergency management agency for the county. She said um we were blessed with this uh, you know, with um avoiding major damage. Tornado watches uh were issued uh for parts of the county, including Trafalgar, Princess Lakes, Edinburgh, and other nearby areas. I live in Greenwood, so I even heard some sirens going off. Storm impact uh locally stayed mile with uh mainly high winds, heavy rain, and lightning. The main threat formed east of uh I-69 in Morgan and Monroe counties, but it could it weakened a lot before it reached us. So again, minor damage was reported near Morgantown, likely from straight line winds. So I know we've seen a lot about that this past week. But yeah, so uh far less severe than last week's storms we've been uh that we kept up with as well, which also included straight line wind damage and an EF1 tornado um that affected some homes, barns, and crops as well. Um and I don't know if you saw in the Franklin chat, there was a video going around. Um it kind of looked like a funnel cloud. It looked like a big swirling cloud, pretty much. And a lot of people were like, Oh, it's a tornado, it's a tornado. Um, and we talked to Stephanie, uh, it was a cloud sighting in in Franklin. Turned out to be a wall cloud and not a tornado. Okay. I just want to confirm. Um, despite the what it looks like rotating. So yeah, not a not a tornado, but you know, some uh very similar. Very similar. Yeah. It can still stay claimed. It looked, I saw the video too and I was like, oh my god, that's a tornado. And then my boss is like, no, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

I'm pretty sure my mom saw it and she was like, oh my gosh, tornado. And then we we're like, no.

Erika Malone 22:37

Yeah, just a just a wall cloud. Um, but yeah, the uh EMA, they're asking residents to report any storm damage uh to help determine if disaster aid is needed, so uh make sure to reach out to them as well. So yeah, are you scared of storms usually or no?

SPEAKER_00 22:53

I'm in the middle, I think, and not in the middle of like I'm neutral. I think uh I'm just very conflicted because I think I I kind of have uh two sides of my parents, I would say. My mom loves storms, you know, she loves watching storms, she loves seeing storms. Um and my dad isn't really like scared of storms, but I mean he, you know, just doesn't like it as much as my mom. But you know, um, I I would say I'm just a little bit of both. Gotcha. How about you?

Erika Malone 23:24

I so growing up, my parents, I feel like, and maybe this is uh more common than I think, but I've I always felt like my parents did this weird thing where if a tornado was coming, we would get in the car and drive away from it, which is like everyone tells you not to do that. They say shelter in place, but for some reason I just remember remember growing up being like, Okay, tornado like tornado coming right, you know, right for us. We're gonna drive in the opposite direction. I'm like, what were my parents thinking at that time?

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Well, even then, so like as a kid, you were probably just like, Well, we gotta run away.

Erika Malone 24:00

Yeah, we gotta run away from the tornado, and now I'm like, I'm I'm sitting put, you know, like with the Whitland tornado, actually.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

We did that same exact thing. It's not a good strategy.

Erika Malone 24:13

Yeah, yeah, do make sure if there's a tornado, find a good, safe place to say, do not run away from the tornado. I think my parents just liked they liked the adrenaline, maybe. I don't know. But yeah, well let's move on. We

Roundtable: Clark-Pleasant schools seeks referendum

Erika Malone 24:28

there's some other stuff that happened this week. So Clark Pleasant Schools um are also seeking a referendum in the fall. So they voted to put a tax referendum renewal on the ballot in November. Um and if you don't know what a referendum is, I will uh explain it. It is a question that's placed on the ballot that lets voters decide whether to approve a tax or funding measure. Um uh, you know, a lot of schools uh this comes on the heels of SCA1 as you know, budgets, school budgets tend are squeezing up in declining property tax revenue as well. So uh you'll see probably see a lot of schools put out referendums uh in the fall. This actually replaces a 2018 referendum that expires this year. And the proposed the new proposed rate is nine cents per $100 of assessed value, which is slightly lower than the current one that they have now, um, which is 10 cents. So this uh the funds from this referendum would support school safety like the Clark Pleasant Police Department, student services, and behavior health, you know, like for nurses, things like that. And yeah, so for a referendum to pass, it must pass with a majority vote to take effect. So I think if you want to look at the story, I believe it um it's there's a hundred schools maybe or so that are looking to put in referendums. Yeah, it's uh it's quite a lot.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

Yeah.

Erika Malone 25:52

Yeah. But they gotta find funding somewhere. So and it's up to the voters. Uh it's a good reason to go to the polls if you wanna um figure out you know, if you wanna spend more taxes, you know, to her schools. So yeah. And what do you got for us?

Roundtable: County museum opens America 250 exhibit

SPEAKER_00 26:07

The Johnson County Museum of History is marking America's 250th anniversary with a new exhibit that opened Thursday. Exhibit focuses on Indiana and Johnson County's developments since the area was wasn't established during the Revolutionary War.

Erika Malone 26:23

Oh, interesting. I didn't know uh I didn't know that actually.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I actually did not. I so and part one covers history from 1776 to the Civil War using artifacts and local stories. Nice. A second exhibit will follow covering the Civil War to the present day.

Erika Malone 26:39

Interesting. Yeah, I think uh Ryan wrote a little bit about uh the exhibit, so you can uh go and look at that story as well. But yeah, lots of uh America 250 events are coming up. I know Trafalgar is uh planning a parade soon, I believe sometime next week. So might uh do a little scoop on that as well. But yeah, just a good time uh to show your patriotism as well.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

So and I think it's really cool too because I I don't know if you've seen the Johnson County Museum.

Erika Malone 27:07

I went in there and I actually haven't been in there yet, so tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

It's very cool. Uh so I went in there. Um I got like uh you know, I got a little uh limited access, you know. I had gone in there to uh do this story for my high school and record some stuff, and it was the first time I'd ever seen it. And I mean the amount of just very cool, like very, very cool artifacts, but specifically we have so much history from the Civil War, and there was so much stuff from the Civil War, and so it was just amazing. I mean, there was like military coats, there was a lot of military gear from the time and stuff like that, and all of it just looked so cool, and uh not even that, I mean there was just a lot of fashion and architecture and little like antiques and art, and it was very, very cool, honestly. And so, and there's so much information inside of there. Every single thing they present um has you know this whole historical paragraph that you can read. And so I think I read it pretty much every single line. It was really cool, and so I a hundred percent recommend it. I really do.

Erika Malone 28:23

It sounds cool. I might have to go check it out, especially with America 250, you know, coming up. It's uh yeah, it might be might be worth to go in and uh and look at some of the stuff that they have.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

So I think so.

Erika Malone 28:33

Awesome,

Outro

Erika Malone 28:34

yeah. Well, um, before we sign off here, is there anything uh else you want to say or uh what are your plans this weekend besides you know, hopefully no more bad weather?

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Yeah, I hope so. You can never be too sure though, but yeah, I am actually having a cookout at my grandparents' house this weekend, and um, we're doing it for my grandpa for Father's Day.

Erika Malone 28:59

Oh, that sounds awesome. Yeah, Father's Day is this weekend, so yeah. If any residents are listening, uh Nathan's backyard is open for a cookout.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yep, everybody.

Erika Malone 29:09

But just kidding. Yeah, sorry. I don't think your parents would like that too much if you just had random readers come and you know.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

But I mean, they'll be like, this is from the Daily Journal. Awesome. Yeah. He need to give you a raise. So what are your plans this weekend?

Erika Malone 29:26

I don't know yet. My dad's the type of person where um if you ask, you know, oh, what do you want to do for Father's Day? You know, I want to celebrate with you, he's like, I don't need a celebration. And then months later, if you say if you don't do said celebration, months later he's like, Remember when you didn't celebrate Father's Day with me? So he likes to guilt trip me that way. So I'm gonna have to surprise him or something somehow.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

So many dads do that where it's like they're and especially with their birthdays too. They just don't want to do anything for their birthday, and they're like, You didn't even like have a party for me. And it's like, okay, you want one. Don't be insected to give you one.

Erika Malone 30:04

We hope everyone has a good weekend and you know, a good time celebrating Father's Day. If you do celebrate, and we just want to say thank you so much for everyone tuning in to be on the headlines. Um, let us know what you'd like to hear by submitting your thoughts to news tips at dailyjournal.net and follow us wherever you get podcasts and leave a review. We hope you tune in next time. Okay, see you guys.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

See you guys.