so baker let's see what uncle joe's doing hey uncle joe how are you buddy oh pretty good pretty good i was waiting for bill to come in because i know he helps out a lot in instigating things you know after sixty years it's almost like a decommissioning of a fraternity house and i was just wondering if we're going to have some kind of like a fraternity party over there for all the clients who frequent the place or listeners and just have a good party and then we'll have the paddy wagon take us over to the new place and set up paddy wagon the mayor with the fire trucks and all that kind of parade and are you going to have a sidewalk studio where people walk by and talk to you well there's a lot of questions in there but let me take the last one first yeah you'll be able to walk right up and look in the window like the fishbowl at wgn and that's kind of cool we're not going to be right on the street we're going to be in a little bit to get away from the street noise but you'll be able to walk right up and see me sitting there you have external speakers i trust yes we got that was written into the contract and originally it wasn't there when we finally got it in there as a matter of fact bill baker and his many little tidbits of hey did you think about this did you think about that and i had to keep going back hey we got one more thing cause the answer was always no you know i didn't think about that but that was one of the things we added at the last minute is like we could put an external speaker but it can't be too loud to keep up the neighborhood or anything you know what i mean and then second of all uncle joe it is such an overwhelming time right now and we don't know what our party is going to look like we just are looking at it in either mid june or mid july of having kind of a 90th anniversary slash 10th anniversary slash brand new studio party and uncle joe you're the first to be invited okay all right buddy all right buddy talk to you and uncle joe please help too because we know we need to make sure that there's enough hot dogs and what else are you going to serve you're not going to serve like rc cola are you let's see if pepsi will help us out here yeah exactly there's an opportunity here so let's not well i'm not making it up about the lease because i'm not you know i make it very clear i don't want to be a real estate guy i mean and that's why we're going down there baker's like well why don't you just buy and build a place or a couple of guys in munster oh you could build it here you could build it there i'm like no i just want to rent and do radio and be left alone i want the world to leave us alone to do radio and then baker's like all right is this in the lease is that in the lease hold on chancellor i forgot can i get a speaker i mean i went back probably five times oh yeah what about this well you know i like the you're the smartest guy i know jim so i'm sure you got it all exactly it's all in there it just took for awhile couldn't you think of this before it's not all in there i guarantee it no we went through a pretty closely oh sure you did no you did with me what about this baker well you don't need that but you need this baker of course as a real estate lease guy and don't negotiate a lease with him without your lawyer around i'll just give you that much baker let's talk about a couple of things gary's gonna run buses to purdue cal and munster and highland because nobody else will there's no buses around here that's not true what about the township buses aren't those i listened to frank on the radio and he was talking about how he got twenty eight million is that your notes no that's not a fixed route bus service that is a point to point bus service so a fixed route bus service is the only way to take care of mass transit or transit in our community no that's a different discussion in other words should we just if somebody needs to go from here to their kidney dialysis and they don't have a lot of money and they might just get on a bus and go to that kidney dialysis is it cheaper to keep running those buses up and down calumet avenue and ridge road and all that or is it cheaper for frank to have that dialaride with jerry siska and all those guys i don't know the answer to that i mean that's a public policy thing only i know right now is gary public transport gbtc is taking it over and they're taking the lead and coming into hammond munster and highland and that's going to help a lot of people that don't have a lot of money they're expecting forty five thousand riders who is the gary public transit corporation so that's their study gptc and part of that reason that it's like listening to the study that's put together by the south shore people i mean what do you think it's going to say it's made as instructed think it's going to come out saying we don't need it i understand that and i understand skepticism on this because remember when we had the reasonable bus authority people coming in and out of here and i think they knew that their money was running out and they kept trying to hit numbers and it just couldn't you know the numbers were just not making any sense remember preacher preacher just saying hey i saw another that guy was sketchy what's that where is the preacher he's over there in a corner he was being a bad boy i put them in the corner over there cause there's no hanky panky going on in lake county so you know there's more than one way to solve the problem and i think it's more about a pragmatic way of solving the problem than just expanding the old way of doing things which is what we do here i don't know i think that somehow this whole thing just fell through the cracks and it is another example of our inability without a central power structure to get bigger jobs done we can't run a bus service okay well gary will have theirs ec will have theirs frank bervan and the township will have their situation and then it's all fragmented it's just like everything else around here we try to do all right let's look one thousand nine hundred and seventy five look at e911 okay the state says all right everybody in the state you got to have a countywide e911 or you're it was like ten years ago it was like ten years ago right so guess what what are we doing waiting to the last minute that's part of it we are waiting to the last minute and part of it is that we can't work together seventeen municipalities plus the county is at eighteen and now we've got holdouts in cedar lake highland and saint john and schererville and they have valid questions but is the time past i mean is highland just being obstinate is schererville being obstinate i don't know shouldn't those questions have been vetted over the ten years that wasn't long enough okay i agree with you on that i mean here it is so i mean spending a bunch of time talking about that it is what it is so here's the challenge how are we going to go about doing it say hey we have to do it it's the state's fault you need to acquiesce to my point of view or i'm calling the attorney general really is that what you said that's what they're saying so what do you think the attorney general i can't wait wednesday i'll call him don't worry right i mean what do you think the attorney general and he's going to be pragmatic about it and say well you know the state's role is this and the state's role is that but i gotta believe that if he's sitting around with his buddies from that like i was gonna say that southern indiana there's gotta be a more politically correct way of saying his rural friends from on the river and the ohio river and they're sitting around and one of his buddies he goes hey what goes on up there in lake county oh my god they can't even get together on an e911 i got to be a referee can't even shovel the snow or shovel the snow but really i mean listen they got to put on this thing where they got a major dispatch center it's becoming a case to go in front of the indiana attorney general you're kidding me and i understand his position and regardless of what his personal perspective is he says the right thing he says his job is to defend his client and in that role his client is the state of indiana so it's going to be what the law says because if the law doesn't provide him any opportunity to do anything he's not going to have much of a say and i bring up an example is the state board of accounts i mean they do audits but there's no enforcement the attorney general doesn't actually have to enforce anything that's found by that state board of accounts