bill baker stops by and monday's baker how are you jim you know happy st patrick's day you got your green on i'm very impressed with you being able to work through the program really you're going to make noises like that this is professional you know i was just looking at the score on the bowman games and marvin range just called in and he seems very focused and quite frankly he is much more amenable to working with us and getting up in the morning and calling in and so forth and i'm just so excited about this high school basketball season and i was only able to i went out and did the game on saturday morning little al and i went out and did the regionals in michigan city lake central made it through the regionals and so did bowman and it's a big weekend now just to reiterate i believe i'll be on the call from lafayette around three o'clock maybe two thirty three o'clock and that'll be the lake central game against homestead and then following that i think around six o'clock is boman is that right right and bowman will be ryan will be on the call from huntington north do you know where that is bill yes it's almost by the ohio state line try to get there you can't get there for me or you get to take like these single digit rather thirty baby route thirty and then it's off of route thirty your way in there's not a road that goes directly there are you kidding me i'm sitting at a stoplight in joe's barn girl right there is a little sleepy as men are fact we went light was it last year or  year before planning to try to remember here try to remember exactly but i took my gal flores with me and wayne myka and we were so hungry we're driving along these country roads we just pulled into this little honky tonk and talk about a throwback i mean they had a bar in one part of it but we couldn't go into it because miguel was eighteen or seventeen so mickey and i couldn't go into the bar so we had to sit out in the main restaurant which had a bunch of people drinking and then they also had a little like three year old birthday party there i wanted to film it but then i thought you know let's not be mean here baker dan coats is coming on here in a little bit the senator from indiana what do we talk with him about oh i'm sure he has some things that he's trying to do i mean he's in the beltway i would be interesting to hear true kind of what he has to say and how he's looking at the things he's you know focused on in the senate and their impact and what's going on here in the region i don't think we hear enough of that expression the coming out of the senator so back that he's calling it is a good step but yeah he was a senator before and now he's here again if you know if i remember correctly and you know i had him why hoosiers should care about the ukraine he wrote that in the in the star recently do you care about the ukraine you bet i mean you know this is you know it's scary national politics scary i mean there's a lot of things that are going mean you know you and i have had conversation about this all the time and you know i always try to bring it all back to the region because in my opinion you have a little more impact than what happens locally albeit you wouldn't really notice around here no but you know i mean when the russians you know put troops into the ukrainian navy have a referendum and it's ninety five percent this is like old school cold war type stuff and you know you have  conflict you know egypt went to a dictatorship syria nobody's even talking about anymore i mean the middle east is up for grabs i mean there's a lot of stuff going on i mean we can insulate ourselves and maybe that's the game plan but for me personally if we live in a worldwide economy how could you not pay attention to what goes on world why the stock about worldwide parking  acceptable be drunk at nine in the morning and walk around chicago everywhere and everybody is just walking around drunk and they go whatever that's another story altogether ok let's look at this boyer development on cayman avenue getting some ink by the times and business owners went to the council and said let's see big and little that's mainly gabber a c says my business is going out of business because of the parking situation the owner of n w i urgent care my patients are suffering and they leave because there's no parking what about stafford out of this insurance thing senior care insurance they've driven by and that you know how long we've known each other i don't know if we have to go down the road again i think nobody knows i mean seven forty four year so you know what do i do with the town of monsters part of my civic duty for the community do you know what i do that was your on the river commission no it's the river commission is the river commission but also i've been on the plane commission for the town of months or for the last eight or ninety eight thanks repeated to me that this week i like there's no me you know what i think in the back of my head now they think about it john read the attorney that is on the town council actually did to me one time and that's how i can i put it together but you're right you were on the planning commission so what is it what is your  since we were at second grade pays attention to me so you know i got i got two kids and a wife did you know that yes i know the one he came to the sportsmanship dinner the other day and said he didn't know how to have a conversation with his dead friends because they were all always just kind of messing around all the time always joking around all my dad's friends i'm like really that's your problem or you can't have a conversation with me i told him i said you know it doesn't matter what age i was that i was always able to have a conversation with your dad his grandfather but he never messes around isn't joke at all but you know on the planning commission so what did you have you're doing this oh i saw that project from the beginning i mean this goes back to all the way when it was carpet land it was vacant for all those years and back to the economic development perspective and trying to work on a comprehensive plan with the town of munster and how to take it from one nine sixty s retail which we have quite a bit of the major nor so their affairs through the region and you know come up with some ideas on how to work it forward the parking situation yeah it was you know from the time i saw it the depth of that lot is not conducive to modern retail development one of the things that happened during the course of that care and those discussions and they were extent of trust me i was member there is that real long dentist office between the carpet layer and building and the protests neck yeah protests and it was dr patel i think was in there so that was not even a part of the original development so it was you know it was incorporated into that development because of the fact that there was some additional parking not to mention you know calumet avenue north and south and the amount of traffic now that that goes from the borman all the way down to route thirty and what that impact was going to be excuse me but a lot of it too was contingent upon that whole run from the dunkin donuts all the way to the water tower was going to be included in this which i heard a little bit this morning you were talking about the hot dog joint and that was supposed to be a part of it as well  and this is where somebody who works in the private sector that gets involved in some of the public sector stuff kind of has some challenges because it's a different perspective when you sit on the other side and as much as i tried to hold up it was to the point where let's make sure it's safe to get in and out because the traffic in and out even if it was poor parking layout or really wasn't up or parking layout it was a density issue you put too much building on it in not enough parking spaces but on the same token you know we didn't have an idea from the planning scheme missions perspective all the tenants that were going to go there we just had an idea about the buildings so if you put certain types of businesses in having you know this is kind of more of my real job the tenant mix is important you know and you know the tenant mix is you know you have five restaurants or however many restaurants and then you have office and then you have some kind of retail excuse me but for example i mean office uses you know drive to the office and you park and you work all day and that's you know that car those cars for those employees never leave they take up you know time space is when you have this type of  a part of the lease agreement and those those folks really need to take a look at their lease agreement because you also have tenants when there's nobody and you're the only tenant going hey you know where's all the foot traffic there's no traffic here why aren't there people coming in so you know it's just part of the deal you know the issue you bring up a good issue on the types of businesses because you know as you well know we're moving right down here to produce university came out but most of our business and most of our traffic in cars is before nine thirty and then you've worked here in this building all the sudden there's no there's plenty of parking space after nine thirty but between say six thirty and nine o'clock you can't park out from here your parking chevrolet and so forth so before we decided to go here to produce they actually talked to a couple people that made us the perfect place to put into a retail isto retail area he did we want you to come in  here and i even asked one guy i'm like well why would you want that because your cars leave at nine thirty and i'm like well i guess you're right and plus you ride your bike so there's one less car but it is a huge factor now part of the factor all along came an avenue is so much traffic all the sudden now that the cayman avenue goes all the way to us thirty i mean baker you and i used to remember staying overnight at my house and  late at night i know this sounds bad but it would go awful we would go to go out and play cats all in front of like arby's and johnny's tap over there at like ten thirty at night that there were no cars it was like one car every you know five or six minutes or two cars when now it's yeah months or lanes we go over there but it was all lit up and you could play you could play catch out front there now if you tried to do that you would get killed at any hour of the mean and it for thirty i don't know what the car counting is there but it has to rival us thirty end times well and it's huge because it's there's a lot of different components if you read that stretch i old from this old school retail that we're talking about you know north of ridge road and it excuse me go south the ridge road then you got st times and you know then you get all those houses across the street from community park in the hospital and then you know the railroad tracks i mean we had talked the other day about you know nervously i mean that's always been my rub i mean this bad thoroughfare in my opinion is the biggest bottleneck in the region and nobody seems to want to address it let's go to conference hassle carol how are you buddy well i've been through hell this weekend i had to be in the st patrick's day parade downtown and the trip on the south shore train back when every drunken fool from the suburbs through the state line at ohio was on those trains being german ethnicity i did not really partake in the whole st patrick's day green dyed beers thing have been murdered because the south shore staff shame on them they faded into work they didn't want to get in the middle of that and they were at one point playing volleyball across the trains each with a little inflatable same petty green and white volleyball or you know beach ball in thing and nobody had a volume hundred ten you know it's a beer induced  liquid courage oh and as far as the parking lot situation goes well in the military we call in the sixty's but all tone it down will be a five piece prior planning prevents poor performance  faculty members some of the school are supported by big shoulders we're a pretty long large group all right well i'm with you today they'll be a bunch of drunk people and just about all the bars and i don't quite get it rookie night out as far as i'm concerned