Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports.

From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode

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Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports.

From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode was recorded in May 2021 for a class project this is Part 1/2 of the fifth-year celebration as I will graduate from college this fall and I am celebrating this triumphant achievement with a sports podcast since business has been slow with "Keeping Things In The Middle". This podcast talks about the creation of "This is Indiana" which became a love affair for Hoosiers and IU alumni alike after one win versus Kentucky in 2011 and how both the artist and the song helped put the song to new heights. This podcast was supposed to air back at my VU days on Blazer 91.1 FM in Vincennes in 2021, but it never got onto the air.

This story will take you to places never seen or heard in the mainstream media when one mentions math and education. Even my little sister tells me about how bad her school is and I rolled my eyes before seeing what this journey was really about for students in the 21st Century in a post-pandemic world. We followed IU math tutor, Scott Salak, who mentors at-risk students on math and science equations for what will be 31 years at the helm this year at the downstairs part of the 21st Century Scholars office near the outskirts of the IU Bloomington campus. He is widely respected in a world where this field has been desolate and deflating with no hope or hopeful future ahead for his profession.

This story dives into how math has become American education's lost arch of greatness, the American math system. It also dives into human character as Salak performed in a bluegrass band before becoming a tutor, and his impact on students is musically a condition to succeed and do your best even in a topic you are not good at. This story instruments the arts of math and human interest and I was shocked after posting this article to my Substack and Medium blogs on winter break that more people should cover this story as it goes beyond the headlines and describes math in a poetic form.

THIS IS OUR LINK TO OUR NEWEST AMAZON MUSIC DEAL every listen will earn me a few dollars here and there but this link will provide you a 20% off deal everytime you listen to the app (this is my first promotion ever)

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LINKS TO THE SUBSTACK & MEDIUM STORIES ON THIS SAME PODCAST TOPIC:

https://medium.com/p/f769dd143cb9

https://bearmanjournal.substack.com/p/the-condition

Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports.

From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode was recorded in September 2023 as this featured-length podcast, through editing and class editing on this story, was finally edited in seven months after releasing the article with an interview with our subject, longtime math tutor, Scott Salak, sitting on my computer after taking a narrative journalism course at my college's journalism program back in the fall semester last year.

This story will take you to places never seen or heard in the mainstream media when one mentions math and education. Even my little sister tells me about how bad her school is and I rolled my eyes before seeing what this journey was really about for students in the 21st Century in a post-pandemic world. We followed IU math tutor, Scott Salak, who mentors at-risk students on math and science equations for what will be 31 years at the helm this year at the downstairs part of the 21st Century Scholars office near the outskirts of the IU Bloomington campus. He is widely respected in a world where this field has been desolate and deflating with no hope or hopeful future ahead for his profession.

This story dives into how math has become American education's lost arch of greatness, the American math system. It also dives into human character as Salak performed in a bluegrass band before becoming a tutor, and his impact on students is musically a condition to succeed and do your best even in a topic you are not good at. This story instruments the arts of math and human interest and I was shocked after posting this article to my Substack and Medium blogs on winter break that more people should cover this story as it goes beyond the headlines and describes math in a poetic form.

THIS IS OUR LINK TO OUR NEWEST AMAZON MUSIC DEAL every listen will earn me a few dollars here and there but this link will provide you a 20% off deal everytime you listen to the app (this is my first promotion ever)

https://www.tryamazonmusic.com/jrorLe

LINKS TO THE SUBSTACK & MEDIUM STORIES ON THIS SAME PODCAST TOPIC:

https://medium.com/p/f769dd143cb9

https://bearmanjournal.substack.com/p/the-condition

Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports.

From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode was recorded in February this year as I interviewed Kevin Finch, a longtime media producer and broadcast professional who now teaches journalism at Washington & Lee College in Virginia. He once worked at WTHR, WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis and WRTV Channel 6, Calamari Productions and a few indie productions here and there. He did work on several documentaries that have been aired on national stations such as National Geographic and Lockup on MSNBC where he is an Emmy-winning producer, director, and journalist who now is teaching youth to shoot for the stars just like he did throughout his storied career.

This was done through the Indiana Broadcast Historical Archives on the campus of Indiana University as many graduates are finding work, I hope this can help motivate you that everyone starts from the beginning to the end of their careers and have fun doing so.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THIS VIDEO as Provided by the Indiana Broadcast Historical Archives on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. You might need a login through one.iu.edu to get into this interview, but I can post his on YouTube if you want:

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Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports. From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode is the second episode crime edition of our podcast on, "Keeping Things Up in the Middle" explores the case of Benjamin Smith, a racist young man who was causing trouble from a young age and was fascinated with a white supremacist movement that wanted to cause harm to anyone not white. His mania and obsession with the group led him to cause the first major horrific tri-shooting spree on the Fourth of July across Bloomington, Indiana & in the neighborhoods of Chicago on a two-night shooting spree in 1999.

From July 2-4 of 1999, a two-state shooting spree across Chicago and Bloomington, Indiana that took five lives away from us, helped implement changes made to state laws on racist crimes and how the courts should handle these types of racially motivated attacks. Benjamin Smith [to the far left] took the lives of Won-Joon Yoon [the Asian man on the left side next to the basketball team] & former Northwestern University men's basketball head coach, Ricky Byrdsong [to the right] who was shot by Smith, a radical racist out to k*ll as many Black, Jewish, and Asian people as possible, shot and killed Byrdsong IN FRONT OF HIS OWN CHILDREN before making pit stops at Springfield and Decatur, Illinois before making his last stop in Bloomington, Indiana, where he was once a student at IU and shot Won-Joon Yoon when he was attended a Korean church service that weekend. In the end, Smith pew-pewed himself and passed away in Illinois.

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Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the message of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports. From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode is the first crime edition of our podcast here on, "Keeping Things Up in the Middle" as we explore the case of Chalky Wessel & Steven A. Hale who caused a massive tri-shooting spree across Indiana & Illinois on April Fools Day 1998.

This shooting killed five and injured many others as the community has since healed 20 years later, but also forgot about the full details going into the case until my mom got a phone call from an anonymous source in 2016 describing Wessel's disturbed childhood that led up to the shooting spree.

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Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the messa of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state in the state of Indiana as we cover everything from crime to politics to what makes Indiana great and sports. From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode is part of an in-depth investigation that lasted a full year in 2023 as we discuss the challenges of Indiana State University's leadership as Dr. Deborah Curtis' call to have the baseball team move to Texas to play in last year's NCAA Baseball Super Regionals away from ISU which not only made people from the Wabash Valley furious, it angered them.

The baseball team this year and last year were riding off of the best success in baseball for the first time in school history as one incident overshadowed the team's luck in the tournament but not their heart as many would expect.

This is not just a baseball story as the College World Series has been going on this week in Omaha, Nebraska, but this team deserved more credit, but was tarnished due to greed.

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WE ARE BAAAACK! FOR GOOD THIS TIME! WELCOME BACK TO THE RETRO SPORTS CLASSIC HUB! Sit back, relax, and enjoy a new edition of the pod to help you sleep, study, relax, or listen to some classic radio commentary in the world of sports.

This is a special edition as tomorrow kicks off the 2024 U.S. Olympics Swim Trials in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium, and I thought to myself to find a class sporting event from any of the hundreds of Olympic Games held every four years. I found one from the 1992 Summer Games on Day 11 of the games in Barcelona. This features a nighttime report from NBC Sports themselves along with a swimming competition accompanied by ads and a news report from 1992.

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Talking about random things is what we do as we discuss both my favorite television shows ever while incorporating what makes the state of Indiana a great place to live. Here on "Keeping Up in The Middle" we discuss what makes our state a great place while tying Frankie into the mess of the week throughout our crazy lives and in our crazy state. From producer, Braydyn Lents, this episode is an in-depth interview at Morgenstern's Cafe in Bloomington, Indiana as author Shawn Cohen discusses the Lauren Spierer disappearance back in 2011 in his new book, "College Girl Missing" which released yesterday and has been featured on Fox 59 News and his article is one of the best written about Spierer and her family during this tragedy.
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