Keeping Things In "The Middle" w/Braydyn Bear-Lents

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 an interview, the first one in a while, with Seth Jones, an Indiana University graduate, and founder of the Instagram Page "The 5K Guy" where he has over 800 followers. He resides in Brazil but grew up in Bloomington, Indiana after moving from Springfield, Missouri. He was once a high school athlete who lived a challenging childhood before starting the challenge. He has been on a mission to better the world through the advent of social media as his link to his content is down in the below:

https://www.instagram.com/mr5kguy/

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The following is a class assignment for MSCH-J 300 Converged Newsroom at Indiana University where I am finishing up my final semester as a journalism major, and this is one of four assignments for this course as this will not be the last time you will see me posting videos or podcasts on this course.

A man from Bloomington is changing the perception of a 5K

Jones is currently residing in the country of Brazil where

Finally, Jones, also known as the "5K guy," thinks

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, BBB IS BACK! What was once a YouTube series is now an official podcast on anywhere you get the podcasts. Our last episodes can be found here from back in the 2022 season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXboX0ATI8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_TBSLIaJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ExSVnMrJY

This episode is quick as the Indianapolis Colts lost to the Houston Texans on September 8, 2024, 29-27 at Lucas Oil Stadium. These are my thoughts from after the game as we will soon preview the Green Cry-Baby Packers coming up in the next episode but as for now, I will be talking about my thoughts on the Week #1 NFL Kickoff match between us and the Texas.

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This broadcast will also be featured on the American Student Radio Sports Network as we hope to expand this to our channel soon. This is a first as we helped WIUX broadcast the Indiana Hoosiers vs. Florida International University Panthers football game on August 31, 2024, as the Hoosiers would beat the Panthers 31-7 in their first game of the season and Coach Curt Cignetti got his first win as the Hoosiers coach.

On the call was Braydyn Lents as he was play-by-play, color, and analyst while eating and enjoying the game in his chair.

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

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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

Let's not forget the unforgettable 2024 Little League World

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 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)

⁠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 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:

https://ibha.indiana.edu/item/05742h711/

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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YouTube LINK TO THIS VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gtV24aHDcXU

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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