Ladies and gentlemen Let us not just pledge our allegiance to the flag. Let us recommit our minds our souls and our bodies To the rededication to protectant Please join me in our pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Thank You mr. Barnett will continue with the program in a little while, but as for now Bon Appetit enjoy your dinner pride and Honor That I present to you The president of the United States Thank you very much. Thank you Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you Reverend clergy Senator Hayakawa our party chairman dinner chairman and host Our toast master All the distinguished ladies and gentlemen up here and you ladies and gentlemen all distinguished out there Nancy and I thank you for a very great and warm, California. Welcome You know, it's always a pleasure to get home if only for a short visit And one of the best things about getting home is seeing old friends and we've been doing that tonight Many of us in this room have been toiling together in the political vineyards for more than 20 years We've shared victories and defeats Good times and bads. I made it 20 years and not more than that because any more than that. I wasn't a Republican We've shared the good times and bads what's most important, I guess is that we've never become complacent This magnificent display of unity and commitment will undoubtedly be remembered as One of the good times and I think we all owe a round of applause To David Murdock and the others for what they've done to make this evening a success that it is I remember not too long ago when a big fundraiser like this was only a hundred dollars a plate and I know The material cost of your being here tonight It's lucky. We've got inflation under control or who knows how much you'd be paid Tonight we kick off the 1982 campaign season for the California Republican Party Only a few years ago our party registration was dropping Our coffers were empty and we were in retreat If the Dodgers had doing that poorly Vince Scully would have been placing side bets on the visiting teams Thomas Edison once said I never did anything worth doing By accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work Well, the current strength and vitality of our party didn't happen by accident either it took work and Each of you should be congratulated for what you've done Obviously many of you've been working extra hard But accomplishments also requires leadership and tonight I'd like to take this opportunity To thank Terso del hunko for the fine job that he's doing here in California Now there is one other person Who should be singled out for all that he has done to inspire and unite the California Republican Party? I'd ask him to stand and take a bow, but unfortunately Jerry Brown couldn't be with us tonight Once to raise taxes we left him a half a million million dollars surplus Well easy come easy go Seriously though, we've got tremendous candidates for the Senate and I can't see a reason why Any one of them will not be able to keep Jerry Brown right here where he belongs Here in California swatting med flies Or do I have that wrong does he raise them? a Sad thing is that come January a Republican governor is going to have an awful time straightening things out in Sacramento. It won't be easy I've had some experience in cleaning up after a brown But in a few days Californians will be going to the polls and along with determining the party nominations You'll be given a chance to register your opposition to a blatantly unfair redistricting plan The way the way to vote against back room political manipulation is to vote no on propositions 10 11 and 12 the maneuvering be Behind redistricting is just one more example of how we must remain vigilant if the sanctity of the ballot box is to be preserved Of course, none of us ever thought that making government work in a free society would be easy Teddy Roosevelt had an insight into this. He said the noblest of all forms of government Is self-government, but it's also the most difficult To put it another way if freedom were easy there'd be to great more many more free countries America during the last 20 years has been poised at a crossroads a Number of political forces as we should expect in a free society are trying to direct our Country down whichever path most closely conforms to their philosophy and worldview It will be the activists those who organize and vote who determine what America will be like Two decades from now It's our job to muster the forces of hope to inspire them with a positive program that will ensure that America remains a prosperous and a free country We're engaged in an epic conflict with the proponents of Negativism the advocates of no They offer the politics of no growth No take-home pay no neighborhood schools no incentives to work no incentives to save no protections for the family and No security for our nation or safety at home We are and must remain the bold proponents of yes Yes, we can have a brighter future Yes, we can make America work Yes, we can solve our problems and yes, we can have a safe and strong America Yes, we can live together in harmony no matter what our race or religion We say this because when it comes to our country. Yes is the only word we understand and I'm not just talking about Republicans The American people Republicans independence and Democrats alike want a positive alternative Something our opponents with all their criticism have yet to offer The Washington establishment may think it sounds corny, but we still believe in the people and so do Americans a study Conducted by the Gallup Organization has recently found that among all the industrialized nations Americans are the most willing to fight for their country The proudest of their national identity the most likely to find achievement in their work They are also deeply religious and behind only the Irish and the English in viewing themselves is happy You suppose that makes us Irish Americans the happiest of all It does tonight These findings shouldn't surprise anyone We've always believed that you can count on the American people You can count on them to handle their own affairs much better than the government can do it for them You can count on them to spend their money more wisely than government can spend it for them You can count on their courage when the cause is just and you can count on them to do what is right When they are given the facts and that's our responsibility We've got to work with all the energy we possess to let the people know about the choices. We face as a nation We've got to make sure that our people have the opportunity to hear our message We'll also do our utmost to see That they won't have to be called on to fight for their country because our goal is peace now recently I've Been through some serious negotiations with a gentleman named Tip O'Neill a man who's concerned about deficits is legendary I tried to meet him halfway and on his own turf We bid our did our best to reach a compromise that would have started the budget process moving again and reassuring the nation Instead of compromise. He wanted surrender Instead of progress. He wanted to cancel the election of 1980 Well, I can pledge to you tonight will be constructive. We're open to new ideas. We'll go the extra mile But we will never shelve the mandate of 1980 and return to politics as usual The people have spoken the old days of ever bigger taxes and uncontrolled government spending are over The speaker told reporters after our negotiations that philosophical differences separated us. Well, he's absolutely right. I Just don't believe the philosophy of no the profligate spending of My liberal kingpins in Washington Represents the aspirations of many Democrat members of Congress of the rank and file of their party Every demand they made in that meeting was based on increased spending and higher taxes Now we tried our best to reach a reasonable understanding Now it's time for responsible activists in both parties to get on with the business at hand And that's exactly what we intend to do. That's why the members of the house aren't here tonight that we're supposed to be here Because they're facing right now on the floor of the Congress and they've been up for late hours on this Having eliminated five of the budget proposals already. They're facing 68 amendments To the two remaining budget proposals The liberal philosophy represented by those still in leadership positions in the Democratic Party has had its chance and failed 30 years ago Speaker O'Neill already a political veteran was elected the Congress. I Was still in movies back in those days And believe me bed time for Bonzo made more sense than what they were doing in Washington During the coming election. We cannot let the legacy of the big spenders and big taxers be forgotten You forgive me if I offer some reminders in the years prior to the 1980 election Our economy was on the skids our people were demoralized indeed a voice from the White House Told them they suffered a malaise Overseas our friends and allies alike saw us as a nation in decline Government spending was out of control growing at an annual rate of 17 percent in the year 1980 alone Taxation was strangling any chance of progress dollars that could have been used for business expansion Individual savings their consumer spending were spent on government expansion taxes actually doubled between 1976 and 1981 They went up 300 billion dollars and there were 318 billion dollars in that same period in deficits For all their talk about compassion They created one of the most brutal inflations in our nation's history In 1980 it was running at budget double digit levels for the second year in a row Robbing from those unfixed incomes attacking the well-being of the poor in the middle class Stifling savings and shooting interest rates sky high Anyone who questions the responsibility for these miserable conditions Should only compare what we inherited with what our current opposition was handed four years earlier My predecessor and the liberal hierarchy in the congress Started in 76 with an inflation rate of 4.8 By 1980 they had run it up to 12.4 now some of you May have heard of senator kennedy and others in the liberal hierarchy complained about interest rates recently Well, this is going to make you cry In december of 1976 the last full month of the last republican administration The prime interest rate averaged 6.4 percent By december of 1980 interest rates were 21.5 percent Prior to the 1980 election productivity was down for the third year in a row and unemployment was heading up again I remember campaigning in the midwest during the 1980 election in towns with 18 and 20 unemployment then Where the collapse of several important industries had already begun When any of you remember the misery index? That goes back to 76 my predecessor invented that as a candidate He added the rates of unemployment and inflation together And then said of the incumbent president That no man had the right to seek reelection as a president who had a misery index of 12.5 And he won He was in office and after four years with a democratic majority in both houses of the congress The misery index stood at 19 and a half But he ran for reelection Well in this election year, they haven't mentioned the misery index Yes, we have a recession they've mentioned that And we have an unemployment rate which i'm as concerned about as anyone could be But that 19.5 misery index we inherited Is for the first quarter of 1982 Only 9.8 percent We figured that what america needed was a commitment to tackle the basic problems holding our country back And a willingness to stick with it until the job was done And that's what we've set out to do Our program has four basic points Most of you can probably recite them with me because it's not my program. It's our program And together we've accomplished much of it first. We called for getting government spending under control Well, we've cut the rate of growth in that spending nearly in half in the first year Our programs called for a tax rate reduction. We've set in place a tax program That will leave hundreds of billions of dollars in the pockets of working people that would have been grabbed away by built-in Tax increases indeed the biggest single tax increase in our nation's history was passed in 1977 And for the first time ever We have managed to eliminate government's hidden tax increase caused by inflation By indexing which will start in 1985 We called for the elimination of wasteful and counterproductive regulations And vice president bush has been leading this fight heading a task force with spectacular results By the end of this fiscal year, the american people will be spared the expense Of 200 million man hours of non-productive paperwork required under those previous regulations now That savings can go into investments which create new jobs The federal register the book which lists new regulations Was 23 000 pages smaller last year due to the efforts of that task force The last part the last part of our program is a commitment to work with the federal reserve system to ensure a stable money monetary policy And we've done that and along with the rest of our program. It's dropped brought a drop in the inflation rate totally unpredicted by the way If you remember our critics just a short time ago And some of the so-called experts were telling us it would take a decade To ring inflation out of the economy Well inflation for the twa past 12 months hasn't been running at 12.4 It's been running at an annual rate of 6.6 But for the last three months The consumer price index has been running at less than 1 Very early in the administration over shrill voices that predicted skyrocketing prices We decontrol the price of oil And decontrol unleashed a stampede of exploration promoted conservation Contributed to the oil glut and reduced prices Here again our policies are pumping vast resources into our economy Which were evaporating under the previous administration There was one problem we met head on in the early months of the administration Which could have brought havoc had had not been dealt with quickly and firmly I think everyone who depends on government from social security to recipients to businessmen Can rest easier now that we've reaffirmed That federal employees do not and will not have the right to strike We brought we brought tough professionals into this administration. We're taking our goals of efficiency seriously The campaign against fraud waste and mismanagement is showing results For example calls and letters to hotlines Where someone has to call in with something some tip that they can give us as a saving As more than doubled in some of the federal agencies last year and one phone call alone last september to the department of labor Resulted in a ten thousand dollar savings It was the american taxpayers who brought to our attention films pamphlets and magazines that the federal government Produced by the truckload We call it the federal flood of flicks flax and foldouts Well, one of our projects is aimed at stemming the tide And due to those efforts you're no longer paying for a pamphlet called imaginative ways with bathrooms Or a coloring book that costs a hundred and forty five thousand dollars Or a photo guide to employees of the bureau of land management So they could find their way around the country Furthermore agriculture found it didn't need a series of recipe books costing over thirty three thousand dollars Which among other things instructed taxpayers on how to stuff hard boiled eggs with crab meat HUD discovered it could reduce the size and cost of its annual congressional report From four volumes to one from a thousand pages to a hundred and fifty and that was a savings of fourteen thousand dollars commerce eliminated nine Internal newsletters and that saved a hundred thousand dollars a year I'm convinced that we've created a momentum for change The previous administration acted helpless before the federal monolith But the federal government is composed of individuals almost all of them our solid patriotic citizens anxious to do their job It's just that most of them have never been asked how to make things better even though they've had plenty of good ideas Well, we're asking and we're following through It's a slow process as is all lasting change in the age of television and instant gratification I know it's not easy politically You know, there's an old story about the impulsive child who realized he had a problem Because of being impulsive and decided to pray about it and he got down on his knees and he prayed dear lord Please give me patience and I want it right now I'm convinced that the american people will respond if dealt with materially and honestly They're willing if we tell them the facts to give our program a chance This recession has made our task difficult, but gloom and doomers notwithstanding I believe we're on the verge of a tangible and lasting recovery The savings rate is up Up for the second quarter doff employees are already being rehired Construction of office building is up business travel is up home mortgage rates are declining We still have a long way to go But we're on our way back Finally, I'd like to speak with you about a vital area of accomplishment One we must never permit to be politicized Yes, it's something of which we can be rightfully proud A few years ago america was still suffering from what has been referred to as the vietnam syndrome self-doubt Vassalation and confusion a company to decline in our military strength Our allies and our adversaries alike thought of us as weak and indecisive The dedicated men and women in our armed forces reacted as one might predict Professionals whose skills were badly needed left the service in droves I say to you tonight We can be proud that aside from everything else in these last 16 months We have restored the confidence of the united states of america Today our allies know that we're not afraid to lead Our adversaries are beginning to get the idea that we're a force with which to be reckoned The men and women of our armed forces know now that we're proud of them They're grateful. We're grateful for the job they're doing and we'll back them up if they're called upon And let me give you an example Our ambassador to luxembourg wrote me a letter He'd just returned from a visit to one of our armored cavalry regiments up along the east german border And as he was leaving went over to his helicopter a 19 year old trooper stopped him And he asked the ambassador if he by any chance could ever get a message to me And being an ambassador, of course, he could and he said so and the young fella said well Will you just tell the president? We're proud to be here and we ain't scared of nothing We may not have taught him much in english, but I sure like his attitude In just one week i'll be leaving for my first trip to europe as president of the united states My utmost goal second only the preservation of our freedom Is as I said maintaining world peace Our nation is in a much better position to date and negotiate and achieve meaningful arms reduction Because of the commitments that we've made Permitting our defense posture to erode did nothing to further the cause of peace We have two arms reductions proposals on the table Proposals which will bring both sides into balance rather than freezing either side into a position of inferiority and vulnerability But like prosperity peace comes from commitment and hard work And in any forthcoming arms reduction talks The soviets know this time The alternative to reducing their arm strength is to try and match our industrial capacity A cartoon the other day told it all Two soviet generals were pictured one of them was saying to the other I liked the arms race better when we were the only ones in it Well in the in the coming months In the coming months our people will again have to make a judgment of the polls We must state our case clearly. We must get our message to the people Together we can and will keep america the great nation that god intended it to be And tonight for the first time you reminded me of Something that I quoted at the republican national convention in 1980 And you really did remind me of tom pain statement 200 years ago When he said we have it in our power To begin the world over again Thank you and god bless you Thank you, mr. President Ladies and gentlemen, and I realize you have just sat down But may I ask you to stand now and remain standing for the benediction And then for the departure of the presidential party And for the benediction, I would like to call upon the pastor of the belair presbyterian church the reverend don mumow the preacher In ecclesiasties Road in his wisdom There is a time For everything and a season for every activity in heaven A time to be born in a time to die A time to plant and a time to uproot A time to kill and a time to heal A time to tear down in a time to build A time to weep and a time to laugh A time to mourn and a time to dance A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing A time to search and a time to give up searching A time to keep and a time to throw away a time to tear and a time to mend A time to be silent and a time to speak A time to love and a time to hate A time for war and a time for peace And my prayer in this benediction Is that god will give us all A sensitivity Of knowing what time it is May the lord bless you and keep you May the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you And give you peace Now and forever more God bless you Good night, mr. President


This 2004 Ford Mustang GT Premium is stock number 11644Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used sports car headquarters. This 2004 Ford Mustang GT has the 4.6-liter V8 motor, 260 horsepower. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. Screaming yellow is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now. Because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to check out some more, in the lower right-hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. Click that to subscribe to our YouTube channel and then click the bell notifications to see videos we do each and every day of our amazing inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one has some ZR racing painted and polished aluminum rims. And it has Sumitomo, HTR Z tires. And these are 275 35 ZR 18s. And they have a really good amount of tread left. I'd say probably 70 to 80% of the tread left on those tires. 40th anniversary Mustang badge on there. Front fender is in great shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Front bumper is in pretty nice condition too. Lower valence looks really good. Got the blacked out headlight bezels. And the hood is in really nice shape as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender looks really good. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. Be sure to ask your salesman for the factory set of rims and tires that go with this car at time of delivery. Because we do have a second set of rims and tires for this car. As you go down this side, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. And we take these HD videos. So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down, you can still see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So you can make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home. Back rims in nice shape. And you can get a little bit better look at that tread on those tires. So lots of good tread left on those tires. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in really nice shape. It does have SLP dual rear exhaust. Those chrome tips look really good. And the trunk lid is in really nice shape as well. We'll check out inside that trunk in just a little bit. Going down the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back rim got a couple little scuffs on that rim, but nothing too bad. But that's why we do the videos. I mean, this is 2004, so unlikely that it's going to be perfect. It does have window edge security. So what they do is they put that edge on every piece of glass. So if somebody was to steal this car, they would have to break out all the glass, which is just a little bit of a safety feature, theft deterrent, I guess you could say. You get the Mustang logo stitched into the backrest. The GT premium package gives you the gray leather seats, factory floor mats. And this is a power driver seat, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and mock audio system. We'll take a quick look in the trunk here. So that goes up nicely, very nice and clean back here. Those shocks do a nice job holding that trunk up. And we'll see if you can look at that spare tire there. And that shuts nice and solidly. Spoiler's in really nice condition. As we hop inside the car, we'll turn the ignition on so you can check out the radio and the miles and everything. This car has 33,000, I'm sorry, 39,961 miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel. That's in really nice shape. You get cruise controls on there as well as the Mustang logo. Comes with the six disc CD changer, AM FM radio. And it does not have satellite radio has traction control though. That's for your fog lights and your climate controls are up there. Six speed, or I'm sorry, five speed manual transmission, passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. The back seats are in really nice shape too. No rips or tears back there. This car has never been smoked in and those seats do fold down for extra storage. The headliner is in very nice condition on this car. And we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. No check engine lights or anything like that. Exhaust sounds really good. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video you've been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around. Inside and out. Under the hood we have the 4.6 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean. Runs very smooth. Engine bay is very nice and clean. No corrosion or anything. Once again this car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. And for the age and miles I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this car or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, sports cars, Mustangs, Camaro's, Challengers, Chargers, Corvettes, you name it we got it go to that website right there at www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com. 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Hey Weirdos, our December Weirdo Watch Party is Saturday, December 23rd, hosted by horror host Hall of Famers, Drac and Countess Corita. Dracula and his bride are bringing us the 1946 noir thriller Shock, starring Vincent Price. In the film, a psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium. Only to find out that the man who committed her was the man she witnessed commit a murder. I'm going to try to find something that will convince her that she's insane. The Weirdo Watch Party is always free to watch online with everybody, so grab your popcorn candy and soda and jump into the fun, and even get involved in the live chat as we watch the movie This Christmas Eve Eve. This delusion is quite common among mental cases in an institution of this sort. It's Shock, starring Vincent Price, presented by Count Drac and Countess Corita, Saturday, December 23rd, starting at 10pm Eastern, 9pm Central, 8pm Mountain, 7pm Pacific. See a few clips from the film and invite your friends to watch along with you on the Weirdo Watch Party page at WeirdDarkness.com. And we'll see you on Saturday, December 23rd, for the Weirdo Watch Party.


Transcribed. Now listen to Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons. Brought to you by Crosley, makers of pace-setting products for happier living. Crosley Automatic Television, oh boy. Beautiful Crosley-Schelvedor refrigerators, the world's most convenient. Wonderful Crosley-Automatic Electric Ranges. Crosley-Schelvedor Frisers, color-style radios, and many other leading home appliances. At this time, we wish to send out a call to the SPCFA, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fathers in America. Come to a certain white frame house on Maple Street. Bring full emergency equipment, including large doses of sympathy. See a man named Jim Anderson. He's entering the house at this moment. Happy, eager, unsuspecting, like this. Margaret! Where have you been, dear? You slipped out after dinner. I had some business to talk over with Ed Davis. Margaret, listen to this. What do you say? You and I... Father, where have you been? Next door at the Davises. Margaret... Father, you'll simply have to help me with these candles. Candles? Hiya, Dad. But I was... Your father was talking about? He was talking to me. Daddy, I heard your voice. That's more than I've been able to do. Kathy... Daddy, if a farmer planted six rows of potatoes and five rows of corn... What farmer? Dad, if you feed 110 votes into a transformer... What transformer? I was here first. I was here first. I have news for all of you. I was here first. Your mother and I... And I was about to ask her something. May I continue? Is it something important, dear? Of course it's important. I had a great idea. Let's you and I go bowling tonight. Bowling? Bowling? Bowling? I must be standing on Echo Point. I don't mind you kids listening while I talk to your mother. I don't mind you kids listening while I talk to your mother. Jim, it's sweet of you to think of it, but it's been so long since... Ed and Ethel Davis went bowling a couple of nights ago, and they had the time of their lives. Why don't we go? There's no reason why we can't. All we have to do is call the bowling alley. It's such a simple thing. I'd like to go, dear, but there's Kathy. Butt and Betty are here. I don't want to stay with them. Father, you have to help me make a candle tree. Candle tree? I have to put nine candles together like a tree. It's for my sorority initiation. How about my transformer, Dad? But what's this about a transformer? Could you help me wire it up? Daddy, you have to help me with my arithmetic problems. If a farmer planted six rows of potatoes... It's a transformer for our doorbell. And five rows of corn. Kathy. What doorbell? You have to put nine candles together like a tree. Daddy, what about the farmer? What's the farmer doing in here? He's planting candles. Jim, listen. I have a problem, Father. I know, nine rows of doorbells for your sorority transformer. Why can't anybody in this house talk all at once? I mean one at a time. Your door, bud. The doorbell's working all right. Bud, what do you need a transformer for? For the doorbell on our clubhouse. When we get a clubhouse. Bud, the front door. I'm going. Margaret, I came back from the Davises. All I wanted to do was... Sure, Mrs. Johnson, come on in. Oh, hello, Evelyn. Hello, Margaret, Jim. Well, hello there. Good evening, Mrs. Johnson. Betty, Kathy. Paul. Excuse me for breaking in like this, but Charles came home with tickets for the concert tonight. Betty, we wondered if you'd like to come and sit with the twins. Well... They're four years old now and they're not too much trouble. I'm awfully sorry, Mrs. Johnson. I'd like to, but we have a sorority initiation tomorrow and I have so many things to do. Oh, I understand. I wish we could help you, Evelyn. Oh, it's a problem whenever we want to go out. How I envy you and Jim with your children old enough to be independent and do things for themselves. Oh, it must be wonderful. Oh, it is. Well, I'll just have to keep trying, I guess. I hope you find someone. Oh, I will. Come and see us soon. We will. Good night. Oh, poor Evelyn. They're so tied down with those little boys. What's tied down? They're tied down? What about us? We've been tied down for 18 years. And now tonight, for once, I suggest you and I go bowling and what happens? I run smack into a wall of transformers and farmers and candles and corn. What's the matter, Dad? Nothing, bud. It's just that... Well, Father, if we're in the way... That's not what I said.  You have to learn to assume a few of your own responsibilities. Do we have to start tonight? I can't take him a better time.  Do I have to stay with Betty and Bud? They're your brother and sister. That's the trouble. Who helped me with my candle tree? Do it yourself, Betty. Find a book. Look it up in the Encyclopedia. How do I fix my transformer? Look it up in the Encyclopedia. Where are we going, Jim? Look it up in the Encycl... We're going bowling down to Harvey's Recreation Center. Kathy, you run next door and see if you can spend the evening with Patty Davis. She wins. I'll never get the candles fixed. What about my transformer? Betty, why don't you call Janie Leggett? Maybe she can help you. And Bud, you can take your transformer over to Joe Phillips' house. Now run along. Jumping creepers.  Well, there you are, Margaret. You see, all it takes is a firm stand. The children have been hanging on our apron strings, relying on us for everything. Well, it's natural. Certainly up to a point. We've been fed with a spoon all their lives. Yes, dear. No more staying at home every evening, devoting every minute of our lives to the children. I'm glad I've taken a stand. From now on, we're going to be free. We're going to be young and gay again. We're going to get out and see people. We're going to have fun. Well, I'm ready, dear. How do we begin? You see, you're lost. You've been locked in so long, you don't know how to be free. All right, Gordon. You're like a bird out of the cage and all the time you don't know where to fly. Well, you take off first and I'll follow. Believe me, we'll have no trouble. I'm just glad we made the break before we forgot how to live. How to have a good time. All right, I'm convinced. Let's fly. You bet. I'll call the bowling alley, make a couple of reservations, and we'll be on our way. You just have to take the bull by the horns, that's all. Hello, Harvey's Recreation Center. This is Jim Anderson. I'd like to reserve an alley for eight o'clock. They are? How about eight thirty? Nine? Nothing at nine either. The phone is Riverside 430. Thanks very much. What do you say? All the alleys are reserved. They'll call us if there's a cancellation. Well, we're back on the perch. No, we're not. The bowling alley isn't the only place in town we can go. We'll go down to the townhouse. Have late supper in the crystal room. Dance and have a... Hello, this is Jim Anderson. I'd like to reserve a table in the crystal room for... Oh, it is? Thanks very much. Well, that was a short flight. They're closed for all the rations. All right, we don't have to go there. There are plenty of other things we can do. Let's call the Smiths. We'll get up a foursome and... The Smiths can't go, Jim. They have relatives visiting. All right, then. Let's call the Phillips for an evening of bridge. They're playing bridge with the Evans tonight. Count Fonda, we don't need the Phillips or the Smiths. We can go out somewhere by ourselves. Just you and I. We'll go to a movie. Hand me the paper. Let's see what's playing. All right. Here's a nice double bill. Across the Arctic by Zeppelin and life among the giant lizards. Let's see if the strand is sitting pretty. Have you seen that? What's at the majestic? Bambi and the horn blows at midnight. There's nothing playing that we haven't seen. Well, there must be. Is that you, bud? It's me. It's inviting me to stay all night with Patty. We're going to have a keen time. Kathy. Where's my overnight dad, Mommy? On the shelf in your closet. Well, Jim, what have you decided? No movies in town. Margaret, Kathy didn't speak to me when she came in. Oh, she's excited about going to the Davises. I suppose I was a little hasty running the children out of the house. I certainly don't want them to feel that I'm trying to get rid of them or anything like that. Oh, they understand, dear. I guess I didn't realize how important we are to the kids. How much they depend on us for help and understanding and companionship. Well... Margaret, I'm going to be truthful. I couldn't go out this evening and leave them. I'm going to tell them we've changed our minds. We'll have a real nice evening at home. That's fine, dear. Has Betty gone over to Janie's? No, she's upstairs. Oh, Betty! Betty! Yes, Father? Come downstairs a minute. Do we have any popcorn, Margaret? I think so. We'll have popcorn. Play some cards. What is it, Father? Betty, your mother and I have changed our plans. We're staying home tonight. But, Father... If you have a problem with those candles for your sorority initiation, we'll work it out. You can always count on me. You know that. But there's no reason for you to stay home. There isn't? I wouldn't think of denying you and mother a little freedom. Besides, I'm going over to Janie Liggett's.  I've been dying to meet him. He's going to help us with the candles. Bye, mother. Have a good time. Goodbye, dear. A big fraternity man from Princeton. What does he know about arranging candles? Don't be bitter, dear. Who's being bitter? Is that you, Bob? Yeah, Mom. Come in the living room, Bob. What do you want, then? I've been thinking over that transformer problem of your son. That's very interesting.  Oh, you don't have to stay home on my account, Dad. That's all right. You kids come first. You can always count on your dad. But it worked out swell. We call Joe Phillips' uncle. He's got an electric appliance store, and he's going to let us work on the transformer down there. He's got tools and everything. But we have things in the basement. Oh, he has twice as much stuff.  Don't worry about me. But, Bob... I'm ready to go, Mommy. Do you have your toothbrush and pajamas? Sure. And my kickball. Well, you can put them back in your room, kitten. Mother and I are staying home, so you won't have to go over to the Davises. We'll work on your arithmetic. But Daddy, Patty's going to help me with my arithmetic, and I'm going to show her about kickball. Yes, but... And when Patty helps on my arithmetic, I get A's. When you help me, I get a B. Now, wait a... I've got to go. Good night, Mommy. Good night, Angel. Good night, Daddy. Good night. That's gratitude for you. You give the best years of your life to the kids, bringing them up through the mumps and measles, working like a dog for them.  Now, Jen...   Well, you were the one who insisted we go out tonight. You chased them out of the house. I didn't chase them out. I only suggested. All right. You suggested. Fine loyalty. Jen, the children didn't realize we couldn't find anything to do. Margaret, that's not the reason we decided to stay home. What was the reason? Well, it was... Why do you ask me? You know very well. No reservations at the bowling alley. No movies we haven't seen. I don't know where you got the silly idea. We have no place to go. There are dozens of things we can do. 100 places we can go. Well, good. Let's go. All right. We'll go. Where are we going? We're going out. Out where? Where do you want to go? What would you like to do? What would you like to do? It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me either. This is like playing badminton. Jim, I have no ideas. You said there were a dozen things we could do. Now you tell me. All right. We can... Well, there's the... Or we could... How about... I guess you wouldn't care about doing any of those things. No. I guess not. Well... Get the cards. Let's play canasta. What are your plans for Saturday night? Wouldn't it be fun to see an exciting prize fight, watch a gripping play, meet America's leading celebrities? Well, that's the kind of entertainment you can enjoy week after week, with America's leading television set, Crosley Automatic Television. Here's how Crosley sets the pace with television that's five ways automatic. First, Crosley's special antenna selector automatically tunes to the channel you've chosen. Second, Crosley has extra power, and the Crosley power control automatically brings in the picture with a clearness you wouldn't believe possible, even from distant stations. Third, the Crosley picture lock automatically keeps that picture steadier than any you've ever seen. 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There were dozens of exciting and interesting things to do, Jim and Sister. So they chose one, like this. Let's see. It gives me 6,530 points and gain. I never did like canasta. You were the one who suggested we play, dear. How do you like this? Two people, young, almost, with friends, a car, a thousand things we could do, sitting here at home playing canasta. Well, dear, I'm ready to go. Let's not go through that again. Still worrying about the children? Worrying? Why should I worry about them? If their parents no longer mean anything to them, all right. Jim, it's not that serious. Isn't it something of a shock to you, Margaret, to discover that you're not only unnecessary, but obsolete? What are you talking about? Bring home the money. That's all I do. Cook the food. That's all you do. Face it, Margaret. You and I can be replaced by a bank and a hamburger stand. No, fine. I don't even rate a good restaurant. We'll put a little fire on the hearth. We'll huddle together in our declining years. Alone and forgotten. Telephone, dear. Oh, yes, this is Jim Anderson. You have? Great. We sure will. Yes, sir. Margaret! Jim, what in the world? That was the bowling alley. A couple of reservations. Just cancel out. There's an alley open right now. I told him we'd be right down. Well, for an obsolete bank, you're showing a lot of life. Don't be ridiculous, Margaret. We have to hurry. What happened to the huddling hearth in the declining years? Margaret, they won't hold the alley all night. Jim, stop dragging me. We have to let the children know we're going. They know, Margaret. It was clearly understood before they left that you and I were going out. Well, I think we should at least leave a note. Give me your pencil, Jim. All right. Here. Gosh, an evening out. We could have done this long ago if we'd had my way. It's simply a matter of letting the children know we have a right to live too. They just take it for granted that we have to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day. Have you finished? Jim, I can't think when you're talking. What do you have to think about? Just say, dear kids, we've gone out. If they come home and we're not here, they'll know we've gone out. Then why write a note? Well, I want to leave something. Dear Betty and Vir... What you don't realize, Margaret, is that the children aren't babies anymore.  They don't care for them if they feel we're not hovering over them every second. Let them develop a little independence. What have you put down? Dear Betty and Bud, your father and I...  Margaret, haven't you written that note yet? We could have been at the bowling alley. Jim, please stop talking and don't pace up and down. You think you were writing a play or something? There. Dear Betty and Bud, your father and I have gone bowling. If you're hungry when you come home, there's chocolate cake in the pantry and two custard eclairs. There's cold roast and fresh milk in the refrigerator. All right, let's go, Jim. Maybe we should have a bite to eat before we go. All right, all right, get your things. I just thought you might be hungry. I'm ready to go. So am I. We're off, Margaret, as free as the... Daddy! In here, Kathy. Daddy, can you fix a window in a garage? Quick! Fix what window in what garage? In the Davises. Patty and I were practicing kickball. Kathy, your mother and I were just about to... But, Daddy... Margaret, I told the bowling alley we'd be right down. Go ahead, Kathy. Well, Patty and I were practicing kickball before we started our arithmetic and Patty kicked the ball through the garage window. Well, if Patty broke the window, why do I have to fix it? Well, Patty was afraid if she told her father she did it, she'd get spanked. Oh? So we told him I did it. I knew I could count on you to fix it. But, Kathy... You said I could always count on you. Margaret. Don't look at me, dear. All right, I'll do it first thing in the morning. Come on, Margaret. You've got to do it right now. The snow will come in the window. I told Mr. Davis you'd do it. And, Jim? I could go over and lean against him. You'd get cold. Oh. Call the bowling alley, Margaret. Tell him we'll be a couple of minutes late. What are you going to do, Jim? I'm going down in the basement. Maybe we have some tar paper. You're going to put that on instead of glass, Daddy? Yes, Kathy. You can't see through it. I know that. This is temporary. Call the bowling alley, Margaret. This will take me about five minutes and then we'll go. I'm going to do a garage. No. Jim, what's the number of the bowling alley? What? The bowling alley. Call him up. Sir? He's in the basement. Jim. What? Well, your father wants me to... What are you doing, father? I'm looking for tar paper. Margaret, did you call the bowling alley? I don't have the number, Jim. What's written down there somewhere? I thought you were Janey Liggetts. I was, but we're in a mess. Well, the line forms on the left. Kathy's ahead of you. But this is important. Look at this throw rug. It belongs to Janey Liggetts mother. It's practically priceless. We're not buying any rugs. Here's the tar paper, Daddy. Kathy, take that downstairs. What's that, Daddy? It's a rug. Are you going to put that over Mr. Davis's window? No, Kathy. Margaret, have you called the bowling alley? I called this rug father. Janey's cousin thought he was so smart, and he spilled wax all over it, and Janey's mother is furious, and Janey's father was fit to be tied, so I brought it home. I knew you'd find a way to get the wax off of it. Betty, your mother and I... Father, you promised you'd never let me down. Janey's positively desolate. I'm a little desolate myself. Let's go fix the window, Daddy. He's going to work on the rug first. Aren't you, father? You said we could always count on you. You did, Daddy. All right. Margaret, look up the number of the bowling alley. Tell them we'll be about 15 minutes late. All right, dear. Let's go, Daddy. Kathy, you find a hammer and some tax, and while you're doing that, I'll see what I can do with this rug. Where's the hammer? In the basement with the tools. Look at the way that wax soaked into the rug. Do you suppose gasoline would lift the nap? Yes, it'd lift the roof of the house, too. We'll have to use cleaning solvent. We can't do that in here, father. We'll have to take it out in the garage. Here's the hammer, Daddy. Oh, Kathy, that's not a tack hammer. That's a mallet. What hammer do you want? The little one. You suppose we could wash the rug, father? We probably could. When it was dry, we could use it for a doily. Don't you know some way to clean it? Well... Daddy! Never mind, Kathy. I was so sure you could do it, father. How are you getting along, Jim? Oh, fine. Rugs, hammers. It must be that girls are just naturally helpless.  A man has to be a carpenter, rug cleaner, magician. What do they say at the bowling alley, Margaret? They're waiting, Jim. Thank heaven, Bud is at least able to do things for himself. Down there in that electric shop, working on his transformer, figuring out his own problems. I'll get it, dear. I'll answer it, Margaret. You take over the rug for a minute. All right, all right, I'm coming. Hello? Mr. Anderson? Yes? This is Fred down at the bowling alley. Well, it'll be a few minutes. We've been delayed. Oh, take your time, Mr. Anderson. We've had to close down the alleys for a while. Our lights have gone out. Lights gone out? All right. Thanks for calling. Goodbye. What was that, Jim? Fellow at the bowling alley. Their lights are out. Take it, mother calling. What am I going to do, father? Betty, give your father a chance to think. I wish Bud were here. He's the only one who goes along quietly, isn't always getting into some compounded... That's Janie's mother. Probably the bowling alley. Have their lights on again. Bud. Oh, hello, Bud. Where are you? Down in the basement at the electric shop. Can you come right down? Come down there? What for? We didn't have another one, so we put a penny in it. It blew out the lights on the whole block. Oh, Bud. All right, stay right there. We have to. We can't see anything. Goodbye. Goodbye. What happened to Bud? They mixed up the fuses in the electric shop. Burned out the lights. Put the bowling alley out of business. I have to go down there to rescue him. But, father, the rug. What a bee. Children, please. Phones, doorbells. I'll go, dear. Father, what am I going to tell Janie's mother? What am I going to tell us today? Oh, hello, Mrs. Johnson. Hello. Well, I couldn't find anyone to stay with our twins, Mr. Anderson. Oh, that's too bad. But I thought someone should use these two tickets to the concert tonight, so I brought them over to you and Margaret. For us? Yes.  Mrs. Johnson, if you only knew. 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Welcome to this weekly series TechSoup Talks. I'm Nicole Jones. I'm going to hand things off to our host Sarah Washburn of Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup who's going to introduce today's topic, addressing food insecurity with a community-designed mobile app, along with our guest Kate Howe of IndieHunger. Welcome, Sarah. Hi, thanks, Nicole. And again, my name is Sarah Washburn, and I'm the director of Community Experience for Caravan Studios.  And my team collaborates with communities to design technology that solves local problems. And I'm here today, and I'm so excited to talk to you about this. I'm here today to talk with Kate Howe, and she is the managing director of the IndieHunger Network, which is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hey, Kate, how are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I am wonderful. Thank you. It's so nice to see you again. So can you just take a moment, Kate, to tell us a little bit about the IndieHunger Network? Sure.  So we were created to bring together all the hunger relief organizations in Indianapolis and help them collaborate and communicate better and try to knit together the different things that we do to feed people in our community to make sure that we're meeting all the needs by providing as many services and connecting our services together. Great, thank you. And we'll have a chance to talk a little bit about more about what that means and the work that you've done to create this really exciting app. And so we're here to talk about this community resource, which is a mobile app. And we are also here to talk about how it was a community-generated resource, that it wasn't just one person or one organization that set out to do this. But so before we begin, I wanna talk just a little bit about how I know about Kate and how I met Kate and her organization. My team, Caravan Studios, facilitated a design thinking event. Which we use to bring together community organizations and experts around a particular topic. In this case, we've met at the Indianapolis Public Library in Indiana to talk about how technology might be used to solve problems around finding resources, finding food resources locally in Marion County, which is the county that Indianapolis is in. And that is how I really got to know the IndieHunger Networking Kate and her colleagues because her organization was one of the many experts who came together to do this two-day event where they were thinking about the problems that they were facing, meeting the needs of their community and then where they designed prototypes, paper prototypes of potential technology solutions that solve those problems. And it was at this event where the first sort of ideas around this particular app came together. And so it's really exciting to me to have seen the people and the ideas and the really smart thinking that happened early on that now created this mobile app that is real and in people's hands and doing impressive work. And so the other reason that I know Kate and our work at Caravan Studios came to be with IndieHunger and with these other organizations in Indianapolis was also through our work developing an app. Our one app that my team at Caravan Studios developed is called Range, and it finds where free food is served to youth during the summertime. And now also because of the pandemic and because of school closures, Range also shows where grab-and-go meals can be found because of schools being closed and because those meals are no longer served in cafeterias if your school is closed. And so it was because of this work with Range and also because of our work with our generate and design events, these community-generated events that we came to be in Indianapolis with Kate's organization and others. And so that's really what brought us all together. All right, so now that I laid that framework, let's start our conversation. So Kate, we often hear from organizations, nonprofits like yours, that what they want to do is create an app. And I'm curious about what you and your team were thinking at the very beginning about why were you thinking maybe an app and also kind of what your hopes were and what you had hoped to achieve early on? So before we started this project, when people were looking for information on where to find help with food, they were calling 211, which is an information line for human services. So they might call just to find out, can you tell me a food pantry that's open right now? And they might end up waiting on the phone for 20 or 30 minutes because some people call 211 and have many different needs like housing and food and childcare and addiction treatment. They might have multiple things that they're asking for a referral to. And so it can be a really long wait on 211. And so what we were hearing from our community was that they were making their own resources. So social workers and school staff and things were making hard copy guides about to hand out to people with information, which as soon as you print that it's out of date. And we wanted to create a way for people to get that information without having to, go to the school counselor's office and get the print out sheet of food pantries. We wanted them to be able to access that information at their fingertips anytime with information that's updated regularly. And so that led us to the idea of an app. And we learned that actually most people have some sort of cell phone. It might not be a smartphone, but for people living in poverty, I believe the number is 90% that have some sort of phone because that is their only connection to the internet. That's maybe the only phone they have. If they move around a lot, they take their cell phone with them. So we thought that was probably a good way to be reaching people in poverty or people in emergency food need in our city. So that's what led us to trying to think about how to create an app. And we expanded the concept of it during our two-day workshop. That we didn't just wanna direct people to food pantries, we wanted them to be able to look at federal nutrition programs and whether they're eligible, things like SNAP also known as food stamps or WIC, school free and reduced price school lunch. We wanted to include all of that. And so as we got in there and started being creative, we realized that the app could potentially provide more solutions than just your printed out list of places to go visit. Yeah, I really appreciate everything that you just said because it's so common that resource providers provide printed resources because that's kind of the way that you pull everything together and hand it or read it and give it. And so that is a really common scenario I think where things begin as printed and how do you make it more mobile, more accessible. And I appreciate that you alluded to the fact that in this highly collaborative two-day event that you were a part of that there were ideas that came from other people that led to this kind of kernel than idea that you guys had and which made it so much richer and kind of helped you guys think it through more. And so thank you for sharing that part about it. And so that was just one piece that the Generating Design event was just one piece of this really community-centered journey that you and your team were on. Can you talk a little bit more about other activities that the IndieHunger Network was participated in that brought more community ideas to the fore with this app? Yeah, so actually after our workshop, we at Caravan Studios created posters of the three different app concepts that our teams came up with. We placed them in IndieParks facilities, public libraries, community centers, food pantries and asked the public to comment and provide input on what they liked and what they didn't like. And the app concept that turned into community compass was the clear favorite, but they were able to write comments on comment cards about things they liked or things they'd like to see added. So that was the first broad public input into the app. And then we later in the process, which I don't wanna skip ahead too much, but once we had a prototype app, we also took that out into the community and asked folks in the community and particularly people who were using food assistance to test the app for us and to give us feedback on what worked, what didn't work. Did we have information that they knew was incorrect? Was anything confusing? Was it hard to understand? We got comments from things like, I don't like the color scheme to this pantry is never open on Tuesdays or all kinds of different feedback about what worked and didn't and things they'd like to see in the future. And actually some of their ideas for new features we're working on right now. Oh, that's terrific. Yeah. And I also know that you guys earlier than what you just described, that you also had a hackathon that kind of brought the tech chops to the community ideas. Can you talk a little bit about that? Sure. So the Indie Chamber, it's our local business chamber for the city, they do an annual hackathon. So they pick some sort of topic of civic interest and then they invite tech people, hackers from all over the city to come for a 24 hour challenge. So they have a location that people move in with their computers and their pillows and their snacks and work on whatever problem is before them for 24 hours. And then at the end there's judging. So just through coincidence, I had a meeting with somebody from Indie Chamber who mentioned the hackathon said they wanted to do something with food insecurity and did we have any sort of tech problem that they could make as their challenge for the year. And I said, yes, actually, we have a great challenge for you. So it was really a lucky timing. And so they made this the premier challenge, there were a couple of other challenges but we had 10 teams. Some of them were grad students or college students. I think there were even some high school students. Some were from local businesses, tech companies that wanted to participate. And at the end of the hackathon, at the end of the 24 hours, there was a team of us from Indie Hunger Network who got to go around and visit with all the teams and they did a little presentation for us to demonstrate the prototype app they had come up with in 24 hours and we got to pick a winner. That's so great. I didn't realize that it was kind of kismet that the hackathon happened. That's a great story. And it's a great learning to think about the different ways that you can bring different people in to create something, not just the hiring a company to do it. So that's really cool. And so, I guess one piece about the hackathon then the winner then went on to develop the app. Is that right? They did. So the Indie Chamber provides some prize money to the winner and we also had a grant from our local newspaper the Indianapolis Star to work on this project. So we ended up giving, we had some of that money set aside to provide additional prize money that would go with the contract which would allow us to purchase the intellectual property from the winning team. If they signed the contract they would get an additional $10,000. So we ended up really liking the winning team's proposal. They were part of a small local tech company and we ended up contracting with them. So it wasn't required that we pick them but we felt really confident about them and we've been working with them ever since. It's been two years. That's great. So now I wanna get to the exciting part which is where you actually talk about the app because now we sort of led you through the journey that got you there but can you tell us about what it does? Sure. Yeah. Community Compass has three main features. So one is that you can look for certain locations on a map. You can look for a food pantry. You can look for a hot meal site sometimes known as a soup kitchen. You can look for places to use SNAP benefits. So grocery stores or other businesses that will accept SNAP benefits and you can look for WIC clinics and WIC retailers as well. So that's one function. The second function is a chat bot and that was actually what made us pick the winning team because they had this chat bot worked out where users can communicate with the bot and find out if they're eligible for SNAP, for WIC, for free and reduced school lunch, some senior programs and a few other things as well. So that is a second feature. And actually for people who don't want to look at the map if they would prefer to just talk with the bot about everything or if they don't have a smartphone, they can just use the chat function on their phone to access our chat bot who we named Shelley after. Shelley settles with the city of Indianapolis who helped lead this project. And so you can just ask, you can through text find locations as well and find step-by-step directions to a food pantry for instance. And then the third feature is a calendar that has local free events related to food. So it might be local farmers market that accepts SNAP benefits or it might be like you were mentioning before some of the food distributions for the school systems that are not operating in person right now. We have all of that stuff, summer meals on that calendar. So things that are more one time or short-term we put on the calendar rather than a static pin on the map. That's great. And now I would like to show a video of community content so people can get a sense of what it looks like. And Kate, if you wanna provide any additional information as we watch it, that would be great. Sure. So this is the smartphone version of the app and you can get it for free on the App Store, Google Play. You can see the home screen there. We've selected free groceries and you can scroll through to find the different things in your area. If you select one of those particular sites, you get more details with directions and hours they're open, things like that. So you can see an example here of what each record would look like. This is Shelly the chatbot who can help you find all the same information but also information about federal nutrition programs. And then... So great. Yeah. Thank you. I am such a fan of this app. I just, I love Shelly and I love the fact that you can access Shelly without having the smartphone app. I just think that's brilliant. So now that you've gone through all of this, if you could talk to your past self, you could say, hey Kate, this is one thing that I now know that I wish I'd known then. What would you tell your past self? What did you learn that would have been really useful to have known the beginning? I had no idea how expensive it is to create an app. I remember we met with Level Up Development. They're the company that won the hackathon. And they said they would put together a proposal for us of what it would cost to create the app. And I think all of our jaws hit the floor when we saw the different options of, there were different options they put forward for us with different levels of support and hosting or just creating the app and handing it off to us. And so there were multiple different options they gave us, but all of them were far more than we were expecting, coming from a nonprofit where we are full budget for the year is usually less than half a million dollars. Seeing something cost in the 100,000s was a little jarring. So that was probably the biggest lesson for me, but we were able to work with the city to get that funded. So it all worked out in the end. Good, that's good. So we're gonna go to some questions now. And one thing I actually have a quick question about before we go to the questions from the audience is, so now because of the pandemic, have you seen a shift in the way the app is used or maybe in the way you're providing resources? What's going on in the here and now? Yeah, so we have seen lots of changes in open hours, in distribution method, in location even for some things. So we've done a couple of things. We've revamped the way that we update the app so that we have a system we can quickly go in and enter every day if we have changes. And in March and April, we were doing that every day. But we also have a button that we've put sort of a tile at the top of the app that people see right when they log or open it up. And it says, for changes related to COVID-19, click here and then it takes them to a page where they can see all of the changes in one place. So we've done it both ways to try to make sure that we're getting people accurate up-to-date information right away because we're finding a lot of people in need of food assistance that didn't need it six months ago and may have no idea where to go to get help. Yeah, that's a really, you make a really good point there because you kind of had this audience already that you've been working with and now there's so many people who have never had to navigate the systems, don't even know what exists, don't know where to start, don't know what's around them. And so that we have seen both in our work with range and also in our work more broadly at TechSoup that that's been a real challenge. So let's see if there's another question. So how, oh, this is a great question. So how did you structure the questions and answers for the chatbot? Let me get the end. Were you able to take your existing resources or was a radical rewrite needed? How did you go about that? Yeah, we really simplified it because we wanted it to be not a set of 10 questions but maybe two or three questions that people had to go through. And so we ask, for instance, if somebody's applying for SNAP, we ask about the size of their family, we ask about their income, and then maybe one or two other questions depending if they have a senior in the household, that kind of thing. And then we say it looks like you may be eligible for and then direct them to the state website to apply if they meet the first couple of major criteria. So it's not an exhaustive list of all the criteria for qualifying. But in developing the chat, we did a couple of things. We worked with experts who have done this sort of enrollment for the different programs to find out what are the most critical things to include. And then we worked with actually with a plain language expert to make sure that every bit of text that's included is understandable at a sixth grade reading level. So that you're not required to have a college degree to understand what the app is telling you. And so we then went through that text with our community partners, our friends that are using food assistance or have used food assistance and asked them to try it and see if it made sense. And then anything that didn't work for them, we would tweak a little bit. And actually, we haven't mentioned this yet, but we're just in the process of translating the app to Spanish, which should be released. I'm hoping next week. And so we're doing that all over again, trying to figure out how to make it the most commonly used form of Spanish to make sure that everybody can understand. We're not using any unusual words or strange sentence structure that doesn't make sense. Yeah. Yeah, that translation, that's really exciting. And it's a lot of work. And it's a lot of important work. That's really great. So here's another question. What staff training was needed as you brought in the way of supporting your community? What was the most surprising pain point? Do you understand that question? So what staff training did you need to do as you started doing this kind of new work for you guys, developing an app? So in terms of the development process, we really worked very, very closely with the team at Level Up Development, the tech company. So we met monthly and actually we're still meeting monthly as we add new features and fine tune things. But we work closely with them and they have been really good about saying, here are the things we need from you. We need the data. We need the text for this. We need you to proofread this or that. But then they have the tech tasks and then we test things out meet again. Once the app was completed, we've done all kinds of training in as many ways as we can. We've gone to, for instance, we've gone to our local WIC, several of their clinics to train their staff and how to use the app. We have offered training for food pantries. We've pulled together community partners before it was launched to make sure that the food banks and meals on wheels and the school counselors and their local public school system people that we thought might have people from the community asking them about the app. We brought them in to train them first so that they would be able to and then actually the mayor's action center as well so that they would know what the app was and how to use it in case people in the community needed assistance. And then we have training videos on our website and we've distributed training flyers and posters to put up at locations around the city. We did launch this app in February and then the pandemic hit us in March. And so some of the things we thought would work really well like posters at food pantries to explain how to use the app. No one's going into a food pantry anymore. They're getting their food outside. So we had to adjust a bit and create yard signs and flyers that can go into bags of food at food pantries, things like that. But we've been really working hard to train people in the community about how to use the app so that they can share it with others. That's great. Yeah, I think, you know, there's so much hard work that goes into designing and then developing an app that you sometimes maybe forget or at least don't realize how much work it takes to get it into the hands of the people who need it the most. And that in itself is a very large community effort as you just described, all the different community partners and the ways in which you're sharing it from flyers to yard signs. So that, thank you for describing all of that. I, let's see. Oh, there's a comment in here about very wise to bring in plain language experts and then review with grassroots partners. So that's a kudos to your team. So we're getting close to time but just a couple more questions. Here's another one. Do you have a sense of which referral source is sending the most users? That's a really good question. So we have radio ads on some local radio stations, both in English and Spanish. And so through a local radio station, then I Heart Radio gave us free airtime during the pandemic as an in-kind donation. So I can kind of see when the radio ads run that we're getting spikes in downloads. And so I think that's been really effective for us. I think more people are home listening to the radio too. When people have been working and schooling from home. And yeah, we have billboards, we have bus ads, we have, we're trying to blanket the whole city with community compass. Yeah, and yeah, I think when we see a spike in those sorts of things, sometimes it's related to an article in the local newspaper. You can kind of track the spikes. So the more public we do, the more uptake we have. That's great. So my last question for you is what, I know that you have new features happening and you talked about translating into Spanish. Is there anything else that you're excited that's gonna be, that's in the pipeline for the future for community compass? Yeah, well actually just a couple of weeks ago we released two new features. One is filtering so that you can look for only food pantries or meal sites or whatever that are open today. So if you don't wanna see, okay great, there are 12 in my neighborhood, but only one's open today. You can filter by distance from your location, from open time, from the zip code that they're in, that kind of thing. And then we also introduced a feedback feature so that if someone finds information that's incorrect, they can tell us right away through the app. Or if they have a suggestion of a new feature or some other event to add, they can tell us that as well. And then in the future, there are a couple things we're hoping to do. One is to expand statewide. So right now the app is only available for Marion County where Indianapolis is located. And we're talking with some partners about possible funding to expand across the state. And then the last thing is a desktop application. So for some folks, for the people who are actually needing help themselves, we think the cell phone version is probably the most convenient and helpful. But if you're an employee at a community center that's trying to help somebody get information, you may want to be able to see all the locations on a desktop version. And so we're looking into creating that as well. Terrific. Well, we're at time and I just wanted to thank you again, Kate, for taking the time to share about Community Compass and all that you've learned and done. It's such an impressive community resource. We're just so pleased and proud and excited for you. And I wanted to just quickly tell people where you can learn more about the organization that we talked about today. So please check out the IndieHunger Network that's IndieHunger.org And you can also find them on Twitter at IndieHunger. Also caravanstudios.org, caravanstudios is my team at TechSoup. And you can find us on Twitter at at caravanstudios. So thank you very much. This was really fun. Thanks, Sarah. This has been great. I appreciate the opportunity to talk with everyone about this project, which is really, it's been a labor of love and we're really glad to be able to share it with the community. And thank you for your help in making it happen. Yes, our absolute pleasure. We are the biggest fans. It's been a great experience for us. Thank you so much, Sarah. Thank you, Kate, for your time today. We really appreciate you sharing all that wisdom with us and that's a wrap.


So we're not that far into summer yet, but already there's a lot of cost for concern I mean here in the Pacific Northwest We just got over a record-breaking heatwave where power cables were melting and some roads We're literally buckling under the heat and I want to share this photograph taken from my mom's backyard So as you can see there's this tree and the bushes it looks like they were hit with a flamethrower I mean all of this is the aftermath of multiple days of triple digit heat in an area where this isn't very common and Let me remind you that it was less than a year ago when the Pacific Northwest also experienced insane wildfires Where our air quality was literally hazardous as a result of said wildfires for multiple days And I remember being indoors and you know not wanting to open the door at all But still regardless if you stayed inside you could smell the smoke through your home So all of this in the Pacific Northwest is climate related, but that's just what's happening here If you zoom out and see the broader impact of climate change abroad the picture gets a lot more grim Climate change is now cited as a likely cause for animals shrinking. Yes, you heard that correctly I said shrinking which is very likely going to push certain species towards extinction Scientists in British Columbia attribute the death of approximately one billion title creatures to a climate induced heat wave Ocean acidification and marine heat waves are killing off coral reefs at alarming rates And just last week the Gulf of Mexico was on fire As a result of an underwater pipeline bursting climate change is Destroying our planet and yes, it is anthropogenic it is being accelerated by human activity And just a hundred global corporations account for the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas emissions And I really want to put this into perspective for people This is our only home Earth is the only habitable planet that human beings have access to we're not going to be able to terraform mars fast enough to save ourselves We're not going to terraform venus Before we terraform earth We're not going to be able to find a different planet in some distant solar system This is what we have if we lose this planet We lose everything It's over for humanity and a lot of other species So the time to act is long overdue But yet as all of the evidence is right in front of us as we see the impact of climate change in our own lives now You have fossil fuel funded ideologues on the right who are actually claiming you know what all of this that we're seeing It's not that big of a deal. In fact global warming is good actually because it saves lives This is what denis prager right wing propagandist said with a straight face on his radio show And um, let's take a look and see what he has to say because he actually does maintain that climate change global warming specifically is good Hey, denis great great observations your question. Are they serious? Um about tiny houses or men and the women's room or degrowth or depopulation I had a conversation with a guy this weekend an atheist who believes the world is overpopulated And I asked him that same question.  Are you sincere?  Well, that's al gore. You've just described al gore with his And a lot of these leading environmentalists Flying in private jets using far more energy than anybody else. I happen not to care If there's one one piece I'd like you to read From the year 2021 it's Bjorn Lomborg's piece that just came out In the la times amazingly. No no usa today amazingly and how So many fewer people are dying because of climate than ever before Because the the great killer is cold not heat So global warming has actually been saving lives But the left doesn't care about saving lives They care about disrupting civilization Because of the deep boredom in their soul That comes from the religionless Lives that they were raised with That's what it is Give me purpose I was raised with none I'm sorry, but who listens to this? Dennis Prager nearly put himself to sleep with this dry partisan drivel And he's saying things just nonchalantly that are deeply deeply destructive. He's getting his viewers to think Oh, well this global warming thing I keep hearing about actually. It's good So understand how conservatives keep moving the goalpost at first they say climate change isn't real Then they say it's real, but you know, it's uh, it's not man-made then they say yeah, it's real and it's probably man-made But you know what it's good There's a reason why they keep moving the goalpost. It's because they're wrong and what we saw there Was not an argument All republicans Do is they try to what about is a everything right or they try to hypocrisy burn People who are actually concerned with climate change or real issues I mean listen to what the caller said he said he talked to an atheist who was concerned with overpopulation And he said that the atheist wasn't actually serious about overpopulation because he hadn't killed himself Is this someone who we're supposed to take seriously Dennis Prager didn't point out how idiotic that was no because Dennis Prager thinks that that's actually a really persuasive way to argue What's this you care about climate change? Oh, well, I see that you drive a car. I see that you ride in airplanes Gotcha, you participate in society.  Therefore his views have been corrupted By the fossil fuel industry If you accept millions of dollars from fossil fuel oligarchs and oil barons Then yeah, that might have a little bit of an influence on your opinions as it relates to climate change And then he adds in The left doesn't care about saving lives the person who thinks global warming is good says this The left doesn't care about saving lives. They care about disrupting society Because of the deep boredom in their soul and notice the irony here He talks about the boredom that the left feels as he's like almost asleep as he describes How global warming is good.  I mean, I don't know what it is I don't need to actually address motives to me. That's a non sequitur here The issue is that global warming is not good. Actually global warming is going to kill everyone But old fucks like danis prager He's not going to be around to see the worst of what climate change has to offer His grandchildren will if he has any all of the children who he's trying to indoctrinate Now well, and they'll realize once it's probably too late that everything that he's saying is a lie But this is deeply harmful To say that this destructive thing that we're desperately fighting against to save the species and many species not just humans is good Is so beyond the pale that nobody should take this lunatic seriously You can tell he doesn't even take himself seriously because he almost put himself to sleep there I did I did I did recovery mode my brain I did Recovery mode my brain I did