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The story of Nancy Leonard · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 2: Let those dot it's the story you need to hear
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  Speaker 2: to believe. Then grab your popcorn because there is more.
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  Speaker 1: Allow me a moment to discuss the passing of Nancy Leonards,
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  Speaker 1: whom I never met, and I wish I had the
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  Speaker 1: story of Nancy Leonard. The story of slick Is, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: is filled with absolutely incredible, surreal, almost insane stories. We
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  Speaker 1: are we built a football stadium without a football team.
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  Speaker 2: I say we.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't here, but it's an incredible story. We build
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  Speaker 1: a football stadium that then gets the Ersay family to
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  Speaker 1: come to Indianapolis to take a look when they're thinking
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  Speaker 1: of moving the Colts and they take one look at
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  Speaker 1: the place, they see the blue seats.
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  Speaker 2: This is how the story is told to me. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's true, maybe it's not.
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  Speaker 1: They say the blue seats, so they're like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: our color.
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  Speaker 2: It was meant to be. That's that's insane, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what this place did. The story of the
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  Speaker 1: Circles City Mall i Argue is one of the great
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  Speaker 1: stories in America. We need to build up downtown. How
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  Speaker 1: do we build up downtown? You know what, We'll build
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  Speaker 1: them all. You're in, You're in, you're in, you're in.
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  Speaker 1: Not you're in, you're in.
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  Speaker 2: Boom, they built a mall.
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  Speaker 1: It's an incredible story of how these businesses came together
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  Speaker 1: to create something for that that worked for everyone, that
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  Speaker 1: was better. The story of Nancy and Slick Leonard and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, a great write up of Nancy Leonard
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  Speaker 1: over at NBA dot com slash Pacers. Here is a
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  Speaker 1: basketball team that wasn't gonna make it. There was no
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  Speaker 1: money left.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't know how they were gonna go on, and
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  Speaker 2: Nancy and Slick Leonard engage, go at it.
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  Speaker 1: And create this this telethon. Hey, everybody, we need to
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  Speaker 1: keep our team here. We need to sell eight thousand
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  Speaker 1: season tickets to raise enough money to keep the franchise afloat.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: From July third to July fourth, nineteen seventy seven, they
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  Speaker 1: hold a telethon.
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  Speaker 2: To keep the team here, I.
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  Speaker 1: Swear to you if you don't want to live in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana after hearing those stories, I don't know where it
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  Speaker 1: is you want to live, but best of luck to you,
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  Speaker 1: as I've learned to say, bless your heart. Nancy Leonard
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  Speaker 1: passed away at the age of ninety three yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And I said this.
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  Speaker 1: Months ago, and I'm on it was on a Twitter X.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to repeat myself. We need a statue.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I have an idea.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need a statue that is like Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: statue in front of Lucas Oil. We need a statue
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  Speaker 1: that the people can connect with because they Slick and
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Leonard turned to the people and said, we need
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  Speaker 1: to connect with you.
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  Speaker 2: You need to connect with this team.
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  Speaker 1: We need a statue in front of gamebridge Field House
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  Speaker 1: that isn't bigger than life, that is actual size that
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  Speaker 1: people could put their arm around and take a picture
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  Speaker 1: with and give a hug to. The kind of statue
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  Speaker 1: in the bronze that eventually from so many people showing
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  Speaker 1: their thanks and appreciation and making sure they take their
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  Speaker 1: picture with Slick and Nancy, that it starts to that
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  Speaker 1: the finish starts to rub off and it starts to
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  Speaker 1: be warned because they were of the people, very clearly,
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  Speaker 1: quite obviously from every single story.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I never had the pleasure of meeting them.
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  Speaker 1: We need that that has to happen. It transcends the politics,
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  Speaker 1: It transcends the sports, it transcends the madness. It's a
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  Speaker 1: picture of two people who said we can make a difference.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, if we're not going to exalt and glorify
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  Speaker 1: people who do that in our society, what exactly are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? And the way to do it is not
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  Speaker 1: through corporate sponsorship, although there's gonna be a ton of
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  Speaker 1: corporate sponsorship for something like this. The way to do
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  Speaker 1: it is to do it the way they did it
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  Speaker 1: and go to the people. We need to put on
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  Speaker 1: a telephone where the Indiana Pacers and the Indiana Fever
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  Speaker 1: answer the phones. There is not a television station, there's
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  Speaker 1: not a radio station that wouldn't be involved.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get to speak for Urban one, but watch me,
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  Speaker 2: hell yes, we will all of us, B one.
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  Speaker 1: Of five seven, the fan, Hank TLC all all of it,
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  Speaker 1: all of it. There is not a station that won't
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  Speaker 1: say we're in. There is not a Hoosier who could
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  Speaker 1: even think of not saying, let's be a part this
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  Speaker 1: and the donation we're looking for nineteen dollars and seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven cents to match the year in nineteen seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: when they had the telethon to begin with, I swear
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  Speaker 1: to you, if we don't do this, we're insane. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure how to put this on,
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  Speaker 1: but I do know how to say, let's go do
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  Speaker 1: this thing. This is a must. This is a must
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  Speaker 1: that can actually bring a city and a state and
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  Speaker 1: a region together.
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  Speaker 2: We should, for just one moment, look at that statue
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  Speaker 2: of those two.
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  Speaker 1: They are local artists who can make this happen. Look
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  Speaker 1: at each other and say, man, that's something to aspire to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all in in every single way.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, I hope we can do this.