WIBC Traffic Beast Matt Bair!

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (0:00)
You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show. Yeah, my name is Nigel Jason Hammer, right over there with a very special in studio guests.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:08)
I'm always torn when Matt Bair walks in studio because I love hanging out with Matt. Matt's like one of my favorite dudes. Like Matt and I could just sit down and just talk for hours. But when he gets on the YouTube camera, like he's on right now, I look fat.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (0:24)
Me too, me too, me too.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:26)
Like Matt's in here with his tight V-neck white shirt on driving the chicks crazy. And then here we are looking like a mix of Clint Howard and Steve Buscemi.

**Matt Bair** (0:37)
Keep in mind, I'm bald. I have a big bald spot.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:41)
Oh, well, I know some friends that can fix that. We grow hair, Indy. Your boy here had a big monkey's butt in the back. And now, hey, Matt, how's it look? Honestly, I can't even tell. Oh, yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:52)
You look like you're 20 years old.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:53)
That's just four months in. Like this, by the way, is an unplanned, you know, like pitch for my guy.
But no, four months in and because I had a big ass bald spot and I used to see it on TV when they had the overhead drone shot. That's when I first noticed it and I was like, ah, it's those CVS scanners, those CVS cameras, right?

**Matt Bair** (1:14)
You know, where you go underneath and they have a big picture right there on the top of your head. Yeah, like, damn, I'm really bald today.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:20)
I was doing the gambling show with our pal Scott Long on Wish TV, and they had this aerial shot, you know, like going into break. And I was like, good lord almighty. I look like the dad in like different strokes. What's going on here?

**Matt Bair** (1:33)
President Trump, please ban all aerial shots immediately. Thank you.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (1:36)
Was that a Conrad Bain reference?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:38)
Yes.
OK. Well done, Nigel. Well done. So 32 more folks gets us to 300 on the YouTube chat today. And I think Matt Bair being in here warrants that. So get over to WIBC's YouTube and give us a thumbs up.
Matt, before we get into our fun conversations, we always get business out of the way. The latest closures, road updates. You're giving us updates about today throughout the afternoon show. But what are we looking at like big picture?

**Matt Bair** (2:10)
Yeah, for the weekend, I'm thinking about this. I'm going to be going out tomorrow and Friday. So I wanted to get some of this out here. And that's this Eastbound 70, this huge corridor on the south end of downtown. It's going to be down to one lane again from Belmont into the south split. So I'd avoid that if you can. That is hellacious if you're coming in there and you only have one lane to be able to get into the south split. And that includes the closure of these ramps. It's going to be Meridian West. A lot of those ramps are going to be closed as well. So I would totally avoid Eastbound 70 this weekend. Actually, there's going to be some overnight work starting tonight on it. And then the weekend, starting Friday night through Monday. So that's Eastbound 70, the south end of downtown, down the one lane because of this I-65 construction project they have on the south side that should be done at the end of the year as they add another travel lane there. Also, it's the other construction zones, Clear Path on the northeast side, Benford Boulevard.
We know Benford Boulevard because it's always busy. And it's going to be down to one lane in each direction from I-69 to 71st Street.

**Justin Moore** (3:14)
So again, play it accordingly.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:15)
Yeah, these are these are tough delays.

**Matt Bair** (3:17)
If you get up, I talk about this stuff all the time. I always forget. I always get stuck in traffic when something's happening in my neighborhood. The marathons always get me. But if you can make a note of it, maybe put your phone.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:29)
Do people always give you crap when you get stuck in traffic? Like you're the guy, the one guy in the state of Indiana that should know better. Right.

**Matt Bair** (3:37)
I get goofed on all the time about it, especially somebody's like, hey, you know, there's a little part of Tim's Avenue there over on the west side that shut down. What do you think? And I'm like, I didn't know that was going on.