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Erin, Nancy and Tommy join to talk Keeping Milford Warm! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  It is Wednesday, the day after the big elections across the country,
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  but most importantly here in Milford locally. Congratulations to Tony g for winning the
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  mayor and I think the Republicans gained two seats overall. I think something like
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  that. But we'll get into the election a little bit. But today this
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  is my second show of doing Keeping Milford Warm. It's a great organization that
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  helps pretty much people of any financial you know, if they want to stay
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  warm, keep their houses heated. And today, in place of her father,
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  Aaron McGrath is here returning as Tommy duggan and Nancy Austin, who we
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  go back like, I was trying to figure out what year was that we
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  had, you know, I wanted to say ninety nine or two thousand,
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  somewhere in there. I was going to say I was. I won't say
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  how old I was, but yeah, because I was like probably twelve,
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  then yes, well we're the same age, so yeah, we're both like
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  twelve, Yeah, twelve, So that makes us thirty five. Yeah,
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  now you're a Yeah, it's easily way over twenty years. Yeah, yeah,
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  a long time, and you were you were in politics for the last
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  few except for the last are you officials? I have a couple. Well
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  it's kind of weird because I'm actually still in until December, which is bad
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  even though they swear in the new people. But yeah, I know I
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  have to not to run this year. So yeah, doing different things.
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  Yeah, we want to talk about that later too. It's more than more
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  than welcome to Yeah. So all right, Aaron, you have the floor
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  here for keeping mill from warm. I know we discussed it last year,
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  but what's you ten years? Yeah, that's awesome. So what's some things
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  coming up? And so just a little background story keeping Mulford warm. We
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  are a heating assistants program here in Milford for those that may not qualify for
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  assistants or who have simply run out of assistance. This past year, we've
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  linked up with Team so they cut off a little earlier than we do,
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  and so we get all their referrals once their program stops. Just to date,
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  we've done seventy five hundred gallons of oil. We also do gas assistants
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  and electricity assistants if you heat your home that way. So we started ten
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  years ago. This is our We have our ten year anniversary party coming up.
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  It's a holiday benefit and silent auction at Grassy Hill with the rum Runners
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  coming this year. It's our one and only event that we do for the
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  year and everything raise goes right back to heating the homes of Milford. So
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  we're really excited about this year. We actually just sold out last last week,
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  so we have three hundred tickets purchased straight now. It's one of the
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  best silent auctions, not just because I'm in the program I've ever seen.
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  We have a live jewelry auction, electronic raffle. It started out a smaller
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  group of people coming and you know, to hit three hundred people this year
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  is unbelievable. You know, the need in Milford is absolutely crazy and we're
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  here to fill the gap. So we're very excited about our program and the
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  event coming up on the ninth of December. It's always held the second Saturday
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  of December. Awesome. I remember talking about it last year and I remember
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  one of the comments I made was, you know, who would have thought
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  in Milford that there really was a neede. Sure. Yeah, and that's
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  not you know, transit Milford's the greatest talent or anything. But you know,
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  it's I'm sure that there's need in Greenwich too, you know, like
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  there's I think there's a need in every town. Yeah, every town.
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  And I think it's great that I never knew about it till last year.
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  Like, right, if I didn't do this podcast, that probably still wouldn't
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  know about just because it's not something I'm looking for. Right. Well,
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  it's crazy because I you know, when we started this program, we didn't
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  realize what a lapse there was in funding. So the moneies that we've raised
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  to come in and be able to get the back end of all the assistants
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  in Milford or Team or whomever, it really shows that there's a need.
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  You know, there's people out there that you know, especially with COVID,
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  that or have lost their jobs or you know, are staying home because they're
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  single parents and they may not like reach the threshold to actually qualify for assistance.
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  So that's kind of where we can come in and you know, hey,
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  you're going through a hard time and let's let's give you some heat.
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  So what's the walk me through, like the process a little bit of you
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  know, is there a minimum like income requirement? Is there? You know
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  kind of like say somebody just got jammed up, Sure they make a decent
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  amount of money, brought something happened. I mean, there's got to be
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  some kind of So basically to qualify for the program, you have to be
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  a Malford resident. That's you call me up and say, listen, you
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  know I lost my job, I'm struggling. Whatever the circumstance may be.
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  I'm gonna check you out to make sure that you live in Milford, to
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  make sure that you know you actually are in need, and you know,
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  well, you know, if you heat with oil, I'm gonna send we
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  use Phillips Oil or Sanna. We have a partnership with Philips Oil. They're
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  gonna come out probably the day after and give you a hundred gallons. So
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  we used to be able to fill the tank, but because of the need
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  is so great last this past year, I had twenty to thirty requests a
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  week, so I had to cut it off and say, all right,
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  we're gonna give you a hundred gallons. Right. But basically, if you
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  call and you need you need help, We're there to help you. That's
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  awesome. And this event coming up is I would assume your marquee event of
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  the year. It's our one and only. We have a huge amount of
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  corporate sponsors, platinum sponsors. Our platinum sponsors are Tricity Heating and Cooling,
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  Madison Harbord Floors, and then Trinity Point Wealth and then a plethora of corporate
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  sponsors throughout you, throughout Milford, corporate corporations, businesses, just local people
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  looking to help. And you know, this event raises a decent amount of
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  money that we can fund the program for the whole year. That's awesome,
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  so awesome. So what if you have guys have a website, right,
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  yep. So you go to the website and yep, www dot keeping Milford
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  Warm dot com. You can go there. It's pretty it's pretty easy,
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  straightforward. You go on there, you need submit a request or you can
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  call us directly, email us, and you know, I usually I'm right
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  on and I'll call you back and see what's going on and get help right
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  away. So I would I would say, like again, somebody that maybe
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  thinks they have enough money but doesn't or whatever, the circumstances may be.
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  It's something that you know, if you if you don't have heating, you
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  shouldn't have to choose between putting food on your table, right right, you
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  know what I mean, Like I would say to somebody, don't be shot.
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  No, don't you know Listen, everybody has their own things, and
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  you know, I mean I'm a single mount and like I'm filling repests for
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  people, and I'm like, you know, it's not easy for anybody,
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  so to be able to call up and humble yourself. I get it.
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  You know, if you're struggling and you need help, just call there's you
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  know, that's that's the first step. Right. What what is can you
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  donate outside of sure? You know your gala? Yeah, we have so
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  through our website you can make a donation. You know, we are always
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  looking for donations. Everything that we take in goes right back to the community.
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  Like I said, you know, but throughout it's been throughout the year
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  that we have sponsorships or silent auction baskets that the people want to donate.
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  But you can throughout the year make a donation. Awesome, Now the event
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  itself, is there any way to bid on? You said? Is unbelievable
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  silence. Yeah, we generally have I can't go it's sold out. Yeah,
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  well, I mean we might. We usually have between forty five and
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  fifty five silent auction items. We also have a live auction which is all
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  jewelry, and we also have are you actually off Tommy Duggan for a date?
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  I mean it's I can't afford to tell. Yeah, everybody, everybody
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  that's setting him request and who they want to sit with her? All he
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  said, is there Tommy? I mean enemy of the rum Runners coming.
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  So between the rum Runners and Tommy, it's gonna be a wonder why it's
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  old quick program. Note the rum Runners, Johnny is gonna be coming on
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  a show and probably like a month to announce some big stuff with the rum
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  Runners. Barrel so always good. He's always a he's a riot. Yeah,
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  okay, the good time. The time we just had him. Two
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  saturdays ago, they did that Zombie five king oh right right, it finished
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  his stone Bridge. Yeah, and I think they went on like they were
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  only playing seven to eight thirty and it was an eighty fucking degree day and
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  it was Sacred Hearts Alumni weekend. So when we knew that was their alumni
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  weekend. Yeah, we didn't even bother to think about it because it's freaking
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  November almost and they're not going to come here. Usually it's in September for
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  them, so we're prepared. Well, we saw that eighty degree weather coming
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  shit, so we had to like scramble and call in the summer help.
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  That was the reopened bars and all that. Oh god, it was.
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  I mean it was great for the restaurant and yeah, but that zombie crowd,
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  local ish feel and then at eight o'clock kids coming in, it was
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  it was something else. It was interesting. I was safe right where I
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  was behind that bar, like it's it's the best place to be because I
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  don't have to do that was in the safety zone, all right. So,
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  uh, you know, how many do you have a number of how
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  many people you've or how many families are over the ten years history. It's
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  you know, it started off with like thirty families, thirty individuals, you
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  know, and you know right now, as of this morning, I was
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  up to seventy five hundred gallon of oil and that's giving one hundred gallons out.
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  We also pay electricity bills and gas bills. If that's how he so
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  I can go by gallons at this point, but I know the over you
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  know, since our last event last year December, we've had twenty five to
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  thirty requests a week. Yeah. I grew up, you know, my
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  parents were divorced, with my mother, my brother with my father, and
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  we were young, you know, she was jobbed the job we a lot
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  of a lot of winners. We were. It was all kerosene heaters.
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  Yeah. Oh yeah. We snuggle up next to him, you know,
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  like we didn't have programs like that, right, you know back then.
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  Well, and it's nice because we use Phillips oil, Scott Phillips. He's
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  been well, he's I grew up with him in Milford and he's a Milford
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  guy. He lives out in Prospect now, but he you know, if
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  I give him a request, he's either there that day or the next morning.
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  Right. And how I actually found out about it was because a friend
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  of mine, she was gone through a divorce, two kids, teacher,
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  Yeah, and she was just like she didn't know what else to do,
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  and and she's like literally the truck pulled up like I think that day,
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  yeah, and she was just like it made all the difference you know,
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  like it's just like we do it so you don't have to answer the door
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  they're going to That's how Sarah and I got Okay, yeah, yep,
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  exactly. Our program has been a very small, tight knit group of board
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  members, Tommy, myself, a couple other people, and this year we
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  have a sixteen board members, you know, so that shows me that the
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  word's gotten out. You know, I hate to say we're the best kept
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  secret, but you know it shouldn't be a secret, right because we're here
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  to help, you know, and we have a great team of people out
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  in the streets, you know, pushing to get and if you know somebody,
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  it doesn't have to be you know, you know somebody you know knocking
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  the door and say, hey, there's a program in no Ford. And
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  you know you live in the within the confines of there's a lot of people
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  that don't know about it, right, you know. And I just think,
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  you know, there's so many people are living paycheck paycheck. Yeah,
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  so that's it's not oil, let's say gas, right that or electricity that's
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  something that gets shut off. Sure, so do you guys handle that end
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  of it or to cut them at check to get them where they need to
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  work, say he with electricity, and you have an outstanding bill, and
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  we take it up on a boat of what we're going to do. You'd
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  give me a copy of the bill and I send a check on our behalf
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  to the to the account. So you know. But as far as you
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  know, a lot of the cases in that kind of situation, it's a
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  referral from team or the city of Milford, so you know, or they
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  have something in place so they're not being cut off. All right. So
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  luckily we haven't gotten to that part of it. But so your motorcycle out
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  there to me that Poland, that's it Poland Yeah, is that real?
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  Yeah? I just wanted to get involved in the show. I wrote enough
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  it was all charity rides barber, yes, right, you know, all
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  these text things and almost every ride someone's getting hit or hurt. And I
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  said, you know what I'm done. And then I put it on Craig's
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  List or bargain Noose and a Polish guy called, and you know it was
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  New Britain. I come down and look at it. It was February.
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  Had to get it started, pull it out of the shed's great Polish accent
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  by the way. I don't even know sound rushing it, but you know,
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  save Vicinity. It must be this viva yeah, shout out time.
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  That's why I brought about it. So my guy Tommy, so he came
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  to the house. He goes, I'll take it. He goes, you
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  know where farming to this and I said, yeah. He paid me cash.
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  I gave him the title, and I was either going to ride at
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  the farming tent and the snow in February and I borrowed my buddy's trailer,
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  got it up there and first time with a trailer on my truck, and
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  I was right. I was gonna be given the guy his money. Say
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  you're a motorcycle or my motorcy in the middle eighty four but yeah, yeah,
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  So I stopped doing the bike and I I mean you you were,
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  you were? I was never. I've never been on one and I never
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  will, you know, But I get the lifestyle, you know, I
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  don't know what the free I don't know. You're a biker. You would
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  know better than me. You were, you know, I like a biker.
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  Yeah. Do you have a jacket? Huh do you have a jacket?
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  Yeah? Like a nice yeah, nice expensive jacket Kawanasa mc no no,
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  Yeah, there's guys saying to Kawana's Angels, did you guys, did
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  you see the Hell's Angels report? And it came out like like a week
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  ago, so it was the Boston chapter. Yeah, I just kind of
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  I should be talking about this, the Boston chapter. It was like Sonoma,
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  California, and another spot maybe near La in California, and like ten
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  fifteen years ago, they whacked it dude for whatever I don't know, and
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  the guy in California had a friend that worked at a crematory and they just
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  fucking burned the body. No one knew. And now it's coming out that
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  like they think they used this guy quite a few times. So when when
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  it's whoever the guy died or that got killed. The guy from Boston was
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  the one that ordered the hit. He flew out to La and they all
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  threw a big party because they killed this guy, you know. And now
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  people are turning. It's been fifteen years, and they want to avoid they're
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  getting older and they want to avoid prison. And I was reading it was
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  like I forget what I was reading, what New cycle? But I was
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  reading I was like these fucking people are diabolical, you know, and that's
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  just that's probably nothing the mob does. I mean, they are basically a
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  mob. You know, they're they're mafia in their own right, you know.
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  But you know a lot of a lot of Hell's Angels do good too.
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  Yeah. Yeah, like Toys for Tots is big with them. Yeah,
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  yeah, you know, be a whacking dude. Deal. Hey,
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  if you can burn them, all right, We're gonna be Nancy on the
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  show. Now it is on a little bit earlier. Do you remember back
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  in the day he was hanging out on Fridays? Yes, I do,
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  having been to Fridays lately. Hell Now, hold, we didn't have any
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  of these places we have now, come on, we're very limited in our
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  We call sun Brayden and the winner plays baseball indoors over by Portavarta. You
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  know there there's like a little next door. There's like there's batting cages in
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  there, right yeah. Yeah. So this past winter, maybe like February
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  March, he wanted to go to Fridays and I'm like, you know what,
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  I haven't been there in a while. So we it's a Thursday night,
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  So we go in and there's literally no one. There's there's the four
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  boots in the bar. There's like one family sitting there, no one at
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  the bar, no one in the restaurant, and maybe like one other table.
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  So we're sitting at the front for like I want to say, five
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  minutes, but I know everyone is dadders in the restaurant world. Maybe two
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  three minutes. Finally the manager comes walking up. He's like, uh,
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  hey, how you doing. Where would you like to sit? I'm like
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  we should get one of the bar boots. He goes, okay, let
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  me see what's available, and he like turns around and he turns back around
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  to me and like you're joking, right, like whatever. So he seats
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  us down, and like the drink menu is like Long Island iced teas with
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  glitter in it, Like oh yeah, I'm like, what the fuck happened
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  here? So right as we order now the waitress is like, waitress was
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  great. Actually she was very friendly, like she had nothing else to do
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  but talking to us, so superior. So one table he's this guy with
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  his two kids, probably in their early teens. As as I ordered the
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  food, he comes up to the bar with his plate of food and throws
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  it down the bar and said that was fucking disgusting, and I'm like,
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  oh, I look at Brandon. I'm like this, we're talking up jured.
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  I told you didn't want to come here. Oh. So I text
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  my old friends they used to work there, Joey and John John Pool from
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  Citrus, and I'm like, what happened here? And They're like, you
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  fucking went there. I'm like whatever, So we ate, we paid,
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  we left. The next Thursday was the thirty person brawl there. Remember that?
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  Yes, Oh my god. So I'm like Friday morning, I'm reading
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  the article and patri or whatever and I'm like, oh, I missed it
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  by a week. Wait thirty people? Where the fuck they come from?
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  They were Thursdays. Yeah, yeah, that was one of the best happy
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  hours ever. We used to I mean, we're growing up in the nineties,
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  just turning twenty one, ninety well two thousand and five exactly, and
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  h just slamming back Captain and coch for two hours of drink. Oh.
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  Tommy's like, oh the eighties we were more fun. With all the snow.
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  We were still lucky. We took what we could get right and what
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  we could at that point in time. None ever worked anymore. But like
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  my tabs were fucking twenty box exactly, and I would like have to get
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  a cab hole like it was insane. Back then, we knew any bartender.
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  We had a lot of good times that back then. I ran into
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  one of the old bartender's Dawn. She's the bartender and Two Roads at the
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  oh she not at two Roads, the Two Roads bar at the arena or
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  the theater. Yeah, And I was looking at him like fucking time hopped
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  there. So anyway, you're here, you're on the door as well,
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  you're on the board as well, right, yeah, I so you were
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  What was your position in Milford politics planning and zoning? Planning and zoning?
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  Yeah, fuckers. And I know it's the they make it. They I
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  almost feel and I'm not saying anything right, I'm talking about every time with
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  planning and zoning, I feel they just make you not want to open a
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  business like or make you just just like me, opening three thirty three and
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  going to a planning and zoning meeting was like I was frightened. Yeah,
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  you know, it's you know what, And that's that's the sad part about
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  it, and that's where they need to make it more friendly for smaller businesses.
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  And not have to jump through you know. Yeah, I mean you
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  have to meet you start zoning. They can't get anything they can get.
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  Well that's a whole yeah, but like you got it, like and that's
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  some of the frustration. I mean, yeah, you have to have zoning
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  laws for a reason. It's like the work with a person. Don't make
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  that. Have to hire the big old attorney so that you know, and
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  that's a little Yeah, it costs me three thousand dollars. The fuck is
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  you go to the moh my god. Yeah, And then people out of
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  the woodwork started showing up say they don't want to part the right now whoa
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  right? I tell yeah, we're gonna walk in, We're gonna go sham
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  getting off sitting there like, oh my god. Keep everybody happy, yeah,
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  I I mean, don't get me wrong. I feel like there are
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  some of the projects that have gone through while I've been on have been great,
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  you know, great ads to to the city and stuff. Not everybody's
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  going to agree with me, I mean, and they're fine too, you
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  know. But the one thing that if I could ever like preach to everybody
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  is on the when you're on planning and zoning, not zoning, word of
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  appeals or anything like that. When you're on planning and zoning, you are
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  you like you should see the books I have of the rules and regulations.
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  Okay, I mean it's massive, like and you have state rules and regulations,
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  you have your city's rules and regulations, regulations boards. Oh yeah,
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  which I never I didn't opt to be on that subcommittee because I would literally
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  want to bash my head against them. But you know, there are so
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  like if you want a regulations change, I get that. But like if
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  some if you come to me your application is completely zoning appli it but compliant
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  means but you want to paint your bar fuchia and that No, no,
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  no, I can't turn it down just because I don't like them. Yeah,
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  but people don't understand that, you know. So it's like when you
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  know developers, because that's the big thing develop you know, developers come in,
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  they hire very expensive attorneys who have already like made sure their eyes are
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  dotted, teas are crossed. There is not a reason that they got exactly
• 23:07
  right. So that's why, you know, and they oh, it's over
• 23:10
  to that. Okay, I understand that, but we can't turn it down
• 23:14
  because what happens. What happens if we turn it down? They sue us.
• 23:18
  They see the city. So now you're paying for us to go to
• 23:22
  court right where we're going to do. The taxpayers are paying. The taxpayers
• 23:26
  are right, so you but people don't understand that. And I get it.
• 23:30
  I get it. Trust me, I get it. You know,
• 23:32
  nobody wants to see certain things. It's fine. Hey, guess what that's
• 23:41
  the announcement. Yeah, after we talked, we talked a few months.
• 23:47
  We talked two years ago, and everybody tried to get me to run,
• 23:52
  you know, like for Aldermen. They tried to get me, you know,
• 23:55
  and I was like, no, but you have something new and exciting.
• 23:59
  They do. You're on call right now. I am on right now
• 24:03
  because it's on y rate. But don't want her phone. We don't want
• 24:07
  it. We do not want to because you are now a volunteer at the
• 24:12
  Milford Great Crisis Center. So I I opted to do to the reversed sir.
• 24:22
  I never here got a new bartender stone Bridge is looking for you.
• 24:30
  Yeah, so I am now with the Great Crisis Center. So yeah,
• 24:36
  Tony Needy. It's a great organization. I mean, we we don't just
• 24:40
  serve Milford to it's seven towns that we serve. So yeah, so I
• 24:45
  don't want my phone. No, I don't want your phone. Wants mytor
• 24:48
  ring right now? But yeah, I again, I volunteering is in my
• 24:55
  blood. So that's why I joined. Keeping Melford warm and doing what I'm
• 24:59
  doing. That's awesome because I don't have enough on my plate? No,
• 25:03
  why not? I do? I think you could put a little more on.
• 25:07
  I think I think you're right. Anybody else want me on another event
• 25:11
  or another event? I might have to create maybe a golf tournament or something.
• 25:15
  Yeah. So obviously election day was yesterday. I'm a Bridgeport holy at
• 25:23
  the end, So did he actually win the votes? Again? He had
• 25:27
  enough votes, but it was so now it's going to go to another primary,
• 25:32
  he said. If I win, said, I'll let it go.
• 25:34
  But now that he lost and they're going to go for the primary, right
• 25:37
  and then and then they said they might have to go and revote again after
• 25:41
  that, which I think is absolutely crazy. Well, I'm not throwing shit
• 25:45
  at anybody, but you know, if you were a mayor of a town
• 25:48
  and you go to prison for Jorian kings as mayor of a town, and
• 25:52
  then you get re elected of same said town. People should not be shocked,
• 26:00
  you know. And he may have known nothing about it, but I
• 26:03
  didn't really know anything about it until they made national news. Yeah, you
• 26:07
  know, for stuff in batty boxes for a primary for a primary. Yeah
• 26:12
  yeah, cameras, I mean not to They're everywhere. They're everywhere. What
• 26:21
  are you gonna does actually around a ballot? Right? Like? What did
• 26:25
  you think? Like, did anyone see that Mules movie that came out?
• 26:29
  Was it seven thousand Mules or yeah? No, it was like, well,
• 26:33
  you know, right wing guys, but it was about the twenty twenty
• 26:37
  election, gotcha, And it was basically all these videos of ballot stuffing and
• 26:44
  you know the swing states, and like I just they're just people walking up
• 26:48
  with like Duffel bags and just throwing them in like it's all recorded, you
• 26:52
  know. And that brings me to Milford. I don't think there's any shady
• 26:57
  at all. I actually I so I voted foreign and been voting there for
• 27:02
  years now. To check you you didn't used to check me in. Yeah,
• 27:06
  so check this out. I did not know this. I walked in
• 27:11
  last night. We went late, like I had to wait for Nicole to
• 27:14
  get out of work. So we went around six thirty or six twenty five
• 27:18
  and I walked in and it wasn't very crowded at the time, and I
• 27:22
  was wearing this you can't and he said, sir, you're gonna need to
• 27:26
  turn that inside out. And I looked out. I wasn't a dick.
• 27:30
  I was like, no problem, he said, or take it off.
• 27:33
  So as I take I have to take it off to turn it inside out.
• 27:41
  And I had I had this Maga squared shirt. Oh no. So
• 27:48
  and just so you know, I'm not like the biggest Trump guy in the
• 27:51
  world. I just I was like, it's fucking voters Day. I'll put
• 27:52
  this on, right. Somebody got it for me for Christmas last year.
• 27:56
  So and he looked at it and he goes, well, that's actually fine.
• 28:00
  I go, what about next year? He goes, yeah, I
• 28:03
  go and then I just said to him, I said, I no worries.
• 28:07
  I'm I don't want to wear the Maga thinge like, I'll just I'll
• 28:07
  put the you know thing inside out. And I go, well, then,
• 28:12
  what's up with all the signs driving all the way in? What's up
• 28:15
  with everyone out there? Like I'm wearing this shirt. They're not saying hello
• 28:18
  to me because they're for the other person. And then you know, I'm
• 28:22
  talking to Danny Herman and those guys like, who fucking cares? Is that
• 28:26
  a rule? They gotta be so many feet away from the door, so
• 28:30
  you can't have you cannot, Like it's a pretty naive on this. I
• 28:33
  just well, you weren't. Only it's so funny because we had two people
• 28:38
  at our one had, you know, a tony and another one had a
• 28:41
  carry pen, and we said, you can't even wear playing So I can't
• 28:45
  wear pants, You can't anybody anything promoting someone currently slate. Yeah, so
• 28:52
  you can't have any like so even say if you're a candidate, you know,
• 28:56
  and you're standing out there and like I think my first election we had
• 29:03
  like so people knew your name and stuff. You know, you had to
• 29:07
  take that off to walk into the polling because I was in the fourth district,
• 29:11
  so I would stand outside of foreign but you had to take it out
• 29:15
  and you have to beat seventy five feet and it's seventy five feet from the
• 29:18
  entryway, you know, into the polling. Oh I made to pass that.
• 29:22
  Well no, not you candidate candidates cannot be you know, like so
• 29:29
  depending on where the polling and stuff like. So this was obviously in the
• 29:32
  gymnasium and you guys check us in right there, so we're just going through
• 29:34
  that door. Take it off or the day. Yeah, you could wear
• 29:37
  it all the way through the school whatever, but once you come into the
• 29:41
  polling where you're actually you know, doing, I think that's a done rule.
• 29:48
  Like I like me walking, I think that is that's an I think
• 29:51
  that's a national because even during because I remember when I think it was during
• 29:56
  the twenty twenty yeah, twenty twenty, and I was at Foreign and we
• 30:00
  did have somebody come in with like and it wasn't a Megamerica great or,
• 30:06
  but it was a Trump mask because back then, yeah, okay, you
• 30:10
  know you had to we were wearing masks. Yeah, yeah, the fun
• 30:14
  days, the fun fundays exactly. And and he like and I think he
• 30:19
  just kind of misunderstood what they were saying. They were just saying, no,
• 30:22
  we'll give you, like, we will hand you a paper mask.
• 30:26
  You can wear it over that one. You just cannot come in. Well,
• 30:32
  but that's why I have place there too that that shi was happening donuts.
• 30:36
  I remember I was that mister Max, and we were right at the
• 30:40
  tail end of the ship, right yeah, And but Lamont wouldn't get rid
• 30:45
  of the mask rule. And I was just in there getting a burger a
• 30:48
  dog, and you know, Mac is maga. Oh okay, man,
• 30:53
  Mac, love your baby. You are maga to the core. His fucking
• 30:57
  license plate is f jay be forty whatever four. Like I finally, how
• 31:06
  that slip through the cracks of the DMV boggles my mind. So anyway,
• 31:10
  so I'm there and there's like this old timer and Max that you gotta put
• 31:14
  your mask on, and he's like, fuck that, fuck this state,
• 31:17
  Fuck the fucking government, blah blah blah. Max, Like you just don't
• 31:22
  get it, do you. I run a business. I can get this.
• 31:23
  I can get fined, shut down, put your fucking mask on,
• 31:27
  or get the fuck out of here. And I'm like, you know,
• 31:30
  and obviously we see it at the restaurants too, and you know, I
• 31:33
  dealt with it, but like it's just I remember, I remember when this
• 31:40
  all happened. I remember it was just we're gonna have to play police for
• 31:45
  a year, yeah, you know, mask police. And you know,
• 31:49
  like again the restaurant policy was literally so ass backwards. I know. It
• 31:56
  just boggles my mind that just people like accept it and they or they still
• 32:00
  mat I still get people coming and wearing masks, taking them off when they
• 32:04
  get to the table and shooting the ship with me. And then when they
• 32:06
  get to go to the bat and they put it on, like what to
• 32:12
  where were you? Where was it yesterday? I was fifth districts Harside.
• 32:16
  But like you know, I mean like the whatever it is full on gloves
• 32:27
  gloves, you know, because you have to show some type of identification,
• 32:30
  you know, right right, they would hold it. Do you guys agree
• 32:34
  with that? I think you should have to. I don't understand why people
• 32:37
  Yeah, I don't understand why people are like so like against them. It's
• 32:42
  like it's mind bodeling. I'm like, I could if I didn't have to
• 32:45
  show idea, I could go to every polling spot in Milford man Orange and
• 32:51
  I mean like and that's it. Yeah, they crushed your name out tournament
• 32:58
  and I will tell you my number. Hey, I checked in and everybody
• 33:02
  there, everybody everybody checked out. Don't what fresh I'm sorry. I actually
• 33:07
  don't do that one anymore. I it's nothing, you know, personal,
• 33:14
  but I ended up. It's actually selfish. I've been getting invited to this
• 33:19
  one at Foxwoods is in the same date, and this thing is like sick
• 33:23
  and I'll pay and you get Like last year, I got air buds or
• 33:27
  air pods, whatever you call them, and like all this ship when they
• 33:30
  get us a room at the at night at the casino there, you know,
• 33:34
  it looks like a really good time to play a bole tournament. Everybody
• 33:37
  that's posting stuff, I'm like, I like, I really off at all.
• 33:39
  No, No I can't, it doesn't matter. But I could drive
• 33:43
  the cart maybe. Yeah, I will personally say you can't be a room
• 33:46
  at the Mayflower. You both play red room. I'll get you Tomas if
• 34:00
  they have one. I actually have a running joke on the show. Never
• 34:04
  stayed at a hotel that has the doors on the outside of the hallway if
• 34:08
  you're getting in from the outside. Yeah, yeah, you probably want to
• 34:12
  stay away from there. There's probably some kind of trafficking going. But I
• 34:15
  did. My dog, my boss would stay at the Turk and Caicos five
• 34:20
  Star, and I'd go to Sconnect the New New York. Yeah, we're
• 34:22
  gonna put you in the red roof in and they guys will be outside party
• 34:25
  and in their chairs outside the door. And I'm like, are gonna get
• 34:29
  sleep and go work with my dog? My dog needs to sleep? And
• 34:31
  oh they put me in the good place again. Yeah, five star.
• 34:36
  Yeah, Like you know what I would do? I would I would like
• 34:38
  ask for all right, what's the room cost? Seventy nine dollars? All
• 34:43
  right, give me eighty bucks. I'm gonna spend the other forty at the
• 34:45
  fucking residence, you know, or the Courtyard, Marriott or something instead.
• 34:50
  Just I don't know. I could I could do four hours on fucking hotels.
• 34:54
  Oh god, the good ones I've stayed at. The bad ones I've
• 34:58
  stayed at. The worst one I stayed at was I just talked about this
• 35:00
  the other day. It was in Boston, the Howard Howard Johnson's in Boston.
• 35:06
  Yes, I stayed there. Once we left, oh and we left
• 35:10
  it like four in the morning. It was it was insane, insane,
• 35:15
  like it was just disgusting, like we're well, we actually stayed there because
• 35:22
  we're going to a Bruins playoff game, okay, and everything around that.
• 35:24
  You know, there was nine hundred dollars a fucking night. This was like
• 35:28
  two hundred, Like I've never spent two hord he that was just left in
• 35:31
  my fucking car for the fifty dollars parking. It was like just bloodstained shiit
• 35:38
  fucking oh. It was so gross. I was like prior to yell no,
• 35:46
  no, no, this was It was only about ten years ago,
• 35:51
  and I don't even think even they were playing the Pittsburgh Penguins. Me and
• 35:54
  Frankie Susa went up Frankie the bartender that used to bartend. But all right,
• 36:00
  where we at? Oh so so so anyway, so Tony g one.
• 36:05
  It was a close race. I think he only won by less than
• 36:07
  one thousand. Were probably like five hundred. Yeah that. I thought he
• 36:15
  ran a good social media campaign. You know, he was on my show
• 36:22
  twice. I think he's a great speaker, which you need to be in
• 36:27
  something like this. I think with his business background, I mean I think
• 36:30
  he I think he'll do a great job. He's been, he's been that
• 36:35
  has worked for Ben Blake, he's worked for I think he worked for everyone
• 36:37
  for the last sixteen years, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
• 36:42
  I don't tell you too. I think he worked with Richitelli because he
• 36:45
  was our last Republican mayor. I believe he was. But why am I
• 36:49
  drying a blank as to who is? Because Ben was around for twelve years?
• 36:53
  But what pro No, No, I didn't go Richard telling him black?
• 37:00
  I did. Oh you know what it did because she said three mayors.
• 37:02
  But he's counting Richard Smith right now is one of the right, right,
• 37:07
  right, would so it would have been it was rich telling us,
• 37:09
  yeah, because Listen's been out for a while. I'm old though. No,
• 37:15
  No, he was sixty four. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
• 37:22
  don't know. Yeah, oh ship seventies. Are you sixty? You don't
• 37:25
  look sixty four. I gott I'm not sick. I was born at sixty
• 37:29
  four. Oh you have to turn that camera off. Yeah, exactly fifty
• 37:32
  nine Thanksgiving, I'll be fifty nine. Yeah, so a couple of happy
• 37:37
  birthday I gotta get there, are you Jesus Christ? That's what happens when
• 37:43
  you get all going. Oh you know, I didn't see it. My
• 37:45
  grandfather always didn't you my name in the old picture burgerday. So it was
• 37:47
  good paper. You gotta look it up now. I wish you. I
• 37:52
  wish the papers were still there. Well they are, but they are,
• 37:53
  but they're just not They're like so far behind now, like I just I
• 37:59
  just like I just read the you know, I'll walk by walking the gas
• 38:01
  station. I'll just read the cover head like readlines. Yeah, I will
• 38:05
  buy it. I'll just be like all right, that's all. Yeah,
• 38:07
  yeah, okay, okay, did that's it. My father used to have
• 38:09
  that thing delivered every single day. I used to be every day post delivered,
• 38:15
  yeah, every day. Yeah. I used to deliver the Milford Citizen.
• 38:17
  Oh my god, I remember the Milford Citizen. Hotly deliver yeah,
• 38:23
  yeah in Easy Street. Do you remember the Journal Courier because that was the
• 38:28
  morning paper and even Register was that afternoon paper? Telegram and Birchport Post.
• 38:34
  Yeah. ATMs where I can't go out. I ain't got no money,
• 38:44
  yeah, unless you want to let me borrow some. Now it's come on,
• 38:47
  let's go right credit ATM or oh no, I saw have friends that
• 38:52
  can't afford ship and no, seriously, yeah no, I wouldn't even fucking
• 39:00
  I wouldn't even tell him. They'd probably ciphered it back out and sell it
• 39:09
  man the people. I know. Yes, yes he won, Yes,
• 39:15
  so congratulations Tony. Guh, I think if I have to play Monday morning
• 39:20
  quarterback. Uh, I didn't see anything from Roland. I mean, yeah,
• 39:23
  carry sorry, I didn't see any I just didn't. She had no
• 39:27
  presence, and she definitely didn't have the backing of the businesses. Like you
• 39:31
  you drove down new Haven ab Route one, Bridgeport a, whatever, and
• 39:39
  you just saw businesses with big flags for Tonio. And obviously he's pro business,
• 39:44
  we get that. I just didn't know what she was running on other
• 39:47
  than that, Oh, I'm just gonna take over for Ben. But you're
• 39:52
  you're involved in this or you were, like what do you say? Like
• 39:55
  what I mean? Do you think she ran a bad campaign? Do you
• 40:00
  think she just I wouldn't say she was preoccupied with not really. I mean
• 40:04
  Tony had like fucking four fundraisers a week. He was all over Instagram,
• 40:08
  all over Facebook, all over it in that Twitter. But you know he's
• 40:12
  all over that that social media, and I think it played a little.
• 40:15
  I mean, definitely the businesses played a role. Oh yeah, definitely.
• 40:19
  I think I don't. I don't wouldn't see either of him ran a bad
• 40:24
  campaign, you know, I don't mean well, no, no, no,
• 40:28
  well I know what you're saying, but I wouldn't say it was necessarily
• 40:31
  bad. But I think she kind of got lost in some of the things
• 40:39
  that really weren't. It didn't matter, you know where, and he did.
• 40:45
  He had a lot of support. He had a lot of support from
• 40:50
  the businesses in Milford, even though you know, hey, are they all
• 40:54
  live here in Milford working at Milford? You know, but still it makes
• 40:59
  a p it the taxes, Yeah, they're paying the taxes. They they
• 41:04
  matter. So you know, like I said, you know, I've said
• 41:09
  to a lot of people, I said, you know, you kind of
• 41:13
  put it all out on paper too, you know, without any of the
• 41:16
  other you know, socials and stuff he he did have, he was more
• 41:21
  qualified. Yeah, so you know, look, Ben had their big shoes
• 41:30
  to fill. You know, he did a lot of you know, the
• 41:34
  big shoes to fill. And Ben polls both parties, you know, big
• 41:43
  time. I always say small town politics should not be swayed by agreed.
• 41:49
  You know, I like that Ben's a Democrat. I'm a Republican, never
• 41:52
  had a problem with I have friends that can't stand Ben because he's a Demo
• 41:58
  Democrat. And literally all my Facebook when I had him on and I'm like,
• 42:01
  are you fucking seriously, what do you do to you? Yeah?
• 42:05
  Right right, it's so, And I agree with you. I almost think
• 42:09
  parties shouldn't come into play on the local because really it's the candidates who who's
• 42:15
  going to help move the city stuff forward, because it's not we're not talking
• 42:20
  national, you know, National should never be pulled into the local because it's
• 42:24
  it's the working people, it's who's here, it's it's what matters. So
• 42:30
  there's a town over there, right, and the next town over and I
• 42:35
  know the mayor, okay, and I know she's not a Democrat, Okay.
• 42:40
  So my point being is sometimes you have to run, oh yeah on
• 42:45
  the other party ticket in small town politics because you're not going to be whoever's
• 42:51
  in front of you on that side, so you almost have to switch allegiances.
• 42:55
  The one thing I will say that I think where she fell a little
• 43:00
  bit short is you're right, she kind of relied on Ben's laurels and should
• 43:06
  have come out a little bit stronger of what hurt, what she was looking
• 43:09
  to do to move forward. If I would say that was probably one of
• 43:15
  her don't you know, why are democrats so lazy and mailing all their boats.
• 43:22
  It's a good question. I vote in person all the time. I
• 43:25
  enjoy it. I love it it. Yeah, you know. I buy
• 43:30
  Girl Scout cookies. I turned my sweatshirt inside out? Is that all right?
• 43:35
  The whole thing? I know? My husband came home with three boxes
• 43:37
  of cookies and I was like, are you out of your flip in mind?
• 43:39
  Who the hell is gonna be? However, Milford Girl Scouts. I
• 43:44
  was a little disappointed because they had no tag alongs, so I settled,
• 43:51
  though I went so late. They had no fuck and I voted. Stickers
• 43:54
  left pissed me off the boast. Look I put them on my table.
• 43:59
  I'm like, I don't like her story left Like last year it was these,
• 44:05
  Yeah, yeah, I just wanted the simple life voter one and put
• 44:07
  on my table. That's the the same, wasn't I got both to mine
• 44:09
  at work? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she's like she's still
• 44:13
  sick there and I'm like, well, if you know how these stickers,
• 44:15
  I think it can go home. Yeah exactly, job is done. My
• 44:19
  daughter one for me and her and they were like, no, we can
• 44:21
  only give you one, like they must have been the shortage of stickers.
• 44:24
  I know, we pay a lot of taxes. Like, so I had
• 44:29
  my sticker up to my daughter and I was like, I was like,
• 44:31
  now, I'm like, I really wanted to brap my secret. Yeah.
• 44:34
  Absolutely, everyone shows it on Facebook. I voted, yeah, right,
• 44:39
  I don't think I put. I literally was disappointed. I'm like really,
• 44:43
  But then I said that's a good sign though, you know, everyone went
• 44:46
  a lot of people, but I think it was I said earlier, you
• 44:52
  think like a ton of people came out. It's I mean we had a
• 44:55
  little slightly maybe a little bit better chart animal you know, large, but
• 45:00
  it's still I feel it's a problem with a lot of small. A lot
• 45:04
  of people don't come out, right. I mean I sat in a poll
• 45:07
  where there was eight over eight thousand registered voters and only thirty one hundred came
• 45:12
  out to vote. Yeah, that's that's I mean five thousand over almost five
• 45:15
  thousand voters that didn't show up. I mean, I'll be honest with you,
• 45:22
  I didn't really start voting until I was about twenty five, Like I
• 45:25
  just didn't care. Yeah, But that being said, I think this generation
• 45:30
  of eighteen year olds and over are much more aware and attune to politics totally,
• 45:36
  and you think that would be a rising demographic and voting. And that's
• 45:38
  probably where he swayed because I did see a lot more a lot of younger.
• 45:45
  There were a lot of high school kids. There were I wouldn't say
• 45:50
  college kids because it's it's hard, you know, because unless they are local
• 45:54
  US, yeah or something right, right, But there were definitely he especially
• 46:01
  using the social media the way he did, he probably yeah, yeah,
• 46:08
  and he had I noticed some of his stuff. He had a lot of
• 46:10
  kids working on his campaign, That's what I was just gonna say. And
• 46:14
  one of them works with me at Stonebridge, Okay, And I saw him
• 46:16
  in all his pictures, like, oh, you know, I never would
• 46:20
  have at that age thought about getting into it all. Any of this right,
• 46:23
  and it's free and whether hey, as long as they're registered to vote,
• 46:28
  who cares that they're registered unaffiliated? Whatever? The fact that he was
• 46:34
  able to get them into votes. I think a lot of people don't take
• 46:37
  the time to educate themselves what these people stand for. You know, Like
• 46:40
  I know a lot of my friends. I don't vote, and my vote
• 46:44
  doesn't count whatever, Like we'll go like it does counts. Not a lot
• 46:50
  of people and look at some of your the underticket, some of the underticket
• 46:53
  really closed one by like maybe five votes one yeah board event, yeah yeah,
• 47:00
  you know. I mean I was just looking at them before you guys
• 47:04
  got here Milford Patch, like all the numbers. I mean it was like
• 47:07
  eighteen twenty five, seventeen ninety nine, like holy shit. Yeah yeah yeah.
• 47:12
  Like so I mean if and it's funny too because if you looked at
• 47:15
  them, like, because the way the charter is set up and everything,
• 47:19
  you have to have, you can you have to have a minority on the
• 47:22
  board of Aldermen, Like you have to have it's three three candidates from each
• 47:28
  district, and one has to be a minority, if that makes sense.
• 47:32
  So like if if two Dems or the high vote getters, one next highest
• 47:39
  Republican has to get in. But like in two of the in two of
• 47:45
  the districts, they ran three candidates under the Republican side. But like if
• 47:50
  you looked at the numbers of how close how many aldermen are in these district
• 47:54
  three Okay, so the top three vote getters, the top three vote us,
• 48:00
  right, right, unless it was like all three Republicans, right,
• 48:04
  A den has to be, you know, one of the three, but
• 48:06
  it's the highest because when I was looking, oh, i'll ask you more
• 48:08
  off off there. But when I was looking at the things because I went
• 48:12
  to the after party real quick last night, but he was given a speech,
• 48:15
  you know, I just waited and said hello to him and then we
• 48:19
  left. But I saw a lot of people that I was I bought it
• 48:22
  to ask him, Hey, you guys, did you guys win? Because
• 48:24
  the funniest thing last night is I'm trying to like Channel twelve News go fuck
• 48:30
  yourself, like honest to god, like your app sucks for this. There's
• 48:35
  not just one day focused on Bridgeport, which I understand, right, but
• 48:38
  I'm like, you guys are so hell bat on being local, local,
• 48:43
  local, local, and there was nothing about Milford. And then my phone
• 48:46
  starts blowing up from my friends like oh Tony g exclamation point and I'm like,
• 48:51
  what are you guys seeing this? Well that's I didn't see anything until
• 48:53
  at the party because I was on New twelve. Yeah right, it was
• 48:59
  terrible. And then he posted I was like, okay, now I know
• 49:02
  I got to somebody perfect. Yeah, well it is. It was.
• 49:07
  It was. It's really so you know, Like I knew what the numbers
• 49:13
  were, obviously because I was a checker, so I cannot leave until I
• 49:16
  make sure my numbers match what that tape comes out of the machine. Everything
• 49:22
  matches. So I knew what the numbers were. I don't I didn't know
• 49:27
  what the absentee like ballots or because we don't do that. But like I
• 49:31
  knew, the candidates know that, yes, before the day starts. Yes,
• 49:37
  so Tony knew he was down a thousand, Yes, at some point
• 49:42
  during the day. I'm sure they because like the registrar voters let them know
• 49:47
  like how many, how many absentee ballots and where where they're at? Why
• 49:52
  why can't that be public knowledge before the election that I have no idea.
• 49:57
  I do not know that. I don't know because I I think there is
• 50:00
  a time that they have to start counting them. AT's what's the deadline to
• 50:06
  get them to get an absent ballad? Then? Is it yesterday? Like
• 50:09
  yesterday? Think probably yesterday. They can still drop it into the mail boxer
• 50:15
  would get delivered, I mean the actually drop box, yeah yeah, so
• 50:22
  oh no. It's just curious. It's like like if Tony knew he was
• 50:25
  down one thousand. What do you just like it's a little more or or
• 50:32
  or or if you're a Republican and you're sitting at home or or Democrat whatever,
• 50:37
  and you see, all right, going into today, Carrie Rowland has
• 50:42
  a thousand vote lead. Maybe gets the red Republican off his ass a little
• 50:45
  more to go vote. Yeah, but again I don't. I mean,
• 50:49
  I guess we all know. Democrats fucking are always winning those anyway, Republicans
• 50:54
  vote in person. It's always a use for the working class. God damn
• 50:59
  it, they come out in person. By the way, you're a Republican
• 51:04
  Democrats, I don't care. I'm readiter a Democrat. Okay, yeah,
• 51:08
  I know you keep them for warm you that I'm in and you know you're
• 51:15
  in trouble. I live in tu trouble. Yes. I'm also on the
• 51:19
  Junior Women's Club at Milford on the board. I'm a past president. So
• 51:22
  whomever is mayor is like relationship. So you know, I think everybody you
• 51:30
  know, well, I always tell people I'm like the most like not.
• 51:36
  You know, when I thought you were a Democrat like that, I was
• 51:38
  like, what, well, because yeah, but that's a small town politics
• 51:44
  when you're eighteen and you're like, sure, I'll be a damn Like it's
• 51:47
  like whatever, yeah, Like, but but let's say Trump does not become
• 51:52
  the candidate, right, and it's Biden against the Santis, whoever you want
• 51:59
  to throw in the republic side. I think Dems might think twice before voting
• 52:05
  Biden just because million factors vote. I had voted for a Republican. But
• 52:12
  would they if Trump was That's the that's the question. Like we were like,
• 52:19
  all right, we'll handle four more years of a puppet in the White
• 52:22
  House. We just don't want Trump. I think that probably. I think
• 52:24
  it's gonna be fascinating if Trump runs like he actually gets it. I mean,
• 52:29
  actually he probably will. A lot of it's gonna happen with the court
• 52:32
  proceedings right now. But uh, I just I think it's bad. I
• 52:37
  mean, you know, all my Trump friends are probably gonna bask me for
• 52:39
  this, but I just don't think it's good for the country for either one
• 52:43
  of them. I agree with you, either one. I agree, and
• 52:49
  I think we need to move past both of that, Like we need do
• 52:53
  you know what I'm saying. It's almost someone that it's like at least in
• 52:57
  their sixties that would be nice. Right. Biden's over eighty now right,
• 53:02
  oh yeah, and Trump's gonna be but if he if he wins, he's
• 53:07
  like seventy nine or seventy eight, he's really close. Yeah yeah, like
• 53:14
  no, I think it's time to kind of like he needs it, but
• 53:17
  like both of them just kind of need to go. Yeah really do.
• 53:23
  I mean it's gonna be great theater. Oh, it's gonna be great television,
• 53:27
  it's gonna be great online discussions and you know, yeah, you know
• 53:31
  I always say that, you know, the Internet's assesspool of just oh yeah,
• 53:36
  too much information that and just you know, well again I I you
• 53:40
  know, I had the girl I had on last week and never got so
• 53:46
  many views and likes and Instagram and YouTube in my life. Yeah, and
• 53:51
  it wasn't because of me. I just I'm not afraid to say it.
• 53:54
  But it got me exposure into a demographic I've never gotten into. But then
• 54:00
  the trolls came out and it's just hilarious, Like I laugh it off,
• 54:05
  like you know, five years ago, even before I started the show,
• 54:08
  like I would like, you know, if I wrote something somebody wrote,
• 54:10
  I would like I'd be fighting back with him, not like I didn't even
• 54:13
  comment anymore. Does that make your day better? Yeah? Yeah, I
• 54:20
  mean it is funny though, like sometimes you're left like because people don't have
• 54:25
  enough information or education on the subject that they don't even know what they're talking
• 54:29
  about. I met a last winner. I met Are you running Low?
• 54:36
  Viva Huckleberry is very nice. Yes, By the way, I did not
• 54:40
  pay for any of his comments. I don't want to get too involved in
• 54:45
  this topic because it's it's kind of crazy on both sides. But the Israeli
• 54:50
  war who and I met ex NFL football player last year who's still only like
• 54:55
  thirty one then, and it's smart. He was a wide receiver for like
• 55:02
  the Dolphins the Houston Texans, and I met him at a Bruin's game.
• 55:07
  We were in the same suite. We went out afterwards, me and the
• 55:10
  guy. The guy there was actually the Viva guy that took me and we
• 55:14
  went out afterwards and me and him started a conversation for about three hours.
• 55:19
  We were both pretty lit by then, you know, twenty vivas. Then
• 55:22
  we switched to bargaritas. That was that was little. That was your point
• 55:24
  early. No, we're not doing tequila. Ye, so long story short.
• 55:30
  We have a great conversation and he started a foundation. So he's black,
• 55:35
  so he started a foundation. So he I'm like, what do you
• 55:37
  do when you retired? Or three? He went this guy I meet.
• 55:38
  You know, I was literally looking at his net worth, like he made
• 55:40
  like forty million dollars in his career. He loves extreme sports. He loves
• 55:45
  skiing and snowboarding and water skiing and all this shit. So he moved to
• 55:51
  Vermont and he bought a house in Vermont, and he became a member of
• 55:55
  like Mount Snow and he started an initiative to get at you know, inner
• 56:00
  city use involved in sports like this, and it grew and he's got like
• 56:04
  one hundred members. He's always posted these great things. And then the other
• 56:08
  night he's at one of these pro Palestinian rallies and he just I don't even
• 56:15
  want to say what he said, and I just commented I shouldn't have,
• 56:20
  but I was just like, you know, dude, you're smart. Dude
• 56:22
  I met you. But what you're saying here is, yeah, you know,
• 56:27
  I don't know if you've educated like you said, I don't know if
• 56:29
  you've educated yourself on really what's happening whatever side you're on, would have seized
• 56:35
  whatever, like yeah, no one wants war, but this is a whole
• 56:38
  different entity. And boy, I triggered some people. I got slammed,
• 56:50
  but you know what, I gained like ten followers out of it. I'm
• 56:52
  just like whatever, But I'm just like you know, you see, and
• 56:58
  the news has a lot to do with it. You know, they're telling
• 57:00
  you one thing, and it's like music has become endour team. Then yeah,
• 57:04
  it's opinion. It's opinion news. It's not it's what they want you
• 57:08
  to know. It's how they can spit. And I think that the world
• 57:13
  as a whole started figuring that out there in COVID. I think that was
• 57:16
  the best thing that came out of them, was all right, she's changing
• 57:22
  every day, you know what? That what is really going on? We
• 57:25
  have a lot of smart people in this world and we can't figure this one
• 57:28
  out. I hear you. But it's brightening. Yeah, but that's how
• 57:36
  they get viewers. And that's back to the election next year. Oh boy,
• 57:40
  oh boy, it's gonna be ramping up. Those are lining. You'll
• 57:47
  get your sticker. I got it last year. I wouldn't know, you
• 57:52
  know what it might have been an hour earlier last year because Nichole's she's a
• 57:55
  working hour later now, so that might have been it. Yeah, can
• 58:00
  you call ahead and be like, well, if I was, I'm actually
• 58:04
  one by girls. Here, here's the thing. If I'm I need them,
• 58:07
  if I'm at four next year, you know, I'll go steal one
• 58:12
  for you. I'll have a little stash. I guess you order one.
• 58:19
  I brought two name checkers dunking Donuts two years in a row. I got
• 58:22
  a sticker. Oh yeah, I know. The first the first thing I
• 58:28
  walked up to didn't have a marker. I'm like, what the seriously,
• 58:31
  Yeah, it's like went to the other one. But I think they put
• 58:36
  too close together. Yeah, they were really close. They were really close.
• 58:38
  At four. It really the whole backside of the gym was empty,
• 58:40
  like just fucking I'm like literally, and the roads were so close I had
• 58:45
  to like walk around a lady that was weird. Spread them out, fucking
• 58:52
  Tony g spread them out next year, especially next year when it's fucking national
• 59:00
  Senate races. The presidential race were all that advertise, like the audis are
• 59:05
  like we're just boing, so yes, the next year have Chris Murphy will
• 59:12
  be up any any any you know, does he have any challengers anything,
• 59:17
  like legitimate challengers and that they haven't come out of the woodwork. Yeah,
• 59:24
  can we get Deloro out? How do we get her out? You have
• 59:30
  you have a better chance of seeing probably. I literally have people tell me
• 59:34
  to run against her, Like I'm not even joking. I will never ever
• 59:37
  ever get into politics. The problem is she has new Haymen. Yeah,
• 59:44
  you know, like that's why, that's why the monky's winning. He's at
• 59:46
  the big cities, the big cities, they're all locked in and and really
• 59:52
  and truly, if you're you're winning in those cities, the rest of it
• 59:55
  doesn't matter. I remember when it was, and they're all done right.
• 1:00:00
  Well, yeah, it's like with Lamont, not this past one, but
• 1:00:04
  the one before. It was Stefanski when Stepan ran against him the first first
• 1:00:08
  time. Yeah, he had a big lead at midnight. I remember that.
• 1:00:13
  Yeah, wow, all right, let's go Republicans who you know,
• 1:00:17
  and like just kind of like with trumpets twenty twenty, big lead and then
• 1:00:21
  and then I woke up the next morning and like Lamott crushed him, Like
• 1:00:25
  whoa, whoa, what happened. It was waterburiedport for Hartford, and there's
• 1:00:35
  one on missing New London Navy Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, Northeast
• 1:00:40
  and uh. Then I was seeing that they were basically on the street registering
• 1:00:46
  people to vote on the street of these cities, like walking up to people,
• 1:00:51
  are you registered voter? No? Here, register here, go vote
• 1:00:53
  there, Like, I mean, kudos to you. I mean it was
• 1:00:59
  a that's thing, you know, But are you giving them you know,
• 1:01:02
  five dollars, ten dollars? I don't know, but who knows. But
• 1:01:07
  yeah, that's that's the thing in the state of Connecticut, right, you
• 1:01:10
  know, you as long as you pull those major cities. It's crazy,
• 1:01:15
  how like, like especially in the national grid when you watch like we'll watch
• 1:01:19
  it next year. And like when we were watching it in twenty twenty,
• 1:01:22
  my buddy was you know, we were just texting back and forth and he
• 1:01:25
  was losing. Trump was losing in Florida and he watches this way much more
• 1:01:30
  than I do. And he's like, dude, they haven't gotten the Panhandle
• 1:01:34
  yet, don't worry. And like all the Panhandle votes came in like a
• 1:01:37
  landslide of it, you know, like, oh Jesus and I mean,
• 1:01:40
  they's so weird how every the demographics of everything is just or like just take
• 1:01:46
  Georgia. Yeah you know, you well that all around the Atlanta area,
• 1:01:51
  that's all like hey Democrats, yeah, you know, and it's just where
• 1:01:57
  there's like the pockets of concentration to people. Yeah, no, it's it's
• 1:02:02
  interesting. I mean, I am really not a political person, like I
• 1:02:07
  am the most unpolitical political person. You know, I don't Yeah, ok,
• 1:02:13
  yeah, because I really I I am a registered Democrat, But it
• 1:02:16
  doesn't mean I vote straight party line. Well you know, it's it's on
• 1:02:21
  a candid Yesterday it was the first time I did. There was one,
• 1:02:27
  there was one on the Democratic side. I voted for it for years and
• 1:02:30
  this year I didn't and I don't regret it because he won. But like
• 1:02:35
  when I left, I was like, why did I'm not vote for that
• 1:02:38
  I'll tell you who it was afterwards. Why did I not vote for that
• 1:02:40
  guy? I'm like, no, No, you're on a camera too,
• 1:02:45
  don't you fucking give me Gang signs over there? Yeah, it's I am
• 1:02:54
  really I'm a candidate person. I mean I do. I look at the
• 1:03:00
  like what they stand for, and I literally I literally said, I said,
• 1:03:05
  I'm like, I don't know. I was just you know, I'm
• 1:03:07
  Republicans WI Rob yeah, and then I felt then I felt like I'm not
• 1:03:10
  lying. When I walked out of there, I'm like, I'm just like
• 1:03:14
  what I call every Democrat, they just vote the row the row and I
• 1:03:19
  just did that. And I was upset by myself. But I can't go
• 1:03:22
  back. If we didn't have ideas, I could well, yeah, you
• 1:03:29
  could come. Well, yeah, I think a lot of it's like politics
• 1:03:31
  is not what it used to mean. It's not you know, like I
• 1:03:34
  mean, strike me down for saying it. But you know, you know,
• 1:03:37
  I grew I grew up in family. I am a very like you
• 1:03:43
  know, at the person in the candidate, and you know, I think
• 1:03:45
  I do for us and whatnot. You know, I mean my position is
• 1:03:49
  a little different, but I deal with everybody. With everybody that works in
• 1:03:52
  the city, well the same with me. I mean what I do for
• 1:03:55
  you meet people on a personal level, which is so much better. Like
• 1:04:00
  when when I you know, i'd always say hello to Ben Blake, but
• 1:04:02
  when he came on the show, you know, we had a great you
• 1:04:05
  know, he was actually shocked at how prepared. I was for the you
• 1:04:09
  know, the questions I asked him, and he's like, we got a
• 1:04:11
  lot of relationship with them. Yeah, And I thought it was you know,
• 1:04:15
  Ben was very against kids and masks and schools. I know he was
• 1:04:19
  very against it. And I said, well, can't you do something about
• 1:04:21
  it? He goes, it's the superintendent. I'm actually vetoed on this.
• 1:04:26
  I can't do anything about that. Yeah. No, I mean I grew
• 1:04:30
  up with then. You know, he his mom was my teacher. I
• 1:04:38
  will say, so we really you know exactly, but no, yeah,
• 1:04:47
  it's I again. It's it's what I don't burn bridges like, because you
• 1:04:56
  just you don't know that you can't please everybody, you know. That's why
• 1:05:00
  I will never get into politics. I'm not a very political person. I
• 1:05:03
  think life is about relationships, whether right, little read, and you know
• 1:05:09
  that's how I live my life. So I always laughed too, because like
• 1:05:12
  I had politics at all. Yeah, I vote, and that's my politics.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, so I sell my bikes to Polish people, right, But
• 1:05:23
  that's like my roommate in college was as far right as I mean she she
• 1:05:28
  was. She worked for New game rich on Capital Health. I mean,
• 1:05:31
  you could not get more like, Yeah, but we have Trump's campaign,
• 1:05:38
  one of Trump campaign. I mean, she's worked on multiple campaigns. She
• 1:05:43
  was on Capital Health for years and like and but I reagreed to like and
• 1:05:48
  I but I would listen. I would listen to anybody, you know.
• 1:05:53
  Like. It doesn't mean I have to agree with you. I'm not going
• 1:05:56
  to attack you for your opinions or anything, but just give me the courtesy
• 1:05:59
  of listening to mine. Like, and that's it. It's a conversation.
• 1:06:02
  You don't have to turn it into like this time at least. That's what
• 1:06:06
  are the three rules of the bar? Thought me? No politics, religion,
• 1:06:13
  and no sports. Oh but sports are fine, but they don't talk
• 1:06:17
  about it like you don't like because they start arguments. Oh yeah, that's
• 1:06:20
  always a I mean obviously that not everyone abides by that, but you know,
• 1:06:26
  but yeah, no politics, no sports, and no religion at the
• 1:06:29
  bar. All right, so uh, we could go let's finish with you,
• 1:06:32
  let's go back to why we are all here today. And that's Milford
• 1:06:35
  keeping Milford warm. Any last things. Obviously, you know, next year,
• 1:06:42
  let's say this next year, get your ticket early. I'm gonna whiggle
• 1:06:48
  my way in somehow, I just like a little bit. It's always for
• 1:06:54
  a ticket. I'm sure we can squeeze them. We can't guarantee you what
• 1:06:58
  table she will be at, but den be Tommy's bet to be Tommy.
• 1:07:03
  Everybody's requesting you had it talks. I changed sizes so much I could never
• 1:07:10
  have a talk. That's why you ran him, dummy, Well you're gonna
• 1:07:13
  spend three grand on a fucking suit for I never spent three brand on a
• 1:07:15
  suit. Well, talks. Tuxes are like so I don't have one.
• 1:07:20
  That's why we ran them, and you change all the time. That's my
• 1:07:25
  point here. Yeah, holse kawanas now Milford, quite a you're asking the
• 1:07:31
  wrong guy. I have asking the wrong guy. I've only been in thirty
• 1:07:35
  three years. You don't know how you haven't had an anniversary yet. You
• 1:07:40
  can kind of take it back. Sure we've been here for quite a while.
• 1:07:45
  All right, Well you know what keep you miffleworm is ten years?
• 1:07:49
  I know I know that too, do you? You've been there? He's
• 1:07:54
  been there. Yeah, we started there without a father. One A fun
• 1:07:59
  fact, keep Milford Warren was actually started as like the Christmas party for Kuantas
• 1:08:04
  my father, Kevin McGrath, when he was leaving his presidency for Kawanas,
• 1:08:09
  he said, listen on my way out, like, I'd like for you
• 1:08:11
  guys to do something. I see a need for geting assistance. Would you
• 1:08:14
  guys help me, fund me, give me a donation to start the program.
• 1:08:17
  And Kawana started it. So that's kind of where it all started.
• 1:08:20
  And you know, through the years, it's just grown and grown and grown.
• 1:08:25
  Nice. Yeah, well, I uh, you know, I hope
• 1:08:29
  to make it. I hope sneak in the back door. Santa's gonna be
• 1:08:33
  there. We got Sana, Santa will be there. Runners Now, I
• 1:08:38
  always I always like in my head and this is no shade on anything,
• 1:08:43
  but I know so many fundraisers that are not in the town of Milford for
• 1:08:47
  benefits of Milford. And actually Tony g did want at rang jailhouse. I
• 1:08:53
  just yeah, I mean, you got to pick the right venue and well,
• 1:08:56
  and it's hard because like right now, we've we've never sold out,
• 1:09:00
  so we're we're at fire Marshall Max right now almost. So it's like,
• 1:09:04
  okay, well do we grow it next year? Like what's the option based?
• 1:09:11
  All? Right, Like we got really good it was, but you
• 1:09:15
  know, I I mean I I think we're we'll probably I don't mean anything
• 1:09:18
  like they have a crowd that Originally when we sold that, I was like,
• 1:09:23
  is it the rum Runners? Is it us? But I think just
• 1:09:26
  the reach that we've had this year is now, do you find past recipients
• 1:09:32
  of your generosity show up to these No? No. This year, what
• 1:09:38
  I started to do is I've anybody that we've helped, you know, I
• 1:09:41
  sent him a thank you letter. I'm glad we can be there for you,
• 1:09:45
  you know, but we a little bit here and there, maybe they'll
• 1:09:46
  donate something. But I think a lot of people, because they get referred
• 1:09:50
  from team or the city, they're they're not too sure who's really helping them
• 1:09:55
  home. So that's why we've like our marketing has changed drastically this year,
• 1:09:59
  and you know, is to say I'm glad people know for ARM can help
• 1:10:00
  you out, So you know, I think it should definitely will see a
• 1:10:04
  different influx of people giving back that we've helped in the past. And we
• 1:10:09
  had to come to a dinner and now we have two new board members.
• 1:10:14
  I had a friend helped out, so that's yes, Yeah, it made
• 1:10:16
  us feel good like ten years. She has a long time. But you
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  know, in the grand scheme of things, it isn't I guarantee you like
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  twenty years or ten years from now, you'll have a board like you said,
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  you already do like it, or you'll have someone that you helped out
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  ye that will pay it for a full circle. Yeah, you know.
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  I mean originally the woman that kind of was like fielding, you know,
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  people to see if they qualified. Peggy Kelly, who was big in the
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  city and she's she's you know, stepped down at this point. She would
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  handle all that. So she brought a lot of people with her. But
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  you know, we you know, Nancy's joined this year. She's got a
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  big following. We have guanas guys that have a big following. So everybody's
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  kind of brought their niche with them. So you know, it's it's it's
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  brought into a lot, all right. Shout out the website again and so
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  its phone number ww dot Keeping Milford Warm dot com. You can email us
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  at Keeping Milford Warm at gmail dot com or give us a call at two
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  O three eight seven six seven eight nine. My name is Air McGrath.
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  Reach out to me on Facebook I'm glad to help you out. We're also
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  selling these fancy sweatshirts now on the website yet they'll be on the website tomorrow.
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  I just rolled it out today. It's on our social media to check
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  us out on Instagram, at facebooks. And I'm assuming most of the proceeds
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  go do everything. That's maybe we'll go after profit ever after the cost goes
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  to it. Yeah, so fifty dollars for a sweatshirt and local pickup or
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  one last thing. Where do you think this place? Where do you think
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  this will be in ten years? I can't even tell you. I think
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  it's going to be beyond what we gave mention, you know, I mean
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  the amount of money that we raised last year and to look January first at
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  what we had left, it's you know, I don't think anything is getting
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  easier for the economy, right, you know what I mean? I think
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  that people don't need well if you can they ever obviously, I think you're
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  going to outgrow that one party you throw. Yeah, I think that you
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  ever let me help at stone Bridge running a fundraiser or you know, yeah,
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  I think that I think that are the board that we have the fresh
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  eyes, right now that I think that it will be definitely something in the
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  spring. You know, we have to look at that because the need is
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  there, right. Yeah, that's awesome. You guys are awesome. What
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  you guys do, uh, and all that you guys do. Nor is
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  your Jimmy Wayne's face golf ball. I don't have one. I'll get you
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  one. That'd be awesome. You can't. I gave you you can't be
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  some if I had a Jimmy Wayne golf ball, and most certainly we'll be
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  on that wall, You'll will be getting one for me, yes, please.
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  And stickers. You gotta need some stickers. Get some stickers. Yeah,
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  we got the logo. We're good to go. Get the stickers.
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  I know, if you're listening this far, this is also on YouTube.
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  I'll post everything on Instagram and all that good stuff for you guys. And
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  thanks for coming and having great December. December it's always the second Saturday of
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  December. Nice next year. Yeah, and we'll send out the reminder to
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  buy your tickets earlier next year, you know. I mean it's the three
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  board members here, but you know what, I'm gonna play the triangle and
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  I'm just gonna want Cowball. We don't want cow Bell really upset fucking have
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  some shots. I know it is a busy season for me, but thanks,
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  yeah, thanks again guys for coming. I'm glad you all love the
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  Vivas. By the way, they actually liked them before we got on the
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  air, so they're not just plugged trying to say they're good. They love
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  the Elder Bear. I don't even drink to that, but yeah, the
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  guys what we switch sites. We're trying to make people happy, all right.
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  Thanks so much for coming, guys, and I'll talk to you guys
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  soon. Thank you.