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Lee Elci, Voice of Freedom | Refuse the Notion of Government Comforts for Liberty · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about this again, and hopefully you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to get bored of it, but.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about America first, and I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about American freedom and what it means to
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  Speaker 2: be free and that declaration of freedom that we all sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of live under this one red, white, and blue banner.
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  Speaker 2: And as I said earlier today, and forgive me if
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  Speaker 2: I rehash this stuff, Freedom's not a gift.
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  Speaker 1: Like, the government doesn't give you freedom. Freedom is a birthright.
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  Speaker 2: It's your birthright as an American citizen, purchased with the
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  Speaker 2: pain of our ancestors. The blood of your forefathers, preserved, again,
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  Speaker 2: by the vigilance of men and women through the years,
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  Speaker 2: and now it needs to be preserved by me and you.
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  Speaker 1: Period.
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  Speaker 2: We have to champion the freedom of speech without fear,
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  Speaker 2: to worship without permission, to go out and create a business,
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  Speaker 2: to build a family, to have that family.
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  Speaker 1: Grow up under your value system.
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  Speaker 2: And reject the idea that Washington knows better or Hartford
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  Speaker 2: knows better than you do.
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  Speaker 1: That's shameful. It's un-American is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And true liberty thrives when power remains close to the people.
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  Speaker 1: And people control that power. Once again, the government works
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's not the other way around. And we've
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  Speaker 1: lost that sense.
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  Speaker 2: And that path of relying on the government for everything
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  Speaker 2: leads to dependency. It leads to cultural decline. It leads
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  Speaker 2: to the lack of personal responsibility. If you can work,
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  Speaker 2: you should work. You should save your own money. Again,
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  Speaker 2: raise your children.
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  Speaker 1: Obey the law.
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  Speaker 2: No one's entitled to my labor, period, or your labor.
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  Speaker 2: No one's entitled to that. You choose to give up
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  Speaker 2: what you make by your own accord. You shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: forced to do it. And somehow, dignity.
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  Speaker 1: Has been basically obliterated.
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  Speaker 2: Like, dignity of work no longer means anything to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine, like, 330 million... Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: 330 million self-reliant citizens who.
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  Speaker 2: Live their life on the thoughts of the Constitution of
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  Speaker 2: the United States, the liberty that has guided us for generations.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine what we would be like. I mean, we're unstoppable now.
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  Speaker 2: Not unstoppable, but we're pretty much unstoppable. We're pretty much
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  Speaker 2: unstoppable now with half of the people, maybe not even
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  Speaker 2: half of the people, subscribing to what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if 350 million people stood on their
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  Speaker 2: own two legs?
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  Speaker 1: And we're completely self-reliant, we could do anything. We could
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  Speaker 1: make anything. We could be anything.
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  Speaker 2: You can stand against this soft bigotry of low expectation.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we have going on.
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  Speaker 2: We're living in a society right now where some of
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  Speaker 2: our fellow citizens, they think that, this perpetual victimhood is
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  Speaker 2: somehow a worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Cause to champion. I don't. I don't. I'm not down
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: And America first means that, you know, we no longer
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  Speaker 2: apologize for protecting our own.
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  Speaker 1: We enforce the laws. We enforce our borders. We refuse to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, bow to the wills of wokeism.
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  Speaker 2: And we store the dignity to the workforce, to the
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  Speaker 2: everyday person.
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  Speaker 1: It requires us to reject the politics of grievance.
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  Speaker 4: Wah.
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  Speaker 5: Wah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not getting mine. Embrace the politics of achievement. Why
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  Speaker 2: do we always want to sympathize with With those who
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  Speaker 2: feel like they've been somehow short sighted. You got the
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  Speaker 2: short end of the stick.
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  Speaker 1: Work harder.
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  Speaker 2: I know whenever I say this, I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: chunk of the population that just, it grinds underneath the
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  Speaker 2: skin for them.
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  Speaker 1: It just does. Well, you know what? I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, my bank account isn't full, certainly. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: I worked hard, though, to get to where I am.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not using myself as this barometer here.
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  Speaker 1: But I get up every day.
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  Speaker 2: There's a 3 on the clock every time I get up.
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  Speaker 2: At the front of the clock, every morning. Every morning
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  Speaker 2: I get up at 3-something. Sometimes it's 3.15, depending upon
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  Speaker 2: how much I have to do today.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's 3.40. I do it. Why do I do it?
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  Speaker 1: Because I have... First of all, I want to try
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  Speaker 1: to produce something worthwhile.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to do with my life. Could
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  Speaker 2: I say, yeah, could I get up at 5.30, probably
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  Speaker 2: still make it to the show, maybe? Could I not
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  Speaker 2: do any work on the show and just wing it?
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 2: I think I lost you. I'll just take some calls.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I can.
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  Speaker 1: Get a vibe for the people, and I'm vibing it now, so.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, I think we.
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  Speaker 2: Should be a culture that celebrates hard work, that celebrates accomplishment,
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  Speaker 2: that celebrates.
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  Speaker 1: All of that without exception, without apology.
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  Speaker 2: Like, why does Elon Musk have to apologize because he's
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  Speaker 2: worth a trillion dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Why does the creator of a company have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: walk around.
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  Speaker 2: Sheepishly because they have been crazy successful? Why does even, like,
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  Speaker 2: look at politicians or even business people. They always want
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  Speaker 2: to try to portray themselves as somebody who's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're a hardworking blue collar whatever. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: rich and you got rich because you worked at it,
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  Speaker 2: you should, you know, put your chest out and be happy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump should be happy about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's made a fortune. But not as president. It bothers me.
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  Speaker 1: He's making it as president. It's different. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Let me take calls. We're running out of time anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. We have time for two calls. Dan's first,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll go to him. Dan, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning. You know, they say that when a
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  Speaker 3: tornado is coming, it sounds like a freight train, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because there's that energy coming, that's ripping everything up. That's
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  Speaker 3: the sound of Democrat operatives pouring through your SoundCloud account.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for something.
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  Speaker 1: They just got something there. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Knock yourself out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It's amazing how just like one little infringement
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  Speaker 3: on your speech can weigh on your head, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: The fact that you have to stay away from some topic,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, like in the past it was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you couldn't talk about the pandemic or you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't talk about this or you couldn't talk about that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and it just, I don't know, it wears
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  Speaker 3: on me. You know, I don't know if I'd be
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  Speaker 3: able to take not being able to speak my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I use tact and stuff like that, but
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  Speaker 3: it's so hard.
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting the impression that I can't speak my mind? No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you speak your mind. I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: that's the misnomer that I put to bed because I
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  Speaker 2: know there's certain things I can't talk about I can't
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  Speaker 2: talk about the campaign that I'm involved in.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can't talk about. I can
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  Speaker 1: talk about the issues.
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  Speaker 3: Right, because then it becomes like a donation to the campaign.
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  Speaker 2: I can't talk about the campaign. You'll never hear me
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  Speaker 2: not talk about things that I think are important. That's
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  Speaker 2: not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. It would be pointless anyway. Like I said, there's
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  Speaker 3: a huge sound cloud out there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't have let them know that. It's funny
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  Speaker 1: because one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the people behind the scenes says, well, you're worried
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  Speaker 2: about people going back and looking at your SoundCloud.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, they said that in your audio. I'm like, no.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I've ever said, I mean.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Go find something. I've said some things, and go find
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  Speaker 1: them and play them. And then come talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll probably say the same thing again.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You're making converts. You know, you're making converts. I just
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  Speaker 3: want to say, I was telling a story to somebody
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  Speaker 3: the other day. You know, we were talking about work.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we were doing something, mixing cement or something
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  Speaker 3: over here on a job. And I was telling a
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  Speaker 3: story about how I remember sitting in the dark in
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  Speaker 3: my driveway, not thinking I could get out of the car.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd worked,– I, like, carried big timbers or
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  Speaker 3: something on a job to where– and then when I
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  Speaker 3: got in the car to make the commute home, because,
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  Speaker 3: of course, you can't live where you work because you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't afford it, you know, and I was– and on the, like,
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  Speaker 3: hour or hour and ten minutes sitting in traffic or
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  Speaker 3: whatever getting home, like– And it was winter. My back had, like,
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  Speaker 3: fully seized up, you know. And when I was in
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  Speaker 3: the driveway, I thought I was going to have to, like,
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  Speaker 3: call in to the house to have my wife come
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  Speaker 3: out and help me out of the car, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it just infuriates me, man, two things. One, that
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you could just come and take what
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  Speaker 3: I earned that day.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And give it to somebody who did nothing all day
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  Speaker 3: long because you got some sob story about your kid
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  Speaker 3: and your oppression and your, you know, lack of opportunity
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  Speaker 3: in this life. But I didn't see you out there
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  Speaker 3: with me carrying anything, working yourself to death to try
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  Speaker 3: to supply for your family, to try to crawl out
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  Speaker 3: of a hole. And I grew up fighting rats for
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  Speaker 3: a bag of flour on my shelf. I didn't have anything.
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  Speaker 3: So your socialist crap rhetoric about how I have some
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  Speaker 3: kind of privilege and I owe it to the society
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  Speaker 3: at large to fork over my broken– what I traded
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  Speaker 3: my body and my freedom and every wake and day
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  Speaker 3: for really offends me. That offends me. And I'm really
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  Speaker 3: getting as tired as a human being can get. of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we can actually stand here in this
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  Speaker 3: society now and debate the fact of whether we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have socialism or not, like that there's a socialist party.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell me why we shouldn't be scooping up
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  Speaker 3: socialists and deporting them? How are we going to have that?
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  Speaker 3: Our sworn enemy, communism, lurks inside the wings of socialism.
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  Speaker 3: How is this country getting ready to vote for and
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  Speaker 3: wildly popularly voting for socialists? I mean, the left, the
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  Speaker 3: crazy left, keeps getting its people. They keep winning. These
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  Speaker 3: Bernie socialists keep winning. And the Dems, because it's a
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  Speaker 3: big cheat fest on the left, let's be honest, they
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  Speaker 3: keep cheating the socialists out of their victories and plugging
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  Speaker 3: in people that are a little less so.
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 3: And how long can that game go on before we
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  Speaker 3: wake up and, like, everything's a Mondami-ville? You know?
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  Speaker 4: These people, we.
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  Speaker 3: Got to wake up, man.
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  Speaker 8: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I mentioned it this morning. Dan, I got to
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  Speaker 1: grab one more. Good call. Have a good weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Is that it feels like, you know, they just keep
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  Speaker 2: adding a little here and a little there.
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  Speaker 1: It's that whole frog in the pot of boiling water.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you throw. You all know this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to explain it again, but if you throw,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a horrible thought, but you throw a
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  Speaker 2: frog into a boiling pot of water, he jumps right out.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just let the water boil slowly, they
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  Speaker 2: fry themselves. And that feels like it's what's happening to
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  Speaker 2: all of us. All right, last call of the day
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  Speaker 2: is Coach Leo.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Lee. Listen, you know, you were talking
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  Speaker 6: about before this new pedagogy or whatever you want to
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: use it, We're surrounded by sandbaggers, slackers, and sob story people.
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  Speaker 6: And these people who don't want to work, and then
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  Speaker 6: it'd be smirch a guy like you or a guy
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  Speaker 6: like Dan the Man, who.
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  Speaker 5: Works, you know, a zillion hours a day.
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  Speaker 3: They're leftists.
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  Speaker 6: They're no goodness. You saw today, Lee, if you read
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  Speaker 6: even a day paper, that liberal rag had some good
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  Speaker 6: news today. They executed three convicted murderers yesterday. One of
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  Speaker 6: them had beaten and raped a five-year-old child and videotaped
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  Speaker 6: him doing it. It's just too bad they didn't summarily
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: execute that guy as soon as they found out he was...
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  Speaker 6: Maybe when they watched the videotape of him, they should
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  Speaker 6: have just shot him, not waited whatever time there was.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 6: We've gotten soft, and it's the woke generation, these left-wingers,
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  Speaker 6: the people that brought in.
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  Speaker 6: The Somali population in Minnesota, right? That's why the people
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  Speaker 6: of Minnesota, what's.
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  Speaker 5: His name, the sheet, the pillow guy, lost out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Because the deck is stacked against him. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 6: dealing with the reverberations now of all these moonbat left-wingers
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  Speaker 6: that have gotten involved in politics. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: like a tidal wave. You're going to get hit when
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  Speaker 6: the tidal wave comes in, and you're going to hit
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  Speaker 6: when the tidal wave goes out.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you know, speaking of Mitch Hedges, I think the guy's.
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  Speaker 6: A great orator, a great speaker. And his article in
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  Speaker 6: The Day said Grossinger's originally was open to help out,
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  Speaker 6: help defray or detract the anti-Semitic antics that were going
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  Speaker 6: on in New York and in some of these other places.
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  Speaker 6: And it was like a haven for the Jews to go.
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  Speaker 6: And I mean, talk about people that are ostracized. Any
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  Speaker 6: Jewish people I.
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  Speaker 5: Know, you can say this.
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  Speaker 6: They're hardworking. They're loyal. They're honest to their religion. And
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  Speaker 6: people don't.
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  Speaker 5: Like them because of that? Come on, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 6: So whatever Mitch, his grandmother, his great-grandmother did up there,
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  Speaker 6: it's a tribute to them. And they ought to be proud.
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  Speaker 6: And the Jewish people ought to be proud of them.
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  Speaker 6: Because they took, literally, made a great, great enterprise out
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  Speaker 6: of literally a farmhouse, out of nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, 100%. No question.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 5: And I've got much respect for the guy.
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  Speaker 6: I've never met him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Just, you know, heard him on.
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  Speaker 6: Your show and I'm very impressed with him as a businessman,
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  Speaker 6: as an individual.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, let me grab, I've got to grab, Rocky wants
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  Speaker 2: to jump in for 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. Tell him I got a piece of Parmesan cheese
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  Speaker 6: and a little red wine for him.
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  Speaker 5: That's what he needs.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. Have a good day, Coach. Rock, I
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  Speaker 1: got 30 seconds. I'm running late.
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  Speaker 9: That's more than enough. Lee, thank you for your generosity
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  Speaker 9: with your time. Lee, I've been an anti-socialist, anti-communist since
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  Speaker 9: I was in college in Naples, Italy, over 50 years ago.
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  Speaker 9: The thing for us to understand, socialism, communism, Marxism, hate,
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  Speaker 9: God takes a knowledge of a supreme being that put
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  Speaker 9: in motion the universe. That should motivate anybody. I don't
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  Speaker 9: care if you're Catholic, you're born again, or whatever, Jewish.
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  Speaker 4: God exists.
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  Speaker 9: God expects us to stand for what is true, for
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  Speaker 9: what is proper, and communist ideology is a cancer to
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  Speaker 9: the human soul. God bless you, Lee, and now go win.
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  Speaker 1: Right back at you, buddy. Thank you, Rock.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as Rock was talking, obviously he's just as
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  Speaker 2: passionate and as patriotic as you can get. I just
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: pulled up the– there's an article written about me, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: it's in the day. I'm reading some of the comments.
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  Speaker 2: I think on Monday I'll read some of the comments.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if people can– I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: people can read– But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your weekend. We'll do it all over again Monday.
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  Speaker 1: See ya!
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  Speaker 7: At a smooth bank, business gets done through relationships.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: A handshake, a call, a bank that knows you and
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  Speaker 1: your business.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Their bankers work with you to bring the lending power
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  Speaker 2: that gets deals across the finish line without sending you
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  Speaker 2: up the chain or out of state for approval.
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  Speaker 1: Local business experts, real relationships.
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  Speaker 7: Because they want to push everything over here. And this
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  Speaker 7: is not just a fight for Plainfield. This is a
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  Speaker 7: fight for Eastern Connecticut. Because if they move from Plainfield,
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  Speaker 7: they may want to go to Canterbury. or they may
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: want to go to Griswold or someplace else. The unique
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: thing about this trash facility is that it's being manufactured
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  Speaker 7: or put together by ONG. They've never, ever, there's not
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  Speaker 7: one trash facility like this in the country. The only
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  Speaker 7: other country that is even beginning to have one of
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  Speaker 7: these gasification plants is Scotland. It has not been built yet.
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  Speaker 7: We don't know the outcomes. And there are major hoops
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  Speaker 7: that they're going to have to go through to be
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  Speaker 7: able to even build something like this. They have to
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  Speaker 7: pass extreme air quality permits that we've talked to the
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  Speaker 7: DEP about. We've met with the commissioner. We are on
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  Speaker 7: this and we have been on this. So I am
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  Speaker 7: absolutely against this because the people of Plainfield are. It
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  Speaker 7: doesn't matter whether you're a Democrat or Republican pushing through.
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  Speaker 7: We all work together. It's the governor. The Democratic governor
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  Speaker 7: is the one who vetoed these bills. So that needs
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: to get out there.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So how many, I don't know anything about this right now, unfortunately,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: how many trash plants are there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Do we have a lot of them? Is there a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: few of them? How does that work?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: So this is coming out of a massive failure by
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: the Democratic majority in Hartford and the majority of folks who,
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: you know, they are happy. We talked about, you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: my opponent wanted tolls on the roads. He was a
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: big proponent of putting tolls on the roads. We are
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: putting truck after truck on our roads when, on one hand,
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: we're saying we want to reduce carbon emissions, and we
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: are taking our garbage and shipping it to Ohio or
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: other states because of the massive failure that we've had
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: with this administration and the deep commissioner, who's now gone,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: Katie Dykes, and knowing that the Mirror facility, which is
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: in Hartford, which was our major trash facility, was on
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: its last leg. They did nothing to save it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: What has happened now, it's closed. So now we're scrambling.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: We're spending a fortune. You and all over the state
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: are going to be looking at increased taxes and your
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: tipping fees that you have to pay to your town
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: to take care of your garbage. Because of the failures
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: of Harvard and the administration, doing nothing to secure this.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Now the mirror plant is closed. That's where this should
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: have been located. We should redo a plant there. It's
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: centrally located. You're not pitting one town off the other.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: And now we have a trash crisis in Connecticut. We've
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: been talking about that for years. They've done nothing because
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: they are, you know, busy doing other things. And now
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: we have a trash crisis. And now they want to
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: look for trash facilities. And, of course, eastern Connecticut is
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: attractive because we have land. It's less expensive than other
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: parts of the state, even though for many of us
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: it's still out of reach and very expensive here.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And....
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: You know, they're thinking, hey, we don't have the population
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: to fight it. Well, I can tell you, I fought
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: the Dunn Range in Griswold, Patchogue State Forest, my adopted forest.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: I'm glad my opponent has actually taken a ride through there.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I've been doing that for 10 years, and we won.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: I am not going to lay down, and neither are
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: my reps, on this trash facility. We've already written to
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: the siting council. We've already had conversations. And we are
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: going to continue to fight this so the people of
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: Plainfield have a voice in this process.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Senator Heather Summers is with us.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: If you have any questions on any of this stuff,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: feel free to e-mail me as we go along.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We'll see radio gmail dot com. I'll try to pass
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: it along to Senator Heather Summers.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: You know, is there an industry here that could be
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: beneficial for the state of Connecticut somehow, some way? I mean,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: are there plants that turn garbage into electricity? I mean,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: do we have the possibility? I mean, that technology, does
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it exist?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And it does.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't we want to try to stand together and
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: figure out and find a place to put it and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: do something like that? Does that make sense or no?
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I can tell you one of my bills
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: that I submitted years ago, I was looking at my
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: opponent's records of submitting bills, and it's very light, if
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: at all. He tended to sign on to Democrat policies
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: where I have a huge plethora of bills that are
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: specific for the district to help the district that I
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: have submitted and introduced. And many, many have a very
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: high pass rate. So one of the things that I
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: had proposed, which finally is kicking in, this is probably
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: eight years ago, if not more, is exactly what you're
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: talking about, anaerobic digesters, taking our organic food waste, putting
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: it into an organic digester. It creates methane gas, which
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: is a fuel. They do this in Europe. They power
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: little cars all over the place. And then after 45
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: days of it turning and being in a certain environment,
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: you've got this amazing loam. or mulch that you can use,
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: and it can be bagged and sold or given to,
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: you know, your constituents in the area that you have.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: This is something that Katie Dykes fought for years and
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: years and years. Then we made a slow incremental change,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: and we allowed farmers to have anaerobic digesters on their
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: land where you could mix animal waste with organic food
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: and the same thing. That's like, you know, it's a
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: full circle where you're using every single part of your
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: waste stream. We could do that. We're just starting to
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: do that. We have one anaerobic digester in Connecticut. We're
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: looking at one here in eastern Connecticut. But those are
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: the things that we could do. That is taking waste
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: out of the waste stream and reusing it. But that's
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: not what this plant is supposedly doing. And we already
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: have a trash to energy facility in Plainfield. They're four
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: miles away from Lisbon where we have an incinerator. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: believe that those people have to have a voice. They're
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: my constituents. I will fight for them. Plus, they're putting
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: it in a residentially zoned area. I was just up
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: there talking to people the other day. It's got to stop.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: The people don't want it. And unfortunately, it's the Democrats
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: in Hartford that have stopped it from passing so that
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: the people have the voice. Not the Republicans. Not the legislature.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: The Democratic governor vetoed two bills that had to do
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: with it. So that needs to get out there. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: the idea that nobody knows where I stand is absolutely ludicrous.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: You know, start paying attention.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I just think since we're starving for energy and, I.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Don't know, maybe there's a way that we could figure
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: out a way to take the garbage that we have
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and turn.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It into energy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: I took a trip at Christmas time probably nine years ago.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: to Milan, not to go shopping, not to do anything fun,
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: but to look at their garbage and how they manage
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: their garbage because it's a super busy time there. And
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: I went to Venice, outside of Venice, where they have
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: the largest anaerobic digester in Italy. It takes 800,000 people's
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: worth of garbage out of Milan before 8 o'clock in
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: the morning. brings it to outside of Venice, and produces
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: enough energy to power half of the lawn. They're in
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: and out. And that's all organic waste scrap that they're taking.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: And everybody does it there, whether it's a farmer's market,
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: a restaurant, everybody separates their garbage. But that's what they do.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: They reuse it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: And the best thing about this, this is part of
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: my proposal, is they have a greenhouse that's attached to
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: it that the methane gas is used because greenhouses are really,
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: really hard to power, very expensive. And they had women
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: that had sufferers for opiate addiction across Europe working in it,
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: giving them a new outlook on life. They got to
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: bring their animals with them. They're growing plants. It was
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: like this full circle, amazing model to bring back to
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: our country, which they did. Put it in the bill. Again, fought, fought, fought, fought.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: They're finally starting to see the light on that one.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: But I agree with you 100 percent.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Okay. Senator Heather Summers with us.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Since you mentioned women with opioid addictions, there are also
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: conversations being had about what are these?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Overdose centers? What is that? I don't know what that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is either.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's a lovely topic. We call them harm reduction centers,
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: so it doesn't sound harmful, right? It's a place, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: I support them. Opiates have been one of my number
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: one issues being on public health. I've received awards about
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: the work that we've done and our opiate work. And
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Connecticut is very far ahead compared to pretty much any
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: state in the nation as far as opiate addiction. But
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: it's changing now. It's fentanyl addiction. It's opiates and fentanyl
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: and ketamine. There's all kinds of things, you know, coming
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: into our drug streams. I can tell you that there's
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: not one person that I've met, even myself personally, that
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: has not been intimately and personally affected. I had a
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: nephew die of an overdose. I've had very close family
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: members that are currently suffering from addiction to fentanyl. It
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: is not a pleasant experience for a family member. It's hard.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: It's heartbreaking. And also the people suffering from it. It's
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: something that is very hard to describe unless you have
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: experienced it. We have an opportunity in the state of
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Connecticut to help people, and we have taken that opportunity
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: very seriously. One of the bills that we had is
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: called a Harm Reduction Center, which is a place where
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: you're ready for help, you can go, you can take
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: a shower, you can get something to eat, you can
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: get the services that you need. There's Narcan available there.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: But the difference between myself and my opponent, and he actually,
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: him and his wife actually called me last year on
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: this particular issue, is there are some individuals within our
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: legislature that want to have harm reduction centers allow you
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: to bring in your illicit illegal drugs and be able
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: to inject them and use them at the center. So basically,
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I'm a heroin addict. I get heroin or I get,
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm going to snort some kind of, you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: opiate or Percocet. I bring it in and I'm allowed
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: to do it there. And then somebody's there. you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: with Narcan, should I overdose or should something be successful?
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: I am totally against that. It does not move the needle.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: It does not. There's no clinical studies that show that
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: this pushes people to get help.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: That they need.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: And I'm against that. My opponent supports that. I do
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: not support that. And the other part about this is
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: if we pass that bill, we risk losing any federal
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: funding that we get from Washington concerning opiates. That is
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: a huge risk that is not worth taking. The Department
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: of Mental Health and Addiction Services in the state of Connecticut,
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: the commissioner is against this. DSS is against this. Public
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Health is against this. My opponent supports that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. Senator Heather Summers. Heather, we're running short on time.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Are you going to be out and about this weekend anywhere?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on?
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am out and about every weekend. I do
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: want to do a shout-out for all our veterans at Plainfield.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: We had the Victory Over Japan parade last Sunday. It
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: was so hot. I think I lost like five pounds
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: walking in that parade from sweating. Thank you to our
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: veterans and all that served. It's a really busy weekend,
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: as it is every weekend. I'll be out there knocking doors,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: making calls. You know, seeing you at events, and I
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: look forward to having conversations with everybody on the trail.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: There's nothing better than the 18th District, and I know
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: every crack and corner that there is, and I love.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: You all, the 18th District.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Heather, thank you. I'll talk to you again next time.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: You got it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Heather Summers, Senator Heather Summers, as we are running a
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: little short on time, I've got to take a break here.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Before we get to a break, though, or officially part
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of the break. It's yesterday.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: Listen to this. and present an alternate point of view.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: The die is set, the metal is clenched, and it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: time to deeper your assumptions. Let's give a spot-welding welcome
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: to the one and only, former state representative, Joe Delacruz.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's six minutes after the hour.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Every other Friday we sit.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Down with State Senate candidate Joe Delacruz to get a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: different point of view on some of the issues that
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: we talk about. You know, we like to bring all
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: sides together here on this show.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Joe, good morning.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Doing great, Lee. How you doing, buddy?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Just kicking back, putting my feet up pretty much 20
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: hours a day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I wanted to ask you? You know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you're knocking on doors. You're talking about this all the time.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: You're pounding on a bunch of doors, man.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: What is the big beef right now? What are you
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: finding that people are complaining about the most?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I got to tell you, overall, overwhelmingly, it's not what
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: we talk about on the radio. Unless when I'm on there. Okay. Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: it's really, you know, we always think the social issues
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: are the top agenda of most people. And we also
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: think that most people know who we are, and they
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: just simply don't. Like, you know, I say, hey, I'm
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Joe Delacruz, and, you know, and Senator Summers has been
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: your senator for 10 years, and, you know, you probably
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: heard about our race, and they go, I don't know
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: any one of you guys. And that's nothing against my opponent,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: or I know that, you know, most people don't probably
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: can't name who the vice president of the United States
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: currently is right now. They know who the president is.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: And that's not something new. It's not a new phenomenon.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: People just don't know they're so busy in the middle
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: of their own lives and struggles that, you know, they
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: basically pay attention to what's important to them. And what
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I'm hearing on the doors, like, constantly, and I brought
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: it up a couple weeks ago and we could always
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: talk about it, is the actual health care, access to
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: health care, The amount of people that don't have it, Lee,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: or here's the craziest part. Like, you know, hey, I
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: talked to a lady two days ago, and I've been
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: doing a lot of phone calls. I mean, I'm in
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of calls at this point, and I've
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: talked to thousands of people. And, you know, they'll tell
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: me stories about one woman said she got stung by
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: a bee. And, you know, just like she has, like,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: several times in her life, she's highly allergic. She carries
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: an EpiPen. And her normal procedure is stab yourself with
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: the EpiPen and then get yourself to a hospital. Someone
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: else can drive you. They drive you. Even though you've
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: had the dose, usually, especially people who are highly allergic,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: they can get a second wave. And if they don't
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: have anything, this could turn into, like, you know, an
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: ambulance ride or even possibly intubation. Like, you know, you
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: have an allergic reaction. In any case, she didn't go.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: And purposely, because it's $ 500 for her an hour before...
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: In years past, it was like $ 100 or something. But
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: for her to go get monitored, her new insurance policy
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: was $ 500. And I told that story to another person
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: because she brought up that her friend didn't have insurance
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: and that she was pregnant. I told that story probably
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: like five calls after the first one. And she said, oh,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: my God, my pregnant friend, she's been on my mind.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: She's like– We're getting ready to have the baby shower
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: this weekend. So she's like in the third trimester or
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: something and basically doesn't have an EpiPen. And in my mind,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, maybe I should just get an EpiPen
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: prescribed to me and donate it or something like that,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: which is illegal from what I found out. You can't
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: give someone your prescription, and I guess rightfully so. But
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: even my insurance, that was going to cost like $ 400
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: for me to get an EpiPen. Because I am allergic
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: to hazelnuts and raw apples, believe it or not. It's
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: a weird allergy, but I think a lot of people
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: out there may be allergic. It's kind of the same thing.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: But those are the kind of calls that people are
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: talking about. They're really not worried about a lot of
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: the social issues that we have. And calling and knocking
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: on these doors, it's given me a clear picture. There's
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: a road that Senator Summers has had to walk. You know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: you can't say you're a huge Trump fan down in Stonington,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: but you can't dismiss Trump up in some of the
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: northern parts of the district. Or Grimes seems to lean
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: more Democrat. And they say that, but there's a lot
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: of Republicans in Stonington and Democrat. But they have to
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: usually be careful about, you know, what you support and
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: what you don't. And, you know, it's wild to me.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Some of the folks now that I think just blindly
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: supported Trump based on who the presidential candidate was, are
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: now looking deeper, you know, a little bit. Some of
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: it's just crazy. But one guy said that, you know, hey,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I'm not voting for you, obviously, Joe. You're just a dumb,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: stupid Democrat, blah, blah, blah, the whole line. And he says,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: but I'm not voting for Heather. You know, she's a rhino,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: and she's not a true Democrat. true Republican. Why? What
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: did she do to upset you? And this is going
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: to be wild to hear, but the guy was not happy.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: You know, Trump has obviously has video proof of Antifa
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: cutting a pool 350 foot long gash and that the
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: support that he expects to see from his local officials
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: wasn't strong at all. And I mean, and this was
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: after Jeanine Pirro resigned and left. I mean, that That
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: is a line that I didn't think needed to be walked.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: I thought– I think most people thought that it's just
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: another maybe something that Trump said and maybe it's true,
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: maybe it's not. But the amount– what people take to
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: heart– and you and I have had this talk on
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: your show multiple times where I said to Kitty, I
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: literally have people that I worked with and people that
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I know– that say, I can never vote for a
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Democrat again because they don't want kitty litter boxes in
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: classrooms and they don't want their child to go to
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: school as a boy at 8 o'clock and come back
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: as a girl at 2 o'clock. And we joke and say, yeah,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: but that's the fringe people. There's a certain amount of
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: votes that are absolutely being, like, not even in contention
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: for me because I have a D at the end
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: of my name.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying, you know, Heather.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Doesn't go through the same thing because there's some There's
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: folks that are going to vote for Democratic policies no
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: matter– or candidates no matter what. But it's– the more
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I talk to some of them– and listen, those are
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: also few and far between those calls. But it's like
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: I'm almost making like a top list– top ten list
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: of the things I didn't expect to hear of why
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: they may support or not support my opponent or myself.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: But that's one of the reasons they said they can't
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: vote for me because I support– children being mutilated without
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: any parental intervention. And the fact that it happened so quickly, like,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: you know, that you can put your kid on the
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: bus at eight and when they come back at four,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: they've had a surgery already and you're stuck with the
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: results and that someone should be in the middle of that.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: But that, and that is, it's not hyperbole. And maybe
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: the person saying it is being facetious, but, and I
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: don't think they are, but they're voting that way because
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: they heard a story that on a radio program, or
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: on TV, and although they probably know deep down inside
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: that it's probably not true, it's guiding the way that
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: they vote. So, you know, I am definitely a perception
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: over a reality guy because even the people that say
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: those things, I don't think wholeheartedly believe that that's happening.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: You know, even the kiddo litter thing, like when you
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: ask them what school it happened at or what superintendent
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: allowed it, Because, you know, that would be something I
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: would want to have a discussion if the superintendent of
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Groton was putting kitty letters in the corner so kids
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: could use a bathroom. That would be a discussion that
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: would probably be nationwide, and we would probably know what
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: school it was. The whole thing saying, well, you know,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: somebody said doesn't work anymore. I think they've gotten a
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: little more sophisticated, too. The voters in Trump's base now
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: are looking beyond– they want to look into candidates that
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: actually do support Trump, you know, in a big way.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: They see that some, you know, a lot of candidates
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: have accepted all the votes that they've gained from Trump,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: but they really haven't supported him. And, you know, I
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: think now they're calling that out in a full-throated way. Like,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: you know, well, where do you stand up? Some people,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: one guy said that, you know, the lack of support,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: not just Heather, like there's other Republicans, they're not really
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: talking about the big, beautiful bill. um, in the way
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: that they want. Cause they, cause I, I hammer on it.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: And then I get off the radio and somebody from
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: the stage that hurt. So you, you're pounding on a big,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: beautiful bill, Joe, but they want to see some defense
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: of it. Like what are the great things that– and
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: it has to be local. When you put a bill through,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: no matter what level you're at, to add legitimacy to it,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: They want to see people at other levels and all
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: levels kind of just kind of jump on board and say, hey,
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: that's what it is. And the other part is these
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: phone calls. You know, it's neat because I made a
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: lot of phone calls. And I've also driven. The knocking
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: on doors is cool. But in each town I go to,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I find out somebody that's either a town historian or
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: someone that's been there forever. I've done five towns already.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: The first time I did was Voluntown. A really great guy, Jim,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: met him at his house at 7 in the morning,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: and at noon we were back at his house. But
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: every single nook and cranny in Voluntown I think I've
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: been to. Every street we drove down, he kind of got,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: you know, not every street. Voluntown's big, but a lot
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: of the main roads and most of the little streets
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: that we went down, I didn't realize some people actually
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: lived in the Patchogue Forest. Their home is surrounded by it.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: The things I'm finding out about the 18th district are
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: they're wonderful. It's amazing. And some of the things you
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: do here on the door, and this rings true. I
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: can see why people, guys I bowl with that are saying, Joe,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: I really like you, but what's the difference? We have
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Heather's up there. She's a Republican, and there's not many Democrats.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's not many Republicans there, so why would
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: we need one more Democrat? And I can clearly tell you,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: after taking these rides, going in and out of all
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: these different places, I can tell you that if you're looking,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: especially the thing of Plainfield and the fight that they're
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: about to engage here and in the trash plant, for them,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: they live there. 95% of the people don't want it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Imagine now, and I'm not saying Senator Summers supports something
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: or not. I don't know her position on the plant,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: and I'm not here to talk about that. I'm just
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: saying that it doesn't really matter what if I'm a
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Democrat or Republican or she's a Democrat or Republican, you're
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: not going to be able to go to the other
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: side of the state looking for help from a senator
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: to help you in Plainfield with something. Like, they didn't
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: take those rides I took. You know, senators are doing
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: that on their side of the state. They're not going
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: to know the issue like I do. And I look
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: into the trash plant and, you know, listen, I understand
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: that we have to figure out something with our trash.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: But when you really, really look into it from the
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: perspective of someone that lives in Plainfield, for instance, most
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: of the trash is going to be coming from the
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: western side of the state. I looked it up. It's
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: like they're going to spend 15 million gallons of fuel
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: oil or 1.5 million gallons of fuel oil to bring
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: trash from one side of the state to the other.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: I think it would make more sense to put the
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: trash plant closer to where the majority of the trash
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: is being produced. And that's That's not just an argument.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: It shows that, you know, Plainfield, it's not a my
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: backyard argument that it may turn into, you know, a
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: right or wrong argument. Like you wouldn't, I ran a
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: shop and we wouldn't buy a water jet and put
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: it in Waterford and then our business is in Groton.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Like you would, the water jet would be right in
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: line with the closest part to where the crane is.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Like where the crane can put the material in the,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: you know, that's how in business you You're designed to
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: build everything. Looking into this plan, it's like, you know, wow.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: But my point being is, you know, okay, yeah, I'm
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: a Democrat, but you only get one senator. Whether you're
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: a Republican or Democrat that lives in the 18th District,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: you're not going to get a senator outside. Like Kathy Austin,
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: who's very helpful in all those areas, she does have
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: her own towns to worry about. And certainly, imagine asking
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: for help from somebody on the other side of the
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: state with that very issue. someone who probably represents people
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: who don't want to trash plant in their town. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: they're saying, don't fight it on that side of the state.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: Let it, let it go. Like, you know, that there
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: are competing interests. So, you know, that's, and, and I
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: can see why that argument would resonate. You know, there's,
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: there are, there's a lot more Democrats up there than
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: there are Republicans, but you know, just saying that, well,
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: what's one more Democrat or one more Republican is, is
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: like saying, you know, who, who are you going to
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: live with Lee? Like you're going to, you're voting on
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: who's going to take the empty bedroom in the house
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: that you're renting. And I think you'd be very, you
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: would look into both people fully and not just say, well,
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: you know what, that person played for New London High
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: School and I went to New London High School. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: don't want to, you know, and that's the advantage. No,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: you'd look into the person. You know, if you forget
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: the commonality you have, you have to really research. And
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: that's what I'm asking people to do. You know, I
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: hand them my link and they look me up and,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: So I'd say about 7,000 or 8,000. Well, maybe more
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: than that now. It's thousands. But they give you– my
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: phone number shows up on their phone. I'm dialing these guys.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I'm calling them. And they can call me with anything
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: they want. And sometimes it seems real frivolous. And sometimes,
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: many times, I'm sure the current senator can tell you
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: it's things that aren't in our purview. like the pothole
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: on their street that's not a state road. But sometimes
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: it's really serious. But these are phone calls that are
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: coming in. They're streaming. And, yes, they had 10 return calls,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: people asking who I was and why I tried to
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: call them. And, again, these conversations, and they are good conversations.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: And people are good on both sides of the aisle.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: They have the same problems. That's one takeaway. that I
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: think anyone in elected office ends up finding out is that,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: you know, the D and the R doesn't matter. If
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: there's something going on in your life that is affected,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: it could be either helped by government or worsened by government.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: They usually don't care about that. They just want to
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: solve the problem that they have that day in front
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: of them. And that's kind of why I like the job.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Joe Delacruz, running for state senate, is with us. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: wanted to just piggyback.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Two points that you made, and you can comment on them,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: and by the time we're.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Done with that, we'll probably be done.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: But one is you mentioned that there is, like, misconceptions
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: when you're knocking on doors, or maybe there's over-the-top scenarios.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: You mentioned the kitty litter.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I was the first one, and I'm not trying to
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: get you to say, not you, Lee, not you, but
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I just have to say, I was one of the
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: first ones to come out and say that's a crazy
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: story and it's not true, right?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: So I said that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: But my point is– but I get what you're saying.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: So my question to you on that is whose fault
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: is that? Whose fault is it that the media– is
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: it the media? I'll ask you that.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I guess I gave you the answer. But I mean,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: if you think about it.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can point to 10 different things that
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: are stigmas against the Republican Party.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: That is 100 percent not true.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Yet it's perpetuated throughout the mainstream media to a sense
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: where you get in.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: When you go to a door, Joe, you get an
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: advantage because if somebody is sort of.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Half ass listening to news reports, they still think that
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: the Republicans are, are racist or they're rich fat cats.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: And they're, you know, they're lighting their cigars with a
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: hundred dollar bills. These are things that have been sort
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: of floated through the mainstream media for a long, long time.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: So it works on both sides on that case.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: No, I agree. And what it boils down to is this,
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: and a lot of people have been, even people close
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: to me that, you know, are saying, you know, Joe,
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: we got a, We really got to do this. Do
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: something with, say, even like term limits. We got to
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: do something with that. Term limits were put in by
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: our founding fathers. Every two years, we have to run.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: If you're running for office or Joe Corny has to
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: run every two years. And although it sounds like that's
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: not a term limit because, hey, anything can, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: these guys get in and they just get to stay.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: They get to stay because, you know, again, I think
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: the media does carve out and define what people believe.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: And with new algorithms and AI, what's scary is that
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: one person that I mentioned, and listen, that's not that overwhelming, obviously,
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: when I call that someone's worried about kitty litter things.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: But I only have to hear that from two people
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: to know that's two votes that under no circumstances will
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: I ever get, right? And we have to carve those
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: people out and stay.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Away with them.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: What I'm telling people is, And I don't know how
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: we even do this at this point because it's getting worse,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: not better. If you look– if those things– if I'm
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: looking for stuff that supports the theory that kitty litter
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: is in schools and I'm looking at the same algorithm,
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: AI and people that want the person to vote a
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: certain way is going to continue to drive that theory
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: inside their brain, and it only gets worse from here.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: What we do need to do– and I tell people
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: listening to this station– who may be a conservative, and
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: I tell people in rooms that are all Democrat that
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: we have to put down the phone, which isn't easy
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: because I'm on it all the time, and we have
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: to stop and smell the rose a little bit. And really,
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, and that's not a good endorsement for a
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: radio show. You know, you want to keep listening. But
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: I actually do believe if your thing is, and it
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: used to be mine, I miss in the morning when
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: I was doing construction. I'd find myself driving an hour minimum,
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: like New Haven, or I was working in Southington, and
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: I found myself uh becoming uh part of the i
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: missed in the morning show um it was something that
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: i did for years and years uh and that's where
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: i got my news and it was they would take
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: some stuff political but there was a lot more fun
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: involved too and i think we all need a I
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: listen to music. I mean, I do listen to your show, obviously,
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: here and there. But I switch up. But for the
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: most part, it's my Spotify playlist that I take a
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: shower to, that I drive to, that I just listen
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: to music. And then I do read a lot.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: And I tell people to be careful.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: Chat, GBT, is a great tool when you're asking questions
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: about certain things. But you have to... research beyond that, too.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: It's not the end-all, be-all answer. There's a human part
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: to all that, too, but it is scary goodly.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: It is. There's no question about that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Joe, where are you going to be this weekend?
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on?
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: There's all kinds of stuff going on. Mostly political stuff.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Mostly going to some rallies and stuff like that. No
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: karaoke this weekend.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: That's terrible.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: That's the tough part about running for office. There's certain
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: things you give up, like voting hasn't really happened much
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: for me this summer. I've only been out like three
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: times in karaoke is just when I do it. People
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: ask me if I'm going to continue to do it
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: if I do get elected, and I can guarantee you,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: That is one of my favorite nights, the first Saturday.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: You got to do what you love, man. So you
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: got to get out there. You got to. Belt it
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: out a little bit, right? All right, Joe. Listen, thanks.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next time.
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: Appreciate it.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Great talking to you. All right, man.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: You got it.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Joe Delacruz. We'll come back.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Hang on.
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