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The Lee Elci Show | 10.28.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, Joey Stats, filling in for Lee
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  Speaker 2: Elsie on this fabulous Wednesday, October 28th.
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  Speaker 1: I'm live in studios.
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  Speaker 2: I feel great honor this morning that Lee allowed me to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fill in for him. You know, for the
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  Speaker 2: listeners that don't normally listen to me, I'm on every
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  Speaker 2: Saturday from 12 to 1, the Joey Stats Sports Hour,
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  Speaker 2: normally talking some sports. But today, you know, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to try and do some different stuff going on in
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  Speaker 2: the air. I do want to mention, though, last night
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  Speaker 2: I did stay up late for the Tampa Bay Rays
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  Speaker 2: Brewers World Series. Not the most watched World Series, I
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  Speaker 2: would say. I think two teams that, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: last couple games haven't been the greatest of World Series.
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  Speaker 2: But last night was great. It ended in the 12th inning, 4-3.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to a game five. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: had the champagne ready for the Brewers in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: They were all excited that they thought they could, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they went up 3-2. And then the Rays came back
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  Speaker 2: and won 4-3. So, yes, I'm not going to talk
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  Speaker 2: all sports, all show. But I did want to mention
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  Speaker 2: that to start off the show, one of the things
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to get into was, you know, with me being.
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  Speaker 1: On the radio every Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And for the listeners, as I said, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: listen to me Saturday from 12 to 1, Joey Stats,
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  Speaker 2: Joey Stats Sports Hour. I appreciate Lee letting me fill
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  Speaker 2: in today. You know, normally I try and touch on
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in the world of sports, NFL, MLB,
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  Speaker 2: the local sports, high school. If you're interested, actually, this
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  Speaker 2: Friday's a great game. Ledger at New London. Something to
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  Speaker 2: go to this week. But, One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I do want to talk about that I don't normally
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  Speaker 2: get to is my fear of the new world of AI.
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  Speaker 2: Now it goes into the fact of with, I can,
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  Speaker 2: I can give you in sports, there's sports that you
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  Speaker 2: deal with AI, you know, in, in the world series
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  Speaker 2: right now, you have all these challenges, the, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game when Yandy Diaz swung check swing,
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  Speaker 2: they were going back to, well, in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 2: now they have a swing check challenge. You know, AI
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  Speaker 2: is a part of everything. And the fear for me is,
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  Speaker 2: is it good or bad? You know, are we going
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  Speaker 2: to lose the ability to talk to a real human
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  Speaker 2: being because of AI? Do we rely on it so
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  Speaker 2: much that it is the gospel? of our word you
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  Speaker 2: know we we constantly wake up every morning and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to try and paint a picture for you we
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  Speaker 2: wake up we there's people in their house that have
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  Speaker 2: a Alexa they'll say Alexa turn on the lights then
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  Speaker 2: they'll wake up they'll have their Google puck in the
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  Speaker 2: other room that will turn on their coffee maker they
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  Speaker 2: have the ring cameras and the blink cameras all outside
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  Speaker 2: of their house They get in their car. They plug
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  Speaker 2: their smartphone in. They go to their app to listen
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  Speaker 2: to the radio or to listen to Apple Music or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And these same people that every single day rely on A.I.
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  Speaker 2: are also the ones that are arguing politically that we
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have these flock cameras. But they're already giving– we've
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  Speaker 2: already given all of our information away to A.I., We
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  Speaker 2: constantly open our phone and ask it questions, give it
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  Speaker 2: different information about us. We post on Instagram to Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: We tie our Google from our Google email to our Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: to our Facebook, to our OpenAI, to our ChatGPT, to Claude.
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  Speaker 1: And these, my fear is, Will these.
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  Speaker 2: Connected eventually be able to turn on us? You know,
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  Speaker 2: if they know so much information about us, how won't
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  Speaker 2: they know that, you know, at home, my dog Butters, oh,
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  Speaker 2: could that be my password based off.
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  Speaker 1: Of my birthday?
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  Speaker 2: And then they get into, they know that they can
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  Speaker 2: get into our account and take over and steal our
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  Speaker 2: money out of our bank account.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and AI isn't a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: It has created different jobs, but will it eliminate other jobs?
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  Speaker 2: You know, and I always rely on a sports side
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  Speaker 2: of it, but, you know, umpires, NFL. In the NFL
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  Speaker 2: for years, they had the chain game, and these people
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  Speaker 2: would go out and they put the chains out to
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  Speaker 2: measure whether it was a first down or not. And
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  Speaker 2: now you got the virtual virtual AI that will tell
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  Speaker 2: you what distance it is before if it's a first
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  Speaker 2: down or not. It's it's it's constant. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then I guess one of my fears is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: other than working here on Saturdays on Joey Stats show,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I work in technology all day long. I
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  Speaker 2: work at the school system and I see these teachers
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  Speaker 2: and I see these administrators and then it's, it's coming
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  Speaker 2: down to net. You have to block it on the
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  Speaker 2: student side, but it's, it's the fact that these people
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  Speaker 2: don't think anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They, you know, a principal or an administrator or in
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  Speaker 2: any world.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I got to write an email to someone. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let me write it up. And this is what I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say.
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  Speaker 1: Well, instead of.
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  Speaker 2: They give ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude just a little
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  Speaker 2: information and say, this is what I want to say
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  Speaker 2: and write it up and then send it out.
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  Speaker 1: So how.
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  Speaker 2: Much, if we do this forever, how much are we
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  Speaker 2: dumbing down society? And I'm not picking a side here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that AI is bad or good. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying that I think it's moving too fast. I
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  Speaker 2: think that if we keep giving this artificial intelligence, it's
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  Speaker 2: a supercomputer, but if we keep giving it more and
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  Speaker 2: more information, when will it turn on us? When will
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  Speaker 2: it get to a point that we won't be relying
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  Speaker 2: on the human anymore? It started with self-checkouts. You go
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  Speaker 2: to every grocery store, and you have to go to
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  Speaker 2: the self-checkout and scan all the stuff and then pay.
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  Speaker 2: And I've thought for years that if I go to self-checkout,
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  Speaker 2: if there's someone down at the end of the aisle
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  Speaker 2: that's actually bringing everybody out, I should be able to
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  Speaker 2: get a discount because I'm doing their job. But needless
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  Speaker 2: to say, you go there and do that, Then there's
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  Speaker 2: different businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Can you get a hold of a human anymore?
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  Speaker 2: A couple weeks ago, I got a bill from Xfinity.
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  Speaker 1: They constantly want me.
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  Speaker 2: To be on paperless billing. So they'll say, all right,
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  Speaker 2: your bill's $ 65 a month. And then you wake up
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  Speaker 2: one morning, you get your online statement, and it's $ 85.
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  Speaker 2: So you try and call them. So you try and
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  Speaker 2: call Xfinity. And you get on the line, and you
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  Speaker 2: get put in with an AI bot. And you're just
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  Speaker 2: screaming at the phone over and over, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: just to a human that When you do get to one,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even know if you do. You can't tell
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  Speaker 2: if it... Nowadays, you can't tell the difference between a
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  Speaker 2: human or an AI bot. And then they're controlling it
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  Speaker 2: from there. And they just want people to just exist
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  Speaker 2: with that. All right, well, you know, that's my bill.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do anything about it. I can't fight it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to fight it with the fact that if
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  Speaker 2: you have to call these companies... And the first person
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  Speaker 2: you get on the line is a bot that you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't speak to.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fear of mine just because I think that
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  Speaker 2: we're relying on it way too quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there.
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  Speaker 2: Has been some things in this world that AI has
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  Speaker 2: made better. It allows us to use technology at a
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  Speaker 2: quicker pace. It allows us to get information when we
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  Speaker 2: need it right away. But when we start to use
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  Speaker 2: it as our doctor, as our lawyer, as our therapist,
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  Speaker 2: when do we get to a point that we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be needed anymore? And that was my fear
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  Speaker 2: to start.
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  Speaker 1: The morning, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Joey Stets, and you're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It is early. Not normal for me.
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  Speaker 2: I was almost programmed right there to say, Joey Stets,
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  Speaker 2: you're listening to Joey Stets Sports Hour. It's not the
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  Speaker 2: Joey Stets Sports Hour. It's Joey Stets filling in for
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  Speaker 2: Lee Elsie on the Lee Elsie Show. I mean, and
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  Speaker 2: what an.
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  Speaker 1: Honor, really.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a kid, growing up, just backstory, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Lee was someone that you look up to in the
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  Speaker 2: local area. I mean, the guy could mash a home
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  Speaker 2: run better than anyone. And then, you know, I get
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  Speaker 2: into the working world, and my job starts at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: So every morning on my ride in for the last
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  Speaker 2: 10 years, I turn on the radio and I listen
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  Speaker 2: to Lee. And that's how I, you know, that's how
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  Speaker 2: I kept in line with what was going on in
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  Speaker 2: the world of politics and everything because he gave me
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  Speaker 2: all that information. So the last couple months has been
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  Speaker 2: tough for me because I don't really know what's going
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  Speaker 2: on without him. But, yeah, to finish up my thought
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  Speaker 2: on AI, I did want to play a clip.
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  Speaker 22: It's like you can't just go pull a nuclear bomb
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  Speaker 22: in your backyard.
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  Speaker 1: That's alright.
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  Speaker 22: It's like you can't just go build a nuclear bomb
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  Speaker 22: in your backyard. You know, that's against the law. And
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  Speaker 22: you'll get thrown in prison if you do that.
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  Speaker 1: How much of a concern is it?
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  Speaker 22: This is, I think, maybe more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 9: Really?
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  Speaker 22: You could implicitly program an AI to believe that extinction
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  Speaker 22: of humanity is what it should try to do. It
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  Speaker 22: says there are 8 billion people in the world. It
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  Speaker 22: would be better if there were none and engineer that outcome.
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  Speaker 23: Well, especially if it doesn't need us anymore. If it
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  Speaker 23: becomes sentient and then has the ability to make its
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  Speaker 23: own decisions and make a better version of itself, it
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  Speaker 23: would find us to be nothing but a problem.
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  Speaker 22: I don't think anyone should challenge a solo vet gorilla
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  Speaker 22: to a fight. Even if you're very good at martial arts,
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  Speaker 22: that thing's going to kill you. It literally walks on
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  Speaker 22: its fists. If those fists meet your face, game over.
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  Speaker 22: We're not stronger than a gorilla. We're not faster than
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  Speaker 22: other animals. We're smarter. Now, what happens when there's something
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  Speaker 22: way smarter than us?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that was Elon Musk on the Joe
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  Speaker 2: Rogan show talking about AI. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be the guy– I don't want to be the conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: theorist that everybody hates and says, you know, why does
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  Speaker 2: he always think this way.
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  Speaker 1: About, you know, AI and where it's going? Why can't
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  Speaker 1: I think the positive?
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  Speaker 2: You know, because I had this conversation with someone, a
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  Speaker 2: buddy of mine– Shout out Yanni Longinitis. I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to him about it, and he said, why can't you
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  Speaker 2: think the positive of it? Like, why can't you look
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  Speaker 2: at it as what good can come from AI, the
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  Speaker 2: useful tactics, the, you know, how it can help enhance jobs?
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  Speaker 2: Because I always see on both sides, and this is
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  Speaker 2: how it goes. There's good and there's evil. And it
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  Speaker 2: started off with, let's face it, the Internet. When the
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  Speaker 2: Internet was first created, it was like an encyclopedia. It
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  Speaker 2: was like going to the library to get information, right?
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  Speaker 2: So when you were in high school, or when I
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  Speaker 2: was in high school, they would always say, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do your book report. Get three sources
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  Speaker 2: and get the information. cite those sources. And then that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so that way the, the information you get,
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  Speaker 2: if everything's got to, you know, work together. So with
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  Speaker 2: AI though, the reason I, I, I fear it is
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  Speaker 2: because it's the only source.
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  Speaker 1: Answer.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you, you go onto Google right now. If
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  Speaker 2: I go onto Google and I search something immediately, Gemini
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  Speaker 2: takes over and just gives me the answer. So what
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  Speaker 2: my point is, is when, when I bring up the internet,
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  Speaker 2: originally the internet was there for good, but of course
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  Speaker 2: the bad took over and the dark web came out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which was out there. There's, uh, child trafficking
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  Speaker 2: goes on on there. You know, there's, uh, illegal drug sales, pornography,
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  Speaker 2: all the bad stuff on the internet.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Well, the same with AI.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Like at the moment, it's a good, useful tool is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: what I was saying to Yanni. It's a good, useful tool,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: but the bad will take over. So like Elon saying,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: if you build a nuke, it's a nuke and that's it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But if you build this supercomputer and we constantly keep.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's like Jabba the Hutt.
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  Speaker 2: If we constantly keep feeding it more and more information
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  Speaker 2: and it grows and gets bigger and bigger and bigger
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and more powerful than.
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  Speaker 1: Us, where will it lead?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And at that point, you know, so I've bored you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: probably enough. I've bored you enough about the AI and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: how it's going to take over the world. And everybody
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that's listening to Lee Elsie's show that normally doesn't listen
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to Joey Stats on Saturdays, like, why is this guy
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: filling in for him?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: This guy's a conspiracy theory. He's nuts. Well, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: maybe you're right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: But speaking of fears, we do have Halloween this weekend.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And It's one of my favorite holidays. I've always looked
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: forward to it. You know, it's.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Candy and costumes. How do you get better than that?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And, you know, one of the problems now with Halloween
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: is the price of candy. I don't even know if
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: everybody on my street can afford to get candy to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: hand out to these kids. And I decorate my yard.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It's all done up. We got a theme every year.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: We get the costumes. We get the dog involved and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: hand it out to the people. And they come through.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I get like 200 trick-or-treaters. But if you check the prices,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: it's like $ 20.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: For a bag. And I looked at it, right? So
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: in candy inflation.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Candy and chewing gum has rose 7.7% over this last year,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: ending in September.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And over the last five years, candy has risen.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Approximately 44% over the last five years compared to food
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: at 22%.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, imagine that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: As a kid, I would grow up, I was getting
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: all excited. I got my costume on. I'm going down,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and all the houses on the street were dark because
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: people couldn't afford to hand out candy to these kids.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It would be terrible.
• 23:16
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  Speaker 1: When news breaks, we break in. with the mantra, there
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  Speaker 36: Hey, good morning and welcome to Tom's Take. I want
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  Speaker 36: you to, this is a little bit of an imagination
• 30:12
  Speaker 36: take that I want you to think about, really think about.
• 30:17
  Speaker 36: Because every day, me, you, the whole world wakes up
• 30:23
  Speaker 36: to bad news. We immediately, as I do, look at
• 30:28
  Speaker 36: my phone and you see all of these, you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 36: attention getting headlines that you have to, that they want
• 30:34
  Speaker 36: you to click on and, or you turn on the
• 30:36
  Speaker 36: TV and you, all you, all you see is, you know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 36: breaking news and this just in and happening now. And, uh,
• 30:45
  Speaker 36: or that stomach wrenching. I hope I never see special
• 30:48
  Speaker 36: report bulletin that comes up on something really bad on
• 30:52
  Speaker 36: the TV screen, just more things to worry about and
• 30:56
  Speaker 36: stress over. You know, we have a steady diet of it,
• 31:00
  Speaker 36: of bad news, people killing each other and wars and,
• 31:04
  Speaker 36: It's over and over and over every day, every single day.
• 31:11
  Speaker 36: It's a diet of this. And it's programmed for us
• 31:16
  Speaker 36: to obviously pay attention. And we've gotten used to it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 36: It's part of our being. We're used to all of
• 31:24
  Speaker 36: the bad news. We're used to seeing mass destruction. We're
• 31:28
  Speaker 36: used to seeing all of it. And then we go
• 31:30
  Speaker 36: on to the sports and weather. It's just, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 36: it's a flow of our existence, you know. So I
• 31:38
  Speaker 36: want you just to imagine waking up one morning, if
• 31:41
  Speaker 36: you can, to just nothing. The sounds of silence all
• 31:47
  Speaker 36: around the world.
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: There's no wars. There's no conflict. There's nothing.
• 31:52
  Speaker 36: For a minute, you know, you turn on the TV,
• 31:55
  Speaker 36: there's nothing. The people, you know, on the CNNs and
• 31:59
  Speaker 36: Fox and everywhere, they have nothing to talk about. The
• 32:04
  Speaker 36: talk shows, The View, they have nothing to talk about.
• 32:08
  Speaker 36: There's no bad news. The world is in total, complete silence.
• 32:15
  Speaker 36: How shocked they would be, right? No arguing, no opinions,
• 32:19
  Speaker 36: no one to blame, nothing to defend. And then imagine this.
• 32:25
  Speaker 36: Because of that, this stunned silence, that you just woke
• 32:29
  Speaker 36: up to, you see all around the world people by
• 32:32
  Speaker 36: the million just standing stunned, standing still, looking up like,
• 32:37
  Speaker 36: what's going on? You know, in Times Square and Paris
• 32:41
  Speaker 36: and London and Moscow, even Iran and Ukraine and bad places,
• 32:48
  Speaker 36: the Middle East, everyone just stopped. And they put down
• 32:52
  Speaker 36: their guns and protest and they just stopped. And the masses,
• 32:57
  Speaker 36: they just looked around and there's nothing to fight about.
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  Speaker 16: Think about it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 36: There's nothing to fight about. And then, you know, think
• 33:06
  Speaker 36: about this. In the last 3,500 years of recorded history,
• 33:11
  Speaker 36: 268 years of that, 268 years of that, 3,500 years
• 33:18
  Speaker 36: of our existence, has the world known.
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: Complete global peace? That's just 8%.
• 33:26
  Speaker 36: Of our existence, of our time here. How embarrassing. Wow. Remember,
• 33:34
  Speaker 36: you know, when the world was only filled with two
• 33:39
  Speaker 36: people and Cain killed Abel. And then right after that,
• 33:45
  Speaker 36: the fourth person in the world just killed the third person.
• 33:48
  Speaker 36: So it's sort of all we've known, killing each other
• 33:52
  Speaker 36: from day one. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode
• 33:56
  Speaker 36: you know i loved it when two warring planets for
• 33:59
  Speaker 36: like 500 years were waging war against each other came
• 34:03
  Speaker 36: up with a civilized alternative to bloodshed but they still
• 34:08
  Speaker 36: killed each other so citizens would be identified by computer
• 34:12
  Speaker 36: and go into the elimination chambers to die and each
• 34:16
  Speaker 36: country sacrificed their people to avoid that bloodshed until captain
• 34:21
  Speaker 36: kirk And the Starship Enterprise interrupted all of that. And
• 34:26
  Speaker 36: he broke the 500 years of Armageddon. They were so upset.
• 34:32
  Speaker 36: But then they realized that they can live in peace.
• 34:36
  Speaker 36: So I want you to just imagine, if you can,
• 34:42
  Speaker 36: close your eyes for a minute, waking up to no conflicts,
• 34:46
  Speaker 36: no casualties, no breaking news, no wars, no fighting.
• 34:52
  Speaker 34: No bombs.
• 34:52
  Speaker 36: No nuclear threats.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 34:56
  Speaker 16: You know, nothing.
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: No noise.
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  Speaker 13: Zero.
• 34:59
  Speaker 36: Total and complete utter peace. Imagine yourself traveling through another
• 35:06
  Speaker 36: dimension of time. A dimension not only of sight and sound,
• 35:11
  Speaker 36: but mind. A journey into a wondrous world whose boundaries
• 35:16
  Speaker 36: are that of the imagination. Your next stop? Now. It's
• 35:22
  Speaker 36: not the twilight zone, but maybe it should be. Or
• 35:25
  Speaker 36: maybe we need to go from the twilight zone to
• 35:29
  Speaker 36: the daylight zone to feel the warmth of the sun
• 35:32
  Speaker 36: and the hugs of someone. So like the Starship Enterprise
• 35:38
  Speaker 36: who stepped in, I want you to wake up in
• 35:42
  Speaker 36: the morning and just think about that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: Impossible?
• 35:45
  Speaker 36: Why can't we? Just imagine all the people cheering all
• 35:49
  Speaker 36: the world. Living together. Life in Peace. Oh, you may
• 35:54
  Speaker 36: say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
• 35:59
  Speaker 36: I hope someday you'll join us and the world will
• 36:03
  Speaker 36: be as one.
• 36:04
  Speaker 15: Imagine all the people living life in peace.
• 36:17
  Speaker 20: You know.
• 36:20
  Speaker 14: You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the
• 36:29
  Speaker 14: only one. I hope someday you'll join us.
• 36:35
  Speaker 37: And the world will be one.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Tom. That was great.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: That was Tom's take. Thank you so much. All right,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: back here, Joey Stats.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: 6.42 a.m. on the Lee Elsie Show, filling in for Lee.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Like I said, this is awesome. I love it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, as I said before, for the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: listeners that don't listen to me on Saturdays from 12
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: to 1, I am Joey Stats. Joey Stats Sports Hour,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: every Saturday from 12 to 1. You know, we sit there. Me,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: my co-host Slips, normally here. Shout out Slips. We talk
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: some sports.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: We always do.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: We always hit, every week, the Book of Wisdom. And
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: shout out to Dr.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Longshots, Mr.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Ashenfelder, for rest in peace, for being a part of
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: our show from the beginning.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: And, you know, going to that, actually.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Because the Book of Wisdom is sports gambling, I wanted
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to go into... the topic of sports gambling and Connecticut's children.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I actually saw an article this week. It was on
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: a Sunday in the day paper guidebook tackles sports betting
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: risks for students.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine that they're, they're coming.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Out with guides for students, for college students, for high
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: school students on sports gambling, adolescent, and college-age adults.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: And it's everywhere. Everywhere.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: You turn on the TV, it doesn't matter what you're watching,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: gambling pops up. And now it's different. First it was DraftKings.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Then it was FanDuel. I think it went FanDuel, then DraftKings.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: We have both here in Connecticut. And then now I
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: see constantly this Koushi, which is.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Like a market... bet poly market. And all right, don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: get me wrong. I'm no saint. Never been one. Never
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: will be. But, you know, I got into sports gambling.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It got completely out of hand for me because Joey
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: stats does not take anything. I, you know, if I'm in,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I'm all in feet in and that's it. And, you know,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: when I got into it, I thought, all right, You know, oh,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I know a lot about sports. I talk sports every weekend.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And I know which bets to make.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I know who to pick. And the odds are never
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: in our favor. And, you know, it's... But now.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I just find this wild that they're pushing it towards children.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And what is the.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Is the reason?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You know, sports gambling advertisements go on during football, baseball, basketball,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: the betting odds.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: You know, see, here's one. The other night I'm.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Watching Amazon Prime. I'm watching the Patriots game. Patriots lost
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: to the Bears.
• 39:49
  Speaker 13: Sorry.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: And it was terrible.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: But the whole time I'm watching it, it's on this
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Amazon Prime. It kept popping up every time I went
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: to a commercial. It would have been like, all right,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: do you want to buy protein chips? And all I
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: had to do was click OK. And apparently my account
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: from my Prime, my bank account, my Debit card would
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: immediately purchase these things, and I guess Amazon would drop
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: a drone off, and they would be right there at
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: my house tonight. That was what I was assuming. And
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: every other couple minutes, it was about Sky Rizzy. Apparently,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: after the game ended, I thought I had moderate plaque
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: psoriasis because it kept popping up with this Sky Rizzy. Well,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: my point is, when is it going to get to
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: a point that Amazon takes over this sports gambling. And
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: we're watching our Thursday night game on prime when they're
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: droning our protein chips in our sky Rizzy to our house.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: And we're sitting there and it pops up and says,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: all right, next touchdown plus a thousand Ramon Dre Stevenson click.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: And it'll just take the money right out of your
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: bank account and put in the bet for you. And
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: like I said, I'm not, I've done fantasy sports. I've
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: done sports gambling. I've been at the casinos. I'm not
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: a saint on any of this. But my point is,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: why are they now pushing it towards children?
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: You know, is this, is this just a control factor?
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Or are they making, they gotta be making money off this.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: They are making money off it. Because, you know, everybody's,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: just attaching their bank account. And most of these people
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: don't know much about sports. They're just, you know, when
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: was the conversation originally used to be?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Kids would talk about, all right, this was my favorite team.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I put my, uh, my favorite athlete got, uh, you know,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Jake Bowers last night hit a home run for me,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: but now the kids at school are going to be like, wow,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: my parlay didn't hit. In seventh grade, I lost $ 300,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: $ 400 of my parents' money because I linked their debit
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: card to my FanDuel account. I mean, and they had
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to make a guidebook for these adolescent kids to understand
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: the risk of sports gambling.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: And it's everywhere.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: You can't go into a gas station in this local
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: area without seeing, all right, they have Multiple scratch-offs now,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: because they're taking money in that way.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: They got Keno.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Some of these gas stations, I see people just sitting
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: in there playing Keno all day. I mean, it's just
• 42:50
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  Speaker 38: And.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fact that they're going towards kids is
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that's insane. And, uh, But
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  Speaker 2: The NBA announced partnerships with Koshy and Polymarket the other day.
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• 44:24
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• 44:33
  Speaker 2: It's happening in basketball. It's happening in. It's out of hand.
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  Speaker 2: It's out of hand. And one of the things. That
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  Speaker 2: I always have. Kind of caught on to. That doesn't
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  Speaker 26: But.
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• 45:24
  Speaker 2: candy so that way these kids don't get disappointed.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: But, you know.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I really do appreciate Lee allowing me to come on here.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Joey Stats every Saturday just comes on and talks sports.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I don't normally get into the political side of things.
• 45:44
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• 45:47
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• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I want to see change in the world.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be the doom and gloom and
• 46:00
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• 46:04
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• 46:12
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• 46:15
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• 46:19
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• 46:22
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• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Because this world is the higher class....
• 46:27
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• 46:31
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• 46:33
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• 46:35
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• 46:38
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• 46:42
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• 46:45
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• 46:54
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• 46:59
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• 47:04
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• 47:07
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• 47:20
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• 47:34
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• 47:39
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• 47:46
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  Speaker 3: but they're all philanthropic. All three of those clubs, they're civic,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: they're co-ed, they're not fraternal. Fraternal means a sex. So
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: fraternal is generally speaking, fraternal organizations are male, but there
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: are fraternal organizations that are co-ed, like the Eastern Stars,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: for instance, is co-ed. And then there are some genuine
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: sororities out there that is just female.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: So they exist too.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: And we have a couple of them in the state
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: that are related to masonry. They're called Daughters of the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Nile And let me tell you, those girls, they do
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: wonderful work for the shrine.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: They're part of the shrine.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: If you've ever heard of Shriners, all Shriners, by the way,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: are Masons. They start out as Masons and they decide
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: if they want to be a Shriner or not, okay?
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: But no man can become a Shriner without first being
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: a Mason. That's the way the Masonic order works. You
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: have to start with the Blue Lodge and then you
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: can get connected to other orders in the Masonic fraternity
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: if you so desire. I'm sure it's that way to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: a certain extent with the Elks. I'm sure they've got
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: other Elks is also a fraternity. It used to be
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: strictly male, but they have gone co-ed, and that was
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: their prerogative, and they still do a great work. And
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: they used to have the Emblem Club. I don't know
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: if they still do or not.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: They might.
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  Speaker 3: The Emblem Club was the wives of Elks that would
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: come together and meet. Sometimes while the guys are meeting,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: they would meet, or sometimes they would do their own projects.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: So I have a lot of fun with the organizations.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: Another organization that I have a lot of fun with
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: and was just checking up on this morning, is called
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: the Sons of the American Revolution. Now, by definition, the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: members of that order are all male. And our counterpart,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: stand-alone organization, is called the Daughters of the American Revolution.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: And it's all female.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: And I like to kid with them. They're wonderful women,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: by the way. They do wonderful work. But they outnumber
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: the SAR, six to one. So the girls are really
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: rabid about patriotism. And that's what both orders are about.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: but both orders are a genealogical educational society. So that's
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: how they plug in. And what I like about this
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: is all of these clubs, all of these organizations, what
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: I like about them is they are the fabric of
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: our communities. You can come into a town, you can
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: see a square and compass on a building, or you
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: can see an elk depicted on a building, okay? You
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: can see different things as you go through any little
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: town or even large cities. And you can see there
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: are different emblems. You can come into certain towns. You'll
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: see a bunch of signs just on the edge of
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: the town for all the different emblems of the clubs
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: and organizations that are supporting that town.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Keep an eye out for them. They're out there.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: Kiwanis will be out there. Masons will be out there.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Elks will be out there. Knights of Columbus will be
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: out there. And all they're doing is they're just waving
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: at you as you drive by to say, hey, we're here.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: We're doing wonderful things.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Another order.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: That I'm not a member of, but I work with
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: very closely every summer, is the Grange. And the Grange,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: I read a book about a year and a half
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: ago about the founding of the Grange. It was a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: fantastic founding. Masonry comes out of lore. We can trace
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: our roots back to the 1200s, the 900s, the.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Year 1000, 1200, 1100.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: We can trace lineage back to that, but it's lore
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: with The Grange, a gentleman, and I can't remember his
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: name right now, but he decided that there should be
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: something for the farmers of America. And he started, didn't
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: start in his town. He went right to Washington, D.C.,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: and then he went to another city and area out
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: in the Midwest. I can't remember the whole details. It's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: been a while since I read the book. But the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: bottom line is, this guy started on a national level
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: and then brought it down to the lower levels. Never
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: seen it done that way before. I've only seen clubs
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: ever start. Sons of the American Revolution. That group started
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: in the late 1800s in Connecticut, of all places.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: And it was seven men whose fathers... Now, mind you.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: It's the 1890s, 1891 timeline, okay? So do the math
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: in your head for a minute, and you think about this.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: All seven of those men were sons of their fathers
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: served in the American Revolution. And you're like, whoa, that
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: was almost 90 years ago. Well, these men, they lived
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: long into the 1800s. They fathered children in the 40s
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: or when they were in their 30s, like the 1820s.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: And these men, they were now 70 years old in 1891.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: So they were legitimately sons of the American Revolution. They
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: were the ones that started it. At any rate, this
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: is The Voice of Freedom, I'm Ted Nelson, pitch hitting
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: for Lee Elsie. I stand in his shadow because he's
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: the great one, and he does a wonderful work, and
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: we've always enjoyed listening to Lee's show. He's been around
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: for a while, as have I, and my little thing
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: now is I like to say I used to be somebody.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: I've done a lot of things.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: I've had a lot of fun, and my wife and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I love to travel, and we went to Alaska this
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: past summer, first time ever, and I'm pretty well convinced
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: it's my 50th state, I've been to so many states
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: around the country. But when we got up there, Lee,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: everybody was celebrating my birth year.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Everywhere I went, 1959. I said, wow.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: I said, Grace, look at this. They like the year
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: we were born. No, that was when they became a state, 1959.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: So at any rate, you get some fun out of that.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: So I do love to travel.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: And that's another thing that with my clubs and my organizations,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: it always seems no matter where I go, I meet
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: somebody from the order or from one of the organizations.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: You wear a hat. You wear a glove. You wear
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a sign. On your lapel.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: I say gloves. Yeah, we wear gloves at certain groups,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: but not out in public.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: And I got a lot of change of clothes.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: You can imagine, you know. I have a walk-in closet,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: and I've got most of it. And the lovely Mrs.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Nelson has a little corner, and then she's got a
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: whole other room down the hall. But I got a
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: lot of change of clothes. I got change of clothes
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: in my truck tonight. I got my tuxedo out there
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: because I got a meeting tonight. Tuxes are required, so
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: I'll be wearing my tux tonight. Not a big deal.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: And I know how to tie a bow tie.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: Which surprises a few people every once in a while.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: They'll say, oh, how did you get that so nice?
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: That must be a clip-on. And then I pull it apart,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: and they go, ooh. I said, you think that's funny?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: You should see if I can see if I can
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: put it back on, though, in front of you. At
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: any rate, this is the Lee Elsie Show, the voice
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: of freedom. We enjoy everything that he does. We listen
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: to a lot of Lee, too much maybe. Lee always
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: gives me a shout-out sometimes when I'm on my treadmill.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: And he knows that I walk every morning, or I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: try to walk every morning. I didn't walk this morning.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: It was kind of early to get here and make
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: sure I was on time. Didn't want to freak him out.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: But I will tell the young people out there that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: we live in a wonderful country that has rules. And
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: one thing I like to tell the young people now
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: is that there's a lot of bandwidth between the lines.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: If you go straight and you stay between the lines,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: you can go a long, long, long, long way in
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: this country. You cross those lines, you get tripped up.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: Not my problem. but i found out that it's easier
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: to stay in your lane and you can go so
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: fast in your lane you get out of your lane
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: you may cross the line and then when you do
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: sometimes you get busted sometimes you don't and i don't
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: even mean by the law i just mean by societal
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: issues you know societal conditions you stay in your lane
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: And some people, the opposite of that is thinking outside
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: of the box. Some people want to think outside of
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: the box. So that's part of the reason why I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: developed this, because I go to a lot of my
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: clubs and a lot of my organizations, and I find
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: out why they're all shrinking.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: And I tell them this now.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: I said, I've been coming here sometimes, in some cases,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: for 40 years, and I figured out what the problem is.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: It's me.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: If I had never joined, these places would have been
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: going through the roof with membership.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: So it must be my fault.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: So I'm trying to give back and tell the audience
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: about how much fun I have at these organizations and,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, how much they really
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: need you. And it's not so much your money as
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: much as your enthusiasm, things you can bring.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: To the table.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: For instance, this weekend, this Sunday, I've got my annual
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: Ladies' Day. Now you're saying, what the heck's a Ladies' Day? Well,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: we used to call it a Widow's Day because in
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: our obligation as Masons, we all vowed. that we will
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: look after our widows and orphans and our aged members, okay?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: That's part of our vows that we promised when we
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: were young men kneeling at that altar with a blindfold on.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: We promised that we would keep that vow, okay? Among others,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: but that's one of them. And so one of the
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: things that I've been having the ability to do or
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: been blessed to do is to meet with our ladies
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: once a year. We take them out to dinner. We
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: have a nice speaker, a little nice social, and get together.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: And we thank them for allowing their husbands to come
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: out and serve us back in the day when they
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: were able. And now their husbands are gone. And so
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: we like to say, have fond memories. And sometimes most
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: of them, I've had a relationship. This is the other
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: good thing. When you're an active participant, you can actually
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: have fond memories of their departed loved one. And it
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: just warms their hearts to say, oh, somebody remembers Ed.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Or somebody remembers Richard. Or the other brothers names and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: that means a big big deal to people that connection
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: that familiar connection and that's what all of these orders
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: bring to the table a familiar connection I would have
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: never met for instance Marty Olson if he wasn't campaigning
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: one day and knocked on my door the first thing
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: he said when I opened my door it was 1985
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: I think I opened my door he says hi he
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: says I'm Marty Olson I'm running for city council here
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: in New London and I am a friendly competitor of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: yours I says, you are? Because he could see my
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: truck in the driveway. He says, yeah, I own Martin Olson.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Contracting. And I'm like, whoa.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: And I says, okay. Tobias Olson. Tobias Olson Contracting. It
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: was named after his grandfather. Tobias Olson Contracting. And yeah,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: he says, that's me. And I was like, okay. And
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: we hit it off immediately. And I said, well, thank
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: you for asking.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I do vote. I'm a big deal.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: I think voting, I take voting very seriously. I was
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: legally able to vote when I was 18. So the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: The age limit had dropped down by the time it
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: was my turn to vote. And I went right down
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: to the town hall, and I voted on my first
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: time in 1977, I.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: Think it was.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 77.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 9: So, yeah.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: So I've been doing that for a while. And do
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: we have– I don't know if we've got time.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: We've got time? Okay, good.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: Because who knows? I can just talk and talk and talk.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: If you'd like to call, you're welcome to do that.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: If you've got a question about the fraternity or other organizations,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: maybe you're a member of an organization that I haven't
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: mentioned yet, like the Oddfellows. Sounds like a funny name,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: but they're a real order, and their symbol is three
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: chain links. That's their symbol. At any rate, the number
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: here is 860-464-9490.
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  Speaker 38: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 13: Your hometown looks the same as I step down from
• 1:13:57
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  Speaker 9: Preston Trading Post.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to find.
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  Speaker 9: Impossible to forget.
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  Speaker 5: This one.
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  Speaker 9: We should just do this. No, you do this. You
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  Speaker 9: do this line. So, yes, we may be a little
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 9: off the beaten path.
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  Speaker 50: That's only because the beaten path doesn't have this much
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  Speaker 1: And we're back. Thanks, Lee, for doing the board.
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun together. And he's very supportive of
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  Speaker 3: of my new revelation here is called CRAFT. And it's
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  Speaker 3: an acronym that stands for Civic Relations and Fraternal Talk.
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  Speaker 3: And I've taken this little show on the road as well.
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  Speaker 3: a long, long time. But at any rate, there's so
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  Speaker 3: And you've got some diehard members that are rolling up
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  Speaker 3: was a whole generation. I found out as soon as
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  Speaker 1: And I went, what happened to them? Where did they go?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what happened was, you can blame it on a
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  Speaker 1: That would be it. Maybe a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: But my point is, and you see it in the
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  Speaker 3: given meeting.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still that way to this day. It just is.
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  Speaker 3: And so there's a whole movement out there among the
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  Speaker 1: So when Mr.
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  Speaker 60: Some heroes wear caves Fly through the air Some stand
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  Speaker 3: went down to the attorney. And I quitclaimed, it's quit,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: it's Q-U-I-T, not quick. It's Q-U-I-T, quitclaimed the house to her.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 3: Because I'm in business, and I didn't want to have
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: her worrying about, God forbid, I ever got sued or
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: something like that. They could attach the house. So the
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: house has always been in her name. So my standing
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: joke about the house is that if anything on my
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: marriage ever went off the rails, my wife wouldn't need
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: to get an attorney. All she'd need to do is
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: get a locksmith. And the night I come home and
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: the key doesn't open, I say, ooh, Ted's in trouble.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: But at any rate, I've never been there. I've never
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 3: been in that kind of trouble, so it's good. We
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: have a very good marriage, and I'm grateful for that.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 3: At any rate, this is The Voice of Freedom, and
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: it's 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. If you read signs, Ted,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: you can pronounce your words properly and keep the thing going.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: But I am talking about craft, and I love craft.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 3: I love talking about civic relations. I love talking about
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: fraternal organizations and all that they do. One of the orders,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: I may have mentioned this the last time I was on,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: is called the National Sojourners. Now you say, what the
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: heck is the National Sojourners? Well, the National Sojourners are
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: masons that have served in the military. And when they
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: formed a little after World War II, I don't think
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: it was during World War II. I think it was
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 3: right after World War II. They formed in the Philippines,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: of all places. And then they came back to the States.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: They were all GIs. But they were officers. And they
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: were an officers, a Masonic officers group. And they became national.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: They went national.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: And they've got chapters all over the country and in
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: the territories that the United States has military bases. So
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: they've got them in Germany. And they've got them down in,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: I think we still have a base in Panama. And
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: they've got bases all over the world. And so they
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: have their sojourners. Not in every base, of course, but
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 3: they've got them. At any rate, that was a condition.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: So they kept inviting me. For whatever reasons, I get around,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: so they wanted me to come by, so I did.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: And they had these picnics every summer, the first Sunday
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: in August, out at the Admiral Fife campground or whatever.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: Admiral Fife was a wonderful man that I never met,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: but he was a Mason, and he donated.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: His property for recreation.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 3: And so we reserve a space there every first Sunday
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: and every August, almost every August. And back in the
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: early aughts, they kept inviting.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: Me to this.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 3: And my wife would dutifully come along because she knew
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of the gals and friends there.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: So it was all good. It was all good.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 3: But she was teasing me about, oh, you're going to
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: become a sojourner.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: I says, Grace, I can't. You served. My wife served
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: in the military, by the way, if.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: I've never mentioned that on the air. But she served
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: in the military. And so I says, I can't join.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: You know I was never in military service. I'm not eligible.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: And then one day, they nominated me as an honorary member.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: And so I've been a member ever since. And they
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: have a condition of each chapter, by their rules, can
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 3: only have a percentage, a small percentage, a minority of
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: honorary members. And so I got into that. So it
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 3: was pretty cool. I actually rose up to be the president,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: which I also thought was fun. But it's a great order,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: and they do good things too, and very patriotic. And
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: one of the things they have is very, very similar
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 3: to the– S.A.R., Sons of the American Revolution, is they
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: have an order called Heroes of 76. And the Heroes
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: of 76, the nice thing about being a part of
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: that little order is there's no dues. So, you know,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: when you're a member of all these clubs, you know,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 3: they're reaching into your pockets, too. That's the other part
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: of the equation. Respectfully, you know, I mean, they're not
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 3: stealing from you, but you want to be a member
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: of these things, so you do have to part with
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: some dough because they need to run their operations, too.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: It used to be for buying stamps and envelopes, and
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: now it's for buying.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: Internet space and stuff like that. You don't have websites.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: But needless to say, all the orders need a little
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: bit of funding to keep their thing going, and the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: excess can go to their charitable stuff. At any rate,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: with the National Sojourners, they have this little splinter group, minority,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: so you've got to.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: Subset of the Masons that are in the National Sojourners
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: and the National Sojourners has a subset called Heroes of 76. Well,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: those guys all have period attire. Now you're not supposed
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: to call it a costume. People, some people get their
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: nose bent on a joint when you're wearing period attire
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 3: and they come, Oh, I like your costume.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: It's not a costume. It's period attire.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: And we picked the period of what the revolutionary war period.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: And a dear friend of mine, uh, He passed away,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: and his widow was a friend of mine before I
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: knew him, but that's neither here nor there. She donated
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: his gear to me, and he's a little taller than me.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: He was a Vietnam War vet and very patriotic, also
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: a member of the Order, and a lot of the
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 3: things he and I, Bruce and I, had affiliations, crossover,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: and a lot of things together. So she thought I
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: would like it, and I've honored that uniform ever since,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: and I've got it tailored to fit me. And so
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 3: every once in a while, You'll see me out there
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: with that on. If you go to the parade on
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: July 4th, we hold up the flag, and we have
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 3: our dear friend, the colonel, who leads us through the borough,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: and he's there every year. God bless him. And we
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: renew our friendship. He's a Mason too. He got on
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: the QT on that. But at any rate, he's good
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: about it. He's a good man, very good man. We
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: enjoy his company, enjoy the service that he rendered not
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: only to our country but to our state when he
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: was involved in the state and all the things he did.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: And we miss him. And I think you're going to
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: have him back.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: I hope Lee's going to have him back on Thursdays
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: once Lee gets through with his little hiatus. He's nodding politely.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: So I think that's a positive thing. He brings a
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: lot of good information to us. But that's our connection.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: That's how I met him. I met the colonel through
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: Charlie Maxim, who's a 33rd. And a 33rd degree Mason was.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: He's passed away now. And that's how we met brother Robb.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 3: At any rate, this is your, oh, I almost said
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: your home talk, but it's not your home talk. That's
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: a thing of the past. That's gone.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: That's gone.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: Although, I do keep that as a website or a
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: web address, so one day I might resurrect your home talk.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen in the wonderful.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: World of TED.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: But at any rate, this is The Voice of Freedom,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: and you're listening to The Lee Elsey Show on 94.9 FM.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: And I am Ted Nelson.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: Talking to you today, filling in, pitching for one hour,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: and having fun talking to you. And if you'd like
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 3: to call in, you're more than welcome to do that,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: if you've got questions about that. And I'm getting a note,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: and the note is, Chief calls from Pennsylvania.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: A call from Pennsylvania. That's right. I listened to you
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: when I was in Australia. So, yeah, let's take a call.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Can you hear me?
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 61: Yes, I can hear you.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: Now I can hear you.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 61: How are you?
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: I am good now that you're calling.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 61: You did a great, you're doing a great job.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: Not bad for a blind guy, huh?
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 61: Tell me I said alone, let's get everybody out to
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 61: vote next Tuesday. I personally want to vote for, I
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 61: can't vote over there, Pennsylvania, but I would vote back
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 61: Doc Foley, whose father was a fireman. Of course, number 20.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 61: And of course, our great friend, Greg Howard. Everybody has
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 61: to get out and vote. The other organization I'd like
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 61: to mention is the Knights of Columbus.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: Knights of Columbus, yeah.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: I mentioned them the last time I was on, but
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: go for it. Talk to me about the Knights.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 61: The Knights are a very good Catholic organization. They are.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 61: We believe in Jesus Christ. We all pray together. The
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 61: other organization I'd like to mention is the Volunteer Fire Service.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 61: Rocky is a big fan of them. They're getting beat
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 61: up over there. On Long Island and in Pennsylvania, just
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 61: for the young guys that are listening, We have a
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 61: life insurance program. Every year you serve, if you serve
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 61: over five years, when you turn 65, you get a
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 61: stipend from the state. So keep that in mind. We
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 61: also have the junior firefighters. Any children from age 16
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 61: to 18 can join. Come down to the firehouse on Sundays,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 61: wash the trucks, learn about the fire service, and hopefully
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 61: become members. Other than that, I don't like to talk
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 61: too loud on the TV, music, radio. So I'll let
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 61: you go.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: Chief Decker, thank you for your service, and thank you
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: for reminding me about the Knights of Columbus. I'm associated
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: with them, but that was the other half of my
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: joke when I told my wife that I couldn't join
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: the National Sojourners. I said I also couldn't. I wasn't
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: eligible for the Knights of Columbus because I'm not Catholic. Now,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: it's a wonderful law.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 61: We can make you an honor over here in Pennsylvania.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: You can?
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 41: Yeah, sure.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 60: All right.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 61: We like our brothers.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I like Pennsylvania. It's a wonderful state. Philadelphia is,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: of course, one of the birthplaces of freedom to begin
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: with here in this country.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 61: If you look up Lake Wallapalpac, where I am, it's
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 61: the biggest man-made lake in Pennsylvania. It's almost as big
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 61: as Lake George.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 61: It's a very inexpensive area for any New York listeners.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 61: We have a lot of retired firemen and cops here.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 61: Just one shout-out to Stan the Man. I hope he's
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 61: doing good.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Stan the Man.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: All right. You got it. Thank you.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: Good to hear you. Thanks, Lee, for putting that over
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: to me. At any rate, I'm just having fun. If
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: you haven't figured it out, It's a Wonderful Life, that's
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies, by the way, with Jimmy
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 3: Stewart and Donna Reed. I watch it every Christmas season
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: because it's just part of me.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: My wife knows it.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: She got me the tape, and now I got it
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: on CD, and now I can just watch it any
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: time I want because of streaming and.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of euphorisms and a lot of
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 3: Americana in that movie. If you ever get a chance,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: if you've never watched it, you should. Uh, Jimmy Stewart
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: was a, was a, an American hero. Uh, not only
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: was he an actor and a prolific actor, but he
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: served his country and he did, he did went to
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 3: the air force. Well, before air force, it was the
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: army air corps. And then, uh, he, he raised the
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: rank of brigadier general in, in what became the air force.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: So it was pretty cool.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: So we got a lot of heroes out there and, uh,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: That's another thing that I love about these organizations. There's
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 3: all kinds of people that I've personally met. I met
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 3: a man, a brother, that was with the Tuskegee Airmen.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: Got to shake his hand. So, I mean, that's, to me,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 3: that's a wonderful thing. And that's another good reason, if
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: you ever think about joining these orders, you just never
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 3: know who you're going to meet. One of the things
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: I do every, not every year, but I do it
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 3: every other year, is called Lifeline. And it's a non-profit also.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 3: But what they do is they're a bunch of nurses
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 3: and doctors that donate their time, and they check your pulse.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 3: They use ultrasound right there and fully clothed. They set
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: up their little, I call them a caravan. They set
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 3: up their little vents, and then you go in, and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 3: they check all your vital signs.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, we got Jim from Lisbon. All right, Jim,
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: talk to me.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 41: Hey, good morning.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 62: Ted, have you ever heard of Civitan?
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: Say it again.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 62: Civitan.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: Civitan.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 5: Am I pronouncing it right?
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: I've not, sir. Enlighten me.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 62: They were in the Litchfield-Tarrington area up in the northwest.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: I know the northwest corner. Civitan.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 62: Yeah, it's a fraternal organization, and they sponsored my son's
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 62: baseball team, 15 and older. And they won the championship
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 62: and celebrated and put on a little dinner for the
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 62: players and actually gave him a nice little gift, a
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 62: nice wristwatch and stuff like that. So you can add
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 62: that to your list.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Now, how are they related to other organizations?
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: Are they not Masons? Are they Shriners? Are they Civitan?
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 61: I'm sorry.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 62: I got the feeling that they were, like, independent.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: Independent.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 35: Okay.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of independent orders out of there.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 3: Some have come and gone. The White Shrine comes to
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: my mind. I've never seen any more of that anymore.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: They've sort of faded, but. They might be big somewhere else.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: The tall cedars of Lebanon, they're out there, too.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: Civitan. Are you spelling that with a C or an S?
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 62: C-I-V-I-T-A-N.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 25: Okay.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to look at this video that Lee's
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 3: making of me today, and now that you've given me
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 3: that information, I'll do some research.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: That's very interesting. Thank you.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 18: Great, great, Ted.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 62: Thanks for the show.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: You bet, Jim. Thanks for tuning in.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 11: Okay, bye.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 48: Bye.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: And so... Yeah, I keep forgetting.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 3: I keep saying southeastern Connecticut and Long Island and Rhode
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 3: Island because that's where the signal went back in the day.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 3: But the signal does go around the world now because
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 3: I heard you when I was in Australia, Lee. You
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 3: know that because I sent you a text, I think,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: saying we're listening to you. Of course, I had to
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: be up at like 1130 at night or some odd hour.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: It was weird being on the other side of the globe,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 3: but we enjoyed that. We actually enjoyed it so much
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: we went twice. I don't know what possessed us, but
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: we went twice. But I think we're done with that
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 3: long flight because it is a long flight.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: If you're ever going to go, make your plans. And
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: now one of my goals in my youth, I am
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: now living.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: And it's to take off February every year because I
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: hate the winters. I just hate the cold. And my
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 3: wife hates it ten times as much as me. So
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: all I have to do is say, let's, and she says, go.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: And so we're always picking out a new– places to go.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: Some places we've been before in February, and we're always
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 3: looking for new places. So I'm scoping that out right
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: now to make sure I got my tickets and raring
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: to go. And we've been driving. I've actually gotten better
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: driving over the years, believe it or not. I know
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean anything to you, but anyone who knows me,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: knows that I can only drive for about an hour
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 3: and my body starts contorting, you know, into a pretzel
• 1:48:41
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  Speaker 4: they had been going up, up, up, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: anything different, but oh well. I went down to North Carolina.
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  Speaker 23: $ 70 a month.
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  Speaker 4: And that included average, okay, very cold winters and very
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  Speaker 4: this is something that's happening everywhere. Okay, so don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: We've got some programs to help you pay your bill.
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  Speaker 4: The Connecticut Energy Assistance Program. All right. So they can
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  Speaker 4: give you some help. I went and looked them up.
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  Speaker 4: But they're paid for by the taxpayer.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 4: people can't pay their bill, there's tax money. So here's
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  Speaker 4: some more tax money going. Now, maybe these tax dollars
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 4: mingle in some kind of way. I don't know. That's
• 2:10:04
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  Speaker 4: a lot of what's going on. So you can get
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 4: help from the taxpayer there then there's residential renewable energy
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  Speaker 4: solutions so I went and looked them up now that
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  Speaker 4: you can donate to that and they urge you to
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• 2:10:30
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• 2:10:34
  Speaker 4: get some state as they put it state funding it's
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 4: not very clear and I didn't chase that down So
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 4: once again, the taxpayer gets to pay for this. So
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  Speaker 67: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 41: Okay.
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  Speaker 55: I used to be a regular when I was working.
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  Speaker 55: Yeah, what I'd like to know is my understanding that
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  Speaker 55: the public benefits that I pay, and I'm all electric,
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  Speaker 55: can't claim my public benefit payment, which... Last year was
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  Speaker 55: somewhere just over.
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  Speaker 15: $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 55: Why can't I claim that on my income tax since
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  Speaker 4: That sounds like a good idea to me, but I
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  Speaker 4: pay it at.
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  Speaker 36: All, right?
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  Speaker 34: Oh, true, yeah.
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  Speaker 55: And if we do have to pay it, I should
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  Speaker 55: be able to deduct that on my federal and my
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  Speaker 55: state income tax because it's going to the state just
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  Speaker 55: like my tax money is.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. That's a really good point. I had never
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  Speaker 55: Yeah, a couple months ago I went through all my bills.
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  Speaker 55: Even though I do it online, you can see what
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  Speaker 55: all up, and it came to a 12-month period was
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  Speaker 55: just over, I think it was $ 1, 062 I paid in
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  Speaker 55: a 12-month period.
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  Speaker 18: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: That's astounding, isn't it? Yeah, it's nuts. Could have made
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  Speaker 4: else is interesting? Eversource is encouraging people to have batteries now.
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  Speaker 4: Now they do. I think they provide it for you
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  Speaker 4: at either low or no cost, and they take that
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  Speaker 4: to stabilize the grid. Do you think that's a good idea,
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  Speaker 4: taking that? Putting in batteries?
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  Speaker 55: Yeah, for my flashlight.
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  Speaker 4: Pardon me?
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  Speaker 55: What, batteries for my flashlight?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, batteries for the grid. So you get a
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  Speaker 4: huge battery, and it charges up. And then when there
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  Speaker 4: are brownouts, I believe, but definitely when there are power
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  Speaker 4: outages— You can pull from that for your house, but
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  Speaker 4: also it stabilizes the grid so not everybody is pulled.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't have multiple pullings on it. It stabilizes everything.
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  Speaker 4: I know Eversource has something like that to get a battery.
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  Speaker 4: They mentioned this briefly. Store electricity with a special battery
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  Speaker 4: used as a backup power source for your home doing
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  Speaker 4: outages and earn money for energy you contribute back to
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  Speaker 4: the grid. I'm not sure how much. I mean, it's
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 4: probably a 5-kilowatt battery, but it's nice to have, I guess.
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  Speaker 55: Yeah, an interesting side note. Years ago, I worked security
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  Speaker 55: at Millstone, and we used to get the mail, get
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  Speaker 4: Okay. That's all right. You never know. Hey, Drew, thanks
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  Speaker 4: for calling. We're going to go next to Dan from
• 2:21:32
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  Speaker 55: Good morning.
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  Speaker 9: This is Reed.
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  Speaker 25: Well, I just wanted to say that you are doing
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Ruth. Okay, so obviously historians ask this question.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to address that more. Could you hold on
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  Speaker 25: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 35: Sunshine today with a high around 60. A Massachusetts man
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  Speaker 34: Reed?
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  Speaker 61: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. So you asked me that difficult question about history,
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 4: which is justify yourself.
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  Speaker 25: Well, can I explain to you why I asked this question?
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, I think I got that. Yeah, but... So anyway,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't mean it like that.
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  Speaker 7: It's just.
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  Speaker 41: That's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Unknowingly, you did something that makes historians' blood run cold,
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  Speaker 4: and you threw me off there, which is good for
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 4: my brain power.
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  Speaker 36: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So what you were talking about, and I just had
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 4: this conversation, everybody thinks their time... is the worst, or
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 4: they view it as epic change, etc.? Yes.
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  Speaker 25: All kinds of exaggerated vocabulary, which inherently gets in the
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 25: way of being objective.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to quote an ancient Egyptian source. Now,
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 4: the ancient Egyptians, when they were a young boy, would
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 4: wear a side lock of hair. And that was cut
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 4: off when they were deemed an adult man. And there
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 4: are writings, private writings, where men are sighing, ah, back
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 4: in the days when I wore the side lock of youth,
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 4: when things were more simple, better, etc. So we're talking,
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 4: going back to, oh, probably at least 800, 1,000 years B.C.,
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  Speaker 4: So I think that there's always that sense. It's human nature.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, think about in ancient Greece where people were
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 4: talking about these young guys are running around crazy, and
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 4: you had that in the Middle Ages, et cetera. So
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  Speaker 4: there's always that bit of change with the exuberance of youth,
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 4: et cetera. I think what makes things different now is
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 4: we have communications. And so maybe.
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  Speaker 4: We have worldwide communication. So maybe it seems to us
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 4: that the world is in terrible shape because we have
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 4: so much information about it. But maybe because we have
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 4: a population of at least 8 billion people, that things
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 4: are exacerbated. The problems are growing worse in a certain sense.
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  Speaker 4: And I do think that we've never had such We've
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 4: always had a lot more mobility than people realize. There's
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 4: always movements of people throughout the ancient world.
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  Speaker 25: So, in other words, even though we're smarter and have
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 25: more information than ever, we can't answer that question. There's
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 25: legitimate arguments for both sides.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, but don't you think technology changes the whole equation?
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  Speaker 25: I think I would answer that by returning to the
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  Speaker 25: theme you just introduced, which is this whole emphasis on
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  Speaker 25: being youthful and stupid and being older and more contemplative,
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  Speaker 25: which is built into not only the purpose of history,
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 25: which was the original question, but it's built into religion,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 25: you know, like the idea of getting a bar mitzvah
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  Speaker 25: and so forth.
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  Speaker 41: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 25: And then I would return to what you asked, and
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  Speaker 25: I'd say, you know, with all this excess communications ability,
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  Speaker 25: that kind of interferes with the division between youth and adults.
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 25: Anybody can be part of the discussion on an Internet
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 25: chat group, and you don't know who you're talking to.
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  Speaker 58: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Or if it's a bot.
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  Speaker 34: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right. So I do think it's complicated. I do think
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  Speaker 4: some things... And this is a religious point of view,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 4: which some of the audience will agree with and some won't.
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 4: But I do think that things are on a certain
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  Speaker 4: trajectory that is certainly worrisome. And I do think that
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  Speaker 4: when you get 8 billion people, the value of life drops.
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 4: Whereas when you are living in your group, and there's
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 4: studies that show we do best in a group of
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 4: 150 people or less. Or fewer. So I do think
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  Speaker 4: that that is something that the world has never seen before.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And how that, is that Malthusian? I don't know. Perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Malthusian believed that as soon as you got
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 4: a lot of population and et cetera, that people would
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 4: begin eating each other, so to speak.
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  Speaker 25: I think that's a very appropriate idea to include in
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  Speaker 25: this because, you know, in economics, which I think is
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 25: the resonance of the contemplation of, you know, what is
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 25: Malthusian versus which is Cornucopian, it's the idea of optimism
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 25: versus pessimism. Does the progress of humanity make us better
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 25: at supply outpacing demand, or does it make us more
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 25: worried about demand outstripping supply and not being able to
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 25: keep up with it? So I think that's also very relevant, Jan.
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  Speaker 20: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: That was one of the questions on a major exam
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 4: that I took, and I don't have the time to
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 4: answer it. I just think it's funny because the minute
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 4: you begin talking, I remember that essay starts running through
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 4: my head. By the way, I got an A on it.
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  Speaker 25: Did you ever get less than an A? I doubt it.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 36: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I got a couple of B pluses. Two in
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 4: grad school, but I graduated... Those two brought me down.
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 4: I think I either had an A or A-minus in
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 4: grad school. Whatever, it was good. Those were probably.
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 25: Your two best papers. The professor just couldn't keep up
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 25: with you.
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 4: No, my professor was fabulous, my advisor.
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  Speaker 9: Well, thank you, Jan.
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 4: So thank you very much. We're going to, Reed, good
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  Speaker 4: talking to you. We're going to head over to Dan
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  Speaker 4: and Old Lime.
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  Speaker 41: Hey, Jan.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 41: Well, I got to admit, I got a couple of
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 41: B pluses too, but the rest were not A's. That's
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 41: my problem.
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 20: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in grad school, a B plus was acceptable outside
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 4: of your field, you know, if you're going into something else.
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 4: But a B was don't quit your day job. So anyway,
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 4: what did you call up about today, Dan?
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 5: What's up?
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  Speaker 41: Well, I guess two things. One, I like your, especially
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 41: your Eversource and electricity sort of declaration of all the
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 41: increase in taxes that are coming.
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 4: You like the fact that I notified you, but you
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 4: don't like the increases I'm assuming here.
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 9: Oh, correct.
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  Speaker 41: And I'm also angry. The whole election is a fraud
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 41: because Lamont and all the Democrats don't want us to
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 41: know about it, and the Republicans don't really tell us
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 41: about it. And, you know, as I'm thinking, the state
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 41: is making Eversource become a tax collector, because the public
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 41: benefit is not Eversource's job. The state and the elected
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 41: officials are supposed to decide where we spend tax dollars,
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 41: and if we want to spend tax dollars on helping
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 41: people pay their oil bill or electric bill so they
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 41: don't freeze in the winter. We do it. But it's
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 41: almost like food stamps. We don't make stop and shop,
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 41: you know, pay us directly for food just because we
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 41: don't have enough money. We get SNAP benefits or food
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 41: stamps or whatever. So I think that's sort of hopefully
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 41: a good analogy of why it's the wrong way to
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 41: do business and the state is hiding the tax by
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 41: making Eversource look bad, increasing their rates with that public benefit.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 30: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this was an increase for infrastructure, but we also
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 4: have the public benefits. But I don't know, Dan, you
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 4: call yourself old Dan. Do you remember that when social
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 4: welfare programs were handled by towns and counties as opposed
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 4: to the state?
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 41: You know what? I wasn't paying attention. I got to admit,
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 41: when I was a lot younger, I didn't start paying
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 41: attention to all this stuff until I was about 25. Okay.
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 41: Which was about, let's see, 71, which was probably in
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 41: the mid-70s.
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 41: So, yeah, I wasn't paying attention. Although I do remember
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 41: in the 60s, there was none of this stuff. There
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 41: was no Medicare. There was no Medicaid. There was no
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 41: war on poverty. We spent trillions of dollars... on Lyndon
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 41: Johnson's war on poverty, we still got a hell of
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 41: a lot of poor people around. And everybody's complaining that,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 41: you know, that we don't have enough money to do
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 41: this and do that. Well, I hate to be the
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 41: bearer of bad news.
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 25: We will never.
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 41: Have enough money. And I just look at the state
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 41: of Connecticut. We spent like crazy in the 80s. We
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 41: got mad at Weicker in 91 because he... gave us
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 41: the income tax to pay for all the debt that
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 41: we incurred in the 80s. It was a flat 4.5%. Well,
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 41: eventually we spent that money, and that wasn't good enough,
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 41: so we had to be a progressive tax rate up
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 41: to 7%. And now that's not good enough. So I've
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 41: been listening to Bob Swick and Tony D. yesterday, and
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 41: they're talking about a citizens' assembly, which if you think
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 41: about it is really a a fraud again and a crack,
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 41: because that's what we elect legislators for, is to make
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 41: laws and prioritize spending, not to pawn it off on
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 41: a citizens' assembly.
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 4: Well, and I think that's the problem with Congress as well, right?
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 4: We don't have a budget, as George Austin was discussing
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 4: in the debate the other day, that this is a
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 4: big problem. And a big problem is that people are
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 4: going to Congress, they're going to various legislatures, and they
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 4: are farming out the work to unelected officials. Historians, we
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 4: call that the bureaucratic model. You can call it the
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 4: deep state, whatever you want. It's government by unelected officials.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 41: Amen.
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 4: It's not your town anymore. I mean, you take the
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 4: power away from the towns and you put it in
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 4: the state. And as we see, the state is very,
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 4: very unresponsive to people. And it makes a patronage system
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 4: where now, you know, Martha Marks and Nick Minipace encourage
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 4: us to come to them for redress. Well, that's ancient Rome.
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 4: You know, it's called the patronage system. It's not your
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 4: vote that counts. It's not open legislation with FOIAs where
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 4: we can see everything and make a determination there and
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 4: that the people in the legislature work for us. Instead,
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 4: we are patrons, we are supplicants who have to come
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 4: to them and say, gee, this isn't working for me.
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 4: And instead of changing the system, They go get you help.
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 4: You're grateful. You think they're wonderful. You vote for them.
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 4: And we are slowly moving to this bureaucratic, even more
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 4: bureaucratic system in which you are not a citizen. You
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 4: are a supplicant to the people who are in office.
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 4: That's how I see it as a historian. It's happened
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 4: over and over.
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 41: You're frigging brilliant. I mean, you just nailed it.
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 41: Because that's what it is. It's exactly what it is.
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 41: is you vote for people who give you free stuff,
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 41: and you want all your laws coming from Hartford. Martha
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 41: Marks did say she wants regionalized education, which means towns
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 41: have no control. It all comes from Hartford, because Hartford
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 41: knows best, because we're too stupid to make our own
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 41: laws and zoning for our own towns, because all the
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 41: towns are the same. And that's the other thing she said.
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 41: She wants everything to be the same for everyone. Well,
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 41: that's socialism. That's communism. And you know what? Look what's
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 41: happening in France now. They already have socialism. They have
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 41: a huge welfare state. Their taxes are a lot higher
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 41: than ours. Yet they're rioting. They're rioting.
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 62: They have a 35-hour work week.
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 41: They're rioting.
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 62: They're entitled.
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 41: They're not happy because there's never enough money.
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there never is enough money. That rioting is... based
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 4: on something else, too. All right, well, thank you, Dan.
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 4: Now that we've started talking a little politics, I'm going
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 4: to move on here. I like to read the flyers
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  Speaker 4: that come from politicians. And so, as everyone knows, I
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  Speaker 4: do not approve of Nick Benapace. That's my personal opinion.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm looking at his flyer, and he says he
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  Speaker 4: stands for what's right and American values.
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  Speaker 54: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you can say that saying the pledge is an
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  Speaker 4: American value or says that you are interested in American values,
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  Speaker 4: or you can say I have the freedom not to
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  Speaker 4: pledge the flag, which is kind of a conundrum because
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to pledge the flag that gives you
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  Speaker 4: the right not to pledge the flag. Very interesting, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll leave that up to people's own choice. So Nick
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  Speaker 4: believes in, I'm looking at his flyer, personal privacy. He
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  Speaker 4: voted to regulate facial recognition, right to vote, increased penalties
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  Speaker 4: for election interference, assistance for the vulnerable. 100,000 people are
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  Speaker 4: going to lose Medicaid, SNAP, and heating assistance. Freedom from tyranny. Now,
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  Speaker 4: he fought back. There's nothing specific in here, no particular
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  Speaker 4: law that he sponsored. There's nothing to really— it' s just very vague.
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  Speaker 4: I will mention, though, that when Martha Marks says 80,000
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  Speaker 4: people are losing Medicaid, and he said 100,000 are losing Medicaid, SNAP,
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  Speaker 4: and heating assistance, since we're losing 500— million dollars from
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  Speaker 4: federal money because we pay for Medicaid and SNAP and
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  Speaker 4: I assume heating assistance for illegal aliens, that we have 80,000
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  Speaker 4: to 100,000 illegal aliens in this state. And, hey, we
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  Speaker 4: are all, I mean, on this radio show in our
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  Speaker 4: private lives, we're always raising money trying to help out. OK,
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  Speaker 4: raising money, getting food, et cetera. Nobody wants to see
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  Speaker 4: people suffering. However, there are 8 billion people in the world.
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  Speaker 4: We can't take care of everybody. And I really think
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  Speaker 4: we should take care of our own first. And I
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  Speaker 4: hear from people. People send me a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I hear from people who can't. get, they are citizens,
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  Speaker 4: they're working, and they can't get health insurance. However, we
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  Speaker 4: are losing money because we are insisting, our government is
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  Speaker 4: insisting on giving it to illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants, come on.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 25: Legal.
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  Speaker 4: This is it? We're finished? My engineer said we are
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  Speaker 4: finished for the day. I can't believe I have so
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  Speaker 4: much more to talk about. Thank you.
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  Speaker 25: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 22: Goodbye.