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Tony G joins me to talk his campaign fo reelection · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Drinking a Dog.
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  Speaker 2: It is October twenty third. I believe I can't keep track.
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  Speaker 2: These months and days go by so fast as we
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  Speaker 2: get older, but we know it's right around the corner
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  Speaker 2: with those fall leaves coming down.
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  Speaker 1: It is voting season.
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  Speaker 2: We are in the midst of it, and I am
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  Speaker 2: welcoming back, I believe for the fourth time. Yes see
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  Speaker 2: now Mayor, Tony G, Tony G and Tassio, welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: To the show. Buddy. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here. It's always so fun
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  Speaker 2: when you're on the show. Even though we drink water
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  Speaker 2: like we're like, never have beers or anything before.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming back.
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  Speaker 2: I know we see each other occasionally, obviously, and we
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we try to coordinate a show.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a perfect time because early.
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  Speaker 2: Voting has started. It has, and I explain early voting
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I don't, you know, just for people
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  Speaker 2: in Milford. I know because I follow you, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: some people think it's only that Tuesday in November, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So early voting actually started the last election cycle,
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  Speaker 3: but this is my first early voting experience as a candidate.
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  Speaker 3: So it started on Monday, and early voting is being
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  Speaker 3: hosted at the Parsons Building in the gymnasium, so people
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  Speaker 3: could come out and vote early right up until election day.
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  Speaker 3: On election day it reverts back to your schools, yep.
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  Speaker 3: So there's an opportunity to vote early, and people have
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  Speaker 3: been showing up. I just came from early voting. I
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  Speaker 3: was just there. You know, have you cast your vote yet? No? No,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm not voting until election day. You're like,
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  Speaker 3: nay man, because that's my day. Yeah, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I want to, you know, hold on to my vote
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  Speaker 3: until election day. And I look forward to it. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm a little superstitious. I'm all about the tradition.
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  Speaker 3: And you said yourself, right, that's like a whole day
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, you know, it's I got out of work early,
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  Speaker 2: but my girlfriend's always out around six and we meet
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  Speaker 2: it the well we're going to be the JFK now,
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  Speaker 2: but we're we were at foreign right and we'd go
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  Speaker 2: to dinner either right down the street at one of
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  Speaker 2: the restaurants, and just you know, it's a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Night, it's fall, it's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have a couple of warm cocktails after
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  Speaker 2: you put your vote in and come out and watch
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  Speaker 2: the local elections on the news and stuff, and on
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  Speaker 2: national elections as well, which was last year. So well,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about your first two years.
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  Speaker 2: Last time we were on the show, we you know, we
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  Speaker 2: we caught up and everything. But you know, I have
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  Speaker 2: a whole list of general you know, AI questions you
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  Speaker 2: ask a guy rerunning for mayor because I'm tired and
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  Speaker 2: I'm lazy sometimes even when you're on, I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: but I follow enough of you personally and online, and
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  Speaker 2: you're one of the more I think you've You're in
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  Speaker 2: that age of social media and all that, and it's
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very important. I think it's what, honestly
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  Speaker 2: nothing to bring Trump's names of conversation, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it really helped him in his election, getting involved in
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  Speaker 2: social media.
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  Speaker 1: And I see you're not know where the.
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  Speaker 2: Top with it, but but you and I like what
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  Speaker 2: I like what you do is you promote Milford with
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  Speaker 2: it when you use it, and I think that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're a mayor of I say it all the time,
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  Speaker 2: one of the greatest towns in the country.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, and and I got to be honest,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're one hundred percent correct. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: Milford was identified just most recently as one of the
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  Speaker 3: top cities to retire in the country. So that speaks
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  Speaker 3: volumes for the age sixty five and over to retire here.
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  Speaker 2: Or if anything in New England or up north, and
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  Speaker 2: then we're considered one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Is amazing, and it's one of the most affordable cities
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  Speaker 3: to retire, and so that goes to show you that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we definitely are being looked at, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a city for quality of life.
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  Speaker 2: So is the first two years everything you hoped and
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  Speaker 2: dreamed of? Was it more than you thought? Were you
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmed it? I mean just kind of a brief synopsis
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  Speaker 2: of how you how you handled it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, every day was a new day.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great experience. I was able to put
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  Speaker 3: a lot of great policies forward that were went into legislation.
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  Speaker 3: There was these street takeover ordinance that we talked about,
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  Speaker 3: which helped tremendously. We you know, were able to control
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  Speaker 3: that and also the vape shop ordinance. Yeah, and as
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  Speaker 3: you know, the vape shop that was next to Stonebridge
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  Speaker 3: was closed, and I want to give you a little
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  Speaker 3: background on that. Since I did the prohibition, we initiated
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  Speaker 3: a raid on all the vape shops because you know,
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  Speaker 3: people in the community reach out and they're saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we think they're selling some illegal things here that they're
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  Speaker 3: not supposed to be selling.
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  Speaker 1: They're targeting our youth. So we got in contact with the.
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  Speaker 3: Plea Department, the police chief, and also consumer Protection because
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  Speaker 3: they regulate the vape shops, and we did a full
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  Speaker 3: force raid and that one there was, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: out of compliance and they've closed. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a big win. I don't think that we need vape
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  Speaker 3: shops in our downtown and uh, you know, that's not
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  Speaker 3: the best use of that property. So that was that
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  Speaker 3: was good, that was rewarding. I'm happy that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were able to accomplish that. And also, you know
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  Speaker 3: everything else, the economic development, the new parking garage opened
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  Speaker 3: up downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Love that yeah, and it's free. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't want to announce it because I'm selfish
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  Speaker 2: because because no one knows about it yet from out
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  Speaker 2: of town, and I'm like, I sneak in there and
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  Speaker 2: raining out and I'm like that's great.
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  Speaker 1: I the echo in that place. It's so clean and
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  Speaker 1: bright and safe. I go there. I was in there
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  Speaker 1: two Saturday nights ago.
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  Speaker 2: I worked, Yeah, stone Bridge, and I got out and
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  Speaker 2: I was like the last car in that garage.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And I walked in like my feet were echoing, and
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  Speaker 2: then I shut the car doors. Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 2: little creepy, but like, it's such a great spot. It's
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  Speaker 2: right there. So the other great thing, right, I'll let
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  Speaker 2: the cut of the bag. It's a good spot.
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  Speaker 3: The other great thing about being the mayor for the
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  Speaker 3: first term was the public safety policy that I worked
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  Speaker 3: with the police chief on and our application just got
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  Speaker 3: approved by dot. So there has been nine locations identified
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  Speaker 3: for speed cameras in school zones, for red light cameras,
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  Speaker 3: and we have the license plate readers that are working
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  Speaker 3: right now, which are helping tremendously with potential crimes in
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  Speaker 3: our in our city. You know, catching people, yeah with
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  Speaker 3: stone plates. They're coming into Milford with a stolen plate.
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  Speaker 3: The police get identified in real time and they're able
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  Speaker 3: to stop them dead in their tracks, pull them over,
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  Speaker 3: and data proves that you know, people come in here
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  Speaker 3: with stolen plate, stolen cars, to you know, shoplift at
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  Speaker 3: the mall or things like that. So we're able to
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  Speaker 3: stay ahead of crime.
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  Speaker 2: Can we clear that up a little bit because I
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  Speaker 2: remember when that first came through, there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of backlash of.
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  Speaker 1: You know, big brothers watching are you are you like.
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  Speaker 2: Ticketing people for running red lights with the cameras and
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  Speaker 2: all that and this bug.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, everyone will have a warning if they
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  Speaker 3: get a shoe in the mail. Yes, it's just going
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  Speaker 3: to be a warning and there will be signage. So
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  Speaker 3: people need to be aware of the signs and you
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  Speaker 3: can appeal it. I mean, obviously, if there's an emergency
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  Speaker 3: and you're speeding for a reason, you can appeal.
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  Speaker 1: It will take up that matter as well, but this
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  Speaker 1: is at appointed matter though. No, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: an outside company that's going to handle those those claims.
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  Speaker 3: But overall, we need to change behavior. People are speeding.
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  Speaker 3: As mayor, it's probably one of the biggest complaints that
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  Speaker 3: I get. And it's not just on the main roads,
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  Speaker 3: it's in our neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: More in the neighborhoods I think than anything.
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  Speaker 3: So we want people, you know, to be safe. Milford's
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  Speaker 3: a very walkable city. We have people that are walking, biking,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, kids getting on and off the bus,
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  Speaker 3: So we don't want people speeding, especially through the school zones.
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  Speaker 1: And that's number one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's I think it's going to change behavior.
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  Speaker 1: People are going to become more aware and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: More responsible when they drive, and it's going to protect
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  Speaker 3: our pedestrians and that's really the purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: I think anything like that people always get a little
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  Speaker 2: thankful apprehension about it. But I mean at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, you're making the city safer. We can
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  Speaker 2: track potentially like bad criminals. You could do that, the
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  Speaker 2: outsiders that are coming in and stealing and stealing cars.
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  Speaker 3: It's the new way of policing. It's a game changer.
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  Speaker 3: It's technology and we have.
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  Speaker 1: To be there. We really do.
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  Speaker 3: We have drones too, Yeah, you know, we funded for
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  Speaker 3: two additional drones which help.
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  Speaker 1: With search and rescues. Right.
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  Speaker 3: We have this shoreline of seventeen and a half miles,
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  Speaker 3: We have marsh land.
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  Speaker 1: We have events where.
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  Speaker 3: We can protect people, see people, you know, if there's
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  Speaker 3: an emergency, we'll see it in real time and police
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  Speaker 3: can respond and help save lives.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: Drive drones are like the future, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, unfortuately they are.
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  Speaker 2: Used for some other bad activity, but I think in
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  Speaker 2: the hands of law enforcement they can only help.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, well, they protect the police as well, where
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  Speaker 3: they go to a potential call, they can get a
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  Speaker 3: little domestic call. I mean, we want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that the police are aware of the situation that they're confronting,
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  Speaker 3: and they're and they're prepared, and you know, it.
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  Speaker 1: Helps them as well because it's a dangerous job.
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  Speaker 2: Now are they used a lot, used to take kind
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  Speaker 2: of an early phase them.
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  Speaker 1: They're being used.
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  Speaker 3: They're being used when on an as need basis, so
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  Speaker 3: and they're very effective, very effective.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. I think you guys had them,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know how you know, how often they
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  Speaker 1: use them.
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  Speaker 3: They certainly will use them if if the occasion arises,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what they're there for. They're there to protect
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  Speaker 3: the community. As mayor, you have to understand first and foremost.
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  Speaker 3: You know, public safety is paramount and public health, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got to keep your community safe. And
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  Speaker 3: we have a great, great police department. We have a
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  Speaker 3: great fire department. We set a record and respond times
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  Speaker 3: our ems. If you call for an ambulance, they're there
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  Speaker 3: within five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So you know that's that's what helps, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with public safety.
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  Speaker 2: So when you win reelection, what are your top priorities
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  Speaker 2: coming into the next two years.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really excited about economic development because I've been
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  Speaker 3: working on it, and these projects take a little bit
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  Speaker 3: longer because you know, the mayor's term is only two years.
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  Speaker 1: So like the.
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  Speaker 3: Wustaf Knife project, that building is completed, that ribbon cutting
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  Speaker 3: should be happening probably next month. We got one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty jobs coming into Milford. Hopefully those people you know,
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  Speaker 3: end up living here or you know, you know, spending
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  Speaker 3: time here lunch, dinner, you know, more activity to help
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  Speaker 3: with our economy. There's another parcel across the street from
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  Speaker 3: from the old subway headquarters that is being demoed right now,
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  Speaker 3: and that's also going to be some more of the distribution,
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  Speaker 3: some more warehouse space.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Raisin Canes, which I was very excited
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: The kids are really excited about it. It's a great
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  Speaker 3: location on Route one. You know, it's taking the place
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  Speaker 3: of a bank, the former Milford Bank. So we're fortunate
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  Speaker 3: enough that people still are willing to invest in Milford
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  Speaker 3: and spend that kind of money to buy a building
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  Speaker 3: like the bank or even subway headquarters and demo it
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  Speaker 3: and then build new construction out of the ground that
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  Speaker 3: represents value. And there's a lot of value here, and
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  Speaker 3: there's more opportunity for new businesses to come in.
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  Speaker 1: And the mall we talked about that last time.
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  Speaker 3: Every time, yeah, every time, But it's getting closer and closer,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to have a great concept there.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a hybrid. Half of them all
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  Speaker 1: will be outside, half will be inside.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have some apartments there where people can live right
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  Speaker 3: off of ninety five, hopefully a medical building, a community college,
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  Speaker 3: maybe an entertainment venue. All of these things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming together, all at the right time. And interest rates
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  Speaker 3: are being lowered, so there's a lot of optimism.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, a lot of optimism, and all right, raising canes,
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  Speaker 1: raising canes. I you haven't had it yet. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: had it. It's there's a line.
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  Speaker 2: The first review I got was from one of my
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  Speaker 2: best friends, and he yeah, he waited like forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes on a Saturday. He's getting a first daughter who
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  Speaker 2: just had a baby, so he's bringing all the food
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  Speaker 2: back home. Wow, waited, yeah whatever, almost an hour, didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anything to do, didn't care. One of the four
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  Speaker 2: combos got home and he said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, it was so good? Was it
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  Speaker 1: chicken with you know? Like I literally I hang up
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  Speaker 1: the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I go on Facebook, and this is where I feel
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  Speaker 2: they're all listening to us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that pops up on Facebook is you
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  Speaker 2: know you live in Milford And someone gave a review
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  Speaker 2: of Raising Kenes and it was like.
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  Speaker 1: The exact same review.
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  Speaker 2: My buddy just told me, who's never been on Facebook
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  Speaker 2: in his life, And I'm like, wow, that is so
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  Speaker 2: fucking weird. But I've heard many good things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's always negative Nelly's in every aspect of social media.
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  Speaker 2: But I trying it though. I heard I heard it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. It's a simple menu.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. It's just chicken fingers and yeah, and the
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  Speaker 1: and the bread and the sauce and the French fries
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  Speaker 1: and the bread. Yeah, I've heard that's good. Is it
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  Speaker 1: bread or something? Yeah? Because you can make sandwiches out
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  Speaker 1: of them. So it's more role I think. So I
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  Speaker 1: got some I got some good news. Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here and we might you know, I'm here and
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get a shake shack right here in Millmart.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, did I hear this? Right by the Genesis
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  Speaker 1: car dealership? Oh I did not hear.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that that parcel where Hooters was and kind
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  Speaker 3: of coming into the parking where.
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  Speaker 1: The cars are, that traffic there's going to be I
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  Speaker 1: love shake shack.
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  Speaker 2: I've never eaten that in actual shake shack, only like
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  Speaker 2: casino ones, which I consider the same. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: like Peppi's at Mohican. It's not the seeing to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but yeah I heard it's you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was good. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: Is that that's coming round soon?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I are. Well, they're they're working towards that. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming before the planning and jowning board. Oh boy, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh boy. So we got to cross our fingers. Tell
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  Speaker 1: no live music. We gotta cross our fingers. They denied
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  Speaker 1: Chick fil A. Yeah, I saw that. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's one in West Haven. How far do
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go? I mean I know you were Milford,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I would bring it all in, but like
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  Speaker 1: at some point, like how many chicken places do we need? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm not the right We can have them all.
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  Speaker 1: They're all good in their own way, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hey, at the end of the day, they
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  Speaker 2: This is what I always said about chain restaurants, where
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  Speaker 2: people are like, oh, you know, go local, go to
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  Speaker 2: the local restaurant, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is fine as well. Obviously I prefer that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but when you go to these other restaurants, they
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  Speaker 2: still employed local people. They dis jobs. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of jobs. These restaurants hire hundreds of people. They you know,
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  Speaker 2: they work seven days a week and two shifts and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff, and it's they helped the economy just
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  Speaker 2: as any as a local restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Does bring opportunity. I'd rather go to the local restaurant
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  Speaker 1: because it's just how I shop and do all my stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But when you were younger, you were like fast food
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  Speaker 3: all the way, yeah, because you know, it was a change.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an eighties kid. It was all burger places, right,
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  Speaker 1: so now it's all chicken. Yeah, I know, bringing palls
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  Speaker 1: back is going to the halls.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, do you know, Paul's. That whole parcel was
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  Speaker 3: just purchased and that's all going to be demoed. Don't
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  Speaker 3: tell me it's going to be Listen, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be mixed use.
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  Speaker 1: But I hope, my hope is that's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be some more metal there because of the
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: hospital and right next door there's some medical buildings there already,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that we can have more of a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: medical footprint with some mixed use right there on the
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: post road. I think it's a great location for that,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to that as well.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's all good. Yeah, it's all good stuff.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: And looking forward to getting re elected, yes, and continuing
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: to work on these projects. I'm hearing a little bit
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: across from stone Bridge that the Center Auto body piece
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: people are looking at that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been looking at that since I started working
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: there in two thousand.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I got a good feeling about this one. Yeah, Yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I got a good feeling. I think it's going to happen.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So and I like that building. That's like retro building.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping that they keep the building and maybe turn
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: it into.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Now I could be wrong, but I for years.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I heard that the biggest hiccup with that building is
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: the fact of what it what it was.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a lot of you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Know, environmental issues that have to be cleared up to
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: which you know, everything's money.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: So I again, this is.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Just working the bar across the street, hearing people talk.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: That's that's all I really know about it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: But well, there's programs out there we can help initiate,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: some grants and things like that to help with remediation, right,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: And I'd like to see that parcel developed. I think
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: it's in a great, great location, and it's long overdue.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I've stared at it for many years.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it's I always wondered who, like what
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: do they do here? Like I every.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Once in a while to see a truck back in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and they'd have a car in there. Yeah, but but
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: for the most part, it would you know, move on
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: or whatnot.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: But they used to put the dunk tank there for
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the Oyster Fest fire.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we got to get the dark tank back.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Hold on, let's talk Oyster fast.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't go, you didn't go, No, I worked I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: worked a Saturday Friday.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I thought about going Saturday was.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't like our usual Oysterfest because because
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the way we set it up this year was the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: rum Runners played early. Yes, usually they played a five
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to like nine, so they played early, and then it
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: kind of was a big lull because now everyone's going
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: down the.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Hill to go to the oyster Fest. Yeah. I noticed
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that it was kind of like almost like a breakoff. Yeah,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: there was like a couple hours in between where there
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't much going on, right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I you know, I still did well, but not like
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you know Oysterfest, Well like the traditional last I just
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I just want to know the mayor's feedback on what
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the town said about it. There's always a lot of
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: mixed feelings from you know.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: So you know, you have two independent committees working that now,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: where in the past it was one. So there was
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: a continuous you know event so to speak, and there
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was some time start times and times, and there was
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: some you know time in between where things were just
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: like you said, just down low. So I thought overall
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: people enjoyed it. It was a great day. I think
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: it's a different type of event. It didn't seem to
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: be as crowded, right, but I'm sure you know, like
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: anything else, it'll.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Get back to what it was. There was some music
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: up top this time. There was a stage with some
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: music behind the church. They had additional food trucks.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Down there as well, you know, and they had the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: arts and crafts on the green and then down below.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Really seemed like to be the same, you know, with
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the headlining of the bands and the the two bands
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: that played I thought were really I heard the standing. Yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: you had an Elton John tribute band and then you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: had Queen, which was very exciting, that awesome.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was a good draw. It was a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: good day.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Is there any chatter of it coming back to the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: normal or this is what they're going to stick with?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sure people ask me. They were just like, I
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: know anything.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard, but I think there'll probably be you know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: more more things to add to it. Yeah, you know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: moving forward. But it's it's a great event for Milford,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And always.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I went to Irish Fest you did, Yeah, I think
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I just missed you. I went the Saturday night you did,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: just left.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I was there. That was two nights.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I went to Saturday did I
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: go to That's a good time too.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe I went there. I can't remember. We have such
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a great, you know, lineup of events. And then October Fest. Yeah,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I doess that one this year I usually go. I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: went last year. There's a new flagpole. I wanted to mention.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It just came to mind because the Devon Rotary donated
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a flagpole at Golf Beach. If you're driving down Gulf
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Street and you're coming over the bridge, you'll see it
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: and it's really special and they're calling it the gateway
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: to Milford. I was fortunate enough to be invited there
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: when they installed it. And they're going to be putting
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: a monument there, a plaque so to speak, and I
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be at a Stone granite and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: it's a gift to Milford from the Devon Rotary and
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: you know, if they do it right for the community,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: and it's a beautiful pole. I think it's sixty five
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: feet and they're going to put lights on it with
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: a big flag and you know, they really they really
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: did a great job, you know, with planning that. And
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I'm so happy that he did it because it's just it's.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: So fitting there. Yeah, you know that is I love
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: flag poles by the way. Yeah, I want, I really
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: want to big one in my front yard.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Do you My front yard is not it's just it's basic.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You know, it's not big, but it's And I'm like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the only thing that works here is a nice big
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: flag pole. But I think my neighbors would be cool
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: with it. But did you see is there a residential
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: height limit?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you. You'd have to check the res I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: don't want to misspeak, but I see flagpoles in people's yards. No,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I know, you know you yeah, there could be too high,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I think so, I think so. Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: We have the Italian flags downtown right now because October
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: is Italian here atage month, so we celebrate that. We
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: raise the Italian flag. The Milford Columbus Day, right Columbus
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Committee is having We're having a dance where we nominate
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the Italian American of the Year. This year, we've were
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: recognizing Mark Valentine from Valentine's Chewolers.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So nice. We're gonna have it at Tide and I.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Got my uh my pink tie on because October is
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: also breast cancer awareness.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just have the big events fridge for breast cancer.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I was there with the rum Runners and the other
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: bands as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Shot Down, shot Down the guitar. I supervised the guitarist
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: in that band. That's of course key. He works for me.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, brother brothers. Is he a better worker or
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: guitar player, I'll say when he has worked he actually
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: works on fuel probes of the helicopters. Yeah, he's very
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: good at what he does, you know.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But getting any of the guys in that shot, they
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: actually work it fully. Our day is not easy, so
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you might all look at it graduate.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, if you do see the fly.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, so your intern is sitting next to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: us fence, Yeah, you're one of the first first guests
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that had a friend with him that hasn't been perfectly quiet.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Usually they like, we start talking to topic and they
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: want to jump in. But yeah, yeah, it happens all
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the time. He's very polite. Yeah, No, he's good. He's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a good kid.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And he goes to Universal of New Haven, my alma mater. Yes,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety two. I was a freshman there.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, oh fuck aj yeah yeah he's a freshman right,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: oh sophomore Wow that one by Quick high school around here.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Nice?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's probably the pain to work with, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I get I get it. You know, are you the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: one that films the videos of him?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, Now you get.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Heat for these things and it just drives me insane.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. It's it's you know, I don't
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: understand it either.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Really, Vignette's basically of you just say, hey, it's you
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: know what my day.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Irish Fest. Hey, it's Oyster Fest.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Like it's a minute with the Merriage, it's a report,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: it's a community update, it's you know, yeah, promoting what's
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: happening in Milford. That's the job. I mean, it's part
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: of the job. It's it's it's important. You know, people
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: want to see you there. I enjoy it. I enjoy it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you do. I'm just I'm sorry.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of my heead of like of when we
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: first talked, yeah, two years ago, right before the election, Right,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: how different is the landscape just two years later?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Do you think? So?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Every election is different, every cycle is different, and it
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: depends on the campaign that's being waged against you. You know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: my campaigns have always been clean, positive, above board. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: talk about the policies that We've mentioned earlier that I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: put forward what I've done, my accomplishments, share my vision.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: But today, you know, in this in this climate, this
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: political landscape, it's changed. It's unfortunate because the people of
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Milford don't prescribe to that right, you know, and to
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: be negative and put out misinformation. It's it's really it's
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: it's disappointing.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It's disappointing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: So unfortunately, you know, that's why this election I think
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: is so important that people recognize that. And they do
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: because they'll tell me, you know, they come to me
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: with concern like why am I getting these mailers in
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: my mails?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: The cartoon one, the AI one. Yeah, it was like
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: a cartoon. It was like a comic strap. I've looked
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: at it, like, you know, I just know you flip
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: through your mail and I'm like and I went back
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, what the is this?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I remember the ones.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: When we talked two years ago about the text messages
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: we receive. Yes, I don't do text, you know, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: this is that kills me. It's like, I know you're
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: not doing this stuff to me. It makes me laugh.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, do you think
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it's influencing anyone. I don't think so. I think a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: lot of times it's you know, the left, the left,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the rights, the right, they're gonna vote along that line.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Now there I see this. My girlfriend came home the
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: other day and she's like, why are the uh hell
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you're running against? I can't even think of his name
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: right now. I don't know any So your opponent, your
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: opponents these signs that that are read and they're they're voting,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: you know, vote vote for him.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: And then at the bottom of it's what does it say?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Is it says citizens for fiscal Responsibility?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: What is this? That's not even a thing? Is it's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: not a sanctioned thing anyway? There's pack money.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: People like my opponent go out out of state and
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: they are within the state and there's these packs, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: you know, they try to sway these elections and with
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: this you know messaging. You know, that particular sign that
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: you're referring to was a red sign.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: That's a Republicans before. So it's you know, unnamed. Yeah,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Milford car salesman.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Milford is a place where, you know, in the past,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: we've never seen this type of campaign.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine that people believe these things.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You know. They put out something that said I asked
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for a race. I never asked for a race. It
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: just comes up. It's every two years. First of all,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to ask for a race.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: No, you're not allowed to in your first two years,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: well your term, and then it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Comes up automatically, right, yeah, So they try to make
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: everything political. That's my point, you know, and it's it's
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: not working.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It's not working. I didn't raise the taxes.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: They're trying to call me, you know, taxing Tony.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You should fucking play with that though. You should like
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: walk down the street. Hey, I'm taxing Tony. I mean
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: you can watch the meeting. You know. The majority of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the board of older man oh yoh yeah, they voted no,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and the taxes went up. I put forward a budget
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that appropriately funded the entire city, that would have lowered
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: property taxes, and they voted no. And that's fact. So
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you know, this is this is what happens.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: You know, it's unfortunate, but people see through it. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: put my faith in the people, I really do, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: and they know, they know, they know. So I'm excited,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: you know, I got a lot of good energy out there,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: a lot of positivity. People like, you know, what we're doing,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and they like the whole approach. You know, I'm a
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: community mayor and that's what people. You know, people want,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: They want peace. They don't want people that create divides.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: That's not Milford. I watched this video a little while back, and.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: It was a video about an next CI agent and
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: how everything's a syop, you know when it comes to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the media and left right anything. And his basic comment
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: was the media and the higher ups, the high high ups,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: don't give a fuck if you're Republican a Democrat. All
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: they want you to do is this. They feed off
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: of conflict.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, he said, if you went to your neighbor's.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: House, right and didn't know if he was Republican or Democrat,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: sat down on the table, they vite over for dinner.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: There's a dog there too, families, big dinner meat. You
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: guys are just shooting the shit, right, talking sports, talking jobs,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: talking goals in life. What do you want to accomplish?
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: You know, like you want we want to see food
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: on the table. You want to see your kids grow,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: You want to grow old and have grandkids and see
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, right, Yeah, all have the same kind
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: of views like that left and then you find out
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: that they're you know, trumpers or vice versa. You throw
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: that word out and everyone pretty much is all has
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the same goals.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Of course we do. Everybody. Like I said before, we
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: want a safe city. We all believe in public safety, right,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we all believe in public health. We want to be
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: you know, healthy quality of.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Life, and great schools. We all want great schools for
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: our kids. We want to invest in.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Education, you know.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: We want amenities in our city. We want pick a
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: ball courts, we want you know, splash pads, we want
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: you know, the miniature golf course.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: We're working on that. We're talking about language.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's I got a meeting tomorrow about that,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you know, and update.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: This is what we want, you know, and and that's
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: what matters. This other stuff that they're trying to bring
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't work. It doesn't work.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Like, as a mayor of a town like this, you
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: have there's so much right the town one is big,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: and you have a lot of amenities and things that
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: other towns just don't have. Like Orange doesn't have a coastline,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Orange doesn't have voters you got to deal with and
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: marinas and all that stuff.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And yeah they have ru one, but they don't have
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the mall.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: And I mean, I don't envy your position, but I
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: think you do it so well that and you handle it,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: and you're.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: A great talking head for Milford.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Like that sounds negative, but it's not. It's like you're
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: a great representative of Milford. I should say, outside of
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: being a mayor. You know, like you're going to try
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to bring the businesses in and bring all that in.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate you for that outside of being a mayor.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I think you've been like that regardless of being a mayor.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: You know, you're always pro business, absolutely, and I don't
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: think you know, I get it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I don't get upset, but I just I wonder.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Why people, you know, you know, I see like a
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: lot of the housing stuff.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Just comes from people that are just I don't know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: comfortable in their own areas and they don't want outsiders.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like this, this is,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: this is how the world has worked since the dawn
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: of time.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: You know, we we live in an area that is
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: just going to populate more and more. We don't live
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the country, you know, down some
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: dirt road. You know, we have all the amenities we
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: just talked about, the coastline, that's Route one, the downtown area, everything,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: There's so much to talk about, get till I'm blue
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: in the face about this town.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So just accept it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: It's more revenue, it's more taxes for the city, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: you know, so all right, let's get out of taxes
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: real quick.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Well let me just yeah, go back one quick thing.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: You know, what drives a lot of this conversation obviously
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: was the influx of apartments. But we have a train
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: station in our downtown, which allows for more density.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So this starts from the top down.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: You have a state that is pushing for more people
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: to use mass transit, such as a train, so they're
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: encouraging for more apartments and more density because they want
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: people to go back and forth to work and use
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: the train, so it's less cars on the road. Same
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: thing on these other apartment buildings that have popped up,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: they're on bus lines. So that's really what you see
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: when you compare it to like Orange. Yeah, they don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: have a train station, so we don't have the luxury
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: of more land where we can build more housing.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So that's why you're seeing more.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Of this type of development because we don't have any
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: more land. So you know, yeah, it's it's a change,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: and people have to understand, you know, what's happening and
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: what's driving it. But the taxes, the taxes in Milford
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: compared to the surrounding towns, and we've talked about this
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: before and you indicated just a moment ago about the shoreline,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: the beaches, the schools, the amenities, and the harbor. Our
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: mill rate is lower, our property taxes are lower than
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: west Haven, Orange Strafford. And look at the value, look
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: at the quality of life, look at the services that
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: we provide for those tax dollars. It's really incredible. It's
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: really incredible. And we're able to do it. And because
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: we have the industrial corridor of our city tax base,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: because we have a strong retail and commercial sector of
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: our city, and because we have you know, all of
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: these other types of buildings, and when the mall is
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: finally renovated and developed, we're going to have surpluses in
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: our and our budget and our revenue streams.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: We're not there yet.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: That's under transition that's happening right now. It can't happen
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: fast enough for me, but it will come. It will come,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and it will be positive change, and that'll take.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: The tax burden.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: It'll shift it away from the single family homeowners more
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: towards the commercial The mall was or still is our
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: biggest tax pay for sure.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: The mall was valued at one hundred and eighty million
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: dollars at one time.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: And its heyday, that value decreased by eighty million. It's
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: only worth one hundred million. They did a tax appeal.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: The company that bought the mall from Westfield Mall's Centennial
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: appealed it. So now it's worth eighty million dollars less.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: How do you make up eighty million dollars in a
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: grand list. It takes time, But putting them all aside,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: we're still growing. We still have new businesses coming in.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: And when there's an empty building, it's getting repurposed or
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: it's getting demolished and it's being replaced by something that
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: is more of mixed use. So we've already have turned
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: the corner. The taxes should have went down, but unfortunately
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the majority of the board of Aldermen put politics before people,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: and they talk about the seniors on fixed income and
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: they should have delivered this tax decrease and they didn't
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: because it's an election year.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: It's that simple, and it shouldn't be like that. Milford
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: was never like that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's that's all they're running on,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and thats quality taxing, Tony all on you. They're making these,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, these cartoon strips and center
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: of people's houses, and I get this is how I
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: know someone's desperate. I get maybe one flyer from you
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: and the mail. Yeah, you know, I got all. They
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: won't come the Okay, every day I get phone calls
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: or text messages.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's always the Democrats.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if you do. Do you read
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Milk for Living? This is a little pat in.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: My own back. Yeah, I wish. Did you see the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: article in there of me? Of you?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Did you see my article? No? I don't get it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even get the magazine. I'll
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: give it to you, but yeah I did. I did.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: My girlfriend said it was too expensive. I said, babe,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: it's like twenty bucks a year. So they do the
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: article about me, and I said this on my last show. Yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: how journalism has really changed because this is my interview
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: for This was through Instagram direct messaging and I didn't.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Even they were doing an article on me. Oh wow.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: She was just asking me questions about my pocket. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: mean she said who she was and who she worked.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: They did they have a picture of you? Yeah?
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: They took it off my website and they didn't ask
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: me for a couple And again I didn't really know
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: it was where it was going. And then the article
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: came out and our good friend Corey Shup at Once
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: and More was the first one that must have opened
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: it up, saw it.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And sent me a picture of them. I'm like, wow, nice.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So I went on their website and saw it.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Well, they sent me a nice I mean I paid
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit of money for it. But it's like
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: those placards and it's got the article on it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I have it at the house. It's got the article
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: on it.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: And if you read like in the magazine, there was
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: a picture uneath like Brian Smith and Pam Landry. They
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: were underneath and then then underneath that it was one
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: of my political nemesiss rose A Delauo. Oh ok, so
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, but that's just the article, right, I'm okay, whatever,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: But the whole article was about me. It was just
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: pictures of them as basically Milford air Waves or whatever
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: they call it because Pam have their own radio show
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: on Wow or something. So we get the things sent
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: to me and I pick out the style and everything,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: and it was really nice. It comes out and I
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: open it up and at the bottom of it is
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the picture Frosa DeLaura and I'm just like, it's like
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: they know. It's like they're needling me, these journalists, you know.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: But I thought it was a very I mean, I
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: want to say it's a well.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Written article, but I pretty much wrote it because I
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: literally was like verbatim everything I said.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: But it was nice. I mean it was they didn't
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: have to reach out to me, you know. I didn't know.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: But that's another little thing about Milford. But now we
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: subscribed and we'll get the winner. The winner one coming.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: It's like quarterly. I think, like this one said autumn
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: on it. So one thing about Milford. The word gets around.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's a city, but it's it's a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: tight knit, yeah city. People know what's going on. They
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: know the truth.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I think that's important. And people
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: get annoyed getting back to text messages and all this negativity.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: They get the more annoyed by that, especially when it's
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: on their phone, you know, they share that with me.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I don't partake in that, and it's so lengthy you
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: got to like scroll with it, like ok and.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: None of it's true and none of it's taxes.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah no you didn't, Okay, all right, yeah no, I
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: was eight seven vote the other way.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's well, so when of the taxes come back up?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Is that how we're starting right now?
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: In fact, this week I just had all the department
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: heads came to City Hall and they got their packets
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: to start working on their budgets for the next Right
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: after the election, the next budget cycle starts, so that'll
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: be voted on in May of next year, in the spring,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: so we start working on that way in advance.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's constant, it's constant. Do you remember
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: how well I kind of joke, didn't joke? I think
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I was drinking, he wasn't. You know? What's that about
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: running for Aldermen? I know you got my vote and.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: People were like, oh, yeah, you really should, and I'm like,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: you know, I got a lot on my plate. And
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: then I watched the video of Nadine Padowit's mine.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just went on this.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: She was actually my Douche of the Week a couple
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. I do a little Douche of the
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Week segment at the end. I didn't have one today,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: but it'll pop in my head before we're done anyway.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So she goes, if I'm sure everyone in Milford has
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: seen it or heard about it? Yeah, And.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, if I was an alderman listening to that,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I don't even care what side of the aisle was one.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: I would have just been like, ma'am, sit the f down,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Just sit down. This this derisiveness, this division, this all
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: this like it doesn't what's it helping.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: It's not like I, yes, okay, I raised my hand.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I voted for Trump.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: That's not automatically makes me a Nazi boot licker.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: It's like it's creating more anxiety. It's I'm tired, Tony,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of it. Yeah. I can't. I don't even
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: go online anymore.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I barely post. I only post my show every once
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: in a while. I'll have a couple of cocktails.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Late and Saturday, I'd be like, I'll fire one out.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Other than that, I've spent over twenty years at city Hall,
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: playing and zoning, four years sport of all them in
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: sixteen years, and now the mayor, you know, coming up
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: on my first term, and I've never seen anything like
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: that in city Hall. So that was a shock to me.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: You know, all the time that I spent there, all
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: the meetings that I've attended, even the meetings that I
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: that weren't for me that I attended there, I've never seen.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Hatred like that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: No, And and that was like it wasn't just it
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: was it was always vile, Yeah, Lewis, you know the
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: obviously there was and that's the thing, tensions of violence
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: in it, I you know, and you don't want to
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: subject people to that.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: You don't want to subject our kids to that because
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: that's not what Milford is. Mofford is the smallest city
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: with the big heart, and it was unfortunate. But you know,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: now we have an election before us, and you know,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: people need to recognize, you know, what's happening, and we
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: don't want that in Milford.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: We certainly don't want that. I think decency should have
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: went out regardless of it. And not only decency, but.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: This is an election about integrity, about being.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Honest, you know, with the people. That's very important.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: You have to be honest with people, especially when you're
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: asking for their vote and you want to represent them.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: And we haven't seen.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: That from the other side, and that meaning that you're
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: referencing and what happened. They should be also as upset
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: as I am, and we haven't heard anything, you know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: So it's unfortunate, but you rise above it. You do
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: the right thing, You stay positive, and you do what's
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: best for all the people in for I represent all
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: the people the same, and people recognize that, and that's
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: what makes the difference. And that's why I'm asking for
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: their support and to get re elected, to keep up
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: the good work, the honest work, and being nonpartisan.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I almost want to give you a little round of
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the plot.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Meaning it has meaning and and it's upsetting.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's the setting, and it's right.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Before the election, and and and you know, it's grand standing,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: and it's it's it's bad.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: It's bad. It's not good. You know. I believe in
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: positive energy helping people. And this lady she did.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Another video resurfaced of her well at dockside doing the
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: same ship back in back in whatever at.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: My opponent's fundraiser. I mean, go figure, you know, I
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: don't know what else to say, you know, so I
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: don't I don't want to really give her any more time.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's disgusting.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll finish on this topic.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Because we're in the middle of the season and we've
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: been lucky again another year. Hurricane season I lived threw
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: both down in Bayview Sandy and Irene Sandy being the
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: second one the most devastating.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: How do you feel the town is prepared for another
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: major one?
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Knock on the wood, we don't get one, but I
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: mean we do live in that you know, we're in
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: the part of that area. You lived in the town
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: when they happened. Yes, I didn't think the response was terrible.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I thought it was good. But have we made measures?
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Have you seen measures made since then as you took office?
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Absolutely? Do you feel confident?
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's really nothing you do if an ocean
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: wipes out a house, but just the response, the cleanup
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: and all and all that stuff that goes into it,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: because it literally is every year, you got to cross
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: your fingers and hope we get through it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: And having a city, and being the mayor of a city,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: of a shoreline community that's made up of several beach associations,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: some of them private, some of them public, it's very important.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: We've invested millions of dollars in storm resiliency projects just
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: to help mitigate flooding on a full moon, you know,
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: high tide, full Moon Point Beach.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: We've made improvements there.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: We've made improvements down at Bayview with pumps, you know,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: if there's an influx of water, we can get it
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: pumped out quickly. The same thing with Wildemere Beach Association.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: I'm working with them for some storm resiliency project, the
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: bluff that they are looking to install off the coastline,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: because that beach there is.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Actually eroding, you know.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: And we've done several projects and with great success. So
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: we continue to invest money, bond money for storm music aliency,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: and we also do these ever bridges. I'm sure there's
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: listeners out there that have gotten my messages by telephone
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: to alert people of a potential flooding, high winds, high tide,
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: to park their cars on higher ground, to give them
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: warning and to make sure that there's nothing out on
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: their decks or in their yards that can turn into
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: projectiles and become dangerous with this type of storm and
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: with a strong wind. So we're also you know, warning
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: people better in real time and giving them enough notice.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: And I've just met with the fire chief and he's
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: really responsible and he's in charge of our emergency response
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: and we are getting.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Accolades for that.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: We have a whole system that's put in place, so
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: we're very fortunate that we have a great fire department
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: that is on the cutting edge of alerting people responding.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: We work very closely with the power companies. We have
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: something that they call a dashboard. If there's power that
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: is lost in Milford due to high winds or storm,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: trees down, things like that, we can go onto this
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: dashboard and we can see where the work is being
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: done and seeing how it's being divided or dispatched out,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: so we can get people back online in a faster time.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: And we work with them with our public works department.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: If we have to clear the road or take or
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: clear the trees in order for them to come in
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: and do the work. We work side by side with them.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: So we have companies that if there was a major
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: disaster and we had to go out onto the street
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: with loaders and collect debris and truck it out, we
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: have areas identified where we can dump it, sort it
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: because we have to actually take inventory of that debris
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: in order to get a reimbursement back from FEMA.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: So there is a process.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: There's a plan, an emergency response plan that we follow,
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: and we have to follow that because a lot of
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: that money that it would cost in order to do that,
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: if it was catastrophic, we get reimbursed for that because
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: they then they would identify it as a either a
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: state or federal disaster. So we want to make sure
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: that we're following the guidelines because that money is important
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: to us. That money we don't want to come out
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: of our regular budget. So yeah, it's it's it's a
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: lot of that, and it's it's constant, and you know,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: we're able to mitigate it and we're able to stay
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: ahead of it in real time.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we did get one.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Obviously, the flooding is the flooding, but a lot of
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: those houses were raised and.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: A lot of that and we're lucky that they were
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and there's not that many left. No, there's there's not.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, there are some and there's some
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: hardships and we're working through that with the homeowners to
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: get them on the higher ground because it's important, you know,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: it's important. We all love the beach right on a
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: beautiful sunny day. We all enjoy the beach and the
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: shore and boating and kayaking and all these great things
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: that happened. But you know, when a storm comes, we
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: want to be prepared as a community and we help
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: each other.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: You know, the National Guard came down to those events
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: that you reference and they were here and we had
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of volunteers, a lot of boots on the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: ground to clean up and get things back in order.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's working with the public.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: We've had, you know, seminars, people come in from the
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: state agencies and meet with the shoreline residents. There was
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: one at Jonathan Law that I attended not too long ago.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: You know, we're always looking at the flood zones. We're
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: always working with Mary Rose Palombo, she heads up our
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Inland Wetlands to make sure, you know that these people
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: are brought up to what's happening and if there's any changes,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: because people take out flood insurance and when we make improvements,
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: we want to note that, we want to document that
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: because that's what brings their rates down.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: So it's whenever.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: And I was when I lived down there, my my
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: flood insurance rates were so high it was crazy.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: So I went out.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: So I ended up moving out because I own I
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: owned it with an X and and we broke up
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: and she moved out and I was by myself, and
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that's just too much. And I was at
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the age I didn't want roommates and stuff, and I'm
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: just like, so I sold it whatever. But yeah, you know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I missed it every once in a while, just being
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: down that area.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: So how you doing with your you because you're working
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: at some course skin now, ye, how's.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: That going good? It's good?
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, dealing with the union that's always fun.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: And you're still holding on to that that stone bridge.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: It worked Saturday nights this past summer mostly good. I'll
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: probably take the winner off work, you know, worked some
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Holida or something. It's just you know, I worked five
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: days sometimes six over there. So getting the energy to going,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: yeah and work and how.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Would have you been doing the podcast? So this January
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: will be my five year anniversary. Good for you. Yeah, congratulations.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: You do a great job, and it's so important that
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: you do it at this level to get the word out.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: You know, I appreciate that. I respect that. And you know,
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: it's people like you that make mil for great, you know,
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: because you're you're invested in it and you care about
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: it as much as anyone else, you know, and you
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: do your part and it's just like you know, your
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: way of giving back and keeping people.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Informed of what's going on. It's funny a lot of
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: people ask me, you know, well, what's it about? And
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: you know there's a lot of different guests and topics.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hit it all pretty much, but I pretty
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: much just answer now, you know, to support Milford. You know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: it's a local podcast, you know.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will get national guests on, but it's it's
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: localized seventy five percent of the time.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: So that's what I enjoy.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: You know, if you look at all the things behind me,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: keep Milford warm, all all all the people involved.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Milford Turkey trots coming up. Yeah, that's a great one.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: It's awesome. The guy tour that runs that he was
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: just on.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's fun and I don't see myself
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: leaving this town. So I think this brings me closer
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: to everybody in this town.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I appreciate coming on the show.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I appreciate having you you know. Yeah, and uh,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you know, now you've got an intern, I mean you're
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: a big time yeah. I mean I always look forward
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I actually, you know, I looked into getting an intern,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: because you should.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I just don't know. If you take age, I'll leave
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: them here if you don't, you know, it's really not hard.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Was just make sure the volume is good on these shows.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: And when you're twenty one, you can drink with me. Yeah,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: so maybe when you're are you twenty now? Shit? All right,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: so my seventh anniversary will have you back? Yeah you should.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I enjoy it. I want to.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: I want to give back. I want to mentor people,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, and share share my ex when.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I first started, not really first, but when I first
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: got in here, yeah, and they.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Were like, you know, just go to the colleges.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: But I think, you know, there's a certain offer, like
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: thirty hours a week or something like I did one
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: show a week and it's three hours budge a lot of.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Numbers, I guess, but I need proof behind the pudding.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: AJ makes his own hours. Yeah, yeah, it's you know,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: whenever he's available.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah. The University of even go charges. Right.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: How's their football team this year? Good d one now, right,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: So it's you know, competition. They got to step it up. Actually,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: you know what, I didn't have a Douche of the week,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: but there were some breaking news today, So I don't
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: know if I'm going to single out anyone. But you're
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: a college kid, so I'm sure you are going to
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: be involved, not involved, but it's going to be thrown
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: in your face for a long time, for the rest
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: of your life probably. And that's gambling. And gambling is
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: one of the I dabble in it a little bit.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: But I back in the day, I used to book,
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: you know, in my thirties. I just bet, yeah, my forties,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: you know, not too long ago the fan Duels came
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: out and all that and started my couch on a Sunday.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: And legally gamb.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: And just the last two years, I just thank god
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I lost the itch, Like I'm going to the casino
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. But I'm going for a card show, right.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I probably won't even sit down at the table and gamble.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: I'll probably grab lunch and head home, you know, like
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: I just but I don't know. I saw the news today.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: The head coach of the Denver Nuggets. Oh sorry, the
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: head coach of the Portland Trailblazers. He used to play
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: for the Nuggets. Okay, Chauncey Billips got arrested by the
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: FBI for a gambling ring that he was involved with
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: with the mafia. Go figure, Wow, I mean these guys
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: making millions and millions of dollars. Now, this is something
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: when gambling became legal. Now, I believe he's more in
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: the poker side of it. But there was an actual
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: player named Terry Roseier who used to play for the Celtics.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Now he's on the Charlotte Hornets.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: He was also arrested by the FBI. Today he is
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: more involved. And basically we used to call it point
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: shaving back in the day when.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, grow up. Now it's gambling now is so different
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: than Tony. When you and I grew up, we grew up,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: it was you.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Know, you bet the line on a Patriots Giants game
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: or the over under, yeah, to put in a you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: two team parlay or teaser.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: And that was pretty much. Ye. Now you go on
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: an app, yeah, and.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: You can bet on anything, the dumbest shit, you can
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: bet on it.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: And so what this player was doing was he.
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: Was had his boys textas boys, hey listen, bet like,
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: they'll put it over under on how many points Terry
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: Rozier scores in the game, right, So you can either
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: bet more than twenty or less than twenty.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: We'll just set the number at twenty.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, So he'll tell his guys bet the under tonight.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to score that much.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: So these guys lowed up two hundred grand on the
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: under and Terror's ears starts the game and then all
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: of a sudden he pulls his hamstring and he's out
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the game.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: And that's a winner for these guys. Not cool.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: So how the FBI and they track it is by algorithms.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Like everything else with the young kids, everything's an algorithm now,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: but it's.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: An abnormal bet.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Who the fuck's gonna bet two hundred grand on a
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: player to not score twenty points without knowledge of Zaid
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: fucking guy when I started.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up when I started this podcast.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Five years ago.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I started it, and that's kind of when all this
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: legalization was coming around. The fan duels and the sports
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: draft kings or whatever you call are coming around, and
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: the apps, and it's just the absolute idiocy of how
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: easy it is the gamble now, especially for the young
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: kids like I. Actually I had I had restless nights
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: in college, not knowing if I was gonna be able
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: to pay, like like watching Monday night football, trying to
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: make up my losses from Sunday, and if I lose,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: I can't pay the guy.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: And these guys were fucking they were Italian. Yeah, you
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: know so now, I.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Mean, granted you need a credit card, you're probably these
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: real degenders are probably stealing their parents. But how did
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: they not know this was going to happen? And I've
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: talked about it at length. I think it's literally one
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: of the next epidemics we're gonna face, is gambling and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: how but once you do it, you can't.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Really go back. You know. It started popping up in
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a couple of states.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Here and there, and then it just blitz. It's legal
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: in Connecticut. It's legal in Massachusetts. The one caveat in
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Connecticut is you can't bet on Yukon.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: But you can literally drive into your car and go
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: to the New York border or.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: The Massachusetts border and then all of a sudden, boom,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: I can bet on Yukon.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Now. Believe me.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: You know, this guy did it every Yukon game in
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: their two year run.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I bet and I won.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Well that was kind of the last was kind of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: last time I bet was two years ago with Yukon.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, So my.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Point, I'm actually gonna do a whole podcast on this
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: with a couple of friends of mine that were we
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: were all the Dejiner gamblers back in the day, and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: we've all been talking about this now of how I mean,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: just just I'm an old man.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Seriously, just be careful with it. It's all I can say.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: It's legal, so it's just like marijuana.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Marijuana is legal now, which I can't stand either, and uh,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: just just be.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Mindful, you know.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I hate to sound like they're commercial for
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: like gamblers anonymous, but like literally set your best, set
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: your limits. It's it's hard when you lose because you
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: want to chase it back and win.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I bend down that road. I was never really bad.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I was never you know some of the horror stories
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: you're here. I never got like that. But it's just
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: I just I just pray for the kids today that
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: they don't fall into these traps and.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: And just you know, get involved in the wrong crowds.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: And it's it's it's it's just a revenue stream.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: For the states now, and it's just it's just like marijuana,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: and it's just yeah, it's I know, they'll we'll put
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: you in jail for this ship.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, it's legal now.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: We're gonna post it ads everywhere on TV, every fucking
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: pregame show you watch, the whole corner is just odds
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: of players touchdowns and over unders and all this shit.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you watch it, right. You see it every
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: Sunday on ESPN. It's crazy. It's Tony, It's crazy. You
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: can't get away from it.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: And it's I feel like it's a lot of the youth, right,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: college kids.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: I love this town.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: If there was ever something going on in this town,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I would love to speak on it.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: If you could help me out one day, you want
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: to get it out there. Yeah.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well like literally go to have something in town
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: hall for the parents to understand the signs that their
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: children are gamblers or I mean, is there a gamblers
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: anonymous town I'm sure there is probably I know they're not.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: They're anonymous, so they're not really going to.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: Tell you about you know, and the fantasy football thing
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: was cool all right for kids, but I think that
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: kind of is a gateway. Yeah, absolutely, So you know
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: this could really you know, hurt they talk about generational wealth.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: What hurts generational wealth, It's gambling, divorce, drugs. I mean,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: you know, it's money, it's it's you know, and and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: and it's a day and you know, it's got to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: be you know, dealt with. I don't know, Milford Prevention
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: Council they've talked about it and there's discussions with high
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: school kids about it because I've been in those meetings,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: and it's something that they're addressing here in Milford because
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: like you said, you know, it's innocent, right, you know,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: parlay in you know, yeah, but it's like anything else,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: you know, you got to be careful and you got
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: to have eyes on it, and you got to you know,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: be educated to say, hey, you know what, this this
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: is not what I should be doing.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: This is going to hurt me. And I'm not telling
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: you don't gamble.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: You know, if you you know you got a good job,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: you've you know you got the extra cash, throw down
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's your money.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you how to spend it,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: but just be mindful of literally how they are attacking
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: your senses when you watch a football game or a
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: basketball game or a baseball game, and all these analysts
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: that used to be analysts of the game are now
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: analysts of gambling on the game.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: And that's the shift that it's gone to. And I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: see it with my own eyes and I'm just like,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: I was sitting on the couch with my girlfriend. We
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: were watching Monday Football, like being in the season. I'm like,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: I want you to count how many gambling ads are
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: on during the commercials or how many times they talk
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: about it in pregame and the little graphics they put
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: up and then you know it's sponsored by DraftKings or
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: fan Duel and you get a five dollar bonus.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you see it all. It's it's insane. So
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: this guy was doing like the Pete Rose thing.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: So well, the thing is weird. Yes, he's basically he's gambling.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: On his own sport, on his team. Yeah, well on himself, oh,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: on himself. Under Pete Rose was a coach.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: Pete Rose was a manager, coach who his team to win,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: which is different. This is a lot different. But this
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: is the world we live in now. So think about this.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: These guys make money we can't even fathom.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I had a conversation with guys who work about this
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: name when the news broke. I'm like, wig one, is
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: this just a tip of the iceberg? Like, we have
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: a head coach of.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: An NBA team.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: There's only thirty two of them who made millions of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: dollars as a player now makes six point five million
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: dollars a year as a coach.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Wow, and he's involved in this shit? Yeah? How what's
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: the purpose is it? Is it?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: They're just bored with all the money they have and
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: they need that late night stimulation.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know the players, Why.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Would you risk a fifteen million dollar year salary to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: bet two hundred thousand dollars?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: Hey, I don't want to, you know, I gotta tell
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: you this because I heard this and I don't know
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: how it came about, but when Michael Jordan was playing
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: I remember when he left basketball to play baseball.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Yep, there's it was his gambling. That's his gambling craziness.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and who knows what was happening at that time.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: So it is during his third champion was related to
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: the bulls will the games.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, this was more of This is
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: more of a like blackjack kind of stuff. Oh yeah,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: because there was a.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: There was a famous time where they were I think
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: it was his third championship year and they played the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Knicks in the playoffs. Yeah, and they wanted lost to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: Nick and he fucking drove to ac after the game
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: and was there like six in the morning gambling. Oh
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: really yeah, and uh and then he whatever. It's just
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: like legendary stories. But one of the biggest things about
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Jordan is they believe his father was murdered because of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Jordan's gambling debts.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, or who he was involved with with
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: the gambling.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, they'll never admit it, but everything I read
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: that's that all signs point to that. You know, he
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: has the greatest player in the history of sports. The
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: most like he was probably like lebron isn't liked by
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, including myself. But I don't think
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: anyone hated Jordan back then. He I mean, I was
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: a Celtics fan. I just you were interested in awe
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: of him.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well she that could potentially, you know, hurt your family.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, gambling could be definitely hurt your f with
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: the wrong people. And because eventually, if you're kind of
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: the path of aggression now is you'll go on your app,
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  Speaker 2: you'll put your credit card in blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: But you're gonna eventually if.
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  Speaker 2: You're not if you're not good or you're betting too much,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna run out of funds.
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  Speaker 1: And then where do you go. Bookies are still around?
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, what do bookies do that that the sites
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  Speaker 2: don't They don't need the money up front, No, they
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  Speaker 2: just take the bet, but they come and collect. They'll
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  Speaker 2: come and collect absolutely. And then if these guys are
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  Speaker 2: the wrong guys and they come to collect and you
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  Speaker 2: have the money, there's not many options. You have one
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  Speaker 2: you take out another loan to try to gamble it back,
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  Speaker 2: and then you put yourself in more debt.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've seen all the movies that vicious sight.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I care.
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  Speaker 2: So I would love to speak on the topic in
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  Speaker 2: front of people. But anyway, all right, well that's my
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  Speaker 2: little rant I was got to throw with.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's all good. I'm glad you brought that
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  Speaker 3: to my attention. I haven't heard the breaking news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it was just it's like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to be it's a two year long
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  Speaker 2: FBI investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cash but Tell was the one that announced it today,
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  Speaker 2: and he even started. It wasn't even in there until
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  Speaker 2: this year, so it wasn't even like, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: Biden's administration that started looking into it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's crazy. But all right, so early
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  Speaker 1: voting started, it started.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's down at the parts in it's complex.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What are the hours again? Every every was it
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday? It started I think Mondays started at
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  Speaker 1: like ten a m. Until six. I think that's pretty
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: much the hour, pretty much the hours. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so no matter where you live in Milford, you
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  Speaker 2: can just bring your ID and you can go vote there,
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  Speaker 2: go to Parsons or you can be like me and
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  Speaker 2: Tony and and just you know, make a day of it.
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  Speaker 1: Well you gotta, yeah, you got a real day of it.
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  Speaker 1: I just have a fun day of it. And uh
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  Speaker 1: and vote.
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  Speaker 3: On November fourth, November fourth election day.
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  Speaker 1: That's I can't believe it's been two years already here
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  Speaker 1: we are. I just can't wait. I just want, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the numbers to come in. And yeah, you know, I
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: know the anxiety riding up to that. Yeah, it's got
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: I get stressed. I was stressed two years ago. For you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be at Citrus on election night. Yeah, okay, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling my boss.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, waking Wednesday off, we will be at Citrus bringing
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  Speaker 2: in the numbers and hopefully, you know, another two years
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  Speaker 2: as mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll probably get there by you know, the polls
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  Speaker 3: close at eight. There'll be people there at eight, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the numbers. That might take till eight
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  Speaker 3: thirty quarter nine a little bit, but it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a landslide. It's a little note right away.
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  Speaker 1: I hope.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, probably even before I vote, you like.
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  Speaker 1: Was with me, we were out in front of the
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  Speaker 1: you know Parsons early voting. I got a good, good vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, people, are you gonna be out there
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  Speaker 2: on an election night?
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't be at the polls, yeah he could be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as an interne.
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  Speaker 2: You can't vote in this town, right, you're not a
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  Speaker 2: resident right right right now, but you can be there
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  Speaker 2: super time.
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  Speaker 1: I will look in yeah, holding a sign or two.
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  Speaker 1: This first and best intern. Right, Well, are you the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: US see your first intern? A j he's my first
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: college intern. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, we have.
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  Speaker 3: High school kids from law and foreign in the springtime,
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  Speaker 3: but no, ag Yeah, he's number one on the college list.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Nice, my first pick. There's probably a lot of people. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's awesome. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I don't need to say it,
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  Speaker 1: but good luck, you know you do. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: really I'm counting on everyone to come out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure the turnout will be strong. I would
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: be on strong last year for the national election. So yeah,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: and we saw how that turned too, you know, to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: the numbers we've never seen before for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, I just like I said, you're you're you're
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  Speaker 1: great at what you do. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I know you look out for the town of Milford
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  Speaker 2: and the people of Milford every day. You know you're
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: You're humble, You're not you know, you're gracious and just
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: keep being you. I mean, I look across the table
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: two years ago, I don't see a different person.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I see the same Tony with the same vision.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think anything has gone to your head
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  Speaker 2: or changed. And uh, you know, that's best compliment I
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: think I could give you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and of course you have my vote.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that and your vote means the world to me.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate you inviting me on the show and
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: get course out because it's it's important.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, then I'm definitely going to see you November fourth.
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  Speaker 1: At what time are you going to get there? I'll
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: be uh, I think i'll be there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the poll I'll be out in front of the
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  Speaker 3: polls till eight o'clock sharp, so i'll be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I make my way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and hopefully it's a great night. It's a great
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  Speaker 3: night for.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pro Tony g bar regardless. Yeah. Now, yeah,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be a fun night. It will be.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: It will be. I'm looking forward to it. But be
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: my team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I really need the support of my ticket
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: and my team, you know, so we can make some
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: headway on some of these boards and commissions because uh,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: you know, we put good things forward, but we need
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: the votes to support those great policies.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, man, I appreciate it. Again.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Well we'll talk again, obviously, but good luck and thank
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: you and nice meeting you, AJ.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: You and H You're good with me, all right. Thanks guys,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week. Appreciate you