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The Lee Elci Show | 10.2.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everyone. Steve Elsie here. On this Friday morning,
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  Speaker 1: October 2nd. And we have a great show for you today.
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  Speaker 1: We do. Hope you guys are ready for the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a good weekend. It'll be good
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  Speaker 1: because you'll make it good, right? It's all in the
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  Speaker 1: way you think of things. But today, on this show,
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  Speaker 1: at 6.30, joining me, uh, former state rep and first selectman,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Allen. He will be a great, great guest. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been on his radio show a few different times. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he has, and, uh, always a great guy to talk
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  Speaker 1: to really is at seven o'clock. We have Hayward Gatch
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  Speaker 1: who will just bring this conversation to an intellectual level that,
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  Speaker 1: that is just excellent.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: It just, he just takes it somewhere that, uh, You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that when you talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: the insight and depth that he brings to the conversation
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  Speaker 1: is like no one else. It really is. He's just great.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. He's got lots to say. Anyway, he'll
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  Speaker 1: be on at 7 o'clock. At 7.30, yes, John Laboutelier
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  Speaker 1: is back. Boots will be with me. And we'll talk everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know. national politics happening, and we'll see what his
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  Speaker 1: take on where we are today and where we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go tomorrow. So we'll see about that. At 8 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: Barbara Neff from New London will be joining us, and
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  Speaker 1: she's got so many things cooking up, really does, this fall,
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  Speaker 1: this whole season, and she runs events. And she's got, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of events coming up that she's going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Um, and I think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: love some of those things. And if you haven't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: been to new London, uh, over the past 20 years
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  Speaker 1: and all the events happening, then you really don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you're missing because she puts on incredible events really does. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then at eight 30, you know, this is where
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  Speaker 1: we're going to kind of let loose a little bit. And, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Waterford's own Mike Bassetto will join me. And, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even sure what we're going to talk about. But
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  Speaker 1: he's got a few things he wants to say and
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  Speaker 1: to promote. And, you know, he's a great community guy.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll hear what he has to say. Yeah, pretty
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  Speaker 1: big week for me. Pretty transitional week. I did get
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  Speaker 1: a new job.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I've been at the Homeless Hospitality Center for eight years now,
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  Speaker 1: I think. You know, I started at the Homeless Hospitality
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  Speaker 1: Center in development, you know, sort of fundraising. And from there,
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  Speaker 1: moved into program management with a couple of different programs.
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  Speaker 1: Those programs have been sunsetted by the state. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sort of in limbo. So I've been looking. And thankfully, thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: the Easterseals in Norwich has hired me as their digital
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  Speaker 1: technology teacher. And I will be teaching... Vets, technology, phone technology,
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  Speaker 1: computer technology. That's right. Let's hear it. And, yeah, and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, building resumes. And these are things I do
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  Speaker 1: now anyway with a lot of my homeless folks or
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  Speaker 1: folks experiencing homelessness, I should say. You know, rebuild their
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  Speaker 1: lives with resumes and try to get them jobs. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the same sort of thing up at
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  Speaker 1: Rally Point, but it will be combined and additioned with um, technology. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently up there, there's all kinds of cool computers and, um, and,
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  Speaker 1: and gadgets and whatnot. And, and a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: folks that up there that are, that are in need, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and to rebuild their lives and need to know this technology.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, today's new iPhones or, or phones
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  Speaker 1: in general can be tricky and computers are always an issue,
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  Speaker 1: especially for older folks. Um, and that, uh, and if
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  Speaker 1: I can help them in, in some way, shape or form,
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  Speaker 1: then that is what I will do. Um, so that
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  Speaker 1: is where I'm headed. And, you know, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this month. Um, and so, uh, I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to starting, starting a new career with vets up at
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  Speaker 1: rally point. So there we go. Um, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: things happened this week that, uh, you know, in my,
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  Speaker 1: on my caseload at, at the shelter, I have, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe, maybe 14 people or so. Um, And
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  Speaker 1: I have pretty good success with them in taking them
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  Speaker 1: from having been homeless to be housed. And then with
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  Speaker 1: continual care and management, keep them housed and keep them
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  Speaker 1: sort of drug free and on the right path. That's
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  Speaker 1: been my goal. I mean, you know, with with with
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  Speaker 1: with my clients. The program I'm in has 50 clients.
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  Speaker 1: I only have 14 of them. So I can't speak
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else. But one of my clients this week
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  Speaker 1: sort of took me off the rails a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: One of my steady clients. And I have been working
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  Speaker 1: with this client who has been in rehabilitation for about
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  Speaker 1: a year for drug and alcohol use. And literally a
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  Speaker 1: year in rehabilitation, working with him, programs, everything. And in
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  Speaker 1: this year he has, uh, lost his, was in jeopardy
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  Speaker 1: of losing his voucher because he was not housed and
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  Speaker 1: you need to be housed to keep your voucher. So
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  Speaker 1: about four months ago, uh, we had a hearing and I,
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  Speaker 1: and I, uh, you know, was sort of, uh, his,
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  Speaker 1: his voice and with the state. And I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I did my best Tom Cruise, you know, I really did. I, I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can't handle the truth is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happened here. Okay. You can't handle the truth about these
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  Speaker 1: folks and, and, and what's happening with this, this client.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where he is. And, and we, we,
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  Speaker 1: I did this whole song and dance thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: got his voucher. He did not lose it, which is
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  Speaker 1: almost unheard of. It really is. Once you're unhoused for
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  Speaker 1: a while, they just the state has no, you know,
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  Speaker 1: feelings or anything. They just sort of take it away.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. After 90 days, that's it. So he
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  Speaker 1: is he was clearly out of bounds with that. So
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  Speaker 1: I got his voucher back and with his voucher. Now
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  Speaker 1: we can get a place. because he's been in rehabilitation
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  Speaker 1: and is ready to get a place. And we have
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  Speaker 1: to get him a place quickly, because he has to
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  Speaker 1: be housed. I did that. So last week, I got
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  Speaker 1: him a place, I think on Thursday. And it was
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  Speaker 1: a very happy moment for him. It really was. He
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  Speaker 1: literally was in tears as we brought in, you know, sofa, couch...
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  Speaker 1: that we got, you know, donated and a nice bed and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: all the, all the things you need to start.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I got it all for him. It was a, it
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  Speaker 1: was a week prior to moving in of just moving
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  Speaker 1: him in and getting stuff and finding stuff. And so
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  Speaker 1: this was Thursday and then we had the big nor'easter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we lost power and all that good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: including myself. Um, And during that Nor'easter, on the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I get a few calls that he is in the hospital. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is movement Thursday. And by Saturday, he's in the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: completely drunk, completely just overloaded. That's it. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get the reports, write the reports, you know, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Comes back on Sunday. And as soon as he gets back,
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  Speaker 1: goes back right at it. Right at it. So I
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  Speaker 1: do a house call. I do a house call. I
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  Speaker 1: go to his house. And I read him the riot act.
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  Speaker 1: Up one side and down the other. Take all the
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  Speaker 1: alcohol and dump it out in front of him. Right
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  Speaker 1: into the into the and the hard alcohol, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: not just beer, right into the sink. shaking like a leaf,
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  Speaker 1: read him the Rydak. Absolutely. And I do this with
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  Speaker 1: his cousin on the phone because his cousin's the only
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  Speaker 1: person that speaks to them. And so I wanted her
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  Speaker 1: to hear what's going on. I mean, I think, I
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  Speaker 1: think I, I haven't been that mad in a while
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  Speaker 1: because I spent so much time with this gentleman saving his,
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  Speaker 1: his arse and, and getting him where he is. And
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  Speaker 1: so I just stood there and just belittled him and
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  Speaker 1: what we've done and where he's going to lose his voucher, everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I dumped it all out and I left and
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'll come back on Monday and I better
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  Speaker 1: not see this place like this at all. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: try to come back on Monday. I can't get in.
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  Speaker 1: So I figure he's sleeping. Come back a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: The door is open. Blood everywhere. Bottles everywhere. Feces everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Chairs turned upside down. Absolute chaos. I'm walking and I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what I'm walking on. Flies are everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Windows are wide open. Lights are turned on. Milk spilled everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So I called the hospital. Sure enough, he went back
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  Speaker 1: at it. Broke his jaw. Absolutely obliterated. Brain bleed. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's at Yale New Haven Hospital. And at that point,
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of sat back and I just realized...
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  Speaker 1: I can't help everybody. I can't do it. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it. And so I made the reports again.
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  Speaker 1: Talked to his cousin again. And we got to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how. I'm not going back in this place. Not
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  Speaker 1: at all. I need a hazmat suit to go back
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  Speaker 1: in there. Just not doing it. And so we have
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  Speaker 1: to figure that out. But it was just. with such
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  Speaker 1: success that I've had and my clients absolutely love me
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  Speaker 1: and rely on me. It just was one that really
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  Speaker 1: hit me hard. It's like the demon one, right? The
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  Speaker 1: demon one, no matter how much, how much I helped him,
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  Speaker 1: he just gave me lip service and he knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he was going to do. And I couldn't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: And now he's in Yale New Haven hospital and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be there for a while. Matter of fact, when he
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  Speaker 1: comes out, I may not even be at the place anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That might be the last time I see him right there. So, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: not to go sad, but we're going to take it
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  Speaker 1: up from there. But that was the story this week,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't win it all. Win some, you lose some.
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  Speaker 1: But today, we're going to start right now and bring
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  Speaker 1: it up, and we're going to win some. Kevin Allen
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  Speaker 1: on next.
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  Speaker 5: I'll wash away your lies And have you hypnotized.
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  Speaker 8: Moving slow towards Electric Boat in New London in Groton
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  Speaker 8: and towards Pfizer in Groton.
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  Speaker 3: The Gold Star Bridge has road construction. Route 12 is
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  Speaker 3: moving slow northbound in Groton.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 20: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 23: It's becoming partly sunny today, maybe some showers later, and
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  Speaker 23: in the 70s for a high. Waterford police are searching
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  Speaker 23: for a suspect who allegedly robbed the Bestway mobile gas
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  Speaker 23: station on Boston Post Road on September 21st. Police said
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  Speaker 23: the suspect displayed a knife and fled on foot.
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  Speaker 2: No injuries were reported.
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  Speaker 23: A 73-year-old resident of HEPA 250 Apartments in Nianic died
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  Speaker 23: from injuries sustained after falling into a malfunctioning elevator in August.
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  Speaker 23: Nancy Dibble suffered a rib fracture in the fall and
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  Speaker 23: died in September from complications.
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  Speaker 2: Related to the injury. Her health was ruled accidental.
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  Speaker 23: The City of Groton Fire Department and Noang Volunteer Fire
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  Speaker 23: Company will hold open houses Saturday as part of Fire
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  Speaker 23: Prevention Week. The free events will feature fire safety activities,
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  Speaker 23: equipment displays, food, and opportunities to meet local firefighters. A
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  Speaker 23: mystic teen was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison
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  Speaker 23: for a 2024 drunken driving crash that killed 14-year-old Carson
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  Speaker 23: Wilson of Groton, 19-year-old Cass Sherman, and pleaded no contest
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  Speaker 23: to manslaughter, assault, and underage DUI charges stemming from the
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  Speaker 23: Fishtown Road crash. CCRI and the University of Rhode Island
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back and currently having a little
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  Speaker 1: fun behind the scenes here as we're talking about how
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  Speaker 1: many push-ups we can actually do.
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  Speaker 9: In a row.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just, and we're also flexing our guns right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I do not know why, but that is, that's
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. And, uh, this is how we start
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  Speaker 1: with Kevin Allen. And, you know, uh, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Kevin realized the guns that I have. I don't think
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he understands it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 24: I'm at the gun show between the two, the LC
• 20:23
  Speaker 24: brother and Steve LC brother here, brother. It's like, uh,
• 20:27
  Speaker 24: I feel like I'm on a set of a WWE wrestling.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Well, you could be, it, it, it could very well be, uh, Kevin,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: what's going on?
• 20:35
  Speaker 24: Good morning and happy Friday, Steve.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday to you.
• 20:37
  Speaker 24: My favorite show of the week is this week.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: It's Fridays. Well, I appreciate that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 24: After you get off, I'm saying, but I mean not Fridays.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Whoa!
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Look at that!
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: A comedian as well. So what's new? What's happening in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: your world?
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, man.
• 20:52
  Speaker 24: Well, first and foremost, thanks for having me on.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 20:54
  Speaker 24: And thank you to the whole team here.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Amazing.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You know what's new in my world?
• 21:00
  Speaker 24: Every day is a smile, man. I truly am feeling
• 21:03
  Speaker 24: so blessed and Just love life.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I love that. And you've got a lot of new
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: sort of ventures happening.
• 21:11
  Speaker 24: Always do. I mean, let's go again. But this one's
• 21:13
  Speaker 24: been the real one.
• 21:14
  Speaker 25: Right.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: But you've had quite the career, right? You're a former
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: state rep. You've been a first selectman. You've been, I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: don't know, 100 other things. 100 other things.
• 21:22
  Speaker 24: Corrections officer.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Corrections officer. But now you have something new that you've introduced.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And what is it?
• 21:28
  Speaker 24: So it's actually seven years old, this project, with Uncle Earl's.
• 21:31
  Speaker 24: I'm actually wearing the shirt. Seven years ago, I lived
• 21:34
  Speaker 24: on a hemp. I got you a shirt coming. I
• 21:36
  Speaker 24: got you all shirts. Shirts on the way. Seven years ago,
• 21:39
  Speaker 24: I had a hemp farm. We did a hemp farm
• 21:41
  Speaker 24: up in Plainfield, Connecticut, 40 acres, lived off the grid,
• 21:44
  Speaker 24: nine months, no running water, no power. Best experience of
• 21:47
  Speaker 24: my life. Changed my life. And I started thinking about
• 21:50
  Speaker 24: products in the CBD world because that was the businesses
• 21:53
  Speaker 24: I was entering into. And we ended up creating 12
• 21:57
  Speaker 24: different stores in Connecticut. Had a really great experience. I
• 21:59
  Speaker 24: started creating drinks. And I was battling my alcoholism. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 24: I wanted to still drink a Manhattan, and I wanted
• 22:06
  Speaker 24: to do it in an authentic way. So I started
• 22:08
  Speaker 24: working on creating a non-alcohol spirit that could be infused then.
• 22:12
  Speaker 24: I was thinking CBD, THC, whatever you want to put
• 22:16
  Speaker 24: in it is an infusion. And ultimately, seven years later,
• 22:20
  Speaker 24: we launched our project. And we are happy to say
• 22:22
  Speaker 24: that we'll be on the shelves on November 24th, our release.
• 22:25
  Speaker 24: With Uncle Earl's non-alcohol bourbon this year. And so it's amazing.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It's called Uncle Earl's non-alcoholic bourbon.
• 22:31
  Speaker 26: Thank you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 24: Thank you to the audience out there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 27: Wow.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Big cheer.
• 22:35
  Speaker 24: Bottles of alcohol, non-alcoholic spirits on the way out for
• 22:38
  Speaker 24: the visitors here.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And so what is, you know, does it, I mean,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: what's the taste?
• 22:43
  Speaker 24: It's authentic.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It's authentic.
• 22:44
  Speaker 24: Yeah, it's an authentic bourbon taste. We actually had the
• 22:47
  Speaker 24: privilege of being a part of... a pitch last two
• 22:50
  Speaker 24: weeks ago. Um, you, you know about that, uh, down at, uh, uh,
• 22:53
  Speaker 24: talks brewing there in new London with sector. And, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 24: got to present my product, um, and, uh, actually came
• 22:59
  Speaker 24: in third place.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Amazing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 24: Just so I'm just so grateful for that opportunity. And, uh, yeah,
• 23:05
  Speaker 24: people tasted it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: They loved it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 24: And, um, I'm out knocking doors. I mean, this week alone, I,
• 23:10
  Speaker 24: I had a lot of great sales this week. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 24: let me ask you.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So where this goes, you would pitch this to any bar,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: any restaurant, anything, right? This can go anywhere. Or has
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it got a specific place you're putting it?
• 23:21
  Speaker 24: No, actually, great question. So we're actually looking to be
• 23:24
  Speaker 24: in any retail establishment that would want something like this.
• 23:28
  Speaker 24: And you're seeing a trend happen now with flavor profiles.
• 23:30
  Speaker 24: 45% of Gen Z's don't drink alcohol anymore. And it's growing.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: There's a big push for like, you know, these.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Adult looking smoothie bars that have a nightlife feel, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: they're non-alcoholic.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 23:45
  Speaker 24: I think you look at COVID and, you know, me
• 23:48
  Speaker 24: and many other people went through COVID and alcohol took
• 23:52
  Speaker 24: the best of me. And, you know, since COVID 50%
• 23:55
  Speaker 24: of the drinkers are drinking 50% less.
• 23:57
  Speaker 28: I know.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I, I, had a story earlier. I started
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: with a story about an alcoholism and a client of mine.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: So I know it's real. And I, and I, and I,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I've seen the demon.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And, uh, you know, and I'm glad that you've faced
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the demon and won the demon, beat the demon. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: now you're actually like going to profit off that demon
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in a way that's going to help other people.
• 24:17
  Speaker 24: Well, our, our goal is, uh, thank you for that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 24: And our goal is to create this company here in
• 24:21
  Speaker 24: Southeastern Connecticut, uh, launch, uh, here over the next, uh, year.
• 24:25
  Speaker 24: And then getting late into third quarter Q3 of 2027, uh,
• 24:29
  Speaker 24: Start looking at some other states and some other distribution.
• 24:32
  Speaker 24: But ultimately, we're here to support local nonprofits that deal
• 24:37
  Speaker 24: with people with alcoholism, mental health. So one percent of
• 24:40
  Speaker 24: our gross is going to go to a and I'm
• 24:42
  Speaker 24: not going to announce it till we make an official.
• 24:44
  Speaker 24: But we're going to be actually supporting a local establishment here.
• 24:47
  Speaker 24: And that's important because to me, without those resources, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 24: don't think I'd be alive today.
• 24:52
  Speaker 21: I get it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I get it. So is it just– so you have
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: one drink. It's one– So far. So far, yeah. So
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: what's– if you were to kind of expand that a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: little bit, where would you want to take it next?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: If you have this one, which is fabulous, but what's next?
• 25:04
  Speaker 24: So we have vodka, tequila, rum, gin, and every one
• 25:07
  Speaker 24: of the profiles and the recipes have been built. We
• 25:10
  Speaker 24: just picked up a deal with a flavor house that
• 25:13
  Speaker 24: creates products, and we're working with them directly.
• 25:16
  Speaker 29: Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 24: We just talked to Knowledge Beverage Company to do our production.
• 25:20
  Speaker 24: And so everything's lined up. But the bourbon, I wanted
• 25:23
  Speaker 24: the release with a bourbon. And I will say for
• 25:25
  Speaker 24: my own selfishness, I want a Manhattan. And so I
• 25:28
  Speaker 24: created this product. And it came out really good. And
• 25:32
  Speaker 24: so we're excited about it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Listen, I know the event you were talking about. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it was well attended. And everybody seemed to like it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the cowboy what you were offering the drink it was
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: great it really was and of course you do radio
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: as well I do.
• 25:52
  Speaker 24: A little bit of that I'm not to the reputation
• 25:56
  Speaker 24: of yourself and others but I try but that's an
• 26:00
  Speaker 24: outlet for me that I'm just so blessed to be
• 26:02
  Speaker 24: able to get on and talk I love talking your
• 26:04
  Speaker 24: brother inspired me I give him credit all the time
• 26:06
  Speaker 24: he's one of my mentors I got a chance to
• 26:09
  Speaker 24: do it a long time ago it's fun to be.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Here You know, and it's not just, you're not just
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: going on the radio, though, but you're creating some community vibes, right?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You're trying to connect communities. You know, I'm on here today,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of speaking out and doing things
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: with folks, but you have got a mission to connect people. 100%.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: And so tell us a little bit about how that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: works with you.
• 26:31
  Speaker 24: Yeah, so, I mean, one of the things I've been
• 26:33
  Speaker 24: blessed to do with, you know, media and coming through
• 26:35
  Speaker 24: all these iterations of my life, and I'm open about it, man, like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 24: One of the greatest calls I get typically is from
• 26:41
  Speaker 24: a guy named Lee Elseen. He'll say, so what are
• 26:43
  Speaker 24: you up to now? Because it's like, what are you
• 26:45
  Speaker 24: up to now, bro? Like, what are you doing, right?
• 26:48
  Speaker 24: You always got something going on. I've tried so many mountains,
• 26:50
  Speaker 24: but you know what? Let me say to the kids
• 26:52
  Speaker 24: out there that are listening before school, don't give up
• 26:55
  Speaker 24: on your dreams, man. I'm 56 years old, and I've
• 26:57
  Speaker 24: been dreaming since I was a little boy. And every
• 27:00
  Speaker 24: one of my dreams, you know what? People might have
• 27:02
  Speaker 24: an opinion of it, and unfortunately— That's their problem. I've
• 27:06
  Speaker 24: made an effort to enjoy every part of my life
• 27:08
  Speaker 24: and I've screwed a lot up. But you know what?
• 27:10
  Speaker 24: I don't stop. But my real dream is to bring
• 27:12
  Speaker 24: people to a table. And, you know, we named the
• 27:15
  Speaker 24: series I do is the one table radio show. And
• 27:18
  Speaker 24: the concept one table is like everyone comes to that table.
• 27:21
  Speaker 24: I mean, it happens right here.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You have King Arthur, the round table.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 27:25
  Speaker 24: And everyone's got an opinion. Everyone's got something to say.
• 27:28
  Speaker 24: And I love that part of it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Well, you know. again, the King Arthur, you know, the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: one table, it's a round table. It's not, it doesn't
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: have a head of the table. It doesn't, it's just
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: all round. Everybody has the same voice, right?
• 27:38
  Speaker 27: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And, uh, yeah. Respect.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Respect.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And I know you're taking this round table idea on
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the road.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 24: We have a, we, uh, secured an opportunity for a
• 27:48
  Speaker 24: residency with the Chestnut theater, um, in downtown knowledge, the
• 27:52
  Speaker 24: chest on a beautiful little place. Um, And we're going
• 27:55
  Speaker 24: to be doing six series, six. Well, right now we're
• 27:57
  Speaker 24: looking at targeting six different speaking series next year at
• 28:00
  Speaker 24: the Chestnut. And it's going to be fun. I'm working
• 28:03
  Speaker 24: out the details right now. Hopefully going to get some
• 28:05
  Speaker 24: local people. And, you know, the first show is going
• 28:08
  Speaker 24: to be first show we're targeting or at least one
• 28:10
  Speaker 24: of the first shows is going to be, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 24: local influencers, people that are influencing.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Am I on the first show? Oh, of course, Steve.
• 28:17
  Speaker 24: Yes, yes, of course you are on the first show.
• 28:19
  Speaker 24: You're coming in for the last 30 seconds of the show,
• 28:22
  Speaker 24: but you're coming.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: In to kind of just round it all out. Yeah,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: just help.
• 28:26
  Speaker 24: People get out of the theater at the end. Of
• 28:27
  Speaker 24: course you're on.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Help them right out. This way. Yeah, exactly. Follow me.
• 28:31
  Speaker 24: But it's fun because it brings a lot of– I
• 28:33
  Speaker 24: want to just– if I had anything to leave behind,
• 28:36
  Speaker 24: I hope it's that I tried to help people.
• 28:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I tried to help in my way. And that's– our
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: relationship– is sort of recent, I would say.
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: And that is sort of the, um, the vibe that, uh,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: our first meeting, um, that I got was, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: immediately you were just, you, you, you helped me understand
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: where you're coming from and it was community based. And
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: so immediately, um, I was like, okay, let's do this.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. That's, that's where, that's, that's where it is. Um,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a I, I, me, me sort of thing
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: where you're trying to, you know, how do you put
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: yourself on a spotlight? It was how do we build
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: something where real voices can be heard and real opinions
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: can be heard and not fought over, just heard and
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: thought about and seeds being planted so you can do
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: your own investigation and research and figure it out for yourself.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I think we best figure things out when we communicate,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you know, as humans.
• 29:40
  Speaker 18: Right?
• 29:40
  Speaker 24: Like when we can get in a room or on
• 29:42
  Speaker 24: a call or whatever and talk. And quite honestly, it's
• 29:45
  Speaker 24: I used to be about me, Steve. So, you know,
• 29:48
  Speaker 24: you've seen a new version. You know, I can promise
• 29:51
  Speaker 24: you that I can look back and own every everything
• 29:53
  Speaker 24: that I've done in my life. And I always I
• 29:56
  Speaker 24: wasn't always that way. And, you know, there's there's I
• 29:58
  Speaker 24: talk about it. There's some reasons maybe why I might
• 30:00
  Speaker 24: have acted that way.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly.
• 30:02
  Speaker 24: But who I am today, man, I'm just feeling so blessed.
• 30:05
  Speaker 24: I get to meet so many amazing people. I get
• 30:06
  Speaker 24: to smile every day.
• 30:07
  Speaker 27: Yeah.
• 30:08
  Speaker 24: And I'm just, you know, I give all glory to
• 30:09
  Speaker 24: my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And I know higher
• 30:12
  Speaker 24: powers are different for people out there. But I'll tell
• 30:14
  Speaker 24: you right now, for me, God saved me on December
• 30:17
  Speaker 24: 17th of 2022. And I have not looked back since.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love it. I love it. It's amazing.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: And yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: You know, as I opened up where you, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you were in politics, right? I was, yes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 24: You know, you were a state rep, right? You were
• 30:31
  Speaker 24: a first selectman.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: So, you know, you've done the campaigning and all of that.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: What got you out of that?
• 30:39
  Speaker 24: Well, the fact that I was going to be exposed
• 30:42
  Speaker 24: for being a dirtbag, you know? You want an honest answer?
• 30:46
  Speaker 24: I was drunk doing terrible things, disrespecting my My reputation
• 30:51
  Speaker 24: and my family and my community. And I didn't want
• 30:54
  Speaker 24: to own up to it. And what I did is
• 30:55
  Speaker 24: I ran away from all that and I opened a
• 30:58
  Speaker 24: hemp farm, a 40-acre hemp farm.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: That's the truth. And I love that that's the truth.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And there's– And what's funny, when you say it like that,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it's so– it puts me at ease. It's like it's
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: real and it's a real problem.
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And you dealt with it and you won.
• 31:17
  Speaker 24: Listen, I was at the statehouse. I was drunk every
• 31:20
  Speaker 24: day I was at the statehouse. Every day that I
• 31:22
  Speaker 24: served in office, I was drunk.
• 31:24
  Speaker 27: Wow.
• 31:25
  Speaker 24: I was drunk every day.
• 31:26
  Speaker 25: Wow.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 24: I served in public office most of my days. It
• 31:30
  Speaker 24: started off in the morning by mid-afternoon.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: What was your choice? A drink? Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 24: Well, I like a nice bourbon.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So this is like first thing in the morning, bourbon?
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: No, no, no.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I would start with a.
• 31:41
  Speaker 24: Couple beers in the morning. That would just get my
• 31:42
  Speaker 24: tummy right.
• 31:43
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 31:45
  Speaker 24: Then I'd go into it. But then, of course, vanity.
• 31:48
  Speaker 24: I'd want to drink some of the lighter drinks for
• 31:50
  Speaker 24: vodka and McUltra. So you don't want to look sloppy
• 31:54
  Speaker 24: if you're an alcoholic.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: No, of course not.
• 31:55
  Speaker 24: Because by the time you're drunk at the end of
• 31:57
  Speaker 24: the night, you're already sloppy enough.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: You don't want to look sloppy.
• 31:59
  Speaker 24: But I would pretty much say I got up to
• 32:02
  Speaker 24: my worst drinking about a half a handle a day.
• 32:05
  Speaker 24: And probably two or three pot cookies.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 32:08
  Speaker 24: That was my appetite every day.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: So this ultimately unraveled. Oh, yeah.
• 32:13
  Speaker 24: I went right to the edge, bro. I consider suicide.
• 32:16
  Speaker 24: I talked about it right here in this very studio.
• 32:18
  Speaker 24: I mean, I went to the edge.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And listen.
• 32:21
  Speaker 24: You know what the beautiful part about this conversation is?
• 32:24
  Speaker 24: I'm not being coy.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: No, that's what's beautiful about it. I got it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 24: I know what it's like to go through that experience,
• 32:31
  Speaker 24: and I know a lot of us think, oh, it
• 32:32
  Speaker 24: can never happen to me. I never thought it would
• 32:34
  Speaker 24: happen to me. I was a correctional officer for 21 years.
• 32:36
  Speaker 26: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 24: I retired from the same prison my mom was serving
• 32:39
  Speaker 24: time at when I was a kid. I talk about
• 32:41
  Speaker 24: that publicly. I'm just going to say, you were a
• 32:43
  Speaker 24: corrections officer, right?
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: So you know right from wrong.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And still, this is the power of it. This is
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the power of addiction.
• 32:51
  Speaker 24: And still, you couldn't beat it at that time. Listen,
• 32:55
  Speaker 24: you know what it comes down to? I think the
• 32:56
  Speaker 24: alcohol comes to excuse the behavior after you already made
• 33:00
  Speaker 24: a decision.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 33:01
  Speaker 24: So there's somewhat of ownership without the intoxication that we
• 33:05
  Speaker 24: need to take. And I did that. Like I took
• 33:07
  Speaker 24: ownership without the alcohol, and then I brought in the excuse,
• 33:11
  Speaker 24: if need be, to put it in that category, of
• 33:13
  Speaker 24: how I got there. But, no, the reality is I
• 33:15
  Speaker 24: was the one making the bad decisions. And I think
• 33:17
  Speaker 24: that's with everyone in life, right? I mean, you know
• 33:19
  Speaker 24: right from wrong. Humans are designed with a couple qualities,
• 33:23
  Speaker 24: and one is we know right from wrong. We choose
• 33:25
  Speaker 24: to do wrong when we do.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Here with Kevin Allen and, you know, giving a little
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: bit of– an update on, on all his incredible new
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: ventures that he's doing and, and the past would brought
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: him here right now. And, and, and it's funny, I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: didn't know some of that stuff and I've, you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: we've talked a lot, you know, and, and that some
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of that stuff is, and that's super powerful, man. And, and,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and actually it, it, it framed for me, it frames
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you in a different way. It really does. It gives,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: it gives me a little bit, uh, I hope that
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: someone like the story I shared earlier, at some point
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: maybe they can get out of their own way because
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you've obviously got out of your own way, and you're
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: doing incredible things for the community.
• 34:09
  Speaker 24: You really are. Listen, at the end of the day,
• 34:11
  Speaker 24: if we can help somebody, I drive them around a lot,
• 34:14
  Speaker 24: as some know, and I publicly haven't talked too much
• 34:16
  Speaker 24: about it, but I'm so close to actually leaving my
• 34:19
  Speaker 24: current career, which is I've been driving Uber since last December.
• 34:23
  Speaker 24: I was just telling this story last night.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Uber's fun.
• 34:26
  Speaker 24: I went to Randy Travis, right? And I texted one
• 34:27
  Speaker 24: of my buddies, Glenn Templeton, who used to be a big,
• 34:30
  Speaker 24: he's open for Garth Brooks, right? And he himself shared
• 34:34
  Speaker 24: his alcohol with me, his issue. A credible interview. He
• 34:38
  Speaker 24: asked me not to ever publish it, and I'm not.
• 34:40
  Speaker 24: But the point is, I was thinking about all these things,
• 34:42
  Speaker 24: these journeys and everything, and all of a sudden I realized, like,
• 34:45
  Speaker 24: God's got such a plan for us, man. You know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 24: even in the worst of your days, if you can
• 34:49
  Speaker 24: just find that glimmer of hope, man, you can see
• 34:51
  Speaker 24: something bright. And I was able to see something bright,
• 34:53
  Speaker 24: so I've already won. I've already won. I'm not sitting
• 34:57
  Speaker 24: here bragging. I'm saying I'm alive, man. I'm smiling. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 24: got a granddaughter.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Trust me, the vibe in this room, for those of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you out there, the vibe in this room is exactly
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: how he's speaking it right now. He's happy, positive, you know,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: sort of committed to doing some community good. That is
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the vibe in this room. He's not just saying it.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 24: Well, you know, Shana, who's my wife, and she owns
• 35:20
  Speaker 24: a beautiful little company here in New London County, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 24: She's busy. Her and I came into together. We both
• 35:25
  Speaker 24: have alcohol addiction. We both came into our lives together
• 35:28
  Speaker 24: and we've watched our lives change together. And, you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 24: that partnership is something that I think I always needed
• 35:33
  Speaker 24: in my life that I never could find in somebody.
• 35:36
  Speaker 24: And that's a beautiful part of where I am today.
• 35:38
  Speaker 24: I just have so many good things. I just want
• 35:40
  Speaker 24: to help people. But driving around, I see so many people.
• 35:42
  Speaker 24: desperately seeking help and needing help, that it really hurts
• 35:46
  Speaker 24: me in my heart. And I don't care what they are.
• 35:48
  Speaker 24: I don't care what they're— When you say people that—
• 35:50
  Speaker 24: Homeless people, people I meet on the streets.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And you know a little bit about that, yes.
• 35:54
  Speaker 24: Yeah, I can smell it a mile away, you know.
• 35:55
  Speaker 24: I mean, people hop in my car. You know, I
• 35:57
  Speaker 24: was getting to the point, I drive Uber. I've been
• 35:59
  Speaker 24: driving Uber, and I brought Glenn Templin out because when
• 36:01
  Speaker 24: I came back, I was going to help Glenn with
• 36:03
  Speaker 24: his— he' s going to be working out of Tennessee for a while.
• 36:05
  Speaker 24: And I came home last December from that trip, and
• 36:08
  Speaker 24: I was going to get ready to start working with him.
• 36:10
  Speaker 24: And I said to Shane, I said, I'm done. I'm
• 36:11
  Speaker 24: working on a project for me this year. Nobody else.
• 36:14
  Speaker 24: And that's when I started working on the drink project.
• 36:16
  Speaker 24: And there's there's you know, that that gave me the
• 36:19
  Speaker 24: chance to get out there. But the point is, then
• 36:21
  Speaker 24: I started meeting people in the street and I'm like, oh,
• 36:23
  Speaker 24: my gosh, this is this is a beautiful opportunity. I've
• 36:25
  Speaker 24: had more people. I have people right now, prostitutes. drug dealers,
• 36:31
  Speaker 24: drug addicted people, alcohol addicted people. They text me and
• 36:34
  Speaker 24: tell me their updates. They're living better and cleaner since
• 36:37
  Speaker 24: I've met them. Not because of me, but because they
• 36:39
  Speaker 24: had an Uber driver.
• 36:41
  Speaker 28: Yeah, man.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's true.
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Listen, I know all about that. And I know that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: it is, uh, you know, if there.
• 36:47
  Speaker 24: Was a TV show, the Uber driver, it's in work,
• 36:50
  Speaker 24: it's in, it's in progress.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's in progress. Very interesting. I know
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: there's like, you know, uh, you know, you know, Coffee with,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you know, like Jerry Seinfeld had the coffee. But the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Uber driver show and the things that we are told
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: are just amazing.
• 37:05
  Speaker 24: It's amazing.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: They just open up, and some of them are literally
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: at their worst moments, and they just jump into your car,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and they just tell you.
• 37:16
  Speaker 24: They just feel like you're their counselor. The Uber driver
• 37:19
  Speaker 24: is the new bartender concept. You know what I mean?
• 37:21
  Speaker 24: Like you used to go and talk to the counselor,
• 37:23
  Speaker 24: the bartender.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:25
  Speaker 24: And it's interesting because I didn't think going into it,
• 37:27
  Speaker 24: it would be such an opportunity. But my chops, right,
• 37:30
  Speaker 24: my ability to speak, you know, on camera or whatever,
• 37:33
  Speaker 24: that's where you hone in on those skills, too. So
• 37:35
  Speaker 24: I'm interviewing. As soon as somebody gets in the car,
• 37:37
  Speaker 24: I do the first three minutes of interview. And I
• 37:40
  Speaker 24: can feel their emotions.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I won't bother. Some people want to talk.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Some people don't. Some people just don't even give you
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a chance.
• 37:45
  Speaker 24: So you respect them.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It's awesome, though.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: It's awesome.
• 37:47
  Speaker 24: So I love that part of it. And, you know,
• 37:49
  Speaker 24: I love the fact that, you know, technology also. We
• 37:52
  Speaker 24: talked a little bit about that, how, you know. I'm
• 37:54
  Speaker 24: working on an app. I mean, I'm working off an app.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I love that you've got so many things in the works.
• 37:59
  Speaker 24: I'm saying I work with the Uber app, right? That's
• 38:02
  Speaker 24: a technology-driven business.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
• 38:04
  Speaker 24: And so think about all the world that has changed
• 38:06
  Speaker 24: so much for us and us old guys in the
• 38:08
  Speaker 24: room over 50. I think you're older than your.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Brother, right?
• 38:12
  Speaker 29: No.
• 38:12
  Speaker 24: I say that to you all the time.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I tease you. But you know what I mean.
• 38:16
  Speaker 24: We're all in our 50s, dude, right? We've seen so
• 38:18
  Speaker 24: many changes in technology.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 24: I love technology. AI, by the way, and I heard Tom,
• 38:22
  Speaker 24: and I love Tom Cantone. I love what he said
• 38:25
  Speaker 24: about all the things are so spot on. But I
• 38:27
  Speaker 24: watched Randy Travis talk about how they used Randy Travis'
• 38:31
  Speaker 24: voice to recreate his last album. Legitimately, his sound, his voice.
• 38:36
  Speaker 24: And they played it last night at the show down
• 38:38
  Speaker 24: at the Guard.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Amazing.
• 38:40
  Speaker 24: Shout out to Gary for those tickets, by the way.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Gary.
• 38:42
  Speaker 24: But the amazing part about technology is it brings people together.
• 38:45
  Speaker 17: We just.
• 38:46
  Speaker 24: Unfortunately, some of us are scared of it, and I
• 38:48
  Speaker 24: get it, but I love it, man.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the AI technology is, you know, it's
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: a double-edged sword, right? And it has, you know, and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: you just have to be careful and walk the right
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: line because at any point in any industry, any genre,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: it can just go awry, right?
• 39:08
  Speaker 24: Did you think when you were a kid that you'd
• 39:10
  Speaker 24: be able to hit a button on a phone? Our
• 39:12
  Speaker 24: phones were on the wall with cords, right? We didn't
• 39:16
  Speaker 24: have any of this vision.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: No.
• 39:17
  Speaker 24: That was like so spaceship future.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. The whole thing is futuristic. And it's getting
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: so much better, so much faster. Every three months, I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: think it doubles. or something like this. And it's just
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: in just a short order of time, it's going to
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: be so powerful. I mean, like, you know. AI, artificial intelligence, right?
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Is it, you know, at some point soon, it's going
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to be, you know, above our.
• 39:47
  Speaker 30: Intelligence, right?
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, it is.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and I don't mean that
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: in the way it processes numbers. I mean, its ability
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to think, you know, and, you know, some people say,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: call it what you will, that, you know, it, you know,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: we have birthed. A new form of life.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 40:07
  Speaker 24: You heard me talking to my app, right?
• 40:08
  Speaker 17: It's crazy.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: In the sense of a binary code, ones and zeros,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: it now has an ability to think for itself.
• 40:14
  Speaker 24: I went to module high. I don't know what binary
• 40:16
  Speaker 24: code is, but whatever that means.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And you ever see the matrix? Yeah, I got you. Anyway,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: so that is, you know, a new form of life. So,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: you know, here's the interesting thing. Mm-hmm. So if it
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: begins to think for itself, if it begins to align
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: itself with stuff and it becomes real in every which
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: way but loose, can you kill it?
• 40:42
  Speaker 24: You know, remember the movie War Games?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Does it become protected?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: How does that work? Who controls it, right? Who controls it? Like,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you know, does it become, you know, once we deem
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: it its own entity, you know, does it have rights?
• 41:00
  Speaker 24: It's going to be interesting, interesting times ahead. I mean,
• 41:02
  Speaker 24: I'm embracing it right now, but these are all things
• 41:04
  Speaker 24: that I also agree with. Randy Travis' wife talked about
• 41:07
  Speaker 24: going and testifying in Congress because as much as they
• 41:10
  Speaker 24: used it, they don't want to have it abused. And
• 41:12
  Speaker 24: I think that's an important part.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's already happening. I mean, you've seen China
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and other– they have these– they have the Terminators rolling out.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: And they're like 101s now, but give it five years
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and literally Arnold Schwarzenegger will be walking around.
• 41:27
  Speaker 24: Isn't that crazy? Like I feel like we're living in
• 41:29
  Speaker 24: a movie. Like you said, The Matrix or something like that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 17: It's crazy times.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like– so– Anyway, we are here. Kevin, thank
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: you so much for joining us today.
• 41:38
  Speaker 24: Yeah, man. It's been great, man.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And I think I'm... We've got to fix that. Anyway,
• 41:43
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are, oh, already happening. Hold on, let
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: me see if I can just... tweak this here and
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: get it going. Maybe that helps. All right. So we
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: are back. Steve Elsie here. And I am with Hayward Gatch,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: who is joining me again. And Kevin Allen is sticking
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: around for the conversation and, uh, off air here. Uh,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I was, uh, uh, told that Hayward, uh,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: kind of said that, uh, this is going.
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  Speaker 2: To be a problem.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Uh, I think it might need a new bike. Uh,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Hold on one second. Standby. Standby. Standby.
• 50:31
  Speaker 30: Is this auto-tune?
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe that's auto-tune. We're going to work
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: on that right now. But Hayward was saying that he
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: also had his demons with the bottle. And Kevin and
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Hayward sort of just bonded. And they just met today.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: And I thought that was pretty amazing. Hayward, welcome aboard.
• 50:52
  Speaker 24: What's happening?
• 50:52
  Speaker 30: Hey, happy to be here.
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  Speaker 41: And, yeah, your first story about the gentleman who was
• 50:58
  Speaker 41: in the apartment and had a relapse so severe that
• 51:01
  Speaker 41: it ended up in his hospitalization, that's one thing that
• 51:05
  Speaker 41: Kevin and I touched on a few minutes ago. This
• 51:08
  Speaker 41: drinking thing, it has a known trajectory, and a lot
• 51:12
  Speaker 41: of people might think themselves– immune to that trajectory. A
• 51:16
  Speaker 41: lot of people might think that, oh, well, I'm just
• 51:20
  Speaker 41: going to do a little bit here, a little bit there.
• 51:23
  Speaker 41: But you're, perhaps in a very literal way, dancing with
• 51:27
  Speaker 41: the devil.
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  Speaker 30: On this thing.
• 51:28
  Speaker 41: It's interesting you talk about the demons of it. There's
• 51:31
  Speaker 41: a theological angle you can really get into it with.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Thus they call it spirits, right?
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: Indeed.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Isn't that why?
• 51:39
  Speaker 30: I've heard yes.
• 51:40
  Speaker 41: It dates back to the Middle Ages and does have
• 51:43
  Speaker 41: that angle to it. But as far as drinking goes,
• 51:47
  Speaker 41: it's something I got into relatively late in life for
• 51:50
  Speaker 41: people of my generation, but not particularly late in terms
• 51:53
  Speaker 41: of life. I didn't start drinking until I was 21,
• 51:57
  Speaker 41: and I did it partially socially, but very quickly found
• 52:01
  Speaker 41: that I had a way of relieving, at least in
• 52:05
  Speaker 41: a temporary way, the chronic pain. Not directly COVID-related, but
• 52:10
  Speaker 41: just stress-related.
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
• 52:13
  Speaker 30: I guess you could call it COVID-related because I.
• 52:16
  Speaker 41: Immediately had to start up a business with very little
• 52:19
  Speaker 41: warning because this whole pandemic thing happened. And my wife
• 52:23
  Speaker 41: was a dental hygienist, and people avoid dental care in.
• 52:25
  Speaker 30: Good times, right? People are like, oh, I don't want
• 52:27
  Speaker 30: to go.
• 52:28
  Speaker 41: So when we have this mystery virus from overseas coming,
• 52:31
  Speaker 41: people are like, I'm not going to the dentist. So
• 52:33
  Speaker 41: she gets laid off immediately, and I have to figure
• 52:35
  Speaker 41: out how to spin something up very quickly.
• 52:36
  Speaker 30: And that's got its stresses.
• 52:38
  Speaker 41: And so I leaned on the old crutch in order
• 52:41
  Speaker 41: to deal with those stresses.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:44
  Speaker 41: And it became very, very severe. I'm talking all day
• 52:48
  Speaker 41: long drinking, every day. And while I was able, I suppose,
• 52:54
  Speaker 41: to hold it together, that does not make it safe
• 52:56
  Speaker 41: and that does not make it good because you keep
• 53:00
  Speaker 41: going down that road. You keep not dealing with those
• 53:04
  Speaker 41: problems and you... Like anything that you put in your body,
• 53:08
  Speaker 41: it starts to develop a tolerance. And over time, it
• 53:11
  Speaker 41: gets worse and worse and worse. And you drink more and.
• 53:13
  Speaker 30: More and more.
• 53:15
  Speaker 41: In politics, we call it a radicalization spiral. But you
• 53:18
  Speaker 41: have a similar effect in addiction.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 53:22
  Speaker 41: I was in a very, very bad way. And to
• 53:26
  Speaker 41: reference Kevin's story and so many more around, it ended
• 53:31
  Speaker 41: up being a religious thing for me that broke the demon,
• 53:34
  Speaker 41: so to speak. So my wife and I at the
• 53:38
  Speaker 41: time were sort of dabbling with Christianity, and she came across,
• 53:42
  Speaker 41: I think it's 1 Corinthians 6, verse 10 maybe. It
• 53:47
  Speaker 41: talks about all the people that want to inherit the
• 53:48
  Speaker 41: kingdom of God, and one of them was the drunkard.
• 53:51
  Speaker 41: And so as she was saying it, I was drinking.
• 53:53
  Speaker 41: I was like, oh, all right. And so I just
• 53:56
  Speaker 41: poured it out. And I didn't drink since. And where
• 54:02
  Speaker 41: did that will come from? Where did that strength come from?
• 54:06
  Speaker 41: I'm not sure because I certainly didn't have it beforehand.
• 54:11
  Speaker 41: And that was a really powerful moment that I didn't
• 54:14
  Speaker 41: necessarily have the conceptual framework to describe at the time.
• 54:18
  Speaker 30: But I was like, wow, that was that was different.
• 54:22
  Speaker 41: I just didn't think that was possible to suddenly be
• 54:25
  Speaker 41: relieved of something that had controlled, and I kid you not,
• 54:28
  Speaker 41: every waking moment of my life. That's weird and powerful
• 54:34
  Speaker 41: and delightful. And that was about two years ago. And
• 54:39
  Speaker 41: this is a somewhat humorous story. The only time since
• 54:42
  Speaker 41: that alcohol has touched my lips is when a raccoon
• 54:45
  Speaker 41: sneezed in my face. And I was so worried about
• 54:49
  Speaker 41: the possibility of rabies that I ran inside and I
• 54:52
  Speaker 41: was like, ah, we don't have any alcohol in the house.
• 54:55
  Speaker 41: I grabbed the rubbing alcohol and started rubbing it on
• 54:57
  Speaker 41: my face and like swishing it. But guess what? No
• 55:01
  Speaker 41: desire to continue, right? Like the desire to keep drinking
• 55:05
  Speaker 41: isn't there. I didn't want to get rabies.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Now, Kevin, did you– Did you have that moment as
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: well where it's like, as Hayward's saying, it's just like
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: one day, either the strength from within or some power outside.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: How did you get to that situation?
• 55:21
  Speaker 24: December 17, 2022. I didn't want to live anymore. I
• 55:25
  Speaker 24: went out into the woods. I shared this story right
• 55:27
  Speaker 24: here in this very studio, I don't know, about a
• 55:29
  Speaker 24: year ago maybe. And God saved me. And I give
• 55:33
  Speaker 24: all glory. I mean, that moment, I actually stopped swearing
• 55:37
  Speaker 24: for two years. I stopped watching porn. I stopped cheating.
• 55:40
  Speaker 24: I stopped lying. I stopped everything that I had no,
• 55:43
  Speaker 24: that brought me to the hole I was in. And
• 55:46
  Speaker 24: that was really because of alcohol. And that was the
• 55:49
  Speaker 24: easiest part is knowing. And I've gone to bars, restaurants,
• 55:52
  Speaker 24: I'm in, you know, whatever. I have no, like you,
• 55:54
  Speaker 24: I have no triggers, right? Because, you know, once you
• 55:56
  Speaker 24: get a strength like that, you believe in it like that,
• 55:59
  Speaker 24: you see it firsthand like that, you don't need to
• 56:01
  Speaker 24: second guess it anymore.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Amazing. I mean, I, you know, I'm listening to both
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: of you who, uh, I respect both of you quite well. And,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: and it's, and I know how, how amazing you both
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: are now. And to think of both of you in
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: that situation, in those scenarios where the bottle literally rules
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: your life. And it's hard for me to fathom. I mean,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I listen, I drink, you know, But I don't have
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the demon word, as you said, Hayward, all day, every day.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I just can't even imagine waking up wanting a beer.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do it. Sure, a night after whatever,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: but I just can't understand that, and that's part of...
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad I can understand it, to be honest
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 56:56
  Speaker 30: Yeah, absolutely.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: But having seen it now firsthand and hearing it now
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: in studio from you guys, I mean, there's a reason
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: why they call it spirits. It gets in you and
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: it really becomes you.
• 57:10
  Speaker 30: Yeah, absolutely.
• 57:11
  Speaker 41: And, you know, people have drank since they figured out
• 57:15
  Speaker 41: how to eat the fermented fruit off the ground.
• 57:18
  Speaker 30: Sat there a little bit too long.
• 57:21
  Speaker 41: That's been a part of our conversation. societal culture for
• 57:24
  Speaker 41: an extremely long time. But with anything, the tendency and
• 57:28
  Speaker 41: possibility for abuse is there. And alcohol is one of
• 57:31
  Speaker 41: our oldest things we've struggled with. And, you know, Jesus
• 57:35
  Speaker 41: drank wine.
• 57:35
  Speaker 30: Like, people drink. It happens.
• 57:39
  Speaker 41: But there's a tendency that you can open yourself up
• 57:43
  Speaker 41: to that if you're a certain kind of person, especially
• 57:46
  Speaker 41: in my case, an arrogant person, that is really easy
• 57:50
  Speaker 41: for something to surprise you. you know, again, attending in
• 57:53
  Speaker 41: the theological direction, a lot of those architectures of temptation
• 57:59
  Speaker 41: are subtle and they always make you feel like you're
• 58:02
  Speaker 41: in control until you're not.
• 58:04
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 58:04
  Speaker 30: And that's, that's that slippery slope.
• 58:06
  Speaker 27: Yeah. Yep.
• 58:08
  Speaker 25: Yep.
• 58:08
  Speaker 41: And, and once you're in, especially with a lot of
• 58:11
  Speaker 41: the addictive tendencies, like the ones that have a chemical
• 58:14
  Speaker 41: angle to them, that's really hard to break away from.
• 58:17
  Speaker 30: And, Just like that, he'd lost.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: So let me ask you. So you broke that habit
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: in both of you guys. Was it replaced with something else?
• 58:26
  Speaker 41: You know, in my case, not so much. I mean,
• 58:28
  Speaker 41: I guess you could say replaced by going to church
• 58:30
  Speaker 41: and stuff.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that was the replacement, right?
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: Well, yeah.
• 58:34
  Speaker 41: So, like, there's—I don't remember precisely where it is. Perhaps
• 58:37
  Speaker 41: Kevin can correct me here. But somewhere is referenced the phrase,
• 58:41
  Speaker 41: the peace beyond all understanding. And— I think it's so
• 58:46
  Speaker 41: important that it's described that way because not only is
• 58:49
  Speaker 41: it hard to understand unless you experience it, it's hard
• 58:52
  Speaker 41: to even describe. It exists in a language older than
• 58:56
  Speaker 41: words in such a way that you can't necessarily use
• 58:59
  Speaker 41: these man-made collections of syllables to encapsulate this way.
• 59:04
  Speaker 30: Of being, but it's there.
• 59:06
  Speaker 28: Yeah.
• 59:07
  Speaker 30: And so you end up just sort of flailing your
• 59:08
  Speaker 30: arm saying, look, this thing, it's complicated.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah um.
• 59:12
  Speaker 41: But yeah it's it's to have relieved that entirely and
• 59:18
  Speaker 41: is it impossible that at some point in my life
• 59:20
  Speaker 41: something might come across that will knock me back down
• 59:23
  Speaker 41: again that's life yeah that's life right But at this point,
• 59:28
  Speaker 41: I feel so much sharper. Once you get past, I
• 59:31
  Speaker 41: think it's a month or so, your brain really does
• 59:33
  Speaker 41: a good job at starting to rebuild and reset a
• 59:37
  Speaker 41: lot of things. So once you get out past that,
• 59:40
  Speaker 41: even your REM sleep, for example, gets messed up by drinking,
• 59:43
  Speaker 41: which then often motivates more drinking beyond that. And so
• 59:47
  Speaker 41: getting out from that cycle, things start to change. They
• 59:52
  Speaker 41: change neurochemically, they change behaviorally, they change spiritually, and that
• 59:57
  Speaker 41: has been really important for me.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Kevin, how about you? Is there a replacement there?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 24: You know, I was thinking it's interesting also a good
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 24: point to be made, and I don't know if we
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 24: planned on making this. I hope we didn't shift the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 24: topic here too much.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: No, this is good stuff.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 24: It's a great topic for people to hear because it's real.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 24: But I also know that people can drink without a problem,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 24: and I also respect that. Like my issue doesn't mean
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 24: it's your issue or whatever. And so for me, it
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 24: was so– I was able to get such clarity that
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 24: I knew– looking back to that lifestyle, looking back to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 24: that desire, would just bring me back into.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: That hole again.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 24: And I just, it was like that, you know, the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 24: sun comes out kind of thing. And all of a sudden, like, oh,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 24: I was clear-headed, right? And as soon as my head
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 24: got clear, it took a few months, right? But as
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 24: soon as it did, and there's a wet brain. And
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 24: I will say, you know, people can talk about this.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 24: I did not do the meetings, AA meetings specifically. I've
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 24: gone to a few. To me, I was fortunate to
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 24: have somebody in my life that could personally counsel me.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 24: who had some experience and it really worked.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: It really worked.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 24: And I never looked back to that. You know, I never,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 24: I go into places so it doesn't have any triggers
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 24: for me anymore. I don't know how to really answer
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 24: because I feel like if I even entertain that question,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 24: I'll probably try thinking about things and I'm good where
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 24: I am and I don't need to think about it anymore.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 35: Yeah.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 24: I'm just living my life clean.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's good.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 24: And I'm not opposed to that. You know, alcohol, people
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 24: use cannabis smartly. They use other products in a way
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 24: that they don't ruin their lives.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 24: I'm okay with that. If it helps you get through
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 24: life and you're productive and you're a good person, if
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 24: you're a bad person, you're out there driving drunk. Well,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 24: you're not right.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 40: Right.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 24: You know what I mean? Or intoxicated. You're not good.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: That's not good.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 27: Yeah.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, and you know, I, again, Steve Elsie
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: here with Haywood Gatch and Kevin Allen. And we are just,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: you know, the conversation has taken on its own, its
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: own life here. I don't, you know, this wasn't planned
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: and how we're, we're discussing this today, but it sort
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: of is the topic of the day, maybe sparked by
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: my story in the beginning. Um, you know, uh, when
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: you said you have somebody personal that has helped you,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I feel that at the, at the shelter, you know,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: my clients, that is me to them, right? Not all
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: of them. I've obviously, I've, I've been able to, to help, but,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: but most of them, and it's a continual, um, job
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: it doesn't it's not a day it's not a week
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: it's it's 365 days a year of continuous monitoring um
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: when they have an addiction like they do.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 24: And you pair mental health i mean mental health and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 24: you pair that.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Yes that's there's there's a lot of things that go
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: along with it but um you know that's that's what
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: happens and you know in your case kevin it entered
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: into into politics and And I'm sure Haywood's— I mean.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 24: Haywood's qualified to talk about politics. I listen to him
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 24: on the show.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: No, we can transition over to— Let's talk about all
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: the alcoholics in politics.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 9: That's what we need to do.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 24: Start with me, by the way. I'll be the first one.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Speaking of alcohol, let's talk about this administration.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 24: Hey!
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Hey!
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 41: Yeah, I mean, alcoholics in politics is not new.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Alcoholics and politics.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 24: That's a good podcast.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: No, but Hayward, obviously this has been a great conversation,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: but you have lots to say about this world and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the way it's operating right now. What's new on your
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: mind with that?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 41: Boy, the flood the zone strategy really still is... Very,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 41: very much happening.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I love what you said last week, just by the way,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the permissions.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 41: Oh, yeah, the permission structure.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: The permission structure. And this is what I try to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: tell folks, and they don't completely understand. And if you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: missed last week, Hayward, can you just recap what the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: permission structure is from Donald Trump and that?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 41: It's sort of like what it sounds like, but it
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 41: comes down to this concept that If you push the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 41: envelope in this administration, regardless of your politics, you can
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 41: certainly admit this administration has been pushing a lot of envelopes.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 41: They've been testing the limits of their power, which, technically speaking,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 41: is their right to push the limits of that power.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 41: But it's dangerous territory, certainly in my opinion. But what
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 41: happens when you push the limits, you either hit a
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 41: brick wall or you get away with it. And when
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 41: you get away with it, that creates the permission structure.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 41: That creates a precedent. You can use that word as well.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 41: It creates a precedent for getting away with it in
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 41: the future. And when we surrender our principles, which I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 41: would argue we've been doing for a very long time,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 41: we get to places like where we're at now where
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 41: there are people in this administration who now reinvestigating Watergate
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 41: to find out if that was going too far, whereas
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 41: several decades ago that was a red line in the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 41: sand of, well, we can't have this. And so that
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 41: diminishing baseline of what is acceptable, in my opinion, is
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 41: not helpful.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Did you see any of the Jack Smith— hearings recently you.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 41: Know i'll tell you what i'm a little bit behind
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 41: on those because guess who's been working 12 hours.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah no i well i say that because you know
• 1:05:05
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  Speaker 41: About jack right and that's sort of the whole point
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  Speaker 41: though we many of us especially with this cost of
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  Speaker 41: in order to get away with just about everything.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 41: We talked about the kitty litter in the bathroom thing
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  Speaker 41: that ended up being some kind of a hoax, but
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  Speaker 41: think about how much time we spend talking about that.
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  Speaker 30: Think of how many.
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  Speaker 41: Gigabytes worth of storage exists of people arguing about this
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  Speaker 41: and multiply that times how many crises per day are
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  Speaker 41: we arguing about and how many of them are completely
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  Speaker 41: irrelevant to your daily life. How many distractions are out
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  Speaker 41: there in order to make you miss what's actually happening?
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  Speaker 30: That's scary.
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  Speaker 1: Too many. You know, I talk to a lot of folks,
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  Speaker 1: and that is exactly, I feel, this administration's MO. Like,
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  Speaker 1: is they just put everything out there to keep us all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking at the next and hottest story and
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  Speaker 30: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 41: And this abandonment of principle is something I've talked about
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  Speaker 41: quite a bit over the years. You know, I was
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  Speaker 41: very annoyed insofar as I can be annoyed about the
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  Speaker 41: conduct of a complete stranger. I was annoyed to see
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  Speaker 41: Hunter Biden having that overlap with Burisma Holdings, leveraging the
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  Speaker 41: connections with his father in order to do a myriad
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  Speaker 41: of corrupt things.
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  Speaker 30: I was annoyed by that.
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  Speaker 41: I was also annoyed, even though as a father I
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  Speaker 41: get it, that he pardoned his son at the end
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  Speaker 41: after saying he wouldn't.
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  Speaker 24: Like, I get it.
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  Speaker 41: Like, you have a son. However, it doesn't look good,
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  Speaker 41: and it creates a permission structure for what we have now,
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  Speaker 41: where the president's sons are making billions of dollars. We
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  Speaker 41: have a president now making more than any president has
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  Speaker 41: made in history, and you have The precedent set by
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  Speaker 41: previous administrations, everything goes a little bit along the way.
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  Speaker 41: So unless we have a serious reckoning, God only knows
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  Speaker 41: what the next administration, regardless of who's in charge, is.
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  Speaker 1: Going to hold. But as you said, it's been growing along.
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  Speaker 1: But this administration, I would say— skipped a couple here, right?
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  Speaker 1: It just jumped higher than the normal push. Am I
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  Speaker 1: wrong about that?
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  Speaker 41: Well, I think you're absolutely right in that, and that's
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  Speaker 41: for a couple of reasons. First of all, I think
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  Speaker 41: there's a parabolic slope here. In the same way that
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  Speaker 30: That slope gets so slippery that you just fall.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you come back? How do we come
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  Speaker 1: back from it? It's really hard. How do we do it?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have to burn it all down and start again?
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  Speaker 1: How does that work?
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  Speaker 41: Well, I have my sympathies toward resistance generally. However, historically speaking,
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  Speaker 41: politically speaking, anything now that we can do in a
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  Speaker 41: society as large and complex and interconnected as this is
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  Speaker 41: going to be an extremely hard lift. We sometimes build
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  Speaker 41: so much architecture on top of us that kicking out
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  Speaker 41: any one pillar or the other might crush us all.
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  Speaker 33: But.
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  Speaker 41: To not deviate from this trajectory is to get crushed
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  Speaker 41: by default. And that's scary as well. But again, to
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  Speaker 41: this president as well, something I think that is very
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  Speaker 41: different that characterizes why we have such a meteoric expansion.
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  Speaker 41: of government power, of pushing the limits, of seeing what
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  Speaker 41: you can do. One of the main reasons we have
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  Speaker 41: that is this is one of the first times we've
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  Speaker 41: had a businessman as a president. Now, without casting any
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  Speaker 41: you are used to having things happen at your command.
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  Speaker 41: power structure. I mean, you have your board of directors,
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  Speaker 41: resist this tendency toward the concentration of power in the
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  Speaker 41: of those person's value sets. And that's not to say
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  Speaker 9: You're not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're not wrong. And it's just, you know, you vote
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  Speaker 41: Yeah, you know, I often talk about the system as
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  Speaker 41: think about, again, I talk about these processes, these historical
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• 1:11:49
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  Speaker 1: I am well, and I know you are well. As
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: the Yankees roll forward, we can start a little right there.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 39: I want to tell you, all year, they can't. Every
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 39: game is.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: 2-1, 3-2. Pathetic.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 39: They get three hits. They're lucky to get a run.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 39: It's been a pathetic offensive year. We come in here
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 39: against two very good pitchers, Peyton Tolley and Sonny Gray.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 39: Sonny Gray, arguably... Could have been, could be the Cy
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 39: Young winner.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: 18 wins.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 39: Fantastic job this year. And we come in here and
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 39: we just annihilate those, those teams. Now we didn't annihilate
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 39: Peyton totally and Sonny Gray. We hit them and got
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 39: ahead of both of them. And then the Boston manager
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 39: pulled the plug way too quickly.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 39: And off we go with that bullpen. But yeah, the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 39: Yanks are great. They were great, but now we got to,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 39: a tough opponent starting tomorrow night in Tampa.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes. Well, you know, transitioning here
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot going on. You know, off air,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about polls. We talked about
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: Jack Smith. We talked about Iran. We just, you know,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: just kind of getting our juices flowing a little bit here.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: Where are we with all this? Where are we? What's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: going on?
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 39: Well, we're 32 days from the midterms, which are a
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 39: 100 percent referendum on Donald Trump. That's what it is.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 39: It's nothing but an up or down vote on Trump.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 39: And every poll everywhere, every indication that you get is
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 39: that a majority of people are voting thumbs down on
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 39: Trump and therefore on Republicans across the board. Yeah, some
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 39: Republicans will survive, obviously. I don't know that Susan Collins
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 39: is going to lose in Maine, for instance, because she's
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 39: got an independent name up there. But she's in a
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 39: tough race just because Trump's the head of the Republican Party,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 39: and she has voted for most things with Trump. So
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 39: that's what it is. On every issue, the Iran war,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 39: cost of gas, diesel, groceries, rent, Every single thing, tariffs,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 39: everything he's done is being blamed for the lousy economy
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 39: that 75% of us are suffering through. 25% are making
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 39: money hand over fist and good for them. And I'm
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 39: not one that believes in bashing people who are doing well.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 39: We all want to do well. But the problem is
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 39: it looks like the administration tilts towards those people. And
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 39: that's why Trump's in deep political trouble. That Associated Press
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 39: poll yesterday has got a 31 percent approval rating. That's
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 39: the lowest since either George W. Bush, when he was
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 39: leaving office in 2008 and 2009. I think he was
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 39: at 26 percent. And I think Nixon was at 26
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 39: percent the day he got on a helicopter and quit.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 39: And Trump is getting in that territory.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what, you know, what would
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: what would need to happen? You know, if you were,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: you know, Trump's advisor, what what what what should he
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: do right now to get that back on track?
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 39: Well, I guess two ways for now. I mean, here's
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 39: the thing. They're voting already a little bit in some
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 39: states by mail. And early voting begins in another week
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 39: or two in many states. Three weeks from now, we
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 39: start here. We have 10 days of early voting in
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 39: New York. That's in-person early voting. But you can get
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 39: your mail-in ballot now in many states, including here in
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 39: New York. And so they're already voting. And the numbers
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 39: on who's requesting a ballot came out this week, and
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 39: it shows a huge Democratic uptick. from 2024 and 2022. Interesting.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 39: So the enthusiasm is on the Democratic side to come
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 39: out and stick it to Trump. And on the other side,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 39: the Republicans, the MAGA, all of them, they're dispirited, beaten down,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 39: not particularly happy with anything. The economy affects them just
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 39: as much. And I think that's the two things. Increased
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 39: Democratic turnout, decreased Republican turnout, And independents are like 65-35
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 39: voting Democrat at this time.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: You know, all right, let's hypothetical think here a little bit.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: So let's say the blue wave comes through, and let's say,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: you know, the House and the Senate go Democratic. You know,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: there are thoughts of like a deep MAGA, a dark
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: MAGA type thing where they've already thought this through. where
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: at that point, you know, this administration may, you know, say, hey,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: it was rigged, an outside force, you know, everything was wrong,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: and then mire the states that are in blue in
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: litigation and then ultimately not seat them. You hear anything
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 39: Well, it's been talked about, sure. I've seen it for
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 39: a year. One of the possible plans of Trump First,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 39: they try to intimidate people by putting ICE and OPS
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 39: and FBI at polling places. And by the way, he
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 39: tried to interfere through the courts to take over mail-in
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 39: voting by the federal government. The courts said, forget it.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 39: That's not happening. All this other stuff about putting armed officers, which,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 39: by the way, is against the law.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 39: Inside polling stations, that's never going to happen. More of
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 39: this stuff they do, first of all, tells us how
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 39: desperate they are and how they're losing. They wouldn't be
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 39: talking about doing that if they felt they were going
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 39: to do well on November 3rd. They know they're going
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 39: to get their ass handed to them. And so all that. Now,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 39: the seating afterwards, tricky situation, because ultimately each legislative body
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 39: decides in the end whether someone gets seated or not.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 39: If the Democrats have a big win, you know, not
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 39: by one vote, but I mean, if it's not, if
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 39: it's fairly clear in the popular vote, In many districts
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 39: and states, none of that post-election stuff is going to happen.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 49: Right.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 39: But, you know, I don't rule it out. Look, what's
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 39: going on since Trump got into this thing years ago?
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 39: The courts always find against him and the Republicans when
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 39: they try these shenanigans.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: Well, not always, though, because if you look at the
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Jack Smith hearings, right, the Supreme Court did side with
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump on that, right, on his immunity clause. What
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: did you think of the Jack Smith hearings, if you
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: saw them?
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 39: I watched the whole morning. It ended about 1 o'clock.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 39: I thought Eric Schmidt revealed himself to be an idiot,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 39: and he is an idiot, and he'll never live it down.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 39: Because he's a stupid man. He could live it down.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 39: If he came out right after and said, I really
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 39: blew it, and he made fun of himself and laughed
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 39: at himself, you can get away. You can overcome any mistake.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 39: America's a forgiving place. But instead, he's doubled down. He
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 39: said he won the day. It proved what he wanted.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 39: And now I heard this morning he's canceling all interviews
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 39: with the media. So he's clearly gotten a word that
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 39: it isn't working for him.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: Because he was lying, or he didn't have his facts right,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: any way you want to put it, right?
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 39: Well, I think it's outrageous. This is a guy that's
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 39: defending— I' m talking about Eric Schmidt. He's defending cop beaters on
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 39: January 6th. And he's attacking as a quote-unquote dirtbag. the
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 39: federal prosecutor who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 39: who was asked to prosecute this case. You know, it's
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 39: beyond me, and hopefully it's the end of Eric Schmidt.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 39: I think he's an embarrassment.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I had the same takeaways from that. To
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: say it's comical is just satire. It was just so poignant.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 50: Poor.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: It was just poor. I want better. Like, you know,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: I want better.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 39: Let's see if it reveals something else, because the hearing,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 39: when the questioning began after the opening statements, the chairman,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 39: Chuck Grassley, age 92, he, in his 10 minutes of questioning,
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 39: opens up this line of questioning of, have you ever
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 39: received counseling or advice or discussed any of this with
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 39: former CIA director John Brennan.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 39: Now, what the hell is that all about? Because right away,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 39: Jack Spence said, I've never met John Brennan, never talked
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 39: to him. That was another conspiracy theory in the works
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 39: that someone had fed to Grassley, like someone fed this
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 39: Atlanta Hawks basketball thing and Bonnie Willis to Eric Schmidt.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 39: And that's the problem with the modern-day Republican Party and
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 39: Fox News, Newsmax, and the Internet is that they live
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 39: in a world of manufactured, untrue conspiracy theories. And they
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 39: revel in these things. And so the more elaborate the conspiracy,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 39: you put it to them, and they believe it and
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 39: go down these rabbit holes without any facts. And that's
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 39: why he was exposed as an idiot on Wednesday.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't like I don't like these rabbit holes,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: these idiots, these these people that push, you know, these
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: these unproven theories. But listen, to be fair.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: It happens on both sides.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: This isn't the first time this has happened. It just
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: seems with this administration, it it it leaps, you know,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: above and beyond we've ever where we've ever been. Right.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 39: I don't know that it happens on both sides. I
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 39: don't think there's a huge conspiracy machine on the Democratic side.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 39: I'm a Republican. I'm not defending Democrats.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: No, I know.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 39: I've never seen anything like this until Trump and Fox
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 39: got married to each other.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 27: Yes.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 39: And Fox, where I worked for five years, they didn't
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 39: do conspiracies. They had legitimate news stories about legitimate reporters
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 39: on there running the place, too. And something happened after
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 39: Trump became president where Fox became part of the White
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 39: House press operation, and Sean Hannity became the White House
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 39: de facto press secretary. And we start calling out, you know,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 39: Pizzagate and all this stuff. And by the way, the
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 39: biggest conspiracy of them all, which may very well be true,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 39: is the Epstein stuff.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 49: Yes, yes.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 39: Because that came from the right, yet it's about right-wing people,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 39: and it's about the biggest abuser in the Epstein story,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 39: who's in the files more than anybody else, is, oh,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 39: Donald Trump.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: I know, I know. I know, I know. So, you know,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: why then? So we're at Donald Trump's second term, and
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: we're about two years in, or almost. And, you know,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: about to become arguably a lame duck, right? So why
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: are they still, you know, kind of falling on their sword, right?
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: And losing credibility and their job and their career over
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: this guy?
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 39: Because Trump still is enormously popular among the Republican base.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 39: So whatever Republicans there are, he gets... He was up
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 39: at 92 percent in these latest polls. He's lower. He's
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 39: at 80, 73 percent, somewhere in there. But that's still
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 39: a lot of people inside the Republican Party who are
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 39: totally devoted to Trump. And if you're a congressman or
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 39: a senator, you're under you have come to realize that
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 39: your voters that voted for you to elect you in
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 39: your state or your district. They actually are more loyal
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 39: to Trump than they are to you.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 39: So you don't want to cross Trump. You don't want
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 39: Trump coming after you like he does. And they're afraid
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 39: of him. And businesses are afraid of him because he
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 39: can drive the stock price down of a company with
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 39: one tweet, which is now a true social posting.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 39: That's why they've all sucked up to him, said, I
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 39: don't want to take him on. I'll pay them off instead.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 39: And they blowed the money into corrupt Donald Trump.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 20: Amazing.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing. And you hear the rumbling still of a
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: Trump third term, right? You hear these rumblings. Forget it.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Nothing's happening, right? A.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 39: It's illegal. B, nobody wants it. C, he even is
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 39: talking about who's going to be the nominee in 2028?
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 39: Is it going to be Vance? Is it going to
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 39: be Rubio?
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 39: It's his acknowledgement. It's not going to be him.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 39: So there are no rumblings to get.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 39: He would get beaten anyway.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: No, I get you. John LeBoulier on with us, you know,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: you know, really, really hitting hard on what's happening. And, and,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's just, I just look at it all. And,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like, you know, part of me just
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: like I want it. I want to burn it down
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: and start again, but I don't know how. Like, how
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: do you get out of the corruption loop that we're
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: in right now? I mean, the permissions of what this
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: administration has allowed to now happen in real time where
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: we're getting all these all this stuff that is insane,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: as you were just talking about. How do we stop
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: it and go backwards and get it to where it was?
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: Can it even be stopped?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 39: The people speak. That's how the country runs. The people
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 39: are going to speak in the midterm election. The two
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 39: biggest issues, the polling shows it, we'll see for sure
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 39: when real votes are cast, but are cost and corruption.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 39: The people aren't dumb. They see all the stuff going on.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 39: They're getting poorer while Trump and his family are getting richer,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 39: and they don't like it. And they probably wouldn't be
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 39: upset as much if they, too, were doing well financially.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 39: They'd tolerate it.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 4: It.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 39: At least the thing's working. I got more money in
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 39: my pocket, so I can't really worry about what Trump's doing.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 39: But when I don't have more money in my pocket,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 39: And I see him rolling around in gold all over
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 39: the place.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 39: And his kid doing great and his son having his wedding.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: I think his family is making the most money of
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: any political family ever.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 39: By the way, no political family ever made any money
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 39: while they're in the White House. It never happened. No president.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 39: My God, this guy has done more stock trades in
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 39: the last year and a half. More stock trades. First
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 39: of all, no president ever made any stock trades until
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 39: Trump came along, because they all put their money in
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 39: a blind trust and don't pay any attention because they're
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 39: too busy doing the job. Trump, who has told people,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 39: I want to make money on the deal, he has
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 39: made more stock trades in a year and a half
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 39: than all 535 members of Congress combined. I mean, it's
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 39: just— And the answer is none of them should be
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 39: making stock trades while they're in elected office.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 50: None of them.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 23: I know.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 39: It should all be banned by everybody out. You're going
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 39: to stop it. You ask, you know, what can be done.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 39: The people are going to speak. And then whoever wins
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 39: this election, if we're right, that is on costs and corruption.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 39: They've got to get to work legislatively and put in
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 39: new laws to prevent as much of this as can
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 39: be prevented.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 39: They have to do it.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. John, thank you again for joining me today. Great, Steve.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: It really is a pleasure to chat with you. I
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: look forward to chatting with you again next week. I'm
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: Steve Elsie. We'll be back.
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  Speaker 42: And like what happened in your life that maybe you
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: Right.
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  Speaker 1: He would be on my team.
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  Speaker 42: I'm on your team, man.
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• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: So they'll say they want animals. They say they want
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: to protect everything like that, but then when it gets to,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's let the CO2 happen. Let's light
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: up the world. Let's make... environmental regions disappear and kill
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: animals because of the all-important dollar. So here's the thing.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: If you're going to walk the walk, if you're going
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: to actually be an advocate for something, then it just
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't start at one level. It actually trickles up. And
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: so what is killing? If you're going to love animals
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: and you hate that they're being killed and their environments
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: are being destroyed, we've got to ask why. And you've
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: got to address that issue. And if you're not willing
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: to address that issue, which is a democratic thing, then
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: you go the other way. And that's fine. And there's
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying that's where the
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: metal hits the road right there, right? That's where you've
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: got to go, right? And so that's... And this is where, like,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: you can say to me, I'm on your team, right?
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: But then when they go up and up and up,
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: you're not so much on my team, right?
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 42: You know, it's really... I think Lee can have this
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 42: fight better with you than I can. I'm here to
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 42: talk about events, man.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 49: with that, let's get to those events.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: Because, Barb, you know, you have been doing events in
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: New London for quite some time. And this is like
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: hot off the press.
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  Speaker 54: We also don't want to see people suffer or watch
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 54: homeless folks struggle or people go hungry, but the difference
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 54: is that Republicans want to help people help themselves and
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 54: Democrats want to simply use other people's resources to help
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 54: less fortunate. Yes, Lee likes animals and the environment, but
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 54: weight windmills and turbines kill birds of prey and whales.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 54: Solar farms lay waste to open space. So what the
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 54: left is doing is flawed.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm just going to say one thing about
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: that flawed philosophy. Let's just say the windmill kills birds.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 23: All right.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: So the smokestacks that float across all of America, like,
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't kill birds. I mean, come on.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: You can't have your cake and eat it too, right?
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 9: Once again.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: You can't have your cake and eat it too. If
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to say windmill kills birds and not smokestacks
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: and CO2 doesn't kill animals... Then you got a problem.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: So anyway, let's go back and out of the AI
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: and let's talk about what's amazing happening in New London and, Barb,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: all kinds of events. Let's bring it back home. And, Barb,
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: what's happening? Seriously.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 42: So we start off next Wednesday, which is going to
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 42: be a beautiful day. Um, with the food stroll. And
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 42: so new London's bringing back the food stroll and we
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 42: have tickets available online at downtown new London.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: So people know what is the food stroll?
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 42: So the food stroll is you buy a ticket and
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 42: you go to over 20 different restaurants and get samples
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 42: of food.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 42: And so you walk about three miles.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: You walk off the food that you eat. You do.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 42: And there's everything from Ecuadorian food to Indian food to
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 42: popcorn to you have a beer. And so once you
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 42: buy the ticket, it's all free. And there's a little
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 42: map downtown, and I just looked at the weather, and
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 42: it's going to be beautiful. And so it'll be a
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 42: great night to spend in downtown London.
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  Speaker 1: I have been on this multiple times in the years,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: and it is so fun. I mean, the vibe in
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: downtown London with everybody walking the streets is awesome. And
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: all the vendors outside sort of handing you all kinds
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: of food. And there's also entertainment, right?
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 42: Yes, I have. Thor is going to be playing music downtown. Yeah,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 42: he's going to be. And I have some witches that
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 42: will be doing a flash mob downtown.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 27: Yeah.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 42: So we have stuff going on.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah. So there's all kinds of things.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: And it really it almost resembles a festival. It's fun.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 42: And, you know, it's great when the weather's great. You know,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 42: you walk around downtown, you see everybody down there that,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 42: you know, usually the mayor and the counselors will walk
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 42: around down down there and during the stroll.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: So, you know, no, it's great. And it's it's it's
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: a big hit for New London. So if you had.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: So where does one get tickets for this?
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 42: So you can go to the DowntownNewLondonAssociation.com and purchase a
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 42: ticket online. And then you get bracelets, and you come
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 42: to my office and pick up the bracelet, and you stroll.
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  Speaker 24: All right.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: So if you can't go online, is there a way
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: you can do it just by walking there?
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: Is there some way to do it?
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 42: The day of the event, which is Wednesday at 4.30,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 42: you can purchase tickets.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 42: You can come to the office and purchase tickets that way.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: So any way, shape, or form, you get down there,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: you can get a ticket, and you can be part
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: of this.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 33: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of the restaurants already, and
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: we've been, you know, since I work in New London, I've...
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: I chat with them about it, and they're pretty excited
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: about it. Even the restaurant, like, you know, it's a
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: good vibe. It really is.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 42: Yeah, I was just talking to Harbor Cantina, which is downtown,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 42: and they're an Ecuadorian restaurant, and they're doing ceviche two
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 42: different ways. So you get to try that, which is great.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 42: We have the hygienic that's doing oxtail mac and cheese. So,
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 42: you know, you'll have different things. The social is.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: Come hungry, right? Right.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 42: The social is doing... Cheddar Gouda mac and cheese with
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 42: a short rib on top.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: You had me at the Gouda. You had me at
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: the Gouda. All right, so you have this next Wednesday,
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: the food stroll. So what else is happening in your world?
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 42: Well, I have this company called Uncovering New London, and
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 42: we are doing historic haunted tours for the month of October.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 42: Love it! And I got this new person, Dosen, that's
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 42: going to lead it. And we're training him right now.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Do I know him?
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 42: You do know him.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: Might it be me? Yes, it's you. It's my introduction
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: to acting. I'm an actor.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: I'm an actor.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to give him a... I actually... A
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: fun story for everyone. So I met Barb down... you know,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: down in new London waterfront and to go, what I
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: thought was just going to go over what it is that,
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: you know, the roots and just sort of talk about
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: it and everything. And she sits down and she says,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to time you. And I went,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: and I went, wait, uh, time me. Oh, you want
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: me to do the tour now? Like right now? And
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: she's like, yeah.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 49: And she sits down and crosses her legs and she
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 49: goes with the watch. I'm like, all right, let's go.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 49: Talk about jumping into the fire. But no, we had
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 49: a good time and we learned a lot. And I
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 49: learned a lot, actually. And Barbara really has this stuff.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 49: It's a machine.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: I was on her. What was it? The Revolutionary Tour?
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: OK. Which I thought was fantastic with Benedict Arnold and
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: this one. The scripts that I have here are just awesome.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: New London is just rich with all kinds of history
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: and hauntings and just things.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 27: Right.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 42: And it's really fun. I don't give the tours. I
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 42: just promote the tours and sell the tickets and do
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 42: that kind of thing. But October, let's see, we're doing
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 42: the haunted tours on Friday night. So the next one
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 42: is October 9th.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: And how do they get tickets for these tours?
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 42: UncoveringNewLondon.com. You go online and there is a schedule there
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 42: and you buy a ticket and it's $ 25 and you
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 42: go on a 90-minute walk in downtown New London and
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 42: we show you all the beautiful buildings downtown and give
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 42: you a little bit of history and maybe tell you
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 42: some haunted stories.
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely a walk. So make sure that you
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: realize that it's, you know, it's a little bit of
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: a walk.
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 42: It's three quarters of a mile.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 24: There you go.
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  Speaker 42: See, I have all that. I got it all.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: She's got all of that.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: And then so after the after this Halloween haunting season,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: is there another one in the works already?
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 42: So we also have some we still have some American
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 42: Revolutionary and some Gilded Age tours that happens on Saturdays
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 42: and Sundays. And those are at 10 o'clock in the morning.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 42: So we run to the end of October.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 42: And then I go into Christmas because I love Christmas.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. We talked a little bit about it yesterday.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 42: I love Christmas. So I have, if you have a
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 42: Jeep out there, we do a lighted Jeep parade the
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 42: Friday after Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 42: We start at Shaw's Cove, and we bring Santa in,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 42: and we light the Christmas tree, and we have Christmas carols,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 42: and we have Santa, and we decorate downtown. So I'm
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 42: working on that for this year.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: Downtown New London gets decorated, right? And it looks great.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, it just has this feeling, like, with
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: all the lights come up and the wreaths and the vibe.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It really looks great. I think you
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: did a good job.
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  Speaker 42: When we have the old buildings and things like that,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 42: it gives you, like, this nostalgic feeling down there when
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 42: you walk down there.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 27: Yep.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 42: Christmas.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's great. So that tour is great. I'm happy
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: to be trying my hand at it. And it was
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: a very funny day yesterday on how that all worked.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: And now I know better. I know I had some
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: work to do. But no, so that's good. So that's
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: going to play in.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: Heavily with the new Coast Guard Museum, right?
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 42: Actually, we're working on a tour right now, doing some
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 42: research about doing an actual Coast Guard tour, talking about
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 42: people that were in the Coast Guard. And as you
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 42: might or might not know, the owner of the roadhouse,
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 42: Tom Crosby, his dad was in the Coast Guard. And
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 42: when you walked into the roadhouse... It had a lot
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 42: of memorabilia. So we're going to start. We're going to
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 42: talk about him and we're going to talk about some
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 42: other people that were in the Coast Guard. And we're
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 42: actually doing a Coast Guard tour. So maybe you go
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 42: into the Coast Guard Museum, but then you want to
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 42: learn some more about the people. We do American Revolutionary,
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 42: Gilded Age, Black History because it's Black History Trail downtown.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 24: Yeah, there is.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 42: They just put up two new markers down there.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't see them.
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 42: Yep.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 26: Take a look.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yep.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 42: Barclay Hendricks was one. And then there was another one
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 42: put on the waterfront. It had to do with the Pequots.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 24: Oh, the Pequots.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: That's right. There's so much in New London history of
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: things to talk about and just stories.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: You know, you've got your hands full. I mean, you
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: can create. You can just, I mean, endless. It's, you know, almost.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 42: So somebody called me the other day and was telling
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 42: me about this woman who was an Irish woman in
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 42: New London. And so they said, you should do a
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 42: tour about her. And we started researching her. And my
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 42: historian and myself, like, we had never heard this story.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 42: So maybe for St. Patrick's Day, we're going to do
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 42: a story about this woman. Fire departments are also pretty
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 42: good in New London. There were tons of fire departments
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 42: in New London.
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: I have friends whose relatives were in the fire department.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: you know, in New London that go back and back.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: And there is a big history of fire departments there.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: That might be something to think about too, you know.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 42: Well, we're also doing bus tours. So if you have
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 42: more than six people and you don't want to do
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 42: the walk, we can put you on a bus and
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 42: we can actually do all of New London. So we've
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 42: done that too. We've had groups that have come down
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 42: and want to do a Gilded Age tour where we
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 42: go to Harkness and we go, to the south end
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 42: of New London and do that. We've done that quite
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 42: a few times.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: Recently, of course, you did the Maritime Festival.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 42: Yes, that you participated in.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to circle back there. That was an
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: amazing festival. Everything was just... The day, for starters, was great.
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: It was beautiful. But all the entertainment, all the vendors,
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: the vibe, the boats, the ships, the drone show... you know,
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: if you're up to me, did you see the drone show? Yeah.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: If it was up to me, I would get rid
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: of fireworks and just have drone show.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 42: I know it was cool.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: It was really, I mean, it's like, it's, it's, it's
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: unique and it can be personalized. I think.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 42: Yes, it can be.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: And so, uh, especially from new London, all this stuff
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: that we're talking about, um, you know, could all be
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: brought up, brought to life, like right over the Thames river. Uh,
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I, I, I find it amazing and limitless, uh,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: And that was only, what, 350 drones?
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 49: No.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 24: Yeah, it was.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 3: It started off.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 42: Yeah, it was like 300... It was 300 drones, and
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 42: then we got a sponsor, so we ended up adding
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 42: some to.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 33: Yeah.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 42: So it was about 400 drones when we were done.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: Where I, you know, I didn't have, was it set
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: to music? Because that I don't know.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 10: So.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: Because that would be awesome. And I just happen to
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: know a musician who might be able to set that
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: stuff to music for you.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 42: So what we did is we actually played patriotic music
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 42: at our main stage.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 49: Yeah.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 42: During the show.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 42: You could put music to it. It's like a firework show.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 42: You can put music to it. We were, there was
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 42: a lot of creative changes at the end, and so
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 42: we couldn't put music to it. And that's like a,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 42: you guys. It took 14 hours to download that show.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, 14 hours.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 42: Once you created it. I mean, it was.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: The servers were going nuts.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 42: It was, that show was a, the show we did
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 42: last year was a 14 minute show, which is really like,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 42: For people, you know, that's a good long show for
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 42: people to sit there and pay attention to something.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 42: But this one was a 19-minute and 10-second show.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: 20 minutes seems about right for that sort of thing.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: You can get that to work.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 42: That's long, though. But people are going to come.
• 2:10:43
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Steve Elsie here.
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  Speaker 1: And the final 30 minutes of my time. And I
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  Speaker 1: am joined by the incredible community man himself, Mike Brissetto. Mike,
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  Speaker 4: I'm great. Good morning, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. What's happening, man? What's the word?
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  Speaker 4: You know, the community, right?
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  Speaker 26: Like you do and Barbara Neff and your brother and
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  Speaker 26: all these other great people. Day Futures, we have a walk.
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  Speaker 26: I'm the honorary chairperson for the walk.
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  Speaker 4: And that's this Sunday.
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  Speaker 26: This Sunday at the Arnold Hall Memorial Park, otherwise known
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  Speaker 26: as the Duck Pond in Waterford. And, you know, get
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  Speaker 26: there around 8. And I say this as candidly as
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  Speaker 26: I can.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to walk.
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  Speaker 1: Just go.
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  Speaker 4: Go say hi to everyone.
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  Speaker 26: Show your support.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a walk-a-thon.
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  Speaker 26: You have to walk 52 miles.
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  Speaker 4: You can either talk or you can walk. Either one.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just a A good.
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  Speaker 26: Reason to come together and say, listen, basically the message,
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  Speaker 26: keep your hands to yourself. I mean, that's the best
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  Speaker 26: way I can do it, Steve, is say, you know,
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  Speaker 26: issue that just about 30 to 40 percent of all
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  Speaker 26: violence related. So, State Futures Walk, this upcoming Sunday, you
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  Speaker 26: don't have to pre-register.
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  Speaker 4: You can show up. You can walk. You can talk.
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• 2:22:46
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  Speaker 26: So, very excited to, I hate to have it, but
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 26: very excited to get all the people together.
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  Speaker 1: And this isn't the first time you've had it either.
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  Speaker 1: You've had it. This has been a huge success for
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: years now, correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it's grown.
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  Speaker 26: And, you know, from this stemmed conversations, which is all people,
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  Speaker 26: you know, usually ask for. Let's just get the conversation started.
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  Speaker 26: And some conversations are lengthy.
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  Speaker 4: It takes time.
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  Speaker 26: And, you know, different issues take different amounts of time.
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  Speaker 26: And this one certainly has morphed into a family justice center,
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  Speaker 26: which will be coming to Waterford.
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  Speaker 4: And that is special. There's only a few around.
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  Speaker 26: The entire country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 26: And as an example, someone who is a victim of
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 26: domestic violence, they perhaps had to go to 10 different
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 26: agencies and 10 different buildings to get the help they need.
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  Speaker 26: This will all be wrapped into one, Steve.
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 4: So conversations led to this. There's a need.
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  Speaker 26: The state of Connecticut has helped them with funding. But again,
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 26: they're a nonprofit. So they're just like everyone else who's
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 26: I hate to say fighting.
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  Speaker 50: For the dollars, but, you know, just trying to say, hey,
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  Speaker 50: look at me. You know, this is what we do.
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  Speaker 4: So very proud to be part of that organization.
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  Speaker 26: Then another one coming up October 18th is Cans to.
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  Speaker 26: Two great people from the town of Waterford, Dan Stewart
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  Speaker 26: And whether you like them, don't like them, disagree with them,
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 26: whatever party they belong to, they did it. And years
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 26: and years and decades of countless hours. Another successful event,
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 26: which the drop-off will be at Philomena's, Steve, which, by
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  Speaker 26: the way, in case you get lost, 262 Boston Post Road, Waterford, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing. And their drop-off is Cans. It's Cans Foods. It's
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 26: On Sunday, October 18th.
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: October 18th.
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  Speaker 26: So a couple nice things to do, you know, that
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 26: people can join in and do their part. And I
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 26: say this to all of your listeners.
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 50: Is, Whatever you can do.
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 26: And it could be, hey, I can give this person
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  Speaker 26: a ride.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I know somebody over here. It doesn't have to
• 2:25:02
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  Speaker 26: It could be like, you know how they say, pack
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  Speaker 4: Go there.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 26: There'll be victims speaking, you know, at the walk. There'll
• 2:25:12
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• 2:25:15
  Speaker 26: be just regular kids, you know, from colleges there participating.
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 26: And then the cancer, then we stock the stands. So
• 2:25:23
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• 2:25:24
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome. And, you know, this is what's great. And,
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  Speaker 1: Mike is the owner of Philomena's in Waterford, and it
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  Speaker 1: how that goes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I change it, Steve, all the time. Like I'll
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  Speaker 4: say it. Hey, great menu, flexible.
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  Speaker 1: Venue because we have three event rooms.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 50: Not that that has anything to do with you.
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  Speaker 4: Because I don't know what you know about live music.
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  Speaker 50: But anyway, you know, we.
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  Speaker 4: Have it there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and it's great. And I guess my point, too, is,
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: you know, these events that you're doing, you know, this
• 2:26:11
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• 2:26:13
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  Speaker 1: and in any crisis that comes up, whether it had
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: been COVID or a hurricane, you know, whatever, you're the
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: first one out there helping the community in some way, shape,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: or form. And, you know, it's amazing. And it doesn't
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: go unnoticed by everyone. I'm just letting you know that.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 26: I appreciate that very much. And you and your family
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 26: have been always a part of that.
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 4: And we have the same ideals. And, you know, we've
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 4: got to help people.
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 50: And some people just, you know, need a bump, need
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 50: a little boost.
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 4: I find this, Stephen. I don't know if you do.
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 26: But people are kind of on the simple, hey, I
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 26: just want a little bite to eat. I just want
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 26: to be left alone and have some comfort in my life.
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 50: So when those bumpy roads hit, we got to be there.
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 4: And truthfully, one of my.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 26: Proudest moments in business was when COVID hit. And the
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 26: despair and the look of confusion and just people lost hope.
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 4: And I said, no way.
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 26: And I remember 250 nurses and doctors coming from Bacchus
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 26: and L & M at the.
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 4: Time, Yale.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 26: And they drove in through Philomena's, no questions asked. We
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 26: just said, show me a badge. I guess that's a question,
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 26: just so we knew. And they were handed a a ham,
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 26: a bottle of wine, Girl Scout cookies, because the Girl
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 26: Scouts couldn't sell their cookies, so we bought them from
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 26: the Girl Scouts, and a pineapple. And so that was
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 26: a big deal. And people still today remember that.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 4: It was just something like, hey, we got this.
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 50: We're going to be there.
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 26: And listen, statute of limitations, I hope it's worn off,
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 26: but at the time, you couldn't get hams.
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 26: And so I found a guy, being Italian, who diverted
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 26: some hams, 250.
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 4: Just for that cause.
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 26: And he's like, Mike, these got to go to Costco.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 4: And this one and that one.
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 26: I go, nah, let's drop a truck off at Filomena's.
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 26: And I convinced a major supplier that the veterans could
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 26: use some hams that are nurses and healthcare workers and
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 26: and so forth, and it was a great moment for
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 26: me and a great moment for the community. So on
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 26: behalf of myself, my family, you know, my team, you.
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 4: Know, thank you so much to all.
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 26: The donors who helped me because it wasn't just me.
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 26: It was, you know, people like Benvenuti Oil and people
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 26: like Cactus Jack Foundation and all of these great groups
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 26: to help everybody.
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 4: So thank you again.
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: And you mentioned it just a second ago is vets.
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: You do a lot with vets, don't you?
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 4: A lot of events.
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 26: I just want to tell you this, Steve, that to
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 26: the veterans who have not been to Philomena's, I can
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 26: tell you that Congressman Courtney has been to Philomena's.
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 4: Both governors, well, Ned Lamont has been there twice.
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 26: Fazio has been there twice to Philomena's to check out
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 26: what we're doing to see the effect we have on
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 26: the community because we're more than a restaurant. And so
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 26: the veterans, we do a breakfast, complimentary breakfast, second Tuesday
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 26: of every month. And it has become the largest in
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 26: eastern Connecticut. Again, something I'm proud of.
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 4: And then, you know, people sponsor that as well. People
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 4: from the shack, they sponsor it.
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 26: Flanders, out of East Lyme, incredible people. They talk about
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 26: how good their donuts and bagels are. The people, incredible. So, like,
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 26: people join in.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 4: Tom Garbati roofing, you know, and he joins in.
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 26: And all of a sudden, I got to tell you
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 26: this quick story about Tom. Very generous guy. He says, Mike,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 26: how about I get some sweatshirts for the guys and gals.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 4: You know, the vets? And I go, yeah, that'd be great.
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 26: And I didn't really tell him how many people go, Steve.
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 50: So I called him the next day.
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 4: I go, okay, 75 hats and 75 sweatshirts. And he's like, oh, okay.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 26: But no, Tom was ready, willing, and able to do it.
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good guy.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 4: He proudly did it.
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 26: And to see the, you know, the vets wearing the
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 26: sweatshirts and the hats in the winter, it's pretty awesome.
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 26: So it's meant to be, you know.
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 4: Some place.
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 26: That they cherish someplace that they can go to and.
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 4: Just have, you know, find comfort. And we laugh and
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 4: we joke.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 45: Yeah.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 50: It's not meant to be, you know, we're not.
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 26: Talking about homelessness vets and vets on drugs.
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 4: I don't do that. I uplift.
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 26: And let's talk about what's good in the world.
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 50: Let's talk about what's good in their world.
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 26: And let's see how we can, you know, combine our
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 26: efforts and enthusiasm to make a difference.
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 4: So, yeah. So to the veterans, yeah. please come, show up,
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 4: bring a friend.
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: I'll fill you in.
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 26: It's really a special time. And so very proud of
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 26: that as well. And we can go on, Terry Broder and,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 26: you know, New London High School football, Fitch football. It
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 26: just keeps going. And because, you know, the people who
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 26: know that people will support them if they hold an
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 26: event at Philo's because the community has been really so
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 26: supportive So, so generous to anything I've done, and my
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 26: daughter now is doing it more.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's great.
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 4: I just relax a.
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 26: Little bit down in Charleston, South Carolina, but don't think
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 26: I'm sleeping, Mr.
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 10: Elsie.
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 4: Never.
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: Do not think I'm sleeping. I would never think that.
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: All right. No, but I want to say, as I
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: told everybody this morning, is I'm taking a new job
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: for the Easter Seals up at Rally Point. And I'll
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: be dealing with veterans solely and helping them with technology, recreation,
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: computer work, building resumes, and getting back into the force.
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: So maybe we can have a little bit of a
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: conversation at some point. Maybe I can help get a
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: lot more people to Philomena's.
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 4: I would love that.
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 26: And what I would offer you too, Steve, is if
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 26: you'd like to speak.
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 4: In front of the group or bring when you get hired.
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 26: Did they do a background check on you, by the way?
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: Not yet. I'm a little nervous about that, to be
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: honest with you.
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 50: That hasn't come through, okay, because I didn't.
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 4: Get any calls. I'm just letting you know.
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: Might not happen.
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 4: Stay in the job market, okay? But no, it's good.
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 50: They got a good catch. They got a good man.
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 50: But you can speak to them and leave pamphlets, and
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 50: they may.
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 4: Sign up.
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 50: They may say, oh, my God, I.
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 4: Could, you know, I have a.
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 26: Brother or cousin who could.
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 4: So, please, second Tuesday.
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 26: Oh, it's at 9 a.m., Steve, for all the listeners
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 26: and you.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 4: We'd like to collaborate. So that's great. Congratulations. Right.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: No, it's great. And I know, you know, above all
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: the community stuff that you do, you're still also out
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: in the town and a bit political. And I've seen
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: a couple of posts recently from yours, you know, from
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: New London and other places and trying to clean up
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: place and putting your opinions in on a lot of things.
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 27: Yeah.
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think about all that? Yeah.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 26: Politics, it's not really a party. And I got to
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 26: tell you, it's really not that fun.
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 4: I've been in it.
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 26: I'm around it. And when people say, oh, this party,
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 26: that party, it's really not a party.
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 4: It's not fun.
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 26: It's, you know, people don't like to cut education. People
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 26: don't like to, you know, cut, you know, to different
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 26: groups and Right. But at the same time, you have
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 26: to balance, right?
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 4: You have to balance.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 26: And that's the key word of, like, you know, taxpayers versus,
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 26: you know, people in need versus, you know, Waterford Beach.
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 4: Do you put money into that? Yeah.
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 50: You know, do you need new fields?
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 4: And so you can't have everything.
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 26: And so, you know, I say this. In the town
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 26: of Waterford, which I know real estate, that's one thing
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 26: I'll put my– I'm going to tap myself on the shoulder.
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 26: And Waterford is a very– probably the most reasonably priced
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 26: town in eastern Connecticut.
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why.
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 26: Marble, Ledger, New London, East Lyme, taxes are through the roof.
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 50: And many times, in many cases, Lake East Lyme, not only.
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 4: Is the taxes high, but the value of the home
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 4: is higher. So it's a double whammy. Waterford has done
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 4: a great job.
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 26: And I will say this, bipartisan, which is what I love.
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 50: I really have no idea who's who.
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 26: Except for the big names that are going for office
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 26: that are on the lawns every day. But other than that,
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 26: my family started Michael's Dairy, and my father started Michael's Arco.
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 4: I built a neighborhood in New London.
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 50: I really didn't ask them, people come in.
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 26: Are you Democrat, are you Republican, are you Green?
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 4: They're people.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 49: Yeah.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 26: And that's how we have to start to look at people.
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 26: And I wish there were no parties.
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 4: And people could just say that.
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: I wish that, too. There were no parties. I really do.
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: You just vote for the person and what they believe in. But,
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to, you know.
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 4: I think, Steve, our small town, we could do a pilot.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 4: We could do it.
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 26: Because, truthfully, there's no money coming down from the big,
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 26: you know, from the big state coffers of the Democratic
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 26: Party or the Republican Party. They're not getting funded huge
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 26: in our little town.
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 50: So I think we can do it.
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 4: I just, you know, take the label off and put
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 4: the names up there. Just see what happens. Like, don't
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 4: be afraid. We don't have to do stuff that we did.
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 26: The same way 75 years ago.
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 4: Or 100 years ago. Go for the person. Because once
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 4: you start doing that, it opens your eyes.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 26: Because truthfully, our friends and my friends, your friends, some people.
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 4: Just, they just vote. They're going all D or all R.
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 26: And sometimes that's not fair to the.
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 50: Candidate because they're like, wait a minute, I just, I'm
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 50: more like this.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 4: Than I am.
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 26: And it gets frustrating for them because, you know, unfortunately
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 26: they're lumped into a, you know, whatever basket people choose
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 26: to do without even talking to them.
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 26: Truthfully, I'm hopeful that, you know, people, there's debates and
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 26: people listen to them and form their ideas and, you know,
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 26: get to meet the person and.
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 50: Shoot them an email, shoot them a text.
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 26: Hey, I just need to clarify something because, Something that's
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 26: important to me may not be important to you, Steve,
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 26: or may not be important to Jane or Joe. Maybe
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 26: health care. I'm 55 years old, so now I'm looking
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 26: at health care for the next 10 years.
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 4: What am I doing?
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 26: What kind of coverage? But I'm not worried about college
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 26: loans anymore, which other people are. I bought a car,
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 26: and it's not a new car.
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 4: It's a used car, but I have five years.
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 50: So I'm not really worried about that.
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 4: But someone else.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 26: Their decision to buy a car now is coming up.
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 17: I know.
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 4: And that's on their mind. And then the housing.
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 26: Like, you know, people are trying to buy houses, but
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 26: there's other people with 3%.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 4: Loans that they're not getting out of the house.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 26: And so, you know, here's an idea for that, by
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 26: the way.
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 4: I got to give you an idea. Otherwise, I'm just talking.
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: All right. We got 90 seconds.
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 26: Let that mortgage be transferred over so people can move on.
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 26: If somebody's in a 3% mortgage and the other person
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 26: who's buying.
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 4: You know, is... has good credit or whatever, and.
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 26: It's not 8%, take.
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 4: The 3% off. I mean, do the 3%. Let the
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 4: bank say, you know what? We'll move that mortgage. You know,
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 4: reassign it to you.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 26: And I think that's a good way to open up
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 26: some more housing and some other ways.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 4: It can be done.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 50: It's just got to be creative.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 4: And look at you. You're a creative guy.
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a creative guy.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 10: You do.
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 4: You go to different things at different events.
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 26: You know, one day you're, You know, no Kings Parade
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 26: the next day.
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 4: You're doing a kid's event.
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I got something creative for you. Again, we're on
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: with Mike Bersetto finishing up right here. Here's my creative
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: thought for you for Philomena's real quick. This is it.
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I love the place. It's great, but it's
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: missing something, Mike. It's missing something. You want to know
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: what it's missing?
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 4: What?
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: You always call me Stevie Wonder, right? You're missing the
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder. The black bean burger with lettuce, tomato, and
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: a side of steak fries. The black bean burger. Stevie Wonder.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you'll sell about six of them.
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 27: Stevie Wonder.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 4: All right, at least.
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: You'll sell one. You'll sell one.
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 9: Maybe two. Maybe.
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe. Hey, you're motor bulls. I might get you for two.
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 9: I might get you for two.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: Mike, thanks for being on today. And thank you all
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: for listening. I'm Steve Elsie. We'll see you next week.