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February 20, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_20]: water town is a CBS news on the hour your home for original reporting I'm Cammy McCormick a stunning Supreme Court defeat for the president over his use of an emergency powers act to levied global tariffs.
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[SPEAKER_18]: I think you've got to put it right up there with some of the most significant losses a U.S. President has suffered in the Supreme Court's modern history.
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[SPEAKER_18]: CBS's Jad Crawl
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[SPEAKER_18]: The court is invalidating what was a cornerstone of the president's economic policy.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Yes, Trump has other ways, the president has other ways that he can kind of try to levy tariffs or other statutes, but those are much more limited.
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[SPEAKER_20]: The president called the decision on a disgrace, CBS's Edo Keith at the White House.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This rises above partisan politics and is about constitutional interpretation of the
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are living, the Trump era is, the greatest living, breathing, constitutional exercise this country has ever gone through with the constant question of can he do that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's also the should he do that, but there's the can he do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we got a very clear answer from the Supreme Court today on the underlying question of who gets to impose tariffs, the answer is Congress.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Trump himself is called the case, one of the most important menu as history.
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[SPEAKER_20]: A spokesman for the European Union said today they are setting the decision and remain in close contact with the Trump administration, as it seeks clarity on the response.
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[SPEAKER_20]: There was some disappointing economic news out today showing the economy growing at a slower rate than expected, Michael Wallace reports.
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[SPEAKER_16]: Gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of just 1.4% down from 4.4% during the third quarter.
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[SPEAKER_25]: So, we would be looking at an economy that would be otherwise humming along had it not been for the federal government shut down.
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[SPEAKER_16]: Bank rates senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick expects the economy will have what he calls a coiled spring effect and gain momentum this year.
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[SPEAKER_25]: The U.S. economy, supported by consumers and the AI spending boom, approved to be more resilient than many would have expected.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some very like spring storm like a storm's rather swept through the Ohio Valley over night with tornado warnings and high winds in Indiana, CBS is Tom Henson.
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[SPEAKER_20]: The storm system is tracking to the northeast where it could dump more snow and it's leaving very cold temperatures and its wake and other strong storm system is also sweeping into the west with heavy snow in places.
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[SPEAKER_20]: On Wall Street at this hour stocks are mostly flat, the Dow up 111 points.
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[SPEAKER_20]: A couple of two majors in New York City have been charged in a dangerous TikTok stunt.
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[SPEAKER_19]: A 16-year-old got trapped inside a shaft on the Queen'sboro Bridge after he fell 50 feet.
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[SPEAKER_19]: The voice family says to others, left him there to die.
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[SPEAKER_19]: The boy is listed in critical but stable condition of 14-year-olds been charged with reckless endangerment of 15-year-old with criminal trespassing.
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[SPEAKER_19]: The New York Post says he was filming the incident to post a TikTok and sent videos of the victim's desperate pleas to his friends, Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News, New York.
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[SPEAKER_20]: Assimiting National Park was close today to the heavy snowfall and falling trees.
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[SPEAKER_20]: The park is also announced it will no longer use its season-wide reservation system, and will instead use real-time traffic monitoring.
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[SPEAKER_04]: On here there we go, the hot line is here now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Somebody's always pushing buttons in here and I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Leave the buttons where they're supposed to be.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Goodness gracious.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's always something.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, lots of things going on, whether it's a little bit rainy, temperatures around 37.
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[SPEAKER_04]: don't assume anything okay it's uh... it's uh... going to be wicked when it comes down in some cases a lot of it's already come down so that's good power out of the city today for a time i think it was over on the east side state street side i'm told a lot of it or all of it's back uh... hope we were right on that story about city police cars six of the take home cars are take home no more according to city officials
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now we've told a lot of county there's a lot of county take home cars and there's other cities let's find get the whole list.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Get the whole list.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I did not win the Shapiro award.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In fact, no one, no one from the station won the award.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, well enough Santa guess.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and let's see oh who's a story you haven't heard elsewhere and you may not hear it but up in Canton last night at the fairfield in Republicans from St. Lawrence County gathered to hear the two candidates for New York 21 at the Anthony Constantino and Robert Smollett and they were making presentations I guess I guess there were some words spoken some what whatever I'm told the sheriff had to be called any at that
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[SPEAKER_04]: But the small and people say that Constantino had to be escorted out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure Mr. Constantino has another sideward.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I would, my recommendation to him would be, just play it safe at these county committee meetings.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're not going to get the endorsement.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The establishment's going to go with small and you've got the people on your side.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I wouldn't cause a fight that makes you look whatever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we'll find out more.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we'll be something on the mainstream news.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I did tell John more about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a service I provide to the community.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No different.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No different than years ago when the late Ted Ford, remember he'd call us at Channel 7 and give us a little tip on something going on and remember the people who got the airport manager gave us a tip on, remember Barbara Walters came to town to interview Abby Hoffman.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, cultivating those tips is important part of the news business, you know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Some people sit and wait for news to walk in the door, come over the fax machine or the email or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But no, it's worth that way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So something went on in Canton last night, we hoped to find out more about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also, the governor announced she is going to amend her proposed state budget to include more aid to upstate cities and villages.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This would be $1.6 million to the city of Watertown, $40 million to Buffalo.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now the reason is I called this mom-dami money because she gave a bunch of money the other day, like a couple of one and a half billion dollar pots of money to New York City because Zora and mom-dami needed it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's the new mayor and considered a socialist and a Marxist and all that, but he's
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I think Governor Hohkel said to me, I'm running for reelection, I can't just give all this money to Zauron and got to throw some money around upstate so they came up with this plan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So this makes it easy for city council here in Watertown, extra money, maybe they'll drop a couple vacant positions and a couple boxes of copypapers, something like that, but their budget deliberations just got a whole lot easier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I heard somebody told me, if you're in prison now in New York, you can now get like Uber Eats and Door Dash delivered to the prison.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, didn't that something?
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[SPEAKER_04]: God, they'll change your gender for you and through that, too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um... Yeah, Constantine O'Settie's gonna call.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, I got messages from other people on the other side.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I... Look at it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like I said, if I were advising, I'm not, I'm not Raju Stone, but I would add urgent is this glide through these county committee meetings, make them as non-eventful as possible.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's got good ads on and go that route because small ones of Doug he's not going to win.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it's as simple as that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But that would be my recommendation, I don't know, I don't know if Raju was in on the meeting last night in Canton, but I guess
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess it was wild at the fairfield.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And they're not used to excitement up there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So we're going to try to find out more.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll share our foot as an angle.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Is that his name?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think he had to come over and intervene.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So newspeople, if you want to call the sheriff, maybe he can fill the end.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Fair enough.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We told you there was action up in Canton last night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Joining me on the phone is Anthony Constantino, Republican candidate for Congress in NY-21.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Mr. Constantino, how are you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm doing great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Always to have it be talking to my favorite mayor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, well, that's good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to write my favorite North country mayor right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I probably had to give Julia, Giuliani, maybe favorite mayor of all kinds, but you know, favorite North Tobi, I'll be in trouble for that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't mind.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, um, up in Canton last night, the county Republican committee met with you and your opponent Robert Smollon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess it was one of those meeting greets.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if they do endorsements.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if it matters, but what happened?
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[UNKNOWN]: So to me, we go to meet and we speak to the committees and the ideas, the candidates of both the employees themselves that the committee's giving people a chance to meet and write off the bat.
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[UNKNOWN]: I got a bad vibe because it was very, very strange.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what, do I report a lot of it, but I didn't record the this article.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've walked in and right away they say a prayer and they pray and they say, you know, their God, we need your help because the country is spiraling out of control.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We need to elect more honest politicians.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the strange thing to say when we have President Trump and office, President Trump is doing a great job.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't believe the country's firing out of control.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I truly believe he's making it great again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm excited to get into Congress to help them make it great again and support his agenda and get his agenda done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So why are they saying the country's firing out of control and that they need more on its politicians and office?
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a very, very odd.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I want to give my speech.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before I gave my speech, I actually just noticed this too, because the media's calling me about this like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The chairwoman called a, I have the audio on this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She called it a supposed primary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I said, that's weird.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why would she call it a supposed primary?
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[SPEAKER_03]: When there's an obvious primary, and I'm a front runner.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just heard at least upon it's ulcer, and I'm at 43%, or 46% support, maybe 43%.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 43% support versus 16% of my opponent, massive lead.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I give a very, very nice speech at a great time talking to them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think people liked the speech.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had fun giving in, and I didn't let me answer questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I liked the answer questions from the crowd, but didn't let me do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And next thing I know my phone, it gets off the heat of his speech, and he gave it okay speech.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So who, and then I let him ask questions for the first thing he says is he says, I will take a question from anyone, anywhere at any time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you like so much?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he said, I will take a question from anyone except.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anthony, well, he said, I will only take questions from committee people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I said, OK. And they all got very, very, very upset that I asked that question.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I think it's a fair question, because he's been lying like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's been lying like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I was already planning before this happened.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're already in the work of taking out full page ad and every new
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[SPEAKER_03]: highlighting a track record of why every single criticism he's made against me has been an outright lie he said I don't pay taxes and no one pay taxes he was held the question the question the rest is for felony tax roll because he lied in his tax forms now i know i know i know i know all about him one he's a lie yeah i know all about him but who's the question i have if you're so far ahead why are you bothering with this guy i wouldn't give them the time of day
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[SPEAKER_03]: just important to educate people about the dishonesty and our political system.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want voters to understand it because I wasn't in the political system until recently and politics is worse than I even imagined, it's worse than anyone can imagine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I want people to understand it is not good that people go around lying in the lie that I was particularly upset about with the taxes because that was the attack on my company.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My company went through hell because he said that we didn't pay our taxes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was a smear of my company, my employees were very stressed, very upset about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They spent literally weeks and tens of thousands of dollars trying to find out this could possibly be true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We searched all over the place and we had any unpaid taxes anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had no one paid taxes at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So within that, it's my company.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe people ain't enough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, all right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, people are, I guess it's just due to running in the June primary.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now you have to start doing petitions when is that this week?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Next week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're getting started right away and I got a map of teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Fun off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to do that and I want to set a record there as possible.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the goal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to set a record for petitions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I got a great team set up to do that and you don't wish I had to get through that process.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm also excited.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to educate people about how bad our political system is or the voters know why the state's been heading in a bad direction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was a downgraded fall, but I don't want to realize, no, it's corrupt people, like Robert's phone fall too, because he plays, puts it with a downgraded, and he's corrupt, and there's a lot of corrupt people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what about, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to take money from people, I just want to put more money in their pocket.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Some people like to contribute to things.
21:16
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
21:17
[SPEAKER_04]: And the other side, according to FEC reports, he loaned himself 500,000, which is legal.
21:24
[SPEAKER_04]: And then he's only raised 11,000.
21:26
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not much.
21:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct.
21:28
[SPEAKER_03]: And he lied.
21:30
[SPEAKER_03]: The start of campaign.
21:30
[SPEAKER_03]: He lied.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said he raised 500,000 from donors.
21:33
[SPEAKER_03]: When that wasn't true, it was a loan from himself.
21:35
[SPEAKER_03]: So the guy only does his lie.
21:37
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's important to know that.
21:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And I also think it's important for people to understand because I didn't understand about these committees.
21:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I actually talked to people that I don't understand this like I was to do to make people because they're involved in politics, supposedly they love the country, but yet they ally with people that dishonestly lie and smear people and vote to foreign transgenderism, Robert Stone hoated to tax their dollars, the most transgenderism, really want to try to address.
22:04
[SPEAKER_04]: Well what about...
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[SPEAKER_04]: the conservative party which uh... they say they're backing mr small and they don't like you robbie you know you had a run in with jerry cussard the state chair uh... how you can get around that will if you win the primary will well the white house be able to push him out of the way because he can if he decides to stay on that line i don't think we have to work out in the concerta party people are so unrealizing and third party is really uh... and after the democrat party they work to elect democrat
22:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Jerry Gissar endorsed a Democrat in New York City to help go on my dominant land.
22:39
[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't even help Curtis Lee-Wah, he endorsed the Democrat, Bell Zola on my dominant land.
22:44
[SPEAKER_03]: He's increasingly working to help Democrats, he endorsed in the special election, endorsed the Republican that was known for hating the president, that refused to endorse the president twice.
22:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Now we want to help my opponent because he hates me.
22:55
[SPEAKER_03]: For my opponent's vote, it was on my dominant seven times, including to promote transgenderism, to promote the EI, which mean the president from both this like.
23:03
[SPEAKER_03]: And so
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[SPEAKER_03]: because carry the son of a sort of party or they're really just working to serve the institution of the party in order to know that I doubt they're going to get any turnout at all.
23:10
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I'm hearing more and more people don't want to be involved with the concert of party.
23:14
[SPEAKER_03]: At least more people have things like I do.
23:18
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but you have to be concerned if if small ones on that line he's going to get four or five percent.
23:24
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think he's going to go on the line because he told me to show people that he's not about the country, he's just wanted to betray the country, he wants to betray the people.
23:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think he'll actually do that because it would be just so unconstruedable.
23:38
[SPEAKER_03]: He would have to live with that.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to think there's a little bit of a conscience left in them and I don't think he would do that because it would just be so unconstruedable in the appropriate knowing.
23:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, he's only going to get free, pretty percent of the vote, but why would you do that just to hurt your own country?
23:53
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I guess, maybe, maybe he'll back off and just run for assembly again.
23:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he just say in the assembly, you know, he honestly, I believe before he got really, really bad coming after maybe he said, Anthony's print stickers for Democrats, I get what I'm going to do or refuse first thing Democrats.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before he did that, I was actually days away.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I told my team, I said, you know, I should just call them and say, oh, I got this poll.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm released, but yes, you're so far behind.
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[SPEAKER_03]: why you just drop out and try to become friends and I could even say some nice things about you I don't want you to waste your money Bob I didn't want to waste his money but but then he went and he does a weird press conference attack and he's for making stickers for democrats and I said well I don't think I'm going to do that anymore I don't think I'm going to do the nice guy saying well that's a silly statement I don't want him to waste his money on this he's wasting a lot of his personal money and almost no chance of victory and I didn't want to do the guy hurt but he's been so dishonest and so bad but don't worry because uh...
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[SPEAKER_03]: I sell bearded Democrats so I don't care exactly you have to I don't want to live in a country where we're we're not servicing other based on what party we're in there you go all right when you come in down here and when you're going to bring Roger down I know I'm I'm probably the busy busy busy lately he's in DC right now so usually me and Roger talk a fair amount but for the last week or so he's been very, very, very busy so hopefully I'll talk to him later today and I'll figure out a time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's been wanting to come on your show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He is a big fan of yours.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He calls you a good friend.
25:23
[SPEAKER_03]: He's been wanting to come on your show, but he's been very busy lately.
25:27
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you know, many years ago, back in 2010, he and I collaborated a bit on the gubernatorial candidacy of Kristen Davis, the Manhattan madam.
25:39
[SPEAKER_04]: You probably don't remember that.
25:41
[SPEAKER_04]: Roger can tell you the stories, but it was that's back when they allowed third party candidates.
25:46
[SPEAKER_04]: And I happened to have the pleasure of meeting them down in Hemstead on Long Island if the group in the tutorial debate.
25:53
[SPEAKER_04]: So it was kind of interesting.
25:55
[SPEAKER_03]: And certainly, if you folks come to Watertown, we'd be glad to have you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: American history on political world far imagine that above the earth.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we'll do all right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you I'll talk you later by now Anthony Constantino Republican candidate for Congress in the 21st congressional district.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously all candidates are welcome to call in including Mr. Smullen We had him on once before um I don't want to get into the Stephen Colbert argument
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's all sorts of differing views on that whole issue, but we certainly are, unlike Mr. Colbert, we're not trying to exclude people.
26:42
[SPEAKER_04]: So, if somebody wants to come on, they'll come on, and I'm not going to give them a hard time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to call somebody a Scallywag on the air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I wouldn't do that.
26:51
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, hey, listen, why don't we, if anybody's got in the comments on these other issues,
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, the police car issue, the extra state aid, the, oh, let's see, and are there aliens?
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[SPEAKER_04]: That issues come back up on the national scene again after the comments from former president Obama.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's all you need to know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All you need to know, so that's his version of what I'm in the Canton last night, obviously the other side has a different version they've been shopping.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We'll let the mainstream media sort that out, see what the sheriff has to say up there and everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't really know, you know, there's no point getting into disputes, but emotions run high in campaigns.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's the way campaigns are.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So don't worry about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But anyway, what have we got going on?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We talked about the tariff thing with the Supreme Court.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I don't know enough about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know what the tariff's are.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't know if we have to pay them all back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But in the Democrats are all getting over it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So that's that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, do you think that we're talking about those aliens earlier, if the president given what the former president said, I mean, if President Trump does release the files on the aliens, when we have endless arguments over whether they're complete or not or redacted or something, just release them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So what?
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[SPEAKER_04]: If there's, I don't know if those aliens, so it's got to be somewhere, but whether they were here, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's unexplained phenomena, and everything, that's for sure, but, well, anyway.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Lots of other things going on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what's going on where you are, the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Whether it looks okay, low 30s, very seasonal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Seasonal weekend.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we're kind of,
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know what was interesting?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I saw that in the young lady.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think her parents had escaped China at a time of Tian, Tian, Tian, and the man's square.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But she's a skater and she want to go old.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, she's got the neatest hair.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's in like big broad stripes of blonde and then I think it's black or dark brown or something all the way down and it must have taken a lot of time to do that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And first of all, it looks really neat and nice.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it was, I was glad to see her probably holding up the American flag, like not like some of these athletes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I got to say, and in beauty salines all around the country, I bet you there's going to be people coming in wanting that hairdo.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if they would do that here in Watertown.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of a conservative community, but I thought it looked great.
33:42
[SPEAKER_04]: And then congratulations to the ladies hockey team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Two-to-one victory over the Canadian, you know, Canada.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you had become the 51st state, you wouldn't have had to lose yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's simple.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then, of course, the U.S. plays Slovakia today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Canada plays Finland, and we could end up with a men's Canada U.S. final.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We'll beat him again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
34:05
[SPEAKER_05]: yes and there on the cars I don't think I don't think any vehicle should leave the city limits I think that your fire chief or police chief and maybe dpw boss should could take a vehicle home so they can be on the problem right away and no vehicle should leave the city limits if these managers
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[SPEAKER_05]: 10 miles, whatever outside the city, no vehicle, so that's how I feel about it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And like I somebody's asked before, what place for the fuel?
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[SPEAKER_04]: You do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: For the people to travel outside the city back and forth every day, who's paying for that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: You do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's right.
34:55
[SPEAKER_05]: You're right there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the maintenance on the car, and you don't have to, if you have a car, it's like,
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[SPEAKER_04]: a car salesman who gets a demo you don't have any insurance to worry about or maintenance or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So I bet you know that you did that before.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they didn't give me a demo.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but, uh, okay, there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
35:16
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, and to bring that up with Billy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, 755, 1240, the phone number, if you'd like to give us a call to be on the show of shows.
35:25
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, yeah, the cars.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, if someone lived in a city, like when Chief Goss lived on Mara Drive, maybe still does.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know where it is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And mine that is much.
35:39
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you just use it to go to a police thing, but you know, we've got reports out there of people transporting their children and publicly owned vehicles.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I guess over at the county building there's quite a bit of this, so those without
36:02
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then the other issue is, uh, band shone's proposal to prepare a budget within the tax camp of three and a half percent of the statutory, you know, they call it statutory, you know why they call it statutory, because it's a law, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And no one's above the law, you haven't heard that line before.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Where a nation of laws, no one's above the law, so we got a statutory tax cap, so maybe we should obey the law.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it'll be easy now to got that extra money from Kathy Hockel.
36:47
[SPEAKER_04]: Kathy Hockel, you know she's she down in Washington today, I think she's going to that luncheon at the White House, good for her.
36:57
[SPEAKER_04]: You know the whole Nancy Guthrie thing tragically, it's during its fourth week and
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, there's still no real clear mode over what exactly did happen, or maybe it was started to be a kidnapping and then all the publicity and they got a little antsy and I don't know what they did, but I'm sorry to say I don't really think the prospects are good or it's a Guthrie, I'm not a law enforcement professional, but I just can't
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[SPEAKER_04]: Could be, we hope it is, but I don't see that happening.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think whatever happened, whether it was a burglary gone bad or an attempted kidnapping, I think all of a sudden it became very difficult to keep doing it with all of that publicity.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I think they just abandoned the whole project and probably heard the boot.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's my theory.
38:05
[SPEAKER_04]: Now you can call him in and say, you don't know any more than the show.
38:08
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I think I know more than that sheriff because he doesn't seem to be right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But we'll see, what are we going to get going on in it?
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to hit the majors, major stories of the day.
38:26
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I thought to be more fallout over that Irish flag thing I guess we were going to
38:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so that's no longer a new story.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyone else if we got knocked about ice?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Knocked about the Olympics, what I know of them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess they end tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Tomorrow or Sunday, something like that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Knocked about the power outage was your power out?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was out over by Jack Gas in that area, and this story about being able to get like Uber Eats of Door Dash and Prison, you have any feelings on that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now I just have to have a clean discipline record for like four months.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But where is it written that you can have food delivered to prison?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Only in New York.
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[SPEAKER_04]: story out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I only in New York.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's just incredible.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh boy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll see.
39:47
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've got another version.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I believe in fair and balanced.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of the incident up in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Transformer fire near outer water street.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What we're told right now?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yep Well hopefully that's it and hopefully it's over with Yeah Oh, let's see
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[SPEAKER_15]: mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know who had that story from there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He had sent him in a counter-vent earlier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not on here.
40:49
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know where it is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Is that my phone or something?
40:54
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to be fair to the other Mr. Smallen side.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Good afternoon here on the air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And the food to the prison is never like bringing Sandy to send a garden to the other to go and get flowers.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I would say if you got enough to order for everybody, okay, but you can't just order food and eat it in front of the others.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't know, but anyway, it's
41:28
[SPEAKER_04]: Whatever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was checking this story.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's the way I would play.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, food.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just never.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I never heard of the idea.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's like getting a sex change in prison.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not what you go to prison for.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't think you should be in private fear in prison.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You should eat at the mess hall or the cafeteria or whatever it is they have for you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You shouldn't be having door to ask for out to the prison.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Period.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's a prison.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So, if you're going to change from the end of one to no point, maybe the other position is going to enjoy that too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There you go, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, yeah, forget about the such thing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And that shouldn't be back.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't even want to think about it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Right, right as a tool goes, go ahead and get it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You've got enough for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, all right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: By the way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There could be a hacksaw or file.
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[SPEAKER_04]: In the food, you don't know, it'd be drugs secreted in that food, you don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, the small-on-side says Constantine was physically removed by the sheriff last night after becoming increasingly disruptive, not to their description.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All I know is I just...
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think Mr. Smallen would be better off just running for assembly.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Keep in that 135 a year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, did you hear that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: On the 26th.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a 26.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's coming up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Next Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, how did that net power, which is the indoor golf course, out by Target and that area by Pethko?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Scott Gray's going to be holding your fundraiser.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: that's pretty exciting to a hundred fifty dollars and you can rent one of the uh... base golf base otherwise it's fifty to get in and i don't know i mean i like mr. cray and he's a nice guy i i've been meeting to get out there anyway i'd love to see the place i heard nothing but good things about so we had the uh... we had a picture of it somewhere
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's my pictures, there they are.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there it is, it's a assembly member Scott A.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Gray, Winterfast, Fundraise, and it's a Winterfast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And as it town center drive that net power February 26th, and there's going to be gone, well wait a minute, indoor golf Bay Sponsor, all you can sponsor a golf Bay for 250.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But if you want to play, and it's 200 for two people, I got it now, or just 50 bucks to get in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, why said I got to raise money.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He said he'll run on a post.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Although I see Senator Mark Waltsick's going to have an opponent, some lady from Lewis County, I'd mention her name,
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[SPEAKER_04]: The first thing you should do is acquaint yourself with the area's favorite talk shows who show happens to cover just about all, not all, but just about three quarters of Mr. Wallace's district, Jefferson, Northern Oswego, Lewis, a little bit of St. Lawrence.
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[SPEAKER_04]: but uh... who over this lady is should really uh... should call me and say i want to come in there and talk uh... i'm always glad to have senator wall sick and all of that so that's that okay already well we're going to take time out for messages and be back with more in a moment
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Panda, you don't want to do it, explain.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because this subject comes up even here, but this thing which Stephen Colbert used the, soon-to-be-X comedian late-night show on CBS, which is carried locally on W-W-N-Y, and CBS affiliates from C to Shining C. Now,
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[SPEAKER_04]: That Colbert show is not the same as a Joe Rogan podcast or Fox and Friends, which is on cable.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Colbert show is on licensed broadcast stations.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And when that whole system was set up long before podcast or cable, in back I think it was in the 50s.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It passed section 315 of the Communications Act.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And what it basically does, it's called the equal time provision.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And what it attempts to do is stop a broadcaster from just using his unique access to the airwaves to shamelessly prolong on candidate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what Stephen Colbert wanted to do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Last week, with this Mr. Talleriko, who's one of three people running for the Democratic nomination for Senate in the state of Texas.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, this makes it more an issue down there,
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[SPEAKER_04]: When he said he was going to have a run, the CBS brass came down and said, wait a minute, the FCC, which regulates licensed broadcasters, not podcasts, not cable, but licensed broadcasters.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I said they're going to take a closer look at this issue of equal time on entertainment shows.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because the equal time provision does not apply to a bona fide, new show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Show him I now Not really, but you could argue it both ways, but certainly Colbert show is not a new show so CBS brass said no, we don't think you should put him on and he threw a hissing fit and blame Trump and said Trump was trying to censor well wasn't true and
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[SPEAKER_04]: Why what's it matter?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm probably wouldn't have met.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's two reasons what Colbert did was wrong.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One is nobody in this television market up here cares about Mr. Talleriko or Senate race.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And in the media markets in Texas, it is relevant because those stations are also licensed.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And they have the, they're the ones who fit, who bear the responsibility for adhering this section 315, not the network, not Mr. Colbert's production company.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So stations in Houston and Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_04]: San Antonio, wherever else, he'll pass over something.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're the ones who are licensed, and if they put that on, it's really not fair to the other candidates.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One of whom is Jasmine Crocket, and the other one I don't really know the person's name.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So people always say, well, you got to provide equals.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, no, you don't within only within a certain number of days of an election or a primary.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And you don't, if you're a bona fide news show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But in this case, Colbert
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[SPEAKER_04]: and his complicit goons in the mainstream media made it look like Trump was trying to censor something and that isn't true.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He shouldn't have been putting that guy out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the same question has really come up with the view, and what we goalburg and all that is that a new show or is it entertainment?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, you tell me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But they use these shows to showcase their candidates and you know whether it's legally right
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[SPEAKER_04]: There is a professional ethic in this business.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You may not think so, but there is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And you try to be fair to people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, we just Mr. Constantino called in.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Certainly, if Mr. Smallen wants to call, then he gets equal opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And incidentally, when I say equal time, it's really equal opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because we don't sit there with clock watches.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So he would get an equal opportunity if he wants it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe he doesn't want it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so that's the whole thing with coal bears.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So when you hear that, oh, well, Trump tried to sense it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No, that's not it at all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not it at all.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You got to understand the nuances of this business.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the fact that coal bears of file partisan needs to be off the air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Put somebody else up and we can't we have Joey Bishop back or somebody like that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know what somebody should do by the rights to all the Carson shows and just start airing about 1130 on a network affiliate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: People would watch him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But that was good entertainment, it was clever, it was funny, it was sharp, it was everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And this crap that's on now with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, it's just that crap.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that about our friends down the street, oh well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: 755, 1240, the phone number, if you'd like to give us a hoot and a hoot and a holler to be on the air today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we don't have, okay, I've seen Kentucky fried chicken, they're close, they got
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[SPEAKER_04]: opposed to by the codes apparently they said there was a hole in the roof and affected some of the cooking equipment you know i don't know what he needs codes for that would seem to me if found a restaurant and something that profound happened i wouldn't try to stay open i'd get it fixed so anyway don't but i hate to say it to because i can't see that great brand the kernel love the kernel
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[SPEAKER_04]: But good guy, you know, I never saw any cars there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All these chicken places, you know, we got a new one opening.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know they're arsenal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're a TJF used to be, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I forget Dave, something about them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure it's good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, Popeyes, I don't see a lot of action there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They do a lot of door-dash and all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, you can't really always judge these places because you don't know how much delivery they're doing, but I don't see a lot of action there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Same thing with Chick-fil-A, you know, they said, oh, it's gonna be packed all the time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I haven't seen that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: but food at all of them don't get me wrong but uh... i remember when Kentucky fried chicken was down on public square right there there's a credit union there now right there were uh... public square goes into factory street boy there's no bigger thrill and going down there and get a bucket of chicken finger like a good yet and those were the old days i didn't possum is run at one time i thought he did but i'm not sure
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, anyway, that's where it used to be, and now it's a parking lot for the credit journey.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, you got a couple of minutes left, so if you want to chime in, you can.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And really have a lot else, I've gone through quite a few topics here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: somebody was calling me from governor or one is in a white yesterday show was a non-news junky or I don't know how that whole thing was soundcloud works.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if they automatically record it I don't know how it works.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's out of my hands.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Once it's out of my mouth it's out of my hands.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So anyway but we have a loyal listener up in governor or the mayor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He absolutely loves the hotline.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He finds intellectual sustenance in my words.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Somebody said, there is a Carson channel on Roker.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know I'm sure there is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just saying, it'd be so much better.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Who else used to do a late night?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Jack Power used to do it before that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then it was Joey Bishop and, of course, Letterman.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I thought he did a generally good job.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Good afternoon around the air.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, how you doing, this is Sammy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Tammy from Pamele, you know what's up?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I gotta tell ya.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I stopped into the Grand Union with closing you know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they got deals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everything's half off.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was there the other day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, if you need what they have, it's a great deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what do you get?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got coffee.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well yeah, they had like coffee, you know, also it's a pasta sausage, canned goods, house squares, a lot of those personal hygiene and toiletry items, pet foods, frozen foods, there's a lot there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, if you want to package a hamburger, you're going to have to go elsewhere.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have lost, and I was talking about people at work, because like they had all the hair coloring in a, in dropping cards, and it's a box, a box, a hair color, like
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[SPEAKER_02]: to see that girl in the Olympics with the uh... stripes in her hair yeah i thought that was i thought that was great yeah i thought it was huge that's why it's that's how it was difficult to get your hair colored that way but where do you get where do you get your hair done all uh... i can't come out here and get my hair cut
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, a couple months back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: By the railroad tracks?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Across from, like, 15, 30, six, whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's a little of this place there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go to British.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's very sweet.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, first of all, you got to grow your hair out enough to do that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I think if you took a picture of that young skater and took it into that place down by the railroad tracks, I could whip you up no time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, how would you do that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have to like mask off your head and strike?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I realize it's hair, but the styling and the coloring of hair is in part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I leave that up to the people who that is their livelihood.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[UNKNOWN]: I respect it, and I respect it.
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[UNKNOWN]: I just can't do it.
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[UNKNOWN]: Not like that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's great.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anything else quick?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I got a few seconds left.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we're getting we urge people to get over the grand union.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot of good bargains There are people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, get over there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think later.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's nice people over there I'm sorry to see your clothes, but for the items they have, it's some great prices and you should check it out over And what's that C-way plan?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, C-way plan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What do you know?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Much life to that place?
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[SPEAKER_04]: um... a.m. 12.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well this is a.m. 12.40.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're w.a.t.a.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and we're in water town, New York.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Glent Currie will be in at five o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The time now is one o'clock and you kind of guessed it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: CBS news of an up next.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You have a great day out there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Drive carefully and have yourself a wonderful, wonderful week.