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Owen Weaver returns! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Speaker 1: Ditch the malt, add tequila. Welcome back to Day Drinking
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  Speaker 1: With Dog. We are just, I think, 10 or 11
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  Speaker 1: days away from the big voting day, Tuesday, however early
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  Speaker 1: voting has started. So all the Democrats got out of
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  Speaker 1: their houses and went and voted. Or mailed it in
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  Speaker 1: because they're lazy. But returning now, you're just literally 10
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  Speaker 1: days away. Is it a week from Tuesday, right?
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  Speaker 2: I should be counting. November 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: So like 11 days away. Owen Weaver, back in the show,
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  Speaker 1: running for state senate in the district of? 14. 14.
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  Speaker 1: That is Milford, Orange, and West Haven, right?
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  Speaker 2: West Shore, West Haven, and a sliver of Woodbridge.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's right. A little Woodbridge in there, too. Well,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure. And I feel like it's been forever,
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  Speaker 1: but it hasn't. I just saw you on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You stopped by the house. A quick little story for
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  Speaker 1: those that weren't there. Or didn't get the invite. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to invite everybody. I really did. I went back
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  Speaker 1: like six months in my phone of text messages. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: if I haven't texted you in over six months, you
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  Speaker 1: probably don't deserve to come.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So I won at this golf tournament, the Rambling Inn.
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  Speaker 1: It's owned by Damien and Troy. And they built this,
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  Speaker 1: I think, before COVID. Because I think they were thinking
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  Speaker 1: about building a second one when COVID hit. So they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a mobile Irish bar. And it's fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And they pulled right up in front of my house
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. And we had three kegs of Guinness and
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  Speaker 1: six handles of Tully and all sorts of canned stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We had food. Did you get any food, by the way?
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  Speaker 1: I did not.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm texting my kid right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't. But, I mean, that was an awesome party.
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard of it before. But coincidentally, the
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  Speaker 2: day before, I was knocking in West Haven with Ray Collins,
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  Speaker 2: who's running in the 117 for the state rep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: and he knows the owner, and we pass by the
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  Speaker 2: guy's house, so he's telling me about it. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's really awesome. I get your text. I'm like, this
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  Speaker 2: is like.
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  Speaker 1: Ray could have come, too. I was at Ray's son's wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Were you? Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was knocking with Jen Tooker that day in the
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  Speaker 2: 119 team, so I brought her, and she thought it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One of the highlights of the campaign, absolutely. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't roll up on that very often, do you? No, no. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: your sign, your yard sign was down because I had
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  Speaker 1: people standing where it would have been. But I put
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  Speaker 1: it up. It's back up. I put it up the
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  Speaker 1: next day. So we had, I should have told you
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  Speaker 1: to get some food before you left, but we had
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  Speaker 1: like corned beef Reuben sliders I made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We had, what's that, with the mashed potatoes and beef
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  Speaker 1: shepherd's pie. We had pulled just regular.
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  Speaker 2: You're a little early for St. Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I was. You notice I put the
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  Speaker 1: big St. Patty's hat on the skeleton.
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  Speaker 2: Saw that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was great turnout. The only sad part of
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  Speaker 1: the day, I wasn't able to go to Derek Pearson's wake.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people didn't show up because
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  Speaker 1: of that, and I totally understand. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: obviously give a little shout-out to Derek, and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the father of a crazy battle. Six years
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  Speaker 1: he lasted with stage four cancer. And unfortunately, cancer seems
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  Speaker 1: to always win. So it sucks, but he was an
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  Speaker 1: awesome guy. I've known him probably 30 years. So rest
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  Speaker 1: in peace, Derek. Um, so you guys stopped by and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think you were kind of at the height of it.
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  Speaker 1: I never really got over like 50 people, but.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot. I was there for the drone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You were in the drone footage. Yes. Uh, paid for
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  Speaker 1: by Owen Weaver. Uh, so check out my Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the dry, put the drone video up there.
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  Speaker 1: And now this thing is so cool. If you ever
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  Speaker 1: want to, if you're running an event, the shower or anything, really.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really, it's re it's reasonable. I actually
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  Speaker 1: won them to bring it there, and I stocked it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's why it was reasonable, because it was partially
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  Speaker 2: free for you.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, it's like $ 2K to show up, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: And then you can stock it yourself. Or they stock it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's $ 36 a head for four hours, or $ 38, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's like less than $ 10 an hour. If you've got drinkers,
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  Speaker 1: it's totally worth it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was cool. I've never seen something like that before.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're coming down to the wire here, Owen. You
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  Speaker 1: know you're getting my vote.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. So I know when we had you on
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  Speaker 1: last time, we kind of did your policies and what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking to change. So we don't have to rehash
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  Speaker 1: all that. Sure. If you guys want to know, you
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  Speaker 1: can just cycle back about a few months ago when
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  Speaker 1: Owen came on. But tell me a little about the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail and. The door-to-door stuff that personally I could
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  Speaker 1: never do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. First and foremost, I want to give you
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  Speaker 2: some swag. So I got a Weaver bumper decal for you.
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  Speaker 2: And then I have a Weaver long-sleeve tee.
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  Speaker 1: I can put it right on my head like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. There we go. So extra large for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to wear that on voting day.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Whatever voting day is now, right, with early
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  Speaker 2: voting for two weeks and election day. So I'm constantly
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  Speaker 2: cleaning this quarter zip in the long-sleeved tee that I walk. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: election has been grueling, right? I've been out since April.
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  Speaker 2: I knock a lot with Ray Collins, and he likes
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  Speaker 2: to joke he just had his seventh grandchild.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw her right before she popped.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so if you do the math. Yeah. his daughter-in-law
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  Speaker 2: has been pregnant the entire campaign. So, you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: been knocking for the length of a pregnancy. Not that
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  Speaker 2: I'm equating a campaign to a pregnancy, but it's been
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  Speaker 2: a positive reception at the door. The door, excuse me, very,
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  Speaker 2: I can count on less than 10 fingers how many
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  Speaker 2: times somebody has thrown us off their property because they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to listen to us, whether because we're just
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  Speaker 2: a politician or a Republican. So it's been really, It's
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  Speaker 2: been an interesting experience and one I'm happy that I
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  Speaker 2: decided to do, and hopefully we get through the finish
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  Speaker 2: line in a couple days.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you see a house that says no soliciting,
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  Speaker 1: do you have to miss that house?
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  Speaker 2: That is like— I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 2: There are two things that will always come up if
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  Speaker 2: I'm knocking with somebody else, right? What do you do
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  Speaker 2: with a no solicitation sign, and do you walk on
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  Speaker 2: a person's lawn?
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  Speaker 1: Right. Right?
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  Speaker 2: There's two schools of thought on both. Like, no solicitation,
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  Speaker 2: don't do it. I personally, I don't ring the bell.
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  Speaker 2: I put my door hanger on, and I go my
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  Speaker 2: separate way. With respect to the lawn, there's some people
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  Speaker 2: who are like, grass is meant to be walked on.
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  Speaker 1: Get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 2: You're saving a minute or 30 seconds here. And then
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  Speaker 2: some people are like, no, you should be respectful. Go
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  Speaker 2: down the driveway, up the sidewalk, or the walkway. Depends
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  Speaker 2: who I'm with on the lawn thing. I don't really
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  Speaker 2: have a preference. Well, you know my thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I have 50 people on my lawn. I really didn't
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  Speaker 1: give a shit. Well, you know, it's funny you say that.
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  Speaker 1: So my neighbor... if you're facing my house to the left.
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  Speaker 1: So his son-in-law is the owner of dive bar in
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  Speaker 1: West Haven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Dominic Giannotti. So he's been living there cause they're renovating
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  Speaker 1: their house. Got it. Um, so I saw him, he actually,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't around, but I saw him the other day.
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  Speaker 1: He was already hanging Christmas lights and, uh, Costco.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween, Thanksgiving, big turkeys out front. Um, so he, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I go, I didn't see it, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any problems. I always worry about that stuff
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  Speaker 1: with my neighbors. Um, He's like, no. He goes, but
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  Speaker 1: when we were leaving to Wallingford, two people were walking
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  Speaker 1: on my yard, and the guy looked at me, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes, oh, my God, I'm so sorry, sir. And
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  Speaker 1: he jumped off my yard. He goes, I don't give
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  Speaker 1: a fuck if you walk in my yard. It's grass.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's got a ring camera now. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I've got seven of them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was one of the first lessons that
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  Speaker 2: I was taught knocking doors. Get to the door and
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  Speaker 2: shut up. Ring the doorbell, because anything you say is
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  Speaker 2: going to be recorded. So they could see if you're
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  Speaker 2: walking on their grass or you're walking on their sidewalk
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  Speaker 2: or their steps. And who knows what reason can cause
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  Speaker 2: somebody to vote for somebody or not vote for you.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. This guy stepped on my lawn. Fuck him.
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  Speaker 1: Or I don't know. But you're right. People are– especially
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  Speaker 1: if they're undecided. Right. It could be that little mistake
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  Speaker 1: you made, didn't even think you made, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is trespassing.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's funny. It's funny that you actually
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  Speaker 1: think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to think a lot about a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So how many doorbells have you knocked on or
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  Speaker 1: doors have you knocked on?
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah. So I personally have hit over 3,000 doors.
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  Speaker 2: My campaign has probably done over 13,000. Wow. And I've
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  Speaker 2: been very lucky in terms of... So I'm running for
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  Speaker 2: the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And the Senate has... state representative districts within it ray
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  Speaker 2: collins kathy kennedy steve visconti uh brooke hopkins and they
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  Speaker 2: have all included my door hangers when they go out
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  Speaker 2: when i'm not with them so you know we've we've
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  Speaker 2: hit a lot of doors in the district yeah so
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  Speaker 2: i'm very proud of the work that my team has
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  Speaker 2: done and their teams have done and that's the name
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  Speaker 2: of the game is just get out there introduce yourself
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  Speaker 2: make a connection with the voters because at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day i really think voters want at to
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  Speaker 2: elect somebody who they feel comfortable with and that they
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  Speaker 2: know is going to listen to them, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And we've gotten away from that. I think I talked
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  Speaker 2: about this last time I was here. We've gotten away
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  Speaker 2: from a politician who's actually listening to his or her
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  Speaker 2: constituents and they're just doing their own thing or what
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  Speaker 2: the party is telling them to do. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think on the flip side too, Owen, is
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  Speaker 1: the way people digest information nowadays that do they even
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  Speaker 1: listen to you? What you have to, not you personally,
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  Speaker 1: but like, do they listen to, you know, they want
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  Speaker 1: to hear the key talking points, lower taxes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: free health care blah blah blah but do they really
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  Speaker 1: sit down and read you know what your campaign is
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  Speaker 1: really looking to do you know as they're scrolling doom
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  Speaker 1: scrolling down and you know the older generation I think
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  Speaker 1: yeah they do but the younger generation how do you
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  Speaker 1: get to the younger generation how do you get to.
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  Speaker 2: An 18 year old I mean you hit on a
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  Speaker 2: point and you got my door hanger on your wall
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  Speaker 2: here and I appreciate that That's so probably the number
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  Speaker 2: one question at the door has been, well, what party
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  Speaker 2: are you with? Right. And I look at the door
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  Speaker 2: hanger and they tell me you don't have your party here.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that? And I've had some people accuse me
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  Speaker 2: of being, you know, sneaky about it. I even had
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  Speaker 2: one lady tell me that, well, you're hiding the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you're a Republican. And I know that because the
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  Speaker 2: lapel pin that you have on your jacket on your
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  Speaker 2: door hanger is blue. Well, my lapel pin is blue.
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  Speaker 2: the state of Connecticut, and blue is the color. And
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to tell her, ma'am, I'm not that clever.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to deceive you with a blue lapel pin.
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  Speaker 2: But we decided not to put the party label on
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  Speaker 2: the door hanger for a reason. And that's because if
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  Speaker 2: I put Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, communist, what have you,
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  Speaker 2: it immediately is going to trigger a bias in the
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  Speaker 2: voter's mind. And I want people to know who I am.
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  Speaker 2: I want them to vote for me. Maybe that's a
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  Speaker 2: naive approach on my part, but we chose not to
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  Speaker 2: put Republican or whatever party affiliation because I want people
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  Speaker 2: to learn what I'm about and hopefully agree with what
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  Speaker 2: I'm about and vote for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it makes sense. It's got to be hard to, like... Like,
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  Speaker 1: you're literally going up to people you don't know who
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  Speaker 1: they are.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know, you know, they're nice, mean. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about them.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They could be the biggest Democrat or Republican, and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just don't know. You know? Do you guys have, actually,
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  Speaker 1: demographics of that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we... You know, the party.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know, like, some houses not to go to?
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  Speaker 2: Both parties have a tremendous amount of information on voters. So.
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  Speaker 2: I know if you're registered and what party you're registered
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  Speaker 2: at before I hit the door. So, um, you have
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  Speaker 2: a little advanced warning, but it's not always right. And it's,
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  Speaker 2: even if I knocked on a Republican door, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some people are, you know, very anti-Trump and get off
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  Speaker 2: my property and, you know, he's ruined the party and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to talk to you. And the best
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  Speaker 2: you can do is ma'am or sir, can you just
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  Speaker 2: take my information and read about me?
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  Speaker 1: And, I've never met the man.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump hasn't endorsed me and he's not asking for
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  Speaker 2: my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: How big an effect do you think the Trump... Because obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a Republican. I voted for Trump. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like everything he did in the first term. And
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  Speaker 1: there's certainly things now I'm kind of getting tired of.
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  Speaker 1: Iran and a lot of other stuff. But do you
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  Speaker 1: feel that there is... It's really seeped into local politics,
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  Speaker 1: this Trump hatred, let's say.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So I can only speak as a first-time candidate,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'll give you some anecdotal information that I've
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  Speaker 2: learned from Ray Collins, who ran last time. Trump does
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  Speaker 2: not come up at the doors as much as you
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  Speaker 2: would think. I really thought that would be the number
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  Speaker 2: one topic, and it's not. At this point, it sounds cliche,
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  Speaker 2: but really the number one topic at the doors is
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  Speaker 2: affordability for this state.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Republican, Democrat, or unaffiliated. Like, people are feeling the crunch
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  Speaker 2: of rising costs for everything. Right. And that's what they
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about, not Trump. But, again, first-time candidate.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't run two years ago. Ray will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: Trump came up a lot when he was knocking doors
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. So, I can only surmise why it's
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  Speaker 2: a change, but I haven't experienced it.
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  Speaker 1: I would guess that. Well, two years ago he was running,
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  Speaker 1: so they were running concurrent.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think now everyone's starting to realize, all right, he's
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  Speaker 1: gone in two years. The people that hate him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: And look, Washington, D.C. is a mess. I think we
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  Speaker 2: can all agree on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, Trump, congressional Republicans, hell, even state Republicans
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  Speaker 2: haven't set policy in Connecticut in a very long time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the federal government and federal decisions has not caused
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  Speaker 2: every problem in Connecticut. We have inherent problems based on
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  Speaker 2: policies that our governor and our elected officials have advanced.
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  Speaker 2: And I think people are starting to realize that. And
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  Speaker 2: I recognize the polls out there for the governor's race
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  Speaker 2: are calling for a slaughter. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot closer. I think Senator Fazio may be
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  Speaker 2: able to pull it out. And if you really dig deep,
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  Speaker 2: Lamont's not up big in terms of the unaffiliates who
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  Speaker 2: have responded to these polls. It's up It's a much
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  Speaker 2: tighter race, so it's going to come down to turnout.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm optimistic for the governor's race as well as my race.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking of Fazio, there was an outside chance we
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: were possibly having on for.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I tried, man.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I know. Well, the last message I had yesterday was
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: he was free after 2, and could he call in?
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I said, absolutely. And he said, I'll get back to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: you with a time. And I said, well, 5.30 is
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: when we're doing the show. Yeah. And it's been radio silent.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Well, we're a little early.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Well, I mean, the phone's here. So that's
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: why your phones are there. Should he call in? We'll
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: obviously take the call, no doubt. I was watching the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: debate when you walked in from last night, a little
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: bit snippets of it.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: You know, debate's a debate. I don't know. It's just
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: slinging back and forth. It is what it is. Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: But early voting is– do you think they should basically
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: post what the count is?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who's voted each day.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Right. Do you think– again, I saw it, and Channel
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: 8 has not stopped posting it every eight hours.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: The Secretary of State updates every day for every town.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: In the state, excuse me.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: But does it have to be public knowledge?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: All right, here's my conspiratorial head. They're doing it to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: get it out there. I mean, right now, it's like 100,000 difference. Now,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: we don't know what.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: The votes are. It was like four to one Democrat.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: We just know who the registered voters voted. So do
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: you think they're putting it out there to be like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: all right, let's just fucking deter, you know... He's up 100,000.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Why go out and vote?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: That's me.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: So I will tell you.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Now you're more level-headed than me.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I don't believe the earth is flat, but we can get.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Into that later. You've been indoctrinated.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I know. That goes back to our first episode.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I will say this. So I've had the privilege of
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: being with Ryan at multiple press conferences throughout the campaign.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: And he has gotten hammered. by the press with questions afterwards.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: And going into it, and I'm still not a guy
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: who necessarily subscribes to, like, the press is always out
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to get the Republican side, but, like, there was definitely
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: agenda-driven questions at these press conferences. So, you know, I
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: appreciate that position. In terms of early voting, let me put, like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: my campaign hat on. Like, we love it that it's
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: coming out because right now early voting is– falling behind
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the levels of two years ago. So we're not seeing
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: this blue wave that we saw last time. And in
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: my race, if I recall correctly, Senator Maroney lost every
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: town in the district on Election Day except for West Haven, right?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: So right now, if the early voting stays as it is,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: he's not going to go into Election Day with a
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: margin that he had last time. And Republicans traditionally come
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: out on Election Day. So I'm optimistic there. But I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: get your point, right? And it goes to the polls.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: These these polls come out, the early voting numbers come
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: out and they they suggest a landslide. But, you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: if you dig deep into the polls, I think the
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Wesleyan poll, if you look at the crosstabs for unaffiliated voters,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Lamont was beating Fazio 44 to 40. That's within the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: margin of error. Right. So it's all how you like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you know. I took baby statistics in college, right? It's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: like you can always pick a statistic you want to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: support your position, and that's about all I know on
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: math because I was a history major, and I tried
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to avoid numbers in science.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Baby statistics?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't know. Baby bio, baby statistics. I'm
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: shooting the shit here.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I got you. So I was watching a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: little bit of the debate, and one thing I noticed,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and this is just something that drives me nuts because
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I used to do it. ned lamont was doing this
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: yeah the whole fucking time i missed that and while
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: fazio was talking like nervous twitch maybe i know you're
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: not feeling comfortable.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: He didn't have a tie on yeah which as a
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: lawyer like kind of agitated and i'll tell you the
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: one thing i learned on this campaign so i announced
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: i think in april and then memorial day obviously what
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that's may right Orange had a very nice ceremony. I'm
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the town attorney in Orange, so I was invited to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: attend the ceremony. I got to sit up with all
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the elected officials in Lamont. Lamont came, and Senator Blumenthal came,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: which was a nice honor. But they both had sneakers on.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And I was like, why do they have sneakers? It's
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the governor and one of our senators, and they have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: sneakers on at a ceremony that we're honoring our veterans
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: and our military service. I'm on my second pair of
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: sneakers now. I understand why elected officials wear sneakers, because there's.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: A lot of walking.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So I take back my criticism that they were wearing
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: sneakers that day.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Listen, I wear dress shoes to work, but I get
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the sneaker dress shoes.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even do that. Now I need sneakers,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: because I'm pounding the.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Pavement too much. No, I'm saying they're like a sneaker,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: but they're designed to look more professional.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Right. So anyway, back to the debate. Your governor put
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a tie on, in my opinion.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I missed the clicking. That would have annoyed me if
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I noticed that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, this guy stopped. Why do you have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a pen out? Like really? Right. Like when you write
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: your little crib notes down.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, actually I didn't, I didn't mind Lamont during COVID. Um,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I thought, I thought he, you know, I think everyone
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was just in a whole new world and didn't know
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: how to, you know, we're trusting science from really high
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: people in really high places. And I get it. Uh,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm unvaccinated. I did not get it. But
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you just see these crazy cases now, like just just,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you know, high school kids dropping dead of heart attacks
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: or heart disease. And I mean, look what happened to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Right. I mean. Is that related to a COVID vaccine?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. What I'm saying is we don't know.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, did you read the story about what he
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: went through? Yeah, what?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: They kept him up all night and then he played.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: A football game? Because they were afraid if he fucking
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: fell asleep, he could die. So he stayed up all
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: night and then on like 30 hours of no sleep,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: played that day.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And then they flew home.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You can't get on a plane with a blood clot.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I just, there's so much malpractice there, I think.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I am not an Eagles fan, though. My in-laws are
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: from the greater Philadelphia area, so they're all Phillies fans.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Phillies and Eagles fans, excuse me. And I'm a Vikings fan, so,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you know, the last time they won.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, shit. We played each other this year.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: The last time they made it anywhere in the playoffs,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the Eagles kicked their ass. So I don't mind seeing
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the Eagles suffer, but, like, the Hurts story is crazy.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I mean. They need to investigate it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Well, so they cleared everybody, and then the NFLPA came
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: out and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: We are protecting our players, which I'm usually not for
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that union kind of crap, but they're 100% right here.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: So here's a conspiracy theory for you. Love it. Bring it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It was, what is it, Mike Florio, I think, was
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the author of it. We're seeing a bunch of NFL
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: teams play like three straight primetime games, right, which is unprecedented. Right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So his theory is the NFL is setting that up
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to see if they could do a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday scheme.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: You play week one on Tuesday, then week two on Wednesday,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: because the collective bargaining agreement requires usually seven days.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He's probably right. We're going to have the NFL on it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Every day of the week. I like the NFL, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: that's too much.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Right. They stole Christmas Day from the NBA.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, they did.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Stole it from them.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Which is fine because the NBA deserves what they get.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But I'm still a diehard Celtics fan. Obviously, you know that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: But I.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch any basketball last year because it was
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: just football.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I only watched the playoffs.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Like, dude, you guys had Thanksgiving. Now you're going to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: go after Christmas?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: No, it's the takeover of the world. Yeah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And I'm actually flying to Germany to see them play
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: in three weeks. Oh, wow. Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: That's cool. Where's the game in Germany?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: They're in Munich.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Where the Bayern plays, I think, the soccer. I know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I only know it because I researched it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: My wife and I did our extended honeymoon.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: In Germany.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: We didn't get to Munich, but... Yeah, that'll be a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: fun trip.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's me, Nicole, and another couple.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Is that during Oktoberfest?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: No, it's already over. Oktoberfest ends like the first week
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of October.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: My life has been a campaign. I've missed everything.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, I get it. I get it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But no, we're going. We leave Wednesday before the game.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And then Friday night, we got tickets to see Papa Roach.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: In Germany? Yeah, in Germany. And then Saturday, we're taking
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a train over to Austria. And then Sunday's the game. Monday,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: we kind of just have a fuck around day. And
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: then Tuesday, we head home. That's cool. Yeah, we're looking
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: forward to it. I'm just hoping the riots in France
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: don't make it to fucking Germany.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll make it to Germany.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think so either. But they got plans. They
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: got bigger plans. So that's a whole other thing. This
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: world has gone mad.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It's fucked up, and I wonder why I'm running for
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: office right now.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, though? But Owen, we need people
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: like you, level-headed, business type, that could give... Again, it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: like common sense. And I think the world has lost
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And I don't know.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into this whole political rant,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: because we've done that before. But I just feel like...
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: When is the tide going to turn? I thought this
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: whole woke shit was done like two years ago, and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's like tripled down. now with the shit that we
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: see now i don't know i.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Mean have you seen like the falcons new logo oh
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: my god do you read the comments i mean i've
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: i had to drive to we represent greenwich so i
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: had to drive down to greenwich yeah this morning and
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: like so i i heard boomer and geo's take on
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it and then yesterday i heard carton's take on it
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: it's just.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it they have this new
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: logo and if you literally move the wing a little
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: bit it looks like the third rank it does it
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: does So somebody posted on Twitter last night, they posted
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the logo and it said, read the comments. And it
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: wasn't even hateful comments. It was all comedy. It was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: fucking phenomenal. Some of the shit these people were writing.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my God. Who approves this shit?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, somebody in the Falcons PR has probably
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: been fired or got to be fired.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Are they wearing those logos this weekend?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I don't even know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I actually thought it was fake, to be honest with you.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, there's no way this is real.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: But apparently it's real.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, every NFL team now has
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: like 85 different jerseys. True.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Home, away, retro, city. Baseball, too.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Red Sox wear yellow jerseys and green jerseys. You're the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Red Sox.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Beat the right colors.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Not a good end to baseball for our teams.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Though I got one round farther than you.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: You did. My thing with the Red Sox is quick
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: baseball minute. We can certainly do. I think... I knew
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: we were doomed against the Yankees when like three days
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: before the series started that we re-signed our GM and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: we took the interim tag away from our– which I'm
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: fine with Chad Tracy.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He did a good job.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: He did. He did. I mean one of the craziest
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: summers I ever remember.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: You guys had an up and down season.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: We did. And he saved our summer with a big
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: long winning streak and we got back in contention. But
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I knew. I'm like– They rewarded him. This is why
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they did it, because they know the lockout's coming.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: They know there's no baseball.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: That's why Boone is still the manager.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: That's why Boone is still.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: The manager, 100%.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm like, win a series and then fucking
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: give them the extension. But no, they extended him for
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: three years. Like, three years. This guy sucks. We have
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: no offense.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. What do you think? What's your take
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: on your team?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I would not have brought Boone back.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I have no way in hell. You're right, though. It's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the lockout.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I probably wouldn't have brought Cashman back. I mean,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in there's a time and a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: place to move on. Yeah, yeah. And Cashman's done a
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: fantastic job.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: God, he's been there since, what, 1998?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he was assistant to Bob Watson back
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: in the day.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, who was the GM before him?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Stick Michaels. No, it was Dick Michaels, then Bob Watson,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and then Cashman, if I'm not mistaken.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: It was a black guy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob Watson.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That was his name, Bob Watson? Yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: What?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That doesn't... Okay. I believe you. You know more than me, so.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: No, he's been around for a long time.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Almost 30 years.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: We've obviously done very well.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you win games.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You know, regular season.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: But you had injuries, too. I mean, you didn't have.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: So, I'm rooting for the Brewers.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I probably, they start what, tomorrow night?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Or tonight?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: They start tonight, right?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Tonight or tomorrow?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It's tonight.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I probably won't watch many innings. I didn't watch, once
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox were out, well, I did watch the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yankees series to make sure they lost. A Yankees loss
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is almost as good as a Red Sox win.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But I just, I don't know. Me and my best friend,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: we literally text daily about every sport. But we're like,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just, we know this lockout's coming.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And it sucks.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it absolutely sucks. I mean, these people make, everyone
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: makes so much money and then it's just going to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: hurt the fans in the long run. Not only for
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: not having games, but you know, the prices are going
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to keep skyrocketing. What's crazy is like, if you go
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: out to Milwaukee and you're on a business trip in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the summer, you could probably catch a game, a really
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: good seat for like $ 35. Yeah. Anywhere in the Northeast,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, whatever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: It's unaffordable. It's unaffordable. I took my two oldest boys
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: to a game last season. We didn't make it to
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the stadium this year, but we took the Yankee Clipper
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: on Amtrak.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you, that was a mistake. So taking
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: an eight and a six-year-old at the time on the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yankee Clipper on a Friday night. We were the three
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: only sober people on the train.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: The worst part is you got to ride home with
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: all these animals.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: No, we actually got a hotel. We stayed.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, you stayed there.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife and my third came and then my
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: best friend and his wife and their family came. So
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: we did the weekend in the city, which was also
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a mistake.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Taking three boys. I mean, this summer we took.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: How the hell did you get up? How did you
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: not have a drink?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I had a lot of drinks.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but this summer I took my three boys–
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: my wife and I took our three boys to the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Harry Potter store.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: How was that? I never got into Harry Potter. It
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: was probably pretty cool.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: No. Yeah. The boys loved it, but we took the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: train down and back on a Saturday and they're doing
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: all the work in Norwalk on the bridge. So that
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: was like, so they have less trains. It was, there
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: were no seats after Milford.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: So that was terrible. Um, but you know, the boys
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: really enjoyed it. But anyway, back into the Yankee game.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: So I took my oldest to last, not this past season,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the prior season. And it was like, God, awful hot. And, uh,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: My oldest is a huge sports fan. He loved it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: My middle guy hates sports. Wanted to leave immediately. But
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: it was super expensive.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's stupid.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's stupid.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Do kids follow the Savannah Bananas and all any of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that stuff? So... This is crazy. So we did a cruise.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Me and my girlfriend and her son did a cruise
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: in Tampa. They were all there.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: It was a themed cruise. It was them.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And all eight teams that are in the league and
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the owner. I wouldn't do it again, but it was fun.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We had a good time. But every ticket they sell
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to every game is a lottery.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Really? Yes. Oh, okay.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And the tickets are $ 40 no matter what. But the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: fucking bots go online and gobble them up. You want
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to go to Yankee Stadium. So we actually won Yankee
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Stadium for this past year.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You win a lot of stuff.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: You're like, my cousin used to win all the radio competitions.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: So we went.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And it was cool. It was fun. They brought out
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was the guest, like the sports athlete guest
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: before he got cut by the Giants.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask. Is he in the league?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: No, I think he's broadcasting for like a small, for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: like a B team.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: He's doing like Division III football broadcasting.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So where was I going with this? Oh, yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So if you want to. So I was just looking.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, we had the four tickets. And I'm like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: go on StubHub and see how much they're going for.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Four hundred dollars. I'm like, do we really got to go?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, we got to go.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: For an exhibition game.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. And I'm like,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: we can make $ 1, 600 right now and not go to
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the game. Right. Because we're still– you know how much
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: money I spent at that game?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I bet. I can only imagine.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I was buying drinks. We took the Yankee Clipper to it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: So we weren't driving anywhere. And they had like a
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: full bar there. So I'm drinking whiskey and beers and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: buying her drinks, and he wants ice cream every other inning.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I probably dumped $ 300, $ 400.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with ice cream. No, no, no, not
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Not at all.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: No, it's expensive, man.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: It's just tough. I tell you what, if MLB locks out,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: which they will, feel free to come on. We'll talk
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: about it. We'll talk about it. Where are we going now?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, football.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So last night. I took today off because the Patriots
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: played last night because I can't stay up that late
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: if I'm working the next morning.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Neither can I.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm like, screw it. So I stayed up.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Hell of a game. Drake made that one big mistake.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: It's the only mistake he made of the game. Caleb
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Williams is the real deal. He had some laser throws
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on the run. Chicago's good, but the Patriots are just
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: as– I mean, the Patriots have so many injuries right now.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're a Giants fan or a Jets fan?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I am a Vikings fan.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. You just said it. Vikings.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: So I was rooting for you guys last night.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: That's right. You don't want Chicago to win.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: No, I want them to lose.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Well, we tried our darndest, but that interception in the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: end zone killed us. And then a couple throws that
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Caleb made late on third and longs. I am not
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: upset with the loss. I mean, it's short week. That's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a tough game to go into. Yeah, and you're on
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the road in Chicago. It's dick a night. You know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you always lose the fucking those kind of games. So
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: we got Miami next week to get us pumped up again. Well,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that's a win. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We got
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Miami to stomp on, and then we'll be 5-3. And
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: then I think we got before the Germany game against
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the Lions, which is going to be a fucking bar.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Can you beat them, please?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: We will. We'll beat them. A little fun fact about me.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Since 2000 and I want to say three.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I have only– I've probably been to, let's say, 50
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Patriots games in person. I can probably count on one
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: hand how many times I've seen them lose.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I once went to– Because you had Tom Brady.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: No, I know. I know. But I– even in the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: May era, the Mac Jones era, I just went, I'm there.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I went this year. We went against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Crushed them.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Do you like going to football games because– I prefer
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: to sit on my couch.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I used to. I agree with you, though, as we age.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable on Sunday mornings. I actually love these
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: European games because I'm up at 8 now. I'm like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to wait until 1 for football. Wait, there's
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a 930 game.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I had a buddy that I grew up with. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: went to Amity with him, and he moved out to
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Seattle at one point in time because he worked for Amazon.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: And he was like, it's... It's a different world. Like
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: you wake up and you have football and you're like
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: done by 1 o'clock and you have your day, right?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: As opposed to here where you have to wait until 1, 4, 8,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and like, you know, most people get divorced because they
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: watch too much football.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I got to give credit to Nicole. She sits there
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: with me all day. She doesn't watch them, but she'll
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: doom scroll. But she doesn't get pissed off. I mean,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: last night I went downstairs and everyone was asleep. And
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: we have a little Shih Tzu.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And he's not easy. He'll be two in January. These
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: fucking dogs. I mean, all dogs are the same. When
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: it comes to this, it's like 10 o'clock, and I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: got a little hangry. So I went upstairs, and you
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: know that it's called Good... something it's that pop it's
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: that deli it's like delicatessen popcorn all the kids the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you're probably going to be selling it soon for your
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: kids and fundraisers maybe so i got hit up and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: i fucking you know it's 15 for a bag this
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: big okay so i bought three so fifty dollars later
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: i got three little bags of popcorn it's for the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: kids it's for the kids so i go downstairs into
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: my basement i didn't even give you two of my
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: house i i should have no that's all right So
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I go downstairs, and it's not really a basement. We
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: were like a split-level ranch, so it's like the bottom.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: And big-screen TV like everyone's got, not a brag. And
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I'm watching, and I'm like, I'm trying to open this
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: bag up just really quietly. And I should have just
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: taken my knife out and sliced it. But I finally
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: get it open, and it's like, it's good popcorn, though.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It's like cheddar and caramel mix.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: So I'm that one bite in, and I just hear them.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Da-da-da-da-da.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: All the way down the stairs, jumps up on the couch,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and he's just staring at me. And I'm like, how
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the– you would sound asleep. These dogs, you can't open
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: snacks up around dogs when they're sleeping. They're going to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: wake right up.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I have a two-year-old golden retriever who's 84 pounds, doesn't
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: realize it. 84? Yeah, still thinks he can be carried.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And it's funny. Whenever you use the word walk, He
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: gets very excited.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Keywords, yep.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: But I was talking to my wife yesterday, and she
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: thinks he now knows how it's spelled because I'll spell
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: it out.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: W-A-L-K, yep.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: She's like, why are you spelling it? He knows what
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you're spelling. So, yeah, no, I hear you.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do that with him. I'm like, you want
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to go for a walk? And then he knows everything.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: They're so much smarter than you really realize.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: They're very smart. They are. He was supposed to be
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: my kid's dog, but now he's like.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: My wife and my dog.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, the kid wanted the dog. I can't get him
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to walk him ever. No. But he sleeps with us.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I play with him all day. I walk him when
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I go from work. I feed him. I always give
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: him table scraps. I'm the only one that does.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I get yelled at for giving him table scraps.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Well, the kid won't sacrifice any food. That food's in
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: front of him. You touch it, he'll stab you. So
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: he doesn't give the dog any food. The dog doesn't
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: even bother with it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I wish my kids would eat food. Really?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: It's like pulling teeth, unless it's McDonald's or like not eating.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: They're like breatharians. You ever heard of breatharians?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: No.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: You should look into that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: What do we got? What do we got?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: People that just live on air.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: They'd be dead in 30 days.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Google it. It's a thing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: This is like a moment of pause. Hold on.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm writing it down. Hold on. It doesn't make any
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: sense to me, though.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Breatharian. Don't ask me to spell it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Breatharian. breath air in so they only live on air
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: their diet is air but okay make it make sense
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: like you it doesn't make i'm not one.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: You're drinking whiskey right now i know i can't explain
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: That stuff strong or what yeah yeah Yeah.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I'm about to go back to delirium.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Drink your beer. Drink your beer. I'll stick with the whiskey.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I brought delirium.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Actually, just pour me like a couple ounces.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: We'll split this one.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I don't even need a half of it. Just a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: little bit. So, football. So, your Vikings are doing well. Undefeated.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: One of the last three teams. You traded J.J. McCarthy away.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who's starting this week.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I know. Kyler Murray, your guy?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's for the long term.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so either.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's tough to be a Monday morning quarterback.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I don't blame them for getting rid of Darnold because
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: he had such a crappy, shitty game.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Look at him now.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I know. He won a Super Bowl.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: No, no. I mean, look at him now. Would you
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: have given him the contract? No. Yeah. No.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I saw him when he was a Jet, dude. Seeing ghosts.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I was at that game.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: That's all you need to say. He was a gem.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I was at the game that he saw ghosts. Again,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: by the way, the Patriots won that game. That's one
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: of my– I'm telling you. I'm telling you. You bet.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: The Patriots are probably going to get like three points
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: in this game for whatever reason.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: You should have gone to the Super Bowl. I know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: So my aunt is a huge Giants fan. But she
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: went to the Ravens' Britney Spears Super Bowl, which my
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: uncle loved.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Ravens Niners?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: No, it was the Ravens Giants.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, way back in 2001. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: She's like, I will never go to a Super Bowl again.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It was terrible. Yeah, so I'm optimistic this year. Obviously,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: we're off to an awesome start. Yeah. They'll probably lose
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: to the Colts this weekend because they're the Vikings and
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: they fuck up all the time. The Colts are bad. No,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: they are bad.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: They are bad.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Actually, I hope they trade.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: For the– Jonathan Taylor? Yeah, for the running back. Yeah.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I was reading ESPN.com the other day and they were
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: talking about the teams that had high hopes and now
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: are just– Giants being one of them. Colts.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Brian Flores, I would actually make him the head coach,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: keep him there because he's fucking awesome. That defense is unreal.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: He still has a lawsuit against the league, too.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was a whole Bill Belichick thing.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: He texted him, congrats on the job.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: How bad is that North Carolina program right now?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, Bill, what are you doing? One, he should
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: have just walked away and waited until someone came calling,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: got the record from Shula, and just walked away.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Little fun fact. My father played against Bill Belichick in college.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: He said he was a little shit center for Wesley.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: My father played for Amherst.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Amherst?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I used to go to the Amherst Williams game when
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I was a kid.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Actually, my mom and dad are going to homecoming this weekend.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a Williams or a Wesleyan game,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: but the little three.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I grew up going to the Amherst games with
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: my dad.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I can actually picture like, oh man, I drove by
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: that stadium. When my father passed away, I hadn't been
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: up that way in like 40 years.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And my father passed away. He lives in South Deerfield.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And so my brother and I are cleaning out the
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: house and stuff. And there's like no hotels in the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: fucking area. And I'm a fucking hotel whore. I don't
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: want to stay in some shitty fucking place.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: You got to go to Springfield.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Right. So there was a residence in up by there.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: And I was just driving by, and, like, it's so
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: different now, obviously. Like, anywhere you go, 40 years later,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it's going to look different. And I'm driving up, and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is the malls here? Okay. Oh,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: now everything's, you know, Home Depot, Lowe's, all this stuff
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: pops up over the years. And then I saw Amherst,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: their football stadium there. Yeah. Yeah, Amherst, yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: We used to party at UMass Amherst.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: That was fun. I went to University of New Haven,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: but my buddies went up there. So University of New
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Haven was terrible for parties.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: So we'd go up there, and I'd crash at my
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: dad's house.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Another fun fact, my wife is adjuncting at UNH right now.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah?
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, nice.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Nice. Teaching baby bio.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Baby bio.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Is that really what they call it? Well, no. Like,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: where's the baby come from?
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: No, not baby bio, but yeah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? I've never heard that term before.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Bio 101.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, intro.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Oh, I got you. I got you.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I've never heard this term. Sorry.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: It's all bio about babies, right?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just old. So the WNBA finals are going on
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: right now. Do you even know what's going on?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Okay. Next topic. LeBron James. Do you see his little
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: beef with Trump? Yeah, yeah.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: What was he? He was like playing air basketball.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Well, he was like practicing his golf swing and playing
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: air basketball and. You know, Trump called him out. Trump's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: called him out. I can't stand LeBron James. I've never
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: liked him. I was so happy he went to Philly
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and not Boston because there was rumors he was going
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: to go to Celtics.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to buy my father-in-law a LeBron James jersey
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: just because he's a Sixers fan.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: So I guess they asked LeBron last night, you know,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: what's your reaction to Trump calling you out? And he goes,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: because it's a slow news day or something like that.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: You know he's flying a fucking helicopter to practice.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Helicopter. Do you know that? That's how Kobe died. I'd
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: be a little careful flying those things.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Actually, back to WNBA, do you see
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that they leave the court during the national anthem in
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the finals?
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I've got to be honest with you. I don't pay attention.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched a dribble all year, but I did
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: see that. You follow conservative fucking sites. They show it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Another fun fact. I enjoy reading about, like, sports media.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: You ever go to Awful Announcing? Oh, yeah.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: They're very liberal, though.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. I mean... I go there for– No,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: they are. I don't know why I have, like, an
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: obsession with reading about, like, sports media, but, like, the
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: whole Troy Aikman thing right now.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's fucking awesome.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Even Tony Romo. Like, did they release the fucking body
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: cam footage?
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I love awful announcements.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: He's like, I got a bad back, you know?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: It's weird. So, you know, the only thing I know
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: about the WNBA is Sophie Cunningham. Yeah, that's it. She's hot.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's it.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, that's– I'm not going to fight you there.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: No, you can't. You'd lose.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So they're walking off the court. They're on a
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: national anthem.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You should just stand. Pay respects to the people
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: who sacrificed their lives.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. And I think that's what
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: they lose the sight of. Right. This isn't about you
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: standing there and putting your hand over your heart and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: taking your hat off. That annoys the fuck out of me.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Like you with the not wearing a tie.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: When I'm at games and people don't take their hats off,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I want to walk down and smack.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: It off their head. That would annoy me too. Yeah.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Um, it's very simple. You take your hat off if
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: you're wearing one or you put your hand over your
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: heart and you just listen to the national anthem and
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: you look at the flag and you, when I was younger,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I get it. I didn't, whatever. It's like saying the
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: pledge of allegiance in high school. But now it just
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: means so much more to me now as you, as
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: you get older and you're like, watch, watch, uh, what
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: was the Tom Hanks war movie?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Uh, Saving Private Ryan. Uh, yes.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: The first scene when they're all storming the beach. Oh,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Was that the first scene? I haven't seen that movie. Yeah,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the first 15 minutes are them storming Normandy or whatever
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: it was. And, you know, body parts flying everywhere. These
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: young kids, the whole reason why you play this sport
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and make this money is because of sacrifices these people made.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Don't make it about Trump. Don't make it about our
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: government in general that I think screws us every day
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: outside of local state senators.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Um....
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Just honor honor the fallen and that's what i think
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that's what it's about i well what it should be
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: about i would say 100 you know um but yeah
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: so they're walking off the court hockey's back i don't
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: know if you follow hockey at.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: All nobody cares about hockey boomer what the fuck i
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: don't know you know so so my kid uh Got
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: into hockey or thought he was going to get into
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: hockey to learn to skate.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: And then he quickly learned that he couldn't do hockey.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, so I'm a lacrosse guy.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: I coach my kids' lacrosse team. My assistant coach runs
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a hockey program out of Milford. Thank God my kid's
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: not playing hockey. The level of investment that you have
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: to make to play high-level hockey– I mean, BlackRock or whatever,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: the equity firm, they own that league that my buddy
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: plays in.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We could have a two-hour conversation about the privatization
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: of youth sports and the club teams. I'm totally against it.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: So I'm very lucky that my kids are not playing hockey.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: I think this is a product of probably the last
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: 40 to 50 years with the salaries the way they
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: are and the money that these teams make. It trickles
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: down into the youth because everyone has that dream. You
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: know how many families lose so much money thinking their
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: kid is going to be the next whoever? I, so
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: I'm the president of Amity Youth Lacrosse.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And every year I tell my team, so my
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: kid's fourth grade. So I'm the head coach of the
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: fourth grade team. And I, and, and we also do
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: a full league parent meeting every year. Excuse me. Sorry.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: No, you're fine.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I tell my, I tell my parents and the league parents,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough. click click click um i played
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: d3 lacrosse right so there's no scholarship money there but
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: i was like two or three of the kids on
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: my class who didn't play two sports in high school
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: colleges want multi-sport athletes yeah They don't want the kid
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: who specializes in one sport for 12 months out of
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the year. And that's really costly.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: It's not good for development. Like, multi-sport. Go play youth
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: sports for fun. Learn how to be a team. Learn
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: how to improve your kids, your teammates who are at
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: the bottom level. Bring them up, right? We could talk
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: about this for two hours.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I have twins on my lacrosse team right
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: now who are fucking phenomenal. These kids could go play D1.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Their dad played D3 football at Holy Cross. But, like,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: they're great kids. They've bought in. They pass the ball
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: well to the other teammates. They engage the other teammates.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: And their parents get it. But some of these parents
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: are fucking crazy.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're nuts.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Like, you're spending thousands of dollars a year For your
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: private club team as like a fifth, sixth, seventh grader.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: And, you know, you're going to get a scholarship at
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: the end. Like I played with a guy. I went
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: to Amity my senior year. Our goalie was a freshman.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Very good friend. He ultimately went to Siena. Very good goalie.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Like all-state goalie. Yeah. Guess what his scholarship was? One-eighth.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: He's got a one-eighth scholarship to play lacrosse at Seattle.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Their money's not there. Unless your kid's going to go
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: play football for Texas and his last name is Manning,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: you're not getting a full ride. It's a travesty. Again,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: we could talk for two hours about it.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: You look at youth ice hockey, right?
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: You were just talking about it and Americans in general
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: have dumped billions of dollars into youth hockey. And the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: fruits of that labor has paid off. They're winning the juniors.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: They're beating Canada every year. We used to never win that.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: But I always look at the money that's being spent.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: For that dream. And what's crazy is the NHL is
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: not even close to the other three major sports as
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: far as salaries are concerned. I mean, they make great money.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: But the biggest contract is like, oh, he got a seven-year,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: $ 40 million contract.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy about the NHL? You have guys
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: in the NHL still living with a host family.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: So there's a bar in Boston. It's actually in Charlestown.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: What's the name?
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It's the oldest one It's like the Paul Revere bar Fuck,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: what is it called?
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: So I went to law school up in Boston My
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: sister lives out in.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Watertown It's like the ceilings are this high I haven't
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: been there We'll move on So I'm there And a
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: friend of mine met us there for lunch And he
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: goes Oh hey, check this out And we're like, what?
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: He's like, right across the street That's where David Pasternak
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and Brad Marsheim live Yeah. I'm like, they live in
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the same house? It's crazy. He's like, yeah. I'm like,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: holy shit. And I'm like, damn. Like, these guys. I mean, obviously,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: it's not where they live. It's where they live during
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the hockey season. They probably have mansions back at home.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: I used to live on East Broadway. Okay. And I
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: was on the ocean side. But we were actually street.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: And then there was a house behind us. You know
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, both on the beach side.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: And it was all housed by Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Islanders now.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: But it was like six of them. Which, by the way,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: they put on a good show.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: The Orange PTAs have always done a hockey night. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: They're fantastic. I think they left, right?
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: They did.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hopefully somebody fills in.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they left, unfortunately. So anyway, they're living behind us.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: We don't really talk to them for... basically the whole
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: season and then playoffs were approaching. And one night they
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: came in and, uh, Stonebridge and we met him and
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: became kind of friendly with these guys. And this is
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: going back to like 2000 and, oh man, four or five,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: somewhere in that area, 20 years ago. And there was
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: this one kid, uh, he was a phenom and he
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: was from Sweden, Sweden. Yeah. And he signed like a,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: He got like a $ 2 million signing bonus. Like every
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: kid was driving like this beater renter car and he
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: had like this brand new Range Rover or something. And
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: we used to get all their mail because the mailman
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't go past our house to the beach. He'd leave
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: it all up front. So one night me and my
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: buddy are all fucked up and we get home and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: there's a box for this kid.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: And we're like, we're not going to steal it. I
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: just want to see what he gets. He gets boxes
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: every day. So we open up the box.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Was it an Amazon box?
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Amazon wasn't around back then okay so it's just a
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: ups box so we fucking open it up and we're
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: like looking in it's like a heavy scent of like
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: like fluorescent or floral scent and we're like what the
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: fuck so we get past everything this dude ordered bar
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: soap with his his signature in it what it was
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like personalized bar soap I got to remember his name.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: He's not in the league anymore. He actually ended up
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning and won a cup
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: with them. I'll think of his name later.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Personalized bar soap.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: He literally had bar soap that had his name on it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: What the fuck? Is that what rich people do?
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never been rich, so I have
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: no idea. But, yeah. So that's my one hockey story,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I guess. Nothing really funny.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no hockey stories for you.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Nothing? Nothing. No, but, like, to my point, though, like,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: they literally are just spending so much, dumping so much money, really.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: No, and then, you know, like, my buddy tells me
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: he's got parents complaining about playing dime. And it's like, well,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: you know, your kid's not good enough.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: But they're spending thousands of dollars. So, you know, I
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: appreciate both sides of the story. Right. Youth sports is
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: a mess. I mean, we need to get back to.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Here's the town team. Play for fun and, you know,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: go from there.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Can't solve all the world's problems here.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: All right, last sport, NBA.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: LeBron's in Philly. See, they were down 29 last night,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and they came back and won.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: I saw that, yeah. Yeah.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the NBA now.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: So my kid got spoiled. He's a Knicks fan, my
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: oldest son, who's a big sports fan. Well, good.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: How old is he?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: He's nine.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: All right. I mean, that's a good, ripe year to
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: win a championship.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: I would have preferred a Yankee championship for his first home.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: So you could all celebrate.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: But he saw the Knicks, and that was a big
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: conflict last year. Like, do I let him stay up?
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. These games don't start until nine at night.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I let him.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Fuck it. Yeah.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: He had to watch the games. So as a Yankee fan,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I appreciate that he got to see
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: his team win a championship.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I hate the Knicks, but I appreciate the— That.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Team was like— as a Celtics fan, I can appreciate you
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: not liking them, but they were grinders.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, they were.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: So that game in the finals against San Antonio when
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: they were down 29 at the half.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I turned the TV off. I went to bed.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So did we.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Right. I woke up the next morning and I always
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: check my phone for the late games. I get the
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: little score updates and shit. And I'm like, I don't
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: know what came over me, but I'm like, I have
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a feeling they fucking came back and won that game.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: They fucking won everything. Yeah.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they did it. That was like
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: one of the smoothest, like every clinching game was a blowout.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Like they blew people out.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: But the NBA now, it sucks though. It's like, You're
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: now 29. How bad of a coach are you that
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: you can't coach up 29 to win a game? I
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: I grew up with Jordan and Ewing. I used to
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: be a big NBA fan, and then it became a
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: whole ISO 101.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's fucking bad now. I still love it and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: watch it because I grew up in the Larry Bird
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: era in the 80s.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: To your son's point, I used to... Well, actually, they
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: used to tape delay games back then, finals games. And
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: there was no internet, so you didn't know the scores.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: And then they'd show them later. But the games, when
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: they played in L.A. in like 84 and 87, 88,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I had a little black and white TV. My mom
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: was always so good with me. I always had a
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: TV in my room when I was young. And a
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: little black and white TV, and not even, probably a
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: 15-inch TV. And I would lie in bed, and I
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: would just watch the games. But you know what I
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: did miss?
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: It was Bird Steals the Ball. I don't know if
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: you know what this is. So they were playing the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Pistons in 1986. Okay. I was only two at that point.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: 87.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Three.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: So they were down, and this whole thing, Bird Steals
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the Ball, Bird Steals the Ball, oh, my God, passes
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the dj dj for the score and we beat the
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: bad this is before the pistons bad boys it was
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: like the beginning of the bad boys then the bad
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: boys got they lost to the lakers i remember the
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: lakers were one two in a row and then the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: bad boys had their little run for a while um
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: but But yeah, my mom was the same way. She's like, no,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: you can stay up and watch it. Fuck it.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a little younger than you, but my uncle gave
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: me a TV when I was, I don't know, fifth,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: sixth grade. It was staticky, and you couldn't quite see
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: the screen.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: And I feel bad that my boys will never experience that.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: No, no. They have it so big now, it's ridiculous. Right.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Dad, Disney's not working.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Can you log in? I remember my mom took me
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: to Killington. She was dating this guy, and her boss
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: had a house up in Killington, so we all went
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: up there. This was early 80s. Yeah. And they had
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: a 19-inch color TV, which was holy shit.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: They had the bunny ears, and we were so close
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: to Canada.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: My boys will never see bunny ears.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: We were so close to Canada, and some guy that
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: was staying at the house with us was a big
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Edmonton Oiler and Wayne Gretzky fan. Yeah. And he, like,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: toiled with it, and all of a sudden we're watching
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the Edmonton Oilers. And I just remember, I couldn't even
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: tell you what his name was. He turns to me
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and goes, just so you know, kiddo, that's the greatest
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: player you'll ever see play hockey. And he was fucking right.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: And he was right.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I haven't found one better.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, Ovechkin beat his goal record, but Ovechkin's not
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: even close to his assist record.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: But.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's a different world.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Again, this is what worries me about this generation.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Now, AI.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: How does... So, in all of your... Everything you're involved in,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: which is way too much for me to list.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: This is too many fucking hats. How does.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Is AI... Have you integrated AI into any of this stuff?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Even your campaign trail?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, so AI has replaced the first-year associate for
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: my law firm. Come on. I have AI review all
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: my campaign speeches, right? Yeah. And whether or not I
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: accept their edits is another issue. Right, of course, yeah. Yeah, no,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: it's here to stay. And, you know, I don't think
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: I'm old, but I joke with my– we have a
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: second- and a third-year associate. And I joke that, you know,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: like Skynet is coming right from Terminator.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: And they don't fucking know what the movie is. Come on. No,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I kid you not. They don't know who the Terminator is.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: They don't watch movies anymore.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know how the movie industry still survives.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: And, you know, like AI is my opponent's big thing. Yeah.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: I went to Amity the other day for.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: By your pony, you mean Maroney?
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Maroney, yeah.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Baloney Maroney?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: It's so funny you bring that up. My buddies, who
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: I've tried to keep away from the campaign, were like, oh,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: you should campaign on Baloney Baloney. And they give me
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: AI generators.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Like, we're not going to use that. But, no, it's like,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: I went to Amity, and they have a critical issues class, which, like,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: This is the fun part of the campaign. When I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: was a senior at AMD, I took that class. And
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: the student teacher is the teacher now. Oh, really? Yeah.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: So I got to see him and reconnect, and that
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. And I was talking to him,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, no, your opponent was here last week,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: and all he wanted to talk about was AI. uh
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: which is important.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah don't get me wrong so yeah i mean ai
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  Speaker 1: i've done a couple shows on it nothing crazy i
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: haven't dived too much into it but obviously the recent
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: you know in the last change in the world but
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: it is uh data centers i know data centers are
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: a big thing in the uh governor campaign.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah you know look i my campaign came out against
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: data centers several months ago yeah And in 2000, I think, 21,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: the governor and the General Assembly passed a bill giving
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: all these fucking tax incentives to data centers, which I'm against. Like,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: why should we subsidize multimillion dollar industries for data centers? But,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: you know, AI should be regulated by the federal government.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: And the state should fill in.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think it will ever.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: No, I think it will. I mean, look.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Again, though.
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  Speaker 2: There are some bills that have been proposed.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: So you're going to regulate it and China's not, right?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: But you have to. Because, look, if you have 50
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: different rules, you're never going to have an AI marketplace,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: so to speak.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: They can't agree to regulate fucking crypto right now. I'm
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: just saying. There's no way. We are so divided as
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: a political country.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the problem. And we have to. We have
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: to have civil discourse, right?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: And that's what I've been trying to bring to the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: campaign trail. Because if you have 50 different rules, an
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: AI company is going to say, fuck the United States.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to China to have my data
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: centers and whatnot.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: So I chat GPT'd what rules? What if so, you know,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: the fear that the whistleblower came out and said that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: by 2030, the human civilization could be wiped out by AI.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: So I chatted with Peter and I said, well, what
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: would be the number one cause to wipe us out? Right.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: So number one was basically that they would release, you know,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: it would be like chemical warfare. They would release, you know,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: they'd take control of whoever and just fire missiles.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Take the football from the president.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. It wouldn't be nuclear. Just be able
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: to release, you know, biochemist fucking crap, whatever. The robot theory,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the Terminator theory, they actually, Chad GPT kind of debunked
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: it because, actually, they kind of debunked it in a
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: funny way. They're like, It's a supply chain issue. We
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: can't get the supplies and the product to make these
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: robots and take over.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: So China will have all the Terminators, but not the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: United States.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right. So I thought that was funny.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: That is funny. But then it just went on to say,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I'm like, wait a second. I'm
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: asking AI about AI. That's weird.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: I use AI at work. I work for Lockheed Martin,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: and I... I use it for the dumb shit, like
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you do. Like, all right, here's my email to the president.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Read it over.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Should I send this? You know, that kind of stuff.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Not that I email the president that often.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: It's an absolutely useful tool. I mean, I think the
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: training that we need to have now is how to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: use AI, right?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: It's input.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: And not necessarily that it's a bad thing, but how
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: best to use it. Right. And we'll see where it goes, but.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: I just, I just feel like I started talking about
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: this topic a year and a half ago.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Only about like taking over jobs. Uh, and I feel
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: we're only a year and a half later and it's like,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: we're already talking about the end of the world. It's crazy.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: My managing partner at, at the law firm for years
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: now has been saying we need to be at the,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: at the cutting edge. And my firm has like for
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: a small firm and we're only 11 attorneys, we spend
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of fucking money on AI.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Um, But it has accelerated in the last year to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: the point that nobody could have imagined.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think AI could affect elections? Could infiltrate elections?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: In terms of what's out there on Facebook and Instagram?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: I have a fantastic social media person, for lack of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: a better word. She's phenomenal. You look at my posts,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: it's funny. you know, like we sent out a lot
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: of text messages. We sent out a lot of posts on,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: I get my.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Text message says maybe Owen Weaver. I'm like, no, I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: have Owen Weaver in my phone.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: It's not Owen Weaver. Right. And that's funny because people
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: like think that it's the candidate, but it's other people. Okay. Um,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: but you look at some other campaigns that whether or
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: not they have the resources or their personnel and I'm
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: very fortunate. I have an awesome team. Um, You can
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: tell when it's an AI-generated post versus somebody who took
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: the time to do it. And I think that's why
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: my campaign is resonating with people. Because we have the team.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: We have the message. And it's not just computer-generated.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: My rambling in thing was AI-generated. Nicole did it.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like every bar does it now, and they
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: all look the same. It's weird.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can kind of tell why this is AI.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's what it's there for. You're advertising. Use it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: It's free.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: It's free.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Fuck it. You know, any free.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Until Microsoft or Facebook starts charging. Yeah.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Well, even like chat GPT, I think I can only
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: ask it like a certain amount of questions a day.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: And then it's like, now you're done for the next
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: 18 hours.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: You know, it's yeah. Like I don't want to go
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: down this path cause this could be another two hours too.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: But like in the, in the legal community, should you
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: be using chat GPT? Is it like closed and safe?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Like attorney client privilege stuff.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: That stuff. And it's not right. Right. So there's a
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: whole industry of, like, what AI are you using? Is
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: it is it protecting your privileged communications and right it's
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: a whole mess and hopefully it gets resolved soon but
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: yeah you know you see law firms getting fined by
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: the courts all the time for citing bullshit ai right
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: generated yeah citations and luckily not my firm yet good
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: and hopefully never my firm never.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Never right no so But, yeah, AI, it's fascinating just
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: how fast it's.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Thank God we were born when we were and we
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: don't have to deal with it.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: I feel sorry for my kids. You have young kids,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: you know, and those kids are going to have kids.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Why I'm running for office.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So we'll finish on this. You've got 11
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: days left.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: Something like that.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is. Right. What's the plan? What's the final?
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Are you still doing door-to-door for the next?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: I'm doing door-to-door. I'll probably be doing door-to-door up to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Election Day.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: Right? I encourage people to vote.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, go out and vote. Right. Seriously.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Don't be lazy. Go the fuck out and vote. Right.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, the percentage of people that vote is.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: And get your sticker. And I want everyone that gets
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: a sticker to post it to my Facebook page.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of stickers. I paid for a
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: lot of stickers.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I got this sticker.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: I'm beginning to regret the number of stickers that I
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: bought in terms of money, but it's all good. Yeah,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: go out to vote.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: As you can see, he only gave me one sticker.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: I'll give you two.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: You know, just one.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: But, you know, in all seriousness.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: He's fiscally responsible.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: No, you know, this is... We have that right as
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: an American. I don't mean to sound on my high
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: horse here, but it's important. Go out to vote. Not
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: enough people vote in elections, and it matters, right? So
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: whether you vote for me or my opponent or you
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: decide to vote for a third party, go out to vote.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: It's important. And I thank everyone who has and will vote,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: and we'll see where it lands after election B, I think.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Column B. Vote column B. Actually, you know, it's funny
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: in small town politics, not that we're small town, but
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like not the national scene.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I think I voted, you know, I sometimes went, you know.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: And that's fine.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But no, not this year.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Vote column B.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Our mutual friend likes to call this a municipal election. Yeah.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, it's a statewide election. But yeah, no,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: your vote matters. And disregard the polls. It doesn't matter what.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: newspapers are publishing like ray collins lost by 200 votes
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: last year yeah or two.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: Years ago yeah yeah it matters it does so go
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: out and vote and um i hope hopefully for me
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: and my colleagues who are running but right if you
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: want to vote for somebody else that's your prerogative and
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: i have no problem with that so.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: But definitely get out and vote uh i would say
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: vote Colin B.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Definitely vote for Owen Weaver. You are a stand-up guy.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I know you're involved in your community and your children's
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: lives in the community. You're a lawyer, obviously.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: A lot of hats.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: A lot of hats you wear. And now you're a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: returning guest on Day Drinking with Doug.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: And I hope to be back.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: I will definitely have you back. We'll get a really
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: nice bottle. I'll get us a really nice bottle next time.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: You actually brought a really nice bottle.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: What, you didn't like the delirium? No, no, no.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, no. No, last time you brought a really
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: nice bottle. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. November 3rd, right?
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: November 3rd. Go out and vote. You can vote now
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: if you want, I guess. Right. We make a whole
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: day of it. Well, not a day of it, but
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: we make a night of it. We both get out
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: of work.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: Hey, listen. Orange Ale House, election night.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Is that where you're going to be?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: Please be there.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll be there. Oh, I'm glad you should shout
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: out Jim Hasselmeyer for hosting you guys. That's awesome.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah. Starting at 7 o'clock, I will be there.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: I'll take the polls separately, but yeah, we'll be there.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm coming. I might even take Wednesday off from work.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I might Uber there.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Owen, thanks again for coming on. Too bad we didn't
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: get Ryan on, but whatever. That's fine. Owen, you're more
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: entertaining anyway.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: And go Pats, go Vikes. We play in a few weeks,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: so this should be an interesting game. All right, everybody.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. And yeah, we'll have Flat Earth Dave
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: coming on in a couple weeks. If you don't know
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: who he is, go Google him, and you'll see why
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: I have my certain views on some of this stuff. Owen,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: thanks again, buddy. Thank you for having me. Good luck
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: to you, and let's see some red wave coming this
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. All right. Thanks.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Bye, guys.