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The Lee Elci Show | 9.23.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Lee Elsey Show. This is Mitchell Eddis
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  Speaker 2: filling in, or as the woman who does the promos
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  Speaker 2: for the station says, Mitchell Etess. But I'm here. It's Eddis,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm really glad to be filling in this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun to come do this. And
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  Speaker 2: it's 49 degrees here in Ledger, Connecticut, and we are
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting to Long Island, Rhode Island, the whole shoreline here, Connecticut, And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the whole world, I guess, on the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad to be here. I've done this before,
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  Speaker 2: but not in this current rendition. I finally got asked,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess based on how I do, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 2: get another shot before Election Day. But I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: it's fun. It's not without its stress. Three hours is
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  Speaker 2: a long time to talk without making it of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I will do my best. I'll also try to talk slowly.
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  Speaker 2: As anybody who knows me knows, I end up talking fast.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll do well. The biggest problem with doing this
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  Speaker 2: isn't being nervous. It isn't having to talk for three hours.
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  Speaker 2: At this point in my life, it's getting up. And
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  Speaker 2: when I was working, when I was younger, I'd get
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  Speaker 2: up at 4 o'clock, go do a spin class, then
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  Speaker 2: go work, and I'd be ready to go. I thought
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  Speaker 2: after I got up and showered this morning and went
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  Speaker 2: downstairs and had a cup of coffee, I was still
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  Speaker 2: worried I was going to fall back to sleep before
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  Speaker 2: I got in the car to drive up here. And
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  Speaker 2: then I'm driving from actually technically the 20th District, for
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  Speaker 2: those of you who care about that. I'm driving up
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  Speaker 2: here from Lyme to the studio, and it's going okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm on 95. It's early in the morning, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to make this horrible decision. I'm going over
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  Speaker 2: the new bridge work. Do I go left or right?
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  Speaker 2: Left or right? That was just too much stress for
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  Speaker 2: early in the morning. But I'm here. Of course, I
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  Speaker 2: get here so early because I get here early for everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very early. Tom Coughlin had nothing on me. To me,
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  Speaker 2: 10 minutes early is late. So I get here, pull
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  Speaker 2: into the studio. There's no cars. I don't see any lights.
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  Speaker 2: So I sat in my car for five minutes before
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  Speaker 2: I came in. But the engineer, the producer, he's here,
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  Speaker 2: and he was here. Anyway, we've got a really good
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  Speaker 2: show for you today. I didn't want to leave a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time in case nobody called because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to talk for three hours. So I've got some
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  Speaker 2: great guests. And I'll run it down for you. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to start with Tom Cantone's weekly take after the
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  Speaker 2: break here. He'll be on about 6.20 or so, 6.30 hour.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Nathan Groob. Nathan is the executive director of
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  Speaker 2: the Travelers Championship. That, for those of you who don't know,
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  Speaker 2: is a PGA Tour event that takes place every year
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  Speaker 2: up at TPC River Highlands. And the PGA Tour has
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  Speaker 2: undergone a lot of changes. And throughout it all, the
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  Speaker 2: Travelers Championship has, A, maintained its status as one of
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  Speaker 2: the premier events, getting signature awards. status for they have
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  Speaker 2: the big person all the big players and now that
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  Speaker 2: they're changing the tour around next year we're in two
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  Speaker 2: years actually uh to a championship series with a top
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  Speaker 2: 100 in the secondary series they maintain their position as
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  Speaker 2: the top and nathan's done an amazing job seven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: hour we're going to start with uh we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have joe connelly and joe connelly is a veteran broadcaster
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  Speaker 2: many of you may remember hearing him on news radio
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  Speaker 2: 88 he was uh i think on that iconic station
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  Speaker 2: for over 30 years uh as a uh Economy reporter.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk to him about his career,
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  Speaker 2: about NewsRadio 88, and, of course, what he thinks about
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  Speaker 2: the economy. 7.30, half hour. Tomorrow night is kind of
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  Speaker 2: a sad night for me and I think for the
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  Speaker 2: entire state of Connecticut. It will be the final game
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  Speaker 2: for the Connecticut Sun. And so we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: Mike DeMauro on. Of course, he needs no introduction to
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  Speaker 2: discuss the time the Connecticut Sun was here. And him
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  Speaker 2: and I went through that whole journey together. It should
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  Speaker 2: be a great half hour of radio. And then 8 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Brown, who is the president and executive director of
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  Speaker 2: the Norwich Community Development Corporation, also my former boss, former
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  Speaker 2: chairman of the Mohegan tribe, is going to be coming in,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be discussing economic development, Norwich, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the region. And I promised him it
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  Speaker 2: would not be a– a whole hour of military analysis,
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  Speaker 2: but it's possible towards the end the word hootie or
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  Speaker 2: something might come into what he thinks about what's happening
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  Speaker 2: over in the Middle East because Kevin, of course, many
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  Speaker 2: of you know, was an Army Ranger, spent some time
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  Speaker 2: over there and had an amazing career before he came
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  Speaker 2: back here to dedicate himself to the tribe and now
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  Speaker 2: to Norwich. So I think we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: really great show today, and we're going to try to
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  Speaker 2: have fun. And we'll say the phone number every so often. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: you're listening to 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll give you the phone number, which is 860-464-9490. So
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  Speaker 2: you can always try to call in, and we'll see
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  Speaker 2: if we can take some calls. So I have a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I did have one political thing to start. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a politically charged show today. Maybe some politics
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  Speaker 2: will come in. But so on my street, You know,
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  Speaker 2: as any of you who know when I come on,
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  Speaker 2: I hear me, I'm obsessed with the difference between illegal
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  Speaker 2: immigration and legal immigration. And I don't understand why, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people don't understand you can be anti-illegal immigration and pro-immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: I would not be here today if it wasn't for
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  Speaker 2: legal immigration, right? It's My family came from Europe. My
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  Speaker 2: family was the American dream. There was a movie made
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  Speaker 2: about it. It's incredible, right? So I'm pro-immigrant. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: not pro-illegal immigrant. So on my street, there's one of
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  Speaker 2: these little lawn signs. It looks like people have put up.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they say, oh, no kings, blah, blah, blah. This
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  Speaker 2: is a picture of the Statue of Liberty crying. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I doubt this person is listening now because they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be listening to the show. But I'm sorry. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure what you're thinking about it. I just don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's what I'm thinking about it. When I see the
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  Speaker 2: Statue of Liberty crying on a lawn sign, I think
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  Speaker 2: she's crying because so many people don't honor what she
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  Speaker 2: stands for anymore. Because people aren't coming into the harbor
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  Speaker 2: and seeing her as the first thing they see. The
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  Speaker 2: first thing people who are immigrating illegally to this country
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  Speaker 2: see now is the Rio Grande. Is there coyotes behind
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  Speaker 2: as they're following, you know, across the tundra to sneak
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  Speaker 2: into this country to get a bunch of free stuff?
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  Speaker 2: They're not coming to Ellis Island and being interviewed and
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  Speaker 2: having a medical checkup and making sure they have a
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  Speaker 2: reason to give to this country. They're not honoring the
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  Speaker 2: laws of this country. Because, you know, as soon as
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  Speaker 2: you enter illegally, you're saying, I don't care about your laws.
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  Speaker 2: I do not care. And that's not the kind of
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  Speaker 2: people we really are. I don't agree with that. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that sign. Everybody's entitled to their opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand why everybody thinks, or so many
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  Speaker 2: people think, that we can just take the entire world
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  Speaker 2: into our country and afford it. And it's all going
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  Speaker 2: to work out. It just it is beyond my wildest
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  Speaker 2: comprehension that people think that. So we've got a great
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  Speaker 2: lineup for you. We're going to take a quick break.
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  Speaker 2: And then when we get back, we're going to hear
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  Speaker 2: Tom Cantone. You're listening to 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 15: This one's going to be personal as it relates to
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  Speaker 15: what I was thinking the other day about all the
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  Speaker 15: what ifs. What if this happened and what if that happened?
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  Speaker 15: how this chain of events create the now, the what-ifs. And,
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  Speaker 15: of course, I was thinking immediately about what if all
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  Speaker 15: those people that for some reason changed their schedule on
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  Speaker 14: Into work, or the ones that were not.
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  Speaker 15: Supposed to be there and had a meeting and went in,
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  Speaker 15: how unlucky what-ifs and the lucky if what-ifs, you know,
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  Speaker 15: they all collide. And then I remember we were on
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  Speaker 15: the Garden State Parkway, and within seconds in front of
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  Speaker 15: us was a catastrophic accident of fatal proportions, so much
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  Speaker 15: so that a Lifestar helicopter was there and fire trucks
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  Speaker 15: backed up for miles. And we're three car lengths away
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  Speaker 15: from that. Well, what if we weren't? What if we
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  Speaker 15: were seconds in front of it? It could have been us.
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  Speaker 15: So those are the things you start thinking about, you know, how,
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  Speaker 15: what if I was displaced or what if I was
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  Speaker 15: there and this happened? So recently, this is the what
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  Speaker 15: if story I wanted to get to.
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  Speaker 14: What if we were not going to leave.
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  Speaker 15: The beach today? when we said we were going to.
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  Speaker 15: We were planning on staying much longer, but we didn't.
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  Speaker 14: No reason.
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  Speaker 15: It was a beautiful day, gorgeous. We just decided to,
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  Speaker 15: you know, pack it up and go home. Maybe start
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  Speaker 15: dinner a little early or whatever.
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  Speaker 14: So we did.
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  Speaker 15: Didn't think anything of it, a normal day. And when
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  Speaker 15: we got home, normal, got in the house, and I
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  Speaker 15: happened to look out the window, and I saw Older
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  Speaker 15: friends of mine in their little sailboat going out for
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  Speaker 15: a sail.
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  Speaker 16: That's nice.
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  Speaker 15: Beautiful way to end the afternoon and early evening.
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  Speaker 14: And that was the end of it, I thought.
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  Speaker 15: Until I decided for some strange reason why I have
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  Speaker 15: no idea. But I decided, you know, to look out
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  Speaker 15: and see how far out they were and see if
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  Speaker 15: I could see them for no reason. I couldn't find them.
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  Speaker 15: I couldn't see them. And I went, hmm, they should
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  Speaker 15: be visible. The sail at least should be visible because
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  Speaker 15: it was bright color. So I kept looking. So I
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  Speaker 15: got my binoculars. And I couldn't believe it. But what
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  Speaker 15: I saw was horrific. Their boat capsized. And I could
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  Speaker 15: see them treading water or in the water. So I
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  Speaker 15: immediately ran to my boat. and sped out there as
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  Speaker 15: fast as I could. And sure enough, when I got there,
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  Speaker 15: they were in trouble. They had their life preservers on,
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  Speaker 15: but they were older, and they were treading water, and.
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  Speaker 14: The look on their faces were help.
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  Speaker 15: So unfortunately, the situation was I could not get them
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  Speaker 15: onto my boat because it was physically impossible, and also
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  Speaker 15: there were too many things in the way.
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  Speaker 14: So I threw them a rope.
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  Speaker 15: And the older woman held on to the rope on
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  Speaker 15: the side of the boat as best she could, wrapped
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  Speaker 15: it around her. And the gentleman was on the other
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  Speaker 15: side holding on to the mask. So as I tried
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  Speaker 15: to tow them back, it was difficult because the boat
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  Speaker 15: would sway one way or the other because of the
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  Speaker 15: large mask. And it wouldn't get me in the right direction.
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  Speaker 15: It was like I lost my hydraulics. But sure enough, slowly,
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  Speaker 15: I was bringing them back. But I had to stop.
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  Speaker 15: often along the way, because they were not in a
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  Speaker 15: good way. Catching their breath, they were exhausted, even hanging on.
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  Speaker 14: To the side.
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  Speaker 15: But finally and slowly, and then people saw what was
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  Speaker 15: going on.
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  Speaker 14: They were coming to the side of the.
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  Speaker 15: Shore, and people were waiting for us, clapping, as we
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  Speaker 15: pulled in, and help was there to help them get rescued.
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  Speaker 15: So It just dawned on me that what if I
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  Speaker 15: didn't look out the window because there was no one
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  Speaker 15: around out there. They would have been out there for
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  Speaker 15: some time. And what if we didn't come home early?
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  Speaker 15: No one would have known they were there. You can't
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  Speaker 15: call the cell phone. You can't holler for help. And
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  Speaker 15: they admitted they couldn't swim to shore.
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  Speaker 14: It was too far out. So, you know.
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  Speaker 15: They hadn't been rescued by a boat. They were rescued
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  Speaker 15: by a chain of what-ifs.
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  Speaker 14: And the moral of the.
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  Speaker 15: Story is sometimes the what-ifs and the fate of those
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  Speaker 15: have a good ending. This one was good. And it
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  Speaker 15: was a good rescue. It was a good, happy ending. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 15: I don't know what would have happened. What if I
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  Speaker 15: didn't look out that window?
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  Speaker 18: Come on and rescue me Come on baby And rescue
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  Speaker 2: here on the Lee Elsie Show. 49 degrees in Ledger,
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  Speaker 2: and it is 6.36 a.m., and I'm delighted to welcome
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  Speaker 2: on first guest of the morning, Nathan Grubb. And Nathan
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: has been the executive director of the Greater Hartford Community Foundation,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and most important, or maybe not, the tournament director of
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the Travelers Championship, Connecticut's PGA Tour event since 2005. And Nathan,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: thanks a lot for coming on this morning. I always
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: love having you on, and frankly, the job you've done
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: at the Travelers Championship has just been amazing. So welcome,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: and thanks for joining.
• 27:19
  Speaker 37: Mitchell, thanks for having me on. I still can't figure
• 27:21
  Speaker 37: out if you're finishing up the overnight shift or if
• 27:23
  Speaker 37: you're starting the morning shift with your show, but either way,
• 27:26
  Speaker 37: I absolutely love it. Coming on with you, it's always fun.
• 27:29
  Speaker 37: I've known you for... 20 plus years and lots of
• 27:33
  Speaker 37: good memories.
• 27:33
  Speaker 38: But I appreciate you having me on.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. And there's so much to talk about.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a golf nut, but there's been so
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: many changes to the PGA Tour over the last, you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: last year, last few years after I live and now
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: going forward. And what you've done is amazing in keeping
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the travelers in the forefront, in the top line. Would
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: you mind, because you've got the specific knowledge, explaining to
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the audience basically exactly what's happened to the tour and
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: how the Travelers has endured?
• 28:08
  Speaker 37: Oh, man, that's a great question, Mitchell. And I know you,
• 28:12
  Speaker 37: if your audience kind of follows the PGA Tour, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 37: would say you probably have to go back maybe seven.
• 28:17
  Speaker 38: Or eight years, or let's say coming out of COVID,
• 28:19
  Speaker 38: kind of, you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 37: Know, the tour kind of, reorganizing the PGA tour. Um,
• 28:24
  Speaker 37: so they're basically, we're trying to figure out a way
• 28:27
  Speaker 37: to have all the top players play together, um, in
• 28:31
  Speaker 37: big events. And so for, for those of your audience
• 28:34
  Speaker 37: that doesn't know, like the guys don't have to play
• 28:36
  Speaker 37: every week. Like it is completely a, um, you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 37: how does their schedule feel? Like, it's not like the
• 28:42
  Speaker 37: other sports where it's like, Hey, you go see the Yankees,
• 28:44
  Speaker 37: the Red Sox, like you're going to see the team
• 28:47
  Speaker 37: that is on the field. And you know, the players
• 28:49
  Speaker 37: and things like that, excuse me, But with golf, it's different.
• 28:52
  Speaker 37: They don't have to play anywhere any week.
• 28:55
  Speaker 38: So you have to go out and recruit the guys.
• 28:56
  Speaker 37: You want to have the most popular events. You want
• 28:58
  Speaker 37: to have the biggest events that the guys want to play.
• 29:01
  Speaker 37: And the tour started down that road of trying to
• 29:03
  Speaker 37: create these really big events where all the stars were
• 29:07
  Speaker 37: going to show up because they don't have to. But
• 29:09
  Speaker 37: how do you create these events where they want to?
• 29:11
  Speaker 37: You have huge purses, $ 20 million. You put the events
• 29:15
  Speaker 37: at places that the players like to go. You go
• 29:18
  Speaker 37: to golf courses that they like. So The tour was
• 29:21
  Speaker 37: kind of on this mission, you know, seven, eight years
• 29:23
  Speaker 37: ago of going.
• 29:24
  Speaker 38: Hey, how do we create these big events? And, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 38: I mean, for those of you who are.
• 29:28
  Speaker 37: Listening, we know, I mean, Connecticut, it's not Boston, it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 37: not New York. So we were always kind of in the, hey,
• 29:33
  Speaker 37: is our tournament going to get pulled to a bigger market?
• 29:36
  Speaker 37: You know, are they going to take kind of what
• 29:38
  Speaker 37: the Travelers Championship has become and move it to Philadelphia or.
• 29:42
  Speaker 38: You know, New York or Boston or something like that?
• 29:44
  Speaker 37: And so the Travelers team with Andy Bissette, he kind
• 29:47
  Speaker 37: of is the lead with Travelers, and I've had the
• 29:49
  Speaker 37: privilege of working with him for about 20 years. We
• 29:52
  Speaker 37: sat down with the tour and with, you know, me
• 29:55
  Speaker 37: as the host organization, we're kind of the operators, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 37: And then travelers and said, look, how do we keep
• 30:00
  Speaker 37: the biggest event? Like, how do we stay here? Like,
• 30:03
  Speaker 37: this is a good market. This is, you know, the
• 30:05
  Speaker 37: crowds are huge. The fans come out and things like that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 37: So we sat down with the tour and basically negotiated travelers,
• 30:12
  Speaker 37: negotiated how to be a signature top tier event. And
• 30:17
  Speaker 37: we went head to head. We went head to head
• 30:19
  Speaker 37: with Dallas, Boston, Philly, New York, like, and basically presented
• 30:24
  Speaker 37: our case to say we want, this market to be
• 30:27
  Speaker 37: able to handle from a corporate standpoint, from a volunteer standpoint,
• 30:30
  Speaker 37: from a, you know, tickets, like how far do we pull,
• 30:34
  Speaker 37: you know, are people coming from all over, you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 38: Know, New England to come to this event. And we
• 30:38
  Speaker 38: had a pretty compelling case when you look at the
• 30:40
  Speaker 38: data and when you look at how it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 37: Looks on TV. So, you know, kind of fast forward,
• 30:43
  Speaker 37: we basically kind of went toe to toe with some
• 30:46
  Speaker 37: other big markets who were looking to pull in a
• 30:48
  Speaker 37: tour event and we kind of won the battle and,
• 30:50
  Speaker 37: you know, have done a signature event, which means, you know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 37: we have the $ 20 million purse and the top 72
• 30:54
  Speaker 37: guys and, And now in the future, starting in 2028,
• 30:58
  Speaker 37: the PGA Tour has created this championship series where, again,
• 31:02
  Speaker 37: they want all the best guys to be playing every
• 31:04
  Speaker 37: week or, you know, in these events. And we were
• 31:07
  Speaker 37: designated as a championship series event. So, you know, next
• 31:10
  Speaker 37: year we're signature. We're going to have the top 72
• 31:12
  Speaker 37: guys in the world here. And then 2028 is the
• 31:15
  Speaker 37: championship series where we're basically, for the listening audience, we
• 31:18
  Speaker 37: have been able to stay at the top tier of
• 31:20
  Speaker 37: the PGA Tour. And if people come to the Traveler's Championship,
• 31:22
  Speaker 37: they are– going to see their favorite players and the
• 31:26
  Speaker 37: most recognizable players in the world, the best guys on
• 31:27
  Speaker 37: the PGA tour. So that's kind of what has happened,
• 31:31
  Speaker 37: but it's really a very cool story. And I know
• 31:33
  Speaker 37: people like to talk about a different narrative sometimes in
• 31:36
  Speaker 37: Connecticut of, you know, what we, what we can't keep,
• 31:39
  Speaker 37: but this is a story of what a corporate community
• 31:42
  Speaker 37: and what fans and what volunteers and what, when they
• 31:46
  Speaker 37: rally together around something, this is what happens. And we
• 31:50
  Speaker 37: had a pretty compelling story and I'm excited for our,
• 31:52
  Speaker 37: For our fans, you know, through 2030, the tour is
• 31:55
  Speaker 37: only doing deals through 2030 right now, and they gave
• 31:57
  Speaker 37: us our deal through 2030, and we're happy to be here.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Nathan Grubb, Tournament Director of the Travelers Championship here on
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the Lee Elsey Show. But, Nathan, that didn't happen just overnight.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And also, even before you were a signature event, you
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: did an amazing job getting incredible fields. I mean, I
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: think year after year, and as Nathan said, not everybody
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: plays every week. He was able to attract an amazing
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: number of top 20 in the world players in spite
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of the fact that very often you were the week
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: after the U.S. Open, and sometimes the U.S. Open was
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: in California. And I know you had a way of
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: doing that, you explained to me over the years, by
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: developing the young talent. And I know that's not going
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: to really be part of your toolkit going forward, but
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I think it's super interesting if you could explain to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: people how you did that. Like how, you know, how
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Justin Rose, for example, because I remember you telling me
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: a story about him, you know, got to love the
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Travelers and how you got these young players into the fold.
• 33:02
  Speaker 39: Oh, man.
• 33:03
  Speaker 37: So I love telling these stories. These are a blast.
• 33:05
  Speaker 37: So go back to 07, okay? So Travelers takes over
• 33:09
  Speaker 37: as title sponsor. And as a PGA Tour event, you
• 33:13
  Speaker 37: need a date, right? Like, you have to have a
• 33:15
  Speaker 37: week on the calendar that the guys will come.
• 33:18
  Speaker 38: You know, you and I, Mitchell, can't just decide, hey,
• 33:19
  Speaker 38: we're going to start a PGA Tour event.
• 33:21
  Speaker 37: You know, you have to be sanctioned by the tour,
• 33:23
  Speaker 37: and you have to have a week on the calendar.
• 33:26
  Speaker 37: And so the only week that was available when Travelers
• 33:29
  Speaker 37: came on as title was the week after the U.S.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Open.
• 33:33
  Speaker 37: And that historically, throughout the PGA Tour schedule, was never
• 33:37
  Speaker 37: a good week. The guys always wanted to take a break.
• 33:39
  Speaker 37: You know, like they play this grueling event, the U.S.
• 33:42
  Speaker 33: Open.
• 33:43
  Speaker 37: And they're like, yeah, I'm going to take the week
• 33:44
  Speaker 37: off after the U.S.
• 33:45
  Speaker 15: Open.
• 33:46
  Speaker 37: And I remember specifically in 07, they announced our date.
• 33:52
  Speaker 37: You know, we were that third week in June. And
• 33:53
  Speaker 37: I remember a reporter in downtown Hartford, you know, we
• 33:56
  Speaker 37: had a big press conference. And I remember him putting
• 33:58
  Speaker 37: the microphone on my face saying literally these words. He said,
• 34:02
  Speaker 37: what did you do to make the PGA Tour so
• 34:05
  Speaker 37: angry that they gave you the week after the U.S.
• 34:07
  Speaker 21: Open?
• 34:08
  Speaker 38: And he put the microphone in my face. I was like, wow, okay, well.
• 34:11
  Speaker 37: And I gave some very smooth.
• 34:13
  Speaker 38: Politically correct answer, I'm sure, about how we're going.
• 34:16
  Speaker 37: To make it work and things like that. But the
• 34:18
  Speaker 37: week after the Open was always looked.
• 34:20
  Speaker 38: At as a negative thing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 37: And so Andy, I mentioned Andy Bissett from Travelers. Like
• 34:25
  Speaker 37: I said, he and I have the privilege, I've had
• 34:27
  Speaker 37: a privilege of working with him for 20 years. So
• 34:28
  Speaker 37: we sat down and said, okay, why is the week
• 34:31
  Speaker 37: after the U.S. Open bad?
• 34:33
  Speaker 38: Like, let's just hit it head.
• 34:34
  Speaker 37: On and let's get some specific answers. And so we
• 34:37
  Speaker 37: would start going out there on tour. We went to
• 34:38
  Speaker 37: about three or four different events and.
• 34:41
  Speaker 38: Asked the guys, hey, why is the week after the U.S.
• 34:43
  Speaker 38: Open bad for you?
• 34:45
  Speaker 37: And then we asked their caddies, hey, why is the
• 34:47
  Speaker 37: week after the U.S. Open bad for your player?
• 34:50
  Speaker 38: And then we would ask, honestly, you'd.
• 34:51
  Speaker 37: See in the clubhouse all the different families. We'd ask
• 34:53
  Speaker 37: the families, like, you know, the wives, the girlfriends, the moms,
• 34:55
  Speaker 37: the dads that would travel, kind of this whole circus.
• 34:58
  Speaker 37: We'd say, hey, why is the week after the U.S.
• 35:00
  Speaker 37: Open bad? And honestly, Mitchell, the answers we got weren't
• 35:04
  Speaker 37: anything we couldn't solve. They're like, oh, we're tired. You know, oh,
• 35:09
  Speaker 37: school is about to get out, so we have families.
• 35:11
  Speaker 37: We like to go home and see our families.
• 35:14
  Speaker 38: You know, depending on where the open is, the travel.
• 35:16
  Speaker 37: They listed out maybe a dozen things, and Andy and
• 35:19
  Speaker 37: I were looking at each other going, those are all solvable.
• 35:23
  Speaker 37: So fast forward, we did a, no matter where the U.S.
• 35:27
  Speaker 37: Open is, we went out with a promise to the
• 35:29
  Speaker 37: guys and the caddies. We said, look, wherever the U.S.
• 35:31
  Speaker 37: Open is, From the time the last.
• 35:34
  Speaker 38: Putt drops, wherever the U.S.
• 35:36
  Speaker 37: Open is, that Sunday night, we will take over your
• 35:39
  Speaker 37: experience from there. We will get you to the airport.
• 35:41
  Speaker 37: We will charter a private plane for you, your families,
• 35:46
  Speaker 37: the caddies, all for free, no charge. It will be
• 35:49
  Speaker 37: a nonstop to Connecticut. When you land here, we'll have
• 35:53
  Speaker 37: all your courtesy cars staged out. No matter if it's midnight,
• 35:57
  Speaker 37: 2 a.m., 7, like whatever it is, we'll have all
• 35:59
  Speaker 37: that taken care of. And we'll get you here, first
• 36:03
  Speaker 37: of all, at no charge, which no tournament had ever done,
• 36:05
  Speaker 37: by the way.
• 36:06
  Speaker 39: At that point.
• 36:07
  Speaker 37: And then not only that, we revamped our entire daycare program,
• 36:11
  Speaker 37: where if you think about it, like these guys travel
• 36:14
  Speaker 37: every week with their families, right? Like imagine just every
• 36:17
  Speaker 37: week you have to load up, go to a hotel,
• 36:19
  Speaker 37: do your job, pack back up, fly to a different community, unload.
• 36:25
  Speaker 37: Like it is not easy to travel if you want
• 36:28
  Speaker 37: to bring your family. And so we revamped our daycare
• 36:31
  Speaker 37: program to make, like, all these super fun activities for kids.
• 36:34
  Speaker 37: The kids actually started to joke and call it Camp
• 36:37
  Speaker 37: Travelers because we would do day hikes, and we would
• 36:40
  Speaker 37: do face painting, and we would do all these fun
• 36:43
  Speaker 37: things for the kids while they were with us during
• 36:45
  Speaker 37: tournament week. We had wiffle ball games. We built a
• 36:47
  Speaker 37: big green monster faux Fenway Park that we have this
• 36:52
  Speaker 37: family wiffle ball game, and we have water balloon fights,
• 36:55
  Speaker 37: and we have pool parties, and Like the kids just,
• 36:58
  Speaker 37: it's like a camp that the kids, you know, love
• 37:00
  Speaker 37: coming to. And then we started offering dinner for all
• 37:03
  Speaker 37: the families in the clubhouse every night after play, which
• 37:05
  Speaker 37: tournaments hadn't done to that point to where the family,
• 37:07
  Speaker 37: you know, the guys who come in from playing, their
• 37:09
  Speaker 37: families would meet them there after the kids were just
• 37:11
  Speaker 37: at camp. And they come in with balloon animals and
• 37:14
  Speaker 37: their faces painted and t-shirts.
• 37:15
  Speaker 38: And they're like, daddy, I had the best time.
• 37:17
  Speaker 37: At camp today. You know, and for a player to
• 37:19
  Speaker 37: see their families having an amazing time, they're.
• 37:22
  Speaker 38: Like, oh, we're coming back here.
• 37:24
  Speaker 37: And then, so like, we kind of just, looked at
• 37:27
  Speaker 37: the whole ecosystem and made our week just a week
• 37:30
  Speaker 37: that nobody wanted to miss and so fast forward to
• 37:35
  Speaker 37: your point we start getting the top guys to come
• 37:37
  Speaker 37: and i think i think our first year we have
• 37:39
  Speaker 37: like one of the top 50 guys in the world
• 37:40
  Speaker 37: i'd have to go back and check the stats but
• 37:43
  Speaker 37: as the reputation of the event started to grow all
• 37:46
  Speaker 37: of a sudden we have 10 of the top 50
• 37:48
  Speaker 37: you have two of the top 10 you have five
• 37:50
  Speaker 37: of the top 10 guys in the world and then
• 37:52
  Speaker 37: i think it was like six Six years later, we
• 37:55
  Speaker 37: had like seven of the top ten in the world.
• 37:58
  Speaker 37: To circle back on that reporter story, I had a
• 38:00
  Speaker 37: different reporter do an interview with me, tournament week, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 37: literally he said, oh, my gosh, you guys got seven
• 38:06
  Speaker 37: of the top ten this year. That's a new record
• 38:08
  Speaker 37: for travelers. What did you do to get so lucky
• 38:11
  Speaker 37: to have the week after the U.S.
• 38:12
  Speaker 40: Open?
• 38:14
  Speaker 37: And Mitchell, I just chuckled.
• 38:17
  Speaker 38: Like I couldn't go and explain everything, but I just laughed.
• 38:19
  Speaker 38: I'm like, wow. I was like, well, you know, you're forced.
• 38:22
  Speaker 37: I don't even know what my answer was.
• 38:24
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• 38:26
  Speaker 38: kind of.
• 38:26
  Speaker 37: A testament to, I mean, Andy led this charge. It's like, okay,
• 38:30
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• 38:32
  Speaker 41: Why?
• 38:33
  Speaker 37: Just ask the question. And, like, we've just had a
• 38:35
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• 38:36
  Speaker 38: Being like, all right, if we can't do this, like, why?
• 38:39
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• 38:40
  Speaker 39: What is it?
• 38:41
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• 38:43
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• 38:44
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• 38:53
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• 38:55
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• 38:57
  Speaker 37: But there was enough that we could control that made
• 39:01
  Speaker 37: a pretty big difference, and now here we are.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: You know, I think that it's sort of like being
• 39:07
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• 39:09
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• 39:12
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• 39:15
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• 39:18
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• 39:20
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• 39:24
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• 39:25
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• 39:27
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• 39:33
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• 39:35
  Speaker 2: you've done is really amazing. And going for the families
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: was obviously a great approach. You know, you mentioned caddies.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of people don't understand the
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: relationship between the caddies. Caddies have influence, right?
• 39:47
  Speaker 37: It's Yes. It's funny because the role of the caddy
• 39:53
  Speaker 37: over the years has evolved.
• 39:55
  Speaker 38: It used to be, hey, just carry my bag.
• 39:58
  Speaker 37: I got this. Don't give me any advice 30 years ago.
• 40:02
  Speaker 37: But really, over the last few decades, the caddies, they
• 40:04
  Speaker 37: travel with these guys every week. They are, quite literally,
• 40:07
  Speaker 37: sports psychologists, family counselors.
• 40:11
  Speaker 38: You'll hear the caddies talk about it going.
• 40:13
  Speaker 37: Man, I had to keep my guy connected today, and
• 40:16
  Speaker 37: I had to keep my guy this, and Ted Scott
• 40:19
  Speaker 37: tells a great story. Ted Scott used to be Bubba's caddy,
• 40:22
  Speaker 37: and now he's Scotty Shuffler's caddy.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Not a bad gig if you can get it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 37: What's that?
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Not a bad gig if you can get it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 42: Yeah, no kidding.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I think Scotty's caddy is like in the top ten
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: money earners, right, on the tour.
• 40:33
  Speaker 37: No question, but is it a caddy that knows how
• 40:37
  Speaker 37: to work with his player, or is it a player
• 40:40
  Speaker 37: that you could put anybody with him? And both Bubba
• 40:42
  Speaker 37: and Scotty said, no, no, no, Teddy Scott is.
• 40:44
  Speaker 38: A big piece of this. I'll give you a quick story.
• 40:47
  Speaker 37: So they were in the middle of a round, Scotty Scheffler,
• 40:49
  Speaker 37: number one ranked player in the world, and Ted Scott.
• 40:52
  Speaker 37: And Ted's his caddy. And Scotty is talking to Ted
• 40:56
  Speaker 37: midway through the round. He's like, Ted, I just can't
• 40:58
  Speaker 37: figure this out. Like, I keep hitting my shots about
• 41:02
  Speaker 37: five to eight yards right, and I just can't figure
• 41:05
  Speaker 37: it out. And it's like, I think he was, Ted,
• 41:07
  Speaker 37: he says he was kind of like asking him, like, hey,
• 41:08
  Speaker 37: what do you see in my swing? You know, what
• 41:10
  Speaker 37: do you see this? And Teddy, knowing that the middle
• 41:13
  Speaker 37: of the round is not the time you want to
• 41:16
  Speaker 37: make swing changes, right? Like that's the last place you
• 41:18
  Speaker 37: want to start working on mechanics. And he just looked
• 41:21
  Speaker 37: at Scott and he said, hey, pro, aim five yards left.
• 41:26
  Speaker 37: And Scott, he said, that's a good point.
• 41:27
  Speaker 9: OK, we're going to get through there.
• 41:28
  Speaker 37: Like if I'm getting it right today, I'm just.
• 41:30
  Speaker 38: Going to start aiming five yards left and then we'll
• 41:33
  Speaker 38: deal with this.
• 41:33
  Speaker 37: After the round. And Teddy jokingly said.
• 41:35
  Speaker 38: He's like, you kind of got to know what to say.
• 41:37
  Speaker 37: To your guys when and how.
• 41:39
  Speaker 38: And so, yeah, the role of the caddy is, I think, just,
• 41:43
  Speaker 38: you know, I mean.
• 41:44
  Speaker 28: It's part of the whole deal.
• 41:45
  Speaker 37: And so we do, and this, again, it started with Travelers.
• 41:48
  Speaker 37: They're like, I think the basic thing, I'm going to
• 41:51
  Speaker 37: keep coming back to Travelers, but they.
• 41:53
  Speaker 38: Came into this, so they didn't do sports really. They
• 41:55
  Speaker 38: did a few things here and there, but, like, they're not.
• 41:57
  Speaker 37: Like some of these other insurance companies that just, are
• 42:00
  Speaker 37: doing it for branding, and they spend a billion dollars
• 42:03
  Speaker 37: on X, Y, and Z. Travelers doesn't spend a ton
• 42:06
  Speaker 37: on advertising. So when they did this, the tournament, they're like,
• 42:10
  Speaker 37: how do we do this? And the basic premise was
• 42:12
  Speaker 37: they said, look, we're going to do the golf tournament
• 42:15
  Speaker 37: like we do our business. We have customers.
• 42:18
  Speaker 38: We listen to our customers.
• 42:20
  Speaker 37: We adjust our product based on what our customer feedback is,
• 42:23
  Speaker 37: and we take care of our customers. So that was
• 42:26
  Speaker 37: a very basic premise that we just exploded the personality
• 42:30
  Speaker 37: of the Travelers Championship. If you were a volunteer, we're
• 42:33
  Speaker 37: going to try to treat you like a customer. If
• 42:35
  Speaker 37: you were a fan, if you're a player, if you're
• 42:37
  Speaker 37: a caddy, we're going to look at you as a customer.
• 42:39
  Speaker 37: You have choices. You can go other places. How do
• 42:42
  Speaker 37: we make sure we take care of you?
• 42:43
  Speaker 38: So the caddies, honestly, I don't know.
• 42:46
  Speaker 37: That they'd ever felt like they were a customer before,
• 42:49
  Speaker 37: where we were listening to them and we were my gosh, we,
• 42:52
  Speaker 37: we actually, we gave them free cars, Mitchell, a couple
• 42:54
  Speaker 37: of years ago, free cars for the week, because usually
• 42:56
  Speaker 37: the guys have to come in, pay for the hotels,
• 42:58
  Speaker 37: pay for a rental car, pay for food and beverage,
• 43:01
  Speaker 37: you know, all this type of stuff. So we said, man, that's,
• 43:03
  Speaker 37: you know, these guys aren't making a lot.
• 43:05
  Speaker 38: I mean, the top caddies are to your point, Teddy.
• 43:07
  Speaker 37: Scott's making, making the, you know, a good living, but
• 43:09
  Speaker 37: there's a lot of caddies that aren't.
• 43:11
  Speaker 38: So we took care.
• 43:12
  Speaker 37: Of their cars for the week. We serve them dinner
• 43:14
  Speaker 37: in the clubhouse so that they don't have to pay
• 43:16
  Speaker 37: for that. And they just, I mean, they feel good
• 43:20
  Speaker 37: about coming here. And so, yeah, that's all part of it.
• 43:23
  Speaker 37: You know, like when you have everybody in the eco,
• 43:25
  Speaker 37: the trainers.
• 43:26
  Speaker 38: We take care of the trainers, Mitchell. It's like these
• 43:27
  Speaker 38: guys have.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: They travel with honor, right? I mean, trainers, psychologists, coaches
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: of swing, putting, short game, right?
• 43:34
  Speaker 38: Yeah, I mean, like all of those people, like that's
• 43:37
  Speaker 38: the entourage that travels. But like the trainers, we went
• 43:40
  Speaker 38: into the training room, the.
• 43:41
  Speaker 37: Guys that are working on them before the round, after
• 43:43
  Speaker 37: the round, hey, I have a, you know, tweak.
• 43:44
  Speaker 38: Knee, my oblique hurts, this, like they're getting.
• 43:46
  Speaker 37: Worked on to be able to, to keep, um, to
• 43:50
  Speaker 37: keep going. Actually, I have the total side side story here.
• 43:52
  Speaker 37: Lonto Griffin is a guy on tour and he, um.
• 43:56
  Speaker 38: He, you know, he's not a household name, but he.
• 43:58
  Speaker 37: Is a grinder who has happened. I remember going into the,
• 44:01
  Speaker 37: to the, um, clubhouse with Lonto.
• 44:03
  Speaker 38: This was maybe, you know, five or six years ago.
• 44:06
  Speaker 37: And he was sitting in.
• 44:06
  Speaker 38: And he was sitting there like, Hey Lonto, how are
• 44:08
  Speaker 38: you doing, man?
• 44:08
  Speaker 37: He's like, I'm okay.
• 44:10
  Speaker 38: And he was trying to reach over to take his
• 44:12
  Speaker 38: shoe off and he couldn't take his shoe off. And
• 44:13
  Speaker 38: I went, you all right, man?
• 44:15
  Speaker 37: He goes, I'm dealing with the worst back. He goes,
• 44:17
  Speaker 37: I can't even like bend over and take off my shoe.
• 44:19
  Speaker 38: And I was like, why, what are you doing? Like,
• 44:22
  Speaker 38: why don't you take some time off?
• 44:23
  Speaker 37: And he goes, I can't afford it. He goes, I
• 44:25
  Speaker 37: am literally like fighting for my tour card. And if
• 44:29
  Speaker 37: I don't make it inside the top, you know, one 20,
• 44:31
  Speaker 37: then I'll be, you know, relegated to a different tour.
• 44:34
  Speaker 37: And like, that's a whole nother bucket that you have
• 44:38
  Speaker 37: to deal with. If you're no longer on the PGA
• 44:39
  Speaker 37: tour and he's like, I don't have a choice.
• 44:41
  Speaker 38: I have to play.
• 44:42
  Speaker 37: So there are tons of guys out there that are
• 44:44
  Speaker 37: in his situation that are like, I have to play
• 44:47
  Speaker 37: every week. So there are trainers, there are physical therapists.
• 44:49
  Speaker 37: Those guys are so important to kind of keeping them
• 44:53
  Speaker 37: going because it's their livelihood. And if they don't play,
• 44:56
  Speaker 37: they don't get a paycheck. And so taking care of
• 44:58
  Speaker 37: the trainers, we went down and talked to the trainers.
• 45:00
  Speaker 37: We said, hey, how can we help make your experience
• 45:04
  Speaker 37: better so you can serve your guys better? And I
• 45:07
  Speaker 37: remember they looked at us and went, what? Why do
• 45:10
  Speaker 37: you care what we think? Like we usually get put
• 45:13
  Speaker 37: in a storage closet, like across the street.
• 45:16
  Speaker 38: Like, like, why do you care? And we're like, well,
• 45:18
  Speaker 38: you're part of the.
• 45:18
  Speaker 37: Ecosystem, you know, and then back to, Hey, you're a customer.
• 45:22
  Speaker 37: And so we, we gave them some great facilities and,
• 45:25
  Speaker 37: you know, they are so appreciative. And I remember one
• 45:27
  Speaker 37: year we gave them lobster dinner one night and you
• 45:29
  Speaker 37: would have thought Mitchell that it was like the greatest
• 45:33
  Speaker 37: thing they've ever experienced.
• 45:34
  Speaker 23: In their life.
• 45:34
  Speaker 38: So we just, We just try to take care of everybody.
• 45:38
  Speaker 37: And set a tone that we don't take it for
• 45:40
  Speaker 37: granted and you're the customer. When you get everybody kind
• 45:44
  Speaker 37: of rolling in the same direction and you get a
• 45:46
  Speaker 37: player who's catty, wife, kids... physical therapists, sports psychologists, when
• 45:53
  Speaker 37: they all say, hey, we like travelers, that's going to matter.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: And you've done an amazing job. Nathan, incredibly, our time
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: is up. We've been going for a long time.
• 46:03
  Speaker 28: I'm so sorry, man.
• 46:04
  Speaker 42: I just kept talking.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: No, you did great. It makes it very easy for me.
• 46:07
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• 46:09
  Speaker 2: So Nathan Grubb, Tournament Director of the Travelers Championship. Didn't
• 46:12
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  Speaker 2: And Joe Connolly's popular reports, making business news interesting to everyone,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: were heard by as many as 2 million people per
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: week for more than 30 years on one of, really,
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  Speaker 2: America's iconic radio stations. radio stations, WCBS News Radio 88.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: And right now, if I was on News Radio 8,
• 58:44
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• 58:46
  Speaker 2: 8s because it's 7.08, right? Maybe that makes Joe feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: New York Magazine said that rather than crunching numbers, he
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: tells instructive stories from routine business news. He's interviewed more
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  Speaker 2: than 1,000 business owners and was the host of the
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  Speaker 2: long-running CBS, WCBS Small Business Breakfast. I think I might
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  Speaker 2: have done one of those back in my days working.
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  Speaker 2: And before that, he was covering the Connecticut legislature for WDRC.
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  Speaker 2: He knows Connecticut. He knows finance. He knows the world.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a legendary broadcaster. Joe Connolly, thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for coming on with me today.
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  Speaker 39: You're doing great as a broadcaster, Mitchell. I've been listening
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  Speaker 39: since 6 a.m. It's a great show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You know, many people don't know
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  Speaker 2: is what I was going to do with my life.
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  Speaker 2: I went to college with the idea of being a broadcaster,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: and then I realized I didn't really have what it
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: would take to travel around the world and country to
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: build my career, so I took the easy route and
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: went back to my family's hotel. It worked out, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I can't complain. Joe, for years, you were part of
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: one of America's, I said it before, iconic radio stations.
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  Speaker 2: Can you maybe explain your journey a little bit about
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: how you went from your beginnings to the apex of
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  Speaker 2: professional broadcasting?
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  Speaker 39: Yes, I'm happy to. First of all, though, I just
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  Speaker 39: want to congratulate Lee Elsey and John Fuller and you
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 39: and everybody at Full Power Radio for keeping local radio alive,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 39: you know, as other media change and make cutbacks. And
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  Speaker 39: I'd like to get into a little bit about the
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  Speaker 39: importance of local radio in a couple of minutes. But
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  Speaker 39: I went to the University of Massachusetts up in Amherst
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  Speaker 39: and hung out at the college radio station there and
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  Speaker 39: got a job at WHYN Radio and TV down in Springfield.
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  Speaker 39: And then a major market called Hartford, and I went
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  Speaker 39: to WDRC. And WDRC Radio in Hartford was a legendary
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 39: radio station at that time run by Charlie Parker. Some
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 39: of you may remember the Big D, Big Story, at
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 39: the beginning and end of the WTRC newscast, but it
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  Speaker 39: was a great music station as well. And when I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 39: was at WTRC, I started calling news reports about the
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  Speaker 39: Connecticut legislature into WCBS radio down in New York because
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  Speaker 39: somebody told me that they would probably take some stories
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  Speaker 39: from Connecticut and air them. So I started filing reports
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  Speaker 39: for WCBS in New York. And then they called one
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  Speaker 39: weekend and said, Joe, would you like to come down
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  Speaker 39: and work as a street reporter here in New York
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  Speaker 39: on the weekends? So I would go down to New
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  Speaker 39: York and cover stories all over New York City on
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  Speaker 39: the weekend as my career was growing up.
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  Speaker 52: And.
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  Speaker 39: Somebody asked me, you know, how did you work at
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  Speaker 39: these other radio stations in New York and Washington, D.C.?
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  Speaker 39: I was at WTOP, and I told them the answer
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  Speaker 39: was location, location, location. I was at UMass, was in Springfield,
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  Speaker 39: Hartford called, then, you know, I ended up going on
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  Speaker 39: in New York. But I still get two or three
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  Speaker 39: times a week, Mitchell, People telling me, what happened to WCBS?
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  Speaker 39: I still miss WCBS. Well, a lot of us do, too.
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  Speaker 39: And the short answer as to why WCBS went off
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  Speaker 39: the air is that the Internet took away so many ads.
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  Speaker 39: And then social media became popular and took away more
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  Speaker 39: of the advertising. So the business was down. People were
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 39: starting to get news in other ways than normally on radio.
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  Speaker 39: And a friend at CBS tells me that, unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 39: the radio budget was only about a fraction of 1%
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  Speaker 39: of the total CBS News Division's budget. But nobody from
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  Speaker 39: radio was in the top management anymore to speak up
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  Speaker 39: and save it when they were making decisions. So they
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 39: closed WCBS and the CBS radio network, even though it
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 39: still had millions of listeners every day. And as I say,
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  Speaker 39: two or three of them still ask me what happened.
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  Speaker 2: And I always felt that the CBS, you know, there
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: was two news stations in New York, but CBS, I
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: always felt kind of went up towards this direction and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: the other station kind of went down towards Jersey. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that the folks at Connecticut really have missed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that. You kind of touched on, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's where you wanted to go, but I've been like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, always interested in radio my whole life. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I used to go hang out at the
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  Speaker 2: local radio station in the little town I grew up
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: in and hang out with the DJs and, and just
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But, the landscape of radio is changing.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned it before, it was local. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: now you're seeing consolidation. You're seeing satellite. Just recently, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the local sports stations, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you noticed this, if you have SiriusXM, but a lot
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: of the local sports stations are now on SiriusXM. It's
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: really changing. I mean, do you see this as a
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  Speaker 2: positive or a negative? What are the downside of all this?
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  Speaker 39: Well, You know, I used to hang out at a
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  Speaker 39: local radio station, too. We did the same thing. Well,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 39: it certainly is a negative for the radio news industry,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 39: and TV is losing a lot of viewers as well.
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  Speaker 39: But people get their news in different ways now. And
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  Speaker 39: I actually think, and I'm not just saying this, that
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  Speaker 39: now local radio stations... are doing some of the best
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 39: broadcasting because they're local and they find good people, as
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 39: you do, to come in and talk. And they are
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 39: doing some of the best broadcasting because the big broadcasting
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 39: companies don't care about local radio anymore. You know, radio
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 39: stations got their licenses, which were very valuable, to serve
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 39: the public convenience, interest, and necessity. And for many years,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 39: all the last 50, 60, 70 years, radio stations had
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 39: to document how much news they did for their communities
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 39: in order to get their licenses renewed. But it's all
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 39: changing now. But I think that local radio stations, and
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 39: I know some in Connecticut, are doing pretty well. And
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 39: that is great to see. The local radio stations have
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 39: a lot of commercials. I hear a lot of commercials
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 39: on your show this morning already. That's great.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: You're listening to a local station, 94.9 News Now and
• 1:05:57
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• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Our guest is Joe Connolly, legendary broadcaster from New York,
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  Speaker 2: NewsRadio 88. You just kind of touched on this, and
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  Speaker 2: I had it as one of my questions for you.
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  Speaker 2: And it has to do with the way people receive
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: their news nowadays. And I think it's dangerous in terms of, A,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: how people are forming their opinions about things, and it
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: reverts to their trust. It kind of goes part and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: parcel to people's trust in national media. You know, I
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: think it used to be in the old days when
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: you were watching, it was a 6.30 news at that point.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Local news wasn't an hour on TV. You know, you
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: listened to Huntley Brinkley or, you know, Dan Rather, whoever
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: it was, or Tim Russert, you know, on the weekends.
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  Speaker 2: I think people always had faith in those people.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 39: And Walter Cronkite.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Walter Cronkite. And I think that over time, you know,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: people are losing their faith in the traditional media, and
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: they're getting their news and their opinions from I mean,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to use the term fake news, but
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: you can say whatever you want on Facebook or whatever, right?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whether you're right or left, I think it's dangerous.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: There's a touch of distrust. Do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 24: Yeah.
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  Speaker 39: And, you know, I think, and some people disagree with me,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 39: that social media is part of the problem because everybody
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 39: can go on there and whip up controversy. And there
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 39: are a lot of good things about social media, uh,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 39: but you know, these companies just, they don't care. They
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 39: just want the algorithms that give them the most, the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 39: most viewers. Certainly Mark, uh, Zuckerberg does not care about
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 39: local news knowledge, you know? And, uh, uh, what was
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 39: it that you said that they don't trust it? Right. And, uh,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 39: You know, that's true. There is one thing that Trump
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 39: said the other day in this controversy about banning many
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 39: of the reporters from the White House. And there was
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  Speaker 39: one little phrase that he used that caught my ear.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 39: You know, ranted and raved a little bit or criticized.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 39: And he said, but sometimes it's one-sided. And I think
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 39: that there's part of a point to that. Sometimes news
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 39: reports on radio and TV are one-sided. They don't include
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 39: the other side's view. And I talk about that because
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 39: when I was on WCBS, whenever I would do a
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 39: story critical of Trump or Bush or whoever it was,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 39: I would always add, however opponents say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 39: And you should at least include that, even as a
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 39: sentence in a short radio newscast. The other side says
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  Speaker 39: no because. And I just think so many stories now,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 39: TV and sometimes on radio, don't add that in.
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's also true, you know, there's a
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: blurring of the editorial page and the front page. And
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: I find it, I look at the headlines in the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: local paper here often, and you know what, if there's
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Whatever is on the editorial page, I think you understand.
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  Speaker 2: That's editorial. It's my opinion, right? And I always, you know,
• 1:09:39
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• 1:09:42
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  Speaker 2: page starts. But I think over time now, it's like
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: the news directors are editorializing, and, of course, the editorial
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: people are editorializing, and it's causing some confusion and the
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  Speaker 39: Well, you know, you just have to make your own judgment.
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  Speaker 39: I mean, you know when someone's being straight with you
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  Speaker 39: and when they're not. The editorializing sometimes, I think, comes
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  Speaker 39: from something that news people are trained to do, and
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  Speaker 39: it can come across as editorializing. News people think that
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  Speaker 39: the The biggest mistake that they can make is giving
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 39: people the wrong information or not warning them of some
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 39: new trend or some new important story. And they can
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 39: get caught up in that so much that they seem
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  Speaker 39: to be or maybe are editorializing. Sometimes that's maybe more
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  Speaker 39: with the younger news reporters who haven't learned to keep
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 39: the editorial going. view out of their news report yet.
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  Speaker 39: And hopefully the bosses and news managers are telling them,
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 39: That was back during the summer.
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  Speaker 39: And that was very interesting. That was definitely a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good idea. I think people are interested in that.
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  Speaker 38: And a lot of them.
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  Speaker 39: Even a realtor, a Connecticut realtor was telling me that
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  Speaker 39: a lot of his clients who put in an offer,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in the post-COVID times, I mean, I had
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  Speaker 2: We're out of time. I really appreciate you taking the time.
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  Speaker 39: Sounds good. Welcome to broadcasting, Mitchell. We need good people.
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  Speaker 35: Norwich's Dodd Stadium has been awarded $ 8.
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  Speaker 16: 1 million in state funding for renovations.
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  Speaker 35: The first phase will improve drainage, the field, and building systems,
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  Speaker 35: with later work aimed at expanding the venue's capacity for
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  Speaker 35: sports and entertainment. New London Police recently arrested 22-year-old Christopher
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  Speaker 35: Pond of Quaker Hill after investigating months of alleged reckless
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 35: dirt bike riding on city streets. He faces six counts
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 35: each of reckless driving and driving with a suspended license.
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  Speaker 35: Police also seized a dirt bike. Bond posted $ 10, 000 bond
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  Speaker 35: that is due in court October 5th. The Coast Guard
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  Speaker 35: has released a sexual assault prevention plan after scrutiny of
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  Speaker 35: its New London Academy. The plan aims to prevent sexual assault,
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  Speaker 35: support survivors, and hold leaders accountable following scrutiny of its
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 35: handling of allegations. Stonington Police charged westerly resident 25-year-old Leon
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  Speaker 35: Brown with home invasion and other offenses after he allegedly
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 35: entered his girlfriend's Pawkatuck home without permission, and assaulted her
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  Speaker 35: September 17th. She was taken to a hospital with injuries.
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  Speaker 35: Brown was released on a $ 50, 000 bond that is due
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  Speaker 35: in court October 2nd. Former Rhode Island judge and immigration
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  Speaker 35: attorney Joseph Molina Flynn pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 35: and tax evasion. Prosecutors say he took about $ 98, 000 from clients,
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  Speaker 35: many of them immigrants, for legal services he misrepresented or
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  Speaker 35: failed to provide. He's scheduled to be sentenced December 17th.
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  Speaker 35: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 16: When news breaks, we break in.
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  Speaker 36: The Densmore Oil and Bugbee.
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  Speaker 2: Plumbing Seat of Honor.
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  Speaker 52: Tormenting Red Sox fans since 1991. He was named the 2002, 2006, 2007,
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  Speaker 52: and 2008 Connecticut Sportswriter of the Year.
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  Speaker 33: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 52: What the hell happened in 2003, 05, 09, and 2010?
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  Speaker 52: What were you doing, Mike?
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  Speaker 9: Lollygagging?
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  Speaker 40: Mike?
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  Speaker 39: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: You lollygagged the ball around the evening.
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  Speaker 20: You lollygagged your way down to first.
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  Speaker 18: Welcome back to 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk at 739.
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  Speaker 16: Sorry, our guest who had an.
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  Speaker 34: It's a good thing I didn't bother going on the
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  Speaker 34: day website and getting his bio and taking time to
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  Speaker 34: introduce him because we had the.
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  Speaker 2: Great Mike DeMauro introduction. So, Mike, thanks for coming on
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  Speaker 2: with me. It's Mitchell Edis here, filling in for Lee Elsie,
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  Speaker 2: and welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 40: Mitch, how have you been? I miss you.
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  Speaker 2: I've been good. I've kind of, you know, it's funny.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: We did this movie at the Guard, and Steve Siegel
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: said to me, I don't understand you. You disappeared for
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: 10 years, and all of a sudden you're back. You know, whatever.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: I had my time, and now I'm reclusive. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Things are good. And I appreciate you
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: coming on because, you know, tomorrow is a kind of
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: sad day, I think, for Connecticut. And certainly a sad
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  Speaker 2: day for me in many ways. And that means that
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  Speaker 2: the Connecticut Sun are playing their final game. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go tomorrow night. I haven't been to a game
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  Speaker 2: in a few years, but I'm going to go tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night to say my goodbyes. And I thought we could
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: spend some time talking about that, if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 20: So can we go back?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: Wherever you were and you hear that Mohegan Sun is
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  Speaker 2: getting a WNBA team, what did you think?
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  Speaker 1: Um....
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  Speaker 40: You know, Mitch, I didn't know what to think other than, well,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 40: they do everything right, so they're probably going to do
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  Speaker 40: this right too. So this could be a great thing.
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  Speaker 40: And I remember the first game. It was a Saturday afternoon,
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  Speaker 40: and it was against Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 39: Correct. Correct.
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  Speaker 40: And at that time, the Sparks had a guy from–
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 40: a reporter from the L.A. Times went to all the games.
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  Speaker 40: Mike something or other– I forget his last name. And
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  Speaker 40: I asked him after the game, I said, Mike, I
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  Speaker 40: got to ask you, did we come off like a
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  Speaker 40: bunch of– bumpkins here and he goes absolutely not first
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  Speaker 40: class all the way and you know when a guy
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  Speaker 40: from from uh from from from la who has kind
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  Speaker 40: of seen seen it all said that i knew i knew.
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  Speaker 2: We were off and running yeah we did try to
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  Speaker 2: to take the uh basic philosophies of how we ran
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: the casino and put it into the basketball team and
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  Speaker 2: i think it worked out you know I remember, like,
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  Speaker 2: Mike was very supportive and covered the team a lot
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  Speaker 2: in the early days. And not just the early days,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: but through a long period of time. And I remember,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: you know, I can remember some of your columns. And
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite early on columns... was back up
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  Speaker 2: the truck. That's what I called it. I don't know
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: what you called it. You know, we had this mishmash roster,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: you know, and, you know, it was Rebecca Lobo who
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: we got in a trade because Stern promised her she'd
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: come to Kenya, whatever happened. Can you think back to that,
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  Speaker 2: those days, early on?
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  Speaker 40: Well, I remember that game that prompted me to write that.
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  Speaker 40: You know, you were kind of in the It was
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  Speaker 40: late in the year, and you needed to keep winning
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 40: to make the playoff. And you blew a huge lead.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 40: I think you lost to the Liberty. And the game
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  Speaker 40: got sealed when Shannon Johnson, who was your best player probably,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 40: called a timeout late in the game that you didn't have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 40: and I recall in the locker room after, she said
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 40: to me, yes, they said I called a timeout. And here, Mitch,
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  Speaker 40: I think the fan in me came out a little
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 40: bit and went, they said? No, no, no. No, no. 6,000
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  Speaker 40: people saw it. And she got mad. She started yelling.
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  Speaker 40: And then, you know, they had a kind of They
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 40: kind of had to get in between us.
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  Speaker 37: And so I wrote, back up the truck.
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  Speaker 40: Get them all out of here. You know, you keep her,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 40: keep her. The rest of them got to go. And
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  Speaker 40: I remember the next day I had to go. You know,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 40: when you do that, you got to show up the
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  Speaker 40: next day. And Nikisha Sayles. pulled me aside and said,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 40: she goes, you're crazy. You're crazy. But we needed that.
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  Speaker 2: But we needed that, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 40: And I think you guys went on. You made the playoffs,
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  Speaker 40: and I think you won a round.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We got off to– the franchise got off to
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: a good start. You know, you've been an active person.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: You're very involved, and you've seen a lot of times. Now,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: best moments, worst moments. I'll give you, like, my best
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: and worst moment was the same thing, and then I'll
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  Speaker 2: let you.
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  Speaker 16: Go, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So it was we're in the finals against Seattle, right,
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  Speaker 2: early on in our career as a team. My wife
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  Speaker 2: and I are in Seattle.
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  Speaker 28: It's packed.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen thousand people screaming against us. And and and the
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  Speaker 2: woman from the WNBA is actually because we won the
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  Speaker 2: first game. It was it was one. And, you know,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: it was it was one and then two. So we
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  Speaker 2: want we were the bottom. See, we won the first
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  Speaker 2: game at home. Three game series. They win this game.
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  Speaker 2: We win the championship. So they're there with me ready
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  Speaker 2: to take me to take the get the trophy.
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  Speaker 39: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because we could win. And a timeout is called. Nikisha
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  Speaker 2: sales must've had 48 points. I don't know. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: miss a shot the whole game. Coach called Tebow calls timeout.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: Lindsay Whalen drives baseline, flips it over to Nikisha in
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  Speaker 2: the corner. I'm saying, Oh my God, we're about to
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  Speaker 2: win the championship. She hasn't missed a shot all night,
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  Speaker 2: except that one went off the backside of the backboard.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: So that was my best moment. And my worst moment simultaneously,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: as you think back at your times of this, you know,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: watching the basketball team, what do you think?
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  Speaker 40: Well, it was that my best moment, Mitch, was the
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  Speaker 40: game one of the finals in 04. I have never
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 40: heard and still haven't heard the arena that loud. And
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 40: you beat Seattle to go up, you know, one game
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  Speaker 40: to none.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 33: Right.
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  Speaker 40: So I didn't go to Seattle. We sent Ned, who
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 40: was our beat writer.
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  Speaker 2: And Ned's back.
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  Speaker 40: And Ned's back, yes. And we're sitting there at home,
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  Speaker 40: and Keisha has like 30-something points, and there's a timeout.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 40: And I said to my wife, I said, the entire
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 40: building knows she's going to get the ball. Right. So
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 40: they're never going to get her the ball. Somebody else
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 40: is going to have to make this. And, you know,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 40: Mike runs one of his plays that he ran all
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 40: the time. And when Lindsay made the pass, we both
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 40: stood up in our living room, and my wife goes,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 40: she's wide open!
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  Speaker 9: And I went, as.
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  Speaker 42: You did, Mitch, this is it.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 40: And then she hit the side of the back. And
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 40: I asked, you know, in future years, Keith, could you
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 40: have At least.
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  Speaker 2: It's a rim. And it looked really good from my
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: perspective until it didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have a selfish take on this, but
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: I was talking, you know, there'll probably be some, you know,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: the last game tomorrow. Doug Ferguson called me, asked me
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: a few comments yesterday. He's the AP basketball writer. And,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: you know, do you think that the important– in the
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: league getting where it is, right? Obviously, where it is
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: today is where we always thought it could be.
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  Speaker 40: Now, Mitch, let me say this. You bear much of
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  Speaker 40: the responsibility for that. I think the Sun is one
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 40: of the, if not the most important franchise in league history.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 40: And I say that because You know that song, I
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 40: was country when country wasn't cool?
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 60: Yes.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 40: Well, we were the W when the W wasn't cool.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 40: And all those times that you stepped up and you
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 40: hosted the All-Star game and the draft and all those
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 40: games on ESPN where, you know, seven or 8,000 people
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 40: in the, in the, in the gym, it, it all
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 40: built the league in, into what it all built the
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 40: league into what it's become. And that's on that. I'm sorry.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 40: That's on you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. You know, I think that people don't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I, my take on it is the WBA
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  Speaker 2: was always good. Now it got better. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 2: The first round, our first round draft pick, our first year,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: you know, three years later, we're not even going to
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: make a roster. And I think that basketball has gotten
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: progressively better over time. But I think the reality is
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: just that people felt like they couldn't watch it. It
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: was a stigma to watch the WNBA instead of enjoying it. And,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: you know, it's true. I think we helped. Now, I
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: don't begrudge. I mean, if I was a CEO and
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: someone came and offered us all that money for the team,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: If I was in my old job, I probably wouldn't say, yes,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: it's painful. It would have been for me because my
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: job is to make money. Right. For the for the
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: for the ownership. I find it really unfortunate and unimaginable, frankly,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: that there will be no professional women's basketball team in Connecticut.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: Or New England, where people can, you know, I mean,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: I don't, I ask this, you know, it just doesn't
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: make sense to me. Does it make sense to you?
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, Jesus, we are a hoppet of women's basketball.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: It's incredible. I don't understand it.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 40: Yeah, well, Mitch, I think it's, as our real estate
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 40: friends say, location, location, location.
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  Speaker 9: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 40: And I just don't think the Hartford market, which is
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 40: like the 35th biggest in the country, does anything for
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 40: the W anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's a better market than Oklahoma City.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 37: It's true.
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  Speaker 40: I'm sorry.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 40: No, I guess. But there is an NBA team here already.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 40: You know, I've written this. many times, we are like
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 40: the parents whose kids are all grown and moved away.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 40: We did our job, and now they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. I mean, I guess it's true, and
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: I still think a team could have succeeded here, and
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: a team would have done well here. Maybe it doesn't
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: fill their what the NBA or W wants out of it. And,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: you know, as time is moving on, it kind of
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: is what it is. But it's not really the same league.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that when I first– I remember
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: when I first went to my first Board of Governors meeting,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: I was like, we need to have more games. And
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: everybody looked at me like, what are you kidding? We
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: don't even like having the games we have.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 50: Yeah.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: And then I'm like, OK, whatever. And, you know, it's now,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: you know, and then people started building all these small
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: like Washington or these small buildings for the WNBA teams.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: Like so they'd have good size. And now all of
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: a sudden they have to rent out these 19,000 places.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: It's amazing how it exploded. And it really is that
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: it just all of a sudden became acceptable to watch that.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: That's what I think, you know, because there are these
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: players and Kalen and Angel and whatever. page, you know,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: now it's not, you know, people aren't making fun of
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: you for watching the games.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 40: I'd say, Mitch, one of the most significant things that
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 40: I remember in our time was, and I think you
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 40: had something to do with this, you got Mike Tebow
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 40: on with Mike and the Mad Dog one day. And
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 40: I mean, they were, you know, they were kind of
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 40: the the conscience of, of, of, of, of sport in
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 40: so many.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 24: Places.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 40: And when you got, when Mike went on there, I
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 40: just think that that, that legitimized the league so much. And,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 40: you know, other little things that we did here. I
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 40: remember one game, Mike, Mike, Gorman and Tommy Heinsohn did
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 40: the game on whatever the network was. And, again, you
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 40: get two little things like that, little by little, and
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 40: the game grew.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really has. It's like you said, we were
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: a country before country was cool. Obviously, what happened makes
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: me feel good because it kind of validated what I
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: thought because I always had faith. that the W would
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: grow and that it would be successful. And, you know,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: and as it's turned out, it has. And unfortunately, to
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: the demise of the fact that tomorrow night will be
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: the last game for the Connecticut Sun and they will go.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: Another thing that sort of annoys me is they're sending
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: all the teams back to places where they already failed. Cleveland, OK,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: we're bankrupt. Let's have a team. Houston, that was terrible.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: Let's have a team. Portland, you gave up your team.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: Let's have a team. Whatever. I guess Detroit, right? Yeah. Well, Mike, unfortunately,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: I think our time is up. My producer is giving
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: me the cut sign here. I really appreciate you coming on.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: I appreciate everything you did for the team over the years.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 40: Thank you.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: I hope to see you soon. Maybe you seem to
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: have a new active, interesting golf. Like, I don't know
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: where that came from. We got to talk about that
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: someday because I remember once you writing, oh, people pretend
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: that golf's important because the travelers here this week. And
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: then you're talking about going to caddy for people.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 33: Great.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know. One day we'll talk about that or
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: we'll play golf together.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 36: All right.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 37: All right. All right.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 40: We'll see you.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 37: All right.
• 1:46:15
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• 1:46:18
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  Speaker 28: It's good to be back in here. It's good to
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  Speaker 64: So the way that I give that five-second elevator pitch
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  Speaker 28: It's Mohegan territory, yeah.
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  Speaker 64: Yeah, it's personal in that way. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 57: Yeah.
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  Speaker 64: need a place to live. When they need a place
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  Speaker 64: to live, they're not all going to live one mile
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 64: from the General Dynamics electric boat location. So Norwich is
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 64: 13 miles up the river, and as part of the
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 64: catchment area, the gravity model, as we used to talk
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 64: about in the casino world, right? How far will someone
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 64: go to go to a casino? 19.2 miles, right?
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 2: Whatever is closest is the answer.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 28: Right, right, right. Whatever is closest. Same thing for this.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 64: People that are being employed, there's a certain gravity model,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 64: a certain commute that fits, and Norwich is right.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: In the middle of that. I mean, you can't swing
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 2: a cat without seeing a new apartment complex building built
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: somewhere here.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 28: That's right.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, there's another apartment building there.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 44: Look at that.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: Look at this.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 28: Yeah, the demand is huge.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: So you've got goals. In one way, your goal is
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 2: to increase the tax base, so forth and so on,
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 2: but Yeah. Do you interact with the local government in
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: order to sit down at the beginning of the year
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 2: and say, this is what we want to try to do,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 2: this is what we are going to do? Yeah. How
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: does that– because you're private, right?
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 28: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: And then how do you interact with the public?
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 64: Week in the life of NCDC and me. So all
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 64: of the above, right?
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 42: Yeah.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 64: We are a quasi-governmental, and we could have a fun
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 64: 10-minute conversation trying to define what that even means, right?
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 64: But I run a quasi-governmental nonprofit that works for the government,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 64: the municipal government in Norwich.
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 2: When you were hired, who hired you? The mayor at
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 2: the time?
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 36: No.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 30: No.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 28: Although the mayor was on the board of directors of
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 28: my nonprofit.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you're hired by the board of directors of
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: this nonprofit.
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 28: That's correct.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 64: And that nonprofit, I'm glad you went there. That really
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 64: helps answer the question. So the board of directors for
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 64: this nonprofit is purposefully, because we are quasi-governmental, both private
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 64: and public-based folks. So we've got, by the bylaws in
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 64: the charter, we've got the mayor, the city manager, a
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 64: couple of elected officials involved. And the Norwich Public Utilities
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 64: general manager, Norwich Public Utilities is a city-owned utility.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 28: Authority, right? So that's on the public side.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 64: Then on the private side, outweighing the public side, we
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 64: have private citizens who run businesses, work in the schools,
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 64: run banks, that kind of thing. And so that cross-section
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 64: of leadership in the board is what helps us stay focused, well,
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 64: I wouldn't say stay focused. You've been victimized by a
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 64: board of directors before.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 16: No, no.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 64: Boards of directors are assembled so that there are a
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 64: wide variety of viewpoints.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 28: And so I have to answer to that board of directors.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 28: So that's one part of it.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 64: But then I do have to directly answer to the
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 64: municipality and its needs. And then I do have to
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 64: answer to the, you know, you would call it either
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 64: the tribal members from our Mohegan time.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 57: Right.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 64: Or the constituents or the patrons of the casino, right,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 64: the people of Norwich.
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 28: What do they want? What do they need? That kind
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 28: of thing. So lots of voices in my head.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: Fascinating. It really is. I mean, we're here on 94.9
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 2: News now. Mitchell at us filling in for Lee Elsie.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 2: Guest is Kevin Brown, who's the president of the Norwich
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 2: Community Development Corporation. If you want to join the show.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: Please do. 860-464-9490. You know, you have a very diverse
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: background and a long military career. I know you ran
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: military bases. You were in combat. You know, you then
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: were the chairman of the Mohegan tribe. You kind of
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 2: came in, and I don't think it happened in my time,
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: where you kind of came in from nowhere, got elected
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 2: to the council, and by overwhelming, then you got, you know,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: it's funny.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 28: This is a true story, so.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin's brother, Mark, has been on the tribal council forever.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 2: He's an old man.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 28: Yeah, he is old.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 2: He's my age.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 14: I remember.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 2: So once I was up in the– they have all
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: the pictures of all the previous councils up in the
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 2: tribal meeting room. I was up looking one day. I'm like,
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: look how much– how old Mark has gotten. Then I
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: looked in the mirror. Oh, my God.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 28: Yeah, that's the same, same, same.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 2: Of course. Oh, so anyway, a long time ago when
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: you were getting ready to be out, he sent me
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: your resume.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 43: Okay.
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, what am I going to do
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 2: with this? I actually put it under my desk blotter,
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: hoping one day I'd think of something, and the next
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 2: thing I know, you're my boss. Maybe it's still there.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. No, I think Bobby took it.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: So how have your experience in the military, in the tribe,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: how have they helped you in this? You've kind of
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 2: alluded to it a little bit.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 65: Right.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 6: Well, look.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 64: I have a broad, as you said, array of experiences,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 64: and I find it interesting how often I can flash
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 64: back to being in a combat zone and finding similarities
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 64: to where i'm at and what i'm doing now nobody's
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 64: actually shooting at me anymore that's good but they're shooting
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 64: at me right hey what you know why is it
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 64: why is there another car wash on the corner we
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 64: already have one you know those kinds of things i
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 64: got to deal with all that and and when i
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 64: was a base commander i I was essentially a mayor.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 64: I was a mayor and a city manager at the
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 64: same time, just like the gentleman who's a captain in
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 64: the Navy that now runs the Naval Submarine Base here
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 64: in New London.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 28: That was the duties and responsibilities that I had.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 64: So while I started out carrying a rifle as a
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 64: young man, ultimately I ran a small city. And so
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 64: being involved in the governance of a small city and
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 64: being aware of where we need to spend resources on
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 64: what to ensure that the people that are living in
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 64: that city is not foreign to me.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 2: I always have this one memory. I have many memories.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time together. People don't know,
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: when you are building a hotel, you build model rooms.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: So you can go in, and you can see what
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: the rooms look like. So anyway, we had built these
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 2: model rooms. I think it was for the new Sky
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: Earth Hotel, whichever hotel it is. And we're standing outside.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: So we're all, like 10 of us, are standing outside
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: this door, ready to go in. And Kevin says, geez.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 2: Last time I was standing outside a door like this,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out which kind of grenade
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 2: to use.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 33: When we went in.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 28: That's right. This time I'm going to figure out.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: Flashbang or.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 28: That's right.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 64: Flashbang or frag grenade, right? And instead we opened the
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 64: door and we picked a carpet color.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly right. Very exciting.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 28: That was what we did.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 2: So, so far, you know, talk about wins and losses.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 2: I know there's been a lot of positive things that
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 2: have happened up there. You've been able to get a
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 2: lot of money from various organizations.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 36: Yep.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 2: Well, we talked a little bit about that, you know,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: for the rest of this half hour, and then we
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 2: can keep going.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 64: Yeah, so today, in fact, we're having an economic development
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 64: partnership conference in Norwich. And the folks that are putting
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 64: that on, we're not host, we're providing the space.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 28: We're not responsible for running it.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 64: The folks that are responsible for running it are from
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 64: five different state-level agencies.
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 66: The.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 64: Economic Development Association of Connecticut, Connecticut Main Street Center, the
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 64: Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Advanced CT, which
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 64: is pretty much the international marketing arm trying to bring
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 64: businesses to the state of Connecticut. And I'm missing one,
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 64: and I'm sorry, whoever that is that might hear this,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 64: and one other, right? And the point is that these
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 64: five agencies, these five state-level agencies were, the way I
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 64: tell this is like, so those five agencies walked into
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 64: a bar, lead up to a joke and they said
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 64: hey where should we hold our economic development community partnership
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 64: meeting and to a person they all said norwich and
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 64: the reason is because we've stayed heavily engaged with those
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 64: five state agencies and and they want to make sure
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 64: that the rest of the state understands hey if you
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 64: want to move the ball you got to partner you
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 64: got to partner with people um Old African proverb that
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 64: I've overused over the last five years, if you want
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 64: to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far,
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 64: go together. And that's what we're doing. We're going together
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 64: with all these state agencies. They trust what Norwich is doing.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 64: We've established trust that if you give us funding, we're
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 64: going to execute. And we've had enormous success on that front.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 64: And I won't.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 28: Hit the litany, but I'll just start the conversation. Here's
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 28: a few.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 64: Yeah, so just yesterday— we were awarded $ 8 million to
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 64: rehabilitate Dodd Stadium.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 36: Oh. Yeah.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 64: So, you know, here's an asset, and it's a municipal asset.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 64: That stadium is owned by the city of Norwich. And
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 64: it's had 30 years of history of various teams coming
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 64: in and out of there, but it's 30 years old.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 28: And if we want teams to come in and out
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 28: of there into the future, we've got to do something
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 28: about it, right? Just like Mohegan Sun is getting ready
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 28: to fix the arena. You've got to do that. You've
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 28: got to recapitalize.
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 60: Right.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 64: That $ 8 million is great in terms of just stopping
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 64: the bleeding and fixing the asset, but it's also attracting
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 64: new sports ventures into the stadium.
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 2: So then after you fix the stadium, does that fall
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: under your body to try to get more teams or
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 2: new teams or concerts or whatever you're going.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 44: To do there?
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 64: A couple different approaches to that. We have, NCDC, we
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 64: started that conversation. New Marentown, he joined in that conversation.
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 64: As a result, we have attracted and have signed into
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 64: a lease a Major League Soccer Next Pro team, the
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 64: Connecticut United, that played this past year their first season,
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 64: but they were hotbedding. They were using different stadiums and locations,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 64: and they didn't have a home. They tried to go
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 64: into Bridgeport.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 28: It was a bit too expensive of a venture.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 64: And, you know, they noticed that Norwich had a facility
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 64: that needed to be improved.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 28: And you and I know this, right?
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 64: Like building something like that, we're talking hundreds of millions
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 64: of dollars to build new. So rehabilitating the current Dodge
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 64: Stadium is now providing a home for the Connecticut United
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 64: Football Club that will start playing next year, while also
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 64: serving as the ongoing home for the Sea Unicorns. Knock
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 64: on wood, we've got to get the lease signed up. Meanwhile,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 64: other professional sports leagues are knocking on the door and
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 64: asking me.
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 28: Hey, What's the future?
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, once people see progress, once they see a
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: new facility, they see the Connecticut United. You know, I mean, soccer,
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: I've never been a believer that America was ever going
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 2: to embrace soccer. But I may be, you know, changing
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: my mind.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 64: Well, FIFA definitely, you know, had its moment, right, with
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 64: the World Cup. And listen, let's just call it what
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 64: it is, right?
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 28: Norwich is a very diverse community. And there are significant.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 64: Cultural diasporas from Cape Verde, which just had an amazing
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 64: run in the World Cup.
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 28: Peruvian, Haitian, you name it.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 20: That's their real football.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 28: That's real football.
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 64: And we're providing an opportunity for folks, and you know
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 64: the deal from an entertainment standpoint, a good ticket price
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 64: and a great outdoor event in a newly rehabilitated site,
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 64: it's all good.
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 2: I personally like a sport who has an actual end.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 28: Yeah.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 2: You know, the game's over, the refs decide, what do
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 2: you think? Seven, six, five minutes, eight minutes? Yeah, let's
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 2: just say I had eight, ten minutes on there.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 28: It gets a little confusing.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 2: Whatever. I did kind of, you know, I didn't watch
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of the World Cup, but I was following England, and,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 2: you know, so I did watch a lot of their games,
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: and I will say at times it's exciting. We've got
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 2: a minute left before the break.
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 28: I honestly.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 2: I don't have anything I can get to that's only
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 2: going to last a minute, so we're going to just say,
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 2: I'd like you to join the show at the end
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 2: of the break. It's 860-464-9490. I'm Mitch Lottis, filling in
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 2: for Lee Elsie. My guest is Kevin Brown, former chairman
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell Edis filling in for Lee Elsie. Kevin Brown, former
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  Speaker 2: You can call in at 860-464-9490. And, in fact, Pete
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, guys. I just got to tell you, I've
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  Speaker 9: been involved in Norwich, oh God, for over 50 years
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  Speaker 9: in the Greenville section of Norwich. And it took one man,
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  Speaker 9: Kevin Brown, when he came in, he has made such
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  Speaker 9: a difference in our community, especially our little section of Greenville.
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  Speaker 9: We have a new park coming. In my lifetime, we
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  Speaker 9: were supposed to do something with the K-Part mess, and
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  Speaker 9: it became a homeless camp. But now with Kevin, one
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  Speaker 9: of the first things he did was he says, we're
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  Speaker 9: where everybody could use it. We have new schools coming.
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  Speaker 9: And the job he did with Panema Mill is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 9: So I want to thank you.
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  Speaker 38: Kevin, from all the citizens of Green.
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  Speaker 9: And by the way, we invented diversity in Greenville. Don't
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  Speaker 9: tell me about diversity. We know all about it. Thank
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  Speaker 9: you so much, and I'm going to let you talk now.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, just based on my experience with Kevin,
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  Speaker 2: that he is a tact.
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  Speaker 2: No pun intended. Right.
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  Speaker 39: Right.
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  Speaker 64: And, you know, you asked earlier, you know, who do
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  Speaker 50: Right.
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  Speaker 64: And the Greenville neighborhood revitalization zone and all the people
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  Speaker 64: who want to see change. And all I am is
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  Speaker 64: one of the instruments in that change. You know, we've
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  Speaker 64: got we've got a mayor and a city council that's
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  Speaker 64: got to be engaged and involved and we're making a difference.
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  Speaker 64: That Cape Hart Mill, it's one of the first things
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  Speaker 64: that struck me. It's just this blighted mill, homeless camps,
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  Speaker 64: drug problems, arson over and over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 64: And one of my first questions was, why are we
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  Speaker 64: letting it just stand there, right? And then this opportunity
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  Speaker 64: from the state came along to get a significant amount
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  Speaker 64: of money, and we prioritized that to go after it
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  Speaker 64: and fix it. So in the future, and it's going
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  Speaker 64: to take a lot of time, it's going to take
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  Speaker 64: some time, there will be a riverside park along the
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  Speaker 64: Chautauqua River where as people, Legend has it, or as
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  Speaker 64: Pete would tell me, some of the best fishing in
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  Speaker 20: That's good.
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  Speaker 44: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it seems like no matter where I am,
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  Speaker 2: you know. People are always fighting over these Amazon distribution centers.
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  Speaker 2: They're fighting because they don't want them. They're fighting because.
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  Speaker 14: They want them.
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  Speaker 2: Why do these things seem to be such a– they're
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  Speaker 64: Yeah, I think there are a number of underlying reasons
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  Speaker 28: A million-square-foot Amazon facility facility.
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  Speaker 64: In our Ockham Industrial Center on the northernmost part of
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  Speaker 28: The last developable acreage that we have.
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  Speaker 64: Is that the business park where the stadium is? No,
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  Speaker 64: that's the old business park. That was built in the 90s.
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  Speaker 64: The buildings don't fit today's technology. You cannot put a
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  Speaker 28: And so we have.
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  Speaker 64: Carved out 140 acres, about 180 of it developable, and
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  Speaker 64: that's where we're going to put this Amazon distribution facility.
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  Speaker 64: And the reason that it matters for the taxpayers of
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  Speaker 64: Norwich is Norwich doesn't have a Sikorsky aircraft facility like
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  Speaker 28: It's a Venn diagram, Mitchell.
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  Speaker 64: And if you want lower taxes, but you still want
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  Speaker 64: to have cops on the street and public works cleaning
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  Speaker 64: the street, then you have to have more development. That's
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  Speaker 64: the third leg of this thing. And that's what we're proposing. And,
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  Speaker 64: have to be sensitive to that and realize that's a
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  Speaker 64: real concern. But there's a greater good.
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  Speaker 28: There's 40,000 people in 18,000 households in Norwich. If we can.
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  Speaker 64: Minimize the impact on those 18,000 households, but raise the
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  Speaker 64: grand list so that we can lower their taxes, then
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  Speaker 64: it's an essential thing that we.
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  Speaker 28: Have to do.
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  Speaker 2: So I was thinking before, you know, you have these projects,
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  Speaker 2: numerous cities and locations that are trying to do this
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  Speaker 2: right around here.
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  Speaker 44: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, so Is there lots of competition? Are you fighting?
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  Speaker 64: I'll go back to the fact that today in Norwich,
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  Speaker 2: It looks like we've got an e-mail question.
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  Speaker 2: I just heard a caller in Kevin talk about the
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  Speaker 2: homeless camp that became a nice, beautiful park. I'm just wondering,
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  Speaker 64: Really difficult question. Solid question for the city of Norwich.
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  Speaker 64: And the caller might have misheard how Peter described the situation.
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  Speaker 28: Homeless folks were.
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  Speaker 64: Taking up residence in this old abandoned mill. And we
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 64: realized it was an unsafe situation. It could crumble and
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 64: kill them. So what we decided is we're going to
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 64: secure it. So we've fenced it. We've put surveillance on it.
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  Speaker 64: And we have funding now to knock it down. We're
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 64: going to get rid of it. So from a from
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 64: a security standpoint, we've removed them from that location. Now
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 64: the old analogy about the balloon, right? You push it
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  Speaker 64: on one side, it pops out on another. I mean,
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  Speaker 64: there is a homeless situation. I'll just tell, I'll give
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  Speaker 64: you the data that the, that the folks that track this,
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 64: there's about 120, uh, folks identified as homeless or, um,
• 2:33:25
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  Speaker 28: But occasionally, uh, unhomed that, uh, St.
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• 2:33:37
  Speaker 64: warming shelters and housing shelters for that. That's not something
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 64: that my organization is directly involved in. But on a
• 2:33:44
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• 2:33:48
  Speaker 64: creating more affordable housing, getting rid of these decrepit spaces
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 64: is how we from NCDC attack the homeless problem.
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  Speaker 2: And as dangerous as it is to be a homeless person,
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  Speaker 48: Right.
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  Speaker 64: So that's the part we're taking care of, and other
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 64: agencies are taking care of creating shelters and spaces for them.
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  Speaker 2: Again, last chance, if you want to join the show, 860-464-9490.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Brown of Norwich Economic Development and former Army Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: So I only have a few minutes, so now I
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  Speaker 2: can ask you.
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  Speaker 28: All right. Does it start with an H?
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  Speaker 2: No, the whole thing. I mean, you know, I'm an observer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm almost to the point now where I have trouble
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 2: watching the news because I can't find news to watch.
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 2: I can watch news for one hour from 6 to
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  Speaker 2: 7 on Fox. Brett Baer is my anchorman. Outside of that,
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  Speaker 2: I almost can't take anything else.
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  Speaker 28: But, you know, when the war started, I was like,
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  Speaker 28: this is going to be over.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like militarily we're doing great and so
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  Speaker 2: forth and so on. You know, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: a forever war yet because it really hasn't been that
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  Speaker 2: long in scheme of events. our involvement in many conflicts
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 28: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: But given your military background, just quick, what's your take
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  Speaker 2: on what's happening? Do you think it's, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: went wrong? What went right?
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  Speaker 36: Yeah.
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  Speaker 64: You know, we as a nation have not learned the
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  Speaker 64: lessons of all of our prior conflicts. And there just
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  Speaker 64: is no easy conflict. I think in this studio, on
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  Speaker 64: a different interview years ago, I probably... tried to hit
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  Speaker 64: this quote and got it wrong then too, and I'll
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 64: get it wrong now. But something like, T.H. Ferenbach wrote
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  Speaker 64: a book called This Kind of War. It was about
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  Speaker 64: the Korean conflict. And in it he said, you can
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  Speaker 64: fly over a land and bomb it to hell, but
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  Speaker 64: you will never change the situation unless you occupy it
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  Speaker 64: with men on the ground.
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  Speaker 28: And that's just a hard, hard.
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  Speaker 64: Truth about wielding this military instrument of power that our
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  Speaker 64: nation has. We are the most powerful military. We have
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  Speaker 64: the best stuff. We can get things done. And to
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  Speaker 64: your point, we have been getting things done. But it'll
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  Speaker 64: never be sufficient, I think, to close this conflict out
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  Speaker 64: in a way that feels like, to your earlier conversation
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  Speaker 64: with me about soccer, right?
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  Speaker 28: Like they add penalty seconds, right?
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 64: What's going on? When is this going to end? This
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 64: is the same thing. I mean, that sports analogy really
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  Speaker 64: plays into this. You never really know where the end
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 64: is coming from. in a conflict like this.
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  Speaker 2: We'll call her. Uh, Dan from across the sound, my
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  Speaker 2: sister's neighbor, Dan from East Hampton, you're on with Kevin Brown,
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell lettuce here on 94, nine news now and stimulating.
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  Speaker 42: Hey, what's going on? Thank you guys for, uh, filling in.
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  Speaker 42: You know, you're keeping me sane. Uh, I like to
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 42: hear the talk about economic development, obviously. And I know
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  Speaker 42: that that's been the strength, you know, that's been what
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 42: you guys have been talking about. Um, It's great to
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  Speaker 42: see people planning to put things in the proper way.
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  Speaker 42: I think there's a lot to be said about the
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  Speaker 42: fact that, you know, if we don't sort of like
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 42: stay at the cutting edge of the AI thing and
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 42: we don't stay at the cutting edge of these other
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 42: technologies as a country, it's do or die. You have
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 42: to do it. You know, I mean, when you look
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 42: at militarily, you look at tech is going to disable
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 42: weaponry eventually. You know, very low amounts of money can
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 42: be spent to take out very large and very complex systems.
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  Speaker 28: Asymmetric warfare, that's what that's called.
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  Speaker 42: At some point or another, you know, all the bombs
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  Speaker 42: that you build up, they're not going to matter anymore
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 42: if you're not at the cutting edge of the technology
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 42: of it all. And I just wanted to say, I
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 42: didn't hear every single bit of Trump's speech yesterday at
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 42: the UN, but I loved almost everything I heard coming
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 42: out of him yesterday. And I was just wondering if
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 42: you had any comment on that. Maybe I'll jump off
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 42: the air and listen to it that way.
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  Speaker 44: Thanks, Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Dan, thanks for your call.
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  Speaker 14: Kevin?
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  Speaker 64: I've got two quicks. The first one is, Dan, you're
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 64: from East Hampton, Long Island, and so I encourage you
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 64: to get a boat if you don't have one and
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 64: come up the Thames River to our inner Norwich Harbor
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 64: where we have put fuel at the marina, a brand-new restaurant,
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 64: and we're rehabilitating the Brown Park. Come visit us by
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 64: boat because that's one of the big economic development projects
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 64: we're working on right now is fixing the harbor. The
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  Speaker 64: second thing I'll say is that this asymmetric warfare– situation
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  Speaker 64: that AI presents is really the next battle.
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  Speaker 28: And we've seen it for centuries.
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 64: Military conflict produces innovation in technology and vice versa.
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  Speaker 28: And we can't ignore the importance of AI.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing. It definitely is.
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  Speaker 14: I'll give you AI.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to do some research for a company
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 2: of a board that I'm on. And I just typed
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 2: in what I wanted to know. And it gave me
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 2: a complete report specifically with names, salaries of people. And
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 2: it actually even referenced the company that I worked that
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 2: I'm work on the board I'm on as one of
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 2: the examples. And it was like you would have had
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 2: to hire.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 28: How did you know that?
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 2: You would have had to hire some analyst, you know,
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 2: for five hours to go through the Internet and find
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. And it just it just sourced it out.
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't hear the Trump speech yesterday, but what I
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 2: found interesting was the amount of people that weren't criticizing it.
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 2: So when there's not a lot of people criticizing it,
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of figure it must have been
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 2: pretty good and he must have been pretty calm. And,
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 2: you know, look, I said this when he got elected.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 2: He elected a real estate developer president, and that's what
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 2: you have. And you've got to think through what he
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 2: says and figure it out and, you know– Sometimes I
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 2: think it's a disaster. Sometimes I think if you take
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 2: a step back through all the chaos, a lot of things,
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 2: he's got a lot of things done that, you know,
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 2: like the whole Greenland thing. I mean, you know, I
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe it's nothing. But after all his bluster,
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 2: it seems like we ended up getting what we wanted
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  Speaker 2: out of there. I don't know. What's going to happen
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 2: with Cuba? Who knows? There's a lot going on in
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 2: the world right now. But, yeah, that speech must have
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 2: been interesting. And, you know, I didn't hear people killing him.
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  Speaker 2: So are we almost out of time? We've got three
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 2: minutes left. Okay. Anybody want to call in at 860- 464-9490. So,
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  Speaker 2: I said to you in joke when we were texting
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  Speaker 2: or talking about doing this, I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand why there's even any hooties left.
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  Speaker 28: You said it. You said it on the air.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 36: Yeah.
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  Speaker 28: Well, and look, it's... And who are the hooties? It's
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 28: tied together, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're the Blowfish.
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  Speaker 28: I don't get.
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  Speaker 27: It.
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  Speaker 64: You know, there will always be enemies of... Western civilization
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 64: and the United States. And we cannot be... I mean,
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  Speaker 64: I can speak to personal experience at the tactical level
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  Speaker 64: on the ground. You cannot be everywhere. You cannot service
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 64: every target. And you cannot completely destroy and eliminate... Anytime...
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  Speaker 64: I'm just going to say this. Anytime you have an
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 64: elected official ever say... we eliminated the bad guy. That's
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 64: just not true. That will never be true. And so,
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  Speaker 64: you know, when you think about the resources involved to
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 64: kill every hootie, could we engage effectively in it?
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  Speaker 28: You're damn right we could.
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  Speaker 64: I'm so proud of what I know to be the
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 64: capacity and the courage of the men and women that
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 64: serve in our armed forces.
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  Speaker 28: We are... They– I'm no longer part of we. I'm
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 28: a veteran.
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  Speaker 64: They are an amazing group of folks that could do
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 64: anything you handed them to include get rid of all
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 64: the hooties if that was the thing that you wanted
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 64: to do.
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  Speaker 28: But the expense.
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  Speaker 40: Right.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 28: What's the cost benefit analysis? It's a cost benefit analysis
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 28: at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 64: And just to give you my very, very personal take
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  Speaker 64: on all of this.
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  Speaker 28: I don't know, I think it was Eisenhower. It might
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 28: have been MacArthur. No, it wasn't MacArthur.
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  Speaker 64: It might have been Eisenhower who said, you know, something
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  Speaker 64: to the effect of, it's easy to stand back and
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 64: cheer and send our young men and women to war
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 64: until you've been there.
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 40: Right.
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 64: And you've seen the loss firsthand. And it causes you
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 64: to be a little more introspective and cautious about whether
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 64: it's really worth it, right? I mean, we stand behind
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 64: that flag when we're defending America and fulfilling its goals, missions,
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 64: and objectives. And we do it with full veracity and
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 64: courage and intent to complete the mission because that's what
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 64: we're told to do. It's somebody else's job to decide
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 64: whether or not we need to be put on that mission.
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  Speaker 28: And that's how we approach it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much. And Kevin Brown, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for being my last guest. And since you mentioned MacArthur,
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 2: I shall return.
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  Speaker 28: Awesome.
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 2: How's that, right? October 14th, right? Is that what we decided?
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll be back. So you can listen
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 2: to the person who will tell you when Mitchell attests
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 2: will be coming back on the show. I'd like to
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 2: thank all my guests today, Nathan Groob, Joe Connolly, Mike DeMauro,
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 2: and Kevin Brown, my great producer here, and I look
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 2: forward to joining you again here on the 94.9 Morning Show.