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The Lee Elci Show | 9.15.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: 9.9 News and Stimulating Talk, and we can say this
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  Speaker 1: is the Lee Elsie Show. As Mel Allen would say,
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  Speaker 1: how about that? And I am Tony D'Angelo, and I
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  Speaker 1: am your host for this particular show. The show of 9-15-2026,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm honored to do it, broadcasting loud and proud
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  Speaker 1: all over New York, anywhere we want to go.
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  Speaker 2: We're all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: We're all over the internet. We're over New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island, and Long Island. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: being here. I love that Peter Frampton song. I just
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  Speaker 1: keep thinking about the lyrics. I've done a lot of
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  Speaker 1: foolish things that I really didn't mean. Don't ever look
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  Speaker 1: at a movie of your life, folks. Anyway, let's get
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  Speaker 1: started with prayer. We'll get to the business of the
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  Speaker 1: day and the program. And actually... D'Angelo, find the prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Please join me. Heavenly Father, we come before you with
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  Speaker 1: humble hearts asking for your mercy and your peace in
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  Speaker 1: this uncertain hour. We lift up the leaders of our
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  Speaker 1: nation and leaders around the world. Grant them wisdom beyond
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  Speaker 1: their own understanding, courage to do what is right, and
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  Speaker 1: discernment that may prevent needless suffering. Guide every decision with justice, restraint,
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  Speaker 1: and a desire for peace. Lord, we pray for the
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  Speaker 1: brave men and women of our military and Our police officers, firefighters, paramedics,
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  Speaker 1: and all first responders, including the officers of ICE, surround
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  Speaker 1: them with your protection, strengthen them for the difficult days ahead,
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  Speaker 1: comfort their families, and bring them safely home. Also, please
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  Speaker 1: bless the ordinary working people. They're out today, too. Please
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  Speaker 1: return them to their families tonight as well, Lord. We
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  Speaker 1: ask you to watch over our country. Dear Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: need it. Unite us in purpose, calm our fears, and
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  Speaker 1: remind us that our ultimate hope is found in you alone.
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  Speaker 1: May your peace rule in our hearts, your truth guide
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  Speaker 1: our nation, and your hand of protection rest upon the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. In Jesus' name we pray.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, everybody. Thank you for being here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I put it this way. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: to begin, but something's really been troubling me lately. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do what our esteemed host does and
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  Speaker 1: use you as my sounding board or my sanity. And
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  Speaker 1: I was driving. I'm firmly convinced there is not a
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  Speaker 1: world before 5 a.m. in Pomfret, Connecticut. It does not exist.
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  Speaker 1: It just ain't there. It just is bleak, whatever in
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  Speaker 1: the heck it is. But it's just so cool to
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  Speaker 1: be out there, you know, looking at the stars and
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  Speaker 1: the moon. It's dark and thinking, you know, you're one
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  Speaker 1: man with the universe. Until some idiot tries to pass
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  Speaker 1: you on a double line speeding into, you know, cars
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  Speaker 1: coming up the other way. Listen, I could spend the
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  Speaker 1: whole show on that. But today's analogy. And I want
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  Speaker 1: you to think about this. I want you to meditate.
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  Speaker 1: Politics is, to truth and freedom, what organized religion is
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  Speaker 1: to man's relationship with God. Did you get that? I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it again. Politics is, to truth and freedom, what
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  Speaker 1: organized religion is to man's relationship to God. It's so true.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that we have in life, it's there for us,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow people manage to screw it up. And as
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  Speaker 1: I was making my notes last night, I was saying
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  Speaker 1: to myself, you know, who thinks for you, D'Angelo, listener, friend?
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  Speaker 1: What's the truth? What's really happening? And is what is
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  Speaker 1: really happening what, you know, what they want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you what's happening? And these people who are telling you
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  Speaker 1: what's important and what's to believe, are they telling you
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  Speaker 1: the truth or not? You know, I mean, because As
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  Speaker 1: far as I am concerned, like I was telling somebody
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  Speaker 1: last night, I think it was somebody in our discussion group,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have a very nice Facebook page, which
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  Speaker 1: our Peter Familius posts every morning. Put posts there. Put information.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I read it on the breaks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're keeping the seat warm. We're doing the best we can.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're doing a pretty darn good job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all of us here collectively, with the grace of God.
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  Speaker 1: But Something, three things have bothered me because I was
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  Speaker 1: saying to somebody last week, I used to be a Catholic.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a Christian. I used to be a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a conservative because I didn't want institutions thinking for
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  Speaker 1: me what I was supposed to believe. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if you're a socialist. I don't care if you're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, If you're listening in Texas that you think
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  Speaker 1: James Tallarico is the greatest thing since John F. Kennedy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you what to think. I
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  Speaker 1: want to convince you that you shouldn't be thinking that
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  Speaker 1: James Tallarico is the greatest thing since John F. Kennedy. Or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pick any idiot politician in Connecticut, wherever you
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  Speaker 1: happen to be, Kathy Hochul in New York. But I
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  Speaker 1: saw three things last week or ran across three things
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  Speaker 1: that really troubled me. First one, this would have been
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  Speaker 1: September 10th. The attorney general of the state of Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: a man by the name of William Tong, I qualify
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  Speaker 1: that because not everybody who's here on this particular broadcast
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  Speaker 1: is from Connecticut, is at a Democrat rally in Hartford, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: And in this Democrat rally, he goes off on a tirade.
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  Speaker 1: And it was probably one of the most disgusting things
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  Speaker 1: I have ever seen. And believe me, politics in Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: could get really low. Democrat politics in Connecticut could get
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  Speaker 1: even lower than that. In a picture of signs saying,
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  Speaker 1: one union, one family, one fight. He's with other notable Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And he started to go off on MAGA. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: If you are a mega Republican, you are not qualified
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  Speaker 1: to serve in Connecticut. Now, if you haven't seen this,
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  Speaker 1: I did put a post. I did a snippet. I
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  Speaker 1: did a 10 with Tony snippet of that yesterday. And
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  Speaker 1: you can follow it on the show page and also
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  Speaker 1: follow it on the 30 with Tony page. And he
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  Speaker 1: started with this whole witness test of what a. Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: Republican is supposed to believe. Now, this, of course, let
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  Speaker 1: your mind run wild there. Does one party dictate to another?
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  Speaker 1: Are we not these are we these horrible urchins that
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  Speaker 1: if we say, gee, I like what Trump's doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: five people want to kill us. I mean, listen, 10,000
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  Speaker 1: things can run through your mind. But it's probably been about,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, what, 128 hours. I don't see a
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  Speaker 1: Republican pushback with that. I see a couple of comments
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  Speaker 1: here and there. But the fact is, who is this
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  Speaker 1: guy telling me what to think, how to act, what
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  Speaker 1: to believe? Who is a political party to tell me
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  Speaker 1: what is important considering all the mess-ups, the lies, the
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  Speaker 1: screw-ups going back decades? And you want me to believe
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  Speaker 1: you now, okay? This is my problem. And people were
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  Speaker 1: saying to me yesterday, you know, he's an idiot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ignore it. It's like, look, I'm not going to ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: The may ignore it. The political buddies may ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: But D'Angelo is not going to ignore that. That is
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  Speaker 1: an insult to every single person in the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't mean to be yelling. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just don't tell me what to think. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: What is MAGA?
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  Speaker 5: MAGA.
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  Speaker 1: The answer of the day, who cares? I'm not dealing
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  Speaker 1: with MAGA. Yeah, I believe in American principles. I believe
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  Speaker 1: in freedom. I believe in free enterprise. I believe in
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  Speaker 1: limited government. I believe in throttling the administrative state and
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  Speaker 1: starting over. That's my belief. But let me believe as
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I don't want to tell you what to believe.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be dictated to you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what William Tong did, he said to 40% of the
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  Speaker 1: people in the state that voted for Donald Trump, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make those people vote for Donald Trump. They
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  Speaker 1: voted for Donald Trump. I mean, you want to send
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  Speaker 1: them all to a mental institution?
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. But this is like, stop telling me what
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  Speaker 1: to believe. Did I say that slowly enough? Stop telling
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  Speaker 1: me what to believe. I will believe for myself.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing drove me absolutely crazy. Same day, September 10th, 2026. Um,
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  Speaker 1: There was a Republican press conference, and the Republicans were
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  Speaker 1: in Hartford, and they were recounting all of the, shall
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  Speaker 1: I say, the litany of the Lamont corruption. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: funny thing is, if you go back, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: whenever Ned Lamont first ran for office, no one, you
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  Speaker 1: might have thought a lot of things. No one ever
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  Speaker 1: thought we would see the level of what we have
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  Speaker 1: seen over the years with just the myriad corruption. And
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans were reciting a number of the things not
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  Speaker 1: invalid at all. Ah, Constantinus Diamantis, Doug McCrory, Miguel Cardona
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  Speaker 1: getting the $ 250, 000 handshake, might have had a bad day
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  Speaker 1: at the track, had a fight with his wife or something. Hey, Miguel,
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  Speaker 1: this is a little cash for you. Take it easy
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  Speaker 1: the next time. But it's like, and one of my
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  Speaker 1: lady friends last night, thank God I got really good friends.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm the sort of guy that doesn't search
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  Speaker 1: for friendship. People find me and I'm able to help
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  Speaker 1: them and they're able. to help me. And there was
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  Speaker 1: a Republican thread on Twitter about, we got to audit
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  Speaker 1: every agency. Well, we got this group called the Auditors
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  Speaker 1: of Public Accounts. I mean, They do fine work. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they miss it. You know, they're human. But they do
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  Speaker 1: very good recommendations. But basically what they do is they
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  Speaker 1: make recommendations, and whoever they're auditing usually has some pontificating
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  Speaker 1: statements saying, oh, I'm sorry, oh, you're wrong, whatever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they have no teeth, frankly. That's the sad thing. It
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  Speaker 1: is not at all the quality.
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  Speaker 2: Of the work.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like my very good lady friend was saying,
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  Speaker 1: where have you guys been on the UConn Foundation? How
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  Speaker 1: did $ 90 million go off to some Cayman Island thing?
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  Speaker 1: It's in the damn tax return. I'm not telling you
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  Speaker 1: any stories, frankly. It's there. You just have to bother
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  Speaker 1: to look. And many people were saying at this press conference, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Fazio, what about SEMA 4? You think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to forget about SEMA 4? Do you think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to forget about a $ 66 million IPO payday? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to forget about that. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: makes me a little bit insulting to what little intelligence
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  Speaker 1: I may have left that you want me to forget about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to. I'm not going to. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Be you William Tong, be you Ryan Fazio, be you
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  Speaker 1: Bugs Bunny, you are not going to tell me what
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  Speaker 1: to believe. I'm sorry. You're going to try like hell,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just going to keep telling you you can't
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  Speaker 1: do it, frankly. And this is the thing I want
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  Speaker 1: you to think about today. I want you to think
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  Speaker 1: about this. What people are telling you. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have to ask yourself, why are they telling me that?
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  Speaker 1: Are they sincere? Do they have a motivation in telling
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  Speaker 1: me that? Or do they want me to believe a
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  Speaker 1: certain narrative? You know, am I some kid in the
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  Speaker 1: backseat wondering what we're going to stop at McDonald's on
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  Speaker 1: the road trip? And my father saying, you know, that's OK.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to the restaurant when we get to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: I am tired of being dictated to. Last thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me just mention this. There is a case that
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  Speaker 1: came out last week. It's a tax case. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have absolutely nothing to do, you can look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Center for Taxpayer Rights versus the IRS was in the D.C. Circuit.
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  Speaker 1: And the nature of the case was a nonprofit helping people,
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  Speaker 1: legal or illegal, comply with their tax obligations. They received
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  Speaker 1: a demand from ICE. On certain individuals, they handed over
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  Speaker 1: information and went all the way to the district court
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  Speaker 1: in D.C. The district court in D.C. says, listen, you're
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  Speaker 1: doing God's work. That's great. That's fine. But information is sacrosanct.
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  Speaker 1: It does not go to somebody asking even if they're
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  Speaker 1: the law. And this is the whole thing. Semaphore, right?
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  Speaker 1: You want me to forget? I ain't going to forget.
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  Speaker 1: Where did that COVID information go? Where did the genetic
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  Speaker 1: information go with the testing of kids? You know, one
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  Speaker 1: of our esteemed callers to this show, Jan from East Lime, saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Lamonts have kids' DNA. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a stretch to say that, frankly. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I've got to sit there and I've got
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  Speaker 1: to listen to that. And it's like, I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I'm going to say really quickly. was talking
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  Speaker 1: to some prominent Republican people last week telling me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: immigration's not a front burner issue. Well, guess what? You
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  Speaker 1: now have two senators in Ohio, Usted and Marino, who
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  Speaker 1: have written letters to Ned Lamont. You didn't hear about
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  Speaker 1: the Usted letter. I posted that on Saturday night. State-run
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  Speaker 1: media is not going to tell you about that. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the thing of, hey, you better start talking about
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  Speaker 1: these motor voter things and these 60-something or 90,000 or
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  Speaker 1: whatever people who may be voting in our elections. And
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  Speaker 1: from what I understand, the ice surge against questionable voting
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  Speaker 1: is starting today. So a lot happening. Tony D'Angelo here, 94.9
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  Speaker 1: News and Stimulating Talk. We are just getting started. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not upset now, you're going to be more upset
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  Speaker 1: as the days to come. You're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: good time. We'll be right back right after this. Well.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 17: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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• 20:02
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• 21:21
  Speaker 5: September is here.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: And Connecticut's number one fastest growing Mazda dealer is shifting
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: into high gear. At Whaling City Mazda, we want inventory.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: And we want your vehicle.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: Cars, trucks, SUVs, all makes and models. Have a lease?
• 21:33
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  Speaker 9: Don't need anymore?
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: We And here's the best part. You don't have to
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: buy from us for us to buy from you. But
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: if you are ready for something new, September's the perfect time.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Because right now, get the Wailing City special on all
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  Speaker 24: Check your Mazda, bring your trade, and let's make a deal.
• 21:58
  Speaker 24: Looking for pre-owned? Our inventory is already aggressively.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Priced, so you can shop confidently without worrying about overpaying.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Sell it, trade it, upgrade it. Whatever you're driving, bring
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  Speaker 7: Coma Street, New London. Connecticut's number one fastest growing Mazda dealer.
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  Speaker 25: Good morning.
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: I'm Sean Murphy.
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: Partly cloudy today with a high in the 70s.
• 22:28
  Speaker 26: A motorcycle crash Saturday night on Grove Street in Putnam
• 22:32
  Speaker 26: killed 24-year-old Jacob Woodmancy and seriously injured his passenger, 24-year-old
• 22:38
  Speaker 26: Ashley Hall. Police believe Woodmancy lost control, crossed the center line,
• 22:43
  Speaker 26: and crashed near Tatum Street.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Hall remains in serious but stable condition.
• 22:48
  Speaker 26: Norwich Public Utilities will phase in rate increases beginning November 1st,
• 22:53
  Speaker 26: adding about $ 20 to the average monthly bill by 2028.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: The additional revenue?
• 22:58
  Speaker 26: Will fund infrastructure upgrades and rising equipment costs. The Niantic
• 23:03
  Speaker 26: River Boardwalk will close for six weeks beginning October 5th
• 23:06
  Speaker 26: for redecking. The Niantic Bay Boardwalk and vehicle access to
• 23:11
  Speaker 26: Memorial Park will remain open. An East Hampton firefighter suffered
• 23:15
  Speaker 26: minor injuries after an erratic driver entered a closed crash
• 23:19
  Speaker 26: scene on Route 66 Sunday. The driver fled towards Portland
• 23:24
  Speaker 26: and police are investigating. The Rhode Island Board of Elections
• 23:28
  Speaker 26: rejected a full recount in the Republican gubernatorial primary but
• 23:32
  Speaker 26: approved a review of voting machine data. Aaron Gukian led
• 23:37
  Speaker 26: Elaine Polino by 259 votes.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: In the latest tally with the review scheduled today.
• 23:43
  Speaker 26: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break in.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Probably my favorite part of the show is announcing the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: nonprofits because and people are emailing me. OK, Tony.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: OK.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm OK. I mean, I, you know, believe it
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: or not, I have very low blood pressure people.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: How is that possible? Oh, it is.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, the nonprofit announcements. Remember, go
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: out and help somebody else and have some fun, too.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Because it's not all politics. It's not all, you know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the world's going to end. It's not that the AI
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: robots are going to come and kill us and take
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: us over. All I know is whenever I saw one
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of those movies, I was able to walk out of
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the movie theater. Anyway, let's get to the business. Third
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: annual Red, White, and Blue Party, Monday, September 21st, 2026,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: with special guests Ryan Fazio and Matt Corey. Music by Locomotion.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Doors open at 5. Show begins at 6. Cash, food,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and bar, that is at the Water's Edge Resort, 1525
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Boston Post Road in Westbrook, Connecticut. General admission, $ 50. The
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: host committee is $ 1, 000. If you need further information, contact
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the Connecticut Republicans. The Strides Road Race, our friends at
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the Arc of Eastern Connecticut, Sunday, October 4, 2026. Nothing
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like being out on a walk on a beautiful fall Sunday.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Camp Harkness, 301 Great Neck Road in Waterford, register online.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And Family Fun Roll, Walk and Roll. Oh, no, yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: if you have a nonprofit ad you want me to do,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I'll be here for the next bunch of Tuesdays. Make
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: sure you mail it to me or email it to me.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: You can do that at FortressTrustAOL.com or through Twitter. Kiwanis
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Club in New London, our pal Marty Olson. The annual
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: golf tournament, Friday, September 18th, 2026. Man, that's coming right up.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: 1130 a.m. registration. One o'clock's a shotgun start. $ 175 per player.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: This is for scholarships. You have a good time. $ 10, 000
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: prize in the ninth hole. Special hole-in-one. Actually, that would
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: be a prize. For additional information, contact Ted Nelson, 860-235-0770.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Ted Nelson, 860-235-0770. September 19th, Jim Spinato, Hypnosis Live, proceeds
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to benefit Wings of Freedom Animal Rescue, and that is
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: at the Sprague Rod and Gun Club. Saturday, September 19th,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: showtime is 7 p.m. $ 30, you can have some fun,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and some poor little animal will have food because of
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that you're there.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Believe me.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: In a house full of animals, I wonder what I'm doing,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: but they're only here because of us, and they give
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: us a short time, but they give us a lot
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: of love and comfort. And the Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Golf Classics, September 28th, 2026, the Lake of Isles Country Club,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and starts at 8 a.m. You're registered. 10 o'clock a.m.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: is shotgun start. Valenti Auto, $ 10, 000 hole-in-one. A Rolex Submariner
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: for a hole-in-one. I always wanted a Rolex. I don't
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: even golf. Lunch on course, smokehouse, barbecue, longest drive competition.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And you take a shot to win a, actually, let's see,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a $ 10, 000 or a Rolex Submariner for hitting a hole-in-one.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: To review today's program. We'll have Bob Lazeri at 6.50.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Bob is going to bring. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: think we talked for 30 seconds yesterday. 7 o'clock is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: going to be the power hour. Actually, Bob Swick will
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: be in. I think we could probably use three hours
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: on that, but Bob and I were chatting yesterday. 8 o'clock,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: all rise for the judge, John Nazero. He's just recently
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: given me a list of topics. We will go down.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be an interesting discussion. Now, at 8.35...
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: We are supposed to have a call from Pastor James
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: David Manning. If you follow 30 with Tony and if
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you've been following Facebook and Twitter and you followed the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: March Against Mondami on September 11th in New York City, yes,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: it is that Pastor James Manning. And speaking with his
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: wife yesterday and hoping all goes well, we get a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: chance to speak with the pastor. And I'm sure it'll
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: be an interesting discussion.
• 28:28
  Speaker 14: So.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Again, it's Tony D'Angelo in for Lee Elsie. This is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the Lee Elsie Show. And someone had messaged me on
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the break. And they said, that voice of that comedian
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: telling the joke as to, you know, how to meet
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: girls of the opposite sex sounds familiar. I said, well,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: if you've ever watched Frosty the Snowman during Christmas, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: think everybody's seen it. That's the voice of Frosty. And
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the comedian was Jackie Vernon. And Jackie Vernon was the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: master of the deadpan. Very interesting man. Many comics, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: think I've had this discussion along the way, are really
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: not funny people. And they're really kind of nasty. I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: remember Jimmy Harris, James B. Harris, a noted Hollywood director,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: wonderful guy. I believe he's still with us. He's well
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: into his 90s. He was telling me the story about
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Jerry Lewis being the nastiest guy in Hollywood. Luke Costello
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: was no charmer either. And I don't understand that dichotomy,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: but Jackie Vernon apparently was part of that same genre.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: But I don't care. I put on those tapes. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: laugh like anything. If you have a problem with that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you know, you have to come to my house and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: stop me, frankly. And it's you have to laugh every
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: once in a while. And I try some days very
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: hard was chatting with a friend recently as far as
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the state of national events. And in many ways, it's
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the best of times. In many ways, it's the worst
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of times. And I know you're going to sit and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I'm reading the posts on Facebook and I'm chatting with
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: people saying my costs are high, my food is high,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: my gas is high. And you know something? I agree
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: with you. And I agree that we are in a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: place right now where something needs to happen good and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: better for the United States of America. I do not
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: want to see a situation where one or two houses...
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: of the Congress of the United States turned Democrat. We
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: will see nothing but impeachments a week. We will see
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: nothing but money withheld for certain things from appropriations. You know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: our lovely belle of the ball in Connecticut, Rosa DeLauro,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: people say, you know, how is Rosa still there? Look
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: at her. She's a national embarrassment. It's the money, honey.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: She gets her hands on the money. She hangs out
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: with a couple of other old bats named Nancy and Debbie.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it is. So it's the kind
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of thing where I wish I wish I say this
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to everybody. I wish I could give you a better world.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I wish I could make it perfect. And yes, the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Trump administration has made mistakes and it needs to correct
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: some of the mistakes it did. And time is growing short.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: But whatever you do, number one, go vote. Not going
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to tell you how to vote. I spent the first
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: half hour telling you I wasn't going to tell you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: how to think. But Think of the integrity of the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: United States of America. Think of your freedom. Think of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the right to own a gun, the right to speak freely,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and to think there are people who want to buffalo
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you and take that away from you. And honestly, truthfully,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I would much rather have a chance of two years
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of getting things right rather than two years headed directly wrong.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Do you want to see President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Yeah, laugh
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: at me all you want. That's what they're thinking. Do
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you want to see a 15-member Supreme Court? Do you
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: want to see Congress letting in Guam, the Virgin Islands,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the Marianas, and everybody else? Do you want to see
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that happen? Frankly, I don't. So I wish I could
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: hand you a better world. Unfortunately, I can't hand you
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a perfect one, but It's only going to get better
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: if you work it. Anyway, Tony D'Angelo, 94.9, Lee Elsie Show,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: news and stimulating talk. We are coming back talking sports.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No idea what we're going to talk about. Bob Lazieri
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: coming right back. We'll be right back.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Traffic Alert on 94.9 News Now.
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: In Eastline, the exit 74 on-ramp.
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: From Route 161 to I-95 northbound is closed. Construction work
• 33:06
  Speaker 10: in Colchester, Route 2 westbound, exit 26 to exit 23.
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: Stop-and-go traffic in Waterford, I-95 northbound. Construction work continues on
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: the Gold Star Bridge. Route 12 moving slower southbound in Groton.
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: Route 32 and I-395 are both delay-free. I'm Eddie Schaefer,
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: Time Saver Traffic.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: Whaling City Ford needs 50 pre-owned vehicles.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: And yours could be one of them.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: Right now, we're actively buying cars, trucks, and SUVs of
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  Speaker 7: all makes and models.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Paid off?
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: Still financed?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: No problem.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: Bring your vehicle to Whaling City Ford for a fast,
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  Speaker 7: no-obligation appraisal and an aggressive purchase offer. Sell it to
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  Speaker 7: us outright, trade it towards a new Ford, or trade
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• 33:56
  Speaker 7: to buy from us for us to buy from you.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: We need 50 vehicles from customers like you this month.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: Will yours be one of them? And don't forget, Whaling
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  Speaker 7: City Service has convenient pick-up and drop-off options for all
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  Speaker 7: of our guests.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: Need an oil change? Or how about new tires? Or
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  Speaker 5: Whaling City Ford will pick your vehicle. We are!
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: Have we met yet?
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: Join Senior Resources for the Healthy Living Expo on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 8: September 16th from 9.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: To 12.30 p.m. at Dodd Stadium in Norwich.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: Take advantage of free health screenings like blood pressure, fall risk,
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: flu and COVID vaccines and more. Please bring insurance cards,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: information on health care, finance, housing, nutrition and more. The
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: Expo offers free admission, free parking and is handicap accessible.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: The Healthy Living.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Expo is presented by Senior Resources Agency on Aging. A
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: special thank you to the Norwood Sea Unicorns. See you
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: on Wednesday, September 16th. For more information, visit SeniorResourcesEC.org. Living
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: today for a better tomorrow.
• 35:03
  Speaker 27: Hello, this is Richard Sosimo from Pasta Vida, the place
• 35:07
  Speaker 27: to go for gourmet to go.
• 35:08
  Speaker 28: Chef Lou and I started Pasta Vida more than 30
• 35:11
  Speaker 28: years ago as a wholesale pasta factory and have become
• 35:14
  Speaker 28: Connecticut's leading destination for gourmet prepared meals. Delicious selections are
• 35:19
  Speaker 28: ready for you to simply heat and serve or freeze
• 35:22
  Speaker 28: to be used another day. We're located at 225 Elm
• 35:25
  Speaker 28: Street in Old Saybrook. Find our menu online at pastavida.com.
• 35:29
  Speaker 28: There's no place like Pasta Vida.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: He's forgotten more about sports than you will ever know.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Host of Thursday Night Tailgate on Armed Forces Radio and
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: a view from the Lone Red Sea.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Here he is, Bob Lazari.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Well, it's always fun whenever Bob comes in to talk
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: about sports on a Tuesday because it reminds me that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: there is a candy shop in the world of life.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And even though there's been a lot of polluted candy
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: over the years, it's my pal Bob Lazari. How you doing, pal? Okay, thanks.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You want to start with the birthdays?
• 36:08
  Speaker 29: Yeah, we can do some trip down memory lane here, Tony.
• 36:12
  Speaker 29: First of all, on this day in 1938, Tony, and folks,
• 36:15
  Speaker 29: Tony and I were not at this game, but Pirate outfielders, Tony,
• 36:20
  Speaker 29: the Wainer brothers, Lloyd Wainer and Paul Wainer, were the
• 36:23
  Speaker 29: first and only brothers to ever hit back-to-back home runs, Tony.
• 36:27
  Speaker 29: That is never happening. The odds of that happening are
• 36:30
  Speaker 29: incredible when you think about it. And when you think
• 36:33
  Speaker 29: about odds, Tony, on this day in 1963, the Alou brothers, Felipe, Matty,
• 36:41
  Speaker 29: and Jesus, right? Tony, they appeared in the Giants outfield
• 36:44
  Speaker 29: for one inning against the Pirates at Forbes Field. Can
• 36:47
  Speaker 29: you imagine the odds of that happening?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I remember that. I really do remember that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It's really incredible. Was Jesus the Alou brother that would
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: come to bat and have all the gyrations and he'd
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: be tugging at his shirt and stretching his neck?
• 37:06
  Speaker 30: Oh, yeah.
• 37:07
  Speaker 29: Remember that year with, like, Houston, he would pinch hit and,
• 37:12
  Speaker 29: you know, was an amazing pinch hitter, but actually would
• 37:15
  Speaker 29: lift that left leg when he was, like, you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 29: when he was ready to hit and Kind of all
• 37:21
  Speaker 29: over the place, but, man, they all could play, right, Tony?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: They all could play.
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: You remember Matty?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Fine player. I think he won a batting title. Yeah,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: fine player.
• 37:27
  Speaker 29: Felipe obviously went on to manage and everything, so that
• 37:32
  Speaker 29: was some family when you think about it. And on
• 37:34
  Speaker 29: this day, Tony, I know you remember this. 1969, Steve
• 37:39
  Speaker 29: Carlton of the Cardinals struck out 19 Mets in a game. But, Tony,
• 37:45
  Speaker 29: he lost the game 4-3 because of two home runs
• 37:48
  Speaker 29: by Ron Swoboda. Now, you and I have talked to
• 37:53
  Speaker 29: Swoboda in the past, and, you know, funny guy, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 29: I'm sure he would even make light of it. And
• 37:58
  Speaker 29: I think after the game he said, I might have
• 38:00
  Speaker 29: hit two home runs, but that's the best pitching performance
• 38:02
  Speaker 29: I've ever seen, right? I mean, that was Carlton in
• 38:05
  Speaker 29: a nutshell, Tony. He had a couple games like that
• 38:08
  Speaker 29: in his career, but that's when he was with the Cardinals. Obviously,
• 38:11
  Speaker 29: he would go to the Phillies a few years later
• 38:13
  Speaker 29: and– That 72 season, and I think you and I agree,
• 38:18
  Speaker 29: when he was 27-10 for a team that won about
• 38:22
  Speaker 29: 55 games.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: That was probably the best I've.
• 38:24
  Speaker 29: Ever seen, and we'll never see anything like that. But
• 38:28
  Speaker 29: that happened on this day in 1969. As far as birthdays, Tony,
• 38:32
  Speaker 29: you've got some football birthdays to mention today. First of all,
• 38:38
  Speaker 29: former guard Marshall Yonda. He made eight Pro Bowls, Tony,
• 38:41
  Speaker 29: with the Ravens. He will be a Hall of Famer
• 38:44
  Speaker 29: in a few years. He celebrates today. Otis Wilson, a
• 38:47
  Speaker 29: linebacker who played on the Chicago Bear teams with Walter Pagan.
• 38:51
  Speaker 29: He turned 69 years old today. Will Shields, a guard
• 38:56
  Speaker 29: for the Kansas City Chiefs who is in the Hall
• 38:58
  Speaker 29: of Fame. He celebrates a birthday today. Joe Morris, former
• 39:03
  Speaker 29: running back for the Giants. Tony, you remember he won
• 39:05
  Speaker 29: a Super Bowl with them. He turned 66 today. Dan Marino, Tony, 65,
• 39:10
  Speaker 29: believe it or not.
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: Unbelievable.
• 39:13
  Speaker 14: Seeing him play at Shea.
• 39:14
  Speaker 29: Stadium was incredible back in the day. One of the
• 39:16
  Speaker 29: coldest games I've ever seen. I think it was in
• 39:18
  Speaker 29: 83 or 84 I saw him play. He celebrates a birthday.
• 39:23
  Speaker 29: The late Leroy Irvin, who we had on Thursday night, tailgate.
• 39:26
  Speaker 29: Great cornerback, defensive back for the... Los Angeles Rams back
• 39:31
  Speaker 29: in the day. He celebrates a birthday today. David Deal,
• 39:34
  Speaker 29: former Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants. He
• 39:38
  Speaker 29: celebrates today, Tony. And born on this day, Tony, in 1940,
• 39:43
  Speaker 29: the great Merlin Olsen.
• 39:45
  Speaker 16: Ah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 29: He passed away, Tony, in 2010. As you remember, he
• 39:50
  Speaker 29: went on to be an incredible actor, right, Tony? I mean,
• 39:52
  Speaker 29: this is a guy, remember the fearsome foursome, right, but
• 39:56
  Speaker 29: was one of the most laid-back guys. When you saw
• 39:58
  Speaker 29: him act on TV, it must be an L.A. thing, Tony.
• 40:02
  Speaker 29: Remember Fred Dreyer and him? I mean, these guys were
• 40:05
  Speaker 29: incredibly talented off the field.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Merlin Olsen also had a big commercial career doing the–
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: FTD Flowers, and he was so gentlemanly, and it was like,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I remember my first wife, Jean, who passed on, she
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: absolutely loved him. And I said, do you realize he
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: was an all-pro football player? No, I just thought he
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: was this very nice gentleman.
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: He was fearsome, Tony.
• 40:31
  Speaker 29: Supposed to be fearsome anyway. As far as baseball birthdays, Tony,
• 40:37
  Speaker 29: born on this day in 1938. Gaylord Perry, Hall of Famer.
• 40:42
  Speaker 14: Now, Tony, you know, I was.
• 40:44
  Speaker 29: Looking at his stats this morning. I mean, this guy,
• 40:46
  Speaker 29: believe it or not, he pitched 22 seasons. He won
• 40:50
  Speaker 29: 314 games, Tony. His ERA was about three for his career.
• 40:53
  Speaker 29: Incredible pitcher, as we know, you know, was known for
• 40:56
  Speaker 29: loading up the ball, wrote the book Me and the Spinner.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I remember it was one of the first.
• 41:01
  Speaker 29: Baseball books I've ever read. But, you know, he was
• 41:04
  Speaker 29: a five-time 20-game winner, Tony. He won the Cy Young
• 41:07
  Speaker 29: in 1972 at Cleveland and amazingly won a Cy Young
• 41:11
  Speaker 29: in 78 at the age of 39 with the Padres.
• 41:15
  Speaker 29: And there was years in San Francisco, Tony, where he
• 41:17
  Speaker 29: was a 20-game winner where he probably could have won
• 41:20
  Speaker 29: more Cy Young awards. In fact, there was a couple
• 41:23
  Speaker 29: years in San Francisco where he was a 500 pitcher,
• 41:26
  Speaker 29: like 16, 15, 15, 17 years. His ERA was under
• 41:30
  Speaker 29: two and a half. I mean, this guy, he wasn't
• 41:33
  Speaker 29: getting much run support, you know, in the late 60s
• 41:36
  Speaker 29: with the Giants. I mean, it was Mays, McCovey, and
• 41:38
  Speaker 29: then whoever, right? But an amazing pitcher. And there was
• 41:43
  Speaker 29: one of his teammates who does celebrate a birthday today.
• 41:46
  Speaker 29: And you remember this guy, Tony, Frank Lindsey, L-I-N-Z-Y.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Frank Lindsey was a teammate of Taylor.
• 41:53
  Speaker 29: Perry with the Giants. And what people don't realize, Lindsey...
• 41:57
  Speaker 29: In the late 60s, Tony, he had a year, well,
• 42:01
  Speaker 29: let's take, for example, 1967. He pitched all the relief,
• 42:05
  Speaker 29: had an ERA of 1.5 in 100 innings. He followed
• 42:09
  Speaker 29: that up the next year with an ERA of 2.0
• 42:13
  Speaker 29: in 100 innings. And then the following year, 69, Tony,
• 42:16
  Speaker 29: he won 14 games in relief for the Giants. I mean,
• 42:20
  Speaker 29: this guy was an underrated relief pitcher because he played
• 42:23
  Speaker 29: with all those Hall of Famers. But Frank Lindsay does
• 42:26
  Speaker 29: celebrate a birthday.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I hope he's doing well. I mean, he was actually
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: one of those pitchers that used to wear glasses like
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: him and Bob Veal. It's like you're watching the game
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of the week, and the kids are like, who's Bob Veal?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I had Veal last night for dinner. But Bob Veal
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: would have those glasses that would fog up, and he
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: would throw hard. And Joe Garagio on the Game of
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: the Week would always say, you know, the players tell
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: me that when his glasses fog up in the fifth inning,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: you better be on your toes.
• 42:59
  Speaker 29: Ryan Dern, right?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
• 43:01
  Speaker 29: There's a few like that over the years. And for
• 43:03
  Speaker 29: some reason, they all flew hard. So that would instill
• 43:06
  Speaker 29: fear into batters.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: It's really something. I'm happy we saw it. I'm happy
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: we saw those players play. You know, and I'm grateful
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: whenever I can go to my Roku and turn on
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: YouTube and Whatever remnants of an old game that are there,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's precious to me.
• 43:23
  Speaker 17: It is.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we've got a couple of minutes. I wanted to
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this. You're much more into this
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: these days than I am, but there was a game.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I was reading this. Indiana and Howard. Indiana football game.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Beat Howard 55 to nothing. And I guess this is
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the thing where the poor football team plays the dominant
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: football team and everybody cheers and these kids take a
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: horrible beating because it's a big gate and the school's loving.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I think these kids are going to be traumatized for life,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: but that's just me. But they stopped the game in
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter because of the fact that the team
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: getting beat isn't going to do anything. And the bookies
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: are upset. Like, you know, you had to beat the spread.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, Bob, Al DeRogatis. What's an Al DeRogatis? Well,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: they threw him off the air right in the 60s
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: because he was talking about, well, if they go and
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: kick a field goal, they'll beat the spread.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: How terrible!
• 44:23
  Speaker 14: Gambling!
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: What the hell is this? It's just, what happened? You
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: tell us.
• 44:27
  Speaker 29: No, Tony, that Indiana was a, this is crazy to
• 44:30
  Speaker 29: begin with, a 56 and a half point favorite. And,
• 44:34
  Speaker 29: you know, then the over-under, I think, was 65-and-a-half. So,
• 44:39
  Speaker 29: I mean, even with their third stringers, Indiana probably would
• 44:42
  Speaker 29: have added to that score. So, you know, the flags
• 44:45
  Speaker 29: go up. You wonder, you know, where the money was
• 44:48
  Speaker 29: on either team. Or whether, obviously, it looked like it
• 44:51
  Speaker 29: might have been on Indiana. So, if they don't do
• 44:54
  Speaker 29: this in college, they don't stop games. This isn't high school.
• 44:57
  Speaker 25: You know.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 44:58
  Speaker 29: So, I don't know what was.
• 45:00
  Speaker 31: Going on, but.
• 45:02
  Speaker 29: That's the thing that when you bring in, that tells
• 45:04
  Speaker 29: you how many people are watching football and have no
• 45:07
  Speaker 29: interest in the game whatsoever.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I hear the music. Bob, where do we reach you?
• 45:11
  Speaker 29: Oh, go on next, Tony. We have interviews that you
• 45:13
  Speaker 29: and I did over the years, and there's a lot
• 45:15
  Speaker 29: of other stuff there.
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 45:16
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  Speaker 14: want to focus on one particular thing. I fully understand
• 54:52
  Speaker 14: taxation is essential for government to operate. That's a given.
• 54:58
  Speaker 14: I'm not questioning that. Most people do not question that.
• 55:03
  Speaker 14: But the question is, and continues to be, why does
• 55:08
  Speaker 14: Connecticut have so many taxes? And why is Connecticut doing
• 55:14
  Speaker 14: so poorly in business climate? Why is Connecticut doing so
• 55:20
  Speaker 14: poorly with all the social welfare problems that they have
• 55:24
  Speaker 14: in the state? Why is Connecticut.
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  Speaker 37: Or.
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  Speaker 14: Why does Connecticut have one of the highest debt-to-taxpayer ratios
• 55:33
  Speaker 14: in the country? Why is Connecticut one of the highest
• 55:35
  Speaker 14: taxed states in the country? A state as small as Connecticut,
• 55:40
  Speaker 14: with as few people as it has in its population,
• 55:44
  Speaker 14: where does this money go? And I will bluntly state,
• 55:51
  Speaker 14: Connecticut has spending problems. And Connecticut has a problem with
• 55:55
  Speaker 14: the amount of money it spends on governmental salaries, pensions, benefits,
• 56:03
  Speaker 14: no-bid contracts, and a lack of transparency as to where
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: money goes once it's given by the state, and if
• 56:13
  Speaker 14: it's ever repaid and why it's not repaid, so on
• 56:16
  Speaker 14: and so forth. So if you're going to continue to
• 56:19
  Speaker 14: tax to a point of no return... What are the consequences? Well,
• 56:25
  Speaker 14: we're seeing what the consequences have been in Connecticut for
• 56:27
  Speaker 14: the past basically 20 years. And if you really want
• 56:30
  Speaker 14: to go back, go back to when the income tax
• 56:32
  Speaker 14: was formed in 1991, look at the decline in the
• 56:36
  Speaker 14: state of Connecticut with all these taxes, all these new taxes,
• 56:41
  Speaker 14: all these additional taxes, all these surtaxes, all these licensed taxes,
• 56:45
  Speaker 14: all these occupational taxes, the tax of anything and everything
• 56:51
  Speaker 14: in the state of Connecticut. What does it really bring
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: into the state? I'm at a loss trying to understand
• 57:00
  Speaker 14: why we're taxing so much and why we have such
• 57:03
  Speaker 14: a poor showing across the board with the problems that
• 57:07
  Speaker 14: the state of Connecticut has.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: And you wonder, and it's, I don't see, now again,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I'm the first to tell you, we're chatting with Bob Swick,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: this is the Power Hour, I'm Tony D'Angelo in for
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie. You don't see that person or that group
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: of people or that whatever you want to call it,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: that bellwether saying, hey, guys, we're on the wrong road here.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: States that are low tax or no tax or no
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: income tax are booming, are creating great environments. The only
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: thing we seem to do or we do is every
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: winter it's a scratch around party in the legislature saying,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: What can we do to artificially balance our budget? How
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: much can we borrow? How much can we patch, putty
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and whatever the case can be to put together? And
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: it's like we keep passing out the same amount of leftovers, Bob,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: and we end up in the same place. And this
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: is the thing that and I say, where's that person
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: who's going to say that this needs to end? We
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: need to have a flat, simple, fair tax system. We
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: need to get rid of all these miscellaneous taxes. We
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: need to thin out the bureaucracy. We need to have
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: transparency in government. I mean, we're paying for this stuff.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: We have no idea what the hell we're paying for, except,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: you know, we get from politicians, trust us. I mean,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: this is the first thing that goes through my head.
• 58:35
  Speaker 14: Well, two points. The first point is I think once
• 58:39
  Speaker 14: taxpayers start realizing how much they're paying for those taxpayers
• 58:43
  Speaker 14: who are legitimately working and paying taxes on a local, state,
• 58:46
  Speaker 14: and federal level, once they realize how much taxes they're paying,
• 58:52
  Speaker 14: and they're saying to themselves, gee, why for every dollar
• 58:55
  Speaker 14: I earn, I only get to keep maybe 55 or
• 58:57
  Speaker 14: 60 cents of that dollar, because I'm paying all these
• 59:01
  Speaker 14: different taxes on a local government level, state government level,
• 59:04
  Speaker 14: on a federal government level. Where's my money going? And
• 59:09
  Speaker 14: to the point that Connecticut, with its out-of-control spending, never
• 59:17
  Speaker 14: addresses the reality of the situation. It's a bloated bureaucracy
• 59:22
  Speaker 14: with such severe political nepotism. You're never going to stop this.
• 59:27
  Speaker 14: Unless you have an overhaul of all your state departments,
• 59:31
  Speaker 14: you really have an audit that is a functional audit
• 59:34
  Speaker 14: to show where the waste of money is occurring. And
• 59:39
  Speaker 14: I think once people get mad enough about it, maybe,
• 59:42
  Speaker 14: just maybe, choices can be made, especially at election time,
• 59:46
  Speaker 14: to say, we want something different. We want something better.
• 59:49
  Speaker 14: You know, my first thought to this whole situation, I've
• 59:55
  Speaker 14: said this for years now, You get a new administration
• 59:58
  Speaker 14: in Hartford, the governor appoints, he or she will appoint
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 14: all new commissioners. He or she is going to give
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 14: a mandate to those commissioners, you need to cut spending
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 14: first year 10% across the board. I don't care where
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 14: you cut it, you're cutting it. You're going to be
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 14: working for a lot less money than what previous commissioners
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 14: have worked for. I want to cut spending in the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 14: state of Connecticut, number one. I want to see visually
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 14: where the money is going and why. I want justifications
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 14: for all these different programs. I want justifications of why
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 14: we're giving money to thousands of nonprofits, and we don't
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 14: know where it's going. I want justification for spending. Because
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 14: you know what, Tony? You as a common laborer, you
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 14: as a worker in the state of Connecticut, you need
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 14: to justify where you spend every penny so you don't
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 14: go broke, you don't go bankrupt, you don't lose your
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 14: home or your condo or so on.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I can't tax anybody. Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 14: And this is the problem that we have that some
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 14: people don't see. I really feel, and I'm looking at
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 14: the glass playing half full, that well over half of
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 14: the workers in Connecticut, the legal workers in Connecticut, the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 14: taxpayers in Connecticut, so on and so forth, are so
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 14: fed up with this. They would like to hear a
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 14: program like that. They would like to hear... Some elected officials,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 14: somebody running for office, articulate this type of cutting spending.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 14: We're going to get tough. We're going to, you know,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 14: tighten our belts. We're going to watch every penny we spend.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 14: We're going to, we want to lower taxes. We want
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 14: to give people more money in their take-home pay, so
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 14: on and so forth. And I'll tell you this, Tony,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 14: you don't have to be an economist to figure this out.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: Every dollar that government takes from you is one less
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 14: dollar that you have to spend One less dollar you
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 14: have to invest, one less dollar to put in your
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 14: savings account, one less dollar to pay off any debt
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 14: that you have. And the more dollars that are taken
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 14: from your pay, the less ability you have to better
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 14: yourself economically, to move forward for your future, because you
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 14: know what? Government's not going to look out for you
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 14: when you retire, and or if you get ill, so
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 14: on and so forth, contrary to what they're trying to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 14: tell you.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and this is the thing that drives
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: me absolutely bonkers. I was chatting with a friend earlier,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: and people aren't, how could I put it, maybe 100%
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: happy with everything they're seeing coming out of Washington, to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: which I say there's some incredible things. There's some things
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: that need to be fixed, and I don't say that
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: from a critical vein. I say that because I don't
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: want to see Texas fall. I don't want to see
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Maine fall. I don't want to see Michigan fall. I mean,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: these are like the last stock, you know, to your point,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: North Carolina. And it's but do you really want this
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: batso world with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being your president and 13
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: or 15 or however many Supreme Court justices? And it's like,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: can we take what's working and make it better? And
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: To the Trump administration, can they fix what needs to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: be fixed now? Because we're really talking the, how can
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I put it, the welfare of the country, of the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: United States of America. I don't care if you're liberal, conservative, green, red, Chevy, Ford,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: makes no difference. But, Bob, you know, it's like where
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I lose my mind, you know, back to, you know,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: local business. We don't see, again, with the good things,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Connecticut is missing an incredible opportunity. with the Opportunity Zone window,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: which should have been declared two months ago, and going forward,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and to put out a fresh face. We have Opportunity Zones.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: I talked to a very astute friend about this, and
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: he said, you know, every single Republican should be in Washington, D.C., saying, Mr. President,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: we're sincere about making Connecticut a better place, because I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: was talking to another friend. who says, you know, I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: talk to these people, mostly women, 50s, 60s, moms, grandmoms, daughter,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: and you can see in their face the desperation, the hope,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the fear that this, for lack of a better term,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: it's early, I'm sorry, communist takeover is going to come
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: and hit us in the back of the head. And
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: what happens then? It's like, so if I'm a politician,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Do you really think that this tax system,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: do you really think that this economy, do you really
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: think that this overtaxation, do you really think that chasing
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the last 8 or 10 or 12 billionaires out of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: town is going to sustain Connecticut forever? Connecticut's a great place.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: You know, the Ned Lamont mojo comeback. Bob, I am speechless.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 14: Well, the biggest problem with the inability of our elected
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 14: officials to realize that The amount of economic resources that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 14: are wasted in Connecticut is astounding to me. The properties
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 14: that are vacant, the properties that are run down, the
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 14: people who are really wanting to work, not being able
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 14: to find anything other than, you know, working at a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 14: corner coffee shop or whatever. The young people who graduate
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 14: from the state and get out as fast as they
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 14: possibly can. There's so much wasted economic resources because those
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 14: resources are channeled to the ruling elite, which to me
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 14: is the elected official in Connecticut, especially on a state
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 14: level and on a federal level. So we don't mind,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 14: not we, but they don't mind seeing these opportunity zones go,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 14: you know, wasted. They want them to be wasted because
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 14: then there has to be a greater dependency on them
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 14: and their governmental programs of the redistribution of wealth, which
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 14: occurs in any type of taxing system. And in Connecticut,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 14: it's more pronounced because you have such high taxes in
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 14: the state. Look at Massachusetts. Look at New York. Look
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 14: at New Jersey. Look at California. Look at Illinois. These
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 14: are all areas of our country where there is a
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 14: great deal of wasted economic opportunity. There's a lot of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 14: wasted economic resources. There's a lot of waste of economic productivity.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 14: And this all compounds the problems that these Democrats have
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 14: created in these states under the guise of their social welfare, DEI, yada, yada,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 14: yada programs. to infinity with regards to you have to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 14: follow this route, you have to follow that route, and no,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 14: we're not going to worry about anything else. That's the problem.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 14: America needs to become productive again. Our states, who are
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 14: so deeply blue and are totally unconcerned about businesses and
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 14: employment and jobs, they need to start to understand one
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 14: day they're going to really wish they could get those
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 14: economic resources back, and you know what? They're not going
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 14: to be back. What happens in Connecticut if a couple
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 14: of grocery chains say, hey, we're out of the state.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 14: We can't afford to operate here. We can't afford to
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 14: pay people bagging groceries $ 25. We can't afford only to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 14: have two self-serve checkout registers.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 15: So on and so forth.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 14: What happens when they go? Where are people going to
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 14: get their food?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 15: They don't see it.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: They don't see it. They do not see it.
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  Speaker 34: Right, yeah.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: It's Tony D'Angelo, 94.9, The Lee Elsey Show, September 15, 2026.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: The Power Hour with Professor Bob Swick. And the thing
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: that really gets me is, let's just say you've screwed up,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: and we've all screwed up. Let's just say you've screwed
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: up badly, and you're at a point of repentance, and
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: you're like, man, I've got to get somebody or something
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: to believe in me again. What do I need to do?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, Bob, your very first thing is, I'm going
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: to change every single thing that got me into this mess,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to start small, and I'm going to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: get people to believe in me. Connecticut just has this
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: arrogance of, you know, well, we'll keep doing the same thing.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: We're just going to, you know, you had mentioned in
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: your article this past Saturday the Republican tax plan. I mean,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: my first thought when I looked at it is, look,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: I think any tax reduction is a good tax reduction,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: but we're keeping the same taxes. It's like we have
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: a suspension on one. We're not going to tax off.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: We're not going to bracket. But we're keeping the same
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: damn system. And for us to be competitive, for us
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: to attract people to the state, we've got to do
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: something radically different. And why don't people see that? And
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: why do we end up in the same place all
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: the time?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 14: Well, I believe people. are starting to see it. I
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 14: think they're realizing, especially in Connecticut, that they've been lied
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 14: to for such a long time. They've really had it,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 14: and especially when it comes to taxation. And again, if
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 14: your system doesn't work, why are you doing the same
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 14: thing over and over again? How does a successful business
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 14: stay in business? Well, if they're doing something wrong, they
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 14: correct it right away. Connecticut, we just continue to do
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 14: the same thing over and over again for the past
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 14: 35 years. So I guess we want to go into
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 14: economic oblivion rather than any type of economic prosperity. I mean,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 14: think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: And again.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 14: And again, you have to realize that the state does
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 14: not have this entire... All those citizens in the state
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 14: don't have this mentality of economic failure. They want to...
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 14: They want to be successful. There's a lot of small
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 14: businesses in Connecticut who will do whatever they've got to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 14: do to fight the state so they can prosper, they
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 14: can grow, they can provide jobs, so on and so forth.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 14: You never hear from those businesses. They're the ones who
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 14: always shut out. But at the same time, state elected
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 14: officials have to realize that A lot of people are
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 14: on to their lives. A lot of people are on
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 14: to their failed programs, and they've had enough of them.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 14: They just have to turn out en masse, in my opinion,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 14: to correct it by getting these failed politicians out of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 14: office and getting some new blood, new ideas, new thoughts.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 14: How did our country form? Was it the same type
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 14: of monarchy or actual democracy? for lack of a better term,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 14: dictatorship that was Europe at that time?
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 15: No.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 14: It was the concept of freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: We took a bunch of guns and got rid of
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: the suckers. Anyway, it's Tony D'Angelo, 94.9 News and Stimulating Talk.
• 1:10:51
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• 1:10:55
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• 1:10:59
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• 1:11:03
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• 1:11:05
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  Speaker 14: There was a pension report.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 14: which talked about the incredible, incredible rate of return that
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  Speaker 14: September report talked about how great the rate of return was, 15.1%.
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  Speaker 14: billion that he claims it increased by. And the report
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  Speaker 14: itself is... very, very difficult to understand unless you have,
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  Speaker 14: in my opinion, some sort of financial, accounting, economics background,
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  Speaker 14: because it's filled with a lot of different, for lack
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  Speaker 14: of a better way of explaining, fabrications with percentages. And
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  Speaker 14: to try to give some background on what occurs in
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  Speaker 14: a pension fund for a government entities, so on and
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  Speaker 14: lot in private equity. And I know you're very familiar, Tony,
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  Speaker 14: the past year, and especially since President Trump took office again,
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  Speaker 14: the stock market has pretty much gone up roughly, I
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  Speaker 14: would say, 5,000, 6,000 points over the past few years.
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  Speaker 14: So any pension fund who's investing in the market or
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  Speaker 14: What I found interesting about this report, it's issued right
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  Speaker 14: before the election. It's issued with the biggest discrepancy is
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  Speaker 14: looking at the rates of return and looking at one
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  Speaker 14: thing that I really did not understand is their rate
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  Speaker 14: of return and their percentages they wanted to invest in
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  Speaker 14: are somewhat askew compared to what they're saying they're investing in.
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  Speaker 14: And that's the part I find very confusing about this
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  Speaker 14: whole report.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that if you look at it, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right, you know, you need some sort
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  Speaker 1: The things that caught me is that Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: private equity. What is private equity? Well, private equity is
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  Speaker 1: a value in a company somewhere. We don't know what
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  Speaker 1: that before. I've got the slides to prove it. It's
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, but what is that worth? And the
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  Speaker 1: fact of the matter is they attribute a value to it.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, somebody will sit there, some well-paid state employee,
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  Speaker 1: cash flow, all the rosy assumptions in the world, this
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  Speaker 1: is worth that, and they stick that on a report.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the thing that my senior trust officer used to say
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  Speaker 1: theory of life, Bob. If I took that private equity,
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  Speaker 1: now 30% of this portfolio is in private equity. And
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: so if I went to sell that today, tomorrow, next week,
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  Speaker 1: would get as much for it as I'm holding my
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  Speaker 1: hand here to the camera, absolutely nothing. So really you
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  Speaker 1: have an established market. The other 30% are, for lack
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: of a better term, crapshoot. Now, the other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: when I looked at that portfolio, I said to myself,
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  Speaker 1: what is Russell doing? Well, he's got this, you know,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: how could I put it? He's got this cadre of people.
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  Speaker 1: There's bureaucrats. They're doing nice reports. Isn't this really great? Bob,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: they're investing in funds. I can invest in funds on
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  Speaker 14: And this goes back to what I said in the
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  Speaker 14: first half hour. Okay, here's a department that is so bloated.
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  Speaker 14: And like you're saying, all this could have been done
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 14: with three or four people actually analyzing the funds and
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 14: investing them. And then just make sure when you're audited,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 14: you know, you cross your T's and so on and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 14: so forth. And they were legitimate at that point. So
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 14: based on that, okay, so now you've got an outside
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 14: firm trying to analyze this, what the state employees are doing.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 14: How much are you actually spending to manage the fund?
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  Speaker 14: I personally can't find that information anywhere based.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: On the website.
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  Speaker 1: Me neither.
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  Speaker 14: And again, this report is just so confusing, it really
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 14: doesn't make any sense. The concept of the benchmark that
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  Speaker 14: they're using to their portfolio also doesn't make sense. And again,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 14: as I stated earlier, the market is doing spectacular right now,
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  Speaker 14: contrary to what the Democrats are trying to say. So
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  Speaker 14: they're going to get a high rate of return, you know,
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  Speaker 14: no matter what. At the same time, they're still underfunded,
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  Speaker 14: even though they're claiming they increased the portfolio by $ 11 billion,
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  Speaker 14: which they really didn't, because they're adding different areas to
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  Speaker 14: that $ 11 billion, not the actual net gain.
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  Speaker 1: And they're counting that as an increase, yeah. It's gaining money.
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  Speaker 14: That doesn't make sense either. And again, reading the state's, uh...
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  Speaker 14: monthly report and i i looked at a few of
• 1:31:28
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  Speaker 14: probably be astounded at what you see because it doesn't
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  Speaker 14: really doesn't say anything and really doesn't tell you what's
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  Speaker 14: really going on they have a policy target for example
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 14: for global equities thirty seven percent however if you look
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 14: at their actual holding but i had difficulty figuring out
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 14: what the actual percentage was but i came to a
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 14: conclusion and i think you you pretty much agreed with
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 14: what you said. It's roughly 50% to 51% in global equities. Okay,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 14: so this is a red flag for the portfolio. You're
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 14: overextended in global equities, and then those funds are underweight,
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  Speaker 14: meaning that they are below average as far as the
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  Speaker 14: rate of return, so on and so forth, which would
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 14: bring down the whole portfolio at the same time. So
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  Speaker 14: how is this whole report not really more analyzed by
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  Speaker 14: the people who wrote it in the State Department and
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 14: by the treasurer if he really understands what he's doing there,
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  Speaker 14: and B, how underfunded still is the pension in real
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 14: dollars and cents? can't find that out either. So it's
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 14: very problematic.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at it, and here's the thing. If
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm making a commitment, if you will, and it's sort
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: of like rosy assumptions will stop at reality. And I
• 1:33:01
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• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: don't know, X millions of dollars into boogie-woogie Mother McCree
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  Speaker 1: pudding and pie private equity fund, and I've got a commitment. Now, okay,
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  Speaker 1: as to your point, the public markets, the exchanges are
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: doing quite well. Trading these days is very easy to do.
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  Speaker 1: You can trade actual equities. I mean, apparently, you know,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: these guys like funds. Okay, that's fine. But where's your capital?
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: Where's your loose capital to sit there and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we can have, you know, what is doing well in
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: the equity market? What can we risk? Well, okay, we've
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: got these funds. Funds, of course, are difficult to sell.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: You can sell them, but you've got to, like, wait
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the day and stuff like that. But, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we have any loose cash lying around? Well, no, not really,
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  Speaker 1: because we bought all this stuff in private equity. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't we sell the private equity? Well, excuse me, there's
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: no market for that. I mean, this is the kind
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: of thing that drives me absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 14: And another point, too, which, you know, it's very easy
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 14: to lie with statistics and lie, you know, with figures.
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  Speaker 14: They're claiming they have $ 76 billion in pension assets. Well,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 14: if you do the math and you're adding everything up,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 14: it only comes up to $ 69 billion in the five
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 14: funds that are shown in the report itself. Now, clarifying
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 14: that the treasurer's office obviously oversees other investments and additional funds.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 14: investment areas. However, they're not included in the report. So
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 14: how can you come up with somebody, where's that $ 7 billion?
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 14: Is that an accounting error? Is that just fabricating it
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 14: more to make it look better, so on and so forth?
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  Speaker 14: But here was the kicker for me, and it was
• 1:34:51
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  Speaker 14: a statement that they are in the top 25% of
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  Speaker 14: all major public funds, but I looked on the Internet
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  Speaker 14: to try to find where that was. I couldn't find anything.
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  Speaker 14: So I think the treasurer himself created his own peer
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 14: ranking that he has. He's in the top 25 percent
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 14: in his own mind. He doesn't have any independent verification
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 14: of it. You don't read any of it in the report.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 14: You don't see it anywhere on the treasurer's website. So
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 14: where did that figure come from? He could be in
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 14: the bottom 25%, not the 25% for all we know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I'm sorry, please go ahead.
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  Speaker 14: And again, with the value of the market going up
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 14: as much as it's gone up, I would expect, you
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 14: would expect, people who are more financial savvy would expect,
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  Speaker 14: they should have a much higher rate of return than
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 14: what they have here. So is that private equity they've
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 14: invested in, which possibly could be a Lamont connection, or
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 14: a political crony connection, is that dragging down the portfolio?
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 14: Is this report basically the opposite of what we're really
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 14: seeing if we break down the report and actually look
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 14: at it from a pure dollars and cents point of
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 14: view through what a pension fund is supposed to do?
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 14: Can't get an answer on that. So we're just going
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 14: to take this at face value and this is, you know, okay,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 14: we're in great shape. Next case.
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  Speaker 1: On my way back north this morning, I will pass
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  Speaker 1: a super-duper candidate, and say, hey, guy, do you realize
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: that for every dollar in that pension fund, 70% of
• 1:36:54
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• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: worth 70% of what you think it is.
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  Speaker 14: Exactly. And again, it's to me just such a misguided,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 14: misrepresented report. It's not even funny. Another point I'd like
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 14: to make, and we talked a little bit about this,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 14: the emerging markets equity.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 14: fun actuary or area actually uh... it's index uh... roughly
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 14: by twelve percent but he claims from the report they
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 14: reduced investments in emerging ventures difficult to understand based on
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 14: the numbers that they're looking at so it other again
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 14: it's almost guided and and and uh... the what segment
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 14: i think it drove both of us crazy but the
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 14: baby but i.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Don't think you know please elaborate baby.
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  Speaker 14: Barbara The results were negative, and we don't even know
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 14: what they're investing in. So why would you want to
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 14: put a penny of your hard-earned money to help your
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 14: child in a Connecticut baby bond that's beyond me? It
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 14: doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: No, and what, you know, here I am. You know,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: some days I feel like a... Very poor version of
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: John the Baptist. I haven't gotten to the locusts and
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  Speaker 1: wild honey yet. But where the Trump account.
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  Speaker 9: Sorry.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: You know, listen, if your car veered off the road,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: get it back on the road. You know, don't hate me.
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  Speaker 1: But the Trump account. Now, this is. Newt Gingrich. This
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: is Larry Kudlow. This is Gavin Newsom, of all people
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  Speaker 1: saying this is the best financial vehicle for kids ever.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Gavin Newsom, somebody probably told him to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But but that all said, it's like You have a
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: choice of something like that, illiquid assets in some fund.
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  Speaker 1: And thank God none of these kids are 18 yet
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: because they may not be able to cash out because
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: you can't sell a private equity unless there is a
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: buyer for that. And there's something when you sell private equity,
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  Speaker 1: when you value business, because I've done this. I don't
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: do it anymore. I'm not nearly as suicidal as I
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: used to be, called a Lack of marketability discounts. So, okay,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: you think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Worth $ 100?
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you can't find a market, so we're going to
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: take 50% of that, and that's basically what any buyer
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  Speaker 1: will do. And it's like, why wouldn't you want to
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  Speaker 1: secure the future of Connecticut's children rather than being political? Bob,
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  Speaker 1: this is an unbelievable thing, and this went a lot
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  Speaker 26: Public Utilities will phase in rate increases beginning November 1st,
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  Speaker 26: minor injuries after an erratic driver entered a closed crash
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  Speaker 26: rejected a full recount in the Republican gubernatorial primary but
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  Speaker 26: Elaine Polino by 259 votes in the latest tally with
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break in.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, wait. I want to get comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Appointed by former Governor Jody Rell, he's a master litigator,
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  Speaker 3: a fierce and respected judge, and Connecticut's super lawyer. Ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen, the truth teller, Judge John Nazaro. All rise.
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  Speaker 1: who has taken the trip to share with us his Vast, truly,
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  Speaker 1: body of experience, Judge John Nazaro. And people look forward
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  Speaker 1: to this, and so do I. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 37: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm well.
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  Speaker 37: You know, I slept better last night, which is good.
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  Speaker 37: And so much going on. And I listened to your
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 37: program with interest, Bob Swick. We have two Southern Connecticut
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 37: guys in a row, me and Swick. But listen to
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 37: us anyway, right?
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 6: No kidding.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 37: But so much going on, and so we're going to
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 37: dive right into it. those out there that listen frequently.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 37: I'm a retired judge lawyering again, and I'm able to opine.
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  Speaker 37: People ask me, are you running for anything? No, I'm
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 37: running for my wife if she calls, if I know
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 37: what's good for me, or to the fridge for a beer.
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  Speaker 37: Other than that, it's really empowering because I can say things.
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  Speaker 37: We went to, and the host here normally, unlike the
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  Speaker 37: election season, we're all at a Republican event, and it
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 37: was so much energy, right?
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  Speaker 2: So much energy, Mr.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 37: Fazio running for governor. Got to meet Matt Corey. I
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 37: know I'm talking politics, but he was a Navy guy.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 37: So those local sub people, he's a surface craft guy
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 37: from Manchester. And, you know, he was really approachable. And
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 37: we talked about issues and he's passionate running for lieutenant
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 37: governor and all the other slate. So it's an exciting time. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 37: I think Donald Trump has a real tough time.
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  Speaker 1: Elaborate, please.
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  Speaker 37: Yes, because the courts are whacking the DOJ every step
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  Speaker 37: of the way. And what happened is the U.S. Supreme
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 37: Court yesterday refused, refused to clear the Postal Service to
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 37: enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots in the upcoming election.
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  Speaker 37: And that's number one, because what happens is you hear
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  Speaker 37: the headline and it's a perception that the DOJ is
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 37: trying to restrict voting. And, you know, you have those
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 37: that argue about the mail-in ballots. So the state electors
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 37: are mailing out the ballots and it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 37: And so the DOJ keeps getting slapped down.
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  Speaker 2: And what does that mean?
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 37: Appearance is everything, right? You perceive the president to be losing.
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  Speaker 37: They're failing on the injunctions. The executive orders are being
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 37: struck down. And it's not a good look. So we
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 37: have this constellation of negative events. And here comes the
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  Speaker 37: hate mail. And the truth is, we got rates going
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  Speaker 37: up tomorrow, probably. There's a 90% chance. I study the
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  Speaker 37: financial markets. I'm in the markets. I was listening to
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 37: your discussion. And I do trade my own account. Some
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 37: people may call me an idiot, but I learned to
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 37: do that some years ago because I study it.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 37: But point is, interest rates are going up. Oil's over
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  Speaker 37: $ 103 a barrel. And diesel just hit a record high
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 37: at $ 6. 49 a gallon. It's the economy, stupid, right? So
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 37: we've got interest rates coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Oil's high.
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  Speaker 37: We've got conflict in Iran. We got this big AI story.
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  Speaker 37: Why should we care? I was watching my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible. You got to go on TheHill.com.
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  Speaker 37: My geek daughter, Miranda, senior technology reporter, is distilling what
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  Speaker 37: this means. AI, you know, some predict it's going to
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  Speaker 37: destroy humanity.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about.
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  Speaker 37: Here and now. What we have are wars being fought
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 37: with drones, drones, high-capacity munitions. And then Speaker Johnson says, well,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 37: we can't let the Chinese beat us. So slow down
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 37: in this concept of regulation. And in terms of the
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 37: law and what's going on here, will Congress take up regulation?
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  Speaker 37: Probably not if they perceive somehow they're losing to China,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 37: this big war. And it's ramping up. We got the
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  Speaker 37: war expanding in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. I got
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  Speaker 37: a problem with Saudi Arabia. I'm like the person at
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  Speaker 37: the 9-11 ceremony. When is Saudi Arabia going to be
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 37: held accountable for 9-11?
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned that.
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  Speaker 37: When is Saudi Arabia going to be held accountable for
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  Speaker 37: killing Adnan Khashoggi, the reporter who might be a spy,
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  Speaker 37: and you bring a bone saw into the embassy?
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: These horrible things.
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  Speaker 37: When is Saudi Arabia going to be held accountable for
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  Speaker 37: Lockerbie Scotland? We turn a blind eye. We turn a
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  Speaker 37: blind eye. 11 out of the 15 pilots were Saudi trained.
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  Speaker 37: Osama bin Laden. I mean, I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's OK with folks.
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  Speaker 37: So these negative headlines and there is a new ambassador,
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  Speaker 37: apparently African-American congressman, West Point graduate. And he was a
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 37: Saudi Arabia specialist in the Middle East. And now he's
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 37: been named ambassador in case anybody doesn't notice. We've got
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  Speaker 37: a problem in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia cut off production
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 37: of oil. Oil prices went up and people are going
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  Speaker 37: to feel it. People are feeling it now.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of problems.
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  Speaker 1: Well, these are my concerns because, you know, and every
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: single point you stated, Judge, is valid. But I, if
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: you're listening earlier, I don't want to see President AOC.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see a 13-member.
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  Speaker 2: Nor I.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and this is the— we' re given two choices, one
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  Speaker 1: which is our president, which, as you say, has got
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of problems. And then this— I don't
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: know what you want to call it, this utopian future
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: that is getting... to well we will do everything for
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: you because look at what they did and we've got
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: the answer and these are the things frankly that will
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: yes other than coming to do the show will keep
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  Speaker 1: me up at night.
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  Speaker 37: It becomes a battle of uh lesser lesser evils right
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 37: exactly we don't want the socialist aoc democrats i'm sorry
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  Speaker 37: Here comes a hate mail from the left. So we
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 37: get it from both sides, you know, and so it's
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  Speaker 37: a real terrible situation. But I think the Republicans are
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  Speaker 37: in trouble midterms. And I think these rulings that keep
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 37: coming out, there is another one in terms of voter registration.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 37: Donald Trump's push for proof of citizenship yet struck down again.
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  Speaker 2: A third U.S.
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  Speaker 37: Judge says no, you know. So these people may say
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 37: these are reasonable accommodations. I mean, you ought to be
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  Speaker 37: able to prove you're a citizen at the voting booth.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 37: But this last minute rush is failing. And so it's
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 37: viewed by the left and many and certainly by the
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 37: courts as obstructionist to getting people to the ballots. And
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 37: I think the Democrats are united on that. So, again,
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 37: it's a bad look. You know, when you lose, people
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 37: sometimes forget about the merits of the legislation or the
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 37: executive orders. But it's kind of loss after loss. I'm
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 37: interested to hear from some callers who can call with
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  Speaker 37: some court wins of the DOJ lately because they seem
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 37: to be wanting.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: Now, is the Trump, for lack, forgive my non-technical explanation,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: the Trump mail balloting effort initiative, is that now dead?
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 2: I think it is.
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  Speaker 37: It's going to be dead for the midterms. And to me,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 37: it smacks of desperation. We've got all these arguments, last
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  Speaker 37: minute petitions for injunctive relief. You know, it's like the
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 37: lawyer in the Clancy trial trying to get an injunction
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 37: to stop, you know, to excuse the 12th juror. People
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  Speaker 37: look at this court system and they must scratch their
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 37: heads and they say, well, why is everything a 911?
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 37: And what I mean by that is emergency call, not 911,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 37: you know. But it's just not good. It's just, to me, again,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 37: it suggests desperation. So this is not good. Also, the
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 37: latest attempt to charge James Comey failed. It's a big
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 37: face plant. And I think Comey ought to be charged.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 37: I've said this before. I read his book, James Comey,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 37: former FBI director. A lot of bad stuff in the
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 37: DOJ has come out. The weaponization of the use of
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 37: government resources to go after people. you know, innocent people
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 37: and certainly to weaponize.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: It to go after Trump, right?
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  Speaker 37: So payback is a B, I think is the expression.
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  Speaker 37: Trump's doing what he said he would do. It's not
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  Speaker 37: like he didn't, you know, hide what he intended to do.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 37: And there are those, John Kiriakou, who's a former CIA agent,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 37: I watch his podcast, fascinating guy. He was convicted of
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 37: foreign espionage. But he says that James Brennan and Comey
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  Speaker 37: are terrible people.
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  Speaker 2: They're just awful.
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  Speaker 1: They were totally weaponized.
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  Speaker 37: Anybody who thinks that government works in a vacuum, and
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  Speaker 37: I have worked in federal government both as an investigator
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  Speaker 37: in Washington in 1981 and a clerk in the United
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  Speaker 37: States Attorney's Office.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time ago, lowly, 1982.
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  Speaker 37: Let me tell you something. There are agendas there, and
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 37: they're very powerful people in powerful positions. And if they
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 37: get a beat on you and you're a target– I've
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 37: personally been in conversations– Well, you know, this guy, Nazaro,
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 37: we haven't investigated him for a while. I think it's time.
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  Speaker 37: I'd like to see a special agent. Can you get
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  Speaker 37: that agent from Orange Street to meet me at 2?
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 37: That's an actual conversation. It wasn't Nazaro was the target,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 37: but it was somebody who I won't mention. He was
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 37: one of these, like, sovereign citizen people. They carry a
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  Speaker 37: statement in their wallet. They don't follow the laws of
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  Speaker 37: the United States, including paying taxes. And that's how an
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  Speaker 37: investigation was birthed. I was the lone clerk in the
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  Speaker 37: criminal unit. And the chief of the criminal unit and
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  Speaker 37: I would later become judges. That chief is currently serving
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  Speaker 37: as a senior trial referee.
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  Speaker 1: I'm smiling.
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  Speaker 37: And the other guy, I'm going to give him a
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  Speaker 37: shout out. Jeremiah Donovan. Who is Jeremiah?
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  Speaker 3: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 37: He was a classmate of Richard Blumenthal's. Jeremiah was the
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  Speaker 37: lawyer for Joshua Komizarzewski. He was one of the two
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  Speaker 37: Cheshire Home Invasion guys. And I learned a lot. And
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  Speaker 37: Jeremiah is very liberal, very liberal. And he talks just
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  Speaker 37: like Bobby Kennedy. He came from Norwood.
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  Speaker 2: Norwood.
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  Speaker 37: And he called me John.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: John.
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  Speaker 37: And he was a great disappointment because he didn't go
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  Speaker 37: to Boston College. He told his mom, I'm going to
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  Speaker 37: have it. And that's where he went. He graduated with
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  Speaker 37: Richard and Lee Colchu, my former colleague, resident of the
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 37: Salem Democratic Party chair. But anyway, the U.S. Attorney's Office, oh,
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  Speaker 37: my goodness. I was like going through that security on
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 37: Orange Street. A lot of power there. So I don't
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 37: know if James Comey, he escaped it yet again. So Mondami,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 37: the mayor in New York, and 22 other states are
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 37: challenging DHS's non-citizen screening rules. Lawsuits are being filed. When
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 37: did we ever see this? You know, we got some
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 37: good money from the meta thing. Connecticut's going to get
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 37: $ 280 million. William Tong, he did join 38 other states,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 37: and there was this massive settlement, kind of like tobacco litigation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see where the dollars go.
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  Speaker 6: Bob Swick, if you're listening.
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  Speaker 37: Let's follow the money. When we get that $ 280 million,
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  Speaker 37: where is it going? Is it going to go into
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 37: the general fund, or is it going to go somewhere
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 37: else where it was supposed to be targeted? Meta, in
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 37: case you didn't know, was sued because of this addiction
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 37: by kids, and it's a real thing, and now they
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 37: have to do all these safeguards. And so that kind
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 37: of is the framework for the AI argument.
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  Speaker 1: There needs to be self-regulation. We'll see what's going on.
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  Speaker 37: If you're listening, you don't have ADHD. Nazaro's going from
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 37: topic to topic.
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  Speaker 7: Everything's going real fast.
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  Speaker 2: I only had one coffee.
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  Speaker 37: I'm just conscious of the 25 minutes, how fast things go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about AI for a moment.
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  Speaker 46: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: A part of me, Judge, says this is a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people who are involved in these AI corporations who
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: are incredibly, the brightest people we probably will ever run into.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: Are going to the politicians who not even arguably sometimes
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: are the dumbest people we'll ever run into and regulate me,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: regulate me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm thinking, Judge, I'm thinking, well, what's the
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: game here? Are they just saying we're going right by
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: Trump to the Democrat Party and we're going to get
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: ourselves into a thing where. We're going to have this
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: trusted group of advisors. And what do you listen to?
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: Your legal brain is clicking. Antitrust.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 37: Antitrust is right. And, you know, Mark Zuckerberg for years
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  Speaker 37: resisted any kind of regulation. And he's not well liked
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 37: by a lot of people, only when forced by this
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 37: settlement and lawsuits. And I'm going to, you know, boy,
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 37: I got to be careful what I say.
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  Speaker 2: My son works for.
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  Speaker 37: Him and he's a senior, you know, runs a team
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 37: in New York and They managed that, and he's working
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 37: in AI, a lot of regulation. So this AI thing,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 37: it needs to be regulated. And will they self-regulate? I
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 37: always say this. Government is terrible. Congress is more than
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 37: willing to cede to the president an executive order so
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 37: they don't have ownership of what might be a bad decision, right?
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 37: So they're like, okay, you regulate yourself. No, no, Congress,
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 37: you regulate. Is anybody doing their job? And then there's
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  Speaker 15: I'm doing just fine. Thank you so very much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for asking. You know, it takes a
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  Speaker 1: about the march against Mondami. Why don't you start with that?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, that was quite an event that took place this
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  Speaker 15: past Friday. commemorating or commemoration of the 9-11 event, that
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  Speaker 15: vicious attack by those vicious, if you will, cowardly Muslims
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  Speaker 15: New York City in the World Trade Center takedown. However,
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  Speaker 15: beyond most people's understanding by 25 years later electing a
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  Speaker 15: Muslim mayor, and not just a Muslim with a name.
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  Speaker 15: You know, I would have been probably less shocked if
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  Speaker 15: be mayor of New York City than this creep Mondani,
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  Speaker 15: this intifada, this homage supporter, this jihadist, this infidel, if
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 15: you will, exterminator, Mondami. So we marched against him, and
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  Speaker 15: we were very successful, very violent. Well, not violent in
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  Speaker 15: the sense that I was injured or anybody else was injured,
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  Speaker 15: but it was jam-packed with thousands of people opposing. But
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  Speaker 15: we were able to get our message out. Mondami's got
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  Speaker 1: What kind of, you know, believe me, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: composition of the New York City Council. Your sentiment, which
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  Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree with, I mean, how's that registering? You know,
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  Speaker 1: Mondami's got to go.
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  Speaker 15: Well, a large number of people are in agreement with it.
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  Speaker 15: There's so many other things that are going on right
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  Speaker 15: now that probably there's not 100 percent zero focus on
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 15: removing Mondavi. His voter group were young Gen Zers who
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 15: perhaps had very little experience, and most of them weren't
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 15: even born yet. in 9-11-2001. But there are a large
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  Speaker 15: number of groups. I mean, there are whole communities that
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  Speaker 15: have marched against him. There's a borough in New York,
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  Speaker 15: if you're not aware, called Staten.
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  Speaker 1: Island, with about 500,000 residents.
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  Speaker 15: That they won't even let him on the island. I mean,
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  Speaker 15: talking about lock stock in a group that just doesn't
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  Speaker 15: like him. And I think that what's well, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 15: say frightening, it's not frightening for me, but using the
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 15: language of some of the other New Yorkers, the fact
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 15: that there are prayer calls five times a day now
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 15: in New York City streets and schools, parks and public places,
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 15: where a year and a half ago it would have
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 15: been unthinkable to hear people That horrible sound. But you
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 15: hearing those sounds all over New York City now. And
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 15: Muslims are being emboldened because they've got this clown, Mondami,
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  Speaker 15: as the mayor of New York City. And he's giving
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  Speaker 15: them somewhat of protection. It's frightening. to use the language
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  Speaker 15: of some of the others. But as for me, I
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  Speaker 15: plan to see it moved. How soon will there be
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  Speaker 15: a consortium of coalition of people to get him out
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  Speaker 15: of there? That was the reason for our march, to
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 15: bring together people. And we're going to move the city
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  Speaker 15: council legislature, legislators rather, to put forth a vote of
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  Speaker 15: no confidence. New York City does not have a recall system.
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  Speaker 1: We have the same thing here, the same issues.
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  Speaker 15: So we want to get a vote of no confidence,
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  Speaker 15: and from there, move him out of office, put him
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  Speaker 15: in a position where he can't function anymore, and we'll
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  Speaker 15: have to resign.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me how this happened in New York,
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: and when I look at New York, the one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and how many years have you been in New York, Pastor?
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  Speaker 15: I've been in New York 45 years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So we go back contemporaneously. The one thing that
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  Speaker 1: always impressed me about New York, and this is like
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  Speaker 1: train to see a ball game. My father worked on Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers always had a respect for each other and a
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: respect for each other's views. And out of all the cities,
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: when all the cities rioted in the cities, you know,
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: Detroit and Washington and Chicago and Newark was awful. New
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: York didn't have any riots. It was this thing of
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: we're New Yorkers. We respect each other. And now to
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: your point, it's this arrogance of you must follow the prayer.
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: You know, you are. And it's like there's there's nothing here.
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: But and it's just it. It breaks my heart to
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: see it.
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  Speaker 15: New York is perhaps one of the most homogenous cities
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  Speaker 15: on the planet, with so many different ethnic groups, rather
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 15: than racial groups, while that does exist as well. Probably,
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  Speaker 15: I'm not sure that all historians would agree with me
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  Speaker 15: on this matter and I would not be upset if
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 15: someone challenged me and said that I was misinformed. But
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 15: I want to tell you that I've been in New
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 15: York for 45 years, and I've watched the transition of
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 15: New York and the various groups come and go. And
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 15: you're right. When the riots were taking place in Detroit
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 15: and Newark and Washington, New York was relatively calm. time.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 15: And the thing that I think most people will want
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 15: to challenge me, and I will not be offended or
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 15: upset if they challenge me, is that there's a large
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 15: Jewish population in New York that was pretty much touching
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 15: base with all of the ethnic groups within New York City,
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 15: especially 45 years ago in Harlem. And so as a
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 15: result of that, there was a sense of family, there
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 15: was a sense of community, there was a sense of
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 15: that we were New Yorkers, and we were proud to
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 15: be New Yorkers. That's not the case anymore.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all.
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: We're talking with Pastor James David Manning. Believe it or not,
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: we're getting to the point where we're running out of time.
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: We need to have you back here. Where does the pastor,
• 2:35:22
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• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: in the future? Because let me tell you, it's an
• 2:35:28
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• 2:35:31
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• 2:35:35
  Speaker 15: Thank you so much. I'm honored by that. I have
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 15: to tell my grandfather and my father down in North Carolina,
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 15: they're both deceased now, and I pray that they're happy
• 2:35:44
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• 2:35:48
  Speaker 15: are listening to their grandson. I always looked at my
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 15: elders as being what really elder people. I never see
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 15: myself that way. However, I do want to say clearly
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 15: that I believe what you're expressing, that people are listening
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 15: to me, and people of all stripes, to use an identity,
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 15: that we're going to be able to bring about a
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 15: unity that I don't think America has seen or had
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 15: in a very long time. It's not because of me
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 15: that this unity is going to happen. I see it
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 15: taking place. I mean, people are talking to me that
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 15: I never thought. People who once didn't think so much
• 2:36:34
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• 2:36:37
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• 2:36:42
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• 2:36:47
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• 2:36:51
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  Speaker 1: I'll be joining arms with you, my friend, and we
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• 2:37:03
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• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: and thank you so much. And when is service time?
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: Because we have a lot of people listening down in
• 2:37:12
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  Speaker 15: Well, we worship on Saturday. We remember the Sabbath day
• 2:37:18
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• 2:37:22
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• 2:37:25
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  Speaker 39: Amen.
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• 2:37:35
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• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 15: God bless you for having me.
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: What an honor.
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  Speaker 15: Thank you.
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