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February 2, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_10]: Watertown.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I'm Cammy McCormick.
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[SPEAKER_26]: The House is returning to work today in Washington as a partial government shutdown continues.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Funding lapsed for the Defense Department and Homeland Security, as well a state and treasury.
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[SPEAKER_26]: The Senate has passed a funding package, but Nicole Kelly and reports it must be approved by the House.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This measure has to clear a key hurdle in the roles committee, which is meeting later today where really anyone member particularly on the Republican side could put the breaks on this, but speaker Mike Johnson is hopeful that this can move forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has indicated that vote on the House floor could come as soon as Tuesday's president Trump says that
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[SPEAKER_26]: The Kennedy Center in Washington will close for two years for construction, revitalization and what he called complete rebuilding.
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[SPEAKER_26]: As it will shut down for that work July 4th, correspondent Nancy Cordez reports there are a lot of questions about what's being done.
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[SPEAKER_23]: The President said that all the financing has been lined up, and we do know that Congress has already allocated about a quarter of a billion dollars for deferred maintenance to the Kennedy Center, but is it going to cost more than that?
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[SPEAKER_23]: We simply don't know right now.
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[SPEAKER_26]: authorities in Arizona are searching for the 80-four-year-old mother of today's host, Savannah Guthrie.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Nancy Guthrie was reported missing over the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_26]: She was last seen at her home in the Tucson area, being a county sheriff, Chris Nanos.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We saw some things at the home that were concerning to us.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We believe now, after we've processed that crime scene that we do in fact have a crime
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[SPEAKER_06]: and we're asking the communities help.
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[SPEAKER_26]: The Trump administration's launching a $12 billion critical and rare earth mineral stockpile.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The White House says the initiative is called Project Vault.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's designed to counter China's dominance of key minerals used in defense, clean energy and advanced technology.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and to limit Beijing's leverage in trade negotiations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The stockpile would be financed by a $10 billion loan from the export import bank, along with more than a billion dollars in private investment.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Jeff Gilbert reports a safety investigation into some Ford pickup trucks as being upgraded.
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[SPEAKER_28]: The government's been looking into reports of sudden downshifts and even wheel lockups in 1.3 million F-150 pickups.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Checking the numbers on Wall Street at this hour stocks are higher the Dow Jones industrial up 476 points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thinking ahead to Valentine's Day, CBS News correspondent Stefan Kaufman reports, it'll cost you an expected record of $29.1 billion, the anticipated spending for Valentine's Day, according to a survey, from the National Retail Federation.
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[SPEAKER_27]: That's $200 or person that they're planning to spend on gifts for significant others, family, friends, even pets.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Federation Vice President Catherine Collins has candy tops the gift list, followed by greeting cards and flowers.
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[SPEAKER_27]: We didn't see more people planning to control this year, though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, evenings out, Stephen Kaufman's CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_26]: A new study published in Nature, Neo Science suggests babies are able to distinguish between different objects as young as two months.
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[SPEAKER_26]: That's earlier than scientists previously thought, the findings may help doctors and researchers better understand cognitive development and infancy.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I'm Cammy McCormick, CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Tonight expect clouds to thicken with temperatures dropping to a low of 9 before rising into the upper teens.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Tomorrow we'll see intermittent snow and flurries but with little to no accumulation with a high of 29.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The hotline with Jeff Graham, that's me!
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[SPEAKER_07]: Me, your favorite high-talk show host out of America's favorite new-time talk show.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What a day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What a day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's sunny outside.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We still are in the throes of an old fashion winter.
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[SPEAKER_07]: This temperature is this morning.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're below zero, but we're up to around 18 right now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's expecting a high around 20 and a little little moderation in the next couple days.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing great.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Still below average.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then cold again this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And you look on that long range thing on your phone, and it says, oh, 35 a week from tomorrow, but you always know once you get to a week from tomorrow, it won't be 35.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So anyway, it's obviously, no, let me tell you, is it my imagination or in recent years, every not had as much in terms of a low zero weather?
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[SPEAKER_07]: This year we have.
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[SPEAKER_07]: this year we have, but I don't really know when that's a tough one, you know, it's anecdotal people say, well, you know, it's back in the old days, I don't know if it wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I know in recent years, we seem to have a lot of snow-thaw cycles, so I didn't really play a lot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That was true this year, but we got enough snow out there now, hopefully, is the lake frozen over, maybe we don't get any more lake effect, that'd be a good deal or what?
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, you don't see that on our look.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The newest media used to cover that like a blanket.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now it was on Fox this morning, they carried it live from Punks of Tony P.A., but it must be a cultural thing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's two, the type of people who are interested in that, they're not the same people who's people hang out with.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, the Punks of Tony Phil saw his shadow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That means six more weeks of winter.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That means a lot more winter.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, you know, you can argue six weeks at that latitude or our latitude and ends in mid- March anyway.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But what it mean, you know, if you'd seen a shadow, there'd been a no shadow, it would have been an early spring.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, there you go.
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[UNKNOWN]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's funny thing in life, you know?
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[SPEAKER_07]: parent or something we may disappear walk off or even be taken or something but when you're a celebrity like today shows Savannah got three ready for your mother just disappeared the other night at least now say they don't think it's a wander off that it wasn't
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[SPEAKER_07]: dementia or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She was quite cognizant.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She just disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And they were looking at us a crime.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Perhaps a kidnapping.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's out in Arizona and Pima County at Tucson area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully they find her for the sake of Ms. Guthrie and everybody.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But that gets to be new when it's somebody.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of like tragic as those shootings were in Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody cares about kids who were shot to death in Chicago, not too far away.
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[SPEAKER_07]: eight.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's just the type.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Speaking of crime, and here's a little news story.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There was a report came out 2024 numbers around the state.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Here in Watertown, we had 1133 crimes, 162 of them violent day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Here, this is 2024.
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[SPEAKER_07]: 48 rapes.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Tenorop reads 104 aggravated assaults.
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[SPEAKER_07]: 32 auto thefts.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't know there were that many.
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[SPEAKER_07]: hundred and three burglaries and eight hundred and thirty six larcenies larceny would be taking that snickers power from Anthony's market that's a larceny uh... i don't know if that's a lot crime numbers are kind of you know they say how many murders were there well that's you can count the bodies to find out or there were none in two thousand twenty four here in modern town but how many crimes of people just say i'm not a bother
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[SPEAKER_07]: I can arrest the person anyway and if they do that let them write out what goods are you going to do and I think that happens a lot happens a lot I don't know let's see What else is going on just trying to find oh Superbowl this weekend you got any thoughts on how you do in any pools You can bat any way you want who
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[SPEAKER_07]: who gets the first pond who does this, who does that, or you can just buy a square and a pool, some of the pools in this area, like $1,000 a square.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I did.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody bought me a square and somebody else is pooled it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I respect the sanctity of New York and leave gambling should be confined to Indians and the state government.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, last night the Grammys were held, signed CBS.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If you have rusty dial syndrome, you probably watched it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I used to watch all those over the ass.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The Oscars ever.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I used to watch them all as a kid, a young girl at all too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: used to enjoy him seeing celebrities you know and Bob Hope and all of that and I don't watch him anymore just a bunch of punk punks and whatever on there and they all had ice out pins on and big winter last night with three Grammys was bad bunny and he's your super bowl entertainment bad bunny had to get up there and said ice out and make the
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[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of us, including me, have reservations about how this round-up is being done.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And nobody's happy that of the violence and shootings or deaths or anything else.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not watching this.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe you are.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's some of you, oh, he stuck at the Trump good half time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's not great.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to hear any of that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm not going to listen to the half time, or I'll just turn it down if I'm still awake.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's not, maybe there's people on top, I just can't imagine wanting to watch the ultimate escapism, which is football, and the halftime show, which is supposed to be entertaining, and you gotta be lectured by some punk, or I never heard of, until he had named his Super Bowl talent.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you probably don't feel that way, and you're gonna get on my body, and you know what he is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There isn't a person in nobody buys albums anymore, but if they did, nope, there's not a person in listening to this show, however, bought a bad bunny album, or download it a song of his, or even know who he is, you know, back when he had Michael Jackson or Katy Perry or somebody like that, you know, I mean,
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[SPEAKER_07]: I can't we have like a read a McIntyre do the halftime show or somebody like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, why do we have to have?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now I gotta find something to do during halftime.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean that was always kind of something to look forward to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Just the stage craft and so on, but if you're going to get lectured.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I don't want to hear it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But we're going to have to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to have to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe they'll just turn the audio down over it, and he see water sound itself.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, there's other animals that come out and predict winter.
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[SPEAKER_07]: One of them is Staten Island, whatever, and Staten Island truck, there's a general
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[SPEAKER_07]: so naming a brown hog after a confederate general come on this is two thousand twenty six you can't do that but after do you're on here they just the hope that bunny business is this guy from South America thought it was from Puerto Rico isn't it oh it's from Puerto Rico I don't I'm not going to get I don't know you know I don't care where he's from or what is that this city is I guess it's
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[SPEAKER_14]: I don't know, but I'm just I thought he was from South America somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, I don't care if I didn't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Doesn't matter to me whether the half time show is done by a US citizen, I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, if it was done by, I don't know, I don't know, if I can anybody you want, but Ulyoid Laci has something to say.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I think the bad move, I mean, look, look how gay the NFL is now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I don't know about.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I haven't watched football in many years.
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[SPEAKER_14]: and people have been saying a lot this year i think it was the anger guy that called and it says you can't even watch a football game without a bunch of gay commercials in it or some kind of gay stuff going on well at you know that's just that that's the world we live in come on what do you mean come on that's that's horrible i don't want to see that nobody wants to see that then it's a mockery for this guy to be performing whatever he's going to do it in the dress right that's the whole
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[SPEAKER_14]: the whole uh... scheme here with this guy right i don't know a thing about a marina lei i mean i know he's probably popular in uh... some circles but i i don't know anybody that i know who knows who bad bunny is all i know that is a he's a gay cross dresser that is tearing down our president and ice right now
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[SPEAKER_14]: And then they got Don Lemon, who showed up and everybody's, you know, clapping for him and saying, oh, you know, you'll be all right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's enough.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I look at that as another unforester from the administration.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody, people had forgotten about Don Lemon.
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[SPEAKER_07]: To go after him over that shirt service, whether you liked it or not, I wouldn't let that go.
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[SPEAKER_07]: A couple of judges said, no, I don't bother.
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[SPEAKER_14]: And we definitely not, because when he's trying to
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[SPEAKER_14]: Doncill's don't lemon is really dumb.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He said earlier today that he doesn't even know what they sprayed on the Congresswoman.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Don't we know what has been sprayed on her?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Right, it's an apple vinegar.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He's out there saying that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All we don't even know, but well, first of all, no, I don't know what that guy was thinking.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He shouldn't have done it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, that's wrong, no matter what he sprayed on her, you know.
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[SPEAKER_14]: so that i think that the juice would be worth the squeeze for this guy i really do because he's out there being a predator against christians the way he set that up yeah well did you watch any of the before videos before he went in no no
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, anyway, I, I, I, I, I remember Don Lemon didn't, didn't like him before.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, who is he on with?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Which he on with somebody else, I can never remember.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm not, I'm not sure, I don't, I never watch CNN.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, anyway, I, I don't know, um, we was on with the Cuomo guy or an act Chris Cuomo or something.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But Chris Cuomo is over on news nation now and he's kind of cleaned up his act.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So,
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, what do you think of the Saturdays that went down there with the Democrats?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they held a demonstration on the square.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, they, you know, were usual signs that call on, you know, time-home and Gestapo and all that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, they don't, and they write, at least they spell Gestapo, right?
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[SPEAKER_07]: But they, um, they don't know what they're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They don't know what the Gestapo is or was or, uh, really anything about Nazi Germany.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They tell you the truth.
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[SPEAKER_14]: But most of those people's signs didn't make any sense, you know, the rhetoric that they're Nazis.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I mean, I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Do you think Tom Holman's Nazis?
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[SPEAKER_07]: No.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My guy to go to Shorty's Diner, how could he be?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Who are you?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, what's he doing?
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's out in Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's stuck in Minneapolis.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I bet you he can't even go out to dinner without getting her rang.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My people.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I mean, now that's the security has to be tired around him.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I hate to say it, you know, a lot of these lefties that think it's cute to spit in somebody's food would they that's the way they think Yes, disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I've seen people posting comments about it.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's what they do.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, they just hold shut down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They were supposed to have on Friday We have in a couple of stars and if somebody If a if a somebody in the food proper area of a restaurant spits in a customer's food You can't fire them for that because that's their rights
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, we got to be careful, so it's very difficult, you know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There, there, what's called a protective class, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, anyway, by now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, sir, we both But you know, I just listened to that Anthony Constantino commercial.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So NY21, what water town is not in NY21, I acknowledge that, but many of our listeners are in Lewis County, Eastern Jefferson County and St. Lawrence County.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I mean, it's not irrelevant to us, and it is the seat now held by at least a funnick.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I have to look at it and say, you've got Robert Smullin, who's an assemblyman from John's Town, and then you've got
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[SPEAKER_07]: Anthony Constantino, the businessman from Amsterdam, all of that, the congressional district as we know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So who's going to win that?
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[SPEAKER_07]: It would go to a primary in June.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There had been talk about Moldanaro getting in it or other people, but nobody is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's now February.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's getting past the point of somebody else could get in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But we've got, who we got in there now?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like you're I guess the party establishment goes with small and the cool nights and all those people, but You know the fight constant you know it's gonna have is over the conservative party line Because the state chairman hates But it certainly appears to me that Usually the conservative party always falls in line.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's their job
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[SPEAKER_07]: same thing with the working family but they might save all those candidates not great but if he's the Republican nominee they'll they'll clear the line so i'm not worried about that but it's just kind of uh... i don't know a lot of media coverage of it i don't think the media likes constant you know but of course they may not like it but we'll take take his money right of course
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I don't think they know what a small one is to tell you the truth.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're on the edge of the district, so we are as important as other areas.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Plasper, Saratoga, and a long-fallity, even parts of O'Night Accounting in New Iutica.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, it's a district that hits several media markets.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Consentino has got some money there to get going.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't really think small one is raised a lot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: One thing about North Country Republicans, at least the ones in this area, they're not checkwriters.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, if they go to a political fundraiser, they're worried about how much food they're going to get.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, yeah, you're not going to get any huge checks out this area, but I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Is anybody asked Chairman Crune about it?
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[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think, John?
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[SPEAKER_07]: You a small and guy or a constantino guy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Pretty sure you're pretty sure Mr. Chairman Coold lives in that district too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I have to see what I have to see.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody said, what's the over under on bad bunny getting arrested before the performance?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know for what we can have.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Illegal alien.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If I were the administration, just stay out of it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Don't comment on it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Who cares?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Who cares?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think it's good for the commission.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Who is the commissioner now?
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[SPEAKER_07]: He gets paid more than a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I would think he wouldn't want that kind of controversy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But maybe he does.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're back to being the dominant team in the NFC or AFC East.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, man, that must have been like a... ...part and church or something in that place.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, well.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, well.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Other things, so, and we, you know, Valentine's Day is coming up.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's on a Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's at 14th, of course.
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[SPEAKER_07]: not too far where you got to be thinking about what you want to do Americans you got to spend twenty nine point one billion dollars it's estimated that's about two hundred dollars a person uh huh and some people you know you can flowers some people do flowers and it's you know like I said some flowers over the weekend to somebody can graduate not nothing to do with romance but on some other topic
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[SPEAKER_07]: a good thing it's on the Saturday because can you imagine if if Valentine's Day was on a Monday all the restaurants have be closed where would you go to dinner yeah so it's on the Saturday get your reservations now but after you do not hear I do in the Anthony constant you know oh my god you must be listening are you an Amsterdam uh we're out about right now we're in Edinburgh right now oh okay well I heard your commercials the radio and the TV I thought they sounded good so I said
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, not everybody's commercials are all that great.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I haven't heard a small and commercial of you Small I've not heard as commercials what I did here is he got caught he got caught big time He said he raised $500,000 in reality only raised $13,000 he got caught a big lie I've been calling the liars since they won ever since he put up the dishonest post of him with the least the Finishing want to be in the picture with them
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[SPEAKER_08]: So is this I was wondering because people have been wondering are there going to be more candidates is it small and you Is that it for the primary You know people keep saying on our candidates mark on our alarm alarm, but he resounds who He resounds that he doesn't want to run against me Mm-hmm, get a little bit of interest, but I suspect no one else is going to enter if I had a guest You know, you maybe we get somebody we'll see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think it really matters this one other interesting news is it just came out
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[SPEAKER_08]: I don't realize this in the third, most well-funded congressional Republican in the United States of America right now behind money.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You gotta remember, though, everybody in politics, big time talks about how much they raised or funding and all of that, which is inside baseball, but people want to hear what you're going to do for them and how you're going to change their life.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I would also like to ask you a question about what you're going to do for them.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I raise it all with just one donor for myself.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I'm the only person that donated money I raise to myself like because I want to be independent.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I don't like wasting time at all.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I grew my company very quickly, but not wasting time.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I want to be free to work on behalf of people, because everything that makes sense for the people, one of the biggest wins for our district, if that's their internet.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And so, service for our district, we need reliable cells.
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[UNKNOWN]: There was some faster internet.
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[UNKNOWN]: We need to obviously keep the border sealed 800,000.
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[UNKNOWN]: We believe we're in the reservoir and to New York State.
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[SPEAKER_08]: They're welcomed by the Democrat Party.
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[SPEAKER_08]: They're eating up tax dollars like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_08]: They're eating up resources like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_08]: We got a work to stop that and reverse what happened in the first place.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Unfortunately, the top of the Republican ticket with Bruce Blakeman doesn't appear to be too strong, especially in this area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Does that bother you?
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[UNKNOWN]: I think I'm too excited.
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[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to incredibly candidate to worry about what our people are doing.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I think Bruce Blakeman's an interesting guy.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I need a bit more
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[SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, I think you're going to much better situation if he becomes governor or be better to turn your bread than believe it the way it is.
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[SPEAKER_08]: But I personally feel as a lot of excitement behind my campaign.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I'm winning polls.
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[SPEAKER_08]: If I record numbers, I'm very well funded.
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[SPEAKER_08]: There's a lot of media excitement around me, just a lot of excitement from the people.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I was out, I've been the event last week, and I've been blindfolded with my first office and blindfolds.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I went there.
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[SPEAKER_08]: The media said 12 people came, but really there was about 40, but we only put up a Facebook post.
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[SPEAKER_08]: people are coming to ask me to sign all the grass you're asking me to sign hats my campaign manager one of my campaign helper said he said he's never seen it like that before he's only released you up to y'all julianne with that for all the grass and that's what he was running for mayor of the arts city but right people asking for all the rest regular current so that case was yesterday people were very excited to be in your very support of the campaign so i'm not worried about anyone else in the Republican party in your career now i'm excited about my campaign and my bill is to help the voters uh... i'm July 4th you're going to go to that
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[SPEAKER_07]: You have C match at the White House whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I would love to that be fun.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I had to walk to ride you're about that.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I love to go.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I became friends with a lot of that.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You'll see you guys, you know, for the course of this, you'll see guys tend to be supporters of the president and, you know, their tough guys and they think similar to the president Trump doesn't really like I do.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So, you're going to see my opponent's talk about all these insider, local, political endorsements.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I'm
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so you still have run is really quickly supporting in fighters endorsing my My opponent are gonna be told in bears because it just keeps proving time and time again is a major liar and now like that he never fall for president probably doing 2016 2020 or 2024 So liar Republicans putting support behind the guy that never that never fall
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, how many counties are behind them?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I heard Franklin County watch, but other than that, I haven't heard anything.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Well, there's a little small list of people I just got into with the planetary rifle called President P says is a big second amendment guy.
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[SPEAKER_08]: But I said, look, you're a binary choice, and United States America, you'd or get.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Trump or Kamala Trump or Biden Trump or Hillary, if my opponent didn't fly for president Trump, that means he was passively giving support to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, Kamala Harris in 2024, without president Trump, there would be no second amendment.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So I saw some second amendment, people said he liked my opponent, but he didn't fly for president Trump without president Trump, there'd be no second amendment.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Seeing the second amendment in New York State, I'm going to fly for the second amendment, harder than anyone else you seem.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and now Roger Stone is still involved with your campaign.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I like Roger.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And advisor or a friend or, you know, I like Roger.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I love talking to him.
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[SPEAKER_08]: He's a great historian.
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[SPEAKER_08]: He knows a lot.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Just like you, you know, you know, you know, a lot of things too in your great storyteller.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And, uh, Rogers, a great American historian.
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[SPEAKER_08]: He knows why the great advisor.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I think he's a best political advisor in the world today, probably.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And, uh, you know, I don't know if I, I don't know if Roger remembers me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, we ran into each other on that, uh, Manhattan madam,
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[SPEAKER_07]: You can ask him if he remembers me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's welcome to call in any time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think he called in once way back then I'll tell you really quickly.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to get myself in trouble, but if you remember I think our first interview we were a little adversarial or I you know, I don't know whatever I tend to be adversarial and Roger y'all to me.
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[SPEAKER_08]: He said he really likes you.
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[SPEAKER_08]: He said don't do that Anthony I like that guy So he knows you and You know he actually criticized me a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my first
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure you'll be seeing you when you pass through this area, and you're always welcome on Pearl Street.
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[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, I'll have to come over to the Pearl Street one day and get it to get a beer, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Bye now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Anthony Constantine, oh, guy running for Congress.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You Republicans out there, you coonites all the rest of the mean girls, everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to have to make a choice on that side of the North Country, whether it's Constantine or Smullin.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I haven't heard anybody up here weigh in on it.
40:34
[SPEAKER_07]: I wonder what Scott Gray thinks.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's sort of got a foot in both districts.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He was talking about his academy at one time, but I guess decided not to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, you may not realize that when you're, and it's held up quite well.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, and all of that stuff.
45:04
[SPEAKER_07]: So, yeah, I've had my share of flooring from Joyce and Steve, and they're nice people.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good people.
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[SPEAKER_07]: uh... seven five five twelve forty the phone number if you'd like to give us a call you know there's a guy who he was so instrumental in revitalizing court street and it does look a lot nicer and when you go up and down the street you've got things like the you know the gold building at redone whatever they're using that for other buildings too and uh... i'm surprised he doesn't have been more of a horse of nature on that fountain there
45:43
[SPEAKER_07]: But I call the weak stream fountain, you know, with the nozzle from Ace Hardware, or 995 that they brought, that they paid actually a lot more for.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I put a picture up on my blog of the old fountain that was there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You can have a different paint job if you want.
46:02
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't have that color scheme, but boy it was nice.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So representative of our industrial past and everything.
46:08
[SPEAKER_07]: And now it's sitting a field over by the hydro plant.
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[SPEAKER_07]: City Council won't do anything.
46:15
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, they do what they're told.
46:19
[SPEAKER_07]: They do what they're told.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Incidentally, they do what they're told.
46:21
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait till tonight's meeting.
46:22
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to see people who do what they're told.
46:24
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to pass a resolution appointing councilman shown as liaison to the zoo insurvency board of directors.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's a pre-consurvency is a private corporation.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And in this resolution, it basically is like an NDA, you agree that he won't disclose anything.
46:44
[SPEAKER_07]: He was about or something like that.
46:46
[SPEAKER_07]: So basically, it sort of co-ops one council.
46:51
[SPEAKER_07]: And it ensures that whatever they want's going to get passed.
46:55
[SPEAKER_07]: Now there's another council member, I won't say who it is, was a little more skeptical of that.
47:01
[SPEAKER_07]: has been looking at all of these contributions this conservancy has been getting lately and say well then the city doesn't need to be a perforating money and tough times but they're not going to be allowed to pull out of that either um... just like there's a resolution to appoint a city manager as the as the deputy controller sort of in case the controllers incapacitated i don't know i mean again one council member disagrees with that but
47:31
[SPEAKER_07]: In the end, you know, even the new ones, they don't want to, they don't want to be seen as the new cliff or something, so they would, they just go along.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I hope they speak up.
47:42
[SPEAKER_07]: First month, they didn't say a lot, okay, I get it, you're feeling out the turf, but say something, because a lot of these resolutions get put before the council without anybody bringing it up ahead of time, like,
47:58
[SPEAKER_07]: you know this thing about the deputy control or thing well whether that's the way to do it or not could be debated uh the issue came up last year council and only brought it up said there's no deputy control workers a eliminated that position he wanted to fill it again there's people in the control office senior account clerks um i would think if one of them a little more money and
48:24
[SPEAKER_07]: This idea to who's going to sign the paychecks if Mr. Mills is ill that day.
48:28
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I hate to tell you, but nobody signs paychecks anymore.
48:35
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[UNKNOWN]: Nobody.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's all done, you know, through direct deposit.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I don't know how many checks there are, say, all that need to be signed.
48:47
[SPEAKER_07]: Whatever.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I don't know.
48:49
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess they're doing this to address Mr. Olnie's concerns.
48:54
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
48:55
[SPEAKER_07]: And that new city attorney takes a is in there tonight, apparently he's at City Hall today meeting with the department heads and all of that.
49:04
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
49:05
[SPEAKER_07]: So we'll see what he turns out to be.
49:07
[SPEAKER_07]: Right back to Harris Beach again, maybe he's a good friends with what was it Todd, something or other?
49:13
[SPEAKER_07]: What was his name?
49:16
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, as long as this guy, you know, when he's in town, you know, since these are all
49:24
[SPEAKER_07]: long as they take advantage of our generosity when we take them out to dinner at pizzas.
49:29
[SPEAKER_07]: 755, 1240, if you want to give us a call, somebody was waiting there, but you know, I have to finish the thought, finish the thought, okay?
49:40
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you want to talk to you, welcome to do so.
49:44
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's see.
49:46
[SPEAKER_07]: Kind of interesting story in statewide news and I don't know if the position of a lieutenant governor is that important to you You know heartbeat away all that stuff.
49:56
[SPEAKER_07]: We've seen lieutenant governors become governor one of them's Kathy Hockel David Patterson.
50:02
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so sometimes they move up and Malcolm Wilson member when Rocky got out of there.
50:08
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay Who were them?
50:09
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
50:11
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey listen, we got to take this call good afternoon here on the air
50:17
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you, you, too.
50:19
[SPEAKER_09]: Good, yeah, you want to go back down on the hall.
50:23
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know.
50:23
[SPEAKER_09]: You should have one over by your motorcycle.
50:27
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
50:27
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, put him in your collection.
50:30
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I don't, yeah, I don't have one there, but maybe I should.
50:34
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think it's a good idea.
50:35
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, the little kids could see it next foot, and then we're like, ah, I'm taller than this girl, not.
50:43
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.
50:44
[SPEAKER_09]: Now I'm funny, but anyway, you're special guests that's going for Congress, I was just wondering what he feels about, you know, these electric bosses is the farce and billions of taxpayer money on these other stuff, you know, I think they get 150 of them running and the whole state, and I don't know how many billions, but I think it's like 3 billion
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[SPEAKER_09]: and then i thought that i would like to say uh... uh... i i just uh... it's like a kind of crazy farce i don't know what uh... i forgot what i had a good another good point but in it forgot yeah well i'm sure he's against those that type of access from oh yeah oh god i got it out okay get the solar panels
51:44
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you can't say that on here.
51:45
[SPEAKER_09]: It's, you know, they got, they got to put us no on them and knew you how much electricity even making the last three months.
51:52
[SPEAKER_07]: Not a lot of that.
51:55
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
51:56
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
51:56
[SPEAKER_09]: Just saying.
51:56
[SPEAKER_07]: No, okay.
51:57
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you.
51:59
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think.
51:59
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
52:01
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got a couple of text messages here.
52:04
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody said lots of questions should be asked at tonight's meeting.
52:07
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, what?
52:09
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like what?
52:16
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I don't, somebody said, are you open on Valentine's Day?
52:20
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course we are.
52:21
[SPEAKER_07]: I wouldn't be doing it.
52:24
[SPEAKER_07]: Open every day, it's called business, you know, you have to.
52:27
[SPEAKER_07]: The open so people can come in and give you a money.
52:31
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
52:32
[SPEAKER_07]: I found that if the doors aren't open, people don't come in.
52:35
[SPEAKER_07]: But after you're doing it around the air.
52:37
[SPEAKER_13]: Hey, Noah.
52:38
[SPEAKER_07]: Good, what's up?
52:40
[SPEAKER_13]: Oh, not much to stop listening to the show.
52:45
[SPEAKER_13]: Jelly Roll and his uh yeah, you know what I'm just saying that he's under some kind of religious psychosis And maybe he's just a person of faith Yeah, religion's just a word anyways, you know, having faith in something greater than yourself is the whole different story And you know when you when you say the name Jesus that brings power alone, so
53:11
[SPEAKER_13]: Let them talk.
53:12
[SPEAKER_13]: And there's the liberals they're ceasing, they're so upset about it, they're so mad about it.
53:19
[SPEAKER_13]: I know, liberals see the lot, and yeah, they do, um, about the guy that calls for a call who's running for Congress, so I don't know how to pronounce his name, uh, not small and uh, dogs, I. Constantine, no.
53:34
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
53:35
[SPEAKER_13]: He's, he's, he's so that he really wants a pretty bad, um.
53:39
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, he has, I read about him a little bit and he's probably really wants a pretty bad I think he should slow down a little bit so we can understand him.
53:48
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, I've told him that.
53:50
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure Roger told him that, too.
53:52
[SPEAKER_07]: In this business, first thing, uh, advice you get is talk more slowly, it's a good idea.
53:58
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
53:59
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
54:00
[SPEAKER_13]: Be a pro.
54:01
[SPEAKER_13]: I wanted your opinion on how you felt about the climate of violence and Canada right now with Carney.
54:08
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
54:09
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess he's doing an okay job.
54:12
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't really.
54:12
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't have anything against Canadians.
54:15
[SPEAKER_13]: No, I mean, not Canadian, the Canadian people as a whole, but do you think Carney is in a for a good reasons?
54:24
[SPEAKER_13]: Do you think he is a CCP shell?
54:29
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I think he's obviously smart guy.
54:32
[SPEAKER_07]: It was very accomplished in banking over there and everything.
54:36
[SPEAKER_07]: I really don't know a lot about him.
54:38
[SPEAKER_07]: but i think the prime minister you know he won and that's that i mean the other guy didn't course i think work what really helped carney was trump carrying on about fifty first state and all of that stuff you know that it gets them all scared worked up up there and that's what really cost the conservative sea election so there's otherwise uh... a poll of air is that his name you know he was uh... on the verge of winning i think until uh...
55:05
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, Trump just couldn't keep his pie holes shut.
55:07
[SPEAKER_07]: So anyway, I got a run, okay?
55:10
[SPEAKER_11]: So I've never been fit.
55:11
[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks, by now.
55:11
[SPEAKER_07]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
55:13
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I love this and there.
55:15
[SPEAKER_07]: What's up?
55:16
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, I got an idea.
55:17
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's get all used to do a little better public relations.
55:21
[SPEAKER_11]: One day I have a task, he'd like to, look, if this is the guy we've caught, it's the rapist murderer, and we got him, and we put him away, so you're a singer, and here's another person we got.
55:34
[SPEAKER_11]: that turned out to be a credit to the community that was unbacked, so we said, well, your credit to community, we're going to show you how to get back a minute.
55:47
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, listen, I think it's unbacked.
55:49
[SPEAKER_07]: It's, I blame a lot of this on.
55:50
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, God, why don't we say that the community stood up and said, wait a minute, she's a credit to the community.
55:57
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure, if that's a problem, that's the problem, that's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Every time we caught the bad guys.
56:02
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
56:02
[SPEAKER_11]: And we're letting the good guys stay.
56:05
[SPEAKER_11]: All right.
56:05
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you.
56:06
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
56:07
[SPEAKER_11]: All right.
56:07
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
56:08
[SPEAKER_07]: I agree with that.
56:09
[SPEAKER_07]: But the problem ultimately is you've got laws.
56:12
[SPEAKER_07]: And if you're going to sit there as some people do say, or a nation of laws and no one's above the law, then you got to enforce them.
56:19
[SPEAKER_07]: Congress passed them.
56:20
[SPEAKER_07]: Now it'd be nice to be able to
56:23
[SPEAKER_07]: have a panel of community experts with me on it or something.
56:28
[SPEAKER_07]: Screening these people saying, well, you seem like a nice person.
56:30
[SPEAKER_07]: You can stay and you got to go and it's not that simple.
56:36
[SPEAKER_07]: Most of these people have what they call detainers against them, so it's already been adjudicated.
56:40
[SPEAKER_07]: They have to go.
56:41
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, do I think the work on this is bad, to aggressive that this people like
56:52
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure what the answer is as long as people like the Senator Murphy and his other idiots.
57:02
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, their lawyers, they should know what the law is.
57:04
[SPEAKER_07]: Either you have it or you don't.
57:06
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, years ago, Democrats used to want strong borders because they felt it was hurting organized labor by having all these people come in.
57:15
[SPEAKER_07]: Right?
57:18
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, back when they were in tight with the unions, but now they, times of change, they, they don't care.
57:24
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't, we need new people coming in, there's no doubt about it.
57:27
[SPEAKER_07]: It was like Japan and all these other countries.
57:29
[SPEAKER_07]: We have a demographic problem long term.
57:33
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, people aren't reproducing it high enough for eight.
57:35
[SPEAKER_07]: And I, you know, I'm not pointing fingers or anything like that.
57:38
[SPEAKER_07]: But you got to get more people being created.
57:43
[SPEAKER_07]: He just can't sustain it unless it's what Musk says and we'll get to a world of which nobody has to work and then it doesn't really matter Yeah, that'll be yeah, that'll be Imagine a world where you don't have to work boys some people would love some people who already found that world now We have a collar She's she's like yeah, it's a head of Elon Musk She's already found a world in which you don't have to do any work and you still get paid There you go
58:13
[SPEAKER_07]: And live comfortably.
58:14
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, not everybody has to live in a Taj Mahal.
58:17
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, getting a nice apartment on the river, you got a car, you know, you want to do what you want.
58:23
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a bad world.
58:26
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, it's not living in Malibu or something, but it's still pretty good.
58:31
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't have to do anything.
58:32
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a great thing.
58:33
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a great thing about America.
58:35
[SPEAKER_07]: You can live well without doing a damn thing.
58:38
[SPEAKER_07]: Right?
58:39
[SPEAKER_07]: Look at those new apartments on Maine Avenue,
58:44
[SPEAKER_07]: actually there's a real nice apartments to live in until they ruin them but for right now they're really nice i mean anybody would needs a carpet or something would want to move in there new appliances and all of that stuff yeah and you're right there next to tim hortons got a stewards up the street you got uh... maywood yeah got a lot of great things right there in the neighborhood
59:12
[SPEAKER_07]: So there you go, and you go over to Mr. Sobis, not far away.
59:17
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, place to be.
59:19
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, he, well, I did it.
59:22
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
59:22
[SPEAKER_07]: What's the, who's coming in later today?
59:24
[SPEAKER_07]: It's Glenn coming in.
59:25
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
59:26
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess Glenn's coming in at five o'clock and he'll have something to say about all of this.
59:30
[SPEAKER_07]: And I hope you're here to listen to it.
59:31
[SPEAKER_07]: I was going to read the baby's names at the hospital.
59:33
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll do that tomorrow morning.
59:35
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I did.
59:37
[SPEAKER_07]: Interesting.
59:38
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, okay, that's our show for today.
59:40
[SPEAKER_07]: Like I said, Glenn will be in here at 5 o'clock with a live at 5 o'clock, and I'll be back tomorrow at noon.
59:46
[SPEAKER_07]: Right here on what we call a community broadcast station.
59:50
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.
59:51
[SPEAKER_07]: We are, of course, AM-1240.
59:54
[SPEAKER_07]: We're WATN.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're in Watertown, New York.
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[SPEAKER_07]: At the time, is one o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_07]: CBS News is next.