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September 17, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_15]: B. C. News.
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[SPEAKER_15]: I'm Sherry Creston gas prices on the rise again.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Gas body says they've risen to 445 a gallon up 16 cents at a week 39 cents in a month and a dollar 24 in a year.
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[SPEAKER_15]: New photos showing a lot of damage to US military bases in the Middle East amid the war, planes, buildings and barracks all targeted by drones and missiles.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Your C. B. C. Mary Bruce.
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[SPEAKER_13]: rare look at the toll it's taking on American military assets in the region.
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[SPEAKER_13]: ABC News obtaining images sent to us by active service members who we are not naming show the extent of some of the damage.
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[SPEAKER_13]: For months, Pentagon chief Pete Higgsett has downplayed Iran's attacks.
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[SPEAKER_15]: President Trump on the campaign trail in North Carolina making another threat against the Kennedy Center.
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[SPEAKER_13]: The president telling our Karen Travers overnight that if his name is not added to the Kennedy Center building not only will it shut down, it will end up being quote ripped down.
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[SPEAKER_13]: He is adamant that he should be recognized for helping the institution financially.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And it comes just a day after the board voted to immediately close the center for renovation citing safety concerns after a judge blocked them from adding Trump's name to the building.
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[SPEAKER_15]: ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Canada running to the EU as the trade war with the United States continues.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, addressing EU Parliament saying Europe and Canada are stronger together as the EU moves to make Canada, and is so see it member of the block.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Now reaction coming in from the White House if the EU does cooperate in that way.
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[SPEAKER_15]: President Trump says it would amount to a hostile act.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The hotline with Jeff Graham is right here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You want it all on the Thursday and it's still kind of warm out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A little bit muggy Cooler temperatures on to horizon more like 60s upper 60s and next few few days, but that's okay It is the second half of September.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're average high this month is around 70s.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So We're doing quite well Nice interview yesterday with a gender bean Blake gender bean and his wife Carmen were here
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, of course, I got the usual naysay or some of my blog, you know, you suck as an interviewer, but I am the Fred Dicker of Watertown, so I thought it went, well, not my job to be a trip him up on things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he handled the questions, well, the whole purpose of an interview incidentally is not to talk about the issue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's to find out more about the person, because you're voting for a person.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we did that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In some way, I could have had more, but he got, well, I won't get into that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, he's watching Channel 7's new intro for a couple days in a row, known Natalie Brown from CBS, leading off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They must be listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They must be listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Local news.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, lead local.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They get what rating is no matter what.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that's more important than just some stuff I've seen yesterday on CNN and we Go agitated by CBS so there you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is this bot?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we talked about beard distributing problem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now there's a bottle shortage with cores light again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is it with that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought people were drinking less.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The old days.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Remember the old days of beard bottles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So called export bottles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: those bottles went in the boxes they went back didn't matter what was in it this week they clean it and you know this week's Budweiser bottle could be have miller light in it in two weeks but they got reuse it was environmentally sound and then the liberal force that out and forced us into these and our bottles they all get smashed the new
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's the left is done?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was glad to see Mr. Gen to be stick up for bowling, Alice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was talking to very likable, I candidate you can relate to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But are you voting on a parliamentary basis where you're worried about who controls party-wise?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's kind of the way you look at it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm inclined to say that, you know, I've been following the various predicting models and, you know, the consensus is Democrats gain about a dozen to 14 or 15 seats.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They only need like three or four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it is a toss-up, this could be one of them up here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What were they fighting about today?
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[SPEAKER_02]: something about transgenders stuff, which is sort of a side issue, but one thing you know, when I was asking him about the WNVA and he brought up Caitlin Clark because you know, they're being very talented.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when I asked if he liked Sophie Cunningham, I don't know if he didn't know what I meant or he didn't want to say so because his wife was sitting here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But after you're on the air,
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[SPEAKER_05]: election is that correct here in the city?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, we're in the 24th district.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The 21st is the other part of the county.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So why is he on the hotline?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, because our service area includes a good chunk of the 21st, including our station in Agonsburg, which covers St. Lawrence County, and
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[SPEAKER_02]: people in Lewis County, listen and people in the eastern part of Jefferson, listen.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, that why would interest us here in the city?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing to do with us, as far as I could say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I get that, but you know, what are you going to do?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got the way the redistricting worked out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have two congressional districts that touch Jefferson County, so I have to
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I'd be glad to have the ones from the 24th on if they'd get in here, but yeah, be interesting to have so many we can actually vote for on the bad, you know, I don't think this guy can do anything if he wins to you there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't think anybody can do anything if they win.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I have a liberal guy, you know, yes, and that one question, he was told the poll that had, like, open a hopeful people.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He tried to die that question a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Or ran too weak.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, it didn't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You called it because she talked at a point.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, both for Kamala Harris and Tim Wolves, and you know, are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_06]: You just caught a second ask another question on him, Eric.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there's time constraint.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Tim Wolves.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but not case, I'll amend a soda.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know, but.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But these people running the game country, everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but Mr. Jen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Jen to being as...
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[SPEAKER_06]: why I still want to.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's not going to win the White House.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's not qualified.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I said it for years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She got there because she was handed the nomination everybody.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's a different than Danny.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She didn't work for it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He was handed to work and she put you in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to come out of the house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to
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[SPEAKER_06]: Sunday manager, we can't afford $30,000.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Are we that bad, Jake?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was... Well, that whole thing the other night, that was...
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... whatever the city thirteen thousand dollars is going to be a group of city of water town are you can't make but what the christian trade i'd rearing Glenn is really is a lousy brain but they run it i don't have a problem with it spent here for years well i think that the the issue here is apparently city council doesn't want to parade and they're hiding behind this red herring of cost as the reason
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but the mayor said she didn't want her kid going out in the snow and cold Yeah, I agree with good.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's a garbage parade.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I agree with glove on that But people want it is spent here for years Hmm $13,000 is something and we can't worry about that This is a nickel dime stuff I'm talking about they want to cut I know
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[SPEAKER_06]: Don't pocket for God's sake, the guy makes $2,000.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, he'll be, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the argument is, let me give it the other argument.
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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, we're paid management.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the argument is, from him, is that the public is better served by the tree lighting and Santa appearance at the library.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that way, city employees, police, fire, DPW, won't have to do anything extra.
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[SPEAKER_06]: want to we worried about over time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and it isn't necessarily want to study worried about over time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they're not, but it isn't necessarily over time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the way you manage these scheduled people on those shifts where you need more people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you need extra people for crowd control, then maybe you short shift the day shift or something or move or God for bed, a management person actually getting a patrol car and help out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my God.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I have a problem with the people who have been outside the city.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got in the white of the thought of people don't have that issue, but that bothers me a lot on these stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, a bothers me too, but it doesn't seem to bother the council.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You're trying to cut.
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[SPEAKER_05]: If you don't want to live for your fight, you don't get the job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that contract bothers me, but apparently it doesn't bother anybody else.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't seem to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So who do you think is moving into the arcade the paddock club?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's what Jake told the water town times, running that place on through the core place, sir.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that, yeah, that's the one for vetoes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But as far as the paddock club, I don't know, he's got a, he hasn't released some of this, but according to the paper today, there is someone coming in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I had a, yeah, it's, I asked Shannon and it's not hers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said so, uh,
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[SPEAKER_02]: But she gave me a name, but she gave me a name of a man in Syracuse who owns pound-town burgers, Pavaner's pizza, and some clubs who would ask her what about this Jake Johnson guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that might be the guy that Jake's been dealing with.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't know, he was very coy with me this morning when I called him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: just wanted to confirm the story that he's done a lot of good for the that he's a good guy that he can't i like to i hope he doesn't put another night club in there though i mean that i'm sorry that was a that all got covered up by for reasons that we all know but that uh... there was some problems there you can't have that kind of night club and not be there you really got to be that chance on
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if you sell alcohol that all you can have now the new after hours places over I hear the I'm the 300 block of a of arsenal street people who are already in over there now, so One of the thing there.
15:31
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm driving to the square there's Sunday with a bad this church is on the corner there Yeah, I'm the square if there's a crosswalk We hit the white thing is a crosswalk right there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah toward a
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm coming up on that, and I see, you know, I got the very away, but I see a young kid coming to my left.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Headphones on, I said, I better stop, I'm going to nail this ego equals right in front of me in the crosswalk.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Never looked left, never looked right, right across.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And when I had the right, I could have nail if I wanted to.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, this is the problem.
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[SPEAKER_05]: People with headphones aren't walking the streets.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How the hell are you gonna hear a siren when you've got headphones on?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Can you get away from this electronic devices for five minutes people?
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's one of my bitches.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Another bitch is loud music.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Come on out of vehicles, come on up and down the street.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going over the storage.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The guy gets out of the, you could hear the damage rat music.
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[UNKNOWN]: Three bucks away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, let's go in the store.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I said my god, I don't want to hear you garbage music.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I heard it's ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Stop driving a car when you can't hear you so big people.
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[UNKNOWN]: Turn the damn music down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we've been down there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Remember years ago there was a big debate about loud music up in the park because people had opened their trunk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Play that bumper to bumper to bumper to music.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's a hip-hop trash that I don't consider music.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You can't understand a damn word they say.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're not talented people.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They can't play an instrument.
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[SPEAKER_06]: People consider that great music in today's society.
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[SPEAKER_06]: What a hell did the be a small?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Just go on the street and everywhere they say I'm strange Yep, I think it's gone in the garbage can in this country No, I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I got there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bye now.
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[SPEAKER_08]: a.m. 12.40.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The news in talk authority, news in dark authority, a.m. 12.40, Jeff Graham, you know, I was talking to carry out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's going to the bills, he came tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To me, that's not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to watch it because it's on Amazon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to get that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I don't know what you're driving or flying or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a lot of running around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's just too much work and you're getting that stadium and I don't I guess it's all right I don't waste a money that was so oh But after doing you're on the air Hi Jeff just a quick comment about the Parades This might understanding because I'm on one of the committees for one of the other Parades is the city's charging now For the overtime or the the time it takes for the employees to set up the stages and
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[SPEAKER_03]: block off the streets paid up police that's where the jacos is coming from i don't think it's unless i i didn't listen to the first part to anger man get on but i don't know if it's because they don't want the christmas parade but i know we were told uh... parade they've got to start paying for that where the city doesn't want to do it and more to see we're so money strap for money all that were you heard they say that i mean you know that that is such
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't use the word on the air, somebody got kicked off for it before, but that's such, I'll say, nonsense.
22:26
[SPEAKER_02]: The cost, the costs you're talking about are incidental costs that you do, and it's the cost of doing business.
22:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
22:44
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not it's not some it's always with these people down there.
22:47
[SPEAKER_02]: The everything they don't like golf clubs, zoos, parades They always try to build it in terms of wood losing money.
22:54
[SPEAKER_02]: You're losing money on everything.
22:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You're government You know, and then the problem is The all do respect the guy running at all comes out of a federal system where it's all just done by regulation and all of that orders and money really
23:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think money is much of an issue.
23:13
[SPEAKER_02]: They just do it.
23:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I've seen them.
23:15
[SPEAKER_02]: They've had events out there where some dignitary came to town.
23:19
[SPEAKER_02]: They set up a stage made a bunch of three-quarter-inch plywood and then threw it all away.
23:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I've seen, I've known of contractors who do like flooring work out there and then they take a lot of the materials and do flooring works on the economy.
23:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, don't tell me about wasting money on a parade.
23:41
[SPEAKER_03]: our communities told that starting next year if you want to have a parade in water town you got to pay you the DPW just set everything up you got to pay the police to block off the streets and you know let me think about this what's better for this city to bring people in on a Saturday morning to the dairy parade and have them go downtown and buy some you know
24:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Coffee down in the coffee shops or go to it's not a question.
24:08
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not a question of what's good or who's making money off it Or incidental business or something the question is do you want to have a damn parade and if you don't want to have one
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: just say it just say we don't want to parade because this money thing is not the issue if they i mean they spent that on a vanity door for the city manager's office and that was never talked about so don't give me that stuff about we can't afford it they made a decision they don't want to parade i don't care what they're saying you know they're so one of my dad that you're going to have to pay so who's that
24:45
[SPEAKER_03]: for DPW setting up and block the streets off and the PD, having crowd control, who's going to pay for that?
24:51
[SPEAKER_03]: No, he's crazy.
24:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to come up with this.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at, look, if there's a traffic accident right now on Carfine Street, and DPW has to come over and put some barricades up to regroup traffic, do we build a participants in the accident?
25:05
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's part of what you do.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it was seem logical.
25:10
[SPEAKER_02]: They may have told you that.
25:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody's stopping for stop sites in Watertown.
25:16
[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead, just drive around and look at the people that are running stop sites.
25:20
[SPEAKER_03]: And then this stupid thing about the helmets at 20 miles an hour, drive around Watertown and see how many people are driving with no helmets on these e-bikes doing 35, 40 miles an hour.
25:30
[SPEAKER_03]: They're at enforcing that, or the city council knew law where you can't have 20 miles an hour, you guys have a helmet.
25:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Just walk around Watertown and look at these e-bikes, it's not a change of thing.
25:42
[SPEAKER_03]: So why do these stupid things,
25:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
25:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
25:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
25:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Crazy.
25:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Crazy.
25:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Crazy.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks, madam.
25:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And in all fairness, I mean, you look at the city gets a lot of criticism because it steps in it so often.
26:01
[SPEAKER_02]: And I can give many examples.
26:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know what I'm going to go, it's on a school district.
26:06
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't even know what's being spent there on the deputy superintendent's executive principles, the fancy cars, everything.
26:13
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know what's being spent.
26:16
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they were going to have a homecoming celebration at the high school, or they have that parade on opening day of school, are they being build for that?
26:28
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not, but you got to block off a couple of intersections.
26:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean there's certain things that police do, I mean, you know, I mean, if your house is on fire, you don't sit there and say, well, we've already hit budget and we're financially strapped and
26:45
[SPEAKER_02]: and you guarantee you'll pay for the firemen to know the thinking process is deeply flawed with these people and uh... maybe i'm the only one who sees it maybe i'm the only one precious enough i don't know but i hear that poor man just calls it when we were told you were told i can't say it i can't say it i'd end up with cliff so i don't know it's amazing uh...
27:15
[SPEAKER_02]: What else have we got?
27:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, let's see.
27:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God, here's something.
27:23
[SPEAKER_02]: There's Syracuse, but it was not news junkie.
27:26
[SPEAKER_02]: A Syracuse city counselor, counsel person was complaining saying, taco bell employees make as much as our public work symbol.
27:36
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the usual thing.
27:37
[SPEAKER_02]: It's always said, oh, those were just burger flippers.
27:39
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, well, people deserve to make it good living if they show up and do the job properly.
27:45
[SPEAKER_02]: this counselor in Syracuse if you want to pay dpw more pay a more okay i mean they do get the whole benefit package too so they're not exactly hurting there but you know they do an important job it's sort of people who provide food but there's this feeling in these certain instances and public employees tend to be talk about workers' rights and all that but then they're the first ones to use them those people are just burger flippers
28:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they're not.
28:13
[SPEAKER_02]: They're doing a job, and the ones who show up and do a good job deserve to do well at it.
28:18
[SPEAKER_02]: And tend to well at it.
28:19
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like getting into the trades instead of wasting your time in college now.
28:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I got a human, you know, whatever, human sexuality to great from Saint Lawrence University.
28:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we had gender studies up there.
28:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you better get a a welding hood on you'd make more money than peddling that nonsense.
28:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
28:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Now Bruce Blakeman, I see a Blakeman commercial on Channel 7.
28:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Is he gonna win?
28:50
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he's taking matching funds from the state.
28:52
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the only way he's propping up his campaign.
28:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think Republicans were supposed to take matching funds.
29:01
[SPEAKER_02]: But also, I heard that a lot of people say, Why is any up here yet?
29:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna give you the reason.
29:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give you the reason.
29:10
[SPEAKER_02]: When he travels, it's on a private jet.
29:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's owned by the owner of the NICS, there was somebody they provided.
29:18
[SPEAKER_02]: And if he's gonna go up state, which is an off- and he, he only will appear at a site that's close to an airport.
29:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm getting this from people who are in the know.
29:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not just making this up.
29:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Is I, I'm not gonna vote for a whole goal.
29:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Even if she gives me a hundred bucks and wears that incidentally, man.
29:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But Mr. Blakeman,
29:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he wants to go to airports close to the venue, so I don't know.
29:40
[SPEAKER_02]: But he also requires two, two, one, two.
29:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Black, Cadillac escalates, be there to meet him.
29:48
[SPEAKER_02]: And he has a five-person security team, you know, the A.V.
29:51
[SPEAKER_02]: or Glasses and quietly things in their ears and all of that stuff to make it look good.
29:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You do need some security, I'll grant you that.
29:59
[SPEAKER_02]: but uh... the two escalator have escalates that maybe why he hasn't come to water town i i know they were trying to get them over to the Italian american club that's where republicans always go for their events but they're trying to get them over there and maybe nobody in water town could find two black escalates now you know i don't know i billy can you help us out
30:30
[SPEAKER_05]: You must have some.
30:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Black escalates are not easy to find, but the only way you're going to get Blakeman in town is you've got to come up with two kind of like escalates in the color black.
30:42
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't use a Dodge caravan.
30:45
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't use a Honda pilot.
30:48
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't use, you know, even whatever truck or something like that, it has to be a black kind of like escalate.
31:01
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why we haven't seen him.
31:02
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have any.
31:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Certainly you won't lose, you'll never find an escalated lose guy.
31:07
[SPEAKER_02]: But after you do it around the air.
31:09
[SPEAKER_24]: Hey, man.
31:09
[SPEAKER_24]: I'm gonna be in the middle of the lock tonight.
31:12
[SPEAKER_24]: Every time he calls in, he's right on point.
31:16
[SPEAKER_24]: Point is one thing about the music, and then the guy's blast in a four box away.
31:23
[SPEAKER_24]: He's reading it crying.
31:24
[SPEAKER_24]: There's six people at school that's trying to pump gas and go listen to this.
31:29
[SPEAKER_24]: And, uh, uh, for now, this crap in the guys in the store, who knows what he's buying.
31:36
[SPEAKER_24]: You know what I mean?
31:37
[SPEAKER_24]: And they're just looking at me, going chicken, there hasn't stuff, I go, he's got any respect, you know, seriously, but it's crazy.
31:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Crazy.
31:47
[SPEAKER_24]: That's one point.
31:48
[SPEAKER_24]: And on another point real quick, is also about the how much.
31:53
[SPEAKER_24]: They can't surpass something and then you see him going around all over the place and then not enforcement.
32:00
[SPEAKER_24]: So, what's different?
32:02
[SPEAKER_24]: That's like the code on these zombie houses, you know, they might pass some rule that nobody's enforcing that.
32:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
32:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know.
32:16
[SPEAKER_24]: That's just some might see every day.
32:18
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
32:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
32:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye now.
32:21
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, tomorrow morning you want to put this on your Calators 10 a.m.
32:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a text from Millie a few moments ago.
32:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Millie Smith.
32:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, Millie.
32:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, her trial is if this is the trial of the century.
32:36
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
32:39
[SPEAKER_02]: The trial is tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in city court, which meets over in the county court building out.
32:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh.
32:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
32:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what's going to happen, I don't know if the show in the tapes, I don't know what's happening.
32:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Justice prevailed, there's a lot of people out there, and I listen, I tend to say, well, she was trying to help, and you know, somebody got their feelings hurt, and it should have been handled in a different manner.
33:03
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be my view.
33:04
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's a lot of people who say, no one's above the law, and you've got to back the blue, and Millie didn't back to the blue when she bumped into the blue.
33:15
[SPEAKER_02]: So they want her convicted now a conviction doesn't mean jail time or any money.
33:20
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no consequence to any of this other than tying up the courts and lawyers and judges and so on but they don't have much else to do because they just let the criminals out anyway.
33:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah so any I don't I don't know what to think about it but tomorrow morning is the trial according to Millie unless they postpone it again.
33:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Now I get all these messages and people say, well, you're falsely reporting it.
33:46
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's been postponed.
33:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who asked for it.
33:51
[SPEAKER_02]: But I can't imagine the system wants this trial to come off.
33:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And I doubt they're going to allow cameras in the courtroom.
34:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm sure the system just wanted this to go away.
34:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Just to, you know, just take the ACD, you go away, you know, we know fine, no
34:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And Millie said, no, now you smeared me already.
34:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Not, not playing your game.
34:19
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Millie, I'm trial tomorrow morning.
34:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder if she'll get called.
34:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Very seldom there's the defendant, justify, but she may.
34:31
[SPEAKER_02]: She may get called, testify.
34:33
[SPEAKER_02]: And I hope the victim of the choking incident gets called, too.
34:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And all of that stuff, I wish I could go.
34:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I have some of the going here is going to text me information, but it's, you know, to go all the way down there and get inside the building, it's just a lot of work.
34:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you can go and show your support, you can go show your support for the police, back the blue, or go show your support for, for Millie, 10 a.m. tomorrow morning from what I hear.
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36:44
[SPEAKER_14]: I left for college and work, but I returned home to the North Country in 2009, and I've been living working and serving my community ever since.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm running to listen because North Country families deserve a voice that listens.
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[SPEAKER_14]: One that carries our rural community's voices to Albany.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'll work for better health care, stronger EMS, reliable broadband, and opportunities for our families and every community to thrive.
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38:13
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39:07
[SPEAKER_02]: As you saw yesterday, I don't, I don't aim for people on the air.
39:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I was not mean to Mr. Jen to be in.
39:14
[SPEAKER_05]: Somebody wrote a comment and said, well, you didn't try to stand back, I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't my goal?
39:21
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know, Cassie Robin Ford says, as far as Senator Walsen, he doesn't have to go in.
39:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, because he's probably a shoe in anyway.
39:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know where that district really is.
39:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it.
39:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it goes from up here that to down somewhere near you to Rome, I don't know.
39:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those type of districts.
39:41
[SPEAKER_27]: Yeah.
39:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, they were scared that there was a data center going out in the town of Lee Ray.
39:47
[SPEAKER_02]: On the Lafave Road, that's right up the street from me.
39:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Apparently, the town had to put out a statement.
39:53
[SPEAKER_02]: People were so scared and we were organizing rallies.
39:56
[SPEAKER_02]: They were so scared that they were getting the data center that the town put out a statement saying,
40:04
[SPEAKER_02]: sort of a laid-out yard they call them in the business for construction equipment because national greatest putting a power line through that area which may be a matter of concern too I don't know but and people were upset about it and then up in the scene I guess they rejected the idea of a moratorium the town board said hey want the jobs you know i think that was discussed yesterday but mr. gender being i think the right machine i has a lot of facilities available
40:33
[SPEAKER_03]: plants, everything else, you know, got the hokel may not want progress.
40:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Her world is wealthy.
40:38
[SPEAKER_02]: She's got a husband who's making millions off the bills and the concessions, but for the poof, poof, in the North country, that could be a good thing.
40:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not against it.
40:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, obviously, you know, we've got to make sure you've got whatever water you need and whatever this you need, and that you need, but they make it sound like they're going to take away all our water and electricity for these things that all of
41:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're using a data center right now to get this signal up to Ogden's bird.
41:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, you know, I don't feel bad about it.
41:12
[SPEAKER_02]: As far as AI goes, when did that suddenly become a crisis in a week's time?
41:20
[SPEAKER_02]: That makes you suspicious.
41:22
[SPEAKER_02]: And not that people can't misuse it, but, you know, we've all used it, all of us.
41:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Never went away.
41:28
[SPEAKER_02]: But if only used it to analyze some things in the mayor said you shouldn't be using that.
41:34
[SPEAKER_02]: You shouldn't be using that.
41:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Good afternoon, John.
41:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Good afternoon, John.
41:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Good afternoon.
41:43
[SPEAKER_04]: What's happening to water down?
41:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
41:48
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I just heard about the prairie being canceled.
41:50
[SPEAKER_04]: I just don't understand the mayor and the city manager and the council clerk.
41:55
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's set around thirteen thousand dollars and that's not they want the public to fund it.
42:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Well I think I think the manager was told by the council we don't want to parade and so they came up with this rationale.
42:08
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah I mean they spend a lot and I'll have money dollars tear down a building downtown they don't even home and other things going on like that that you know what they're taking away the amenities for the public here in this
42:19
[SPEAKER_04]: It's really kind of sad they don't want to fund the golf club.
42:22
[SPEAKER_02]: You know they're trying to say yeah they're going to spend 50,000 taking down the old Ashkars market on Main or Flower Avenue East.
42:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean I don't know if they tried to market that maybe somebody would buy it and renovate it and it used to be apartments but I and in fact here's a here's a story for you.
42:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I know somebody owned an apartment building a sixplex and they were trying to buy a vacant
42:50
[SPEAKER_02]: And the city came back and said, no, it's on the assessment rolls for $5,900.
42:54
[SPEAKER_02]: So the person said, okay, I'll give you the $5,900.
42:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the end of it.
42:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They never responded any further.
43:00
[SPEAKER_02]: They came back with a bunch of stipulations.
43:02
[SPEAKER_02]: And all of that, there's $5,900.
43:04
[SPEAKER_02]: The city doesn't have.
43:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And a piece of property that could be on the tax rule, it's granted for now a lot of money, but something.
43:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And nobody answered the phone.
43:15
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's hard to understand some of the things.
43:17
[SPEAKER_04]: I did see where Councilman Jones said he wanted to try and save that building up.
43:21
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not really familiar with the building, but I kind of agree with Councilman Sheldon that I think it's a pretty old building and probably with the start building.
43:30
[SPEAKER_04]: So if you can save it, you know, why not?
43:32
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't see why Darren Thomas has been.
43:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a decent neighborhood.
43:37
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what the next one is city is going to be tearing down is that pizza pit on Crawfine.
43:42
[SPEAKER_02]: that's going to go uh... and because it's a part of the you know the city manager i think is one new all the right to tear down it on downtown i think the council should be involved in that will councilman uh... i was born things that way too but they're trying everything they can to stymie his efforts on that so uh... to say can't see a thousand dollars to put a parade on and then they want the public to find it uh...
44:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and in some ways, the public does fund it.
44:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, participating floats, they spend money on floats and costumes and all of that.
44:18
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, some of those people would probably on the clock were participating for various companies and so on.
44:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I know we did a, and it rained, but we were in a parade a couple of years ago.
44:29
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, the staff people from my place were on the clock while they're doing it.
44:34
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know that the people involved with the parade in Kercost, everybody, but you do it because it's the right thing to do.
44:42
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and the public, I mean, the public really enjoys it.
44:45
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's a benefit to the community.
44:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I don't care.
44:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to go to it.
44:50
[SPEAKER_04]: We got it right over here.
44:51
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well, good for you.
44:51
[SPEAKER_04]: I've had a disappointed that, you know, nobody could speak out and say, like, let's pretend $15,000.
44:57
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's have a parade and then I'll, I don't know.
45:04
[SPEAKER_02]: trial out into the cold and small and everything well that's part of having a parade in the winter time I know didn't you see the movie Christmas story Yes, when they wrap the kid up and all that scarves and stuff and he rolled around out in the snow That's part of winter, man It's right.
45:22
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
45:23
[SPEAKER_04]: You've got to see you you know your kids outdoors and on the computer I mean, I know two times on all of my butt
45:29
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just think it's too bad, maybe it will change your mind, city manager, maybe, and some of the counts have been like postal pressure on the manor or the manor, they don't have to put pressure on him, they just have to say we're doing the parade.
45:42
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
45:43
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
45:43
[SPEAKER_02]: And you better sell it smartly and move on.
45:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
45:47
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
45:47
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, thanks for taking my call.
45:50
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
45:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
45:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we got to convince you to convince him of anything.
45:56
[SPEAKER_02]: He allegedly works for you.
45:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, do you say do it?
45:58
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they're not willing to say do it, then it's because they don't want it done.
46:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Not because, and they're, and they're pinning it on, but wagging her, but it's because they don't want it done.
46:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Or I'll say would just say do it.
46:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Whether that's by a three to two vote, four to one.
46:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who wants to be on the short end of that vote.
46:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a couple of these members aren't running next year, so it doesn't matter, but.
46:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And really, I mean, again, did we fair to our elected officials?
46:23
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't treat them very well either.
46:25
[SPEAKER_02]: We've devalued those offices over the last 30 years.
46:29
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so that's unfortunate too.
46:35
[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll see, we'll see what happens.
46:40
[SPEAKER_02]: At this point, no parade, but this idea of going out with a tin cup, saying, oh, come on, car freshener, can you give us $5,000 and how about you
46:55
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
46:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Those organizations may want to put money into a nice float that kids will enjoy, and maybe they want to put it into candy or something or reception for the kids.
47:05
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great way for corporate money, but to give money to government to do government functions?
47:12
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
47:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, part of that don't, these people understand, you know, I mean, God.
47:24
[SPEAKER_02]: If you can't get that concept through your head and these people are conditioned, they say, well, they told us we have to pay for it.
47:30
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's a function of government.
47:33
[SPEAKER_02]: You decide you're going to have a parade.
47:36
[SPEAKER_02]: If businesses want to participate by building nice floats, that's great.
47:42
[SPEAKER_02]: And part of the city's normal duties.
47:46
[SPEAKER_02]: There we say, well, we can't.
47:47
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't want to have overtime.
47:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, don't schedule them over time.
47:50
[SPEAKER_02]: We work through schedule for that week.
47:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it can be done.
47:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Managers do that all the time in the private sector.
47:59
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that said.
48:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that a call?
48:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll take it.
48:03
[SPEAKER_02]: We do a break.
48:04
[SPEAKER_02]: But after noon here on the air.
48:06
[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, I have a couple of issues.
48:07
[SPEAKER_25]: First of all, I want to say that was a very good interview yesterday with Blake Genderby and I really liked that.
48:13
[SPEAKER_25]: Interview and I wish I could vote in that district.
48:15
[SPEAKER_25]: But unfortunately, we're the corners that can't.
48:19
[SPEAKER_25]: Anyway, I'm the parade.
48:22
[SPEAKER_25]: The city seems to be talking out of both sides of their mouths.
48:25
[SPEAKER_25]: Aren't they advertising for sponsoring a great, big carnival, or first three set first weekend or not?
48:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, it's a good point with some guy with that.
48:35
[SPEAKER_25]: Be cheap.
48:36
[SPEAKER_25]: And this is after they had said the downtown.
48:38
[SPEAKER_25]: This is association needs to contribute to their block parties.
48:43
[SPEAKER_25]: And that the people that are having parades need to be able to be responsible for helping
48:50
[SPEAKER_25]: things that need to be set up for the parade, and yet one councilman, two of them actually I listened to the meeting set there, and they were talking, um, what's the shea gear that was talking about?
49:02
[SPEAKER_25]: The big run they had in seconds, arbitrarily, were they weekend, and said, why can't we do something like that in the city out of the park or something and bring hundreds of people in from all around?
49:12
[SPEAKER_25]: Do they not realize that cost money?
49:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they do, and, um,
49:18
[SPEAKER_25]: Well, my mind, they want to cancel things that are practical, that bring people into town that's been money, and yet, they say, oh, why can't we do this?
49:32
[SPEAKER_02]: You got me, I don't know.
49:33
[SPEAKER_25]: We can't even sense.
49:34
[SPEAKER_25]: It really does not make any sense.
49:36
[SPEAKER_25]: And as far as the Christmas parade, that started going downhill when they took it away from the Thanksgiving weekend.
49:42
[SPEAKER_25]: they used to have a, like, uh, I think it was.
49:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know though.
49:47
[SPEAKER_25]: I mean, 10 or Sunday night.
49:48
[SPEAKER_25]: And why are you having it on the 11th of December?
49:51
[SPEAKER_25]: It's almost Christmas.
49:54
[SPEAKER_25]: You got like one weekend left before Christmas.
49:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the tree lighting.
49:59
[SPEAKER_25]: Well, because the tree lighting and the parade last year also was very late like that.
50:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I listen to that meeting the other night.
50:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And the manager said, we've decided the tree lighting will be the 11th.
50:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what if they don't want it?
50:16
[SPEAKER_25]: That's when the tree lighting up in the middle of the holiday is that is the tree over in front of city hall now that they move it No, they still haven't the main the all the activities in front of city hall and it makes no sense because public squares downtown and the downtown businesses need people to go down and
50:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But half of my open so listen it isn't this isn't about putting feet asses and seats at diners This is about the public enjoying it whether they want it or not I don't care if it's in front of city hall or on the square Actually, it's probably a little safer for pedestrians in front of city hall Seems like it's the holiday season and they should have some lights downtown during the holiday season It's the holiday season Yeah That's okay That's you know
51:04
[SPEAKER_25]: their mouths, they want to plan some giant activity around or something to bring people in from all over the world.
51:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
51:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea what this grew fast is at the Fairgrounds.
51:17
[SPEAKER_02]: They say you can be a vendor, but the big October Fest, it's a carnival and there's crafts people there and there's a piece for that.
51:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, good, I'm glad it did, and I don't mind having it, but like how much did they charge to be a vendor?
51:37
[SPEAKER_02]: In other words, if I want to be one of the beer vendors, what would it cost me?
51:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't say that.
51:41
[SPEAKER_25]: No, they don't.
51:42
[UNKNOWN]: They don't say what they're charging the vendors.
51:45
[SPEAKER_25]: I know that admission is free, but I know that food or anything they're costing are going to like.
51:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, listen, everybody complains about that, you know?
51:53
[SPEAKER_25]: Everybody does.
51:54
[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, that's true.
51:55
[SPEAKER_25]: That's very true, but I'm sure you're absorbing something
52:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's there is cost to setting up.
52:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and you got to staff it.
52:03
[SPEAKER_02]: You got to do all of that right.
52:05
[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know.
52:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't seen any effort.
52:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember the chamber.
52:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody sent out anything about you could be a vendor at the And the chamber has the mailing list.
52:15
[SPEAKER_25]: Don't think that's very true.
52:16
[SPEAKER_25]: That's very true.
52:17
[SPEAKER_25]: There's ads on your radio station regularly.
52:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know who does that fake German accent is that Johnny.
52:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who that is.
52:29
[SPEAKER_25]: That's just me, but my take on the whole thing is that it's got to cost a lot of money to put that on.
52:35
[SPEAKER_25]: And yet the first thing they said was, over downtown business administration has to start contributing to their weekends.
52:44
[SPEAKER_25]: And in the old days, when the Christmas parade, the merchants, or the downtown business association, whatever they called themselves, contributed to putting the parade on and
53:00
[SPEAKER_25]: Right, I get that.
53:01
[SPEAKER_25]: The stores and stuff, but there isn't that anymore, and you can't say, we're going to have something in the middle of the holiday season.
53:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
53:10
[SPEAKER_25]: The weather might be bad, and yes, it's worse in the middle of the holiday season.
53:15
[SPEAKER_25]: Mm-hmm.
53:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know.
53:16
[SPEAKER_25]: It's giving weekend, but.
53:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care one.
53:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't really care one way or the other.
53:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with a mayor.
53:22
[SPEAKER_02]: It's too cold outside.
53:24
[SPEAKER_25]: Well, it is, by that time of December, usually is.
53:27
[SPEAKER_25]: So why not have it in a private place?
53:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, all right, thank you.
53:32
[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, bye.
53:33
[SPEAKER_02]: What would burlive say to all of this?
53:35
[SPEAKER_02]: He wouldn't like it.
53:38
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53:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, why not?
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57:06
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't take sides in that.
57:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Um... Let's see.
57:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody who can find the two black Cadillac escalates, so that we can have Mr. Blakeman come to Watertown.
57:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Please do so.
57:22
[SPEAKER_02]: You can contact Mr. Coon or whoever's in charge of such things.
57:26
[SPEAKER_02]: What do we got to call here?
57:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead, you're on the air.
57:28
[SPEAKER_06]: Glue that fucking parade.
57:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
57:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, for those listening on the stream.
57:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry about that.
57:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, for those listening on the air, you didn't hear it.
57:44
[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, people like that.
57:48
[SPEAKER_02]: What they do speaks for itself.
57:51
[SPEAKER_02]: 755, 1240 is the phone number if you'd like to give me a call.
57:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, we'll put you on the air.
57:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Talk about whatever you want.
57:58
[SPEAKER_04]: Not that though.
57:59
[SPEAKER_02]: But what else have we got going on?
58:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Candidate going to join the EU?
58:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I don't know.
58:04
[SPEAKER_02]: That'll start a war.
58:08
[SPEAKER_02]: No more Natalie Brandt piece, leading the Channel 7 News.
58:10
[SPEAKER_02]: We like that.
58:11
[SPEAKER_02]: We praise the Lucky 7 for that.
58:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And our own carry will be going to the bills game tonight.
58:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
58:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how she's getting there, but she's going to go to the bills game.
58:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know who they're playing.
58:28
[SPEAKER_02]: but it's down at the new high-marked stadium and we'll get a full report on that tomorrow for him.
58:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Or whenever she gets back, yeah, whenever she gets back.
58:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because she's been a bill's fan for years.
58:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she was, like I'm going back to the 90s when she was at Russell Sage College and she was tight as a tick with Jim Kelly and Adel Cruz.
58:53
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, you know, she's a bill's fan through and through.
58:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'll be rooting, of course, for the jets this weekend, but we'll see how the bills do.
59:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what else is going on.
59:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the paddock club?
59:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you see Jake, ask him who he's talking to down in Syracuse.
59:17
[SPEAKER_02]: We understand that's where the potential operator is.
59:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
59:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
59:24
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
59:25
[SPEAKER_02]: That's about it.
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