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February 9, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_13]: Watertown.
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[SPEAKER_16]: This is CBS News on the hour, your home for original reporting.
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[SPEAKER_16]: I'm Peter King, house oversight committee members have said they didn't expect much from Galane Maxwell's just deposition this morning, and their low expectations were met after Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned confidant refused to provide any information about the convicted sex offender.
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[SPEAKER_16]: California Democrat, Rob Conna.
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[SPEAKER_32]: Now she's pleading the fifth about things that don't implicate her, but may implicate
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[SPEAKER_16]: more from CBS's Jake Rosa.
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[SPEAKER_29]: By pleading the fifth, she's essentially stoned while in this committee.
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[SPEAKER_29]: This is kind of this long term and long play by her and her legal team to potentially see if they can get any kind of either commutation or pardon ever sentence in exchange for more information of which lawmakers and potentially the Department of Justice believe she had.
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[SPEAKER_16]: lawmakers are getting a look at unreleased and unredacted versions of the Epstein files at the Justice Department.
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[SPEAKER_16]: We're about five hours away from the second ransom deadline from someone claiming to have kidnapped 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie more than a week ago in Arizona.
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[SPEAKER_16]: CBS's Andre Scoutier is his in-to-son.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one came in one, and there was no, the captors did not reach out to the family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now the second one is coming up later today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see if it passes, and at this point, if there is no communication, it may be that this note is not real.
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[SPEAKER_16]: Today show anchors of Anna Guthrie and her siblings have posted their second video asking for contact with whoever has their mother captive saying they're willing to pay to get her back.
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[SPEAKER_16]: The Trump administration's crackdown on dangerous and violent criminals in the country illegally turns out to be a very small percentage of people that ICE has taken into custody.
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[SPEAKER_30]: less than 14 percent of the nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by immigration and customs enforcement.
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[SPEAKER_30]: In President Trump's first year back in the White House, had a charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses.
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[SPEAKER_30]: That's according to an internal department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_30]: The Trump administration has repeatedly said its crackdown on illegal immigration is primarily targeting dangerous and violent criminals.
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[SPEAKER_30]: Jim Krasil is CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_16]: President Trump, of course, is not running, but the mid-term elections could be a referendum on his policies.
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[SPEAKER_16]: CBS's Debra Rodriguez has the story behind a poignant moment from last night's Super Bowl halftime show.
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[SPEAKER_12]: A child and his dad watching a TV on the field at Bad Bunny's halftime show was an actor Lincoln Fox who looked a lot like the five-year-old picked up with his dad by ice agents near Minneapolis last month.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Bad Bunny handed him a Grammy and padded his head as part of his tribute to his Puerto Rican hometown.
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[SPEAKER_12]: It set off speculation on social media that the star had awarded one of his prizes to Little Liam Ramos.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He and his father were released from detention in Texas a week ago.
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[SPEAKER_16]: Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News, and by the way, the wedding seemed during the show was a real wedding.
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[SPEAKER_16]: The couple had invited Bad Bunny to their wedding.
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[SPEAKER_16]: He suggested they be a part of the halftime show instead.
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[SPEAKER_16]: His representative has confirmed that the wedding was indeed the real deal.
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[SPEAKER_11]: The Hot Line with Jeff Graham is right here, and I am Jeff Graham, and wow, I had to have you here on up.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Slightly.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Slightly, my Newtly Warmer Monday.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh my god, I guess you got us, I hate to dwell on it because someone will say, what are you dwelling on it for?
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[SPEAKER_11]: But it was oppressive over the weekend, really, the cold.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Especially when you're trying to get out, it would be enjoyable.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, just six o'clock yesterday, go home, go to bed and watch the game, go to your father's sleep.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It wasn't much of a game anyway, it wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Seattle Seahawks easily dispatched of the New England Patriots 29-13 and it wasn't even that close really and so there you go.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So the Super Bowl's over for this year game number 60 in the series and whatever.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you do?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Everybody always says, what are you doing for Super Bowl?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Turning the TV on.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know what I'm doing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I can't do really.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I was just reading some weather story about some vortex or something that's supposed to keep this dragon on through in the march.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now actually, in all fairness, I don't want to alarm you too much.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I have 17 today is what they're predicting.
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[SPEAKER_11]: The phone is predicting.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Tonight, low of nine, but then some chance of snow back to the white stuff, I tomorrow 33 and then back in the 20s and maybe towards a weekend back in the low 30s, low to mid 30s.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So a little less oppressive, yes, but chance of pre-sip and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, I was glad to see the Channel 7 ran as a lead story at noon, the
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[SPEAKER_11]: antsy got through search out in two-cynary zone at that way there's a common sense of cognizance of it because a lot of people don't follow the news and wouldn't know about this unless you follow cable news but I was glad that Diane ran that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's going on five-thirties mountain time seven-thirties eastern time tonight is the deadline I think for the ransom it's a good thing I'm not that family because if somebody asked for the ransom in Bitcoin I would never slide this idea.
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[SPEAKER_11]: how to do that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Not the slightest.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Six million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's a lot of money.
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[SPEAKER_11]: For an 84 year old woman.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Would you pay it?
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's an honest question.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you don't.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And you don't even know what you're getting because there's no proof of life.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you could be just Bitcoin and get off into the universe.
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[SPEAKER_11]: No, obviously somebody took the lady, but I don't know what they did with her.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But after dude around the air.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm here on the hot kidnapping.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I watched a lot of it said at the night, I hate to say it, but I think the woman's dead.
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[UNKNOWN]: Did you watch the last video, Savannah, put out there?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I did, yes.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It sounded to me like they would just want to do body back.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Did you get the same feeling?
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[SPEAKER_11]: It sounded a little like that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and some of the other.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Nine days and some of the commentators, you know, a lot of these XFIA agents get on there and say, well, of course, we're all brave, but there's some of them who are candid and yeah, I would say that's not a... Well, I hate to say it, but I don't think she survived.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Something happened, they were in the house for 40 minutes, something happened there.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It could be a caretaker somebody said that work for that she had a roof done recently,
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[SPEAKER_10]: My thing is why wasn't their caretaker with their 24 hours a day, or certainly wasn't a money situation?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Why is a woman like that living alone?
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[SPEAKER_11]: In a house that big?
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[SPEAKER_10]: It's black area, they don't believe it's streetlights in Arizona, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, that's kind of a role, you know.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Well, their closest neighbors about 300 feet away, but there's a lot of brush between the houses I noticed.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So you can't.
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[SPEAKER_10]: right right it's a hell's going on there different type of neighborhood but also if you saw that it did you see the size of that house yes I did what if she need that for I'm not saying she'll never write to have it but what a whole thing doesn't mean why would you go after her that's when I and why would you send the nose to a TV station TMZ or a local station in Arizona you know the young lady in the
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[SPEAKER_11]: Savannah got it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I think there's money all around.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You don't have a house like that with no money, but Well, they talked a lot about that 40 minutes inside the house.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Something happened there.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Maybe something went wrong, but I'd be shocked if this woman is still alive.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I ever Tucker would have had to have
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, obviously did recon ahead of time and usually at a pace maker, and usually at this, yeah, they knew a lot about the way they knew what had to be familiar with that property.
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[SPEAKER_11]: They knew what her medications were, and they had that stuff on hand, and then they quicker somewhere, and it was a suitable environment.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Finding the blood is not a good sign, so maybe she put up a struggle.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It could be.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It's very strange, but this long, they mentioned a couple cases
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[SPEAKER_10]: What one word kidnapping?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I know somebody's gonna say you're not backing the blue, but what was that sheriff doing at a college basketball game Saturday night?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he was in over his head, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm a Democrat, by the way, everybody.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he explains a lot of it.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You don't open up the crime.
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[SPEAKER_10]: She'd have to one day.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You know what I mean, Mayor?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Now someone wants to know why that area get the FBI in.
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[SPEAKER_10]: They don't look it over.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Could have been contaminated.
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[SPEAKER_10]: They left it up to one a day.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It makes no sense.
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[SPEAKER_11]: now somebody just acts and why we're making a big deal out of this woman well because once once a case i mean we don't care issue to have a kidnapping in this country so he happened to uh... so i can't have some was uh... one of them you know the member kidnapping now why did that being sent to threes by the mom barker game that's how they made their money
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[SPEAKER_11]: they go out they went after people made a lot of money on the kidnapped yeah and probably there was somebody if they had a chalk show in the thirties somebody would call in sir why are you making a big deal over this lindberg baby well because they found the baby dead what i understand and then they uh... that they found uh... and they had mister uh... ramsey under she doesn't remember oh yeah jambony ramsey yeah he was talking about all the crimes and i said what do you i said to myself
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[SPEAKER_10]: Union wife invited everybody over but their kitchen sink them wanting to contaminate the crime scene Who the hell is going to write a three-page ransom note at the kitchen table and who's going to kill the child in the damn house?
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[SPEAKER_10]: The whole thing didn't answer.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Now what do you think of that?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Who was an ad up to me?
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[SPEAKER_11]: In this story, what do you think of the relatives?
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[SPEAKER_11]: There's the brother and law.
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[SPEAKER_10]: The last person that dropped her off is should be looked at.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I hate to say it.
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[SPEAKER_10]: you know the son-in-law who I've seen him on TV I haven't seen a minute viewed yeah he seems that they've talked about it but you know but you know I don't think it's a family thing do you know you never know wow what I don't boy that's hard I can't you guys I mean what's the motive uh and less question can you get an answer on that either unless something happened and say somebody roughed up the
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[SPEAKER_11]: Mrs. Guthrie and or killed her do you think that she knew or I think so do you really yeah I think if she got rough up or killed and they say oh my god we got to make this look like something else maybe so for strange you got a deadline to five o'clock but you can't uh... it's hard to trace at bitcoin payment what i understand yeah
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[SPEAKER_10]: very complicated issue way over the local police said i know that off my god yeah he had b i could handle it but it is hard to do what i understand yeah one other thing would you think of bad bunny mare well hard to criticize because you might get criticized yourself yeah he's stuck up the honest with you i thought the uh... make it the first base fifty years ago yeah i thought the production was interesting
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[SPEAKER_11]: everything in all of the jyrating dancers and uh... it's all lady grab this cross three times i thought they like that that's okay can you speak english what is this you know that's okay you can do that on national tv but if you do it in here i'm creating a hostile workplaces on my don't know but uh... glad called gun talks about a lot is right the town level this guy couldn't shine you i want to choose in my opinion
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[SPEAKER_10]: You cannot play an instrument.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's not the best singer I've ever heard.
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[SPEAKER_13]: No, I know.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You don't any such something upon him.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Didn't you see him?
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[SPEAKER_10]: And that bomb at the end of the...
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know if he did or not.
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[SPEAKER_10]: No, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_10]: But Roger could don't want to hip-hop people for some reason.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's a disaster as a owner, my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_11]: As a commissioner, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you got you.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Why can't we have... Tell the court that a J.C. of all people.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Why can't... 70 man in a year?
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[SPEAKER_10]: I know why can't we have somebody like reba on there to sing to us or valley part but he had to catch her his concerts and bakes cause of illness very mad a little would have been good yeah about kc in the sunshine band uh... yet it's a few of the old of the staunch of silver on behalf of the band is dead but the dead is not at least yeah that can't remember the last great good half time show to be honest mayor
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[SPEAKER_11]: A.D. Perry was good.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's the only one I can remember.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I can, uh, Michael Jackson, I think was.
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[SPEAKER_10]: The young girl was hot today.
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[SPEAKER_10]: There's going with, uh, Taylor Swift.
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[SPEAKER_10]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_11]: She doesn't want to do it.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, she doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_10]: No.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You don't get paid to do that.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_10]: A lot of people know that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So why would you do it?
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[SPEAKER_10]: But, uh, I think she's a little more talented than bad bunny bug.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_10]: A lot of people praise her, but I thought I was a total disaster.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, yeah, okay, man.
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[SPEAKER_11]: All right, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Try it out.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know who I got a text drum over the weekend was, and I hadn't talked to him since 2010.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's Roger Stone.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Roger was like, that's working on the Constantine O'Campaign.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I saw him in one of the commercials.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I could just see him in one of the shots.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Tell him that guy, smart guy.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We're going to get him on the hotline.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, the near future.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You was on back in 2010, remember back then?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now a lot of people say things about, I think it doesn't bad to say about it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And I think it's a smart guy.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So we'll see if we can book him, OK?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Let's see what else.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, we got a call.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Good afternoon, Ronnier.
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[SPEAKER_08]: There are lovers in there.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What's up?
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[SPEAKER_08]: I'd love to have time, so I really
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[SPEAKER_08]: like bond jolly in a green day right so that's what they have now but this guy bad boy i sort of like the music i had a forty-week ago fun and she'd love there with you know down it was kind of like uh... you know for those who remember i love loosey was like ricky Ricardo and the bond goes in all that stuff oh yeah yeah okay but i love that he has a lot of beautiful dancing girls oh yeah
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he didn't, he wasn't passionate about America and nothing to say, you know, well, not, hey, and all the other men, of course, it was in Spanish, so you really could not.
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[SPEAKER_11]: No, I thought it was fine.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I thought the theatrics and a stage graph were excellent.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You know, very extremely, the staging there and like I said, with the pretty dancing girls, can't go wrong.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, well, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I am going to.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now, I think Billy or no, Ricky Martin was in it in addition to Lady Gaga, and all of that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, I don't know, we'll see what happens.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Looks like the Republicans are going to lose another seat in Congress, doubt in New Jersey.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's a special election.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's getting to be thin-pickens now, I'll tell you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, a lot of people have been talking about, oh, about national grid.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I get people commenting in my body, so, well, if you can't pay the bill, get out of the state, or, you know, people like that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, tell that to like your elderly grandparents or something, or on a fixed income.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'll pay the bill, but it's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's more than doubled from December to January.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Then I looked at it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: at least estimated gas readings for several months, so they're supposed to come and look at that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And I got the guy in the phone, they train people to be really nice and diplomatic because they know everybody across the national grid is pissed off.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So I talked to the guy, and he's telling me about the kilowatt thing, he's up to almost just under 20 cents and 19 points, something to sense, that's almost, it's not much less than what the city's getting for its power and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: it's just crazy but the bottom line is you got to pay it you know you can complain about it but of course you know you had to remember a business whether it's this radio station or the bar or anything else has an 11% sale stacks on his utility bills as opposed to I think it's 5% for you at home because of course the feeling is what business is they can afford more yeah they got the
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[SPEAKER_11]: And they're not going to complain and there's not enough of them to change in elections, so they charge eleven percent.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I didn't know that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, you do now.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And what's all these legislators doing and stuff?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Nothing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: How are you Samantha from Alex Bay?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I'm pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I think.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I would pay it, but I don't like the way it is.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You have to pay it?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I thought you got it for free.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't get anything for you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You've reiterated that on several occasions, right?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I mean, I don't mind you getting things for free because you're an entertaining person, and we like you and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You came in clear on my little red radio today, so I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted to solve.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Whatever.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, what do you think?
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you think of what's going on in the world?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm continuous.
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[SPEAKER_05]: My exercise class, even though I had an emergency room.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is it?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You're all right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: As a swollen or inflamed or strained muscle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: weird area but yeah well don't tell us where we don't need to know okay all right and um they're having uh I just want to let you know in our exercise class they do a what they call a circuit mm-hmm and that means you do all 22 exercises wow and they have music so it's fun good for you I'm glad you enjoy it I'm glad you're getting in shape and you're getting a swim
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, no, you can do you want to go over that vortex thing again, or you don't think I need to know that Well, I think it's just what the Groundhog said.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's gonna be a late spring Oh, well, it was it is just it was cold over the weekend Yes, it is today.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's cold today and a little less cold tomorrow, but
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[SPEAKER_11]: don't look for a lot of relief in sight just uh... hang in there it's it and i hate to say it but it is an old fashion winter okay all right all right i got a run thank you find out but after dinner on the air hey Jeff um when you're going to have uh... and he constantly know it well as he's in water town all right i got another question for you
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[SPEAKER_11]: sign for who Anthony costume oh i don't know i didn't not putting up many signs these days but uh... and i don't live in the twenty first district anyway well there's a lot that will pass through there it's maybe you don't live there but you know what happened if you put one of the yeah people take notice
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, no, I think one, some things, you know, I don't care about this whole kidnapping thing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, some people don't.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you care about?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's a distraction, huh?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it takes our mind off.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I think God, it takes a coverage off that Minnesota nonsense.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, as that going with Tom, we've only heard a couple things from him.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well Mr. Homan hasn't checked in.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We're waiting for him to check into the hotline and tell his hometown crowd what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I look forward to that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks, Jeff.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Alright, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Alrighty, here we are in the show of shows today, the hotline.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And other things, the Democrats had been convention over the weekend, Friday and Saturday, down in Syracuse, our own life-saver mayor, Ron McDougle, was there.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And he didn't stray from the reservation.
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[SPEAKER_11]: He, of course, and I'm voted to nominate all the Republican statewide candidates, Kathy Hockel, Adrian Adams, for Lieutenant Governor, get used to her face.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Tish James was renowned by acclamation, and of course, Tom Denapoli, a nice guy, really, nice guy, Comptroller, all of that, and they also passed a resolution, I guess it was unanimous to back legislation to make New York a sanctuary city, so I guess the life-saver mayor wants us all to not cooperate with us.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe if this democratic administration of Governor Hockel would worry a little less about pandering to the left on ice, and a little more about our utility bills and fracking and things like that, that might be appreciated, but that isn't what they want.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And of course, what was the Republican Bruce Blakeman?
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[SPEAKER_11]: All he cares about is whether the mass-appequat Indians can keep their name, and whether or not biological males are on girl's sports teams.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's all he cares about.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I haven't heard a thing out of this Bruce Blakeman.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now he's going to name a running mate this week.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Who's it going to be?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Who's it going to be?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know who there is.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Unless it is the Barclay land, I thought when Will Barclay said he's not running for a
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[SPEAKER_11]: And he'd be a good candidate, smart guy.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, he wouldn't have been a state senator if it hadn't been for Ted Ford calling him the Barclay lad.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But now, does the Governor care about you, Hillary?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Got to remember, if your power bill is higher, remember what I told you a few moments ago, like with my business or this business here where I'm sitting.
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[SPEAKER_11]: repay an 11% sales tax so the electricity that's running this transmitter 11% if that electricity costs more that's more money for Kathy Hockel and I don't even think there is a local share on that plus is a lesser sales tax on you residential bills so and plus all those other add-ons they've got there so they don't want lower electric bills their voters are on heap
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[SPEAKER_11]: or their public employees and make enough that they can't afford electric bills.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, what else is new?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Millie been up to anything over the weekend only.
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[SPEAKER_11]: No.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What did they say in the other day, they accused her of, they said, she called herself a doctor or something?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, a lot of times in a situation, an emergency situation, if you've got
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[SPEAKER_11]: you know a skill set or something you'll just say that to let reassure the other people hey I should be the one doing this so I don't know if you really said that but that's not very nice.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I made a nice meme though.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I got to put that up.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Am I allowed it there not means a political cartoon I thought.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So because everybody was like everybody thought I was taking milley side the other day and they said you're not back in the blue I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, I don't get the whole thing really, but It's another one of these things out of City Hall.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You never know what they're doing there.
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[SPEAKER_09]: How are you, Mr. Mayor?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Um, this guy Blake, when he doesn't have the chance.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, he's a loser.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_09]: He's got no cloud upstairs at all.
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[SPEAKER_11]: at least uh... at least at a little bit of a cloud of you can't be a mighty you know and i'm worried that uh... are congressional candidates up here will be hurt by not having a least at the top of the ticket instead of his blakeman because uh... i don't know if people will vote for a local instead but they did they're not gonna come out come out of their house to go vote for blakeman i'll tell you that much i mean the cune people well and all of that the mean girls all the usual people but
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[SPEAKER_11]: Nobody.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Um, it's, uh, I don't know why Trump didn't want, uh, at least, uh, he hasn't got a chance up here.
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[SPEAKER_09]: He's, he's like the name, uh, seldom, but it isn't like when he has to, uh, seldom.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: He came, you know, and I'm closer, but not close enough.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But, and then the other statewide races, people love to chase James, they just love her.
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[SPEAKER_11]: They want to give her a big hug.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, uh, uh, uh, and about this, uh, uh, this, uh, kidnapping and the gothic kidnapping, uh, I mean, okay, uh, uh, uh, uh, I couldn't have been a big ransom, that's, uh, I draw a file thing, but uh, you know, kidnapping, that gothic kidnapping is a go on all the time.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, not really, not a, not these kind of kidnappers, you know, you'll get your, uh, domestic things where somebody's, even their wife captive or something, those kind of things, but
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, a lot of kidnappings from kids, stuff that people can have kids that think of a way into, yeah, but this involves celebrities on a left-wing network, and all of that, and, you know, it has all... That's why that's my point.
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[SPEAKER_09]: The whole thing is...
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, it's interesting if they end up killing or you know there'd be a lot more people killed in Chicago this weekend But we won't care about that because we won't but yeah, I mean, but how can you have this is like a soap opera you start watching it and you can't stop Well, I didn't start watching it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I have no problem stopping But I think it's I think it's
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[SPEAKER_11]: I just saw Glenn Curry.
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[SPEAKER_11]: W-A-T-N. Hey, I'm Dr. L-40, W-A-T-N. America's favorite new-time talk show is on the air.
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[SPEAKER_11]: As we are, everybody, if you're ready.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Other things going on, we've talked about our topics.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Sure, but if you have anything you want to bring up.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, is there anybody in your circle of friends who talks about the Epstein files all of it?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I got some tired of reading stories on it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, now William and Kate over in England after put out a statement on it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Who cares?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Who cares?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Other niece people who are obsessed with this idea of petos or something, but usually people who are obsessed with something like that are petos.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, let's see, here's an interesting story.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What are the perfect man and woman look like according to Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, attractive people, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know how he can judge that, though.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, it's... or to say... Let's see, we've talked about, in talk about the Super Bowl much, but that doesn't matter at this point.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's coming going.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That ship is a little bit of care about that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We've talked a little bit about the Guthrie case, all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'll let you know what he cares about that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: City Hall, Red of it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, tonight they're going to have, and this might interest our neighbor next door.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But tonight they're going to have,
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[SPEAKER_11]: a budget session.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's a little early with a normal, and it's prior to the DAC proposed document being released, which is a good thing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I think that was Derabran's idea.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So whoever's I had to get was good for them.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But by getting it up, you see, once the Bud proposed budget is released.
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[SPEAKER_11]: then the issue is framed this is what it is this is the spending plan and if you are dressed at downward coastal to cut it jobs and and that type of thing and they don't want to do that that's why i said if you have these discussions and you look put a marker down if you're going to have this city manager former government who doesn't make the guy do his job put a marker down say we don't want to tax increase
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[SPEAKER_11]: We've got seniors in this community who are paying like double on their electric bills of right now.
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[SPEAKER_11]: They can't afford it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Some people can't.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Some members of the city council can't, but a lot of people in this town, they can't afford it, but why should they have to?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Why should they have to suffer that way?
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[SPEAKER_11]: So what if council said we don't want to tax increase?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, you can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Get through that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Sure you can.
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[SPEAKER_11]: See, you're making 180 thousand a year whenever you're making, you've just got a raise proposed a budget with no tax increase.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now, if we want to add jobs back in, you can.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That'd be about a 25 job cut.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now, if you want to add them back in, you can.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now, and actually it's easier for the mandatory, because that's the council lamp creating the tax increase, not him.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So just ask for a budget with no, say, well, we're supposed to be the expert, and you're supposed to be able to decide priorities and what we need and don't need.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, it was a 0% tax increase budget.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And we can restore jobs later if we want, if it's true, and the public might demand to hire taxes at that point.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Is that an unreasonable approach?
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[SPEAKER_11]: And I've more and more since leaving office have come to think that that's a good way to go.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Because otherwise you end up with these nineteen point eight percent proposed increase and we got to get our budget knives out of pairing knives and all of that and they talked about the way we're going to we're going to trim the fat and you'll hear a show and I'll say we're going to trim the fat and uh... you know so when I trim the fat ahead of time and don't use a pairing knife on that budget use an axe
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[SPEAKER_14]: Are you covering the climate?
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[SPEAKER_14]: You're doing the live in the five, two, uh, uh, uh, earlier caller said that, no.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, see you back in five or two.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm not coming in at five.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Well, anyway, God bless you for this as 25 below this morning in my house.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I know, colder than, uh, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, which is No, I don't leave that out.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Leave that out.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Can't say that.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It's a no.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it is not swear word.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I'm going to have to push your button here for you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Of course the button if you keep that up.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So what else you want to say?
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[SPEAKER_14]: I would like to say that I would like you to be on the council to say like at least some recommendations.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Um, yeah, it would be.
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[SPEAKER_14]: You were the man for 20 years and some of these other guys like the city managers now like he doesn't love in the city But it's a city city city city and boy So he can make all these huge decisions but somebody that just was just outside the city doesn't have a word to say You know, and then would just be you know, I'd be nice and do around counsel with your wisdom and knowledge
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[SPEAKER_11]: well i don't think they i don't think they want me on there uh... i'd have to get elected i'm not sure i want to do that i will find him for you but no i i i i put a sign up for you for that okay well that's nice of you but uh... yeah i'm just gonna say i've had my day in the sun yeah he's okay alright got a run thank you by now but after dinner on the air yeah real quick Jeff uh... which is
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[SPEAKER_11]: I thought it was okay.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I thought it was very well produced and visually entertaining and I tried to get them put it on closed caption thinking I'd get it in English, but even that was in Spanish Yeah, well it as far as the language thing It is what it is so we'll leave it at that, but okay, well, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: The event out at DDR is telling you earlier, we were just sort of musing here about this article in the Daily Mail
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[SPEAKER_11]: uh... this is a survey to reveal with the perfect man and woman look like according to brits from different generations now they surveyed a thousand uh... british people about the it would be the ideal boomer genax millennial and gen z that covers this about everybody out there
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[SPEAKER_11]: Um, and one day, there was a man and woman and there was eight people, eight faces they came up with for the different generations and genders.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, they're not putting trans people in and just confuses it, but, uh, they're old white.
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[SPEAKER_11]: All these, the survey of British people, they all, they're all white people.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Is that what we want?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Is all white people?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Isn't that racist?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well,
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[SPEAKER_11]: For instance, the Gen Z people born from 97 to 12 said they prefer men with athletic build and women with black hair.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I don't know if you can have yourself changed, so you look like someone right, you know,
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know, what generation is everybody on the hotline?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Would they be boomers mostly?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Or would they be the greatest generation?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, probably a few of those out there too.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Here were those.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You see, were Mike Tyson wants us all to be healthier and he'd better and I say, yeah, I'm all for that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'll tell you, if Tyson came in here and told me, what do you eat?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'd be eating.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'll tell you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_11]: See, that's another thing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Everything Trump does is bad, but they got this Mahabh movement, which is urging people to eat better.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And all of that, I don't see where any of that's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know why people, but the Democrats don't oppose anything.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, let me say, eat more fruit.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, don't do that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Trump says so.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And that's the way they think.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It really is a derangement syndrome, which is sweeping the country.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, mental health professionals agree with me on that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: seven five five twelve forty the phone number if you'd like to be on the air today the show of shows the uh... show that you watch and just can't get enough of can't get enough of it okay now ready uh... valentine state this week tonsaturday that's a great day for valentine said it's a good thing it's not on a sunday or money couldn't take anybody out to dinner because everything will be closed but uh... i hope it doesn't snow or anything
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but you really should make a reservation if you're going to take your sweetie out, or you're going to take out, you don't have to take out a sweetie.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You can just take out someone who ought to dinner just to get out.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Now is that weird?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Would that be considered weird?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: This said, oh, you know, you're a good friend.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Let's go out to valiant.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm valiant, I'm staying, you know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: be considered weird in a lot of places, especially here in the North country, where weird isn't easily handed out moniker.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So I don't know, but anyway, if you want to do that, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And you know, we're going to be a good place to go for a valentine state dinner.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What the red robin?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'd probably be where I'd go if I were going to go out.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But I don't know where you'd go.
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[SPEAKER_11]: 755, 1240, the phone number.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Somebody text him, we need 75 or 100 tax paying.
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[SPEAKER_11]: City residents to show off at a budget meeting if you want to change anything.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, somebody said, ask, why he wasn't on the show last Friday?
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[SPEAKER_11]: OK, I'm not saying that I don't know what they should do with this budget hearing tonight, but I hope it's not just that well, he's fixed cost and he's legacy costs and all of this terrible and everything everybody says, well, we want to pair the budget and we pair the budget.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, somebody just stand up and said, well, the zoo was bragging they got $600,000 from a New York Times article, could we not appropriate money to that?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, no, we can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And do that, Dr. Kim will say, and then it'll be odd and odd and odd and odd.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, there'll be so many sacred cows tonight.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You can't cut anything.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, you gotta cut something.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You gotta give up something.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know, I know there's people that have the resources and have six-figure pensions and seven-figure networks and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And I get that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: but there are people who you know it's a little it's a little difficult and when the electric when the grid bill goes three hundred a month to six hundred a month for no apparent reason it's kind of tough on him yeah they can make it no meet their obligations because they were americans brought up at a greatest that generation like all of us will pay our grid bills because
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[SPEAKER_11]: Appearance brought me up that way pay your grid bill they said is it we're growing up Back then it was a different one, but uh You know, no So tonight at this budget here.
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[SPEAKER_11]: That's what I'm gonna be listening for and I'm sure our neighbor next door here If he's maybe he'll be there in person, but he's gonna be listening for something more substantive than just Well, can we buy one less case a copy paper?
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you think Mr. Wagner?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Can we do that?
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[SPEAKER_11]: No
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[SPEAKER_11]: Unfortunately, unlike County government that has tons of money was they didn't buy a golf course, right, didn't buy golf course or an extra pool, but The city just doesn't have it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know what I don't know how much money they have in this, what they like to call their rainy day.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I love that rainy day.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Can you only use it on a rainy day?
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[SPEAKER_11]: No.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But we'll see what happens today.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We'll see if there's any stridency or whether it's just, Okay, well, let's meet again next month or so.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And I don't mean to be mean or something like that, but it's, I don't know, the two new guys, they weren't they elected to do something?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, the other three, then they're status quo votes.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So they're not going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe the new ones can put up a little bit of a fight.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe not.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Mr. Batista.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_11]: You're going to the meeting?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I imagine it will be.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, tell me something with a gas meter and you've got the four dials.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You read it left to right or right to left, I've heard different things.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: There's four dials, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And you used to be, they set your card and you filled up the hands on the things and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: They don't do that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: They say they have this remote reading thing, but it doesn't work, so I wrote down a little drawing
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[SPEAKER_11]: If it's a left or right deal, the thing's way off, if it's right to left, it seems sort of in the range of where they were quoting on the bill.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So I don't know, maybe there's some ex-nimal people there that would know that, I don't really know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know why it'd be right to left, but you never know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It could be one of those secret codes in the utility business.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, good afternoon or on the air.
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[SPEAKER_04]: this and if you want it is simple if you want if the city residents want change this spring i need seventy five to a hundred people to show up at that if those budget meetings and uh... express your concerns if not attack the taxes are going to be about nine percent okay all it's all based on turn out if nobody turns up for the meetings date and everything is now you've got to go tonight uh... yeah i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i
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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, several suggestions like that, that house in the park that's set in every year's update, that's a $12,000 dollar year loss of income.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I suggested that, you know, I got just, I got looks.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So, do you think anything's going to happen tonight?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not sure.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I turned in a few other things, a few other cuts, but I don't know what they're going to decide.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Listen, if you don't put pressure on them, it's simple.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're not going to make any cuts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I can go there and suggest cost savings.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And they're not, I'm some one or two people, they're not really, really bad to much attention to, you know, but if you need a mob there, in other words, yeah, okay.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We need numbers, I'm telling you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, well, I got a run, Frank, you have built me into my role.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Thanks, by now.
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