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The Lee Elci Show | 9.28.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everyone. It's about 6.11 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: This is Devin Carney, and I am hosting 94.9 News
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  Speaker 2: Now and Stimulating Talk, filling in for Lee LC for
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  Speaker 2: the next three hours. We have a great show for
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  Speaker 2: you today. I've got five guests coming on at 6.35.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Red Janky coming on. At 7.05, Old Lime
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  Speaker 2: Selectman John Misham. 7.35, former Minority Leader Themis Claratus.
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  Speaker 3: And then at.
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  Speaker 2: Around 8 o'clock, State Representative Brian Lanoue. And then 8.35,
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  Speaker 2: a good friend of mine, a very funny guy, a
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  Speaker 2: comedian from Old Saybrook named Vinnie McElhone.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: So it's great filling in today. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on. Obviously, the weather. I hope everyone was safe
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  Speaker 2: this past weekend. I want to thank everyone who worked
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  Speaker 2: to get our power back on and to really keep
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  Speaker 2: us safe. I didn't get power back. Lost it for
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  Speaker 2: about 24 hours. My stepkids were going nuts. But one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I thought was kind of funny
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  Speaker 2: is both of them, they're 11 and 9, and know, they,
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  Speaker 2: they love, you know, they love to be on their
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  Speaker 2: cell phone. They love going on their iPad. They love
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  Speaker 2: going on their, you know, computers and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But of course the power's out. So, so some of
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty limited. And I, I, I come home yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and I see the two of them playing Twister. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I've never, I didn't even know this
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  Speaker 2: thing was in the house. Um, and, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're having a good time and I'm thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 2: This is what we would do, you know, 30 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with or without power. We'd get we'd take
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  Speaker 2: out that box and start playing. So I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was really interesting and really neat to see them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing a game that many of us played when we
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  Speaker 2: were kids. And, you know, that just we could probably
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  Speaker 2: use a little more of that these days. But, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as as everyone or some people are saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, computers and artificial intelligence, official intelligence are going
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  Speaker 2: to kill us. So it might be better to go
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  Speaker 2: back to those sorts of days. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want the Terminator or T-1000 coming and getting us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when I think about the AI issue and this whole
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  Speaker 2: thing about technology killing us, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people probably think of the Terminator, which I just mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: You know, great movie. Terminator 2, one of the best
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  Speaker 2: movies ever.
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  Speaker 1: Of all time.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, one of the movies that comes to mind,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if anybody's seen it, is a
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  Speaker 2: movie called Maximum Overdrive. And Maximum Overdrive is from the 80s.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen King, I think he might have directed it, and
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  Speaker 2: it stars Emilio Estevez, and all of these cars and
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  Speaker 2: appliances and stuff start attacking and killing people. And if
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  Speaker 2: you've never seen it, it really is a terrible movie,
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  Speaker 2: but it's kind of fun to watch. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: when I think of this whole thing about AI and
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  Speaker 2: robots and stuff coming to kill us all and ending
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  Speaker 2: the world, for some reason, that's the movie I think of.
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  Speaker 1: Not the Terminator, but I think of that movie.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, if you ever get a chance and
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  Speaker 2: you want to see, you know, what the future may hold,
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  Speaker 2: you know, turn on Maximum Overdrive and hopefully you have
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  Speaker 2: a fun time looking at that. And I've also thought
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  Speaker 2: about With this whole AI is going to going to
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  Speaker 2: kill us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've never been, you know, a bomb shelter.
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  Speaker 2: Guy or a guy who, you know, got to buy
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  Speaker 2: those giant buckets of dry food that's going to last you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, 100 years. But I've started to think about that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what if this is right? What if what if, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all of this stuff does come true and we do
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  Speaker 2: start getting attacked by artificial intelligence? I mean, I need
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not out of the you know, out
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  Speaker 2: of the question to need something like that. So it
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  Speaker 2: is something that's gone through my head.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe some of you out there, too. But it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a crazy time. It's a crazy thing to think about.
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  Speaker 2: that this could happen. Not saying it would. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are saying, oh, that's crazy. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he was mentioned, I mean, something you wouldn't even
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  Speaker 2: think about. I guess James Cameron thought about it. But
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't even think about it, you know, 20 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: 25 years ago. It was the stuff of, really, the
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  Speaker 2: stuff of science fiction. And, you know, a lot of that, though,
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing. I saw online, one of my colleagues posted
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  Speaker 2: that they want to put Amazon drones in his town.
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  Speaker 2: I have not seen one. I'm sure some people out
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  Speaker 2: there have, but you see some of these things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy, you know, flying around, dropping you off stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you order, you know, deodorant and it comes
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  Speaker 2: to you in a half hour from a drone. It's
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  Speaker 2: weird times. I don't know how I feel about that. It's,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're giving into technology. We're giving into that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I need something now. sort of mentality, a
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  Speaker 2: little too much. And it's making the world a weird place,
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  Speaker 2: making our country a weird place. And people obviously are upset.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to see drones flying around, getting people supplies
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  Speaker 2: that they could probably hop in their car and go
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  Speaker 2: to the supermarket or the hardware store to get, talk
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  Speaker 2: to an actual person, a person who's got a job
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  Speaker 2: because of that instead of relying on a drone flying
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  Speaker 2: around the sky. But enough with technology. Some of the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff happened over the weekend. I'm a big sports guy.
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  Speaker 2: I like the Mets. Unfortunately, the Mets came in last
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  Speaker 2: place in the National League East. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many people out there follow baseball, but probably many of
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  Speaker 2: you are Yankees fans or Red Sox fans, and you
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  Speaker 2: will have a hell of a series coming up. You've
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  Speaker 2: got a wild card series between the Yankees and the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox starting tomorrow. It's the best of three games,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure people in this area will be watching,
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  Speaker 2: watching those games, you know, team wins two in a
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  Speaker 2: row that that third game doesn't happen. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't ask for a better series in this area.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees and Red Sox games usually got you always
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  Speaker 2: on the edge of your seat. And, you know, unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: for me, I've got to see all of those people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cheering on the Red Sox, cheering on the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: And here I am in my own little corner.
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  Speaker 2: With a Mets hat on and feeling lonely because they
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  Speaker 2: finished in last place despite having the second highest payroll
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  Speaker 2: in baseball. And that's pretty crazy to think about. The
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  Speaker 2: second highest payroll. Steve Cohen, who I believe has a,
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  Speaker 2: he might be a Connecticut resident, I know he has
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  Speaker 2: a house here, spent that much money, several hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 2: to try to win a championship. And, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: just it just did not even come close to happening
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  Speaker 2: this year. But, you know, as the baseball season has ended,
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  Speaker 2: I hope, you know, some of you got a chance
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  Speaker 2: to go see your favorite team, got to go to
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  Speaker 2: the park. Maybe you got to go to a yard
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  Speaker 2: goats game if you haven't been to a yard goats game.
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  Speaker 1: It is actually pretty cool, pretty cool park to go
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  Speaker 1: see a minor league game. It's nice. It's clean.
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  Speaker 2: And it really is a fun time. For me, I
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  Speaker 2: got to go to Citi Field. If you've never been
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  Speaker 2: to Citi Field, it is a wonderful ballpark. And I
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  Speaker 2: got to go on my bachelor party, which was back
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  Speaker 2: in May. And I actually got to see the New
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  Speaker 2: York Mets defeat the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: So it was.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely the biggest highlight for me this baseball season. And also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, football. I'm a big Giants fan, and I've
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  Speaker 2: got to say this. I mean, I'm hoping probably many
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  Speaker 2: of you listening, if you like football, probably many of
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  Speaker 2: you are Giants fans, probably some of you are Patriots fans. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Patriots game was on yesterday, and the Patriots
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  Speaker 2: got creamed. It actually was a bad weekend for Robert Kraft,
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  Speaker 2: but the Patriots got creamed, and CBS was playing the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots game and not the Giants game, the Giants game
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't watch on TV. And here we have the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots losing by a ton. I mean, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to come back, even with, you know, 10 minutes left
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: They're not coming back. The game is over.
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  Speaker 2: Drake Mayo had a terrible game, was pulled around that time.
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  Speaker 2: And CBS doesn't go to the Giants game. The Giants
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  Speaker 2: game was close. The Giants game came almost to the
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  Speaker 2: last play of the game.
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  Speaker 1: It was that close.
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  Speaker 2: The Titans were marching down the field and almost.
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  Speaker 1: Took the lead.
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  Speaker 2: With very, very, very little time left, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: watch the game. I don't have one of those big
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  Speaker 2: NFL passes where I can watch any game.
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  Speaker 1: And that just really pissed me off. Why you would
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  Speaker 1: keep showing, I.
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  Speaker 2: Get it, we're in New England, but the Patriots are
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  Speaker 2: getting creamed, and you couldn't go and switch over to
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  Speaker 2: the Giants. So some of us who are Giants fans
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  Speaker 2: could really watch the end of that Pretty exciting game
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  Speaker 2: between two terrible teams. Well, Giants, they were supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be good. Maybe they're not that bad, but losing their quarterback, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: certainly did not help the situation, but they did beat
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  Speaker 2: the Titans, and the Titans probably are one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst teams in football. The Dolphins are down there, too,
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  Speaker 2: as one of the worst teams. Probably a few others
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  Speaker 2: that I'm missing, but.
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  Speaker 1: But football season's here. I'm excited. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I can sit down and watch any football game and
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  Speaker 2: have fun watching.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably the only sport where I can actually do that.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down.
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  Speaker 2: I could watch a game between two teams, the Chargers
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  Speaker 2: and the Raiders, two teams I really don't feel one
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  Speaker 2: way or the other about, and just be into it.
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  Speaker 2: Be excited. Look at the plays and that. And I
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  Speaker 2: do play fantasy football. I know it's probably not great
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  Speaker 2: for football because you start focusing on certain players as opposed.
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  Speaker 1: To your team.
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  Speaker 2: But it is fun trying to pretend you're your general
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  Speaker 2: manager for one day a week. And it does bring
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  Speaker 2: more excitement, I guess, to watching those games with teams
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  Speaker 2: that You might not otherwise watch, but, you know, your quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And my quarterback on two of my teams is Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 2: which kills me because as a Giants fan, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback. But, you know, I want
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  Speaker 2: to win that. And, of course, I want my Giants
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  Speaker 2: to win as well. Sometimes it doesn't always work out
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  Speaker 2: that way.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it does.
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  Speaker 2: But moving on, you know, sports... Big thing for me,
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  Speaker 2: the other, you know, obviously the other big thing for
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  Speaker 2: me is politics. I've been state representative now for 12 years.
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  Speaker 2: I represent Lime, Old Lime, Old Saybrook, and Westbrook. To me,
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  Speaker 2: the four best towns in the state. They're beautiful. Just
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  Speaker 2: great towns, great people, great businesses, great museums, great architecture.
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  Speaker 2: You got the beach down there. I mean, you really
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  Speaker 2: couldn't ask for a better area to represent. And I've
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  Speaker 2: really had the good fortune of doing that over the
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  Speaker 2: last 12 years. And actually, it's the district I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in. I get to represent my mom. I get
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  Speaker 2: to represent some of my friends, my friends' parents. And
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  Speaker 2: it's just been a really neat journey doing that. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what's great about the show today and great
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  Speaker 2: about guest hosting is being able to talk about that. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I've got a great lineup where we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about state issues. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about federal issues. We're going to have a little fun,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more sports. Not sure, but it
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  Speaker 2: will really be a great show. And I'll get to
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  Speaker 2: tell you a little bit more about myself and how
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  Speaker 2: it is being a state representative today. and how it
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  Speaker 2: is doing that right here in southeastern Connecticut. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank you for listening to 94.9 News
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  Speaker 2: Now and Stimulating Talk, and we will be right back.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 34: Hey, I'm doing great, Devin. It's good to be up early,
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  Speaker 34: and I don't think as early bird there are too
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  Speaker 34: many worms available. They're all floating downstream, right?
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  Speaker 2: even earlier. So it's great that you came on.
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  Speaker 1: How was the weather down there over the weekend?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, it's pretty wet.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty wet.
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  Speaker 34: Pretty wet.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 35: It's more wet.
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  Speaker 34: There have been some instances of high winds, but it's
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  Speaker 37: So.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems that everything's over. I know we might
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  Speaker 1: But so so red. So you've got a couple of.
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  Speaker 2: Columns out on on the red line and they're in
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  Speaker 2: some other places, too, which we can get into.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: So so why don't we get into what what are
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: these columns that you wrote and what is it important
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  Speaker 2: for people to know about them?
• 25:16
  Speaker 34: Well, let me seemingly dodge your question, but it's really
• 25:22
  Speaker 34: a setup to answer your question. Last night, there was
• 25:27
  Speaker 34: an extraordinary dinner in the White House. It was dinner
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  Speaker 34: for two. Donald Trump dining with Daria Amadei, CEO of
• 25:38
  Speaker 34: the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Now, Anthropic didn't exist five
• 25:44
  Speaker 34: years ago. but it's soon to go public with a
• 25:48
  Speaker 34: valuation of more than a trillion dollars. So what was
• 25:53
  Speaker 34: that dinner all about? The dinner was all about the
• 25:57
  Speaker 34: fact that AI is powering our economy, and AI is
• 26:02
  Speaker 34: facing suddenly some very significant risks. But my columns, the
• 26:09
  Speaker 34: first one, And I'm going to set up where we
• 26:13
  Speaker 34: go with the economy and AI and anthropic and those
• 26:17
  Speaker 34: risks in terms of the fiscal condition of Uncle Sam.
• 26:26
  Speaker 34: In early August, I wrote a column entitled The September Effect,
• 26:33
  Speaker 34: which is a very good example of what's called behavioral economics. i.e.,
• 26:40
  Speaker 34: economics not having to do so much with numbers and facts,
• 26:45
  Speaker 34: but human behavior. And the September effect holds that the
• 26:50
  Speaker 34: stock market tends to slump in September more than in
• 26:57
  Speaker 34: any other month of the year. And the behavioral aspect
• 27:02
  Speaker 34: of that is people go on vacation in August. They
• 27:05
  Speaker 34: kind of forget about the market. The traders, the professionals,
• 27:09
  Speaker 34: they take vacation. And the market tends to float up
• 27:12
  Speaker 34: a bit in August and become a little bit unmoored
• 27:17
  Speaker 34: to real things going on. Traders and professionals go back
• 27:23
  Speaker 34: to work in September, and they say, OMG. That's a
• 27:27
  Speaker 34: little bit high, and they take the market down to
• 27:29
  Speaker 34: a more realistic level. So what I posted in that
• 27:33
  Speaker 34: column is if that happens this year, it can be
• 27:36
  Speaker 34: triggered by goings-on in the bond market, and that has
• 27:39
  Speaker 34: certainly turned out to be the case. We've had tremendous
• 27:43
  Speaker 34: turmoil in the bond market, and we have triggered one-third
• 27:51
  Speaker 34: of the September effect. The Dow Jones is down for
• 27:55
  Speaker 34: the month of September. Interestingly, the S & P and
• 28:00
  Speaker 34: the NASDAQ are going to be up for the month.
• 28:05
  Speaker 34: So what's going on in the bond market, and what
• 28:08
  Speaker 34: did I anticipate? And I quoted three national prominent figures
• 28:14
  Speaker 34: in finance in that August column, anticipating September. First, Treasury Secretary,
• 28:22
  Speaker 34: former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who, in April of this year,
• 28:31
  Speaker 34: projected that we're headed toward a fiscal cliff, a fiscal stonewall, i.e.,
• 28:38
  Speaker 34: that we may very well be facing a future where
• 28:42
  Speaker 34: there will be no buyers for U.S. Treasury securities. Former U.S.
• 28:50
  Speaker 34: Treasury Secretary Ray Dalio, who's founder of the nation's largest
• 28:55
  Speaker 34: hedge fund, on that score said, we are, quote, we
• 28:59
  Speaker 34: are past the point of no return. In July, Jamie Dimon,
• 29:05
  Speaker 34: CEO of our largest bank, said he wouldn't buy 10-year
• 29:09
  Speaker 34: Treasury bonds at the then prevailing yield of 4.5% because
• 29:15
  Speaker 34: of the fiscal risks.
• 29:17
  Speaker 35: On the horizon.
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  Speaker 34: Now, These are not doomsday voices on the fringe. These
• 29:23
  Speaker 34: are– you can't identify more prominent names in the world
• 29:29
  Speaker 34: of finance. Also in August, to give emphasis to that,
• 29:38
  Speaker 34: the words from these three very prominent people, our national
• 29:44
  Speaker 34: debt hit $ 40 trillion on August 18th. So now let's
• 29:54
  Speaker 34: go back to the dinner for a second. What in
• 29:56
  Speaker 34: the world is the president doing having dinner with the
• 30:02
  Speaker 34: CEO of an AI company, when the war is on
• 30:08
  Speaker 34: in Iran and when fiscal risks are on the horizon? Well,
• 30:15
  Speaker 34: what we've got going on there is AI, by many estimates,
• 30:22
  Speaker 34: is responsible for half of the growth, half of the
• 30:25
  Speaker 34: growth of our entire GDP currently. So if risks to
• 30:33
  Speaker 34: AI growth are arising as they are, that threatens GDP growth.
• 30:44
  Speaker 34: That further increases the risk on U.S. Treasury bonds. We
• 30:53
  Speaker 34: have to grow the economy in order to afford the
• 30:57
  Speaker 34: debt that we have taken on, the mountain of debt
• 31:00
  Speaker 34: we have taken on. So that's that. That's where we
• 31:07
  Speaker 34: have arrived so far. So what do you think of
• 31:11
  Speaker 34: all that?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of information, and I appreciate it and
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: your expertise. I guess, I mean, what should people, I mean,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: in your mind, what should people do with.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: All of this information? I mean, is there really, you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: is there a risk?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there are risks coming, but I mean,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: are there risks of a crash? Are there risks, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: of people losing a lot of money because of all
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of this? I'm just curious, I mean, for the listeners,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: what really should they take away from this?
• 31:44
  Speaker 34: Well, I think people should take away a healthy kind
• 31:51
  Speaker 34: of concern, and certainly they should be looking forward to.
• 31:59
  Speaker 34: What the risks are in the short and intermediate term.
• 32:03
  Speaker 34: The long-term outlook is very dire. We don't have to
• 32:08
  Speaker 34: re-quote those three prominent figures. What's going to happen next three,
• 32:13
  Speaker 34: four months? That gets to my second column, which is
• 32:19
  Speaker 34: entitled The Juggernaut Coming in December. And there's very little
• 32:27
  Speaker 34: commentary about that. Right now, Uncle Sam is operating under
• 32:34
  Speaker 34: what's called a continuing resolution. So as of this Thursday,
• 32:42
  Speaker 34: there is no budget for the federal government. The Democrats
• 32:49
  Speaker 34: and Republicans couldn't agree a budget so far this year.
• 32:54
  Speaker 34: So in July, late July, they both agreed that they
• 32:59
  Speaker 34: couldn't get it done by September 30. And neither wanted
• 33:07
  Speaker 34: the government to shut down for their mutual and individual interests,
• 33:12
  Speaker 34: political interests. So they agreed to put the government on
• 33:17
  Speaker 34: automatic pilot, i.e. a continuing resolution where spending just continues
• 33:22
  Speaker 34: at its current levels. until December 11th. So listeners should,
• 33:30
  Speaker 34: as one takeaway from this conversation, note that on the
• 33:34
  Speaker 34: calendar on December 11th, the authority for the federal government
• 33:39
  Speaker 34: to operate will expire. So we're going to have a
• 33:43
  Speaker 34: lame duck Congress trying to figure out what to do
• 33:47
  Speaker 34: to keep the government up and operating. The other thing,
• 33:52
  Speaker 34: as I mentioned earlier, the national debt hitting $ 40 trillion
• 33:57
  Speaker 34: in August. Almost no one's talking about the debt ceiling.
• 34:04
  Speaker 34: And the debt ceiling is a law that is in place,
• 34:08
  Speaker 34: is updated from time to time, that says that the
• 34:14
  Speaker 34: national debt cannot exceed some certain amount So once you
• 34:20
  Speaker 34: hit that ceiling, you can't spend anymore if you're spending
• 34:25
  Speaker 34: in deficit because if you're running constant huge deficits, you
• 34:34
  Speaker 34: don't have current revenue to fund spending. You have to borrow,
• 34:38
  Speaker 34: and you can't borrow if you've hit the debt ceiling. Well,
• 34:42
  Speaker 34: we hit $ 40 trillion on August 18th. The debt ceiling
• 34:47
  Speaker 34: is 41.1%. So as of August 18th, we were $ 1. 1
• 34:53
  Speaker 34: trillion away from the ceiling. Last year, in the last
• 34:57
  Speaker 34: four months of the year, we borrowed, we increased our
• 35:01
  Speaker 34: debt by $ 800 billion. Just taking last year's increase and
• 35:09
  Speaker 34: adding it to August 18th, we'll be at $ 40. 8, just
• 35:15
  Speaker 34: $ 300 billion shy.
• 35:16
  Speaker 35: Of the debt ceiling.
• 35:18
  Speaker 34: Well, we've been borrowing at a much... faster and a
• 35:21
  Speaker 34: higher clip this year than last year. So it's not
• 35:26
  Speaker 34: unlikely that we will hit the debt ceiling by Christmas.
• 35:31
  Speaker 39: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 34: So those are two ugly milestones that, uh, we're headed
• 35:37
  Speaker 34: toward in the short to intermediate term. I'm that that's
• 35:41
  Speaker 34: just two to three months.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Um, so, so what do you think, I mean, you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: as the, uh, you know, averting a shutdown until the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: beginning of December. I mean, what what is really what
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: could happen if if they don't come to an agreement
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: in December? And, you know, they go into the next
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: session with a Democrat majority in both the Senate and
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the House and obviously a Republican president. And they cannot
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: agree on extending anything. I mean, what is really at
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: risk if that happens? And it's certainly possible that it
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: could happen.
• 36:22
  Speaker 34: Well, what's at risk, I think, is a period of
• 36:28
  Speaker 34: what I would call the great unknown.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:32
  Speaker 34: To answer your question, where the question is actually the
• 36:38
  Speaker 34: correct answer, if you will. I have no idea. I
• 36:41
  Speaker 34: don't think anyone knows. What happens when you have a
• 36:44
  Speaker 34: lame duck Congress with Republican majorities giving way to not
• 36:53
  Speaker 34: unlikely a Congress, new Congress, with Democrat majorities in both houses?
• 37:00
  Speaker 34: The Republicans will want to pass anything and everything they
• 37:05
  Speaker 34: possibly can during the period of time late November and
• 37:12
  Speaker 34: December into January before inauguration, the swearing in of the
• 37:17
  Speaker 34: new Congress, the Democrats won't want to pass anything. And
• 37:21
  Speaker 34: with the razor-thin difference, at least in the U.S. House,
• 37:26
  Speaker 34: I don't know whether it's down to, I think it's
• 37:28
  Speaker 34: four or five vote difference between Republican majority and Democrat
• 37:33
  Speaker 34: vote minority.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: It's something.
• 37:35
  Speaker 34: That's a very, very risky passage.
• 37:40
  Speaker 36: Right.
• 37:41
  Speaker 34: Is it not?
• 37:42
  Speaker 13: No, absolutely.
• 37:45
  Speaker 34: So it's very hard to have any confidence in the
• 37:52
  Speaker 34: immediate future in that November, December, early January period. So
• 37:58
  Speaker 34: that's going to, in my opinion, stir even more turmoil
• 38:05
  Speaker 34: in the bond markets. and the U.S. Treasury markets, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 34: then you get back to last night's dinner, and if
• 38:12
  Speaker 34: basically the entire economy is one big bet on AI,
• 38:19
  Speaker 34: what are the risks there? The risks there are we're
• 38:23
  Speaker 34: humongously dependent on AI. If it's 50% of GDP growth,
• 38:30
  Speaker 34: we're all in on that bet. Now, what's challenged that
• 38:35
  Speaker 34: Challenging the bet very recently. First, we've got, and you
• 38:39
  Speaker 34: know the term, Devin, you've been operating in government, NIMBY.
• 38:44
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 38:45
  Speaker 34: So all these data centers that have to be built
• 38:48
  Speaker 34: all around the country, huge, huge infrastructure investment. Well, there
• 38:54
  Speaker 34: is resistance that's developed across the country to the building
• 38:59
  Speaker 34: in my neighborhood of these huge data centers. There's a
• 39:03
  Speaker 34: lot of citizen resistance to the building all of a
• 39:07
  Speaker 34: sudden of these huge facilities. Well, if you can't build
• 39:12
  Speaker 34: the facilities, you can't run AI. That's one risk. Then
• 39:18
  Speaker 34: you have the employee of one of the two leading
• 39:21
  Speaker 34: AI companies, OpenAI, resigned a couple of weeks ago saying
• 39:27
  Speaker 34: there's a 10% chance that AI will kill us in
• 39:32
  Speaker 34: the next decade. So you've got all of a sudden
• 39:37
  Speaker 34: startling safety concerns. And those safety concerns have been buttressed.
• 39:44
  Speaker 34: I mean, you could think that he's the president the
• 39:49
  Speaker 34: alarmist on the fringe, but then he resigns with that statement.
• 39:54
  Speaker 34: And we've had nothing but a constant stream of incidents
• 40:00
  Speaker 34: being reported of AI agents going rogue and hacking into websites,
• 40:09
  Speaker 34: both private websites, government websites in the U.S., in Europe,
• 40:15
  Speaker 34: and as far away as Australia. So safety is on
• 40:22
  Speaker 34: the radar screen all of a sudden.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:26
  Speaker 34: This shiny new object that was going to power us
• 40:30
  Speaker 34: forward into the future is all of a sudden as
• 40:34
  Speaker 34: scary as it is exciting, right?
• 40:37
  Speaker 25: Right.
• 40:38
  Speaker 34: That's what the dinner last night was about. And another
• 40:43
  Speaker 34: aspect of this is that in the great race... of
• 40:50
  Speaker 34: all these companies and players in the AI space, not
• 40:55
  Speaker 34: everyone wins. Remember, in the dot-com era, similar thing. It
• 41:03
  Speaker 34: was a huge competition as to which companies would emerge
• 41:10
  Speaker 34: as the winners. So we have Google, we have Facebook,
• 41:17
  Speaker 34: we have Amazon. Everyone forgets that we do not have Netscape.
• 41:24
  Speaker 34: We do not have Yahoo. We do not have AOL.
• 41:29
  Speaker 34: AOL was such a huge prospective winner that Time Warner
• 41:35
  Speaker 34: bought it for an enormous amount of money and then
• 41:41
  Speaker 34: had to write down most of that enormous amount of
• 41:45
  Speaker 34: money not too many years later. So not every one
• 41:50
  Speaker 34: of the entrants in the AI race is going to win.
• 41:57
  Speaker 34: There are going to be losers, and losers are going
• 42:00
  Speaker 34: to lose a lot of money for us. So the
• 42:03
  Speaker 34: risks of AI are beginning to emerge. So that's what
• 42:08
  Speaker 34: dinner last night was about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is and this is something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that I was talking about at the beginning of the show.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just all about all about AI and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: really the potential risks that it that it provides for
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: a whole host of different things. You know, this has been,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you know, really interesting hearing about this. And I'm hoping,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: you know, listeners out there really, you know, take what
• 42:39
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• 42:42
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• 42:46
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• 42:49
  Speaker 2: don't matter nearly as much as something like this, as
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: something like our debt, as something like bond ratings, all
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: of that that can really have such a substantial impact
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: on our economy and on our country. And all of
• 43:04
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  Speaker 35: Yeah.
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  Speaker 34: And, you know, let's bring it home, Devin. You know,
• 43:14
  Speaker 34: Connecticut is one of the most, if not the most,
• 43:17
  Speaker 34: heavily indebted state in the nation of all 50. Secondly,
• 43:23
  Speaker 34: Connecticut is as reliant on the stock market as any
• 43:27
  Speaker 34: state in the nation.
• 43:29
  Speaker 35: Right.
• 43:30
  Speaker 34: In fact, you know, Ray Dalio is Connecticut-based, the largest
• 43:35
  Speaker 34: hedge fund in the world.
• 43:37
  Speaker 40: Right.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 43:39
  Speaker 34: Steve Cohen. With 0.72, another huge hedge fund, Connecticut-based. You
• 43:46
  Speaker 34: can go on down the line. This state is as
• 43:50
  Speaker 34: reliant on the stock market and therefore on AI as
• 43:56
  Speaker 34: any state in the nation. So this is a real
• 44:00
  Speaker 34: concern for everyone living in Connecticut. The more so than
• 44:05
  Speaker 34: people living, for the most part, in any of the
• 44:08
  Speaker 34: other 49 states. This will hit home very hard if
• 44:14
  Speaker 34: there are real risks that slow down the pace of
• 44:20
  Speaker 34: AI development and moderate the profitability of that. And, you know,
• 44:29
  Speaker 34: another thing that Jamie Dimon said about the stock and
• 44:32
  Speaker 34: the bond markets, he said of the stock market, it's
• 44:35
  Speaker 34: both overvalued and overleveraged. The values are sky high, and
• 44:43
  Speaker 34: a lot of investors have borrowed money to buy those stocks.
• 44:48
  Speaker 34: If those stocks go down, there's a long, long fall.
• 44:55
  Speaker 34: If we're at the very peak of valuation historically, there's
• 44:59
  Speaker 34: a long way to go down. And if the purchases
• 45:03
  Speaker 34: have been financed by debt, by investing on margin, once
• 45:10
  Speaker 34: those margin calls come in, they feed on themselves. And
• 45:16
  Speaker 34: stock market declines can be very rapid.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: So, well, you know, Red, I.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Do want to thank you for coming on and for
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: providing all of this information to our listeners. And I
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: wish people would– Listen to you more. You're good, you're smart,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: and you're sensible. And where can people learn more about you,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: about your columns?
• 45:44
  Speaker 34: Well, I'm a freelance columnist, which means I'm kind of
• 45:49
  Speaker 34: like Yasser Arafat. I don't sleep in the same bed
• 45:53
  Speaker 34: two nights in a row.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 45:54
  Speaker 34: So my columns appear on different news outlets online. But
• 46:01
  Speaker 34: I post them all on what's called the red line.
• 46:05
  Speaker 34: That's the-red-line.com. So the two columns we've discussed, and thank
• 46:12
  Speaker 34: you for providing the opportunity to discuss them, Devin, are
• 46:17
  Speaker 34: posted on the red line. And I make every effort
• 46:22
  Speaker 34: to post other important and interesting columns as well. So
• 46:29
  Speaker 34: in answer to your question, everyone should go to d-red-line.com.
• 46:35
  Speaker 29: All right.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 34: Continue listening to this show this morning.
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: Exactly.
• 46:40
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I appreciate your time, Red, and I hope you have
• 46:44
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• 46:46
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 2: This is your guest host, Devin Carney, state rep for
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  Speaker 2: Lime Old Lime Old Saybrook and Westbrook. And my next
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  Speaker 2: guest is a selectman from one of those towns, Old Lime.
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  Speaker 2: And he does a great job and he's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd like to welcome John Misham. John, how are
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  Speaker 2: you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 39: I'm doing fine. Thanks for having me, Devin.
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  Speaker 20: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 2: It's always great having you. It's always great talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: So let us know, how are things going at Old Lyme?
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  Speaker 2: How did Old Lyme fare with the storm?
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  Speaker 39: I think we did pretty well. I just checked the
• 54:35
  Speaker 39: Eversource map, and there's about 10 houses without power. Unfortunately,
• 54:39
  Speaker 39: one of them is down the street from me and
• 54:42
  Speaker 39: a friend of ours, and I know they have a
• 54:44
  Speaker 39: generator going. They're hardy folks, so I'm sure they're doing okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we lost power for about 24 hours or so.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Got it back yesterday around, you know, 3 or 4 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: So, hold on.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Well, take a day.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the end of the world, and the people
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: fixing everything did a great job. So for the listeners,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: what exactly do you do as a selectman? What's it
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: like being a selectman, part of the Board of Selectmen?
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  Speaker 2: And what's it like being as the minority voice on
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: the Board of Selectmen?
• 55:24
  Speaker 39: So as a selectman, I am one of three on
• 55:29
  Speaker 39: the board of selectmen and, uh, we're responsible for oversight
• 55:34
  Speaker 39: and policy and keeping the town running basically, uh, as
• 55:39
  Speaker 39: the minority, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm the, the
• 55:44
  Speaker 39: third wheel. Um, I'm not always, you know, uh, in
• 55:50
  Speaker 39: the know or, you know, I don't get a lot
• 55:52
  Speaker 39: of information volunteered to me. Sometimes it's just kind of
• 55:56
  Speaker 39: a bare minimum and I'm the one that has to
• 55:58
  Speaker 39: go and do a little digging and find more information
• 56:04
  Speaker 39: and kind of feel my way through some things.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: And, you know, being a resident of Old Lyme, you know,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: I certainly appreciate everything you do and what you bring
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: to the table because, I mean, you do provide something
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: very important. You speak for A lot of people, you
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: know that. And you're not afraid to speak your mind.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: And I think that's something that we need more of.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: It can't be just three yes votes and move on.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I know we have some controversial
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: issues that are going on in Old Lyman, and they
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: deserve another perspective.
• 56:41
  Speaker 39: Well, yeah, I appreciate that, Devin. And one of the
• 56:45
  Speaker 39: things that's coming up that we do need a voice
• 56:48
  Speaker 39: in is is there is another special election for the
• 56:54
  Speaker 39: Board of Ed. And I say another because we just
• 56:57
  Speaker 39: had one several months ago for a vacated seat on
• 57:02
  Speaker 39: the Democrat side. And we had another vacated seat by
• 57:08
  Speaker 39: a Democrat. And we're required to fill that seat in
• 57:14
  Speaker 39: 30 days. So October 6th to Tuesday. 6 PM at the, uh,
• 57:20
  Speaker 39: limelight middle school auditorium. We will, uh, have that special
• 57:26
  Speaker 39: election and the Republicans are, uh, heartedly endorsing Brandy Campbell again. And, uh,
• 57:33
  Speaker 39: she has run in the past and, uh, it's, it's
• 57:38
  Speaker 39: hugely important to, uh, get her elected this time.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Brandy, Brandy would be a great, uh, great addition to
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: the board of ed. And, um, so, so one of
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: the things, uh, Maybe you can explain to the listeners
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: what's different about a regional school district and why are
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: we doing it this way?
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Because probably some people, let's say Waterford.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: It just gets appointed and there's minority representation required. So
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: what's different about Old Lyme?
• 58:08
  Speaker 39: So what's different about Region 18 is that although it's
• 58:13
  Speaker 39: comprised of only two towns, Lime and Old Lime, it
• 58:17
  Speaker 39: falls under being a regional school system. And it's being
• 58:22
  Speaker 39: a regional board is exempt from the minority representation law.
• 58:27
  Speaker 39: And if you're not familiar with that, that is a
• 58:30
  Speaker 39: law that guarantees no one party will have a supermajority
• 58:35
  Speaker 39: on a board or commission. Um, so it, the powers
• 58:41
  Speaker 39: that be that wrote laws, uh, felt that that was
• 58:45
  Speaker 39: not necessary on a regional board. Uh, and currently there is, uh,
• 58:51
  Speaker 39: zero Republicans on the school board. So, um, you know, I've,
• 58:58
  Speaker 39: I've spoken to some, uh, people and past members and, uh,
• 59:01
  Speaker 39: they pay attention to the meetings and watch the meetings
• 59:04
  Speaker 39: and they said, uh, You know, not uh, not well attended, uh,
• 59:11
  Speaker 39: by the, by the members. And, uh, I don't know,
• 59:14
  Speaker 39: I guess maybe if you just, uh, have a super
• 59:17
  Speaker 39: majority and, you know, you're not expecting a debate, you
• 59:21
  Speaker 39: don't have to be on top of your game and
• 59:22
  Speaker 39: maybe not, not show up. Um, so, you know, we really,
• 59:27
  Speaker 39: we really need a voice. We need a, a, counter opinions. Uh,
• 59:31
  Speaker 39: Brandy is, is, uh, she's a scientist. She's a veterinarian. Uh,
• 59:36
  Speaker 39: she's looking at, at, at fact-based decision-making. Um, we really
• 59:43
  Speaker 39: encourage people to come out. And I know the voting
• 59:46
  Speaker 39: was a little tedious last time because it is, it
• 59:48
  Speaker 39: is a town meeting format. Uh, but I've spoken to
• 59:52
  Speaker 39: the registrars and, uh, they've, looked at how they did
• 59:56
  Speaker 39: things last time, and they're going to fine-tune it and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 39: try to make voting a little more smoother this time
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 39: to move it along, because it did take quite a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 39: while to get everyone through the vote last time.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did speak to a couple of people that
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: did not like how it was done last time and
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: how long it took to be able to vote on this.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: So for this upcoming town meeting, do you know at
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: this point if this is the only thing that is
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: going to be on the agenda? I know last time
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: they tried to put some other stuff before the vote,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: which would have made it take even longer. So do
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: you know if this is the only thing that people
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: need to come out to the town meeting for?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 39: This is the only agenda item for that night.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: That is good to hear. And You know, people, you know,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: in this situation, it is very weird. I know my
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: wife said, why can't town hall just be open for,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: you know, X amount of hours?
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: People know there's an election. They can go in and vote.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, probably that would be, you know, more effective
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: because I know these meetings can take a while. One
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: of the things that some people were concerned about is–
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Is your vote going to be secret? There was some
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: concern that, you know, you'd have to raise your hand
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: and say who you want to vote for. So is
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: it going to be a secret ballot?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 39: As far as I know, it was moved to be
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 39: a ballot last time, and the plan, again, is to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 39: have a ballot box.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 13: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: that we have minority perspective on boards and commissions. And
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  Speaker 2: what town, you know, how many from each town. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it makes no sense to me that Old
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  Speaker 2: three of them be from a minority party. And Lime
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  Speaker 2: Old Lime certainly, in my opinion— should be no different
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  Speaker 2: and be in line with all of the other boards.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think, and correct me if I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 2: there's no other board that doesn't require minority representation, right?
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  Speaker 39: Correct, because all our other boards, well, I mean, except for, say,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 39: the Lyme Senior Center, but they have their own staff.
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  Speaker 39: their actual own board of trustees. So because all our
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 39: other boards are municipal, it does fall under the minority
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  Speaker 39: representation law. So yes, they're all balanced.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's, I mean, Old Lyme is pretty split
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  Speaker 2: down the middle. You know, these past few elections have shifted,
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  Speaker 2: you know, more in the Democrat direction, but it is pretty,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you look at the voter registration, it's pretty close. And,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: you know, it is, there's a lot of people, myself included,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: and a lot of others who have a different perspective.
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  Speaker 2: And it's okay to have a different perspective. And I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: sometimes feel in Old Lyme and other towns, too, that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: when you do have that different perspective, you're kind of
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: looked down upon. And I've noticed that more recently with
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: some of the issues that have been going on. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the big issues that there's certainly a lot
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: of strong feelings of, but there is a lot of
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: that antagonistic, attitude is zoning. And so if you could
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: give us just a little bit of rundown of what's
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: going on with zoning in Old Lyme. There's been a
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: lot of controversy where we are with that. So if
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: you could just give us an update on that.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 39: So we are still in the rewrite for our zoning regulations.
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  Speaker 39: So we've held some workshops IN REGARDS TO WHAT PEOPLE
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 39: WANT TO SEE IN ZONING SO THAT THOSE OPINIONS AND
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 39: FEEDBACK ARE REPRESENTATIVE IN THE REGULATIONS THEMSELVES. SO THERE HAS
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 39: BEEN VERY WELL ATTENDED WORKSHOPS. THEY HAD TO MOVE THE
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 39: LAST ONE, YOU KNOW, THEY PLANNED AHEAD, BUT IT WAS
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 39: MOVED TO THE SENIOR CENTER AFTER A PREVIOUS MEETING WAS
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 39: AT CAPACITY. AND I THINK EVEN Changing the venue, the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 39: last two, I believe, have had to actually turn a
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 39: couple people away because the building itself was at capacity.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 39: And that's what we really want to see in town
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 39: government and representative government is when there's a chance for
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 39: that direct kind of input. I love seeing people come
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 39: out and participating in that whole process.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And from what I was reading, it really by doing
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: it that way, people it seemed, you know, I wasn't there,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: but it seemed that people were, you know, agreeable on
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Of things and they were working together.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: And I think and one of one of the things
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: about doing it that way is you kind of take
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: away that sort of top down mentality currently with the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: zoning commission. There's been a lot of controversies on that. And,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: you know, by doing that, you give the people you
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: really do give give the people a voice. And I mean,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: what what is going on with Halls Road? What is
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: there is some controversy with the Zoning Commission related to that.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: So if you could speak a little bit.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: About what's going on there and the controversy with the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: with the chair of the Zoning Commission.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 35: Sure.
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  Speaker 39: So one of the shopping centers, the one that holds
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 39: Big Y, was recently purchased by a new corporation, and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 39: it came to light that that corporation met with some
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 39: people of the town. So economic development, which is fine,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 39: you know, that's economic development's their, their commission, they should
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 39: be meeting with, with companies and welcoming our, our new, uh,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 39: members of the community. Uh, however, uh, it included the, uh,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 39: chairman of the zoning commission. And it was nothing, uh,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 39: it was secretive. It was, you know, it was secretive
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 39: and the story was broke by Connecticut examiner. And, uh,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 39: they were pretty from, from what I could see were
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 39: pretty dogged about, um, Following the leads on that, as selectman,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 39: I did receive a couple of requests for freedom of
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 39: information requests for communications with that corporation and other people,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 39: which I had none because, like I said, I'm the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 39: third wheel. I've been out. But there were some denials
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 39: in there about what actually transpired. We don't know. There's
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 39: no public record. Supposedly, it was per one of the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 39: corporation members to have the chairman help them write a
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 39: press release, which is kind of almost, I'm sorry, it's
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 39: just comical that a corporation would need the help of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 39: anyone on zoning to write a press release. The only
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 39: press release I found was on LinkedIn, and it was
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 39: about five lines long that they purchased the shopping center.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 39: It's a little dubious there in that explanation, but it
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 39: came to light after the initial story that there was
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 39: some more e-mails and communications, and the e-mail is literally
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 39: the chairman asking that it be held in confidence that
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 39: they're meeting. And that is not what the people of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 39: Old Lyme deserve. He was very outspoken on an appointment
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 39: to zoning that had to occur. He was critical of
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 39: another member that was up for nomination, and he is
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 39: not living by his own word in regards to what
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 39: is expected of a member of that commission. um he
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 39: still hasn't come clean he needs to come clean and
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 39: it really casts a shadow of doubt as to his
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 39: um his abilities to to not only lead the commission
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 39: but to vote fairly and.
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  Speaker 2: Um openly yeah that's That's one of the things with
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: that particular commission. Obviously, it's been the source of controversy
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: for some time now. There does appear to be this
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: sort of, like I said, this sort of top-down, we
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: know what's best for everybody. And part of it, I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: wish that people in Old Lyme would see more of that.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: And I think they were headed in that direction with...
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: the issue with the most recent appointment. And that just
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: showed that that commission doesn't, in my opinion, doesn't really
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: seem to care about what the people think. I mean,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: you were at that meeting with the potential appointment of
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Mike Barnes, who seemed to have the support of tons
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: and tons of people. And he was rejected in favor
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: of someone that didn't but was more in line with
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: the way of thinking of current members of that commission. So,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is very frustrating. And now we have
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  Speaker 2: the potential for another building at the Hideaway Plaza, right?
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 39: I would think there's potential there just based on, you know,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 39: the footprint– maybe people don't even pay attention to it
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 39: anymore because you become kind of blind to it. But, yeah,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 39: there's been a foundation on one side of that property
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 39: that's been there forever that's never been built. So I
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 39: would definitely think that there's potential to increase the size
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 39: of that shopping plaza Which, you know, that would be
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 39: a good thing. I mean, there's a lot of deferred
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 39: maintenance there. I've spoken to tenants over there that really
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 39: had trouble with the previous owners getting anything fixed or upgraded. So,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 39: you know, it's a good thing that it's been sold
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 39: and under new management, and I hope to see good
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 39: things there.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I do too.
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  Speaker 2: And You know, I think one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: is concerning, though, is, I mean, you know, with the
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: potential zoning changes that seemed like taxpayers rejected regarding that particular.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Road, you know, being more developed.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: And turning into something that, you know, a lot of
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: people in Old Lyme don't want. But that zoning commission
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: seems pretty hell-bent on giving taxpayers the people of Old Lyme,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: and it just, you know, remains to be seen. But
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: if people want to get involved and learn more and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: be part of it, and that's one of the things
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to, you know, in my role, and as
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: I leave my role as state rep, is trying to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: get people more involved, what should people do?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 39: Number one, stay informed. We, the Old Lyme Republican Town Committee,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 39: has an active Facebook group So we try to highlight
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 39: things that are going on. You can like and follow.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 39: We have our webpage up if you want information about
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 39: Brandy Campbell. It's front and center. Come out to the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 39: zoning workshops. I believe there's going to be one more.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 39: And you're always welcome to come to an RTC meeting.
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  Speaker 39: Our next one is this Thursday coming up. And it's
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 39: right at our headquarters, 83 Halls Road. uh, right in the,
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  Speaker 39: in the heart of the, right in the thick of
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 39: it there on halls road, uh, next to Duncan.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and, uh, no, that's, and that's, that's fantastic.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: That's a great, you know, and I hope, uh, hope
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: our listeners who live in old lime really, uh, really
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: take that to heart and want to get involved. Um, and, uh,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: so if somebody, you know, if somebody, uh, wants to
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: go down to that headquarters, uh, Can they, you know,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: let's say nobody's there, what should they do?
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 39: If no one is there, you can certainly contact us
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 39: through Facebook is one of the easiest ways. And we
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 39: are going to be posting ours shortly because we got
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 39: a bunch of political signs from the various candidates that
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 39: we would love to distribute and meet people that want
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 39: to come in and get them. And that'll be posted
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 39: very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and I appreciate that, John.
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  Speaker 2: And before I let you go, I know you're a
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: long-suffering Mets fan.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Who do you got in the Yankees Red Sox series?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 39: Oh, well, I got to go again. I mean, I
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 39: grew up a little further west down the Connecticut shoreline,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 39: and that was definitely Yankee territory, so got to go
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  Speaker 39: with the Pinstripes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. All right, well, thank you, John, and
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: I hope people will get involved.
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  Speaker 2: And you do a great job as a selectman in
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  Speaker 2: Old Lyme, and as always, it's great talking to you.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, John.
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  Speaker 2: is someone who I Got to know very well in
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  Speaker 2: my time in the legislature.
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  Speaker 1: And she's great.
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  Speaker 2: And she's my former minority leader, Themis Claratus. Themis, how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 24: Good morning, Devin. I'm always happy to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always happy to talk to you, too. You taught
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  Speaker 2: me a lot over the six years.
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  Speaker 1: That we were in the legislature together.
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  Speaker 2: So I always love hearing your perspective on things because
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  Speaker 24: Well, generally speaking. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So the first thing I want to talk about is
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  Speaker 2: this whole Costa Diamantis scandal. So right now he has
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  Speaker 2: fled to Greece. And if you could just give the
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  Speaker 2: listeners just a rundown of how he ended up getting there.
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  Speaker 24: He was convicted on 21 counts of crime. fraud, bribery,
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  Speaker 24: et cetera, last year in the spring. And he was
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 24: supposed to show up.
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  Speaker 25: I'm sorry, I'm a little cold.
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  Speaker 24: He was supposed to show up for a sentencing hearing
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  Speaker 24: last week, and the night before he told his attorney,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 24: Norm Pettis, that he will not be showing up, he
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  Speaker 24: is in Greece. He is an American citizen, obviously. He
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  Speaker 24: was a state representative. Actually, I served with him for
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 24: a few years. Then he became the deputy secretary of OPM,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 24: which is the Office of Policy and Management in charge
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 24: of school construction for the state of Connecticut. And that's
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  Speaker 24: where he got himself into the trouble that he ended
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 24: up on trial for. And he's an American citizen, but
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  Speaker 24: he's also a Greek citizen. And when he was during
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  Speaker 24: the trial, he.
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  Speaker 24: I mean, on the record, you see it in the
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  Speaker 24: court records. I mean, if you look it up, you
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  Speaker 24: can read it. The judge said, the federal judge, well,
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  Speaker 24: we have your American passport. The clerk has it in
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 24: their possession. Obviously, we're going to keep it because that's
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 24: a typical thing you do, right? When somebody is on
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 24: the verge of being sentenced to possibly many years in prison,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 24: they take your passport. But the judge said, well, here
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 24: you have a Greek passport. We need to have that, too.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 24: And he said, well... You know, my dad had left
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 24: me some property in Greece, and the passport is in Greece.
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  Speaker 34: So I don't.
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  Speaker 24: Have it with me right now because I need to
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 24: transfer that property. And the judge said, okay. I mean,
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  Speaker 24: he said I need to get the passport, but he
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 24: still let him out on bond, which was a big mistake.
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  Speaker 24: I don't really understand why that happened because he left
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  Speaker 24: and he's in Greece now. But once he got to Greece,
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  Speaker 24: the interesting part of it is he's been calling every
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  Speaker 24: reporter in the state of Connecticut, and I'm sure outside
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 24: of the state of Connecticut, and doing interviews, doing Zoom interviews,
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  Speaker 24: doing phone interviews, and explaining what his situation is. He
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  Speaker 24: doesn't believe that he was actually should have been found guilty.
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  Speaker 24: He doesn't want to be in Greece per se, but
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  Speaker 24: he felt he had no choice because he shouldn't be
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 24: going to jail, you know, yada, yada, yada. And so
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  Speaker 24: that's where he is. And he's been doing literally interviews
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  Speaker 24: every single day. And he is a Greek citizen. So Connecticut,
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  Speaker 24: the United States has an extradition treaty with Greece from 1931.
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  Speaker 24: So we, they need to send him back if he
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  Speaker 24: was an American citizen. But the glitch is he's a
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  Speaker 24: Greek citizen. They don't have to surrender him, meaning send
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  Speaker 24: him back. And what they will look at, in addition
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 24: to the fact that he's a Greek citizen, is if
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  Speaker 24: this is a political persecution. And that's what he is pushing.
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  Speaker 24: He's asked President Trump for a pardon, and he's trying
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 24: to make the Greek government believe that this is a
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 24: political persecution. And that's his message. He wrote a 10-page
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  Speaker 24: email to his attorney who he told that he should
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  Speaker 24: distribute to anybody that wanted to see it before he left.
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  Speaker 24: And that's where we are with it now. I mean,
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  Speaker 24: the president obviously has not pardoned him. The Greek government,
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  Speaker 24: I can't imagine, is going to turn him over because, again,
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  Speaker 24: he's a citizen of Greece, and they believe it's a
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 24: political persecution. So that's where he is right now. So
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  Speaker 24: every day that starts, you never know what you're going
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 24: to hear from Costa Diamante.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this whole thing is crazy, and it's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: been going on for, I don't know, probably five or
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: six years now when it all came to light that,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: that he was involved in corruption and all those things.
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  Speaker 2: So if he, because I was reading something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if he goes to another country, then at that point,
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  Speaker 2: which he probably wouldn't, I'd imagine he wouldn't do, but
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  Speaker 2: if he goes to a nearby country, they could extradite
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  Speaker 2: him back to the United States. They wouldn't extradite him
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  Speaker 2: to Greece, or would they extradite him to Greece?
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  Speaker 24: Well, because... The whole reason they're not, Greece isn't extraditing
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 24: him back here is because he's a Greek citizen. But
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 24: I agree with you. I can't imagine he would go
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 24: to another country because then he has no protection of citizenship, right?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 24: So if the United States finds out that he is in,
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  Speaker 24: I don't know, Portugal, and we have an extradition treaty
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 24: with Portugal or Italy or whatever, they'll go right to
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 24: their government and say, listen, you need to send him
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 24: back because he's not supposed to be there and he's
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 24: basically on the lambs.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 50: Right.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 24: It's really it's crazy. And he. You know, he he's
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 24: a quirky guy. I mean, I don't you didn't serve
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 24: with him, right?
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  Speaker 13: No.
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  Speaker 24: He was there for a few years when I was
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 24: first there. You know, he's a quirky guy. He's a lawyer.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 24: He's not stupid. He generally understands the legal system. And
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 24: he doesn't believe he's guilty. And he believes that he
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 24: was politically persecuted by Governor Lamont, by Joe Biden, he believes.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 24: And I mean, this is the story he's telling, that
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 24: Governor Lamont and former President Biden were in cahoots to
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 24: do this to him. And that's what he's hanging his
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 24: hat on, why he should be pardoned, and at the
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 24: very least, why he shouldn't be sent back.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. And I know of a.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: Former colleague of yours and a current colleague of mine,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: you probably know who I'm talking about from the same
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: city as Costa told me that she will do everything
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: in her power to make sure he does not get
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: a pardon from the Trump administration. And she knows people
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: in the Trump administration. So I think that would be
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: pretty hilarious to hear some of those conversations. One of
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: the things I was also thinking about is Now in
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: the news, after this whole thing happened with Costa, you know,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: he fled, a judge just told a former senator, Dennis Bradley,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: that he can leave the country before he's scheduled to
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: be sentenced.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think about that?
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 24: No, I read the same thing. I think he said
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 24: he could leave the country for his brother's wedding, right?
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 24: I don't understand what the judges are thinking. I mean—
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 24: I just don't understand it. If I were a judge
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 24: and I knew that somebody that was before me that
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 24: had been convicted of a crime had the ability to
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 24: leave the country and not come back, I would never
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 24: let them leave.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 24: I would never let them leave. And I think it's
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 24: the Dominican, right?
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 35: Is it?
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 39: Yes.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: Punta Cana.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 34: Right.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 7: And.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 24: It's his brother who recently, who's a lawyer in his
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 24: law firm, Mark Bradley, I think his name is. He
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 24: just ran in a primary against one of the Gannon
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 24: brothers for judge of probate because probate judge Gannon was
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 24: being primaried by Mark Bradley, and then he lost. So,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 24: you know, these people are just playing cards. fast and
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 24: loose with the law, and I don't understand why the
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 24: judges are allowing it. I think it's very nice that
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 24: he wants to go to his brother's wedding, but you're
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 24: basically accused and convicted of a crime at this point.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole thing is, and with this, this is
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: just another scandal going on in Connecticut that has been
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: pretty interesting to follow. I mean, sad, but but interesting
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: regarding the former state senator and his corruption and his
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: voter fraud, and also with his brother. I think his
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: brother attempted to vote in both, I think it was Mark,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: attempted to vote in both Massachusetts and Connecticut, if I'm
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: not wrong, and in Massachusetts as a Republican.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 24: Right, and Bradley is, former Senator Bradley scheduled to be
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 24: sentenced December 3rd on these federal wire fraud and conspiracy.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 35: Charges.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 24: But the other interesting turn in this Bradley situation is
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 24: his attorney filed paperwork asking a judge to grant the
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 24: approval for him to go to the Dominican to attend
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 24: his brother's wedding. And since 2024, Dennis Bradley has been
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 24: allowed to travel to Florida and the Dominican and California
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 24: while out on bond. I don't understand that. This is
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 24: not the first time the judge has led him either.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it either. I mean, the whole thing
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: with him is crazy. And, you know, but that is
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: Bridgeport for you.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 24: Yeah, but you know what? It's Bridgeport for you, but
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 24: this is a United States District Court judge, right? So
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 24: this isn't some, you know, schlocky local judge. This is
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 24: a federal judge. So I don't understand it.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: I don't understand it either.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 24: You know, especially after, you know, Costa, you know, ran away.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: The optics are very bad.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: And it kind of, you know, loses confidence in the
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: system when this is allowed to happen. Because a lot
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: of people, I mean, these people, I'm assuming, former State
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: Senator Bradley and Costa, I mean, I don't know if
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: they're broke now, but, you know, they know people in
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: the system.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: They have money.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: They have access to good attorneys. And not everybody does.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people would not be afforded these
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: same opportunities that these two were given in some ways
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: because of, you know, their connections probably and the amount
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: of money they're able to spend.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: So it is it does.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: You know, give people, you know, less confidence, certainly in
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: the system, because these are.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: The people that you want to hold.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: More accountable because of the positions they were in, because
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: of the power they had. And and it's just really
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: a shame that this is taking up the news because
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: it is, quite frankly, very embarrassing.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 24: And, you know, we've seen it in all the years
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 24: we've been in office. That. You know, it seems year
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 24: after year, the trust in your elected officials continues to diminish, right?
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 40: Yeah.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 24: People trust their elected officials less and less. And it just,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 24: it's heartbreaking to me. And that's why when different things
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 24: have happened throughout time with different elected officials, as upsetting
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 24: as it is, you know, my comment has always been
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 24: the worst part of this is it makes everybody else
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 24: look bad.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 24: And the good people that we know, that run for
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 24: office and get elected for all the right reasons, they
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 24: want to do what's right for their town or their
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 24: city or their state, they get painted with a broad
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  Speaker 24: We're seeing this with every poll, whether it's Republican pollster
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  Speaker 24: average twenty five now within a lot of seats there's
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  Speaker 24: And those are leading to the Democrat side, a lot
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  Speaker 24: have 53 Republicans in the U.S. Senate and 45 Democrats.
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  Speaker 8: There's two Republicans.
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  Speaker 24: There's two independents, a caucus of the Democrats, but it's 53-45, effectively.
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  Speaker 24: And what we're seeing now with all the polls is
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  Speaker 24: 48 lean Democrats, 47 lean are, and five are toss-ups.
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  Speaker 24: That's a huge deal. When you have a state like Iowa,
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  Speaker 24: I mean, and people vote with their pocketbooks, right? And
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  Speaker 24: gas is through the roof, and food is through the roof,
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  Speaker 24: and the president's popularity... you know, continues to be low.
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  Speaker 24: And that's how people end up voting in the midterm.
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  Speaker 24: You know, the Iran conflict is affecting people a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely, you know, it's concerning.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and some of its candidates, you know, Texas,
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  Speaker 24: Well, you know, just to stay on Texas for a second,
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  Speaker 24: He didn't really decide not to run again. He got
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  Speaker 24: primaried by the Attorney General in Texas, but because President
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  Speaker 51: Right.
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  Speaker 24: And you now have this– so now you have Paxton
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  Speaker 40: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: high in the 60s today. Eastline police have paused the
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  Speaker 11: use of the flock license plate readers over community concerns.
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  Speaker 11: The department will review state guidelines before deciding whether to
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  Speaker 11: resume use. State police arrested 42-year-old Juan Betancourt after he
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  Speaker 11: allegedly set fire to a DOC residential facility in Montville
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  Speaker 11: last week. All 23 residents were safely evacuated. And no
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  Speaker 11: injuries were reported. Betancourt faces arson and other charges and
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  Speaker 11: was held on $ 250, 000 bond. Residents near Millstone Power Station
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  Speaker 11: will soon receive nuclear emergency alerts directly on cell phones
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  Speaker 11: instead of relying on outdoor sirens. The new FEMA-based system
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  Speaker 11: is designed to provide faster alerts to people within the
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  Speaker 11: 10-mile emergency zone. The state DOT is proposing year-round staffing
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  Speaker 11: and a consistent opening schedule for the Mystic Drawbridge. The
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  Speaker 11: change would eliminate the six-hour advance notice required for some
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  Speaker 11: winter openings and make it easier for boaters to pass through.
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  Speaker 11: The Coast Guard is accepting public comments through October 19th.
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  Speaker 11: Three Charo High School students were allegedly stabbed with a
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  Speaker 11: metal tool by another student during welding class last week.
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  Speaker 11: One victim's mother is seeking charges. and answers from the school.
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  Speaker 11: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 10: When news breaks, we break in.
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  Speaker 20: The Densmore Oil and Bugbee Plumbing Seat of Honor.
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  Speaker 10: All right, good morning, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit after 8.
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  Speaker 2: This is Devin Carney, and I am guest hosting this
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  Speaker 2: morning on 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. My next
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  Speaker 2: guest is a good friend of mine and a colleague
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  Speaker 2: of mine, and he represents the 45th District of the
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  Speaker 2: state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: And I know it's Griswold. I think part of Plainfield.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll let you finish the rest.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: State Representative Brian Lanoue. How's it going, Brian?
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  Speaker 35: Representative Carney, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 25: Good.
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  Speaker 3: How about you?
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  Speaker 35: How's everything?
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: You doing good? You get through the storm all right?
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  Speaker 35: We did great. We're getting through the storm and staying dry.
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  Speaker 35: And yeah, just hunkered down here, had a relaxing weekend.
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  Speaker 35: And yeah, everything has gone well so far.
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  Speaker 15: Good.
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  Speaker 35: My goodness, so now radio talk show hosts add to
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  Speaker 35: the resume. Move over, Adrian Kronauer, Devin Carney, stick him over.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to take this national. So, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I couldn't. I know there was redistricting. So
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  Speaker 2: it's Griswold, all of Lisbon, all of Voluntown.
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  Speaker 1: I said Plainfield. All of Voluntown, part of Ledyard and
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  Speaker 1: part of Preston.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 35: All of Preston.
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  Speaker 8: All of Preston.
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  Speaker 35: I got the Route 12 corridor of Lisbon.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 35: So I share Lisbon with Doug Dubitsky, a great, great
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  Speaker 35: partner up there in Lisbon. And then, of course, the ledger,
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  Speaker 35: I have Greg Howard. Me and Greg share a ledger
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  Speaker 35: as well as the 139th down there with Larry Pemberton.
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  Speaker 13: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 35: So, yeah, we went through some changes, as you know,
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  Speaker 35: with the census in 2022. So, actually, Mike France, who
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  Speaker 35: had the 42nd District, you know, that's now down in
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  Speaker 35: Fairfield County. So, I'm actually very proud that Mike's there.
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  Speaker 35: a constituent of mine. So he's in 45th now.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike may be listening. So Mike Fjarr, Brian and
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  Speaker 2: I say hi. So you've been in office, when did
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  Speaker 2: you come in?
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  Speaker 15: 2018?
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  Speaker 1: Is that when you got elected?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, I was there. I got elected in 2018. I
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  Speaker 35: had gone against a guy who was there for 22 years.
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  Speaker 35: And first time running for office. And I remember one
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  Speaker 35: of the guys who gave me a lot of good
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  Speaker 35: sound advice along the way was always encouraging me was
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  Speaker 35: none other than Mr. Devin Carney himself. And, uh, I
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  Speaker 35: remember you encouraging me and, uh, uh, Paul Formica, Mike France,
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  Speaker 35: some others, and you guys were just a great support
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  Speaker 35: team and, uh, making sure I was, uh, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 35: staying on track. Of course, my predecessor, Kevin Skolciak was
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  Speaker 35: also a great mentor. So it was, uh, uh, had
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  Speaker 35: a lot of great, great, uh, uh, folks up there really, uh,
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  Speaker 35: guiding me and also, of course, the people, you know,
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  Speaker 35: getting to the doors and knocking the doors. I went
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  Speaker 35: to 5,000 doors that cycle, and I've been able to
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  Speaker 35: reach that every cycle since. And really that's the backbone
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  Speaker 35: of the whole thing is getting out there and having
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  Speaker 35: those direct conversations one front porch at a time. And
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  Speaker 35: hearing all those great ideas, as you do, Devin, all
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  Speaker 35: those cycles you've run, you know, that's where the ideas
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  Speaker 35: come from, right? That's where a lot of the solutions
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  Speaker 35: come from are ran for people's front porches and given
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  Speaker 35: those ideas and kind of put the consensus together and
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  Speaker 35: submit it as legislation and hopefully get some of those
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  Speaker 35: things passed as laws.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've done a good job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you always propose bills that seem to get
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  Speaker 2: over the finish line, which isn't always easy for folks
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  Speaker 2: in the minority party to do. But you've done a
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  Speaker 2: very good job of doing that, and you are actually
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  Speaker 2: getting an award. I don't think the bill passed, but
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  Speaker 2: you're getting an award for championing a bill from this
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  Speaker 2: past legislative session. So why don't you tell us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about that?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, it's going to be from the Family Institute of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 35: It's called the Stetson Award for Legislator of the Year.
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  Speaker 35: I'm very honored to be receiving that. So I've, during
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  Speaker 35: my time in the legislature, I've certainly advocated for children
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  Speaker 35: and parental rights and parents in our state. So You know,
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  Speaker 35: in Connecticut, to get your ear, for a girl to
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  Speaker 35: get her ears pierced or a child to get, somebody
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  Speaker 35: under 18 to get a tattoo requires parental consent, right?
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  Speaker 35: To get, to have dental work done requires parental consent.
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  Speaker 35: But yet when it comes to abortion and contraceptive services,
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  Speaker 35: not even a parental notice is required.
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  Speaker 33: Right.
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  Speaker 35: Where somebody can take a girl as young as 11
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  Speaker 35: years old for an abortion, and parents aren't even being told.
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  Speaker 35: And I know a lot of people, when you bring
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  Speaker 35: up the A word, people get nervous. They get a
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  Speaker 35: little excited about that. But really, this has very little
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  Speaker 35: to do with abortion. This has to do with parents
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  Speaker 35: having the right to know, to just be told 48
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  Speaker 35: hours ahead of time that their minor daughter is having
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  Speaker 35: a major surgery. They haven't facing a major decision. And
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  Speaker 35: parents should absolutely be involved in that. And the bill
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  Speaker 35: I proposed would do just that. We were able to
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  Speaker 35: get a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee. We
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  Speaker 35: heard over 300 people testified that day, both orally and
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  Speaker 35: with written testimony. And, you know, to be fair, a
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  Speaker 35: number of Democrats also signed on as co-sponsors and people
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  Speaker 35: who identify as both pro-choice and pro-life. because they recognize
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  Speaker 35: the importance of parental rights, right, and how that is
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  Speaker 35: absolutely fundamental. It's constitutionally protected in the United States Constitution.
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  Speaker 35: And so we got over 300 people to testify. Nearly
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  Speaker 35: 80 percent were in favor of the legislation. Unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 35: Democrat majority did not advance the bill out of committee,
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  Speaker 35: but were able to get it to a hearing. And
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  Speaker 35: as you know, that's a major first step is to
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  Speaker 35: be able to have a hearing on the bill. Most
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  Speaker 35: bills do not get hearings. We're able to get that
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  Speaker 35: for the first time in 35 years, and I certainly
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  Speaker 35: think that was very important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the things that, you know, is always,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it fascinates the right word, but
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  Speaker 2: about some of this stuff around age in our laws.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like certain things, you know, my friends
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  Speaker 2: on the other aisle want to reduce the age, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some medical procedures, some voting, things like that. But then
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, they're saying that, well, the human
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  Speaker 2: brain isn't developed until age 25. So, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you murder someone... Well, you don't—I mean, you should still
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  Speaker 2: be tried as a minor until you're 25 years old.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, it just doesn't—it doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 35: No, it certainly doesn't. And, you know, as you said,
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  Speaker 35: the brain don't fully develop to 25, and they've been
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  Speaker 35: making arguments that that's why some people should be getting
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  Speaker 35: early release and whatnot from prison. And like you said,
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  Speaker 35: with capital cases— But yet they have the same expectation
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  Speaker 35: that an 11- or 12-year-old girl that finds herself in
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  Speaker 35: that situation, a child can make that decision all by
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  Speaker 35: herself without parents even being told what is going on.
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  Speaker 35: And to me that's just absolutely unacceptable. Thirty-two other states
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  Speaker 35: have some sort of parental notice in place. including Massachusetts
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  Speaker 35: and Rhode Island, our neighboring states, but yet not here
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  Speaker 35: in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 48: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, all right, well, you know, you're being honored for that.
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  Speaker 2: And what else have you done? I mean, you told
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  Speaker 2: me demand charges on farmers. Can you go into a
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  Speaker 2: little about that?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, perfect. So in Jewett City— There's the Jewish City Greenhouses.
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  Speaker 35: They have, I believe, the fourth generation of greenhouses. And
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  Speaker 35: Luke D'Amico, who is the owner and operator of those greenhouses, he,
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  Speaker 35: just one night out of the entire year, he's on
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  Speaker 35: Eversource Natural Gas. And he had exceeded the daily limit
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  Speaker 35: literally for one night out of the entire year. And
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  Speaker 35: he got thrown into this very excessive demand charge for
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  Speaker 35: the remainder 365 days. So for the next year, he
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  Speaker 35: was locked in to this very high demand charge. And
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  Speaker 35: just like many other farmers and ag growers in the
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  Speaker 35: state of Connecticut, you have your harvest season, you have
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  Speaker 35: your growing season. where for a very short period of
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  Speaker 35: time you may use a certain amount of natural gas
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  Speaker 35: or energy, and then for the rest of the year, nine,
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  Speaker 35: ten months out of the year, you're using zero, nothing, right?
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  Speaker 35: But yet our farmers are paying an excessive demand charge
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  Speaker 35: because they exceeded one daily limit, right? So the bill
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  Speaker 35: I had proposed this past year, Lou had testified with
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  Speaker 35: me on it, in front of the Energy Committee would
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  Speaker 35: essentially make it a quarterly assessment. So whatever your daily
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  Speaker 35: limit is for any one given day, you're only locked
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  Speaker 35: in for three months. So then the clock would reset again.
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  Speaker 35: So if you're not using any natural gas, for example,
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  Speaker 35: in the other nine months, you pay zero demand charge.
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  Speaker 35: And that's what the bill called for. The Energy Committee
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  Speaker 35: had changed that to a study where the commissioner, the
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  Speaker 35: deep commissioner um, has to examine us and report back
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  Speaker 35: to the committee by January. So, um, we will be, oh,
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  Speaker 35: certainly working with the commissioner, uh, meet with the commissioner, uh,
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  Speaker 35: to hopefully, uh, she, they will give a, a favorable, um, uh,
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  Speaker 35: nod to the, uh, to the, the quarterly charge and, uh, to,
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  Speaker 35: to quarterly assessment. Um, and I think, I think that,
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  Speaker 35: that will hopefully drive, uh, work at driving down some
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  Speaker 35: of the food costs and, uh, that we are facing
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  Speaker 35: in our state and our families are facing. So we'll
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  Speaker 35: continue to help support our farmers, fight for our farmers.
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  Speaker 1: No, and I think that's great.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I don't think people realize how many
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  Speaker 2: farms we actually have in the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know about how many you have in your district?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, we have quite a few. I mean, I would
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  Speaker 35: say it's certainly a very agricultural district. a district there's um...
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  Speaker 35: you know those doors at one but what kind of
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  Speaker 35: quite a few dairy farms my grandfather was one of
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  Speaker 35: them back in the you know fifties and sixties unfortunately
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  Speaker 35: we're losing our farms we're losing our dairy uh... we're
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  Speaker 35: losing many other of the uh... areas of agriculture in
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  Speaker 35: our state because of the cost involved with it particularly
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  Speaker 35: energy costs i mean we have some of the most
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  Speaker 35: expensive energy uh... costs in the entire country uh... and
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  Speaker 35: So we need to do something about that. And obviously,
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  Speaker 35: that was another bill I had put in with Representative
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  Speaker 35: Dubitsky since 2021, that we need to get this task
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  Speaker 35: force together to look at possibly breaking up the monopoly.
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  Speaker 35: Let's look at breaking up Eversource and part of that
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  Speaker 35: and how feasible that would be. And one of the
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  Speaker 35: alternatives we need to look at with that is possibly
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  Speaker 35: municipal electric companies, right? For example, I'm in Griswold. JEWISH
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  Speaker 35: CITY HAS A MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. IF A, IF ALL
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  Speaker 35: OF GRIZ, HYPOTHETICALLY IF ALL OF GRIZ WILL WANT TO
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  Speaker 35: GET SERVICE BY JEWISH CITY OR OTHER TOWNS WANTED TO
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  Speaker 35: LATCH ON, THE MUNICIPAL UTILITY WANTS TO SERVICE ADDITIONAL TOWNS,
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  Speaker 35: THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT. HOW PRACTICAL WOULD
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  Speaker 35: IT BE TO BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE WIRES AND
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  Speaker 35: THE POLES FROM EVERSOURCE TO BE ABLE TO SWITCH IT
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  Speaker 35: OVER to a municipal public utility. So those are the
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  Speaker 35: things we need to start looking at. We need to
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  Speaker 35: start looking at competition. We need to start looking at
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  Speaker 35: more options. We're in 2026 here. You know, if you
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 35: go in the store, there's 25 different flavors of ice cream. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 35: something that's life or death. Energy is essential. And we
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  Speaker 35: have one option. We need to do better than that.
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  Speaker 35: We need to start looking at alternatives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's certainly a big topic, this current election.
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  Speaker 2: And it's important to look at, I mean, what you've done.
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  Speaker 2: It's important to look at creative ways to reduce the
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  Speaker 2: cost of energy. It's not just going to happen. And
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  Speaker 2: we need those ideas. And, you know, thank you and
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  Speaker 2: Representative Dubitsky for bringing those types of ideas to the table.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly with the other one, you know, both of you,
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  Speaker 2: advocating for our farmers. I mean, it's really just so
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  Speaker 2: vital that they have that voice in Hartford. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the other things I know that's going on in
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  Speaker 2: your district, you told me, is a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are complaining about out-of-control driving. And so what are your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on that? What do you tell people when they
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 2: call you up and they say, Brian, you know, Cars
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: are speeding, cars are weaving in and out, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just worse than before.
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  Speaker 1: What do you tell your constituents?
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  Speaker 35: Certainly their concerns are valid. I see it myself. And,
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  Speaker 35: you know, unfortunately, I hate to say this, but this
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  Speaker 35: is the example where elections have consequences. As you remember
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  Speaker 35: all too well, Dr. Devin was when during in 2020,
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  Speaker 35: we had a special session, but I think it was
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 35: roughly about 30 days before the general election when the
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 35: Democrat majority passed the quote police accountability bill that really
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 35: neutered our police in so many different ways. Took away
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 35: qualified immunity where our police, every time they try to
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  Speaker 35: do their jobs, They try to be proactive. They risk
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  Speaker 35: being sued by every possible criminal element. It puts themselves
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  Speaker 35: and it puts their families in financial jeopardy where every
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  Speaker 35: time they try to do their job, they could potentially
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  Speaker 35: be sued. That bill was an absolute disaster for the
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  Speaker 35: state of Connecticut. That bill was a disaster for our communities.
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  Speaker 35: And what we're seeing with... the, uh, out of control speeders,
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  Speaker 35: our police are very reluctant to, uh, to try to,
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  Speaker 35: you know, be, be proactive and I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 35: And since this bill has, has passed, we have seen, um,
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  Speaker 35: more out of control speeders, more reckless driving, uh, crime
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  Speaker 35: has gone up in many, many places. And this unfortunately
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 35: is a result of when we pass this type of
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  Speaker 35: legislation that really, um, handcuffs our police. This is the
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  Speaker 35: result of that.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 46: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And I was there for that vote. But, Brian, I
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 2: want to thank you for coming on. Where can people
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  Speaker 2: learn more about you if they want to call you
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  Speaker 2: or learn just a little bit more?
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  Speaker 35: Yeah, they certainly can call me anytime. My home number
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 35: is 376-9354. I'm on Facebook. I have a campaign website.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 35: You can certainly Google that. and certainly my legislative pages
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 35: as well. So we were on those platforms, and I
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 35: invite people to check it out anytime.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's wonderful having you here, Brian, and I look
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 2: forward to talking to you soon. And this has been 94.9
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  Speaker 3: Let me say this.
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  Speaker 51: Devin Carney is maybe the biggest American patriot since probably me.
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  Speaker 10: He works hard, not as hard as me.
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  Speaker 51: But Devin is a good guy, and we have been
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  Speaker 51: friends for a long, long time. Biggest Devin problem is
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  Speaker 51: he and a Mets fan. Mets fans are losers, losers
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  Speaker 51: with a capital O. But let's get back to Devin
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  Speaker 51: filling in for Lee Elsie, the voice of freedom.
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  Speaker 36: Devin.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, it's crazy what artificial intelligence can do.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but, uh, Mets fans are not losers.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, in fact, I, my, my next guest, uh, and
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  Speaker 2: this is Devin Carney with 94.9 news.
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  Speaker 1: Now in stimulating talk.
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  Speaker 2: My next guest is also a Mets fan and he's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's also a Giants fan and he's, uh, he's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: And he's from one of the towns I represent, Old Saybrook.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to introduce Vinnie McElhone. Vinnie, how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Devin. Very, very good. Glad to be here. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for having me, as always, on the Lee Elsie Show.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit about you, about your comedy.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've performed a little.
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  Speaker 43: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been doing it for over 30 years. And
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  Speaker 3: I started out way back when, when I was... Young guy,
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  Speaker 3: early 30s, and hitting the road. I started out in
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  Speaker 3: New York City and branched out, did clubs and casinos
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  Speaker 3: and all that all over the country. I traveled a
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  Speaker 3: lot in my real business. I was in the plastics
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  Speaker 3: business for 40 years. And when I traveled, a great
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  Speaker 3: deal for companies that I was working for and representing.
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  Speaker 3: I would do stand-up on the road at clubs all
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  Speaker 3: over the country, at nearby cities and all that. So
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing it for quite a while.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's really neat. And plastic. So you heeded the advice
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  Speaker 1: of the graduate.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct. So I did that, and that got me
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  Speaker 3: basically nowhere. No, it gave me a great career. I
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  Speaker 3: had a great career, had fun, and now I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 24: Great.
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  Speaker 2: So you also, I mean, I know you're interested in politics.
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  Speaker 2: You're interested in sports. So as a Giants fan... Let's
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  Speaker 2: not talk about the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets are all done.
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  Speaker 2: As a Giants fan, what do you think about the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the season?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I think that little trumpet just
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  Speaker 3: summed up the Mets season. I didn't know he knew
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  Speaker 3: you that well, but he really does. That was great.
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  Speaker 3: And he knows me pretty well, too, because we are
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  Speaker 3: kind of feeling like losers right now. So what do
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  Speaker 3: I feel about the Mets? I just got to say that, well,
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  Speaker 3: we hope for better things next year. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Lindor had his 300th yesterday. So that was kind of nice.
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  Speaker 3: I love watching the Met games regardless because of Benj, Ewing,
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  Speaker 3: and all the young pitchers. So I feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be okay next year. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's– I mean, with all that money that Steve
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  Speaker 2: Cohen is spending, let's hope that they're able to improve
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  Speaker 2: on this.
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  Speaker 1: We seem to be saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Every year and of course pete alonzo basically uh shoved
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  Speaker 2: in our faces this year we should have resigned him
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  Speaker 2: but he had a hell of a year uh with
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 2: baltimore um but.
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  Speaker 1: Uh but he did But, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It builds character being a Mets fan, especially around here
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  Speaker 2: where everyone is either a Yankees fan or a Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox fan.
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  Speaker 3: It does build character, but unfortunately it also builds depression,
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  Speaker 3: which is what I'm dealing with right now. But it's
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  Speaker 3: painful to be a Mets fan. But, you know, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to believe, as they said, as Tug McGraw said
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  Speaker 3: back in the 73, so you've got to stay behind
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  Speaker 3: it and keep going. That's the way it goes.
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  Speaker 13: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The Giants were just as painful yesterday, just as painful.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how they pulled that off. That was
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  Speaker 3: a miracle. We like to call it Miracle at the Meadowlands,
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  Speaker 3: as it used to be. But, man, I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 3: that was a sad, sad way to pull a game off.
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  Speaker 3: But they did it.
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  Speaker 1: They did, and that's all that counts. And what do
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  Speaker 1: you think? What do you think, Jameis? Is he going
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  Speaker 1: to be the quarterback all year?
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I got to believe that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be replaced, but I'll tell you, between Jameis and Scadaboo,
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know who would win a spelling contest, but
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 3: it's got to be, it would be a fantastic competition.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see them run into each other?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: In the end zone? That was great. That really showed
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  Speaker 3: some quality. I can't imagine being dart watching that happen,
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  Speaker 3: how depressed a kid must be.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, you know, Jameis fared better than, well, Tommy DeVito,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't stink when he was playing yesterday, but that
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  Speaker 2: was a pretty embarrassing loss.
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  Speaker 1: Did DeVito really play?
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  Speaker 10: He did play.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he did get in. I love that kid, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they pulled Drake May after he had a terrible
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  Speaker 2: performance and the Patriots got creamed. They decided to put
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  Speaker 2: tommy cutlets i like that kid yeah no and he
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  Speaker 2: was and you know he was certainly was a uh
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  Speaker 2: a fan favorite in uh in new york so you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it's fun being a new york fan it's
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 2: also difficult uh nicks though i mean we had the
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  Speaker 2: nicks the nicks are great and.
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  Speaker 3: Uh and the yankees and the red sox kick it
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  Speaker 3: off tomorrow night for three nights in the bronx so
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be fun to watch that's entertaining Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I look forward to it. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: Judge is playing, is he? What's the latest?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard both ways that he was going to– someone's
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  Speaker 3: saying he might be back, and then you're hearing that
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  Speaker 3: he's not going to make it. But three days in
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  Speaker 3: the Bronx should be fun and at least a great
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  Speaker 3: thing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: So, aside from that, you know, we've talked politics before.
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  Speaker 2: I know you have your little crew that meets at— you
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  Speaker 2: meet at Starbucks.
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  Speaker 20: You meet every day?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we do. We meet at Starbucks. I read the
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  Speaker 3: New York Post. We discuss politics in town. We whine
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  Speaker 3: and complain quite a bit. And the latest thing is
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  Speaker 3: we need— well, we need Barbara Labriola, an old saybrook, to
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  Speaker 3: take this seat. Your seat.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We need her to continue the success that you put
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  Speaker 3: in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: She has my full endorsement, and we're working hard. She's
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  Speaker 2: working hard every day to hold this seat. This seat has,
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  Speaker 2: for the last 24 years, when it came into its
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  Speaker 2: current iteration, it actually used to be a seat, the number,
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  Speaker 2: I think used to be a seat in New Britain,
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  Speaker 2: and then they did Redistricting, gosh, what was that, 2000, 2001.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it became the current iteration of it. Old Lyme
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  Speaker 2: was in a different district. Lyme and Saybrook were in
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  Speaker 2: a different one.
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook was in a different one.
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  Speaker 2: So that has always been Republican. Last 24 years, it
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  Speaker 2: was 12 years. with Marilyn Giuliano.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Marilyn very well. She was great.
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  Speaker 1: She mentored me a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's been 12 years with me. Now, we do need
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  Speaker 2: some good representation. We need someone that's going to be independent.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, on the legislature, it's 102 to 49. There
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  Speaker 2: is some concern, especially with some.
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  Speaker 1: Of the federal stuff, the that the state.
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  Speaker 2: Is also going to have– the Republicans are going to
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  Speaker 2: lose seats. And this is one that is– we need
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  Speaker 2: to hold. This is one that deserves someone who's not
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  Speaker 2: going to follow the leader. And I think that she
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  Speaker 2: would certainly do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I just read into her the other day,
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  Speaker 3: and she says she's doing well, knocking on doors, getting
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  Speaker 3: the word out. She says she's trying to, like, identify
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  Speaker 3: her campaign as doing the logical thing. She's trying to
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  Speaker 3: get things logical, to get this world, which is just
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  Speaker 3: off the rails on some of the movements going on,
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  Speaker 3: to get things logical, get things sensible to the American families,
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  Speaker 3: particularly those in Old Saybrook and that district she's going
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  Speaker 3: to try to represent.
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  Speaker 51: Yeah.
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  Speaker 45: I don't know.
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 3: I hope so. Yeah. We have that big event coming
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 3: up Friday night to this Friday.
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell us a little bit about that.
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 3: Well, this Friday is the Republican Town Committee fundraising spaghetti dinner.
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 3: They're calling it and it's being held in Old Saybrook
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 3: Friday night. And it's going to be just a dinner,
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 3: just a very, very inexpensive to attend it. Anybody can come.
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 3: So I think they're looking for everybody to come there
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 3: and spend a little bit of money and have some
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 3: fun and all that. I'm doing my act. I'm going
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 3: to be doing my comedy act at the event. Hopefully
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 3: that doesn't ruin the dinner. And I'm going to do
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 3: my best to keep it good.
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 2: Do you want to give us a little preview?
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 3: Is this FCC? We're on the radio? Yeah, I'm going
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 3: to be in big trouble. No, I'm only kidding. I
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 3: wouldn't do anything like that. I don't do it anyway. No,
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 3: I don't have a real preview for you right now,
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 3: but It'll be fun. It'll be politics. It'll be just
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 3: things we're talking about today here, sports, just things in
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 3: the town, things in the area. That's all.
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can tell you all that Vinny is hilarious.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 2: I've seen him a couple of times. He's done some
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 2: bits at other Republican functions, and you will laugh.
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: It will be something. It's not going.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, some of these rubber chicken dinners can be boring,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 2: and you.
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: Hear speeches and all that. This is not going to
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: be that.
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 3: No, this will be entertaining. You guys, whoever comes to this,
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 3: I hope there's plenty of you out there will be coming,
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 3: and it'll be fun. They're doing it at the firehouse itself,
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 3: and no, we're going to have a good time. I'm
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 3: going to customize my act. We'll make it for everybody
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 3: coming in, people from the area. We'll keep it in
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 3: the community type stuff, and family-type show. It will be.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 3: Being serious, it will. It'll be fine. It'll be fun,
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 3: and I'm looking forward to it.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not easy to be a comedian.
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 3: Well, the comedy world has changed so much because there's
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 3: so much going on with what's being accepted. You know,
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 3: they talk about things like, you know, being canceled, and
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 3: so many acts have a hard time, and if you're
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 3: conservative in any way, It was always difficult being a
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 3: conservative minded comedian. It was always difficult as it was.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 3: Now it's even more difficult. So you got to be creative.
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 3: You got to stand your ground and you got to
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 3: stay what you believe. And that's what I do. I
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 3: just keep it a middle of the road. But I
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 3: try to like I just try to have fun with
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 3: all the things that are happening, all the craziness. And
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 3: God knows there's plenty of that.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 2: And I think maybe we're shifting away from the cancel culture.
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: It seemed to be bigger before.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 2: But you have guys like Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 2: who really did not let the cancel culture affect them.
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 2: They kept their acts the same.
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 3: That's true. Well, Chappelle was one of the big ones,
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 3: as you said, for the issues he was getting into.
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 3: So they were trying to cancel Chappelle. And then about
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 3: three months later, he got a $ 10 million Netflix deal.
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 3: So I said, so much for that, you know?
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 3: You'll know Chappelle's getting canceled when he's doing spaghetti dinners
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 3: at the firehouse, all right? That's when you're going to
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 3: know he's getting canceled, because right now, that's me, okay?
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate it. We like to have somebody local.
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that crowd would be super into it.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I like Dave Chappelle. I think he's hilarious.
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that crowd would be into it.
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 3: They probably wouldn't get it. No, I think you're right.
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 24: No.
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 3: We're going to keep it very middle of the road,
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 3: and it'll be fine. I'm going to hit on all
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 3: the topics, all the hot issues that are happening in
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 3: Old Saybrook and Connecticut and National scene, too, with Trump
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 3: and the whole deal. So the midterms are coming up
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 3: on a national level, and that's going to be huge,
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 3: and I'll get into that as well. So there's all
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 3: kinds of stuff. There's plenty to play off of.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: So being someone kind of outside politics, I mean, what
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: do you see? I mean, you read the New York Post.
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: I look at the New York Post a lot.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 2: What do you see about– I mean, it makes me
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 2: laugh sometimes.
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 38: Me too.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: That's why I read it.
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 45: I love it.
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 2: And what do you see as being someone on the
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 2: outside about the upcoming election? I mean, how do you
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 2: feel– Are you, you know, about the federal stuff, the
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 2: state stuff? You know, what is the sentiment about, you know,
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 2: when you talk amongst the guys at Starbucks?
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: What is the sentiment there?
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? I go back. The basic thing,
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 3: there's so many different issues, and you can argue both
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 3: ways and bring up so many things. But with the
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 3: time we have here, just keep it simple. I look at, like,
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 3: exactly what Barbara Labriola kind of used that word, logic.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 39: Right.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just– you can go into so many
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 3: different things, financial, border, everything. There's so many things to
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 3: get into. But to keep it simple, going back to
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 3: the common sense, logical way of living this country needs
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 3: to do with financial, with the family, gender. I mean,
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 3: I'm talking everything. There's so many– There's just so many
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 3: things that we have to get logical again. I don't
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 3: know how else to articulate that right now other than
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 3: common sense.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 2: No, and I agree. And one of the things, I mean,
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 2: I'm from Old Saybrook. I live in Old Lyme now.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 2: You live in Old Saybrook. I mean, I sort of
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 2: see the town changing. I mean, a lot of new
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 2: people moved in during COVID. Not a lot of people
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 2: with kids. I mean, the graduating class is lower than
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 2: when I was there. I want to say it was
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 2: like 75 or 80 this past year. So it just
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 2: seems like the feel of the town is changing. And
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 2: do you do you feel that.
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 3: Way, too? I do. I see it all the time.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of the a lot of
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 3: things are changing. I feel for the young kids. You know,
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 3: I'm substituting at the high school now, which is pretty funny,
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 3: pretty hilarious. I substituted the high school and I'm in
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 3: there quite a bit. And I see these kids, and
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 3: I love these kids. They're fantastic. But it's such a
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 3: different feeling when I see what they're going through and
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 3: some of the issues that they're they're up against. It's
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 3: just very, very different. And I, the, the, the laid back, uh, uh,
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 3: almost like, um, the laid back everyday life that I had, okay.
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 3: Back in the seventies when I grew up versus what
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 3: these kids have today is just so complicated, so complicated,
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 3: you know, they're, about who they are and what makes
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 3: them happy and the pressure that they're under and the
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 3: stress and things like anxiety. That word anxiety, I never
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 3: used that word in my life as a kid. And
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 3: everybody is, these kids are faced with that. And adults, too.
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 3: It's just the stress, the pressure, the fear. There's so
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 3: much fear out there. I mean, and the media can
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 3: build up these fears. I see so much fear based
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 3: on whether it be your health, Or what's going to
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 3: happen to our country. I mean, there's just so much
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 3: anxiety being built up. And I just, I don't know,
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 3: the laid back, easy, logical way of life seems to
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 3: have disappeared.
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I noticed that too.
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 2: There is, and I think, you know, certainly a lot
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 2: of it is social media. and everything that gets posted
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: and everything, you know, the people, there's been such an effort,
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 2: at least that I've seen, you know, try to, to
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 2: curtail bullying.
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: And to me, it's worse than ever.
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 2: And you know, these, these, what these kids have to
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 2: deal with. And, and like you said, the media and,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 2: you know, getting into that like deep dark part of the,
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 2: the internet. I mean, we've tried to prevent some of that,
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 2: but with, with the internet, I mean, there's always, there's
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 2: always ways around it.
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: And, And it's just it does seem different.
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 3: And look at just this alone life. Life off of
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 3: the cell phone has changed everybody's lives dramatically, mine included.
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, think about the necessity of that phone in
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 3: people's hands and how they live, as opposed to like
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 3: going out and doing things that you might enjoy a
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 3: little a little less stress. Talk about stress and anxiety, depression,
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 3: all these things that come in. I mean, my God,
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 3: that phone alone, the addiction that people have in it.
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 3: Adults as well, not just the kids. It's changed dramatically
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 3: the way we live day to day. And so much so,
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 3: and the information that's on the phone. What's true? What's real?
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 3: The AI thing? I mean, I don't know what's real
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 3: day to day. Anything. Anything I see on my phone.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 3: Anything I see on television. People come in and just
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 3: talk such crazy things.
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 20: I don't know.
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 3: Is it real? I have no idea.
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 3: So how about being a kid growing up in that environment?
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't have that. You didn't have it. Kids definitely
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 3: have it today. I don't know what is really going on.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know if a video is real, if a
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 3: picture is real, if the statement is true. You got
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 3: Trump talking about this every day. I don't know what
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 3: he's saying is true. I don't know what the people
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 3: against him are saying is true. It's just it's a
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 3: roller coaster.
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 3: And I look for candidates to win that can somehow
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 3: figure out how to alleviate that or at least lessen.
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 3: lessen the roller coaster that we're on.
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 2: And that's something I always tried to do as state rep,
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 2: and I certainly see in Barbara and some other candidates,
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 2: is that really trying not to be the super antagonistic,
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk to any Democrat.
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: All Democrats are bad. We need to work together on
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: some of this stuff.
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, kids, everyone feels, I mean, most people feel
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 2: for these kids, like you were saying, and trying to
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 2: get them, you know, the best education, the best lives possible.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 2: And we need you to work together. We don't need
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 2: to say, oh, you're Republican, your idea is bad, so
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to listen to it. And it seems
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 2: to be happening more and more. And it's something, like
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 2: I said, I always tried to not do. But, you know,
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 2: some of my colleagues and certainly on the federal level,
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of people have.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 52: True.
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. But this election coming up, both
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 3: the in ways like the national election with the midterms
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 3: and as well as small-town stuff like we're dealing with
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 3: in Old Saybrook with your seat, with Barbara there. It's
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 3: all the same. Politics is always small. We know that.
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 3: The same issues that are in D.C., they filter down.
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 3: It's the same kind of things that are happening in
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 3: a little tiny town like Old Saybrook.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 13: Exactly.
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 2: You know, a town where when I first got elected,
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 2: you know, we were talking about being a substitute.
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: I actually.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 2: was a substitute in Old Sabric and Old Lime for
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit. And when I went out campaigning, I
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 2: had not been one for a few years at that point.
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 2: I went out campaigning and people say, oh, you subbed
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 2: in my class.
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: Well, you vote for me?
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 35: Sure.
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 2: I got voters from all different walks of life, a
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 2: lot from because I grew up there, but You know,
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 2: when I worked at Café Rudier, you know, substitute teaching,
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 2: where people get to know you on a more personal
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 2: level and where politics didn't come into play as much
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 2: as it does today.
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 3: When I go in and substitute a class at the
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 3: high school, I go in there and I just love
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 3: these kids because they have so much interesting things about
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 3: them that I'm loving. Things they're going to become, what
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 3: they want to be, what classes they're taking, as well
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 3: as the issues that they have that they're dealing with.
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 3: struggling with this or that. And I really like to
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 3: talk to them because, as you just said, Devin, perfectly,
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think Republican, Democrat, it's got nothing to do
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 3: with it. It's about reaching out and connecting and helping
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 3: somebody out and doing the right thing and finding some
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 3: things to help these kids just either find a direction
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 3: or maybe just enjoy what they're doing and take part
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 3: in it. I just, I don't know. I don't think
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 3: about party. I think about logic. I think about happiness.
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 3: I think about kids finding themselves, you know, and carving
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 3: out a good life for themselves. If everybody could just
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 3: think that way and get rid of all this nonsense,
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 3: I mean... the direction that we're heading right now is,
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 3: it's frightening.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: It is scary.
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 2: And one of the things I brought up at the
• 2:43:33
  Speaker 2: beginning of the show, which I'm curious to get your
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 2: thoughts on, is the idea that we may not need
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 2: to worry or think about this because AI is going
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 2: to kill us all.
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 1: So as someone outside, I don't know what the New.
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 2: York Post, I'm sure they reported on it. But do
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 2: you think, you know, T-1000 or the, you know, the
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 2: Terminator are one day going to take over and We're
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 2: just going to be running for our lives.
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 3: I believe that as much as I believe 20 years
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 3: ago we heard that climate change would have killed us
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 3: by now. So here we are. So we're here alive.
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 3: We're doing the radio show. So I say I put
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 3: very little stock into a lot of that.
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 2: And that's, I mean, it is something we're talking about,
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 2: talking about kids in school, too, that, you know, they've
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 2: got to think about, not that, you know, AI is
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 2: going to kill us all, but the idea of AI,
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 2: you know, where they, you know, some kids just rely
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 2: on it. They write papers with it, and that's really
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 2: going to come back and hurt them.
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: And you don't.
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 2: Know what is AI, what's not AI, and, you know,
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 2: what are they actually learning? If you plug in, you know,
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 2: write me a 10-page.
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: Paper about great expectations. Did they even read the book?
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 1: Did they even read that?
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 3: The kids tell me and the teachers tell me at
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 3: school that the AI thing for kids is actually becoming
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 3: so sophisticated that the colleges and things like that can
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 3: tell if the kid is using the AI for papers
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 3: and stuff. So can they really decipher and filter that?
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 3: They're telling me that they can. So I don't know
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 3: if that's accurate or not, but that's supposedly what's happening.
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 3: But what a crazy world.
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 20: I don't know.
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I read an article, and with this, I read
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 2: an article that a professor, apparently, he got all these essays,
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 2: didn't believe all the kids wrote it, immediately gave a
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 2: quiz or an essay test, and half of them failed.
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: So there you go. But, Vinny, just real quick, tell
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: us about the pasta dinner again.
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 3: The pasta dinner is Friday night, this coming Friday. I
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 3: believe it's 6 o'clock till 8 o'clock. So it's like
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 3: about a $ 20 fee. You can find more information on
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 3: it at the Old Saybrook Republican Town Committee website. I
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 3: don't know what that is exactly, but that's how you
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 3: can find it. Google it. And we're going to have
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 3: a great time, and I'm looking forward to doing it
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 3: this Friday.
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope many of you come. Vinny's hilarious. I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank him for being my guest on this show.
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  Speaker 2: And it really has been a great three hours being
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  Speaker 2: with you and being able to talk to so many
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  Speaker 2: great people. And I hope you took something away from it.
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  Speaker 2: And I look forward to talking to you all soon. This, again,
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  Speaker 2: has been Devin Carney, state rep for three more months
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  Speaker 2: for Lime Old, Lime Old, Sabric and Westbrook. And this
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  Speaker 2: is 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope you all have a wonderful rest of
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  Speaker 1: your day.