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The Lee Elci Show | 9.25.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: It goes back to the rightful owner of Lee Elsie around,
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  Speaker 1: I think, November 4th or whatever it is. So you
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  Speaker 1: got me until then going forward. But today we have
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  Speaker 1: an amazing show. So at 630, we have the Chestnut
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  Speaker 1: Theater coming on. And Joanne from the Chestnut Theater is
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  Speaker 1: going to chat with me. Everything arts. And what do
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  Speaker 1: you hear what this little theater is doing? It is
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  Speaker 1: so cool. It is such an amazing theater, 67 seats,
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  Speaker 1: 69 seats, something like that. And it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those– it's an old firehouse, and it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: theaters you get such inspiration just walking into it. Anyway, excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Then at 7, we're really going to kick the show
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  Speaker 1: into high gear with State Rep Greg Howard. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to come in, and we're going to chat all things–
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  Speaker 1: probably politics. And we'll go back and forth with friendly,
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  Speaker 1: friendly shots. Love Greg. This is a, this is a
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  Speaker 1: work in progress. And I, and I love chatting with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's got great, great ideas, great points of view, great guy.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll have a spirited conversation there. Then it's seven.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really looking forward to this. John Laboulie. John,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is, is one of my, is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorites staples on this show. And I love listening
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  Speaker 1: to John because he's sort of he's just he's just
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  Speaker 1: straight down the hour. He just tells it like it is.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Republican, as as you guys here know, and
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  Speaker 1: votes Republican and just calls it like it is. And
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  Speaker 1: that's something that I I admire in him. And he
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  Speaker 1: calls Democrats out. He calls Republicans out. And somehow a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks just think he's the bad guy, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not. He's not. He's calling it what it is,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate him for that. And I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to having a great conversation with him at the 7.30 hour.
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  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock, Hayward Gatch coming on, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: intellectual portion of this show. And he is definitely going
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  Speaker 1: to go deep, and he's going to really just challenge
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  Speaker 1: us with some different ideas that he has. And he
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  Speaker 1: is always somebody that when I listen to, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of just, I just get lost a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: what he says because it's, it's so cool. And it's
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  Speaker 1: from a different perspective. And I think you guys are
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  Speaker 1: going to like that. And then at eight 30, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to wrap it all up with lady Mo. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to come on with me and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to just have a little fun. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about things that happened on the show. Talk about the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: talk about the weather, by the way, the weather, if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have a little conversation about the weather now,
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  Speaker 1: We have, you know, a Nor'easter coming down. So if
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  Speaker 1: you guys haven't heard, it's going to get kind of windy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just so funny. And I never
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  Speaker 1: know what to really believe on social media. There's like
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  Speaker 1: three different scenarios. One is like this bomb cyclone. One
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  Speaker 1: is it's a near miss and one would just get
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  Speaker 1: hit heavy with rain. I don't know which one it is,
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  Speaker 1: but it looks like all of them has wind for us.
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  Speaker 1: and some rain. And the best reports I can come
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  Speaker 1: up with here is a couple inches of rain and
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  Speaker 1: some winds 40 to 60 miles an hour, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So you got some outside furniture, outside stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make sure you kind of tie it down
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  Speaker 1: or just kind of play it safe. And if you
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  Speaker 1: got people in this neck of the woods, and if
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  Speaker 1: you're somewhere else listening, make sure you call in and
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  Speaker 1: check in on them. So yeah, so a little story
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  Speaker 1: here that happened to me yesterday. that I thought was
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  Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I, you know, life is hard. Work
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  Speaker 1: is hard. Politics is hard for me right now on every,
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  Speaker 1: in every level. And, you know, I have, I have
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  Speaker 1: just a lot going on and a lot of stress.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the ways that I deal with stress
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  Speaker 1: on a daily routine is I go for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of walks. And one particular walk that I do every
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  Speaker 1: day is, um, around the lunchtime hour down downtown new London.
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  Speaker 1: I love going downtown to London and taking a walk
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  Speaker 1: and for lots of different reasons, there's so much to see.
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  Speaker 1: You can either go down the streets and just have
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  Speaker 1: a city kind of vibe, or you can go on
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  Speaker 1: the waterfront and, uh, you know, enjoy all the boats,
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  Speaker 1: the ships, uh, the submarines and the view and the,
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  Speaker 1: and the forts. It's just so much to see. And
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  Speaker 1: it really just sort of clears my mind. Well, yesterday, um,
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  Speaker 1: It was also a very stressful day on lots of levels.
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  Speaker 1: And so I went out. I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going for a walk. And the walk, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: from where I work on Bank Street, you know, down
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  Speaker 1: and back, it's about a mile and a half. So
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty good. It's a pretty good walk by the
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  Speaker 1: time I'm done with it. But this day I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: down and I go all the way down to Bank
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  Speaker 1: Street and I turn around as I always do. And
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  Speaker 1: the wind is sort of picking up, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: the storm approached yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going down. And on my way back, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of look across the street. And there's somebody there,
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  Speaker 1: obviously experiencing homelessness at the moment. So this is a
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  Speaker 1: guy who looked very compromised. And I could hardly walk.
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  Speaker 1: His neck was contorted in some kind of way that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't really speak and see you unless he turned his
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  Speaker 1: whole body. And the typical pushing of every a household
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  Speaker 1: item that he owns at the moment in a cart,
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  Speaker 1: that this was the guy. But in one hand, in
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  Speaker 1: one hand, he had a guitar in one hand. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking down there and I'm looking at him and
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  Speaker 1: it looked as though he was trying to push this
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  Speaker 1: cart and hold his guitar at the same time to
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  Speaker 1: this gas station, which is nearby. So I said to myself, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go check. Now, listen, I work in
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  Speaker 1: the homeless industry. I don't know this guy. This is
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  Speaker 1: not somebody I know. Excuse me. And I can't, I just,
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  Speaker 1: I've not seen him before or anything, but I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go chat with him. And so I walked across
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  Speaker 1: the street and, you know, the cars are flying by.
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  Speaker 1: And I, I say, Hey, Hey man, how's it going? And, um,
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  Speaker 1: And he was so he was like so kind. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's going OK. And, you know, you tell me a
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  Speaker 1: little story. And I said, you know, you have a
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  Speaker 1: guitar there. Do you play? And the guy says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I play. You know, my my fingers hurt a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm you know, I do it to try to
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  Speaker 1: keep dexterity going in my hands so they don't freeze up.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, oh, cool, cool. I said, may I
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  Speaker 1: try your guitar? So he said, sure, sure, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take my guitar. So I grabbed his guitar, and it was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, way out of tune, and it had some
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  Speaker 1: issues with the neck with it, something that I actually
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  Speaker 1: knew I could fix on the spot. So I took
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  Speaker 1: the guitar, and I was like, all right. So I said,
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  Speaker 1: you mind if I tune it and kind of tweak
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  Speaker 1: it up a little bit? And the guy's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sure, anything that'll help. So I took a
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  Speaker 1: little time. I adjusted some of the nuts on the
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  Speaker 1: neck there. The string weren't sitting on it properly. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sitting right against the fretboard. Anyway, I did some
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  Speaker 1: work on it a little bit. And then I tuned
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  Speaker 1: it up. It was horribly out of tune. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this guitar has been dragged all over New London. I mean, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: So no case, nothing. Just in his hand. So I
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  Speaker 1: tuned it all up and... And once I got it tuned,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, you know, and the guy was an
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  Speaker 1: older gentleman. And I just kind of just based on
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  Speaker 1: his age, I said, you know, you know any of
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  Speaker 1: these songs? And I just kind of listed a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of songs. He's like, yeah, I know them. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you want to sing them with me? And the guy's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to sing. I'll try. You know, obviously he
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  Speaker 1: had something with his throat, but he definitely could sing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So on the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: midday on Bank Street, this gentleman and myself, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know his name, we made music together. We sang
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  Speaker 1: probably four or five songs and talked about various artists
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  Speaker 1: of the 60s and 70s. That was obviously his generation.
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  Speaker 1: And we bonded. And this guy was just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so happy that I sort of took the time to
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  Speaker 1: sit with him and to just enjoy life for a while. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, we're in our own world and singing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's right on the side of the road. Cars
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  Speaker 1: are flying by. I had to get back to work,
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  Speaker 1: so after we sung a few songs and had some laughs,
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  Speaker 1: I helped push his cart to the gas station, which
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  Speaker 1: I saw that he was trying to get to, And
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  Speaker 1: I said goodbye. And he told me, like, some different
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  Speaker 1: places that he tries to play with a group or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, if I'm in the area, I'll
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  Speaker 1: try to see you, you know, whatever. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how well he plays. His hands look compromised himself. I
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  Speaker 1: did all the playing at the time. So I left
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  Speaker 1: and I started walking back to the shelter. And I
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  Speaker 1: realized that as stressful as my day life event was,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as bad as that guy not at all that
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  Speaker 1: guy had it worse and I made his day I
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  Speaker 1: made his day and I turned around watching he was
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  Speaker 1: so happy waving at me as I'm leaving and I
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  Speaker 1: realized that that's one of my superpowers it really is
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  Speaker 1: is just to kind of give to people like that
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  Speaker 1: it's a superpower and it's a curse I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that too And I think I get that from
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  Speaker 1: my mom, who's always a pleaser. My mom has just
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  Speaker 1: always just had to please everyone. And I sort of
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  Speaker 1: am that way myself. And sometimes I realize I forget
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  Speaker 1: about pleasing me. And so that's sort of the curse
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  Speaker 1: end of it is it's always for somebody else. But
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  Speaker 1: I love that. And that day, that day, that guy
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  Speaker 1: was happy. He made a friend in me. And we
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  Speaker 1: made music together on the side of the road. And
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  Speaker 1: it was just one of those things, one of those memories.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll ever see him again, but
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  Speaker 1: I know I made his day happy. And you can
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  Speaker 1: make people happy, too. You know, what you do when
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  Speaker 1: nobody's watching matters. Anyway, my name is Steve Elsey.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: of the Chestnut Theater.
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  Speaker 19: Do I have that right?
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  Speaker 1: Chestnut, okay, that's right. And this is in Norwich, correct?
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  Speaker 17: Norwich, Connecticut. We are right in the shadows of City Hall.
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  Speaker 35: Excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and you know, I've been in there a
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  Speaker 1: few times with you, and I'm just awe-inspired every time
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  Speaker 1: I go in there. What's coming up this fall that
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: we need to know about?
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  Speaker 17: We have something every month.
• 24:20
  Speaker 36: We have a jam-packed end of our season through December
• 24:23
  Speaker 36: of 2026.
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  Speaker 17: Currently, we're running Hamlet. We have a.
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  Speaker 36: Theater group in residence at Chestnut Street Playhouse. It's called
• 24:32
  Speaker 36: the New England Studio Theater, and it's directed by Michael
• 24:36
  Speaker 36: Hinton and Christine Aligreza. They are doing a revamped, updated Hamlet.
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  Speaker 36: And we are converting people, and they are coming, loving it,
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  Speaker 36: and we are selling out our tickets.
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  Speaker 17: So make sure you get.
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  Speaker 1: In until– And how do they get tickets to this?
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  Speaker 17: ChestnutStreetPlayhouse.org. Just log on there. Tickets are available. You can buy, purchase.
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  Speaker 17: No paper needed. Just show your phone and come on
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  Speaker 17: in and enjoy an entire production.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they get tickets.
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  Speaker 37: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: So that's this weekend.
• 25:06
  Speaker 36: It's community excitement buildup on that where we're excited to
• 25:09
  Speaker 36: have them there and welcome into our theater space and
• 25:12
  Speaker 36: just co-share.
• 25:13
  Speaker 17: So that's how we're closing out September.
• 25:16
  Speaker 36: And then coming into October, October 1st, we had this
• 25:19
  Speaker 36: wonderful mural that was granted to our theater. And that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 36: being done by Faith Satterfield from Murals by Faith. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 36: it's sponsored by Mosaic. And it's also funded by Kathy,
• 25:32
  Speaker 36: Senator Kathy Austin and also the mayor saying down in Norwich.
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: So.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: So these— and we'll get to a few of them. One
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: thing I want to just mention to everyone out there,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you can check us out on Rumble. You just go
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: on to Rumble, and you can see us here live.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: So that's cool. But, you know, talking about some of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: these productions, I mean— Are they practicing in the upstairs, downstairs?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Is there rehearsals going on?
• 25:57
  Speaker 17: Oh, my goodness.
• 25:57
  Speaker 36: Every part of our building is being occupied at one time.
• 26:00
  Speaker 36: So let me go through the flow of our building.
• 26:02
  Speaker 36: We're in the firehouse. It's the original firehouse in downtown Norwich.
• 26:06
  Speaker 36: So when you come in, you can still see all
• 26:08
  Speaker 36: the remnants of.
• 26:09
  Speaker 17: Where a fire truck could just kind of pull in and.
• 26:11
  Speaker 36: Uh, we like to have fun with our box office
• 26:13
  Speaker 36: used to be the old 1900 horse barn.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: So good stuff.
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  Speaker 17: But upstairs on our second floor, we have all of
• 26:18
  Speaker 17: our rehearsals.
• 26:20
  Speaker 36: Um, and we have our current production that's going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 36: be in, in October is up there. Hamlet is on
• 26:24
  Speaker 36: the first floor in our main show area and our,
• 26:27
  Speaker 36: all of our staging, um, and costumes are on the
• 26:31
  Speaker 36: third floor. So depending on where we are in a production,
• 26:35
  Speaker 36: we're using a piece of that building, the entire building.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: So, Wow.
• 26:38
  Speaker 36: Right now, and that kind of leads me into, you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 36: where we're at right now. So as Hamlet closes out
• 26:43
  Speaker 36: this weekend, don't forget to go to chestnutstreetplayhouse.org and grab
• 26:46
  Speaker 36: your tickets.
• 26:48
  Speaker 17: We have the.
• 26:50
  Speaker 36: Musical, like Stephen King, Carrie, the musical coming in for October.
• 26:54
  Speaker 36: And we are having October 31st Halloween production.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 26:58
  Speaker 17: So come on down if you're looking for something to do.
• 27:00
  Speaker 17: You know, we're doing that. They're currently on the second
• 27:03
  Speaker 17: floor right now. They're rehearsing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 36: As soon as Hamlet strikes and leaves the main stage area,
• 27:09
  Speaker 36: Carrie will come downstairs, go into full production. And that
• 27:12
  Speaker 36: leads us into open auditions for December. And that is
• 27:15
  Speaker 36: a Games Afoot, which is Sherlock Holmes Christmas.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Should I be auditioning, or what should I be doing?
• 27:20
  Speaker 17: Oh, yeah, no, for sure. Our audition's just opened up.
• 27:23
  Speaker 17: We have open calls. Again, go to.
• 27:24
  Speaker 36: Chestnutstreetplayhouse.org or our Facebook or Instagram, and you'll see all
• 27:28
  Speaker 36: of our open call auditions for our Christmas production, which
• 27:33
  Speaker 36: is a Games of Foot, Sherlock Holmes Christmas.
• 27:35
  Speaker 24: Nice.
• 27:36
  Speaker 17: Yeah, so we're jam-packed. We're constantly moving, and amongst all
• 27:40
  Speaker 17: of our other productions that we are doing, we also
• 27:43
  Speaker 17: have our PlayFests. festival that's going to be in November.
• 27:46
  Speaker 17: It originally is in.
• 27:47
  Speaker 36: September, and we had the amazing, amazing response of over
• 27:52
  Speaker 36: 500 playwrights submit new acts that we had to push
• 27:55
  Speaker 36: that out, make our team bigger so that we could
• 27:57
  Speaker 36: get it all reviewed.
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: So, yeah, so that's going into November.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And so in these productions, who's building the sets?
• 28:04
  Speaker 19: How does that work?
• 28:06
  Speaker 36: All the volunteers, we go out and we find people.
• 28:08
  Speaker 36: People want to come into our theater. They do set designs.
• 28:12
  Speaker 36: They do set builds. We get that in there. They
• 28:14
  Speaker 36: do creative conversations with our directors, and every single production
• 28:21
  Speaker 36: that we have.
• 28:22
  Speaker 17: Is a unique building. You won't see it anywhere else.
• 28:25
  Speaker 36: We do construction, then we strike, we reset to our
• 28:28
  Speaker 36: black box theater, and then we build the next one.
• 28:31
  Speaker 17: So every production is transformative.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That is, you know, the volunteers that are just building
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and striking down sets, I mean... if that's all they're doing,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that's amazing work. Thank you to those volunteers because they
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: bring these productions to life. They do.
• 28:49
  Speaker 36: And you know, we're in a special place as a
• 28:51
  Speaker 36: community theater where if you wanted to try anything out,
• 28:53
  Speaker 36: you would come to us. Um, and you think acting's
• 28:56
  Speaker 36: for you or technical lights, you know, sound, anything that
• 29:00
  Speaker 36: goes along.
• 29:00
  Speaker 17: With a musical.
• 29:01
  Speaker 36: If you want to try that out, you come to
• 29:02
  Speaker 36: Chestnut Street Playhouse as a community.
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: We welcome you. We train you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 36: Um, and we can bring you in through all of
• 29:07
  Speaker 36: those processes. We're a 67 seat black box theater. And, uh,
• 29:13
  Speaker 36: So we do– it's pretty intimate where the audience is
• 29:18
  Speaker 36: right around all of the actors and actresses.
• 29:20
  Speaker 17: And you are literally sitting on the set, in the set.
• 29:23
  Speaker 17: You are part of the musical, the production, the play.
• 29:26
  Speaker 17: It's extremely immersive.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The theater, though, it has concessions too. I mean it
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: has– it's a full theater, right? Concessions and different sets
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you have. I mean you've got it all.
• 29:39
  Speaker 37: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 17: Everything. So, yeah, when you walk in in our lobby area,
• 29:42
  Speaker 17: we have a wonderful concession area. We had a few donations.
• 29:47
  Speaker 17: Thank you to Carol Curlin, who helped us rebuild it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 17: Rodney Green from Old Times Restaurant helped us to rebuild
• 29:54
  Speaker 17: it as well. Yeah, we have, like, you walk in.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Love Old Times Restaurant.
• 29:58
  Speaker 17: Yeah, you smell the popcorn.
• 30:00
  Speaker 36: You know, we have wine and beer.
• 30:02
  Speaker 17: We have, you know, little candies. Sometimes we have baked goods.
• 30:06
  Speaker 36: And we have these wonderful tables and the lobby is
• 30:09
  Speaker 36: also decorated for our production. So it's a very wonderful
• 30:12
  Speaker 36: evening to come into Norwich and hang out and see artists.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 36: And all these volunteers, we're a nonprofit with a net
• 30:20
  Speaker 36: revenue balance. So, you know, our ticket sales pay for
• 30:23
  Speaker 36: our operational costs and keep our building open. And the
• 30:26
  Speaker 36: volunteers get an opportunity for community, be actors, actresses. A
• 30:31
  Speaker 36: lot of them are doing it, you know, after their
• 30:33
  Speaker 36: day job. So this is their passion and we give
• 30:35
  Speaker 36: them a place to, to make that home for them.
• 30:39
  Speaker 36: And then it's such an incredible, incredible performances.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: So talented.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And so, you know, are some of these actors, are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they all local? Do they come, are they regional? How
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: do you get these actors?
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 17: You know, the, the real quick answer is, is yes.
• 30:56
  Speaker 17: They're local. They're all regional.
• 30:58
  Speaker 36: We have people that, we'll travel to be in a
• 31:01
  Speaker 36: specific show. You know, all of these shows are licenses
• 31:05
  Speaker 36: and only licenses are given out to certain theaters at
• 31:08
  Speaker 36: certain times of the year. So we do have actors
• 31:09
  Speaker 36: that are like, I always wanted to be in that
• 31:11
  Speaker 36: production and we'll travel an hour and a half for
• 31:14
  Speaker 36: three months to volunteer.
• 31:16
  Speaker 17: To be part of a production.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Love it. I love the passion behind it all. It
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: really is amazing. You know, I, My brother was a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: great actor in his day. Nice. And he did quite
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a bit. And, you know, I did the music part
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of it. But, boy, watching some of the acting things,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I kind of got the bug a lot. But I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: never had the nerve to actually jump in and to
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: do it because it's time-consuming, right? To learn a play,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to learn a part, to go through all your lines,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: it is– I mean, I'm thinking about it now and
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: how I could possibly do it. It's like I don't
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: know that I could. I mean, you really got to
• 31:50
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• 31:51
  Speaker 36: It is incredible what they do. They start, I think,
• 31:53
  Speaker 36: three to four months in advance, and they have to
• 31:55
  Speaker 36: memorize all those lines. And then if they want to
• 31:58
  Speaker 36: do two productions in a year, they're going from one
• 32:00
  Speaker 36: show to the next show. I know in my area,
• 32:05
  Speaker 36: I love running the business. I love making sure that
• 32:08
  Speaker 36: the nonprofit is getting its donations, it's asking the community
• 32:13
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• 32:16
  Speaker 36: so that the community and the actors and actresses, production staff,
• 32:19
  Speaker 36: they can all come in and enjoy that environment. It's
• 32:23
  Speaker 36: just an incredible cooperative community theater.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: All right, excellent. We'll be right back with Joanne from
• 32:28
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  Speaker 38: All right.
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  Speaker 1: How was I? Do I get the part?
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  Speaker 17: You definitely can come see the show this weekend.
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  Speaker 36: And we're closing out.
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  Speaker 17: But, yeah, good showing. Good showing there.
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  Speaker 36: We're seeing a lot of growth. People are really excited
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  Speaker 36: anniversary of our golf fundraiser. And that gets us through
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, no, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 17: Us keep the doors open.
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  Speaker 36: And then we follow up with, on November 13th, we
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I think I'm part of that.
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  Speaker 17: I think you're a part of that.
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  Speaker 36: I'm very excited to bring folk into, you know, into Norwich.
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  Speaker 36: I don't know if there's been that type of festival before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited. We're still developing the artist set, but
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  Speaker 36: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 17: I wouldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 36: You know, arts covers so many things between playwrights, productions, musicals, plays,
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  Speaker 17: Theater is where it's at. And a lot of our productions.
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  Speaker 36: Also have live pits. So those pits have hired musicians,
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  Speaker 36: and they come in for, again, three to four months,
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  Speaker 36: coming in on November 13th. And every month we are
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's the beautiful thing. It's such wonderful productions at
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  Speaker 36: It's affordable to everyone. If you're going to the movies,
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  Speaker 1: On the website. That's where you can get tickets. On
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is a war crime.
• 55:01
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 55:02
  Speaker 19: So I– I don't know— Are you going to let
• 55:06
  Speaker 19: me respond to all these three things?
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: One second. Yes, we can go through them all slowly.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: That was the 37,000-foot look of just the past few weeks, right?
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: If anyone else, President, that I know of, that includes
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: George W. Bush, that includes senior, junior, whatever, had done— and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: this is just in the past three weeks— had done anything
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: like this, it would be chaos, right? And especially if
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: it was on the other side, if Biden had done
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: anything like this, it would be chaos. And, you know,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and what I get and you can respond to this is,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't mean it or he doesn't mean
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: what he says or it's not what he's saying or
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: that's just him blowing about hot air. Like, at what
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: point do we do we deserve better?
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 55:54
  Speaker 19: Well, let me so let me speak to all those
• 55:56
  Speaker 19: things again. So I'm going to move backwards a little bit.
• 55:59
  Speaker 19: We'll start with. Your assertion that he stripped the First
• 56:02
  Speaker 19: Amendment rights of the journalists, right? So I would disagree
• 56:06
  Speaker 19: with that statement, but I would also disagree with what
• 56:09
  Speaker 19: he did, and let me elaborate on that.
• 56:10
  Speaker 42: Sure.
• 56:11
  Speaker 19: Nobody has a First Amendment right to have access to
• 56:14
  Speaker 19: the president and access to the press room, right? Because
• 56:18
  Speaker 19: if that was true, I could walk in there anytime
• 56:20
  Speaker 19: I want, and certainly I cannot do that, right?
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Except that it got revoked, right? No. Their access got revoked.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: They now back in there. They're now back in there.
• 56:29
  Speaker 19: Right, but they don't have a right to it. However–
• 56:32
  Speaker 19: that's why I said let me finish this. So you
• 56:35
  Speaker 19: don't have a right to that. So if Lee Howard
• 56:39
  Speaker 19: from the day calls me and I don't want to
• 56:41
  Speaker 19: talk to him, I haven't violated his first amendment rights.
• 56:43
  Speaker 19: I just choose not to talk to him. I don't
• 56:45
  Speaker 19: have to.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Is it called the press room?
• 56:48
  Speaker 19: It's called the press room.
• 56:49
  Speaker 33: Yeah, right.
• 56:50
  Speaker 19: But that doesn't mean that– but if that was true,
• 56:52
  Speaker 19: anybody who called themselves a press person could just walk in.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: But you can't just call yourself that. It's just like
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I can't call myself a church.
• 56:57
  Speaker 19: You can do that. You can do that. People call
• 56:59
  Speaker 19: themselves a journalist like these auditors and whatnot.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: But you're looking a little deep here.
• 57:03
  Speaker 19: Well, because accuracy, Steve, is important, right? And when you
• 57:05
  Speaker 19: talk about violating somebody's rights, I want to be accurate.
• 57:08
  Speaker 19: I don't think that Donald Trump violated somebody's rights by
• 57:10
  Speaker 19: saying that they couldn't– they were revoking their press pass. However,
• 57:13
  Speaker 19: I think it's wrong. OK, it's not a violation of
• 57:15
  Speaker 19: the right. It's wrong, because when you're the president, United States,
• 57:18
  Speaker 19: you are accountable to the people. And when a reporter,
• 57:22
  Speaker 19: not necessarily opinion writers, that's a little bit different. But
• 57:25
  Speaker 19: a reporter calls me and I and I think if
• 57:27
  Speaker 19: you talk to the CT examiner, you talk to the
• 57:29
  Speaker 19: day you talk to Connecticut News Junkie, the current reporter.
• 57:33
  Speaker 19: All of them have my cell phone. Every time they call,
• 57:35
  Speaker 19: I answer. I never say, well, what do you want
• 57:36
  Speaker 19: to talk about? Well, let me know ahead of time.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 57:39
  Speaker 19: You call me out of the blue. Now, if you're
• 57:41
  Speaker 19: asking me specifics of numbers or bills, I might need
• 57:43
  Speaker 19: a minute to– I don't have to memorize all that stuff.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 57:46
  Speaker 19: I got you. But I'm willing to have those conversations.
• 57:48
  Speaker 19: So I think the president was wrong in what he did,
• 57:49
  Speaker 19: but I don't think it's a violation of the First Amendment.
• 57:52
  Speaker 19: That's just my opinion on that. All right. Next thing,
• 57:55
  Speaker 19: his promise of $ 5, 000 to voters– It's egregious. I've said that.
• 58:02
  Speaker 19: I think I said it yesterday. I don't know. I
• 58:03
  Speaker 19: say a lot of things. I was with Liz yesterday.
• 58:06
  Speaker 19: I think I said it yesterday on the radio. That
• 58:08
  Speaker 19: is egregious. It's egregious on its core, right? For a
• 58:11
  Speaker 19: sitting president to make a promise like that is outrageous.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: But it's not the first promise he's made, right? So
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the tariff checks— The Doge checks.
• 58:25
  Speaker 19: I agree with you, except that's different.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: It is all different. The only thing that's similar about
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: it is it's a promise that he's not going to
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: keep it. He's not going to keep it. You're not
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: actually thinking he's going to send.
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: Me a Doge check. So that's all a lie.
• 58:39
  Speaker 19: Right, but let's be clear. Politicians lie all the time.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: That's not specific to him.
• 58:42
  Speaker 19: Not that they should.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: So i just they lie all the time okay so
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that is that is saying all lies are equal right
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: so like any lie is is bad and i agree
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: with that but there are variations of life when you're
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: telling the american people that you're going to get those
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: checks you're going to get five thousand checks dollars if
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: you win and you're going to get uh you know
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: whatever checks a tariff checks equaling twelve thousand dollars that's
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: pretty bad that is like something that nobody has ever
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: done so tell say everybody lies about like, you know,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to come here and don't come there or
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: we're going to we're going to not going to raise taxes, whatever.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: This is a specific that is like huge.
• 59:20
  Speaker 19: So I'm agreeing with you that his his promise of
• 59:22
  Speaker 19: five thousand dollars is is separate from the others in that.
• 59:25
  Speaker 19: He's essentially bribing votes, right? Essentially that's what he's doing.
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 59:30
  Speaker 19: And that's what makes that one.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Especially– Imagine if Obama did that.
• 59:33
  Speaker 19: Well, I'm going to get to that if I can.
• 59:34
  Speaker 19: So essentially he's bribing for votes, right, which is egregious,
• 59:39
  Speaker 19: and the economic impact would be catastrophic, which you alluded
• 59:41
  Speaker 19: to with the cost and what it does, as I said,
• 59:43
  Speaker 19: to inflation.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 59:45
  Speaker 19: But I'll also say this. Just last week the governor,
• 59:47
  Speaker 19: who's running for office, made promises to hundreds of thousands
• 59:51
  Speaker 19: of union workers and their families by extension– Of raises
• 59:54
  Speaker 19: if they if they reelect him. So when you sit
• 59:57
  Speaker 19: and say, well, hold on. No, let me finish. Good, good, good, good.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 19: When when you sit and say it would be chaos
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 19: if anybody else did it. Nobody wants to talk about that.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 19: And it's equally egregious. So that's what makes you and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 19: I different. I'm willing to say it's equally egregious. But
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 19: I say what the governor did is egregious.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: I do. But I do say it is egregious. But
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: but but could you imagine just just hear me out
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: for a second? I think they're both egregious.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 53: Good.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I think one is way more egregious.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 19: OK, how come?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: OK, because it's national.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 19: OK, so this is where you and I are going
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 19: to consistently disagree.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: It is national. And one thing I would say is,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: you know, if I was a Republican in another state,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: if I was a Democrat in another state and I'm
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: watching what this administration is doing and I'm going to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: run my government, I'm saying, well, heck, if this guy
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: is going to do that. We're going to push the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: buttons here, too. We're going to do the same. You see,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: he is the leader of how things are going in
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: this country. You know, when my government, when this government,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: when that government of that state check out of what's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: going on and they see promising $ 5, 000, they see the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: lies coming out of it. And what do they do?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Because they think now, oh, if he's doing that, you
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: know what, guys? Right now is a good time to
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: do it because he's doing it. So why don't we
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: do it?
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  Speaker 19: I disagree with you.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Well, is he not the leader?
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 19: He's the leader of the country. Yes. But but so.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: And so by default, by default, people, though, think he
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: is the bellwether of things to do.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 30: He is.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 31: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 19: I don't agree with you.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: OK, well, you don't have to agree with me. I mean, like,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: but a lot of people think he is the bell.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 19: Can I talk about why? And this is important. So many,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 19: many years ago. if we were sitting here having this conversation,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 19: you would be called a federalist, and I would be
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 19: called a statist. And I'm not saying that we necessarily
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 19: fit into those, but I'm in this context. Because I
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 19: don't think that. I think that the federal government should
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 19: be in charge of national security, interstate trade, regulating interstate trade,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 19: covering national security, our military, etc., international trade naturally coming
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 19: in on our countries, our borders, national issues. But I
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 19: also think Two things. One, I believe in states' rights massively.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 19: And I've seen firsthand as a legislator how decisions happening
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 19: at the state affect your life far, far more. The
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 19: reason that there's so much emphasis put on the federal government,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 19: especially in this administration, is because that's what dominates the airwaves.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 19: And that is why– and here's a good example. That
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 19: is why, as we sit here today, five weeks, five
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 19: and a half weeks before an election– Here in Connecticut,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 19: we have 191 seats on the ballot for Connecticut state government.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 24: Yes, we do.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 48: Right?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 19: And we have five federal seats. And the focus has
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 19: continuously been on the national scene, even though the state
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 19: issues is what dominates this election cycle for us. The
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 19: focus here continues to be there. And the reason that
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 19: that is, in my opinion, you will disagree, is because
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 19: the Democrats that are in charge in Connecticut, in Hartford,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 19: do not want the curtain pulled back to see that,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 19: in fact, this affordability crisis that we have is a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 19: state-led problem. And the reason I can say that is
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 19: because if you look at 50 states, 35 states don't
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 19: have anywhere near the affordability crisis that we have. And
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 19: the other 14 that do, in addition to us, are
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 19: generally predominantly blue states. And that's what they don't want
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 19: the people of America to see. And they don't want
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 19: the people of Connecticut to experience that. And that is
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 19: why people, and if I can, talk about a conversation
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 19: we had, people in Connecticut are so focused on On
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 19: the federal government, that I'll bet you, if you went
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 19: to– well, let's pick a No Kings rally, right?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 53: Sure.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 19: A lot of people.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: October 17th.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 19: Yeah, okay. So if I walked around there and said, hey,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 19: tell me the top five people right now, constitutional offices
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 19: that are in this state that are running for election.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 19: The governor– well, lieutenant governor and governor won ticket. But
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 19: the governor, the attorney general, the comptroller, the treasurer, and
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 19: the secretary of state, tell me who those people are.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 19: What percentage do you think could tell me?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Almost none.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 19: And that's the problem, right? Because– Those are the individuals
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 19: who are running our state. And each day that you
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 19: get up, and this is why people say, I leave
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 19: Connecticut to go to Florida. I leave Connecticut to go
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 19: to Maine. I leave Connecticut to go to Colorado. I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 19: leave Connecticut to go here. Because they find greener pastures
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 19: in other states because of the way that our state
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 19: is being run. And today, as we sit here in 2026,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 19: the focus should be on the state issues, and it's not.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 19: And the media... And this is not the fault of
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 19: the folks at the rally. And when I make it
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 19: to a degree, it is. We'll have a responsibility to
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 19: be informed voters and whatnot. But this is– the media
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 19: dominates that, and they're able to dominate because Donald Trump
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 19: is a lightning rod. He makes himself a lightning rod
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 19: for it and dominates the airways. A very apolitical reporter
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 19: in Connecticut said to me one day, he goes, when
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 19: this guy is in office, it's hard because you record
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 19: something on Monday to run it on Wednesday, and everything
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 19: changed by Wednesday with Trump in office. So he's dominating–
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 19: the airwaves, and the media, and again, I'm not blaming
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 19: anybody for that. These are just facts. And it makes
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 19: it difficult to get to a focus on the state issues.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you're not wrong. And listen, you're not wrong that
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: our state has issues. You know, obviously. And I am
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: agreeing with you that I think a lot of them
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: should be looked at. I don't know that anybody's pulling
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: the wool I don't know that there's some kind of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: conspiracy that you kind of like maybe hinted at there,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: like there's some kind of thing. I don't think that.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: I think Democrats have their own policies, and you just
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: disagree with them, and that's fine. And not everybody is corrupt,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: and I really believe that. You're not corrupt.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 19: No, not everybody is corrupt.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: My brother is not corrupt. It's not the way it is.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 19: When I say pull back the curtain, I don't necessarily
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 19: mean that they're– In other.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Words– Like reveal some kind of like big scam.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 19: It's not there. No, that's not what I meant. It's
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 19: not there. So let me be clear what I meant.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 19: What I meant was– what I meant when I said
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 19: that was that– get the focus on that, so to speak.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 19: That's what I meant. Not that they're hiding.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Working in the business of folks experiencing homelessness, I want
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: better housing laws. That's a great thing to talk about.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that I want our state
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: to do so we can help people, for real.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 19: Let's talk about housing real quick because I know that's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 19: near and dear to you. Unfortunately. We have had our
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 19: 830G affordable housing concept for over 40 years. And we're
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 19: sitting here with a housing crisis. And the reason for
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 19: that is because we're unwilling to pivot to a new idea.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 19: I've brought a new idea to the housing committee for
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 19: years since I've been there. And I'd like to share
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 19: that quickly with you. If you look, and let's just
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 19: for a minute, and not because I'm not willing to talk,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 19: but let's just put immigration on the shelf for a
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 19: second while we talk about this because it's important. The
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 19: birth rate in the United States has been on a
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 19: steady decline since the baby boomers in the 1950s and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 19: early 60s, right? So we've had a declining birth rate.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 19: And the baby boomers, and this isn't necessarily a very,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 19: my parents are baby boomers, so this isn't a very
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 19: nice thing to say, but we have to deal with
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 19: the facts. And the facts are that baby boomers are
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 19: getting older and aren't going to be around a whole
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 19: lot longer. I know it's not pleasant, but we have
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 19: to say the truth. What you have today, and I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 19: use my mom and dad as an example, now they
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 19: happen to live in Rhode Island, but my mom and
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 19: dad as an example, they still live in the house
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 19: that we grew up in, the five of us, three siblings,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 19: three children, and my parents. They don't need that house anymore.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 19: They don't need that kind of space, and I certainly
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 19: don't need the maintenance for it, okay? But For my
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 19: parents who own that home, to liquidate that asset and
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 19: go into something else that is more susceptible or more
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 19: appropriate for them is probably going to cost them some
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 19: rent and they don't have any control over it. What
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 19: we've done for folks 55 plus in our area is
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 19: we've created housing like Stone Ridge, which is very high end,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 19: or places like Brookside Village, Edith K. Richmond, Stonington Arms
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 19: in Stonington that are very– not very, but lower end.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 19: We have not created housing for the median income. So
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 19: what I've been suggesting since I got there is that
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 19: we take state money like we do in our CHIFA
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 19: grants for affordable housing, and we give contractors a grant
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 19: to incentivize them to build 55-plus communities as condos. Why
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 19: as condos? Because then when people like my parents liquidate
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 19: their asset and they take that money and they buy
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 19: their condo, they can now control their own financial destiny
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 19: because they don't have some landlord that's going to jack
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 19: their rent up because they own it. Yeah, you'll have
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 19: HOA fees, but they have a vote and a voice
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 19: in that with the rest of their community. So now
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 19: they could go to– and it should be a two-bedroom
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 19: because these folks still want to have their grandkids over
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 19: for the night and whatnot to incentivize these developers to
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 19: build 55-plus communities as condos, two bedrooms with a fitness room,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 19: a community room. Now you've added 80 houses. If 80
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 19: parents– folks like my parents– sell their home to liquidate
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 19: that asset to live a nice retirement in this new
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 19: community that the state's contributed to, you've added 80 starter
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 19: homes to the market. So these engineers coming from EB,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 19: et cetera, can now buy a home because you've increased
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 19: the supply and the rules of supply and demand and
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 19: the price is going to go down. But you know
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 19: why that doesn't fly why because the hartford is is
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  Speaker 19: run by the democrat party those are the chairs mark
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  Speaker 19: the marks being one of them in the housing committee
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  Speaker 19: that's not what we do we we do the the
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  Speaker 19: 830g we do the Oh, we do the 830G, and
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  Speaker 19: that's what we do, and we're not going to pivot.
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  Speaker 19: We're not going to do anything else. Yes, it's failed
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  Speaker 19: for 40 years, but that's what we do, and we're
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  Speaker 19: going to keep on doing it. Okay, you're going to
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  Speaker 19: keep on failing then. And they don't– there's never– and worse,
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  Speaker 19: I actually had one person say to me, Tom Filipe, yeah,
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  Speaker 19: that's a Republican idea. We're not taking it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Look, look, look.
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  Speaker 1: I'm into all good ideas, and those are all medium-income housing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's great. My particular focus would be Section 8
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  Speaker 1: and low-income housing, which there's a big problem. This is
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  Speaker 1: where the biggest, in my opinion, because it directly affects
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  Speaker 1: me in work, is finding homes for folks Section 8
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  Speaker 1: and beyond is hard. And what's typically happening is surrounding
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  Speaker 1: communities of New London don't really want to add a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them. And New London is— Well, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons for that, Steve, and it's not racism. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not— you said that.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't say that at all.
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  Speaker 19: Because I say that— people say it to me all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea going there, and you did that,
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  Speaker 1: just letting you know that. No, but not because it's racism,
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  Speaker 1: but because— It's cost. Well, some, and just because they
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  Speaker 1: want to keep— and racism has nothing to do with this,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: but just keep their communities cleaner in the sense of
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  Speaker 1: they don't want anybody— roaming around the streets. So New
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  Speaker 1: London is being forced to house it all and to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: kind of take the burden of it all. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's fair. I think every community in the
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  Speaker 1: area should share in this sort of in this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ability to kind of put this housing there and share
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  Speaker 1: and so we can disperse this a little bit so
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  Speaker 1: New London doesn't become this house for this, right?
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  Speaker 19: So this is so awesome because we just talked about
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  Speaker 19: status and federalists, right? And this is one of the
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  Speaker 19: things I think philosophically when we get away from the
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  Speaker 19: high-button issues where you and I have differences. This is
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  Speaker 19: so great that this is working out like this because
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  Speaker 19: you– so what you're basically saying is the people of
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  Speaker 19: New York.
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  Speaker 1: There's actually a law that every community should have. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's 8 percent of it.
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  Speaker 9: Ten.
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  Speaker 1: Ten percent, right. And not every community does. See, this
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  Speaker 1: is my problem.
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  Speaker 19: Well, correct. They should– the law doesn't say that they
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  Speaker 19: have to have it. What the law says is until
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  Speaker 19: you do, then– A3G would apply and you could bypass
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  Speaker 19: local zoning. It's a bit more complex now. But communities
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  Speaker 19: who don't have that are not violating the law, just
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  Speaker 19: to be clear about that. But anyway, what you're saying
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  Speaker 19: is the city of New London has elected certain people
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  Speaker 19: over the last 40, 50 years, have made certain decisions,
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  Speaker 19: and now those decisions aren't working out well for them.
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  Speaker 19: So they want. surrounding communities to make similar decisions to
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  Speaker 19: take some of the brunt of their poor decision-making.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they want anything. It's a need
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  Speaker 1: in the community, Greg. It's a need in their community.
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  Speaker 1: New London doesn't control the want or need. These are
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  Speaker 1: people coming in our community, and they're not able to
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  Speaker 1: get housing anywhere because no one– It's not– the other communities,
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  Speaker 1: the other surrounding towns are not opening to doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So the only place they can go is a place
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  Speaker 1: that is giving them– trying to because we're out of
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  Speaker 1: housing– a respite to get housing.
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  Speaker 19: That's because– and the reason they go to New London–
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  Speaker 19: and I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm just– these
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  Speaker 19: are facts– is that New London for years has said, OK,
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  Speaker 19: we will do that. We'll build these houses. We'll build
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  Speaker 19: these respites. We'll build these things and welcome that situation.
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  Speaker 19: this exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 19: And now they're saying, well, but now it's too much
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  Speaker 19: for us. So others have to do it too. They
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  Speaker 19: did as much as they could. I agree. And what
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  Speaker 19: I'm saying is, but it didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: It is working out. We have everybody housed. There's no
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: more housing. It's worked out to get everybody housed, but
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: we can't continue to try to house somebody when there
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  Speaker 1: is no housing.
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  Speaker 19: Well, I agree, but you can create more housing.
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  Speaker 1: How about some other town create more housing?
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  Speaker 19: Well, other towns do create housing, but some of them
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 19: don't want it. And it's not just, like you said,
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  Speaker 19: to keep it cleaner. It's also a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 19: If you look at the mill rate in the city
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  Speaker 19: of New London— Compared to the middle rate of the
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  Speaker 19: surrounding towns, it's vastly different.
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  Speaker 13: I know.
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  Speaker 19: Because when you build these things, you have to account
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  Speaker 19: for an increase in the cost of your education system,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 19: an increase in the demand on your infrastructure, whether you're sewer,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 19: you're water, you're roads, police, fire, EMS.
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  Speaker 1: There's more people coming in every day. That's a great
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: idea that you have to account that. But at some point,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: you have to account for that. You have to account
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: because it's just people are coming into this area and
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: there's more and more people requiring housing. And it's just
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: something's got to give. And it's not a bad thing
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  Speaker 1: to have a Section 8 housing somewhere in Waterford on 85.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. There are places where you can put it,
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  Speaker 1: where it's not going to be in somebody's backyard.
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  Speaker 19: But somebody may say and, you know, let me just
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 19: use as an example. And I don't hesitate to do
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  Speaker 19: this because you're singling somebody out. But it's but it's
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 19: an example. If they do that and three families move in,
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  Speaker 19: all with kids that need to be in separate schools,
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  Speaker 19: that could be almost a million dollars a year added
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 19: to that town's budget that the taxpayers now have.
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  Speaker 1: But we're getting to the point where we have no option.
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  Speaker 19: Well, my point is you do have a choice because
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  Speaker 19: the state of Connecticut could say if you're going to
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  Speaker 19: mandate you to build these homes, any increased costs will
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 19: come out of the state budget.
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  Speaker 18: They could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm for getting these things resolved in a way
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  Speaker 1: that's financially respectable.
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  Speaker 30: I get it.
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  Speaker 19: And I've said this to the housing committee multiple times.
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  Speaker 19: If you're going to mandate municipalities to build more housing
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 19: or you want them to in the state because if
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 19: five families from New London– so let's say 100 families
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 19: from New London move to Waterford because Waterford built 100
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 19: units and five of those kids– have special needs where
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 19: they need to be in a separate school that could
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 19: cost up to a million dollars a year, say, for
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 19: five kids. And now New London has saved that money,
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  Speaker 19: and Waterford is now going to take the expense. If
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 19: all of that stuff was paid for at the state level,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 19: then the town's going to be much more acceptable to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 19: the kids moving around because it's not increasing their budgets.
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  Speaker 19: You could say I'm insensitive, but the fact of the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 19: matter is those are facts.
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  Speaker 1: But that's monetary issues that I think can get resolved.
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  Speaker 1: But all the people in the area, that's not what
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: they say. They don't say that. It's always about something different.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: They don't want that in our neighborhood. They don't want here.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want there. They don't talk about a money.
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  Speaker 24: Part of it.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: They talk about the actual physical people of it. And
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: this is where I have an issue. It's like everybody
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: should be doing their part.
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  Speaker 43: All right.
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  Speaker 19: Thanks, buddy.
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  Speaker 45: Thanks, Greg.
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  Speaker 24: It's time for John LeBoullier.
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  Speaker 39: All right.
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  Speaker 30: We are back.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Elsie here filling in for Lee Elsie, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of freedom. And I am I'm honored and I'm pleasured
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  Speaker 1: to have John LeBoulier on with me. John, how are you?
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  Speaker 12: Good morning, Steve. I'm honored to be on with you.
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  Speaker 12: You sound at first hearing awfully a lot like your brother.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people say that. You know, it's, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: we do have a lot in common, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: everyone out there. We really do. And we sounded occasionally. But, John, look,
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  Speaker 1: the first time I met you, And we were backstage
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  Speaker 1: and you had just got off one of these station functions,
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  Speaker 1: birthday parties, I don't know, at Foxwoods. And you had
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  Speaker 1: just gotten off stage, you know, doing your thing, really just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of always hitting the nail on the
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  Speaker 1: head of just saying it like it is. And this
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  Speaker 1: is why I appreciate you. I know you're a Republican
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  Speaker 1: and I know I'm a Democrat, but you always hold
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  Speaker 1: both parties accountable. And I really love that about you.
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  Speaker 30: I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember that night, and I was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the audience, and you did what you always do. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the crowd was just making you out to
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  Speaker 1: be the monster, not even looking or listening to what
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  Speaker 1: you were speaking about, about this administration. And you just
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  Speaker 1: continued to pound, you know, your truth, your facts, which
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  Speaker 1: I believed in. And, you know, and I felt bad
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  Speaker 1: for you, actually.
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  Speaker 39: You know?
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  Speaker 12: Well, that's nice, Dave, and I remember it. It was
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 12: at that auditorium that Fox was, right? And it was
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  Speaker 12: a birthday party for the station, and it was a
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  Speaker 12: great night. And, you know, most of the people were
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  Speaker 12: really nice to me. There were some who booed, and
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  Speaker 12: I took it as good-natured booing. They didn't hate me,
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  Speaker 12: but they don't like hearing what I often, as a
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  Speaker 12: Reagan Republican, have to criticize MAGA and Trump for the
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  Speaker 12: hypocrisy and the ridiculous stuff they talk about. And, and look,
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  Speaker 12: we're now a year and a half into this new
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  Speaker 12: Trump administration. And other than hardcore MAGA, nobody likes what's
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  Speaker 12: going on. Nobody supports it.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: That doesn't mean you like what AOC stands for either.
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  Speaker 33: True.
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  Speaker 12: But what I do when I come on Lee's show
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  Speaker 12: every Wednesday, um, I try to give dispassionate political analysis
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  Speaker 12: of what's going on. And I can take my own
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  Speaker 12: views out of it and look objectively at things. And
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  Speaker 12: if I look right now, 39 days away from the midterms,
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  Speaker 12: where America is, is they're ticked off at a lot
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  Speaker 12: of things economically. The price of gas, groceries, everything. And
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 12: basically they blame Trump for it. Trump tries to deflect
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  Speaker 12: it and for some reason blame Biden. Well, Biden didn't
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  Speaker 12: put the tariffs on and he didn't start the war
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  Speaker 12: in Iran. So Republican voters are in a quandary over
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  Speaker 12: this thing because they don't like what's going on either.
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  Speaker 12: And Trump is hemorrhaging support among Republican voters. He has
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  Speaker 12: lost independence. He's down three to one among Democrats nationally,
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  Speaker 12: which is unheard of. He's down to the bare bones
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  Speaker 12: of hardcore MAGA. And that's it. And there's another factor too, Steve.
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  Speaker 12: Ten years of Trump is exhausting. And people are kind
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  Speaker 12: of worn out of him and his And I think
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  Speaker 12: it's just coming to an end on November 3rd, not
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  Speaker 12: an end, but it's building to a crescendo on November 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, in the past three weeks alone, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's bribed America with five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to vote Republican. You know, he is, you know, tried
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  Speaker 1: to get the press out of the White House, which
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  Speaker 1: they've now overturned.
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  Speaker 39: He.
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  Speaker 1: Has promised annihilation of Iran, which is probably a war crime.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things, if anybody else does them, it's insanity.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I think we're numb to it. There's so much
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  Speaker 12: of it. By the way, I'll throw another one. Not
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  Speaker 12: that he did it, but it's part of it, which
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  Speaker 12: normally would derail a president for months. is having a
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  Speaker 12: Russian oligarch pay for Donald Trump Jr. 's wedding party
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  Speaker 12: on an island in the Caribbean. I mean, that alone,
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  Speaker 12: the right would have feasted on, what's the guy's name,
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  Speaker 12: Hunter Biden. If Hunter Biden had a wedding paid for
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  Speaker 12: by a Russian oligarch, I mean, we'd never hear the
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  Speaker 12: end of it. And the Trump Jr. case, you know,
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  Speaker 12: that's buried by the next thing And I think Trump
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  Speaker 12: tries to distract us all the time by doing something.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, maybe today he'll do something to distract us
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  Speaker 12: on a Friday afternoon to get us talking over here
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  Speaker 12: about something for the weekend while he's in trouble over here.
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  Speaker 12: But it's not working. It's not working. His decisions are
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  Speaker 12: killing the conversation. The economy of the United States is
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  Speaker 12: almost like he set out purposely to hurt the economy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think, you know, with the you alluded to
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  Speaker 1: before the election coming up, do you think there's a
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  Speaker 1: plan in play? You know, look, if if if the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats take the House, take the Senate. Donald Trump will
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  Speaker 1: effectively be litigated. and it may be impeached, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but really for the rest of his life. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think there's a play in place to try to either
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  Speaker 1: not allow these wins to happen or to create fear
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  Speaker 1: amongst voters so the turnout is low? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that is something that's happening?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'm sure some in the White House have thought
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  Speaker 12: about it and have some sort of plans to try
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  Speaker 12: to do it. whether they try it actually and really
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  Speaker 12: do it, I don't know. I mean, there's been this
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  Speaker 12: week there was a report that he's being urged to
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  Speaker 12: declare martial law before the election and postpone the election, which,
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  Speaker 12: by the way, I don't think that I'm not sure
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  Speaker 12: we even add that in our system. We had a
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  Speaker 12: midterm elections during the Civil War. We had elections during
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  Speaker 12: World War Two. We never canceled elections. And I don't
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  Speaker 12: think any of that's going to end up happening. And
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  Speaker 12: the courts won't let it happen, just like they wouldn't
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  Speaker 12: let him take over mail-in voting. Here's another case where
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  Speaker 12: he says mail-in voting is corrupt. No evidence of it.
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  Speaker 12: And by the way, a lot of Republicans vote by mail.
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  Speaker 12: In fact, when I was growing up and when I
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  Speaker 12: was a candidate, more Republicans voted by mail because they
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  Speaker 12: had a little bit of money. And they went away
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  Speaker 12: more often and needed a mail-in ballot. Okay. Here, Trump
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  Speaker 12: wants to get rid of mail-in voting. Oh, guess who
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  Speaker 12: votes every election by mail-in ballot? Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: It doesn't work when you say it's corrupt, but I'm
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  Speaker 12: going to do it anyway.
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  Speaker 30: I know.
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  Speaker 12: It's all such BS from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know.
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  Speaker 37: It is.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, at what point– here's my thing is– Listen,
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  Speaker 1: hold every president accountable. Like I'm all I'm all for that.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But at what point? I mean, we're just talking now
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  Speaker 1: in the past three weeks or whatever, just the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the gas prices, the promises of money that continues. First,
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  Speaker 1: it was the doge checks and the tariff checks. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's the I'll pay you five thousand dollars to vote Republican.
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  Speaker 1: Like and none of it is coming true.
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  Speaker 38: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So at what point at what point do you think
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  Speaker 1: that the gullibleness is just going to be over and
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  Speaker 1: people are going to say, hey, man, This is just
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  Speaker 1: not what you're saying it is. This is not your promise.
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  Speaker 1: You got us in endless wars. And we deserve better.
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  Speaker 1: Impeach him. Get him out. Do something different. Are we
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  Speaker 1: getting to that point?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I think we're at the point where, other than
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  Speaker 12: the hardcore MAGA, which is hardcore now, and people who
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  Speaker 12: strongly support Trump in all the national good polls, it's
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  Speaker 12: around 12%. It's about 30 percent who support him overall.
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  Speaker 12: But hard, really super support, 12 percent, people who really
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  Speaker 12: oppose him, is 48 percent. That's four to one.
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  Speaker 1: Four to one.
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  Speaker 12: I think we've reached a point. Now, look, in this
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  Speaker 12: impeachment thing, what is the point of going through all
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  Speaker 12: that if you're going to then go over to a
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  Speaker 12: Senate and you can't get 67 votes to remove the guy?
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  Speaker 43: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think it sends a statement, maybe.
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  Speaker 30: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just putting that out there.
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  Speaker 51: Well, maybe.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, I don't think America, in fact, I'm certain
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  Speaker 12: of it. I'll tell you where I think American voters
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  Speaker 12: are today. They are really unhappy with both parties. They
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  Speaker 12: don't like a lot of this Trump stuff. They don't
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  Speaker 12: really like him, but they don't like the Democrats either.
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  Speaker 12: And you hear it all the time. I don't have
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  Speaker 12: a party. I don't like either party. I'm going to
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  Speaker 12: register independent, all that. And people are not ideological, Steve.
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  Speaker 12: They're not down the line conservative. They're not down the
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  Speaker 12: line liberal. They're cafeteria. They pick one thing from over here,
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  Speaker 12: one thing from over there. Basically, they want something that
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 12: works for them, that makes, in this case, the economy better,
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  Speaker 12: so maybe their kids will be able to get a job,
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  Speaker 12: that AI won't remove the job, and that they can
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  Speaker 12: afford to fill up their car and not be broke
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  Speaker 12: because of it. Step by step, we've got to get
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  Speaker 12: those things under control. And looking to 2028, I don't
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  Speaker 12: know where– I don't think the country would elect another
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  Speaker 12: MAGA guy. I think they're done with that. And that person,
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  Speaker 12: if it's Vance or Rubio, whoever it is, they've got
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  Speaker 12: Trump all over them. They've got the scent of Trump
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  Speaker 12: all over them. And good luck defending that. The Democrats
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  Speaker 12: have socialism hanging over them, and I don't think people
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  Speaker 12: want that. They want down the middle, basically slightly right
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  Speaker 12: of center on economics. and strong defense.
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  Speaker 1: But John, have you found any of those people? Have
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  Speaker 1: you found any of those people? I mean, in my
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  Speaker 1: conversations and you must have lots of conversations, it seems,
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  Speaker 1: and I, and maybe it's just the folks that are
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  Speaker 1: around me, but it seems no one at anymore is down.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they have, they go to their corner and
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  Speaker 1: they stay there. And I don't know if that's because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, Trump has given breath to this.
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  Speaker 1: We're right. They're wrong attitude. And everybody's sort of just
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  Speaker 1: gone along with that. I don't know, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: find anybody that's down the middle anymore. Everybody like they
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: were calling Biden far left, you know, which I found
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit funny. You know, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what center is anymore.
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  Speaker 12: Well, but here's the thing. Without having to label what
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  Speaker 12: you are, I think most people's views are pretty much
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  Speaker 12: in the middle. And they don't like the extremes of
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  Speaker 12: either party. And what's happened is to get nominated in
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  Speaker 12: our system now, you've got to go to the far
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  Speaker 12: right to be the Republican nominee. You've got to go
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 12: to the far left pretty much to be the Democratic
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  Speaker 12: nominee or at least have them accede to you. And therefore,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 12: we're running these candidates in the general election. I mean,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 12: you go back to 2016, Hillary versus Trump. And in
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 12: the national polling that summer, the two most distrusted politicians
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  Speaker 12: in America, 63 percent distrust Hillary Clinton, 61 percent distrust
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  Speaker 12: Donald Trump. Yet they were the nominees of our two parties.
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  Speaker 12: What does that tell us about how we're coming up
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  Speaker 12: with candidates and what we think of them? So it
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  Speaker 12: brings me to my big point, which is everybody tells
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  Speaker 12: me this is crazy, but I think we're headed towards
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  Speaker 12: an independent president.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: A president who runs against both parties. I don't know
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  Speaker 12: how he or she gets on the ballot, but Perot
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 12: got on the ballot. You can do it. If the
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 12: public wants it, it can happen. And I think the
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 12: potent message would work, which is, hey, I'm not going
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 12: to sit here and just blame one party for the
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 12: mess we're in. Let's face it, folks, both parties created
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 12: this mess on immigration, whatever, on the economy, and we've
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 12: got to work together to fix it. And we do.
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  Speaker 12: We can't do this with one party beating down the
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 12: other and getting their way, and then they go too
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  Speaker 12: far to the extreme, and then we knee-jerk our way
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  Speaker 12: all the way back to the other direction.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's my— It doesn't work. Yeah, I think, you know, 2028,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we run the risk of flip-flopping completely to
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: a far, far left. candidate. And that, you know, this
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: flip-flopping to your corners is just, really, it's just got
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: to stop. And you're right that, you know, in part
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: of it, though, John, it's got to be, it comes
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: from the top, right? You know, it's tough to get
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: into the middle when the person at the top right
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: now is really creating the divide, right? And everybody's listening
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: to it, and everybody goes with it.
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  Speaker 12: No, it's true. But we've had presidents who tacked back
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  Speaker 12: to the middle after they've been nominated and pretty much
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 12: run the country. I say center-right. Reagan, believe it or not,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 12: was not a far right-wing maniac. Reagan was very reasonable
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 12: and did work with the other side. And by the way,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 12: he had to because he had a Democratic House and
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 12: a Senate sometimes, too. And it works better when you
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 12: have both parties running the thing. It definitely works better.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 12: One-party control When Obama had it his first two years,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 12: they did too much to the left. They did Obamacare.
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  Speaker 12: They did all that. Ended up getting wiped out in
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 12: the first midterm. Here you have Trump with the House, Senate,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 12: and the White House. And he's gone amok on ICE
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 12: and immigration and tariffs and all that. And I'm pretty
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 12: sure they're going to get defeated pretty heavily in a month.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think, you know, where are we
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  Speaker 1: with the war in Iran here? Are we winning?
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  Speaker 19: Are we losing?
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: Where are we? This three-day war is now, you know,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: where are we at with this?
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  Speaker 12: We're not winning. We're at best at a stalemate and
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 12: losing here at home economically because of it. And I
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 12: don't know that we're ever going to totally get the
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 12: thing back to where the Strait of Hormuz is safe.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 12: I hope we do, but I don't see it. I
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 12: think Iran is dug in against us, and they hate Trump,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 12: and they will do whatever they can. And they hate Israel,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 12: of course. And they have two elections coming up that
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 12: they're going to try to influence next month in Israel,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 12: November 3rd here. They're going to influence it here just
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 12: by keeping gas prices high. And the best move, Trump
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 12: ought to figure out some way to open up the
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: straight hormones internationally, pack up, and get out.
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  Speaker 1: But he opens it up, and he claims success. It
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: was open before the war.
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  Speaker 22: Right.
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  Speaker 41: It was open.
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  Speaker 12: Before the war, and we obliterated their nuclear program. Now
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  Speaker 32: Yeah you know uh anyone that's heard me on the
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  Speaker 32: short-term rational best interest, for our national security, ushering in
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  Speaker 32: I see him expanding all of that mass surveillance to
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  Speaker 32: The only reason we found out about most of it
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  Speaker 32: The only reason we know about a lot of the
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  Speaker 32: stuff that our government does is leaking or whistleblowers who
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  Speaker 32: usually end up having to suffer horrible consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there's actually two parties? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: think they actually are working together, actually causing the rift,
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  Speaker 32: Many people, myself included, think there is either an intentional
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  Speaker 32: or coincidental... overlap between the two parties. And this, again,
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 32: is in terms of what is acceptable. The political spectrum
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  Speaker 32: is far, far, far larger than Republican and Democrat. And
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  Speaker 32: we do ourselves a disservice by assuming that it's a
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  Speaker 32: straight line between one and the other, and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: Very true.
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  Speaker 32: I operate on what's called the political compass model, which
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  Speaker 32: You have upper right being authoritarian right, upper left being
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  Speaker 32: And I find it far more useful to use those
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  Speaker 32: as a way of navigating political positions. And once you
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  Speaker 32: parties are very close to each other in terms of
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 32: center right on the authoritarian end, which is to say
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  Speaker 32: an academic basis is your relationship to capitalism. So If
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  Speaker 32: you are pro-capitalist but want a welfare state on top
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  Speaker 32: is also a spectrum. You have folks that are kind
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  Speaker 32: way out to the communist end of things and everywhere
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  Speaker 32: in between.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 32: And even within that economic basis, you have your relationship
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  Speaker 32: answer your question after that meandering ramble. is I think
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• 1:59:28
  Speaker 32: what is allowed within the political spectrum. And when you
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 32: have people that are too far outside of it, they either, A,
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 32: never get the corporate funding that you need in order
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 32: to gain power, or, B, even if they exist on
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 32: what would largely be considered FDR's politics, you know, the
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 32: guy that won so many times they had to change
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 32: the Constitution and he died in office before he lost,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 32: you have someone who basically has those politics represented is
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 32: being shut out in favor of someone who has more
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 32: institutional endorsement, regardless of the amount of popularity they might have. So,
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 32: of course, I'm referencing Sanders here. Back in 2016, he
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 32: had a lot of popularity.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 32: Right again in 2020, a really strange situation happened right
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 32: around those caucuses. So the system has an ability to
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 32: defend itself. And like we talked about in the last discussion,
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 32: What is a state?
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 24: What is a government?
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 32: At its foundational basis, it is a monopoly on the
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 32: legitimate use of force. They are the people who say
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 32: we're allowed to use force and violence and we'll protect
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 32: you from the people on the next hill over from
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 32: force and violence, and all you have to do is
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 32: surrender your freedom to us. You can put highways and
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 32: you can put Internet and you can put telephones and
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 32: all kinds of things, the Department of Agriculture on top
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 32: of all of that, but that's not what makes a
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 32: state a state. And any time you try to push
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 32: against that, you will be marginalized. If you get too successful,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 32: you might even be killed. History is littered with the
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 32: corpses of people that have tried to make meaningful change.
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  Speaker 1: It's very true.
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, it's very sad. And so as this process continues
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 32: to build, you have this back and forth going on.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 32: You have people critiquing Bush for deportations. It was quieter
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 32: then because it wasn't as much of a thing back then.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 32: Then you have Obama upping those deportations considerably. And again,
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 32: the media didn't really notice that quite so much. But
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 32: amongst immigration activists, he was known as the deporter-in-chief. And
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 32: now we have Trump. Now, a lot of people within
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 32: this audience might be sympathetic to deportations, but the point
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 32: is it's an example of that building back and forth.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 32: And that kind of thing is a tremendous menace to liberty.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 32: A lot of people in this audience and the general
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 32: public probably aren't familiar of back in September 30th where
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 32: ICE had a raid in Chicago. That helicopter raid rappelling
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 32: onto the building, surrounding it with 300 agents. We're talking
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 32: a midnight raid. Like, what is this, Mogadishu, Black Hawk Down?
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 32: You have people getting their apartments broken into, every apartment
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 32: broken into. Where's your warrant? Just kidding. We don't care.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 32: people being dragged out of their apartments, their apartments being ransacked,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 32: many of them being injured, people being zip-tied, laid on
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 32: the ground, including, in many cases, naked children. And it
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 32: just was a blip. Most people never even heard about it.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 32: But think about how insane it would have been 20
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 32: years ago to say, oh, this is going to happen.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 32: People were shocked by Waco and Ruby Ridge. And now,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 32: 20 years later, we have, oh, yeah, this just happened.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 32: It's just a thing. The point is, as.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: And that thing is continuously killing people and shooting people.
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  Speaker 32: Indeed, and it will continue to do so. This is
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 32: a building process, and you can't— A thing being ice. Right,
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 32: but any other thing as well. Think about the normalizing
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 32: of killing folks at sea. Now, of course, you can
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 32: make every argument in the world that these boats have
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 32: drugs on them. I got you. That boat's going to
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 32: land somewhere. If you are hitting it, okay, people do that.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 32: The Coast Guard does it sometimes for drug interdictions. But
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 32: there are laws around what you're supposed to do with
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 32: people at sea. It's one of our oldest maritime laws.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 32: You are required to render aid. No, we're going to
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 32: hit them with another Hellfire missile. This is all stuff
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 32: that normalizes brutality. It normalizes the types of things that
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 32: our founders, A, couldn't have imagined, and B, would be
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 32: fighting over.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, when you say normalize it, is that,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: you know, it started with instead of the war department.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 61: Yeah.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 39: Right.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 53: Right.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, so like right there, they're just putting their
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: foot forward saying we are not the Defense Department. We're
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: not that we are the war department.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 39: Yeah.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 7: And of course.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 43: Yeah.
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  Speaker 32: And of course, me as an outsider will say all
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 32: of these processes, any single thing that we complain about,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 32: there's a pretty good chance it didn't start with this administration.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 32: I would argue it's been refined by this administration has
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 32: been accelerated significantly. by this administration. And I think the
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 32: next guy will do it even worse. But yeah, this
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 32: kind of thing of changing to the War Department, that's
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 32: what you might call maybe a red flag. I mean,
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 32: it did used to be called the War Department, but
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 32: we thought maybe over time we might lean into peace
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 32: a little bit more. But our own president a few
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 32: years— It feels like years. A few months back.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, we are saying.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 32: A few months back, our president did say that because
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 32: he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, he would no
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 32: longer have peace as his priority, which is an interesting
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 32: thing to say. But this is the thing. You know,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 32: the more all of this stuff becomes normal, it creates
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 32: what is called a permission structure for people, regardless Democrat
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 32: or Republican. You are moving that Overton window. And it's
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 32: only going to get worse.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: It's funny you say that, permission structure.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 38: Yeah.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: Like earlier I was talking with Greg Howard and, you know,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: I was saying a lot of the things that happen
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: are led by Donald Trump. And he disagreed with me.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: And that is a great term that I wish I
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: had then. You know, he has given permission in lots
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: of different ways for people to act in his likeness,
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: to act really outside of the bounds of– of core
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: values of that we've been raised on.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: Um, and this permission, you know, it breathes, uh, hatred. It, it, it, uh,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: it provides a space for people to really just keep, uh,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: put law into their own hands.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 32: Yeah, and the interesting thing is more often than not— I' ve
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 32: talked about this a few times on the show— of most
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 32: of these things have a rational argument. I disagree, but
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 32: there is a logical structure in which they can make
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 32: these arguments. And going back to that Chicago raid, I
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 32: think it was 17 or so. They said 17 confirmed
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 32: Trendy Aragua members that were raided there, and that was
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 32: the permission structure to make it okay. But— The White
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 32: House's own numbers a few weeks later revised it down
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 32: to one.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 19: I know.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 32: So this is the thing. They will do something, see
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 32: if it sticks. They will have some kind of a
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 32: rationale attached to it. People can reasonably and rationally argue, oh,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 32: this might make sense. It's not my value structure. It
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 32: makes sense to surveil the entire population so you can
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 32: see what's going on. There's a structure of reason there.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 32: It clashes with my values.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 42: Yeah.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 32: But the point is there's always something they can use
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 32: as an excuse to move it along. Think about the cameras,
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 32: for example, that are so in vogue right now to discuss.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 32: They said, think about how many dogs we've brought home.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 18: Great.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 32: Fantastic. But does that necessarily require a massive surveillance apparatus? And,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 32: you know, we love dogs on this show. Don't get
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 32: me wrong. But is that worth the trade? Benjamin Franklin
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 32: said those who sacrifice their liberty for a little bit
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 32: of security deserve neither and will lose both. This is
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 32: important stuff. And so creating that permission structure is dangerous.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 32: And we used to say that. Government derives its power
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 32: from the consent of the governed, but you can short-circuit
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 32: the consent of the governed if you keep the governed
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 32: so utterly inundated with nonsense all the time that they
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 32: can't keep up with what you're doing. You have that
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 32: consent just by the fact that they're too busy arguing
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 32: with each other over cat litter in school.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: I mean I feel the administration right now is just
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: really just– continuously cluttering the airwaves with ridiculous stuff, keeping
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: us occupied and really always behind the next story because
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: there's always a new story, right? There's always something that
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: he's said, he's done. I can't even keep up with it,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: and it's really ridiculous, but I think he's doing that
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: on purpose. That's the smokescreen, right?
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 32: Yeah, well, it's called the flood zone strategy. It is
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 32: a very intentional strategy, and it's something that now that
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 32: it's here and now that they've gotten away with it
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 32: for quite some time now, it's probably here to stay.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 19: So we're going to see it regardless.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: And it's so easy, right? It's like with social media now,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: which wasn't available, maybe just coming into play with Obama
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: and really building it. But now it's really hit its stride.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: And these administrations, Democrat or Republican, they are going to
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: take advantage of it, and they're just going to flood
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: the airways with this stuff. I mean like– Look over
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: here while we do something over here, right? And let
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: me put out 17 stories that are frivolous but just
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: are going to cause like a media spike, but we'll
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: do something on the other side that you won't see.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 32: Yeah, and now that that strategy has been normalized, it
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 32: will be deployed by basically anyone that can get away
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 32: with it.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: Is that a permission structure?
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 32: I very much think so. Okay. Permission structure refers to
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 32: you create something that allows you to get away with something.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 32: You create that structure for permission. And I often dive
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 32: into history here because I spent entirely too much time
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 32: doing History Channel stuff instead of playing sports. So I
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 32: don't know if you've ever heard of this. We're going
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 32: back to 1933 here. The Wall Street Putsch, also known
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 32: as the money plot, also known as the business plot.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 32: Maybe you've heard of it.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 33: I have not.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 32: That's okay.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 19: Please tell us all.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 24: Few people have.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 32: So this was a coalition of wealthy industrialists who were
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 32: very upset about FDR. And they wanted to hire a
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 32: general to lead a military coup on Washington and have
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 32: this general be installed as the dictator in order to
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 32: make more favorable conditions for megacorporations.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 32: Interesting, huh? So the only reason it didn't succeed is
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 32: because that general was Smedley Butler, who was famous down
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 32: the line for calling out those types of corporate interests.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 32: He played along with it long enough. until he had
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 32: the opportunity to sabotage the thing and testified about it, saying,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 32: this almost happened. Now, do we think megacorporations have gone
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 32: away since 1933? Probably not, right? Probably gotten bigger, I
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 32: would think. Do we think they lost those motivations to
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 32: maximize their profitability regardless of the social cost? Probably not, right?
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 2: No.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 48: Yeah.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 34: Yeah.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 32: So do you think maybe they learned from that? And
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 32: do you think maybe they adjusted their strategies? And do
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 32: you think maybe, just maybe, they're trying to do that
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 32: with every presidency? And maybe, just maybe, they're really successful
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 32: with this one?
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 48: Yeah.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 32: Think about all the tech oligarchs that were there for
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 32: the inauguration, standing right behind Trump in the photo. That's interesting.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 32: Think about how, on a bipartisan basis, most people out
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 32: there are very much against the data centers, the rollout
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 32: of a lot of the AI stuff. And think about
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 32: how Trump says, well, you're not patriotic if you want
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 32: the data centers. Who wants the data centers? Was it
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 32: the tech oligarchs? Interesting. And maybe something even more taboo
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 32: to bring up, there were these files that pretty much
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 32: everyone wanted released and had a lot of really powerful
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 32: people involved. And then they passed it into law that
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 32: they had to be released, and that was months ago.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 32: And it didn't happen. It just sort of got away
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 32: with it.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: Does his name start with an E?
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 32: I think it does. And so that's frustrating. But again,
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 32: you are seeing what we often call corporate capture. We
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 32: are seeing the people that are– those who have far
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 32: more power in society than we could ever dream of.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 32: Now we have trillionaires. You don't think that comes with
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 32: some amount of social power. Of course it does. And
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 32: why would they not leverage that power to– capture the state.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 32: And when I say the state, I don't mean Connecticut,
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 32: the state as in terms of a government. Why wouldn't
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 32: they do that?
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: No, you're right. And what about the Epstein files? Are
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: we ever going to get to the bottom of this?
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: Do you I mean, is it you know, is it
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, Trump himself is in it
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: more than anybody? Is it the fact that our government
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: and that's Democrats and Republicans are just in it so
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: deep they're just not going to release it because it
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: just would take down the whole thing?
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 32: Well, the abuse of children by powerful people is not new.
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 32: You can find stories of Roman emperors using young boys
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 32: around their palaces and literally throwing them off of sea
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 32: cliffs afterwards. That's not new. However, we have technology now.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 32: We have an ability to disclose these things and an ability,
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 32: should we use it, to hold them accountable. And I
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 32: don't see a desire to do that. Now, of course,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 32: eventually the House and Senate did pass the Epstein Transparency Act.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 32: And the entire way along the way, we had the
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 32: president saying, you know, why are we still talking about
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 32: this guy? I renounce the support of anyone who still
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 32: wants to put this out here. Whether or not he's guilty,
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 32: he is acting like the most guilty person we have
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 32: ever seen.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: You know, you just can't—I don't know. It just drives
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: me insane because, you know, it walks like a duck.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: It quacks like a duck.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 2: It's a duck.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 32: And our justice system does say until you're convicted, you're
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 32: innocent until proven guilty. However— Boy, he's acting like a
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 32: very guilty person.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: And who's going to hold him accountable? Well, he's above
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: the law.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 32: It seems like nobody.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: But even the Supreme Court has just given him such power.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: He's just above the law. Even if we find everything
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: on him, what actually can actually happen to this guy?
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 32: Truthfully, I'm not sure.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 48: Right.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 32: And that's very, very worrisome. And again, that didn't used
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 32: to be the case. Watergate.
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 54: Right.
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 32: That was tape recording.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: Right, right. Well, listen, we're on with Hayward Gatch. Thank
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: you so much again for joining me.
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 32: We'll have to do this again.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Elsie. We'll be back.
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  Speaker 4: Two, one, two, three, four. Everybody's talking about magic, magic, magic, magic, magic, magic.
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• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: a magic. All we are saying.
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  Speaker 1: So good morning, everybody. How's everybody doing?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: Grand.
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  Speaker 53: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Grand. Well, listen, thank you. Thank you. It's a powerful,
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  Speaker 1: heavy hitters. And, and we had some great conversation and
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's about is two different parties, two different,
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  Speaker 1: two different folks just coming together and having good, good conversation. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but yesterday, um, was the second year anniversary of our
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  Speaker 1: father's death. And something amazing happened yesterday. So two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: when my dad passed, at that moment, there was.
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  Speaker 36: An owl.
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  Speaker 1: An owl like hooting like I've never heard before. And
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard since. I mean, this owl was so loud.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm walking, looking at the tree, what is
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  Speaker 1: going on? And I had, you know, and then come
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  Speaker 1: to find out, you know, my dad had passed at
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  Speaker 1: that same hour that the owl had, was hooting. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then you go look up the meaning of
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  Speaker 1: owls and it's like, there's a few different, but one
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  Speaker 1: of them is transition to death to transition. So yesterday I,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my little man cave and early in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and, um, um, I'm in my little man cave
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, not since, not ever before,
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  Speaker 1: but again, an owl is hooting so loud out there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and At the same time. That it did. Two years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: No joke.
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  Speaker 45: So.
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  Speaker 1: And once again. At this time. And you know I
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  Speaker 1: had known about. You know my father's death was coming.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of lost track of it all. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know. And sort of forgotten about the owl. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden. Later in the day I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Was that again.
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  Speaker 42: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Him suggesting that I'm here and hello, you know, you know, these,
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  Speaker 1: I bring this up because it was amazing. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two times in my life in this house that I've
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  Speaker 1: been in for 25 years, I, you know, 22 years, I've,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard an owl and it was those two times.
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  Speaker 38: Amazing.
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  Speaker 48: Right.
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  Speaker 25: That's not a coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and so, and that's the, um, And that
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  Speaker 1: is the power of– this is the spiritual thing that
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about a little bit. What do
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  Speaker 1: you guys think? Is this just coincidence? Is this something
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  Speaker 1: that really happens? Is this– You know, what is it
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: that happened? How did that, how did that come about?
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  Speaker 1: Am I just making that up?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 24: All right.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 19: Okay.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 25: So you're in tune. You're really in tune.
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  Speaker 63: Your dad is speaking to you in a way that
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 63: obviously resonates because it was a special day yesterday in
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 63: just honoring him, his legacy. And there he was. So
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 63: what I have to say is numbers play a part.
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 25: So time.
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  Speaker 63: The delivery birds are extremely intelligent animals that have evolved
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 63: from dinosaurs. And they are 100% spiritual gifts.
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 25: They are.
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  Speaker 25: Messengers between.
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  Speaker 63: The different worlds, I would say. Once the veil has
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 63: been lifted a little bit on this, you've been doing tarot.
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  Speaker 63: You've been, I feel like, aligning to this. So you're listening,
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  Speaker 63: and he's saying hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 25: I don't think it's a coincidence.
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, Hayward, any thoughts there?
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  Speaker 32: Well, you know, I guess I make no bones about
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 32: the fact that I do come from a slightly different
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 32: religious angle on the matter. However, I, within my own perspective,
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  Speaker 32: would say that I believe the Lord does give us signs,
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  Speaker 32: does give us things that are of meaning in our
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 32: life if we have the discernment to see them. And
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 32: something like that, in terms of it being on that
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 32: anniversary and being such a rare occurrence, me being in
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 32: the woods, of course, less so. But that is very interesting. And,
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  Speaker 32: you know, to me, I guess that's often what I
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 32: call those affirming moments. And, again, usually given my diverse
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 32: background as far as religion goes, I'll usually just thank
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 32: God for such a thing. Because often it's a comfort,
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 32: or at least I would assume it's a comfort. If
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 32: I were in that situation, it would feel like a comfort.
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 32: It would be.
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 32: Would give some sense of order to what seems to
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 32: be a very disordered, chaotic, and uncaring world. And to
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 32: have something like that could help to push back against
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 32: that darkness.
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 19: Right, right, right, right.
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  Speaker 25: Well, you started the show with a very.
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 63: Intimate story yesterday that you shared with a gentleman on
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 63: the streets of New London, which I also thought was
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 63: so it just it almost brought me to tears. No
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 63: one does this anymore. That was something that I used
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 63: to do when I lived in Boston or did advocacy
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 63: and outreach in East Boston for the neighborhood health clinic there.
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 25: They're people too.
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 63: They're, they're humans too. They like to create too. They
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 63: had lives before whatever happened to them happened to them. And, um, anyway,
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 63: I just want to say thanks for that.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 25: Like, and thanks for what you do too.
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: It was, it was a pretty unique situation. I just
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: had to go with it. I mean, you know, uh,
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's, I don't know if it's religion.
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's spiritual on however you think
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: about it. Um, you know, hey, what's your background in religion?
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: Why religion? Where do you come from on that?
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, so I was raised in a Christian family. My
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 32: mother was Catholic. My father was Protestant. Somehow they managed
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 32: to figure out that divide that still keeps Ireland split
• 2:29:06
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• 2:29:12
  Speaker 32: So I went to Catholic school because locally that was
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 32: one of the schools that took academics more seriously. And
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 32: so I was raised in that. I did drift away
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 32: from religion for quite some time simply because the Catholics
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 32: that I came into contact with were very keen on
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 32: beating the stuffing out of me for having a weird
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 32: name and not being Catholic. So that didn't help so much.
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 32: Going through history and seeing all of the crimes and
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 32: horrors done to people in the name of religion certainly
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 32: has– a dowsing effect on one's fervor. But as I
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 32: moved through life, there started to become signs of things
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 32: being a little, like I said, a little more ordered
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 32: than I might initially think. Things that strained my credulity
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 32: as far as believing were a coincidence. And that starts
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 32: to give a curiosity. Eventually, throughout my life of being
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 32: an activist, a local crazy person, international hobo, I came
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 32: across a certain guy named Jesus. And again, at a
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 32: purely secular level, I thought, wow, this is like the
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 32: most likable guy I think I've ever come across. I
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 32: like this guy. And that was really, really meaningful.
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  Speaker 28: And as.
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 32: I sort of delve more and more into this. Before
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 32: I was a Christian, I often called myself a Christ
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 32: fan because I wasn't quite there yet in my journey,
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 32: but I knew that I felt a kinship with this person,
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 32: this story. And I started to move more and more
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  Speaker 32: in that direction, and it almost seems like slowly but
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 32: then all at once you just find yourself in very
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 32: different territories spiritually. And I didn't really see that coming.
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 32: And one moment, I've talked about it on air before,
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 32: that was really meaningful is there was an extremely hard
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 32: time in my life. I was in a very difficult
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 32: situation with work. I hadn't been paid in months. I
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 32: was living out of dumpsters for food, skipping lots of meals,
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 32: that sort of thing. And I was listening to the
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 32: radio on the way to this job. And I looked
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  Speaker 32: at the sky without really any direct intention of doing so,
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  Speaker 32: just because it was up there. And I said, I
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  Speaker 32: And I was sort of tuning it out because of
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 32: my ambient misery at the time, but what I did
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 32: hear was Jim say, in almost direct conversational response, you're
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 32: not alone. And I was like, well, that felt like something.
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  Speaker 25: Powerful.
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  Speaker 32: I haven't felt something in a while. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 32: And You know, when you open yourself up in that way,
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  Speaker 32: you know, we may use different ways of describing it, certainly.
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  Speaker 32: But the lens through which I view the world, I
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  Speaker 32: have my political opinions, of course, but on the spiritual angle,
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  Speaker 32: it became a Christian angle. I've been a baptized Christian
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  Speaker 32: for probably two years now. It's hard to count sometimes.
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  Speaker 32: I'm bad with numbers. I probably shouldn't build things. But,
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  Speaker 32: you know, that was a big shift for me. And
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  Speaker 32: the longer I've been involved in it and the more
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  Speaker 32: I've studied the Bible the more depth I felt in it.
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  Speaker 32: And being dyslexic, that was often a barrier to me of, wow,
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 32: that book's longer than a couple paragraphs.
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  Speaker 25: So many hurdles.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: So you believe in the Bible or you believe in God?
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: Is the Bible actually true?
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  Speaker 25: The Bible, quote unquote, like 60 texts or whatever.
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, well, so the Bible being a collection of a
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  Speaker 32: tremendous amount of texts. And, yeah, so I believe in
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  Speaker 32: the God that is described in the Bible with all
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  Speaker 32: of the nuances and difficult dilemmas that are involved in there.
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  Speaker 32: And it's strange because at first I felt very almost
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  Speaker 32: intellectual about in the exploration of it from a critical angle,
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  Speaker 32: because I tend to view all things from a critical angle.
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 32: One of the philosophical angles I come from is to
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 32: strip away all preconceived notions and all pre-agreed ideas and
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 32: then see what holds up. That's sort of how I
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 32: ended up where I am politically, just seeing that basically
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  Speaker 32: everything's a scam. So taking that same rigor into something
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 32: that I had often just written off surprised me in
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 32: ways that I wasn't quite expecting. And even things as
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 32: simple as, you know, if you want to explore this
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  Speaker 32: text and see where there might be some things that
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  Speaker 32: surprise you, the book of Proverbs, just talking about, you know,
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 32: ways to live a good life. You're like, wow, we've
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 32: been pretty much the same for quite a while, haven't we?
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 32: You know, I'll read through stuff like that. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 32: I know these people. And there's a kinship in that
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 32: and a power in that that is hard to fully quantify,
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  Speaker 32: and I don't know that you can. And just the
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 32: more involved I've got, the more sure I feel, which
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 32: is really interesting because you don't necessarily think that that's
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 32: going to happen, especially approaching from a very secular angle.
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  Speaker 63: I think everybody has sort of a primal sense to
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 63: connect with something, whatever it may be. And I mean,
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 63: I was lucky enough to grow up in a household
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 63: where I was able to explore that. And I was
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 63: able to go to synagogues and participate in different.
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  Speaker 25: Traditions.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: I loved it. I loved it because.
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  Speaker 63: What better way to learn than to dive in and
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 63: experience life that way and see how other families are
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 63: living and their traditions and the history that they hold
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  Speaker 63: the stories that they tell around their kitchen tables.
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  Speaker 25: Is super important. Those are, you know, that is, I agree.
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  Speaker 30: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: I agree with that.
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  Speaker 24: I resonate with that.
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, I think there's something foundationally innate with humans. And,
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 32: you know, depending on one's religious worldview, there's usually an
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 32: explanation for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 32: But the idea that even if you just drop a
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 32: couple of cavemen out in the woods somewhere, they'll probably
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 32: bury their dead.
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  Speaker 45: Why?
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 48: Why?
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 25: Right.
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  Speaker 32: They might even make a pile of rocks to them.
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 32: And why would you do that? There's something about our religion.
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 32: Our essence, our way of being, you know, at least
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 32: as far as that's legible to us, right? Who knows
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 32: what dolphins believe? We can't necessarily communicate with them. But
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 32: there's something that we know about us, that there's this desire,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 32: this drive for something more than what we can see.
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 54: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But is that the limitations and the human mind?
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  Speaker 25: Well, think about how long we stifle that, Steve. We
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 25: stifle this.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 63: As soon as we hit the floor running, the ground running,
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 63: we are put into system after system after system after system.
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 63: To stifle creativity, to stifle free creative thought, critical thinking,
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 63: the stuff that you're talking about that you pride yourself on,
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 63: the critical, that reflective thought.
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 25: And you have turned internally to say, you know what?
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 25: Jesus and I are cool.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 63: And actually, I do feel a sense that Jesus, even
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 63: in a way, I have come from him. Capital H-I-M. Right.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 63: And people, you know, Jim, the fact that Jim.
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 25: Spoke to you through him is a miracle.
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 38: Yeah.
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 25: It's a miracle.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 32: Well, I certainly felt that way.
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 25: I think that way.
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 53: Yeah.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, again, here with Hayward and Morgan and,
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 1: you know, sort of a deeper conversation.
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 25: Can I tell you what happened, like, for me? Sure.
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 63: I heard, so the morning I was, the morning your
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 63: father passed, I was listening to Lee on the radio.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 25: And I remember.
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 63: Just first of all, the emotional grit like that it
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 63: took to pull up your bootstraps and show up for work,
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 63: despite everything going on personally.
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 63: Just takes the utmost courage and bravery because we all
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 63: face struggles and we all have to work and make
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 63: a living.
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 25: And I think that's like, I'm not.
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 63: Okay with the divide. Like that divide right now is
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 63: by design. And people are either burying their heads in
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 63: the sand because they're too frazzled about everything and can't
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 63: discuss anything and want to look the other way.
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 50: Yeah.
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 32: And on the subject of a miracle that we talked
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 32: about a second ago, This divide.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 32: I don't know that either of you folks were listening
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 32: when we did the King of Callers, the final monologues
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 32: for them.
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 32: My monologue centered on what is one of my personal
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 32: favorite miracles, which was the Christmas truce of World War I, 1914,
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 32: I believe. And you have people that are in there,
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 32: not just metaphorical, literal trenches, killing each other, gassing each other,
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 32: hitting each other with artillery, and a moment of bravery there.
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 32: to stand up over the trenches led to people who
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 32: would otherwise be friends having normal interactions. And that understanding,
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 32: that miracle, not only from a religious perspective, but me
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 32: from a philosophical and political perspective, that has been one
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 32: of the animating stories of a lot of my activism,
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 32: a lot of my political beliefs. That idea that we're
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 32: not so far gone Because they weren't that far gone.
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 32: And how blessed are we that we're not sitting in
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 32: trenches shooting at each other. Let's not do that again.
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 25: Let's not go there again. But I heard crickets. I
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 25: heard birds.
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 63: There was a situational awareness to that event going down
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 63: that I also felt.
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 25: And so that too isn't a coincidence.
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 63: When an When an energy strikes that many people at
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 63: the same time and we all feel the same immensity
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 63: to it.
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: The energy, however you may see it, be it God,
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: be it Jesus, for me just being the energy of
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: the earth. The outcome.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 25: The mother.
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: Right, mother earth. The outcome, the end result equals the same.
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 44: Right.
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: It's like whether you think whether I think it's a
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: miracle that I that I was able to do something
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: that is not humanly possible, that I called upon some
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: energy or you think it was a divine intervention. The
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: end result is the same. It's just how we're seeing it.
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: It's how we perceive it and how we want to
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: welcome it.
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 63: I mean, yeah, we are like how we all interpret information,
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 63: how we're processing information.
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 25: The same events going down.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: Right. And so, and so I am, I am, I
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: love that analogy. I guess where I go a little
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: bit South on it all is, is the organized religion
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: by men, by man, I think is inherently corrupt. And
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: it's been, I think it was a power grab. And I,
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: and I think, and I think in a lot of ways,
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: the religion was used to control people because if you
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: didn't do the right thing, you would go to hell.
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 45: Right.
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: Or this sort of thing. And that is where, you know,
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: I believing in a God or that sort of thing
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: I can buy into. I don't believe in the text
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 1: or the organized version of it that is human made.
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Nobody– there's nothing in the Bible that actually came directly
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: from– so it's all some account of whatever.
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 25: Well, and I– like what's controversial about love?
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 32: So– What a subject for six minutes left.
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: I know, really. But no, but so that's my sort
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: of– rub with it is that part of it is,
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: I've seen too much, there's been too much corruption. It's like,
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: why is there so much money in the church?
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 32: It's ridiculous. I definitely feel very skeptical about organization generally,
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 32: both politically and religiously. And here's an interesting thing. Paul's
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 32: letters in the Bible are often advice and even critiques
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 32: of some early churches that were falling astray. So there's
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 32: even talk about that happening in the first century.
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, anything for me, I always question anything. if
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: you're in a big group of people that everybody's saying
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: the same thing, whether it be Heil Hitler or some
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: religious thing in whatever way, I just don't feel comfortable
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: with it. I don't feel comfortable with this following along
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: blindly in some, some aspects would just, you're asking me
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: to believe or something or, or, or for control or
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: any of it. This is where I get a little
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: skittish with it because I, I, I know the limitations
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: of humans and, And I know that they are inherently
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 1: very corruptible. Absolutely.
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 25: As soon as they're out of touch with themselves.
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right.
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 25: That's an important piece.
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 37: Yep.
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: Two minutes.
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 34: Okay.
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: We have two minutes left. Guys, anything else you want
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: to add to this very shallow conversation?
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 48: No, no.
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 37: Oh, my gosh.
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 4: No.
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 25: Debbie Downer.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 23: No.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 25: I'm going to be on next week.
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 25: And, well, we are going to be talking history.
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 63: My sister has just published a book with Random House.
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 25: And it is called Kingdom of Devils.
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 63: And it is about some murderous brothers, the Harps, in
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 63: New America, you know, on the tale of, you know,
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 63: Revolutionary War and all that stuff. So we'll stick with
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 63: the history piece and talk about why some of this
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 63: stuff is so ingrained in our foundation.
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 29: Yeah.
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 30: Hayward, anything?
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 32: Yeah, you know, I just want to thank you for
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 32: the opportunity. And the other thing, for everyone listening, do
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 32: please take seriously the idea that we shouldn't go into
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 32: our trenches and end up in the same place the
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 32: folks were in 1914. You have far more in common
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 32: with your neighbors than you're trained to believe.
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 32: And the courage necessary to discover that can be scary,
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 32: but it's worth it.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: Don't buy into any social media splitting of parties or craziness.
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: We are closer than you think as humans. Anyway, I
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 1: am Steve Elsie. Thank you to all my guests today.
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.