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Lee Elci, Voice of Freedom | Come On, Man · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: I've had days that were long and days where you
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  Speaker 1: worked a lot. Three days in a row where, like,
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  Speaker 1: every second of the day was something scheduled and was
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  Speaker 1: doing something.
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  Speaker 2: Out there. Out there trying to make it happen. But
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  Speaker 2: things are looking good. And, again, if.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just bear with us for the next.
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  Speaker 1: Next week or so, and then it should calm down
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  Speaker 1: for a while. But I appreciate each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you, as always. A lot going on in the news,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been kind of unplugged because literally I've been
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  Speaker 1: either driving around the state or doing different things. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: my plugged-in-ness with the news has not been what it probably.
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  Speaker 2: Should be, and it will be back to that level.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, hopefully, today will be a little chaotic
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  Speaker 1: for me again one more time. But then after that,
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  Speaker 1: it should get a little bit better. As I got
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  Speaker 1: in here this morning, I'll show it to the audience
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  Speaker 1: who's listening.
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  Speaker 2: I got a postcard, a nice postcard from somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I get snail mail probably every day, a couple pieces
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  Speaker 1: of snail mail every day.
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  Speaker 2: Open them, and we do what we do.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a nice picture of what looks like
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  Speaker 1: New River George.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where that is. National Park. Is that Virginia?
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia. Okay, West Virginia. New River Park.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's... There's a message, a postcard on the
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  Speaker 1: back addressed to me. And it says, I listened to
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  Speaker 1: your station on a drive to Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: OMG. You are so hateful and disingenuous. Communist, Marxist, WTF
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  Speaker 2: are you talking about? You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know it, and then bull blank. So why spew it?
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  Speaker 1: Think of your kids. I don't have any kids. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking of your kids when I do this show. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have any, but I'm thinking of yours. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: of trying to save a country, or at least help
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  Speaker 1: save a country, that is disappearing in front of our eyes.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe what you hear as hatred is actually honesty.
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  Speaker 1: Have you considered that for five seconds? Maybe you don't
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  Speaker 1: like the tone of my voice, person driving to Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly you don't know or don't like the things that
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  Speaker 1: I'm referencing.
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  Speaker 2: Communism, Marxists, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Are we not living in a modern-day society that has
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  Speaker 1: embraced to a certain extent the ideas of socialism.
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  Speaker 2: And all that surrounds that?
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  Speaker 1: And what follows socialism is normally communism?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just look around the world.
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  Speaker 1: And as we talked about at length or have been
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  Speaker 1: talking about at length, it's not impossible for this to
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  Speaker 1: happen here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it would happen with a tremendous fight. It
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it would happen under the cloak of
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  Speaker 1: darkness and silence. I think there are enough patriots in
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  Speaker 1: this country who would rise up against a socialist, communist takeover.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is happening in pockets of the country.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, they try to, they being, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: the folks who believe other things than what you and
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  Speaker 1: me may believe, although not counting you who's driving to
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  Speaker 1: Long Island, who considers me hateful. I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: this messaging that's out there that's trying to get most
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  Speaker 1: people to say, ah, it's not that bad. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have Social Security. you know, you subscribe to Medicare,
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  Speaker 1: so what's the difference? Just go all the way.
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  Speaker 3: If we go all the way and we do it right, right,
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  Speaker 3: we do it a better way, we do it the American,
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  Speaker 3: socialism the American way, then it'll work.
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  Speaker 2: And what would it look like?
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  Speaker 1: So when you decide to take money from the super rich,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and somehow there's this idea that the super-rich.
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  Speaker 2: The Elon Musks of the world, will be.
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  Speaker 1: Able to pay the bills for everyone else. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it might be true for a year or two, but
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  Speaker 1: when you start stripping away the wealth from the wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: even if they stayed, right, even if they decide, I'll stay,
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  Speaker 1: I love America, red, white, and blue, tax.
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  Speaker 2: Me, tax me the 80%, I'll stay. Eventually....
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  Speaker 1: That vast wealth and the businesses that they've created will
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  Speaker 1: wither away and die.
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  Speaker 3: And the jobs that people have will be gone.
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  Speaker 1: And then you'll have, you know, over a period of years, months, years,
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  Speaker 1: maybe decades, you know, you'll have that slow creep of socialism.
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  Speaker 1: And then your kids, or maybe at least your kids' kids,
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  Speaker 1: can have what, Their grandparents, you, I'm talking to, the
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  Speaker 1: progressive liberals, you're the grandparents. You know, 30 years down
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  Speaker 1: the road, you can have what you desire now, which
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  Speaker 1: is government control of everything. You know, you strip away
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  Speaker 1: the wealth from the wealthy and you disperse it to
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  Speaker 1: those who don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of try to, in your mind, level the playing field.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the end, what do you have? You
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  Speaker 1: have everybody in a sour state. Everybody is struggling. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's an.
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  Speaker 2: American way of doing socialism that would work.
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  Speaker 1: How would you keep the business entrepreneurs wanting to produce
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  Speaker 1: if they're not getting what they put their hard-earned effort into?
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  Speaker 2: I was around a couple of people yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: One wealthy and one wealthy, right? Just like one wealthy
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  Speaker 1: and then one, yeah, wealthy. And both of them started
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  Speaker 1: with nothing. Both of them basically worked their way to
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  Speaker 1: their lot in life. One actually was a minor league
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  Speaker 1: baseball player, played a few years before me, so that's
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  Speaker 1: sort of what we were talking about. It was a
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  Speaker 1: guy who went to school for a certain degree, went out,
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  Speaker 1: tried to be a baseball player, went in a different–
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  Speaker 1: me and him could be the exact same thing. We
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  Speaker 1: both went to college and then signed a professional contract.
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  Speaker 2: He got released. I got released. I screwed around for
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  Speaker 2: six years and was a dope.
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  Speaker 1: This guy went and made millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's buying and selling companies. He made a choice.
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  Speaker 2: He worked, right?
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I hate it when somebody says, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, somebody says that, you know, people are lucky
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  Speaker 1: or people are, you know, more fortunate or privileged is
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  Speaker 1: the word, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, the guy had nothing. And he decided, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: I went to school on an athletic scholarship. I went
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  Speaker 2: and used it to get a degree. I traced a
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  Speaker 2: dream and I failed.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm going back out and making money. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's buying and selling companies. What's stopping somebody from
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  Speaker 1: any other lot in life for doing the exact same thing?
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  Speaker 2: That's America.
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  Speaker 1: The other guy worked his way up through a company,
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  Speaker 1: eventually became the CFO and the CEO, and he's worth millions.
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  Speaker 1: Are they supposed to feel bad for everybody else because
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  Speaker 1: they worked hard? Well, you were out screwing around. or
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  Speaker 1: you were out being quote-unquote satisfied in whatever you were doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're not. They're out working. They're out busting their ass.
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  Speaker 2: They're out.
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  Speaker 1: They're on the phone doing phone calls at 10, 11,
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  Speaker 1: 12 o'clock at night making deals.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing? You're partying. Right? Or you're at
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  Speaker 2: the movies. Or you're watching Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm supposed to sign off on those people? signing 70,
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  Speaker 1: 80% of their check or their finances.
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  Speaker 2: Over to you because you don't want to do what
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  Speaker 2: they do? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound ridiculous when you put it out like that? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but Lee, what about the people who don't have the
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  Speaker 1: same opportunity? Those two didn't have the same opportunity as
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  Speaker 1: other people. They figured it out. So they're penalized. Their
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  Speaker 1: money is stripped away. Their wealth is.
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  Speaker 2: He's hemorrhaged because Joe Blow.
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  Speaker 1: Over here wanted to smoke pot and drink with his
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  Speaker 1: buddies around a campfire until he was 30.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't have any work ethic. Doesn't want to go to work.
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  Speaker 2: Wants to work a 30-hour week instead of a 40-hour week.
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  Speaker 2: These guys don't even take vacations. This is what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is wrong with all you people out there?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that they owe you something?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why, because they drive on the same roads we drive on?
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  Speaker 2: How'd you get here today? You drove on the roads,
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  Speaker 2: didn't you? That's socialism. Really? Come on, man. It's just.
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  Speaker 2: It's mind-boggling how stupid the argument is. I wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about socialism today. I was actually going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about elections, but I don't know. It just
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  Speaker 2: kind of came out this way, so we'll save elections
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  Speaker 2: to another day.
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  Speaker 7: But, I mean, when we have these conversations about shared
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  Speaker 7: sacrifice and what's owed, How about personal responsibility and personal sacrifice?
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  Speaker 2: How about giving up some of the things that you
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  Speaker 2: like to make your life better? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe don't, you know, go out with your pals on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend every weekend. Maybe take one weekend and read
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  Speaker 1: a book.
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  Speaker 2: Take a class. I don't know. Clean the house. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: That makes you a better human being as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: going out and, you know, doing 20 shots of Jack
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  Speaker 1: Daniels with your friends at a strip club or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is that you do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. And then complain that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have any money in your pocket and you can't
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  Speaker 2: afford X, Y, and Z. I know times are tough.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me. I get it. I know we're all struggling.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a legitimate argument that we can try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out together.
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  Speaker 2: And have have a roundtable or roundtable discussions.
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  Speaker 1: Let's figure out how the hardworking middle-class American can actually
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  Speaker 1: have a house, picket fence, couple kids, dogs, all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Because that has withered away and has disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: But blaming the guys who have put in 80-hour weeks
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  Speaker 1: for 15 years and built wealth because they had a
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  Speaker 1: vision and a dream and you didn't?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, man. That's just... That's selfishness on your part.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind. All right, lots to do today. We'll
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  Speaker 2: come back.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully that makes a little bit of sense today.
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  Speaker 2: 94.9 News Now, Stimulated TV. Call him for the day paper.
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  Speaker 8: He lives his life with the wisdom that those who
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  Speaker 8: do not learn from history are doomed to repeat.
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  Speaker 9: One of Eastern Connecticut's all-time greats, Bill Stanley.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Bill Stanley sitting right across
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  Speaker 2: from me. Actually, now that Bill's in the studio, if
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  Speaker 2: you guys want to call.
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  Speaker 1: In during this segment, more than happy to take calls
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  Speaker 1: because I think the topic is And the subject matter
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  Speaker 1: is one of great interest to our listeners.
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  Speaker 2: But, Bill, first, good morning. How are you? Good morning, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming in. I appreciate you being here.
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  Speaker 2: Happy to be here. And you've got a column up
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  Speaker 2: in the day paper right now, and I just want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure I get the title right.
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  Speaker 1: Socialists think it's all for free, but somebody has to
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  Speaker 1: pay the bill. And it's interesting that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this now because I opened the show yelling
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  Speaker 1: and screaming a little bit about the column that was
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  Speaker 1: written by the editorial board, Socialism is Not Taking Over
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  Speaker 1: the Country. And I thought they gave a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of shade to Mondami and AOC.
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  Speaker 2: And Bernie Sanders in that column.
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  Speaker 10: Well, the day is hardly alone in providing shade, as
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  Speaker 10: you say, for the socialist agenda and protecting the Democrats.
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  Speaker 10: It's funny to watch the Democratic Party and the advent
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  Speaker 10: of socialism within the party because they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know what to do about it.
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  Speaker 10: You know, if they reject it, if they try to
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  Speaker 10: distance themselves from it, they're going to lose the left fringe,
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  Speaker 10: which is, I call it the lunatic fringe of the
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  Speaker 10: Democratic Party. And then if they embrace it, I think
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  Speaker 10: you're going to find virtually all Republicans and a big
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  Speaker 10: chunk of unaffiliated voters who are going to walk away
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  Speaker 10: from it. Because some of the stuff they're advocating is crazy.
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  Speaker 10: they're going to do away with the President of the
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  Speaker 10: United States. They're going to do away with the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate. They're going to do away with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: They had a.
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  Speaker 10: Spokeswoman on for the Democratic Socialist of America Party, and
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  Speaker 10: she was being interviewed. And they said, well, if there's
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  Speaker 10: not going to be a President of the United States,
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  Speaker 10: there is going to be a chief executive. And the
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  Speaker 10: woman said, they said, what would he be called? They said,
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  Speaker 10: the head honcho of whatever. I don't think it The
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  Speaker 10: head honcho or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well thought out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like half of it seems like it's not serious, right?
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  Speaker 1: But I wanted to, before we get to your column,
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  Speaker 1: I made this comment this morning, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get your opinion on this. So previous columnists who used
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  Speaker 1: to write for the day made it a point that
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  Speaker 1: he would chastise.
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  Speaker 2: People who did not denounce Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Collins made a you know, even recently in a sub
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  Speaker 1: stack said the same thing about Greg Howard denounced Trump
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  Speaker 1: or you are on my blank list.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So he went through. And again, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's got his right to his own opinion. That's he
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  Speaker 2: made him.
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  Speaker 1: He made a whole bunch of money and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: local fame and fortune from from being an opinion writer
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  Speaker 1: for the day paper.
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  Speaker 11: But.
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  Speaker 1: He raked Republicans over the coals and the day did
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  Speaker 1: nothing about it, about whether or not you like Trump
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about if now this go around, the writers
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  Speaker 2: of the day, the editorial board.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the Democrat candidates, either denounce socialism or you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get the double thumbs up from us.
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  Speaker 10: Well, after they wrote the editorial, all but endorsing socialism
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  Speaker 10: or basically saying, well, it's not really a threat.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to do that.
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  Speaker 12: But they should, Bill. To be honest with you, that's
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  Speaker 12: fair to me. I think that's a fair tradeoff. Well,
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  Speaker 12: it would certainly be more appropriate.
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  Speaker 10: It would be more fitting and more applicable to ask
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  Speaker 10: local politicians, Democrats, if they endorse socialism or if they
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  Speaker 10: oppose it.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Because when they based.
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  Speaker 10: When David based his endorsement or his favor on whether
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  Speaker 10: or not a Republican supported Donald Trump, to me it
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  Speaker 10: didn't make any sense because.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really apply to local politics.
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  Speaker 10: You're going to vote for or against somebody running for
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  Speaker 10: New London City Council based on whether they support... Well,
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  Speaker 10: that's a bad example because Republicans just flat out don't
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  Speaker 10: win in New London.
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  Speaker 2: But in any community....
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  Speaker 10: David tried to call, and after a while they just
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  Speaker 10: stopped returning David's phone calls. But he would call all
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  Speaker 10: the Republican legislators, like Greg Howard, Holly Cheeseman, Kathleen McCarty,
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  Speaker 10: and ask them if they endorsed Trump. And if they didn't,
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  Speaker 10: I guess that meant his approval. Not that he was
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  Speaker 10: going to support him anyway.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I mean, I think he actually asked, in most cases,
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  Speaker 12: he had to denounce them.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you had to come out against Trump, otherwise you were.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you were in his crosshairs. Yeah, yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not even an endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: If you just stayed quiet about it, he still, you know,
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  Speaker 1: went after you like a pimp.
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  Speaker 10: And that applies to some of the people who are
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  Speaker 10: regular posters on the day's website.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: You know, they show up beneath my column and some
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  Speaker 10: of the other stories. It's funny, though. Any story in
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  Speaker 10: the day that has Trump in the headline will have
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  Speaker 10: dozens and dozens, sometimes more than 100 posts. and a
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  Speaker 10: lot of them from the same people on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, let's talk about your columns. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where's the money come from?
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  Speaker 1: How do you characterize the source of the funding for
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  Speaker 1: some of these wild proposals?
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  Speaker 2: Where are they going to get the money?
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  Speaker 10: Well, they would have you believe, again, with some of
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  Speaker 10: the lunatic ideas that they have, closing U.S. military bases overseas,
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  Speaker 10: defunding the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 10: So there's... probably more than a trillion dollars right there. And, uh,
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  Speaker 10: they'll have a party with it, uh, with, with their
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  Speaker 10: giveaways and so forth. Um, they're going to, uh, abolish ice, um, and,
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  Speaker 10: and things like that and, and tax those evil billionaires. And,
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  Speaker 10: you know, the thing is with taxing billionaires, or I
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  Speaker 10: should say overtaxing billionaires, because billionaires, most billionaires pay a
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  Speaker 10: lot in taxes. Um, If you do that, and California
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  Speaker 10: is a great example, they've got the resources.
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  Speaker 2: They'll move.
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  Speaker 10: And if you make it a national policy, guess what?
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  Speaker 10: The billionaires go someplace else where there are tax shelters.
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  Speaker 2: They're not dumb. They didn't become wealthy by being idiots.
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  Speaker 10: And so Margaret Thatcher, the late great Margaret Thatcher, who
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  Speaker 10: was the former prime minister of Great Britain and a
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  Speaker 10: close friend of Ronald Reagan, said it best. She said
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  Speaker 10: socialism is fine, but eventually you run out of other
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  Speaker 10: people's money. And if you read the Democratic Socialist of
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  Speaker 10: America platform, your national platform, it's there in black and white,
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: and see some of the things they say, how would
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: it feel? at the end of the month if you
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: didn't have to worry about rent or you didn't have
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: to worry about a mortgage or your student loan? I mean,
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: they're basically suggesting that you go through life and don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: have to pay for anything. And people say, oh, well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: your source is Fox News. It's not Fox News. It
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: might be something that I watch on Fox News, like
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: the co-chairman of the Socialist Party going through all these things,
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: saying that they're going to close the military bases, they're
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: going to close the prisons. That was another beauty. They're
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: going to provide amnesty for anybody here illegally and grant
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: them citizenship. So, it's not taken over America yet, but
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: if allowed to, and I heard someone earlier remark that
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: it's becoming increasingly popular.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: In the urban areas. Right.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: Where, you know, life is good unless you have to
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: pay for it. And what I think you're going to
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: see through Mondami's policies down in New York City, he
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: basically doxed people who own second homes in New York City.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: Publish their names, their addresses, contact information. And what I
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: think you're going to see is people say, all right,
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: that's it. I'm out of New York.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to Florida.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: I'm going to go to Texas, Arizona, someplace like that
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: where I'm not going to be punished for being successful.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: And all of a sudden, the revenue source is going
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: to be gone.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And then what?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Bill Stanley, columnist for the day paper, is with us
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: in the studio. If you want to join the Socialist Conversation, 860-464-9490.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'd love to get your opinion on this. I just
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: reposted his column up on our social media, so you can.
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  Speaker 2: Check that out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: If you were advising Republican candidates, or just Republicans in general,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: how would you fight this Democrat Socialists of America and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: their agenda?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Give them all the rope they need to hang themselves.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: I'm talking about the Democrats and the Socialists. Today is
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: a big primary day out in Michigan. You've got a
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: Socialist who says he isn't a Socialist in a primary
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: against an establishment Democrat, a Congresswoman, running for the U.S.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Senate seat that's being vacated by a Democrat incumbent. And truthfully,
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: I'm pulling for the Socialists to win the primary because
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: I think that would just about assure a Republican win
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: and one extra seat for the Republicans in the U.S. Senate,
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: who right now are fighting to keep control of it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: So, you know, we're watching, and we've mentioned Mondami a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: couple of times in New York.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: City a couple of times, people leaving.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: This is the biggest economic center that this country has.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And it is, you know, it's, what, less than a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: year since he's been elected?
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And already these plans are in place, these five grocery stores.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I think I read somewhere where the five grocery stores
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in total cost almost $ 60 million to build and put
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: all the pieces in place. That's taxpayer money that goes
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to put these together. And as I was talking about
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: earlier this morning, so you're going to plop one of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: these grocery stores maybe next to a mom-and-pop grocery store.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So you've grabbed the taxes from the mom-and-pop. giving it
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to the grocery store, who now is going to charge
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: 30% less for food.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So mom and pop are out of business. It's a disaster, Bill.
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: It goes back to what Margaret Thatcher said. What happens
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: when the money runs out?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: And that is a great formula for draining the resources
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: of your city or of your state.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: But it's... Crazier things have happened in urban areas throughout
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: the country.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: And that's where socialism is catching on. And if it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: catching on in the big cities, does it begin to
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: spread or do they remain isolated and you have what's
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: commonly called white flight out of the urban areas into
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: the suburbs?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I had a long conversation the other day. I happened
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to be waiting for my... My phone died and I
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was in a phone store. I told the story a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: couple times. But I'm sitting in there and there was...
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: A very nice lady, wonderful lady, and her husband happened
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to be in there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: She was a teacher.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He was the trial attorney, okay? Both from a different state, Ohio,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: transplanted here for a number of years.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And we were talking about this. And these are, you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: upper middle class people for sure.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: And we started– because neither one of us had phone access,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: so– because my phone had died, we started talking.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You had to actually talk to each other.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I had to talk to each other. So we were talking,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and somehow it got to what I do for a living.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: And I said, you know, I do radio. I do
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: talk shows. And then she was like, well, I'm afraid
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to ask you where you are. I said, well, it's
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: pretty simple. I'm on the conservative side.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And so then all of a sudden the conversation– not–
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it didn't get out of the cereal, but she was
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: very nice. But here's a couple who they're for. So
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: they're for this bill. Like they're OK with socialized medicine, housing,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: all of it. And I'm like, I'm trying to explain, like,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: who is paying for this?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Like these are.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: The idea of America is built on individual freedom. I
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: will go to my grave believing that the idea of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a nanny state, someone doing the work for you, it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: making your grandparents spit in their grave.
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: And these are supposedly educated people. You've got a teacher
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: and a trial lawyer. So it just.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: I suppose, as I said in the column, that it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: a good fit for the up-and-coming generation. You know, the
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: kids who made the baseball team don't even know how
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: to get to first base. They play whatever position they want.
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: At the end of the season, they get a trophy
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: for participation. Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Later on, they get out of high school, they get
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: out of college with a degree in sociology or urban
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: studies or dirigible watching, something like that, and they can't
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: find the right job, and they don't want to work
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: 40 hours a week, and that's one of the other
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: things that socialists advocate, a 32-hour work week.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: So think about what that's going to do.
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: To productivity, what it's going to do to quality control,
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: what it's going to do to the cost of things,
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: because if you're paying.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Guys and gals over.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: At EB to work 32 hours now as opposed to
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: 40 hours, pretty soon you're going to see that submarine
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: production schedule fall behind.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: That's right. Although, what happens then? I mean, if we
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: defund the Pentagon, what do we do? Close EB? We
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: close the sub-base? Yeah. That'll do wonders for the local economy.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: No police department, no sub-base, no war, no Pentagon.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's... I mean, it's almost like a Saturday Night Live
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: sketch if it weren't actually happening.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: In real time. You're right. It would be funny if
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it wasn't so scary.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike, and Gail Sperry wants to weigh
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in on this conversation.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Mike, good morning.
• 27:12
  Speaker 13: Hey, great conversation.
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: I'm glad I got in.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Thanks, brother.
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: So the problem is the school system. The school systems
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: have been indoctrinating people into the socialism stuff for years.
• 27:21
  Speaker 15: And what they tell them is that communism is— I mean,
• 27:26
  Speaker 15: capitalism is failing— and we need to try communism, which
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: they call socialism. But the reason that capitalism is failing
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: is because of all the social programs that are weighing
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: everything down. So the problem is socialism. It's destroying capitalism,
• 27:42
  Speaker 15: and their solution is more socialism. And these young kids,
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: they don't understand history, so they don't get the game
• 27:50
  Speaker 15: that's been played on them. And also, everything is so
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: expensive now. I think people have just given up. So
• 27:57
  Speaker 15: back in the day, in the 1960s, the minimum wage
• 28:00
  Speaker 15: was about a dollar. And a dollar can buy you
• 28:02
  Speaker 15: 15 to 20 snicker bars. Nowadays, with the minimum wage
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: being about $ 15, you can only get about five snicker bars.
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: So you have to work four times as hard just
• 28:13
  Speaker 15: to have the same type of life. So people can't
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: work four or five part-time jobs, so they just give up.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Well, you're right, Mike.
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: I mean, there is this problem with younger people today
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: not understanding history because they've been taught a different type
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: of history. They've been taught that capitalism is bad. They've
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: been taught that the American way is bad and that
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: we are the great oppressors. And when they get through
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: with their education, you know, more and more of them
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: are living in mom and dad's basements.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And not working. Well, you know what?
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: Of course everything seems more expensive if you're not working
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: and you don't have any income. Go out and get
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: a job. Work 40 hours a week. And if you
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: have to, Lee's done it. I've done it. You've probably
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: done it. If you need to early on in your career,
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: work an extra job. As opposed to, oh, things are
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: too expensive, so I'm going to go with a governmental
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: system that will pay for everything for me. And if
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: you believe that works, I mean, we hear all these
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: different things.
• 29:26
  Speaker 15: And I think it's very tempting to them, you know.
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: But they don't understand that it's never going to work.
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: Like Margaret Thatcher said, we're going to run out of
• 29:34
  Speaker 15: other people's money eventually, and it's going to get really bad.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Mike actually makes also a great point,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: is that capital. has been, the parasite of socialism has
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: affected capitalism to the point where the middle class has
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: been basically withered away and been destroyed by these social
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: network programs that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Are out there. I think Mike's right about that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 16: And then they.
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: Say you need more socialism.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: To solve it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: All right, Mike, I'm going to get one more. Thanks, Mike.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. I appreciate that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Let's grab one more before we run out of time,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and that's Jan in East Lyme.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Jan.
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: Good morning, and good morning, Bill.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Jan.
• 30:09
  Speaker 17: I wanted to bring up a topic and get your
• 30:12
  Speaker 17: thoughts on this. I think that in early-stage communism, which
• 30:17
  Speaker 17: is what the Democrat socialists are, you do have money,
• 30:23
  Speaker 17: but the goal is everybody gets a social credit score,
• 30:27
  Speaker 17: average people. Your membership in the party helps you to
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: get whatever you want. And you get a SNAP-like card
• 30:36
  Speaker 17: for your food. You get an apartment, utilities, but everything
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: is based on a social credit score. The goal is
• 30:46
  Speaker 17: to get rid of money for the average person.
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: So where's your incentive to work then, Jan, to work hard?
• 30:55
  Speaker 17: Pardon me, could you speak up?
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: I said, what happens then to people's incentive to work hard?
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: If you're going to be working hard and making a
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: lot of money, and you're going to have to share
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: it so that everybody's got an equal level of income,
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: then why bother working hard?
• 31:19
  Speaker 17: Well, we discovered that in early Virginia. when the first
• 31:25
  Speaker 17: colonies were a kind of... You worked for the company
• 31:30
  Speaker 17: that sent everybody over, and nobody would work. So they
• 31:34
  Speaker 17: unleashed capitalism in Virginia. The Chesapeake took off. It doesn't work,
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: because why would you work hard? Maybe with the social
• 31:46
  Speaker 17: credit score, though, it's going to change things. It's going
• 31:51
  Speaker 17: to change things to where.
• 31:54
  Speaker 17: You're not getting money anymore. You're getting a card. And
• 31:58
  Speaker 17: because of technology, you can be shut down very quickly.
• 32:02
  Speaker 17: You don't go to work, some points are taken right
• 32:05
  Speaker 17: off your grocery card.
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: Well, there's nothing wrong with hard work. And people who
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: succeed have worked hard. And Democrats vilify people like Elon
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: Musk and others who have made meaning millions or billions
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: of dollars.
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: What I'm talking about is the theoretical direction of communism
• 32:32
  Speaker 17: in the new technological age, the controls that they will have.
• 32:38
  Speaker 17: But anyway, and I agree with hard work. I'm just
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: talking about where they're going to get rid of money.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And that would be a great, I mean, that's a
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: great way to, thank you, Jan. I appreciate it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to run out of time, but that's what
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you think about. That's a, That's the ultimate perfect way
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to control people is you eliminate cash, right? And then
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you have to buy everything, which we're very close to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that now, which is scary.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And you have to buy everything with your debit card
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: or credit card or whatever. And if technology blanks the bed,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: you're out of luck, man.
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: More and more places now don't accept cash anymore. You
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: go to some grocery stores, you go to some restaurants,
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: they don't accept cash anymore. Capitalism isn't perfect, but it
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: works better than any other form of government.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: It really does. All right.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Bill, unfortunately, we're out of time, but what's the next?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what the next column is
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: going to be?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Not 100% sure yet, Lee.
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: Let's see how this primary goes today. There's another interesting
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  Speaker 10: primary going on a week from today here in Connecticut.
• 33:41
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  Speaker 1: All right, Rob Ray, thank you very much. Bill had
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  Speaker 1: And rather than hear me talk, let's go straight to Rocky.
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  Speaker 2: Who's got a report to give us. Rock, what's happening?
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  Speaker 16: Good morning, Lee. Good morning, audience.
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  Speaker 13: This is the RAG report. Rocky against grifters, socialists, sociopaths.
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  Speaker 26: And scoundrels.
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  Speaker 16: Live this morning on the Lee Elsey Show. At least
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  Speaker 16: last evening, we were at city council meetings, and they
• 45:09
  Speaker 16: allowed the citizens to speak for three minutes and whatever,
• 45:13
  Speaker 16: and then they went about doing their business. And this
• 45:18
  Speaker 16: is another point of contention. We can speak, and they doodle.
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: They doodle. They look down.
• 45:26
  Speaker 16: They're not interested.
• 45:29
  Speaker 13: And the three minutes goes up, okay, next. Three minutes
• 45:31
  Speaker 13: goes up, next. And then they do whatever they want
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: because we have no other recourse. So we set our peace.
• 45:38
  Speaker 13: They're not paying attention.
• 45:40
  Speaker 16: They don't give a darn.
• 45:42
  Speaker 13: As far as they're concerned, these are our elected officials.
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: We got to be quiet and pay our taxes. That's it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 13: So anyway, they went on.
• 45:53
  Speaker 16: Now they are.
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: Going to transfer $ 550, 000.
• 45:59
  Speaker 16: From the general taxation to cover the cost of the
• 46:05
  Speaker 16: paid firefighters. All along, they said that it wouldn't cost.
• 46:11
  Speaker 26: Us any more.
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: Of course it did, because they're running overtime. So Joseph DeLucia,
• 46:17
  Speaker 13: the disgraceful city councilman who just happens to be a Democrat,
• 46:21
  Speaker 13: but it wouldn't matter to me, said it's the Yantik
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: volunteer folks Because they refused.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: All right, he's here, guys. Gather around the radio. It's
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: about to start.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And we're going to go over primary results.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Today, too.
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: What are we doing?
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: What do you want to do?
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I think that's great.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: You're the big political guy. I'm not allowed to say that.
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: You know?
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: It took nine seconds.
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: I got a book here written by Karl Marx. It's
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: called the, you know... The Communist Manifesto. I wonder if
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: that's related to any Connecticut Republicans.
• 47:18
  Speaker 25: I don't know, brother.
• 47:19
  Speaker 15: I don't know.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: You better turn it off now. Hey, fan mail. Did
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: you write about the fan mail?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: I got it. Yeah.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: Somebody told me the other day. Somebody came out. Love
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: your show. Love listening to the show. Tune in on Thursday. Well,
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: here's another one. Came in the mail. I listened to
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: your station on a drive to Long Island.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: You are so hateful, disingenuous, communist, Marxist. Wait a minute. Communist, Marxist.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: What the F are you talking about?
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it says. Who's this? A fan of ours.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: You know it's just BS. It's a white spirit. Oh,
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: come on. Well, you know what? Got the guy's attention.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: Or is it a gal?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Do they sign their name? No sign. Courageous.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: Very courageous people. There are a lot of courageous people
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: out there. But let's see. They were in West Virginia.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: They went to New River Gorge. That's the postcard. So
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: they're coming up from West Virginia.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: The handwriting is interesting.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: I would say that it's a man, not a woman.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: And I would say that he's got some serious mental issues.
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: Maybe a little dangerous.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: A little bit dangerous.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: We've gone through that before in the past.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Of course. Think of your kids. Lee, I know every
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: day you think of your kids. What do you think
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: of your kids, Lee?
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think too much.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have kids anymore.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: My kids are adults. Yeah, exactly.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: And they've learned how to take care of themselves, think
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: for themselves.
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: Raise their own money, raise their own family, make their
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: own decisions. You know, they don't need the government, the government,
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: the commies, and the social democrats, which is just commies.
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: It's like a commie in the waiting room. I'm a
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: social democrat.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I'm in the waiting room for the communist party.
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm just waiting here for the time being.
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: Because I know if I tell you the truth, you
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: won't vote for me. That's like Bernie Saunders. You know,
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: he learned in 1980... Communism was great, but they're not
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: going to elect you. So pretend. Say you're independent. Yeah,
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: you can be anything. You can be Uncle Bernie. And
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: hate those millionaires until, oops, his wife said, hey, Bernie,
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: you've got to shut up about the millionaires.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: We hate millionaires. You hate millionaires. Well, Bernie, we is one.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: So let's hate the billionaires. Go on to billionaires.
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: Trillionaires. Trillionaires and billionaires. There we go. So anyway, hey,
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: thanks for the card.
• 49:41
  Speaker 23: Sure.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: Thanks for the card. We'll give it all due consideration,
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: you know, because that's what it's worth. Whoever you are,
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: you sick puppy. Anyway, so politics, you know, I tried
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: to avoid it since I left office as first selectman.
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: A great job, by the way. I really enjoy being
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: a selectman. These other jobs, Congress, state rep, business advocate,
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: I really enjoy. Working for Senator Chafee and Senator Goldwater
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: in the Senate. Great job. I enjoy it. Working with
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: great guys. They're still a bunch of— boneheads. But there
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: were boneheads there. Biden was on the committee.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Bonehead in chief. He was about as dumb, a loudmouth
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: as I've ever encountered in my whole life. Right now,
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: he's still a loudmouth, but he's dumber than ever.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Not as loud as he used to be.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: He's kind of quiet. One of these days, the Secret
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: Service will be sitting down at the beach watching him
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: sitting in the chair. Okay, time to go home. He's
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: not moving. So there you go. Too bad. So I'm
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: looking at some of the results. Lamont defeated Elliott. Surprised?
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: Anybody surprised?
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. That one, no.
• 50:53
  Speaker 11: No.
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: Are you allowed to talk about it?
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: You can talk about that.
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I just can't talk about me.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: Nothing about you. No, no.
• 50:58
  Speaker 23: Me.
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: We don't really care about you.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: No, it's a doc. We want the doc.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: The doc. The doc.
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: We got other, you know.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: Everybody but you. So Lamont defeats Elliott in the primary.
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: Here's Lamont with his hands on his hips. You notice
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: he's got. He's been trained not to look like he's
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: from Greenwich. Have you noticed that?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I have noticed that.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: But there are still clues. He's been trained. He's been trained.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: How do we know?
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: He's been trained to roll up his sleeves. You think
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Lamont ever in his whole life walked around with his
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: sleeves thrown down? You think when he goes to the
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: Riverside Yacht.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Club, he rolls up his sleeves?
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: How about the Round Hill Club, you think?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Probably not. Or he goes down to.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: The University Club down in New York City, walks in
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: with his sleeves rolled. I don't think so. Second key,
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: no tie.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: No tie.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: No tie.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: That shows you.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: That shows you. And the shirt is blue.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Regular guy. Blue collar. Regular guy.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: He's still got that S-H-I-T eating grin that he always has.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: It's a grin that is more like a grimace. It's
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: more like a grimace. He's showing his teeth. It's as
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: if he's got a bad case of, you know, he
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: needs to visit the proctologist or something. It's like it
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: really hurts down there. But I can't talk about it because,
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: you know, there's a lady present, Susan Beisiewicz. And she
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: has her usual arms folded protective look about her, like,
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: don't get too close or I'll kill you. If I'm smiling,
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: it's because I need you. If I'm frowning, it's normal.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: But here's the other thing. There's no tie, and the
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: collar is open. But look at the collar. It's one
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: of those collars for the expensive shirts that stays down.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: So that when you tie a tie, it stays down.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: It doesn't stick up.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: You see? And then there's another key on the shirt.
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: Look carefully at the shirt. What do you see on
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: the shirt that tells you this is not just a
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: normal blue shirt?
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I see he's got something on his, like a
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: lapel pin.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Is that what it is?
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Or maybe a sticker. It's one of these. Yeah,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: it's a fancy emblem. Brooks Brothers. Sure.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: This shirt looks like a typical blue shirt, but it
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: actually costs $ 300.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: You're not getting that at Walmart, right?
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: You didn't get it at Walmart. You didn't get it
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: at BJ's on the pile. You go to the pile
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: at BJ's next to the cheap books. All the books
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: that people have written that are bestsellers because they buy
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: millions of them, and then they turn them over to
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: BJ and sell for $ 10. So anyway, so there he is.
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: He defeats Elliot.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: Well, that's good. I mean, that's pretty much expected. And
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: then he's going to— he' s qualified— to become the longest-serving governor
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: in the last 200 years.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. That's pretty good.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: Who's in the competition for that?
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Longest-serving governor? Yeah. In the last 10 years?
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: 200 years. 200 years? 200, yeah. Who's in competition for that?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Is it Newsom? I hope not. Who is it? No.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: For governor? I mean, governor of the state of Connecticut?
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, for Connecticut.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: For Connecticut, of course. We don't care about California.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Who is it?
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: Come on. You know the guy.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Is it Malloy? No.
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: No.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Is it Rowland? No.
• 54:13
  Speaker 14: No.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Is it rolling? Is it rolling?
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: How many terms did he win?
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Well, he won two.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: And?
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: And he got kicked out for the third.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Yay!
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: He won three. All right, so three.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: He was the first three-term governor in 200 years. Then
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: he went to jail.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: Congratulations. You made history twice.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: But if you go way back to Sam Huntington, he
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: was elected governor five times and died in office. Now,
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: in those days, the term was two years. But he
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: was elected five times. So that's why they say 200 years.
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: They don't go back all the way back 250 years. Right.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: So anyway, so much for Lamont. Not really that interesting.
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: Here's another race. And if you look at the Connecticut races,
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: it's kind of unique in some respects because— Among the Democrats,
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: there was almost no competition.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: No.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: No competition. There was Elliott and Lamont, and then you
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: had Larson and Bronin.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Well, that was supposed to be a big race.
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Big race.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Close race.
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: How'd you call that one?
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I kind of thought Larson might win because of
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: his experience, but I guess not.
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: Well, what was his experience?
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: He's been in Congress for 14 terms, right?
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: So what?
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: All the way back to when you were there. What'd
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: he do? Nothing. That's the whole point.
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: The whole point is... He simply sat in a seat
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: and took down a retirement. He took the money, pushed
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: the buttons, but what did he do?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: So you never worked on anything with him?
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: He never worked with anybody. All he wanted to do
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: was be in the political chain. Now let me explain
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: how this works. When you serve in a legislature, a
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: bicameral legislature like we have up in Hartford, with the
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: House and Senate, or when you serve in Congress, which is, again, bicameral,
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: two houses, House and Senate.
• 56:04
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: They have committees. They have committees. And committees focus on
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: doing certain things. For example, in Washington, D.C., the Armed
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: Services Committee focuses on authorizing the budgets for the military.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: Does Connecticut have military contractors? Can you name any?
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a few.
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: What about that underwater boat?
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: The submarine?
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, submarine. It goes down.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Somewhere around here they make those.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: When they go down, do they come back up?
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Hopefully. Unless they're Iranian.
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: If they're Iranian, they go down. They don't come back up.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's too bad, but it's the way it is. Yeah,
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: they make those submarines. And how about Pratt Whitney? Do
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: they make anything?
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they make some stuff. Like what?
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: Jet engines or something?
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't they do that? Yeah, so if.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: You're driving a jet in the military, maybe you have
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: a Pratt Whitney engine.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Wasn't there somebody who made helicopters?
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: Helicopters.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: Whirlybirds.
• 57:07
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Those whirlybirds.
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: You look at that whirlybird, you can be sure that
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: thing ain't going to fly.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: It's like a bumblebee.
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: It's like a bumblebee. You look at it, you say,
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: that thing can't fly. You look at a hummingbird, you say,
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: no critter can beat its wings that fast. Unless it's
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: a bee or something.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: A fly.
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: Maybe a fly.
• 57:25
  Speaker 19: You know.
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: But the bird does it.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: They absolutely do it. So the whirlybird, it goes around.
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: Have you ever heard of it going around and it
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: lifts you up.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: In the air? I've heard of it, yeah.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Well, it's amazing.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: So, you know, we got quite a bit of military here, John.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: And when he first went to Washington, D.C., I knew
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: him when he was in the Senate, but I was
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: in the House of Representatives. being as how he was
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: in the Senate, he never talked to anybody who was
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: in the State House of Representatives. No, you don't talk
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: to them.
• 57:54
  Speaker 13: Oh, really?
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: No, those people that are yelling and screaming down there,
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: very Democratic, raising hell, whereas we in the Senate, we
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: just sit in a chair. We sit in a chair,
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: and every now and then we get up and say
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: a few things, but we decide it all ahead of time.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: So there's no unruly behavior.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 58:12
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: So he goes to be a congressman. He joins the
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: Armed Services Committee. Why? Because he told everybody he's going
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: to join the Armed Services Committee to help the defense
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: industry in Connecticut. And I served with him for two years.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: On the House Armed Services Committee. I served with him.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: He had two years seniority on me. I said, this
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: is going to be great. We'll work together.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Work together.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: Bipartisan.
• 58:32
  Speaker 22: Sure.
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: Republican, Democrat. We can do great stuff here. And then
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: what happened? After that year, that term, what did he do?
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: He went away.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: He left, right? He left. Yeah.
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: He left. Because, you see, there are two types of
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: things that you can do. One type of thing you
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: can do is sit on a committee where you can
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: actually do something and get something done.
• 58:51
  Speaker 23: Mm-hmm.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: And then you have to work with your colleagues across
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: the aisle. You have to make deals. You have to negotiate.
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: You have to talk. You have to cook up deals.
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: You have to make it work. That is what I
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: consider the substantive work of the House and the Senate
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: or the legislative body. When I served as as staff
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, we had to do
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: the intelligence community budget, which is 30 billion dollars to
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: fund CIA, NSA, FBI. The armed services, military intelligence components
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: and so on and so on. To me, this was fascinating.
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: This is what I liked doing. I liked looking carefully
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: at programs and saying that we need to fund and
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: that we need to get rid of.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: And that's what we would do. And then the other
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: the other path. is the political path. I want to
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: become a party leader. I want to be a leader
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: in my party. I want to be a party whip.
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: I want to make people vote the way the party
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: wants them to vote. I want to be heading up
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: the caucus leadership, a caucus where it's just the Democrats
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: talking to each other, like a bunch of fish in
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: a barrel, all bubbling at each other. But you don't
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: want anybody from the other party to introduce any sort
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: of ideas because it's the caucus, it's the Democrat caucus.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: And so what did John Larson decide to do? He
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: decided to become a caucus member. And if you look
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: at Wikipedia, you will see that The committees that he
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: served on, well, it was basically two subcommittees of ways
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: and means. One was Social Security because he wanted to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: make sure the Republicans didn't shut down Social Security. Yeah.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: So, Lee, I'm a Republican, right?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: And I'm on Social Security, right?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: And I get several thousand dollars a month for my
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: Social Security, right?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Because I paid into it, Lee.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: I paid into it. for 50 years, and I really
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: expect to get something out, as it turns out.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 25: Yeah, sure.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: It's kind of chump change when I get back, considering
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: what I put into it.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: But even so, I want it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: So, John, what are you yapping about Republicans want to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: get rid of Social Security?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: All of the Republican seniors across America are on it,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: you idiot. So it's just politics.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: And that's all he did.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: He just did politics.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: Here, if you read the Wikipedia.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: Prove me wrong.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: Caucus leadership. That's the Democrat caucus.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: He was the vice chairman of the House Democrat caucus.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: Succeeding Jim Clyburn, who was elevated to chair. Jim Clyburn.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: Ring a bell. Ring a bell. Remember Joe Biden running
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: for president?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: He was sucking air. He was not making it work.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 6: And then Jim Clyburn, South Carolina, delivered a victory. The
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 6: rest is history.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: America elected a president who didn't know where he was
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: or what he was doing. Thank you, Jim. That's what
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: the caucus does. Hey, Jim, Biden can't hack it. He's
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: just who we want. We want somebody who can't hack
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: it because we'll tell him what to do. So Larson
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: is in that group, with that group. So here comes Bronin.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: What is the fundamental difference between Larson and Bronin?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: Actually, two of them. What do you think?
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: What are the two differences between Larson and Bronin?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Well, age, number one.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: Age.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: How old is Larson?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Larson's, I think, in his early 40s or late 30s.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: No, Bronin or Larson.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Larson's like 75. You're going to be.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: Working with these people. You've got to know how old
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: they are. That's right. So age is one.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: Point two, has Bronin ever done anything?
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Well, he ran a city. Yeah.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: Was it a big city or a little city?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Sure, it was a big city.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: Was it like me running Stonington?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: It was a big city.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: Was it a prosperous city?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Not really. No, it wasn't.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: It was bankrupt. Yeah. But he got a bailout. He
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: bailed it out. He didn't bail it out. He got
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: his Democrat friends to bail it out.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: So he ran a city. He ran Hartford. Which is something.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, you have to, you know, you got police,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: you got fire, you got all these moving parts. So
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: that's what he knows about. Now, tell me one thing
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: that John Larson did in his 28 years there.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: I can't think of anything.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: Well, that's the whole point. He never did anything. And
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: the only the only time when he left the Armed
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: Services Committee, I told him, I said, what are you doing?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: You know, we we need you.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: We need people. Right.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: On this committee.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Well, I got other plans.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: He had other plans. I'm going to play the political game.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: I'm going to do what the Democrats tell me to do.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: I'm going to become a caucus leader, a leader, meaning
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 6: he's just going to be a big mouth.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: And run around shooting his mouth off. about Republicans want
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: to get rid of Social Security. Republicans are against poor
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: people like me. I came from the projects. Republicans want
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: you to be hungry. Republicans want to push the seniors
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: over a cliff and body. That's just all this jargon,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: all this rhetoric, all this nonsense. So you know what, John?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: Good luck in your retirement. Enjoy spending your 28 years
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: earned income. And Bronin, I like Bronin. I like Brian.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to vote for him.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: But I like him. I met with him. I talked
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: affordable housing with him. We were on an affordable housing
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: panel one time. Can you believe it?
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: For affordable or workforce housing.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Where was that at?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: This was in Connecticut. And he wanted affordable in the city.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: I said, you've got plenty of affordable in the city.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: We call it the slums. But anyway. Finally, Nancy Wyman. Okay,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: give me 30 seconds.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 6: Nancy Wyman didn't win any race. In fact, she lost
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: the big race. She passed away. Great lady. I knew
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: her as chair of the Education Committee at a time
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: when the House and Senate screwed up and defunded education
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: in Stonington because they misapplied the formula. And Steve Spellman,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 6: Democrat senator, and I went to her and said, you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 6: got the formula wrong. And she said, it's too late.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: The bill's already passed. I said, Nancy, you got the
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: formula wrong. And she looked and she said, you're right.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: We got it wrong. So here's what we're going to do.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: We'll fix it through special legislation. That won't be easy.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: I'll have to get both sides to agree to it.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: And we said, we'll work with you on that. We'll
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: have to get the governor to agree to sign it.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: And we said, we'll work.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: With you on that.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: And she did it. And we fixed it. But not
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: before my son's teacher at Dean's Mill School... told him
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: that the reason we don't have any books in the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: classroom is because your daddy took the money. He came home,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: my son crying, Daddy stole the money. Well, that's how
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: politics work. Nobody stole the money. It was a glitch,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: and we got it back. And you know, when we
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 6: got it back, they didn't have a big party.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: There was no parade?
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 6: They'd say, little Robbie's dead. He got the money. So
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: there you have it.
• 1:05:41
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  Speaker 26: I know.
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  Speaker 13: I'm still half rational, half upright.
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  Speaker 26: But you know, you're... You're talking about Social Security, and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 26: it's a sore spot with me because I'm like you.
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  Speaker 13: I need it. I get it.
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  Speaker 26: And I remember they keep saying, like you say, Republicans
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  Speaker 26: want to take it away, and there's no evidence for that.
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  Speaker 17: None.
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  Speaker 26: Although I've never seen a media or print report when
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter. See, John Larson spent 28 years of
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: his life just basically promoting propaganda. And that's, you know,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: nobody's going to miss him. What is there to miss?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 16: A loud voice.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 26: That's what I noticed about him.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: He was good at yelling. Yeah, when he was in
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: the Senate, he used to try to imitate Jack Kennedy.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: He had a picture of Jack Kennedy in his office.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: And the picture of Jack Kennedy was sort of looking
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 6: off into space thoughtfully. And as a senator, he used
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: to try to pretend to look like Jack Kennedy, looking
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: off into space. The only difference was Kennedy was actually
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: thinking about something. You know, like, I wonder if Jacqueline's
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 6: going to be home tonight.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Maryland's free. Yeah, right. Maryland gave me a buzz, you know.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: It's like Bill Clinton. What does Bill Clinton say 15
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: minutes after having sex? He says, I'll be home in
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: a little bit, hon.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: He calls his.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 11: Wife.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: So what's up? What do you got?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 26: Well, the thing about it, I've been reading in 2032,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 26: which is what, like six years from now, the trust
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 26: fund is going to be being depleted significantly. So we're
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 26: all going to get a 20%. Social Security cut, which means,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 26: I don't know, I know math scores in city schools
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 26: are no good, but if you're getting $ 3, 000 a month,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 26: 20% of $ 3, 000 is $ 600. That's a real pay cut.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 26: No question about it.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 26: And the trouble is we're probably afraid to say anything
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 26: because they'll be yelled at if you're trying to take
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 26: it away, you're trying to cut it, which means nothing happens.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 26: And I guess the real problem is by Democrats not
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 26: offering a real solution— and just saying we want to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 26: cut it, it's going to be cut. And the reason
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 26: it's going to be cut is they'd rather win political
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 26: points and win elections and retain power, and they don't
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 26: give a rat's rear end about the poor slob who's
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 26: been putting into it for 40 years that he's going
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 26: to get a 20 percent cut. And that's what.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 13: Ticks me off.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: Well, they know this is what John Larson did his
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: whole career. They know that if it gets cut, they'll
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: just blame the Republicans. Or Trump. Trump, by 2036, he'll
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: be gone. But blame him anyway. And the irony is
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: that Social Security has a cost of living adjustment, which
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 6: is not true of a lot of government retirement plans.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 6: But it's got a cost of living adjustment that is mandatory.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 6: So when the cost of living went up under Biden,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 6: Social Security, my payment and all the payments went up.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 6: And so Biden took credit for it. But who really
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: was responsible for pegging Social Security benefits to cost of living?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 6: Tricky Dick. Tricky Dick Nixon. Google it. Check it out.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: The Republican president, Tricky Dick, who they demonized out of office,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: was actually responsible for my Social Security going up when
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: the cost of living went up under Biden. As part of,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: you know, his Inflation Reduction Act, right? Inflation Reduction Act,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: the highest inflation we've had since Jerry Ford. Thank you, Joe.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: Good job. You know, so there you have it. And,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: you know, I get my Social Security mid-month. I get
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: my retirement at the beginning of the month. And by mid-month,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: I'm not exactly sucking air, but, you know, I'm balancing
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: a lot of stuff. And then, boom, I get that
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: Social Security check, and that gives me a jolt to
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: the finish line, you know. But it is pretty much
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: paycheck to paycheck. That's the problem with being retired. If
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: you want to maintain your standard of living, you're going
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: to have to downsize. It's just simple.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: You'll have to get rid of a.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 6: Family home and move into a box somewhere.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Preferably not six feet under box.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: Not that small a box. Maybe a little bigger than that.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: That's right. All right, Danny. Thank you, man. I appreciate you.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Good points. Dan out in Old Saybrook always bringing some
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: good stuff to the table.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Shout down?
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: Shout down.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: A little shout down here. You know, USAA. You know, USAA.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: It's an insurance company, and it was an insurance company
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: that was started many, many years ago. I think after
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: World War I by military folks. Because they wanted to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 6: provide automobile insurance to military personnel.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: And military personnel in those days were not treated that well.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: They didn't have a lot of benefits. Insurance companies, you know,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: because they move around a lot and they're doing this
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 6: and they're that and they're here, they're there, couldn't really
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: get a line on who they were and how reliable
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: they were. So USAA formed its own insurance company and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: they catered to military families.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: When I got married in 1974, I was back from
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: my second tour at Vietnam, and I signed up to USAA.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: I've been a member since 1974, and they gave me
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: car insurance, they gave me boat insurance, they gave me
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: house insurance, and they gave me an umbrella policy.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: So whatever we had, whatever we accumulated, both of us
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: worked our whole careers, whatever we had would be protected
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: if we were involved in an unfortunate liability lawsuit.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: Right? Until a few years ago. Five or six years ago,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: they called me and said they were going to cancel
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: the liability lawsuit. Well, why was that? Well, we had
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: encountered a few health issues, and there were a few
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 6: little fender benders, and that turned on a little red
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 6: light at USAA, and they called me and they said,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: we are going to find another liability policy for you
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: outside of USAA, but it will be one of our vendors.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: I said, well, that's fine. I appreciate it. But I
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: just want to stay where I am. I said, well,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: you can't. I said, well, why not? Because you had
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: a fender bender. I said, but I thought, you know,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: nothing serious. Nobody hurt. A little bent fender, a little
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: little paint job here. No, no. You had more than
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: one of them. OK, well, OK. There's a reason for that.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: You know, 37 years of military service, four years in
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: a war zone. I'm a veteran. You know, I thought
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: you would listen to what I have to say. We're
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: going to give you an outside to an outside agency.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 6: So they they turned me over to Burns Wilcox Insurance Services.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 6: And guess what? The price of the umbrella policy went up.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: Can you believe that?
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Shocking.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: It did go up. It went up a lot. And
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: I paid the bill. I went up to about eight
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: hundred dollars a year and I paid the bill. And
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: then this past summer, two years, a year ago, I
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: received a notice. We've decided to take you back in
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 6: and we're going to do this and this and we're
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: going to look hard. And I looked hard. I spent
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: hours on the phone. And then they said, well, the
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 6: risk managers say because five years ago you had the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 6: fender benders, we're still not going to take you back in,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: so you're going to have to go back to Burns
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 6: and Wilcox. So this year they did the same thing.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: And I said, don't bother. Don't waste my time. I'll
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 6: just stick with Burns and Wilcox. They said, well, they're
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: no longer our preferred subsidiary agent. I said, why? Well,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: they're just not. And we have another one that we
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: want to see if will work for you.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: So they found another. Now, Burns & Wilcox, very interesting.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 6: The company has been around since the 1920s. They have
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 6: an A rating. They do. They do. And then, lo
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 6: and behold, the company that USAA wanted me to take
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 6: has been around for about three years. Yeah, about three years.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 6: A bunch of young people, young guys. No record. Monoline,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: they call themselves. Monoline. Monoline was founded in 2022. Wow,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: that's interesting. Brand new. And I looked it up. A
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: bunch of young kids. However, the Hudson Insurance Company... Burns
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: & Wilcox Hudson, they began December 14, 1918. Okay. Been
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: around ever since. All right. So if I was a
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: gambling man, would I want to stick with a company
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 6: that's been around since 1918 or go with a bunch
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 6: of kids who just started a company?
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I think you'd probably want to stick around the company
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: that's been around 100-plus years.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: That's what I told them. I said, I don't want
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: to go with Monoline. I'll stick with Hudson. through Burns
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: Wilcox Insurance Services. And they said, well, no, you won't.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 6: I said, well, I don't want a change. You're offering
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: a change for me. I don't want the change. I
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: don't want it. They said, well, then we will not
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: give you any umbrella insurance. We'll cancel it. And I
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: had until, I think, July 14th to make a decision.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: And right down to the bitter end, they were saying, no, no, no.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: And the day of the 14th, I said, What happens
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: if I don't do anything? They said, well, then you'll
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: lose your umbrella policy.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 6: So I said, so what is it going to cost
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 6: me to go with this monoline group? And they said $ 2, 648.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: I said, that's three times what I'm paying to Hudson
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: through Burns Wilcox. Three times.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: You're absolutely screwing me because the guys with the blue
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: eyes— the little guys with the blue eye shades— They're the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 6: risk managers, and you really don't give a damn about
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 6: the veterans anymore, do you? Oh, no, no, we care
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: about the veterans. So I began doing a little research, Lee.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 6: And here, USAA, Board of Directors, I'm trying to meet
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: who is on the Board of Directors. Well, they said
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: more than half of the Board of Directors are military. Yeah,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: so I got the USAA Board of Directors. Guess what?
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 6: There are seven military on the board. And there are
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: eight non-military. Now, I know that math scores are going down.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 6: But if there are seven and eight, that's 15.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: So if it's more than half, how many have to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: be military? Probably eight.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: You would think so. Yeah.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: But that's not the way it is. Only seven. So
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: they are lying.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Lying to you.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: Lying to me. And then USAA used to have a
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: great rating. But guess what? I looked up their ratings.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: compared to the policy I had, which was an A rating... Right.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: USAA has an F rating.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 14: No.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: Did you know that? F. It has an F rating.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: Because Wayne Peacock, the head of USAA, who just retired... Okay.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 6: was involved in a $ 15 billion... Oh, no. billion It
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: was a $ 15 billion lawsuit, which they lost, and then...
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: He and his civilian buddies decided that they better hurry
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 6: up and retire, and they voted themselves 140% pay raise.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, everybody would do that, wouldn't they?
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: Sure. Golden parachute.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: Sure, why not?
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: Golden parachute. So then I looked up Wayne Peacock's military
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: service background, and he says, well, I've always answered the
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: call to serve. Uh-huh. Okay, it sounds good. Oops, wait
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: a minute. In a civilian leadership capacity. Ah, no military.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: So for those of you out there who are veterans,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 6: the final thing the killer was.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 6: The person I talked to, who was very nice, but
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 6: was essentially a trained monkey. She was a human, but
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 6: she was essentially a trained monkey. She just kept saying
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: and saying and saying the same stuff over and over again.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: And finally, I broke through the wall of the bureaucratic BS.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 6: And she finally said, well, you're not getting any younger. Wow.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 6: In other words... You're getting riskier and riskier because you're
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: getting older.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: I said, okay, did you know my mom lived to 99?
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: Do you know we buried my aunt last year at 104?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: Do you know my grandmother died at 104? But I said,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: because I'm over 80, sounds like your risk managers and
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: you are engaged in ageism.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you that.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 6: Discrimination against people because of their age.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: Do you discriminate other people maybe because they're brown or
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 6: black or yellow? Interesting question. I mean, come on. What
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 6: kind of discriminatory practices do you engage in? And she
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: had to hang up because you see all of their
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 6: conversations are recorded. And I said, I'm hoping that somebody
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 6: reviews our conversations because it's clear to me that you
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: are discriminating against me and my wife. who have been
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: long-term loyal members of USAA, you have been riding this pro-veteran,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 6: pro-military horse for a long time, and your company has
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: been taken over by a bunch of civilian scumbags who
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: have ripped it off, who have destroyed its reputation, and
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: are now trying to pay off bad debts by screwing veterans.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: Well said. Well said, Rob.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: And I know there are veterans out there texting me
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: right now going through the same thing.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: We'll be back. There are. More with the Colonel after
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the week.