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Ashley Phan rejoins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking. Welcome back everybody day, drinking with
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dog. It is Juneteenth, June nineteenth. It's a holiday that celebrates the
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slaves that became free. It was actually three or four years after the Emancipatient
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Proclamation was signed. So happy Juneteenth everybody. But yesterday was more important Father's
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Day. Happy Father's Day to my father and all the fathers out there.
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And uh, I got a nice gift yesterday. I got a knife from
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Yeah, Brandon got me a pocket knife. And actually it's right here.
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It's inscribed. Uh what does this say? Thank you for being the dad
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you didn't have to be. That's very right. There came nice little knife
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knife. Hopefully I don't have to use it for anything other than you know,
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carving wood. And so welcome back, Ashley. We are one inc
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How do you It wasn't too long ago really, maybe a few months back
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and in the winter, right, yeah, maybe like two months. Yeah,
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it's been moving pretty fast. So you reached out and you have a
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big event coming up that we wanted to kind of showcase here today and it's
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a shoreline community. Now we'll get into the second you sent me. You
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sent me a banner and this banner has changed a little bit. We'll get
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to that in a minute, but basically it's in East Haven. It's anti
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child trafficking fundraisers. So if you haven't listened to the prior episode with Ashley,
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you are very involved in exposing human trafficking. Yes, this one is
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more towards the children, which you know, it's close to my heart.
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I appreciate that. So give me a three minute synopsis of what you really
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do before we get into this event coming up. Sure. Okay, I've
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been working on a three minute too. I've been getting some coaching to not
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be long winded. Okay, So okay. We are one inc is grassroots
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anti human trafficking nonprofit and our mission is to identify and prevent child and female
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sex trafficking right here in New Haven County. So for identification, what we're
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working on right now is identifying the sex trafficking that's hiding in plain sight.
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So a lot of what I focus on is the Asian massage polers because they're
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a victim pool that's literally hiding in plain sight right in our communities, in
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about in every community. And then as far as the prevention to prevent child
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sex trafficking. What we're working on is developing training programs that teach kids,
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but not just kids, young adults, even middle adults, how to recognize
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the signs of online grooming, how to recognize, you know, how to
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be a critical thinker when it comes to media and media engagement, and not
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even just on media, but I mean media is a big culprit right now,
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but also in person because grooming in general has has gone on forever.
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We have the information, we know how it happens, we have the victims
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that have come forward. So now I'm using that data and all my years
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of research to create what I'm gonna call like applied learning, interactive ways to
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teach people how to prevent trafficking of themselves and their children. Awesome. So
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if you want to hear the whole backstory that you know, listen to the
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last episode. We touched pretty much on everything. Yeah, and where you're
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going with this. So let's let's talk about this fundraiser. So it's Thursday
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five to seven, A Line, East Haven, A Line, East Haven
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with Stephanie Mattern. She's amazing, She's actually got a great story. She's
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from West Haven, uh and she brought the shake shop. She's with like
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that shake Shop group with the herbal Life, which is a it's a great
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product. Um, I have one right here. Um, it's a great
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fuel for the day. Yeah. And uh so she followed me on Instagram.
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She started following me from when I was did the Hot Cops? Remember
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I told us about that last time before I started the nonprofit as a way
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to network with cops and to build rapport with them, and to also show
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them in a positive media light, and would go around the state filming willing
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cops and in an objectifying light. And then I put music over it,
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like, oh my god, what's one of the songs that I used?
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What's that song? Like Baby No More Grind? And I guess so,
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so I'm like inappropriate music, like eighth grade dance music that you know,
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like you should. Yeah. So, and it caught her attention and she
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started following me, and that's so we met on Instagram and then I went
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into her shake shop. I realized it was right next door to the sex
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trafficking site that I also exposed on social media last year and that has since
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been shut down by the Shore Health District, which is amazing and I've been
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networking with them. They're doing great work. So you know, like two
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months ago, we're like, let's let's throw a fundraiser here, which was
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actually your idea. You were like you should throw apart. It was just
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a conversation. I was like, ding, ding, Like that's a I
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got a willing host. She's a ten in this property. Like legally she
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can. She has the means to do it. She's great at fundraising and
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networking. So that's what we're doing. We are working on a fundraiser in
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a space next to a historic Asian sex trafficking site. You said his story,
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Yeah, isn't that I mean say that so normally, Yeah, that's
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probably not how you want to label that, But I mean that's that's literally
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how I wis the you know what when you say, like, you know,
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like the historic home run from Babe Ruth, you know exactly, it's
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like, yes, this weird. So I'm looking at this banner you sent
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me to with a banner that I have in front of me, and they're
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different. Yes, looks like you have a fire truck a touch of truck
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event. I'm assuming the fire department was involved, maybe the police department.
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I see Pizza Wars, which I don't see in the new one. What
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happened here? So I'm want to start by saying the East HAMPD and the
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East Ham Fire Department were amazing in the planning. So the way I remember
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you were always involved with, Yeah, and East HAMPD, they were like
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my most popular hot cops. They were like the most they would viral,
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so they know my work, like yeah, that's like the funny part of
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it. But every time I would phone cops, I would also in the
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background talk about what the point of me, you know, the point of
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me filming media of them to show them in a positive light, but also
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to build rapport and community culture and bring people together. So it was amazing
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I reached. The first connection I made was with Captain Joseph Murgo, which
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he just he has some great media recently. He was able to identify a
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Jane Doe victim from years ago, so he got some great like national press
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recently. So I reached out to him actually on social media and I was
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like, I'm singing a planning this event, uh, in partnership with a
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line East Haven. These are our goals. It's too um, you know,
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it's an anti child trafficking fundraiser. Would you be able to provide a
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vehicle for a touch of first responder car Let's start it that way. And
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he's like, yeah, it's a great cause. You know, just let
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me know the day. And I was like, okay, um, this
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is awesome. And then I asked, do you mind if we use your
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logo too? You know, so we kept networking in that sense. Um.
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He sent me over a beautiful logo. We started by putting that on
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our sponsorship sheets that we started handing out. Um, and then I got
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more ideas. I was like, how about we bring a knine? What
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like kids Love is? This is a kids event. It's a fundraiser.
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It's not really talking. We're not going to it's not an awareness festival,
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and it's more children. Yeah, we're not going to talk about grooming at
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this event. This is to fundraise so that we can be in a different
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space and talk about that in any moore. Yeah. So we're fundraising for
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it and we're it's it's bring awareness and everything. And he loved the cause.
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Um, he sent the logo. And then you know, as the
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ideas are evolving and I'm net working with people in the area. It's like,
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let's bring a canine, can you know? So I emailed him like
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you could we also have a canine. Kids love canines, and he in
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the email it was like, oh yeah, we looks like we have one
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on the schedule for that day. Just remind me a week ahead of time,
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you know. So everything was going great, and then like a few
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weeks ago, I was like, I really love to also incorporate the fire
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department for a couple of reasons. The fire department is literally right next door
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to this commercial space, so did not have them included would be it wouldn't
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be nice. You know, I'm new to this nonprofit world, but I
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know that if you're throwing an event right here, to ask the pizza place
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from two towns over to bring pizza when you got like thirteen around you,
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you want to keep it local because the people ask questions. And I've I've
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learned that. So I walked over and talked to the chief over there,
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assistant chief Rosa, and I network with a lot of towns. Usually the
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assistant chief of like a fire department and and like the deputy chief of a
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police department. They are the community outreach. Yeah, it doesn't go to
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the top of the chain. It's would be ridiculous. It's too much place
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exactly. So Assistant Chief Rosa is amazing. We're emailing back and forth,
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we're brainstorming. He allows me to go film the firefighters like in real time,
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like we did all it was amazing and I made this beautiful reel of
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them to the song um when you believe, you know the song when you
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believe of them standing against you know, human trafficking, which was a powerful
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message, especially since they are right next to that historic Asian trafficking site.
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It shows that they're on our side. So everything was going great, continue
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to market. I was able to use their logo. Everything was very transparent.
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And then on Tuesday of last week, I called the east Haven Town
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Economic Developer. Her name is Michelle Benevegna. So she took office from my
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research, which is still fairly new. Because at the heart of it,
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I'm always going to be a journalist. I'm always going to fact check things
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I have to. So I called her, left her message I think it
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was nine fifty nine and I'm like a one minute message and I was like,
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hey, you know, my name's Ashley, like just like I normally
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talk Clake, I'm planning this event. I want to introduce myself, and
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I was really just making connection, reaching out her to see if I could
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get a connection to the churches to borrow tables because this event we wanted to
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have it in the back parking lot. We wanted to be like a festival.
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And within an hour and a half I got an email from not the
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assistant chief, not the one I was working with, but the chief,
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the fire chief. His name is Mark Marcarelli or not Mark Matt Marcarelli.
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So he is like more the political I call it a political the political fire
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chief. And this is what's interesting about his comman fire chief, like the
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head, the very top one, because they have to network. Like when
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I say political, I mean whoever is at the very top. I know,
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I used to he's the one getting pressure exactly from exactly whoever is whoever
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pressure? Yeah. So when I first got into this world, I used
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to take things personally, like when if like a top chief or somebody didn't
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talk to me, And then I realized that they have so many other people
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that they have to answer to. Well, it trickles down from everything exactly
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like the historic parlor, pays taxes to the person that one to the town,
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pays rent to the person that owns the building. Who knows who owns
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the building? That maybe somebody that's tied in with somebody in the political spectrum
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of East An. I mean, it's it's it's a it's a it's a
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tree on surface with so many roots underneath. Yeah, it's a whole.
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So I always say follow the money. Oh, I mean that's just it's
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just so, uh, you can delete that. Yeah. So and and
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this is what's what's weird about it is that I don't mean delete that.
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What I just said about that phone call? Turn that phone call off?
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Who is I have a producer today, But he's he's not, he's not.
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He's gonna be remain unnamed at this time. Right. We got a
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very very high power user going yeah um so so yeah, So I got
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an email. And this is what's interesting. I studied organizational communication so and
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almso I'm a critical thinker. So I know that you can't be a critical
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thinker. That's not allowed. There aren't many. That's why they call me
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crazy. I mean, so the communication he sent to me was very short.
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It was not aggressive, It was not mean, it wasn't actually we
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did something wrong or whatever. And also what's interesting about it is his email
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was forwarded along with the thread, the email thread of the assistant chief.
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I don't know how he did so that means he he must have been getting
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C seed on all our BC So you have all the whole email, yeah,
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but he I have, well I have everything, of course, no,
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but I mean like from other people, right, right, But the
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way he emailed me the first time he emailed me, attached to his entire
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email was also all of the other emails with assistant. She froze it.
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And in my opinion as a critical thinker, I would say he did that
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on purpose to let me know that he knew that I was doing things correctly.
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Um, because in those emails you would see her in the brainstorm process.
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I'm transparent about everything. So it was basically as emails. Unfortunately,
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you know we can participate in this, Please do not use our logo blah
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blah blah. You know, it's basic. It wasn't mean, it wasn't
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you did something wrong whatever. So that was like eleven thirty four on Tuesday,
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socifically eleven fake specificly like you know. So I called Michelle at nine
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fifty nine that one minute message and then eleven thirty four I get fire department,
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So I go, I got all their media like what is going on
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here? I'm like, okay, this is weird. So it gets weirder.
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So then Steph from a line east Taven the shake shop, she gets
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a call from her landlord and saying who, like, what are you doing?
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You didn't have my permission? You need to have my permission to have
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a party there, Like you're doing all that. So the land lord,
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the landlord now and from what I understands, I haven't vetted him properly,
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is the steps on of the former owner of this property. So from deep
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background research as a journalist, I know that the landlord was complicit. I
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believe it's the correct Like he he says, that's what they do in our
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country. That's what they do. Like so it off, rush it off.
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Yeah, that's what it is. So but this landlord is new,
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He's inherited a lot of issues in this property that you know, are kind
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of out of his control. He's very green in my opinion because I have
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spoken to him. Um, so he's kind of like pressuring her, and
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at first she got a little nervous because she thought her she was up for
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a lease dual. We've since learned that she's not. So she's like okay,
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because she read over her lease agreement. Technically, we don't need his
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permission. I mean, I could still, but isn't it outside of the
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business. It's outside of the business in the part our plan, that's the
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thing, and that's the word I kept using. We are planning, planning,
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and anybody in the event world knows that you don't write everything up and
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say this is how it's like. It's constantly involving. So what I was
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doing was I was networking with the all of the tenants within that property so
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that my businesses are in there I think like eight so as long as it's
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a little strip mall. So as long as they were on board with this,
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which they were the ones I spoke to were not only were they on
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board, a lot of them are going to participate, bring their family,
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help out. They are the legal tenants of that property, meaning the parking
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lot as well. So all we would we don't technically need the permission of
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Like, that's not the first place. How do you get the whole lot
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or just what is in the parameters of their business, like like say it's
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like three parking spots wide. Well that's the thing. We hadn't even gotten
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to that point yet. We never advertised exactly where it was going to be.
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And then if you look at that old flyer, I never advertise that
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it was even going to be in the back parking lot yet because we were
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still working out the plans. There is a big reason why I normally like,
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yeah, if we were having it on a commercial property, say like
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I don't know, I don't even have shopping right shop out plaza. Yeah,
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I wouldn't even use that. Know, well the new shop right is
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okay, the old one where that the mark you told me about that one.
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So bottom line is I wouldn't go to prose for instance, Yes,
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because I researched commercial properties. So when there's a historic sex trafficking site and
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a commercial property, I would not go to the landlord first for permission because
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the event would never happen, right, you know, So I was doing
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all because these these landlords, no typically they typically they know this kid inherited
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it. He was young, so I think he in my you know,
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what fascinating started fascinating me in this industry is that like these shops like like
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a landlord, right, I mean you're pretty much now you know without asking
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what's going on in there? So why don't these businesses actually own these strip
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malls or is it just oh don't yeah, Why don't these Asian spas own
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them all? So they don't have to because because our last episode you were
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describing how they just they move around right all the time, So that would
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create um accountability. So with the organized crime, you need a disconnect.
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You need some people in the mix there that have so if they were to
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get interviewed like the property owner, technically they know nothing. I know nothing,
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right, I don't know. So it's it's common with that. But
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I will go as far to say I do they can get kicked out and
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then change their LLC and just move on to the next strip mall. But
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there are some So I talk to detectives in all different towns, and there
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are some strip mall owners that are that are very good and they got duped
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into renting to this particular you know, Chinese organized crime. I'm gonna go
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ahead and say that that's what it is. Chinese organized crime and then legally,
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like the paperwork, like they are stuck. They're stuck like they're stuck
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in a certain way. And that's why I do what I do to try
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to pull the victims forward, because once we get victims on the record,
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that becomes a crime scene and then they're not stuck. So I'm trying to
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actually help property owners. But back to it, so I'll go through this
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because this this Tuesday was weird. So she calls or her landlord calls her,
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you know, out of the blue. He saw the flyers last week
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with the police. He was there doing landscaping. He's so we're doing you
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know so So then I'm like, you know what this is weird? Let
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me walk over. It's walk over town. Always see what's going on here.
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I go down to planning and zoning, super nice. I showed them
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the emails thread it said, I don't wanderstand what's going on? Why are
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they you know, where are they all of a sudden pulling out? I
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don't get it. And then they went over how I had playing the event.
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They're like, okay, you're gonna get pizza. So you didn't need
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a East Shore Health districts permit. You you know, you're on private properties,
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so you don't need it down permit, Like you don't like it's you
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know, we don't see anything wrong. I'm like, okay, great.
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So I'm like I'm gonna go up stairs in the Mayor's office. I got
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to tell it hours all the time, Like this is what I talk to
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people all the time. I go up stairs in the Mayor's office. He's
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great. I show him that I got it. It's um what's his name,
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Joe carfora really tall every name you've mentioned in these havens Italians. Yes,
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there's a lot of Italians and a lot of Italians. Um so so
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yeah, he was very nice. He was there with his secretary and I
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showed I was, you know, reading the email thread. I'm like,
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they pulled out last minute. I show him the two flyers that I just
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had printed. It just paid for flyers, not that one, but with
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the East Haven Fire Department. Yeah, what was pizza wars on that?
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That's not on this one because I was going to use the back parking lot
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to do with pizza wars And now we can't do all the local pizza places.
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We're gonna try yeah, we were working on that. Yeah, so
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so what he was great. I showed him the card in my yard.
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Have you ever seen a card in my yard? Yeah? I saw what
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you Yeah? Yeah, so for birthdays and oh yeah yeah. So he
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even told me it's like, as long as it's ADA compliant, you know,
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that's no issue. Like that's great, you know it's And I told
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him how I was having a play on these Taven colors. It's going to
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be a lighter blue with a yellow. He was great. So I'm like,
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okay, this is super weird. And he left it with what,
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you know, just try to talk to the lamb and you know, see
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what goes. You know, he didn't. I didn't get a vibe from
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him that that he really thought there was anything wrong with what we probably the
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first time he saw he saw any of this exactly, he had no idea,
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right. Yeah. So so I'm all right, and I wait,
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um, and then I get a call from I leave the Mayor's office,
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I walk next door because i'm town Halls here, and then the Massage Polar
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Plaza is right here. Um, and as I'm walking by, I see
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the two Asian girls in the Massage Polar because it looks like they're cleaning that
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massage poler up. Yeah, they're in there, and they opened up the
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door and there's a post because there's a postwoman walking by, and they asked
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for their mail, and I'm standard right there, they're doing this right in
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front of me. Is unusual for the Asian trafficked women. Um, they
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asked for their mail. And then the historic historic Asian trafficked women, um
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that they are opening back up next week. So this is all happening the
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same day that this is all. Yeah. So then by like two o'clock
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I finally get a call. Now was this one? Was this one shut
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down? Yeah? This is one that I supposed, right, this is
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the one you spoiled last year. Yeah, And I've made multiple reels about
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so nothing's been in there since, and all of a sudden you walk by
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and here here they are reasons clean it up, reopening it. But I
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will say her name different, still have the same name up there, really
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yeah, which is falsy, But this is what I do know. On
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deep background. I have some informants that give me information and they say,
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just so you know, Ashley, it's closed per the health department. But
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people are going in there between ten and one am, right, of course.
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Yeah, so it's not like they never actually business hours are right,
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But now they're about to get legitimate again, which is a big problem.
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So we talked about this prior so with the health department that that was that's
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one of the ways. That's the best way for you to get one of
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these places shut down is through the health apartment. It's the only way right
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now, and I recently learned it sometimes puts them in more danger because they're
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they're safer just doing their job because all they can do is certify you or
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not. So, like you said, the Asian women are, they're cleaning
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up, so they clean up, the health apartment comes back, and what
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can the health apartment do Now there's no violations. They probably took down all
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the cameras because that's the thing in these Asian massage follers, there's all you
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can't have fucking cameras in a spot like you can't. That's that's how they
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get blackmail on politicians, is right. Yeah. Yeah, even if you're
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not getting a rubb and tug, even if you're not sorry, even if
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you're not getting one just by you walking into a place like that is enough
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blackmail for a anybody, for an anybody person. So if you walked in
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there, that's enough blackmail right there. Um and it's back to it.
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So back to it. At two o'clock, I get a call from Michelle
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benevegna Um East even town economic developer and Italian or married into it. Um
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and so she's two things too, are historically crime? Yeah, organized crime
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basically yeah? Um So I can't say that out loud answer um so.
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So I get a call from her. She is the economic town developer and
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she's also the town administrator. Those are hefty roles, two very big roles
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for one person. I answer the phone. She goes, you did not
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have permission to use the logos of the talking about logos here, and I'm
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glad out saying I do I have the emails? I keep saying this,
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like I do use logos copyrighted? I mean, is there a law?
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I mean, like probably could I take your blue heart logo? I didn't
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copyright this, right, But the bottom line is is that I got permission
24:07
from like I literally like I wrote it. If you want to so here
24:11
I printed it out. So I said, hey, I was wondering if
24:15
this is to Joe Murgo on instant just because her whole conversation revolves around the
24:19
fact that I didn't have permission use logos, which is fucking crazy. So
24:23
this is what May seventeenth, nine seventeen, and I just for the records.
24:26
I don't like sharing personal messages, but it's gotten to the point where
24:30
I kind of have to, which is insane. But so I reached out
24:34
to Joe Murgo. Captain Joe Murgo does great work with EASTMPD, and I
24:38
was like, Hey, I was wondering if you knew who I could speak
24:41
to about getting a touch of truck For June twenty second, my anti child
24:45
trafficking nonprofit is hosting our first fundraising event in the parking lot behind the Dancers
24:51
boutique where the old I think it's a Massage polar Yeah, where the old
24:55
Massage Polor used to be. And then he said, Hi, I could
24:59
help you out the event confirmed and I said, yes, I'm partnering with
25:03
a line nutrition and I said here's my nonprofit page and he says, awesome,
25:07
great cause to what time is the event? And then I said five
25:11
to eight thirty we're calling it a family summer kickoff block party. We would
25:15
be doing a smaller version of this event. And then I sense like an
25:18
old version of what I wanted to do in another town. And then he
25:22
says, cool, okay, get in touch with me a week or so
25:26
before the event so I can coordinate some vehicles, police vehicles. Thanks for
25:30
thinking of us, and I said, yay, thank you. Is it
25:32
okay to use east Haven PD logo on our marketing material? We like to
25:37
show unity between law enforcement at the forefront of marketing. We are building a
25:42
survivor resource program and we want to teach them to not fear police. He
25:47
said sure, and then I said, I feel like we have a whole
25:51
conversation about the logo. The graphic designer asked me to find out if there's
25:55
a particular logo east Haven prefers. So he sends me this. He says,
25:59
we currently use this one, and then he says this isn't the best
26:02
quality one. If they need a good quality one, I can find one.
26:06
And then I asked he's on board. He's on board, Yeah,
26:08
so I won't keep going on. And then we switch over to a more
26:11
professional means of communication, which is email. And then we have a whole
26:15
email thread. I have the whole so so yeah, so I had the
26:18
whole conversation. Not only did I ask to use permission of the logo,
26:21
I also asked if he was the one that makes the decisions for it.
26:25
That's how I started. I literally started with, or are you the person
26:30
that I talked to about this? So I know you know who I'm talking
26:33
to. Did I already know that, Yes, because I already did the
26:36
research of who I'm SOPs to talk to. So anyway, this was you
26:40
know, a month ago that this took place and out the logos no more
26:48
log I love my Police. Yeah I was, And I was so proud
26:53
of that too. That's that was my selling thing. I was very very
26:56
proud. You get you get the local municipalities and that's awesome. So once
27:02
know, how do not support this? No, that's it's crazy, Like
27:04
it's almost like a no brainer. If like I mean, and again,
27:08
this is where it's coming from some thing, Oh absolutely control, I know
27:12
it's not them. So then, um, so she's going on this phone
27:17
call as Michelle, I just I call it a Curtis called courtesy call.
27:19
I placed a courtesy call be nice, like, Hi, I'm actually you
27:23
don't have permission to use logo. She doesn't want to hear it. Who
27:26
did you talk to at the police department, said Joe Murgo. He's the
27:29
captain Murgo, He's the one that handles it. I just left the police
27:32
chief and he didn't say anything. And I talked to the fire chief in
27:36
this and it just made no sense, right. And then so as I'm
27:38
saying I approved, she shuts me off there. And then she goes on
27:42
to say, well, after that email was sent by the fire department at
27:45
eleven thirty to stop using the logo, you are out at town hall handing
27:49
out flyers. Ago, Let's back up a second. I go. I
27:53
stood in front of the mayor and the mayor's secretary explained the whole situation and
27:59
gave them to flyers as a reference. Guy, I wasn't there handing them
28:04
out. They knew the context in which, you know, and I was
28:07
like, okay, I'm sorry, I'm not and then I'm not going to
28:08
give this any more time. And that's in so many words, that's what
28:11
she said. So all right, So I was out with them exactly.
28:18
So I'm like, I'm gonna go with she's just a mean girl that never
28:21
grew up right, So I can be better than that. Walk back over,
28:25
walk, I'll go back and forth the whole day. I walk back
28:27
over. I go back into the office that was just in with the secretary
28:30
and the mayor, and I go. I go to the secretary. I'm
28:34
like, oh, you know, I want to start by saying, I
28:37
apologize for giving you those two flyers that had the logo on it that you
28:41
know I wasn't was no longer supposed to use, so please don't hang them
28:45
up anywhere. But I think, you know, with the conversation we had,
28:48
I think you know that, um, And then I go, you
28:51
know, I'd really like to talk to Michelle, like, I want to
28:52
make sure we can, you know, come together and support this cause to
28:56
fight child trafficking. That is the goal, bring away artists and fundraise for
29:00
anti child trafficking, and the secretary coast here. Secretary goal is, well,
29:07
she just got back with her sandwich and she's in her office with the
29:11
door shut. And when when that door shut and the fans on loud,
29:15
I'm not, I know to not go over there, and this is it
29:18
blows my mind, because what does that mean? But she said it to
29:25
me like it was such a normal thing to say to somebody, like,
29:26
you know, she got the fan on loud and the door shut with the
29:32
sandwich. I'm like, what the fuck does that? What does that mean?
29:34
What does that? I'm like, and I'm like walking out, like
29:37
scratching my head. I'm like, this is so confusing. I don't I
29:41
don't even know where to go from that. So I was tired that day.
29:44
I'm like, okay, let's just let it rest for a bit.
29:45
Let's see. The next day, I get the landlord. I send a
29:48
beautiful email to the landlord, you know, trying to get him on our
29:51
side everything, and he calls me. He doesn't want to hear anything about
29:56
working together. He said I need his permission. I go, I'm sorry,
29:57
that's not true. And then he starts telling me all these other legal
30:00
things that don't make sense. He goes, well, my tenants allowed to
30:03
have a donation been at the counter, she could do that. I go,
30:07
I'm sorry. I go, I don't think you understand. You can't
30:08
dictate what kind of fundraisers your tenant does it go? You got a legal
30:12
document as long as she stays within that legal document. That's it. You
30:15
can't she You're not her daddy. She would have to call you for permission.
30:19
And after a whole hour long conversation, I started to figure it out.
30:23
So I got down to the bottom of it. I'm like, listen,
30:26
I'm pacing around the front. They probably thought it was nuts. And
30:29
he's say, I'm pacing around on the front of the Platts. You can
30:32
see that, right because I'm the only one in the sidewalk, because nobody
30:33
likes to walk on that sidewalk for a reason. Sorry, And that's what's
30:37
trying to fix. He's staved. I'm trying to help you with that.
30:41
Um I'm like, listen, what is the problem. He goes, well,
30:44
the police department doesn't want you there. I go, I don't believe
30:45
that. I did not get an email from Captain Murgo. I go,
30:48
did you call the police department? He goes yes. I go, why
30:51
why why'd you call the police department? He goes, My tenants, you
30:53
know, we don't we don't want the police on the property. They don't
30:59
want they canines on the property. The issue was the canines. The issue
31:03
was the police presence and the canines on the property, trained canines, trained
31:07
canines, the sniffing dogs. They don't want the canines. And if Steph
31:14
gave permission for the canines to be on there, that's allowed. But that's
31:19
why we're getting pushed back because someone else in the background does not want the
31:26
canines on the property. So the Leonard flought out told me that, and
31:29
they also said he wanted to make sure trucks could always make it to the
31:30
back door. I talked to all the tenants so like, we don't get
31:33
we don't care who what trucks, the closed Asian massage power, you know,
31:40
so so that children, yeah, with with probably yeah, the shipping
31:45
containers of God only knows what. So and necessary. The story is going
31:48
a little long. I'll try to wrap it up. I get a season
31:51
if I am right here, Okay, you don't keep going with us?
31:56
Yes, so then no, no, but wrap it up. I'll wrap
31:57
it up. I gotta wrap it up. So the the now I'm c
32:00
seeing the town attorney on all this, so he sees he should if he
32:06
knows how to read, he sees the c like he sees the ccs of
32:10
the permission hold on in this guy's defense. I don't know how the fuck
32:15
emails work. If I if I'm I said, I'm like, and then
32:19
I'm like, oh, should I just send all that shit out? I
32:21
don't know that that's probably what he did. But are you a lawyer?
32:23
No? Okay, but do you think the lawyers, maybe one of his
32:30
people did it. I think he did it. I think he did it.
32:32
Um, just because I research, I'm going to use the word unethical
32:37
lawyers within my arena. So I know the tradecraft language of an unethical attorney
32:44
because I've seen it before. Um, you sleep, do I do?
32:46
Now? Um? You know what I mean. I've never researched unethical lawyer
32:52
practices ever. I'm a I'm a hunter gatherer. I look for I know
32:59
and then and so I know what to look for, and I have a
33:00
pattern. I can point it out like so quick. And also I'm called
33:05
what they like to call like, I'm a honeypot and I think a honeypot
33:08
school. I don't know if I'm using the right word, but it's it's
33:12
like I'm a people watch. Like when you have a bread crumb that somebody
33:16
might be unethical, all you have to do is watch the way in which
33:20
they treat me to figure out if there's something going on there. Um.
33:24
Yeah, so this email which may or may not have been sent by him,
33:28
which I in my opinion, I think it was. Yeah, I
33:30
mean it had his name attached, Shoot, his name attached. And also
33:35
everyone from town hall kept saying, go talk to the attorney, So people
33:38
were getting that was Ashley. I get those a lot, like go talk
33:42
to it. And they're not doing it in a mean way. They're doing
33:44
it to help me way like something, or they are doing not in a
33:50
mean way. But what you do is something people don't want to talk about.
33:55
So when you go to town hall, like who knows what they talk
34:00
about? Right, and just in general, right, Yeah, and you
34:04
bring to them a topic that again is kind of you know, look at
34:09
mainstream media, right, Like I do a lot of deep diving into stuff
34:15
that you do, not not your end of it, but the bad end
34:17
of it, right, you know, with you know people like you know,
34:22
there's a million conspiracy theories out there of you know, Chris Cornell and
34:27
the guy from Lincoln Park and you know they all killed themselves, but they
34:30
were also producing a movie that was exposing Hollywood and pedophilia. That uh what
34:39
the guy Paul m from Fast and Furious that died in that fiery car crash,
34:45
he was also involved in exposing Hollywood. But he was this car hit
34:51
a tree and blew up in a fucking milliseconduh, you know, and then
34:55
there's another guy coming out and out anyway, you know, how what has
35:00
a history of of being linked to this kind of stuff? And what is
35:04
Hollywood? Hollywood is mainstream media. What is mainstream media mostly funded by the
35:08
government and now China right, well, yeah, most of it. Even
35:14
Fox News has just exposed the other day for trying to I don't know,
35:19
they're they're going against what they basically try to tell you, like like they're
35:23
conservative. They're not. They're part of the fucking problem too. It's a
35:27
conglomerate and that's a big you know. So so to my point being is
35:30
like I don't think people want to touch this subject like in their hearts.
35:36
They do, right, but you know, when you go to a police
35:40
department or town hall like you do and talk to the mayor, you don't
35:46
know what these people have their hands into. It is small town politics at
35:52
the same time, but follow the money and the fact that you got this
35:57
is just my opinion, the fact that you got shut down in in like
36:01
everything was hunky dory, honky dorry, honky dory, and then boom,
36:05
it's all gone, says a lot, and it's not. And you really
36:10
don't have You just kind of have some arbitrary emails and you know. And
36:15
then in that one bitch in the office, and she's probably the bitch that
36:21
is hired to be that person secretary, right, and she's the one.
36:25
All right, you be the bitch. You do the dirty work for us,
36:30
and we'll pay you. You know, she has a published salary,
36:36
but who knows if she's getting kickbacks to be anything. I haven't looked into
36:39
that, right as soon as your bread cross are looking into that. Yeah,
36:44
so you're you're right on point. Um. I will say, though,
36:49
since I've started building awareness and building credibility the people that we're telling me
36:54
to go talk to, I think the people are becoming aware and they're more
37:00
comfortable with talking about it then they used to be. And I'm not talking
37:01
about the gatekeeper, this woman that should have been economically developing the town and
37:06
supporting community culture and she wasn't. I'm not talking about her. I'm talking
37:09
about the worker bees in the position that I've seen this go on too long.
37:15
I think they were giving me breadcrumbs to say we got you, you
37:17
know, like, that's that's my opinion. Even I mean to go as
37:22
far as to say the mayor m so it's tip, it's never and then
37:25
mayor answers to somebody, right, you know, right exactly, And I
37:30
think that, Um, it's usually only takes a couple to spin a web
37:36
inappropriately, and it typically is. And I hate this, it's unfortunate,
37:42
but it's usually the one in a good amount of power and a secretary.
37:46
So when I got a season desist letter filled with fraudulent information from the town
37:52
attorney, and I know I've studied law. I know how season assist letter
37:57
is supposed to look and what they're supposed to entail, and this was all
38:00
based on fraud. They don't know you, right, they have no idea.
38:02
They never called me that about. What I mean is like they don't
38:06
know that you do research. You could be just some dumb Asian broad not
38:09
to you know, abroad in their girl right, just saw this girl whatever,
38:15
you know, she she got kicked out of her Asian massage parlors.
38:17
So now she wants to expose it, you know, Like I don't know,
38:22
but so this one you're doing with like obviously anti child Chappa, right,
38:28
but your main you're you're you started out going after which has been a
38:34
hush hush thing forever forever. I remember when I was in college, you
38:38
like, it was just a joke like here blah blah blah, go here,
38:42
go there. You know, so I don't think people, you know,
38:45
like there's wives out there whose husband's probably attend these things, and it's
38:50
you know, it's a it's a blacklist of people, and no one wants
38:52
it out because they're client lists in all these places, and you know,
38:58
it's like the Jeffrey Epstein Blackmai client lists. You know, like there's blackmail.
39:01
And that's why I even when I talk to people, I even try
39:05
to show empathy. I'm like, listen, I get that you know some
39:08
friends that probably went there. I interview these people. They're not bad people,
39:13
but these people did not know the women were trafficked. They think that
39:16
the will the women are doing it willingly, that it's a better life for
39:20
them. They think the tips they're leaving for them. They're getting them,
39:22
right, they So I have to show empathy for the consumers because the consumers
39:28
are first of all getting blackmailed. They got you know, they're they're being
39:31
trafficked in a way because and exploited because they're on camera and who knows who
39:36
owns that media. Um, so they're I don't want to say victims,
39:39
I'll be going a little too far, but they're taking advantage of or they're
39:44
doing right. Well. Yeah, it's like anything you go to buy any
39:46
product, right, Like, like if you were to come into my bar
39:51
and tip me one hundred dollars, you know that that one hundred dollars is
39:54
going to me right right exactly, That's what That's what they're saying in this
40:00
place. So I'm sure people that go there have their favorites, you know,
40:02
they're regulars, you know, and it's just not going where it's supposed
40:07
to be gone and they think they're helping. Oh they would have you know
40:09
that, because that is true. Like they're coming from extreme poverty and communism
40:14
and everything. So yeah, but what they don't realize is the people that
40:16
are also going to these massage polars are sex offenders. Are serious, serious
40:23
sexual predators. That's where they get their like I know from my research,
40:28
it's their release and they're legal, like they can do it whenever they want.
40:30
And that leads up to some serious things Asian women like historically, will
40:36
they look young? We look young? So it right? Yeah yeah,
40:42
but I mean like like my dad's eighty and when we give him some just
40:45
for men, you know, get thin, re're the greatest, he looks
40:46
like he's forty. So it breeds and brings to the town very dangerous people.
40:53
I know from an informant that someone he went to high school with goes
40:58
to the massage pole and says, give me one I can do anything with.
41:02
Right, that is some serious wording for what you're going to do with
41:08
a woman, regardless of her circumstance. And that's what really scares me,
41:15
especially since it's right next to a little girl's dance shop, right next to
41:19
town hall. So that said, I mean, the way in which this
41:22
unfolded, I was like, you know what I'm going to say my piece,
41:24
I'm not going to listen to a ceason desist. I was told to
41:28
not talk about it publicly or privately. Who says that I can't. I'm
41:31
allowed to talk about whatever I want exactly. It's the truth. I'm not
41:36
going around slandering. This is a it's a story, that's the truth.
41:39
So we've sent shifted to this wonderful So this is what we got going.
41:44
That's what we're doing. June twenty second, Thursday, Yes, five to
41:47
seven. I like the next the town hall in parentheses, next the town
41:52
hall, So show your support. It's a ten dollars donation. It's not
41:57
necessary. But who everyone's got ten dollars. We got raffle prizes, arts
42:00
and crafts, you got music, games, raffle, family fun aligne East
42:06
Haven. He's aligning with you. What is Oh? So I org stepped
42:12
in um to take the place of my other You know, sponsors are apart
42:16
fire and yet sponsors because that would mean they're giving money the whole thing.
42:21
And technically we can't even say we're doing a raffle because that's technically illegal.
42:24
We got to say it's a prize. This is the way the Connecticut laws
42:29
written. Um. So so you know, okay, so you know what
42:34
I'm but like, no one cares. Nobody cares. Raffle. Yeah,
42:37
it's what it is like I'm just gonna saying because we had to buy we
42:40
had to purchase this stuff for the raffle, you know what I mean.
42:45
So they weren't. I mean sometimes stuff, stuff is donated. All all
42:47
the stuff for actually all of this stuff for the drawing, which is called
42:51
the drawing, everything was donated. Yeah, I went. I've been going
42:53
around every towne the people are hand to be stuff left it right. It's
42:57
awesome. But the io RG is actually a little girl Freemason group out of
43:01
Branford. Thanks a little girl. What a free basin group like that Freemason?
43:07
I thought you said freebasing. No, no, little girls don't.
43:13
That's what I heard. Mason Well, which is a secret society, secret
43:19
society UM, and they meet at the Masonic Lodge in Branford and they the
43:23
empower girls. They teach them empathy. It's actually a really cool organization.
43:28
So they're going to come to a community coloring table. So the way it's
43:31
gonna work is that when guests arrive, if you drive down that plaza next
43:36
to town hall is a big sign miss it's got a little superhero on it.
43:42
UM. So when guests arrived, they're gonna go be given a little
43:45
passport with all the activities, and then you walk in the Dancers Boutique and
43:47
we're going to have different activities there, different crafts. You're gonna make a
43:52
superhero little headband, um, and community coloring, a little gaming challenge.
43:57
And then you're gonna walk out of the Dancers Boutique through the back door into
44:00
a line east Haven where we're going to have hair tinseul and temporary tattoos,
44:06
and we are going to have Kindness Rocks, which is like an East Haven
44:09
organization that paints little kind rocks. Yeah, you mean, So it's gonna
44:15
be it's gonna be a fun night. Um. The good thing about I
44:19
think, so where's all this money going through? I know what's going Oh
44:22
yes, So this is the best part of it. Every every donation is
44:27
going to contribute to our training, and it's going to teach kids, in
44:31
young adults how to prevent online grooming. So teaching them the warning signs within
44:37
the spaces that they frequent every day, you know, because we can't expect.
44:43
Yeah, but the unsuspecting ones actually the game rooms, the gaming chat
44:46
rooms. I got one sitting here producing the show right now, and it's
44:52
a slow process, and it's a subtle process, and the only way to
44:55
teach it is to continue to um learn how predators groom child not hacked playing
45:05
freaking Fortnite. Yep, cry, he cried. I'm going to call him
45:10
out. He was in tears. Yeah, I mean, but it's it's
45:13
to change. We had to change our internet because of it. Oh yeah,
45:17
oh you got his IP address or whatever. I don't know. Yeah,
45:21
some kids like joined the party and he's like, I'm kno what these
45:27
kids just got right in. Yeah. So anyway, Yeah, I don't
45:30
know what the reason would be for that one, because usually yeah that's bizarre.
45:34
Probably gain gain info info, yeah, access yeah, um yeah.
45:38
So it's to teach youth to protect themselves from online grooming. So it's it's
45:44
money that goes towards prevention of our own youth. So if you don't care
45:47
about the Asian women, which is an awful thing to say, but let's
45:51
be honest, a lot of people have turned a blind eye, you got
45:53
to at minimum care about the youth right in your community. And so one
45:58
yeah, I you know, if you listen to the show, you know
46:00
how much I say, don't don't just don't go after the fucking kids.
46:06
But that's that's when kids are most vulnerable, and that's how they get it.
46:09
And and to that point, well, we'll go off subject here for
46:15
a second. Uh my girlfriend was at the store the other day with my
46:20
producer and they saw a bag of Skittles. It was a white bag.
46:25
Oh you weren't there anyway? I thought you were there. I love his
46:30
honesty. I wasn't there. Okay, So so this bag of skittles is
46:37
celebrating gay pride, buntha, just completely fine. Whatever, you know.
46:42
It got the rainbow on it, and obviously skittles is taste the rainbow.
46:45
I mean it's it's a great marketing, right, so I will uh hold
46:50
on, let me zoom in on this. So there's it's it's a white
46:53
bag. All the skittles are white. I think we didn't she didn't buy,
46:57
we didn't open it. It says joy is resistance, which I don't
47:02
know what that means. I don't know that joy is resistant to what exactly
47:08
what are you resisting? I don't know. I don't know. Hatred maybe,
47:14
I don't know. I guess resisting. You're missing a word there.
47:16
Yeah, it's weird. It's all it says. And then next to that,
47:21
and I'll put that on my little Next to that, it says there's
47:23
a black a black girl, I guess or woll no. Uh, it
47:29
says black translives matter. And it's a black person with green hair on roller
47:35
skates with fish nets. There's a little Rastafarian black boy with purple dreads.
47:40
And then there's a white what would you say, boy or girl? White
47:46
somebody, blue hair, tongue, tongue sticking out anyway. Uh, this
47:55
is skittles. Yeah, this is Skittles, who you know obviously is marketed
48:00
towards children. It's a candy and they are already talking about trans kids like
48:08
they're promoting it. This is this is fucking grooming, one oh one,
48:14
this is so Now. A kid buys this fucking bag of skittles, goes
48:17
home and says, at seven years old, at the corner store and says
48:22
to his mother, what is a black trans Why? Why do black trans
48:27
kids lives matter? What is a trans kid? What is this? What
48:29
is that? Now? As a parent, what do you do? Do
48:32
you tell your kid the truth? Do you say to your child, well,
48:37
do you feel like you're a boy or do you feel like you're a
48:39
girl. If you don't, we can go get you surgery. Like this
48:45
bothers me to no end. So I'm going to start by saying this is
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so I studied media and mediated messages in marketing from like a critical announce and
48:55
how it would affect from an ethnographic point of view, meaning I'm gonna put
49:00
myself in in the kid's shoes. Um, starting with that, I will
49:06
say it's really confusing marketing. I'll start with the first thing I noticed.
49:10
It's white. The bag is white, right, the bag is the skittles
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are white. If the message was to promote gay pride, which I very
49:20
much in it, there was a rainbow, but they're already taste the rainbow,
49:24
right, So what is the it almost so it's it's a very very
49:29
powerful white message, actually, which is confusing. It's a it's a whole
49:34
white bag. Said that it's random flavors, kind of like you don't know
49:38
what your gender is. I think that's that's what the That's not what I
49:43
get from the marketing, but I mean that's but yeah, so so the
49:49
whole bag is white, which is which is weird because if you're going to
49:53
market gay pride with uh, something that already exists. To taste the rainbow,
49:59
you don't need to do all of that. Now, look at the
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three children on this right. Why why why does it always have to be
50:06
some flamboyantly look like monsters. They don't look like children. So if I
50:10
was part of the trans community, and this is what I'm saying, going
50:14
to say that they could trans, don't like that is in a nice representation
50:20
of what I would love. Why does it have to be like this crazy?
50:23
Like I don't know. It's like whenever you see somebody depicting a gay
50:28
or trans or lesbian person, it's always this wacky hair color. Like I
50:32
have a friend who's gay and you just dresses normally. And like, I
50:37
mean, I'm not saying you can't not dress a certain way, do what
50:39
you ever feels makes you feel comfortable. It doesn't. It doesn't make any
50:44
sense, is what I'm saying. It's it's just literally I think it's where
50:50
does the black trans lives matter? Kids? Like? Where does that?
50:52
Why is that on a Skittles back bag? It's a white bag. That's
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what I don't really understand. If you want me a give you like a
51:00
fully answer, a quick answer to it. It's a marketing tactic by a
51:04
very big company to piggyback off of a cause that they are not really connected
51:08
to to make money. They went to their way woke ass fucking design room
51:13
and said, making something really over the time. It incorporates everything, so
51:16
we look like we care about a cause that we do. They don't care.
51:21
They don't care. So this is and then you're talking about the ramifications
51:24
of that being on it. That's the problem with society now is that these
51:28
corporations are just doing it to make themselves. Look. Look what happened in
51:32
La the Dodger game the other day. The oh god, what the hell
51:36
his name of this group? It's basically a group of men that dress up
51:42
like nuns and something perpetual something. I can't remember what it is, I'm
51:50
sorry, but if you look it up, it was. They were at
51:52
the Dodger game yesterday. They were invited to Gay Pride night. They were
51:55
uninvited because it turns out that they just are anti Christian. Uh. They're
52:00
more of a hate group than they are a fundraising group, and they mock
52:06
religion, which is I really don't care I'm not religious, so whatever,
52:08
but there are a lot of religious people out there, and they're like,
52:12
you know, this is the group you want to invite. So the Dodgers
52:15
uninvited them that they got backlash from that community, so they reinvited them back.
52:21
So at the game the other night, about five two to five thousand,
52:25
I'm not sure how many people Christians showed up and they peacefully protested.
52:30
They didn't fucking burn down fucking Dodger Stadium, but they blocked some entrances and
52:35
so there was like fucking two thousand people at the game because they couldn't get
52:39
in. Like so it was like an anti protest against the protest. I
52:43
don't know, wrot my head around it an anti protest around So there was
52:49
a there was maybe I said that wrong, So there was a protest two
52:53
people that protest. So like this group is like a big protes testing group,
53:00
you know. They they protest religion is what they do. They make
53:04
mockery of religion. So they were all right, So there, Apparently they've
53:10
they've they've they're they're a fundraising group. I don't I didn't really do too
53:15
much research. So it's it's an organization that's commits fraud, right, Well,
53:20
no, no, they don't commit fraud. They just fraud is just
53:22
lying for they just they just basically are I don't know, I gotta do
53:28
more everything I've read about them that people have said about them. Yeah,
53:31
they're just No, they're not. They shouldn't be part of the LBGT So
53:36
they're not. They're misrepresenting their values. They're just dudes address up like nuns
53:38
and where like this really weird makeup and they just make a mockery of and
53:44
they're trying to piggyback off of the like they're part of this group. They're
53:47
not. They're just dudes at home and they just you don't want Well,
53:50
I'm going to give you a great connection with that. It's similar to the
53:53
sex offenders, the pedophiles that are trying to also be a part of the
53:58
LGBTQ commit like that is a big part of my research and makes people that
54:04
are part of the pride community very very angry because that is not it should
54:10
never you know, they're actually like waves of people that want waves of a
54:15
defender, sex offenders that want to be part of the community because they think
54:20
that they are, and that might be the same as this organization, Like,
54:23
oh, I'm going to piggyback off of this group of people that have
54:27
gained respect and I'm just going to make up more rules and then if I
54:32
get backlash, then I can protest that they are they don't like me because
54:38
I'm part of this gay community, which I think is really fucking a it's
54:42
really really awful. And a lot of people play that card with all different
54:45
groups of like, you know, there will be a situation where I mean,
54:50
let's take Asian for example, because I'm Asian, so I could speak
54:52
to that. So there is a lot of Asian hate. But that doesn't
54:54
mean you can go and sell Asian women and then if somebody comes out,
55:00
you can say you're hating me because I'm Asian. You're hating me because you're
55:05
saying I caused COVID. No, there's bad people in every group of people.
55:08
When people like that misrepresent themselves and then they try to pull that card,
55:14
it's really it happens a lot though. It literally and again it comes
55:16
it starts from the top and it trickles down into you know, he's talk
55:21
about Asian hate, and there's a lot of like hate, hate crimes they
55:23
call him. In New York City, you know, when COVID kind of
55:28
resided and people are back out in the streets, a lot of Asian people
55:30
just being rain on the attacked. And why is that so? Because the
55:36
media tells you. They tell you that, you know, these are the
55:39
people that caused it. Like like if a white kid goes and shoots up
55:45
a school, I'm bad now because I'm part of that group. Or no,
55:49
this is just a fucking bad apple. That doesn't matter what religion,
55:52
color, or creedy was. He just was fucked up in the head.
55:55
And you know, I talk a lot about mental away and mental health,
55:59
you know, like these these kids are something wrong and they didn't get the
56:01
help they needed because people turn blind eyes to people like that. And I
56:06
remember when I was a kid in school, like there's always that weird you
56:07
know, that weird kid you know in school, and they're and they're easy
56:13
to room into doing right. They're on the video games, right, so
56:16
they're they're looking for an outlet. They're looking for someone that would listen to
56:20
them. And that's where these predators come. Yeah, yeah, like they
56:22
I'll listen. Oh yeah, oh you hate your parents? Yeah, well,
56:25
I you know, I got rid of my parents, what do you
56:27
mean to get rid of your you know what? But it's fucking crazy.
56:31
I'll tell you my little, quick, little theory working theory on the school
56:35
shootings. What happens to a school Now, when there's a major school shooting,
56:40
the property gets demolished funding to build a new school. But in my
56:45
opinion, the schools, because I've been tracing them that have been getting shot
56:52
at, like the Nashville one, Yeah, there is some value and knowing
56:58
why that that property would want to be demolished to begin with, because I've
57:04
been tracking the properties of those those tragedies, um and once, once there's
57:10
a pattern, got demolished. But right now, so it's just like a
57:16
flower gardener or whatever. But if you know that, so, if you
57:21
know you can help perpetuate a crime that would lead to a house being demolished.
57:28
As a researcher, I go to the end of the trail and say,
57:32
okay, if I was to push that person to have a major like
57:37
you know, murder scene in that property, and I know because I want
57:42
that property to be demolished, because I research crimes within properties because properties tell
57:45
the story. So for example, you know the Idaho four houses being demolished.
57:52
Yeah, you can't sell it. You can't sell it. No,
57:54
you can't sell a house before girls or murders. So I would start with
57:58
why would we the property? I mean, yes, there's obviously the old
58:02
the hole. And are you saying that some of these shootings maybe there might
58:06
be the history of crime roomed into doing this act in that particular one.
58:12
Yeah, because do Jersey right? Adam Lanza he's from New Jerky, wasn't
58:19
he? No? Where was he wrong from? They lived around there?
58:22
Yeah, the mother was a bar fly. She was always out and out
58:28
and about. There was one that was from New Jersey that went somewhere else.
58:31
But like, what's what's the point, Like if it's just a flower
58:36
garden, now, what would be the point of destroying having a school shooting
58:39
to destroy that property? What would be the Yeah, why why would they
58:45
want that? So it's not like they built like condo signet or something.
58:49
Oh, because there would have been evidence within that property of past crimes.
58:53
Because we're now coming over up covering up, it's cover up and this is
58:58
still a working theory. Um, Yeah, where was Adam? They were
59:02
from Cheshire or something. Yeah, so I don't know, I don't remember.
59:06
Yeah, but anyway, I know on on my end from my research
59:10
that there's is there only one photo of that kid, that creepy, like
59:14
fucking school book photo. Yeah. Like it's like it's like this shooter.
59:20
So I'm gonna have a friend of mine on and I think it's early October
59:25
who was at the Las Vegas shooting. He was he was saving lives.
59:30
He was on the floor in front of the stage, pulling people to safety
59:36
as bullets were flying around his head. Yeah, I've never seen a story
59:39
gets swept so under the rugs so fucking quickly. They had this guy marked.
59:44
They said he had been staying there for months, wheeling in fucking wood
59:51
wooden boxes, setting up his fucking staging is fucking shooting, you know,
59:54
and then boom it was gone. And it's gonna think it's gonna be eight
1:00:00
or nine years in October since it happened. Maybe maybe, but he tells
1:00:08
this kid tells a whole different story, like bines were coming from one direction,
1:00:12
like it was just I mean, it's just crazy. I'm so in
1:00:15
a couple of months, I'm gonna start deep diving back into the story again
1:00:17
because I was just one of those things. I remember where I was,
1:00:21
and I remember they were out there, and I remember calling his wife's father,
1:00:27
yeah and making sure they were okay, right, and he was like,
1:00:30
yeah, they they And then then when I heard the story, I
1:00:32
was like, Jesus fucking Christ, you know, crazy. And again it's
1:00:36
one of those things like I don't believe a fucking thing the media tells me.
1:00:39
Well, that's why you have to tell your own story. And that's
1:00:42
why I use social media in an ethical way to share story. You know,
1:00:45
is it my first hand account of stuff? Yes, but is it
1:00:47
incorporating like strong ethics and talent and truth telling. Whenever someone tells a story,
1:00:52
there's always going to be an element of it having a personal um sway.
1:00:58
You know, anybody should. But if you only believe the things that
1:01:01
you're told based on the algorithm that you have, based on the clicks that
1:01:06
you do, You're not going to have a whole picture of the world.
1:01:09
So I'm trying, I'm really really trying to change that. Um well,
1:01:14
I commend you for what you do. Let's finish on this. Have you
1:01:20
have you been threatened? Have you been. Have you been talked to?
1:01:23
Have you has anyone approached you and been like I would, I would steer
1:01:28
clear of this. Yes, No, But people that have my back said,
1:01:31
oh, you're you know someone you didn't know, like in the dark
1:01:37
shadows of the one of these strip balls, I mean before my job.
1:01:40
I mean, I've been doing this research for a long time. Yeah,
1:01:43
I was almost ran. I was ran off the road in Guildford last summer,
1:01:47
umber saying that. Yeah, and then um, last year when was
1:01:51
that Fairfield, Um, when I was passing over like the Stratford Bridgeport line,
1:01:55
someone just came out of nowhere and tried to like it was since like
1:02:00
my heart stops. So yeah, that one hundred percent has happened to me.
1:02:04
Well, I'm glad that doesn't deter you in your mission. I mean,
1:02:07
because they're always going to do that. Like the things that are in
1:02:09
my ingrained in my brain are there. So the way I protect myself is
1:02:15
I just keep telling the story. Yeah, I keep telling the story,
1:02:17
telling the truth and building up very strong connections in the background. So that
1:02:21
that whole story you told today about East Haven, do you feel like,
1:02:24
Wow, I'm I'm I'm at the first wrong of the ladder of a fucking
1:02:30
fifty wrong ladder, and you're just climbing. You're like, where is this
1:02:35
going to go? I mean, yes, does that frighten you? Um,
1:02:38
It's like I got a little lose, a little sleep over it,
1:02:42
not sleep when I'm out, I can feel that, and like I can
1:02:45
certain areas, I can feel the energy of it. And now I have
1:02:50
a daughter. So I have a seven year old daughter and my parents live
1:02:52
in east Haven on the border. Um So I do fear that. To
1:03:00
act like I don't because I'm fucking nerd is what I am. I sitting
1:03:05
I read a law for no. Yeah, just I'm just telling the truth.
1:03:08
That's I just want to do. I'm kid carnival fundraiser. It's all
1:03:12
I want to do. Um So I act like I'm not afraid, and
1:03:15
I act like I'm reckless. I don't care if something happens to my daughter.
1:03:17
But yes I am. I do get fearful, and I do know
1:03:22
that this attorney email in I'm gonna go ahead and say it. In organized
1:03:28
crime tradecraft, from my research, has language within it that is threatening in
1:03:35
nature, whether that's physical threat or it's it's Basically, I'm going to bury
1:03:38
you in a in a way that you can't fight back, is what I
1:03:43
take from from the email, and that's how organized crime fights. But you
1:03:46
have all the receipts. I didn't know. I just stopped in pink too.
1:03:55
I got it. I got it all the pink. Yeah. So
1:03:59
but on a path it a note. Just come to the fundraising five to
1:04:03
seven next to town Hall, big signs Superhero. There won't be pizza wars,
1:04:06
but there are a ton of good pizza places around there that you can
1:04:10
go afterwards or before, and we have raffle prizes from all thems. Awesome
1:04:15
quick a little shout out. I believe James Kelly, a good friend of
1:04:18
mine, won my US Open UH contest yesterday. I think he had a
1:04:25
total of fifteen if anyone knows other means. He picked the three players and
1:04:27
he had the lowest score out of everybody. So he gets a golf bag
1:04:30
and a trip to Great River Country Club coming up soon. So stay tuned
1:04:33
for my next contest, probably be probably first week of football. Probably I'll
1:04:39
do something with that. So Ashley, thank you so much for coming on.
1:04:42
Um I wish I could come Thursday I can't. I'll be up at
1:04:45
Cromwell at the Travelers Championship, the only day I can go. I can't
1:04:48
go on the weekend, so I'm gonna head up their Thursday and but best
1:04:53
of luck to you. I'll be checking it out on Instagram. Uh.
1:04:56
And guys, like I said, Thursday five to seven. Uh, I
1:05:00
love the next town town hall. If you can't come, you can venue,
1:05:04
you can venmo to support this cause, to support fighting child grooming.
1:05:09
But this one thing that's not on here. I was just told after one
1:05:13
of my volunteers that's put that little QR code on there. I'm gonna put
1:05:15
a sticker on there, but put put it right on your Instagram page.
1:05:17
Just just just just the QR code and then people can scan it from there.
1:05:21
That's a great idea. Yeah, well I started this thing. I
1:05:25
mean this was me. Yeah, me, Yes, is weird one inc
1:05:30
Yeah, I mean the dollar helps, ten dollars helps, anything helps,
1:05:32
obviously. Uh. And it's all going into prevention. So thanks again,
1:05:35
awesome having you on and I will keep following your story and uh and you
1:05:41
know, keep plugging away doing a great job. Thanks so much. Guys.
1:05:44
We'll talk to you next week,