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Lee Elci, Voice of Freedom | Pound Sand · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: It was going to be cool this morning, but I
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  Speaker 1: forgot them in the car. I was running late. So
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  Speaker 1: those of you, not that you care, maybe you do,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you don't, probably not, but I think the last
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  Speaker 1: two days I have put in more sheer volume of
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  Speaker 1: hours of actual engagement of work than I ever have
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  Speaker 1: in my entire life. So if you take the last
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  Speaker 1: 48 hours and you say, In those 48 hours, you
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  Speaker 1: were engaged in doing something. You weren't just staring at
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  Speaker 1: the wall, right? You weren't just plopped in front of
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  Speaker 1: something doing nothing, right? And I would say on an
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  Speaker 1: average day, I would put in, what, 12 hours of
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  Speaker 1: that engagement, maybe more, you know, depending upon how and
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing for the show, maybe 13 on an average.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say 12, right? Because you got the.
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  Speaker 1: The show, then the after show, you know, then there's
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  Speaker 1: doing something during the day, right? I would say it's
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  Speaker 1: safe to say 10 anyway, but probably more like 12
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  Speaker 1: on an average weekday. I mean, yesterday and today, well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the day before yesterday, what day is today? Wednesday. The
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  Speaker 1: day before yesterday, Monday, I got up at 3.30. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: I got up at 3. Both days I went to
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  Speaker 1: bed after midnight. And both days I literally did not
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  Speaker 1: stop doing something. Last night I was literally texting people until,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, midnight. And I was making bets with
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  Speaker 1: my friends how many text messages I was going to
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  Speaker 1: go through yesterday. And I had... I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: going to get 5,000 text messages yesterday. I got 3,700.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sending or receiving 3,700. Do the math on that.
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  Speaker 1: So, I did get a few nuggets of good news. So,
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  Speaker 1: there was some serious support in the workplace, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was great as of right now. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: very exciting. But there's a lot of work that is
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  Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes. And I know maybe you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on. And I really am not at
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  Speaker 1: liberty to give you all out details because it's just
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  Speaker 1: the nature of the beast. But I'll just say it
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  Speaker 1: again on this early morning that I've decided that I
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  Speaker 1: want to do more and be more of a solution
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  Speaker 1: maker and I have decided that in an election, a
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  Speaker 1: local Connecticut election that I'm going to run I'm really
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  Speaker 1: not going to get into the nitty gritty details of
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  Speaker 1: what if you want to find out you can probably
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  Speaker 1: just google my name and it'll pop up now in
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  Speaker 1: the future maybe that'll change a little bit but as
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  Speaker 1: far as how much I'm going to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: if at all But, you know, that's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it has to sort of unfold at the onset. So
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  Speaker 1: what I have learned... I've been behind this microphone for
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  Speaker 1: 25 years, and I've been yelling and screaming about everything
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  Speaker 1: and anything, both sides of the aisle, demonizing both Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and Democrats. And, you know, up until just less than
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  Speaker 1: a week ago, I was unaffiliated and proudly saying I
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  Speaker 1: was unaffiliated because it gave me, I think, more objectivity.
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  Speaker 1: But what has happened in the last... two years, three years,
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  Speaker 1: more than that, it's been such a lurch to the
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  Speaker 1: left from the Democrat Party that I think the country
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  Speaker 1: is in danger. I think this mindset of collectivism and socialism, communism,
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  Speaker 1: and the ultra-wokeness that has crept into every dark shadow
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  Speaker 1: within this nation had to be challenged in more than
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  Speaker 1: just what I was doing, in more ways than what
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  Speaker 1: I was just challenging. And I have no intention, just
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  Speaker 1: so you all, because I got a lot of this yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to see you. I'm not going anywhere. I have
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  Speaker 1: no intention of leaving this microphone.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And again, yesterday was good in the sense that from ownership,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, because I've got, not that I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: I had it, and I wouldn't have jumped over the
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  Speaker 1: line if I didn't think I had support, but I
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  Speaker 1: doubled down on the support, and we should be good
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  Speaker 1: to go. Circumstances may arise down the road where some
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  Speaker 1: action has to be taken, but I have no intention
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  Speaker 1: of not doing this job. I love this job. I
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  Speaker 1: love the listeners. I love all of you guys out
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  Speaker 1: there who tune us in every single day, man. You're
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  Speaker 1: my family. It's extended family. It's great. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't I mean, I'd be lost right now if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have this gig. You know, you might see me
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  Speaker 1: down on Bank Street selling my body. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I would do. I'd starve to death
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  Speaker 1: if I was selling my body. But what I've seen
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  Speaker 1: in the last three months, because, you know, prior to this,
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  Speaker 1: I rarely would show up at, like one of these
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  Speaker 1: RNC or DNC meetings. I wouldn't go. I mean, again,
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  Speaker 1: I sort of wanted to be on the outside looking in,
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  Speaker 1: and that way you're commenting from a different perspective. But
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  Speaker 1: for the last three or four months, even more than that,
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  Speaker 1: I've been on the inside trying to get a better
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  Speaker 1: idea of what happens and how it works, how it
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  Speaker 1: all works. And I have to say, there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good people behind the scenes who give a
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  Speaker 1: lot of their time up.
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  Speaker 4: Now, maybe the playbook that they're using isn't working as
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  Speaker 4: well as it should.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they need a new playbook. Maybe they need a
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  Speaker 1: new way to deliver messages, a new way to punch back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still studying that, but I'll say this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are people who work really hard. There are people
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  Speaker 1: who give up their own money. I mean, I got
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  Speaker 1: to say, you know, the fundraising part of all this,
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  Speaker 1: it sucks. It's the worst. And, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: put me in charge and made me king of the world,
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  Speaker 1: I would, at the minimum, cut that, cut in half
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  Speaker 1: what people can spend on these Connecticut elections. Cut in half. Minimum.
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  Speaker 1: It's just too much money, and people on the fringes
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  Speaker 1: are making a living out of a couple of months
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  Speaker 1: a year from candidate money from the election fund. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it in an evil way necessarily. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you take advantage of the capitalist move? But there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money thrown around behind the scenes. But
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  Speaker 1: the people's generosity to get you to a certain level
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  Speaker 1: so that you can receive these grants, I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: floors me. It's humbling. It really is. I was at
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  Speaker 1: a place last night and people were handing me dollar bills. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting into my end of it. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying that's a general sense of I think the leveling
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  Speaker 1: of the playing field is warranted. Right. Citizens Election Fund
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  Speaker 1: is war. It's a warranted move. It's like something that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that way, you know, you can't you can't
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  Speaker 1: have somebody who's a newbie can at least fight a fight.
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  Speaker 1: But I still think that very is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who are waiting for people that nickel and dime
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  Speaker 1: folks into a living. That makes sense. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that makes any sense. I think it does. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a couple of things. All right. Now, so that's
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  Speaker 1: a few things that happened to me yesterday. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: far as the elections and primaries, I got an email
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  Speaker 1: yesterday from a candidate who wound up winning. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you something. Nothing irks me more than,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, a certain level of sarcasm Let me just
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  Speaker 1: explain one thing, and this goes to every candidate out
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  Speaker 1: there within the sound of my voice, whether you're a
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  Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat or whatever, you know, whether, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you think we're on the– I don't owe anybody anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't owe you time on the air. I don't
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  Speaker 1: owe you a friendly conversation. I don't owe you a
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  Speaker 1: friendly interview. None of it. So make sure you understand
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  Speaker 1: that right off the bat. Like, if you don't like
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  Speaker 1: what happened– If you don't like the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: had somebody on the air and you deemed that unfair,
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a damn about it. Just so you
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  Speaker 1: understand that. I've been doing this for 25 years. This
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  Speaker 1: is my job. I'm doing something extra because I think
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  Speaker 1: it's time for us all to fight. But don't tell
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  Speaker 1: me that you're disappointed in me because you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: your equal time and somebody else did. What you've just
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  Speaker 1: done is you've made an enemy. That's what you've done.
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  Speaker 1: Your silent sarcasm and disapproval of me, you can now
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  Speaker 1: go pound sand till the end of time and good
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  Speaker 1: luck in your race. Send me an email that you're
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  Speaker 1: disappointed because I put a friend on the air Who's
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  Speaker 1: been on the radio with me a hundred times. As
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  Speaker 1: if somehow I owe you an explanation. Because you're an
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  Speaker 1: endorsed candidate. No thanks. No thanks. Lamont won. Larson lost.
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  Speaker 1: Shockingly Mike France lost. Which I didn't see coming. I. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time. Maybe I can't
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  Speaker 1: read the tea leaves anymore. Maybe that has escaped me.
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  Speaker 5: Alright.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for now. 24 minutes after the hour, 6 o'clock. So,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the point I'm trying to make is that
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  Speaker 1: there are there are people who are really, they're trying
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  Speaker 1: and they give a lot of time and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of their effort. And I think one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I've learned already so far in this is that yes,
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  Speaker 1: there is, there's a lot of me centric people, but
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  Speaker 1: there's also a lot of people who, who dig in
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  Speaker 1: and give a lot of their time and their resources
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  Speaker 1: in some cases and causes that they believe in. And
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  Speaker 1: I think, That those folks, you know, when I make
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  Speaker 1: a broad, I can't make broad brush statements. Really. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's fair. And nobody, you know, nobody approached
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  Speaker 1: me about this. I was just thinking about this on
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  Speaker 1: the way in.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: When we say those guys don't know what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: or these guys, I think I got to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more careful in the future to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more specific. Do I think the playbook is
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  Speaker 1: well written and people are following it? So far, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: But do I think that there are people out there
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to stand and fight? Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they are giving up their time. They are,
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  Speaker 1: in some cases, giving up their limited resources. And that
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  Speaker 1: part of it is absolutely a humbling experience. Anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: how we begin. We'll come back in just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes. Hang on. All right, here we go. Man,
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on. I feel like I'm launching space shuttles, right?
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  Speaker 1: Or Artemis II. What's the latest one? Artemis III, Artemis IV.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in here pushing buttons, spinning dials. making everything happen.
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  Speaker 6: Making it rain technology all right our very good pal
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  Speaker 6: is joining us we actually had a test call yesterday
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  Speaker 6: to make sure we ironed out all the glitches and
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  Speaker 6: i think they are officially ironed out his name is
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  Speaker 6: red janky he has his own website it's the dash
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  Speaker 6: red dash line.com the dash red dash line.com.
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  Speaker 1: And he is not only a writer in the state
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  Speaker 1: of connecticut he's written columns across the entire country, including
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  Speaker 1: columns for The Wall Street Journal and Real Clear Politics,
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  Speaker 1: just to name a few. Red Yankee. Good morning, Red.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I'm great.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing okay. So I know we talked yesterday about
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  Speaker 1: you popping up a new column, but I can't find
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  Speaker 1: it yet. I know maybe it's coming up later on today,
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  Speaker 1: but what's the gist?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, the big news. Let's get to the big news yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what?
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  Speaker 7: Big political news. There's a new candidate.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, who is it?
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  Speaker 7: How do I know who it is? Little birdie told me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't talk about that. We can't talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: We can't talk about that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, it's big news that's been deferred.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll defer it. We'll defer it to hockey season.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 7: That sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So, yeah, what's the latest?
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  Speaker 2: The headline to which you're referring is... There's something referred
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  Speaker 2: to in the stock market as the September effect. And
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  Speaker 2: it's partially supported by data. It's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a fable, but it holds that the stock market slumps
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  Speaker 2: most often in the ninth month.
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  Speaker 7: Of the year.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going into the ninth month, and there are
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  Speaker 2: some pretty scary warning signs out there.
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  Speaker 7: I would share with you one, which is.
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  Speaker 2: Interest on the national debt now accounts for one-seventh of
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  Speaker 2: the total federal spending.
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  Speaker 7: Wrap your mind around that.
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  Speaker 1: One quarter, you said? One quarter?
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  Speaker 7: One-seventh.
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  Speaker 1: One-seventh, okay. Sorry, I lost you for a second. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: $ 30 trillion, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Paying interest. That has skyrocketed.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last four years, net interest has doubled. And
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  Speaker 2: it shows no signs of slowing down in its escalation
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  Speaker 2: and its growing share of the federal budget. And when
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  Speaker 2: you spend one seventh on interest, that's taking away from
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  Speaker 2: spending on anything and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just interest red. It's just spinning, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not as though we're, we're, we're breaking down the
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  Speaker 1: principle or we have light at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel where, you know, 10 years from now, 20 years
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  Speaker 1: from now, we can say, Hey, you know, this at
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  Speaker 1: least got us back to square one. No, we've got
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  Speaker 1: none of that going on. In fact, we're just, we're
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  Speaker 1: losing ground. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, You know, there have been people issuing warnings
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  Speaker 2: about this for a long time. What's new is that
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  Speaker 2: the warnings are coming from the most prominent people in
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  Speaker 2: the world of finance. Jamie Dimon, CEO of our largest bank,
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  Speaker 2: largest bank in the nation, J.P. Morgan, has announced– several
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  Speaker 2: times recently, but he said the stock market is overvalued
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  Speaker 2: and overleveraged. And he said, I would not buy 10-year treasuries,
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  Speaker 2: not 4.5%.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not being compensated for the risk I'm taking on.
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  Speaker 2: That's the chairman and CEO of our largest bank. Last April,
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  Speaker 2: former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson said we need, quote,
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  Speaker 2: a break-the-glass emergency plan for when we hit the wall
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  Speaker 2: and there are no buyers for Treasuries other than the
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  Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Bank.
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  Speaker 1: Red, can you tell everybody what happens when that happens?
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  Speaker 1: I know you probably were, but I cut you off.
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  Speaker 1: But could you tell everybody what happens if there's no buyers?
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  Speaker 2: If there's no buyers, we're basically printing money. When the
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  Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Bank is the only buyer, the Federal Reserve
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  Speaker 2: Bank and the Treasury together are just plain printing money.
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  Speaker 2: We're not bringing in dollars from any lenders.
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  Speaker 7: The former Secretary of the Treasury.
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  Speaker 2: Recently, Ray Dalio, who lives here in Connecticut, who founded
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  Speaker 2: the largest hedge fund in the nation, said we are
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  Speaker 2: past the point of no return.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that mean?
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  Speaker 7: These are not fringe voices.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what does it mean, Red? Like, what's the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's the, not escape policy, but what do we do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're just going to sit here and watch
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  Speaker 1: it burn, or we're going to watch it sink? How
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  Speaker 1: do we fix this? How do we try to get
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  Speaker 1: us back in the right direction? If it's too late,
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  Speaker 1: it's too late, right? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, two things.
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  Speaker 2: One is the obvious. We cut spending, we raise taxes.
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  Speaker 2: We close the deficit. Both sides of the aisle have
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  Speaker 2: to scream, In agony.
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  Speaker 7: But it's got to get done.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Which is, as you said, we've got to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Digging the hole. And every year we have a massive
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  Speaker 2: federal deficit. We're going to have.
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  Speaker 7: A $ 2.
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  Speaker 2: 1 trillion deficit is the estimate from the Congressional Budget
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  Speaker 2: Office for this fiscal year. That automatically adds $ 2.
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  Speaker 7: Trillion to the debt.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 7: Simple math. So that's very simple and straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the mindset of this country is
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  Speaker 1: so beyond the idea of a deficit hawk or deficit
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  Speaker 1: folks who are paying attention? We're so past that. We
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  Speaker 1: don't even pay attention to this anymore. that they don't
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  Speaker 1: even recognize that we are staring at the abyss. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I bring this up is recently I've
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  Speaker 1: done a couple of interviews with different publications for different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: And during those interviews, I've said a number of times
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  Speaker 1: that I consider myself a deficit hawk. I consider myself
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  Speaker 1: ultra fiscally conservative, mostly because of where we are on
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  Speaker 1: a national stage. Right. You know, you look at how
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  Speaker 1: much we're in debt. We look at how much we
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  Speaker 1: just go debt to service every year, as you just
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  Speaker 1: pointed out. that somewhere along the line someone's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to stand up and say, yeah, we can't keep
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  Speaker 1: doing this. We're going to lose everything that we've built.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say this to these people in conversations
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  Speaker 1: or face-to-face with some of these reporters, I think they
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  Speaker 1: look at me like my head's on fire or they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand what I'm trying to explain. And they're younger,
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  Speaker 1: so my question to you, I guess, the long-winded question is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people really understand what's happening.
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  Speaker 8: I don't.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me offer two thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: One, I'm going to parse things between the principal amount
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  Speaker 2: of the national debt.
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  Speaker 7: Which is beyond human comprehension.
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  Speaker 2: There's no human on Earth who can really viscerally understand
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  Speaker 2: what a trillion dollars is. I went through the exercise
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  Speaker 2: at one point of of calculating the distance to Mars
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  Speaker 2: and back and tried to denominate it in trillions. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: think I had to get down to yards. How many
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: yards is it to Mars and back? Or I could
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: get into trillions. So it's just beyond comprehension. But again,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the interest is very comprehensible. We pay it every month.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Every day, the Treasury is paying interest on one instrument
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: or another. So that's number one. Number two, we're talking
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: here in the state of Connecticut. The way Uncle Sam
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: survives this is pushing all spending out to the states.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And the big, beautiful bill has started doing that. And
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the logic there is, twofold. If Connecticut wants to spend
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: wildly as a hyper-liberal state.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: It's got to do it from its own funds.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: And number two, if Connecticut can't survive, that's not a disaster.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: That's the bankruptcy of one state. We have to preserve
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Uncle Sam at the cost of the states. If states
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: go bankrupt, That's not a big deal. If Uncle Sam
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: hits the wall, we're all in it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: One of the listeners out there, I want to go
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: back to the bankruptcy comment, but I don't want to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: forget this. One of the listeners wants me to ask
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you about tariffs. And would it be better if we
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: use tariffs instead of taxes or tariffs in addition to taxes?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: In addition, tariffs, Lee, you may recall, I'm a ardent
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: supporter of. So the whole notion of free trade, this
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: gets a little bit technical, so bear with me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: The notion of.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Free trade was originated back in the 1700s, 1800s. And
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it was based on this play between, it's based on
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: comparative advantage. And there's a distinction, absolute advantage versus comparative advantage.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: So they compared England and Portugal.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And Portugal had an absolute advantage in the two products
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: looked at, wine and cloth. They could produce more profitably
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: both than England. But they had a much larger advantage
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: in wine. So it made sense for Portugal to devote
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: all its resources to the production of wine. and seed
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the cloth market to England. That was a plus-plus for trade.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Back in that era, there was no mobility to capital.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: So today, capital can go anywhere in a nanosecond. And
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the only determinant of advantage, both absolute and comparative, in
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: today's world is labor costs. And we cannot preserve our
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: economy with our high labor costs in face of China
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: and Vietnam and the rest of it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: We have to protect our economy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And one of the reasons with tariffs and one of
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the reasons that additional away from free trade that tariffs
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: are important is all.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: The nations around the world want to sell into our market.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: If they all want to come here and sell their products,
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: tariffs are just an entry fee.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: If we've got the hottest show on Broadway, why don't
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: we charge a high ticket price? If they're willing to
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: pay it, we should collect it. That's a major revenue source.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The tariffs that Donald Trump put in place as of
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: last year, over a year ago, were scored by the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Congressional Budget Office as offsetting all deficits over the next decade.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Red Jackie is with us. Again, his website is the-red-line.com.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: That's the-red-line.com. Now, I'm sure you know this, but theoretically,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: go back to the bankruptcy for a second. I know
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I'm all over the place, but states technically can't go bankrupt.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So when you say bankrupt, I mean, you're talking about
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: defaulting on, but they can always just supposedly they're supposed
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to raise taxes if they get to that point before
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they default, correct?
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So do you see that eventually happen? I mean,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: here in what state do you think is the first
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: one to have to get to go through that? Or
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: would it be Connecticut?
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Connecticut is the most deeply indebted state in the nation.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: And Connecticut has survived on COVID assistance from Uncle Sam,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a roaring stock market. We have more hedge fund and
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: private equity firms and individuals in this state than any
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: other proportionally. We just have a slowdown in the appreciation
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: in the stock market.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: We have a reversal. If we have collapse, this state
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: is done.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Anything else, Red, we leave on the table today?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I think we kind of covered the landscape, didn't we?
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: I think so.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I think so. Well, listen, the-red-line.com, Red Janky, look for
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: his latest column. He is a fantastic writer. We're lucky
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to have him. Red, I'll talk to you next week.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, Lee, then we'll talk about a whole bunch of
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: other very, very momentous news.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I'll chat with you about that next week.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: See you.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Lee.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, turn your radios up. It is now time.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Getting to the unbelievably number of 70 by McGuire, 66,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I think, by Sosa. And then Bonds exceeds them and
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: gets up to 73 home runs. And, okay, so home
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: runs were back front and center. Simultaneously was the introduction
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: of the radar gun on pitchers. And now... when you
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: watch a game on TV, you get instantly the reading
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: on the velocity of every pitch. And scouts, from high
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: school on up now, measure a pitcher by their velocity.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And they tell the pitchers, especially in the majors, empty
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: the tank. Start the first pitch of the first batter
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: in the first inning, maximum velocity, as they call it,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: max VLOG. And go as long as you can, throwing
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: as hard as you can. And, you know, a guy
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: throws 100 miles an hour, you can't hit a lot
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: of hits off that. I mean, no one can. And
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: that's what's happening in baseball. Throw as hard as you can,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: you have the batter swings for home runs. And thus,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: you get all these strikeouts. And it's a rather boring product.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: And the proof of it is the reigning batting champion,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Luis Arauz. He's, I think, won three batting titles. Each
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: year in a row, he gets traded from one team
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: to another. He's the best, you know, pure hitter, not
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: for power, but batting average, which they don't seem to
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: pay any attention to anymore. And this guy, he wins
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: a batting title on Minnesota. They get rid of him.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Wins a batting title on Miami Marlins. They get rid
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: of him. Wins a batting title, I think, on San Diego.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: They get rid of him. Then he goes up to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the Giants. And during this season, he's having a great year.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: He's hitting. 324. They trade him last week to Philadelphia.
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: This is.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: the top by batting average hitter in baseball. He's been
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: on five teams in four years. That tells me all
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I need to know about how they view Hiddick.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think all of that that you say is correct.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I just also think that the pitchers are– the velocity
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: has gotten to a point where– I don't want to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: say unfair, but it's just very hard to hit. It
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: just is.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: That's what I said.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: That's it. The whole thing's velocity. The radar gun. They
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: can't get through six innings, but then we go into
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the bullpen.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Somebody else throws 100 miles an hour, right? It's just
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: one after another.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: And they only have to do one inning or 10
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: pitches on a max VLO, and there you go.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny. You made me think about something when
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you were saying, you know, the radar gun. The radar
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: gun's been around for a while, I mean, because they
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: used to do Nolan Ryan. But like in every broadcast,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: first of all, it's up on the screen in most
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of the broadcast. They tell you how fast the pitch is.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But almost every color commentator will mention the pitch speed
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: at least a dozen times in an inning, half a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: dozen times anyway in an inning. Think about when Vince
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Scully was doing play-by-play. You never said that. You never
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: mentioned it once, right? Because I didn't have it. It's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: just a different vibe. The game has a different vibe.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Right. And the art of pitching is different. So this
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: max velo on every pitch, which is clearly working.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: But here's what happens. You know, you wipe out your bullpen.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: By the end of the season, these guys are dragging
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: because they have to pitch more innings because starters struggle
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: to get through the fifth and sixth inning. How many
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: complete games a year are we having? In the entire
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: major leagues, what, three maybe, three, four complete games total?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Whereas it used to be a guy like Tom Seaver,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: out of 33 or four starts, he'd have 20 complete games. Now,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: no one does it. They can't do it. They're too exhausted.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: They throw all these pitches. Oh, and the other thing
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: that this Max Velo radar gun, all this stuff is done,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: is cause a huge upswing in elbow injuries, Tommy John surgeries,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: missing a year and a half, coming back with a
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: new elbow where you actually throw harder with the new elbow.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Look at Garrett Colt. who's actually now back at 34,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: almost 35 years old, from Tommy John, and he's throwing
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: harder than he ever did before. So, you know, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're going to do. Your listeners
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: ought to know that you and I send each other
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Instagram videos of baseball stuff, and there's a guy on
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: there who shows us he's an amateur. batting against this
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: machine that all the teams now have, a batting machine
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: called a Traject. And the Traject machine adjusts itself and
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: imitates any major league pitcher, right-hand or left-hand or overhand, sidearm.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: The one that you sent me was a submariner who
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: throws 110 miles an hour. And this guy that makes
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: the videos is probably on a bat against him. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: my point is, here's not even in a game. It's
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: just a machine. And I think they're having trouble hitting
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the machine because it's so hard.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: It's like a bullet coming at you. It's like a bullet.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm surprised by this. There have been
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: 14 complete games this year. That's a lot. I would
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: have guessed.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I think there's still nothing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: No, I know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Thousands of games.
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: And I think.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: They're either six or seven hitters total hitting 300. Last
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: year in the entire major leagues, there were six. This year,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I think there's seven. Could be a change a little bit. But,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, my God, out of hundreds of hitters, seven
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: guys are over 300. What does that tell us?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you, I mean, we both love the game.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: What do you do? You move the mound back? I mean,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you can move it down. Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think they can lower it anymore. I think
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I think we just have
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: to go back. Look, the reason I bring up Luis Uraz,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: what would happen if we had five guys in the
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: lineup who were Luis Uraz?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: And they get base hits, and then you got two
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: or three guys on, two or three innings a game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Suddenly the game's different.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I watch the Yankees. They get five.
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: It's a night.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: The Bronx Bombers. Five hits in the whole game.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You know what they could do as I'm sitting here
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: talking to you about this? They could limit the pitching
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: roster to like 10 or 11. That might change it
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: because you couldn't come in and just.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That's 13 now.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: But you can't have more than 11 or even 10.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: You make these guys throw more innings, you might get
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: more offense. I don't know.
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: One of the great ex-players recently, and I don't know
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: if it was Clemens or... Somebody recommended... a rule change,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: not quite like yours, but these are good to talk about,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: that the starting pitcher didn't get through six innings, you
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: lose the DH for that game, the rest of that game.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: In other words, there's a penalty for taking the starter
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: out too early. I don't know. I mean, I don't
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: know what they're going to.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Do about it. It's just hard to hit. It's hard
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to hit now. It's hard to hit.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know that Babe Ruth could hit this stuff.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'd like to think he could, but why
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: would he?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think he could. I don't think he could.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: All right, let me do a couple of political things.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Upset in Wisconsin, you surprised by the moderate Milwaukee County
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: executive narrowly defeating the progressive Democrat?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I was. I fell for all the stories in the
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: polling that this nutbag on and wanted to get rid
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of Thanksgiving, I saw the polling. I thought, God, Wisconsin's crazy. Well,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: it's not Wisconsin. It's Wisconsin Democrats. And they turned out
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: not to be crazy and picked Crowley, who had dropped
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: out of the race, was supposed to go on vacation,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: came back into the race, ends up winning the thing.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: And I think he'll win in November. And There you're
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: going to have another instance where the progressives lost the
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: race or didn't do as well as they thought, which
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: tells us that this whole socialism stuff has limited appeal.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And it's basically young people who we need to listen
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to them because they're telling us what we kind of
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: know anyway, which is, hey, I'm going to school. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: can't get a job when I get out of school.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Can't buy a house. Rent is high. Gas is high.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, life is hard, and it's harder for young
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: people just beginning their career. And they're frustrated. And so
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: they migrate to something that sounds great. Oh, yeah, we'll
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: give you free this, free that. Well, you know, who
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't want free stuff? But the other side has to
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: correctly argue, look, we love the thought of free stuff,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: but who's going to pay for it? And it's not–
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: you know, you can't just simply say, well, we'll tax
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: the hell out of the billionaires.
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: No, that's not going to work. And what ends up
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: happening always is the middle class gets taxed, and they're
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: the ones who can least afford it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Right. I think everything you say is right, and I
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: don't– I think we need to figure out a way
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to fix it, right? I mean, we need to be
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: that answer to these kids because I– I don't know.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: You're coming out of college with $ 100, 000, more than that,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: in college debt, and you're staring at a half a
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: million dollars to buy a house. No wonder why they
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: don't want to start a family. No wonder why they don't.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I kind of get it, but I don't have a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: fix for it. You know what I mean?
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I haven't heard anybody who's got a fix for
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: it or a program that'll fix it. And I don't
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: think any of the socialistic stuff will.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Make it better.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I think it'll make it worse.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I agree with that. All right, so anything else across
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the country that shocked you as far as primaries? We
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: had a primary here. Our governor, two-time incumbent, ended up
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: winning pretty easily over his challenger. But we did have
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: John Larson, who was in 15 years, 15 different– he's
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: been in office. No, 15 terms. No, terms.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: He's been in 30 years.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 30 years.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, not only that, he is old, not
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: just chronologically, but he acts old and had that disturbing
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: incident a year ago on the floor of Congress or
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: somewhere down there where he sort of went into a
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: frozen state. And I think he's a decent human being,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Harrison Larson. I'm sure he is. But in a primary
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: in August, just tiny turnout, and the people who vote
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: are the motivated voters, and they were motivated to make
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: a change on a guy. And age is a negative.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: If you act old, you can be old, but be
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: full of energy. It's okay.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, look at Bernie. He's 150 years old, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: he still gets the people fired up.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: You never hear people say, oh, he's too old.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: He's full of pizzazz.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: So Trump and his, I guess, secret plane switch from Turkey, Iranian,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: incredible Iranian threat. Do we know anything new about this
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: Last 48 hours?
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Well, we know about both the catering container and moving
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: them secretly to a different plane. But let's look at
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: what's really going on there. Whatever they have to do
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to secure the president's safety, you've got to do it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: And that's up to the Secret Service. I don't think
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: we should even really, frankly, be talking about it because
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: it gives enemies a clue into how we operate, and
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: we shouldn't do that. But I've been watching Richard Haass
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: for two days on TV, former president and counsel for
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: foreign relations, and I think I agree with him when
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: he says, and I have a slightly tweak to it, too.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: He says, you know, we've got to relook at this
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: idea of assassinating foreign leaders. And Trump went all in
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: with Israel to bomb the Ayatollah and wipe out the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: leadership of Iran, which we did on Friday. I believe
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: it was February 28th. Well, but you've got to look
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: at the other side now. We have wiped out their leadership.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: What do you think their natural reaction is?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: They're going to try.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: To wipe out our leadership.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so we had, I remember after Watergate, when Ford
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: became president, and I was in college, and I haven't
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: looked it up lately, but we could look it up,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: that President Ford signed an executive order prohibiting the assassination
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: of foreign leaders. And over the years, that executive order
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: has been modified several times. Now, an executive order is
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: not a law. It governs, from the president, the executive branch.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: It would govern the military, the CIA, or intelligence services.
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  Speaker 3: And that executive order basically made it difficult for the U.S.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: government to uh, to go out and kill a foreign leader,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: I guess, unless the president gets involved and wants to
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: do it. Well, okay. Trump wanted to kill the Ayatollah
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: and we killed them or the Israelis with our elf,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: whatever he got killed. Now his son is the Ayatollah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: You know, that guy is sitting over there ordering hit
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: teams to get Trump. There's no doubt about it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: And this, um, catering truck incident, it's reported there was
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: fear of a shoulder-launched Iranian assassination attempt, a missile being
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: launched from the ground to hit Air Force One. Look,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: we all love it when a bad guy like the
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Ayatollah Khamenei gets wiped out, but you've got to think
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: ahead a little bit. Does it really make things better?
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: When you kill the guy, if they get another guy
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: in who's even more of a hardliner and now they've
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: got a real buzz on to come over here and
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: kill our leader, how far are we going to go
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: on that?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I always get a– not a kick, but I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: always find it fascinating that somehow– we're perplexed by the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: idea that they're going to try to kill Trump. Of
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: course they are. We're bombing them. I mean, we should
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: expect the absolute worst. Whatever they can do, they're going
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: to try to do. And if it's kill the president,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, how are we shocked by that kind of stuff?
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: By the way, the other subtext of the whole story
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: with the catering truck and all that is the big
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: mistake by Trump, in my view, to accept a jet
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: from Qatar to a jet that's worth 400 million, it's
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a luxury jet, 400 mil. Okay, he accepts it. Then
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: it takes $ 1. 4 billion of our taxpayer dollars to fix it,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: retrofit it, clean it up, put any stuff on there
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: to make it safe. He flies it over to Turkey,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: and they discover this threat, and they realize they're really
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: not prepared with this particular jet to handle a threat,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: so off he goes on different jets. I mean, going
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: back to the original, what are we accepting a jet
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: from the sponsor of Hamas? I mean, that's who Qatar is.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: They gave money every year to support Hamas and the
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Gaza Strip. Why are we, the president, taking a luxury
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: jet from them? As if they don't have They quit
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: broke ball with that gift. You know they do. So
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: the whole thing is bad. Thank God no one's been
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: hurt by it except the taxpayer.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Of course. Hey, fun talk today. Appreciate it, John. Have
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: a good week. I will shout out to next week,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: but I got to run.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: I saw on the news, by the way, that the
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: cost so far of these White House renovations Trump's doing,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the cost to the taxpayer, $ 9. million dollars. No.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Not good.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: And no voter ever voted for one penny of that. Yeah.
• 45:33
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  Speaker 11: You think of that when it's too late. You know
• 51:58
  Speaker 11: what I mean?
• 51:58
  Speaker 17: The people that, you know, maybe it's your family, maybe not.
• 52:01
  Speaker 17: There may be a neighbor that are just living alone.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 52:03
  Speaker 17: And I often say my buddy in Florida just turned
• 52:06
  Speaker 17: 100 years old.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Get out.
• 52:07
  Speaker 11: And he watches my play, starts my Jeep, and he
• 52:10
  Speaker 11: lives alone.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:11
  Speaker 17: Couple times a week i just stop in and sit
• 52:13
  Speaker 17: and you know and talk to him and it means
• 52:15
  Speaker 17: a lot to those people and you want to do
• 52:16
  Speaker 17: it before it's too.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Late 100 and you think about somebody who's 100 what
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: he saw what he's seen.
• 52:21
  Speaker 17: It's pretty incredible fake faked his age yeah to fight
• 52:25
  Speaker 17: in the war can you imagine that amazing most people
• 52:27
  Speaker 17: fake the age not to fight.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Exactly so he fights in a war saw the vietnam
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: war saw korean war world war ii we fought that's
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: what i mean but then he saw the korean war
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: then he saw vietnam then he's you know vietnam then
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the korean war and You know, he's seen all these things.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really, those folks, we need to tap
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: into them. They're a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: comes with people that age. You know, but part of
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: that Tom's take that I think always sticks with me,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: because I've heard that story before, it's about the guy
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: just giving them a watch, right? Because the gift of time,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: which is right, you know, it's 100%.
• 52:59
  Speaker 17: And we talked a little bit before we started about,
• 53:01
  Speaker 17: you know, Ocean Beach back in the day. It was
• 53:03
  Speaker 17: a place to be for us. And think of our age,
• 53:07
  Speaker 17: how much the world has changed. think of his age,
• 53:10
  Speaker 17: what he's... I know.
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 53:12
  Speaker 11: It's almost like two countries now where we're at each
• 53:14
  Speaker 11: other's throat.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's say he's born in 1926. So by
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the time he's like a teenager, it's almost the 30s. Like,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: what are you doing in the 30s?
• 53:26
  Speaker 11: Just look at the world and say, my God.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Crazy.
• 53:31
  Speaker 17: And I'm not going to embarrass someone and mention a name, but,
• 53:35
  Speaker 17: you know, it's political season.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 53:37
  Speaker 17: And I think what irritates me a little bit, and
• 53:41
  Speaker 17: I had this happen to me personally, where you're in
• 53:44
  Speaker 17: a function with someone who's running for office, and you
• 53:48
  Speaker 17: go up and introduce yourself. And I'm not a big star,
• 53:51
  Speaker 17: but some people know who I am from my past.
• 53:55
  Speaker 11: And the person could care less.
• 53:59
  Speaker 17: And then you're sitting at home, and I have security cameras,
• 54:02
  Speaker 17: and I'm looking up, and then the person is going
• 54:04
  Speaker 17: to knock on my door to talk to you.
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: And I'm saying to myself, are you kidding me?
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: And Did you get up?
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: No.
• 54:11
  Speaker 17: And I guess, you know, for someone who may be
• 54:13
  Speaker 17: running for office or not, or anyone who's listening who's running,
• 54:17
  Speaker 17: I mean.
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: For me, that stuck in my head. You know what
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: I mean? I'm not getting up. You had a chance.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Personal engagement is very important. And we talked about the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: whole knocking on the door, too. I mean, you know.
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: Well, the person wasn't wearing a gazoo helmet. It was
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: on a bike, which made it better, but.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, Gazoo, the great Gazoo. All right. Well, point taken. So,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: in other words, if you're out, your advice to folks
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: who are out there trying to get an elected office
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: or position, be a little bit more engaging.
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: Your first impression means a lot.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:51
  Speaker 17: And if you blow it on the first one, a
• 54:53
  Speaker 17: lot of people, like me, you're not going to get
• 54:55
  Speaker 17: a second one.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 54:56
  Speaker 11: You know what I mean?
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Understood.
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: And I went to this person.
• 54:59
  Speaker 17: They didn't come to me. I went to them just to,
• 55:01
  Speaker 17: you know, introduce. And you wanted to show support.
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 55:05
  Speaker 13: Nothing.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: Fair enough.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Duly noted. And I think I know that person.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I'll just make a mention of that down the road.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: All right. What else you got?
• 55:15
  Speaker 11: Well, let's get back into law enforcement.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 55:19
  Speaker 17: And in the town of Groton, they arrested a man
• 55:25
  Speaker 17: who I know, and I retired in 2021, and I
• 55:28
  Speaker 17: arrested this man several times.
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: So he was.
• 55:31
  Speaker 17: Arrested for second-degree threatening. and first-degree criminal trespass, okay? But
• 55:37
  Speaker 17: the story being how they let these people out over
• 55:41
  Speaker 17: and over and over.
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: This person.
• 55:45
  Speaker 17: Released on bond, only $ 10, 000, and when I get done
• 55:48
  Speaker 17: with this, you'll see why wasn't it more. Previously arrested,
• 55:52
  Speaker 17: Norwich police on July 16th, charged with violation of a
• 55:55
  Speaker 17: protective order. Also arrested by Groton Town, June 15th, charged
• 56:00
  Speaker 17: with third-degree assault, first-degree criminal trespass, breach of peace. On
• 56:06
  Speaker 17: June 13th, he was charged with first-degree criminal trespass, creating
• 56:10
  Speaker 17: a public disturbance.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 56:13
  Speaker 17: Between 2022 and 2024.
• 56:17
  Speaker 11: He was convicted. So, found guilty.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 56:20
  Speaker 17: Criminal violation of restraining order, first-degree criminal trespass, second-degree threatening,
• 56:25
  Speaker 17: second-degree harassment, violation of probation, three counts of second-degree breach
• 56:29
  Speaker 17: of peace.
• 56:30
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Those are convictions.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: Convictions.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Convictions.
• 56:32
  Speaker 11: I retired in 2021.
• 56:34
  Speaker 17: So I arrested him prior to that.
• 56:37
  Speaker 11: When is enough enough?
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more.
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: He's obviously not getting it.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: And he continues to get arrested. When are you a menace?
• 56:48
  Speaker 11: Some of these are crimes, you know, capers, crimes against people.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: You know, assaulting. You've assaulted someone.
• 56:55
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: Created an injury.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Right. When is enough? So I sat down, just to
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: echo what you're saying. I have a friend of mine
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: who's a judge, okay? Not Judge Nazaro. He's a friend
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: of mine, too, but this is an acting sitting judge.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: And we were having this very conversation the other day
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: because he's, I mean, if I were to ask him
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: to define himself, he'd probably say he's left of center
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and more of the people person and not necessarily of
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: a cop person. Not that he doesn't like cops, but
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: he's going to side down on the other side. And
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, when's enough enough? I mean,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: we've got people who've been arrested 10, 11, 12 times.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: When do you actually hammer the gavel down? And he says,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: we're getting to that point now where we're getting frustrated. Now,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: I don't see it yet, because of what you just said.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: But maybe they're wise enough, but I don't know.
• 57:41
  Speaker 17: I don't know the judge. What I would respond to is, what?
• 57:46
  Speaker 17: What takes you to get to that point where.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Enough is enough? Well, he made a point. He says
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the goal is to keep these people out of the system.
• 57:52
  Speaker 11: Oh, and that's my problem.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Mine too.
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: But this person is obviously not getting it.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: You're letting him out to continue to victimize people.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 58:03
  Speaker 17: When do you look, if I have this information, the judge,
• 58:08
  Speaker 17: the prosecutor, they have this information.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: When do they say, hey, listen, the bond is, I
• 58:14
  Speaker 11: don't know.
• 58:14
  Speaker 17: $ 250, 000. And the next time, it's $ 500, 000. You know what
• 58:20
  Speaker 17: I mean? When do you see that this person is
• 58:23
  Speaker 17: not getting the message? Continues to be arrested. And the
• 58:27
  Speaker 17: last ones I read, Lee, were convictions. Good luck getting
• 58:31
  Speaker 17: a conviction today.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I agreed.
• 58:34
  Speaker 11: And why is he out?
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I got no answers for you. That is something that
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: needs to be addressed because it's just it's not OK.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: It's not OK for anybody listening that, you know, they're
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: they're less safe now because that guy has been wandering around.
• 58:49
  Speaker 17: And the far left for people that may be running
• 58:51
  Speaker 17: for office or something, the far left is is pushing
• 58:56
  Speaker 17: to keep people out.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:57
  Speaker 11: I mean, you see now these socialists want to get
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: rid of prisons.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: What do you do with this guy? I don't know.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know. What's the plan? What's the plan B?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: No prison, so what?
• 59:07
  Speaker 11: No cops, no prisons.
• 59:09
  Speaker 17: So this guy doesn't get arrested because there's no cops,
• 59:12
  Speaker 17: and he doesn't go to jail.
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: So he just keeps doing this. What's the answer?
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder, it's funny, you can't do the no prisons
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: because that just won't work, but these folks who don't
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: want cops, maybe they should just register someplace where they're
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: willing to not have law enforcement come to them if
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: someone's breaking into their house. Like, maybe they put their
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: money where their mouth is. Like, sign some format town
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: hall that says, I will not, you cannot come to
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: my home to help me in a situation of an
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: emergency or something like that.
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: That's a great question.
• 59:46
  Speaker 17: What would these people do, these socialists, when someone is
• 59:49
  Speaker 17: forcing their way into their house, a stranger, at 3
• 59:52
  Speaker 17: o'clock in the morning?
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: What are they doing? What do you call?
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: They're going to call the police. That's who they're going
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: to call.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: What if there isn't any?
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying, they're talking the talk, but when
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it comes time to walk the walk, they won't walk
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the walk.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 17: Well, and I got another one that we talked about before.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 17: Eastline made a good drug arrest.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 17: And when I go and look at who they arrested, again,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 17: retired in 2021, this guy selling drugs.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 11: Guess what?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 17: I arrested him several times before 2021.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 11: Right. And what did he do back then?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 17: He went in and made a complaint that me and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 17: my partner were harassing him. Now, we arrested him, caught
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 17: him with the drugs, you know, harassing him. So what
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 17: is what is not every administration, but what is some
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 17: administration to do me a favor?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: Just just leave him alone. Stay away from him. How'd
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: that work out? So now 2026. Yeah. What's he doing?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: Selling drugs?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 17: So when, again, prosecutors, judges, when do you get the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 17: message that I'm always for giving someone a break the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 17: first time you do something?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: Okay, I did something stupid. I understand.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: But when you're doing it over and over again, it's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 11: the same offense. Possessing drugs with intent to sell them.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 17: You've got your break. I'm sure you didn't go to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 17: jail for the last couple times. When do you say, okay,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 17: now this is your third, I'm just guessing, your third
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 17: time for this?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 11: You've got your break.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't it be a cumulative situation? Like, okay, so you
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: get your arrest for the drug sale. You sell drugs,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: and the first time it's obviously going to be a
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: slap on the wrist unless you're giving away duffel bags
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: full of fentanyl.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: But.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't it be like a cumulative thing? You've sold it once,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: you've sold it twice, you've been arrested the third time.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: You know, each time, shouldn't the punishment be worse? Because
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: you're not learning.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 17: You would think that, you know, it's one step, two steps,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 17: three steps. Now, this person is at least on three.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Right. Probation, okay, now you've got six months in jail.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Now it's 15 months. The next time, it's going to
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: be five years. You know what I mean? Because you're
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: not getting it.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: But in Connecticut... where it's a blue state, what do
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 11: they want? They don't want people in jail.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 17: And, you know, they'll call that a victimless crime, a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 17: person selling drugs.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: Well, until it's fentanyl and someone's dead. And then they'll
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 11: be screaming.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: But I don't get it.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 17: When you read these names of, I've been gone five years,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 17: and these names of people that you've dealt with, and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 17: they're continuing.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 11: What is the negativity that they should stop? There is none.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: So you've been gone for five years. Just before you
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: get to the next point, what do you miss most
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: about it?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 17: Well, I have to say I miss the way it
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 17: used to be, not the way it is now. But,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 17: you know, the camaraderie. You know, you spend as much
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 17: time with.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 11: These people as you do with your family.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 11: And when it's an occupation.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 17: Where you literally count on others.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: For your life. It's a brotherhood.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: Absolutely. And you know what?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 17: It's going to sound weird, but anyone that's law enforcement
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 17: listening to me, for one, I'd say enjoy it.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: Because there's a void when you're going.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 17: It's not, no pun in truck drivers or anything. I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 17: don't want Frank getting upset, but it's not a truck
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 17: driver or working at McDonald's.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: It's a brotherhood.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: Literally, we would get together once a week and all
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 11: have dinner together. You're friends.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 17: Significant others know each other.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, they sometimes hang out.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: And it's a void when it's over. But you miss that.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 17: And, you know, some of the best friends you have
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 17: in the world that you didn't even know when you
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 17: started work are people that you worked with.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: No, I can see that. I can definitely. And it's
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: got to take it to the next level when, you know,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Your life is on the line in some cases, right?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: So that bond has to get even more close.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 17: And, you know, your partner or your person on the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 17: next patrol may be someone that you don't like.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Right. You know what I mean?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 11: He doesn't like you. You don't like him, which happens.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 11: But for the most part, knock on wood, you put
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 11: that aside.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 11: I'm not going to go out and have dinner and
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 11: have a beer with this person.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 11: But, you know, when the bell rings, it's time to go.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Todd Lynch is with us, and we're just rolling through
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: some of the things that he's accumulated. Each and every
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: week he comes in here. And chats about law enforcement,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: chats about things he's seen in and around the community. And, again,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: we go one by one. You can always call in, 860-464-9490.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: If you're calling in during this segment, just keep in
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: mind we don't have a call screener during this segment anymore.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: So you're going to go directly on hold, and you'll
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: be in no man's land. But we'll get to you.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: What's next?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: Well, I did listen because I know you kept your word.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: You called out.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 17: Red janky last week about that, and I listened to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 17: what he said. For one, I'm not going to say
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 17: state workers because he touched specifically on state police.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 11: If you're going to call into question how.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 17: Much someone is making on a platform like this, and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 17: he must have other platforms.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he does.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: So what Connecticut state troopers make.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 11: Have your facts straight, at least.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 17: Don't say something that is not correct.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: What did he get wrong?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 17: Well, he said every state police officer, highway patrol, all
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 17: do the same job.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 11: That's not correct.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 17: A Connecticut state trooper's job compared to my second state,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 17: a Florida highway patrolman's job, is absolutely different. Florida Highway
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 17: Patrol does... Enforcement of motor vehicle laws.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 11: And traffic accidents.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 9: That's it.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 17: So don't compare one to the other. The second thing
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 17: I'll say is you're paid also by the economy in
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 17: the place you live. How much it costs to live.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 17: And I don't have the facts in front of me,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 17: but I would guess Connecticut's in the top five.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: I think he said second.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: You're talking about as far as cost of living?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Or second or third.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 11: So that reflects how much you make.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 17: I would imagine a West Virginia state trooper is going
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 17: to make a little less because of the economy.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 11: So let's, I mean, speak all the facts.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 17: I know he's got a problem with how much Connecticut makes,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 17: but just to call it out, the last time I checked,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 17: Lamont won.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 11: Got like 70%. What's that say? The unions backed him.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 11: He backs the unions.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 11: It's the way it goes. It's politics. You want the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 11: unions to back you? You back the unions. And that's
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 11: the way it is.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 17: But the– I'm not holding a– I didn't have a
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 17: Lamont sign on my front lawn.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 11: But the people of Connecticut spoke. That's who they're supporting.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 17: So Rick can come on and lose his breath about
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 17: babbling on like he does about this.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 11: But here in Connecticut, people voted– they didn't want to change.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 11: So, you know, he's holding the sign about, you know,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: get rid of the politicians.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 17: The guy at the top is going to get back in.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 11: So, you know, one trick pony, Rhett, get something different
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 11: to talk about.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: We've got a retired firefighter who says it's the cola
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: on the pensions that the troopers, the cola, excuse me,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: it's the cola on the pensions that the troopers make,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: which is killing everybody, that nobody else in this state gets.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 17: Well, I have very good friends that are firemen, so
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 17: I'm not going to make this about a fireman.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: But, Mr.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 17: Fireman, you could have done the same job and got
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 17: the cola.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 11: That's the way it is.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 17: If your union and your fire department doesn't have one, well,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 17: go to your union because we fought for that. And cola,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 17: everything goes up. I mean, the price of eggs don't
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 17: go down. So your pension goes up. But that's the
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 17: rules that we, you know, no one is breaking the rules.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 17: State police have a COLA.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 11: That's the way it is. You could have got it.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Okay. Fair enough. Do you have something else right away
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: on top of that? I want to grab a call,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: see who this is. Good morning. Who are we talking to?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 13: Tim from Baltic.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, Tim. How are you?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 18: Could you ask your judge friends what enough is enough
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 18: when a guy that going to Quinnipiac University for a
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 18: teaching job, sexually assaults five girls under the age of
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 18: 11 and gets four years of prison in Connecticut.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm with you.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 11: He was sentenced yesterday. That was in Bethany or something,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 11: wasn't it?
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I saw that.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 18: He was sentenced to 20 years, but he's going to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 18: be out in four, which he's probably going to be out.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: In two.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 11: Is it Tim?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Tim, from experience... If four came through, I bet it's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 11: more– it's double figures. You know what I mean?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 17: If four victims came through, I mean, there was more
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 17: that probably didn't come forward.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Right, of course. Of course.
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  Speaker 18: And he was in college to be a teacher. And
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 18: this female judge in Connecticut gave him a four-year sentence.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 18: His youngest victim will only be 13 when he's out.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Terrible. It's terrible. It's no excuse.
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  Speaker 18: So was that not enough for that judge?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You're right. I'm losing it. They're getting
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: in an argument with me.
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  Speaker 11: And I guess what makes it worth, Tim, is these
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 11: are young kids. You know what I mean?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 18: Yeah, it wasn't some 19-year-old.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 11: Not that it makes it any better, but you.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Know what I mean?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 18: It doesn't make that right. But you're talking a 9-year-old.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 18: That guy should be away forever, as far as I'm concerned.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 17: And if you look at that story, Tim, the first
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 17: selectman who had to resign knew about it and didn't
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 17: take him out of his position with Parks and Recreation.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: Let me guess.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 18: Is he a Democrat?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 11: I don't know what her affiliation was. I don't know.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 18: I'm going to go out and win this.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, listen, I'm with you. We're both with you.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you, man. Appreciate the call. I don't know. I
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: don't know what to say to those kinds of people.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a deal made, or
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: I have to look a little bit more into that case,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: but shame on everybody.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 17: And not that it makes it better, but some of
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 17: those type of cases, especially when it's sexual assault, and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 17: especially when it's young people, you want to avoid putting
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 17: them on a witness stand and bringing them into the courthouse.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 17: So there are plea bargains, but I agree with Tim.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 17: That seems light to me with multiple victims.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Agreed. All right, what else you got? One more time
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: for one more? Yeah, well, two quick, very quick. We
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: got some calls coming in.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 17: Florida, I'll be quick so we can grab a call,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 17: but Florida, my second state, not only has a death penalty,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 17: they do two a day. They execute two people in
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 17: one day. So, I mean, it's a different kind of
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 17: environment down there.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 11: And before we grab.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 17: The call, I saw there was another, we talked about
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 17: it before, New London was having a silent vigil against ICE.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 11: Against ICE. But, you know, again, it'll be the kids
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 11: with purple hair.
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  Speaker 17: But when do they have one when someone that's an
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  Speaker 17: illegal immigrant kills someone?
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  Speaker 11: Is there a vigil for those? I don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: They never do it. They don't care about that. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Who's this?
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  Speaker 3: This is old Dan from O-Line.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, buddy?
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  Speaker 14: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: I guess what spurred me to call was Tim's call
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  Speaker 5: because in the judge that you talked about and in
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  Speaker 5: what– Todd said about the people who have spoken. The
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  Speaker 5: people of Connecticut, unfortunately, either don't care about life and
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  Speaker 5: sexual assault or they're completely ignorant and denial of the
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  Speaker 5: fact because the judge being frustrated shows it's an admission
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  Speaker 5: of failure that being easy on these people is good
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  Speaker 5: and helps them because they keep coming back, which just
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  Speaker 5: hurts innocent people. And it hurts those four little girls
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  Speaker 5: that were sexually assaulted, 11 years old.
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  Speaker 3: They're little girls.
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  Speaker 5: My granddaughter's 12, for crying out loud. And that's okay
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  Speaker 5: to get two years? I guess they used to say
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  Speaker 5: black lives matter, but I guess little girls' lives matters,
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  Speaker 5: don't matter. And victims who get beaten up and killed
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  Speaker 5: or assaulted or robbed, their lives don't matter. And actually,
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  Speaker 5: police lives don't matter because, I mean, I keep thinking
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  Speaker 5: of that poor cop in Hartford who is backpedaling with
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  Speaker 5: the psychotic guy with the knife walking towards him.
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  Speaker 3: He's backpedaling. What if he tripped and fall?
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  Speaker 5: And that guy just knifed him to death. I guess
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  Speaker 5: that would have been okay, and that would have been
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  Speaker 5: more preferable than a psychotic guy getting killed.
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  Speaker 11: I bet you, Dan, if that happened, there wouldn't be
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  Speaker 11: a vigil by these people.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, no. God, no.
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  Speaker 5: No. Because it's a mental health crisis.
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  Speaker 17: And we talk about that, Dan, about why people don't
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  Speaker 17: want to do this job anymore.
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  Speaker 11: It's because of facts like that.
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  Speaker 17: This person that went out, put his life on the line,
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  Speaker 17: and had to, you know, use deadly force, has now
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  Speaker 17: been fired and is facing a trial to put himself
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  Speaker 17: in jail for a long time.
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  Speaker 11: And if you look at my opinion... It's absolutely justified.
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  Speaker 17: And what I know people who are involved in the
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  Speaker 17: case and what people don't realize because you can't see
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  Speaker 17: it because the body camera goes forward and not backwards.
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  Speaker 17: Very close to where he was backing up was a
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  Speaker 17: intersection of a street where there were pedestrians there.
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  Speaker 11: So you've got to make a choice. You can't let that.
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  Speaker 17: Person get near other people that are just standing trying
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  Speaker 17: to cross the street. And that will come out at
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 17: the trial, but you have a mayor that fires this
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  Speaker 17: guy before there's.
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  Speaker 11: Even an outcome.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't that being king, judge, and jury, what that mayor did?
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  Speaker 17: We had one in New London, the same thing. And
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  Speaker 17: the person he fired is still patrolling today.
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  Speaker 5: It just reinforces to me that we've got to get
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  Speaker 5: these liberals out. We have a chance in November. to
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  Speaker 5: really come to our senses and to vote out failure
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  Speaker 5: and to vote in people who will try to make
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  Speaker 5: things safer for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And it just.
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  Speaker 5: Liberalism is, besides being a failure, it's dangerous to innocent
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  Speaker 5: people and it's dangerous to cops. And I've talked to
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  Speaker 5: people about this. And when you tell them the whole story,
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  Speaker 5: that's the thing. There's not enough education. And I hope
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: the Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: When they're running, we'll educate people and not be afraid
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  Speaker 5: to ask questions and tell people the truth. Because when
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  Speaker 5: I talk to people and I tell them the truth
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  Speaker 5: like we're talking, I don't care what color they are,
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  Speaker 5: what sex they are, they agree with me. And when
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  Speaker 5: I say, what does that say to people who want
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: to be cops? And she said, well, geez, I guess
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  Speaker 5: you're right. So people, when they're presented with facts and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: the truth and what do you call it, both sides,
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  Speaker 5: Most of them have half a brain. It's just they're
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: not being presented with the truth. And we've got to
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: vote these libs out before we all get killed.
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  Speaker 17: Well, and you see some of these socialists that you
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 17: see what they said years ago about no police, anti-ice,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 17: no prisons. Now when they're running and those videos come out,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 17: what do they all do? They're taking steps backwards. And
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  Speaker 17: the woman, thank God she lost, from Wisconsin– Wanted to
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 17: cancel Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 11: I like Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I like Thanksgiving, too. Dan, I got to run. I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of time, but thank you. I'm reading more on
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  Speaker 1: this case. I mean, you're the head of Parks and Rec,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that one of your employees sexually assaulted
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: five girls and you let him stay on the job? Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 11: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just as much his fault as, well,
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  Speaker 1: not as much, but I mean, that's like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thanks, Todd. Good stuff today. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back.
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  Speaker 11: Traffic Alert on 94.9 News Now.
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  Speaker 10: The road construction picks up this morning on the Gold
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  Speaker 10: Star Bridge. Route 12 is moving slow in both directions
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  Speaker 10: in Guatton.