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The Lee Elci Show | 10.15.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am your guest host
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Ted Nelson. This is the Voice of Freedom,
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  Speaker 1: the Lee Elsey Show. And I am guest substituting today
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  Speaker 1: for the great one, Lee Elsey. Now, for those of
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  Speaker 1: you that are ancient out there like me, you might
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  Speaker 1: have remembered me 100 years ago on your home talk.
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  Speaker 1: This is not your home talk. Or you might have
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  Speaker 1: remembered some crazy stint that I actually tried to do
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  Speaker 1: for about 18 months called Drive Time Live.
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  Speaker 2: What a bomb. But it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: At any rate, I enjoy my cliches, so if you
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  Speaker 1: want to share a cliche with me this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, that's fine. But this morning, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about legacy.
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  Speaker 1: And the fun part of getting old, of which I've
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  Speaker 1: been practicing my whole life, by the way, I might add,
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  Speaker 1: the fun thing about getting old is, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want to do with your life? And I've been blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I've had my tragedies, too, in particular, which I won't
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  Speaker 1: go into, but for the most part, I've lived a
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  Speaker 1: very blessed life. and I'm grateful for it. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things have happened in my life, and I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to share a little. I'd like you to think
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  Speaker 1: about your own legacy this morning. I'm going to share mine,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that you'll think about yours and what
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  Speaker 1: set you on your trajectory in life.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I know that I'm pretty wonky, especially when.
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  Speaker 1: I talk to other people and the way I look
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  Speaker 1: at life and the way I view things, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I turn it just a little bit you know.
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  Speaker 2: On edge a little to take a look at things.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder, and I have almost my whole life,
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  Speaker 1: I can still remember being 12 and 13 years old
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  Speaker 1: deciding what did I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: And I had an A plan and a B plan.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, the B plans worked out
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  Speaker 1: pretty damn okay. And the reason why I did the
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  Speaker 1: A plan is because I had an Irish affliction back
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  Speaker 1: in the day called Lacko Buck's.
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  Speaker 2: That's a dad joke that I get to tell.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I'm handing out college scholarships. The kids have
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  Speaker 1: to put up with it because they're getting money, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And we love the kids. The young people are just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I hear so many downsides about our youth today.
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  Speaker 2: But if you get out there.
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  Speaker 1: Among our youth and you find out what they're really doing,
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  Speaker 1: you'll find out there's some really, really strong individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Out there with destinies also.
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  Speaker 1: So today's program, this part of this monologue is I'm
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  Speaker 1: not expecting any calls in this half an hour, so
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. Don't worry about that. The last time I
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  Speaker 1: was on the air was in August of 2001, and
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  Speaker 1: the radio station, which I think is all gone.
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  Speaker 2: WSUB is gone, right? There is no more. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a 980 still? There is, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's still a 980, but it's not WSUB anymore. But
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, that's when I met Lee, back
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  Speaker 1: in the early 90s, in fact, but The show, the
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  Speaker 1: station itself, it started in the 80s. It was a
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  Speaker 1: top 10 radio disco, not disco, but radio station that
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  Speaker 1: was playing top 10 music AM. And you had Don
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  Speaker 1: Turner on there, who didn't live too far from this
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  Speaker 1: radio station, by the way. He was a Galesbury guy,
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  Speaker 1: which wasn't his real last name. And that was another
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  Speaker 1: story I learned a long time ago. Not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of radio people back in the day used their own name.
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  Speaker 2: But needless to say, they had that show going. And
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  Speaker 2: my last day on the air, I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 2: It was two hours.
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  Speaker 1: It was called Your Home Talk. And I was back
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  Speaker 1: on the air, and we were having a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun with it. And two hours on the air, okay,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine. I enjoyed it. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about and had interactions with the callers.
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  Speaker 1: But as I mentioned, back in the 80s, the AM
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  Speaker 1: station converted from top 10 or top 40 music. They
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  Speaker 1: went to all talk. And that's when I got turned
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  Speaker 1: on to Rush Limbaugh and a lot of others, Levin
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  Speaker 1: and others that came on. I don't think Levin was
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  Speaker 1: back in the 80s, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of people on the air, and I
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  Speaker 1: was really tuned into that, and that's when I got
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  Speaker 1: my opportunity to go into talk radio. But the funny
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  Speaker 1: thing was, to me, funny, was that my last show
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  Speaker 1: was August. The station in about 2000, 99-2000, started changing
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  Speaker 1: into All Sports. And so one by one, Carol Bobroff
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  Speaker 1: dropped off and the other different individuals that had their
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  Speaker 1: own little shows, they all started dropping off one by
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  Speaker 1: one on their own accord because the station was moving
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  Speaker 1: this way.
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  Speaker 2: And so they didn't care about my spot. I was fine.
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  Speaker 2: It was Saturday mornings. I was doing your home talk.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm on there in August of 2001, a whole
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  Speaker 1: new century. And I was on the air for hours.
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  Speaker 1: an hour and 45 minutes without a single call.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm running the board.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing everything, and I'm putting commercials on so I
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  Speaker 1: can take a break. It wasn't like I was talking totally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for over 90 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: But finally the phone rings. It's quarter to 10. I says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: someone wants some advice on how to fix their house.
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  Speaker 2: And I picked up the phone. I says, Ted Nelson here,
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  Speaker 2: your home talk. How can I help you? And the
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  Speaker 2: guy goes, Yeah, when's that next sports show?
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: I says, 15 minutes. I was fast on my feet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not always that fast on my feet, but I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that particular. And I didn't get nasty or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't derogatory.
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  Speaker 2: I just said, 15 minutes, pal.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get your sports show in 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And so I kind of saw the handwriting on the wall.
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  Speaker 2: I says, I guess they really do want to go
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  Speaker 2: to all sports.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was my last day on the radio
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  Speaker 1: as a talk show host.
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  Speaker 2: But I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was all part of a legacy. And it
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  Speaker 1: goes back to, like I said, when I was 12
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  Speaker 1: years old, I started mowing lawns and making my own money,
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  Speaker 1: which was kind of important in my house because my father,
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  Speaker 1: he started the legacy and his father before him and
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  Speaker 1: his father before him and his father before him. And
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  Speaker 1: where I was going with that lack of bucks thing
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  Speaker 1: was that in the Nelson clan, you were expected to
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  Speaker 1: finish high school with good grades.
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  Speaker 2: A, B, A's preferably, and then you were expected to
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  Speaker 2: go to college for four years.
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  Speaker 1: And then into your profession, which back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: the family profession, was education or the ministry.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you did.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Nelsons did. And they had done it since
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  Speaker 1: the 1800s. So it's not something I take lightly.
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  Speaker 2: I knew about all this.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it wasn't drilled into me, but it was told
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: And so, all right.
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  Speaker 3: And my father had.
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  Speaker 1: Always planned on going halves with me on my education,
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  Speaker 1: like his father had done before him. but a couple
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  Speaker 1: things had changed. You know, from the 50s to the 70s,
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  Speaker 1: things had changed financially, and a big change in my
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  Speaker 1: father's life, something I never knew about until I was
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  Speaker 1: an adult, was he was actually at odds with his dad,
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  Speaker 1: and actually, he did just what he was told to do.
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  Speaker 2: He graduated from high school, went to URI.
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  Speaker 1: He graduated from high school in New Jersey, but he
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  Speaker 1: went to URI, and relocated, got his degree, and He's
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  Speaker 1: bumming around after he got his degree, trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: He was still single.
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  Speaker 1: And he got a draft notice. So he went off
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  Speaker 1: to the Navy for two years. He actually got a choice.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the 50s.
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  Speaker 2: And he went off to the.
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  Speaker 1: Navy for two years. And then he came back after that.
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  Speaker 1: He did his two years of duty. And then he
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  Speaker 1: went back to grad school because he was still trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what he was going to do. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God he met my mom. And the rest is all history.
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  Speaker 2: It was that far.
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  Speaker 4: But!
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  Speaker 1: The catch was, for him, the catch was he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into the family business. So he went
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  Speaker 1: into real estate appraisal. And then ultimately got into the
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  Speaker 1: biggest bank in Rhode Island. And his trajectory was on
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  Speaker 1: the way up. And my college would have been half
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  Speaker 1: paid for if he had stayed on that track. But
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  Speaker 1: the bug bit him. The Nelson bug, I call it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to teach. And he told my mom, I
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  Speaker 1: want to teach.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got to do to that?
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  Speaker 1: I got to go back to school. Okay, so I
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  Speaker 1: went to school on nights. I met my father almost
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  Speaker 1: when I was 10 years old. I saw him every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while, but the guy was either working
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  Speaker 1: or in school for the first 10 years of my
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  Speaker 1: life because that was his vision, okay? I've got my own,
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  Speaker 1: but that was his.
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  Speaker 2: Financially, it kind of gave us a little cramp.
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  Speaker 1: We were still middle class. We had a decent living.
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  Speaker 1: We always met all of his obligations, met all of
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  Speaker 1: his bills, but that little elusive thing called disposable income
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  Speaker 1: didn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: In Nelson household, okay?
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  Speaker 1: We just made ends meet. And so, fine.
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  Speaker 3: Everything was cool.
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  Speaker 1: We lived in a nice neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I thought everybody lived in a neighborhood with a lake.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought everybody. We had a lake.
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  Speaker 2: And we went camping.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't need the Boy Scouts.
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  Speaker 2: We went camping where.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to camp. So, at any rate, that was
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  Speaker 1: my background. We had a lot of fun with that.
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  Speaker 1: And my point is that that's the base. All of
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  Speaker 1: us get an opportunity to have a base. And you
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  Speaker 1: use that base in your youth to get your education,
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  Speaker 1: decide what you want to do in life. And so,
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  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I had an A plan and
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  Speaker 1: a B plan. The A plan was the Nelson tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of high school, you go to college. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? College credits back in the 70s at URI,
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  Speaker 1: $ 33 a credit.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't afford it. I didn't have the money.
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  Speaker 3: I worked.
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  Speaker 2: I mowed lawns.
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  Speaker 1: I saved up a lot of money, but not enough.
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  Speaker 1: And so I started, I went to EV, figuring out
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to be when I grow up. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, because I've got to live, got to eat.
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  Speaker 1: I moved out of the house when I was 18.
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  Speaker 1: Been on my own ever since. Never moved back into
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  Speaker 1: my parents' house.
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  Speaker 3: Things are cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm making a way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm figuring it out.
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  Speaker 1: But I had a destiny.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a plan.
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  Speaker 1: And I ended up on the B plan. And you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: what's the B plan, Ted? Well, the B plan was
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  Speaker 1: to go into business. I started investing in the stock
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  Speaker 1: market when I was 13 years old. I liked watching
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  Speaker 1: my money make money for me. I said, what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with that? That's pretty darn cool. And in your business,
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  Speaker 1: any excess, there's another little thing you can do that
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  Speaker 1: my father couldn't do in his early career. but I
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  Speaker 1: almost did right out of the gate because of my career,
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  Speaker 1: and that was one word, give. I love to give.
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  Speaker 1: It just drives me. It motivates me. Any excess, I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving it away. Matter of fact, sometimes to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I didn't have it, and I still gave it away.
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  Speaker 2: Because I believed in God. I had all my faith
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  Speaker 2: and hope and trust in God.
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  Speaker 1: And to my delight, he saved me before my 19th birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been living that life ever since.
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  Speaker 2: I don't force it on people.
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  Speaker 1: I just live the life quietly about my business, and
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  Speaker 1: I praise God every chance I get. Whenever I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the groups, and that's what you want to hear in
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  Speaker 1: the second hour, But whenever I'm in groups and I
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  Speaker 1: need a prayer, guys will come.
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  Speaker 5: Up to me.
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  Speaker 1: Dad, what did you guys say in prayer? I said,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You can ask me right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the audience, right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the speech, because I stay connected. If you need
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  Speaker 1: a prayer, I'm your guy. I'll have one ready because
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  Speaker 1: I stay connected all the time. And I built a
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  Speaker 1: legacy because I had a legacy to build on. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what I wanted to talk about this morning
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  Speaker 1: in my monologue, about your legacy.
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  Speaker 2: You are important. The things that you're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing have value.
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  Speaker 2: They have meaning. Your family cares about you. And they're
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  Speaker 2: counting on you.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make that a burden. I
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  Speaker 1: mean to make that an opportunity. There are opportunities amongst adversity.
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  Speaker 1: That's the title of a book I'm going to write
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  Speaker 1: one day. The Opportunities Amongst Adversity. Because my whole life,
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  Speaker 1: whenever anything got in my way, I found a way
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  Speaker 1: around it. A workaround.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, a lot of prayer. A lot of worrying,
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  Speaker 2: I'll admit. I've had my moments. I mentioned earlier that
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  Speaker 2: I've had a couple tragedies in my life.
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  Speaker 6: But God was there, and he took me through it.
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  Speaker 6: And I could always count on him no matter what.
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  Speaker 6: When I was screwed up, he was there for me.
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  Speaker 6: And my family, friends, confidants that I've taken in, they've
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  Speaker 6: been very good.
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  Speaker 2: And mentors. I can't speak.
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  Speaker 1: Highly enough of mentors. Look around your life.
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  Speaker 2: Look around your immediate friends.
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  Speaker 1: Associate with the people that are successes. You associate with
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  Speaker 1: people who are successes, you can't help but be a success.
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  Speaker 1: You can't help it. It just happens. It's like osmosis.
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  Speaker 1: You hang around with bums, guess what you're going to be?
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  Speaker 3: You're going to be a bum.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my fault. You don't have to be a bum.
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  Speaker 3: You've got choices.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, some people consider that a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 7: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to give. That's what I've always lived for.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm getting, okay. And so I'm learning a new
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  Speaker 1: lingo here. Back in the day when I was on
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  Speaker 1: the radio, I did everything. He just gave me a
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  Speaker 1: signal that I shared with him literally back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: We talked to each other. But he has his lingo,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm following it as best I can. But I
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  Speaker 2: had Chuck Potter. I bumped into Chuck Potter recently.
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  Speaker 1: He's a dear man, and I have a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of respect for Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: Local guy, new learning guy. And he showed me the board.
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  Speaker 1: When I first started in 1992, real quick before we
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  Speaker 1: go to the break, he was there for the first
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  Speaker 1: three Saturdays and showed me how to get to the
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  Speaker 1: board each time.
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  Speaker 2: He says, you're paying attention, right, Ted? I says, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He says, on the third Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: He says, can I come in here? I'm not getting
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  Speaker 1: paid to be here. So you're on your own next Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And poof, off to the races. Like a duck to water.
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  Speaker 1: I got Lee laughing, so that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 19: No, you forgot the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll put that in after. No, I'm saying this line.
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  Speaker 12: So, yes, we may be a little.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, southeastern Connecticut and Long Island and Rhode Island.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: This is Ted Nelson substituting for Lee Elsie on the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Voice of Freedom. And I thank you for having me
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: today and for tuning in. I'm having a lot of fun.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: And it's talking about legacy in my monologue. But the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: other thing is I kind of affectionately refer to myself
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: as the cliche kid. I love cliches. And when I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: haven't heard a cliche, I like to make up my own.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So a lot of times in the different circles that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I move around in, I'll see the wives once.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: In a while.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: And I tell them, I says, Thank you so much
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: for sharing your husband with us. And that's from the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: bottom of my heart. That's not a joke. That's not sarcasm.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: But my cliche is, he's just like mercury. Every time
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you touch.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Him, he moves.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: So I got a million of them. The other is,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: people ask me, how you doing? I says, great. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: drove by the cemetery this morning. My stone looks great,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm not under it. Or the older line that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: everyone's heard is, I checked out the old pits, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I wasn't in there. So that's a real old cliche.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: But some I make up.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Some I repeat. Your choice.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: At any rate, that's what you get when you get me.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So I can't help myself. At any rate, we're having
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: fun here this morning, Lee and I reminiscing. And I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: started the show off talking about legacy. And where I
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: was going with that is that you have an opportunity.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: All of us have an opportunity to make a difference
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: in someone else's life. And you just never know when
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you're touching somebody in a deep, profound way.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And that's the intersectionality. thing about relationships. I was blessed.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I told you about my dad. He was my first
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: best friend, by the way. And I remember vividly when
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: he got to retirement, he called me up and said, T,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that's what he used to call me, T. He says, T,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: when do you want to go play golf? And I says, wow.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I haven't really played much golf, but I'd like to play.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It's a, seems like a really great sports in the nineties.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I says, yeah, I would like to play.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: And he says, okay.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, Saturday or Sunday.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I says, what?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He says, do you want to play on Saturday or Sunday?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Aren't you retired? He says, yeah. I says, well, well,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Why would you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Want to play on Saturdays and Sundays? That's when the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: place is full. Let's go on the weekday. You can
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: do that?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I says, Pop, your son is a white-collar worker.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I own a business.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'll take some time off to be with you. And
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he says, Oh, okay. So we got some real good
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: quality time in the 90s. And I am just blessed
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to have had it because he didn't make it to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the aughts. My dad didn't survive the 20th century. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: so we didn't know. We just did our thing. And
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: so that's part of my legacy, and I'm grateful for it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But at any rate, I do remember saying many, many lessons,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: but the lessons that I shared with him that he
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: taught me, he was clueless about.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I said that?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, Pop, please don't rock my boat. I've
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: been hanging on these words all my adult life.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I don't remember saying that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: My point is, before we go to the next break,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: my point is that your relationships with people are perceived
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: by you not the same way that they perceive the relationship.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Always keep that in mind. They're looking at it through
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: their eyes. It's very, very difficult to look at things
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: through other people's eyes. But if you can ever do that, wow,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you'll just know I'm one of the secrets of life.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: When are you going to come down?
• 21:44
  Speaker 17: When are you.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Going to land?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I should have stayed on the farm. You should have
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: listened to my mind.
• 22:08
  Speaker 19: Fox News.
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  Speaker 25: I'm CJ Papa. President Trump returning to the White House at.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: About 4 a.m. this morning.
• 22:17
  Speaker 25: Last night, he was in Kalispell, Montana. Fox's Alexandria Hoff
• 22:21
  Speaker 25: has more.
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  Speaker 20: It's been at least a rally a day this week.
• 22:24
  Speaker 26: Ohio Monday, Alaska Tuesday, Arizona, Montana yesterday.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Two tele-rallies expected today.
• 22:29
  Speaker 26: This final midterm sprint is aimed at boosting Republican turnout,
• 22:32
  Speaker 26: with the president hoping to convey that any short-term economic.
• 22:35
  Speaker 20: Issues are just that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 25: Tragedy at a private school in northwestern Pakistan.
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  Speaker 19: First responders on the scene.
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  Speaker 3: The roof collapsing, killing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 19: At least 27 children.
• 22:46
  Speaker 25: A female teacher as well, injuring more than three dozen
• 22:49
  Speaker 25: other people. Rescuers still looking for children who are trapped.
• 22:53
  Speaker 25: A tech sell-off this morning in the pre-market of NASDAQ
• 22:55
  Speaker 25: following Wednesday's close, down 511 points. America's listening to Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Ross, the Amish guy from Sawyer Sheds in Plainfield.
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  Speaker 19: You know, people come in all the time and tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me they bought one of those bargain sheds.
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  Speaker 5: A couple of years later, they come back and they
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  Speaker 3: No particle board, just Amish.
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  Speaker 12: Craftsmanship built to last.
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  Speaker 11: We've got sheds, chicken coops, garages, tiny homes built tough
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  Speaker 11: enough for the New England weather.
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  Speaker 1: So buy it once, buy it right.
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  Speaker 12: Stop by at Sawyer Sheds in Plainfield. Sawyer Sheds, built
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  Speaker 8: It's that time of year again.
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  Speaker 12: It's back to school time.
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  Speaker 17: And your kids need new school supplies, and you're completely broke.
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  Speaker 11: You've got no cash.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 12: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 32: Mostly sunny skies today with a high in the 60s.
• 26:45
  Speaker 32: An 18-year-old man was fatally shot on Garfield Avenue in
• 26:48
  Speaker 32: New London yesterday. Police identified the victim as Richard Rowell Jr.,
• 26:52
  Speaker 32: who was taken to the hospital where he later died.
• 26:55
  Speaker 32: Investigators believe the shooting was not random. Further information was
• 26:59
  Speaker 32: not immediately available. East Lime officials are considering a ban
• 27:03
  Speaker 32: on new stand-alone data centers to preserve open space and
• 27:07
  Speaker 32: protect natural resources. The proposed zoning amendment would allow data
• 27:12
  Speaker 32: centers only as supporting uses for existing data.
• 27:15
  Speaker 12: Permitted businesses.
• 27:17
  Speaker 32: A public hearing is scheduled for 7.30 tonight at Town Hall.
• 27:20
  Speaker 32: Democratic State Senator Martha Marks and Republican challenger Lee Elsey
• 27:24
  Speaker 32: faced off Wednesday in a debate hosted by the day
• 27:27
  Speaker 32: for Connecticut's 20th Senate District. The candidates will meet again
• 27:31
  Speaker 32: at 6 p.m. tonight at the East Lime Community Center
• 27:34
  Speaker 32: for a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters.
• 27:37
  Speaker 32: Connecticut has begun distributing 1.5 million free eggs following a
• 27:41
  Speaker 32: settlement with major egg producers accused of manipulating prices. The
• 27:46
  Speaker 32: eggs will be distributed through Connecticut FoodShare and local food
• 27:49
  Speaker 32: pantries over the next several months. Early voting for Rhode
• 27:53
  Speaker 32: Island's general election began yesterday, with 39 polling locations available statewide.
• 27:59
  Speaker 32: Registered voters can cast ballots ahead of Election Day on
• 28:02
  Speaker 32: November 3rd.
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break in.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Ted Nelson here filling in
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: for the voice of freedom, the one, the only, Lee Elsie.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And I thank him for the opportunity to substitute today
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and tell you my last monologue was about legacy. My
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: second half is going to be about craft. What the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: heck is that? Craft. Now, craft can come in many shapes, sizes,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and forms. But when you use it as initials, okay,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: there's another word for that.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's anagrams.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I forget, there's a word for when you, like radar
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: stands for something, scuba stands for something, it's all initials
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that stands for something, and it escapes me right now.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: But that doesn't matter.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: CRAF stands for, in my world, CRAF stands for Civic
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Relations and Fraternal Talk. And one of the things, I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: was talking about my legacy and the things that, my
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: trajectory in life, what buoyed me was not only my
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: religion and my faith in God, but it was the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: opportunity to connect to the community. And as a small
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: business owner, I thought, man, what a great way to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: connect with the community. Just get out there and meet them. Well,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: how do you meet them? Well, you join them, you
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: silly bunny. I was trying not to be derogatory, Lee.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: And so the first thing I was working, and when
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I started my business, it's a remodeling business, and I've
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: been doing it for 45 years.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know where the time goes, but I'm still
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: having fun. The lovely Mrs. Nelson is retired, by the way.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: She worked for 50 years, and now she's collecting Social Security,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and she's got her little retirement plan that we helped
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: her with. And she just is full-time Grammy Grace now,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: so it's wonderful. She's out there doing her thing, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy for her. But I've been blessed to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: be living my retirement. I just love my career, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I'm engaged with it, and I do it at my pace,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and I've got some wonderful people that work for me.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But back in the day, I wanted to be connected.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I started with a church, and I got a lot
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: of action in the church as far as meeting people
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and finding about how to give and do things that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: way that all enhanced my projection, my vision of where
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go. And the first thing that I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: joined outside of the church was was Freemasonry. And I
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: did that in 1987. And that's really where the story starts.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And it's so funny that I come up with an acronym.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That's the word I'm looking for, right? An acronym. I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: knew I wouldn't remember it. In Freemasonry, we refer to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the fraternity as the craft, okay? So there's a little
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: bit of, I got a little bit of lingo going on.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Here, okay?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: But there's also civic orders in And many of them
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you've heard of before, the Rotary, the Kiwanis, which Lee
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is always bragging about, our Kiwanis Club and all the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: great tournament that we've got, golf tournament that we do.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And then you've got the big three. I call them
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the Rotary, the Kiwanis, and the Lions Club. They're the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: big civic groups out there. And all three of those
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: clubs were all started by men, but in the 80s
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: they came around to realizing, wait a minute, this can be,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: women can be involved in this too. Women are out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: there in the workforce and all the clubs were basically
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: for business owners more so than others. The Rotary was
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: more business driven. As a matter of fact, each club
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: could only have a member of a.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Vocation.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So if you had a banker, you couldn't have any
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of the bankers in your Rotary club. If you had
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: an attorney, that was it. And so they built. And
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: then The other clubs that are out there are social clubs,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and you've got a variety of different social clubs and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: military clubs that are out there.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: RAFA, you might have remembered that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: That's now the building that's been sold, and I don't
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: know where they meet anymore, but they're part of the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Retired Armed Forces, I think is what their acronym stands for.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I forget, but I have a dear friend, Dave Isherwood,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: who was really holding that together. But we have the military,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and militaries have clubs, and they're all ways of like-minded
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: men and women to associate. And the reason, the biggest
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: thing that, and okay, so what's CRAF stand for? I
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: already said it, I'll say it again. It stands for
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Civic Relations and Fraternal Talk. And the fraternal is the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: part of the Freemasonry. Okay, that's a fraternity. And so isn't,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: by virtue of its existence, the Sons of the American Revolution.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Only men can be members of the Sons of the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: American Revolution.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: However, the Daughters of the American Revolution, outnumbered six to one,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Those cows are rabid.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: They really are patriotic. But again, female order, all females.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And so masonry has got all kinds of little ancillary
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: groups that one can be a member of once you're
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a mason. So you can be a 32nd degree mason
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in the Scottish Rite, or you can be a Knights
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Templar in the York Rite bodies, or you can be
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a Shriner, or you can be in the Grotto, all
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: by your membership of being a mason. You can be
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in the Sojourners. I can't tell you, as a guy
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that never served in the military, I didn't tell you
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that part of the story. I didn't even tell you.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I never mentioned Plan C. I said Plan A and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Plan B. Plan C was my backup. If I couldn't
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: make it on my own, I was going to enlist. Well,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: they're still looking for me because I never moved back home.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I never moved back home.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I left home a little before my 18th birthday, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I've been sailing my own ship ever since then.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: With the grace of God.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so I didn't join, but I had a big
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: heart for the military.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Big, big heart.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Always did. Always loved my military friends. I got a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: lot of friends that served. I got friends that were
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: at D-Day. I got friends that were in the Battle
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: of Bulge. I got friends that were in Vietnam. I've
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: got friends that, I actually had friends that were in
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: World War I. Believe it or not, I'm old enough. Yeah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you guys were in World War I. And so, anyway,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: My point is I've always had a very handsome, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: my father, Navy, tin can sailor, for those of you
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: sailors out there, remember battleships? He was on a battle, no, destroyer.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: What was a tin can?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Destroyers. I got it. Sorry. Apologize to my sailors out there.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: He was on a destroyer.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: At any rate, I love the military, and there's a
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Masonic order called the Sojourners. National order, national sojourners, national sojourners.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: You should get this right. I'm past president. And they
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: used to invite me to their picnics in the early
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: part of the century, the late 90s, early part of
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the century. They kept inviting me to their annual picnic
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: because I get around and people like me, I guess, whatever.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And it's a picnic.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: How can you do it? And my wife would come
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and say, are you going to join this? I said, Grace,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not eligible. She's a military, by the way. My
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: wife was military.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: She served very honorably in two different branches. But at
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: any rate, she said, are you going to join this?
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: No.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I said, Grace, I can't join the Knights of Columbus
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: because I'm not Catholic, and I can't join the Sojourners
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: because I never served in the military. Well, those Sons
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: of Biscuits, they have an honorary spot. They actually have
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: a percentage of their chapters that they can.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Have honorary members.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: They made me an honorary member.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I did an honorary, and I am Literally honored, honored
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to be among my military brothers.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: In that order.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: And so the reason I bring up Kraft is because
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: if you get a chance to read, and I have
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not read it. I've only read excerpts because it's very
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: difficult reading for me. But Democracy in America by, I
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: never get his name right, D. Torjay, I think.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I'm bastardizing.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I apologize.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'm mutilating the man's name. but it was a famous
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: book that he wrote in the mid-1800s. But interwoven in
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the democracy of America, he mentioned how what made American
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: democracy all different from anyone else in the world was
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the civic orders and the fraternal orders, where men could meet,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and even though this is the funniest part about Kraft,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: All of the clubs and organizations that I'm involved in,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: there's two things that you can't talk about. Religion and politics.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: They're very strict about that. But the funniest thing is
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that we open every one of those things that I'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: involved in, we open every meeting with a prayer and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a pledge. And I've scolded the sojourners a couple of
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: times because they've actually got it in reverse. And so
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: when I was president, I had to lay the law down.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I said, well, you made me president.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: You elected me to be president.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But we're going to do something here a little different
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: out of the book. And they looked at me and says,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it's really easy, guys. We're having the prayer first and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: then the pledge. In their book, they have the pledge
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: and then the prayer. And he says, hey, guys, if
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you think about this logically, what came first, God or
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the country? You know, OK, atheists, you got your opinion.
• 37:15
  Speaker 27: Fine.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It doesn't count here. OK, so we love you. That's
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the way you feel. I think it's a crazy life
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: to live that way, but that's okay.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: That's you. It's on you.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: But here, we're all God-fearing, and you want to say
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the pledge and then a prayer? Not under my watch.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: We've got to say the prayer first. And so they did,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and they were fine. It wasn't even controversial.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: It was just easy.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I just had to remember to get back on the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: script after I rearranged it. But my point is that
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: all these clubs, and this is what he talked about
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: in his book, about how Even though society, even back
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: in the 1700s and the 1800s, I love history, by
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the way, if I haven't mentioned that yet. That's what
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I was going to be. That was plan A. Plan
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: A was I was going to be a history teacher, okay?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Plan A didn't develop, so it's okay.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: No regrets. My point is, is that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: It was all in these little clubs where decisions were
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: made and politicians were identified and ideas were able to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: be talked about, okay? Even under the Iron Curtain, which doesn't,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it still exists with the Internet anymore,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: but men will find a way. And that's why, as
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: troubling as things are right now, I'm not troubled. And
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the reason I am is because men find a way.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Even under the Soviet system, they were repressed. They found
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: a way to make a living. They eked out a living.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: They cared for their own, and they took care of
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: their own. And it's just human nature. And so human
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: nature is always going to rise to the top. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: craft is what I'm all about. And it's what I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: really all about. I have a lot of fun with it.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: And it has propelled my destiny. It's propelled my legacy.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I'm able to give and know. I haven't even mentioned
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Masonic Care yet. I was elected to the board of
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: directors of Masonic Care. A multi-hundred million dollar, multi-hundred million.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollar operation of the good works
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: that we're doing in the state of Connecticut in the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: name of masonry and taking care of people. And now
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: we have grown under the leadership of my dear friend J.P.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Voight-Benoit.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: We've done fantastic work under him. He's a nice young man.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I was on the board in 2016 that elected him
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: when he was in his late forties. And now he's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: in his early fifties. He's doing a wonderful, wonderful work.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: And at any rate, um, He has expanded us, taken
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a vision of where we are in Connecticut, and he's
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: got us in like 10 other states now where we're
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: spreading Masonic care around the different states in the Union.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: And not necessarily buying property, but working as a consultant.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: And so all of these things, and this is what
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you if you're listening, is that if you
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: plug into any one of these groups, they need you.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: All of our groups are down. They've been down. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: it's so funny because I joined in the 80s. I
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: first joined Mason in the 80s. And anywhere I go
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: when I say membership is down, I say, but I
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: know whose fault it is. It's mine.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: I joined.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And I haven't even gone downhill since I joined. So
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I must be doing something wrong. But I love it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: so much. I have so much fun. And I think
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: we're coming up to yeah he's nodding okay so i
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to go too too long but i'm going
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to talk about craft and you're welcome to call in
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: if you've got questions about the fraternities you've got questions
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: about different clubs and organizations but the fun part is
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: is just go just show up and just sit on
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the sidelines don't say anything keep your mouth shut open
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: your ears and all of a sudden you hear some
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: wonderful things going on and something will click.
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  Speaker 1: Voice of Freedom. Thank you so much for tuning in.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to my story. You're welcome to give
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  Speaker 1: us a call if you want to rattle my cage
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: or you want to ask me a little questions about
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the fraternity or about the civic groups or the orders
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: that are out there, the multiple orders that are out there.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: They are the backbone of our country. I am convinced
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: of that. They're One of my little cliches, and it's
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: not mine, it was a dear friend of mine, did
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: not coin it. I'm thinking he's like me, he collects cliches.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: But one of the things he likes to say is
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: that a Freemason is the best friend the church doesn't
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: know they have. And where am I going with that? Well,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: if you go to any one of your churches or
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: synagogues or out there, any organized religions out there, you'll
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: find Masons in the back room in the back of
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the rows, rolled up their sleeves, and they're just taking
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: care of things. They're not looking for anything at all
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: to just help out. They're right there helping us out.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: All religions, no matter what you think of different religions,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, they're out there, and we love them,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: and we're grateful for their service. And there's a lot
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of women as well. I mentioned the fraternity is all men,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: but we are a family fraternity. Freemasonry is a family fraternity.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And we look out for our wives, widows, and orphans.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: And the other reason, no joke, The other reason why
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I joined was because they look out for their own.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And I've lost count of how many opportunities I've had
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: over the years.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: And sometimes it brings tears to my eyes.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I've still got recordings on my phone from my widows
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: that have called me that are no longer here. I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: can hear their voice if I want to. I can
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: listen to their voicemail again because I've saved it. But
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: my point is that you get to make a connection
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: with your fellow man. And I use the word M-A-N
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: for mankind. So I am talking about men and women,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and it's just the way Masons feel.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: It's the way all of my.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Orders that I'm a member of, the civic orders that
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I'm a member of, even social clubs. Social clubs are
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: another animal that I recently joined. There's a social aspect
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to all the clubs and the fraternities that I'm a
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: member of. There's a social aspect, but then there are genuine...
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: social clubs out there, that their only being is to
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: exist to socialize. And they organize around that. And the
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: last standing one that I, well, the Polish club is one.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: The German club is another. The Fames club is still
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: up and running, hanging on. But all these clubs, they're
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: all connected by socializing. So there's social clubs out there.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: And every once in a while, I haven't seen a
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: lot of it, but I do think that especially the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: German club and the Polish club and the other ethnic clubs,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: the Italian club, I do think that they do have
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: charitable wings, that they're doing something good for the community.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not plugged in with those other groups just because
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: of my ethnicity, for starters, although I do have a
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: friend of mine that doesn't have any DNA in him
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: at all, but he joined the German club.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: He says, why did you do that? He says, it's
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: a fun place to hang out. He says, okay, that's cool.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: I get it, you know.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And I do feel that that is part of your legacy,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: is being connected. And I've lost count over how many
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: people I've met, men over the years in particular, say,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not a joiner.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I say, are you breathing? Yeah.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I say, well, you're a joiner. If you're breathing, you're
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: a joiner. Come on. But I think it's another word
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: in this society that I think that people... are afraid of,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and it's called commitment. They're afraid if they join, they've
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: got to commit themselves. And the fun part about joining
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: is not only do you get to connect, but you
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: can decide how much you want to commit. And I came,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: when I bounced back from a particular sect in Christianity
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: that was very, very dogmatic, blinders on, it was this way,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: no other way, And it was good for a young
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: man in his teens, because that's how old I was
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: when I joined the church, to get some, because I
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: didn't get the military thing, but I got it in church.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I got the discipline, and it was really good. It
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: grounded me. It gave me not only a sense of hope,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: but it grounded me for my trajectory. It really was
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the base of my trajectory. But then I found out
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: it was it was micromanaging too much of my life.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: And I just realized, wait a minute, you know, just
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: like I had to leave my parents' home to be
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: my own man, I had to walk away from that sect,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: not Christianity, not God, but just had to walk away
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: from that sect to be my own man again and
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: keep chartering my course. And so that's what I did. And,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: and I did a few years later, not immediately, a
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: few years later, I At the Masons, I was actually
• 49:39
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  Speaker 31: Took me a little minute. Ted's head was a little
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  Speaker 31: But starting out with a couple sad notes, as I
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  Speaker 31: for all sports coaches in the city. And the one
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  Speaker 31: thing I would say about Tom is, like with two
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 31: other friends, Joe Grippo and Steve Montaneri, They coached Little
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  Speaker 31: see that very often. And, again, Tom gave a lot
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  Speaker 31: of his time, many years of dedicated service to what
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  Speaker 31: and their families. I'm going to start out what we
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  Speaker 31: always say is the city of New London.
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  Speaker 3: Had another tragedy yesterday.
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  Speaker 31: And the tragedy, basically, we had an 18-year-old who was
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  Speaker 31: murdered very early in the day in the city of
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  Speaker 31: New London on Garfield Avenue. And first and foremost, my
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  Speaker 31: condolences go out to that young man and his family.
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  Speaker 31: Looked like, and again, just from videos, I'm not giving
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  Speaker 31: some internals, which I do have some internals on it,
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  Speaker 31: but A young man looks like he was assassinated in
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 31: a vehicle. But what gets me, obviously, we've talked about
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  Speaker 31: it on this show many times, whether New London is
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 31: safe or not safe. And within a very short period
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 31: of time after the incident, the shooting, politicians come to
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  Speaker 31: the microphones. And I don't know the first one, just
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 31: to put that out there, but a counselor by the
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  Speaker 31: name of Peck, and seems to be a very well-spoken man,
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  Speaker 31: but comes right out and says, this is not New London.
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  Speaker 31: And the problem I have with that is, Counselor Peck,
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  Speaker 31: yes it is.
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  Speaker 3: It happened in New London. What do you mean this
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  Speaker 31: Now I want to know, you know, sometimes the people
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  Speaker 31: there want to put lipstick on the pig and say.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this is not the new London. I know it
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  Speaker 31: It happened at noon in the London within a week
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  Speaker 31: or before that there was another shooting blocks away from that.
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  Speaker 31: I don't know what the politicians are in the, in
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  Speaker 31: the London or in that region. They've been dead silent
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  Speaker 31: on the crime problem. Now, whether some of the frequent
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 31: callers here want to, you know, state.
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  Speaker 3: It's not, it's a city problem. It's okay, but it's
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: not safe.
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  Speaker 31: When people are gunned down at noon in your city streets,
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  Speaker 31: and it's not the first time, it won't be the last,
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  Speaker 31: and I've said it before, on a consistent basis, you're
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 31: not seeing this in Stonington, in East Lyme, in Waterford.
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  Speaker 3: Or even the Grottons. What is the difference?
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  Speaker 31: And then my favorite, Anthony Nolan, gets to the keyboard
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 31: and puts out a rambling Anthony Nolan statement Anthony Nolan,
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  Speaker 31: for those of you who don't know, was a 25-year
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 31: veteran in the police department, retired. And I'll use he
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 31: was a member of the police department, you know, with
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 31: forked tongue. He was a police officer or labeled that.
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  Speaker 31: And he comes out with this rambling statement. Again, he's
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 31: in an election year. And he's going to win handily.
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  Speaker 31: Nothing against my friend John Russell, but give it to Anthony.
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  Speaker 31: He's popular there. Talking about crime prevention in the city
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 31: and things he's going to do. to make New London
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 31: a city that's safer. You had 25 years to do it.
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  Speaker 31: You did nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Zero.
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  Speaker 31: You had a forked opportunity. You were a police officer
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 31: and you were also a politician. You were on the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 31: city council and now you're a state representative.
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  Speaker 3: You did nothing.
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  Speaker 31: I was there 14 years. I can tell you, Anthony Nolan,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 31: in my experience, I didn't work every shift, never made
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 31: a proactive arrest, never made a drug arrest, never made
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 31: a gun arrest, never made a neighborhood safer.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: I was out there.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 31: People could say whether they like me or not. I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 31: was out there every day making a difference, going after
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 31: the bad guys. He never did. And on the opposite side,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 31: the worst side of this, and he's listening in some
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 31: hole somewhere. The worst side of it is his political
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 31: decisions made it worse, made it tougher to clean up
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 31: a city, to make a city safe. And this goes
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 31: not only for Anthony, but anyone else who may be
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 31: a senator in that area or a state rep or
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 31: on the city council.
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  Speaker 3: What have you done?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 31: Don't wait for the bullets to fly and someone to die.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 31: Make the decisions prior to that. Anthony Nolan was a
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 31: champion on the police accountability bill. And whether people want
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 31: to believe it or believe him or someone like Greg
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 31: Howard who's in the know, it made it more difficult
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 31: and made police officers much more cautious to go after
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 31: just the type of person who does this, pulls.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: The trigger at noon on a city street.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 31: And then recently, and we'll get into it in a
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 31: little bit, recently, Brian Wright, as the chief of police.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 31: Tried to pass an ordinance. And I'll just give it
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 31: to you straight to keep bums from sitting in front
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 31: of businesses. I don't want to step over a bum
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 31: to go get my coffee. I don't want to come
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 31: out after dinner and step over a bum. On the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 31: sidewalk in front of a business. And that's just as
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 31: a customer. Can you imagine the owners who have to
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 31: deal with this every morning? Have to clean up the trash?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 31: I said this story before. I was taking the Fishers
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 31: Island Ferry. I parked over near the police department. I
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 31: walked from the police department to the Fishers Island Ferry.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 31: And people who don't know where that is, it's not
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 31: where the Block Island Ferry is. It's kind of just
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 31: to the right of the train station. Within the first
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 31: 20 feet, someone asked me for money. The second 20 feet,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 31: someone was using a potted plant as a toilet. And
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 31: the third one, as I got near the train station,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 31: someone was sleeping there, and let's just say.
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  Speaker 3: He belonged in the homeless hospitality.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 31: That's three people between the police station and the Fishers
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 31: Island Ferry. And guess who spoke out against the ordinance
• 1:08:10
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• 1:08:13
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  Speaker 31: And he comes out and says there's other options than
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  Speaker 31: passing this ordinance.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 31: The other ordinances are what? Because you never used any
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  Speaker 31: of them. This method of an infraction. He didn't do
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  Speaker 31: any of that.
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  Speaker 3: He drove by it.
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  Speaker 31: And he said on his way out in his swan
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  Speaker 31: song article to the paper, I didn't like arresting people.
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  Speaker 3: His words, not mine.
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  Speaker 31: A police officer of 25 years who wants to come
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  Speaker 31: out publicly now and talk about making New London safer
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  Speaker 31: when he had the opportunity to do.
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  Speaker 3: So did nothing.
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  Speaker 31: The city council, while they passed the ordinance, I'll call
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 31: it the bum off my sidewalk ordinance, it was five
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 31: to two.
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  Speaker 3: Two people wanted to vote in favor of the bums.
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  Speaker 31: And while I'm not comparing bums to a homicide, it
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 31: starts somewhere. It starts with proactively aggressively policing these communities.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 31: And if you don't do it, you're going to have
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 31: what happened yesterday continue to happen because you're doing nothing
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 31: about it. But let me tell you, when the microphone
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 31: comes in front of them, the politicians want to come
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 31: out and say, this is not New London.
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  Speaker 3: When guess what?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 31: Where the police line was, where the state police major
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 31: crime was, where the intersection of Garfield Avenue was blocked,
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  Speaker 31: I don't want to break the news to you, Counselor.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 31: That was New London. And it continues to be. I've
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 31: been on this radio show for a long time. It
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 31: continues to be New London. I'm not talking about in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 31: the surrounding communities like I said before. It's consistently New London.
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  Speaker 31: And what do they worry about more? Whether ICE was
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 31: in town. That's what they're worrying about. When The George
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 31: Floyd thing happened. It was in Minnesota, by the way,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 31: not in New London. They marched and surrounded the police department.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 31: They vandalized the police cars. The city leaders knew who
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 31: vandalized the police cars and who vandalized the substation on
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 31: Truman Street.
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  Speaker 3: They knew it.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 31: I can break the news to you now. There's undercover
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 31: officers in the group. They watched it happen. Now, they
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 31: weren't going to make the arrest then because they were undercover,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 31: but they knew. And the city leadership decided, you know why?
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 31: Because one of the individuals who did it was a
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 31: young girl of color. And they actually, and I've said
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 31: it before, wanted to arrest the older gentleman who did
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 31: it and not arrest the girl. And I often complain
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 31: about the state's attorney, but they're absolutely right.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Can't do one without the other.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 31: And now some of these people that were involved in
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 31: that hearing youth voices group, they're represented.
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  Speaker 3: On the city council now.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 31: And they're the people that are voting against getting the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 31: bums off the street.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: What are they doing about the dirt bike issue?
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 31: I say this and I'll piggyback on something I heard
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  Speaker 31: Marty Olson say, a city resident, used to be involved
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 31: in politics, former mayor. What are you doing about it
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  Speaker 31: at all? If you just turn the blind eye on something,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 31: like dirt bikes in a city, what do you think
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 31: they're going to do?
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: Stop?
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 31: So now, every now and then, sad to say, somebody crashes,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 31: somebody dies, some motorist who, not at fault, is involved
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 31: in one of these and has to live with it,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 31: What are the politicians in Hartford, whether you're a state senator,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 31: whether you're a state representative, what are you doing about
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 31: the dirt bike?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: Just nothing. Just let it happen. Turned a blind eye.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 31: And getting back to the bum ordinance, you read recently
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 31: they're bending over backwards now to clean up New London.
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  Speaker 38: Why?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 31: Not because it's been a horrible place for years downtown.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 31: Businesses don't survive there for a long period of time.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 31: Bars and restaurants close. Recently, I think it's Studio 33,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 31: which was a great place, a frame store closed. Not
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 31: because of all that, but it's very difficult to do
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 31: business downtown.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 31: Now that the great Coast Guard Museum is coming in,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 31: what do we have to do?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: We've got to clean it up.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 31: We've got to get rid of the panhandlers. We've got
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 31: to get rid of the bums. So it wasn't important
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 31: enough to do that. While the Coast Guard Museum is
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 31: being built, we have to give it our A effort now.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 31: Because decent people, Coast Guard Academy graduates, some I know
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 31: very well, are going to be coming down there. How
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 31: long before the nice family of four come down there
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 31: to take their daughter or son out after touring the
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 31: beautiful museum and go down to a restaurant and And
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 31: they got to step over the guy using the pot
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 31: as a toilet. They got to go by the bum
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 31: asking him for money three times. They're going to say,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 31: you know what? I'm going to get back in my
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 31: car and I'm going to go to a different town
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 31: to eat dinner after I go to the museum.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what's going to happen.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 31: And again, the same politicians, the Nolans and the other
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 31: people that were on the council when the former chief
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 31: of police, and I mean the female, was destroying the
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 31: police department The far left people, when the former mayor
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 31: was destroying the police department, the far left mayor, laying
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 31: people off, trying to get rid of the dog program,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 31: calling us racist.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? You were silent. You know why
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: Anthony Nolan was silent?
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 31: Because he got a nice, cushy job up at the
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 31: high school to play kickball with the kids all day long.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 31: He wasn't Max Birch. He wasn't Benway, who was arresting
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 31: people and doing their job up there. He was playing kickball.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 31: Never took anyone out of there in handcuffs, his gold handcuffs,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 31: which I never saw him use.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: But that's what you get. They let it happen. They
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: let people destroy the police department.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 31: Before our first break, and just so people know, Just
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 31: because I disagree with some people in here on how
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 31: they did things does not mean I haven't respected them
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 31: in their careers. And with the Brian Fahey incident over
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 31: in Groton Town, I obviously disagreed with the leadership of
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 31: the Groton Town Police Department in arresting Sergeant Fahey.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: But in saying that, I can disagree with people and
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: still respect them.
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  Speaker 14: And....
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 31: LJ Fazzaro and Paul Gately, who were the chief and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 31: the deputy chief, respectively, are both retiring. I not only
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 31: am friends with both of them, I worked with them.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 31: I came on a little before both of them, but
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 31: we worked together, shared laughs together, shared great times, some
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 31: bad times together. And I want to respect them in
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 31: their retirements, wish them well. We had some beers together.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 31: And in taking the first break, I always love to
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 31: play the Paul Harvey segment. And these gentlemen have seen
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 31: law enforcement change quite a bit. And if you listen
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 31: to the words of the great Paul Harvey, this is
• 1:16:10
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  Speaker 2: Policeman.
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  Speaker 43: A policeman is a composite of what all men are,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 43: I guess, a mingling of saint and sinner, dust and deity.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 43: What that really means is that they are exceptional. They
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 43: are unusual. They are not commonplace. Buried under the froth
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 43: is the fact. And the fact is that less than
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 43: one-half of one percent of policemen misfit that uniform. And
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 43: that is a better average than you'd find among clergymen.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 43: What is a policeman? He of all men is at
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 43: once the most needed and the most wanted. A strangely
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 43: nameless creature who is sir to his face and pig
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 43: or worse behind his back. He must be such a
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 43: diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 43: each will think he won. But if a policeman is neat,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 43: he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 43: he's a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 43: must make instant decisions which would require months for a lawyer.
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  Speaker 43: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's deliberate, he's lazy.
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  Speaker 43: He must be first to an accident infallible with a diagnosis.
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  Speaker 43: He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints,
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  Speaker 43: must be able to whip two men twice his size
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  Speaker 19: If he doesn't, he's a dunce.
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• 1:17:53
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• 1:18:07
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  Speaker 31: everyone's been waiting. My friend and yours, Frank. From Safe Montville.
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  Speaker 40: How you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Good, Frank.
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  Speaker 48: How are you?
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  Speaker 40: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 40: Actually, I was just seeing someone being arrested just now, actually.
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  Speaker 3: In Montville? Yeah. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 40: I'm in Norwich.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 40: Yeah. It must look like some kind of drug bust.
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  Speaker 40: But what I wanted to say, you know what? I
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 40: want to talk to you about what you talk about, Cliff.
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  Speaker 40: I would love to talk about New London right now
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  Speaker 40: but because I've been waiting for you to call, I've
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  Speaker 40: been waiting for you to come back. Two things, two
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 40: things I want to talk to you about, if you
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 40: don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 40: All right, the first one is, when you were talking
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 40: to Cliff about DEI and affirmative action, you know, you
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 40: had some very good points. Now, my problem with the
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  Speaker 40: whole situation is, I think it's still needed because the
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  Speaker 40: reason why it came about is because they was not
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  Speaker 40: hiring qualified binaries. For example, in the 90s, when I
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 40: first got my CDL, I was an experienced driver. And
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  Speaker 40: I'm not going to say the company because it's a
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  Speaker 40: popular company. I got in because a black driver left.
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  Speaker 40: And a good white friend of mine was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 40: I'll get you in there now. The fact that I
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 40: had to wait for that and I was the best.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 40: And when I went and when I got hired, There
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 40: were people fresh out of truck driving school that already
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  Speaker 40: worked there. Now, would I have got that job if
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 40: it wasn't that they needed a black driver? I don't know.
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  Speaker 40: So when we can hire people, like you said, when
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 40: we can hire the most qualified people, then we wouldn't
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  Speaker 40: need it no more. But I don't think that's going
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  Speaker 40: on yet. Now, I don't know if they're hiring unqualified minorities.
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  Speaker 40: I don't know if they're waiting for the first one
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  Speaker 40: to walk through the door and say, you know what,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 40: let's just hire one. For example, Google. When Google did
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  Speaker 40: not have any black employees in California, they said that's
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 40: because there's no qualified applicant. And they got tons of
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 40: applications once they said that. Now, no one questioned them
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  Speaker 40: when they said they got hired unqualified minorities because all
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 40: the applicants they had was not qualified. What happened was
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 40: they got flooded with applications.
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  Speaker 31: Frank, I don't want to interrupt you, but you had
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 31: some good points here, but let me throw something in there.
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  Speaker 31: And I'm going to tell you from the organization I
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 31: came from, because I like to speak from experience, not
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  Speaker 31: from non-experience. I was a member of the Connecticut State
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  Speaker 31: Police Department. As far as I'm concerned, one of the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 31: finest law enforcement agencies in the country when I was
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 31: coming through and was on there. The colonel was a
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 31: person of color. My lieutenant was a person of color.
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  Speaker 31: We had people that were captains, people of color. So
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  Speaker 31: we went through the same hiring processes and went through
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  Speaker 31: the same academy. And on behalf of them, Frank, not myself,
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  Speaker 31: on behalf of them, I take exception that you think–
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 31: and again, I'm not talking the trucker company.
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  Speaker 3: You may have your own point there. You have experience there.
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  Speaker 31: I take exception that you say some of the people
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 31: that are of color– In law enforcement, I'll go outside
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  Speaker 31: of the state police a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: In law enforcement, many of my friends.
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  Speaker 31: Are not the highest quality candidates, so they're going to need,
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  Speaker 31: when a promotional exam happens, if I get a 90
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 31: and Trooper Frank gets an 80, you're going to get
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  Speaker 31: promoted in front of me. I take exception because they're
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 31: a person of color.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 40: Are you saying that no one of color is getting
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 40: a 90?
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  Speaker 31: What I'm saying is, in my experience, I lived through this.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 31: But the highest score.
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  Speaker 3: If the white guy.
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  Speaker 31: The highest score right now is a 90. They have
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 31: to go down to 80. That's the first black candidate
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  Speaker 31: that has an 80.
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  Speaker 40: And I'm asking you, are you saying that no one
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  Speaker 40: of color got a 90?
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: That's correct. Yes, that's correct.
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  Speaker 40: Well, I guarantee you that that's not every police department. Now,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 40: that's your experience.
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  Speaker 31: Where is your experience, Frank? What police department do you
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 31: have experience in on their hiring?
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  Speaker 40: No, just like you said with trucking. I can't speak
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 40: for you. Only can speak for me.
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  Speaker 31: Well, how are you speaking for law enforcement then when
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 31: you're saying that some of the African-American candidates aren't good candidates?
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: I know African-Americans that are great.
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  Speaker 31: The late, great Joe Perry, the late, great Joe Perry,
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  Speaker 31: who's a Montville guy, by the way, was the colonel
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  Speaker 31: of the state police. One of the finest, most intelligent
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 31: men I've ever known and worked for.
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  Speaker 3: Person of color. And I think people like that.
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  Speaker 31: And the people I know in law enforcement of color,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 31: my last two partners were people of color. Some of
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 31: the greatest cops.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 9: 100%.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: One's a sergeant now.
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  Speaker 40: So why didn't they promote them?
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: Because they got a good score and they were smart
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 3: and they studied.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 40: You said as these minorities got promoted, they had to
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 40: go down to 80%. You just said your partners was qualified.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 40: How come your minority partners did not get promoted instead
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 40: of the unqualified minority partners? Are you saying they're hiring
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 40: unqualified minorities purposely? Because you just told me that your
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 40: partners was qualified.
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  Speaker 31: Frank, you're talking in circles because you know what? There
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 31: are some people that were white that are in the
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 31: 80s with the first black person.
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  Speaker 3: I can't make you study. I can't make you smart.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 40: And you are talking, because I asked you a specific question.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 40: How come they did not hire your partner?
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  Speaker 31: Again, I'm going to go slow for you, Frank. I
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 31: know you're up in Norwich. I'm going to go slow
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 31: for you. They hired him, and they promoted him.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: You got that now? They hired him.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 40: So were they qualified?
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: Frank, you're asking this. Are you okay this morning?
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 38: You know what you're doing?
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 40: What you're trying to say is that no minorities are qualified.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: That's not what I said. I said when all things
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: are equal. And Trooper Frank got an 80, and I
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: got a 90. They shouldn't be promoting Trooper Frank.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 31: They should be promoting by score, not by what the
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 31: color of your skin is. You had every opportunity the
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 31: same as I did.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: And I think, you know what?
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 31: I think you're slapping in the face every intelligent, smart person.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: Not just... People of color, Hispanic, women, gay, whatever you are.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 31: Because you're saying that someone that is of color is
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 31: not smart enough to get a good score?
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: Or they're not hiring people that are smart enough?
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 40: You said that.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 31: You said that people are hiring people purposely that aren't qualified.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: Frank, you know people are listening. You know people are listening, Frank.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 40: Wait a minute.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. This is the same guy that said
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: one week.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 31: This is the same guy that says one week New
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 31: London is safe and the next week it isn't.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 40: Can I speak for a minute?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 38: Hey, Frank.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: Frank, you can.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 31: You can, but remember one thing. Today it's a Todd
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 31: Lynch show. It ain't the Lee Yelsey show. You ain't
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 31: going to ramble in circles.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 40: Now, can I speak, please? I'm going to calm down
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 40: and speak. I never said. I asked you. You said
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 40: your partners was qualified, and you said that if someone
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 40: has an 80% They should not be hired. And I
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 40: agree with that. I said I agree with you. I
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 40: never once had someone unqualified. What I asked you was,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 40: if your minority partner was qualified, how come your minority
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 40: partner did not get that supervisor job?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 38: That's all I asked you.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 40: You can't answer that.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 31: Frank, I'm going to answer it for the third time
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 31: because I got people texting me saying they think Frank
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 31: may have something in his coffee this morning. My qualified partner,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 31: who was of color, was promoted.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 3: Do you get that? He was promoted. He wasn't skipped.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 31: You know why he was promoted? Because he was smart, qualified,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 31: and he got the job. So on the third time now,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 31: do you get that? Do you understand that now?
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 40: That's what they should have done. Now let me ask
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 40: you another question before we hang up. What do you
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 40: think of this situation in North Carolina with the cops
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 40: going after minorities?
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: I have no idea what you're talking about.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 40: See, okay, can you look into that so we can
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 40: talk about it?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: Can you give me some specifics?
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 40: They were investigating the cops on something else, and they
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 40: found a thread of texting, and they found out that
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 40: these cops, and I think it was Charlotte, but it
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 40: was North Carolina, where these white cops were having a contest,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 40: seeing how many black people they can arrest and shoot.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 31: I haven't heard anything about it. Obviously, that's wrong. But
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 31: we've got another call on there. Frank, do me a
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 31: favor for the next call, though. I'm coming back on
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 31: the 29th from 6 to 9, okay? Can you do
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 31: me one favor? Can you do me one favor?
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 40: As long as you can do the same.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 31: Find me a topic that isn't about race, Frank. Give
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 31: me five minutes on something that's not race. You are
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 31: a one-trick pony.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 3: Have a good day, Frank. Dan, you're on, buddy.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 16: All right, take two Xanax, take two deep breaths, and
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 16: call me in the morning.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: You got it, buddy. You got it. I'll just ask
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: you again. Does he talk in circles, or is it
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: just me?
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 16: Well, yeah, he does in all liberals talk in circles.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 16: And that's what makes it so hard to argue with him.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 16: Because they don't answer the question, they change the subject,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 16: and they don't listen to your answer. And it's so frustrating.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 16: And I'll just say to Frank and Whenever bad behavior
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 16: is found, whether it's in North Carolina or Connecticut, whether
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 16: it's done by a black, a Hispanic, a woman, a
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 16: white man, or whatever, you punish it. You punish the behavior.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 16: Justice is supposed to be blind. That's the goal. And
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 16: I don't know how, you know, one of the reasons
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 16: there's probably a lack of qualified black people is because
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 16: education in the city sucks. Because, you know, that's where
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 16: most of the minorities are. That's where most of the
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 16: bad schools are, where, what, 20 percent or so reach school.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 16: I mean, I heard the other night that five of
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 16: the worst 50 cities. for education in the country are
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 16: in Connecticut.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: Five.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 16: One of the smallest states, and we got five out
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 16: of 50.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 31: And I'll give you a little stat on that, as
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 31: I'm sure you know, Dan. No matter what, Even in
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 31: those five failing school areas, I don't know where they are,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 31: you still have to put the same amount of tax
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 31: dollars in, at least equal the next budget cycle, even
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 31: if they're failing.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 16: Oh, yeah, and even if they're failing, and you don't
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 16: have any money, so you're stuck in those schools because
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 16: those people do not have the freedom to send their
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 16: kids to a different school where their kid might get
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 16: a better education because the monopoly and the power and
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 16: the money is too much to lose, and that's more
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 16: important than a kid's future.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 16: But before that call, I was just going to say,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 16: you sort of hit a nerve with me when you said,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 16: you know, they're not arresting people, they're overlooking stuff, you know,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 16: bums are sleeping in doorways and stuff. I read an
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 16: article in, I think it was in the day, some
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 16: neighbors of the St. Vincent de Paul place say they
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 16: have to deal with homeless people who are using crack
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 16: and leaving needles behind. Now, that's just an example of
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 16: actually what Rubio said in his speech, where we pay
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 16: more attention to the comfort of the worst versus the
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 16: potential of the best. Why do these law-abiding... decent people
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 16: have to put up with bums using crack and leaving
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 16: needles around. What happens if one of their kids picks
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 16: up a needle and accidentally stabs himself and gives himself
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 16: some kind of disease?
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 31: Well, and I'll say it happened recently, and this is,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 31: I always go out in London, but this happened in
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 31: Norwich where someone complained that that right near the bus stop,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 31: the same thing that you said, there were bums doing
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 31: bum things, smoking crack.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: The drugs, blah, blah, blah. And it got no fanfare.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 31: But if ICE is there arresting someone who shouldn't be
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 31: here illegally, you have people going crazy.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: How about the school? And I mean school buses.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 31: So when the ICE people are near the school bus
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 31: stops doing what they have to.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: Do, They go crazy. The far left goes crazy.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 31: But the crack guy that's right across the street when
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 31: your kid's at the bus stop, they don't say anything.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, because they just don't care about normal people. They're
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  Speaker 31: Well, and I'll say, I don't know, Dan, I'll just
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  Speaker 3: It's like zombie town. They're wandering around there. in their
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  Speaker 31: They just go store to store, you know, beg for money,
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  Speaker 3: And nothing is done.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, yeah, it's simple. It's just, like you said about ICE,
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  Speaker 3: Dan, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 31: I want to hit one subject before the break because
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  Speaker 31: But in no way did I attribute what a fan
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  Speaker 56: fools He's the man, the myth, the canine truth In
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  Speaker 56: his line of work, there's no room for a sleuth
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  Speaker 56: This is Todd Lynch back on 94.9 News Now.
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  Speaker 31: Phone number is 860-464-9490. And before we go back to
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 31: the calls, just a couple quick topics. One, and I
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 31: won't expose the restaurant, but we always talk about the
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 31: homeless and the bums and insurance and different things. One
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 31: restaurant recently was asking for experienced cooks, $ 29.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 3: An hour, chefs, $ 75, 000 a year.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 31: Managers, 75,000. Also hiring servers, bussers, hosts, health insurance, paid vacation,
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 31: retirement match, overtime available. So if some of the bums
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 31: want to get off Bank Street and get a job,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 31: poke around.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 3: There's some opportunities out there.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 31: And if we have time either today or the next show,
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 31: I'll give you my L & M ER experience, which
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 31: was one for the ages.
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  Speaker 3: And I know it's political season.
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  Speaker 31: So if any of the people running in the great
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  Speaker 31: town of East Lyme want to take up a topic,
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  Speaker 31: whether you're a representative running or a state senator running
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  Speaker 31: or anyone in there, can we look at the elevator
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  Speaker 31: at the AHEPA building? I've read now for months and
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  Speaker 31: months and months that the AHEPA, this is a senior facility,
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  Speaker 31: and the elevator isn't working, over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 31: And as I'm reading this, I watch they dedicate a
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  Speaker 31: ball field. I get a flyer in my mailbox every
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  Speaker 31: week from Gazoo, who stopped at my house running for
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  Speaker 31: state rep over there. Can you go over and help
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  Speaker 31: fix the senior citizen elevator? I think it's like a
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  Speaker 31: four-story building.
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  Speaker 3: They need an elevator. They're old people.
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  Speaker 31: I know you're running for office and you want to
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  Speaker 31: be on every positive thing. But in the negative part
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 31: of that recently, a woman died at the.
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  Speaker 3: AHEPA building, died and falling into the elevator. That's not working.
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  Speaker 3: At what point is that more important?
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  Speaker 31: And I hope maybe someone who's either running for office
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  Speaker 31: over there or has debates or something coming up, can
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  Speaker 31: you bring up what's going on with the senior center
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  Speaker 31: AHEPA building?
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  Speaker 3: Without a working elevator.
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  Speaker 31: Why don't we concentrate on that instead of another kazoo
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  Speaker 31: thing in my mailbox?
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  Speaker 3: With that, I'm going to go to my friend Dan.
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  Speaker 38: Todd, thanks for taking calls. You're a very brave soul.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy.
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  Speaker 38: I just wanted to say that. All that police work
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  Speaker 38: has finally paid off because you can face the masses
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  Speaker 38: on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate that, Dan. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: You're hardcore.
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  Speaker 38: Yeah, that elevator, that's going to be $ 147 billion. It's
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  Speaker 38: going to take 19 years. We're going to put the
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  Speaker 38: people right on it. Don't you worry about that.
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  Speaker 31: Boy, Dan, they can get to every political event, but
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  Speaker 31: you can't help the seniors with an elevator?
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 38: Oh, yeah. I heard somebody say that their job sitting
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 38: there in the chair up in Hartford was back-breaking. Back-breaking.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 38: It's just terrible.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: I heard something like that.
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  Speaker 31: I'll give that person a ride to the AHEPA if
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 31: they want to get there, and I'll.
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  Speaker 3: Help them out. Right.
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  Speaker 38: Right, cut the ribbon. They'll cut the ribbon.
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  Speaker 31: Oh, when that elevator is, Gazoo is going to ride
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  Speaker 31: that bike right to AHEPA when that.
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  Speaker 3: Elevator is new.
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  Speaker 38: Listen, I wanted to say, I get so offended. I've
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 38: been getting pretty offended lately by politicians. And listen, it's
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 38: the Democrats. You know, we talk about entitlements, you know,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 38: as being like the welfare system. stuff, you know, the
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 38: benefits and the other things that people get on, and
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 38: then eventually you can't get them off, and then people
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 38: feel entitled to them. The most damaging entitlement that we
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 38: have in our society is our government feels like it's
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 38: entitled to our money. You know, if you say something,
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 38: if you bring up a good idea, like, you know,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 38: getting rid of property taxes or freezing property taxes or not,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 38: you know, like not, you know, the property taxes have
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 38: gone up at such a wild rate. I sold two
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 38: thirds of a piece of property that I owned and
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 38: my taxes are right back again in three years to
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 38: where they were on the full parcel. I mean, the
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 38: amount of money that they take for that, but I
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 38: digress when you offer up that as an idea, like, Hey,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 38: why don't we get rid of property taxes? They say things, Todd, like, well,
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 38: where are you going to get the $ 14 billion from?
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  Speaker 3: I heard that very recently.
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  Speaker 38: I get so furious about that. And let me tell
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  Speaker 38: you why. Let me tell you why I feel that way.
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  Speaker 38: Who are these people helping when they take that money
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 38: from you? Like, who are their constituents? You know what
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 38: I mean? So when they raise the property taxes, who
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 38: is that helping? That's not helping any property tax owner.
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  Speaker 38: I agree, Dan.
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  Speaker 31: And what I even get more irritated about, you tax
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  Speaker 31: my cars every year.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't I pay the car tax when I bought them?
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  Speaker 38: Yeah, right, the luxury tax.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 38: I mean, you know, Todd, our communities have been overrun
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  Speaker 38: in the last bunch of years. And they're largely sanctuary
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 38: cities and sanctuary states. New York is one of them.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 38: And Connecticut, I'm sure, has got the same thing. Massachusetts,
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 38: it's like there's these foreign kind of freeloader flop house
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 38: hotels and places where they put these people. And the
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 38: whole neighborhood goes down the drain, right, while the government
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 38: does that. You know, so every affordable apartment all around
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  Speaker 38: in a 50-mile radius from where you're sitting right now
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 38: has got illegals living in it. That's why there aren't
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 38: any affordable places to live. And when you walk into
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 38: the emergency room, because you need stitches and your hand
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 38: is in it, the emergency room is full of people.
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  Speaker 38: Illegal aliens, I'm going to say it, I'm just going
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 38: to say it, who have been taught to walk into
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  Speaker 38: the emergency room because that's where the slush fund is
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 38: to pay for every little thing they have. So emergency
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  Speaker 38: or not, you're sitting there waiting while 100 people are
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 38: just getting their primary health care in the emergency room.
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  Speaker 3: The level of fraud.
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  Speaker 12: Dan, you.
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  Speaker 3: It's something I've talked about already this morning.
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  Speaker 31: I won't get into specifics, but I have obviously insurance,
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  Speaker 31: primary care, but I had a situation where I had
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 31: to go to the ER. It was significant, turned out
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 31: to be fine, thank God. I thought I went into
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 31: a third world country.
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  Speaker 38: I call it a Peruvian market. That's what it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: You sit there, and guess what? The doctors, the nurses,
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 3: staff were great. But you know what?
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  Speaker 31: You could tell they were on edge because these people
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 31: use the ER for primary care. And you sit there
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 31: because of that for five hours waiting to be treated.
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  Speaker 3: And the treatment was great. The people were great. I
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 3: feel great.
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  Speaker 31: But they're laying around in there in God knows what.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 31: what type of outfit they came out of their house with.
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  Speaker 31: I mean, you know you're going to the ER. Can
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 31: you do me a favor? Can you dress normal? Can
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 31: you take a shower?
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  Speaker 3: Because you smell like trash. The guy sitting next to me,
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  Speaker 3: I had to move. And they're laying all over.
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  Speaker 31: And like you said, they got no money for insurance.
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  Speaker 31: I know that's, I can tell you one thing. They
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  Speaker 31: all got expensive tattoos and cell phones.
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  Speaker 38: Tattoos, cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: Sneakers.
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  Speaker 38: They came in a brand new car. I mean, I
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 38: stayed in a hotel recently down south at Todd, which
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 38: was like one of the, which I just had to
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  Speaker 38: book it.
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  Speaker 2: It was late.
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  Speaker 38: I had to book it. I sat up in a
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 38: chair all night in the window, watching my car through
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 38: the window to make sure it didn't get broken into.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 38: That's how bad it was in this place. And then
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 38: I realized, wow, my car is the crappiest car in
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  Speaker 38: this lot. It looks like a drift competition. You know,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 38: those know those races, the street races they do where
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 38: they're doing drift with the little cars with the nitrous?
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 38: They had stickers, dealer stickers in the window. I'm the
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 38: only idiot working for a living in the whole place.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 38: And I'm getting really caught, you know, and so these
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 38: are the people, so But on your electric bill, right,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 38: on your electric bill, when you're paying this invisible charge
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 38: for this benefits charge, you know, it's not going to energy.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 38: It's going to these people. They've come out. Now, the Democrats,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 38: the Democrats have run Connecticut. They're running New England. Even
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 38: though 40 percent or so of the election goes to
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 38: Republicans or to conservatives or Trump every year, there's only
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 38: one representative. in all of New England hanging on by
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 38: a thread, and that's Susan Collins, who's not even really
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 38: a very conservative.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 35: Senator.
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  Speaker 38: And all of the rest has been gerrymandered for permanent
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 38: power to be in the Democrat hands. Everything, every problem
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 38: that you have out there, the high electric bill, the
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 38: high tax bill, the high water bill, the high energy bill,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 38: the crime, the drugs on the street, the illegal aliens
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 38: living in your communities, All of that is by democratic design.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 38: Somehow or another, this is how they collect and gather
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 38: together power. They get, and I believe there's tons of
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 38: voter fraud also in the mix going on, you know,
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 38: through the driver's licenses and the other things that are
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 38: being issued, the IDs that are being issued, I believe,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 38: undeservingly to the illegal aliens. We have 20, 30 million
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 38: people in this country that are basically... net takers from
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 38: the system, not net contributors, and something has to be
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 38: done about that. And these idiot politicians get up there
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 38: in their local town board or their school board or
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 38: whatever they're running for, and they're like, Trump is destroying education.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 38: How is Trump destroying education? How is he the one
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 38: that's doing it when the Democrats have been in solid
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 38: control of New England? They have a monopoly.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 3: It's almost like your vote doesn't count here, the way
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 3: it goes. There's a word.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 38: That's coming in my head, too, lately. It's Islamunism. Have
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 38: you noticed this? To whose benefit is it for us
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 38: to become a heavily Islamist, apologetic nation? Why do we
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 38: have a Mondami? Or this guy that's running up in Michigan.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 38: How do we have these people, man? What is going
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 38: on in our country? We've got to wake up, people.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 38: You've just got to crawl yourself to the booth, the
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 38: voting booth, and just pull for an R. Do something different.
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  Speaker 31: I've said it before, and it may irritate some of
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  Speaker 31: the listeners here. I'm an independent voter. When I was
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 31: running the union, I supported a lot of Democrats. I
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 31: ran rallies for the current mayor, and I'm not ashamed
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 31: of that. I vote for who and what I think
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 31: is best for me and my family. And, you know,
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 31: there's people like Rahm Emanuel and Shapiro. I can stomach them.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 31: I can listen to their views and see who the
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 31: Republican candidate's going to be. But these far-left socialists, they
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 31: have no American values.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 3: Everything's anti. You don't want police. You don't want prisons.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 3: You don't want border. What are we coming to? And
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 3: as an independent voter, sorry, Dan, as an independent voter,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 3: it drives people to the right. And especially when what
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 3: I call the.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 31: Normal Democrat, not the far left, but the normal Democrat,
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 31: for the most part, some are, but for the.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 3: Most part, aren't even calling out these far left lunatics.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: You know what it is, Todd?
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  Speaker 38: And this is something, the Democrats have always pulled the
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 38: union vote. And I recognize the fact that you're also
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 38: a union leader and Democrats get the union vote quite often, right?
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 38: But I have to ask you all, all the people
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 38: that are listening to this that are thinking, well, I'm
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 38: going to pull the lever because that's where my pension is.
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 38: You're going to get a pension, but you're not even
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 38: going to be able to live in your state. I mean,
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 38: people are moving, I'm sure, like you've discovered. They're moving
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 38: to states like Florida and other places like that where
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 38: their pension is not going to be taxed. You're not,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 38: even on your pension, at this rate, you're not going
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 38: to be able to live in the state that you love,
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 38: the state that you worked in. The crime is going
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 38: to be so bad. The taxes are going to be
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 38: so high. You're not even going to want to live here.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 38: Just don't try to get over the idea of voting
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 38: for the money or voting for the goodies for once.
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 38: and vote for what's good for the state. You know,
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 38: you've got to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that, Dan.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 38: You've got to go to the right.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 31: I understand that before I get another call. But before,
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 31: I just want to throw this out to you, and
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 31: it's a very good point. But I say that the
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 31: right can do a little better being pro-union, and I
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 31: think it would help them greatly.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 38: It would.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Dan. I appreciate it.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 31: And before I go to the call, I'll put another
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 31: thing out when we're talking. You know, I don't have
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 31: too much to do with, you know, Trump, anti-Trump, I
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 31: think it gets way too much involved in our local politics.
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 31: But for all the Trump lovers, and I've said it before,
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 31: I don't wear a MAGA hat, I don't do any
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 31: of that. What President Trump is doing to the Kennedy
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 31: Center is disgusting. And I don't care, you know, whether
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 31: the people will scream at me because they're, you know, anti-Trump, pro-Trump, whatever.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 31: But that Kennedy Center was named in honor of of
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 31: a United States president that was assassinated.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 3: And to then put his name up, and.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 31: I don't care if it's some rinky-dink board that voted
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 31: it in or something, build your own center. But as
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 31: far as going after the Kennedy Center, and if his
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 31: name's not going to be on there, then I'm not
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 31: going to open it, I'm going to tear it down.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 3: That is grammar school nonsense.
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 31: And it's similar to something I heard recently about this
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 31: wind project they have going down into London. It's 90% done,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 31: whether you're pro-wind, anti-wind. Finish the thing for 10%. We've
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 31: already put the money into it, a lot of money.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 31: But as far as the Trump issue with the Kennedy Center,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 31: what are you going to put your name on next?
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 31: Is it going to be the Lincoln-slash-Trump Memorial? Is it
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 31: going to be the Washington-slash-Trump Monument? Build your own legacy.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 3: I don't mind that. I mean, Obama's got a library.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 3: Biden is trying to find his library. I don't mind that.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 31: But don't degrade a United States president that was assassinated
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 31: and has that named after.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 3: Him to throw your name on top. Childish and no good.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 3: We're going to take a break and we'll come back.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 3: Go with the phones.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 9: I could hear you breathing like a sigh of wind
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 9: I remember how your body started trembling What a nice.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 44: Feeling Stop and go traffic in both directions on the
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 44: Gold Star Bridge. Route 12 is moving slow in both
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 44: directions in Groton. Route 32, stop and go between the
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 44: Coast Guard Academy and Connecticut College.
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 34: Slow southbound in Quaker Hill. Slow northbound in Montville. No
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 34: delays on I-395. I'm Eddie Schaefer, Time Saver Traffic.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 19: Your credit score doesn't define you.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 35: I don't care if it starts with a 4, 5,
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 35: or 6.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 19: That number is not who you are.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 38: It doesn't know your story.
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 19: It doesn't know what happened.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 35: And it sure as hell doesn't decide where you go next.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 35: I'm Sal, General Manager of Central Auto Group. And I'm
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 35: tired of people believing.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 3: A three-digit number means they shouldn't even.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 2: Try to buy a car.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 38: Maybe life threw you a curveball.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 19: Welcome to the human race.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 35: Here's what matters to me. Where you are today and
• 2:16:46
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  Speaker 32: Mostly sunny skies today with a high in the 60s.
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  Speaker 32: An 18-year-old man was fatally shot on Garfield Avenue in
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  Speaker 32: A public hearing is scheduled for 7.30 tonight at Town Hall.
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  Speaker 32: Democratic State Senator Martha Marks and Republican challenger Lee Elsie
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  Speaker 32: Connecticut has begun distributing 1.5 million free eggs following a
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back. Todd Lynch in for Lee Elsie. 94.9 News Now.
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  Speaker 31: I'll give you the number, but the phone lines are booked,
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  Speaker 31: so I don't know if we'll be able to get.
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  Speaker 31: I'll get to the callers in a moment. I just,
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  Speaker 31: welcome to my world. Am I the only one that's
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  Speaker 31: not upset about the botched execution of the female prisoner?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 38: Tennessee.
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  Speaker 31: I brought up a little bit about my ER episode recently,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to say. You got the death penalty.
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  Speaker 31: Did you hear what she did to get the.
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  Speaker 3: Death penalty to torture some young girl? her and another guy,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you got the death penalty.
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  Speaker 31: Whether it be Michael Ross, I've said this before, the
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  Speaker 31: people that killed the Pettit family, the two animals, the
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  Speaker 31: people that killed the whole family up in Griswold.
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  Speaker 3: What do these people think?
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  Speaker 57: I mean.
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  Speaker 31: they don't want to be cruel and unusual.
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  Speaker 3: I get that. But you know what? How about these
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  Speaker 31: And I know now they're talking about putting this soldier,
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  Speaker 31: I'll use the word lightly, That murdered like 14 people.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it's going to be on TV or not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 31: If it's on TV, if you don't want to watch it,
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  Speaker 3: He killed 14 soldiers. Shot them in the back. He
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  Speaker 3: was on their side. He was an American soldier that
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  Speaker 31: But if it's on TV, I'm going to wake up
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  Speaker 31: and watch it. Because you know what it is? It's
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  Speaker 31: going to discourage some other animal to do that. Put
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  Speaker 31: on TV for that. They're coming one way or the other.
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  Speaker 31: With that, I'm going to go. I think first up
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  Speaker 3: Watch it, Todd. You called them animals and they are white.
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  Speaker 57: We lost all the calls.
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  Speaker 31: All right, we lost the calls. The guy doing the
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  Speaker 31: I am going to hit on a little about pensions,
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  Speaker 31: And I think that's, as much as I beat up
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  Speaker 3: The city owns the beach and the property. That's what
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  Speaker 31: And to continue to, Dave Chagrou, I can say this,
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  Speaker 31: But everything that the town is responsible for, the city,
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• 2:32:57
  Speaker 31: not come back after one year. So just another dumb
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 31: decision on behalf of the city and London. With that,
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 31: the phones are back up. My buddy's on the varsity
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 31: team again. We're going to Jeff and his line.
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 58: Hey, I got to agree with you 100% on the
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 58: state pensions. You know, I'm a retired correction officer.
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your service, Jeff.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 58: Back when Roland was governor, I think even you guys,
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 58: the state officers, the troopers, correction officers, our contract, we
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 58: went like three, four years without even a raise after
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 58: promised that we would. And he just held them back.
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 58: You know, and the other guy, like you said, who
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 58: comes on every week and is bad-mouthing pensions, you know,
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 58: it's like, We're regular people here who worked. We worked
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 58: a line every day.
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 40: You worked the streets.
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 58: I worked the block every single day for, you know,
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 58: what I can live on. It's not something I'm living
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 58: high on a hog on right now, you know. I
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 58: walk through those gates every day, you know, feces, urine,
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 58: inmates soaping up their cells. That's the choice we make,
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 58: you know, and what the state offered us is what.
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 21: We accept it.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 3: Well, Jeff, and I'll say this, two things.
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 31: One, when you signed up to do that job, that
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 31: was the benefit package.
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 3: You didn't make it up.
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 31: You didn't steal anything. How many times were you mandated?
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 31: You're there on a midnight shift and you've got to
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 31: stay for days.
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 58: How about being mandated on your kid's birthday or mandated
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 58: when you– your wedding anniversary or something. You know what
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 58: I mean? I mean, you're mandated.
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 38: You've got to stay.
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 3: And you're surrounded by the worst of the worst.
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 31: You're in four walls with these people. And the people
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 31: that complain, Jeff, and this is what I always get at,
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 31: the people that complain about the pensions or the benefits
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 31: we get at the end of that.
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 3: Would never walk in our shoes to do the job.
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 3: Those are the ones that complain.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: Anybody.
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 58: It doesn't matter at the time. I mean, I don't
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 58: know about now, but any time... Anyone, you can have
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 58: the best masters. You could be whatever you want, education.
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 40: Go sign up.
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 17: 100%.
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 58: Go sign up.
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 3: You look at some of these people, and I won't
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 3: pick on them.
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 58: I worked for United Nuclear back in the day, years ago.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 58: I was there nine years. Bottom line is, when that
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 58: shut down, I had to do what I had to
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 58: do to support my family. No one really wants to
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 58: grow up and say, hey, I want to be a
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 58: correctionist when I grow up. for the most part but
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 58: you are but that you do what you do to
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 58: support your family and to provide and that's what i
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 58: had to.
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 31: Do 100 and i got one more call coming in
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 31: but i appreciate your service and thank you for the
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 31: call all right next up we got mike and gail's.
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 36: Ferry how you doing um i just want to say
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 36: i'm all for people getting getting paid what they're owed
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 36: you know if you got a deal then that's good
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 36: i am completely against.
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 57: Any government pension at all and i'll tell you why
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 57: Because any time a cop just, you know, turns an
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 57: eye or whatever, doesn't say when they see something corrupt
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 57: going on, it's because I didn't want to lose my pension.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 57: And the same thing with politicians. It's always used to,
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 57: you know, manipulate and control these people. Oh, I didn't
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 57: want to say anything. I was right near retirement, you know.
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 57: And in the private sector, we don't, you know, I'm.
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 38: A regular guy.
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 57: Try to survive in the private sector. We don't get
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 57: any of these benefits you guys get with the health
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 57: care and everything. And we pay for it.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 38: You guys should be.
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 57: On the same level as us. Everybody has a hard job.
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 57: There's people working.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 57: Who risk their lives.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 57: I'm an automotive technician.
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're a car mechanic, correct?
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 3: You have a clean record, if I may ask?
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 31: Yes.
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 3: Could you have been a cop if you wanted to?
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 57: Yeah, my aunt and uncle are police officers.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, good for you. Oh, good for you. Are you
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 3: against their pension?
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 57: I don't have anything against police.
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 3: No, let me ask. Are you against their pension?
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 2: Your aunt and uncle?
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 38: Like I said, if that's a yes or no, that's.
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 36: A yes or no, bud.
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 17: Are you against it?
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 22: Yes.
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 40: Okay.
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 31: If my pension, and I'm just assuming, I don't know
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 31: if you're private or whatever, that's your business, your auto
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 31: mechanic pension is not going to be as good as mine, correct?
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 57: I'm not getting a pension.
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You're not going to get a pension, right?
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 49: Yeah.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 3: Why didn't you make a better decision to get a
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 3: job with a pension? You know what? If I want
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 3: an oil chain, I'll go to you.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 31: But I wanted a good pension at the end of
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 31: my life for my family.
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 3: You had that option.
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 57: Yeah, well, you know, not all of us want to
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 57: go work for the government. Because if everybody worked for
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 57: the government, there would be a communist state, right?
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 3: But you had a choice. You had a choice.
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 57: Do you remember what happened years ago in Rhode Island?
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 36: It wasn't even that long ago.
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 57: The state was completely broke, but they had to pay
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 57: these ridiculous pensions that these corrupt people put in because
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 57: they were owed to. And the people who are to
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 57: pay are the taxpayers. The people who are working in
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 57: the private sector are the ones paying your pension.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 3: Why didn't you make a better choice?
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 36: I'm sorry.
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 57: I don't think you're getting where I'm at.
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 3: No, I'm getting it. You're against pensions because you don't
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 3: have one.
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 57: We're against your pension with our private sector money.
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 36: Well, we don't get pensions.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 57: You guys vote all these benefits for yourself, and you
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 57: leave us in the dust.
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 31: Well, that's where you're wrong. We don't vote anything for ourselves.
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 31: Your elected officials vote on our pensions. We don't vote ourselves.
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 31: But if I had a choice, when I was 19
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 31: years old, when I was 19 years old, I had
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 31: a choice whether.
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 16: I could be an auto mechanic.
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 31: Or I could be a Connecticut State Trooper. I chose
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 31: to be a Connecticut State Trooper. You chose to be
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 31: an auto mechanic.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 57: When I was 18, I was recruited to EB. They
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 57: wanted to offer me like $ 26 an hour just to
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 57: start training. They're going to give me all this money.
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 57: And I turned it down in the shock of everybody.
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 57: I turned it down because I said, I don't want
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 57: to work on machines that are going to kill the
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 57: entire world. You know, it was a personal choice.
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 3: I get it now. I get it now.
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 31: So you turned down a pension at EB because you
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 31: didn't want to build submarines that may kill people.
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 3: I got it. I got it. Did you dye your
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 3: hair too pink, or what do we got going there?
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 3: All right. You made bad choices.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 57: I'm a Christian.
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 3: You made bad choices.
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 19: I love our country.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 38: I love God.
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 57: And I just want to see everything on a fair level.
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 38: All right.
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 3: So when they blew up the trade centers, how are
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 3: we going to defend ourselves?
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 57: And who blew up the trade centers?
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 36: What happened with Building 7?
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 3: Are you saying someone else? Are you one of those
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 3: theory people?
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 57: Conspiracy theorists?
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 36: Is that what you want to call me?
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 36: You can call me a conspiracy.
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 57: Theorist, or you can call me a guy who sees
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 57: the truth.
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 3: So you take it, it was other people who did it.
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 57: I had a bill that fell for seven seconds from
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 57: top to bottom because there were fires in the basement.
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 38: It fell right into its own footprint.
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 57: Everybody knows now. Nobody talks about it, but everybody knows.
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 57: If you polled 100 people, 99 are going to say
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 57: that 9-11 was an inside job.
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, let me tell you what. You're too close to
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 3: the antifreeze because 99 people, you know what? It's opposite.
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 31: You're the one, like the loonies, like the far-left socialists
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 31: that think there is big conspiracy theories.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 3: Do you know anyone that was in those buildings? Do
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 3: you know how the planes were attacked? Were you a
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 3: law enforcement officer that worked and saw the reports of that?
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 3: You know what you were doing? You were putting a
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 3: spark plug in, kid.
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 31: And you're one of those far-left people. You probably want
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 31: free health care, too, right?
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 57: No.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 3: You don't want free health care?
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 57: I'm not for anything socialized. I would like to see
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 57: everything socialized.
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 31: Well, do me a favor, because I get a kick
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 31: when people like you call in, because it makes me
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 31: feel more sane about myself.
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 3: But who blew up the buildings? Who was in Building 7?
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 38: Well, if you, um.
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 3: Make it brief, because I.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 31: Get off at 9, and I know you probably.
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 3: Got a lube oil.
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 36: Filter to do.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 3: Okay. Do me a favor, all right? I have two
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 3: fancy cars. I have two fancy cars, all right?
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 9: Uh-huh.
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 3: And my name's Todd Lynch. If I ever come in,
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 3: don't touch my car.
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 57: I am not one of those people. Because you're... I've
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 57: been very disrespectful.
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 3: I'm being honest. I'm not being disrespectful.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 57: You've been calling me names. You're not debating my points.
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 3: I'm not being disrespectful. I don't want you to touch
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 3: my car. Because I think you're left of center.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 38: And you know what?
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 36: I got three beautiful children, okay?
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 3: I wish them nothing but the best.
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 57: And I wouldn't expect you to do anything to them either.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 3: What does your children have to do with it? I
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 3: don't want you to work on my car because I
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 3: think you're a little out there, bud.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 57: Well, don't come to my job then.
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 3: Where do you work? I don't want to go there.
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 36: I'm not going to tell you where I work.
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 57: You're over here insulting me, calling me. What, are you
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 57: going to come here and harass me?
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go there and harass you. I
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 3: just don't want you to work on my car. If
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 3: you think the CIA blew up the buildings in New York.
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 31: Bud, you got, no pun intended, because your job, you
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 31: got a nut loose there.
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 57: Who killed JFK?
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 9: Oswald.
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 57: So you just believe anything that they put.
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 8: On the news?
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 3: Have you read anything? Were you alive when that happened?
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 38: No.
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 2: What did you read?
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 3: So you read a book?
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 38: No, I can't read.
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 57: I'm one of these, like, stupid people out here. I'm
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 57: just one of these average people.
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 38: Joe would say, you know.
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 3: An average Joe doesn't read?
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 57: I'm just an average Joe who just works on cars.
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 3: Okay. An average Joe doesn't read?
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 36: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 57: I look at the pictures when I'm working on cars.
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 3: Again, no pun intended.
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 31: God, I hope your owner or your manager isn't listening,
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 31: but don't work on my car, please.
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 3: What other theories do you have? Any other theories of
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 3: what we got wronged?
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 57: Uh, well, they have a lot of people who work
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 57: for the government who, you know, also go back and
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 57: forth in between media, you know, and then they propagandize
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 57: the people. I think that's a big thing.
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 36: Wait, what was that called?
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 57: Operation Mockingbird.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 36: Hey, look up Operation Mockingbird.
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 27: Okay.
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 31: I think the people that are listening are still scratching
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 31: their heads a little bit, but if you have any
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 31: other theories or things that, you know, like the norm
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 31: that you said 99% of the people think the CIA
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 31: in Israel did 9-11, is that what you said?
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 57: Well, how about this? I'll hang up right now and
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 57: get callers to call in, just speed call and be like, hey,
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 57: do you agree with Mike or do you agree with
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 57: this other guy?
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 3: Do you have a cell phone? Todd, my name is Todd.
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 3: Do you have a cell phone, Mike?
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 57: No, I can't afford a cell phone.
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 31: Okay, well, you seem to be a far left person,
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 31: so you could probably find a free cell phone and
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 31: a block of cheese if you wanted.
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 3: But my phone that I paid for.
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 57: What did I ever say that made me far left? You're...
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 57: Because I'm promoting private sector. You know, I'm promoting competition
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 57: instead of top-down control. That makes me.
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 36: That's the exact opposite of a socialist.
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 31: Well, I think the socialists are kind of a little off-center.
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 31: You're a little off-center, but my phone is blowing up
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 31: on people that think that something is a little off
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 31: with you.
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 19: You know what?
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 57: I'll take the L's, but at the end of the day,
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 57: I'm just telling the truth.
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 38: This is how I feel.
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 3: I appreciate your opinion.
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 57: And I'm sorry if you feel disrespected.
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 3: I don't feel disrespected.
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 31: I just feel that people that promote these crazy theories
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 31: are more, these are radical people that are socialists that think,
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 31: you know, these are crazy things happening in the world.
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 3: You know, in today's day, when something.
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 31: Like 9-11 happens on how it's investigated, like a law
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 31: enforcement aspect of investigation of how something.
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 3: Happened, people know what happened. You know, people actually took
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 3: control of airplanes and drove them into buildings.
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 57: Why is the 9-11 report still classified? Why can't we
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 57: know everything?
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 31: Well, let me just ask you, Mike. If you had
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 31: your cell phone, you could read it.
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 57: And they say that they found the terrorist passports on
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 57: the ground, and that's how they figured out who they were.
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 57: Come on, man.
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 31: How about Flight 93 when they fought it back and
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 31: they know what was happening? The people listened to those people,
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 31: those warriors, those American citizens.
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 3: How about the whole Pentagon was smooth?
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 57: Mike, I'm going to let you go on this because
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 57: I see now why you don't have a pension.
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 31: Because your mental ability to pass a psychological exam, a
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 31: polygraph exam.
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 3: Anything mental will be zero.
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 31: So thank God you don't have a pension because you
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 31: don't have the mentality to pass the test.
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 3: And thank God you ain't working on my car. Enjoy
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 3: your day.
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 31: Guys, I want to thank you very much. I hope
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 31: it inspired you a little bit. No pun at the
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 31: first guess, but I'm sure I revved you up a
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 31: little more than my man.
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 3: Ted in the morning. I have one more show from 6.
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 31: To 9 on the 29th of this month, because after that,
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 31: me and my big pension.
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 2: Are going to Florida.
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 3: Enjoy your day.