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Speaker 1: Does anybody really truly know how much water are you
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Speaker 1: supposed to be drinking on a daily basis for longevity?
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Speaker 1: What are the health experts saying. I was on last
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Speaker 1: night googling this, and I've had I've had discussions with
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Speaker 1: with friends and with with Sharon. You're drinking too much water.
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Speaker 1: You're not drinking enough water. You're drinking too much water.
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Speaker 1: Don't put anything in your water. Put some lemon juice
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Speaker 1: in your water, don't do anything. Just don't drink water
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Speaker 1: at all. Water too much water is bad for you.
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Speaker 1: Drink coffee instead. Does anybody really know what the sufficient
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Speaker 1: amount of water it is that you're supposed to be
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Speaker 1: drinking every day? You google this and if sixty four ounces,
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Speaker 1: that's what I saw last night, Becky. But if you
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Speaker 1: keep googling, you'll see no, no, that's too much, or no, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not enough, a certain percentage of your body weight,
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Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. I don't know. Don't put lemon
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Speaker 1: juice in there. It's not good for you. Do put
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Speaker 1: lemon juice in there, it's good for the kidney. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday morning to Crystal Palmer. Matt Abar. Haven't seen
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Speaker 1: on this day, number seven of twenty twenty five. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter who the man of the year is. What
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Speaker 1: matters is the color of the year. And according to
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, that color is cinnamon slate. Where can you
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Speaker 1: any indoor projects this winter, and I don't know who
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Speaker 1: would be doing any outdoor projects right now. And if
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Speaker 1: National temper a day today. I love Tempora. The roads.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you my drive in this morning was generally uneventful. However,
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Speaker 1: when I got to ride around Stones, things were getting
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Speaker 1: real greasy, and I think at the time my car
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Speaker 1: was showing like nine degrees eight or nine degrees something
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Speaker 1: like that. It was it's just that that fine sugar
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Speaker 1: snow coming down in the combination of the temperatures and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: And I've seen that I see the crews out dropping
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Speaker 1: sand this morning. But the roads were really really uh
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Speaker 1: slick just in that last you know, mile and a
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Speaker 1: half two miles coming in this morning, so be careful.
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Speaker 1: See the cars outside the studio window here that are
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Speaker 1: moving a lot faster than they were when I came in,
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Speaker 1: but just be careful. I'm seeing some reports a little
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Speaker 1: slippery on on eighty nine, but eighty nine apparently is
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Speaker 1: not bad on the VT Roads page. I think it
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, depends on not only what you're driving,
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Speaker 1: but also what kind of tires you have. And even
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Speaker 1: if those two things are great, if you're driving like
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Speaker 1: an ass uh, then that's not gonna matter. So just
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Speaker 1: allow plenty of space between you and the guy in
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Speaker 1: front of you. But yeah, last night a couple of
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Speaker 1: a couple of slide offs Williston Road down to the
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Speaker 1: h the turnaround all black ice last night and even
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Speaker 1: this morning. So what I've what I've been told skun
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Speaker 1: Coller Road and Jericho closed multiple vehicles off the road there,
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Speaker 1: So that's one point seventeen. Just you know, avoid that
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Speaker 1: area if you can. Heinzberg very very slick this morning,
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Speaker 1: and some pictures coming in. But if you're you know,
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Speaker 1: if you're on the big road, if you're on the interstate,
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Speaker 1: just exercise some caution and remember that it's better to
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Speaker 1: be a few minutes late than get into a vender bender.
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Speaker 1: This morning, all right, please just go easy if you can.
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Speaker 1: Today is Tuesday. Yes, we're going to be talking about
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Speaker 1: wellness Wednesday, you bet, But Tuesdays are special days here
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Speaker 1: for me. I always get excited because Chris is going
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Speaker 1: to be coming by with the world my fresh copy,
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Speaker 1: and there's Deb with us. Good morning, Deb, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Oh good this lovely day.
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Speaker 1: What do you say to people, Deb, when they say so,
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Speaker 1: so where do you work? You say the world? That
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Speaker 1: must blow people's minds.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they're like, oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: How's Gary doing over there? Is he pulling the rest
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Speaker 1: of his hair out? What's left of it?
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Speaker 2: No? No, he's out shoveling right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was just saying on the air, it's pretty
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Speaker 1: slick this morning. It kind of I think depends on
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Speaker 1: where you are and how you're driving. But it's greasy
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Speaker 1: and these temperatures aren't really helping much. So yeah, go easy.
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Speaker 1: Chris is going to be coming by here at some
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Speaker 1: point momentarily he I love this guy. He just walks
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Speaker 1: right in. He delivers my my fresh copy of the
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Speaker 1: World newspaper. I always look forward to it. And as
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Speaker 1: I said to you, you know, every time I talk
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Speaker 1: with the I always look forward to sitting down with
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Speaker 1: the world. What can we expect in today's copy this week?
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Speaker 2: Well, we have part two of the Healthy New Year.
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Speaker 2: It has lots of tips on meeting your health goals
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. We have poetry from a Very
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Speaker 2: City fourth grader and many more local port poets in
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Speaker 2: the poetry section. And then the fundraiser for the Aldrich Library,
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Speaker 2: the Hanniford's Blooming for Good. For every bouquet purchase during
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Speaker 2: the month of January, the library will receive a dollar
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Speaker 2: donation from Hannifords.
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Speaker 1: Wow, yes, that was in last week's copy too, I think,
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Speaker 1: wasn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, yep, we wanted to keep getting that word out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful. Keep going. I'm listening to.
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Speaker 2: You, okay, And we don't want you to miss the
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Speaker 2: weekly grocery specials from our two local markets, the Granite
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Speaker 2: City Market and Pump and Pant. They have lots of
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Speaker 2: really good specials this week.
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Speaker 1: It was so great to hear about the Winter Solstice
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Speaker 1: high school basketball up at the auditorium. That it was
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Speaker 1: a huge success and you guys blasted that all over
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Speaker 1: the world, which was so cool.
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Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, yep, and.
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Speaker 1: Listen, dev let's mention a vtdashworld dot com I think
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Speaker 1: is the website. You can always have a look at
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Speaker 1: the digital version of the paper, right.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's up already. So people want to look at
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Speaker 2: this week's get a sneak preview. Yes, they just go
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Speaker 2: to that website and we have a full digital version
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Speaker 2: of the paper every week.
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Speaker 1: I love I love the world. I love thumbing through
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Speaker 1: the pages. If folks want to advertise, what's the best
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Speaker 1: way to do that is so simple, by the way,
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Speaker 1: But what's the best way to do it?
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Speaker 2: Deb Well, they can give us a call and then
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Speaker 2: we will assign a salesperson to meet with them and
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Speaker 2: or work out whatever advertising they need.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that easy. And if you know, if you're
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Speaker 1: not savvy with this kind of stuff, just leave it
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Speaker 1: up to the team over at the World. They'll help
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Speaker 1: you design something. They'll get the colors just right, they
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Speaker 1: get the size just right, and they'll break it down
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Speaker 1: for you in terms that you can you can understand. Yes,
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Speaker 1: good stuff, Deb, Thank you so much for hopping on
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Speaker 1: with us on Tuesdays. I always look forward to chatting
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Speaker 1: with the es. Say hello to Gary Forrest and we'll
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Speaker 1: be in touch with you soon.
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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Jad, Thanks good day.
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Speaker 1: There's step Phillips live with us on Tuesday mornings over
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Speaker 1: at the World Newspaper right here in central Vermont, reaching
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Speaker 1: over what twenty thousand plus readers every single week. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot. I'm going to attempt to connect with our
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Speaker 1: buddy John Duprees over at Dupries Towing. I'm sure are.
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Speaker 3: You there, brother, man? What the fuck is going on?
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Speaker 1: You're life on the air. You're life on the air there.
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Speaker 3: Bud, I got bad service? Oh yeah, oh they are
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Speaker 3: hear now.
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Speaker 1: I can hear you. Tell us what's what's happening in
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Speaker 1: all the roads? Man? It's pretty slick.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the roads suck right now. I mean it's toen degrees,
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Speaker 4: it's snowing out. You know, it's it's slimy.
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Speaker 3: It sucks. But you know, if people would learned to
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Speaker 3: slow down to be a right yeah.
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Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's what we've been pushing this morning. I'm
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Speaker 1: not seeing any huge bang ups are you? Are you?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 4: No, couple slide off, but nothing. I haven't seen any
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Speaker 4: recess more.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I've seen I've seen the crews out drop in sand,
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Speaker 1: which you don't often see, but at least uh Route
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Speaker 1: three oh two and twenty five. I saw that this morning.
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Speaker 4: So what I learned recently is the reason they dropped
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Speaker 4: sand instead of salt on paved roads is it actually
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Speaker 4: does get too damn cold apparently for salt to work. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: so they just say scure and they dumped the sand
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Speaker 4: on it, which I had no idea, but that actually
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Speaker 4: makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: But I'm not a road guy. I'm I'm a toe guy.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the toe daddy, Yes, sir? So what do you?
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Speaker 1: What are you up to today? I mean, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Are you? Are you just waiting for your
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Speaker 1: phone to ring? I'm surprised it hasn't.
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Speaker 4: Bro I've been on the road till five o'clock this
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Speaker 4: morning and I didn't get home till eleven thirty last night.
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Speaker 1: Ouch, don are you able to share with us? And
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Speaker 1: maybe you're not what you had on the back of
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Speaker 1: your flatbed yesterday?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a twenty twenty four Tesla cyber truck.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, brother, brother man, here's the real kicker. When
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Speaker 4: I got to the guy's house to deliver it to him, yeah,
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Speaker 4: you would never believe who owns that truck?
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Speaker 1: Are you able to share?
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Speaker 3: I can, as long as I don't give out the
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Speaker 3: information of where he lives. And I told him I
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Speaker 3: definitely would not. You know, wwwe right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, triple h Yeah, no way, bro, it's his cyber truck.
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Speaker 3: They weren't even let me on the property.
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Speaker 4: I had to drop it out on the road and
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Speaker 4: I met his bodyguards out there.
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Speaker 1: You got to be kidding me? Are you serious?
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Speaker 3: Dude? Swear to God? Swear to God. Ain't that wild?
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Speaker 1: It? It is wild?
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Speaker 3: I think because I'm so he had the truck. It
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Speaker 3: had issues.
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Speaker 4: We towed it from his house a week or so
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Speaker 4: ago to Tesla and Burlington.
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Speaker 3: And when I went.
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Speaker 4: To Burlington to pick it up and bring it back
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Speaker 4: to him, I'm a big dude, and ninety nine percent
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Speaker 4: of vehicles that I get in I have to move
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Speaker 4: the seat back and down.
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Speaker 3: His truck, I did not. I did not have to
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Speaker 3: leave the seat at all, So that explains a lot.
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Speaker 1: Did you have to move? Have you ever had to
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Speaker 1: move my seat in my car?
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Speaker 3: Dude? Are you kidding me? You're basically helping the steering wheel.
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Speaker 4: Of course I got to move in I can't even
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Speaker 4: get one leg into your car.
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: You know, listen, if you got a cyber truck in
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Speaker 1: the back of your your flatbed and it's all smashed
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Speaker 1: to hell, we can understand. We can understand that it
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Speaker 1: was involved in an action and that's why it's being flatbeded.
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Speaker 1: But this this thing didn't have a scratch on it.
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Speaker 1: And just the fact that you had a cyber truck
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Speaker 1: in the back of your flatbed rolling down the highway
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Speaker 1: is not the greatest advertising for for Tesla.
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Speaker 4: Actually, if anybody would have asked me, I'd say totally
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Speaker 4: different Tesla. We do a boatload of towing for Tesla,
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Speaker 4: and they are amazing when it comes to warranty.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they will pay to have anything towed. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't even matter if it's a flat tire. Dude, I
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Speaker 3: kid you not.
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Speaker 4: This past summer, I towed a car from White River
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Speaker 4: to Burlington, picked up a rental, towed it back to
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Speaker 4: White River. Two days later, I picked up the rental,
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Speaker 4: towed it to Burlington, and then towed their car back
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Speaker 4: to them, and it was all covered under warranty over
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Speaker 4: a flat tire.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what's the what's I understand flat tires both.
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Speaker 1: What's the MSRPs on these things?
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Speaker 3: Oh my god?
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Speaker 4: Well, the cyber truck is like one hundred fifty thousand,
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Speaker 4: which is wild because I only paid one hundred and
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Speaker 4: thirty for my tow truck. So I mean to have
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Speaker 4: something sitting on the back that's worth more than the
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Speaker 4: truck that's tewing, it's a little.
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Speaker 1: Whild So you know, if if I was spending that
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Speaker 1: kind of money on a vehicle, I wouldn't expect anything
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Speaker 1: to go wrong with it. Uh, at least for the
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Speaker 1: first year or two. That would be needing to be flatbedded. Buddy,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Right Well, I mean, I definitely think it could have
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Speaker 4: been driven up to up to Burlington, but you know,
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Speaker 4: from where from where he was at, it was like
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Speaker 4: one hundred and forty miles one way, right, and being
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Speaker 4: who he is, he just didn't have probably just didn't
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Speaker 4: have time or just didn't want to do it, and
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Speaker 4: you're scared, I'll just you know, I'll have Tesla toe
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Speaker 4: and if they don't.
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Speaker 3: Pay for it, I will right so and back.
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Speaker 4: So Tesla paid for the original toe and then they
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Speaker 4: paid me directly.
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Speaker 3: To tell it back to them.
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Speaker 1: My man, I told you yesterday. I'll tell you again.
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Speaker 1: I think you should write a little a little book,
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Speaker 1: the life of of a tow truck driver. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's you've just got some interest. This is just this
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Speaker 1: is just one day. But you have so many interesting stories, buddy.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, man, I could go on all day long.
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Speaker 4: But you know, like it gets to the point where
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Speaker 4: people are like, come on, I feel like you're kind
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Speaker 4: of filling me full of shit.
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, I promise you I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know. Well listen, buddy, you get back
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Speaker 1: to it. Uh. Drive carefully, I think is the message
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Speaker 1: from du priestowing this morning. No matter who you are,
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Speaker 1: where you are, and no matter what.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, just real quick, Yeah people, slow down, drive careful.
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Speaker 3: Make sure you have good winter tires.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Make sure your gas tank is topped off the case
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Speaker 4: you get to do an accident, you know, you slide
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Speaker 4: off the road or whatever, you could stay warm. Uh,
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Speaker 4: make sure you check your oil, your washer fluid, all
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Speaker 4: that good stuff, and uh, yeah, you'll be all right.
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Speaker 1: Always important to check the oil, Yes, sir, thank you, buddy,
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Speaker 1: Love you to pieces over and out. John Dupree from
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Speaker 1: Dupries Towing this morning, check in with this. Yeah it is.
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Speaker 1: It is very slick out there. Please go easy. These
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Speaker 1: temperatures well mid teens right now, I think for most
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Speaker 1: of us hearing from aunt. Uh it is warming up,
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Speaker 1: but it's not going to go much. We're looking at
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Speaker 1: upper teens later today, maybe seventeen eighteen degrees. Yes, we
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Speaker 1: will post a picture of the cyber truck on the
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Speaker 1: back of the flatbed. We will get that up there,
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Speaker 1: of course we will. Well, at least I'll try. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And you know, Linda's got a great point here. If
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Speaker 1: you go off the road, stay inside your your vehicle.
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Speaker 1: It's the safest place to be. People are going to
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Speaker 1: see you. Hopefully you'll be able to make a phone call,
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Speaker 1: and if you can't, hopefully somebody else will be able
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Speaker 1: to see you and make a phone call for you
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Speaker 1: on your behalf. All right, but yes, upper teens later today,
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Speaker 1: snow showers continuing. How much snow. Let's see if I'll
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Speaker 1: see if I can get I'm not really seeing any
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Speaker 1: amounts here, but bu up, I'm looking for Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking for it. I'm looking for Roger Hill and I'm
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Speaker 1: not seeing anything. So usually that means that it's whatever
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Speaker 1: does fall from the sky is not going to be
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Speaker 1: that much. So weather forecast says snowshowers. I know that, uh,
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Speaker 1: in other parts of the country they're getting nailed. I
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Speaker 1: think I heard between now and like tomorrow night that
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Speaker 1: we could get a couple of inches. But it certainly
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Speaker 1: isn't going to be anything significant and certainly not going
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Speaker 1: to be anything that we can't handle. So snowshowers today,
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Speaker 1: Tonight we're down to eight degrees with flurries. Wednesday we've
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Speaker 1: got cloudy skies and twelve degrees, and Thursday looking ahead,
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Speaker 1: cloudy and eighteen degrees. So there you have it. VT Roads.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching their page pretty carefully this morning, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not seeing anything really major. A lot of people asking
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Speaker 1: about parts of Williston and Burlington, grand Isle and what not.
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Speaker 1: Some photos of the black ice this morning near River
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Speaker 1: Road at the Williston Road junction this morning. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: as uh as du Priest Towing just said there. He's
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Speaker 1: been out since since five this morning, and you'll see
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Speaker 1: the cruise dropping sand this morning, which which I saw
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Speaker 1: on my drive in, so uh yeah, I'm just glancing
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Speaker 1: through here to look for for anything else. That's some
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Speaker 1: crawling through Essex right now and some crawling into Barry
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Speaker 1: City this morning. When I was coming in, it was
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Speaker 1: I mean, traffic was was barely moving, so it you know,
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Speaker 1: all that's the thing. It's like it's it's good one
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Speaker 1: minute and then the next, uh, you're sliding. So just
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Speaker 1: exercise some caution this morning, Today's Tuesday. Dan Moland is
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Speaker 1: going to be coming on the air with us at
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Speaker 1: some point soon. G's gonna be back on Thursday, Rex
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Speaker 1: on Friday. We may be able to connect with our
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Speaker 1: city manager this morning to talk about the jj Newberry building,
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Speaker 1: which I think most of us know has resurfaced in
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Speaker 1: the news and there's a lot of chat about this
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Speaker 1: and a lot of opinions about this, and some frustrations,
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Speaker 1: some tempers flaring already about the news of Berry City
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Speaker 1: Council trying to by this building from Jeff Jacobs. This
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Speaker 1: building has been vacant for a very long time. You've
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Speaker 1: heard me complain about it on the air for a
25:18
Speaker 1: long time, way back into mid to early days when
25:26
Speaker 1: I was on the air Froggy and had our Mayor
25:31
Speaker 1: Tom Loson on with me several times back then sharing
25:36
Speaker 1: a microphone with me and talking about that building. And
25:42
Speaker 1: I think we all know. I mean, it's pretty obvious
25:46
Speaker 1: what an eyesore it is and how it's certainly not
25:51
Speaker 1: doing anything to help our city, wouldn't help any city,
25:58
Speaker 1: And they've been through There's been other towns in Vermont
26:03
Speaker 1: who have been through similar situations where they've got an
26:08
Speaker 1: aging property that has just aged out and not really
26:14
Speaker 1: able to be purchased from a practical standpoint and rented.
26:24
Speaker 1: Barry is not unique to this problem. The thing about
26:30
Speaker 1: that particular building, the JJ Newberry Building right here on
26:34
Speaker 1: North Main Street, is it's huge. It is a large,
26:41
Speaker 1: large building. And one of the things that I've been
26:46
Speaker 1: consistently saying for a long time about this is not
26:52
Speaker 1: only how large it is, but where it's located is
26:56
Speaker 1: not a good thing either. So I've reached out to
27:04
Speaker 1: Steve McKenzie. He is going to be sharing a microphone
27:11
Speaker 1: with me next week, not sure on the exact date
27:16
Speaker 1: of this, and Tom Loson is also going to be
27:23
Speaker 1: coming in here and discussing this. I think most of
27:33
Speaker 1: us have seen the story that CIX did. I think
27:37
Speaker 1: it was ci X or it may have been PTC,
27:42
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but it was. It was all over Facebook.
27:47
Speaker 1: You've seen the signs that have been made that are
27:51
Speaker 1: on the front of that building four hundred K for
27:55
Speaker 1: what this this this building is in really bad shape
28:04
Speaker 1: and it has been for a long time. Think about
28:08
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the news said fifteen years, but man,
28:11
Speaker 1: it's been.
28:13
Speaker 3: Wow.
28:14
Speaker 1: I think I think it's been a lot longer than that,
28:18
Speaker 1: but maybe I'm wrong. But we've had two monster storms, floods.
28:30
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what's happening inside of that building.
28:36
Speaker 1: I can only imagine that's probably the last place I
28:41
Speaker 1: would want to have a tour to go in there
28:44
Speaker 1: and look around. I just can't even imagine. So what's
28:50
Speaker 1: going to happen. Will it be sold, will it be
28:55
Speaker 1: able to be purchased? If there's a million ifs here,
29:00
Speaker 1: and if it is, then what's going to happen. Will
29:08
Speaker 1: it be restored, will it be torn down? Will it
29:11
Speaker 1: be turned into a parking lot. There's a lot of
29:17
Speaker 1: us that have opinions about what should be done with
29:21
Speaker 1: that property, how much of an ice ore it has
29:27
Speaker 1: been for a long long time in the Granite City,
29:32
Speaker 1: and what Jeff Jacobs should do, Why he hasn't done
29:39
Speaker 1: what so many of us have wondered, why he hasn't done.
29:48
Speaker 1: Why the selling price is and has been what it
29:55
Speaker 1: was for so long, which is an astronaut cle amount
30:00
Speaker 1: of money. I think it was like what one point
30:02
Speaker 1: four million or something like that, something absolutely absurd. Uh yeah,
30:11
Speaker 1: should be condemned absolutely. Uh yeah. Don't even get me
30:22
Speaker 1: going Darlene on on the roller skating rink thing. Don't
30:27
Speaker 1: don't do that to me, I will uh. And I
30:37
Speaker 1: think I think I had said a while ago that
30:39
Speaker 1: it should be turned into a roller rink, and some
30:42
Speaker 1: people took me seriously, it's not big enough for a
30:44
Speaker 1: roller skating rink, at least I don't think it is.
30:46
Speaker 1: Maybe it is.
30:46
Speaker 2: I don't know.
30:48
Speaker 1: Should it be a parking lot, should it be housing?
30:56
Speaker 3: Is?
30:56
Speaker 1: You know, what if this falls through? What if? What if?
30:59
Speaker 1: What if we're not able to get it? What if
31:05
Speaker 1: Barry City residents are not able to secure this property
31:14
Speaker 1: with their pocketbooks? Then what happens where is Jeff Jacobs.
31:25
Speaker 1: Does he even live in Vermont anymore? Has he been
31:30
Speaker 1: brought into these discussions in the past, Has he been
31:35
Speaker 1: to city council meetings? These are all questions that I
31:41
Speaker 1: have that maybe you know the answers to. Would I
31:50
Speaker 1: would love to ask some of our dignitaries here in
31:55
Speaker 1: the Granite City these very questions and see if we
31:58
Speaker 1: can get some answers. So we're going to talk about
32:05
Speaker 1: this a little bit more this morning. Before we close out,
32:08
Speaker 1: I want to say a huge tip of the hat
32:12
Speaker 1: to Washington County Mental Health for looking after so many
32:18
Speaker 1: of us here in central Vermont and frankly beyond. People
32:24
Speaker 1: come from all over to the Granite City on Wednesdays,
32:28
Speaker 1: which is tomorrow, for this community based event, if you will,
32:36
Speaker 1: that Washington County Mental Health has been doing for a
32:38
Speaker 1: long long time, the first couple of Wednesdays of every
32:41
Speaker 1: month over at the Well Spaced Building on Summer Street.
32:45
Speaker 1: They call it Wellness Wednesday. This is what they do.
32:48
Speaker 1: They get a bunch of practitioners together that specialize in
32:53
Speaker 1: different things from acupuncture, acupressure, sound, healing, massage, and the
33:03
Speaker 1: list goes on. They get them all together reiki, I
33:07
Speaker 1: mean a lot of different stuff. And these practitioners offer
33:14
Speaker 1: these services to anyone. There's no eligibility requirements. It doesn't
33:21
Speaker 1: matter who you are. They offer this to you for free.
33:27
Speaker 1: You never hear that word anymore free. Some of these
33:33
Speaker 1: things they like to do by appointment, just to kind
33:35
Speaker 1: of space it out and schedule it out from a
33:38
Speaker 1: logistical term. But it's back and people are so excited
33:42
Speaker 1: about it, and it's tomorrow. It is Wednesdays from four
33:46
Speaker 1: thirty until seven o'clock upstairs at the well Space building,
33:49
Speaker 1: twenty three Summer Street, which is like right behind our
33:54
Speaker 1: studios here. So January eighth is tomorrow, then the fifteenth,
34:03
Speaker 1: then they're going to do February fifth, and twelfth and nineteenth.
34:10
Speaker 1: Then they're going to do March fifth, twelfth, and nineteenth,
34:14
Speaker 1: and April second, ninth, and sixteenth. So the first three
34:19
Speaker 1: Wednesdays of the month from four thirty to seven. They say,
34:26
Speaker 1: and I think that this may be not accurate. They
34:29
Speaker 1: say that around five hundred people have benefited from Wellness Wednesday.
34:35
Speaker 1: I think that number is. It wouldn't surprise me if
34:39
Speaker 1: it was at least double that, especially the mindfulness meditation.
34:46
Speaker 1: They do all kinds of stuff over there, traditional non traditional.
34:54
Speaker 1: It is absolutely wonderful. Parking is upstairs for those that
35:01
Speaker 1: that require you just drive around the side and it
35:03
Speaker 1: just brings you right up and you know again it's
35:07
Speaker 1: free twenty three Summer Street. So we were just chatting
35:12
Speaker 1: about the JJ Newberry building and I want to bring
35:19
Speaker 1: on somebody who knows all about this subject. Nicholas Starelli Castro.
35:26
Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, morning dad. Are you very well listen.
35:30
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of comments already this morning. We
35:32
Speaker 1: chatted about this a little bit the other day when
35:36
Speaker 1: this story broke, and we've chatted with Steve Mackenzie who
35:41
Speaker 1: says he's he's going to be coming on probably next week.
35:45
Speaker 1: Tom Lowson is also going to be coming on and
35:48
Speaker 1: talking about this. But this is a big deal. You
35:50
Speaker 1: know that this building has been vacant for hundreds of
35:55
Speaker 1: thousands of years, it seems like. And one of the
35:59
Speaker 1: things that I have been admittedly complaining about since way
36:06
Speaker 1: back when I was on Froggy with Tom is the
36:11
Speaker 1: location of this JJ Newberry building is on the north
36:17
Speaker 1: side of the street, which catches all of the sun
36:23
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and it just lights that up and
36:27
Speaker 1: puts the spotlight on this vacant building which has been
36:31
Speaker 1: deteriorating for for a long time. Now, you know, you
36:34
Speaker 1: know that everyone knows.
36:36
Speaker 5: That it's a nice ore. It's not only not only
36:39
Speaker 5: the is it lit up, but it's it's right in
36:42
Speaker 5: the middle. You can't walk up and down our beautiful
36:46
Speaker 5: downtown without seeing it, you know. And and so I'm
36:52
Speaker 5: I'm excited about the possibility of finally addressing this problem.
36:58
Speaker 5: There's still a long ways to go, but but hey,
37:00
Speaker 5: we you know, we got the landlords on a hook here, right,
37:03
Speaker 5: and there's a pathway to having site control of this
37:09
Speaker 5: eyesore that has you know, it's been a market failure
37:12
Speaker 5: for fifteen years at least.
37:15
Speaker 2: You know.
37:15
Speaker 5: And so I think it's a chance to do something good.
37:19
Speaker 5: You know, we have needs gaps in the community, we
37:23
Speaker 5: have limited places to develop, and for this prime location
37:28
Speaker 5: to be not just under utilized, but sitting there the
37:31
Speaker 5: way it is is I think it's it's a shame
37:33
Speaker 5: and it's it's a great opportunity to try to finally
37:36
Speaker 5: do something about it.
37:37
Speaker 1: This is not the first time that this has been
37:39
Speaker 1: brought up in city council. I mean this is this
37:42
Speaker 1: this kind of hits a little bit and then it
37:45
Speaker 1: kind of goes a little dormant, and then it comes back.
37:49
Speaker 1: One of the questions that I get asked all the time.
37:52
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm getting asked at right now.
37:56
Speaker 1: Does he, presumably the property owner, Jeff Jacobs, does see
38:02
Speaker 1: have any responsibility to take care of it? Should the
38:05
Speaker 1: city require him to keep it up to code? Are
38:07
Speaker 1: there any like, for lack of a better term, penalties there.
38:11
Speaker 1: I mean, there are within the within the bounds of
38:14
Speaker 1: state law and city ordinances. And they're doing the bare minimum.
38:18
Speaker 1: They're they you know, they're they're clever, they're smart right there.
38:22
Speaker 1: They do the bare minimum to to skate by. And
38:26
Speaker 1: they were recently inspected in December. They have to do
38:29
Speaker 1: some follow up work based on that inspection by the
38:31
Speaker 1: city and the state, and so they but but but
38:36
Speaker 1: they know how to do the you know, just enough
38:40
Speaker 1: to to not trigger uh further legal you know issues.
38:45
Speaker 1: And and I would say too to people that this
38:48
Speaker 1: is not you know, if there was an easy way
38:50
Speaker 1: to wrestle problem properties from bad landlords, we'd have done it.
38:56
Speaker 1: You know, there's other you know, this is not something
38:59
Speaker 1: that is easy to do. We've talked to city attorneys
39:03
Speaker 1: about doing this, and the reality is that if you
39:05
Speaker 1: go down these paths of trying to wrestle a property
39:09
Speaker 1: like this away, you're gonna end up in the courts,
39:12
Speaker 1: and you're gonna end up with a coin flip in
39:14
Speaker 1: the courts after you probably spend hundreds of thousands of
39:17
Speaker 1: dollars to do so. Right, So you're taking a gamble
39:22
Speaker 1: on something that may or may not work, and you're
39:24
Speaker 1: dumping a ton of money into it. And I you know,
39:26
Speaker 1: there's somebody mentioned that the council meeting a comment or mentioned,
39:32
Speaker 1: you know, a health order. There's a pending health order
39:35
Speaker 1: in the City of Barry from two thousand and six
39:38
Speaker 1: on that property. No no, no, no, no, no no,
39:41
Speaker 1: on a different property.
39:42
Speaker 5: But that's just as an example of health orders, you know,
39:46
Speaker 5: do we that's longer than this building's been vacant, right,
39:50
Speaker 5: So you know, those systems don't always work the way
39:55
Speaker 5: we expect them to either. And if you know, certainly
39:58
Speaker 5: we could try to pursue a health order if we'd
39:59
Speaker 5: like the property to be vacant for another twenty years,
40:01
Speaker 5: because that's how long this other health order has has
40:05
Speaker 5: been in effect in that. You know, that's not a
40:07
Speaker 5: situation where that that property owner has the resources of
40:10
Speaker 5: a Jeff Jacobs who can fight this kind of stuff
40:11
Speaker 5: in sure, right, So he's got another guy with him too, Yeah,
40:16
Speaker 5: a lot of resources. Yeah, you you said in the
40:21
Speaker 5: news some ideas for you know, there's a lot of
40:27
Speaker 5: things going on here.
40:28
Speaker 1: Can the city get it? If they can't, then what
40:32
Speaker 1: if they can get it, what's the price tag? Who's
40:36
Speaker 1: paying for that? When will that be decided? And best
40:40
Speaker 1: case scenario, the building's been the property has been acquired.
40:45
Speaker 1: Now what what's gonna I mean, Yeah, Ford parking lot.
40:47
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned, you know, in that space, which
40:51
Speaker 1: is prime real estate housing, which is of course the
40:55
Speaker 1: biggest buzzword that this city has had.
41:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
41:01
Speaker 5: Look, I think that BADC has been very transparent that
41:04
Speaker 5: they don't have an interest in developing it. I don't
41:07
Speaker 5: think they have the capacity to develop it. They've been
41:10
Speaker 5: very transparent that they'd be very willing to work with
41:12
Speaker 5: the city on turning it over to city ownership if
41:15
Speaker 5: they are successful in securing the funds to execute the
41:18
Speaker 5: purchase option. Right, So I don't foresee that being a
41:22
Speaker 5: struggle with them they they've been very clear that, you know,
41:24
Speaker 5: the city may have even better access to resources for
41:28
Speaker 5: what needs to be done to that site, which may
41:30
Speaker 5: be some environmental probably obviously a demolition. I think that
41:34
Speaker 5: that structure is going to be any good. And a
41:37
Speaker 5: lot of times municipal governments have more access to grants
41:40
Speaker 5: resources to do that kind of stuff than a nonprofit right.
41:43
Speaker 5: So they've been very clear if it's if it's the
41:46
Speaker 5: city council's will to be the property owner, they are
41:51
Speaker 5: willing to do that. And they've also been very clear
41:54
Speaker 5: that the use of the property will be open to
41:57
Speaker 5: a community discussion through the city council as well.
41:59
Speaker 1: Right, And and my.
42:01
Speaker 5: Point, you know, when I did a memo and support
42:02
Speaker 5: of this when the council was ratifying, I noted for
42:05
Speaker 5: context that the lot has approximately the same footprint as
42:10
Speaker 5: the Seminary Street lot where we're building thirty two units
42:13
Speaker 5: of housing. So could we build thirty two units of
42:16
Speaker 5: housing there? I don't know, because an engineer has to
42:19
Speaker 5: help us determine that. My point is it could host
42:23
Speaker 5: something like that, maybe it could be more, maybe it
42:25
Speaker 5: could be less. It be very beautiful retail space on
42:29
Speaker 5: the first floor and or a community space. Right, there's
42:33
Speaker 5: there's I think there's a whole lot of options for
42:36
Speaker 5: it that the community can decide once site control is attained.
42:43
Speaker 1: Bottom line, it was presented as right around a million bucks,
42:51
Speaker 1: with that being six hundred going being going to.
42:57
Speaker 5: Who, six hundred raised by B eighty s got it,
43:00
Speaker 5: and four hundred thousand pledged by the City council assuming
43:04
Speaker 5: BADC finds the balance.
43:05
Speaker 1: Okay, how would city council do that? How would city
43:10
Speaker 1: council find four hundred k?
43:12
Speaker 5: So we have we have about nine hundred sixty thousand
43:18
Speaker 5: dollars remaining in the Special Projects Fund. So you might
43:20
Speaker 5: remember special Projects Fund is what became of the ARPA
43:25
Speaker 5: funding that we didn't fully expend, right, So this was
43:29
Speaker 5: a this was a tool. Creating a Special Projects Fund
43:32
Speaker 5: was a tool to allow us to be more thoughtful
43:35
Speaker 5: deliberative in how we spend that ARPA money because our
43:38
Speaker 5: PA money had a December thirty first deadline to be committed, right,
43:41
Speaker 5: So in November, at our recommendation, the City Council created
43:45
Speaker 5: a Special Projects Fund which was basically the you know,
43:49
Speaker 5: the remnants of our but and there's about nine hundred
43:51
Speaker 5: and sixty thousand dollars left there, so there's a balance there.
43:55
Speaker 5: The Eugen Cozy Trust will be coming to the city.
43:59
Speaker 5: We don't know the final amount yet because his estate
44:01
Speaker 5: is still being sorted out, but that stands to be
44:04
Speaker 5: in the millions of dollars as well for things like
44:06
Speaker 5: capital improvement improvements of this community. So there are resources
44:11
Speaker 5: to do it.
44:11
Speaker 1: Now.
44:11
Speaker 5: You know a lot of people who spoke up at
44:13
Speaker 5: the council meeting, were you know a gas that you
44:17
Speaker 5: know we're spending four hundred thousand dollars on on purchasing
44:22
Speaker 5: this property potentially as opposed to infrastructure. Now, look, I
44:26
Speaker 5: love spending money on infrastructure. We need to spend money
44:28
Speaker 5: on infrastructure. We spend a million dollars on capital improvement
44:33
Speaker 5: every year i've been manager. On the other hand, you
44:38
Speaker 5: know we have a twenty five million dollar capital improvement
44:42
Speaker 5: plan through twenty thirty. That means we've identified twenty five
44:44
Speaker 5: million dollars in needs, right.
44:47
Speaker 1: I mean through twenty thirty. You and I were just
44:49
Speaker 1: talking about the water treatment plan and bridges.
44:52
Speaker 5: And bridges and everything right across the board infrastructure. So
44:57
Speaker 5: I just I want to be very clear, I would
44:59
Speaker 5: love to spend every dollar we can on infrastructure. I
45:02
Speaker 5: don't want people to think that if we spent this
45:05
Speaker 5: four hundred thousand dollars on infrastructure instead of on this acquisition,
45:10
Speaker 5: that our infrastructure problems would be solved. So that's I
45:14
Speaker 5: just want to be very candid about that. Are our
45:16
Speaker 5: infrastructure problems are much greater, and I believe we have
45:19
Speaker 5: to have the ability to walk and chew gum at
45:21
Speaker 5: the same time. Opportunities to address this vacant eyesore property
45:27
Speaker 5: don't come around very often, in fact, maybe only a
45:30
Speaker 5: handful of times in the last fifteen years, and so
45:33
Speaker 5: I think it's important to give it a shot.
45:35
Speaker 1: Right.
45:35
Speaker 5: And again, if I'd love to spend that four hundred
45:39
Speaker 5: thousand dollars on infrastructure, but that's not the panacea for us, right.
45:43
Speaker 5: We still have many needs beyond that, As you mentioned, JD.
45:46
Speaker 5: We talked a lot about the headworkspond that thank you
45:49
Speaker 5: for the voters for approving. That's the beginning of the
45:52
Speaker 5: water wastewater treatment plan upgrades. That's the beginning. So we
45:56
Speaker 5: have a lot of needs. This four hundred thousand dollars
46:00
Speaker 5: ain't going to solve all of them, uh, and so
46:02
Speaker 5: I think we have to be nimble and flexible, and
46:03
Speaker 5: we have to do all of the things that that
46:07
Speaker 5: our city needs to move forward.
46:08
Speaker 1: How did this this whole thing come up? All of
46:11
Speaker 1: a sudden, people are driving down North Main Street and
46:16
Speaker 1: they see these signs all over the front of the
46:20
Speaker 1: JJ Newberry building. So this was something that that got
46:25
Speaker 1: out from a city council meeting. Yeah, so those.
46:28
Speaker 5: City council was briefed about the potential option a few
46:33
Speaker 5: times in executive session, and then after after one of
46:38
Speaker 5: those executive sessions, the council had hurt enough, you know,
46:41
Speaker 5: to make a decision, and they made They took a
46:44
Speaker 5: vote in public, right, they voted in public to pledge
46:46
Speaker 5: the four hundred thousand dollars towards this project. And because
46:51
Speaker 5: of because that action was taken and it wasn't on
46:54
Speaker 5: the agenda, they had to come back and ratify that decision.
46:57
Speaker 5: And so that's when at that meeting on December thirtieth,
47:01
Speaker 5: is when we had some members of the community speak
47:04
Speaker 5: up about this acquisition and and then some of the
47:09
Speaker 5: signs emerged on the building after after that. But you know,
47:12
Speaker 5: the action was valid. You know that the council frequently
47:17
Speaker 5: is briefed about many issues in executive session that should
47:20
Speaker 5: be discussed in executive session, like real estate, like labor,
47:23
Speaker 5: like personnel, and this happened to be a real estate
47:26
Speaker 5: transaction which which was discussed appropriately in executive session, and
47:31
Speaker 5: after the Council had heard enough, they made their decision
47:34
Speaker 5: in a public session which is on video and free
47:37
Speaker 5: for everyone to see on the on the website.
47:39
Speaker 1: I think we all agree that it would just be
47:45
Speaker 1: nice to have something anything, well maybe not anything, but
47:51
Speaker 1: something nice for our city to go in that spot,
47:55
Speaker 1: and that it is long, long, long, over two. Yeah,
48:00
Speaker 1: I agree.
48:01
Speaker 5: I think that, you know, I look at the needs
48:04
Speaker 5: we have across the board. You know, we we're either
48:07
Speaker 5: in a housing crisis or we're not right. And if
48:10
Speaker 5: we are in a housing crisis, if people believe we're
48:13
Speaker 5: in a housing crisis, all options have to be on
48:15
Speaker 5: the table. New development like this, infill all of it,
48:20
Speaker 5: not not one option is not better than the other.
48:22
Speaker 5: We need to be doing them all. And you know,
48:26
Speaker 5: berries four square miles, we don't have a ton of
48:28
Speaker 5: space to grow, and we don't have a ton of
48:31
Speaker 5: flat surfaces to build up. This is a this is
48:34
Speaker 5: a location where we can build up three four floors
48:37
Speaker 5: right up and build some flood resilient housing.
48:40
Speaker 1: You know, I'm maybe filling the river that's running underneath
48:43
Speaker 1: that building, that building.
48:45
Speaker 5: And but you know, I'm appalled every you know, every
48:48
Speaker 5: start of the new year, I see you know, calls
48:51
Speaker 5: out for hey, you know, can teachers live with you?
48:53
Speaker 5: We're looking for housing for teachers. You know, wouldn't it
48:57
Speaker 5: be nice to have housing for teachers right on our
48:59
Speaker 5: main streets so we don't have to, you know, be
49:02
Speaker 5: putting them up in in in in bedrooms. We have
49:05
Speaker 5: a workforce channel. Let's draw people to this city, right
49:08
Speaker 5: and let's build a nice building there that we can
49:12
Speaker 5: be proud of it. And I think, you know, one
49:15
Speaker 5: thing I'm hoping we get from B. A. D. C.
49:16
Speaker 5: Is some some renderings on what is possible there, because
49:19
Speaker 5: I think right now it's it's easy to you know,
49:23
Speaker 5: for people to to be mobilized against us because we
49:26
Speaker 5: don't know what's possible. And I think when people see
49:28
Speaker 5: what could happen there, hopefully there'll be an impetus to
49:32
Speaker 5: support it, because I think it could be really transformative
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Speaker 5: the way in many way City Place was for this city,
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Speaker 5: which which was obviously well before my time. But but
49:39
Speaker 5: I've heard the parallels between what's possible at this side.
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Speaker 1: And what happened there any any new developments on the
49:47
Speaker 1: the building of apartments Seminary Street Seminary. It is proceeding
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Speaker 1: quite smoothly. They uh DRB hearing happened late last year year.
50:01
Speaker 1: I believe the deadline came and went for any objections
50:03
Speaker 1: to that DRB decision. We are currently working with D. E. W.
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Speaker 1: Down Street and ever North, which are the partners on
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Speaker 1: that building, on a development agreement which will come to
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Speaker 1: the city Council. We've listed the thirty day notice in
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Speaker 1: the paper as required by the charter. So I think
50:22
Speaker 1: everything is going along really great there. I suspect that
50:26
Speaker 1: groundbreaking could happen later this fall and and that'll be
50:31
Speaker 1: you know, thirty two units. Right.
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Speaker 5: Nothing this needs at right here in Barry City. Maybe
50:38
Speaker 5: housing for people who were impacted by the floods who
50:40
Speaker 5: didn't get a buy out, housing for teachers, for nurses
50:44
Speaker 5: who come to work at the medical center. Sure, so
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Speaker 5: I think that it's a it's a we have great partners.
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Speaker 5: You know, these are the same partner, the same builders
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Speaker 5: of City Place, which is a beautiful building same partners
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Speaker 5: who worked on the in Montpelier on a similar building.
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Speaker 5: So I'm very excited about how it's going to tryans
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Speaker 5: formed that that part of our downtown.
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Speaker 1: And I know this is off the cuff and well
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Speaker 1: obviously when Tom comes in here, we'll chat with them
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Speaker 1: about this too. But is because I'm asked about it too.
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Speaker 1: Is there any Are there any developments about Prospect Heights?
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Speaker 1: Is there anything? Yeah? Is this moving? It's moving.
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Speaker 5: We the council recently approved some funding for the due
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Speaker 5: diligence environmental due diligence to happen at that site. We
51:24
Speaker 5: have a kickoff meeting for that happening, I believe next
51:27
Speaker 5: week myself in the engineering firm, so that'll be going on.
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Speaker 5: It'll take several months, so they have to do some
51:33
Speaker 5: wetlands analysis and that can't happen until that can only
51:36
Speaker 5: happen between May and October. So I think people should
51:39
Speaker 5: be not expect to hear too much until that's completed.
51:42
Speaker 5: But it's certainly it's moving in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: Okay, listen, man, thank you so much for coming in.
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Speaker 1: Happy to be here. This is this is wonderful people,
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Speaker 1: no matter how they feel about it. Of something to
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Speaker 1: take away. This is great information, that's critical. We need it.
52:05
Speaker 1: We need it.
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Speaker 5: In my as, I did a lot of thinking about
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Speaker 5: sort of where the staff recommendation would be on this,
52:11
Speaker 5: and I, you know, it came down to to me,
52:14
Speaker 5: this is low risk, right. If b ADC doesn't come
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Speaker 5: up with the balance of the money, we don't cut
52:19
Speaker 5: any checks and that four hundred thousand dollars stays with
52:22
Speaker 5: the city and we do things like infrastructure. If b
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Speaker 5: a DC pulls this off and they find six hundred
52:27
Speaker 5: thousand dollars to execute this purchase option, that's a great
52:30
Speaker 5: problem to land on my desk. I love that, you know,
52:33
Speaker 5: let's let's do something with its property. And so that's
52:37
Speaker 5: why I landed where I did, which is, let's, you know,
52:40
Speaker 5: let's give this a shot. And I'm glad that you
52:43
Speaker 5: know that the council was bold enough to take a
52:46
Speaker 5: take this shot and give it, you know, give us
52:49
Speaker 5: an opportunity to have some site control right in the
52:52
Speaker 5: middle of our downtown.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be just tremendous. I've been waiting for
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Speaker 1: or the day when something happens to that property for
53:04
Speaker 1: a long time. A lot of people and a lot
53:06
Speaker 1: of people, A lot of people have thanks for coming in, Nickle,
53:10
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you as well. Be careful on
53:12
Speaker 1: the cords there, there's there's a lot of them. And
53:15
Speaker 1: again Steve McKenzie will be in with us at some
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Speaker 1: point next week and we look forward to continuing that
53:26
Speaker 1: that conversed, this conversation about the JJ Newberry building. A
53:32
Speaker 1: lot of comments here, a lot of comments, and hopefully uh,
53:40
Speaker 1: some members of our city council and maybe Nicholas himself
53:45
Speaker 1: will have a chance to, uh to respond to some
53:48
Speaker 1: of these. Listen, no matter what, let's just all take
53:55
Speaker 1: a deep breath about the whole JJ Newberry building thing here.
54:01
Speaker 1: Let's try to figure this out. Hopefully we'll have a
54:05
Speaker 1: nice resolution here to a problem that this city has
54:13
Speaker 1: been attached to for a long time. Okay, I know,
54:18
Speaker 1: pretty hot topic. I and a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: But.
54:25
Speaker 1: We'll take it one step at a time, all right,
54:29
Speaker 1: go easy today. I don't care if you're driving, I
54:34
Speaker 1: don't care if you're walking out the onto the sidewalk,
54:40
Speaker 1: if you're leaving your home, be careful. Temperatures very cold,
54:47
Speaker 1: a little bit of snow coming down still and maybe
54:50
Speaker 1: up to a few more inches here between today and tomorrow,
54:54
Speaker 1: so uh, just go easy please looking forward to G
54:58
Speaker 1: on Thursday, the G Spot Friday Rex will be in here.
55:09
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at my calendar. I don't know how
55:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull this off. There's a lot of stuff
55:15
Speaker 1: going on this week in only so many hours in
55:19
Speaker 1: the day to fit it in. God bless. Make sure
55:22
Speaker 1: you grab a fresh copy of the World today. And
55:27
Speaker 1: thanks to Central Mount Home Health in Hospice, our newest
55:35
Speaker 1: presenting sponsor, which I'm thrilled about. Lots to talk about
55:41
Speaker 1: with regard to Central Mount Home Health in Hospice and
55:44
Speaker 1: all the great things that they're doing for our community.
55:47
Speaker 1: And I can't and we've had Sandy Rus on the
55:49
Speaker 1: air just recently and I can't wait to share with
55:52
Speaker 1: you some more things that they're doing. It's a lot
55:55
Speaker 1: of stuff. Be good, everybody, take good care. Take care
55:59
Speaker 1: of your neighbor today. Make sure that the heat's on
56:03
Speaker 1: in their home, especially if you know someone who is
56:07
Speaker 1: disabled or somebody who is elderly. Just give a quick
56:13
Speaker 1: check on it. Okay, if they need anything, run over
56:15
Speaker 1: to Nelson A's Hardware, grab it form and be a
56:18
Speaker 1: good neighbor, all right, Take good care God bless, we'll
56:21
Speaker 1: catch you real soon. Thanks to Nicholas Starley, castro Our
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Speaker 1: city manager for just joining us a short time ago,
56:29
Speaker 1: John Dupries from Dupries Towing for hopping on the air
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Speaker 1: with us this morning, and of course Deb Phillips over
56:36
Speaker 1: at the World for giving us a snapshot of what
56:39
Speaker 1: to expect in this week's World, which is out today.
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Speaker 1: God bless, we'll talk to you soon. Bye bye.
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Speaker 2: Object to.
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Speaker 1: Step to
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Speaker 2: The pat