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The Lee Elci Show | 10.23.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. This is Hayward Gatch, guest hosting for
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  Speaker 1: the Lee Elsey Show on 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 1: As always, very happy to be here. We have a
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  Speaker 1: nice morning show for you. We'll see if you folks
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  Speaker 1: want to stick.
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  Speaker 2: Around for me.
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  Speaker 1: So for the past eight years now, I have been
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  Speaker 1: a somewhat regular fixture on the station, trying to bring
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  Speaker 1: unusual opinions, obscure history, and from time to time, my
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  Speaker 1: especially grumpy opinions on things. And the inaugural subject that
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  Speaker 1: brought me to this show was a call-in to Lee
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  Speaker 1: about eight years ago. And this was actually before I
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  Speaker 1: even had a cell phone of my own. During my
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  Speaker 1: off-grid days, I borrowed my very friendly wife's cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: And it was to call in about the Syrian Civil War. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a topic that is tremendously meaningful to me.
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  Speaker 1: As an American, I have a cultural background. weak spot, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: for any people struggling against a larger adversary for the
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  Speaker 1: cause of freedom. It scratches a particularly and uniquely American
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  Speaker 1: itch to see an underdog fighting against a larger power
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  Speaker 1: that wants to keep them in chains. Because guess what
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  Speaker 1: we did? We fought the largest empire on Earth at
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  Speaker 1: the time and won to create... a freer and more
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  Speaker 1: perfect union. So whenever I see that happening anywhere around
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  Speaker 1: the world, I am the kind of person who takes
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  Speaker 1: a special interest in such things. And the Syrian civil
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  Speaker 1: war was no exception. Like many moments of horrific and
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  Speaker 1: nightmarish rupture, you see things come out of it that
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  Speaker 1: push the boundaries of what is possible for humans to
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  Speaker 1: do both bad and good. So what came out of
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War? Well, you had ISIS, of course, which
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  Speaker 1: destabilized the entire region. You have a jihadi state, a
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  Speaker 1: literal state run by a terrorist force. And that was,
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  Speaker 1: of course, terrifying, harmful to the region. But in the
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  Speaker 1: fog of war, something else also arose from the the
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  Speaker 1: smoke and flames and pain of the large-scale collapse and
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  Speaker 1: partial collapse of the Syrian regime. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: project called Rojava. Now, this was a largely Kurdish-led movement,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious project that tried to
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  Speaker 1: become one of the only democracies in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: They created something that almost no one had ever seen before,
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  Speaker 1: And they were on the front lines of the fight
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  Speaker 1: against ISIS and drove them back, town by town, city
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  Speaker 1: by city. Their soldiers gave the former slave brides of
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  Speaker 1: ISIS a hot meal and an AK-47. Against the informed
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  Speaker 1: and experienced advice of many in his orbit, our president
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Donald Trump, was convinced that he knew
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  Speaker 1: better In 2018, Trump announced that he'd be pulling back
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  Speaker 1: our small peacekeeping garrison from Rojava. Because, of course, remember,
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  Speaker 1: at the time, pulling troops out of foreign deployments was
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  Speaker 1: quite in vogue, regardless of the consequences. And so American
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  Speaker 1: troops were prepared to leave while Turkish troops and jihadi
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  Speaker 1: mercenaries were openly fueling their trucks and loading their rifles.
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  Speaker 1: one of the brightest flames of liberty in the world
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  Speaker 1: flickered that day. As Turkish artillery began to open fire,
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  Speaker 1: homes were shelled, but also prisons were shelled. That was
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  Speaker 1: a curious target, you see, because those prisons were full
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  Speaker 1: of ISIS fighters.
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  Speaker 3: Those prisons were raided.
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  Speaker 4: And the inmates were released.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, the most predictable outcome happened. So not
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  Speaker 1: only were the mercenaries and the Turkish soldiers enjoying all
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  Speaker 1: of the atrocities of war that they've been waiting so
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  Speaker 1: long to commit, you now had ISIS back on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty terrible situation to be in, of course.
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  Speaker 1: And that cataclysmic violence spread like wildfire. Ethnic and religious minorities,
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  Speaker 1: the lucky ones, They were driven out by force. The
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  Speaker 1: world watched in horror as one of the few places
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  Speaker 1: that had managed to cling not only to some sort
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  Speaker 1: of stability and normalcy in the outflow of that civil
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  Speaker 1: war was being destroyed. You had people that had their
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  Speaker 1: backs against the wall, not only by ISIS, but the
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  Speaker 1: Assad regime and the constant push of Turkish forces on
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  Speaker 1: the northern border dealing with a multi-front war that they
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  Speaker 1: did not have to go through because someone thousands of
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  Speaker 1: miles away decided that he knew better than all of
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  Speaker 1: his advisors. Our soldiers had enjoyed a previously largely peaceful
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  Speaker 1: deployment amongst a friendly population, but now we had a
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  Speaker 1: situation where they had to go back and were dumped
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  Speaker 1: into a war zone. All the while, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: autocrat who had spent the previous eight years or so
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  Speaker 1: propping up the Assad regime was especially happy to see
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  Speaker 1: one of his largest rivals in the region being taken
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  Speaker 1: down and his warm water Mediterranean port that he was
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  Speaker 1: so jealously guarding of became just a little bit more secure.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose I can let you do a little research
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  Speaker 1: of yourself to figure out precisely who that dictator was
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sure you.
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  Speaker 3: Know his name.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the so-called peace treaty that was brokered by Trump
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  Speaker 1: was nothing short of a full surrender and partitioning of
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  Speaker 1: Rojava and the legitimization of genocidal violence. We spoke previously
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  Speaker 1: a few segments ago about the definition of genocide. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, that was something that was codified after the
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  Speaker 1: Holocaust because we tried desperately as a world to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how we can never have this happen again. Never
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  Speaker 1: again was a very serious statement put out by people
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  Speaker 1: who survived an industrial extermination of their people. And they
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  Speaker 1: not only took care of trying to define the industrial
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  Speaker 1: section of that violence, but also the more subtle forms
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  Speaker 1: that are connected with the genocide. Because sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: see things coming Amongst those are the widespread efforts to
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  Speaker 1: harm the mental health and well-being of a people, or
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  Speaker 1: also the forcible displacement of a people from their region.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we saw. You also see the forcible
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  Speaker 1: displacement of children and transfer from one population to another,
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  Speaker 1: very specifically defined children from one population to another. And again,
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  Speaker 1: that was something that we saw in this attack on Rojava.
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  Speaker 1: And so now we have this peace treaty coming out
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  Speaker 1: that talked about a wide-scale buffer zone. And to the
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  Speaker 1: unfamiliar person of that area, it might seem almost reasonable,
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  Speaker 1: a buffer zone between two warring states. That, I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. But then when you factor in the fact
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  Speaker 1: that that buffer zone was the entirety of the region
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  Speaker 1: in some areas. It actually cut off some regions of
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  Speaker 1: that country from the other ones. Then you start to
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  Speaker 1: see what's really happening here. Wanting a cheap win and
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  Speaker 1: wanting a peace treaty that an adversary is dictating all
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  Speaker 1: of the terms for, meanwhile the party who was invaded
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  Speaker 1: was not even invited to those peace talks, is something.
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  Speaker 5: Of a pattern.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a very unfortunate pattern. And so what do
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  Speaker 1: we see there? Not only did we have this territory
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  Speaker 1: being cut in half and that act of violence legitimized,
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  Speaker 1: you now had ISIS back out and around. You also
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  Speaker 1: had the forced displacement of those ethnic minorities I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 1: permanently changing the demographics of that region as a means
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  Speaker 1: of making sure that the dictatorships that are so common
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  Speaker 1: in that area Didn't have to deal with this threat
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. And we see this similar dynamic playing out now.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who has heard me speak over these years has
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  Speaker 1: heard me reference travels around the world. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the places that I visited was Ukraine. And I spent
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  Speaker 1: quite some time there. I was there just in the
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  Speaker 1: aftermath of the revolution of 2014. This was the Maidan revolution.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that remember seeing it on TV, we
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  Speaker 1: saw bits and pieces. But the depth and danger of
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  Speaker 1: what those people went through rarely made it to the
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  Speaker 1: media not only because covering the full depth and nuance
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  Speaker 1: of that conflict was hard but also because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of what happened can't be shown on TV so I
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  Speaker 1: was there just after this revolution had taken place and
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  Speaker 1: And in the immediate aftermath of that revolution, Putin invaded Crimea, Donetsk,
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  Speaker 1: and Luhansk. So regions of Ukraine were now being taken
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  Speaker 1: over by Russian-backed separatists, and on occasion, actual Russian soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: simply without their flag patch on their uniforms. And you
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  Speaker 1: started to see again that forced displacement. You started to
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  Speaker 1: see again a population who just spent 92 days trying
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  Speaker 1: to get free of their dictator who was making a
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  Speaker 1: pivot toward Russia when they wanted a pivot in a
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  Speaker 1: different direction, they knew the cost of inaction. They knew
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  Speaker 1: what their larger colonial neighbor wanted to do to them,
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  Speaker 1: and they risked everything to be free. There's a documentary
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  Speaker 1: called Winter on Fire, and for those of you that
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it, and I assume it's likely most of you,
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  Speaker 1: it's now online for free, and it is first-person footage
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  Speaker 1: of the Maidan Revolution. You see in full, uncensored detail
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  Speaker 1: what those people went through, what they knowingly took the
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  Speaker 1: risks of in order to get free of Russia's clutches.
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  Speaker 1: you saw people, young and old, every religion in Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: every minority and majority in Ukraine, wall themselves into Maidan
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  Speaker 1: Plaza in the center of Kiev while the regime forces
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Russian-backed regime, laid siege. You saw the
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  Speaker 1: use of fire. You saw the use of clubs, batons,
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  Speaker 1: rubber bullets, shields, Live ammunition. And even at times, armored
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  Speaker 1: personnel carriers ramming through barricades to get to the crowds
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  Speaker 1: that had walled themselves in. When I lived in Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with people who had
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  Speaker 1: fought in that revolution. And I asked them what gave
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  Speaker 1: them the strength to go through that. They told me
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  Speaker 1: stories about the last few days. where the Berkut, the
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  Speaker 1: regime-backed secret police forces, were opening fire on their friends
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  Speaker 1: with live ammunition. They were telling me stories about how
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  Speaker 1: people next to them were dropping from sniper fire from rooftops.
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  Speaker 1: They were in a plaza, mind you, surrounded by high-rise buildings.
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  Speaker 1: They were fishing a barrel. But they also knew what
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  Speaker 1: was at stake. They also knew what it would be
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  Speaker 1: like to stay under Russian control, indirect as it may
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  Speaker 1: have been at the time, they saw the writing on
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  Speaker 1: the wall. And much like the patriots of old who
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  Speaker 1: liberated this country from the British, they chose freedom over
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  Speaker 1: tyranny and were willing to take the risks. And so
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to people and asked what it was like
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  Speaker 1: in those days. They said, It was terrifying. But they
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  Speaker 1: knew what would happen if they lost. The founding patriots
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  Speaker 1: of this country once said, we should hang together or
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  Speaker 1: we'll hang separately. And that same dynamic played out in
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  Speaker 1: Maidan Square. They were committed to freedom. And once they
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  Speaker 1: were in, they knew there was no getting out. They
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  Speaker 1: had to win or they had to die. And they
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  Speaker 1: simply weren't interested in losing. We saw attempts to take
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  Speaker 1: over Maidan Plaza on several occasions once they were fortified in.
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  Speaker 1: We saw a field hospital right next to Maidan being
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  Speaker 1: raided by regime forces and set on fire, and not
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  Speaker 1: all the wounded were able to escape. When I lived there,
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  Speaker 1: Maidan Square was full of memorials, was still full of
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  Speaker 1: piles of cobblestones that were used as improvised weapons to
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  Speaker 1: try to push regime forces back I saw the street
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  Speaker 1: that unarmed protesters ran up with wooden shields in the
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  Speaker 1: face of sniper rifles and AK-47s to try to take
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  Speaker 1: and hold the position to keep those snipers away from
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  Speaker 1: their friends. I saw the field hospital, covered in a banner,
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  Speaker 1: of course, to spruce up the area, make things look
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  Speaker 1: a little more cheery. It had a large slogan that
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't quite able to read at the time, of course.
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  Speaker 1: But I also saw behind that mesh, all of the
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  Speaker 1: charred windows. I saw very plainly that building was burned out.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to meet a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: knew the personal direct cost of that freedom. Now we
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  Speaker 1: fast forward to 2022. We had the invasion happen. Many
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  Speaker 1: people knew it would happen. Many people predicted it would happen.
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  Speaker 1: Many others thought nothing was going to happen. Nearly everybody,
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  Speaker 1: once it started, thought that that revolution would be snuffed out,
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  Speaker 1: thought that immediately the overwhelming force of the second most
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  Speaker 1: powerful military on Earth would simply steamroll that smaller country
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  Speaker 1: and bludgeon them into submission. Some people who have lived
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine... some people who knew the Ukrainians, some people
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  Speaker 1: who knew about the changing dynamics of modern warfare, knew
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  Speaker 1: that this wouldn't be quick. And I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: when you meet people who have faced down death and
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  Speaker 1: have tasted freedom, never underestimate the motivation of those people.
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  Speaker 1: This is Hayward Gatch guesting for the Lee Elsey Show
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  Speaker 1: on 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. So in my
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: opening remarks, I referenced the Syrian Civil War, not only
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: how it played out, but how— One of the bright
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: lights that came out of that terrible time was left
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to burn out, and the challenges it caused for many
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: people in the region. And I transitioned into what might
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: seem like a completely unrelated topic, except for perhaps an
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: insufferable nerd who likes niche conflict history. But there are
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: more throughlines here than you might think. Now, of course,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: not only the dynamics of the fighting in the Syrian
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: civil war were very informative as to predicting the trajectory
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of the Ukraine war, but also the entanglements in Syria.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: That dictator I mentioned a little bit earlier, for those
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of you who haven't already looked it up or simply
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: won't be doing so, a little guy named Vladimir Putin,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: he wanted, as Russians have always wanted and tried to ensure,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: access to a warm water port. Now, of course, the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: coast of Syria, that certainly qualifies as warm water in
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: my book. He did everything he could to prop up
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the Assad regime, which included the deployment of Russian troops,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the use of Russian air power, the use of Russian weaponry,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: some of which a lot of people have some complicated
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: opinions about. poison gas perhaps. And now you have a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: conflict on the other side of the Black Sea, Ukraine,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: where in 2015 the Ukrainian people stood up en masse
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to cast out Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian leader of Ukraine.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And when he was overthrown, he fled to Moscow.
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  Speaker 9: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So did Bashar al-Assad when he was thrown out a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: few months ago.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so we're talking about the current phase of this conflict.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: We're talking about how a people that were so determined
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and brave to charge uphill for with wooden shields and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: clubs in the face of fully automatic gunfire, those people
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: are very motivated. Those people are folks who have a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: very direct and personal understanding of what's at stake. So
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: if you give those people guns, javelin missiles, tanks, their
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: chances are looking pretty good. especially if you factor in also,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: this was one of the things I talked about very
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: early on, is the use of drones, specifically the FPV drones,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: will fully change the dynamics of modern warfare. And they
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: were niche at the time, admittedly. But seeing what those
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: things were capable of in Syria tells you things have changed.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And Smaller forces with their backs against the wall come
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: up with some very innovative ways of keeping a larger
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: power at bay. And think about the difference in terrain
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: from Syria to Ukraine. This is a place that's frozen
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: half the year and muddy the other half. This is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a place where high-rise buildings are the dominant architectural feature.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That's not the same As a small city that's not
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: fully modernized without underground subway stations, it is a totally
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: different animal. And so that fight did not go quickly.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I said that the Russians would not gain much ground
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: without committing very serious war crimes. And that's exactly what
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: they did.
• 32:11
  Speaker 33: You....
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't see much Russian movement unless they bombed those cities
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: into powder, things that we saw in Mariupol or Bakhmut.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And I also said, but when you do that, you
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: create Stalingrad, a conflict not famous for being particularly quick.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You see, once you have a territory destroyed... You now
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: have very complex geometry to move and fight through. It's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: harder to roll a tank, of course, through a street
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: if the street is full of rubble, debris, burned-out cars.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: That's harder.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's also much easier to sneak a drone out from
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a small crack in the rubble than it is to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: do so in flat and even terrain. And so this
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: war dragged on. It was much more than a minor incursion.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Little reference to dear old Sleepy Joe. Far more than
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a minor incursion. It was a full-blown war. And America
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: stepped up to do our part to honor our treaty obligations.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: In the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was left with,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I think, the world's first or second largest supply of
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. That's a pretty big card to be left
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: holding in the collapse of everything. And the world wasn't
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: particularly interested in a smaller, brand-new country to have such
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a stockpile. And that's where the Budapest Memorandum came in.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: There was an arrangement that all of the larger powers— Russia, America,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of the NATO powers— entered into an agreement
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that said, Ukraine, if you surrender your nuclear weapons, we
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: promise that we will protect you from foreign aggression.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 9: Did that happen?
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Suppose not.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: It didn't happen in 2015 when the Donbass region was
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: invaded and Crimea was annexed.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: It didn't happen then.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I talk a lot about permission structures. And I also
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: talked at the time about the politics of appeasement. Now
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: appeasement is a word that evokes for historians thoughts and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: feelings of the 1940s. Oh, just give them Austria. Just
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: give them a little bit of France. He'll stop there,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. Doesn't go that way. Never does. So we
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: had a large section of Ukraine occupied by a foreign power.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And the Budapest Memorandum was left to gather dust in
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a file somewhere. Perhaps it was thrown directly in the shredder.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Who knows?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And so you have this permission structure for Putin to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: push further. You see the rhetoric coming out of Russian
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: media and the Russian president himself saying things like, Ukraine
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: is not a real country. Russia and Ukraine are one people,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: denying the very existence of a separate people. Now, for
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: those that have lived there, their churches are different, their
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: religion is slightly different, their language is different. It's actually
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: kind of a blend of Polish and Russian. Their culture
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: is different, and Putin doesn't want you to know this,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: but their culture actually predates Russia. The Russian people come
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: from the Kievan Rus', and guess where the Kievan comes
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: from in that name. With that said, they've often had
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a kinship, a brother people of sorts, but the same
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: people they are not. And the erasure or attempted erasure
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: of that identity is one of those things that falls
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: under that pesky definition of genocide. So, 2022 rolls around,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the invasion happens, and the West blinks. We send them
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: some supplies, but our requests are the requests for us
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to give our air power no-fly zone, those were deemed
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a step too far, to precipitate into a broader war, perhaps, and, naturally,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: an understandable concern. But we created a situation where our
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: treaty obligations didn't hold quite as much weight as they
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: used to, making it harder in the future for us
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to broker deals with any amount of trust, And you
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: have these people begging for weapons. You have these people
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: begging for supplies. How many leaders in the face of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: an invasion would stay in their capital with their people?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Not very many, history will tell us. In fact, in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the background of Yanukovych flying to Moscow in the face
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: of his civilian population getting a little bit too feisty,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you have Volodymyr Zelensky turning down offers to be flown
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: out of Ukraine, saying, I don't need a ride, I
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: need ammunition. Quotes like that go through history, for those
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of us that still care about it. Quotes like that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: set the tone for not only the following years, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: talk about the difference between a dictator and a leader.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Talk about the difference between someone who tells people what
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to do, and someone who is out there in his
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: country going to the front. We have photos of Zelensky
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: going to the very front lines where fighting is actively
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: happening in areas where Russia claimed they had under their control.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: And you have President Zelensky saying, no, it's not. I'm
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: standing here right now. That type of defiance is is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: emblematic of the attitude of the Ukrainian people. And we
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: have done on several occasions not only what we've done
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: before for many of our allies, but the same thing
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that we did to the Rojavans in Syria. We abandoned
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: them on several occasions. We cut aid in critical times.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: We decided that we didn't want to help out when
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: these people were begging for it. People died because of
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: those policy decisions, a lot of them. And our adversaries
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in this case were emboldened. And I say our adversaries,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and some people may bristle at that. Some people may say, well,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: we're not trying to bring back the positions of the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Cold War. And I'm sympathetic to that. As a person
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: who's not only very skeptical of nationalism, I'm also very
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: skeptical of bringing back old conflicts. I much prefer healing.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I much prefer peace. But this is not the situation
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: of peace. This is choosing neutrality. in the face of
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: oppressive violence. You've chosen the side of the oppressor, if
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: that's you. So if you look at the rhetoric that
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Putin has put out, if you look at the rhetoric
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that's in their media, if you look at the opinions
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: of the average Russian... you will see people who have
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: already chosen their side against us. Do we ignore that?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Or do we acknowledge, for example, parades of civilians going
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: through Moscow with cobbled together facsimiles of ballistic missiles strapped
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: to the top of their cars, written on the side,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to Washington on the side?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. When a population.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: maybe screams death to America, we typically understand what side
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: they're on. When this population does it, maybe we're not
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: even aware, perhaps, or maybe we're just not interested.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: I don't know. And we see.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Those folks knowing that we are an adversary to them,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and yet we have our emissary over there right now,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: calling Putin to his face, a humanitarian, the very same
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: day that we have ballistic missiles raining down on the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: capital of Kiev.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: We also have some.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Vital equipment that those soldiers are relying on being shut
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: down without warning. That's not the first time that's happened either.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: It's not the first time that aid has been cut,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: especially under this administration that promised us the war would
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: end within 24 hours. Now, of course, no serious person
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: believed that. But some very uncomfortable questions come up from
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the posture that we have taken in these times.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Why do we see.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Peace talks, where in many cases the Ukrainians are not present,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It really reminds me of the peace talks where the
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Rojavans weren't invited either. It's a challenging dynamic, and it
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: leads one to question what truly is going on here.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: When we see talks of peace, when we see the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: politics of appeasement, when we see people taking actions that
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: have no real logical explanation if we are to believe
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: that our politicians are being good faith actors here. What
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: are we left with? I can't make that decision for you.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: But what I can do is tell you that if
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: we had some subtle alignments between ourselves and the folks
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: on the other side of what was once the Iron Curtain,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine behavior different than what we're seeing now.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the cutting off of aid, calling him a humanitarian, the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: constant besmirching of these people with their backs against the
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: wall who have so much in common with us and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: our struggle with freedom. You know, it's not often talked
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: about because, you know, we like to think about ourselves,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: of course.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: It's the human condition.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: But our soldiers in 1776... had a very powerful ally,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the French. When we were struggling for freedom against a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: larger power that believed that we were their sole possession
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and territory, a rival power of the era stood up
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to help. And that's a large part of why we
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: did not get steamrolled. The bravery of our people can
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: go a very long way. But eventually, larger powers with
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: more people can grind and bludgeon smaller powers into submission.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And what do we have now as.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: We look forward?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: We have a situation where the NATO alliance, once ironclad,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: has been systemically undermined and destabilized. We have a situation
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: where Our country has threatened military force directly against a
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: NATO member, all in the name of trying to gain
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: access to a territory that we already had treaty access to,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: in the name of preventing it from foreign aggression that
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the NATO alliance itself prevents from taking place. Very curious,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you see. We also have a situation now where our
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: reputation as the defenders of liberty is greatly injured. In
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the gap that we have left behind from our surrender
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: of solidarity with people struggling for freedom, the people of
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Europe are standing up. Now, isolationists in the crowd may
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: find that a good thing, and of course, you're entitled
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to your opinion. But now we have a situation where
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: what could have been one of our most devoted allies,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: who we helped pull from the jaws of despotism, is
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: now having to develop their own solutions. And there are
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: few things they want more sweetly than not having to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: rely on an unreliable ally anymore. And the Ukrainians know
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: what's at stake. In my closing remarks here, many people
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: will think, oh, if the Ukrainians would simply just surrender.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: These media narratives are perpetuated, of course, by often folks
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: sympathetic to the Russian cause. Gee, I wonder why. You
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: have them saying, well, why don't they just surrender? The
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Ukrainians see what the Russians do to their own soldiers,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: how carelessly they spend and waste their lives. Do they
• 45:56
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  Speaker 13: Sunshine today with a high around 65. Connecticut State Police
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  Speaker 17: Good morning, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island. My name
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  Speaker 17: Freedom is not a gift from Washington or Hartford. It
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  Speaker 17: Forced participation in someone else's plan is not solidarity. It
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  Speaker 17: The system then turns to the rest of us and
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  Speaker 17: began earlier, when personal responsibility was treated as optional and
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  Speaker 17: This is not a call for indifference. Americans have always
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  Speaker 55: and guys with mustaches and sweater vests on were everywhere
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  Speaker 55: in the stands. But more importantly for the Bears, Caleb
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  Speaker 55: Williams was back under center and he passed for 308
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  Speaker 55: yards and two touchdowns against his class of 2024 draft mate,
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  Speaker 55: Drake May, who threw for 321 yards.
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  Speaker 9: And two touchdowns, but also had a costly interception.
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  Speaker 55: In the end, it was the Bears beating the Patriots
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  Speaker 55: 30 to 24.
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  Speaker 9: With more than just a score, I'm Fish on Sports.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 13: Sunshine today with a high around 65. Connecticut State Police
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  Speaker 13: arrested 42-year-old Muhammad Manon of New York after allegedly clocking
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 13: him driving 116 miles per hour on I-395 in Waterford
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  Speaker 13: early Wednesday. Manning was charged with reckless driving and released
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  Speaker 13: on a $ 5, 000 bond. East Lime is receiving more than $ 505, 000
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  Speaker 13: in state funding for two shoreline improvement projects at Black Point.
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  Speaker 13: The funding will support pier and shoreline repairs along Nianic
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  Speaker 13: Bay and construction of an accessible pier, floating dock, and
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  Speaker 13: kayak launch facility. at Patagansett Estuary. Police responded to Ledger
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  Speaker 13: Thursday night after two dirt bikes were reportedly stolen from
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  Speaker 13: Groton's Pequantic Bridge area. Authorities say the owner followed the bikes...
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  Speaker 13: onto Route 117 and allegedly struck one near Gallup Hill Road.
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  Speaker 13: One person was taken into custody while the second dirt
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  Speaker 13: bike fled. Hopkington Police arrested 51-year-old Jay Grindle of Charlestown
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  Speaker 13: Thursday after he allegedly drove drunk through a construction zone
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  Speaker 13: and nearly struck an officer. Grindle faces felony assault and
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  Speaker 13: DUI charges after reportedly swerving toward the officer.
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  Speaker 9: And knocking over traffic cones. I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks,
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  Speaker 9: we break it.
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  Speaker 32: He not only revolutionized the entertainment industry, but influenced how
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  Speaker 32: people thought about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 3: With the mantra, there is always a way. The master,
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  Speaker 3: the mogul, the one and only.
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  Speaker 32: Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, turn it up,
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  Speaker 32: and let's welcome the icon himself, Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Cantone, with Tom's Tips.
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  Speaker 4: Well, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of
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  Speaker 4: Tom's Take. This one I want you to really have
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  Speaker 4: fun with because, you know, we often celebrate places and things,
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  Speaker 4: but not people, you know. And it dawned on me
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  Speaker 4: when I was watching a special, like a documentary on
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  Speaker 4: the seven wonders.
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  Speaker 9: Of the world.
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  Speaker 4: And while they were nice, you know, great, things that
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  Speaker 4: past civilizations did with the pyramids and Great Wall of
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  Speaker 4: China and all that stuff and how people flock to
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  Speaker 4: them and marvel over them. It got me thinking that
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  Speaker 4: what if we redid the seven wonders of the world?
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  Speaker 4: Just think about it. What if the seven wonders of
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  Speaker 4: the world were not physical things to look at but
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  Speaker 4: things that We do as ordinary people doing extraordinary things
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  Speaker 4: every day. But you don't hear about it because, you know,
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  Speaker 4: of the tremendous noise out there that drowns out these
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  Speaker 4: wonderful things that I would call wonders of the world.
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  Speaker 4: And you know who they are? You know what those
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  Speaker 4: seven wonders are?
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  Speaker 35: Y-O-U.
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  Speaker 12: You.
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  Speaker 4: It's you. It's mankind. So I came up with my
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  Speaker 4: own seven. And, you know, the first one is the
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  Speaker 4: most important. It drives everything. The first one is love.
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  Speaker 4: And I keep thinking of that Beatles song, All You
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  Speaker 4: Need Is Love. Nothing you can do that can't be done.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. nothing you
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  Speaker 4: can do, but you can learn how to feel inside.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy.
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  Speaker 2: All you need is love.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, it's that. And I want, you know,
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  Speaker 4: do you remember when you first experienced love, the euphoria,
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  Speaker 4: the power you couldn't get enough of, of that feeling
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  Speaker 4: you had to share it with somebody and to make
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  Speaker 4: somebody else happy? It's beyond any It could light up
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  Speaker 4: cities if you plugged in that love. And so to me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's the most important thing because we give
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  Speaker 4: it to our kids, our families, and friends. And that
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  Speaker 4: would be my first wonder of the world. That would
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  Speaker 4: be love. The second one, the wonder of the human mind.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they say the mind is a terrible thing
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  Speaker 4: to waste, but we didn't waste it. We just don't
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  Speaker 4: think about it enough. We started with nothing. Our imagination
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  Speaker 4: took over from there. It discovered everything and solved problems
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  Speaker 4: once we thought impossible to solve. Think about the first
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  Speaker 4: human beings here. They didn't have our tools, our technology.
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  Speaker 4: They couldn't even get a sandwich. They had to struggle
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  Speaker 4: to eat, to sleep, to survive. And their mind was
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  Speaker 4: the reason And then later, the modern-day mind just continues
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  Speaker 4: to marvel. The third wonder of the world is the
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  Speaker 4: wonder of compassion. It's one of our most important contributions
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  Speaker 4: to humanity. We just don't have enough of it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to dwell on it, but it's important that
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  Speaker 4: we express compassion all the time in everyday life. The
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  Speaker 4: fourth one is the wonder of resilience. Think about this one.
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  Speaker 4: How resilient Have we been? You know, I mean, we've
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: been through everything. We've endured wars, mass murders, natural disasters,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 4: economic collapses, personal tragedies, unimaginable. The loss of family and friends, homes.
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  Speaker 12: And.
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  Speaker 4: Impossible circumstances to overcome. Yet, we do. And we rebuild.
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  Speaker 4: And we begin anew. The fifth wonder of the world,
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  Speaker 4: in my mind, is the Wonder of imagination and creativity.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite.
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  Speaker 4: We not only survive, we create. Think about all the
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  Speaker 4: stuff we create for the world. Music and artists and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: paintings and inventions and medicine. The list is too lengthy.
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  Speaker 4: And now, as I said in my past takes, the
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  Speaker 4: flying car is next. It's an expression of the beauty
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  Speaker 4: of our lives. How we can imagine Just imagine, you know,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: what life would be like if we didn't have that.
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  Speaker 4: The sixth wonder of the world for me is the
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  Speaker 4: wonder of forgiveness. I know it's our most difficult one,
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  Speaker 4: but our most powerful one as human beings. You know,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: anger and hurtful experiences doesn't mean we forget. But hatred
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  Speaker 4: can become sort of a prison to be in. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we can overcome that. The seventh wonder of
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  Speaker 4: the world is my favorite. It's the reason we get
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  Speaker 4: up every day. It's the wonder of hope. The most
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  Speaker 4: important one. Every generation inherits a world filled with problems.
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  Speaker 4: No one gets out of that alive. Yet, we continue
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  Speaker 4: to move forward to make a difference. Hope is what
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  Speaker 4: persuades us to plant even like a tree whose shade someday,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 4: we'll never see it, but the next generations will. The
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  Speaker 4: future has not yet even been written. Without hope, it won't.
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  Speaker 4: So we still stay, you know, focused, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: if we don't, we'll be on that treadmill going nowhere fast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Humanity's greatest wonder. It is simply what civilizations have accomplished,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and they've accomplished a lot. It is what
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  Speaker 4: we are capable of, though, becoming. So while tourists pack
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  Speaker 4: all these places, Love those seven wonders, and.
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  Speaker 9: They are great.
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  Speaker 4: They marvel over it. But I marvel over these seven
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  Speaker 4: wonders of the world. So let's think about these seven
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  Speaker 4: wonders of the world of you that involve love and
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: the human mind and compassion and resilience and imagination and
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: forgiveness and hope for humanity. It does exist.
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  Speaker 5: It is real.
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  Speaker 4: It's right under your nose. It is, in fact, you.
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  Speaker 43: In New London, stop and go traffic, I-95 northbound just
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  Speaker 10: Route 12 is moving slow in both directions in Groton.
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  Speaker 7: Route 32, slow.
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  Speaker 10: In both directions between the Coast Guard Academy and Connecticut College.
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  Speaker 9: Slow southbound in Quaker Hill.
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  Speaker 10: Slow northbound in Montville.
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  Speaker 21: The cost of living in Connecticut is simply too high.
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  Speaker 21: That's why we need real leaders like State Senator Heather
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  Speaker 21: the broken politics of Hartford and does the hard work
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  Speaker 21: that delivers results for eastern Connecticut communities. Heather cut taxes
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  Speaker 21: on Social Security, retirement income.
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  Speaker 8: And diesel fuel.
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  Speaker 21: She's led the fight to stop Hartford tax hikes that
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  Speaker 21: increase our costs, including exposing a scheme to hike taxes
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  Speaker 21: on farmland earlier this year. And with Connecticut families straining
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  Speaker 21: under out-of-control energy prices, Heather Summers is fighting to eliminate
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  Speaker 28: Coach Leo Adestan Crescent Beach, Columbus land Broken clipboards.
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  Speaker 43: In his hand Teaching science, making a stand.
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  Speaker 7: Football legend in the sun. Broken glass, the training's done.
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  Speaker 7: Sobbing curls till the day is won. Sweating effing weight
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  Speaker 7: the hall. Skullcrunchers do it all. Coach Lee.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Eastern Connecticut. Leo Ficini here, filling in for
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  Speaker 5: the legend, Lee Elsie, the voice of freedom. And I'd
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  Speaker 5: like to give mad props to John Fuller for endeavoring
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  Speaker 5: to persevere during this stormy weather. But freedom has a voice,
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  Speaker 5: and it's not chaos or unorganized mayhem, as been suggested.
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  Speaker 5: Today's weather, mostly sunny, a little on the cool side, uh,
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  Speaker 5: maybe 60 degrees for a high maybe. So I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to start with a few shout-outs this morning. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: perennial shout-out to all my fans down there at Muddy
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  Speaker 5: Waters Cafe, because all my buddies go to Muddy's. And
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  Speaker 5: I hope nobody's choking on their mushroom latte mocha frappe
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  Speaker 5: down there this morning. Also, Tony D'Angelo, who was offering
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  Speaker 5: up a one-pound wedge of Fatsamata Mazzaroni cheese. If anyone
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  Speaker 5: can answer the question, which famed professional wrestler's birthday is today?
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  Speaker 5: Famed professional wrestler has a birthday today. And, of course,
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  Speaker 5: the traditional shout-outs, Jack Cotillo and the boys at Niantic Plumbing,
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  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Commander Terrence Henkel, the Right Reverend James Leone, Dave
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  Speaker 5: and Al Rossler, Reverend Juan Roman, And, of course, Jason
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  Speaker 5: Martin and the crew at Planet Fitness, whether it's getting
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  Speaker 5: the rails on the Smith machine in shape or warning
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  Speaker 5: someone about the dangers of Kegler lifts, those guys do
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  Speaker 5: it all. So, we'll talk a little bit this morning,
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  Speaker 5: first of all, about education and.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of back and forth constantly about education.
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  Speaker 5: And what's happened is we've lost the grip by allowing
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  Speaker 5: the kids to dictate what's going to go on. You know,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe offering too much in terms of what we're
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  Speaker 5: going to offer them in terms of an educational experience.
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  Speaker 5: In a lot of the major cities... And I don't
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 5: care what the demographics are. It doesn't matter. If kids
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  Speaker 5: can't read, they can't write, they're not going to be successful.
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  Speaker 5: And typically in large urban settings, you've got high numbers
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  Speaker 5: of attendance, low graduation rates, and poor performance. And I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they keep saying, well, it's money, money, money. Well, yeah,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 5: it is. And I said this before on the show,
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  Speaker 5: the elephant in the room, of course, is special education, where,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: you know, you're mandated to educate these kids in the
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  Speaker 5: least restrictive environment. Now, I've had people tell me that
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  Speaker 5: they think maybe it might be good to group these
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  Speaker 5: kids homogeneously and maybe set up one school. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of these towns now are closing schools. maybe
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 5: take one of those schools and make that a school
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  Speaker 5: for the special needs kids. And you might say, well,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: you know, you're depriving them, you're doing this, you're doing that.
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  Speaker 5: If I look at the kids that need special services
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  Speaker 5: in schools I've taught in, paraprofessionals, tutors, when they get them, sometimes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they'll last for a month or two months.
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  Speaker 5: And I had a situation two years ago where a
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 5: kid was supposed to have a para assigned to him
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 5: every day, and the para left. So when that happened,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they, of course, the administration came, and they,
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  Speaker 5: you know, apologized, and I said, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 5: We'll take care of this kid. And we made a
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 5: de facto inclusion form, had a couple kids in the class,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 5: and said, you make sure we take care of this kid.
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  Speaker 5: And not to abdicate my duties as a teacher, but
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 5: I said, if he needs help, if he's struggling, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you the nod and you can help him
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  Speaker 5: out a little bit and do what we have to do.
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  Speaker 5: So there are solutions. I'm not sure that that's exactly
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 5: the right one. But schools take a beating. And I
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 5: think sometimes, you know, we've seen the enemy and it's us.
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  Speaker 5: Instead of trying to do too many things, we ought
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 5: to try to do a few things and do them
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  Speaker 5: much better, much more correctly. Now, let's talk a little
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 5: bit about the state elections. The Democrats have chosen now
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 5: to make this Trump versus the world. And I know
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 5: you're going to say, oh, you're on the Trump bandwagon.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: I was attacked last week for that, and it's Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 5: But Trump's not running. And you want to make the argument, well,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 5: he's campaigning vicariously through these candidates.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 33: No.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 5: Some of them do not support him 100%. I know
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 5: the voice of freedom himself. Right-leaning, but does not go
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 5: lockstep with everything Trump says and does. And maybe he
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: took a beating for that. But he speaks the truth.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 5: But in particular... Rosa DeLauro, Chris Murphy, Dick, I Never
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 5: Met a Camera, I Didn't Like Blumenthal, and, of course,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 5: Field Marshal William Tong. I mean, I don't get it.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 5: Tong goes on TV, and he's absolutely defiant. we fought
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 5: Trump and we're winning I put Big Pharma out of
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: business and he names the families and the woman says
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 5: well what do you want to do I want to
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 5: fight what fight is he carrying on is he trying
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 5: to make a reputation for himself I think most people
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 5: have the opinion he's got a little man's complex, and
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 5: he does things that he thinks are going to win
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: him favor. Maybe he's thinking of a presidential appointment if,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 5: you know, the tide changes after Trump's term is up.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: And they'll say, oh, yeah, we remember Tong. He fought
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 5: for the little guys. I don't know. I see him.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 5: I just see a guy that I think is obnoxious.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: And Murphy, Mr. Murphy— He's got that beard. He's not
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: disguising himself, that's for sure. We know who we are, Chris.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 5: You know, you're not like a man of mystery. He's
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: another one. I think one of the greatest testaments was
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 5: he went to Iran, or to the Middle East, I
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 5: should say, and was denied entrance to one of the U.S.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 5: bases because he didn't have authorization to be there. And
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 5: when he told me he was a congressman, he said, oh,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 5: that's very good. Pardon me, a senator. That's very good, Mr.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 30: Murphy.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 5: Have a nice day. And then I think he may
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 5: have taken another trip this past week. But I mention
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 5: this because this is on a taxpayer's dime. Every time
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: Tong sues somebody, it's on a taxpayer's dime. He sues him,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 5: we pay. Murphy travels, we pay. Blumenthal, I mean, I
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 5: will say this to the guy. There's not a public
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 5: event he doesn't show up at. His limousine bill or
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 5: gas bill has got to be outrageous because he's everywhere.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 5: But again, a lot of his rhetoric is old. And again,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know how effective he is. So that's my
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 5: take on the pot. And Lamont, Governor Ned, Ned the Unaccountable,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 5: as Tony D calls him, has once again evoked the
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 5: name of Trump every time he opens his mouth. You know,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 5: there's a commercial on TV, trying to disparage Ryan Fazio,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 5: and they're asking him about Trump. Well, I think he's
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 5: doing a pretty good job. And then something else, Trump, well,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 5: I think he's doing a pretty good job. And you
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 5: know what? Trump makes mistakes. He's not a politician. He's
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 5: a businessman. People in business take chances. They go out
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: on the edge. And you know what? sometimes they do
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 5: make mistakes. But when he wins, he wins big. You know,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 5: and I think some of the chances he takes are
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: worth the chance of winning big. And when we talk
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 5: about the whole Middle East, the Iranians would be the
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 5: worst country ever to have a nuclear weapon. And so
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 5: if I had to code books in the The results
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 5: would have been a lot worse than what happened when
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 5: Trump attacked Iran. Hey, we're going on a break right now.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 5: This is Leo Ficini in for the voice of freedom,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 5: Leo C. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 7: It's on to Florida.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 39: I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News, where President Trump will rally
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 39: Republicans later today, 11 days before the elections, continuing a
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 39: nationwide tour. Sioux City, Iowa, last night, urging voters to
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 39: not let Democrats take control of Congress.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 40: They're going to open up the borders. They're going to
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 40: have men playing in women's sports.
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  Speaker 2: That's another beauty.
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  Speaker 28: But the proud people of Iowa will.
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  Speaker 7: Never let that happen. We just need the votes.
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  Speaker 39: He campaigned for Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who's in a close
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 39: Senate race with Democrat Josh Turek, who's running on affordability
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 39: amid low Trump approval poll numbers on inflation. And related
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 39: to that, the president touted this initiative to lower near-record
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 39: high diesel prices.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 28: Harvest fuel relief program providing our farmers.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 7: With $ 8 billion.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 28: To offset diesel costs in the harvest season.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 39: As oil prices rise again this morning, up more than 1%,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 39: bread crude at $ 114 a barrel is at a five-month
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 39: high over concerns of a flare-up in fighting with Iran looming.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 39: Also last night, the president talked about a controversial campaign
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 39: commercial in Ohio, urging Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 39: to keep running it, featuring Democrat Amy Acton's mom.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 40: Her mother said horrible things about her, called her a liar.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 5: Called her, I've never seen anything quite like it.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 39: The president says the GOP should thank God for an
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 39: ad like that featuring a mom against her daughter. But
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 39: other Republicans have joined the Acton campaign condemning the commercial,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 39: wanting it off the air. The Democrat's been estranged from
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 39: her mother since when Acton was a child. Their stepfather
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 39: was charged with sexually abusing her and never put on trial.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 8: Now to France, where more big protests are expected.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 39: This weekend after all the chaos across the country last weekend.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 56: Authorities have banned most marches and rallies, calling them illegitimate
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 56: and seditious. Curfews are the restrictions extended in an attempt
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 56: to clamp down on the rampant violence and destruction, but
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 56: with organizers still saying their activists will come out.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 8: That's Greg Palcott in Paris.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: America's listening to Fox News.
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  Speaker 12: Good morning.
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  Speaker 9: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 13: Sunshine today with a high around 65. Connecticut State Police
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 13: arrested 42-year-old Muhammad Manon of New York after allegedly clocking
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 13: him driving 116 miles per hour on I-395 in Waterford
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 13: early Wednesday. Manon was charged with reckless driving and released
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 13: on a $ 5, 000 bond. East Lime is receiving more than $ 505, 000
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 13: in state funding for two shoreline improvement projects at Black Point.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 13: The funding will support pier and shoreline repairs along Nianic
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 13: Bay and construction of an accessible pier, floating dock, and
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 13: kayak launch at Pataganza Estuary. Old Sayburg Public Schools has
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 13: restricted student access to chat GPT after fifth graders may
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 13: have shared personal information, including names and photos, with an
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 13: AI platform. The district is reviewing the incident, providing teachers
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 13: with AI safety training and developing online safety lessons for students.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 13: A proposed Stonington Tech Park would become headquarters for Applied
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 13: Physical Sciences, a General Dynamics subsidy. The project includes research, manufacturing.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 13: and office space, with further review scheduled for November 17th.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 13: Hopkington Police arrested 51-year-old Jay Grindle of Charlestown Thursday after
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 13: he allegedly drove drunk through a construction zone and nearly
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 13: struck an officer. Grindle faces felony assault and DUI charges
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 13: after reportedly swerving toward the officer and knocking over traffic cones.
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  Speaker 13: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break it down.
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  Speaker 22: Down on Bank Street where the old mill flows There's
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 22: a temple of foam where the halo glows Sign.
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  Speaker 9: Says muddy waters But the river's all talk.
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  Speaker 28: Home of the liberal mafia.
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  Speaker 4: Open to the last hour o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: They protect the mighty peasants from the window seat.
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  Speaker 46: One cold brew, one petition, and more a receipt.
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  Speaker 43: Nobody loves themselves more than the folks in that room.
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  Speaker 46: Progressives and carers united in gloom.
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me, barista. Is this cup fair trade? Is the
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  Speaker 7: tip jar inclusive?
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  Speaker 46: Is the muffin afraid?
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  Speaker 7: I march for the workers, now I'm black. the door
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  Speaker 7: Make it old, make.
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  Speaker 4: It extra Make it 24.
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  Speaker 46: Home of the liberal mafia, downtown New London pride. Home
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 46: of the mighty peasant protectors on the right side.
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  Speaker 43: They'll save the whole planet between sips and a scythe
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 43: and glare at your straw.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 46: Like it personally lies. The playlist is a cut. The
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 46: opinions are loud. I don't want to cause trouble, says
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 46: the queen of the line. But your signage is violent
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 46: and your lighting's unkind.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 43: I speak for the people who want in the shop.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 43: Now come my cross on or I'm calling a cop.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 9: Home of the liberal mafia.
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  Speaker 5: And we are back.
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  Speaker 46: Ladies and gentlemen, this.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 43: Is Leo Ficini in for the voice of freedom himself,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 43: Leo C.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 33: Remember.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 5: Freedom has a voice. Hey, I'm thinking that would be
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 5: a great group. While we're waiting for the Capitol Theater
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 5: to reopen, and we're told someday it will, that would
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 5: be a great group to headline the first show there.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 5: And in close proximity to Muddy's.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: Close proximity.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 9: We have a call.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: Distinguished Dr. Jan from Eastline wants to get on and
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 5: give us a... Good morning, Jan. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 49: I can barely hear you, so forgive me if I'm
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 49: not quite sharp on the conversation. But are we allowed
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 49: to discuss the debate, the two debates we had last week?
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, of course.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 49: OK, well, you know, for people who didn't get there,
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 49: I did write about it and I linked it. But
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 49: I wanted to point out some things that Martha Marcus
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 49: said in the debate. And in both debates, when they
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 49: were discussing the Eversource benefits charge and getting rid of it,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 49: she said, Ryan Fazio didn't do that, and she laughed.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 49: The Republicans can't do anything without, in one case she
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 49: said permission, and the other without the Democrats, because they're
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 49: the majority. So what she said was... which she implied
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 49: and she actually said, is that everything that goes on
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 49: in Hartford is only by the permission of the Democrats. Therefore,
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 49: they own unaffordability. Okay? So there you go.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 5: So she indicted herself.
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 49: Then she said she was for the just law, landlords,
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 49: you know, and evicting tenants. And she actually said... You know,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 49: a landlord can convict you for anything, the color of
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 49: your skin or.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 26: Who you love.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 49: That has been illegal for decades. And I know very
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 49: well that she knows people who years ago had problems
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 49: and brought court cases, okay? I know she knows that.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 49: So that was just a bold-faced lie. It sounded like
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 49: maybe she had a mini-stroke up there. And the third
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 49: thing she said, Coach, and maybe you can speak to this.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 49: She let the cat out of the bag. She said, well,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 49: we'll see what happens. I forget what exactly they were
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 49: talking about at the time. But I put the minute
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 49: that she says it in the post. She said, well,
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 49: when we regionalize the school, and then she made a
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 49: little aside. Yeah, that's coming.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 5: What was it she.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 49: What about the school's, She said that the Democrats are
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 49: going to regionalize the schools.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, they're going to regionalize the schools. You know what?
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 5: I love it when people outside of education start talking
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 5: about education and, you know, what their solutions are and
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 5: how easy it is to fix education. Because you know what?
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 5: If they spend a day in a classroom, and I'm
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 5: not talking about an honors class with 10 kids in it,
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 5: but a class that's heterogeneously grouped with kids of varying abilities,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: and you've got Traditionally, you've got some kids sometimes that
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 5: are recalcitrant. We'll use the term in lieu of a
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 5: better term. It's not always a bowl of cherries. And
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 5: so I think it takes a special breed of cat
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 5: to get in there and do the job. And we
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 5: don't need some talking head from Hartford to tell us
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: how we ought to do things. And, I mean, let's
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 5: face the facts here. If Paul Formica had run for
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 5: another term, she wouldn't have been elected. He beat her twice,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 5: he would have beaten her a third time. I think
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 5: she's on the verge, maybe, of losing her hat this time,
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 5: because the person she's running against is no slouch himself.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 49: Well, yeah, that was clear in the debate, because she
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 49: tried these gotchas. Well, you know, I know a lot
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 49: of your rich friends like to golf, and I don't know,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 49: maybe you golf too, so what are you going to
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 49: do if that legislature wants to outlaw certain pesticides that
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 49: they use in the golf course. And Lee said, I
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 49: don't know much about it, but I'm sure that's brought to,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 49: I'm paraphrasing, to my attention. I vote against it because
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 49: I've seen, you know, there's nothing worse than seeing the
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 49: animals die who get into those pesticides. So over and over.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 49: And my general takeaway is, and I'm very concerned about this,
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 49: for the Democrats in general, and that is divide and conquer.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 49: And divide and conquer is how we got the Mideast
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 49: the way it is now. After World War II, when
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 49: France and England divided up the Mideast and they drew
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 49: borders and they purposely put together groups who had grudges
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 49: and hated each other so they'd fight each other, England
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 49: ruled half the world by divide and conquer. And in Russia,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 49: they did divide and conquer. And what did they get?
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 49: They got a February revolution, where they got rid of
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 49: the czar. But then they had an October Bolshevik revolution,
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 49: and they were the one and only party now. And
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 49: then they start killing each other. It's such a dangerous tactic,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 49: and she did it constantly. She just served to try
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 49: to turn people against each other. And unfortunately, I'm seeing
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 49: some press that supports her. And again, she claims that
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 49: everything that's done in this state is done by the Democrats.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 49: So they're the ones who made our state unaffordable.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 5: Well, that's right. They're going to own, they will own
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 5: any of the things that have gone on. And as
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 5: a result, They'll have to face that in the end. And,
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 5: you know, the local media, the day paper, if it
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 5: leaned any farther to the left, it would fall over.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 5: And so anytime they report something, it's going to be
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: pro her and anti whoever is running against her.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 49: Well, I have one last thing, and I appreciate the time, Coach,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 49: that I want to say, and that is I noticed
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 49: that the politicians, the Democrats, they used to say a lot,
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 49: but they did a little with Ryan. Do you disavow Trump?
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 49: What do you think of Trump? This is the party
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 49: that ran in a primary a liberal Nazi, a guy
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 49: with a Nazi totenkopf. They ran another guy, Falwell, with
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 49: a history of abuse. They were running... in this town,
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 49: and women are starting to really pick up on this,
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 49: a man who said he'd like to hit a female
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 49: legislator in the face. Now, he says, I didn't say
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 49: it to her. He's not denying he said it. He says,
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 49: I didn't say it to her. But he said it
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 49: in a hearing. And I've said this on the air before. Women,
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 49: wake up. You know, your party is running a man
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 49: locally who said this. And if You know what? I
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 49: invite Nick because I know he can come on this
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 49: show and defend himself, but he's not doing it. And
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 49: yet all the Democrats in East Lyme had their picture
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 49: taken with him. So you know what? You've got a
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 49: local homegrown guy. Are you going to deny him? Are
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 49: you going to deny Swalwell and the Nazis? Because those are,
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 49: you know, if you want to ask the question about Trump,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 49: let's ask the question about those.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 5: Well, and again, I think I said this last week,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 5: you know, this whole Epstein thing, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 5: You know what? Trump's not the only one to visit
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 5: that island. And if Trump was dirty, it would have
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 5: come out before now.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 49: Oh, yeah. There's no way the Biden administration would have
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 49: sat on that during the running against Kamala.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 5: No, not at all.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 49: No way. Well, thank you for the time, Coach. Have
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 49: a good weekend.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 5: You're welcome, Jan. Appreciate it. Hey, let's talk about— we had
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 5: some positive stuff last night in local sports action. London
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 5: went up and beat Kenley 61-6. And now while people
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 5: might say, well, you know, that's a big score. You
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 5: know what? Turnabout is fair play. And I know last
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 5: year Killingly put the boost to him by a similar score.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 5: And not to say that, you know, it was retribution.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 5: The Maddox kid, Maddox Moore, pardon me, scored six touchdowns
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 5: in the first half. And then I understand the reserves
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 5: were in for the second half. And to me, it
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 5: seems that, you know, Killingly is way down this year.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 5: And New London is having a good season. So, you know,
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 5: kudos to their staff. Jack's doing a good job getting
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 5: those kids coached up. And they need to be congratulated.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 5: In the other game, Stonington went up and beat Bacon
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 5: and Egg Academy 66 to nothing for their first win
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 5: of the year. Now, and again, I wasn't at the game.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 5: I didn't see what went on. But that's a sizable score.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 5: And I guess the argument could be made for score management.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 5: That's maybe a league thing. I know that there's been
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of discussion about it. You know, is that
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 5: equitable or right or whatever? You know, there are some
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 5: circumstances that maybe would preclude scores like that. But, you know,
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 5: in this particular instance, I can't say because I wasn't there,
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 5: but Congratulations to Stonington on their win and, of course,
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 5: to the Whalers on their big win. Now, you know, Groton,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 5: sovereign capital of the world, we have a Navy ROTC program,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 5: junior ROTC program, that was started by Lieutenant Commander Retired
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 5: Terry Henkel. One of the finest gentlemen you'll ever meet.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 5: Gulf War veteran, retired from the Navy. as a litany
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 5: of awards and accolades. And, you know, for some reason,
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 5: that program was never fully funded. In every other NJROTC program,
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 5: the instructor just does NJROTC. At Fitch, Lieutenant Commander Henkel
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 5: was teaching science and then was teaching the NJROTC program
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 5: So it was kind of part-time. And then in terms of,
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 5: you know, getting them all the accoutrements and things they need,
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 5: I'm not so sure that was happening. In fact, I'll
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 5: go out on a limb and say it wasn't happening.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 5: So as a result, the numbers were down and the
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 5: program was, you know, in danger. The Navy would come
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 5: in and say, well, you don't have enough people in
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 5: the program. We're going to close it down. because they
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 5: do subsidize some of it. But Joe Dela Cruz is
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 5: running for office. Heather Summers is running for office. And
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 5: if either one of them gets in, well, Heather's in,
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 5: and if Joe gets back in, one of their priorities
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 5: ought to be, you know what, get that program up
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 5: to where it should be. Submarine capital of the world.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 5: We ought to have 300 kids in that program. And
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 5: I want to say this to you. That was one,
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 5: when I taught at New London High for the 19
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 5: years I was there, the NJROTC program that Brian Smith
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 5: and Ted, I forget his last name now, started, was
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 5: the best program in the building.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 9: And it was full of kids.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 5: They loved it. You talk about pride, school spirit, esprit
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 5: de corps and all that stuff. Fantastic program. And that's
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 5: a program worth investing in. And worth putting some time
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 5: and energy in. Let me see where we're at here.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 5: I know we'll have a guest at the bottom of
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 5: the hour. We're going to talk about boating. And I'm thinking.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 5: Part of the discussion will be about the luxury tax
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 5: that the Democrats are trying to hang on us. But
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 5: the other part is there's been tremendous public concern and
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 5: awareness about voting regulations and as a result of a
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 5: very tragic accident at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 5: And then that overshadowed a previous incident. up by the
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 5: Goodspeed Opera House on the Connecticut River, where a good
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 5: friend and a friend of the station, Wayne Hamler, lost
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 5: his life. And, you know, without going into the specifics
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 5: of either accident, there are some catalysts. And, you know,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 5: I can only say that driving at night in a
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 5: boat is one of the more dangerous things that I
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 5: think I've ever done. I went one time to Noank,
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 5: to Ford's Lobster Place, and then it was light. Going
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 5: over there was no problem. But coming back at night,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 5: it was dark, and the boat I was in was,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 5: you know, not a big boat, a smaller boat. And
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 5: there were no lights. And I'll tell you, when we
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 5: got to the mouth of the Connecticut River, pardon me,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 5: the Thames River, and the boats were coming out of
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 5: the themes. I want to tell you something. I had
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 5: to say I was generally scared to the point where
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 5: I thought maybe we were going to go belly up.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 5: So the whole thing with boating, it's great. Go out
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 5: on a nice sunny day, you're out on the boat,
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 5: everyone's having a good time, but there can be some
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 5: times when it's not so great. I understand we've got
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 5: a call. My brother from another mother, Dan from East Hampton.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 2: What is going on, Coach?
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 42: My brother from another species.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 5: That's good.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 33: You know what?
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 5: I like that.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 42: Listen, I'm visiting Mom. I guess technically I'm Dan from
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 42: Florida today. But I wanted to say on the trip down,
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 42: some of the southern states, South Carolina and Georgia in particular,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 42: you know, gas is like $ 3.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 20: 49 a.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 42: And diesel is like a five and some middle change.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 42: And I just wanted everybody out there to understand that
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 42: something like, you know, I know there's a 25% tax
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 42: on the fuel there at the state. You know, they're
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 42: making money on every gallon of gas, making money on
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 42: everybody's pain in all of New England. Man, and it's
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 42: not a small amount, Coach.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 24: I mean, it's a lot.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 42: These states are in the same country we're in.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 5: 25 cents on a gallon of regular gas, 50 cents
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 5: on a gallon of diesel.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 42: Plus the sales tax. So there's an insane amount of
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 42: money getting made by these. You know, while they stand
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 42: there and point to Trump... Whatever the structure is, in
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 42: just states, a few states to the south of New England,
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 42: the fuel bill could theoretically be $ 3. 39 now instead of $ 4. 59
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 42: or whatever it is in these states up there. This
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 42: has got everything to do with the corruption in the states.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 42: You know, I've been railing. A couple of things have
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 42: really been bothering me. I own a property up in Maine.
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 42: It was a good-sized piece of property. And about three
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 42: years ago, I sold two-thirds of it and kept a
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 42: third of the property. It's a pretty good-sized piece of property.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 42: You know that in the last three years, my tax
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 42: bill has increased by enough to be the same as
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 42: it was before I sold the property.
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 5: And that's a big mistake, right?
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 42: Open land. So the tax, my taxes have doubled in
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 42: three years. And so, you know, our fearless leader there
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 42: in the studio, who's been championing, you know, freezing the taxes,
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 42: freezing property taxes for people on social security. And, you know, that,
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 42: that tax, that property tax is one of the most
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 42: insidious and crushing taxes that we humans face. anywhere on
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 42: the earth. You cannot actually just live your life in
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 42: peace because you have to rent your land back from
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 42: the state, which is so crooked. I think of all
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 42: the taxes, it's probably the wrongest one. I mean, that's
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 42: not consumption. You're talking about the place where you lived.
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 42: So you have to constantly hustle up money to pay what.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 5: The kids want to do.
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 42: And a lot of them now are talking about a
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 42: luxury tax too now, Coach, right? They drive by. They
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 42: don't like the fact that Coach is driving a G-Wagon,
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 42: you know, a nice Mercedes G60 or whatever is in
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 42: your driveway after all these faithful years of teaching at
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 42: the schools. And you know what? You're going to have
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 42: to pay again. This is what's in store for you.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 42: And the only people that could possibly be happy about this, Coach,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 42: has got to be the indigent population who's living off
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 42: the state arm. They're living off of our money. And
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 42: we're getting taxed right out of our places, right out
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 42: of the places we live, right out of our house.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 42: You know, so you talk about, oh, landlord rights and everything.
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 42: You know, Martha, I guess Jan was just talking about it.
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 42: Martha was talking about landlords can kick people out. What
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 42: about the taxes that kick you out? You know, your
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 42: derriere will be on the curb with all your stuff,
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 42: you know, sitting out on the curb. You're seeing that
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 42: more and more.
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 3: For taxes, Coach, for taxes.
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to tell you, you know, you pay
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 5: tax when you– car tax is one that really galls
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 5: me because you pay a tax when you buy the car.
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 5: And then you're being taxed on it every year. And,
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 5: you know, again, if you don't pay your tax, I mean,
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 5: you'll get away with it for a while, but then
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 5: eventually when you go to register your car, re-register it
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 5: or get your license, they'll chop you off at the knees. Hey, Dan,
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 5: we've got less than a minute to go. I'm getting
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 5: a signal here from the engineer to the stars. But
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 5: I appreciate your call in, and I hope everything's well
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 5: with your mom, and have a good visit.
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  Speaker 13: after two dirt bikes were reportedly stolen from Groton's Pequonic
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 13: Bridge area. Authorities say the owner followed the bike's onto
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 13: Route 117 and allegedly struck one near Gallup Hill Road.
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 13: One person was taken into custody while the second dirt
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 13: bike fled. Hopkington Police arrested 51-year-old Jay Grindle of Charlestown
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 13: Thursday after he allegedly drove drunk through a construction zone
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 13: and nearly struck an officer. Grindle faces felony assault and
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 13: DUI charges after reportedly swerving toward the officer and knocking.
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  Speaker 9: Over traffic cones. I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 9: break in.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Leo Ficini. I'm in
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 5: for the voice of freedom, Lee Elsie. Proud and pleased
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 5: to be able to do that. We have an outstanding guest,
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 5: local entrepreneur and former coach Don McKenzie. originally from North Carolina,
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 5: but then moved to Maine and played sports, and is
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 5: a U Maine alumni. And Don, you want to tell
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 5: us a little bit about yourself?
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 29: Well, my time at U Maine, Leo, was short. I
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 29: wasn't quite ready for college yet, had the leash taken off.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 29: So they let me go my freshman year. I was
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 29: kind of embarrassed. to go back home to my town,
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 29: so I joined the Navy. And that's how I ended
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 29: up in Connecticut.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what. I would say this, if
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 5: I look back on college, I mean, a lot of
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 5: us are on a razor's edge with making it or
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 5: not making it, going to college, because typically a lot
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 5: of high school kids are not ready to make that
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 5: leap into adulthood. And it's, you know, it's easy. College,
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 5: it's not like high school. You don't get do-overs. You know,
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 5: you don't get do-overs. So you joined the Navy. And
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 5: what branch? What did you do?
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 2: I was in the Navy.
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 29: And during my boot camp and school time, that's usually
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 29: the first year, I found out submarine duty paid the
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 29: most and fed the best. And so if I qualified,
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 29: I wanted to get into the submarine duty, and I did.
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 29: And The whole thing of flunking out of school, being
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 29: told by a teacher that you can't cut it, and
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 29: then to go in the Navy and start learning their
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 29: systems and their procedures and respect.
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 2: Helped me who I am today.
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 5: Well, I think there's a maturation process that goes on
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 5: with all of us. You know, you get your bottom whacked,
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 5: and then you turn around and say, well, geez, you know,
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 5: maybe there's a better way, a different way, And, you know,
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 5: you obviously learned from that because you were very, very
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 5: successful as a businessman and as a coach. So now
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 5: you worked at EB, you were a machinist, and then
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 5: you went back to college.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 29: Again, this is part of the process that made me
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 29: who I am is that I went there as a
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 29: second-step learner, Leo.
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 2: I still have my first paycheck stub of $ 4. 76 an hour.
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 29: After getting out of the Navy and spending four years
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 29: on submarines, they saw some things in me. And I
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 29: worked overtime. And they said, look, we're going to send
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 29: you to college. You get a C or better in
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 29: every course. We'll pay for the courses. And my weakest
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 29: subject was math. And in a few years of driving
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 29: back and forth to Bridgeport at night, I graduated University
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 29: of Bridgeport.
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 2: I had a degree in engineering.
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 45: Wow.
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 29: So the hands-on experience in the submarine, working in the
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 29: shipyard and building the boats, and then getting the engineering degree,
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 29: I was kind of like a MacGyver, if you will.
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 29: I could look at a lot of things differently and
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 29: help solve a lot of issues. Then they found out
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 29: I was a good salesman, so I moved into contracts,
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 29: and it helped negotiate contracts for future submarines and changes
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 29: to the submarines.
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 5: Now, so you made that climb up the big ladder from,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 5: you know, Being a nuts and bolts guy to working
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 5: up on the hill, let's say. How long were you
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 5: at EVN total?
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 2: Twelve years.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 5: And now, you were doing, you seem, outwardly seem doing
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 5: real good. What made you leave?
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 2: Great question. Two reasons. I had a friend that was
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 2: an actor, but not really an actor.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 29: He was like a background guy in Seinfeld or Lassie
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 29: or something like that.
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 42: And.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 29: He bought a liquor store in Essex, Connecticut. And he
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 29: lived in a house on the water and he drove
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 29: a Mercedes. And I saw the entrepreneurial side. And I
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 29: knew the Cold War was ending in EB. We had 25,000
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 29: people working there at the time. And it was destined
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 29: to cut back to about 8,000. And even though I
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 29: was good at what I did, I knew I was
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 29: still a number. And eventually the defense budget was cut.
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 29: So now they're building it back up.
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 9: It's huge.
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 29: It's going to be a monster again. But I knew
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 29: my time was up as far as It was inevitable.
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 29: So I went and bought a liquor store in Mystic,
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 29: Connecticut and did very well with that. I monitored traffic.
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 29: I was a nut about numbers. And, you know, people
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 29: go to Dunkin' Donuts on the way into work and
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 29: stop at a liquor store on the way home. And
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 29: I did real well. And I sold it in three
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 29: years because Anheuser-Busch came to me and goes, whatever you're
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 29: doing here, come do for us. And I went to
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 29: work for Budweiser and One day I sponsored a fishing
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 29: tournament at Boats Incorporated, and I fell in love with
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 29: the place. And I saw a lot of potential for growth.
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 29: And I was very excited about that.
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 5: So you wound up at Boats Incorporated as a result
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 5: of a fishing tournament. That is amazing. And now share
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 5: some of the Boats Incorporated. From the time you were
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 5: a worker, you originally owned the place, didn't you?
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 9: No, no.
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: I went there as a salesman.
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 29: I took a pay cut to leave Budweiser to go
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 29: there as a salesman. Because I didn't like the pressure
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 29: of the distributorship. They were all concerned about numbers. And
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 29: they already had a 70% market share anyway. And so
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 29: I saw growth because only 1% of the people owned boats.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 29: So I saw, let's make it 2%. So I went
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 29: there and I clicked really well with the customers. They
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 29: have almost 180 slips in the water there. They have
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 29: like 35 employees. And I went there as a salesman
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 29: and started doing pretty well. And the two partners that
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 29: were there were not getting along very well. One ran service,
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 29: one ran the sales, and they would fight. So Anheuser-Busch
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 29: offered me another position to come back, and I told
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 29: one of the partners that I've been offered a position
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 29: to come back. My in-laws were in Florida. My parents
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 29: were in Florida. The job was in Florida, in the
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 29: Tampa region. And I told the partner that I think
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 29: I was going to leave just because I didn't like
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 29: the fighting between the two of them. We want to
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 29: work together. And he said, let's buy him out. And
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 29: lo and behold, that was, long story short, I sold
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 29: my liquor store, had the money for two weeks, and
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 29: spent the money on Boats Incorporated and bought shares of that.
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 5: So you were the, so would you call yourself the co-owner, president?
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 29: At the time, I was a partner. eventually, the guy
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 29: I bought in with was a bit older than me.
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 2: He was a senior. He just said, you're the president now.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: I'm going to Florida.
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 29: And so I ran the day-to-day, and with my other partner,
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 29: who was a CPA from Travelers, and we ran it day-to-day,
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 29: and it turned out it was.
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 5: A really, really good... It's got to be the most
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 5: preeminent boating sales place in the whole eastern, maybe the
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 5: state of Connecticut. I haven't been down to Bridgeport or
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 5: New Haven, but It is one of the famous and,
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 5: you know, you guys did a great job with the
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 5: remake of the building. And I know they did some
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 5: major renovations out there in the past few years, you know.
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Leo.
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 29: That's wonderful that you said that. I mean, I didn't
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 29: pay you to say that, but I'm really proud of
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 29: what that place is. When it came time to sell it,
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 29: we went and found a guy who could do that.
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 29: And I still visit him almost on a weekly basis
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 29: or every couple weeks.
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 2: He's a friend.
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 29: And I didn't sell and leave. You know, I spent
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 29: some time making sure he did things a certain way.
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 29: And I've learned a lot from him, too. He came
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 29: from Wall Street. And now he commutes every day from Darien.
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 2: Every day.
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 38: Wow.
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 5: Now, all right. So we're here today because, once again,
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 5: government is trying to put the squeeze on the little guy.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 5: And I believe it. I want to get this right
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 5: now because I don't want my friends at Muddy Waters
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 5: to be mad at me. House Bill 5129, which essentially
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 5: adds a luxury tax on recreation boats. And who's sponsoring
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 5: this bill?
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 29: Just to rewind a little bit, I got involved in
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 29: politics the minute I sold Boats Incorporated. I didn't want to,
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 29: but I was convinced by John Birmingham from the Old
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 29: Smith Pharmacy.
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 29: He's a good man, another good salt of the earth,
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 29: a bit of a mentor to me as far as
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 29: local politics.
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 5: I think he used to live in Pleasure Beach in Waterford.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 2: He still has that place.
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 2: Good job.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 29: He convinced me to run for a board of selectmen.
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 29: I'd never been in politics before. I did it for
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 29: a term. I got voted out, and it's okay. And
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 29: now I'm chair of the Eastline Republicans.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 38: All right.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 29: And we're in a race right now with our candidate
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 29: versus their candidate. And any time I get ready to
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 29: put something out or I want to put a new
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 29: story out, I make sure before I hit the send
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 29: key that it's true. And so we're going through all
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 29: of the person we're running against, all his bills and
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 29: things he voted for. And we know there's some trends,
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 29: and naturally he votes with the party almost all the time.
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 14: But.
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 29: Something that came up that's near and dear to me
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 29: was the voting bill where they put a luxury tax
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 29: on boats.
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 2: It was proposed. Now, understand, this is not this is
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 2: not a.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 29: Bill yet it's still it was in committee but i'm
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 29: saying he's got a guy who lived through a luxury
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 29: tax in 19 the early 90s and it was a
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 29: complete failure complete failure i mean it cost 25 000
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 29: jobs it closed factories that build boats forever And that's
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 29: one thing this country still has is boat building, meaning
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 29: we own boat building in the world. We're the best
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 29: boat builders. And for Viking Yachts in New Jersey to
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 29: close its factory down because of luxury tax, and.
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 2: It was devastating, even just to get it back. And
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 2: I lived through that.
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 29: I remember Leo actually, with my general manager, taking money
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 29: out of a soda machine to make payroll.
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 2: It's a tough business. It's very cyclical.
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 29: And everybody goes, well, the guys who have the votes
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 29: should be able to pay the tax. They can pay
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 29: the tax. The problem is, it's their choice. And if
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 29: they don't buy, then nothing happens. I have this saying
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 29: that nothing happens in this world until somebody buys something
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 29: or sells something. I mean, the guy that sells a car,
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 29: he may respect the profession or not, whatever, but the
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 29: guy that makes the valve sims for the tires gets
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 29: an order when he sells a car.
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 2: And it's important about the economic things. And so.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 29: To see everything just come to a stop. I mean,
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 29: if you had a lot of inventory at 8%, 9%,
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 29: 10% floor plan, you're in trouble.
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 29: If you ordered a boat that wasn't being made, I mean,
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 29: the guys literally working the New York Boat Show would
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 29: just stop buying. Wall Street, we're not buying any product
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 29: at all. And everybody goes, well, they're rich guys and
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 29: they have the money.
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 2: They do. They do have the money to buy the boat. However,
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 2: it's not about them.
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 29: We have the Connecticut Marine Trades Association, which this state
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 29: employs about 15,000 workers in the marine industry. First ones
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 29: that go with them, they're craftsmen. They do fiberglass. They
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 29: do engine repairs, whether inboard, outboard, electronics, the accessory business. Well,
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 29: I mean, I'll go right to Niantic. Niantic is a destination.
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 29: And people come to the water, and they want to
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 29: get out on the water. And there's a luxury tax associated.
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 5: Well, it seems like they're just... Shoveling on another unnecessary
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 5: fee because, okay, this person's got money to buy that boat.
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 5: Tag them with a luxury tax. They can pay it.
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 5: You know what? And that's not always the case. What
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 5: appears to be may not be the real thing.
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 29: The guys are saying, I don't have to have a boat.
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 29: So they've worked hard for the money.
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 2: They've earned it. They've assumed risk. So they're going to
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 2: spend it hard, too.
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 29: And they're not going to be penalized $ 10, 000.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 4: $ 20, 000.
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 2: In a tax that's going to get wasted.
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 29: And in part of the bill, that specific bill, oh,
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 29: by the way, this is the part that got me alarmed,
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 29: is that there were six sponsors, co-sponsors of the bill.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 2: And two of them were from Waterford and Niantic.
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 5: Who were these people?
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 2: The two Knicks.
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 5: Menopase?
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Knicks.
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 5: Gauthier?
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 2: Gauthier, yes.
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 29: And they were co-sponsors. And they co-sponsor a lot of
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 29: things together. I like to refer to it sometimes as
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 29: Twin Cities. We work together pretty well. But anyway, these
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 29: two guys are going, wait a minute, why didn't you
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 29: just come to me, talk to me, so I could
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 29: tell you the downside of what this can do? Because
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 29: it will just shut things down.
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 5: Trickle-down economics, right?
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly trickle-down. Exactly. And it's a perfect example.
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 29: And if you look at Main Street, Niantic, everything depends
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 29: on people coming to the shore and accessing to the shore.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 29: And a lot of people don't realize this either, is
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 29: that we sell... The specialty in Niantic is family fishing.
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 29: A lot of people don't realize that Niantic is the
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 29: single biggest fishing port in the state of Connecticut.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 2: Do you know why? We're on top of the fish.
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 2: The fish are... And gas is a big thing to
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 2: get out to the fish. I mean, the race is
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 2: nine miles away.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 29: There's current there all the time, and that means there's
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 29: bait all the time. That means there's fish all the time.
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 12: And.
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 29: And so people get there, put in. The busiest boat
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 29: ramp in the state. Everybody thinks it's the Connecticut River
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 29: in Old Sabre.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 2: You know? Wonderful. That boat ramp is the busiest boat
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 2: ramp in the state.
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 37: Wow.
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you look at the longevity of those boats,
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 5: the My Joy, the fishing boats in the Nianic River.
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 5: They've been there a long time, so you know it
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 5: must be a successful endeavor.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 2: And those are the guys who want to go fishing
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 2: for a day for $ 100. Yeah.
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 29: And the Black Hawk is huge. He does a great
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 29: job promoting his business. We even do sunset cruises on
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 29: that to go seal watch. He's a great captain, a
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 29: great place. And there's part of the business in that
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 29: trickle-down we're talking about, the bait and tackle, the charter business,
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 29: the beer and wine stores, the hotels– All the restaurants
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 29: on Main Street in Niantic, they all come there. I mean,
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  Speaker 29: the people that have second homes in Niantic for access
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  Speaker 29: to the water, the boardwalk.
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  Speaker 5: Don, can we take a call? We've got a great
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  Speaker 5: friend of the show, Colonel Rob Simmons on line one.
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  Speaker 2: I love listening to him.
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  Speaker 5: He's one of the best.
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  Speaker 45: Colonel.
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  Speaker 26: Hey, good morning. How are we doing today, guys?
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  Speaker 14: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Good to hear you, Colonel. Missed your voice.
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  Speaker 26: Well, good to hear what you're talking about because it's
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  Speaker 26: the same old story here in Connecticut. You can't fix stupid.
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  Speaker 26: I was a state rep in the 1990s, and the
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  Speaker 26: same stupid idea came from the Democrat Party. Let's put
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  Speaker 26: a tax on the rich people's boats. And you know
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  Speaker 26: what happened? We got a lot of boats in Stonington.
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  Speaker 26: I was my district, 43rd district. A lot of boats
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  Speaker 26: in Mystic. A lot of boats here. A lot of
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  Speaker 26: boats all the way down to the coastline.
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  Speaker 45: You know what?
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  Speaker 26: They go to Rhode Island, okay? They don't stay here.
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  Speaker 26: They go to Rhode Island. They go to Wacho. They
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  Speaker 26: go along the Rhode Island coastline or up the Park
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  Speaker 26: and Up River. And down in Greenwich, they moved the
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  Speaker 26: big yacht to New York.
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  Speaker 47: Simple.
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  Speaker 26: And then, again, same stupid people said, there's a lot
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  Speaker 26: of executive jet planes coming into New London, and they're
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  Speaker 26: coming into the Greenwich area. let's put a big tax
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  Speaker 26: on those executive jets. What did they do? They flew away.
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  Speaker 26: So I'm kind of laughing here because this is a
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  Speaker 26: battle I fought back in the 90s, and we won
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  Speaker 26: in the 90s. And now these same stupid members of
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  Speaker 26: the same stupid party are doing it all over again.
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  Speaker 26: It's just dumb. So thank you for your commentary.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Colonel, I'll tell you, you can't fix stupid, as
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  Speaker 5: you often say, and You know, these guys think they're
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  Speaker 5: going to make an extra buck today at the expense
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  Speaker 5: of the rich people. It's just like the billionaires. They're
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  Speaker 5: after the billionaires in the state.
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  Speaker 33: You know what?
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  Speaker 7: Don't move.
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  Speaker 5: They won't stay here.
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  Speaker 17: No.
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  Speaker 57: No.
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  Speaker 26: And guess what? If somebody is really rich, unless they're
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  Speaker 26: a Rockefeller and they inherited it, and most of the
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  Speaker 26: rich people in America today make it on their own,
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  Speaker 26: guess what, Coach? They're smart.
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  Speaker 42: They're not stupid. They're not stupid.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's how Nid the Inaccountable has been surviving.
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  Speaker 26: That's why Connecticut had like about 23 billionaires 15, 12,
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  Speaker 26: 15 years ago. Now they're down, I think, to seven.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 26: Seven or eight. You know, there's some like Steve Cohen
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  Speaker 26: and a few others that are hanging tough. But when
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  Speaker 26: I was raising money for my congressional races— I had
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  Speaker 26: wealthy people tell me, we can't, we love you, we
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  Speaker 26: can't give to you. We're moving our business to Florida.
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  Speaker 26: And if we support you, the state of Connecticut will
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 26: come back and say we're a state resident. I mean,
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  Speaker 26: we had that. Wealthy investors at the Stoneacres Farm here
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  Speaker 26: in Stonington say, look, Rob, we'd love to invest some money,
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  Speaker 26: but we're moving our whole business down to Florida. And
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  Speaker 26: if we invest in your farm, your family farm, which
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  Speaker 26: is saving 80 acres of farmland here in Tonigan, if
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 26: we invest in it, the Connecticut DRS, Department of Revenue Services,
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  Speaker 26: will come after us and say we're Connecticut residents and
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 26: tax us. I mean, it's unbelievable how stupid the Democrats
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 26: have become in the state of Connecticut with this tax
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 26: the rich nonsense, which does not work. What works is
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 26: reduce corporate taxes. Tax the rich less and stimulate the economy.
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  Speaker 26: And oh, by the way, get rid of the sanctuary cities,
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  Speaker 26: which are unfortunate and give us nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Colonel, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 26: Okay, always good to hear you guys talk. Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Don, before we close out, what is the credo that's
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 5: helped you in life the most?
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  Speaker 2: Life's about relationships.
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  Speaker 29: The fact that I know so many people And I've learned,
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  Speaker 29: and I've really learned that they're mentors to me. Some
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 29: of these people have been successful, as the colonel just said.
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  Speaker 29: That's when I want to learn from how they did
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  Speaker 29: certain things. One of my favorite guys is the guy
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 29: who invented the Excel hand dryer in the bathrooms.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it just, he taught me a lot about business.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same.
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  Speaker 29: Everybody has a different craft or something they're selling. But
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 29: he taught me how to treat people, how to run
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  Speaker 29: a business, how to treat employees.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be a... I'd scream and yell a
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 2: lot because I had a personal guarantee. You know what
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 2: that is, right?
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  Speaker 39: Yeah.
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  Speaker 29: And so you sign a personal guarantee, you're liable regardless.
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 29: Your house is not protected anymore. Your 401k is not.
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 29: So you're nervous at night when you go to bed
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 29: to make sure that you have enough money to, so
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 29: that kind of pressure would get me to scream and yell.
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 2: As I get older, you get wiser. And so, and
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  Speaker 2: So I've learned, I tell all the kids I coach,
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  Speaker 2: life's about relationships. Hold the door. Help some people.
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  Speaker 29: And one day you'll be sitting in front of them
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  Speaker 29: for a job interview. And I spend a lot, I
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 29: don't have children, so I have a lot of time
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 29: spending coaching these kids to do this. The other one
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  Speaker 29: is nothing happens in this world until somebody sells something.
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 29: Meaning that when somebody sells, whether it be John selling
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 29: a radio spot, whether it be a guy selling a car,
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 29: whether it be a guy selling a lawnmower, a piece
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 29: of furniture, the guy that makes it, He can't sell,
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 29: but he can make it. And if that teamwork works,
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 29: then all of a sudden an economy takes place. And
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 29: when you put something in the way of stopping that economy,
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 29: then it all stops. And then all of a sudden
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 29: we're living off the government. Then you have bankruptcies, then
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 29: you have doors closing, and it's horrible. The American way
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 29: is the right way. Let us do it. If you're
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 29: successful and you work hard at it, you're going to
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 29: do fine.
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  Speaker 5: In general, I've found my own career.
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 5: You know, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 5: And hard work always, you're always going to be better off.
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 5: The harder you work, you're always going to be better off.
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  Speaker 2: Sports has a lot to do with that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you, to me, sports taught me a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It had a great impact on my life. And people
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  Speaker 5: I coached, like the former host here, you know, I
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 5: take great pleasure in the fact that if I was
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 5: able to contribute one scintilla of positiveness in his life,
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 5: then I think it was, I consider that a success.
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 5: Would you consider coming back sometime and talk to us
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 5: some more at length about your experiences and stuff in
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 5: business and in life?
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to.
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  Speaker 5: I think it'd be great to have you. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: thank you so much for listening in today. I know
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 5: sometimes we're right on the edge, but you know, appreciate
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 5: all of you and Have a great weekend. The engineer
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 5: tells me the weather for today is variable light during
• 2:49:39
  Speaker 5: the day and dark at night. Enjoy.