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January 21, 2026 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_08]: This is CBS News on the hour.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Steve Kathan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: President Trump makes the case for US control of Greenland at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, CBS's Linda Kenya.
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[SPEAKER_12]: After weeks of saying the US will take Greenland either by buying it or using force.
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[SPEAKER_12]: President Trump offered a somewhat different presentation.
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[SPEAKER_10]: We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable.
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[SPEAKER_10]: But I won't do that.
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[SPEAKER_12]: The President added ownership is the only acceptable solution.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You need the ownership to defend it.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You can't defend it on a lease.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Trump repeated U.S. ownership is a matter of both national and global security.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sex offender Galane Maxwell is now set to give a deposition before congressional investigator says we hear from CBS's Alice in T. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a prison camp in Texas, but now House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer says she will be deposed by his committee February 9th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had previously said he didn't wish to interview her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Republicans have been continuing a probe into the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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[SPEAKER_04]: As part of that investigation, Comer has begun to push to hold former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We repeatedly informed the Clinton's attorney that written statements would not be accepted.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The subpoenas required depositions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Federal courts have consistently held that witnesses may not impose their own conditions upon the manner of congressional inquiries.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments in the case about President Trump's effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
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[SPEAKER_05]: CBS's Michael Wallace Trump tried to outskook last year for just cause accusing her of mortgage fraud.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She denies allegations that she listed two separate properties as her primary residence.
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[SPEAKER_05]: U.S. solicitor General John Sauer argued before the justices.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Deceite or gross negligence by a financial regulator in financial transactions is caused for removal.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Never in the Fed's 112-year history has a president try to fire a sitting governor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: While jury deliberations could begin soon in a civil trial involving the nation's largest retailer and an employee who took his own life.
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[SPEAKER_23]: Jacob Mason's family sued Walmart after the 23-year-old shot and killed himself with a gun, he had bought at the Walmart where he worked in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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[SPEAKER_23]: The federal civil lawsuit alleges negligence on Walmart's part, claiming storm managers were well aware of Mason's mental health struggles and still allowed him to buy a weapon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and checking Wall Street right now the Dow is up 290 points, the S&P is up 31.
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[SPEAKER_34]: I really appreciate you picking up the bill for lunch.
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[SPEAKER_32]: I'm happy to.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Nike is facing social media blowback and so is NBA superstar LeBron James.
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[SPEAKER_31]: It's what the Hoop superstar is standing on, that's stirring up controversy LeBron James newly released Nike sneaker honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in a bright shade of turquoise.
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[SPEAKER_31]: Takes its inspiration from the color of the Lorraine Motel and Memphis, where King was shot and killed on April 4, 1968.
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[SPEAKER_31]: Social media critics call it tone-deft, tasteless, and shameful sums suggest there aren't enough black decision-makers at Nike.
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[SPEAKER_31]: The word equality is written on the heel of LeBron's honor the King sneaker.
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[SPEAKER_04]: CBS News, conservative commentator and former sports broadcaster Michelle Tafoya has announced the Republican run for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She used to be a sideline reporter on NBC's Sunday Night Football Broadcasts.
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[SPEAKER_38]: The high will be 28.
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[SPEAKER_38]: Tonight will remain breezy with intermittent snowfall adding up to 3-6 inches.
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[SPEAKER_21]: The Hotline with Jeff Graham is here and good afternoon you're what it all on.
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[SPEAKER_21]: What to do now to be a snowy Tuesday Wednesday period there?
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[SPEAKER_21]: We got about what we got here in the city.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Ten inches maybe?
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's an out in the hinterlands, they've got a little more areas south of us much more Orange coroner who's Belleville all over the areas, but we got a bit here.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Everything was cleaned up by Seven this morning, you know, people did a good job And well, I saw where we are here at the North Country.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Get her done.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Get her done.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It was a fire out on Route 283 today.
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[SPEAKER_21]: That's the outer Pearl Street.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Goodness, it's out near right near with a Lafave Road comes in.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know if the road's blocked or what it is.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But it looks pretty bad.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's kind of where they were with the cold.
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[SPEAKER_21]: People trying to keep the place warm and you never know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Hopefully everybody's okay, but it's still Still a bad situation.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm gonna, you know somebody sent me a picture of it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You know what I'm gonna do you know what I'm gonna do?
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[SPEAKER_21]: In the interest of Well, I thought I was gonna do it There it is.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm gonna send this over to New York.
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[SPEAKER_21]: He's probably already got one, but
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know, yeah, this is like crazy trying to get this done.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, there it is, I will send that out nice fire photo, send that right out.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm a citizen journalist.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Maybe he probably already got a picture, but I'd like to play a citizen journalist.
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[SPEAKER_21]: There's another neat kind of picture I saw this morning.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Somebody sent me.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And let's see.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Okay, what else have we got going on?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Anything?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Getting a lot of mail today.
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[SPEAKER_21]: A lot of mail trying to read it all.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm so popular.
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[SPEAKER_21]: What we got phone calls so good enough.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Mayors, you get your iconic tax bill.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, I paid it.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Why did they raise the rates to share?
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[SPEAKER_24]: I thought we supposed to get a break on our county tax issue.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I read it a while ago on the paper.
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[SPEAKER_24]: No, well, I don't know, I mean, the money they have in the reserve fund means the dollars in the reserve fund here for the county.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They raised the tax rate from 7.27.6.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's about 20 bucks more out of my pocket.
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[SPEAKER_24]: It's totally outrageous.
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[SPEAKER_24]: It's totally unnecessary.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Thank you, Bobby Ferris.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Bobby's on the board.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You can't justify a tax rate like in the county tax.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You have to build another Taj Mahapala, almost people or something.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You can't justify it.
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[SPEAKER_24]: And then I get my cable bill.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Do you get that mayor?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Oh yeah, that keeps going up too.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Another 15 bucks on the cable bill.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I told the girl, you got channels on there that nobody watches.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I'm not watching the BBC news.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Get rid of these channels that people aren't watching.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I'm not paying the 15 bucks a month.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They want to cut me off, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Another one.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Another high paid management people.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Cut the damn bonus money to your CEOs.
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[SPEAKER_24]: And you won't have to pay these outrageous bills.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Now I have a mark.
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[SPEAKER_24]: The CEO makes more money in a month.
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[SPEAKER_24]: And bonus money.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Then you make working 40 years in your job.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We can't afford these pay hikes.
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[SPEAKER_24]: the golf course they want to raise the prices on the golf course if you're from outside the city to come to play golf they're going to charge another twenty bucks out of you pocket makes no sense to me well to me that will debate
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[SPEAKER_21]: was silly because and that headline in the paper was devastating here is a city always down playing its golf course it's the only eighteen old course in town to keep telling people we can't have tournaments because we haven't got enough golf cards and then they tell people we don't know if we're going to have a restaurant because we haven't talked to a vendor yet and then they tell you all of the place loses money and we hate it
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[SPEAKER_21]: And then they'll buy the way we're going to raise the prices.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know about, maybe I don't know much about marketing, or I'm not as smart as these, they are city managers with their whatever degrees, but I do know a little thing and you can't run a business if you're sending projecting that message.
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[SPEAKER_24]: No.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You're not going to make money if you raise the prices.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Well, let it roll with what you got now see what happened.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, did you see the other, I watched that council meeting last night.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's a very agreeable council incident, but they approved this.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Well, a couple of council people have voted against the raging.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But then they had this debate over these two resolutions concerning the Conservancy in the Zoo.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Now, to get that, they say we got to pass this agreement with them that his retroactive July that will give us the statutory authority to give us 100,000 that we promised them last year.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, and I was born spoke against it, and then they said, oh, well, no, I mean, it was in the budget.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's okay.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's what you voted for.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And the fact is, maybe they don't want to give it to them now.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And also, they didn't maintain the properties.
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[SPEAKER_21]: So what would be wrong with the concept of saying, well, give you that 100,000, but guess what?
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[SPEAKER_24]: 50G for the general public was that money?
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_24]: How long is Dr. Irwin going to be an interim general manager at the zoo?
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[SPEAKER_24]: What is that about?
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They just got big money came in from the general public.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's the problem people you send you money to your organization you have no idea when the money is going.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's a non-profit
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, I don't like that phrase, I don't think it means anything, but yeah.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Well, me's a lot to make.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Watertown.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Half the city's not tax exempt.
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[SPEAKER_29]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Big problem.
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[SPEAKER_24]: But you can't say anything about it.
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[SPEAKER_24]: One other thing to have a school board meeting, they're going to bring in the charming Kirk at the end of their water.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Did you see them there?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, they approved a club for turning point USA.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Are you seeing somebody?
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[SPEAKER_24]: gender people at Watertown High, are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_24]: Does anybody know that a transgender shot up a great school in Texas?
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[SPEAKER_24]: Do you remember that?
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[SPEAKER_24]: A transgender guy shot up Charlie Kirk in Utah?
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[SPEAKER_26]: Does anybody have that question at the meeting from the school board?
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[SPEAKER_21]: No.
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[SPEAKER_24]: How many transgender are in Watertown High?
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[SPEAKER_24]: I know the
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[SPEAKER_21]: There's a lot of clubs, friends, gender clubs, and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know if they need any of those clubs.
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[SPEAKER_21]: If you want to have a club just form a club.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You're going to have problems with transgender people, man.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's just the way that it was a clear and mental illness.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Five of six years ago, and then those liberals got involved in it.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Just like they show all the mental hospitals down.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You've got no place to put these homeless people now.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Thanks to the Democrats.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I Charlie Cork has some different opinions on marriage, I don't know marriage, there's trace, there's a monitor on how you can't get an answer on anything in this movie.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Everybody just scared of their own channel.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I might run for school board.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'll merely run it, so.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Well I think I can be there.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Really?
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[SPEAKER_24]: Everybody's afraid of the one channel and can we use emin it don't mean to take greenland back mayor Well, I don't think he could use emin it domain as we know it We need it.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We need it for our security.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I watched the president for a while.
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[SPEAKER_21]: He's right on well, you know Denmark came to print themselves well-known greenland My understanding is we had a treaty where the minute 1551 and it was always a good back to them Well, I still but we
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[SPEAKER_24]: And I'm not a canal, I'm just going to be Carter, I know it's stupid move.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We hear it, we, if we don't do it, try and move it in there.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We can't have China in our hemisphere and Russia.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They're not our friends, Trump's right about that, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We have to take over by force, we might have Durban.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I think he offered him 7 billion.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I haven't got any insurance yet.
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[SPEAKER_21]: man I'll tell you if I was living there and I can if they got me a deal where I could move to the u.s. be a citizen they give me a bunch of money the only thing is nobody most people over there I don't think they work is they get block grants from uh... all you do then barge out to the welfare state it's a good to have a president the white house is not afraid to tell me to walk needless but no friend of this country for years but we have had a president got the guts to tell him we're spending more money than any country for needles
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[SPEAKER_24]: But it's an area where we have to be a control.
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[SPEAKER_24]: It's in our hemisphere area.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You can't have China in there.
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[SPEAKER_24]: And you can't have Russia in that matter.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Well, yeah, I want to think about the school board at Bob and me bringing Charlie Corpse issues in the Missouri.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I don't know if it's a good idea, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, I don't know either.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You know, a call some is white for God.
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[SPEAKER_24]: So if you can't handle a pendant in this country anymore, if you disagree with the leftist, yeah, the Channel 7 called cover the church attack by, uh, no, no, on Lemon Mer, do you know?
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[SPEAKER_21]: No, and I saw today they run a story about Channel 7.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, but one of their lead stories today is how the market had a tank yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, it did, but it was recovering today, and they never mentioned that.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Yeah, we're worried that when we were breaking
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[SPEAKER_21]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_24]: I'm not letting you get the group of leftists that go into a church and we don't hear a damn thing from Channel 7.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You know, we've got to go after these people.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_24]: That's private property.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They have no business in that church.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Totally against the law, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_24]: You're familiar with the face act.
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[SPEAKER_21]: A little bit.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_24]: They broke that act also.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Let's see if we can get some action on these people.
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[SPEAKER_24]: We've got to put these leftists in a place to drive and let's not send this country.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Totally way though, you know, you know that.
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[SPEAKER_24]: Okay, man.
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[SPEAKER_21]: All right, thank you by now.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Good afternoon, Ron here.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Hey, Jeff.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I might have to agree with the angry guy.
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[SPEAKER_26]: You know, I like a lot of what he has to say, but with seven news, I'm disappointed the right to bite people have their prayer
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[SPEAKER_26]: While it wasn't seven news, it wasn't the waterfront paper, it wasn't ABC-50, it wasn't NBC-3.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Spectrum?
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[SPEAKER_26]: What?
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[SPEAKER_26]: No, it was an old spectrum note they didn't cover either.
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[SPEAKER_26]: North country news on Facebook covered it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_21]: There was nobody there.
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[SPEAKER_26]: So there was about, I would say 12 to 20 people that showed up for the prior
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[SPEAKER_26]: But if you get a dozen blue-haired people, you get seven news running down there real quick.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, I know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Okay, well, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Yep, bye.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Somebody texted him that the Autonomous School Board approved a 4.2% raise for the superintendent in July.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And not one of the board members had anything to say about it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: 4.2%.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_21]: any you can't deny me come on man i mean whether you like them or not i know some people do i'm just keep paying more i'd be a point where you say no i'd like to the angry man said cable builds up you and grid bill is up you taxes are up what you income streams aren't from any waterchontians
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[SPEAKER_21]: You see, well, I like just one aspect of one budget, but.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And then, I like the guys, you know, he's from Florida, and he needs some money, and all that.
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[SPEAKER_21]: No, he doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_21]: No, he doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And he's, these school boards, they're like hypnotized.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Now, city council looked a little hypnotized last night.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I thought, good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_21]: home.
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[SPEAKER_18]: But after you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_18]: I just wanted to say that I covered it under awesome water town on Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_18]: All Lawrence Ward has awesome day and good officer.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Thanks a lot.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well it's nice to see the people you know put it on their Facebook pages and I think that's a certainly a contribution.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But what a lame stream media is the one that we have to think about.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And also, we wanted to do a mention here.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Somebody said, what do you have against teachers?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Nothing, love teachers.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Some of my best friends would teach you.
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[SPEAKER_21]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Let's see, we had a situation.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I guess I saw this around the internet, fraudulert involving Northern Credit Union, a little couple of these.
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[SPEAKER_21]: say they've taken a bunch of complaints about people being defrauded.
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[SPEAKER_21]: People are masquerading as employees of the credit union, the perpetrators of spoofing that means a fake phone number, the credit union's phone number to send text messages asking the receiver to confirm transactions.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You know, this is, you get this, they say it's well.
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[SPEAKER_21]: fraud alert, you don't know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: When the victim responds to the text message, the perpetrator then sends a follow up message, advising the victim that a representative will contact them shortly.
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[SPEAKER_21]: So I guess, if you're getting these things in your customer or their federal, give them a call, let them explain it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm not entirely weird on all of this.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You don't have to tell you something, no one.
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[SPEAKER_21]: When it comes down to public relations, police and so on, we're glad to do anything for the police.
22:46
[SPEAKER_21]: But I learned one lesson from Rich MacGalli, who's a Go-in public relations out for a drum.
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[SPEAKER_21]: The way you get good media relations is not when there's a problem, or not when you need a favor.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's the other times when nothing's going on, when you help the media get a story, when they have nothing going on, or you go out and visit the news directors, the talk show,
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[SPEAKER_21]: podcasters, the whatever else is there out there now and you establish a relationship so when you need a favor, you can just call up.
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[SPEAKER_21]: That's how you do public relations.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I know somebody's going to say, what would you know, you're not a professional.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm telling you, that's how you do it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Same thing's true.
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[SPEAKER_21]: The zoo or anything else, or a golf course, yeah, all the size things.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I got a lot of things on my mind, you have somebody who I know calls me, hey, can I talk about this?
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, sure, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_21]: He's at a big deal, it's just a hot line, it's just three listeners, it's often two others.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, there's more than three.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, it's often, then there's the person who says there's only three things.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But after you do it right here.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, oh, about the city zoo, it needs to be closed because the taxpayer can't keep it up.
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[SPEAKER_13]: affordness 20% increase that they keep putting on the city taxpayer and also the reason everything is up because the republicans run everything in this town and also the republicans gave way million to dollars to a micron along with our democratic governor and that's why the taxpayers just say to the york and the country is taxed so much because of both parties are corrupt thank you now thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank
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[SPEAKER_21]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Yeah, Mayor.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Us people are in social security.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Us elderly people.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We're not going to really care about price raises,
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[SPEAKER_26]: are, um, benefit, uh, this month.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We got a pay raise.
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[SPEAKER_26]: And, um, I'm, I'm really in the cash now.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Really, good for you.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Yeah, I got, I got five bucks a week.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I'm really, really in it now.
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[SPEAKER_26]: That's the pay raise we got.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I got five bucks a week.
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[SPEAKER_26]: The net, and that's something
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[SPEAKER_26]: It didn't even work, it didn't even work doing all the paperwork.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_26]: You know, you can always say, well, something's better than nothing, but one other subject I got, I listened to yesterday, what a slap in the face to the United States and the allies that fought in World War II for all those countries in Europe.
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[SPEAKER_26]: in the specially France, that we saved them from being Nazis, and yesterday France invited China to come to their country and start doing business with them.
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[SPEAKER_21]: That Macron, he's the, he's the Gavin Newsom Bureau.
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[SPEAKER_26]: And I thought about that and I go home, you know, we left the Allies left a million
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[SPEAKER_26]: really in people with their debt.
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[SPEAKER_26]: All the allies, we left all around 750,000, maybe more.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Whatever, young.
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[SPEAKER_26]: They got summitsaries over there loaded with our boys and they had to go a slap us in the face and do that.
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[SPEAKER_26]: When China, we fought against communist,
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[SPEAKER_26]: And now they're inviting one of the biggest companies in the world and to become part of them.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We're going to do business with them.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I said, I can't see any worse lap in the face to the United States.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I think we got to smirk up the United States.
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[SPEAKER_26]: It's got to back out.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We got to back away.
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[SPEAKER_26]: You know, it's just like what he's talking about the island there.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Leave them, let them fend for themselves, pull our base out of there, and forget it.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Give it to Finland whoever wants it.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We got enough missiles, submarines, ballistic missiles.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We can destroy the world ten times over.
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[SPEAKER_26]: We don't need that island to protect anybody.
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[SPEAKER_26]: If they want to start a war, well, I guess we'll all go.
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[SPEAKER_26]: I just thought that the people being arrested and what preempts are doing in the rest of the year over there what they're doing.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, you know, I heard France sent some soldiers over to Greenland to teach him how to surrender.
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[SPEAKER_26]: The up-sorted journey.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Ever there, why?
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[SPEAKER_26]: Two days?
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[SPEAKER_26]: Yeah, they left.
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[SPEAKER_26]: They sent a bunch of...
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[SPEAKER_21]: Listen, I think NATO should set up a couple of bases over there, why not?
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[SPEAKER_21]: And if we want to put our missile defense systems on those bases, why not?
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[SPEAKER_26]: I made all their useless Yeah, they've never been new they've never been used They don't want to go anywhere and fight anybody It's just that we paid the The hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for tomato And we get nothing Really nothing, but Very disturbed with Europe now And I think the president's got to smart enough We got to start backing off All right, thank you You're too believe it, you know, who's a guy 79 years old
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[SPEAKER_21]: energetic, but he busy day yesterday just two hours of the press at the press room, then an interview with Katie Pavlik, which I'm sure is quite taxing.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And then, it's on Air Force One, they get an hour and a half into the air and they have to come back because of a electrical problem.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yes, they get on another plane, fly over to Davos, I saw when he was landing this morning, and then it wasn't more than an hour or so later he was on the stage giving a long speech.
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's incredible really when you think about it, you know, orange man, bad, mega, mega, taco taco, I know all the little saying you have, but wait, it's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And we're going to take a quick call and we'll do a break.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But after you do it around the air.
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[SPEAKER_19]: Hello Jeff, I heard you say earlier that the school board president was given a more than 4% pay increase.
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[SPEAKER_19]: The superintendent, yes.
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[SPEAKER_19]: The superintendent, you have thanks
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[SPEAKER_19]: And it's at the same time that the academic performance of the students in the school system is far from satisfactory.
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[SPEAKER_19]: And I just don't see the correlation between the academic performance and the pay raise and the reason.
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[SPEAKER_19]: There isn't that.
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[SPEAKER_19]: Somebody who knows what's going on, I can't wrap my arms from somebody who knows what's going on.
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[UNKNOWN]: Hi.
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[SPEAKER_19]: can call in and check some light on us and then I'll get off the air and let's call it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_21]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_21]: We're for color.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Good afternoon, Ron.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Hi.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I want to make time on the zoo and also kind of regarding your listener.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm actually probably one of your younger listeners.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm 35 and I'm actually in the age of having young children.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And obviously we know the demographic areas within the water town areas.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I can completely understand why they don't see the value in the zoo, but for somebody such as myself who has a young child, they need us in this area, and they need to provide things for these young families to do.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I will tell you that we go to the zoo once a week during the summer months, we participate in pretty much all of their activities that they've put on for the children.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And honestly, LSA is the only safe place that you can actually go in this area where you
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[SPEAKER_06]: where you have to take your kids and not have to worry about running into drug addicts or needles.
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[SPEAKER_06]: People like to complain about how you have to pay for the zoo.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I would much rather pay my $100 a year fee to go to the zoo and not have to worry about running into needles on the street.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Then walk the sidewalks in the water town and run into God knows what else is out there.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well you raise some great points.
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[SPEAKER_21]: What kind of dog you got there?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I got three dogs.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're pit, they're pit bull mixes.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, two people mixes in a carrier looking thing.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Well, good for you.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'm glad you sound like a great parent.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I appreciate the call.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, okay.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's all I wanted to say because even these young families, these older generations, they need us around.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They need us to run the healthcare system.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They need us for things that they, that they're not really taking in consideration.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And they're not going to have things pretty young families to do that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And we're going to pack up and leave.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Okay.
35:33
[SPEAKER_21]: Well, thank you so much for the call.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Bye.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, but we talked earlier about the Gulf Club.
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[SPEAKER_21]: can't sit there and down a great the business you say you're trying to operate and then complain is quote losing money got a stop can't sit there and they haven't got a card to hold a tournament when you're the only 18 hole course in town can't sit there and say we don't have a food vendor because we haven't talked anybody yet and then raise the price you know i mean i don't i know people say well
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[SPEAKER_21]: You shouldn't be saying that.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You weren't that good a man.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You can say whatever you want about me and you will.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But I watched that meeting last night.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And I'll tell you.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Think about it before you go.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And what about the, you're passing a resolution in retroactively, so you can give somebody $100,000.
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[SPEAKER_21]: They didn't need it up till now.
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[SPEAKER_21]: They've been playing with their flush.
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[SPEAKER_21]: And then somebody said, a councilman said, well, we don't know where the last 100,000 was spent.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Do, is there a point at which a bell rings?
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[SPEAKER_21]: I mean, maybe it wasn't just only in Regero.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Maybe there's some systemic issue here.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Something in the water, other than cloudy dust, right?
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[SPEAKER_21]: It's gloss, you know, and that was going to run a, I was thinking like a $5 square pool, and then I got, you know, not the $1,000 or $500, some are running, so that everybody's looking the other way on it now, and I said, but I'm a little afraid of Kathy Hockel.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'll send the jack boots out after you for that.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_21]: You know, five bucks a spare, that's $500.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Put it up.
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[SPEAKER_21]: A hundred each quarter, you want it on the final.
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[SPEAKER_21]: That way if it's an overtime game, that, you know, you get a hundred, four hundredths and a hundredths for the final, if it's a regular game, you get three hundredths and a two hundredths.
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[SPEAKER_21]: But I don't think I can do it.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I don't think I got the, I don't think I got the gumption.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Don't think I got the gumption.
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[SPEAKER_21]: I'll let others do that.
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[SPEAKER_21]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, she was very good.
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[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, she was very good.
41:49
[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, she was very good.
41:49
[SPEAKER_25]: Yeah.
41:50
[SPEAKER_25]: I'm going to see my testimony, but I'm going to not even see the benefits, because at time it gets done, that's why I won't be wrong, but my children grant you the will be.
41:59
[SPEAKER_25]: Now we're doing something in New York State to make business and make stuff and start to depend on China for right and making the future week to depend on China right now.
42:12
[SPEAKER_25]: Now we're going to do in New York State, so go zoo and go back land.
42:19
[SPEAKER_21]: Okay, well, thank you.
42:21
[SPEAKER_25]: Okay, I'll get it.
42:22
[SPEAKER_21]: All right.
42:24
[SPEAKER_21]: Okay, well, what do you know, there's a lot of messages here.
42:29
[SPEAKER_21]: The E.D.
42:29
[SPEAKER_21]: was over 80 years ago, right?
42:32
[SPEAKER_21]: Somebody said, I'll take four squares, so let's the guy who number in six, so he'd buy four squares and snitch around me.
42:43
[SPEAKER_21]: Why are local media paid minimum wage?
42:47
[SPEAKER_21]: 17 dollars an hour for a digital reporter.
42:50
[SPEAKER_21]: They'd be better off at Pearl Street, probably Walmart or McDonald's.
42:53
[SPEAKER_21]: Why bother getting into greed?
42:55
[SPEAKER_21]: Well, that's an interesting question.
42:57
[SPEAKER_21]: Because the wage scales have just so outstripped the ability of people to pay.
43:03
[SPEAKER_21]: I mean, $17 an hour, if that's what they're paying.
43:06
[SPEAKER_21]: That's, you know, $30,000 a year.
43:09
[SPEAKER_21]: I don't know, something like that.
43:11
[SPEAKER_21]: I don't like the comment they'd be better off at these other places.
43:15
[SPEAKER_21]: There's no disgrace in working for Walmart or McDonald's or anywhere else.
43:21
[SPEAKER_21]: You know, you still got to show up pay attention, be honest, be personable, look good, and you know, show you care.
43:28
[SPEAKER_21]: Now, if you do that, you'll do really well.
43:31
[SPEAKER_21]: In any of those organizations mentioned, but 17 an hour, if that's what they're paying,
43:37
[SPEAKER_21]: What do they call digital reporters?
43:39
[SPEAKER_21]: It's just a reporter now.
43:41
[SPEAKER_21]: Good job, excuse me, I got a name for him.
43:47
[SPEAKER_21]: It's also a good entry level deal.
43:49
[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah.
43:53
[SPEAKER_21]: Nothing wrong with that.
43:54
[SPEAKER_21]: Nothing wrong with that.
43:56
[SPEAKER_21]: Good afternoon, Ron here.
43:58
[SPEAKER_15]: Good afternoon, Jeff.
43:59
[SPEAKER_15]: I attended the meeting last night.
44:02
[SPEAKER_21]: And I know I saw you.
44:03
[SPEAKER_15]: I brought up the house.
44:07
[SPEAKER_15]: The house to me has been shrouded in mystery for years.
44:09
[SPEAKER_15]: I wanted to go out there and see what the heck's going on with that.
44:14
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm not sure if that's part of the conservatory, the house, but it's been sitting there.
44:19
[SPEAKER_15]: They can't.
44:20
[SPEAKER_21]: We don't know what's going on or who.
44:22
[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah, and the answer is last night, we're kind of foggy, I thought.
44:25
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, the four years, I estimate it's been sitting at empty for four years.
44:31
[SPEAKER_15]: Now, Jeff, that's a potential $12,000 a year loss in revenue.
44:37
[SPEAKER_15]: but that's money that we could use towards the budget.
44:41
[SPEAKER_15]: And I know in the past, the mayor has brought it up a couple times, but it didn't give much feedback, so it was just dropped, okay.
44:48
[SPEAKER_21]: Well, they talked about holding birthday parties there last night.
44:51
[SPEAKER_15]: Now, there's not, let's get to listen.
44:53
[SPEAKER_15]: Hit and miss birthday parties, little meetings, that's not going to happen.
44:57
[SPEAKER_15]: We both know that.
44:59
[SPEAKER_15]: There'll be a lot of good people you could read to, like somebody coming in the area, somebody office worker, a hospital worker, somebody that's coming in the hospital.
45:06
[SPEAKER_15]: would love to live at the park.
45:08
[SPEAKER_15]: That's a conservative estimate.
45:09
[SPEAKER_15]: $12,000 a year.
45:11
[SPEAKER_21]: Right.
45:12
[SPEAKER_21]: I've never been inside the house.
45:14
[SPEAKER_15]: It's a two-bedroom house.
45:15
[SPEAKER_15]: It's a good condition.
45:17
[SPEAKER_15]: And then, you know, I didn't get much feedback on it.
45:21
[SPEAKER_15]: And see, well, we'd have to hire somebody to do it.
45:23
[SPEAKER_15]: All forgot to say, it's the house is a good condition.
45:26
[SPEAKER_15]: You're running out of D.P.W.
45:28
[SPEAKER_15]: can oversee the operation.
45:31
[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, I know we got to have a property manager.
45:33
[SPEAKER_21]: We got to have this.
45:36
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, are you serious to mow the lawn, do a couple small things, and if a faucet leaks, we got plumbers out in the water department that can handle it more than qualified.
45:46
[SPEAKER_29]: Okay?
45:47
[SPEAKER_15]: It's just, these are things like this that annoy me.
45:51
[SPEAKER_15]: You try to get, you go out in a blizzard and try to show them how to save a few bucks.
45:56
[SPEAKER_15]: Nobody wants to listen to you, okay?
45:59
[SPEAKER_15]: It's just ridiculous.
46:01
[SPEAKER_15]: And like I said, the same people attend the meetings.
46:04
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, here's a good banner ad for you.
46:06
[SPEAKER_15]: The silent majority need to step out of the shadows and attend the spring budget sessions, okay?
46:12
[SPEAKER_15]: I'd like to see that council chamber fall.
46:15
[SPEAKER_15]: Do you have them gonna go every week?
46:17
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, I'll handle that for you.
46:19
[SPEAKER_15]: I'll handle that ad, and for you.
46:21
[SPEAKER_15]: I'll do the dirty work.
46:23
[SPEAKER_15]: Get up there, put that banner ad on New York in the spring.
46:26
[SPEAKER_29]: Mm-hmm.
46:27
[SPEAKER_15]: And get these people's motivate these people.
46:31
[SPEAKER_21]: Well, they really have to, they said that we're going to have some budget meeting in February because they need to get a handle on this early.
46:37
[SPEAKER_21]: You can't wait.
46:38
[SPEAKER_21]: And when you've got to, oh, you've got to adopt it by next week, you can't change anything.
46:43
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, there is a list of your brand brought that up that ship we should get it out early February.
46:50
[SPEAKER_15]: And just, I study, I sit in the bathroom and I analyze them and you can see the ice.
46:54
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, we don't want to get that started too soon.
46:57
[SPEAKER_29]: You know?
46:57
[SPEAKER_15]: They're going to wait for the last minute.
46:59
[SPEAKER_15]: They do every budget session, and it's going to try to cut a vehicle of 50 feet aside, walk here, that some office supplies, and it's not going to work.
47:11
[SPEAKER_15]: You know, the tax credit got to realize we're in serious trouble this year, and I know they start the figures out how to then get them down to really where they want them at 10% but we need to start these budget sessions early, get that house rented,
47:30
[SPEAKER_15]: we don't need a property manager and uh... a lot of things we could do but it's just uh... we're off to a slow start and there's no game play and how to control the budget yeah we got a lot of expenses to the budget and uh... but they don't want to try that and you get it up to you just shouldn't make cuts to the budget and they said well we got a city to run that's that's not an answer I know
48:00
[SPEAKER_21]: Right.
48:00
[SPEAKER_21]: Okay, thanks.
48:01
[SPEAKER_21]: All right.
48:01
[SPEAKER_21]: Thank you.
48:03
[SPEAKER_21]: Good afternoon, John.
48:04
[SPEAKER_21]: Here.
48:05
[SPEAKER_26]: Hey, Jeff.
48:06
[SPEAKER_26]: I just want to disagree.
48:07
[SPEAKER_26]: The zoo is a complete, oh my goodness.
48:10
[SPEAKER_26]: It's not a good place to bring cats.
48:11
[SPEAKER_26]: Okay.
48:12
[SPEAKER_26]: The last time I went to the zoo, there were pride flags everywhere.
48:15
[SPEAKER_26]: There were training women everywhere having a drag show.
48:19
[SPEAKER_26]: Okay.
48:20
[SPEAKER_26]: And even some of the employees were proudly displaying their pentagram necklace they had.
48:30
[SPEAKER_26]: that the place is crumbling because they didn't do the maintenance.
48:35
[SPEAKER_26]: You know, Dr. Irwin, supposed to be in charge of all that up there, but he's, well, do you know that Dr. Irwin is one of the promoters of the water-compride?
48:46
[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, come on now, let's... Well, that's his life.
48:49
[SPEAKER_26]: No, here's another one too.
48:51
[SPEAKER_26]: Let me answer your questions, Jeff.
48:52
[SPEAKER_26]: Would you hire a gypsy to run funding if you ran a business
48:58
[SPEAKER_26]: fundraising would you hire a gypsy woman uh... well talk about someone who reads a crystal ball somebody who read who reads terror cards well i've got nothing against it while i would judge i would judge a person based on the person but i'm not on it you got to be got a bunch of work people they don't know anything about doing anything
49:22
[SPEAKER_26]: And that's why the zoo is in its position.
49:25
[SPEAKER_26]: They're having drag shows up there and then they're having brewed the zoo.
49:28
[SPEAKER_26]: We can get drunk with the animals.
49:30
[SPEAKER_26]: Come on, there was a report that one of the brewed the zoo.
49:34
[SPEAKER_26]: People got drunk and thrown stuff at the animals.
49:37
[SPEAKER_21]: Really?
49:38
[SPEAKER_26]: Yes.
49:40
[SPEAKER_21]: No.
49:40
[SPEAKER_26]: There's a lot that goes on up at the zoo that it's not the public doesn't know about.
49:45
[SPEAKER_26]: The people that are running the zoo are some of the worst people.
49:52
[SPEAKER_21]: Oh, I mean, I've met some of them.
49:54
[SPEAKER_26]: They're not.
49:54
[SPEAKER_26]: No, no, no.
49:55
[SPEAKER_26]: We'll look at the state's illusions, yeah.
49:58
[SPEAKER_21]: Mm-hmm.
49:59
[SPEAKER_26]: Look at it.
50:00
[SPEAKER_26]: Okay, you go won't you go broke, and that's the position you end.
50:03
[SPEAKER_26]: And now the zoo spawn a part because Dr. Earl and now we got off his ass and actually didn't even make that because he was spending all on track shows.
50:11
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50:30
[SPEAKER_21]: Hey, listen, I, the guy just became a U.S. citizen last year, didn't he, would for him, man?
50:35
[SPEAKER_21]: Um...
50:38
[SPEAKER_21]: But after doing that on the air.
50:41
[SPEAKER_14]: Well, I, I hate to follow that caller.
50:43
[SPEAKER_14]: I, I, I wish you wouldn't need to log in the Colonel in the air, unless he lives in water now, which he doesn't.
50:48
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I want to go back to the, the, the one caller who blasted the president, Mark Kron and France, uh, for his, uh, a, uh, a NATO Chinese,
50:58
[SPEAKER_14]: trade out on all cost of opinions.
51:01
[SPEAKER_14]: Now, his opinion is a fine.
51:02
[SPEAKER_14]: I understand that I've got opinions too, but he denies history.
51:07
[SPEAKER_14]: I give him a little bit of history lesson here.
51:09
[SPEAKER_14]: December 7, 1941, Japan attacked us and we get in the World War II.
51:14
[SPEAKER_14]: World War II ends with NATO being formed in 1945, now it's a special 1949.
51:20
[SPEAKER_14]: And all of a sudden now, the one person, the one person
51:25
[SPEAKER_14]: In this world, if kind of get rid of NATO is Donald J. Trump's period, that's obvious, that is plainly obvious.
51:34
[SPEAKER_14]: Macron didn't invite China to join the EU or anything like that.
51:38
[SPEAKER_14]: He asked him to make more of what to call FDIs or direct investments in some P or P sectors of Europe during his Davos Switzerland speech.
51:51
[SPEAKER_14]: So there's nothing wrong with that.
51:53
[SPEAKER_14]: We've invited China on property in the United States.
51:56
[SPEAKER_14]: You know that, not you.
51:58
[SPEAKER_29]: Mm-hmm.
51:59
[SPEAKER_14]: Another one of our, another one of our, well, enemies, we are now best trade partners with, is Vietnam.
52:06
[SPEAKER_29]: Mm-hmm.
52:06
[SPEAKER_14]: You look at some labels and things that you buy, she's making Vietnam a China.
52:10
[SPEAKER_14]: So there's nothing wrong with that.
52:12
[SPEAKER_14]: And that car was way up the mark, but he refused to talk about who's the real, the real serious threat to NATO right now.
52:20
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52:21
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[SPEAKER_21]: I wasn't trying to get rid of Danny, but I really I mean I got to get the brakes in you know I got to keep the pace got to do all that stuff in addition to Talked on the conversant all these issues.
56:15
[SPEAKER_21]: Yeah I can't come out of what was just that end Now let's see about it
56:25
[SPEAKER_21]: trying to think of what else we've got for uh... uh... uh... oh and i don't know what to do with this because this is too complicated for a show like this but i got a thing from had hikkey who that's a detail they forgot yet and i said somebody wants to know if i can talk about the national grid bills no too high you don't remember the rents to damn high will be a power bills to damn high yeah that's all i got to say on that
56:54
[SPEAKER_21]: But yeah, Pat Hickey, he said in something, he said, he got a copy of a letter informing the city, some of the allegations of non-compliance we see from 12 or 24 to 321-25 will be considered violations of the project license, R-E-D, Modern John Hydroelectric plant, under P2442, I don't know what all that means, but I think they're going to have problems
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[SPEAKER_21]: dispersions against people involved.
57:27
[SPEAKER_21]: I remember it from the early 90s it was complicated.
57:30
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57:34
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57:38
[SPEAKER_22]: Yeah, good afternoon Mr. Mayor.
57:40
[SPEAKER_22]: Uh, I want to address your previous call first all about NATO.
57:45
[SPEAKER_21]: We'll do it quickly.
57:45
[SPEAKER_22]: Um, NATO hasn't done anything since 1991.
57:51
[UNKNOWN]: NATO was formed after World War Two
57:55
[SPEAKER_22]: All right, the ground against the Soviet Union, prevents the French against the communist Soviet Union.
58:01
[SPEAKER_22]: Since the Soviet Union is out in 1991, OK, NATO has been irrelevant, and they were clapping their hands with a glee when a war broke out in your grave, and it probably had something to do.
58:14
[SPEAKER_22]: OK, so the whole thing that Trump was trying to do, that he's saying that,
58:20
[SPEAKER_22]: Trump is trying to get through the nail if they're booby for him, booby for Trump because there hasn't been doing nothing but sucking American dollars.
58:27
[SPEAKER_22]: Okay, for the last 25 years.
58:30
[SPEAKER_21]: Gotcha.
58:31
[SPEAKER_22]: Okay, that's number one.
58:33
[SPEAKER_22]: Number two, Mayor.
58:34
[SPEAKER_22]: You gave a very nice answer about teachers, but you left that one thing.
58:37
[SPEAKER_22]: You've got nothing against teachers, but you've got plenty against teachers' units.
58:44
[SPEAKER_21]: Mm-hmm.
58:47
[SPEAKER_21]: I have my disagreements, but you know, I can't, I can't explain all of that in 30 seconds.
58:51
[SPEAKER_21]: So we'll just say we love teachers and a lot of great ones over the years.
58:57
[SPEAKER_22]: Yeah, because of, because of unions now, we have a lot of crappy ones that can't get fired.
59:03
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[SPEAKER_21]: are the leader of uh... name of just that that's been trump was right about greenland so all these colors that are calling up uh... doesn't trump and davils is getting his way uh... thank you all right daddy's back in davos uh... good to see the president there and we'll see what happens and uh... we're gonna organize that trip to greenland yep the john more greenland cruise
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