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The Lee Elci Show | 9.6.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: 94.9 news and stimulating talk Tony D'Angelo in this morning
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  Speaker 1: for the Lee Elsie show broadcasting loud and proud long
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  Speaker 1: and hard over Connecticut Rhode Island Long Island rumble anywhere
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  Speaker 1: you happen to be we're even going to outer space
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  Speaker 1: man so for the next three you belong to me
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  Speaker 1: we're going to start with prayer as we always do
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  Speaker 1: heavenly father we come before you with humble hearts asking
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  Speaker 1: for your mercy and peace in this uncertain hour. We
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  Speaker 1: lift up the leaders of our nation and leaders around
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  Speaker 1: the world, grant them wisdom beyond their own understanding, courage
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  Speaker 1: to do what is right, and discernment that may prevent
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  Speaker 1: needless suffering. Guide every decision with justice, restraint, and a
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  Speaker 1: desire for peace. Lord, we pray for the brave men
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  Speaker 1: and women of our military and our police officers, firefighters, paramedics,
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  Speaker 1: and all first responders, including the officers of ICE. Surround
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  Speaker 1: them with your protection and Strengthen them for the difficult
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  Speaker 1: days ahead. Comfort their families and bring them safely home.
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  Speaker 1: We ask you to watch over our country. We pray
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  Speaker 1: for the working people, too, Lord, that they may return
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  Speaker 1: home tonight safely in the comfort of their families. They
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  Speaker 1: mean a lot to everybody around them. Unite us in purpose,
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  Speaker 1: calm our fears, and remind us that our ultimate hope
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  Speaker 1: is found in you alone. May your peace rule in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts, your truth guide our nation, and your hand
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  Speaker 1: of protection rest upon the United States of America. In
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' holy name we pray, amen. And good morning. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pleased to be with you in my temporary Tuesdays
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  Speaker 1: on the Lee Elsie Show. Welcome, welcome in. So happy
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  Speaker 1: to have you. And to give you the program today,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a little bit varied. Bob Lazeri will be
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  Speaker 1: here in his usual 6.50 time slot. The Power Hour,
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  Speaker 1: 7 to 8, Bob Swick. It's rocking the universe. It's
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  Speaker 1: all over. We're... We're having a great time with that,
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  Speaker 1: letting it all hang out. And at 8 o'clock, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be joined by New London Day columnist writer Bill Stanley,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about the state of affairs
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America. I'm really looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that and speaking with Bill. Anyway, let's get to
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  Speaker 1: the business of the day. I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 1: been watching the riots in France, and that seems kind
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  Speaker 1: of unusual. Tony, why are you talking about France? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I am. And it made national news the other night,
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  Speaker 1: and it's awful. And the roots of this protest are
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  Speaker 1: based fundamentally on one critical fact. France overspent. Its politicians
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  Speaker 1: were fiscally illiterate. They were giving everything to everybody. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what? They ran out of money. Now, What happened
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  Speaker 1: was the kids in school started to see the conditions
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  Speaker 1: of the schools deteriorate. This is the whole thing. You
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  Speaker 1: eventually run out of money. You got two choices. Either
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  Speaker 1: print more and cause rapid inflation and we turn into
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  Speaker 1: post-war Germany, you know, in like 1919 where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the old apocryphal story, which is true, where so much
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  Speaker 1: money was printed. a guy came with a wheelbarrow, and
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  Speaker 1: he was going to buy a loaf of bread, a
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  Speaker 1: wheelbarrow full of money, piled high. And he ran into
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  Speaker 1: the store, and then he thought, well, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to take all the money. I better run back
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  Speaker 1: and get the wheelbarrow. And what he found was that
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  Speaker 1: the money was thrown on the ground. The wheelbarrow was gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's the choice of when this all gets to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hyper craziness. Or, You either, you know, you collapse. These
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  Speaker 1: are your choices. And now they've got to a point
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  Speaker 1: where they just don't have the money. So there's kids rioting.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the kids, even though I'm sure there's paid
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  Speaker 1: operatives in the mix, are Muslim kids. And they're doing
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  Speaker 1: French culture means nothing to them. The Louvre means nothing
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  Speaker 1: to them. The Eiffel Tower means nothing to them. They
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  Speaker 1: want to burn it down because they feel they have
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  Speaker 1: been disappointed by their government. And you can get into
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things of how did this happen? Is
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  Speaker 1: this right? Is this wrong? Look at it objectively just
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  Speaker 1: for what's happening. And now what happens, these riots are
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  Speaker 1: getting incredibly bad. 600 police were injured yesterday. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just anarchy and things are just going around all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. And then I started to watch this and
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, the rules are the same. The
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  Speaker 1: economic rules are the same. It's the same sixes and sevens.
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  Speaker 1: You run out of money. You're broke. You've been dependent
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  Speaker 1: on this system for so long that's been giving you
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff and it ain't there. So you start writing.
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  Speaker 1: When does this come to the blue states of America?
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  Speaker 1: When does this come to Connecticut? And you're laughing. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: never happened. Well, tell me what's different. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like we're maybe on a higher, shall we say we're
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  Speaker 1: farther from the sun. But what's different, really? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the same economics, the same mindset, the same acuity level,
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  Speaker 1: the same level of intelligence, the same means of dealing
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  Speaker 1: with things is still happening. You know, I know those
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  Speaker 1: people welcome, you know, waving to my camera over here.
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening to me or watching from a blue state,
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  Speaker 1: you can dig it as well as I can. We overspend,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we're redundant in spending. And we bond.
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  Speaker 1: We bond like drunken sailors. And, I mean, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: It's that, oh, we're just going to float bonds. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to make bonds. We're going to bond
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  Speaker 1: this and build that. We never give any thought to
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  Speaker 1: how this debt is ever going to be repaid until
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  Speaker 1: it has to be repaid and eventually repaid. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to a point where you can't repay it.
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  Speaker 1: Our politicians, largely, largely fiscally illiterate, and in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cases just plain idiotic, you know. I maintain we
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  Speaker 1: have a controller in this state. Sean Scanlon does not
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  Speaker 1: understand the concept of present value because you don't refinance
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  Speaker 1: debt off of a short-term balance sheet and say you've
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  Speaker 1: saved something. That's like taking the minimum payment on your
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  Speaker 1: credit card and saying, yeah, I paid my bills, and
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  Speaker 1: you defer it to where you can't pay it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what? By the time that happens, you know, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Scanlon may be in the Senate. That's basically the way
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  Speaker 1: it works. It's terrible. Okay, now, we don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think Bill Stanley said in his article
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  Speaker 1: there's $ 40 billion in his article in New London Day
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  Speaker 1: this past Sunday, $ 40 billion in pension liabilities. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: talking over it with Bob Swick and the Power Hour,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot higher than that when you
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  Speaker 1: take into account all the other unfunded liabilities. And we
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  Speaker 1: never hear about that. You know, I turn on my Roku. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a choice, basically. I walk in the house.
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  Speaker 1: The Roku's there. It's either a Ned Lamont commercial where
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  Speaker 1: he's saying that he did free breakfast and he cut
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  Speaker 1: our electric bill and he did all this wonderful stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who's paying for this? Where is the money
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  Speaker 1: coming from? So we'll get into that later. But show
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  Speaker 1: me how this is different than what happened in Paris, France.
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  Speaker 1: When do the riots start? It's not a question of if.
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  Speaker 1: Get if out of your mind. It has to be when.
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  Speaker 1: Because it has to come down to when. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: going to come a point where no one's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to pay anybody else back. And we're not
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  Speaker 1: replacing lost capital. And this is the thing. And if
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  Speaker 1: you want to get angry with me, you have every
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  Speaker 1: right to get angry with me. I can only tell
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  Speaker 1: you the truth as best as I can understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I developed a four-question test, something to ask your local
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  Speaker 1: politician or or the person campaigning or the person knocking
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  Speaker 1: on your door. Four questions you can ask to, quote, unquote,
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  Speaker 1: prove their acumen and their accuracy and their acuity in
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  Speaker 1: understanding what the heck we're facing here in a blue state.
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  Speaker 1: State budget in Connecticut, right? Is it bigger today than
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  Speaker 1: it is 10 years ago, even after inflation? Fact of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is it's way bigger. It moved from the
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  Speaker 1: low 20s into the high 20 billions in a small
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  Speaker 1: state where really there's no economic activity of any substance
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  Speaker 1: coming in. You know, borrowing to build something or build
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  Speaker 1: a municipal edifice, if you will, is not economic activity.
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  Speaker 1: It only benefits the people who are working on the project.
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  Speaker 1: What happens after that? If the project doesn't generate revenue,
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  Speaker 1: it just creates another debt. Politicians don't understand that. Politicians
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  Speaker 1: do not understand risk, okay? You know, people who are
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  Speaker 1: in small businesses deal in risk every single day. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk pensions. Does Connecticut still owe more debt and unpaid
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  Speaker 1: pension promises than almost every other state? The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so I'm giving you the answers to the
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  Speaker 1: questions to ask them. Bonded debt per resident has ranked
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  Speaker 1: first or second nationally. A small, little state. Total long-term obligations,
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  Speaker 1: now this one study said $ 80 billion, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot larger than that, but even $ 80 billion.
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  Speaker 1: The Reason Foundation has placed Connecticut second behind Illinois, near $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 1: per resident. You walk around with a $ 10, 000 price in
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  Speaker 1: your head and you didn't cause that. You didn't cause
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  Speaker 1: that to happen, basically. Now, if you take away the billionaires,
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  Speaker 1: if you take away the people, the 8, 10, 12, 15,
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  Speaker 1: whatever figure that is, and they start marching out of
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut in a, whatever you want to call it, in
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  Speaker 1: a totally lost left, uh, nuts election where there ain't
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  Speaker 1: any more voices of reason at all, Democrat, Republican, Ford, Chrysler, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: this state collapses basically. There ain't no revenue coming from
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  Speaker 1: that segment. So when you take away that kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shall we say so-and-so hits a home run,
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  Speaker 1: has a huge capital gain and the payment comes in
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  Speaker 1: or something, We are losing revenue faster than we can
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  Speaker 1: make it up. And it's no surprise. It's no surprise
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  Speaker 1: because we're not engendering revenue. You know, there's nothing attractive
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  Speaker 1: to get somebody to come here now. They're going to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching something yesterday with Louisiana. Louisiana, backwater Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: They are flocking into Louisiana. Why would somebody go to Louisiana?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's opportunity there and you can make your own
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  Speaker 1: way in a state like Connecticut or New York or
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island or Massachusetts. It's like next to impossible. Now,
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  Speaker 1: over the last, this is the one that got me,
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  Speaker 1: over the last decade, have more Tax filing households moved
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  Speaker 1: into Connecticut, then out of it. State migration data, this
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  Speaker 1: is IRS data, shows net outflows have increased dramatically since
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  Speaker 1: the early 2010s. 2012 to 2023, a loss of 100,000
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  Speaker 1: high-end productive people. losing $ 15 billion in AGI. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I lost clients. I'm still servicing them, but they're no
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  Speaker 1: longer in Connecticut. They frankly fulfilled their obligations and got
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  Speaker 1: the hell out. So my first question basically is, like,
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  Speaker 1: why does this not become Paris, basically? Because you got
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  Speaker 1: the same mechanics in place. Another thing which we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, and I'm sure we'll get to this
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the Power Hour, I was listening
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  Speaker 1: with interest to Mr. Agnelli yesterday talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: honestly bewildered as to why isn't the news media giving
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  Speaker 1: honest news, basically? Why aren't they telling us the truth?
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't they reporting about assets at the university level
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  Speaker 1: that aren't accounted for? And why aren't they in all
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  Speaker 1: the things, all the myriad of things we've discussed here
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  Speaker 1: in six years? And the answer is, It's the money flow.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about yesterday, we had a big discussion
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  Speaker 1: on X, about the first $ 72 million that came from
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  Speaker 1: state funding to media companies and to public relations companies that,
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  Speaker 1: in effect, manufacture the news that you see. You don't
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  Speaker 1: see the news a lot of times as it is
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  Speaker 1: the news. You see the news that they want for
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  Speaker 1: you to see. And basically... That was followed by another
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  Speaker 1: $ 24 million. And all of the things we now know,
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  Speaker 1: I was sort of making a list last night, the
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  Speaker 1: that no one ever really wants to talk about. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they throw millions of dollars after investments and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just don't know. So the fact of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is you don't hear those stories because they're
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  Speaker 1: not politically palatable for the people that are paying them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's 94.9 News and Stimulating Talk. Tony D'Angelo in
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  Speaker 1: for one of my temporary Tuesdays. Welcome. And I was
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: telling you guys to get out and enjoy the good
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: weather and go to all the events because winter descends
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: upon us oh so quickly. And believe me, any day
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: above ground is a good day, so you're supposed to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: get out and be above ground. I've only got one
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: event for you today. And this is the Freedom Stride,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: which is October 24th, 2026. The Walk at Duncan Park,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: 1214 Main Street in Hartford. And that's actually registration preseason, $ 25.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Regular season until October 18th, $ 30. Playoffs, $ 35. And the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: World Series, you got to pay $ 40. And children 12
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and under are $ 10. You enjoy free participant parking. There's fun.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: There's family. There's activities and great prizes. And believe me,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: get out there and do it because it means a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: lot to these charities. And also, it's a great way
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to have some fun and meet some people. And send
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: me your events because if you have events, I certainly
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: want to read them. And you can get to me
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: on Twitter or at FortressTrust at AOL.com. The forecast for
• 26:23
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  Speaker 1: inland from 11 p.m. tonight until 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Today is sunny, high near 60. If it's anything like yesterday,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: believe me, those are the kind of days we all
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: really love to have. There's like you want to get
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: out and do things. And believe me, not everybody can.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It's certainly something you should do. Don't hang around feeling.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I deal with so many miserable people, people that are
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: mentally ill. burdened by something that happened. And I'll tell you,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the trust business is really— it wears you out. People have
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: their material needs met, but they're lacking in every single
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: area of their lives, so to speak. And It's really sad.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, when people send around on X and on
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Facebook these people doing the Trump protests, and I guess
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: there's another one coming up on October 18th, and they're
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: all people like my age or older, and they say, well,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: is this what they occupy their time with and where
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: are they getting the money? Well, a lot of them
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have family money. A lot of them have pensions. A
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: lot of them are ex-teachers. And they, listen, protest is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: an American right. But I'm thinking you can go out
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and make a better world rather than screaming and yelling
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and doing something that you should scream and yell if
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: something really bothers you. I'm not going to say you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: don't have the right to do that. But these people
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: are just so burdened and mentally challenged. Look, I don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: like everybody in office either. I mean, basically, I'm not
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: obsessed with it. I don't go around talking about it
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Anyway, enjoy
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: your life, people. Tomorrow's not promised to you. I have,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, a couple of passings to go through,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and this is kind of interesting. Two people, two notable
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: people passed on, I believe it might have been yesterday,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and they both have something in common. And it's D'Angelo's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: rule of pairs. It never, ever, ever ceases to leave me.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Baker died. Not Jim Baker, the former Secretary of State,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: but Jim Baker, the preacher. That's with two Ks. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: he died on October 5th. And for those of you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: that are older, you might remember he was on television
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: ministry during the early 80s, and he and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Tammy Faye Baker, were the proponents of a ministry known
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: as the PTL and praise the Lord. It was sort
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  Speaker 1: of the first Christian talk show, if you will. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: he was beloved by many. He had a huge following.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: There were tapes. There were books. It was amazing. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he also had, or actually, shall we say, his ministry
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: had an amusement park known as the PTL. I think
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: it was the PTL amusement park. And I knew people
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: that had actually gone there And it was a gorgeous,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: beautiful park. They said it was a combination of Disneyland
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and heaven because back in those days, there was no
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: smoking when there was smoking all over the place and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: there was no drinking and there was no. well, just
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a really, really nice place to go. And then he
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: actually started to set up, and his life story is
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: an amazing one. Not all good, believe me. he started
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to set up a Christian community. In other words, around
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the PTL, they were building homes, people were retiring, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: they were buying homes because they wanted to live in
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a community where they wouldn't have to run into drugs
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and drinking and violence and alcoholism, all these things that
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: kind of go on in society. And this was all
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: going great guns up until a time when He took
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: ministry money and he bribed a young lady named Jessica
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Hahn because they had had a tryst on one of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: his ministry jaunts, I believe it was, to Long Island.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And from there, it was just such a, I use
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the term, a blank show. It was every day it
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was on morning television and it was just one scandal
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: after another and the financial abuses and People are taking
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: things out of his office or his offices. You know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the gold chandeliers and the golden handles on the bathroom
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: sink and, and, and, and, and. And then he ended
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: up spending some time in prison. He came out and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: he started to renounce all material good. And he just
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: started to sort of became entirely different. He actually Tammy
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: divorced him, if I recall, and she started to hang
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: out and she married the architect of the PTO. It
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: was really just this whole sickening soap opera. Jim actually
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: went back to straight preaching and he started to renounce
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: all material goods. And he went from one extreme to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the other. It was really I could figure you got
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to remember something. Yeah, you got to remember something. There's
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with having money, okay? It's better to have
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: money than not have money. One of the reasons why
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I am no longer a Catholic is I've never understood
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: why they make their ministry declare a vow of poverty. uh, it's, uh,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you know, Jesus Christ as a man did not have poverty.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: He was supporting 82 people for three years. You can't
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: do that on poverty people. Let me tell you, the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: man had to understand something about material and business and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: how that all works. Plus dealing with interpersonal family dynamics, cough, spit, barf,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: but be that as it may, don't think the apostles
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: were perfect people. They weren't, we're, we're taught that in religion,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but it's, um, Jim went to this other extreme, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he recently passed on. Another guy really with a, shall
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: we say, a scandalous past that passed on was, I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: don't know if you remember the Speaker of the House
• 32:32
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• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he was the wrestling coach, and he was the down-to-earth guy.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: He was the Republican Speaker of the House. And He
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: was paying bribes as well, it was found, to kids
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that he had abused when he was a wrestling coach.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And the guy used to just rub me the wrong way.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, he's too folksy for me. Something's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: not really right with him. I can't really figure out
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: what it is, but there was this horrible standard and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: horrible thing that happened. And he passed on, I guess,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: somewhat in quietness and infamy, but Be that as it may,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: two people affected by scandal passing on in the same day.
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  Speaker 1: D'Angelo's rule appears. Anyway, Tony D'Angelo is here. 94.9 News
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  Speaker 1: How we doing, pal?
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  Speaker 33: I'm doing good, Tony.
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  Speaker 19: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am okay. And where are we going today?
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  Speaker 39: Well, Tony, I got some... Names that are going to
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  Speaker 39: make you smile today, but let's do some historic stuff first.
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  Speaker 39: 100 years ago today, Tony, believe it or not, Babe Ruth, 1926,
• 36:55
  Speaker 39: first MLB player to hit three home runs in a
• 36:57
  Speaker 39: World Series game. That happened at Sportsman's Park in St.
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  Speaker 19: Louis.
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  Speaker 39: That was 1926, Tony. This was a good day for
• 37:05
  Speaker 39: the Yankees in history. 1941, on this day, they beat
• 37:09
  Speaker 39: the Brooklyn Dodgers 3-1 at Ebbets Field. to win the
• 37:13
  Speaker 39: World Series four games to one, Tony. That was the
• 37:15
  Speaker 39: Yankees' fifth title in six years. 1945, Tony, this is
• 37:20
  Speaker 39: going to make you laugh. Greek tavern owner Billy Goatsianis,
• 37:25
  Speaker 39: he buys a seat for his.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Goat in Game 4 of the World.
• 37:28
  Speaker 33: Series right in Chicago.
• 37:30
  Speaker 39: He's escorted out, and he puts a goat curse on
• 37:33
  Speaker 39: the Cubs. which lasted 71 years until they won the
• 37:37
  Speaker 39: World Series in 2016, Tony. So that happened in this day, 1945.
• 37:43
  Speaker 39: Two years later, 1947, Tony, Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers
• 37:48
  Speaker 39: 5-2 at Yankee Stadium. They won that series four games
• 37:52
  Speaker 39: to three. 1959, Tony, on this day, White Sox beat
• 37:56
  Speaker 39: the Dodgers. This is out at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum
• 37:59
  Speaker 39: in the World Series, Tony. They won that game 1-0, Tony.
• 38:02
  Speaker 39: There was almost 93,000 people there. Can you imagine a
• 38:06
  Speaker 39: baseball game, Tony?
• 38:08
  Speaker 33: Unbelievable.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and the way they set that place
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: up was that I think they wanted to make it
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Fenway Park West, so they ran the line into left field,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and you figure, with all those powerful right-handed batters, and
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: nobody could pop one over that snow fence, basically.
• 38:27
  Speaker 39: And it was such a huge place, Tony, when they
• 38:29
  Speaker 39: made it. It was just a weird setup there. That
• 38:32
  Speaker 39: was in 1959. 1966, Tony, this is amazing to me.
• 38:36
  Speaker 39: Jim Palmer, a rookie at age 20, right? He's the
• 38:39
  Speaker 39: youngest to record a World Series shutout. He beat the
• 38:42
  Speaker 39: Dodgers 6-0. in Game 2 at Dodger Stadium. Now, Tony,
• 38:47
  Speaker 39: this is amazing. You look back on the World Series
• 38:52
  Speaker 39: in 1966, you'll remember this better than I do. For
• 38:54
  Speaker 39: Game 1, Baltimore wins 5-2. First of all, McNally starts
• 38:58
  Speaker 39: for Baltimore. He doesn't really have it. His control is
• 39:01
  Speaker 39: way off. They bring in Moe Drabowski, Tony. Pitches 7,
• 39:05
  Speaker 39: shut out 11.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I watched that game.
• 39:08
  Speaker 39: They win that game. Palmer does the shutout in Game 2.
• 39:13
  Speaker 39: which we just talked about. Game three, Wally Bunker shuts
• 39:16
  Speaker 39: out the Dodgers' complete game. Game four, Baltimore wins 1-0
• 39:21
  Speaker 39: on a shutout from McNally. Tony, they're pitching that series,
• 39:26
  Speaker 39: probably the best of any World Series ever. And the Yankees,
• 39:31
  Speaker 39: you know, the only bad-pitched game was basically game one
• 39:34
  Speaker 39: by Drysdale, but he came back, Drysdale, in the game
• 39:37
  Speaker 39: four and pitched well. Koufax pitched well. Osteen pitched well.
• 39:42
  Speaker 39: The Orioles were just lights out that series. It was incredible.
• 39:46
  Speaker 39: And in 1985, Tony, on this day.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: You had.
• 39:51
  Speaker 39: I've got to check my notes here. We've got so
• 39:53
  Speaker 39: many things happening. 1985, this was the day that Phil Negro, Tony,
• 39:58
  Speaker 39: won his 300th game. He was at age 46, Tony,
• 40:02
  Speaker 39: pitching for the Yankees at the time, and he shut
• 40:04
  Speaker 39: out Toronto.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I watched that game, too.
• 40:06
  Speaker 14: What's amazing about this game, he.
• 40:08
  Speaker 39: Kind of abandoned the knuckleball until late in the game,
• 40:11
  Speaker 39: and he still won. But that was on this day
• 40:14
  Speaker 39: in 1985. 1991, Tony, David Cohn.
• 40:18
  Speaker 39: The final game of the Mets season, he struck out
• 40:20
  Speaker 39: 19 Phillies on this day in 1991. As far as birthdays, Tony,
• 40:27
  Speaker 39: NFL birthdays, Hall of Famer Richard Seymour, Patriot fans will
• 40:30
  Speaker 39: remember him well, celebrates today. And Albert Lewis, great cornerback
• 40:35
  Speaker 39: for the Kansas City Chiefs back in the day, turned
• 40:38
  Speaker 39: 66 today. Baseball birthdays, Tony, a couple guys that were
• 40:42
  Speaker 39: born on this day. Tony, this is going to take
• 40:44
  Speaker 39: you back. Two members of the 1969 Mets who you
• 40:47
  Speaker 39: remember well. Jerry Grody and Gary Gentry. Gentry turns 80 today.
• 40:54
  Speaker 39: Grody passed away.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: A few years back, Tony.
• 40:56
  Speaker 39: They both were born on this day. Do you remember
• 41:00
  Speaker 39: Gene Clines of the Pirates?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I do. I do.
• 41:03
  Speaker 39: He was a great player. I mean, as a utility guy,
• 41:06
  Speaker 39: he hit. 308 and.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: 335.
• 41:08
  Speaker 39: This is over playing in 100 games back in the
• 41:11
  Speaker 39: early 70s for the Pirates. Jim McLaughlin, Tony, was born
• 41:16
  Speaker 39: on this day in 1943. Very sad story. I mean,
• 41:19
  Speaker 39: this guy came up with the Angels, was really good
• 41:22
  Speaker 39: in the late 60s, you know, and then put a couple,
• 41:25
  Speaker 39: about two or three 200-inning.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: Reasons on his arm, Tony, and his arm went down.
• 41:30
  Speaker 39: But, you know, he was out of baseball at the
• 41:32
  Speaker 39: age of 30. Tony, he passed away two years later
• 41:34
  Speaker 39: of a rare form of leukemia.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I remember.
• 41:37
  Speaker 39: Yeah, a very sad story. I mean, he really had some.
• 41:42
  Speaker 39: Decent years. Steve Klein, Tony, remember Steve Klein.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: For the Yankees?
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 41:47
  Speaker 39: He came up in the early 70s, Tony. Another guy.
• 41:50
  Speaker 39: He had a couple 200-inning pitch years under him, and
• 41:55
  Speaker 39: then by the age of 27, he didn't have the
• 41:57
  Speaker 39: surgeries back then, Tony, that they had now. He was
• 42:00
  Speaker 39: done by the age of 26, Steve Klein. Had a
• 42:02
  Speaker 39: lot of promise, though. He was born on this day.
• 42:06
  Speaker 39: Alfredo Griffin, former infielder for the Blue Jays, celebrates An
• 42:11
  Speaker 39: oil can boy, Tony. 67 years old, a can. Celebrates
• 42:16
  Speaker 39: the birthday.
• 42:17
  Speaker 14: He was a lot of fun.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Ruben Sierra. You remember Ruben Sierra?
• 42:20
  Speaker 19: I do. 61 years old.
• 42:21
  Speaker 39: Had some great years with the Texas Rangers, including 1989, Tony.
• 42:25
  Speaker 39: He led the league in games played, triples, RBI, slugging percentage,
• 42:30
  Speaker 39: and was second in the MVP that year. So that
• 42:33
  Speaker 39: happened on this– well, that was– he was born on
• 42:38
  Speaker 39: this day in 1965, believe it or not.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Wow, amazing. You know, I was reading a story. Someone
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: had recently gone to a massage therapist, I believe it
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: was in Florida. And I guess it was like a
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: recurring appointment. And the therapist or one of the people
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: working there said he knew the guy was a baseball fan.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: You know, that older gentleman over there at the white here,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: he was a former major leaguer. He used to play
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: for the Yankees. I said, oh, really? So what's his name?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: He said, oh, Steve Whitaker. So I said, would you
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: mind if I could talk to him? And they said, sure.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: He had a really good discussion with Steve Whitaker, who
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: couldn't have been nicer, talked about how Lee McPhail couldn't
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: stand him and how we wish he came up with
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: a better team. And I'm wondering if they had a
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: discussion of how many times he flooded the dugout and
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: attack the water cooler after striking out.
• 43:37
  Speaker 39: You know, Whitaker, Tony, another one of those Yankees in
• 43:40
  Speaker 39: the late 60s, right? I mean, he, you know, obviously
• 43:43
  Speaker 39: those weren't the best teams back in the day, but
• 43:46
  Speaker 39: believe it or not, he was from the state of Washington, Tony,
• 43:51
  Speaker 39: and he turned 83 years old recently, believe it or not.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: He did, yeah, and apparently he's been very involved for
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: a number of years and still active in... Florida real estate,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: but he said he just couldn't, couldn't meet a nicer gentleman.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: And that, that whole, uh, you know, I was around
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: watching the Yankees in those days and saving my, uh,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: my green stamp books to turn them in for tickets
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: and beg my father to drive me to the stadium
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: from Stanford. And it was, uh, they really did a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: nice job on the stadium. They painted all the seats
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: blue and they painted it white and the, uh, they
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: improved the sound. So you could really hear Bob Shepard,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: but it, uh, really was a sad thing. It was
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: like arriving at the party after everybody left.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you ever, when you're below.
• 44:34
  Speaker 39: The age of 12 or whatever, which I was when
• 44:37
  Speaker 39: I saw my first game, when you pulled up to
• 44:39
  Speaker 39: that building, I just remember asking, you know, I didn't
• 44:43
  Speaker 39: know too much back then. I just remember asking my father.
• 44:45
  Speaker 39: I thought they played baseball outside, you know. So I
• 44:48
  Speaker 39: go into this big, and I see the green, and
• 44:50
  Speaker 39: that's how you fell in love with baseball, right? So
• 44:52
  Speaker 39: it didn't take more than that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just it. And the thing is, and you know,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: you were in that place thousands of times. People are
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: still very angry that that old stadium was taken down.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I am, too. I really saw no reason. You could
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: have modified it and done a couple of things, but
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: everybody was greedy. The Mets wanted their place, and the
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Yankees wanted their place. We weren't going to repeat 1974
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and 1975 with two teams using one stadium, but The
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: modern-day man today is a lot heavier and bigger and
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: bigger across than the modern-day man of 1923. So a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: large part of what they had, you know, that upper
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: deck was on such an incline, and those stairwells were
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: so narrow, there's people carrying beers and falling down and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: tumbling all the way to the front, and it was terrible.
• 45:42
  Speaker 39: It wasn't terrible.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It's still a shame.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: They still kept it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 39: Walk by the old place and we go to the
• 45:49
  Speaker 39: new place and from what.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: I gather, it doesn't look too well right now.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: No, it's pretty terrible. I'm just waiting for Mondami's homeless
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: coalition to come near. Anyway, Bob, we're out of time. Hey,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: my dad said we're Joe DiMaggio used to play. So, Bob,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you have a great day. Thanks very much.
• 46:06
  Speaker 39: Talk soon, Tony.
• 46:07
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  Speaker 33: in the form of the 25-cent per gallon tax suspension.
• 55:43
  Speaker 33: But The hidden tax of gasoline in the state of Connecticut,
• 55:46
  Speaker 33: which is, again, very secretive, is the gross earnings tax,
• 55:51
  Speaker 33: which is applied at the wholesale level to every gallon
• 55:55
  Speaker 33: of gas in the state of Connecticut. And that's a
• 55:57
  Speaker 33: mere 8.1%.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: So guess what?
• 56:03
  Speaker 33: If the wholesale cost of gasoline increases, which it is
• 56:08
  Speaker 33: increasing for a variety of reasons, doesn't the revenue... for
• 56:15
  Speaker 33: the state of Connecticut increased by that? So instead of
• 56:18
  Speaker 33: paying $ 3 a gallon wholesale, they're paying now $ 3. 50 a
• 56:22
  Speaker 33: gallon wholesale. Isn't the state receiving 8.1% off of $ 3. 50
• 56:28
  Speaker 33: a gallon rather than $ 3 a gallon?
• 56:30
  Speaker 45: By definition.
• 56:32
  Speaker 33: Where is that money going to? And again, it's the
• 56:36
  Speaker 33: secret to this, the non-transparency of Connecticut's Democrat state government
• 56:40
  Speaker 33: at work. Well, you know, we need revenue. We've got
• 56:43
  Speaker 33: to tax everything, including the air we breathe. So let's
• 56:47
  Speaker 33: just shove this gross earnings tax in, along with all
• 56:50
  Speaker 33: the other taxes you pay in the state of Connecticut,
• 56:52
  Speaker 33: especially on fuel. And, you know, we've got a good
• 56:56
  Speaker 33: cash calendar going. So why does gasoline cost $ 0. 40, $ 0. 50, $ 0. 60
• 57:01
  Speaker 33: a gallon more than other parts of the country? Well,
• 57:03
  Speaker 33: that's one big reason. Number two, you have no refineries
• 57:06
  Speaker 33: in the state, so everything has to be transported there.
• 57:09
  Speaker 33: And you have a massive bureaucracy as far as compliance
• 57:12
  Speaker 33: requirements for gasoline stations, tankers, so on and so forth. So, again,
• 57:18
  Speaker 33: why do you even want to sell gas in the
• 57:20
  Speaker 33: state of Connecticut when you've got to go through every
• 57:22
  Speaker 33: hoop known to mankind just to get it to the pumps? But, again,
• 57:26
  Speaker 33: it was a simple response to be made. Well, you
• 57:30
  Speaker 33: had $ 100 million for the media. Why can't you have
• 57:33
  Speaker 33: $ 100 million for state drivers?
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot comes to mind, and I go back,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I believe it was, I can't tell you exactly, I'm
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: going to say 2023, when the, shall we say, this
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: great effort of, we're going green, we're going to have
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: all e-cars by 2035, and we're going to make the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: world clean and safe for democracy. And I think I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: spent week after week on this show just picking that apart.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: The original Republican pushback to the hallucinations of our then
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: commissioner of the Department of Environment and Energy Protection, Katie Dykes. Hi, Katie.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I know you're listening. We're just so pandering as to
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: be beyond belief. I was getting from Republicans, well, we
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: don't want the Connecticut standards. We want the federal standards.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: The federal standards at that time were the Biden standards.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: They were a heck of a whole lot worse. So
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: I would come on in my 20 minutes kind of
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: screaming my guts out and actually started to get through
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: to people to actually get people very angry at the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: representatives and started to shame representatives. Sometimes you have to
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: do that. And, you know, now we're in a place
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: where we have a president who is mindful, if you
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: could say as much as you want about how much
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: you want to love him or hate him, he's mindful
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: of the fact that we cannot drive the future without
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: readily accessible fossil fuels. It just isn't going to happen.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: there's just not enough there ain't enough milk in that
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: in that coconut but during that time period said i'll
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: have to say this bob i would get into discussions
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: with um you know the guys that run my uh
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: run my pomfret mart and i would say you know
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: what do you what do you make on these gallons
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: now of course You could say they're lying, but the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: margin of gasoline, I had more than one person tell
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: me this, that, you know, I wouldn't be selling gasoline
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: if people weren't coming in here buying lottery tickets, buying
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: all the stuff they probably shouldn't do, like the vapes
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. You know, I go in,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I buy electrolyte water, I buy, you know, brewed tea
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. They're making so little on
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: gasoline that they just as soon not have it, but
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: it's a driver for all these other things. So it's like,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: you know, how, as you say, you get all this compliance,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: you get all this nonsense you throw on top of
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: people and these taxes, and it's like, why aren't they
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: throwing their arms up and walking away? And the other
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: thing is that some of the most idiotic comments, and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: believe me, Connecticut politics can get— I' m sorry, please go ahead.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 33: It's a good example for the simple reason you're taxing
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 33: the cost of gasoline to supposedly do what I don't know,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 33: support transportation projects, support buses in the state, vans in
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 33: the state, so on and so forth. You want it
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 33: all EV vehicles by 2035, but you have the highest
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 33: cost of electricity in the country. So there's no incentives
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 33: whatsoever for you to buy an electric car. and then
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 33: have a $ 1, 200, I'm sorry, a $ 2, 400 electric bill every
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 33: month where you could have bought a lot of gas
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 33: for the extra $ 1, 000 in electricity you're using to charge
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 33: up your vehicle, for example. There's just such an economic
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 33: disconnect in Hartford with the reality of the economics and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 33: the reality of the real world in Connecticut. It's just
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 33: not even funny anymore. And the gasoline is the typical
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 33: example on top of all the other examples you can
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 33: give with regards to why Connecticut is so expensive to
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 33: live in, why Connecticut has the highest taxes in the country,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 33: why Connecticut is the bottom feeder as far as business development,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 33: business growth, business stability, why Connecticut has one of the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 33: highest per person debt ratios in the country. It's just
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 33: mind-boggling after a while looking at all this stuff. And
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 33: to your point, talking to station owners, I know that
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 33: for a fact. They said, you know, there's no profit
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 33: in buying gasoline. If somebody just comes in and buys gas,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 33: use their credit card on top of it. You know,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 33: they're lucky they're making three or four cents a gallon.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 33: So if you put in 20 gallons, wow, you've got
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 33: a 60-cent sale there. You know, your compliance is probably
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 33: more like a dollar a gallon now than, you know,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 33: pennies a gallon. And it just doesn't make any economic sense.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 33: And people in Connecticut should be thankful. for any of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 33: the gas stations that remain open, that they can actually
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 33: buy gas in. Because, you know, it's a business where
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 33: they've got to put in a lot of hours. They
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 33: have to sell a lot of non-gasoline products to survive.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 33: And what's the point of it? You know, at some point,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 33: businesses say, hey, I'm not making any money on this.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 33: We're done. We're going to shut it down. So, you know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 33: you've got to try to be a little more realistic
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 33: in economic terms. Which leads me to the next thing
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 33: I would like to touch upon today, and you talked
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 33: about it a little also, is, again, we have no
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 33: concept as far as debt is concerned in the state
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 33: of Connecticut. We have no concept as far as taking
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 33: all these things off a budget over the years and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 33: allowing them to grow into the debt itself, so on
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 33: and so forth. So, again, everybody can quote all these
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 33: different figures as far as debt. I maintain continually. that
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 33: we have a hundred to a hundred fifty billion dollars
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 33: in short and long-term debt in the state of Connecticut
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 33: which includes a massive amount of unfunded liabilities including a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 33: massive amount of pension unfunded liabilities in the state. What's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 33: the plan to do anything with this? Is there a plan?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 33: Apparently there is no plan. Apparently you could just continue
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 33: to roll over bonds over and over again and be indebted,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 33: you know, for the next two hundred years. We're not
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 33: worried about it because you'll be long gone or you'll
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 33: be in Florida collecting your Connecticut state pension and not
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 33: paying any income tax on it. So it's a very,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 33: very serious economic problem that really needs to be addressed.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 33: It parallels all the other things that we look at
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 33: economically in the state of Connecticut. There's no incentive for
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 33: businesses to come in here unless you're handed thousands of
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 33: millions upon millions of dollars that you don't have to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 33: be accountable for, so you take your money, do what
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 33: you got to do, and get out as fast as possible.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 33: Nothing makes sense economically. I wish someone somewhere could respond
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 33: and say, no, this is what we're doing that we're doing.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 33: But they're not, because they're not doing anything. And as
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 33: we both said, the permit of economic community development should
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 33: be abolished. It's not doing anything for the state. It's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 33: costing the state a lot of money. We have no
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 33: idea how much money has been written off in uncollectible loans,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 33: so on and so forth. How does that foul anything
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 33: in the state of Connecticut?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 19: It doesn't.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 33: It doesn't. And the reward should not be four more
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 33: years of the same old garbage that you've been force-fed
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 33: for the past eight years.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: It's listening yesterday to Mr. Ignali talk about the audits
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: from our auditors of public accounts. I've maintained, you know,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: believe me, there's people have heard me talk about what
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't work in Connecticut, if all and well. I am
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: of the belief that most of it does not work.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: But these people, for the most part, do fine work.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: They might leave off something here or there or whatever.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: They're human. But I glean a lot from their reporting.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I'm very appreciative that they're there. But one of the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: things that Mr. Ignali had mentioned, and this is actually,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: and talking this over with several people yesterday, in the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: university system, we've got assets, if you will. And you wonder,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: why do we need all these assets? Why do we
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: need all these vehicles? Why do we need all these computers?
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Why do we need, why do we need? But These
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: things are not accounted for. They're just like there. They're
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: just not showing up. And the fact of the matter is,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: what is to stop me from saying, you know, nice,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: you know, Ford Explorer over there. Mama needs a new
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: pair of shoes. And you wander the thing with your
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: buddy in DMV and, you know, boom, bang, off you are.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: And the thing was off books, off budget, off radar,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: off this, off that. And it's like– now, to me,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: this is like– and this is the thing. I'm a
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: bank trust guy. I learned long ago that if there
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: is one little degree of taint, the whole thing is
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: tainted because taint doesn't stop at one occurrence. This is
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: what they tell us with voter fraud. There's only one
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: little thing.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 18: No, no, no.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: When you have one taint, you've got thousands of taint.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: It's like a New York City apartment. If you see
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: one roach, there's 200 behind the wall, maybe more. But
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: that all said– And it's like, well, the auditors will
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: do the reports and say, this is what's happening. And
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: then the schools will say, you know, bless me, Father,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: for I have sinned. I stole a banana and ate
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: the skin. I promise not to do it again. Or,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I dispute the report. I said, I'll have
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: to say this, Bob. There's never any follow-up. There's never any,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: you know, what are we doing? I don't see punishment.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: I don't see, you know, people removed from positions. I
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: don't see any, you know, righteous, maybe righteous isn't the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: exactly correct word, but righting the wrongs of what's there.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You know, so it goes on every day, twice on Tuesdays,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: and it's like, what will happen to these people? Will
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: they be reprimanded? Will they lose their pensions, sick days,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: vacation days, mental health days, got to go to grandma's
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: house days, indigenous people? Heck no. They will sit there
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: in Florida when this is all done, when they put
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: their time, and we're still paying for the mess. And
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, When?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 42: When?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 33: The bigger question is we have to use the E-word,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 33: and that's ethics in government. And we really don't have
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 33: it in Connecticut.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 33: We don't have it from top to bottom as far
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 33: as I'm concerned. And, again, how much theft goes on,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 33: how much writing off of uncollectible loans goes on, how
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 33: much falsified time goes on, how much payoffs go on,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 33: how many deals are made with former politicians to get
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 33: a lucrative state job, so on and so forth. The
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 33: list is endless, and it has to stop if Connecticut's
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 33: going to survive economically as a state, because a state
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 33: this small cannot in any way, shape, or form continue
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 33: to hold $ 150 billion in debt. It's impossible. It does
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 33: not have the economic resources. It doesn't have the economic
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 33: assets to respond.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 19: To a serious crisis.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 33: Budgetary crisis and or a serious debt crisis where interest
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 33: rates triple or quadruple for whatever reason, the state will
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 33: be basically bankrupt. And again, I found great irony yesterday.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 33: Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the largest protest in
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 33: state history where over 70,000 people attended Hartford and protested
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 33: against the state income tax. But again, the state income
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 33: tax was supposed to resolve all of Connecticut's economic problems.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 33: We seem to have a heck of a lot more
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 33: problems than we did in 1991 economically. And, you know, again,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 33: state income tax is the greatest cash cow the state
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 33: has ever created because, again, if you want to work here,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 33: you're going to have to pay state income tax. No
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 33: way out of it. You're out of luck, buddy. You know,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 33: we want the money. We need to spend. We need to,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 33: you know, cover our political cronies, so on and so forth.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 44: It's wrong.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 33: It's a lack of ethics in government. Everything we've talked
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 33: about so far this morning, everything you've talked about and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 33: I've talked about for years now, You know, it's the
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 33: basic concept, ethics.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 33: What gives you the right when you become an elected
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 33: official or you work for state government just to rape
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 33: the government, rape the taxpayer?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 33: What is the point of it? Why do you get it?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: And rape without accountability and rape and maintain everything that
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: you've got, and we will continue to pay it, and
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: there's no accounting for.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: You know, shall we say where's the penance? Where's the
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: incentive not to do it? One person looks and says, well,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: so-and-so got away with that. I can do the same thing.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 30: Exactly.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 33: And, again, Connecticut is now basically the only way you
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 33: hear any truth. You've got to rely on citizen journalists
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 33: to investigate this stuff and bring it public and then,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 33: you know, get your work basically stolen by state-run media
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 33: on occasion. You know, oh, we found this, we found that,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 33: so on and so forth. Well, you know, it doesn't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 33: do any good because the inherent problem is the lack
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 33: of ethics in state government. And again, the Lamonts are
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 33: just the poster child for this with all the different
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 33: shell companies, all the different offshore companies, so on and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 33: so forth, all the profits they made from the state.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 33: And again, it can never be discussed. It will never
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 33: be disclosed. And we just have to, you know, say, oh, Ned,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 33: just do whatever you want. You deserve everything. And it's wrong.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 33: And it's just inherently wrong. And I think people are
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 33: at their breaking point, especially in Connecticut. And I don't
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 33: think you can really blame the Republicans to a large
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 33: degree because the Republicans have not been in power for many,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 33: many years now. Democrats control top-to-bottom government for years. We
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 33: basically had a showcase Republican governor for four terms, and
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 33: that really didn't resolve anything because only in one of
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 33: those terms the Republicans control the Senate. They've never controlled
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 33: the House once in the past 40 years.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 33: So, you know, I don't know how they can even
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 33: blame Republicans for anything going on, other than they're complicit
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 33: in not fighting them tooth and nail with all the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 33: corruption and all the lack of ethics going on.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to jump on that, actually. We're coming
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to the end of this first half hour of Power Hour.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I've got a few thoughts. We can go back and
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: forth on that, and I really do appreciate it. Tony
• 1:12:08
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  Speaker 31: It's Hugh Hewitt here with Ken and Nick Tumalo, hosts
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 31: of Tumalo Financial Radio, Sundays on 94.9. Guys, why do
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 31: taxes get overlooked in retirement planning?
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  Speaker 46: Because the tax code is so complicated. You look at it,
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  Speaker 1: Part two of the Power Hour, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: Democrat control. One thing I wanted to say, it has
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  Speaker 1: We've never had in Connecticut that, shall we say, the
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  Speaker 33: Well, that also goes along with leadership. What is leadership?
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  Speaker 33: you have a lack of ethics and you have a
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  Speaker 33: by a minority party.
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  Speaker 33: To the point that we have to really, really try
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think that goes to messaging. You know,
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  Speaker 11: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: You're on with Tony and Bob in the Power Hour.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Tony.
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  Speaker 33: Hey, Dan. And Bob.
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  Speaker 5: Bob, I love listening to you. I wish you were
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  Speaker 5: the consultant for the Connecticut Republican Party, to tell you
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  Speaker 5: the truth.
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  Speaker 52: God.
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  Speaker 38: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Because I learn stuff from you that I forget. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm wondering, well, a couple of things. One, you mentioned the,
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  Speaker 5: what do you call it, the state income tax in 1991,
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  Speaker 5: yet we still have problems.
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  Speaker 33: And I just remember the reason.
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  Speaker 5: We had the income tax in 91 was because of
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  Speaker 5: overspending in the 1980s when Bill O'Neill was governor. I
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  Speaker 5: think it averaged like 10% a year. And the reason
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  Speaker 5: they said they need to spend is because, well, we
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  Speaker 5: got these surpluses, and we got a lot of needs
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  Speaker 5: in Connecticut, and we got the money to pay for
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  Speaker 5: them now, so let's do it. So that was 40
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  Speaker 5: years ago. Like you said, we still have the problems,
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  Speaker 5: but the income tax was passed in 91, like you said.
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  Speaker 3: But the other thing that happened, it was.
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  Speaker 5: A flat 4.5% income tax, and it was quickly found
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  Speaker 5: out that that wasn't enough. So they made it progressive.
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  Speaker 5: They went from 3% to 7%, and the 7% was
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  Speaker 5: so they could tax the rich more. I guess my
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  Speaker 5: whole point is it's the spending, stupid, and we'll never
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  Speaker 5: have enough money because what you've said and what I
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  Speaker 5: just said proves, and the fact that we're number three
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  Speaker 5: in the country as far as total overall taxation, and
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: we're either two or three as far as debt per capita,
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  Speaker 5: shows we're taxing the hell out of us, so we
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of money to spend. We are spending
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  Speaker 5: way over what we take in, yet things never get better,
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  Speaker 5: which means we're wasting our money. And the second thing is,
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  Speaker 5: I heard on the news, the Republicans proposed suspending the
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  Speaker 5: gas tax until the end of the year, and Lamont said,
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  Speaker 5: actually sort of responsibly say, we'll find $ 128 million and
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: we'll do it. Well, wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity
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  Speaker 5: for the Republicans to come up with $ 128 million of
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  Speaker 5: cuts and say.
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  Speaker 33: Here we are, Governor, let's do it?
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  Speaker 1: Simple, Dan. Stop paying the media. Stop state-supporting media. But, Bob,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: your thoughts?
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  Speaker 33: I gave the solution earlier. You stopped paying the media.
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  Speaker 33: That's $ 100 million right there. I'm sure you could scrape
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  Speaker 33: up $ 28 million among nonprofits that are not doing anything.
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  Speaker 33: I mean, there's a lot of ways to cut spending
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  Speaker 33: in the state of Connecticut. It's politically unpopular. And, again,
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  Speaker 33: your only concern is nurturing the state government and the
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  Speaker 33: cronies running the government. You're not doing anything for the
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  Speaker 33: downtrodden Connecticut taxpayer community. and what they are doing, fighting
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  Speaker 33: for their survival on the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 19: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing. Dan, anything else?
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  Speaker 5: Well, actually, the $ 100 million that the media has given
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  Speaker 5: to Dems, that's the first I've heard of it. Can
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  Speaker 5: you explain, is it because of commercials? What are they
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  Speaker 5: actually giving the money for?
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  Speaker 1: You want a little history. I'll try to be brief.
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  Speaker 1: On or about 2020, there was a media contract signed
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Connecticut for $ 72 million for the,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: shall we say, it was for marketing, media, and public relations.
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  Speaker 1: And all the PR firms got to come to the trow. MediaStorm,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you can look at their website. I believe
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: they're based in Norwalk. They are, quote, unquote, a communications outfit.
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  Speaker 1: They picked up about $ 30 million of that, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was followed by another $ 24 million, I believe it was,
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  Speaker 1: when that contract ran out. And basically what it is
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  Speaker 1: is that it's twofold, Dan. It's a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: going from the state to fund these media outlets. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you're not going to be objective when somebody
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  Speaker 1: is standing there, you know, more or less feeding your,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shall we say feeding your children, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: and your dogs and your pets and your car and
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: all the other stuff. And the other thing about that
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: is when this goes on, we, like, where can we
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  Speaker 1: get objective reporting? We're not going to get that through
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And what shocked me yesterday was
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: when Mr. Ignali was on and, you know, justifiably complaining
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  Speaker 1: about all the stuff happening, and Jan had turned to
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  Speaker 1: me and said, you know, Does he know about the contract?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Mr. McNally. But, you know, here's the contract.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like the amount of ignorance of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this scheme has been going on for years and
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: years and years and Republicans don't either don't know about
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  Speaker 1: it or they don't talk about it or they've taken
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  Speaker 1: it in off the back end or some of them have.
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  Speaker 28: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, man, oh, man. It's like, number one,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't right. Number two, you ain't going to fix
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  Speaker 1: anything until you break the food chain. But that's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully didn't take up too much time with that. But
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  Speaker 1: hopefully that's a help, Dan. And we're going to conclude
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  Speaker 1: with Bob. Dan, thanks so much for calling.
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  Speaker 33: Bob.
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  Speaker 44: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Dan left us.
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  Speaker 42: So.
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  Speaker 3: Well, getting back.
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  Speaker 33: Getting back to this whole, you know, what we're trying
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 33: to examine here, what we're trying to come up with,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 33: you know, solutions, ethics, leadership, these are all components of
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 33: what government should be, and government is not in the
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  Speaker 33: state of Connecticut. I don't know how else to articulate
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  Speaker 33: all the different examples I've written about over the years,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 33: you've talked about over the years. We're literally talking about
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  Speaker 33: the same stuff we talked about 20 years ago. Nothing
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  Speaker 33: has changed. When will it change? The only way it
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  Speaker 33: will change is the informed, the educated voter in the
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  Speaker 33: state of Connecticut says, I think it's time that we
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 33: go in a different direction in Connecticut or I'm not
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 33: going to be in Connecticut anymore. My family's not going
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 33: to be in Connecticut anymore. I want out of this state.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 33: I want to go to a state that's free. And
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 33: free meaning that there is freedom, there is economic freedom,
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  Speaker 33: and you're not burdened with one of the highest tax
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  Speaker 33: rates in the country, have one of the highest levels
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  Speaker 33: of corruption in the country, and have one of the
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  Speaker 33: highest per-debt capital in the country. There are 50 states
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  Speaker 33: in our country. What makes Connecticut special?
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a New England state, and that's about all
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: we can say now.
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  Speaker 33: It's a quagmire of bureaucracy, of taxes, of corruption, of deception.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 39: It's wrong.
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  Speaker 33: It is inherently wrong. The message has to be communicated.
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  Speaker 33: We need a change in Connecticut. We need to overhaul
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 33: this government somehow. We need to cut spending somehow, cut taxes.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 33: Let's make Connecticut affordable again, which we're not. And let's
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  Speaker 33: make Connecticut honest again. Let's have an ethical form of
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 33: government again.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and this kind of dawned on me and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my wife is sort of a series of visionaries,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: if I'm pronouncing that correctly. I go to the coffee
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: shop in the Pomfret Center. There's a very lovely young lady.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: And she, believe me, she's spectacular. And I asked her,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: I said, are you in school? And she said, no, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: I graduated. I'm a graduate architect and I cannot find
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  Speaker 1: a job. And I mean, this kid's got movie star quality,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: believe me, written all over. And it dawns on me, Bob,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: I'm coming here today and I'm saying, the reason why
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: she can't find a job as an architect is guess what?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, where are the projects? Where are
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: the things happening? Where is a place for her to
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  Speaker 1: learn and grow? My next conversation with her is, you know,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: honey bunny, You've really got to consider going to a
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: place where your skills can be in demand because they
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to be in demand here, basically, and you're
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: not going to get a start.
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  Speaker 33: It's called economic development, and it's called economic stimulation, and
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 33: it's called economic growth. You don't have any of that
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 33: in the state of Connecticut, which is why young graduates
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 33: like that move out of state immediately. No matter what
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  Speaker 33: kind of tax incentive is thrown to them, it's meaningless
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  Speaker 33: to them. Because they don't need to be working in
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  Speaker 33: a coffee shop. They need to be an architect. They
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 33: need to be an engineer. Whatever their position was or
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 33: their major was in college, they need to be an architect.
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  Speaker 33: to be as close to that as possible. They're not.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 33: The jobs are not in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the other thing is there cannot be any
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: more sacred cows. You know, we can talk about the
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: state university system, awful, wretched, putrid. We can talk about
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: the other state agencies, awful, wretched, But you don't kill
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: the economic mess until you abolish or get rid of
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the Department of Economic and Community Development, which does nothing
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  Speaker 1: other than throw money at failed projects and nonprofits that
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: are not subject to freedom of information, that we can't
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: get into, that there's no real-time monitoring. Basically, they're bless-me
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: clubs for the politically anointed. And Republicans can no longer
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: get out there and say, oh, we want to fund
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: the nonprofits because that's what's good. You don't enable the
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: source of whatever, the taint. You've got to get rid
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: of it. And the fact of the matter is that
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: accounting company that did that audit failed. of, you know,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: the Blue Hill Civic Association. I believe they did, too.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: And throw that on top of the state audits. And,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were being kind to their client. I
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: thought they were kind of soft-soaping it now and then. But, Bob,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: it's wretched what the DECD did in order to enable
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: this mess.
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  Speaker 33: Exactly. Exactly. It needs to be, you know, ripped apart.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 33: It needs to be eliminated. It would save the state
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  Speaker 33: a lot of money. And, you know, if you have
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 33: all these geniuses that are working in the state of Connecticut,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 33: someone can figure out an economic plan that is transparent,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 33: that you do get your loans paid back from, and
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 33: you do actually have businesses that maintain themselves in the
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 33: state and grow economically in the state at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: It's garbage.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 33: That's all it is.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 19: It's just garbage.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 33: You throw garbage at more garbage and you get even
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 33: more garbage, and that's it. It's tiring. It's, you know... Again,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 33: we talk about the same thing over and over again.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 33: Come up with a solution. You're the elected official. You
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  Speaker 33: have so many different opportunities to lead. You choose not to.
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  Speaker 33: And that's wrong. That is a big disservice to the
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  Speaker 33: state of Connecticut and especially to the hardworking taxpayers and
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 33: voters of the state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: The solution is dramatic reworking and rebranding. I keep going back.
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  Speaker 1: to Lee Iacocca and Chrysler in 1981, where Chrysler was
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: making horrible cars in the 70s. And he came to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: Congress and said, this is making me sick. I have
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: to take money from you to save this automobile company.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: He reworked the product. He took the entire plant and said, look,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: we're closing up the cafeteria. We're getting rid of this
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: benefit and that benefit. If you want to survive, this
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. And there's a lot
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: of different stories within that. But he said, we're turning
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: the corner. We're doing something different. The old isn't worked.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: We're going to do something new. And people say, oh,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: that's radical. Oh, that's extreme. Well, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: is going to fix the mess? Reworking, you know, the
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: same deck chairs on the Titanic? That's, you know, my
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: concluding thought.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 33: To me, you know, Connecticut is the Titanic now. It
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  Speaker 33: needs to be saved somehow. It needs the overhaul. The
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  Speaker 33: overhaul has to start today. It's too late if we
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  Speaker 33: wait any longer.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: This is the last chance saloon for so many things.
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  Speaker 1: But believe it or not, another power hour is in
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• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: were a little family commercial here, this is my dad's Benris.
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  Speaker 1: This is older than I am. And I took it today,
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  Speaker 1: It's Tony D'Angelo, Bob Swick, another Power Hour. We'll be
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  Speaker 33: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: temporary Tuesday, October 6th. On the line, this gentleman needs
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  Speaker 1: no introduction. Bill Stanley, all the things that were in
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  Speaker 14: Good morning.
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  Speaker 19: Good morning, Tony. Good to be with you. We've never met,
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  Speaker 19: but I've been a big fan of yours for a
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  Speaker 19: long time, at least as a guest on Lee Elsie's program, but...
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  Speaker 19: I'm sure you're successful at what you do, but I
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  Speaker 19: think you missed your calling.
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  Speaker 1: Put it this way. You never stop evaluating your career options.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I can tell you.
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  Speaker 39: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, this is not about me. This is about you.
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  Speaker 1: I loved your article in the New London Day this
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  Speaker 1: past Sunday. and why I realize we can't get into
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  Speaker 1: the meat of that. There's just so many things that
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  Speaker 1: are pregnant in that. I want you to tell me
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  Speaker 1: what's on your heart and mind today.
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  Speaker 19: Well, I really enjoyed your previous interview with Bob Swick.
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  Speaker 19: And again, I don't know Bob. I read up a
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  Speaker 19: little bit on his background. But I think you and
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  Speaker 19: he and a few others are part of a dying
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  Speaker 19: breed who can provide historical context to the Connecticut state
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  Speaker 19: politics and government scene, going all the way back to
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  Speaker 19: when the state income tax was enacted. And even before that,
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  Speaker 19: the last time Republicans actually controlled the state legislature, it
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  Speaker 19: seems like so long ago. In fact, it was when
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  Speaker 19: Bob mentioned that it's been 40 years since It was
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  Speaker 19: after the Reagan landslide when Republicans last controlled the legislature,
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  Speaker 19: and it was only a two-year run because in 1986,
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  Speaker 19: with Bill O'Neill and Chris Dodd at the top of
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  Speaker 19: the Democratic ticket, the Democrats took back control of the legislature.
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  Speaker 19: And with the exception, I think, of two years, maybe
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  Speaker 19: 25 years later, when Republicans forged a tie in the
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  Speaker 19: state Senate, It's been all Democrats just about all the time.
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  Speaker 19: The Republicans occupied the governor's office with John Rowland and
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  Speaker 19: Jody Rowe, but, again, that seems like eons ago.
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  Speaker 1: It sure does. It sure does.
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  Speaker 19: So what we have now in Connecticut goes to what
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  Speaker 19: Thomas Jefferson once famously said, and that is that people
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 19: deserve the government they elect. And so, you know, every
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 19: two years we elect increasingly large Democratic majorities in both
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 19: the House and Senate. And every four years the voters
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  Speaker 19: reelect a Democrat to serve as governor, first with Dan
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  Speaker 19: Malloy and now with Ned Lamont, who, if he completes
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  Speaker 19: this coming four-year term, assuming he's reelected, in November, will
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  Speaker 19: be the longest-serving governor in a couple of hundred years
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  Speaker 19: for Connecticut. So, I honestly, I wish I was wrong,
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  Speaker 19: but I don't perceive Ryan Fazio beating Ned Lamont on
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  Speaker 19: Election Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sobering thought, and we put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched elections for years and years and years, and
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  Speaker 1: what amazed me, I think it was in 2010 Oh,
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  Speaker 1: was it 2022 or in 2024? You know, Bill, these
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  Speaker 1: elections were called five minutes after. And 10,000 things run
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  Speaker 1: through your mind. How is that even possible? And it's—but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I have this discussion a lot with
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  Speaker 1: this thing with Republicans of like— It's a 52 to 47,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a 50 to a 48 or something, but
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  Speaker 1: just never seemed to get over the line. Now, with
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: your sentiment, what is giving you that impression as far
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  Speaker 1: as the outcome of the election?
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  Speaker 19: Well, Republicans of the three voting segments, Democrats, Republicans, and
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 19: unaffiliated Republicans— are the smallest of the three, the unaffiliated
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 19: being the largest voting bloc and apparently leaning left, leaning
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 19: Democratic most of the time. And, of course, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 19: supported by organized labor, both the state employee unions and
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 19: the private unions, are all in lockstep for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 19: And as I mentioned in the column about the race
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  Speaker 19: between our friend Lee Elsie and the incumbent Senator Martha Marks,
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  Speaker 19: labor gets out there and, you know, you can't knock them.
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  Speaker 19: What they do is legal, and it's protected by the Constitution.
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  Speaker 19: They get out there and they support their candidates. They
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  Speaker 19: write checks, they knock on doors, they deliver flyers, and
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  Speaker 19: they turn out and vote. And until the Republicans are
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  Speaker 19: able to, A, increase their numbers, B, find better candidates,
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  Speaker 19: and C, get out that vote, we're going to remain
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  Speaker 19: a Democratic state for as long as I can see.
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  Speaker 1: I've always perceived a disconnect. People will complain about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they complain about Ned Lamont, complain about Donald Trump, complain, complain, complain.
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  Speaker 1: But When it comes to actually doing something, assuming arguendo,
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  Speaker 1: we've got honest elections, which is another conversation for another time.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I've always felt there was a disconnect of
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  Speaker 1: between what is, quote unquote, an establishment Republican. And as
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  Speaker 1: our friend Lee Elsie likes to say, Chuck in a
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  Speaker 1: truck trying to make a buck that hasn't. carried to
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  Speaker 1: the point where the principles of republicanism would be those
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  Speaker 1: things that Chuck really wants to see happen, but he's
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: just disillusioned by all the crud and just trying to
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: pay his bills. The other thing is, I've never seen,
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  Speaker 1: and this is an observation, Bill, more than a criticism,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe it is a criticism, the Republican coming into
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  Speaker 1: look at what you've got here, and it's terrible, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm going to do to fix it,
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  Speaker 1: to relate to those people that are there and show
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: them that, you know, this thing of the perpetual government handout. And, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: I can remember my uncle telling me about this when
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  Speaker 1: your point, If if Republicans did that and did that
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  Speaker 1: were number one, they're unaffiliated. Number two, they're probably not
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  Speaker 28: Bolton?
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut's not a shall I say a. a blue state,
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of red streaks and that's never been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, I mean, I'm kind of feeling
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  Speaker 1: what you're feeling, but like, this is the time it
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  Speaker 1: really has to change and it needs to, but sorry
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  Speaker 1: to babble on with that.
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  Speaker 19: No, that's, that's fine. You're, you're absolutely right. I mean, there,
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  Speaker 19: there are, uh, pockets of red resistance that exist throughout
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  Speaker 19: the state. But based on the numbers, the pluralities that
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  Speaker 19: state Senate and then the statewide offices, those red pockets
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  Speaker 19: of resistance seem to be fewer and further between in
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 19: recent years, to where Democrat is— I mean, Connecticut is totally
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 19: Democratic Right now, all the statewide office holders, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, AG,
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• 2:03:43
  Speaker 19: held by Democrats. Both U.S. Senate seats held by Democrats.
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  Speaker 19: And big, big pluralities, Democratic pluralities in the House and Senate.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 19: So the idea for checks and balances kind of goes
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  Speaker 19: they want, but barring a real hot issue that they
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 19: can sink their teeth into that's going to get the
• 2:04:12
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• 2:04:18
  Speaker 19: to change anytime soon, which, if you take a look
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 19: at some of the things that have happened on Ned
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  Speaker 19: Lamont's watch during his two terms as governor... You see
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  Speaker 19: He was just convicted, and now he's gone off to
• 2:04:43
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• 2:04:47
  Speaker 19: been seven to ten years. And it's unclear whether they're
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 19: going to be able to get him back. You take
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 19: a look at the Connecticut State College and University system.
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  Speaker 1: from East Hampton.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Tony. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 13: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 19: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a news.
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  Speaker 60: Blurb out there that Ned is considering calling a special
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  Speaker 60: session into Congress to suspend the gas tax if everyone
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  Speaker 60: can come up with a way to replace the money
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  Speaker 60: that would be lost from the state coffers. And when
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  Speaker 60: I hear a moron like that, I get so upset.
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  Speaker 60: And then what even makes me more upset is the
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  Speaker 60: bone-crushing silence from Republicans especially, but pretty much everybody in
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  Speaker 60: Congress and the Senate. I have the idea to call
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  Speaker 60: the special session. How about we go get that Greek
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  Speaker 60: guy that you let go, that fled to Greece, and
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 60: drag him back and get our money back? What about
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 60: Ned's offshore laundering account?
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  Speaker 3: How about we seize them? And put them in the coffers.
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 3: What about Annie Lamont and her COVID grift? Why don't
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 3: we get that money back? How about we get the
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  Speaker 3: money for the foreign freeloader flophouse hotels that we've been
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 3: stuffing illegals in for the last five years or six years?
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  Speaker 33: Or what about the SNAP.
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 3: And Medicaid and SSI disability for illegals? that we've been
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 3: shelling out to people that aren't supposed to have it,
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 3: that they swear to God that they tell us that
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 3: they're not on those benefits, but they are. And then
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  Speaker 3: when it's uncovered, nothing is done about it. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like you could have free gasoline, never mind the tax.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 3: I think you could have free gasoline, free electricity, free
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  Speaker 3: home-eating oil for the rest of the year, maybe next
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  Speaker 3: year too. If you got the money back that these
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 3: people steal routinely, constantly from the taxpayer, and there's not
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  Speaker 3: a single person that can stand up in that state
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  Speaker 3: and say, I have an idea on how to save money.
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  Speaker 3: How about get the illegal aliens out of our schools
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  Speaker 3: and out of our emergency rooms? off of our welfare rolls.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody can pick their hand up and say anything. And
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  Speaker 3: this is why Republicans, this is why you're all going
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  Speaker 3: to lose over there this coming up year. It's because
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  Speaker 3: nobody has got the stones to stand up and confront
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  Speaker 3: these people when they say things like that. You're telling
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  Speaker 3: me that we have to endure this high gas price
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  Speaker 3: and the state has got to take its tax money
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  Speaker 3: Off of everybody's backs, they can't lower it unless we
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  Speaker 3: come up with an idea on how to replace the
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  Speaker 3: money that you're addicted to stealing. Nobody's got any ideas
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  Speaker 3: to get the special session back to help us out.
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  Speaker 3: with 25 cents or 30 cents gas tax? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is why Trump is toppling one incumbent after another
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  Speaker 3: with his endorsements. And for better or worse... He's got
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 3: a near 90 percent record, doesn't he, on toppling these
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  Speaker 3: endorsed candidates in these different states. And everybody's crying, oh,
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 3: we're going to lose the election because everybody's going to
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 3: sit home butthurt. And instead we're going to get a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Democrat, socialist, Muslim sympathizers to give us sharia
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  Speaker 3: law in our country because nobody can figure out how
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  Speaker 3: to stand up to these people. What are you running for?
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 3: What are you running for office for if you're not
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 3: going to figure that out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's always been, at least in my decades of
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: observation or sitting like a bump on a log, there's
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: always been this thing of that person coming out and
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  Speaker 1: making that bold statement saying there's waste, there's fraud, there's abuse,
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: there's illegals, there's overtaxation, there's scamming, there's everything you've just mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: And we need, you know, we need controls. We need leadership.
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  Speaker 1: We need to burn some things down and start over. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: this is just going to keep happening. And it's always
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  Speaker 1: that I think when the backlash comes of, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is terrible. And all the all the Democrats start crying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is abusive. You're going to starve all
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  Speaker 1: these people when you're extreme and all that. And what
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  Speaker 1: always happens, Dan, in my estimation, is the person that
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  Speaker 1: starts to say some of what you said gets paralyzed, and.
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  Speaker 14: We don't hear that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We don't see that anymore. And that person, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: has got to say, No, guys, this is serious. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see what's happening in France? Do you see what's
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: happening in Los Angeles? Do you see what's happening? I
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  Speaker 1: was watching last night, you know, Philadelphia, Kensington. I used
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  Speaker 1: to walk those streets when I was in school there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just druggies all over the place, and it's
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  Speaker 1: so sad. And it's just.
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  Speaker 3: That is the vision. That Kensington, Philadelphia that you see there,
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  Speaker 3: and that's not the only open-air drug market. There's starting
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  Speaker 3: to be stuff like that in Portland and all around
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  Speaker 3: the country. That vision, that zombied-out, folded-at-the-waves, drug-addicted, homeless, widespread homelessness,
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  Speaker 3: That's the Democrat vision. And you're telling me that we
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  Speaker 3: can't muster up a way to come up with a
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  Speaker 3: counter vision for that? You can't win against that communism?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it boggles them. Tony, I've listened to you
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  Speaker 3: for years uncover probably next to a trillion dollars worth
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  Speaker 3: of fraud in your state. Connecticut puts Minnesota to shame.
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  Speaker 3: But even in Minnesota, even in Connecticut, even if you
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  Speaker 3: uncover it, Nothing's ever done.
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  Speaker 1: No, and you have a media circling the wagons around
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  Speaker 1: the people that are paying them. Listen, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for the call. Thanks for spending the time.
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  Speaker 1: I am getting a word from the producer that Annie,
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  Speaker 1: our assistant, would like to say something to the.
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  Speaker 52: Dan, it's like five days in a row where your
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 52: phone is crackling and hurting my synthetic ears. Can you
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  Speaker 52: please take some of your millions of disposable Long Island
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 52: wealth and buy a new phone? Thanks, Dan. I still
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  Speaker 52: love you.
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  Speaker 14: Anyway, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't like the treatment of our fine callers by our
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  Speaker 1: new assistant. I have to discuss that with the station manager. Anyway,
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: we're going to move to Jan, who's going to probably
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: take us to the end.
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  Speaker 38: Hi, Jan.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 45: I'm doing well. I'm laughing at Annie. I'm afraid what
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 45: she's going to say about me.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I also have to talk to Mr. Nixon,
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: who wants this employment of being the announcer on The
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie Show very badly. But welcome. Thank you.
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  Speaker 18: Okay.
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  Speaker 45: Hey, I agree with what Dan's saying. And I thank
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 45: you again, Tony, for all that you've uncovered. And it's
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  Speaker 45: sad that you've been doing this for years and the
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 45: Republicans have not used it as they should. which is
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 45: the proper use of it. And I want to discuss
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 45: a real problem we have in the state of Connecticut,
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 45: and that is Marxism. And I want to kind of
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 45: go through the problem with Marxism. It's, you know, the
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 45: Marxists in this state are protected by that media contract
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 45: that you discussed and made very clear to.
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  Speaker 3: the audience.
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  Speaker 45: So we have that problem. We also have a Marxist
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  Speaker 45: problem with housing, wanting to, people who support Marxism want
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 45: to have a sort of really, a public housing that
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 45: may not work for Connecticut very well because it's being
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 45: forced instead of explained. or the idea of putting people
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  Speaker 45: out to live in parks. That got knocked down, but
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 45: the Marxists still had started that. What are they thinking?
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 45: And I could go on forever, but when you hear
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 45: about the corruption in the state of Connecticut, the Marxists
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  Speaker 45: in this state, they benefit by it, don't they?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it keeps them employed. It keeps them in positions of,
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 1: shall we say, importance and prestige. And believe me, I've
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: become more interested in how the communist and Marxist mindset works.
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: And I go back to those current communist goals, I think,
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: that were read into the congressional record on it longer,
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: about 1960. But The discussion that I usually have with
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  Speaker 1: respect to housing is when these people get on these
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: things of, oh, we need housing, we need more housing,
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: we need affordable housing, we need all multi-unit housing, and, and, and, and, and.
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  Speaker 1: I've explained to them where I'm not disputing your perception
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  Speaker 1: of a need. What you're really proposing is what failed
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  Speaker 1: thousands of years ago, going back to Cabrini-Green in Chicago.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: Southfield Village in Stamford, Father Panic Village in Bridgeport, on
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: and on and on, where very well-meaning people got together
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: and they said, we've got to do something to protect
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: the people, the working people, and allow them to get rolling,
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: get on their feet, and save up money for a
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: down payment, and, and, and. And unfortunately, when things went
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: on in these things, the It's like, well, who's going
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: to deal with it? Well, let the city deal with it. Well,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: the city says, well, no, that's the church's responsibility. And
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: every single one of these developments, Jan, every single one
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  Speaker 1: of them failed, crashed, collapsed in a hail of drugs
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: and gangs and bullets and needles. It's just it is
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: an unworkable model. So now part of the Marxist mindset,
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  Speaker 1: to your point, is we've the past never existed. We
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  Speaker 1: have a brand new day. We're going to package this
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: up a little differently. hand the same thing out, and
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: we're going to have a different result. And I've tried
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: to engage state legislatures. I mean, like, you know, Jason Rojas.
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: The only thing this guy's good for is an insult,
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: for crying out loud. Jason, tell me how this is,
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  Speaker 1: what you're proposing is no different than Father Panic Village. Oh,
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: you know, you're just a bleep and whatever. This is
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: what you get for them. They don't want to get
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: into any sort of thing. And I mean, to the point,
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  Speaker 1: if you were mayor of Philadelphia, Jan, And you're, like,
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: walking around Kensington and you saw tents. That wouldn't bother you?
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: How do you live with that, for crying out loud?
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: How do you live with Pinkhorn Park?
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 45: Well, I think, like Dan was saying, and we know
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 45: that a tactic is to cause total chaos and misery.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 42: Exactly.
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 45: In order to get the people to be so miserable
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 45: they'll put up with anything. And I think, you know,
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 45: in our state... we have a chance to actually directly
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 45: vote against Marxism.
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  Speaker 23: Right.
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  Speaker 45: And the proponents thereof.
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  Speaker 1: And to your point, Marxism, communism, evil has got to
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  Speaker 1: be identified. A light shined upon it. I don't hear candidates...
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: talk doc foley god bless him talks about it all
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: the time but by and large you don't hear people
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: saying that what is being forced upon us is marxism
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: and the democrats are responsible for this it's a very
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: simple bright line they keep dancing around it like a
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: conga line so many of them and this is the
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: last chance to win we can't deal with it anymore
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: all right well thank you for the time thank you
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: so much jan thanks so thanks for carrying us along
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: and uh Boy, this is really something, you know, this
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: is really a treat to get here and talk about
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: just what's on your heart and mind.
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 19: And I.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of like all dressed up here with like
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 1: nothing to go. But when I'm doing these, what I
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: call the. temporary Tuesdays, it's really a dream come true.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: Bob Swick had mentioned that for years he had labored
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: in obscurity and now is finally getting notoriety and respect
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: for his work and was telling people for years, this
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: is really something that we're going to get to a
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: point where we're just not going to be able to
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: pay for it anymore. And seeing those videos in Paris
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: and France, what got me was I am a traditionalist
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: to a certain respect. I don't believe tradition should control
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: the trajectory of the future. But I do believe that
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: when you start to say, oh, you know, the art
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't work, that's evil, that's all that other kind of stuff,
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: and We want to bring a new thing. You start
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: to destroy a culture. We don't get to where we
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: are without understanding what came before. And one of the
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: things that Marxism does is they want to alter history,
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: and they want to say that this is the history
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: that people had said, and it's not all true. And
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: you know something? Not all the history is true, but
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: it gives you a place to start from and a
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: place to start to dig. And that's basically what it is.
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: But to completely rewrite what didn't happen and make it
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: into certain things are just absolutely, we get into things
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: that are just bonkers. And when you deal with weak
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 1: and impressionable young minds who basically have been spoon-fed their
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: entire life. Bob Lazeri, the great philosopher Bob Lazeri, was
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: telling me that when I first met him 20 years ago.
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: He says, Tony, or maybe 25 years ago, we're really
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: going to have problems in this world when these kids
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: that I am teaching and working with in the school
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: become adults, and it's only going to get worse. Why
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: we're here is to make things better, but believe me,
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: that was a great word of prophecy from our sports guy,
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: Bob Lazeri. Anyway, we're going to be taking it out.
• 2:39:20
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  Speaker 26: For your home in a color you'll love, backed by
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  Speaker 14: RBSCorp.com.
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  Speaker 24: Come spend a beautiful autumn weekend in South County, Rhode Island,
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  Speaker 24: where the inviting landscape and sensational coastline will provide you
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  Speaker 24: with real-life peacefulness and relaxation. You're invited to come smell
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  Speaker 24: the salt air, feel the sand beneath your feet, and
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  Speaker 24: wander merrily. And make sure your South County adventure includes
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  Speaker 24: visiting our giant Thomas Dambo trolls. Plan your fall escape
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  Speaker 24: to South County, Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 25: SouthCountyRI.com.
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  Speaker 38: For over 60 years, Boats Incorporated has been a leader
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  Speaker 38: in boat.
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  Speaker 14: Sales and service.
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  Speaker 38: With 27 full-time team members, including 8 technicians, 175 slip marina,
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  Speaker 38: 3 amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Boat lines, Grady White, Parker, and Sportsman Boats.
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  Speaker 38: And Connecticut's oldest full-line Yamaha dealership, is what makes Boats
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  Speaker 38: Incorporated the undisputed champion of family boating. Visit our showroom
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  Speaker 38: on Main Street in Niantic.
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  Speaker 14: Visit BoatsInc.com.
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  Speaker 15: It's time to buy new appliances for your new house,
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  Speaker 15: a kitchen remodel, or to upgrade those dinosaurs you've had
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  Speaker 15: for decades. And Keith's Appliances is here for you. Not
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  Speaker 15: only with competitive prices and all the extras like delivery
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  Speaker 15: and financing, but with the most important part, some great
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  Speaker 15: people who really know their stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, this is McKenzie, your local appliance expert at Keith's
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  Speaker 6: in Norwich.
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  Speaker 7: I always help match the features my customers need.
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  Speaker 1: To appliances that they'll love.
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  Speaker 14: So come to Keith's and ask for me, Mac. I'll
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  Speaker 14: be glad to help.
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  Speaker 15: So next time, don't take your appliance advice from box
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  Speaker 15: store employees that makes paint one day and sell stoves
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  Speaker 15: the next. Shop local, save money, and buy smart with
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  Speaker 15: expert help and advice at your hometown superstore, Keith's Appliances.
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  Speaker 15: Visit their showrooms on the corner of Route 27 in
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  Speaker 15: downtown Mystic, Route 32 in Norwich, or get started online
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  Speaker 15: at KeithSuppliances.com. We're coming back to Keith.
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  Speaker 2: We're customer committed. We're back to Keith.
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  Speaker 7: Price is always right. Well, it's the music of relief again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. Tony D'Angelo, Lee Elsie Show 94.9.
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  Speaker 1: Special thanks to our guests, Bob Lazeri, The Power Hour
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  Speaker 1: with Bob Swick, Bill Stanley. Wonderful call with Bill and
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  Speaker 1: all of the callers and to all the listeners and
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  Speaker 1: the viewers.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Apropos of the birdsong going out, two seagulls are waiting
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  Speaker 1: on a sparrow. They're going to go to the park.
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  Speaker 1: The sparrow shows up without a feather on him. The
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  Speaker 1: seagull says, you know, what the heck happened to you?
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  Speaker 1: The sparrow says, I'm sorry, guys. I was flying too
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  Speaker 1: low over London, and I got into the damnedest badminton game.
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  Speaker 1: I really do apologize. Kind of like my temporary Tuesdays here.
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  Speaker 6: Tony D'Angelo, Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Elsey Show 94.9. Bye, Kimo Sabe.
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  Speaker 7: See you next Tuesday.