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The Lee Elci Show | 10.14.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, and welcome to 94.9 News Now Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mitchell Eddis here in the hot seat, sitting in
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  Speaker 1: for Lee Elsie. And here's the good news to all
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  Speaker 1: of you out there in Radioland.
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  Speaker 2: 14 more days.
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  Speaker 1: 14 more days till your actual host will be here,
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  Speaker 1: till you will not have to listen to us fill-in people,
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  Speaker 1: to us amateurs.
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  Speaker 2: Carry the ball here.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to quote someone who maybe is deplorable, but
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  Speaker 1: it takes a village to get this show through, and
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  Speaker 1: we have done that. It has taken a village. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's Mitchell at us this morning. It's 63 degrees here
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  Speaker 1: in Ledger, Connecticut on 94.9 News Now. Got a great
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  Speaker 1: show for you today. After the first break, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear Tom Cantone's weekly take.
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  Speaker 2: Then Tom St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis, selectman of the town of Lyme, is going to
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  Speaker 1: come into the studio, talk to us about what he's
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  Speaker 1: experiencing out on the campaign trail.
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  Speaker 2: Seven o'clock, Joe Wojcic.
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  Speaker 1: Managing editor of the New London Day newspaper, who is
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  Speaker 1: actually sponsoring tonight in their studio a debate for the
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  Speaker 1: host of the show against his opponent.
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  Speaker 2: That ought to be great.
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  Speaker 1: And Joe's going to talk to us about the debates,
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  Speaker 1: about what's going on in newspaper world. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: difficult time for the print industry. 7.30, Neil Marinin, who
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  Speaker 1: is the.
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  Speaker 2: Owner, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Neil, of the Old Line Veterinary Clinic, is going to
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  Speaker 1: And then from 8 to 9, Rick Koster is going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the studio. What's interesting about that is
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  Speaker 1: I think between Rick and I, if you add up
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  Speaker 1: the total number of years that we have been appearing
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  Speaker 1: on the Lee Elsie show, it's gotta be 36 years
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  Speaker 1: and more, more than 36 years, maybe almost 40 years
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  Speaker 1: because both Rick and I were on the Lee Elsie
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  Speaker 1: program before he was the voice of freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Just when he was a.
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  Speaker 1: Rock and roll DJ hanging out at the wolf in
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  Speaker 1: the casino and in the glass booth there. So we've
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  Speaker 1: both been, uh, been on this show for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I know when I go play in a golf tournament,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, there's this partner's tournament I play in.
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  Speaker 1: It's a scratch tournament. The young people play. And my
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  Speaker 1: partner and I will add up our ages and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're like 130 and you're 62.
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  Speaker 2: How are we going to beat you?
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  Speaker 1: So that's the same thing with me and Rick. Over
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  Speaker 1: about 40 years of time on the Lee Elsie Show.
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  Speaker 1: So now is the time where I have to talk
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  Speaker 1: for a little while until we get to the first break.
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  Speaker 4: And I.
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  Speaker 2: Spend a lot of time writing something up. And last
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  Speaker 2: night I'm laying in bed. Of course, this might sound easy,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a little stressful.
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  Speaker 1: So last night I'm trying to get to sleep early
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  Speaker 1: because I got to get up early and I'm old now.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get up as well as I used to.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be able to get up at four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: go teach a spin class, go have a seven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: conference call and then go to work. Now I'm lucky
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  Speaker 1: if I can get downstairs before the dogs use the
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  Speaker 1: floor instead of the yard.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a lot different now that you're older.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm laying there trying to think of what I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Because I had written this whole thing about Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, people always, when people ask me about
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  Speaker 1: the president, I'm always saying, you know, like, you have
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  Speaker 1: to understand, I've come at it from a different perspective
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  Speaker 1: than most people.
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  Speaker 2: I've had some experience with him.
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  Speaker 1: I would not be sitting where I am today without
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  Speaker 1: breaks that he gave me and jobs he gave me
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  Speaker 1: along the way. So I, you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: know he's not anti-Semite because I'm Jewish and he was
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  Speaker 1: very nice to me.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him in action. Is he crazy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So I started with the whole thing about that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like Lee in some ways because although his opponents,
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  Speaker 1: his political opponents might paint him as, you know, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I happen to know from talking to him that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't agree with everything that Trump does and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: agree with everything that Trump is. But like Lee, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of agree with what the Trump is trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: I was at a meeting and everybody else pretty much
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  Speaker 1: at the meeting was from Europe. And so we were
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  Speaker 1: having dinner at the meeting. It's a board of a
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  Speaker 1: company that I'm on, the board of, and I've been
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  Speaker 1: brought in. And, you know, one of them says, asked me,
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  Speaker 1: what do people think about the war? I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, Trump thought, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: took a country that is a terrorist country.
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  Speaker 2: He's been killing Americans for 50 years.
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  Speaker 1: And he wanted to do something about it instead of
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  Speaker 1: just not doing something about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like Trump has attacked Belgium or Sweden.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: This is a country.
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  Speaker 1: That has been killing Americans for years and continues to still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and is trying to kill the president, trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill the secretary of state.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question these people do so. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he's doing. Would you rather the question is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so he's irritating.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I can't watch him talk. But if you think
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  Speaker 1: about what he's trying to do, it often isn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: I had a whole thing about that. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but people don't want to hear that. Did
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear that?
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  Speaker 2: You were just listening. So I guess you had no
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  Speaker 2: choice unless you could turn the station off. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you didn't. Then I started to say, no, I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about something else. I want to talk about how.
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  Speaker 1: Athletes and musicians feel that they should use their concerts
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  Speaker 1: for political speeches. And I think that when you pay
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  Speaker 1: money to go to a concert, you are not there
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  Speaker 1: for the political rhetoric of said artist.
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  Speaker 2: You're there for an evening out. You're there to.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy this person's music and to have a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with athletes.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to a basketball game or a football game,
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  Speaker 1: you are there to watch the game. You don't really
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  Speaker 1: want to see people taking a knee or doing this
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  Speaker 1: or wearing t-shirts or that. I'm totally behind using your
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  Speaker 1: platform as a famous person to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about issues. Do it on your own time. You
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  Speaker 2: could even do it at the post-game press conference if
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  Speaker 2: you want. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: But when I go to see your event, when I
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  Speaker 1: paid God knows how much, I don't necessarily want to
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  Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about the president or
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  Speaker 1: about politics. I want to hear you play your music.
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  Speaker 1: This has caused me great consternation about Bruce Springsteen because
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  Speaker 1: I have been a Bruce Springsteen fan for most of
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  Speaker 1: my life since he first started going to concerts. Before
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  Speaker 1: you could buy tickets online, we used to get, like,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to go get money orders from the post office.
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  Speaker 1: You'd send a self-addressed stamped envelope into the Nassau Coliseum
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  Speaker 1: And you'd either get back tickets to a concert.
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  Speaker 2: Or you would get back your money order, right? That's
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  Speaker 2: the way it worked out. And I did all that.
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  Speaker 2: And now I love to go see Bruce Springsteen. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my.
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  Speaker 1: Brother-in-law goes to every concert. When he did this most
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  Speaker 1: recent tour, I said, you know, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And I will say, if these folks think
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't eventually hurt their business, it does. I have
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  Speaker 1: stopped listening to as much of the Bruce Springsteen station as.
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  Speaker 2: I used to.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't want to hear it. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to hear your music. I want to hear Thunder Road.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear a lecture. So I was
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about that. And then, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: famous anti-Semitic mayor of the most Jewish city in the
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  Speaker 1: world saying one stupid thing after another.
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  Speaker 2: And basically, you know, I think.
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these socialists that are running and that
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  Speaker 1: people are thinking about voting for. you just see it
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  Speaker 1: and there are a nice shiny bauble perhaps, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're not feeling good about things right now, but I
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  Speaker 1: have my own opinion about the economy. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: is definitely getting better. Unfortunately, gas is obscuring everybody's view
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  Speaker 1: because gas is there. Gas takes a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: out of your pocket.
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  Speaker 2: But I think inflation has stabilized. There's a lot more jobs.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people think the economy is really good
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  Speaker 1: right now, Maybe it's not just trickling down or trickling up,
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  Speaker 1: but it is. Anyway, point being, people are unhappy about things.
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  Speaker 1: They see these shiny objects. These people with saying things,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you this, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you that. First thing I teach you is nothing is free.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is free. They can't give you anything. Things are
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about Mondani, thinking about that, and I saw...
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  Speaker 1: a clip of one of these Senate races. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess they asked the candidate, I think it was Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't really matter because it could
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  Speaker 2: Person, what's a bigger threat to the country, America? You're
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  Speaker 2: going for U.S. Senate. What's the biggest threat to America,
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  Speaker 2: Israel or Iran? Now, I don't know. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty easy answer, right?
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  Speaker 1: One country has been our ally for years and years
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  Speaker 1: Running for Senate could not answer the question by saying Israel.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff going on. There's a million
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  Speaker 22: Revolutionized the entertainment industry, but influenced how people thought about life, liberty,
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  Speaker 2: Cantone, with Tom's Tips.
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  Speaker 23: Well, welcome to this week's edition of Tom's Take. And
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  Speaker 23: before I go any further, I wanted to thank so
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  Speaker 23: many of you for your kind words and feedback on
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  Speaker 23: my little voice that I have each week. It means
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  Speaker 23: a lot to me. It means a lot that I have,
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  Speaker 23: you know, a little bit of an impact sometimes and
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  Speaker 23: thinking things a little bit differently in our world today.
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  Speaker 23: So I appreciate that. But this take... that I have
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  Speaker 23: this morning is going to be hard to take.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 23: Because I saw a recent poll that broke my heart.
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  Speaker 23: And I'm sure my parents' generation and one before them
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  Speaker 23: would be the same. Almost 60% of Generation Z are
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  Speaker 23: not proud to be an American. In fact, 54% said
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  Speaker 23: they were embarrassed to be. Democrats, one in four. And
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  Speaker 23: this is the most insane of all. One in five
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  Speaker 23: young Americans now have a positive view of Osama bin Laden,
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  Speaker 23: the brutal architect of the biggest mass murder of innocent
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  Speaker 23: Americans in modern times. That's why I say it's going
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  Speaker 23: to be hard to take on this one. I wonder
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  Speaker 23: if the kids, though, in Iran are proud of that slaughter.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wait.
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  Speaker 23: They were slaughtered too. Executed for just protesting. A freedom here.
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  Speaker 23: But not sure you're taught the difference.
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  Speaker 3: Not sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's embarrassing to me.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 23: Because comparing our young people to other countries is why.
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  Speaker 23: Like 75% of young Canadians are proud to be.
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  Speaker 8: Kids in Japan, same.
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  Speaker 23: They love their culture and daily aspects of life in Japan.
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  Speaker 23: Our kids have become the cool hand Luke of our society.
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  Speaker 2: Remember him?
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  Speaker 23: Always trying to escape reality. I can just hear that
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  Speaker 23: Southern warden's cracky voice now. What we have here is
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  Speaker 23: failure to communicate. We have failed in most aspects of
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  Speaker 23: important influence for the Generation Z. Our schools, our social media,
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  Speaker 23: political parties, our leaders. a nonstop negative media pounding of
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  Speaker 23: how bad our country is, 87% of the content of
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  Speaker 23: the time that they have our attention is negative. No
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  Speaker 23: wonder the young hopefuls of tomorrow think.
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  Speaker 2: We're the bad guys.
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  Speaker 23: We have failed to communicate the American way, our cultural
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  Speaker 23: values built on the backs of generations. Yet, despite all that,
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  Speaker 23: If you look at our country through the eyes of
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  Speaker 23: I recently came across some woman who was here with
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  Speaker 23: her friends from another country who listed with a passion
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  Speaker 23: friends said America is so much better than their own country.
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  Speaker 23: And the list was a long list, but Just to
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  Speaker 23: pick a few, our music, our sports teams, they love
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  Speaker 23: our entertainment, of course. Traditions like Thanksgiving, barbecues, Hollywood, movies,
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  Speaker 23: movie stars.
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  Speaker 3: Science, technology.
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  Speaker 2: We went to the moon. They were proud of that.
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  Speaker 23: Our passion to stop the bad guys, you mentioned, around
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  Speaker 23: the world. Our dedicated military sacrificed so much.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, there's her words, not mine.
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  Speaker 23: She's not even on our team, but would love to be.
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  Speaker 2: Embarrassed?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: Generation Z should be more embarrassed that, well, some, not all,
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  Speaker 23: because there's a lot of great kids out there motivated
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  Speaker 23: and wanting to do great things. They're playing video games
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  Speaker 23: and posting selfies. Their peers in China are eating their lunch.
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  Speaker 23: 37% of Chinese kids reach the highest level of math
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  Speaker 23: versus just 7% of you.
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  Speaker 2: 41% even in Singapore. Are you kidding? Of all places.
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  Speaker 23: Now, I would call that embarrassing for those 60% of
• 20:12
  Speaker 23: you that think patriotism is something vaguely embarrassing.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 20:19
  Speaker 23: Did failure to communicate miss some of the little details
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  Speaker 23: about your country and others?
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 20:26
  Speaker 23: Did they ever mention how women are treated in parts
• 20:30
  Speaker 23: of the world, in some 50-some countries, that they are
• 20:33
  Speaker 23: just property? Zero rights, some covered from head to toe.
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  Speaker 13: Can't breathe.
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  Speaker 23: Can't see, can't talk, can't walk outside without permission. Not here.
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  Speaker 23: In our country, women are thriving. Some 14 million own businesses.
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  Speaker 23: 17% of black women are starting businesses, the largest of
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  Speaker 23: any group. In some countries, if you're part of the
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  Speaker 23: gay community, you can't marry. Or worse, be stoned or worse.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Not here. People are free to do as they please.
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  Speaker 23: In some countries, if you decide to simply change your
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  Speaker 23: religious beliefs, it's written punishable by death.
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  Speaker 14: Not here.
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  Speaker 23: You're free to choose as you wish and worship who
• 21:29
  Speaker 23: you wish. So you might be looking for love in
• 21:33
  Speaker 23: all the wrong places. Yeah, our democracy may be at
• 21:37
  Speaker 23: times on life support. I agree, especially these days. But
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  Speaker 1: We're back here on the 94.9 Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: The Lee Elsie Program. Mitchell Eddis filling in here.
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  Speaker 8: For you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have 14, 14 days more until Lee Elsie returns.
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  Speaker 3: Working days.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Working days. Yeah, not days. That's 14 show days. It
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't include the weekends.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is the selectman
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of the town of Lyme, a person who kind of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is partly, I think, responsible for getting me into public
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: service on the Board of Finance in Lyme, which has
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: been a great way for me to try to give
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: back after spending my whole career taking money out of
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: people's pockets so now I can feel a little bit
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: better about myself. Maybe when I get up to the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: gates and they say, okay, what did you do for
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a living? And I say, well, for 30 years I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: got people to play more slots. But for the last
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: few years, you know, I was on the board of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: finance at Lime. Can I come into the good side?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: And they might let me in. So anyway, Tom St. Louis,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Thanks, Mitchell. Thanks for inviting me in. And no, we
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: cannot put slots in Town Hall.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: No, that's right. That's a good idea.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: Although it's a great idea.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: They're in the airport in Reno. That's right.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: So, yes, I'm currently serving as a selectman in the
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: small town of Lime, Connecticut. On this network, I'm maybe
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: better known as the loving spouse of Dr.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Mary.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: But, you know, I'm happy to wear many hats. But,
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: you know, let's start with the Board of Finance that
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Mitchell just referenced. You know, I hope the people of
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: Lyme really appreciate the fact that, you know, And it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: fulfilling his duties as a member of the board.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: It was not a tough election. I couldn't lose. But
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: thank you for easing me into politics that way.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: No, it's great. You still have to put yourself out there,
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: as you said. And it is a great way to
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: give back, to get involved in the community. And for
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: us in the town of Lyme to have somebody of
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: your caliber, your experience, your skill level, serving on our
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: board of finance is just a great pickup. So thank
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: you again for your service.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I've enjoyed it, and we had a meeting last night.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It's a process I don't really think people understand.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I certainly didn't understand exactly what goes into governing even
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a small town like Lyme.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: Yes, and it is incredible because it is so highly regulated.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: And I appreciate now, as Mitchell says, you know, I was,
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: let's say in the blind on it for many years.
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: But I've been able to join Mitchell on a subcommittee
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: called the Working Group, which really does the budget development
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: in advance of the town meeting in May. Last night's meeting,
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: we reviewed the summary results for the last fiscal year,
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: as well as the first quarter of this current fiscal year.
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  Speaker 8: I'm happy to report that a few items are running
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: a little hot, and our board is all over it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: There are some actions taken to follow up with certain
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: department heads about their burn rate, but... You know, we
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: are looking good. I think that with regards to the
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: town budget, we do have a very high structure in place.
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: And our board, unlike other boards, does use a multi-year
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: view to really plan out both the revenue and spend lines.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: And that's critical for a town because... Let's remember that
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: revenues primarily come from property tax. The town does have
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: a general fund that is allowed to invest in short-term investments,
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: so interest income is part of the picture. Fees and permits,
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: they're part of the picture, but the lion's share of
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: the money comes in from property tax. So having a
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: strong board of finance that's able to manage the picture
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: is a really big benefit. And I was just sharing
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  Speaker 8: with Mitchell the reflection that I had coming out of
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  Speaker 8: the meeting last night that if we could apply an
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: inkling of that rigor, of that process to the state
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: or even the federal level, the country and state of
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Connecticut would be in far better straits than we are
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: right now.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're right about that.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And I think something that has to do with everybody
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in that meeting– is this there for the benefit of Lyme?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And hypothetically, when you get elected to office, you are
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: there just for the benefit of whatever it is you're representing, right? Unfortunately,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I think as time goes on, and especially, you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you see some of these things like How do these,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the Obamas, let's take the Obamas as a perfect example.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: How do they go from really just, you know, not
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: really having that much money, and I'm sure they did okay,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: but not great to having a mansion on Martha's Vineyard
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I think not everybody.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Gets into politics for the right reason. And I think
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in a place like Lime, you're only there for one reason, right?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: No one's getting rich from being on the selectmen or
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a finance board or a zoning board in Lime, Connecticut, right?
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: That's right. The Board of Finance can do as great
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: a job as possible. will double their pay in the
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: next year, which is really easy for the town finances
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: to handle because zero times double is zero.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: So switching over a little bit, again, you're here on 94.9
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: News now. Mitchell, I'm just filling in for Lee Elsie.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It's 641, and it's still beautiful. 63 degrees last time
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: I checked out here in Ledger. You've been out on
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: the air. It was warm. I was like, I should
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: go play golf today, but I'm going to be too tired.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So you've been out on the campaign trail. What are
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: you seeing?
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: It's funny.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I was shocked because I actually went out when I.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Was running and Mary was running. I went out and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: did a little door knocking with her.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: And I was shocked.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I opened by how people won't even like they only
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: want to open the door if you're from the other party.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: So let me let me just stipulate that I'm not
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: running myself. But, you know, this summer, the candidate, the
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Republican candidate for House 23, which the locals kindly refer
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: to as the Devin Carney seat. It's been Devin's for
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: 12 years. And before that, it was Marin Giuliano. And
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: so it's been in Republican hands for a long time.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: So Devin's handpicked replacement is a woman named Barbara Labriola.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Barbara is a great candidate. she reached out to me
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: this summer and said, hey, you know, I know Devin
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: didn't really make it a point to get out and
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: door knock in Lyme. I would like to do that.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: And so I'm asking for your help. And she knows
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: that I'm a selectman and that I did a lot
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: of campaigning last summer. So, you know, I agreed to it.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: I said, hey, let's go out. We agreed one day
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: a week, you know, an afternoon. We'll go out for
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: hours and hours at a time and see what we
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: can cover. If you're listening in line and we haven't
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: gotten to you, just let me remind you that, yes,
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: there's only 1,200 housing units in line, but we are
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: the land of large lots and very long driveways. And
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: so it is not easy to get around and door knock.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: No, sometimes you need a marathon runner to get from
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the street to the house.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: So anyway, we are trying. Barbara, as I mentioned, is
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: an excellent candidate. You know, Barbara's background is that she spent,
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: I think, about a dozen years as a town clerk
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: out in Wallingford, you know, another part of the state,
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: and then moved to the area and has been the
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: treasurer in Old Saybrook for the last handful of years.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: So she's got really great municipal experience. More importantly, just
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: in our previous point about town finances and where money
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: comes from to operate, Barbara is the treasurer. So she's
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: managing those short-term investments and doing a spectacular job at it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, she's far exceeding. Last report
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: I saw from fiscal year 24-25, the audit report showed
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: that she far exceeded the budgeted, uh, expectation for, for interest, uh, income. Uh,
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: and so as a result, you know, the old Saybrook, uh,
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: you know, taxpayers have benefited from that. Um, that helps
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: to keep the mill rate down. Um, so I would
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: like to see that kind of level, that kind of,
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: that kind of rigor, uh, from a financial perspective, uh,
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: come to Hartford. And so, uh, you know, what are
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: we hearing as we go to the doors in line? Um,
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: things that are really resonating, certainly the surcharges on electricity.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I always find it funny where I see these
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: ads for LeMond about, you know, I'm going to make
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: your electricity. Well, why don't you take that surcharge off
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and let me donate if I want to, right?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: They don't do that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: You're listening to 94.9 News Now. It's Mitchell Otis for
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie with Tom St. Louis, the selectman of Lyme, Connecticut.
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so more on that surcharge, Mitchell. It's interesting, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Barbara and I had some conversations about this, and actually,
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: you know, she's kind of adopted some of her talking
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: points with folks. There's a euphemism that's been put in
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: place by the state purposely, right, calling it the public
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: benefits charge, right?
• 37:12
  Speaker 28: Right.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: And if you don't understand it, that sounds kind of nice, right?
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: You're doing something to benefit the public, right? So you
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: really have to kind of break it down and explain
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: to folks that, no, these are surcharges. The money is
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: getting distributed to all kinds of government organizations, in some
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: cases probably NGOs, non-government organizations, that are doing whatever with
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: that money. But what it means is your electric rates
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: have been artificially high as a result of that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a third of your bill often.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, it really is aggravating when you see that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: So, you know, Barbara has been teeing that up, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: that's really caught people's attention. Another big item that she's
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: focused in on is getting away from state mandates, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: particularly with regards to zoning. So having that local control.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: And as a matter of fact, you know, Lee's opponent
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: was the sponsor, the Senate sponsor of that housing bill.
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  Speaker 29: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Which was an incredible overreach. And so folks need to
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: keep that in mind when they head to the polls.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: When you talk about your local zoning organization losing control
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: and being forced into making regulatory changes to your zoning construct,
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: that's where it comes from.
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  Speaker 2: On the state level.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: When you're out campaigning, and I was shocked when I
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: was out there. If we were Republicans, they wouldn't open
• 38:45
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• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Are you seeing that, you know, like obviously the big
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: national issue is affordability, right?
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Which I think is really in my mind, there's really,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: it's two issues that are in people's minds. One is
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: interest rates and two are gas prices. I think grocery
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: store prices have leveled off and have stopped because I
• 39:03
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• 39:04
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I think beef's expensive, but there's a
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: reason for that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with tariffs or Trump or anything,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you know. And now chicken, eggs, all those things are
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: back to normal. But gas is in your face every day.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: You fill up your car now, it's a lot of money.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Are you seeing the national issues kick back as you're.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Going door to door?
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: So affordability is an issue. I think the electricity actually
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: has been the one that really comes up because I
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  Speaker 8: think folks understand that. they've been pretty good about understanding
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: that from a local control perspective, the state tax on
• 39:36
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  Speaker 1: It's a big reason why gas, sometimes you'll drive down
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  Speaker 1: and gas is cheaper on the Garden State Parkway than it.
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  Speaker 2: Is up here. Incredible.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 8: Incredible. So in terms of how we're getting engaged at
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: the doors. Mitchell, I would have to say that the
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: experience that you expressed about canvassing last year still holds, unfortunately.
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: Barbara went through a process, went through questionnaires and interviews,
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  Speaker 8: and actually received the endorsement of the Independent Party. And
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: that has been helpful for her as well. So she's
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: able to put paperwork, documentation in front of folks and say, look,
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: I am cross-endorsed. Yes, I'm a Republican. I'm a moderate Republican.
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  Speaker 8: But the Independent Party has endorsed me. And that's kept
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: a couple of doors open. Unfortunately, your experience that you
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: talked about is still out there. There are folks that
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: hear Republican and that's it. You've got the scarlet letter.
• 40:43
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• 40:46
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• 40:49
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• 40:52
  Speaker 8: are talking at us through glass. And they hear Republican,
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: and that's it. And that's troubling because, you know, to
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: some extent, if you can't even ask about a policy
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: that you have, you know, perceived disagreements with, if you
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: can't engage in that conversation, that really doesn't speak well to,
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: you know, what we're going to have going forward. And
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: I wonder, I've been wondering about that. Like, where do
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: we go from here? What happens in the post-Trump world?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I think about that also.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I also go back and I say to myself, let's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: say Trump was just a– Let's say he was Marco
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Rubio or anybody, for example, who was doing exactly what
• 41:44
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• 41:48
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• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Would we still be as polarized? Because is it his
• 41:52
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• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Polarizing it, or is it the way he is? And
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: why do people all of a sudden feel that laws
• 41:59
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• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And I hope in the post-Trump years— That things do
• 42:11
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• 42:13
  Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be the next Republican candidate
• 42:16
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• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:18
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• 42:21
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• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I don't like Trump because I don't like him. His
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: policies would be much more popular.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so. You know, I, I, I've got to
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: be able to talk to each other.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I feel, I feel like there's almost the
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: boogeyman mentality out there.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: And I worry that that translates, transfers from Trump to,
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  Speaker 8: to Vance or Rubio or whoever winds up being the
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: next candidate. And that it's now not who that person,
• 42:53
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  Speaker 8: It's going to be, it's just, you've got that scarlet
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• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm not willing to listen. And that's troubling.
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  Speaker 6: Right. It is.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have, people have to be able
• 43:10
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, you go back to the Board of
• 43:14
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• 43:16
  Speaker 1: always kind of felt this way. I don't really pay
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: attention to these things. I have no idea who on
• 43:21
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• 43:23
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• 43:35
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  Speaker 2: Together, and you don't see that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things that the Democrats take
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  Speaker 2: How he really feels is Fetterman.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obvious things, like I said before, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Israel or this or that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, things that are obvious for
• 43:57
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• 43:58
  Speaker 1: And I personally never really felt that the national sentiments
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: really trickled down specifically to the local level. So if
• 44:07
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• 44:09
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• 44:12
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  Speaker 1: or any ledger, it doesn't matter. It's not quite as important.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like, you know, as it is. You should
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: think about what I want to do for my community.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I haven't been a Republican.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I lean that way on a major level, but it's
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: not like, you know, I can apply those.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: You know, trickle-down economic theories or whatever it is you
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: don't like the Republicans do to the town of Ledger
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't really work like that, right?
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: Right, right.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: So you're on 94.9 News Now, the morning show. Mitchell
• 44:41
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• 44:44
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• 44:46
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• 44:48
  Speaker 6: Louis.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: As we're wrapping up, you know, what are you seeing
• 44:55
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• 44:57
  Speaker 1: are going? And are we going to get a little
• 44:59
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• 45:01
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• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Well, so, Mitchell, I would say, you know, I'm hopeful
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• 45:10
  Speaker 8: really objectively is so much different.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: And, you know, in the case of Barbara versus her
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: opponent or Lee versus his opponent, they both, to me,
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: stand out far above from a qualification and a fairness
• 45:28
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• 45:32
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• 45:39
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• 45:48
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• 45:52
  Speaker 8: one of our candidates that was on the ballot, the spouse,
• 45:58
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• 46:02
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• 46:07
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• 46:14
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• 46:19
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• 46:23
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• 46:26
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• 46:30
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• 46:35
  Speaker 8: I would just like to say one thing, you know,
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• 46:58
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• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Good question.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: In all of New England, one House of Representatives member,
• 47:24
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  Speaker 2: That's it. What's that website again?
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: ThePromiseToAmerica.com.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: ThePromiseToAmerica.com.
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  Speaker 8: Check it out.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Well, Tom, I really appreciate you coming in. It's been
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• 47:39
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• 47:42
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  Speaker 26: the upper 70s rain later tonight. A Norwich man pleaded
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  Speaker 26: no contest Tuesday in a 2021 head-on crash in Gales
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  Speaker 26: Ferry that killed 38-year-old Adam Novin of Legend, a father
• 56:39
  Speaker 26: of five. 27-year-old Timothy Cuff faces up to one year
• 56:43
  Speaker 26: in prison and three years of probation. Sentencing is scheduled
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  Speaker 26: to for January 6th. Connecticut DOT will hold a public
• 56:51
  Speaker 26: meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at Killingly Town Hall to
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  Speaker 26: discuss replacing the Wright Road Bridge over Quanduck Brook.
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  Speaker 13: The $ 3.
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  Speaker 26: 1 million project aims to improve safety, with construction expected
• 57:03
  Speaker 26: to begin in spring 2029. A judge raised New London
• 57:07
  Speaker 26: area attorney Ryan Ziokowski's bond to $ 1. 25 million after he
• 57:12
  Speaker 26: allegedly rammed a vehicle carrying three people at Waterford Beach.
• 57:16
  Speaker 26: No serious injuries were reported. Ziokowski faces 11 charges. A
• 57:22
  Speaker 26: 65-year-old man was arrested Saturday after allegedly engaging in a
• 57:25
  Speaker 26: lewd act inside a restroom at Witch Metal Lake Campground
• 57:30
  Speaker 26: in Salem. Marshall Foteau faces public indecency and breach of
• 57:34
  Speaker 26: peace charges. He was released on $ 5, 000 bond and is
• 57:38
  Speaker 26: due in court, Norwich Superior Court, October 22nd. Early voting
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  Speaker 26: in Rhode Island begins Wednesday, October 14th, and runs through
• 57:48
  Speaker 26: November 2nd, ahead of the November 3rd general election. State
• 57:51
  Speaker 26: officials say voting equipment has been tested and security measures
• 57:56
  Speaker 26: are in place. Voters can find polling locations and track
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  Speaker 26: mail ballots at voteri.gov.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Sean Murphy.
• 58:04
  Speaker 13: When news breaks, we break in.
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  Speaker 39: The Densmore Oil and Bugbee Plumbing Seat of Honor.
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  Speaker 1: We're back here on 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's 7.06. Here, Mitchell Eddis is filling in for Lee Elsie.
• 58:25
  Speaker 21: 14 more days.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: And you will hear Lee Elsie back on the air.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: But tonight you might hear Lee Elsie on a debate
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: that is being sponsored by the New London Day. And
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: my guest for this half hour, this segment, is Joe Logis,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: who you probably see his columns if you read the day.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: He is the managing editor of the New London Day
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: and has worked at the New London Day as a
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: reporter and editor since 1988. That's a really long time
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to work at one place. Joe, thanks for jumping on
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 40: Good morning, Mitchell.
• 58:52
  Speaker 12: How are you?
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I'm doing fine.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little about the debate and
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: how the day is evolving in this current situation of
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the Internet and modern media.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: And so forth. But I want to get basic. I
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: think people look at the paper and they see what's
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Can you, like, in two minutes explain, maybe not two minutes,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: but we don't want to take up the whole segment,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: what goes into putting the paper together, deciding what goes
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: on the front page, what goes on the first page
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: of the B section?
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me the process? I think people might
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: really find that interesting.
• 59:32
  Speaker 38: Sure.
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  Speaker 40: And first of all, I think this was maybe over
• 59:35
  Speaker 40: a year or two ago, and I've been managing Ether
• 59:37
  Speaker 40: now for a year and a half or so. We
• 59:40
  Speaker 40: made a conscious decision to be all local as possible.
• 59:44
  Speaker 40: Our readers can find out what's going on in the
• 59:47
  Speaker 40: country and the world from other sources all day long.
• 59:51
  Speaker 40: We have some of that, and we obviously have some
• 59:53
  Speaker 40: of that in our paper and online. But we wanted
• 59:56
  Speaker 40: to make sure that when you come to the day
• 59:58
  Speaker 40: website every day when we update things through the day,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 40: but there was 12 to 15 to 20 brand-new local
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 40: stories that are either local or Connecticut-based where you can't
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 40: get that anywhere else except from the day. So we're
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 40: going to offer something unique to our readers.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's an absolutely great idea because it's very difficult.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: And that goes for sports as well because by the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: time I go to bed.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: At night, I know every national news story that comes
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to my phone. I've got every sports score that I'm
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: ready to go. And I think going local is a
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: great way to go.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: The day, I think, has evolved.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Into a digital platform in a lot of ways. And
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: a lot behind that is not just your website. And,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: you know, like I read a day on my iPad.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I get the thing that looks.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Like the paper, right?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Because that way I still get the feeling of flipping
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: through the paper, but, you know, I don't have to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: walk down to the mailbox, right?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: And that works for me.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: But all the work you've done with, like, the debate
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: tonight or, like, sporting events, trying to bring things local,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: how did that take place and how do you keep
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: fostering it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's the.
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  Speaker 40: Direct outgrowth of the financial challenges that we face in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 40: the industry. So we have to evolve. We can't just
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 40: put out a print product every day or just kind
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 40: of a 10-year-ago Internet product because people read our day
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 40: mostly on their phones, actually, on their phones or different
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 40: devices that they have. But that's the outgrowth of the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 40: challenges of advertising, declining revenue, sometimes declining readership, for papers
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 40: across the country. And if you want to stay in business,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 40: you have to evolve, just like any other business. So
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 40: that was to go really stress our digital platforms and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 40: to do more. I mean, we're all familiar with our
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 40: great game day broadcasts of football and basketball that are
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 40: just spectacular.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 25: And then we.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 40: Have this great studio. So we've been talking about what
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 40: can we do with it? What else can we do
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 40: about it? What do other places do? And, you know,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 40: We're doing debates. We're starting with that. But we foresee,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 40: as all I can say, news updates every day, even
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 40: like a broadcast news thing, interviewing reporters so people know
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 40: what they're working on, how they work on stories to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 40: maybe bring you inside to what we do.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea, which is kind of
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: what I was hoping to try to get today, is
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: for people to.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Understand there's a lot that goes into putting stories and
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: deciding where you send people. There's a million things that
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: happen every single day. So do you sit down as
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: an editor? I know it's not the editorial board, but
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: do you sit down as, is there like a working
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: meeting every morning where you dispatch everybody?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: How does that work?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: So we have a dozen reporters.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 40: I should know exactly. So on Mondays, we all meet
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 40: at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and we all sit
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 40: down and we go around the table and we talk
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 40: about what we're working on that week. At that meeting
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 40: are two new photojournalists, two very talented young men, and
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 40: our social media coordinator, who's an equally talented young woman.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 40: And we go around the table what we're working on. Now,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 40: it's a newspaper, so things happen. So, you know, things
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 40: might be something horrible that happens in the middle of
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 40: the week. But we try to plan out the week,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 40: what's going to be photographed, what's going to be video.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 40: And that's a whole other aspect of our Instagram thing.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 40: Presence Now, Facebook, Instagram videos that we're doing. You'll see
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 40: many of those every week. That's a whole other thing.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 40: And so we talk about it, and then every day
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 40: reporters are talking to me. The story list is changing.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 40: I joke that half my job every day is just
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 40: answering questions, which is what I'm supposed to do, but
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 40: talking about how we're covering stories, what stories we're covering, priorities.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 40: So it's a lot of give and take, a lot
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 40: of on the fly kind of stuff, a lot of
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 40: coordination to get it done every day.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: It's a lot.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I don't think people really understand what goes into it. And,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: you know, you see the paper and you complain about this,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: you complain about that. So let's talk about tonight, which
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: is what made me actually reach out to you. I
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: saw the article you wrote announcing the debate, which is tonight,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: between Lee Elsie and Martha Marks. And since I was
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: filling in for Lee Elsie on the day of the debate,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: I thought it made sense. So why don't you tell
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: us a little about tonight? A little about the whole
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: debate series, if you're going to have other ones. And
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: how did you pick Martha and Lee to start?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 40: So we decided to bring our debate inside, into our studio.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 40: You know, instead of renting out, you know, we're not renting,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 40: but using a big venue and getting tickets. There's a
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 40: lot involved in that. We wanted to kind of bring
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 40: it inside to our studio. We decided on these two things.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 40: these two debates between, uh, for the 20th district tonight between, uh,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 40: Martha and Lee, and then the other debate on October
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 40: 26th at 5 PM between Heather Summers and Joe Delacruz
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 40: for the 18th district, uh, because they seem to be
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 40: the two most high profile races this year. I think, um,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 40: they could be competitive. I think they're going to be
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 40: competitive contests. Um, and people know these four candidates. So
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 40: we just thought these were going to be the two
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 40: that were going to have the most interest for our readers.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: And who's going to be asking the questions, and what's
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: the format?
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 40: So format is, I love this because they're in a room,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 40: and only people in the room with them are the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 40: two candidates, the two people asking questions, and the videographer
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 40: and the timekeeper from the League of Women Voters. No
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 40: crowd to cheer and interrupt, and it kind of forces
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 40: you to be on your game, come with solutions, and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 40: be able to discuss policy because there's nobody there to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 40: interrupt it. Nobody can drop like a one-liner and get
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 40: big cheers for 30 seconds. It's straight-on policy discussion. So
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 40: that's how it's going to work is we're going to
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 40: have an opening statement by both candidates, And then today,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 40: John Penny, our new London reporter who's covering the 20th
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 40: District race, and Owen Poore, editorial page director, will then
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 40: take turns asking questions. And what we'll say is some
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 40: of these questions have been submitted by our readers. I
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 40: don't think any of them will be of any big surprise.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 40: There are issues that are important to the people in
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 40: the district. And they'll take turns a minute to answer
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 40: the questions, have 30 seconds for rebuttal. We'll go through
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 40: a list of questions, and we'll get up to about
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 40: 45 minutes, and then each candidate will have a chance
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 40: for a closing statement, and that will be it.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a great format.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: I like the idea there's not any, you know, you're
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: not going to have a lot of cheering and so
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: forth and so on.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Not that anybody would be cheering for Lee anyway, but,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: you know. 7.15 here on the 94.9 Morning Show.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Mitchell Edis filling in for Lee Elsie. And Joe Wojcic,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: managing editor of the New London Day, is with me.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: You know, if I was still working in business and
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: marketing around here, you know, the area has evolved, right?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: The sub-base, when I first got here to the casino,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the casinos were kind of rebuilding the economy
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: around here, right? Now you've got the casinos have kind
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: of sought their level with, with the competition that's come in.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: And now you're seeing EB kind of driving, again, things
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: here and the sub-base and all the jobs. If I
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: was working, I would be doing everything I could to
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: get after these people who are moving into the area.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: Right. And....
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 40: You mean us looking for them as new readers?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Correct, new participants in your online stuff.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: Is there a way to target them?
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 40: Absolutely, there is. And that's kind of a part of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 40: the paper that I'm not involved in as much.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 40: But, yes, absolutely. I mean, you know, EB has been
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 40: a savior for this region. I don't think anybody could
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 40: dispute that. No, for sure. They've been great. They offer
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 40: great jobs. I talk about it all the time.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 37: If you're a kid and you're like.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 40: You know, college is not my thing, they're going to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 40: pay you while they train you. They're going to give
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 40: you a job. You're going to have a job for 20.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 8: 30 years.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 40: You're going to get all kinds of great benefits. It's
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 40: a great thing for the region. Yeah, we reach out
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 40: to those people. One of the things we do is
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 40: reach out to those people to, um, do all our
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 40: social media, uh, channels, uh, just because, you know, some
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 40: of those younger folks are maybe younger engineers, welders, you know, painters, whatever,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 40: they're going to tend to go more towards social media.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 40: So if they see some of our really cool videos
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 40: out there, they'll see them and say, Hey, maybe I
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 40: should check out the day, you know, and maybe I
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 40: should get a digital subscription. Um, And so that's one
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 40: way we're doing it.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: I have a question. We didn't offer calls, but I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: did have a question that came in from a listener,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: I guess, either on maybe it was an email or
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: The question is, will the day be editing the debate?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Will it be shown straight through? How are you going
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: to handle that? Will it be available after? I guess
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: it will be shown live, so you can't edit something live, correct?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: But will you be repackaging it, or how is that?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Will it be right complete?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 40: It will not be repackaged. It will be shown. It
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 40: will be available in its entirety. Right after that, on
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 40: our website, you go back. If you're working and you
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 40: couldn't get home to see it or whatever, you can
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 40: just go on and watch it. We're not going to
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 40: change it. We want people to see exactly how the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 40: candidates answer the question.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: So it will be straight through no matter when you
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: watch it?
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 40: Straight through, right.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: That's great. That's good. That's a good way to do it.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: You've been a reporter for years.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: You've been in this area for years and seen the
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: changes of it.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: What strikes you the most as you've seen the area
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: evolve from the time you started working in 1988?
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: And I know the work you did with, I don't
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: want to say muckraking, but you.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Were very, a lot of FOIA requests, a lot of
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: really digging into things, I think, before you were the editor.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: What are the things you've seen in this area that
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: have changed, and how do they strike you?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 40: Wow, that's a good question. You know, it's difficult. it's
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 40: sometimes because you live here every day and it's gradual.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 40: You know, and all of a sudden it's, you know,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 40: it's a lot different. But definitely when you talked about,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 40: you know, when I came here, you know, the big
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 40: savior for the region, as you know, was the casinos
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 40: because EB was really struggling. But Pfizer was on the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 40: upswing and everything was Pfizer. And then Pfizer decided they're,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 40: you know, moving a bunch of, parts of their operation,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 40: and then EB gets all kinds of contracts, and now
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 40: they're taking over the old Pfizer location in London, and now,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 40: of course, we move here and they're taking over the
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 40: Crystal Mall. I think that's been the big, and we
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 40: talked about it, but I think that's been just watching
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 40: the economics of this region change. I'm sure we still
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 40: have that tourism-based economy for some of our communities, but
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 40: it's really kind of more towards what EB is doing.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right about that. And obviously the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: casinos are always going to be a draw.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: You know, they're big and they've really diversified in terms of,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: you know, look at what Fox has done with the
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Great Wolf Lodge and the Allett Mall and Mohegan, you know, constantly,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: you know, from the very beginning, adding the Expo Center
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: and so forth and so on.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: So you're going to always have those things driving.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: But, you know, it seems like, you know, when I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: first got here, I mean, it felt more military in
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I felt like the sub-base was a bigger factor.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I think the sub-base has reduced over the years, but
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: it's still there, and it's obviously super important for the community.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: So I think that's definitely something, and it's actually true.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Let's see that. Let me ask you this.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Question as an objective person. We were talking a little
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: bit with my last guest about how– Everything is polarized.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to really, you know, I told
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: you we wouldn't get into a whole big political thing here.
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  Speaker 40: I think that's certainly obviously added to it. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his wife, Alice, the amazing Alice, is the proprietor
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: of the Oline Veterinary Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: And I felt everybody loves their pets. Everybody questions of
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: their pets. And we thought, how about we.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Switch channels here and go for something nice. Neil, thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining the program this morning and getting
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: on the line with us.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much. I got to be president of
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Association this year, so I'm really
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: here for all the best in the state because we're
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: basically your other family doctor.
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  Speaker 2: So glad to be here.
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  Speaker 5: And I see you're spinning plates up in the air
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: and running a radio show as well. You're a man
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: of many talents.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing our best here to keep this show going.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people, you say that you are a family doctor,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: and I know at least in our house there's a
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: lot of family members that go to you. But before
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: we get into some of those things and trends and issues,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about a problem that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a problem for as long as I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: When my wife and I first got married, we were
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: part of this no-kill– we didn't even have a shelter
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: group up in the Catskill, of course, at Catskill Animal
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: League that would place animals. But right now, Neil, the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: shelters are loaded. It's really at an all-time worst. What
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: do you think has kind of caused that problem? Is
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: there anything that eventually we can do to kind of
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: bring this under control? What is– your position? What's the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: position of your association and the vets all over the state?
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  Speaker 5: That's a great question. Veterinarians, of course, are worried about
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 5: not only a human-animal bond between the pets who already
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: have a bond, but the welfare of all of the animals.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 5: And you are right. Shelter life is hard. So we
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 5: both actually were in upstate New York for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: And it can seem like the problem is rural. It's
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: also urban. It is a nationwide issue. Connecticut's very lucky.
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  Speaker 5: We have a good support system and many people who
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: will give pets homes. And the CVMA provides a foundation
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: for people who are perhaps between positions or otherwise unable
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  Speaker 5: to afford basic care for their pets. So there is
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  Speaker 5: a foundation. Many hospitals have support for people who have
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: adopted pets. Ultimately, it's an overpopulation for the amount of
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: people who have good homes. And so spaying and neutering,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 5: I know I sound like Bob Barker from the 70s,
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  Speaker 5: really is the solution. And we support those efforts both
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 5: through the association and then on an individual basis. There
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 5: are a lot of cat space places, some hopefully hopping
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: up here in southeastern Connecticut in the next few years.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that this is beyond just the covid rebound.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, this is something that's been
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: happening for years and years and years and years. And
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: our animal league used to have these bumper stickers that
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: were please pay new to your pet bumper stickers that
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: we would hand out. And as we were, you know,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: we were taking care of them. It's an important thing.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it's so front and center anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're quite right, because your pets probably don't leave
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 5: your home, and so whether they're spayed or neutered is
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: probably not going to affect overpopulation here. Many of the dogs,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: we call them SDS from down south, but that suggests
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: it's a southern issue. It's not. It's a nationwide thing.
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  Speaker 5: We are all in it together, and I'm grateful for
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: the organizations that move pets from areas of access to
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 5: areas of need. I would... I would love it if
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  Speaker 5: adoption were easier, but that's not under my control or
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 5: our association, but we do support that.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because if you do try to adopt a dog,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: mostly dogs in my life, we've been dog people for
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: a while now, it's.
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  Speaker 2: A rigorous process.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the first dog we adopted from a group
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: like that, we had to send pictures of our house,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: and they had to call your office to get verification
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: that we were good people and good animal homes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: That's important because when you home a dog as a
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: shelter or as an organization, you want to increase the
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: chances that that dog is going to make it, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think I often say to my clients, well,
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  Speaker 5: you'd have to ask them what their criteria are. They're
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 5: often opaque. But I know in our area, all of the,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 5: I'll kind of call them dog officers, but the animal
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 5: control officers, these people, well, they're your everyday heroes. They
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: show up every morning. to take care of the animals
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: in their town. And often our local town shelters are full,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 5: certainly with cats. And the network of these animal control
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: officers and the people who volunteer and help, I recognize
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: that they're state officers, and the state only requires certain
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: basic levels of care. But every officer I know goes
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 5: above and beyond to make sure that the animals are
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 5: well cared for. So that's where I would look if
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 5: you're looking for.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: A way to help is the local animal shelters both
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: in our municipal towns and then the group one.
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  Speaker 2: I can personally attest to that.
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  Speaker 1: And as a result of you and Alice particularly, we
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: got involved in helping fostering some dogs that were involved
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  Speaker 1: in this hoarding.
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  Speaker 2: Situation in Old Lyme.
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  Speaker 1: And the dedication of, again, I know Lynn there in
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: the Old Lyme Animal Shelter is just amazing in what
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: they do there.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's something.
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  Speaker 5: It's the shoreline. You know, the folks in New London
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: and here in Montville where they have a new shelter,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 5: that's through advocacy and the hard work of those officers.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: So kudos to them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you're listening to the 94.9 Morning Show.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: Mitchell Edis for Lee Elsie.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: It's about 17 minutes before 8 o'clock. And my guest
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: is Neil Marinin of the Old Lyme Veterinary Hospital and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: apparently the president of the Connecticut Veterinary Association. What are
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: you seeing in trends of diseases? Are there any new
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: things that, as a pet owner, I should be worried about?
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: I know, you know, there's a tick-borne– I mean, there's
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: a million tick-borne illnesses that not only affect humans but
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: dogs and cats as well.
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  Speaker 2: What are you seeing out there?
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  Speaker 5: Exactly what you just described, and I wouldn't want to–
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: raised concern because most of these things are addressable by
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: the basics. The cool new thing, the Asian longhorned tick
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: and the lone star tick, which I have to keep
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: distinguished from the Texas tech horned frog, which are actually
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 5: a sports team. But those ticks have been found in
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 5: Connecticut now and I get calls from around the world
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 5: just because I'm in old Lyme about Lyme disease, which
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 5: does not make me an infectious disease expert, but you,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 5: being from Lyme and everyone listening to us in our area,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: knows about these tick-borne diseases. And the answer that I
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: give people from afar is that the basics are the
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 5: most important thing. So if you've got your pet and
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: you've been to a veterinarian this year, close the door.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 5: Nobody in there but you and your doctor. You're going
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: to make the best choice for your pet, but... If
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: you're doing the basics, let's start with the most ancient disease,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: the most ancient scourge there is, rabies. It's not from
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 5: somewhere else. It's from our backyard. It's a biblical plague
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 5: with a low risk, but it's the highest state. And
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: so getting your pet a rabies vaccine is the most
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 5: important thing you can do. It has to be done
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: by a licensed vet because that disease will kill people.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 5: So once you've got that, whether it's through one of
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Associations, rabies clinics, which are supported
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 5: by our association, and they're very low cost. They run
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: in town throughout the year. Or you have a regular
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 5: veterinarian do it. That's where you're going to find out
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: about what you should do for your pet, because ticks
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 5: in our area now are year-round, so tick prevention is important.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 5: In our hospital, and I think for our colleagues, against expectations,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: the highest flea month is December. Fleas... I think people probably, personally,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: I have to make my wife do it because I'm weak,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 5: but the medicines that we put on the back of
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 5: our cat's neck, a lot of us towards fall, we think, ah,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 5: we'll skip it for the winter. But year-round protection will
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 5: protect you against fleas and ticks and these diseases. And
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 5: so we see a resurgence in winter probably because of
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 5: decreased use or for a variety of individual reasons. But
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 5: those basics are always going to be important. Some of
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 5: my colleagues from the CVMA have said, seen some eye worms.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: Those may be not what people want to picture just
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 5: before their morning coffee, but eye worms are probably also
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 5: preventable by basic flea and tick prevention. They're transmitted by flies.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 5: They're originally from California. They're not common. They're gross, which
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 5: is the kind of icky thing doctors like to find
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 5: because they have a quick fix. But that is one
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 5: of the new things. I guess the other big new
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 5: thing for people The reason we don't recommend feeding raw food,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 5: apart from the risk to us from food poisoning, apart
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 5: from salmonella and other things, is because of avian influenza.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 5: A very astute Texas veterinarian, these are the sort of
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: people I admire, a cat and cow veterinarian. So she's
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: taking care of dairy cows and she notices that all
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: of the cats in the barn are sneezing, which is uncommon.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: Dairy cow and cat life is pretty healthy, and I
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 5: miss it. But she noticed these cats were sneezing, and
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: she was one of the first doctors to raise the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 5: alarm that avian influenza, which is still going on around
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 5: the world, does affect cattle. It does affect cats, and
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 5: it's transmittable to cats. to cats for sure, and dogs
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 5: if they eat raw food perhaps, but it's transmitted through
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 5: raw food as well. So protect your cats, protect your
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: family from this avian influenza. Avoid raw food that you
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 5: prepare for your pets. So that's kind of the new one.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 5: Avian influenza is out there. We're looking for it. Some
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 5: of the tick diseases are new. I guess the person
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 5: who's in charge of looking for new things is our
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 5: state veterinarian, and she's She's been in the Army. She's
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 5: been around the world. She's worked with the CDC disease hunters.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know if she worked with the Special Pathogens Division,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 5: but she's Cracker Jack. And she and all of the
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: veterinarians are on the lookout for screwworm, which is called
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 5: New World Screwworm. It's something that I learned about when
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 5: I was in vet school as a medical triumph. We had...
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: pushed that disease down past the Darien Gap, and we
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: were screwworm-free for essentially my whole career. But it has recurred,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: and the reason it has recurred is complex, but this
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 5: famous medical doctor, Virchow, said medicine is social science. So
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 5: how did the screwworm get back to Texas? The cattle
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 5: don't travel faster than the flies, and One very reasonable
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 5: theory is people brought it back. And how did they
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 5: bring it back? They probably put it in trucks, possibly
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 5: with other things worth more than cattle, and they moved
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 5: those infected cattle very close to our border. So we're
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 5: working on screwworm. That's not something that's going to be
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 5: able to overwinter here, but we are looking for it.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 5: Although Connecticut now, I think, has the climate that Virginia had,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 5: you know, in the winter, at least, many, many years ago. So...
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 5: a lot of the conditions that used to only be
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 5: seasonal are becoming year-round here.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: Our guest is Neil Maronin of the Old Line Veterinary
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Hospital and the Connecticut Veterinary Association president. We got a
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: question from a caller, and the question is, is dog
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: food better for your dogs than real food?
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: I guess real food being human food. I don't know.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, human food. The answer to that is, in general,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 5: the major names, These brand foods should comprise the majority
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 5: of your dog's food because it is balanced properly and
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 5: it is safe. Now, that said, what I actually feed
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 5: my own pets, my own dogs, would be mostly commercial
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 5: dog food with actual cooked proteins and food. There are
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 5: some foods that are toxic to dogs. So you'd want
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 5: to check with your veterinarian about your individual pets. And
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 5: real food is good for dogs. It's not my thing
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 5: that you should not feed real food. But to feed
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 5: it exclusively is to miss calcium. To feed it exclusively
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 5: is to have it be unbalanced. So I do think
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 5: that commercial dog food has a place in.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 43: All dogs' diets.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that answer. You know, we get in
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: tune with our pets, right?
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: And I know the method I use is I try to,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: if the dog doesn't eat but what's the dog can't
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: tell you don't feel well right and and it was
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: clear to us after we just had this foster dog
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: and it ended up having a brain tumor after we
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: went through that we realized you know she must have
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: been having headaches all the time that's why she was
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: kind of the way she was and we didn't know
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: her that well because we were fostering her how do
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: you um how do you tell what's the best way
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: to tell if your dog.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: Is sick.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: That is a really good question. And particularly in the
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 5: area of pain, I like to remind myself and be humble.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 3: We don't know.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: And so if you have a concern, you're the most
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 5: observant person. You're right there on the ground. So any
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 5: behavior change could indicate pain or illness. And those should
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 5: be excluded first. Certainly, as you remember from your own pet,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 5: a behavior change in midlife doesn't have to be because
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 5: of anxiety, you know, the As my daughter says of
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 5: some dogs, dad, that dog's not going to change for
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: any man. And I certainly don't expect dogs to change
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 5: their personality midlife. So if they do, we look for pain.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: And the best way to do it is to be observant,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 5: like you just said, and consider things like toothache. You know,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 5: if you go, I'm sure people in our audience right now,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 5: someone has a toothache and the other people around them
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 5: do not know because they don't know. So a physical
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 5: exam by a veterinarian with a thorough history in a
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 5: quiet room is the best way to sort that out,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 5: and people being observant on the ground. So changes in
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: basic behavior, simply acting slightly different, not eating food with gusto.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 5: Dogs will generally eat no matter what, but a change
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 5: in behavior, including even becoming a little crabby. I certainly,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: not myself, I would like to think, but certainly when
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 5: my tooth hurts, I'm fine, but all the people around
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 5: me could step right off, and that would be fine.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 5: So I think you're observant about your own dog, and
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 5: you're the best judge.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: And I guess we're going to be running out of
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: time here, but my last question is this, and it's
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: something that I've.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Gone through with. So this is not Game of Thrones,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: but winter is coming, right? Winter is coming. Yeah.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: And I guess my question is, do I need to
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: protect my pet? Do I need dog boots? Do I
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: need dog coats? I've never been a dog coat person.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: I just kind of like they have fur coats. I'm
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: not putting a coat on my dog. I would say
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: maybe we have some coats for maybe we had little
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: dog coats.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: Over the years. But and dog friendly, I smell.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: I know at the beginning of the year I go
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: out and buy as much as I can and hope
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: that I don't run out because, you know, once January comes,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: there's no more even at Home Depot. So what's your
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: take on winter? And probably got about two minutes.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 5: I think you did the best thing for your own pet.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 5: So if you had a Mexican hairless dog, you might
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 5: want a coat. There's no perfectly safe ice melt. They're
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 5: all salts or chemicals that make water dissolve, uh, uh,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 5: free to the lower temperature. So pet ice, pet safe
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 5: ice melt is important, but if you got enough on
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 5: your foot to see a white rind, you might as
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 5: well wash that off at night. No one should be
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 5: drinking Epsom salt or every other day salt, even sodium chloride. So, um,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 5: I think pet safe ice melt is a good idea.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 5: breeds vary. If you've got a husky, they can be
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 5: out and they would prefer it. Heck, a lot of
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: us run hot. So there's a lot of people out
• 1:45:25
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  Speaker 1: My name is Mitchell Utis. And so if you're an
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  Speaker 2: So this morning I get up and I have a
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  Speaker 1: And it's this interview he did on a national podcast
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  Speaker 2: So that was very nice of you to make me
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  Speaker 3: Well, I did not intend to do that. And thanks
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is, we typically text several times a
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And you had said, is there anything you want to
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And I said, no. Do you want to
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Only the national guy gets to talk about your band.
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  Speaker 1: You almost won Star Search. And if you would, you
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  Speaker 3: Boy, that was so convoluted. I'm going to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. No, it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the people in this area, because of the kindness
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not bringing it up because, you know, only
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  Speaker 2: That's fair.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we should say the national person's name.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Which is Paul Mercurio. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And he's been a guest on your show a couple
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  Speaker 2: Not bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And on and on. He's got a lot of national.
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  Speaker 2: And then he found you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I had interviewed him when I was writing for the
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  Speaker 2: That's one thing you can do. You can make people laugh, though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so he said, I would like to have you
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  Speaker 3: was kind of persistent about it. So then I looked
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  Speaker 2: Nor do I.
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  Speaker 1: I think. People who are gray-haired don't watch podcasts.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 3: And then I saw who had been on, and I thought, wow,
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 3: he's not minor league here. So I agreed to do it,
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 3: and then I realized what.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 2: It is, Mitchell.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 3: He's talked to every A, B, C, and D-list person
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 3: in the world ever. And he wanted someone on the
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 3: U list.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 2: My life on the U list by Rick Koster.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 3: We've reached the end of the alphabet. We're on the
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 3: W list. If at all, I'm on any list other
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 3: than anonymity. So you had said, is there anything you
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 3: want to talk about? So I thought I would broach that.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: When you sent it to me this morning, at first
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: I thought you were sending it to me because you
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: thought it would be a.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 2: Good idea for us to start a podcast. Oh, well,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 2: that wouldn't be a bad idea.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 6: No.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 2: It would be interesting.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 3: Because we know nothing about it and have no idea
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 3: what we're doing. That might be pretty... You think it
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 3: would be humorous, right?
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: We know people. You think? I mean, our first guest,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: we could have Tom Cantone. I'm pretty sure he would
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 3: In two weeks, we can have Lee Elsie.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: Well, we could have him on our podcast tomorrow. We
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: just can't have him on his own show.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Okay.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 12: That's awful.
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 8: He's vanished.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 2: Lee has vanished to me. So let's talk about writing.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 2: Is that okay? I would like to talk about writing.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 2: I know you're writing a book now.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: How do you pick what to write about? And then
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 2: how do you write? You outline?
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 6: No. Okay.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 3: And as you know, when I was writing... For the day,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: for 27 years, and then before that for the Dallas
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 3: Morning News, I've interviewed dozens of successful writers, by which
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 3: I mean to point that out because I'm not one.
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: Not say high-selling authors maybe as opposed to successful because
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: you are successful in your own way.
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 3: Well, yes. It's on my website that I am a
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 3: New York Times worst-selling author. I can't imagine that there
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 3: are many. The good thing is I am making light
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 3: of it, although it is true. But I do have,
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 3: you know, I've had five books published by legitimate publishing houses.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 2: That's a lot more than most people get.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: And so I'm proud of that.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 3: But where I was going with that is in talking
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 3: to these authors, obviously nonfiction is a different proposition, but Mitch,
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 3: it seems like they're divided almost 50-50 between the writers
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 3: that do outline, some of them extensively, a 180-page outline
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 3: for a 300-page book, and others that just say, we're
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 3: both fans of James Lee Burke. He's told me, I'll
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 3: just come up with a scene that amuses me, And
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 3: I have no idea where I could go with it.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 3: I just start writing that scene and follow that. And
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 3: Luann Rice, who is one of your neighbors, multiple bestseller.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 3: She never has any idea where she's going.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 2: You know, we had this. You did many of them.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: The winning author series at Mohican Sun was something I
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: could start with marketing.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 2: And we had Brad Thor, and I'm a Brad Thor fan.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: And so I asked if I could. be the interviewer
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't really say no because I.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 2: Was the boss so I'm not sure how excited he
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: was about it but whatever I think.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: I did a pretty good job but I asked him
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: the question he was like no I just start writing
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: and then sometimes my wife will come in and go
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: you wrote yourself into a corner huh.
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: And you have to go back and start again.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 3: Right that happens all the time and to answer your
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 3: question no I do not outline I for the book
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 3: that I'm writing now This is something literally that goes
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 3: back to my childhood. I am obsessed with Halloween and
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 3: monsters and things like that, even at 71 years old,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 3: when I ought to know better. Although perhaps it keeps
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 3: me young.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes, it might be.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 3: So I like horror, and some of my books are supernatural.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 3: But Mitchell, since the first time I ever saw The
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 3: Wizard of Oz, which I hate, by the way. It's
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 3: a gooey thing. But the witch, the bad witch, I thought,
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 3: I'm all over the bad witch.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 2: I like that. I like the evil witch idea.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: You didn't feel any differently after seeing Wicked?
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't see Wicked.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 2: I didn't see Wicked.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 3: But over time, shows like Bewitched and The Craft and
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 3: things like that, Those aren't witches. Those are like penthouse
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 3: models in a witch hat. Just these hot babes that
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 3: are supposed to be. No, I want the ugly, gnarly, scary,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 3: creepy witch. And I've thought, right now, witches are a
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 3: big deal. I mean, in film and certainly in novels,
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 3: witches are, that's a hot topic right now.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 2: So you're writing on witches now?
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 3: Well, when we moved up here, not to meander... we
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 3: went to Salem for the first.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: Time, Salem, Salem, not the ice cream store.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 3: You went to Salem, although I, I'll go anywhere for
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 3: ice cream.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: It's good. Salem farms. It's good. Yeah, it is.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 3: I went to Salem mass and I thought I need
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 3: to live in this place. This is outstanding because you, again,
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 3: incredibly successful, uh, at what you did, particularly I knew
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 3: you because of your marketing work at Mohegan sun. Um,
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 3: Here's a community that has made a multi-multi-million dollar industry
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 3: out of a silly civic miscalculation where they hanged 19
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 3: innocent people.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 2: Innocent?
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe they were, you know, they were witches.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe they were really witches.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: My guest is Rick Koster. Just to let everybody know,
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 2: we're on the 94.9 Morning Show. Mitchell at us filling
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: in for Lee Elsie at 8.17 a.m. I'm continuing with witches.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: I just like to let people know what's going on
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: out there, because I know what I've been listening at.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: Part of the game is trying to figure out who
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: is on. It's like my wife and I have been
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: watching Frasier, and they have callers, and we try to
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: figure out who the guest caller is. And they're very
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: famous people, but not as famous as you.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: So anyway, that was a long answer to say I've
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 3: always wanted to write a novel about witches. And then
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 3: right now, as I said, the marketplace is flooded. with
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 3: these witches that are all attractive.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: Mayfair witches? Yeah, Mayfair witches, I guess.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: So are you risking writing a book that may actually
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: get popular than man because witches.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 2: Are now in vogue?
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: Unlike you to write something that is popular among many people,
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: and yet you have ventured into that.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 3: I have, but the problem is it's nowhere near finished,
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 3: and if I did finish it, And I was able
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 3: to secure the services of a literary agent again. I've
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 3: had two, and they both dumped me over time.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: And that's almost essential. Having an agent, yes.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 3: So I don't have one. So then I would have
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 3: to get one, and then they would have to sell it.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 3: And if they did sell it, it would still be
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 3: another year and a half. So I'll be long dead.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: So by then the curve will be over? The curve
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 2: will be over, and I'll be long dead.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 3: So I'm writing it because I wanted to.
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: Well, that's good.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 3: But I do not plot.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 3: And you were laying awake last night, you know, nervous about,
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 3: by the way, you do a tremendously eloquent job on here.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 3: And if the person who normally has this show ends
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 3: up being the president of the United States, then you
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 3: can just take over this.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 2: No, if that happens, I'll become his press secretary.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not as cute as, you know, the current regimes,
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: the press secretaries, but I would be able to answer
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: the questions.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 2: You, you're banned. Yes, exactly. Everybody out.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 3: Everybody out.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: You're not allowed in here. Don't ask that. We can't
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: go any further with this. No, we better stop that.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 2: We'll be violating our no politics rule.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 6: We would.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 3: We would. But anyhow, so I lay awake sometimes at night,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 3: and I'm not nervous about it, but thinking about the...
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 3: As Brad Thor's wife said, I write, and I go,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 3: that's good, and then I fine-tune it. But where does
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 3: it go next? And then I have some ideas, and
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 3: I might write a couple of pages. You know, that's
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 3: not going to work. So I have to go recalibrate.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: And that's okay. It's all part of the fun of
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: it and stuff. You have set times you get up
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 2: and write?
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: Or do you just, well, I've got an hour here,
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: I've got an hour. It's probably different now because you
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: kind of set your own schedule based on what you're doing.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 3: Yes. You know, way back in the day when I
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 3: was writing for the day and had a real job,
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 3: I would get up at 6 every morning and write
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 3: for an hour before I went to work. I'm older
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 3: now and would prefer to sleep.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: A little more. I've noticed that, too. You know, is
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 2: there anything better than a nap?
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: I've been known to nap in the afternoon. I've been
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: known to, if the dogs allow me, sleep until 7.30
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: some days. It's amazing, and I still can't get up
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: at 7.30.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 3: It's... Sleep is good, man. Tom Brady would tell us
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 3: that sleep is good.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: Well, he knows. He's in good shape.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 3: Doesn't he sleep in some weird configuration?
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 2: He probably sleeps in a coffin like the girl on NCIS.
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 3: With oxygen pumped into it and nutrients and stuff. Did
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 3: you know I had a coffin in college?
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: No, but based on your one previous book, I can
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: imagine what you did in that coffin with a dead body.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 2: But anyway, again, Rick Koster on the air.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: I need to ask the engineer, how long do we
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: keep talking for a while?
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 2: A few more minutes.
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: She wasn't dead. She wasn't?
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 2: That's good. I'm happy for that.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 3: No, you know what we did with that? We kept
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 3: marijuana in it, and that's what we sold marijuana out of.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: Out of the coffin? Yes.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: You know, that's an interesting marketing idea. Now that marijuana
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: stores are legal.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: Very present in a lot of places. In Connecticut, they're
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: a little more spread out, but you go some places,
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: it was like five on a street.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 2: If you had the coffin distribution, coffin dispensary, now there's
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: a hook. You've got it. Why should someone go in
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 2: there and that's a good idea? Yeah, because it's different
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 2: and kind of creepy. Interesting.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 3: Well, when I was writing for the Baylor newspaper where
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 3: I went to college, they asked me to do a,
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 3: Because Baylor's the largest private Baptist college in the world,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 3: so you think, well, this is pretty straight. But you've
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 3: got 8,000 kids in the 70s. Some of them are smoking.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: Pot, no doubt. Even probably at Brigham Young they were.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. So my editor at the Baylor Lariat said,
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 3: why don't you write a story about kids that, not
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 3: just that kids are getting high on the Baylor campus,
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 3: we know that, but do you think anybody's, actually a
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 3: student that sells dope. And I was like, well, yeah,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 3: because I have.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 2: A coffin full of it. But I didn't say that,
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 3: I said, sure. So I called the police department in Waco,
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 3: and I said, this is what I'm doing. You think
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 3: anybody at Baylor is actually selling drugs? And the guy goes,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 3: we know there's two guys that have a coffin they're
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 3: selling out of.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, I hope you ended the article.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 3: I said, can I call you back? And I hung
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 3: up and called my roommate, Steve.
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 2: I said, flush it now.
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 3: Get rid of it. They're on to us.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: That's an interesting story. Okay, we've got to wrap it up.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: All right, so we've got Rick Koster for another half hour.
• 2:15:20
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  Speaker 49: Because the tax code is so complicated. You look at it,
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about, Your favorite authors. My wife and Rick.
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  Speaker 1: Have broadened my literary parameters. I'm a Nazi.
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  Speaker 2: Cop spy guy. Not necessarily all in one swoop. You've
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  Speaker 2: And I did get through that. I did it on
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  Speaker 2: Angel down. Yes. Tell me about your favorite authors and
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  Speaker 3: I think the older I've gotten, Mitchell, we bond, you
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Charles Dickens and stuff like that?
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  Speaker 3: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Newt Hampson, on and on.
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  Speaker 2: All those things? I read the crib notes when I
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  Speaker 3: For a long time, the Nobel Committee, every three years,
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  Speaker 3: would publish a book with a biography and a work
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  Speaker 3: I bought a 20-volume set of those. So that's 60
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I decided I'm going to work my way through this collection.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing? Oh, that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: You finished?
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  Speaker 3: I went as far as I was going to go,
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  Speaker 3: by which I mean I read something about or by
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  Speaker 3: everyone in there. Some of them I just couldn't do.
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  Speaker 3: It was either over my head more frequently than I
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  Speaker 3: would like to admit. Sometimes I thought, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to read any more of this. But
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  Speaker 3: it was quite an education. And I have read the
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  Speaker 3: Russian authors and a lot of quote-unquote great books. But also,
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  Speaker 3: I grew up, as we mentioned in the earlier segment,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big horror fiction fan. Stephen King is a
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 3: huge influence on me. Have you read much of him?
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  Speaker 2: Not as much as my wife, but I've read a few.
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  Speaker 3: Does Karen like him quite a bit?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know which one is her favorite by any chance?
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  Speaker 2: No. Maybe The Stand. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If you're listening, Karen, we have to talk about Pet Sematary.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. She won't like us talking about her, so... Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That's okay. My fault. We'll do it at
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, so, yes, I've read a lot of horror fiction,
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  Speaker 3: and I've always loved crime fiction.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Robert B. Parker and Spencer. Certainly, I think James Lee
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  Speaker 3: Burke has had a huge influence on me because he's
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful writer.
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  Speaker 37: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so dark.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I find that there's, like, the real special
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  Speaker 1: books or writers are, like, so there's some guys that write,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the story, and it's the mystery, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And there's some authors that it's the prose.
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  Speaker 1: That drags you, you know, that drags you along and
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  Speaker 2: And then you have these occasional artists that are these
• 2:32:34
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  Speaker 1: Or James Lee Burke, where you're reading this mystery, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also, you know, you can just read the words.
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 2: And even Ace Atkins to some extent. We have a call?
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  Speaker 2: We've got a quick call from Alan. Why do Stephen
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  Speaker 2: King movies suck?
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  Speaker 48: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I have an answer for that. You answer.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, the trouble with the Stephen King movies
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: is that so much in Stephen King movies happens in
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: the character's head.
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  Speaker 2: And so like Cujo books. Yes. In the books. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So so like Cujo, for example.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: How can you have a Cujo movie? The whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about Cujo was you're the dog.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of time. I know that's
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  Speaker 1: my feeling why it's hard. His books don't really translate
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to there's going.
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  Speaker 2: To be a heist. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: No, I couldn't have said it any better myself. And,
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 3: you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: Salem's Lot.
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  Speaker 3: That is, yeah, you go, oh, it's a vampire story,
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  Speaker 3: and you show the fangs on TV or whatever in
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 3: the film. It's about a small town disappearing. There's so
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 3: many complex characters that you care about, and that doesn't translate, right?
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 3: And my favorite of his is Pet Sematary. It's the
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 3: scariest book I've ever read, but not because of the
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 3: monster-y stuff. It's a story about profound grief and losing
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 3: a child. And it's terrifying for reasons that don't translate
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  Speaker 3: to the screen. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 3: So maybe we over-intellectualized that answer, but.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 3: I thought that The Dead Zone was okay.
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 2: The Dead Zone, the movie.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 2: And the TV show.
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  Speaker 1: Occasionally they hit it with some. I mean, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that it's probably easier, you know, he's
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: looking at political because he obviously, you know, is.
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  Speaker 1: He has no problem commercializing his writing. I mean, him
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: and Harlan Coben, I think we'll put them on the,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get everything we can onto every platform
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  Speaker 1: we can. And occasionally, I think Stephen King actually is
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: on TV, like Harlan Coben is, it's weird. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen King books are, I think, harder to, but the
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  Speaker 1: reality is there's very few movies that are as good
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 1: as the books.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. The Godfather, maybe. I don't
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 2: know even that one. I mean, it's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: It really is. You know, three of the books that
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 3: I've written have been made into films.
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I think your books would be great.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 2: I think White Ghost would be an amazing movie. No,
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 2: thank you. Thank you. Of course, I don't know. Is
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 2: it bad if you read a book and didn't realize
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 2: it was for teenagers? Because I didn't realize. I thought
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 2: it was a grown-up book.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's an interesting thing about that is that I
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 3: wrote White Ghost Blues on the recommendation of Ace Atkins,
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 3: the novelist that you refer to.
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 2: He's a tremendous novelist. He said he has done his
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 2: best to help me.
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 3: There have been some writers that have tried to help
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 3: and worth mentioning, and Don Winslow and Luann Rice, Wally Lamb,
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 3: that sort of thing have Jeff Benedict.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: There's actually a group of successful writers that are in
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: the region.
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 3: But Ace Atkins said, I don't know why you're not
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 3: getting away. You should try writing a young adult novel.
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 3: And he suggested, he thinks I write very well about
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 3: New Orleans and the South. He said, set a young
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 3: adult werewolf novel in Louisiana. And I said, I'll try.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 3: If he had said, write a novel about a butcher
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 3: that opens a store and decides to sell only.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 3: Lamb? Mutton.
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 8: I would have tried it.
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 3: If he had said, you know, make a novel about
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 3: an eight-foot frog, I would have said, I'm writing anything.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not desperate.
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 3: So I decided to.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 6: Do that, and.
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 3: I decided a werewolf didn't work for me, so it
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 3: became a vampire. But where I was going with that
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 3: is that I don't have kids. I don't know anything
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 3: about young adults. So I read young adult fiction and
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 3: I tried to do my best. So I think I
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 3: wrote a young adult novel that is more for old adults.
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 2: But anyway, you know, so. So you like Stephen King.
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 2: I do like Stephen King a lot. You like Michael Connelly, right?
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 2: I do like Michael Connelly. Two weeks, the new Bosch
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 2: book's out. That's going to be good.
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 8: Who is that guy that you and I are?
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 2: Peter Robinson?
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 3: Well, Peter Robinson, you turn me on to. Fantastic. No,
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 3: the guy with the, I'm drawing a complete blank. He's
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 3: a dark Scottish.
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's Ian Rankin. No, Ian Rankin's great, too.
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 3: He's got the assistant that's the superstar.
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 2: Okay. Boy, this is fascinating radio. Yes, it is. But
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 2: we'll think of it before we're done. But he is amazing,
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 2: and it's Poe.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 4: Poe.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: Washington Poe and Tilly, and I can't remember.
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 3: The writer's name. I would recommend those to anybody at
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 3: top speed. And I've got to feel like neither one
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 3: of us will ever be invited again.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to actually write, when I sent
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: my list of guests in, I was going to say,
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: Rick Koster, it's.
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 2: Going to be book club, book club hour.
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: So let's, in the remaining time, let us pump your
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: Substack thing and explain what Substack is, because I'm not
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: exactly sure I understand, but I signed up and I've
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: been reading your stuff, and, but.
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 2: I haven't been charged because you're not letting people pay
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 2: for it yet. Tell us what's going on.
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you asked me to explain Substack because I
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 3: have no idea what it is.
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, good.
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 3: It's a platform where people can share their writing. And
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 3: mine is called iWriteGood.com. And you can go to substack.com
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 3: and type in Rick Koster or I Write Good, and
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 3: it will take you to my. And I guess you
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 3: would say what I do is write stupid essays, just
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 3: whatever the hell I feel like writing. They're hopefully funny.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 3: They're generally funny.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 2: Very funny. You could make a concert preview funny. Well,
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 2: I hope so. I hope I did.
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 3: But so I write one a week. And yes, the
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 3: Substack platform allows readers to support your work by pledging
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 3: a monthly stipend or whatever you would call it, or
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 3: you can do it by year. And several people have
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 3: been kind enough to do that. But I haven't activated
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 3: it yet. So I'm not making any money because I
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 3: feel as though if I'm going to take someone's kind offering,
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 3: I want to give them something extra beyond that. just
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 3: what everybody gets free. And I'm trying to figure out
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 3: how to do that. So there are people, I've been
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 3: writing it now almost a year, and there are people
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 3: who committed money a year ago.
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: Actually, it was very difficult because your friend has a
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: Substack thing, and you go in, and now you've got
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: to pledge.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, how much do I pledge? If
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 2: I give too much, he's going.
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: To think I'm like, you know, I don't want to
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: give too much, right?
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to give a dollar. He's going to
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 2: think I'm a cheap bastard.
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, like.
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 2: That was really stressful.
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: I was happy to sign up, but I don't need
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: any more stress in my life.
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 3: The whole point of me not working is to not
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 3: be stressed. As I have told all my friends, don't
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 3: pledge anything. I'm happy that you're reading it. Most of
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 3: the pledges, in fact, come from people I don't know.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to have pledged money.
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 3: No, I am glad you pledged money, but you may
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 3: notice that it is not activated.
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 2: By the time you activate, my credit card may be expired.
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 3: The people that activated it or pledged a year ago
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 3: are going, this clown's never going to do it. So
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 3: by the time I do activate it, they'll go, what
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 3: the hell are you doing? You never gave me anything
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 3: for this.
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 3: You know what I might do is just activate it today.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 2: That's great. Let's see how many credit cards go through.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 6: Whatever.
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 3: But hopefully, Mitch, it's a fun thing and I just
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 3: sort of write whatever I want to.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 2: And what's important is if you want to get fresh
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 2: Rick Koster writing, it's a place to get it now.
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 2: Because there's people who miss Rick Koster. Oh, thank you.
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 3: I mean... It's fun to write, and some of them
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 3: are ridiculous, but that's okay. I mean, I think they're funny.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 2: I think most of what you write is funny.
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 2: And so you're there. You're listening to the 94.9 Morning Show.
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: Rick Koster is my guest. It's Mitchell Ellis filling in
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: for Lee Elsie. And you've got 14 more working days
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: until you will hear this voice. So the Wednesday after
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: Election Day, you'll either have a... state senator hosting your show.
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 2: Or a losing candidate. But in any event, he'll be
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 2: back and you won't have to listen to us anymore.
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 3: You've done a really good job filling in.
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I try.
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 3: It's smooth. You're eloquent. You have good guests. You got
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 3: a veterinarian on, Neil Mariner, earlier. I mean, we're both
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 3: wearing dog shirts.
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 2: We are. It's funny. I was thinking of having a
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 2: pet segment.
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: And then I never really executed it. And then I
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 1: was supposed to have a Wall Street financial guy on
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: that half hour to talk about the economy because it's fascinating.
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: And he had to pull out. So I'm like, well,
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: I was at the vet yesterday. And I said, well,
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: he's right here. I was going to do it anyway.
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Neil, how would you like to be
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: on the radio tomorrow? And he's like, yeah, I'm in.
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: And it was good because, you know, look, how many
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: people have pets? Pets are like incredibly important parts of
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: our life.
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 2: You know, especially if you could walk them together.
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 3: Man, whichever side of the political aisle one happens to
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 3: be on right now, these are stressful, anxious times. Man,
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 3: if you've got a pet, everything's okay, right?
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: Pet, you know, you can let your pet bite you.
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 2: You can let your pet lick you. I've got a
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 2: dog that licks me and bites me. I haven't figured
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 2: it out. He doesn't know. He doesn't know if he
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 2: likes me yet.
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but in any event, yeah. So, yeah, pets are
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: really amazing. And it's one thing everybody can agree on.
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, I don't think, you know, what
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: side of the spectrum you're on. Your pets are your pets,
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: and they're very important.
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 2: And adopt.
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 3: Adopt. There's a lot of good animals.
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 2: That's what we were talking about, Neil. There's a lot
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 2: of animals out there, and, you know, you don't want
• 2:44:08
  Speaker 2: to end up with, you know. How many are in
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 2: your house right now? Right now we have four.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 3: Y'all are good people. We have two, but since they're
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 3: part werewolves, we can't add any more to the mix. No,
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 3: and I think your two is about like four. I
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 3: think that's what you told me. Yeah, I think that's accurate.
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 3: That's probably accurate, so I don't know. So in the
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 3: last minute... Let's talk about you winning the club golf championship.
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I did. I won the club championship at
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 2: O-Line for the seventh time. And you are.
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 3: You look great. You look young, handsome man, but you're
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 3: beating some youngsters out there.
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 2: There's not the person I beat in the finals. He
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 2: was my age, but I beat a college kid and
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 2: a former minor league baseball player who is not a
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 2: radio host. Another one. And yeah, it's getting a little,
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 2: and actually almost everybody I.
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: Beat was younger than me, even the older people. And
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: It gets harder in golf. Some of the tournaments are,
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: but now I'm even old for the senior circuit.
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations. It was nice. I'm proud of you.
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: My grandkids got to see it for the first time,
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: so that was fun.
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 3: You know that means a lot coming from me because
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 3: we play golf together, and not only am I one
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 3: of the worst selling authors of all time, I'm certainly
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 3: one of the worst golfers of all time.
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 2: There's no question about that.
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know about the worst-selling author because I'm sure
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: there's someone who didn't sell any books. But when it
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 1: comes to golfers, I mean, Charles Barkley is apparently better now,
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 1: but I think the old Charles Barkley in you and
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: golf is very– it's good. Rick is, to the listeners,
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: he is a horrible golfer, which is amazing because he.
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 2: Knows so much about golf. I love golf. He can
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 2: talk– We text back and forth during tournaments. He's got
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 2: his favorite golfers. He understands everything. He's got a brother-in-law
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 2: who is a golf pro, but he obviously hasn't taken lessons.
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 3: No, and the first time we ever played, I think
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 3: on the third hole, you finally said, you broke your
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 3: silence and said, I don't think he meant to be rude.
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 3: I think he was just, it was spontaneous. You couldn't
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 3: take it anymore, and you go, How can you be
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 3: this bad?
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. It's impossible.
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 6: It really is.
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 2: It's impossible. But the real problem is when you're playing
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 2: with Rick, there's so much laughter that then it gets
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 2: to be very difficult. We should do that again. We
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 2: had a good time that day. Yeah, we did. We should,
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 2: for sure. Are you playing Harry Chapin? All right, we're
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 2: wrapping up with Corey's coming. He may be an idiot,
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 2: but he's a really good engineer.
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 3: Mitchell, thank you for having me, man.
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 2: Rick, thanks for coming on. Hope you've all enjoyed the show.
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks to my guests, Tom St.
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: Louis and Tom Cantone and Joe Ogis and Neil Maronin
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: and now Rick Koster.
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 2: 14 more days. Lee's back. It's been Mitchell. Let us
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 2: fill it in. Have a great day.