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The Lee Elci Show | 10.7.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.
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Speaker 2: This is Hayward Gatch, guest hosting for The Lee Elsey
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Speaker 2: Show on 94.9 News Now and Stimulating Talk. So I
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Speaker 2: have a few things to talk about today, and as
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Speaker 2: we go through them, you'll notice a pattern here of
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Speaker 2: me being very interested in getting to the nuts and
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Speaker 2: bolts of how things work and trying to find something
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Speaker 2: that approximates truth in this very confusing world. So At 6.30,
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Speaker 2: we have a dear friend of mine, Aram Shabanian, coming
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Speaker 2: on who just came back from Ukraine. And he is
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Speaker 2: what you call an open source intelligence analyst. And that
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Speaker 2: is a very interesting field that has been developing a
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Speaker 2: lot in the information age. However, first of all, we
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Speaker 2: know what day it is. It's October 7th. and I
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Speaker 2: feel it would be a great disservice to the subject,
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Speaker 2: the people involved, and everything that's happened since to not
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Speaker 2: address that as our first topic. So we all know
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Speaker 2: what happened October 7th. There was an attack from Gaza
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Speaker 2: in ways that we hadn't quite ever seen before. The
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Speaker 2: hang gliders, the wide-scale breakthrough of the border wall, the
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Speaker 2: attack on the music festival. some really scary and terrible
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Speaker 2: things happened, and the world rightly reacted in shock. And
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Speaker 2: what came after that had its own way of being
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Speaker 2: shocking to a great number of people as well. And
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Speaker 2: one of the saddest things, other than the events themselves,
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Speaker 2: of course, is the resurgence of bigotry that's come from that.
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Speaker 2: So before any of my remarks this morning on the topic,
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Speaker 2: I felt it's very critical to say bigotry has no
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Speaker 2: place in these conversations our supports and our critiques and
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Speaker 2: our desires to make a better world should never come
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Speaker 2: from a place where you think another person is lesser
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Speaker 2: than you or less human than you because that is
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Speaker 2: how we go down these very very dark paths what
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Speaker 2: we saw on october 7th was shocking and horrifying but
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Speaker 2: was it truly surprising? Now, the reason I ask that
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Speaker 2: is because we have 50 plus years worth of what
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Speaker 2: I call an atrocity spiral, where you have two parties,
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Speaker 2: very motivated on both sides, very upset with each other
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Speaker 2: on both sides. How does that possibly end? It's a
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Speaker 2: real challenging conversation that a lot of people don't want
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Speaker 2: to have because of the level of passion involved. And
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Speaker 2: it's understandable. I, both as a Christian and as a
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Speaker 2: guy who likes history, have a pretty firm, a very
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Speaker 2: entrenched belief, really, that the Jewish people have a right
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Speaker 2: to exist in the land of their ancestors. I am
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Speaker 2: a person who believes in indigenous rights, for example. But
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Speaker 2: I also understand that that territory has been the territory
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Speaker 2: of many people throughout history. And I think to assume
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Speaker 2: that any one territory cannot have any amount of diversity
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Speaker 2: in it is, it's not aligned with my values. However,
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Speaker 2: you have a situation where there are what you might
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Speaker 2: call exterminationist feelings on either side. That's a really tough
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Speaker 2: position to be in. And so in the aftermath of
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Speaker 2: October 7th, I saw something that worried me, what seemed
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Speaker 2: to be a movement toward very eliminationist feelings, very bloodthirsty feelings,
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Speaker 2: of course on both sides, but even just in America generally,
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Speaker 2: and I found that surprising. Now, I believe people have
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Speaker 2: the rights to their opinions. I think that's very important
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Speaker 2: as part of the First Amendment. However, I also think
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Speaker 2: it's important to take into consideration history, trajectory, and how
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Speaker 2: things go. In the opening days of this happening, I
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Speaker 2: tried to, with whatever little authority I have on the matter,
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Speaker 2: to say, I am worried about where this might go.
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Speaker 2: Because once you start to move into the territory that
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Speaker 2: we've moved into, you create a nearly unstoppable situation. I
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Speaker 2: expressed worry that Israel would get involved in a war
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Speaker 2: that would not be easy, would not be fast, would
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Speaker 2: involve a tremendous amount of civilian casualties, and in large scale,
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Speaker 2: to delegitimize those... that government in the eyes of a
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Speaker 2: tremendous amount of people, including their own people. As it
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Speaker 2: stands right now, there is escalating tension in Israel, and
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Speaker 2: a country with its back that against the wall certainly
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Speaker 2: does not want to be in that position, I would think.
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Speaker 2: Right now, as it stands within Israel, there are laws
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Speaker 2: that protect the ultra-Orthodox, for example, from military service, and
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Speaker 2: you can imagine a fairly unsurprising tendency where those that
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Speaker 2: are exempt from military service exist alongside those who have
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Speaker 2: compulsory military service in what has become a nightmarish war.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of tension that starts to rise, and
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Speaker 2: the cracks are really starting to form. It's also worth
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Speaker 2: mentioning that at the time Netanyahu was not very popular.
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Speaker 2: And for a brief moment, he did have that popularity
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Speaker 2: in the same way, for example, that Bush had a
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Speaker 2: lot of popularity after 9-11. National trauma can create a
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Speaker 2: time of unity, but that doesn't always last. And when
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Speaker 2: we see the types of tactics that have been used
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Speaker 2: to remove or at least nominally remove a deeply entrenched,
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Speaker 2: deeply motivated enemy whose leadership in large cases isn't actually
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Speaker 2: in the areas that are being attacked, you have to
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Speaker 2: start to ask yourself, well, what's the goal here? And also,
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Speaker 2: what does this set us up for in the future?
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Speaker 2: You have a world now where significantly fewer people than
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Speaker 2: before are willing to listen to the cause of the
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Speaker 2: government of Israel, and that doesn't really help the government
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Speaker 2: of Israel. You also have to imagine the children that
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Speaker 2: have survived what's happened in Gaza, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: them have not. Those children have grown up through years
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Speaker 2: of a situation where, from their perspective, their world has
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Speaker 2: been destroyed, and the people that are most visible, that
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Speaker 2: they can blame for it. Again, think of the mind
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Speaker 2: of a child here. Your home, your neighborhood, your city,
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Speaker 2: your entire region has largely been leveled, and it got
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Speaker 2: leveled from things that came from the sky. And where
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Speaker 2: did they come from? Well, just right over there. You
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Speaker 2: are laying the conceptual framework, you are laying the groundwork
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Speaker 2: for the next problem, the next leg in the atrocity spiral.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that you can deploy enough violence to
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Speaker 2: permanently destroy that motivation without permanently destroying those people themselves
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Speaker 2: in their totality. And if you start to explore that,
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Speaker 2: you have to ask yourself, well, are you even comfortable
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Speaker 2: with that? And I find myself not comfortable with that.
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Speaker 2: I am very firm in my belief that collective punishment
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Speaker 2: is not a recipe for a better future. And I
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Speaker 2: believe that the more we allow those types of things
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Speaker 2: to happen, the more common those things will be. This
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Speaker 2: comes from a position of being very interested in history
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Speaker 2: and and being very motivated by compassion for people on
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Speaker 2: all sides. And I understand there are many people out
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Speaker 2: there that will say, well, you haven't thought of this angle,
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Speaker 2: or they throw this person or that person off of
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Speaker 2: a rooftop. And obviously you can find bad people involved
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Speaker 2: in situations of conflict and atrocity in a context of
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Speaker 2: decades of nightmarish violence. You can find those people. I'm
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Speaker 2: not hand-waving that away. I'm not hand-waving away the difficulty
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Speaker 2: of the situation. What I'm encouraging people to explore is
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Speaker 2: to step away from the simplicity of these arguments and
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Speaker 2: to always call out the bigotry where it occurs, both
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Speaker 2: overt and subtle. There are a lot of situations now
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Speaker 2: where people assume that every person, for example, that might
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Speaker 2: identify as Jewish or every person that might be an
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Speaker 2: Israel person has a monolithic opinion.
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Speaker 1: And that is.
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Speaker 2: Almost a disrespectful oversimplification of people with agency. There are
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Speaker 2: a lot of people in Israel. There are a lot
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Speaker 2: of Jewish people, despite the best efforts of people generations
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Speaker 2: before us who committed crimes that we said never again afterward.
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Speaker 2: There are people that survived the atrocities of the Holocaust
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Speaker 2: who were victimized in this attack. And there were also
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Speaker 2: people that survived the atrocities of the Holocaust who spent
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Speaker 2: time codifying definitions of words like genocide. And those are
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Speaker 2: difficult words to hear. They are scary words to hear.
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Speaker 2: And they should be. The people that survived those atrocities
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Speaker 2: decided not again and what never again looked like can
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Speaker 2: mean different things to different people we are talking an
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Speaker 2: enormous people group that survived an apocalypse of everything they
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Speaker 2: knew people will take that in different directions but some
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Speaker 2: people took that in a direction of moving into law saying,
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Speaker 2: how can we understand and codify the language around what
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Speaker 2: just happened to us to make sure it doesn't happen
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Speaker 2: to anyone again? And we are very sad to know,
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Speaker 2: of course, that it has happened many times since. And
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Speaker 2: as the world continues to destabilize, it's probably going to
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Speaker 2: happen again. However, people who tried to get an understanding
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Speaker 2: of of what happened and how to prevent it, came
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Speaker 2: up with Article 2 of the Genocide Convention in the
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Speaker 2: United Nations. And it talks about the efforts to destroy
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Speaker 2: in whole or in part a people. It is not
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Speaker 2: just mass extermination. It is a bigger process. So there
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Speaker 2: are five categories that fall under the definition of genocide
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Speaker 2: under the UN Conventions. They are, of course, obviously, killing people.
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Speaker 2: members of a group the second is causing serious bodily
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Speaker 2: or mental harm to members of that group that one
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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't really think about all that
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Speaker 2: often causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of
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Speaker 2: a group deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life
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Speaker 2: calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
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Speaker 2: in part imposing measures intended to prevent births within that group,
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Speaker 2: or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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Speaker 2: This is a more nuanced definition, but it is also
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Speaker 2: the legal definition. It is the definition by which people
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Speaker 2: try to understand if a genocide has occurred, will occur,
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Speaker 2: or is currently occurring. And with that definition, we have
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Speaker 2: to ask ourselves difficult questions. How do we classify what
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Speaker 2: is happening here? Does it stretch to that definition? And
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Speaker 2: a lot of people feel that it does. And in fact,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people in the UN specifically, as we
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Speaker 2: may have challenging relationships with the UN generally, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people in that international body who at least nominally
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Speaker 2: take that definition seriously have made a similar stand. And
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Speaker 2: now how do you deal with a situation where people
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Speaker 2: who suffered one of the most famous and horrifying industrial
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Speaker 2: genocides in all of human history, how do you approach
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Speaker 2: that situation while never losing your care for some members
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Speaker 2: of a government that claim to represent that entire population?
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Speaker 2: are committing things that really seem to fall into some
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Speaker 2: of those definitions, especially when you take into account how
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Speaker 2: many people within the military of that government specifically are
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Speaker 2: talking about eliminationist violence, are talking about wiping the place
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Speaker 2: off the map, or talking about how the entire place
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Speaker 2: will be bulldozed and replaced with vacation resorts.
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Speaker 1: What is that called?
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Speaker 2: And if we can define what that's called we might
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Speaker 2: just might have a chance at trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: how we don't do this, how we actually solve the problem.
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Speaker 2: If you approach every position militarily, especially one this complicated
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Speaker 2: with networks this deep that are opposing you, you are
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Speaker 2: setting yourself up to not only not succeed, but to
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Speaker 2: be drawn into a situation so severe that your population,
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Speaker 2: will start to hate you, your population will become more
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Speaker 2: deeply divided when you can scarcely afford it, and the
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Speaker 2: world itself that might have been at least sympathetic to
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Speaker 2: your cause is less so. I am talking here about strategy.
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Speaker 2: If you were in a conflict, you would think that
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Speaker 2: you would approach it with intention, with strategy. And years
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Speaker 2: have gone by, and the leadership of Hamas is still intact.
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Speaker 2: And you have mountains of rubble burying piles of dead people,
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Speaker 2: a lot of them children. And it's very easy to deflect.
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Speaker 2: It's very easy to say, well, they wanted this. This
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Speaker 2: is the government that they wanted. You also have to
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Speaker 2: take into account that the last time an election took place,
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Speaker 2: the majority of the people in Gaza at the time
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Speaker 2: weren't even born yet. And again, this gets to the
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Speaker 2: collective punishment angle. Are you willing to punish an entire population,
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Speaker 2: many of which were not born yet for the decisions
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Speaker 2: of their parents? Are the sins of the father visited
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Speaker 2: upon the son in the secular world? That's a question
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Speaker 2: for you to answer, not for me to answer. Because
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we will all have
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Speaker 2: our own opinions here. My opinions on the matter are
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Speaker 2: motivated in care, respect for people that have been through
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Speaker 2: a terrible, terrible thing regardless of where they stand. And
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Speaker 2: that's how I have to land on the matter. I
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Speaker 2: don't think this will solve it. I don't think anything
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Speaker 2: like this will solve this problem for any of the
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Speaker 2: populations in the world that are in conflict. We do
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Speaker 2: not live in a world where this stuff can happen
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Speaker 2: and your own population won't resent it, the people around
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Speaker 2: you won't resent it, the global community won't resent it.
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Speaker 2: I don't see a way forward here that leads to peace.
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Speaker 2: And peace is what I want for the region, for
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Speaker 2: those people. I believe that folks whose religions are deeply
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Speaker 2: tied to that region have an ancestral, cultural right to
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Speaker 2: exist within that space. Do I believe that that value
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Speaker 2: stance necessarily means That any government that happens to exist
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Speaker 2: within that space fundamentally and immediately needs my full and
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Speaker 2: emphatic support? I don't believe that. I don't believe that
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Speaker 2: anything put together by humans deserves our complete and total support.
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Speaker 2: Because humans are fallible. Humans make mistakes. I've made oblique
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Speaker 2: references to it here and there about my religious beliefs.
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Speaker 2: The Old Testament is full of examples of times where
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Speaker 2: people made mistakes. So is the New Testament. People make mistakes.
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Speaker 2: People are fallible. And if we lend our total and
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Speaker 2: complete support to any structure made by man, it's pretty
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Speaker 2: hard for me to disambiguate that from a form of idolatry.
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Speaker 2: And I've made it very clear in the past, I
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Speaker 2: don't support any type of idolatry, be it the idolization
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Speaker 2: of a sports team, a carved wooden image, a golden calf,
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Speaker 2: a president, a government. I don't believe that anything us
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Speaker 2: flawed humans can put together deserves our complete and unconditional support.
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Speaker 2: Because once you start to do that, your critical thinking
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Speaker 2: gets turned off. And if your critical thinking gets turned off,
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Speaker 2: your compassion can get turned off too. And when we
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Speaker 2: lose both of those, what do we have left? I'm
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Speaker 2: not so sure. Thanks for listening. This is Hayward Gatch
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Speaker 2: Stimulating Talk. So on the line now, I have a
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Speaker 2: has an undergraduate degree from Evergreen State College in History,
30:24
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Speaker 2: In 2021, was an intern at the New Lions Institute
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Speaker 2: and accurately forecasted the outbreak of the war in Ukraine
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Speaker 2: three months in advance within 12 hours of accuracy. He
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Speaker 2: international relations and recently completed a work mission on the
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Speaker 2: the Russians and training front-line war crimes investigators. On the
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Speaker 37: Aram, how are you doing?
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Speaker 19: Not too bad.
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Speaker 17: How are you guys doing today?
31:11
Speaker 2: We're doing okay. So, you know, open source intelligence is
31:15
Speaker 2: something that, has started to edge into the mainstream understanding
31:20
Speaker 2: as a thing that exists, but it has for a
31:23
Speaker 2: while now. But there's a little bit of confusion around it.
31:26
Speaker 2: So let me first ask you, what is open source
31:29
Speaker 2: intelligence and what does it look like in the modern age?
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Speaker 45: So, I mean, the way that we've described it for
31:36
Speaker 45: years now, to be kind of silly about it, is
31:39
Speaker 45: fancy Googling. And that's effectively what it is, though, is Googling.
31:43
Speaker 45: Using any source you can find that's not behind a
31:47
Speaker 45: security clearance. And in my definition, it goes further. It's
31:50
Speaker 45: anything that's not behind a significant kind of a shady
31:54
Speaker 45: paywall to get this information. So if I have to
31:58
Speaker 45: hire some crook to steal someone's identity to get the information,
32:01
Speaker 45: that doesn't count as OSINT to me. But what counts
32:04
Speaker 45: as OSINT to me are things like NASA has a
32:07
Speaker 45: satellite that takes pictures of the Earth every day and
32:10
Speaker 45: can see changes on the ground. and you can see
32:12
Speaker 45: fires from space and smoke columns and things like that,
32:15
Speaker 45: as does the European Space Agency. Those are free satellite
32:18
Speaker 45: programs using YouTube to monitor updates on conflicts and crises there.
32:24
Speaker 45: That's OSINT. You can use, if you've ever used a
32:28
Speaker 45: police scanner, that's OSINT, right? And it goes down into
32:33
Speaker 45: personal life stuff as well. I don't cross as much
32:35
Speaker 45: into the social media area, but any young lady out
32:39
Speaker 45: there listening who has ever done some background research on
32:43
Speaker 45: a fellow before you go on a date with them,
32:45
Speaker 45: you've probably used OSINT. You know, you've probably looked at
32:47
Speaker 45: their social media profiles and saw the information they've publicly shared.
32:50
Speaker 45: And that's effectively what I do.
32:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you touch on social media there
32:55
Speaker 2: a little bit as well. In the age of social media,
32:59
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've seen just
33:01
Speaker 2: the word OSINT slapped in a bio somewhere, and then
33:03
Speaker 2: just all manner of stuff that I maybe wouldn't consider
33:06
Speaker 2: the most credible information. So, As people navigate this world,
33:13
Speaker 2: largely mediated by social media, how would you describe what
33:16
Speaker 2: OSINT isn't?
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Speaker 45: So there's a difference, I would say, between open source
33:22
Speaker 45: intelligence analysis, which is something that I do, and then
33:26
Speaker 45: there's what I call the OSINT aggregators. And those are
33:30
Speaker 45: accounts that find any news that's been shared publicly from
33:33
Speaker 45: any manner of source, and they retweet it, they share it, whatever.
33:37
Speaker 45: They're useful in the sense that drinking from a fire
33:40
Speaker 45: hose is useful if you're dehydrated, but it's not exactly
33:43
Speaker 45: what you're looking for, and it's probably going to do
33:45
Speaker 45: more harm than good. And so my number one tip
33:49
Speaker 45: is if you're looking at somebody's social media profile and
33:53
Speaker 45: they advertise themselves as an OSINT account, you probably skipped
33:57
Speaker 45: that one. The people who actually do OSINT analysis, we're
34:01
Speaker 45: almost ashamed of the label these days because of that
34:04
Speaker 45: vibe that comes from it.
34:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, that nuance I think is really critical because, again,
34:08
Speaker 2: a lot of people that just exist in day-to-day life
34:12
Speaker 2: might see that, wonder what it is, or people that
34:14
Speaker 2: might have the social media understanding of what your work
34:18
Speaker 2: is might just see that and say, oh, well, now
34:20
Speaker 2: I can just believe everything that this profile might say. That,
34:24
Speaker 2: I think, is really helpful in navigating this very confusing.
34:28
Speaker 1: World that we have.
34:29
Speaker 2: And so, you know, I first came across the term
34:32
Speaker 2: with a mutual friend of ours talking about how it
34:35
Speaker 2: was utilized in Syria around some of the atrocities that
34:39
Speaker 2: happened there, where you folks were, you know, like looking
34:42
Speaker 2: at buildings and noticing that, oh, well, these buildings don't
34:45
Speaker 2: exist in this way in the city that they claim
34:49
Speaker 2: that this is from. You know, I found that fascinating
34:52
Speaker 2: that like this is a thing we can do in
34:55
Speaker 2: the modern age. So moving into the situation in Ukraine,
34:59
Speaker 2: you know, how has it been used to independently verify
35:03
Speaker 2: these atrocities that have been happening?
35:06
Speaker 45: Well, there's a number of websites that cater to it, but,
35:10
Speaker 45: I mean, some of the best views of the war
35:12
Speaker 45: have come from the satellites. I mean, on the first,
35:16
Speaker 45: before the war even began, we could see things with
35:19
Speaker 45: the satellites that weren't being published on the ground and
35:22
Speaker 45: weren't being discussed in the news, things like military encampments
35:25
Speaker 45: on the Russia-Ukraine border suddenly filling with tanks and equipment,
35:29
Speaker 45: and then the tents of the encampments suddenly, the snow
35:32
Speaker 45: on the roof being melted because the heaters were on inside,
35:35
Speaker 45: you know, things like that. And then we could see
35:40
Speaker 45: other OSINT data. As the war began, we saw traffic
35:43
Speaker 45: jams on Google traffic maps lining from Belgorod in Russia
35:47
Speaker 45: straight into Kharkiv in Ukraine. You could watch the traffic
35:50
Speaker 45: jams as people had to pull over to make way
35:52
Speaker 45: for these columns of tanks that were rolling across the border.
35:56
Speaker 45: And that advanced through the war. We could see in
35:58
Speaker 45: the first few days satellite images, clear satellite images of
36:01
Speaker 45: Russian columns advancing on Kiev and other major cities. We
36:06
Speaker 45: could see the heat signatures.
36:07
Speaker 8: Of the battle.
36:09
Speaker 45: On almost a real-time basis, every 15 to 30 minutes,
36:12
Speaker 45: it would update with the data, which really allowed us
36:16
Speaker 45: to see where the front lines were moving. and actually
36:18
Speaker 45: allowed me to help a number of personal friends of
36:20
Speaker 45: mine evacuate from some of the encircled cities just by
36:25
Speaker 45: following the traffic maps and basically the heat signatures to
36:27
Speaker 45: show them where not to go and where to go.
36:30
Speaker 45: So the war has progressed at this point where it's
36:33
Speaker 45: kind of a little more difficult to use the satellites
36:35
Speaker 45: because there isn't as much movement happening on the ground,
36:37
Speaker 45: and a.
36:39
Speaker 8: Lot of the.
36:42
Speaker 45: Agencies on either side have gotten wise to OSINT being used.
36:45
Speaker 45: In the early days of the war, the Russians would
36:47
Speaker 45: broadcast a lot of their radio messages on unencrypted radio frequencies.
36:51
Speaker 45: So we were able to, like, intercept Russian artillery officers
36:54
Speaker 45: being told, like, shell that apartment block and responding, but
36:58
Speaker 45: there's civilians inside, and then command responds, I told you
37:01
Speaker 45: to shell it, which is, you know, pretty damning, I
37:04
Speaker 45: would say, in terms of war crimes.
37:07
Speaker 24: But, yeah.
37:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and especially the unencrypted angle of those communications,
37:12
Speaker 2: I remember hearing about that. I don't speak Russian, but
37:16
Speaker 2: I remember hearing about that as a thing that's happening.
37:18
Speaker 2: And as the war goes on, as maybe some kind
37:23
Speaker 2: of accountability becomes possible, to be able to say that
37:28
Speaker 2: this data was intercepted, noticed, and stored, I think that
37:34
Speaker 2: is so important, but also impressive as a thing that
37:39
Speaker 2: is doable now. And I'm so happy that people are
37:43
Speaker 2: doing it and you know you just got back from
37:45
Speaker 2: some time over there where people are trying to to
37:49
Speaker 2: broaden these skills and they had access to you to
37:53
Speaker 2: help broaden those skills so you know the daily life
37:56
Speaker 2: in Ukraine and in the interest of people trying to
38:00
Speaker 2: move forward in this I mean could you expand.
38:02
Speaker 1: On that a little.
38:04
Speaker 45: Yeah I mean daily life in Ukraine it was shockingly
38:10
Speaker 45: normal shockingly upbeat, especially in Kyiv. Everything was pretty much
38:16
Speaker 45: normal there, save for my last few days in Kyiv.
38:20
Speaker 45: The Russians started targeting the main bridges over the river,
38:23
Speaker 45: and so all the bridges got shut down, and traffic
38:26
Speaker 45: came to a standstill in Kyiv. But, I mean, it
38:29
Speaker 45: was almost bittersweet in that way because, like, oh, no,
38:32
Speaker 45: there's traffic jams in Kyiv, but that means that people
38:34
Speaker 45: in Kyiv are going about their days.
38:36
Speaker 13: Yeah.
38:36
Speaker 45: They're out stuck in traffic.
38:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
38:39
Speaker 8: Sorry, go ahead.
38:41
Speaker 46: Sorry.
38:41
Speaker 2: That's something that I think is so important because a
38:44
Speaker 2: lot of people will see the daily life situation and
38:49
Speaker 2: try to use that as a way of saying that
38:51
Speaker 2: nothing is necessarily happening. But to me, it's almost a
38:55
Speaker 2: credit to the durability and the persistence of these people, right?
39:00
Speaker 2: I mean— what can you do in your day-to-day life
39:03
Speaker 2: to stop those drones from hitting that bridge? Like, you
39:06
Speaker 2: just have to go about your day, you know?
39:09
Speaker 45: Yeah, and I mean, another thing to understand about Kiev
39:13
Speaker 45: in particular is that a lot of the city can
39:15
Speaker 45: function underground physically. I mean, there's, under every major intersection,
39:20
Speaker 45: instead of in the U.S. where we have these dangerous crosswalks,
39:22
Speaker 45: they have an underpass, you know, a pedestrian underpass that
39:25
Speaker 45: goes under the roadway and sometimes splits under the entire
39:28
Speaker 45: intersection and goes into a mall. or goes down to
39:30
Speaker 45: the metro. Once you're down there, you're relatively safe from
39:33
Speaker 45: the strikes. And they've advanced. I mean, I think a
39:37
Speaker 45: lot of Americans would have their minds blown by this
39:39
Speaker 45: because I was speaking to my old high school class
39:42
Speaker 45: when this happened. We were speaking and the air raid
39:45
Speaker 45: sirens went off. And the hotel's PA system came on
39:48
Speaker 45: and told us it was a yellow alert for drones.
39:51
Speaker 45: And the students were shocked that I didn't go down
39:53
Speaker 45: to the shelter. But I didn't because drones are pretty
39:56
Speaker 45: much constant. I mean, I think if I went about
39:59
Speaker 45: my day without drones in the air, I'd probably have
40:02
Speaker 45: an hour of time spread out across the day. Drones are,
40:07
Speaker 45: when they get near your district, the sirens go off
40:10
Speaker 45: again to kind of let you know. But other than that,
40:12
Speaker 45: you kind of go about your daily life. It's the
40:14
Speaker 45: ballistic missiles, the red alerts. Those are the dangerous ones.
40:16
Speaker 45: Those are the deadly ones. I mean, they're all deadly,
40:18
Speaker 45: but the ballistic missiles come in so fast and hit
40:21
Speaker 45: such a wide area, you better be down in the
40:24
Speaker 45: shelter when they sound that alarm.
40:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
40:27
Speaker 2: And, you know, thinking back when a lot of Americans
40:31
Speaker 2: first and probably last time they heard the name Bucha,
40:35
Speaker 2: you know, in the early days of the war there,
40:37
Speaker 2: I feel like I remember there being a lot of
40:39
Speaker 2: OSINT used around helping to verify that in the early days.
40:42
Speaker 1: Am I remembering that correctly?
40:44
Speaker 30: Absolutely.
40:45
Speaker 45: Bucha is etched into my brain as one of the
40:49
Speaker 45: darkest things we've ever looked into with OSINT. We saw,
40:54
Speaker 45: as the battles progressed, the Russians took the city early
40:58
Speaker 45: and advanced through it, and then when they were being
41:00
Speaker 45: pushed back out of Kiev, they kind of held there
41:03
Speaker 45: for a And while they held there, they massacred dozens
41:07
Speaker 45: and dozens of local citizens just going about.
41:09
Speaker 8: Their daily lives.
41:11
Speaker 45: And we started to see these black blobs appearing on
41:14
Speaker 45: the roadway, smaller than a car but larger than a pothole.
41:19
Speaker 45: And they would remain in place day after day, and
41:22
Speaker 45: then there would be additional smudges. And we eventually, when
41:25
Speaker 45: the first vehicles from the Ukrainian military advanced through Bucha,
41:28
Speaker 45: we cross-referenced the videos they took with the satellite images
41:31
Speaker 45: we'd seen and saw that those were, in fact, the
41:33
Speaker 45: bodies of civilians shot going about their day and left
41:36
Speaker 45: to rot in the streets and be eaten by dogs.
41:39
Speaker 45: And so that kind of ability to see that level
41:44
Speaker 45: of precision and then to see the mass graves being
41:47
Speaker 45: dug behind the churches and filled with bodies, that's a pretty, again,
41:53
Speaker 45: pretty damning bit of evidence. And none of it alone
41:56
Speaker 45: will condemn or convict anybody, but it all builds the case, right?
42:00
Speaker 45: It all adds in.
42:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
42:04
Speaker 2: This kind of stuff, it's so important because especially when
42:09
Speaker 2: most people's media diets are really rather narrow to just
42:14
Speaker 2: simply hear, oh, well, those were just civilian casualties due
42:19
Speaker 2: to the vagaries of war. A lot of people might
42:22
Speaker 2: just believe that, but you folks are able to, and critically,
42:28
Speaker 2: independently verify information. that I think for those of us
42:33
Speaker 2: that still care about reality in any recognizable and meaningful form,
42:38
Speaker 2: that's important.
42:40
Speaker 45: Yeah, and it's beyond the actions. It's the rhetoric that's
42:44
Speaker 45: come out of the Russian state that for 20 years
42:47
Speaker 45: has been dismissed as just that, as rhetoric, as throwing
42:51
Speaker 45: some red meat to the base, get them riled up, blah, blah, blah.
42:55
Speaker 45: But when your rhetoric goes from, like, Ukraine isn't a state,
42:59
Speaker 45: therefore we are invading to remove that statehood, that's inherently
43:03
Speaker 45: genocidal and something that I think most Americans can unify
43:07
Speaker 45: behind being opposed to. I mean, that's why we fought
43:10
Speaker 45: in just about every war we fought in, even if
43:13
Speaker 45: the war ended up being a misguided war or was
43:15
Speaker 45: a misguided war from the get-go, the belief of the
43:18
Speaker 45: individuals who fought those wars, from Iraq to Vietnam to
43:22
Speaker 45: Korea to World War II, was that they were liberating
43:25
Speaker 45: people who wanted to be liberated, and they were freeing
43:27
Speaker 45: people from oppression. It wasn't always the case, but that's
43:30
Speaker 45: what we believe in. That's our core value.
43:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially talking about the use of the word genocide.
43:38
Speaker 2: That's something that's very important. It has a broader definition
43:42
Speaker 2: than most people assume. I'm thinking back right now to
43:46
Speaker 2: Donbass and the children that were kidnapped and taken deep
43:49
Speaker 2: into Russia to be adopted into Russian families, and from
43:52
Speaker 2: what I've heard, abused in most situations. These are things
43:57
Speaker 2: that are happening, and the more people that have the
44:01
Speaker 2: ability and skills to pay attention to such things, I
44:06
Speaker 2: hope it's possible that some form of accountability could someday happen.
44:11
Speaker 45: Yeah, I mean, and what you're referring to there, the
44:14
Speaker 45: child abductions, so at least as far as we know of, 20,000
44:18
Speaker 45: Ukrainian children have been taken from their parents in Ukraine
44:22
Speaker 45: and given to different parents across Russia. The number is
44:26
Speaker 45: likely closer to 80,000 to 100,000, but the numbers haven't
44:30
Speaker 45: come in from Mariupol yet because it's still occupied by Russia.
44:34
Speaker 45: The evidence is such that the International Criminal Court has
44:38
Speaker 45: actually issued arrest warrants for both Maria Lvova-Belova, who is
44:43
Speaker 45: the Children's Rights Commissioner, in air quotes, of the Russian Federation,
44:46
Speaker 45: and the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, for genocide,
44:50
Speaker 45: for those crimes.
44:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, again, one of the conditions of
44:56
Speaker 2: genocide is the forced removal of children from one group
44:59
Speaker 2: to another, and that's a thing we're happening here. Even
45:02
Speaker 2: aside from the rhetoric that has been deployed by not
45:07
Speaker 2: only Putin, but just the Russian higher-ups generally... fits very neatly,
45:12
Speaker 2: in my understanding, with the definition of genocide. That's something
45:15
Speaker 2: we're watching right now.
45:19
Speaker 45: It is, 100%. And it gets to the extent where
45:27
Speaker 45: when there's a war crime that's committed or a crime
45:29
Speaker 45: that's committed in a war by U.S. forces, say the
45:32
Speaker 45: hospital being blown up in Kunduz in Afghanistan many years ago,
45:36
Speaker 45: That wasn't because the president was out there saying, we're
45:39
Speaker 45: going to level their hospitals too, and then that happened.
45:42
Speaker 45: Because then you would have the rhetoric and the action.
45:45
Speaker 45: We had the action without the rhetoric and with repercussions
45:48
Speaker 45: on some level for those involved. What we're seeing in
45:53
Speaker 45: Ukraine is the Russians saying that Ukraine is not a
45:56
Speaker 45: real country. The kids who are still there should be killed.
46:00
Speaker 45: They should be exterminated. They must be wiped out. I
46:03
Speaker 45: was there, and they fired a volley of ballistic missiles
46:07
Speaker 45: at the police station we were working in. Lucky for us,
46:12
Speaker 45: none of those missiles landed on us. However, one of
46:15
Speaker 45: them landed about a block and a half away. I
46:17
Speaker 45: felt the concussive effects. I felt the heat wave. We
46:20
Speaker 45: were peppered with glass, and it leveled at elementary school.
46:24
Speaker 45: We were very lucky in that the children in that
46:27
Speaker 45: school were all in the bomb shelter when the missile
46:29
Speaker 45: struck because we were under a yellow alert for drones.
46:32
Speaker 45: Where we were, 15 miles from the border, we had
46:35
Speaker 45: no time for a red alert signal to get to us.
46:37
Speaker 45: There was no warning of a ballistic missile attack. And
46:40
Speaker 45: this is every day for the children and the people
46:42
Speaker 45: of Ukraine.
46:44
Speaker 2: You know, one thing I remember, you can surely correct
46:47
Speaker 2: me on the city, but you're going to know what
46:48
Speaker 2: I'm talking about as soon as I mention it, is
46:50
Speaker 2: that theater that had children written on the front plaza
46:55
Speaker 2: out in front of it that was leveled. And now
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47:06
Speaker 26: Absolutely.
47:06
Speaker 45: That's in Mariupol. The one city that the Russians have
47:09
Speaker 45: managed to bludgeon and suppress in Ukraine is Mariupol. And
47:15
Speaker 45: that's where we get into the abduction of children. So,
47:17
Speaker 45: I mean, the number that we have confirmed is 19,000, but.
47:21
Speaker 45: But the Ukrainians estimate upwards of 300,000, and the Russians
47:25
Speaker 45: claim 700,000 children have been taken from Ukraine, many of
47:29
Speaker 45: them from Mariupol. And so I want the listeners to
47:32
Speaker 45: consider how that would feel for a nation and how
47:36
Speaker 45: you would be desperate for any allies, especially the strongest
47:39
Speaker 45: guy on the block, to help you out. You know,
47:41
Speaker 45: it's like we're all at the beach, and there's one
47:44
Speaker 45: guy pumping iron in the corner, and someone's out on
47:47
Speaker 45: the beach just beating up children. And everyone's going, someone
47:50
Speaker 45: do something, and we're the guy pumping iron. You know what,
47:52
Speaker 45: now it's time to put those dukes to use, you know,
47:55
Speaker 45: I mean, in some way or another.
47:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
47:58
Speaker 2: And, you know, I would love to have you back
48:02
Speaker 2: to continue to expand upon this at some point as
48:04
Speaker 2: time runs short, because quite frankly, this is, you know,
48:08
Speaker 2: I alone, despite the fact that I have sort of
48:10
Speaker 2: a passenger seat interest and involvement in the whole Ukraine situation,
48:16
Speaker 2: On this station, I've had probably upwards of six hours
48:18
Speaker 2: worth of time to talk about this and barely scratched
48:21
Speaker 2: the surface. There's so much going on right now, and
48:25
Speaker 2: people that have that care, that haven't lost that about themselves,
48:28
Speaker 2: that are willing to actually see what is happening beyond
48:32
Speaker 2: just the sanitized versions that we will see in everyday
48:36
Speaker 2: media depictions, there is so much happening right now that
48:40
Speaker 2: would outrage the very soul of Americans if they knew
48:44
Speaker 2: about it. and I'm deeply appreciative of the fact that
48:49
Speaker 2: you're involved in that work and, frankly, the fact that
48:51
Speaker 2: I know you. But I guess one last question we
48:54
Speaker 2: have here as time runs down. In an era where,
48:57
Speaker 2: at least from my perspective, it seems that truth is
48:59
Speaker 2: sort of being forced to the borders of irrelevancy, what
49:04
Speaker 2: is the future of the kind of work that you
49:06
Speaker 2: do look like? I mean, it seems like people don't
49:09
Speaker 2: even care about what's real anymore.
49:10
Speaker 1: What do you think?
49:13
Speaker 32: Yeah, I mean.
49:16
Speaker 45: That's a constant issue that I have personally. thinking about
49:21
Speaker 45: the relevance of our work. But what I have to
49:24
Speaker 45: remember is that with every advance in communications technology, there's
49:27
Speaker 45: been this lapse, this period where people don't quite get it.
49:32
Speaker 45: The yellow journalism we have, Hitler using the radio, that
49:37
Speaker 45: kind of no offense to radio folks here, But nowadays,
49:40
Speaker 45: people listening to the radio know that a show like
49:41
Speaker 45: this one is a more reputable show than perhaps some
49:45
Speaker 45: crack job AM station that you'll hear some guy going
49:49
Speaker 45: on about all these conspiracies. You know kind of to
49:51
Speaker 45: tune that out. You know that the Bat Boy was
49:53
Speaker 45: not really found in the cave, despite what the magazine
49:55
Speaker 45: at the grocery store register says, right? There will come
49:58
Speaker 45: a time when this kind of information is valued once more.
50:02
Speaker 45: I think that time is coming soon. And I think
50:06
Speaker 45: that for now it's just kind of our time to
50:08
Speaker 45: buckle down and get the work done. I personally wouldn't
50:12
Speaker 45: want to be one of the Russian soldiers who's perpetrated
50:15
Speaker 45: these crimes because their fingerprints are all over it and
50:17
Speaker 45: they'll never be able to travel again. They'll never be
50:20
Speaker 45: able to use any Western banking systems again. Their lives
50:22
Speaker 45: are effectively walled off to Russia in the future. And
50:27
Speaker 45: if I can take part in making that happen, I'm
50:28
Speaker 45: going to do it to alleviate or at least get
50:31
Speaker 45: some justice for the suffering of my friends and my
50:33
Speaker 45: colleagues and the people I haven't met yet in Ukraine,
50:37
Speaker 45: all of whom, by the way, I must point out,
50:40
Speaker 45: love to meet Americans. If you're an American and you're
50:44
Speaker 45: in Kiev, you're the celebrity. They will go all out
50:47
Speaker 45: for you. They will show you where the best food is.
50:50
Speaker 45: They will try their best English out on you. It's
50:52
Speaker 45: not like anywhere else I've been in the world. So
50:55
Speaker 45: make your travel plans after the war, absolutely. It's a
50:58
Speaker 45: beautiful country with a lot to offer.
51:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can definitely second that, having lived there for
51:02
Speaker 2: a while.
51:02
Speaker 1: But, Aram, thank you so much.
51:03
Speaker 2: Is there anywhere where your work is available publicly, or
51:06
Speaker 2: is that still largely on the DL at the moment?
51:09
Speaker 45: We've got to keep that on the DL at the
51:10
Speaker 45: moment in order to protect sources and whatnot.
51:13
Speaker 47: Understood.
51:14
Speaker 45: I am very Google-able, and if you can tolerate my
51:17
Speaker 45: social media presence, you're welcome to follow me.
51:19
Speaker 1: All right.
51:20
Speaker 2: Aram Shabanian, thank you so much.
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Speaker 22: runaway freight train, and they want some help to throw
1:04:54
Speaker 22: that dead man switch. So they're asking for help, and
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Speaker 22: they don't give any specifics. I find that to be
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Speaker 22: very convenient. But also, they just want help. They want regulation.
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Speaker 22: I find that to be unprecedented, that you have an
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Speaker 1: Wanting government intervention. That, folks, is unprecedented.
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Speaker 22: Now, I am not a proponent of excessive or even
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, my goal, my number one overarching.
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1:05:43
Speaker 22: really accomplish that. Those two statements are a bit incongruous.
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Speaker 13: I get that.
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Speaker 1: But guess what? This thing needs to.
1:05:51
Speaker 22: Be, we need to get ahead of it. It's moving
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Speaker 22: real fast. And here's how we need to do that.
1:05:57
Speaker 22: as a culture, as a nation, as a species, we
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1:06:02
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1:06:14
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1:06:23
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1:06:27
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1:06:30
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1:06:33
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1:06:41
Speaker 22: That's just scary.
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Speaker 1: So I want to make sure that that is outlawed
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Speaker 22: And what's more, we can even go one step further
1:06:51
Speaker 22: and keep them out of our classrooms. Classrooms because our
1:06:55
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1:06:59
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1:07:03
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1:07:07
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? I think that all they
1:07:11
Speaker 1: need is maybe they will is definitely a.
1:07:12
Speaker 22: Better salary and some support and respect and maybe even
1:07:16
Speaker 22: some authority from the from their communities that they serve. Next,
1:07:19
Speaker 22: what we need is a kill switch. I know that
1:07:23
Speaker 22: kill switches have been in the news for actually a
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Speaker 22: couple of years. My first memory of that goes back
1:07:28
Speaker 22: a handful of years in a preceding Congress with Representative
1:07:31
Speaker 22: Tom Massey from Kentucky discussing how he was opposed to the, oh,
1:07:39
Speaker 22: what do you call that, the kill switches in cars, right?
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Speaker 22: They don't want anyone to have access or the ability
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Speaker 1: So that makes sense. However, I think that this is
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Speaker 1: a little different.
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Speaker 22: I'm not really sure how to implement this from a
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Speaker 22: manufacturing standpoint, from a pragmatic standpoint.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I can't know everything. I can't be an expert
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Speaker 1: on everything like Elon is.
1:08:06
Speaker 22: But we definitely need to have a kill switch, whether
1:08:09
Speaker 22: it's programmed as a backdoor through code or maybe something
1:08:12
Speaker 22: physically implanted into the chips. And if all else fails,
1:08:15
Speaker 22: here's what we do. We take a giant switch like
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Speaker 22: from those old cartoons. We put it on the wall
1:08:21
Speaker 22: for dramatic effect, something that takes two guys with huge
1:08:25
Speaker 22: biceps to flip. And we can actually shut this thing
1:08:28
Speaker 22: off manually. So not only remotely, not only through software, but.
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Speaker 1: Manually on the wall. We we we need to be
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Speaker 22: Speaking of kill switches, next, what we need is to
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Speaker 22: make these data centers, which everyone is against, and I
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Speaker 22: mean everyone is against. It's actually quite remarkable that flat
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Speaker 22: cameras and data centers seem to be uniting both the
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Speaker 22: left and the right for the most part. I find
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Speaker 22: that to be very, interesting But we need our data
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Speaker 22: center Any data center, wherever it's found To be net
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Speaker 22: contributors Not only to the grid But to their communities
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Speaker 22: For example We don't want to be deforesting For data
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Speaker 22: centers We don't want to be misusing farmland For data
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Speaker 22: centers Because people don't need data centers People need food
1:09:18
Speaker 22: People need water Oh, speaking of which, we should definitely
1:09:21
Speaker 22: also not be– we should not allow data centers to
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Speaker 22: adversely affect our utilities, like I said, with the grid,
1:09:29
Speaker 22: but also our water supply, our water infrastructure for cooling.
1:09:33
Speaker 22: That would be also extremely silly to allow.
1:09:36
Speaker 1: And they can't– you know what? They can't be– they
1:09:38
Speaker 1: can't cause blight.
1:09:39
Speaker 22: They should not be able to cause blight within any
1:09:43
Speaker 22: community that houses them. I think the motto here should
1:09:46
Speaker 22: be out of sight, out of mind as far as
1:09:48
Speaker 22: data centers go.
1:09:51
Speaker 1: And lastly, you know what?
1:09:52
Speaker 22: We need to make sure that American workers and American
1:09:55
Speaker 22: industries are put first, first and foremost, when conducting some
1:10:01
Speaker 22: sort of legislative negotiation. The question should always be asked,
1:10:05
Speaker 22: does this benefit American workers? Now, me being a home builder,
1:10:08
Speaker 22: I don't think Skynet and its T-1000s are going to
1:10:12
Speaker 22: get on the roof and start laying shingle anytime soon.
1:10:15
Speaker 22: But I'll tell you what, any loss of American jobs
1:10:17
Speaker 22: is unacceptable. Any loss whatsoever. whether that be white collar
1:10:21
Speaker 22: in terms of, oh, I don't know, investment bankers and
1:10:24
Speaker 22: lawyers or what it seems to already be coming after,
1:10:28
Speaker 22: which is graphic design. And I know that everyone has
1:10:32
Speaker 22: seen those. I would say three quarters, if not more,
1:10:35
Speaker 22: of all your political ads you see on Facebook are
1:10:38
Speaker 22: all AI slop because they all look the same and
1:10:40
Speaker 22: they're all modifying, what's the word I'm looking for, people's
1:10:44
Speaker 22: pictures and whatnot. So it's definitely come after It's absolutely
1:10:49
Speaker 22: coming after our graphic design professionals. So we need to
1:10:54
Speaker 22: make sure that that is another thing. That's another question
1:10:58
Speaker 22: that's being asked, whether or not we want all this
1:11:01
Speaker 22: in our lives. And to what extent, right? It should
1:11:04
Speaker 22: enrich our lives. It should not be taking over or
1:11:07
Speaker 22: running our lives. Now, with that said, I've been discussing
1:11:12
Speaker 22: AI and the need for guardrails since the beginning of
1:11:15
Speaker 22: the campaign, since the beginning of the year anyways. And
1:11:18
Speaker 22: I don't hear a lot of that coming out of
1:11:21
Speaker 22: the Beltway. I think the incumbent, who's been there for
1:11:26
Speaker 22: two decades, I think he put out an email when
1:11:28
Speaker 22: Congress recessed a couple weeks ago, probably using my own terminology,
1:11:34
Speaker 22: wanting AI guardrails. He put that out in an email,
1:11:35
Speaker 22: but that's the first I've ever heard him speak of it.
1:11:38
Speaker 22: And you don't hear a lot of that coming out
1:11:40
Speaker 22: of Congress. And I have a theory, so hopefully everyone
1:11:43
Speaker 22: will entertain me in this theory. I think that they
1:11:46
Speaker 22: don't really have urgency. A lot of us here on
1:11:50
Speaker 22: Main Street, a lot of us who live in the
1:11:52
Speaker 22: real world, we have urgency. We have urgency to make
1:11:55
Speaker 22: sure we can pay bills. We have urgency and priorities
1:11:59
Speaker 22: to make sure that we have job security and that
1:12:02
Speaker 22: our kids are going to be able to find AI-proof careers, say,
1:12:05
Speaker 22: for example. However, the average age of your congressman now
1:12:10
Speaker 22: is 59. Ten years ago, it was 69.
1:12:11
Speaker 1: And you have.
1:12:15
Speaker 22: You have members of Congress, like the incumbent, like my opponent,
1:12:18
Speaker 22: who have been in federal office for two decades and
1:12:22
Speaker 22: in and out of state and municipal office for two
1:12:24
Speaker 22: decades prior to that. That's longer than I've been walking
1:12:27
Speaker 22: the earth. And listen, I don't hold it against him
1:12:31
Speaker 22: or anyone else personally. I think it's just human nature
1:12:33
Speaker 22: to lose touch, to lose that sense of urgency, to
1:12:36
Speaker 22: have a perspective or lack, or I should say lack thereof,
1:12:43
Speaker 22: and missing priorities.
1:12:45
Speaker 1: Who don't share ours.
1:12:47
Speaker 22: I think that's only human nature, so I don't fault them.
1:12:51
Speaker 22: But that's why it's time for change. They need to have,
1:12:56
Speaker 22: anyone who is going to participate in this legislation with
1:13:01
Speaker 22: regards to AI needs to have priority, needs to have urgency.
1:13:05
Speaker 1: They need to have skin in the game.
1:13:07
Speaker 22: And I'll tell you, folks, I am extremely selfish when
1:13:10
Speaker 22: it comes to this because I'm looking out for my
1:13:12
Speaker 22: 18 and 24-year-old. I think that, you know what, they're
1:13:16
Speaker 22: faced with the question, what does it mean to make
1:13:19
Speaker 22: it in America?
1:13:20
Speaker 1: Can I live my American dream? Is that possible? Is
1:13:24
Speaker 1: that available to me now?
1:13:26
Speaker 22: It's a question that I submit to you that our
1:13:28
Speaker 22: career politicians, who are clearly only in Congress to be served,
1:13:33
Speaker 22: and they've forgotten about trying to serve, I don't think
1:13:39
Speaker 22: they have the visibility or the perspective.
1:13:41
Speaker 1: To ask that question, to have that kind of.
1:13:46
Speaker 22: That sense of urgency because they don't have skin in
1:13:48
Speaker 22: the game cut and dried folks I don't want to
1:13:50
Speaker 22: make it about an age thing because it's clearly not
1:13:51
Speaker 22: that's not where I'm going with this I'm not driving
1:13:53
Speaker 22: at putting an age ceiling in although if that's what
1:13:56
Speaker 22: it takes to get term limits let's do it and
1:13:59
Speaker 22: I'll tell you what everyone you can trust me on
1:14:01
Speaker 22: this because I'm going to make a confession here and
1:14:04
Speaker 22: now I'm not really looking forward to doing the job
1:14:06
Speaker 22: and that's why I know I'm so confident that we're
1:14:08
Speaker 22: going to be successful because this job does not seem
1:14:11
Speaker 22: very fun.
1:14:13
Speaker 1: Um It really doesn't.
1:14:16
Speaker 22: Imagine just sitting around arguing, trying to compromise, and ultimately
1:14:19
Speaker 22: just playing partisan politics.
1:14:20
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem very fun. I like action. I like results.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: Coming from business, if you don't produce results, you don't eat.
1:14:30
Speaker 22: That's that simple. You get kicked out of your house.
1:14:31
Speaker 22: You get your lights turned off if you don't produce results.
1:14:35
Speaker 22: On the flip side, though, in government, if you don't
1:14:38
Speaker 22: produce results, you get tenure. I mean, it's not good
1:14:43
Speaker 22: business model. when you're in Congress or any really, any
1:14:47
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1:14:50
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1:14:53
Speaker 22: there longer. You get pay raises. You get more prestige
1:14:56
Speaker 22: afforded to you. So I guess it's by design. I
1:15:00
Speaker 22: don't want to get down that rabbit hole of the
1:15:02
Speaker 22: unit party that I've heard our great host Lee go down,
1:15:06
Speaker 22: which on many points we agree, but it does seem
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1:15:12
Speaker 1: So AI. I'm wondering what everyone else thinks. I am
1:15:18
Speaker 1: wondering what everyone else thinks.
1:15:20
Speaker 22: I think that maybe we'll end up taking a call
1:15:22
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1:15:25
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Speaker 31: Appraisal?
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Speaker 13: Ron's Guns does that too.
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Speaker 59: Ron's Guns is your seven-day-a-week gun show.
1:22:43
Speaker 13: And parking is free.
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Speaker 59: 194 Boston Post Road in East Lyme and at ronsgunsct.com.
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Speaker 7: Preston Trading Post, hard to find, impossible to forget.
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Speaker 15: No, you forgot the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll put that in after.
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Speaker 15: No, I'm saying this line.
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Speaker 13: Okay, you say that one. Go ahead and say it.
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Speaker 13: Preston Trading Post, hard to find, impossible to forget.
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Speaker 1: What's my line?
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Speaker 23: This one.
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Speaker 1: We should just do this.
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Speaker 13: No, you do this. You do this line.
1:23:11
Speaker 1: So, yes, we may be a little off the beaten path.
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Speaker 51: That's only because the beaten path doesn't have this much
1:23:18
Speaker 51: good stuff in it.
1:23:19
Speaker 23: On it.
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Speaker 1: On it.
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1:23:25
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1:23:53
Speaker 29: where members bank better. So professional athletes and paternity issues,
1:23:58
Speaker 29: the two, unfortunately, have always gone hand in hand. Usually
1:24:02
Speaker 29: those type of situations have their own unique way of
1:24:05
Speaker 29: working themselves out. But right now in the Major League
1:24:08
Speaker 29: Baseball postseason, two prominent pitchers each have their own separate
1:24:13
Speaker 29: paternity issue. First, you have the Padres star closer, Mason Miller.
1:24:17
Speaker 29: He was just put on paternity leave after blowing game
1:24:20
Speaker 29: two of the NLDS for the Padres because his wife
1:24:23
Speaker 29: is about to have their first baby.
1:24:25
Speaker 31: So he's unavailable right now.
1:24:26
Speaker 29: And not to be outdone, you have Max Fried of
1:24:29
Speaker 29: the Yankees.
1:24:29
Speaker 38: His girlfriend could deliver their baby any minute.
1:24:32
Speaker 60: It's been three years since Hamas attacked Israel. 1,200 people killed,
1:24:35
Speaker 60: more than 250 taken hostage. One of the victims, Ita Hen,
1:24:40
Speaker 60: is an American citizen, an Israeli soldier.
1:24:42
Speaker 13: His father, Ruby, told Fox.
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Speaker 39: We have a lot of questions that we did not
1:24:46
Speaker 39: get answers to. Bill, those people that were behind these
1:24:50
Speaker 39: attacks that killed... 46 U.S. citizens and injured, dozens more,
1:24:55
Speaker 39: are still living in five-star hotels in Turkey and Qatar.
1:25:01
Speaker 60: Krista Pike is awake and speaking after surviving two doses
1:25:04
Speaker 60: of a death row execution drug despite her lawyer's warnings
1:25:07
Speaker 60: about problems with her veins. Her attorneys are headed to
1:25:10
Speaker 60: court today to get more information from the Tennessee Department
1:25:13
Speaker 60: of Correction. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995
1:25:16
Speaker 60: beating and stabbing death of her classmate Colleen Slemmer. America's
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Speaker 23: Good morning, I'm Sean Murphy.
1:25:33
Speaker 35: Sunshine today with a high around 65. A developer is
1:25:37
Speaker 35: proposing two buildings, including a data center on Old Amston
1:25:41
Speaker 35: Road in Colchester. Residents have raised concerns about traffic, noise,
1:25:45
Speaker 35: and impacts.
1:25:46
Speaker 7: To the wooded area.
1:25:48
Speaker 35: Westerly's Town Council approved a new five-year contract for town
1:25:51
Speaker 35: manager Sean Lacey. The agreement, beginning in 2027, pays the
1:25:56
Speaker 35: former police chief a base salary of of more than.
1:26:01
Speaker 30: $ 192, 000 annually.
1:26:02
Speaker 35: A civil trial is set to begin over the 2023
1:26:05
Speaker 35: attack that left Rhode Island hospital nurse Scott Amaro seriously injured.
1:26:11
Speaker 35: His attorneys accuse Allied Universal Security Services and two security
1:26:16
Speaker 35: officers of negligence and failing to intervene during the attack.
1:26:21
Speaker 7: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break in.
1:26:27
Speaker 6: Industry that influenced how people thought about life, liberty, and
1:26:31
Speaker 6: the pursuit of happiness.
1:26:33
Speaker 1: With the mantra, there's.
1:26:35
Speaker 23: Always a way. The master, the mogul, the one and only.
1:26:39
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, turn it up,
1:26:43
Speaker 6: and let's welcome the icon himself, Tom.
1:26:46
Speaker 1: Cantone, with Tom's Diss.
1:27:00
Speaker 30: Good morning and welcome to Tom's Take. You know, like
1:27:02
Speaker 30: all of us, we watch the news, and I try
1:27:05
Speaker 30: not to, to be honest, and unplug, but it comes
1:27:08
Speaker 30: at you like a freight train. And you can't avoid
1:27:11
Speaker 30: seeing mothers killing their kids and strangling them to death, murdering.
1:27:17
Speaker 30: I mean, and it just leads me to watch other
1:27:22
Speaker 30: ways in which we kill each other. you know, now
1:27:24
Speaker 30: it's surgical, you know, because it's like a video game
1:27:27
Speaker 30: with bombs dropping and drones, but we're still killing ourselves.
1:27:33
Speaker 30: And it just got me thinking, how cruel are we?
1:27:38
Speaker 30: From the beginning of mankind, you know, this is interesting.
1:27:41
Speaker 30: The third person on earth murdered the fourth person on earth.
1:27:47
Speaker 30: And we were only just minutes old. Think about it.
1:27:51
Speaker 30: Today we murder all the time and it It's taken
1:27:54
Speaker 30: over 4 billion years for us to create our home.
1:27:58
Speaker 30: This is our home. So, you know, I don't know.
1:28:03
Speaker 30: We kill each other 20,000 murders a year in the U.S.
1:28:07
Speaker 30: I think that's crazy. I don't know how many were
1:28:10
Speaker 30: killed in wars since we started figuring out how to
1:28:13
Speaker 30: do that. I've heard over a billion people. A billion people.
1:28:18
Speaker 30: We've taken the lives of mothers and fathers and children,
1:28:21
Speaker 30: sons and daughters, many of them we've never, ever met. Yet,
1:28:26
Speaker 30: you know, we're still a compassionate creature. You know, animals
1:28:32
Speaker 30: don't cry.
1:28:33
Speaker 12: We do.
1:28:34
Speaker 30: Our world has been a place of beauty and incredible achievements,
1:28:38
Speaker 30: acts of kindness. We figured it all out most of
1:28:42
Speaker 30: the time, even how to get to the moon, but
1:28:44
Speaker 30: we haven't figured out quite yet just how to get along.
1:28:49
Speaker 30: And I've been saying that for some time. You know,
1:28:52
Speaker 30: we've advanced technology, but not humanity. We're the only ones
1:28:56
Speaker 30: that kill for pleasure.
1:28:58
Speaker 23: I mean.
1:28:59
Speaker 30: We actually plan it. So, I.
1:29:04
Speaker 6: Don't know.
1:29:05
Speaker 30: We fight over dirt, which I think are countries and
1:29:08
Speaker 30: religion and hate and ideologies. We've spent thousands of years
1:29:15
Speaker 30: how to conquer nations and build weapons and accumulate wealth.
1:29:20
Speaker 30: Maybe now is the time to learn how to just
1:29:22
Speaker 30: care for one another. Let's put some energy into that.
1:29:27
Speaker 30: If you want to be a better world, We must
1:29:30
Speaker 30: first become better people. Well, you know how you do that?
1:29:36
Speaker 30: The power of one. Repeat, repeat, repeat. The power of one.
1:29:42
Speaker 30: I had to repeat that because we're an army of one.
1:29:45
Speaker 30: You can only rely on yourself. If you live your
1:29:50
Speaker 30: life the way you want to be remembered, that's a
1:29:54
Speaker 30: really good start. You know, we're, I don't know. We're aging.
1:30:00
Speaker 30: Time is not our friend. But you can bank all
1:30:04
Speaker 30: the money in the world, but you can't bank time.
1:30:06
Speaker 30: I've always said that. It's our mortal kryptonite. For me,
1:30:11
Speaker 30: I'm in my fourth quarter. So it weakens me. It does.
1:30:18
Speaker 30: And I think it should weaken everyone because this is
1:30:21
Speaker 30: borrowed time. This is no dress rehearsal. You're at the
1:30:24
Speaker 30: star of your own show. Will you get a standing
1:30:28
Speaker 30: O when you leave the stage or booze on your
1:30:32
Speaker 30: way out the door? But no matter who you are,
1:30:36
Speaker 30: you're not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
1:30:40
Speaker 30: My dream? I want a new beat to dance to.
1:30:44
Speaker 30: I'm tired of this same old stuff we see every day,
1:30:48
Speaker 30: you know. And maybe on May 4th, we all dance to,
1:30:53
Speaker 30: you know, are you ready for a brand new beat,
1:30:56
Speaker 30: you know. They'll be dancing in Chicago. I want everyone
1:30:59
Speaker 30: to go into the streets in New Orleans, a chance
1:31:03
Speaker 30: for folks to meet. They'll be laughing and singing and
1:31:06
Speaker 30: music swinging from Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore, and DC. Don't forget
1:31:11
Speaker 30: the Motor City. There'll be music everywhere, singing and dancing,
1:31:16
Speaker 30: and it doesn't matter what you wear just as long
1:31:20
Speaker 30: as you are there. So This is the time is
1:31:24
Speaker 30: right for dancing in the streets to celebrate human kindness
1:31:28
Speaker 30: and just living a good life.
1:31:30
Speaker 24: This is an inspiration across the nation.
1:31:35
Speaker 23: A chance for folks to meet. Every laugh is singing
1:31:39
Speaker 23: and music is swinging.
1:31:41
Speaker 24: Dancing in the street.
1:31:43
Speaker 23: Philadelphia, PA. Dancing in the street.
1:31:52
Speaker 24: Can't forget the motor city All we need is music
1:31:58
Speaker 24: We need music There'll be music everywhere There'll be.
1:32:06
Speaker 23: Swing and wave And records will play.
1:32:41
Speaker 22: Ladies and gentlemen, George Austin here, trying to fill in
1:32:45
Speaker 22: once again for the incomparable Lee Elsie here on 94.9
1:32:49
Speaker 22: News Now and Stimulating Talk. And I got news for you.
1:32:52
Speaker 22: Speaking of news, your host, not me, Lee, is not
1:32:57
Speaker 22: a good singer. He was just trying to sing along
1:32:59
Speaker 22: to that Motown song. And I felt embarrassed for him.
1:33:03
Speaker 22: And I know that he just did an off-the-air. I
1:33:05
Speaker 22: figured I'd embarrass him a little bit further. So that's
1:33:09
Speaker 22: a fun fact. I'm not sure if he's ever tried
1:33:11
Speaker 22: to sing on the air.
1:33:12
Speaker 1: Oh, have you? Well, it was impressive. It was impressive. So, folks,
1:33:17
Speaker 1: here I am once again. You haven't gotten rid.
1:33:19
Speaker 53: Of me yet.
1:33:20
Speaker 22: George Austin, your next representative in Congress, planning to be
1:33:24
Speaker 22: the first homebuilder sent to Congress from eastern Connecticut, hoping
1:33:30
Speaker 22: to be the first— Man under 40 to be sent
1:33:33
Speaker 22: to Congress. The first first-generation American. My family hails from Mexico.
1:33:40
Speaker 22: The first working man, et cetera, et cetera. We need
1:33:43
Speaker 22: a change, folks. We desperately need a change from this
1:33:48
Speaker 22: congressional gridlock, okay? I understand, given my coaching background, you
1:33:53
Speaker 22: want to have– there's a bit of tribalism. Everyone wants
1:33:56
Speaker 22: to win, and I get that. But the problem is
1:33:58
Speaker 22: while everyone up there is trying to win– We're the
1:34:01
Speaker 22: ones who are losing. So it's win-win for them.
1:34:05
Speaker 1: We lose at the end of the day. And that's unacceptable.
1:34:09
Speaker 1: I would actually tell.
1:34:10
Speaker 22: My players that if you're down in the cadence and
1:34:16
Speaker 22: you forget to play because it happens all the time,
1:34:19
Speaker 22: even at the professional level, if you forget to play.
1:34:22
Speaker 22: and you're scared of making a mistake, don't be. Go
1:34:23
Speaker 22: make a big one. Go kick a ref in the shin.
1:34:26
Speaker 22: Just don't stay there doing nothing. The only thing you
1:34:28
Speaker 22: can't do, the only thing that's dangerous is inaction. That's
1:34:31
Speaker 22: the only thing you cannot do, and that is, I
1:34:33
Speaker 22: submit to you, is what's going on. And I'm not
1:34:38
Speaker 22: saying the Republicans are angels.
1:34:42
Speaker 1: We are not innocent of that. We are equally culpable.
1:34:44
Speaker 22: I don't think we're equally culpable, but we are also
1:34:46
Speaker 22: culpable in that, in this congressional gridlock that we see
1:34:52
Speaker 22: I'll say this.
1:34:53
Speaker 1: I'll say this right now. Let's acknowledge something.
1:34:58
Speaker 26: Mr.
1:34:59
Speaker 22: Courtney outperforms almost everyone ever since 2012. He runs ahead
1:35:05
Speaker 22: of presidential candidates, gubernatorial candidates. And, you know, that's something
1:35:12
Speaker 22: to be recognized. There's no question there. But at the
1:35:15
Speaker 22: end of the day, Folks, he was sworn into his
1:35:18
Speaker 22: first office in January of 87, and I was sworn
1:35:21
Speaker 22: into life November of 87. So here's the deal. We
1:35:25
Speaker 22: need a change. We need term limits. I don't know what.
1:35:29
Speaker 22: I've been here. I have blah, blah, blah. I need
1:35:33
Speaker 22: to remember to speak English. I have heard that why
1:35:37
Speaker 22: would we give up seniority on committees? How is that
1:35:41
Speaker 22: seniority helping everyone in the second district?
1:35:44
Speaker 1: How is all this experience helping? helping anybody. And I
1:35:48
Speaker 1: mean that. I seriously mean that.
1:35:50
Speaker 22: Folks, first and foremost, when we're talking about accountability here,
1:35:54
Speaker 22: we need to be cognizant of something that Congress's chief,
1:35:59
Speaker 22: their primary charge.
1:36:02
Speaker 1: Is to wield the power of the purse and to
1:36:06
Speaker 1: pass budgets.
1:36:07
Speaker 22: Never mind balanced budgets, which I think we need a
1:36:10
Speaker 22: constitutional amendment for, but that's And that's kind of beside
1:36:14
Speaker 22: the point. We need to pass budgets anyways. And you
1:36:16
Speaker 22: know why they don't? It's been over three decades since
1:36:20
Speaker 22: the last time that that's occurred. My opponent's been in
1:36:24
Speaker 22: Congress for two of those decades, so more than half
1:36:27
Speaker 22: the time. See, no leadership trying to write that wrong.
1:36:32
Speaker 22: But you know why they don't do it? And I'm
1:36:34
Speaker 22: not even talking about, this is not a partisan, well, no,
1:36:38
Speaker 22: let me rephrase that. It is a partisan problem. But moreover,
1:36:41
Speaker 22: it is a I like to call them swamp monsters.
1:36:43
Speaker 22: They've been down there for so long, entrenched bureaucrats, entrenched politicians.
1:36:48
Speaker 22: It's not in their best interest to show everyone how
1:36:51
Speaker 22: the sausage is made, which is why they don't make
1:36:55
Speaker 22: the sausage. And in this case, if I'm speaking ineloquently, inefficiently,
1:37:01
Speaker 22: the point is making the budgeting process is absolutely the
1:37:05
Speaker 22: sausage making here. I was actually at a candidate forum yesterday.
1:37:12
Speaker 22: in colchester hosted by the aarp and you know what
1:37:17
Speaker 22: guys i'm going to tell you something during my closing
1:37:19
Speaker 22: argument i was uh i was kind of on a
1:37:21
Speaker 22: roll totally had a brain fart lost my train of
1:37:25
Speaker 22: thought and i just kind of sat down uh after
1:37:28
Speaker 22: saying after freezing and everyone sees me have a deer
1:37:31
Speaker 22: in the headlights look i go oh and well may
1:37:33
Speaker 22: god bless america and i sat down i almost i
1:37:35
Speaker 22: mean i jumped into my seat and i got some
1:37:38
Speaker 22: pity applause so that was nice But our next Secretary
1:37:41
Speaker 22: of State, Peter Lumage, actually brought down the House with
1:37:45
Speaker 22: his close, and he made a couple of good points
1:37:48
Speaker 22: that I've made, but he kind of articulated it a
1:37:51
Speaker 22: little better, so I'll give him a shout-out. But essentially,
1:37:55
Speaker 22: he made the point that we have politicians who have
1:37:59
Speaker 22: been in office for multiple decades, and they always need
1:38:01
Speaker 22: just two more years. He did not speak of my opponent.
1:38:04
Speaker 22: He was actually talking about the recently ousted Larsen, saying, yeah,
1:38:08
Speaker 22: I've been in Congress 28 years. Sorry, I couldn't fix this. Sorry,
1:38:12
Speaker 22: I couldn't fix that. Nah, we got more work to do.
1:38:14
Speaker 22: I just need two more years. Or we have King
1:38:18
Speaker 22: Ned in Hartford talking about, yeah, we've been in office
1:38:21
Speaker 22: for eight years, but we're just getting started. Well, getting
1:38:24
Speaker 22: started doing what? uh really i'm serious getting started doing
1:38:29
Speaker 22: what indeed but the incumbent my opponent his uh his
1:38:36
Speaker 22: actual his own words he goes yeah i've been in
1:38:39
Speaker 22: there i've been i've done this and i've done that
1:38:42
Speaker 22: but he's talking about uh and some of the committees
1:38:46
Speaker 22: that he's chaired he goes i've been i've been in
1:38:48
Speaker 22: there for under six different presidential terms and i thought
1:38:50
Speaker 22: and i thought that was very profound six separate presidential
1:38:55
Speaker 22: administrations where are the results where is the accountability i
1:39:02
Speaker 22: ask you where is the accountability for our second district.
1:39:08
Speaker 1: I don't know.
1:39:09
Speaker 22: I don't really have an answer to that question. And again,
1:39:11
Speaker 22: not just him. We're talking about the need for term
1:39:13
Speaker 22: limits up and.
1:39:16
Speaker 1: Down the ballot.
1:39:17
Speaker 22: And this is 100% not... Again, it is not a
1:39:22
Speaker 22: partisan issue, but it is also a partisan issue. But
1:39:24
Speaker 22: I'm trying to address... I'll give you an example, folks.
1:39:27
Speaker 22: We have seven... Oh, no.
1:39:28
Speaker 61: Six.
1:39:29
Speaker 1: Now that Lindsey Graham has passed.
1:39:33
Speaker 30: Six.
1:39:34
Speaker 22: We have six sitting senators right now, both parties... who
1:39:38
Speaker 22: have been in office since before Return of the Jedi
1:39:41
Speaker 22: came out. I want everyone to put that into perspective.
1:39:44
Speaker 22: And I think five of them, if not four, I
1:39:46
Speaker 22: believe it's five, are seeking re-election.
1:39:51
Speaker 1: Guys, I don't know.
1:39:52
Speaker 22: I really, I don't want to speak in platitudes here,
1:39:55
Speaker 22: but what's the goal at that point? I submit to you,
1:40:00
Speaker 22: what is the goal? Why do they keep going?
1:40:02
Speaker 1: To what end? Really? What is their goal? Is it to.
1:40:09
Speaker 4: Really?
1:40:09
Speaker 1: I mean, only one of a couple things can be true.
1:40:13
Speaker 22: Either they're going with the intent of seeking further prestige,
1:40:18
Speaker 22: further position, further salary, add another feather to their hat.
1:40:25
Speaker 1: So that could be a thing.
1:40:27
Speaker 22: Or another thing is they're not going with the goal
1:40:29
Speaker 22: to actually represent their constituents, which that might be the
1:40:32
Speaker 22: same thing now that I say that out loud. Or
1:40:35
Speaker 22: they're simply ineffective.
1:40:37
Speaker 1: They can't.
1:40:38
Speaker 22: Affect change whether they want to or not that's possible
1:40:44
Speaker 22: uh i submit to everyone i wonder what the goal
1:40:47
Speaker 22: is i heard from my opponent directly his words verbatim
1:40:52
Speaker 22: yesterday were when we the democrats take the house and
1:40:57
Speaker 22: i'm telling you if i had a mic i would
1:41:00
Speaker 22: i'm not an interrupting kind of guy i was raised
1:41:03
Speaker 22: i was brought up to respect my elders i So
1:41:05
Speaker 22: I would not have interrupted him on that basis.
1:41:07
Speaker 1: But boy, did I want to say not if I
1:41:09
Speaker 1: had anything to say about it. But I digress.
1:41:12
Speaker 22: He goes, when us Democrats take back the House next year,
1:41:18
Speaker 22: my first goal, my first order of business is to
1:41:20
Speaker 22: chair the CPOWER subcommittee.
1:41:22
Speaker 1: And I want everyone to listen to that.
1:41:24
Speaker 22: That was the goal. Folks, my goal is to serve,
1:41:29
Speaker 22: not to be served. I didn't want to speak in platitudes,
1:41:32
Speaker 22: but I thought that was a very good line. The
1:41:35
Speaker 22: issue is I don't want– I'm telling you guys, I
1:41:37
Speaker 22: don't want to go there. Best case scenario for me,
1:41:40
Speaker 22: on election day, we win in a landslide. I get
1:41:44
Speaker 22: my orientation. I hand off the baton, and I go
1:41:48
Speaker 22: chase something else because I love campaigning, and I'm really,
1:41:50
Speaker 22: really scared about being obligated to actually do this job
1:41:54
Speaker 22: because it does not seem like fun. There's no action,
1:41:57
Speaker 22: like I said earlier. I love campaigning, and I'll tell
1:42:00
Speaker 22: you what. In business– Just like in football and coaching,
1:42:08
Speaker 22: we live by the mantra, you point the thumb before
1:42:10
Speaker 22: you point the finger.
1:42:13
Speaker 1: Okay?
1:42:13
Speaker 22: We always got to do that. So I'm going to
1:42:15
Speaker 22: point the thumb right now, and I'll take accountability for myself,
1:42:19
Speaker 22: even though I'm not elected yet. Folks, I've been arrested
1:42:23
Speaker 22: for OUI, and guess what? I have, it was a
1:42:27
Speaker 22: dark point in my time. Yeah, dark point in my time.
1:42:31
Speaker 22: It was a dark time.
1:42:33
Speaker 1: In my life. Unforgivable, inexcusable, so I won't even try.
1:42:38
Speaker 22: I'm actually very fortunate and very blessed that no one
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Speaker 1: But you know what?
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Speaker 22: was the last drink I ever took.
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Speaker 23: And you know what?
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Speaker 22: And I'm glad because I talk, you know, I'm asked, well,
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Speaker 22: so what do you got in your closet?
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Speaker 1: Or how can you relate to everyone? And I said,
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Speaker 22: And I think mistakes are absolutely fine. In fact, like
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Speaker 22: a mistake. Go make a big one so we can
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Speaker 22: learn from it. But you can't do nothing, okay, which
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Speaker 22: is what Congress is doing. And I want to kind
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Speaker 22: of tie this all together by saying, I make a mistake,
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Speaker 22: I move on, I learn from it, and I do
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Speaker 22: make the promise that I have.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing.
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Speaker 22: If in Congress, why doesn't Congress have the, I don't know,
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Speaker 22: How come Congress doesn't have the gall to actually try
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Speaker 1: It's a question.
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Speaker 22: It's a question that I don't think anyone can answer
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Speaker 22: because if they could have, they would have. But they
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Speaker 22: I'm looking at a list of votes that my opponent
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Speaker 22: has voted against. Now, before I get keyboard warriors and
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Speaker 1: On it, and then it'll all go through. I get that.
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Speaker 22: But just listen to these bills that were voted against.
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Speaker 22: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Eh, voted
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Speaker 22: against that one. Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Eh,
1:44:51
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Speaker 22: against that one. Inflation Reduction Act.
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Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. Actually voted yes. I'm surprised. You
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Speaker 1: know what?
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Speaker 22: I think someone used Skynet to compile this for me.
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Speaker 22: I'm going to have to give someone a talking to.
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Speaker 22: Deporting Fraudsters Act. No, voted against that one. Federal Working
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Speaker 1: This is weird.
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Speaker 22: Bill made non-citizens who assault law enforcement animals deportable. and
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Speaker 22: increased the level of prosecution voted against that one. That's
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Speaker 22: an odd one to vote against. But I submit to
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Speaker 22: everyone that that is exactly what is going on. That
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Speaker 22: is just further evidence of obstructionism. Just yesterday, just yesterday, again,
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Speaker 22: at the forum, Mr. Courtney was pointing at me, glaring
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Speaker 22: at me, yelling about Trump, yelling about the president, orange
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Speaker 22: man bad, fighting Trump. And, you know, I noticed something. Like,
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Speaker 22: any of these people have is just hatred and vitriol
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there was a lot of smack.
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Speaker 22: were witnessing was I submit to everyone elder abuse. You know,
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Speaker 22: I really think that that's what it was. So I
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Speaker 22: had empathy and I had pity on him. And I
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Speaker 22: didn't hate him. I didn't wish death on him. And
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Speaker 22: I don't think most on our side do or have.
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Speaker 22: So just an interesting distinction that we can draw between
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Speaker 22: I heard a story once upon a time. Kind of
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1:46:52
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Speaker 22: So when the mother, when his mother died young, when
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Speaker 22: he was young, like maybe 20, at her funeral, he
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Speaker 22: couldn't shed a tear. He was stone cold, and it
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Speaker 22: bothered him. Father lived to a ripe old age of,
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Speaker 22: I think, 90-something, and when he died, the man was inconsolable,
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Speaker 22: And this is someone who, for all intents and purposes,
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Speaker 22: these were two men who hated each other, these father
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Speaker 1: Here's the point. Here's the takeaway.
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Speaker 22: There was nothing left in his life but hatred for
1:47:54
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1:48:00
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Speaker 22: Again, whether you love him or hate him, whether you
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Speaker 22: like what he does or not, if your entire identity
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Speaker 22: and approach to governance is to just impeach Trump, orange
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Speaker 22: man bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you start
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Speaker 22: from a place of hatred, I'm telling you guys, I
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Speaker 22: don't know how it's possible to govern effectively or to
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Speaker 22: really carry out and execute the charge of your office,
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Speaker 22: which is to serve your constituents. If all you want
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Speaker 22: to do is dunk on the other side and all
1:48:32
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1:48:35
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1:48:39
Speaker 22: tend to lose down here and that's got to change folks.
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Speaker 22: And that's what I'm trying to do. That's what I'm trying.
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Speaker 22: That's the change. That's the perspective I'm trying to bring
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1:48:50
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1:48:55
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Speaker 31: Okay.
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2:00:08
Speaker 35: data center on Old Amston Road in Colchester. Residents have
2:00:13
Speaker 35: raised concerns about traffic, noise, and impacts to the wooded area.
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Speaker 35: A Naugatuck man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly sexually
2:00:21
Speaker 35: assaulting an underage girl over seven years in Norwich and Lisbon.
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Speaker 35: 27-year-old Kamari Brown Davis was charged with three counts each
2:00:31
Speaker 35: of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a
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Speaker 35: minor and was held on $ 200, 000 bond. New London has
2:00:39
Speaker 35: approved a one-year, $ 120, 000 contract with longtime Ocean Beach Park
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Speaker 35: manager Dave Sugru. He will help oversee the park's transition
2:00:49
Speaker 35: following the end of the city's contract with Sodexo Live.
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Speaker 35: Westerly's Town Council approved a new five-year contract for town
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Speaker 35: manager Sean Lacey. The agreement, beginning in 2027, pays the
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Speaker 35: former police chief a base salary of more than $ 192, 000 annually.
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Speaker 35: A civil trial is set to begin over the 2023
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Speaker 35: attack that left Rhode Island hospital nurse Scott Amaro seriously injured.
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Speaker 35: His attorneys accuse Allied Universal Security Services and two security
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Speaker 35: officers of negligence and failing to intervene during the attack.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, southeastern Connecticut. I'm Leo Ficini, and I'm filling
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Speaker 9: Freedom 94.9. I'd like to welcome you all to the show,
2:03:14
Speaker 9: and happy to be here. Now, I thought this morning
2:03:23
Speaker 9: I was gonna start in with my take on the
2:03:26
Speaker 9: Trump derangement syndrome that prevails the state of Connecticut, especially
2:03:31
Speaker 9: because it's a blue state, but I see that none
2:03:34
Speaker 9: of the local papers had the grit to notice that
2:03:38
Speaker 9: today's the third anniversary of the terror attacks on Israel
2:03:42
Speaker 9: and the heinous acts perpetrated by Hamas. And I want
2:03:47
Speaker 9: to make a differentiation now. This is not a commendation
2:03:51
Speaker 9: of the Arab people or Muslim people. This is a
2:03:55
Speaker 9: rogue group of lunatics that perpetrated just terrible atrocities on
2:04:03
Speaker 9: these areas. I think 1,500 they got in the first wave,
2:04:06
Speaker 9: you know, And then Israel responded in kind and made
2:04:15
Speaker 9: a mass attack. And you know what? I think if
2:04:18
Speaker 9: it wasn't for Trump pulling the reins back on Netanyahu,
2:04:23
Speaker 9: they would have leveled the Gaza Strip and what is
2:04:28
Speaker 9: Palestine into dust. And you know what? If you read
2:04:34
Speaker 9: any of the accounts of what happened, I think you'd
2:04:38
Speaker 9: would see that they're justified. And, you know, people are
2:04:41
Speaker 9: going to say, well, two wrongs don't make a right.
2:04:44
Speaker 9: I think it says in the Bible for our religious friends,
2:04:47
Speaker 9: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
2:04:50
Speaker 9: So I think that, you know, they would have been
2:04:51
Speaker 9: justified no matter what. And again, and I've spoken about
2:04:55
Speaker 9: this on a show before, I refer to it as
2:04:59
Speaker 9: Jew bashing. I'll say it, hatred for the Jews in
2:05:06
Speaker 9: this country. is just ridiculous. And for a guy like
2:05:12
Speaker 9: Mondani to get elected in New York City, where there's
2:05:15
Speaker 9: a huge Jewish population, is a slap in the face
2:05:20
Speaker 9: to any person of Jewish heritage and a slap in
2:05:23
Speaker 9: the face to America and freedom. Just ridiculous. Their ideology
2:05:32
Speaker 9: is completely diametric from what we have as an ideology
2:05:35
Speaker 9: in this country and that is freedom and liberty in
2:05:41
Speaker 9: the pursuit of happiness. Just terrible. So, you know, sometime
2:05:47
Speaker 9: during the day, maybe make a quiet reflection on those
2:05:50
Speaker 9: poor souls that were murdered, raped, tortured, and killed. I
2:05:57
Speaker 9: think one of the articles said this morning, they found,
2:05:59
Speaker 9: the Israelis found 300 miles of tunnels under Gaza. I
2:06:04
Speaker 9: don't understand that. The time and effort it would take
2:06:07
Speaker 9: to do that, and for what? No good purpose, that's
2:06:12
Speaker 9: for sure. I mean, it's not like they'd be, you know,
2:06:16
Speaker 9: nuclear blast proof or anything like that. Solely for surreptitious purposes.
2:06:25
Speaker 9: And I don't think we can stand up and say
2:06:29
Speaker 9: enough about this. Just terrible. A terrible day, and you
2:06:35
Speaker 9: know what? Again, Netanyahu showed a little bit more restraint
2:06:42
Speaker 9: than other people would have if they'd been in the
2:06:44
Speaker 9: same situation. Now, let's get on to our dear President
2:06:47
Speaker 9: Donald Trump. First of all, let me regress. I wanted
2:06:55
Speaker 9: to give a shout-out to all my friends down at
2:06:57
Speaker 9: Muddy Waters and in the London Board of Education. I
2:07:01
Speaker 9: know they love me, and I love them. And you
2:07:04
Speaker 9: know what? All I can say is for duty and humanity.
2:07:09
Speaker 9: Like Willie Nelson said, this one's to all my buddies
2:07:13
Speaker 9: down at Muddy's. So now don't choke on your mocha
2:07:18
Speaker 9: latte camel milk frappies down there this morning. So let's
2:07:26
Speaker 9: talk about Donald Trump. TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Speaker 8: You know what?
2:07:32
Speaker 9: I don't think Trump is any more of a despot
2:07:36
Speaker 9: or rascal, or whatever term you want to use, let's
2:07:39
Speaker 9: go down the list. JFK, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Nixon, George W. Bush,
2:07:53
Speaker 9: Slick Willie, and then Obama. Now, we can't include Joe
2:07:59
Speaker 9: Biden in there, because you know what? Joe Biden, and
2:08:02
Speaker 9: I think our last speaker, our last guest, referred to
2:08:09
Speaker 9: him as, people felt sorry for him, because he was
2:08:12
Speaker 9: probably a step, just two steps behind a parade. And
2:08:15
Speaker 9: you know, you had to have some empathy for the guy.
2:08:18
Speaker 9: I mean, he had that vacant look, that when he was,
2:08:20
Speaker 9: I don't know, in Panama or maybe somewhere in Central America,
2:08:26
Speaker 9: South America, and he walked off and almost took a
2:08:30
Speaker 9: walk into the woods. And they had to get him
2:08:32
Speaker 9: and bring him back, you know. And that was another
2:08:35
Speaker 9: prop-up job. The Democrats have been very good at that,
2:08:38
Speaker 9: where they get somebody that, if the person's not strong,
2:08:42
Speaker 9: they put them in. And that's not only with national politics,
2:08:45
Speaker 9: but even local politics. I can think of a few
2:08:48
Speaker 9: people that were the There was nobody in the seat.
2:08:52
Speaker 9: They get somebody, they put them in there, they prop
2:08:54
Speaker 9: them up. And you know what? It doesn't matter how
2:08:59
Speaker 9: competent or incompetent they are. The Democrats have such a
2:09:03
Speaker 9: foothold that they were able to support them. But again,
2:09:08
Speaker 9: back to Trump. I've said this on the show a
2:09:10
Speaker 9: number of times. Trump's not a politician. He's a bottom
2:09:17
Speaker 9: line guy. He takes calculated risks. And does anybody that
2:09:25
Speaker 9: takes a calculated risk, sometimes they're going to miss the mark. Well,
2:09:32
Speaker 9: you know, does he pack up his marble bag and
2:09:35
Speaker 9: go home? Apparently not, because, you know, I know if
2:09:40
Speaker 9: you listen to any of the Karens out there that
2:09:43
Speaker 9: complain about Trump and say, well, you know, Trump's this,
2:09:46
Speaker 9: he's that, he's that, he's this, And how many failed
2:09:49
Speaker 9: businesses he's had.
2:09:51
Speaker 23: Okay.
2:09:53
Speaker 9: Tried and lost. Dusted himself up.
2:09:56
Speaker 29: Off.
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Speaker 9: Got up. And went right back at it. And you know,
2:10:00
Speaker 9: at the end of the day, I know he's got
2:10:02
Speaker 9: a lot more money than you and I do. So
2:10:05
Speaker 9: he must have a formula, must be able to do
2:10:08
Speaker 9: something right. And I think that to malign the guy,
2:10:14
Speaker 9: because he looks at things in a business model that
2:10:18
Speaker 9: and doesn't want to play nice in the sandbox, I
2:10:21
Speaker 9: don't think you can criticize him. He's done some good
2:10:24
Speaker 9: things for our country. And right away, I'm sure people
2:10:30
Speaker 9: will say, well, you know, diesel's over $ 6 a gallon,
2:10:35
Speaker 9: gas is sky high. All right, it is. But I
2:10:40
Speaker 9: don't think people understand the threat of giving a rogue
2:10:46
Speaker 9: nation like these mullahs in Iran, the capabilities of having
2:10:52
Speaker 9: a nuclear weapon. You know, I don't know if you've
2:10:57
Speaker 9: seen any of the tests they did when we were
2:10:59
Speaker 9: formulating our nuclear weapons on some of these atolls in
2:11:03
Speaker 9: the Pacific or even look at some of the video
2:11:06
Speaker 9: footage of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2:11:12
Speaker 9: Total devastation doesn't even come close to describing the damage
2:11:17
Speaker 9: that these bombs can do First of all, they were
2:11:20
Speaker 9: exploded not on the ground, but they exploded overhead. And
2:11:26
Speaker 9: the blast of heat is enough to vaporize humans and
2:11:32
Speaker 9: some solid substances. In fact, there's an exhibit in Japan
2:11:41
Speaker 9: called the Shadow People. And what it is is it's
2:11:46
Speaker 9: the silhouettes of people that were vaporized It created like
2:11:50
Speaker 9: a shadow, a negative, on brick and concrete structures. So,
2:11:58
Speaker 9: you know, we're not trying to use a scare tactic, but,
2:12:02
Speaker 9: you know, it's like, well, why shouldn't little kids play
2:12:05
Speaker 9: with guns? Well, because they're dangerous and they're little kids. Well,
2:12:10
Speaker 9: some people shouldn't have the capability of nuclear weapons. In
2:12:13
Speaker 9: this case, our friends in Iran.
2:12:18
Speaker 9: Would be a perfect example of that. And again, we're
2:12:21
Speaker 9: not just singling them out, but they're the ones we're
2:12:24
Speaker 9: dealing with. Now, as far as Trump's claims, well, we're
2:12:30
Speaker 9: going to end the war in a month. We're going
2:12:32
Speaker 9: to end the war in two months. The war will
2:12:34
Speaker 9: be over soon. Realistically speaking, the war could be over
2:12:39
Speaker 9: in a month. But the death toll on noncombatants, nonmilitary people,
2:12:47
Speaker 9: would be extreme. But again, if you go out and
2:12:52
Speaker 9: pick a fight with somebody, don't expect that there's not
2:12:56
Speaker 9: going to be some kind of retribution. And in this
2:12:59
Speaker 9: particular case, you know, the U.S. winds up looking like
2:13:03
Speaker 9: a bully no matter what we do. It's like a
2:13:06
Speaker 9: schoolyard bully. A schoolyard bully will pick on a weaker,
2:13:10
Speaker 9: smaller kid, and then one day he picks on somebody
2:13:14
Speaker 9: that he thinks is weaker and smaller, And then winds
2:13:19
Speaker 9: up making a check with his mouth he can't cash
2:13:21
Speaker 9: with his body. So I think that this approach that
2:13:29
Speaker 9: Trump uses, he's brash, he's bold, he's bombastic. But if
2:13:35
Speaker 9: we look at the choice, if you think that Kamala
2:13:39
Speaker 9: Harris and Tim Walz would have been better, I think—
2:13:45
Speaker 9: Tim Walz now is going underground like a hedgehog who's hibernating.
2:13:55
Speaker 9: They came after him. I think some people in his
2:13:58
Speaker 9: own party, you know? And certainly, anytime Kamala Harris spoke,
2:14:06
Speaker 9: you were thinking, this person was the vice president and
2:14:10
Speaker 9: now is running for president? I don't understand... how anybody
2:14:20
Speaker 9: could have thought that she would have been able to
2:14:23
Speaker 9: lead our great country. You know, I think you can
2:14:31
Speaker 9: make an analogy with Trump, too. You know, growing up,
2:14:35
Speaker 9: our parents all said things to us that we didn't like.
2:14:38
Speaker 9: You can't do this. You can't go here. You can't
2:14:40
Speaker 9: hang out with this person. You can't do this and that.
2:14:44
Speaker 9: And you know what? We may have cursed them under
2:14:48
Speaker 9: our breath. We may have stomped our feet, held our breath,
2:14:52
Speaker 9: maybe threatened to run away and join the circus. But
2:14:55
Speaker 9: you know what? At the end of the day, they're
2:14:57
Speaker 9: still your parents, and you've got to respect them. In
2:15:03
Speaker 9: this great country of ours, due to the fact that
2:15:06
Speaker 9: we have such latitude and wide-ranging liberties, we can come
2:15:13
Speaker 9: out and call out the president and not only— dissent
2:15:16
Speaker 9: with him, but also, you know, clap when he's almost assassinated,
2:15:24
Speaker 9: cheer on the fact that people are trying to kill him.
2:15:27
Speaker 9: And that's just wrong. I don't think the guy takes
2:15:30
Speaker 9: a salary for what he's doing. Not that he needs it.
2:15:33
Speaker 9: And you know what? At 80 years old, he doesn't
2:15:37
Speaker 9: need to try to lead our great nation back to
2:15:41
Speaker 9: the top, back to the pinnacle where it should be.
2:15:44
Speaker 9: But he chooses to do so And I think the
2:15:47
Speaker 9: fact that he's constantly dogged, constantly dogged by frivolous lawsuits,
2:15:57
Speaker 9: claims of misdeeds, misgiving. And I'm going to say this, and,
2:16:01
Speaker 9: you know, people may take offense at this. This whole
2:16:05
Speaker 9: Epstein thing. Let me tell you what. Epstein's dead. Why
2:16:09
Speaker 9: are we wasting time? And you're going to say, well,
2:16:11
Speaker 9: you know, those girls, those kids. Guess what? Somebody had
2:16:17
Speaker 9: to account for those kids. And maybe their own parents
2:16:22
Speaker 9: or maybe some guardians, if they were throwaway children or
2:16:25
Speaker 9: runaway children, that's a different subject, a different story. But
2:16:29
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what. What happened on Epstein's Island wasn't
2:16:33
Speaker 9: Trump's fault. And I would say if there was something,
2:16:37
Speaker 9: if they had Trump dirty on that, it would have
2:16:39
Speaker 9: come out long before now. Was he there? I think
2:16:44
Speaker 9: he was until he realized that Epstein was a no-good, Nick.
2:16:47
Speaker 9: And then what did he do? He banned him from Miralago,
2:16:51
Speaker 9: his place in Florida, and he became a persona non grata. And,
2:16:56
Speaker 9: you know, there are a myriad of other things. Oh,
2:16:59
Speaker 9: Trump did this. He didn't do that. Guess what? I think,
2:17:06
Speaker 9: you know, we'll never get ahead if we do not
2:17:10
Speaker 9: allow some of this stuff to dissipate. No, let me see.
2:17:31
Speaker 9: As far as the Jews go.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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2:17:41
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Speaker 9: President of Student Affairs at Mount St. Mary College. Um,
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Speaker 9: I want to say this. You know, I was talking
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Speaker 9: to one of my friends the other day. He lives
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Speaker 9: in Washington, D.C., Professor Sulkey. And he brought up the
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Speaker 9: conundrum of these e-bikes, ATVs, and mopeds. And they become
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Speaker 9: the bane of society. You know, we're switching gears, shifting
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Speaker 9: gears a little bit. And there was an incident in
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Speaker 9: New London, unfortunately, where a kid ran... head on into
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Speaker 9: a truck, and moped versus truck, the moped's never going
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Speaker 9: to win, unfortunate as it was. But I turned onto
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Speaker 9: Boston Post Road Saturday morning at about 6.30, and a
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Speaker 9: kid on an e-bike in the middle of the road.
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Speaker 9: How he didn't run into my car, I don't know.
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Speaker 9: But I'm going to tell you something. The poor police
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Speaker 9: are overtaxed, overworked, underpaid as it is, and now they've
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Speaker 9: got to put up with this foolishness. These e-bikes ought
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Speaker 9: to be regulated by the Department of Motor Vehicles. They're
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Speaker 9: motorized vehicles. I mean, to put them in the hands
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Speaker 9: of kids who aren't 16, and even the ones that
2:32:40
Speaker 9: are 16, is doing a disservice to the kid and
2:32:45
Speaker 9: the public. And I really.
2:32:50
Speaker 9: Was concerned about that. It's become a public menace. A
2:32:55
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Speaker 9: East Hampton Dan, has to say. Dan, welcome aboard.
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Speaker 8: First of all, am I clear as a bell or what?
2:33:10
Speaker 9: Clear as a bell.
2:33:11
Speaker 8: Love it.
2:33:11
Speaker 9: I was going to call my cousin, Guglielmo Marconi, and
2:33:15
Speaker 9: have him get the wireless they used on the Titanic,
2:33:17
Speaker 9: but we won't need that now.
2:33:19
Speaker 8: I got a hard dress down from A.I. Annie yesterday
2:33:23
Speaker 8: over my flip phone. Listen, I wanted to say, Coach,
2:33:28
Speaker 8: first of all, I'm with you on the Trump support,
2:33:34
Speaker 8: although I have a different angle on it. What won
2:33:37
Speaker 8: me over to him was a speech that he made.
2:33:41
Speaker 8: It must have been in 2015 or so. And he
2:33:46
Speaker 8: just sort of got off the airplane on one of these, like,
2:33:49
Speaker 8: whirlwind tours he was doing and stood, like, in front
2:33:51
Speaker 8: of the airplane at a layover stop to deliver a
2:33:56
Speaker 8: political speech, you know. And what he was talking about
2:34:00
Speaker 8: was the government media complex and the government medical complex
2:34:06
Speaker 8: and the government military industrial complex. So he started to
2:34:10
Speaker 8: frame problems in the United States in terms that I
2:34:14
Speaker 8: agree with. I think the government's got to get out
2:34:16
Speaker 8: of all of that stuff. And that made me sit
2:34:19
Speaker 8: up and take notice of him back when I thought
2:34:22
Speaker 8: he was just sort of clowning as a presidential run.
2:34:28
Speaker 8: And then in the Hillary debate, when he looked like
2:34:32
Speaker 8: he was dead and buried because of that whole Access
2:34:35
Speaker 8: Hollywood thing, and she was just doing a victory dance
2:34:39
Speaker 8: on his head, when he bent down to the microphone
2:34:42
Speaker 8: and told her that she would be in jail... if
2:34:46
Speaker 8: he had been president, he proved himself to me to
2:34:50
Speaker 8: be a fighter. First, he showed that he had a
2:34:53
Speaker 8: great understanding of some of the problems that I think
2:34:55
Speaker 8: exist in the country that are under the surface. Next,
2:34:59
Speaker 8: he showed he wasn't going to lay down, and that
2:35:01
Speaker 8: was very important to me because I am so tired
2:35:03
Speaker 8: of Republicans that roll over for Democrats everywhere you look.
2:35:07
Speaker 8: It just makes me crazy. And just recently— Now, to
2:35:13
Speaker 8: be fair, he loses me on the Gulf of America
2:35:17
Speaker 8: and Lake America instead of Lake Ontario and some of
2:35:20
Speaker 8: the dumb things he says and taking the credit, and
2:35:23
Speaker 8: I realize that he's trolling and stuff, and I think
2:35:26
Speaker 8: there's a certain debasement that he's brought.
2:35:28
Speaker 62: To the office.
2:35:32
Speaker 8: I accept that critique of him. I believe that. I'm
2:35:37
Speaker 8: with people when it comes to that. But And recently
2:35:42
Speaker 8: he made a speech at the U.N., which was just
2:35:44
Speaker 8: a few days ago, a week ago maybe, where he
2:35:48
Speaker 8: talked about there is no global government, and we're not
2:35:52
Speaker 8: going to bow to a global government, and we're not
2:35:54
Speaker 8: going to let our troops be tried in front of
2:35:56
Speaker 8: global tribunals. And when he made that speech, he showed
2:36:01
Speaker 8: once again– that he has a grip on something politically
2:36:05
Speaker 8: that I very, very much agree with, which is that globalism,
2:36:09
Speaker 8: this idea of global, you know, that we're all going
2:36:11
Speaker 8: to live in one border-free, kumbaya, globalist, basically Chinese communist tyranny,
2:36:19
Speaker 8: is not okay with me, right? I'm an America First guy, Coach,
2:36:24
Speaker 8: like you. I think you're an America First guy. Why
2:36:27
Speaker 8: would anybody have any other position than that? Can you
2:36:29
Speaker 8: imagine that?
2:36:30
Speaker 9: I think what happens is any time we do something,
2:36:33
Speaker 9: we're the bad guy. If we're right, we're wrong. If
2:36:36
Speaker 9: we're wrong, we're wrong. And you know something? You said
2:36:40
Speaker 9: that when he won you over because he had an
2:36:43
Speaker 9: idea about the military and the other two— Yeah.
2:36:49
Speaker 8: The media and the medical-industrial conflict, basically. The government is
2:36:54
Speaker 8: tangled into all these things it shouldn't be in, right?
2:36:56
Speaker 9: He's a businessman, and that's why I think it gives
2:36:58
Speaker 9: him a clear view— a more clear perspective of what
2:37:04
Speaker 9: we should be involved in and what we shouldn't be
2:37:07
Speaker 9: involved in. And I think that that's why he comes
2:37:11
Speaker 9: out and says that stuff.
2:37:12
Speaker 8: Like education. I mean, you talk about education all the time, Coach.
2:37:17
Speaker 8: You and I, believe it or not, even though we
2:37:19
Speaker 8: disagree on quite a few things when it comes to education,
2:37:22
Speaker 8: the one thing that we agree on, I think, is
2:37:24
Speaker 8: that the government's got to get their hands out of it.
2:37:27
Speaker 8: I mean, it's just a mess. Everything they touch is turnstile.
2:37:31
Speaker 8: And I won't fill in the rest of the blank,
2:37:33
Speaker 8: but there's a great lesson from Trump, I think, for
2:37:36
Speaker 8: Connecticut politicians. You know, and I think everybody should take
2:37:40
Speaker 8: note of this. For a long time, the Republicans and
2:37:44
Speaker 8: the Democrats, the established parties, were debating on abortion. This
2:37:49
Speaker 8: is just to use it as an example, okay? They
2:37:52
Speaker 8: would debate on abortion, and the left had to pretend
2:37:56
Speaker 8: that it wasn't for aborting children after they were born,
2:37:59
Speaker 8: even though they are. And the right had to pretend
2:38:02
Speaker 8: that they were okay with abortion, even though maybe they weren't.
2:38:06
Speaker 8: And forever.
2:38:09
Speaker 8: People have been trying to find that sweet middle ground
2:38:12
Speaker 8: spot to win over independents. And, you know, a few
2:38:15
Speaker 8: years in a row, the Democrats would win the centrists.
2:38:18
Speaker 8: And a few years in a row, the Republicans would
2:38:21
Speaker 8: win the centrists, you know. And you got basically centrist moderates.
2:38:25
Speaker 8: But the large portion, you know, I think Trump won.
2:38:30
Speaker 8: by going to the right on abortion instead of going
2:38:35
Speaker 8: to the middle. At the point in the debate process
2:38:38
Speaker 8: in his first election time, he went hard pro-life. That
2:38:43
Speaker 8: is like an unheard of. That's like the third rail
2:38:45
Speaker 8: for politics. Now, he's in office today, I believe, because
2:38:49
Speaker 8: he reached a group of people that is always forgotten. Now,
2:38:53
Speaker 8: Connecticut is huge independent states. population there. They will not
2:38:58
Speaker 8: be Democrats. They will not be Republicans. And I believe
2:39:01
Speaker 8: the mistake politically is to think that the majority of
2:39:05
Speaker 8: those independent people are lying between the ideology of the
2:39:09
Speaker 8: Republican Party and the ideology of the Democrat Party in Connecticut.
2:39:14
Speaker 8: But those ideologies in Connecticut between the Republican and Democrat
2:39:19
Speaker 8: Party are Coach, are tighter than a crab's rear end.
2:39:23
Speaker 8: You couldn't slide a dollar bill in sideways between those
2:39:25
Speaker 8: two ideologies. In fact, you can hardly tell the difference
2:39:29
Speaker 8: between Republicans and Democrats in Connecticut. And I think the
2:39:33
Speaker 8: reason why something like 30 percent of the population is
2:39:36
Speaker 8: independent is because they can't stand that ideology. Politicians have
2:39:41
Speaker 8: to find a place outside of that uniparty if they're
2:39:46
Speaker 8: going to find a place to win, I think.
2:39:49
Speaker 9: Well, I think that the Republicans, a lot of them,
2:39:53
Speaker 9: and this alludes a little bit to what I was
2:39:56
Speaker 9: talking about, alludes to the Republicans are more liberal, left-leaning
2:40:06
Speaker 9: liberal than they are conservative. You know, I don't know
2:40:09
Speaker 9: if we have a lot of hardliners. And maybe it's
2:40:12
Speaker 9: virtue of the fact, you know, that there are so
2:40:17
Speaker 9: many Democrats in the state. You know, I think there's
2:40:21
Speaker 9: a silent majority out there, though. I think the silent majority,
2:40:26
Speaker 9: who maybe are afraid of being bashed because of their
2:40:30
Speaker 9: pro-life views and their right-wing views, don't say anything. But
2:40:34
Speaker 9: those are the people I believe that helped get Trump elected.
2:40:37
Speaker 8: Coach, I mean, you get your car keyed or lit
2:40:41
Speaker 8: on fire. You get your house burned down or your
2:40:46
Speaker 8: lawn signs. You get attacked. You get— I mean— The fact
2:40:50
Speaker 8: that there's a silent majority was just proven in the
2:40:53
Speaker 8: 2024 election.
2:40:54
Speaker 29: Yeah.
2:40:55
Speaker 8: I mean, Trump trounced Kamala. And people hated Trump, like hated,
2:41:00
Speaker 8: hated him beyond what you could ever measure. You talked
2:41:04
Speaker 8: about the TDS syndrome. And, you know, you've got people
2:41:08
Speaker 8: in politics who they say, you know, on a scale
2:41:10
Speaker 8: of 1 to 10, what's your TDS index? And they
2:41:13
Speaker 8: say 12.
2:41:14
Speaker 36: Oh, yeah.
2:41:15
Speaker 8: They can't do anything except sue the guy and, you know,
2:41:19
Speaker 8: block ICE and block law enforcement. And who the hell's
2:41:23
Speaker 8: team are these people on? And then when it comes
2:41:26
Speaker 8: to the polls, you know, the guy gets 80 million votes.
2:41:30
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, I got Reid on Torrington on line two,
2:41:33
Speaker 9: so I got to let you go. But thanks for
2:41:36
Speaker 9: calling in. And you know what? A vote for America
2:41:40
Speaker 9: is a vote for the voice of freedom.
2:41:46
Speaker 22: Coach, can you hear me?
2:41:47
Speaker 39: Hey, Reed.
2:41:48
Speaker 9: How are things up in Torrington?
2:41:48
Speaker 36: Good morning, my friend.
2:41:49
Speaker 9: Did you get any frost up there in Torrington?
2:41:52
Speaker 61: I'm sorry, my friend. I can hardly hear you.
2:41:54
Speaker 9: Did you get any? Is there something that can be
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Speaker 9: done here for us to hear each other? I've got
2:41:59
Speaker 9: Alexander Graham Bell just adjusted the phone lines.
2:42:03
Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
2:42:03
Speaker 9: Thank you, Alex.
2:42:05
Speaker 12: You're doing a fine job, and I'm glad you have
2:42:09
Speaker 12: the combination of comfort and coulions.
2:42:13
Speaker 61: To come on the air and be a rock-solid host.
2:42:15
Speaker 61: You're really good, and I like the songs you're picking, too.
2:42:17
Speaker 9: I appreciate that.
2:42:20
Speaker 65: You know, and you're in.
2:42:21
Speaker 61: A unique position education-wise, as Dan just pointed out. I think,
2:42:28
Speaker 61: and if I'm repeating a point, I apologize for... What
2:42:32
Speaker 61: has been accomplished on the left has been completely dependent
2:42:36
Speaker 61: upon destroying our schools, because we've got a whole new
2:42:41
Speaker 61: several generations of fresh out of the factory ignoramuses who
2:42:48
Speaker 61: can't think. And we would not be in the wretched
2:42:51
Speaker 61: condition we are in without that coming from the education sector.
2:42:56
Speaker 61: They have made that possible. That is the fertilizer that
2:43:00
Speaker 61: of America's modern intellect. And it is a very sad thing.
2:43:05
Speaker 61: And it is so fundamental that I don't see how
2:43:09
Speaker 61: we beat it. And if you look at what's going
2:43:11
Speaker 61: on right now in Germany, Spain, and France, and the
2:43:17
Speaker 61: combination of immigration, deterioration of the schools, et cetera, I
2:43:23
Speaker 61: am old enough and well-traveled enough to remember when if
2:43:27
Speaker 61: you went to Europe, you went to any of those countries,
2:43:32
Speaker 61: you would lose an argument almost every time, whether you
2:43:36
Speaker 61: were talking about St. Augustine or Geoffrey Chaucer or whatever.
2:43:41
Speaker 61: That's how well-educated the Brits, the French– I mean, it
2:43:46
Speaker 61: was unbelievable. You could be fresh from a difficult class
2:43:51
Speaker 61: in philosophy– And you start talking to these European kids
2:43:55
Speaker 61: and they run circles around you. Today, they are dumb
2:43:58
Speaker 61: as posts. And all these countries, especially France, you look
2:44:03
Speaker 61: at what's going on in France right this minute, are
2:44:06
Speaker 61: being taken over without a shot fired. Yeah, there's plenty
2:44:10
Speaker 61: of riots and so forth. But really, it's just the
2:44:13
Speaker 61: fact that they opened their borders. And I really am
2:44:16
Speaker 61: glad that you are showing the confidence to stick up
2:44:20
Speaker 61: for Europe. Trump having a little bit of that Bronx
2:44:23
Speaker 61: deli in him, even though he's from Queens, and I'm
2:44:27
Speaker 61: talking about a Bronx deli before people even knew or
2:44:30
Speaker 61: ever heard the word bodega.
2:44:34
Speaker 65: We need that.
2:44:35
Speaker 61: We need to get back to those comfortable roots of
2:44:38
Speaker 61: who we are as a culture, which we have given away,
2:44:44
Speaker 61: and that is really more detrimental than anything else we
2:44:46
Speaker 61: have given away. And you look at the continent right now,
2:44:50
Speaker 61: that's what you're going to get the minute the Senate
2:44:54
Speaker 61: and the House go the wrong way. And it's going
2:44:57
Speaker 61: to be every day. I don't think people have a
2:44:59
Speaker 61: good memory in general about anything. But we just had
2:45:03
Speaker 61: every day, day after day after day, Trump impeachment, Trump investigations.
2:45:09
Speaker 61: You know, it brings the country to a point of standstill.
2:45:14
Speaker 61: It's not just gridlock. It's way worse than that.
2:45:16
Speaker 8: I'm rambling.
2:45:17
Speaker 31: I apologize.
2:45:17
Speaker 9: Listen, Reid, you're spot on with what you're saying. In
2:45:22
Speaker 9: terms of education, we're putting out a poor product because
2:45:25
Speaker 9: we're trying to do too much for too many. We
2:45:29
Speaker 9: need to get back to the basics, back to teaching, reading, writing, mathematics, history, science.
2:45:38
Speaker 61: That's a question of tyranny of the lawyers, too, because
2:45:41
Speaker 61: it's the same thing.
2:45:42
Speaker 8: You get into.
2:45:44
Speaker 61: You have to have 70 different languages represented in New
2:45:48
Speaker 61: York City, for example, in the schools.
2:45:50
Speaker 8: That's ridiculous.
2:45:52
Speaker 61: That's obviously designed to turn everything into Karo syrup and
2:45:56
Speaker 61: the crankcase and just shut it down. That's not meant
2:45:58
Speaker 61: to be pro-education.
2:46:00
Speaker 9: Our area down here, there's a lot of Italians down here.
2:46:03
Speaker 9: My grandparents, you know, they came from Fano.
2:46:08
Speaker 61: They don't have to have things set in Italian for them?
2:46:10
Speaker 39: No.
2:46:11
Speaker 9: They learned, and you know what? They were none the
2:46:14
Speaker 9: worse off for it. So, hey, I've got our buddy
2:46:17
Speaker 9: Dan from Old Lime. I've got to get to. But, Reed,
2:46:21
Speaker 9: thanks for calling in. And, again, a voice, the voice
2:46:25
Speaker 9: of freedom appreciates you and all the callers out there. Dan,
2:46:30
Speaker 9: are you there?
2:46:32
Speaker 8: I'm here.
2:46:33
Speaker 53: And thanks for the appreciation.
2:46:37
Speaker 8: I got in that. I'm actually calling.
2:46:44
Speaker 9: I think we might have lost you, Dan. I was
2:46:47
Speaker 9: going to actually ask you about the sewer situation out
2:46:50
Speaker 9: there in Old Lyme. And I've got some friends that
2:46:55
Speaker 9: live out there and they're, despite the amount of money
2:46:57
Speaker 9: they've got to pay, they're thinking it might be good
2:47:00
Speaker 9: because when you've got septic systems and leaching fields, eventually
2:47:05
Speaker 9: that stuff leaches out into the sound and we've got
2:47:08
Speaker 9: a eutrophic condition that is a.
2:47:13
Speaker 37: Algae.
2:47:14
Speaker 9: algae buildup that's not good for the lobsters or not
2:47:17
Speaker 9: good for any of the aquatic life there. Jan, are
2:47:23
Speaker 9: you there?
2:47:24
Speaker 61: I am.
2:47:25
Speaker 66: I'm here.
2:47:25
Speaker 45: Good morning, Coach.
2:47:26
Speaker 9: Good morning.
2:47:29
Speaker 66: You know, listening to your opening monologue on what's going
2:47:33
Speaker 66: on in France, I thought I'd just bring some statistics
2:47:36
Speaker 66: that I think will.
2:47:39
Speaker 45: Really back up.
2:47:39
Speaker 66: What you're saying. Okay, so the demonstrations are by kids
2:47:46
Speaker 66: high school, what we would call high school and under
2:47:49
Speaker 66: pretty much. And they are they're complaining about their schools
2:47:54
Speaker 66: and etc. Now they have since 2008 250,000 more students,
2:47:57
Speaker 66: but they have fewer teachers. than they had in 2008
2:48:08
Speaker 66: with that many students. So, I mean, we need more
2:48:14
Speaker 66: evidence to really interpret this, but we know that the
2:48:18
Speaker 66: native-born French population is not having children. So, these may
2:48:23
Speaker 66: be in-migrants, many of them. Some of them, obviously, are from,
2:48:28
Speaker 66: you know, French citizens in migration or recent migration because
2:48:35
Speaker 66: 2008 to now would be the secondary schools that the
2:48:41
Speaker 66: kids are demonstrating against. The lack of teachers could speak
2:48:46
Speaker 66: to their declining educational system. It could also speak to
2:48:51
Speaker 66: the fact, now we're talking public schools here, it could
2:48:54
Speaker 66: also speak to the fact that teachers have been overwhelmed
2:48:59
Speaker 66: and they're quitting.
2:49:02
Speaker 9: I know that in the United States— now, I taught for
2:49:06
Speaker 9: 44 years, and I never had a problem with kids,
2:49:12
Speaker 9: you know, per se. I was probably worse than most
2:49:15
Speaker 9: of them. And you know what? I knew when I
2:49:17
Speaker 9: went home at night, if somebody called home, I was
2:49:19
Speaker 9: going to get at the very least a scoff from
2:49:22
Speaker 9: my father. And, you know, our coaches and the people
2:49:27
Speaker 9: that I worked with in Catholic school were tough— And
2:49:31
Speaker 9: I think some of these teachers now, they don't get
2:49:33
Speaker 9: the support. I've seen it happen. And some of them, maybe,
2:49:37
Speaker 9: you know, maybe they've got part of qualifications to be teachers.
2:49:41
Speaker 9: But you know what? Depending on the situation you're in,
2:49:45
Speaker 9: you better be able to stand in there and weather
2:49:47
Speaker 9: the storm. And that's, you know, everyone would like to
2:49:50
Speaker 9: have a class of, you know, 12 to 14 kids.
2:49:53
Speaker 9: They're all honors students. They've all been to Miss Manor
2:49:57
Speaker 9: School of Etiquette. You know what? In the real world,
2:50:00
Speaker 9: that doesn't happen. And I could, of course, I can't
2:50:04
Speaker 9: say it on air, some of the stuff that I
2:50:06
Speaker 9: witnessed in the 44 years I taught, and that's in
2:50:09
Speaker 9: private school and in public school. So, hey, listen, Jan,
2:50:13
Speaker 9: I've got Dan to call back. I've got 60 seconds.
2:50:18
Speaker 9: But thanks for calling in. And the Voice of Freedom
2:50:21
Speaker 9: appreciates you and all your efforts every day.
2:50:26
Speaker 52: Hey, Dan.
2:50:26
Speaker 27: Hey, Coach.
2:50:27
Speaker 8: Coach, I'm sorry.
2:50:29
Speaker 65: I parked the car and I pressed the wrong button
2:50:30
Speaker 65: and I lost you.
2:50:31
Speaker 9: I do that all the time.
2:50:33
Speaker 58: Oh, gosh.
2:50:34
Speaker 65: But I wanted to comment on what you were talking about,
2:50:37
Speaker 65: encouragement syndrome, and then what young Dan said about abortion.
2:50:42
Speaker 65: And I will say that I think President Clinton had
2:50:46
Speaker 65: the right idea. He said he wanted abortion to be safe. Well,
2:50:51
Speaker 65: safe for the mother. It's never safe for the baby
2:50:54
Speaker 65: whose life is terminated. But he wanted it safe, legal.
2:50:58
Speaker 58: But rare.
2:51:00
Speaker 65: That's not what's happening today. It's all being promoted and
2:51:04
Speaker 65: condoned and celebrated.
2:51:05
Speaker 9: It's gotten completely out of hand, Dan, and I'm very
2:51:08
Speaker 9: anti-abortion to me. I'm a science guy. You know, you
2:51:11
Speaker 9: kill a living thing, it's murder, you know.
2:51:13
Speaker 13: Hey, listen, we've got to let you go.
2:51:15
Speaker 9: We're right at the end of our rope here.
2:51:16
Speaker 47: All right.
2:51:18
Speaker 9: Thanks for calling. Maybe I'll get a chance again to
2:51:20
Speaker 9: speak with you again. And I'd like to thank the
2:51:22
Speaker 9: audience today. Again, filling in for the great Leo C.
2:51:25
Speaker 9: My name is Leo Ficini.