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Tony Giannattasio joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Day drinking, drinking, Dog Day drinking, Welcome Back Day, drinking with
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  dog. We're gonna get right into it. Today. I met this gentleman.
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  Well, I haven't known you for a little while, but formally introduced
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  ourselves about a month and a half ago. I don't want to botch this
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  Tony Gentasio. Is that close enough, you freaking Italians? I tell you,
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  Tony Tony G is our Republican officially, our Republican nominee for the mayor
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  of Milford. As everyone knows, I've had been on before on the show,
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  and Ben had stepped down to take a job with the state, and
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  now Richard Smith is filling out his term, and so we will have two
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  apparently two fresh fresh faces come November. What is the date this year?
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  November November seventh, okay, And I am the new face of the Republican
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  Party that I like to hear. That's cool. I like the new face
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  of the Republican Party. So, Tony G. So we're gonna actually have
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  you on again closer to election day to really go through what you're running on.
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  We're gonna touch on some of it today, okay, but I look
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  at today more of is like a meet and greet. Uh, tell us
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  about yourself why you want to run for mayor Uh, you know, maybe
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  your school and your history, like a little bit about yourself. And I
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  know you're Milford born and raised exactly without dating yourself, you know, without
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  I'm from Milford for Milford nice. So, yeah, I grew up here,
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  went to school here, went to Live Oaks School when it was a
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  K through eight So I was at Live Oaks from yeah, from kindergarten up
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  to eighth grade, and moved on to Foreign High School. So I'm a
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  Foreign High grad go Lions. My kids as well went to live Oaks and
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  feign High. So you know, it's it's very unique to have someone that
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  you know, lives in Milford, you know, from Milford, educated in
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  Milford, and have your kids, you know, follow your footsteps through education.
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  And I'm very proud of our education system. So you know, it
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  was a great time. It was a great place to grow up. You
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  know, it was a fun time. You know. I remember, you
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  know, playing sports growing up. I played on the Woodmont Packers, the
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  Model Brothers Packers. It was like a wreck football. Yeah, and then
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  I moved on to the Milford Elks won two state champions here. It is,
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  yeah, championships. So I'm proud of that. You know. It
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  was the quarterback I learned a lot, learned a lot about leadership, you
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  know, at a very young age. Had some great coaches along the way.
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  Bob Boss was one of my coaches. There's actually the Bob Boss Tournament
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  that they have at the Eagles host and you know, it was a great
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  inspiration. You know, also coach Ernie Peppy. I played for him on
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  the Demno Brothers Packers. And you know, these are people that lived in
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  Milford and gave back to the community. And that's what I'm doing here today
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  is uh, you know, giving back. And I want to run for
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  mayor. I want to be the mayor Milford. I love it. So
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  you have been on the board, Alderman for what twelve years than actually sixteen
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  years? Okay, sixteen years. So you've worked with the likes of Richard
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  Lly and Blake and now Richard Smith. Yea a short period. Yes,
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  I've had the privilege of working with three mayors and I've had a front row
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  seat, you know, to city government. So i have a lot of
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  experience and knowledge, you know, and I'm capable of moving Milford forward with
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  that, what are some of your current high standing issues you have with the
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  town? So the most relevant shoe, I would say right now, because
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  I'm knocking on doors and I'm as a sitting alderman. You know, I've
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  seen people come to city Hall and you know, voice their opinion on the
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  uptick of crime. And people know we're between Bridgeport and New Haven. We
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  have five exits off A ninety five. So as the next mayor, if
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  I can help in any way collaborate with the Chief of Police and bring down
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  crime, that's something that I want to work diligently on. I think it's
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  very important because it's affecting our neighborhoods, it's affecting our post mall. There's
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  a lot of you know, people coming in from out of town. So
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  I think this is an area where we could improve upon. So I just
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  told you a little story about when we kind of first introduced ourselves to each
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  other. In the very next morning, a car in my I live in
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  Colonial Manor was basically four minutes like like NASCAR pit crew came in, jacked
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  up, this car, stole all four tires and was gone in an instant.
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  In a black van. We have video surveillance, no license plate,
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  just in and out, you know, and I'm three minutes four in the
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  morning, I'm probably two minutes from the highway. They get in and out,
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  and so what what what? Like? Is it more? Do we
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  need more funding for police? Do we need more community outreach? Uh?
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  You know, neighborhood watch type stuff. I literally just had a conversation in
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  the laund room when the lady lives above me and a couple of cars got
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  broken into again recently, stuff stolen, and you know, we put the
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  cameras up. She's like, well, what do we do now? Do
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  we get gates? Do we uh, you know, hire security guard?
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  You know, this is all h o a ship and you know we're already
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  tapped out as much as it is. You know, where where do we
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  want to like, do we personally want to try and prevent this because it's
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  not just our place. This happened over off at exit thirty six too.
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  I think they got four cars the same way in a parking garage. You
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  know where you're thinking I should be safe in there. You know, what
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  are some of the you know, things that you think could help us moving
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  it, moving it opposite direction of where we're moving now. I think by
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  collaborating with the police chief and an understanding, you know, his long term
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  plan. I truly believe that, you know, the police department could use
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  more officers. I think recruiting officers is a big problem. There's a lot
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  of officers that have retired, so we need to give these new officers incentives
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  to come to Moford to you know, provide us with their services. So
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  I would look into incentivizing new police officers and recruiting them. I think this
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  will help, you know, with the with having more of a police presence.
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  I can tell you that the community has been very diligent. I you
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  mentioned reach out. I know that they've reached out to me personally about certain
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  things. We just had that big party, that big pool party. Yeah,
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  yeah, that was that was mentioned on this show. Yeah, he's
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  gone wrong. I happened to visit with the neighbors this past weekend because unfortunately
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  there was another pool party. The music was loud. I would agree,
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  and you know, it's it's not something that you know, the neighbors should
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  have to tolerate. So, you know, we're looking at the different ways
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  of tempering that down. I think, you know, going out there and
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  learning about the different types of crime. As you know, they started with
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  the catalytic converters and from there they went to you know, stealing the whole
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  car, the entire car. You know. Yeah, these things are progressing,
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  you know, and you know, I think having more of a police
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  presence is going to be probably one of the biggest things that we can do
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  immediately. And you know, this way we can better patrol. You know,
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  we have the beaches, especially this time of year. You have downtown
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  with the nightlife, the restaurants, you have the whole industrial corridor of Milford
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  that they have to obviously protect businesses. I have no businesses that have had
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  vehicle stolen, you know, property stolen from you know, literally from outside
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  their building. You know, these things, you know obviously are problematic.
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  And we have you know, the whole commercial corridor. We have you know,
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  the mall, we have all of the retail, so you know,
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  it's a lot, it's a lot, and it's a busy time of year.
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  And you know, I think the more support that we give our police
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  and you know, let them know that they're valued and incentivize them, I
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  think we're gonna turn the corner. So a full disclaimer, some of my
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  opinions do not necessarily reflect yours. I want to make that clear. Some
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  of my thoughts on crime in this town. I think you hit the nail
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  on the head. We obviously need more resources, meaning more police officers.
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  I think with everything that happened, just the way the state of the nation
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  is, a lot of these guys are retiring because they can, and they
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  get their full pension at twenty years in Milford. And I don't blame a
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  single one of them first saying see you later. It's a hardest job as
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  there is. Uh, it's you don't get I don't think they get the
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  respect they deserve anymore like they used to. I mean when I was a
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  kid growing up. Now I'm not from Milford, I'm from Massachusetts, but
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  penn and Milford for twenty five years, you know, a cop was half
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  scary to see and half like you were like, oh, that's a cop.
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  You know, like there was that level of respect and authoritative you know,
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  and law and order. And I just don't I don't I don't think.
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  I don't think there's enough punishment to warrant these kids or criminals to care.
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  Well. You know, it's funny that you mentioned when you were younger,
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  because I remember, you know, when I was younger too, and
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  I felt the same way about police officers. And I my thoughts are,
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  if we had a community outreach, because we talked about outreach with the schools,
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  you know, to get to know the police officers at a very young
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  age. I think that that will, you know, speak volumes, you
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  know, as they grow older, to learn what the police actually do and
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  how they do it, you know, so they can see it firsthand.
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  I actually had the opportunity to go through the Citizens Police Academy as as an
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  alderman, so I saw a firsthand. I did a ride along with one
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  of the sergeants. I mean, we have the biggest truck stop, okay
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  in the state. I mean when you drive by it, you don't you
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  can't really appreciate how many trucks are parked there. If you drive through there,
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  Jeremy, there's hundreds, hundreds at any given time every night, you
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  know, and there's a lot of people coming in and out of Milford and
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  that needs to be patrolled. And these are the things that you learn,
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  you know, by going through that academy as a citizen and the things that
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  they have to deal with. And you never would have thought of it,
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  you know, never never would to a lot of really what's what can go
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  on? Not saying it does necessarily, but how easy it is? So
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  all levels of crime, right, you know, from just stupid pick pocketing
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  all the way up to you know, trafficking and you know, sex trafficking.
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  We got a lot of motels in Milford and a lot of that stuff
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  is happens right there and they all have to be patrolled. And you know,
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  it's not an easy job. And this town is huge, like like
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  it's a big town. Yes, there's a lot of I mean there's there's
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  parts of this town there are twenty five years. I'm like, where are
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  you talking about? Where's that? You know, like, oh down Oh
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  I've never been down there, you know. Like so I think it's through
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  investment, you know. And I advocated for more police officers when when you
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  know, Mayor Blake was in office and this was a couple of years ago,
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  not this past budget cycle, but prior to that, and uh,
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  you know, we voted on it, but it didn't pass. You know,
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  the Republicans wanted it, you know, it was it was brought to
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  our attention by the police chief. It was part of his long range plan,
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  you know, because, like you said, these guys are retiring,
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  you know, and we need to replace them. And you know, the
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  only way we're going to stay ahead of it is we gotta you know,
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  we gotta keep looking for more police officers to do that job, you know.
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  And it's not an easy job, no, not at all. I
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  mean I see it firsthand downtown, you know, late night, and ye
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  know, we pretty much I'm not going to name the officers that work,
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  but I'm sure you know some of them. And you know, they pretty
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  much just stay on their ground. They just get abused, you know,
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  at the end of the night. You know, I try to tell everybody,
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  these guys don't want to arrest you. They don't want the paper work
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  at fucking three in the morning, they don't. They just just be respectful.
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  You know, you're the idiot that started something, not the police,
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  you know. And I just I see these guys, you know, they
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  immediately pull out their cell phones and they're waiting for a reaction from the officer.
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  And these guys are so they're pros. They're like you're not not a
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  fall of fears. Shit, Yeah, you know, I want to go
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  home to my wife and kids later and you know, and finish my shift,
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  you know. Yeah, I mean the police they want everyone to go
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  home safely, you know. I mean everyone wants to have fun. You
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  know, everyone's entitled to have fun. But you know, sometimes unfortunately things
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  get out of hand, and that's you know why they're there, and you
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  know, they're very effective, you know, and in those situations, and
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  you know, just the presence alone, you know, as a lot of
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  you know, meaning so people think twice. You know, people should think
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  twice. You know. I think this is a topic that we could just
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  you know, there's there's so many facets to it. And I mean I
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  don't have statistics in front of me. I don't know if you know,
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  on the top of your head. But is the percentage or crime up from
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  let's say, pre pandemic levels. Is there any well? The unfortunate part
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  is I from what I am being told, the violent crimes are up,
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  you know, and that's always very concerning to me. You know, overall
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  in Milford's very safe. I mean I truly believe that, you know,
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  this is an influx of people coming in from out of town, you know,
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  and basically you know, committing crimes and like you said, they're in
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  and they're out. I mean, they jump on the highway and they're gone.
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  I mean the police can't chase, you know, So it gives the
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  criminals more incentive, I guess, I mean, And and that's what we're
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  dealing with. It's the aftermath you know, of of maybe a bad policy,
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  police accountability bill, you know, and this is what we're all dealing
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  with. We're dealing with it, you know, on a state level.
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  And you know, and Milford you know, has its challenges. But I'm
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  confident enough that once elected mayor, I want to work with the police department
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  hand in hand and see if there's any way that we can you know,
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  possibly make it safer. You know, that's what people expect and they're entitled
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  to that. They're they're paying talk tax dollars and they should feel safe and
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  people want to feel protected, and you know, and that's how I grew
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  up. You know, I never questioned or my parents never questioned where I
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  went, if I was going to the mall, that there was going to
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  be you know, an issue. Yeah. So you know, but these
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  are the things you know now that are parents that have kids that are going
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  out outside outside of the mall. The police department have other substations or was
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  it just the one on the post road at the name just on the post
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  road. But you know, at one time they did have a substation in
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  the mall. They don't have that anymore, I you know, Jeremy,
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  I don't. I don't know. I don't think so. I know that
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  they patrol the mall, but I don't know if they have a substation there.
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  But at one time, they remember they did because they had a lot
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  of problems going on with the kids. Well we had the mall brawl,
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  which made world news. Yeah, you know, and that's what they did
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  to, you know, to control the environment at that time. But you
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  know, a lot of this stuff is happening not just inside, but it's
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  the parking lot, you know, it's when you're coming out of the mall,
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  going into the mall. You know, you have to be careful.
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  You have to you know, watch around you and be and be aware of
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  your surroundings. That's one thing I teach my girlfriend son. He's thirteen.
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  It's going to be eighth grade at east Shore, and you know, I'm
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  just you know, he like he likes to fish downtown by himself. And
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  this this actually this happened just the other day. So it was what's today,
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  Tuesday. It was Saturday, and he went down and he's fishing at
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  the duck pond and I was running some area and it started to rain,
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  so he texts me, can you come grab me? It's rain and I
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  said, no problem, I'd be there in like ten minutes. So I
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  drive down and as I'm almost I could see him and I see him texting
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  me at the same time. And you know, I don't know texting and
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  driving, but I looked down. I just looked down at it. And
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  he says, there's a guy here like scaring me. Yeah, but I
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  don't see anyone around him, because I could, I could visibly visually see
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  him. And I'm like, I don't. I don't even respond like I
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  see him. So I go up. I tell him I come around by
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  Parsons and he's right there by the what's that what's in the middle, City
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  Hall's city all in the middle. Yeah, yeah, So he's right by
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  city Hall, fishing right there. So you know, I rolled down my
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  window. So everything, oh good. He goes, yeah, I see
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  that guy outside of the courthouse. I said, yeah, he goes,
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  he's screaming really bad stuff. I said, all right, get in the
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  car. So he packs all the ship up in the car and now I
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  have my brother on the phone. I'm just shooting the ship with him,
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  right, and I rolled the windows down and it's just a I don't want
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  to call him a homeless man, but he looked like a homeless man,
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  because that's another one. That's one issue we will tackle in the future.
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  But he had like a bunch of luggage with him, and Braden was not
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  wrong. This guy was screaming at the top of his lungs FU and I'm
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  like, He's like, what should we do? And I'm like, well,
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  I'm just gonna call somebody first that knows that I know that can get
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  police over there, because this is not going to end well probably for that
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  guy, and he's probably had mental health issues. And he's screaming racial epitaphs
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  at the top of his lungs on a Saturday at two o'clock in downtown Mille.
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  I'm like, what the hell is going on? So I get home
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  and make the call. The unfortunately that call did not help. And then
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  now it's like an hour later, not even an hour later, twenty five
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  minutes later, and I'm like, all right, so I call the non
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  emergency police number and just tell them, and they're like, they said it
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  was taken care of. Let's say, well, you know, so I'm
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  sure somebody else saw this guy. Yeah, you know, Like I'm like,
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  I don't know, I was just I and so I. So the
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  point of that story is I actually was like, listen, you see that
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  walk away. And we kind of have some entry points in Milford where I'd
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  want him to go, one being stone Bridge where he knows everybody and can
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  wait wait it out there, or tell somebody what's going on, or to
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  my buddy Isaac at the barbershop, like he cuts us here. I'm like,
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  go see Isaac. Isaac will take you in. If you're you know,
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  fearful of a crazy person or whatever it might. You know, who
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  could be twenty kids on bikes that are you know, just walk away and
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  walk the other direction, but be aware, you know, be aware.
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  Well I think that's great. I mean, you know, we have to
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  educate our kids, right and we have to give those you know, recommendations
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  out to them to give them something to think about, you know, when
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  they're you know, potentially in that type of situation. So that's good sound
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  advice. I think some of these people get dispersed from other communities and they
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  end up in Milford and they could possibly have mental health issues, you know,
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  challenging issues. But we do have an outreach. We have the best
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  you know on nonprofits. I mean, we have a lot of resources that
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  you know, would help these types of you know people if they needed it.
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  But yeah, I mean, you know, it's all part of you
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  know, Milford. I mean it's things happen. You just have to know
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  how to deal with them, right, you know. And I see it
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  walking out of work at who Am, you know some of the some of
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  the kids, Yeah, and you know of them are just you know,
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  having a good time, had some drinks. But you know, we never
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  let girls walk alone. We walk everybody out. We walk out as a
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  group. Uh you know, you know what kind of business we're in,
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  so sure it could be targets very easily, so we try to be as
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  safe as we can, you know. And the cops, you know,
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  they're always like you want to ride your car. They're always super nice,
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  you know. So because like back in the day, when we were done,
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  we were done, there was no one on the streets. Now all
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  these kids are waiting for ubers. Yeah, so we're literally heading home before
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  the patrons are, you know, like it was never like that before,
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  you know, they were all you were the last ones to leave. Yeah,
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  god, it was, you know, but now it's we don't count
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  as much money because it's it's all credit cards now. So we're done,
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  you know, two fifteen heading home and there used to be three thirty.
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  Yeah, they're out there till yeah, because you know, one they jack
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  up the uber prices, you know, so they get here for twenty bucks,
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  but they got to spend one hundred to get home, and and they
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  gotta wait. There's only so many ubers, you know. On a Saturday
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  night in Milford, I remember seeing the police command of Oh they had to
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  use it down there. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen it this summer
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  though, see, not recently. Yeah, it might have been there at
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  some point, but the big command unit center thing, which is good.
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  I mean that's yeah. They would park it right on the hill of the
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  train station there, right, Yeah, and then I remember seeing police on
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  bicycles. I don't know, do you remember that. I remember cops on
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  bikes? Yeah, have you seen I haven't seen that now, Like that's
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  something you know, I want to look into. I'm just you know,
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  curious because I used to see, you know, police on bikes. But
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  maybe, you know, maybe it's staffing, you know, maybe staffing at
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  this point, you know. I mean I even talked to the cops at
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  my place and I said, hey, you know twice at night, if
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  you're on the beat, you stopped out colonial manner, just drive through,
• 23:45
  you know. And I don't want preferential treatment, but yeah, I do,
• 23:48
  you know, But like you know, it's it's the complexes that seem
• 23:52
  are the ones getting hit. But like, but you know, there's people
• 23:56
  that live in houses and their cars are getting robbed right in their driveway too.
• 24:00
  So I know it. And my advice is, don't confront them.
• 24:04
  It's just material stuff. You can get it back. Yeah, have insurance.
• 24:11
  Like I think somebody confronted somebody at the Walmart stealing a cac inverter.
• 24:15
  Yeah, and somebody got shot or beaten with a tire iron or something.
• 24:18
  I don't know. Yeah, well prior to that, somebody heard a noise
• 24:23
  from inside their house at night. This gentleman walked out his front door and
• 24:27
  his driveway to confront you know, whatever the noise was. Wasn't sure,
• 24:30
  but it was obviously a saws off somebody you know, cutting and take out
• 24:36
  and got assaulted by the saws all and got cut cut on his face.
• 24:41
  I mean, you know, these are the things that you know, you
• 24:45
  don't know if they're packing heat, you don't know what they're bringing with.
• 24:47
  You don't want to take matters into your own hands. You just want to,
• 24:49
  you know, make the call and let the professionals deal with it.
• 24:53
  Right. The guy will probably on the highway by the time they get there,
• 24:57
  but maybe maybe not. They could be read around the corner too exactly,
• 25:02
  you know, And I don't even I mean, it's it's it's you
• 25:04
  know, you think of cops coming, and that's still scary for them because
• 25:07
  they don't know what they're up against either, right, you know, Yeah,
• 25:11
  like you don't know how many guys aren't. Like this van was like
• 25:14
  three to four people, and like I said, and they're probably not there
• 25:18
  to hurt anybody. They're just you know, they're they're collecting a paycheck from
• 25:22
  them. Yeah, why don't we go to them? Why don't they they
• 25:25
  invest they get the chop shops a little more because they're selling them somewhere.
• 25:29
  Some of these guys are so praising they sell them right on Facebook marketplace.
• 25:32
  Yeah, they shouldn't be doing that. But they put some legislation in place
• 25:36
  to the scrap yards. Yeah, not to take the catalytic converters, you
• 25:41
  know, unless it's documented, right, almost like a pawn shop, like
• 25:45
  right, you know, show id this extract, right, I mean,
• 25:48
  you know, and I think that's you know, deterred a lot of people
• 25:52
  from doing it. But to your point, these guys are selling them online,
• 25:56
  you know, so it's hard. It's how do you stop that?
• 26:00
  But at the same time, I mean, isn't it traceable? Like you
• 26:06
  know, like like you know, Bob from New Haven? You know,
• 26:08
  it's selling four brand new Honda Core tires with rims, you know, eight
• 26:15
  hundred dollars obio. You know, like, well, who the hell is
• 26:18
  Bob from New Haven? I don't know. I think when things like that
• 26:22
  happen, you know, these these these people are almost you know, you
• 26:26
  know, watching you know, they're they're they're watching and if they see something,
• 26:33
  you know, they're gonna act on it. You know, that's premeditated,
• 26:38
  you know, when it comes to things like that, I mean,
• 26:41
  there's no way that you can do that. It's got to be premeditated.
• 26:44
  Like what you saw coming out of stone Bridge, right, you saw the
• 26:48
  car on what Creates or that my apartment building? Yeah? Yeah, so
• 26:52
  you got to bring the crates right right? Yeah, they were like,
• 26:56
  oh, you got some crates out there. So it was it was so
• 27:00
  surreal, Like I'm like, I didn't even know it was a crime.
• 27:03
  Yeah, I'm like, maybe this dude was changing the tigers and they only
• 27:07
  had milk creates the rest of on I don't know. And then I'm like,
• 27:10
  oh wait, yeah they did that. Holy shit. You know.
• 27:14
  So listen, we got the Oyster Fest coming up this weekend. We do
• 27:17
  So are you going going? You're gonna be there? What's going on?
• 27:21
  I'm working? Oh, you're working. It's gonna be busy. It always
• 27:26
  is. It's goods good. It does earlier. I know, it's fucking
• 27:30
  been a wacky year of weather, but it does. And you know,
• 27:33
  you know what I'm excited about is the Friday night because it's a lot of
• 27:36
  you know Milford people. Yeah, what do they call that oyster oyster Ea?
• 27:40
  Yeah, oyster eat. Yeah. So I'll do a little plug for
• 27:44
  me and then we'll plug your event as well. Uh So stone Bridge is
• 27:47
  basically uh, you know the staple. It's so funny. So so I've
• 27:52
  been working there. You know, it's my twenty fourth year. Yea.
• 27:55
  And let's go back ten years, right. You know, people would just
• 28:00
  go to the event and then they'd come in around five and watch the run
• 28:04
  Runners play and it was just kind of a thing. Not anymore. These
• 28:08
  guys come their Stormbridge at like one o'clock and then they just stay there.
• 28:11
  They try to get their table. They don't care who's playing down in the
• 28:15
  green or who's because you guys, like after the Oyster Fest ends, right,
• 28:21
  everybody just walks up. It just walks up there. It's great.
• 28:23
  And the run Runners so they actually played at the top of the stairs down
• 28:27
  into the crowd and it's it's awesome. And like you know, the sun
• 28:33
  gets sets a little earlier every day now, so by like seven thirty is
• 28:37
  dark and they got their light show going. It's it's quite a scene like,
• 28:40
  if you guys, I recommend doing the Oysterfest, go see Luke Graham.
• 28:44
  I think everyone's gonna know every song he sings from Foreigner. I almost
• 28:48
  wished when they press released that out they said Luke Graham from Foreigner because everyone's
• 28:52
  texting me, who the fucks Luke Graham? I don't know. I'm like,
• 28:55
  I don't all, so I had to google it. I'm like,
• 28:57
  you all could google yourselves, by the way, it's not that hard.
• 29:02
  But I'm like, oh, to two from Foreigner. And then I looked
• 29:03
  at his last setlist he had, and I knew every single soft chord.
• 29:07
  I'm like, everyone does this every year with me and they're like, oh,
• 29:11
  this is gonna suck. And then they come up. I'm like,
• 29:12
  wow, what a great time. You know, like listen, Jeremy I'm
• 29:15
  an eighties kid. Yeah, Foreigner, I mean Double Vision, Yeah,
• 29:18
  yeah, yeah, all those albums. I mean, that's when you went
• 29:22
  out and bought an album that was before you actually read the covers and all
• 29:26
  the and everything sucks now. Man actually went to the movies yesterday by myself.
• 29:32
  Kind of weird, but it was show research and they still give your
• 29:36
  tickets like I got a ticket. It wasn't on your phone or nothing I
• 29:40
  could have. But I'm like, I walked up and I didn't know what
• 29:41
  I what show, what time I was supposed to look at, and I
• 29:45
  just so everyone's at the kiosk getting their ship, and there's poor Lane,
• 29:48
  lonely lady just wait for someone to help. So I decided I always do
• 29:52
  that, Like I always go to the bank teller. Yeah, I don't
• 29:55
  go to the ATM. I was mitched, you know, I always well,
• 29:57
  I do self check out a stop it shop. But it's so funny
• 30:00
  story when I was growing up and I went to the movies, if it
• 30:03
  was like a really good movie, yeah, you had to go back to
• 30:07
  see it. Oh yeah, I mean I think I saw Star Wars like
• 30:11
  eighteen times. I saw it. I saw it. I'm the one I
• 30:14
  remember. So I was born in seventy four, so Indiana Jones the Temple
• 30:18
  of Doom, Okay, I remember we saw it opening night and we waited
• 30:22
  like an hour in line for tickets. Wow. And then I think I
• 30:26
  saw it five times after that when it's like started to dissipate and I could
• 30:29
  just go see it without waiting. But yeah, I mean it was awesome.
• 30:32
  Like, especially as a kid, You're like, yeah, this is
• 30:33
  great. It was great. Returning the Jedi. I think I was I
• 30:37
  was eighty. Star Wars was seventy four, right or seventy two somewhere around
• 30:44
  there. Yeah, yeah, so I was. I was too young.
• 30:45
  I mean, obviously I've seen the movie, but I was too young to
• 30:48
  see it in the theater. But I think Return of the Jedi was the
• 30:49
  first time I saw Star Wars movie in the theater. It was different back
• 30:52
  then. I don't know, it seemed like things had more to an event,
• 30:56
  right, it's not. I mean, actually the movies are pretty cool
• 30:59
  now. We got the recliners. You know, you're just you're just chilling.
• 31:03
  You're not on top of each other, you know. Granted there's four
• 31:06
  other people at one o'clock in the afternoon watching this movie with me, I
• 31:08
  felt like Pebe Harman. But but I know, I saw a Sound of
• 31:12
  Freedom and I'm actually doing a podcast tomorrow, but I don't I don't think
• 31:18
  I'm gonna release it tomorrow. But with a friend of mine that saw it,
• 31:21
  and I actually had a girl on here that is a super advocate.
• 31:26
  She is on the front lines, and she's been dealing with a lot of
• 31:30
  politics and East Haven about trying to do fundraisers for her company, We Are
• 31:36
  One, Inc. And basically she goes after the massage parlors and tries to
• 31:41
  get them shut down. And it's kind of a I've done two shows whether
• 31:45
  her name is Ashley fan but like she's this whole thing with East Haven Fire
• 31:49
  Department, Police department, Like they gave her her blessing to use her their
• 31:52
  logos and do a touch of truck and then the city mayor shut it down,
• 31:57
  cease and desist. Yeah. Yeah, so she still went on with
• 32:01
  a fundraiser, but you know, it's kind of crazy crazy, you know,
• 32:06
  it's it's a wacky world. Yeah, but I recommend going to see
• 32:10
  the movie. It's probably coming out soon on I will. I'll definitely do
• 32:15
  that. But it barely got any press, barely got any fanfare. But
• 32:19
  it's a true story. Yeah, follows a guy that worked for Homelame security,
• 32:22
  Uh left his job. So he had he had busted a lot of
• 32:27
  pedophiles, but never got a kid back. Because once these kids are taken,
• 32:31
  it's like you're basically it's a nail and Haystack trying to find him and
• 32:37
  found one and realized that that boy not to be a spoiler had a sister
• 32:42
  and they both got abducted at the same time. But they were down in
• 32:45
  like South America, and he were for homeland security, so they can't really
• 32:47
  do anything outside the United States. A fun guy quit his job, so
• 32:52
  I'm going to find this girl. And watched the movie and see how it
• 32:54
  ends. It is pretty pretty crazy shit. And he testified before Congress and
• 32:59
  got more funding and got more awareness to it all and pretty interesting movie.
• 33:02
  Sad, yeah, very sad, very sad. Yeah. I hate when
• 33:06
  they go after the children. Not good, no, not good God's children.
• 33:12
  But seeah, I told you. We go off tangent a little bit
• 33:15
  here. Yeah. No, it's fun. It's fun. I'm enjoying it.
• 33:19
  So what do you do? I know, Easter fast or you got
• 33:21
  you're gonna be obviously promoting your campaign. Yeah, that's a big part of
• 33:24
  it. Now that I'm running from there. You got something, you're setting
• 33:28
  up something or no, I'm gonna walk around. I'm gonna walk around,
• 33:30
  but I'm gonna volunteer a few hours. You know. The Republicans we have
• 33:35
  a tent down there. We raise money for our under ticket for our Republican
• 33:38
  Town Committee because you know, we have people running for all their men Board
• 33:43
  of ed Planning and Zoning. So that's one of our big fundraisers. And
• 33:49
  we sell food. So I'll be down there volunteering as well. I mean,
• 33:54
  if you make it up to stone Bridge, I mean I'll take a
• 33:58
  plate. Yeah, okay, all right. As much as I love stone
• 34:00
  Bridge food, I can't eat it every time out there. I like outside
• 34:04
  food sometimes. Yeah. Stone Bridge they do a great job, and they're
• 34:07
  they're great to the community. They're very generous, they give back. Yeah,
• 34:12
  Ridge's great with that stuff. It's a great place. Yeah. You
• 34:15
  know, I love the fountain. Oh. I mean, I gotta tell
• 34:19
  you. I drove by it the other day and I said to my wife,
• 34:21
  I says, the fountain just makes the fool the whole. It was
• 34:24
  the best idea they had, and it was whose idea was that? So
• 34:29
  that was Phil's, his son, Philka And we actually had a tragedy through
• 34:35
  work. We lost Tommy Brocker. I do remember motorcycle accident. It happened
• 34:38
  like literally like right before it was either right before right after we put the
• 34:42
  fountain up. So now it's literally called the Tommy Brocker Memorial Fountain. So
• 34:47
  we dedicated to him. He was he started there before I did. He
• 34:52
  started there. I think he was like sixteen years old. Wow, and
• 34:53
  I passed away about three years ago. Yeah, sad, but he was
• 34:57
  such a good kid, such a hard worker. But yeah, it was
• 35:00
  all all kind of but yeah, it's it's and it lights up and you
• 35:04
  know, it goes green for St. Patty's Day and red, white and
• 35:07
  blue on fourth. Then also it's it's pretty neat and sometimes oh it it's
• 35:09
  windy. It just blows, does it We gotta shut it off. Yeah,
• 35:14
  you guys have like a boat or a raft. You go out there
• 35:16
  string I think you pull it. We can pull it in some of the
• 35:21
  big storms. It actually the last the storm, big storm we had last
• 35:23
  year, it got trapped underneath like the big you know, like wood and
• 35:29
  you know, tree branches were coming down and it trapped underneath. We had
• 35:31
  to get a diver and get it out. I like the lights to it
• 35:35
  night. Yeah, yeah, no, it's uh, it's it's cool.
• 35:37
  It's it's definitely a great addition to the downtown area. So yeah, so
• 35:44
  so Oysterfest obviously Saturday Park where park, whatever the hell you can, I
• 35:49
  say, uber to uber and uber out. A lot of people come here
• 35:52
  from out of town. Oh, it's huge, out of town day.
• 35:57
  Yes, it's good for downloads, tendance. I've heard fifty thousand. I've
• 36:00
  heard thirty thousand. Is there. I mean it's no, it's not a
• 36:04
  ticket at an event, so you really can't. Yeah, gauge it.
• 36:07
  I don't know. That's a good question. But you know, if the
• 36:10
  weather's you know, good, it could be up to fifty I would think
• 36:15
  I would think so too. You know, when we had Brett Michaels,
• 36:16
  I think that was like the that was the best. That was That was
• 36:21
  probably the best, the best festival ever. But but I gotta tell you,
• 36:25
  you know, I've been going to it faithfully. H Eddie Money.
• 36:30
  I got a chance to eat Eddie, meet meet with him when he came
• 36:37
  and I'm in line and he's there with his daughter, and his daughter had
• 36:40
  this little dog, Bogart. She called him bow Guard. Yeah, because
• 36:45
  she she was singing backups and and she was, you know, performing as
• 36:49
  well. And I come up to the line and I says, hey,
• 36:52
  Eddie, I says, you know, it's pleasure to meet you. You
• 36:54
  know, I grew up with MTV. I watched all your videos. He's
• 36:58
  like, oh cool. He's like listen and he's like he just came out
• 37:00
  of the trailer to do a little meat and greet. He's like, this
• 37:04
  is the oyster Fest, right, I go, yeah, I go,
• 37:06
  why what's up? He goes, you know they're serving me cheese and crackers,
• 37:08
  you know. Yeah, so I said, no problem. I took
• 37:13
  care of it. I'm some oysters, I mean, regular guy. You
• 37:16
  know. It's a shame, you know, but just honored to have met
• 37:21
  him, you know, just a nice guy. Took so much time to
• 37:24
  spend with the fans. Was in no rush. You know, you could
• 37:29
  just tell you know, Jeremy, you know, like just he was just
• 37:34
  one of those guys. And he was a police officer, yeah, a
• 37:37
  New York police officer. And then he always was in a band and it
• 37:40
  just took off, yeah you know, and became Eddie Money and still listen
• 37:46
  to his music today. Yeah, you know, I loved it when he
• 37:49
  came back and did like the Geico commercials or whatever it was he did.
• 37:52
  Yeah, like ten years ago, remember that no, like he was like
• 37:57
  making fun of himself, which I appreciate about celebrities to no end, Like
• 38:00
  when you can actually like look at the yes, humility is a huge thing
• 38:04
  for me, and I just remember that. I don't it might not have
• 38:07
  been Geico, but it was like Afflac or Geico or one of those insurance
• 38:09
  commercials and yeah, yeah, YouTube it. They were funny, but the
• 38:15
  quick Brett Michael's story. I never met him, but his uh two right
• 38:19
  hand man stage hands came up to stone Bridge for lunch that day and me
• 38:24
  and Campy were trying to like, yo, I think I think Brett could
• 38:28
  come up and and sing with the rum Runners for a couple of songs like
• 38:30
  no one's got to know, just like pop in and pop out. And
• 38:34
  he's like, I don't know. I'll ask him, mean all blah bla
• 38:35
  blah blah blah. So I pour him a diet coke and he's like,
• 38:38
  what kind of diet cocus this? And I'm like, well, it's actually
• 38:42
  a local company called Castle Beverage. He goes, can I take something to
• 38:46
  go? And I'm like sure why. He's like, Brett Michael's is gonna
• 38:52
  love this diet Cola and I'm like, okay, so the guy like takes
• 38:57
  two sodas to go. H They never came back, but the word was
• 39:02
  is the guy kind of said this to us. He goes, it's you
• 39:06
  probably have a five percent chance of this actually happening because this was the last
• 39:10
  stop of their tour for four weeks. So literally after the show, everyone
• 39:15
  just scatters and goes back to their home lives and does it, which I
• 39:20
  completely understand it. But he said if he said, if we didn't have
• 39:22
  a show, let's say we didn't have a show on Money or Tuesday,
• 39:24
  yeah, they probably would have come up and done it because he's done ship
• 39:27
  Like yeah, they like jump on separate planes. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 39:30
  they're gone. They scattered, Like how cool would that event of Brett Michaels
• 39:34
  was popped in and started thinking for Johnny and the rum Runners. Well,
• 39:37
  the rumor was that he was going to go to stone Bridge and play because
• 39:40
  he knew that the rum Runners were Fireman and he had a connection with Fireman.
• 39:46
  I don't know if it was his dad, but somebody in his family
• 39:50
  was a fireman, and you know, he always appreciated, you know,
• 39:55
  Fireman for their service, and you know, he was a type of guy
• 40:00
  that would do something like that. But you know, maybe it was just
• 40:02
  a long day, you know, a long tour. Yeah, those guys.
• 40:06
  Yeah, you know, but try to sneak him in the stone Ridge.
• 40:09
  I mean he won the Apprentice, Brett Michaels, he was on the
• 40:13
  Apprentice? Yeah, yeah, does that mean he's a trumper? Maybe?
• 40:17
  I'm not sure. We're not talking about that today. Come on, you
• 40:21
  got a pre show about this, all right, Well, let's get to
• 40:25
  your fundraiser now. So obviously saturday's Doingsterfeston. If you want to see Tony,
• 40:30
  he'll be. He'll be around walking, walking the streets, handing out
• 40:32
  five our bills to everybody. Absolutely, so, Jeremy, this is a
• 40:37
  fun, a fun fund raiser, all right. It's all about having fun.
• 40:43
  And you know, I've been going to these political fundraisers for many years
• 40:47
  and we're trying to do something different, kind of boring for the most part,
• 40:52
  be boring. You know I used to work. Yeah, everyone wants
• 40:57
  the stiffs in here. Yeah, everybody wants to speak. You know,
• 41:00
  I'm gonna say a few words, but you know, I want to give
• 41:04
  back in my way too. I mean the people that supported me, I
• 41:07
  think they're gonna really enjoy the venue. You know, Stonebridge is great.
• 41:13
  We're bringing in this band, YouTube Nation. Yes, so if you like
• 41:16
  Bono, if you like you Two, I mean, you know, there's
• 41:20
  a lot of inspirational music, a lot of meaning, and you know we're
• 41:24
  gonna we're gonna have a blast. So this is Tuesday, August twenty second.
• 41:30
  I know you come. When you call me the other day, I'm
• 41:31
  like, fuck, I'm out of town. I'm like no, I'm like,
• 41:35
  did we go to Lake Winnipesaki or somewhere every year? And it's always
• 41:37
  right after the Oyster. I'm like, I'm like Bret Michaels I scattered.
• 41:43
  I was ready to have you MC the event. But I'll do abvious something
• 41:46
  for you Tuesday, August twenty second at my restaurant, stone Bridge Restaurant,
• 41:52
  six to eight. YouTube Nation is playing the whole time or no. So
• 41:57
  what we're gonna do is we're gonna have a DJ from like six to seven,
• 42:00
  Okay, okay, yeah, because when people come in, I'm gonna
• 42:05
  have a little red carpet set up nice and we're gonna do a little you
• 42:07
  know, photos you know, I want to meet and greet to people,
• 42:12
  a little backtrap, little yeah, you know. Yeah, So, uh,
• 42:16
  we're gonna do that and then the band will come on at seven,
• 42:20
  played about eight thirty, you know, and uh, we're gonna have a
• 42:23
  blast, and you know we're gonna be there probably probably way into the wee
• 42:30
  hours of a Tuesday night. I think so yeah, I think we're gonna
• 42:32
  draw the Friday night crowd on a Tuesday night. Oh man, I'm a
• 42:37
  little upset. I'm not gonna be there a pitch. Uh. So there's
• 42:40
  a suggested donation forty dollars online, fifty at the door. Don't be cheap.
• 42:45
  It's not going into Tony's pocket. No, not entirely. Uh.
• 42:51
  Like I said, he's hand to fight dollar bills out to every every person
• 42:53
  he sees an oyster fest. I gotta come up to ten different costumes.
• 42:59
  You know, Jeremy, these these events, it sounds great. It's it's
• 43:04
  yeah, it's it's different. It is. I've seen a million of these
• 43:07
  Country stone Bridge, and uh, like I said, it's usually, you
• 43:09
  know, we put out some pasta and they get a drink ticket and that's
• 43:14
  it and they come and go I could see them hanging out, having a
• 43:17
  good time and drawing interest from maybe passers by, people sitting in a different
• 43:23
  restaurants around town. Here in the music on a random Tuesday night. A
• 43:27
  good band. Obviously, you two, I could tell you this, you
• 43:30
  two nation. They've played Caesar's Palace down in Atlantic City. They've played I
• 43:35
  think it's called the Stone Pony. Have you ever heard of in New Jersey?
• 43:38
  Yeah, on the shore, on the shore, yeah, you know,
• 43:44
  and they travel, they travel all over the country. And you know,
• 43:47
  they were nice enough to work with us. You know, I'm very
• 43:51
  appreciative of that. I ran into them one night, you know, they
• 43:55
  were doing a little acoustic and you know, it really touched me. So
• 44:00
  I want to bring in the Milford. I want to introduce, you know,
• 44:04
  all my supporters to them, you know, and it's gonna be a
• 44:07
  great time. You know. The money is going towards obviously, the campaign
• 44:13
  we're doing. You know a lot of social media. I did a video.
• 44:16
  Did you see my video? Come on, you gotta see my video.
• 44:21
  I want you to watch my video because you know, the guy that
• 44:27
  did it did a great job, you know, trying to get my message
• 44:30
  out there. By raising the money. We're doing mailers. We got billboards
• 44:36
  on reserve. We're gonna have a big billboard across from stone Bridge. So
• 44:40
  it's coming. It's coming. Yeah, it's a tough it's a tough get
• 44:45
  the billboard. Yeah, you know, I know they reserve it this time.
• 44:49
  They do, they do. They're they're very up fair, I should
• 44:52
  say. So I'm looking forward to that. I wanted to put my logo
• 44:57
  up there for a month, but I think, oh really, yeah,
• 45:00
  like when I first started, like get the word out pickle driving around,
• 45:04
  I didn't give a funk about the price, butch, let's just get it
• 45:06
  up there. And then you know, I think the realtor guy might have
• 45:10
  had it for like the eleven months or ten months of the year outside of
• 45:14
  the political spectrum, okay whatever. And I was like, I don't worry
• 45:16
  about it. But if I was ever going to put a billboard anywhere in
• 45:20
  Milford, that's the one you want to be on. Yeah. Yeah,
• 45:22
  gonna be cars coming around that corner. Yeah, it's all day long,
• 45:24
  and and you know it's funny now I've noticed there's like traffic. Oh yeah,
• 45:29
  like it's especially like on a Friday and people are getting out of work.
• 45:34
  It's like all backed up to New Haven Avenue just to go through downtown.
• 45:37
  It takes me fifteen minutes to get to work. This should take me
• 45:40
  too, So you know, I think that they're gonna have time to look
• 45:45
  at the billboard. Oh yeah, is your pretty face gonna be on it?
• 45:51
  Milford? We're talking about it. We're gonna you know, it's possible,
• 45:55
  It's possible. I love the logo. I like it. You know,
• 46:00
  the tony G thing. From a very young age, a lot of
• 46:02
  people couldn't pronounce my last name. So one of my coaches back in the
• 46:08
  day, he just started with the Tony J Tony J and it just kind
• 46:13
  of stuck. So now you are officially or unofficially running against Carrie Rowland.
• 46:20
  Officially, I am the endorsed Republican candidate. Yes, that would be correct.
• 46:24
  Do you have any debates coming up? Anything like that? Not that
• 46:29
  I know of, not that I heard of. But guys want to sit
• 46:30
  in this room. Yeah, well it's a great room. I like it.
• 46:35
  Yeah, I mean i'd probably have to put up a Carrie Rowland sign,
• 46:38
  but just to be fair, you have to be fair. No,
• 46:40
  that would something like that, I'd be biting my tongue a lot of the
• 46:45
  time. But no, just kidding. Yeah, I mean I think it's
• 46:49
  you know, what's I when I had bet on, Yeah, I had
• 46:52
  him on right after he won his reelection, which which which was his last
• 46:58
  one? Okay, and uh, I had talked to him beforehand, and
• 47:01
  I was like, you know, you want to come on with I forget
• 47:04
  who was I was who was running against Ben last time? Oh, Pete
• 47:09
  Ba Ruby, Yeah, Peter, he's on the board of all he's running
• 47:13
  to be Yeah, he's running for the board of last Ben. I said,
• 47:15
  you know, it doesn't have to be like a freaking CNN debate hall,
• 47:20
  town hall or anything. But you know, if you guys have some
• 47:22
  opposing views on something, come on, let's let's let everyone hear about it.
• 47:27
  Yeah, you know in which direction you might want to take that,
• 47:29
  Like maybe Carrie has different ideas on how to deal with crime than you do,
• 47:32
  or advice for you know, whatever, whatever the topic. Maybe okay,
• 47:37
  but it's something I'm always down for. I love it. Yeah,
• 47:39
  I'll keep it fair and uh and short and sweet, you know, keep
• 47:43
  it to about forty five minutes and okay, can shake hands and she can
• 47:46
  leave and we can have a bear. That sounds like that could be interesting.
• 47:52
  Yeah, that could be interesting. You know, I feel like everything
• 47:57
  is consumed through video audio. Now, where is someone going to read print
• 48:04
  on what you want to do or is somebody more inclined to watch or listen
• 48:07
  to you two actually have an intelligent debate. Everything's consumed through social media now.
• 48:15
  It's something that you know, just just you alone. You have all
• 48:19
  these socials, which is great, and we'll promote those right as we're about
• 48:21
  mister Shell will promote those. But I think that's a great it's a great
• 48:24
  outlet. Obviously helps me as well. I mean I have my own ambitions,
• 48:30
  but it's something i'd be willing to mediate. Uh should your two camps
• 48:38
  want to actually face to face? But I don't know. I don't know,
• 48:43
  So I don't know if she was she didn't even consider anything like it,
• 48:45
  and if she did, she probably wants to go something a little higher
• 48:47
  than me. I don't know, but I'm the one willing to do.
• 48:52
  Well. I appreciate what you do because you know, in your own way,
• 48:55
  it's like giving back. You have your finger on the pulse and Milford.
• 49:00
  You know, you invited me on here. You went out of your
• 49:01
  way to reach out to me, and you know that says a lot about
• 49:05
  you as a person and your character, you know, giving me the opportunity
• 49:08
  for people to get to know me through your you know listeners, you know,
• 49:13
  And I've heard all good things about you personally. I've gotten to know
• 49:17
  you, and you're You're very friendly and you know, I know that all
• 49:22
  your intentions are good. But I mean, you know, Milford people in
• 49:28
  Milford, they just want what's best for Milford, right. We all want
• 49:30
  to be safe. We all want our kids to have a great education and
• 49:34
  and and grow up you know, in a great city. And you know
• 49:37
  we have great recreational facilities now, I mean you see the fields we have.
• 49:42
  Oh my god, I mean it's crazy. We just just that far
• 49:45
  and alone, those stills down there, another spot I didn't know existed earlier
• 49:51
  this yeah, earlier this summer. I was just like I went on a
• 49:52
  walk and I was walking down I'm like, yeah, he's come from.
• 49:57
  Well that's what I tell the kids, you know, Like when I went
• 50:00
  to form, we didn't have that, right, I didn't have that when
• 50:01
  I played popcorn Warner football. These kids are practicing up at the Why we
• 50:06
  didn't have a field like that. I mean I would feel like a Dallas
• 50:08
  cowboy walking out onto the astro turf field. Yeah. You know, so
• 50:13
  we've come a long way, you know. And I tell everybody this town
• 50:16
  is it offers. There's I don't think there's a thing it doesn't offer.
• 50:22
  Like, you know, you have the post road side of town, the
• 50:24
  big mally. Then you have you know, multiple private and public beaches,
• 50:30
  a state beach. The downtown is one of the best in Connecticut, you
• 50:35
  know, rivals some of the best like Mystic and Nice downtowns. You know,
• 50:39
  it's about the second largest green in Connecticut. Yeah, the flagpole is
• 50:45
  the tallest. Yes, yeah, I mean there's just so many things,
• 50:47
  and so check this out. What about the music? Think about that the
• 50:52
  culture here, right, I mean there's a lot of live music. We
• 50:55
  do all these porch fests. I mean people have bands come to their house.
• 51:00
  I mean, how great is that? Three hundred bands that might be
• 51:01
  oh no, it might be something crazy like that. I Mean I had
• 51:05
  those guys on last fall when we were promoting it last fall, and I
• 51:07
  was like looking at the list I'm like, and just the guys that take
• 51:10
  the time, they're not making any money, they're taking the time to organize
• 51:14
  something of that grand scale is impressive. And you know, just coming through
• 51:20
  this show, I've had like six seven you know, young musicians on that
• 51:24
  are all aspiring to be great. It's great to see their passion sitting across
• 51:30
  from me, like your passion to be mayor, like it's it's it's it's
• 51:32
  inspiring for you know, for a lot of people. Well for me,
• 51:37
  I want to promote the city. You know, I want to increase the
• 51:40
  tourism. You know, I want to have people come here and you know,
• 51:45
  enjoy themselves and you know, have a night out, you know,
• 51:49
  entertainment. I mean those are the things that really, you know, people
• 51:52
  talk about and just build on it, right, you know, just build
• 51:57
  on it. I mean that's what it's all about. And you know,
• 52:00
  Milford has the potential. I mean we got people coming over here on boats
• 52:04
  now, you know for the weekend. I'm sure they come up to stone
• 52:07
  Bridge, right, you talked to him. I made friends that I go
• 52:09
  visit when I'm in Long Island. Oh really come over on a boat.
• 52:13
  Yeah, I just met him through work and I heard there they're big tippers.
• 52:15
  Oh yeah, they got a lot of money over there, but I
• 52:22
  think they got the forty foot they're the kids, Yeah, I mean they
• 52:27
  bring the whole family and you know, and they're looking forward to coming to
• 52:31
  Milford and experiencing the whole downtown, you know, and we just gotta you
• 52:36
  know, and the restaurant seeing downtown rivals some of the best places I've been.
• 52:40
  Yeah, Like, I mean, there is not I don't think there's
• 52:44
  a restaurant downtown that I wouldn't go to. There is one. But you
• 52:46
  know what I want to ask you. I want to know where a bartender
• 52:51
  goes on his night off to hang out. That's what I want to know,
• 52:57
  all right? So where do you go? I mean, come on,
• 53:00
  Jeremy, where do you go? Where do you like to hang out?
• 53:02
  I'll give you, I'll give you tell me, all right. So
• 53:07
  this is so you know I'm a whore Milford. Oh yeah, I'm also
• 53:13
  I'm almost fifty, right, So like the days of like going out on
• 53:16
  a Monday night and getting hammered or kind of long con doesn't say it doesn't
• 53:21
  happen. Yeah, Uh, I really like Archies. Okay, uh,
• 53:25
  you know we usually go there Sunday night after work. See'all. Are
• 53:30
  you know cr regular? See you know Todd behind the bar, Hutch behind
• 53:34
  the bar. All good dudes. Great community's by the way, it's funny
• 53:38
  ask that question because there really is a strong community of service industry people that
• 53:45
  we all know each other. You know, I want to I don't want
• 53:49
  to sound selfish, but I kind of call storage home base for you know,
• 53:52
  because you know me and can't have been there twenty five years almost,
• 53:55
  so we've seen people come and go. But you know Josh at SBC,
• 54:00
  and you know the guys at Elis Drew and all those cats over there,
• 54:04
  and then you got the guys at Archies and everyone is Citrus, and Citrus
• 54:07
  is a big spot for me too. Nice. You know, I lived
• 54:10
  near Dive Bar, so okay, I'll hang out. I know that's West
• 54:14
  Aven, but yeah, you know I know everyone. I used to work
• 54:16
  there, so you know, okay, good friends of the owner. So
• 54:21
  so you know in Fortellities, the voice are for Tellies. You know,
• 54:24
  they're they're always uh, they come in late night on Friday and Saturday when
• 54:28
  they work their asses off all day and just want to wind unwind a little
• 54:31
  bit and have a drink with me. So so you guys support each other,
• 54:37
  yea and Colony. I go see Lance at Colony, like I try
• 54:40
  to you know, hit most of them. Uh, but I would say
• 54:45
  I would say Dive, Archies, Citrus, not in that order, you
• 54:49
  know, just probably the three. I would probably stop it in the most.
• 54:52
  But on my nights off like with like with going out with my girlfriend,
• 54:54
  we try to get out of Dodge. So like we went we went
• 54:59
  to uh dock Side on a Thursday night and I walked in. I'm like,
• 55:04
  I don't want to be here. She's like why, I'm like,
• 55:07
  I fucking know everyone here? Oh really, Like it's not it's just I
• 55:09
  just like want to have dinner with my girlfriend. Yeah, you know,
• 55:13
  and it's I love everybody, but like some days you're just like, what
• 55:16
  are they talking to you about the podcast? No? Not really no,
• 55:20
  I just I just know them, like you hit them all personally and like
• 55:22
  you know, on a personal level, not just from the bar. And
• 55:27
  it's just like, you know, and she's always like, you fucking you
• 55:30
  should be the bear Milford. You know everybody, And I'm like I'm wanting
• 55:34
  us no job I want. I'm not qualified second of all. And uh,
• 55:37
  you know, it's just that's why we like, you know, we
• 55:39
  actually had up the shoreline. We go to Westbrook, this place called oh
• 55:45
  Man, what the he's the name of it. It's a little burger joint
• 55:47
  right on Route one and Westbrook. We kind of discovered it years ago,
• 55:52
  and we'll hit there twice this summer. Just take a ride up, get
• 55:54
  out of Dodge. You know, I don't need to know anybody. Yeah,
• 55:58
  you know, almost meet new people, talk to the bartender, I
• 56:00
  don't know, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, but I love
• 56:02
  all the bars downtown. I try to you know, I go to SBC,
• 56:07
  I go to you know, Elis, And I can tell you this
• 56:09
  being the mayor. It's a lifestyle. Yeah, oh definitely, definitely.
• 56:15
  I mean I move around a lot. I want to support, you know,
• 56:20
  all the businesses you know in any way. I asked Ben Blake when
• 56:23
  he was on the show. I said, I assassd them two questions.
• 56:27
  What's one are your hidden gems of Milford the restaurant wise that people wouldn't know,
• 56:30
  and what like if you have a favorite restaurant and he wouldn't answer.
• 56:34
  He wouldn't. Hey he's a politician. Come on, I could say,
• 56:37
  before you become mayor let me ask you, what are your what are your
• 56:40
  three favorite spots that you go to when Milford. I go to Stonebridge.
• 56:45
  I always feel comfortable there. I've been going there. You have to remember,
• 56:47
  though, when the Capitol Theater was next door, right right, that's
• 56:52
  how far back? Yeah, I mean that I became twenty one. Yeah,
• 56:57
  that was that was the place where I went, you know, and
• 57:01
  I've been going back there ever since. And I remember walking in the bar
• 57:05
  at that time. Richie. I don't know if you know this or not,
• 57:07
  you probably do. Had it's kind of like this, Yeah, all
• 57:12
  all these autographs from all these golf tournaments, all these professional football players,
• 57:15
  and you know, he's just kind of I can't believe he took it down.
• 57:17
  I used to love walking through there. Yeah, you know, that's
• 57:21
  like old school. Yeah, you know, so I think it was like
• 57:23
  through his father, was it. Yeah, So it's well he I think
• 57:28
  his father had some kind of ties to the Redskins. Okay, so he
• 57:30
  knew all the Redskins and knew you know, the Hogs, all those guys.
• 57:36
  And so when I was playing football, I always went to football camp,
• 57:38
  like offense defense, John Dockery football camp. So I met a lot
• 57:43
  of those guys you know that played back then. You know a lot of
• 57:45
  the Jets guys. You know, Tony Dorsett was at offense defense. So
• 57:52
  you know, yeah, Richie introduced me to the doorset at the casino once,
• 57:54
  did he Yeah? Yeah. And Joe Dyisman yeah he uh he.
• 58:00
  He just had a I'm trying to get in my podcast. But Lawrence Phillips,
• 58:06
  No, not Lawrence Phillips, he's dead. Tommy Frasier the quarterback for
• 58:09
  Lawrence Phillips. So Tommy Frasier was Nebraska quarterback in the nineties. I think
• 58:15
  he went back to back national championships. He got drafted, but he had
• 58:22
  a real bad like hip injury or some kind of leg injury, and it
• 58:25
  just it just never healed and he just never could perform. Like if he
• 58:29
  were to be drafted. I had a conversation with my best friend and I
• 58:31
  said, if he were to be like playing today's game and drafted, like
• 58:35
  he's like Lamar Jackson, like that was you know, kind of run first
• 58:38
  but could still throw and there's a highlight of him and he broke like ten
• 58:44
  tackles. It was like one of the most famous highlights in the NCAA Championship
• 58:47
  game against Miami. And he was sitting at the corner of my buck as
• 58:52
  they do all the Walter Camp stuff. So they had the golf they do
• 58:57
  the golf tournament in the summer, and they do the Walter Camp founday in
• 59:00
  January. So Richie brings them all down and they have dinner, and he
• 59:04
  just sat He sat in my corner like you know, I worked that bar
• 59:07
  when he first walk in. Yeah, campy corners like to the left.
• 59:09
  Yeah. He sat in my corner for four hours, just drinking vodka Red
• 59:14
  Bulls, talking to every girl that walked up to like the character a character.
• 59:17
  I'm like, dude, I gave him my card, like you gotta
• 59:20
  come on the show. He's like, yeah, I'm down. But he's
• 59:22
  got no social media. I don't know how to get a hold of him.
• 59:24
  So I'm like kind of getting on Richie, like, Yo, call
• 59:27
  your boy Tommy, tell him to come on the show. What are these
• 59:30
  people drinking now? I feel like everyone in general, it's all gone to
• 59:32
  the rtts. They called the Seltzers, the Seltzers, the High Noons,
• 59:36
  the White Claws, these Vivas, stuff like that. So it's is it
• 59:39
  relatively easy to be a bartender? Not? You don't have to mix as
• 59:43
  many drinks? Would you already have? See I started personality, So yes,
• 59:45
  if you have the personality, you can figure out the rest as you
• 59:49
  go, all right. When I could, I could when I used to
• 59:52
  do hiring. Yeah, and I have a Merriott background as well. You
• 59:57
  you would sit down here and I would talk to you for about a minute.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah, I'd be like I would know right away he's got it or
• 1:00:02
  doesn't, and you got it? I got it? Got it? Listen,
• 1:00:07
  I gotta tell you sometimes I walk up. You need the job if
• 1:00:08
  you don't become This is an interview right now. Sometimes it's not. It's
• 1:00:13
  not easy getting a drink though. At a bar you have to make eye
• 1:00:15
  contact with the bartender, and some of them do they do it like on
• 1:00:19
  purpose. They almost like sometimes not look at you, I am because they're
• 1:00:24
  like one that like I I peripherally see you. Yeah. Uh. If
• 1:00:30
  if I know you've been waiting a little bit, yeah, I'll do the
• 1:00:32
  eye contact and give you like you know, like like your next okay thing
• 1:00:36
  cool not to toot my own horn or camps. We're so fucking fast.
• 1:00:42
  Yeah, like you really don't have to wait at our bar like oyster FETs
• 1:00:45
  gets a little crazy because one we know everybody, so our names are being
• 1:00:50
  screamed all day. Wow you know dog dog k Okay, it's like you
• 1:00:53
  have to fight. I know what you drink, I'll get it in a
• 1:00:54
  second, you know, Like I don't know this person. I gotta ask
• 1:00:58
  it what they want, you know, so but yeah I don't. I
• 1:01:00
  don't get too overwhelmed there. Sometimes I'm always surfess. It gets a little
• 1:01:04
  like because it's such a long day too. Yeah, but you're gonna have
• 1:01:07
  help though, right, It's not just gonna be your just me and camp
• 1:01:10
  behind that bar and a bar back. Yeah that's all we need. You're
• 1:01:14
  gonna hold it down. D You have no idea these kids today, Like
• 1:01:19
  I got some good kids at work. But like like I go to bars,
• 1:01:22
  like I go, you know, I travel a little bit, and
• 1:01:24
  when I go, I'm just like just kind of what you just said,
• 1:01:27
  Like, you know, sometimes it's it's kind of hard to get a drink
• 1:01:30
  sometimes and and I'm you know, I've been doing this forever and I just
• 1:01:32
  I just look. I'll like this, how stupid. I am like,
• 1:01:36
  I'll look behind the bar to see how they're set up. Are they set
• 1:01:39
  up for failure or they set up for success? You're studying, like like
• 1:01:45
  when people come behind my bar, like bartenders I work with, and they'll
• 1:01:47
  be like, it's so easy over here. I'm like, because we make
• 1:01:50
  it easy. It just set it it up correctly. Know what people want,
• 1:01:54
  know what liquors need to be in the well, have your fruit,
• 1:01:58
  have everything. Just just streamline, streamline and streamline it and it's easy.
• 1:02:01
  And I go, I remember when the Buffalo Wild Wings opened at the mall.
• 1:02:06
  Yeah, it was on my birthday, whatever year it was, oh,
• 1:02:08
  seven, oh nine, whatever, went there and I merely looked behind
• 1:02:13
  the bar and their whole speed well was filled with like creamed the banana and
• 1:02:16
  triple sec and I'm like that that is not a recipe for success. And
• 1:02:22
  we took forever to get Drakes there, and you know, people running into
• 1:02:25
  each other and bouncing off each other. But you guys, you guys run
• 1:02:29
  a tight ship. And you know, I just noticed that going to other
• 1:02:31
  places. You know, some people you know, they don't. You know
• 1:02:37
  a lot of it's training too, is it, Yeah, I mean with
• 1:02:40
  anything else. Yeah, I mean it's not hard to open. You know,
• 1:02:45
  a can of white claw. What's the big flavor though, I mean
• 1:02:47
  you got so many flavors, right, black chair and the white claw.
• 1:02:51
  We carry the watermelon, pineapple, the high noon, the vehicle we carry
• 1:02:53
  the huckleberry and grapefruit. But the new craze now is the surface. So
• 1:03:00
  that's a hard iced tea. So I see you got a hat on,
• 1:03:04
  yes, and tease tease the viva. Yeah, tell me about that.
• 1:03:07
  So those are tequila Seltzer's. Wow. So they actually are very good,
• 1:03:15
  but their their thing is, you know, tequila. Tequila's kind of the
• 1:03:19
  new craze. Like we we sell probably just as much as tequil as we
• 1:03:22
  do vodka now, and a lot of it's because it's classified as healthier for
• 1:03:28
  you. Yeah, it's less calories, it's it's cleaner, it's cleaner.
• 1:03:31
  But in the Seltzer form, well, so I know I'm talking, I'm
• 1:03:36
  talking regular tequila, so less, the hangover is less, there's less sugar,
• 1:03:43
  all that stuff. This is all good advice Yeah, so that boys
• 1:03:46
  Viva decided to do because you know, high Noon's all vodka. Everyone's doing
• 1:03:51
  vodka vodka. Well we're missing out on a tequila craze right now. And
• 1:03:55
  so they went to somebody in Mexico and branded out the tequila. And it's
• 1:04:00
  a litt tequila and Seltzer with natural flavorings and it's like eighty eight calories a
• 1:04:04
  can, zero sugar carbs, you know, and it's all about it's what
• 1:04:10
  it wants now, but it's all about calories. Yeah, you drink like
• 1:04:14
  a twisted tea. Yeah, it's got like fifty grams of carbs in one
• 1:04:16
  twisted tea can and like all this sugar. Wow, they taste good,
• 1:04:21
  but yeah, it's terrible for you. Right, You're better up drinking a
• 1:04:25
  coke, you know, with vodka in it. What do you like to
• 1:04:28
  drink? I am a Viva guy, Okay, I drink the Seltzer's.
• 1:04:32
  Uh. I will do a vodka soda Tito soda every once in a while.
• 1:04:38
  I like tetos. Yeah, and I'm a Jamison guyre you go.
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  Yeah, Saint Patrick's Day, Yeah, that's that's a big day for me.
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  So stuff gets consumed I think it's a big day for Jamison, so
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  yeah, yeah, they do well that day. I love walking in the
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  sea. I drink Tetos. Yeah yeah, I'm not I'm not a big
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  drinker. No no, no, I don't really even consider myself a drinker,
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  but you know, I'd like to have a drink once in a while.
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  But I gotta tell you, walking in that Saint Patrick's Day parade,
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  yea, through all the years that I've been on the board of Alderman is
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  like one of the best parades ever. I gotta tell you. It's just
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  everybody comes out, there's so much energy. Then everybody goes out afterwards,
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  and you guys have the rum Runners on set Patty's Day too, right yeah,
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  I mean you guys, what do you like book them like in you
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  you know what? No, they it's just it's just it's all hat now,
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  like we don't everyone knows. It's easy. Yeah. Yeah. They
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  love playing there, We love having them and uh you know it's funny like
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  the year of COVID, right, yeah, so we shut down the parade
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  got canceled last minute. I never Marty rest is so hard. H yeah,
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  Marty, he was on the board. Yep. And he came in
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  and he said, uh, you know, I think we're gonna do it.
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  That was like Tuesday or Wednesday, and Thursday they shut it down and
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  then we all knew. We're like, are we even gonna be open like
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  at all? Like when are they shutting the restaurants down? Because I mean,
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  we're smart people. We see what's going on, what's getting shut down
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  every day at work. And so they shut the NSA tournament down, they
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  shut this down, this down't know, they're not going to allow all these
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  people in stone Ridge. There's no fucking way. So the phrade gets canceled.
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  We're like, well, there's no protocols yet. Ben hasn't told us
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  anything. So we just opened the patio and I was so proud of everyone
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  that showed up that day. It was like the parade happened. It was
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  crazy, and then two days later it was over. It was over,
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  and uh, you know that's what we got. We gotta we gotta work
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  on getting more people to come out for the veterans. So that is accurate.
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  I think it's a shame. I think somebody had just posted the other
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  day about the Milford Little League girls softball team. It's a great run.
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  They had two years in a row. Just I think they just got tired,
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  they played so many days in a row. But somebody that's, you
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  know, is there a parade for them? And somebody had mentioned, well
• 1:07:15
  why don't they march at the Veterans Day parade? Perfect? And some you
• 1:07:19
  know, you get the Schneide remarks and then you get but somebody's like,
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  you know what, that's a great idea, because you know that that parade,
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  whether it's injected through something like that or more organically, but it needs
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  more people, it needs more presents, and especially over a drunk. As
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  much as we love Saint Patrick's Day, it means nothing to us but drinking,
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  you know where the veterans don't. I don't they don't get their respect
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  they deserve. Yeah, I don't feel well, we have, you know,
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  done a lot for the veterans, and I think we should work on
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  possibly doing more. I think there's always work that needs to be done.
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  And I agree, I would love to have more people, you know,
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  come to that parade. You know, I don't do it all the time,
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  but I try to. I try to always think a veteran when I
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  see him. Yeah, I can't say him a hundred percent on it,
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  but yeah, you know, I'm batting over five hundred though, like I
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  try to be conscious of it. Yeah, you know, my grandfather was
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  World War Two and wow, my father wasn't the army, but he just
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  missed being deployed to Vietnam. But he's, you know, a veteran of
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  the army, but he never served overseas. But you know, it's just
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  these guys have helped me do this and have you freedom of speech right,
• 1:08:30
  you know, you know, and if it wasn't for them, right,
• 1:08:33
  I wouldn't have elections. We'd be speaking German. Who knows, who knows
• 1:08:39
  what it would be right? But God blessed the veterans. Yeah, you
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  know, I I don't know. I'm really excited about this, this election.
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  You know, it's an open seat. There's a lot of energy.
• 1:08:54
  I can see you. We got a lot of Yeah, you know,
• 1:08:57
  I'm knocking on doors, which is always cool. It's just sometimes people think
• 1:09:00
  I'm selling like Jehovah's witness over like solar panels. You know, you walk
• 1:09:05
  up, you know, and you got your palm cards in your hand,
• 1:09:11
  and no, no, I'm all set. I got offered a John to
• 1:09:14
  solar panels. And I was on like a call and I called a guy
• 1:09:17
  and I said, before I waste ended for your fucking time. Is this
• 1:09:21
  door to door? He says yes. I said, sorry, I mean
• 1:09:27
  I know it was, but like I don't know, it's crazy, all
• 1:09:30
  right, So Tuesday August twenty second, Stormbridge. Yes, six to eight.
• 1:09:34
  They're probably gonna go longer than eight. I'm actually, uh, well,
• 1:09:38
  you'll see it through Instagram. I'm gonna post a picture of us and
• 1:09:41
  put a picture of the this fundraiser. There's a QR code, one of
• 1:09:45
  those fancy cure cads. Scan it. Donate through there. Again, not
• 1:09:49
  a mandatory, but please be generous. Yeah, you know he's he's spending
• 1:09:55
  a lot of his time and energy to help this town be better. I
• 1:10:00
  think the town is great, but improvements are always made. Absolutely. If
• 1:10:03
  you want to stay great, you've got to keep working. Yeah, you
• 1:10:08
  could visit Tony G from Milford dot com www dot Tony G from Milford dot
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  com. And you have the same sites on Instagram and yes, is that
• 1:10:15
  Instagram? Facebook? And you know Tony and twenty three Tony G. I
• 1:10:20
  like that twenty three. Uh and also for me. My website was tempered.
• 1:10:29
  I'm still kind of new to this ship. So I got a website
• 1:10:30
  too, Dot Day Drinking with Dog dot com. It's up. There's some
• 1:10:34
  merch on there now. The shows you can link right through it mean I
• 1:10:39
  released. This show goes right through the websites. You can watch it on
• 1:10:42
  there. Uh my YouTube channel. You could actually see Tony in person on
• 1:10:45
  YouTube that will be loaded up later tonight. Uh Day Drinking with Dog.
• 1:10:48
  Just look it up on YouTube. My channels right on there. And I'm
• 1:10:54
  sorry, I'm not going to be there Tuesday. I'm gonna be actually,
• 1:10:57
  I think I'm gonna be on a one of those tiki hotbar is to go
• 1:11:00
  out in the water. Yeah, yeah, up at Lake Winnipisaki. Okay,
• 1:11:03
  Yeah, my girlfriend booked it. So well you enjoy. I'll send
• 1:11:06
  you a little little selfie, a little FaceTime. Yeah, please do absolutely,
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  I'll be thinking of you. And after the show, right now,
• 1:11:14
  we'll pick a date. We'll have you back on September early October. Really
• 1:11:18
  start ramping up the election season. Well, thank you, Jeremy. I
• 1:11:23
  appreciate I look forward to coming back. And you know, the campaigns in
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  full swing. Yep, and you know there's always more to talk about,
• 1:11:30
  absolutely, and I appreciate you actually, uh, I don't think people realize
• 1:11:33
  where really goes into politics at the time. You got to spend and you
• 1:11:38
  know, and you know when you become mayor how how your life will change,
• 1:11:42
  absolutely know for the better, for the better, absolutely And I would
• 1:11:46
  love to have you as our mayor. So you know, you got my
• 1:11:48
  vote and maybe we can set something up and have a little heart to heart
• 1:11:53
  with the challenger. It sounds like you just gave me an endorsement. Thank
• 1:11:59
  you can't do that until the debate, Okay, Tony, thanks so much
• 1:12:02
  for coming on my friend. We will talk to you in about a month
• 1:12:04
  or so. And again go check him out Tuesday or you'll see him around
• 1:12:09
  Saturday for the Oysterfest and always good weather at the Oysterfest and that Tuesday as
• 1:12:14
  well. So thanks for listening. Guys, I'll talk to you soon.
• 1:12:16
  Thanks Tom, Thank you,