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December 31, 2025 · The Hot Line w/ Jeff Graham

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[SPEAKER_20]: Depend on it.
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[SPEAKER_20]: This is CBS News on the hour sponsored by Progressive Insurance on Christopher Cruz at the Vatican.
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[SPEAKER_18]: A ceremony giving thanks for 2025 in Hong Kong.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Twenty-twenty-six has already arrived, a double dose of security is planned for time square, says CBS's Elaine Kehano.
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[SPEAKER_12]: While the NYPD says there are no credible threats to the event this year, the department says it's ramping up security.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Officers will now be screening people even beyond the main points of entry as an additional measure, with metal detector checks inside the secure viewing areas.
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[SPEAKER_18]: In New Orleans, security for New Year's is especially tight.
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[SPEAKER_18]: One year after a truck attack on Burban Street left 14 dead, 350 national guardsmen have deployed to the city.
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[SPEAKER_18]: President Trump is railing against Somali's in Minnesota again.
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[SPEAKER_18]: CBS News correspondent Michael Wallace has that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: On truth social, the president claimed that to 90% of the alleged fraud in Minnesota is caused by people here illegally from Somalia.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The House Oversight Committee has scheduled a hearing on that alleged fraud in Minnesota's social services programs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tuesday, the Trump administration froze all federal child care funding for Minnesota after a conservative YouTuber claimed it does an empty-date care center's receive state funds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: CBS News found some safety violations at those daycares but no recorded evidence of fraud.
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[SPEAKER_18]: White House press secretary Caroline Levitt tells Fox that federal fraud investigators are going to cast a wide net.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Minnesota is the top of the list, but we know there has been massive fraud in blue states across this country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Look at California, look at New York.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These states will all be under investigation and consideration as far as this administration is concerned.
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[SPEAKER_18]: long with a new year will come new and much higher health insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans in Pennsylvania this woman worries about increasing cost for prescription meds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_30]: She says if this isn't softer husband won't be able to retire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to choose health insurance or a house payment.
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[SPEAKER_30]: Cover California says premiums for its average customer will jump 97% and this man says it's like being in a wrap without being a steer Allison Keys CBS news surviving cancer and childhood has side effects later in life says CBS is Michael George.
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[SPEAKER_26]: study published in JAMA found that childhood cancer survivors experienced brain aging six years faster than people who didn't have cancer.
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[SPEAKER_26]: Researchers say the accelerated brain aging may be due to radiation treatments received during childhood.
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[SPEAKER_18]: The three major indices are down about one-quarter of one percent of this hour, gold down more than one percent.
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[SPEAKER_32]: Between all the holiday parties.
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[SPEAKER_36]: We can tailgates.
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[SPEAKER_32]: And family, get together.
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[SPEAKER_36]: We've been overindulging a little more than usual over the holidays.
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[SPEAKER_19]: New Year, new you, new Nordic.
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[SPEAKER_18]: So, what did you do in 2025?
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[SPEAKER_18]: If you're like most Americans, you spend a whole lot of time staring at screens.
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[SPEAKER_28]: A new study by reviews.org found that on average, Americans check their phones nearly 200 times per day, or about 1-5 minutes while awake.
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[SPEAKER_28]: Breaking it down even more, we spend 5 hours and 1 minute per day on our smart phones.
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[SPEAKER_28]: That's the equivalent of about 83 days per year.
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[SPEAKER_28]: But it's not just phone screens we are fixated on.
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[SPEAKER_28]: When you add in laptops, tablets, TVs and gaming consoles, the average person racked up 12 hours and 36 minutes on our devices each day.
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[SPEAKER_28]: Stacey Lynn, CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Do you remember the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes?
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[SPEAKER_18]: For many, it was one of their favorites, and they were devastated when creator Bill Waterson ended the strip after 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_18]: The final original Calvin and Hobbs appeared 30 years ago today, December 31, 1995.
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[SPEAKER_18]: Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
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[SPEAKER_27]: Tonight we'll be cold with intermittent snow and flurry is accumulating a coating to an inch, make sure to bundle up for new year's Eve celebrations with a low of two.
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[SPEAKER_27]: Comar will be frigid with periods of snow accumulating two to four inches, total snowfall from the Storm will be three to six inches, watch out for any heavier bursts of snow that could reduce visibility, and create slippery road conditions with a high up 10 to Marnight will be mostly cloudy and frigid with a chance of a snow shower dropping to two below zero.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Quarry, the destination for all your crushed limestone in the North Country, and Watertown Appliance, the proud studio sponsor for the hotline with Jeff The hotline with Jeff Graham and I am Jeff Graham on the hotline, and here we are on New Year's Eve, the last day of 3,025.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's right, we usher in the New Year tonight.
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[SPEAKER_07]: usher.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Not the singer.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We just usher it in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I believe that happens at midnight this year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So anyway, I hope you have good plans for the night.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Things going on in the area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Our good friend, Buffy, Audit, or Brian's in Clayton, she'll be open all night.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She's the only all night place in the county this year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody else can be open until three.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Just so you know, if you're out and about, you're going to do that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They make sure you drive carefully and make arrangements to get around.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Um, that goes without saying and most people do trust me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Most people do.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And what else?
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's about it or maybe if you're just planning a quiet evening at home or maybe one of those people who goes out tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, because New Year's Day can sometimes be fun too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We will be back Friday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're not even know the office is closed that day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I said, I will be there because it's important that I be there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you know, just a day off for the sake of a day off.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, of course I will be off tomorrow as it's a family holiday, but, um, I'll be back Friday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_07]: 7, 5, 5, 12, 40, the phone number.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If you'd like to give us a call, what would you like to talk about today?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Anything in particular?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, the weather, it could get worse, but it's not bad now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's cold.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to be chilly for the next 10 days at least.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's winter, after all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It is winter.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What else?
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[SPEAKER_07]: We could get that snow belt activity moving north if the wind shift.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Remember, you've veteran weather people here in the North Country if the wind is coming.
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[SPEAKER_07]: out of the Southwest, that's bad for us, yep, right now it's coming out of the West.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So that's not bad for us because it keeps it down in the areas we don't care about.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And yesterday they got quite a bit of snow almost a couple feet in the Syracuse, the Salt City.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I guess they needed some salt yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But after doing your on the air,
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[SPEAKER_15]: afternoon Jeff during the water boil water crisis in the town.
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[SPEAKER_15]: The media was recording at various times about a water district called water town south through south water town.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Never heard of that before.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Do you know what that is?
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[SPEAKER_15]: Is that the two track on the little 11 there?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I believe it's probably the little litir tract which is right off of sunset origin at area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know that should be part of the city and that should be part of the city water system.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's what they're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's city water that goes there.
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[SPEAKER_15]: First time I'd ever seen that That terminology.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, okay.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Thanks for coming up.
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[SPEAKER_15]: Happy new year.
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[SPEAKER_15]: See you on the radio.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you Yes, here we are on the radio as we are every Monday through Friday at this time on this community broadcast to station You know what I found out today that story that we told you and it's not a bad thing and I'm good for them
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[SPEAKER_07]: The state of New York is leasing an entire floor at the key bank building.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's the one owned by Jay and Jay, and Bobby Ferris.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I talked to Mr. Ferris today.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's nothing wrong with it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's nothing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: When we say that, the people who are going to be there, the attorney general's office is moving from the state office building over to there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Tish.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Tish James.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, Tish or South won't be there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: but she might come up for the ribbon cutting in which I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure Jake and Bobby will get a hug from her.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know why, but, you know, it was reported in the water town times.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was like a million dollar ten-year deal.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good deal.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Makes the building viable and makes it, you know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Attractive for whatever sale, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm surprised is there's some problem with the state office building.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I thought the state office building was meant for state offices.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But in any event, Tish is moving in, moving in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, moving in with Jake and Bobby.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All righty.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What else is going on?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Things are going on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Stories have to accept cash as of tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't know stories didn't accept cash.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's for the debanked and bankless people out there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I thought the government wanted everybody to use cards, the key track of us.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Also, the minimum wage goes up tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They just raise it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They have no idea how it's going to get paid, but employers pay it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If you don't want to, you're engaged in wage theft.
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[SPEAKER_07]: To wage theft.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's one of the favorite terms in Albany.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Albany's got so many crazy rules and things they can do to ya.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And they just make them up in many cases.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But anyway, wait stuff, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, so if you don't want to pay, was it another 50 cents an hour?
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[SPEAKER_07]: And there's people who think, well, Kathy Hockel gave me a raise.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, she did.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I found a nice picture of the governor and I from a few years back I put it up on kind of jazzed up into a charcoal sketch or something on put it on my blog there it's a nice photo it's a nice photo yeah I'm by the nose you want that photo out there in a few months but you know for
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[SPEAKER_07]: 755-1240 the phone number if you'd like to give us a call to be on the show of shows Yeah, what else?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh Mayor mom-dommie.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mayor like mom-dommie takes office tonight That's right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Anti-shell be swearing him in a minute.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's a
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[SPEAKER_07]: all those are ceremonial you actually when the sign the oath of office book you you're in but should be tear swearing a minute midnight and then there's another ceremonial swearing in featuring a.o.c.
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[SPEAKER_07]: and senator sanders noon in front of city hall so what's going to happen in New York city i don't know i didn't bother me it doesn't bother me
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[SPEAKER_07]: After that nice meeting, the president had with the mayor like to, I don't feel bad about any of it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So what happened to the meme page?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Is that over with now that Olen was arrow and hick ear over with?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if I still going to be around.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What about this?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Sort of a parting shot, Councilman Olen filed ethics complaints against.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Mayor Pierce, Councilman, Kim Bola, and Councilman Schoen.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't seen him, so I don't know what they say.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That doesn't really matter because they're gonna, the Board of Ethics, they'll be told they have to convene at some point to come here and they'll be a hind-closed door session.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We'll wait 20 minutes and then come out and say, there's no basis for this to be taking no action.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's what will happen.
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[SPEAKER_07]: in my opinion but it means the ethics saga continues into the new year a little bit but since you know it's the only doesn't really have any places he can ventured spleen fiddle fade away people want to move on want to move on seven five five twelve forty the phone number good afternoon you're on the air
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good.
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[UNKNOWN]: Happy new year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Literally.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Another another another year for us, huh?
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[UNKNOWN]: I'll leave.
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[UNKNOWN]: Well, thank God for that, right?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
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[UNKNOWN]: Good.
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[UNKNOWN]: God, sure.
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[UNKNOWN]: I know we're not getting any younger here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, that's true.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But 2026 has come.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What's this year going to bring?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I have a question to ask you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_11]: uh-huh are there you know if any plans that are any plans that have have them built like around New York City Long Island Northern New Jersey Buffalo I don't know much about them.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't I figure it's you know that's for the future to worry about not me you know they move part of the one that's in clay out to Idaho Oh, that's the micron thing.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that's the data center.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, what is?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't, I don't believe any of that's going to happen, you know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[UNKNOWN]: Here.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I think Nimal is building something out near seven bridges in all toward Clayton.
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[SPEAKER_11]: There's big big thing out there, but I think it's connected with my car on all there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What are you talking about out there?
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know where they're needed.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Clayton?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Torred Clayton.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm in the perks river thing in there.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, don't cut it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I remember one of my buddies told me that this is big project out there being built.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I know they were redoing power lines.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know is it's anything to do with a data set or there's nothing that's a little too progressive for this area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We don't want that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Well, well, these data centers are going to be from what I understand going to be really prolific in future years.
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[SPEAKER_11]: But the data center we have here is not
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[SPEAKER_11]: designated as geospycific you know what I mean that you don't have to put it in Syracuse micro I imagine you could put them anywhere with today's technology but goodness gracious who put anything in it is that the funding with it that's why they move part of it out to outside a hole because they took part of the money that we're going to get and they built this thing out there reducing
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, but it's going to have that which is going to happen whenever they run right it's kind of like that solar panel thing out by the airport to me it's all hocus focus and You know solar panels they say I've had a conversation with Scott about this, but oh my god solar panels supposedly will will have a lifetime of 20 20 years, right?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now do you know about fusion power?
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[SPEAKER_11]: like instead of fishing like the small nuclear reactors that is going to go into drum and is a nothing another one per tip proposed to come just regionally for the area I hear they're putting one on division street no they can't do that there's a radio active down here that's just a rumor and I put it right next early creek or something I haven't seen the oil in a while but you know
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[SPEAKER_11]: uh... believe that grass i i managed to plant grass uh... for some and some parts of the grass goes we're going higher than the other ladies to say day your pair breaks making something new there you go but i don't know i don't know what's going on with all this i'm not an object anyway you know what does car came down here before christmas you know you know i'm gonna dead and right uh... around went back i said what the heck said i do it and then i realized what it was doing
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's a new substation they're building out by the seven bridges it's called it Yeah, oh, you knew that.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, you got to get some information about that good.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I didn't know But it's pretty pretty extensive out there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So what are your thoughts on the last day of Cliff Olnias?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Is it a sad day?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Cliff represents the lower class in this city
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[SPEAKER_11]: You know what I feel about the representation of the lower class on city council and city committees are not there are we part of that lower class were to be there and I think it should be there because they're not they don't have a direct representative yes you can elect representatives that are smart and no and all this but when they get when they have projects Jeff when you had a project you didn't chat to explain it to
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, let me ask you, though, as you can, you know what you say, you know what you say that you and I are a part of that lower class.
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[SPEAKER_11]: No.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You can be, you can vacation in Disneyland if you want.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, I know I could, but I don't know water, but no, are you saying we need it?
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[UNKNOWN]: I think we are.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm a senior citizen now and like my income has, our income hasn't adjusted like others that are getting jobs now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: because of the base you know what I heard the uh... minimum wages now did you hear what it was no fifteen dollars oh it's more than that it's like sixteen or something like that it's going up to sixteen dollars right yeah sixteen dollar what you know that you're yeah we still pay five repay five dollars an hour under the table
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[UNKNOWN]: right?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[UNKNOWN]: You got other calls, don't you?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we got one.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You don't see happy New Year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're here right now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we got something there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're going to bring up that reconstruction of Newell Street, somebody texted me and was seven and a half million.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Can we please open that up to two-way traffic and stop it just being like a sort of a dark and scary place where murders can occur and that we never hear what happened?
21:31
[SPEAKER_07]: Some people don't like those notices, but I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I need my, you know, I need them to hear about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, anyway, make it two way from, I don't know if Newell Street needs 7.5 million dollars, but what's down there, anyway?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, you know what's down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, there's the old Maggie's and there's a Garland City brewery, and there's that new little
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nice little area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, we're on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But they really should make that too way.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But the problem is, it's soon as, and I know because I suggested it before and so did Mayor Butler at the time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And we would just shot down and the planners said, oh, you can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And now he's in Vogue various state things like hippo and shippo and all of that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if
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[SPEAKER_07]: I say make it two ways if they're going to do anything on her otherwise they're wasting their money.
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[SPEAKER_07]: In my opinion, that's my opinion, I don't know if I'm entitled one.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, somebody says it's obvious when you're not paying any attention to a crawler.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I'm a multi-tasker, but I got to pay attention to a lot of things.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, somebody sent me a whole bunch of pictures of things I don't know what they are.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not interested in those.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So don't send me those.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And what else have we got here?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, we get something from the 6-O-Guy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: When it was always got an opinion on other people's men.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, I guess I didn't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Does everybody really pay 16 in that hour?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone like, oh, I'm so called minimum wages, 210 in an hour, a 205 in an hour.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if people really pay 16 if they don't have to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe they do.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, $20, or considered slave wages now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, we'll just have to see.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But anyway, those go up, you have to accept cash.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If a store says, we won't take cash, you can say, I'm going to turn you in because they love that here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I knew you were turning people in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that's about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've talked about New Year's, well, maybe on your mind, and what's on our mind, and all of that, we even had the cave man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Then we got to call her now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Hey, Mayor Graham, it's gunna, how will you do it?
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[SPEAKER_07]: By gunna, I won't have any new year.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Happy new year to you, too, buddy.
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[SPEAKER_13]: You feeling good?
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[SPEAKER_13]: You're ready for 26?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm ready.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, me too.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I'm doing better.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I'm doing better.
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[SPEAKER_13]: You know, I'd like your last caller.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I'd like these a very likable individual.
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[SPEAKER_13]: But a couple of corrections.
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[SPEAKER_13]: The thing in Syracuse is not a data sucker.
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[SPEAKER_13]: It's a semi-conductor manufacturing plant.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_13]: That's not a gate of summer.
24:53
[SPEAKER_13]: And I understand what you're saying about cliff, and I'm not down on cliff, but sir, with all due respect, the poor people of water town are the lower class that you say in water town.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Don't need a golf course.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And that's what Cliff brought us.
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[SPEAKER_13]: So I don't know where he's coming from.
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[SPEAKER_13]: that's confusing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now we got to decide what to do with it.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And all of these people I don't.
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[SPEAKER_13]: It's pretty well done.
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[SPEAKER_13]: We'll see what we do.
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[SPEAKER_13]: You have to take a couple of three years to figure out if it's done a make anything.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I got no problem with the golf course.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I got no problem with it.
25:33
[SPEAKER_13]: What I got a problem with is the way it was done and the way they fed all those millions to those developers.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, yeah, there's that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But also, um,
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, sure the city of gotten involved in running it, but really that was not just a cliff-oldy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That was the former city manager, Ken Mixie, who is a big one for more park land and all of that.
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[SPEAKER_16]: I heard that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And what happened when they did that whole deal and leave out the negotiations and the two guys who sold it and what I don't care about them.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They were just doing what they wanted to do, it was their business interest.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But you ended up taking property off the tax rules.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's no water bills now being sent, the electricity is all paid for by the city, and you don't get any even a modest amount of rent like they were before from the other nine holes.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So it's now, on the other hand, the owner at the time said he wasn't making it and wanted out, and then a city, I don't know what they want, oh, they re-zoned it all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So that pushed, I guess it was Mr. Lundy to want to sell it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's my understanding.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And of course, they had willing participants in Hikki and Olnay and Rosero.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And well, they, they, remember, they lied.
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[SPEAKER_13]: They said it was profitable.
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[SPEAKER_13]: You know, that it was never profitable.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And it would never be profitable, or unlikely.
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[SPEAKER_13]: But I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, if you want to go, of course, by it is good.
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[SPEAKER_13]: we didn't have to give a bunch of money under the table to the developers.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I don't think it was under the table.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think it was a legal purchase.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's easy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They've been trying to make it sound like those this great crime.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And it's been investigated at Nazium.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's not that it's a crime.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's a decision that many people myself included happened to disagree with.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, that doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But just because
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[SPEAKER_13]: something's done doesn't make it a crime now that said what do you do in the future i don't know i i'd like to see some kind of new ideas for Thompson park but i don't see that happening so i think they just got into a thing were the hate smith so much smith hates them they hate smith hate smith hate smith i know goes back and forth that whatever smith wanted
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[SPEAKER_13]: So they had to have a hecky in them lying right up.
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[SPEAKER_13]: It was the same with the pool.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Only a fool would think we needed as many pools as we ended up building.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And yet, you know, you know, spent in one pool, therefore, at least on and careful, had to have a pool.
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[SPEAKER_13]: And they had, they had their three folks in there.
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[SPEAKER_13]: You can't make that all decisions based on hatred.
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[SPEAKER_13]: i mean we see that on the national level i mean you know how many people i mean like to say trump could cure cancer and dandy would come out say you know i kind of like cancer you know i mean if some people are against him so much that that they it controls every decision they make too bad but but i think that's where we're at yeah i guess so uh... what else is concerned with the water i mean what is what happened
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[SPEAKER_13]: We had turgid water or something.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Turbid.
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[SPEAKER_13]: What caused it?
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[SPEAKER_13]: Turbid.
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[SPEAKER_13]: What caused that?
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[SPEAKER_07]: That beats me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They said it was a once in a lifetime, once in a millennium.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Whether or not I don't really know, but we're not, you don't need it enough.
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[SPEAKER_13]: We don't need to know, do we?
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[SPEAKER_07]: No.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Just listen, I want you to have a great year.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I want you to feel good.
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[SPEAKER_13]: I'm going to listen to the show and and I I really appreciate both shows and I appreciate the hotline and hang in there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I will.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Bye now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's the gun nut.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't heard from him in a while.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good to hear from.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We'll be back with more in a moment.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh, oh, spaghetti.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was well.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We got to fix that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Here we are.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Happy New Year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's Samantha from Alex Bay.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What can we do for you?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, well, let's see.
33:29
[SPEAKER_06]: I had a list of my long and my stockings.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, well, don't, we don't need to hear it all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So...
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[SPEAKER_06]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh boy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm really not doing anything here last time I looked at him I'm not near a window here, but hey, what what do you get planned for New Year's anything special?
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm well just saying put I have yet to but I am definitely going to stay up to New Year's.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Seeing your citizens need their rest, so...
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't blame you there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, no particular plans for tonight, no revelry, not going to hit the town.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I am going to watch what is it, Ryan C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C.
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[SPEAKER_06]: uh... anniversary of our country is here isn't it uh... believe it is yes that would be seventeen seventy six plus two fifty equals uh-huh two thousand twenty six yeah it's going to be interesting i think uh... i don't know i have a big red white and blue celebration uh... i can see it on youtube all those uh... with Donald Trump there's even one i don't know if you watch the baby network at all
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, I don't it's Dick Clark is where I was referring to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, um, the, uh, well, you don't have any special plans that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, he wants to face on the, um, you know, the new year's ball.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And it's like a, it's quite a tradition has been going on for now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're going to drop it twice tonight.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Once for new years and once for the, uh, kick off of the 250th year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So, um,
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[SPEAKER_07]: What a strange coincidence, the 250th anniversary of the nation and Trump is president.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's really got to bother some people.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it might do us some good.
35:54
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I really hope those stimulus texts start coming in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Did you get your $200 from Kathy Hockel?
36:07
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I'm sorry you hear that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now the president has talked about Terrific bonuses or something.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I am so yeah, I see that And it's nice.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It looks nice.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if we'll really get one Well, I hope we do maybe I can go to Disneyland for I've never been there.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I can't believe you don't want to go Well, I don't want to do anything
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[SPEAKER_07]: I enjoy it, ladies and gentlemen.
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[SPEAKER_06]: What about having a tournament ice, gravel tournament, or a domino of numerals tournament and staying up till midnight?
36:48
[SPEAKER_07]: No, wow.
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[SPEAKER_06]: With all the hotline colors, do you want to do that?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, come on.
36:57
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I wanted excitement I could have had a stage dream and get some hose and blow or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I'm not doing that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We can have our balance to ring.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We'll cheer you up.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We'll sing shit all according to the speed for God.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, anyway, thank you so much Samantha.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's a pleasure.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You have a very happy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Bye.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Bye.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, boy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: New Year's with her.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hi.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hi.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All righty, 755, 1240, the phone number, if you want to talk about your New Year's Eve, the year gone by, or the year ahead, what are you looking for in your city government?
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[SPEAKER_07]: You have any dreams and aspirations.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think these people should be doing?
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[SPEAKER_07]: What's the priority?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Or just model along and do as they're told.
37:57
[SPEAKER_07]: There's anybody been over in a marble street yet to see if that fountain is still there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I keep forgetting to drive over there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I got it, they took that away to scrap.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Whoever made that decision should be fired.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's a piece of art.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's a piece of art.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well,
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what happened, but maybe if somebody's out and about, if you're over near marble street, drive by and let us know, okay?
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[SPEAKER_07]: How many years have I been doing this?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Some people say too many, right?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Some people would say too many, you know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No and We'll be closing up by that
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[SPEAKER_07]: last call it'd be probably 240 or somewhere in there and I don't know are there somebody else ask are there any places open bar tonight no there are not I don't think yeah I don't think there are there's there's a there's a bring your own club in town but I as far as you know stuff for free I don't think so
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43:37
[SPEAKER_07]: We could just a few minutes left in this year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And what a year it was.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What happened in 2025, here locally?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Goodness gracious.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was a year of ethics.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was a year of more ethics.
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[SPEAKER_07]: it was a year for billable hours and really the question as we this new year dawns the mayor I think wants to bring back that Todd ballard is city attorney which means he says not got to come and do the in in council meeting stuff because that's considered you know undesirable work filled the one all the other work too but is that where the city's gonna go or also this Mr. Clapper who has a practice here in water town don't know much about him nice resume
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[SPEAKER_07]: Um, certainly seems like he has a range of experience, but I don't know, and they don't seem willing to consider the idea because they're being pushed in one direction by the third floor, the idea of in-house counsel.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They don't want that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I'm not that they don't want it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think with all due respect, I don't think we need out of town law firms with no connection to the community, and no real knowledge of what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Say what you want about Bob Sly, at least he had a knowledge of what's going on up here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the same thing with Burrows when he was over there, but these other people, I'm not saying they're bad people, I'm not saying they're not qualified, I'm not saying anything.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And just saying we don't need people driving up from Rochester with the clock running and then they want to go to Pete's restaurant, and that gets put on the city tab too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We don't need that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, we just don't need it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hello, good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Good afternoon, you're on the air.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Get us as Anthony Thompson's, you know, I talked to my favorite man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I thank you, our sir, how are you doing?
45:38
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You're running for Congress, right?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it seems to be the case.
45:44
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, where you been lately?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Over, I heard you were over in Spain.
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[SPEAKER_14]: And now, you know, I've been enjoying time with family, because I don't know the congressional race is going to be very demanding.
45:53
[SPEAKER_14]: And I told my family, said, how old age is family?
45:55
[SPEAKER_14]: And then it's full steam ahead, getting to getting out, and meeting all the voters.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Travel around with some major events, plan.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I have three major events, plan.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I think everybody knows.
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[SPEAKER_14]: My vans are huge and young, really excited with the potential to really turn new York around.
46:11
[SPEAKER_14]: I think what happened in Minnesota was the dam breaking.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We saw all the illegal immigrant fraud in Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I believe a lot of it's happening in New York State, two or over 800,000 illegal's were let into New York State.
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[SPEAKER_14]: So it was great to see.
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[SPEAKER_14]: positive movement in the country over the holidays with the exquisite on all the illegal immigrant fraud and Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We got to look into what's happening here sale over 800,000 illegal immigrants.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's the key to addressing affordability.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're right, but you've got to face a primary against Mr. Smallen, who's now been endorsed by the assembly leaders minority leader, Mr. Barkley, I think.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I was not going to work out.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's going to be a tough reason.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Well, I think everybody will let her put my name on a poll.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I come out way ahead of everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_14]: So the horrible thing about Mr. Simone, I personally think he shouldn't even be running.
47:06
[SPEAKER_14]: He was arrested for telling me tax, rawity, never endorse the president.
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[SPEAKER_14]: These kinds of candidates hurt for Republican Party.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I want to grow their Republican Party in New York State when voters see how candid on
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[SPEAKER_14]: tax law to make for public and party.
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[SPEAKER_14]: McCormle, even a candidate arrested for felony tax law that makes the party look horrible.
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[SPEAKER_14]: So I don't know why his fellow swamp creatures are endorsing him.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It makes the party look horrible.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It hurts us in New York state.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It really hurts us in the country.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We had one of the best Congress people in the country representing us at least the fondant shit of perfect records.
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[UNKNOWN]: She's a very ethical person.
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[UNKNOWN]: Conduct yourself with the highest of that thick throughout her entire entire life.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We can't replace Lisa Fondick from the other rest of her felony tax fraud.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It's going to be a total embarrassing for her public abartion.
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[SPEAKER_14]: The good news is that's not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, one of the things, oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Way ahead and polls.
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[SPEAKER_07]: One of the things with Stefana getting out of the governor's race.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I should choose popular up here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And you lose that coat tail effect that, you know, God bless Mr. Blakeman.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's not going to have coat tails up in this area.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that hurts in the congressional race against
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[SPEAKER_14]: All the good news is, I'm going to be one of the most exciting people in Congress once I get in.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm going to be a very exciting Congress person who has been through this year and has been for a variety of largest congressional announcements in American history over 3,000 people.
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[SPEAKER_14]: It's my correctional mouth number.
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[SPEAKER_14]: You're having massive rallies that's going to help the Republican Party stay wide.
48:38
[SPEAKER_14]: I want to help the Looper's Blakeman win.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm the best candidate to do it.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I actually got to know him a few months ago.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We had dinner along with Byron Donald's another race Republican.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I got to know him.
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[SPEAKER_14]: he delivered in terms of crime, he reduced crime, massively, and that's outcounty, that's something we need to do in New York State Armed Physicians to help him win.
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[SPEAKER_14]: We need to push him across the same time, we need to get him to win and turn New York State RedUP and say, since they want him in his turn, New York Red, I think that's the biggest victory we could possibly have for all citizens.
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[SPEAKER_14]: The Democratic Citizens don't understand, they think I am mad at them, I love our Democratic Citizens, many of them work for me, many of them buy for me, I love our Democratic Citizens, my problem with the Democratic Party, because I know it's destroying
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[SPEAKER_14]: okay well uh... at midnight to uh... mr. madam dot me takes over a new york and he thought and embarrassing while situation is total embarrassment and it's a total embarrassment and uh... you know it's similar to the back of what's happening in some oddly we have to take strong action against whatever's going on with regards to us bringing in people from countries where they don't really think well of us you can look at some on the bottom of the rhetoric he hate police officers
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[SPEAKER_14]: He hates the Jewish community.
49:49
[SPEAKER_14]: He hates Italian.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He gives the middle finger to Christopher Columbus.
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[UNKNOWN]: It's insane.
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[SPEAKER_14]: He's a disgusting person, and we need to take a strong look at how we're letting people into our country that come here with intentions to hurt us, and they come here to smart us and you could do if you're coming from a foreign country with the intention to hurt us as run for office and a democratic party, because the democratic party just embraces you and are scared to be called the citizens of the scared to be called racist, or whatever I'm not fearful of that one bit, because I have friends from all over the world.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I speak three languages.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm not scared of
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[SPEAKER_14]: that one bit he's not a good person has nothing to do with racism he's here because he doesn't like the country's on record saying he's from a country called you've gone that we're eighty-seven percent of citizens vote to kill gay people he hangs out with people and you've gone to that vote to kill gay people he hates just better when he's not your help if he's your artist just like ill and Omar and all these disgusting people that we found in Minnesota I hope
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[SPEAKER_14]: A lot of them go to jail.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I'm not just talking about the smelly.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I personally don't care if the smelly citizens go to jail.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I think it's just a portal who cares a three or four, 20 smelly citizens go to jail.
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[UNKNOWN]: We need to get to the heart of who's behind us in the democratic party.
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[SPEAKER_14]: That's the deal.
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[SPEAKER_14]: The smelly citizens in the come over here from some audience come up with the idea on their own.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_14]: Window all this month.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, sounds like you got your message focused and I hope you have a good New Year's Eve and you know, keep in touch, okay?
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[SPEAKER_14]: Thank you so much Mr. Mayor and I hope all your lists of again have a very happy Happy New Year and we get excited for 2021.
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[SPEAKER_14]: I think it'll be a great year for us all all right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks a lot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You ever go to find out All right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's Anthony Constantine.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He's running for Congress in NY21.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Good afternoon here on the air Oh Yeah, I like to wish you and all the listeners of those show Happy New Year Okay, we look the angry guys.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, we hope you guys well too
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[SPEAKER_10]: And on this, uh, the AG is moving into the deep, bank office building.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think that's a bunch of old, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, why is that?
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_10]: What does that mean?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I know what it means for why don't you like it.
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[SPEAKER_10]: No, why does it, why, what does that mean that they're moving in there?
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's, uh, I don't know, the state wind, the leases.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I don't know what the reason is you'd have to ask to streams.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, okay.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Do a multi-million dollar renovation on the state office building, or was that just a parking garage?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, parking garage, the auditorium, they get quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I know they did.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Listen, I was curious about it too, but God knows.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We'll read a question in the actions of the state of New York.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, I got a run, okay?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, well, thank you, sir, and you're of a happy new year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, well maybe I'll drive over to Marvel Street to say I have to show here and see if that fountain is still there because if it is, we should get it put on, well on a flat bed and take it out to Lim Ricken, now the welder looking over and see what he can do to fix it up and what it would take to get it mounted in that pool downtown on a like an hour
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now, he'd be glad to do it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You wouldn't have to get the engineering cartel involved or any of that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Any of that lowest bid or union labor or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You just get the damn thing fixed and put it back up.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So it looked nice.
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[SPEAKER_07]: First we got to see if it's down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was, last time I looked at it, it was down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I can't imagine.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I can't imagine anyone thinking it's a good idea to throw that in the scrapbook.
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[SPEAKER_07]: What, so they got 20 bucks at the junkyard or something?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, man, no, man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was upset here at the station with the A.I.M.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Transmader-loft.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I won't be quite frank about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I like things that are historic, but it's not always the case.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Not everybody does.
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[UNKNOWN]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, um... Is that it?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Is that it for today?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well... Now I guess it is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I guess we're going to have a couple of minutes left if you want to chime in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I really hope you have a good news.
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[SPEAKER_07]: First of all, all the caveats.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Drive carefully.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Don't drink and drive.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You shouldn't do that anyway.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Make arrangements.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Have a good time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Don't overdo it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You got a whole year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You haven't got to get it all done in one night.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, remember you as I go.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You'd go out of New Zealand.
58:16
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got to hit every place because I miss something.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, you won't miss anything.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So just to pick a quiet spot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like a co-sadage or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Fair enough.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
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[UNKNOWN]: Ugh.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm ready.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's it for today.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And anything else you want to talk about?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody said destroying history and works should be a crime.
59:06
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, there's somebody who worked harder than the other phone.
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[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of thought went into it at the time, and it was built, just like the one on the square is, and to just throw it away.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't understand that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And he's who by people who sit there and talk about hip-o and ship-o and all of these agencies and historic preservation, and then they take something like that just throw it away.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I miss it something here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe I'm out of touch.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe I'm just a cramogen, maybe I'm just an old fool.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I think there's value in things like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: In terms of memories, the community, all that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And some people say that silly at a little weak stream, pointed straight up in the air.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Looks fine, but I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_07]: OK?
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[SPEAKER_07]: That said, you have a happy new year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We'll be back in 2026 on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm 1240, Mr. WATF, Watertown, New York.