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Lee Elci, Voice of Freedom | Cops Are Heroes, Not Villains · The Lee Elci Show

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Speaker 1: And I've said this before on the show, I'll say
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Speaker 1: it again.
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Speaker 2: I am sick and tired of watching the police officers
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Speaker 2: of this state and this country get treated like they
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Speaker 2: are the villains in a story that they never wrote.
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Speaker 3: So last night, I sat down, actually no sitting, but
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Speaker 3: talking with a half a dozen police officers, some chiefs.
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Speaker 3: Guys and gals who patrol our towns, who answer the
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Speaker 3: calls the rest of us pray we never have to make,
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Speaker 3: see things that we've never seen, nor do we want to.
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Speaker 3: And after that conversation, I walk away disgusted, disgusted at
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Speaker 3: how these men and women have been treated over the
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Speaker 3: last few years.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about treated by the criminals.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: By us, by politicians, by a culture that has decided
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Speaker 3: the people who run towards danger deserve suspicion instead of support.
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Speaker 1: It's sad.
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Speaker 3: And I see it in their faces. I see it
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Speaker 3: in their eyes. They're ready to leave the job that
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Speaker 3: they love because.
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Speaker 1: They're not getting any support. That is a fact.
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Speaker 3: In 2020, when the pathetic members.
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Speaker 1: Of the, and I'm going to say specifically, not.
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Speaker 3: The politicians in general, the Democrat politicians passed the Police
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Speaker 3: Accountability Act, it destroyed morale in this state. Departments across
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Speaker 3: the state started to hemorrhage people. Waterbury had 1,000 applicants
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Speaker 3: for police jobs the year before. They saw that number
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Speaker 3: go to 400. New Haven, same thing. Just police officers
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Speaker 3: or potential police officers see the job as not worth
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Speaker 3: the risk for the respect and the reward that they
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Speaker 3: get back.
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Speaker 1: And that's not just Connecticut. It's nationwide. It's nationwide.
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Speaker 3: Great candidates are turning their backs on becoming police officers
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Speaker 3: because they have been demonized by Democrat politicians.
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Speaker 1: I warned you this was going to happen. It has happened.
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Speaker 3: I told you there'd be lingering residual effects. There are
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Speaker 3: lingering residual effects. Cops are resigning. Cops are retiring early.
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Speaker 3: Cops are retiring when it's their time. And again, as
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Speaker 3: I had these conversations last night with great police officers,
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Speaker 3: hard as iron cops, they were like, we can't do it.
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Speaker 3: And the numbers of state troopers in this state, the
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Speaker 3: nutmeg state, is at, I want to say an all-time low.
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Speaker 1: I'd have to go check, but it's close. And something
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Speaker 1: has to be done about that.
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Speaker 3: 65% of police departments say they've had to cut services
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Speaker 3: or shut down entire specialized units across the country. Gang units,
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Speaker 3: crime response, traffic safety because there aren't enough bodies to
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Speaker 3: staff them. Ladies and gentlemen, that was a directive of
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Speaker 3: the Democrat socialists.
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Speaker 1: They took.
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Speaker 3: Specific incidents and turned it around into a widespread.
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Speaker 1: Again, demonization of law enforcement.
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Speaker 3: And they haven't recovered, even though they realized almost immediately
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Speaker 3: that defunding police departments was a mistake. It has had
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Speaker 3: long-lasting catastrophic results. Fewer officers on patrol, slower response times,
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Speaker 3: and these specialized units, the ones that handle domestic violence, drugs,
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Speaker 3: they handle the worst of the worst. They've been gutted
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Speaker 3: across this state. Look to your Democrat politicians. They have
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Speaker 3: gutted your safety net. I've used this term before. I
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Speaker 3: continue to use it.
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Speaker 1: Police officers are the dogs that keep the wolves at bay.
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Speaker 1: And there are wolves. Trust me, I know.
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Speaker 3: It's the truth of the job. They're the ones that
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Speaker 3: stand out, fight the fight at 3 a.m. while the
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Speaker 3: rest of us can sleep.
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Speaker 1: And what do we give them for that constant effort?
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Speaker 3: What? red tape, 250 feet of red tape now. Can
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Speaker 3: you imagine that there is a law in place where
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Speaker 3: cops have to stay a certain distance away from the
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Speaker 3: polls because we don't want to upset the very delicate,
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Speaker 3: fragile flowers of the illegal immigrants who live in this state?
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Speaker 1: Are you freaking kidding me? That's what we got. That's
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Speaker 1: what y'all voted for.
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Speaker 3: Those are the people that are in power, and they're
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Speaker 3: happy about it. Lamont is crowing about it, how they're
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Speaker 3: making sure people feel safe and secure.
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Speaker 1: What people?
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Speaker 6: The illegal aliens?
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Speaker 1: The ones that we already know vote? Fact! We know
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Speaker 1: that they vote.
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Speaker 3: When you think about it, that's a pretty diabolical circle
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Speaker 3: they've created.
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Speaker 1: Defund the police.
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Speaker 2: Hmm.
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Speaker 3: Have them become so demoralized you can't restock the cops
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Speaker 3: that leave.
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Speaker 1: Crime is out of control.
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Speaker 3: You need more government, more bureaucracy to solve these problems
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Speaker 3: that we've already created.
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Speaker 1: That's the plan.
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Speaker 3: And all the while, they're letting illegal aliens in and
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Speaker 3: telling everybody, well, they're not voting.
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Speaker 1: And then time and time again, we're finding out that
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Speaker 1: they are. Amazing stuff.
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Speaker 3: When you think that cops have to go out there
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Speaker 3: and fight every day for their.
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Speaker 1: Communities, their brothers and sisters, me and you, And now.
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Speaker 3: They have to fight because if something they do is
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Speaker 3: deemed a mistake, they put their own economic survivability on
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Speaker 3: the line, exposing them, their home, their family.
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Speaker 1: Because they may have, you know, threw somebody to the
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Speaker 1: ground too hard. So now they're going to get sued
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Speaker 1: and no one's going to back them.
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Speaker 3: A legal standard rewritten by people who've never worn a vest,
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Speaker 3: never knocked on a door, never carried a gun, never
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Speaker 3: had a badge. They're the ones telling cops how to
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Speaker 3: do their job? And again, I'm frustrated today talking about
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Speaker 3: this today because I saw it again in their eyes
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Speaker 3: last night.
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Speaker 1: They feel like there's nobody to help them.
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Speaker 3: They've helped us for all this time. It's time for
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Speaker 3: us to help them. Shame on everyone or anyone who
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Speaker 3: thinks this demonization of law enforcement makes us safer.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't. The data doesn't lie.
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Speaker 3: When departments bleed officers, communities lose protection.
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Speaker 1: It's that simple. So we need a movement. Right here
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Speaker 1: in Connecticut.
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Speaker 3: Start here and we'll spread it. like wildfire across the
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Speaker 3: entire country, to reinvigorate men and women, young men and
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Speaker 3: women who want to wear the badge again, to make
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Speaker 3: it worth their while, make this a calling people are
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Speaker 3: proud to answer, not one that they're talked out of
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Speaker 3: by their fear of their own neighbors. So I'm asking
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Speaker 3: you to join me on this one. Call up your
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Speaker 3: town councilor. Call up your state rep, your potential state rep.
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Speaker 3: Call up your state senator, your potential state senator, and say, what.
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Speaker 1: The hell have you done? What have you done? This
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Speaker 1: is Connecticut. And those are our neighbors in blue. Neighbors, friends, allies.
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Speaker 1: The ones that run to your help when you're at
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Speaker 1: your worst.
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Speaker 3: Let's start acting like we've got their backs, like they've
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Speaker 3: got ours.
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Speaker 3: All right, we have a very special guest joining us
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Speaker 3: right now. He's running for Congress, and we'll get to
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Speaker 3: know him first, Dr. Stephen Scully.
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Speaker 1: Doc, good morning. How are you?
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Speaker 5: Good morning. Thank you very much for having me.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on.
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Speaker 3: When our first conversations, first time we get a chance
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Speaker 3: to talk, we just want to get to know you.
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Speaker 3: So people out there listening who maybe don't have access
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Speaker 3: to your bio or that kind of stuff, tell everybody
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Speaker 3: a little bit about you, where you practiced, where you
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Speaker 3: went to school, all that good stuff.
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Speaker 5: Sure. I actually grew up in, was born in Rockville, Connecticut.
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Speaker 5: After high school, my undergraduate education was at Assumption University
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Speaker 5: in Worcester, where I currently sit on the board. I
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Speaker 5: was listening to your segment about UConn. I went to
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Speaker 5: medical school at UConn in Farmington. And then from there,
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Speaker 5: I trained and did my postdoc. And I worked at
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Speaker 5: America's first level one trauma center in Chicago, Illinois, at
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Speaker 5: Cook County Hospital. I relocated back to New England in 1987.
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Speaker 5: Always been a part of southern New England. When we
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Speaker 5: grew up, we were at the Rhode Island beaches. All
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Speaker 5: the time. I love the Ocean State, and I wanted
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Speaker 5: to come back here. I've been a practicing oral and
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Speaker 5: maxillofacial surgeon here since 1987. Worked at most of the
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Speaker 5: hospitals in Central Rhode Island. Been a part of some
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Speaker 5: of the state institutions, Eleanor Slater, Zamberano, even the White
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Speaker 5: Detention Center, the Adult Correctional Institute, and even did some
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Speaker 5: consulting for the State of Rhode Island Medical Examiner's Office.
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Speaker 5: I love the Ocean State. And I'm running for Congress
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Speaker 5: because I think Rhode Island needs new representation and better
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Speaker 5: representation for the constituents that I will represent in the
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Speaker 5: second congressional district.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you have what appears to be a great life,
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Speaker 3: great career, all of that stuff, and you've decided to
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Speaker 3: step out of the comfort zone.
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Speaker 1: Now, have you ever run for anything before, or is
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Speaker 1: this your first go?
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Speaker 5: I have never run for a public office. I've been
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Speaker 5: involved in public policy, though, for a long, long time.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 5: In a strange, ironic twist, I was even in Washington
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Speaker 5: under the guidance of Senator John Chafee many, many years
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Speaker 5: ago in the early 90s when health care reform was beginning.
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Speaker 5: They would start to work on what would eventually morph
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Speaker 5: into the Affordable Care Act with HillaryCare. And I was
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Speaker 5: a guest of, like I said, Senator John Chafee in
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Speaker 5: the Durson office building. That's when I kind of began
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Speaker 5: looking at public policy issues. especially as it related to
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Speaker 5: health care. And the Affordable Care Act was actually kind
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Speaker 5: of an arm of HillaryCare, and one of the correspondents
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Speaker 5: on that, believe it or not, like I said, in
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Speaker 5: an ironic twist, was Seth Magaziner's father, Ira. So I've
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Speaker 5: been involved in health care policy for a long, long time.
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Speaker 3: So I'm glad you brought that up first because this
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Speaker 3: has been a theme, de facto a theme of the
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Speaker 3: show today. aside from our championing of law enforcement early on,
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Speaker 3: we've sort of morphed into this idea of socialized medicine
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Speaker 3: with socialism.
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Speaker 1: Being everywhere now.
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Speaker 3: Everywhere you look, every race has a socialist candidate in it. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, we've been talking about socialized medicine. And right now, obviously,
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Speaker 3: what we have, I think, in this country, people are
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Speaker 3: paying in exorbitant.
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Speaker 1: Amounts for insurance premiums.
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Speaker 3: Their deductibles in some cases are thousands and thousands and
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Speaker 3: thousands of dollars on top of what they already pay,
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Speaker 3: and maybe they don't get a chance to see the
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Speaker 3: people that they want to see. It's not really set
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Speaker 3: up for the everyday man.
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Speaker 1: So, Doc, how can we fix this? What's up?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's certainly a loaded question. We don't have enough
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Speaker 5: time for that, but I will give you my Reader's
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Speaker 5: Digest version. First of all, that's part of why I'm
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Speaker 5: running the– Congressional delegation here includes all our congressional delegation.
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Speaker 5: They're morphing more towards socialism. Socialism and socialized medicine, it
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Speaker 5: doesn't work. I'm for democracy and capitalism versus communism and socialism.
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Speaker 5: The more I see this morph towards socialism, our congressional
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Speaker 5: delegation is letting the DSA, that new DSA component, which
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Speaker 5: wants socialized everything... you know, have a head start in advance.
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Speaker 5: You know, it doesn't work. Getting back to the expense
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Speaker 5: of healthcare, I'm actually working on a digital platform with
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Speaker 5: some of my sophisticated colleagues overseeing what is driving the
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Speaker 5: high cost of healthcare. And the National Institute of Health
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Speaker 5: recently projected that 20 to almost 40% of healthcare premium
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Speaker 5: costs are due to unnecessary care in our healthcare system.
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Speaker 5: That's generated by the lack of primary care, and it's
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Speaker 5: also generated by the overuse of our emergency rooms. Now,
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Speaker 5: that's happened because we have some policies for years and
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Speaker 5: years and years. The unfettered immigration is taxing not only
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Speaker 5: the healthcare system, but housing and things like that. Now,
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Speaker 5: the challenge And I say to everybody, I'm certainly not
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Speaker 5: going to fix health care in America overnight. That's way
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Speaker 5: too big a task by one individual. But we have
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Speaker 5: to start challenging some of these big components that take
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Speaker 5: such a bite out of the American taxpayer and the
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Speaker 5: family's budget, health care being one. The challenge in health
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Speaker 5: care is a lot of the big insurance companies, and
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Speaker 5: I can even throw the biopharmaceuticals into that, They're making
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Speaker 5: a lot of money right now. Those companies are very successful.
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Speaker 5: They're reluctant to change. The system works for them. It
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Speaker 5: doesn't work for the average American family. It doesn't work
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Speaker 5: for the taxpayer. It doesn't work for the businesses that
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Speaker 5: are paying those premiums. It's going to take, unfortunately, a
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Speaker 5: bipartisan approach to really solve some of these big problems
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Speaker 5: in America. It's not going to happen on a partisan basis,
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Speaker 5: and it's not going to happen overnight. That's where I
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Speaker 5: think I offer an advantage. I want to be the reasonable, practical,
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Speaker 5: pragmatic adult in the room with common sense, making some
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Speaker 5: of these decisions. And when I make these decisions, quite honestly,
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Speaker 5: they're going to be based on the people that I represent.
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Speaker 5: Every decision, every policy I look at is going to
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Speaker 5: be predicated on what is in the best interest of
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Speaker 5: the people that I represent, what's in the best interest
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Speaker 5: of Rhode Island families, businesses, and the taxpayers. It's going
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Speaker 5: to be a formidable task, and it's not going to
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Speaker 5: happen overnight, but we have to address that. You know,
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Speaker 5: there are some big ticket items, you know, facing America's
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Speaker 5: going forward. Health care is one of them. You know,
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Speaker 5: our big national debt is another one. The unfunded liabilities
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Speaker 5: of Medicare, Social Security, and, you know, the medical benefits
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Speaker 5: for our military. Those are huge issues. They're not going
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Speaker 5: to be addressed overnight. They need to be addressed once
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Speaker 5: and for all. We can't kick the can down any
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Speaker 5: further on some of these big issues.
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Speaker 3: All the things you just mentioned are obviously very serious issues.
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Speaker 3: With socialism being one of the things that's in the
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Speaker 3: sights of conversation that we're all having, everyone's talking about
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Speaker 3: these socialized candidates across the country. It started with Mondami
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Speaker 3: and now It's spreading like wildfire in these different races. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, some people are saying they're not serious candidates
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Speaker 3: when they go toe to.
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Speaker 1: Toe against the.
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Speaker 3: Either a regular Democrat or a Republican and a general,
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Speaker 3: but they just keep seemingly they keep winning. And the
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Speaker 3: conversations that I always have is that we're already partially
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Speaker 3: a hybrid socialized nation with whether it's Medicare or Medicaid.
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Speaker 3: So Medicare is As a general thought, though, in your mind,
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Speaker 3: does it work? Because, I mean, if one of the
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Speaker 3: things that when you're out there on the stump talking
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Speaker 3: to people and they ask you about socialized X, Y,
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Speaker 3: and Z, you can just point to Medicare and say, well,
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Speaker 3: it really doesn't work as well as it's supposed to,
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Speaker 3: or does it work?
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Speaker 1: Maybe you have different feelings about that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Medicare works to a certain component, and you're right.
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Speaker 5: It is a hybrid already. Medicare is a little different.
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Speaker 5: Medicare is not a government entitlement. Those who have worked
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Speaker 5: in the system have already contributed to their Medicare through
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Speaker 5: their earnings over time. The same goes with Social Security.
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Speaker 5: Social Security is equally as important. I mean, I remember
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Speaker 5: when I was young, I started working young. I was
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Speaker 5: always a hard worker, and I'd get a Social Security statement,
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Speaker 5: and it literally would say, your Social Security benefits are
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Speaker 5: guaranteed to the year 2085. That's when they would send
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Speaker 5: you a statement.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: Then, you know, I got a statement like 10 years later,
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Speaker 5: and it said Social Security benefits are guaranteed to the year.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to make the number up. It might have
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Speaker 5: said 2060. And then it was 2050, then 45, then 38. Well,
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Speaker 5: you saw the most recent numbers. Your Social Security benefits,
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Speaker 5: and these are benefits that people have already paid for.
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Speaker 5: They are only guaranteed to the year 2032 at best.
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Speaker 5: And then some of your benefit might be reduced by
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Speaker 5: up to like 20%.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: That's a socialism system that is beginning to fail. Again,
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Speaker 5: socialism around the world, there's no good country that has
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Speaker 5: 100% socialism that isn't communism or some type of tyranny.
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Speaker 5: I think it's very troubling and challenging and disturbing to
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Speaker 5: look at the city of Providence right now in the
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Speaker 5: mayoral race, where one of the candidates is advocating for
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Speaker 5: the city of Providence to be a municipal... laboratory for socialism.
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Speaker 5: That is scary. And that's what's occurring in some of
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Speaker 5: the municipalities and communities around the country. And if that
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Speaker 5: type of DSA has a very strong, you know, ground
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Speaker 5: game and they get into some of these primaries and win,
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Speaker 5: if that mentality is starting to get a foothold, that
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Speaker 5: needs to be addressed. And that's certainly one of the
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Speaker 5: things I'm going to challenge everybody on capitalism and democracy works.
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Speaker 5: Capitalism is what made this country so great. When this
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Speaker 5: country does well, quite honestly, the rest of the world
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Speaker 5: does well, and capitalism leads to the highest quality of
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Speaker 5: life that we've ever had. We really don't want to
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Speaker 5: reject that notion at all.
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Speaker 3: I mean, is this all– in your opinion, is this
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Speaker 3: being born from this– This feeling in particular with the
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Speaker 3: younger generation of kids who can't buy their own home,
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Speaker 3: like they can't afford it.
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Speaker 1: It's too expensive.
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Speaker 3: It's half a million dollars for the average house now.
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Speaker 3: Kids coming out of college are saddled with $ 100, 000 in
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Speaker 3: debt from just a student loan. So it's compiled on
23:19
Speaker 3: top of all that. It's something that our parents didn't
23:22
Speaker 3: have to deal with, right? I mean, one house, one
23:24
Speaker 3: income households could own a house. Is that something that
23:27
Speaker 3: you think is feeding into this idea of this romantic
23:30
Speaker 3: idea of socialism?
23:32
Speaker 5: Sure. Some of the younger generation. And, you know, that's
23:36
Speaker 5: happened with maybe some of the indoctrination in some of
23:38
Speaker 5: our educational system over the years. Certainly, you know, the
23:43
Speaker 5: COVID pandemic. That didn't help any of this. There was
23:47
Speaker 5: a sense of, well, you know, we didn't do anything
23:50
Speaker 5: for six months and we all still lived. and maybe
23:53
Speaker 5: we can survive on government benefits and entitlement as well.
23:57
Speaker 5: You can survive on it, but you don't flourish and
24:01
Speaker 5: prosper like that. And we have to bring our young
24:04
Speaker 5: population back into the fold about what made America great,
24:09
Speaker 5: and it wasn't socialism. It was the freedoms generated by
24:13
Speaker 5: our Constitution and capitalism. But I understand their frustration. When
24:19
Speaker 5: you look at, and I think there's got to be
24:21
Speaker 5: some big momentum to address that problem for young people.
24:26
Speaker 5: We're looking at another concept. Many, many years ago, when
24:30
Speaker 5: the big banks in America were bailed out in the
24:33
Speaker 5: banking crisis, we saved them. The government saved them. Well,
24:37
Speaker 5: maybe it's time for some of the big banks to
24:39
Speaker 5: have a more affordable initial package for young people to
24:44
Speaker 5: buy housing. That's complicated as well by the fact that
24:48
Speaker 5: Certainly in Rhode Island and Connecticut, there's a supply and
24:52
Speaker 5: demand issue with the housing component. Well, some of that's
24:56
Speaker 5: generated by just the immigration that we've had. Some of
25:01
Speaker 5: it legal, some of it, a lot of it illegal.
25:04
Speaker 5: The immigration that we've had into southern Rhode Island, as
25:08
Speaker 5: we represent somewhat of a sanctuary-type state, when you have
25:13
Speaker 5: all that immigration, people need housing. They challenge the housing market,
25:18
Speaker 5: that supply and demand. They challenge the public school system.
25:22
Speaker 5: You know, the more students you have, legal or illegal,
25:26
Speaker 5: the more the tax burden goes on the municipality. And
25:30
Speaker 5: it's certainly challenging, you know, the hospitals and the emergency rooms.
25:34
Speaker 5: You know, they're mandated by federal law to see patients
25:39
Speaker 5: that enter the emergency room when they get federal funds.
25:42
Speaker 5: It's very complicated, and it's not going to be fixed. overnight,
25:47
Speaker 5: but the long-term continuity of our republic depends on doing
25:54
Speaker 5: the right thing.
25:56
Speaker 3: We're talking to, again, Dr. Stephen Scully, who's joining us.
25:59
Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of time left. I just
26:00
Speaker 3: wanted to ask you one more, just a general thought.
26:03
Speaker 3: By the way, you can go on his website, and
26:05
Speaker 3: we'll give that again one more time before we go,
26:07
Speaker 3: with scullyforcongress.com.
26:09
Speaker 1: And How about just the general thought of.
26:13
Speaker 3: Restoring some accountability in Washington? To me, I mean, I
26:16
Speaker 3: know your campaign centers on limited government, common sense, all
26:19
Speaker 3: of that. It seems like, though, you know, we're talking
26:22
Speaker 3: about 11, 12 percent approval rating for some of these
26:24
Speaker 3: folks in Congress, which to me is unacceptable. I mean,
26:26
Speaker 3: you have to be accountable for what you've done and
26:29
Speaker 3: what you haven't done.
26:30
Speaker 1: So where are you on that?
26:33
Speaker 5: I mean, that's a huge challenge. The deep administrative state
26:38
Speaker 5: that controls a lot of what goes on in Washington–
26:40
Speaker 5: I mean, I was down in Washington a couple weeks ago.
26:44
Speaker 5: It's a huge complex. The deep administrative state, no matter
26:47
Speaker 5: what department you're looking at, they're there to protect themselves.
26:53
Speaker 5: I don't think they want accountability. We do, the taxpayer,
26:58
Speaker 5: those that are represented by them. But even our congressional
27:04
Speaker 5: delegation– They're talking about accountability. I guess I couldn't be
27:10
Speaker 5: more pleased to see somewhat of the vindication of the
27:15
Speaker 5: CDC and Dr. Fauci last week. But will we really
27:20
Speaker 5: have accountability there? I don't think we're ever going to
27:23
Speaker 5: really know what truly went on. And I don't know
27:27
Speaker 5: if anybody's ever going to be held accountable for that.
27:31
Speaker 5: That's a challenge.
27:33
Speaker 1: We talk about this all the time, Doc.
27:34
Speaker 3: Until people are shown on national TV at nightly news
27:37
Speaker 3: and belly chains of the perp walk, all.
27:41
Speaker 1: Of us out here feel like nothing's getting done.
27:43
Speaker 3: We can scream and yell at the wind, but the
27:45
Speaker 3: powerful just stay powerful.
27:47
Speaker 1: That's just the way I feel about it.
27:49
Speaker 5: Some of our delegation, there's a big push for the
27:52
Speaker 5: Stock Act. Stop trading on congressional knowledge. That's capitalism. I
27:58
Speaker 5: think that's smoke and mirrors. We have an SEC. We
28:02
Speaker 5: have a Securities and Exchange Commission. That's their function. We
28:06
Speaker 5: also have House and Senate oversight. So if somebody has
28:10
Speaker 5: done something illegal, you don't need another act. You do
28:15
Speaker 5: just what you said. You have some accountability. You have
28:17
Speaker 5: some transparency. And you take those people to task for it.
28:20
Speaker 5: You either remove them from office. You expose it. They
28:24
Speaker 5: need to be exposed for their bad public policy. They're
28:27
Speaker 5: not elected again. Or, like you said, they do the
28:30
Speaker 5: perp walk. That has to start happening. Otherwise, you get
28:34
Speaker 5: this cycle of complacency that's existing in America in the
28:39
Speaker 5: elections right now where people feel so oppressed. What can
28:42
Speaker 5: I really do about it? That's not me right now.
28:47
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm not going to be successful in this endeavor,
28:51
Speaker 5: but I'm certainly going to try. And I'm going to
28:53
Speaker 5: challenge all bad policy. I'm going to do whatever is
28:57
Speaker 5: in the best interest of the people that I'm going
29:00
Speaker 5: to represent in the.
29:01
Speaker 8: State of Rhode Island.
29:03
Speaker 3: So, Doc, give everybody a place where they can find
29:05
Speaker 3: you again. And if you're going to be out and about,
29:07
Speaker 3: and we've got a lot of folks who listen in
29:09
Speaker 3: Rhode Island, where would they go to see you, maybe
29:11
Speaker 3: shake a hand, all that good stuff?
29:12
Speaker 1: What do they do?
29:13
Speaker 5: Sure. Follow me at doc at scoleyforcongress.com. We're out and
29:19
Speaker 5: about all the time, all across southern New Southern Rhode Island,
29:26
Speaker 5: all across my congressional district. In fact, we've even put
29:30
Speaker 5: a plane up, goalieforcongress.com, on the weekends going up and
29:34
Speaker 5: down the beaches. I'll be at the beaches. I'll be
29:37
Speaker 5: at all the town events. I'll be... wherever I can
29:40
Speaker 5: to get some input from those and see what's resonating
29:45
Speaker 5: out there and see what's most important for them. And
29:48
Speaker 5: that's what I'm going to address. And I appreciate all
29:52
Speaker 5: the follow-up. I feel like at this point that I'm
29:56
Speaker 5: not running for congress. I feel like we are running
29:59
Speaker 5: for congress. just to bring that common sense, practical approach
30:04
Speaker 5: to Washington.
30:06
Speaker 1: Gotcha. Hey, it was great.
30:07
Speaker 3: Actually, it was great talking to you. I appreciate it.
30:08
Speaker 3: Maybe we can do it again down the road for sure.
30:10
Speaker 3: I know there's a couple months left until the election,
30:13
Speaker 3: but I'm sure we can squeeze in another call or two.
30:15
Speaker 5: I would love the opportunity. You were very easy and
30:17
Speaker 5: kind with me today. I appreciate it very much. You
30:20
Speaker 5: can ask me anything you want.
30:22
Speaker 1: Sounds good.
30:23
Speaker 5: And I'll be as forthcoming as I can.
30:25
Speaker 1: All right, brother. Have a good one. I'll talk to
30:27
Speaker 1: you soon.
30:27
Speaker 5: All right.
30:28
Speaker 10: Thank you very much.
30:28
Speaker 1: You got it. All right, we've got to go.
30:30
Speaker 3: We're out of time, running late as always. So enjoy
30:32
Speaker 3: the rest of your hump day. We'll do it all
30:34
Speaker 3: over again tomorrow. Gallagher hits the airwaves next. Until then,
30:37
Speaker 3: we'll see.
30:46
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Speaker 10: And has positions that are becoming more and more mainstream
32:03
Speaker 10: and more and more popular as time goes on. And
32:08
Speaker 10: his big thing is, I'm just repeating what I heard
32:11
Speaker 10: him say. We've got to get money out of politics,
32:15
Speaker 10: get that money into the pockets of people, and have
32:18
Speaker 10: Medicare for all. Okay, take money out of politics. I
32:23
Speaker 10: don't know how you're going to do that. The Supreme
32:25
Speaker 10: Court has said there's basically unlimited campaign money and all
32:30
Speaker 10: this stuff. You're going to have to have a constitutional
32:35
Speaker 10: amendment or some drastic way of changing the the rules
32:41
Speaker 10: of funding our campaigns to get the money out of politics.
32:46
Speaker 10: But it sounds good.
32:47
Speaker 7: Okay.
32:47
Speaker 10: Then he says, put the money in the pockets of
32:50
Speaker 10: the people. Okay, that's typical liberal stuff. And then this one,
32:56
Speaker 10: we need Medicare for all, which Bernie Sanders has been pushing.
33:01
Speaker 10: And I'm telling you, I think politically, more and more
33:05
Speaker 10: people will nod their heads when they hear Medicare for all,
33:10
Speaker 10: because more and more people are unhappy with their current
33:14
Speaker 10: health care situation. And under Trump, I think 20 percent,
33:19
Speaker 10: I don't know what the exact number is, of people
33:22
Speaker 10: who've been on Obamacare have been thrown off it by
33:26
Speaker 10: the Republicans and by Trump. Plus, we had the big, big,
33:30
Speaker 10: beautiful bill, which was not beautiful. is blowing off Medicaid-funded
33:37
Speaker 10: hospitals in rural areas, which will devastate poorer people, not
33:44
Speaker 10: just inner-city minorities, but poorer white people who live in the.
33:51
Speaker 5: Rural areas.
33:52
Speaker 10: They're not going to have a hospital to go to nearby.
33:56
Speaker 10: And so the health care thing is roaring back as
33:58
Speaker 10: a political issue. And to just say, oh, yeah, Medicare
34:01
Speaker 10: for all, I think it's got some potency to it.
34:08
Speaker 3: So let me go back because I want to first
34:10
Speaker 3: start with the money out of politics. In a perfect world,
34:16
Speaker 3: would it be better to have a certain amount of
34:19
Speaker 3: money that each candidate, depending upon the race, whether it's
34:24
Speaker 3: a state rep race, state senate race, congressional race, That
34:27
Speaker 3: would be set aside that you could actually spend on
34:29
Speaker 3: that race.
34:30
Speaker 1: I mean, would that be– Well, where's the money from? Well,
34:33
Speaker 1: here in Connecticut, they do have citizens' election. They have money.
34:37
Speaker 3: Once you raise a certain amount as a state rep candidate,
34:39
Speaker 3: they give you more money.
34:41
Speaker 7: Now, it comes from– Who's that?
34:43
Speaker 3: It comes from taxpayers, obviously, which nobody seemingly likes.
34:47
Speaker 10: Right, so– That is now– on the federal tax returns,
34:51
Speaker 10: there's the dollar checkoff. You check it off, and a
34:54
Speaker 10: dollar of your tax money goes into the federal election fund.
34:58
Speaker 10: That's federal. You're a state. I don't know if you
35:00
Speaker 10: have that on state taxes.
35:01
Speaker 7: I don't know.
35:04
Speaker 10: But, I mean, look, okay, so that's an interesting proposal.
35:07
Speaker 10: The problem is how the hell are you going to
35:09
Speaker 10: fund all these campaigns? How many people are going to
35:11
Speaker 10: be eligible? And you have to raise a certain amount
35:14
Speaker 10: of money, which means– you're still out there raising money.
35:17
Speaker 10: It's not really taking money out of politics.
35:20
Speaker 1: No, no, and I'm not saying that that's an answer.
35:22
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's the way it's done here.
35:24
Speaker 3: My question to you is more, you know, I hate
35:27
Speaker 3: the fact that there's so much money in politics.
35:29
Speaker 1: I think it obviously clouds people's judgment.
35:32
Speaker 3: I think it makes people prone to be unscrupulous when
35:35
Speaker 3: it comes to this stuff.
35:36
Speaker 1: And I just don't know, like you had said, I
35:37
Speaker 1: don't know how to do it. How do you fix it?
35:39
Speaker 3: How do you make it so that everybody is on
35:41
Speaker 3: the same playing field without it costing taxpayer dollars to
35:44
Speaker 3: do it?
35:44
Speaker 1: I don't know.
35:46
Speaker 10: I think there's– okay, so there are– there's a quicker
35:50
Speaker 10: way to do it and a longer way. The quicker
35:53
Speaker 10: way would be– and I'm just going to say it.
35:56
Speaker 10: I'm not advocating it. If in two years the Democrats
36:00
Speaker 10: win the House, the Senate, and the White House, they
36:06
Speaker 10: could just by legislation raise– the size of the Supreme
36:13
Speaker 10: Court from the current nine justices to 13, they could
36:19
Speaker 10: put four new justices on the Supreme Court and, bang, overrule,
36:25
Speaker 10: redo all these cases that took, that allowed black money,
36:30
Speaker 10: dark money, unlimited corporate money, all the, they could change
36:34
Speaker 10: it in one case, all of it, and it would
36:37
Speaker 10: be done. That's, Pretty quick. You had to win the House, Senate,
36:41
Speaker 10: and White House. And the president has to want to
36:44
Speaker 10: do it. Biden, as a traditionalist, had the House and
36:48
Speaker 10: Senate for his first two years. And obviously he was president.
36:52
Speaker 10: And he was pushed by some on the left to
36:56
Speaker 10: change the Supreme Court numbers. And he didn't do it.
37:00
Speaker 10: And he didn't believe in it. He's a traditionalist. The
37:02
Speaker 10: last time this was tried by FDR... It redounded to
37:07
Speaker 10: his detriment and hurt him politically. This time, if it
37:12
Speaker 10: ever happens, it might not be so unpopular, you know,
37:16
Speaker 10: because the Supreme Court has ticked off a lot of people.
37:19
Speaker 10: So that's a quicker way to do it. which is
37:33
Speaker 10: the ultimate authority, and you put in there something about
37:37
Speaker 10: the money in politics. But that takes all the states.
37:41
Speaker 10: It's a huge process that can take years to do.
37:45
Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's a simple answer for that.
37:48
Speaker 3: And if they were to do that with the Supreme Court,
37:50
Speaker 3: then once the Republicans got back in office, they would
37:54
Speaker 3: just up it again and go to 17, wouldn't they,
37:56
Speaker 3: or 21?
37:56
Speaker 1: They could.
37:57
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
37:57
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
38:00
Speaker 10: That was the argument Biden was making. If we start
38:03
Speaker 10: down this road, it'll never stop.
38:05
Speaker 1: Right. John LeBoullier with us. All right.
38:07
Speaker 3: So turning our attention then to the health care aspect
38:10
Speaker 3: of it, I think, you know, everybody complains. and I
38:14
Speaker 3: think rightfully so, about the health care system. Either they
38:16
Speaker 3: pay too much in insurance, they're high deductibles, they don't
38:19
Speaker 3: get the great quality care that they think they should get.
38:22
Speaker 3: I mean, not everybody, but I mean, that's the majority
38:24
Speaker 3: of people think that. So I don't think you're wrong.
38:28
Speaker 3: I think what we have is broken. I don't know,
38:30
Speaker 3: you know, socialized medicine isn't, I don't think that's the answer,
38:33
Speaker 3: but you're right. There's no, there's never been a hybrid
38:36
Speaker 3: that's been proposed by the Republican Party, and they've had
38:39
Speaker 3: all this time to do so, and they've done nothing.
38:42
Speaker 10: Correct. So they're Just always arguing against the status quo.
38:46
Speaker 10: That was the whole Tea Party thing in 2010 was
38:51
Speaker 10: a reaction to Obamacare, which is sort of a type
38:57
Speaker 10: of national health insurance with a mandate put in there
39:01
Speaker 10: that everyone has to have insurance. And a lot of
39:04
Speaker 10: people reacted badly to that mandate, even though we have
39:08
Speaker 10: other mandates in our life. You don't like that. Not you.
39:12
Speaker 10: I'm saying to people, you don't like the mandate that
39:14
Speaker 10: you have to have health insurance. Well, guess what? There's
39:18
Speaker 10: a mandate. You have to have car insurance. You can't
39:20
Speaker 10: drive a car without car insurance.
39:23
Speaker 8: It's illegal.
39:25
Speaker 10: Oh, and guess what? You've got to have a seatbelt on, too.
39:28
Speaker 10: Those are mandates that people chafed at when they first
39:32
Speaker 10: came along, and people got used to them. And there
39:36
Speaker 10: are a lot of other mandates that go on that
39:38
Speaker 10: you don't even think about day to day. And we
39:42
Speaker 10: get them all the time. But people didn't like it.
39:46
Speaker 10: Romney cared when Romney tried to run for the Republican nomination,
39:51
Speaker 10: having been governor in Massachusetts and put in a mandated
39:56
Speaker 10: statewide health insurance plan. It was popular in Massachusetts after
40:01
Speaker 10: he did it. But when the voters in the primaries
40:04
Speaker 10: heard about it, they went nuts. And that was the
40:06
Speaker 10: end of Romney's first campaign for president. So there's a
40:12
Speaker 10: lot of opposition to this thing, but I feel it
40:14
Speaker 10: is moving more towards this position. It's an easy line.
40:20
Speaker 10: Medicare for all. But they never answer, how the hell
40:25
Speaker 10: are you going to pay for this thing?
40:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
40:27
Speaker 3: And what would it do to me? I've always focused
40:30
Speaker 3: on what would it do to the aspiring young individual
40:33
Speaker 3: who let's say they're very smart, very talented, and they
40:37
Speaker 3: have a choice to become, let's say, a surgeon or
40:39
Speaker 3: go into tech or go to Wall Street. And if
40:43
Speaker 3: they're going to cap the income that they make as
40:45
Speaker 3: a surgeon, they're not going to go become a surgeon.
40:47
Speaker 3: So I think you're going to lose the potential of
40:50
Speaker 3: great minds to go into the field of medical care.
40:52
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
40:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, it makes sense.
40:55
Speaker 10: And we've seen it before. And that's the influx of
40:58
Speaker 10: foreign doctors. I mean, You go to any hospital now,
41:02
Speaker 10: and the odds are you're getting an Indian doctor at
41:05
Speaker 10: some point working on you.
41:07
Speaker 8: And they're great.
41:07
Speaker 10: There's just no knock on them. But it is fundamentally
41:12
Speaker 10: changing the makeup of medicine in America if we have
41:17
Speaker 10: to rely more and more on foreign-born doctors. I don't know.
41:20
Speaker 10: Maybe it will be better. I don't know. I'm just saying.
41:25
Speaker 10: I haven't heard a counter to this thing that really works,
41:28
Speaker 10: that's pretty quick. And the big one still is Medicare,
41:35
Speaker 10: which is what I'm now on, is pretty darn good.
41:39
Speaker 1: Okay.
41:40
Speaker 10: But it's going broke. If it's going broke just taking
41:45
Speaker 10: care of people 65 and over, what happens when you
41:50
Speaker 10: put everybody in?
41:51
Speaker 8: Right.
41:51
Speaker 10: Where the hell is the money going to come from? Right.
41:56
Speaker 3: It's funny because I had somebody in here from Italy
41:59
Speaker 3: the other day who loves her. She loves her health
42:02
Speaker 3: care plan. It's complete socialized medicine. And we talked about
42:06
Speaker 3: how the taxes were a lot higher for her than
42:08
Speaker 3: they would be for us.
42:09
Speaker 1: I mean, significant 10 percent higher. So but she loved it.
42:13
Speaker 1: She goes in. She gets the care that she wants,
42:15
Speaker 1: doesn't have to pay anything.
42:16
Speaker 3: And I don't think there's anybody that I've ever talked to,
42:18
Speaker 3: aside from, let's say, state workers who have a great plan. Like,
42:22
Speaker 3: if you have a great plan because of the company
42:24
Speaker 3: that you're in, of course you love it.
42:26
Speaker 1: You just go in. There's no copay. You go. You
42:28
Speaker 1: get great care. You go. But the rest of us, John,
42:31
Speaker 1: I don't know. You're on Medicare now.
42:33
Speaker 3: But the rest of the folks out there, you know,
42:35
Speaker 3: there's either a huge deductible, there's a huge copay, and
42:39
Speaker 3: they got gigantic insurance premiums every month.
42:42
Speaker 1: That just doesn't work.
42:44
Speaker 10: No, it doesn't work. I mean, I could say, I mean, look,
42:49
Speaker 10: I think I have in my head that something like
42:53
Speaker 10: 100 million people in America get their health insurance through
42:57
Speaker 10: their employer. And I might be wrong with this number, but, and,
43:03
Speaker 10: you know, employers are paying a lot of money for
43:06
Speaker 10: these health care. That's for their employees. If there was
43:10
Speaker 10: Medicare for all, All that money that these employers, these
43:15
Speaker 10: companies are paying would no longer go to pay for
43:20
Speaker 10: health insurance. Is there a way to get that money
43:24
Speaker 10: and stick it to help pay for Medicare for all?
43:29
Speaker 10: I don't know. Another thought that I forget if I
43:31
Speaker 10: mentioned to you before, which is under Trump, and you
43:36
Speaker 10: read about it all the time now, the government is
43:38
Speaker 10: taking shares in Medicare. AI companies, chip companies. Remember, we
43:46
Speaker 10: had a discussion a couple weeks ago about socialism. And
43:51
Speaker 10: I said, well, in a way, America is already semi-socialist.
43:55
Speaker 10: We have the federal government owning shares in private corporations.
44:02
Speaker 10: And can we redirect the income from those things into
44:06
Speaker 10: Medicare and Social Security? Is that a way to help
44:09
Speaker 10: fund these things? if we're really going down this road.
44:13
Speaker 10: I don't know. But all I know is the status
44:16
Speaker 10: quo is unacceptable. More and more people are really living hand-to-mouth,
44:22
Speaker 10: and that's not good, while a select group of people
44:26
Speaker 10: are living high off the hog. And the wealth gap
44:29
Speaker 10: in America is a political issue. It is a moral issue.
44:35
Speaker 10: And it's not healthy for this country to have Huge
44:40
Speaker 10: amount of the wealth owned by 5% of the people.
44:43
Speaker 10: That's just not good.
44:45
Speaker 3: And it shouldn't really be a partisan issue. I mean,
44:47
Speaker 3: I don't know why Republicans run from that. But it
44:50
Speaker 3: kind of is, isn't it?
44:52
Speaker 8: Yeah.
44:52
Speaker 10: Oh, it has been. Because I guess it goes back
44:56
Speaker 10: to what we started on, money in politics. Who puts
44:59
Speaker 10: the money? The rich guys. And so if you're a
45:02
Speaker 10: Republican candidate nowadays, you've got to suck up to these
45:05
Speaker 10: rich guys. You get the money to run your campaign,
45:09
Speaker 10: and you're okay.
45:10
Speaker 1: Yeah.
45:12
Speaker 3: I've been posting stuff the last couple of weeks. I've
45:15
Speaker 3: been doing these monologues in some cases about this income gap,
45:19
Speaker 3: and I post it on social media sites, John. People
45:22
Speaker 3: are going to me like it's not a Republican position. Well,
45:26
Speaker 3: it's the right.
45:26
Speaker 1: Position, though.
45:27
Speaker 3: You've got a disappearing middle class. That's what we need
45:30
Speaker 3: to focus on. Nobody can afford a house anymore. It's
45:33
Speaker 3: a half a million dollars to buy a house. What
45:35
Speaker 3: 25-year-old kid is going to be able to afford that? None.
45:38
Speaker 1: You can't do it.
45:39
Speaker 3: None.
45:40
Speaker 10: But having said that, and we agree on it, I've
45:44
Speaker 10: yet to hear what's the solution to it. What's the
45:47
Speaker 10: solution to increased costs in the grocery store? I don't know.
45:52
Speaker 10: I mean, you could have price controls. You could have
45:55
Speaker 10: drastic wage and price controls, all that kind of stuff.
45:59
Speaker 10: That's no good. That's not going to fix it. Yeah,
46:03
Speaker 10: we need to get the price of gas down, which
46:05
Speaker 10: the Iran war is not going to help us get
46:09
Speaker 10: it down. but it's been going on before we invaded Iran, too.
46:15
Speaker 10: This increasing cost thing and less spendable income is not
46:22
Speaker 10: a new issue. And I don't think it's good for
46:26
Speaker 10: people to live paycheck to paycheck. By the way, the
46:31
Speaker 10: other thing that's barreling down, we talked about national health
46:34
Speaker 10: insurance of some sort is coming. Politically, it's inevitable. And
46:40
Speaker 10: the other thing is, buckle your seatbelt up on it,
46:44
Speaker 10: but it is coming as a topic, is guaranteed national income. Yeah, see,
46:54
Speaker 10: I knew you.
46:55
Speaker 1: And I were going to do that.
46:58
Speaker 10: But it's coming because the richer the rich get and
47:02
Speaker 10: everybody else is getting poorer, it's politically unsustainable. So the
47:08
Speaker 10: only way they've come up with is everybody who's making
47:14
Speaker 10: under a certain amount is going to get a survivable
47:18
Speaker 10: wage from the government, funded by the rich people, funded
47:23
Speaker 10: by AI. If AI is replacing all these jobs, then
47:27
Speaker 10: the AI companies who really are, you talk about filthy rich,
47:32
Speaker 10: they're going to have to help fund this guaranteed minimal
47:36
Speaker 10: income for people. It's inevitable. I don't know how anybody
47:41
Speaker 10: could doubt this is coming politically.
47:45
Speaker 1: Crazy.
47:46
Speaker 3: All right, John, we're going to run out of time,
47:48
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to let you crow a little
47:50
Speaker 3: bit about your new shortstop.
47:52
Speaker 10: I'm not crowing. He's a baby. He's 21. But it
47:56
Speaker 10: was great to watch this kid play. I've been following
47:59
Speaker 10: him in spring training for two years with the Yanks.
48:02
Speaker 10: You know he's being developed to be good. an infielder
48:07
Speaker 10: of some sort. He's played all three, second, short, and third.
48:10
Speaker 10: But right now the focus is on short because we
48:14
Speaker 10: really don't have a shortstop. Volpe, Anthony Volpe, has actually
48:18
Speaker 10: gotten worse each year. I don't know why. And this
48:22
Speaker 10: is not just for the Yanks. There's players who come up,
48:27
Speaker 10: and they're pretty good as a rookie, and you think
48:29
Speaker 10: this is it for the next 10 years. But what
48:31
Speaker 10: happens is they don't. they don't make it or they deteriorate.
48:35
Speaker 10: I can name a ton of them. And Lee, you're
48:41
Speaker 10: a pro. I'm not a pro. I don't know why
48:45
Speaker 10: this seems to happen so often, whether they get complacent,
48:50
Speaker 10: whether they get overcoached by their teams, whether the other
48:54
Speaker 10: teams figure them out. I don't know what goes on,
48:58
Speaker 10: but It's a struggle to get to the majors and
49:02
Speaker 10: more of a struggle to solidify yourself. And Volpe didn't solidify.
49:08
Speaker 10: This kid's just beginning. Off of one night, he looks fantastic.
49:13
Speaker 3: And I think of the things you listed, the latter one,
49:17
Speaker 3: which was the teams, they figure you out.
49:19
Speaker 1: They figure out your whole They figure out how to.
49:21
Speaker 3: Pitch to you and that kind of attack on you.
49:25
Speaker 10: But that doesn't explain fall-off defensively.
49:30
Speaker 1: No, I know. It's shoulder issues.
49:31
Speaker 10: And that I don't understand. Actually, in all fairness to Volpe,
49:37
Speaker 10: He's not a major league shortstop because his arm isn't
49:40
Speaker 10: good enough. And so I think what happens is, over time,
49:45
Speaker 10: he can't make these plays that, like Lombard made last Sunday,
49:49
Speaker 10: went in the hole on his first play and grabbed
49:53
Speaker 10: this thing and fired a throw the second, boom, boom,
49:55
Speaker 10: double play. Volpe can't do that. His arm isn't good enough.
50:00
Speaker 10: He'd have gotten the first out, but it would have
50:02
Speaker 10: been that split second longer because his arm isn't strong.
50:06
Speaker 5: Right.
50:07
Speaker 10: He profiles as a second baseman, because he'll field okay
50:11
Speaker 10: over there. But his problem is he knows he has
50:14
Speaker 10: to field it at short flawlessly in order to get
50:19
Speaker 10: the throw off in time to get to first, because
50:21
Speaker 10: he doesn't have a gun for an arm. This kid
50:25
Speaker 10: has the gun, and he's fast. So I think now
50:31
Speaker 10: the hitting is a different issue. If you don't hit...
50:34
Speaker 10: Or if you deteriorate your hitting, do you take your
50:36
Speaker 10: hitting problems out into the field with you? That's another
50:39
Speaker 10: thing that happens. You know, so we'll see over time.
50:45
Speaker 7: All right.
50:46
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I've got to run. Top B hour is coming,
50:48
Speaker 1: but I'll talk to you next week. Thanks, brother.
50:51
Speaker 7: Hey, Sam.
50:52
Speaker 10: You got it.
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51:31
Speaker 1: Todd Lynch. All right, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 3: Every Wednesday during the summertime months, during the solstice months.
51:41
Speaker 1: I think that's right. I don't know. Todd Lynch spends
51:43
Speaker 1: a half hour with us. Good morning, Todd. How are you?
51:45
Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Of course, Todd, former state trooper, former New London Police
51:49
Speaker 3: Union president. And, you know, we usually go through some
51:52
Speaker 3: stuff going on as far as law enforcement. If you
51:54
Speaker 3: guys want to call in, not a lot of spots
51:56
Speaker 3: to call in today. If you want to, you know,
51:58
Speaker 3: either back Todd or challenge Todd on something, 860-464-9490. I
52:01
Speaker 3: got to put you right on hold because we don't
52:04
Speaker 3: have a call screener until 8 o'clock.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Todd, what do you got to start with?
52:07
Speaker 9: I think we're going to be on different sides of
52:09
Speaker 9: a topic coming up.
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Speaker 1: Let's go.
52:11
Speaker 9: I heard your opening this morning. Very good.
52:13
Speaker 1: Thank you.
52:13
Speaker 9: On supporting law enforcement. You always have.
52:15
Speaker 1: Thank you.
52:16
Speaker 12: And obviously, I've known you a long time, and you've
52:18
Speaker 12: always been pro-law enforcement. But on your little network here,
52:22
Speaker 12: your little radio show, you've had a couple people.
52:26
Speaker 9: Mainly, I've said it before. Is it Red Janky?
52:29
Speaker 1: Red, yeah. Red takes shots at you guys.
52:33
Speaker 12: Did Red try to become a state employee and couldn't
52:36
Speaker 12: do the push-ups? What is the deal with how much
52:39
Speaker 12: a state employee... There is a system in place, Lee.
52:42
Speaker 12: A state employee just doesn't go in and say, yeah,
52:44
Speaker 12: that's what I want. There's a union bargaining and there's
52:47
Speaker 12: another team at the table. But for him to call.
52:50
Speaker 9: Out how much a Connecticut state trooper makes bothers me. Because,
52:55
Speaker 9: like you.
52:57
Speaker 12: Said this morning, I bet you he's never wore a
53:00
Speaker 12: bulletproof vest.
53:01
Speaker 5: Sure.
53:02
Speaker 12: I bet you he hasn't been in many fights to
53:04
Speaker 12: try to place someone into custody.
53:06
Speaker 5: Right.
53:06
Speaker 12: I don't know if he wears a gun, but not,
53:08
Speaker 12: you know, as far as a law enforcement officer.
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Speaker 2: Right.
53:11
Speaker 9: And you know what?
53:12
Speaker 12: I've gone to work with people who were making those
53:15
Speaker 12: salaries who didn't come home.
53:17
Speaker 1: Right.
53:18
Speaker 12: And for him to continue, I mean, talk about a
53:20
Speaker 12: one-trick pony over and over, the attack on state employees,
53:25
Speaker 12: and you.
53:25
Speaker 9: Have him on here.
53:26
Speaker 1: Well, this is his fight back.
53:30
Speaker 3: I think it's, let me just, I'm not defending it,
53:32
Speaker 3: because I think the state employees should get whatever they've
53:36
Speaker 3: bargained for. And I think actually the police officers in
53:39
Speaker 3: the state, state police officers, corrections officers should make more money.
53:43
Speaker 1: I do. And I'll go on record to say that.
53:45
Speaker 9: I think we'll get the corrections here.
53:47
Speaker 1: I think that's, you know, that's going to be some.
53:49
Speaker 3: We have to reinvest in those people because they have
53:54
Speaker 3: been in the crosshairs of politicians forever.
53:57
Speaker 1: I think red.
53:58
Speaker 3: Does what he does because he's going after the politicians
54:02
Speaker 3: who have put these deals together. I know the flack
54:05
Speaker 3: for that is the state employees.
54:07
Speaker 1: So I'm not defending what Red's saying.
54:09
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that I think he is trying to
54:11
Speaker 3: target the politicians who put these things in place. I
54:14
Speaker 3: don't think he's targeting necessarily the employees, but they happen
54:20
Speaker 3: to be you know, the beneficiaries of this.
54:23
Speaker 1: That's just my personal opinion.
54:24
Speaker 9: I'll give you the counterpoint on that.
54:25
Speaker 12: But by going after politicians and targeting how much somebody makes,
54:29
Speaker 12: aren't you going after them too? You're going after how
54:32
Speaker 12: much money they make. He's not targeting a politician on
54:37
Speaker 12: how much money they make. He's going after a state employee,
54:41
Speaker 12: and they're just working within the system. That's got to
54:43
Speaker 12: be voted on by the legislator, approved by the governor,
54:46
Speaker 12: all these contracts.
54:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's who I think he's trying to target.
54:50
Speaker 3: And as I just said, I think it's the employee
54:53
Speaker 3: who ends up getting the flack. When I say flack,
54:57
Speaker 3: I mean you get the debris. You're part of the battle, unfortunately.
55:02
Speaker 3: And I don't think the employee really has much to
55:04
Speaker 3: do with that. I mean, of course, if I go
55:08
Speaker 3: to work for the state, And I know I'm going
55:10
Speaker 3: to get X, Y, and Z. I expect to get X, Y,
55:12
Speaker 3: and Z. I mean, I've always thought that. So I'm
55:15
Speaker 3: with you on that. There's no disagreement on that.
55:16
Speaker 12: But I may think an attorney makes too much money,
55:19
Speaker 12: a doctor makes too much. But it is what it is.
55:22
Speaker 12: But it's always the state employees. Does he have any
55:25
Speaker 12: other subjects?
55:26
Speaker 1: The problem is....
55:28
Speaker 3: Is that the state employees, they get their salary from
55:31
Speaker 3: the state taxpayers. It's different than, like, a lawyer or
55:34
Speaker 3: something like that. So there is residual effects for everybody
55:37
Speaker 3: out there who's listening.
55:38
Speaker 12: Well, and I did take a little umbrage with the
55:41
Speaker 12: fact that, you know, well, state troopers are making so much,
55:44
Speaker 12: that's why so many people are applying.
55:47
Speaker 9: That's wrong.
55:47
Speaker 5: Yeah.
55:48
Speaker 9: There is... They're way down.
55:50
Speaker 1: Did he say that last week?
55:51
Speaker 8: I don't remember that.
55:51
Speaker 9: I think you corrected him a little bit to say
55:54
Speaker 9: no one's applying anymore.
55:55
Speaker 1: No one's applying.
55:55
Speaker 12: I don't think it's up anymore, but if you pass
55:59
Speaker 12: 395 at the Montville Barracks.
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Speaker 9: It was a digital sign. You never had that before.
56:03
Speaker 3: I know.
56:04
Speaker 12: So many people, like 30,000 people would apply for 100 spots.
56:07
Speaker 12: Now you have academies of 18, 20 people.
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Speaker 3: I'll bring this up with Brett today because I'll try
56:12
Speaker 3: to get that drilled down a little bit because I
56:14
Speaker 3: want to know if he's necessarily targeting the employee themselves.
56:18
Speaker 3: Or the system that's in place that gives them the
56:21
Speaker 3: raises that they get every single year.
56:23
Speaker 9: But I'll double down, Lee.
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Speaker 12: By doing that, you are also inevitably targeting the state
56:29
Speaker 12: employees because that's– what do you want them to make less?
56:32
Speaker 12: Is that what you're– and I'll go– I don't know
56:34
Speaker 12: much about corrections. Some of my friends retire from corrections.
56:38
Speaker 12: But would you want to be locked in for 8,
56:41
Speaker 12: 16 hours with those animals? No.
56:43
Speaker 1: In fact, I think that's the worst job you can have.
56:46
Speaker 9: And recently.
56:49
Speaker 12: The ACLU just came out and imposed that state prisons
56:54
Speaker 12: can no longer shackle people who are mentally ill. So
56:59
Speaker 12: this is what problem I'm having. We talked about it
57:02
Speaker 12: about the Hartford shooting where the guy was supposed to
57:04
Speaker 12: be mentally ill with a knife.
57:06
Speaker 3: Right.
57:09
Speaker 12: Do people think that the rules are different if you're
57:11
Speaker 12: mentally ill and have a knife?
57:13
Speaker 9: They must.
57:14
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
57:14
Speaker 12: If you're mentally ill and you're ripping your cell apart
57:17
Speaker 12: and they can't control you, you have to restrain them. At,
57:21
Speaker 12: you know, I saw it a lot when I was
57:22
Speaker 12: a sheriff because we had to babysit people for eight
57:25
Speaker 12: hours while they're in court.
57:26
Speaker 1: Right.
57:26
Speaker 9: And they're in a cell for eight hours.
57:27
Speaker 3: Right.
57:28
Speaker 12: And it's by no means like the professionalism of a
57:31
Speaker 12: correctional officer where they're 24-7 dealing with these people up there.
57:35
Speaker 12: But even at New London, not so much with the
57:36
Speaker 12: state police because we had different kind of prisoners. But
57:39
Speaker 12: in New London, there's a chair where if you're out
57:42
Speaker 12: of control, you're handcuffed by your ankles and your hands
57:45
Speaker 12: and you're put in a chair.
57:46
Speaker 5: Right.
57:47
Speaker 8: How?
57:47
Speaker 12: You just can't let them either harm themselves or rip
57:50
Speaker 12: the cell apart.
57:50
Speaker 9: What do you do? And I think.
57:52
Speaker 12: We're getting into a point where if you're mentally ill,
57:57
Speaker 12: some people on the far left think, well, there's got
57:59
Speaker 12: to be a different set of rules. And if someone
58:03
Speaker 12: mentally ill has a gun pointing at you and someone
58:05
Speaker 12: who's not mentally ill has a gun pointing at you,
58:07
Speaker 12: I hate to say it to tell these people, you're
58:09
Speaker 12: going to react the same.
58:10
Speaker 7: Same.
58:11
Speaker 12: If someone throws a punch at you and they're crazy
58:13
Speaker 12: and someone throws a punch at you, you're not.
58:16
Speaker 9: Your actions are the same.
58:17
Speaker 5: Right.
58:17
Speaker 1: It's the same result.
58:18
Speaker 3: So what does the requirements now for these state prison
58:24
Speaker 3: cell restraints, what is it now? So if I'm losing
58:28
Speaker 3: my mind in a cell by myself, throwing myself up
58:31
Speaker 3: against the wall, I don't get restrained anymore?
58:33
Speaker 12: You know, a lot of them, you know, rip the
58:35
Speaker 12: plumbing so water goes all over.
58:37
Speaker 1: Right.
58:38
Speaker 12: I know it's early in the morning. People are probably
58:39
Speaker 12: eating breakfast, so I'll go easy. But they'll throw bodily
58:43
Speaker 12: fluids at the guards.
58:44
Speaker 9: I don't know.
58:46
Speaker 1: So you can't chain them? What do you do?
58:49
Speaker 12: Far left, ACLU involves themselves. And these people, these corrections guards,
58:56
Speaker 12: have families too.
58:57
Speaker 9: They want to go home. That's a dangerous job in there.
59:00
Speaker 1: I agree.
59:01
Speaker 9: There's no saints in there. You're in there for a reason.
59:06
Speaker 7: Right.
59:06
Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. I'm with you on all this
59:08
Speaker 1: so far.
59:10
Speaker 9: Where we may disagree a little bit not a lot but.
59:13
Speaker 12: Um and i and i'll i'll say this first i
59:16
Speaker 12: don't think your your friend rocky who has a show
59:19
Speaker 12: on yeah i don't and i've read the paper today
59:22
Speaker 12: And I don't think he was directing his taunts at
59:25
Speaker 12: law enforcement. But we talked about, or you talked about
59:28
Speaker 12: this morning, and I agreed, about the respect for law enforcement.
59:31
Speaker 12: And it seems when law enforcement had to intervene in
59:34
Speaker 12: a Norwich council meeting, it got a little heated. And
59:38
Speaker 12: Rocky's name was in there yelling, Connard of scumbags. And again,
59:44
Speaker 12: I'll say I don't think he was directing at law enforcement.
59:47
Speaker 12: But if you're going to come on the radio and...
59:49
Speaker 12: respect law enforcement and I'm pro-law enforcement, that's not respecting.
59:53
Speaker 12: Because they're asking you to calm down and leave. And
59:56
Speaker 12: if you're not doing that, now you've directed... Your impact
1:00:00
Speaker 12: towards the efforts of the officers.
1:00:02
Speaker 3: So I'm glad you brought this up because I've always
1:00:03
Speaker 3: had a question about this. So they're in a public setting. OK,
1:00:07
Speaker 3: Rocky's filming it and he's up there speaking. And then,
1:00:11
Speaker 3: you know, by his account, they either shut him down
1:00:15
Speaker 3: or in one case, you know, he I guess he
1:00:18
Speaker 3: refused to give his name.
1:00:20
Speaker 1: Right.
1:00:21
Speaker 3: And the mayor at the time called for the police
1:00:24
Speaker 3: officer to have him removed. And I'm curious, is that,
1:00:28
Speaker 3: I mean, in that kind of a situation, does the
1:00:31
Speaker 3: wants of the person who's heading that meeting trump the
1:00:36
Speaker 3: First Amendment of the United States where he got a
1:00:39
Speaker 3: right to free speech?
1:00:40
Speaker 12: Well, I think when your right of free speech disrupts
1:00:43
Speaker 12: the organization or the meeting where they cannot continue business,
1:00:48
Speaker 12: then you've gone outside the scope of, you know, Freedom
1:00:52
Speaker 12: of speech to breach of peace.
1:00:54
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
1:00:55
Speaker 12: Because now you've entered into where your behavior, and I'm
1:00:58
Speaker 12: not saying his behavior was so bad that he had
1:01:01
Speaker 12: to be arrested or anything.
1:01:02
Speaker 9: But some people go a little too far.
1:01:05
Speaker 1: Right.
1:01:06
Speaker 12: And it disrupts the business of the town or city.
1:01:10
Speaker 5: Okay.
1:01:10
Speaker 3: Again, I don't have a call screener, so this could
1:01:12
Speaker 3: be rocky.
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Speaker 1: So let's see. Good morning. Who's this?
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Speaker 7: Well, it's not rocky, let me tell you this.
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Speaker 1: All right, there he is, Coach Leo.
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Speaker 9: It's as good as you can get.
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Speaker 7: You're two fine gentlemen.
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Speaker 8: You know, Todd, I tell you what, I feel your pain,
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Speaker 8: but this issue of anti-police, anti-authoritarianism goes back to the
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Speaker 8: whole woke generation, maybe even with some of these left-wingers
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Speaker 8: that are in education. I hate to say it, but
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Speaker 8: we have some people that just don't want to Go
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Speaker 8: along with the program, you know?
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Speaker 7: And the indoctrination of this stuff starts when the kids
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Speaker 7: are little. And so, you know, they don't have to
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Speaker 7: do this. They don't have to do that. And by
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Speaker 7: the time they.
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Speaker 8: Get to be adults, they take a condescending view of
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Speaker 8: law enforcement. And it's wrong. And, I mean, now it's
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Speaker 8: even going too well. You've got the bad guys in jail.
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Speaker 8: The bad guys.
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Speaker 7: Continue to act bad.
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Speaker 8: And you've let them now can't treat them accordingly. You've
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Speaker 8: got to mollycoddle them and treat them with gloves.
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Speaker 7: You know, it's the politicians. I mean, you know, people
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Speaker 7: can say what they.
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Speaker 8: Want about Trump.
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Speaker 7: Trump's not a politician.
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Speaker 8: Trump's a businessman.
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Speaker 7: He sees the bottom line. And the bottom line is
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Speaker 7: you can't.
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Speaker 8: Have these people acting like animals and hurting other people,
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Speaker 8: even in prison.
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Speaker 7: They've got to be stemmed. They've got to be taken
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Speaker 7: care of.
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Speaker 8: And to take the cops and handcuff them, And then
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Speaker 8: I was, you know, I drove past Troop F in
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Speaker 8: Westbrook yesterday on my way to New Haven. Big sign,
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Speaker 8: we are hiring. You know what? Years ago, you'd be
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Speaker 8: lucky to get an acceptance into the state police because
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Speaker 8: there were so many applicants for it.
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Speaker 9: Coach, you are 100% right. That would have never happened before.
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Speaker 12: There, I think, and I'm not an expert on this anymore,
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Speaker 12: but when I applied, I think there was like 12
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Speaker 12: different locations around the state. And, you know, there was
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Speaker 12: probably 30,000 applicants for maybe 100, 120 spots in the academy.
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Speaker 9: Those were big classes we had.
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Speaker 12: Now, you know, maybe 1,000 applicants and you have a
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Speaker 12: class of 20.
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Speaker 9: And the problem, Coach, you said this before. What happens?
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Speaker 9: You drop the standards.
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Speaker 8: And that whole DEI thing and, you know, here's the thing.
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Speaker 7: They complain about the money you guys make.
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Speaker 8: You know what?
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Speaker 7: You deserve every cent of it.
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Speaker 8: And I won't mention the guy's name, but a state
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Speaker 8: cop I know got called up to the dead dog
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Speaker 8: saloon up there in Middlefield, you know, by himself. Wants
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Speaker 8: him to get into a.
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Speaker 7: Fight, gets his uniform ripped off.
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Speaker 8: And by the time they get some backup, I mean.
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Speaker 7: They got, of course, they got the guys.
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Speaker 8: You know, there were two of them, I think.
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Speaker 7: But, number one, whatever happened to those guys, ex post factos,
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Speaker 7: they deserved.
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Speaker 8: Number two, you know what? Why are you begrudging someone
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Speaker 8: money who's going out protecting your life?
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Speaker 7: These people don't understand. Obviously, Todd, the people that complain
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Speaker 7: have never been assaulted, have never been held up, have
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Speaker 7: never been robbed. you know, and they just don't understand
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Speaker 7: the relevance and the.
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Speaker 8: Necessity for a good, strong police.
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Speaker 7: Force, you know?
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Speaker 8: And they say, well, you know.
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Speaker 7: These cops, they're doing this. No, you know what? Every
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Speaker 7: profession has members.
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Speaker 8: That are not, let's say, stand-up citizens. And sooner or later,
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Speaker 8: they expose themselves, they flush themselves out.
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Speaker 7: And then they get rid of them.
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Speaker 12: But I think for the most part, You know? You
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Speaker 12: hit the nail on the head, Coach, when you say
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Speaker 12: a lot of these people, one, could never do the job.
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Speaker 12: They don't want to, and that's okay. But unless you're
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Speaker 12: in those people's shoes, you're in a trooper or an
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Speaker 12: officer's shoes or a corrections guard in a facility, you
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Speaker 12: shouldn't be the one changing the rules for them.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 7: Not at all. Because you're not exposed to the same...
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Speaker 7: I mean, you.
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Speaker 8: Know, I.
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Speaker 7: You've been exposed to a lot.
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Speaker 8: Of situations where it's fight or flight.
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Speaker 7: You're not running away from anybody.
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Speaker 8: I know you well, right? And it doesn't matter the
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Speaker 8: size of the guy.
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Speaker 7: Or what the guy's credentials are.
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Speaker 8: If the guy's a bad guy and he's doing wrong,
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Speaker 8: Todd Lynch as a police officer is going to make
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Speaker 8: sure that guy's I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Well, Coach, good stuff today. I'm going to let Todd
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Speaker 3: finish what he's got to throw out there, but I
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Speaker 3: appreciate it, buddy.
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Speaker 1: I'll see you later.
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Speaker 3: The great Coach Leo, again, his wise words of wisdom
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Speaker 3: with the law enforcement stuff.
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Speaker 1: All right, what else you got?
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Speaker 12: I guess I was watching this Michigan race last night,
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Speaker 12: and we're the same age. What has happened to this
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Speaker 12: country when someone that's so far left And I know
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Speaker 12: you were socialist, communist, whatever you want to say.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 9: But he's running on an agenda where.
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Speaker 12: Abolish the police, abolish ICE, open borders.
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Speaker 9: We just talked about get rid of prisons.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 9: Which all is a joke because you know none of
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Speaker 9: that's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 12: And then he's running around with a guy who said
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Speaker 12: we deserve 9-11.
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Speaker 9: In fact, the night before the primary... That's who he
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Speaker 9: went to a pool party with.
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Speaker 12: What have we become? I mean, and you opened up
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Speaker 12: the show perfectly. The law enforcement, in some people's eyes,
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Speaker 12: have become the bad guys. And I imagine a lot
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Speaker 12: of it is young before 9-11 happened. Because if you
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Speaker 12: lived through 9-11, and I know you're going to have
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Speaker 12: something coming up on it, it changed your life. People
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Speaker 12: just minding their business at work, and buildings were taken down.
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Speaker 12: And for someone to say we deserved it and is
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Speaker 12: supporting someone and that's who you're voting for, and I'm
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Speaker 12: not saying the other candidate was great or.
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Speaker 9: Who should win or lose, but my godly, what has happened?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 9: I mean, get rid of the police. What happens now?
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Speaker 1: Well, we saw what happened.
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Speaker 3: We saw when these municipalities or even these towns— They
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Speaker 3: either defunded large portions of their police department. Even in
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Speaker 3: New London, what did they do? They had to recant
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Speaker 3: all that stuff because it causes chaos.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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Speaker 12: And now you, you know, and I'm on one side
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Speaker 12: of this, the flock cameras or the license plate reader cameras,
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Speaker 12: everyone's up in arms.
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Speaker 9: What they don't.
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Speaker 12: Realize is two things. One, if you have a cell phone,
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Speaker 12: people can find you whenever they want.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: Two is, if I'm not doing anything wrong, what do
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Speaker 12: I care where people know where my car is? And
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Speaker 12: it's used in a law enforcement setting. Just this week,
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Speaker 12: I know it's not the biggest crime in the world,
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Speaker 12: but someone destroyed the fields in Cheshire, Connecticut.
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Speaker 9: You know, donuts and everything.
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Speaker 12: Caught a lot of money. The cameras identified the person,
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Speaker 12: caught the person. One step further in Milford, there was
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Speaker 12: a home invasion where they shot two people, one to death.
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Speaker 12: And the reason why, from what I'm being told, that
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Speaker 12: they solved the case was these plate readers.
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Speaker 9: Is that not worth it? You can follow me all
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Speaker 9: day long. Come to my house. Do whatever you want.
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Speaker 12: I have nothing to hide. But these people, it's an
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Speaker 12: invasion of my privacy. If you're not doing anything wrong,
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Speaker 12: you're not invading anything.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm starting to get to the point where
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Speaker 3: you are. I was i was not there in the
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Speaker 3: beginning like you know i'm i'm a free man and
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Speaker 3: i don't want big brother watching me uh 24 7
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Speaker 3: but the argument the legitimate argument that sort of sways
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Speaker 3: me on this is if you're carrying a cell phone
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Speaker 3: you can't be hypocritical because they can find you and
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Speaker 3: they can watch you through that cell phone No matter
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Speaker 3: where you are.
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Speaker 1: So I totally understand what you're saying and all of that.
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Speaker 12: But you live, as I do, in a community that
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Speaker 12: has these. Has it ever affected you?
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Speaker 1: No, it hasn't affected me at all.
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Speaker 9: Well, your car may be so old that it may
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Speaker 9: not work on your plate. It doesn't affect me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I get it.
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Speaker 3: But you can see, though, too, again, like I said,
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Speaker 3: I'm not 100% either way on this yet. But you
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Speaker 3: can see where somebody who doesn't want the idea of
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Speaker 3: Big Brother watching where they go just has that mindset. Like,
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Speaker 3: that's what they do. They don't like it. They've never
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Speaker 3: liked it. They're old school when it comes to that.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they don't have a cell phone. They don't want,
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Speaker 3: you know, they don't want. the chief of police in
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Speaker 3: Eastline to be able to know that they're driving, you know, past,
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Speaker 3: to Costco for the.
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Speaker 1: Fourth time that day.
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Speaker 12: But does the chief of police in Eastline care who's
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Speaker 12: driving where unless something happens when.
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Speaker 9: They do the research?
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Speaker 1: No, he shouldn't.
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Speaker 3: But we are finding that there are, and again, even
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Speaker 3: as we defend the police.
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Speaker 1: Very vigorously, there have been some reports where.
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Speaker 3: Some cops are using this stuff to track old girlfriends
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Speaker 3: and stuff, too.
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Speaker 12: Well, and if that's happening, then they should, you know,
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Speaker 12: be held accountable. But I don't like the fact that,
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Speaker 12: you know, what's more important, solving a murder or worrying that,
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Speaker 12: you know, Lee Elsie just ran a red light?
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Speaker 9: I just, I mean, what is more important?
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Speaker 1: No, I get it. I get it. I understand. All right,
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Speaker 1: you got one more?
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Speaker 12: I got one quick one because we go over this
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Speaker 12: a lot, and I just happen to be watching the
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Speaker 12: CTN network, Connecticut News, and they have the pistol permit applications.
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Speaker 12: And it's Waterbury, so it's not local courts, so I'm
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Speaker 12: not beating up the local courts. But this one gentleman
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Speaker 12: was trying to get his pistol permit, and the town
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Speaker 12: of Waterbury was saying no because he had four run-ins
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Speaker 12: with law enforcement all on unregistered dirt bikes slash ATVs.
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Speaker 12: And what struck me is, to bring it up here today,
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Speaker 12: is because people get so infuriated with this. And the
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Speaker 12: problem they were having about holding back his pistol permit, Lee,
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Speaker 12: and each one of the times, one was a pursuit.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 9: Two was he took off and ran out of gas.
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Speaker 9: And then two others that they identified him. So four
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Speaker 9: different times.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 12: This individual was driving around the city of Waterbury recklessly.
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Speaker 9: You know how they drive.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 9: What do you think happened in each time?
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Speaker 1: Nothing.
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Speaker 5: Nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 9: Every time it was thrown out.
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Speaker 12: And not for, you know, not for a fine, not
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Speaker 12: so it's.
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Speaker 1: On his record.
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Speaker 12: Each one was either nollied or thrown out of court.
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Speaker 12: So that, why should that gentleman, I'll go lightly, why
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Speaker 12: should he not get back on an ATV and drive
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Speaker 12: through Waterbury?
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Speaker 1: Is that a judge who's doing that? Or is that prosecutors?
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Speaker 9: I don't know what they're doing. Sometimes in motor vehicles,
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Speaker 9: it's a magistrate.
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Speaker 1: Ridiculous.
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Speaker 12: The people are in such an, and it's every community,
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Speaker 12: they're in such an outrage over this. And are the
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Speaker 12: judges or magistrates not catching on or prosecutors that people
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Speaker 12: want something done?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 5: I'm with you.
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Speaker 9: All right, good stuff today, Todd.
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Speaker 3: Sorry we're out of time, but Todd Lynch, always a
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Speaker 3: great segment with him on these Wednesdays at 7.05.
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Speaker 1: We'll come back. The Boots will join us next.