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Speaker 1: This is from six to oh three on the text

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Speaker 1: line Jeff regarding last night. I haven't seen elan Omar

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, best audience in the business, Mark

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Speaker 1: in Amesbury. Thanks for holding Mark and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I didn't get a chance. I wasn't able to listen

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Speaker 3: to the stands Union. I was working, all right. I'm

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Speaker 3: one of the millions of Americans feed into this country

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Speaker 3: what I do do is in the morning, I listened

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Speaker 3: I hats like the station. It was absolutely disgusting. They

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely vulga and not for nothing. You know,

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Speaker 3: you say that the president's listening to this. Mister president,

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Speaker 3: if you all listen into this, you have to reinstate

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Speaker 3: the Months Act. You have to get these median organizations

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Speaker 1: Now, Mark, were you Was it the commentary that upset

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Speaker 1: you know, constantly interjecting commentary, well then you're not able

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Speaker 3: No interruptions. They you know, they break in so that

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Speaker 3: He's lying about this, he's lying about that. They don't

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Speaker 3: And you know, like I listen to you guys. I

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Speaker 3: when the iHeart clowns. Just everything was whole opposite of

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Speaker 3: for I Hot to just be I'm so disgusted with

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Speaker 3: every day and I'm just disgusted that I Hot would

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Speaker 3: Everything was about iHeart Radio, and it was just absolutely

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Mark, look, just play the State of

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Speaker 1: Oh Regina as they say as the French say to say, game,

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Speaker 1: set match, Regina. You nailed it, okay, as advertised, joining

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Speaker 1: us now is Republican candidate for Governor, Brian Shortsleeve. Brian,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the Kooner Report.

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Speaker 2: Hey, well, Jeff, thanks for having me on. What a

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Speaker 2: great speech by the President last night. Huh oh, I agree,

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Speaker 2: We got to do every one of them.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, Brian, I'm happy you mentioned all of that, and

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Speaker 1: to lay out your reasons. I understand why you oppose Heally,

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Speaker 1: Why you and not the other two candidates running for governor?

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Speaker 1: What distinguishes you from either Mike Kanneely or Mike Minogue.

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Speaker 1: Why should they vote for you?

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Speaker 2: Brian, go ahead, Thanks for having me on. It's great

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Speaker 2: to be here this morning. I'm a longtime listener. For

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Speaker 2: Brian Shwartsleeve. I am a proud Marine. I'm a successful

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Speaker 2: we're exporting people, we're exporting jobs. We're last in private

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Speaker 2: I know how to get things rolling. I'm also Jeff,

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Speaker 2: a proven government reformer. I took on the toughest assignment

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Speaker 2: when Governor Baker called massd me to take two years

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Speaker 2: and to help him untangle the MBTA finances. I had no

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Speaker 2: but I told the Governor I'd given two years. And

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Speaker 2: in two years, Jeff, we tore out waste and abuse.

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Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts and has grown and scaled a business.

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Speaker 2: only candidate in this race has called for a full

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Speaker 2: repeal of the MBTA Communities Act. That's a bad law,

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Speaker 2: it's an unfunded mandate, it's administrative overreach. You with Mike

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Speaker 2: I am the candidate who can win this race. I've

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Speaker 2: got the endorsement of great conservatives like Mark Lombardo, Nick Boldega,

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Speaker 2: We're way out on social media. We have close to

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Speaker 2: We've built on things like Instagram and TikTok, and it's

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Speaker 1: Brian I asked the same question of Mike Kinnely. I

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Speaker 1: vote for Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, Jeff, I vote as a marine first and

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Speaker 3: I voted it, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of it when I look at the performance

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Speaker 2: we have seen so far. The border is closed. That's

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Speaker 2: a good thing. Who could have imagined that this state

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Speaker 2: of Massachusetts could become a border state? But under Moraheely

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Speaker 2: and her complete misuse of the right to shelter law

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts probably five billion dollars three billion of direct expense

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Speaker 2: two billion of indirect expense. To put that in perspective

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Speaker 2: for your listener, Chef, every city in town in Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is, you did vote for Trump

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been supporting Republicans all my life.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, I've spent my life in the private sector

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Speaker 2: I remember when Donald Trump was running back in twenty

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Speaker 2: You know, you got to be friends with everybody. What

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Speaker 2: I've been supporting national Republicans all my life. I've supported

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Speaker 2: and I think Massachusetts today is facing unprecedented challenges. We

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Speaker 1: Brian, We're definitely going to have you back on for

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Speaker 1: If people want to find out more about your campaign,

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Speaker 1: a website they can go to?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, please show us on Facebook at Brian Shortsleeve for

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts or on the web at brianshortsleeve dot com. We're

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Speaker 2: I'll be at the American Legion in Detam tonight and

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Speaker 2: we put all our public events on the website, so

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Speaker 2: we'd love to meet your listeners. And that's time to

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Speaker 2: take back Peaking Hill Chap and I think it's take

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Speaker 1: Brian, thank you so much for coming on the Kooner Report.

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Speaker 1: We have been talking with Brian Shortsleeve, Republican candidate for governor.

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Speaker 1: Go to Brianshortsleeve dot com. Six one seven two six

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Speaker 1: six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay. I

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Speaker 1: text the cooner Man seven zero four seven zero What

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Speaker 1: did you think of Brian short Sleeve? What did you

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get your take. We had Mike Knnely

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Speaker 1: That's what I've been told. So I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I go Gary or if I go mister President. Let's

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Speaker 1: go with mister president. Mister President, how are you well?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing great and I want to let you know

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Speaker 4: To a way.

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Speaker 5: Am he going to pay tribute to her with a

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Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, mister Trump.

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Speaker 5: With no tailor prompter. I told them what matter? Her

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Speaker 5: brain is tattered, completely married. Send her back to Samalia,

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Speaker 5: Beck to Simelia, a piece of garbage. She married her brother.

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Speaker 5: just like Medica, the monster Medusa, the monster.

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Speaker 1: Medusa, the monster. Oh Gary, I gotta tell you, man,

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Speaker 1: you were born to do comedy. Seriously, you were born

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Speaker 1: to do comedy. That's Gary Levitt. Gary, is you got

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Speaker 1: your pocket, my friend? Are you Are you performing anywhere

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Speaker 2: I will be performing at a place called the Crown

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Speaker 2: Plaza in Wooburn, Massachusetts and in their future.

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Speaker 1: Okay, listen, call back again. I want to I want

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Speaker 1: see you because you are funny guy. Gary, Thank you again.

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Speaker 1: That was dynamite, Absolutely dynamite, you know what. And it's

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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, slick Willie, that's real, that's Bill in Clinton. No,

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Speaker 1: I thought you were former President Bill Clinton. Bill, the

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Speaker 4: I haven't got much time, but what a delicious crissing

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Speaker 4: down he gave the Democrat last night. And we're fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Several of them should be so shameful of themselves that

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Speaker 1: Now, now, Bill, do you think this is gonna moved

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