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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Money High Country.

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Speaker 5: I've never been more motivated to vote for Trump, to

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Speaker 5: So Vincent Germany, with all due respect, you're just talking

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Speaker 1: They've been saying this now for months. They're like to everybody,

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Speaker 1: If there's anything Trump's people listen obviously, is there anything

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Speaker 1: Ronnie, great call Ronnie, come on, don't be a stranger.

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Speaker 4: Kim in you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're gonna see watch this is gonna You

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Speaker 1: Kim in New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Kim.

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Speaker 2: And welcome.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Hi, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 7: I love your show.

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Speaker 6: When you're not on, it's definitely today is definitely different.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Kim. You know, I wish Mike

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Speaker 1: repeat everything. You know, you know what more Heely's doing

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Speaker 1: nine seven eight who texted this to me, Jeff. Why

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Speaker 1: Attorney general in Joely Why of twenty sixteen. Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Now, Republicans can't run on this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much more to run on, don't

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Speaker 1: We can win and we can take back this state.

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Speaker 1: But to win, you have to want to win, and

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Speaker 7: Yes, my brother from another.

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Speaker 1: Dan, my friend. You're the guy to talk to? Oh

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Speaker 1: are you the guy to talk to? You travel everywhere,

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Speaker 1: You're always on the road. You talked to everybody. Dan

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Speaker 7: Absolutely? Things have turned around. So it started. It started

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Speaker 7: People weren't going to restaurants. People are afraid. People are

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Speaker 7: I see it. Restaurants are full again. There's people. You know,

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Speaker 7: it's coming back, Jeffy. You know I bought I bought

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Speaker 2: That's not bad.

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Speaker 1: Why are they so much more expensive than in Florida?

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Speaker 7: Jeff, it's it's doing business in Massachusetts is more expensive.

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Speaker 7: So the grocery store is paying twice in electricity what

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Speaker 7: they're doing Florida.

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Speaker 8: Right, They're paying and as a result, they're paying more

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Speaker 8: for their help because the help needs to make more

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Speaker 8: money to live in Massachusetts because they you know, they're

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Speaker 8: paying half of it in taxes.

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Speaker 7: So it's it's a vicious cycle. It's a vicious cycle.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 7: So so you know, and in Florida, for instance, right,

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Speaker 7: you know, I've reached that ripe old age of sixty one,

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Speaker 7: Jeff Right, I can draft off my flour to one

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Speaker 7: ks and my IRA's right that money is not taxed

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Speaker 7: in Florida, I'd be paying I'd be paying an additional

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Speaker 7: five and a half percent tax on it in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 7: It's awful, right.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, It's incredible, just incredible, Dan, Please, you're on a roll.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying, definitely, the economy is getting better, cost

447
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: of living is coming down. You feel it, you see it.

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Speaker 1: Your hell, you're paying you know what you can tell

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Speaker 1: Dan when you talk to others, are they feeling it

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Speaker 1: as well?

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Speaker 7: Yes, you know, as a couple of a couple of

452
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Speaker 7: people I know here in Florida, we're out of work

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Speaker 7: last year. They're all back to work. They feel they

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Speaker 7: feel better about life. They're spending money. Obviously, I have

455
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Speaker 7: a couple of tenants that were you know, suffering, you know,

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Speaker 7: beginning of last year. They're they're paying their rent. Now,

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Speaker 7: it's good. I tell you who manche one of the

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Speaker 7: colls mentioned healthcare is still crazy. So I spent eight

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Speaker 7: hours at an emergency room and just before the just

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Speaker 7: before New Year's get kind of screwed up, right, But

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Speaker 7: no surgery, no, you know, no extensive blah blah blah.

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Speaker 7: Just ninety seven hundred dollars bill, holy mackerel, ninety that's

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Speaker 7: here in Florida. I mean it's a national issue.

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Speaker 3: They got it.

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Speaker 7: We got to do something with healthcare in this country.

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Speaker 7: I know Trump is trying with this the Trump I Rex,

467
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Speaker 7: which a great idea. Who I thought you'd seen Mark

468
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Speaker 7: Cuban jump into the Trump camp.

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: That's for insulin and certain medications, which is great. But

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Speaker 1: you know, you're right, Mark, They've got to do something

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Speaker 1: on healthcare because I think for most people when they

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Speaker 1: talk about the number one driver of what's really you know,

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Speaker 1: gone up in terms of their costs, I think they

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Speaker 1: point the healthcare correct.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, I tell you honestly, as I said to my

477
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Speaker 7: neighbor yesterday, when I, you know, got all these builds

478
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Speaker 7: and I'm looking at him going, what the hell? I said,

479
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Speaker 7: to him, Geez, next time, throw me in the back

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Speaker 7: of the pickup truck, take me out to the field.

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Speaker 7: Leave me there, Mike, cut of that pie.

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Speaker 4: My cut of that.

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Speaker 7: Pie was three eight thousand bucks, Jeff. For eight hours

484
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Speaker 7: it was no vacation.

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Speaker 1: Now, uh, Dan, let me ask you this because you're

486
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Speaker 1: very good at prognosticating. With their refund checks coming in

487
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Speaker 1: in the spring, prices continuing to go down, economic growth

488
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Speaker 1: revving up and up and up. Everything now coming together.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Walsh has the Fed chair interest rates coming down

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Speaker 1: even more by the time we get to September, October, November,

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Speaker 1: the fall. Are the Republicans going to have the wind

492
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Speaker 1: at their back or do you still think they're going

493
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Speaker 1: to It's gonna be a bloodbath and Republicans will lose

494
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Speaker 1: the midterms. What's your sense right now?

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Speaker 2: Dan?

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Speaker 7: The scary thing is, Jeff, the Conservatives they're they're too

497
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Speaker 7: busy working, dealing. You know, they don't vote. Scary, Jeff.

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Speaker 7: You know people that people don't don't don't vote in

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Speaker 7: local elections. Look at Massachusetts. Who in the world would

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Speaker 7: vote for Catherine Clark? Think about that, Who in the

501
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 7: world would vote for Mari Healey? You know. I talk

502
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Speaker 7: to these people and I'm like, and they're like, I'm like,

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Speaker 7: don't you know what she's Oh? No, no, I like her.

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Speaker 7: What do you like about her? Oh? She seems nice?

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Speaker 7: What's the answers you get, Jess?

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Speaker 1: Oh that is very true? Or that is so true.

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Speaker 1: They don't follow what she does. You're completely right. They

508
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Speaker 1: don't read the news or listen to the show or

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Speaker 1: And you're right, it's all optics, it's all emotion. It's

510
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Speaker 1: all exactly what you say. Oh, she looks like she's

511
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Speaker 1: a nice person. You know, you're right, she seems like

512
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Speaker 1: she's a you know, she's trying hard. I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: And when you start telling them the basics of what

514
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Speaker 1: she's done, they're shocked.

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Speaker 2: They're shocked.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen such uninformed voters us here in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: And please, I didn't want to cut you off. So

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Speaker 1: what's your ultimate prediction, buddy? What do you think is

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Speaker 1: going to happen?

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Speaker 7: So I'm praying you know, you know, you you know, Bongino,

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Speaker 7: I know, I'm not happy with what happened with the

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Speaker 7: with the Epstein you know press conference he did, But

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Speaker 7: I can tell you this, he has one very good idea.

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Speaker 7: Everybody calls ten people, drives ten people to the polls

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Speaker 7: and and convinces ten people to vote. If every one

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Speaker 7: of us do that, Jeff, we can we can get

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Speaker 7: people out and and save the you know, save the house.

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Speaker 7: But I tell you, if we lose the house, it's over.

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Speaker 7: It's over. If people don't people don't even get that, Jeff.

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Speaker 7: They don't understand what that means. But you know, God

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Speaker 7: bless God, Bless America.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, God bless you, Dan, God bless you, and please

533
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Speaker 1: my friend again, call more often. Uh, call more often, buddy.

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Speaker 1: He's almost like our national correspondent. He just flies everywhere.

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00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: That's a businessman. He talks to everybody, and he really

536
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Speaker 1: has his nose on the ground. Dan, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for that call by my friend. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Roy in Everett. Thanks for holding Roy, and welcome.

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Speaker 9: Jeff, Hi Roy. I wanted to just point out something

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Speaker 9: on these poles. They're pulling most of the people from

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Speaker 9: the twelve Blue states, and a lot of people in

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Speaker 9: these blue states are sad, you know, they're upset that

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Speaker 9: their economy is sucks really and that's a big problem.

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Speaker 9: So if they did pull the whole country, we'd be

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Speaker 9: better off.

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Speaker 1: That is a really good point. Look, Roy, I can

547
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Speaker 1: just tell you this because when I talk to people here,

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Speaker 1: my sister lives in Arizona. My sister in law lives

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Speaker 1: in Arizona. Life in Arizona much cheaper than life in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Cost of living is much lower on everything. It's like

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Speaker 1: what you know, It's like what Dan was talking about

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Speaker 1: Florida or Larry was talking about in Arkansas. So you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're to pull me, Hey, Jeff, how is the economy? Well,

554
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Speaker 1: I got Morray Healey breathing down my back. I've got

555
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Speaker 1: energy and electricity bills, you know, going through the roof

556
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: every every three to six months. I've got high insurance,

557
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: I've got high taxes. I've got you know on and

558
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Speaker 1: so you know, rents here are insane. Housing prices here

559
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: are insane. If I lived in Arizona, I'd say life's

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Speaker 1: getting good and even better once those ref refund checks

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Speaker 1: come in for me. Now, my refund check is to

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Speaker 1: basically equalize things with more Heey and the Democrats. In

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Speaker 1: other words, let's say I get a couple thousand dollars more,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming I'm gonna get a couple thousand dollars more. Well,

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Speaker 1: that just mix up for everything that Heally and the

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Speaker 1: Democrats have been taking from me at.

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Speaker 2: The state level.

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Speaker 1: So it's not again, it's not in my pocket. It's

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Speaker 1: just preventing, you know that. It's it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: compensating for the two three four thousand dollars I have

571
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Speaker 1: to pay more just because I'm in Massachusetts. So I

572
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Speaker 1: feel like like I'm choking. I just can't get ahead.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's why when you pull people like

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Speaker 1: in mass or Rhode Island, or California, or Illinois or

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Speaker 1: New York, you're like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The economy sucks. You know, it's it's it's it's a

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Speaker 2: tough slog.

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Speaker 1: It's like trench warfare. It's it's you know, you're going

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Speaker 1: against the wind. But if you go in these other states,

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Speaker 1: red states, even purple states, you're like, no, it's good

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Speaker 1: and it's getting better. I mean, roy final word to you,

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Speaker 1: am I wrong?

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Speaker 9: And the reason is this, And when in this state,

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Speaker 9: I think you have to devote one of your shows

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Speaker 9: to the economy. In this state, it's really crappy and

586
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 9: people know it, and we're seeing more unemployment and business

587
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 9: is just taking off. Look at the biotech sector. It's

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00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 9: going by, it's going away. There's a lot of vacancies

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00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 9: in Cambridge now. They're moving off to other areas and

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Speaker 9: they're not coming back to Massachusetts. This one more thing.

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Speaker 9: This is like what happened in the seventies when the

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Speaker 9: electric the computer industry decided to go away. And that's

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Speaker 9: a problem.

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Speaker 2: Oh Roy, it's a huge problem. And thank you for

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Speaker 2: that call.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 2: Look look at Cape Cod ships, you know Cape Court ships.

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Speaker 1: Now, look, you know they're taking the they're moving out

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Speaker 1: of the state and they're moving their operations out of

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Speaker 1: the state.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Look to be fair, Look, every job you lose is bad.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. Okay, it's not hundreds thousands of jobs.

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Speaker 1: It's forty nine employees are gone. They've lost their jobs.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying forty nine is a catastrophe. But

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Speaker 1: just to think about how things are bad in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: just stand back here.

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Speaker 2: You have you know, and they're very good potato chips.

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Speaker 2: I buy them.

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Speaker 1: I'm person, I'm a barbecue man, but that's me. Grace

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: likes the salt and vinegar. Ashton and Nava love the

612
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: regular whatever to each, you know, to each, you know,

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00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: to each his own or her own. But here you

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Speaker 1: have a brand that is directly identified with the state.

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Speaker 1: It's cape called Chips. You can't get more connected to

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts and the state. They are now leaving Massachusetts. They're

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Speaker 1: relocating elsewhere. Why because the cost of doing business is

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00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: too high, the high taxes, the high regulation, the constant

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Speaker 1: harassment from Healey and the Democrats. And they're like, look,

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Speaker 1: we're done. You can't make money in the state. We're done.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: Those jobs are not coming back, those plants are not

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Speaker 1: coming back. Now that's just a microcosm. It's just emblematic.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, it's not just that it's forty

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Speaker 1: nine jobs. They pay taxes, And I'm not even talking

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Speaker 1: about the owners who pay you know, taxes. You know,

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: of course, you know, you know, they pay a lot

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Speaker 1: in taxes. I'm not even talking about the ownership. I'm

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Speaker 1: just talking about the forty nine employees. So taxpayers are fleeing.

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Speaker 1: Businesses are fleeing. And I'm gonna be brutally honest with you.

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Speaker 1: How do I know this. I'm so certain. I get

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00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: emails every day from listeners. Jeff I was born and

633
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: raised in Massachusetts. Jeff, I've lived here most of my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm in South Carolina, now, I'm in Florida, now, I'm

635
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Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. Now, wherever it is, I'm gone. And

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00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: they're all hard working, law fighting taxpayers. Some either have

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00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: businesses or others just work and pay taxes. I'm looking

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00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: at this and I'm like, we're losing our tax base.

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00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: We're hemorrhaging jobs, We're hemorrhaging taxpayers and bringing in more illegals.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to end well. There's no money

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00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: for the illegals anymore, because what you've done now is,

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00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, the horses that pulled the cart are now leaving,

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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: and after a while, you don't have enough horses to

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00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: pull the cart. And that's going to be Massachusetts' problem

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00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 1: very soon. And that's what the Democrats don't see. The Republicans.

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Speaker 1: This should be a slam dunk argument. Where are they?

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Speaker 4: I don't know