WMNH on Radio Row for 2020 Primary (Part 3) | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Kinds of all kinds of thank you, star against candidates. It's really cool. All the media here. It's really starting to load up. Uh, there's there's there's something in the air, folks. It's called the New Hampshire Primary.

0:14 Speaker 2: We'll be right back.

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6:20 Speaker 5: I say.

8:20 Speaker 1: All right everyone, Yeah, we are back here ninety five point three FM w MNH the New Hampshire Primary. I'm here with Matt Connorton. Hello, it is only ten thirty and we are here.

8:37 Speaker 2: We will be here.

8:40 Speaker 1: We will be here for two days. We'll be here tomorrow for the follow up. Tomorrow is actually voting day. Yes, the New Hampshire Primary will take place starting at midnight tonight, yeap and Dixville not yeah yeah what was he saying?

8:52 Speaker 2: There's only a handful of votes up there too, right, yeah?

8:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is fun to watch them vote because it's a national event, you know what I mean when they Yeah, they carry it live on Channel nine. It's the first votes cast in the twenty twenty election. Yes, yes, and that's a lot of responsibility though, if you're one of those twelve people.

9:12 Speaker 6: And as goes, as goes Dixville, notch, so goes the nation.

9:16 Speaker 1: But not really, that's right. We have a Facebook live room open this morning. We've had some problems with it this morning, but I think it's up and running pretty well.

9:25 Speaker 2: Right now.

9:26 Speaker 6: Well, you did a good job getting that back on track. It's too bad you missed a lot of the Stephen Common well, but you were able to get in there at the end.

9:33 Speaker 1: And I could actually hear it. It was great, It really was great.

9:39 Speaker 2: Thank you?

9:40 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, you know right. So let's see we have Mike Martina watching from the arena over where President Trump will be this evening.

9:49 Speaker 6: Yes, our friend Texas Mike and he will be working there.

9:54 Speaker 2: Let's see.

9:56 Speaker 1: Let's see play Boys Club by Joe Friday guy, He's wants me to play Boys Club, Ween. I can't do that for you right now, Joe, but I'll try as soon as I get back to that. Maybe Matt will play it this afternoon. Oh perhaps, Why Why does Joe want to hear that.

10:10 Speaker 2: He likes the song? It's just a song called boys Club by Ween.

10:13 Speaker 1: I think I've heard of you play that yeah before. And for we have Rob Dyon from the Majestic Theater who's become a great fan of the show. I know he tunes into your show. He has his own show in w m n H, the Majestic Theater Show, which I air Sunday's at noontime. Leah rollins, good morning to you, okay, And she's waiting for her mom at the hospital, so I hope everything's okay there, Leah. Mike Pellopeda, good morning to you, he says. Remind mister Connolly to take his mets. Well, okay, Mike will pass it along.

10:48 Speaker 1: We will see him. Who he wanted mister Calmley to take some I assume medicine. Oh right, all right, And yet Leah says, good morning Peter and Matt and Mike Martineau and Jenny Coffee is watching as well. Yes, so very nice to see everyone in the Facebook Live room again. We will be here all afternoon. We have some other media outlets. Indiana guy got real quiet after because he was the loudest guy in the room for a while. He really was. Yes, right now, you can barely hear him. That's why if someone talk to him, Oh, I doubt it.

11:26 Speaker 2: Now. It must be tough to.

11:27 Speaker 1: Come into, you know, be a stranger in a strange land, come in and just start broadcasting, you know, because who would think, well, you know, Indiana, why why would they come to the New Hampshire primary. But that's how I guess stimulating the primary is to other regions around the country.

11:45 Speaker 6: And you know they say Indiana's love New Hampshire. I think that's on their state license plate.

11:51 Speaker 2: Yeah I think so too.

11:52 Speaker 1: Yes, well, very exciting. Yeah, so we are having some internet problems because you know what, I think everyone here is on the same Oh no, we're on Joe's internet, right.

12:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're on Joe's hotspote Friday right, Yes.

12:08 Speaker 2: Joe Laar who seems to have disappeared.

12:10 Speaker 1: Well he might have had to use the restroom, you know, and then that's fine because I want to invite This gives us a chance to invite you out there, the listener, if you want to come down and check things out. We are on the second floor, I believe it is it the Hawthorn Room.

12:23 Speaker 2: I believe.

12:23 Speaker 1: I think it's a frost Hawthorn. Yeah. Well, anyway, we're upstairs in the mezzanine section. Come on by and uh and you know, tell us what's going on out there, because I feel like that we're in here and there's so much going on out there around the city, you know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It was great to talk to Telsea this morning. Yes, yes, I was going back and forth, uh fourth with the campaign all weekend long. Oh really, and it is uh fantastic. I mean, it's great just to have all the candidates, you know.

12:51 Speaker 1: I love I love a candidate, especially that it'll sit down with a couple of idiots like you and you and myself. Yeah yeah, I didn't mean to call you an idiot, but I called myself one to say that kind of cancels out. Yeah.

13:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're good.

13:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank goodness, thank goodness, we are good. Yeah yeah, but it's a marathon broadcast. It really it really, it's something I look forward to, uh every four years, And yeah, I do know that for all you Mike Doyle fans, he will be here in the next hour. Mister Mike Doyle. I like him so much better in person. Really, then you're doing the phone because he comes off as confrontational to you on the telephone sometimes.

13:29 Speaker 6: He just wants to speak and not listen. But in person you can actually have a dialogue.

13:34 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but he's a wonder He's a wonderful guy.

13:37 Speaker 1: I love having Oh yeah, I like him very much the morning show. He brings a lot to the show. And I'm excited to see him this afternoon. And uh yeah, I thought we may see uh Stacy Wilcox here really around Yeah, I'd vote for him. I was, I was looking. I was hoping he'd dropped by this morning. But because usually Monday is his day on the morning show. Yeah, but you know, he may have thought, you know, he's just out there doing the rounds in other places. But Stacy Wilcox, if you're out there, come say hi.

14:09 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:09 Speaker 1: Yeah. He has a unisex name.

14:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah Wilcox with three exes at the end of the name.

14:14 Speaker 1: I didn't know about the three axes. Yes, the name. I'll have to keep that in three exes. Wow, Willcox, that's crazy. Now foreign, I don't think he's foreign. But he is a no, no, former Hollywood stunt man. What else does he do? Karate? He's a karate champion. He came in in his gee last week, did he really Yeah? Yeah, wow, yeah, well very good.

14:39 Speaker 2: So uh yeah, maybe he'll be here. We're gonna I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

14:44 Speaker 1: There's a lot of people just here kind of just watching everything too. Now, why did Carol leave when she did? I don't know.

14:51 Speaker 2: No, you think there's something to that.

14:53 Speaker 1: I don't know.

14:54 Speaker 2: With Steve Whye, do you think you upset her?

14:56 Speaker 7: She's no, no, no, I don't think I did. Think she just uh maybe she had enough. Maybe she was a little off today. Yeah, she was on and now after the morning show she.

15:08 Speaker 2: Was a little off.

15:08 Speaker 6: Well, she hasn't been feeling well right right, Well, I think she's back in action now, okay, because she was out there last night at the Shaskine or something. Yeah, right out whooping it up out of But there's a lot of plays, like there's a newsroom over at the Shaskine.

15:20 Speaker 1: Is there really yeah, people, I forget Carol is going to bring some of them in this morning. Okay, so but it really is. You got to now you have basically three radio rooms here, right, you have three radio rooms you got to.

15:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Did you see w b Z is here?

15:38 Speaker 1: Oh they got a whole big thing.

15:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's really it's really something.

15:43 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Joe's Joe law everybody.

15:47 Speaker 8: But we're we're separated sort of right. Last time it was one big room. These these walls were going and uh yeah, so we don't really get to see what's going on. But with there's there's actually one, two, three, four other active shows in here right now. Yes, the Canadians are speaking in French.

16:06 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, they must be from Montreal. That yes, I don't think that should be allowed.

16:11 Speaker 8: I wanted to ask them about Neil Peart, but right, really don't speak of the Anglids.

16:16 Speaker 6: Right do you think that? Why do you think they know him? You think all Canadians know each other?

16:20 Speaker 8: They have to yeh, Canadian radio has to play Canadian artists.

16:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, some weird law there is. Yeah, you're right, there is a lot that It's true. Yeah, that is true. Yeah, yeah, not exclusively. Right, there's a percentage they have to. They have to play Brian Adams right, exactly, Brian Adams Ron, I mean Celaine Dion right, William Shatner, I mean they have to Tom Cochran, Wow, yeah, Tom Cochran. Yeah, Life is Highway.

16:48 Speaker 2: I hate that song? Do you really? I don't like that song?

16:51 Speaker 1: How How do you hate it? It's so catchy?

16:53 Speaker 2: No, it's not one of the.

16:56 Speaker 1: Where you really don't like that song nineteen ninety two.

16:59 Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, yeah, awful.

17:01 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that goes right there with Compley's documents, right, you figure you brought yours, That's true. I always bring mine. I just brought my personality today, that's all. That's all I did.

17:14 Speaker 6: I put the uh I sleep with that envelope under my pillow at night because I'm afraid that uh Bernie Saunders or Jack Eath or someone is going to try to come and steal them.

17:24 Speaker 1: Now, nobody else picked up Calm. You know, usually with in these radio rows, you know, other other outlets will pick up some guests, you know, like they you know, Telsea was here earlier and they all wanted to talk to Telson and not so much for Calmley though. I didn't see any reaching out.

17:42 Speaker 6: Uh yeah, well that really is their loss, you know, and uh especially I mean, you know, if people don't people don't, people don't realize that Colon Powell is going to be his VP.

17:58 Speaker 1: That's very excited. I don't think Colon knows, right, No, I don't think you knows. I thought, you know, here's the thing I told him right to his face. It was very far fetched. Yeah, just like closing down Seabrook. I mean, you know, you think if they were going to close it down, it would have been closed down. But yeah, it's not gonna happen. I'm so used to Seabrook being out there now, right, and if it went away, what would we do right now? Do you remember we were around in Manchester in New Hampshire as a kid.

18:26 Speaker 1: You have to go out to the sea coast when you were a kid, like oh yeah, yeah, of course now because we grew up around the same time. But back in the late seventies when they were building all the stuff that goes into a nuclear power plant, you could see big out in the ocean, all kinds of I don't know what you were called arges if you were where they were. I don't know if they construct stuff there, but I just remember seeing that and it being a big deal. Do you remember hearing about Seabrook as a kid?

18:53 Speaker 2: Oh?

18:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll tell you something.

18:56 Speaker 6: In high school, a friend of mine and I went and we went to an anti nuclear protest.

19:03 Speaker 2: Really were you anti nuclear?

19:05 Speaker 1: Yes?

19:05 Speaker 2: Because you had just watched The Day after?

19:08 Speaker 1: No, well I did. My parents did let me watch that, which was probably you got to stay up late. I did, Yes, those nights, I got to stay up late to watch TV. Yeah, like when v was on the TV series.

19:19 Speaker 6: You never watched that. I was aware of it, but I never watched it. But uh no, but I just uh yeah, I was opposed to nuclear power. I was young and idealistic and very liberal, and so we went and protested before remember the Clamshell Alliance. They were an organization that was really into protesting nuclear power.

19:38 Speaker 2: You a part of the Clamshell No, but.

19:41 Speaker 6: They were there like they were staging this protest. So my friend Mark and I we drove down to Seabrook to participate. I got a I still have it somewhere in a box and storage I have a T shirt that doesn't fit me anymore that says it's got a picture of the State House on it and it says nuclear waste dump it. He and Mark got a bumper sticker that said better active today than radio active tomorrow. Okay, yeah, and that was uh, and that was pretty much the beginning and end of my anti nuclear activism, right because you know, I have no problem with it now, I really don't.

20:16 Speaker 6: I think it's fine, nothing's happened. We're not all This guy. Steve Calmly has been fighting this for years. He has, yes, even uh showed us a picture of him handing Ronald Reagan an envelope with secret documents.

20:32 Speaker 2: In it just looked like a regular piece of mail.

20:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, it really did, Yes, really really did.

20:38 Speaker 2: Yes.

20:39 Speaker 1: They got quite the operation over here in Canada, that's for sure. Oh yeah, you know those Canadians, you know, they got all the money. But uh yeah, we would be in what what would you consider the third tier radio room, the the you know, yeah, right yeah, in the corner in the corner, right right, yeah, And that's all right, that's all right, yeah, because I believe we're one of the only Manchester outlets here and as you know, wmn H is a you know, super hyper local and that's what we do here for you folks.

21:15 Speaker 1: We try to bring you especially at a time like this when all eyes are on Manchester in New Hampshire. You know, it really is what do you think of this guy? Oh?

21:25 Speaker 6: I like him very much, now mattered right, He's gonna be yes, he's going to be coming back. He's going to be coming into my show today at five pm. He's going to be joining me in the second hour. That's great and I'm looking forward to talking to him further.

21:39 Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, he's seem like a very nice guy.

21:42 Speaker 6: He's a Republican, but he's a a pro environment and pro immigration.

21:46 Speaker 1: And that's gonna be tough though, if you're a candidate on the Republican Party. I guess the most successful person to ever do it had to go back to nineteen ninety two when Pat Buchanan went against George H. W.

21:59 Speaker 2: Bush.

21:59 Speaker 1: How exciting was that And that was the year.

22:01 Speaker 2: Everything was crazy. You had Ross Perrot in there, and oh yeah, that.

22:06 Speaker 6: Was special dude for me because I was the first you know, I was old enough to vote for the first time. So that was the first election I ever voted in, the first election I voted in was nineteen eighty eight.

22:16 Speaker 1: Oh okay, first.

22:17 Speaker 2: I mean I was a fresh face, eighteen year old kid. Wow. Yeah, would you vote for? Do you want to? I? You know what I think?

22:25 Speaker 1: I let's see it was, uh who was you? Was there in eighty eight? It was George hw and Mike Doucaucus. Correct, I think I voted for dou Caucus. Yeah, yeah back then. But again back then, I mean I didn't do all the research or anything like that.

22:41 Speaker 2: I just did it to vote. Yeah, yeah, like did it to vote. Yeah.

22:45 Speaker 1: And I've never missed an election. I've always it's something that I have to. I feel like I have to do. If I miss one, I'm going to be that one off, right, Yeah, you know so, but I don't know. They're very important that you vote. Doesn't matter who you vote for, just get out there and vote. So I was in the restroom earlier and there was a guy in there and he's all sweaty oh no, and he go, okay, these are you know? Do you gute him on the show?

23:08 Speaker 2: No?

23:08 Speaker 1: No, no, but this is let me tell you what happened. So I was I was washing my hands. I was washing my hands. I was getting ready to you know, drying my hands, getting ready to leave, and he barges in the bathroom. He's sweating, and he goes, hey, if you're going over to that, going over to the arena and you think it's you know, too cold, it's like eighty five degrees in there. So he's he was already in the arena. I said what I said, across the street for the rally. He goes, yeah, it's like ninety degrees in there.

23:35 Speaker 1: And he was taking off his shirt really yeah wow, And I said, have a great day, sir.

23:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that's yeah.

23:43 Speaker 1: It sounds like he was having a great day. He's doing well.

23:46 Speaker 2: He was all flustered. Yeah. Oh and in the rally still not for what ten hours? Eight hours?

23:51 Speaker 1: My goodness. Yeah it doesn't yeah, it doesn't start at seven right.

23:57 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

23:58 Speaker 1: Wow.

23:58 Speaker 2: So there we you know, be on the lookout too.

24:00 Speaker 1: There will be U road closures as the president and the vice president are around the state.

24:06 Speaker 2: Yeah. I know.

24:06 Speaker 1: The vice President's coming from the sea coast, I believe, and I'm sure the president will come right from the airport.

24:12 Speaker 9: M hm.

24:13 Speaker 1: So very good, very good. I don't know, it's an exciting day. Yes, oh, it's an exciting day. Yeah, yeah, no, it's great.

24:21 Speaker 6: And then you know, and then on Wednesday, the rest of the country will go back to forgetting we're here.

24:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, and that's how right I think by that. You know, as far as uh, you know us here up in New Hampshire. You got to thank everybody from out of town from coming in because it really boosts the economy. Yeah, it's the city economy. All these great businesses right down here on Elm Street, they're all you know, people are visiting them and yeah, yes, it's really I was down here Saturday and even then you could feel it in the air. Yeah, I mean it was like it was a hustle and bustle down here in downtown Manchester like you don't normally see.

24:55 Speaker 6: And I say that only half kidding, by the way, about you know, the rest of the country forgetting that we're here, because we we are generally considered a swing state, so so they really do have to uh still pay some attention to us. Oh yeah, we're the only swing state really in the Northeast. The rest of it's pretty solidly blue. But you know, we're still usually considered in play. Yeah, yeah, lately the past few though, I think blue right, Yeah, we so we went we did go for Hillary in twenty sixteen, we did go for Yeah.

25:25 Speaker 6: I think the last three elections we've maybe we're not a swing state anymore, but we want them to continue to think that we are people swing people, swing attention to us.

25:34 Speaker 1: Well, oh my goodness, Peter, that's right. Wow, I don't know what.

25:39 Speaker 6: I wouldn't know any I'm very vanilla, as someone once told me, So, I don't know anything about that.

25:45 Speaker 2: You were conquered for a lot of years.

25:46 Speaker 1: That's way up, way up there, way up in the White Mountains, Deaf con country. Yes, yes, that's right.

25:55 Speaker 10: Yes.

25:56 Speaker 2: I wonder where they're playing tonight.

25:57 Speaker 6: Well, if Scumpy had his way, I'm sure they be playing at the Trump rally. You think Scumpy's a big Trump fan? Yeah, yeah, so, but I don't think they're playing there.

26:08 Speaker 2: I don't know.

26:08 Speaker 6: Sometimes Scumpy calls my show and I try to get him to plug all the I feel like he's got more going on with the acting career actually at this point than the band, really, you know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, Like I don't feel like the band is playing out a lot. But uh, but he's got all this stuff he's doing with Narrow Street films.

26:28 Speaker 1: Oh oh really yeah, yeah, like he's yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's embedded right there with Narrow Street films. I haven't seen Terry trainor in a while. Well, he's busy with uh spy. Yeah, that's right.

26:40 Speaker 2: Stole my friend.

26:41 Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, he stole my friend. Do you miss him?

26:45 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I do. Do I miss Scumpy?

26:49 Speaker 1: Yeah?

26:50 Speaker 2: No, he was just here, not too long, not too long ago.

26:53 Speaker 6: Okay, No, I just mean in terms of you know, your friend being stolen away.

26:57 Speaker 2: Absolutely. Oh okay, I don't.

26:59 Speaker 1: I don't mind. I know It'scumpy through uh don Tibbets. Oh right, yeah, all right, very good, don t Tibbets. Yes, yahoo, I think he is what he likes to say, that's right. Yeah, he's getting a secret message from Joe lar Passing writing something down right, very good.

27:22 Speaker 2: Okay, cool.

27:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Josh mccelvin too, right, okay, oh okay, yeah, that's the president of AARP.

27:32 Speaker 2: Will be here. Wow. Now that's not something you uh you're involved with AARP.

27:37 Speaker 1: Not yet, Peter, how about you?

27:39 Speaker 2: No, No, no, well, it will it be something though that you do well.

27:42 Speaker 6: I don't think I'll ever do that because that's like an acknowledgment that you're old when you do that, isn't it?

27:48 Speaker 2: Oh?

27:48 Speaker 11: Is it?

27:49 Speaker 1: Yeah?

27:49 Speaker 2: I don't know. You get good deals and stuff, I know, but.

27:52 Speaker 1: Uh, I'm just kidding. No, actually you can.

27:57 Speaker 6: You can become I always thought it was fifty, but it's not. You can become a member earlier.

28:03 Speaker 2: They'll take your money at any time.

28:04 Speaker 6: Yeah, there's like because there's like different different tiers of of AARP membership I believe, so, yeah, they'll take your But I was getting It's funny. I remember being like in my twenties and getting stuff from them just because I ended up on some mailing lists some random you know, pre Internet, when like you would just get tons of junk mail, like chain letters and stuff like that, and I would get stuff from AARP.

28:30 Speaker 2: Chain letters, just random.

28:31 Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you ever get those?

28:32 Speaker 2: Yeah? Did you ever know? Did you ever do it? Did you ever fall for it? No? I didn't. But you know, if you don't fall for it, I mean, if you don't do it, it.

28:42 Speaker 1: Tells you that you know, everybody's gonna die, right, you know you're gonna have the worst year of your life.

28:47 Speaker 6: Well the problem, the problem is there's no way, like you can't really prove a negative, like it could be that you know, you don't do it and then something bad happens and you do have a terrible year, and uh, you just don't realize it because your ear could have been better had you done the change, Like, you can't prove that it didn't have an effect not doing it. Absolutely, remember the envelope stuffing schemes in the in the backs of like tabloids like, uh, send us money and we'll send you how to how to uh make money with stuffing envelopes, And it turns out it's.

29:26 Speaker 1: Just typically they do that now with infomercials, right, Like you can go to you know so and so he's a professional house flipper. He's gonna teach you how to flip household. That's a big thing now.

29:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you have a lot of that.

29:40 Speaker 6: Yeah, well those entire not just infomercials, is like actual television like reality television shows dedicated to that.

29:46 Speaker 2: Oh, which is some of it's good too.

29:48 Speaker 6: I haven't watched any of those. Isn't there one called flip this house.

29:51 Speaker 2: It's like a big deal.

29:52 Speaker 1: That's that's it's it's it's good if you're it's like a mindless television if you ever want to, you know, sit there and watch.

30:00 Speaker 2: It's good. I don't mind. I like that kind of stuff. All right.

30:03 Speaker 1: We got Brian Mackie in the Facebook Live room. Good morning to Brian. Know, he's a all the way from Idaho, Idaho. I said I said something bad about Idaho once, and did you, Well, yeah, did you say? I didn't. I didn't mean to say, but I'm saying he's way out in Idaho and I think he took it the wrong way.

30:18 Speaker 2: Right.

30:19 Speaker 6: Well, it's all in how you say it, like, did you did you put the mphasis on the hoe? I don't know, because that's offensive.

30:29 Speaker 2: I don't know. All right, we know we know this guy. Very good, very good, good good, good.

30:36 Speaker 1: Good, good morning. How are you?

30:38 Speaker 2: How's how you been?

30:40 Speaker 9: Hi?

30:40 Speaker 1: Nice to meet you? All right, very good. Now have you ever seen any of the ARP commercials?

30:47 Speaker 2: Onto?

30:47 Speaker 1: Yes? Of course, yeah, you well know because that's how because we've talked to Todd before here, uh in studio at our show. Now I've never met Todd. I'm meeting Todd for the first time. All right, well, folks, we have Todd fahey from AARP New Hampshire and let me say it's good to see again Todd.

31:05 Speaker 12: It's good to see you guys.

31:06 Speaker 1: Thank you.

31:06 Speaker 2: How you been been well? Getting getting exciting out there?

31:10 Speaker 12: Huh, very exciting. Lots of lots of good action right now.

31:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, now can you turn them up at okay? Very good?

31:17 Speaker 1: All right, So what's going on with AARP and how are they involved in the election and just the the New Hampshire primary.

31:24 Speaker 13: Yeah, So every year when the every four years, when and the candidates descend upon New Hampshire, we meet them where they are and we ask them questions and focus on our issues. This year we're really focused on prescription drug prices in particular. We have subsidiary issues we're talking about, like how we help people age in place, how they're going to protect social security for the long haul, Medicare, how we're going to make sure that becomes remains a solid,

31:51 Speaker 13: a solid program for people who've come to rely upon them for so many years. And so you know, we're doing the work on all the candidate events where our volunteers asking questions they're all clad and red and that's what we're doing on the ground right now.

32:05 Speaker 1: All right, Wow, it sounds it sounds exciting. And now any big commercials lately and he was the star of a great commercial where he was he was riding his bicycle.

32:14 Speaker 13: Oh really, I was riding my bicycle in the milliard. Yeah, and I still remember all the lines.

32:18 Speaker 12: But I'm not going to talk.

32:19 Speaker 1: Out Okay, Yeah, because it was a while ago. We don't want to live in the past.

32:22 Speaker 12: No, we don't want to live in it.

32:24 Speaker 2: It was.

32:24 Speaker 1: We got to move forward. You know.

32:26 Speaker 13: One thing that's very interesting that's coming out on the eve of our primary is that we released a survey a couple of weeks ago, and the survey shows that eighty percent of women voters over fifty and New Hampshire are going to.

32:37 Speaker 12: Vote in the election.

32:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, which is which is impressive.

32:41 Speaker 13: Yeah, big number, Yeah, eighty percent. And they're very focused on issues. You know, most of them are very concerned about healthcare. And another interesting number, eighty seven percent will go and they'll cast their vote thinking about their kids and future generations. So you know, they're really focused on a lot of important issues of our time. And so the women obviously are going to be a big factor in this election because you know, with the second oldest state in the nation, most people in New Hampshire are undeclared forty percent sure and if you look at the numbers statistically, if you've got eighty percent of people, eighty percent of women over fifty who plan to vote, that's going to be.

33:19 Speaker 12: A group to watch in this election.

33:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And like like you said earlier, the.

33:25 Speaker 1: The I guess a big issue for a lot of older people in America is the cost of prescription medication. Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean it's some people now go out of the country to get their meds cart Yeah, yeah, we're allowed to do that now, right, you can get meds from out of there was something passed a few years ago. I think you I'm unclear on that.

33:47 Speaker 13: Actually people go out and people have gone out of the nation and they buy it and then they come back in. But we're talking about safe importation is what we're thinking about right now. So it's one of the issues we're talking about is how we're going to help costs come down. And we have really four big things we think about importation, being one, safe importation. It's got good bipartisan support both in New Hampshire and at the federal level. Basically making sure that the drugs we import are safe for people to use them.

34:16 Speaker 13: That's going to require some oversight by the federal authorities that oversee importation and the safety of our drug chains, our supply chains. Medicare is a huge program, of course, that benefits, you know, tens of thousands of Americans and spends about one hundred and twenty nine billion dollars a year on medicine. It is now prohibited by law from negotiating prescription drug prices. So the plan is to our hope is that the next administration will support secretarial negotiation, and there's been a lot of bipartisan support for that too, which means the Secretary of Health and Human Services can negotiate the price of prescription drugs using its buying power one hundred and twenty nine billion, much like the VA does.

34:56 Speaker 13: So the VA does the same thing now to the benefit of the VA. So there's some really good legislation, bipartisan support making its way through the halls of Washington.

35:05 Speaker 1: So we're excited about that.

35:06 Speaker 6: There's even that Elizabeth Warren I think it's her plan that the government would actually manufacture medications.

35:14 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean they all have different plans.

35:16 Speaker 2: Yeah.

35:16 Speaker 13: And so we don't endorse any candidate. We don't support any political parties. So we're not supporting anybody any candidate.

35:22 Speaker 12: We don't do that.

35:23 Speaker 13: We're totally nonpartisan. We're sure solutions, and we the name of our campaign has stop our X Greed. And our view is is that you know, it's been unbridled greed, and we need to do something about it. And and and we need to start with the policy front, and we need to start with our elected officials taking a hard look at prescription drug prices and help people out.

35:41 Speaker 6: Absolutely, we're at a point now where you know, as you know obviously that you know, people in this country are dying because they're having a ration their insulin because of the price has gone up exponentially over the last couple of years.

35:52 Speaker 1: It's incredible, which is which is hard to believe that in a country like ours, that that that that a shortage of insulin, where someone asked to do that.

36:02 Speaker 2: It's embarrassing.

36:04 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is absolutely.

36:06 Speaker 13: Between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen, prescription drug prices in New Hampshire increase fifty seven percent in the same time twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, that cost people's wages New Hampshire up about twelve percent. So a huge disconnect, right, is.

36:19 Speaker 2: That all big pharma? Is that all? What what sets prices like that?

36:22 Speaker 1: I mean, what actually sets a price of any kind of you know over the counter or you know, prescription medication.

36:30 Speaker 13: It's another one of our solutions I think that would like to see is more transparency to figure out how these prices are set. So if there are some spikes, what's going on?

36:37 Speaker 12: What's behind that?

36:38 Speaker 2: Is it? What is it?

36:39 Speaker 1: I mean people need to know when someone goes behind the scene that says, hey, it only costs four dollars to make this, you know, but we're selling it for you know, one hundred dollars.

36:47 Speaker 2: Yeah.

36:49 Speaker 13: Farmer spends millions of dollars a year in lobbying, certainly multitude multiples of that in a federal level, but you know a lot in New Hampshire as well, public records on that, and also you know a lot of money on advertising. So to say that most of the money goes to R and D is just not the case. So we just need to see some solutions on this issue. It's a big deal for people. Most people over sixty five take on average four and a half meds a day, so we do want to see obviously it's going to hurt them, so we'd also like to see some out of pocket caps for people in retirement.

37:24 Speaker 2: Sure.

37:24 Speaker 1: Sure, So as far as ARP goes, though, if someone wants to know more about it that it's not involved in it and maybe thinking of where can they find information?

37:35 Speaker 13: Yeah, the best place to follow us is find us on social media or on the web. So AARP dot org slash nh is our website. It's a busy website. We have a lot of information. We're very focused on education, outreach and an advocacy and you could follow us on AARP New Hampshire and Facebook. Please do that and want to like us, that's great. You'll see a lot of things we do. We're very focused on Manchester, do a lot of work in Greater Manage to a lot of work in the Greater Seacoast, a lot of work in Greater Portsmouth.

38:03 Speaker 13: We're a state wide organization, but you'll get a real localized flavor for.

38:07 Speaker 12: What we're doing in these communities.

38:08 Speaker 2: Were you on hearing over Street here for a little while.

38:11 Speaker 12: We were some time ago.

38:12 Speaker 13: We've been up and conquered for the past six years or something. Yeah, okay, so, and then of course a arp on Twitter, you can follow us there too. We're very active. It's kind of fun to see us engage because we have we have dozens of volunteers, phenomenal people who are braving the elements and they're out asking the candidates questions. Just guess we're all clad in red and it's really uh, we're just participating in our fine tradition of retail politics.

38:36 Speaker 12: Loving that.

38:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

38:37 Speaker 1: It's an exciting it happens, like I said, it happens every four years, and if you're from New Hampshire, it's an exciting time for all of us.

38:43 Speaker 12: Sure is Sure is so.

38:45 Speaker 1: Yeah.

38:45 Speaker 13: So it's a it's always good to be on the show to talk about the stuff we're doing and feel real good about what we're doing.

38:50 Speaker 1: And now, I mean, I know Josh brought you in here. Yeah, how's he even.

38:54 Speaker 12: Doing, Josh? Yeah, I think Josh is great.

38:57 Speaker 2: Yeah I do too.

38:58 Speaker 1: It looks fine to me. Yeah, he's doing okay. After his stint at Channel nine. That's wonderful.

39:03 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, so sure, so yeah, you says, helping us kind of get our schedules in order today.

39:08 Speaker 1: So it's very nice.

39:09 Speaker 2: Good, that's great.

39:10 Speaker 1: Okay, well listen, Todd fahey from AARP, thanks for the information.

39:15 Speaker 2: It is good to see you again.

39:16 Speaker 12: Good to see you guys.

39:18 Speaker 1: Ahold of us.

39:18 Speaker 2: I you're at w M and H.

39:20 Speaker 12: I'd love to come back in. I'd love to get on.

39:22 Speaker 13: We have one of our couple of my colleagues and my team would love to have you guys interview them too.

39:27 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we could just get ahold of us.

39:29 Speaker 1: You know how to get ahold of us through Jason or you can you could text me either show or whichever.

39:34 Speaker 2: But yeah, it was good to see you again.

39:36 Speaker 12: Good to see you guys.

39:36 Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, very good.

39:37 Speaker 2: Take care. We're gonna take care. We're going to take a quick little break.

39:40 Speaker 1: We are broadcasting live at the Double Tree Hotel right here at Elm Street, and we will be back right after this.

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46:09 Speaker 11: Back down.

47:43 Speaker 2: All right, all right, good morning again everybody.

47:47 Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in This is uh Peter White. I'm here with Matt Connerton. This is WMNH ninety five point three FM. This is our primary coverage and we're very excited. We have aldermen from War twelve. My friend Keith Hurshman, Good morning, Good morning, Peter, welcome. Yeah, I haven't seen you in a long time.

48:05 Speaker 9: It feels good to be back. W M n H ninety five point three.

48:09 Speaker 2: Now, Keith once long ago had a show here at w M and H.

48:13 Speaker 9: I certainly did, thanks to Joel Lar and Peter.

48:15 Speaker 1: And that's right, Brendan, I had an engineer. Now you can get that now, you can get that going again if you want. You know, you were well, you were good on the air. What happened to that? Well, my guy's in office. Okay, right, so we oh, okay, you're good.

48:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you're good.

48:33 Speaker 1: You're all set. We all know and I know I'm friends with Keith on social media. And this is going way way back. You've been you've been a Trump supporter since the beginning. Yes, yes, now you go. You've been to the rallies. You have to be there tonight. Keith actually went down to the inauguration of Donald J. Trump last time around with Alderman Lavassar. I believe is they're also correct he was.

48:58 Speaker 9: There, but I uh, I flew into Crystal City Ronald Reagan airpoet you know, on my own, had a great time. I was with another Manchester native, Ray Hebert. Yeah, long Champs and the two of us went to the inauguration. We had a great time, except there were some Antifa people kind of interrupted things for a little while. There was a limo on fire and yeah, good what there was a limo on fire? Oh yeah, right outside our hotel there was a limo kind of emblazoned and now they were breaking some windows.

49:31 Speaker 9: So we had tickets to the Capital grounds. On the ground saw this swearing in. It was wonderful. We had to go through these gauntlets, like we got funneled. There was a lot of people put funneled into this, from say ten people wide carta into a two wide Capitol police were.

49:52 Speaker 1: Trying to protect us.

49:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, those Antifa people were throwing full water bottles pelting us.

49:58 Speaker 6: I remember seeing that excitement on the news, like, yeah, so maybe they thought you were thirsty from all the excitement.

50:04 Speaker 8: Though.

50:05 Speaker 9: There was an old fellow in a wheelchair in front of me, and he had a cowboy hat on and he was all excited to see the president. There was a little four year old boy, a little blondhaired boy with his mother on the side of me, crying like are we going to be safe? And I looked at the kid and they said it wasn't me. You're gonna be safe. We're going through here. You're going to see the president.

50:22 Speaker 2: Sure.

50:23 Speaker 9: The Capitol police finally did like that thing that the Romans used to do. They'd put all their shields together and I don't know what that's called, some little maneuver. They protected us and they blocked all these water bottles that were being pelted on us. Wow, saw the President's thing. And we get out of there, and then we didn't go to the There was another event. We had tickets to get on a stage at the White House, but there was another thing down there where there was a riot and a.

50:49 Speaker 1: Tear security based Yeah, so us.

50:53 Speaker 9: New Hampshire guys said, you know what, We're going back to the hotel room when he eat some like lobster and enjoy DC and why from the TV.

51:01 Speaker 1: And we made it out of there safely.

51:03 Speaker 2: Yeah.

51:04 Speaker 1: Sometimes even with a lot of things, big events like that, even like say, you know in the Patriots. I know you're a Patriots fan, sure, but like when they're in the super Bowl, it's it's it's kind of it's kind of like that, you know what I mean. The New Hampshire primary, it's the kind of super Bowl of local politics, but I mean on a national level.

51:23 Speaker 9: So you want to compliment, you WMNH is in media row and it's just as exciting as ever. I remember four years ago how great this was. Even seems better. Yeah, it's the presence of all the national media. I just took a tour downstairs. Everybody's here more than ever. And you know, we rented the lot, our Aldoman parking lot. We rented that for like fifteen grands so that they could set up that big stage back in the city.

51:49 Speaker 1: All let me ask you this, like with all the media and all this coverage, because we all consider Manchester, I mean, and I know it's all of New Hampshire, but Manchester really is the ground zero of the New I'm sure primary. And you no, you didn't sleep out overnight trying to get it, Like you don't have to do that, right, you you.

52:07 Speaker 9: Have sleeping out anytime soon. And I'm a senior citizen.

52:12 Speaker 2: Now right, we just had ARP here. Are you involved with that?

52:16 Speaker 6: No, I'm resisting because you can probably get camping things at a discount through ARP, so then you can set up and camp out.

52:24 Speaker 2: And you know, no that we have here aldermen.

52:26 Speaker 1: I think it's because I do follow you on social media and you are one of the aldermen that if I know you were just recently at the police station. They got the new comfort police dog. Yes, you got a great dog. Yeah you it's a little black lab.

52:39 Speaker 9: Yeah, he's only about ten weeks old, doesn't have a name yet. It's a male, so I can have a contest to name the MPD comfort dogs. Okay, senior citizens and emotional people that need some support.

52:51 Speaker 1: It's a great dog.

52:52 Speaker 9: You're just putting your lap and pads so passive and pleasant. So my my thought and I said, let's call them Captain.

53:00 Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.

53:01 Speaker 1: And that was my bid.

53:03 Speaker 9: Brendan's looking at and the other one that came to mind was Southern Comfort. That might be North your rally, Brennan, Wow, I like mcgra crime dog. That's nice, except he won't be doing any bombs sniffing. He won't be doing anything detection. He's going to be an emotional support to go to the senior high rises in the parks. Sure, like the horses are on on Elm Street. People like seeing the horse present. Oh sure it'll be there. They'll see that black lab all over town.

53:31 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now you will be going tonight. Like you said to the rally, Now, do you have to wait in line like everybody else?

53:39 Speaker 2: Do you have? You know?

53:40 Speaker 1: It's okay, you're a sure I have to wait and line? Okay, good good, I'm glad you do. Now let me ask you, Like I mentioned earlier, you followed a President Trump's campaign from a minute he was even thinking about running. Have you ever have you ever actually met the president? Oh? Yeah, sure, Okay, met a few times, a bunch of times.

53:58 Speaker 2: Uh him over the house for coffee.

54:01 Speaker 9: So for the listeners out there, there was a ground game guy back in twenty sixteen named Matt Sipelowski. Matt lived in Ward twelve. So I saw him and we were I think it was at my election for Alderman, and he introduced himself, Becau, I'm gonna be running Trump campaign. He goes, oh, I'm gonna be in your back pocket. And sure enough he called my cell phone. Whenever the President was in town, he'd say, you want to meet the president shaever Sean. Do you want to drive in the suv with the president?

54:29 Speaker 9: President back whateveryone now, candidate, Yes, you want to go to wolfbro and his suv? Sure? So I actually got to know Eric Trump, wonderful human being. Eric and I bonded a little bit, We rode together. We met the President at shaev Sean. I ate with him, talked with him. In fact, his daughter was gonna have a baby that day, and I said, oh wow, you know, Donald, how's your daughter today? And he thought of it, and he picked up his phone and called it right away to see if the delivery happened.

54:59 Speaker 2: Right.

55:02 Speaker 9: You know, he's he's had his agenda from the beginning. He let us know what he was going to be. Okay, so I bought in, hook line and sinker to his agenda. His personality. He is a personality and it's distinct from his agenda.

55:19 Speaker 1: Sure, for me, it was fine, this guy.

55:22 Speaker 9: We need somebody that's tough, that can get things done.

55:26 Speaker 1: Is this guy tough?

55:27 Speaker 9: This guy's tough as nails. And he's not afraid to let people know it, and sometimes it hurts people, hurts their feelings. Let's say he says things in a clear and concise and sometimes more brutish manner. What do they call it? They used to call me borish when I was a new Alderman because I'd say, hey, I don't like what's going on here, and oh, Hirshman's borish. Well guess what our president was kind of like in my mold. He was a borish guy that said it like it is and getting the laundry list of things that I wanted he's getting.

56:00 Speaker 2: I'm all done, all right, So he's definitely your candidate, yes, and.

56:03 Speaker 1: For reelection too. I was in the newspaper today, Oh, an Union Leader, the one that we have.

56:09 Speaker 11: Yeah.

56:10 Speaker 9: I don't know if there's another newspaper in town.

56:11 Speaker 2: Yet, not no, not a print paper, right, yeah, but the Union Leader. You have a lot of stuff.

56:17 Speaker 9: Manchester the largest city in the state of New Hampshire, one hundred and twenty thousand people we estimated this time in Ward twelve. I'm thinking I get like sixteen thousand over there. Yeah, because we have we have my own little city. Really, the census coming up too, right, Yeah, that's how That's how it happened too. So so Peter knows me real well because Peter was my constituent and I actually got him.

56:35 Speaker 1: To vote for me.

56:36 Speaker 2: Really, I voted to Keith, Yes, I did. He did, at least I told him.

56:39 Speaker 1: I did he tell the truth?

56:41 Speaker 9: Because Joel's gone.

56:42 Speaker 2: No, no, I no, no, I did.

56:46 Speaker 9: I think you do find job over there in the staff here. I know Joe for I don't know twenty years better. And Brendan I'm getting to know him, you know, he's a nice young married guy. And Matt he's like the nighttime wild man. We're a meeting.

56:59 Speaker 1: For the first time. But I've heard your name certainly a bit. Yes, good to meet you.

57:03 Speaker 2: Yes.

57:03 Speaker 1: So I have a rule. I think I friended you on Facebook. I have this rule that I have to have met.

57:09 Speaker 9: You to friend you, because you don't want to have things are too weird nowadays, you know, I want some like bad stuff going on. So if you looked at my Facebook page to the public out there, you'd see Keith smiling with some puppies. You're not going to see a whole lot of hammers and oh rough stuff that's not you know.

57:26 Speaker 1: What, No, it definitely isn't your your I mean I know you as a family guy. You're a pet lover, you love I mean, you got so, you got some great grandkids. Yeah.

57:36 Speaker 9: Do I play politics rough and tumble, I absolutely do. But I don't do that on Facebook. I do it at city Hall where it's needed.

57:43 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. When's the next meeting anyway?

57:47 Speaker 9: Third week of February and Tuesday, So what's that the nineteenth or so? Okay, yeah, we just had first of the month meeting.

57:54 Speaker 1: Where's how's it going with the new board compared to say, last you know, last time around new board.

57:59 Speaker 9: We're talking now about unlicensed sober homes.

58:05 Speaker 1: Yes, I've heard those are cropping up people.

58:08 Speaker 9: They're actually companies LLCs from Maryland and DC and Delaware and buying up four family, three family homes and all of a sudden, we drive by the next day and they put sixteen people in there.

58:21 Speaker 1: It's not zone for that as a sober as a sober living house.

58:25 Speaker 9: There actually isn't a definition for that. Right in Manchester, they call it like the housing authority puts people together, they call it congregate living congregate living, is many senior citizens living in a high rise, disabled people living in a federally funded complex. There's a lot of different congregates. But now this is a new The dial has been spun a little bit, and now they're looking.

58:48 Speaker 1: For people in recovery.

58:50 Speaker 9: I guess that's a word, people in recovery to live together and get bust to their treatment and all that. It sounds good until you're the guy that lives next door and you have like an eight year old daughter.

59:03 Speaker 1: Sure, and then half of these guys or but you said unlicensed.

59:07 Speaker 6: So is there some sort of city or state requirement that's not being met by these companies or is there just no real lot?

59:12 Speaker 9: So what's happening is they're buying a piece of real estate, they're occupying it, and our professionals are building department, building commissioner, fire chief. They're all finding out about it after the fact. Okay, so there'll be an ambulance call to an address and a person will be in a state of distress. So the fire chief responds with his ambulance company and all that, and he finds out, oh, well, how come there's so many guys here. There's like sixteen guys living in the two apartments here.

59:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, and they're all paying somebody six hundred a month. Someone's getting rich, right, tucking.

59:50 Speaker 1: Them in these places. Yeah.

59:51 Speaker 2: And so this is going on all over the city.

59:53 Speaker 9: Right, So Manches has zoning ordinances. Congregated housing is only allowed in like Ward three or this is zone for it. They're cropping up in the North End and getting people nervous, right, So they're trying to enforce his owning laws and it'll become a bigger issue as twenty twenty goes along.

1:00:13 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I think I've heard, you.

1:00:16 Speaker 9: Know, enforcement and maybe some of this ends up in the core, who knows, I'm speculating.

1:00:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's a lot to deal with too.

1:00:23 Speaker 1: But with Keith, what is the ultimate.

1:00:26 Speaker 2: Crux here?

1:00:27 Speaker 8: Didn't the aldermen take an oath just a month ago to uphold the ordinances, the codes and ordinances of the City of Manchester period period.

1:00:36 Speaker 1: You didn't take an oath to protect people.

1:00:37 Speaker 8: You didn't take an oath to do this to people or kick people out, or or do you took an ode to codes and ordinances?

1:00:43 Speaker 9: Trust me when I tell you that hardcore Hirshman has sent some hard core emails to our department heads and staff saying, and I'm not afraid I'll show you a copy of it. I wrote an email to the administration saying, I expect every ordinance the books to be enforced, or expect someone to put in to repeal it, and then we'll battle about that. But until such time, fire codes have to be met. Building codes have to be met. Now we have met in what do you call it, executive session private sessions. Some stuff is not for the public because it could become in the court system.

1:01:22 Speaker 9: But

1:01:24 Speaker 9: according to the building commissioner, he's been as they find these things, he's trying to enforce the building codes, trying to cite them and take them to court. Those two things are happening. The public wants. Like on social media, you push a button and it's instantaneous. Government obviously isn't like that, Joe. Government is the slow moving, hard hitting dinosaur that trembles along and can't get out of its own way. But we're trying to do the right thing. Are we arguing about an attorney a little bit?

1:02:00 Speaker 2: Yeah?

1:02:01 Speaker 1: You know, I always wonder what goes on in the back room when you guys like or whatever, Like you.

1:02:06 Speaker 9: Know, there's these words that gets thrown about like a campaign times, sanctuary city. I don't want Manchester to become a sanctuary city. I don't want people just laying on front of Pete's doorstep or in front of Matt's doorstep.

1:02:20 Speaker 1: I want them moved along. I want no. Hasn't it been a sanctuary city though for a few years now?

1:02:25 Speaker 9: Well not not legally, right, not not legally, not legally, But the previous administration I think flought these issues a little firmer.

1:02:34 Speaker 2: Okay, I remember doing that. Sure.

1:02:35 Speaker 9: So the board I serve on is the board of fifteen. The mayor does, you know, orchestrate the meeting. She is the day to day executive. But when you all take a vote, she has to carry out the executive waters of the board.

1:02:49 Speaker 2: Sure. Sure, that's why we have a board.

1:02:52 Speaker 9: So when I tell you you know there's some bantering back and forth, it's for real. Yeah, we're trying to do We're all trying to do the right thing. Nobody's trying to do anything bad.

1:02:59 Speaker 2: Always. You know, it's funny.

1:03:01 Speaker 1: I always say that when there's an elected board where you know, you may have disagreements, you may have some arguments, but everybody is there for the same reason. They might not all have the same ideas or whatever.

1:03:16 Speaker 9: Different people with different ideas. I believe some people will be more lenient. Yeah, and that's where we get in a little bit of trouble. I think sometimes sometimes we're too lenient, and they're worried about lawsuits, so they don't want us to be too judgmental and pushing and pressuring and hardcore.

1:03:32 Speaker 2: Sure.

1:03:32 Speaker 1: Sure, but I do believe all all of you that sit on the board, including the I mean, everybody loves this city, right, everybody has this city's best interest at heart, you know what I mean. And that's what I always try to remember, even if I say I'm watching a meeting and I'm like, well, I don't I disagree with that.

1:03:47 Speaker 9: We all want Manches to be the shining city on the hill, like I talked about, nobody wants it. Yeah, plays down in the gully, that's for sure.

1:03:53 Speaker 1: You know your lifelong resident. You went to West High School. You played some football there for West. I enjoyed coaching there. Every job you have a gut for free was my favorite job. Okay, No, that's great though, that's great, and you do do some you know, you you own your own company, your own small business.

1:04:11 Speaker 9: So I'm one of the busy guys that if I'm not busy, maybe i'd go store crazy. So I've actually enjoyed being in a multiple term all toman, running my own business, coaching football, keeping all the oranges up in the year, all at the same time. It's a good challenge, ortam, isn't in my little book.

1:04:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you out.

1:04:31 Speaker 1: Daron about in your in your truck going around town and checking things out. You do definitely as an ultimate though, you do make them rounds and you check I know that year one that you check the different departments. You You've done ride alongs with the police, fire what you with the plow guys.

1:04:50 Speaker 9: You know, I haven't done any ride alongs with them, but I've I've instituted some change. It's making a difference. We have a new fleet of trucks with the one arm. Okay, yes, instead of having three employees on a truck, we have one driver. They're all trained now to do that. And it's instituted in all twelve wards now. It started in War twelve little pilot program.

1:05:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember them because technically though for a public works department. When when when you had the two guys in the back of the truck. As far as our injuries was.

1:05:25 Speaker 9: That one of the main, one of the major impetus was we looked I was on the HR committee, so we started looking at claims and it was millions of dollars.

1:05:35 Speaker 1: Of injuries, so just from homping on because I mean, you think they're homping on and off that truck deck.

1:05:41 Speaker 9: So what we did is we did something really cool. We didn't lay anybody off.

1:05:44 Speaker 2: All right.

1:05:44 Speaker 9: We said we'd need public works employees. It's hard to get him to begin with. But we're gonna cross train you. We're gonna put you in parks, we're gonna put you on streets, potholes, paving, we're gonna put you in other places. So we have this new team called a dart team. Don't remember what dart is synonym, acronymical, right, but it's a pickup truck with four guys with sticks. And then I call calling an airstrike. Hey, the mskeg rotary is dirty. Okay, dark team shows up, puts their flashing lights, their vests on their poles.

1:06:17 Speaker 9: They did it the other day. They cleaned up when the snow melted. They did all of Eddy Road and Front Street and the rotary. So it's a new clean up team for a clean city initiative is what I call it. And that's available all the old ones. And that's something we didn't have before. You'd drive by and say, hey, Keith, why is this tire and piece of rubbish on the road every day? Nobody's picking it up because they're doing other things. They didn't have time, didn't have the bodies. Now they have the bodies to do other things and make manches to clean.

1:06:49 Speaker 2: Yeah. City looks great. I mean it really really does.

1:06:54 Speaker 1: We've actually been out at the MS traffic circle signs together, didn't.

1:07:00 Speaker 9: We did, Yeah, way back in the day, like twenty fourteen maybe yeah, yeah.

1:07:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, sometime within the past ten years.

1:07:07 Speaker 1: But that's where I got to know Keith, and we we've actually had some good conversations and talk some sports.

1:07:11 Speaker 9: Joel stood over here, he was lonesome. He was holding the board Joel for school board.

1:07:15 Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, you can do that.

1:07:17 Speaker 9: I'll be over here, right And then right then Joel started getting his Irish up and he started running against me.

1:07:23 Speaker 2: And he ran against Keith.

1:07:25 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.

1:07:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, like, hey, aren't you're the friend that I helped pick up the signs when you camp was over.

1:07:31 Speaker 1: But anyway, poor that that's that's true. So this presidential stuff,

1:07:39 Speaker 1: it's excited. I'm all sad. I got my guy. I know what I'm going to do. I know you guys know who my guy is.

1:07:43 Speaker 6: You you won't consider maybe an alternative like Steven Comley Senior.

1:07:48 Speaker 1: No, no, there are there are some Republicans read running. Oh I saw the ballot.

1:07:52 Speaker 9: It was like twenty somethings. Yeah, you know Bill Weld.

1:07:57 Speaker 1: I like Bill Weld. Get Bill. We'll go back to mass Wow.

1:08:00 Speaker 2: I mean I think if you're like I.

1:08:03 Speaker 1: Like Donald J.

1:08:04 Speaker 9: Trump in case interview out there, confused, I like number forty five our president. And he's gonna continue the agenda that he's on, doing trade deals, working on the economy, still working on that border wall. It's probably doing something for everybody. Even Brendan's gonna get something out of this. But oh, you know, maybe he's not gonna put a thousand dollars in your hand like Yang is going to give you a grand or something that's not happening. My guy's gonna make sure it doesn't come out of your pocket and then hand.

1:08:32 Speaker 1: It to you, because that's what it is.

1:08:35 Speaker 2: Now, Now, who will you go with to the rally tonight?

1:08:39 Speaker 9: I have some seating and have a bunch of friends that are all you know, like Joe Lavassa, will Be, Will Infant, Tie.

1:08:46 Speaker 1: Ray Hebert.

1:08:47 Speaker 9: I have a list of friends who're all sitting together.

1:08:49 Speaker 2: Oh. Nice, nice, it's a lot of well, it's good. I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun. Lot.

1:08:54 Speaker 1: Now, this is the first rally since the big vote last week. Correct, we did the rally last August. Okay, yes, and Donald Trump broke the arena record for attendance. So Elton John had the record. It was eleven thousand, four hundred, okay. Donald Trump got eleven thousand and five hundred.

1:09:13 Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay.

1:09:14 Speaker 9: And I don't think they'll allow any more inside.

1:09:16 Speaker 1: Well you can't technically, so he might.

1:09:18 Speaker 9: Tie the record again tonight. And then the overflow outside was along seven thousand people.

1:09:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, looking at jump.

1:09:24 Speaker 2: I was over there right now. I haven't been out all morning. Is it is it already?

1:09:27 Speaker 3: Uh?

1:09:28 Speaker 9: Listen, there's some people over there on bivouac. They have tense they Yeah, cooking stoves. They have a whole little cita set up.

1:09:34 Speaker 1: You're ready to get in. Yeah, it turned into it. Yeah, almost like a sporting event, is what I was trying to say. Stay earlier.

1:09:41 Speaker 9: So this whole first in the nation. Primary people say the circus came to town for a week. It really oh, it really does. But it's exciting. And the economic impact of Manchester in southern New Hampshire, I.

1:09:52 Speaker 1: Would say the whole state is pretty dawn. Oh yeah, especially if you are one of these businesses downtown Manchester, you know, like a restaurant or whatever. I mean, they're all I was downtown on Saturday and every place was filled, every plate.

1:10:05 Speaker 2: That the it's almost like the old days, Keith.

1:10:07 Speaker 9: I heard a good story from Aldeman Baines. Aldman Baines has a nice restaurant called Men. I'll give them a plug sure, and Amazon said, hey, we'd like to have a private affair at your restaurants. You closed the doors and had a corporate shindig for Amazon and they paid handsomely.

1:10:23 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure to close down that business for one night.

1:10:26 Speaker 9: And that's happening all over. You're seeing on Facebook all these nice little people like to show their receipts that they eat somewhere. Yes, and they gave a five hundred dollars tip or a thousand dollar tip to some pool waitress that's making two dollars an hour, and this thing comes to town and look, she gets to go home and give her family. And you're talking about candidates on both sides of the fence that are doing this kind of stuff. Given a food service industry worker like a two week paycheck, yeah yeah, oh sure, and it's big.

1:10:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of needy people and hard working people.

1:10:58 Speaker 1: Now did you know that, uh, Tim Baines has two keys to the city. Two he has, Well, I made sure of that. Well, I know that you were responsible for this last one.

1:11:10 Speaker 9: Well the first one was his dad was the mayor, right, and I think he was such a good kid. Didn't get the old man in trouble while he.

1:11:15 Speaker 1: Was the mayor. He gave him a key.

1:11:17 Speaker 9: So okay, yeah, it doesn't fit anything, But you've been a good kid, and someday maybe you want to be the mayor.

1:11:22 Speaker 1: Wow, you know what do you have to do to get Nick Willard? He said he didn't even have a key to the city, so not every not. It's not an easy thing. No, Keith, you must have the traditions.

1:11:32 Speaker 11: Yeah you do.

1:11:33 Speaker 9: I have one from rayros Ark when I served with him. I have one from Bob Baines. When I served with Bob. It was a third mayor.

1:11:40 Speaker 1: Ser I don't even remember you got you got a whole key ring?

1:11:44 Speaker 2: Yeah you yeah, But you know.

1:11:45 Speaker 1: What they say.

1:11:46 Speaker 9: The one from wyz Ork I really like it says Keith was the fiscal watch Doug for the city wiz. And the one from Bob bains said something like Keith was a real gentleman to work with, even though you know we never agreed on anything. He was the gentleman in the rom and I thought that was cool too, because we know we shook hands. I see him down at the little lad We smile. My grandson is down here, his grandson. It's this is Manchester.

1:12:10 Speaker 1: We all have to live here. Yeah, exactly exactly. No matter what political uh uh side you happen to fall on, it is important that you that.

1:12:19 Speaker 9: You being in politics. I have seen the demonization of candidates. You know where they have to find Oh this guy has a X y Z in his closet, come out, just tell us your platform, tell us what you're gonna do. Can you get it done or not? We don't want to hear about you attacking the opponent.

1:12:38 Speaker 1: That's awful, you know, yeah, absolutely, But it's changed. I mean even even in four years, the kind of political landscape has changed, and I think we've all witnessed that so up close and ugly.

1:12:48 Speaker 2: Huh.

1:12:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, and you try and you try not to get into it though. Yeah, you know what I mean.

1:12:53 Speaker 6: Oh, you've always been a gentleman, you Yeah, I gotta. I gotta say though, I think it's worth pointing out. I mean, does it your guy Trump kind of contribute to the toxicity of it. I mean, he calls people names, and he's he's pretty nasty, and I.

1:13:07 Speaker 9: Would say that he's, uh, he's responsive.

1:13:12 Speaker 1: He gets he gets attacked. I know it's okay when he does.

1:13:15 Speaker 9: No, I would say that that he responds a lot. People don't expect that he's responsive. Someone attacks him personally and he just can't let it go. He gets on Twitter and says, you know, well Pelosi was behind me ripping up her speech or whatever.

1:13:31 Speaker 1: You know. People. Yeah, absolutely, like I said, I I.

1:13:36 Speaker 9: Said, I signed on one hundred percent for his agenda, but he is a human being and he does have feelings, and he does let it loose.

1:13:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, with it in the past week.

1:13:45 Speaker 9: Some people can't handle that because they expect Republicans to be these, you know, slick cats with a blue coat and a tie and not say anything bad about anything.

1:13:54 Speaker 1: They're not used to the reality. I think, you know, a Republican when when you first think of it, I always think of fiscal on.

1:14:02 Speaker 9: A local level. Joe leves Er, he's Trump. Yeah, I mean, you know, I agree with that. He's hammered many papers. Okay, but he was a top vote at her in the election.

1:14:13 Speaker 2: Sure, you know, so I don't know, sure, sure, Joe's you know.

1:14:17 Speaker 1: It's funny and I would never say anything on on on on Facebook, but we all know that Senator Mitt Romney voted to have Trump removed. And Joe was like, okay, like, you know, yeah, he's not a fan of Romney. But then if you go back, Joe used to be a fan of Romney before all.

1:14:34 Speaker 9: This get us picture, and I said, you better get rid of that picture. So well, Today's newspaper Paul Feeley wrote a story and it's a good story about the first the Nation primary. I'm quoting there, Joe's quoting the questions that Paul hit us with over the weekend. He wanted us to comment on Nancy Pelosi and her actions during the inaugular dress the redress. Sure, and he wanted us to comment on which was on Mitt Romney. So what did I do? I said, I talked about Donald Trump, what he's done, what he's gonna do, and why we need him for formal years.

1:15:09 Speaker 1: I never mentioned Mitt Romney.

1:15:11 Speaker 9: Although, folks, that really did bother men?

1:15:15 Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure it did. But you didn't come out on social media.

1:15:20 Speaker 1: The other one there, Nancy, She's got enough people exactly.

1:15:24 Speaker 9: It's hard that if I don't really have to reiterate what everyone else is thinking.

1:15:27 Speaker 1: So well, I think even people on the on the liberal side of things even said there was no need to. There was no need of that, you know, I mean with more or less the you know what, I think a lot of it's happened in Washington. It does theatrics, and I think it's going on on both sides. Union lunchtime or break time.

1:15:48 Speaker 9: Our engineer is leaving, so I hope nothing breaks because this guy, he's a dynamo. We need him around. Okay, you've got half an hour. See, I'm just kidding, So.

1:16:00 Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna take a little break. I know Mike Doyle is going to be coming.

1:16:04 Speaker 9: Hey, it's been good to be back on the air. I haven't been on the air with you in two years, like yeah, three.

1:16:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's good to see you. Hey, if you're around tomorrow, bring you bring Joe in too. It loved last time you both you had Joe.

1:16:16 Speaker 9: But if you notice the time, we don't show up at six in the morning, right, that's right.

1:16:21 Speaker 1: It's pretty tough, right.

1:16:23 Speaker 2: But we're here all day, so we'll be here tomorrow.

1:16:26 Speaker 9: I can hear Pink Floyd's starting.

1:16:28 Speaker 1: Maybe no, no, Joe, you'll let me down. Well you don't, you know what it is is because face Facebook will Facebook, Facebook will knock us off with.

1:16:38 Speaker 2: Joel.

1:16:38 Speaker 9: Thanks for the hard hitting questions. It's media that asks the questions, it gets the answers.

1:16:43 Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Aldiman, Keith Hershman, thank you so much. This is w M n H ninety five point three election coverage New Hampshire Primary.

1:16:52 Speaker 2: We will be right back.

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