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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the show, Eric Andrewsen. He's a gentleman, the
Hamden homeowner who's Halloween display has been making all this noises. Well,
it's been making it's usually good noise. Been making noise.
You tell me now, for you've been doing it for
nine years, Eric.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, good morning everyone, nine years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Nine years. I was just going to say, like, tell
me some of your past themes. This one is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, yes, the theme changes every year. The first year
I did it, it was just me. No one came
to the door. I had a light on, a bullet candy.
The second year, I put some fog on, has some music.
I just in a costume and turned the light off.
I thought, let's let's go this approach. And the kids
were kind of hesitant to cross Whitney. But I had
(00:49):
about thirty for treaders. Okay, but that year, then the
third year, it grew a little bit bigger, and it's
become bigger than myself. Yes, no way that I could
actually put this on for children and adults for a
good cause at that without the help of my scare team.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You're when I ask who is your scare team made
up of? I'm not looking for names like is it family?
Is it like?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Who is is a friend? Uh? And how did you
assemble your scare team? Because I'm assuming they can help
you come up with the theme every year too.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, so the scare team is friends of mine and
of theirs who want to participate. You know, it brings
a lot of good for the community with the donations
that we take in, so they want to be a
part of it. So it's all volunteer. No one gets
(01:54):
paid on the team. And I actually, you know, spend
the money to create the theme and ask for nothing
in return other than a donation to the charity of
our choice. We all vote this year. We voted unanimously
(02:15):
in January to give all the money to the Hand
and Pale and I immediately started working with Sargeant James,
who's been phenomenal this whole time. We've been to meetings together,
Traffic Control, fire department, the town was on board and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Every year the pal just so for folks who don't know,
that's the Hampden Police Activities League. Eric, let me ask
who were some past recipients.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The Big Brothers, Big sisters.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Great one you know, and nobody's going to make noise
there because I wonder how much of this is noise
being made because it involves a police benefiting from this too.
Generally I do, but continue on. So Big Brothers was
one year, what was another year?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well that's that we've been doing the Big Brothers for
the last four years. Oh okay, initially when I so initially,
like the first five years, people were saying, you know,
take donations, give it to someone. But I wanted to
keep Halloween innocent. You know, Halloween, the child goes out,
get some candy and they're done. They're at the next house.
(03:31):
There's no expectation of giving money or even a donation.
It's a very innocent experience for the child. But Halloween
is for the children. And over the years I thought,
you know, maybe it is a good idea to incorporate
a donation for children, which the idea for Big Brothers
(03:52):
Big Sisters. So not only does the child enjoy the candy,
they enjoy the scare and the money is raised for
this year. It's unfortunate what happened, but we'll get to
that afterwards. The money would be going directly to the
Hamden community to benefit children eight to eighteen. The police
(04:18):
work with these children, they'll learn how to do martial arts,
take heights if they want to go to the amusement park.
It's all free for children eight to eighteen. So we
thought the scare team and I thought, yes, we want
to keep the monies in our community because with Big
Brothers Big Sister, while it's still a very good organization,
(04:42):
we never really felt the money here it was we
would give it away. I didn't feel nobody feels that
the children here benefit love it from the money directly,
like the way this, like the way this fundraiser would
have been. But yeah, fortunately I got word.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah this is this is just bumming me out in
the sense that it's a thing that's growing. You know,
it started slowly, as you described as getting bigger, bigger, bigger.
This year could have been the biggest one. Yet you're realizing,
you know what, we want to make sure the community
benefits from it. You know, Big brother great organization. But
(05:24):
the money will be farmed now and I don't want
this to slow your role. I feel like, you know,
this nonsense from a couple of uh noisemakers in the
neighborhood and from an outgoing mayor might slow some great momentum,
charitable momentum here.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, the mayor has flowed the momentum, uh considerably. I
got work yesterday that she called the police department and
said that they are not able to take any donations
coming from this event.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And sounds like a kid to me. I mean, that
sounds like a king to me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, without getting too political, no.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, and I respect that, Eric, I don't know
any you know, we're meeting on the phone. I don't
know any of your politics, and that shouldn't play a role. Yeah,
but does she have some power? Does a sitting mayor
have the power to tell the police not to take
That's actually a genuine question.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, well that's according to what I've been told she is.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She does.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
She does have that power to tell the police what
to do, and the chief, the chief has to listen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, not what to do, but I mean, don't accept
donations for charity. Seems like a weird power player. It
doesn't seem enforceable.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
For her for charity for her town. Yeah, yeah, for
her town. So I mean there are ways around getting
that money, yeah, to have and peal and my intentions
are to do just that. Anything raised this year will
go to the ham and pal.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, have you have you thought it all?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That message?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Have you thought it all? Eric of? As much as
I understand that you do want to uh keep the
men money within the community, but it's like the mayor,
an outgoing mayor, somebody's more than just one foot out
the door, has engaged you in a game of chess.
Have you thought of? Okay, then we'll raise the money
(07:35):
for this town's police and she'll have no say.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't want to do that because I know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm in Yeah, I'm in Hampden, and once I get
the money, it's my choice what charity I would like
to donate. So the police are going to be here,
uh you know, do the demo. People in line, We're
going to have a twenty dollars donation fast pass because
the line is up two hours long. The free line
(08:07):
there's always always get in free. But this year would
be the first year that we would do a twenty
dollars donation fast task like an amusement ride a music
park and you get in immediately and the money would
go I don't touch the money, it just goes straight
to the police department.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You don't even your costs what you put out. This
is an extravagant set up here, must have cost you
close to it. Ad, I mean, I'm not good at
this kind of stuff. At least one thousand dollars. And
you don't take any of that back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, No, I don't take any of the cash back.
And I never disclosed how many thousands.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That all yeah, yeah, to make.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But yeah, but so we are still going to accept donations.
But I just would like to let everyone know that
the money is going to stay in hand, and it's
going to go for the children here. And there's nothing
the mayor can do to stop me from making out
(09:07):
a check and handing it to the to the pal Yeah,
police department.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, let's talk a little bit about the display. I
look at it. I'm a pretty I'd like to think
I'm a fairly creative person. I am a good little artist.
You know. I've always drawn, really, you know, I've got
some of my pictures and you know, framed in my house. Uh.
(09:35):
I write poetry. I've had a couple of books published.
What I look at, what I see is exactly what
you're calling it. I see an asylum. I don't I
don't understand. I don't know what other people are seeing.
I see exactly what you've named it an asylum, which
has been the focal point for many a fantastic horror
movie over the years. So i'm I'm I don't understand
(10:02):
where the I mean, it's a stretch to say, thanks
to the barbed wire, it's it's got holocaust imagery. I
mean that that's a stretch, a concentration camp imagery. Excuse me,
because of barbed wire. That's that's a real stretch.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, So it is an asylum. It never entered my
head that it would be anything but an asylum. And
what happens in the asylum is mayhem. It's craziness. Uh.
And the all the scare team, the actors know that
they are escaping and there there really is no law all.
(10:43):
Even all the police and the security guards are a
part of it, even though they're in like playing close,
they're still yeah, within the asylum with the nooses and
the barbed wire and the towers. There are prisons here
in the State of Connections. When here on Whitney Avenue
down on shut down Route ten where Cheshire is this
(11:04):
barbed wire and watch tower and you know you can.
It's I'm just copying it, but putting in the fear factor,
like there's there's no safety here. That's the fear. And
it's a Halloween event. If I did this in February,
then I could understand how people could bit weird.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That weird. Yeah, to do that inary bit weird, Derek,
you know. And the reason if you just caught me
snicker about thirty seconds ago, it's because a listener right
now just sent me a photo what I hadn't seen
yet was Jim, this guy, it's a full on tower
on your front lawn. I didn't see this part yet.
And there's a guard, but he's like a zombie guard.
(11:46):
He's got the uniform. I mean, you definitely went out
of your pocket here. How come I keep reading about
a dummy hanging. I have not seen any picture. I've
seen that in decorations before, Halloween decorations before, but I
don't see is there that on the front lawne I
have not seen a picture of that yet.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, So there's you know, corporal punishment. The there's a
gallow out front and there's three nooses. In two of
the nooses is a woman a skeleton dressed as a
woman and another skeleton dressed as a man, and they've
been hanging is October fourth, Okay, there, and then there's
an empty noose, and the empty noose is you know,
(12:29):
part of the show, you know, for the for the
Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Heard someone participating to stick their head through for a picture, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Exactly, yea, bingo, you got it. It was. It was
all for the fun of both adults and children to
be able to go up on an actual gallow. It's
an actual gallow, and I mean, how many of us
have been on one? I've never until you know, until
you know, Todd built it. One of my skelete me
(12:59):
sue that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'll tell you a couple of things. Eric. First of all,
it doesn't sound to me like anybody is scared and
or offended by this thing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It sounds like the majority is not.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to go so
far as to say it sounds to me like somebody's
got it in for you, because I doubt that's the case.
You sound like a very nice guy, and you know
there's someone in your family who's a legend. I don't
know if we want to call him out radio host,
well known radio host who you know. He's a hero
of mine for many years. It sounds like maybe your
(13:32):
charity of choice put the target on it, don't It
sounds like bold that people are I can't look at it.
It conjures up imagery. And I would like to make
a donation of and just so you know, Eric, I
am so broke. It's not funny, but I would like
to make a donation right here on the air. Pledge
one hundred dollars for you this U this year, for
(13:53):
this Just let me know how I can get it
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's very generous.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tell me how I can do that. Tell me how
listeners can do it too. If the mayor wants to
run interference on her way out the door, how can
other people donate?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, definitely cast donations on Halloween night. Okay, fingers cross
that she's fingers cross that she doesn't pull it completely.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
For a Democrat mayor. Again, I gotta say to like,
cancel a Halloween night extravaganza. That's a king or in
this case of queen, you're talking about no power play.
That's exactly what that would be. That would drive me crazy.
You think that's possible that next Friday night, which would
be probably one of your biggest ones. You've dealt with
Tuesday nights and Wednesday nights and Thursday nights, you know,
(14:46):
Friday nights. Parents are probably like, we could spend even more,
you know, be here longer. The night can last longer.
There's no school tomorrow. This could have been your biggest
money making night ever. And you think it's possible that
she could be like, now, I'm not going to let
it happen.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, she's she's been slowly taking the pieces out of
the puzzle for the last week, week and a half,
and you know, bending bending to a small group of
people who say that, you know, my ancestors were lynched.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Gus lynching in American history was of Italians. It was
eleven Italians in one shot. I mean, that's that's and
that's not even what I see when I look at this,
I see an asylum. You know, Uh, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What it intended to be. It's an asylum. It never
entered my head that these people what they're thinking of.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You could hear it in your voice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's very sad. It's very sad that a few people
want it taken down and the mayor is using her
her power to give them just that. And like you said,
she's leaving, She's got just a few more days and
then a new mayor will come in. Yeah, yeah, I
(16:14):
wonder who knows what the climate?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, who is what the climate is going to be
when he comes in?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, maybe he's just filling her shoes.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, it sounds like you think the elections already sewn
up there because there are four people in the mix too,
being female. But you're saying he So you sound like
a lot of Hampden residents that I speak with who
feel like, yeah, we already know how that's going to
turn out. Yeah, it's frustrating.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I don't know who's going to be the mayor ultimately,
I don't, but you know, I mostly you know, say.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hey, yeah, no, no, I don't know. So people can't
make donations right now. It's like it's a night of thing.
Is that what you're telling me? If the venmo is blocked? Like,
how would I get one hundred dollars to you?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The thing is, I don't like touching the cash. I don't.
I just wanted to go to where it goes, so
I don't have to deal with it. But going back
to the roots of all this, I did touch the cash,
and I would just put it and find checking account
and then make a check to the organization, to the
Big Brother Big Sister. So there there is no other way,
(17:20):
because if everybody starts sending me checks in my name,
I don't want any questions.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Oh yeah, I hear you. I hear you, man, I
certainly understand. This is a real predicament. It's an unnecessary
predicament too.
Welcome to the show, Eric Andrewsen. He's a gentleman, the
Hamden homeowner who's Halloween display has been making all this noises. Well,
it's been making it's usually good noise. Been making noise.
You tell me now, for you've been doing it for
nine years, Eric.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, good morning everyone, nine years.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Nine years. I was just going to say, like, tell
me some of your past themes. This one is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, yes, the theme changes every year. The first year
I did it, it was just me. No one came
to the door. I had a light on, a bullet candy.
The second year, I put some fog on, has some music.
I just in a costume and turned the light off.
I thought, let's let's go this approach. And the kids
were kind of hesitant to cross Whitney. But I had
(00:49):
about thirty for treaders. Okay, but that year, then the
third year, it grew a little bit bigger, and it's
become bigger than myself. Yes, no way that I could
actually put this on for children and adults for a
good cause at that without the help of my scare team.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You're when I ask who is your scare team made
up of? I'm not looking for names like is it family?
Is it like?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Who is is a friend? Uh? And how did you
assemble your scare team? Because I'm assuming they can help
you come up with the theme every year too.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, so the scare team is friends of mine and
of theirs who want to participate. You know, it brings
a lot of good for the community with the donations
that we take in, so they want to be a
part of it. So it's all volunteer. No one gets
(01:54):
paid on the team. And I actually, you know, spend
the money to create the theme and ask for nothing
in return other than a donation to the charity of
our choice. We all vote this year. We voted unanimously
(02:15):
in January to give all the money to the Hand
and Pale and I immediately started working with Sargeant James,
who's been phenomenal this whole time. We've been to meetings together,
Traffic Control, fire department, the town was on board and.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Every year the pal just so for folks who don't know,
that's the Hampden Police Activities League. Eric, let me ask
who were some past recipients.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The Big Brothers, Big sisters.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Great one you know, and nobody's going to make noise
there because I wonder how much of this is noise
being made because it involves a police benefiting from this too.
Generally I do, but continue on. So Big Brothers was
one year, what was another year?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well that's that we've been doing the Big Brothers for
the last four years. Oh okay, initially when I so initially,
like the first five years, people were saying, you know,
take donations, give it to someone. But I wanted to
keep Halloween innocent. You know, Halloween, the child goes out,
get some candy and they're done. They're at the next house.
(03:31):
There's no expectation of giving money or even a donation.
It's a very innocent experience for the child. But Halloween
is for the children. And over the years I thought,
you know, maybe it is a good idea to incorporate
a donation for children, which the idea for Big Brothers
(03:52):
Big Sisters. So not only does the child enjoy the candy,
they enjoy the scare and the money is raised for
this year. It's unfortunate what happened, but we'll get to
that afterwards. The money would be going directly to the
Hamden community to benefit children eight to eighteen. The police
(04:18):
work with these children, they'll learn how to do martial arts,
take heights if they want to go to the amusement park.
It's all free for children eight to eighteen. So we
thought the scare team and I thought, yes, we want
to keep the monies in our community because with Big
Brothers Big Sister, while it's still a very good organization,
(04:42):
we never really felt the money here it was we
would give it away. I didn't feel nobody feels that
the children here benefit love it from the money directly,
like the way this, like the way this fundraiser would
have been. But yeah, fortunately I got word.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah this is this is just bumming me out in
the sense that it's a thing that's growing. You know,
it started slowly, as you described as getting bigger, bigger, bigger.
This year could have been the biggest one. Yet you're realizing,
you know what, we want to make sure the community
benefits from it. You know, Big brother great organization. But
(05:24):
the money will be farmed now and I don't want
this to slow your role. I feel like, you know,
this nonsense from a couple of uh noisemakers in the
neighborhood and from an outgoing mayor might slow some great momentum,
charitable momentum here.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, the mayor has flowed the momentum, uh considerably. I
got work yesterday that she called the police department and
said that they are not able to take any donations
coming from this event.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And sounds like a kid to me. I mean, that
sounds like a king to me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well, without getting too political, no.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, and I respect that, Eric, I don't know
any you know, we're meeting on the phone. I don't
know any of your politics, and that shouldn't play a role. Yeah,
but does she have some power? Does a sitting mayor
have the power to tell the police not to take
That's actually a genuine question.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, well that's according to what I've been told she is.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
She does.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
She does have that power to tell the police what
to do, and the chief, the chief has to listen.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, not what to do, but I mean, don't accept
donations for charity. Seems like a weird power player. It
doesn't seem enforceable.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
For her for charity for her town. Yeah, yeah, for
her town. So I mean there are ways around getting
that money, yeah, to have and peal and my intentions
are to do just that. Anything raised this year will
go to the ham and pal.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, have you have you thought it all?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That message?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Have you thought it all? Eric of? As much as
I understand that you do want to uh keep the
men money within the community, but it's like the mayor,
an outgoing mayor, somebody's more than just one foot out
the door, has engaged you in a game of chess.
Have you thought of? Okay, then we'll raise the money
(07:35):
for this town's police and she'll have no say.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't want to do that because I know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm in Yeah, I'm in Hampden, and once I get
the money, it's my choice what charity I would like
to donate. So the police are going to be here,
uh you know, do the demo. People in line, We're
going to have a twenty dollars donation fast pass because
the line is up two hours long. The free line
(08:07):
there's always always get in free. But this year would
be the first year that we would do a twenty
dollars donation fast task like an amusement ride a music
park and you get in immediately and the money would
go I don't touch the money, it just goes straight
to the police department.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You don't even your costs what you put out. This
is an extravagant set up here, must have cost you
close to it. Ad, I mean, I'm not good at
this kind of stuff. At least one thousand dollars. And
you don't take any of that back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, No, I don't take any of the cash back.
And I never disclosed how many thousands.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That all yeah, yeah, to make.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But yeah, but so we are still going to accept donations.
But I just would like to let everyone know that
the money is going to stay in hand, and it's
going to go for the children here. And there's nothing
the mayor can do to stop me from making out
(09:07):
a check and handing it to the to the pal Yeah,
police department.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, let's talk a little bit about the display. I
look at it. I'm a pretty I'd like to think
I'm a fairly creative person. I am a good little artist.
You know. I've always drawn, really, you know, I've got
some of my pictures and you know, framed in my house. Uh.
(09:35):
I write poetry. I've had a couple of books published.
What I look at, what I see is exactly what
you're calling it. I see an asylum. I don't I
don't understand. I don't know what other people are seeing.
I see exactly what you've named it an asylum, which
has been the focal point for many a fantastic horror
movie over the years. So i'm I'm I don't understand
(10:02):
where the I mean, it's a stretch to say, thanks
to the barbed wire, it's it's got holocaust imagery. I
mean that that's a stretch, a concentration camp imagery. Excuse me,
because of barbed wire. That's that's a real stretch.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, So it is an asylum. It never entered my
head that it would be anything but an asylum. And
what happens in the asylum is mayhem. It's craziness. Uh.
And the all the scare team, the actors know that
they are escaping and there there really is no law all.
(10:43):
Even all the police and the security guards are a
part of it, even though they're in like playing close,
they're still yeah, within the asylum with the nooses and
the barbed wire and the towers. There are prisons here
in the State of Connections. When here on Whitney Avenue
down on shut down Route ten where Cheshire is this
(11:04):
barbed wire and watch tower and you know you can.
It's I'm just copying it, but putting in the fear factor,
like there's there's no safety here. That's the fear. And
it's a Halloween event. If I did this in February,
then I could understand how people could bit weird.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That weird. Yeah, to do that inary bit weird, Derek,
you know. And the reason if you just caught me
snicker about thirty seconds ago, it's because a listener right
now just sent me a photo what I hadn't seen
yet was Jim, this guy, it's a full on tower
on your front lawn. I didn't see this part yet.
And there's a guard, but he's like a zombie guard.
(11:46):
He's got the uniform. I mean, you definitely went out
of your pocket here. How come I keep reading about
a dummy hanging. I have not seen any picture. I've
seen that in decorations before, Halloween decorations before, but I
don't see is there that on the front lawne I
have not seen a picture of that yet.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yes, So there's you know, corporal punishment. The there's a
gallow out front and there's three nooses. In two of
the nooses is a woman a skeleton dressed as a
woman and another skeleton dressed as a man, and they've
been hanging is October fourth, Okay, there, and then there's
an empty noose, and the empty noose is you know,
(12:29):
part of the show, you know, for the for the
Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Heard someone participating to stick their head through for a picture, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Exactly, yea, bingo, you got it. It was. It was
all for the fun of both adults and children to
be able to go up on an actual gallow. It's
an actual gallow, and I mean, how many of us
have been on one? I've never until you know, until
you know, Todd built it. One of my skelete me
(12:59):
sue that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'll tell you a couple of things. Eric. First of all,
it doesn't sound to me like anybody is scared and
or offended by this thing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It sounds like the majority is not.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to go so
far as to say it sounds to me like somebody's
got it in for you, because I doubt that's the case.
You sound like a very nice guy, and you know
there's someone in your family who's a legend. I don't
know if we want to call him out radio host,
well known radio host who you know. He's a hero
of mine for many years. It sounds like maybe your
(13:32):
charity of choice put the target on it, don't It
sounds like bold that people are I can't look at it.
It conjures up imagery. And I would like to make
a donation of and just so you know, Eric, I
am so broke. It's not funny, but I would like
to make a donation right here on the air. Pledge
one hundred dollars for you this U this year, for
(13:53):
this Just let me know how I can get it
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's very generous.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tell me how I can do that. Tell me how
listeners can do it too. If the mayor wants to
run interference on her way out the door, how can
other people donate?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, definitely cast donations on Halloween night. Okay, fingers cross
that she's fingers cross that she doesn't pull it completely.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
For a Democrat mayor. Again, I gotta say to like,
cancel a Halloween night extravaganza. That's a king or in
this case of queen, you're talking about no power play.
That's exactly what that would be. That would drive me crazy.
You think that's possible that next Friday night, which would
be probably one of your biggest ones. You've dealt with
Tuesday nights and Wednesday nights and Thursday nights, you know,
(14:46):
Friday nights. Parents are probably like, we could spend even more,
you know, be here longer. The night can last longer.
There's no school tomorrow. This could have been your biggest
money making night ever. And you think it's possible that
she could be like, now, I'm not going to let
it happen.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, she's she's been slowly taking the pieces out of
the puzzle for the last week, week and a half,
and you know, bending bending to a small group of
people who say that, you know, my ancestors were lynched.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Gus lynching in American history was of Italians. It was
eleven Italians in one shot. I mean, that's that's and
that's not even what I see when I look at this,
I see an asylum. You know, Uh, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What it intended to be. It's an asylum. It never
entered my head that these people what they're thinking of.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You could hear it in your voice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's very sad. It's very sad that a few people
want it taken down and the mayor is using her
her power to give them just that. And like you said,
she's leaving, She's got just a few more days and
then a new mayor will come in. Yeah, yeah, I
(16:14):
wonder who knows what the climate?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I know?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, who is what the climate is going to be
when he comes in?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, maybe he's just filling her shoes.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, it sounds like you think the elections already sewn
up there because there are four people in the mix too,
being female. But you're saying he So you sound like
a lot of Hampden residents that I speak with who
feel like, yeah, we already know how that's going to
turn out. Yeah, it's frustrating.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I don't know who's going to be the mayor ultimately,
I don't, but you know, I mostly you know, say.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hey, yeah, no, no, I don't know. So people can't
make donations right now. It's like it's a night of thing.
Is that what you're telling me? If the venmo is blocked? Like,
how would I get one hundred dollars to you?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The thing is, I don't like touching the cash. I don't.
I just wanted to go to where it goes, so
I don't have to deal with it. But going back
to the roots of all this, I did touch the cash,
and I would just put it and find checking account
and then make a check to the organization, to the
Big Brother Big Sister. So there there is no other way,
(17:20):
because if everybody starts sending me checks in my name,
I don't want any questions.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Oh yeah, I hear you. I hear you, man, I
certainly understand. This is a real predicament. It's an unnecessary
predicament too.
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