Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 8/1/25

• Blue Hills Civic Assoc & Prosperity Foundation Fraud Alligations 
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Right here on WTIC News Talk ten eighty. I hope
that every one of you are getting ready for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I know it's hot out there.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
I know the weather's been all over the place, but
it's the weekend, and I'm actually excited because we're actually
driving out to go hang out with the guys who
actually do my intro. We're going to go see the
Panics tonight who are performing, and they're gonna be performing late.
It'll be the first time in a long time I
will be out after midnight, because lord knows, I'm in

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bed by nine thirty. I don't know about you, guys,
but around nine to thirty I start looking at the clock, going, goodness, gracious,
do you know what time it is? And it's weird
because I never thought I would be that guy I
used to laugh at people he used to do that,

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who used to look at.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
The time and go, what nine thirty is too late
for you? Yeah? Now it's funny because I can't say it.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
My wife told me not to say it, but when
she gets on the show, I'm probably gonna make her
admit it. I didn't realize it, but I was actually
looking at the time too, saying to myself. As soon
as I found out that they weren't going on stage
until twelve, I said to myself, ah, But then another
part of me said, now you have an excuse to

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stay out later, like, let's see if you can do it.
And then rose Anne says to me, well, we can
always take a nap, and I went, oh.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, And I'm excited about.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Taking a NAP's that's where I am. And there's a
part of me that's somewhat embarrassed, just a part that's
embarrassed that I am going to take a nap so
I can go out later. I don't know how to
deal with that. I'll come to terms with it. In
due course, but today I'm kind of beating myself up

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about it.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Eric, Hartford loves Reies, Thank you, sir, and I love Hartford.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
You wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Speaking of loving Hartford, We've got a scandal that's happening
in the city of Hartford, and I know a lot
of attention wasn't brought to it, but it must be
discussed today in the opening monologue, Apparently the Blue Hills

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Civic Association and the Prosperity Foundation.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Are being investigated for wire fraud.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Now I'm going to tell youknew the truth about what
I did when I saw this news break last night,
not that the name of the groups.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Meant anything because I'd never heard of them.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
As you guys know, I've sparsely related to the folks
at AFRICANNECTCAS started my career. There were officially in two
thousand and four. I've got friends who live in Connecticut.
Connecticut has always been that sort of brass ring to
me growing up. But I have got to say that
in the last three years I have sort of engrossed
myself in Connecticut politics and it is a learning experience

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over and over and over again, there were plenty of
people who I know in a game, and there have
been plenty of people I don't know. And the Blue
Hills Civic Association and Prosperity Foundation were two organizations I
knew nothing about, and I knew I knew nothing about
them when I heard that they were being they were
under investigation. So I went online and I asked a

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very let's just say, racially motivated question.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I had to.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
I'm sorry, I'm not afraid to do what I do,
and I'm not afraid to tell you when I do
what I do, and I knew it in my heart.
I said, are these organization black run? Are they run
by African Americans? Are they associated with the African American community?

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I had to ask, and of course the answer was yes.
Now why did I ask? I asked because other people
won't and the Hartford Current barely mentions it, which is
where I saw the article. It doesn't even mention who

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these organizations serve, which is very important to the story.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
They serve the African American community. And both of.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
These organizations receive millions of state and federal dollars. So
to find out that there is an investigation of wirefraud
that involves Blue Hills Civic Association to the tune of
three hundred thousand dollars and the Prosperity Foundation to the

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tune of five hundred thousand dollars was alarming, especially after
finding out that one of these organizations received as much
as wait for it, four point four to five million dollars.
But you know, I do scour the news a lot,

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and I tell you, folks, unlike others, I remember stories
when they come across the wire.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was like, wait, I remember Blue.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Hills was in the news recently, and they were April
April fourteenth.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
You may not remember the story here it is.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
The Blue Hills Civic Association is a staple in the
Hertford community. But on April eighth, an email was sent
to almost every staff member that because of an unforeseen
financial challenge, they were being laid off. The Blue Hill's
Civic Association got rid of all of their staff. Former
employees say they found out on April eighth in an email.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
We got an email at ten something at night.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
At night.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
They weren't even they couldn't even come to us. They
waited for us to go home.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Doctor Katie and Reid BHCA Board of Director's chair sent
the email in cited financial challenges as the reason, but
for employees like Confessor Reels Kelvin Lovejoy, they don't believe that.

Speaker 9 (07:51):
To be the true reason.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
Do we matter, Yes, we mattered, But the youth, the community,
they matter more. The elderly they matter more. If they
couldn't come to us. We used to go to them,
We used to provide peace.

Speaker 10 (08:12):
We are pretty much in the dark about what has
gone on. I will say that, you know, we have
some thirty residents of Harford who work there every day
who are devastated by this particular circumstance, and we really
just want to find a support for them and then
in the larger sense, support for the families.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Now, parents and community members worry what will happen to
those who rely on the services offered.

Speaker 11 (08:40):
So they have a workforce development program and this is
what the youth we're looking forward to as something that
they can occupy themselves with during the summer. Now, with
that being taken away initially, I will just say that
because it's no more at this point, where are they
supposed to go?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah? Where are they supposed to go?

Speaker 5 (09:02):
So that story April fourteenth, says that they laid off
a bunch of folks over at the Blue Hill Civic Association.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
April twenty second this from NPR.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Blue Hill Civic Association suffered significant wire transfer fraud before hidden.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Layoffs or sorry sudden layoffs. Read this.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
And even NPR can't come to grips with just saying
there are thieves.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Amongst Blue Hill.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
The Blue Hill Civic Association, which provides housing assistance, violence
prevention programs, no Good Luck There and other services, sparked
outcry last week after implementing sudden layoffs across the organization.
Residents and former employees demanded answers after at a meeting
of the Hartford City Council, saying they had no forewarning.

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The organization told Connecticut Public last week that it faced
unforeseen financial circumstances that triggered the layoff, but declined to
answer questions. In a statement provided to members of the
city council Monday, the nonprofit's board of directors provided more details,
saying recently the Blue Hill Civic Association was the victim

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of fraud where a wire transfer was intercepted by a
presumed a cyber thief. The funds, which were significant, were
being transferred to one of the sub guarantees of the organization.
The unexpected loss of funds crippled the organization's ability to

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continue its work. According to the board, It has since
terminated the organization's executive director, Vicki Gallen Clark, and its
chief financial officer dur An. Internal investigation uncovered failures that
led to Blue Hill Civic Association being in the unfortunate position.

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According to a statement, state and federal law enforcement are investigating,
which brings us to today, which now we know that
after all of that firing, after all of that so

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called cyber theft, a federal grand jury opens a probe
into how millions in grants were distributed to Hartford nonprofits.
Federal authorities have opened wide ranging investigations into two into
how tens of millions of dollars are being distributed amongst

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and spent by an array of nonprofit social service organizations
operating in Hartford. Federal prosecutors serve subpoenas associated with the
grand jury investigation last week, resulting in a flurry of
calls to defense lawyers late in the week and over
the weekend among those believed to be targets of the investigation,
according to Sabinas and other sources, is State Senator Douglas

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McCrory of bloom Bloomberg of Bloomfield Sorry.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
His district includes North Hartford.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Mccririn declined a text message earlier this week to discuss
the matter.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Also named in the subpoena.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
As McCrory associate Senserree Cicero Hamlin, who runs a wide
ranging consulting business offering advice to clients on subjects as
desperate as human resources, as disparate as human resources and
legalized marijuana sales. Cicero is involved in that already sure

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to you in my opinion, anyway, enough of the nonsense.
Why are these organizations stealing money? Allegedly they're telling us
that somebody got into their finances through a cyber attack,

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But yet we have an investigation that involves people being fired,
forced to resign, People are not returning phone calls or
text messages, people are hiring defense attorneys. These organizations in

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the last year have received millions of dollars that many believe,
or at least this investigation is leading to believe, are
being mishandled. Millions of dollars. My question is why give them?

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Why give them the money? Are there any results? Do
these organizations actually do the things that they say that
they're supposed to do? Apparently no one's bothered to look.
I checked, I did. I checked. In the years that

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Bluehells Civic Association haven't been around and Prosperity Foundation has
been around. Do you want to know what the answer
was when asked what they've been able to accomplish, be
it violence, prevention, jobs, any of those things, lifting people
out of poverty? Do you know what the answer is?

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There's no metric, no one's keeping score. It's like a
Little League baseball game in the everyone gets a trophy era.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
No person.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
You can put out as many of these a business
plans you want to, any of these proposals you want
to to the federal government, to the local government, asking
for millions of dollars. But never once has anyone said, hey,
are we going to get a progress report? Has anybody

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reached out to them and said, hey, how well are
you doing? No, these folks are allowed to just come
back and ask for more. And what's the reason why
they're being asked for more money? Or they're asking for
more money because it's never enough. No one seems to
have a plan. All they know is that they want

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to give, and all they ever hear is that they
want to receive. And of course, if you are in
a minority group, you can't tell them no. Nowadays, well,
I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm
going to say, please stop giving. If these people promise

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to get kids off the street from committing violence, they
should be able to provide results. If they're improving the
lives of people who live in the community, getting them
out of poverty, where they're joining the middle class. We
should have proof of that, shouldn't we. They should be

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made to show us the results of their work, shouldn't they.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
It shouldn't be they provide jobs.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
If their jobs aren't getting results, why would we keep
funding it? Why would we keep asking the federal government
to provide that money to organizations.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
That do squat. We know what it is, we know
what the bottom line is. All of this is a
slush fund.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
This money is put into the coffers of organizations like
Blue Hills and Prosperity Foundation. No results are ever calculated
or tabulated, And then, of course, the usual the politicians
go in there and say needs your vote this November,
needs your vote coming up, special election coming up, and
needs you both get those people out to the polls.

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That's all it is. Come on, let's be honest. You're
supposed to create an organization that's supposed to get rid
of the problem. They are there to serve right end
gang violence, if anything, diminish it to the point where
it's ministry, where it's not rising, where it's not fluctuating.
By the way, we'll get into that later with Luke

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Bronan and Hartford as well. But let's be honest. These
organizations do nothing. The only thing they do is it's
something for someone to stand around and say, I've promoted
the initiative to bring this that and the third resume
building something to put on their bio. No one has

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any intent of solving the problem. Why because they don't
know how teaching kids how to get a job?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
What job? And who's teaching them? What skills?

Speaker 5 (18:21):
You're teaching kids how to write a resume for what?
Kids don't have jobs? What are they putting on this resume?
I went to school. We'll be giving these folks millions
and millions of dollars for kids to write resumes who've
never had jobs. Explain this again to me. No one

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even bothers to ask how many kids have been able
to get a job because of these programs or because
of these nothing?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
You never ever do have anything, do you.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Well, let's start asking, or let's just get to the
bottom of where all the money is.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Let's find out how much money. Let's find out how
much money was fleeced, how much was stolen. Let's get
to the bottom of that.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
When we come back, more news, more views, and more
on this subject, because I got much more to get
into as far as.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
The numbers are concerned.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
When we return, it's Resona Radio on WTIIC Newstok ten eighty.
We're back rees on the radio, WTIIC News Talk ten eighty.
Craig in the Car says they got five million dollars
in twenty twenty five alone from the American relief package.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
That's right, That is one hundred percent right.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
In fact, that total number, the exact number, Craign the
Car is four point four five five million in fact,
which makes all of this stuff very, very crazy. If
you're just joining us, we're talking about the alleged scandal
a Blue Hill Civic Association and a Prosperity Foundation, both

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of which appear to be engaged in wirefraud. According to
an investigation, they are a ledged to have somehow moved
three hundred thousand dollars for the Blue Hills Civic Association
and five hundred thousand dollars related to the Prosperity Foundation.

(20:13):
Now I looked into this and both foundations are unrelated
unless there's.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Something I don't know.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
And according to the story in the Hartford Current that
came out last night, several people are lawyering up. And
as I played earlier, the Fox sixty one channel actually
covered the story on April fourteenth that they had laid
off a bunch of staffers, which sounds weird because Blue

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Hills only lost three hundred thousand dollars and then laid
off some thirty forty staffers at ten o'clock at night,
didn't even wait for them to come in. And a
lot of those folks look or we're probably good folks.
I mean, one poor gentleman in the piece is crying,

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probably not just for the folks who I mean, but
for himself as well. There are people who thought they
were doing good work. They were doing important work. Yeah,
they may not have been getting results, but it kept
them in business. I'm sorry it sounds mean to say this,
but look, these organizations are not in the business of

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ever going away. These organizations are there to be there forever.
And then they sit around bragging about how long they've
been in existence. Hello, NAACP. It's gotten so hard for
the NAACP. They actually don't advance colored people anymore now.

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They just support whatever the Democrats tell them to. Like
they don't even show up at protests or rallies. They
don't even do that anymore. They show up to fundraise
that that. I'm sorry, that's just what they do. Like
they the advancement of colored people. That's not a thing.
It never was, but it isn't a thing. But they

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love talking about we've been in existent, in existence one
hundred and blah blah blah blah blah years. What have
you done been in existence? And that's the whole job.
That's it to exist, solve nothing. They don't do anything

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to talk about. Senator McCrory is none other, uh than
the muckraker when it comes to politicians in the city
and in this State Mark and West Hartford's on the line.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
How are you, buddy?

Speaker 12 (22:50):
I actually missed the beginning part. Is Doug McCrory. Where
did he come into play?

Speaker 13 (22:55):
I heard it.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
According to this.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Let me let me get to his his portion on
Sorry the Hartford Current article. I didn't know you were
going to ask that. Let me see where his name
is immediately mentioned, because okay, here it is among those
believed to be the targets of the investigation. According to
subpoenas and other sources in the state. It states that

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Senator Douglas McCrory, a Bloomfield Democrat whose district includes North Hartford.
McCrory declined in a text message earlier this week to
discuss the matter. Also named in subpoenas is McCrory's associate,
Songsirey Cicero Hamlin, and.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I looked her up and she is very She is very.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Involved in getting like churches restored or buildings restored. She's
got a lot of involvement in getting money for certain
restoration product projects within the black community and getting them funding.

Speaker 13 (23:55):
Got it.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
So finally, Doug McCrory's going to get a spotlight that
he's long deserved. I don't know if I told you
this about him, And one day we'll do a deep dive.

Speaker 14 (24:07):
I'm just going to give you two instances.

Speaker 12 (24:09):
One of the FBI should have came in investigate him.

Speaker 15 (24:12):
He should be in.

Speaker 12 (24:13):
Jail right now for what he tried to do. What
I found out, I exposed, got a hold of them.
They didn't want to know nothing. Of course, you weren't
around back then to assist me.

Speaker 16 (24:21):
And I'll tell you the other one.

Speaker 12 (24:22):
The first one was, we had this great guy named
Doc Curley. Those of us who grew up in Hartford
do him well. And I'll just give you the quick backstory.
He used to raise all kinds of funds. He got
it up to a million dollars like annually, and every
year he feed off of it and send inner city
kids off to college. It was unbelievable what he did.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
He dies, his.

Speaker 12 (24:44):
Daughter, takes over his nonprofit, squanders well over a million dollars,
gets caught. It's a terrible story. She commits suicide in
order to honor Doc Curly. Doug mccry secures state funds.
US payers gave him two hundred and fifty grand not
to start and replenish the fund and get it up

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and going again to send young inner.

Speaker 14 (25:08):
City kids to college.

Speaker 12 (25:10):
But no, he puts a statue of Doc Early in
in his end of town in Hartford that he represents.

Speaker 14 (25:17):
It's in Katy Park.

Speaker 12 (25:19):
It's so disgusting because I knew Doc a little bit.
He would be so incensed in theory, like, what are
you doing that two hundred and fifty grand could have
educated some of our kids. But that's what a shilly
is to get votes. Now, let me tell you why
he should have why he should have been arrested. He
should be in jail right now. He tried to present

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a bill that would have destroyed upstart in existing brewery
in Connecticut. He was trying to present the bill telling
these men and women who own these breweries and it's
a hard business.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I don't know if you know, Oh yeah, I know.
I know a guy who got his shirt handed to him.

Speaker 12 (26:00):
Well, well, what this bill would have done is said
you can either sell your product out of your brewery
or you could distribute.

Speaker 17 (26:08):
But you can't do both.

Speaker 12 (26:10):
Now, how they how they survive is they got people
who come in, they try to product, try different ones,
they purchase it and then they also distribute their product
to the local package stores.

Speaker 14 (26:21):
That's right, right, and restaurants right everywhere.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
You're not trying to propose a bill.

Speaker 16 (26:26):
So one owner, you know, I like one article I
sent you.

Speaker 12 (26:30):
He goes, I don't understand the animosity toward the industry.

Speaker 17 (26:33):
Well, guess what I did.

Speaker 16 (26:34):
I did this the easy deep die.

Speaker 12 (26:37):
I looked at his campaign donors. The biggest donors were
all from the Hartford Beer distributing company.

Speaker 14 (26:44):
Wow, I send it to the FBI.

Speaker 16 (26:47):
I go, he is.

Speaker 12 (26:48):
Trying to create a bill that's no cater to the
people donate to.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
He's handicap small business. Yeah, he's gonna handicap small business.

Speaker 12 (26:58):
Yes, yeah, he was trying to handcuff them in order
to I guess keep them.

Speaker 14 (27:06):
I don't know if to listen. At the end of the.

Speaker 12 (27:08):
Day, I'm suspecting and this is just an allegation, but
it's not proven. And and I think there's envelopes of
cash being passed around. And let me tell you, Doug,
if you're listening, I would start thinking.

Speaker 14 (27:21):
I would start.

Speaker 16 (27:22):
Doing a you know, cleaning.

Speaker 12 (27:24):
Of your your file cabinet, because when they go in there,
I hope they go back into his past.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
This is, well, I don't think that they're gonna do that.
I don't I don't think that anybody's gonna do that.
I will tell you right right off the bat, is that,
first of all, I would love to understand why a
local politician would have anything to do with a subpoena
related to a wire frauds situation with a nonprofit that

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doesn't appear to make sense to me unless there is.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
A direct involvement in them.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
And the reason why I'm saying that is because right
now I'm already covering a story all the way out
in Sacramento that I talked about here on the show.
New evidence has provided that one hundred and eighty million
dollars was mishandled with a school on the West Coast
that sounds eerily similar to this story. And I'm starting
to realize that these nonprofits are a joke man, especially

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sorry in the nfcity.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 (28:23):
You know my new Yeah, you know my new thing,
and I want everybody to do it every time. In
your own town. You probably have several you didn't even
know existed, but when they come across you're reading your
local paper and you see an NGO or a nonprofit.
Go ahead and do a little search on their IRS
return and see how much money they're getting and where
it's coming from. Yeah, you'd be surprised that some of

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the salaries and they're not big. Just like we keep
doing a lease to share them up from Rivers Alliance.

Speaker 17 (28:50):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 12 (28:51):
Because it's all the other side hustle. So she's working
to get a gig somewhere else. And that's the other
thing is you got to follow these people once they leave,
they stay three, four, five years, and the next one
step so you see him right in the tax return.
You'll see somebody be a director. You're there for four
or five years. They lead, You'll see the person underneath them.
They move up. And then if you follow where the

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director went, a lot of times you get in a
job with the state.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yep, they've done there. Oh yeah, exactly.

Speaker 17 (29:19):
Going to get a payoff down the road.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Without a doubt. And again that's it.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
That's why this part of the investigation is just right now.
It's at the beginning, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna
get dirty.

Speaker 12 (29:30):
Thanks Mark, thank you for allowing me to name another charlatan.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Indeed, that's the part that gives that that really really
drives me up the wall, right, And I do take
it personal because I've been who I am for years.
I've been in this medium for years. The only thing
I ever do is talk. I've had no one comment

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to me and hand me a check or grease my
pockets or my poems. What it greased my palms, lie
in my pockets, jail. I've never had anybody. I don't
even know the phrase. That's why it's never happened to me.
But I've never been this guy who's been told what
to say or what to think. And I'm the first
person called a charlatan, the first like the story of Sacramento,

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that story about j King, that guy who's a first.
I used to do a podcast with the guy our
But our contentious relationship was always about my conservatism as
a black person in him who cared so much about
black folks as he the organization he's associated with just
took one hundred and eighty million dollars folks, one hundred

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and eighty million dollars for K through twelve schools, school
money that's allotted for K through twelve schools. His organization
took that money for an adult education group where thousands

(31:07):
of teachers were teaching classes who had no certifications to
teach those classes. They all had to be fired. There
were some thousands that were working there there now down
to like seventy four teachers. They're the only ones credentialed
after thousands. Same case here like Blue Hill. You got

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all of these people who have jobs doing what I
don't know, no clarification on what they do or what
their work product has produced, nothing, and then the audit
comes out one hundred and eighty million dollars in Sacramento.
One organization turns out no certified teachers, oh, by the way,
and no records of students, no records of students anywhere.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
And I'm sorry, I'm the constant refrain is.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Call out that nefarious and clearly illegal activity.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay, let's call it unethical.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Call it out. And you're the uncle Tom, the sellout
while they're stealing money to serve no one but themselves.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Spare me.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
That's right again. I despise these groups to get caught
up in this stuff. You do nothing for no one
but yourselves. You use these people, You use these people
to enrich yourself. You always have This is why no
one trusts you. And I'm sick and tired of people
telling me that these people are out here for the good.
None of them are. They are self serving crooks in

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my view. And every time you turn around, there's another
million dollars or your taxpayers. That's being tax money. It's
being wasted, it's being wasted. And you keep asking yourself,
why is it only getting worse over there? Why is
it never get better? Why are they still complaining? Didn't
we give them five million dollars? What's wrong? Did we

(33:15):
not care enough? Did we not give enough? You can
never give enough, folks, You never could. So that's why
I'm telling you stop. But Reese, they might starve, fine,
let them starve. Let them do what the rest of
us did when we were starving, every one of us.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
You too.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
Let them do what everybody else here had to do
when they were starving. Work, bust their tail, everybody had
to do it. Make them do it too. Stop feeling
sorry for them. They'll get it together or they won't.
But stop footing the bill for that nonsense. And they're

(33:59):
criminal act allegedly. We'll be back more news, more views
when we return to three cent radio. All right, we're
back Reese on the radio news talk w T I C.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Let's get the Frankie. Why what's going on?

Speaker 16 (34:11):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Frank I got you here, buddy. Can you hear me? Okay?
Maybe not? What's up?

Speaker 18 (34:21):
Georgie ki reees U, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris just
re emerged again, and they've they've.

Speaker 13 (34:31):
Demonstrated to everybody that they're they're just as incompetent as
they've ever. Then every every two, four and six years,
we have elections, and there's there's no competency test that
that goes down. They there there's they they've there's no

(34:52):
administrative skills, no business experience that and we keep elect
electing these boobs to political offices.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I don't think let me give you, I don't think
we're gonna have to with those two anymore.

Speaker 14 (35:08):
Let me give you.

Speaker 13 (35:09):
Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.
We're all passengers on a seven forty seven okay, okay,
and and everything's sealed and locked up and ready to
take off, and we have elections.

Speaker 14 (35:26):
We elect you know, you have.

Speaker 13 (35:28):
Elections on who's gonna pilot the airplane?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (35:34):
Yeah, So we you. You you pick out somebody uh
to to to pilot the airplane, and then you sit
them in the left hand feet and they have absolutely
no idea how to fly this thing from A to
B or take off or land.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
And this is what we do.

Speaker 13 (35:53):
This, This is how you pick your your your your politicians.
They have no experience.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
I don't think we're I don't think we're gonna have
that problem.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
And in fact, in fact, I've got another story I've
got to deal with in in headlines coming up in
a bit on that same subject. But thank you, George.
I appreciate you, sir. Nothing against the guy. I know
sometimes he wants to have just gone to tear about
stuff that he cares about, but I'm kind of in
the middle of the subject. We need to understand this. This,
this whole deal with the outright theft of money, tax

(36:30):
dollars and resources from the Grievance Council. And that's it's
it's done in the sense of everybody is sick and
tired of having to compensate folks who have decided they're
not going to figure it out themselves. But here's something

(36:52):
I want everybody to consider, just for this, for the
argument of this whole discussion, or a basis of this
whole discussion. Okay, Blue Hills Civic Association and a Prosperity
Foundation or the NAACP or the Urban League or Black
Lives Matter eight sixty, it doesn't matter who they are.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Okay, let's just start with this premise. One.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
They do not represent anybody but themselves.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
They don't.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
They only represent themselves. They can't represent anyone but themselves.
If you ask the community they claim to represent what
they know or think about those groups I just mentioned,
they either have never heard of them or wouldn't know
how to get in touch with them.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
They wouldn't know a member, a president, a spokesperson.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
They wouldn't know, because they would tell you in their words, Nah,
they ain't out in these street.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Because they're not.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Those organizations are designed to find your guilt, to siphon
from your guilt. They come at you and they tell
you the same thing over and over again. We're here
to help this group, that group that in disenfranchised, a

(38:24):
group of people or whatever.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
That's all it's for. That's it.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
It's nothing to do with them, has everything to do
with themselves. So just stop giving them money because the
money's never.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Going to go to them. It's never going to go
to those groups.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
That violence and that whatever problem it is is going
to persist because even the bozos who are collecting the
dollars don't know how to end it.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Because if they could, they could do it for nothing.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
I can if one of those groups were to ask me,
I tell them exactly how to solve the problem.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
But they won't ask because they don't want to solve
the problem. We'll take a break, we'll be back. Let's
get to the top of the hour.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
News coming up with John Silver, and we'll be back
with the headlines when we return.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
It's RecA on the radio on WTIC news Talk TANNEDI.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Griese on the radio is getting ready to drop some
knowledge on wt I see.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
All right, let's get to some headlines. No, maybe there
we go. This triggering mechanism is a little slow.

Speaker 19 (39:26):
All right.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Headlines for today.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
Gallainne mass Maxwell has been moved to what The New
York Post is describing as a cushy New Texas prison
in the town of Brian they're calling it.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
It's in northwest of Houston.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
There's no reason for the move that's been given so far,
but many people are speculating that this cushy new prison
from Florida all the way to Texas is because of
some deal that might be in place, But there are
no details that suggest that the attorney for Glen Maxwell

(40:02):
has not responded to any request for What that's about.
You guys may have heard this sensation that happened at
a cold Play concert that got a lot of attention.
I refused to cover it because it was just too silly.
But I don't know what they were people were making

(40:23):
of it. But the whole story was some company ceo
was seen hanging out with his HR employee at a
Coldplay concert and the kiss cam went around and they
were caught hugging on this kiss camp, which then got
them busted, divorced, resigned, and a whole nine. It's it's

(40:45):
a mess, But I don't know what the story is.
I don't even understand why people were interested in the story,
but they were. That being said, a new study has
come out because of this, which talks about out of
all the fifty states, which states are considered more likely
to have cheaters or people having an affair. Let me

(41:07):
first warn you that Connecticut, you were not high on
the list. All right, Connecticut, look at you, faithful, monogamous folks.
You may vote blue, but you're not blue on marriage
and relationships.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
But let me tell you some of the top states
in the survey. And I gotta go backwards because number
two is interesting.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Number one. You have to figure.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Number five on the list was Hawaii, number four on
the list.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Wyoming number three makes sense.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Nevada number two is insane because it's one of the
last states you would think at a high rate of infidelity.
And it's also weird because they're not many people there.
But based on the ratio, Alaska rounded out spot number two,

(42:07):
and then the obvious spot went to New York because
of all the scoundrels that live in that state. But
Alaska was number two on the list. Is that crazy?
Number two? I know it's cold, warm somehow, apparently you
need you keep warming as many people as possibs.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Oh Man oh in a sad trombone.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Goes to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Today it's beginning
winding down its operations after its funding was eliminated by
the Trump administration and Congress. The Connecticut Sorry Corporation for
Public Broadcasting is a private nonprofit that serves as a
steward for funding public media. It provides funds to public

(42:56):
radio and television stations, including PBS and NPR. It employs
about one hundred people, and they cannot sustain that number
of people, so they're going to have to shut down
operations they announced today. Now for the stupidest thing I
read today, Okay.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Yes you do active.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
It could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Do you remember this guy.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
This guy made it to our coveted Thursday position of
Negro nonsense.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
It is fire Marshall, Jamal Bowman.

Speaker 20 (43:37):
You can't be about this. I'm a black man in America.
The reason why heart is listen to what I'm saying.

Speaker 21 (43:44):
The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and
diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of
distress we carry from having to deal with being called
the N.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Word directly or indirectly every day. Yes, music is giving
black folks cancer.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Just so you know, Spike Lee films giving black people
cancer since the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Quentin Tarantino.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
Also responsible for diabetes and cancer in the black community
because those places. Those places called Jamal Bowman the N
word more often than other folks. I'm just saying, so,
Quentin Spike Lee, tone it down, save a life. Well anyway,
Jamal Bowman, he has just been given the craziest, craziest

(44:39):
position ever. And if this guy wins the mayoral election,
you can see Jamal Bowman again. New York mayoral candidates
Zoran Mamdanni has gone from communists and Marxist to all
out nut job because he has tapped that man Fire

(45:00):
Marshall Jamal Bowman as his education chancellor. Of all things,
that guy is going to be the education chancellor. This
is what he's going to be educating schools around New
York City.

Speaker 20 (45:16):
If you can't be about this, I'm a black man
in America.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
The reason why heart is listen to what I'm saying.

Speaker 21 (45:23):
The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and
diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of
distress we carry from having to deal with being called
the N word directly or indirectly every day.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
Oh, the education system is going to be fantastic in
New York.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I cannot wait.

Speaker 22 (45:45):
Race. As a concerned person, have you gone ahead of
physical lately.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
No, I was your friend.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
I want to make sure you are right because you
have no idea. Just yesterday I listened to an entire
nw Way.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Album and.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
How are you exactly my should? I should have cancer
cells all through my body?

Speaker 22 (46:12):
Yeah? You should?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Wow? Yeah, Yeah, it's a miracle that I'm still with us. Jesus.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
I can't again. That's what I don't have to write
this stuff, folks. It's just the stupid stuff that I read.
But it's there every day. I told you the minute
that I started this bit, it was never going to die.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
I warned you.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
I mean, I think you all agreed that there was
no it was going to be like and I am now,
by the way, and you know what, maybe I should.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
I'm actually going to do it today.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
I'm going to create a page on my website res
Onerradio dot com r E E S E on the
radio dot com that you can go to and you
can give me your stupidest thing you've read today.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
That's what we got to do. I have to do it.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
And you know what if it's if it's great, what
I'll do is I'll give you credit for it. I'll say,
like john S is responsible for this story brought to you,
you know, brought to you by John S in Waterbury
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
I do something like that.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
I'm going to create the site today or at least
the link on the site today where you can put
a link to your most ridiculous thing or stupidest thing
that you read today, so that we can start doing
it on it. Because again it's not hard for me
to find it, but I want to read some of
the stupid things you've guys read, because I'm sure you have.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
And also it gets people reading again.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
You know, you should start calling him fire Marshall Bill,
not well, fire Marshall Bowman if that's how he got
the name. Also, after we take the phone calls, I've
got to get into Luke Bronan and John Larson.

Speaker 22 (47:53):
You know, just gave me an idea too, what's that
we can end racism if we bring back in living color?

Speaker 3 (47:58):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (47:59):
Yeah, you're absolutely right, because they were I mean, the
reason why they were who they were and the reason
why Saturday Night Live had to step up its game
it's because of that competition.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Oh my gosh, it was a magical experience watching that
actually exactly, And do you do you know this, I don't.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
You probably know this tidbit that in living color is
the reason why we.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Have a halftime show.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Yeah, I mean, they really forced the NFL to keep
people from tuning out because of that little skit they
did back in the nineties of doing a halftime program
while the halftime game or the halftime I guess halftime
of the Super Bowl. But that was so brilliant and

(48:42):
they timed it perfectly that you could watch in living
color and go right back to the game.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
But yeah, that's the reason why they had to do it.
They need to come back, Yeah.

Speaker 22 (48:51):
We need that and pop up videos from VH one again.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
That was a great show.

Speaker 22 (48:57):
Oh my goodness, you learned more stuff watching that anything.

Speaker 7 (49:01):
You know what.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
It's funny because that concept was really was kind of
a deer in a headlike thing because you could watch
a video to a song you really weren't into, but
you knew and watched it just so you could find
out more information about said song or music video. It

(49:22):
was informational and it was real, and it was reading.
It was I mean, it was everything. That was such
a smart show. I wonder what caused it to end.
I that's because music videos were everywhere and the ratings.
You know, MTV kind of got out of the music
video thing, but you know, people still do music videos.
I don't understand why you don't do that.

Speaker 22 (49:43):
Yeah, you gotta bring that back.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
They gotta bring that back. Also.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
You know what actually was another show of mine that
I loved, Behind the Music, Yeah, I thought, and still
to this day, I still think the greatest behind the
music was it was ever done? Was Thin Lizzy. Have
you ever seen that one? No, it's really good.

Speaker 22 (50:00):
So it's one of those things. It's like a lot
of TV networks and channels have like all those digital channels,
like there's a whole modern marvel, like the all those
like channels that are like there's an entire Baywatch.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Chand yes exactly.

Speaker 22 (50:12):
I was like, that show needs one of those, and
we need to bring back pop up videos on a
digital channel.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Like yeah, that's exactly right, exactly right behind the music,
you know, And then yeah, yeah, behind the music only
reason why?

Speaker 5 (50:23):
And I say that they have this other thing called
Unsung that they did on b ET or VH one
or one of those things. But Behind the Music was
great because it was so the thing that made it
fantastic is because of course they had the group's interviews
and testimonials in the show and giving some backgrounds and
them talking about those events that happened in the life

(50:45):
of the band, which was really really cool. But then Lizzie,
a band I only knew musically, got to understand their
background like the Way to Come, and they became my
favorite group because of behind the music. And they were
short lived as a band, but I love them to
this day. I even followed the careers of his daughters
after that because of the lead singers of Daughters after that,

(51:07):
because I was so intrigued by that behind the music.
It's one of the best ones ever done. Anyway, I
want to go to the phones. Like I was saying
Luke Bronan and John Larson yesterday, I was talking about
John Larson's statement about making change, and Luke Bronan is
talking about how he's the candidate of change. Well, I
did some research on what his policy positions are and

(51:31):
I got.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
A new versus not new gauge on his positions.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
You're going to be surprised the next person who interviews him,
which I'm sure might be Brian on this network or
anybody else.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
For that matter, I want you to listen.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
I want you to take this list to heart because
it's not everything that it seems with this so called
new fangled Democrat.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
I need to get into that in a little bit.

Speaker 5 (51:58):
Frank, let's go to him quick, because he called before
we couldn't get him on the line.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Frank, you there, good?

Speaker 17 (52:03):
How you doing?

Speaker 23 (52:04):
You know you would think that forty two trillion dollars
would solve a problem. Right, that's how much. That's how
much money we spent since January fourth, nineteen sixty four,
when the Democrats lined the Johnson declared the War on poverty?

Speaker 5 (52:20):
You said, did you say forty two? I'm almost positive
it's another ten trill.

Speaker 23 (52:25):
Well, it could be fifty two. But either way, you
have thought we would have solved the problem by and
we still have as many poor people, not as we
do ever in America.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Well, if you would have.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
Asked poor people, it's more poor people today than ever before.

Speaker 23 (52:40):
There's only one thing stopping a black man in America.
I say I told you this twenty years ago. Remember
what I told you? Look in the mara. Look, that's
a responsibility for your actions like everybody else. And second,
this radio station has been around for one hundred years. Yeah,
and we've had fools call up this radio station. But
white listen carefully. There is no beautiful black woman between that,

(53:05):
a white blonde who slow down.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
I can show you a couple of pictures Franks of
none other than Beyonce doing a country album with blonde hair,
wearing blue jacks.

Speaker 23 (53:16):
Come out, entertainer. Listen, these white blondes are at the
beach like all these white women getting a tan. I
know that black people, what did I always tell you
everybody wants to be black until the.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Cops show up or they're called. You're one, right, I know?

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Listen, I know the drill, my friend, I look, I
my whole tongue in cheek. Yesterday about Sydney Sweeney was
just that. And that is this idea that just because
American Eagle did this beat, now all of a sudden,
everybody else is supposed to feel shame or it's supposed
to feel like they are being called out. It has
nothing to do with it. It's just for them. It's

(53:57):
clownish and I almost I.

Speaker 23 (53:59):
Rejected, right, But this is why I don't like all
white communities, because when you live in an all white community.
You think only white women are good walking.

Speaker 24 (54:09):
They're not.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Although no, not way. Wait wait, you're one hundred percent
right about that, Frank.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Now, look, this is scary, but it's true, and people
don't like to say this.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
So I was watching this over my old neighborhood I
used to live in.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Of course, Hollis Queens is where I grew up, and
a deep part of Hollis Queens where I grew up.
In fact, every first we had white flight, then we
had black flight in Hollis Queens. And the white flight
was in the late seventies and early eighties. A lot
of white folks still lived in my community in the
late eight I want to say, mid to late eighties,

(54:44):
eighty six to eighty seven. Then black folks who either
worked for the government locally, worked in you know, municipal
buildings and stuff like that. Locally, they made enough money
to sell their home because they a lot of them
own their home and moved to Virginia or moved to
the North Carolina. And they did, and all of their
homes were bought by folks from Pakistan or India. So

(55:07):
we saw a huge influx. I remember going back to
my old neighborhood on Jamaica Avenue in two thousand and six,
and I thought I was in New Delhi.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
That's I mean, that's how changed it was.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
But what I found more interesting is that the black
boys and the white boys who still lived in my
community were all dating Indian and Pakistani girls.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
So you see, my you know.

Speaker 5 (55:31):
Your point is well proven in that in that skot
they all you end up dating the people who were
in your community, and that changes because of people who
move in and move out.

Speaker 23 (55:42):
Well, here's one thing before I go, record amount of
people at the beach this Connecticut. They had to turn
people away. Who's on that beach laid out white women?

Speaker 3 (55:53):
That's because black folks don't need it.

Speaker 24 (55:55):
We've got marshmallows.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Goodbye, We got to take a break.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
More news, more views when we returned, Bob Larson, John
l John Larson, Sorry, Bob Larson, John Larson, Luke Brownan
we'll talk about that when we get back in trees
on the radio on News Talk ten ad w T.
I see, guys, to me a favor, I need you
to humor me for a minute. Okay, just humor me, yes,
Bob or Rob? What can I do for you.

Speaker 25 (56:21):
Oh yes, we here a speaker. Oh yeah, yes, yes,
so I didn't mean to cut your short, but it
seemed like we were on the same page.

Speaker 7 (56:30):
Sorry about that, Yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
The only page, the only page there is on on
the Recenter radio program is Resenter Radio's page. You seem
to you don't want to talk about you Uvaldi and
the police officers there, And I was talking about something
entire No.

Speaker 25 (56:45):
No, no, thoughts haven't changed. Well, things mentioned about change today.
That's my purpose. Things about the Blue Hills. Yeah, what
about Well, there's corruption and they end up shut it down.
So I would consider that if you let.

Speaker 7 (57:00):
Me talk change.

Speaker 25 (57:03):
But now I don't know if you've heard about the
newspaper called the new Haven Register Record Journal the Department
of Corrections to see the article today. If you haven't,
I'll be surprised, seeing that you're on the radio. They're
estimating there's like three hundred people who have been on

(57:23):
aid administrative leave for over three to five years, and
that equivolates the hell of a lot more. And there's
three hundred thousand dollars corruption Blue Hills.

Speaker 7 (57:37):
And after that there.

Speaker 25 (57:40):
Is another situation whereas they's grotten police officer spits in
a dude's face, and it's just on Morgan cutting aral
one of these guys.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I've talked about that. But now, Rob, hold on for
a second, Rob.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Hold on, rop hold on for Rob, hold on for
the Okay, so you brought up you brought up three
different stories.

Speaker 25 (58:03):
Okay, you're not I'm just again sorry, I am sorry.

Speaker 13 (58:09):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Do you do you want to talk on the radio
or do you want to like you? I just want
you to listen, and you have to stop talking in order.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
To do that. I was quiet. Okay, let's start with
the first.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Okay, when you start comparing one bit of corruption to
the other one as if to suggest that. Okay, now,
I'm I'm going to say this is gonna being kind.
I'm you can call the station whenever you want. I'm

(58:42):
just gonna let you know that there are some people
I'm just not gonna pick up anymore. It's been a
year now. I think I've I've been I think I've
been fair, I think I've been considerate. Okay, and I'm
going to say this one last time. It is not
your show, and I've been kind because I've given that

(59:02):
Olive branch By saying, you know what, I'll let you
guys participate.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
You know what, why not? I can't do that anymore.
Here's why.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Because it's the constant disrespect, treating it like it's owed
to you, this entitlement. I can't tolerate it anymore. I
am as gracious as I possibly can be.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
But if you.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Don't get it, let me explain. I'm a bully. I'm
a hater by nature. It's instilled in me. I'm not bitter,
but I am a hater and I am a bully.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
I grew up this way.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
I know what it's like to have those things set
upon me, hatred and bullying. I learned how to take
care of myself, and I became a bully and a
hater for good. Your intentions some of you, and you
know who you are, are not pure. They are not
They are self serving. They are ignorant and selfish, and

(01:00:09):
I can no longer be kind to you. I've tried,
because you have no interest in being kind to me.
You've shown me disrespect far too often, and now I'm done.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Please kindly stay away from me. Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
You can hate, you can call the people in the
front office, you can do whatever you want, but leave
me be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I've been kind.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
It is on the record, it is recorded in history
that I've been kind and considerate.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
I'm done doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
Please find someplace else or someone else to either harass
or harangue or to bother. That level has peaked. Okay,
now let me move on. William Tom is a word.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Why Let me explain.

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
He wrote this letter to the Honorable Senators Henry Martin
and to the Honorable Senator Eric Berthel. Dear Senators Martin
and Berthel, we are in receipt of your letter dated
July eight, twenty twenty five, regarding Project Veritas. Due to
the serious allegations that have been raised about the accuracy

(01:01:36):
and veracity of Project Veritas's practices and the past refusal
by Project Veritas to respond to requests for information from
our office, it is the policy of the Office of
the Attorney General not to respond to the allegations based
solely on Project Veritas's reports.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
As always, should.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Someone wish to share information of evidence regarding misconduct that
implicates the statutory authority of the Office of the Attorney General,
we will review that information and act accordingly. From the
Office of William Tom, what are we talking about. We

(01:02:19):
are talking about the story of Elvira said, and her
daughter Irene said, her daughter no longer lives. She took
her own life in twenty twenty four. Why did she
take her life well, because of a great deal of circumstances,

(01:02:42):
one of which involved Eileen's engagement with the reverend of
the Metropolitan Community Church of Hartford, one Reverend Aaron Miller,
who called CPS on Elvira her mother to separate her

(01:03:04):
daughter from her, which then, due to confusion, suicidal ideation,
the passing of her father, and a host.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Of things, this young lady took her life of ri.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
Saheed believes that her daughter's dead because of the actions
of Reverend Aaron Miller. Project Veritas, in learning that story,
recorded Reverend Aaron Miller and another I guess eighteen support
I can't remember for your ello's name, but anyway, another
trans gender individual breaking the law by providing chessbinders to

(01:03:41):
a twelve year old, or at least the person they
believed was twelve years old, a violation of the law.
A letter was sent by these two senators, as one
sent by Reverend Jacob Dell and William Tongue has ignored
those please for an event investigation into the Metropolitan Community

(01:04:03):
Church of Hartford. Why because William Tong has picked a side.

Speaker 26 (01:04:13):
People struggled on both sides of the aisle. Democrats struggled,
Republicans struggled. Gay people struggled. They struggled with trans people,
gender dysphoria, they struggled with the therapies, the medication. We
didn't have the tools, we didn't have the language, and

(01:04:36):
it was a really bumpy ride.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
And I remember having.

Speaker 26 (01:04:41):
A conversation because I too, like a lot of us, well,
we would sit there in public hearing, some people would
come before us and try to explain gender dysphoria, and
we had never heard of it before, and it was
just like we struggled. And after a public hearing, a
senior legislator I noticed that I was struggling and call

(01:05:03):
me on the phone and he said, here, I saw
you struggling there, and you know, how are you thinking
about this bill? And I said, well, how do you
think about it? You know, how should we think about it?
And he admitted his own struggle. He said, it's tough,
and like we're learning, we're learning about genertors for you,

(01:05:27):
but I have a really simple question for you, as
a legislator, as a lawmaker, and now a law enforcement official,
are you in the business of discriminating against people? The
answer is no, and we never will here in Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
You're a damn liar. You're a damn liar. You are
in the business of discriminating against people.

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
You discriminate against people who do not believe the new
found ideology you have of gender dysphoria and mutilating children.
Because here you have a mother who's asking for your
help that resulted in the death of her child after
she lost her husband, and you have no interest in

(01:06:17):
talking to her. Your office has no interest in speaking
to her. You do not believe in equal under the law.
You do believe in discrimination. You are a damned liar.
You found an opportunity to go after the president of
the United States. You jumped on it like a dog
with a bone. You don't care what the issue is.

(01:06:37):
You never have. You came to the decision about gender
dysphoria because you didn't want to discriminate against someone. Because
someone asked you a question, not one of you bozo's
bothered to look up what was gender dysphoria? While you
were making the decision about a bill. That's what you're
telling me. You two had a conversation. That's how you
decided on a mutilation of children. You've sat around to say,

(01:07:00):
let's have a talk over the phone. That's why you
did it. How do I know that you're roboso in
a worm? Here's why. Because you had the audacity to
say this in public.

Speaker 26 (01:07:14):
We learned about gender dysphoria, We learned about care. We
learned that medical experts, including every major national medical association.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
Everybody lies, everybody means everybody.

Speaker 27 (01:07:31):
You are a liar, right agrees that gender affirming medical
care is not only necessary, but in many cases it's
life saving.

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
It's why have so many hospitals decided to no longer
do it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Why did they band it in other countries? You're a liar.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
You are talking out there, said of face, and you
don't know what you're talking about. But then again, do
you ever the only thing you saw was Trump's name.
You don't even know what you're talking about. You had
to look down at your notes. This is not something
you feel in your heart, This is not something you

(01:08:18):
know inside your head.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
This is something you rehearsed. You're a worm.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Let's go one step further than William Tong, because this
is the piece of cake of all pieces of cake.
You had the audacity to say this after the letter
you sent to the senators about not investigating it because
of Project Veritas. A woman named a virus Id is
concerned about any other child that might succumb to this

(01:08:49):
kind of intervention. You add the audacity to say this
during your press.

Speaker 26 (01:08:54):
Conference, and so we're here today to defend children, parents, family.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
That's what this fight is about.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
Liar, You're not here to do anything but to get press.
You are not here to do anything but get your
face in the paper and on the news. You're a liar.
You don't care about parents. You don't care about families,

(01:09:23):
because if you cared about them, you cared about families
on the other side who don't want to see this
happen to their children.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
You don't know anything about this subject. You are clueless.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
And the rest of the press who said nothing, didn't
even ask a question, just stood around with your cameras,
just letting him just bloviate about something he knows nothing
about so you can get a sound bite.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Shame on you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
This guy's saying that This is about life and death.
That's the only thing he got right. What's happening to
these children is altering their bodies to the point where
they end up dying because of estrogen levels that are
through the roof, or they end up killing themselves anyway
because they regret the procedure. He doesn't know what he's

(01:10:09):
talking about. He's in it for himself. He's no better
than these stupid, stupid organizations who take money in just
lining their own pockets. This guy is a Cretan. I'm sorry.
He just is, and no one's got the guts to

(01:10:30):
call him out. I don't know what they're afraid of.
Why because he's a law enforcement officer. Why because he's
probably going to abuse his power. Good good, As I
always say, I await the hate.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
We'll be back, more news, more views when we return.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
It's Reach on the radio on WTIC News Talk Tennady.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Race on the radio is on WTIC.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
I believe Christine in Middletown was actually at this press conference.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Christine, is that correct?

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:11:06):
I wasn't.

Speaker 16 (01:11:07):
I did not have any media credentials like I did
a couple of years ago when I questioned the governor
about the creation.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Yeah, yeah, I saw your videos you sent me.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
You were pretty far back from from the actual war,
but you got I mean, you got great audio.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Don't get me wrong, you got really really good audio.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
I just got tipped off to the link that it
was on and that was the reason why I was
able to get such clear audio. But answered this question
for me real quick, before you get to what you
experienced there. What was the if any back and forth
between Tong and the other speakers and reporters, if any?

Speaker 16 (01:11:48):
There are two television media people, one from Channel thirty
one from Channel sixty one. I gave my I introduced
itself and gave a card to the Channel thirty reporter.
Alth of them never asked the question of the Attorney General.
A couple of other people did. There is very little
question and answer ceremony thing, so they did.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
They sort of like accost the Attorney general, like to
him and just say what about this?

Speaker 7 (01:12:18):
That and the like.

Speaker 5 (01:12:19):
There wasn't a question and answer while he was at
the podium. Was it like as he was leaving some
people were asking him questions.

Speaker 16 (01:12:26):
No, it was he was at the podium and only
a couple of people asked him anything and.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
Anything you can remember anything you can remember that was asked.

Speaker 16 (01:12:35):
No, nothing pressing. They're like, uh, is the hospitals gonna
give care still? And they didn't press. And if someone
had asked me, I go, well, you know, you know,
I don't advocate medical transition for kids. I always said, yeah,
I do a person. I do want to keep the

(01:12:56):
healthcare with the parents and all that, But we have
to be fair to all. What about the Project Veritas
story that affected a Connecticut resident. How come the Attorney
general the never reached out to the virus said and
downplayed it and called a Project Veritas gotcha journalism and

(01:13:17):
dismissed it. That's not right. He's not serving us with
the people. And I think this is a fifteenth lawsuit
against Donald Trump, and how much is that going to
cost us.

Speaker 14 (01:13:27):
With the people?

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Exactly?

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
I mean that he's not using his own money here,
and there's never been and which frightens the heck out
of me. There's never been a call for William Tong
to stop wasting Connecticut's money on these lawsuits to gain uh,
you know press, you know, uh press credentials, uh in

(01:13:52):
the sense of you know, getting soundbites and media attention.
To himself, because that's all this is useful to a
useful for he's gonna get beaten in court. He knows
he's gonna get beaten in court. And if this is
just a play because he wants to run for governor
at some time in his career, that's all well and good.
But he shouldn't be doing it at this at the
expense of Connecticut taxpayers.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
That's just another thing.

Speaker 16 (01:14:15):
But you're right, and plus some you know, how was
I us? How I was received? Not very good? You know,
they don't throw the red carpet out for me. That's
why I was further in the back.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
So who were some of the other people who were there, Christine?
Because I know it's a young lady who spoke was
wearing like a pink sweater, kind of cardigan kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
I didn't really sit around for a space because I
was preparing for the show. But was there anyone else
who spoke?

Speaker 16 (01:14:41):
A parent spoke?

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Okay, so just.

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
One parent who supports gender refirming care for their child.

Speaker 14 (01:14:48):
Yeah, that was it. That's all. That's all.

Speaker 16 (01:14:51):
That's folka. He didn't introduce many people either.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Oh, get that wide ranging support of like tens of
families to support this.

Speaker 15 (01:15:04):
There were no.

Speaker 16 (01:15:08):
Some transactivists there, and we don't see eyed eye on anythings.
So you know, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Who are these these transactivists? Do these groups have names?
Because I never hear one of.

Speaker 16 (01:15:27):
Them Q plus, which is an organization, uh, Scared for
Children Q plus Q plus.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
No, No, I'm gonna I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:15:39):
Going to look them up and see if I can
actually get them on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
That's what That's what I want to do.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
I want to talk to some of these people and
who claim, like William Tong did, that everybody in the
medical profession supports gender affirming care for children. I just
I want to question them on it, and I'm sure
that they're going to and say, well, maybe he shouldn't
have said that. I gotta go, Christine, but I'm glad.
I'm glad you were there. If you get any more

(01:16:07):
details about you know, our our good reverend at the
Metropolitan Community Church, you let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Okay, is he still in hiding? Is he still in
hiding so far?

Speaker 16 (01:16:17):
Yeah? I haven't heard enough say about the August services,
whether it'll be in person or just strictly unremote.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
He has been remote as of late.

Speaker 16 (01:16:26):
Has it he the whole month of July? Yes, and
I haven't seen anything about August or anything going forward yet.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
Okay, all right, thank you, Christine. I appreciate you. Yeah,
keep hiding, buddy. Let's get to some weather. In traffic,
Jason Katerina is back, and our good friend Tom o'hanlin.
Is it for Mark Christopher and the BPS Traffic Center,
No doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
I'm loving every bit of it. Expanding our horizons is
what we do here at w T i C. So
you can always check us out all of those places.
That's why those commercials are important.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
I talked about this earlier before Rosee joins us in
a little bit short be here for Ladies' Night. I
talked about Luke Bronan running against John Larson, and they
are having this back and forth, not just between them,
but the Democrat Party is having this back and forth
about the old Guard versus the New School.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
I guess which is the big debate. We'll get into
that a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
But if you've listened to this show long enough, you
know I've said it over and over again. There is
no different because there are no new ideas. There may
be some differences in approaches. But it is always the
same issues that Democrats deal with.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
They have no.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
New ideas, like something they've never done before. Like there's
nothing you're gonna hear from a Democrat that says, oh,
you know what, that's a new thing. And Luke Bronan
is no different. We checked, we went to his campaign.
We found all the things that he's interested in doing

(01:18:08):
for the state of Connecticut, and of course we found
nothing that was new, zero, And we'll break all of
them down directly. And again that's the point people running
around talking about their new and then you find out
their policies just old stuff put new packaging.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
We'll break that down. Jason Calerin is back. He's got
your weather.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
And Tom o'hanry we love him. Now he's in the
BPS Draving Center. We're back rece on the radio on
wt I S News Talk ten eighty. Let me get
both of these calls real quick so I can get
to this story about Luke Broden and it's interesting James's
and windsor how are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Brother from another mother?

Speaker 17 (01:18:52):
Hey, what was your brothers?

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
What's up? Buddy?

Speaker 17 (01:18:55):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (01:18:57):
I heard about this. I think it was Italian gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
The one that like women black women.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Yes, that is Frank, that's that's the one that got
the grila on his back.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Yes he does.

Speaker 25 (01:19:11):
There was something about tanning right now.

Speaker 14 (01:19:14):
Black people can sunburn.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yes, I you know what. I have experienced it. I
have sunburned.

Speaker 18 (01:19:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:19:22):
But then again, there's a joke. We used to stay
in Hallow that Okay.

Speaker 25 (01:19:27):
Now, I hope I don't offend anybody.

Speaker 14 (01:19:30):
But I don't mean to.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
This is a joke, okay, okay, y yeah, protect the license.

Speaker 18 (01:19:37):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
You know how you know how black people can tend, Yes,
they lay that on their back and put their hands
and feet in the air.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
I think that's that's that's okay, that's acceptable.

Speaker 14 (01:19:52):
People are so sensitive to this day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
I can't even say.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
You can't say I'm not not joke without being the racers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what is that? Because? Is
that because black people do not knock?

Speaker 7 (01:20:03):
Is that?

Speaker 14 (01:20:03):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
I'm kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
Well, you know how black people put in the light bulb?

Speaker 5 (01:20:11):
Oh no, you're not allowed. Nope, No, you can't do
that one. You can't do that one.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
You know black people make.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
No, you can't do that one either. I'm letting you go.
Ok you got it. Man Fulton is in Waterbury? How
are you, sir?

Speaker 17 (01:20:30):
What's I got a question? Who is funding that church?

Speaker 19 (01:20:33):
Like?

Speaker 17 (01:20:33):
Where is Aaron Miller and that guy Tony? Where do
they get their money?

Speaker 28 (01:20:36):
How do they live?

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
I'm sorry, you're talking about Luke Bronan.

Speaker 17 (01:20:40):
No, No, I'm talking about the church. The church.

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
Oh okay, now that's a great that is a great question.
I'm assuming through I'm sure that there are some sort
of endowments and some sort of fundraising that goes into
those churches.

Speaker 13 (01:20:57):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
I would love to see their books in that regard.
But yeah, I don't know exactly how they own. They
have a brick and mortar church.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
I would love to know.

Speaker 17 (01:21:05):
How one mass a week? Right? You think they passed
the basket around? How much could they take?

Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
It's a great, great question, But they are Listen, I
know they have a relationship with the governor, and I'm
damn well certain they have a relationship with the legislature,
if not everybody on the Democrat.

Speaker 28 (01:21:27):
Side about money and whatever else they want to bring
back the money for the hospitals.

Speaker 17 (01:21:32):
Or whatever else.

Speaker 28 (01:21:33):
Oh yeah, if the hospital said no, what are you
plading for? I don't nderstand where are you gonna get
the surgery?

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
You can't get us here exactly, and you and again, look,
we know that there are a couple of hospitals here
in Connecticut that have refused to do this surgery for children.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Now they've you know, they've.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
Been told, you know, many people have reported under the
pressure of the Trump administration.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
Look that they're going to.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Lose this argument no matter what, because as much as
they keep telling everybody that they need to get this
surgery for children, it is still cosmetic.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
It's life threatening, but it's cosmetic no matter what.

Speaker 19 (01:22:13):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
It's sort of like saying, my kid's gonna kill themselves
if they don't get a nose job, right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
So, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:22:21):
I like, I'm sure that guy has the yet education.
That's not she like you live lives.

Speaker 28 (01:22:28):
I'm sure they have really good sugar rude.

Speaker 17 (01:22:30):
Or whatever they're driving. That was my one joke I
got in. But you know, so, but that's what I mean, Like,
where are they living?

Speaker 28 (01:22:38):
Like they live in a house somewhere, they pay a
note on that tree and the church and their cars
and they live.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
I don't know, that's a great question.

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
You know what, maybe you know what that maybe have
to be our next venture into the finances that maybe.

Speaker 28 (01:22:50):
Have to be you have to go there if it's
state funded, you know, for state backing this nonsense.

Speaker 5 (01:22:54):
Yeah, that's true, because it's quite possible the state could
be putting the bill for the church. You never know, Yo,
thank you, thank you man.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
You got it, thanks sir.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
In fact, when the wife comes in, it turns out
American Eagles as issued as statement about Sidney Sweeney. I'll
get to that also when Roseanne joins us. Let me
get into this about Luke Bronan. So I did this
search and this survey through AI and it was a
simple ask, what is Luke Bronan? What is Luke Bronan's

(01:23:33):
policy prescriptions that are different from the Democrat Party in
the last thirty years. Now, that's fair because that's that's
more than a generation. And again, Luke Bronan is supposed
to be the new guy. He's new Jack City versus

(01:23:55):
og original gangster John Harrison. Okay, so he's clearly got
to have some ideas that are you know, new, that's
i mean, something we've never heard before. I thought thirty
years was a good, you know, considerable amount of time

(01:24:16):
to find out what's he bringing to the table that
we've never seen before. So it brought up novelty new, not.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
New or old? Right, No, sorry, new, not new or
kind of new. Here's what it came up with.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Economic fairness, middle class focus and cost reduction context. Middle
class economic policies e g. Tax release, cost reduction have
been Democratic staples since the nineteen nineties Clinton nineteen ninety
three budget. Housing in health care concerns pre date nineteen

(01:24:58):
ninety five analysis.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Bronan's framing is standard.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
No unique mechanisms are proposed evidence Democratic platforms since nineteen
ninety six to twenty twenty four. Novelty not new. Climate
action context. Climate policy gained urgency post two thousand EG.

(01:25:23):
Cato Protocol nineteen ninety seven, Paris Agreement twenty fifteen pre
nineteen ninety five. Environmental policy focused on pollution, not systemic
climate change. Analysis Bronan emphasis reflects post twenty ten urgency EG.
Green New Deal influence, but specific proposals lack detail to

(01:25:45):
assess the novelty evidence. EPA and IPCC reports show post
nineteen ninety five shift novelty partially new gun control contexts.
Gun control debates intensified post nineteen ninety five eg to

(01:26:05):
nineteen ninety four assault weapons ban with Connecticut's loss strengthening
of Sandy Hook In twenty twelve, analysis says Bronan's support
for existing Connecticut laws is a continuation, not new evidence
Connecticut gun laws nineteen ninety to twenty twenties. Of course,
his novelty was rated, not new consumer protections. The consumer

(01:26:32):
protections context is consumer protections predates nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Bronan's Obama era.

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
Cf PB Works twenty ten is newer, but not in
its original policy advocacy builds on established frameworks evidence coming
from the CFPB history.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
Its novelty not new.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
Constitutional defense and party renewal. This was grated, partially new,
partially and these are all of his policies based upon
his own website. He got, as we recap, a partially
new on climate action, a partially new on constitutional defense

(01:27:25):
and party renewal, all the rest climate action.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
Sorry, no, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:27:31):
Economic fairness, not new gun control, not new consumer protection,
not new.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
He's not offering anything new.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
So, as I told you before and I will say
it again, it is the old boss replaced by the
new boss with the same ideas. Why because Democrats are
all the same. They don't have anything new to offer,
because because they are not allowed to change. For them,

(01:28:02):
everything is cosmetic. It's new paint on an old building. Unfortunately,
that's what Luke Bronan is. He's just new paint on
an old building, an old idea. I'd love it if
he had a new idea. I'd love it if he
came came up with something that made me go, hey,
never heard that before.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
But we know he's not.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
And John Larsen I said what I said yesterday. I'll
keep it at that. Have a nice day. It's the
best way to look at it. You're in your seventies.
It's all right, just go on home. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
And the beauty part about it is about this Luke
Bronan thing, Larsen, here's.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
The beauty of this, the real, real beauty of this.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Okay, According to this data point, these data, this data
that I just pulled up, it looks like everything that
you believe in is in good hands. It's just the
same old stuff. He's gonna do the same thing that
you planned on doing anyway, all right, so ye just
passing on over it doesn't look like anything's going to change.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Let's go to Tony and Rocky Hill. How are you, sir?

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
I'm all right. I think the bottom line is, you know,
the two party systems sucks. That's that's the bottom line.
It doesn't matter who's in power, it's what they're allowed
to do as members of it. Our judicial system is
a joke. All these different layers of judicial appeals, area court.

(01:29:35):
You can appeal a decision that was done over here,
over there, just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
How many I'm a hand, Tony, how many? How many
parties would you like to see in an election?

Speaker 29 (01:29:47):
If I may ask, I like to see a nice revolt.
I'm sorry, I like to see a healthy, nice revolt. Yeah,
you know, I get that what you said, I want
to get.

Speaker 7 (01:29:59):
Rid of I want to get rid of Democrats and Republicans.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
Okay, all right, And I get that a lot of
people feel that way.

Speaker 29 (01:30:05):
But my question to you nothing but it's a private
country club for all of them, all getting rich and
they're laughing at you, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Again totally get that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:14):
But I'm asking the question based upon what you said,
you want to get rid of the two party system?
Just based on that, how many would you like to see.
I'm always interested to find out what people would like
to see.

Speaker 7 (01:30:24):
In that regard, I just want to get rid of
them and just have new parties, new individuals, get rid
of the addicial system and so forth.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
Okay, So in other words, you just want people to
run without party affiliation just on ideas.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Now you don't when some.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Guy running as a Democrat or a Republican, an independent,
Green party. You just want people running without a party affiliation.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, right now, it's the joke. And look
at our radio waves are all sucked up with talk
shows because of the two party system.

Speaker 13 (01:30:56):
It sucks.

Speaker 7 (01:30:56):
It's unbelievable. Good.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
Yeah, I don't know about all that that sounds.

Speaker 14 (01:31:01):
It does.

Speaker 7 (01:31:02):
It's changed. It's changed the mentality, and it's changed the
personalities of people out there working or walking the street.

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
So you're okay, So what you're saying is is that
talk shows like mine and many others are actually changing.

Speaker 7 (01:31:18):
Tony, I'm not I want to go back to what
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
I'm Tony. I'm not taking it personal.

Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
I'm literally I'm interviewing you so to speak, because yeah,
but you're saying.

Speaker 7 (01:31:30):
That I want to go back to what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Okay, but it's.

Speaker 5 (01:31:33):
If you don't mind if I sort of probe this
this point a little bit. You're saying that we have
influence on people and sort of we've we've corrupted their
mind that because of shows like that.

Speaker 14 (01:31:44):
No, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:31:45):
I would not even go that far that you have
influenced at all by any means.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
Okay, So I wasn't understanding you said that it would
be that the reason why we have this contention is
because of shows like these.

Speaker 7 (01:31:56):
I got that impression that I'm just saying, it's just
it's just unbelievable. He's turning on radio today?

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:32:02):
What is it sucked up with? It's all commercials or
talk shows?

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
Okay, but do you like them? I mean it seems
like you listen.

Speaker 17 (01:32:11):
A little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
I listened to mainly the time I listened to Joe
d Now and then that radio station he's on. There's
no commercials.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Do you listen to me? But do you listen to me?

Speaker 7 (01:32:22):
Very little?

Speaker 15 (01:32:23):
Very little?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
What do you call here for to just berat me?

Speaker 7 (01:32:26):
I was getting I was getting bored.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Oh you were boards and you weren't listening, So you
figured you called me up, even though you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:32:33):
Even listen to the show and just get my aggravation out.

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
Okay, Well, if that's the case, that I'm glad to
be your whipping boy for the day.

Speaker 7 (01:32:43):
Exactly. It's a mild whipping.

Speaker 14 (01:32:46):
Okay, yes it is.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
It is mild. It is mild.

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
I take no, I didn't hang you. By the way.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Listen to me, Tony, I say it tongue in cheek.
I really really do respect it, even though you don't listen.
At least you call it. It makes me feel good.
I appreciate you called nonetheless. No hard feeling.

Speaker 7 (01:33:02):
Am I gonna criticize right now?

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Hey, I guess it's me, buddy. I appreciate you. Yeah,
you got it?

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
See now that? Do you understand that? And I'm not
gonna mention any names, folks, but.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
Did just see that? Do you hear that? That's what
I'm talking about? All right? If you're going to like,
if it's.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
Really really about what you think it's about, at least
be a good call.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:25):
Sokolowski's right on point. He's his great call, Tony, And
that was that was a fantastic call. It's not so
much about agreeing it's not even in fact. You can
hate the medium, but that has substance, and I totally
appreciate that. I think he used to do shakes. Shakespeare
plays Today, Tony Tomorrow, Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
This guy's oh, is it the same guy? Is that
who it is? Steve? Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
Nonetheless, I don't mind. He's probably bored to tears. He
needs this show.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
I'm good.

Speaker 5 (01:33:58):
I'm here for it. We gotta take Yeah, we gotta
get some weather in traffic. We'll do that when we
come back. Ladies' night White. Mike's on the line. He's
got a grievance. I presume maybe COMMENTARYO call up.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
He's always got a great grievance. On Friday. We'll get tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
Let's get to weather with Jason Catarina and Tom o'
hanlet's filling in from our Christopher and the BPS trafficks.

Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
GeSe on the radio is on w T. I see
all right, we're back. It's Reesa on the radio, News
Talk ten eight w T. I see y'all know what
time it is, lady, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
None other than Roseanne on the radio is with us now.
And I don't know why, but I sound like I
have an echo going on over there.

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
Can you talk to you, Mike real quick? Oh yeah,
it's on.

Speaker 9 (01:34:48):
Okay, I forget to turn it on.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
I know you're fine. Now you're gonna be okay.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
Anyway, So Roseanne is here and we're gonna talk about
Sydney sweety. We're gonna talk about the boy finally reaching
eighteen years old.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
You did it. You kept them alive.

Speaker 9 (01:35:10):
Now he's loose to the wolves.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
Yeah, you kept them alive to the point where he's
old enough to vote. So we'll talk about that a
little bit. Are you excited for.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
Him to be a man in the least a little bit?

Speaker 19 (01:35:25):
I don't know, really, I'm supposed to say yes, because
I'm you know, like that's the goal, right is it?

Speaker 9 (01:35:32):
Like they move up, they grow up, they go to.

Speaker 19 (01:35:34):
College, they move out, you know all that stuff. But
that's he's the baby, he's the last one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
He's you're not excited.

Speaker 9 (01:35:45):
I'm devastated, devastated.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
Are you either devastated or fearful? Like you?

Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
You are the one who gave him all the skills
to go out into the world.

Speaker 19 (01:35:55):
No, I know, I train him to do exactly what
he's doing. He's leaving me and that's that's the goal, right,
that's yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:36:03):
Like trained like you are, you've been You've been working
him and training him to be the CEO of his
own company. And now he's in charge of his own
company and you're sending him out into the world as
a subsidiary running his own business. And you should be
confident that your totalage led him down the pimp you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
Know that that path where he's going to be successful.

Speaker 9 (01:36:25):
Yeah. I mean I've done my job.

Speaker 19 (01:36:28):
I've successfully done my job, and I think that's the
that's the gut wrenching part of being mom is if
you've done your job successfully, they no longer need you,
they no longer want you. Like your opinion is so
low on the value totem pole, you know it just
there's you teach them to leave you, and there's supposed

(01:36:51):
to be a tremendous amount of pride in that, but
it's it's devastating.

Speaker 9 (01:36:55):
My heart is broken right now.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
You're not sending them off to Mars, you know, right.

Speaker 9 (01:37:01):
I may as well at least Mars is safer. What
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
If I may ask?

Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
Before we go, we get back to weather in traffic
real quick and we'll talk a little bit more about this,
But if you had to, you know what, In fact,
don't answer it. But I want you to think about
this because you said something about it at dinner a
couple of weeks ago, about your fears, because you talk
a lot about how a lot of your reservations with
all of this and growing up is rooted in fear.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
And I want you to kind of gauge that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
And I want to talk to some fathers and if
not some women who had to send their children. There
are a lot of women who listen to to have
much older children, and I kind of want to see if.

Speaker 9 (01:37:46):
They yeah, no, no, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
If that goes away, if they can identify with you. So, ladies,
if you're out there, if you've experienced what Roseanne is
going through in any meaningful way, or even if you haven't,
I kind of want to hear from you, cause you
a hand. Because I also want to talk about that
movie that you saw called Otherhood. Talk a bit, a
little bit about that, because what you're talking about I'm

(01:38:08):
seeing more and more being discussed in a media sense
right Movies are coming.

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Out about it.

Speaker 19 (01:38:14):
It's no longer kept, you know, quiet, like it was
supposed to be. Just like there's a lot of things
that women experience as we get older that have just
been ignored and you know, hush hush, And so now
that we're starting to see those things come out a
little bit more, it's it's liberating, it's it's encouraging.

Speaker 9 (01:38:34):
It's empowering to know.

Speaker 19 (01:38:36):
That I'm not alone going through this, right, you know,
I think it's just a phenomenon of everything being about
emotions that that have started this.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
You know that that's kind of what I looked at. Anyway,
let's take a break. Let's get to some weather and traffic.
Jason Caleren has got weather, Tom o' handling your favorite.

Speaker 9 (01:38:55):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
He's in the BPS driving center. Fielingu from Mark Christmas.
Hey Tom, we're.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
Back Reese on the radio with Roseanne on the radio,
hanging out today. Let's find out what our good friend
White Mike has as far as he might have a
grievance today.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
How are we doing, sir?

Speaker 14 (01:39:11):
Hey man, Hi to both of you. So you mentioned
Sidney Sweeney, and I find topic rather interesting, not just
for a period interest, but because of what it says
about society.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 14 (01:39:24):
The conservative right is leaping to this as their cause,
and I think they're trying to make Sidney Sweeney some
conservative like queen or whatever. Yeah, but people need to
watch the show Euphoria and shut up.

Speaker 9 (01:39:40):
With that note.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Yeah, no, one hundred you one hundred percent right on that.

Speaker 5 (01:39:45):
Anyone who's going that far like that's that's far afoot
from what Sidney Sweeney represents. Because again I think that
people need to like her from Afar. Mock the people
who are making fun of her from Afar, but do
not make her a deity of conservative ideals.

Speaker 9 (01:40:02):
Just appreciate it. She's gorgeous, so she's absolutely stunning.

Speaker 19 (01:40:06):
She's a phenomenal I mean she honestly she catches the
eye no matter where she's at, what she's doing, she's
beautiful just like and.

Speaker 14 (01:40:19):
I'm with you on that, but there are other actresses
of equal beauty and sex appeal who didn't stoop so
low as to do what she did in Euphoria.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
Yeah, I got your yeahs fine, but you know, Sidney
Sweeney on the on the the whole pyramid, she's like
towards the top.

Speaker 14 (01:40:39):
But for what she where, he's pretty. You don't have to,
you know, get clanked down by dudes in an HBO
show where you're playing a teenager, by the way, a
literal teenager. This show is basically legalized theoretical child porn.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Yeah, I heard, and I haven't watched it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:58):
I know nothing about it other than the fact that
I think it's what's her name is?

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
Zendia's on that I watched.

Speaker 5 (01:41:06):
So again, you one hundred percent right, But you're one
I agree with you in the sense of people tend
to because they're so busy mocking folks for losing their
minds about the ad that they're in essence sort of
prop prompting, prompting uh uh, sit a Sweeney up on
this pedestal of conservative righteousness that is not afforded her,

(01:41:30):
and it shouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
You one hundred percent right.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
I see people all the time online doing that, and
I'm going take a beat man.

Speaker 19 (01:41:36):
Well, I think got a point is if you look
at society like the what this is telling us about society?

Speaker 9 (01:41:42):
Right, if it was a.

Speaker 19 (01:41:45):
You know, voluptuous, you know, black woman, you know, it'd
probably be you know, society would be praising, Oh my god,
she's not positive. But because it's a white woman with
a great figure, an actress, you know, it's suddenly it's
it's racist, and it just shows the diverse, like we
have to pick aside and it has to be labeled,

(01:42:08):
and it has to be like very obvious and there's
no depth to anything.

Speaker 9 (01:42:13):
And that's how shallow our society is.

Speaker 14 (01:42:16):
Well, they're so shortsighted they didn't think to research who
owns American Eagle And let's just say, if dude can't
eat bacon.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
Rat But no, it was a joke, a joke, I know,
one hundred percent right, And it's funny because another part
of this is is that American Eagle back in twenty
nineteen did the whole Lizzo like campaign with the heavy
set over what oh yeah, overweight black woman in the

(01:42:45):
ads in twenty nineteen and they're stockouch, yeah, they're stock plummeted.
No one was buying the jeans. It was absolutely I mean,
it was like it was a dead on arrival.

Speaker 19 (01:42:55):
The American Eagle is like a couple of steps down
from Abercrombie. Right, their demographic is their demographic. You don't
see a slew of really thin, you know, rural girls,
white girls going into baby fat, yes, trying to buy

(01:43:17):
you know, those luscious bottom jeans.

Speaker 15 (01:43:20):
It just it.

Speaker 9 (01:43:20):
That's not their demographics. So if you stick to your demographic,
you'll be fine.

Speaker 14 (01:43:26):
We have those kind of girls, you know, the white
girls who are going to buy a baby fat. We
call them single mothers.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Your god, you're ready. You're a mess. Thank you, Mike.
As always.

Speaker 22 (01:43:43):
And all, it's all women empowerment as long as we
can agree with the woman.

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Yeah, well that's absolutely right.

Speaker 9 (01:43:48):
Well, by the way, thank you for recognizing that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
By the way, something that's so fascinating.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
By the way, American Eagle has released a Instagram posts
talking about the controversy.

Speaker 22 (01:44:02):
This is and whoever posted that needs a raise?

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
Oh really, Oh you didn't? Did you read it?

Speaker 22 (01:44:07):
There's a few of the yes, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
Well, this one's great.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
It says Sidney Sweeney has great jeans, is and is
and always was about the jeans, her jeans. Her story
will continue to celebrate how everyone wears their American Eagle
jeans with confidence, their way.

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
Great jeans look good on everyone. And they did not
play on.

Speaker 5 (01:44:31):
The words at all. It was brilliant and that's the
way that they should respond to it. I am so
glad that Sidney Sweeney has stayed clear of it my even.

Speaker 9 (01:44:40):
You know, yeah, and it's not getting political at all, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
And the ugly part about this and shows you exactly
how dumb this is, is that these rabble rousers, if
you will, with sooner, boycott the company and the ad
that has millions of dollars that are supposed to go
to help abused women.

Speaker 9 (01:45:02):
Let's be honest.

Speaker 19 (01:45:03):
The people boycotting American Eagle jeans can't afford American Eagle
jeans anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
So this is true. They don't have the disposable incomfortable
stopping it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:12):
You know, ross shop for less. They're shopping it the same.

Speaker 22 (01:45:16):
Ones that tried to cancel eminem. How'd that work out?

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Well, they tried.

Speaker 5 (01:45:22):
Carmela says that this there was a pregnant man ad
for American Eagle as well.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
Yet they've done it all, they've done it all.

Speaker 5 (01:45:30):
This is not you know, this isn't isolated like American
Eagle has gone all over the spectrum. But again, as
you pointed out, which is a very very good point,
American Eagle, you said, it's a step below Abercrombie and Fitch,
which again has a particular niche.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
It is popular within.

Speaker 9 (01:45:47):
A niche white girls exactly and boys, but it has.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
A niche and it's been popular and very successful. They've
had their ups and downs, but that's who they cater to.
The audience that is criticized seeing American Eagle is an
audience that would never purchase that. So they wouldn't even know,
as Carmelo points out that they didn't add with a
pregnant man that would be I.

Speaker 9 (01:46:09):
Had no idea exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
No one would know because you're not their demographic.

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
It was sort of like when I found out about
Subaru catering to lesbian culture, Like I knew nothing about it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
Why because I'm not a SUPERU guy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
But when I found out, I was so fascinated by
I've never been more fascinated about it.

Speaker 9 (01:46:27):
Right now, every time we see a Super U, we
can't stop talking about it. It's like it's like modern
family when but every time we see a Super U.

Speaker 5 (01:46:36):
But it's great because you understand your culture or subcultures
in a way that you never did before. And it
made Subaru for me. I didn't balk at it. I
didn't look at super.

Speaker 19 (01:46:47):
Ug that did because you know how to aim your
your your advertising as it was not shoving it down
everybody's throat.

Speaker 5 (01:46:56):
And what I loved about it was when I read
the history of what Subaru was doing to get it
was their whole history. Turned out that their marketing campaign
towards lesbians was subtle. And you know it was in
license plates on yeah, bumper stick or a license plate
in yeah, in a print ad showing the showing the

(01:47:17):
car at a particular place in California that was known
that frequented by this particular group. And it was this
subtlety in the print ads that was going, oh dude,
that's and maybe it was my curiosity and my thirst
for knowledge knowing that was going, damn, like that's it's
an interesting job. By the way, that marketing stuff, that's

(01:47:39):
such a great job. I would love to do that
if I, you know, ever had the time, if I
had a dream job, that's probably something I would do.
Coming up with new like marketing ideas that seems like great,
Like what an opportunity.

Speaker 9 (01:47:51):
You're definitely a creative art Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
So like that kind of deal. So I love the
people who do that. That's what made that fascinating. And
in this case, I'm learning more about American Eagle every
day through this controversy, because every time I see a
new ad, as you know, Carmelo just point out about
the pregnant man. Now I'm opposed to No, don't get
me wrong, I'm opposed to this as an idea, but
it's fascinating to know that the criticism is so half assed.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
You know, it's like they haven't even done their research. Yeah,
and it is selective. Unlike Bud what let me read.

Speaker 5 (01:48:25):
I'm sorry, Boris is going in here, so he's got
several statements in it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
He says.

Speaker 5 (01:48:29):
This sounds like a well thought out marketing plan right
from the beginning. Do something controversial but knowing that it
will ruffle some feathers in a big comeback.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
That's right. Subaru did not go mainstream. That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:48:43):
They didn't go mainstream. In fact, they kept their marketing
very limited. They did not want to grow their brand
trying to They didn't want to be.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
The Big three.

Speaker 9 (01:48:52):
What country is super out of that? Is that Korea?
Is that a Korean brand?

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
I don't know, but you have to look.

Speaker 9 (01:48:59):
It doesn't sound Japanese regardless, it obviously comes from a
very conservative uh.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Japan Japan Okay conservative.

Speaker 19 (01:49:10):
Culture, you know what I mean. They're not an obnoxious,
in your face people. You do have the little subgenres
of the little you know, jpop girls, but for the
most part, these are very subtle people. There is a
tremendous amount of overt politeness, like they argue in the
most polite way.

Speaker 9 (01:49:27):
It's it's terrifying, but that's there. That's that's who they are.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
You know what we should do. We should find out
if the Mazda Miata was designed the looking car.

Speaker 24 (01:49:41):
Ever.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
Yeah, but every time I think about the Mazdas commercials.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
The commercials are great.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
I have.

Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
I was thinking about the Miatas because every time I
look at a Mayada and even no, no, yes it
does look like it's smiling.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
But every time I.

Speaker 5 (01:49:57):
Think of a Miyata, I always think that it was
made specifically for Italians because because I think that they
it's like a.

Speaker 22 (01:50:04):
Poor man's like Volkswagen was the poor man's Porsche, yea,
the poor man's Alpha Romeo.

Speaker 19 (01:50:10):
Yes, you know what, because in my head I am
now seeing a convertible Miada all over the streets in
Italy and every rom com I've ever.

Speaker 5 (01:50:18):
Seen exactly and I'm trying to think of how the
mas the folks came up with the name Miata.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
It's like they.

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
Visited it like Italy or maybe Little Italy, and they
heard an Italian go Mianda slap. Yeah, I just thought
that was funny.

Speaker 9 (01:50:33):
I love you, come on, Miata.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
That doesn't sound like something in Italian was saying.

Speaker 8 (01:50:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:50:40):
I'm just saying, see a cruising around the streets of
Milan and my Miata Miada.

Speaker 3 (01:50:46):
Hey, I don't know, Miata just sounds like that.

Speaker 5 (01:50:49):
These like every guy drives a dodge Ram, you know,
I know, I know so many people who drive a
Dodge Ram. And I'm still trying to understand the war
between Chevy and Ford.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Still, that's that's You'll never understand that star trek and
this is that what it is? It is the American
Is it really okay? I have I had the Dodge
Ram traded in for a Chevy when I've traded in
for a Ford.

Speaker 22 (01:51:14):
If I like the truck, I don't care. I like
the truck for what the truck does I draw a
Chevy Volkswagon. I have the most Unamerican American there is.

Speaker 5 (01:51:22):
I don't know anybody who can explain to me what
the beef is. But I gotta be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:51:29):
I've never really understood, like why the Ford is so
put upon by Chevy folks.

Speaker 9 (01:51:39):
Because Ford breaks down.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
Und found on road dead. Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 19 (01:51:45):
Forwards are not my My big giant expedition had that
thing for years, drove the wheels off.

Speaker 9 (01:51:53):
It, and you know, I was great.

Speaker 19 (01:51:54):
I love it to this day. If I could find
another one, I would drive it. But all of a sudden,
just some sattling inside. Apparently some bolts came loose inside
of some important moving part.

Speaker 24 (01:52:06):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:52:07):
I don't mechanic. I'm not that kind of Mexican.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
It was rattling, it was really loud.

Speaker 19 (01:52:12):
It was frightening, and as it turned out, it was
going to cost more to disassemble the vehicle to put
these things back where they belong and put it all
back to the vehicle is even worse.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
So how to get rid of it?

Speaker 22 (01:52:23):
Susana goes back to, like you know, in my mind,
I can think Ford was the big corporation. Ford was
the auto manufacturer, and then Chevy came along. It was
like fight the man by a Chevy. You know, we're
the small startup in your garage company. Then Chrystler kicked
all their butts and literally started in a garage.

Speaker 5 (01:52:40):
Yeah, that's okay. So everybody's coming in with their own acronyms.
For Ford, let me read a field, let me forad
it for you, because they're great. Susan says, Ford stands
for fix or repaired daily.

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
Michael B. Says the same fix are repaired daily. Stevie V.

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
Says Ford eats Chevy's dust. Oh, that one's a nice comeback,
and Michael A. Says fall fails on rainy days.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
That's that's just awful.

Speaker 19 (01:53:09):
Listen, as long as it's a pickup truck and it
is not a Dodge, you're you know, so you can
get afford a Chevy.

Speaker 9 (01:53:15):
Or a GMC, do not buy a Dodge or a Toyota.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
Like, who what are you talking about? All of these
cars are great.

Speaker 22 (01:53:21):
You can buy a Dodge if you're willing the wheel
wells to rust out in three years now.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Dodges, Dodgers will rust as you're driving them down.

Speaker 22 (01:53:29):
And I had one.

Speaker 19 (01:53:30):
A Dodge is a pickup truck that a New Yorker
buys when they move to Texas thinking they're doing something,
and well they.

Speaker 22 (01:53:37):
Got to toe their horses somehow.

Speaker 19 (01:53:40):
So you have to get a gmc afford two point
fifty or you know, a Silverado. But here in Texas,
if you're gonna have a truck, you gotta have the
right truck. You can't come around here with a Toyota Tundra.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Like what I heard that Michael b had another one.
He says for only our words.

Speaker 9 (01:54:01):
Republican. I'm kidding republican, it's the other R word.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
Oh, you gonna rattle a lot of feathers there, young lady.

Speaker 5 (01:54:12):
That was gonna start Sogolowski said. I still have my
nineteen ninety eight Dodge Dakota. No problems, just regular maintenance
for me, almost two hundred thousand miles, which is on
a truck's.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
Supposed to do.

Speaker 22 (01:54:26):
How much rust around those fenders?

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 22 (01:54:28):
Be honest, do you have fenders anymore?

Speaker 5 (01:54:30):
I used to be in love growing up the Dodge Dakota.
If that car came into our neighborhood, every kid loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
I don't know why. It's just a weird looking car,
but we loved it.

Speaker 19 (01:54:38):
My grandfather had a school bus yellow fifty four GMC
I have a picture of it.

Speaker 9 (01:54:47):
It's still parked out there. It actually belonged to my dad.

Speaker 22 (01:54:49):
There's a step side.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
Yep. Oh beautiful, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 9 (01:54:53):
It was gorgeous.

Speaker 19 (01:54:54):
It is the most beautiful thing. And ever since I
was a kid, I've always because of that truck. We
grew up sitting in the back of that truck flying
down the highway here in San Antonio. You've seen the
highways around here, the speed limits seventy right, Yeah, all
of us grandkids piled in the back of it, flying
down the highway. And I've always loved GMCs always because

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of that truck.

Speaker 3 (01:55:16):
What tell everybody what your favorite cars?

Speaker 19 (01:55:17):
That's actually a very nineteen eighty seven Monte Carlo SS
with te tops.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
It's got to be blood said that again, Please.

Speaker 9 (01:55:26):
A nineteen eighty seven Monte Carlo SS with tea tops.

Speaker 19 (01:55:29):
What color It's got to be the cream color with
the with the burgundy pin stripe and the burgundy you know,
crushed velvet.

Speaker 9 (01:55:37):
I'm using the loose term velvet interior. She we saw
one very Mexican.

Speaker 5 (01:55:43):
We saw we saw one in Virginia and she almost melted. Yeah,
And it was the first time I'd realized that she
liked cars.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
I was like, what it gets hi? Oh yeah, oh,
we got to take a break, look at us. All right,
let's get.

Speaker 5 (01:55:54):
Back to some weather, traffic, and of course the news
with John Silva, Jason Calerinea's got weather and Tomohanlin is in.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
From Chris.

Speaker 14 (01:56:02):
Handling.

Speaker 19 (01:56:03):
I'm sorry, go ahead, and Tomo Handler doing the traffic traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
I'm Greece on the radio making sense of the news. Yeah,
even when it makes no sense at all at all.
Now until a U T I see news talk to eighty.

Speaker 5 (01:56:22):
I gotta make sure I remember that I have to
get a between rounds. Winter coming up in the next
half hour. I apologize. No, you cannot win, of course
you can't when you could go get a bagel between rounds,
just like anybody else can.

Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
I'm not mean to you. You just can't win. Just
can't win a bagel. Get the woman or Monty Carlo
and a bagel exactly. Yes, are you asking for too much?
I want today exactly for this hour. By the way,
you can go with the t move version and get
her in the palace, you know, a Grand National. Yeah,
well yeah, Grand National.

Speaker 5 (01:57:00):
Yeah, there you go, Boston, Julie says, about the Monte Carlo.
She says, sorry, Roseanne, the last bad date I had
before I met my husband was a guy in East Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
I can't use the slur that she used. That sorry,
she used an Italian slur. I cannot use, Julie.

Speaker 5 (01:57:18):
Sorry, she says, the last got bad date I had
before I met my husband was a guy in East Boston.
He took me out to eat in that car, wore
a white wore his white wife beater with gold change,
total stereotype. He even had the monty Ss sticker on
the back window. She's really equating it. But now it's

(01:57:45):
funny that Roseanne, I see, I know you saw. You
know why we watched that video, that vintage video.

Speaker 9 (01:57:51):
From the guys in Brooklyn and still in high school.

Speaker 5 (01:57:54):
He was in high school driving that exact car wear
Actually no, we had had no shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
Oh it was three of them right, yeah, in the summer.

Speaker 5 (01:58:02):
Anyway, we got to get the back to weather T
traffic with Jason Katarina and.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
Go ahead and tarboh. He's in the BPS traffic set.
Rama says, it wasn't a Monte Carlo, it was an
iraq Z. I remember the I almost bought one of those.
Did you really wait?

Speaker 22 (01:58:23):
Okay, everyone can slap me for this when my wife
does all the time. Okay, when we're looking for cars
when I was younger, is he either that or the
Volkswagen Beetle I have?

Speaker 13 (01:58:31):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Wow, okay, you still have to beat what you still
have in nineteen seventy.

Speaker 9 (01:58:35):
Four, you're asking about it. How did you go from
an Iraq to a Volkswagen Beetle.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
That both of those are iconic different ways.

Speaker 22 (01:58:43):
What with the iconicness?

Speaker 9 (01:58:45):
Oh okay, okay, well.

Speaker 22 (01:58:47):
I'll still pass in iroxy right now if I ran
up against it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
Yeah, the Volkswagen thing, that one's what color? If I
may ask, ironically, it's a Dodge blue, bright blue, A
bright blue. Okay, all right, that makes sense that that's
a that's a convenient color that's.

Speaker 22 (01:59:03):
Built that car in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (01:59:06):
Still, let's get to some folk, because a bunch of
people are on lines. Let's go rob Is in New Britain.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 24 (01:59:14):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
Let's going on.

Speaker 14 (01:59:18):
Let me tell you this.

Speaker 24 (01:59:19):
People ragging on the four trucks here. I grew up
a right stated clearly. My dad had body. I had
a cork galaxy sixty eight convertible. But he went out
to a farm. I went with him, My mom dropped
us off, and he picked up a nineteen forty eight
Ford and that thing ran like a bear. Then later

(01:59:41):
in life I would own a seventy nine, then a
seventy eight never died. And I watched an infomercial on Fords,
and they had all fours. They had Dodge, chevyjep Ford,
and it was showing how Ford totally foxes their friend.
And in the two fifties, the looks that you'll find

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under the bumper, they're beefier than all other trucks.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
I can assume that you're a Ford guy.

Speaker 24 (02:00:12):
Then, oh yeah, when it comes to trucks, I just
I love all cars. Though my dream car is hard
to say because I love them all, but I would
have to say I would have to say a nineteen
sixty seven Ford Panta.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Okay, all right, that's that. I've heard that one before.

Speaker 24 (02:00:38):
Oh yeah, engine in the trunk designed by Ferrari and Ford,
and transmission right to the rear end, just like in
Formula one. That's right, beautiful, not a bad heart that far. Yeah,
and earlier, as far as what you were talking about, earlier.

(02:00:59):
My mother in nineteen seventy eight started working for Tilton
Tomaso for seven years on a paving crew. And my
mother earned my respect and then would go on to
become an operating engineer and then go on to work
for the state for the Permanent Commission on the Status

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of Women in Non Traditional Trades. She made me very proud.

Speaker 13 (02:01:24):
And when I used to make her angry in those
days and.

Speaker 24 (02:01:27):
She was a construction worker, she would say, keep it up, Robert,
and I'll name a street after you.

Speaker 25 (02:01:37):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:37):
Nice nice job. Thanks you love. You got a boss man.
Let's go to John and Meridan. How are you John?

Speaker 5 (02:01:47):
Kay, Oh, give me a break. I know exactly what
that was. Steve's and Waterbury was up Stevie Vee.

Speaker 14 (02:01:56):
Well, few things.

Speaker 7 (02:01:58):
Beck.

Speaker 15 (02:01:58):
When I was growing up, you had Evy truck and
every truck you had a Pepsi truck racing a Coca
Cola truck?

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
Right?

Speaker 15 (02:02:05):
And was this a commercial? You remember that commercial?

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
I do?

Speaker 14 (02:02:08):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (02:02:09):
Anyways, I wanted to say that if you're going to
buy a car, you want to research it. You got
recently bought a two thousand and one Mercury Crown VIC
because of the motor. It's supposed to be up to
like a five hundred thousand miles motor. The Jeep has
a V six that has a great motor. Chevy has
the old three fifty Chevy Black, which is very strong.

(02:02:30):
Toyotas lexus'es a lot of good cars, but a lot
of the balls will have problems. You want to look
at each individual vehicle.

Speaker 3 (02:02:38):
But why are Crown vic I don't listen now, I
lived in the DC area.

Speaker 5 (02:02:43):
Roseanne and I met in the d DC metropolitan area,
and there were the sort of.

Speaker 3 (02:02:51):
Car clubs. I've seen them all over the country, but
in the DC metro area, the Crown Victoria was the car.

Speaker 5 (02:03:00):
Everyone had them sort of geared up, you know, not
to look like they didn't look like the Chevy and Paula's,
they didn't look like the six fours, nothing like that.
They had the big rims on him, Some of them
did some moderate rims on him, but they were all
gussied up. Those cars always look like police cars to me.
They always look like unmarked right.

Speaker 15 (02:03:23):
But you gotta you also gotta keep in mind why
did the police cars use the uh uh? Eventually Crovic
I met Mercury.

Speaker 7 (02:03:32):
We have our que.

Speaker 3 (02:03:33):
Yeah, that's probably the same thing.

Speaker 15 (02:03:35):
Car Car, But you look at all the taxi cabs,
you look at all the police stars. Because of Liabil,
they're being good, reliable cars.

Speaker 5 (02:03:45):
Yeah, engine wise, that was what I learned. Because it's funny.
I worked when I my first big job in Manhattan.
I worked for a company. I always talk about them,
tel Aviv, Car, Car and Limo. I think they're still there.
I'm almost certain.

Speaker 9 (02:03:58):
Fernando.

Speaker 3 (02:03:59):
Yeah, that's where Fernando work.

Speaker 5 (02:04:01):
And you know they had a classic you know, the
All seven's telephone number, which I think they still I
think they still exists anyway, all the way across. So
in order to work there, most folks drove a Lincoln Continental.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
You had to if you draw. You didn't have to
all be black cars.

Speaker 5 (02:04:19):
You can have a blue one, you canna have a
tan one, but you all had to have Lincoln Continentals.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
If you drove a.

Speaker 5 (02:04:24):
Crown Victoria or a Mercury, you had to make it
clear to the customer that you were sending that vehicle,
because you could not send a Crown vic or a
Mercury to a customer without telling them it wasn't a
Lincoln down car because the people were very particular about that.

Speaker 14 (02:04:45):
Gotcha. Two two more things.

Speaker 15 (02:04:47):
I used to visit the Ford plant up in Canada.

Speaker 14 (02:04:50):
There's a couple I had to go to and.

Speaker 15 (02:04:53):
Believe it or not, not everybody there.

Speaker 24 (02:04:55):
You can go for it.

Speaker 18 (02:04:57):
You had a.

Speaker 15 (02:04:57):
Separate parking lot. If you had a form car, you
had a park in a separate line.

Speaker 5 (02:05:02):
That makes sense, yeah, because you because those union workers
are really particular. Don't drive up in somebody else's car.
They had a sense of pride about the work they
did and they and I knew that much.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
I knew growing up.

Speaker 7 (02:05:17):
Well.

Speaker 15 (02:05:17):
And one more thing, I think a lot of there's Chevy,
Ford and Mopar. A lot of that came from all
the race and young kids when there was like muscle
cars and stuff like that from back in the day. One, Yeah,
kids we're getting into cars. Were a big competition started
coming up.

Speaker 5 (02:05:34):
I gotta tell you though, But see I wasn't much
of it in my growing up. In my years, I
wasn't much of a gearhead, probably because I walked everywhere
and I took the bus. So I really realized I did.
I don't even I'll tell you like this, Steve this
will this will probably blow your mind. Not Whenever anything
goes wrong with my car, I send it to a mechanic.
People say, no, you've just changed the oil yourself, and

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I look at them like they have three heads, like me,
get under the car and change the oil.

Speaker 3 (02:06:02):
I doubt that you know that.

Speaker 9 (02:06:03):
I was raised.

Speaker 19 (02:06:04):
You know, every single man in my family, my my
family of origin, every single man and a few females
know how to work on cars, and so it was
interesting to me the first time a car broke down
and my first husband had no idea how to fix
a car.

Speaker 9 (02:06:20):
I was like, but men fix cars.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
What's your ethnicity again? I just I wasn't remer.

Speaker 19 (02:06:27):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (02:06:27):
Was that your wife? Mexican? Mexican? Thank you Stevie real quick.

Speaker 15 (02:06:39):
I remember when the irocks and disease came out there,
and after the gash shords they started beating them back up.
I seen so many of them off into the woods.
People didn't know how to drive them the more.

Speaker 5 (02:06:48):
Wow, Yeah, I could totally understand that. Because I'll be
honest with you, I I could. I just I don't
like it's just too much for me.

Speaker 3 (02:06:56):
Thank you, Stevie. I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (02:06:57):
I'm a I'm a simple guy with when it comes
to a car, just give me fours.

Speaker 22 (02:07:03):
So Roseanne, I got this one. This would be a
good one for you. Then you know, reach you can
chime in. Look kick you out for this one. So
I'm assuming you've been to a few car shows back
in the day, you know, car clubs, car gatherings, you
know street street events.

Speaker 9 (02:07:18):
Here in San Antonio, military drive was the cruising.

Speaker 19 (02:07:22):
That's where you cruise, so all of the parking lots,
it's a bunch of storefronts and shopping centers.

Speaker 9 (02:07:28):
Cars would be parked in every single parking lots.

Speaker 3 (02:07:31):
It's like military friend shaw, I think.

Speaker 19 (02:07:34):
Yeah, I guessing South Central l a type feel. So, yeah,
that was a normal occurrence. And you know it wasn't
about drag racing.

Speaker 3 (02:07:41):
Still cruising, just cruise.

Speaker 22 (02:07:43):
And now here's the thing. Take that to today's generation.
Can you see a bunch of these kids like they
do street over takeovers, We'll take that out of the equation.
But lining up on the side of the street with
your Honda Civic and like, what what does car culture
become like? Ever since the seventh Fast and Furious movie,
it's gone off the rails.

Speaker 9 (02:08:04):
And they all sound like like riding mowers.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
Yes, all of that, like.

Speaker 22 (02:08:08):
Stop reving your weed whacker and get out of my way.

Speaker 9 (02:08:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:08:12):
I was at a gas station.

Speaker 5 (02:08:14):
I was at a gas station in Manassas, Virginia, and
the kid was sitting next to me with one of
those cars that clearly looked like it was right out
of the Fast and Furious movie. And I looked right
in the face when he was getting gassed, and I
said to him, which, by the way, got the the
ugliest look for my employees. I looked at him and
I said, hey, you uh, you gotta get furious when

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you can't go fast.

Speaker 3 (02:08:39):
Everybody looked at me. Just get in the car, just
getting the car.

Speaker 22 (02:08:44):
Yeah, what are car shows in car club and cruise
Night's gonna look like in ten years someone pulls up
on their Testla starts playing Night in the trunk, Like, come.

Speaker 3 (02:08:52):
On, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:08:54):
Like I said, I never understood that car. Don't get
me wrong, I think the cars are pretty.

Speaker 3 (02:08:59):
I think that. I I've been to, like, you know,
antique car shows and things like that. I get it.

Speaker 5 (02:09:04):
But after fifteen minutes, when I've seen the cars, I've
got these guys will sit up there and just talk about, Hey,
so what you got there? And the trump you gotta four?

Speaker 3 (02:09:11):
Oh god, yeah, I'll still do it every time, or something.
An engine every Father's Day. The Volkswagen car show up here,
we've pulled. I think this year is just under three
hundred cars, all Volkswagens. I can't, I can't do it.

Speaker 22 (02:09:23):
I don't know everything from you know, the fifties to
twenty twenty fives.

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
That's a big deal everywhere.

Speaker 5 (02:09:30):
I know Connecticut is crawling with those things every week,
aren't they.

Speaker 22 (02:09:34):
Oh yeah, there's always a show going on somewhere up here.

Speaker 3 (02:09:37):
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe somebody should tell me a
little bit about them. I don't.

Speaker 22 (02:09:41):
We'll drag you to one.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
Of course you will, I know you will.

Speaker 5 (02:09:45):
Okay, So when we come back Rose, hen, we're gonna
end the show. Of course, we're going to talk about
this thing with the with the boy growing up and
moving on. I just I got to hear from you
just about this phenomenon that I'm not understanding.

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
I no, yes it is because I'm a man. Yes,
that's one.

Speaker 19 (02:10:02):
But studies show that a woman carries her children's DNA
in her body for the rest of her life. Literally, like,
if you took my blood and searched my DNA, you
would see little pieces of each of my children in
my DNA.

Speaker 3 (02:10:18):
Well, I would imagine you carried them.

Speaker 9 (02:10:21):
So it's like ripping out a piece of me. It's
I know you'll never do.

Speaker 19 (02:10:29):
You don't think that it's a little dramatic, No, do
you know what the difference is between what moms do
and what dads do? Yes, I clearly Dad showed up
and said thanks Mom, and that was the end. And
then I got left with nine months times three of
the residue of thanks Thanks honey.

Speaker 3 (02:10:46):
Look, I'm just saying i'd.

Speaker 22 (02:10:48):
I'd love to have like some fathers of daughters call in.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Yeah, well see that's again because I.

Speaker 22 (02:10:54):
Have three sons, Like I feel it'd be different if
it was a daughter verse one of my three sons exactly.
And it's a TV show.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
But wait a minute.

Speaker 5 (02:11:02):
See that's the point I'm bringing up here, Joey, is that.
And we had this discussion last week. Fathers treat their
daughters completely different than they treat their boys. And it's
because one, you want the daughter to always feel as
though she's the most important person in the world, because
when she's going out there and she's ever finding a
mate's hold on and finding out that she's you know

(02:11:27):
that when she meets someone that she is expected the
same thing from the guy she's that she received as
a child growing up. She will take no shorts when
it comes to finding a mate. And that's what and
fathers are very delicate. It's not like you're gonna have
your daughter out in the backyard doing push ups or
doing yard work or taking out the garbage.

Speaker 3 (02:11:44):
You just don't. Is it a double standard? Don't care,
but it is.

Speaker 5 (02:11:48):
But boys, it's different. And when they leave, when they
what happens is when the when the children go, Fathers
deal with their daughters leaving differently than mom do with
their sons leaving. Now, hear me out, Daughters when they
leave their mothers, they don't they don't go far.

Speaker 3 (02:12:07):
No, no, but they don't go far.

Speaker 5 (02:12:09):
That relationship is like mothers know that when their daughters leave,
their daughters are only a phone call away, and they're
gonna call them about anything and everything.

Speaker 9 (02:12:18):
I'm gonna son, sure different experience.

Speaker 3 (02:12:22):
Mothers have a.

Speaker 5 (02:12:23):
Different experience with their sons because they know that the
boys are grown up to be independent and self you know, uh.

Speaker 3 (02:12:31):
Uh self sufficient, and they don't call back as.

Speaker 19 (02:12:36):
Often that that does stink. But and I know for me, right,
I don't know about all moms. I know for me,
I had the boy to myself for a very long time. No,
you understand what happened with my two oldest children. So
I gave the boy everything that I was incapable of

(02:12:58):
giving to them. So I feel like my bond with
him is it's a sort of a trauma bond combined
with actually loving who this little person is. I mean,
watching him evolve, watching him grow into you know, first
this sweet, snugly little baby that you know that I

(02:13:19):
nursed to.

Speaker 3 (02:13:21):
You know, a boy than you now he's you know.

Speaker 19 (02:13:24):
And then he goes into kindergarten. I'm watching, Oh god,
his first day of kindergarten. The bus driver they put
him on the school, put him on the wrong bus.

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
On have I only have like a half an hour
left on the show. You're not going to go through time.

Speaker 9 (02:13:36):
I will fight you. They put him on the wrong
bus home, and I was terrified. I couldn't find my
baby for hours. On his first day of school, ever,
was a mess.

Speaker 19 (02:13:46):
And you know, he's reading all of a sudden and
riding a bike, and now he's having sleepovers and middle school,
and then all of a sudden he does he stays
in his room and he barely wants.

Speaker 9 (02:13:57):
To talk to me.

Speaker 19 (02:13:58):
So there's like the slow, steady evolution watching him pull
away and occasionally just kind of looking back and like
reaching out a hand and Okay, stay right there, we're
gonna take a bike.

Speaker 3 (02:14:10):
We'll come back.

Speaker 5 (02:14:12):
You gotta do weather, traffic and news. Hopefully it's a
lot more traumatic than story. Let's go to John Silver
with news, Jason Catarino with weather, and Tom o Handler's
filling in for Bark Christopher.

Speaker 3 (02:14:26):
And the BPS traffic center. All right, we got that
contest now.

Speaker 5 (02:14:34):
Between bounce and a hearty congratulations goes to Francine f
of Rocky Hill. She is our latest contestant to win
a dozen bagels a month for six months courtesy it
between Rounds the Bagel Bakery and Sandwich Cafe located in

(02:14:54):
South Windsor, Vernon and Manchester. If you would like an
opportunity to win a dozen bagels for six months, you
gotta go to res On Radio dot com. That's ore
E E S E on the radio dot com like
my substack, you know, send me a nice note so
that you can get a chance to win.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
Just fill out the form.

Speaker 5 (02:15:13):
Make sure you put in your telephone number and of
course your date of birth. Please make sure that information
is in there. You must live in a state of Connecticut,
and you cannot have won within the last six months
of this date. Again, that is the only way you
can participate.

Speaker 3 (02:15:27):
Please. Other rules apply, like if you are my wife
and you're happy to be.

Speaker 5 (02:15:32):
A named Roseanne that spells it with a R O
z A, and and you share my last name, and
if you've lived with the host for more than fifteen minutes,
you cannot participate.

Speaker 9 (02:15:46):
Oh man, this is very biased and slanted.

Speaker 3 (02:15:50):
I'm sorry it appears you do not qualify.

Speaker 5 (02:15:56):
Outside of the fact that well, you you know, you
have to in the state of Connecticut, which you will
be doing soon, and you know I'll just give.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
I'm pretty sure that he'll just give you bagels.

Speaker 19 (02:16:08):
Okay, Well then Jerry, by the way, Jerry should say.

Speaker 3 (02:16:12):
Joe because Joey's yeah. Anyway, we'll get to I mean,
we can go to bagels and get bagels if you want.

Speaker 22 (02:16:18):
I'm down.

Speaker 9 (02:16:24):
I'm just I'm just curious.

Speaker 3 (02:16:25):
Yes, of course, what are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (02:16:28):
Fine, I guess if you'll want.

Speaker 3 (02:16:29):
To come goodness and to have some bagels with my
friend here, definitely a mess. Yeah, when we get back,
we'll get into more of this sob stuff. Now. Look,
I don't I'm not trying to be mean spirited when
I'm being just do it naturally.

Speaker 5 (02:16:46):
I'm not being mean spirited when I'm being dismissive of
the whole bond with the boy.

Speaker 19 (02:16:51):
I know.

Speaker 5 (02:16:51):
I don't understand. I'm not a mother, never have been
a mother, couldn't possibly understand. I just grew up in
an era where the guilt of boys not calling their
mother happened years after they've left. I've never witnessed them
like I've seen the moms cry when nobody's oh they're
getting older and they move on.

Speaker 22 (02:17:11):
Man, my kids live with me and they still don't
call me back.

Speaker 3 (02:17:14):
Yeah exactly, well yeah exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:17:16):
But I've never had this this thing where it's turned
into movies and television shows for women to understand and
cope with. I just it's it's not They don't make
this stuff for guys, probably because they wouldn't watch it because.

Speaker 19 (02:17:32):
Nobody cared before, nobody paid any attention before, and now
women are re tired of hiding all the menopause crap,
the empty nest crap, the divorced and or older crap,
the the financial struggles, the learning are how obsolete we
become to the opposite, there's the world in general.

Speaker 9 (02:17:52):
Once we reach a certain age. There's so much that
that you guys have just ignored, and we're sick of
being ignored.

Speaker 3 (02:17:59):
Wall Man, hold on.

Speaker 5 (02:18:00):
First of all, this trend of women as they get
older becoming obsolete.

Speaker 9 (02:18:05):
It's not a trend.

Speaker 5 (02:18:06):
It's it's always really why they call why they call
them cougars?

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
What and jaguars and all that other stuff?

Speaker 9 (02:18:14):
Is the uh prime age for a woman in Hollywood?

Speaker 3 (02:18:18):
Oh come, I don't want to know.

Speaker 9 (02:18:20):
Answer the question thirty thirty? After thirty, what roles does
she get?

Speaker 3 (02:18:24):
Moms? And after forty grandmother's.

Speaker 9 (02:18:27):
Exactly forty years old? A grandmother? Do I look like
a grandmother to you? I'm almost fifty. Do I look
like a grandmother to you? So we have been relegated this.

Speaker 22 (02:18:35):
Save by the traffic race.

Speaker 3 (02:18:37):
Thanks man, you damn sure did. Internet is an evil place.
I gotta get her voice. Gotta do a Roseanne on
the radio one too. Really, okay, good, good good, We'll
do that. That sounds great. Actually, she would love that.
She's already smitten right now. Yes, I get a voice
by Tom O'Hanlon. Yes, Oh my god, can you contain

(02:18:58):
your voice? Crush Tomhannon. Absolutely, it is like the craziest
thing in the world. She is so she heard, you know,
Roland had tom Ohan?

Speaker 5 (02:19:09):
Why I asked Tom Ohlen to do a res on
radio and she geeked at the end of the show.

Speaker 3 (02:19:14):
She couldn't believe it.

Speaker 16 (02:19:16):
She was like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
She was so excited that he did it.

Speaker 9 (02:19:18):
I just want to say real quick, the boys listening.

Speaker 3 (02:19:20):
So Happy birthday, kid, Yes, Happy birthday, Ellis.

Speaker 5 (02:19:24):
And you know, I don't know what to tell you
other than the fact that when you turn eighteen years old,
apparently in today's age different than it was when I
was a kid, Ellis, mom's cry, and they cry in
a way that makes it horrible for dads to be
able to communicate with them and live a normal life.

(02:19:46):
They spend the rest of your eighteenth year on this
planet having to wipe away the tears of your mother,
and I just wanted to let you know from the
bottom of my heart, I hate.

Speaker 3 (02:19:59):
Your birthday and I hope it sucks. I'm kidding, he
knows I love the boy.

Speaker 9 (02:20:07):
No, I'm saying, my my struggle must be so hard
for you.

Speaker 3 (02:20:11):
It isn't hard for me.

Speaker 5 (02:20:12):
But you know how I am about crying. It's like
a difficult thing to operate for me.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
It's like, oh, you.

Speaker 9 (02:20:18):
Could put me in the closet till I was through.

Speaker 3 (02:20:21):
And I told you, like I told this.

Speaker 5 (02:20:23):
Story before that the last time an employee of mine,
I'm no, no, I know, but she was a young lady.

Speaker 3 (02:20:30):
She cried in the office.

Speaker 5 (02:20:31):
She got some very very bad news and she saw
me as a father.

Speaker 3 (02:20:35):
In fact, at the office.

Speaker 5 (02:20:36):
All of these girls that I hired, they were all
from El Salvador, and they were all American, but their
parents were from El Salvador, and I hired them because
we didn't have enough Spanish speakers. And they all kept
like multiplying in my office, like literally, you know, like
my cousin wants to work, my sister wants to work.

Speaker 3 (02:20:55):
And they were all family working in the office.

Speaker 5 (02:20:57):
And so I had this entire family of girls there
and I was kind of like their office dead it.
So one of them started to cry about something that
when I wasn't a domestic thing with someone who passed away,
and she walked up to me and she would hug
me while she was crying, and like, I'm being doused.

Speaker 3 (02:21:12):
My dress shirt is just soaking wet with all of
these tears.

Speaker 9 (02:21:16):
I can just see you now at your hands.

Speaker 5 (02:21:18):
Because I felt like I was being like like wrapped
around with them blinking and it's making noise.

Speaker 3 (02:21:25):
Get it off miss patting him on the head there there,
That's exactly why I dead. I patted her on her
head because I felt like I.

Speaker 5 (02:21:34):
Felt like I was being wrapped by like a Boa
constrictor and I just tapped her.

Speaker 3 (02:21:38):
On the head.

Speaker 5 (02:21:38):
I would head there, and I was scared because I
didn't realize. I didn't want like to say the wrong
thing that would make her cry more because I already
felt she was broken. What could I do here?

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
I know I couldn't salvage it is.

Speaker 22 (02:21:53):
There's gotta be a movie that you will watch in
tear up for you need to just have him watch
block him in a rum, Roseanne, and have him watch
that movie over and over I will tell you mislings.

Speaker 5 (02:22:05):
There is one movie that did make me cry, like really,
I broke down, no no, and it's and it's a
line in there. But I was young when it happened,
and I totally got it because the line was so
profound and.

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
I kind of identified with the point. Anyway, the movie's
called sling Blade of.

Speaker 5 (02:22:28):
Everybody is now going everybody is completely off the rails
because I mentioned it. It wasn't It wasn't Billy Bob
Thornton's well, it was his character who said the line,
can I tell you that?

Speaker 9 (02:22:41):
Can I set up?

Speaker 3 (02:22:42):
Can I set it up? Okay, it did make me cry.

Speaker 5 (02:22:45):
It was the scene where Billy Bob Thornton's sling Blade
goes to see John Ridder at near the end of
the movie and he tells John Ridder to please take
care of the boy and his mother because of course
he's about to go do the unthinkable, right with play
by who is the bad guy? Who's playing who's a

(02:23:06):
foot Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam, Dwight yoaka plays that plays
the bad guy and in that scene, you know, the
scene that's about to come out.

Speaker 3 (02:23:13):
But anyway, talking to John Ritter. In that film, sling
Blade says the.

Speaker 5 (02:23:18):
Probably the most profound line of the film, which shows
exactly who he was, and he gave him not only
a heart but a soul. But he says, that boy's
got a big heart and that's an awful, lonely place
for a person to live, and it broke me because
of his relation that whole movie you watch, I'm even
welling up now.

Speaker 3 (02:23:39):
That was a huge part of that scene.

Speaker 5 (02:23:42):
The way he describes his relationship with with that young
man was because he was sling Blade realized that everybody
in the world who treated him like dirt, that boy
treated him with respect. Like he treated everybody with respect.
He saw something very very divine in him, beautiful. It's
pure innocence. And the way he said that I couldn't
take it anymore. I blurted out crying.

Speaker 3 (02:24:05):
It was totally right for me.

Speaker 19 (02:24:06):
I can really appreciate that line because as as however
everybody else sees the boy, that's how I see the boys.
He's got a very big heart and it is a
very lonely place to be. He is learning how to
build walls around his heart. And that makes me very
sad because because he has to protect himself.

Speaker 9 (02:24:27):
He does, and you know that was my job. That
was my job as mom to protect.

Speaker 19 (02:24:32):
Him so that he could be free to you know,
have his feelings and experience the world, you know, as
much as he could, as innocently as possible.

Speaker 5 (02:24:41):
And I'm gonna need you to watch like a comedy
for about a half an hour before we take this
two hour drive, because if you cry for two hours,
I'm not gonna be. Let's get to the phones before
we get up out of here on this weekend. Let's
go to Laurie, who's been on holding glass and Barry.

Speaker 3 (02:24:56):
How are you, Lori?

Speaker 30 (02:24:58):
Hi boy, okay, I a lot of catching up to do,
so I did you guys talk about the Iraqs these
in the eighties and how all the we everyone was
the Italian boys with the gold teams wearing them.

Speaker 5 (02:25:13):
No, Laurie, we were just mentioning specific cars that many
people have driven in or we've been around.

Speaker 3 (02:25:19):
In fact Boston, Julie was talking about a guy who
was in the Monte Carlos she went out on a
date with, who were a wife beater.

Speaker 9 (02:25:26):
Exactly what you described, yes, pretty much what you described
that guy.

Speaker 3 (02:25:30):
That's that's all, Laurie, do you have grandchildren.

Speaker 19 (02:25:34):
No.

Speaker 31 (02:25:35):
I wasn't able to have kids, but I do want
to because I had to run in with overarian CANCERRETTA
in my thirties.

Speaker 30 (02:25:42):
So I, I, you learned something new about me.

Speaker 31 (02:25:46):
Just about every time I called so I. I. It's
interesting the whole relationship with between the mothers and the daughters,
and the fathers and the daughters.

Speaker 16 (02:25:58):
So I was adopted and I.

Speaker 31 (02:25:59):
Was raised by Sicilians, and I myself, I came to
find out that I'm also Italian. But my mother had
the expectation that I would stay close and you know,
be with the family. And my dad was like, no, no, no,
go live, do whatever you want. So I lived in

(02:26:21):
Japan for two years and then I came back and
I traveled around America for two years working for a
different company. And my dad was just like, yeah, go
live your life. And my mother was like, oh my gosh,
call me from every place exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:26:37):
I just need to know where you're going to be.

Speaker 31 (02:26:39):
And I was like thirty five at the time.

Speaker 9 (02:26:41):
My mother I just I know, you know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
Yeah, see, hold on.

Speaker 5 (02:26:47):
Now, you lived in an Italian household where your father says,
go be Look.

Speaker 3 (02:26:52):
I was like that with Aila.

Speaker 5 (02:26:54):
I wanted her to get she was because after September
eleventh she was a homebody.

Speaker 3 (02:26:57):
All I wanted to do was to get her to
go to the Corners store.

Speaker 5 (02:27:00):
By the time she was a teenager, she was in Japan,
she was in Australia, she was teaching English as the
second language, all the way on the other side of
the earth. And I told her I'd about Mitzvah. They
were telling me I had to give a speech on her,
a bot Mitzvah. And I was telling her the canter.
He's like, well, what would you like to talk about?
And I said, one of the things that I noticed
about her from the time when she was very very young,
about nine years old, until the time of Bot Mitzvah

(02:27:22):
was this was a girl who we could you know,
she had to call me from the bus stop to
her destination. Now she's traveling all across the globe, and
it shows that she had, you know, blossomed into this woman,
so to speak.

Speaker 3 (02:27:35):
And he said, that's it. Just say that right there.
Fathers are like that with their children.

Speaker 9 (02:27:41):
Wait, but I but again, you know, I want that
for the boy.

Speaker 19 (02:27:45):
Like he decided to take a year off of college
from college, and I was like, no, you need to go, like,
get the heck up out of this.

Speaker 9 (02:27:51):
Neighborhood, go experience the world.

Speaker 19 (02:27:54):
Right, I'm the one that wants him to go out
and experience the world.

Speaker 3 (02:27:57):
I need that for it in a controlled space.

Speaker 14 (02:27:59):
Though.

Speaker 9 (02:27:59):
No, not not at all. I need him to do it.
My feelings are my problem, they're not his.

Speaker 19 (02:28:06):
My sadness, my broken heart, my my my withering uterus
is my problem.

Speaker 31 (02:28:12):
It's not n jose Ane. Can if I give you
my mother's phone number, can you give her a call?
I bet her know that at fifty six, I'm grown
and everything's gonna be okay, baby.

Speaker 8 (02:28:26):
Let me go.

Speaker 9 (02:28:27):
No that that boy.

Speaker 19 (02:28:28):
I still when I look at my son at eighteen
years old, six foot tall, you still see these.

Speaker 9 (02:28:33):
I still see. I'm not gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (02:28:35):
I'm gonna do it, Please, don't I still see?

Speaker 19 (02:28:37):
Well?

Speaker 30 (02:28:40):
You know well.

Speaker 31 (02:28:40):
And here's here's an interesting twist though. Because I was adopted,
so I I was like, you know, the promised child, because.

Speaker 19 (02:28:49):
You were in an accident, Yes, you were hand chosen.
That puts a different value on you. Yeah, so you
will for ever be the little baby that she brought home.

Speaker 3 (02:28:58):
Go ahead, sorry Lord.

Speaker 19 (02:29:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 31 (02:29:00):
So with that said, I covet your prayers for the
remainder of my life because of being like that, that
child that you know. It's it's it's very sweet, but
at the same time, I'm fifty six and it's like, Mom,
please don't, please, don't lit your thumb and get the
smegma off of my face.

Speaker 3 (02:29:23):
Thanks Laurie, you have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 7 (02:29:24):
Welcome God.

Speaker 3 (02:29:27):
Let's go to Michael. Hello, Michael, how you doing, Reeth?
What's up? Buddy?

Speaker 25 (02:29:33):
Oh Man?

Speaker 32 (02:29:34):
The Ford bashing struck a nerve.

Speaker 3 (02:29:35):
And I'm sorry, buddy.

Speaker 5 (02:29:38):
I felt uncomfortable doing it because I don't have a
dog in this race, but I can understand people who do.

Speaker 32 (02:29:45):
I have a twenty thirteen Ford tourist, so I bought
brand new in May of twenty twelve. It has over
four hundred and twenty four thousand miles, righting.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
Wow, but that's you know what.

Speaker 5 (02:29:59):
That's good, mate, it's and you're probably driving a place
that doesn't have a crapload of potholes like New York does.

Speaker 29 (02:30:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 32 (02:30:06):
Well, I actually did crack a rim once. I used
to do field service So I was driving all over
New England and outstate New York.

Speaker 5 (02:30:13):
How do you do four hundred thousand How do you
do four hundred thousand miles?

Speaker 7 (02:30:17):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:30:18):
That's incredible horror in twenty four that's crazy. That's almost
two times around.

Speaker 22 (02:30:23):
The earth, I know.

Speaker 14 (02:30:26):
And I didn't get to see any place cool.

Speaker 17 (02:30:31):
Of state New York.

Speaker 7 (02:30:31):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:30:33):
I hear that.

Speaker 3 (02:30:34):
Oh Man, thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:30:35):
I feel bad for you, but congratulations on the long
lasting for Taurists.

Speaker 3 (02:30:40):
Thank you, buddy, our last, but not least, Craig in
the car. What's going on, sir?

Speaker 17 (02:30:46):
Oh Man?

Speaker 33 (02:30:47):
I need to talk to Lourie Moore, a couple of
adopted Italians tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (02:30:53):
Okay, congrats, happy birthday.

Speaker 17 (02:30:55):
So we got that going for it.

Speaker 7 (02:30:58):
So, hey, is Joey there you Roseanne?

Speaker 9 (02:31:01):
I'm doing well, thank you.

Speaker 22 (02:31:02):
We're all here.

Speaker 14 (02:31:05):
All right.

Speaker 33 (02:31:05):
Joey explained to you the difference between raising sons and
daughters go you raise You raise your sons to conquer
and divide, if you know what I mean, And you
raise your daughters to protect and defend.

Speaker 22 (02:31:19):
That's other things. I was like, you raise your daughter
as if you would go to war with her. You
raise your sons as to go to war with you.

Speaker 3 (02:31:28):
Yeah, it's very, very true. That is very true.

Speaker 19 (02:31:32):
It is.

Speaker 23 (02:31:34):
Roseanne.

Speaker 33 (02:31:34):
Yes, if the boy is not into going to college,
keep them away from it because it will be a
disaster and it will cost you a fortune. Let him,
let him find it, Let him find it on his own.

Speaker 3 (02:31:45):
Okay, all right, he is listening, So do not take
Craig's advice.

Speaker 9 (02:31:50):
Boy, No, listen.

Speaker 19 (02:31:51):
I love my son so much that I need him
to find his path in life, regardless of what I want.

Speaker 5 (02:31:58):
Yeah, but then I don't get the brad. Then I
have a kid that's at the Citadel. You do not
understand the importance of this.

Speaker 22 (02:32:05):
I was here for that conversation a year ago.

Speaker 3 (02:32:11):
Greig.

Speaker 34 (02:32:11):
All right, well, the Citadel does throw a new twist
into it. Indeed, it's like you can meet the right
person for your life. If it's at the wrong time,
it's not gonna work out.

Speaker 3 (02:32:24):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 (02:32:25):
I mean he could be a colossal It could be
a colossal nightmare for him. Yeah, but I think a
bigger nightmare is me not having that bumper sticker that
says my kid goes to the Citadel.

Speaker 19 (02:32:35):
I'm just I'm being realistic so much that I am. I,
like I said, my pain, my hurt right now, that's
mine to deal with.

Speaker 9 (02:32:44):
I need him to I need him.

Speaker 3 (02:32:47):
Can I tell you what my grandmother said to me
about my son. You just can't love him that much. Okay,
calm down.

Speaker 22 (02:32:56):
I feel like I feel your pain, Roseanne, like I
told this to reach your their day. Being a parent
one of the toughest things you realize when you're you know,
raising your child is you are doing the best to
raise the person you cannot live without, to live without you.

Speaker 3 (02:33:12):
Oh my god, Oh Joey, Jesus Christ, do you understand
what you just did.

Speaker 5 (02:33:18):
You might as well. You just cut the red wire.
That's all you did, right there, Joey, thank you. You'll
cut the red wire.

Speaker 9 (02:33:24):
That's it, exactly, That's the movie The Other Hood. That's
exactly what it is.

Speaker 19 (02:33:28):
You are raising your best friend, the most amazing man
that you will ever know in your entire life.

Speaker 9 (02:33:34):
You're raising him to leave you.

Speaker 22 (02:33:36):
Yep, that's the worst thing about being a parent.

Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
I'm done with all of you.

Speaker 33 (02:33:43):
Go ahead, turning eighteen. He's he's turning eighteen. He's not
joining the idea.

Speaker 3 (02:33:48):
Yeah, goodbye you right on that. Thank you, Graig.

Speaker 5 (02:33:53):
I got to get out of here, as I always say,
radio streets, So we thank you for paying attention. Remember
to keep jac in your hearts and in your mind.
John Patrick, love you and we miss you. Remember that
panic is not planning. So planning your work and work
you're planning me. I'm reaching the radio. She is Roseanne
on the radio. Sacod night, Roseanne. We'll see you guys
on Monday. Be good to each other, Joey, thank you
for a wonderful week, my friend. All right, we'll see

(02:34:14):
you next time.

Speaker 3 (02:34:17):
I'm Tom Ohan from the BPS. Alright, thank you. I
knew you were gonna have fun today. I knew that.

Speaker 22 (02:34:26):
I'm allowed to do here.

Speaker 5 (02:34:28):
I hear You'll see you next week, Yes, sir, feed
up into Hartford, heaving on down. All right, everybody, thank
you so much. We really appreciate you. Please stop crying, Roseanne,
I cannot do this today. Goodness gracious. Uh yeah, thank you,
Michael A. But we will see you guys tomorrow. We
love you to death. We're gonna go We're gonna go

(02:34:50):
see them. Yeah, we'll see you on Monday. We're gonna
go see the Panics tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:34:53):
Uh, and i'll tell you all about that.

Speaker 5 (02:34:54):
Maybe we get some videos, yeah, and we'll have some
fun with them. So all right, you guys be good
to have a yeah, our nap. That's right, our nap, y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:35:02):
I have a good one. Stay out of trouble. I
love you. Guys. Be good to each other.