Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 8/5/25

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, yeah, they they should calm down. The show is
about to style Reese on the radio.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Turn it up, Turn it up low low, turn it
up lound.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Did that a dream come true?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Your dream?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
This scheme up.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Due to the nature of this program, discretion does not exist.
It's race on the radio right now on w T
I see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, oh baby, ladies and gentlemen, I knew I was right.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hold on to your hacks andriesa on the radio on
WTIC News Talk ten eighty. I usually don't get this excited, folks,
but I cannot tell you how excited I am today.
We've got scandal after scandal after scandal to discuss today
that you haven't even been introduced to. Yeah, we'll talk

(01:37):
about the subpoenas and the Epstein file.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Of course, we'll get into that.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Hell, we've even got tampon Tim Walls news that Judicial
Watch released yesterday. We've got scandals going on with the
environmentalist group known as the Connecticut Green Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Did you know they were burning trash? Yes they are.
Did you know that?

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Yes? They are getting criticism by none other than the
Sierra Club, You know, those corrupt sons of guns. Did
you see that documentary called A Planet of the Humans.
Oh the Sierra Club Boy, what a tangle web we weave.
But the Connecticut Green Bank, who would have known? And

(02:27):
somebody explained to me how one point two billion dollars
in assistance in greening up your home only went to
seven what seven thousand, seventy five hundred homes and they
managed to spend one point two billion dollars to greenify
your home. We'll get into it, but I'm gonna start

(02:52):
off with the light stuff, And I am going to
tell you those of you out there who have been
called conspiracy theorists, qing on members, hey, straight up whack jobs.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm here to tell you, not that you need me,
but I'm here to.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Tell you were one hundred and forty five million percent right.
I think we have reason to believe. I think that
there is enough evidence to suggest that the twenty twenty

(03:37):
election was not up to snuff. Now, what would possibly
give me the audacity to say such a thing?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Listen, do we know.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, regardless of what what
media outlets are.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Playing it down the middle or going.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Soft on the info, do we know that Barack Obama
John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comy, Susan Rice.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Do we know.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
That they invented evidence to suggest that Donald Trump was
a Russian asset? It's irrefutable. I don't give a damn
who you are and where you are. I don't care
how many Barack Obama kneecaps you've sucked over the last
fourteen years.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
They did it, which lends only one theory.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
If they would do that after the election, and as
many people have already suggested, to do something, and I've
got the audio here, I played it to interfere with
the inauguration of Donald Trump, the guy who was never
supposed to win. If we know that for certain, and
people have testified under the threat of being charged with perjury,

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that that's what was happening in the intelligence ap apparatus
under Barack Obama, because again, Donald Trump could not and
should not win.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
How is it.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Unreasonable to believe that they would pull this state the
same stunt in twenty twenty. Who's the believer we know
what they were willing to do in twenty sixteen. We
have evidence of that. It has been presented to the DOJ.

(05:54):
They are even going to convene a grand jury in Washington, DC,
a town would never convict the likes of Hillary or
Baraque or people in the Democrat Party. But they're still
gonna do it, perhaps because the evidence.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Is so clear.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
And remember, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, He's
a threat to everything that Washington is. And to reelect him,
we were told would be the end of it all,
the end of our republic. It was absolutely dire that

(06:43):
Joe Biden be elected, and folks, weirdly enough, no one
can seem to explain it to me. Now we're over
ten to fourteen million people showed up between twenty twenty
and twenty twenty four, disappeared, Remember Donald Trump's same threat.

(07:05):
Miraculously none of these people showed up. Eighty one million
votes for Oh Joe, more than the messiah himself, who
was I mean we're talking landslide slight victory over a
guy like John McCain. I mean, we're talking John McCain,

(07:32):
the fabric of Washington against a virtual unknown Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney didn't have a shot. People were kind of nervous,
but sure enough Barack Obama had. We're talking about Barack Obama.

(07:53):
Joe Biden is more popular than him. When the guy
who only got nineteen thousand votes in two thousand and
eight in the primary, nineteen thousand, ladies and gentlemen, this
guy pulled off eighty one million.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then we find out.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
About the events that took place in twenty sixteen, and
you're gonna tell me now that twenty twenty is off
the table. We're supposed to just pretend like it never happened,
like we're not supposed to be suspicious of that.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I beg your pardon.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Everything is on the table now, and with what Project
Veritas just revealed today, a small little smidgeon of what
they produce today and what they are going to produce
on Thursday, which I got the inside scoop on, folks,

(08:48):
which I'm going to reveal in a little bit. Lets
me know that the swamp is deep, not that you
didn't know that, not that you didn't know that, but
what we found out today from Project Veritas in just
a small little teas. Oh baby, you are going to

(09:10):
be floored. If you haven't seen it already. If you're
just driving in your car, sitting in a home, you're
not much of the Internet type, don't worry about it.
Sit still I've got you covered. You don't have to
go anywhere. We are going to be ground zero for
all of the nonsense. You didn't know what was happening

(09:31):
behind the scenes, but now whistleblowers are coming forward, and
you folks on the left, oh, yuck it up.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Pretend it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
I'm just going to say this to you, because what's
going to be fascinated. Imagine this, ladies and gentlemen. Imagine
a bunch of Democrats, leftists, progressives, hell communists coming to
the defense of William Barr or coming to the defense

(10:08):
of Armstrong Williams. This revelation is so explosive. Democrats will
be so desperate to find themselves clutching the likes of
William Barr and.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Armstrong Williams.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
They will be embracing Republicans in ways you've never dreamt of,
which will certify that the swamp is deep, murky.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Ugly, despicable and disgusting. It all is.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
I posted it on my Facebook page. Go there on
both of them, the Reese on the Radio page and
just a.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Reese Hopkins page. Go to both of them.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
If you can't find it, just go to res ondradio
dot com.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Click on the top corner, go to you can.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Go right there and you can watch the project video
Project Veritas video there yourself now. First, it talks about
something really really ugly about how William Barr is assisting
Armstrong Williams and getting visas for billionaire's family members, billionaire's
family members, that little scheme where thousands of dollars were

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exchanging hands, That wistle blower's got everything.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh and she's got burner phones. Yes, she does.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
She's got burner phones, and the burner phones showed the
communications between her and Armstrong Williams. And on Thursday's episode,
we're going to talk about how Armstrong Williams has gone
so far as to threaten the whistleblower's life after he

(11:53):
finds out that she's been talking to the Department of Justice.
You can go there and watch it. Do it during
the break, it's only ten minutes long. Donald in the
chat room says zero votes for twenty twenty four Democratic
presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Rockland County, New York, which
means what, which means what do you know anybody who

(12:18):
lives in Rockland County? Do you know the voting habits
of people inside Rockland County.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Do you believe there's a likelihood that no one in
that town voted for.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
What if they all despised her? And if that's the
level in which you want to give me a sort
of back at you, please explain to me eighty one
million votes, brother brother says, just get get me down
to understand how Joseph R. Biden, a guy who had

(12:54):
forty seven years in public service, ran for president several times,
has known for one of the most biggotest, bigots, bigoted
reigns of terror as a senator from Delaware, from the
crime Bill to not wanting his children to be an

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a racial jungle, to calling Barack Obama clean and articulate,
to working with segregationists buddying up with the likes of
Robert Byrd. How that man managed to get eighty one
million votes, far more than the messiah Barack Husain Obama.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
You want to go there.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
You don't have any answers for that. You're fumbling around
right now, stop it, Stop embarrassing yourself. Oh yeah, that's right, annaplagiarists,
thank you Rama forgot all about that.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Donald sas Reesia living in dreamland.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
If you believe she didn't get one single vote in
that precinct.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm living in dreamland.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
You haven't produced any evidence, genius. It doesn't get to
be because you say it does. All I said was,
how do you know the voting habits of that county?
Have you surveyed them? Did you walk through there?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Or do you believe?

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Do you believe that no one in that town could
have possibly not have voted for Do you know anything
about Rockland County?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Did you live there?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I could think of plenty of regions there nobody voted
for Kamala Harris. I mean you probably really think that
the entire world looked at Kamala Harrison says, yeah, there's
a smart cookie. Yeah, she seems presidential. Yeah yeah, sure, sure.
No one ever believed that about Kamala Harris. I think

(15:00):
it's so easy for everyone today to pretend like she
doesn't exist. In fact, if they were so gung ho
about her, why aren't they just as enthusiastic about her
running in twenty twenty eight? People are all but turning
around and saying, eh, nick ixnay on the Kamala harrick'say. Yeah,
And if she was so stunning as a politician. Why

(15:23):
is it that the Biden administration former aids.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
To Joseph R.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Biden are now calling a kill switch on Kamala Harris
if she so far or ever dares to criticize Joe Biden,
should she run for office again and try to separate
herself from him, They've already made it clear that if
she does so, they will throw quote Palin esque stories

(15:51):
about her to depress, to damage her politically forever. You
didn't know that story, you didn't hear about it. That's
why you come here, even as a leftist, because you
can't even trust your own folks to tell you the truth.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I don't blame you. I'd come here too if I
were you. So welcome to the truth.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Donald, Here, we allow dissend, disagreement, but the only thing
that we ask is that you tell the truth, and
we're gonna get to the bottom of it. We're gonna
be back in a short while. So let me do
what's called a teas in this business, ladies and gentlemen.

(16:40):
On Thursday, I have received that on Thursday, information will
drop that former Attorney General under Donald J. Trump, William Barr,
set up the Rico case in Georgia with Fanny Willis.

(17:04):
I'll say again, Former Attorney General William Barr, the man
who told Donald Trump that there was no election interference
in twenty twenty and refused to look into it, was
responsible for the rico charges that Fanny Willis leveled at

(17:30):
Donald Trump in Georgia, the one that got us our
infamous mugshot.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I'll tell you a little bit about it when we return.
Go nowhere, go nowhere, you either, Donald, go nowhere right now?

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Your head just went just like bom. Maybe I have
to sound do you have the sound effects? Here goes,
here's your head right now. We'll be back more news,
more views, and more head explosions. When we returned, it's

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resun Radio on News Talk ten eighty wt I c hey.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Steve Parker giving a salute to the broadcaster at one hundred.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Happy birthday, WTIC News Talk ten eighty. Steve, mee hey,
when you're out there, man, let me do your show. Man,
I haven't done your show in a while. Reson Radio
WTIC News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
I had a lot of fun with Steve first time
I did his show. I'd love to go back. Here's
the deal, folks, The swamps deep. It's ugly, it's dirty, filthy.
Even these people are scavengers. They just start. Now, if
you actually took the opportunity to go watch the video

(18:51):
by Project Veritos and what they put out months long
investigation they have, I think three parts to this story,
and part two on Thursday is going to make for
me the most interesting. Not that this particular story was it.
It was then previewing the story that got me interested

(19:14):
when I saw the name Bill Burr. Former Attorney General
Bill Burr was involved in this whole scandal. In the
first part of the video. For those of you who
didn't get a chance, let me break it down for you.
So Attorney General Bill Barr was working with radio and
commentator personality Armstrong Williams. For those of you who know

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anything about Armstrong Williams, you know that he was caught
up in a scandal back in two thousand and five
during the Bush administration. It's very closely tied to that administration,
and according to reports, he took some two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to promote No Child Left Behind on
a syndicated show they a it's a report that he

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got some nine hundred thousand dollars from the Education Department.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
I know all about that. I just know that's what
it was reported.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Armstrong Williams was also paid in essence to get other
African American broadcasters and journalists people in the media to
also promote no Child Left Behind. Did you all know
that that campaign was quite you know, controversial to say
the least. But Armstrong Williams apparently, according to Project Veritas

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and this whistleblower named Patricia leelis from Brazil. She's a
Brazilian journalist who was hired by Armstrong Williams to work
for his media company.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Was given burner phones.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
So that she could communicate with none other than Attorney
General Bill Barr. And what she was doing was assisting
Armstrong Williams and Bill Barr, according to her, in getting
the parents of a billionaire visas to work for a

(21:07):
company that did not exist, fake cosmetic company. Project Veritas
went down to go find the address of alleged cosmetic company.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
It's never been there.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Building has been empty for I don't know months years,
even in fact, the people who do work in the
buildings say it was always empty.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
No one's ever there, just stays empty.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
I guess this is supposed to be used as a
physical address in a show corporation. I don't know, but
that's what That's how you would describe it. But what
was interesting in this video is that it's intro if
you watch it, says Bill Barr and Fanny Willis a

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communicate between Armstrong Williams and Patricia Leelis, this Brazilian journalist
who worked for him about contacting Bill Barr and Fanny
Willis only.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Through the Burner phones, which.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
Patricia Leelis still has in her possession, and she has
all the communications between the two.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Herself and Armstrong Williams.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
If you wait till the end of the video, they
actually display some of the exchanges when Armstrong is finally
gotten the gist that Patricia Leelis is talking to the DOJ,
where he makes a lot of threats physical. I might add,
but when I contacted Project Veritash, who by the way,

(22:46):
kindly gave me this video early, I got an early
screening just so I can watch it before the show,
and then they released it an hour later, and I
thank them for that. I love my relationship with those guys.
It's long time going there. This is what I wrote
to them after I watched the video, I wrote, what

(23:06):
in the actual freak did Barr set up Trump with Fanny?
Because the snippet is that quick? I mean, it is
that quick snap and you will miss it. This was
the response I got directly from Project Veritas. Yes, part

(23:30):
two will explain more. I wrote next week or when
they wrote, likely Thursday. So again in asking the question,
what Bill Barr set up Yes, in the video that
you will listen to today, you will watch today because

(23:51):
I know you will. It is Bill Barr who comes
up with the idea, according to Patricia Leelis, to charge
Donald Trump with Rico because it is, in her words,
the most difficult to defend against. That's why I prompted

(24:14):
me to ask the question to Project Ferraitas and they said, yes,
Bill Barr set up Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Now, all of you had your problems with Bill Barr.
I know you did.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Armstrong Williams you probably didn't even think was a part
of this equation, the two of them in cahoots. I
wouldn't have guessed it either, but apparently they were.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
And this whole.

Speaker 5 (24:43):
Scheme and visas and all this other stuff helping out
wealthy billionaires I guess that's redundant.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Nonetheless, they were, but the fact.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
That they would get that fool Fanny Willis and then
fall Fanny Willis would get her paramore that foolish Natan
Wade involved as well.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
I never thought I thought the story was.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
Over about those two, but Rama remembered, and it looks
like I'm gonna have to bring it back. Another exciting
episode of Willison Wade. You remember when I used to
do that. I was like two years ago. They are back,

(25:27):
Ladies and gentlemen. Willis and Wade are back in this investigation. God,
this could be really ugly for them. Who do you
think Is turn turns state's evidence first? Willis A Wade?
Who you got? I think I think Willis. I think
Willis turns state's evidence. Bill Barr's a bigger fish. I

(25:50):
know Nathan, forget about it. He's easy, you know. I
don't even think I think he's nobody in all of this.
I don't think he's just a workhorse. I don't think
he knows any of the details.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
But if.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
This young lady Patricia Lelis, the Brazilian journalists.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Who worked for.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
What's say Armstrong Williams, if she was going back and
forth texting with Fanny Willis on a burner phone, and
she discloses what those communications were about. If she were
the liaison being told what to do or how to

(26:33):
pursue this case, Bill Barr's a lawyer. He could have
been walking her right down that path. He could have
been telling her everything that she needed to do. He
could have been the silent attorney in all of this.

(26:53):
Running second chair. I'm just saying, this is if this
could be ugly. This is why I said in the
opening monologue, all bets are off. Conspiracy theories be damned,
They've you got nothing left unless you now want to
defend the likes of Bill Barr. If we get this

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report on Thursday, and again, like I said, Project Veritas
their response, and I'll tell you again exactly what I asked.
Did Bill Barr set up Trump with Fanny? The answer
was yes. Now if they have evidence of that, If
this young lady can provide evidence of that, what are

(27:39):
you gonna say then? What are all of you folks
going to say then about Donald Trump? What are you
all going to say about going after your political enemies?
You got nothing to stand on, You know nothing. If

(27:59):
you don't join the rest of us to say, sick
the dogs on him. Drop the weight, the enormous weight
of the federal government on those people who literally ran
a coup, not once, not twice, not three times. Hell,

(28:20):
it may be even safe to say they put Thomas
Crooks up to it. Nothing is off the table, ladies
and gentlemen, not a thing. And you don't have anything.
I don't care who you are, Donald, b you, Tim anybody.
You got nothing. You can't defend this, and I don't

(28:41):
want you to. I don't even want you to try.
I want you to just call us kooks like you
always do. We warned you from the beginning, and we've
been warning you forever, every one of you.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
We've been warning you.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
Keep talking, keep getting ahead of your skis, keep telling
us were nutjobs, right kid, telling us that you can
trust the likes of Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough, the
likes of CNN and anyone on there.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Don Lemon is the pillar of truth and justice.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Tell us, explain to us again why you folks are
to be trusted and believed. You can try, but those
days are over. I said this before and I'll say
it again. The reason why you called us conspiracy theorists
is because you couldn't call us liars, because.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's even more egregious.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Edge called us liars and it turned out to be true,
you'd have no choice but to apologize. Calling us conspiracy
theorists gives you an out, but you don't have one now.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
You know you don't have one now.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
But folks, I want to say to our side, people
who support Donald Trump, or those of you who were
questioning the veracity of some of the stuff that you heard,
chill for a second. Nobody has to run around patting
themselves on the back saying that they were right.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's not the goal. There must be punishment.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Those words that drove drove everybody nuts at the Trump
rallies when he said I am your retribution.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Must ring true.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
He must be our retribution today and every day going
forward for the next three and a half years. We'll
be back. We'll take your phone calls and much much more. Boy,
we got a lot of scandals to drop today. It's
reesun Radio on WTIC News Talk ten eighty.

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Speaker 5 (31:07):
The fact that anybody believes that the midterm elections more
than a year away are in some way in jeopardy
is foolish.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's absolutely foolish.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Nobody prepares for an election a year and a half,
much less the voter. So this idea that anybody is
worried about magacultists are going to cry foul when the
American people kick us out of office to do what
to ensure that children get mutilated in hospital rooms, to

(31:45):
ensure that men play in women's sports. Yeah, I can't
wait for people to rush to the polls to go
insure those things so they can subsidize everybody's living expense
by raising taxes on billionaires and billionaires and private business owners.
Is that what you're talking about? That is that the

(32:06):
idea that people are going to be running towards. I
still haven't figured out exactly what the platform is. I've
only heard Democrats say that Democrats are going to win,
but can't name for me one platform.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Position, which one.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
You guys couldn't come up with a platform position if
you started a year ago. The idea is Trump is
the problem. Well, what's the solution?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Trump's lame duck. You take over the House and Senate.
What do you do then? Nothing? Ten Bucks says, you
do nothing. You just run around patting yourselves on the
back seat.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
We're back in charge. You'll pass nothing.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
If you pass a legislation, Donald Trump will veto it,
and you don't have two thirds to vote, and you
won't to overturn it. So what are you talking about.
You're never gonna win the presidency again. Who you're gonna
run mayor Pete perhaps Kamala again or greasy Gavin Newsom?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (33:16):
And then keep your homes doused with water, at least
hoping that he won't set it ablaze. Maybe he won't
turn your small little neighborhood into what California is a
place that everybody retreats and moves to a place clearly
better opportunities, jobs.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Laws, all the good stuff.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
Just spare me with the Donald Trump being the bad
guy is enough for you to win, it Isn't that
would imply that everyone who agrees with you is a idiot.
Just tell me what you're voting for. Just tell me
why you want Democrats to rule the rust. Tell me

(34:06):
what policy they are going to what make life.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Affordable for everyone? What was Joe Biden's job then? What
did he do for four years?

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Wasn't his job to make the world an affordable place
to live?

Speaker 2 (34:23):
How do he do?

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Do you think people are gonna go back to four
years of that nonsense? You think people are gonna go
back to not being able to pay for baby form.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
But even find baby formula?

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Do you think people are gonna deal with the rising
cost of everything from eggs to bread to just essentials,
not being able to go on vacation, not being able
to pay for kids to go to college, or worst off,
how about this, how about their kids no longer having
opportunities because that administration that comes into power goes back

(34:59):
to the way of making sure that DEI rules the roost.
So average kids, the largest population in the country, they
can't possibly get their kids into a good college because
your party will only double down on policies that ensures
people who are going to drop out faster than anybody
in the college ranks get there first. You don't have

(35:24):
a policy to run on, sir. You know that you're
a Democrat. Please don't talk to me about being a cultist.
You will vote Democrat blindly like you have your entire life.
It's who you are because you think it's who you are.
That is the mind of a cult If somebody asks

(35:48):
you the simple question of what do you stand for
and you can't answer.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
It, and your response is, but Trump, you are a cultist.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
You can't articulate to any of us who you are,
what you stand for, of what you what you promise.
So what you want to promise to the American people
other than to subsidize their lives, to take over the
means of production, to punish the wealthy, to punish the privileged.

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The only thing the Democrat Party is here for is
to seek revenge. And as I said earlier, it's our
turn now. But this time we're gonna do it the
right way. We're gonna go after the crooks and the criminals,
the liars and the cheats.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
You don't have to like it, just get used to it.
Just get used to it. We'll be back. Headlines have
more scandals in them.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
You don't want to miss this Tim Walls boy when
you find out what they knew about him thanks to
Judicial Watch.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
We'll get into that as well. But stick around.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
We've got the WTIC news rum with John Silva coming up,
and we'll be back Ats Recenter Radio on WTIC News Talk.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Brie on the radio making sense of the news. Yeah,
even when it makes no sense at all. All now
on WT I see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
All right, folks, we are back.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Telephone calls coming up soon the number eight to zero
five two two WT I see eight zero five.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Two to two, nine to eight four to two.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Let me know if you watch the Project Veritas video
if you want to discuss that. Also, I'm working to
see if we can get Sean Rayes on the on
the phone.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Of course, for those of you.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Who have been following the story, this is the uh
individual who got into the spat use that term loosely
with Sergeant Fahi, the state trooper that video went viral.
We sent him out an email to see if he
would grace the show. We're gonna wait and see whether

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or not he will respond and get him on the
program as well.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Also later on in a week.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
We've got Project Veritas coming on a program and we're
going to talk to a Senator Rob Sampson. And but
before we do that, I want to make something abundantly
clear about his presence on the show that I need
to clarify because he will.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Be joining the program too.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
And I want to tell you about a conversation I
had with his office about his appearance here, so I
want you to know about that alsome. Anyway, with that,
let's get into some news, all.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Right, headlines we are tracking here at res on the radio.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch via a Foyer request revealed
that the Biden administration was fully aware of concerns about
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walls and his Chinese ties. Emails
and chat logs for the Department of Homeland Security viewed
Walls as a quote long term asset cultivated by the

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Chinese Communist Party. According to that report, and I have
some of the stuff here. This was, they said. Specific
ties that were highlighted the discussions referenced that Walt's year
teaching in Guangdong Province in nineteen eighty nine coincide coinciding
with the Tienamen Square massacre, and note celebrations on Chinese

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social media that said that his VP nomination would quote.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Be something that they were.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Happy about, that they considered it a good thing to
have someone like him possibly in Washington. They also said
that quote, if anyone has interest, I can give and
provide contexts in a classified setting.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
But this has more.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Of a strategic impact than obviously the general public knows.
These are some of the things that they knew about
Tim Walls while America was vetting him to possibly be
the vice president of the United States. Turns out the
Department of Homeland Security knew about all of this, and
they were investigating chatter in China on social media pages

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that were celebrating his nomination.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, yeah, go figure, huh go figure.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Weirdly enough, as you heard in the top of the
hour news, the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to
compel testimony of individuals related to the Epstein files. We
have the list and the dates. Because they couldn't get
him to a news break. We got former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton on October ninth, Former President Bill Clinton

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on October fourteenth, Former US Attorney General Merrick Garland on
October second, Former FBI Director James Comy on October seventh.
Former US Attorney as we already mentioned, Bill Barr on
August eighteenth.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
That's coming up soon.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales he'll be there August
twenty six For those of you who may not remember
who he was working with.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
That was the attorney general under George W. Bush.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the twenty eighth of
August under Trump, Director Robert Muller of the Mueller Report
on September second, former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch under Obama,
and also Eric Holder under Obama. They have all been

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subpoenaed to testify to the Epstein files. And I would
imagine the reason why they're bringing him in is to
ask them, Hey, you had access to all of this info,
why not reveal it or review it? Also noting that
in an effort to stop Donald Trump in twenty sixteen,
why not use it?

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Good point. We also have other breaking news on this front.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
Representative Anna Paulina Luna has confirmed that burn bags found
by Cashpitel's FBI contain Jeffrey Epstein evidence.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
The FBI is.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Now under investigation for destroying critical documents. In another story
that's also related to this, it is and I just
had it, oh. Ghlaine Maxwell is opposing the unsealing of
her and Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury transcripts. Even though we
know that a judge has already said that we're not

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going to release those This may be something that you
may have shared or you may have heard about, but
I'm here to clear up. A viral post suggested that
a parental activist group, Moms for Liberty, has been labeled
an anti government extremist group, and they were a part

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of the Connecticut police departments. I guess instructions to treat
them as such. That is not the case. The Connecticut
Police has not been informed that Moms for Liberty was
some sort of threat in any way. However, according to

(43:38):
a four your request by Daily Wire, they found out
that the Southern Property Law Center SPLC and a PBS
article describing the Moms of Liberty as using parents' rights
to target public education issues. They were put in as
a threat by the Massachusetts Municipal Police training manual that

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they have been put in. So it's in Massachusetts, it's
not in Connecticut as reported online. All right, and last,
but not least, are stupidest thing I've read today?

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 7 (44:20):
You could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
After plenty attempts to contact the Bethel police department, a
small department. I have received no response with regards to
this story. Represent A state representative, Rahib Ali Brennan says
that he's seen an uptick in threatening messages made against

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him since the news of his arrest for two aged
alleged shoplifting incidents broke earlier this summer. Brennan, a Democrat
who represents Bethel and Danburgh. He was charged twice with shoplifting.
Since then, he says he's increasingly received threatening messages, including
some that says say that he has crossed the line.

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I contacted Bethel as I did anywhere and everywhere that
I could, and they have not released the items he
is alleged to have stolen. I gotta be honest with you, folks.
The reason why I'm calling this stupid one is because
he thinks that he's getting death threats or telling people
that we're supposed to believe he's getting death threats because

(45:30):
he was shoplifting.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
I mean, you know there are people.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Out there who are threatening his life because he stole
preparation ahe come on, knock it off. Please don't tell
people this nonsense story. Don't make yourself a victim. Okay,
in this case, whatever you did, if you did it,
get help deal with your case. But just get help.
Do not try to draw on the sympathy of others.

(45:54):
It's stupid for you to release this statement, and the
fact that anybody would report on it makes them.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Just as stupid.

Speaker 5 (46:01):
But I find it odd that the Bethel Police in
their police report have refused to make known what he's
accused of stealing or shoplifting. They have to be in
the police report. We know they're in the police report.
Why are they being so hush hush? By the way,

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if anybody knows, please contact rest on the Radio immediately,
go to restonaradio dot com. If you know what he
is alleged to have stolen or what they said he
walked out of the target without paying for Please let
me know. I know some people are gonna be joking
and they're gonna be writing a whole bunch of out
If you really know, let me know, because I find

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it odd that it wasn't a part of the story.
He says he walked out because he was grabbing some
stuff for his ailing grandmother.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Okay, I've seen it happen.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
I've actually walked off with somebody's pen at a counter
doesn't mean I was stealing it.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
It just means that I'm a kleptomaniac.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
I mean no, it just means that I forget when
I put things in my hand like that.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Pens are the worst.

Speaker 8 (47:04):
I know.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
There's some people out there who do that too, not
the only one. I'm notorious for it, at least I
can own up to it. But I'm dying to find
out exactly what it was that he stole or shoplift allegedly.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
And let us know why are they keeping in under wraps?

Speaker 5 (47:22):
So those are your headlines. Let's get to the phones.
Ken is in Meriden.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 9 (47:29):
I'm good. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Reason, I'm all right? What's up?

Speaker 8 (47:32):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (47:33):
Going back to the subpoenas that were issued?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (47:38):
How what?

Speaker 9 (47:39):
What do you think the over under is going to
be that we hear a lot of under advice from
my lawyer.

Speaker 8 (47:48):
I plead, I.

Speaker 10 (47:51):
What is it that they.

Speaker 9 (47:52):
Say the Fifth Amendment?

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Privilege?

Speaker 9 (47:54):
The fifth Yeah, I'm asserting my privilege of the Fifth Amendment.

Speaker 5 (47:59):
I can tell you, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
I can see on this.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I can go with one, two, three, possibly four people who.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Assert their Fifth Amendment privilege. Do you want to know
who they are? Yeah, okay, let's start from Let's start
from the people who aren't headliners to the headliners. I'll
go with this Fifth Amendment privilege will come from Eric.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Holder yep, Loretta Lynch yep, James.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
Comy definitely, and.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Bill Clinton.

Speaker 8 (48:50):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
I do not think Hillary because Hillary.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
I think what she'll say under oath is that she
knows nothing because I don't think there's an implication. I
think all of the questions towards Hillary will be about
her husband's affairs.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Right, in essence, you can't really.

Speaker 5 (49:09):
Grill her, no matter how much people don't like Hillary Clinton,
you can't really go after her because, in essence, her
husband was having an affair on her.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
So you kind of have to treat it with kid
gloves in that scenario.

Speaker 9 (49:23):
And that's actually you're looking at what do they call
that port?

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Oh, that's right, that's right. Indeed, you are one hundred
percent right. I totally forgot about that, but that makes
a huge point. So Hillary Clinton, there will be there
will probably be some questions related to hey, because I
really do believe this. If you get Hillary Clinton under
Oath on October ninth. I believe that most of the probes,

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even though it's about Jeffrey Epstein, I believe that many
Republicans will ask questions about crossfire or hurricane, the Russia probe,
and of course to steal dossier.

Speaker 9 (50:04):
Yeah, now, correct me if I'm wrong there. And I
don't remember where I heard it, but I heard somewhere
somebody said because and I think it was regarding Obama,
that because he's no longer in president the president presidential

(50:24):
immunity doesn't apply to him.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Okay, I'm glad you asked. I did talk about this
a couple of days ago. So here's where the problem lies.
And I'm hoping, and I say problem, I mean for
President Obama.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Here's where the problem lies.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
So what I would do if I'm Pambondi and I'm
convening a grand jury, I can ask or subpoena people
to testify, even though they are not going to be
charged with a crime, because they are material to the
evidence I wish to produce at trial. They are character witness,

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they are fact based witnesses, fact witnesses. So is subpoena
Barack Obama to come in and testify to the grand
jury as to what he knows in the events that
took place in his oval office, meeting with everybody in
his intelligence apparature. Right, I bring him in now because

(51:22):
he has presidential immunity as granted by the Supreme Court.
He cannot plead the fifth because nothing he says can
incriminate him or make him subject to any crime. Right
right now, Here's where it becomes calamity for Barack Obama.
Because he can't plead the fifth. He must testify, and

(51:46):
if he lies.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Immunity is gone.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
He can be charged with lying while he is no
longer a sitting president because he has immunity in his
actions as presidents, as a president, as a civilian. If
he lies under oath in a grand jury there he
could be prosecuted. So he must tell the.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
Truth that cleared it up, cause I hear I heard that,
and I don't remember if I heard it from you
or if I heard it somewhere else, but I heard
somewhere along the lines that that was the case.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
Yes, and it has to be because remember he is
no longer operating in his official capacity as president of
the United States, so he is compelled to answer every
question he has given at the grand jury, and they
have the evidence in front of them.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
So what he's there to do?

Speaker 5 (52:36):
If I'm Pam Bondi and I'm convening a grand jury,
I'm going to ask Barack Obama everything I know to
be true in that docite like in that that that report,
Did you indeed do this that in the third?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Did you collude with this that in the third?

Speaker 5 (52:51):
Did you ask for this particular assessment after you learn
the former assessment had no allegations of Donald Trump with
the Russians? Did you then convene intelligence to you know,
at the you know, be at your be has for
Comy and Brennan and Clapper to come up with a
new assessment. To do this, Barack Obama's got nothing to lose,

(53:12):
so he's got to go in there.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
And say yes, I did.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
But if he says no, and they have evidence that
says otherwise, you lied, you perjured yourself, You're in a slammer.

Speaker 9 (53:22):
It's that simple, right, And one last thing before I
let you go.

Speaker 10 (53:27):
Yes, I briefly.

Speaker 9 (53:29):
I saw it, and I tried to go back to
check it. I heard, you know, with Trump trying to
get rid of DEI out of the government.

Speaker 8 (53:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (53:40):
That what he's trying to do is he's going to
start sending DEI hires to protect Hillary, Bill, Barack his family.
And this is the way I heard it was that
they don't they don't want that. They want, you know,

(54:03):
the eighteen to guard them. Yes, but if if he
does that and they don't want, well the deis are gone. Okay,
you're fired.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
That's a you know what, I'm not gonna lie. I
don't know if it's true or not. I will look
into it.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
But if it is, boy, is that brilliant because it's
in essence, it's giving them, it's giving them a taste
of their own medicine. From what we found out, you
know what took place in Butler on January thirte I
mean July thirteenth, right, we turned out that this guy
got the worst of the worst people who are absolutely
in that protecting a presidential candidate. You know, you put

(54:39):
you turn the tables and you say, I'm in charge
of your your secret service detail.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Let's see how you like it. Right, So, yeah, that's
a brilliant that would be a brilliant move.

Speaker 5 (54:51):
Yeah, I'll I'll look into that and see what I
can find out. All right, you got it, Ken bunch appreciated, sir,
you couldn't get I mean, boy, you want to talk
about driving them through the roof and then getting the
media in on it. I can't believe that he would
bring these inexperienced people to take to protect Bill Clinton

(55:12):
and Barack Obama, Like, oh, well, thought you said these
we need a DEI.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Oh boy, I'm not lying. Nuts.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
That would be some of the craziest stuff ever to
just take every one of their ridiculous, silly rules and
throw it back in their face. Donald, you can't stop yourself,
he writes, Newsflash, Tim Walls.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Is not running again.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Move on, No, do you understand what you exposed when
you say that? When you say move on, do you
know what that means? You're backed into a corner. You're embarrassed,
and you're ashamed. What you should be is outraged. But
you can't muster that it's the act of someone in

(56:01):
a cult. You're so tethered to Tim Walls you can't
even admit that if this guy was associated with the
Communist Party of China that you should say no, that's wrong.
But instead you defend him by telling the rest of us.
Move on, spare me cultest nonsense. That's the actions of

(56:22):
a cult.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
He can do no wrong.

Speaker 9 (56:25):
Move on.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Nothing to see here. He ain't running again.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Rees no, as we say in the hood, put an
h on your chest and handle it. We'll come in
for you. It's retribution day. We'll be back.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
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Speaker 5 (56:52):
I got something for Hollywood News that I thought was insane,
but we'll debate it in the in the five o'clock hour,
so stand by for that. With of course, so much
more that we wish to get into. Eight x zero
five two to two. WTI ses the number. We'll also
talk about the Connecticut Green Bank. I was doing some

(57:15):
investigating yesterday because I promised I was going to get
to the bottom of this story.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
And it is so insane how much money the Connecticut
Green Bank has.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
And the only numbers I have available recent numbers are
from fiscal twenty twenty three, and the amount of money
that the Connecticut Green Bank has at its disposal is astronomical.
In twenty twenty three, they got over four hundred million
dollars of your money fiscal year twenty twenty three, and

(57:49):
I tried to get like, what's the deal? What how
much money do they get from private donors?

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Try? Over over two billion, which makes you.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Know he asked you. It makes you ask the question,
what do they need your money for. We'll get into it,
we'll break it down, and then the stuff that they're
doing goes right to my whole deal about what happened
to Connecticut and the whole green energy stuff and the
whole you know, environmentalist nonsense Connecticut Green Bank. Not only
what they're doing is just absolutely so insane, but the

(58:23):
legislature voted for it and allows them to do it.
And that's the pollute the air. So we'll talk about
that in a little bit. Let's get to the phones.
It's like zero five two two WT. I see what's up?

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Mark? How are you?

Speaker 8 (58:35):
Sar Hey?

Speaker 11 (58:37):
Well?

Speaker 12 (58:37):
I heard Rob sansis coming on, one of my favorite
public elected officials. What's your topic?

Speaker 10 (58:44):
I you love you, sho warning.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
I am so glad, I'm so glad to talk about
I'm so glad you called in because that's you're You're
the perfect person for me to talk about this in
my conversation with his office. So let me lay out
what happened. I was contacted. They wanted to get in
contact with me. They wanted to bring Rob on the program,

(59:10):
and I was like, okay, I didn't know who it was.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
It was reaching out there. Reached out to Joey first.
I contacted him.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
I got in touch with them to find out what
the deal was, and sure enough, they had interest in
coming onto the program. Okay, So I listened for a
little bit, and I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
I didn't really see any interest. I didn't.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
I didn't see I didn't have any and I kind
of said to myself in listening, let me fix my
chair here.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
In listening, I went, Okay, I mean, it's an.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
Alright conversation, but my show is a little more energized
than what I was getting, and it may be important
to his office or even to Republicans in the state,
but I wasn't feeling it. And I'm not passionate. I'm
not gonna fall I'm not phoning it in. I'm just
not So here's what I did. I said, and I

(59:59):
made this abundantly clear. Before anybody comes on my show
from the Republican Party in Connecticut, several things must be done,
and that's one. They've got to start addressing the things
that are important to Connecticut Republicans. They have to start
releasing statements, they have to start writing letters. We have

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to see them actively responding to the things that matter
to us.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
The fact that we only got.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
No no, well, I went, I went, yes, I went this
far and that again. I'm an honest broker, and that's
why I'm glad you're here. So here's what I said.
I and I gave some examples to his office. I said,
although it was great to have two Republicans write a
letter about what was happening at the at the Metropolitan

(01:00:52):
Community Church of Hartford. Although it was great to have
two senators speak up and talk about you know, Deep
and what they're doing with de Quinet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
But the fact that we.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
Cannot get a letter with every member of the Republican Caucus,
every member of the Republican Party in Connecticut to sign
off on that letter is not a representation of the
people in Connecticut. You've got people in Connecticut fighting Deep
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to keep this

(01:01:23):
poison out of the water. It was nice for them
to send a letter, but we need to see that
there was a coalition with Republicans who were in the
House and Senate as well as the people who are
protesting and putting their you know, putting their bodies on
the line fighting this stuff back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
That's got to be done.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
So if there's going to be a conversation on this show,
it can't be about what you'd like to do. It's
about what you're doing that's actually affecting and important to
the listeners of w T I see and specifically to
Resuner Radio.

Speaker 12 (01:01:54):
I love it, and you know what, they're so fragmented.
The analogy I use are the games. Like when I
go up in Hartford, it was less than a dozen gangs,
big ones O Salito's Love twenty and now there's a
gang for every street there's over there's like if you
look it up, it's something crazy like sixty games.

Speaker 9 (01:02:13):
Wow in Hartford.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
The loans sixty.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Hartford's not even big enough for sixty gangs. You're breaking up, buddy,
Oh oh no, no, there you go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
What'd you say?

Speaker 12 (01:02:26):
Okay, so what I'm saying, is it kind of reminds
me of the Republican Party. There was a period when
they were all together. Yeah, there was one team, one gang, right,
and now they're two fragmented and they're all looking for FaceTime.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
And sound bites, right.

Speaker 12 (01:02:41):
And you know, the one thing is I reached out
to Rob, Senator Hardy, all of them for just a
few weeks ago that press conference on d QUAD and
I said, at least an RTC leader, a chairman from
one of the local artcs show up. Nobody got back
to me because I did the same thing when I
told you blew me dol and Murphy came to West Harford.

(01:03:01):
I looked for just one of them to come, and
they all ignored me.

Speaker 8 (01:03:05):
Again.

Speaker 12 (01:03:06):
What I find funny is they're they're you know, they're
out and about for when it's election time, but in
between that, try to get a hold of one of them.

Speaker 8 (01:03:13):
But I will to you, but nobody returned my.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Let me say I didn't. Well, first of all, I
didn't reach out to them. They reached out to me.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
But I do want to, I do want to point okay,
I want to. I want to point this out. And
I think that what You're onto is a very important thing.
But I want to give some context to this, and
I want to use Matt Karen. You and I both
know him formally of of Fox sixty one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
He's got his own media venture now.

Speaker 5 (01:03:38):
Uh but Matt Karen said this to me, and I
think this isn't like I'm not telling tales out of school.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
But when I had my I had about an hour.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
Long conversation with him about what he's doing, and he
said something that blew my mind, but I already kind
of knew, and that was Republicans in Connecticut send out
hundreds of press releases a year, and they are ignored
by the Connecticut media. They just don't care. They don't answer.

(01:04:07):
You get ignored though, Oh no, no, no, I agree.

Speaker 12 (01:04:12):
With you show up physically. If you showed up. Let
me tell you if some Republicans went there, don't interrupt
the press conference. Let loomit doll and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Right whoever's there.

Speaker 12 (01:04:21):
Let them all do their thing. But you know that
you being there, it would have taken a sound by
a comment from you. They can't shit at Capitol Avenue
in Hartford and provide, you know, the low hanging food issues.
You know whether it's tolls or something else that's too easy.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
I know, you know what, and you know it's a
good point that you make, because what I would have
done in that case, Like let's take that that situation
in West Hartford with Bloomenthal and Murphy, when they showed
up at that event while everybody was piling in and
obviously had advanced notice to the you know, to the
event and been there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Here's what I would have done.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
I would have gotten about ten, maybe even fifteen Republicans
how and said it. I would have gotten the biggest
names I possibly could. And I would have waited at
the end of that event outside so when the news
media starts piling out, they see that group of people
standing there waiting to give their rebuttal and make sure

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that that ended up on the evening news right after.
Forget a press conference, because you know that's gonna be ignored.
And when I say, look, and most people would say, well, Reese,
why would you pull that stunt.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
It's not a stunt.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
You hold a press conference to counter what's being said
without a rebuttal.

Speaker 10 (01:05:34):
In those events Greece, I gotta in to rupt you.

Speaker 12 (01:05:38):
When I presented that to rob On, Tom Shaddy. When
I said that, because that was my intent, I tried
to set up ahead of time. He actually mocked me, Oh,
what am I gonna go out there? Do you think
I'm gonna heckle? No, I don't want you to heckle.
I don't need you with a magga hat on. Come on,
use your common sense. He knew what my intent was
reaching out to him and the others, but he wanted

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to make it sound like I.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Think that there's a possibility. Look, I'll be honest with you.
I really do believe this. And again I slight no
one by making this point. I really do believe this
from the bottom of my heart. I really don't think
that there are a lot of so called media savvy
people in politics. I had to express to them to

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his office, the guy who gave me a call when
I had a conversation with him, And that's why I said,
I had a long conversation. I was long winded, but
I said to him, I gave him my credentials, how
I used to work for public relations for DMX and
Dion Warwick, and how long I had been in that
game in working PR. And he was surprised because I said, look,
I don't think that people who are in politics know exactly.

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It's not as simple as sending out a press release.
If they don't listen, they don't, so in some ways
you've got to make them respond. So if that has
shown up there as a politician and brought a couple
of my constituents as well as other colleagues in the
Senate or in the House, they're outside that event and

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just placed the podium waiting for the press to come
out so I can Rebut Chris Murphy and Blumenthal, that
would have made the news that night.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
It would have been beautiful exactly.

Speaker 12 (01:07:13):
I'll let you go if you can shoehornes in. Yeah,
ask him if he gets any health benefits and how
good the plant.

Speaker 9 (01:07:21):
That's another thing that's a.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Big deal with a lot of people here. I will
get into that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:25):
I promise, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
You got it us. No, it's a good point.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
That has been a bone of contention for a lot
of people, screaming and hollering for health care benefits for
for everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
But the truth is, you know again, it's not look.

Speaker 5 (01:07:42):
Some people follow the directive, right, they follow the template
that's been handed to them. This is the way in
which you do business. And I will say this if
I can, you know, mention a guy like Ben Proto.
I know that Proto's biggest problem with Donald Trump is

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the fact that he has a way of sucking all
the oxygen out of the room. That's against the norms,
It's against the decorum that many.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
People in politics are used to. Right.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
He is completely kicked over that apple cart in the
way in which you do business in politics, the way
you get your name out of there, get out there.
And people are nervous about that because one they don't
know how to do it, and two when they try,
they do it in such a haphazard way and they

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trip over themselves and they look silly, and they're not
really prepared for that kind of the kind of response
that they'll get from that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
The news media is savvy.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
They've gotten used to dealing with Trump, but they haven't
gotten used to me yet.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
See, Trump's thing is unique to.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
As is My tactics are unique because I understand exactly
how these people work and what makes it work for them.
Ask yourself a question, why are they no longer interested
in getting the stories they're important to you? Because their
business model won't make that profitable for them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
They don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
Not only that they're in bed with a lot of people.
Their model is being in bed with people having access,
and for them having access, they need access to the
people who have power. And in Connecticut it's the Democrat party.
Republicans don't wield any power, so they don't have to care.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
You have to make them care. And that's why you
have to go through all the techs.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
You have to make yourself noticeable to the pretty girl who.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Usually would never pay you any mind. That's what you
gotta do. We'll come back, we'll take more of your
phone calls.

Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
We'll get to some traffic and weather with Jason Katarina
and Mark Chris for the BPS Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
But go nowhere. It's Rees on the radio on WTIC
News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
It's Rid's Reese on the radio. Ask your doctor if
common sense is right for you? Right for you? On
News Talk tenndy WT.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
I see all right, folks, we are back. Let's get
to another phone call. Eighteen zero five two two WT.
I see what's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:10:20):
Jim, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:10:25):
A couple of days ago, you were talking about the
Sydney Sweeney ad yes, in all the Backlasher. You know,
I don't know if anybody brought it up on your show.
I didn't hear, but about twenty five, thirty five years ago,
maybe even forty, you had a twelve year old Brooks
shield brook Shields was supposed to be in a movie
HM living in a prostitute home, and the whole premise

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of the movie was that basically she was gonna be sold.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Off as a twelve year old that movie. I was
so crazy you brought that up.

Speaker 5 (01:10:57):
I was just telling my wife about inappropriate films that
came out in the seventies, from Midnight Cowboy to Alfie
with What's his Name with Michael Caine and the film
you're talking about called is It Little Bit? Pretty Baby, Baby,
Pretty Baby, which starts Brooks Shields and a not very

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well known Susan Sarandon as her mother.

Speaker 11 (01:11:23):
That's correct, and there was right there there was basiciel. Well,
you know, the premise, we don't have to go in it.
But the connection with the jeans add there's a big hoopla.
Bottom line is the judge went to court. The judge says,
you could be in the movie.

Speaker 9 (01:11:38):
Blah blah, blah blah blah.

Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
That turned into a sixteen year old Brooks shifteen or
sixteen year old Brookfield doing another movie I forgot the
name of it, for basically she was on a desert island.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
Yes, yeah, I can't remember what the name of that was.
But what I think Atkins was the kids. Was it
Christopher Atkins who played her love interest in that movie?

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Yeah, two k kids who were right who were stranded
on the desert eyeland. I can't remember the name of it.

Speaker 11 (01:12:03):
Damn movie, right, and that and that turned into Brooks
Shields basically making a jeens ad.

Speaker 9 (01:12:10):
Yep, I think they were.

Speaker 11 (01:12:11):
I think they were Calvin Klein.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
They were Calvin Kleins.

Speaker 11 (01:12:14):
And it was an absolute sensation. She put She put
those jeans. She made one hundred to millions of dollars
for Calvin Klein. And it was a hoop off off
the tagline in that one as well.

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Well, yes, because it was it was the same premise
that American Eagle kind of stole from the Calvin Klein ad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
It was about having good jeens.

Speaker 11 (01:12:38):
That's exactly what it was. I mean, if you compare
those ads, all it is a is a refresh that's
all it is. And then, of course, and then of
course the way they shot it was somewhat different.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
I love the fact that I will tell you this.
Let me interrupt you, Jim, I will tell you this.
I love this audience that I loved my chat room,
Raymond in Queen's Rights, in the chat room, the name.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Of the film Blue Lagoon. Why would I forget there?

Speaker 11 (01:13:05):
You go, yeah, there you go yeah, And I guess,
and I guess the tie up so I can get
off the air. Here is that more outrageous slander things
about about Americans or in this country than the media.
And I don't know how many politicians we don't even
have to we don't even have to name them. And
when you try to tell me that Trump's the worst
thing that ever happened, that Trump is the person who's

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said the worst things is the media. It's absolute BF.

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
I know, like I said, I don't. I can't even
listen to these knuckleheads. It was really really brand new
in twenty sixteen, but now it's I would even say
some of it, some of the charges were at least
original in twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Now it's a rap.

Speaker 11 (01:13:49):
Can I have one more short thing?

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Real quick.

Speaker 11 (01:13:52):
I don't have to like Trump. I don't care these
bombast I don't care about any of it. I was
told for thirty years that I should pay no intention
into the personal life of politicians, and that all started
with the Clintons.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
That's correct.

Speaker 11 (01:14:05):
Politicians is what's your policy? What's you doing for the country?
And Trump by lencks and bounds, that's the more for
this country in the path every year, and I don't
how many path president.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Even CNN admits that, my friend, Thanks you, Jim.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
Let's get our first check of weather and traffic with
Jason Ketterina and Mark Christener, who's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Back in the BPS traffic center. Not that he went anywhere,
but he's back. Hey, Mark, Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Is Reese on the radio? Brind don't say we didn't
more than you on news Talk Tennady w T I see,
I see.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Is it time to do the thing?

Speaker 10 (01:14:42):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
Yes, time to do the thing between row.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:14:55):
The one thing that always drives me crazy is that
I have to put things in the calendar. And I
got a meeting on and I have to put it
in a calendar to remind me. I got another schedule
at event tomorrow at nine o'clock and I gotta make
sure that I'm up for that, and I gotta put
all these schedules and reminders everywhere, so I have to
do the same thing well between rounds.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Not that I forget.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
You just have to make sure that I remember, and
I do everything I'm supposed to. I keep my memory fit.
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the winner.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
But you gotta go to reach on the radio dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Now I'm gonna say this not because I'm desperate. It's
gonna sound desperate, and I hurt it in my head.
I went, you're gonna sound desperate. But you know me,
I don't listen in my head. I just I'm just
one of those people just says what's on my mind sometimes.
And I'm guilty of saying things that you know, wear
my heart on my sleeve. I will admit I do.

(01:16:27):
But I'm saying this because I'm I'm dead serious.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
This is important. Just go to reach on the radio
dot com and just put your name in there. Just
go there.

Speaker 5 (01:16:37):
I would like to gauge how many people, and I
know a lot of you have inter trust me, I'm
gonna stack of you. But I would like to gauge
how many people are listening to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Because I know that you don't call all the time.
I get that.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
It's one of the one things I get all the
time when I meet with you folks, or I'll talk
to you privately, you'll send me news stories and send
me your telephone number and we'll talk off the air.
They always begin by saying, Hey, Reese, I'm so and
so I don't call and I'm not sure why, and
it's cool that you don't I get it. You just listening.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:17:13):
I love the fact that you that you say it
because it lets me know. You know, there are more
people listening than you know, just the folks who call.
But just send us some message. Go to Rese onradio
dot com. Let us know that you listening to the show.
Enter the contest, let us know you're there. Give us
some give us some acknowledgment that you're out there by

(01:17:35):
going to res on a radio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Okay, just say hey, Reese. Just wanted to say hi,
so we know that you're out there because I'm I
want to give you a shout out. Let you know
you're there.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Let you know that I know you that I'm Tom
O'Hanlon and you're listening to Reese on the radio on
wt IVE seen News Talk ten of these that's my man,
Tom o'hlen. Either his name says so much more. That guy,
he's got to be news anchor Tom o'hanlin with Extra
News and he just should be.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Do we have a picture of him?

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Can we get a picture of Tom o'hnlin and see
if there's some place that we have a picture of him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Rowland, I check Okay, I gotta show him some love.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
If not, text him, text him and say, you know,
send us an eight x twelve, don't autographic.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Salm will probably one autographoto of me.

Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
No, Tom, I know how tempted you are to do it, teazy.
I love Tom, O Henlen and thank you for doing that, Tom,
from the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
We'll get into the Connecticut Green Bank thing in a minute.
Let's go to Fred in Middletown. How are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
By the way, Fred, Before you say anything, my wife
just walked into the office and said to me, what
do you think about Middletown at some place to move to?

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
Okay? We No, I mean you could do a lot worse.
There's a lot going on here.

Speaker 11 (01:19:02):
It's got all.

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
The appeal in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Okay, I love it here.

Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
I don't see myself ever leaving. You might very well
thrive here. I could say that, right. I never leave Middletown,
so I can't compare it to anything. Oh, one of
the better places on earth. And I guess I heard
somewhere that some magazine you know, spitting about where to
go to, said Middletown is like top of the top

(01:19:29):
of the pot.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
I did see that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
I saw that article, and it's interesting because I've been
there when I'm when I lived there in two thousand
and four.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Uh, we visited Middletown for a little while. In fact,
i've been in Middletown now, I think about I've been
there at least three times.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
I went to a nightclub in Middletown twice, and then
we went to go visit some some listener that the
host was, you know, trying to visit.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
It was a long story.

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
I don't want to get into it anyway, but we
went there and one thing that I noticed about it
and why I fell in love with it, was that
it was nothing but trees every and being from New York,
it's that's a rarity, and it just felt so.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Connecticut. It's just it's just one of those things, maybe
my naivete.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
It's a two hundred and fifty square miles. It's vast,
and there's still lots of trees, and there's moromas. We're
just speaking of. The Army Corps of Engineers and dye
Quat they put in a base somewhere around here, and
they wanted to go there, like the one of the
last pristine places in New England, and they were like there, so.

Speaker 8 (01:20:28):
They found someplace else right to rally.

Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
It's that kind of place by the by.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
People get well, that's okay, you know what.

Speaker 5 (01:20:34):
I get to reintroduce myself to the state of Connecticut,
which I'm going to do a crapload of when I
get there. But I do want to say this. This
is another thing she meant. Middletown was the second place
you mentioned. The first thing she said was what do
you think of Waterbury?

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
No, no, no, no, yeah, there's less trees on Middletown
on Main Street.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Than there were a four man right, I can imagine
pro Boner.

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Sezerka King. But so well, actually
so that's I only had a few little trivialities. Anyway,
I spend a bit of time speaking to Don Donald.
Is that Don in he harfard uh.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
If if you're referring to someone who sings reggae.

Speaker 6 (01:21:17):
Yes, yes, oh my god, he's uh all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
He took me to.

Speaker 6 (01:21:23):
Task for when that coach didn't want to go to
the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Well, Donald is only called ones.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
And Donald was the one who expressed on the air
that his wife told him if if to mon agrovichel
so much, why ya listen?

Speaker 13 (01:21:41):
Oh my god, Well you've explained that many times, which
which I love because wait, look, his wife is never
going to understand his interest in this show.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
She's being practical and pragmatic in all of this.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
She's the one us up. Why would to listen to him?
Ons are crazy?

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
Will you used to call Feinberg every day?

Speaker 10 (01:22:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:22:05):
I referred to the Lakers. I go, yeah, you don't
want to go out there? And Todd was like, what
what what Spella bang bangers? Anyway? Ah that now you
bringing back Willis and Waiter and the news get you yes,
street music, and I'm taking to bring back the period
phrase of Fanny. What you're talking about will Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:22:23):
Yes, that's right. I totally forgot about that, Fred. Thank you, Fanny.
What you're talking about? Willis was a great name. I
forgot that. It's been two years time I heard it.

Speaker 10 (01:22:35):
It never got tired.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
I appreciate it, and of course now thank you. I
appreciate your Fred. Now, of course everybody is in the
chat room going nuts about where to move.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Let me read a couple.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
By the way, Joe, thank you so much, much appreciated.
Y'all did, says Middletown trash, New Britain all day.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Uh. Michael A says, Reese come to Burlington.

Speaker 5 (01:22:59):
Uh, live with the Bears only fifteen minutes from the
TIC studio. Okay, I will tell the wife Burlington Actually
Burlington does sound great.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Let me see what else.

Speaker 8 (01:23:11):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
Matt says that it's my wife who wants the autograph
from Tom o'hamlin, not me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
She loves his voice. She has all over that voice.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
Russell says, was listening on audio on Odissey right now.
I'm listening on ten eighty because my phone was freezing
up for some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
But Russell's listening to the show. Much appreciated Russell, I
appreciate you. And Joe says I listened every day on
WT I see love your show. No bs, thank you, Joe.
Much appreciated. Uh from you as well. Eric says, Oh,
I'm sorry, this is somebody else. Kathy says, I'm almost
always listening. I don't call in because I'm not that intelligent.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
That's not nice.

Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
You're fine, Vince says always Lin listening e Strakowski. I
think that's right. Middlefield way better. He says in the
chat room, and h Fritz the cat who I love,
by the way, tell me how Chrisy's doing. I miss her,
he says. Move to Bristol. I thought about Bristol. I

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kind of feel like that's is that too far from where?
I don't want to let me look if I can
put it to you anyway, And maybe this is gonna
sound horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
I'm a I know I told this story before.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
I don't drive anywhere that's longer than four songs.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
It's just the way I am.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
If I've got to travel somewhere, if I can't, if
I listen to more than four songs, it's too much
for a commute.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
It's too far.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
When I ran my U haul here, it's seven minutes
to drive there, seven to eight at best. When I
worked at U haul in Northern Virginia seven minutes. I
I don't like the commute.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
I just I don't want to be sitting in my
car fighting with traffic and fighting with other people in traffic.
I don't I need quick, fast, in a hurry. Carmela says,
I'm always here multitasking. God love you, because I can't
do that. Matt says, my house is in Bristol. Was
ten minutes away from the Farmington studio. Okay, ten minutes

(01:25:23):
not bad. Plainville Douglas says, okay, loving that. Oh man, God,
I'll get to that in a second. South windsor Susanne says,
or Susan, I'm parting, and Susan says. Brandon Ell says, uh,
Tim from Hampden would welcome you with open arms.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Yes he would.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Somebody we were, you know he he I was telling
you guys yesterday did he went on my Facebook page
and read my article in Substack about the Connecticut Sun
and how Connecticut has changed its ways from being environmentalist
and standing up for all of these liberal things and
then they've abandoned them because of Trump. And he wrote
something on my Facebook page on the article, called it

(01:26:16):
a rambling mass or some nonsense like that. And so
I said, you know what's wrong, Tim, You miss me
or something? And somebody wrote underneath that are you too
breaking up? I thought was great, and no, we're not
breaking up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
I loved him.

Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
He's never going anywhere, he is ride or die. He's
staying with me forever. He can never ever break up
with me ever, he is addicted. He is injected with hatred,
three Sun and radio and it's love. It's the same thing.
It's the same thing, love hate thin line. Christina says,

(01:26:59):
just moved a far Unionville section is lovely and tons
of trees.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
Yeah, I don't know. People don't. I don't. I don't
get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
I have a deathly fear of trees. I just like
neighborhoods with trees. I'll explain. I don't like trees hovering
over my house. Why any event of a storm or
a lightning strike, that son.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Of a gun's coming down on you. You know it right.

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
I don't want that, But I do want I want
a neighborhood that has trees. Why simple? The fall the
spring and the fall of my two favorite times of
the year. Fall more so than the spring. I love
jacket weather and I love trees turning different colors. There's
something about it that's just It's something about the New

(01:27:46):
England Air, which may be compromise with the way in
which they're burning trash in the state, but the New
England Air has always given me a sense of wow.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
And I will tell you this.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
It's where the Christmas smell lives Christmas in New England
is like no other place in the world. You know
it and I know it. I am not telling tales
out of school. It is the best I'm not telling it.
I'm not fabricating. It is the best feeling ever to
be in New England doing Christmas. The Christmas smell exists,

(01:28:23):
the lights, the roads, the atmosphere, all of it, even
the cold, all of it is perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
It is picturesque, it's Norman Rockwell. It's normal. It feels normal,
and that's the reason why I love it. Just as
Let's go to David Branford. How are you, sir? Hello, Hey,
what's up?

Speaker 14 (01:28:48):
I want to do a little right wing environmentalism. It
won't take very long. I hope it doesn't sound too preachy,
but at all you have made a good point about
the dye quat in the river that we republic and
actually care about the.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Environment, always have.

Speaker 14 (01:29:03):
So yesterday I'm riding up Root One in Branford and
a strip mall on the side of Root One where
the grass is burned to a crisp because there's no trees.
It's very hot, it's very dry, and a commercial landscaping
business on a device the size of a golf cart
professional fertilizer and pesticide applicator.

Speaker 6 (01:29:22):
It's really huge, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:29:24):
So it spreads a lot sure, and as you drive by,
it stinks. And it was the Finazi wat killing herbicide.
I recognize the smelt, and it's just a it's not
a warning, it's advice to all the listeners. The grass
is burned to a crisp. The herbicides, the fertilizer does nothing.
It makes the grass burn worse. The fertilizer steals the moisture.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
Right out of the grass.

Speaker 14 (01:29:46):
You're burning it to a crisp. August is not a
good time to spread fertilizer and wheat killer. And the
lawn services, of course make money by generating service. And
so it's August, there's not a lot of grass rowing. Hey,
let's spread some fertilizer. We've got time to do it.
And so that's my advice if you're at all concerned
about too much chemicals in the environment, you know, and

(01:30:09):
don't spread it when a hurricane's coming either. You don't
want too much water.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
That's right, and all the party.

Speaker 14 (01:30:13):
But you know what, the birds eat these little particles
because they're looking for food. Right, it's hot and dry,
and that's the that's the reason I called it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
No, No, it's absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
I hope you get to hear this, this expos a
I'm doing on the Connecticut Green Bank, which again just
it laughs in the face of this environmental stuff that
they're alleged to be doing.

Speaker 14 (01:30:35):
To promote it, Yeah, I heard you promote it, but
of course I don't know what it's about.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
That's okay.

Speaker 14 (01:30:41):
We get a bad knock, you know, us and Republicans
that we don't care about the environment will poison everyone
to death to make a buck and there's nowhere near
it's nowhere near that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:52):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:30:52):
We're very often scientific and we want the best thing
for everyone. We don't just pick the worst warp you know,
on a product and say, well, it's no better than
the worst thing it could possibly do, and say, yeah,
but that almost never happens.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (01:31:06):
Why would we throw out the good because of that
one bad? But you know what, you shouldn't be fertilizing
your lawn in August.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
Yeah, it's like the hottest month of the year. Thank you, buddy,
I appreciate you. You got it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
Speaking of which, so when we come back, let me
give you a couple of details on this, and I'll
break this whole thing down to you. So apparently there
was a House bill that allowed this to happen. This
House bill sort of made it possible to burn garbage
to create fuel. And the Sierra Club has been on

(01:31:44):
the backs of the Connecticut Green Bank for doing this
because it goes against everything the Connecticut Green Bank is done.
In going through this, I've ended up talking finding out
all of this other information, like the four hundred million
dollars that comes from you from the ever source bill,

(01:32:07):
four hundred million dollars which is then used to get
private equity firms or private firms to donate money to
the Connecticut Green Bank. So I had asked the simple
question to Grock, Well, after they receive some two point

(01:32:28):
eight billion dollars, after taking the four hundred million dollars
from the taxpayers, why not pay that money back because
they got the money right, So we give them four
hundred million dollars. They then use that money to lure
others to donate money. Why not give the four hundred
million dollars back and then use that on these projects.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Well, they don't do that. What's worse. What's worse is.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
That the Connecticut Green Bank is allowed to at least
any information they want without any oversight or any audit.
And in one of the stories we looked into, they
spent in twenty twenty three one point two billion dollars
on over seventy five hundred homes. Most of those homes

(01:33:21):
are low income families who make about thirty to fifty
thousand dollars a year. The way we looked at the money,
there's five hundred million dollars unaccounted for.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
We'll talk about it when we return. Let's get to
some weather and traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
We've got Bob Larson spelling infor Jason Caterina and Mark
Christopher's in the BPS Traffick Center.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Hey, Mark Day, Locked In, Locked In Race on the
radio is on WTI see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
I gotta read so many messages from so many places,
and do so many emails. Everybody's conducting business and getting
their stuff wrapped up while we're here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
I want to read a couple of.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Other comments that are in the chat room anywhere and everywhere.
And I also want to say congratulations to Chrissy. Will
do that in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Let me take Bill in Weathersfield real quick. How are
you start?

Speaker 10 (01:34:14):
I'm good, reef yourself, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Well, yeah, they're talking about trash the energy. And you know,
there used to be a plant off here in Hartford
and they stopped burning trash over there, I think two
years ago. So I'm not sure what trash energy plants
are talking about is polluting the year here in Connecticut,
but it's definitely not.

Speaker 10 (01:34:32):
Here in Hartford.

Speaker 5 (01:34:33):
Well, yes, that is one hundred percent true. I am
going to get to with some of the details. What
it's called is apparently a waste to energy project that
the Connecticut Green Bank is involved in. And apparently this
is something that, according to reports, says that what they're

(01:34:57):
burning not only amidst greenhouse gases, but also emits mercury
into the air.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
And so is this a new plant that they're gonna
build or they.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Know this is currently happening.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
This is currently happening in the state of Connecticut, according
to a report by the Sierra Club, who had been
questioning this for the longest.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
I'm gonna do some research tonight. I'll tuy you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
You got you got it, You got it? Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
I'll talk a little bit about it coming up real soon.
Sounds good, right, you gotta hurt thank you again. Like
I said, it flies in the face of all this
stuff that we've heard, Right, I call myself crazy in
going down this rabbit hole, because that's what it felt
like last night. The more and more I started asking questions,
the more stuff I started was like, well, well, tell

(01:35:49):
me more about that, and it just kept coming up.
It's like this controversial thing. I was like, what, what
controversial thing? Tell me more about that. It's sure enough.
It was just all of this stuff and going really here,
and the legislature promoted this no one and when I
tell you what the vote was on it, it's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
It's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
The money that's being doled out to the Connecticut Green Bank,
to the tune of over three billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
The process they gave up.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
Listen, let me give you this before we go to
weather and traffic from twenty eleven to I think what
I think it was ten years starting in twenty eleven.
In ten years, the Connecticut Green Bank doled out money
to seventy five hundred homes in ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
In fiscal year twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (01:36:55):
They did the same amount seventy five hundred homes, and
they claim that they spent one point two billion dollars
on those renovations to make them eco friendly. But the
breakdown in numbers don't make sense. It leads to question
close to seven hundred million dollars even if every home

(01:37:15):
got retrofitted the full package.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
We'll talk about that when we get back.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
Let's get weather in traffic Bob Larson's Infortation Caterina.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
Mark Christopher's in the VPS Traffic Center.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
The self proclaimed love child of Rush Limba running a
strange program. You already on the radio on News Talk
ten eighty WT.

Speaker 5 (01:37:35):
I see all right, folks, As promised, I'm gonna break
down this green energy craziness with the Connecticut Green Bank.
So bear with me because there's a lot of green
energy jargon in all of this, and I'm going to
try to make it somewhat interesting. Sometimes your eyes can
glaze over. Lord knows mind did in going into So

(01:37:59):
here's the deal, and I'll break it down to you
this way.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
So my question was, is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:09):
Or is not the Connecticut Green Bank spending any money
on burning waste for energy? And I thought it told me, no,
it's no longer doing that. So I had to ask
it again. I said, is it or isn't it? So

(01:38:32):
then I said, you know what, let me just stop.
Are they burning energy? Do they have any waste to
energy projects that burn garbage or trash or anything for
that matter for fuel. Here was the response. The Connecticut
Green Bank continues to fund certain waste to energy projects.
We will refer to that as waste to energy projects

(01:38:54):
or WTE as of August of twenty twenty five, specifically
those involving anaerobic digestion of organic waste in other words,
food and farm waste to produce biogas for electricity, heat,
or renewable natural gas. This aligns with their environmental infrastructure strategy,

(01:39:18):
which emphasizes sustainable alternatives to traditional incineration or landfilling, reducing
methane emissions, and supporting state diversion goals. But then we
got into the details. I asked, what is the controversy?
Here is the controversy. The practice of waste to energy,

(01:39:44):
particularly in the context of the Connecticut Green Bank's involvement,
is controversial for several reasons, depending on the specific technology
e g. Anaerobic digestion versus incineration and bakeholder perspectives. While
the Green Bank primarily funds anaerobic digestion for organic waste,

(01:40:07):
the broader waste to energy landscape, including the potential for
incineration due to twenty twenty three statute changes fuels debate.
Below are key reasons for the controversy, grounded in available information.
One environmental and health concerns. This is their problem and

(01:40:29):
why they criticize the Green Bank. Traditionally, waste to energy
incineration burning mixed municipal solid waste releases pollutants like dioxiins, furins,
heavy metals e g. Mercury and lead, and greenhouse gases
CO two and methane. These can harm air quality and

(01:40:52):
public health, particularly in communities near facilities. Critics include the
Sierra Club and the Connecticut Zero Wate Coalition. They argue
that the incideration contradicts the Green green Banks clean energy
mission and it generates significant emissions compared to renewable sources
like solar and wind. Anaerobic digestion concerns. While anaerobic digestion,

(01:41:18):
the Green Bank's focus is less polluting, producing biogas and
digestate from organic waste is still still raises concerns. Potential
methane leaks from digestors, if not properly managed, can contribute
to greenhouse gas emissions. Methane is twenty five times more

(01:41:39):
potent than CO two. Additionally, the digestate application as fertilizer
can lead to nutrition runoff, impacting water quality if mismanaged.
This is the reason, real reason why Sierra Club is
the most angry, and when I read it, you'll understand

(01:42:03):
environmental justice in Connecticut waste facilities. Historically, incinerators like the
one now closed in Hartford's and the Hartford plant which
the caller just talked about, are often located in low
income or minority communities, raising quality concerns about the disproportionate

(01:42:23):
exposure to pollutants. The Green Bank's potential to find to
fund incineration under Public Act twenty three one seventy again
Public Act twenty three one seventy from twenty twenty three,
which removed municipal solid waste from its non clean energy definitions.

(01:42:46):
This was a bill that removed this prohibition, allowing the
Green Bank to do this. It heightened fears of perpetuating
this pattern, even though no such projects are currently funded,
but it doesn't mean they're not happening. Their conflict with
zero waste and circular economy goals. Environmental groups argue that

(01:43:11):
waste to energy, especially incineration, undermines Connecticut goal of diverting
sixty percent of municipal solid waste from disposal through recycling,
composting and reduction. Incineration destroys materials that could be recycled
or compost reducing incentives to invest in zero waste infrastructure.
Even anaaerobic digestion, while supporting organic diversion, is seen by

(01:43:38):
some in a less preferable solution compared to composting, which
preserves more material for soil enhancement.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
So people are saying.

Speaker 5 (01:43:49):
That what the what this provision allowed them to do.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Was the burn garbage.

Speaker 5 (01:43:59):
That's the bottom line. And the other part, the part
that makes this so crazy is again looking up the
fiscal numbers of twenty twenty three, over two and a
half billion dollars. It had to have been that, right,
More than yeah, about two and a half billion dollars

(01:44:19):
came from private firms into the Connecticut Green Bank. Now,
I couldn't understand, well if they were getting that kind
of money. What do they need the public's money for?
It makes no sense. Well, it kept explaining to me
that they need that money to lure investment privately. So

(01:44:39):
in my view, I'm saying, well, if the people who
are struggling to make ends meet and are looking for relief,
instead of borrowing one hundred and fifty five million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
So that they could spend another thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:44:53):
Million on, what are ev chargers? Why isn't this going
through the Connecticut Green Bank. Why wouldn't that be something
they would invest in. What do we need to borrow
one hundred and fifty five million dollars for and give
thirty million dollars to a project that you abandoned.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Just last year? So they explained, because.

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
My obvious question was, wait a minute, they got two
and a half billion dollars from private donors, why.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Not give it that four hundred million dollars back?

Speaker 5 (01:45:25):
No answer, no interest. They can't give the money back.
They won't, so they have to invest it. So I
starts checking in the projects that they were promoting. Seventy
five hundred families actually get these. They can borrow from
the Connecticut Green Bank low interest or no interest loans

(01:45:48):
to improve their homes to make them energy efficient. Right,
A lot of people do that. The incentive is there.
It makes sense, right, some people to subsidize that through
the government. Get it, understand it. Not a fan, but
I get it. But you give these folks alone. And
they wanted to prioritize families making up to fifty thousand

(01:46:09):
dollars a year to retrofit their homes.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
So they do that.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
And I ended up looking at the numbers of what this,
that and the third cost? What's it cost to put
a solo array on the home, what's it take to
make put any energy efficient windows in the home, what's
it take to I don't know, put new heaters or
air conditioners in there that are environmentally sound or safe

(01:46:38):
for whatever. The nonsense is that the target that they use. Well, listen,
I looked it up and even if one house got
alone to do everything the whole kitten kaboodle, it would
cost roughly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which I said, okay,

(01:47:04):
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to get the whole
kitten kaboodle. So let's try this in a very fundamental way.
Let's go one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I'll do
that on my little calculator here times seventy five hundred homes.

(01:47:26):
If that were the case, we would be looking at
one point one two five billion dollars. But that's the
problem because every home did not get one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to retrofit their home. The average cost

(01:47:49):
of every home was about seventy thousand, seventy thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
So where'd the other money go?

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
It begs the question, and there are no records, there's
no audit, there's no nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
I looked, I looked everywhere. There's no numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:48:09):
They don't even produce them, they don't even provide them.

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
How much of the contractor's getting paid? Is there a
pay to play?

Speaker 5 (01:48:22):
Who's getting who's getting their palms greased, their their pockets lined?

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
None of it makes sense. It just doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:48:32):
One point two billion dollars one point two billion dollars,
and nobody is getting the whole kit and go. Nobody
is borrowing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on their
home to retrofit it to make it energy friendly or
green friendly.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
No one is.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
There are no reports of that in fact, the low
income households could never borrow that amount of money.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
So I know it's bogus, but a lot of this
stuff is dirty. It just is.

Speaker 5 (01:49:10):
And it's not because I say so. The numbers don't
add up.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
They just don't.

Speaker 5 (01:49:18):
And unless somebody can provide that to me, I mean,
why not make those numbers public.

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
Your tax dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:49:29):
That's you, that ever source bill that you're paying, that's
going to them. It's going to the Green Bank, And
if they're doing good, they should be able to present
you with the evidence that it is. Somebody explained to
me how in twenty twenty three they I guess, I

(01:49:50):
don't know what's the term.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
They may green.

Speaker 5 (01:49:54):
Friendly some seventy seven thousand homes and they spent one
point two billion dollars. Even if it were one home
it was more money to retro fit than the other
one was. It still doesn't make sense. And I looked
at every number there is and I can't find it anywhere.

(01:50:18):
When we come back, we'll take your phone calls look
into the story. I'm not done looking into this. I
told you I wasn't. I talked about the Green Bank,
was it last summer and I said I was going
to look into it, and I finally got some places
where I can get some numbers or at least get
some information. And I don't know what's going on in Connecticut,

(01:50:40):
but this is and I think it's it's almost like
it's a hideaway deal. You know, it's just a little
corner of the country nobody's paying attention to, a little
dirty things are going along, going on, and doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
Know nobody's paying attention. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:51:00):
I feel like that guy who moved into a town
and find out the whole place is dirty.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
It's just dirty.

Speaker 5 (01:51:09):
I'll go some more on this, I'll find out some
more information. I can't wait to get there, folks, if
you I've never been more excited to be somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
I can't wait to get there.

Speaker 5 (01:51:22):
I'm gonna knock on every door, Oh baby, I'm just
gonna spend every day.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
Hi, Hey, yes, Freeze.

Speaker 10 (01:51:29):
How are you.

Speaker 5 (01:51:32):
I'm gonna do it every day every day. Something's rotten
in Denmark. Ladies and gentlemen, I know you know it.
I don't have to tell convince you. But the rest
of these folks who are going along to get along.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
That's got it. Something's gotta give.

Speaker 5 (01:51:50):
Just does Barbara says, can't wait to your arrival. Here
are the towns within a ten minute drive of Farmington. Okay,
all right, I appreciate you. But those of you who
didn't understand four songs?

Speaker 14 (01:52:02):
Long?

Speaker 5 (01:52:03):
Is that when I get in the car, when I
go on my when I play four songs, I should
be at the end of the fourth song, I should
be where I need to go five.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
Songs, You're too far. That's just the way it is.
Once it goes.

Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
Once it goes to five songs, I'm like, I'm into
the five songs. Where is this place I won't go?
I've done, I've turned around, and I listen to four songs.
The reason why is no album has more than four
great songs. Just no album unless somebody can tell me otherwise.
I'm sure you can name a few, but not most.

(01:52:41):
You know, Michael Jackson, Lauren Hill. I don't think there's
a lot of people out there who.

Speaker 2 (01:52:47):
Can name an entire album where every song was a banger.
It's not many. Let's get to Mark Christopher. He's in
the BPS trapping center. Mark.

Speaker 5 (01:52:55):
Can you name an album where every song was a
certified banger?

Speaker 8 (01:53:01):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:53:02):
I have one in mind for me with Well, I'm
a Steely Dan fanatic, so I think Asia, every song
on that album is a banger. But I'm not sure
what your definition of banger is.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
So you would play it to no matter what, and.

Speaker 15 (01:53:15):
Every song Asia Steely Dan, no question about that, all right,
I'll give you that. When I love Stevie Steely Dan,
I'm not gonna lie. Walter and Donald they got it
down many many times.

Speaker 1 (01:53:28):
Hey, if you're the hour the bags out, punch Punch,
it's Reese on the radio on w T. I see
news Talk eight.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
Oh you know what time it is, It's Hollywood News that.

Speaker 9 (01:53:46):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
I say it every day. I look forward to doing
it because I love movies. I have not to give
it up on Phil.

Speaker 5 (01:53:57):
I know a lot of you have because you got
all these beautiful systems at home you can watch movies.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
I just love the movies. I'm just just going to
I am going to get people back into the movies.

Speaker 1 (01:54:07):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:54:07):
I used to do this thing at our former sister
station up in Boston, where we would go to the
movies together.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Two thousand and eight was a great year.

Speaker 5 (01:54:14):
Of course, we had tropic thunder, the first Iron Man
and then we had Hancock with Will Smith. But you
know you buyer two out of three ain't bad? Oh
you didn't like handcoffs not that much, not that much.

Speaker 10 (01:54:27):
I liked.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
I enjoyed it. It had it had I just like
you know what I like? You know why I enjoyed it.
I'm what's up? You got cut off? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
I wanted to go on.

Speaker 16 (01:54:37):
Yeah, I enjoyed it because, well, first of all, I'm
a weirdo.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
I like songs that people hate, but I like them
for a weird movies. Okay, so that makes me like.

Speaker 16 (01:54:48):
I'll hear like a triangle ding song at a certain
part of the song, and that makes me like the
entire song, gotcha, And I would listen to the whole
song just to wait for that one ding.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
So that's that.

Speaker 16 (01:55:01):
The partner Hancock guy like is when they played a ludacros.

Speaker 8 (01:55:03):
So on move.

Speaker 16 (01:55:05):
And he was busting through like walls and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Yeah, that made me like the whole movie. Well, let
me get to this bit of Hollywood news.

Speaker 5 (01:55:13):
This isn't a real real Hollywood news story, but it
is a debate that is happening, uh to moviegoers. So
apparently this one company set out put out the top.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Five football movies list.

Speaker 5 (01:55:26):
Ever, if you're watching on wt I, I mean sorry,
on recent Radio dot com, you can see this. But
here are what they call the top five football movies
of all time, starting with number five, Adam Sandler's water Boy,
number four, Friday Night Lights, number three another Adam Sandler movie, Yes,

(01:55:49):
number two The blind Side, and number one is Remember
the Titans.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
So if you want to, if you want to chime.

Speaker 5 (01:55:57):
In on this subject while you're talking about whatever we
discuss yes today, please let me know think about it.
What was or what you think was missing on this
list again, water Boy, Friday Night Lights, Longest Yard, The
blind Side or Remember the Titans? Which was your favorite
football movie. Now let's get to Mark Christopher who's in

(01:56:22):
the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:56:23):
Hey, Mark Raese on the radio, is getting ready to
drop some knowledge on wt I see news, Robert.

Speaker 5 (01:56:32):
We've got so much stuff to get into and of
course your phone calls, which we'll do in a second.
So again, if you want to opine, people have already started.
Even John Silva has joined in the conversation, saying that
Brian's Song is the greatest football movie of all time, I.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
Will say this.

Speaker 5 (01:56:51):
According to Entertainment Weekly, John Silva, Brian's Song came in
number nine. According to entertain aiment Weekly, you don't want
to know where if if John Silva loves Brian's song,
you are going to hate the movies.

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
Came ahead of it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:10):
So get ready, because I'm gonna tell this just for
John s. I just if Silva there, can he get
on the mic real quick? I think, John, have you
that he's in the other room?

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
Okay? I I really, I really wanted to.

Speaker 5 (01:57:23):
So one that I couldn't believe wasn't on the list
was Rudy according to Entertainment Weekly, rude.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Okay, John Silva, can I get you on the mic
real quick? Yes, sir? How you doing? Boss man? Good man?

Speaker 5 (01:57:33):
Listen you put Brian Song is the greatest football movie
of our time in your in your opinion right in
my opinion? Yeah, okay, no, no, no no, I'm not not
chiding you for that. I'm just telling you that. According
to Entertainment Weekly, the list that they gave will probably
drive you through the wall, right, So let me give them.
I'm gonna go from eight to number one. You might
agree with a couple of them, So Brian's song on

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this list. In fact, I just did this wrong. I
don't know why I did, but I have to go
back down. Sorry, I'm going all the way back up
to Brian's song, which was far worse than on this list. Sorry,
Brian's song was listed number seventeen. I apologize. Yeah, I
can't believe it. Yeah, even worse Number sixteen. Invincible with
Mark Wahlberg. Ice, Yeah, no, Ice, Cube's the long shot.

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You wouldn't have seen. It's a kid's film. Water Boy
came in fourteen, The Express in two thousand and eight.
Never heard of it, Draft Day with Kevin Costner. Never
heard of it, but never saw it. Okay, Palmer with
Justin Timberlake is not really a football movie, but okay,
we'll skip it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Varsity Blues came in ten. Do you remember that one?
Remember the title that was? Okay? Didn't see it? Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:58:46):
There's a movie called with Brendan Frasler called school Ties
with what's the kid from? Not Ben Affleck but the
other one Matt Damon. Yeah, school Ties in ninety two.
The original Longest Yard came in eight seven. Was any
Givens say? I know you saw that one?

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
Uh six was Heaven Can Wait. That's not really a
football movie. No, that's about a football player, right. I
don't know why exactly. This one was a television movie,
so I know that this really shouldn't count Monday Night Mayhem,
which is about Monday Night football and that whole controversy
with what's his.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
Name Howard Cosell. Yeah, no, this is a theatrical film
that was on exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:59:28):
Okay, so they put that Friday Night Lights came in
the number four, which everybody knows that one, but they're
throwing in Will Smith's concussion as number three. That's not
a I mean, it's not really an evasive you know,
football football exactly, So I don't I don't think it counts.

(01:59:50):
I think we'll take that off. Of course. Number two
is Rudy, which I thought would have been higher on
anybody's what.

Speaker 2 (01:59:57):
I never did. I never saw Who's Yours? Either, so
kill me?

Speaker 5 (02:00:00):
Well, no, Who's Who's Yours? You have to see just
because of Dennis Hopper. He's fantastic in that movie. And
number one, which I think is kind of a giveaway
because it's Entertainment Weekly.

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
Jerry Maguire. I think that's I.

Speaker 5 (02:00:15):
Was with football players, but again, not a football not
a football movie exactly, not either. But I think it's
a rom com. I think it's fair to call that
a rom com. But it's You're right, it deals with
football related themes, but not a football movie. I'm I'm
with you on that one as a kid and my
eyes out and I still do totally get it. I

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understand you probably feel the dreams guy too.

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Yeah, well you got me there, Thanks, Jean Solvar. I
appreciate you, buddy. We'll see your news.

Speaker 10 (02:00:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
Let's get to the phones. Uh, plenty of people, got
plenty of stuff to talk about it.

Speaker 5 (02:00:47):
If you've got a football movie you want to throw
and you can of course, let's go to Armand and Avon.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
How are you Armand? Long time? No here from Hya?

Speaker 7 (02:00:55):
You doing? Thanks taking my call. So we've talked about
green Bag before, Yes, we Yeah, I've got something something
new to add that you can look into. So to
set the foundation, if you remember, you remember the seam
of four issue with Lama and his wife, Yes, when
he came to COVID testing. Yes, okay, so there was

(02:01:16):
a question about the relationship and if there was financial
gains associated with it. I'm not sure if you're aware
of this, but Katie Dykes, who was the commission commissioner
of the Connecticut Deep, is married to the executive vice
president of Financing of the Green Bank.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
What's That's correct?

Speaker 7 (02:01:40):
So the question I would have, and maybe we should ask,
does do any of the programs that the DEEP promote
in position benefit the financing executives in the Green Bank,
either from a bonus or a compens perspective.

Speaker 5 (02:02:01):
Indeed, because they tout that they provide twenty nine thousand
jobs and I'm going.

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
In what field?

Speaker 5 (02:02:13):
Like how that's a lot of jobs for a bank
to provide.

Speaker 7 (02:02:20):
Right, And what I'm thinking is, you know, typically at
the executive level, it's the amount of money that moves
through your department or your desk that dictates your bonus
program and your compensation. Correct, So the dep is promoting
programs that are let's say, teed up to go through
the Green Bank. In essence, it could be artificihing, artificially

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inflating the income that he's getting as the executive of financer.

Speaker 5 (02:02:49):
Gotcha, all right? I get your angle now, Yes, that
totally makes sense.

Speaker 2 (02:02:54):
So we need to.

Speaker 5 (02:02:55):
Find out whether or not. There are other books related
to compensation.

Speaker 7 (02:03:00):
Right, you know this, and I'm not saying there's any
impropriety there, right, but that relationship is a little tight
and makes me uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 (02:03:08):
Yeah, I'm not exactly this is and I guess that's
one of the things that I noticed. I didn't really
dig deep, but I'm now a lot of people are
nudging me in the direction you're talking about by going
to Katie and Mackie and saying, what's going on here?
Because that's you know, marriages are strange bedfellows when you're

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both in the same industry. There's a degree of nepotism
and incestuous relationships in all of that where it's never
it's never without scandal. And again, as I pointed out
these numbers that are associated with like seventy five hundred
homes retrofitting them to be green energy homes, the numbers

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don't add up because none of these homes. If you've
got a low income loan from the Connecticut Green Bank,
you didn't see a one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
loan in your home. You would have never qualified for
that under any circumstances. So there's a lot of money
changing hands, and we're talking about three and a half
billion dollars.

Speaker 7 (02:04:10):
As I say, you know, and I think you're on
the right path. There's something questionable about the Green Bank,
how they're compensated, the influence of the deep, and how
tightly aligned they are as it relates to each other's
success and if there's any personal game there.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
Indeed, Yeah, good point, thanks Armon.

Speaker 5 (02:04:30):
Like I said, I'm on this line as I'm learning
more and more about it. I'm not bringing anything to
the forefront until I get like solid information. And when
I found out this thing about how much money it's
spent in who they service seventy five hundred homes at
the tune of one point two billion dollars makes no
sense to me, And sure enough it didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
It's sure enough didn't. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you.
Think you got it. Let's go to Francis in Plainville.
How are you, Francis?

Speaker 10 (02:04:58):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 11 (02:04:59):
Ree.

Speaker 17 (02:05:00):
I gotta throw up a couple of football movies, Okay,
New Rockney's Story, because I gotta win one for the Giffer.
Of course, correctly, it's an incredibly important film, uh, because
they're Ronnie Reague.

Speaker 2 (02:05:15):
Of course.

Speaker 10 (02:05:16):
The second is just a enjoyable film. It's The Last
Boy Scout.

Speaker 5 (02:05:26):
Okay, that's a football related movie. But I'm not gonna lie.
Let me tell you this, Francis. I love that movie.

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
Boy do I love that.

Speaker 10 (02:05:37):
Movie and the past that hits the politician? Yes, I mean,
come on, that's a great football pass.

Speaker 5 (02:05:45):
That is a great football pass. It's a great movie.
It's directed by your director. I cannot stand Tony Scott.
But it's still a great action film. It's a movie
that people don't really reference when it comes to Bruce Willis. Uh,
but it's a it's a great it's a fun Bruce
Willis movie. It is underrated, it's got halle Berry, it's

(02:06:07):
it's just it's got everything.

Speaker 2 (02:06:08):
It's a really really good movie.

Speaker 10 (02:06:10):
And it's an absolute guilty pleasure.

Speaker 5 (02:06:13):
And what is the name of the guy who runs
the league, Sonny Mark Coone?

Speaker 2 (02:06:18):
Remember I told you I know that movie like the
back of my hands. Thank you man.

Speaker 10 (02:06:26):
The reason I called, however, yes, was the talking about
the trash to energy, yes, and the organic burning. I
was actually in the legislature for that term, by one
term in the legislature.

Speaker 2 (02:06:39):
Wow. Okay, so you know about this vote.

Speaker 10 (02:06:43):
Yeah, I mean I can't remember. Basically we had before us.
So we're trying to shut down all trashed energy, okay,
and they've been shutting them down. The Brainerd facility wasn't
near any neighborhoods, but I mean there's an anti trashed
energy we used to leave the country in it. One

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of the problems is we have no landfill space in
the state, so you're either trucking it out and usually
what happens, especially it gets shipped by barge out of
the country, it's usually a lot more environmentally damaging because
it gets stumped in the ocean. Wow, the Third world

(02:07:29):
will pick through some stuff. They're not even doing that anymore.
They're basically getting dumped trashed energy with the modern scrubbers.
A lot of the stuff that when the Sierra Club,
who I've supported over the years. I'm on the Republican side,
but understand, I was the guy in the hippie commune

(02:07:52):
I lived in briefly in college, who's in charge of recycling.

Speaker 5 (02:07:55):
So you were very familiar with the Sierra Club, So
you had did you have a membership?

Speaker 10 (02:08:00):
No, but I would either their calendars and whatnot. Over
the years. The problem is what's happened with a lot
of the environmental movement. It goes to this kind of
purity that doesn't exist in the real world. Right, of course,
So the main bill that came before the Environment Committee
was the organ burning of organic waste and getting energy

(02:08:23):
through it. Right. The problem with it from an economic
point of view is you've already got to pre pick
everything out and where you're in terms of the trash energy.
You're getting the tipping fees. You know, Okay, town's got
to get.

Speaker 2 (02:08:42):
Rid of the trash.

Speaker 10 (02:08:44):
You're getting the tipping fee, and then you're burning and
you're then getting the money from the energy, So you're
basically getting too revenue.

Speaker 8 (02:08:52):
Right.

Speaker 10 (02:08:53):
The legislature was given the task of okay, and there
was no support for trash energy. We're going to go
to this model, but there's no existing market in it.
It's going to cost so there's got to be monies
put into it. I had problems with it, but I

(02:09:17):
I'm more of the trash energy view.

Speaker 5 (02:09:20):
So so you approved the main bill, but you approved.

Speaker 2 (02:09:24):
Of this bill.

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
You didn't vote for this bill, I presume, right, I
can't remember.

Speaker 10 (02:09:30):
In the end, I think I might have gotten a
deal to keep trash energy. There was a threat to
get rid of all trash energy. So a lot of
times when you're voting, it's you're damned if you do,
you're dampty if you don't.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
And it's not a clean bill anyway, right, There's.

Speaker 10 (02:09:46):
No such thing. Yeah, so a lot of other stuff.
By the time this got out of Environment and got
to the floor, there had been combined with a bunch
of other bills, gotcha Energy, Environment, et cetera. And what
happens with these things is because we don't vote on

(02:10:08):
clean bills.

Speaker 5 (02:10:10):
Right, which ends up with these let me let me
let me interject, Francis, because we almost got to go.
But you make a very very good point about the
fact that it's not a clean bill. One of the
things that I could not find, which was very weird,
was that when I looked it up, I asked who
introduced the bill to reduce the restrictions on waste to energy?

(02:10:34):
You know, there's no record of it. It had to
be introduced, but there's nothing well that that.

Speaker 10 (02:10:39):
Would have probably come through somewhere after it had come
out of committee, yep, and was put You know, you
get these Franken bills. And one of the problems with
the Franken bills is we have the fungibility of money.
So you're voting for something, you got how many revenue
streams and attachments the money shift over, so you have

(02:11:06):
departments that then can move monies around after the bill
has been passed, right, And it's very hard to follow it,
which is one of the things we really need clean legislation,
not only at the state level, but also the federal level,
because it's almost impossible to understand what the long term

(02:11:26):
budget implications are.

Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
Oh yeah, it's been It's been an argument of mind
for years. It's been an argument of mind for years.
Thank you, friends. I'm glad that you recall this. But
trust me, I'm not letting up on this.

Speaker 5 (02:11:37):
So make sure, oh no, when I address this again,
give me a holler back.

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
Okay, we gotta. I gotta keep digging on this. I
just know it. I'm getting more information as we speak.
Let's take a break.

Speaker 5 (02:11:51):
Let's get some weather in traffic with Jason Well, no
from the Jason Kennery.

Speaker 2 (02:11:54):
Is not here.

Speaker 5 (02:11:55):
Mark Christomer's here, He's in a BBS graphic center anymore.

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Speaker 5 (02:12:16):
Oh, it's been a news fill day on res on
the radio time for what happened was? What happened was
today that the beginning of the show, We broke news
that an investigation by the group Friends of the Room

(02:12:37):
Project Ferratas is going to be releasing on Thursday, implicates
none other than former Attorney General Bill barr as, the
person who was responsible for the Rico case that was
brought against Donald J.

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
Trump by Fanny Willis.

Speaker 5 (02:12:54):
You can go to my page, go to my Facebook
page to watch the video yourself that Project Veritas released today.
Today's video is talking about this scheme to get people
visas to work for companies that don't exist, to help
wealthy billionaires redundant but billionaires nonetheless. But inside this expose

(02:13:14):
they tease other videos that are coming out. Apparently it
is a part of a three part series. Part two
will be released on Thursday. If you missed it at
the beginning of the show, I told you that I
asked Project fartas because they got me.

Speaker 2 (02:13:26):
The exclusive before they released it to everyone.

Speaker 5 (02:13:30):
I asked the question because I knew I saw it
in the sort of preview of this video that Bill
Barr and Fanny Willis of Fanny Willis fame, you know
Willis and Wade fame, where it's someone in Cahoot's well.
I asked them, did Bill Barr set up Donald Trump

(02:13:53):
with Fanny Willis? And their response was yes. More details
in Part two airs on Thursday. I'm sure I will
get an exclusive before it airs. It usually they roughly
put it out about noon one o'clock. I'm sure they'll
send it to me early. I'm in, you know, contact
with them all day every day. From what they told me.

(02:14:15):
In fact, I'll go so far. Let me do this
because you know, I really don't keep a lot of
stuff from you guys.

Speaker 2 (02:14:21):
Let me read you the text message that I got today.
Excuse me.

Speaker 5 (02:14:27):
The text message I got today was goodness, gracious, do
I not have it here?

Speaker 2 (02:14:33):
Where's the heck? The text message I just had?

Speaker 5 (02:14:35):
I got everybody else but the people, and I'm looking
for where is it?

Speaker 2 (02:14:39):
Huh? I don't have it now? Anyway?

Speaker 5 (02:14:41):
Well, the text message are contact that I did received.
They said that they have something even bigger coming.

Speaker 2 (02:14:47):
After this story. So you're gonna lay out this story.

Speaker 5 (02:14:50):
And of course, according to it, Armstrong Williams, conservative talk
show hosts part of the Bush administration, was part of
that two thousand and five scandal, were received over a
quarter million dollars to promote No Child Left Behind. Yeah,
apparently he's at the center of this. So go to
my res on the radio website, go to my Facebook page.

(02:15:11):
You'll be able to watch the story there. It's about
ten minutes long, and to break the whole thing down.
And in that video you will see the connection between
Vanny Willis and Bill Barr. And of course, as Project
Veritas said to me, Bill Barr was associated with the
Rico case. According to them, and this whistleblower whose named
Patricia Lellis, it was Bill Barr's idea, let's get traffic

(02:15:34):
at weather, Bob Larson's in for Jason Katarina, the name
I keep forgetting, and Mark Christopherson, the BPS traffic cet.

Speaker 2 (02:15:42):
I don't know why I forget Bob Larson.

Speaker 10 (02:15:43):
When is he on?

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Is he usually in the morning or in the afternoon.

Speaker 15 (02:15:47):
I would see that Bob afternoon afternoon we have because
Bob Cox does our weather in the morning. The morning
I missing. I haven't talked to him in a while.
Cox is a good man. He's a very very good miralest.
So yeah, both of those guys just work in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (02:16:01):
Generally hear something.

Speaker 15 (02:16:02):
Bob Cox is the first person, righty, Bob, because Bob's
our guy in the morning.

Speaker 14 (02:16:07):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 2 (02:16:08):
Everybody? You know who it is?

Speaker 5 (02:16:10):
You know it's on the radio, Frederick Douglas of the
twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (02:16:15):
It's w T i C News talk.

Speaker 5 (02:16:19):
All right, folks, we are almost getting ODDI here, let
me address a couple of things in and around the
chat room. Of course, Brian's song is all anyone could
talk about. Great movie, great movie, And of course it
is now prompted a conversation about the best baseball movies,
and Laurie and and Craig are in the chat room

(02:16:44):
debating which is the best baseball movies out there? But
before I get to them, let me get to Rama.
Rama says, no mention of Goldie Hawn's Wildcats. No, but
I like that movie and it deserves an honorable mention
as a great football movie.

Speaker 2 (02:17:01):
And I think it was. And I love Goldiehorns. She did?
What didn't that woman do as far as the movie
was concerned, right, didn't she do? Like everything?

Speaker 5 (02:17:11):
She was in the military, you know, Private Benjamin and
then did Wildcats like every facet she.

Speaker 2 (02:17:18):
Was getting involved in.

Speaker 5 (02:17:21):
But the baseball movie argument, Look, I'm going to go
out on a limb here, and you don't have to
be a chump to agree with me. You have to
acknowledge it. Where are there great baseball movies out there?
Of course eight Men out great baseball movie without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (02:17:41):
No, Lie, Major League? Who are you kidding me? Jealous?

Speaker 5 (02:17:45):
A bit outside, bob Byukerman, I love that movie. But
if you don't count Oh the Natural, I like it.
I know Field of Dreams, that's easy. But if you
can't count A League of their Own as a great
baseball movie, something's wrong with you. If you can't count
that movie as a great baseball movie, that is a great,

(02:18:08):
absolutely fantastic, beyond a shadow of a doubt, great movie.

Speaker 2 (02:18:13):
Doesn't matter who's in it.

Speaker 5 (02:18:14):
You can hate Rosie o'donnald, you can abhor Madonna, but
Laurie Petty and Gina Rowland were fantastic in that movie.
And if you didn't get angry when what's his name?
Why am I forgetting his name?

Speaker 2 (02:18:30):
Now? The short stubby guy John love it.

Speaker 5 (02:18:36):
If you didn't think that that guy deserved a Best
Supporting Actor nod for his role in the beginning.

Speaker 2 (02:18:41):
Of that movie.

Speaker 5 (02:18:42):
If you don't think that he deserved that, something's wrong
with you and Tom Hanks, of course, bar none.

Speaker 2 (02:18:48):
I mean the guy's I don't care.

Speaker 14 (02:18:50):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:18:50):
I don't like Tom Hanks, but I.

Speaker 5 (02:18:52):
Can watch any movies that he that he's in because
he always He's just a great actor. And as far
as like comedic roles and stuff like that, the guy.

Speaker 2 (02:19:01):
Hits him out of the park. He just does.

Speaker 5 (02:19:05):
I almost set a league of their own as a joke.
It's not, it's really, it's not a joke. It's a
great movie. How do you deny that? You can't? And
he just you know, it's so funny. I have this
as a sound bite because of it.

Speaker 2 (02:19:23):
Are you crying?

Speaker 1 (02:19:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:19:26):
Are you crying?

Speaker 5 (02:19:31):
It's classic. It's a classic baseball movie. Craigsis I can't
stand Tom Eggs. I can understand, but you're not standing him?

Speaker 2 (02:19:38):
Is why.

Speaker 5 (02:19:38):
The reason is one of the reasons why you're not
gonna give him his flowers on this one. The guy
deserves it. It was a great movie. It was a great movie, Like,
how do.

Speaker 2 (02:19:50):
You not what?

Speaker 10 (02:19:51):
What was it?

Speaker 5 (02:19:52):
A Penny Marshall. It's gotta be if there's any movie
that woman did that was perfect. That's how she deserved
the props she got for that movie. Also, I want
to address the text message that I got not too
long ago about the the hydrilla nonsense. If I could
do that real quickly, then I'll get to.

Speaker 2 (02:20:10):
The last phone call it a day.

Speaker 5 (02:20:14):
Somebody just wrote me a note that said that they
have a family member who's retired from Deep and they
were explaining their family member who used to work for
Deep was explaining to them about the strain of hydrilla
that's here in Connecticut and how it's different from the
one in Florida. Let me make this abound it, Lee Claire, please,
and so you can, you know, take this portion and
send it to your family members so that they understand

(02:20:37):
we're coming. First of all, that is the lamest excuse
I've ever heard from anybody who's ever worked in Deep.
It's a different strain.

Speaker 2 (02:20:45):
You cannot get rid of hydrilla. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 5 (02:20:49):
This nonsense that says that you have to use an
erbicide to get rid of it is a lie. Even
if you use an herbicide, you cannot keep hydrilla from growing.

Speaker 2 (02:21:02):
In the waterways. It will grow back.

Speaker 5 (02:21:05):
Why is an invasive species that if a bird carries
even a grain of that hydrilla to a waterway in
a year, it will build, it will grow. It's like
a fungus. You'll never get rid of hydrilla. Everybody knows that.
Anybody who knows anything knows that. And if you work

(02:21:28):
for deep and you know about this strain of hydrilla
and it being different, that is the first thing you
know about hydrilla. You will never get rid of it.
It's like oxygen. It keeps coming back. That's it that simple.
So if that's some sort of like if saying that
we have to use the herbicide because that's the only way, no, no, no,

(02:21:50):
you're going to Even if you use the herbicide and
you wipe it out, it's coming back. That's the whole
deal with idrilla. Everywhere across the country. He's dealing with
hydrilla because it comes back, and they have a plan
to use karp every three or four years. They have
a plan to use other you know, means to get

(02:22:11):
rid of it, like eco harvesting every two to three years,
because they know it'll never go away.

Speaker 2 (02:22:17):
That's it. It's that simple. The Bad News Bear is
another great baseball movie.

Speaker 5 (02:22:22):
You can't beat Walter Matthout without a doubt. Adopted Italians Unite.
I don't know what that's about, but I guess, okay,
you're talking about other baseball movies. I can think of
a few. I'm not gonna lie. I get like a
little warm spot whenever I see Angels in the Outfield.

(02:22:46):
It's a lot of people in that movie that you know,
you know of, Corbyn Burnson, Tony Danza, that movie had
it was a kid's movie. What's his name? Gordon Levitt,
the little kid from Third Rock from the Sun is
in the movie. Danny Glover. People forget about that movie

(02:23:07):
Angels in the Outfield. It's a big movie with big names.
That's a Disney movie. It's a huge movie. I can
swell with you people. Let's go to whpe my calling
for Florida. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (02:23:22):
Sir?

Speaker 8 (02:23:23):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:23:24):
Man?

Speaker 8 (02:23:24):
Well, first of all, the best pure football movie of
all time is Any Given Sunday because it's a movie
about football. Everything else is a movie about other stuff
with football as a basis. Brian Song is not a
football movie. It's a cancer movie.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
It's a cancer movie about a football player.

Speaker 8 (02:23:45):
Yeah, but there's more time in hospital rooms and off
the field than on the field.

Speaker 2 (02:23:50):
Fair enough?

Speaker 8 (02:23:53):
Are you high saying you don't like Tony Scott? Do
you not like movies?

Speaker 1 (02:23:58):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:23:58):
I like movies. Here's my problem with Tony Scott. You know,
I'll go to war with anybody on this one. So
I was talking to John Leguizamo a couple of years
after he did the movie The Fan with Robert de
Niro and Wesley Snipes.

Speaker 2 (02:24:11):
I'm sure you heard of it right.

Speaker 5 (02:24:13):
That movie had actual baseball stars in it, Okay, and
they and John Leguizamo.

Speaker 2 (02:24:20):
I asked him one question.

Speaker 5 (02:24:21):
I said, Hey, what did you guys think on this
set when Tony Scott decided to do the final scene
with all of the rain and John Leguizamo almost jumped
out of his chair and said, we were completely flabbergasted
and why he was doing that. It was like nobody
would play a game in that kind of monsoon. We
couldn't understand it. Why Because Tony Scott has an addiction

(02:24:42):
to some sort of like directorial effect where rain has
to be in every movie he's in and the most
inopportune times. Like it's a stupid signature and it makes
no sense in his movies.

Speaker 8 (02:24:53):
You know you my brother, and I love you. I'm
gonna rap of some things that are gonna poke holes
in your argument.

Speaker 2 (02:24:58):
Okay, if it's true Roman, I get it. I love
that movie, Hold.

Speaker 8 (02:25:02):
On, Hold On, Son, The Hunger, Top Gun, Beverly Hills,
Two thar Hills, Caught, Two Days of Thunder, Last Boy,
It's got true romance. Crimson Tide, the Fan, Man on Fire,
Man on Fire ends this argument. Man on Fire is
this greatest thing Denzel Washing and never did, one of
the greatest films of all time.

Speaker 2 (02:25:21):
I don't really like that movie.

Speaker 8 (02:25:23):
So yeah, he's got far more winners than losers.

Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
I know he does. Well, mean, Crimson Tied is his right?

Speaker 5 (02:25:31):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:25:31):
Crimson Tide? That's his Crimson? Yeah, that would I'll give
him that.

Speaker 5 (02:25:35):
Okay, fine, but you know what, what what's the opening
scene of Crimson Tide is it rained.

Speaker 8 (02:25:41):
To you his movies.

Speaker 5 (02:25:45):
No, No, I'm saying, Look, can I say that I
like a couple of his films. There's some inexplicable stuff
in Tony Scott. I just can't stand it. I don't
know why he does it in his films. It makes
no sense.

Speaker 8 (02:25:55):
More than more than a couple bro the guy did
Top Gun.

Speaker 2 (02:25:58):
I know he did Top Gun.

Speaker 8 (02:26:00):
Fine and another pick real quick. Jerry Maguire is not
a romantic comedy. Jerry Maguire is a drama about a
man be coming to a better person. It's one of
my top five movies of all time. I love Cameron
Crowe stuff. Every movie Cameron Crowe has done has been perfect.
Even that We Bought a Zoo nonsense.

Speaker 5 (02:26:18):
With Wait Man hold On? Didn't Cameron Crowe did. Cameron
Crow's first movie was that Reality Bites? Or is that
is that Ben Stillers?

Speaker 8 (02:26:27):
I think it's Reality Bites. But Cameron crew did Almost Famous.

Speaker 2 (02:26:31):
Yes, of course, I know. No one could stop talking
about that.

Speaker 8 (02:26:34):
Movie about Ross Rowe been almost Famous. Yeah, the Man's perfect.
He did Ben Little Sky. Remember that brilliant Tom Cruise movie.

Speaker 2 (02:26:43):
No, in fact, no one liked that movie. No one
even mentioned.

Speaker 8 (02:26:46):
Because people are retarded. They don't get it.

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
And that movie was the movie's given away in the
first five minutes.

Speaker 8 (02:26:53):
Now, they didn't give it away at all. I was
totally caught at the end.

Speaker 5 (02:26:57):
You were going on, Oh no, I watched the The
opening scene of that movie gives the film away.

Speaker 2 (02:27:04):
Maybe I just caught it.

Speaker 8 (02:27:06):
But he also did Jerrem Maguire and almost Famous. He
did singles and say Anything.

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
He wrote singles.

Speaker 5 (02:27:13):
That's the movie singles. I'm not gonna lie. I did
love that movie.

Speaker 8 (02:27:18):
Yeah, Camera Crow is my favorite. Too bad he retired.

Speaker 10 (02:27:20):
Man, he was brilliant.

Speaker 8 (02:27:21):
Yeah, if people haven't seen Jerem Maguire, watch Jerey Maguire.
It is one of the best films ever made about
being a man.

Speaker 2 (02:27:31):
Okay, what am I gonna debate there? All right?

Speaker 5 (02:27:36):
Thank you, Mike, I appreciate you. I'm still again. I
stand by my Tony Scott criticism. Did he do a
couple of good films, Don't get me wrong. Crimson Tide
still one of my favorite films. It is I've watched
some Listen, I've watched these Tony Scott films with this
look on my face that just goes I can't help
but roll my eyes. You know True Romance, which, by
the way, I will give him this first of all.

(02:27:58):
Tru Romance is a great movie, and if you haven't
seen it, get your butt online and watch that movie. Okay,
some of the biggest names in the Hollywood in a
very very young and early on. Brad Pitt stars in
the film. Michael Rappaport, James Gandolfini. Who else is in it?
Chris Penn, There's so many people in that movie. Patricia R.

(02:28:22):
Kad of course, Christopher Walkin. What's the other guy's name?
I just mentioned him not too long ago in The
Ten Hoosiers. Why am I forgetting his name? Dennis Hopper,
Gary Oldman as a white Rastafarian. Everything is in that
movie from beginning to end. It's probably one of the

(02:28:42):
best films in the world. God, I'll never forget that movie.
I will always tell everybody who I've ever bumped into
please watch that movie. Did you just say that Michael
Rapperport was a good actor.

Speaker 2 (02:28:54):
In this movie? He was in this movie.

Speaker 5 (02:28:59):
He was He's god awful and everything else I've ever
seen from what was that movie?

Speaker 2 (02:29:04):
Zebra Zebra Head? What was that? The ridiculous movie he did.
And school was it?

Speaker 5 (02:29:10):
What was the movie where he played the skinhead who
ends up going after not school days? It was another one. No, no,
he's not in act. No, he's in the movie with
my Omar Epps buster rhymes.

Speaker 2 (02:29:27):
High, you're learning, high, you're learning. Yeah, he was in that.
That was god awful. Oh that was god awful.

Speaker 5 (02:29:35):
I want my two dollars fast times a Ridgemont High.

Speaker 2 (02:29:40):
That was? Was that?

Speaker 5 (02:29:41):
His first movie? Was that Crow's first movie. I didn't
know that.

Speaker 1 (02:29:45):
No.

Speaker 5 (02:29:45):
I never said Michael Rappaport was a good actor, but
he was. He plays a ridiculous kid in True Romance,
and it's Look, I don't care anybody says, go see
True Romance and come back to me and tell me
that movie's garbage. Just come back, seriously watch that movie.
Come back and tell me you hated that film. I
doubt it, sincerely. Oh and don't forget Val Kilmer as

(02:30:08):
Elvis in True Romance. You don't even see him in
the entire movie, but you hear his voice. It's a
great movie. Plus I'm you know, I'm an Elvis fan anyway.
But yeah, he had a couple of good ones. He
had a couple of good ones Tony Scott. I was
heartbroken when he passed away or took his own life.

(02:30:31):
I should say I think it jumped off of some
bridge in Los Angeles. I couldn't even believe that. No
one ever said why. I think he did leave a
letter to his brother, Ridley Scott.

Speaker 2 (02:30:45):
Anyway, all right, maybe I'll find out what's going on
with that. It's time for us to get up out
of here.

Speaker 5 (02:30:51):
If we get any more details on that Biale Birt story,
we'll tell you. Because I always say radio is free.
So we thank you for paying attention. Remember to keep
JC in your hearts and in your mind. Jump love,
you have me, miss you. Remember the panic is not planning,
so plan your work.

Speaker 8 (02:31:03):
It work.

Speaker 2 (02:31:04):
You're planning me.

Speaker 5 (02:31:04):
I'm racing the radio. You have a good night, pleasant tomorrow.
Better Off Dead was a great movie, Mark Christopher. He's
in the B p S Traffic Center, but I can't
talk to him about movies because he seemed none.

Speaker 15 (02:31:15):
No, I can't help you, big guy. Wish I could.

Speaker 2 (02:31:19):
It's all right, have a great night if you're heading
into Hartford right now.

Speaker 15 (02:31:22):
Eighty four he spent a little slow forty eight Capitol Avenue,
west forninty.

Speaker 2 (02:31:25):
Four, No problem, al ray, sir, all right, breaks at
thirty two.

Speaker 5 (02:31:30):
A m D.

Speaker 15 (02:31:30):
Quiet, He's okay, Glastonbury, Tomorboro.

Speaker 2 (02:31:36):
By the way, stay by your phone.

Speaker 5 (02:31:37):
I gotta go to them vehicle mixed master if I'm
water right behind you in the morning.

Speaker 2 (02:31:45):
In the west rock down, okay, all right, cool, all right?
Thanks in new Haven?

Speaker 5 (02:31:50):
All right, thank you, Michael, A much appreciated. So I
hope you guys had fun too.

Speaker 2 (02:31:54):
I did. I love being here, love doing this, Stay
out of trouble, be good to each other. Looked

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