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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
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Speaker 3 (00:54):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh you scallywax out there? How y'all doing? Look at
Salvatore in the house real quick? We got so much news,
so much news.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's res on the radio on WTIC News Talk ten
to eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
And Uh, I'm gonna go off in a different direction.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Forget about all the news you're hearing about, just for
a little bit at least for the opening monologue, because
I was literally just in a debate with a listener
talking about Lyndon beans Johnson, bigot racist.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
You know, Lyndon B. Johnson, bigot racist? You know who
he is.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I don't have to tell you A lot of Democrats
like to tout him. No, because the Civil Rights Act
nineteen sixty four. We go on pass that Negro bill,
and they'll be voting for us for the next two
hundred years.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Misson accomplish. There will be.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
But the person who was talking to me was calling
themselves a black nationalist. You know, all I care about
is black people justifying his bigotry racism, which I have
no problem with. You want to be a bigot, you
want to be a racist, I'm gonna call you out.
But never will you hear me say you do not

(02:32):
have the right to free speech. See, I believe in
free speech that makes people uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Do it right here in.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
These airwaves five days a week, and I love this job.
I don't believe in being provocative for the sake of
being provocative.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I've done that. I've had that job.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I knew exactly what to say, when to say it,
I knew where the line was, and I knew exactly
how to get my pinky toe right over it.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I also knew that because I.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Used to work in the hip hop community, which is
predominantly African American. When you talk about certain things, be
it politics or people, people have a tendency to wear
their emotions on their sleeves. So when I was in
my shockjock era as a writer back in the early
two thousands, I used that emotion of people in those

(03:29):
communities liberals, you know, I use that emotional response to
everything as a weapon.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
It was my weapon.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
It's still useful today in this forum, in this medium
right now. Hell, I do it on Thursday with negro nonsense,
and I have to tell you I cannot wait for
tomorrow's But that's because when I was sort of in
my shockjock era, which I openly admit, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Not like I'm running these guys who are trying to run.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Away from it. Oh No, I wasn't really a shock doc.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I was. It was my job.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Today I no longer live by that mantra, that ideal.
Today I tell the truth, but not for the not
for the reason to be shocking or provoking or to
make people oh clutch the pearls. I'm telling you the truth.
And when I am being tongue in cheek, you know it.

(04:30):
When I'm being baiting.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You know it.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
But a lot of people the reason why they like
this show, even the ones who hate it, the reason
why they they come back is because they know that
I am not doing it to be malicious.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
So when I hear a story.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Like I heard last night and then this morning, I
asked the question, I went online and I did some research.
I started asking the question. Have conservatives ever had to
deal with rabble rousers, protesters, liberals screaming at them for

(05:17):
their way of life or what they believed, being cursed
at in front of their children, their children being harassed
for what they believe in or what their parents believe in.
Did people go so far on the left to get
in the faces of families and shout them down and
curse at them and tell them we don't want your

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kind and get out of here.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And guess what, folks, I did. It's everywhere, and in
the Nutmeg State, of course it is.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
The place is crawling with libs, radicals even inside their party,
who show up at rallies and scream at the top
of their lungs, usually at the behest of guys like
Chris Murphy, maybe not so much Dick Blumenthal, but William Togg.
You remember, huh, I remember our a g Napoleon up

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at the podium, so short he has to stand on
the side of it because he just can't reach it.
He's like tiny Tim screaming at the top of his lung. Yeah, yeah,
I'm going after Trump, Yeah, screaming about his abject hatred
for conservatives and conservatism and maga, folks, you know all

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of you do.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
So.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Then I heard the story about Michael Slocum. I don't
know this man, I know nothing about him, but his
story's interesting. His story is very interesting. I'm looking at
his picture, his mug shot after he turned himself in
after a warrant for his arrest, and what is he

(07:09):
guilty of or in their views, what is he being
charged for. Well, apparently mister Slocum drove up in front
of a mosque and was screaming and hollering about Islam,
screaming and hollering at people who were there, shouting things

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like why don't you go back where you came from?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Something along those lines.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
But the Hartford Current has a headline that says police
arrests suspect an alleged hate crime incident outside Connecticut mosque.
The Current should change this headline because in their story
there's no mention of a hate crime. He was charged

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with breach of peace. Where's the hate crime? What is
the hate crime? He has a constitutional right to be
against anybody he wants to.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
How do I know?

Speaker 4 (08:14):
I have a list of people who did the same
thing to Catholics and Christians, the exact same thing to
religious groups, and never once were they charged or alleged
to have committed a hate crime. Why do you think

(08:38):
it was when mister Slocum was yelling outside of a mosque?
Whatever happened to equal under the law. Are Muslims more
equal than mister Slocum? Are the Muslim if the Muslims
at the mosque more equal than the Catholic churches that

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were streamed at in Pittsburgh, or the Catholic Archdiocese in Brooklyn,
or in a story of Queens where there were rioters
outside streaming at families as they attended church mass or whatever. No,

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no one even thought of it.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
It was the norm. Everybody was told move along, move along,
move along, sir. But slocumbe no.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
No, no, We can't have him standing outside of a
mosque screaming get out of here.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not at all.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
He didn't attack anyone there was. There were no charges
of physical attacks. There are no charges of him getting
in anyone's face or intimidating them, No pushing, no shoving.
The only thing that we can see here so far,
according to the reports, is that he yelled, and it

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appears to be a recording of him yelling which for
some odd reason has not been made available.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Anyone know why.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
By the way, if you know where this video is,
please let me know. Go to my Facebook page posted
there let me know. I would love to see it.
Which I find odd that there's no link to any
of the news reports of the video of him shouting.
That isn't to say that he didn't. That is to
say that would really gain support of this alleged hate crime,

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wouldn't it if you actually heard him and saw him
on video saying something that would be deemed hateful. I mean,
what do you think William Tong was doing when he

(11:05):
was screaming at Donald Trump? Do you think that he
has I don't know, a mild disagreement with the guy.
When people showed up, Conservatives showed up at the event
in West Hartford when Dick Blumenthal and Christoph Murphy were

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having that gathering with Indivisible and people are outside asking
questions to the attendees, and the attendees were shouting back
at them.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Ah, you maga maniacs crazy? Was that hate speech.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Or is it only hate speech because these individuals were
Muslims and again they have special protections, and look, I
don't care if you think they do, just say that.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's all I want you to do.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
I want you to tell me out loud, they're Muslim
and they have more constitutional rights than you do. That's
what I want to hear you say. Just come clean
for the rest of us so we know where we stand.

(12:23):
But I know you can't. I know you won't. I
know you're scared to death to reveal what your true
intentions are. You know that what Slocum did here is
a free speech issue, and it is and it will be.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't know if anybody knows him. I don't.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
I'm not under the impression that you do. But I
gotta be honest with you, folks. I want to talk
to him. I do even if it turns out that
this guy is a racist biggot sort of redundant. But
even if it is, I want to know, don't you.
I mean, it plastered everywhere. It was breaking news on

(13:12):
the Hartford Current website, breaking news and arrest in the
islamophobic rantings of some mad met No, I'm kidding. I
didn't say all that, but if it was breaking news,
if it was so important, because you know, sometimes that
racial animist leads the stories you.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Know that's that's the woman that were raping somebody's have
a racial slour. Get it on the cover.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
So we got it. But see, I'm not like you.
I'm not like anybody in this media thing.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I want to know.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I want to investigate, I want to talk, I want
to hear. I need to understand, don't you Because even
if we understand that we heard something that we didn't like,
even if we think that this individual is reprehensible, don't
you think it's important to understand?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Why?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
What if someone in that community had done him wrong?
What if that you know, what if that's the case.
If we can give that kind of latitude to the
Black Lives Matter and DOBACP Urban League, folks, ha, why
can't we give it to him?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Goes back to equal under the law? Huh?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
What if this community wronged him in a way that
was absolutely Like if you heard his story and found
out that the Muslim community treated him like dirt and
his family like dirt, and it literally made his life
miserable and the worst he did was get out of
his car and go lah.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Don't you want to understand that? Why is his story?

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Is it because his last name is slope because he's
a white man. He can't possibly have a grievance. Someone
explained it to me. I want to know, don't you.
I know a lot of people are screaming at Hollerance.
It's like, ah, reason, But we have so much hatred

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in the world. We have so much hatred, You're never
gonna get rid of it. Hatred, bigotry, racism.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Folks.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
I'm sorry, but it's like herpies. Sometimes you don't notice.
But now and again we have a flare up or two.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's what happens. That's who we are. We're human.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
This is something that is beyond us. It goes back
a long, long, long time. It's quite arrogant for all
of you to think that you're so advanced today that
you could just the wave of your hand just dismiss it,
get rid of it, end it, even while you sit

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on your own.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Bias and hatred and racism. You know you do.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
But I want you to know that I'm okay with it.
Not that you need my permission, but I need you
to know that I'm okay with it. Here's why, at
the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what
you think or how you feel in that realm, it
doesn't see the only thing that truly matters is what

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you contribute, not what you take, not with you well,
not what you withdraw.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
It's what you give, what you offer.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
If you can manage the two and exists, that's fantastic.
But everybody knows that you're going to run into a
few people here and there. You're going to find a
reason to disagree. Oh hell, hate a group of people,
no matter who they are. But even if they do,

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if you really really want to understand, because a lot
of people don't even want to understand, But if you
really want to understand it, or better yet, if you
really want to fight it, and you really want it
to end, you treat it like you would any disease.
You find out all there is to know about it.

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Oncologists do not get rid of cancer by just hating
it alone.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
They must investigate.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
They must become the cancer they're trying to remove. It's
just the way it works. It's just the way it works.
And I am like that oncologist. For hate, I understand it.
I tell you all the time. I await the hate

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because I know where it comes from. Sometimes most times
it's out of fear, and what I'm really trying to
say is from Michael Slocum, that's his name. I want
to understand his fear because that's where this came from.

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I'm not going to call it a hate crime. I'm
not even gonna say that he violated somebody's civil rights.
Something was wrong. I think it's worth finding out, but
should be told. What he did has been done for
a long time, even recently here in Connecticut and all

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across the country, and has been done towards people who
are the conservative Christian cops, yeah, and Caucasians, and no
one ever called it a hate crime until now. I
think it's worth finding out. Why we'll come back. I'll
tell you some of these examples when we return your

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phone calls. If you wish eighteen zero five two two
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four two. It's reson the radio on WTIC News Talk
ten eighty. Hey, we're back at Triesa on the radio.
We're talking about the arrest of Michael Slocum. He's been
charged with one count of second degree breach of peace
in connection with an alleged anti Muslim incident outside of

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a Stanford mosque and you can find the story in
a Hartford Current.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Today.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
They say that the Stanford Police Department's Major Crimes Unit
secured an arrest warrant for thirty six year old Michael
Slocum of Stanford on Tuesday. According to the department, police
said that Slocum voluntarily turned himself in and was charged
with one count of second degree breacher.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Piece He was.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Released on a promise to appear and it's is scheduled
to appear to court on August twenty sixth. The incident
took place on Saturday night outside the Islamic Cultural Center
of New York. Mosque is located on Washington Boulevard in Stamford.
They say that a man in an suv allegedly began

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yelling at families, including children, leaving the mosque. According to
cell phone video obtained by the Connecticut Chapter of the
Council of Islamic Relations Care, the man shout at several
Islamophobic insults, including insults attacking Islam and the prophet Mohammed.

(20:29):
By the way, has anybody seen the new rendition of
Jesus Christ Superstar? Anyone Anybody's seen it? Is that I
think that's the name of it, right, the new rendition
with the black woman from Wicked playing Jesus with long
pointy fingernails.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Anybody's seen that anyway? Okay, I digress.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
The man was allegedly recorded saying, get the blank out
of here. Fifty six Muslim countries in the world, go
pick one. Why do you come to a Catholic country?
The United States is a Christian country. The police announced
Monday afternoon that the department's Bureau of Investigation was investigating
the incident in consultation.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
With the state's attorney's office.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
On Monday afternoon, Stanford Mayor Caroline Simmons issued a statement
condemning Saturday night's incident. Acts of hate have no place
in our city. Really interesting, We'll remember you said that.
In fact, I'll never forget you said that, and I

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condemned the despicable anti Muslim hate that was directed at
members of our Muslim community. Stanford strength comes from its diversity. Now,
its strength comes from strong people, people with a backbone
and a spot and a spine. That that's where strength
comes from. People who aren't offended at every given moment

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about every given thing. That's where strength comes from, not
from crying about every little insult that's hurled at an individual,
just so you know.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
UH.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Feron Memon, chair chairman of Care Connecticut, express concerns on
Tuesday that the charges brought against Slocum may not fully
reflect the severity and target a targeted nature of his actions. Well,
now we're making assumptions the man did what he did,

(22:27):
he intended to do something else that would be on film.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Now are we really really trying to put our fingers
on the scale?

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Come on, quote, this was not just a case of
disturbing the peace. It was a deliberate attempt to harass
and intimidate and an entire community because of their faith.
The law is clear when someone acts with specific intent
to target people based on religion, it's a hate crime.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Are you sure you want to go by that, because
again I can find plenty of instances where that's never
been the case, Merman said. Care Connecticut is calling for
the Stanford Police Department in the state's Attorney to review
the incident under Connecticut General Statues fifty three A one

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point eight one K intimidation based on bigotry and bias
on the second degree or in the second degree. Uh Okay, intimidation,
huh are you sure? I'm just saying, And to provide
public assurance that crimes motivated by bias will be vigorously

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investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Okay, good,
Let's go to Avon twenty twenty three October, Mom's for
Liberty event featuring a controversial anti LGBTQ speaker, drawing protests
from liberal activists opposed to the group's agenda on the

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school curricula and white genocide rhetoric.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
They called it.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Videos and attendees accounts described protesters shouting and chanting, confronting
families outside the venue, with some claims of verbal harassment
directed at children in attendance. Conservative participants, including parents, reported
feeling threatened, while protesters argued that they were peacefully exercising

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their First Amendment rights against hate speech. They could be
hateful towards these conservative groups because they're fighting hate speech.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
No arrests were noted, but the.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Event highlighted divides in the Connecticut suburban communities, but no
arrest g I wonder why again, noting that there are
some people who have more protections than others. Again, I've
got I've got no problem with you believing it.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Just say it, everybody, news media two. Just say it.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Summers, Connecticut, July twenty twenty. Black Lives Matter rally. Counter protesters,
often aligned with conservative All Lives Matter views, class with
BLM activists. While the primary aggression came from the counterside,
A woman arrested for charging protesters. The incident involved mutual

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shouting in jeers, with families including children present on both sides.
Conservative families nearby reported feeling harassed by BLM chants, though
reports emphasized that the counterprotesters. There were no proto counter
protesters escalations, but one woman was arrested for attacking the

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All Lives Matter group. Westport, can Conetquette, February of twenty
twenty four, Dozens of protesters, largely liberal, including racial justice advocates,
gathered out of family sorry gathered after a family alleged harassment,
leading to chance and confrontation. Conservative families involved claimed the

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protest created an intimidating environment for children.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
No arrests were made. Where's the hate crime law now?

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Or does it only pertain to Muslims and religion? And
I mean muslim and their religion? No one else's. Matt
says that Madio says the reef both sides were wrong?
What sides were wrong?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't say.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
I don't think anybody in this, in any of these cases,
are wrong. I believe that they were expressing their First
Amendment right to even say things that many might deem
to be hate speech. They have a constitutional right to
say what's on their mind. They have no right to intentionally.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Hurt anyone, to put their hands on anyone in any.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Way, Spit on them, swing on them, intimidate them, tell
them no, you know, do the whole flexing maneuver, none
of that. But they have every right to express what
they believe, even if it's racist. Sorry, sorry, they just do.
I could hate it and disagree with it all day,

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but wrong, that's not the word to use.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Nobody was wrong here.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
They have a constitutionally protected right to say things that
you disagree with.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'll take Joe and Durnham.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
How are you, Joe, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I'm all right. Sorry, what do you got?

Speaker 9 (27:53):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (27:53):
So I want to kind of weigh in on this
because I've been through this whole hate speech.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Uh okay, issue. Were you were you where you were?

Speaker 11 (28:02):
You were?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
A victim of hate speech or you were accused of No,
I was charged.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
It's a it's a it's a Class D felony.

Speaker 10 (28:09):
This is so in twenty twenty, I when everyone was
wearing masks, and we know it's stupid.

Speaker 13 (28:15):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 12 (28:16):
Trying to help people out, and I knew it was dumb.
I never wore a mask.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
Obviously I do construction, you know, and big particles get
through the mask.

Speaker 12 (28:23):
Obviously, small parkles are going to get through the mask.
So anyways, because so anyways.

Speaker 10 (28:28):
Yeah, there was a guy. Uh he was walking the
dog and came up and I said, listen, sir, you
ain't gotta wear the mask.

Speaker 12 (28:34):
He turned on me for some reason, I don't know why.
I started cursing at me.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
So I said, you know, what the hell, I'm trying
to help you. So I said, that's you. You want
to wear a mask.

Speaker 10 (28:42):
We live in China.

Speaker 12 (28:43):
I was charged with a hate crime.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
What because you want to wear a mask? I live
in China and that was considered a hate crime.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah, look it up, man from Milford.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh my, Now was the person you were talking to Asian?

Speaker 10 (28:58):
So he So I find out when I go to
court the guy is not even Asian. Okay, I don't
even know.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Okay, go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (29:10):
So this whole thing is about the process, is the punishment.
It's all about social reconditioning. You can't you know, you can't.

Speaker 12 (29:19):
Say what you want if you're white, not even if
you're well, I would say any color. But if you
if they don't agree, if.

Speaker 10 (29:26):
It's if you don't fit the narrative, yes, they'll bring
you through a process which is so crazy and so
dragged out.

Speaker 12 (29:35):
I had to go.

Speaker 10 (29:35):
They made me go see.

Speaker 12 (29:38):
A social reconditioning psychiatrist.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Good.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
Oh, yeah, yeah, this is all about It's all about
reconditioning the mind for people.

Speaker 12 (29:49):
You can't say what you want, right, there's no there's
no free speech anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, you know what it is.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I'll tell you this, Joe, I'll tell you exactly what
you were guilty of. And again it's it's what I
call the total pole of oppression. And only certain individuals
are allowed on the totem pole. Now, the severity of
your offense is based upon where that individual sits on
the totem pole. At the top of the pole, the
most severe, okay, is a person of color, transsexual.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
They sit at the top.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
If you offend them, then we're talking fifty years in crime,
fifty years.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
In jail, if not the death penalty.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
And then you work your way down on that totem
pole at the very bottom, the very bottom of that
which in essence you will not.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Even get a desk appearance ticket.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Is if you offend a cis gender, white male, Christian
Christian white male at the bottom of that totem pole,
you can insult that guy all day and you won't
even get a slap on the wrist. You'll just get
you'll probably get I don't know, a lottery ticket at.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
The end of that, because that's.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
In your case, all you had to do was say
something about another country with regards to somebody who doesn't
appear to be white, cis gender, and you've committed a
hate crime.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
That's it, exactly what it was. You're exactly right, he wasn't.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
The person yelling was white at the person who.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Didn't look white, exactly.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Exactly, which again, which that's my whole point about all
of this. What I want them to admit, the criminal
justice system, the news media, and everyone alike, just admit
that certain people have more constitutional rights than others and.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
They equal under the law.

Speaker 13 (31:33):
Thing.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Throw it out. It's nonsense.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
That's all I want. That's what I want. Thank you
for sharing your show, your story, Joe. Yes, oh okay,
no doubt.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
All right, you got it.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Thanks you, sir. All right, let's take a break. We'll
come back. More news, more views, will take your phone calls,
and so much more on this we're getting. I'm reading
some of these things about these other what can be
deemed his hate crimes that weren't charged when we returned.
Stick around, go nowhere in threes on radio on wt
I see new Stock ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's race on the radio on w T I see.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
I got my wife coming back and forth to tell
me about another development about our move. Even though we're
coming next week, we're gonna be looking at a.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Couple of places. I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I don't really want to go through the whole real
estate thing. I know some people are contacting me about that.
It's a long story, but I'll talk about it when
I get up to get up to Connecticut. We'll talk
about it on the air. In where I want to
live and how I'm gonna do it. I'll break it
down to you. Then I just don't.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I don't want to go through that whole riga moreau.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
I don't want to be dragged everywhere, and just you
know I need to I'll take a cardboard box at
this point. That's so, that's how much I don't want
to deal with this anyway. Let's get to back to
the phones. I know Mattio is on the line.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Maddie. What's going on, sir?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
So where am I wrong on this in your opinion?
Or I don't want to assume that you think that
I'm wrong? But what's your what's your point as far
as you know both sides being wrong in this argument?

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Well, hello Mitter Hopkins, and yes I do think you're wrong.
I swear to God sometimes you carearly is just to
get me angry.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'm sorry. Mission accomplished.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Okay. So my point is is all the counterpoints that
you brought up were other people being harassed for their
religious beliefs. My point is the entire reason we succeeded
from England, well not the entire reason, but a big
part of it was to was to practice your own

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religion unharrassed. And you know the other people that that
did that.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Remember hold on it was unharrassed by the king or
by the authoritarian.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
No, to be able to practice your religion unharrassed and
with freedom to do that?

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Do we have that here? Hold on? Do we have
that here? Though?

Speaker 12 (34:18):
Well?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
No, because but just because they failed to do the
right thing in those other cases doesn't mean that this
case has any less merit.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, okay, let me know it. No, no, I do.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Let me push back on that a little bit. Let
me push back on.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
A little bit. Now, I've made the argument that.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
You would sooner see folks from the LGBTQ community standing
in front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan, screaming
at the vat at at the Cardinal O'Connor about the
Catholic Church refusal to acknowledge gay marriage. Hear those people,
and hold on, you'd even see them try to attempt

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to either throw blood or put graffiti on churches anywhere
and everywhere. What happens is if they're vandals, they will
get removed. But shouting and screaming people, now, nothing will
happen to them. Now, if those same groups went to
a mosque, it would be deemed as islamophobic and arrest
would happen.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Okay, Again, there's one thing if you're protesting a leader
of a church. There's a very different thing when you're
protesting people that are just attending a church. When you
take a leadership role, you know that you're gonna have

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to take those things and arrows for the leadership role
because you are part of the decision making of that churches.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
But you are harassing the church and the parishioners in
said church if you're standing outside. Even if they were
shouting out Cardinal Connor, they were outside of the church
while people were attending either Mass or going into, you know,
to get the sacrament, whatever the case may have been.
They are outside of the church harassing people who go inside.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
And if they are doing that, I think that's applorable. Applorable,
And if they do it to any other religion, I
think that is deplorable.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
So it's the fact that they that they turned a
blind eye to the harassment against Catholics does not mean
that turning a blind eye to this is right either.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Okay. So let's let's let's stay where you are.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Let's stay where you are with this one, all right,
Because in the last two minutes and I'll get my
question off and I'll give you the last word on it. Okay,
So what I'm asking you here in this case is
that the guy gets out of his car and starts
shouting at people, saying, and I quote, you know, this
is a Christian nation. You got fifty six was the
nations go to? Why don't you go home?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Right? Doesn't move from his car, just comes out of
his car, says it by the door.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
My question to you is this, what should he be
charged with? And you're and you're a reasonable guy, what's
the charge?

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Harassment?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Okay, fair enough, I will say harassment to that individual.
Would you go so far as to say that he
was intimidating people to going.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Into the church?

Speaker 6 (37:24):
I haven't seen the video, but if he is shouting
down people, families and children as they're walking into a
religious center, any religious center, I would say yes, possibly.

Speaker 14 (37:37):
There could be other charges.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
Now it's different if you're just doing it out in
the street. But it's another thing if it's in front
of a church.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Okay, And if it's in front of a church, you're
saying that there should be limits as to what you
can say outside of a church or to people who
are attending that church.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
Yes, I think people should be feel free to practice
their religion, whatever religion that is, without harassment.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, absolutely you and I won one hundred percent agree
with that. But when we start talking about a hate
crime because of speech, do you believe that that's a
bridge too far?

Speaker 6 (38:16):
I think in the most part it is. But I've
heard things. I've heard of people in Connecticut being charged
for hate crime for using the N word. And this
is not in front of a church.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Right, what is just out and about?

Speaker 4 (38:29):
I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, I know
a lot of people who should have been charged with that. Okay,
my phones are off the hook, but I've got to
go to the news. So thank you, Mattio. I appreciate
your point of view, and I will address all of
them when we return. This is a hot topic. We'll
get to that. Let's get to the WTIC news room.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
With John Silva.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
We'll be back in streets on the radio on WTIC
News Talk ten eight Grace.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
On the radio making sense of the news.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Yeah, even when it makes no sense at all at all.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Now until at I see news talk tend.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, you could do that all day. I missed the
days when you used to do this.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
This is gip.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I'm sorry, folks, but when Roland does this on the show,
it gets me hyped.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yeah, this is what radio's supposed to sound like.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
You all right, We're back at Trees on the radio
News Talk ten to eighty w t I C. It's
like talk radio with a little hip hop edge to it.
I just love I love I love that. I love
that sound of that.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
It gets me. That gets me hyped, just always gets
me hyped. I love that anyway.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
So Manio just called a moment ago, and I was
looking into it because I wanted to be able to
respond to it, because, yeah, I can get that there's
a concern when you're going to church. When you're going
to church, you don't want to be harassed. You shouldn't
be harassed. If I'm making the argument that these folks

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shouldn't worry about that, or shouldn't care about that's happening
to them, it really isn't about the mosque, with all
due respect, it just isn't. My beef is not about
how they're responding people in there.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
My beef is with care.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Care's got a lot of nerve talking about protesting anything
or feeling somewhat slided, slow your role care, slow down.
And if you've got a problem with me saying that,
you know where to holler. You got a long history,
long history, a very documented history, and I will play

(40:45):
that game. I'm down for that and all this other stuff.
Talking about their diversity is our strength. It's the same
demonious nonsense coming out of certain individuals, and in this
case the press. I mean, look, this is a disingenuous headline.
Police arrest suspect in alleged hate crime incident. No one

(41:09):
has suggested that they were charging mister Slocan with the
hate crime.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Nowhere in this story doesn't suggest it.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Now, I'm not gonna make the charge of clickbait, but
let's be honest, that's what that is.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
That's supposed say hate crime. Gotta check that out.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
In March of twenty twenty five, protesters disrupted worship services
at a progressive church in Orlando, Florida, entering buildings and
shouting phrases like synagogue of sin. In July of twenty
twenty five, yeah, last month, protesters gathered outside Sure Foundation

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Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, holding pride signs and confronting
parishioners after the church sermons labeled LGBTQ plus individuals as
the demonstration involved shouting and demands for accountability from church leaders.
This is their religious right to talk about what they

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talk about inside their church. Protesters were outside shouting them down,
condemning them as spewing hate inside their church. But it's
their religious right. See that's the slippery slope I'm talking about,

(42:30):
because when one argument, you can say those people should
be able to perish it. There should be parishioners in
a church that they choose without being molested or interrupted
or made to feel intimidated, right, But no one says it.
When it comes to the Catholic or Christian faith. No

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one does.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
And all I'm.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Arguing is equal protection under the law. If Christians and
Catholics do not get the same treatment when people protest
them by shouting outside their church. Shouting outside their church,
what's different with slocum. This guy was in his car,

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got out of his car, shouted by his car.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
It's considered intimidation. What do you call standing on the
church steps screaming at people for what they taught inside
the church?

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Tell me what about that is protecting religious freedom by
those who are shouting on the outside. Tell me how
those people had respect for religious freedom. There are some
very controversial things that are taught within the Koran. We
all know that, yes, yes, But the minute that you

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step on their stairs, wedl go them their stoop as
we like to call it in Queens. Once you get
there and you start shouting at them, all of a sudden,
it's a hate crime.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
But do it at a Catholic or Christian church, nather,
it's nonsense.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
In May of twenty twenty five, a worship warfare event
in Seattle, Washington turned violent as part of a national
tour aimed at confronting LGBTQ communities. Protesters clashed outside the
worship service, leading to a riot that made international headlines.
We didn't hear those, did we miss that story. It's

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not like we don't know this happens, Matteo, says so Reese.
So what you're saying is that you are on the
side of these fanatics shouting down Catholic and Christian churches. No,
on the side. This isn't about side. This is about
constitution and.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Only the Constitution.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
What I'm saying here and maybe I'm not articulating it.
Let me make it clear. If it is the case
that a man from his car shouting at Muslims outside
of a mosque is a hate crime, as being suggested
by the Hartford Current or anyone else for that matter,
who's featured in this story, then that is the same

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case anywhere, anywhere, and any.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Church, the same must apply.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
They must apply the same I don't know fervor or
interest penalty should be anywhere else it shouldn't be. Well,
it's the gay community outside of the Catholic Church, and
you know the Catholics don't like the gay so no,
no proceed. Can it be that? No equal under the law.

(45:50):
And again, if you're missing that, let's say it again.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
One.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
If the rule is what mister Slocum did in front
of the Muslim mosque is a potential hate crime, that
any protest outside of the Catholic church is the same,
is the safe across the board. If it is not,
and I am saying this to the people who arrested

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this is locom will put a warrant out for his arrest.
If that is the case, they must apply the law equally.
There must be no wiggle room at all. It cannot
and should not be tolerated. We cannot have socially acceptable
behaviors based upon the person's religion or the group's religion.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
I'm reading beyond the headline, because I know I knew
exactly what the headline was when I read it, and
that was.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Let's get to the bottom of this particular part of
this story.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
And as Joe put it in his call, this is
about the public's adherence to new rules.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
This is about mandating from you.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Certain behaviors that are and are not acceptable, unwritten rules.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
That are not guided by any.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
Any law, and their own doctrine, their own orthodoxy, which
is Catholic.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Church bad, Muslim good.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Protest Catholic and Christians because they're evil and they deserve
whatever they get. Muslims sacred ground, can't have any opposition
to their way of life. Catholic and Christian.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
I forget him. And that's what this is. And all
I'm doing is pointing it out.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
And if you look, if anybody's okay with that, can
I tell this story again? I know I told it
maybe a couple of years ago, but it's worth repeating.
So real story is a true story. In fact, i'll
get Justin on the phone. He was with me, one
of my former employees that keep it Moving. He was
sitting in the car with me. We were moving a
young lady from DC. Many of you are gonna remember it,

(48:28):
but indulge me, please if I have to repeat the story,
I know you heard it before. Justin and I are
moving this young lady out of DC down to Fredericksburg. Now,
usually that drive is about forty minutes, but there was
hell of a lot of traffic on the weekend going
down to Virginia Beach and everywhere else. So we spent

(48:49):
a lot of time in this U haul truck with
this young lady sitting in between us as we moved her.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
She didn't have a car, which is from DC.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Of course, she didn't have a car, so she rode
with us down there and on the way. You know,
as a mover, you tend to get to know your clients,
which is one of my favorite parts about.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Owning a moving company.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Because you're spending so much time with the family, you
almost become a member of You're eating with them, you're
talking with them, You're finding out about them and who
they are. It becomes very personal, and with this young lady,
it's exactly the same. So as we got along, we
started driving, and she told us a little bit about herself,
we told them about ourselves, and we found out that
she worked for the EPA as an attorney. She was

(49:29):
thinking about changing jobs, and I was like, wow, you're
so young to be an attorney, and I was so
fascinated by that and her view of the.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Law and blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
And then of course it got into politics. Justin made
the ridiculous attempt to join the conversation by telling the
young lady that I had a podcast at the time,
which I regretted the moment he said it. And then
she asked what was it about, and I told her
told us about politics, Reagan Conservative, blah blah blah blah blah, okay,

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And then she went on talking about herself as an
attorney and then talking about her being a liberal and
talking about how she became a lawyer because she wanted
to get people to get justice that otherwise wouldn't get it.
And so I asked her only because I was tempted,
because I knew I felt it as she spoke that

(50:27):
she was going to get this answer wrong, And I
said to her, what would you do if a Muslim
refused a gay couple a wedding cake at his bakery.
Her first response was, Muslims have bakeries. I said, yes,

(50:51):
they have bakeries. Go to Dearborn, Michigan much Yes, they
own bakeries. Of course they do.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
They serve their community, they have bakeries.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
So what would you say if a gay couple in Dearborn,
Michigan walked into the Muslim bakery and asked for a.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Cake to be made?

Speaker 4 (51:10):
And the Muslim baker said no, Who would you represent
in that case?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
And who.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Was right and who is wrong? And the reason why
I asked was because I knew there was a higher
key in liberalism of oppression. And she thought about it
for a while and she finally said, well, the Muslim
is right because for religious reasons he cannot make a

(51:45):
gay wedding cake. And then I said, then what about
the Supreme Court case with the Christian who refused to
service give service to the lesbian couple on their wedding day?
And without missing a beat, she responded, but that's different.
This is a lawyer, she said, but that's different. And

(52:08):
I went how well, because the other guy is a
Muslim And I said, yeah, and the other guy's a Christian.
Explain to me how these two are different, no offense,
I'm not the attorney here.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Can you explain?

Speaker 4 (52:28):
It was almost like watching somebody like self destruct her
brain literally, I mean it was a synapse in the
brain immediately. But I said, hold on, before you freak out,
let me just ask you this. Do you believe that
certain groups are more protected than others?

Speaker 2 (52:50):
And again, without missing a beat, she looked at me
and she says, well, kinda. And I said what really?
She goes, yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
And I immediately interjected and I said, what about equal
under the law?

Speaker 2 (53:12):
And again, without missing a beat, she says, yeah, but
certain people need more protections than others. That's what this
is about. Do you understand that that's what this is about?

Speaker 4 (53:31):
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter what stories
I look up where people were outside of Catholic or
Christian churches, Protestant, Methodists, Baptist church. It doesn't matter if
they were standing out there screaming hateful things that those individuals,
no one would blink an I why because according to them,
they deserve it, and they do not get the special

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protections that a Muslim does.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
They just don't on a tier. That's it.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
It's just that simple that the whole fighting it stuff
and not recognizing it.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
I don't even get what that's about. We know it
to be true.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
It's a social norm that's become acceptable.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
And what we need to do is just to have
people call it out for what it is and just
tell them. Look, just tell us stop hiding. Stop being
afraid to tell us what you really think. If you're
a socialist, be a socialist. If you're a communist, be
a communist, what are you afraid of. I'm not telling
you don't have a right to do that, But there's

(54:42):
a reason why you're hiding it. And there's always a
reason why you're hiding it, because inherently it's evil, and
you know it is. It's not so much mine. I
don't know what exactly what they'll think if I tell
them the truth.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
We'll think you are what you are. Just say that.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
The reason why Slocum is facing alleged hate crimes is
because what he did is unacceptable. But hadn't he done
it in front of a Christian church. If this guy
had stand outside a Catholic church and he says, what
are you doing here? Christians don't belong here anymore. This
is no longer a Christian nation. Go home. That wouldn't

(55:22):
have been anything, not a headline, nothing online, nothing at all.
Laurie just brought up a great point. February twenty twenty four,
an angry crowd in Bristol, England surrounded a gospel preacher's

(55:42):
outside of a church, intimidating him and damaging his property
while cheering the disruption. In April of twenty twenty four,
following a stabbing incident in Sydney, Australia, over five thousand
angry Christian men surrounded Christ the Good Shepherd Church, sounding
demands to bring him out. In March of twenty twenty five,
protest and disruptive services at a progressive church in Orlando, Florida.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
So people have been doing this all over the place.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Open borders and religious freedoms are different subjects. Well, no,
but there is no religious freedom because there is no
religious freedom for Christians and Catholics. There can't be any
for Muslims either, is my point. So if you do
believe in religious freedom, you have to have it. For all,

(56:34):
not participating in that argument for Christians and Catholics makes
the Muslim argument null and void, is my.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Point, and that's the way I'm going to look at it.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
Okay, I don't want to hear any nonsense about Slocum's
so called hate speech when you don't call it out
when it happens to other religious groups, and talking about
people being able to.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Practice their religious freedom.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Wasn't it Barak who's saying Obama who sicked the dogs
of the federal government at Hobby Lobby for refusing to
pay for contraception for their employees. They ended up winning
in the Supreme Court. Why because of religious freedom? They
had to go to the Supreme Court to prove that

(57:22):
they had a religious freedom something they already had constitutionally.
They had a constitutional right for religious freedom, and they
had to petition the Supreme Court to exercise it.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Do you know? I mean, that's crazy that the.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Most powerful man in the free world would put a
religious issue in front of the Supreme Court. That's where
we are, and that's the reason why I look again,
I got no issue with people being upset about what
this guy did, none soever.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
But it's not a hate crime.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Sorry, it's not until you start treating everything else that's
done in that same vein against others like a hate crime.
Until then, I can't. I just can't do it. You're
not going to peer pressure me or brow beat me
into believing something that isn't true. This has never been
an issue ever. Protest in this country is a First

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Amendment right. And I'm sorry. Even if what Slocum did
here or may have been.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Uncouth, dare I say ill advised?

Speaker 4 (58:43):
He didn't do anything different than what I've seen done
to other religious groups saying that call me crazy, and
this is not. This is not a knee jork reaction
to this issue. I know I'm right about this, and
you all do too. This isn't a brick wall issue.
I know I'm not arguing a brick wall here. You

(59:04):
all know this to be true. That's the only point
I'm making here. Anyway, we gotta take a break. I'll
take your phone calls on the other side, all right,
So stick around, don't go anywhere. The three Sun Radio.
We got to get into this DC thing. I've got
other stuff. It's going to embarrass some people. I hope
they're around as well. Also, the stupidest thing I read today,
So don't go anywhere in three Sun Radio on WTIC

(59:26):
new Stock ten eight Oh congratulations, and in fact, it's
my birthday tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
I'm very excited about that.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Anyway, let's get to the phones' aightsx zero five two
two wt, I see eights and zero five two two
nine eight four two.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Let's go to Fred and Middletown. How aoure you, sir?

Speaker 14 (59:40):
Hey, I'm good. Well, continuing with your theme, I have
an anecdote about a skinny old white man in Middletown
who is attacked by a military ex military drug addict
wielding in pieces of concrete. It's called h are you
on the bus?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:00:00):
By merely deciding, ordaining to do or say what's right,
one has actually thereby picked a fight. As the fact
of the matter is that the children of darkness hateth
the children of light, so there's only one thing to do.
Donald Trump said it, fight, Fight, Fight. I'm a word

(01:00:22):
warrior myself. I use nouns and verbs and especially adjectives
to cast the enemy in a bad light or shade.

Speaker 13 (01:00:29):
As we say today, I love it.

Speaker 14 (01:00:32):
Indeed, the last time I had, as the governor, would say,
beef with someone, and it did manifest into again the
governor's word fisticuffs. My attacker ambled away at his leisure
while I waited for an ambulance. Turns out no surprise
really that I'm not so tough. But enough about me already.

(01:00:52):
There's a bigger fish that we must fry, and that
fish is the lie. Okay, back to me for a moment.

Speaker 15 (01:00:58):
In my case, the raw cooked lie was that the
guy who, for his part of it might have very
well killed me was anything other than a terrorist and
an extortionist, and last, but not least, a junkie, the
last of those descriptors being why he, on a daily
basis needed.

Speaker 14 (01:01:17):
So much money. And I, little old man, white boy
with a broom me stood my ground and spoke truth
to this powerful fellow and his ever present pirate's parrot
of an even more powerful monkey. Well, neither he nor
his monkey could handle the truth, and he actually presumed
to knock out my last tooth by hitting me in

(01:01:38):
the face with a piece of concrete. Talk about street
Oh yeah, well that was one battle that I surely lost.
But lo and a last it was worth the cost, for,
as it turned out, me walking around for two weeks
with cuts on my face and my arm in a
sling was well all of a thing. What happened Fred,
About one hundred people said, and when I told them,

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they mostly all cursed him. And the next thing you knew,
his public benefit beggars revenue stream dried up to a
trickle and the only thing he was getting was junk sickle.
So for losing the battle, I won the war. And
now the window washer got a dollar Navy veteran Starks,

(01:02:21):
Main Street in Middletown, no more.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Wow, thank you, you got it. I appreciated it, absolutely great.
Thank you. Fret.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Let me get on to Jim in Willington.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Hello Jim.

Speaker 9 (01:02:35):
Yes, sir cling to their guns and their religions.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Indeed, I'll tell you what if Obama, if the point
of Obama's speech was pointed at all the Muslims in
this country, I don't think he would have said said
that phrase.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Absolutely not okay, not at all.

Speaker 9 (01:02:54):
And then if he can say that and others, not
just him, and others, and then people like Reverend Right
and all these even people on the far far right
can say what they can say what they say, and
it's not called racist. Or worse, you come, you come
to exactly what you said before the break. It does

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not work for the unhinged left, for their politics or
their philosophy to say that everybody can practice freedom of religion,
freedom of believing and faith in this country. It doesn't work.
They can't, They can't. You have to you have to marginalize.
And worse, everybody else doesn't march to your drum how

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you do your faith. And they'll never point to Muslims.
You mentioned about the Muslims. I'll tell you what, who's
killed more Muslims in the world than Muslims.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
That you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
And again, not only is is it accurate to say
appropriate to say?

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
But that's the crazy part. You know what. The biggest argument.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
About UH going after a marginalized career in that debate
is they always go back to the Crusades and going really,
is that where we're going.

Speaker 9 (01:04:07):
Yes, so they gotta go back. They gotta go back
to the Crusades. They'll sit there and tell you that
some some religious zealot in the United States committed some
horrible crime.

Speaker 13 (01:04:16):
Okay, I get.

Speaker 9 (01:04:17):
It, but they were the same people, especially if the
criminals happens to be white but the same people who
tell you that won't lift won't say a thing about
any Muslim or anybody else and any other religious group,
no matter what color of their skin is. When they're
putting the gay people in cages and drowning them, torturing

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them to death, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It
always has to apply only against and in the most
negative and slenders of terms, against a group of people,
unfortunately that are white and light skin up in terms
of maybe some Latino, yes, And they.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Always have to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:58):
And then the last thing i' and the last thing I'll.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Say, uh, that's okay, No, no, no, I'm gonna I've got
a whole line full of people, so I'm gonna grab
everybody I can. But thank you, Jim, you make a
great point. I will say this before I get the
white Micael on this subject. Was I when I talk
about this hypocrisy that goes on as far as religion
is concerned, there are plenty of places I can go

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right and that. And again I'm talking about this because
the breach of peace argument here, if that's all it is,
that Michael Slocum is not his name. Yeah, Michael Slocum
could walk into the precinct get a breach of peace
and and you know whatever faces charges would probably be
a fine or something like that, or a probation for

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like six months, whatever the case may be.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I don't want to make more of it than what
it is.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
However, when it becomes breaking news and the top story
at a newspaper or anywhere else for that matter, I'm
making it as as important as the news media did
for the sake of embarrassment.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
That's the only reason why I bring it up.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
But like I said, even though I can come up
with plenty of points of reference when it comes to this,
and there are plenty, and when I say plenty, plenty full,
this is never ever the case on the opposite side
of the of the argument, on the opposite side of
the debate, It never is, and it never will be.

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You can condemn somebody for being Catholic or Christian in
this country. It happens everywhere you go, and you know it,
no one ever stops when they see this happening anywhere
when it happens to a Christian.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
But I digress. Let me get the white mic. What's
going on, White mic?

Speaker 13 (01:06:45):
What's up, sir man. This whole issue has always baffled
me that stupid white liberals will bend over backwards to
accommodate Islam, which is easily the most oppressive of the
major religion. Islam is oppressive in a way that Christianity

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is not allowed to be align up to back these savages.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
Wait.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Wait, wait, let me hold on, hold on, let me
the point that you're making here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I don't want to lose that because everybody will be
paying attention to anything and everything else before you go there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Do you think it's because they don't care how oppressive
it is? Or do you think it's because when I
say don't don't care, do they not care? Because the
most important major point of their I guess alignment with
it is because they have another oppressed group to align

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themselves with.

Speaker 13 (01:07:46):
Uh yeah, to a degree. I also think it is
just a reflective anti Christianity that's in them. And as
you know, I have no dog in this fight.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Of course these people.

Speaker 13 (01:08:01):
I think they they look at Christians as oppressive because
it's it's the local oppression. They feel that Christians don't
like a marriage and are just you know, Christians are
nineteen fifties flat top plan members when when in reality,
most Christians want to leave you a hell alone unless

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you want to put your degeneracy in their faces, right,
but most don't want these people to exist, homosexuals off roofs.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Yeah, you know, that's a very very good point because look,
I look at the the Evangelical Christians in this country, which,
by the way, as any religious group in the country,
is the most giving of any religious group in the country.
By the way, that is absolutely bar none. They give
the most, They have the most charitable giving than any

(01:08:56):
other group in the country. Any But this argument about
you know, you know, their opposition to gay marriage. The
part that I don't get, Mike is when the left
hates that about Christians, Christianity and Catholics. They know the
behavior of Muslims in Muslim countries no matter where you go,

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and the things that they will do to homosexuals in
those countries, which is again is it a willful naivete
or willful ignorance Like I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Don't get it.

Speaker 13 (01:09:31):
Well, the white liberal in parts or imbuse the dark
minority with an undeserved sense of nobility. Hmmm, as they
believe they're an oppressed people, and they see these people
hate white people and they hate everything normal, and they
think everything the opposite of that is good. You can

(01:09:52):
see action from the polling that showed that Pete Budajeg
had zero support from black people.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
That's right, bro.

Speaker 13 (01:10:04):
And nobody came out and said, well, those black homophobes, well,
you know, it's because Black Americans are not real down
with gay white dudes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Right exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
That's a very good point. They would never condemned for
that or considered a homophobic. Proposition eight in California, that
one of the to codify gay marriage in California back
in two thousand and eight, over seventy four percent of
the black vote, which again is probably you know, they're
just under two million at the time, but seventy four
percent of the black electorate voted against or voted for

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Proposition eight. They were trying to vote against it, but
they were against gay marriage in California.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Not one person brought it up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:40):
The Black people overwhelmingly against it.

Speaker 13 (01:10:43):
It goes to their paternalism extends past just this, but
it's to everything every failure or i don't know, belief
that's counter to the accepted norm, that's held by any
kind of minority is either looked at its quaint or
playing ignored.

Speaker 12 (01:11:01):
Yeah, but I can't do that.

Speaker 13 (01:11:03):
Yeah. If you get some fight pastor who stands up
and says, you know, homosexuality is a sin, well that
guy is the devil. But if a feature says it,
then oh well that's just their belief right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
Yeah, good point, Thank you, Mike, always as always. Yeah,
and you know it was funny because I wanted to
say this before we go to a break. This was
the weird thing that I've seen this happening. And he
was talking about as Mike was talking about the difference.
You know, when African Americans giving Pete futage age no support,
no one calls it homophobic. There was a conversation on
the View and on the View on one episode they

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were talking about Mike Pence and apparently there was a
story that Mike Pence had said in the interview that
God had spoken to him and everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
On the View had mocked him. Is it like, look,
those Christians think they talked to God.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
And then a week later, Oprah Winfrey had said obstensibly
the same thing, talking about how she had gotten her
you know, her ideas and God had had graced her
with these ideas.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Not one person better deny. No person criticized her and
called here were.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
A weird Christian. They were just like, yes, you spoke
to God. It's very weird. But it is just one
of those things. It's the duality. I'm just wanted to
point that out. We'll get some more of your phone
calls on this. I didn't expect this to go his long,
but we got more news and more views when we
return stick around. It's Reesa on the radio on w
t i C News stock Tennady Dan's in East Windsor

(01:12:28):
how are you sir?

Speaker 16 (01:12:30):
Heyes, I ain't gonna have the same impact now because
we're beyond that segment.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
But no, no, no, no, we're still talking about We're
still talking about the free speech stuff, all right.

Speaker 16 (01:12:39):
But I was gonna say, you know, not only did
Brock with Saint Obama go after hobby lobby Forget, he
also went after a kind of Stoga wood and and
I just think to remember him saying the future does
not belong to those who had slain to the prophet
of the vi Islam. Do you remember him?

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
That's correct? When he said that yes I do.

Speaker 16 (01:13:00):
And by the way, that Facebook, I've at law and
order a lot. Agree it's as long as you can
get your lot degree from Facebook, you're all set.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
I love.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
I tell everybody I've watched all I have twelve seasons
of law and order.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
And so I think that I think that it's it's
fair enough for me to say that I have a
law and order degree.

Speaker 16 (01:13:21):
And by the way, so why on God's careers are
you moving to Connecticut anyway?

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
I mean, well, one because I worked there, and two
I do I work there. But you know what I know,
say you you make you bring up a good point.
I love the state, and I know that it's because
I'm an outsider.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
I know it's because I'm an outsider.

Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
But I've got this great story I'm gonna talk about
later on in the next hour, about this op ed
talking about how it's time for Connecticut to secede from
New England. And it's a really interesting piece. Now let
me tell you why, because this piece is talking about
what I was talking about years ago, and and I'll
get into that. But thank you, buddy, I appreciate you
got it. Let me get the GEO. How are you Geo,

(01:14:06):
I'm great, So I love that name. One of my
good friends, George, is named Geo from the Bronx. He
listens from time to time. How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:14:13):
I'm good.

Speaker 13 (01:14:14):
I like Reese because I like Reese.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
That works.

Speaker 17 (01:14:19):
So I wasn't listening too much earlier because I just
got on the radio.

Speaker 13 (01:14:23):
That's okay, what I wanted to get. I wanted to
get your thoughts on two subjects, not not for debating,
but mostly just to picture Breen.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Okay, that's what I'm here for.

Speaker 17 (01:14:34):
Washington, DC and how federal UH enforcements basically took over.

Speaker 12 (01:14:39):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 17 (01:14:40):
Is?

Speaker 7 (01:14:40):
That?

Speaker 16 (01:14:41):
Was that?

Speaker 10 (01:14:41):
Because?

Speaker 13 (01:14:42):
What was that? Why?

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
Why why are.

Speaker 17 (01:14:44):
We at that point now?

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
I would say that the best reason why we're out
there is because the days of pretending that majority are
largely dense Black communities are a a subject or a
condition of bigotry racism, and I don't know white supremacy

(01:15:07):
is the reason why they're killing each other.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
I think those days are over.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
I think the days of being afraid of acknowledging that
high crime areas tend to be majority black for whatever
reason it may be.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
And I will say strongly it is cultural.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
The political correctness of not establishing the fact that culturally
it is okay to accept violence in those communities are over.
Why because we have to start really valuing those lives.
They cannot be platitudes when they are killed by a
white police officer or an alleged white person Allah George

(01:15:48):
Zimmerman because his last name sounds white. It has to
be if we truly care about black lives, we have
to deal with the honesty that is the violent in
those communities. For what reason, I will tell you it's
real simple fear of gangs and drugs and drug dealers

(01:16:09):
and the people who are truly oppressing that community. Now,
I want you to think about this on this level. Okay,
not since the clan, not since the Ku Klux Klan,
has a group of individuals terrorized a community into silence

(01:16:30):
and acceptable behavior and if you do speak up, that
group will burn your house down or kill your family members.
I want you to think about that, because that's exactly
what these gang members, these drug dealers, and these criminals
are doing. You think about it. If what's the no

(01:16:50):
snitching rule? You know, snitches get stitches. The no snitch
policies in the inner city is very similar to what
the clan did. You don't behave the way the clan
want to. They'll burn your house down, they'll kill your
family members. You better shut up, you better be quiet,
you better repre you better appreciate the oppression we put
you under and allow us to treat you and behave
in a way we which wish to.

Speaker 17 (01:17:13):
Okay, So then that brings me to my next question. Then, yes,
by by dealing with the violence that happens in these communities,
do we throw the military there or do we knit
the problem From the beginning, I feel like the problem
isn't necessarily fight fire with fire, or the solution I

(01:17:33):
have to say is in fighting fire with fire, but
to start investing more in those communities, because if I'm
not maybe I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
Incorrect, I refuse to give money to people who enable
this behavior. I am not going to spend another dime
in a community. No no, no, no no no, not
for politicians, no no, not about politicians.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
That's what I'm saying to you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I am not going to give money to a community
that refuses to stand up for itself. What am I
giving you all the money for? If you're not gonna
push back on drug dealers. What am I giving you
all the money for. If you're not gonna push back
on gang members, what am I giving you money for?

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
No? No, no, the money. And again that's another thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
The police cannot be the problem solver for people in
their own communities.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
I'll give you a perfect example.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
The reason why the suburbs are the suburbs is because
the people who live in them care about their communities.
If they didn't, they would have a larger police presence.
I say that to every one of these Black Lives
Matter people all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
There's like, well the.

Speaker 4 (01:18:34):
Police don't they don't patrol the suburbs because the suburbs
care about the suburbs.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
They give a damn about their community. Now, there may
be some Karens that will get on your case because your.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Grass is too long or you're driving an SUV, but
it's because they care.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
You may call that an annoyance.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
But if I had a choice that I can live
next to a Karen who's worried about me cutting my lawn,
or I can live next door to Calvin who's got
gang bangers shooting up his house in the middle of
the night, Which would I choose?

Speaker 13 (01:19:04):
Karen all day, okay, and then.

Speaker 17 (01:19:10):
Yeah, no, that's really I'm pretty full today, so I
can't really get.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
That's okay, But I appreciate the call nonethelesson thank you
for listening. No problem, you got it, man. It just is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
That's all it's about. It's as simple as that. It's
about self governing. The suburbs do it. The nice neighborhoods
do it. They know each other. They don't have to
worry about crime in their communities because they know the
kids in their communities aren't committing it, and if they did,
they put a stop to it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
And there's a certain pride in that.

Speaker 6 (01:19:43):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
I look at the Asian community and and you, seven
or eight black folks who are listening. I say that
tongue in cheek, listen to what I'm saying to you.
When I was growing up, we had this guy named
Waymun Chong Raymond Chal and Billy Tang, right, Billy Tang,
I think Billy Tang.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
I know his name was Billy put it anyway. I
remember when they came.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
Into our classroom in the seventh grade, Miss Lefkowitz's class,
Waymong and Billy sat next to one another, and the
rest of the square head sat in front of.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Them, and when they first got.

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Into our classroom, we were always looking at them, talking
to them and asking them about their culture. As seventh graders,
we wanted to know about their cultures. Was like, and
I'll never forget when way Mong Chong Raymond as we
called them, told us, And he says, it's really really
strict in my home, very strict. You can't come home
with a B. You have to come home with an A.

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And I went, well, what would they do? Would they
beat you? Because that's what I grew up with. My
mom will pull out the switch or make me go
get it. But nonetheless that's what my parents were like,
what are you talking about? They were like, no, no, no,
far worse, far worse. Wait, whoa what the what kind
of abuse is he dealing with? And he said, shame,
pardon shame. If you come home with bad grades, everyone

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in your community knows, and you are shamed and shunned.
You are not a part of the community. If your
kid is going to school and is not smart and
not educated, having a poor education made you less than
in your Asian community. Now a lot of you are

(01:21:26):
probably saying to yourself Damn, I can't in my neighborhood.
We'd have been shunned everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
I'm not suggesting that you should have that brow, that
high brow. I don't think they do it, that the
brass ring should be that dire, of course not.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
But shouldn't it be reasonable.

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
For your community, especially a community that struggles, a community
that does struggle with grades, a dut community that does
struggle with truancy and education. I mean, it's free of
all the things in the world that are free. Education
has always been in those communities. Why aren't the kids

(01:22:08):
taking advantage of it? You think we should throw another
program in, another educational program. Education has never been the
problem in the black community. They rejected. They rejected in DC.
We are learning now that there were more kids in
junior high school who are truant than any other group.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Why culturally, education is a white folks thing. It just is.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
This is not rocket science, folks. It's white people's stuff.
Marriage that's white people's stuff. We all do that, reace,
that's white folks do marriage investing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
That's why I will do no white folks stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
Let yourself be a black person caught doing what your
peers call white folks stuff speaking proper English, a grasp
of the English language?

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Which you think you think you're better than me? Are
you acting like you better than me? What you brand? Knew?
Ask anywhere?

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
They know, Yes I am, and go anywhere. Look, this
is the reason why I tell people that they're afraid
to actually talk to people about this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Just ask the question. Listen, am I missing something?

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Why is it that people within the community think that
doing things like investing, getting an education, going and not
and going to college for something reasonable, like an actually
good job like being a lawyer or doctor in nils
Why do they find those things to be adverse to
being an American or being you know, a productive person
in society.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Why do they associate it with being white? And why?
And why.

Speaker 13 (01:23:49):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Is it because it's associated with being white, it's immediately
a pejorative.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
I'll tell you one thing, and I'll say this all
the time.

Speaker 4 (01:23:59):
When I hear somebody say to me, you're acting white,
my response to them is, my apologies, How can I
act more black? Tell me Donald, tell me how I
can act more black. I don't want to offend you.
I know you see me as a black person, and

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maybe I'm not behaving in the proper way. Can you
teach me how I can be more black? What must
I do? Should I have more baby mamas?

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
Maybe I should have a demo in the works. Should
I be able to spit a hot sixteen? Now I
know that I'm being tongue in cheek, I'm being mean,
But ask the question, how can I be more black?

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Watch them run scurry? They do.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
They all do because they know exactly the moment that
you're asked And just what are you trying to say?

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
But you know you know what I mean. No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
I clearly am acting white. So tell me how to
act more black.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Just say it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Same thing I said about free speech, same thing I
said about the Moss same thing I said about Michael
slocom Just.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Tell the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
I need you to be more ignorant. I need you
to be less educated. I need you to stop knowing stuff.
I need you to be ignorant.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Just do it. Say it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
I wish they had the guts, but they don't, because
then they have to admit the truth. The truth scares people,
especially those those people. Yeah, I said, those people.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
It's take a break. We'll be back with more news.

Speaker 4 (01:25:46):
More views, headlines, stupidest thing I read today, and your
text messages, threets on the radio, Let's get to traffic
and weather Mark Christmas are the BPS traving center?

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
He a man stay race on the radio on WT
I see yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Let me say, if I can get to these headlines
real quick, I don't print them for nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
With efforts being made.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
To keep the Connecticut Son in Connecticut, reports suggest that
the w NBA, or even better, the NBA overall, is
fighting at the proposal to do so. It looks like
the NBA wants the Connecticut Son in a different or
bigger market. They haven't been able to stop it so far,
but they are putting a little bit of like, you know,
some kibosh on it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
They don't want Hartford.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
They don't want the Sun to go for the Mohegan
you know, uh, what's say to the Mohegan Son. They
don't want it to go there or stay there. If
they're gonna move it, they don't want it to move
one inch. And they don't want it to go to Hartford,
even though it's still being Connecticut and much more convenient
for people to go.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
I'm not really understanding.

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
It looks like they're forcing the team if they leave
to have to stay at the Mohegan Sun or go
elsewhere to another place entirely, so they're fighting the offer. Actually,
if you haven't heard, it's gone up. At first it
was three hundred million dollars to the group in Connecticut
as opposed to the three hundred and twenty five for
the group in Boston. Now the group in Connecticut in

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Hartford has matched the three hundred and twenty five, so
we're an even playfield. So I thought that was going
to be a problem for the Mohegan Tribe. So it
looks like they matched it, and they really Mohegan Tribe
really wants it to stay in Connecticut, so I don't know,
we might get lucky. Also in the news, attorneys for
the Hartford Board of Education in Hartford are trying to

(01:27:37):
dismiss the case involving the nineteen now twenty year old
young lady, remember Ashley Ortiz. They are trying to have
the case dismissed. They're suggesting that her punitive damage claim
for negligent infliction of emotional distress, they think it doesn't
meet the bar in her lawsuits, so they're trying to

(01:28:00):
haven't dismissed. Overall, As I told you before that this
case looks like they're not going to relent. They're not
going to give up this money. They're trying to settle.
Alicia Ortiz's attorney is trying to settle, but it doesn't
look like going to They're still trying to have this
thing dismissed, which sucks, and it's pretty sad. A percentage
of US adults who say that they consume alcohol has

(01:28:23):
fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest by one percentage
in the Gallup poll that they've been Gallup has been
checking in ninety years.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
I wanted to point this out before we go to
a break that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
Back in nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty one, alcohol
consumption was sixty eight to seventy one percent of all Americans.
Now to this date, it's down to just fifty four percent.
When we get back, I'll do the stupidest thing I
read today, and so much more to get to Plus
your phone calls, all right, stand by, it's reached on

(01:28:59):
the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
We got traffic and weather.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Jason got to read this is out, but Mark Christopher's
in a BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
Hey, Mark, the NAACP calls him, who, I don't think
I'm it's race on the radio. Let's just say some
people are not fans talk WT.

Speaker 12 (01:29:18):
I see.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
We'll get to the stupidest thing I read today, but
I want to address something in the chat room. Donald writes,
black women earn more college degrees than any other race
or gender group in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
He writes, despite their education, black.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
Women earn less money than white men do and face
pay inequalities.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Well, they definitely do.

Speaker 4 (01:29:43):
Face pay inequalities, but as women do, and that's always
been the case.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
But they come from a myriad of reasons.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
Especially a part that you missed in your diatribe here
is the fact that the choice of jobs that they pick,
they usually don't pick the same jobs that men do. Right, So,
if there's a man who works in construction, or a
man who's an architect, or a man who is a

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ditch digger, a brick layer, of women don't dominate those places.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
And there are a bunch of jobs.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
The jobs you're talking about is are CEO positions.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
It's very minute a group of people. But let's get
to your earlier point.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
Black women earn more college degrees than any other race
gender group in the United States. I am sorry, you
do not pass go, you do not collect two hundred dollars.
It took me two minutes associate degrees White women forty

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seven point eight percent, Hispanic women twenty seven point four percent,
Black women thirteen point six percent. Now, I didn't go
to college, but I I think forty seven and twenty
seven are both larger than thirteen bachelor degrees. White women
fifty seven point three percent, Hispanic women seventeen point nine percent,

(01:31:12):
Black women eleven point five percent. Again, did not go
to college, but I believe fifty seven and seventeen are
larger than eleven master degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
Oh no, it gets different.

Speaker 4 (01:31:25):
White women sixty point nine percent, Black women fourteen percent,
Hispanic women in third in the only category come in
third at thirteen point six percent. So I'm afraid that
stat is also wrong. I hate to disappoint you. Not really,

(01:31:47):
I enjoy disappointing you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
I do. I feel really really good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
In fact, yeah, I feel fantastic. So again, this is
not putting down a particular race. This is just correct
thing the record, Okay, So please get out of the delusion.
It's as simple as a Google search, sir, It's as
simple as a Google search.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Again, don't be lazy.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
Stop repeating statistics that you know are false or at
least that you have some sort of reservations about God.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Is this true? No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (01:32:19):
Okay, don't move on from that. It's okay for being
Thank you, Richard for being uneducated.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
You do good math. Richard writes, thank you, sir, I
appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Uh let's get to the stupidest thing I read today.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
You could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
I have a two for today. It's sad enough, but
this one blows my mind. In kinetic Sorry, in Colorado,
not Connecticut. In Colorado, there was a bill for do
I not have it here? I thought I moved it. Oh,
don't tell me. I didn't put it here. Oh I

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didn't put it here.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
I screwed it up.

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
There was a bill here in Colorado that would make
it a felony for you to expose yourself to minors
in any situation. But instead of Democrats in Colorado passing
that law, they actually said that it is more harmful

(01:33:36):
to the transgender community if you enforce that law. Here's
one of the Democrats talking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
These types of laws have been used to ban drag shows.
Two target individuals who use the restroom of the sex
that they identify with a public restroom to charge them
with felony charges. I am very concerned about the attacks

(01:34:11):
against the transgender community that are happening across the country.
When I initially read this bill, it did not even
come to mind for me either as an advocate.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:23):
In fact, she's admitting that when she first read the bill,
she wasn't even thinking about the transgender community.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Whether she found a way to.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
Bring it up and say, oh what if there were
just drag show and somebody exposes themselves with saying drags
are known to do in one of these family friendly
drag shows. She's now protecting them. Twenty seven Democrats in
the Colorado district, twenty seven of them actually voted against it.
It ended up passing, but they twenty seven Democrats voted

(01:34:51):
against it against.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
It's just insane.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Also, in the stupidest thing I read today, You remember
when I covered this story.

Speaker 14 (01:34:58):
It's clear this summon.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Is struggling.

Speaker 18 (01:35:01):
This is the first section people see when they come in.
There's barely any produce. A lot of theos around the
store look the same way empty. So shoppers have been
asking us if the store isn't closing, then where is
all the food. A rotten smell comes through the door,
and anywhere you turn you'll see products that need to
be restocked, no hot food or deli.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
There was a time this store was on life support.
I can tell you today right now it's damn near dead.

Speaker 18 (01:35:29):
This is a new low, even to people like Pat
Clark who've watched the store go through its ups and downs.

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Yes, that was the Kansas City government run store Sun
Fresh Sunfresh that we talked about here. The reason why
I brought it up was because this was one of
the templates of Zoron Mam Danmi's efforts to bring government
run grocery stores to the five boroughs.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Of New York.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Well, today it was announced that it is closed down
for good, and many in the community are heartbroken.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
They all knew what was coming.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
They put in a lot of money, one point five
million dollars over the years, and they still couldn't keep
it afloat. I don't hear Mom Donnie talking much about
these grocery stores anymore. But yeah, this model that Mom
Donnie is talking about is uh, it's closed out. There's
a huge report about it today and there are several

(01:36:21):
reports about it, and many people are referencing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
It's also in the New York Post as well.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
When we get back, and I promise you we're going
to get into this subject, the DC issue. I need
to talk about that for obvious reasons, because I don't
understand how anybody wouldn't see that Donald Trump wants democrats,
wants progressives on the wrong side of the law and

(01:36:50):
order issue, and he is setting them up for failure.
And this is this is so it just is now
no offense, guys, But those of you who are on hold,
I'm not taking any calls now. I will in a
little bit, maybe in the next hour or so, so

(01:37:10):
you might as well come on back. I've just i
gotta get into this because if I don't, the show's
gonna be over. This is how crazy all of this is.
And I told you I wish these people would listen
to me. Donald Trump knows what he's doing before he

(01:37:32):
does it, and he understands knee jerk reactions to everything
he does. While you're running around screaming that is a distraction.
I'm trying to tell you it's not for him. He
knows it's a distraction for you. Donald Trump gave that
famous speech, that Congressional Speech Joint Sessions of Congress, and
he says.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
No matter what I do, they're going to be against it.
I think about that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
He said that at the beginning, no matter what I do,
even if I were to cure all the financial als,
if I were to cure the greatest disease, I could
never satisfy these people. Now, you can call Donald Trump
any word you want to, but he ain't dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
He's played all of you like a fiddle.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
And that speech was written for the sole purpose of
telling you how he was going to govern. He was
going to govern in spite of what you believed or
what you thought, and he knew you were going to
be opposed to it. But if you think that I
don't know what I'm talking about. Again, I always say,
go to the people that you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
Trust the most. So let's go to MSNBC. Let's go to.

Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
Mika Bronski and throw up my leg Chris Matthews. Because
even they know you're walking into a trap.

Speaker 19 (01:39:02):
You can't keep saying violent crime is done with the
murder rates up to the average person. The murder RUP's
about life and death. You don't brag about a rising
murder rate. And the Democrats are I agree with you, Mikan,
They're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible.

Speaker 20 (01:39:17):
It's a trap, Yes, it's a trap.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
It's a trap.

Speaker 20 (01:39:21):
I mean if it's not a winner politically to say, oh,
you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Look at the data.

Speaker 20 (01:39:27):
Because you know, if one violent crime happens in a
very heavily popular part of the city, people hear about
it and it's visceral. They don't want it, and they
want to they'll gravitate to the person who appears to
be doing something about it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:45):
That's right, and that person is Donald Trump. That shoul
They're going to gravitate too. Well, let's go one step further.
What did I tell you yesterday about fudging the numbers.
It's everywhere that DC is fudging the numbers, people far
and wide, people who don't live in DC, or is

(01:40:08):
one lucky liberal who likes to join this show.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Let's say I used to live in DC.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
Never took a data never took a data point on
police shootings or crime in the city. But just because
he lived there, I guess he knows. I live there too, dude,
twenty five minutes south of DC, and even I didn't
go there, definitely not at night. My friend, well, my
friends used to invite me to go to DC with them.
I say, hell no, they go wide, it goes there's

(01:40:37):
violence down there. I'm not going there. I love my life,
I have a future. But here's Greg Pemberton. Here is
the chair of the DC Police Union. This was him
on news Channel four talking about crime stats in the

(01:41:01):
Great City of DC.

Speaker 11 (01:41:03):
Police supervisors in the department are manipulating crime data to
make it appear of violent crime has fallen considerably when
compared to last year.

Speaker 21 (01:41:11):
When our members respond to the scene of a felony
offense where there's a victim reporting that a felony occurred,
inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that
will show up on that scene and direct those members
to take a report for a lesser offense.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Did you hear it? I know you heard it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:34):
A lieutenant shows up at the scene and tells them
what to do.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
What are they doing?

Speaker 21 (01:41:40):
First, respond to the scene of a felony offense. Where
there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, Inevitably
there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will
show up on that scene and direct those members to
take a report for a lesser offense. So instead of
taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or
a carjacking, they will or that officer to take a

(01:42:01):
report for a theft or an injured person to the
hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same
type of classification.

Speaker 11 (01:42:08):
Greg Pemberton says the police department's command staff is focusing
on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall.
They are armed with a dangerous weapon an injured person
to the hospital.

Speaker 21 (01:42:20):
When management officials are directing officers to take reports for
felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases
and changing offenses.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
To felony assault.

Speaker 21 (01:42:29):
Felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed
on the department's daily crime stats. It's also not something
that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform Crime Reporting program.
So by changing criminal offenses from for example, ADW bat
or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both

(01:42:51):
the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a
part one or a felony offense.

Speaker 11 (01:42:57):
Pemberton says the union has been gathering evidence for some
time now by looking at reports and talking with officers
all over the city.

Speaker 21 (01:43:05):
What we've heard through our members and through members of
management that we are willing to talk with the union
is that this is a directive from the command staff
is that they want to make sure that these classifications
of these reports are adjusted over time to make sure
that the overall crime stat stay down.

Speaker 11 (01:43:22):
As of last Monday, when we spoke with Pemberton, DC
crime data shows violent crime was down twenty eight percent. Today,
the department's website says violent crime is down twenty five
percent when compared to the same time last year. An
overall crime is down eight percent.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
That's preposterous.

Speaker 21 (01:43:40):
There's absolutely no way crime could be down twenty eight
percent last year. They suggested that it went down thirty
four percent.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
That's all you need to know. That's coming directly from
the horse's mouth. Police officers being directed to fudge the
don't feel silly yet again. It's okay to apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
You should. You should try it. Try it. Like how
many times. I've been here so long, and it's every
other day.

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
I've got to bring another story that embarrasses these people
every day, just more and more evidence. Just keep on one.
I thought you're wrong again, wrong again. Not once have
you said my bad, you were right, my my bad.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Head of my skis on that one.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
There, Reese, We'll be back.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
Let's get weather. In traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
John Ferrick is in for Jason Katerina and Mark Christopher.
He's in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Hey, Mark, the hour that bags up, Punch Punch, It's
Reese on the radio on wt I see News Talk
ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
Normally I would do Hollywood News today, but things are
just like the shift is being like sent over, so
it almost like the mood isn't right. So I'm gonna
take this moment to address something that I just saw
in what I heard in the top of the hour
News for the last couple of hours with Dave Meger,
and that is this Smithsonian controversy or the Kennedy Honors,

(01:45:18):
which has created some controversy. The Five is talking about it,
and of course every other liberal outlet is talking about
how Donald Trump is changing history through the arts, and
that's how totalitarian regimes begin by going after the arts.

(01:45:38):
The left has had control of the arts and the
culture forever. You ignored everything conservative, you maligned it, you
almost erased it out of history. And I want to
give everybody the core example of what I'm talking about
when it comes to absolute abhorrent behavior. When the African

(01:46:01):
American History Museum run by them white folks over at
the Smithsonian, when they were putting all these African American
heroes inside that museum that is visited by millions, they
decided to keep out Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,
but made an exhibit for Anita Hill, the woman who

(01:46:25):
accused him of a sexual harassment. When the good white
folks was asked why they would ignore the second African
American Supreme Court justice in that museum, their response was,
we can't tell everyone's story. Screw you, screw your culture.

(01:46:46):
It's ours now. You had it for a long.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Time, you lost it. Now we're in charge.

Speaker 4 (01:46:53):
Congratulations, Sylvester Stallone, George strait Kiss, Yeah, run this town. Now,
let's get some weather in traffic. John Ferrick is in
for uh Jason Canerino. We got mar Christopher's in the
BPS traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Hey, man, homes.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
Still, this is only gonna hurdle little. It's Reese on
the radio wt I ses.

Speaker 4 (01:47:21):
I've got plenty of news to get into, but I'm
gonna have to save it for tomorrow on my birthday.
And this one just came across the wire. I can't
wait to share this with you. Have you ever thought
that there would be a jihadi version of Sesame Street?

Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
You can't wait until you hear this story. Yeah, it's no, No,
that's it. That one's even different. My wife is in
here as well. This is how Hamas turned kids into
terrorists with the TV show featuring a Jahati mouse and
a bloodthirsty bunny who threw grenades and fired AK forty sevens.

Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
We're gonna talk talk about that tomorrow. It is absolutely great.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
But if you want to get to the article early,
go to it's the toppage at New York Post dot com.
That's ny Post dot com. We'll talk about that as well.
I want I want to get to this. Rama said
this in the chat room. This is funny. As I
was talking about when I tell people, how can I
act more black? Rama has an interesting story. Rama says,

(01:48:24):
I had some ignorant work a day. White guy at
a bar I asked me where I was from, because
I sounded like I went to college. I repeated what
he said several times so that the other bar patrons
would hear it. I told him that I could try
my best to negro it up for him, and then
he backpeddled.

Speaker 2 (01:48:45):
I do it all the time. I do it all
the time.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
I told you the story about the woman from Texas
who said to.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
Me, where are you from? You're so eloquent? What just?
What's again?

Speaker 4 (01:48:59):
I still think it's the funniest thing in the world,
and it's done. It still makes me laugh. I get listen.
This is the thing I.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
When people tell me it's like, hey, I have a joke,
but it's racist.

Speaker 4 (01:49:11):
I go, uh huh, hurry up, now, I'm not. I mean,
it's the ignorance that I find funny. I know some
people think it's supposed to be offensive. I'm not that guy.
I get that it's offensive, but I'm not that guy.
I don't pay much to it. I think that's supposed
to be a joke. So today I was supposed to

(01:49:34):
get into this story about the housing market in Connecticut.
And the reason why this story is important is because
a lot of people here are suggesting that we can
solve the housing crisis in Connecticut. And one of the
ways to do it is based upon this rule that

(01:49:57):
says that every town in Connecticut must have it ten
percent of low income housing. And there are some areas
in Connecticut that have done it. They were able to
do it, however, no, no crime may have gone up,
but that's not the point. There are a lot of municipalities, towns,

(01:50:21):
whatever it may be, that are pushing back on it.
They don't want low income housing in their community. Now
they may vote for it, and they may be overwhelmingly liberal.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
California has this problem too.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
Michael what's his name, Gosh and his name is escaping
me now, but he has this thing called the public
who he ran for governor in California. His name will
come to me in a minute, but he talks about
it as well. You have all of these people who
are saying, yes, we need low income housing, and then
their city council meeting will come up where everyone has
to address, you know, said issues in the town, and

(01:50:56):
then they'll say, hey, let's take a vote on low
income housing and ready community goes, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We you know we want it, but not here. No,
I mean it's it's going to create traffic. And you
know the kids in school, you know, yeah, you know

(01:51:17):
I want it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
I don't have anything against those folks, but you know
this isn't the best place for them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
And it never happened.

Speaker 4 (01:51:26):
And even if they did, I looked it up, even
if every town, and I think if I looked at
the numbers, let me let me see if I make
sure I got these numbers right, uh, based upon how.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
Many are left.

Speaker 4 (01:51:40):
So, Connecticut has a total of one hundred and sixty
nine towns or cities as you could call them, and
they have what's called the eight point thirty G that
helps developers build more affordable low income housing in those places.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
And to have an enough of it, they say.

Speaker 4 (01:52:01):
It must reach at least ten percent of housing in
that town.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
They must be affordable.

Speaker 4 (01:52:10):
And right now, only thirty one towns have reached the
ten percent threshold.

Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
That leaves one.

Speaker 4 (01:52:20):
Hundred and thirty eight towns that haven't met that equal
threshold that ten percent.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
But even if they all did.

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
It wouldn't reach the number of homes that we're being
told we need to reach.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
It's still going to be a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:52:38):
Now when you hear these people talking about addressing affordable
housing in the state, their plan isn't going to reach it.
No matter what they're lying to you. It is a
nonsense it's a nonsense proposal. It's a talking point memo.
There is never going to be enough affordable housing in

(01:52:59):
Connecticut even with the current rules at hand. Sadly enough,
they're never going to reach that goal no matter how much.
It's this one of those things, that running joke or
that running issue that they're gonna be running every time
we need more affordable housing. Next four years, we need
more affordable housing. It'll never happen. Why because these towns
don't want it. They don't want them every time in

(01:53:21):
their towns they ask for Now, unless.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Are dressed affordable housing in our community.

Speaker 4 (01:53:26):
Yeah on that, Uh no. And I know there are
some people that are just going, oh, those nimbi's none
in my backyards.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
But look, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:53:39):
I'm I refuse to reject them in that way. I'm
not gonna call them nimbi's. I'm gonna call them pragmatic
individuals because they are. Look, I'm gonna defend these people,
even if they might be rich, wealthy liberals who don't

(01:54:02):
stand by what they believe in.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
I don't care politics aside. I'm sorry. I love the
community that I live in.

Speaker 4 (01:54:16):
Roseanne, and I when we take our walk in the
community and we see a certain element, not Anniss, say who,
but we see an element. And they come in all
shapes and sizes, But we see them and we look
at their yard.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Yeah, we say the same things that all of you do.

Speaker 4 (01:54:36):
Ooh, those people have no pride in their home. Ooh
who lives there? It's your neighborhood, now, I no, you know,
you let people be and do what they want to do.
But this goes back to my earlier point, right, it

(01:54:58):
goes back to my earlier point about self governing. Why
does the hood look like the hood? No one cares?
You can live in an apartment building. Why does the
stairways smell like urine? When you see someone doing that
or you know someone is doing that, why aren't you

(01:55:18):
Why aren't you objectifying that person? Hey, y'o, what are
you doing? We live here, my kids play here.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
What are you doing. If you don't have.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
Any civic pride, neighborhood pride, you'll allow those towns in
those communities that go straight to hell and no offense
low income housing. Come on, seriously, it doesn't mean that
all people who are in low income housings are gonna
treat their neighborhoods like crap.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
But think about it. Will they allow you to judge
them if they do?

Speaker 4 (01:55:56):
Think about what happens when they come in the community
and then you have a city, town hall meeting or
whatever the case may be, and then you start complaining.

Speaker 2 (01:56:04):
It's like, hey, you know, we allowed this new development to.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
Come in for low income housing, and there's beer bottles,
or there's this and that, and it's a mess, and
there's litter everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Let's just say it's just litter.

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
They're throwing their garbage out, they're behaving like it's the hood,
or like they don't care. What's somebody gonna tell you?
Come on, you know what they'll say, you don't understand.
That's probably how they did it and where they come from.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
What's that got to do with me.

Speaker 4 (01:56:35):
We used to have a saying when I was growing
up Armando, my supervisor at Tel Aviv car and Limo.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
I was very young.

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
I worked as an assistant dispatcher to him. I used
to be a phone operator there. We used to have
this one saying. He used to say jokingly, but he
was serious. I mean it made sense. Remember where you are,
not where you've been. Now some people are sitt up thinking,
whoa whoa, WHOA whoa. What are you trying to say?
Remember where you are and not where you've been. It's

(01:57:09):
important where you are. You may not be in the
place that you're used to. The place where you are
may not be appropriate for you to behave where you
come from. Adapt That's what that means. And the worst
part is that when you have low income housing, no
one is ever asking anyone adapt. Anyone want to take

(01:57:30):
a shot at where are we're seeing that already? Anyone
want to take a shot? And where we're seeing that
right now? In our body politics and our daily lives.
Huh the immigration issue.

Speaker 2 (01:57:44):
What happens?

Speaker 4 (01:57:45):
Are we asking anybody to assimilate anymore? No, you're not
allowed to. Everything has to be changed to accommodate those
who are coming into the town. We have to change
the advertisements, we have to add languages to sign no
one's and you think that are you're gonna move people
into your town all of a sudden, You're gonna ask
them to it here by your rules.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Where's that normal? We don't do that anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
So look, I look, as much as you might say,
it's like, yeah, look at all those liberals.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
They don't want anybody, any of these people moving in
their towns. Neither do I. I don't. I don't want
the riff raff.

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
Now, if you could tell me that we can vet
these people, if we know exactly who's moving into our communities,
if they understand, Hey, guys, you know a certain way
do we do things around here? Are we gonna make
sure that these people get fined? As you and I

(01:58:47):
would be fine for leaving garbage around when my ho
wa comes around. Of my grass, I mean, I let
my my grass grow a little too long.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
They sent me a letter. It wasn't even that bad,
but they sent me a letter. I'll be honest with that.

Speaker 4 (01:59:06):
I didn't want to cut it, but that's because the
lawnmower I had was really, really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
It was going to take a long time, but I
got to it. But they sent me a letter.

Speaker 4 (01:59:15):
Are we gonna hold them to the same standards that
we hold every other homeowner or people in the neighborhood
or renters in our neighborhood. If the answer is yes,
then fine, because I don't want to hear any excuses
for these people. I don't want to hear any nonsense
about You know, they're from a different place. They do
things differently where they come from. Ah, remember where you are,

(01:59:37):
not where you've been. With all due respect, they may
do that in the hood in Harlem, they may do
that in you know, Crenshaw. But over here we do
things differently, and you'll abide. This community is safe. The
reason why you want to live in our community is
because the community has a standard. The reason why you

(01:59:58):
don't have to hear cops roaring up and down the
street is because we've made it that way, because we
have a standard of living here, and you're going to
adhere to that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
You're not gonna come in here with all of.

Speaker 4 (02:00:09):
That other nonsense and start screwing up the place, because
you know, we have to now adopt to you. You're
a guest. You told us that we had to make
it affordable for you. Good, We've done that. Now make
it livable for the rest of us, because we've already
ensured that. We made it livable for you. We made

(02:00:32):
this a great neck of the woods. We gave you
a great education system. We gave you clean streets, we
gave you garbage removal. We gave you a town an
ho a and a town council that have cared for
the needs of this community that's there to care for you.
How about a little reciprocity, Why not, my out of sorts.

(02:00:58):
But you're never gonna get it. Why because there are
are no guarantees, and deep down inside most of these
politicians who are fighting for it, to be truthful, the
only thing they want is your town to turn into
assesspool too, because they don't like you either. They look
at what you've built, They look at the neighborhoods that
you've turned it into, and for some odd reason, that's

(02:01:18):
a bad thing. You're some blight unsociety. Look at you,
look living clean and nice. Look at you with your
great schools and your education and.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
Your ballparks in your little leagues. Look at you.

Speaker 4 (02:01:32):
They resent you. You know they do. Don't don't ask me.
Look at what they're trying to do. I'm just saying, well, take.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
A break, we'll come back.

Speaker 4 (02:01:45):
We'll end it with your phone calls, so stand by,
don't go anywhere. We'll wrap this puppy up. I feel
like I should say this, but I'm not gonna say it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
I'll wait until later. We'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 4 (02:01:59):
John Ferrek, He's in for Jason Catarina and Mark Christopher's
at a BPS drafving center.

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
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Speaker 4 (02:02:17):
Yeah, what had happened was, folks, we talked about the
case and the arrest of Michael Slocum, who has been
charged with one count of second degree breach of peace
because he was yelling at some folks outside of a
mosque yesterday, well day before you on Saturday. Sorry, but

(02:02:37):
he turned himself in yesterday. And I was talking about
free speech in this country. But the paper suggests that
this was an alleged hate crime incident could be further
from the truth. Insane, But you know, what do you
want It's just something that I thought I wanted to

(02:03:00):
address today because it was. It never makes sense to
me the way people have become comfortable with censorship because
they don't like something, or they don't like a particular person.
They are willing to jeopardize their own civil rights and

(02:03:25):
their own constitutional rights. And I think it's become comfortable
a comfortable place for people to be. I remember the
firestorm that I got on this network and from callers
when I talked about Alex Jones, and I know, again,

(02:03:45):
low hanging fruit. I even said, then, you guys will
remember that I told everybody that when I brought that up,
I understood the low hanging fruit, the low hanging fruit
nature of that discussion that I knew that it just
it pulls at that one little emotional thread and people
were gonna be outraged. They even bring it up, and
they again without fail, proving my point that constitutional freedoms

(02:04:13):
of free speech are limited for individuals, not not even
about the speech certain people and people who called themselves conservatives,
they may not be constitutional conservatives. I understand that, I
know that the two can coexist, but they are.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
And I had no dog in that race. Trust me.

Speaker 4 (02:04:39):
When I tell you I've got none. I don't have to.
I've got no allegiances to anybody. I've got my friends,
I've got my compadres, I've got my associates, and they
know who they are. But I have no allegiance to
a particular ideology or a group.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
My allegiance is with me.

Speaker 4 (02:04:59):
So when I brought it up, I wanted to do
is to have a discussion, and people thought there was like,
how diare you race?

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
The only person who's here that's consistent.

Speaker 13 (02:05:07):
Is me.

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
Every time. I understand that I'm.

Speaker 4 (02:05:13):
Going to be consistent here, but you've got to ask
yourself if you are and if you're not.

Speaker 2 (02:05:18):
That's also the point I'm making.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
Be honest with yourself, not me, yourself, you believe in
the constitution kind of sorder, and not be okay with that.
Let's get another check of that weather in traffic, John Ferick,
thank you for filling in today. John and I don't
think we've ever talked, but thank you. And Mark christmher

(02:05:40):
he's in the BPS traffic center, him, Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:05:42):
Everybody, you know who it is? Who is you know
it's rees on the radio.

Speaker 4 (02:05:47):
Frederick Douglas of the twenty first Century.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
It's w T i C News Talk All. It is
about that time to wrap up. Uh, we're gonna get
a body here.

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
Michael Goldstein sent me a message, said a physician turned
politician running for the fourth District of Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
Okay, I'll reach out to him.

Speaker 4 (02:06:14):
Let's see if I can get an interview with him,
see what he's all about. He sent me a message
says I would love an interview. Okay, we'll see what
we can do. Unfortunately, I mean, I wish it was
that easy, but it's not always that easy, so you know,
but I'll reach out for those of you. No, I'm
just let him know. I'll reach out to him in

(02:06:36):
a day or two. I do have my birthday tomorrow.
I know people are gonna say happy birthday. Don't get
me wrong. I love the fact that you do. I
send you guys messages on Facebook when you get to
a birthday.

Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
I do that.

Speaker 4 (02:06:46):
It's not automatic. No one else is doing it for me.
So I appreciate people's birthday. I know I'm going to
get that a lot tomorrow. I just want to say
in advance, thank you in advance for those of you
who are sending me birthday wishes already. For those of
you who don't know, I'm turning fifty six, and it's uh,

(02:07:06):
it's not as cool as being fifty five.

Speaker 2 (02:07:09):
But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try.

Speaker 4 (02:07:11):
I'm just gonna try to enjoy as much as I
did when I was fifty five. So it's been a
good year. It has been. It's been a fantastic year,
and I've spent it with you.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
With you now with that, uh, let's uh, thank you, Zach.
I appreciate that I saw you earlier. Right in. Let
me go to Tony, who was in Rocky Hill. How
are you, sir? Tony? Tony? Did you go to sleep?

(02:07:42):
Were you waiting that long that he fell asleep? I
think I heard him snory? Poor guy. I'm so sorry.
What's up? Fulton? How are you?

Speaker 8 (02:07:53):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
Buddy?

Speaker 8 (02:07:54):
Don't want to talk about cooking? The book?

Speaker 7 (02:07:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:07:58):
In d C.

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
What do you think? Well?

Speaker 8 (02:08:01):
I think Waterbury was doing it in two thousand and eight,
So it's he's gonna take to take a larcity that,
like I fat to chat off your neck. It should
be a robbery. Right. They get to the DV, they
they tell you to change you to a largity. Right,
burglary that your house is open. The guy just opens
the door. There's no fourth thanks to you. Right, that's
against the larceny. It's a real simple way that they
do this number game.

Speaker 4 (02:08:22):
Yeah, but wait a minute, now, look let's take Waterbury
for instance. What tourism is Waterbury trying to protect.

Speaker 8 (02:08:30):
It wasn't protected it. It happens during their years. So like, oh,
I crime down, violent climb is down in my area.
And then you look at the murder rate. The murder
rate is the same. So I tell everybody the murders
you ought to do. Can't cook a dead body. And
you can't cook a dead body, that's right. You know,
you could do a robbery, you can do larcity, you
can do a rate, making a salt. You can do

(02:08:52):
a domestic assault and making him downplay it, making a
breach your piece, right, making a misdemeanor. So, I mean,
it's an easy way to up your book. They were
doing it for a long time. I want to also mention,
uh you put up on the other day about a
PRIs cher doing the uh the thing for the kids
and the evaluation.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, the jerry manduring in Illinois.

Speaker 8 (02:09:14):
No, no, I was saying, for the kids evaluation.

Speaker 4 (02:09:18):
Oh right, right, right, yes, he's going to do right,
Each kid from third to twelfth grade is going to
be mentally uh evaluated.

Speaker 8 (02:09:26):
You thought that was a good idea or no?

Speaker 2 (02:09:28):
Oh hell no, no no, no no no.

Speaker 22 (02:09:31):
I was like that sounds like no, no, but no,
what I was suggesting is is, first of all, it
was I thought it was funny that he was actually
doing it.

Speaker 4 (02:09:42):
But he said something interesting which shows exactly the problem
in Illinois. He says it's mandated, but parents can opt out.
I'm like, that's not the definition of mandated, my friend.

Speaker 8 (02:09:54):
Like a shot, everybody's act. What are they gonna tell you.

Speaker 13 (02:09:58):
They want it?

Speaker 9 (02:09:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:09:59):
W Yeah, I don't get it either, But I'll tell
you what I think it's about. I think it's about
them trying to find out one if there is a
special needs in the school, and to gain the system
to get more education funding.

Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
That's what that's about, and what they're gonna do that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:21):
The only thing that Illinois is gonna do in that
case is that every kid's going to have a mental disorder.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
That's all I want to say something.

Speaker 8 (02:10:30):
So, do you think there's ever any like they're doing
a big mission. Why does everybody get like the heart thing,
like everybody I know had Now all of a Suddeny're
gonna do mental emails. The guy that shot said that
he's depressed him stuff from the finger, and immediately they said,

(02:10:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:10:53):
Hey, listen, one one plus one sometimes equals three, and
if it does, we should check it out. That's all
I'm saying. All Right, thank you, man, I'll see you
next week. I'll see you next week. Let's go to
EJ and new Haven? Oh Man, new Haven? You guys,
I'm sorry you guys can't stop getting off my news feed.

Speaker 2 (02:11:15):
What's going on? EJ?

Speaker 7 (02:11:17):
Well, you were talking earlier about ten percent of ink
low income houses across the state of Connecticut. Yes, that's
just the Democrats, Tomenttion, that their their role, or that
these people are going to be low income, and like
that's the voter role going to ham and going going
to Chesh or going to Madison, going everywhere.

Speaker 4 (02:11:38):
Yes, And it's so funny because EJ, that was exactly
what I was looking up. Because Bob Duff has got
this campaign to turn. I think it's Darien. He wants
more low income housings there. Now it turns out that
there's been a lot of pushback in the regions where
he wants it. And someone had suggested to me that

(02:11:59):
this is the objective of Bob Duff, is to make
these places a little more liberal than they are conservative.
And I started digging into that and it was kind
of it was kind of a wild goose chase. It
didn't get the answers I was looking for, but I
thought that was an interesting point, because what happens when

(02:12:20):
you do put in that level of low income housing,
They do demographically or statistically tend to lean to the left.
I don't know why, but they do. And I thought,
it's never about the thing they claim it's about. It's
always about something far more sinister, you.

Speaker 2 (02:12:39):
Know what I mean? Absolutely so that you're right, it's and.

Speaker 7 (02:12:44):
It gets like it shouldn't be getting more pushedback, well
in a state, and then oh, it just seems like
it's just you know what I mean, it's it's but.

Speaker 2 (02:12:54):
Look, I don't think that.

Speaker 4 (02:12:56):
Listen, there is a this effort, as they're saying, saying,
to get every town up to ten percent. There's one
hundred and thirty eight towns left that haven't met code.
Most of those that, according to the study that I
looked up, most of those one hundred and thirty eight
that are left, more than sixty percent of them are
pushing back on the idea of getting low income housing

(02:13:17):
in their communities. And look, no one is even talking
about those communities pushing back. You still have the politicians
saying we need more affordable housing, we need more affordable
housings they're not even having They're not even outing their
constituents as rejecting it. They just keep using it. So
they keep saying, we have to get more affordable housing here,
but no one is pushed back and said, hey, we

(02:13:39):
understand that some of your constituents don't want it there.
Why are you addressing that. No one even broaches that.
So that's a conversation we need to have. Why are
so many people in Connecticut rejecting low income housing?

Speaker 7 (02:13:51):
Isn't there a difference between lowingcum housing and affordable housing?

Speaker 12 (02:13:55):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:13:56):
I wish there were, but not for them, not for them.
But you know, low income and affordable to them mean
the same thing. But look, Connecticut is one of those places.
And people get mad at me for saying this and
I get it, I know, I get it. I'm sorry,
but it's not supposed to be affordable for you to
live here.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
It's not. It just isn't. I'm sorry. I'm just sorry.
It's not.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
When and I'm coming from New York when we look
at Connecticut, and I always say that sometimes how you
gauge your town is how outsiders look at it. Right,
It's like, what do people think about New York? New
York is rude, right, or New York is busy and
it's vast. That's because you have a reputation for being
as such. And usually, you know what's the old old line.

(02:14:40):
Perception is ninety percent truth. And the thing that we
perceive Connecticut is being for not wealthy, but well to
do and people who've accomplished something right or bought a
house in Greenwich, bought a house in New Canaan. Those
things are things that you achieve. As a New Yorker,
I looked at Connecticut as achievement. So when I say

(02:15:01):
it's not affordable or it's not supposed to be affordable
for you to live there, I don't mean it in
a disparaging way. I mean it in the way that
it's supposed to be accepted, and that is We're Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
Can you afford us? You know, that's the way I
look at it. Thank you, Jay, you got it man.

Speaker 4 (02:15:19):
And again this was back to my whole thing about
the sense of pride in Connecticut. In this article that
says is it time for Connecticut to secede from the
from New England. Here are some of the pull quotes
or some of the points in there. They said secession
would allow New England to shed a minor leaguer. They
call Connecticut the focus on core states while enhancing New

(02:15:42):
York's region with connecticut scenic.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Attributes like rolling hills.

Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
Another initiative involves provocative billboards like the fact that Connecticut
keeps trying to establish itself like New York and Chicago
and Detroit, claiming that Connecticut's is the nation's best pizza
place right talking about things like that. Governor need Lamont
insists on border sides that to Connecticut as the basketball

(02:16:09):
capital of the world when Massachusetts is where the Basketball
Hall of Fame is like, what are you taking their
stuff for? Connecticut needs to rely on its own identity.
And again this guy brings up a lot of stuff
that I brought up over the last couple of years.
Connecticut needs to acknowledge that it is its own place.

(02:16:30):
Stop piggybacking off of other people's stuff. Connecticut doesn't need
to compete with New York. It's Connecticut, and the reason
why is because there are people here who don't have
enough pride in it to accept its own glory.

Speaker 2 (02:16:47):
I'll go this far.

Speaker 4 (02:16:50):
Connecticut is acting like it is Black Lives Matter. It
needs New York to be legitimate, like Black Lives Matter
needs white folks to say Black lives matter in order
to be accepted or to feel as though they exist.

Speaker 2 (02:17:08):
Connecticut is Connecticut, and people should have some pride in it.
They should. You don't need New York to give you pride.

Speaker 4 (02:17:15):
You don't need Boston to give you pride or to
give you substance.

Speaker 2 (02:17:19):
You are.

Speaker 4 (02:17:22):
And I know, look, I know I sound like this
naive sort of out you know, outsider, But think about
the outsiders who come into town and treat you like
you're nothing. Think about the outsiders who just say connecticutm
We used to say.

Speaker 2 (02:17:37):
That about queens. There used to be an old saying.

Speaker 4 (02:17:42):
That said when you talked about where you were from
in Brooklyn and were like, yo, where you're from? And
it's like, I'm from Brooklyn. He's like, yo, Brooklyn, where
you're from? From the Bronx book you down, Bronx. Where
are you from? Stanton h shot Land?

Speaker 2 (02:17:54):
Where you're from? Long Island? Ah, Strong Island? Where are
you from? Queen's Queens?

Speaker 4 (02:18:00):
They would disrespect us queens, but then I have to
remind them. We're the home of run DMC. We're the
home of LL COOLJ Mob Deep, We're a home of nas.

Speaker 2 (02:18:17):
What are you? Biggie and jay Z. That's about it.

Speaker 4 (02:18:20):
Sure you have some others, but but when you think
about iconic people, Run DMC Andlo CUJ is pretty high up.

Speaker 2 (02:18:28):
There, pretty high up there. We're talking about Run DMC.

Speaker 4 (02:18:34):
It's equivalent to the Rolling Stones as far as rap
music goes. They are iconic. They are like legends. They
put queens on the map. They were the first rap
group to go platinum, be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
You wouldn't have Biggie and jay Z without us. That's right, Laurie,
and you're steal in my thunder. President of the United

(02:18:57):
States is from Feens, damn right, And don't forget yours
truly Reesa on the radio. I'm just saying, so I
have some pride. You don't need to be the pizza
capital of the world, your Connecticut. Your tagline should be

(02:19:22):
can you afford to be here? That's what I would say.
That would be my tag tagline. That would be Welcome
to Connecticut. What's in your wallet? That's what I would do.
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, how is it that

(02:19:44):
I have more pride for the state than most people?

Speaker 2 (02:19:47):
How?

Speaker 4 (02:19:48):
Probably because I don't know any better. But you know what,
my naiven take may prove positive for you. I said
it before. I've never been wrong. I don't think I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:19:58):
On this one.

Speaker 4 (02:19:59):
I can be the marketing mavin for the state of Connecticut.
Turn that right around. I can make Connecticut the place
where legends are born. And yeah, I don't want to
be governor. I just want to be the guy ahead
of like marketing. I could come up with a bunch
of great tag life. In fact, you know what, that's

(02:20:21):
what I'll do tonight for my birthday, a gift to Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (02:20:25):
That's what I'll do tomorrow. All right, time for me
to get a body here.

Speaker 4 (02:20:29):
As I always say, radio is free, So we thank
you for paying attention. Remember to keep JC in your
hearts and in your minds. So Patrick, I love you,
We miss you. Remember that panic is not planning, So
plan your work and work you're playing me. I'm resting
on radio. You have a good night, pleasant tomorrow. We
will see you back here at two. John Ferrick is
in for Jason, Catalina and Mark Christopher. He's taking you
home in the BPS traving Center. Good night, sir, no doubt.

(02:20:53):
Queen's in the house.

Speaker 13 (02:20:55):
Queens is in the house.

Speaker 2 (02:20:56):
Let him know, let him know. Hey, down one mic,
there we go. Queen's is in the house. Thank you, Sorry,
have a great night.

Speaker 19 (02:21:09):
Ree Hey, if you're heading into Harpard right now and
you are on the westbound side of it before you got.

Speaker 2 (02:21:13):
Delays, alright, right, good sir, alright.

Speaker 7 (02:21:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:21:17):
Basically I enjoy you going out tonight. Are you going
out tomorrow? Maybe tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (02:21:21):
Okay, all right, but I will see that, yes, sir, enjoy.

Speaker 2 (02:21:27):
All right, everybody? Thank you, Michael as always.

Speaker 4 (02:21:30):
Uh, that's what democrats ask every time they legislate.

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
What's in you want that we can take from you?

Speaker 4 (02:21:42):
I hope you are an instrument of change. But I've
but I've heard that song and dance before. I want
to be an instrument for change.

Speaker 7 (02:21:49):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:21:53):
Not so you dance. You are white. I can dance,
screw you. Low income housing sucks.

Speaker 4 (02:22:00):
The people don't care about anything because they don't have
to pay for anything.

Speaker 2 (02:22:04):
Sokolowski, you hit the nail on the head on that one.

Speaker 4 (02:22:09):
By the way, Jimmy P, if you're still out there,
i'd want to thank you for that, for the text
you sent me on a radio shack. I just gave
you a shout out earlier in the show. All Right,
I will see you guys Manyana.

Speaker 2 (02:22:21):
I love you. Stay good to each other.