Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 8/15/25

• The Left Did Not Abandon The Working Class. The Set Out To Destroy It
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, ye, they they should calm down. The show is
about to style Reese on the radio. Turn it up,
turning it up low, turn.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It up lound like a dream come true.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
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not exist.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's Race on the radio right now on w t
i S News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Let's go Friday. Whoa hey, Now, what's going on all
you scully wags out there? Nothing megas across the throaded plane.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
It's the last day of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
And it's Reece on the radio on wt i C
News Talk ten to eighty. I've come so accustomed tonight.
I went to go see the Panics.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Was it a week ago?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
A little more than a week ago, Well, it's been
two weeks now now I think about it. And when
they performed that song holding up the Wall, which is
so appropriate for this show, talking about how politicians aren't
doing anything, just holding up the wall. Go check them out,
the Panics p A N i X, the Panics official
theme song of Reese on the radio. When I went

(01:46):
to go check them out, they played the song live boy,
they sound good live, Damn they sound good live. But
after they finished the song, I said to them. Damn,
that sounds like my theme song.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
I love the sound of it. It just gets me hyped.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
And it's always a pleasure to pain on and I
play them, and I'm very very happy that they allowed
me to make them my official theme music. It's Friday,
I'm gonna be in town on Monday. I'm gonna be
there all week. I've got plenty of stuff planned, so
many people to see, so many people to talk to. Again,

(02:21):
I extend that invitation to African Americans across the Nutmeg State.
You know, if you want to break Bradward Reese on
or radio, get in touch with me. You know, I
think that a summit should be had, you know, much
like the one happening in Alaska and a little bit

(02:41):
between Vladimir Putin and President Trump. I think we need
to understand each other more so you understanding me. I've
already I've understood the black community for far too long,
but I think they need to understand me and what
I'm trying to accomplish.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Because I am trying to accomplish something and.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
That is probably more so trying to get them off
the tee that is the Democrat Party. They failed them
for far too long since the days of FDR.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
You know where the shift happened. People don't know that.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
The shift of African Americans from Republicans to the Democrat
Party is FDR. You know, with the so called New
Deal that was still discriminate, discriminatory against African Americans.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
They don't play that.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
They were willing to take scraps and of course handouts
from so called leaders. But I digress. I don't want
to get into that today. I can get into that
at another time. We're taking your phone calls today. I
know it's after the birthday. People wanted to call in
and say happy birthday to me. Personally, they probably will
call in. I say, someone calling it now, I know

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who didn't get a chance yesterday to We'll give.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Them that opportunity.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
But I was thinking about something and Friday, I usually
don't do an opening monologue, or I can have it
free flowing myself in Roland, or usually chat about something
coming up. He'll have a bowling tournament, maybe the daughter
will have a dance recital. I'll see something on television
that we talk about. But today something.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Happened and.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I will go back in memory sometimes and remember a
show or a phone call that either irritated me or
made me think. This particular phone call was a little
bit of both. It made me think and it irritated me.
What was that about. Well, the phone call of the

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individual months ago was about a you know, I don't
really care about your show. I just listened for traffic
in weather. All you do is divide people. Blah blah
blah blah, listen for traffic and weather. And for some
odd reason, that phone call popped into my head today.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
As I was watching the regular news.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Everyone keeps talking about how the Democrats lost the working class.
And maybe it's this nerd gum that my wife laughs
at me about for taking. But my brain started to
work in a weird way. As I was listening to
someone talking about how Democrats lost the working class. I

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remember this phone call about the guy who said, I
just listened for traffic and weather, And I said, you know,
traffic and weather is a is a good starting point
to realize how the left lost the working class?

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Can I explain? Of course I can.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
I started writing this stuff down and it's going to
be my Sunday piece on my sub stack that I
do every week. You can find it in the Connecticut
Sentinel this weekend as well, and I haven't posted it yet.
The draft is there, ready to go, and I'm gonna
post it as soon as I get on my flight

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for you to read it. And here's what I wrote,
the difference between the left and the right. The working
class cares about weather and traffic for different reasons than
the left. It's why they don't identify with them anymore.

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The working class and traffic. People who care about traffic
on you know, working class folks. They care about traffic
because they have responsibilities in places.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
To be.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
A job, the kids' schools, appointment its meetings, kids' activities
like baseball, soccer, dance recitals, piano lessons, all of these
things are instrumental to improving their quality of life.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
They do.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
They do all of those things to make life better
for their children.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Perhaps their children will find a career.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Or make lifestyle choices based upon those things that those
parents do. Traffic is instrumental that The reason why they
check in with Mark Christopher throughout the day on the
eighths to find out traffic is because it is instrumental
in their lives. For all of those reasons, getting to appointments,

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making sure they're gonna get to work on time.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
You might have a mother who's got.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
To drive the kids to school and then get to
her job, and she's concerned about the traffic so she
can get there.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
And why is she doing those things?

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Because there are sacrifices she has to make in order
to have a family, to build a better life. That's
the working class. Working class. Dad's the same thing. Will
he be able if he's an independent worker, like if
he owns his own company, is he going to be
able to get from this job to that job?

Speaker 5 (08:14):
How is traffic going to play a role in that?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Truck drivers too, delivery drivers, ups FedEx, all of them.
Traffic is important to working class people because sometimes if
traffic is going to hold them up, it could cost
them hundreds of dollars.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I did some research and it.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Turns out that every year traffic can cost Americans up
to one hundred and sixty billion dollars in losses.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
That's the working class. Weather is the same thing.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
The working class cares about weather for some of the
same reasons I just discussed about traffic, But rain, snow,
when they all play contributing factors, what about cancelations to
sporting events. What about snow days during the school year

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where parents have to make the decision between staying home,
getting a babysitter, daycare. That's going to cost them money.
It may cost them a day in wages. The weather
is important. It is a fabric of working class folks
every day. It's how they get around as how they maneuver,

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and it's how some of them it measures in their
wallets and their pocketbooks.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
That's why it's important to them. Can you imagine.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
A single mom, hell even a household where the two
parents are there and they don't make a crapload of money,
and one of them may have to take a day
off from work in order to stay home with the
kids because they don't have adequate childcare, or their kids
are so old they're in grade school, but the school's closed.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
What are the kids going to do?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
You can't leave them at home, not by themselves, unless
you don't want to visit from.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
So old welfare.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
But anyway, that's another story. So what a working class
parents do well, of course they check out Bob Cox,
Jason Catarinas and sometimes even Tom o'hamlin o'hanlin for weather
right here on this station.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
It's important to them.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
As that caller said to me some months ago. But
now I want you to look at the Left as
it pertains to traffic and weather and all of those things.
Traffic is pollution to the left, and weather is climate change.

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The pollution that you cause contributes to climate change. And
the effort to reduce those things they have to reduce
the working class. They have to get you off the roads.
So you're attacked. Owen you remember that thing that you're

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fighting so hard for to live a better life, to
buy a home, maybe to live in a better neighborhood.
Maybe your kid is in some sports or whatever extracurricular activity.
What does the left tell you about those things? They
call you privileged, don't they? They started teaching children in

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class that all of those things that you abust your
hump to give to your children is now somehow a
detriment to our society or broader society. The Left has
decided to make your kids feel guilty about the things
that you being busting your hump to give.

Speaker 8 (12:01):
Them, haven't they Everything that I just described that you
go through is an antithesis of the left.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
They hate it. The more you try to achieve the more.
They complain about equity, don't they. Why do you think
they celebrate universal incomes? Why do they think they consider
anyone who's trying to get a leg up or make

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more money for themselves. The more money you make, the
more money you need to be taxed. They are punishing
wealth and your effort to obtain it. Remember Barack Obama,
after a while, how much money can you have? Remember
your private business that employs over sixty percent of Americans.

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Zabeth Warren said, you didn't build that. The left said
that they built it. Why they built it with paving
the roads, even though you paid the.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Taxes to do that.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
They said that they built it because they educated the
people to work inside your businesses, not that you paid
taxes so that they can go to school for free.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
You played no role in that.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
You didn't build it. So of course they lost the
working class. But in my view, this wasn't a loss
for them. They rejected them. They rejecked the working class.
You are the enemy. So when you hear these guys

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running around talking about, oh, we need to obtain the
working class again, how you can't do two things at once.
How can you possibly tell a group of people you
don't like you, despise that you want them back in

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your folds. Working class moms and dads with kids entertain
their kid's desire to compete in sports.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
A growing number over the last thirty.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Years in that space have been girls in sports. How
did the left reward them by taking away opportunities from them?

Speaker 5 (14:43):
What did they do?

Speaker 4 (14:44):
They told biological boys that they could compete against biological girls.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
The growing number of girls.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Who entered the sports realm were now faced with a
competition they could not beat.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Class mom and dads, especially moms.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
We're told to shut up, be quiet, or else we
will cancel you. They were threatened with rejection, removal from
polite society. Should they stand up for their little girls?
Those are working class folks. How could they possibly get

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them back that without asking them to adhere to bow
down to them. That's not accepting of them. That's tyranny.
How are you gonna win that back without tyranny? How
about working class families morals and ideals that they teach

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their kids as they're raised in the house before they
join the public school system. Pray to God, love your neighbor,
share be friends. To go into a school system, that
tells the parents what you taught them means nothing. We're

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here to teach them that genders don't exist. We're here
to introduce them to pornographic books, and if you dare
fight us, we'll seek the federal and the local government
after you.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
And they have.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
You've seen it. Working class families go to churches, don't they.
But they've denounced God, They've denounced Jesus Christ, they've accepted Satanism.
Working class families, ninety percent of them believe in God.

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And I'm not saying just a Christian or Catholic one.
I'm talking about Judeo Islam. They nine, all of them,
working class believe in a God. The left has denounced them.
There is no losing the working class. They beat them

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down and told them get out of here, and everybody
knows it. So when the left talks this junk about
how they're gonna win them back, they can't because they
have to reject everything I just laid out. And how

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could they possibly do that? While they're having a difficult
time expressing their dismay with zorn Mom Donnie or a
Josh Elliott or the progressive wing of their party that
they're too afraid to push back on how could they

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possibly choose the working class when they can't even admonish,
they can't even reject the ideals of progressive leftists who
wish to do the things that I just displayed. That
is who they are. They hate the working class. Ask
any progressive. I didn't even get into the kids. Most

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working class families are families who have children. How could
you love the working class families while you abort children
for over population and population control? You can't do both.

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When we come back, I'll tell you a couple of
more examples. Whoever thought that it would be as simple
as checking traffic and weather to find out where democrats
lost the working class?

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Leave it to me. It's Resona Radio. We'll be back.
It's w t i C News Talk ten eighty. We're
back at Tries on the radio.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
And the article that I'm writing for my sub stack,
which is pretty much how did the left lose the
working class? We checked traffic and weather, which I thought
was kinda smart on my part.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
One of the one of the things that in the
it's in the article.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
That I wanted to read was this this paragraph here
proof of its abandonment talking about the left. Proof of
its abandonment lives on how the left has attacked the
working class family at every turn. Working class Americans are
predominantly parents, striving to give their children opportunities they never had,

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better education, stable homes, extracurriculars that build character. Yet progressives
have introduced concepts like privilege into schools, shaming kids from
modest backgrounds for the fruits of their parents' labor. Curricula
across the nation, including the progressive led States, teach that
family success is inherently unfair, fostering guilt rather than gratitude.

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This extends to gender norms. Boys are labeled too masculine,
discouraged from traits like competitiveness that working class dads instill
for resilience in tough jobs. Girls are pushed to compete
against boys in sports, often under the banner of inclusion,
disregarding fairness and safety concerns that resonate with protective parents.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
All of that is a fabric of it.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
So you know, these people on the left, it's tiptoeing
around that when talking about how they lost the working
class families. You hear them talk about identity politics. It's
not identity politics when you frame it that way, you

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paint the working class as bigots when people talk about it, right,
you keep talking about it's like, Oh, they abandoned the
working class because they're so worried about he, she, him,
non gender pronouns. People have a defense to that. They
go see because they're bigoted. No, it's not that simple.

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It's not about prioritizing transgenders or gays or LGBTQ. No,
you can't talk about inclusion and only talk about one group.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
You see.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
What I'm saying is is that you want me to
include transgender kids, LGBTQ kids, confuse kids, gender ideology kids, whatever,
you want me to include them.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
Great, Include these kids.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Include the other kids, the kids who are none of
those things. Now, if you've missed that, if you listen
to this show and missed it, I'm going to say
it again. I'll go back to the women's movement. Gloria Steinem,
Jane Fonder and the like. They told us, They warned

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us that it was going to be the thing that
it was not. Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda. All they
talked about was we want to.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Make it fair.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
If men can be CEOs, we want women to be CEOs.
If women can I'm sorry, if men can make six
figure salaries, we want women to make six figure salaries.
And many people believe that, you know what, fair is fair? Allah,
Billy Jean, fair is fair. Let's make it fair. And

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when it didn't happen quick enough, then the belittling, the marginalizing,
the insults they began. The reason why it's not happening
fast enough is because men are misogynists, because men are macho,

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because men hate women. Men had no say so, we
couldn't even say anything. We were trying to do what
we were trying to make it fair and demonizing men.
What did they do? Men immediately wanted to acquiesce. You
know what, You're right, I apologize.

Speaker 9 (23:51):
We'll work more.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
We just kept giving in, kept giving in, and as
long as they're demonizing you, you'll keep giving in. But
it's never enough, because when it comes to progressivism, it
is never enough. Progressivism has no end, it is not finite.
They progress for the sake of progressing into something new. Sorry, folks,

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it's a fungus. If you let it grow, it will continue.
Let's call it the hydrilla of society.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
You never gonna get rid.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Of it.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
But truth be told, that's what happened with the women's movement,
and it's happening now with the working class. Before it
was just men doing what they always do, making ends meet,
in fact, fulfilling the dreams of any American, making such

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good salaries that women could stay home and take care
of the children.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
But that was bad. June Cleaver became mockery.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Look at her bacon, cakes and pies for her man
who treats her like she's nothing and belittles her. Poor
June Cleaver, by the way, I love that woman. What
guy wouldn't Progressives They look at a woman like June

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Cleaver and say that she's she's to be demonized. What
was wrong with that woman? Somebody explain that to me.
I'd love someoney explained it to me. What was wrong
with her again? What was wrong with the apron wearing?
What was wrong with the bacon and no offense? Look

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at the girls you got now?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Only fans anyone? Huh huh.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yeah, that's what I thought anyway. And now that's just
moved on to progressivism in other places. The working class
was next. It went from men to everybody, moms and dads, alike.
They wanted mothers to join the workforce, and now mothers

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join the workforce and give their children, which is again
innate in every parent give their kids a better life.
And even that's a bad idea. Now you can't win
for losing. Think about it. Didn't they drag you from
the kitchens, ladies. Didn't they grab you from the from
the bacon and the pie making and all that stuff.

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Didn't they drag you from them and say join the workforce?
What did they want you to join the workforce? War?
What did they want you to have careers for? Was
it for you not to have children? Was it for
you not to have a better life? Think about all
of that, all of the things they told you that
you could do, and.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
You could have it all.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
You could have a family, you can have a career,
you could have a Mercedes bench, you could have a
corner office, and you did it all.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
Only for the progressive to turn around and say.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
No, now you're a privileged white woman evil. If you're confused,
it's because you should be. I'm sorry, but they didn't
lose the working class. The working class became the enemy.

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They are the enemy of everything that is progressive work
is bad. It is work is bad? Why because you
get paid? And when you get paid, what do you
do with that money? You buy things, and you buy
things that other people can't buy.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
So we need to strip you of that.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
You should only be allowed to make this amount of money.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
What happened to I can have it all?

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well, you can have a little bit, you can survive
on nothing. Haven't you ever asked yourself what happened? Has
no one asked themselves what happened? I'm trying to figure

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out how they explain it to the most vulnerable. And
for the sake of argument, let's bring a little bit
of race into it. The one thing the civil rights
movement taught us and continues to teach us today, is
that blacks and browns and minorities in this country cannot

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achieve the same greatness as their white counterparts. They are
financially like centuries behind their white counterparts. The whole idea
was to make opportunities for those folks to ascend to
the ranks of their counterparts.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
And now the progressives have said, uh.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Uh, sorry, tyrone, you're only allowed this amount of money
and everybody's gonna have the same.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
What.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I'm sorry but I didn't sign up for this, ma'am. Well,
you want to make the world a better place, now,
don't you. Well, sure, I'd love to make the world
a better place. I'd like to make it better for
my kids. I'd like to give them an opportunity they've
never had before. But then that's don't worry, sweetie. They're

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only going to reach this level and everybody's going to
have the same thing.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's just gonna happen. And that's what you brought.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
So don't ask yourself this silly question about what happened
between Democrats and a working class.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
It's over, Donald says Reese.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Women had to go to work because one paycheck per
household was not cutting it. The days of daddy only
paychecks is the thing of the past. Donald, Poor you
you must be new here to America. That's not what happens, sir,
That's not what happened at all. And if you miss

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that movement, that's okay. That's what I'm here for. We're
gonna take a break, we'll come back. We'll take some
phone calls as well. My article coming out on Sunday,
how the Left lost the working class. We'll talk about
that and much much more. We've got Roseanne in the house.

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We'll talk to her and we'll talk about my trip
coming up. Being in town. I don't think we have
a place on where we're gonna meet. Roland is still
working on me getting to see the Silver Sun pickup,
so I'll talk about that too. See if we get anywhere,
hopefully we do. Anyway, stick around, more news, more views.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
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Speaker 4 (31:04):
The the idea that two income households were a fabric
at the same time of women in the workforce, You
obviously have no understanding of history. Gloria Steinem joined the
scene in the late fifties and the early sixties. The

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two income household phenomenon began in the Excess of the eighties.
The me generation, and women did not join the workforce
because they needed to paychecks. It was because it was
fashionable to have too. The year of the Excess, Oh,
we can have two incomes in the house. People were

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buying homes at a higher rate in the eighties. All
facets of life, and of course through two parenthouses.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
There used to be a time in our history.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
People forget this that families that were beginning started off
living in their.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
In laws homes.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
They would live in the mother's the mother of the
bride's home or the mother of the groom's home. They
would build the nest egg where they would then get
probably borrow from their family members and get their first home.
And this was across different social, economic and racial groups.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
People could afford homes.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
You should read some history on this in some of
the black neighborhoods where people own their own homes. In
the nineteen sixties, Chicago and everywhere in the Midwest was
rampant with that. But the excess of the eighties people
needing more things to buy, and we already had women

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in the workforce in the nineteen seventies, a growing number
of women joining the workforce, nineteen seventies joining politics and everything.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Else local and national.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
It was a resurgence, if you will, of ways to
be economically beneficial to your lives of the eighties. There
wasn't a product of poverty at a high cost of living.
It's a product of excess. Trust me, I know, because
I lived through it as a kid, So don't conflate

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the two.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Know your history.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
We were all there, those of us we are old
enough to remember some people had to have two households.
Totally get it. But that's not what we're talking about,
not the outliers. Let's go to Tony and Rocky Hill.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
How are you? Tony all right?

Speaker 10 (33:51):
I think you're wrong. Recent I know you're wrong, or
what you just said? Tell me economics. I have the
economic background, the finance background to prove you're wrong. The
reason there's a necessity for two workers within a household,
there is did.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
You say there is?

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Okay, we're not talking about what is? Tony?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
No, No, Tony, you can't finish because I'm not talking
about I'll tell you. Be quiet and I answer you.
There is means present tents. I am not talking about
present tents. I said the eighties, the seventies and the
sixties is what I'm talking about. You were talking about
present tests with Again, you can't know, Tony, you are

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not talking about anything.

Speaker 10 (34:36):
I don't know what you're talking.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
So now talk about the seventies and the eighties or
just hang up.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Your knee jerk reaction to prove me wrong proves exactly
what type of individual you are. You're not listening and
if you were paying attention, but you're not. That is
the usual tactics of individual. They're not working on trying
to have a conversation. They're sitting there waiting, rocking back
and forth like some psychopath. I'm gonna call them and

(35:09):
I'm gonna prove them wrong. No one's talking about today.
I'm not even talking about the past twenty years. The
statement was and I'll read it again and Tony, if
you want to call back to address what I was
talking about, then you'll understand. I talked about progressivism that
told women that they could join the workforce, that told

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them that they can have it all to told them
that they can make the money, the same money that
men made. Donald started talking about the need for two
income households. There wasn't a need unless there was a need,
but that wasn't the general placement. Most people joined careers
or career became career oriented because that was the zeitgeist

(35:54):
at the time. Most suburban families had two inc households,
not out of necessity, not even out of need. It
was normal and in a world of excess, you could
buy homes faster, you could buy nicer cars. Why was

(36:16):
it called the me generation of the nineteen eighties. Why
did we see wealth boom in the way in which
it did during the nineteen eighties. Why did we see
income rises or household income rises? Because it became normal
for told both parents to be at work. How did
we get the advent of latch key kids, Kids who
came home who were preteens and teenagers who had a

(36:39):
key to the door and could make their own lunches
and take care of themselves as their parents came home.
This was a part of suburban lifestyle. People who owned
their homes. You're gonna suggest those.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
People were poor.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Huh, living in the suburbs, owning their own home, who
were going on vacations with dispo incomes. How did those
things become a fabric of life?

Speaker 5 (37:05):
And I'll even use the culture.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
What was one of the most successful comedies during the
eighties growing up?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Anyone? Anyone? I'll give you a hint, Chevy Chase. Huh.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Vacation vacation movies were very big in the eighties.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
It's a part of suburban culture.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
And why could families do it because they had two
income households. Please stop talking to me like I wasn't there.
I was born at night, not last night. You're not
smarter than me. Okay, stop trying. I told you I
come in here fully loaded guns a blazon. If I

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don't know what I'm talking about it, I'd rather shut
up about it.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
But stop.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
We got to take a break. It's time to get
to the WTI newsroom. I hate feeling insulted. Please don't
w t I S newsroom. John Silva is back. Nope, no,
oh no, we got Dave Baker. Sorry, Dave, hey man,
I'm sorry about that, buddy. Anyway, Dave Baker's in for
John Silva in the w t I S newsroom. We'll
be back in Triesta the radio WTIC News Talk tennedy.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
On making sense of the news. Yeah, even when it
makes no sense at all. All Now until w t
I see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Hey, we are back Reese on the radio, w t
I C.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
It's Friday, uh, and we got Roseanne coming up. In
a little bit of Roseanne on the radio. My beautiful
wife will be joining me. You've got plenty of stuff
to talk about. We'll talk about this with her too.
She has She had an interesting childhood as well. Growing
up in the eighties. She was relatively younger, but her
family was military. Her biological dad and her stepdad both

(38:58):
military and and she lived in a lot of places
during the eighties. I want to talk to her a
little bit about this conversation as far as working class
families go. And there, I said, and people are saying,
like having lost the working class. I'm just looking at

(39:19):
this from the perspective that's provable here, and that is
the rejection. And I put it in an article that's
going to come out on Sunday on my substack. Of course,
you'll find it at the Connecticut Sentinel as well, so
look out for that. And if you are already subscribed,
you will get it immediately in your email. And if

(39:40):
you'd like to go to rese onradio dot com, that's
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so that you can subscribe and you'll get it immediately
when it posts. All right, and with that, let's go
to Mike and Colebrooke. Hello, Mike, how are you you
with RecA on the radio?

Speaker 9 (39:54):
Hey, Reece, I've been listening to you quite a while, okay,
and all but I was just talking with my girlfriend.
We're not married, okay, but I'm fifty nine, she's fifty seven. Okay,
About seven or eight years ago, she bought a house.
I've given her a lot of help and a lot

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of repairs. I've got my own.

Speaker 11 (40:18):
House with eight acres.

Speaker 9 (40:21):
Wow, and we are making it.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
So.

Speaker 9 (40:27):
I don't know why anybody else has that big, big,
big problem to be able to buy a house right now,
I know, but it's kind of skewed and it's gonna pop.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
Well wavin.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
Let me let me let me talk about that a
little bit. And by the way, that is a rooster
in the background. He is going off.

Speaker 12 (40:42):
Oh, he's doing his job.

Speaker 9 (40:43):
There's a little there's a little flaxman running around.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
Oh okay, well aside, let me explain.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Let me let me ask you this because I'm maybe
this will sort of contribute to my question or at
least something that I'm interested in. So, is there anything
about your location that is beneficial to house owning?

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Where you're located?

Speaker 9 (41:10):
Yeah, we're out on the outside of town right, both
both places. I'm about seven miles away, okay, I'm pretty
much in the in the southern Berkshire Mountain range.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
And so home purchases compared to what you'd see in
a town like I don't know, Bristol, just for I
don't know, just to throw a name out there, home
prices would be in what percentage would you pay half
of what you'd pay in a town like Bristol or
far far more.

Speaker 9 (41:43):
I usually just hold my breath when I go through Bristol.
A home sold just next door to me, Okay, just
a couple of months ago, and it sold for three
hundred and eighty thousand dollars. A three thousand square foot house.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Okay, now, three thousand square foot house.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
I've lived in. I lived in that in Fort Lee,
New Jersey. The home that I lived in was three
thousand square feet.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
That's a lot. That's a lot of space.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Comfortable, Yeah, very comfortable with Yeah, my second wife and
two kids and us. Each kid had their own bedroom
and I had a den in that home. And weirdly enough,
it was a two family house. We were on the
top floor and we still had over three thousand square feet,
and I had my own debt, and we had a

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sun port.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
So there's a lot of room to be had in
something like that.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
What's the acreage look like on that home at three
hundred thousand.

Speaker 9 (42:42):
It's on a post stamp.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
You go outside.

Speaker 9 (42:46):
And it's right on main hardly travel mainly traveled two
lane truckers coming out of Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Now, if you would have put that home closer to
a major town, uh, Torrington, let's even go there, I mean,
because Torrington's pretty far out there. But if you were
to put that home in Torrington, would you see that
price go up considerably?

Speaker 5 (43:09):
Would you see it double?

Speaker 9 (43:12):
Not if they were in town, if they were on
the outside of town, I would say yes, it could have.
It could go up in some areas in Torrington.

Speaker 7 (43:20):
Right.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Interesting, Well, but when you say what you don't, why
do you why do people find it difficult to buy homes?
Are you suggesting that perhaps they should move out of
their big towns where it's demonstrably expensive and move to
areas that are close to you?

Speaker 9 (43:37):
Absolutely? Well, Well, I don't want anybody moving forward.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Well, I'm saying that in a loaded way, but I
get your point. But yes, I'm saying generally, yeah, I agree.
You know what it was. Let me let me tell
you this. It was one of the things I used
to talk about all the time in Manhattan until of course,
at the rate that it is now, it's no different.
But I used to tell people who used to live
I lived on the Upper east Side and I had
a rent control department, And.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
No, that's not true. I apologize.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
My father in law owned the home and we were
paying about eighteen hundred dollars a month in early two thousands. However,
everybody who lived in Manhattan on the Upper East Side
complained about the rent all the time. You know what
I would tell to tell them, why not live across
the East River or go to Jersey City just across
the Hudson. It's like living in Manhattan and you're a

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fifteen minute subway ride into the city to work in
all of that stuff. But people wanted to live in
the city, they would usually spend thousands dollars more, thousands
of dollars more because they wanted to live in a
in the location, in a closet, in a box, in
a shoe box. They would prefer to do that because

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the most important thing to them was the address.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
And you know, the one rule about real estate.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Right location, location, location, that's you know, that's the three
rules of real estate.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
So they don't think to move out.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
There to the Askirts Outskirts primarily because one they don't
want to, they don't like the traffic, and two they
feel like they're far away from everything.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
Yep, I'm seven miles out of the center of Winstead. Okay,
I wouldn't want to walk every day.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
I'm gonna tell you honest.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
My ideal, My ideal would be living in a remote town,
like you know the old saying, like the one Horse town.
I would love to live in a remote town where
there are no paved sidewalks, you have to drive everywhere
you go, and the center of town the most I
guess the most busy location in that town is maybe

(45:45):
the post office or the local diner, not even like
or maybe even the local gas station. That would be
the most busy that a town could possibly be.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
I would love that.

Speaker 9 (45:58):
You know, you need to come look at Cobrook because
we don't have even a stoplight, and we do have
a post office. They tried to close the town, but
they gave it back to what okay, and I think
the the busiest building is the tax assessor's office in
the town hall.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
That sounds fantastic, that is ideal, but you know what
that's because I'm fifty six now. When I was twenty six,
that was unheard of. Like that town would have been
boring to me. It's like, what are you doing this town?
I would have looked at you and like, how do
you live here? But now I totally get it.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
Bears we got up here.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
I don't want to run from bears all day. Mike,
Yeah you can.

Speaker 12 (46:43):
They'll come right in your house.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
I would listen to me, I would sooner take the
cockroaches and the rats of New York than the bear case.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Well, no, the bears can do much more harm. I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (46:59):
You know they're more scared of you than you are
I did.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
I do know that. I absolutely do know that. Thank you, Mike.
I appreciate the calls.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Sir.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
You got it man, you too. He's absolutely fun.

Speaker 7 (47:11):
I love that.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Laurie says social programs of public education. Population drives up
taxes with any city or town.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
Uh you one, right?

Speaker 4 (47:21):
That's you know, people want to live in places that
are peaceful. I think that's I've always said this, and
I know I'm probably repeating myself from just recent That's
why I love Connecticut, Because Connecticut Westchester even parts of Jersey.
I always looked at those neighborhoods or those places as

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where you go after you've accomplished everything you need to
in a major city. Right you go to New York,
you make your bones, you get partner at the law firm,
and then once you do that, you buy a home
in Connecticut, and you know, you commute on the Metro
North or the New Jersey Transit, whatever the case may be.

(48:07):
It's usually the commuter train, not the one that every
average person takes. The commuter train where everybody is reading
the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. You know,
everybody wears a suit and tie. I envied those people when.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
I saw them.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
I would be in Manhattan and watch them come up
the train steps going off to work, and they always
looked like the most important people in the world.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
To me.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Call me crazy, but I knew that I wanted to
work in corporate America. When I saw those people get
off the train, they probably hated, their lives didn't matter
to me. I looked at them with such an awe
and respect, and I knew where they were coming from.
They live in Darien, they live in costcov they live
in Greenwich, and I'd been to those places and I said, man,

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and they come to work and they do that every day.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
And that's you know, that's kind of how you do it.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
You solidify that job, get some job security, You meet
the girl you love and you say.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
Hey, what do you think about moving to Greenwich?

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I would love to. Let's go look at houses this weekend. Ah,
that's Americana to me.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
It just is.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
I don't care to say whatever you want about me,
but that that's it. That's the brass ring. I grew
up in the Hollis Queens. Everybody. I mean, I watched
television a lot, and I watch those programs that show
that every day from the Waltons to eight is enough

(49:47):
to the Brady's. I watched all of those programs and
those things.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
It may have been.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Ridiculous, it may have been complete and nagin nation that
that's the way life could possibly be. But how do
you not want it by looking at it? How do
you not see it and say, how can I get that?

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
I've never understood people who didn't get it, never, but
some people don't. Some people can never leave the hustle
and bustle of the city. I remember that living in
the Lower East Side and living in Greenwich Village talking
to people, and I was like, man, you're like sixty,
what why don't you go someplace where you can react
with like, no, the city is, it's my home. I

(50:34):
love the vibrants in that art, hustle and bustle. They
were crazy about that.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Me.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Nah, for what I'm done with that.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Let's go to Joe and Durnham Durham real quick, Hey,
Joe sappy Friday.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
Friday, Oh, no problem, thank you, sir.

Speaker 13 (50:55):
Hey your lack call.

Speaker 14 (50:57):
He's right.

Speaker 13 (50:58):
Colebrook is beautiful up there, right by the birch heres.
But have you ever heard World Durham? Obviously have you
heard of Durham Fair?

Speaker 7 (51:06):
No?

Speaker 4 (51:06):
And I looked into it. Did you guys just have
a fair or you've got one coming up?

Speaker 11 (51:12):
We have one coming up every fall.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 11 (51:14):
Okay, yeah, it's been going on for.

Speaker 13 (51:16):
A while, but Count of Durham, it's like the only
big thing that happens every year. Five thousand people here,
you're about twenty minutes from ninety one or the merit. Okay,
am acre lies two acres.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
They've got everything I can. I can assume that, you know,
I believe it or not. I don't talk about it enough,
but I really do like the fair. I don't like
the rides. I'm not really into the rides and stuff,
but I love, I love a county fair.

Speaker 13 (51:44):
We just go for the food.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Yeah, exactly. You can't beat it the food.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
Although you know what someone's gonna have to explain to me, Joe,
Someone's got to explain to me the delectability I use
that term loosely of the corn dog. I don't understand it.
I don't understand why people like it.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
I've tried it. I don't.

Speaker 13 (52:04):
I don't get it, and it's the weirdest thing, especially
watching somebody and eat it the long way.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Fair.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Fair enough, you've painted quite the picture, but I don't
get it. I don't understand how the two go together,
or who thought of it and why is such? Like
the funnel cake makes sense to me, although I'm really
really not a big fan of the powdered sugar. But
the corn dog I never got it, and it does
incredibly well.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
And I've eaten and I'm going who likes this?

Speaker 4 (52:32):
I don't get anybody mad, but I just don't understand
I don't understand.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
The two things going together. It just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 14 (52:39):
You go with the pride though, you're safe.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Yes, you can't go wrong there. You cannot go wrong.
Now one, Well, thank you, Joe. I appreciate you, sir,
but you got it. Let's go to Fred in Middletown.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 11 (52:53):
Hey, I'm good. So let me start with some flattering commentary.
That was a very nice narrative. The way you converged
the finance and feminism and what I'm gonna call Jack
in the box Marxism, Like, yeah, he come over here,
you can have the cake and eat it too, And
people said okay, And then they went and they were

(53:15):
eating a cake, and you know, Carl Marx popped out
of the cake and said to each according to need,
and from each according to ability, right, and everyone's like
whoa what? Uh? Yeah? And by the way, let me
just give you a warning. I almost sent Frank's cann
call up and go off on white women with their
multiple abortions as Stev's and Badskin go be ready for

(53:35):
that and shut him down. Don't let him do it.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
I will not let him do it. I appreciate you.

Speaker 11 (53:40):
Yeah, so I'd call that like a three move combination
in chess. That was really nice.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 11 (53:46):
If you go to the Durham Fair, say hey to
the elephant who shouldn't be there.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
The elephant that said they have an elephant there.

Speaker 11 (53:53):
Why they did, I don't know if they still do,
but they and it was a controversy. I mean, I
guess it's a draw and it's meanwhile, the elephant didn't
want to be there.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
It was clear, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Yeah, things like that you can really really tell because
like I don't know, it's maybe the elephants are probably
the only animal, or one of the few that you
can sense melancholy when we look at them.

Speaker 11 (54:15):
I got a story. I want to apply for a
job as a clown at the ring Wing Brothers Barnum
and Bailey circus when they were in New York fifty
years ago at Madison Square Garden and we were in
there behind the scenes, and there was a dude who
no way had it, He was not in control. I
could smell that dude's fear and I made eye contact
with this elephant at like forty yards and it was like,

(54:37):
get me the f out of here. No doubt man.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Yeah, it's it's something that I sense.

Speaker 11 (54:44):
Really the expression I think you were looking for yesterday.
I don't know if this is the OG, and it's
usually a few variations, but perfection is the enemy of success.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Perfection.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Well, actually someone did correct me, and I should have
given them credit for it. Was that don't let don't
don't let perfection be the enemy of good.

Speaker 11 (55:08):
Uh that doesn't sound quite right.

Speaker 9 (55:11):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (55:11):
Then, and then if you're suffering a word copying or
a phrase coping previously you said not out of a necessity,
nor even out of need.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
A right, Oh yeah, it's the same thing. Yeah, Okay,
that may have been.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
There's a good fun thank you, thank you for forgetting that.

Speaker 11 (55:28):
I'm gonna I'm gonna apologize for this, and I want
to leave you the word. I'm gonna spell it for you. Okay,
you can take a joke, okay, V E R B
I c I D E all right, and I'll say goodbye,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
I totally didn't even hear that.

Speaker 11 (55:44):
The okay, one more time, all right.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
The oh v E sorry V E v E r B.

Speaker 11 (55:51):
Verb I see I d E verbicide verbicide.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Okay, all right, Oh, I got you. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (56:01):
Nice goodbye, not bad.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
I actually like that. Let's go to George and Canton
before we take a break. Hello George, well greetings to you.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
Reese.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Thank you George.

Speaker 14 (56:16):
I was going to call you yesterday, but I had
an appointment at my happy hour for my four o'clock Tito's,
so okay, I didn't get But if I may refer
to two things. Yes yesterday, you were talking about the
Republicans in this state not identifying with Trump when the
left identifies with the wackiest of whoever is running the

(56:41):
left correct Party today, and I wanted to just I
told my wife last night, I'm going to call Reese
today and proclaim to the Republicans out there. I'm a
registered Republican, always have them. But if they in this state,
do not come out and identify with Trump and I.

(57:05):
You don't have to agree with everything correct, And you
can say I don't you know, Mayor Cox, and I've
said it before. Mayor Coch said, if you agree with
me on seven out of ten items, vote for me.
If you agree with me on ten out of ten,
see a psychiatrist. But if these Republicans want to be governors,

(57:26):
think that I'm going to vote for them, and they
don't want to fight for it. I'm not going to
vote at all.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Yeah, that's just not they don't understand that. You know
this is Yeah, I understand the problems on the left,
George in that sort of not alienating their progressive left
because they know that they must get elected and they
need those votes to do it. So if they fly
out reject them, they are in the wilderness for a

(57:54):
long time, so they are they're skating. But with that
being said, Republicans need to consider it on a completely
different level. There are people in the state who embrace
Donald Trump and cannot have a candidate who supports them
who rejects him, not only openly, but insults him, because

(58:17):
they feel like that's an insult to them as well.
So they've got to they've got to be able to
walk that line and make sure that they understand. I
don't have to agree with Donald Trump on everything, but
I agree with what you're looking for.

Speaker 14 (58:31):
And when I drive around the state and I see
any normal homeowner with a Trump sign out, if they've
got the courage to do it, I can't do it.
I live in a condo and I we cannot You
know I cannot have any kind offic but if they
have the courage to do it than any Republican wanting

(58:51):
my vote, they better stand up that's right and fight
for it, because if they think they're going to get
it for nothing, they're not. Now one of their quick
things as times of the essence, there's been a lot
of talk in the last week or so about bicycle
safety and people, a lot of people being killed on bicycles. Yes,
and I have said it before and I'm going to

(59:12):
repeat it. Maybe people out there on two wheel bikes.

Speaker 11 (59:15):
Will hear it.

Speaker 14 (59:16):
If you're riding a bike and you do not have
a very bright light on the back of your bike
flashing that says red I'm here, and on the front
that's a headlight in the daytime, in the nighttime, whatever.
You're the most vulnerable person, well kind of like a
skateboard or anything. When you've got nothing around you and

(59:41):
I'm driving a four thousand pounds row If you want
me to see you, you better do everything you can to.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Get out of the way.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
Thank you, George. I do I gotta take a hard break.
I apologize, sir. Look we got to take a break
to get to some news but we will return stand
by go nowhere. It's resenta radio will take more of
your phone calls on WT I see news Talk ten.

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
Eady, the airing of grievances.

Speaker 15 (01:00:04):
I got a lot of problems with your people.

Speaker 7 (01:00:09):
You're gonna hear about it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Yeah, more than likely we'll get some people calling in
with some grievances.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
We'll get to those pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
The topic of today is about the left losing the
working class. At least that's what the common theme is.
But what I'm suggesting is that they've rejected and they
see the working class as the enemy of progressivism.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
And I think I'm pretty good standing here on that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
I'm just looking at the way in which they've laid
it out over the years. As I grew up, which
is now, you know, morphed into a conversation about how
we became two income households and things like that. You know, Donald,
you bring up something important that it's worth recognizing to

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some degree, and that is what happened when households became
too income households. Businesses started to respond to that. As
more and more people made more and more money, and

(01:01:19):
more and more technology came into the fold, people forget.
I don't know why they do, but they forget the
CD player, the VCR. Remember those What was the running
rate for those things when you first purchased them?

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
How much was it? A CD player was at the risk?

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Do you remember this rolling Were you old enough to
remember the first CD player that people bought it as
a stereo system for their home, or the VCR?

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Yeah, okay, you had all of them when they first
came out very early.

Speaker 16 (01:01:56):
Yeah, well, I don't know when he first came out.

Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
Well, they came in in the early late seventies, early eighties.
Generally around like the mid mid eighties, I would say,
was when they sort of broke onto the scene where
you would go to a stereo store and you would
see them there. Of VCR in particular. Do you remember
what the prices were right around then?

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Somewhere around I think when we bought a first VCR,
my mom, did I think it was like one hundred
and some dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Okay, that was way late, way late.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
When we bought them in the nineteen eighties, a VCR
was running seven hundred and fifty Oh my god. Yeah,
as was the CD player. It was new technology. Most
of that stuff was coming in from Japan. Of course
in China Japan, primarily because they were selling US stereo
systems out the wazoo. But those devices, CD players and vhs,

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even the Betamax for that matter, they were really, really
expensive and.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Everybody had to have one, and if.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
You lived in a two income household, you probably had one.
I remember going to family members in the early nineties
and they had laser discs at the household, and we
know we weren't getting them. They ended up fading because
you know, they made the DVDs. But when you first
bought those things, they were a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
John Beckman says, I paid one hundred and fifty dollars
for the Sony Walkman.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
That is a the cossette player, the little cosette player.
That is a lot of money. And that was eighty
three and eighty four.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
But again, as John Beckman just said, right, John Beckman's
in the eighties. I want to assume John beck John
Beckman's a little older than me, probably about I don't
even think ten years, but probably a little older than me.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
I want to say, five to seven years older than me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
He was in high school when I was a pre teen,
so like the eighties going into the nineties, so when
he was paying one hundred and fifty dollars again, and
his dad went to Yale and he was and lived
in a well to do family, and I think in
New Jersey because I remember that about John Beckman was
in New Jersey before he moved all all the way

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out west to Nevada. And those things that you would
buy you could afford if you lived in a suburban
to family household.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
Every kid had one growing up.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
What was also expensive in the eighties that plenty of
people had that average families couldn't afford, but suburban families could.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
Cable. Cable was a big thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
I didn't grow up with HBO or as it was
called back when I was a kid WA Mecca Home Television.
Anybody remember that WHT Nobody? Somebody probably will, but yeah, Ridgewood,
New Jersey, WA. Mecca Home Television was HBO before HBO.
Do you You probably don't remember WHD. It was a

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big deal.

Speaker 16 (01:04:50):
Yeah, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Well, Mecca Home Television was HBO back in the days,
but you couldn't afford it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
In fact, when I was growing up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
We had video music box which was on Channel thirty one.
That was on the UHF channel, but everybody in New
Jersey had MTV, our version of MTV. We had to
go to Channel thirty one to go to video music box. Thankfully,
he didn't just play rap music, but he played rock

(01:05:21):
and roll. I remember the first time I'd ever seen
the song Ain't Gonna Play sun City, which features Nola.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
What is there?

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
What was Nola's last name?

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
Anyway, it'll come to me, but Bruce Springsteen and the
East Street Band, all of these rock bands were protesting
sun City against the part time back in the days.
Paul says, thank you, Paul, I really appreciate that seven
hundred and ninety dollars for a sharp stereo tower from Tokyo, Yanks.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
I do remember that the big old giant tea that
was like a big stationary TV. Yes, we had that,
and then my mom paid a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
For exactly for that TV.

Speaker 7 (01:06:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
So these were again, these were excesses that people were afforded.

Speaker 5 (01:06:12):
I'll think about it in contrast and.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
This whole thing that Tony called and talked about, right,
he's saying the reason why they can't afford this. Even
Donald was saying this, He's like, now things are much
more expensive than they ever were.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
No, no, no, no no. Why did every.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
One of those companies that Paul is describing and John
Beckhaman is describing and Lori described? Why did those companies
flourish at a time when the products were eight, nine, ten,
eleven times the prices they are today. Why It's simple,
it should be easier to purchase those things together by comparison.

(01:06:51):
Back then, you made minimal dollars, but people still bought them.
People were still able to afford the stereo systems, the
DVD players, the not the DVD players, the laser disc players.
Why they made less money and those companies did not
go bankrupt.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
They did not. They're still around to this day.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
They got cheaper over time, but people were buying them.
And two income houses, two income households were rough. All
of those played a role. It's it's just important. Now
you did you did you grew up with mom and dad?
Roland presume or no?

Speaker 16 (01:07:31):
Just okay?

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Did your mom? Did she have a professional career?

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Was she like a corporate worker in that in that
regard for government?

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
No, she didn't do any she was in the I
told you she was in a drug game for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
So the reason I forgot that, oh could I forget? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
But then she then she parlayed that into uh, cleaning
service okay, and cooking and cleaning service okay.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
So she started her own business.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Yeah, she started her own business, and she used to
clean clean houses of really wealthy people, okay, and.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Then parlayed that into actually farming out the work.

Speaker 16 (01:08:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
Yeah, yeah, brilliantly done. Ain't nothing wrong with going legit,
you know what I mean. But you know you need
that seed money, you know, from the beginning, but I
get none of exactly. But but again, living that turned
into one private becoming a private business owner, which is huge,

(01:08:37):
especially in African American communities.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
But by the way, that is not uncommon.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
A lot of people don't know how many people started
businesses back in the days when I was growing up.
You know, the reason why Rob Rob Johnson was Rob
Johnson was because there were plenty of people who were
starting their own business. In telecommunications, in the banking system, uh,
in economics of all forms, if flight, you know, they
were pilots, they were everything, lawyers. This wasn't like this
didn't come out of nowhere, But these things. Again, all

(01:09:05):
of those people who were suburbanites, they weren't rich, they
weren't wealthy, They weren't you know beyond compare these were
middle class families. Were their upper middle class versus regular
middle class?

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Ah, sure they were.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
They come in all shapes and sizes, especially those who
were immigrants who came into the country. All of them
were able to afford the things that I'm talking about.
Why because we became the country of excess. Japanese would
never have sold electronics in the way and the volume
that they did in the United States in the nineteen

(01:09:40):
eighties if we did not have the income to sustain
that product.

Speaker 16 (01:09:46):
Just think about the uh bring it to today's times.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Yeah that when the flash screen TV first came out,
I remember my brother and my sister and her husband
bought it and it was like two thousand and some change, Yes,
for forty two inches exactly right, forty two inch flat
screen for two thousand change.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
And everybody had exactly exactly my point. So these things,
you know, people talk about what it costs. Look, do
you know that sixty percent of low income families have
air conditioning in their home?

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
They do? Compare that to true poverty. People don't know.
People don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
The excess that we have as a people is incredible
compared to poverty stricken company.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
But that's another story. I can go into that all day.
There's a great documentary about that too.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
But that's the point that I'm saying here about all
of this working class versus progressivism. These things that we're
talking about stereos, things like televisions. The progressive left even
thinks that those things are bad your air condition, that's

(01:11:01):
the enemy of climate. Those things are basic norms in
your life. Those are the things that those are creature
comforts in order for you to have your families live.
Microwaves for crying out loud, dishwashers, those things are considered
the enemy of progress. You gotta think about that again.

(01:11:24):
What you have been working for, you, the average citizen, everything,
Ask yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:11:29):
Go to any progressive website.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
And you will see your every life, every bit of
your fabric of your life, is under attack by progressivism.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
They didn't lose you.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
They don't want you. They don't want your kids because
they abort them. They don't want your traffic because you
pollute the air. And if you pollute the air, you
contribute to climate change. And they don't want you to
have a good salary or a big salary. They don't
want you to have make thousands and thousands of dollars
to own your own business or even oh God forbid,
to protect yourselves. They want you to adherent. Again, they

(01:12:07):
did not lose you. They rejected you. They attacked you.
That's the whole point I'm making here, Sulkolowski says, before
we go to break, I paid twenty seven hundred dollars
for fifty inch TV about twenty five years ago. Holy moly,
fifty inch. I got a fifty inch what in one
of my bedrooms. You known't how many TVs.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
I have in the house.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Seven damned I have seven. I just realized it the
other day. I have seven, seven flat screens in my house.
There's only two of us.

Speaker 16 (01:12:43):
That would have cost you about twelve grand.

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Probably more. We gotta take a break. We'll come back,
more news, more views. We'll get your phone calls as well.
It's recent radio on wt I see News Talk ten eighty. Yeah,
we're back. Roseanne's gonna join us in a bit, so
stay tuned for that. Of course, it's Fridays, so that
means Roseanne be here soon. I also want to give
a shout out to Steve Rosco. He is going to

(01:13:06):
be joining me in studio on Tuesday at four o'clock. Now,
if you don't know, let me break it down for you. Okay,
So those of you who may not know, Steve Rosco
is running for mayor of New Haven and it's going
to be my first in studio interview at wt i C.

(01:13:29):
So he is going to sort of us going to
be the inaugural interview in studio, sitting with me Jerry.
It's going to be fantastic. So I can't wait to
have them there. So apparently, and I want to commend
whomever it was. And I understand it's somebody who's running
for office in Hartford. If I forget who it is,
or I don't know who it is, I forget, I apologize.

(01:13:51):
Stephen didn't say who it was. He just said that
someone's running for office in Hartford. And was at an
event with Steve Roscoe and told him, Hey, have you
been on Reese's show yet? And he immediately looked me
up and friended me. So, whomever that was, if you're
running for office, I owe you an interview and a
thank you because I did want to get in touch

(01:14:12):
with with Steve. In fact, I got to send him
an email later about how to get to the studio.
So he's gonna be our guest on Tuesday at four o'clock.
We're gonna have him on for about an hour. We're
gonna talk about anything and everything Connecticut, New Haven, immigration, poverty,
all that stuff when he's uh, when he comes on.

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
So we'll do that. Oh that's up.

Speaker 4 (01:14:32):
Don't forget folks, go to rese ondradio dot com. That's
r E E s E on the radio dot com.
Whenever you like, you can tell us a whole bunch
of stuff. Let me get Tom and Burlington in here
before we take a break. Hey Tom, Tom, he Hey Tom,
how are you.

Speaker 7 (01:14:51):
Good?

Speaker 12 (01:14:52):
How are you reach?

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
I'm great?

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
What's up?

Speaker 12 (01:14:55):
I got a story about the VCR. Okay please, this
is a classic. So back in the early eighties, I on
a port of DCR, because like you said, we're in
the seven hundred dollars range. I was driving a limousine
part time, and I had taken a prominent family from
Northwest Connected down to New York City to see a

(01:15:16):
play on a Sunday, and while I had time, I parked.
I was being hustled by a fellow who had a VCR,
which obviously it was a it was a scam, but
he was asking seven hundred dollars for him Like, come on, man,
I don't have seven hundred dollars. You know, I'll give
you two fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:15:32):
I had no five hundred dollars. Well, I finally got
it down with one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:15:37):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (01:15:38):
The guy gave it to me, a beautiful package. Everything
was great. I threw it in the back of the
trunk and the limousine because I was in between them
their show and just waiting for him. Took a ride
around the corner, got out, opened up the package. Loan, behold,
it was bricks and concrete.

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
That was listening to me. You have no idea that
was the that was the.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Going ring During that time, a lot of people, guys
were finding cinder blocks in boxes.

Speaker 12 (01:16:08):
Yeah, yes, so you know. I was. I couldn't afford
to give one hundred and fifty bucks for cinder blocks,
but I learned a lesson. I got thee a job
that night.

Speaker 17 (01:16:18):
I had the box still I had it all wrapped up.
Of course, there was a remote on the top and looked.
I went home to my parents' house. I was married
at time, but I said, I gotta stop show. My
father put it on the kitchen table, bright light. He's like,
Holy Jesus, look at this, a brand new BCR. He said, yeah, Dad,
open it up. It looked in the light. I was hustled,
you know New York City Street. He couldn't tell looking

(01:16:40):
on the table. That's how good it was.

Speaker 12 (01:16:43):
That was my story about a seven hundred dollars BCR.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
You know what, Listen, you were not the only one.
Do not feel bad. A lot of people got hustled
that way, man. That was a big deal. Thank you, Tom,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
You got it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
There's a lot of crackhead stories related to VCRs too,
I'm sure you know those. Let's get our first check
of weather and traffic. I don't know who's got weather.
We'll tell, we'll find out, and then we'll remember. Well,
we got Tom O'Hanlon hanging out for the show, filling
in for Mark Christopher in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:17:16):
Hey, Tom is.

Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Race on the radio.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Brind don say we didn't mourn you on News Talk
ten eighty w T.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
I see, hey everybody, we are back and I'm hanging
out with my lovely wife Roseyan.

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
How are you, dear, I'm wonderful. How are you?

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
I'm great? I'm great. Why are you so giddy? Are
you excited for next week?

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
I'm just yes, that is one. The other thing is
I'm completely infatuated with you. So okay, we haven't argued
all week, so you know that just increases the love.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
So we haven't argued all week. You got, well, we
did have a little bit of a mini argument earlier
in the week.

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
I already forgot what it was about you. Did you remember?

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
We were having a sort of a dismissal thing and
I was kind of being a little you knowsssive.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
You were being dismissing me, and that's probably why I forgot.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
But I think we were talking about Modern Family, which
is your favorite show, and you thought it was a
silly debate that we were having, and I was just
having a conversation and I didn't understand why it was
a debate.

Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
It was just really, if I recall correctly, you were
being a little uh. I was trying to explain to
you the difference of why, like you have your opinion,
I have mine. You just kept dismissing my perspective as
a mom on the mom thing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
That's what you know what I have a Sometimes I
have an issue with that when some people say I
couldn't possibly understand because I'm not a mom, when indeed,
I'm not trying to be a mom in that regard.
I'm really just talking about my perspective.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Now I know again, I.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Know that there are some people who have a different
perspective than me, and I debate with them all the time,
but I immediately reject the idea that it's a non
discussion because I am this particular group.

Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
Let me ask you, do you know what it's like
to have like go to work every day and have
cramps and like be like, you know, in the midst
of a full blown cycle.

Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
No, So, when a woman.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
Complains that she's uncomfortable, she doesn't like the way she's feeling,
she's feeling achy, or just all these things, is it
do you like reject the idea that you don't understand
what that is because you've never been there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
No, what I do is is what if I'm interested.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
In that ailment as you describe it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Maybe I'm using that term loosely, but and I want
to understand more, so I'm pushing you to explain it
to me more in depthly. And your response to that is, well,
you just wouldn't understand because.

Speaker 6 (01:19:59):
You're no, no, no. It's when you get to a
point where like, yeah, it doesn't make sense. No. I
I don't think that's even that's not that's not fair.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
It's okay for a guy to say it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 6 (01:20:09):
No, no, when I say something like you know, I'm
I'm I'm crying a lot right now because my cycles.
I think that's just ridiculous. You're just being emotional.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
I don't do that.

Speaker 6 (01:20:20):
Oh, yes you do.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Oh, let's get another check of the weather, traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:20:25):
Hey, your buddy's on.

Speaker 4 (01:20:28):
Yes, he's in the BBS.

Speaker 7 (01:20:31):
The airing of gravances.

Speaker 15 (01:20:34):
I got a lot of problems with your paper.

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
Now you've been to hear about it all.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
Right back, we are back, or should say Reese on
the radio news Talk ten eighty w T I C.
We'll get to your phone calls in a bit. I
got Roseanne in the house first. I want to give
a shout out. Uh to Frix the Cat. He may
have missed it yesterday, but Fris Fritz put in the

(01:21:03):
chat room yesterday that the Silver Sun Pickups are going
to be playing at what's the name of the place, Rowland,
what's it called Toad's Place?

Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
At Toad's Place on Wednesday next week?

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
And I saw it and I completely lost it and said,
oh my god, what a great So, Fritz, if you
missed it yesterday, I told you it was as good
as a Christmas gift could be. A Birthday gift even
is to tell me that the Silver Sun Pickups are
playing at Toad's Place on Wednesday. I love them, you
know I love them. That's why you mentioned it. So
thank you for that gift in telling me that. And

(01:21:37):
right now we're working on getting meet to that concert.
I understand Fritz is going to be there. I've already
met Fritz, but Roseanne hopefully we'll be there, even though
she doesn't know one song one note of Sorry of
the Silver what do you call them?

Speaker 6 (01:21:51):
The Silver Truck Star guys? What were they?

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Silver Sun Pickup?

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
There we go?

Speaker 5 (01:21:58):
Yeah them, you know about two songs.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
But anyway, I can't wait to see them on Wednesday.
I'm gonna be there to go watch. They should be
good to go.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
That should be okay good, So Fritz, don't worry about it.
I will find it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
And if they give me VIP treatment like a VIP section,
I will find you, and I will beg them to
let you and.

Speaker 5 (01:22:19):
Hopefully Christy in so you can hang out with us.

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
And if they don't, I will go down to wherever
you are and hang out with you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
It's standing room only a toad's place, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Yeah, it's not that. There's only like one little booth
up up top.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
For okay, I don't care. I can do standing room only.

Speaker 7 (01:22:35):
I don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
I did that a concert anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
They've got a lot of music to go over for
Roseanne to understand one song by them. We've gone to
concerts before. In fact, our first concert date was on
my birthday.

Speaker 6 (01:22:49):
It was actually this day, yes?

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Was it this day?

Speaker 6 (01:22:53):
Yeah? August fifteenth, four years ago, No, had to be no,
four years ago. We went to Sacramento on my birthday,
that's correct. It was the following so it was three
years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
So three years ago. And do you remember the bands
that we went to go see? Can you name one?

Speaker 6 (01:23:11):
Of them, Sticks, Ario Speedwagon, heartbreak Boy.

Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
You're close.

Speaker 4 (01:23:19):
You're close because with an L think of the same
vein with an L.

Speaker 6 (01:23:25):
I don't know what you're talking about, lover boy, lover boy, Okay, well, yeah,
we went to go see that. You have a good
time with this, don't you. No, I don't know any
of the people.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
You never know the bands if they don't have a
bird chest and uh, you know sing R and B,
you don't know who they are.

Speaker 6 (01:23:40):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
Whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:23:41):
And then you took me to see the Far Side
and I didn't take it to go you mentioned that
you well, actually I took you for your birthday last year.
You mentioned oh Man far Side and I was like
looking for F A R. S. And I was like,
I don't know who this is. And then You're like, no,
it's spelt like this, and I was like, I was
never going to get that right.

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
But that was a great birthday too, was another birthday gift.
Last year's birthday. Wow, but it seems like so much
longer than that. Anyway, that turned out to be a
great one. But lover boy, But the only reason why
I love bringing up Ario speed Wagon, Sticks and lover
Boy for you, and I was so excited to go.

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
And I was cold.

Speaker 5 (01:24:17):
You were cold.

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
It's crazy how Roseanne figured out why it was important
for her to go to this concert, because she kept saying,
I'm not going to know any of these groups. This
is from your old era. And I went, no, you're
going to know these bands.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
And the relate, the relating.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
Sort of dynamic in all of this was Adam Samlandler
in Whom She Loves, She loves Adam Sandler films, and
I was like, if you've seen an Adam Sandler film,
you know a song from one of these groups there,
you know, he puts their songs in every one of them.

Speaker 6 (01:24:52):
I knew one song from each band.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
At least you were. You came out of the at
the end of it. You had four songs.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
That you knew.

Speaker 6 (01:24:59):
Thought it was three.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
Uh, mister Rabato, you knew. Oh yeah, you knew that one.
Everybody's working for the weekend. Yeah, you remember that. I
can't remember what other songs you remember there. There were
so many, but there were a lot. No, there was
I remember that, you remember, well, yeah, but you were
you knew a few.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
But that's what the whole concert turned in, you know,
what this is.

Speaker 6 (01:25:21):
Like for me. It would be like if we went
to a tattoo, which is it's a military show and
they just started calling off Cadence like I would know,
Oh that's my favorite Cadence and you're just sitting there like, ah,
oh I saw that in Forrest Go like like that's
that's the similarity for me and you. It's like I
don't know your stuff, you don't know my stuff, but

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we work, so.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
Yeah, I mean, I know we work in that regard.

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
Noll. I told you I wanted to. I'm sorry, I'm
gonna totally interrupt you because I don't care. No, just kidding,
because I'm very rude sometimes and I get it. I
was just thinking, like, your birthday is was yesterday, and
we're gonna be in Connecticut next week and my birthday
two weeks after that, and I told you last night
I was going to bring this up on the show.
So please, are you going to celebrate my birthday for

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me in Connecticut?

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
I could?

Speaker 6 (01:26:10):
I think you should?

Speaker 5 (01:26:11):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
Would you like you just want to come back up
and be there for your birthday?

Speaker 6 (01:26:16):
I thought, Oh, definitely, We're definitely going back. I mean,
assuming I'm going to like it, which I'm pretty sure
I'm going to if four seasons there? Right, Yeah, I
was just thinking, since we're there, maybe you know, celebrate
my birthday in Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
Let me ask you this. This has been on my mind.

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
For a couple of monks answers, No, a couple of minutes.
It's a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:26:37):
Yeah, yeah, it is a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
I was thinking about it as you were taking your
chair here today and saying to myself, would you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
Be interested in a women's group? Or is that too
corny for you? What I mean, how do I put it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
Would you do like a women's group that either already
established or start your own for what I don't know,
just anything, I don't know, knitting, baking.

Speaker 6 (01:27:05):
I have to remember this as like live radio and
there's like rules making.

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
Yeah, no, I'm kidding on the on what it is.
But would you join a woman's group? Hear me out, ladies,
I'm really I do mean this.

Speaker 7 (01:27:20):
Not that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
Is it? Because I don't have a lot of friends.

Speaker 5 (01:27:26):
And as a woman, I think you should.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
We were watching that ridiculous show that we've been don't watch.

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
Don't call it ridiculous. You're the one who couldn't stop
watching You didn't go to bed until two o'clock this morning,
so don't blame it on me. Hunting Wives, yes, TV show,
amazingun Wives, Yes, Netflix. I would join a group like that,
but less murdery. Well.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
The reason why I was thinking about it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
Oh, there's a couple of other things, maybe not so much,
but but a close knit group of women with whom
I could socialize and go shopping and have love. Absolutely,
I'd love to do that. Yeah, that's what I almost
just sit around knitting or no, no, I'm crossword puzzle.

Speaker 4 (01:28:03):
I shoot, I was teasing on that level, but I'm saying,
would you join a group of women that sort of
did things like that, socialized together?

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
And I was thinking about that as we were watching
that show, Hunting Wives, which is again very you know,
murder show, but it was a good show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:23):
It's a great you know, it's popcorn show.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
But as I was watching it, I was just like,
you know what, I wouldn't as just as a guy,
how fun would that be to have my wife.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
Who had their her little girls group that she.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
Went out a girls group. Let's not nominalize it. Let's
not you know, look, it's so cute. Look at the
girls doing the things.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Okay, First of all, you know I didn't mean it
like that, but I guess it could. Words matters matter,
But I would like you to have that sort of group.

Speaker 6 (01:28:56):
Now, let's be honest. What you really want is time
away from me so I can leave you alone.

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
Actually actually know, because I'm going to put you on
the spot here here's the reason why.

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
God, you are going to be so upset with me
after I say this.

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
You still being married to me, right benefits?

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
But you know that I'm honest, and you know that
I kind of lay it on the line when I'm
doing Okay, you expressed something to me a long time ago,
not even a long time ago. Recently, you've expressed something
to me that you want to be a part of.
Then you would like to kind of experience, and you
you don't know what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
You and I both know that, Oh, look a butterfly.
Like literally, I will change my mind every every time
something new and shiny flies by.

Speaker 4 (01:29:43):
So you have a song that you sing every time
we talk about it from a Disney film, My God,
why don't.

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
You want to be where the white folks are? That
one that so absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
Well you want to.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
I mean, you would become somewhat of a conservative as
of late, and the circles.

Speaker 6 (01:30:07):
I will say it, ladies and gentlemen, I am a
conservative Republican, you know what it. It's taken a long
time to get the R word out, But.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
You would like to be a part of You always
joke about it sort of like, and I think that
what a great thing for you to be a part
of whatever it's a social club maybe you know, at
the country club.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Or things like that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
It's not so much to be an elite, but to
be amongst sort of your own and like minded people
where they do events or they do fundraisers and things
like that, and sort of be with those individuals in
sort of create relationships.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
With with those folks with That's something that you'd be.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
Interested in doing.

Speaker 5 (01:30:48):
And I think New England is perfect for that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
Yeah, I think so. It's been really difficult, especially here
in Texas. I mean, don't I don't relate to anybody here.
I just don't like I know, but I don't. I
don't relate to the culture, the language, the the I
mean just the difference in the way women behave here.

(01:31:12):
I just I'm I don't I don't understand it at all.
I'm not aggressively jealous and possessive. I'm not scure, right,
and I'm not you know, I can look down my
nose and have to remember to stop being so judgmental.
But that's I'm kind of a snob in that way.

(01:31:35):
But I mean, there's there's a different level of judgment
here that I just I don't understand. There's a competition
that I don't understand. The level of insecurity I don't understand.
And so, you know, being around other women that are
educated and and you know, secure in their their their life,
you know what I mean, secure with their spouse, secure
with their children, secure with their their employee, like everything.

(01:31:57):
Just secure, confident, comfortable women is kind of what I
would love to be surrounded by.

Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Craig in the car says that his wife does a
Peloton spin class over Zoom.

Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
I can't do the spin. No, I tried.

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
Is it with zoom with five other girls every night?

Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
They do it?

Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
Yeah? No, that sounds too much like work. No. No,
So when I was on active duty, we would do
like Tuesdays or Thursdays. Usually it was Thursday was sort
of our open pt and so we would kind of
experiment with different types of PTA on Thursdays and we
went to the gym and my whole company jumped on bikes. Absolutely, No,

(01:32:42):
that is that is an intense workout that I.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
Oh I saw. I mean, I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
You have no idea like the time we rode our
bikes for fourteen miles cake walk compared to these these
spin classes. No, I can't it just who that's intense.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
Yeah, Rama says that all women paintball.

Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
She's former military. She'd slay.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
No, because I don't like like I've been hit with
paintballs before those things. I had a huge well like
my ankle swoll up to like five times at side.

Speaker 4 (01:33:18):
Okay, this sounds like something where you would probably be
better in a country club setting.

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
No, no, not that I don't thinking.

Speaker 6 (01:33:26):
I would love to learn how to golf. I'd love
to learn how to play tennis. I like swimming, I
love yoga, I like shopping, I love food.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
I think Craig's wife sands the cycling might be perfect
for you. But we're gonna see Craig when we get
up there as well, and we'll talk about But I've
been thinking about that for a while for you, because
not and you said that it's you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
I can get away from.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
You, but I always, I always feel like you're doing
the thing that I'm doing, and I don't think that's
fair to you. I want you to really have especially
in can Eticutte, because I love it so much. In Connecticut,
I know you will, and I see Connecticut. I see
you talk about where you want to live and how
you want to live. And there's a lot about Connecticut

(01:34:12):
that I see in your description. And if you had
the right people, if you met the right people, and
you had to say the right social circles, you could
really experience that and sort of have a quality of
life that I think that you did.

Speaker 6 (01:34:26):
I'm really looking forward to to Connecticut. Like we lived
in the Greater DC area. Excuse me. I lived in
the Greater DC area for over twenty years, all over
Virginia and Maryland, and it was it was great. I
loved it. There's a lot that I love about about
being in that atmosphere where there's politics, there's government, there's

(01:34:50):
socialized it's just it's a beautiful atmosphere. I love it.
But there's there's a certain element that's starting to creep
into northern Virginia that I and less and less desirable
and trying to get away from right and being here
this was this, This was not at all what I
expected being in Texas. I was hoping for something more,

(01:35:12):
something different. And I think Connecticut based on the one
time that I was there and stayed inside the hotel
because it was freezing cold fourteen below. It was ill.
But I do miss winter. It does seem more appropriate
for the lifestyle that I'm hoping to live out.

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
Yeah, yeah, and I want, I really do want that
for you and I you know, I've experienced other facets
of that in other places that I lived all across
not all across the country, but in several places. And
again I've lived in Connecticut, so I know what that's
like in having to be like, you know, more from
a hip hop perspective. But the people that I knew
living in Manchester were all the people I'm talking about.

(01:35:53):
It's crazy that the people that I knew in Manchester
were more of the In fact, one of my best friends,
Chris uh in the you know, formerly of the army.
I think he still works in the military today. Chris
listens almost every day still lives in Connecticut.

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
He and I used to hang out and watch the
ball games over at the TGI Fridays across the street
form the Buckland Hills Mall.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
He became one of my best friends. Uh, still is
a great friend to this day.

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
His circle is exactly who I ended up sort of
establishing with, which was so far from the hip.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
Hop angle that I was a part of. And he's
more w t i C.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
So I kind of want you to be in that
that sort of make up.

Speaker 6 (01:36:32):
Oh do we get to talk to Tom Hendling.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
We don't because he's doing so much, but he's doing
traffic and speaking of which, let's get to that.

Speaker 15 (01:36:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:36:41):
We got so much more, and I got to get
into our breadth between rounds. Winner articulate Tomo Henlin. He's
in the BPS Traffic Center.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Stay Race on the radio is on w t i C.

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
We are back.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
It is Rees on radio, was in and on the radio
on w t i C News Talk ten eighty. We
are just talking about our trip coming to Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
Is pretty much. We're gonna do this.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
At least we're gonna try to do it every month
for at least a week until we are there.

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
Permanently, which begins in November.

Speaker 4 (01:37:16):
We finally have a tenant here for this house, which
is fine.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
You know that's what I mean. Do we have a
tenant like that?

Speaker 6 (01:37:24):
Yeah, yeahficial he's yeah, we're okay. So we got a
management company to manage the property while we're gone. Yeah,
we got a tenant, We got everything. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Now the news is like, should this work out?

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
You know with you know, my stay at w T
I C. You know, you know, things could happen. Oh,
speaking of which, you know what I gotta check. I
gotta check numbers. They came on my birthday of all days.

Speaker 6 (01:37:50):
Yeah, to give away.

Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
Oh yeah, you're so right. Thank you, Thanks for reminding me.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
Between and congratulations goes to Jeffrey Jeffrey A of Old Saybrook.
He is our winner of the Between Rounds dozen bagels
a month for six months, courtesy Between Rounds the Bagel
Bakery and Sandwich Cafe. If you'd like to participate and
win a dozen bagels a month for six months, all

(01:38:21):
you have to do is go to Reese on.

Speaker 5 (01:38:22):
The Radio dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
That's Reese Ondradio dot com, fill out the form and
make sure that you live in the state of Connecticut.
You have not won in the last six months from today.
In order for you to participate, Roseanne, you cannot win.
You are unfortunately married to Reese on the radio, which
makes you ineligible. However, you, if you'd like, can go

(01:38:46):
on down to between rounds at South Vernon, Manchester or
Vernon locations and pick up a dozen bagels on your own.

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
I love there Ago bagels so good.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Yeah, before we go to break so way, So we
have a person who's going to be renting the home.
We are then going to move down there. If things
work out and they look great right at w T
I C.

Speaker 6 (01:39:12):
I mean they will look great. I mean you have to.
You have to own it, project it, give it to
the universe, make it yours, visualize.

Speaker 5 (01:39:19):
I think we'll do all right.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
But that being said, our objective is to make Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
Our home, yeah right, yeah, and to.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Embark on a journey that is fourteen years in the making,
and to be a part of that community and to
do good works while we are there, to be.

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
In service of the community.

Speaker 6 (01:39:43):
Absolutely, and that's that's what our intent is.

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
So you can expect that from us when we get
there and then possibly and probably without a doubt sell
the house.

Speaker 6 (01:39:54):
Oh yeah, definitely, I don't. I don't foresee us ever
living in Texas again. This was a This was a blip,
I think on the on the journey of our lives. Actually,
I feel like this was a huge learning experience. I
hope you got something from it. But I know that
I've definitely been given the blessing of learning and growing,
or at least learning where I need to work.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
I got this chance to live in a state that
I've never been in before, So you know, do I
like it? Verdicts still out anyway, let's get another check
out our weather in traffic and tom A Hanlin is
in for Mark Christopher in the BPS Traffic Center.

Speaker 7 (01:40:31):
The airing of Gravances.

Speaker 15 (01:40:34):
I got a lot of problems with your paper.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Now you're gonna hear about it and at it all.

Speaker 5 (01:40:43):
Right, We're back, Reesa on the radio, Roseanne on the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:40:46):
We are talking about anything and everything, no matter what,
because Roseanne and I always have great conversation together. And
of course we're reading all of your comments inside the
chat room, which is everywhere. Donald says Reese, I can't leave.
You're coming to live in a very liberal state, and
I love Connecticut. I don't need it to be liberal

(01:41:07):
or conservative in order for me to love it. In fact,
you know, I want to tell you I thought about
this so much that I came up with a couple
of tags. I came up with a couple of taglines
for Connecticut. You remember I talked about this a couple
of days ago, and I said, the road sign coming
into Connecticut needs to be changed to you know, the

(01:41:30):
places that identify who Connecticut is. Right, that road sign
coming up through Westchester.

Speaker 6 (01:41:39):
Right, like Virginia's for lovers rye.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
Right, right, right, but exactly Old Bay.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
But that sign that says welcome to Connecticut should have
I have some variations.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
They're not a lot, but there are a few.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Uh one that I didn't write down that I've been
thinking about, and I thought this was perfect. Welcome to Connecticut.
D quat is not a nation? How about that one? No, No,
not at all. Yeah, but it is gonna be. It
will be in its people very soon anyway.

Speaker 16 (01:42:15):
The homeowner basketball capital of the World. That's a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
No, I don't think so it is. I know it is,
but that's.

Speaker 16 (01:42:21):
Horrible Yukon baby.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Yeah, yeah, oh that's true. I mean Yukon, But these
are better. I think these really describe Connecticut. Like this one.
Welcome to connecticuts. Sorry, let me start that over. Welcome
to Connecticut. Our kids can't read this side.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
That's a good one. I like that one. How about
this one, This one's good. Welcome to Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (01:42:42):
Your kids will never be the same, you know, with
the whole gender transformation that they do.

Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
Gosh, that will be.

Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
Your kids will never be the same. I think that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:42:52):
Connecticut. Where your boys or girls? These girls are boys.

Speaker 4 (01:42:55):
How about this one, Welcome to Connecticut. We only look Republican.

Speaker 6 (01:43:00):
I like that one.

Speaker 5 (01:43:02):
You want to look it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
And this one, I think this one's perfect. I think
this one should be attributed to me and everyone will
appreciate this one. And it's perfect. And I'm going to
petition the town have this sign coming into Connecticut. Welcome
to Connecticut. No racial incidents in four hundred and eighty
six days, I think, I think. And it should change

(01:43:27):
every day. There should be like a little dial that
someone can go down from the Department's transportation and change.

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
It every injuries.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
That's what it should say.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
We've been We've accomplished so much by doing that no
racial incidents in four hundred and eighty six days I counted.

Speaker 6 (01:43:51):
That's great.

Speaker 16 (01:43:55):
Where your children will never be the same as diabolical.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
That's diabolical. Yeah it is. What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
They have the Merit Parkway and not DEI Parkway, so.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
That's a good thing. Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
John Beckman, nice one. Welcome to Connecticut. We love criminals,
Madio writes.

Speaker 6 (01:44:14):
Yeah, but only if they're in office.

Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
Ooh nice, nice, nice, nice little add on, Welcome to Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
Aboard your baby, then go to the beach.

Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
Oh my goodness, good damn, that's hard. Oh I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
Yeah, that's apparently I've given license to come up with
new ones. Write your own in the chat room. I
appreciate it. Let me read a couple of other comments
in the chat room, especially from some of the ladies
who are in a chat room, and they are very
excited for you to come to town. Roseanne Laurie says that

(01:44:57):
there are a lot of Karens here, but they are
are lots of great restaurants. She says that she is
a foodie, so you're going to enjoy that. She's gonna
take you to a couple of those restaurants, and that's true.
That's good because I will not go to restaurants.

Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
You will eat a gray paste as long as it
suits all your nutritional needs.

Speaker 5 (01:45:14):
Absolutely, and that'll be a great thing to do, to
go out.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
And eat with other people who like other people who
like food.

Speaker 5 (01:45:22):
That would be fun.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
Zap says Roseanne sounds like a great Avon country club candidate.
There's pool, there's golf. He says that there are mothers
that I oh, I can't read that. And shopping. He
also says, move the canton and we have it all
lots of great hiking, shopping and dining.

Speaker 6 (01:45:44):
I don't do outside, not on purpose, like not unless
I have to, you know what I mean, Like I
did that in the army. I did my hiking. Thank you.
He says.

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
It's a short drive to the studio.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
It is uh and it is short drug to the studio,
and it's thirty minutes from the hood.

Speaker 5 (01:46:01):
I didn't know that that.

Speaker 6 (01:46:02):
Was They have a hood up there, Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
They do have several. Pam Bondi has called us a
super sanctuary state. That that's true.

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
That now I'm definitely not going outside. It's gonna be wanted.
Posters all over looking for me, and you know, uh.

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
Oh, I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
Craig in the car says, welcome to Connecticut. D quat
is not a casino.

Speaker 6 (01:46:26):
O's a good one, well, Hegan is, it's a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:46:30):
I think every time I hear the word d quat
or die quad as they call it, it does sound
like an Indian tribe.

Speaker 5 (01:46:35):
It does us.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
I don't know why it does. I don't know why,
but it does. What are some of the other things
that you're looking forward to?

Speaker 6 (01:46:44):
Snow? I like the snow from inside. I'm also looking
forward to the foliage. I miss four seasons. We've had
two seasons here. It's hot and then, oh my god,
we're gonna die because it's so hot. That's all we get.

Speaker 5 (01:47:00):
It's really bad, wet like Amidgeon.

Speaker 6 (01:47:02):
Yeah, and it rains. Oh, the storms here are phenomenal,
phenomenal that you usually sleep through. You could sleep through anything.
But the rain hits the bedroom windows so hard, and
those we have no cover. And the thunder is so
intense at the whole house rattles. Yeah, and you're you're asleep,
you are dead asleep to all of it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
So that's a good thing because I don't like to
be woken up for anything. Mattio says that you should
read my comments before you read them on the air. Reese,
I hope you can live with your party losing elections. Yeah,
I don't really. Yeah, unlike liberals, Donald, I don't. I
don't get emotional about election.

Speaker 10 (01:47:43):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
I think it's important that we, like, we really have
to put this out there. Right, we are not our
political party.

Speaker 17 (01:47:49):
Yea.

Speaker 6 (01:47:49):
Our entire lives do not revolve around our political party.
We we have lives. So my best friends are Democrats.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
Yeah, in fact, we enjoy It's funny because that's and
some people might even call that, uh sadistic, but we
enjoyed the confrontation.

Speaker 5 (01:48:08):
Well, idea, how else.

Speaker 6 (01:48:10):
Do you expect to learn? You know what I mean? Like,
how else do you expect to reach the masses if
you're not understanding where they're coming from?

Speaker 5 (01:48:16):
You were speaking my opening show.

Speaker 6 (01:48:18):
That's exactly how you and I got together. That's how
you didn't. You didn't convert me to becoming a conservative Republican.
You just showed me that it's okay. I'm not gonna
die or catch some illness by watching videos or watching
Trump speeches or opening my mind. In fact, that's why
I like to say I'm not woke, I'm awake, is

(01:48:40):
because I needed someone to tell me, listen, it's okay,
You're not gonna accidentally catch conservativism. If you watch, you
just might learn some things. And and the more I learned,
the more I began to realize that everything I'd been
told was a friggin' lie.

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
I think that on the other end of that, the
people who have had some struggles with even considering conservative
ideals or even sort of I don't I don't even
want them to abandon their ideology, but even considering the
other side in a meaningful or reasonable way. I think

(01:49:16):
the reason why they rejected is sort of. And I've
noticed this in the inner city, and I dealt with it.
And there is a level of ridicule that you will
get that is so much pressure that it becomes difficult
for you to breathe.

Speaker 5 (01:49:33):
What I mean by that is and I've noticed it
here and it done.

Speaker 6 (01:49:38):
I've noticed it, you know, in my own family unit.
You know, I've got you know, unfortunately, my kid that
I raised much better than this is now considering himself
a socialist. I've got these all these step daughters. Well,
I wasn't gonna go there. But I've got all these liberals,
like like ferocious liberals that that God for you disagree

(01:50:00):
with them, suddenly you deserve to die. Yeah, And it's
it's really just kind of sad that people can't disagree
and still get along.

Speaker 7 (01:50:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:50:11):
But see that what I'm saying is is that I've
been in circles.

Speaker 4 (01:50:14):
Right when I was doing that podcast that was out
in Sacramento, and I was on there for a little
more than thirteen.

Speaker 6 (01:50:19):
Years, idiots all day.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
Yeah, the that's what.

Speaker 4 (01:50:22):
That program was, always the constant beating off, beating up on,
beating up on my conservative leanings for the sake of uh.

Speaker 6 (01:50:40):
Yeah exactly, Like you were not black, You're The show
that you were on was all black men and a
few black women and married. But but the huge, like
the the everybody piled on to how unblack you are
and how anti black you are, and and I don't
think people can appreciate or even the victim mentality is

(01:51:02):
so intense in people. Right, you said it that there
is a what is it, the aggrandizement of victimhood?

Speaker 7 (01:51:09):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:51:10):
Right, you actually love black people and your blackness so
much that you refuse to be a trope. You refuse
to be a victim of that mindset. You refuse to
be a blind chief. You refuse to be a victim.
And and that is problematic.

Speaker 7 (01:51:31):
Was it?

Speaker 6 (01:51:31):
Uh? Uh not FDR? Was it? FDR said he's gonna
have he will have the negro voting Democrat for the
next two hundred years? And how do you do that?
You poor little baby? Come here, let me, let me
put this government teat right in your mouth. You just
suckle from this and and you're you look at this

(01:51:54):
and you go, I think we're better than this, and.

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
You refuse to be And that's part that's overwhelming about that.
And what I'm saying to that point is is that
when you know, having experienced it right, being on that
show for thirteen years, having my integrity and my authenticity
challenged every day, you think that way because you're white,

(01:52:18):
or you act white. You think that way because you
haven't been in a hood, or you hate yourself for
being right.

Speaker 5 (01:52:24):
That when you deal with that kind of now think
about it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
I'm dealing with it having my point of view that
is different than theirs, right, adversarial in some ways to them.
So if they're doing it to me for not going
along to get along. What do you think happens when
other people who see the era in that belief system,
who say, you know what, maybe maybe what Donald Trump

(01:52:50):
is saying or maybe what conservatives are saying is right.
And then you try to broach that conversation with your
friends and they receive the same yeah, exactly, and they
receive the same uh, you know, values of of dismissal
and ridicule and ridicule, and they go, I don't want
to be a part of that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:08):
Some people aren't built for that kind of ridicule.

Speaker 6 (01:53:10):
Well, there becomes a cognitive dissonance, right, Like what I
what I believe to be true, and what I'm willing
to tolerate are polar opposites. But in order to continue
to survive, I have to disregard what I know to
be true, right, And that unto itself is I mean,

(01:53:30):
I can only imagine the rates of depression and anxiety,
and you know the mental health difficulties that come along
with that.

Speaker 4 (01:53:39):
You don't want to be Look, I always say this,
no one ever wants to be disliked or dismissed by
their family. By their family or their loved ones for
the way in which they think so in a lot
of ways. And I know it's crass for me to
call it that, to use this frame or use this framework,

(01:54:00):
but I call it an abusive relationship because that's what
it is.

Speaker 5 (01:54:04):
It's like, take the abuse, take the.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
Victimhood, talk about the struggle, deal the drugs, stay in
the hood, do all of those things, or we won't love.

Speaker 5 (01:54:15):
You if you yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:54:19):
It is like you have and you have to follow
this because these things. The only way that you can
be accepted is to accept these norms. And it is
an abusive relationship, so you have to do it. And
as you said earlier, it's like I don't care about
the I understand the abuse, and I say to myself,
I would rather you know, what's the old saying. I

(01:54:39):
would rather fight on my feet than did the die.

Speaker 5 (01:54:43):
On my knees.

Speaker 4 (01:54:45):
And I don't care who it's from, all day every day.

Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
That you know, I need in order to.

Speaker 4 (01:54:55):
Make my point of view exist in a world that
I think it's possible, I have to be able to
take the slings and arrows.

Speaker 5 (01:55:05):
If it ran hard, it wouldn't be.

Speaker 6 (01:55:06):
Worth exactly and I say this to the boy all
the time. Anything worth having is worth fighting for it,
right right. I I served in the military. It was
for a lot of reasons. It was very difficult for me,
very difficult for me, but I wanted to be there.
I'll never forget my last rock march in basic training.
I rolled my ankle.

Speaker 11 (01:55:26):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:55:26):
We're going up this hill, a steep hill, and it
was large rocks right, loose rock. This was not a
paved road. We're in the woods, and you know, I've
got full kit, five quarts of water, I've got you know, rucksack.
I've gotten my weapon, I've got extra ammo.

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
Like I.

Speaker 6 (01:55:43):
We are loaded down. You've got this six foot oh
my goodness, guy leading the charge. I'm all of five
to five, so I'm further in the back. I had
to run right. I rolled my ankle so severely that
the whole ankle actually made contact with the ground. I
was not giving up. If you don't make it through
that march, you don't graduate basic training was I was

(01:56:05):
not giving up. It was not giving up. It was
worth it to me to walk through that pain. Suck
it up, buttercup, and graduate. And that's life. You either
have to you either have the audacity to face everything
or you just lay in a little ball and wait
for it to be over.

Speaker 5 (01:56:24):
Couldn't agree more. Let's take a break.

Speaker 4 (01:56:26):
We got news coming up, and we've got weather in traffic.
Tomal Hanland, he's in for Mark Christopher and he's in
the BTPs traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:56:34):
There's a Tomohanland dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
The hour that bags up Punch. It's Reese on the
radio on w t i C News Talk.

Speaker 4 (01:56:45):
I didn't get to do this yesterday, but you know me,
I have to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:54):
It's Hollywood news. He loves Hollywood news.

Speaker 4 (01:56:58):
Everybody loves Hollywood. No, no, no, I'm really excited about
this Hollywood news and you should too. Why because it
has nothing to do with superhero films, Marvel films, DC
films and nothing like that, but it is in the

(01:57:19):
sci fi fantasy realm.

Speaker 5 (01:57:21):
All month.

Speaker 4 (01:57:22):
In the last month or two, everybody's been talking about
the big Paramount CBS buyout and the firing of Stephen
Colbert and how the view might be losing there all
that other stuff, but Paramount in particular, Paramount is doing
something that a lot of people should be excited for.
Because I was excited the first time that they did this,
and I know you will as well, Roseanne Paramount because

(01:57:45):
of the new merger with Skydance is bringing back Star Trek.
Yeah see you like that. Well, the Star Trek that
you well, not the one we grew up with with
of course William Shatton and.

Speaker 6 (01:58:02):
All of those different compared different, but.

Speaker 4 (01:58:04):
The new revamped one with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, uh
this guy, that urban guy, I can't remember his name,
but also Zoe Saldana.

Speaker 16 (01:58:15):
The movie, yeah, the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:58:17):
They're bringing that franchise back for another film because the
third film that they did, Beyond, really didn't do all
that well. Uh they did a raff of con we're
into the Darkness, not into the darkness or something called
into Darkness, right, something like that. But anyway, those three
have been great in this cast, this new cast, and
and jj A Brooms sort of reintroducing Star Trek to

(01:58:40):
a new was really really fun. I'm not gonna lae
the most fun I had with Star Trek in a.

Speaker 5 (01:58:45):
Lot of years.

Speaker 6 (01:58:46):
Can I just say Multiverse as well?

Speaker 4 (01:58:48):
Yeah, it was, but it's really really good. And they're
in the talks are that they're gonna bring Star Trek back.
It is gonna be a priority of the new Paramount
and sky Dance. So those of you who loves our
Trek and love the new new revamping, you're gonna enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (01:59:03):
So I expect that that's Hollywood news.

Speaker 16 (01:59:05):
I don't like Spot, though nobody likes Spot.

Speaker 5 (01:59:08):
We'll get into that. Let's get back to Tomo Handlin.

Speaker 1 (01:59:12):
The NAACP calls him. WHOA, I don't think.

Speaker 7 (01:59:19):
It's on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
Let's just say some people are not fans News Talk
w T I soon you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:27):
Like that, huh, I mean it's pretty much my my review.

Speaker 4 (01:59:34):
Anyway, We're back into Rees on the radio. W T
I CE News Talk ten eighty. We've got Roseanne on
the radio.

Speaker 6 (01:59:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
You know, I again, I wish guys wouldn't do this
to me all the time. So Donald, you know, as
we were talking a little while ago about people who
have this issue with uh not being able to go
to get out of the orthodoxy because of the ridicule
that they may face the cult. Yeah, being the part
of the could well you know Donald again, who I

(02:00:03):
never get it. I never understand why he does, but
he actually always paints himself into a corner that he
can't get out of it, and then it conveniently moves
on and acts like nothing happened.

Speaker 5 (02:00:12):
He actually said this at the end of our conversation.
He wrote this.

Speaker 4 (02:00:16):
He said, Reese, as a black man, your political philosophy
is not in the majority among the black community.

Speaker 6 (02:00:23):
I don't think that's true. I think it's accurate.

Speaker 4 (02:00:25):
But wait, wait, but then my response to him is,
which makes blacks monolith?

Speaker 10 (02:00:29):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
Which is again their big argument, right, black people are
not No, No, Their argument is that black people are
not a monolith. Right, that's his argument. Black people don't
all think the same, we have different views.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
But they all.

Speaker 6 (02:00:45):
Need this. Okay, we're not a monolith, but we're a
monolith exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:00:49):
So again, it's the contradiction that they don't even recognize.
And that's you have to understand how cultism works, right
in order.

Speaker 6 (02:00:58):
Listen, I've escaped the cult, so I understand believe I
think I might understand better than most is how I mean,
how long did it take me to call myself a Republican?
I've just done it, and I voted for Trump and
my mind shifted a little over a year ago, you
know what I mean? Even in talking to my own family,

(02:01:18):
in my own mindset, I mean, even being ashamed of myself.
And that's the worst part, is being ashamed of myself
for having a change of mind, not a change of opinion,
a change of mind. Logic stepped in and it completely
destroyed everything that I'd been told prior to. Everything I've
been prior I'd been told prior to was a lie,

(02:01:43):
and nobody could tell me different. I remember you and
I arguing from top to bottom, left, right everywhere in
between about how you were wrong. And the reason I
started watching Donald Trump speak, like watching him live, not filtered,
not somebody else's version of he said this, watching him live.
My reason, my rationale for that is because I wanted

(02:02:05):
to come to you and say, did you see this
racist thing Trump said? Did you see that misogynistic thing
Trump said? And as it turns out, I would watch
Trump live, I would with my own eyeballs, in my
own ears, and then go to CNN or MSNBC and
hear their version and just be completely blown away. There

(02:02:27):
is no like that is not what he said, is
not what he said, And if you're putting it in
that context, you're wrong. Let me tell you what I
found interesting about that. What you're bringing up is very
very important to this discussion.

Speaker 4 (02:02:41):
And I told a lot of people, and you can
ask anyone when Donald Trump gives a speech or somebody, anybody,
Toulci Gabbritt just recently giving a speech about the declassification
of the Russia Gates scandal. She gave a press conference
at the podium, which, by the way, every major news
news outlet covers, right except for the regular news outst local, ABC.

Speaker 5 (02:03:05):
NBC and CBS don't.

Speaker 4 (02:03:07):
But the twenty four hour news cycles will interrupt their
programming for that. In fact, they schedule Caroline Levitz press
briefings because it is always newsworthy.

Speaker 7 (02:03:17):
But when.

Speaker 4 (02:03:19):
Tozy Gabbert came up to give a briefing on that,
a schedule a briefing of the declassified documents that you
put out, CNN broke from that live broadcast to interject
and to fact check it. Why are we even listening
to this? What I also noticed was, and this was
a tactic of many people in news. Trump would be
giving a stump speech at a rally, which again is

(02:03:41):
important because you have to give equal time, right, That's
the fairness doctrine that many people in the liberal standby.
We need the fairness doctrine. We must give equal time
to both sides. Rachel Maddaw is on the air going
to a speech about Donald Trump and in the middle
of hearing things talking about either.

Speaker 5 (02:03:59):
The raid twenty twenty election or this and that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:02):
With certain people who are in office, they would cut
in and they say, well, you know, look, we're not
in the business of transmitting lies.

Speaker 7 (02:04:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (02:04:09):
My favorite part is is that, look, we were gonna
cut away now, we will get back to it if
he makes any news, which in my head are important comments,
which in my head says, I don't want you to
see Donald Trump in this natural state.

Speaker 6 (02:04:23):
Now. I need you to understand that from the perspective
of someone who lived on liberal media since I was
a child, I grew up watching the Today Show, I
grew up watching Nightline like this, this was my realm.
Like I didn't. I didn't see the gradual shift in
unfairness because this is how I grew up. This what
I grew up watching.

Speaker 5 (02:04:44):
And you trusted those I trusted it.

Speaker 6 (02:04:47):
And so when that's what you're told, when you were
constantly being told, listen, guys, this is this is unacceptable,
This is racist. There are some racist undertone. It was
very gradual how we got to where we are that
when it came time to actually hear the truth, we
were so instilled with fear. It's not the fear of

(02:05:11):
hearing another perspective. It is the fear of being indoctrinated
with falsities. That's the fear is if you listen to
Donald Trump speak, you're going to be indoctrinated by falsities.
The devil is going to get into your ears, and
you're gonna become possessed by demons. That's literally what they
make it feel like. And if you stay on this

(02:05:33):
side and only listen to us, you're gonna be purified
and sanctified. I liken it back to the medieval ages,
right when the when the Catholic Church was the only
one allowed to read the Bible. Sermons were only given
in Latin. Nobody spoke Latin, nobody knew how to read
and write. The people were only doing what they were told.

(02:05:56):
You can't do this, or you're gonna die and go
to hell. You can't do this, You're gonna die, And
everything was about preventing dying and going to hell. Are
your crops going bad or catching diseases or you know,
your children dying because you were sinful. That's what the
modern media landscape looks like now. It is medieval Catholic
church over Europe.

Speaker 5 (02:06:16):
But I love that. Listen for me.

Speaker 4 (02:06:18):
I love the party or the club side of it.
I love the whole turning.

Speaker 6 (02:06:24):
Everybody always saying.

Speaker 4 (02:06:25):
These people have their club too, and those people have
their club two. I reject that in so many ways.
But you know what, yes, do certain Republicans have a
certain way in which they you know, they sort of
group think.

Speaker 5 (02:06:37):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
I reject that and I call that out every day.
On the other side, on the left, do you have
to adhere to everything? No, a lot of them don't.
But there is a difference between the two. And what
I mean by that is is that usually as a
conservative you can argue fuss and fight with a libertarian.
You can argue fuss and fight with the mega guy

(02:06:59):
who's a still Republican traditional.

Speaker 6 (02:07:02):
And still be friends with the EDD exactly and just have.

Speaker 4 (02:07:05):
That discussion saying, you know, but what about all right,
but I'm curious about this. It's curiosity, if you will.
But if I'm having a conversation with somebody on the left,
and their immediate knee jerk reaction is what are you
a Nazi?

Speaker 3 (02:07:20):
Right?

Speaker 5 (02:07:20):
What are you a racist? It's always the worst thing
you could possibly be.

Speaker 6 (02:07:25):
Well, you know, even before I made the full conversion
over to being awake, I had to leave my old
Facebook page, like I had to get rid of that
old Facebook page because all of my black female friends
had decided and some of my children that I'm a racist.
I'm racist, I'm anti black, I'm anti women, I'm anti.

Speaker 5 (02:07:45):
Black, and all the currency that you have acquired over
the years and knowing.

Speaker 6 (02:07:49):
These people, it means nothing. Because the facts don't align
with the common or the present narrative. And because I
chose to educate myself and get more information from credible,
peer reviewed, long standing documents. I mean, I went so
back as to look at writings written by the Friars

(02:08:11):
and the monks in the fourteen hundreds that were here
on this side of the world to get my historical information.
And because I believe history as it was written at
the time, I'm a racist.

Speaker 5 (02:08:26):
It's interesting. That's always a dynamic. I'm going to get
into that at another time.

Speaker 4 (02:08:31):
Because you are you love history in a way I've
never seen any Everybody you crazy about it.

Speaker 5 (02:08:37):
You will watch the most boring documentaries. God, you guys,
you have no idea. But I will she will do something.

Speaker 4 (02:08:43):
And I gotta say this just because I don't want
to meander on about this political thing over and over
that it gets tiresome, and I don't want.

Speaker 6 (02:08:49):
To want to talk about the show I'm watching now.

Speaker 4 (02:08:52):
No, but I'm just saying that I remember what There
was maybe a couple of weeks ago, that you were
watching something that it was absolutely boring, but I didn't
want to say anything. Oh it was so boring, but
I didn't want to say anything. So I walked in
and you got a sense. And this is kind of
keen on your part when I walked in and I
looked and I said, hey, what are you watching? And

(02:09:13):
before I could say a word, you just took the
remote and you just threw it at me and just said, no, no,
watch whatever you want, because you knew I wasn't.

Speaker 5 (02:09:20):
Going to get into it. Oh goodness, sorry about that.
I knew that you weren't going to that.

Speaker 4 (02:09:25):
You knew I wasn't going to be into it, right,
and the hell if I was, I was not into
it at all.

Speaker 5 (02:09:31):
I was like, Nope, but you will watch a lot a.

Speaker 6 (02:09:36):
Really obscure thing that. What I'm watching now is it's
a group of archaeologists and scientists living in a fifteenth
century village in Europe, very much the way they lived
at that time. It's some monastic village, so everything belongs
to the monastery. And I mean, it's to me, it's beautiful.
I want to understand that lifestyle because if we understand history,

(02:09:58):
were less likely to repeat the mistakes, right, But if
we don't know history, we continue to repeat the same mistakes.
And so for me, it's it's very prophetic to watch history.

Speaker 5 (02:10:11):
I know, and I can't. But I can't watch it.

Speaker 6 (02:10:14):
I know I do that, and you watch I don't
know what.

Speaker 5 (02:10:18):
You watch news and sports?

Speaker 6 (02:10:20):
Yeah, that's it so fun. God, so listen, you watch
news and sports and I watch ancient history documentaries. We
are a lively couple. I mean, whoa, guys, hope you're
ready for this party? Crew, here we come.

Speaker 4 (02:10:36):
John Beckwa says, going back to the show, Reese was
off for thirteen years and for seven the holes always
disagrees with Trump, and in his case, in John Beckwa's case,
on the show if you didn't agree with him, which
he didn't. He said, you were called the racist by him,
And again that's usually the case. You immediately get called
the racist if you don't agree with the orthodoxy yet

(02:10:58):
calling you a cult.

Speaker 5 (02:11:00):
Member if you're not.

Speaker 6 (02:11:01):
Remember the last time I was on the show, I
tried to educate them about why you should not be
drinking your own urine and and they called me some
choice names, and oh boy, I'm glad we were on
the East coast. Just for the record, people do not
drink your urine. It is highly The large group discussing

(02:11:23):
it's disgusting. There's no science backing it up. Www. Dot
Drink yourp dot com is not a credible source. It's
just not. I'm just saying I just made it up.
It's not I don't know if it's a real website.
I'm just saying, if you're gonna if you want credible
evidence about me, it's R. Kelly's website. Incredible evidence about

(02:11:51):
what you're going to be doing. You need to go
to scientific, peer reviewed, documented researched websites. I can't just
this guy drinks his pea and he's having a great
time with it, so we're all going to do it too.

Speaker 4 (02:12:05):
Look at Goutter website and it was absolutely ridiculous in
that particular episode.

Speaker 6 (02:12:10):
Are insane.

Speaker 4 (02:12:11):
They are crazy. They're absolutely crazy. We're gonna have to
take a break in a minute. We'll get to some
of the details. Oh, but I need to make sure
that I reiterate this. So I am going to be
going to.

Speaker 7 (02:12:24):
The no.

Speaker 4 (02:12:28):
I'm going to this Selden Cove on August twentieth, Selden
Cove on August twentieth.

Speaker 5 (02:12:34):
I'm going to find out when they're going to be there.

Speaker 4 (02:12:36):
According to the website that I'm looking at, the Army
Corps of Engineers is going to be there and they're
going to be putting in herbicides in the water. But
I am going there only in a journalistic capacity, not
for any protests. So those of you who want to
go down there, if you want to answer ask questions,
or you want to just hang out with reach on
the radio while I asked questions, I will be doing

(02:12:58):
it on camera. I will be talking to people to
get some info. So we'll be doing that on the twentieth.
I do believe it's gonna be about nine o'clock in
the morning. I will probably be there at eight uh,
and then later on that evening I'll be hanging out
with frist the Cats and Chrissy to go see the
group Silver Sun Pickups if you can figure that out again.

Speaker 6 (02:13:18):
Silversn Pickups, Silversun Pickups, that's the Silver Truck Star guys.

Speaker 5 (02:13:23):
No Silversun Pickups is the name of them.

Speaker 6 (02:13:26):
You're you gonna hate me, You're going no, you never,
No one's ever gonna near think that.

Speaker 5 (02:13:30):
You know they were gonna lie and tell the band
she loves you, guys loves you.

Speaker 6 (02:13:35):
Listen my credibility, My name's all I got exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:13:38):
You're gonna just gonna say, my wife loves your band. Really,
what's her favorite song?

Speaker 5 (02:13:42):
All of them?

Speaker 6 (02:13:43):
One with the guitar and the guy when he sings
the solo that part that's my favorite.

Speaker 5 (02:13:49):
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
I'll give you something you can use. I'll leave you
some songs that you can use. I love the Silver
Son Pickups. I watch them and Uh. The bass player
is a girl who I think he's absolutely she's exotic.
I just for the best way to describe her.

Speaker 10 (02:14:04):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (02:14:04):
She but she's so cute and she plays the bass,
and I think that's fantastic. A girl playing bass is hot,
that's just is and I love the bass. Yeah, girl
playing bass like you can't beat that. It's almost as
good as a girl playing drums.

Speaker 11 (02:14:20):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:14:20):
Selena's sister did it?

Speaker 5 (02:14:22):
Selena?

Speaker 15 (02:14:23):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:14:23):
Selena's sister played drums. Yeah, you talk about her a lot.

Speaker 6 (02:14:27):
Mexican. We're in Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:14:29):
That's I still can't get it.

Speaker 6 (02:14:32):
I'm not well. You and your silver pickup truck pickup sticks.
That's how I feel.

Speaker 5 (02:14:40):
At least I can say the woman's name, can you though?

Speaker 6 (02:14:44):
Selena Selena?

Speaker 5 (02:14:47):
I can't do that exactly, but I at least I
can say Selena.

Speaker 6 (02:14:53):
You I got silver. We are in the same vein, buddy.

Speaker 5 (02:15:01):
I still hate you anyway. Hey, By the way, I
wanted to say it before we go to break.

Speaker 4 (02:15:08):
So I was talking about Chris, who I knew back
in two thousand and four from Yeah. Apparently word gets
out fast. Chris writes wasn't listening to the show, but
a good friend who was called me to say that
you were talking about your good friend Chris on the air.
I finally made the big time Chris, Chris, welcome. I
love you, brother, I'll see you soon. Let's get another

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Speaker 5 (02:15:50):
What had happened was earlier in the show.

Speaker 4 (02:15:55):
I broke down how the Left has a abandoned, if
not attacked, the working class in this country. And I
have an article about it coming out on Sunday on
my sub stack and it will.

Speaker 5 (02:16:09):
Be going out to everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:16:11):
If you are already a subscriber, you can check it out,
and I hope that you do check it out. It's
just breaking down this suggestion that the Left lost the
working class, and I believe that they rejected them. They
they sought out to destroy the working class, and I
believe that's always been the case. And I lay it

(02:16:32):
out in the new article, and that's what had happened
was on the program. I also got a message in
the in my guess instant messages on Facebook and I
hope everybody knows that when you send them to me,
I read them because they are a part of that.

Speaker 7 (02:16:47):
And I've.

Speaker 4 (02:16:50):
I'd like to give everybody a little warning sign. Okay,
conventional wisdom is bull bull. And when if someone begins
a message to me by saying, reece a little constructive criticism,
that is the very essence of arrogance. And when you

(02:17:11):
say that and your next sentence is about how I
do my job, I immediately reject it. But I'm giving
the person who wrote it the benefit of the doubt.
So what was thet constructive criticism? It's the way in
which I conduct interviews and my phone calls adversarial was

(02:17:31):
I can recognize somebody who wants to have a conversation.
And if you've listened to this show long enough, there
are plenty of people who call who have a dialogue
with me when they disagree, and they are great conversations.
Evan who calls up here all the time, the doc
who calls up a lot, he and I always have
an exchange of dialogue when he disagrees with me. He's

(02:17:51):
always coming in respectful and he goes back and forth.
And then there are others who call in and start
off with that ya talking about ith blah blah blah
blah blah, and they browbeat right off the bat, and
it's about what they wish to say or their knee
jerk reaction to something that they heard and they are
wishing or can't wait to prove reas wrong. I've dealt

(02:18:13):
with this my entire life, in my twenty something year career.
I know exactly what the caller's doing the moment they
open their mouth, whether or not they want dialogue or
wish or if they wish to be adversarial. No offense, sir,
Keep your criticisms to yourself. How I got here, No disrespect.

(02:18:34):
I just want to finish this. I got here on
my own merits. I got here doing this my way.
No one told me how to do this job. No
one instructed me. I've created the brand that you see here.
You can't then come in after I get on here
and then tell me how I can make.

Speaker 5 (02:18:52):
It better for you. I shut down.

Speaker 4 (02:18:56):
This is not a conversation for people to come in
and bloviate all on and on about their point of
views when they are interviewed by me. If you say
something that is absolutely inaccurate or misleading, or if you're
lying to this audience, I will cut you off. I
will even put you on mute so I can make
sure that you are saying what you mean to say

(02:19:17):
and you are not lying to this audience.

Speaker 5 (02:19:19):
That's the way it's done.

Speaker 6 (02:19:20):
If you don't like that, get your own show.

Speaker 4 (02:19:26):
You gotta get your own show. And if you want
people to bloviate with you online and give them their.

Speaker 5 (02:19:31):
Equal time all day. Yeah, oh man, anyway, let's move on.
Let's get to some weather. In traffic.

Speaker 4 (02:19:41):
Tom Hnlan is in the bps A traffic center. What's up, everybody?

Speaker 15 (02:19:45):
You know who it is.

Speaker 4 (02:19:48):
It's on the radio, Frederick Douglas of the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (02:19:52):
It's w t i C News Talk.

Speaker 4 (02:19:56):
We are back recent Roseanne can't wait to be there tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:20:00):
I mean tomorrow. We're leaving Sunday, Sunday, getting in really.

Speaker 6 (02:20:03):
Really late midnight, almost midnight almost.

Speaker 5 (02:20:07):
Do you hate it when we arrive late to places?

Speaker 6 (02:20:10):
Not? Really, No, you don't.

Speaker 5 (02:20:11):
I can't stand it.

Speaker 6 (02:20:12):
I don't like. Remember when we were flying to Sacramento
and we are plane, something happened and we ended up
having to sleep in the airport.

Speaker 5 (02:20:19):
Oh never forget that. It was so miserab Well, we
were quite the layover in Detroit this time.

Speaker 6 (02:20:24):
Yeah, but it's only five hours and it's during you know, like.

Speaker 5 (02:20:27):
Middle of the day. Yeah, do you want to go
check out Detroit?

Speaker 7 (02:20:30):
I'm here.

Speaker 6 (02:20:31):
I'm sorry that was so rude, but absolutely not. No,
I'd like to keep my wallet.

Speaker 5 (02:20:41):
I don't know why. I just thought about that. I
was like, we should at least go now.

Speaker 16 (02:20:46):
Detroit has some historic sites, though.

Speaker 5 (02:20:48):
It does I want to go. So we're gonna stay
in the airport.

Speaker 6 (02:20:53):
For five hours. What are we gonna do? Not get mugged,
not get carjacked. I don't know, not get shot. I
can think of a number of things we cannot get
done to us. Take a nap, we can we know,
just relax.

Speaker 5 (02:21:08):
Okay, we can do is.

Speaker 6 (02:21:09):
We can go to one of the lounges. Okay, we
hang out in the lounge, go to USO. Right, Oh yeah,
we could go to the USO.

Speaker 5 (02:21:16):
Yeah, that's that's what we'll do.

Speaker 6 (02:21:17):
Five hours. You take a nap. They got video games,
not that I play.

Speaker 16 (02:21:20):
The five hours.

Speaker 5 (02:21:23):
A layover. John Beckman says Detroit has MGM casino, but.

Speaker 6 (02:21:27):
Neither of us can't gamble.

Speaker 7 (02:21:29):
We don't.

Speaker 5 (02:21:29):
It's sort of like we're we are just what Roseanne
and I.

Speaker 6 (02:21:35):
It was my birthday before we moved here.

Speaker 5 (02:21:38):
Remember you took me to.

Speaker 6 (02:21:41):
Horseshoe.

Speaker 4 (02:21:42):
I can't remember where it was. Was it all the
way up in Maryland, Maryland? Yeah, we went to we
went to something races. It's Camptown Races.

Speaker 6 (02:21:53):
No, I don't know, but it was.

Speaker 3 (02:21:55):
It was.

Speaker 5 (02:21:55):
It was one and all the way in Maryland. We
drove all the way out there. We barely gambled.

Speaker 6 (02:21:58):
We spent one hundred bucks. That that was it.

Speaker 5 (02:22:01):
And we had a great dinner.

Speaker 6 (02:22:02):
And we spent most of our money on dinner. I
would I would rather have a phenomenal, fat, bloody steak
rather than sitting at a casino.

Speaker 4 (02:22:10):
Dinner between the two of us must have cost us
close to three hundred and fifty bucks, and we loved everyone.

Speaker 5 (02:22:15):
See, we like substantial things right when we go out.

Speaker 4 (02:22:20):
And that's the reason why we don't gamble, is because
throwing money away and not getting anything.

Speaker 6 (02:22:24):
In rey want to have something that I walk around
with exactly. I want something to show for it.

Speaker 16 (02:22:29):
Right, Yeah, and walk around with money in your post.

Speaker 5 (02:22:32):
If you lose you check your text.

Speaker 6 (02:22:34):
I'm I'm not good at gambling. It's a transaction for us,
which I'll play a penny slot, but.

Speaker 5 (02:22:42):
But the trans the transaction is what we like.

Speaker 6 (02:22:46):
I'm very risk averse. I think that's that's what prevents
me from gambling, is there's a potential that I give
you all my money and I get nothing back from it,
which is why I hate the mortgage, which is why
I hate carnalans. I hate all those loans because I'm
giving you all this money and you're taking most of
it and I get nothing back for it.

Speaker 16 (02:23:04):
Exactly what happens when you actually hit.

Speaker 4 (02:23:08):
Well, when you hit is when you hit, but it's
not more times than Like when Roseanne won a little
bit of money, we were like, we're.

Speaker 6 (02:23:15):
Out, Like we were so yeah, I went with a
hundred bucks. A hundred bucks was my limit. I got
three hundred dollars and I kept my one hundred, my
original hundred, and I spent spent the rest of that
one hundred, and I was like, all right, that's it.
But we walked away with three hundred bucks. I' pretty
sure that's how we paid for dinner. That's exactly how
we paid for that's not terrible. Yeah, that was it.

Speaker 4 (02:23:36):
But for us, it's like you know, and I've always
I attributed to like why I would like drinking and
gambling are two vices, one of which I can get
from because drinking you get something from it. Of course,
you get a knee breath, you get it over, or
you get the like there's something transactional in that hre

(02:23:58):
in gifts to the ATA, escort to the police station,
breaking out in the handcuffs you'll get. But the the
gambling thing is only one side get the house always wins.

Speaker 5 (02:24:09):
It just does.

Speaker 6 (02:24:10):
Oh, I get to walk away with shame and grief
and disbelief, the buyers remorse.

Speaker 5 (02:24:15):
That's those are things I don't like, but I don't
exactly so I don't like that risk.

Speaker 16 (02:24:20):
And you're right, risk the risk that that's that's what
gets me, that the rush of the risk.

Speaker 6 (02:24:25):
But that's a young man's game. I'm too old for risk.

Speaker 4 (02:24:29):
Yeah, I don't even listen the whole idea that you're
getting a rush from the from the gambling, like the
rush of losing money or possibility the possibility of winning money.

Speaker 5 (02:24:42):
That is no, And I get that. I I can
understand all of that.

Speaker 6 (02:24:46):
It's just that at the end I feel dirty.

Speaker 2 (02:24:50):
Yeah maybe, hey, sometimes you feel devastated at the end,
that's true.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
Can I tell you this is I know I've told
this story before, but this is really a true In fact,
I'm almost certain I told this story.

Speaker 5 (02:25:03):
Three years ago when I first got to WT I see, and.

Speaker 4 (02:25:07):
It was when the one of the first billion dollar
lottery prizes came out.

Speaker 5 (02:25:14):
And you know I've shared this story.

Speaker 6 (02:25:16):
I'm thinking about that commercial with the lady asked the guy,
what are you gonna buy me?

Speaker 7 (02:25:19):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:25:20):
Yeah, yeah, And so it was I would never play
the lotto, and Mary at the time told me, no,
we got to get a ticket. It's a billion dollars. It's,
you know, very rare when a billion dollars is at stake.

Speaker 5 (02:25:34):
We got to play.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
And I was like, okay, fine, whatever, everybody's gonna be playing.
And I said, fine, I'll give in. And I didn't aget,
a guy who doesn't buy lottery tickets, bought into this
idea that we could win a billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:25:49):
And what happened to me was I bought a few tickets.
I bought a lot of tickets. I'm not not even
one hundred bucks.

Speaker 4 (02:25:56):
But I bought a lot of tickets, and then I
got home and I sat there with those tickets at
the drawing, and something happened to me that it never
happened before. You know this personally, so I'm exposing it
to everybody. It was the first time in my life,
since I was a homeless kid, I ever wanted something, say,

(02:26:18):
and once are things that I can do without. It's
like once make you desperate for things. Once can be
dangerous and in my view, and I want everything exactly,
so I.

Speaker 5 (02:26:30):
Don't ever want for anything. So that's kind of the
where my mind set me.

Speaker 4 (02:26:33):
Right, if you don't want for it, you won't do
anything to get it, And what you do is learn
to be satisfied and be grateful, show gratitude.

Speaker 5 (02:26:40):
So that's the way which I lived my life.

Speaker 4 (02:26:43):
So here I am never playing the lotto, and now
I've got these tickets in front of me and the building.

Speaker 5 (02:26:47):
It was so wild that the.

Speaker 4 (02:26:49):
Moments before they read the numbers, I had already spent
eighty two million.

Speaker 3 (02:26:54):
Of it.

Speaker 15 (02:26:56):
In my head.

Speaker 4 (02:26:57):
That's and it was there was that moment I spent
so much of that money, the once and the things
I was buying a radio station. I was buying, you know,
a house that was connected to a radio that was
being There was millions of dollars I was spending in
my head.

Speaker 5 (02:27:13):
And then the numbers come out and I won nothing.
And the shame that I had.

Speaker 4 (02:27:18):
Felt not from losing, from wanting. It was like all
of that that pipe dream felt humiliated. Yeah, it was
like you you defied everything you stood for. Degree of
shame was so much. And even now when we walk in,
I always say to myself and maybe we should buy
a lottery ticket, But I always just walk away and

(02:27:40):
never do it because it's that feeling I don't want
to have.

Speaker 5 (02:27:44):
I don't want to have that feeling.

Speaker 6 (02:27:45):
Yeah, it's it's fun to fantasize, it's fun to pretend. Uh,
But then when the reality sets in and you've gambled
away all of your your money, you know what I mean?
Like I could, I could have bought groceries, but no
lottery tickets. Would we have to show for it a
pile of trash And I just don't.

Speaker 4 (02:28:05):
Again and again this I don't want anybody to get
the impression that this is some you know, criticism of
people who play I get it if you.

Speaker 7 (02:28:13):
This is.

Speaker 6 (02:28:15):
I'm just saying, I'm calling.

Speaker 4 (02:28:18):
In my in my head. And this is again, every
problem is a me problem, right, So it's not it's
not the lottery is it my problem? And this is
something I always try to explain a lot of people
talk about politics and life as it.

Speaker 5 (02:28:30):
Is like people say money is the root of all evil. No, no,
you are you are the root of all right.

Speaker 6 (02:28:35):
It's like saying guns kill people. The trigger exactly kill people.
Deep down, it is always about yourself. The greatest line
I can remember it is from Fonte of Little Brother
Still Remember It, Still love It, and when he said
it's a rap group and he says, they say money
changes you, But money doesn't change you.

Speaker 4 (02:28:53):
It just makes you more what you already are. And
that's what it is having that money. And it's true,
having that money in your possession, If you had all
the money in the world, you would only be more
of the person you are. He yeah, yeah, there you go, right,
you would you would be exploitive. If you're exploitive, you
would you would be generous if you are generous, right,

(02:29:16):
that's what money does to you. So the root of
that evil or good is always within you. And when
I look at that money, I say to myself, what
would I do? I never forget this, This is very,
very true in that billion dollar scenario. You know what
I did in my head when I was spending that money.
I had only given my siblings one hundred thousand dollars,
But yet I was sitting on billions on a billion dollars,

(02:29:39):
and I was.

Speaker 5 (02:29:39):
Saying, give money.

Speaker 6 (02:29:40):
Honest, what would some of your siblings do with one
hundred thousand dollars?

Speaker 7 (02:29:47):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (02:29:48):
So you may actually be being responsible in in that.

Speaker 4 (02:29:52):
Two of them, two of them would probably burn it.
Two of them and both of them would be my
sisters would burn it. My brothers no, no, my brother
Charles and Briggs would Charles would immediately no sorry, Charles
would buy a new house for his wife that I

(02:30:13):
know he would immediately, and he would take her to
a Beyonce concert because that's a big thing for her.

Speaker 7 (02:30:17):
It is.

Speaker 4 (02:30:18):
My brother Briggs, on the other hand, immediately would pay
off debt and he would put all of the money
into the kids college.

Speaker 5 (02:30:25):
So that's what he would do immediately.

Speaker 4 (02:30:26):
That's and then he would probably buy the most modest
house ever and the most luxurious thing he would buy
is maybe an accurate And that's my brother. He is
the most responsible out of all, and he's the baby,
and he's the one I.

Speaker 5 (02:30:44):
Practically raised, but he would be the best.

Speaker 7 (02:30:46):
Would money.

Speaker 6 (02:30:46):
What's the first thing I always say I would do
if I want a large amount of money?

Speaker 5 (02:30:49):
You would buy a planet?

Speaker 6 (02:30:50):
No, honestly, what's the first thing I always say?

Speaker 5 (02:30:52):
I would pay off debt?

Speaker 6 (02:30:53):
That's that's like the number one thing is I just
want to pay off all my debt and spend like
vest and just live off the residuals. And god, I
would I would spend six weeks in Thailand at some
sort of spa.

Speaker 5 (02:31:07):
Yeah, I don't want to have to travel.

Speaker 6 (02:31:09):
You don't have We've already discussed this. You don't have
to go anywhere. I would hire a gay boyfriend to
go with me, to carry all the heavy stuff. You
wouldn't have to worry.

Speaker 5 (02:31:20):
Can you tell everybody who you're gay?

Speaker 6 (02:31:22):
Name is Rohelio and he's Filipino and he's got a
phenomenal body. But he's totally into Reese and not me.
So if you know this guy, someone please send him
to my house because I need I need this guy
in my life.

Speaker 4 (02:31:36):
So to tell you a great story about that. When
I was when I owned the U haul, a customer
came in and of course, you know, you have to
take the you have to take their id before they
rent to you haul. And a guy named Rohelio actually
rented the truck.

Speaker 7 (02:31:49):
Do you want to know?

Speaker 5 (02:31:50):
The first thing I said to him, I asked him
if he was gay? Are you gay? He went, what?
I went, nothing? Never mind.

Speaker 6 (02:31:58):
I don't know if you're allowed to ask anymore. Yeah,
I don't think that's the pronouns that's the safe way
to ask.

Speaker 16 (02:32:05):
I don't even think. I just think you kind of
figure it out by talking to him.

Speaker 6 (02:32:09):
He put your hand on his shoulder.

Speaker 4 (02:32:15):
Well I know the reason why I asked. He looked
at me, wait what? And then I told him the
story and he thought.

Speaker 7 (02:32:19):
It was funny.

Speaker 16 (02:32:20):
What's what's the guy names from Beverly Hills cop s.

Speaker 5 (02:32:26):
Serge that guy you can tell, you can see that guy.

Speaker 16 (02:32:30):
That's the guy you need.

Speaker 6 (02:32:31):
And so in my mind, he's more like from from
the bird Case.

Speaker 5 (02:32:35):
Yeah, the bird Cage.

Speaker 4 (02:32:36):
Hanka Sarius from the Bird Cage is her perfect house.

Speaker 6 (02:32:40):
Oh my god, I love it.

Speaker 4 (02:32:42):
She refers to him as a houseboy too. He's a houseboy,
yeah exactly. And he is the one that what does
he do? He brings He brings you coffee, he.

Speaker 6 (02:32:50):
Brings me coffee, He flirts with you, makes you uncomfortable.
And then he and I go shopping and take cruises
and all the things you don't want to do. I
get to do with Rolo what I have to be
made them feel uncomfortable because it's fun for me. I mean,
this is this is my fantasy. What are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (02:33:08):
Yeah exactly, And I will admit I think it's probably
the best fantasy that I've ever heard from any individual
that I was married. It's actually not bad. John Beckman says, Roseanne.
Guess how much a client of mine lost in one
day here in Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 (02:33:24):
Oh my god, I don't think you want to know this.

Speaker 7 (02:33:26):
I do.

Speaker 5 (02:33:27):
No way if this is true?

Speaker 6 (02:33:30):
Are they still single? I'm just kidding? What what it
was a joke? It was totally a joke.

Speaker 5 (02:33:35):
No, it wasn't. Do you want to know how much
it was?

Speaker 1 (02:33:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:33:37):
How much?

Speaker 5 (02:33:38):
Eight point five million?

Speaker 6 (02:33:40):
Good?

Speaker 5 (02:33:41):
That's a friend of yours.

Speaker 6 (02:33:44):
You know, kind of house I could have bought with that?

Speaker 7 (02:33:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (02:33:48):
Yeah, they had it to lose though, Yeah, they had
it to lost.

Speaker 6 (02:33:50):
So I'm saying, is he single? I mean, I've got
a couple of cousins. I'm just saying, this.

Speaker 5 (02:33:54):
Is the reason why we have to have friends like
John Beckman, right right.

Speaker 6 (02:33:59):
Friends in low places are great, but I want to
be where the white folks are exactly.

Speaker 5 (02:34:05):
That's where we need to be. You just ticked off
every one of my Black Listener.

Speaker 6 (02:34:13):
All your Black Listener, the whole my Black Listener.

Speaker 5 (02:34:18):
Well, I mean I have less listen. I have less
Black Listeners than the w NBA. That's for the fan
to decide. Nothing. That's just an old family guy.

Speaker 6 (02:34:30):
I don't know what this sorry, Black Listener.

Speaker 5 (02:34:35):
It's time for us to get up out of here.
We will see you guys on Monday. Make sure that
you are there.

Speaker 4 (02:34:41):
There will not be any video unfortunately, of the show,
so you won't be able to see it online. As
I always say, radio is free. So we thank you
for paying attention. Remember to keep JC and your hearts
and in your mind shown Patrick, God love you, We
miss you. Remember that panic is not planning, So plan
your work and work you're plan me. I reaching the radio.
She is Roseanne on the radio, Say go bye, Roseanne.
We love you, guys, good to each other, and we'll

(02:35:01):
see you on Monday. Holland Hamlin from the DPS Lawyers
Traffic was in on the Hollandsound West Hardcord.

Speaker 5 (02:35:10):
That accident that happened.

Speaker 2 (02:35:11):
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, all right, I'll see y'all back
there Monday.

Speaker 16 (02:35:18):
Was it Monday morning?

Speaker 5 (02:35:20):
Monday morning? I got a meeting with.

Speaker 16 (02:35:26):
Oh damn, you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:35:27):
Be here all day.

Speaker 16 (02:35:28):
Yeah, I'll see you at like eleven thirty.

Speaker 5 (02:35:39):
Are moving all right, everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:35:41):
Unfortunately, there will not be any video for the show.
It says, Hell, I'll live anywhere where the white folks are.
Uh I never Oh no, he says, hell, I never
lived with the white where the white folks are.

Speaker 5 (02:35:55):
Join us.

Speaker 4 (02:35:57):
This is yeah, this is our last one, at least
for the week, and then we'll be back the week after.
So unfortunately, there won't be any way for you to
watch the show, and it sucks. I know we're gonna
figure out how to do the show or to broadcast
the show and video when we get to the studio,
but that's gonna come very very soon. But I appreciate

(02:36:19):
you guys, riding with me. I'll miss you guys over
the weekend. I can't wait to get into town on
Monday to see all of you. And we'll let everybody
know where we're gonna be.

Speaker 6 (02:36:27):
And before we close, if you're interested in seeing Reese
and Roseanne not on the radio, but doing our own podcast,
hit up Reese. What is it Reese on the radio
dot com?

Speaker 5 (02:36:38):
Yes, that's exactly it.

Speaker 6 (02:36:39):
I'll get it together one of these days. We've only
been married, you know. But if you're interested, you know,
let us know, let me know. I'm kind of trying
to poke them in the ribs.

Speaker 5 (02:36:48):
We're going to do it, Okay, we will, I promise
you we will. All right, I love you guys. Be
good to each other. Say a manya Monday, Monday, Manya,
manya