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

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funny since we all watched a police uh dash cam
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our house. Yeah, No, we just saw we're just thriving.
We just we go to Maryland. We'll go to my house. Okay,
I gotta get back there because I gotta be on
my wife. He's been like four days, four days. I
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Zora and Mamdami is from there. Perhaps you know he
can visit some family there.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, whatever, I.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Don't want to get into that. I got plenty of
news and plenty of news to get into today. It
is bittersweet being back here in my studio because from
what I realized last week, I have to do this there.
And I had a good conversation with my friend and yours,
Chris Craig and the car, and he feels like this

(03:02):
is very intimate, but I have to be in Connecticut
doing it. He likes this format. He is one of
the avid watchers of the show online. I want to
keep this experience for those of you who do watch
it online. It's a radio show as well as a
television broadcast.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I got plenty of people.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Who actually watch on their living room TV, and I
provide video sound bites and video bites as well as
audio sound bites to the show, and it's an element that.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
They enjoy and they like to witness themselves. So it's
new media.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
It's taking the old and incorporating the new and some
of the old because television's still old. But it's bringing
all of it together, and so I still want to
do that. We're working it out. We also found out
some we we let's just say, we found out some
really good news. And I think the good folks at
WTIC be really really excited about this news, and that

(04:03):
is they may not have to put us up.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
They plan on.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Doing something for us to hook us up for two
months that may not be necessary. And what may also
be good news is that Reese on the radio and
Roseanne on the radio may be coming early.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
It won't be November.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
If things go from what we heard today, it looks
like October will be our arrival. But we will get
to you. I promise, we'll let you know in the
coming weeks. If not, it'll be November. But we are
solid on that date November, but it could be earlier.
We got a lot of work to do, folks, So
the earlier I get there, the better. And that's gonna

(04:46):
be great because Roland said that I am back in
my Genie Bottles. When I'm not there, he misses me.
He likes my physical presence inside the studio. You wouldn't
know it much, but he tells me that after I leave.
He's a clothes out of a gun. Didn't tell me
that he misses me. When he tells me he misses me,
he goes, hey, you're back in Eugenie Bottle again. Thanks Roland.

(05:07):
I miss you too. But it's good to be back
just in this platform because I'm comfortable here.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
But we're going to take care of that in due course.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
On today's program, I need to talk to you about Democrats.
I haven't covered a lot of national news as of yet.
We've had a lot of local stuff. But I want
to begin today by talking about some of the national
news about Democrats and this new report about him losing
so many registered voters. But I have to tease something

(05:38):
and I will not make you wait for it. Are
you aware of Newington Mayor John Trister and his comments
about the arrest of seven individuals at a local car
wash what I called his town manager Jonathan Oates today

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and for some odd reason, he and I got into
a shouting match over the phone, which I will disclose
to you. My wife said to me, first, did you
record it? And I said I could have, but I
didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
But I will do.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Want to say this to Jonathan, because I know you're listening.
Want you to know where I am. You're sitting here
waiting by there. Hi, Welcome to the show. You'll be
back because you're gonna love every bit of it. Don't
ever suggest, because you don't even know me. But don't
ever suggest that I have an interest in spinning your comments.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have no interest in spinning what you say.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
I want to know what you think, and I want
to hear it directly from your mouth and the mayor's mouth.
I don't need to spin what you say. Here's the newsflash,
Jonathan Oltchell. I know you're going to say something ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It needs no spin, and in a little bit.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
I'll explain exactly how ridiculous your response was.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And if you did record.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
It, I hope you share it with your boss, the
mayor of Newington, And if he hears what you said
to me, I hope he tells you You've got to
clean this up, because what you said was embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
What you should have said was we're deeply concerned about.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Illegals or people who may be illegal just being rounded
up without us knowing the exact nature of why. But
I asked you a simple question, and when you have
to run all around the weeds and answer questions I
never asked, it shows you have a problem or you
take issue with what you released.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
As a statement.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
You've clearly never been questioned about what you've said in
the past, and when you are pushed back upon, you
didn't know how to react and you got angry and
you became indignant, which is proof to me you're not
prepared to be pushed back upon that people just let
you say whatever you want and go okay, thank you.

(08:19):
We'll take that like a bunch of stenographers. So we'll
get into all of that, and I will detail everything
you said in our exchange. There will be no spin
because there won't be any need to spin what you said. Now,

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let's get to the nonsense that is the Democrat Party.
What have we seen over the last what's it now?
Seven months? Where are we jed? We're going to August? Yeah,
seven months? What have we seen? Have we seen protests.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yes. Have we seen the news media losing its collective mind? Yes?
Have we seen terrorism?

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Have we seen fighting, rock throwing, gun shooting, Yes, yes, yes,
We've seen it all.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
And what is the common theme in all of this?
Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States. We
have found out that there are groups like crowds on
demand protests nationwide, people outraged, screaming, no kings. This is
called the collective pushback on the current administration. We have

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Chris Murphy on record telling his supporters and Democrats across
the fruited plane that they need to go out there
and risk it all to fight this administration. That is
what the seven months of this administration so far has
been like. It has been a nauseum consternation for Republicans

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and Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
And what did it get them? Nothing? Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
They are losing ground with the American people. This just
in the last seven months. None of it is working.
More and more people are joining the Republican ranks. Why
is it because Democrats can't stop lying about where they

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stand in what their positions are. Is it because they
really are out of touch with the working class or
just everyone?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yes, but I'm going to go one step further.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's because they can't answer simple questions.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let's go to Hakim Jeffries.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Hakim Jeffries was answer asked a very simple question on
CNN about the loss of two point one million voters.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
In thirty states.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
They no longer register as Democrats, they just lost them
in the last four years, asked point blank, why are.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
You losing them?

Speaker 5 (11:36):
And when you can't answer a simple question like this,
where you can't take ownership of your own policies and
your own party, and then when you also try to
give the detailed answer you get that wrong too, really shows.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
You have no intent of fixing what's wrong Jeffreys. Dana
Bash got her name, Yeah, on seeing.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
It, Democrats have lost two point one million voters. Republicans
have gained two point four million. That's a deficit that
you have of four point five million voters. Why are
voters turning away from your party? What is the problem.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
Most of that activity, as I understand it, has occurred
in Florida and Texas, and certainly it is the case
that nationally we're going to have to invest more in
these two red states.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Lies. Its flat out lie.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
The majority is not in Florida and Texas, And if
he read the report, which he clearly didn't, he would
have known that it has nothing to do with Florida
or Texas at all. Again, it either means he's bad
at his job or he is trying to deceive people

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on purpose, like no one else can find this information out.
If anyone who's a Democrat read the New York Times
article would have said, Kame, that's not no I read it.
That's not what it says at all. Why would he
go on a Sunday show and say that it's the
reason why people are leaving because they just can't be

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honest about the data.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But he said it. Let's go to the fact check.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
The declines were particularly profound or pronounced among men, voters
under forty five Latinos, groups that shifted towards Donald Trump
into twenty twenty four elections. Democrats share a new major
party registrants, and they fell from sixty three percent in
twenty eighteen to under forty eight percent in twenty twenty four,
allowing Republicans to claim a majority of new voters for

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the first time since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Early twenty twenty five data shows no reverse with.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Democrats down another one hundred and sixty thousand and Republicans
up two one hundred thousand since election Day twenty twenty four.
And none of this has anything to do with Texas Florida.
It may six hundred thousand ended up being a part
of the swing. It was a part of the one

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point two million swing to the GOP. It says that
Miami Dade, that town county alone shifted from a two
hundred thousand Democrat edge to a GOP lead. But the
other states in question are on the East coast. They
are Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and then Nevada and Arizona. Florida

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has always been a Republican stronghold. It's had its wavering
back in two thousand. But what he's saying is an
outright lie. Again, they all ready the major swings were Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona all swing states.

Speaker 8 (15:10):
At the end of the day, it's also going to
be important for us to continue to make clear to
the American people what we stand for as Democrats. We
believe in a strong floor and no ceiling in this country.
You work hard, you play by the rules, there should
be no ceiling as to what success you can accomplish

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for yourself or your family, for your children, for your grandchildren,
and your community.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Just don't become a billionaire because guys like mom Donnie,
they'll come after you just for working hard and becoming one.
But as I said on this poll, Florida was the
only one he got right, but he failed to mention Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Harry Enton of CNN.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
Democratic Brand Right Now has about the appeal with the
American voter as the cracker barrel rebrand has with the
American consumers.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing?

Speaker 9 (16:10):
Oh my goodness, gracious, what are we talking about here?
In terms of big party registration changes in the key
swing states. Let's look at the key for swing states
that in fact do keep tract of registration by party. Look,
the Republican Party is in their best position at this
point in the cycle since at least two thousand and five,
and all four of these key battleground states. We go
out to the southwest, Arizona, how about Nevada. Republicans haven't

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done this well since two thousand and five.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh my goodness, Gracia.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
At this point of cycle, North Carolina I couldn't find
the point at which Republicans were doing better at this
point in the cycle. It's at least this century. It
probably goes way back in the last century. And Pennsylvania
very similar. Republicans doing better at this point than at
any point at any point this century, at least as
far as I could find.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
And it gets worse.

Speaker 9 (17:01):
Donald Trump has been president since January. Are there any
bright spots for Democrats? Have they picked up any ground
since January one in terms of party registration?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Ah?

Speaker 10 (17:11):
Non?

Speaker 9 (17:11):
These keys, these key swing states, these four key swing states.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 9 (17:15):
Party registration margin gains since January one, twenty twenty five.
Which party's gain in Arizona? The GOP? How about Nevada
the GOP? North Carolina? The GOP have out in Pennsylvania.
We'll make it four for four the GOP.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Since January one, of twenty twenty five, Republicans have gained.
Everything they did didn't work. As I said to you before,
and I'll say again, folks, relax, take a beat.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
None of it's working. We come back.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
I've got more news and more views, especially on this topic,
on the double standard that's also hurting Democrats. When we return,
it's resund Radio on WTIC News Stock ten eighty and
we're back Reesa on the radio wt IIC News Talk
ten eight. Plenty of stuff to get into today. I've
got some very cool Hollywood News for sports fans that

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might be interested in this story. I'll, of course, we'll
have that roughly at about five o'clock. You can always
catch the Hollywood News at the five o'clock hour as well.
We also have our between rounds winner, who was coming up,
and thank you all. So many people are sending their
info so they can win an opportunity to get a
dozen bagels a month for six months courtesy between rounds.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
The bagel Bakery, Sandwich Cafe keep sending them in.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Everybody's got a chance to win as long as you
keep entering. Also, the stupidest thing that I've read today
is an oldie but goodie.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's up there with Ricketts.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Just might be saying that you're going to say, I
think I know what the story is. But going back
to our opening monologue, because all of this stuff that
Democrats are recognizing that is driving them nuts, how can
you not ask yourself? Wait a minute, So we're driving

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people away from the party by doing all of this,
and all I wish is that they would say, all right,
this isn't working, let's go in another direction. And making
it about Trump isn't helping them either, right, Him being
the big boogeyman isn't working.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
And I don't care. I don't care how much you
hate him.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
You know, Donald Trump is big, bad this he's a
threat to democracy, that he's an existential threat.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, yah, yeah, Okay, you've said it over and over again.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
But this idea that says, if you don't elect us,
donald Trump's gonna do this, this, that, and the third
that's not working, and it isn't because they don't believe you.
On Donald Trump is that you haven't told anyone what
you're going to do because you don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
What you're going to do.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
You don't and every time something comes up, you seem
to be I don't know, you seem to be in
opposition with whatever the matter is.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
You are not driving the news cycle.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
You're not waking up one morning and going, this is
the issue we are going to die on and then
Donald Trump is forced to respond.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
You are responding to Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
He always leads the conversation Donald Trump comes in like
a bull in a china shop.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He says, I'm doing this, and then you react to it.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
You're always reacting to it, and he's baiting you into
that conversation. I don't it sounds weird because some people
are gonna say, but Reast, why are you telling Democrats this?
Why are you helping them?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I don't know. I really don't. It's a great question.
I don't know. I have to ask it myself. I
should just sit by here.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Gleefully watching their demise as they tie themselves into knots,
not being able to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
But the beauty of.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
It is is that they're not gonna listen to me
right They refuse to right now.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
They're listening to me. On the left, especially the black liberals,
they're the ones that are not listening to me.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
They love their white liberal masters. They do exactly what
they tell them to do, just be in opposition to Trump.
It's not an original thought, black folks. It's not the
white man has you by the ear and is telling
you what to protest. You don't even know what you're protesting, like,
you're actually out here protesting crime and for it. An

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original thought would say, you know, we do have to
put an end to this stuff and just say nothing.
How many times have people told you online TikTok, Twitter, Instagram?
How many times have folks on the internet told you, hey,
black folks stay out of in white people's business. They
tell you this all the time. I know, I see it.

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My wife and I chuckle about it every day.

Speaker 11 (22:12):
I go.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
They're not gonna listen. They're knocking up black people. Are
online folk. If those are in the d WTIC audience
who do not follow black Twitter, black Instagram, black facebooks,
any of that stuff, I do, and you will see
these folks on there telling them every day, Hey, stay
out of in white people's business. Don't get involved. But

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they do. They can't help themselves, and they jump in.
They do what they're supposed to do. They're here in
my chat room every day doing the white man's bidding.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
I didn't make that up.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's them. That's what they call it. They call it
doing the white man's bidding, getting on the front lines.

Speaker 11 (22:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Do you Does anybody remember that? Did you see the
south Park move? Roland a bigger, longer and uncut is
that the name of it? Did you see that?

Speaker 12 (23:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Okay, do you remember right before the war with Canada,
they had one section off with black folks as Chef
was in the army, and the general called it Operation
get behind Darky.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Do you remember that right?

Speaker 13 (23:24):
It was?

Speaker 5 (23:24):
It was to protect all the rest of the troops
to get behind the black folks.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Now.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
And my favorite line in there is that Chef goes
you know, played by Isaac Hayes. He goes hed and
you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? And the general goes,
I don't listen to hip hop. He was one of
my two. But that's what this is. They keep pushing
black folks out there. Wes Moore is out there now

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defending crime and this is the hypocrisy, defending crime knowing
damn well he is bleeding residents. Don't take my word
for it. At the same time, he is saying that
Donald Trump what he did in DC was unconstitutional. But
when he was asked by Morning Joke about what's going

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on with crime in Baltimore, I can't believe it he
actually admitted this.

Speaker 14 (24:18):
What historically has been Baltimore's greatest challenge. Why has Baltimore
had a crime problem over the past three four decades?

Speaker 15 (24:28):
Well, I think oftentimes Baltimore's had a neglects problem, you know,
And I think about Baltimore used to be a city
of nine hundred and twenty thousand people. Baltimore is now
a city of just under six hundred thousand. In fact,
if you look at the past few decades, Baltimore's had
one of the most precipitous drops in population that we
have seen.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
What do you think that's because of prosperity. Do you
think that over three hundred thousand people left the city
of Baltimore because it was doing.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Fantastic I've been in that time.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
They got a black governor, they got a black mayor,
and crime skyrocketed. They had no cash, bails they got
They had a black district attorney who then got indicted,
who begged for a pardon after the fact, a woman
who tried to get justice for Freddie Gray, who prosecuted
black police officers while calling them racists, defended a drug

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dealer who was.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Slamming his head in the back of a paddy wagon.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
This was all the result of the thing that they
told us that we were supposed to do. Hire more blacks,
have more black people in charge of these major cities
and Baltimore has bled over three hundred thousand people. And
what do they think the reason is? He says it's
because of neglect. Yes, it was neglect, neglect of taxpayers,

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neglect of people who keep the city afloat to keep
all of those boondoggles running, and a failure of leadership.
That's why people know the hypocrisy when they see it,
that's why they're leaving the party, just like they left Baltimore.
But if you think that's bad, how about this. Democrats

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also know. They also know.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
What do you call it.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Hypocrisy when they see it? Does anybody remember this? You
should all remember this. John Bolton had his home rated
not too long ago, and rating his home got Democrats
up in arm and the news media they called it retaliation.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
But was his home rated or was it just searched?
I don't know. Let's ask the media.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Let's go back a couple of years to August of
twenty twenty two.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
We learned the news of the FBI raid on Donald
Trump's home in Florida. At six fifty two PM this evening.

Speaker 16 (27:07):
The home of the forty fifth president of the United
States has been raided by the FBI.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Raid home. This raid might have pertained to this raid
on his home.

Speaker 17 (27:20):
An FBI raid on mar A Lago.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
The raid.

Speaker 17 (27:22):
Hear about a raid on Donald Trump's house, a raid
on a former president's property.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yesterday's federal raid on mar Alago.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Was impressive, and then they get their marching orders. Please,
folks stop calling it a raid. And then all of
a sudden it became a search, and then it became
Donald Trump called it a raid, and it's his fault.

Speaker 17 (27:47):
We keep hearing a lot of people call what the
FBI did at mar A Lago a raid.

Speaker 11 (27:55):
Wait, you're not a raid.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
The search not a ray.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
We'll call the third Let's put yesterday's search.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
This is obviously not a raid technically speaking.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
He details about the FBI search on mar A Lago,
the search on the president's home leading up to this
search on Monday.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, man, there was no raid on your home. It's
not a raid because it wasn't a raid on his house.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
This on presidented search on Monday, This.

Speaker 18 (28:17):
Was not a raid.

Speaker 12 (28:18):
This was not a raid.

Speaker 15 (28:19):
It was an orderly execution of a search warrant. And
those are the facts.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Then that's exactly what it was. At John Bolton's house,
a carefully executed search. Perhaps that's the reason why you're
bleeding support, why no one wants to be associated with you.
And back during that so called search, what were you

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doing celebrating it?

Speaker 17 (28:49):
The I has raided the home of the immediate past
president of the United States. It feels both astonishing and
sort of inevitable in equal measure.

Speaker 8 (28:58):
Perhaps the orange jumpsuit is is forthcoming.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
I think the national democratic reaction is hallelujah.

Speaker 19 (29:03):
Let's pause for a second to look at how weird
and horrible this is.

Speaker 20 (29:07):
One day my two daughters will read a history book
where today it goes down as weird.

Speaker 17 (29:11):
And tomorrow is the day when you're gonna want to
buy the physical copy of the newspaper. They're gonna want
to buy it and fold it carefully, maybe put it
in a little archival paper or parchment if you don't
have that.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Perhaps all of that stuff is the reason why you
have no credibility. And there has been a four hundred
thousand vote swing, Why why would that?

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Why would that be the case. Well, actually it's more
than that.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
It's four point five million, now that I think about it,
Because you lost two point one of Republicans gained two
point four, so it's a four point five swing, and
you ask yourself why. And when you ask really simple
questions like hey, why are you doing it?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
You may make up the most stupid excuses.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
And you're never gonna work on it because the truth
is you don't have any answers. You don't you couldn't
possibly have answers. That's why you're in a rut. Speaking
of not having answers. After we come back from the headlines,
I'll talk to you about some horrible answers from John Trister.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Mayor John Trister's office. Stand by.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
More news, more views than you can take a stick at.
No phone calls yet, everybody, just relax, We'll be back.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
More news, more views.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
It's Monday right here on Reese on the radio on
WTIC news Stock ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
It's race on the radio on news WT I see see.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, it's looking pretty bad. I think it's fair to
say that it's just looking pretty pretty bad. But it's
not like it can't change.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
There are other places where Democrats can win solid blue states.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
And you know what, mom, Donnie looks like a shoe in.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
And I think if Republicans or even Democrats for that matter.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Let's take Andrew Cuomo.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
If you really really want to stop Zoran, Mam Donnie,
what you need to do is to put whatever he
is planning on doing under a dumbbell that weighs one
hundred and thirty five pounds. Did you see that display
the other day, Mom, Donnie trying to lift weights a

(31:36):
one hundred and thirty five pound weight?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Did you see that? Did you see the guy who had.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
To assist him in lifting a one hundred and thirty
five pound weight?

Speaker 2 (31:49):
What did I see? What did I witness that this
guy is?

Speaker 5 (32:01):
I mean, isn't the biggest problem with the Democrat party
is that they don't have anybody who's remotely manly. And
he sat underneath that weight and had to be spotted
on one deadlift one and then Riley Gains who, by

(32:26):
the way, Riley, let me explain to you, Riley, it
was the dumbest thing for her to clown Mom Donnie
with the weightlifting thing. Can I explain why? Because now
they can make the case that men can play in
women's sports. You actually gave them license to say, see

(32:54):
if we put everybody on the team that looks like
and can weightlift, like mom, Donnie. Then it's uh, it
looks like they can compete. Riley should have stayed out
of it. But yeah, it looked pretty bad. Mamdonnie's not
an old guy.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's a young man.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
And can't lift one hundred and thirty five pounds on
a wait, that's ah.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I looked at that. I just I didn't want to
watch it.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
I was like, oh, what's this silliness? I just moved on.
And then I was forced to watch it, and I
saw it. I went, oh, oh, my goodness, no wonder
they're making a big deal out of it.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Not that that's a requirement.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
We don't need a mayor who can lift one hundred
and thirty five pounds or more.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's not the case.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
But you really don't make a case for a strong,
healthy person in office.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
He's you know, he just he looked like a weakling.
Goodness gracious.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Laurie says authenticity is there coming too? Yes, I think
that that's a problem. I think that anytime you have
to be coached into being authentic, that indeed defeats the purpose, Like.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Authentic is authentic.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
I was having a conversation with somebody I can't remember
who it was, and forgive me if I did.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
And it was only recently that.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
We don't ever see Democrats doing something.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
That average Americans do.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Even when Donald Trump does it with secret Service in tow,
he looks naturally present. He goes to a football game
as a president or a candidate surrounded by secret service,
he always makes it look boss.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I know it's the cameras.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
But then they showed Kamala Harris with her husband Doug
m Hoff and they were in the back awkwardly eating popcorn,
like like someone spotted them in a Wearer's Waldough book.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
It was very awkward. They just don't look natural.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
It's not a good look. You've gotta as a politician.
You've always got to come across like you own the place,
and they don't. Barack Obama's got that thing too, where
he's always wearing the wrong jacket.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
He's very skinny.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
I wish he would stop wearing jackets that look similar
to the members only look.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's not a good look.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
He's always wearing patterns in his shirt and mom jeans.
Wat's with the mom jeans. That's I can't get it.
It's like no one's ever taught the guy how to dress,
and I get it. If you're not, you know, telling
everybody that you listen to Jay Z, it doesn't mean
you have style. And if you look at Barack Obama,

(36:04):
you get the censors. Like what happened? Like this guy
used to be the coolest dude in the room everywhere,
when it's just seemed like he owned it. But now
he walks around and just got it. It just doesn't
look it doesn't look natural anymore. But I look at
the I look at the usual suspects, and it looks bad.

(36:28):
Like Hakeem Jeffries at a park bench where he photoshopped
his hips to make them look slimmer.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Oh, why that's such a vain move. It just didn't
look good. All right, we come back.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
We got headlines and we'll talk about Newington mayor John
trist Or at least his town manager.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
When we return.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
Let's get to some news. John Silver's in the WTIC
news room.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's Reesa on the.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Radioese on the radio making sense of the news. Yeah,
even when it makes no sense at all at all.
Now on w w T, I see news Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
Get into your phone, calls in a little bit, stand
by for that, let's get to some headlines. Rapper Snoop
the Dupe dog get Dog makes our news today. He
recently opened on a podcast about his dismay at the
amount of gay characters that he's seeing in children's films.

(37:34):
He spoke about this time with his grandchild, he took
them to see the Disney film light Year, where one
of the characters has two moms. I did not see
the film, but it is based upon the famous character
from Toy Story voiced by Tim Allen, and he talks
about his earlier career before he becomes you know, light Year,

(37:59):
and in a way in the film, apparently there are
some gay characters in the film that ended up causing
the film to bomb.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I don't know. I didn't see it.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
I don't really care, but I thought it was interesting
that Snoop Dogg, who was beloved by mainstream America, would
make this proclamation. But he says this his grandson said
to him during the film, popa Snoop, how she have
a baby with a woman.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
She's a woman.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
I don't know how old his grandchild is, but apparently
they understand biology. He went on to talk about this
and saying that it's everywhere you look. Whether or not
they'll be backlash, I'm sure there will be. There'll be
some people who will write articles that will condemn Snoop Dogg.
But his concern is about his grandchild and about children films.

(38:48):
Even let's just say, introducing sexuality, be it subtle or not,
into children's films, a person's sexual orientation not be in
that context. And that's the reason why he was bothered
by it, because as a parent, you're you're not going
there to have that conversation with your child. Now you're

(39:10):
kind of being forced to. Plus, grandparents often take their
kids to go see the movie. They visit them and
it's like, oh, let's go to the movies. Now, watching
something on camera might create a conversation where the child
is asking a grandparent, and now they have to go
to the parents and say what do I do in this?
It just creates a series of problems. So I totally

(39:31):
appreciate where Snoop Dog's coming from. He probably had this
conversation with his own kids, but grandchildren that's different. Chippote
Ley has joined the Drone Wars of Delivery. Apparently they're
going to be delivering to one town in Texas, but
they expect to expand if this goes well. They're going
to call this new program zipot Lay, which apparently is

(39:55):
part of a zipline company that started this, and they're
going to be making deliveries of Chipotle food to your home.
Apparently you can only get food weighing up to five
point five pounds delivered, with an expansion into eight pound
deliveries later on.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I'm not particularly.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Fond of the idea of drone delivery of anything, but
food creates a problem.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
And here's why.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
Have you ever been on the beach and had a
seagull attack your food?

Speaker 2 (40:32):
I've seen a lot of That reason.

Speaker 12 (40:34):
Is the main reason I don't go to beaches.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
That's that's the number that's great, the number one reason
why you don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
One and the number two I don't like saying, getting
all in yeah, yeah, but the number one is the
seagulls always coming around searching for people's food.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
And people want to have picnics there because it's it's
a it's a great place to go romantically with your
loved one to do that, and the seagulls make it
really hazardous because they come down and your reaction to it.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
You know, you may even injure.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Yourself in trying to protect yourself from the seagulls.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
And their talents are no joke. So yeah, well that's
a good point.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
I'm glad you you chimed in on that, so you
won't go because.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Of that reason.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I mean I was sometimes because when it's just a
beautiful day, it's just a beautiful.

Speaker 12 (41:26):
Day, you gotta kind of get out there.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I'm not an outside person anyway, but my wife is
so she so you you know, you want to make
her happy.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
You gotta, you gotta take.

Speaker 12 (41:39):
The problem I have is I don't like animals either, So.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Listen to me. Finally, you and I agree on something.
I don't like animals. I don't like animals for a
completely different reason than you. My problem is they don't
speak English. Because if they don't speak English, you can't
reason with that.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
You know, there's no reasoning, And you try to show
them away and it doesn't matter. Yeah, they're big brolic birds.
They're like, I'm here to stay. I'm waiting for you
to drop this food. Yeah, yeah, what you're waiting for?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Oh good, I'm glad I brought this up.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
That's you know, again, So you agree with the idea
that delivering food on a drone, I mean essence, you're
kind of in their domain. Now you can get a
bird that just flies by smells your Chipotle, it's gone.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
And come on, we've seen so so many movies about
drones flying drones helping people. It's just reeks of it's
gonna be a big problem for us.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I couldn't you know what.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
I'm gonna wait, it's a very pilot program, just in
one place in Texas.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
I'll follow up on it and see how well it's done,
to see what the expansion looks like. But I thought
it was interesting ery, Thank you man.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Millions of dollars raised to help victims of the twenty
twenty five California wildfires have ended up in the coffers
of unrelated nonprofits pushing a variety of progressive causes. A
Washington Free Beacon review, some of the groups have received
funds explicitly excluding white people from their services, while others

(43:08):
advertised programs for illegal aliens. Fire Aid announced in February
that it would distribute the money it raised some one
hundred million dollars to equitably sorry a promise it appears
to have kept green Line Housing Foundation.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
For instance, they received.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
From the pool four point eight million dollars dedicated to
health and housing. It's noted on its website that no
whites need apply in order to qualify for a grant
through Green Line Housing Foundation, the applicants must be a
black or Hispanic person.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
That's cold. That is cold.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
Ali is in the chat room. He lives in San Diego.
Like I tell you, folks, reached under radio is far reaching.
If you can for me, because I know you're not
exactly near all that. You know that that fire damaged area.
But I know you know this these subjects very well. Ali,
if you could tell me in the chat room and
I'll get back to you, because it's gonna take you

(44:13):
a second or two. The write down programs like this
because I almost feel like this it makes no sense.
The population of African Americans in California is only about
two point five million. You have this four point eight
million dollars that's dedicated to black and brown folks who
were affected by the wildfires. I believe that the population
of black and brown folks that were affected were almost infinitesimal.

(44:36):
If you can tell me a little bit about that
from what you're seeing on the ground in the San
Diego area. Could you help me. I know it's not
Los Angeles, but it's nearby. If you could tell me
what you know and then I'll read it in the
chat room for everybody here. And I appreciate that. Happy Monday,
Jason as well. And now it's time to go to
our stupidest thing I read today.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yes you do. It could very well be the stupidest
person on the face of the earth.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Here is a press release you don't read every day.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
El Dorado County Health off officials have been notified by
the California Department of Public Health that a South Lake
Tahoe resident has tested positive for the bubonic plague. The
individual is currently under the care of a medical professional

(45:39):
and is recovering at home. It's believed that the person
may have been bitten by an infected flea while camping
in South Lake Tahoe. South Lake Taho health officials are
investigating the situation.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Now. When I found out that.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
What was the other disease that came out not too
long ago, I mean measles is an old one? Oh
whooping cough a hooping where hooping cough w hooping cough
came back.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
That was another old one that came back. But folks, it's.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
Gotten so bad that you got I thought we got
rid of the plague, but someone came.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Back with the black death. How does that possible?

Speaker 5 (46:21):
Isn't that like a sixteenth century disease? What do you
do for that? That's like bringing back rickets and scurvy.
I would be scared to death if that. And I mean,
you know it's transferable, the plague. That's how bad it's
gotten with things have gotten so bad in California, you

(46:44):
can't get the plague. Sargolowski says, I applied for a
city job twenty seven years ago. They told us upfront
that women of minorities would be hired before White's regardless
of experience. Ali says, not much fires this way, and
the ones that were going on have been contained.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Rats carried a plague, yes, not bugs. You're one hundred right, Laurie.
When I read this that they got it from a
flea again, how so that means that there are rats.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
In the California, Northern California area that quite possibly have
the plague. So this could expand and under Gavin Newsom's
watch you can forget.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
We may see more cases of this. We could.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
It's quite possible. Yeah, Mattio says, that's it. It's the
end of days. I don't know. I don't know, but
it feels like it. When I saw this, I was like, no,
that didn't read that right? Sure enough? The bubonic plague.

(47:56):
Someone with that that you couldn't get more crazy. Let's
go to the phones. Eight six zero five two two
w T I see. Let's get Gary in Southington.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 6 (48:10):
Hold on?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Hold on, okay, I got you, Gary.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
I can take my ear, take it off a speakerphone.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
You got it? How are you, sir?

Speaker 6 (48:18):
Good? Hey? I want to chime in you said earlier
or Como and them what they have to do and
what they need to do. You kind of exposed men,
Dommie Okay, I totally disagree here here. I want to
heed you some facts. Okay, and you probably already know this, man,
DOMI is the twelve percent ers.

Speaker 14 (48:37):
You know what that is?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
No, but is it related to the Muslim faith?

Speaker 6 (48:42):
Absolutely, it's part of the That's what the iye told
is that's what the regime and I toola that part
of she i Ism not soon he she I, and
she I's probably a little more violent than Soony, yes,
not much, not much. But the twelve percenters are a
whole different story. Okay, So this is what Carmo needs

(49:06):
to do. He's not going to do it because they're collars.
You need to stand on the stage and say, listen, sir,
you're an Islamic terrorist. First of all, the Muslims. The
Muslims are doing all his father is his father is
a member of an Islamic terrorist organism.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Correct, This just came out in the news, That's correct.

Speaker 6 (49:25):
Okay. So the twelve percent is what they believe in
is there's twelve Emms and there's a Madi. This is real, bizarre,
but this you can look it up. They believe in
the Mahdi. The Mahdi cannot appear until Israel is destroyed.
This is so they're they're so violent that their whole
life is dedicated to this.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
But Gary, what do you even with that?

Speaker 5 (49:47):
And trust me, okay, with everything that you're laying out,
I want you to consider something and then I'll take
your answer. After this is New York City, which was
one of the first place is they pushed the anti
I'm sorry, the Islamophobia rhetoric, right, It was the first

(50:09):
place they had to get that under control, that any
criticism of Muslims in New York City was islama phobia,
which immediately curtailed any concern New Yorkers had. And now
it has taken full root in the city to the
point where we're seeing Jewish Americans or Jewish New Yorkers
supporting mom Donnie. Clearly the intelligentsia is supporting him and

(50:32):
the very wealthy on the Upper West and Upper East Side,
and they have overwhelmingly supported this guy who they know
all of these things about his family.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
This guy's nothing more than a Nepo baby.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Do you think that even if Cuoma were to get
on a stage with this guy, get that opportunity again,
that even if he said it, they would care or
they would just condemn Cuomo.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
Oh yeah, that's that's a separate issue. It's like if
you're if you're in a relationship with somebody who has
an addiction or let's say an addiction, you have to
do your part. You do your part relationship. What they
do is a whole different story. We can't continue. Well,
let me let me address that you just said the
reason why the Jews and intelligence in New York because

(51:15):
their first religion is not Judaism, liberalism. So okay, they're not.
They're not any different than all the indiotic white liberals
that are running around.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
They're just they're a little more radical. I'm sorry. New
York liberals are a little more off the beaten path.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
But their first religion is liberalism, so they're not gonna
bend from that. Some of them might, though, if you
keep saying this, right, if you keep saying the truth
about who he is, and you show roof the Muslims
are doing this all over Europe. Madami is not a socialist.
Every time I hear this, I can cringe. There's no

(51:53):
there's no parallelism with socialism in Islam, except for the
fact that they're both evil. I mean, you know the
ones that I mean, the real diehard Muslims. But as
far as the policies, how can they do we even
have a brain? How can you line up with the
fact that he's a hard line is on this. There
is no question about it.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
They know that, but they but they know that. It's
I believe this.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
It's not that the people, as I just mentioned Jewish
New Yorkers, intelligentsia, or the academics, any of them. It's
not that they don't know this about him. They know
it full well. It's that they wish to promote someone
like this because they hate New York and what it
stands for, and that is it's capitalist roots, the fact

(52:41):
that it is the most powerful, if not the wealthiest
city in the world.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
It is technically the capital of the world. They wish
to destroy that.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
And Mondami is the the the impetus. He is the
person in which they would elect to have that take place.
He will do their That's like, and they're not. They're
not dumb, They're not ignorant. They want this, well.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
No they are. They are dumb. They are right, yes
they are.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Well, they're dom for wanting it, Jerry without doubt.

Speaker 6 (53:11):
Yeah, but you know, I agree. I agree with the
accept that. I don't think they want to destroy New York.
They wanted New York to be utopian, leftist society. But
Madamie does not, Oh no, absolutely not want it. No,
he does not want He doesn't want three bees for everybody.
He wants control. He's working his way to as high
as he can towards the White House. They're doing this

(53:33):
all over.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Do you think he could do this? Do you think
what he's doing here is emblematic? Well you said Europe,
So I guess that's what you're saying, because what he
wants to do to New.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
York is what was done in London.

Speaker 6 (53:43):
Right, Yeah, that's right, Yeah, that's right exactly. You got
it right in the head. And and what's happened to
London stabbings all the time, with rapes all the time.
He's done by young Muslims.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, it's really really bad over there, and people it's
it's a community. Yeah, it's incredible. What's it called?

Speaker 15 (54:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Is it no police zones? Or no? What's that? What's
the zones that they call?

Speaker 5 (54:04):
Because people always push back on that about you know,
because they police themselves in these communities, no goones, no
no go zones, and they got them here in Michigan's right,
that's exactly what that's exactly what they do.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Thank you, Gary, I appreciate the call. I got to
take a break through, but thank you so much. Yeah.
I mean, look, he's got a good point.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
I don't believe this idea that those folks are stupid
I really do believe that Mom Donnie is a means
to an end for them.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
And you know, it's the same case.

Speaker 6 (54:35):
With that.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
Michigan town near Dearborn, where everyone in the gay community
did everything they could to make sure that this city
council was Muslim and Muslim only. And they were like,
nop God, to have Muslim, gotta have equity, you know,
equity and inclusion. And they did everything they can to
endorse them, to to to promote them, to to fundraise

(54:57):
for them, to donate to those guys. Sure enough they
get in power. What's their first order of business? Pride
flags come down everywhere in the state. We could never
have to. Gay community turns around and goes, well, you
betrayed us. They never made a commitment to you. You
took it upon yourself. You angled for yourself to promote them.

(55:21):
You thought that they were being discriminated against and they
needed equity. You gave it to them, only for them
to discriminate against you. It's a circular firing squad. Now,
it wasn't like you weren't warned. You wouldn't listen to us.
Now you will or maybe you won't. Now let's see
whether or not they'll ban homosexuality in that community.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Oh yeah, it's coming, you can damn well.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Bet let's take a break. We'll be back, more news,
more views when we return. It's Resona Radio on WTIC
News Stock ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
We're back.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
It's Resona Radio WTIC News Talk ten eighty. Yeah, at
least that's not I thought it was a little log
do Uh No, we're good.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Uh, we're back. Let me.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
I want to do this, but I'm going to do
it sparingly, so forgive me.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
I'm going to get you in real quick because I
have to get to this story about Newington.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Okay, so just bear with me real quick. Let's go
to Mary in Bristol.

Speaker 21 (56:17):
How are you, Marry Hey, I'm okay. How are you?

Speaker 2 (56:21):
I'm pretty good? What do you got going on?

Speaker 21 (56:23):
I have something to share about.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Okay, what do you got?

Speaker 21 (56:30):
I'll tell you the real quick version, and if you
want me to call back another time, you can let
me know when it would be good.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
Do you mind if I take Do you mind if
I take your number and then I can speak to
you off air later. I want you to get off
the topic of air, but can I call you later?

Speaker 21 (56:46):
I don't want to put my phone number on the air.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Oh no, no, no, no, I don't want you to give
me the telephone number. I already have it.

Speaker 21 (56:52):
That's right, you have call waiting and I never realized that.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Yeah, but no, no, tell me what what you got?

Speaker 5 (56:59):
All right?

Speaker 21 (56:59):
And I called the APA hotline Testified hotline on Friday.
I had a toxicology question about myself.

Speaker 22 (57:07):
While I was there.

Speaker 21 (57:09):
I asked about our situation in Connecticut. Excuse me. Basically,
she didn't seem to find aquathal in the database. She
asked me, is that the trade name or is it
the active ingredient? I said, it's the trade name. She said,
by any chance you know the active ingredient? I said,
you found a lift online. And the only word I

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recognized was DDT. If I got it right, if I
heard right, like delta delta tango, okay, She said DDT
is not allowed for use anywhere in the United States.
So she did give me a phone number of a
Connecticut regulatory agency where you could or someone could make

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an incident report when we feel that there has been
a misapplication and I don't know anything about it or
how could they would be.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
But yes, you're right, it's still worth noting what we
have found out. I'll tell you this, you give a
little inside baseball. We do know that someone from our
mainstream media is investigating deeper into the Selden Cove application
of aquahal k because they found out as we did,

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that it's not allowed to be shipped into like six states,
Connecticut being one of them. And the fact that in
outside see and this was my issue in all of
this last week because as Mark in West Hartford and
I and the skipper are all there as we're looking
all of this up, because we had never heard of.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
This, you know, this particular herbicide.

Speaker 5 (58:48):
As we're looking it up, we keep asking ourselves because
to us, it's incumbent on the Army Corps of Engineers
to be there. So that with the information that we
have to ask them, Hey, it says it's supposed to
be shipped here. Are you guys authorizing its shipment here
and its use here? That would make more sense to me,
like in this is that would override the local government's

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restriction of its us saying well, we're in the federal government,
we authorize it here. But the fact that they weren't
here and they used an outside vendor, Solitude, to apply
it with no oversight. No one is there watching it
be applied to Sheldon Cove.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
They just went out there.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Everyone who was there pulled up in a truck that
read Solitude on it. No one showed up with a
court with a truck that said Army Corps of Engineers
or a federal seal.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Nothing. So they were allowed to do this without supervision.

Speaker 21 (59:42):
Well, who did someone allow them or did they just
go ahead? They should have gone home and rescheduled.

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Indeed, exactly, especially after telling us, We asked several people,
is the Army Corps of Engineers arriving, because we were
at the launch site. We were like a zombi Corps
of Engineers coming here.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
They said no.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
What they said three times, and I asked three different
people they are meeting us at this site now? Because
I didn't know what the site was. I had never
been there, much less a boat on the Connecticut River,
I thought maybe there was a different launch site.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
In fact, that's what both mark said to me. They said,
maybe they're launching from another site.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
So as we were going down the river a good
seven miles, we looked to see if we saw any
Army Corps of Engineers, folks, maybe somebody was in the water.
We saw no one, and we waited there an hour
and only solitude showed up. Nobody from the Army Corps
of Engineers. And again we were there for over an hour.
We arrived at eight no nine am.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
We left it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
Roughly about eleven thirty and they had already started applying.
Army Corps of Engineers nowhere to be found. You got
that right, Mary, It's again something is wrong and again,
and the fact that they would lie directly to us saying, look,
I'm only the biologists.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
I'm here to test the water. Now again, we've.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
Got to follow up because they're supposed to go there
every three months. The next three years they have to
be in Selden Cove. Now here's where it makes it
even more interesting. And Mark the skipper show this to me,
and he like he proved it while.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
We were on the water.

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
He says, the water shifts like it goes downstream and upstream.
The water, the title of this water will go up
and down and shift back and forth. So in other words,
all the water, that's all the chemical that's being placed
in the water will then shift to another section of
the river and then the tide or the water stream
would come back in the opposite direction.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
And I said, wow, that's interesting, the water goes back
and forth like that. I knew nothing about it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:36):
I'm not you know, an aquatics you know guy or
or you know understands the water. Weys I've never owned
a boat. But he explains it to me. And then
as we're sitting in a boat, he shows me how
the water is causing us to drift. And we're sitting
there and sure enough I feel it as it's happening.
So I'm going, so, you mean that this poison isn't
just going to be in the cove and he goes, no,

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It's gonna go everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
So that's why we have this concern. Army Corps of engineers.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
There were, in fact, there were no scientists or biologists
in the water during the application or immediately after. They
were just there putting the poison in. It made no
sense to me. It was the craziest thing I've ever
seen in my life. So that's where we are. But
I will get I promise you, I will give you
a holler and give me the telephone when we talk.

(01:02:28):
Get the I'll get the telephone number from you. Uh
so I can see if I can get them on
the record.

Speaker 21 (01:02:33):
Okay, I screen on my calls, leave a message. If
I don't answer, no, I'll text you first. Well you
can't text me, oh.

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
Okay, all right, no problem. I promise you. I will
leave a message first and let you know it's me.

Speaker 21 (01:02:46):
Okay, all right, thank you man. If you give me
your text number, I can't text. I have two phones.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Oh okay, okay, you know what. Just go to my website.
The telephone number is there.

Speaker 21 (01:02:57):
I can't go there not. Yes, you're not, that's right,
that's right. Nobody Usually people do have bays of getting around,
but I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
That's okay, that's no problem. In fact, I can give
you the number now if you want it.

Speaker 21 (01:03:10):
Give me a moment, because i'm and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
It's where everybody gets. It's what I call my office line.
Tell me when you're ready.

Speaker 21 (01:03:18):
Okay, blind Oh, I'm finding my pen, finding my something
to write on. Take your time and okay, go ahead,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
It's two zero two two zero two seven three five
seven three five.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
Twelve eighty eight twelve. If you leave a message there,
then I will definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Get it.

Speaker 21 (01:03:48):
All right, okay, and so okay, all.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Right, and I will contact you immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
I promise you you'll without a doubt you'll hear from me,
like like immediately after the show.

Speaker 21 (01:04:00):
Should I call? Can I read it back to you
just to make sure I didn't know of course? Zero
two seven, three five one two eight eight.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
That's it.

Speaker 21 (01:04:14):
Okay, ye, thank you man, You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
All right. Now, let's get.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
To this this issue that I had to go through
in just inquiring about a statement by the Mayor of Newington.
As you may know, seven individuals were arrested by Ice
Hartford Ice at the Optimal car Wash and they were

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taken into custody, and of course the Mayor, John Trister
put out a statement here it is in full. On
Saturday morning, seven individuals were arrested by Immigration and Custom
enforcement while working at the Opto car wash on Main
Street in Newington. The Newington Police Department was not involved

(01:05:05):
in these arrests and was only notified after as a courtesy.
Since learning of this incident, we have requested immediate information
from the Hartford Ice where inquiries have been directed. We
are actively working to determine who was targeted, whether their
families have been notified, where they are being held, or

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the end if or how they have been charged. We
are deeply concerned by this incident. In the United States,
everyone regardless of their immigration status or where they were born,
has the right to do process and to fundamental protections
that cannot and must not be denied. This is a

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guarantee for any person in this country afforded by the
United States Constitution. The recent actions of ice by the
federal government are designed to intimidate and tearror arise immigrants
and their families, and we will not stand idly by.
As community leaders, we stand united with Newington's immigrant communities.

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Our town has been and will remain in place where
families are welcome and where neighbors look out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
For one another. We will not be intimidated and we
will never be silent.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
We will share additional information with our community as soon
as it becomes available. Not all I wanted to know
was what Mayor John Trister meant by this quote.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
We are deeply.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
Concerned by this incident. What is he concerned about? Can
he specify when someone says that they are deeply concerned?
This is a call to his constituents. The mayor is

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deeply concerned about Ice grabbing seven individuals at the optimal
car wash. What's the concern is the concern that Ice
is bad, Ice is evil, Ice broke the law.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
What is he concerned about? Can he explain?

Speaker 11 (01:07:21):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
I called the town manager Jonathan.

Speaker 5 (01:07:24):
Oltchell, to which he says, the statement speaks for itself.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
It doesn't answer my question. What is specifically he concerned about?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Deeply? What now?

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
I get the rest of it right, We are deeply
concerned about this incident. In the United States, everyone regardless
of the immigration status or where they were born, has
the right to do process and the fundamental protections that
cannot be and cannot and must not be denied. What
is he concerned about? Does he know the individuals who

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were arrested? Does he know that they're innocent of any wrongdoing.
That's the reason why Jonathan Olchell had a problem with
me asking the question, because he doesn't know who the
individuals are or why they were detained. But see, that
lends itself to another problem. And when we get back,
I'll explain it to me to you, there is a

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bigger problem here, and why Jonathan and John both got
ahead of their skis and why they couldn't answer the
simple question about what.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
They're deeply concerned about.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
Stand by, we'll be back plus traffic and weather when
we return.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
It's Reesa on the radio on WTICE News Talk ten.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Eighty, It's race on the radio on news wt I see.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
First check of weather and traffic coming up, and of
course top of the hour news as well.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Stand by for that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
So this comment by Jonathan Ultchell, the town manager of Newington.
The reason why they have a problem is because everyone
who is anyone in Connecticut is chosen not to cooperate
with ice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Think about this.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Since learning of the incident, we have requested immediate information
from the Hartford Ice where inquiries have been directed. We
are actively working to determine who was targeted, whether their
families have been notified and where they are being held,
or if they have been charged. We are deeply concerned
by this incident. You can't be concerned about the incident

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you know nothing about. You don't know who was targeted,
you don't know who was arrested, you don't know where
they are, you don't know why.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
They were grabbed. How could you be deeply concerned. You're
in the dark.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
I mean, you don't know what's going on because you
refuse to assist ICE. Oh and by the way, you
were informed as a courtesy, Did you assist? Did you
let ICE know that, Hey, if you needed some baddies
out of there, we got your back.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
You treated them as adversaries, You treated them as interlopers.
You treated them like invaders, colonizers even, and now you're
deeply concerned about something you didn't even bother to get
involved in. Ice knew they couldn't rely on you mayor
or you Jonathan as town manager.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
They couldn't even rely on you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
So you woke up in the morning and found out
seven people were arrested at the Optimal car wash and
you come out of it shocked.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
What happened?

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
Why did they take them? We're deeply concerned. You don't
know anything to be deeply concerned. I mean, be concerned,
but deeply. You can't be deeply concerned, deeply concerned about
something that's oblivious to you. Again, let me take your
own damn comments. Since learning of the incident, we have

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requested immediate information from hard Ford ICE. We are actively
working to determine who was targeted because we don't know
whether their families have been notified, because we don't know
who they are and where they're being held. Because you
know what, no one bothered to tell us, and we
didn't ask or if or how they have been charged.

(01:11:19):
We are deeply concerned by this incident. You believe that
in some way they were violated, But how could you
possibly know? You know nothing, but you're deeply concerned about
not knowing anything. The reason why this statement is incomplete

(01:11:40):
is because you don't know what you're talking about. And
the reason why you didn't have an answer for me
is because you don't know what you're talking about. You
know that it involves immigration, and it is a blanket
reaction by you and your cohorts. Breaking up families is wrong,
Grabbing the legals off the street is wrong. We'll tell

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us why it's wrong. Tell us why these individuals who
are arrested is wrong. Well, I can't really answer that.
Why can't you? Well, this statement is is what it is.
So don't be mad at me. Because I asked for
a deeper understanding.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
You didn't even bother. You didn't bother to get a
deeper understanding, to give a statement.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
I am. I'm doing the job you didn't bother to do.
Contact Ice. I contacted you, and you gave me guff
for doing it. But guess what, I'm not deeply concerned
about your statement. I called, let's get a first check

(01:12:44):
of weather in traffic. Bob Larsen has got weather and
Mark Christopher he's in the BPS traffic center. How are
we doing about it? But on Monday to you, same
to you Rees, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Is on the radio. Friend, d' say we didn't do
more than you on newstalk WT. I see, I see,
Oh man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
I gotta give it up to Kevin b Kevin just
sent me him. You send me a message, Kevin, be
this and by the way, this is brilliant and it's perfect.
I have a story for you. I'll tell you about
it later. He says, Thanks Reese.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
I was pulling into a spot at home depot with
you blaring on the radio when you said doing the
white man's bidding right when a black dude was walking
by the truck.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
I got stared down like I was a white supremacist.
Thanks again, foul. Oh sorry, buddy, It's not my fault.
It's not my fault. I was just telling.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
True, you should have given him an opportunity to understand
what the show. Yeah you know that guy, But I
appreciate you blaring the show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Nonetheless, it was great if you're just joining us.

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
I finally had to come and talked about this issue
in Newington, and we'll get into some further details.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Mark and West Hartford are intrepid reporter.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
Who's doing this story as well because of these arrests
on Saturday, which all I tried to get to the
bottom of.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Was what in the hell is the mayor of.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
Newington deeply concerned about I read the statement. I just
don't think that they did and didn't understand what they wrote,
and he kept standing by the statement.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
But here's where it gets worse.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Jonathan Oulchell then went on to suggest that I should
spin it any way. I wanted to why the words
are stupid enough. I don't need to spin them. I
can use the words for the purpose of making the

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office look ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Again, you said it, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
I asked a simple question, and let me say this
to you, Jonathan, so you understand I already know the
answer to the question I'm asking. I'm trying to get
you to walk into it, and I know exactly how to.
I am only bringing you to the conclusion I already

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have because I read the statement. I know what it
meant when you wrote it, that you were not concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
About who the individuals were. You didn't care.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
And I'll break it down to you just so you
can understand, and maybe perhaps I could assist you in
writing better or at least making a public statement in
a better way. Let's get back to whether in traffic
Bob Larsay's God, whether Mark Chris Very's in a BATPS
traffic center and Mark, we've got to address that. Our
good friend and meteorologists Jason Catarina has moved on, but

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not in a bad way.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
He's actually got a day job, so we have to
wish him well.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
Really yeah, I mean he didn't like everybody was like,
it was like, where's Jason Katarina.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
He's a part of this family and he's just gone.

Speaker 5 (01:16:12):
But I just I heard that he did get a
morning gig, but I'm not exactly sure where.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
But no, we congratulated him when we're very happy. I'm
just telling him we miss it.

Speaker 18 (01:16:22):
We do miss him, we do miss him in uh now,
he's getting up really early in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
Well, you know what, that's fine. I used to do that,
but not that I would ever do that again. But
if I had to, I probably would. But you had
to if I had to do But I guess you
know what. I'm sure he took it because he wanted to.
I'm sure that it is not a slight on working
with Reese on the radio.

Speaker 12 (01:16:43):
At least more money, more money, mo money.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
Yeah, probably more money.

Speaker 18 (01:16:51):
Yeah, yeah, he's over there at w O l D.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
Is he over there?

Speaker 18 (01:17:00):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Oh okay, what would work? What would work here?

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
Let's plug that in a It's race on the radio
on News Talk ten w T. I see between pounds pounds.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
And congratulations to William F. Of Washington Ports Depot, Sorry
Washington Depot, my apologies.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
He is our winner today of the Between Rounds dozen
bagels a month, four six months courtesy Between Rounds the
Bagel Bakery and Sandwich Cafe located in South Windsor, Vernon
and Manchester.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
And I've been to all of them except Manchester. Did
I not go to Manchester one? I thought I did.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
I went to Vernon, been to Vernon twice then went
to uh, the South windsor one saw Chris hung out
there and that a little bakery and went the freezer
and saw the stuff in the making of the bagels.
It's it's pretty cool operation. I'm not gonna lie I
would have worked in a bakery.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
I would have. I totally would have. It's a great job,
a cool job.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
Some of the people who are working work there twenty
five years making bagels. If you I mean in my head,
I instead of going wow, there's a lot of redundancy.
But when you love what you do, you do it forever.
So yes, congratulations again to William F of Washington Depot.
I'm gonna get to the phone in the second. But

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there's another part of this press release by the Newington Mayor,
John Trister. This is the last part. We will not
be intimidated and we will never be silent. We will
share additional information with our community as soon as it
becomes available. The whole damn press release has no information.

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They just know that nobody should be intimidated, nobody should
be taken, and they don't know who was taken, or
where they were taken, or why they were taken. But
they know they're not going to be intimidated. You have
no info. You can't be deeply concerned about something you
don't know. Okay, that's why I asked the question. I've

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been doing this a long time. I know how you're
going to answer, because I knew the statement was stupid anyway.
I knew you can't be deeply concerned about things you
don't know unless you are deeply concerned that you don't
know them, that you're in the dark. You're deeply concerned, Jonathan,

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about your ignorance, as are we. We are deeply concerned
about your office's ignorance on the matter. They informed you
as a courtesy, but you didn't know who these men were.
You don't know how they got here, and you don't
know what they have done, or what they're capable of,
or the conditions that led them to your town. You

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know nothing, so your deep concern is silly. There's nothing
to spin. You were so concerned that you kept telling me,
what do I think it means?

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
I'll tell you now. I think you guys are ignorant.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
I think your statement was nothing more than a platitude
on template. You answered the way you're supposed to answer.
No one was thinking critically when they wrote it. So
the reason why you were so surprised or you couldn't
seem to understand why I was asking was simple, and

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I didn't want to lead you into an answer. I
just wanted to know, what are you deeply concerned about?
And now I know why you have no idea what
you were deeply concerned about, because.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
You don't know anything. How do I know? I didn't guess.
Let's read it again.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
Since learning of the incident, we have requested immediate information
from the Hartford Ice office where inquiries have been directed.
We are actively working to determine who was targeted because
we don't know whether their families have been notified, because
we don't know where they are being held, because we

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don't know, and if or how they have been charged.
Because we don't know, we are deeply concerned about what
we don't know, and so are we. Now does it
make sense? I hope we figured it out. Let's go

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to Christen Southberry.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Hello, Chris, hey, Ree, how are you so?

Speaker 23 (01:21:58):
Yeah? I'm trying to the Newington thing? And my question
is this what happened to the employer?

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:22:06):
Great question, and but I don't know. Well, here's a
good question. Does Ice have the author hold on Chris?
Does Ice have the authorization to charge him? Because are
they only there in the capacity to grab the illegals?

Speaker 24 (01:22:21):
Right?

Speaker 23 (01:22:21):
So if the mayor is so concerned, maybe he's concerned
because he knew about this and he's afraid that that's
going to get tied to him and he's going to
be charged with aiding and a betting or harboring. I mean,
because at some point, if they don't go after the employers,
this will blind forever.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
This And you know, we used to have a country
where Democrats, Bill Clinton in particular, wanted to punish businesses
that did this, taking opportunities from legal citizens who can
work and giving them two illegals. We used to have
a talent at a time where that was the uh
sort of the common theme.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
And we're not there anymore. But I think you're right
about that.

Speaker 23 (01:23:02):
I appreciate you taking my call.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Thank you, Chris, much appreciated. Thank you, sir. Mark and
west Hartford is here, So you've been on this story.
I see it on X. I mean, aren't you as
concerned as I am?

Speaker 14 (01:23:15):
I'm laughing because you and I didn't talk all weekend
or today, and yeah you're on this like we're like
minded when we see something, when we say something. Right,
So let me set this up. I've been going there
since they opened up, right, and shame on the community there,
because one thing is, I know, I know you'll never
get a detail for this price. Ever, I leave a
forty dollars tip. You know why for sixty dollars. They

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clean your car inside and out, and hand waxes, they playbar,
they do everything. It's a three hundred dollars detail. Wow,
and I've got a pretty big troup. Oh it's sixty dollars.
It's unbelievable. Well, here's the thing I'm just I'm just
riffing off of your last caller. Now, the gas station,
So what it is is a car washing operation attached

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to a little gas station slash fodega.

Speaker 24 (01:24:04):
Okay.

Speaker 14 (01:24:04):
Now, the owners of the gas station or the people
managing the gas station appear to be from the Middle East,
while all those in the car wash appear to be Mexican.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
You know I've talked or of some other Hispanic national group.

Speaker 14 (01:24:17):
Yeah, no, it's only because they have they actually have
a Mexican flag hanging outside the opera because I won't
because I okay, so sometimes I say things.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
But no, no, no, I'm just I'm a little stunned
because I mean you said it, but that was just like, well,
I'm sure that some of them are Spanic, but if
they're they are, they're actually showing a Mexican flag knowing
that some of their members of this car wash are illegal.

Speaker 14 (01:24:44):
Yes, I want to know is now now there is
the town No are they zoned for?

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
That?

Speaker 15 (01:24:49):
Is?

Speaker 14 (01:24:49):
That is the taxes aligned with what the intent was
for that property? You know, is the gas station owner?
What kind of operation is this? So that's that now
the one that you know? And I posed questions to
the town manager, John Astall and the mayor John Twister,
was you know, like, how come they didn't arrest everybody there,

(01:25:11):
because let me tell you that everybody, I think is
assuming everybody has scooped up. So my friend went that
day and talked to the few people that didn't get arrested,
trying to find out some stuff because he goes there too,
and he developed a relationship. I wasn't going there for years,
and they weren't sure the ones that were left behind,
So you know, you would think you know, with the
way it's presented, it's like they just went there scooped

(01:25:33):
everybody up. Well, why would they leave some behind? Why
did they arrest your seven of them? Were they here illegally?
Were they hear illegally and have committee crime?

Speaker 7 (01:25:42):
Right?

Speaker 14 (01:25:42):
You don't even know. But instead of them doing the
homework first. Now here's the other thing is I just
mentioned this to you the other day when we were
on the boat ride, but it never really made that
big of a deal on the news. In Newington about
a week and a half ago there was a group
of scooters. So they don't no longer ride on Quasi.
They still do, but now the new thing is scooters, right,
because they could buy them legally and they could write, well,

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a car passed out a group that was impeding on
his forward motion whatever, and one of the writers to
go out and blew out his back window.

Speaker 11 (01:26:13):
Would have done.

Speaker 14 (01:26:14):
And you know what, you will not see a public
statement by either the mayor a town manager. We had
a republican this fraud Anastasia yacht.

Speaker 11 (01:26:23):
Do you remember that name?

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Yeah, yeah, sure, spoke with her.

Speaker 14 (01:26:25):
Okay, she was arrested, she's charged. She shut the water
off on a single mom with two little kids. The
water was off for fifty four days. Whoa you know
you won't get a publicIt. And you know what, she
sits on the board of education in the town of Newington,
and that one official, including Mayor John Twister. Twister and

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John asked all the town manager you cannot find a
public statement related to that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
So it sounds like this.

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
This is a classic case of these guys have everything
to say about stuff that they don't know about, but
the things that they do, they completely go silent.

Speaker 14 (01:27:02):
Dad and he and they asked the best they could
do with her, And this is a bad policy on
a the time, if.

Speaker 5 (01:27:16):
You're moving, Mark real quick, Mark, if you're moving a
little bit, you're sounding a little muffled.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
I want everybody to be able to hear you. I'm
sorry about that, buddy, Sorry, perfectly dirty.

Speaker 14 (01:27:24):
But but can I tell you this one thing. I
just had somebody DM me. I'm not going to out them,
but this is how sad the Republican Party. Because I've
been mentioning Anastasia Yap on my mark from West Harford
on Twitter. I just got a DM just so you know.
Anastasia is a Republican which I know again, she's a
frog and we don't need the black eye. And nobody

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wants to be shoot or accused of racism. That's how
weak the Republican Party is. They should want to outer
they I'm an affiliate, Why am I out? They should
want to kick her out of their party too. They
should have been up in arms in Newington shutting the
water off a single mom with two young kids. Where's
the Republican Party in Nuington. You're telling me not to

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make a big deal about this thing and tying it in.

Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
And the crazy part is is that by hiding it,
here's the thing, right by no one speaking out on
it ahead of like, in other words, getting ahead of
it right, saying nothing about it, and then when the
story becomes a big story that they have to defend,
then they will throw her onto the bus accordingly.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Right, So this is.

Speaker 5 (01:28:30):
One of those things where they have to get ahead
of And look, whoever it was or sent you to DM,
you know what I would tell them, you know what,
send them give them my cell phone number, tell them
to contact me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
No, tell them to contact me immediate.

Speaker 15 (01:28:44):
No.

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
You know, I'm always working on stuff, and this just
happens to be a coincidence. I swear to god it
just happened last week, and I'm working on it to
verify it, but it sounds like it's legit. They cannot
find Anastasia yacht. She dropped off her dog at a kennel.
It's been here for fifty days.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
I haven't heard from her. I haven't heard from him.

Speaker 14 (01:29:03):
And she abandoned. She abandoned a pen, this lady. But
yet here we are, we're making comments about I mean,
I could go on and on. One other day, though,
I'm going to tell you all about a big story
that was on the news a few years ago about Newington.
But let me tell you, I'm glad somebody's putting a
spotlight on Newington. And they been dirty for a number
of years, and very quietly they get away with it

(01:29:23):
because they bored her Hartford. All the news is concentrated
over there. They need sunlight over there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
Look again, the bottom line on this one was, and
you know what, I'll tell.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
You this Mark And while I got you on the phone.

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
So when I called Jonathan and I get him on
the phone, the thing that I could not understand was
he said, what don't you understand about the statement. And
I said again and again, what is the mayor deeply
concerned about? And he couldn't answer it. The statement is

(01:29:55):
what it is. I was like, no, what are you
not getting I just need to know what specifically he's
deeply concerned about. The statement is the statement? Then it
starts arguing with me, and so I'm arguing back, hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Hold on. I start arguing back, and he says to me,
why are you yelling at me?

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
I said, you're the one making this like you're the
one who's being adversarial. He goes, well, you can spin
it any way you want to. I was like, I'm
calling you, how are you gonna tell me? I can
spin it any way I want to. And I'm calling
you to get a statement and you don't want.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
To give me one.

Speaker 14 (01:30:26):
When they answer you, when anybody and everybody knows these
red flags are easy. But when you get your question
answered with a question.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
Exactly, I'm like, dude, do you not understand like you
And and again I know that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
He realized it.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
It's like, what is he deeply concerned about his constituents?

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
He's telling them he's condiment he's deeply concerned.

Speaker 14 (01:30:49):
Let me leave you with Let me leave you with
this reason, the way he talked to you. What else
does that tell you? Because I always think of this
when people talk to me. The way you were talked
to used to doing that all the time. Exactly I
know you today that way, just because oh you caught
him at a bad moment. No used to talking to

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the public and taxpayers like that in his own pound.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
That's exactly what I told That's exactly what I told him.
I said, you guys have never been questioned and said,
you're clearly showing me that you've never been questioned by anyone.
And you owe an answer to your constituents about what
you are deeply concerned about. You're the one who sent
out we're deeply concerned. Well, what should your constituents be thinking,
deeply concerned about? What should Newington be afraid of or
deeply concerned about?

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
And if you don't know, yeah, not for nothing.

Speaker 14 (01:31:37):
He could exactly right, I can give you off the
beaten path and just exactly you know what Roseanne said,
Roseanne said, were you you know what Roseanne said, Roseanne says,
was that were they deeply concerned that the car wash water.

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
May be laced with d quat, like how deeply concerned
were they? You know, they were asking so like, oh,
we could have it could have been anything. Just answer
the damn question.

Speaker 14 (01:32:04):
We can go back to the beginning of my call.
Maybe they're gonna miss her sixty detail.

Speaker 5 (01:32:08):
Yeah you got it, bo man, Thank you, Man, Mark
west Hartford on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Let's get to another mark, Mark Christopher. He's in a
BPS traffic center. Hey, Mark, Yeah, he's right.

Speaker 18 (01:32:21):
When they those guys do the detail in your car
and they're using clay Bar. Yeah, that's like three hundred
and fifty dollars detailing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
So yeah, it's a great service. And then that makes sense.
But like I do it legally.

Speaker 18 (01:32:36):
I do it legally through a friend and he does
clay Bar and he charges three hundred But really.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
Does your personal friend charge you three hundred bucks to
do it?

Speaker 18 (01:32:43):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah, but it's worth it. It's
it's he's so meticulous my car. Seriously, my car is
coming up on seven years old. It looks showroom new.
That's he does such a great job.

Speaker 19 (01:32:53):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
I recommend him all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
I think you just did.

Speaker 18 (01:32:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I posted on Facebook every year it's
like I said the Carlic Showrew new heystay.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Locked in, locked In Reese on the radio is on
WTI se Newsy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Let's go to Jim in Berlin calling the show. Hello, Jim,
how are you good?

Speaker 11 (01:33:17):
How are you reeth what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
Sir?

Speaker 11 (01:33:19):
Well Reef. I want to just commend you for doing
a great job collecting the news and reporting it accurately.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Thank you, sir, I.

Speaker 11 (01:33:29):
Really you do a fabulous job. This morning, one of
your counterparts, Brian at seven five, got on his soapbox
about this incident in Newington and he went off. He
just went off. He linked it to Nazism. No, yes,

(01:33:49):
he used that term. He says, this is what happened
in Germany. I don't want to be back twenty years
looking at hindsight, and I hate to break the news
to him. You know, my next door neighbors, we're in
the concentration camp, so I know what it's like there
and I've been there, and this is not what we're
dealing with as I see it. If people break the

(01:34:10):
lawn their hero illegally, ice will only go after him
in the court order and they've been served their due process.
And yeah, I hate to say it. Rees. This is
a sanctuary state, So why should Brian be so upset?

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
I don't, well, what I have to hear the context.
I shouldn't say context. Let me.

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
I want to listen to the audio. But you said,
just so I get it accurately.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
You say what time, what the day was it? Okay,
seven to twenty five? Okay, I will listen to it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
I'm usually doing other things roughly about that hour, so
I know I missed it because I was doing other things.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
But see again, maybe I'm looking at this from a
different perspective, and I'm not the type of sort of
throwing onto the bus and all this stuff. He's a
teammate of mine. But here, no, no, no, we he
and I have disagreed.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
I mean, I mean, like epically on a lot of things,
like you know, talking about people of color and things
like that. We don't agree. I understand he is, you know,
he considers me very conservative. He considers himself very neutral
or down the middle. But that the only reason why
I'm saying, because I want to listen to it. But
if he indeed that's the point of view that he has,
I almost feel.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
I don't know. I don't have a feeling for it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Let me just that I take it as maybe that
is a misrepresentation of what went on, and perhaps he
is taking the route of the mayor in this. And
what I mean is, as I described it, the mayor
says in his own statement, he doesn't know anything.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
So if that's the case, right, the press doesn't know anything,
the media nobody knows anything.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
The mayor doesn't know anything.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
They were given a courtesy that said, hey, we went
down to Optimo car washing, we grabbed these guys and
you know they're in ice custody. But for all of
these people not to know anything and then come up
with these editorialized answers to them by saying this is
like Nazi Germany without even knowing who was picked up,
why they were picked up in one of the conditions

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in which they were sounds reckless to me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
So I'm gonna listen to the audio.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
In fact, I'm gonna take some time during like one
of the bottom of the top of the hour break
to listen to it so I can get a full assessment.

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
I think what might be appropriate here is maybe I
should come on Brian Show and we can have a discussion,
because if he feels that way. I want to talk
to him about it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:30):
I do, I really do, because I think it's fair
for to understand where he's coming from, and maybe he
can understand where the audience is coming from.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Who think that?

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
You know, this shouldn't be a Sancretuary city. But I
appreciate the call, Jim, thank you, you got it. Let's
get another check of whether in track. Wait my mark, Christopher,
you went there this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Did do you remember Brian having this conversation about what
went on? And did you miss it? The Doington thing
with the ice.

Speaker 18 (01:36:55):
I think he did speak about it, but I'm popping
between three stations get to know about the story.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
All right, Well you do?

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
I know he brought up but it's a big story.
So but I don't want to, like I said, I
don't want to cast dispersions on him. Maybe he had
a particular angle that I'm missing here or maybe and
on radio it's misunderstood. But I'm gonna listen to it
so see I can get a breakdown of what his
position was on it, because I'm like this doesn't it
sounds like nobody knows what happened, So it's where for me,
I'm trying to figure out how anybody can have a

(01:37:24):
position on something they seem to be in the dark about.
They just know seven guys were arrested. That's all i'mand
you know, it's like I have an opinion. I don't
know about these guys or why they were picked up,
but anyway, we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Figure it out, all right.

Speaker 18 (01:37:35):
You got to get the background story before he can
make a judgment on it, pretty much. I gotta tell
you though, that kid that got taken away and New Haven,
the kid is supposed to be a really good student,
good kid. He was working, Yeah, and they took him away,
and like.

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
That's not the kid that went in with his father, right, No,
that was in Meridion. I apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
I think the kid.

Speaker 18 (01:37:55):
I think the kid was from New Haven. That kind
of kid you want to be here. He's exactly the
kind of a grant you want. So some of this stuff,
you know, the violent guys, I'm like, yeah, yeah, we
got enough violent people.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
Get them out of here.

Speaker 18 (01:38:06):
But people are I mean, even if they're here illegal
and they're doing the right thing, and I don't know,
I have a I have a should be.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
A pathway to citizenship if they can.

Speaker 18 (01:38:15):
I don't know why could Why could they do it
for our you know, great grandparents, But they can't do
it now. I don't know why they can't come up
in the green with some path for legalized immigration. That
that that's what bothers me.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
The NAACP calls him, WHOA, I don't think it's on
the radio. Let's just say some people are not fans
news talk w T.

Speaker 5 (01:38:42):
I see we're back, it's radio w T. I see
what am I supposed to do in this break? Oh,
I've got to talk about Cracker Bear. I've got to
get into that, and this is an important conversation. But
let me get these two phone calls real quick and
then I'll talk about that. Let's go to Joe and
New hamp How you doing Wall Street?

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
Hi?

Speaker 10 (01:39:02):
You could take this one to the bank. Those ICE
members would not have gone to the car wash if
there wasn't at least one of those six with a
bad history whatever. Yes, other ones might have been collateral damage.
I'm not saying all six, but at least one of
them is something you wouldn't want out on the street.

Speaker 11 (01:39:23):
You can take that to the bank.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Yeah, no, I don't listen.

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
I take look even with Mark Christopher said that about
the kid in New Haven. You know, look, of course
you feel awful for that, but you know what, that
kid being on the up and up right. That kid's
going to school, he's working. He's probably again with the
with the exception of the fact that he came over
the came into the country illegally. Outside of that, he

(01:39:47):
has probably been a model citizen. But we have to consider,
with everything that's going on, if he didn't take the
proper the proper measures to get him to stay, then
I got to say, Look, it wasn't like you weren't warned.
In fact, every advocate for illegal immigration in this country
has been telling people's.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Stay in the house, don't go anywhere, you know, do
your due diligence.

Speaker 5 (01:40:10):
So it wasn't like people weren't worn But I mean,
I get where he's coming from.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
But guy, and I'm sorry, what was the last thing.

Speaker 10 (01:40:16):
Oh, the Connecticut taxpayers are putting the bill from the
time he started in the Connecticut school system. It gets
free college intuition. That has to trick the people, like
you know, and I lived in Connecticut, you know, I'm
paying more in taxes than I would have None of
this was going on. But anyway, it makes me why
I called.

Speaker 11 (01:40:34):
Are you going to.

Speaker 10 (01:40:34):
Announce it Friday? Or can I mention your relationship with ICE?
You personally?

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
What's what's my relationship with Ice?

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:40:44):
Well, in September, ICE is going to keep expanding, expanding,
So every state is going to have a spokesperson to
come out with the number of apprehensions and they were
going to call it the state information specialist for ICE
under Christian is fifty dollar bonus?

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Is that for me? Is that my job?

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:41:09):
You get a fifty thousand dollars bonus and you can
have them on a guest. You can still keep your
radio show. That's what they like about making you czar
or Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
I don't want them to do that because then people say,
is a conflict of interest. I don't want any parts
of that. But you know what, as much as I
would love the paycheck, I just I can't do it.
Just for just integral reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
I can't do it. But I appreciate you.

Speaker 11 (01:41:31):
Joe let me let's bonus.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
Well, I as much as I would want to take
it because my wife would look at me crazy sideways
if I didn't, but I can't take it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Thank you, Joe. Let's get to fred in Middletown, how
about you, sir?

Speaker 11 (01:41:44):
Hey, hey, good two quick shots.

Speaker 25 (01:41:46):
So that another iteration on the end. When they came
for me, So FEMA fabricated portable pop up tension centers
for American citizens and the NY and I said nothing
because I was neither a patriotic or a citizen. And
then they put me in one.

Speaker 19 (01:42:04):
What Yeah, really made the point.

Speaker 25 (01:42:07):
It was that whole thing as scary as hell. And yeah,
I mean this is you know, it's just bad. And
it's that classic Hegelian dialectic, you allow kao exactly, you're
thankful for the yeah. So that and then just closing
with I mean Rush Limbaugh is everybody's hero, but uh

(01:42:29):
he was an actor that wasn't the real him. And
he dropped some key like false information, like he focused
on we got to get the executive when now we
know that local is where it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Hey, now, I appreciate that.

Speaker 25 (01:42:50):
Thank you, you got it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Good one, good one, friend. I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
Later on, I got some statistics I want to get
into on the crime rates in major cities across the country,
and it's an important stat to get out because you
have a lot of people spreading a lot of nonsense.
And I'm not gonna call it misinformation. It's just a
lot of nonsense. But I wanted to get into this
cracker Barrel thing and it's meant Look.

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
It has turned into a joke.

Speaker 5 (01:43:17):
It's stock is plummeted, as it's supposed to, because that's
what happens when these folks abandon their base.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
And we've seen this over and over again. It's the
same story over and over again.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
And I don't know if I've expressed this to you before,
but I want a special group of individuals to hear
what I am about to say, and they know who
they are, and I hope the right people are listening. So, folks,
this is my Cracker Barrel monologue. Cracker Barrel does not

(01:43:58):
want to do business with you. They don't like you,
at least now they don't. They used to love you.
They used to care about you, and used to care
about feeding you at their restaurants. They cared about you
buying their knickknacks and their little gift shop. They cared

(01:44:20):
about southern fried steak. I'm not a fan, but millions
of you are. Plenty of you have gone there. Plenty
of you have enjoyed that establishment. Some of you take
family members when they come into town to your favorite one,
because either the chef or the waitress, or just the

(01:44:42):
community in and of itself, it's a great place to go.
Roland will tell you about waffle House at another time.
He travels across the country to find a waffle house.
Cracker Barrel is the same thing. It's an institution.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Like ihop.

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
People go there because they're familiar with it, but Cracker
Barrel doesn't want.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
To do business with you anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
It's decided that it's going to do business with people
who never go there, who've never shown an interest in
their product. They think they are more important than you.
They are behaving like sixteen year old girls on Instagram.

(01:45:29):
They want likes, not customers. They want to be socially accepted,
not be profitable. They hate you and the brand. That's
why they changed it. That's why they made it unrecognizable.

(01:45:51):
That's the reason why they lied and told you that
their response was overwhelmingly good, and then after the fact
found out that they hated it. And it may be
too late for them to turn around. Because the person
that's most important are its patrons, the people who have

(01:46:12):
spent their money, who invested their money and their livelihoods
in the restaurant. I love Cracker Barrel. I remember get
an argument not too long ago about Cracker Barrel. I
was like, you go to Crackerbowl. Oh man, that place
is great. This was only two weeks ago. I said,
I don't go to Cracker Barrel. You ain't never had
the grit to Cracker Barrel. I was like, I don't

(01:46:32):
do grits like man, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
What you're missing. Well, guess what Cracker Barrel is gonna
be missing now.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
That guy who was yelling at me about Cracker Barrel,
he's gone now. That guy was trying to convince me
to go. That guy was your word of mouth. That
guy was your advertiser. That guy was working for you
to get other people to go there. He celebrated you,

(01:46:58):
and you shunned him. They no longer want to do
business with you. They don't understand that model. The sponsors
here at this network understand it ain't about me. It
ain't about Brian, it ain't about Brian kill me, and
it ain't about Eric Ericksson.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
It is about you. When they do business with WTIIC.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
They are doing business with you, and when they don't
do business with you, they've decided they don't want you.
You are the person with the disposable income. You are
the one who trusts the host.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
When the host says, buy this product, go to this store,
not only because the host has tried said product or
has gone to said establishment, because he.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
Comes with it with a degree of credibility. I've done it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
If a company comes in and they've gotten zip lines,
I'm afraid of But guess what if they asked me
to come down there and do the zipline and I
experienced it, I'm gonna come in here and say, yo,
I had the greatest, greatest experience in the world. I'm
afraid of Heights and I did their zipline and that
zipline was amazing. You all need to try it. And
if you're afraid of Heights, trust me.

Speaker 5 (01:48:13):
They care about you and they want you to have
a great experience and they help you with your fear.
I would come here and explain that to you. Why
that's who they're doing business with. They through me, are
doing business with you, and Cracker Barrel doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
So don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:48:32):
I see everybody online screaming and hollering talking about Cracker Barrel.
Look at what they did, man, I can't believe they
would change over.

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
Let believe it. They don't want to do business with you.
Why would you?

Speaker 5 (01:48:46):
Why would you pine for someone who doesn't want you?
Why would you be moaning and groaning about somebody who
has pretty much dismissed you after all of your years
of dedication and love for a product for them to
turn around and say, we're gonna go in a different
direction because those people are not our kind of people. Okay,

(01:49:11):
it's time to break up. Can I have my favorite
sweater now? I'm going to move on. No, keep the
jewelry I bought you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
Those were gifts.

Speaker 5 (01:49:25):
You just have to understand that's what it is. It's
nothing to be mad about. You don't even have to
be outraged. You were never going to get that Southern
fried steak again. You were never gonna get it, not
the way that you used to get it. You're never
gonna get the hospitality that you used to get at
Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
It's over.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
They don't like who they are, so they chose to
become something else.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
And this is far worse than you're you know, a.

Speaker 5 (01:49:56):
Considerable other, your significant other changing their head style, they
changed everything. I mean, they literally transitioned on you. And
then when you don't go, what do you think they're
going to do afterwards? They're gonna call you a bigot
and a racist and a homophobe because you don't want

(01:50:18):
to be a part of their new found I don't
know wop this. They'll only do what a jilted lover
would do, parade you, which shows and quantifies the fact
that they never ever loved you in the first place.
They start off by just saying we're thinking about a

(01:50:40):
change to the point to the point where they just
say they don't want you at all. I remember someone
saying that when a woman doesn't want me, I don't
want them more. It's a little crass, but that's what
you need to deal with. How you deal with cracker Barrel, Well,

(01:51:04):
they don't want you, so don't want them more.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Take your business elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:51:11):
There are plenty of establishments who are seeing their opportunity
begging you to try them, maybe some places.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
You've never tried before.

Speaker 5 (01:51:21):
What's that guy's name, Bob, Bob Evans, Yeah, Bob Evans
has got a country style menu. Why not take another
trip down the ihop. There are plenty of establishments that
are community oriented where people you know in your community

(01:51:43):
work and eat cracker barrel.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
Let them figure it out.

Speaker 5 (01:51:50):
Let's find out how many LGBTQ transgender piercings throughout the
face people show up at the new establish the c.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Line of thirty four percent since she took over, Yes,
the cline. You want a fifty million dollars loss in
company stock value?

Speaker 5 (01:52:08):
Yeah, all of that. Jeez, Just wait until they start
begging you to come back. Just wait until they say
we were wrong and you respond the chicken tender is
a fire.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
I ain't gonna lie rolling. Hey, I'm sorry, Roland. I don't
want to do business with you anymore. They don't want
to make chicken fingers for you anymore. It's time to
say goodbye. What's the line in Gosh, what's the line

(01:52:46):
in Age of Ultron where Jarvis says to Ultron, just
because something's beautiful doesn't mean that it lasts. And now
it's over. Just reminisce. Let's get another track. Check a
traffic and weather.

Speaker 5 (01:53:04):
Bob Larsen's got your meteorology weather thingy if Mark Christopher,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Be errology weather singing?

Speaker 6 (01:53:14):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
I like that.

Speaker 18 (01:53:15):
It's an interesting description. We know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
Butchering. That was the classic butchering of that man's job.

Speaker 18 (01:53:28):
And coming from the weather center. From the weather center. Hey,
if you are heading toward Hartford right now, no problems
with weather, and traffic's actually doing pretty well too, WESTBN
ninety four Tita beast Hartford approaching the boat to bridge.

Speaker 12 (01:53:41):
The monstar stole your powerful minute.

Speaker 18 (01:53:43):
It's forty six ins of the tunnel south of ninety one.
You'll losing speed in Harford thirty three to thirty two
again god bykes a twenty eight, get some slow traffic
nineteen down to seventeen in Meridan northbound Saturay nighty win
moving well Cromwell through downtown up and a winter two
ninety went threety four okay to westbound slowing one d
up to the eighty for west merged quiet Middletown eighty
four westbound and Waterbury slows twenty three to the mixmaster

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eighty four.

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
You spend a.

Speaker 18 (01:54:06):
Little tight by twenty three in Waterbury eighty four eastbound
Danbury slowing New York, Connecticut line up to five again
from exit eight in Danbury uptexit nine and Newtown a
little slow a getting up bikes of eleven on the
eastbound side of eighty four as you move into Newtown. Now,
if you're traveling southbound in the Parkway, you've got delays
sixty one into the West Rock Tunnel. Northbound Parkway slows

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Low humidity, a good deal SunShot, a few puffy clouds,
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WTIC is celebrating one hundred years on the air and
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Speaker 27 (01:55:37):
And Odyssey station by a clock art for temperature eighty
three degrees. I'm John Silva, WTIC ten eighty news. One
person is dead following a shooting this afternoon in New Haven.
Officers were called to Dickerson Street. One other person was wounded.
There's no word on identities of those involved, suspects, or

(01:55:58):
a motive. A report from the Connecticut Inspector General says
Bridgeport police officer was justified and using deadly force last
year to stop a man coming at him with knives
in both hands.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Hey brother, Hey, don't do it, don't do it, don't
go seventeen.

Speaker 27 (01:56:19):
Police were called to Birdseye Street early on May sixteenth,
twenty twenty four, on a report Dale Stevenson was acting erratically.
The report says Officer Israel Cologne opened fire when Stevenson
didn't drop the knives on command, as you heard there.
He was wounded in the arm and leg treated for
his injuries. Stevenson has since recovered and is facing multiple charges.

(01:56:42):
Investigators in Southington still trying to figure out what sparked
a deadly fire early this morning in town. Multiple nine
to one one calls were made to report the house
fire on Chaffee Lane. Person who died was the only
one in the home at the time. They say the
house was fully involved by the time firefighters arrived on scene.
Erica McCallister tells WFSB the house was well known to

(01:57:03):
the local.

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
We see it all the time.

Speaker 11 (01:57:05):
We walked by all the time, and we were always
looking at it thinking it was so gorgeous in such
a wonderful location, and then.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
Just to see that happen is just so very sad.

Speaker 27 (01:57:14):
A victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Southington firefighters
were assisted by Cruz from Bristol and Meridan kilmar Abrego.
Garcia is being detained after he showed up for an
appointment at a Baltimore field office. Cammy McCormick reports Attorney
General Pam Bondi.

Speaker 17 (01:57:31):
We've got him under control.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
He will no longer terrorize our country.

Speaker 7 (01:57:36):
Garcia's Attorney Simon sand of all motion Burg.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
We asked the ICE officer what the reason for his
attention was. The ICE officer didn't answer.

Speaker 9 (01:57:43):
The ICE officer stated that he'll be taken to detention center.

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
We asked the ICE officer which detention center.

Speaker 28 (01:57:48):
The ICE officer said that they weren't able to say.

Speaker 7 (01:57:51):
He has since been moved to a Virginia detention center
while the legal battle plays out.

Speaker 27 (01:57:55):
In air strike that killed twenty in Gaza, including five journalists,
called a tragic mishap by Israeli Prime Minister Nataniago Prime.

Speaker 20 (01:58:03):
Minister Benjamin Natanna, whose office said the two strikes on
Naser Hospital in Conunis was a tragic mishap and that
the military is investigating the Hamas affiliated Gaza Health Ministry
said the first strike hit an upper floor of the hospital.
Officials said most of the deaths came in the second strike,
when Israeli planes hit an external stairway as rescuers and

(01:58:26):
journalists rushed towards the scene of the first strike.

Speaker 27 (01:58:29):
Order Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem more kids are going to
school hungry, and top state Democrats say federal budget cuts
will only make things worse. The budget bill signed last
month by President Trump's lashes food assistants, meaning the families
of students who can no longer access school lunch more
free will have trouble of feeding them at home. Senator

(01:58:50):
Chris Murphy spoke at the state capitol this afternoon.

Speaker 22 (01:58:53):
There are going to be fewer kids getting food in school,
and there are going to be more kids showing up
to school hungry and going to bed at night hungry
because of the unconscionable cuts in the Republican budget built
the food stamp program.

Speaker 27 (01:59:10):
And hunger Connecticut says twelve thousand students. Excuse me, You're
now having to pay for meals that were free last year.
It's after the state chose not to compensate for the
expiration of federal dollars. Well straight, the Dow down three
hundred and forty nine points, the nasdack down forty seven.
SMP lost twenty seven points today for these stories and

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The hour, the bags ou Punch Punch. It's Reese on
the radio on WTIC News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 5 (02:00:44):
I'm sorry, I was listening to the Uh. I finally
found the audio that I was looking for, and it
was taking me a minute. I was like, why am
I not being able to find this?

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
I finally found this, so I'll take an opportunity to
listen to it in a little bit.

Speaker 6 (02:00:57):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:00:58):
Yeah, it's Recenter Radio. We are back News Talk ten
eighty w T I see there, it is right there
and it's time.

Speaker 6 (02:01:04):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
It's Hollywood News. You know, I love Hollywood News, and I.

Speaker 5 (02:01:16):
Think some sports enthusiasts are gonna be excited about this
particular story.

Speaker 2 (02:01:25):
Let me grab my Hollywood News because it was in
front of me.

Speaker 5 (02:01:28):
Roland, You, I know for a fact, are going to
be interested in this Hollywood News because it involves somebody
that I know that you like and admire, Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
I'm assuming you like him, you're a fan.

Speaker 12 (02:01:44):
I wasn't a fan of Kobe.

Speaker 1 (02:01:45):
What I appreciated and respect.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
It was absolutely.

Speaker 12 (02:01:51):
He wasn't like one of my favors.

Speaker 5 (02:01:53):
He wasn't one of my favorite either, because of course
he played against my Boston Celtics and I was actually
at the game where you know, Celtics won that championship series.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
I'll never forget it. But Kobe, so happen? That was
with Garnett, right, Yeah, absolutely, it.

Speaker 5 (02:02:07):
Was an amazing run for the big three, Garnett, Pearce
and Allen.

Speaker 2 (02:02:12):
They also was Bosh on that team at that time. No, no,
Bosh wasn't there.

Speaker 5 (02:02:16):
Yeah, yeah, Bosh wasn't there, But I remember that, and
oh man, Ray Allen had one of the most amazing
games with just all of those threes. He was like
he was dominating those threes back before they became popular.
But this movie news tried this off for size. A
film project centered around the NBA superstar Kobe Bryant's journey
to the Los Angeles Lakers has landed at Warner Brothers.

Speaker 2 (02:02:38):
The Hollywood Reporter has.

Speaker 5 (02:02:39):
Confirmed that Alex Son and Gavin Johansson penned a screenplay
for a movie called With the Eighth Pick, with follows
the high stakes process that led Kobe Bryant to getting
drafted into the NBA in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
The project was generating high interest from.

Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
Other studio and streamers before Warner stepped in to preemptively
nab it. They say the eighth pick is said to
focus on New Jersey Nets, the New Jersey Nets and
their general manager John Nash, who held the eighth pick
in the draft and considered taking Kobe Bryant out of
high school.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
They liken it to moneyball and the social network? Is
that in that theme? So I think, oh, you heard
about this last night? Oh man, this is great. Anyway,
let's get to another check of traffic and weather.

Speaker 5 (02:03:31):
Bob Larson Scott to weather with the meteorologists, think and
Mark Christophers in the BPS traffic c you'd go see
this movie of Kobe Bryant. Come on, you're a basketball fan.
Oh yeah, definitely this and I would love to see
this again. He was a rival against the but I
always I used to tell him when he used to
kill us in games, like regular season games.

Speaker 2 (02:03:52):
I remember shouting at the TV and how good he was.
He was just annoying.

Speaker 18 (02:03:56):
But you gotta respect that talent. Yep, yeah, absolutely, I've gotta.
I gotta tell you I just started watching the Diana
Tarazzi thing. I don't know right right the documentary, Yeah, yeah,
I watched the first one. I think I think there
might be three, but very she is intense, man.

Speaker 2 (02:04:12):
She Yeah, some reports that I'm hearing that there are
people are very surprised at this documentary in the sense
of getting some inside track on who she is and
what and now she thinks that people are like like wow,
like we didn't know this.

Speaker 18 (02:04:28):
So the women's game, no question about that. But yeah,
she she doesn't mess around.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
I have a crazy crush on her. By the way, Yeah,
I've always had a crush on Diana.

Speaker 6 (02:04:41):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:04:42):
She's there's a lot to like that. They're really.

Speaker 1 (02:04:46):
Holds still. This is only gonna hurtle little. It's Reese
on the radio.

Speaker 5 (02:04:54):
W T I sees Okay, I've had the opportunity to
listen too much of what Brian Shackman said this morning
on his program.

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
There's a lot to unpack. So here's what I'm going
to do.

Speaker 5 (02:05:11):
And I'm gonna even let him know. I'm gonna send
himn email to let him know I'm gonna take his comments.
I'm going to parse them and do an opening monologue,
his concerns for him are valid, and I and now
that I understand what he was talking about. In a
caller who said that he was comparing what was going
on to Nazi Germany. Uh, he was fair, that's kind

(02:05:34):
of where Brian was going.

Speaker 2 (02:05:37):
And how do I put it?

Speaker 5 (02:05:40):
I understand where why Brian is going in the route
that he's going about this, But instead of calling it misguided,
what I need to do is to understand what he
says and then how he counters it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
Let me go this far. Okay, when you say we
don't know why these people are being picked up and
then say that I don't want to go back twenty
years later. I don't want to go.

Speaker 5 (02:06:07):
Twenty years later and find out that it was this
this thing that we will go back and be embarrassed
upon suggests that that is the direction it may go in.
It is, Oh, it's putting your thumb on the scale
of what we're seeing. And look, I understand that people

(02:06:29):
coming into the country illegally and then coming here and
working seems like it's, you know, no big deal to
a lot of people like it doesn't seem like a
big deal.

Speaker 2 (02:06:41):
Sure, there's a perspective to have that says, look, I
don't get it, I don't understand it.

Speaker 5 (02:06:47):
And then after the fact seeing them being pulled away
from them after they've been here for so long, that
can touch some conservative I mean, some compassionate strings in
the heart. It could be like, but they've been here
so long and it doesn't seem like they were doing anything.

Speaker 2 (02:07:03):
But when you don't know what, they're being pulled out
of the country for.

Speaker 5 (02:07:06):
Even there are spates of this person like the New
Haven guy that Mark Christopher was talking about, or even
the kid at the merit in high school, you know
who went in with his father and he was a valedictorian,
or you know, got all these.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
These accolades at school and.

Speaker 5 (02:07:23):
He ended up going. But no one ever tells you
why they're going. They just know it just doesn't look good.
I understand that that when you don't know, it gives
you an opportunity to say whatever you wanted, to believe
whatever you want. We don't know what happened to these people.
But then when you then take the leap and say,

(02:07:44):
what if this is like Nazi Germany isn't giving this
fair play, It could very well be for good reasons
these people were sent out of the country, but no
one is giving that or lease.

Speaker 2 (02:07:56):
In Bryan's case, he wasn't giving that the fair play.

Speaker 5 (02:08:00):
He was saying, well, it could be that they were criminals,
but all the rest, what about those?

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
And that's the focus. It's warrant. I get it. I
totally get where he's coming from. The comparisons to Nazi Germany.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:08:14):
I think that that may be inflammatory, but some people
do see it that way. So I'm going to address
it just by and I'm gonna call and send them
a message to say, hey, listen, you know someone called
about the commentary this morning or yesterday morning, about the show,
and I want to dissect it, and I don't want
to give you fair play, And you know, I hope that,
to be honest with you, I hope Brian would.

Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
Want to come on the show and we have a
discussion about it, because.

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
How do I put this, I'm not understanding what they're protecting,
like exactly another comedy makes in there is talking about
they're paying their taxes.

Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
No they're not, Brian, No they're not. They can't.

Speaker 5 (02:08:59):
In order to pay their taxes, they must be documented,
they must have a birth certificate and a Social Security card.

Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
That's how all of us are tracked when it comes
to paying taxes.

Speaker 5 (02:09:11):
Now, if you're talking about simple purchase taxes like groceries
or cars or whatever, they're able to buy, paying their taxes,
that's something they cannot avoid. Okay, And a small swath
of them have what's called these tax id numbers.

Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
Most of them don't, and so they don't pay taxes.

Speaker 5 (02:09:33):
They don't fill out their tax forms and send them
in before April fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (02:09:39):
Okay, everybody knows that, so this added on they pay
their taxes.

Speaker 5 (02:09:44):
No, they don't. They don't, not a large swath of
them at all. So that's misrepresented. So but like I said, it,
look of course that's his opinion. That's what he thinks
about it. Of Course he has a every right to
that's the points. But you don't have to be upset
about that he thinks that. You don't have to be

(02:10:06):
outraged at it. There are plenty of people who agree
with Brian. They do, but it begs, you know, sometimes
that discussion has to be made. Okay, you believe this,
tell me why this is like Nazi Germany. It's because
you see these people as persecuted Jews. Tell me, how

(02:10:27):
do you think these people are ending up in concentration
camps and having experiments done on them? Are you saying
that these people end up in some sort of camp
where they are now then gassed to death?

Speaker 2 (02:10:38):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (02:10:39):
What are the comparisons to Nazi Germany that I don't
understand because those are a couple of examples that we
know aren't happening.

Speaker 2 (02:10:46):
They're just being sent home. You know, did Hitler send
all the Jews back to Israel, to Jerusalem?

Speaker 5 (02:10:57):
No, they were killed, murdered in the millions. There is
no comparison to have here at all. It's not off
the beaten path to compare this to Nazism or Nazis.

Speaker 2 (02:11:16):
It is absolutely wrong. That's not what's happening to these
folks at all. That's all.

Speaker 5 (02:11:26):
It's just as simple as that, so and that, and
again that's not just a Brian, that's to everyone. There
was no Nazi comparison to be had. Okay, even Barack
Obama treated these folks worse than Donald Trump did.

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Seriously, I know you witnessed that they went in cages.

Speaker 5 (02:11:48):
Barack Obama deported more people than anybody was called the
Deporter in chief. Why wasn't there any Nazi comparison then,
why wasn't anybody saying And again that was in twenty fourteen.
Here we are ten years later, why isn't anyone talking
about Barack Obama's deportation of illegals and turning that into
the next big Nazi thing. Oh, in retrospect, there has

(02:12:11):
been no comparison to Barack Obama being a Nazi or
the actions of his Department of Homeland Security doing Nazi
like things, keeping them in cages and deporting them, some
of them being deported right at the border, not allowed
to have a sylum. So again, I'm that part of

(02:12:35):
making the this is like that, and I'm reading this
book about Germany and it's a leap. I'm just saying
it is fairly, it's a leap, but I understand a
passion behind it, because it seems cruel if you're looking
at it from a certain perspective. Now, I'm gonna say,

(02:12:57):
just on my from my point of view, I really
really don't care if people see it a particular way.
It should have never been allowed to happen, and it was,
and now that somebody allowed it to happen, something must
be done about it. So you had no argument about

(02:13:19):
the influx, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of people.

Speaker 2 (02:13:23):
You had no words. And I'm not talking about Brian.

Speaker 5 (02:13:25):
I'm just talking about people who didn't have anything to
say about it, the influx of illegals in the country,
had nothing to say about it, argued that we were
had a porous border, or that the border was secure
or not secure. And now people are saying, sorry, you
got in, but you got in illegally.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
Now you got to go home.

Speaker 5 (02:13:41):
And the only thing you care about is the fact
that they have to go back, which in essence is
saying that you're okay with them being here. You're okay
with the thousands and thousands of dollars that each one
has received and the billions of dollars that costs taxpayers,
and you're saying that we should eat that, and some
of us are saying, no, you don't want to have
that debate, and you just want us to abide by you.

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How is that a democracy, which, again, what all of
this is about, right the end of the day, it's
about a democracy. So don't we who oppose migrants and
illegals in the country have a say or do we
not get to have a say, because if we do,

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it has to be compared to Germany Alah, nineteen thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (02:14:32):
That's all.

Speaker 5 (02:14:35):
I hope I made some sort of point. But we'll
break it down. Let's go to Tom. How are you doing, sir?

Speaker 22 (02:14:44):
Hey?

Speaker 23 (02:14:45):
I'm well, Hey.

Speaker 28 (02:14:46):
I wanted to make a comment on the Republican guy
running for new Haven, but two quick statements morning. Brian
saying that he's a moderate or middle of the road
is as ridiculous as me saying I'm a kangaroo.

Speaker 2 (02:15:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:15:04):
Well, okay, that's him calling himself an independent is subjective.
He does get to say that he is an independent.
You may not interpret him this one, but he gets
to say it he's.

Speaker 28 (02:15:15):
An independent liberal.

Speaker 2 (02:15:16):
I agree with that, okay.

Speaker 28 (02:15:17):
And I don't have a problem with anything he says.
I just have a problem with him keep saying he's
a moderate and a military guy because.

Speaker 5 (02:15:25):
He's But I look at it, and I say, Brian,
when Brian says that he's an independent.

Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
I look at it as you know, who gets to
determine if he is? Does he do or do we do?
I kind of feel like he's really got the right.
He's got to write a first refusal, but he does
he has the right if he thinks he's an independent.
I don't think I could speak to him. I can't
tell him me something different. I have to take him
at his work.

Speaker 19 (02:15:49):
That's true.

Speaker 28 (02:15:50):
And another I'm critical of Mark, you know, when it
comes to him into Republican leaders. I admit that, but
he is probably the best investigative reporter the state has,
and all the reporters that get paid it should be
embarrassed that he is better than them.

Speaker 5 (02:16:11):
Damn, Mark, I hope you heard that and recorded it,
because he No, you're one hundred percent right, and that's
listen to me. I hooked my wagon to Mark and
West Hartford from the day I got here.

Speaker 2 (02:16:24):
Who was the first person I saw that was out
there doing the thing.

Speaker 5 (02:16:27):
And all I wanted to do was one I needed
to incorporate him and to sort of get him to
sort of like fashion himself. He's gotten so much better
in the last year and has been on point and
like a lot of people thought he was scattered all
over the place, but he has been like precision as
this last year. I really respect Mark and what he

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does he loves.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
The work he's doing.

Speaker 28 (02:16:51):
Yeah, he's and it shows he's good at it, absolutely
all right, So that real quick on the guy running
he won a statement he said, really stuck with me
because it's exactly what I believe.

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
The state is really red.

Speaker 28 (02:17:07):
It's only a few sections new Haven, Harport, Bridgeport, Stanford, Waterberry.
The rest of the state is red. Right, How do
we get those cities? Is there a way Reece to
get those cities to change.

Speaker 2 (02:17:27):
The black and Hispanic vote? It is all we got.

Speaker 5 (02:17:33):
And just like I told Steve Rosco, he has got
to get to that electorate. He has to and he
has to tell them, and he's doing it. But he's
got to go another length because look, what have we known.
I started the show Tom talking about the growth in
those spaces as Republican as you know, between Republicans and Democrats.

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Democrats lost two point one million while Republicans gained two
point four And the numbers that they're finding that there
was a growing number of black males and Latino males.
Now where are those folks. Usually they're not in the suburbs.
They're in places like new Haven, Bridgeport, in Stanford, in Hartford.
That's where you have to go because guess what those

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folks are online and on Instagram and on Twitter, and
I am seeing in all of those places a growing
number of people who are calling out Democrats for doing
the one thing that they promise they make their lives better,
and they have it. They've chastised them for actually being breadwinners,
for wanting to be wealthy, to want to take care
of themselves.

Speaker 2 (02:18:36):
And they also have history on their side.

Speaker 5 (02:18:39):
They're learning how Democrats have made them dependent on government
and they're realizing they don't want any parts of it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:45):
That's why Donald Trump has gained grounds in that place.

Speaker 5 (02:18:47):
So in those cities, we have to follow suit because
on a national level, if Trump's doing it, we got
to do it locally.

Speaker 28 (02:18:55):
Then we need to get like a coalition of minority
getting lesbian, get them to lead like a pack or
something to really put the word out because they don't
uh the inner city people while through an old fat white.

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
Guy like me, Tom let me let me tell you this.

Speaker 5 (02:19:17):
That's the mission when we get there, is that I'm
going to be going through every one of those neighborhoods
and I'm going to be talking to every one of
those folks, not just to get them to listen to
the show, but to also listen to these ideas. I
gotta take a break, but thank you, Tom, I appreciate you.

Speaker 29 (02:19:31):
Good.

Speaker 2 (02:19:32):
You got it.

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Speaker 5 (02:19:45):
Oh, we're back res on the radio. What happened was, uh.
We talked about the Democrats losing so much ground in
some of the.

Speaker 2 (02:19:55):
Swing states. We also talked about the double double standard.

Speaker 5 (02:20:00):
Also, we got into the Newington Mayor John Trister, who
says he's concerned but doesn't.

Speaker 2 (02:20:05):
Seem to know what about. And then I got into
an argument with Jonathan at Schole, the town manager, in
a phone call this morning or early afternoon, where he
couldn't seem to answer the question either. But to my
Brian commentary, like I said, tomorrow, I'm going to cut
up the audio so that I can discuss it.

Speaker 5 (02:20:27):
Okay, but I'm reading the comments here and they're not
happy with me apparently, So let's read a few Mattio says,
really Reese.

Speaker 2 (02:20:38):
Are they stealing their.

Speaker 5 (02:20:39):
Wealth and putting them in concentration camps. You should not
defend such an absurd comment. I know he's on the
same station, but if he really said that, what oh
if he really said that, he's an idiot.

Speaker 2 (02:20:54):
I don't know what he said, but I will play it.
I mean I should say I know what he said,
and I will play it tomorrow so you can hear
it for yourself. If you haven't, you can check it out.

Speaker 5 (02:21:03):
Madio says to compare anything to Nazi Germany is degrading
to anyone or any family that went through that horror.

Speaker 2 (02:21:12):
Look.

Speaker 5 (02:21:13):
I just listened to it, he says. Listen, this is
my opinion. I haven't spoken out on it, and he's
speaking out on it.

Speaker 2 (02:21:18):
He's not asking anybody to change their opinion. Again, I
stand by his right to give his opinion.

Speaker 5 (02:21:25):
It doesn't matter if he's informed, misinformed, or if he's
making a stretch, which clearly he is. I'm not even
I'm not gonna sugarcoat that. It is a stretch to
compare what's happening with illegals to anything in Nazi Germany.

Speaker 2 (02:21:41):
Okay, And I think I made that clear.

Speaker 5 (02:21:44):
Steve el says, twisting yourself into a pretzel to defend
that progressive snowflake. Come on again, what's with the name calling.
I'm not, again, not twisting myself. I want to play
it for you so that I know what or you
know what I am an. If you haven't heard it,
you need to hurt it.

Speaker 2 (02:22:02):
Hear it too. If you haven't heard it, then you.

Speaker 5 (02:22:05):
Really don't know exactly what I'm twisting myself into, unless,
of course you heard it, which I'm hoping that you did.
And yeah, Mattio says, don't defend the undefendable. There's nothing
to defend. He has a right to believe what he believes. Again,
it's not about whether or not he's right or he's wrong.
It's an opinion. I stand by his right to have

(02:22:26):
that opinion, and that's all it is. It's not making
the statement, doesn't make it fat. He sees it a different,
a particular way.

Speaker 2 (02:22:36):
I mean it is so.

Speaker 5 (02:22:39):
I almost feel bad because I feel like I have
to play it so you can understand where I'm coming from.
I listened to it and I just kind of go, yesh,
I mean, that's it's a weird place to see it,
especially while saying I don't understand why anybody again, and
I will put it this way.

Speaker 2 (02:22:58):
If you want me to be harsh, let's be hard.
Here's where I'll go.

Speaker 5 (02:23:03):
Brian admits that he doesn't know the reasons why these
individuals were arrested in it. He doesn't, but he says
that he doesn't want to go twenty years down the
road finding out that it was something really, really horrible
that we should have defended. Okay, that's where it goes.
So let's just say I'm gonna respond to it from

(02:23:25):
that from that point of view. Okay, Now, let's get
back to Weather in traffic, Mark Christopher, he's in the
BPS traffic Bob and Larks and of course is with Weather,
but Mark Christopher is in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 2 (02:23:34):
I'm just defending the guys, not in his position, but
it's right to have it. Am I off the beaten
path here?

Speaker 15 (02:23:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
No, of course he can. That's all I'm saying. I
don't I think it's I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 5 (02:23:49):
It was a little while thought, but he's you know
what is I listened to his voice.

Speaker 2 (02:23:53):
I've never heard Brian sound sound this particular way. Ever.

Speaker 5 (02:23:56):
He he was very passionate about this, because his concerned,
well at least in his voice, sounds real. And if
your backdrop is this could turn out to be a
very horrible practice, and you're expressing your concern in a
very dire way. I get why because the way the
caller said it was like he seemed like he was
waxing poetic in a very excitable way. I listened to

(02:24:19):
his voice, and I'm like, Okay, he sounds like he's
really concerned, and that's where it's coming from. Maybe, you know,
in his view, he's trying to come from a prudent
and practical way that look, we don't want to find
out later on that the wrong people were being moved
and hurt and harmed in any particular way.

Speaker 12 (02:24:34):
And that's what this.

Speaker 2 (02:24:34):
Concern is legitimate.

Speaker 18 (02:24:36):
Absolutely absolutely, Yeah, Hey, if you're hanging what's up?

Speaker 2 (02:24:41):
Everybody?

Speaker 1 (02:24:42):
You know who it is.

Speaker 2 (02:24:43):
You know it's on the radio, Frederick Douglass of the
twenty first century.

Speaker 5 (02:24:49):
It's w t C News Talk and we are back
Reese on the radio. More news and more views that
you could shake a stick at. I did not even
get into the Chris Murphy thing, which I will say
for tomorrow. Let me do this, but I'll give you
a teaser before we get to the phone calls and

(02:25:10):
then wrap up the show. I can't believe like we're
already there.

Speaker 2 (02:25:14):
So you all know that.

Speaker 5 (02:25:17):
You know, I call myself the president of the Chris
Murphy fan Club, you know, and all that stuff, and
I take a lot of shots at him, you know,
just because. But if I can give a little bit
of background on this. So I noticed something way ahead
of time, and it was the same thing that I
knew about Black Lives Matter. And I'm always a step

(02:25:41):
ahead of these folks. In fact, sometimes I'm miles ahead.
So I knew Black Lives Matter had no traction on
social media or anywhere else in the world. I knew
that African Americans at sixty seven percent, were against the
idea of the Black Lives Matter movement. I knew that
up front, in separate polling data that nobody would cite.

(02:26:05):
And then thankfully we found out through internal emails because
of that hack that happened with North Korea, or allegedly
North Korea, that Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook was getting his
staff internally to blow up Black Lives Matter's presence on
their platform.

Speaker 2 (02:26:26):
They were expanding their reach.

Speaker 5 (02:26:31):
In an artificial way to at least give the impression
that they were this political powerhouse, forcing others to follow suit,
especially those with money. They started getting money from, like
the Ford Group and everyone else for that matter.

Speaker 2 (02:26:46):
And that was all manufactured.

Speaker 5 (02:26:49):
And of course you know the story ninety million dollars
down the road, you know, three or four mansions. You know,
the whole thing is debunked. Now it forget. It's a
lost cause it's a joke. So I also notice that
that was the case with Chris Murphy. No matter where
you look, there was a new article about him.

Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
Everywhere. Chris Murphy's here, Chris Murphy's there, Chris Murphy. And
of course he is doing this thing about punching up
every day.

Speaker 5 (02:27:13):
He's on camera on every one of the news networks
talking about Donald Trump like he is his equal, like
he is on par with Donald Trump. Yet he is
not getting any traction from Donald Trump. So I went
and looked it up. Just recently, Donald Trump made a
statement about Chris Murphy being ugly inside and out.

Speaker 2 (02:27:35):
Chris Murphy was so happy he knows me, he say
he knows him. Here, I looked the right to him.
I'm so excited, and I looked it up.

Speaker 5 (02:27:51):
I asked groc how many times has Donald Trump mentioned
Chris Murphy on social media? And again, Jasmine Crockett gets
her bones in the news media because she attacks Donald Trump,
as does Chris Murphy. It turns out that Chris Murphy

(02:28:15):
has been mentioned on social media by Donald Trump all
of three times in the last five years. Three times
twice in twenty twenty about a alleged unsanctioned trip to Iran. Yeah,

(02:28:36):
saying that he was in violation of the Logan Act twice.
Donald Trump mentioned it then and then for the last
four or five years, nada until just recently, saying that
he was ugly on the inside and out. Donald Trump
doesn't even care that this guy's existed. But tomorrow I'm
gonna get into much deeper numbers when it comes to
Chris Murphy. This is a manufactured campaign and he is

(02:29:01):
being assisted by the media. This guy is nobody in
the political circles. Even Connecticut should stop talking about him.

Speaker 2 (02:29:11):
No one cares. On the national stage. He's polling at
point four. That's it.

Speaker 5 (02:29:20):
Anyway, we'll get into that now. With that time to
get into your phone calls. Let's do that now.

Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
Bill's in Torrington. How are you, sir?

Speaker 24 (02:29:28):
I'm doing well, Thank you, Resai about yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:29:30):
I'm trying my best. Bill. What's up.

Speaker 24 (02:29:33):
Last Monday you had a conversation with Ken fram Merriton
regarding his frustrations with public education and as a member
of the Board of Education here in torrent And I
can't agree with him more. I'm amazed how much teaching
time is dedicated to to prepping the students for the

(02:29:53):
for standardized testing, which which I'm not a fan of
to begin with, because because I don't I don't think
there's they're the uh and and I'll be the all
of of a student's performance.

Speaker 5 (02:30:05):
Because you think that they're doing And I've heard this
complaint often. Tell me, if you agree that it's sort
of teaching to the test instead of actual learning.

Speaker 24 (02:30:15):
Absolutely yeah. You also he was he was talking about distractors.
If I remember correctly, his wife is an educator.

Speaker 11 (02:30:25):
Yes, and.

Speaker 24 (02:30:27):
And she and and she's absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (02:30:30):
Uh uh.

Speaker 24 (02:30:31):
Here in torrent And, the average class sizes is twenty
two students and one. So there are a couple of
classes that that that are large. Our biggest component is
our our English language learning. Yeah, many different languages uh
being spoken here uh uh here in torrent And the

(02:30:52):
one good thing, because he was also talking about distratetion,
is we have a no cell phone policy. When the
kids come into school, they put they put their cell
phone in.

Speaker 2 (02:31:00):
Has that been Has that been working? Bill? Has that
been working?

Speaker 5 (02:31:04):
Okay, well, let me ask let me, let me ask
you this. I've got my problems with that, but that's
another issue. But let me ask you this because I
thought this was interesting. So just recently I was looking
at some other polling data and actually some other stats
that had to do with education, and what I'm learning
is is that homeschooling is at best about five hours

(02:31:26):
a day and those kids are doing incredibly well academically,
where we have an entire school day and those children
are doing so poor. Do you have any opinion on
why school children, regular school children are suffering aside from
the English as a what's the name English as the

(02:31:49):
second language? Do you think it has everything to do
with the care like homeschooling only deals with, if you're lucky,
maybe three kids, sometimes two, if not one, but the
special attention that each child gets and those kids tend
to excel because they don't have a classroom for the children.

Speaker 2 (02:32:05):
Is the classroom size a key point and all?

Speaker 24 (02:32:08):
It is absolutely absolutely And in my own case, you know,
being able to go to a school with a small
class size, I went to the I went to the
to the Okill School for the Blind for for junior
high school and in high school. And the fact that
that the class size is much lower, each each kid

(02:32:29):
can get, can get more, get get get.

Speaker 2 (02:32:34):
Special attention, or get get much needed right and and.

Speaker 24 (02:32:38):
And and and and and and and a and is
able to able to thrive, you know I did.

Speaker 1 (02:32:44):
I did much better having gone to o Kill.

Speaker 24 (02:32:47):
Than I ever could have been like if I stayed
in the in the public school in Winsted where.

Speaker 1 (02:32:50):
I grew up.

Speaker 2 (02:32:52):
Bill, if I may ask real quick before I let
you go, do you always talk this fast? You're pretty fast?

Speaker 11 (02:32:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:33:00):
No, I mean I've been told when I first start,
when I first started in radio, Bill, I was told,
I think my first yeah, my first real radio job,
I was told, can you slow it down a little bit?
I I went a mile a minute, So I just
I noticed that you spoke, you talk real fast.

Speaker 2 (02:33:16):
But that's okay. I got it all in.

Speaker 24 (02:33:19):
I was still the same thing I worked. I worked
in college radio and then when I was when I
was lecturing it at Northwestern Connecticut. There are people in
in the in the class who were dead and and
after about my first two sentences, the interpreter tapped me
on the show this say, I need you to do me.

Speaker 14 (02:33:36):
I need you to slow down.

Speaker 2 (02:33:41):
Thank you, Bill. I appreciate you. Thank you for being
a good sport. Thank you man. You got it. I
definitely will. Let's go to Chip in Coventry. Hello, Chip, professor.

Speaker 19 (02:33:52):
Reeves, how you doing this? Another day? Above a six ft.

Speaker 2 (02:33:55):
It's a great day, that's right, Chip? What do you got.

Speaker 19 (02:34:00):
Quickly? I know we are pressed for time here. I
had three all right, two quick topics really quick, as
far as the Holocaust goes, and blah blah blah. You know,
there's a great movie, but yet sad. You know, a
Shindler's List. It was filmed in black and white. You've
seen it, you must, okay, So and that was sad.

Speaker 11 (02:34:18):
But it's history.

Speaker 19 (02:34:19):
It's very sad history. That's enough about that, because I
can only picture myself when.

Speaker 2 (02:34:24):
I watched that movie. It's enough movie to watch.

Speaker 19 (02:34:28):
Oh my God, it's it's it's it's gruesome what they did,
but it's unfortunate. Okay, can you explain this to me
because I'm not really following this cracker barrel a thing
as far as what's the big brew haha, because you know,
and I'm thinking, hear me out real quickly. When I
was in high school, this is what I thought this
whole cracker barrel thing was about. When I was in

(02:34:51):
high school seventy nine. You know, some of my black
friends would call me a cracker, and I'm thinking that
one there.

Speaker 2 (02:34:59):
No, I swear, no, no, no, you're not wrong.

Speaker 5 (02:35:03):
Here's the whole deal. First of all, if that were
a problem, they would change the name entirely. I think
what they believe is that there are some people in
the ether who suggest that the company named the old
White Man on a rocking chair in the logo appears
somewhat old school white supremacists down south, you know, Jim

(02:35:25):
Crow era type of marketing, and they've decided that they
need to get rid of that and start marketing in
a very nouveaux way, and they want to get rid
of their old school tradition. Is for them, they are
the antithesis of that, and that's why the change is
going on.

Speaker 2 (02:35:41):
But again, people didn't go there.

Speaker 5 (02:35:43):
If they went there for anything, is that they loved
the establishment and how it served them and what it
represented as an old country store where you could get
old country style food. And they've completely destroyed that because
there was no segregation happening.

Speaker 2 (02:35:58):
Got the cracker barrel. It's a mess, But I don't
understand it. I don't understand in the sense of, like
I said, they don't want to do business with the
American people anymore. And look, they ran the risk, and
you know, maybe they'll learn from it, maybe they won't.
But if they don't want you, you shouldn't want them.
I gotta move on, though, Jef, I do. I gotta go.

Speaker 5 (02:36:16):
Sorry, buss Man. Let me get Bill in here, because
he's been on for a while. Bill is in Rocky Hill.
You are a last, but not least caller to day.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 6 (02:36:23):
Good? How you doing it?

Speaker 30 (02:36:24):
Spent a while?

Speaker 6 (02:36:25):
Yes, two things real quick jurymandering.

Speaker 11 (02:36:28):
Illinois.

Speaker 30 (02:36:29):
Trump got more than forty percent of the vote and
got three seats. And our lovely Connecticut he got over forty.

Speaker 19 (02:36:34):
Percent of the vote and he got no seats.

Speaker 2 (02:36:36):
Yeah, so they don't need to be.

Speaker 30 (02:36:37):
Complaining about Texas. And I listen every morning, and I
don't care how he said it. I wish listen every day, okay,
And he made it sound.

Speaker 25 (02:36:49):
Like they're just scooping him up with no excuse in
my opinion.

Speaker 5 (02:36:53):
Well, I listened to it, and that's it, and that's
and that was that was I think that was what
he said. And he was costary about that. But I'm
gonna play it tomorrow so that everybody can hear it
for those of you who don't listen to it, and
then we'll parse it. We'll break it down to exactly
what you know, what he's talking about, because his concern
is like a lot of people in Connecticut, you know,

(02:37:13):
and even the mayor of the Mayor of Newington, John Trister,
he is of like mine with with with Brian Shackman.
He agrees like he does that what's happening is tantamount
to Nazi Germany. I don't know where they get that from,
but we'll break it down.

Speaker 30 (02:37:29):
They have no information, so they're saying that ICE has
no information and they're just picking people up.

Speaker 5 (02:37:34):
I know, Like I said, it was the same argument
that I have with John Tryster's office.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
You can't say that you're deeply concerned about something you
know nothing about, so direct Thank you, sir, and we
appreciate you. We have got to get a body here.
It is time for us to go. But like I said,
we'll play it, we'll break it down. I'm gonna send
Bryan an email in a minute and let him know
that we're talking about it so he doesn't think that
I'm trying to I'm not beating up on the guy.

Speaker 5 (02:38:00):
But we'll break it down. As I always say, radio
is free. So we thank you for paying attention. Remember
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Speaker 2 (02:38:11):
You have a good night, pleasant tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:38:13):
Bob Larsen's got your weather, and Mark Christopher he's getting
your home.

Speaker 2 (02:38:17):
He's in the Bats Driving Center. Good night, sir. Good
I Reese.

Speaker 18 (02:38:20):
If you're heading west Ben eighty four and the Hart,
but you got some slow traffick approaching the boat.

Speaker 1 (02:38:23):
You bridge out to forty five flat?

Speaker 25 (02:38:24):
All right?

Speaker 18 (02:38:25):
Oh, Harford weathers yep it's going down easy right, crumble up.

Speaker 2 (02:38:33):
I'm going through now.

Speaker 18 (02:38:36):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:38:39):
By the way, I don't know if you heard the
beginning eighty for west bound.

Speaker 12 (02:38:43):
We got approved for a pleasure you're oh nice?

Speaker 18 (02:38:46):
So yeah, we might be coming New York, Connecticut, line
to five sounds good.

Speaker 2 (02:38:50):
I'm hoping, and Brady, I will talk to you later.
See you tomorrow, yes, sir. By the way, the message that.

Speaker 12 (02:38:55):
Said about you were hanging out with Hey, don't worry
about all that. Brothers. Oh, come on, don't worry about
all that.

Speaker 15 (02:39:02):
Man A.

Speaker 2 (02:39:05):
Knocked him. All right, folks, as you like I said,
I'm gonna play it tomorrow. I'm gonna play tomorrow' gonna
let you hear it. Poor Steve, Steve you.

Speaker 5 (02:39:21):
Steve makes sure, and I mean it's from a bottom
of my heart, make sure that you and I meet
the next time I get out there.

Speaker 2 (02:39:28):
I suckually we didn't get to meet this time. I
love you. I'm not gonna lie. You are right. If
this were Tim donn d Bob, they don't work with them.
I gotta work with the guy. Y'all want me to
start a war with him. I don't even feel like
what he said was war war startable. I disagree with him.

Speaker 5 (02:39:45):
I could disagree with him, but I think you need
to hear the whole thing so I could break it down.
He said about it, He's just you're a cold dude.
But please make sure that we get together. I want
to hang out with you. Well, holler, we'll talk about
Craig thirty eight thousand feet.

Speaker 2 (02:40:02):
Huh damn, Craig, Get on the ground, Get on the ground.
Show content is always spot on. I try to. I
tried to Laurie. All Right, I love you guys. Be good.
We'll see him Manyana

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