Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET8/26/25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
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You know what time it is, It's time for I.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's Reesa on the radio on News Talk ten eight
WTI C.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
And I normally, I normally don't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Because I always like to keep every show that every
person does. A lot of these guys in the business
are my heroes. A lot of these guys in the
business I like I listen to from time to time.
But in some cases they're rivals. Damn it, No, I'm kidding.
And when I say rivals, it's like in the ratings.
There's a competitiveness in all of that, as it should be.

(01:44):
It keeps you on your toes. It makes you better,
I believe. And one of the guys who's been in
this business a long time television and radio is my
colleague teammate, Brian Shackman. And you know he does the
morning show here, Brian and Company, with a host of

(02:05):
guys who I adore and I love all of them
because I work with all of them, including Brian. But
of course you got Mattsu Royce, You've got Mark Christopher
who does traffic with us in the morning. Morgan Cunningham,
love his voice for such a young guy, he has
a very authoritative older voice.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Love him.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Bob Cox, who is the meteorologist here. So that morning
crew is. I love every one of them, and I've
worked with every one of them and they've had a
great rapport with me since I.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Began here back in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
But ideologies are different, and as I've explained on this
program that not everybody's going to agree with me. Many
people have even gone so far as to say, well, rees,
aren't you trying to get people to agree with you? No,
I don't want them agreeing with me. I want them
to think about what I'm talking about, think about and

(03:01):
then from that thought process, having that engagement coming up
with their own point of view or arguing or debating
my own point of view.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
And Brian and I.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
The last time he and I were together and broadcasted
together with the exception of the holiday store two years
ago was during election night, and that particular night, Brian
and I went sort of back and forth about certain things,
of course, as it associated with Democrats versus Republicans, Kamala

(03:33):
Harris versus Donald Trump, and his point of view was
clearly expressed. And this was stuff going on behind the
scenes where we were talking about Kamala Harris as a candidate,
and I was making this argument that too many people
were making issues about her color, about the fact that

(03:54):
she was a woman of color, and I was trying
to understand why was that such a big deal, Like,
she's a person of color, so and I think it
took him aback because in some circles that people have,
you're not supposed to say so.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
And I get it. You're not supposed to say.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
So to that you're not supposed to be very important
because of sensitiviti's political correctness or whatever the reason may be.
I don't want to cassianas versions anybody for what their
reasons are. But me, I'm going, so this makes her special?
How does this melanin make her brilliant? Does she can
she solve more problems because she's a person of color.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'm just not understanding. Please tell me how I should
understand this.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
And many people when they hear that, they either go
full bore or they back away a little bit, or
they converse and say, Okay, well you know, I understand.
I guess that that does you know, have some there's
some truth in that, and there is. You couldn't tell
me the fact that because she has a vagina and

(05:07):
she's a person of color, she's more suitable for the
job just in those two aspects alone. So I was
trying to get away from that conversation. Is it don't
tell me about person being of color or being a female.
And that's the way. That's the way I've always looked
at politics. I when people start throwing that stuff at me,
I go, I dismiss it because it you know, a

(05:29):
lot of people will try to throw that at me.
Well reason, Well, let's consider the reason why you're on
wt I C. And I'm going, yeah, and let's go anyway,
I digress back to why we're in this conversation. So
Brian was trying to figure out where he was on
the Newington seven, and that is the seven individuals who

(05:53):
were picked up by Ice and from what I know,
and I want to thank Mark and West Hartford for
going down there and actually asking questions. He went and
got his car washed and talked to one of the
brothers of one of the individuals who is now in
ice custody. They are in Massachusetts, for those of you
who are trying to figure out where they are a

(06:14):
mayor of Newington, they're in Massachusetts. That what we are
finding out it.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Is new at the time was very little.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
But everybody has an opinion about very little information.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
And Brian expressed that, so if you missed it, let's
go through them.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
He began like this, ye know, I've been thinking about
this a lot, and I don't know if there's personal
risk here, and I don't have a fully formed opinion.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
And I'm not trying to change your mind.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'm not saying you should agree with me or disagree
with me. I truly you can have your own opinion.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
So he starts off by saying, look, I've been thinking
about this and I have.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
You can have your own opinion, of course you can.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
But he just wanted to express his because he had
a personal concern just for him that he felt with
his platform, he had to speak out fair.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
You can't deny that.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I give it to him for that, saying that he
understood the risk that there were gonna be people who
were upset, and clearly they were, but he felt it
important enough for him to express again, I don't have
to agree with Brian. He told me I don't, and
he told you that you don't. He just wanted to
express where he was coming from.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
He then went on, I think when it came to
immigration in the new administration, I think everyone who was
in their right mind realized the border was broken and
needed to be fixed, and whatever you could we could
do in a civil and humane way needed to be done.

(07:58):
And the deportation thing is a little bit different in
the sense that, okay, at first we get rid of
violent criminals, and that made sense to me too, and
then even if it were convicted criminals. And basically what
it's morphed into is there's some sort of mandate to
have a certain amount of people, you know, taken out

(08:19):
of this country, and they're all considered criminals now because
they're in the country illegally, so just the act of
coming in, whether they were seeking asylum or not, is
considered an illegal act, so that's the justification of doing it.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now, that's kind of true, but not entirely. It's not
a misinformation. It's not misguided for him to think that,
but that has been the rumor that it's gone on
from getting the violent ones out and that didn't meet
a quota, so now let's just grab everyone. Now, that's

(08:53):
been conjecture on a lot of people's part. That's what
the assumption has been by the news media. With Brian
being someone who consumes the news, he's taking that in
and making that a part of his statement. Okay, that's
where that's coming from. Now, someone said and how this

(09:13):
all was brought about was that he said that or
the person who heard him said that he was comparing
this to Nazis or a Nazi Germany, and that's what
upset the caller. But Brian actually addresses that in the
beginning of his statements, and.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Then the critics have said, well, this is like Nazi Germany,
and then that triggers a whole bunch of other things.
And I think that whether it's Democrats or people that
aren't comfortable with it, that kind of dialogue just needs
to stop because there's not some genocidal attempt here it's
not Nazi Germany.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
But the key here that doesn't mean it's not wrong.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
It doesn't mean it's not something that is shades of
authoritarian it like, just because it's not like Nazi Germany
doesn't mean it's something that's okay.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right, So he's clearing it up that he's not comparing
it to Nazi Germany, and he thinks that people should
that do it should not. And I think this is
where the trouble began because after denouncing or dismissing any associations.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
With Nazi Germany, Brian said this.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
And I think I'm reading this book called The German Wife,
and I'm not I'm only halfway through it, but.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
I think this is the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
When there's something that so obviously feels doesn't feel right,
like this thing in Newington where I don't know, we
don't know anything about these people, but they were picked
up while they're working in a car wash and taken away.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
We don't know who they are, we don't know where
they went. Maybe they are violent criminals or convicted criminals,
but we don't know that.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Okay, Now that's an important point here. We do not
know that, but Brian is still concerned. Now, this was
exactly my beef with the Newington mayor was that he
was saying that he was deeply concerned about information he
expressed he knew nothing about, which again is why I

(11:10):
write why I kept pushing back on this idea.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
You can't be deeply concerned about something you don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
You can't call it authoritarian if you don't know the
conditions of which the action took place. Like you're deeply
concerned about things that you don't know. It's like it's
almost like being afraid of the monster in the closet
or the boogeyman under the bed. I haven't seen those monsters,

(11:40):
but I'm deeply concerned that they're there. Get it okay, Now,
as I said, he says the Nazi Germany thing is wrong,
But then he talks about the German book. When you're
listening on the radio, I can see how you can say, well,
wait a minute, is he or is he not?

Speaker 4 (11:57):
We'll go we'll get to that point. Let's move on.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
He doesn't want to look back twenty years later and
not have spoken up. Now this sounds a little bit
like he's, well, the authoritarian part is what point he's
trying to make. He's not making the German Nazi Germany reference,
but he is looking at the sort of looking the
other way reference here.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
You know, I don't have a problem if you're in
this country illegally saying Okay, if you don't make your
immigration hearing, then we'll deport you. Give them an opportunity
to go along with the system. This Afghan interpreter was
trying to do everything right and he was detained. And
I guess my point to people is pretty simple. I
don't want to look back in twenty years or ten
years or twenty five years and find out that it

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was a reprehensible thing we were doing and have stood
by and said nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Now, when Brian comes in, I do have to ask
him about exactly what he meant there, because what in
this action by Ice is the concern that twenty years down.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
The road, we will really that what we did was awful.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's part of the reason why he's going to be
on the show later on today, because I need to
understand that, just like I was trying to understand what
the Newington mayor was deeply concerned about is because that's
kind of an incomplete sentence like, Okay, you don't want
to find out twenty years from now that we did
something bad. We'll give me some examples of what you mean.
And I think that needs to be sort of weeded

(13:23):
out now he says this, and this is almost where
I go. If the Democrats are doing demographic change and
we think that's evil, Brian has a solution.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
And for me, this is again my opinion.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think he's asking us to do the same thing
that the Democrats are doing, and I don't think that
that's a great idea, But this is what he said
in talking about what we should do about the folks
who have come in illegally.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
If this is something that should be done because these
people are dangerous to your neighborhood, there's a justification there
if you're trying to fill a quota, because you're going
to try to get all the people out that somehow
you thought were let in by a Democrat administration to
get future voters. All I would say is that if
you gave these hundreds of thousands of people the opportunity

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to go through the system and maybe earn their right
to stay here, they'd be Republican voters.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Forever. I mean, the logic doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Okay. Now, I don't agree with the fact that.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Democrats who would let them into the country and then
allow them to vote, that they would vote Democrats. And
therefore if we give them now the opportunity to become citizens,
that they then become Republicans. I don't believe in using
the same bad idea a different way. I'm not sure
exactly what the logic that doesn't make sense, But again
I gotta ask him, so I'm good when you get

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to here four to thirty, we're gonna ask him about that,
uh in particular, and I've already written.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
That down to ask him.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, now, remember back to the German thing that caused
all of this. Now he says that it's wrong to
bring up the Nazi Germany reference. Then he talks about
the book that he's reading, and then he brings up
the book again, and I think this is what sparked it.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
You know, in reading this book, it is basically about
German families who came over to join their scientists husbands
who were They were basically Nazis, but they were helping
the US rocket program. And it was the tension about
having these people come over and being allowed to stay here.
And I'm just getting through the book.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Now you get what I'm saying here.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
It's like saying that associating it with Nazi Germany and
then making a reference to a book about Nazi Germans.
Someone's gonna hear that and go, is he comparing the
two even if he isn't.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
He's making an association with the book.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
He's hearing about people coming into the country who are
associated with Nazis and then the people who are in
the country trying to work. It is a it's a leap, okay,
It's a leap, but a short one, okay. And that's
where the confusion sets in because you're on the radio
and you're talking about this and twice you bring up

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the book about Germans, and then Nazis come in while
you're trying to say that Nazi Germany references are wrong.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
And I think that's where the caller is going. But
wait a minute.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
At first he said it isn't, but then you keep
bringing him coming back to this book. So I want
Brian to sort of associate the two or explain the two,
and whether or not he can clarify because again, he's
riffing here, right, he has this passion about what's going on,
and he shows some concern. In fact, he makes that
point a little bit more here. He's just uncomfortable about

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the fact that these people are being scooped up in
the middle of a day.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
And so I'm not here to tell you can think this,
you're right, you're wrong, you're this, or that. I'm just
saying these things like what happened in Newington. I don't
know the text because they don't let us know who
these people are make me very uncomfortable. Now, if you're
a convicted criminal or a violent criminal, I understand why
you need to leave. If you're in this country illegally,
you should go through the process. And if you don't
go through the process, you need to go too. But

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to be to be just grabbing people in the middle
of the day is makes me very uncomfortable. And I
don't know how else to say it. And I guess
my point to you is it should make you uncomfortable too.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Okay, Now that.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I don't know why it should make everybody uncomfortable, because
there are some people who are looking at this and
going isis picking up people who came into the country illegally,
and people aren't assuming outright that these people are just
innocent workers. And the reason why, and there's a very

(17:56):
very valid point to this, and I had this argument
before we got to go to a break.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
But I'm gonna play the rest of this in the
next in a minute. But this assumption that they're all
good people.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Is not a fair assumption because you think they're all
good people, you know what I mean, Painting people with
a broad brush that they're all good is just as
bad as painting with a broad brush that they are
all bad. It doesn't become acceptable because the word good
is attached each and every one of these are isolated.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
The seven men in Newington do.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Not make up the swath or all of the millions
of people. They don't get to be innocent because you
want to believe that they are. But again, we'll get
into that stand by more news, more views this topic
when we get back, and then we'll get ready for
the Brian Shachman interview. Will we return, Go nowhere It's

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Speaker 3 (19:01):
All right, we're back rees on radio news talk ten
to eighty w T. I see got a lot of people,
uh in the chat rooms talking about this subject, about
the Newington.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Arrests by Ice at the car wash.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Uh Marcu West Hartford was down and spoke to one
of the brothers of one of the detainees and found
out that they are in Massachusetts and they are going
they I guess they're gonna They're gonna end up in
Mexico and in Guatemala, the brothers.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Also one of the brothers also believes that.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
He will probably be picked up next and he said
something else interesting, which I'm gonna save till later. I
thought this was insane, but it just shows you how
this whole immigration thing goes. But what we're talking about,
We've got Brian Shachman coming in at four point thirty today.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
He was supposed to be in at.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
This hour, but uh, he had some other engagements that
sort of switched up on him and he had to
reassess those or realign those so he can come on
the shelf.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
So I'm welcoming him.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'm welcoming him here because we haven't really done it
back and forth since election night. And Brian and I
differ on a lot of things. He isn't registered independent.
He considers me far right. I consider myself always right.
But nonetheless, this subject immigration is a wedge issue. And

(20:32):
with the efforts of Tom Homan and of course let's
just say Donald Trump's administration, that people have been uneasy
about the things that are happening and the optics of.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
It which are skewed. But I don't need to get
into all of that. I just want to get into.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
The statements because even though Brian came out and said
that he's against the comparisons to Nazi Germany, that people
are saying that, he still kind of went down that road.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Here's again that part, and then the critics have said, well,
this is like Nazi Germany, and then that triggers a
whole bunch of other things. And I think that whether
it's Democrats or people that aren't comfortable with it, that
kind of dialogue just needs to stop because there's not some.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
So and he talks about it, there's not any genocide
going on, and then in the next breath he talks
about this book he was reading about Germans.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
And I think that I'm reading this book called The
German Wife, and I'm not I'm only halfway through it,
but I think this is the whole thing when there's
something that so obviously feels doesn't feel right, like this
thing in Newington where I don't know, we don't know
anything about these people, but they were picked up while
they're working in a car wash and taken away.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
We don't know who they are.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Now again, I understand the optics here that say, you know,
ice just rolls up on a neighborhood car wash and
people just get thrown into vans and in handcuffs, and
you look at it and go wow, like that's Hey,
is it a shock to the system. Yes, I'll address that.
There's a reason why it's a shock to the system.

(22:12):
But of course he brought up the book that he's reading,
but he made it clear he doesn't want to make
the associations. But then he brought up the book again
and he fuses the phrase Nazi Germany.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
And I think that's where, if.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
You're listening to him, you in one breath you kind
of hear him saying you shouldn't make the comparisons, but
keeps kind of making the comparisons.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
You know, and reading this book, it is basically about
German families who came over to join their scientists husbands
who were they were basically Nazis, but they were helping
the US rocket program, and it was the tension about
having these people come over and being allowed to stay here.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
And I'm just getting through the book.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Now I don't understand exactly where the connection is, which
is why again I want him on the show, because
if you're listening to him and you're going, well, what
connection are you making? And because Brian doesn't take phone calls,
you can't really ask him if he can't really address it.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
He just wanted to make the statement and say.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Hey, listen, this is how I feel, and this is
what's going on, and I don't want to be the
person who never said anything. So here's where it really
really gets deep on Brian, because again his concern is
he doesn't want to be a guy who has had
a platform.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Who didn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
If thirty years down the road we find out that
what happened was really really wrong.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
What we did to these people were very wrong, and.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
I don't want to wake up in thirty years and
find out all these stories about these innocent people who
are parents, who are paying their taxes, who are good
people whose lives were ruined because somebody, you know, fifteen
thousand miles away, eight hundred miles away, wants to make
sure that three thousand people a day who shouldn't be
here are taken out of here.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'm just gonna leave that one there. I'll ask him
about that afterwards.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Now here's probably my biggest concern in this, because Brian,
this sentiment that Brian shares in this next clip is
emblematic of a lot of people. But I guess I
will answer it when he's on, but I want to
play it so you can hear it.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
It's horribly uncomfortable, and if you don't see it, then okay.
But I don't want to sit here anymore and read
about it. I've been talking to my wife about this,
without going on the record, that if these people aren't
convicted criminals, if their only crime is that they enter
this country illegally, then give them and they're paying taxes
and doing work, give them an opportunity to do it right,

(24:46):
and then maybe if they miss those opportunities, then then
then we have a conversation, but grabbing them in the
middle of day where they're wiping down cars.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Who are we like? Who? Who are we.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Now, this notion that they pay taxes, they do not.
They pay taxes that all of us can't avoid. Selles taxes,
can't avoid those. They're not paying their taxes, even if
some of them are with a tin.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Not all of them are filling our taxes. Okay.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
It is an assumption to say that they are all
millions of them filling out taxes.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
They're not.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
A lot of them get paid off the books. A
lot of them are on the government teat. We all
know that to suggest or to treat them as one
group in a monolith is misguided. And the other part
is is like giving somebody a pathway to citizens Citizenship
after they've committed a crime is not a recipe for

(25:48):
keeping people out of the country.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
It is rewarding bad behavior.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
We have plenty of people who are still waiting for
their citizenship legally. How do I know this Because I
have people in my family who are still waiting for
their citizenship legally. They are still fighting the process, waiting
years upon years upon years, and we still take in

(26:16):
a million these people skip the line, broke the law,
got into the country. We should not be treating them
with any kid gloves and giving them a pathway to
citizenship while we already have others who are following the
correct pathway. They do not get special treatment. And I
don't care if they're picking your crops. I don't care

(26:38):
if they're cleaning your toilets. I don't care if they're
doing slave labor. And I don't care. Damn should don't
care if they're helping poverty in their own countries by
giving half their salaries or sitting half their salaries back.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
So that is where a lot.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
But nobody even mentioned the fact that Brian says that
and have an issue with that. But again, I know
people who feel this way or agree with it. They say,
these people they're good people, they're doing the right thing.
All they did was cross the border illegally. Well I
sort of look at it as the broken windows thing.
If they crossed illegally and that's a crime and we're

(27:16):
forgiving that crime, then let's not have it be a
crime at all. Right, if all of them are good
and we get to assume that they're all good people,
who gets it and again I will also argue nobody
is willing to tell us who they are. You heard
Justin Ellicker on this program in November. So the reason

(27:37):
why he'll never come back to this show who are
these people? Can you tell us who these people are? Well, now,
I don't know who these people are. I never ask.
I just know they're here and I'm here to protect them.
That's not a benefit to anybody. So when you say
give a pathway to these people, why why do they

(27:59):
get special treatment?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
And now the last statement that pretty much ends it all.
Here's Brian and.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
The thing about the Nazi Germany. There are people who
just were like, well, I don't want to get in trouble.
I don't want to get in trouble.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
So now again he doesn't want to make the Nazi comparison.
And again, if you're listening and then you go back
and you listen to it, and then he goes back
to the Nazi thing again, it lends itself to believing
that he's making a comparison. Okay, So in that case,
I go again. After the first two times, I could

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give it a pass. But right here it sounds like
while you're trying to say not to make the Nazi comparison,
you kind of.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Go back to it.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
I'm gonna be quiet, right, I don't want to go
against the government because they're gonna they could ruin my life.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
So I'm gonna be quiet.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
And like, that's the thing we can't do, is like,
if something's clearly not right, we need to be able
to talk about it without fear of retribution.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Okay, So that's it. That's pretty much the long and
short of it. That's what he said. He used the
word authoritarianism, which I thought and again from a lot
of folks that you know are in opposition to this
effort using that word a lot and are concerned about

(29:22):
authoritarianism for people who don't belong here. Authoritarianism was actually
inflicted on American citizens. I brought a list. See, authoritarianism
would be every American at risk of being deported because

(29:42):
we don't like what they say.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
But here's the list.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
These are examples of authoritarian ideals and actions in the country.
COVID nineteen vaccine mandates. The Supreme Court blocked a broad
employer mandate in January of twenty twenty two, ruling an
exceeded osher authority that was a mandate by the President

(30:11):
of the United States pressure on social media for censorship.
Investigation revealed the administration coordinated with platforms like Facebook and
Twitter to flag and suppress content deemed misinformation, the labeling
of dissenters as domestic threats.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
That happened.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
The DOJ and the FBI under Biden investigated parents protesting
at school board meetings. Those are facts, an extension of
the eviction moratorium. That's authoritarian, root over renters, student loan forgiveness,

(30:52):
disinformation governance board, and let's not talk about the prosecution
of political opponents. Moving illegals out of the country are
people who have refused to go back to court when
they were supposed to, and getting them out of the
country is not authoritarian, it's the law. They are illegal,

(31:16):
and just because you call them undocumented doesn't change it
may change the way you express it, but it doesn't
change what the facts are. Undocumented people are illegal. We'll
get to some more of that, plus your phone calls
when we return. Stand by go nowhere at TRESA and
Radio and WTIC News Talk ten eighty. All right, we're
back Resa on Radio, WTIC News Talk ten eighty and

(31:40):
again Brian Shaft is going to join us at four thirty.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I was hoping to have them on, But like I said,
life happens as it always does.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
So when you what.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Is what's the line that I always tell the kids,
If you want to make God laugh, make plans. It
always happens every time when I try to make plans.
I've got plenty of other news and views to get
into today, So standby for that, uh, and we'll wait
for Brian to come in.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
And we'll talk about the conversation we were just having.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
So I wanted to break all of that down so
that you sort of got a scope of what this
whole discussion is about.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
And the immigration thing.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
The Newington thing was interesting to me because, as I
expressed yesterday, and I think that was the reason why
I got the phone.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Call, the.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Newington situation was interesting because it reminded me of the
Meriden High School thing, and the part that was so
crazy about it was everybody was in an uproar that
was in power.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Mayor of Meriden was on the news on WFSB. This
is virate concerning the Mayor of Newington.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
He's putting on a statement diplo contarn justin arrow Elker,
we were not informed. And my response to that is
is going. You guys said you didn't want to cooperate.
I mean, you guys passed the law not to cooperate.
You didn't want to talk to anybody about assisting them

(33:16):
in getting people out of the country. You didn't belong here.
You stood fast. We're gonna protect them. We're not sanctuary state,
but we're gonna protect them. I'm just watching Connecticut. Was
it NBC Connecticut? You know, in one breath celebrating the
red carpet of children coming back to school? Hey, kids,

(33:37):
welcome back. Maybe we'll get thirty five percent of you
prefision in reading a math or whatever, but anyway, it
was welcome back to the school. Parents are concerned that
ice may be coming. What that ice may be coming
to the school to come a haul out third graders?

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Really, so there's all of this constant talking.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
And wow and talk about the screaming and hollering, a
missing disinformation. There seems to be a lot of that
going around, But there has to be some point where
someone's got to explain. I tried to get the mayor
of Newington on the program, try to get a statement
from him. If I couldn't get him on the program,
try to get a statement, they became indignant with me.

(34:28):
And why is because the only point of view you're
supposed to have on this is theirs. And if you don't,
if you don't even consider it, donn and in the
chat room is saying it too. He's like, okay, he
says he feels uncomfortable, But dare I ask him the question,

(34:49):
what exactly do you feel uncomfortable about? He couldn't answer it.
He just knows that he's supposed to feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
That's the room.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I feel uncomfortable about this? What do you feel uncomfortable
about about the thing? And that's the same case with
these mayors and public officials as it were. And again,
like you know, like a bunch of mind numb robots,

(35:21):
the media is just you know, stenographers, you're deeply concerned.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Okay, I'll write down that you're deeply concerned.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
All right, Okay, So anyway, we'll talk about all that
and much much more. We've got plenty of stuff to
get into today.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Let me see. Uh there is sorry, I want to
get to this real quick. Uh no, that's not.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Necessarily Okay, I'm reading something that just came over the wire.
I want to I'll address that in a second. But
I've got more news, more views, We've got headlines coming up.
The stupidest thing I've read today, the force feeding of
Chris Murphy is coming up as well. I've got to
talk about that. Are between rounds Winner is coming up.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
And there is.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
A story that the violence is happening in conservative cities
across the country. There is a list that I put
together that dispels all of that.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
And I did.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I did serious work on this. I did so much
work on this. This list is going to amaze you
when you when you hear it about the top twenty
cities with crime and who runs them. And let me
just begin by saying, one, two, three, four, five.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Six, Is that right? Wow? That's right of twenty the top?
Oh don it, I didn't realize that. Thank you. Let's
get to the w T I See newsroom with Jah Silva.
It's reson radio.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
We'll be back Greece on the radio making sense of
the news. Yeah, even when it makes no sense at
all at all. Now on wt I see News Talk
ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
Anyway, we're back.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's reson Radio WTIC News Talk ten eighty Brian Schackman
coming up at about four thirty, so join us for
that conversation as well. And I got plenty of other
news and plenty of views. We got to talk about
the nonprofit grand jury final. We finally got some documents
on that case about Blue Hills. Also, we have another

(37:36):
Hartford councilman who use fourteen thousand dollars on the trip
with his family and.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
He's in court.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
I think he was in court yesterday about that. We'll
talk about that as well. And what's this other thing
that I had here?

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
We got to talk about the cities that are run
by whom that have the most violence. Out of twenty six,
six out of the twenty that have the most violence
are run by white mayors. Six of the twenty. I

(38:18):
did an exhaustive list to get some of the breakdowns. Here,
we'll talk about Brandon Johnson on MSNBC frustrating the hell
out of Morning.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Joke because he wouldn't answer one question.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
It's really really bad. But let's get to some headlines
speaking of violence in the city. Homicides and shootings are
down in Hartford so far this year. According to police,
Even as they investigate two weekend shootings, one deadly, Hartford
police say that there have been fewer homicides and assaults

(38:51):
by gunfire in past years. The fatal shooting of nij
Vernon twenty five of Blue Hills Avenue in the city.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Was the seventh homicide of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Lieutenant Aaron Boysfurt said police have made arrest in six
other killings this year. He said Monday that we were
very active. They were very active in their investigation into
Vernon's death. At this time of the year, there were
thirteen homicides, Boysford said, almost twice as many, and on
August twenty fifth, Hartford had seen twenty eight killings that year.

(39:27):
Of twenty twenty three, I should say four times as many,
and so non fatal assaults by gunfire dropped slightly since
last year and significantly since twenty twenty three, according to
Police Department statistics. Now, of course that will only lend
to people saying well on to day Fudger Greece.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
There's been no accusation of that.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Calm down and if these numbers are true, we should
be happy about that. And mayor Ronin should you know,
take a victory lap, but still we need to get
it down to zero. Trump offers advice to Cracker Barrel.
As you all know, Cracker Barrel has gone through is rebranding,
and they so far admitted that they made a mistake.

(40:08):
After telling us that people really loved the idea, now
they're saying, you know, you know, we don't always get
it right. You told us you had it right, and
you spoke to people and they were happy about it,
and now they're not. I saw this other blogger talking
about that this had everything the rebrand had nothing to
do with being woke, and had everything to do with

(40:28):
selling property.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
But whatever, if you see that, dismiss it. It's a joke.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Because Cracker Barrel's own website said the reason why they
rebranded was because of woke. Okay, this whole don't believe
you're lying eyes, please don't. I'm not even hearing that.
But here's what Donald Trump said. He said Cracker Barrel
should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake
based on customer response, and manage the company better than

(40:56):
ever before. Said they got a billion dollars worth of
free publicity if they play their cards right.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Very tricky. To do, but great opportunity, he wrote.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Adding that it's time to make Cracker Barrel a winner again.
This is probably the most controversial thing that I read yesterday,
and I want to thank Julian Boston for sending this
to me. Southwest Airlines has gotten himself in a bit
of a plus size problem. Southwest airlines popular pick your
own seat perk isn't the only policy on the chopping block.

(41:30):
The budget carrier announced that a new measure that may
require plus size passengers to fork over extra dough Starting
in January of twenty twenty six, those flyers who encroach
upon the neighboring seat will be required to purchase an
extra seat in advance, according to CBS News, to ensure space,

(41:51):
we are communicating to customers who have previously used the
extra seat policy that they should purchase it at booking
reps for the local Lost Airlines set in a statement.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
This marks a major change.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
For the current policy in which plus sized passengers can
proactively purchase an additional seat with the option of being
refunded later, or request a free extra seat at the airport.
Under the new mandate, the second seat is non refundable
unless the flight isn't fully booked at the time of departure.
And if both the passengers sorry tickets are booked at

(42:29):
the same fair class okay, in other words, by the
same class ticket, however, the passenger needs to request their
money back within ninety days of the flight. And now
for the stupidest thing I've read today, Yes, you do

(42:50):
could very well be the stupidest person on the face
of the area.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
After everything that we heard about.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Ivy Leave College is getting in trouble for anti Semitism
and being woke and admissions failures. Columbia University has not
learned its lessons, according to that a mandatory training for
Columbia law students. They said in a acquired audio tape
by the Free Beacon to Washington Free Beacon, they are

(43:21):
warning that the terms crazy uncle and grandfathering could be offensive.
And they've attacked Donald Trump for complementing the President of
Liberia on his English. Do you remember when the President
of Liberia was in the Oval office? They said the
President Trump's statements to the President of Liberia about his

(43:43):
English was a micro aggression.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Which incidentally is now like one of the buzzwords.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Democrats are telling people that they shouldn't use anymore. So
Columbia University is saying that we need to get rid
of the term grandfathering and crazy uncle because these are
somehow Jim crow Ever terminologies.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
And I just heard somebody use the term.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
I think it was Craig in the car just recently
used the term grandfathering in.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
I think it had to do with his country club enrollment.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I'm sorry, I just thought that was hilarious that when
talking about.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Being a member of a country club.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
He talked about being grandfathered in, which is now, my Oh,
there's just so much, so much irony and all of that. Craig,
don't feel bad. I know you're gonna call me and
curse me out for doing that, but I just thought
it was funny. Yeah, so not learning their lessons now
everything turns out to be.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Maddening.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
It's just maddening. Just I wish they would get it together.
It isn't working. It makes people look stupid, silly. Just
no one talks like this. Soon as somebody uses the term.
I remember the first time the term unhappy was used.
I went what unhoused and someone tried to argue was

(45:06):
like what it gives homeless people?

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Dignity.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yes, I'm sure that when they're picking food out of
the garbage they feel better about the term in which
they're called unhoused.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Sounds like a rerun of New Coke the cracker barrel thing. Raymond,
You might be right, you know, I don't remember how
New Coke, Apollo or the Coca Cola company apologized for
New Coke. Does anybody remember, like how they did that?
Cause it was I can't say it was awful. I

(45:42):
could tell that it was new like it was a
different flavor. But I don't remember how they apologize for it,
or whether or not they just stopped selling it.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
If anybody remembers that, please let me know. I don't know.
I just I thought that was great.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Let me get to this first before I go to
the phone, so stand by everybody. The mayors of several
cities across the country, Wesmore of Maryland and sorry the
governor of Maryland, Wes Moore and JB. Pritzker of Illinois
are pushing back on Donald Trump's threats, for lack of

(46:24):
a better word, to bring in the National Guard to
cut down crime. And in this argument, in the last
couple of weeks, it has been that Donald Trump is
only targeting cities run by African Americans. They are also
suggesting that they don't have a crime problem, and that

(46:45):
we all know is nonsense. But when I heard this
thing about him only targeting African American cities and lives,
trying to push back and say, but there are conservative
or Republican states that have high crime in them as well,
I said, well, wait a minute, no state. Well, no

(47:08):
violence is ever defined by the state. They are always
defined by its major city. It's just it's always been
that way, and it is a spin that cannot be
left sort of unset. So I figured i'd break it down,
and I looked at the cities that rank one through
twenty based upon crime statistics. Now I won't go through

(47:33):
all of them, but I want to go through a couple,
and I'll start from twenty and work my way back.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Let's start with twenty.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Now I'm gonna do something that many people may say
is provocative, But so what get over yourself? Number twenty Oh,
this one's gonna make the producer upset. Number twenty New
Orleans that is run by a black female Democrat. Number

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nineteen Albuquerque, New Mexico that is run by a white
male Democrat. Fresno, California is run by a white.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Male, Yeah, male Republican.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
San Bernardino, California is run by an Asian woman. Denver,
Colorado is run by a white Democrat. Aurora, Colorado is
run by a white Republican male. Tulsa, Oklahoma is run
by a black Democrat male Anchorage, Alaska. Apparently this is

(48:44):
nonpartisan Democrat leaning but white female. Uh Chicago, Illinois, you
know it's a male black Democrat. Indianapolis, white democrat. Male
Top ten Milwaukee, Wisconsin, black male democrat, Number nine, Stockton, California,

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female white democrat, Cleveland, Ohio, black male democrat, Kansas City, Missouri,
black male democrat, Baltimore, Maryland, black male Democrat, Saint Louis, Missouri,
white female democrat, Detroit, Michigan, white male democrat, Memphis, Tennessee,

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black male democrat, Little Rock, Arkansas, black male democrat. Oakland,
California at the number one spot, black female democrat, now
again on the Republican side.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Two.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Two out of twenty black democrat one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Nine, ten, ten, and.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
The top three cities on the list are all black
male Demico. Oh sorry, black Democrats, one female, two males,
and that is Oakland, Little Rock, and Memphis. That is
the crime statistics for I mean, as far as it
being the most dangerous. We don't get to a Republican

(50:39):
on this list. And again all of them Democrats out
of the top ten, seven in the top ten are black,
the other three are white. In the top ten, we
don't get to a Republican until we reach number fifteen
on the list and then number eighteen on the list

(50:59):
that only Republicans. So what are they talking about? And look,
all you have to do is just ask the folks
of Chicago. Here's one man talking to News Nation, which
is supposed to be the bipartisan news Nation, talking about
how he feels in his city. Not child can't walk

(51:20):
around the community without be of being heard or kidnapped
or having a drive by.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
So it's what these numbers that they're expressing. We don't
feel it in our quality of life.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
They don't. They don't feel it in their quality of life.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
And Brandon Johnson really doesn't know what to do about
that because again he's avoiding the police like the plague.
Here he is on Morning Joke being asked point blank,
could you use five thousand more police officers? Of course
he doesn't want more police officers. He thinks that's a
loser in his party because saying he needs more police

(52:00):
would be admitting defeat. And you can almost hear the
frustration in Morning Joke as they ask it.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
Would you also like to get federal funding to help
put five thousand more cops on the street in Chicago?

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Would that help drive down crime?

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy.

Speaker 7 (52:23):
Idstand if you've talked about the other things you want,
and I said those are good and important programs, but
I'm asking also, would five thousand more police officers on
the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with
all of those social programs and a lot of cities
are engaging in and having success with.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe,
is that in the nineties when I was in high school,
we had three thousand more police officers and we had
nine hundred people being murdered every single year in Chicago.
It's just not police and alone. Of course we want more.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
To know, of course, but it's not placing alone You've
told me everything else you want. I'm curious, and this
does come down to an ideological difference between between people.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Do you believe that the.

Speaker 7 (53:15):
Streets in Chicago would be safer if there were more
uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago?

Speaker 4 (53:22):
You have to ask yourself why he can't say yes
or no. It's just a question.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Do you believe that more officers would assist in making
the streets safer?

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Now, either he.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Doesn't know or he just can't commit to more officers,
because again, it would be going against I guess the
talking points or what the party says he's supposed to say.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
It's hard to make up, but it sounds you can
even see it and hear it. Joe Scarborough, he's like,
I mean, he's frustrated, Like, can't you just answer the question.

Speaker 8 (53:55):
I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America
would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Look, that's that's not the question.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
I asked my question, but and I just need the
answer or no.

Speaker 6 (54:08):
Do you believe the streets.

Speaker 7 (54:10):
Of Chicago would be safer if you got all of
those other extraordinary programs put back into place which do
have a history being successful.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
No, they don't.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Why are they gone? Then they have a history of
beat successful, why are they gone?

Speaker 7 (54:29):
If that's if that's complimented by having five thousand more
cops on the.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Streets of Chicago.

Speaker 8 (54:37):
I don't believe that we should narrow it down to
just police officers. On what I'm saying, that is an
ANTIQUDDIT approach.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
I'm saying I've invested.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
In hearing what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (54:47):
I'm agreeing with you that all of these other social
programs are extraordinarily important. I just seed it yes or
a no, and then this will be the last time
I asked, if you get all of those other social
programs that eight hundred million that New York City does,
Los Angeles of other people do with great success, would

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an additional five thousand cops on the streets in Chicago
help compliment those programs to make Chicago safer?

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Who thinks he's gonna answer, I'm kidding. We all know
the answer.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
Look, we are working hard to make sure that our
police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just
simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is
the answer.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
He doesn't have an answer because he never gave one
after the fact, just never did.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
And that goes to show you it's just like, you know,
it's actually kind of sad.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
We'll be back more news, more views at RESNA Radio
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get to your phone calls later.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Stand by. We got Brian Shachman from the morning show,
Brian Brian, Bran and Company. I was Brian in the Morning,
Brian and Company.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Other than a cheesy name, Brian and Company is gonna
be on the program where talk about the Newington arrest
of the seven individuals that ended up in Massachusetts.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
As I said, Mark and.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
West Hartford is actually a patron of that car wash,
and he, I mean we're talking about he stands by
their work. He loves it. He sent me a picture
of his car. He just got the nineteen dollars wash
on the outside. To actually go and get some recon
as well, you know, sort of get some information about

(56:41):
what took place, and sure enough.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
Somebody was very forthcoming.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Turns out one of the people detained his brother worked
there as well, and he spoke to him and I
heard the audio. It's it's unfortunately, like the audio is
a little bad to play on radio. It's just I
would have to describe it to you. So that's what
I'm gonna do instead of playing it. And Mark pretty
much just asked the guy, hey, you know, hey, what
went on and you know what took place. He's trying

(57:06):
to be very empathetic, you know, to the events of Saturday.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
And he was like, yeah, you know, it's messed up.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
You know, they they took him, you know, they came
and they got seven people. And he then went on
to say that, you know, you never know, they could
be coming back to get me, which Mark thought was
odd as did I Like, okay, are you saying that
they're now again?

Speaker 4 (57:31):
I'm in my head, I'm asking is he suggesting.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
That he has some legal immigration issues or illegal immigration
issues or was he saying they could come and get
me just because he's brown?

Speaker 4 (57:43):
But Mark didn't go any further into that.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
But Mark wanted to get more information about the arrests
from ICE. So here's what he learned was that the
seven were grabbed his brother. This particular guy's brother is
in Massachusetts and he has spoken to him and he
says that he's okay, but he is in Massachusetts. What

(58:06):
he found, what Mark found interesting and has did eye
after hearing it, was that the brother says that you
never know, he could come back.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Mark Asher was like, do you think he'll come back?
And he goes, yeah, you know, he.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Might come back. He may have to do it all
over again. But then he says something that blew my mind,
and that was maybe after Trump's out of office, then
he can come back, and which to me says a
lot when you think about it, because they really think

(58:39):
that this is just Trump, that it's just Trump. Trump
has said I want them out, so they've all got
to go. Now, there's a little bit of truth to that.
He is the president of the United States. It is
his administration, and everyone in their jobs he serves at

(59:00):
the pleasure of the President of the United States.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
This is his agenda.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
He was elected on it, and immigration since twenty fifteen
is what he stood on, and he's going about it
because and this isn't and this is the other parts,
like don't people stop acting like he's not responding to something.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Go ahead, Browley.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
I was just going to say there may be a
little bit of truth to that because when I worked
at Espen. Oh yeah, if you remember Monday Night football, right, yeah,
he used to be I forgot.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
His name, is it Hank.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
He's just say, oh, are you ready for some football?

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Oh yeah, Hank Williams Junior.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
They got rid of him for the Obama years, then
brought him back when Trump came in office the first time.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
That's what that's pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah, so he uh, I think he says something about Obama.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Yeah, he was very vocal about his distaste for.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
He didn't like Obama.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
So Disney and ESPN decided, we're not gonna use you
for Monday Night football, so we had to revamp and
do a whole new Monday Night football situation. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
It's funny because Bob Iger, the head of Disney, was
very instrumental in the removing of Roseanne on her program
because of her online attacks of Valerie Jarrett.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Yeah. So yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
It is, so you're saying, I'm not saying it's like
some great percentage, but it is something.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
No, no, that smoke, there's fire, as they say, right,
that's a good point. So yeah, so there's this idea
that well, at least the young man's brother says, hey,
after Donald Trump is gone, maybe he can come back
into the country. Because of course, if a Democrat ends
up you know, being you know, taking, you know, beating jd.
Vance is the presumptive nominee at this point, if not

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Marco Rubio. If Democrats get into power, I'm sure the
first thing they are going to do is to reverse
that role of ice and you know, work on a
pathway to the citizenship or do something along those lines,
and which is quite likely. It is quite likely that's
I mean again, the president of the United States sets
the agenda. So you know the fact he said. I

(01:01:25):
just thought it was interesting that he said it out loud.
So anyway, we'll we'll get in today Chris Murphy, let
me talk about this because I didn't get to it yesterday.
I looked up whether or not there is a let's say,
an interest in Chris Murphy in any meaningful way, because

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no matter where you look, there is a new article
about Chris Murphy. And I feel like it's manufactured. I
said yesterday near the end of the show, well pretty
much at the end of the show. I use the
example of Black Lives Matter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook
now Meta, and he really wanted Black Lives Matter to

(01:02:13):
have a political foothold, and in order to do that,
he had to manufacture their presence on the social media platform.
So while he was shadow banning conservative viewpoints, he was.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Promoting Black Lives Matter and other.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Groups like them, and in doing so, Black Lives Matter
became an artificial juggernaut. And I am equating that with
the coverage of Chris Murphy because when you ask around
when it came to Black Lives Matter, during that time

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twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, sixty seven percent of
African Americans were reposed to the idea of Black Lives Matter,
primarily because they weren't showing up at gang shootings and
children who were being shot in Chicago. I mean, in
twenty sixteen had a record of homicides in a year
over eight hundred and forty five, I believe, And they

(01:03:13):
weren't showing up for those lives that matter. So there
was a resistance to it, and sure enough white liberals
glombed onto it. I'm saying the same thing about Chris Murphy.
No matter where you look, there's another press release, another
article written, another news station that is focusing on Chris Murphy.

(01:03:35):
And there's also some fundraising that he's also being lauded for.
He pulled up a million dollars this week, ten million
dollars in this time. He's not running for reelection? What's
the money for? And he is really he's received the spotlight.
It's the best way to put it. So I did this.
What is the chatter online about Chris Murphy's chances? Positive

(01:03:59):
or supportive chatter? Chatter fundraising and early moves and as strengths.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Many users and.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Articles highlight Murphy's aggressive fundraising eg. Eight million dollars in
quarter one of twenty twenty five, despite no reelection until
twenty thirty, as assigned that he's gearing up for twenty
twenty eight. Later reports note he called in over more
even more, positioning him within a well crowded field on
x uses speculate this that this gives him an edge.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
Reading this poorly okay.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
One calling him far more Machavellian than Kamala Harris and
predicting he could win the primary and general election. Some
people say inclusion in twenty twenty eight contender lists. Murphy
appears in numerous media roundups of potential Democrat hopefuls, alongside

(01:04:53):
figures like Avenuwso and Pete Boudhajudge and Gretchen Whitmer. Reddit
threads on social Demidocracy discuss him as a unifying centrist
leaning progressive option, with some users favoring him for his
populism and gun control advocacy. One x user predicted he

(01:05:15):
could lead the pack, citing his policy focus, populism appeal,
and anti Trump stamps interviews and praise. His calls for
Democrats to embrace aggressive populism against Trump seen as a
winning strategy. His recent criticism of Trump and Putin's meeting

(01:05:36):
and healthcare policies have boosted his visibility, with supporters on
x viewing it as clever, that's interesting anyway, I'm just
reading it, or want to give you your opinion speculative predictions.
In early twenty twenty eight forecasts, he's listed among top contenders. Really, okay,

(01:06:06):
where is this?

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
Where is that happening? I have to find that data.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
I'm sorry, I have to find where that is. He's
pulling at zero point four percent I guess they're just
going on maybe a couple of losers anyway, negative and
skeptical chatter.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
This one's good.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Low charisma and voter appeal. Critics, including conservatives in some Democrats,
call him boring and lacking broad appeal, comparing him to
Tom Cotton as an intellectual class favorite with zero appeal
with any vote any real voters. X posts predict he

(01:06:50):
would fizzle like getting one percent of New Hampshire, Others
calling him a lightweight with zero shots. This one I
cannot read because I'll put it to you this way.
This is a personal attack that even I can't stand
for it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
I'm not a fan of his, and let's just say
this way.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
That mentioning the fact that he's going through a divorce, Okay,
I know he's going through a divorce. I've gone through several.
But the thing that I thought was unnecessary was referring
to his significant other. I guess the young lady he's
dating as a It wasn't an exploitive word. It's a

(01:07:33):
word I can use, but I just won't use it
because I won't dignify it. Okay, It's just it's a
horrible thing to.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Say about a woman.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
It is, and I'm not talking about you know. Like
I said, it's not an expletive. It's actually a word
that you can say on the air. But I just
can't say it because I feel horrible even suggesting.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
You have to read it yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
But it's it's not a nice thing to say about
a lady, whether you like her ideologic, ideologically or not. Okay,
it's just not a nice thing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
She may have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
The wrong point of view, but that's just me. And last,
but not least, electoral doubts. Some worried he dragged Democrats down,
especially in swing states. They note his low polling and
evidence that he is not viable. That's what most people
are saying. As I said, in some of those polls,

(01:08:24):
he's looking at point four percent amongst other likely Democrats.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
So I kind of feel like his.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Whole thing is just manufactured and trying to turn him
into a candidate. And I don't know whether or not
that's because they don't They don't feel like Aven Newsom
is viable. Maybe they don't like Pete Bootage edge they
don't want to go down that well anymore. But Wes
Moore has pretty much suggested he's not going to run.

(01:08:52):
Who else is there that they were talking about. Corey
Booker had a shot. I don't know if that SHOT's realistic.
He's been I don't know, he's been performing. The performance
stuff is just way too much. Anyway, we move on.
Let's get to some other stuff. We'll take a break.
More news, more views. The Hollywood News is gonna be
great for you eighties fans. Don't go anywhere. It's Reesa

(01:09:15):
on radio on WTIC Newstalk ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
It's Reese on the radio on Newstalk ten eighty WT
I see hello.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
We are back this Tuesday on WTIC News Talk ten eighty.
Hartford's It Well, wtwfsb's I team found that a Hartford
City councilman, already accused of stealing money from the church
he worked for.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
New city money inappropriately.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Hartford officials say that Alex Thomas missed you city issued
purchased card, but Thomas tells the iteam that that's not true.
A report from the city's internal audit department found that
Thomas violated the city's travel policy for personal gain, charging
hundreds of extra dollars on the town clerk's card that

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he says he was allowed to do. According to the report,
Thomas was approved to attend a work conference in watching
in DC in May. The trip was approved by the
city council president, Surely Surgeon, who's also one of the
people who's very disappointed about the Blue Hills situation and
how that money three hundred thousand dollars got diverted without

(01:10:24):
anyone knowing.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
There's some new details about that, if you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Haven't heard, and it's interesting that no one's really talking
about that, especially those in the Democrat Party. And is
anybody heard from McCrory. I'm sorry, I digress. Let me
get back anyway. Town Clark Eric LUSA says that Thomas
was allowed to take the town clerk's Peak card with him,
but was only approved to use the card on the hotel.

(01:10:49):
But according to this report, Thomas is alleged to have
used over fourteen thousand or spent fourteen thousand dollars on
the card. Now, I you know, this sounds really like
that Dalton mayor in Ohio that was, you know, traveling

(01:11:10):
the Las Vegas and eating at Bubba Gumps and coming
back with souvenirs and all types of other trinkets with
a whole staff going out there, going to seminars that
I guess for grocery stores that never materialized in their city.
And all of it was just what was her name,

(01:11:31):
Tiffany Henyard, that was her name. This just it reeks
of that, It just does. It reeks of it, and
I've I'm just gonna say it, and I don't care.
I just have to say it. Politics has always been
a dirty game. We've always I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
Anyone who hasn't suggested that corruption is inside politics every day.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
It is sort of the low hanging fruit. When somebody
is doing something, we immediately go to that person's corrupt,
this person's corrupt. And sometimes I get a little ticked
off about it because I go, ahi, man, does everything
have to be corrupt? I don't look at the world
that way. I don't look at the world. It's like,
you know what, it's got to be corrupt. It must
be corrupt because they're corrupt. I don't I really need

(01:12:16):
evidence based information. It's got to be evidence based. But
I will say this, I'm noticing the more and more
some people are getting into politics, especially people.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
Who clearly don't believe belong in it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Don't And I can tell them when I see them,
they get into it. They always get that little itch
to line their pockets.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
It just happens.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
And I don't know why, Like it's never enough to
just make you a little stipend or your little salary.
It always turns in a way to sort of how
can I get my wheels greased? And there's always somebody
out there who's willing to gree them, and they can't
avoid the temptation.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
It just it boggles the mind.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
It just is that just the fact that people have
treated this like not all, but there are so many
that do.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
And let's just say, he's always Democrats do.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
I'm kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
More often than not. Okay, let's be honest, more often
than not.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
I know it sounds like I'm being a partisan here,
but you know what, I'll do your one favorite, I'll
do you one.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
I'll give you. I'll give you a little bit here. Democrats,
I'll look it up.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
I'll see, literally I will stack them up and see
whether or not the numbers are the same. I just again,
I'm just saying I wish it wasn't the case. We'll
talk about McCrory in a little bit, so stand by
for that. Let's get our first check of weather in traffic.
Bob Larsan, it's got your weather. And Mark Christopher he's

(01:13:54):
gonna beat ps, trapping, ceter.

Speaker 4 (01:13:55):
How are we doing money?

Speaker 9 (01:13:56):
All right? I gotta ask you this, Yes, sir, I saw.
I don't know, did I see this last week? Chris Murphy?
It was there was a picture Chris Murphy and he
was wearing a T shirt that said President of the
Reese Fan Club.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (01:14:09):
Now, was that AI generated or was that like some
fake what?

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
What was that real?

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Or was it somebody somebody, somebody fashioned him wearing a
shirt with that, And I couldn't help but posted because
someone had done that earlier with an Al Sharpton picture.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
So I was I was showing the ten year.

Speaker 9 (01:14:28):
Contrast because I'm sitting there going that can't be really like,
oh my god, that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
I enjoyed that.

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During the show. So oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
And you also must live in the state of Connecticut,
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Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
When we come back. Fact check from Reuters.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Undocumented immigrants can and do pay taxes. That's interesting Reuters
because according to visa records, Ah, that may not be true.
We'll talk about that when we return. And of course

(01:16:35):
so much more. We got to talk about this McCrory
thing with the thirty three hundred thousand dollars that went
missing and him telling people don't.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
Tell anybody they found out.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Let's get another check of whether in traffic Bob Larsen
has got your weather and Mark Chris Verver again is
back in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Hey, Mark, it's race on the radio news ten eight WT.
I see see.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
So we've got this story that we talked about a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
Ago where.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
The millions of dollars that was going to a nonprofit
would have three hundred thousand dollars missing, another organization with
five hundred thousand dollars missing, and the FBI ended up

(01:17:31):
raiding certain facilities to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Where the hell's our money?

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
And I mean it's important, how the heck did three
hundred thousand dollars go to the wrong account?

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
And the details to this are quite a daunting.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Edmund Mahoney of the Hartford Current is writing about it.
The town of Bloomfield was surprised when one hundred dred
thousand dollars of a state grant was promised for its
successful summer jobs program.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
Failed to arrive.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
It was done when it learned that the money had
been quietly transferred to a new nonprofit now the subject
of a federal of a federal investigation. Excuse me, I
have no idea what just happened there? Bloomfield's missing one
one hundred thousand dollars had been quietly reading. Oh, excuse me,

(01:18:28):
this is bad.

Speaker 6 (01:18:28):
Come on, get it righty, br I don't know what's
wrong with me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Some drink some water.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
I may need to forgive me. I have no idea
what just happened.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
I'm not even eating anything, and all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, my voice just goes. I don't even
sound like myself right now.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
That's weird. Please forgive me. That's very unprofessional.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Anyway, bloomfield missing one hundred thousand dollars had been quietly
redirected by an opaque transaction at the state legislation to
the Society of Human Engagement and Business Alignment known as SHEIBA,
the new nonprofit at the center of the grand jury

(01:19:09):
investigation into the disbursement of tens of millions of dollars
of state grants. Sheba was created and operated by Sanseray
Cicero Hamlin, a close friend of State Senator Douglas McCrory,
an influential legislator and powerful voice in the distribution of
government grants, particularly in Hartford, where nonprofits play a vital

(01:19:32):
role across the city's economically distressed north side. McCrory represents
North Hartford and parts of the adjacent Bloomfield in Windsor.

Speaker 4 (01:19:43):
Since founding Sheba in twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Twenty two, Cicero Hamlin has collected more than three million
in government grants and consulting fees, according to a variety
of records, among the services Sheba offers. Among the services
Sheba offers our job training and placement for minorities. Both
McCrory fifty eight and Cicero fifty two are subjects of

(01:20:06):
a month long and federal investigation according to grand jury
subpoenas reviewed by the current one, which seeks all documents
concerning any personal or non professional relationship between the two.
They have declined to discuss the matter. Subpoenas are requests
for information. They are not accusations of guilt. Now, look,

(01:20:28):
this is all a problem because, as I said earlier
in the case in Hartford, if you are given the
opportunity to skim, you will. And I talked to a
young lady off the record who has dealt with Cicero Hamling,

(01:20:51):
and what she suggests.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
On gave me pause. She didn't levy any.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
Allegations towards She didn't say that, you know, woman, was this,
that or the third so there's no reason to even
say that. But she just thought that all of this
appeared inappropriate. And if that's the length of it, okay, fine,
that will be the end of it. But somebody's got

(01:21:18):
to tell me that, is it okay for a person
who has that kind of power to get government funds
into the hands of charities should be giving that to
someone he has.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
A personal relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Allegedly, he hasn't denied that is his significant other or
they're dating or involved in any way. In fact, he
refused to. I think the statement he said was, I'm
not gonna tell you who I'm sleeping with, or nor
would I. I'm not gonna tell you I'm not I'm
not gonna tell you I am. He was pretty defiant
about that. But I think it's a problem because all

(01:22:00):
I hear in this place is how corrupt the cut.
That's what it is. It's corrupt to cut. I heard
that from somebody. I would have never expected that to
last week when I was in down. Oh, like, okay,
I guess it goes without saying okay. But with that, Moniker,
one of two things happen. You become the politician that

(01:22:21):
says I'm gonna put an end to that. I don't
want that ever to be aligned with me and what
I represent, or I'm gonna say, ah, the hell with it.
If that's what we do, that's what we do. I'm
starting to think it's the latter, and the worst part
about it is is that these people are taking not

(01:22:42):
how do I let me let me rephrase this, because
I want this to be accurate in how I described it.
The people in Hartford poor communities, disenfranchised communities, if that's
how they self describe.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
They didn't ask for anything.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
They don't have the power to get that money into
their pockets. They don't They can't go to the city
council legislature and say, give everybody in our town this
amount of money or this kind of training.

Speaker 6 (01:23:16):
They don't.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
They always go through a liaison, a leader, a person
who speaks for them all, and then they take that
taxpayer money and they give it to that individual and
tells them go out help the people. This never ever works,

(01:23:39):
It doesn't, It never does. You cannot give money to
anyone freely.

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
You just can't.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
And that people may think that that's wrong to say.
So then Reees, what are these folks are going to
do fend for themselves. They're gonna have to make a
decision in their lives. They're gonna have to make a decision.
And look, let's go another step further. Let's just say,
let's go the Reese.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
On the radio way on this no more programs.

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
Not a dime goes to the inner city, Not a
dime goes to the poor communities. Forget about it. Don't
ask if you're one of these groups. I don't care
you are boys and girls club, feed the this and
that and the third. I don't care. None of you
get nothing. Now, So what do you suggest we do?

Speaker 4 (01:24:33):
Reese? Go online?

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
What's the one thing you never hear about in those
communities that they have access online? Is there been a
story out about anyone who is poor without a cell phone.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
The homeless have cell phones. The cell phone.

Speaker 3 (01:24:59):
Plans that they have with some of these providers are
so cheap a guy could panhandle in a day and
pay his monthly bill. You know What's a fact. So
they are not Without the Internet, they're not. And with
the access to the Internet, every person alive can research

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something to do. I'll give you a perfect example. I
technologically moron. Absolutely, I'm not even a novice. I'm below
novice when it comes to this figuring out technology. Wires
go here, audio goes there, none of that. Do you

(01:25:45):
want to know how I got this set up here
in my house. I didn't go to school for any
of it. It was trial and error and going online,
watching video after video after video, figuring it out until
it got to this.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
That's how I did it. I figured it out. It's
so crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
I developed the illusion for those of you who are
watching online. You guys know that there used to be
a bookcase behind me, and you're probably watching now saying, well,
the bookcase is still behind you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
No, it isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
That is a green screen of the bookcase. It's not
even real. It's the same thing that I've had there
for a year with a green screen behind it. The
shelf isn't even there anymore. I figured all that out
just by learning online. Everybody can learn how to get
a job, how to start a business, how to get

(01:26:37):
into the gig economy. All of it is there. In fact,
I've found out. I saw this guy, this one guy's
YouTube page where he's got twenty twenty things that you
can do to make money on the side.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Many of them you don't even have to leave home.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Everything. You can do everything from inside your house. So
I keep asking, what are we giving millions of dollars
to the sheeba program to teach people stuff that they
can learn online. Right now, you could give me, I
don't make give me a McDonald's salary.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
On by the hour. Was that fifteen dollars an hour?
Right now?

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Hartford pay me McDonald's salaries for about four hours worth
a day. I'll do four hours a day. I'll even
work weekends and give me four hours and people can
come here and I can show them how many gigs
there are that they can do at home online and

(01:27:48):
it'll cost you that much. These people are taking millions
of dollars because again sadly, sadly, it's paying for them.
Look like if you found doubt that's starting one of
these organizations that the city will give you taxpayers money
to and you can know, I can actually get a
salary from this, Yes you can. Who wouldn't do it?

(01:28:13):
Who wouldn't do it? They're all doing it. And again
these their so called nonprofits, except when it comes to
their wallets.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
It just is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
And again I don't get it. How is it in
this day and age where everything is accessible online, we
are still paying people to teach them how to do
stuff that they have at their fingertips.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
I used to say this a couple of years back.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
We're in the age of the smartphone handled by idiots.

Speaker 10 (01:28:50):
It just is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
Even Jason saying, you got me on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
Yes, you would have ever believed it until I showed you,
and I learned that by just going online, anybody can
learn how to do this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
They can all find a way to make some money.
All you have to do is just tell him that
and you'd be surprised by the way. Don't get me wrong,
A lot.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
Of those kids in these communities do know how to
make that money, and they are going online and they
are doing it. So the fact that there are people
in government falling for that nonsense every time you turn around,
say no, we're holding what's a nonsense, We're holding seminars
on how you're teaching people how to write a resume.

(01:29:41):
You could do that online right now. In fact, you
know who is it? Ali just said in the chat room?
Was it Ali who said that?

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
We're asking me?

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
No, Richard, Richard Ay just ask me in the chat room,
He says, are you real reason or AI? No, I'm real,
but mentioning AI. Right now, you can actually put in
chat GPT, which you can go to for free co
pilot all of these AA tell them just write down
your job experience.

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
Just jot them down.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
I worked here, I worked here, I worked here, put
in the dates that you worked there, and then tell
chat GPT, can you form a resume for me?

Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
It'll do it for you. We don't need these nonprofits.
You just don't.

Speaker 11 (01:30:26):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Some people would say it's like, damn Reez, you're gonna
put them out of business.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Yes, yes, you no longer have to run the risk
of these folks stealing money. Somebody being tempted by all
of that cash. It just look, we've seen it too
many times, especially when you there's no one being held
to account. In this case, it's about where the money winked? Right,

(01:30:52):
That's one part of this where did the money go?
But what I keep asking when this stuff comes up,
is anybody accounting for where the money is being spent
and what the results are? Is anyone holding these people
to some sort of like metric? How well did you
do with the last amount of tax dollars you did?
Why do you need more? If I give you five

(01:31:13):
million dollars in twenty twenty four, you can't tell you
need six million dollars in twenty twenty five. You can't
you need more money because there's more need. That means
what did you do the first time around? Did you
squander it? Well, you got less results. It's ridiculous. It

(01:31:33):
doesn't make any sense. It doesn't it just none of
it makes sense. And I would suggest let's just stop
wasting the money. Let's just stop. People know how to
go online. All of this stuff is for free. It's YouTube,
it's everywhere available at your fingertips.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
When we come back, Brian Shackman, we'll be on the program.
We'll talk to him more news and more of us.
We've also got Hollywood News. You don't want to miss
this Hollywood News because it has to do with eighties television.
And I don't know, I feel indifferent about this one.
Let's get to some Weather in Traffic. Bob Larson, he's
got whether Mark Christopher, he's an A B p S

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Traffic Center. Mark, you're gonna love today's Hollywood News. Oh okay,
I know you're looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Race on the radio is on w T.

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
I see, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
We got Brian Shacklan coming up in a little bit
after Weather in Traffic. We'll talk to him about the
Newington arrests by ice and what took place there. Uh,
and sort of get well, we don't have a discussion
on sort of different sides of this now. I'm it's

(01:32:50):
a really difficult place to be in this debate in
a for a lot of people because they don't know which,
you know, which side is upp which which ends up?

Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
But we we're gonna have that discussion.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
I kind of want to have discussion because he looks
at it one way, I'll get it another way.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
And that's the thing that I've always done. On this program,
I get a lot of this.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
You're conservative only taken a controvative virus. You'll never want
to listen to are anybody who else? I'm like, that's
not what I do. I want to I totally want
to hear from the other side or people who think
differently from me. Now, and Brian says it all the time.
He considers me, you know, hard right. I consider myself
always right, but that's different. That's a different if anybody

(01:33:38):
ever calls your heart right, just like no, no, always right.

Speaker 4 (01:33:43):
That's the way I look at it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
But I want to have a I want to have
a discussion about it, because everyone else is always about
the hyperbolic.

Speaker 10 (01:33:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
It's like, yo, don't like this, and you're just off
bright on bright that's not the discussion. And somebody said
yesterday it was just like, oh, you're you know, going
soft dunnering because you're well, she's never casting an dispersion
on anybody, you know, when I talk to Don and
Bob and Tim, it's always you're a bigot, you're an

(01:34:12):
uncle Tom, you're a sellout, you're a day So it's
always casting a spurgeon. It's never an honest debate. It's like,
don't agree with them, and all of a sudden somebody
craps on you about it. You're all the name calling
gets him. I'll scream in a holler at those guys
all day. Why because it's bottom feeding. It's got to
be a discussion, and that's what it's going to be.

(01:34:33):
So all that other you know, nonsense and I don't
know whatever, that's not the point. Brian is on hold.
We're gonna get to him soon. We got another check
of whether in Traffic also Hollywood News, which I'm again
I'm excited about it because for some odd reason, since
I started doing this, they've been going back into places

(01:34:55):
that I love but also make me a little uncomfortable.
And let me just it this way, I didn't think
that bringing the Karate Kid back from the dead as
a Netflix series was going.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
To be popular, but it was.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
So it looks like they're going back into the well
again in that theme with a popular show. So we're
gonna see whether or not that actually plans out or
pans out, I should say in Hollywood News. Plus I've
got some other soundbites that need to get to which
is happening in Virginia in Loudon County, No, Fairfax County.

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
I apologize with a scandal.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
That's brewing there in Virginia. And also what Mike Schmirkhanish
said about a study that says more young people are
not having sex and more people are no longer drinking
and Smirkhanas says that those are bad things. I'll play

(01:35:56):
it so to hear it. So stand by for that.
All right, go nowhere one News more views, Brian Shackman
on the other side of weather, in traffic, Bob Larson's
got your weather report.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
And Mark Christopher he's in the bp S TRAVC Center.

Speaker 11 (01:36:09):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
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going It's Reese on the radio. Let's just see. Some
people are not fans A News Talk ten eighty wt I.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Soon, Yeah, who cares, We're back.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
It's Rees on the radio w t I S News
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call him in the rap game.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
Brian Shackman is on the phone. What's up, buddy.

Speaker 13 (01:36:38):
Hey, I'm okay, I'm okay.

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
Now everybody's expecting a war.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
It's gonna be award a relax So this conversation that
you had, somebody called me on the show and said
that you were talking about the Newington seven as I've
called them, who were arrested in the Newington Optimal.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Car wash, and you would express some concerns about it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
In fact, the way I listened to it, it sounded
like you were you had been holding back for a
while on talking about the immigration issue as it pertains
to the Trump administration.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Do I get that right?

Speaker 13 (01:37:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:37:13):
I mean the Newington wasn't even like my key springboard.
I mean I had these conversations both at home and
at work for months. Yes, that's correct, And you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
Have a concern about what took place in Newington and
in other cases, because there have been some events where
some people who were American citizens were caught up. You
were talking about In fact, in the piece that everyone's
talking about is the Afghani man who was detained. He

(01:37:43):
was doing everything right and he was caught up as well.
But your concern about the Newington case was that here's
Ice rolling up in the middle of the day, grabbing
seven people and not knowing where they were. But I
needed to ask you this on that front. You said
that you were you were concerned about it. Maybe that's
not the word you used, was it? What was the
exact words you like that it seemed troubling or concerning

(01:38:07):
that they were picked up and it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
Was just good.

Speaker 13 (01:38:12):
No, I was just gonna say, I mean, I want
you to finish your question. Let interupt.

Speaker 14 (01:38:17):
What happened in Newington happens every day all over the country. Right,
there's fifteen fifteen hundred people are getting getting apprehended every day.
And the word I use was uncomfortable. Yeah, there it
made me uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 13 (01:38:30):
That's I mean, I go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
No, I was gonna ask what exactly is it that's
making you uncomfortable? Because when you said uncomfortable, you then
went on to say that you don't want to look
back twenty years, thirty years and find out what we
were doing here at this time and not speaking up
about it turned out to be something very awful.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
Can you expand on that?

Speaker 14 (01:38:52):
Well, yeah, I mean I think it's it's obvious, there's
there's no way. The only the only thing that is
that a lot of these people have broken the laws
that they came into the country illegally, whether they're seeking
asylum or not. And that that basically means that every
single person who I mean, it's not just the hundreds

(01:39:12):
of thousands or a couple of million in the bider ministries.

Speaker 13 (01:39:14):
You go back decades.

Speaker 14 (01:39:16):
If you call all those people criminals, they have not
had due process, they have not.

Speaker 13 (01:39:19):
Been convicted of anything.

Speaker 14 (01:39:21):
And my point is that every day there are people
who aren't violent criminals or convicted criminals who are apprehended
in a way that doesn't give them due process. And
I mean the example the Afghan introper is one. There's
there's dozens and dozens of them. I use the one.

Speaker 13 (01:39:34):
I use a lot.

Speaker 14 (01:39:35):
As this young woman who was a grad student of
Tufts University, she got got she got cuffed by a
bunch of playing clothsed masks, ice agents because she wrote
an op ed in the tough.

Speaker 13 (01:39:48):
Newspaper that was anti Israel or whatever.

Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
Now I'm Jewish, I'm pretty pro Israel, but I'm a
free speech guy, and I don't think somebody should be,
you know, dragged into a car and taken out a
state because they wrote a pop ed and a college paper.
So I don't know, And I was very clear, I mean,
if you want me to go through the whole my whole.

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
No, no, no, I don't need to trust me. I don't.
I don't need to go through the whole thing.

Speaker 13 (01:40:11):
Because I don't know these guys.

Speaker 14 (01:40:13):
We don't know, you don't know. And I didn't get
a chance to listen to too much because I've been
dealing with some stuff with my son's getting back to
school and stuff and and but you know, you know,
people have been texting me about this, so I I
only know contexture.

Speaker 13 (01:40:28):
You know, you know contextually what some of the stuff
that was said.

Speaker 14 (01:40:31):
But you know, for me what when you don't you
don't know that there's a safe assumption that a huge
percentage of these people are not violent or convicted criminals.

Speaker 4 (01:40:43):
And so when you believe, let me sorry, let me
cut you off on that part.

Speaker 14 (01:40:46):
Are taken away in the middle of the day by
people who are And again people can say, well, they're
masked because they don't want to get docks and all
this stuff, and we can.

Speaker 13 (01:40:54):
Talk about that the other day.

Speaker 14 (01:40:55):
By these these people, it makes me uncomfortable. I'm not
saying you don't have you can supportive you.

Speaker 13 (01:41:00):
I don't give a crap what.

Speaker 10 (01:41:01):
You do, but I if we.

Speaker 14 (01:41:03):
Find out that these people shouldn't have been treated this
way and we just sat by and didn't say anything
about it. I don't want to be.

Speaker 13 (01:41:11):
That person, Okay, that's why I spoke out about it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
No, no, and I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
Like, listen, this is the point of view that you have,
a lot of people have, and the people who are
outraged about it seem to be showing this outrage like
you weren't allowed that opinion. There was only one thought
process on this, and I can disagree with you. What
I wanted to do was have a moment where because
you don't take phone calls on your show, I do,
and I don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
I needed my point of.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
View, your point of wood, for both of us to
have a conversation about each other's point of view and
sort of debate that out in a little time that
we do. So you said that that there was these
people like you or not. There was a lot of
what you said that seemed very blanket and a blanket
approach to the whole thing when we know that many
of these incidentss have to do with the illegal end

(01:42:00):
into our country. So I want to talk about something
you just said earlier. You said, if their only crime
was they came into the country illegally and they've been,
you know, crime free the time that they've been here.
What do you say to the fact that many of
the people who are being picked up are people who
did not show up at their court hearings or asylum

(01:42:23):
hearings that they were scheduled to return to, because there was.

Speaker 4 (01:42:26):
A large number of those people who have been caught up.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
By the way, no one's talking about it, but that's
verifiably true that have been caught up and picked up
because they did not return to their scheduled hearing to
find out if they were allowed to get asylum.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
What do you say to.

Speaker 14 (01:42:41):
That, Well, I mean, I haven't seen figu I haven't
seen the documentation that says that's the case. But I
would I would say even in when I spoke about
this the other day was a yesterday, Yes, I said,
if if if people, you know, if people are criminals,
convicted criminals, are violent criminals, they should be gone. And

(01:43:01):
people don't follow the process, they they should be they
should be considered for deportation as well. That that's not
even the issue. I mean, that's not all these people anything.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
However, you don't know but Brian, you do not know
that that's Brian, you don't know that that's all these.

Speaker 14 (01:43:17):
People failing because because the system was failing, they still
get due process. And and I don't I don't really
want to argue about all this stuff. I just for me, uh,
the the thing that's most important is that just seeing
that on the streets is just it just doesn't feel
like the American way we do things. And and and

(01:43:38):
whether it's whatever the facts are.

Speaker 13 (01:43:40):
We don't know the facts. Reachs just like we don't
know who these people were. Maybe they were criminals.

Speaker 14 (01:43:45):
I don't even I don't know what they were. They
could be their their apprehension might have been valid. But
until they tell us or they have transparency, you don't
know that.

Speaker 13 (01:43:53):
So you can.

Speaker 14 (01:43:54):
Assume one way or you consume the other way. If
you had it, if.

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
You had an approach to this, what would it be.

Speaker 14 (01:44:03):
Well, I mean, listen, for me, I think that there's
just this and I do want to address the Nazi
thing in a second, but okay, I.

Speaker 13 (01:44:11):
Just feel like there's.

Speaker 14 (01:44:12):
This this This is on multiple levels. There's some macro
philosophical level where I think that you know this a
lot that's going on is like the last gasp of
what could soon be you know, uh, you know, the
minority majority could happen in this country, and that brings
a lot of fear in a lot of people. But ultimately,

(01:44:34):
I think there's a sense initially that all the people
that were let in during the Biden administration, whatever that
number was, say it was five million or six million
or two million, we want to get that number out
and that's and that's when Stephen Miller wants three thousand
a day.

Speaker 13 (01:44:48):
And those are arbitrary numbers, and they're.

Speaker 14 (01:44:51):
Massive numbers that that go far beyond the scope of like,
you know, what initially I thought was a really good
plan is part of the closing the borders. It's still fear.
You don't want people to come. If people are scared
to come in here, they're not gonna come here.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
And I think that's been established, hasn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:45:09):
But for me, if you say what, what, what would
my solution be? Like, I don't have all the answers.

Speaker 14 (01:45:13):
I only know what I what I see, read and
thinking and believe in my heart, and I think, okay,
if you, if you, if you, if you're a criminal,
or you you were convicted of something, and you're a
violent crime, your member a game, you're gone. I would
like everyone else to have due process, and and if
they can't do the things that they need to do
to get asylum or be here on the record, then

(01:45:34):
they should go. But they've deserved, they deserve to do process.
And if somebody wrote an op ed in the newspaper,
she doesn't deserve to get cuffed and stuffed.

Speaker 13 (01:45:42):
That's not what I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
Yeah, I can deal with But for Brian, I could
deal with that woman, or even you know, Khalil Macmud,
whatever his name is, I can deal with him outside
of the vacuum of every like. I'm not both of
those individuals don't get to beat all the illegals who
are being picked up and removed by ICE, because I
know that there has been there's been this approach that says,

(01:46:05):
because I think they're good, they all get to be good,
and any picking up of those individuals by ICE gets
to be somebody somehow problematic, because I think that it's
wrong to paint anybody with a broad brush, be it
good or bad.

Speaker 14 (01:46:18):
So I'm not saying I'm not saying that none of them.
I'm not saying that none of them deserve to be apprehended.

Speaker 13 (01:46:23):
I'm not saying that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
Okay, No, I know you're not. You made that very
clear in your eight nine minutes. You did.

Speaker 13 (01:46:29):
Yeah, so let's you know, for me.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
Let's go to the Nazi thing because we only have
a little bit of time. I want to get to
the Nazi thing. So you made it clear in the
beginning that the comparisons to Nazi Germany should or should
not be allowed. They know that's not that's the non starter.
Get that out out of your mind. But then you
talked about this book that you were reading, and then
talked about authoritarianism, and then lastly you mentioned, uh, people

(01:46:56):
not saying anything about going what's going on, and still
talk talking about the Nazi Germany where people didn't say
anything when something bad was going. Can you parse the
two and tell me how you weren't saying that it's
equating it to Nazi Germany but.

Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
Still kind of going there because that's what it did.
It kind of went there.

Speaker 13 (01:47:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:47:15):
No, No, I mean, it's it's easier to him by
the way. I mean, I think you acknowledge this. I mean,
this is something I said extemporaneously.

Speaker 13 (01:47:21):
I don't have some you know flow chart, you know
note looks in front of me.

Speaker 14 (01:47:25):
I just I was moved by something and I want
to share it. That's what my show is, right, I
share when it's important enough to be the Nazis. I
basically said, like you just said, the comparison to Nazi
Gerremy is inappropriate because there's not some systemic effort by
the government to get to rid certain people from the earth. Right,
that's not happening. But that doesn't mean that what is

(01:47:48):
happening here is right or okay. Just because it's not,
that doesn't mean it's right or okay. There are gradations
of you know, problems you can have with this. And
then the second component of it is when I taught
is I was really referring to civilians, not military or
state run philosophies of Aryan nation. I was talking about

(01:48:10):
the regular, everyday Germans who may not have been active
members of the party, they may not have been in
the military, and they probably knew, many of them did
that something horrible was happening, and they did or said nothing. Now,
in Germany, it's pretty obvious they were threatened with a lot. Sure,
there was being taken to a camp themselves or their

(01:48:30):
relatives getting taken away, or them actually getting killed.

Speaker 13 (01:48:34):
So there was a real fear of speaking up.

Speaker 14 (01:48:37):
Now, what happened with you or your listeners in the
show is to kind of prove my point is that
I was just saying, as a citizen, I don't want
history to look back on this where however it looks
back on it, and not have said something that this
makes me uncompromising. So I wasn't making some sort of
state comparison. I was making a civilian comparison to the
people in everyday Germany.

Speaker 4 (01:48:59):
Let me let me dry.

Speaker 14 (01:49:00):
It's kind to kna the thing, but let me finish
this one one my point because I think it's it's
it's really important that this is just, this is just,
this is just me, and I don't I'm not trying
to convince anybody to change anybody's mind. But my problem
with people right now, and this is why I run
the show the way I do, is that how come
I can't be be critical of one thing and all

(01:49:22):
of a sudden it makes me some jackass liberal or
you know what I mean? Like that with you pot
because that's not true, And so you can people with
with the whole Trump era. Either you're all in or
you're the problem, and that's not the way it should be.
There's tons of stuff. Tons So there's several things that
Trump has done, but other thinks they're completely constructive.

Speaker 13 (01:49:43):
And I'm happy to talk about that.

Speaker 14 (01:49:45):
But this particular thing I don't think is the way
we want to do things in this country, even though
we could be we could be tougher, and the thing
with the borders worked, but this thing I wanted people
to know that I wasn't comfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:49:59):
Okay now, but I will say this before I let
you go that part that you just said about you
didn't want to be the person who didn't speak up
or you were talking about Germany. By the way, when
I talk about this personally, my family, like I have
a personal relationship with a woman whose husband was a
Nazi soldier and he had to join in order for

(01:50:21):
them to survive and to eat. So I know this
story intimately about those about those people as you talk about,
But this is not something that people aren't openly talking about.
There are rallies that no one has ever been fearful
of retribution in the Trump era as to those who
are opposed to it so, And there was something you

(01:50:41):
said about that that said that, you know, people are
fearful of retribution.

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
That's never been the case for anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
Everyone's been openly opposed to what Donald Trump's doing in
this case.

Speaker 4 (01:50:51):
Isn't that fair to say?

Speaker 11 (01:50:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:50:53):
I mean, I think a lot of people that have
opposed the president in places more important than.

Speaker 13 (01:50:57):
Me have lost their jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
I think Stephen Colbert lost his shot because of because
of his position.

Speaker 13 (01:51:03):
Look, I mean, look a look at what he did.

Speaker 14 (01:51:05):
I mean, listen, if Lisa Cook lied on her mortgage application,
I don't know, but I mean, you know, look what
he's trying to do to power. I mean, these are
things I don't want to get into, but I I obviously,
obviously the fear of open expression is nothing like Germany.
I'm not saying it is okay saying that. I'm not
totally convinced that it's a free and easy culture. When
when people are you're very passionate about their president, and

(01:51:28):
as is their.

Speaker 13 (01:51:29):
Right to be.

Speaker 14 (01:51:30):
But if I don't agree with one thing, all of
a sudden, they're broadbrushing me. They don't know my attitude
about taxation and budget and and the military.

Speaker 13 (01:51:39):
They don't know where where my mind is, so I
think that's an unfair way to try.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
I will admit.

Speaker 3 (01:51:44):
Look, it is true you want one hundred percent right
that there is a bar that is raised if you
don't agree with you know, the status quo on this.
But like I said, I've told everybody else. Of course,
he's free to his own opinion. You may you may
not agree with it, but you should be seeing to
it on the level that says, okay, How does it
embolden me to sort of certify my point of view?

Speaker 4 (01:52:05):
Brian, thank you for taking the time.

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
I know you got your busy day, and thank you
for taking a little bit of time you could.

Speaker 13 (01:52:11):
And Red Sorry if I talk too much.

Speaker 14 (01:52:13):
I'm happy to talk about it more on another day.

Speaker 4 (01:52:15):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:15):
I'd love to have you back, man, kidding me, gotta
have you back. Thank you, man, Brian Shachman. Let's get
to another check of weather in traffic. Bob Larson's got weather,
Mark Christopher, he's in the BATPS Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Hey, Mark, Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:52:26):
Reese, the hour that backs out Punch Punch, It's Reese
on the radio on w t i S News Talk
ten eight.

Speaker 4 (01:52:34):
All right, let's get to it. I'm so excited for this.
It's Hollywood news. What y'all Corross, I'm Race on the radio.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
Fashion Plan, It's Hollywood news.

Speaker 4 (01:52:57):
Roler really likes this music. I love playing it for
year old or not. I didn't expect you to like
it as much as it does.

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
Right, It's great, all right, So all of you eighties
fans out there, you are going to love this news.
But I don't know whether or not you're going to
actually go like you might go just to find out.
You may even watch it on video. So a couple
of years back, they actually did a movie starring is

(01:53:27):
it Sean Austin Sean Asta. I can't remember the guy's name,
but he was in that movie The Rundown with the
Rock and he was also Stifler in all of the
American Pie movies. Him and Johnny Knoxville did the movie
version of The Dukes of.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
Hazzard and it was high. I mean, Jessica Simpson plays
Daisy Duke.

Speaker 3 (01:53:52):
It wash, it was you know, it was popcorn, a
popcorn film, and people enjoyed it and they'll watch it
from time to time on cable. But you might remember
that The Dukes of Hazzard's direct rival over on NBC
was none other than Night Writer. Yes, Night Writer, David Hasselhoff,

(01:54:13):
Michael Knight, the Night Industries two thousand, I guess it's
gonna probably be three thousand this time. It doesn't even
make sense to two thousand. Yes, the folks that brought
you Cobra Kai, which is the spinoff of the Karate
Kid and actually made it a success in the twenty
first century on Netflix, that team has gotten together to

(01:54:37):
rework Nightrider as a film. Sean Williams Scott, say again,
Shewan Williams Scott. Thank you, Sean Williams Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:54:45):
So Night Writer is going to be made into a
feature film now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
I know that they will probably bring David Hasselhoff's old
bones out for the movie, but it's worth at least
I thought it's at least somewhat interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Has never been a film, It's never been thought of.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
Apparently this has been in development for a long time,
but it looks like they're going to try it off.

Speaker 4 (01:55:07):
Try it out.

Speaker 12 (01:55:08):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:55:09):
If they make Night.

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
Industries two thousand of tesla, I will be disappointed.

Speaker 4 (01:55:14):
So I'm interested in that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
Let's get to whether a traffic with Bob Larson and
Mark Christopher's in a BPS traffic c I knew it
it was coming.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
Wait, now, who's gonna star in the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
They don't have a star yet, but it is in
development that they're gonna bring it in as a feature film.
And they've tried this before, like a two hour Night
Writer with David also Off. They brought it back as
another series in the early two thousands. I think, so
this will be the first feature film, and I just can't.

Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
Imagine what the car will be. Do you think they
should bring back the transam? Is that what it was?

Speaker 12 (01:55:49):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:55:50):
Yeah, I think they should bring it back.

Speaker 1 (01:55:52):
My buddy had a transam.

Speaker 10 (01:55:54):
Woo.

Speaker 3 (01:55:55):
But I'll tell you the part that sucks that we
don't have William Daniels back in.

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
You know, he's since past.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
William Daniels was the voice of Kit and that was
I'm sorry, that was the.

Speaker 4 (01:56:05):
He was the main character that show for me.

Speaker 9 (01:56:07):
That was before you know, that was before all the
electronic stuff in your car that talks to you.

Speaker 4 (01:56:12):
Now you know what, They could get an AI version
of him? Oh yeah, you're right, they totally could. One
of his one of his estate would sign off on that. Yeah,
they're probably interesting. Why wouldn't they it's cash money exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Holds still, this is only gonna hurdle little It's race
on the radio w t I series.

Speaker 4 (01:56:35):
Hey, and we're back. I just realized I didn't do that.
We are back, more news, more views than you could
shake his stick. I have this audio that is actually
blowing my mind. A CBS reporter, she's got to be.
I mean, she's obviously a kid. Olivia Rinaldi, who was
apparently she was waiting on a on a hit on
CBS News and she finds out that Taylor Swift is engaged.

Speaker 15 (01:57:03):
Swift is engaged. Taylor Swift is engage. Taylor Swift is engaged.
This come back to me. She just posted it. Oh
my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
You're a grown woman, You're an adult. Calm down, Taylor
Swift is engaged. I just like, I don't even know
what to make of it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
I saw it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
I was just like any serious. I guess maybe because
I'm a guy. I don't know, maybe a guy that's
always been a thing growing up. The girls car crazy
about the one of their favorite girls getting married.

Speaker 4 (01:57:39):
I guess that's a big deal, and I don't want
to pooh poo it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
Sorry, ladies, don't get me wrong. You're probably gonna tell
me I wouldn't understand. I can't it, I don't. All right,
let's go to the phones. Uh okay, Now there's gotta
be some ground rules.

Speaker 4 (01:57:53):
No hating.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
No hating, all right, admitute that there is. You can cut,
you could question my credibility. You could come after me
all you want, but there's gonna be no hating. You
can talk about the interview, you talk about the conversation
between Brian and I, but no hating. Don't embarrass me.
You're my listeners. Okay, have a discussion. Okay, don't embarrass me.

Speaker 4 (01:58:12):
All right. I got the big wigs watching me. I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
I'm kidding, but don't embarrass me. All right, don't turn
this into nonsense. Let's go to Mike in Newington. What's
going on, sir?

Speaker 16 (01:58:24):
How you doing?

Speaker 8 (01:58:24):
Brother?

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
I'm good, big guy? What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
I don't I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (01:58:32):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:58:33):
Well, first of all, you said when you when you
said who's on the line, what'd you say?

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
I said, Mike is in Newington?

Speaker 11 (01:58:40):
Right, So why am I calling?

Speaker 4 (01:58:41):
You are calling about the Newington seven?

Speaker 11 (01:58:44):
Okay, so that is point that is point eight miles
from my house. Okay, wow, Actually it's actually on my
street down the road.

Speaker 6 (01:58:53):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:58:54):
So the reason why I want to deal, I don't
know if anyone has given you the makeup of this
particular place.

Speaker 4 (01:59:00):
Ready, I understand that it is.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
It is run by Middle Eastern folks, whether or not
from Afghanistan or some Middle Eastern country, but a group,
the largest group of individuals who actually worked there at
the car wash or either Mexican or Guatemali.

Speaker 10 (01:59:17):
Correct Now, This place is in a gas station that
was up until about a year ago a shell gas station.

Speaker 11 (01:59:24):
Got bought up by Mobile.

Speaker 10 (01:59:25):
Okay, it's one of these cross corner gas station that
was a brand new gas station.

Speaker 11 (01:59:29):
Across the corner too, a pie place on the opposite corner.

Speaker 10 (01:59:32):
The reason I'm telling you this, though, is on a
Saturday or Sunday morning, I might get in my car
and go down to that corner because across the street
is a place that used to be called the Hole
Donut years ago. Now it's called King Donut, and they
got pretty good bagels. So I'll go pick up a
bagel on a Saturday morning and bring it home and
you know having my coffee. God Resa, if you go

(01:59:53):
down there on a Saturday or Sunday or any day
of the week, but I'm talking particularly Saturday Sunday. They
almost deserved what happened there because you would think that
you were in Tijuana because they have music, let Latino
music blaring and eight people outside.

Speaker 11 (02:00:10):
And this isn't a neighborhood. This isn't like you're in
Hartford in a city.

Speaker 10 (02:00:15):
This is a suburban neighborhood in Newington.

Speaker 11 (02:00:19):
And they were the way they were set up over
there like that, eight people, someone's sitting on her.

Speaker 10 (02:00:24):
I watched one day.

Speaker 11 (02:00:24):
I wanted to call the board a house in Newington.
I watched them eating some takeout shrimp from somewhere.

Speaker 10 (02:00:29):
I saw com clearly what they were doing, and they
were throwing it all on the ground.

Speaker 11 (02:00:33):
When they were done, I'm like, this place is gonna
have wrapped next week. What's going on there?

Speaker 10 (02:00:37):
And said, someone sent to me a day or two
and go, well, how does this happen over there?

Speaker 11 (02:00:42):
Doesn't the owner of this place know who they hired?
I said, no, I'll bet you.

Speaker 10 (02:00:46):
They contracted out the portion of the gas station. It's
going to look in the store and then they have
a bay where they run the cars through. I said,
somebody contracted that out one guy, and then all these
guys get hired by him. So all these people didn't
get highed necessarily by the proprietor of the station, but
by the guy or they contracted out to for the

(02:01:07):
car washing portion of it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:08):
Well, Mark, actually he pretty much confirms what you said.
You know, he says, he goes there a lot. He
actually loves the work that they do. They do a
really really good detailed job on his car, makes it
his car look factory new.

Speaker 4 (02:01:20):
That's how good the work is inside and out. He says.

Speaker 3 (02:01:23):
It's like three hundred dollars work that they do for
you know, sixty bucks, he said. He when he gets
the bill at the end, he actually tips them more
than the actual bill.

Speaker 4 (02:01:31):
That's how good the work is.

Speaker 3 (02:01:32):
But he does say that in that small little area
they blastom poteano music. It is kind of, I don't
want to say a party scene, but it's pretty loud
in that resident. Do you think let me ask you this, Mike,
since you live in the area, and of course this
is speculation, but do you think maybe there had been
some noise complaints from because you said it's a suburban areas,

(02:01:55):
do you think there may have been some noise complaints.

Speaker 10 (02:02:00):
Right on just next door, I'm talking about fifty feet
away there's a house, and.

Speaker 11 (02:02:05):
Then there's a whole wrong houses.

Speaker 10 (02:02:07):
I'll guarantee you there has to be complains. I'll guarantee
I'd be surprised as hell there wasn't.

Speaker 11 (02:02:12):
There's no way, there's there.

Speaker 4 (02:02:13):
Was no I listen, this is the part.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
See again, there is always nuance to this story. And
again I look, I refuse, I err on the side
of not having the information. When I don't have the information,
I just go, let's wait until because there is other
parts of this that are sort of being viewed by
saying they think that it was just a whole bunch.

Speaker 4 (02:02:38):
Of cars rolling up, got out, come on the ground,
go right.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
You know, it was this sort of wild, chaotic scene
where a bunch of people are running around and it's chaos,
but it appears that it ran very orderly.

Speaker 4 (02:02:51):
The people who have been.

Speaker 3 (02:02:52):
Taken uh have gone, and there were others who also
were brown, were also from Ago, which we know for
certain because Mark's been there today. There are other people
from other foreign countries who were not taken.

Speaker 4 (02:03:06):
So it was very methodic in the approach. So there.

Speaker 10 (02:03:11):
Make another point before you let me go, is that
I have a good friend Liz right down the road
for me.

Speaker 11 (02:03:16):
We sat here and there. She does not like to
engage at.

Speaker 10 (02:03:19):
All in politics. He won't listen to radio stuff. He
gets annoyed when I bring it up. But he made
a very good point to me.

Speaker 11 (02:03:25):
Well, he said, he made the point that you know, well,
you brought it up earlier. And my friend who's sitting
here with me right now, he stopped by after he
got out of work. We're having a little cocktail and talking. Yeah,
and he said the same thing.

Speaker 10 (02:03:35):
Too, what you brought up earlier. When people say, well,
you know, they're working and paying taxes.

Speaker 2 (02:03:40):
Whoa stop.

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
A minute, Yeah, you know what you're right. Let me
let me address that too. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate
the call. Let me address that because I actually looked
this up. So Reuters has a fact checked right, and
this is what it says in the headline.

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
Let me read this is from February to February.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
Twenty six of twenty twenty five, and it's Reuters. Okay,
so let's let's take it for what it is. It's routers.
And in February of this year, a month after Donald
Trump Donald Trump's inauguration, they write this article fact check,
undocumented immigrants can and do pay taxes. Yes, if one

(02:04:21):
of them, two of them, three of them paid actual taxes,
I wouldn't argue with you.

Speaker 4 (02:04:27):
The headline would ring true.

Speaker 3 (02:04:30):
But the article goes on to talk about it N
numbers that are given by the Internal Revenue Service, right,
that are given by the IRS. These people are given,
so it says fact check. Some undocumented workers may say
that they are paying taxes and should be given a

(02:04:50):
chance to say that, but they don't pay taxes. They're
not allowed to work here in the US. Now, when
Reuters writes this article about the ITI and number because
they can't get Social Security numbers, they are right.

Speaker 4 (02:05:03):
Some illegals do have I T I N numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:05:08):
But I looked deeper, and it's the one thing that
makes that doesn't make sense is that when you ask
Social Security or the I R S, who has I
T I N numbers? In other words, to parse them illegals?
Uh uh uh?

Speaker 4 (02:05:26):
What do you call it? Visa holders? Those individuals it
turns out the I R S doesn't have those numbers.
There's no way to know who does and who does it.
They don't. They don't even give those numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:05:43):
So I went a step further and I asked how
many visa holders have I T I N numbers? In fact,
I'm going ahead of myself. Let's stop.

Speaker 4 (02:05:55):
How many I T I N numbers are given out
this year?

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
In fact, how many have them today? As we stand today,
the number sits at about five point six million. They
can't tell you who has them, but five point six
million of them do. So then I looked up how
many visa holders have itin numbers? They do have that one,

(02:06:24):
it turns out, and I have the information here, one
point two two four million.

Speaker 4 (02:06:31):
Now how did I come up with that number?

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
That number is just forty seven percent of all visa holders.
Forty percent of all visa numbers who are working. The
other ones are students. That's a smaller percentage. And another
one and by the way, out of that number is

(02:06:54):
three point six million visa holders three point six million.
That's how we get to the one to one point
two two four million who have ITI nds. So the
number of five point six people who have it's that's
now chopped right, it's a third, almost a third cut down.
How many illegals have come into the country ten million,

(02:07:18):
twenty million?

Speaker 4 (02:07:19):
Who knows?

Speaker 3 (02:07:20):
Even if it's twelve million, there are only five point
six million with it I ends.

Speaker 4 (02:07:27):
So yes, are there some undocumented.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
As they call them, or illegals who have ITI in numbers,
who are paying taxes, Yes, without a doubt, But the
large majority do not.

Speaker 4 (02:07:42):
Because they are undocumented.

Speaker 3 (02:07:43):
You have to ask yourself a question, why are they
giving out IDs in.

Speaker 1 (02:07:49):
New Haven?

Speaker 4 (02:07:50):
Why are they giving out the New Haven IDs?

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
Why isn't anybody working to get them social Security numbers
or birth certificates in the United States?

Speaker 4 (02:08:01):
New Haven just decided, no, We're just gonna give them.
We're gonna give them IDs to the city. So this
Reuter's story says, and this has been try this on.

Speaker 3 (02:08:13):
Undocumented immigrants paid ninety seven billion in federal, state, and
local taxes in twenty twenty two, according to a July
twenty twenty four report by the Institute of Taxation and
Economic Policy, which used data on taxpayers with itn estimated
tax revenue. But again, when you ask them, how many

(02:08:39):
undocumented immigrants have itin numbers.

Speaker 4 (02:08:44):
They don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:46):
The number has never been given because they don't have it.
So the number could be five percent of people who
have iti ns. But you can't say that it is
a fact check that they do because when you ask
the irs how many of them are undocumented or illegals
for that matter, they don't have the data. So you're

(02:09:09):
kind of spinning it, if you get my meaning. So again,
it's just worth Oh yeah, I mean, I just I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:09:20):
Know what what am I supposed to say. That's just
I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:09:26):
Ideas that the city can know where who they are.
Donald Wright in new Haven, Donald, the mayor of New Haven,
contradicts exactly what you just said. Did you miss my
whole diatribe at the beginning of the show. I know
you listened to the whole show. The IDs are so

(02:09:48):
they can know who they are. We asked Justin Ellerker
who they are. He said he didn't know, because we
don't ask. When we asked, can p people know who
their neighbors are? He said, you should ask them because we.

Speaker 4 (02:10:04):
Don't know, and we don't ask. Why do you like
what am I doing here? Some mess?

Speaker 3 (02:10:14):
I'm just going to break, We'll be back, more news,
more views after weather. In traffic, Bob Lars has got
whether Mark Christophers in the BPS Traffic Center, Hey Mark.

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As far you late arrivers, it's time for What happened
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Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
What So.

Speaker 4 (02:10:54):
What happened was, you know, we were getting a phone
call about the uh Brian Shackman was talking about the
situation that was going on in Newington. A lot of
people were talking about it and it became a real
I mean it was everywhere on X everybody had something
about it.

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
And I think they were more or less responding to
the Mayor of Newington, who's still not come out of hiding.
I'm not sure exactly what that's about it. If I
had to be for anybody, it was with their statement
that didn't seem to make sense to me.

Speaker 4 (02:11:26):
And let me you know what, I want.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
To rehash it, if I could excuse me anyway, I
want to rehash it. Again saying that you're deeply concerned
should come with an understanding of what's going on, which
again seems like that was a problem here. Since learning
of the incident, we have requested immediate information from the

(02:11:48):
Hartford Ice Office where inquiries have been directed. We are
actively working to determine who was targeted, whether their families
have been notified, where they have been held, or if
or how they have been charged.

Speaker 4 (02:12:00):
We are deeply concerned about this incident.

Speaker 3 (02:12:02):
And my beef was, it sounds like you know nothing,
but you're deeply concerned about not knowing anything. And again
I can't make heads or tails of that. I would
be deeply concerned if I found out that people were
taste I would be deeply concerned.

Speaker 4 (02:12:18):
If the ice officers.

Speaker 3 (02:12:19):
Had pulled out guns, I would be deeply concerned. If
there were people who were being dragged across the floor
or being manhandled in some you know, upper cuts and
all that, I would be deeply concerned about those things.
But there was no such talk of that, And again
I'm just trying to figure out. So Brian Shachman joined

(02:12:40):
the show to talk about his concern about it, and
he said he thought it was deeply troubling, and again
he's looking at this from a place where he's concerned
what are we doing and he's trying to understand it.
He gathers the news just like I do. His the

(02:13:00):
way that he is receiving the news is going to
is being received by him in a way that's different
from me.

Speaker 4 (02:13:08):
And he argued on the show, it's like, look, because
I have a difference of opinion, all of a sudden,
I gotta be this, that and a third.

Speaker 3 (02:13:13):
And again that's not fair. I can disagree with Brian
on anything in the world. He's not supposed to have
an opinion here on WCIC that purports that agrees with
everybody here. It's not his job and didn't come in
here to do everybody else's bidding. That part I don't like.
And my conversation was or about. The conversation was talking
about the people making a suggestion that he.

Speaker 4 (02:13:36):
Was equating it or associating it with Nazi.

Speaker 3 (02:13:39):
Germany, which he got an opportunity to clear up he
was not. But he was just saying, just because people
want this to happen doesn't mean that it's being done
in the right way. In his opinion, she's allowed to
have again, a lot of people got to understand that
you don't have to agree with it, but you know
out get him that in a minute.

Speaker 4 (02:13:58):
Just give us, give me a minute. Let me get
the weather, traffic.

Speaker 3 (02:14:01):
I'm trying to explain something I need more time to
but we got a clock and I gotta follow it.

Speaker 4 (02:14:05):
Mark Christopher, He's gonna be thes traffic center. How you doing, buddy?
What's up? Everybody? You know who it is?

Speaker 1 (02:14:10):
Who is you know who it's.

Speaker 3 (02:14:12):
We's on the radio, Frederick Douglas of the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (02:14:16):
It's w t i C News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (02:14:20):
I gotta tell you, from the bottom of my heart.
I hate math, I really do. I can't stand it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:26):
Dress me off the wall, rest on the radio. We're
about to get up out of here. Let's go to
the phone. Calls Mark and West Hartford, who is a
patron of the car washing question in Newington.

Speaker 4 (02:14:37):
What do you got for me?

Speaker 13 (02:14:38):
Buddy?

Speaker 16 (02:14:39):
So before we get to that, and I'm not hating
on Brian. People know that me and him we communicate.

Speaker 4 (02:14:46):
Yeah, your friends.

Speaker 16 (02:14:46):
I think he represents a large slock of whether you
call him moderates or liberals or people who are sympathetic
to this play. But he said something that stood out
big time with me. Okay, you much live my life
every day that way. I don't wait and pick and
shoes which which you know, whatever topic it is or

(02:15:10):
in this case, you know, it's picking up illegals by ice.
And he said he doesn't want to go. Then he
use a number of years. He doesn't want to be
that guy, like thirty years from now, right, he said yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:15:22):
At first he said twenty and then he says thirty.

Speaker 6 (02:15:24):
Years right, yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:15:25):
Yeah. So so my thing is like, and I'm going
to bring back because I was one of his last callers.
He used to take calls, but where would he Where
was Brian? And again he represents some people. I'm not
picking on Brian, but where were these people all during COVID,
Like where was the questioning? And being one of last
Brian's last callers? I live, you know the way I am.

(02:15:47):
I'm always asking questions. And this was a few years ago.
I called up Brian because I knew ned Lamont was
going on the next day and this beer's repeating. Some
people know this story and I called him out for
softbakquestions and he goes well, what would you want me
to ask? Ned?

Speaker 12 (02:16:02):
Now?

Speaker 16 (02:16:03):
This is the height of COVID. I mean, we're a mess.
I go ask him why he's not using field hospitals
that he built. The beds are empty. He's sending COVID
positentations to the nursing homes. And if there's nothing wrong
with it, why did he put an immunity order?

Speaker 1 (02:16:18):
In?

Speaker 11 (02:16:18):
Pretty good questions right?

Speaker 16 (02:16:21):
And he says to me, I'm not gonna ask him that,
So you can't have questions.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
Now that may hold on, hold on now, I will
say this because what have we learned over the last
couple of weeks that Ned Lamond fields every question before
they're asked.

Speaker 4 (02:16:39):
And there is I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (02:16:41):
That that is an absolute fact of this administration.

Speaker 4 (02:16:44):
It's like there are some things that, especially if they're controversial, they.

Speaker 3 (02:16:48):
Won't come on the program if you're gonna ask the
tough questions. Hello a La Reese on the radio. It's
why they won't come here, because you know you're gonna
ask the tough questions. But I get what you're saying
is that you brought it up and say why not
talk about that? It could run the risk of it,
you know, as far as you know, retribution goes with Lamont. Hey,
I'm never going on that program again, no more access.

Speaker 16 (02:17:09):
But but the thing is, let's get back to what
Brian said. I don't want to be that guy that
wouldn't question you know, I engaged him personally. It just happened,
by the grace of God, he took care of me
where I read him. They got to ask those questions
in person, face to face.

Speaker 11 (02:17:23):
So let's say that never took place.

Speaker 16 (02:17:25):
Well, I mean that, like, I don't understand how Brian
could say something like that regarding this, and then all
during cold and I'm not just picking up Brian, they
all nobody was asking.

Speaker 3 (02:17:36):
This, well, you know what, hold on and Brian let
me let me, let me respond to that, because actually
we had that discussion during the election week. We myself, Tom,
and and Brian. We were all there in the in
the studio together during the election week. We were actually
talking about that beforehand, and we both Tom and I
both made reference to the authoritarian nature of you know,

(02:18:00):
COVID shutdowns, you know, the mass mandates, vaccine mandates, also
the constant uh, you know, attacking people who are online,
be it Facebook, Instagram, and all that other stuff, and
Brian was like, you know, look, I don't know a
lot about that with that that which was going on. Now,
I don't know whether or not he didn't, but he
said that, Look I'm not I'm not aware of that,

(02:18:20):
but I'm sure that had he had he been aware
of it, I'm I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
That says if he says he didn't know about it,
I can't ask him to old Pine about something he's
not aware of.

Speaker 4 (02:18:32):
But everybody.

Speaker 10 (02:18:40):
Get it.

Speaker 16 (02:18:40):
He could say he doesn't. What I'm saying is Brian
could say he didn't know, right, but he had the
very guest. He has all these shields and all the
elected officials and appointed officials on his show.

Speaker 3 (02:18:52):
But that's not his role though, And you got to
understand that that's my role.

Speaker 4 (02:18:57):
You know.

Speaker 8 (02:18:59):
I got it.

Speaker 11 (02:18:59):
Now?

Speaker 16 (02:18:59):
Can I just leave you with this week?

Speaker 8 (02:19:02):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:19:04):
I think you're breaking up for some reason. You end up? Yeah,
I can't here to run?

Speaker 12 (02:19:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (02:19:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:19:15):
Perfect.

Speaker 16 (02:19:15):
So Mayor trist I called out for making a public
statement about.

Speaker 11 (02:19:19):
The gas station rest.

Speaker 16 (02:19:20):
Yes, and yeah, I brought up Anastasia yacht right, who
was a Florida bed members take care of kids and
she turned a walk.

Speaker 4 (02:19:30):
Damn it, Mark, why are you moving? Go ahead? Sorry? Yeah,
much better, go ahead?

Speaker 11 (02:19:37):
Okay.

Speaker 16 (02:19:38):
So so they got back to me. So I asked
why he didn't make a public statement regarding Anastasia yacht
or the shooting that just took place last week where
they shut the back window out of a car. Well,
the town manager literally just sent an email last night
and it said Mayor Trister did not make any public

(02:19:59):
statement that I'm aware of of with respect to in
a state of yacht or the shooting incident involving the
scooter writer. Like, I don't even like they're admitting, like
we're not a touch, Like we have these two crimes
that took place, and we're not going to make a
statement about it.

Speaker 13 (02:20:19):
And again this thing, do.

Speaker 4 (02:20:20):
You know why?

Speaker 1 (02:20:21):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:20:23):
You know why?

Speaker 3 (02:20:23):
Because to them, it puts them in odd with their constituents.
It puts them in odds with the people who they're
you know, in a lot of ways sort of aligned
with that. You know, why would they have a statement
about a young kid on a scooter shooting out the
back of a car, right unless somebody turn around and say, oh,
why are you pointing out the young black kid, you're racist.

Speaker 16 (02:20:46):
Not the last thing. And you know, you know I
always get accused of picking our Republicans, But the new
Eton Republicans put out a statement today with no name attached.
I spent, like, well, a good portion of the day
trying to reach out for one Republican to Newington with
name recognition to come on your show. Listen, guys, if
you're listening to Newington, you're a conservative, you're Republican.

Speaker 13 (02:21:07):
You can't do that. You got to speak up. You
can't be afraid.

Speaker 16 (02:21:12):
Have you got something to say attaching name to it?
Come on, let's speak about it. It. Tell people you're
never gonna get past these We're just gonna stay stuck
in gear.

Speaker 4 (02:21:21):
I know, I hear you. Gonna have hope, my friend,
have hope. We're almost there, thanks buddy. All right, Uh,
let's go to who's next on my list?

Speaker 1 (02:21:33):
Here?

Speaker 3 (02:21:33):
I've got all right, Let's go to David and Vernon.
What's going on? David, I'm good, stir, what's up?

Speaker 13 (02:21:41):
All right?

Speaker 12 (02:21:42):
So a couple of things. First of all, your interview
with Brian Schackman kept mentioning the word due process.

Speaker 4 (02:21:50):
Yes, if you.

Speaker 12 (02:21:51):
Enter the country illegally, you are not eligible for due process?

Speaker 4 (02:21:58):
What if they go through let's stop you there.

Speaker 3 (02:22:00):
What if you go through the catch and release program
that the Biden administration had where they say, okay, you
are you have a what do you call it an
immigration hearing or an asylum hearing at this date and
that's the catch and release program. You come in and
give your name, your information, here's your date, go on
about your business, but be back here for your court

(02:22:22):
date or find a way to be here via zoom?
Do you consider that a due processable introduction? In essence,
if they went through the process of coming in to
get an immigration date, shouldn't Isn't that doesn't that sort
of qualify them.

Speaker 4 (02:22:38):
For due process?

Speaker 16 (02:22:41):
Is that?

Speaker 12 (02:22:42):
I'm not sure? That's That's something for lawyers to contend with,
right right. All I'm saying is that if you come
here illegally, my understanding is you don't you don't get
due process.

Speaker 4 (02:22:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
I think that if you got into the border and
you are what's called a known god away, like you know,
border agents saw you enter, but they couldn't catch you,
and you get into the country and you are then
caught and we have no record of you of it,
than the fact that we you know, we tracked you
down in some weird way, like you left a cell
phone behind and we found out where you were. I

(02:23:14):
don't think that there's a due process for those people,
because again there was, and people keep forgetting this. There
was a process in which these millions came into the
country at the southern border. You know, they came, they
met with border patrol agents, they were given dates to
appear in court, and then sent on their way to
whatever town they wanted to.

Speaker 12 (02:23:35):
So let me switch gears a little bit. Hey wipe
us some macador. And when we got married in two
thousand and two, and we immediately filed for her family
to come here, and her parents got here relatively quickly,
within three or four years. Recently, we just had two
members being given going through the process, being given the

(02:23:56):
opportunity to come to the United States legally. So it
took twenty some odd years. I'm gonna get here, okay,
which gets back to why these people are you know,
doing what they're doing. And the same token, and she's
had other family members that have either you know, slipped
over the border or married somebody for whatever reason and stuff.

(02:24:17):
By the way, do you know what they're calling. You
know what that's worth? Now, if me, if if I
was to marry, somebody wants to come in and I say,
it's you know, fifteen or twenty grand.

Speaker 3 (02:24:27):
It was that much when I was a kid, it
was fifteen thousand dollars. I was offered in nineteen eighty
eight eighty nine to marry a Dominican girl by one
of my co workers at a supermarket.

Speaker 12 (02:24:41):
All right, so how many illegals do you think are
in this country?

Speaker 3 (02:24:45):
If I had to go, and I'm gonna go, I'm
going to go on the far fetched level because people
think that it's outrageous, but I'm gonna go thirty to
forty mili.

Speaker 12 (02:24:53):
I think you're on the lower side.

Speaker 4 (02:24:56):
Wow, I thought that was a bit high. What okay?
What what? What do you think?

Speaker 13 (02:25:00):
David?

Speaker 12 (02:25:01):
I'm going to give you a caveat though. I'm going
to give you a caveat okay, And I'm going to
say that some of these people who initially engineer illegally
have suns since gone home and you know, found somebody
quote unquote here gone home and then they re entered
the country where now they're legal.

Speaker 3 (02:25:20):
Right, And you're saying then bringing in sort of like,
uh uh, what is it bringing in other family members
with their newfound citizenship.

Speaker 12 (02:25:30):
Well, I mean that that that's the next step. But
my point is the fact that even though they arrived
here illegally, they've gone home, done the paperwork with the
state department with their own country and stuff. They had
to go home and then get accepted by their own
home country and then come back here in the state
said yeah, okay, you're good, and now you can come
back in here, and then they start the process of

(02:25:51):
bringing the other family members.

Speaker 3 (02:25:52):
Yeah, to chain migration, which is the term. Thank you, David, listen,
thank you for the call. I appreciate you, sir. Look,
this is it's a hot button issue because as this
audience is concerned, it's there are people who say, there's
only one way to view it, and that is on

(02:26:12):
the side of getting illegals out of the country.

Speaker 4 (02:26:16):
Am I on your side?

Speaker 3 (02:26:18):
Yeah, I'm with you, But you gotta stop ignoring the
opposition to that. It exists. It just does. It just
does exist, and it's a voice worth worth listening to.
It cannot be the rabble rousing of oh he doesn't

(02:26:38):
say it my way.

Speaker 4 (02:26:39):
Here's a comic what No.

Speaker 3 (02:26:42):
People don't see Look, and I will say this before
we go, and I know what it's about.

Speaker 4 (02:26:48):
So I'm gonna go there. I'm going to go right there.

Speaker 3 (02:26:53):
I've I've drafted up this list of the authoritarian the
authoritarian action of the Biden administration. And this is the
one that gets me. It is the one that bothered
me the most. It was pressure on social media and censorship.
You all went through this, all of you, same thing

(02:27:16):
with COVID and everything else, the Disinformation Government Governance Board,
you all went through this. It was when you were
told that your opinions had to be shut off. When
you had elected officials, former elected officials, and news personalities
talking about how you needed to be deprogrammed, how they

(02:27:40):
needed to squash your voice or to eliminate you from
polite society because you didn't agree with them. So I've
got to ask the question, why are you doing it now?
Jordan Peterson said, this going to screw it up. But

(02:28:01):
I'll paraphrase. He said, I always laugh at the people
who talk about Nazi Germany saying the type of people
they would have been during that time.

Speaker 4 (02:28:08):
I would have.

Speaker 3 (02:28:09):
Never ever been those people who would have given up
folks like and Frank I would have protected Jews. And
those people turn out to be the saying folks that
were calling their local government when people were having parties
or gatherings with ten or more people and sicking the
dogs on them. Don't become the thing that you hate.

(02:28:30):
Don't just accept the fact that people disagree with you.
It's okay. As I always say, radio is free. So
we thank you for paying attention. Remember to keep jac
in your hearts and in your minds. Son, Patrick, you
love you me mission. Remember that panic is not planning,
So plan your work and work you're planning me. I'm
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And uh Bob Larsen, Yeah, he's giving you the weather.

(02:28:53):
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Speaker 4 (02:28:56):
Good night, sir, have a great night. Recee.

Speaker 9 (02:28:58):
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to a little slow thirty three down to thirty two,
a m bean Uh again no racer street of Rocky
Hill north, but one moving well Cromwell through downtown up
and a winter west Man eighty four slowing and coaching
the boat the bridge.

Speaker 4 (02:29:12):
Put away tied up. Oh I still haven't the damn
shame up to the opening up found lookout for an accident.

Speaker 2 (02:29:23):
Damn shame now just like my wife and child. It
burns me up. Soon as I get home, I'm packed
everything I got found.

Speaker 9 (02:29:31):
Slowing by four, slowing twenty two to the mixed Master
and Waterbury, Danbury.

Speaker 4 (02:29:37):
You're looking at the lass, looking up Ley now, I
don't have to do good.

Speaker 1 (02:29:43):
Heading down in.

Speaker 9 (02:29:43):
Toward new Haven a little bit theday into the West
Rock north probably slowing, approaching fifty nine into the West
Rock in ninety places.

Speaker 3 (02:29:52):
All right, Uh, show content continues to be Thank you, Laury,
I appreciate. I know the haters are going to come out,
and just like I'm talking, I wasn't gonna ever do that.
That's not what we do here. And somebody said yesterday
it was just like, don't forget you know, you can't.
You gotta trade them the way you would tom Or
I mean tim Or or Donor or Bob. I'm like,

(02:30:14):
those guys do something completely different and there's no dialogue.
Don't agree with them, and you know exactly what happens.
Thank you, Raymond, you know exactly what happens. It always
goes left. It's the worst thing you could possibly do
is not agree with them.

Speaker 4 (02:30:31):
They don't want an exchange of ideas.

Speaker 3 (02:30:34):
So I hope that the interview was worthwhile, but I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:30:39):
I'll hear from you. I'm sure I will, all right.
I love you guys. Be good, stay out of trouble
and be good.