Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 10/23/25

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radio on WTIC News Talk ten eight. Many of you

(01:18):
today were probably surprised at the breaking news for a Thursday.
Who thought that that would this would be the thing
that we would discuss today. But don't think that that's
going to inundate the entire show. We'll talk about this
NBA thing. We'll get into it. It is a huge
story for a lot of reasons. And I take this

(01:39):
story kind of personally because well, I'll get to that.
I'll tell you why this one really really means a
lot to me and it may mean a lot to you.
And I'm gonna take your phone calls on it as well.
And I gotta work out this computer with my phone calls.

(01:59):
But I'll figure it out in a second. The story
is bizarre for a lot of reasons. But I will
tell you this, There's going to be a Hollywood film. Okay?
Can we at least admit that?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Like, come on, applause, come on, can we get can
we get that?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Ever?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Can we at least admit that this is going to
be a Hollywood film?

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Can we?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Just because it has nothing to do with the with
the mob ties, It has nothing to do with the
NBA players who were implicated implicated in this No, no, no,
no no. This is a technology story. This story is
all about technology. And when you have movies like Oceans eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

(02:57):
ninety seven, whatever, when you have films like that that
have been successful that show you the inner workings of
the scam. I'm a big guy on that. I'm a
fan of watching the layout when there's a movie that's
got a scheme. What was one of the films that
had a sort of breakdown of a scheme. I know,
there's Lockstock in two Smoking Barrels that kind of does

(03:19):
that layout in the film. Another one was Guy Ritchie
does that all the time. What was the one with
Brad Pitt with the inexplicable accent snatch? That was it?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, that was the name of that one. I love
those movies that break down the intricate details of the scam.
Those are fun to watch, and I'm sure they're difficult
to film and to edit, but they're great to watch.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Like All Ocean eleven, you like all of them.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Right, But that's what they do in the film, right,
They they sort of, like somebody like George Clooney will
do the narrow of how the scheme is going to
lay out. And that's what's going to make this movie
incredible to watch. And it's got all of the It's
got the great elements of the Mob, the NBA, It's
got everyone who you get to sort of like either

(04:17):
root for or despise all at the same time you
have the anti hero level and all that other stuff.
What you what you got rolling?

Speaker 7 (04:25):
I'm sorry, No, I was just gonna say, what did
the Mob have on these guys or did they were
were they willing participants to work with the Mob or.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
They were they forced?

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Because you see a guy like Chauncey Billups who's just
been nothing but the like the greatest professional absolutely ever,
without a hint of anything negative on his resume. So
for him to be caught up with the mob is
it's a little bit crazy.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You know, And that's the wild part. You you know what,
you nailed it knowing that Chauncey Phillips was a associated
with this. Weirdly enough, I watched that Detroit Pistons season
because of how great that team was, watching Chauncey Billups
literally annihilate in that series, and I knew he was

(05:19):
gonna be Wasn't he the m v P. I feel
like he was the MVP of that league, of that
of that finals, and I couldn't I'm wrong.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
I don't think he. I don't think he was. I
think it was either Rip or Tyshawn Prince.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Okay, it's quite possible. But I know that he was
a key player in all of that, and he was
the leader and he at least played a leader in
that in that in that series, and I thought he
was fantastic and they deserved it. And it was one
of those Detroit where he's like, yes, Detroit, you're rooting
for them, and everybody on that team you're rooting for,
so all of that happensillups. He was Okay, I figured

(05:55):
he was so I remember him being so you know,
inignorat in his performance there, he made a name for himself,
and of course, is he becomes a coach, it's evident
that this guy deserved that role. And as you just said, Roland,
he was not squeaky clean. He was just the consummate

(06:16):
professional in basketball and unsung professional hero to the game.
So to see him involved in this really was like,
there's a sort of an unbelievability about it, just going. Really, Chauncey,
if he was four star, did they have something more
on them or yes, like hey, you gotta do this

(06:36):
otherwise x Y and Z. Now, i'll tell you where
it gets a little more complicated in a second about
your exact point. And Chauncey's got a big he's got
a problem here, and we'll get to that. In fact,
I know a lot of people are gonna call and
talk about this to some degree. Look, I gotta tell
you right now, right off the bat, folks, this story.

(07:00):
He's making me hate sports right now. I don't know
about you. I'm just speaking for me. I don't want
you to hate sports right now, But I'm not liking
sports right now. The NBA was already on a downward
trajectory when he started involving itself or injecting itself into
politics and social issues, thinking that it was important that

(07:21):
they do. Everybody wanted to sort of glom onto what
Colin Kaepernick was doing in the NFL and the NBA.
They just threw themselves in it. It was like full throated,
jump out the window, we're activists now. It really really
looked bad, and then it looked horrible, really horrible. When

(07:43):
the first scandal broke when what was it the former
where the Houston Rockets I think manager or owner, whatever
it was, who said that he was condemning what was
happening to the Wigers in China, and then Lebron James
coming out and condemning him for saying something about it,

(08:03):
and why because the NBA had a considerable deal with
China to expand the NBA into China. And then Sports
Illustrated does an undercover investigation that realizes that under the
NBA's watch, that there were kids in China being abused
under the NBA umbrella. So, by the way, if I

(08:25):
remember correctly, they didn't really address they were never really
held to any account, and these things were tarnishing and
really ruining the NBA's reputation. It was Adam Silver's tenure
has not been that good. And Daniel Stern was not

(08:46):
that great ether either, but he was far better than
Adam Silver. What were you saying, David Stett? Oh, David
Sign Yeah, David Stett was far better. And what what
I'm saying is because Adam Silver has not been let's

(09:07):
just say strong enough as a commissioner in the NBA,
we are where we are now. Many people are going
to start bringing up, you know, the sports betting apps, which,
by the way, rolling. I'm gonna get you in on
this on that conversation later on. But I don't think

(09:27):
that this has anything to do with what this case
is about. I'm not giving them cover and I'm not
even you know, again, this is not doing completely non
part or unbiased here in my analysis of all of this.
All I'm saying is that those things are being used

(09:48):
by these players and these individuals in order to sort
of act on this chicanery, if you will. That's not why.
And I don't think DraftKings or fan duel or any
of that are playing part in what I believe is
the reputation of the NBA or any sports league for
that matter, losing interest or people being sort of I

(10:12):
don't know, disinterested or sort of walking away. I don't
think that plays any role. But here's the part that
we have to ask ourselves. Is this worse than the
Major League Baseball steroids era? Is this scandal worse? And

(10:32):
is the scandal far reaching? Because I gotta be honest
with you, in a two to three year investigation only
finding about three NBA, well, it's acting now four three
former or current NBA players and or coaches in this sting,
and whether or not there are more to come, and

(10:54):
whether or not we're gonna learn that there are other
players that may have been involved, because we do know
that many of them gamble. We know they're very public
about it. They posted on Instagram and anywhere else about
their gambling habits, their winnings, their losses. They've often bragged

(11:18):
about how much money they put on certain sports. This
was bound to happen, and I think it could be
far reaching and their actions could sort of cast a
wide net on the sport itself. But is it as

(11:38):
bad as the steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. To
be honest with you, I think that the two are
neck and neck. I think the Major League Baseball thing
is a little bit higher, just slightly higher, because I
think that that was a selfish scandal as far as

(12:01):
the players were concerned. I'll get into that in large
details today, though, on this story, I want to hear
from the gamblers. I want to hear from the gamblers,
and if you wish to opine, I also want to
hear from the people who hate the gambling aspect because

(12:25):
they think that now their games are rigged. So I
know they're both both sides to this coin. Because I've
talked to plenty of people. One of my good friends
out in the West Coast Ali every game. He loves basketball,
he loves the NBA. In fact, I got to reach
out to him. I'm hoping that he is around. In fact,

(12:45):
John Beckman, if you can reach out to Ali, I
want him in the chat room. I've known Ali now
for I want to say, a good eight nine years,
and every season he is screaming about how the NBA
is rigged, how the NFL is raked. But he still
watches every year. Huge fan of the sport. He goes

(13:08):
on and on and on about this, and I know
that you're out there that many of you once gambling
played a huge role. A lot of you has said, Ah,
I can't trust the game anymore. Ah, that was fixed.
You're noticing the referees making calls that you you know,
you know are inexplicable. How did he do that?

Speaker 8 (13:26):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's you know, how many times have you heard that
about the Kansas City Chiefs? You know it's I mean,
it's an ongoing theme. I think why. I'm trying to
remember what was one of the what was one of
the memes that said that. Uh, I think it was
something about draft day or something like that, talking about
how a particular referee had been drafted in the third round.

(13:51):
It wasn't actually a pretty good meme. I wish I
could remember it, but they were usually really funny. But
the gambling aspect has created this atmosphere where people no
longer believe that the game is running in a respectable
and honest way. This story doesn't help that narrative. It

(14:14):
only gives fuel to people who are already I'm sort
of angered by the way the game is going lately.
So I want to hear from all of those people.
I'll take your phone calls about that. Also, something interesting
Stephen A. Smith did today which I thought was I

(14:35):
we'll play the audio SoundBite of that as well plus
some other stuff, and will break down this whole scandal.
Who's involved. I've got to get to the to the
gambling thing, the poker game scandal. That's huge because I

(14:57):
don't know if anyone's talked about this, but I heard
one person mentioned it, and I think it was Klay
Travis who said, I wonder who were there people who
lost millions of dollars. It was reported during the press
conference today in Brooklyn that one of the people who
lost money lost a whopping one point eight million dollars

(15:19):
in a poker game. Hell, and you can't help but
ask yourself who was that big fish. By the way,
that's the reference of those individuals who were scammed. The
Chauncey Billups part of that is and think about this,
to lure in the fish, the bait is Chauncey Billups.

(15:42):
Hey want to play a poker game with Chauncey Billups,
He's gonna be there in the game. And according to
the arrest Chauncey Billup is in on the whole thing
along with the Mob. Families now think about that with

(16:03):
this and I was talking to Marco West Hartford and
I when I heard it, I said to myself, that's
pretty funny. This is really really funny. But it's true.
For years and years and years, I don't ever remember

(16:26):
the Italian Kosanostra, the mafia, whatever it is that they
have been called. I don't remember them ever being in
cohoots with the Blacks. So a lot of people right
now in my inner circle are all shaking their head

(16:49):
a little bit, saying to themselves, hum, I wonder how
they got Chauncey Billups involved in all of this. How
exactly could they have gotten together and used Shauncey Billips

(17:12):
or anybody in the NBA for that matter, as a lure.
It shows to me that there's a progressivism even in
the Mob that we didn't know before. And I don't
know whether or not to be excited about it or concerned.
The technology angle, that's another one. Would you have to
think about who did they incorporate to do that? That

(17:34):
technology angle is absolutely I mean, we're talking about mind
blowing what was used in chandeliers, in card shuffling machines,
tables with cameras underneath that you can see the cards
of the players. There's a lot of craziness in that.

(17:56):
So I don't know exactly what to make of all
of that, but we'll break it down many minutes. So
I have don't care about two So I want to
break that down. I want to play what Stephen A.
Smith said and what people are saying about Stephen A.
Smith's comments about what happened in this investigation, because I
thought it was odd that he would. I'll just else

(18:19):
preference it by saying this, if he is a reporter
and a political commentator, how he could watch that press
conference and blame it on Donald Trump blows my mind.
But I'll play it for you so that you can
hear it. Another question to ask on this is who's

(18:40):
next and who else is the FBI looking into. Stephen A.
Smith says, Hey, the WNBA could be next. Let me
start by saying, oh, hell no, nobody's gambling on that.
It's the easiest place to gamble. The WNBA. Always vote

(19:04):
the under, just always bet the under. Everybody should be
a billionaire at this point. Just do the under that's
how you do it. Yeah, Laurie says he bent the
kneed to Crockett too.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, I don't know what that means. I don't even
know what that means. Anyway, it's it's astonishing anyway. By
the way, if you didn't know programming, note, this is
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(19:42):
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Speaker 1 (20:13):
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Speaker 3 (20:21):
Hey are we are back at Reese on the radio,
and look this this gambling issue with the over under
a player actually letting people know, Hey, I'm only gonna
play about nine minutes in the game and then I'm
going to fake an injury, if you will, and then

(20:44):
be out of the game, and to collect two hundred
thousand dollars when you know the guy's making well over
like twenty five million a year. Some people have been
looking at that and saying that it is inexplicable, you know,
like I don't understand it. In his entire career, he
made over a hundred million dollars. I don't get while

(21:05):
he would just squander just for two hundred thousand dollars
pay day. They don't get it. They don't get it.
And if I may, I'm gonna I'm gonna go where
I normally wouldn't under these circumstances. So because I don't
gamble and I couldn't possibly understand, and I talk about

(21:26):
it a lot, I'm going to talk to somebody who
does understand, and that's none other than our Emmy Award
winning producer Roland Matthews. Now, Roland, join them, join me
under mic if you if you will, and I'm going
to come up with a bunch of theories, all right,
so that you can explain to me if I'm over

(21:47):
the mark on this as I just described. With this
NBA player, it what's his name Logier or whatever his
name I a rogier. Yes, this guy makes tens of
millions of dollars, has made one hundred million dollars or
plus in his career, and he bets and wins two
hundred thousand dollars gambling. Now, when I look at that,

(22:11):
instead of going through the obvious motions, oh, doesn't he
have enough money? I'm asking this question two hundred thousand dollars.
Although you may see as measley, but if you're gambling,
isn't that the thrill itself? It doesn't matter what the
the the what the amount is. It doesn't matter whether

(22:31):
or not he has twenty six million dollars. He won
two hundred thousand in sort of playing the gambling game.
And that's where the thrill is. Am I getting that right?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well?

Speaker 7 (22:40):
It's three is three things? Okay, One is the thrill,
right number two you're still you're rich, but you're still
putting in a low sum of money to get a
higher sum of money, right, that's right. So you're still
making money. Okay, And number three, a lot of these
guys do it or they're they're entourage and they're in

(23:01):
there and there people.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's not making a million dollars.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
That's right. So in essence, that's grand.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
If he if he give ten of his ten of
his boys twenty thousand apiece, that goes a long way.
Or he could be five of his his hit maybe
his immediate circle is only four guys, so they each
give fifty fifty thousand a piece.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
That means something to them.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Okay, Now what about this angle, because in essence he
is cheating, right, So he's letting people know I'm gonna
get out nine you know, nine minutes in bet the
under they get a quick score of two hundred thousand dollars.
They do other things that you're talking about in some way,
because I would look at it as it was like now,
if I'm gambling, like if I played the lotto or

(23:44):
if I was playing the slots, I would play the
you know, the chances and if I win, hey, I
beat the house. But in this case, isn't there a
degree of a there's a degree of sort of like
I beat the house because I was able to manipulate
the system. Is there a thrill in that? Do you think? Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Absolutely, it's a thriller in beating the house.

Speaker 7 (24:05):
I say anytime I hit a parlay, I say, I say,
all the times I beat.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
The cheaters, I beat the riggers.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
See see, because I'm trying to I know a lot
of games is rigged. That don't mean every game is rigged,
but I know some of the bigger games are you know,
are point shaved or oh he.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Missed the extra point.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
He hasn't missed the extra point in five years, but
all of a sudden, for this particular game, he misses
the extra point. Not a game goes in overtime, the
spread is the spread is six and a half, and
in over time you can only get what at well
before before this year, and over time you go only
get the most with six points.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
So you know automatically that they're not gonna cover. Right.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
So there are.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Different things like that that happens.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
You could kind of tell So I try to bet
with what I think they want the rig to be.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
That's how I try to.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
So you mean to tell me that people go people
who are playing the game, or gambling legitimately are now
gambling under the auspice of theirs. Some cheating going on.
So now you've got to maneuver both things. You gotta
maneuver the game as well as the cheating part.

Speaker 7 (25:08):
Yeah, so you make your year. Would you feel your
bets are the guy that are gonna win? These strong
bets you make those, But then you say, okay, just
in case the rig happens, let me put if I
put fifty dollars on this bet that I think is
gonna win, just in case the rig happens, I'm gonna
put fifteen or twenty on.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
The rig on the righ and then.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You keep it.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
So they're in essence, they're making even more money because
people are thinking outside the box. So and which requires
them to spend a couple of extra dollars. And if
I spend an extra fifteen, and there's one hundred million
people gambling spending an extra fifteen that they wouldn't normally
spend basing on a base based on a rig, Okay,

(25:53):
you know now they making a But.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Let me ask you this, because you being sort of
a part of this sort of ecosystem them, does that
having to bet the extra rig Is that harmful to
your betting or does it? It just means you just
have to you're adjusting to what you know is happening.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, it is. It's taxing
because sometimes I'll be like, well, I'm not bet I'm
not bet tonight because I'm fel like bett taking my bets.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
And if you're betting, if you're.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Betting on a budget, yeah yeah, right, you're really not
taking those chances. So you just you I just won't bet.
I'm all I'm a all enhing guy, so I noticed.
I've been like that my entire life. So if even
when I was poor, I was I was bougie poor.
So I would just wear the holy shoes. If I

(26:45):
couldn't get the exact nikes that I wanted, then I'm
gonna just wear my shoes with the holes in it
until until I can somehow work enough got hit a route,
to cut enough grass so I can get that the
shoes I really want. I don't want to settle for
the shoes that my mom wants to buy me. I'll
just wear my holy shoes and get teased until I
can get the new shoes.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Gotcha, all right, that's so in essence, So you're saying
that this knowing that there's rigging going on, people may
be a little hesitant to actually bet on certain games.
It's not that they won't bet, it's because of their
concern that they'll actually reserve certain bats for certain games,
just because it's like, hey, you know, I don't have
that money. Normally they would be willy nilly, but in
this case, because they understand that the rig may be

(27:25):
going going on, they're a little reticent to put that
that that bid in.

Speaker 7 (27:30):
Yeah, and but some people are just you know, that's
they're they'll calculate that in their budget, like, Okay, it's
the rig So I know, I'm giving an extra seventy
five dollars today for all the rigs I'm doing five,
I'm doing five bets, so wow, I'm gonna do whatever,
twenty dollars, fifteen dollars extra extra seventy five for the day.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Okay, all right, that's interesting. All right, thank you, And
I appreciate that you being so forthcoming about that, because
again I don't understand the whole gambling thing. It's never
gonna be my liked. I don't the reason why I
drank and I didn't gamble. Is because at least we're drinking.
You got something in front of it, Like if I
lose money, I was like, I didn't get People say
it was like, well, you get the thrill. I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
The thing about it is this you get so close
a lot. Yeah, you get really like I probably a
thousand times. I was four out of five or three
out of four. And now they offer you a little
cash out to try to get you to take.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Some upfront money.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Right, so they'll be like, Okay, your twenty dollars bet
was supposed to make you five hundred bucks. You're four
out of five and it's the third quarter, so you
still got like a lot of time left where that
can happen.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Let me offer him.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Eighty nine dollars and see if he'll take that up
front or will he let it ride to try to
get the five hundred.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
So it's a whole nother you know.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
And now you got some people that's playing towards just
to cash out, Like I noticed, you'll make people will
make an absurd big bet hoping that enough legs happen
so that they offered a cash out and they're gonna
immediately accept the cash out because the chances of you
hitting that humongous bet is not its very very small. Wow,
So you're just playing. I'm just playing for cash outs.

(29:18):
I have a couple of homeboys that just play for
cash outs.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Hum But those things, like I said, I'm understanding it
a little bit, but a lot of it is very
very complicated.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, it is a lot.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Is a lot, man, I understand there's a lot. Trust me.
I looked at I looked at one of those betting
things like I looked at a fantasy football thing, and
I just I don't know how to do this. I
tapped out within the first game. I was like, now
we're done, but type thank you. I appreciate that, sir.
So the thing that, again I'm trying to figure out
in all of this, is what does it do to

(29:50):
the average fan that doesn't bet. I believe that there
are a lot of people. As it did with baseball
when the steroids scandal happened, people kind of bolted from
the league, Major League Baseball. I think they just bolted.

(30:10):
I was one of the people who could not stick
around for the games. As much as I want to do,
I like baseball, I still I kind of feel like
it's in my blood since I was a kid. But
I know that I don't watch it as much as
I used to because of the way that I responded
to that Senate hearing with all of the baseball players
you know that were standing there defiantly saying that they

(30:34):
didn't take steroids while they were sitting there with you know,
six inch increases in their skull. It's like, are you kidding?
Who are you kidding? Mark McGuire sitting up there talking
about I don't want to talk about the past, instead
of just admitting and owning up you don't even play
the game anymore. You couldn't just admit, yes, I took

(30:57):
performance enhancing drugs. You couldn't admit it. Who was the
guy from the Baltimore Orioles that wave in his finger?
I'll never forget that. And then going back to the
league and then being tested for performance and dancing drugs.
Of course, people were like, oh, knowing at millions, hundreds

(31:20):
of millions of dollars are at stake. That's that's the
reason why people walked away. And in this case, everybody
now kind of has a target on their back. As
far as the league is concerned because now they're like
who else is doing it? Because that's the scary part.
I want to take a break and come back. I'm
gonna play Stephen A. Smith's audio as well, and then

(31:41):
we'll take your phone calls at eighteen zero five two
two w T. I c stand by. It's Reesa on
the radio on News Talk ten eighty WTIC.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
It's Race on the radio on News Talk ten eighty WT.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
I see see, let me see if I can go here,
Wall Street. Joe's on the line. What's up, sir?

Speaker 10 (31:59):
Yeah, two things I called immediately when you said you'd
never gamble.

Speaker 11 (32:04):
You still owe me that silver dime from three weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
That was the only gambling I ever did.

Speaker 10 (32:10):
That's like really gonna so the government was going to
resolve over the weekend.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
I really did.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I really did believe that. I have no idea what
I'm talking about. But you're right, you called me out.
I absolutely I owe you that.

Speaker 10 (32:23):
And then and then you can ask Frank and Woodbridge
people bet on your show every day.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
I'm the over and what's the over and under on
reson radio. I'm dying to know what that is.

Speaker 10 (32:34):
How many phone calls you take in four hours that's
usually fifteen to twenty. And then it explains why you
may only take one phone call in the last hour
because you bet the under so.

Speaker 11 (32:46):
You can't go over.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
So you're saying I'm betting on myself. I'm not.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
Absolutely, I'm not.

Speaker 10 (32:53):
Everyone else has nothing to be ashamed of.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I'm not that bad. I promise you I'm not that bad.
But I did you explain?

Speaker 10 (33:01):
I explain the Giants giving up thirty three points in
the last quarter to then, so you know.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
What, you you know what, You're right on the right
path Wall Street. This is again as I was thinking
about this, because gosh, I wish Ali were here, because
he's the one who says that that kind of stuff
in the NFL, or any sport for that matter, becomes inexplicable.
The Denver Broncos to come back. Was it thirty three
points in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Yes, Yeah, they were shut out going into the fourth quarter.
They scored their first eight points a minute into the
fourth quarter. Then the Giants scored eight points a touchdown immediately. Yeah,
was seven minutes to go. It was twenty six to eight,
and half the fans had left the Denver State in
League exactly. And I was watching the game, and believe me,

(33:50):
the Giants defense just stopped playing defense and they just
came in and won the game exactly. The coaching gave up,
the coaching staff gave up, and maybe they're part of it.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Do you know what? Again, that's what you're exactly talking about.
The area that I'm on right over the target. My
biggest problem with is is games like that, which again,
with this scandal coming out and seeing this scandal as
it unfolds, you can't help asking yourself. In fact, I
know people online immediately after this and said, what do
you mean you only caught three guys? You're gonna sit

(34:22):
up here and tell me that it's not league wide?
And why do you not? Because the access to that
kind of gambling and that kind of chicanery is easy.

Speaker 10 (34:35):
Well, you can ask Roll and your producer, who I
like a lot. I've had a few conversations with him,
you know when he says a load to me when
I'm coming on. But you can ask Roll in this
of the NFL games they have bets on, do you
think Jackson Dart will have two touchdowns this game? Or
shake UoN Barkley? You know the over Underron. His yards

(34:57):
game might be ninety nine or one hundred and two
and he could just stop running or he could you know,
I mean this is all the players in the league.
I mean there's probably one hundred and fifty of these
every weekend on certain performance goals for certain players, and you'd.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Never know it exactly ends up what.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
It ends up.

Speaker 10 (35:15):
But these performance goals are what all this cheating is.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
About, exactly. And that's you know what. That's why I
think that the league is going to kind of I
think all leagues for that matter, are going to have
a reckoning with the average rank and file fans because
they always had a problem in the beginning that they
felt like their teams were going to be corrupted in
all of this because of the bet the sports betting angle.

(35:42):
It's like anything could happen, anyone could take advantage of it,
and there's just no stopping it.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
And there's two.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
There's two. There's two last things.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
I want to run by allow me.

Speaker 10 (35:53):
Number one, this proves that the organized crime has not faded.
It just a tiny minute skule what it was fifty
years ago, live and well using modern technology, and you know,
the coast and Nostra and Cambinos. They're all going strong
and number two. The over under on your show today
is twenty one, so you got twenty more calls to go.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
You have a wonderful one. You're just a mess. Let
me take Laurie. This is an interesting one because Laurie's
huge on baseball. Glaurie, let me ask you this. I
know you were more affected by the MLB steroid scandal
than even I was. I was so transfixed on that.

(36:38):
Do you it didn't lead you didn't leave the sport,
but did it hurt it as much as this is
going to hurt the NBA?

Speaker 12 (36:46):
You know what?

Speaker 13 (36:46):
I listening to this whole thing. It's funny. I know
that got a couple of seconds to talk, but listening
to the tall thing, all thinking about is a black tuck.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
They through the World Series and it's all of this
reminds me of of all of that. And you would
have thought that we would have learned from that, but
people are stupid and we don't history history, And yeah,
I agree with your last collar. Listen, the Manka might

(37:23):
be underground, but they are alive and wild. Yeah, quite nicely.
And it's just I don't think this is just going
to be that last flush.

Speaker 8 (37:37):
Yeah, this is the tip, this question, all this and
all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, it's it's the tip of the iceberg glory. Thank
you so much. I appreciate you calling it. Hit me
up a little a little bit later one, Right, this
is going to get worse before it gets better. You
can damn well bet we'll talk about it throughout the show.
You could call up as well as Now it's time
to get into the wt I SEE newsroom. John Silva's back, right,
I know I heard his voice. No, Dave Megan's still back. Okay,

(38:07):
maybe David, Hey, Dave, how are you. Let's get to
the wt I SEE newsroom with Dave MegaR.

Speaker 14 (38:13):
We'll be back on the radio making sense of the news. Yeah,
even when it makes no sense at all at all.
Now until the ut I SEE News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
I think Wall Street Joe is right. Vote the under,
bet the under. Let's get into some headlines. It is
a sad week for The Town Times, which is a
weekly newspaper serving the Watertown area and it's surrounding communities.

(38:46):
They will cease publication after next week's edition, according to
local officials in a statement posted by Representative Joe Paletta,
who says that he announced the enclosure is an indication
of a trend sceneationwide, as local newspapers struggled to survive.
The Town Times had been what our small community is

(39:09):
all about. Is that showing the good work of our
civic organizations, or what our civic organizations do, highlighting our
students and athletes and giving residents a voice through letters
to the editor. The newspaper will publish its last issue
on October thirtieth. The Town Times was first established in
nineteen forty seven, so we bid them goodbye. More than

(39:32):
six hundred and eighty thousand nipsized liquor bottles were sold
in Middletown over the past six months, generating about thirty
four thousand dollars to the town via the state surcharge program.
The latest NIP sales statistics were released on Tuesday. Also,
Larry Kafero, the Executive Director and General Council of the

(39:54):
Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Connecticut, announced that the Nickel
per Nip Environmental Fee, a statewide program that had just
passed its four year anniversary on October first, has now
generated approximately nineteen million dollars for cities and towns across
the state. Capero said that the revenue for the latest

(40:15):
reporting period April first to September thirtieth, was about two
point four to nine million in increase in approximately forty
five thousand dollars over that same period last year. I mean,
I gotta ask just and again, I'm going to sound
like you know this. I'm gonna sound like a neophyte.

(40:37):
I know I am. I'm just I'm gonna say I don't.
I used to drink. I used to drink, But I
gotta ask the question. How do you not ask the question? Okay,
six hundred and eighty thousand NIP sales in one town,
just one down. I don't understand how anybody wouldn't be

(40:58):
looking at that going wow, that's a lot, and I
know which one is big. So apparently the what's it called? Fireball?
Is that? Is that? The is that the cinnamon flavor thing?
I don't, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I've never wait, that's nothing but one hundred and thirteen
thousand a month.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Man, that's nothing, But that's a that's a lot, man, that.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Is a lot.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Maybe just me, I don't what like I said, I'm
not trying to like look down on you because I
quit drinking. You know, Hey drink you know. But I'm
just saying, that's a lot. That's a lot of nip bottles.
Six hundred and ninety thousand. That's a lot for one town.
I look at that number. I was like, well for
the state. When I started saw that number, I went, oh, no,

(41:44):
that's Middletown. Anyway, someone's gonna call up and says, hey,
you haven't been here in a while. It makes sense.
I'm just saying, I don't like I said, I don't
want to criticize, don't be bad. The United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied unblunk hearing
in the Newsom v. Trump, effectively upholding the earlier Pedel

(42:08):
decision that sided with Trump and affirmed his authority to
federalize the California National Guard to support federal immigration enforcement
in the area. California Governor Gavin Newsom and the State
of California sued over President Trump's order, claiming that it
was unconstitutional and violated state sovereignty. The US District Judge

(42:28):
Charles Bryer was the brother of the retired Supreme Court
Justice Briar, a Clinton appointee, granted Newsom temporary restraining order
and said that Trump's decision to federalize the National Guard
was illegal, but the appellate panel ruled that the statute

(42:49):
clearly empowers the president to act whenever he is unable
with regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.
I mean, people seem to forget that Donald Trump, Like
I don't even know if it's the press that does it.
They're not going into a courtroom with Donald Trump. Like

(43:12):
when this stuff is reported, people are thinking that Donald
Trump is in the courtroom arguing, and that he does
not have a team of lawyers who know exactly what
they're doing when they enact some of these things. Like
people keep suing, like he keeps winning in the court
and the courts are not by Like perhaps the lawyers
who are filing these suits do not understand that Donald

(43:34):
Trump is within his authority to do so, and that's
why he keeps winning, so they can hold him off
for a little bit. But the lawyers that he is
entrusted to do in essence to fight for what he's
trying to do for the country, know what they're doing beforehand, Like,
are you under the impression that Donald Trump is waking
up one morning and saying execute this. No, that's not it.

(43:59):
Like these things. When they were getting ready to win
in twenty twenty four, they were sitting down having meetings
every day. What are we gonna do on January twenty first,
They had this all lined up. It was all ready
to go. They knew the political and the legal ramifications

(44:20):
of these orders. They were way ahead of the game.
So when these lawyers come out and try to put
it in junction, they're the ones caught flat footed because
they're going, hey, do you think we'll win in court
if we apply this. Yep, here's the legal standing that
we have, and we'll argue it this way. Okay, go
with it. Sure enough. In some cases, yes, there are injunctions,

(44:43):
but usually what do we find out when he goes
to court? He loses, and then everybody goes on television
and they say the obvious, right, there's a miscarriage of justice.
How the courts have looked at it and said, yes,
he's with his legal authority and they are calling that authoritarian.
That's the part that makes me laugh. They're losing in
court and losing in court is now authoritarian. I don't

(45:08):
say they get the Clinton judge that they want, they
get the Biden judge that they want, they get the
Obama judge that they want, and they get the first thing. Say,
he's being stopped at every turn, and then when they lose,
they go listen, so miscourage, I'm justice. Okay, there you go.
Now for the stupidest thing I read today, Yes, you do.

Speaker 15 (45:35):
You could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
I am. I gotta be honest with you. I am
absolutely sick and tired of Chris Murphy, and I'm sick
and tired of the people who book him on television.
Christoph everything isn't illegal because you say so.

Speaker 15 (46:01):
Well, listen, there's a lot of history that has taken
place in the East Wing and it was just destroyed
without any conversation in the American public, without any consent
of Congress. It was absolutely illegal. And yeah, that visual
is powerful because you are essentially watching the destruction of
the rule of law happen as those walls come down.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
It is just a symbol about.

Speaker 15 (46:26):
How cavalier he is about every single day, acting in
new and illegal ways. That's the story with the killings
in the Caribbean as well. The president just doesn't believe
that any law applies to him, that he can destroy
federal property, that he can steal from American citizens, that

(46:47):
he can kill with impunity, that he can throw anyone
in jail. We are not living in a functional democracy.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, you know again, I said, I have to listen
to this guy, and he just goes on television. Of course,
no one will ever check it him. He's on Rachel
Maddow's Little Sisters show, Chris Hayes on her show and
just spewing a bunch of nonsense. Chris, it's not illegal
just because you say it is. It's illegal to tear
her down like east wing of the White House. No,
we checked, it's not illegal. In fact, he's within his

(47:17):
legal right to do so. And it's not just about
the fact that it's been done by other presidents. But
you know, look, Chris Murphy didn't have the advantage of
being there during the Obama administration. But for those of
you who think that this was all insane, look, we
understand that the cost of doing this renovation is going
to rise. It went from two hundred million dollars. And
now it's going to raise the three hundred million. But

(47:39):
guess what, the taxpayer isn't paying for it. But since
we're on the subject of it being the price of
doing business being higher, let's consider how the media was
responding CNN in particular to Barack Obama doing a three
hundred and sixty five million dollar renovation to the White

(48:00):
House that was gonna take four years.

Speaker 16 (48:02):
All the banging, the jackhammering, the dust, the confusion, the
noise of all places to do construction is happening right
here the front lawn of the White House.

Speaker 17 (48:13):
It's a four year renovation project estimated costs three hundred
seventy six million dollars.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Oh my god, three hundred and seventy six million. But
CNN was on the scene with a hard hat celebrating it. Yeah,
we're gonna change the White House. And why wouldn't they
They had the first black president. They were probably thinking
they were gonna put a disco tech on the darn thing.
He of course did the obvious thing and put a

(48:41):
basketball court there. But you know what, I'm not calling
it racial buckets, but I mean for crying out loud. Okay,
no one seemed to have a problem with it at
all when Obama was like, yeah, we got a black president,
why not changed place around that's been It's been occupied

(49:02):
by white people all the time. The last time we
dine anything sports related there, Nixon built a bowling alley.
Black people don't bowl. Someone actually said that to me,
and then I met Roland. I tell him about him
every day. What do you mean black people don't bowl?
Let me introduce you to a guy.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Here's like twenty million Black Americans at bowl.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
I trust me, I know sevent these people. Remember when
Shaquille O'Neil said he wouldn't he didn't invest in Starbucks
because he said black people don't drink coffee? When who
told him?

Speaker 1 (49:39):
That?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Where the hell?

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Who told.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
My grandma?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
My grandma grew I grew up on my grandma and
drinking coffee?

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Are you kidding me? I'm like, is there there's a
reason why I know what Folgers and Sanka taste like.
I know the difference between brood an instant coffee. Growing up,
Bodega's have been selling coffee for fifty cents. They're probably

(50:07):
seventy five now, maybe even a dollar nowadays. I haven't
been I haven't been to the hood in a while.
Somebody's gonna have to tell me what the average cost
of a Bodega cup of coffee? Uh it is right now?
Used to drink it light and sweet, Now just have
it black with sugar. But so oh, that's right, Zoran
and New York made it free. That's right. There's no
cost for coffee. It's no cost. Let's get to the

(50:30):
phones real quick. Gary is in Southington. Hello, sir, Hey Reece, Yeah,
what's up?

Speaker 18 (50:39):
Yeah here you were talking about it's been different to
what difference the way they're handling Yeah, the court cases
or the media's handle the court cases when Trump wins?

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 18 (50:53):
Are you forgetting the depth of Trump's arrangement syndrome?

Speaker 3 (50:58):
No, of course, not matter.

Speaker 18 (51:00):
It doesn't matter what he does is gonna be a
negative spin on it, every single thing. But do they
not thinkity?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Do you not? This is the part that I have
the most difficulty with, and unfortunately it always bears out
to be true. Gary, I keep saying to myself to
the does the newspeople in news media not know that
average people have the capacity to look up if what
they're telling them is the truth. And then I actually

(51:32):
talk to people who follow that news media and they
didn't even bother to look it up. They go, they
take the word of them. They don't even do their
own background check on these.

Speaker 18 (51:40):
Folks, Yeah, because it makes them all Gideon side if
they can come up with some negative aspect or whatever
Trump does, the facts don't matter. How about the fact
that he been labeled the racist when in fact Jesse
Jackson gave him awards for all the time and money
he's put into the minority communities in New York. You

(52:03):
know this?

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. I mean people, you know, as
I just mentioned not too long ago, there's you know
this this local activist that people have been talking about.
The Connecticut Sentinel was talking about the guy he's he
put a swastika on Maga, talking about how Donald Trump
is you know, of course a Nazi. But in his

(52:25):
profile picture, the guy is photographed with Jennifer Hudson, and
I had mentioned that how ridiculous was it that this
guy didn't do his background that with Jennifer Hudson's family
members were senselessly murdered in Chicago, that it was Donald
Trump who put them up For six months and the
Trump International in Chicago and for yeah, for free, like

(52:45):
never meant like, didn't even make the connection while he's
calling Maga Nazis with the photograph of a black woman
that Donald Trump helped and assisted.

Speaker 18 (52:56):
Yeah, yeah, well that's why.

Speaker 19 (52:57):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 18 (52:58):
It doesn't matter what the facts are. You know who
brad Stein is?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Escapes me?

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Please tell me.

Speaker 10 (53:06):
So.

Speaker 18 (53:06):
He's a Christian comedian, but he's also written some books.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
Okay, I actually saw him live.

Speaker 18 (53:11):
He's real funny, so he In one of his books,
he says the difference between the left and the right
is one of them deals with reality and one doesn't.
One makes up their own Well, one makes up their
own reality. I think we know what side that is.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Yeah, interesting what they do.

Speaker 18 (53:28):
Yeah, they just make up their own reality, and then
everybody runs with it and the media echoes it. Yeah,
and then people want to believe it. They simply want
to believe it. It doesn't matter how crazy it is or
how untrue it is, as long as it fits their
world views.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
It echoes their own sensibilities, right, So it's like like
in your mind, it was like I know that this
is true. And then when you have the corporate media
or the legacy media repeating that to you your only
sort of you know, solid and confirmed in your own
belief by saying see look even there saying it. Get
those I get those texts all the time when they

(54:07):
you know, somebody says something and then someone will post
something online repeating the same thing that they believe, and
then they use that as proofs, like see you know.
My favorite one is Gary, I'll tell you this before
you go. My favorite one is is that when there's
this white woman I can't remember her name, but she
is a very self hating white woman who calls herself
a teacher and historian, so she's always online denouncing white

(54:30):
folks and cheerleading for black people, and black people will
send that to me and say, see, even this white
woman agrees. And my response to it is, it's interesting
that in order to certify what you believe, you actually
have to go to a white person in order to
certify your belief by saying it's only true now because
the white people say so. And I'm like, how does

(54:50):
that make your argument factual? And I think that's what
we're we're experiencing here, is that now they have the
corporate media sort of backing what they already believe and
therefore making that true and therefore the cognitive dissidence, so
to speak.

Speaker 18 (55:04):
Yeah, well, the white liberals are are worse at that
as far as attacking white people, but they stick of
or they go to bat for black people unless the
black people are conservatives. Yeah, and then the black people
are garbage just like the white people.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Oh, I've got a perfect example of that. I'll play
that in a little bit. Thank you, Gary, I appreciate you, man,
you got it. Let's go to Doug before we go
to break. How were doing, Doug?

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Good grace?

Speaker 10 (55:33):
Hey?

Speaker 20 (55:34):
Was that a figure on nips six hundred and ninety thousand.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Yes, the number exactly, No, six hundred and eighty thousand
nips that were purchac.

Speaker 20 (55:45):
Well, I just figured it out at one in three
quarter ounces for and nip. I think that's around nine thousand,
four hundred and thirty three gallons.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Wow, that's a lot of booze.

Speaker 10 (55:59):
That's.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
I know.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Look, I'm sorry. That number just really really rang out
to me, and it was published in a couple of
articles today. In fact, there was a feature article on
on Larry Kaferou that was about this talking about how
you know this sale of the nips, if you will,
was like his brainchild and doing this, you know, this
five percent, this five cent sort of purchase thing in

(56:26):
order to keep because remember there was a story but
maybe about a year ago about there were the streets
were littered with these nip bottles, so in order to
clean them up, they put this five percent or five
cent a surcharge on it so it would be redeemable.
So they're saying that this is his brain child. So
that's I guess why the story is being covered. But
that's a lot of money, a lot of bottles purchased

(56:49):
in one.

Speaker 20 (56:49):
Town, so that town is in.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
A bathtub, you know what. Let me that's a let
me ask you this if you had to speculate, because
and I'm gonna go out in the deep end on
this one. Why do you think there's so many? Do
you think it's because nips? I kind of feel is
something that that kids would purchase, like younger people.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
So absolutely not older people.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Okay, see Roland thinks it's older people, I know as
older people.

Speaker 20 (57:27):
Yeah, but yeah, well it's kind of like you know, uh,
drinking hide.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Yeah, drinking hide. Good point, Roseanne what did you say,
so rosee hold on, Roseanne thinks it's forty years and older.
There's old folks. Yeah, so okay, so Rowland really thinks
that it's old folks that are doing it. I see it,
I'll see it everything a lot?

Speaker 9 (57:53):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Is this to moderate their drinking? Do you think?

Speaker 10 (57:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Roseanne says yes, to moderate.

Speaker 7 (57:59):
She thinks is moderate and give them a little bit
of taste like in between work hours.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Oh that is a lot, though, that is yeah, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (58:12):
If you count how many people are in the town,
a lot.

Speaker 19 (58:16):
Of people in that town are getting flawed.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Yeah. I think there's a little bit of Thank you, Doug.
I think it's fair. I think you're right. I think
it's fair to say. It's a concerning number. I don't
want to. I know again, I sound sound like I'm
I'm trying to disparage Middletown. I'm not. I really not.
But that number to me is a little astounding. But
somebody's gonna have to help me on that one. We'll
get to that. We got more news, more views. We'll

(58:42):
talk about the Democrats in Maine. A story. Uh that
is giving them some I don't giving them some indigestion,
uh in that race, and we'll talk about that much
much more. I gotta play stephen A. Smith clip as well.
I won't forget you. Stand by. We'll get to your
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(59:02):
you hear it's our birthday one hundred years? Did you
happen to get us a present? Working on it? We're back.
Let me get to the phones real quick, and then
I'm going to get in to the stephen A. Smith
piece that I thought was hilarious because it doesn't even
make any sense if anybody was paying attention to the
press conference today about this gambling scandal with no Donald

(59:26):
Trump has nothing to do with it. But I thought
it was odd. Let's get to the phones real quick.
Let's go to Ken in Meridan.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
Hello, sir, Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (59:34):
I'm all right, sir. What's up?

Speaker 18 (59:36):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (59:36):
I just wanted to touch base on the middle town
the issue.

Speaker 11 (59:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Can I qualify something again or correct something? I said
that they were redeemable for five cents. I got that wrong.
I did not know that it was only a five
It's a five cent tax on them, but I thought
it was a redeemable sort of cost that was on it.
But it is not redeemable, so I want to correct.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
Go ahead, okay, all right, my point.

Speaker 21 (01:00:03):
You said it was six hundred and ninety thousand of dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
No, no, no, no, So it's more than six hundred
and eighty thousand bottles were sold. Bottles, Yeah, they ended up, yes,
they said in Middletown over the past six months, which
generated about thirty four thousand dollars to the town.

Speaker 21 (01:00:24):
Okay, so six hundred and eighty I kind of rounded
it up to six ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
Because okay, driving.

Speaker 21 (01:00:32):
And I checked, there's roughly forty seven.

Speaker 10 (01:00:35):
Thousand, six hundred residents.

Speaker 21 (01:00:38):
Wow, that comes out to roughly fourteen point five per person.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Fourteen point five nips per person in Middletown alone.

Speaker 21 (01:00:50):
Yeah, and that's the whole population. So if you take
out for just the adults, that's gonna go up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
My wife is in the background and like a hero,
going jeez. Okay. So that's okay, that's a lot. Okay,
that is a lot in six months. That's again, So
you're with me on this one, Ken, I'm not out
of sorts by saying this. Seems like an alarming amount
of flickor to be purchased, even on this, even in

(01:01:22):
the NIP level. Okay, even on the NIP level. This
is I'm not again, like I said, I'm not looking
at this. I don't want to be critical because I
know some people can say, what are you trying to say, Reese,
I'm like, I'm really not trying to say anything other
than this seems.

Speaker 10 (01:01:35):
Like a lot.

Speaker 21 (01:01:37):
I wanted the caller before me say how many gallons
was that that he figured a.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
Little more than ninety thousand? Day, a little more than
nine thousand, I apologize, little more than nine thousand, Yeah,
nine thousand gallons is a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Again, so I know that people are gonna say it's like,
I'm not I'm not ripping in Middletown. I'm just saying
for one town, I would have totally accepted this number
if it were maybe Hartford, proper, right, I say Hartford,
considering let's say Hartford East, Hartford West Hartford. If that

(01:02:16):
were the number, I would go, Okay, makes sense. It's
the major city as the capital city. Makes sense, right,
But Middletown this seems a bit odd and maybe, yeah,
maybe somebody asked the correct it for me. Maybe they
can put it into perspective. But thank you for that
number fourteen per person, and that included children. So if
we were to take maybe two thirds of that, we

(01:02:39):
would probably see that number skyrocket per person.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
Right, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
I appreciate you. Ken, good work, good rock on the numbers.
Let's go to Let's go to Mark in Colombia, Columbia Lake. Hello, Mark,
Hey there, I was.

Speaker 19 (01:02:56):
I was doing some math as well.

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
It's like a niff a day for everybody in town.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Well in six months, I think that. You know, we're
talking about a two week bender. I mean, but not
it's only a nip, but still, I mean, it's fourteen
bottles per person. As you just heard, that's two weeks,
and there's you know, every day it's for two weeks.
That's one nip. Somebody said in a chat room I
thought was interesting that said that it is easy. You

(01:03:23):
think it was Ben in fact who said it. Let
me get his exact quote. Ben says that people buy
nips because they're easy to hide. Drink one and throw
it out a window. You can't do that with a pike,
which of course you cannot. You know, it's again, it's
interesting Joe and Lisa said that Middletown is home to Wesleyan,

(01:03:45):
so don't blame us. It could very well be the
college students, which I'm inclined to believe. Thank you, Joe
and Lisa. I think, look, and again this is me
playing devil's advocate here and trying to look sort of
find some reasonable reason here. I think that Joe and
Lisa may have a good point here, because if colleges

(01:04:08):
probably play a huge role in nip purchases, even if
Roseanne and everybody else is right that they're a rolling
is saying that some older people buy it. But if
I were to split this up, I would say, is
the older folks that don't want to have, you know,
drink too much, and the young kids who want to
buy a nip you know, while they're sitting in the
middle of class or you know, you know, I want

(01:04:29):
to moderate their drinking, right, so I'm giving them the
benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry, go ahead, Mark Well, I.

Speaker 19 (01:04:37):
Was gonna say, just.

Speaker 10 (01:04:39):
We could divide it up and do it in any direction.
And half the people are drinking, maybe in half the
people are not.

Speaker 22 (01:04:45):
Right, So.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
It's still a lot of bottles.

Speaker 10 (01:04:50):
It's still a lot of bottles. I hope, I hope
they were all recycled.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
We can only we can only, Benjamin and I appreciate you.
Let's go to Charlie and the avon. Hello Charlie, I'm
good sir. What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
So I actually used to own a liquor store.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Okay, perfect, so I can.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
Give you a little insight.

Speaker 23 (01:05:14):
I'm not sure if you went over this already, but
it's not there is no like deposit on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
It, right, right? I thought right, I thought it was.
I thought it had a redeemable I read that wrong
on the on the five cents, that's just a five
cent tax, because I thought that they were trying to
end the litter problem by putting that redeemable five cents
on it. And that's not the case. And a lot
of people corrected me on that, and I'm I apologize
for that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
That is that is kind of the case.

Speaker 6 (01:05:37):
It was meant to have people be able to clean
up the nips off.

Speaker 24 (01:05:42):
The side of the street, right, And that's what we
were told when when the estate brought it down, and
then the liquor stores pay the distributor that five cents
and the distributor has it on there, so we don't
it always the keys don't getting passed on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Okay, so oh so wait a minute, if you're yeah, no,
I don't want to ask us to be certain. So
there was an idea or a proposal to put the
five cent redeemable so that people who purchased the nips
would return them and get that five percent, and that
was going to help with the littering. That was a proposal.

Speaker 24 (01:06:16):
No, they were never cared about redeeming them.

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
It was always going to be a surch charge.

Speaker 10 (01:06:20):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
They just wanted to, you know, grab some cash.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Okay, good. I misunderstood that. So working at a liquor store,
talk to me a little bit about that.

Speaker 23 (01:06:29):
So as for the people who are buying them, okay,
your wife is more correct.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Than you are, really so.

Speaker 24 (01:06:39):
So I had a lot of people would moderate their drinking.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
They come in, they buy six or seven, depending on
the day. I had a couple of people that would
come in by two three twice a day. I knew
of other people that would buy.

Speaker 24 (01:06:53):
Two from my store, two from the store down the road,
and two from another store.

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
Down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
This way they wouldn't be like, uh, flyers.

Speaker 24 (01:07:04):
You know, we do still have a responsibility to not
serve intoxicated people.

Speaker 23 (01:07:10):
I cannot sell somebody about a booze if they are
walking in the store drunk, just like a restaurant, you're
not supposed to serve because I'm so liable.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
But also there's you know, the people who play on
the golf course. They put them in a bag and
they have a couple of little nippers on the golf
thirty year old stuff like that.

Speaker 24 (01:07:33):
I myself love to bring them out for Halloween with
the adult and trick or treating.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
I throw them a little knippered and the kids get candy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
That's what you want, intoxicated chaperones.

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
The neighbors while walking around.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
At least it's just a like you're not handing out
a pike.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
But I mean it was, you know, a lot of
it is controlling the drinking, right.

Speaker 24 (01:08:02):
A lot of it also is you know, I'd buy
them sometimes for fun, like right as they were.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
Going on the train down what's that train that they do,
the Polar Express.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Okay, a couple of friends of us, you know, well, we'll.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Buy a sleeve of the bourbon nips. We'll spiker hot
chocolate and go for a ride.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
People do them. You know, it's interesting you say that
because I remember gift bags to like exclusive parties that
I used to go to. They would throw a little
bit of those liquor bottles in them as well. If
it was like an adult kind of beverage party, they
would do these gift bags that when you left, and
when you left, sure enough there would be a couple
of these nips and different ones that be like us

(01:08:40):
seagrooms or you know, the fireball was a big one
that would always be in those. And you know, I
never touched that. You know, I'd never like the flavored
liquor if you will, So, I mean, I I totally
know that, but I think that. So the reason why
you're saying that Roseanne is a little more right on
this than I am. I think it's a a good

(01:09:01):
point that you're making is because and they're twofold on this,
and tell me if I'm right. One it's the moderating
the drinking is the other reason finances because usually if
there's somebody who has a drinking problem, they may be
out of work and they only have a little bit
of cash, you know, using like maybe change that they've
you know, panhandled for to buy at least get their

(01:09:23):
liquor fixed, but buy it in small sort of moderation
because they can't afford the larger bottle.

Speaker 5 (01:09:29):
That's that's half true.

Speaker 24 (01:09:31):
Yes, okay, I did have people that would come in
and buy nips with change that they had, right, But
also you can get a pint of popol vodka or
whatever it may be for sto like five bucks. Right,
what weave of nips is usually going for ten dollars,
so they're usually about a buck apiece.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Oh wow, they're a dollar apiece a minimum.

Speaker 24 (01:09:51):
I think the state minimum is about ninety nine cents
apiece on those things. So usually even the cheap ones
go for like a dollar thirty, Like a dollar thirty
find me.

Speaker 9 (01:10:00):
I mean not that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Like I said, I've never done the nips before, But
how many of those do you do you really need
to do? Like to get a considerable buzz? Do you
have to do like three or four or four or five?

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
Well, I mean some of them are one hundred proof,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
You know, Mark has just texted me that he just
said that, you know, one of them is one hundred proof,
So I would imagine that maybe two of those.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Again, you get pretty you can get pretty good off
of that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Wow, I'm so naive in this on this front.

Speaker 24 (01:10:31):
The thing is you'll never hear you'll never really hear
liquor store owners.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
Complain too much about it.

Speaker 23 (01:10:35):
Okay, the profit margin on nips is massive compared to
the irregular bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Really can you can you share?

Speaker 12 (01:10:42):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Okay, so a buck a buck twenty five on a nip?
What's the what's the resale I mean, what's the wholesale value?

Speaker 10 (01:10:50):
Sixty?

Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Yeah, that's a good return.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
So you'd rather say ten dollars worth of that than
ten dollars of a bottle of wine that you only
make you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, well that's a good point. Thank you, Charlie. I
appreciate it. Thank you for the education. As a former
drinker myself, I'm learning something even after the fact. Thank you, man,
I appreciate you.

Speaker 22 (01:11:14):
You got it all right?

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
All right, we'll take a break. We'll take some more
of it. Apparently this again, it was just part of
my headlines, but you guys are really interested in this.
I gotta play the stephen A. Smith thing. I promised
I would, so gonna play that too. Plus we'll get
into Democrats and their Nazi problem as well, and so
much more. So stick around for that. It's recent on
the radio on WTIC News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 10 (01:11:34):
It's on.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
T I see. Okay, I'm gonna take these two calls
and then I'll do a little bit of the stephen A.
Smith thing, but I got a whole bunch of other
stuff to get into, so like stand by for that,
because if you haven't heard it, I want to play
that for you, and then we'll talk about the Democrats
in their Nazi problem uh as well, and then we'll
take your phone calls as well as eight to zero
five two two WT I C. Let's go to Lee
and Newington first. What's up Lee?

Speaker 5 (01:11:59):
How are you?

Speaker 22 (01:12:00):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (01:12:01):
I'm I'm excited. I finally I got through.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I'm not a problem. What's going on?

Speaker 10 (01:12:07):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:12:08):
Well, the one I was listening to it and I
don't know if I heard this already, but somebody talked
about they're easy to hide. Yes, well, and for girls.
I mean I think guys could probably do it too,
but for girls, it's easy to throw a few in
your pocketbooks and then go to a bar somewhere and

(01:12:32):
like just get a soda.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Right, So is this now, Lee, is this something that
the ladies would do. Let's say there's not enough guys
buying the ladies drinks. There's you know, sort of saving
a little bit of money because alcohol at the bar
can be especially a mixed drink could be upwards of
ten to eleven bucks, and this is a good opportunity
to just maybe get a dye of coke, throw a
little bit of fireball in it, or a little bit

(01:12:55):
of rumedy and they can you know, soda party at
the same time, kind of saving some money.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
Yeah, yeah, but I think it's very rare. It's been
my experience, and I'm I'm no chop liver dish or anything.
But I don't think guys bye girls drinks very much anymore.
I think guys are kind of afraid whoa, you know,
getting in some kind of you know, yeah, kicking on

(01:13:24):
some young.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Is that really? You know what that's? Isn't that?

Speaker 12 (01:13:30):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
You know what you just mentioned something speaking of that,
and I'm thinking about it on a sort of a
larger scale. You know, what's the one thing that I
haven't heard in sort of our lexicon as of late,
I have not heard a lot of people talk about
Ladies' night at bars and clubs anymore. That used to
be a big deal because the objective was why did

(01:13:52):
you have ladies Night? And coming from Manhattan and you know,
spending a lot of my time in sort of my
clubbing years in Manhattan, the reason why you had ladies night,
sort of the genius behind it was say ladies free.
And then the guys will flop because they're hoping to
meet girls who are going to be there, because of course,
you know, the free entry for ladies is a great
place they're getting drunk, yes, exactly, what a great opportunity

(01:14:15):
for guys to meet girls. And then now, as you
just mentioned with you know, the post me to movement
with the sort of like you know, uh like people
guys kind of being concerned about, hey, if I hit
on this girl, you know, is this going to be
deemed you know as harassment or whatever. And that sort
of apprehension is now sort of killed that vibe inside

(01:14:36):
the barn. So now girls are like not getting free drinks.
Guys aren't offering them drinks unless you know, it's got
to be like the hottest guy in the place.

Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
Yeah. Well, and that not only that, but you know,
Women's lib has knocked us off our pedestal, you know,
and so they're thinking, hey, she can afford a drink
just as much as I can, Why should I, you know.

Speaker 17 (01:14:57):
What I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
I wonder if exactly Yeah, well, let's say exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:15:02):
Lee.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
That's a great point, and thank you for sharing that.
I hadn't thought of that. That's a very good point
that times have changed in that sort of dynamic between
men and women at the bars and change the whole thing.

Speaker 9 (01:15:13):
Buy me a drink now, yeah, and then and then
when you get older, you still it's still a little
bit like that. But there are more gentlemen when I
go to a bar at you know, my own age.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Yeah, well that's not a whole lot of them around. Yeah,
it's somewhat hopeful. Thank you, Lee, I appreciate you. Let
me get to the weather in traffic. Thank you again
with Mark Christopher, he's in the b PS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Hey, sir, it's Race on the radio.

Speaker 12 (01:15:42):
Brind don't say we didn't more you on News Talk
ten eighty w T I see.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
We'll get the weather in traffic again. Can you imagine
during all of this, not one person in any of
those crime families said before the whole you know, they
set it up, set up this whole poker game thing,
that one of the guys turned around and say, well,
we ain't.

Speaker 25 (01:16:06):
Got no white guyce Well, we got is black guys.
That's all we got was this guy's name is Chauncey.
We got no white guys. I'm imagining one of them
said that, well, the only way we can get these
guys in and we get the black ice.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
I know they said it. You know they said it
deep down in your heart. You know it was said, well,
we can't get Luca got a Luca guy. We can't,
we can't get him. We gotta have a white guy.
I know it was said. I know it was said.

(01:16:48):
Right now, Mark west Hartford is probably bellied over because
I know he and I were talking about this this morning,
is going this is impossible. I cannot believe this. After
everything we learned in God and the Godfather, that's what's
going on here. I know one of them, I know

(01:17:09):
when at least the Genevieve's family was going, why, well
we gotta use this black guy, Well, why we got
a white place?

Speaker 17 (01:17:17):
Come on?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
It gave me changing. Now there's a lot of white guys.
I always say, you're all thinking it. Say what do
you want about me? You're all thinking it? I just
say what you think, don't co sign me?

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
What Christopher has got weather in Traffick and the BBS
Traffic Center. Hello, Mark's he's probably just finishing up or
staying as far away from me as he can.

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:17:52):
I will not be having dinner with you by the
window in the front of the restaurant near the street,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Rees, Thank you very much much. It's on the radio
on news w T I see, I see. Let me
get back to the phones real quick. Kevin is on
the line. Hello, are you sir?

Speaker 22 (01:18:10):
Hi reef? Hey listen, this is uh. That NIP thing
is pretty personal to me, Okay. I've got a lot
of experience with them, and I think most of your callers,
including yourself, have missed the boat on what why there's so.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Many and uh, you're talking about the purchases in Middletown.
Why the number is so high?

Speaker 22 (01:18:31):
Yeah, Well it's a it's it's that's just indicative of
what's going on everywhere. So that's just an example. Uh,
And I don't think it's an outlier. But it's I
think there mainly have one purpose, and the purposes for
drinking and driving. You're not going to.

Speaker 18 (01:18:52):
Buy a court.

Speaker 22 (01:18:54):
It's a lot cheaper to buy a court or a
fifth or whatever. It just doesn't make sense really by nips.
Other than you know those, I think the outliers would
be you know, some kids and doing you know the
women It was suggested it's I could tell you I

(01:19:16):
have been picking those things up for a long time
and there's one exit on to root A that I
could show you some photographs, and they're all nips from
one person. I've even traced down who these people are
and I nickname them like Warren Schmernoff guy that type

(01:19:38):
of thing. Sometimes they have chasers, and the piles that
were created by these this one guy will blow your mind.
It's still it's been going on for a couple of years,
and I have brought I run a group that cleans
up the Naugatuck River and I've brought the kids to

(01:19:58):
that exit clean up. I have pictures with these kids
with these piles of nips. Again, it's from one person.
It's a mistake.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Can I ask a real question? A quick question?

Speaker 10 (01:20:13):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
I mean Kevin. Sorry, Kevin. In what you're saying is like,
so you're saying that this is this is coming from
one person. You have the evidence to support that. But
my question is this, when you say that you're seeing
a large accumulation in one area, can you because you
obviously navigate through this area, are you talking about piles
of it over what like six months? Over a month?

Speaker 22 (01:20:34):
Almost days? Come it comes from work, He goes to
his favorite liquor store, gets two nips and a chaser,
and and then depositive out the window before he gets
onto the highway.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Almost a routine.

Speaker 22 (01:20:55):
It's not almost rue.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
Okay.

Speaker 22 (01:20:57):
I stake my life on what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
Literally, Okay, I literally, I you know.

Speaker 10 (01:21:03):
I it's it's astounding.

Speaker 22 (01:21:07):
And there was one particular guy that had this stretch
that it was too Schmarnoff with a chaser, and it
was always a most in Golden Eyes. And I would
take a reporter and I could see a little paper
bag and I said, I know what's in that paper bag.
But sure enough we go over and we open it
up exactly what I said. He's deviated only twice in

(01:21:27):
a couple of years, and he had a bush light
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
So it's it's always a light beer. I find that interesting.
So let me ask you this. So okay, So obviously
this is there are two things that are happening here.
Obviously there's you know that the drinking and driving aspect.
That's one two, of course, yeah, it's it's the littering.
Now if is this common knowledge to people like the authorities,

(01:21:53):
because I'm sure that, I mean, if he that's a menace.
That's a menace to society sort of of littering an alcoholism.
What do you do, okay to remedy that?

Speaker 11 (01:22:06):
Let me let me.

Speaker 22 (01:22:08):
I'm kind of a I'm a knot.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
I'm a good nut, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:22:13):
And I went I even there was a state cop
that was parked on that that exit, and I went
over and I was picking them up, and I just
showed that to the guy. All they have to do
is state the damn place out. So there's that's the
state police. So the also, the one of the big

(01:22:34):
mistakes they made is making it not you can't redeem them, right,
I could have.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Made a fortune, you know, just in that one spot.

Speaker 11 (01:22:43):
Right skirted it.

Speaker 22 (01:22:44):
They missed the boat. It was almost like they shot
at the wrong basket and the other you know, team one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Yeah, that's interesting that that one place like that. And
obviously this is something that can be you one, it's
verifiable because you have the photographs of it. You're there
all the time. People know that it's there. You contacted
the police to let them know that this is you know,
this is a cody nobody, Well, because you're cleaning it up.

Speaker 22 (01:23:13):
No, because they think it's everybody. They think it's three
hundred people.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Are you Okay? So here's my question. If you had
to guess just based on the estimation and what you viewed,
you could And you're talking about Middletown. This isn't a decade, Okay,
just over two decades. Is this in Middletown or somewhere else?

Speaker 10 (01:23:35):
No, it's in Waterbury?

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
Okay, Waterbury? Okay, No, No, I'm I'm I'm just talking
about the Middletown was the place that had the six
hundred and eighty thousand you know.

Speaker 22 (01:23:42):
Listen, I'm you know, I'm not a rocket scientist. But
so human behavior is human behavior, right, This is the
nips are the easiest. And I also know drinkers buy them,
you know, and uh and they admit to me, they
don't want to get caught with a fifth of their

(01:24:04):
face right, So it's so easy to get that.

Speaker 10 (01:24:08):
Quick high out the window.

Speaker 22 (01:24:11):
That's why they litter the road.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:24:14):
And I think, I think, I think when you you know,
you redirect it and say it's all these kids and
these women, you know they're stuffing it in their pocketbooks.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Well, no, I think I'm saying, No, I'm not. I
don't want to. I don't want you to get the
impression I'm ignoring the people who are clearly doing it.
Because that was some of the commentary that was said
here in the chat room, and other people have talked
about it that yes, it's an easy fixed. You know,
you get that, and you know, you know you're not
driving around with a fifth in your car because of course,
not only is that dangerous, but you know, of course
you know you do some serious time for that. Totally

(01:24:47):
understand the convenience of it, and of course the the
the ability to thwart any police activity. Having done it,
you know, you toss it out and there's no evidence
of it. I totally get that part. But what if
I'm looking at one town and six hundre in eighty
thousand bottles being sold. What I'm saying is is that
as much as I want to believe you or agree

(01:25:08):
with you, that there are people who are discarding that
are driving on the highway. If indeed what you're saying
is the overall reason why so many are being sold,
we have a bigger problem here, right And now I
already we do. Yeah, no, no, And I've already suggested.
I've already suggested the reason why I even paid attention
to this because one town with six hundred and eighty
thousand bottles is a hell of an alarm bell, right

(01:25:30):
Like to me, that's a red flag.

Speaker 22 (01:25:32):
It is a red flag to me too. But it
didn't surprise me because when I add up that one individual,
I was like, Oh, this is what.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
Do you think that one individual?

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
By the way, what number?

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
What do you think that one individual is responsible for?
If you had to sum up a number, what would
you think that one individual in a year?

Speaker 19 (01:25:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
My god, you know what do you say?

Speaker 10 (01:25:58):
Hold on?

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
You said, it's every day, said it's every day he's
at work, So five days a week, five days a week.

Speaker 22 (01:26:04):
And about yeah, and if if if like so, if
I cleaned them up and I used to test it
by cleaning them up and see how fast they came up.
You caught me off guard because I have a memory
like a steel trap, and I can't remember those numbers,
but I did kind of have those. And but the
point being is what i'd like to just just for
your own.

Speaker 10 (01:26:24):
Curiosity, I'd like to send you some of these photographs.

Speaker 22 (01:26:29):
Okay, they're really it took it, blew the kids minds.
These are kids juniors and seniors in high school and uh,
freshman and sophomores in college that we'd hire to clean
the Naugatuck River over the course of six weeks of
each year.

Speaker 10 (01:26:45):
And that was just a little detour I took.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
Well, Kevin, here's what I'm going to do. I'm gonna
grab a couple of I'm gonna I'm gonna get back
to this story real quick. I have your telephone number.
I'm gonna send you a text for my office office
line and you could text me to photographs there and
then we'll real will re establish this conversation tomorrow.

Speaker 22 (01:27:03):
Okay, okay, fair enough, but give me a day or two.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
No, no, no, yeah, take your time. We're good, Thank you,
boss man. All right, So stand by for great call
by the way, and look like I said, I see
the interest in this story. I just again in my
head when I saw it, I just responded to it
that anybody else would. I'm like, wow, that's a lot.
So I put it in my package for headlines today.
And I know the last time I brought this up,

(01:27:29):
it really got the same reaction. It really wasn't kind
of a gimme. But I appreciate everybody calling about it.
But I do want to get to this stephen A.
Smith thing and the top of the out that I
talked about at the top of the show. Let me
play that clip for you real fast that I'm gonna
go to Frank and Woodbridge on my uh on that

(01:27:49):
whole gambling part. This is Stephen A. Smith talking about
this investigation into gambling as it pertains the Chauncey billips
the end sports betting in the whole night, here's.

Speaker 27 (01:28:02):
What he said, big night for the NBA when Beyonna
put on a show that has now been smithed because
we're talking about this story. Okay, remember Trump has a long,
long history connected to the world of sports because he
had those casinos.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Where do you think folks will coming.

Speaker 27 (01:28:19):
Half the time, I'm not talking about individualism, talking about
the culture, when people want to go to a casino,
when people want to gamble, when people.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
Want to party, or whatever the case may be. This
was his kind of connection to that.

Speaker 27 (01:28:31):
Why am I glad you're here, Monica, because don't be
surprised that the w NBA is next on his list,
Because when you've got all of these protests that have
been going out there and people that have been protesting
against him and what have you, this man is coming.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
He's coming, And I've been saying it for.

Speaker 27 (01:28:50):
A long time, and to me, this is the latest
nugget of evidence that we're talking about right here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
That's not to question the legitimacy of the case. We
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
That's exactly what it is. The whole purpose of that
diatribe is to question the validity of the investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
We're all sitting up here with saying that we don't know.

Speaker 27 (01:29:12):
But anybody that has been around him, anybody that has
talked to him, anybody that has seen his reactions from
the sports leagues and the positions that people have taken,
they are not surprised at what's going on today.

Speaker 22 (01:29:28):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
The downside to this. Stephen A, by the way, should
know better, and a lot of people in the chat
room have been talking about it. Steven A. This investigation
began in twenty twenty two. This has nothing to do
with the Trump administration. This investigation, in fact, some of
the stuff that went on happened in twenty twenty three.

(01:29:50):
Donald Trump has absolutely nothing to do with this. This
was brought to the attention of the FBI Director Cash Bettel,
who then found out the legit jitimacy of it. This
year's long investigation has come to a hit because of
all the hard work that happened before the Trump administration
got here. So it lended itself to a lot of

(01:30:12):
people asking the question, steven are you trying to run
cover for Chauncey or is there something else? Because look, again,
this is allegations, right, because that's what steven A is
doing here right to some degree, that's what he's thrown
out there. I'm not saying that this story isn't legitimate,

(01:30:32):
but you have to ask the question, well, good sensory
asking questions since you seem to be again and placing
blame on Donald Trump, isn't legitimate of acclaim at all?
This investigation wasn't spirraheaded by him or anyone in his cabinet,
Cashpertel or otherwise Pam Bondy or otherwise. They joined the administration,

(01:30:56):
and this investigation is already in pro they are already
doing the work. Sure, those individuals answered to Pambondi and
casp Hotel and said to them, Hey, this is what
we've got going on, and this is the evidence we're gathering,
and this is what we're going to be pursuing in
the coming months when we start our investigation at least
into the penalty stage. So to put this on Donald

(01:31:20):
Trump' say, oh, Donald Trump is coming, and I wouldn't
be surprised the WNBA is next. I look at that,
and I said to myself, is someone trying to cover
something up? Because the NBA, they didn't turn this into
a Trump administration trying to embarrass us at all. This

(01:31:40):
looks like the Biden administration, who, by the way, these
folks the Biden administration. These folks are absolutely directly in
line in co I mean, we're talking about cohesive as
ever on ESPN and on a sports world as it
goes to social justice brands, people in women's sports, the

(01:32:05):
Body the Department of Justice that took this on was
the Biden d J pinning it on Trump as he
embarks on his first year in the administration. To his siggestion,
and you heard, it wasn't like we didn't hear the
press conference. It wasn't like we didn't hear that these
investigators started since twenty twenty two. Some investigations started as

(01:32:28):
early as twenty nineteen. And I was just one facet
of it. And as stephen A forgetting about the crime
family aspect of all of this, the mafia aspect in
all of this. This isn't racial, This isn't any anger

(01:32:50):
towards the sports world and anybody trying to run cover
because Chauncey is a good guy and good look. I'm
just as surprised as most people are in Chauncey is
caught up in this, Okay, I am. I would have
never imagined. I can't speak for the other guys because
I don't care. I'm sure one person turned state's evidence
on him their first arrest and suspension. What you know,

(01:33:12):
a band from the league. I'm pretty sure that guy
played a huge role in dropping dimes on everyone. But
speaking of which, this is another thing that I want
to get out there. If anybody wants to be concerned
about anything anything, be concerned about Chauncey Phillips. Be very concerned.
We'll talk to Frank in a minute. Frank, stay on
the line. I promise I want to talk to you

(01:33:33):
about this because I want you to hear this. And
I know I jokingly said, you know, hey, what do
we only got a black guy. But think about this.
Chauncey's going to be pulled in to the FEDS and
he's going to be asked, Hey, what do you know? Hey,
I want to save your reputation. Hey, you want to

(01:33:56):
squeal a little bit? You should be more concerned about
Chauncey right now because there's a lot of people are
gonna be asking that question. Hey, Chauncey, you wanta button up.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Steve and A.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
You got some concerned If you want to be concerned
about the guy, be concerned. There just saying day.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Race on the radio is on w T I see news.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Yes we are back. Let me see you know what
I didn't do? Forgive me. I am so sorry. I
cannot believe I forgot to do this.

Speaker 11 (01:34:35):
Set all right, so caught up.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
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(01:35:05):
you got to live in Connecticut and you must not
to have won within the last six months. Uh in
order to participate. I'm going to let me take I
can say Jeremy and Waterbury real quick. How are you sir?

Speaker 10 (01:35:21):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
I'm all right, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:35:25):
I'm not trying to throw a curve on to what
you're talking about right now.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
I'm not talking. I'm not talking about anything. But you
go anyway any direction you want.

Speaker 6 (01:35:35):
I have a couple of stories that I think you
find interesting. One has to do is cool in a
gang from yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:35:42):
I'm a professional jazz musician and like about like ten
years ago, I was supposed to play a gig and
we're all set up in tendants. Before the gig, the
owner tells us that we got bumped because they over
double booked us and the bass player from Cool to
Gang and his band was gonna play. And I didn't
mind because, just like you said, you love.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Talking to him. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
I love to be pumped. I love to be bumped
by someone like.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
That's a great story to tell, right, you know it's
like you.

Speaker 6 (01:36:11):
Yeah, I was gonna call yesterday, but I didn't want
to enter up.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
That's okay, No problem was that the that was the
only thing you want to know, Pine? Or did you
have something else?

Speaker 6 (01:36:19):
One more thing? Like it must have been like a
year ago you and Mark Christopher were talking about like
weird strange jobs you.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
Had to do.

Speaker 6 (01:36:25):
Yes, yes, And Mark talked about he had to like
dry hemp leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
And things like that or something is something weird like that?

Speaker 6 (01:36:32):
Yeah, I wanted to call him to tell you real
something because of your background with music things like that.
So when I was in college, I was conducting a
band and after high school band was over, this woman
came up to me. She just beat a mirror. She
runs like the literal jazz test. She's like, oh, you
look very good in your tucks. Are you going to
the jazz festival? I'm like, no, I'm a college kid,

(01:36:52):
I can't really afford it, and she's like, bring your tucks,
you'll get in for free. So I show up to
the jazz festival. They let me in and she says, okay,
go get dressed in your tou So I'm like, okay,
So I get dressed in my tucks. I go behind
the circus tent. Around the corner comes earth A Kit.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Whoa.

Speaker 6 (01:37:09):
Yeah. So I was hired for free emission to stand
there as a waiter as she sang songs entertained and
she kind of like seduced me. And I had to
be a waiter and stand there with a straight face.
And she made me like drink champagne.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
Yeah, that is incredible, just off the fly. You're on stage.
You're technically well because Eartha Kit did sing jazz, but
you were there in essence as a prop for Earther
Kit during her performance.

Speaker 6 (01:37:38):
Yeah, and she's seducing me, rubbing her hands on me.
Then that's the very end. She made me drink the champagne.
Everyone was dying laughing. It was a great show. But
I had to sit there and not even smile, and
all I did was stare at the back of the
circus tent, you know, because I'm like, I can't laugh.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
I can't laugh.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
I can't laugh. And my grandma used always talk about
earth a kit, you know, and how awesome she was.
So it was a great random experience for a job.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
Hey listen, And there's no such thing as coincidence, my friend,
not at all. That is a great story. Thank you
for sharing that with me. Jeremy, you got it, you
got it. We'll be back, more news, more views that
we got. Franken Woodbridge, we'll talk about this whole thing.
I just want to get his take on it, and
I don't want to move hisself indict. Let's get to

(01:38:19):
Mark Christopher in the BPS traffic center. Hey, Mark, re
thank you very much. The NAACP calls him.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
I don't think I'm a It's Reese on the radio.
Let's just say some people are not fans news. Talk
to eighty w T.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
I sies.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
I will get back to the phones and everybody in
a second. But let me get to frank in Woodbridge.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:38:45):
Good?

Speaker 19 (01:38:46):
I don't know what I would do if I was
that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Noah, Yeah, you know this is again. Look that the
names on this rap sheet as it were, and I'm
looking at it from the New York Post. We're talking
about Banano family, Lukesey family. Who's the other one here?

(01:39:08):
I think there's one more Gambino, Yes, Gambino family, and
these are yeah and Genevievez. These are like, we're not
talking about run of the mill folks. These are like
people from what we called in New York the Five Families,
right right, And and if you're wrapped up in this

(01:39:32):
as Chauncey Billips is the first phone call, you know,
I mean, sure he's gonna make bail, but you know
that somebody's going to reach out because they're gonna be
sort of two ends to this. They're gonna be the
folks who are like co conspirators in this case, there's
cohorts and then there's gonna be the fens on the
other hand, who are gonna say to him, you know, hey,

(01:39:53):
you know your reputation's on the line. You're a coach,
you know in the NBA, you're a Hall of Famer.
You know what are you gonna do? So of course
you're saying to yourself, what's the what's the outcome? I'm
not going into witness protection program? I can't go into
witness protection to the program. We're gonna live in Wyoming.
It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 19 (01:40:12):
So does he have a family, Yes, of course he does.

Speaker 10 (01:40:16):
Well, then you can't do it.

Speaker 19 (01:40:18):
He's gonna have to go to He's gonna have to
fleet guilty and then go to prison. What else is
he gonna do?

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
So you I mean he can't because I know he's
going to be He's going to be asked if you will, right,
I mean, you know there's gonna be to ask you know,
it's like, hey, you know, what are you gonna do here?

Speaker 19 (01:40:36):
So you know what up lisha know what up doing?
If he testifies, he'll get a black guy to kill him. Yeah,
think about that.

Speaker 10 (01:40:45):
Don't get a black.

Speaker 22 (01:40:46):
Man to kill him. Think about that.

Speaker 19 (01:40:47):
That's why he'll have no idea what's coming. He'll be
looking for an Italian guy and one of his own
time will blow his head off. That's what will happen. No,
I'm not talking to the FBI. I raight to go
to prison. How how many years is he facing?

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
I don't know yet. I mean there has not been
any talk as of yet like what that's going to be.
I mean I'm I'm going to start I'm gonna look
into this. I haven't even read the indictment yet because
it's way too much together.

Speaker 19 (01:41:12):
Because he's gonna be looking for somebody from the mafia
and some black guy is gonna walk up.

Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
That's usually, you know, And it's interesting because that's looking
for what what we saw so far in all of this,
there has been a level of uh, let's say, inclusiveness
in this operation that almost lends to your theory, which says,
you know, if you know, if I'm concerned about whether

(01:41:40):
or not this guy is going because all you need
to do is in one case is to say you
put the word out there that Chauncey is part you know,
uh uh, he's cooperating. There's the word he's cooperating. And
you're exactly right in in that. In that case, it's like,
how are you going to operate it under those circumstances

(01:42:00):
without like twenty four to seven protection. You can't just
go out into the world anymore. That life is over
for you.

Speaker 19 (01:42:08):
Over all, right, I mean, he's gonna be looking for
a white guy.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Yeah, well I don't think that. Listen, I'll tell you this.
I don't and I think that the FBI and every
other you know, sort of intelligent counterintelligence agency on this
knows that Chauncey's life in the public eye in this
case is a rap. He's got to go into hiding.
I mean just I'm sorry, just what it is, or
he's just got to, you know, keep his mouth shut

(01:42:32):
and then do his time.

Speaker 19 (01:42:34):
Well, the FBI, the FBI guaranteed what Whitey Bulger and
Solitary's conflinement, you'll be safe. They murdered him. You can't
trust the FBI. This is gonna be I think I
was right about Puffy doesn't care what color you are.
All they care about is one color green.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Yeah, think you. I think you've been proven right on
that one. I think Thank you, Boss, I appreciate thank
you man, thanks for holding on. You know, like I said,
you know, I just figured I go over Frankie on
this one. I'm just saying, but he's right. I don't

(01:43:15):
you just you can't like I don't understand this. In
my heart of hearts, I don't understand this. I just don't.
And that Stephen A. Smith comment, It's like, what is
that for? That doesn't help Chauncey in any way trying
to put this on President Trump. You know, there's photographs

(01:43:38):
in the New York Post today from twenty nineteen of
Chauncey at a poker game. Ah, I mean, the problem
what with the Stephen A. Smith thing is and other
conversations about it. Guess what they won't be talking about.
They won't be talking about any of these families. They

(01:43:59):
won't be talking about any of the other the other
guys who are are considered the co conspirators. There'll be
no conversation about any of them. They will keep their
mouths shut. They will and then try to say that
this whole thing is it's a product of the government. God.
These people are just absolutely just I don't even know

(01:44:20):
what to say. I don't you want to talk about
how horrible it is. Let me tell you how horrible
it is. So the Democrats have a secret Nazi. Don't
take my word. That's what they told us. They told
us that nobody can have some timey time involvement in Nazism.

(01:44:44):
You are a Nazi if you even dabbled in it.
Now you remember that we got criticized right here on
this show because I said, I don't care that a
couple of nobodies were in some private chat room on
telegram making jokes about Nazism, making jokes about black people.
You're not supposed to know. You're supposed to immediately denounce

(01:45:07):
those folks because they will be associated with you forever.
And even after you denounce them, it isn't enough, because
they will rub your face in it all day, say Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.
Well you know the rule at RIESA on the radio.
You set the standard, you live by it.

Speaker 28 (01:45:23):
According to Eleaks from publican group chat in twenty twenty four,
in Grassi admitted I do have a Nazi streak in
me from time to time. Folks, there's no such thing
as a Nazi streak.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
You got any Nazi in you? You are Nazi, that's right,
you got any Nazi in you? Use a Nazi. Enter
Graham Planter. There's a photograph of him right there at
Resata radio dot com. There he is, Graham Planter. Underneath
that picture, of course, is the tattoo he has over

(01:45:57):
his right chest, which he's now remo moved. And Grant Planter,
who's this guy? Well, this is the guy running in
Maine to try to take over Susan Collins's position, and
he's a Democrat, and everybody is admitting this guy has
got a checkered background outside of the two thousand and

(01:46:21):
seven tattoo with that symbol on it with the I
guess it was supposed to be sculling crossbones, which is
associated with the Nazis. It's associated with the Nazis because
it is called a toten kof symbol, which is historically
associated with Nazi SS units. Here's what's his name, Scott

(01:46:45):
Jennings said on CNN about mister Planter. Here's Scott Jennings CNN.

Speaker 16 (01:46:52):
You've seen the online discourse around this candidacy. This guy
is the favorite of the radical f base of the
Demoocratic Party. They're standing by him despite the fact he
has a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest and he's
made of horrent comments and some of these Reddit threads
that he's been involved in. They are unwilling to walk

(01:47:13):
away from it because they want the candidates who are
the most radical and the most progressive, and they're willing
to put up with Nazi symbolism and other terrible remarks
because of it.

Speaker 22 (01:47:21):
This is their guy.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
I don't think they're going to walk away from him.

Speaker 16 (01:47:23):
Paul's right, the popular Mills, you know, I guess is
going to.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
Be in this primary.

Speaker 16 (01:47:28):
But look look online this week, look at your friends
this morning, Paul. Look what they're saying about this guy.
They want the Democratic Party to stand next to him
because they think he's the bigger fighter, he's the not
establishment guy, and they're willing to overlook the Nazi stuff
over it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
I don't know, yes, they are willing to overlook the
Nazi stuff. Let's go to the back of Scott Jennings
statement before we get to the former, the beginning of
his statements, Let's start with the people who are endorsing him.
Prominent individuals who are endorsing Planter. Wow, none other than

(01:48:01):
Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
That's way. Absolutely, I support Graham and everything he's done.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
He can win.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
He should totally take over in Maye. Absolutely I agree.
I support him. I support everything about him. He is
obviously the progressive that we need to win the.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
Senate, and he will. And not just Bernie Sanders leaders
we deserve also, say the College Democrats of America, voters
of tomorrow, gen Z for Change, the United Auto Workers,
Maine State Nurses, Association and the International Federation of Professional

(01:48:42):
and Technical Engineers, all of which are supporting Graham Planting
all supported. But you may have heard.

Speaker 15 (01:48:54):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Scott Jennings said that he also has some problematic texts
and comments that he's made and read it. I'll read
a few. He has dismissed concerns about military sexual assaults.
We'll get to what he said in a minute and
a see an npiece he questioned, hold on, wait, wait,
this one's great, This one's great. He questioned whether blacks

(01:49:20):
at restaurants tip adequately. He criticized police officers and rural Americans.
He's used homophobic slurs, and has made jokes that were
considered LGBTQ. And with all of that, even though Democrats

(01:49:43):
denounce every bit of that, having a Nazi symbol, saying
things about sexual assaults, thinking blacks don't tip, all those
things are apportant. But are they willing to say that
he should drop out at a race? Well, that answers
quite obvious. Let's go to Sarah Jacob's Democratic CA California.
What does she think about all of this? Oh, by

(01:50:03):
the way, she's Jewish.

Speaker 29 (01:50:05):
I am comfortable saying there should be no Nazis in
the Democratic Party.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
The big tent is not that big, and I.

Speaker 29 (01:50:11):
Hope that my colleagues are comfortable saying that about the
Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
But you think he should leave the race?

Speaker 29 (01:50:17):
Look, I don't know. I'm the honest answer is that I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
Not invane what.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
What she's a Jew? No Nazis should be in the
Democratic Party. When asked whether or not she'd drop, I
don't know. Well, which is it? And again, as I
told you long time ago, long long, long, long time ago,
that they will never denounce anyone who is far left.

(01:50:46):
They can't. That's the cultism, whether you like it or not,
is it platinirth, thank you whatever. The bottom line is
is that they won't denounce them. They can't tell him
this day bout it to race. They are being held hostage,
but a progressive wing of the party. I am sick

(01:51:07):
in the title of the Democrats telling us what to do. Ah,
they can't. Here's more, Sarah, Yeah, But I go.

Speaker 30 (01:51:13):
About this is I mean, this is about whether or
not this is a disqualifying set of facts, because again
it's not just uh, you know that, it's also this.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
Oh yeah, Abby Phillips is about to read the comment
that he made in Reddit about the concerns or dismissing
concerns about military sexual assault. Here's the exact quote.

Speaker 30 (01:51:36):
This is what he said about sexual assault. Take some
responsible people, should take some responsibility for them themselves and
not get so effed up that they wind up having
sex with someone they don't mean to.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
That's just one small example.

Speaker 29 (01:51:47):
I think what he said was horrific. And the idea
that he even had something that could be remotely related
to Nazism on his body for years, for years and
claimed he didn't know what it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
Was is horrific.

Speaker 29 (01:51:59):
Now, I also, I don't believe that people can grow
and believe in second chances. And I look forward to
hearing what he has to say to really atone and
amend for this. And you know, I'm comfortable saying like
we should not have Nazis in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
Yeah, but I'm willing to have him condone that grace
has never afforded any conservatives, much less those stupid kids
inside that little uh that that little chat room that
wasn't afforded anybody. People came out and apologized, people were fired,
people resigned, They were given no grace. But this guy. Yeah,
maybe he'll redeem himself. But you know, like I said,

(01:52:35):
you set the standard.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
According to elite.

Speaker 28 (01:52:38):
From publican group chat in twenty twenty four, in Grassi
admitted I do have a Nazi streak in me from
time to time. Folks, there's no such thing as a
Nazi streak.

Speaker 9 (01:52:49):
You got any.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
Nazi in you, you were Nazi, that's right. And if
you got any Nazi on you use the Nazi again.
I just again, that's the standard you said, that's the
standard you have to live by. That's just the way
it is. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Anyway,

(01:53:11):
when we come back top of the hour, we'll have
some more news, more views as well, and we'll take
your phone call, so stand by, stay on the line.
Donald says, all this shows is that they're on both sides.
Many of us with sense know that that it's on
both sides. That's that's that's what you're suggesting. You mean

(01:53:33):
that people are people that some people say things that
are reprehensible. Yeah, we've always known that. Welcome to the club.
You're just figuring that out.

Speaker 6 (01:53:46):
You just get here.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
That's all right, Welcome to the party, pal, That's okay,
And thank you, big leagues. I apologize. I don't know how.
I don't know how. The Heck guy so that it
is Platner as well. He said that Reese to do
a good Bernie thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:54:04):
I try.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
I work that I do that Bernie big League send
it too. I try really really hard to do the
Bernie thing. But that's because I know a guy who
sounds like him. I know, I grew up with a
guy who has that exact voice I used to make
fun of when I was a kid. When we come back,
more news, more views. I got two stories to talk

(01:54:26):
about Obamacare, and as character in all of this, you
may have forgotten. When we come back, stand by for
that and food stamps, Tom phil Sack, the Secretary of Agriculture.
I gotta play this this. Indeed, both of these are
oldie but goodies. When we return, let's get to Mark Christopher.
He's in a BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Hey, Mark, the hour that backs up Punch Punch. It's
Reese on the radio on w t I S News
Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
And now I feel like a complete heel because I'm
over here looking at other stuff and I totally forgot
that I was supposed to have something on Hollywood News
that it was a story that I was looking at
and now I've seem to have lost it. Why whatever,
it doesn't matter. When we come back, we'll take your
phone calls, so stand by for that. In fact, I
only had a minute left anyway, so it would have
been complete waste to even do it. That the promo

(01:55:17):
is longer than the actual story would have been. So
we'll come back, We'll play We'll talk to you on
the phones at eight sex zero five two two WT.
I see, stand by for that. As I also said,
I want to play this clip from Tom Vilsack. Many
people remember it because yesterday we were talking about food
stamps and food stamp recipients and people are saying that

(01:55:40):
they're not gonna go to work, they're not gonna work
twenty hours and all that other stuff. I found out
that two of the clips that we played yesterday they
were actually back to back, that there were satirical that
people are saying. It was like, because of those two clips,
that means the rest of the clips, you know, have
no meaning.

Speaker 10 (01:55:55):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
So the other people who were saying they were gonna
rob the shop right like now, all of a sudden,
that's depletely null and void because some people were at
satirical I'm like, okay, whatever, we'll take the l on
the satirical ones. But the other ones no one's claiming
are fake, so we'll talk about that. But Tom Vilsack,
you guys may have missed this because it was on
MSNBC and who the hell watches that, But this is

(01:56:17):
interesting what he said when asked about food stamp recipients
in the United States back during the Obama administration. Let's
get another check of whether in traffic with Mark Christopher's
in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
Heymark, it's race on the radio on Newstalk ten at.

Speaker 3 (01:56:33):
I see see. Okay, Now, I'm upset in the middle
of talking to my wife and then this darn screen
timed out, and I gotta fix it. Don't worry, I'll
take care of it in a second stand by, and
I promise I'll get to everybody's phone calls. So let's
start with this thing. So yesterday we were playing some

(01:56:54):
audio soundbites of people who are upset about the November
deadline because of the government shutdown, saying that because of
the government shutdown, people weren't going to get their EBT cards,
and I was asking a question, look at all of
these people who are dependent on the government, and the

(01:57:15):
number appears to be growing and growing and growing and growing,
and there was no stopping it. And then I'm watching
as I was preparing for my podcast at the time,
I'm watching these stories come up, and I think it
was Sean Hannity who was probably the one person who

(01:57:38):
was saying the most about the increase in food stamps
food stamp recipients, and the number kept climbing, and mainstream
media wasn't talking about it until they realized that Sean
Hannity was getting some traction in talking about it and said,

(01:58:01):
that is a concern. Why would the Obama administration be
growing the number of people on food stamps. It didn't
make sense, It didn't make good business sense, and it
clearly didn't work as a prosperity measure for average Americans.
If more people are on food stamps, it means more

(01:58:22):
people are sinking into poverty, needing the federal program. So
I'm watching MSNBC and I was so glad that I
caught it because I looked it took me all day.
My podcast used to be on eight o'clock at night,
So it took me all day to find a clipping boy.
When I found it, I couldn't wait to play it
for everyone. And when I played it, people went, yeah,

(01:58:45):
why would why would they admit that? So I'm gonna
set it up this way. I don't know who the
gentleman is who's asking the question, but this young man
at MSNBC is asking Tom Vilsack of Agriculture here, what
is the Obama administration doing to alleviate the amount of

(01:59:06):
people who are adding on to the number of people
who are on food stamps. MSNBC is directing this as
a concern we see, as Sean Hannity did, a growing
number of people going on food stamps? What's the administration
doing to kind of quell that, to bring it down?

(01:59:27):
What Tom Vilsack says should shock.

Speaker 31 (01:59:29):
You, Secretary, Good morning, many, that's weird the agriculture and
a reporter just released that the one in seven Americans
now are are currently on food stamps. What is what strategies,
what's what's being done right now and kind of being
done going forward that you think is really addressing, you know,
poverty and the poor within the country and bringing some

(01:59:51):
alleviation to those kind of numbers.

Speaker 32 (01:59:55):
Well, obviously it's putting people to work, which is why
we're going to propose some interesting things during the cour
the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going to
have a press conference with myself and Secretary Mabus and
Secretary Chew to announce something that's never happened in this country,
which we think is exciting in terms of job growth.
But I should point out that when you talk about
the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have

(02:00:16):
to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar
of SNAP benefits generates a dollar eighty four in the
economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able
to buy a little bit more in the grocery store,
then someone's got a stock at shelvet, package it, process it,
ship it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:31):
All of those are jobs.

Speaker 32 (02:00:32):
It's the most direct stimulus you can get into the
economy during tough times.

Speaker 3 (02:00:37):
So there was Tom Vilsack saying that, well, food stamps,
are you kidding me? We're making it more accessible in
the three largest states California, Texas, and Florida. We're growing
the number of recipients. And because of that, because of
that statement, people like Sean Hannity started sending people down

(02:00:59):
to Florida, started sending people to Texas and to California,
and they found out that what they were doing. They
had teams of people. The White House did teams of
people who were walking around getting people on food stamps,
growing the numbers. Now, again, this is the point that

(02:01:21):
I was making years ago and just recently on this program.
I even wrote a substack on it. You should check
it out, talking about how the Democrat Party has always
been the socialist party because it's always working on getting
more and more people on the dole. And now you
read what you sew and Obamacare is no different because

(02:01:44):
does anyone remember a guy by the name of Jonathan Gruber.
I remember him. I remember him well. Remember he was
running around telling everybody that we had to lie about
Obamacare and because the American people were so stupid, they

(02:02:04):
wouldn't understand the law.

Speaker 33 (02:02:07):
This bill was written in a tortured way to make
sure CBO did not score the mandate is taxes. If
CBO scored the manda's taxes, the bill dies.

Speaker 28 (02:02:14):
Okay.

Speaker 33 (02:02:14):
So it was written to do that in terms of
in terms of risthrated subsidies. If you get a law
which said healthy people are going to pay in it
made explicit the healthy pay and the tie people get money.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
It would not have passed.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
Okay, just like the people.

Speaker 33 (02:02:27):
Transparent lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically,
you know, called the stupidity the American voter or whatever,
but basically.

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
That was really really critical to get him to think
to pass.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
And you know, it's the second best argument.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Look, I wish Mark was right, we can make it
all transparent, but I'd rather.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
Have this law than not till a second.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
So that's what I said, I wish we could be
He's that's what Jonathan Group said. I wish we could
make it all transparent, but I'd rather have this law
than not. And I can definitely rely on the will
or the stupidity of the American people. He was happy
about that. When Ronan Pharaoh you remember him to me too,

(02:03:08):
guy he used to have a show over on MSNBC.
He got Gruber on the show and asked him about
his statements about the stupidity of the American people. Here's
what Grouper said about it.

Speaker 34 (02:03:19):
Do you stand by the comments in that video?

Speaker 33 (02:03:22):
The common the video were made at an academic conference
off speaking off the cuff.

Speaker 3 (02:03:26):
Yeah, those those statements I made was at an academic conference.
I was speaking off the cuff until they found out
he was saying it everywhere. Here's another incidence that's just
hero rose. John Kerry.

Speaker 33 (02:03:39):
John Kerry said no, no, no, we're gonna tax your
health insurance. We're gonna tax those evil insurance companies. We're
gonna impose a taxes. They say, health insurance, it's too expensive.
We're gonna tax them. And conveniently, the tax rate will
happen to.

Speaker 3 (02:03:50):
Be the marginal tax rate under they become tax good.

Speaker 33 (02:03:53):
So basically it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (02:03:55):
We just tax the insurance companies. They passed it on
higher prices. That all sets the tax break we get
being the same thing.

Speaker 33 (02:04:00):
It's a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the
of the of the lack of economic understanding the American voter.

Speaker 3 (02:04:06):
Yeah, and they all knew that he's one of the architects.
They all knew that, as I was expressing to you
again a long time ago, all by design, all socialists
all the time. That's who these people are, that's who
they are. So now they get to this point and

(02:04:30):
the programs that they're throwing a trillion and a half
dollars at well, people are set up, are going what
are you people serious? And sure enough they go out
there when they lie relying on the stupidity of the
American people, especially those on the left. Sorry, folks, they're
relying on the stupidity of you.

Speaker 10 (02:04:49):
They are.

Speaker 3 (02:04:52):
Conservatives, Republicans are people who are against this nonsense about
the growing of people on foodstamps or the growing of
people on Obamacare. We already knew that it was a boondoggle.
We were all aware they couldn't rely on the stupidity
of us. So who do you think they were relying
on you? You while you were going to bed screaming
in the hollering, stop calling an Obamacare, it's the Affordable

(02:05:15):
Care Act. You were defending it to the hill. Stop
disrespecting him. He's a black man and you just don't
like his a butterbook care Fland because it did. There's
there he is cruper telling him we relied on the
stupidity of the American people. You've been called stupid. I
don't need to I told you, we will always tell you.

(02:05:37):
And you think it's because we're trying to one up
you or trying to own the Libs. No, in the beginning,
it was always about wake up, you're being taken advantage
of a stupid compassion thing that they are always they
always lead you by your nose with Oh, it's impotant
to everybody and nods understanding the bare minimum economy of

(02:06:00):
all of this, that it was never going to work.
And where are we now? Where are we now? Fourteen
fifteen years later? Where are we now? We got to
keep the subsidies. I thought you guys said it. Without this,
we were all gonna forget about it. People were gonna die.
And now guess what. Obamacare is a thing, and people
are still going to die. You look again, it isn't us.

(02:06:28):
It's never been us today people. And I'll throw an
olive branch to conservatives, maga folks and even libertarians on
their behalf. I'll do this and they don't need me,
but I'll just see this. In the beginning, it was
about a necessary concern to try to warn you. You

(02:06:50):
don't know what you're cheerleading. Listen to us. We know
what we're talking about. We're trying to explain it to you.
Every day. People have called this network and I know
that tried to explain people in the healthcare industry, people
in the insurance industry, were trying to warn people. But
what did you do. You ignored them. And here we
are and all we wanted you to do is to
pay attention to the people again who are supposed to

(02:07:12):
be on your side, calling you stupid, relying on your stupidity.
Gruber is not a conservative, Gruber is not Maga. Gruper's
your guy. And Gruber wanted that bill pass, as in
many others, no matter what, and they were willing to
lie for it. One guy, one guy, Supreme Court Justice

(02:07:35):
John Roberts, who everybody knows. The reason why he literally
dragged the ACA off the finish line over the finish
line was for one reason. It was the dumbest reason ever.
You don't want to be the Supreme Court that denied
the signature legislation of the first black president. The rest

(02:08:00):
of the country be damned, and everybody knows it. And
everybody was dupied. Everybody was forced into agreeing with and
doing with and cheerleading something that was going to end
up creating a bigger socialist safety net for the sake
of what? How feeling better? How do you feel now?

(02:08:24):
How many of you right now? And look at the
people who are out in the street protesting. Look at
the people a perfect example, look at John Hodgkinson who
lost his life what was it twenty seventeen, trying to
murder Republicans because of what? Because of healthcare? Because he

(02:08:47):
fell for the banana and the tailpipe. That man left
his wife, traveled from what Ohio, Illinois, wherever he was
in the Midwest, all the way to Virginia to stake
out a baseball field for what Obamacare? Trying to kill
people and lost his own life in a gun battle.

(02:09:11):
How many other people before it used to be. Look,
we just want to warn you. Today people are like, hey,
we told you you were stupid. Today they don't care,
They have no empathy for that. And the worst part
is that if you're still standing around trying to defend this,

(02:09:33):
to defend Obamacare, I'm still defend it. There's no helping you.
There is no helping you at this point. It's willfully
ignorant and there's nothing else left because again, you don't
have to defend it anymore. You don't. Obama's not the

(02:09:55):
president anymore, you won't be president again. If you want
to defend anything when it comes Barack Obama, will you
please help him fix that ugly ass building in Chicago, Like,
if somebody give that guy a clue whatever that is?
It looks like a big giant rock. It's cost overrun.
Did he really hire DEI and women to build that thing?

(02:10:15):
And it's over budget and past schedule? Are you serious?
If you want to defend anything, defend that. Go help
him out there with any of you. By the way,
if you ask the folks of Chicago, Oh, do they
hate that thing?

Speaker 22 (02:10:35):
God?

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
Do they hate that building? People are so done with
defending Barack Obama, and perhaps the Democrats should do the same.
Just forget about Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. It appears
that Republicans have a replacement or some sort of planet
they were ready to negotiate. Mike Johnson was talking about

(02:10:57):
it on CNN. I hope he does not leak that plan.
Don't even give them an edge on whatever plan they have.
Make them wait this out. That's all I want to say.
I want to see them go one step further on
all of this. It's gonna be interesting. So speaking of

(02:11:21):
was that. Oh, you know what I want to play that?
You know what I play that during the next break,
speaking of mind numb robots. Uh that that young kid,
Nick Shirley. This video is absolutely insane. When we come back,
I'm gonna play it real quick. Talk about being led

(02:11:43):
like in a cult. You are not gonna believe this audio.
Stand by, let's get another check of whether in traffic
think who's it? John Ferrick is in with whether Mark
Chris Y's in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 10 (02:11:52):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
Mark.

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Speaker 5 (02:12:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
So, of course we're talking about the NBA scandal. Of
course that involves organized crime, basketball and poker games. And lastly,
I just mentioned that there was a story that I
thought that some people should have paid attention to. I
thought it was weird as far as the accusation of

(02:12:26):
cultism within the left. This is interesting only because it
shows that a lot of people are gonna say, well,
it's his girlfriend. That may be true. This guy Nick Shirley,
who's been on shows like Jesse Waters. He's a you know,
independent reporter. He's recently been covering the stuff going on

(02:12:51):
in Canal Street in New York with the Africans who
were just picked up selling counterfeit goods. Anyway, bring the
whole argument about illegals in the country. He went up
to a young man to ask him about his point
of view on people who are in the country illegally

(02:13:11):
and whether or not they should be deported. Well, he
seemed to have strong feelings about it. Until do you
support the deportation of illegal grants?

Speaker 1 (02:13:23):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:13:23):
Yeah, yeah, okay, she's saying she does it. If they're illegal,
then yeah. Do you not support the deportation of illegal migrants?

Speaker 6 (02:13:38):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:13:38):
He does, and you don't.

Speaker 9 (02:13:41):
It's not illegal.

Speaker 2 (02:13:44):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
If someone crossed over the border illegally, should they be deported?

Speaker 2 (02:13:56):
I'm not too sure about that.

Speaker 10 (02:14:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:14:01):
I look again, A lot of people can say the obvious, right,
you seem to have strong feelings about it. If they're
in the country illegally, they should be deported. The girlfriend
turns around and says, no, they're not illegal. See this
and says, oh so your girlfriend says otherwise, what do
you say, because it just stands a dead silent and goes.
I'm gonna have to think about that now. I know

(02:14:23):
that you're probably saying, you know, you don't want to
take off your girlfriend whenever your girlfriend says, you're gonna
go with that. But come on, come on, are you
under the impression your girlfriend's gonna break up with you
because you don't see it the same way? I thought
that was a little odd. I don't really think so,

(02:14:47):
I don't know. Let's get another check out of traffic
and weather. Mark Christopher's a a BPS traffic center. Hey, Mark,
what's up? Everybody?

Speaker 22 (02:14:54):
You know who it is?

Speaker 2 (02:14:55):
Who is you know who?

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
It's reas on the radio, Frederick Douglas of the twenty
first century.

Speaker 1 (02:15:01):
It's wti C News Talk.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
Okay, last time. I will repeat it tomorrow's show. Not online.
You will not be able to watch the show online
because we'll be packing up most of the gear here
getting it all boxed up for ready to go. So
we will definitely just be of course on WTIC dot com,
so you'll be able to listen there and of course
at ten eighty a m. To listen to the program.
So just letting everybody know as far as the you know,

(02:15:27):
our usual folks who are online or in the chat room.
The chat rooms will be closed tomorrow and Monday until
we get back into the studio on Tuesday, so we'll
still here tomorrow to just stand by for that, and
I'll just wish us safe travels okay, And I can't
wait to get up there, can I tell you, Roland,

(02:15:51):
I have no idea why I'm apprehensive. I have no idea,
Like I'm like, I'm I guess because I'm moving somewhere new.
I think that's the part that's getting.

Speaker 2 (02:16:03):
New for you.

Speaker 3 (02:16:04):
Yeah, but not, Yeah, I guess not. But like I
think that's a degree of being comfortable in which I
don't I normally don't do. So now I'm in I'm
gonna be in Connecticut, like for the first time, living
there in twenty years, and like I I should be

(02:16:24):
feeling like I'm you know, coming home to where it
all began, and there is another part of me it's
just like, oh, you know, it's like like I'm gonna
be there, I'm gonna be engaging and physical.

Speaker 6 (02:16:36):
I you know, I I.

Speaker 3 (02:16:38):
Should just I should stop beating my own brain up
and just be gung the hole. You guys are excited.
I'm excited. Maybe that's what it is. I'm excited and
I'm confusing it. That may be the thing that I'm
going through. Anyway, Let's go to the phones and get
those out of here so that we can end the show.
Let's go to Jeff. How are you, sir?

Speaker 8 (02:16:59):
Hey, I'm doing and fine, Reas, how are you?

Speaker 22 (02:17:01):
All right?

Speaker 19 (02:17:02):
What's up I'm calling about?

Speaker 8 (02:17:03):
I don't want to break your rhythm. You on a
good role there, but I wanted to call really quick
about the nipper bobbles.

Speaker 10 (02:17:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:17:09):
Yeah, that's a nipper bottles. You know, the state legislator.
There's been uh rumors of them drinking and stuff like that,
and the legislator in the parking garage, and I think
it's just easier for them, so you know, why not
why not just throw them out the window?

Speaker 3 (02:17:25):
Hey, considering some of the legislation that's gone through that
body sound maybe they were like.

Speaker 10 (02:17:33):
I think that's the answer.

Speaker 3 (02:17:36):
All right, such a legitimate point if you really think
about it. Thank you, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (02:17:42):
Yeah, no problem.

Speaker 3 (02:17:44):
All right, Let's go to Dave and Bristol. Hello there,
Oh mister, are you I'm all right, what's up?

Speaker 11 (02:17:52):
All right?

Speaker 5 (02:17:53):
Jeez, you just talk so much.

Speaker 10 (02:17:55):
I got so many things I want to talk to
you about.

Speaker 3 (02:17:57):
Okay, originally I want to talk about the Okay.

Speaker 10 (02:18:03):
It's.

Speaker 11 (02:18:06):
Number one.

Speaker 10 (02:18:08):
They're not concerned about recycling them.

Speaker 11 (02:18:12):
Okay, they're concerned about charging us extroceed to drink them.

Speaker 3 (02:18:19):
Well, I would imagine the reason why they implemented this
five percent tax or five cent tax was because of
the numbers that I read to see the fact that
there are six hundred and eighty thousand being purchased in
just one town alone. I'm under the impression that these
nips are overwhelmingly popular, for whatever reason they may be.

(02:18:44):
We're talking about just one town getting a considerable amount
of tax revenue from it in a matter of six months.

Speaker 11 (02:18:52):
I got you, So what why didn't they make them
redeemable and have them recycled again?

Speaker 3 (02:19:00):
I don't know, And it begs the question.

Speaker 11 (02:19:04):
They're they're charging apple juice bottles. Yeah, it was just
this was just simply an extra tax on top of
everything else.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
But you put an extra tax on this dave because
they're overwhelmingly popular, especially if you.

Speaker 11 (02:19:26):
Know that because you can buy five or six of them,
eight of them, and it's cheaper than buying the half
pint of pink whatever. Yeah, I know this, I work
distributing to package stores and stuff. You can actually buy

(02:19:48):
a sleeve of nippers and it costs you less than
buying a one bop.

Speaker 3 (02:19:57):
When you say a sleeve, and forgive my naive atte
a sleeve, are you saying that these things come like
in a like a row, like a sort of a
detachable a detachable row, you could buy one.

Speaker 11 (02:20:10):
I think a sleeve has got like eight nippers in it. Okay,
maybe it's ten, okay, but if you buy that as
opposed to buying a pint or a half pint, it
costs you less.

Speaker 3 (02:20:25):
Interesting Josiah says, a sleeve is ten. There there are
ten in I would love I got. Maybe I have
to look up exactly what it looks like, because again
I look, it's not like I've never frequent a liquor
store before. I've just again, I'm a beer guy, so
it's like, I just I don't think i've ever seen
what like I've people are saying sleeve to me, and
it sounded like if you might as well be speaking Swahili.

(02:20:47):
I'd have never heard of a sleeve. I know, I've
seen them sitting up at the counter like sort of
like as an impulse by sitting at the counter at
the cash register, but I've never I've never even heard
of this sleep sleeve.

Speaker 11 (02:20:58):
Of golf balls. So you get eight or ten of
them whatever it is. Wow, that's you know, it actually
costs less than buying the half pint. Yeah, so it's
not just you know, people trying to regulate the drinking.
I mean, as a nipper guy myself, I come home

(02:21:18):
at night, I drink one nip one bear. That's good.
It is self regulating.

Speaker 3 (02:21:25):
Yeah, it's self regulating and its cost effective as well.
Hey that yeah, okay, all right, I'm learning, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 11 (02:21:34):
I think it's just like it's state trying to they're
scamming money. Where is this money going?

Speaker 3 (02:21:40):
Well, I'll put look, this is as far as tax
revenue is concerned. Somebody figured out how many of these
things are being purchased and then found a way to
make some revenue off of it. And it's working. And
when you see a number like six hundred and eighty
thousand in Middletown, you got to ask yourself because now
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 10 (02:21:57):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:21:57):
The question is how many you're being sold in New Haven?
You know, like a many hour? And I could only
you know, I can only imagine, but I'm in my head.
I'm set up for going now. I got to see
the numbers for each town.

Speaker 11 (02:22:10):
How do you not one more quick thing? Yes, before
they put the five cent packs.

Speaker 5 (02:22:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:22:20):
There were less nippers.

Speaker 3 (02:22:23):
That's yes. You know what you want under right.

Speaker 11 (02:22:26):
You are one people that do the nippers, like I said,
work with tacking shores and stuff. As soon as they
put the extra five cent charge on and they said
it was for like, okay, we're going to clean up
the nippers. Yeah, everybody is doing a nippers like fuck it.

Speaker 3 (02:22:43):
Oh okay, I'm sorry, I gotta cut them off. I'm
sorry about that, folks. Let's go to David Branford.

Speaker 10 (02:22:51):
Hello, Dave well reis, how are you a topic?

Speaker 17 (02:22:55):
You lit the fuse on two days ago with.

Speaker 19 (02:22:57):
That hanging Halloween scene.

Speaker 17 (02:23:00):
Yes, yes, the nubacp's case and something I heard pretty clever.
If you want to hear yesterday's news tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:23:09):
Yesterday's used the news tomorrow. That's fine. What do you
got so.

Speaker 17 (02:23:13):
After you had discussed it. I noticed a day later
I saw the image on the TV news, which was
very good because I got a first hand gander of
what you were talking about, and I saw no zero
racial insensitivity, you know in the pictures and the depictions
of what that guy had put on his launch exactly
today's Hartford Current. They had a pretty detailed story, but

(02:23:37):
you know the original letter, and the mayor of the
town actually went out expected it. And the awful thing
is the amount of municipal energy, and no doubt she
consulted the lawyer in the town to say, there's something
that we could do to force it all the sterman drums.
From my think that's from a Robert Frost line. You know,

(02:23:58):
the commotion that this on a totally pointless thing. You know,
it's true when the kids would put a carrot in
a snowman. Can you imagine if that became a municipal event,
just say you put the carrot in the wrong place.
We got to get rid of that. And so I
appreciate the story that really only you could bring it

(02:24:18):
up and not see and you, as a recist, you
could get away with that. And if I brought it up,
I couldn't. So it's two days later and I watched
the evolution of this drama, which seems absolutely pointless.

Speaker 19 (02:24:32):
And that's my slap.

Speaker 17 (02:24:33):
This is what the NAACP, this is how they choose
to spend their time.

Speaker 10 (02:24:38):
What a waste of energy exactly in.

Speaker 3 (02:24:40):
A town again, and you're right over the target on
this one, Dave. That is in a town that is
that close to New Haven, with the amount of murder
and mayhem happening within that town, this was their focus.
We haven't heard from them in years, the New Haven
chapter of the NAACP, and this is the issue they

(02:25:01):
wish to pop their head out of their hole for.

Speaker 17 (02:25:05):
Thanks for opening my eyes and all the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (02:25:08):
I've done a lot a problem, sir.

Speaker 5 (02:25:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:25:10):
Let's go to you know, Josiah has been trying to
get him for the longest. Josie, I'm getting every messager
sending me. I hope you know that.

Speaker 34 (02:25:19):
Hey, how's it going.

Speaker 3 (02:25:21):
What's going on, sir?

Speaker 22 (02:25:23):
Not much so.

Speaker 34 (02:25:25):
Yeah, the drinking and the legislature and relation to myths.
Actually that it's a myth that that's been eliminated in
the Connecticut legislature. Because I was just there at that
the last session and they hold open parties with no idea,
nothing for everyone to come get whatever drinks they want
to go, return back to voting. And in relation to that,

(02:25:49):
at an issue with my senator being visibly drunk on
the floor. If they're drunk, she could not stand. And
I talked to my first selection, let's I do what's
the issue? And you know who my first selection? And
I love based on the town I live in. And
I woke up to voicemail threatening litigations. And that's there.

Speaker 10 (02:26:13):
Instead of help for.

Speaker 3 (02:26:14):
Just asking the question about well man, you got, you
got the threat of litigation for asking privately about a
public intoxication of your elected official.

Speaker 34 (02:26:28):
Yes, sir, my bill that I was lobbing for to
die and legislator because time ran out of mid night.
What we welcome to Connecticut?

Speaker 3 (02:26:41):
Yeah, you know, Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I
gotta know. I'm I'm ready. Maybe there's maybe that's part
of my apprehension, my friend just I will talk to
you soon, I promise, sir, I promise I'll get to you.
Let me get to Dave in Bristol.

Speaker 10 (02:26:54):
Hello, Dave, I was just talking.

Speaker 3 (02:26:59):
Yes, I know, but you that's Okay, I appreciate the apology.
Let me get it's okay you apology, sir. We caught it,
no problem. I appreciate you. I know you didn't do
it on purpose. Buddy, thank you. Let me go to
Tom and Thomason before we get up out of here.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 35 (02:27:15):
Hey, I think they've meant to say chuck it not,
so we'll we'll give him a pause on that one.

Speaker 3 (02:27:24):
Hey, reef.

Speaker 10 (02:27:25):
Two things quick.

Speaker 11 (02:27:26):
On the way up, you got to hit.

Speaker 35 (02:27:28):
The Skyline trail. Skyline drive through the Shenandoah National Park.

Speaker 3 (02:27:33):
Okay, in West Virginia.

Speaker 10 (02:27:35):
Have you ever driven it? It's not great drive.

Speaker 3 (02:27:38):
Actually in West Virginia, believe it or not. I spent
a lot of time in West Virginia when I first
worked for you Haul. My route, my training route, was
the eighty one Corridor in Virginia, all the way up
through started a pleasant not pleasant view. Gosh, why am
I forgetting the name of the darn town. I want

(02:27:59):
to say it was Newington, new Town something like that
it was called. But all the way by lou Ray
Lou Ray Caverns, all the way up to eighty one
Corridor to what's called Falling Waters, West Virginia on the
eighty one corridor all through that so I went to Martinsburg,
was one of the towns that I spent a lot
of time in. So I haven't been to Shenandoah. Everybody

(02:28:19):
when I was living in Virginia would always come through.
Everybody I knew from Boston would send me pictures. Hey,
I'm in Shenandoah. I'm like, hey, why don't you come
by it? Just like I'm in Shenandoa. I'm not coming
all the way to see you. So it's pretty far.
I never really get out there. But yes, I know
it's beautiful that much.

Speaker 15 (02:28:34):
I know.

Speaker 35 (02:28:35):
Yeah, yeah, take the skyline drive on the way up.

Speaker 10 (02:28:38):
Yes, great, it is beautiful.

Speaker 35 (02:28:42):
It's funny how the NAACP didn't mention that the greatest
mass lynching was done to Italians in this country, So,
you know, not everything is erase this Trump and this

(02:29:03):
wasn't either.

Speaker 3 (02:29:04):
Again, we're talking about a haunted house and a display
that I saw plenty of articles that was celebrating these
folks for the enjoyment that kids get from this sort
of display and for them to I mean again, this
is a relationship that the town has with these folks
that you would think was you know, sincere and honest

(02:29:27):
and bonding. And to say the mayor come out and
throw their weight on this with the help of the NAACP,
to have these people feel like, you know what, where's
this coming from? You know, you know who we are.
You celebrate us. The news media has talked about us.
You guys come down and cover us every Halloween. Now
you guys are turning your back on us.

Speaker 1 (02:29:47):
And for what.

Speaker 3 (02:29:49):
It's baffling, mind numbingly baffling.

Speaker 18 (02:29:53):
But it's another example of Trump.

Speaker 10 (02:29:56):
The arrangements.

Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
Couldn't agree more, sir, thank you so much. Tom Let
me get up out of here, folks. Like I said,
tomorrow we are doing just audio, just WTIC dot com
and of course ten eighty. So I'm just gonna say
farewell or goodbye for now, but we will be back
on Tuesday, so you folks can still join us online.

(02:30:19):
I've got to get all of this equipment the heck
up out of here, so I'll be packing up a
lot of it tonight and of course tomorrow, and then
we are on the road. Is I always say radio
is free. So we thank you for paying attention. Remember
to keep JC in your hearts and in your mind.
John Patrick, you love you and we miss you. Remember
that panic is not planning. So plan your work and
work you're planned me. I'm Reesa on the radio. You

(02:30:40):
have a good night, pleasant tomorrow. One day left in
Texas and then.

Speaker 22 (02:30:46):
I join you.

Speaker 3 (02:30:47):
So stand by. Let's get to Mark Christopher. He's in
the BPS traffick Senater.

Speaker 26 (02:30:50):
Good night, sir, Good night Reees from the lone Star
State to the Constitution stace yep, the big Man is
coming north.

Speaker 19 (02:30:58):
Hey.

Speaker 26 (02:30:58):
If you're heading south of nightty one, you got delays
in Hartford thirty three?

Speaker 3 (02:31:01):
All right, good sir, Right, all right, interchange, a little
tight traffic, all the work in the world.

Speaker 26 (02:31:10):
If you're west eighty.

Speaker 7 (02:31:10):
Four, I already know I'm wrapping my I'm wrapping it
up this weekend. I'm done after this weekend, about a
half mile before. Done with the old house anyway. Then
I gotta unpack boxes and all that crap.

Speaker 26 (02:31:21):
Good Bridge eighty four westbound, all right tomorrow in Plain
Villain the seventy two interchange west p eighty four.

Speaker 3 (02:31:28):
What are you giving me crap about? Well, I got
a lot of work to do in my own office.
That's all I'm talking about. Yes, you've been doing all
of it. I absolutely understand, and I will make good
on it. Okay, Yes, Well, what's his name is just

(02:31:56):
texting me and he's ready to We gotta check the lighting. Okay,
I'm gonna go do that, all right, folks, We got
to get up out of here. I love you, folks.
It's okay. You know on here, nobody heard you. He
didn't say anything wrong.

Speaker 22 (02:32:06):
All right.

Speaker 3 (02:32:07):
I love you guys. Thank you. We'll be back here tomorrow.
Thank you, Michael A as always, and thank all of
you guys for your help on this show. Is that
said fundamentalist?

Speaker 33 (02:32:17):
Me?

Speaker 3 (02:32:17):
If that's a new name I haven't seen, let me
give him some props. Oh no, that's oh that's some
promo stuff. Josiah. Okay, that was okay, that was Josiah
called earlier. All right, so that's everybody. Carmela, thank you
as well. Who's covering Monday? I'm not sure I think
I know, but I may have forgotten who it is

(02:32:38):
who's covering, But I will let you know tomorrow. Carmela,
who's gonna cover on Monday? I wouild stay just due
the best of but you know they got to do
something all right again. I love you guys, Be good
to each other. See him manyana or well, you'll hear
you by

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