Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 11/3/25

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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It's not Forisa on the radio on WTIC News Talk

(01:17):
ten eighty. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I boy,
how do I put it?

Speaker 5 (01:24):
It was?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
It was enormous. Everything that could happen happened. And I
had a great time this weekend, either with the wife,
without the wife, with many of you throughout Hartford, West Hartford,

(01:47):
even Wheaton. Got a couple of cup of coffee, went
to a press conference, met a few friends, was tailed
by the police, by the West Hartford police. And thank you,
gentlemen and ladies for making sure that I did my

(02:08):
job and I was respectful, which I was, which I was.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I got some surprises for you.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Only a couple of folks know about this surprise, But
I got a surprise for you, just to let you know.
When I told you I was gonna hit the ground running,
I hit the ground running and.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't expect it to let up.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
And a lot of people are saying, it's like, hey,
you know it's gonna get cold, rees, I don't know
if you're gonna be able to get everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, there are no breaks. There will be no breaks.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
That can't be.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
That just can't be.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Elections have consequences, and we got one coming up tomorrow,
and so we're gonna make up, make sure we do
what we're supposed to do, and that show up, get
answers and do the work that you've asked me to do.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And being here, and it's.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Not it's going to be done in an unorthodox way
because it has to be. I think you are sick
and tired of business as usual. You're bored with it.
I wish that I could say to you, don't worry, folks.
We're going to make it exciting. I mean we will,

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but not for the sake of This is not a
gimmick for me. I think about this often, I pray
about this often, and this is something personal to me.
When I first got into the business. It was fun.
I thought it was supposed to be fun, but I

(03:48):
didn't know that I was going to be in a
position I was in. I always say to my what
my ex wife said to me a long time ago,
when she told me I can do AM radio.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I remember when I said it.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
I didn't want me. I mean, I'd love to do it,
but I don't think they want a guy like me.
I don't think I'm fit for that. I really thought
less of myself in this medium. And she says, no,
I think you. I really do think you are. And
when I did, she said, see, I told you, and
I didn't believe it wasn't I didn't believe her.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I didn't believe in myself.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
And then when I was doing the thing, I was
really getting involved. I was having a not just a
good time, but I love the work that I was doing,
and I was putting in and getting people answers and
hearing from the audience saying thank you for doing that,
thank you for bringing attention to this, thank you for
taking that seriously. We felt like we weren't taken seriously before.
And then I knew that there was some responsibility there.

(04:44):
So I promised you when I was all the way
in Texas, I was going to do my best, even
from that far to get the job done, even from
all the way out there. And I knew it. A
lot of people said, yeah, you remember them, how some
guy all the time in San Antonio gonna take care
of the needs of the folks in Hartford and Connecticut

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writ large. And I was angry at them singing, and
I said, he's got a point. What could I possibly
do so at the risk of neglecting my beautiful wife
who was starved for my attention. I put my nose

(05:28):
to it and I grind it, just because I knew
it was important. So I told you I was going
to be here, and I am going to be here,
and that was evident this weekend, and it will continue,
will not end there.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
So let me tell you about what happened. I go
to West Hartford.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
I get a text message in the middle of the night,
roughly about midnight that there's a press conference going on
in West Hartford and there's going to be Dick Blumenthal
and John Larson and Dick Blumenthal is going to make
an announcement. I already knew what the announcement was everyone
could tell what the announcement was going to be, and

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that was he was endorsing John Larson. I made sure
of it. I sat around. I was up at seven
o'clock in the morning, pacing back and forth, raring to go.
I don't want to get there too early. I don't
know what the crowds are going to be, like, well
should I stand? What question should I ask? I was
literally fumbling around because this was going to be my

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first foray on the ground at a major deal. Anyway,
I get there, I show up. Nobody's there. I showed
up at twelve o'clock. Nobody's there. I walk and I
go get coffee down the street. Nobody's there. I come back.

(06:56):
One camera shows up. It's WFSB. I stand there a
little while longer. NBC Connecticut shows up, standing there a
little bit longer. WTNAH shows up their cameramen. There no reporters.

(07:16):
Another person put a little small tripod with their cell
phone on it.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, don't know who they were with, maybe the campaign,
not sure.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I understand the Hartford Current was there, but nobody identified themselves.
I was handed a piece of paper by I was
it Mary Corey. She handed me Corsey, I apologize. Mary
Corsi handed me a piece of paper about what's going
to happen. Fine, we waited there, we stood there again,

(07:52):
no one showed up. Finally, as we get closer, well
past I apologize.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Past twelve thirty, some.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
People start to show up from the block party that's
happening in the back. They start coming forward, and I
immediately start to notice this is not a crowd. This
is kind of a team, a group of people filler.
But there are no people there other than myself and
the aforementioned news teams.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Just the cameras, no reporters.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Dick Bloomenthal gives his endorsement, and then John Larson accepts
the endorsement, and then Dick Bloomenthal does the thing that
in my head I'm saying to myself, I don't think
they're going to do because there's no real reporter here.
Why would they possibly ask anyone if they have any questions.

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I thought it was going to be a bust. But
as I always.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Say, you want to make God laugh, make plans.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Any questions, Yes, Senator Blumenthal WTIIC.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Many in the African American community are claiming that they're
going to start looting walmarts and other stores if they
do not get their EBT benefits, why not just sign
a continuing.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Resolution add to the sixty votes that are needed so
that those folks don't have to go without their food stamps.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
You're talking about the government shutdown, correct?

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I was stunned that he didn't know what I was
talking about, but I guess he wanted to make it
clear to everyone. We'll get to Representative of Larson in
a second.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
Absolutely, well, let me say I thank you for that question,
and the answer is healthcare. Those workers, many of them.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
Are dependent on the healthcare tax credits that the administration
refuses to support beyond the end of the year.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Many of those workers, in fact, hundreds.

Speaker 9 (10:08):
Of thousands of people in Connecticut are enrolling and making
choice right now in the ACA marketplace. Health insurance will
be unaffordable for them if it's not extended past the
end of the year.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
So again, if you're missing this and you're asking yourself,
what does this have to do with SNAP benefits? Nothing,
You were right, It didn't have anything to do with
what I asked. They don't want to sign a continuing
resolution because of the Affordable Care Act that in their view,

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must be extended beyond the end of the year, even
though they voted for the end here. But then again,
they didn't expect the Trump to win. They thought they
have that covered, so they kind of painted themselves into
a corner. But it didn't answer my question at all.
But he made it clear, as many Democrats are making
it clear, that it's the Affordable Care Act that must

(11:14):
be dealt with. Food stamps can wait.

Speaker 10 (11:21):
Now.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
John Larson went on to go talk about this. I
don't need to play the rest of Dick Bloomenthal. I've
got more on him later, But as I said to
Senator Blumenthal, we'll get to John Larson. But I wanted
John Larson's response to this, and boy did he get animated.

Speaker 11 (11:39):
Not questioned again, there is the money there right now.
How can you be derelict in your duty as president
of the United States when money has already been appropriated
But for the fact that you want to make this
political and try to pretend, as he has falsely said,
that we're holding this up because we want to give

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benefits to people who are coming to this country for
the first time.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Except for the people who may have come here, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight times he wants things that we're holding up for
the people who have come to the country for the
very first time. I got to give it to Representative
Larsen creative creative in his description of illegals coming into

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the country, people who may be coming in for the
very first time.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
He went on, that is.

Speaker 11 (12:38):
Not what's happening here and all what's happening is Donald
Trump is making.

Speaker 12 (12:44):
A political point.

Speaker 11 (12:46):
And God bless the Senate for standing firm and saying
there is money appropriated already to continue the SNAP program.
All he has to do as executive who control the
agency is to let that money out to the states
so people get.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Fed for one month, for one month, and.

Speaker 11 (13:11):
So that nothing should happen if he did his specific job.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
And what's this all about.

Speaker 11 (13:18):
At the end of the day, too, especially with the
healthcare issue, it's here.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
John Larson may have forgotten that that point was an
applause line and he should have stopped. But he's again
speaking directly to me. As I told you, I'm the
only person asking a question the entire time.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
These are two nationally known figures.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
No other reporters show it up to ask them questions.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I let him go on.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
What's it all about?

Speaker 11 (13:47):
What does he need that money for denying healthcare and
snap benefits so that billionaires can get.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
A tax cut.

Speaker 11 (13:57):
What kind of a country are we if we would
let that happen. Americans are standing behind Democrats because they
know we're standing for the right thing, and so to
Republicans for that matter, as well as the Senator said,
mister Johnson, come back to town and the vacation. We
haven't been in Sincember the ninth, September the nineteenth. We've

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only voted nineteen times in the House since July fifth.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
And you've voted fourteen times for a clean sea.

Speaker 11 (14:28):
R That's an outrage. Americans should be outraged. Come back
and do your job, keep the country fed, and make
sure that people have healthcare.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Now, those are his supporters who were applauding him, and
God bless him, God bless him. He's got you. He's
running the place, he's running the show. It's for him.
It's his folks. I'm completely outnumbered. And again, I'm not
there to be adversarial. I'm there just to ask questions
and let him answer, and I'm listening.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
By the way, I have more audio. He answers another.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Question afterwards, but he got the opportunity to answer. They
loved that clip so much that it was his campaign
who sent it out to all.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
The news media out there.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
But can I tell you a little secret and you
can go look it up and confirm for me if
it's true. As I began this opening monologue, I told
you I was there before anyone else, and I sat
there as WTNH, WFSB and New NBC Connecticut showed up

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with their cameras.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I was there. I had the.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Exchange with Senator Blumenthal and with Representative Larsen. Go to
any one of the websites of the of the news
organizations that I just mentioned and find that clip, find
that endorsement if you can. I checked last night. I

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checked the websites this morning. They aren't there. These are
nationally recognized legislators. One's been there since nineteen ninety nine.
The other one is a I mean, we're talking about
a sitting Senator Dick Blumenthal, I might have to say.
I mean, I might suggest nationally known Dick Bloomenthal. The

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news media that was there with cameras nothing on their websites. Nowhere.
NBC Connecticut ran an eight second clip of the endorsement.
I watched it last night. It's nowhere to be found
right here on WTIIC. It was covered by Morgan Cuttingham

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this morning playing that clip, and I was actually woke
up this morning listening as I'm driving and I'm like, hey,
they're playing my clip, And Morgan told me that was
the clip that was sent over by the Larson campaign.
I was stunned. I'm like, they sent that over, Yes,
they did, but nobody covered it, which I find odd.

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I find it incredibly odd. But the story gets better.
It did not end there after I asked my questions
and did it back and forth with John Larson about
the contingency running out. They ended the press conference and

(17:32):
they went to walk in the back of City Hall
to go meet with some other folks that are having
sort of a block.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Party in the back.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
And as everyone walked off, I walked with Representative Larsen
shoulder to shoulder and walked him all the way to
the back of the building, where I talked to him
about the Optimal car wash and other things that we
were able to find out about the Optimo car wash.

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And I'll tell you what that conversation went even to
a point where I had to tell somebody to get
their grubby little.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Hands off me.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
I'll explain that as well when we get back. But
the piece they resisted dontes. The piece you do not
want to miss is about the apology that I got.
You do not want to miss that. So don't go anywhere.
More news, more views than you could shake a stick at.
This is only getting better, only getting better when we return,

(18:36):
all right, and uh, just give him a chat room.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Don't uh, don't fretch.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Just don't, don't go anywhere, don't don't, don't take up
any phone calls, don't don't talk to family members. Tell
us there no reasons coming back. Just don't don't do it.
Stand by, Okay, great stuff coming up when we return.
All right, it's re soun Radio on WTIC new start.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Tenny Sam and w T I C then do us
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Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, we're back. And I'm often like miffed, and I
get the some people are new to the show. When
I get certain certain comments, I'm always like baffled by it.
So earlier, if you're just joining us, I played the
question that I asked Senator Dick Blumenthal and Jefferson Davis.

(19:27):
I guess, and a sort of pseudonym says to me,
your question to Senator Blumenthal was racist. To suggest that
only blacks were threatening to loot if they did not
receive snap benefits is false.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
You have no dabta to support your assertion.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, actually I do from the black people posting online
that they would. But I had to correct Jefferson Davis
by writing, It's not racist to say that blacks were
going to loot if it were true. The word you're
looking for was selective, and I was being selective. I

(20:09):
wanted specifically to have the Senator address the African American
community that mister Bloomenthal believes is disenfranchised, specifically based upon
their race. It was selective for the purpose of getting
a response to his concern about that community, which he

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and many others on the Democrat side seemed to prop
up their constant need to work out equity for that community.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
That was the reason why I mentioned it.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I knew exactly what I was doing, mister Davis, And
how do I know that blacks were posting?

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I could see their faces. I'm not Stevie wonder, Sir,
I can see that.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I can see them. Anyway back to my point. Pointless argument,
anyway back to my point. So, after the press conference, myself,
Senator Blumenthal, Representative John Larson start walking to the rear
of the building where there's a block party going on

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and there are several sponsors there, healthcare companies, emergency management,
the police Department, West Hartford Recruitment tent, all that good stuff.
They're doing pow wow dances and they've got face painting
for all the kids. So I walk them back there,
and we're slow walking back there, and I take the opportunity.
Since I'm the only real journalists there asking questions, I

(21:43):
figured i'd ask a couple of them off the record.
I start with a representative John Larson, and I ask
him about the Optimo car wash raids by ice. I
understand you've been very vocal about those. Do you have
any information about what's been going on there and some
of the information we'd be able to gather about the

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Optimal car wash.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
He expresses to me that he doesn't know, he's not familiar.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
So I tell him that we understand that there may
be some chit canery that's going on in one of,
if not many, of the fourteen locations in the state
of Connecticut, not even counting the other four in other
states across the country. He asked me whether or not
we've alerted the local authorities. Of course we have. My
question is does your office know about it, because you

(22:31):
were making some very bold statements about ice. And he says, well,
if that is true, we'll look into it and please
inform my staff.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Absolutely I have their numbers.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
So we continue to talk about illegals in the state
and about some of this inflammatory rhetoric by John Larson,
and one of his handlers keeps saying to me, hey,
we're not supposed to talk about politics at this event,
to which I simply respond to him. By the way,

(23:03):
his name is Chuck Courtsey. I say to him, do
you not hear the congressman having a conversation with me?
We're having a back and forth. If the Congressman does
not wish to answer any of my questions, he can
simply say I'm not answering any more questions and concerned.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
But he and I are having a dialogue.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Do you not see that? Because in my view, that's
a grown man he's my elder, and I'm a grown man,
and he is not a child, and he doesn't need
to be coerced or told by Chuck here on whether
or not I can ask him questions. If indeed the
congressman is answering them, I'm not going to stop. If

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he keeps answering my questions, I'm going to continue with
the interview to which I did. Now we mean, finally
get to the back.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Chuck there.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Has had enough and then decides to put his hand
on my shoulder. Hey, I told you that we're not answer.
I look at him and I look down at his
hand on my arm, my shoulder to be exact, and
I go, what are you doing?

Speaker 10 (24:08):
He goes.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I said, you don't have to touch me.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Do not handle me. Whatever you do, do not handle me.
Take your hands off me. I did not ask to
be touched. I do not wish to be touched. So
immediately he let go. When everybody got defensive, or let's
just say they got a little nervous.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I mean it. I said, just don't touch me. He
and I are having a conversation. He's answering my questions.
I'm not going to stop if he's continuing to answer
my questions. When he says he doesn't want to answer anymore,
I'll take his word for it. So finally I ended
I let him go there and greet everyone and talk
to everyone.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I wasn't gonna harass him.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
I was just figured I got him. I'm going to
take advantage of It's not like this guy comes on
the show, so he doesn't anyway, he doesn't, he doesn't
stop answering the questions.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I let him go on and mingle with everyone, you know.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Talk to the kids, you know, Hey, Hi, is everybody
happy Halloween? The whole nine yards? Blah blah blah. I
leave it alone. So I go there and I start
talking to who did I meet there? I ended up
having a conversation with Kyle, and Kyle forgive me because
I'm gonna screw up your last name. I do it
all the time, every time I'm supposed to say it.
I screw up his name, zilans Ni. I spoke to

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him and Alberto Cortez were there as well. Had a
conversation with them for a little while, and then I
noticed Carol Blanks, who's in the West Hertford Town Council.
She and I start talking and I'm asking her about
the Affordable Care Act as it pertains to ev T

(25:42):
and she says that she's in the healthcare department and
of the Affordable Care Act is very important to the Democrats.
And I said, but people cannot eat. According to you
your party, these people are starving. She goes, yes, but
the Affordable Care Act is important. I said, is it
more important than people getting this that benefits They're equally important.

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I said, well, you're willing to hold on to them
until you get the Affordable Care Actress was saying, well,
it's important, it's important.

Speaker 10 (26:08):
Now.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Another couple of women came over, and these are black women.
There were about three of them there. They were there
when I was asking questions to Senator Blumenthal and to
John Larson, and I was told, quote, you were a
little rough on them, they said. And I looked at
them and I went, I apologize rough. I was barely adversarial.

(26:30):
I just asked questions and they answered I wasn't. I
don't think I was harsh on them. They considered those
questions stuff anyway, blah blah blah blah blah. Nothing happens now,
I'm going on because this is important. This is important.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I spoke to those ladies for a long time.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Because I wanted to get sort of the feel I'm
talking to black women. They're talking to a black conservative.
I'm waiting for them to say something like, what are
you doing being a black concerservative?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Things like that, but that never happened. They were absolutely
beautiful people.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
They were very nice ladies, and they spoke and they spoke,
but then they needed to go vote, and I let
them go vote. I went back over and I spoke
to Alberto and Kyle, and I was looking around to
find Dick Blumenthal, and Kyle tells me he's over there
by that gray tent. And I was like, okay, I'll
wait till he comes back this way, and sure enough

(27:28):
he did, and he was walking not by himself, but
with a young man who was part of his urban outreach,
young black man, and they were walking together, just the
two of them, no handlers, which I thought was odd
for a senator, you know, having bodyguards and all this stuff.
But the police were, you know, watching, And as they
come towards me, I say to Kyle and Alberto.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Excuse me for a second.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
This is an opportunity to talk to Senator Blumenthal about
d quat, die quat whatever quad.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
And I do, And I said, you know, I really
really like to have you on the show.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
But it appears that every time I reach out to
you folks, you know, either my emails are getting lost
in spam and you know, they get lost, and no
one ever responds to me. They keep telling me, send
an email, send an email, send an email. No one
sends an email. You know, I'm new here, I'm on
WT I see in the afternoon, can't seem to get
a response from anyone to get them on the show. Well,

(28:26):
I apologize for that. That really really shouldn't be happening.
And he goes into his wallet and he pulls out
his personal card with his personal email address and his
telephone number. I said, thank you, Senator, I'll reach out.
Since you're leaving, let me walk with you, and let
me ask you a couple of questions about d quay.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
So I begin to ask him about DCORD.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
I said, I'd like to talk to you about, you know,
the use of it in the Connecticut River and about
putting poison in the water. My audience would like to
know why you're suggesting that. I was like, well, there's
nothing to do with me, to do with deep. That
has to do with the EPA, and that has to
do with all this other stuff. And I was like, okay,
an army corp of engineers, as he put it, And
I said, yes. I said, but you were the person
who got the funding for most of this, Like the

(29:10):
six million dollars that you got, you originally got who
was like six million dollars.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
I didn't get six million dollars. I got five million.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I said, no, sir, you got six million dollars the
first year and you got five million dollars the second year.
Your information is inaccurate, I said, no, sir, my information
is quite accurate. I know exactly what you ought, what
you asked for, and what you got. I said, but
I really want to talk to you about the one
hundred million dollars that you asked for one hundred million.

(29:39):
I didn't ask for a hundred million. Your facts are
definitely inaccurate, he said. And he said, perhaps the reason
why my office didn't get back to you is because
of your antagonizing tone. He said, I said, you find
my tone antagonizing, I said, sir, I'm just asking you
questions based upon the facts. I don't think you have

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the facts, right, I said, okay, I said, you know what,
I'll email you. I'll go home and i'll email you
to make sure that I know what I'm talking about,
to which I did. When we come back, I'm going
to read to you the email I sent to Dick Blumenthal.

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And then the surprise nobody saw coming. Nobody go nowhere.
It's resa on the radio on wt I S News
Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's on the radio on newst I see, all right.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
If you're just joining us. I just reached a part
of my West Hartford trip where I'd already had a
conversation with Bob Lark, John Larson, Bob Larson, John Larson,
and now I have just finished having a conversation with
Senator Dick Blumenthal about his asking of a one hundred

(30:55):
million dollars to clean up hydrilla in uh the Connecticut River,
to which he says to me that that isn't true
and my facts aren't straight.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
And I said, I am certain. What makes you think
that I don't know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 4 (31:12):
He says, no, I've never asked for one hundred million
dollars to clean up the Connecticut River.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I said, okay, not a problem. I have your email.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know what, I'll send you an email and I'll
send you my info to see if you'll be on
the show.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Thank you so much for your time. I shook his hands.
I turned around. About twenty yards behind me.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
There are two police officers, to which I walk by
there and go, hey, guys, keep walking. They're protecting the Senator.
I didn't take it personally, I didn't care.

Speaker 13 (31:37):
But most people, you know, how they treated it was like, oh,
they did you follow me around the store.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
I'm like, I'm a stranger walking with the senator. Of course,
they're making sure that you know I'm doing everything nefarious
up my sleeve. Anyway, So I got home end of
the day, I send this email with the header you
requested one hundred million million dollars, Senator Blumenthal. I'm writing

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to request an appearance on my show in the near
future to talk about the application of d quot into
the Connecticut River and other issues attached. You'll see that
you did request one hundred million dollars for the removal
of hydrilla, and my facts are accurate. I understand you
find my inquiries antagonistic, as you put it, but there

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is a considerate amount of people who who are feeling
ignored about this.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
And other issues.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I think your office owes its taxpayers of all stripes
to address these issues. Please consider my invitation, and I
thank you for taking my questions today. Stay well, Reese
on the radio. I sent him this as my evidence.
The request was publicly announced by Senator Richard Blumenthal on

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June third, twenty twenty one, during an event in Middletown, Connecticut.
He led a bipartisan, multi state effort to secure one
hundred million dollars over four years approximately twenty five million
dollars annually in federal funding through the US Army Corps
of Engineers. The goal was to establish a task force

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centered in Connecticut and involving the Army Corps and Connecticut's
Agricultural Experimental Station's Aquatic Invasive Species Program, and the State
Department of Energy, Environmental and Protection, also known as DEEP,
to develop and implement a strategic plan of action. This
plan would focus on preventing further spread of the invasive

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hydrilla plant. It goes on to say, remember when I
said he asked for six million dollars, got it, and
then got five million my email. Also, his quote shows
this initial push predates later successes such as the six
million dollars secured in twenty twenty three and the five

(33:55):
million in twenty twenty four. I sent the actual thing
to Senator Dick Blumenthal to my phone at six twenty pm.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
My phone rang.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
I noticed the telephone number was from DC. I answered it,
and the person on the other hand the other side said, Hello,
this is Senator Richard Blumenthal. Yes, he did call me.

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Why did he call me to apologize? He didn't remember,
but I did, and he did admit that he did
indeed request one hundred million dollars for the removal of
idrilla in the Connecticut River. He admitted it, He apologized,

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and he also said he may have been antagonistic in
his tone during our conversation. He then told me that
he would give my information to his communications person and
that they would work out an appearance on this very
program because of it. Now, I'm not gonna lie. Everybody
who I told said I'm not gonna lie. I gotta

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have to give the guy credit, which I do again.
It's why I applaud it.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
That doesn't mean I gotta agree with the guy.

Speaker 14 (35:36):
I don't have to.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
But he did the right thing, and I kept it professional,
and all I wanted to do was again, I didn't
call them all types of names. I said.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I wasn't being an antagonistic. I have the information.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
I do my job, I do my homework. It's comment
upon me to do my homework. And when I talk
to these guys, and I'm not gonna lie. When he
kept saying no, he didn't for a second there, I kept.
I'm almost doubted myself. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
don't don't. Don't fall for that because he'll just repeat
it until and that's the gaslight, right, the gaslight.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Is Nah, I didn't you know this isn't the one
hundred million you're looking for.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
I almost felt like he was gonna bull and getto
mind trick on me. But I'm going no, I know
you did, and I knew I was right. I knew it,
and I was never going to waiver. And I was
complaining again. I didn't get heated, kept my tone. In fact,
I was almost my wife always complains about how loud
I can get. I made sure when I spoke to him,
I kept my voice right here and I was absolutely respectful,

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shook his hand twice even thank you very much for
your time, Senator. Really appreciate you, and thank you for
answering my question during the press conference. He was like,
it was good talking to you, But him picking up
the phone and calling me at home. I was stunned.
I was shocked. Roseanne boy I wash had a camera
on her. She was sitting there. As soon as she
saw it, her mouth absod. She couldn't stop looking, was

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like ooh.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
She was like, the senator called you like she's listening
to the conversation, and he was.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
He was a good guy. He was a good guy
about it.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So, just so you know, to give you an update,
Senator Dick Blumenthal will be on the program.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
They're working on it. I don't know when, but they're
making the effort. Let's get to the newsroom with John
silver'sries on the radio.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Breese on the radio making sense of the news. Yeah,
even when it makes no sense at all at all.
Now on wt I see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Let's get to some headlines. And by the way, if
you want to call about the first hour, please do
eighteen zero five two two wt I see eights and
zero five two two nine to.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Eight four to two in the headlines today. Most of
this stuff is out of Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Connecticut State Police lieutenant made two hundred and fifty nine
thousand dollars last year, half from overtime that he approved himself,
according to the headline, for years, the Connecticut State Police
have paid out tens of millions of dollars in overtime
with limited oversight, But internal records and whistleblower interviews and

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recent reports revealed deeper issues a culture where internal controls
have eroded and oversight mechanisms have failed. This may sort
of remind you of that Brian Fahey case with the
guy Sean Reyes. You know what was Sean rey Is
investigating some overtime issues for a guy who had a
desk job and he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Well,

(38:36):
seems like that story is sort of growing in other municipalities.
And this according to the Yankee Institute who wrote this
article says that at the center of the latest controversy,
they say that Lieutenant Robert Haysen, a longtime trooper whose
paychecks have quietly ballooned alongside his authority. Hazen has been

(38:56):
was promoted sorry to sergeant in twenty twenty one, and
quickly ascended to become chief of staff to a lieutenant colonel.
In twenty twenty two, he collected one hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars, including forty thousand dollars in overtime. In
twenty twenty three. That total climb from two hundred and
twenty three thousand dollars with seventy eight thousand dollars in overtime.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
By twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Four, Hazen had made two hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars,
nearly one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Of that was in overtime.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
This year.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
He was this year as a newly promoted lieutenant, he
has already banked thirty two thousand dollars in overtime, much
of it approved by himself. He actually approved his own overtime.
We'll talk more about this later. On another police issue,
Connecticut police sergeant and Alderman, his candidates facing elections related investigation.

(39:55):
I can't speak today what's going on a city police
sergeant who is running for a seat at the Board
of Aldermen is subject to two internal affairs investigations over
alleged department violations that are related to the upcoming election.
Sergeant Adrian Sanchez is a Republican endorsed candidate running for
a seat in the city's fifth district. He has been

(40:18):
on the force for seventeen years. Police Chief of Fernando
Spagnolo confirmed last week that there are alleged violations under investigation,
but said the Sanchez remains on full duty with the department.
Spagnolo declined further comment, except to say that the incidents
are from August and the investigations are being conducted by
an outside attorney because of Sanchez's status as a political candidate.

(40:40):
He expects the investigations to be concluded in a few weeks.
This one is another nail in the coffin, if you will,
inter gender ideology, and it had to happen. I knew
it was going to happen. We'll probably talk about this
a little bit or if you want to call up

(41:01):
about this subject. So more people in the gay community
are speaking up about gender fluidity, and it's wild because
I'm reading this article. What was the head love? What
was the name of the title of this More gay
people are speaking out against gender ideology are of trans

(41:21):
and queer activists. And this is according to a Wall
Street Journal article that says that people in the LGB
community are fighting with the transgender queer community, and it
argues that post gay marriage in twenty fifteen, more same
sex attracted people are publicly and privately critiquing gender ideology. Why.

(41:46):
It's simple, and it makes sense if you think about it.
So what was the gay movement about. It was about
same sex relations. Bisexual is about one person a particular
sex being attracted to two sexes, male or female. So

(42:09):
when transgender and gender fluidity comes in, it eliminates the
idea that you would be attracted to someone of the
same sex. Because what this transgenderism do. What does fluidity do?
It erases the sexes, therefore making the point of the
gay and lesbian community moot, it's no need. And again,

(42:33):
what is their mission. It's to have an acceptable same
sex ideology or experience or identity. If you remove those things,
what's the point. So they feel pushed out. So that's
where that pushback is coming from. We're probably gonna get
a little bit more into this later on in a week.

(42:55):
But I mean, I don't know why I to think
of it. It does make sense. That's what same sex
under That was what gay marriage was about in twenty fifteen.
It was to ensure that you can marry someone of
the same sex. But if the sex doesn't exist, is
that's removed? What's the point.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
So anyway, we'll get in today.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Now, let's get into the stupidest thing I read today.

Speaker 14 (43:24):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
It could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
I did not know that Publisher's clearinghouse went bankrupt? Did
you know that? Roland? Are you familiar with publisher's clearing house?
I didn't know they filed for chapter eleven. Yeah, apparently
they did. And I just learned about this today because
of a story that comes out of Bridgeport. A Connecticut
woman has scammed an elderly man. You the publisher's clearing

(44:01):
house to scam him. Connecticut women is facing charges after
she allegedly scammed nearly three hundred thousand dollars from a
seventy two year old man who was told that he
had won millions from the publisher's clearing house. The Wallingford
Police Department received an initial complaint about the alleged fake
publisher's clearinghouse scam from the victim on March fourth. According

(44:25):
to the Wallingford Police Department, the victim received multiple phone
calls informing him that he had won nine point six
million dollars. In order to collect the money, he would
have to send money to pay for the prize money
taxes to the tune of three hundred thousand dollars. Now,
why am I saying this is the stupidest thing I
read today?

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Be patient.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Police say that the man's family discovered seven checks were
sent to individuals, and five of them were allegedly written
to wait for it, Nisha Upchurch of Bridgeport, which should
have been the whole game is so that I knew

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the checks were going to Naisha. Oh do it?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Can you can you spell that again?

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Where are you in Bridgeport? Hey, you're not gonna get me.
You're almost had me Naisha from Bridgeport? Nope, no checks written,
Buddy wrote them. Yeah, five three hundred thousand dollars. I'm sorry.

(45:37):
We found out that the sweep stake's marketing company has
filed for Chapter eleven. That was back in April because
they had financial sprain that was strained that spanned from
the rising operational costs and changes in customers behavior the walling.
I'm sorry, I just find this incredible. By by the way,

(45:58):
Nisha up Church, she's nineteen years old.

Speaker 13 (46:02):
I'm just giving her props because she's an industrious criminal
at nineteen.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
That's like catch me. If you can, young, you gotta
hire her shed I mean you you hire her as
a fraud consultant.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
She's got a career ahead of her. But sure enough, Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
I just thought it was I'm I I'm right.

Speaker 14 (46:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Did you see that story? Yes, seventy five hundred dollars
she had to pay as to bond to get out.
That's again, you know why, because it's technically a white
collar crime, that's what it is. And even though like sure,
three hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money, hopefully
they stopped the transfer, but something like that, seventy five

(46:55):
thousand dollars because she didn't physically she had harmed or
physically abused in it. A man, it's a twenty four
years old hell you you throw the book at her
and you know you remander, but something like that seventy
seventy four thousand dollars, that makes sense that that's just
something that you do. That it's just this. It sounds mean,
but it is something that you do. Let's go to

(47:15):
the phones. Eighteen zero five two two WT. I see
Matts in Bristol. What's going on?

Speaker 14 (47:19):
Sir?

Speaker 15 (47:20):
Hello, Bud, hang on, let me put you on regular here.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Okay, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
I can hear you perfectly.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
What's up?

Speaker 16 (47:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Okay?

Speaker 15 (47:28):
So first of all, let me give you props because
you've done more in six days than anyone else has
done in twenty years.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
It wasn't my intention. I'm just doing what comes naturally. Okay.

Speaker 15 (47:45):
Yeah, Look what I called about is actually the shutdown.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Okay, So what.

Speaker 15 (47:52):
People do not understand about this, so you know the
healthcare shutdown is they're not changing Obamacare. Person, say, what
they're doing is they're saying that during COVID they extended
Obamacare to other people that were not eligible correctro Obamacare.
So now there's people on with six figure salaries getting

(48:15):
the benefits of someone that would be destitute. Right, And
that's what no one seems to understand.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
I don't think I'll tell you what's happening. They don't
expect the average public to investigate that that it's a
very surface conversation that's happening in the news media, because
in order for you to get what you just talked about,
you have to be watching the Sunday shows, which you know,

(48:45):
no one watches, right, you know, from everything from Meet
the Press to This Week with George Stephanopolis to Fox Roth,
no one is watching that. It's like the most the
minuscule amount of people who are watching that. So to
the lay person who's watching the evil news, no one
ever gets into the nuance of those numbers. And when
you have this conversation with people, they respond to you like,

(49:07):
but yeah, they just they're trying to stop Obamacare. But
it's like, it's so much more to it than that,
but they don't care because they just say, but why
do you want to get rid of Obamacare? Then when
you explain it and you show it to them, they go,
that's I was, you know with Matt, I'll tell you this,
that's what I was supposed to do today. I didn't
get a chance because I had to do something for Roseanne.
But I think I'm going to do it tomorrow morning.

(49:28):
I'm gonna go to Hartford and I'm going to play
Richard Blumenthal's audio to them about making the case against
EVT and the Affordable Care Act, and I'm going to
ask people in Hartford what do you think that Congress
should do? Should they allow food stamps to go in
or should they hold out to save the Affordable Care Act?

(49:50):
I bet you nine to nine out of ten will
say give everybody their EBT. I mean I know they
will absolutely.

Speaker 15 (50:00):
Matter of fact, did you get what I sent you
about the percentage of people on EBT yp per Kappa. Yeah,
and that was twenty twenty two, exactly. Could you imagine
what it is in twenty twenty five. I think at
this point almost a third of the country is on

(50:20):
snap benefit.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
It's crazy. It's scarier than that. This guy Jefferson Davis,
who was upset about you know, my question to Blumenthal
was talking about and everyone who's talked to me about
it has said the same thing. Do you know overwhelmingly
more white people are on food stamps than black people are?
And I'm like, yeah, I know that. Yeah, I'm like, yeah,
it doesn't matter. But then I said to him, do

(50:42):
you know that the difference between the two is less
than ten percent? And like people are like no, that's
like I'm like no, No, it used to be two
thirds to one third back in the nineties. The statsu're
citing are thirty years old. The numbers are growing. It
doesn't matter. There's no racial this parity that's worth even
mentioning today because today the objective is to get more

(51:05):
people on it regardless of race.

Speaker 15 (51:09):
No, it absolutely is. And I don't understand how how
that's sustainable. If you have one third of.

Speaker 14 (51:18):
The country.

Speaker 15 (51:20):
On food stamps at a certain point, it might as
well just be everyone.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
I mean, but remember what you can do.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
See, that's what you're missing here. One you get rid
of the middle class.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Two, you get rid of what the one group of
people who make six like sixty percent of the working
public is in private industries, right, it's not government.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
So you get rid of private industry.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
You also get rid of the middle class, and you
make sure that everyone's on the doll That's how you
get rationing.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
That's one.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
That's that's the whole objective. Rationing and everything that you
have is controlled by the government. This is the road
in the very very dark road in for socialism, And
how do you do it? They say, well, you don't
have to work anymore. Remember going out to them, you know,
dealing with traffic, having to make ends meet. We can
make it all for you.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
And people of course sitting sick and tired.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
And there are many more of them than they are
of us who say, yeah, you know, imagine that, and
that's the lore. That's how they get them.

Speaker 15 (52:19):
Sadly enough, one more quick question, Yeah, how many of
those people do you think that are working right now,
that are making their own way, would actually be happier
if they're on the government doll.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
If I were to take ten people who have a
family of four with a good job, I can I
can I come up with, like how much money they
make it like bring home let's take one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year a ta take in whether
it's dual family or whatever. If I were to take
ten families with that amount of money, I would say

(52:55):
scary enough. I'd say seven in ten would not give
it up, would not would not give up their job,
would not give up their south. I really, because I
look at the numbers every day, I do believe that people,
even though they hate having to struggle. I think that

(53:16):
there's something about the spirit of Americans. I don't know
about anybody else, but there's a spirit in Americans that says,
you know what, I control my own fate. I control
my own destiny. They see a sense of that that,
you know, they get to save their own money, they
get to do the things that they want to do,
having that controlled, the sense of freedom. I'll tell you
when I first got my first car, I drove like

(53:39):
extra miles just so I could, and I left early
so I can drive a car. I haven't had a
car my entire life. I drove my first car extra
miles just because I love the freedom of it. And
I think people have an innate association with freedom.

Speaker 14 (53:52):
I just do.

Speaker 15 (53:54):
And and plus I think there's an innate pride in
the struggle itself.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Indeed, Yeah, because when you accomplish it, when you kick
its butt, that accomplishment is unmeasured, is immeasurable. You just
can't beat it.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
You can't beat it.

Speaker 15 (54:10):
Absolutely, you got it, sir.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Always a pleasure. Let's get to all the way out
in the West coast, Courtney and from Courtney n's courtroom
is in the house. What's going on?

Speaker 12 (54:21):
Girl?

Speaker 17 (54:22):
What's it's so funny when you just asked that question.
I was sitting here before he asked that comment to
myself like.

Speaker 18 (54:29):
Shoot, here you go, Yaka had it?

Speaker 4 (54:32):
So now come on, Courtney as now listen. The one
thing that many people believe that the way of the
Democrat Party is almost forged by black women in your
age group mid to late thirties.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
You are the voice of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Now.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
I know you're you're kind of an independent and you
you kind of hate politics on that you kind of
call them gangs but legalized, legal life, gang banging. But
let me let me ask you this. If you like again,
you've you've been a workaholic all your life. Is there
a lore that says the government comes to you and
they say, hey, listen, you don't have to do the

(55:13):
nine to five grind. Will provide your housing, will provide
your health care, will provide you know you your food.
Tell me come on, because there are people out there listening.
You know my audience, they are listening to this right now,
going I could never and they would go, that's that's crazy.

(55:34):
Talk to me a little bit about that and in
the minute that man and a half that I have,
tell me what what? What's there?

Speaker 5 (55:39):
It's crazy.

Speaker 17 (55:40):
Let me tell you my situation is not.

Speaker 10 (55:41):
I have no kids.

Speaker 17 (55:43):
I make about seventy five almost eighty thousand dollars a year,
make great money. Struggled before though, but just the hustle
and bustle of having to do this every day. And
if I don't do it, everything can drop and ball
and go to crap at.

Speaker 15 (55:56):
Any day that it ends for me, any day that
I can't do it any longer, it's over.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
So you're so the risk. So the risk is so dire.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
It's like if you lose that job, if you lose
that home, you you.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
See that sort of like I could be in dire
consequences and the risk of all of that trying to
get back to where you were is scarier than having
someone just provided for you.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
So you were willing to give it up.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
To have that pom wow.

Speaker 15 (56:24):
Yeah, and I have more time with it.

Speaker 17 (56:25):
If I had kids, I can actually focus on making
a family, I could focus on my house, picking it up,
I could focus on all types of stuff, not having
to go to work every day and rind Yeah, well,
actually what I call for.

Speaker 19 (56:37):
Let me just say real quick, yes, I've got you.

Speaker 15 (56:39):
Know what the community Okay, you know what?

Speaker 2 (56:41):
No, no, no, since you want to get in on that,
I am going to give you the opportunity to.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to
grab a couple of other calls on the other side
of your break, and I promise I'm going to set
some time aside for you. Now, do you want to
call me?

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Do you want to call me back in like the
four o'clock I already want me to put you on hold.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
I will put you on hold. I know you love
this pro I love you too, Courtney, so I will
put court you a whole We'll take a break. We'll
come back more news, more views, will take some more
of your phone calls. If you want to ask me
questions about my my sort of I don't know out
what my excursion in West Hartford, of course I'll answer
those questions that much much more. We got a whole

(57:19):
bunch of show to get into. We haven't even hit
the iceberg yet. Stand by, It's rest on the radio
on WTIC News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
It's our birthday. WTIC has been on the air for
one hundred years and we don't look a day over
ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Hey, you look a little older.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Anyway, We're back rese on the radio. Get to your
phone calls in a second. I got to give a
couple of shout outs to some people. They may have
gone already, but I think it's Keith and his wife
who hung out with my wife Roseanne on Saturday night.

(57:56):
I want to thank them for hanging out. They just
happen to be sitting next to one another and he asked,
Keith asked my wife or had a conversation about listening
to WT I see, and he says, I'd listened to
recent on the radio.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Where goes that's my husband?

Speaker 4 (58:17):
And they had a great chuckle. So I want to
thank Keith and his wife for keeping my wife customer company.
I did not stay at the event. That's another story.
We'll get into that. Also, I want to give a
shout out to Kevin lo She Kevin lo She. I

(58:37):
want to start off by saying, Kevin. We got to
talk about the last name, Kevin Low. She plays Jerry
Lee Lewis in the Million Dollar Quartet performance at the Playhouse.
He stole the show. I'll tell you about that later
on as well. But his name is Kevin. Kevin, you

(59:01):
got it changed the name. I thought what I saw
it was like Kevin Loch, perfect name. He was really
I don't, I can't, I can't. I'm just gonna go
into it. Blew me away the whole time. My wife,
uh has a crush on the guy who was playing
Johnny Cash. He looked like a baby, but he the
hell if he didn't have a voice, they all had

(59:22):
a voice. What a great performance. I'll talk about that
later on as well. Also coming up at four o'clock
stand by for this. I went into the city of
Hartford and I asked about the rat problem. That's right,
I asked about the rat problem. And I drove through

(59:44):
Hartford this morning. You have a rat problem, and I
figured out why and where it is. And it ain't good.
It's not good.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
But we'll play you some audio from that as well.
What else did I I've got so much stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Uh, it's just I'm just legions of things that I
did that I goodness, gracious, I don't even have this
paperwork in front of me. I should actually print it
out every day. Yeah, so we gotta talk about that. Um,
we gotta talk about food stamps. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll
talk about that. Uh oh, we got to talk about headlights.

(01:00:22):
I've got a problem with that. If I have a
conversation about that. Yeah, then we'll talk about the million
dollar quartet and job Rogers as well. We'll probably get
Roseanne on the phone for all of that and much.
What's more, let me get to the phone calls. Ralphie Boy,
what's going on, sir?

Speaker 20 (01:00:39):
In afternoon?

Speaker 10 (01:00:39):
I have a little question for you and your callers,
especially the young lady from California said she would quit
her job. So she quits her job. Okay, everybody quits
their jobs. And the farmers say, hey, I'm not gonna
grow food anymore because I can't make any money. What
is she gonna eat? And how is she gonna live?

(01:01:00):
And when nobody's paying taxes, where is the money gonna
come from.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Now that's a good point, because I would imagine that
there would be some rules, and I'll ask Courtney about it.
I would only presume that under this new fangled world
that we'd be living in, that farmers would not be
allowed to do what Courtney is suggesting that she would do, right,
because she's just a regular person with a regular job.

(01:01:26):
She wouldn't be considered an essential, right, an essential worker,
because she's probably you know, maybe she's working behind a desk.
You know, maybe she's doing this or that. But farmers
would be essential for growing food, right, And like those
folks would have to have their jobs because if they're
allowed to quit, I mean your point is, well, take it.
Nobody eats unless you know they decide to get up

(01:01:50):
and at what the crack of dawn and actually will
go in farm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
So you have a good point, without a doubt.

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
Well, it's not only that, it's you. I mean, I'll
tell you what's gonna happen. If they have their way,
They're gonna print what I call toilet paper and they
call money, and all you have to Darrow is going
to roll up the hundred dollar bills, which will be
totally worthless at that time and eventually, I'm you weren't

(01:02:19):
around for the Civil Hork neither was I. But they
said confederate money. You needed a wheelbarrow fully Confederate money
to buy it over bread.

Speaker 21 (01:02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Look, listen, I know that it's an insane idea, but
what I really do believe is that they would only
I'm positive that whoever wants to do this universal income
like Andrew Yang wanted to do back in twenty twenty.
I think guys like kid would cap it at a
certain like certain groups are certain people. I don't think

(01:02:49):
that everyone would be allowed to live that lifestyle. It
would probably be anyone below the median income of about
fifty thousand is they maybe even seventy five thousand dollars
in below those folks that.

Speaker 10 (01:03:03):
Would that would be discrimination?

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Oh no, no, hello, have you not? Like do you
remember Harvard five years ago? They must be racist to
stop racism.

Speaker 13 (01:03:14):
I mean they don't have a problem with it, right,
That's that's of course, they need racism to protect racism.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
I mean that's that's or at least the combatant, I
should say race.

Speaker 10 (01:03:27):
Word of these people come from with their ideas that
are somewhere out in the stratosphere. I really it scares
the hell out of me. This country, it's these people
ever get control. This country is toast.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
Thank you, Thank you, Ralph. I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
I will say this though, for what Ralph was talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Look, this is not new. This is why I tried
to explain to the boy. The boy and I were
texting each other, like ferociously back and forth, and he's
telling me, like, all these socialist ideas and these people
have more money than they could ever spend it, and
we need to make sure. I'm like, what makes you
think that what you're talking about is new? Like I

(01:04:08):
wish that I had my old phones texting back and
forth with other socialists who were twice your age, saying
the same exact thing as you. This is something we've
dealt with since the beginning of time. When we got
to this country, that was talked about how many people

(01:04:28):
ended up starving under a communal order. It got so
bad that people were eating the leather from their shoes,
eating their shoelaces because everyone was able to. It didn't
matter what they contributed, they just ate whatever they wanted.
That's how bad it was they started in the beginning
and the founding of this country. So yeah, it's it's

(01:04:51):
it's uh, it's it's nothing new. Let's go to uh,
let's go to Fred. What's going on sir?

Speaker 22 (01:04:57):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Hey that well, okay, let me start with this. So
as far as the handout, I'd rather be thin, hungry
and crazy than that. Stupid and lazy. And I've had people,
because I'm this exceptional street bagger, I've had people walk
me by the hand to the services door and I

(01:05:18):
never went in.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
And I'm so.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Glad because I just know if I didn't have to
go out the door, I wouldn't and then I would
have missed out on my last twenty years of life,
which is in many regards. I mean, I've accomplished more
and less, you know, fifteen years, twenty years than I
did like previously. You know, I was sort of like,
I'm kind of somebody a little bit. But anyway, about

(01:05:44):
that Blumenthal thing, that's really amazing. If I've got my
Bible heroes right, you're working at Gideon thing un rich
charging down the hill.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Like I said, it wasn't. I didn't even go with
a plan. I went there to ask questions the ones
that were important to me. The Blumenthal story, as far
as die quot Quat was concerned, I had not forgotten
about it. I know many people have been asking me
and saying, hey, man, never let that story go. And
I promised you that I wouldn't that when I got

(01:06:16):
in front of him, I would mention it, and I
did and I'm glad because at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
I got where I am.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
So I'm really grateful for the fact that again he
took the time and when I sent him.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
That email with his own, you know, his own words, I.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Was thankful that he called up and said because I
think what it was. I'll tell you this, Fred, I
truly do believe this. I think it was. I don't
think he was embarrassed in any way that I had
like sort of shown him up or anything. It's just
that I wasn't trying to be malicious in any way.
I was saying, look, I know that you that you
authorize this, or at least that you had tried to

(01:06:50):
get this money, and I need to talk to you
about it because there's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Going on and people need to know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
But I will I'll go even this, I'll go this far.
And I think this was the I'll call this the
the line that I think that really lured him in,
And it was this one. I understand that you find
my inquiries inquiries antagonistic as you put it, but there
are considerate amount of people who are feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Ignored about this and other issues.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
I think your office owes its taxpayers of all stripes
to address these issues. And I think that was the
line that said that made him pick up the phone
and call and say, you know everybody talks about talking
to the other side, why not.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
I would say that might have been the final straw,
the icing on the cake, or the last candle blown out.
But I would say that quat if you will, is
Dick bluman Thal's kryptonite.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Dude.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
You came to him with kryptonite. Yeah, and when you
corrected him, in other words, you scared him.

Speaker 17 (01:08:01):
It's like he'd probably forgotten about that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
Yeah, one hundred Yeah, And so this is like, okay,
we got to deal with this guy.

Speaker 23 (01:08:08):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
There's this thing the way, like you know, the totalian
totalitarian deals with opposition.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
First you ignore.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Then if you can't ignore him, you try to work
out a compromise. If you can't compromise, you crush them.
So you've gone you shot through ignore to Uh, he
wants to be your friend or he wants.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
You to be his I did someone did say that
to me last night. Somebody says, I think he wants
to be your friend, and I'm like, well, you know,
I may have to let him down easy but but
I mean, at least he's willing to talk. I mean,
that's what matters to me. You know, people are like,
are you gonna get what he gets here? Are you
gonna just lamb back? I'm like, no, I want to
start a conversation with these folks and let them know that.

(01:08:52):
You know, they keep saying they need to talk to
the other side. Well, now you have the forum.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Well you trust yourself not to be correct corrupted. See
I almost wouldn't trust myself. If you know the sweet cream,
I'd be like, well maybe just a little bit. And
I think the word you're looking for there is sorte
my sorte.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
Yeah, great word, great word. Thank you, Thanks man, you
got it. We're gonna have Courtney back in a minute,
because this is obviously something that's piqued you guys interests,
probably because you've never heard anyone alive your lifetime ever
tell you that they would do the government income. And

(01:09:35):
I'm just I know Courtney. I've known Courtney for almost
ten years. I'm just as fascinated as you are about her.
And again, I want everybody to know this. This is
important to note. It is not about whether or not
Courtney is misguided It is not about whether or not
she's lazier anything. She's giving you a very authentic look

(01:09:55):
into her world. She's not speaking for everyone, She's speaking
for herself. And ask yourself one question. Have you ever
talked to anyone Have you ever listened to anyone who
felt this way? If you've been in a silo listening
to everybody who was like nah, I can never ever
live like that. This is an interesting peak into a
world that you've never experienced. And that's why I want

(01:10:16):
to this is Courtney is perfect for this. It at
least it's a small view into the minds of somebody
or the mind of someone who would be okay with
government taking care of their essential needs.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
So we're gonna investigate that, and.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
We'll take a couple of other phone calls on the
other side to this, and then we'll get the Courtney
in a four o'clock hour, So she's gonna stay on hold.
Stand by. More news, more views. It's RecA on the
radio WTIC News Talk ten eighty. It's Reese on the
radio News Talk WT. I see ice. I am eating
way too much chocolate and I blame Brian Shackman for that.

(01:10:53):
I totally blame him for that. He came in here
with one hundred and forty seven missed goodbus. I blame
him and his son for this. How dare he bring
that chocolate in here? And every other young person in
here is saying, who eats that chocolate? That's my old people.
You gotta be born before nineteen seventy five. Half that

(01:11:15):
nineteen sixty nine, ladies and gentlemen, nineteen sixty nine, mister
Goodbar was the only chocolate my mother would have in
the house. And then when she had some money, she
would buy a Hershey would alms but mister can't beat it,
and we couldn't get We'd have to beg my mother

(01:11:36):
for a piece.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Come that pizza?

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Can piecea a candy bar would go, No, you have
to go to the store and go buy it for
She'd tease us with it all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
You've a woman. Now, that's the only thing that I.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Eat if I ever Hershey bar. But mister Goodbar that
we could enjoy. And Brian's son purchased a box of them.
It's like one hundred and forty seven with nine arms
and joy, I think he said. And I walked in
to the studio and as a whis arm and joy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Sony one left. Ah, they took all the almond Joys.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
But I don't care because I'm taking every one of
the mister Goodbar's home. Nobody else is gonna eat them.
They're just gonna sit there. Why because they're too old.

Speaker 16 (01:12:18):
For you to eat.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
My geriatric behind will grab every one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
You guys don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
What you're missing with mister Goodbar. How dare you? How
dare you disrespect? See what being here? You already reaping
benefits of that. That's right, one hundred and forty two.
I'm disgusting, he says.

Speaker 14 (01:12:45):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
Anyway, Uh, like I said, coming up, we'll talk to
Courtney about her taking the government dole or being on
the government dole, like having all of her needs taking car.
I've got so many questions, you have no idea, So
we're gonna get into that, and of course we'll get
into other things like your phone calls. With that being said,

(01:13:05):
let me go to Lori in Glastonbury.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Hello, Laurie, how are you, hey, friend?

Speaker 24 (01:13:10):
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
I'm good? What's up?

Speaker 24 (01:13:13):
So I wouldn't take the government goal because I don't
trust our government okay.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
It It made me think.

Speaker 24 (01:13:22):
About Hillsdale College and how Hillsale College doesn't take any
money from the government as an educational institution, and I
was thinking, like, you know, that affords them a lot
of freedoms. They can run the campus pretty much the
way that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:40):
They watch exactly.

Speaker 24 (01:13:43):
And so to that point, if I was on the
government goal, my life, I would assume would be dictated
by the government, because they're the ones that are paying
for all of the things.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
Scary as it may seem, do Laurie. You know, and
I've talked to people about this in other ways when
you say to them, what if the government makes you
do this, that and the third, And some people don't
think that's a bridge too far because the thing they
want the most they get, right. They get the housing,
they get, the food, they get the you know, the

(01:14:13):
sort of the taking care of by the government.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
So it's like, well, you can't eat this, or you
can't smoke.

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
That, or you can and they'll go all right, you know,
those are things that will probably suck, but I don't
have to provide for them myself.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
It is a it's a road I'm willing to go down.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
That's the scary part.

Speaker 24 (01:14:31):
Oh, Dani have to cuckle back to that whole idea
of how much are you willing how much are you
willing to get in order to give up all of
your freedom?

Speaker 14 (01:14:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
And you know what I'll tell you, I'm going to
when I get Courtney on, I'll bet you what she'll
tell me. She'll she'll even ask the question, what is freedom?
I know because I know Courtney too well, I may
be giving away the good time net Son, Laurie. I
gotta go, Thank you, dear.

Speaker 14 (01:14:57):
Let me go.

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
Let's get our first checker, whether or in traffic Mark Christopher,
he's in the BPS traffic center. Hey, but it's Reese
on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Brind don't say we didn't good more than you on
News Talk ten eighty w T I see.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
I see.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
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the dozen bagels a month for six months, courtesy between
Rounds the Bagel Bakery and Sandwich Cafe located in South Windsor.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
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Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
If you'd like to win, you gotta go to rest
On Radio dot com. That's our E E S E
on the radio dot com. Let's live in the state
of Connecticut cannot have won it within the last six months.
Let me take Gladys in Bristol real quick before we
get some weather in traffic again. Hello Gladys, Hey, Rees,
what's up?

Speaker 20 (01:15:55):
What's listen?

Speaker 25 (01:15:57):
And Canada is socialism now? During COVID, when the shots
came out, they were given the choice take the shot
or pay a five thousand dollars fine.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:16:12):
The government. If the government's gonna support you, then they're
gonna tell you how to live.

Speaker 16 (01:16:16):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
But like I said, look, I'm gonna get all of
it from from Courtney. I hope that you listen. We're
gonna talk to her right after, right after traffic and
weather because everything that you're saying a lot of people
are putting in the chat room.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
So I'm gonna try to incorporate all of those questions.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
In it, because I know that you're thinking, like, maybe
she's not thinking it all the way through. Maybe she's
you know, there are other circumstances that she might think
is a bridge too far. I'm gonna ask her all
of them, and right you know, she might be you know,
she may even be sort of like half willing to
do some of this stuff and there may be some

(01:16:51):
things that she would consider a bridge too far.

Speaker 19 (01:16:54):
All right, But also, socialism only works for those who
don't you say again, socialism only works for those who
only works for those who won't.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
Who won't that's one hundred percent right, exactly because the
other after a while, the others or it has to
be subsidized by someone.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
And that's the part that I'm trying to say.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
I believe that in this socialist idea, even that Andrew
Yang and Bill Gates were talking about this universal income,
he didn't mean that for the middle class folks that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Were making one hundred to two hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
Those folks have to work in order to subsidize those
who can't, right.

Speaker 19 (01:17:35):
And so who the hef wants to work for the
rest of the world.

Speaker 4 (01:17:39):
That that that's where the rub is. Glad, it's you
want hundred percent right, Thank you. I promise I'm gonna
get to the bottom. I hope you're listening.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Thank you very much for the call. You got it, well,
stand by, we're gonna we're gonna get to that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
Because again, I look at this from a very fundamental place,
as do a lot of people. But Courtney, if you
hurt her earlier. You know that daily grind some people,
it's just like, you know what am I doing it for?
Two step forward, only go one step back. I totally

(01:18:12):
get it. We'll get to the bottom of it. We'll
interview Courtney and all the way out in Fresno, California.
That may be a part of it as well, because
she's in California. Let's get to another check of weather
and traffic mark Christopher's in the BPS traffic set of Mark.
Come on, I know you love doing traffic. I know
you love DJing, but could you ever let the government

(01:18:33):
just provide your lifestyle for you?

Speaker 16 (01:18:36):
No, get up, do the best you can, work hard,
play by the rules. It may take a little bit
longer to get where you want to go, but it's satisfying.

Speaker 4 (01:18:49):
So you took the words right out of my mouth.

Speaker 16 (01:18:53):
There really is. I mean, I mean, if you don't
if you don't earn something, it's not satisfying at all.
And that's just me. But I'm I guess I'm old
and stupid. I was really a little little disappointed I
didn't get Gladys's sign up. What later She's to always
a later.

Speaker 12 (01:19:16):
Later?

Speaker 16 (01:19:17):
I was waiting for the later.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
I see stand By, we have Hartford Talks. Hartford is
actually going to respond to the organ report that says
that the city of Hartford.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Moved up eight spaces to the number five position as
the place with the most rats radiest. So I asked
them people in Hartford yesterday, no, the day before yesterday.
I went in and around downtown and asked them folks,
uh their opinions about that, and I got some interesting

(01:19:55):
takes on that. So we'll play that audio as well.
I'm gonna be doing that all over the city of Hartford.
Whatever the story is. I'm gonna go into Hartford, I'm
gonna talk to people. I'm gonna get their reaction. I'm
gonna play it here on the air. And if I
made can I say something kind? Thank you? Matt Troy
said something today about, you know, me going out on

(01:20:19):
the weekend, and thank you Matt. I know Matt listens
to the show, and you know he never gets tired
of this place. But he said something nice about how
great it was the fact that you know, I'm going
out there and I'm sort of involving myself with it.
I live for this.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
It's an opportunity of a lifetime and I enjoy it.
You have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
It's more for me than it is for anybody else
that I get to go out and do it and
talk to people and ask them questions and they make
me laugh, and to hear what they think about the
stories that are around them and happening to them, and
then being able to convey it on the air so
you can hear it, so you can get a sense
of what the your world is saying. That's I love

(01:21:02):
every part of that. So I want to thank you,
Matt and everybody else for giving me the opportunity to
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
It's it's just fun to do.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Now, let's get to our guest, kind of like unannounced
Courtney and from Fresno is on the program from Courtney's Courtroom. So, Courtney,
you heard a lot of people talking about this, and
you are you are one of the people that many
of us have tried to figure out. Are there people

(01:21:33):
out there who would be willing to live on the
government dole that have their healthcare, taking care of their housing,
taking care of their food, taking care of Now you
said earlier and somebody mentioned this that said that you
know this would give you an opportunity to do things
in and around your house. And someone said, well, Courtney,
who would pay for that? If you only get a

(01:21:53):
set amount of income, like a you know, a universal
income that is allotted to you for just I mean,
be food, you really wouldn't have enough money to do
anything else. Would you just like take money from the
side and sort of save it until you can do
those things around your house? How would you live with
this under these conditions?

Speaker 17 (01:22:12):
You said that they were taking care of food too.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
I thought, yes, they're taking care of food. They're taking
care of Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what the income
would be, but let's just I mean, let's let's spitball here.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Food would also be covered with the universal income.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
So like you would in other words, you would buy
your own food, they would provide you with the income
to purchase it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
They wouldn't be delivering your food.

Speaker 17 (01:22:35):
So I suppose, I suppose it really all boils down
to how much are we talking?

Speaker 14 (01:22:38):
You know, right?

Speaker 17 (01:22:39):
I mean that doesn't make sense to give it, give
it all up. I mean, although it's still a struggle
what I'm doing now right in the sense of just
keeping it, But I wouldn't want to leave a struggle
to walk into a struggle. That just doesn't make right.

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
So in essence, let's say, because I would assume under
the circumstances, you would have to downsize. So if it's government,
you would have to live in a place that, let's
say was six hundred and fifty square feet.

Speaker 17 (01:23:05):
Well, I already own mine.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Oh you already own yours.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
Yeah, you may not qualify.

Speaker 15 (01:23:12):
My life my life.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Okay, so let's all right. So let's still let's still
spitball here. You have to live in a you have
to live in an apartment that's only six hundred square feet.
You have a you have a standard flat screen TV.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Because nobody could give you a tube TV. Nobody makes
them anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
So you get a standard flat screen TV. We'll we'll
go big and say you'll get a forty three inch
nothing beyond that. Oh yeah, forty forty three inch TV
is you know, it's nominal.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
You get that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Of course, you get probably one thousand dollars in a
food voucher to last you the month. And this is
for you independently. If you have children, you probably get more.
You get that, and of course your rent is paid for,
your your housing is paid for by the GUV so
you never see a check that comes in for that.
It's just automatically paid for. And so what do you

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do with that? Like again, you don't ever have to
worry about any renovation because that's all covered in your home.
You probably can't upgrade to any new appliances there to
just replace whatever you get that standard.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
And you said you would do stuff like what paint?
Would you take on a hobby?

Speaker 14 (01:24:24):
Really?

Speaker 17 (01:24:25):
And oh, I have many hobbies already, but now I
get to figure out how I get to make money
under the table without government finding out, because you know,
that's now I'm really winning. You know, that's one thing
about the hospitality you learn. You learn stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
You know, you know what if plenty of welfare recipients
to this day find a way to game the system,
they make their own. They have little jobs under the
table that you know, they don't get taxed, So yes,
that would probably happen.

Speaker 23 (01:24:52):
You know, it's funny you.

Speaker 17 (01:24:53):
Said that you would think that that was at least
I don't see I would think that that would happen,
because that to me makes so much sense. You already
pay two dollars for rent. You should be like hustling
right now, and you'd be able to save all that money,
but I should people struggling to pay two dollars in
a reek.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Yeah, but you almost You almost bring in the argument
Courtney that says that even with someone who has their
basic needs subsidized, that there's still that innate desire for more,
because you're saying that even if all those things were
provided for you, you would still have this this need
to go hustle to make extra, which almost seems like

(01:25:30):
you're making. Our point for us is that it is
a human nature to want more even if you haven't subsidized.

Speaker 17 (01:25:39):
I don't know if it's necessarily more or what wouldn't
have been more? Well, yeah, because that technically it would be,
you know, it's more. So like now now I can
focus on my want, right you know, when you're when
you're essentials are covered. Most of us are centrals, are basic.
It's not really our wants or the thing that puts
us in debt, and all that stuff doesn't bother you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Let me ask you this, because do you consider having
to pay like you own yours? But do you consider
these things nuisance?

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Like a nuisance like paying for electric.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
Or paying for water. Do you find those bills, those
essential things that you have to pay, You find those
that be the pain in the behind that you have
to pay every month.

Speaker 17 (01:26:20):
N bill was almost eight hundred dollars, And that's not
back pay, that's I pay my VT nail pgen bill
fully every month. My p was eight hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Yeah, that's a lot.

Speaker 17 (01:26:31):
And my neighbors are like yeah, and my neighbor's.

Speaker 14 (01:26:33):
Like, oh, that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
Ours was thirteen.

Speaker 15 (01:26:34):
I'm like what.

Speaker 19 (01:26:36):
I over here, like this is higher than a rich.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
So maybe so maybe what I said earlier might be true.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
It's because you're living in California and you are seeing
these absorbitate rates that you have to pay that you're
saying to yourself, like, you've been so beaten down with
these ridiculous bills that you need relief. If you could
only get the relief because you're kind of being nickeled
and dime to it, the ridiculous love eight hundred dollars

(01:27:04):
for for Do you know if my wife told me
our electric bill was eight hundred bucks, I would have
to cut off every electronic in the house for a month, right,
And I'm.

Speaker 20 (01:27:13):
A weird like I'm already in the dark.

Speaker 21 (01:27:14):
What am I can I do?

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
That's a lot of money. I tell people in Connecticut.
You guys don't know high electric.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
Fills, yeah, gas or high gas.

Speaker 17 (01:27:24):
Our gas is like I have to have a truck
and it takes the high premium gas. So I'm paying
about four almost five dollars every gallon and I have
a twenty eight gallon tank.

Speaker 14 (01:27:33):
So do the math.

Speaker 17 (01:27:34):
It's one hundred. It's almost two hunred dollars to fill
my gas. Think up, and I don't get good gas mileage.
That's like, yeah, but what I did want to say,
you know me so well reached because I you took
the words out of my mind when you said my
court he's gonna say, well, what is freedom? Because that's
what I wanted. That's the main thing. Like I understand
what everybody's saying, and I agree to a certain extent.

Speaker 14 (01:27:54):
I get the whole.

Speaker 17 (01:27:54):
It's beneficial. It makes you feel good, you know, to
a certain extent. However, we are not free.

Speaker 15 (01:28:00):
Okay, let's not.

Speaker 17 (01:28:00):
Let's let's let's take let's talk about the elevant in
the room.

Speaker 10 (01:28:03):
We the beer.

Speaker 17 (01:28:04):
Well, how you say the bureaucratic state controls everything that
citizens do right they are They control and regulate all
of it. So I mean, perfect example, we have the
biggest one to show us. They came on the news
and said, hey, everybody, stay home and put on a
mask and hide from an invisible boogeyman like and.

Speaker 20 (01:28:23):
We all did.

Speaker 17 (01:28:24):
Like they tell us. We all go to speed limit
on the highway. We all pay our taxes to however
much they say we owe, we pay it. We are
all compliers. We are wonderful compliers. So to say that
we are free to do whatever, that's not entirely true.
You're free within your own the box.

Speaker 22 (01:28:41):
That you're in.

Speaker 17 (01:28:41):
Some people have a big box. Those people that make
big money have a big box. They have to make
a roman. Some people make less money, so their boxes
a little bit smaller for them to roman.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Great analogy.

Speaker 14 (01:28:52):
With roaming in a box.

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
Noll you one hundred percent right. Some people's boxes are
bigger than others. And the more the more that you
have at your disposal, your box is a lot bigger.
In other words, you know, some people have venice in
their box. Some people just have Brooklyn. So I totally so,
I totally get it. There's a very good point. So

(01:29:16):
with that, so I did sort of you said that
I spoke for you, and I was accurate in the
sense of there are some things that you would be
willing to give up as long as those basic needs
are because you you could sort of wave them off
and say, you know, I never really felt free in
this society anyway, So if they told me I couldn't

(01:29:37):
do this and that for you, that would be part
for the course. But do you think that's a Do
you think that's a perspective thing, Courtney, or do you
think that that we all?

Speaker 17 (01:29:48):
I think the perspective comes into people that the people
mostly probably that are in the big box, that think
they have all these freedoms and they just don't realize
that if you keep walking in your box, you're gonna.

Speaker 19 (01:29:59):
Sometimes hit a wall.

Speaker 10 (01:30:00):
So you could see that year at Bok.

Speaker 17 (01:30:02):
They just haven't hit that wall yet, So they don't
they don't understand.

Speaker 14 (01:30:04):
They don't.

Speaker 17 (01:30:05):
They really think that they're so free and they just
work so hard to get everything.

Speaker 10 (01:30:09):
But like bro, like you get you work so hard.

Speaker 17 (01:30:12):
Oh and the lady just said it, who.

Speaker 14 (01:30:14):
Is before me?

Speaker 17 (01:30:15):
He said, who wants to work to fund everything? Another country?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Ladies? No, no, no, other people, meaning in the country. Yeah, yeah,
and no, but she makes a good point.

Speaker 19 (01:30:26):
Now, no, no, no, she what do we do now?

Speaker 4 (01:30:29):
She's she's one hundred percent she both of you are
one hundred percent right, because you're saying that, why would
it be any different for the workers to fund you
than it is what we already do in other countries.
We technically do the same thing. Why wouldn't be what
would be the big problem if it were people in
the United States?

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
And it is a fair argument.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
It's saying that we're already doing it anyway at least
now you're just doing it closer to home exactly.

Speaker 17 (01:30:57):
And because go look at the go look at the books. Go, well,
what they'll let you look at what they'll allow you
to look at. We'll pull the funding bills or it
just came out the bill that they're fighting over it. Yeh,
Look how many billions and million I don't know if
it's billions, probably it's billions, but at least millions billion
given to other countries for things that we don't even see.
Other countries get it. We fund, We work our whole

(01:31:19):
lives to fund other countries and our own to just
at the end of it, barely make it and get brilliant.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
That is, you know, I get see I will tell
you this, and I know people are thinking about it going.
It's a frustrating thing to have to admit that partially,
and this is probably the part that people need to
come to grips with, even though they disagree with you,
even if they think that is, it's one wrong to

(01:31:49):
think that way. The reason why I'm having this discussion
with you is for people to understand why people.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
Think that right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
It's not about whether or not it's right or wrong.
It's not about whether or not it's for you or
it isn't for you. There are people out there who
are looking at this world from a perspective that the
rest of us do not, And instead of just ostracizing
that person for having that perspective, we have to understand
where it comes from. And you're looking at it going, Look,

(01:32:19):
if I'm gonna give money to Argentina to the tune
of billions of dollars, why can't I give them the
friends no California, you know, And and the money coming
to me goes a long way, because you know I'm
your neighbor. You know I'm your I'm your American citizen again,
it's a it's not say I wish that I could
totally write you off as ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
I can only write you off as I disagree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
But I get. What I'm saying to you is is
that even though I disagree, I understand you know what
I mean, what do you what do.

Speaker 14 (01:32:49):
You disagree with?

Speaker 12 (01:32:50):
Like?

Speaker 17 (01:32:50):
Where what am I saying that is that is wrong?
Because I mean when I always got to say to
you right now when you said that, like, yeah, people
that disagree just haven't retired yet, and they haven't they
get after resided, it's not going to be nothing anywhere
close to what you were making when you were working.
Your house is paid off and hopefull your house isn't
too expensive because your property tax. If that's too much
and you can't pay that, you're still going to lose

(01:33:11):
your house.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
No, I'm agreeing with you in the sense of is
what I'm saying I understand.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
But when I say I disagree with I believe in
the challenge, right, I believe in accomplishing something I don't.
I'm maybe it is my apprehension of giving that level
of power to the government, putting it in their hands.

Speaker 14 (01:33:35):
No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
And what I'm saying is is like, if I'm putting
that kind of power in the government's hand where my
basic needs are taken care of, who am I giving
that power to? Because every time we have an election,
if the guy that I'm voting for doesn't win, what
will that person then say about?

Speaker 24 (01:33:53):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
What's being subsidized for me? What else is he willing
to take away from me? What limits would he put
on the things that I have? Would they make those
you know, after a while, when you know more and
more people have left the country or are not you know,
providing that tax incentive or that tax to pay for
the things that I have, Will more and more of
the things that I have.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
The government paying for be rationed?

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
Do I have to eat less?

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Do I have to live in a smaller place? What
other freedoms will they take?

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
That?

Speaker 17 (01:34:22):
That is a good point as far as you know,
you know, are we just are we? Because you know
there's a lot of stipulations that come into play. Are
we saying they're going to take care of it and
we can still do what we want, or are they
going to put stipulations on like, oh, well, you have
to do X, Y and Z, and then that gets
it changes things. But you know it's crazy. So to
hear you say that, you know it's the government is
all smoking years.

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
Man, it's crazy.

Speaker 10 (01:34:43):
They did a job on all of us, like.

Speaker 17 (01:34:45):
They really have us, thinking that they would like this
is conversation shows how good the government is. They we
really think that we are free and that just giving them,
letting them take care of our needs is going to
be the thing that makes us, makes us.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Holds a very good point.

Speaker 17 (01:35:00):
What makes us makes it to where Oh now they
control us, baby, they control you.

Speaker 4 (01:35:04):
Now, yes, But to be honest with you, I like
the limit that they have on that control compared to
them having all of it. Courtney, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
I gotta I gotta go to a break, canay, No,
I'm you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna give it
to you later on.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
In fact, we'll talk about that tomorrow because I took
time out for today for this one on you. But
call me tomorrow. I promise we'll talk about it all right, No,
of course, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
Courtney, and all the way from friends.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Now we'll be back.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
More news, more views.

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
Let's get to whether in traffic mark Christophers and in
the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Hey, Mark Brace on the radio is on w T
I C.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
We'll get to a whole bunch of other things in
the next break. Bluster phone calls at eight six zero
five to two w T I see eight six zero
five to two, nine eight four to two.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
So I went around and I asked people in Hartford what.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
They thought about the organ report we talked about last week,
which said that Hartford, Connecticut had gone up eight slots
to number five of the raddiest places in the country,
beating out Detroit and Washington, d C or DC actually
was right out during the Detroit I think of Detroit
then DC, one one or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Does it matter?

Speaker 11 (01:36:23):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
But I asked around and here's what they had to say.
I again just ask I think about four random people.
Here's what Dad saying, Well, it seems like there's always
crews out working, but no one keep up with so much.
We're not not in this downtown area, but one that's
that's that's a little harder leading.

Speaker 16 (01:36:46):
Well, I could understand.

Speaker 26 (01:36:48):
I mean, I'm not really really educated by it, but
I wouldn't be surprised at this truth, you know, out
being Detroit crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
It's just crazy. We don't even got that many people. Man, Like,
you know what I'm saying, Connecticut so small, How can
they beat these? You know what I'm saying, It's like
times three over there and stuff like that. But I
feel like the more people you have, the more of
the rat problem it's gonna be. How big it's gonna be.

Speaker 23 (01:37:15):
I've seen them, but I don't know, you know what
I mean, because I haven't like really encountered them like that.
Me and my girl was walking and we started this
rat carrying something and we was coming.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
Off mainstream and I was like, wow, it's a big rat.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
So but she she she from New York, she said,
not as big as the rats I've seen.

Speaker 23 (01:37:37):
I said, Okay, food being left out, you know what
I mean that people not disposing how they're supposed to
do what they do. I mean, this is not really
a clean city.

Speaker 4 (01:37:47):
Okay, yeah, you know, just.

Speaker 23 (01:37:51):
People throwing food out whatever whatever they're feeding them. You know,
it used to be like abandoned cars and abandoned buildings,
but now I think it's like a food thing.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
Do to refuge. Well, that last man has lived in
Hartford since the eighties, and look I gotta admit. I
was walking through downtown, so I was approaching people by
the Burger King over, by the Marriotte, by the bus stop.
So I was like in the center of the city,
which is relatively clean. Right by comparison, it didn't look

(01:38:31):
like some of the places I go through. But today
I was driving near Pope Park and boy, like, I've
seen neighborhoods in Brooklyn that were safer so and I'm
walking in and you can always tell the town is
bad when you see more people on the street after

(01:38:53):
nine a m. Because nobody's supposed to be in the
street at nine am. When I used to cut school
in Hollis Queen's, nobody was on our street. The only
people you saw leaving their house were housewives who were
going to the laundry. Bat there were way too many
men on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
Like just walking around.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
One guy just darted right in front of my car
and I was like, hey, ho ho, and he didn't
look twice. But those neighborhoods, that's probably where he's talking about.
But that guy who's been here since the eighties, that
last guy, he was talking about how the neighborhood was, like,
you know, it used to be abandoned cars everywhere, you know,

(01:39:30):
up on bricks. But he said, yeah, we've seen some rats.
But I like what that other guy said. It was like,
you know, we're too small of a city to have
to be number five. But I went to the other
neighborhoods Mark Christopher, he's in a BPS traffic center. They
look ratt infested. I'm sorry, did you hear this report?

(01:39:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, we moved up.

Speaker 16 (01:39:53):
We're probably moved up eight, not just from thirteen to five.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
What do you come on? What do you think that
it is? Because ORCON is saying that they're basic. This
based on basing it on complaints, and that's what it's like.
Calls about rats take an account, Yeah, that.

Speaker 16 (01:40:08):
Would take That would tell me that there's more attention
being brought to it. So more people are calling and
there's more action. But there's apparently there's plenty of a
free open space and plenty of food because that's where
rats go.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Correct.

Speaker 16 (01:40:21):
Plus we got a we got a river right there,
and they I guess they like being nearby.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
Always it's always a body of wards because if you
look at some of the places that are number one,
like number one through five, all have an incredible amount
of water nearby.

Speaker 16 (01:40:35):
La San Francisco, Chicago.

Speaker 4 (01:40:39):
Who's number four was Philadelphia?

Speaker 16 (01:40:41):
For Philadelphia that all near bodies of water. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know what to say. Is not something that's
something you strive.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
For, but not at all the NA calls him. I
don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
Let's just say people are not fanswt I see.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
I really want to thank everybody has been finding the
show as of lately. I'm getting a lot of friend
request and follows on X. By the way, we're trying
to get more and more people watching the show on
X just for the good reason. I also want to
thank you all for blowing up the Bloomberg and John
Larson videos, both of which have exceeded ten thousand views

(01:41:29):
all together. I want to thank you, And that's from
X and Facebook all together. So you guys are obviously
responding to that and re sharing it, and I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
It lets me know that you guys are responding to
the content, and I'll try to get that live video
whenever it happens. Also, I want to thank City Hall Adam.
If not for him, I wouldn't know it was there.
And of course congressional Republicans who have listened to the
show since I got here. I need to talk about

(01:42:05):
this before I go to the phones. Someone's got to
come up with a way to deal with the headlight problem.
And there was a lot of that that I was
driving through in Virginia, but definitely here, and it's everywhere
where there's a one lane highway that you're supposed to do,

(01:42:31):
or you can do as fast as fifty five miles
per hour and it'll be five o'clock. Of course, in
the fall, daylight saving times comes along and it is
pitch black in some of these neighborhoods.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
God bless you, by the way, for those.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
Of you who live in these beautiful towns where you
have no street lights, God bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
And I'm saying that facetiously.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
But when you drive down those roads and you can
do fifty five sometimes forty five miles per hour, and
worse off, there were a bunch of hills and valleys
you have to drive down, and again it is you
and the yellow line and oncoming traffic. And some of
you guys have these cars.

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
With the led lights.

Speaker 4 (01:43:19):
Oh my goodness, I don't know if you have high
beams on. I don't, but all I know is that
I can't see, and there'll be somebody behind me, like
we're all coasting and it looks good. Got my lights on,
and I've got the LED lights on my car, but
i've got you know, the auto lights on, so they're

(01:43:41):
facing down, they're not in anybody's face and not again.
All I want to know is that the road is clear, right,
I can see if it's you know, dark, If it's
really really dark and I'm in like a farm area,
I'll throw on the high beams because lord knows, one
of your silly cows might get out, or of course

(01:44:02):
a deer, which is always on the road when I'm driving,
but I'm trying to be careful. There may be some
small animal that darts out that I have to avoid,
being a rabbit or something like that, because I couldn't deal.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
With crushing some furry little, you know, wilderness creature.

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
But nonetheless, when I'm driving down the road, some of you,
especially driving in your pickup trucks, you've got to have
your LED lights blazing as you come towards me and
everybody else for that matter, blinding the ever loving mess
out of us and I've got to slow down, and

(01:44:44):
somebody's behind me, as I said, and I've got to
slow down. Why because I gotta make sure that I
can see. It always happens at like a weird curve
in the road, and right where I'm coming off the
hill and the you know, the turns going left or right,
i gotta slow go down just in case I missed
the turn and I end up in the ditch or
on the wrong side of the road. I've gotta be careful.

(01:45:07):
I don't know how people deal with it. I don't
know how anyone drives under these conditions. But I need help.
Instead of just calling you guys a bunch of mean evil,
you know, straight hogs, I need your help. So if
you've dealt with this, how do you deal with it?
How can I make life better for me so that

(01:45:28):
don't go driving off the road When one of these
lunatics comes at me with his lights blazing, and I'm
nice and courteous, I'll flick my high beams. Hey, you
want to turn those down? Click click, click, you know,
a little courtesy blink, hey, buddy, headlights. In fact, try
this on for size. My car, My car does the unthinkable.

(01:45:51):
Try this on for size, and if you have a
new car, you know you have it. My car senses
headlights when they're coming and turns my high beams off
for me as soon as they sense more light coming
my way. Could you guys do that a little bit?
Could we consider it? That's all I'm saying. Could we

(01:46:12):
consider it? Because everyone's talking about it. The Connecticut mirrors
as an article on it today, blinded by the headlight
talking about it, asking a question, does this ever happened
to you? Yes, it happens to all of us. And
I'm not a good night driver. Not in the sense
that I can't drive. I'm just not a good night driver,

(01:46:34):
primarily because when I'm living in a place where deer
or other woodland creatures are going to pop out, I'm
always nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
Like you know, it's a split second I see you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
I don't know how you do it. I know that
you you know your daredevil's You'll be blazing down the road.
Some of you will drive around me, Burbur, get out away,
old lady, and you guys will go blazing down the
road sixty seventy miles per hour. Because I don't know,
I don't know you have to get to the football game.

(01:47:08):
You're in a hurry to go nowhere. Not sure why,
but you're not as patient as I am. I just
want to get there. You know there's a line in
the movie is It gets Shorty? Is that the line
where John Travolta's character is No, John Travolta's character says it,
but I know I heard it in the Kevin Spacey
film too.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
But something along the lines of any.

Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
Any meeting that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Can't start until you get there is a meeting worth
going to.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
So whatever's going on, if it's not gonna start, if
it's gonna start before I get there, it's not worth
me getting there. Like I want to coast through life.
The rest of you folks at night time, you blaze
in through. It's like you have a death wish. I
don't get it.

Speaker 14 (01:47:52):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I just never will.

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
So with that, we go to the phones as zero
five two two WT, I s let's go to Tom.
How are you, sir? I know you probably called about
something else and I'm throwing this at you, but what's up? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:48:06):
No, well, ree uh, some of it. The lights are
definitely blazing bright now, but it also has something to
do with you. You're getting older. If you get a
care of those yellow night driving sung Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:48:19):
That's right, the ones that they advertise at night with
the eight hundred number three easy payments of forty ninety five.

Speaker 10 (01:48:27):
They really work.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
They help.

Speaker 10 (01:48:28):
They helped cut down the glare somehow.

Speaker 15 (01:48:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:48:31):
I don't know how, but okay, and I wear contact
so I can wear them.

Speaker 10 (01:48:35):
Yeah, yeah, you can wear those. They also make the
funny looking glasses for the real old people that you
put over your regular glasses.

Speaker 21 (01:48:43):
Get one of those suits.

Speaker 4 (01:48:46):
They're like glasses goggles, right, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 21 (01:48:50):
Yeah, I have found that.

Speaker 10 (01:48:52):
Yeah, it does help because yeah, I get to I
get it bad now that you know I'm sixty six.

Speaker 14 (01:48:58):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:49:00):
Anyway, were you calling about the.

Speaker 10 (01:49:03):
I was thirty five last week?

Speaker 4 (01:49:05):
I don't know now were you calling about the Courtney call?

Speaker 10 (01:49:09):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm gonna try to be
nice like you. I'll say she's naive, but okay, one minute.
One minute, she wants the government to give her money
so she doesn't have to do anything. Then she says
the government is evil and you know, out to get up.

Speaker 4 (01:49:25):
Yes, it is a duality. Listen, no, no, no, listen,
I know for a fact that that is the compromise
of where Courtney's coming from. Yes, she knows that the
government is evil, but guess what the ends justify the means,
is what she's saying, because all of us are looking
at that rationally and just going I know the evil

(01:49:47):
that the government can do, but the upside is is
that I don't have to do anything, and they're willing
to compromise that. And it sounds crazy, but it isn't.
It just is That's a that's kind of the happenstance.
It goes with the protocol. They are willing to give
up their freedoms because they know the government will never
give them. In essence, they consider the government the thing

(01:50:10):
that keeps them from getting ahead, so why not get
into bed with them so that they can take care
of them.

Speaker 10 (01:50:17):
Yeah, but that the logic of that just is a
her when she first.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
Called in, Yeah, but she's but that people landed on
Plymouth Rocky.

Speaker 20 (01:50:30):
Everyone agreed, we are going to be a communal society.

Speaker 10 (01:50:34):
We're gonna grow.

Speaker 21 (01:50:35):
Our food together and feed everyone.

Speaker 20 (01:50:38):
Bob and Bob and George said, well, I'm gonna sit
on that front porch and let Harry grow the vestable right,
and I'll just be at the dinner table.

Speaker 10 (01:50:48):
What happened?

Speaker 21 (01:50:49):
They off?

Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
Not all of them, but are many of them starved?
They starved, and it was it wasn't we can't do
that right, It wasn't listen, it wasn't far long. I
mentioned it earlier. It wasn't too long where they were
eating their shoes and shoelaces in order to survive.

Speaker 10 (01:51:08):
Yes, because human nature is human nature. They're hard workers
and there's lazy workers. They're always have been there, always.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Will be one. Thank you, sir, much appreciated. Let's get
to I'll go to Peter, who's in Canton. Hello, Peter,
Why how you doing? I'm good, sir?

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
What's up?

Speaker 21 (01:51:33):
Two things? But first, I have a book that I
published is coming out soon, and I want to send
you a copy after we're done. Can you send me
to the switchboard so they can give me an address
or send you my book?

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
Absolutely, I will do that.

Speaker 21 (01:51:47):
Cool awesome. And also, if you google this, Connecticut is
the darkest state.

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
Really yeah, so you're talking about so you're saying when
you say the darkest state that it has the fewest
street lights of any other state.

Speaker 21 (01:52:06):
In the whole United States. That was on the radio
USIC like last year.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
That's interesting.

Speaker 21 (01:52:16):
You can get deer whistles. Did you put on your fenders?

Speaker 14 (01:52:20):
They now?

Speaker 4 (01:52:22):
Wait now the deer hold on, hold on, So the
deer whistle you put on your fender. So I'm assuming
when you're driving through the wind, they're blowing so that
the deer no that you're coming.

Speaker 21 (01:52:33):
They can hear it, but we can't, and it'll keep
the deer from one in front of you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
Okay, I'm on it. I am on it.

Speaker 13 (01:52:42):
I am on it absolutely now, Peter, do you know
where I can I get these on?

Speaker 4 (01:52:47):
Can I get these on Amazon? Or can I get
them from Advanced Auto?

Speaker 21 (01:52:52):
You can get them anywhere. They sell them anywhere. And
I have them because it's it's scary.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
Yeah, I'm very nervous at night, very nervous me too.
Thank you for that. Let me put you on the hold.
I'm gonna put you with Roland. He's gonna get he's
gonna get you the address so you can send it. Okay, aw,
thank you sir. And uh do I have time yet?
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
I'll take well, it's only two minutes. He won't last
two minutes. I'll save him for later.

Speaker 4 (01:53:23):
Let's go to Wall Street. What's going on, sir?

Speaker 14 (01:53:26):
Yeah, Hi, if you want the complete picture, maybe I
should be put on hold. Right, that's about the rat problem.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
Okay, the rat problem in Hartford.

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
Yeah, I called Friday.

Speaker 14 (01:53:38):
I called Friday. I was on hold for a long time.
You never took my call with to cut you to
the chase when you went to Hartford. You should have
started with the health department. But I've got all the evidence, ABC,
and you'll have this solved in no time.

Speaker 4 (01:53:51):
Okay, what what would be a way to get rid
of the rats in Hartford?

Speaker 14 (01:53:55):
Not talking about I'm talking about the cause, Oh, the
cause of it?

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
Okay, tell me what the call?

Speaker 14 (01:54:00):
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of obvious if you
think deeply with what's been happening. I got to start
off with three reference movies. Now you kind of maybe
laugh at the first two, the third one that was
more serious. Go back to nineteen seventy two. I know
you're big on movies. Nineteen seventy two, you had a
and these were very popular back then. As matter of fact,

(01:54:21):
Michael Jackson, eleven years old. The theme song to one
of them get Ben. So the first one was Willard
and Ben was the sequel, and they both came out
in seventy two. They show in detail how rats breed
and you know they're in captivity with a master. Willard
was the one that was training them. They're very intelligent creatures.

(01:54:42):
Willardshow how he can train them. And then when he
is overcome by the rat hoard at the end of
Willard then picks up with a little boy that's got
a disease that's probably you know, got to kill him
at a young age. But Ben finds his way to
the little boy and he takes them on and that
goes in the more detail. You know, the sewer system

(01:55:04):
in the town, and you know the eating habits and breeding.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:55:07):
And then the third movie two thousand and two, it's
called The Rats, and this isn't in depth movie in
downtown Manhattan. It's all fictional. Of course, you think of
doctor Fauci in this movie, Senator around a government lab,
a secret government lab that is breeding rats and trying

(01:55:27):
to make them less aggressive, but instead it backfires, it
makes them more aggressive. Now the rats really go into
detail about breeding. They can have babies after six weeks
every colony has a like a king and a queen.
The king is black and the queen is all white.

(01:55:49):
Now in Ben, Willard and Ben and Willard, you see
Ben is a black rat. He's like the leader of
the pack. The king, and the queen is called queen.
He and she breathes spousing.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
I wish to you know what, I would totally be
interested in these movies if rats didn't ski me out
because I can't look at them anywhere. Every time I
look at one, I'm squirmish. It's it's the worst thing ever.
I'm gonna you know what, I'll leave into my wife.
She'll she'll watch all of that. Well share, I gotta
take a break, you know I do. Let's we'll come back.
We'll talk about more of this. I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
Life of its own.

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
The hour, the bags an, it's Reese on the radio
on w T I see news Talk.

Speaker 4 (01:56:35):
We'll get to the rest of your phone calls and
the rest of the show in a little bit, since
I have the time in two minutes, so uh, Mark
and West hard forgot Roseanna and I tickets to go
see the million dollar quartete at the Playhouse, and I
didn't know what to expect, but that show.

Speaker 27 (01:56:56):
Was absolutely amazing, so much fun, so funny, just apps
every person talented.

Speaker 4 (01:57:09):
I triple threats quadruple threats to boot. The young lady
who played Diane is a knockout. Gosh, she's so pretty.
I felt weird even looking at her with my wife.
That was like, damn, she's like really really attractive, but
she can sing.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
She was absolutely amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:57:28):
All of the guys were fantastic, from the bass player
of the drummer, But the man who stole the show
was a guy by the name of Kevin Loshi. And
I'm trying to get in touch with this guy. He
lives in New York. I've done everything to reach out
to this guy. Called the telephone number that's available for
him on his website. I contacted him on Facebook, Roseanne,

(01:57:49):
looked up on send a message to him on Instagram,
and can't get him. I want him on the show.
He stole the show. He was Jerry, He.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Played Jerry Lee Lewis, and he was solutely this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:58:02):
He is probably one of the most undiscovered gems I've
seen in a while.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
I watched this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:58:12):
Perform right in front of me, and the same feeling
I got When I first saw Tupac came over me.
I knew Tupac first time I'd ever seen him. He
was in a digital underground song and he had the
last first one and I said, that guy's gonna be
a star just he had a look, and sure enough,
Tupac infamous. But this kid, Kevin Loshi, He's got to

(01:58:35):
change it to Kevin Lochhe this guy rocked the whole
show from beginning to end. He closes out the show
with a whole lot of shaking going on and again
it was the most amazing performance ever. The whole group,
the whole troop was fantastic, just everything.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
But I gotta give it to Kevin Loshi.

Speaker 4 (01:58:57):
I want to talk to him so bad, and I
said I wasn't gonna leave in this until he performed
the last set and he just blew my blew me away.
What a great show. I'm so sad that end because
I would go see this show three times and I'm
so glad I got to go see it. So thank
you Mark Uh and thank you Playhouse. That was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
Kevin Oshi, if you're.

Speaker 4 (01:59:20):
Listening, please come on the program. Can't wait to talk
to you. Let's get another check of traffic and weather. Mark, Christopher,
he's in a BPS traffic center. Mark, what was that?

Speaker 11 (01:59:31):
We lost?

Speaker 10 (01:59:32):
We lose?

Speaker 6 (01:59:32):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
Yeah, Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Did you ever see this show, the Million Dollar Quartet?

Speaker 11 (01:59:36):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
Oh man, it's if they bring it back, you have
to see it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
Okay, you're so up closed.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
The stage is right there at your fingertips.

Speaker 4 (01:59:45):
Where did you I'm sorry, you at the playhouse at
the Playhouse in West Hartford, Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:59:51):
Such.

Speaker 4 (01:59:51):
And it's a small, intimate place. It's big enough for
a big audience. Yeah, it's small, it's intimate, and you're
right there, you're almost on stage, and just the performances knockout.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
It's a lot of music, a lot of comedy, a
lot of seriousness. It just tells the story of Sun Records.

Speaker 28 (02:00:07):
And how all four of you know, Johnny Cash, Jonas
and Elvis and Carl Perkins, and just that night and
they tell this whole great story and it's just worth it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
It's it's it's amazing. I can't say enough great things
about it.

Speaker 16 (02:00:23):
I want to say, Yeah, Sun Records. Man, that's a
great story.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
It's on the radio. I see, I see now.

Speaker 4 (02:00:32):
I can only imagine the reason why this guy's calling
is because food stamps are going out. Why by gets
on the line, what's going on? Bus well man?

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
I tuned in just in time to hear Courtney's little missive.

Speaker 20 (02:00:49):
You know, there was something she said that really kind
of struck me. Okay, we're talking about you know, you
get into the subject of universal basic income and a
rant and groceries and all theirs, and of course it's
all financially untenable because the scammery is gonna be high,
and there's so many people and all that. Sure, But
when this came up, the first thing she said was

(02:01:11):
where and then you gotta find some kind of scam
to do under the table, right right, So with zero
shamee zero right.

Speaker 10 (02:01:23):
Jumped to committing a crime to scam the taxpayer ship
talking about the government paying for things. The government pays
for nothing we do, right.

Speaker 4 (02:01:34):
But that's the reason why I said, that was the
reason why I tested. I completely contested that was that
even with all of the basic needs covered, the whole
thing about working under the table to pay for more,
because again, it would never be enough. But that's always
the kid, that's the grift. You know. Everybody always says

(02:01:56):
that they want everything they want paid for, but it's
never enough. That's the whole deal.

Speaker 10 (02:02:01):
You know, she's actingly like to be a nation of
Section eight absolutely free places to live. That's not how
this works, right, Like the landlord would get rent, and
if you gave everybody in the country one thousand dollars
a month guaranteed universal basic income, every rent goes up
one thousand dollars overnight without a doubt. Right, So it's idiocy.

(02:02:26):
It's the fantasy of a lazy child. And it's primarily
women and young people who do this. They have no
concept of a fair to some morality because an immoral thing.
And b it doesn't work financially. You can't have three
hundred and thirty million people in this country all on
the goal because the amount of people paying tax is

(02:02:47):
not going to cover.

Speaker 4 (02:02:48):
But that's also But that was the point that I
was also making about this is is that it's never looked,
as I told her in the beginning, like she wouldn't
qualify she owns her home imediately, would never be allowed
to be on the dole because she is a homeowner.
She would be made to work so she could pay
for everybody.

Speaker 20 (02:03:07):
Else well, and The thing with this is basically communism, right,
And like socialism works, all socialism works in a place
that is culturally homogeneous. If we're all the same team,
you tend not to screw your neighbor over because that's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:03:23):
Right.

Speaker 10 (02:03:23):
But with what we have now, especially what you're seeing
with the current EBT situation, these people don't care if
you're working.

Speaker 21 (02:03:32):
You're a sucker.

Speaker 20 (02:03:33):
Like that one guy said, Yo, I'm off and the
tact pay I work.

Speaker 21 (02:03:38):
He works for me.

Speaker 10 (02:03:39):
Like Julio, you have to go to work.

Speaker 20 (02:03:42):
And if we're gonna give you money and the government
decides you have to work, you're not getting a fun job.
You're going to Uranium consideration number thirty seven.

Speaker 4 (02:03:54):
Uranium consideration number seven.

Speaker 10 (02:03:59):
You're not fool job teaching poetry. The homeless people, they
give you the job they need. And in Soviet Union,
a lot of people did a lot of horrible stuff.

Speaker 20 (02:04:08):
That makes very little money. That's right, Oh, Jen If
you don't well, you just go to work or you
go to prison. Yeah, and they'll make a big rocks
in little rocks until you.

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
Start exactly what discernible skill do you have?

Speaker 4 (02:04:20):
Oh, you work factory, you work rocks.

Speaker 20 (02:04:25):
I get it, dude, and I don't agree with the
waste of the money, and we spend a lot of
money overseas. I don't care about Venezuela and I don't
care about Africa. But it doesn't mean you can just
say everybody in America and have to work and gets free.

Speaker 13 (02:04:36):
Well again, listen, remember like I said about it, it's
not about the logic for them.

Speaker 4 (02:04:41):
They don't care about that. They care. Look, it's a
selfish point of view. They get what they want at
the end of the day. And what's the reason for
it is because other countries are getting it just by
asking why not them? You know, That's that's the way
they look at it.

Speaker 20 (02:04:57):
But those countries are racially home genius, and it works
sort of where it doesn't work in those countries when
they impoted the Third World who were not part of
the crew.

Speaker 4 (02:05:06):
Yeah it's true. Yeah, I thought didn't. When I saw
the jew on, I was like, yeah, Mike's definitely gonna come.

Speaker 10 (02:05:13):
In ony real quick. I'm a bit upset that the
eb T shirts have not gone mass looting.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
I no, no, no, listen to me.

Speaker 2 (02:05:23):
No one was sitting on the edge of their seat
or then.

Speaker 4 (02:05:26):
I was okay, I was right there with you.

Speaker 20 (02:05:29):
I guess real quick before I go. You know, we
had the big George flows riots and all the LA
riots and that happened. That's because white people rant.

Speaker 10 (02:05:40):
Black people.

Speaker 20 (02:05:41):
They don't even show up on time to loot.

Speaker 10 (02:05:42):
They're on CPT goodbye.

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
Oh he's always on time. He's just always on time.
He's never late. He's never late. God bless him. White Mike,
ladies and gentlemen. Oh sorry, James, you had to follow him.
Let's go to James employmouth. What's on, buddy, what sir?

Speaker 11 (02:06:06):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (02:06:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (02:06:07):
Why Mike do that guy?

Speaker 14 (02:06:09):
He makes a lot of points.

Speaker 12 (02:06:10):
I agree with that man, like ninety nine point ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
However, you're one of the few.

Speaker 12 (02:06:16):
Well, I agree with him, but I don't agree with
him on the whole Courtney thing where she said she
had to make money on the side. Listen, it's hard
to live in Connecticut, let me tell you that. So
you gotta do your little side gigs on the side,
get paved cash. So that's I think what she meant.

Speaker 10 (02:06:30):
And I don't know if he if he if he
took it.

Speaker 4 (02:06:32):
Yeah, but but but no, no, that's listen, what I
think that. First of all, I get the whole point
about you have all of that stuff subsidize and then
having something on the side that the government knows nothing about.
But in that I think when I sort of dive
in my point of that is is that wouldn't I

(02:06:53):
would have? I can't even agree with that. No, let
me check that back.

Speaker 2 (02:06:57):
I would understand her plight if the only thing she
wanted was her.

Speaker 4 (02:07:01):
Basic needs cared for, but then given the opportunity, she
still wanted more. So what I'm sort of establishing here
is it's never about their basic needs. It's about not
having to pay those agdorbitant prices for things that they
think are frivolous and the rest of us should pay for.
And that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
And she wants to use that extra money for the
things that she cares the most about.

Speaker 12 (02:07:25):
Correct one last point, Yeah, I heard you talking about
as state policeman that made two and fifty thousand dollars
on overtime.

Speaker 4 (02:07:37):
Right, Yeah, let me get Let me get to the
story so that I know so I can give you
the details in the event that there was a Yeah,
this was the Connecticut state Police officer who correct, Yes,
Hazen state police, state state police officer, not town officer,
state police officer.

Speaker 12 (02:07:58):
Now in the town Plymouth, there are several that I
know have made over two hundred thousand. And that's just
at a town level with twelve thousand people in it
of their tax dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (02:08:15):
It's a lot.

Speaker 12 (02:08:15):
Yeah, And they do road jobs and they have what
they have. There's a situation where any outside entity that's
doing a job's doing a job other than the public
works department. Right, the police department has to be there
to do the traffic control.

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
That's correct.

Speaker 4 (02:08:34):
So are you saying that considered contract?

Speaker 12 (02:08:36):
But wait, wait, wait, content better.

Speaker 14 (02:08:40):
Now they're gonna get there.

Speaker 12 (02:08:41):
They're gonna do their best three years of their retirement,
and they're gonna get a multiplier to that retirement, and
they're they're boosting it up.

Speaker 10 (02:08:50):
And I don't blame them for doing it. I don't
blame it for doing it.

Speaker 12 (02:08:53):
But I don't think the people will understand that it
shouldn't be according to your overtime. It should be about
your forty hour work week, not your overtime and all that.

Speaker 4 (02:09:07):
Like I have help me, no, no, no wayway, I'm sorry,
I'm confused by what you're saying. So their overtime is
not based upon working forty hours a week. Where does
the overtime click in?

Speaker 12 (02:09:19):
The overtime is coming in when they're doing road jobs,
say for oh cl and P or any any contractor other.

Speaker 4 (02:09:27):
Than their regular patrolman job.

Speaker 12 (02:09:30):
Public the regular well, the patrolling job they're gonna do, right, right, However,
after that reach, they're gonna stay another eight hours and
do another job for a construction working company that's working overnight.

Speaker 4 (02:09:43):
Help me understand this, though, Help me understand this. I
was always in the impression and the way that you're
describing it. Maybe I'm confused, So if i am, please
correct me. So the police department is not a salary job.
It's an hourly job.

Speaker 10 (02:09:59):
No, I believe it, believe it.

Speaker 12 (02:10:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:10:01):
I don't know exactly.

Speaker 10 (02:10:02):
I believe it's in.

Speaker 12 (02:10:03):
I believe it's a salary job.

Speaker 4 (02:10:04):
Okay, that's what I always thought it was.

Speaker 12 (02:10:06):
However, however, they're getting that benefit of working that overtime, right,
a lot of overtime.

Speaker 4 (02:10:13):
Right, So it doesn't matter. It's like, so if you're
a salary position and you're working a construction site right
where you have to you know, you have to concern
yourself with traffic, or you're there sort of as a
standby by the construction site. That particular detail is considered
the overtime, if I'm getting you right. Correct, Because it's

(02:10:33):
a separate contract, Do.

Speaker 12 (02:10:35):
Yeah have any idea what these guys get.

Speaker 19 (02:10:38):
No?

Speaker 12 (02:10:40):
No, yeah, it's about ninety an hour.

Speaker 4 (02:10:42):
Holy Holy because that's coming from that's coming from the contractor.
I presume.

Speaker 12 (02:10:49):
It's coming from the contractor. But in the contract, those
guys are going to get a pension on their overtime, oh,
which the contractor was paying for the boost their you know,
their their their right number at.

Speaker 4 (02:11:05):
The exactly because again he's right when he's getting a budget.

Speaker 12 (02:11:10):
But the town has to come up with that big
nut at the end when they retire to give them that.

Speaker 4 (02:11:16):
Yes, gotcha, gotcha? Okay makes sense that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:19):
Okay, I was I didn't think I was that confused
about it.

Speaker 4 (02:11:23):
But you're right. So the town you're you're just saying,
comparatively the state trooper, you can almost justify his overtime.
But it's the town of twelve thousand folks with the
guy's making over two hundred thousand dollars, and the tax
burden on the twelve thousand folks is exorbit it because
they've got to make that They've got to make that
pension pay no matter how many people are there, and

(02:11:46):
the ends don't justify. Yeah, good point.

Speaker 16 (02:11:49):
You're you're good than you.

Speaker 12 (02:11:54):
You know what, those four people in that town.

Speaker 5 (02:11:56):
I don't think they'll.

Speaker 10 (02:11:57):
Ever figure it out.

Speaker 4 (02:11:58):
Yeah, you know what. The only reason why I know
a little bit about this because when Chris Christy became
the governor of New Jersey, he was having town halls
talking about this exact thing.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
He had two officers where there was a.

Speaker 4 (02:12:10):
Small town of about sixteen thousand, and both of them
had a pension on top of their salary which was
well over two hundred thousand dollars, and he was talking
about how we're never going to be able to sustain
that after like five or six police officers retire. There's
no way they would never get out. They would have
to borrow in order to pay all those pensions.

Speaker 10 (02:12:33):
Yeah, exactly, I agree.

Speaker 4 (02:12:36):
Think about this for one second, say again.

Speaker 10 (02:12:39):
He's still there, You're still there?

Speaker 4 (02:12:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:12:40):
Yeah, all right. Well, I remember when they were trying
to get the women's basketball team down there with a son.

Speaker 4 (02:12:49):
Yeah, and this guy.

Speaker 12 (02:12:50):
Wants to go the Mettla Mountain, wants to go on
borrow against the pensions.

Speaker 4 (02:12:54):
Yeah, I just saw.

Speaker 23 (02:12:55):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:56):
It's so funny because I still have that story on
my phone. I still have that story on my foe
and I don't know if he's still going forward with it,
but I know that everybody's telling him to knock it
off and don't to please, don't waste our money on.

Speaker 3 (02:13:07):
One one last thing.

Speaker 12 (02:13:09):
Reese, you are the best researcher that I know, and
that's why I think you should do a segment of
your show called ree Search. All Right, it's a it's
catching it and yeah, man, research researches, whatever one you
got it.

Speaker 4 (02:13:28):
Thank you man, I love you. Thank you, Sar and
I love you too. Thank you so much. We'll take
a break, we'll come back. I'll get back to Steve
stave Stand on the line.

Speaker 2 (02:13:37):
Don't go anywhere. We've got to wrap this up.

Speaker 4 (02:13:39):
I got to talk about Job Rogers, who called up
the show on Friday and surprised rose Ane.

Speaker 2 (02:13:45):
She went to the show this uh this weekend, and
she had a blast.

Speaker 4 (02:13:50):
I'm probably gonna get her on the phone so that
we can I can ask her about this show, so
she can tell you what the experience was like to
see the She cried.

Speaker 2 (02:14:01):
Through most of it.

Speaker 4 (02:14:02):
You know. I drove up and picked her up later.
It was hard to drag her out of the building.
She was having such a good time. But she you know,
she's loving it here Roland. She's loving it more than
I expected her to love it. And it's weird because
it's cold weather, and she doesn't like cold weather. When

(02:14:24):
we were in Virginia, she couldn't deal with cold weather.
She would stay in the house. Now she gets up here,
she wants to go out every day. She wants the
fresh air and the trees. She wants to go shopping
all the time. I took her shopping the other day
because she had to dry. She had to wear something
nice for the million dollar quartet.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
I've cost me a couple of hundred.

Speaker 19 (02:14:49):
Me.

Speaker 2 (02:14:50):
I just threw on some jeans and the dress shirt.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
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Speaker 4 (02:15:04):
We'll I have Rose In on the phone in a minute. Normally,
of course she lives here, but she has to know
that I'm calling. So Roland's going to get her on
the phone so I could talk to her about her
experience going to see Jobie on Saturday night. We had
such a full night on Saturday, full gosh, full day.

(02:15:27):
And oh, I forgot to say, Ac Peterson, I didn't
give them any props today. I got a phone call
from them on Friday and they were like, hey, we
understand you want one of the employee T shirts. And
sure enough we went down to the playoffs and they
got it for me.

Speaker 2 (02:15:47):
So I went and picked it up. So I have
I have a T shirt.

Speaker 4 (02:15:51):
I'll wear it tomorrow. If you want to, of course,
see that you can tomorrow right here. Just go to
rees on Radio dot com enjoin us in the chat
room as many people have been doing. Also, what had
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so you can check out the podcast. Talked about my

(02:16:12):
exchange with John Larson, the Representative and Senator Richard Blumenthal
in West Hartford yesterday and I got Richard Blumenthal to
give me a call on my cell phone yesterday apologizing
to me about saying that he did not request one

(02:16:34):
hundred million dollars to remove hydrilla from the Connecticut River.
And I had the facts, I forwarded them to him,
and if I may, I will read you the nice
email that I sent to him, which had the headline
you requested one hundred million dollars Senator to Blumenthal, I'm

(02:16:57):
writing to request an appearance on my show in the
near future to talk about the application of DQUAD into
the Connecticut River and other issues attashed. You'll see that
you did request one hundred million dollars for the removal
of hydrilla, and my facts are accurate. I understand that
you find my inquiries antagonistic, as you put it, but
there are a considerate amount of people, yeah, considerate amount

(02:17:22):
of people who are feeling ignored about this and other issues.
I think your office owes it to the taxpayers of
all stripes to address these issues. Please consider my invitation,
and I thank you for taking my questions today at
the press conference. So he called me up at six
point twenty, little less than an hour after I sent
that email. He called, and he apologized and said thank you,

(02:17:45):
and I will get in touch with He was going
to get in touch with his communications folks and they
were going to give me a call.

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
To let me know when he would be available to
be on the program. And it was nice of him
to do that.

Speaker 4 (02:17:56):
It was nice of him to admit that I did
have my facts correct and decide to come on the program.
So Chris Murphy, it's on you now.

Speaker 2 (02:18:12):
We'll see him. We'll see him. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 4 (02:18:15):
Trust me, it doesn't stop. Let's get another check of trafficking.
Whether Bob Larson is in with weather and Mark Christophers
in the BPS traffic center him Mark, what's up?

Speaker 2 (02:18:24):
Everybody? You know who it is?

Speaker 4 (02:18:25):
Who is you know?

Speaker 2 (02:18:27):
It's on the radio? Frederick Douglas of the twenty first century.
It's w t i C News Talk Teddy.

Speaker 4 (02:18:35):
All right, just about to get up out of here
as promised.

Speaker 2 (02:18:39):
My beautiful wife is on the line. Hello, my dear Hello.

Speaker 4 (02:18:43):
Okay, Well, yeah, it's a surprise, because you know, I
didn't want to have to wait all the way till Friday,
when you usually hear to talk about your experiencing Joby
Rogers so I wanted you to share it with everybody else.

Speaker 2 (02:18:56):
How was the performance? You care to tell anybody what
it was like?

Speaker 1 (02:19:01):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:19:01):
It was.

Speaker 29 (02:19:02):
It was magical. It was I felt like I was
electric all night. I will say it felt a little
out of place because I was the only person I
think that was like hooting and hollering and dancing and
singing along. I was a complete uh like, I was
absolutely fangirling.

Speaker 12 (02:19:21):
It was.

Speaker 10 (02:19:21):
It was fabulous and I loved it.

Speaker 29 (02:19:23):
And Joey came out into the crowd and like he's
walking around and you know, certain songs, he'd go to
the crowd and he'd you know, grab a child and
hug them and lift them up and get a picture
with them, and well, I just happened to get very lucky.
And he came all the way to the back row
where I was sitting, and as he was walking away,
I jumped up.

Speaker 18 (02:19:42):
And I asked for a hug and he hugged me.
And yeah, it was it was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
Yeah, joe Joey actually caught a picture of that.

Speaker 10 (02:19:50):
It was you with you.

Speaker 2 (02:19:51):
He sent it to me and I was just like, Okay,
she's probably going to be over the moon about that.

Speaker 4 (02:19:56):
So, uh, you also said that you cried a lot,
a lot of crying. But then again, that's yeah, that's.

Speaker 19 (02:20:04):
Course when it comes to Michael Jackson.

Speaker 29 (02:20:05):
For me, yeah, I will I cry. It's it is
beyond my physical control.

Speaker 19 (02:20:12):
I'm sitting there and tear's you're just falling out of
my face.

Speaker 2 (02:20:14):
I think it's a Mexican thing.

Speaker 4 (02:20:16):
I think it's a Mexican But by the way, Leroy,
don't go anywhere, Lero, I'm coming to you next, because
I know he's been on hoole for a while. Yeah,
I think it's a Mexican thing. Let me tell you
why this isn't. I didn't make this up, and it's
not racial. I'm not saying it's in some sort of stereotype. Okay,
this is really true, and and it's known people say
that for some odd reason, the Mexican community has sort

(02:20:39):
of like this pecking order, and it's Selena and then
Michael Jackson, and then maybe maybe Gloria Estefan.

Speaker 21 (02:20:48):
Maybe.

Speaker 18 (02:20:51):
Definitely Selena and Michael Jackson.

Speaker 4 (02:20:54):
Yes, and then who's that, Who's who's after that?

Speaker 19 (02:20:57):
Then it's the anime thing.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Yes, they dragon ball Z. Yeah, yeah, the boy was
talking about that.

Speaker 4 (02:21:05):
He talked to a remember we even San Antonio and
we were at the we had the game stop and
he the guy was saying, it's like in Mexico, dragon
ball Z.

Speaker 2 (02:21:13):
It's like insanity.

Speaker 4 (02:21:15):
It's like for some reason they identify with the dragon
ball Z character. So yeah, maybe that is so Selena,
Michael Jackson, dragon ball Z. It's very weird.

Speaker 10 (02:21:25):
It's very weird, eclectic. We're eclectic people.

Speaker 4 (02:21:28):
Yeah, you know what I said is fine.

Speaker 2 (02:21:31):
I think weird is okay.

Speaker 4 (02:21:33):
There's nothing wrong with being weird. Everybody's got their weird thing.
So I'm glad you.

Speaker 2 (02:21:37):
I'm really really glad you enjoyed it.

Speaker 16 (02:21:38):
I don't want you to you.

Speaker 29 (02:21:40):
Did you remember to give a shout out to Keith
and his wife?

Speaker 2 (02:21:43):
I did. I gave a shout out to Keith and
his wife.

Speaker 4 (02:21:46):
I forgot to give a shout out to I think
Paul who stopped me at the shop right on Saturday
as well.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
He stopped me. He's just like I saw the Texas
plates and I saw the rest on the radio cap
and I knew it was you. So he's stop me
at this silper bucket, which was also weird.

Speaker 4 (02:22:02):
So thank you, uh for that it's weird to be
stopped in the street like some weird celebrity kind of thing.
But you know whatever, I listen, I don't want you
this is important. I don't want you to go to
too many things too fast. I want you to span
them out a little bit, okay, because then you know,
when we're a year in and.

Speaker 2 (02:22:22):
We don't have anything to do, you're going to be like,
you know, what what am I doing with myself?

Speaker 18 (02:22:27):
And make you drive me, you know, like we did
in Santajan. You'll make you drive me different small villages
and explore and shopping boutique. So I got all your time. Listen,
I have all your time pre planned. You're going to
be fine.

Speaker 2 (02:22:41):
Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:22:43):
Okay, Well I will see you when I get home.
And I just want I just wanted to have everybody
share with you, share with them. You're Jobe Rogers experience
so great.

Speaker 29 (02:22:54):
We had a phenomenal day.

Speaker 14 (02:22:56):
The million dollar.

Speaker 29 (02:22:56):
Quartet was amazing. I think I got it for Johnny Cash.

Speaker 4 (02:23:01):
Now, so that boy is like twelve. Did you see
his face? He looked like a twelve year old. He's
like a grown man with the most boyish look.

Speaker 19 (02:23:11):
Ever, that voice was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (02:23:14):
Yeah he did, Yeah he did.

Speaker 4 (02:23:15):
He killed the Johnny Cash voice without a doubt, without
a doubt.

Speaker 18 (02:23:19):
Well, have a wonderful night day boss you.

Speaker 10 (02:23:21):
When you get home, I love you, and drive safely.

Speaker 4 (02:23:23):
I will all see you soon anyway, my my better half.
As everybody else is saying, Roseanne, you'll hear from her
on Friday, if not sooner. Let's get to my buddy,
Leroy catches bullets with his teeth. What's going on, Leroy?
Hey man?

Speaker 3 (02:23:43):
How you going today?

Speaker 4 (02:23:44):
I'm good, sir, what's up?

Speaker 3 (02:23:46):
That's good. I just want to ask you a question here.
You're still on that perilla, right, I'm still on what
the perilla? The stuff is putting in the water.

Speaker 4 (02:23:56):
Yes, well it's d quat and they're trying to get
rid of hydra. Yes, I'm still on it. And like
I said, I'm bringing in Senator Blumenthal to talk about
that and see if we can convince him to get
off the poison and maybe go the the eco harvester.

Speaker 3 (02:24:13):
All right, I got one question for you, Okay, what
you think is danger more dangerous set.

Speaker 14 (02:24:18):
And all of that?

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
Oh wow?

Speaker 2 (02:24:22):
I think for I think for the public, fentanyl without
a doubt.

Speaker 3 (02:24:27):
Well, I'm asking that question because your buddy keep blowing
up people in the water and he's throwing tons of
fitting all in the water. Who's thinking about that? Nobody?

Speaker 2 (02:24:37):
Well, okay, that's a great point.

Speaker 3 (02:24:40):
You do know that he's amount of fishing going on
around there too, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:24:44):
Well what, okay, you know what, Lero.

Speaker 4 (02:24:47):
I'm so glad you were calling on this because I
had this discussion not too long ago, and you, Lero,
you know exactly where I'm going when I say this.
So I'm gonna preface by saying, you know, the deal,
one of the biggest problems we used to have in
the inner city as we all sort of you know,
commune and talk to each other, is that we complain

(02:25:09):
that our public officials allowed those drugs to infest our
community and poison us every day. That's one of our
biggest complaints that the government doesn't fight enough to keep
us from that poison. So here we have a president
who's keeping it from ever reaching our shores, so that
we don't get we don't What would you have him do,

(02:25:32):
as far as you know, attacking these drugs that are
coming into the country, What would you consider a more
humane way or a safer way to stop it, because
I don't want.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
Him here is right there board the boat. Take the drugs,
send us to people to jail or whatever you can
do with them day and water that you shouldn't even
be able to bother them.

Speaker 4 (02:25:55):
Then yeah, but we're into oceans. I mean, we're talking
about oceans. I don't think like when you blow those
boats up. I don't think that we're worried about Look
up how much radiation and how much pollution we see
in the oceans. It's not like we see that stuff
every day and we got tons of it in the oceans.
The ocean is vast. I don't think we ever have

(02:26:15):
to deal or worry about the fentanyl that are in
ocean waters or intercontinental waters for that matter. My deal
is Leroy, is that we used to have a problem
in the inner city. I'm assuming that you lived in
the inner city as I did growing up. I'm from Hollis, Queens.
You're originally from Hartford.

Speaker 3 (02:26:34):
No, I'm from Georgia, Calvary, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (02:26:37):
Oh okay, I know Cavarry. So when we were growing up,
the biggest problem we had was like people kind of
like ignored the fact that these drugs were in our community.

Speaker 2 (02:26:47):
They were allowing us to poison ourselves.

Speaker 4 (02:26:49):
They didn't care about the about the violence that also
came with that, the theft that came with crack cocaine,
with you know, people robbing the mothers and their aunt
and anybody else they get a hold of. So what
were they doing to stop that from coming into our
into our communities. Well, Donald Trump is stopping it at
the source when they come off that coast of Venezuela Boom.

(02:27:12):
To be honest with you, I'm for that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:15):
What I think he's doing.

Speaker 4 (02:27:16):
He get rid of the man. What's the what do
you say to the middleman? You mean, like the drug cartels?

Speaker 3 (02:27:21):
Yeah, he getting rid of the middle man.

Speaker 1 (02:27:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:27:23):
But you know what, what you have to ask yourself
a question, Leroy, aren't you happy that Donald Trump is
doing the thing? Well, I'll go this way. Fine, I'll
go one step further. Many people, and you were probably
one of them, Leroy, who thought that Ronald Reagan was
had a hand right in the crack epidemic in our communities,

(02:27:43):
don't you. And good now we have a president that
says no more drugs in these inner cities. I don't
want these folks poisoning my inner city communities anymore. Why
aren't you happy, sir?

Speaker 3 (02:27:58):
Yeah, that's that's a good thing. But it's a two
edged sword. He come, he come in the community under
one pretense, like they always have done. They come in
on this, but they end up doing that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:10):
What's the okay? Well, what okay? So he's stopping the drugs?

Speaker 16 (02:28:14):
What is his other one?

Speaker 3 (02:28:15):
They want to hold holy, They want to they want
to declare war on black youth. The black youth is
the people that are out there in the streets that
are making all these problems.

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
Now, so yeah, yeah, no, no, So you're talking about
the inner city kids who are like the drug dealers
or the gang bangers or whatever the case is. Don't
you want them off the street or at least let's right,
let's get rid of let's get rid of the thing
that is supplying them with the need to shoot and
kill one another. Take the drugs off the street. Then

(02:28:45):
they're just gangs. Get involved with bringing in the National Guard.
Get those gangs, those violent gangs off the street so
that regular communities can flourish, kids can go outside and play, right,
all right.

Speaker 3 (02:28:58):
That sounds good?

Speaker 22 (02:29:00):
But the boats that he blowing up, them them fifteen
or sixteen bows that he blew up, the drugs they
had on that boat wouldn't take care of Hogford for
a month.

Speaker 4 (02:29:12):
That may be the case. But what I want here's
I think there's a message and overall, and tell me
if you disagree, if you're sending a message to these
cartels that if you get on this boat and you
bring it to the United States, we're going to kill you.
And I'm sorry. I come from the old school that
says that if you really want to stop people from
doing the thing you don't want them to do, you

(02:29:33):
have to bring the most dire consequences to that issue.
And in Trump's case, he's saying, I'm going to kill you.
I don't care who's on that boat. You're dying. We're
not going to.

Speaker 2 (02:29:43):
Negotiate your release or negotiate your coming here.

Speaker 3 (02:29:47):
You got to die more quick thing. Can I change
the subject? What about this Atlas?

Speaker 14 (02:29:51):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:29:51):
What's going on with that?

Speaker 2 (02:29:52):
What Atlas?

Speaker 4 (02:29:52):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:29:53):
Maybe I missed that the rock?

Speaker 3 (02:29:55):
The rock just shooting through the sky man three three
eye Atlas or whatever it is. Now you gotta know
about the rock. They're gonna the asteroid.

Speaker 2 (02:30:05):
The asteroid that's gonna come by the Earth.

Speaker 4 (02:30:08):
Yes, well, I would probably say, if we're really concerned,
we just need to bend over and kiss our butts goodbye.
But I don't think we got a problem with that.

Speaker 2 (02:30:16):
I don't think we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:30:16):
Be a Well, it's doing stuff that it shouldn't be doing.

Speaker 4 (02:30:21):
I think, are you really a doomsday kind of guid?

Speaker 10 (02:30:23):
Be right?

Speaker 4 (02:30:24):
I almost feel like you're kind of a doomsday guy.

Speaker 30 (02:30:26):
No, they were talking about that thing had to handle
God or something on it. It got blasted by the
sun three times, it didn't break up, and it's doing
stuff that it shouldn't be doing.

Speaker 2 (02:30:40):
Well, I don't know much about this, but I will
look into it.

Speaker 4 (02:30:44):
I'm to be honest with you, I'm actually quite surprised
that I don't know anything about this. Is it a meteor?

Speaker 2 (02:30:50):
Is it a comet?

Speaker 22 (02:30:52):
They don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
They're saying, if thing just got intelligence, and it's Oh.

Speaker 4 (02:30:57):
I know what you're talking about. I know you're talking
about this anomaly that's in this guy. They believe that
it is a UFO. Yeah, yes, I do know what
you're talking about. I saw that video that was a
little creepy. That is a little creepy. You know what,
we may get some cosmic slop out of it.

Speaker 2 (02:31:16):
I know you know what I'm talking about, right.

Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
All right? I love you, Leroy, Thank you man. I
appreciate you.

Speaker 14 (02:31:25):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:31:26):
Have a good one. You got it, Lero catch his
bullets with his teeth. A Leroy loves this show even though.

Speaker 2 (02:31:35):
He disagrees with me. But I love the fact that
he calls.

Speaker 4 (02:31:38):
For those of you who don't know cosmic slop, I'll
tell you quickly briefly.

Speaker 2 (02:31:42):
So, HBO had what was considered a an urban version.

Speaker 4 (02:31:47):
Of the Twilight Zone, and it was hosted by George
Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic, and there is a wonderful episode
written by Barack Obama's college.

Speaker 2 (02:32:01):
A professor.

Speaker 4 (02:32:02):
In fact, he was the president of Harvard Law and
he wrote this screenplay for this play. I can't remember
what the name of it, but HBO had actually done
a television version of it, which starred Robert Gaillome of Benson.
And the basis of the story was Aliens came to

(02:32:22):
Earth and said that we would get rid of your
pollution problem. We would give you an inexhaustible energy array,
and we would paint the Statue of Liberty gold. We
would do all of these for you, but you had

(02:32:44):
to give up one thing, and it was any person
who had eighty five percent or more.

Speaker 2 (02:32:50):
Of melanin in their skin. Aliens had to come by.

Speaker 4 (02:32:53):
They wanted all the black people, and so they had
a vote in the again this is written by Barack
Obama's college professor.

Speaker 2 (02:33:03):
And they had a vote in the movie.

Speaker 4 (02:33:04):
Go look it up, see you watch it on YouTube.
And they had a vote, and uh, the world had
voted that yes, they would give the aliens all the
black folks. But at the end, Robert Gillome was not
supposed to He was supposed to be spared. He and
his family were supposed to be spared. But at the
end of it, they they under.

Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
I'm sorry, I.

Speaker 13 (02:33:28):
Can't stop laughing at the move the damn movie. It's
too ridiculous. It's too ridiculous. We'll be back tomorrow. As
I always say, radio is free. So we thank you
for paying attention.

Speaker 2 (02:33:39):
Remember to keep JC in your hearts and in your mind.

Speaker 4 (02:33:41):
Sean Patrick, we love you, have you, miss you. Remember
that panic is not planning, So plan your work and
work you're planning me I'm reeson radio. You have a
good night. Pleasant tomorrow we'll do homework cosmic slop. You'll
you find it, ah some more Michael Jack, by the way,
one of the best samples by day La Soul for

(02:34:04):
Break of Dawn.

Speaker 16 (02:34:06):
All right, here's the question. You're a music guy. You
heard the beginning of this song. Who who is the
co writer of this song? One of the co writers,
legendary musician. And if you listen to the beginning part
of the song, I know you'll pick up on it.

Speaker 4 (02:34:22):
No, Nope, can't figure it out, but I'm gonna go
out on a limb.

Speaker 2 (02:34:25):
It was one of the Aisley brothers.

Speaker 4 (02:34:27):
No, Stevie Wonder Stevie Dad, that makes sense.

Speaker 16 (02:34:32):
Listen to the beginning of that song. That's that's Stevie
written all over.

Speaker 2 (02:34:35):
Yeah, I believe.

Speaker 4 (02:34:36):
I believe.

Speaker 16 (02:34:39):
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