Reese On The Radio On NewsTalk 1080 WTIC 2-6pm ET 11/5/25

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
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I SEE News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Get up off the floor. What toy in the fall?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What's going on? Baby? You know what time it is?
It's reached on the radio on wt i C News
Talk ten eighty is. Oh, I you know what I done?
Screwed up? I look at what I did. Look at
what I did, Look at what I did.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I cause my own reverb right there.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Now. Listen to me, folks, there ain't nothing wrong with losing.
I told you. I warned you, there ain't nothing wrong
with lose it. You gotta lose in order to win.
Got to know what it's like to be defeated in
order for you to learn how to win. I had

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people texted me last night on the left, cause I
stay in touch with them, people always saying it's like,
how do you do that easy? The reason why these
folks contact me is because every day they wish to
contest me on the subjects. They've never been right, and

(02:15):
when they scored their little victories, they say, say you
were wrong, And I went, I don't remember me telling
you that Republicans were going to win. Never. If you
listen to my opening monologue yesterday, it was titled losing
to learn instead of learning to lose. Not one person

(02:40):
bothered to call and ask and say, hey, Reese, what
are you saying. I would have simply told you exactly
what I told you, learning from your loss.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
But I think we have.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
To look at these elections, and what did I say
about it yesterday? Look at the elections. Contribute to them.
Play a role, do not give in.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Play a role.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Go out and vote, even if you think it is
insurmountable odds. Go out there and do the job you're
supposed to do. Come back, look over it, find out
where the mistakes were, find out where the promise is,
find the silver lining. Even I didn't say that yesterday,
but I say it today. You have to realize where

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those things are. Why why do you have to do that?
So you can come back and you can fight another day.
It's not over because the election is over. Another elections
coming up. But I know the first thing a lot
of people wanted to do, and I'll give them a
round of applause. I know who you are, God bless you.

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First thing they said was who do we blame? There's
plenty of blame to go around, but why to look
at it that way? I'll tell you why, because people
need to be blamed. Now, I'm kidding, we'll get into
the blame game, as many people will call it. But

(04:11):
what did we learn? Can I tell you what I
saw yesterday? I'll tell you what I saw yesterday. It
was one race that I was watching and I got
to admit, damn one fella got schalacked, I mean schalacked.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
In new Haven.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Steve Rosko put all of his efforts into that campaign
in new Haven and he got pummeled by Justin Ellicker
pummeled And a lot of people can look at that
and just say, yeah, why even bother? You have to

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ask yourself in that race, who was worse Arosco or
new Haven? Part of it has to fall on a
Rosco's lap. Part of it has to you can't show
up with like what was the number? Do I even

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have it here? What was a Rosco's number? I think
I have it here, and damn it was bad. I
had it in front of me just a second ago.
What I think it was like?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Fourteen hundred?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Is it over here? Yes? Yes, here it is damn
sixteen hundred, sixteen hundred and seventy three votes to twelve thousand,
two hundred. I mean it's twelve thousand and two votes
for Eliker. That whole race was upside down. Upside down.

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I would walk away from that. My ego would be
shook at those numbers. In comparison, what do you do
after that? Do you ever come back? Do you ever
try again? Hell, yes you do. Elections are not about

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taking your losses and licking your wounds and going home
saying I'm never gonna do it again. Now I learned
from the strategy. Did I campaign to the wrong people?
Did I invest my time into people who were never
going to go down and vote. It's a rough call,
but I think that was the case. Or Roscoe very

(06:57):
well could be could have been campaigning and places that
were of no consequence, trying to get those folks involved,
and they never were and they never did. Ellaker is
not unbeatable. It's justin Elliker. Come on, man, and if

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anybody knows justin if you want to holler at him,
tell him. I said so, he's no powerhouse. Justin Ellicker's
winning elections at home. It's been in a popularity contest
in his backyard. Rosco is virtually unknown. Sure he made

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some headway in the press, but Ellaker's safe. I do,
I do got to talk about Aaron Stewart's seat being
the mayor. You endorse a candidate and your candidate gets slacked,

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after you've been mayor in the town for god knows
how long, your endorsement still doesn't keep that seat. Republican
says a lot about the gubernatorial campaign for Aaron. I
don't know what happened, but that's got to be addressed,
because if you don't have enough power to lift up

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the candidate you endorse in the town that you used
to run.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
What happened? What happened? You couldn't You couldn't play king
or queen maker in that race. You've been reelected after
re elected after re elected, and you couldn't actually tap

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someone tap and have them be the new mayor of
your town after everything, that person gets schelecked. It was
almost saying if Aaron Stewart had run for reelection in
her own town, It's quite possible she would have lost
this time around. And now you're going for bigger fish.

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I don't know if that looks promising. I don't know
if that's a good thing to have on your resume.
But let's get to the person we got to talk about.
And I've asked around mister Proto?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Where are you?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Where are you today? In fact, forget about today? Where
were you yesterday? Why has no one heard from you
in weeks? What were you doing? Did anybody see any
campaign by Ben Proto? Did anybody see any candidates being

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propped up by the Republican President Weldy the charity Republican Party?
Did you see him everywhere? Was he focused anywhere? I mean?
Was there features on him? This candidate and that candidate?
Is was he? I mean?

Speaker 6 (10:29):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was he at the law offices of Proto and Sons?
I don't know where was he? Did he take a break?
Was he on sabbatical? Did he forget the election was
coming up? I'm surprised I saw him nowhere? Was he
here on WT? I see anyone anyone?

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Was he on Brian Show?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Was he out here touting his candidates. The Republican Party
got shellact. Everywhere you look, a seat changed hands for
twenty twenty five. Yes, I know Connecticut is blue, but

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Republicans barely did Republicans flip any seats in any election?
The answer is Bron No.

Speaker 7 (11:21):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Where is Ben broto Somebody holler at that boy, he
knows the number. Come on, Ben, say something. And when
I say say something, Ben, look And I wasn't gonna
come after you. It's not my style. I'm not you know.
I know you've been beating beaten up on. I am

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not a I'm not a pylon type of guy, but
I gotta be honest with you, Ben, I just have
to be Let me see if I can get where's
his audio sound?

Speaker 4 (11:59):
By here?

Speaker 8 (12:00):
It is?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
This has been talking about the election last night.

Speaker 9 (12:04):
Voters and elections had to occur in the present, and
so I think that will be behind us. And I
don't think you have an impact in twenty twenty six.
I think what's going to have an impact in twenty
twenty six is where we are economically and where we
are financially, not only as a nation as a state,
but also families.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Great answer, Buddy, fantastic. I'm already encouraged. It doesn't matter.
You don't think that this election last night in Connecticut mattered.
Do you think it mattered to Republicans in the state.

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Do you think that there was a degree of encouragement
behind what they saw? Do you think that they felt
empowered by their Republican leader by making that claim? They
don't care about this election, They'll care about twenty twenty six.

(13:16):
You know this, how no one has seen you, no
one's heard from you. Unless I'm wrong? Can someone tell
me if Ben Proto was anywhere anywhere before the election?
Are there photographs somewhere that I may have missed the

(13:38):
Republican leadership? Where was he? I hear the excuses about
him picking horrible candidates. He doesn't know exactly what he's doing.
I've seen all of that. I'm not leaving it to
those folks. I'm leaving it to Ben. You got to

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have a better answer than that. Why were there so
many Republican seats that flipped? How do you not know
the temperature of the state. How do you not know
that Aaron once she leaves and is going to run

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for a governor, that her seat would be completely blown
up by a Democrat. How did no one see that coming?

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Or did you?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
And if you did see it coming, why didn't you
rally hard? Some of these places, some of these seats.
Isn't it's incredible? Nor Walk.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Beat a Republican?

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Norwich flip, Rocky Hill flipped. This is bad? Okay, Shelton

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the incumbent one that's nice? South Windsor flipped. These are bad?
Stanford flipped? Why what happened? Nobody should duck and cover.

(15:47):
There are a lot of people upset today. Come on, Republicans,
let's get it together. Let's all get together. Let's put
our heads together and say what could we have done different?
What are we going to do different? Next time? Twenty
twenty six is coming. That election started yesterday last night,

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when all of these seats flipping, all of that began
last night. What's the strategy. I know you're all sat
there and watched. I know you saw the returns coming in.
I know that some of you were like damn, oh damn,

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or were you watching New Jersey and Virginia. Maybe you
were watching New York. I don't know. We'll get into it. Everybody.
We want you to. I want to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I know Mark and West Hartford is going to call in. Mark,
hold on for me. I'm gonna talk to you later.
I want to spend some time with you because I
know you want. All you want to do is to
just come in with a battering ram on Ben Frodo,
Ben Proto. I called him Frodo. I apologize Ben Proto
when I don't want to do that just yet. I
don't want to make this show about him. When he

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thinks about it, he'll pick up the phone, he'll call me.
I got no beef with the guy, but I do
want now. When I say I want leadership, I want
to see it. I ain't seeing it, so I want
to see it. I want results. I don't need interviews.
I don't want to talk to you about this, that
and the third. I want to see results, that's all.

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And when I don't see them, I'll criticize them. I
didn't see any That's why I'm criticizing. But I'm gonna
take a break. We got to come back because while
everybody else's Morning Reese on the radio is celebrating it's
a beautiful.

Speaker 10 (17:48):
Day, because New York is going straight to hell back.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
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Speaker 11 (18:08):
C Standing before you, I think of the words of

(18:37):
Juan lal Nehru. A moment comes but rarely in history,
when we step out from the old to the new,
when an age ends, and when the soul of a
nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight we have stepped out
from the old into the new. So let us speak

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now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about
what this new age will deliver and for whom. This
will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their
leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather
than a list of excuses for what we are.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Too timid to attempt.

Speaker 11 (19:24):
Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And
if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing
from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with
the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all,

(19:47):
if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. And if there is any way to
terrify a despot. It is by dismantling the very conditions
that allowed him to accumulate power.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
This is not only how.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
We stopped Trump, it's how we stopped the next one.
So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.
Oh he was absolutely full of himself. So ramm, Donnie.
Last night is his victory speech. I gotta tell you,
I watched that. I put that little clip together, saying
to myself, yeah, yeah, I loved watching all of those people.

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How happy and exciting they must have felt, finally getting
the pound, the flesh they they wanted for far too long,
to finally get back at the enemy capitalism, the wealthy,
the ones who've been paying the bills. Oh they are

(21:14):
They're so happy, ladies and gentlemen. I couldn't imagine how
happy they were, so I figured i'd let you hear
them yourselves.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
This is amazing. I'm like, you know, New Yorkers needed
to win. Has been a long year.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
We ain't get the World.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Series, but we got the We got the best mayor possible.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
To be able to tackle all the issues that were
suffering as a city.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I mean, anybody who has like a negative opinion. I
would just implore them to look outside the box and
realize that Mom Donnie is a man of the people,
and so it more so just kind of relies in
the fact that, like this is a time where people
need to band together, and you know, Mom Donnie is
someone who's gonna speak for all New Yorkers, doesn't matter
who you are, where you come from.

Speaker 12 (21:53):
He has directly addressed Trump and his abuse and power.
Ungress has failed to do so.

Speaker 13 (22:02):
Mamdani has now placed himself above Congress as a national.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Leader, placed himself above Congress as a national leader.

Speaker 12 (22:13):
And he hasn't even taken office yet.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
To feel very good, I feel very hopeful of on
New York City's future.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
This is a campaign ran on hope, and I think all.

Speaker 14 (22:23):
Of us felt up tonight.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
That sounds familiar.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
We're very hopeful about the future, very hopeful about Zoran's campaign.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
About all of it sounds so familiar. Yeah, it's going
to be fascinating. It's going to be the best. Scott
Jennings said it best. You know, everybody should really pay
attention to Zoran's speech.

Speaker 15 (22:46):
He started his speech by quoting Eugene Dibbs, who ran
for President of the United States five times as the
Socialist Party of America candidate. He went after everybody that
he thinks is a problem. People who own things, people
who have businesses. He said an interesting quote, no problem

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too large for government to solve or too small important.
And so when you think of the world that way,
that every problem, no matter how small or how large,
is something for government to do. Let me just decipher
this for you. Tax increases as far as the eye
can see, which means the people who need to provide

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jobs to the young people that you say need jobs
are going to flee. And he clearly sees the world
in terms of the people who are oppressing you and
the oppressed. And he said, the oppressed are now in
city hall.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
That's right, The oppressed are now in city hall. The
the meek shall inherit the earth. You've heard them say
that one before, too, right, That's what happened last night.
Mikey Sheryl too, Abigail Spamberger as well, who people try
to write off is moderates. People think that the Democrat

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Party is back because of this. But I would I
would just say, if you're really believing that, and I
know some of you on the left are I want
you to hear the left in their own words, because

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what should have happened last night should have been an
outpouring of celebration with these three elections New Jersey, Virginia
and New York. There should have been people over the moon,
but they weren't, which is weird. Here's Michael Steele on MSNBC,

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former R.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
And C chair, Here's the side of the Republican Party.
Of this Republican Party, you cannot lose sight of the
reason they don't care.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
It seems like they don't care. It's because they got
a Plan B.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
Well, definitely, and the Plan B is the state election
offices that they now control and setting up those operations
going into twenty six to make sure not just that
you have ballot watchers and pole watchers, but they have
their fingers in some degree on the system.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Is something that you need to be mindful.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Of because you can't lose sight of that side of
this equation of how they get the ultimate control.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, it's so weird that the folks over at MSNBC
would be taking the fire out of their own tailwind.
That didn't make sense. What also I found remarkable is
in a race that was more important of Virginia and
New Jersey combined. Without a doubt. Folks, Okay, we're talking

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about the epicenter of finance, pretty much the capital of
the world, New York City. MSNBC did everything to take
all of the teeth out of Mamdannie's win when they
knew what was going to happen, but before it did,
here's NBC.

Speaker 16 (26:12):
But for those worried that your taxes are going to
go up and this is going to cause wealthy New
Yorkers to just leave New York City as we know it,
I think there's some important context to deliver.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
To be able to generate that kind of money.

Speaker 16 (26:24):
Mister mum Donnie has talked about raising taxes on millionaires
two percent and also making the New York City corporate
tax rate match New Jerseys That requires Kristen an action
from the state legislature.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
He can't do it unilaterally.

Speaker 16 (26:37):
So it's really important as we have a conversation about
what it means to be a democratic socialist wealth redistribution,
even as we have conversations with folks who say they're
just stunned by the level of discrepancy between the haves
and the have nots in New York City, and it's
an issue that clearly has residentated with Americans across the country.
Mamdani cannot come in, assuming he wins on day one,
and just change the tax rates in New York City's impossible.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Which again I found odd with all of these people
who really do want socialists in the party to prevail
for some odd reason. We're incredibly somber. Sure they got
their win, but it lasted. I mean literally, it was

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empty calories. It was like, yeah, look good they were,
and all of a sudden the next morning it was
kind of like, yeah, you know, you know, great, great win.
You know, where's the momentum at all? That doesn't seem
to be any And I think everyone knows why. I

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think they do, and that's because they're about to lose
their new found base far more than they ever did. Now,
think about folks, and I'll get to the phones in
a second, but think about this. If we're to consider
what NBC just said here, is that mum Donnie is

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an empty suit. All the promises that he is promising
he can't do unilaterally, and New Yorkers and the legislator
and the governor will never go for them. It was
like they just gave the little boy his favorite toy. Hey,
you want to be mayor of New York, have at it.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
You want to be in.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Charge of over three hundred thousand employees, have at it.
But you're never gonna drive people out of this city
with your tax plan. So go on and have your
fun with the police. Go on and have your fun
with trying to get grocery stores and free buses. Yeah,
good luck with all of that. Have your fun, little boy,
but you're never gonna get folks to be kicked out

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or leaven droves New York City because we're not going
to tax them at that point. And you're gonna have
to explain that to your constituents, all of those women
who voted for you, all of those thirty five year
olds who voted for you, all of those under forty
fives who voted for you. When you can't make any
of your ridiculous dreams come true, what are you going

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to do? You're gonna have to explain it to me.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
And guess what.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're going to blame other Democrats, and you're gonna blame Republicans,
and you're gonna blame everybody because that's what children do.
They don't take responsibility. That's what's gonna happen, and that
base is gonna be mad. Boy, Yeah, they gonna be mad.

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Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's Reese on the radio news Tavi wt I see.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Someone's asking in the chat room, like why we're Republicans
so rejected? Well, you have to consider who the Republicans are,
and you also have to consider where the elections were.
And again, and I say this to those who are
novice in the whole like election process. Okay, So I'm

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gonna ask a question to the person who wrote it
in the chat room. Let me ask you a couple
of questions and then think about them. Okay, just think
to yourself about them. Okay. In the twenty twenty four
election in New Jersey, in Virginia, and in New York,
how did MAGA do in Connecticut? Even let's throw all

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four it. How did MAGA do in all of those states?
How'd they do?

Speaker 1 (30:41):
So?

Speaker 2 (30:41):
When you say, why were they reject it? In twenty
twenty four. How did MAGA do in twenty sixteen? How
did MAGA do in all four of those states? How'd
they do? Just look it up, by the way, don't know.
You don't have to answer off the flight, just go
look it up. And asking a question like why would

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why do Republicans not win? For those of us who
know that is a ridiculous question for those of us
who don't know, who are trying to find every inch
they can to say that Republicans were rejected clearly know
nothing about politics. That if you knew anything about politics,
you wouldn't even ask that question. It's New Jersey, Virginia,

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New York, and Connecticut, Like you have to know that
that was never gonna go out. The fact that win
some seers was not. MAGA thought that Donald Trump should
not run in twenty twenty four. It was incredibly difficult
for her to change her mind and all of a
sudden become MAGA. That was win some sears. I believe

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Achilles Heel and many people in MAGA world take that
personally like I do about you know, the Eleventh Commandment,
the reason why I crap, And people like Mitt Romney,
Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney anyone for that matter, who calls
themselves a Republican and incapitulates the Democrats at every given
turn so they can get favorable coverage by their news media.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Marjorie Taylor Green, by the way, last night was like
Marjorie Taylor Green. She's speaking smart. She's one of the
smartest people out there. Did you hear about the bombshell
that was dropped on her yesterday? Did you hear about
the little bit of tea that was dropped on her yesterday?
Perhaps you should be in the know. Perhaps you should

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be in the know. There's a reason why she's turning
on Donald Trump. You might want to investigate it. It's
sad that it had to be told by Alexandria Casio Cortes,
but it was.

Speaker 12 (32:50):
With that.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm going to Sam, how are we doing?

Speaker 17 (32:52):
Sam?

Speaker 9 (32:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
My bad?

Speaker 18 (32:56):
Dare you go?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Hey? Sam?

Speaker 11 (32:58):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (32:59):
So, I have a friend who works for New York City,
and I just googled this on the New York City website.
There between three hundred and six and three hundred and
twenty six thousand employees for the City of New York. Yeah.
A friend of mine who works for the New York
Office of Employment Opportunities told me that his source is

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telling me between twenty and thirty percent of those people
will quit today. Wow, that's a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
A lot, now do you think that, dude? Did they
give sort of which particular departments we're talking about or
was it was it just spread over every possible government
or state a citywide employment area? Like was there in
other words, was it like law enforcement or was it

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housing or like something along those lines.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
So it's mostly actually in public Emergency Services department and
the fire department. We've already seen the commissioner of the
of the FDN Y quit this morning.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
So it's going to be in Okay, So we expected
this because of the way Mamdanni has treated those those employees.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Yes, the only good thing on this whole, man, Donnie,
thing I think is the real estate market lower Fairfield County.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Well, okay, I gotta ask you though, because there's something
I thought was interesting in this. So you got New
Jersey that goes blue, obviously New York City goes blue,
and then we have these local races here in Connecticut
that go blue. My question is how does that attract
people who are trying to save money? Will you know

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that all three of those municipalities are going to raise taxes.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Unwealthy Mikey Cheryl's going to raise taxes.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
I think they think good Old Teddy isn't totally socialist.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Yeah, I'll put it.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
I don't think. I don't think the Tristate area sees
any benefit from the mom Donni flight. I don't think
Connecticut sees it at all.

Speaker 8 (35:16):
At all.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, sad as it is. But thank you sir, much appreciated.

Speaker 8 (35:20):
Thank you for the info.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Thank you too. Yeah. I don't again, I don't think
Connecticut helped itself. I don't think that Connecticut. I don't
think that the town was thinking, hey, let's get some
more folks to come up here. If that Mum Donnie
thing pans out, we could get some wealthy New Yorkers

(35:44):
to come up to day. But no, they made it
more blue. And if those wealthy folks are thinking they're going,
why would I go up there? Those folks are going
in the same direction. We're just gonna have to find
someplace else. You know what, Greenwich has some good schools,
but you know what, there's some good schools in Red
states too. Yeah, and you know what's even better.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Briece on the radio making sense of the news even
when it makes no sense at all at all. Now
on wt I see News Talk to ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
By the way, programming note, in an hour, we're going
to have on the program Miss Nadine Thomas of the
Underground New England. She is helping people get their lives
back together after they've been victims of trafficking, sex trafficking

(36:39):
in particular. She'll be on the program at about four
h five today to talk about that. And of course
this story that came out of Hartford this weekend, in fact,
which I hear now is a bigger story than we know.
There was an arrest over the weekend of a little

(36:59):
more than four hundred people that this may be ensnared in.
But I'll get all the details and we'll break all
that down because this is a subject we're going to
talk about a lot as it pertains the immigration and
legal immigration in this country. We're finding out that there's
a lot of trafficking going on while these politicians are
running around screaming and hollering about ice this and ice that.
And you know, these are our friends and neighbors, and

(37:22):
we've got some really, really dirty politics going on here.
When I say dirty politics, that these people claim to
be fighting for those who are disenfranchised, but ignoring the
ones who are being sex traffic who I would somewhat
deem far more disenfranchised. So we'll talk to Nadine Thomas
about that and about trafficking in this case. And we

(37:44):
did find out as Mark Wallash, as you know as
Mark from West Hartford, explain that a large number or
considerable number of those who were trafficked in this Hartford
case were of Hispanic descent.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Whether or not they were.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Illegal or or children of illegals remains to be seen
because a lot of the the details are sealed, so
we haven't gotten that info yet. Hopefully someone will be
able to forward that to us. Mark's working on his sources.
I'm working on mine. We'll get to them as soon
as possible. Let's go to Christine in Middletown. Hello, I
haven't talked to you in a bit.

Speaker 19 (38:21):
Hi, rece well factor. Formally, you welcome you to our
beautiful but very expensive state. Now for I'm not surprised
by the quotes by Ben Proto. After all, the Connecticut
GOP botch our state elections last year. Yeah, were over
three dozen empty seats, and State Central really messed up

(38:44):
with me because I entered the race. What about four
days to go to be to get signatures being the
Republican ballot and eight Central reps said, yeah, no problem
is I said, they have to work every week the time. Oh,
we'll take care of it for you. Tuesday came, she
asked what the signatures were in. I said, I told

(39:04):
you have to work. So I had to do everything
on my own. And then when I ran into Ben
Prodol because the Connecticut GOP headquarters is in Middletown, you know,
you think you'd offer and give a card and say, hey,
thanks for rinning. If you see anything, please reach out
to me.

Speaker 20 (39:19):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Under that, yeah, well they say, they say that that's
a big problem with Proto is the lack of support.
I'm reading some of the details on him, and they
say in other market other markers for success for bent
Ben Proto, this is what they write. The Connecticut GOP
raised three point two million dollars in twenty twenty four,
though much went to national transfers one point three million

(39:44):
and overhead rather than direct campaigning, which was eighty one
thousand dollars in mailings. Proto has been appointed National GOP
Budget Director by RNC chairman Brothers, signaling trust at the
federal level despite state level critiques. So whoever it is

(40:05):
is responsible for figureing a god. Now, look, do I
believe that what we saw last night should have been
Proto ousted? Yeah, it's debatable. I'm sorry. It just is
saying that, don't worry, we'll get them next year after
we've had two. And I didn't even mention how badly
we did in twenty twenty two or twenty twenty four,

(40:26):
as per mentioned, But this isn't bad. We had no
Republicans flipped any seats, no flips.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
It was all Democrat flips.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
All of them.

Speaker 19 (40:36):
Reese, I'll tell you, I like this simple message by
the Plainville Republicans and all the time by sea walking
all over town.

Speaker 20 (40:44):
Yeah, you earn it, you keep it.

Speaker 19 (40:46):
That should be the one and only message by Republicans
here to start with, we are over prest. They offer
social issues where you know, when a family afforded go
to McDonald is fifty dollars. We have a problem with that.

Speaker 20 (40:58):
Let's attack the financial issues.

Speaker 12 (41:00):
And you know what I want someone.

Speaker 19 (41:02):
To call off the elephant in the room, that's our
public sector unions.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, that's that's again. That's another and it's touchy because
I don't even want to get into that discussion. It's
not even important.

Speaker 19 (41:17):
Ran No, I wasn't scared to bring up that we
should eliminate some state agencies and let nonprofit groups handle
some of their business. Of that, you know, we have
to get our financial house in order. Granted I don't
get an endorsement by the public sector union, but the
truth of my convictions that we need more people to
do that.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
I agree. I think we need to get off two things.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
One stop getting off the redowable energy thing for some
other reason, that's still a focus. And we got to
get off this this whole deal about affordable housing. We
don't need affordable housing. We need people who can afford
to live. That's what we need here. Affordable housing isn't
the issue. So you know, that's that's just the way
it goes. Thank you, Christy, and I appreciate you. Thank

(41:58):
you got it. I might as well go to him
now because I didn't get the headlines that I'll do
it in the next break.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
How were we doing, Mark, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (42:08):
Yeah, what's that, buddy.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
Hey, so listen, I don't expect you to comment because
this is kind of an awkward thing for you.

Speaker 20 (42:15):
You just took a call from Christine.

Speaker 12 (42:17):
But for those of you who pay attention to me,
paid attention to Christine, and you know, I'm not asking
anybody to take sides, but I will tell you this,
she participated. I had. Everybody who follows me or knows
a little bit about me, I've had two false complaints
put against me by a councilwoman, Mary Fay and West Harford,

(42:37):
and Christine from Middletown took part in the second one
against me. I will be this thing is coming to
a head. The documents. I'm gonna take snapshots and you'll
see comments that she made on behalf of Mary Fay,
basically telling everybody I was a fraud, which isn't true.
But anyway, that's for another day. So for those of
you who follow Christine, I'm not asking you to take sides,

(42:59):
but I'll tell you this, I wouldn't trust her and
I wouldn't trust Mary Faith because I bet you Christine
didn't know Mary Fai put her in the complaint against me,
along with other people who she used like texts and
cell phone calls behind their back, trying to go AFK
to me. Can you imagine that, reef? I think that
would be like me and you having a personal conversation,
then all of a sudden I find it in a

(43:20):
police probably. Hey, I thought you and I were talking
in private, So Christine, you stabbed me in the back. Whatever,
let's get to Ben Proto. I just posted a little snippet,
so I gotta be like Trump a little bit. Yeah,
I'm right about everything. I've been talking about Ben Proto
for years.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
You have been the only one, and he.

Speaker 12 (43:40):
Would be the guy who would take phone calls up
until a couple of years ago. And there's the one
famous one. I just put a little snippet up because
of this one comedy made to me. So I called
him out for not doing anything during COVID. So I
would call out all the Republicans, Stem is Clearitess, Rob Sampson,
all the names.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
You know.

Speaker 12 (43:58):
These people were silent during while ned Lamont was given
executive order out after executive orders, So I called him out.
He was trying to say Ben Proter tried to say
he was not and the chairman's position when all those
executive orders are put out, and I talked to you before,
so I called him out on it. I got the
date when he was appointed, and I've got the date

(44:19):
to the twenty two executive orders Ned Lamont put in afterwards.
But this one snippet I just posted on Mark from
West Calvert. I'm x listen to it. He goes, it's
not the job of the party chairman to call out
Governor Lamont. When I called him out for not good listen,
there were there were GOP chair people persons all over

(44:40):
the country calling out their liberal rope and competent governors
for the decisions they were making, and Ben Proto stayed silent.
It was just and that's just a piece of it.
Forget that he he is just horrible at campaigning fundraising.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
You said, you know, he's horrible at campaigning, And that's
kind of what the focus of my opening monologue was. Yea,
because you know, you didn't even have to say this,
and you've been kind of a person who's been sort
of like nubbing me about Ben Proto. But I had
to literally look everywhere I could at all of these

(45:20):
races saying and of course Aaron Stewart after dropping out,
Where was his leadership or even involvement in that race
nowhere to be found, Steve Rosco for him to get
skunked by Justin Ellicker in that race, which was actually
a state race even though it was local, but I

(45:40):
mean it was covered statewide whether or not, like you
got involved with that. Rosco's making like headlines running against
Ellaker and you don't support the guy. He was running
his own campaign, getting his own sort of free publicity,
and no one came to that guy's aid. And what happens.
This guy ends up pulling in sixteen hundred votes in

(46:02):
a major city. That's embarrassing. But why there was no
leadership to help him? None?

Speaker 12 (46:09):
Well, and the next time we're together, I'll give you
the long version of my friend Richie Rujio for rant
first time solid guy solid. I can't tell you what
a great guy is. And he gave me the inner
workings because we're friends, and he was telling me how
it was working to a point. And I think I
had told you this. There was a radio I was
getting him on. I told you this before Will Murati

(46:31):
interviewed him. Tom shat it, you know which you would
call it Todd Feinberg love the guy because he was genuine.

Speaker 18 (46:41):
Right.

Speaker 12 (46:41):
He goes to another station. They tried to in this
station promotes Ben Proto. They try to shake him down
for money for campaign ads.

Speaker 21 (46:49):
Wow, he's trying to get his name out there.

Speaker 12 (46:51):
Nobody knows him. He wanted to present his platform. It
is so dirty. One day we're gonna me and you
and my friend Richie are gonna sit down. But I
think who you get to search out? And you know me,
I try not to promote any it's hard to trust
any of them. But this guy, so far, I think
we need to have Dan Morescion just to have a
conversation about what he thinks of how Connecticut's GOP is run.

(47:13):
He is a beast so far, Like when I read
his stuff and he wants to change the face of
the GOP. And I don't think you've talked to him.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yet, No, we haven't.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
He and I have not had a conversation yet.

Speaker 12 (47:24):
I think that he would be for this purpose to
talk about what's broken. And he's always putting down what
needs to be fixed. But he's like, it's unusual to
have somebody who and he's not on the inside. It's
unusual to have a Connecticut Republican who wants to make change,
he wants to do it, He's willing to call out
the frauds. He's like an anomaly. There's many.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this
before you go.

Speaker 22 (47:48):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Aside from the leadership, But let's take Aaron Stewart's seat
in particular. I said during my opening monologue debt, if
Aaron Stuart could not anoint her successor and that successor
got the pants beat off of them by a Democrat,

(48:12):
what does that say about Aaron Stewart's stewardship.

Speaker 12 (48:17):
Well, I got to go back a few weeks ago
when I went to the location where they found me
see his body. You remember when I told you I
spoke to all all I'm telling you people on the street.
I spoke to people with Polish accidents, Hispanics, blacks, white.
They couldn't stand her because my take was like, hey,

(48:38):
have you seen any elected or appointed officials down here?
That was my take. And then when I would specifically
say Aaron Stewart, oh my god, now they were outright
outraged at just hearing her name. It was like that
Niagara falls thing, you know, slowly I turn around, you
say her name, they and.

Speaker 20 (48:55):
I was like, wow, you would think, yeah, it wasn't interesting.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah, that's like I said.

Speaker 12 (49:02):
That put my finger on the pulse of kind of
what I knew already, but to be there and hear
them speak and what she's doing wrong and what she.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I would go so far as to say this, like, look, man,
that Mimi story is a state wise story, and Aeron's
involvement in it so far beyond that press conference that
you you know, focused on that is now like well
over three hundred thousand hits.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
But even the fact that she has had no follow
up to that story as new details come out. We
know that the boyfriend of the mother has been charged
with new new charges, and still there's been no no
response by by her, even putting out a press conference
or getting to the bottom of it. I thought that
was very telling. Thank you, Mark, And then I'll end

(49:52):
with Rudy.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
How you doing, Fred?

Speaker 23 (49:54):
Hey, I'm sorry? Uh so, yes, slowly ins finance, that's
my favorite. Everybody's ready to do that. I just wanted
to drop a Jesse Kelly report.

Speaker 12 (50:10):
He said that.

Speaker 23 (50:11):
If the founding fathers knew that all it would take
for you to be entitled to vote, was to be
alive at eighteen years of age. They would not have
bothered you know all this? Yeah, I mean, own property,
have skin in the game, maybe know how to read
and write, you know, stuff like this. That that was

(50:34):
a famous call there. I wrote a poem about it.
I won't give you the whole thing, just the opening lines.
He's not half as annoying as Bono or a water
boarder like Yoko Ono, but nobody likes Ben Proto. Yeah,
he's I know.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I don't know if you know. Some people have said, hey,
do you want to talk to him? I'm just going
I don't know if he can. I I almost feel
like he and I would only end up fighting.

Speaker 23 (51:01):
I don't know what to be particularly talk to him, dude,
I would love to hear that. He's kind of like
a slow ponderous.

Speaker 24 (51:11):
I think you could handle him with ease. He's like
a three hundred I mean literally and figuratively, like a
three hundred and fifty pounder. But he's got like a
certain rage. But I think you could rope a dopeim
or sidestep.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
I know what I know. Listen to be honest, with you.
There's a reason why I'm apprehensive to I want to,
but I'm apprehensive to be honest with you, because I
know that when I talk to him, there's going to
be some tension after and it's gonna be a problem. Yeah.

Speaker 23 (51:43):
I feel probably gone to something. Let me say no
more about that.

Speaker 18 (51:46):
And get it.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
You can hear me, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're fine.

Speaker 18 (51:52):
I saw the evidence that Mark was talking about with
mister Redstock. Yeah, the email and the complaint that saves
like it's he's in that complaint and he threw Mark
under the bus and it was wrong. But I want
to get to the election. But AOC. Yeah, she revealed

(52:14):
the other day that uh, Trump stopped Taylor Green from
running for Senate.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
That what you're talking about, That's exactly what I was
talking about.

Speaker 18 (52:21):
I can't believe she even listened to him.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Uh you know what, that's good point. That is a
good point.

Speaker 18 (52:31):
And usually when he endorses people, they loose.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Okay, So you're saying, like, not wanting his endorsement could
have been positive.

Speaker 18 (52:40):
For her, right, just running on who she is. You know,
you you mentioned Maga didn't win anything up in that area.
But Maga doesn't always run up in that area.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Oh no, no, no, no. What I was saying was when
and I was and I was literally using MAGA as
a euphemism.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
What I'm saying like New England, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 18 (53:03):
How many federal elected congressional members are Republican in New England?
I know the answer. There's one exactly, Susan Collins, exactly
conservative or magas never.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Been accused of or mistaken.

Speaker 18 (53:18):
As so, the leadership from New Jersey to Boston, do
Maine for the Republican Party is non existent. As a joke,
r your representation in Connecticut for Republican Party has shrunk
since he took over. They had forty two seats unopposed
the Democrats in twenty twenty four or twenty twenty two. Yep,

(53:39):
they didn't get candidates. He he, I don't know who's
the idiot in DC that gave him the RNC job.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Apparently in effect, I just had his name up. I
just said his name. Uh but yeah, in fact gave
him confidence even though he had nothing to show for it.
And the guy's name is why I'm losing it now.
His name was just in front of me.

Speaker 8 (54:02):
Uh, I'll find it.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Go ahead, you talk.

Speaker 18 (54:06):
After hearing the mayor speech when he won and all
that stuff. I don't know exactly what abuse of power
Donald Trump has done because he's actually and you know,
I'm not as big as fan.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Oh yeah, but.

Speaker 18 (54:19):
He's not breaking any locks.

Speaker 20 (54:21):
I mean, is he hurting people?

Speaker 18 (54:24):
No, because Congress is the one that has a passing
the budget. Trump can't pass the budget. Can he release
emergency funds?

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Maybe, but the only the emergency funds that he can
release are only half what half that's needed. It's half exactly.

Speaker 18 (54:48):
So I don't know where they come off saying he's
like a renegade outlaw because he I mean.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Because it's easy to digest to the mainstream news media.
The mainstream news media are stenographers. Whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
That how King Jeffries or Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Says in a podium. These folks don't question it. They
just write down what they're told. Okay, Donald Trump is
a horrible, mean, evil person.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
That's what Chuck Schumer said. We're not going to challenge that.
So that's how that goes.

Speaker 18 (55:17):
I want to give a compliment yesterday to call her Laurie.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Oh yeah, okay, she.

Speaker 18 (55:22):
Made that topic that we don't want to discuss clear.
But she made one good point.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
What was that.

Speaker 18 (55:30):
Her daughter is a very established lawyer, but she has
a one that you can't see.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
That's right, a tattoo that you can't see.

Speaker 18 (55:39):
So I want to be cool and have a tattoo,
but you can't see it.

Speaker 12 (55:43):
It's a participation.

Speaker 18 (55:45):
Trophy for that generation.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I saw that.

Speaker 18 (55:47):
I mow your show up. I'm sorry, but.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
That's okay because you listen to me. I was talking
to my wife about it yesterday and it was one
of the things that I left the show afterwards just saying,
shaking my head.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
I was going, damn, Rudy, So you're really a beautiful I'm.

Speaker 18 (56:03):
A beautiful girl that comes in and she's like twenty
two and her mom's like in the early forties and
she's a lawyer. The same thing. The laurier has no tattoos.
This girl has a partial sleeve to her elbow. Showed
her to the elbow she got. She said she got
them between seventeen and nineteen.

Speaker 20 (56:18):
She's twenty two.

Speaker 18 (56:19):
Uh, and she goes I regret it every single day.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Yeah, that's a lot.

Speaker 18 (56:24):
I have no reason. I cannot give you a legitimate
reason why put ink in my body, and I'm fearful
that that ink is gonna poison me.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Well yeah that, in fact, it's a whole story about
that too. Let me get to a break. I got
just realized what the time was. Thanks Rudy, I love you, buddy.
Let's get to another break. We'll be back, more news,
more views when we return. It's Reesa on the radio
on wti SE News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa?

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Hold up one hundred candles on the cake. Who do
you think's lighting this?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
We're back Reese on the radio. Let's get to some
headlines real quick. More layoffs coming to Connecticut. The latest
notice of worker adjustment noting that fifty one people will
be let go from a titanium solids operations which is
called elg Utica Alloys in Hartford. They notified the Rapid

(57:19):
Response Coordinator from Connecticut Department of Labor Rapid Response that
it will discontinue its solids processing operations effective December thirty first,
well at least it'll be after Christmas. As a result
of this business decision, they write, approximately forty one bargaining
union employees and approximately ten bargaining union employees will be

(57:39):
separated from their employment.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
That's a nice way to put it. Just say you
got fired. That's all.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Democrat Justin Elliker, as I mentioned before, cruise to a
fourth two year term in as New Haven's mayor yesterday
after a campaign that focused on both his record on
housing and public safety, as well as the city's opposition
to the Trump administration and their policies. He had over
eighty four percent of the vote, with only absentee ballots

(58:08):
remaining to be counted, of which were far too few
to change the outcome. Eliker defeated Republican challenger and guest
of the show, Steve Rosco, in all thirty wards across
the city. Based on preliminary results the Independent collected from
polling places. The final official results have yet to be determined,

(58:31):
but what we gathered last night, twelve thousand votes went
to elecer A Poultry, sixteen hundred went to Aurosco. Also
in a huge victory for Connecticut Democrats, state Representative Bobby
Sanchez flipped the New Britain Mayor's office, as I told you,
blew for the first time in twelve years, ending the

(58:52):
GOP control of the state's eighth largest city. Political observers
were keeping a close watch on New Britain's because Tuesday
it was the first time since twenty thirteen that Democrats
had a chance to run a candidate against someone other
than Aaron Stewart, who portrayed the wildly who was wildly

(59:14):
popular across six mayoral elections in our hometown. Sancha is
not only one with a wide margin, but appeared to
bring in a ten to five super majority for Democrats
on the Common Council. Sanchez said tonight New Britain chose progress.
I'm deeply honored by the faith of this community has

(59:36):
placed in me, and I will work every day to
earn it. This campaign was never about one person. It
was about bringing people together and make our city stronger,
safer and fair for everyone. The message is clear, no
more Republicans, Let's bring in the Democrats, Sanchez said. And
now for the stupidest thing I read today, Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:00:01):
You do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
It could very well be the stupidest person on the
face of the earth.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Stupidest thing I read today is Democrats are back. You're not.
You are not back.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Please don't think you are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
There's no way that you are back. The evidence shows
that you are not back. Everyone knows that you are
not back, and it's not anyone's fault but your own.
Let's let's take a few turns at the evidence that

(01:00:41):
you're not back. I think gen Z is going to
be a lot more conservative.

Speaker 22 (01:00:47):
I think that just my experience knowing gen Z kids,
my kids and their friends and whatever, I sense much
more skepticism of.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
And I think it is a reaction to.

Speaker 22 (01:01:00):
Gen xers and millennials forcing on them progressive views in school.

Speaker 10 (01:01:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
And I think I think that there's going to be
I think there's gonna be some conservatives.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
This is my general impression.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah, I don't find only read that was an early
read of gen Z and that are kind of a beta.
But it may be what ends up happening.

Speaker 22 (01:01:24):
But didn't I mean Trump Trump did not win young voters,
as he constantly says he did, but he did do
better with them, that's right, than other previous Republicans.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Yeah, that's not just one sign. Other Democrats agree. You're
still a mess.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
Or in terrible shape. Like, we just have to be
very honest with ourselves. The Duncry Party is in really
really bad shape. The fact that our approval rating is
you know, depending on employee belief somewhere in the twenties
or the teams. While Donald Trump is busy kind of
vandalistic government. That good and I think there's many reasons

(01:02:02):
for that which we can discuss, but we have not
begun to address those problems. I do think we will
not be able to fully address them until we have
a leader, and that won't be for like three years
when we nominate somebody for president. Because parties ultimately are
defined by their leaders and are defined by them almost entirely.
I mean, you can think about what Republicans did after

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twenty twelve, as you know, they did a big.

Speaker 18 (01:02:26):
Retrospective, the autopsy.

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
They're like, we need to be nicer to immigrants, and
then they nominate Trump and they go to the opposite direction.
So the nominees and the presidents make the party brand,
and for the next few years we won't have that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
And you've got to ask yourself, Democrats, like, if you
are so back, who's your leader? If you're so back, right,
if the party's on the come up, who's the leader?
Who's the titular leader of the Democrat Party. You can't
go back to Obama. You can't even go to Biden.
Did you see Biden in New Jersey yesterday? Did you

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see those videos? To be honest with you, I can't
even I can't even clown the guy anymore. I can't.
I used to make fun of the doddering old fool.
I can't do it anymore now whatever's happening to it?
And by the way, just so you know, this guy
called it elder abuse long before it was popular. It's

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not elder abuse. They told me it looks bad. Now
it looks bad. Jimmy Carter looked better because you knew
Jimmy Carter was one hundred. Joe Biden doesn't look good.
But again, if you're so back, because I see them
now all in the chat room saying it, We're back,
We're we're We're gonna take you Republicans. Eh yeah, where

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I just again, here's the Party of leadership. Even Nancy
Pelosi's decided to go. I you know, I'm done.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
They're all going.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Simsbury's in the house. What's going on? Joe?

Speaker 6 (01:04:06):
Well, real quick? And Simsbury, because you talked about this
on your show. The Democrats colabored the Republicans. Unfortunately, did
I was I wasn't surprised, but I was shocked. Tell
me why the level the level of beating that it was.
And it's too small of a too small of a

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sample size. But in talking with some Democrats, they had
no clue about the mex Studis treatment of an eighty
eight year old Joan co or what uh what's his name?
You know, said and did and all the other stuff.
They just these people go to the polls. They have
no clue and there's nothing we can do about that.
We can argue about it, we can rant and rave

(01:04:47):
about it. How stupid they are, how uninformed they are.
They you know, they they really are.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
But did you, I mean, Joe, real quick, did you
feel like Republicans didn't really put up a fight Because
I didn't see any real passion coming out of Republican candidates.
Rusco at least made it up here to the show,
he was on television, he was calling, you know, at
least he had some press on his side. I'll admit

(01:05:15):
the strategy sucked because I feel like he went into
places where nobody would vote for him, even though they
liked him. They were never gonna show up at the
polls because he was in the hood, in the inner
city trying to get that electorate, well not even electorate,
but those folks to actually become the electorate. And they
didn't move, they didn't bunch, they didn't care. But other
people didn't make themselves known. I saw no one nowhere.

Speaker 6 (01:05:38):
Well, I think that's part of our problem, because it's
part of our personality. In Simsbury, I saw far more
Democrat signs out on lawns than Republican signs. They always
seem to have a better ground game like that. But
I think as Republicans, and I'm just gonna throw this
out there, people may disagree. I think that we relies

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so much on who we are, and who we are
is we are intelligent, we are thoughtful, we look at
both sides, we have values. That's how we come to
become a Republican. And our expectation, I believe is that
people out there are very similar to us, and once
they see it, they're going to be on our side.

(01:06:23):
And the people out there are not. They would be
if they were educated as to what has actually taken place.
I believe that they would be, But I believe most
Democrats are not educated about what they're actually voting for.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
That's true, their motivation is more about beating Republicans than
it is about knowing the issues or in fact, how
their vote is going to impact their daily lives.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
The very tunnel.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
Vision, especially in Simsbury, we had the whole thing with
the affordable housing bill that our state representative of Democrats,
she did vote against it. In the end, Governor Lamont
vetoed it, yet we still had Democrats in this town
who were all for it, who were lying to the
people of this town, and they were not held responsible
by the people of this town. And until you have

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a situation where people have to show that they actually
base their opinion on factual occurrences in you know, whatever
market it is, local market, national market, you're always going
to have this kind of stuff where too many ignorant
people vote and it's just it's a shame. But I
don't know how to fix it. So I wanted to

(01:07:29):
chime in quickly on the tattoo thing because that was
a great conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
But you really did people really resonated with this tattoo story.

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
So somebody and I feel bad for those people that
have a lot of tattoos because of the ink thing.
But somebody made a comment to me in the last
couple of years that I recalled and they said, and
I don't mean this to be detrimental to people in
any way, and it is specific to women, is that
the amount of tattoos on a woman is directly related
to the amount of trauma she has had of her life.

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I've heard that if you have a lot of tattoos,
stay away.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
I've heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
And it's interesting, Joe, that you and I have heard
that on different corners of the country, because I've you know,
that's there are those things that we call like the
unwritten rules of the unwritten known, uh, the unknown.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Known, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
And that's so true. I've heard that so many times
that and I think it's emblematic, like guys get tattoos
because that looks cool. I like this particular symbol, and
women are very Look, my wife has one survivor, you know,
and that's of course that for her, that's emblematic of

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her struggle in life. So yeah, the trauma thing, it tracks,
it completely tracks.

Speaker 17 (01:08:50):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
I haven't heard it about men, but I would have
to say that other than if you go beyond having
a sleeve or or so as a man, and if
you're And I would also say, this is really gonna
be unfair. If you're a man who works out and
you're doing that, that's one thing. If you're a guy
with skinny arms who's never hit the gym, to me,

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that's an entirely different situation. But then when you start
putting it all over your body, I would have to
say the same thing. I don't know who you're communicating with,
who you think you're communicating with, what message you're trying
to deliver. You got something wrong with you, and I
hope you can get some help because I think it's
just too much. And I would include NBA players in
that because we see their arms and they're totally covered.

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It's like, come on, are you kidding me? No one
can see what you have written a lesser standing three
inches away from it. And even then, so what are
you doing? What is the mental block that you think
that that's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
I don't get it either.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
I said that it is funny because my older brother,
who's darker than me, has tattoos, and I call who
can read that? I don't even know what that's supposed
to be. That looks like a tattoo in the dark.
That's what I gotta go.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Thanks Joy, thank you, you got it man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Let's take it break. We'll come back. More news, more views,
coming up Nadine Thomas of the Underground New England to
talk about trafficking. She's joined us in a little bit.
We'll get to your phone calls if we can, but
stick around. It's Reesa on the radio on WT I
see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
It's on the radio news Talk.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
I see see Hey, we're back. It's Reese on the
radio WT. I see News Talk ten eighty. Naomi, thank
you so much. I if I can let it a
secret so at the beginning, well not the beginning, it's
actually the second half hour of the program. I played
the mom Donnie speech with O Fortuna in the background.

(01:10:44):
If you missed it, let me can I start it,
let me let me exis Yeah, play it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
Here's a little bit of it.

Speaker 11 (01:11:14):
Standing before you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
I think of the words of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Joan lal Nehru.

Speaker 11 (01:11:21):
A moment comes, but rarely in history when we.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
The reason why I play that And again, Knowmi, if
you are new, it's not my first rodeo. Whenever a
dark figure joins politics, I play that piece. It is
one of my favorite favorite pieces to play at the
end of like if it's an election, if it's something

(01:11:47):
like that. I've so far I have played this for
Hillary Clinton back in two thousand and eight. I played
it for Joe Biden when he gave his speech in Philadelphia.
You remember the one with all the red. That one
was one of my favorites. I played that and Mamdanni
has now been the third. Uh So, Naomi says, nearly

(01:12:08):
busted a gut laughing when you played Old Fortuna from
Carmine Banana of Mandami's acceptance speech. Brilliant.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
You have my respect. I appreciate you.

Speaker 17 (01:12:20):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
It's great because it works with every really dark speech,
and I get a kick out of playing it because
of the effect that it has, like it's almost how
do I put it it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
It works perfectly.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Let me see if I can do it one more time,
because I'm certain, without a doubt, I'm gonna see if
I can do it here. Maybe it's I wonder if
it's here, because it's uh You'll you'll say to yourself, look,
yeah it does. It does work no matter where you are,

(01:12:57):
and I need let me see if that is yeah,
here it is. Let me play this and I'll tell
you exactly what I mean. It doesn't matter. You can
use as long as the speech is grand and dark.
This is the actual clip I played many moons ago.

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Nothing changed, and you just changed the speaker, Joe Biden.

Speaker 25 (01:13:30):
But as I stand here tonight, the quality and democracy
are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.
So tonight I've come to this place where it all began,
to speak as plainly as I can to the nation

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about the threats we face, about the power we have
in our own hands to meet these threats. Incredible future,
the lies in front of us.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
I didn't even edit the speech. I put the speech
up as it went, as it went, with Fortuna in
the background, and it went perfectly. It's really really easy
to do. It's my favorite thing to do when they
do it. Let's get our first checker weather in traffic.
It is windy out there again. I couldn't even get

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anywhere Mark Christopher and the BPS traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
All the lines were down.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Really, it was crazy, all on Route six or Round
four wherever it was. I mean it was backed up.
Eighteen wheelers are everywhere. It was just it was nightmarish.

Speaker 26 (01:14:40):
Well, I guess we have, as a meteorologist would say,
a tight pressure gradient. That's the the word for today.
Tight pressure gradient, the three words for today.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
It's probably not that much money. Let's get to John
Silva in the newsroom. It's Reesa on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
It's Reese on the radio. Da'n say, we didn't more
you on News Talk ten eighty w T I see,
I see.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
I'm really upset. I'm gonna have to fix this darn thing.
I don't even know it was messed up in that way. Congratulations,
It goes out to give you a second here, and
I apologize because I should have had that ready to go.
Congratulations to Joan de in Broadbrook. She is today's winner
of the dozen bagels a month for six months courtesy

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in Between Rounds the Bagel Bakery and Sandwich Cafe located
in South Windsor, Vernon and Manchester. Don't forget, we are
actually working it out very soon. Should be in the
coming weeks We're gonna do a between Rounds live broadcast there.
Do the show from to till six at one of
the locations. I believe we're going to do Vernon and

(01:15:58):
south windsor almost certain of that. But I will give
you all the details as soon as I know it,
as soon as everybody knows it, and you know, we'll
do the whole thing where you guys will get there.
Somebody just asked me what happened to the Facebook. I
don't know, So what you have to do is and
I think what we're gonna have to do is because
I cannot rely on Facebook to do it, and I
know all of you are there, we're just gonna have

(01:16:19):
to go over to YouTube. So just find my YouTube channel.
You can, it's very easy. Just link it. If you
can't find it, go to recenterradio dot com, click on
the YouTube and it'll send you right to the page,
so you can. You can do that so you can
chime in the chat room there. Plus, we don't have
a lot of people over at YouTube because I don't
even really promote it like that, So go to the

(01:16:41):
YouTube page. I think we may have to just say,
you know, Facebook, no more. I don't know what's up
with meta and it might be a meta problem, so
I don't want to have to deal with that anymore,
So we'll just do that. In the meantime. Also, coming
up in a couple of minutes. Infections on the line.
Now we'll get tour. Nadine tom of Underground New England

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is going to join us. We'll talk to her about
the story we broke to you yesterday about human trafficking
in Hartford. She's going to talk about what her organization
is doing to help victims of trafficking in and around
the New England area. Because there are so many things
and so many details going on. She doesn't know all

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that much about this particular case with the eight men
or the seven men who have been arrested, but there
are telltale signs because a lot of people in Connecticut
and Hartford in particular, have children who run away, who
get lost in the sauce. Even if they have DCF cases,
we never hear from them again, and they don't get
very far. Some of those children are being sex trafficked

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right in the state, right under the noses of everyone.
And so Nadine is here to talk about that and
tell us some of the things that she's experienced in
some of the victims that she's helped, and how you
can help as well. Get another check of whether in traffick.
Mark Christopher's here again in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Hey Mart, it's Reese on the radio on newstalk t
w T. I see, I see.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Yeah, we are back and without further ado, Nadine Thomas
is on the phones. I actually, Nadine, you know, I
was watching WFSB on this uh crazy story about the
seven men who you know, were involved in this trafficking scheme,

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and if I may, if I may say so, and
I know you're gonna have to correct me, but it's
my naive tae, not anything else. The thing that I
found odd about this story was that, how do I
put this? This sounds crazy, but the fact that it
happened in Hartford, and the fact that it happened with
these men who are African American and or black for

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that matter, was odd to me. And let me explain why.
Is that usually when we see these stories, that we
hear these stories, it is rare that the perpetrators are
black men, and not that there's a demographic or a
racial component to it. It's just that we've seen it
in other places, in other ways, and it's usually outside
of the purview of you know, our regular American citizens.

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Is that strange for me? Am? I out of sorts
because does it take all kinds.

Speaker 14 (01:19:23):
You know, Reece, you may not be too far off
on your assumption. Okay, that's what we see a lot of,
but that's not necessarily true.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Okay.

Speaker 14 (01:19:36):
What we have found in our interaction with survivors is
people of color are among the highest demographic. That is
traffic we're trapting.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Is happens, Yes, that nor that much, I know, Nadine,
But what in this again, it's it sounds racial in
my in my description, but I don't mean to be
in a racial way. I'm trying to be honest to
the conversation is that we see it a lot happening
within Hispanic communities or Latino communities, and I totally get it.

Speaker 14 (01:20:09):
But I think one of the things that we have
found just interacting with survivors.

Speaker 12 (01:20:16):
Is that.

Speaker 14 (01:20:18):
Trafficking in the in the African American community is kind
of it's is hidden, right, Okay, It's covered by culture
and music and and and and and normal, so it
becomes a part of the culture and and so it

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is a number of times. What happens is when we
go out to places in the in the community to
host awareness events, individuals will come to us and say
this happened to me. I didn't realize I was being trafficked.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Oh okay.

Speaker 12 (01:20:56):
So I think.

Speaker 14 (01:20:56):
That's one of the problems. And that's why it seemed
odd to you that all the trafficsers were black men.

Speaker 12 (01:21:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
So in essence, you're saying that culturally, not being able
to recognize the person is being traffic they're just thinking
that this is although it may be a criminal behavior,
they wouldn't associate it with a trafficking crime.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
That's my naivete here.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Oh okay, okay, good, No, I totally appreciate understanding that
I'm naive in this because it because what's important is
is that there may be plenty of us who have
seen trafficking but didn't recognize it because we see it
as something that you know, maybe Hollywood or television might depict.

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
And there may be other things.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Can you explain to me what trafficking is or things
that are trafficking that we may not have seen on
the surface.

Speaker 14 (01:21:45):
Absolutely, And that's one of the things we do at
the on the ground, we tried to We're out to
change the narrative of what everybody seeks. Trafficking is.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Okay, a lot of times.

Speaker 14 (01:21:56):
We think it's being kidnapped. Okay, an individual is taken
just like the movies, Like you said, the Big White
van and the child is ed off the street. But
traveling is any kind of exploitation for whether it's labor
or sex, a commercial sexual activity where there's an exchange

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of something of value. Now it can be. It can
be as simple.

Speaker 12 (01:22:22):
As a brother.

Speaker 14 (01:22:25):
Getting a phone or a pair of shoes or sneakers,
or some money from his football team or a member
of his football team to sleep with his sister girlfriend.
It could be a gang that holds a family at
ransom and say give us your your child, and that

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child is you know.

Speaker 12 (01:22:52):
Is sold.

Speaker 14 (01:22:53):
It could be a boyfriend who says to a girlfriend,
if you loves me, if you want to help me,
or if you want me to stay, then you'll do
this for me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:23:08):
So it comes in all shapes and sizes. It comes
in in so many different ways.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Yeah, and it's not like in many ways I think
that we look at it. I think as you're explaining
it to me, is that we see that all most
we understand it as being under the cover of a threat.
But it doesn't matter. Some of it is just coercion.
As you said with the boyfriend and the girlfriend, you'll
do this for me if you love me, you know
you will behave in this fashion that you know, being

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using that individual to obtain money a form of prostitution
if you will.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
That is all in the perfect I'm.

Speaker 14 (01:23:45):
Sorry, fourth broad or corrision. Those are the three three
circumstances that law enforcements would look for to read or
what we look for to determine human trafficking. If it's
a if it's under eighteen years old, if the individually
is only eighteen years old, there's no need to prove
that you were forced, there was force, fraud or coersion

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as an adult. Unfortunately, the burden of proof is on
the adults to prove that there was force, fraud or coersion.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Can some of this because you were talking about the
forms of trafficking, and the trafficking that you're helping folks
with is not just sexual trafficing. A lot of trafficking
that's happening. Even more so is labor trafficking, which in essence,
somebody's paying off a debt or somebody's being used to
pay off some It doesn't even have to be gambling.
It just has to be some form of some debt

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and then paying it back. That individual commits crimes or
does something for the individual holding them in that trafficking space.
I want to ask you this, since we're going down
that well. We had a case not too long ago.
Roland and I were talking about it where a man
was arrested for using teenagers to rob stores, and he

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was accused of I think the charge he was was
endangering the welfare of a child, but he wasn't considered
trafficking because I looked at it and said, if he's
got kids stealing from stores and he's getting the loot
after they robbed the store, I was asking, is that
a form of labor trafficking? Would you constitute as the same?

Speaker 14 (01:25:23):
I absolutely would constitute it as trafficking. A number of
survivors that we come across, that we've come across and
worked with, are still struggling with criminal records from criminal
activities that their traffickers forced them to do as children

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or as you. So, of course, I mean, I'm surprised
I've not heard about the case, but I'm surprised that
that individual would not be seen as having traffic The
problem with labor trafficking reads is that it's not been
given the kind of attention that sex trafficking has been
right given. But I'm glad to see that there are

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this organization national and even statewide that is just putting
things in place to put more focus on labor trafficking,
because there is more labor trafficking that is going on
even right here in Connecticut than we realize or that
we even care to think about.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Yeah, we're on.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
The phone with Natine Thomas of Underground New England. Your
organization is primarily based in Connecticut. You do a lot
of work here, but you have expanded into the New
England area. Talk to me a little bit about the
victims that you do help, because I would imagine you

(01:26:46):
folks treat those victims like you would battered wives or
battered girlfriends in that way you find them safety or security?

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
Do you find them shelters?

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
What's the process of when someone who is trafficked who
needs a place like how do they escape and how
do they escape to you?

Speaker 14 (01:27:04):
So we work with adult survivors, So we our survivors
come to us when they have aged out of a
child you know, Human Trafficking Assistance programs such as dcs
and other organizations. So when they've aged out of those systems,
they come to they are referred to us. Our clients

(01:27:26):
come to us from law enforcement, the FBI, the local
police departments. Our clients come to us from hospitals. Our
clients find us online or maybe on a hotline card
or some literature that we have out there with our information,
and they will call us directly. We have clients who
are are who literally just plan and escape or we've

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met survivors.

Speaker 12 (01:27:53):
Let me say that, who literally.

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
Have escaped their their their traffickers and just called us
and we've made arrangements and and and they're they're we
bring them to safety.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
And now you don't once these people have left whatever
jurisdiction they were a part of, Right, let's say it's
the FBI, let's say it's with I N. S or
whomever for that matter. Right, they get into your hands.
You are taking care of them after the process. Right,
You're not having to deal with them while they continue,
like maybe they're testifying in a court case or anything

(01:28:28):
like that. Are you just trying to get them as
far away from their uh, their trafficker as possible or
keep them hidden it How difficult is for you to
do that? And if you're not dealing with them just
after the fact that they're still involved with law enforcement
in some sort of way, how difficult is how difficult
is it for you to keep them safe.

Speaker 14 (01:28:53):
Our program offers a wrapper ound service to all the
client wow. So each of our clients has mentors that
work alongside them with them, and that mentor is there
to provide whatever support they need. If it's supports to
see a medical practitioner, they're there. If it supports out

(01:29:14):
to file a complaint or a case against their trafficker,
they're there. If it's a case, if it's to as
the charges the criminal charges that occur during trafficking, they're there.
So we provide whatever supports that that specific client needs.
Because our program is tailored to the individual need. It's

(01:29:34):
not a blanket program. It is yet you know, it's
it's really tailored to the individual need and requirement. But
as much as possible we do try to. I mean,
with all our clients are safe, and all our clients
that are in our program, all the survivors in our
program are completely safe from their trafficker.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Can I ask you.

Speaker 14 (01:29:58):
We take steps to make sure that happen.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
That's good, That's fantastic because I know that there are
people who probably know someone who's dealing with this issue
and wondering if there is a safe space for them
to go. Many of them to fear that they have
of getting out of this situation is having nowhere to go, which,
by the way, I encourage you if you if you're
interested in finding more about Nadine's organization, the Underground Newing

(01:30:24):
Underground New England, I need you to go to the
Underground NE for New England dot org.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
That is the Underground ne dot org.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
You can volunteer, you can donate, and you can help
out and spread the words. So please do because Nadine's
doing everything that she can to get the word out.
You are the executive director of the organization. Yes I am,
And how long have you been doing this kind of work.

Speaker 14 (01:30:52):
I've been with the organization since December twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Okay, what inspired you to get involved in this world?
Was it personal or was it just an opportunity that
sort of came away or somebody like coming to add
this is an organization I think you'd like to work for.

Speaker 14 (01:31:09):
Actually, I've really been a part of social work all
my life. I've been working with you know, disadvantage population
that we put it that way, and so when this
opportunity came, it was just a natural shift. It was
my first time working directly with survivors of human tracking,

(01:31:32):
but you know, having experienced working with individuals from who've
been through all different kinds of trauma, domestic violence, ah,
community violence, trauma. You know, it's it was, it was.
It wasn't natural for me, it was it was something
that I felt that God called me to be.

Speaker 12 (01:31:53):
A part of.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yeah, that's it has to be that this kind of
work has to be a calling from God or a
higher power without a let me let me ask you
this before I let you go, because this I thought
was pretty interesting. In the w FSB piece, uh that
was that you were featured in about this story about
these seven men. You said that you were talking about

(01:32:14):
women and men, boys and girls and how to recognize them.
Not that I need a breakdown on statistics, but that
is important to note that those who are being traffic
it is not because many people also Another sort of
cliche that we hear in the trafficking is that we
never think about the boys.

Speaker 14 (01:32:35):
We never think about the boys and the men. Yeah,
and there's a little more focused on boys now, but
it's I think it's still very difficult for us to
wrap our minds around grown men being traffic Our program
have men have passed through over program, men who have
been trafficked. I have met several men who are now advocates,

(01:32:57):
who have you know, declared that they openly declare that
they were trafficked, and that now reaching out to help
other men who have been trafficked. Because it is actually
a huge population of trafficked men, not only across the
nation but in Connecticut. But there's so much stigma connected

(01:33:17):
to that, and if you're a black man, it's really magnified.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
I can imagine that the humiliation is incredibly different, difficult
for them to come forward if indeed they are victimized
by this tragedy. That's so interesting, Nadine. Look, I'm going
to end here, but I want to say this, please,
I have your cell phone number. I got to bring

(01:33:41):
you back one because I want more and more people
to find out about this. And what we've learned over
the last year is that there are so many people
in the state of Connecticut that are being trafficked, and
I really want to put a lot of focus on
your organization and what you're doing and on trafficking in
the state. So please, I'll reach out to you. I
want to get you back as often as I can,
maybe even twice a month.

Speaker 14 (01:34:03):
Okay, I would love that, Reece, because I read that's
a part that's that's a part of our program. We
just spreading awareness about the state of trafficking in Connecticut. Yes, yes,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Thank you so much, Nadine Thomas. Go check her out.
It is the underground ne dot org. That is the organization,
uh to go help her out and find out more
information about trafficking stuff that you don't know. Uh, And
they're there to help you. Nadine, thank you again. I'm
gonna put her. Let me put her on hold. All right,
let's get to another check of whether in traffic. Our

(01:34:35):
good friend Mark Christopher, he's in the VPS traffic center.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Hey, Mark, stay locked in? Locked in race on the
radio is on w T I see lews.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
I guess no one knew that I was gonna have
Nadine on And I'm like, I'm getting all of these
great accolades where Nadine is good. People interviewed her and
Lorie Blackburn about their ministry. I did not know that.
I did not know that they out of ministry. I
should have asked her about that, But that's okay. I'm
gonna have her on. We're gonna get her on regularly
because I'm just saying, just so everybody knows, Okay, this

(01:35:12):
trafficking thing is like important and intriguing to me because
we're seeing it a lot in the state of Connecticut,
and without a doubt, you know that there is a correlation.

Speaker 4 (01:35:28):
With the illegals in this state and trafficking.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
You know it's there, and I'm gonna make the connections.
And I'm telling you when I this this, I'm gonna
bust this wide open. I've got some people, former police officers,
current police officers working on this, like quietly to get
to the bottom of this, and we're gonna get names,

(01:35:54):
we're gonna get everything on of this because they know
it's here and it's the one thing it would bust
up the nonsense going on with politicians who were playing
the you're ignoring it. It's like, are you sure John
Larson was playing that game with me? When I saw
him on Sunday. The proper authorities been informed, Yes they have.

(01:36:17):
My question is is how how are you not informed?
These are your constituents, these are the ones you keep
telling us are your friends and neighbors. And we're watching
them being trafficked, We're watching them be abused. This is slavery.

(01:36:38):
You're not for slavery, are you. I don't want you
just screaming and hollering at Ice. I want you screaming
and hollering about the people who are doing these folks wrong,
these vulnerable people wrong. I think it's great that guys
like John Larson want to keep a mother with young

(01:36:58):
children together. But if the mother is being used in
labor trafficking and the children are barely eating or barely
being clothed, or living in a basement somewhere, or if
the mother has to make a decision between her or

(01:37:23):
one of her babies being used by one of these
animals that John Larson and Chris Murphy are protecting, I
wonder how they feel about that. You talk about parents
being separated from their children, ask yourself, whom would you

(01:37:45):
like taking this woman away from her children? Would you
like Ice to do it, or would you like a
cartel member taking their baby away to do God knows
what you tell me.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
And don't sit up in actus because.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
We can hear everybody all day saying these are good
people good What about the other side, what about the
bad people? Just saying we're gonna get to the bottom
of it. I said, so many people who want to
get to the bottom of this, it'd be the story
of a lifetime.

Speaker 4 (01:38:18):
Let's get to weather in traffic. Mark Christopher, he's back
out there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
The NAACP calls him.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
WHOA.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
I don't think I'm going to read this. It's Reese
on the radio. Let's just say some people are not
fans News Talk Tonight WT.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
I see, we didn't do Wacky Whitey on Tuesday, and
it was because you know, we were just sort of
settling in and all that other good stuff. We we'll
have it back next week, but tomorrow, you know we're
doing negro nonsense. Don't act like you don't know. I've
got a good one for you too. I saw it
today and I went righte so I can't wait for

(01:38:58):
that as well. We're also going to do a thing
I want to do this and it's called what are
you doing? And aside from what I do already, and
by the way, you know what, Roland, I gotta do
this thing. So I got to get the logo of
a WT I C. And I gotta get it on
a what do you call like a sandwich board?

Speaker 4 (01:39:20):
Like So I want to do is this.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
I want to do a sandwich board that stands about
a good maybe three feet maybe four feet tall, all right,
I'd say roughly about four feet tall, and it's got
to be lightweight. So I want to grab it and
I want to put it out on the street in Hartford,
and it's going to read w T I C. You know,
News Talk ten eighty and underneath it's going to it's

(01:39:44):
going to read can I ask you a question? That's
going to be the thing. So it's going to be me,
man on the street, can I ask you a question?
Whatever the story's going on in Connecticut, be it Hartford,
being anywhere, I don't care where any is. He's going
to be standing out there in Hartford. I'm gonna do

(01:40:04):
it at least twice a week. I don't know exactly
what days yet, but the objective is I'm gonna stand
out there and I'm going to do can I ask
you a question and then people will stop it. I
will ask them a question about what's going on in
Hartford and get there. I was taken and we'll play
it on the air. That's the thing I want to do.

Speaker 27 (01:40:25):
So put your order in for the sign man, because
we don't have that currently.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Oh no, no, no, I'm gonna do it myself. I'm gonna
make sign sign myself. I'm gonna spend my own money.
I'm gonna get down to a Staples or whatever it is,
and I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna be with
my w T C sweater and by the way, if
there's some other tic swags I can wear like a
big giant t IC thing, I will totally rock that.
I'll even get to you need you, Yeah, I do

(01:40:51):
need that w T. I do need that jacket. That's
not a lie, but yeah. I want to stand out
there and then people can approach me. You guys can too,
And I'll even tell you the dates that I'll be
down and it'll be me asking people a question about
what's going on, and then we'll play it on the air.
And I want to kind of make that a feature.
Here's why I think it's a smart idea.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
We don't really do any advertising at WTIC, not like
that's a bad thing. Just read out. WTIC has been
around for one hundred years. If you don't know we're here,
you living under a rock. However, I do want to
reach a different audience, like a broader audience of people
who normally wouldn't listen to AM radio, and a lot
of them are in the heart of the city, and yeah,

(01:41:35):
I kind of feel like, you know what, they would
love to hear their voice, kind of involved. I think
everybody's opinion wants to be heard. I kind of feel
like that's as a talk show, that's that's the purpose
of you know why talk shows are so popular. But
I want to do that. I want to be out
there and just sort of stand out there and just go,
you know, hey, you know, let me ask you a
question and then ask them that. The other thing I

(01:41:56):
want to do is this, I want to start asking
the audience what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
So during the weekend there are things to do. I
can't be everywhere and I can't know where everything is,
but I want you to tell me what's going on.
Maybe there's a fair. Maybe there's a charity event, it's golf,
it's frisbee, you know, whatever it is. You let me

(01:42:25):
know and then I might show up. You never know,
and I will come down there and go, you know,
hang out. Maybe it's a book tour. You know our
good friend Greg Dylan coach Dylan as I like to
call him, he does a lot of those book tours.
I'd love to show up. But if you know something

(01:42:46):
that's going on that you think is cool, that you
think that I might enjoy that somebody like me who's
never been anywhere would love to go to. What a
perfect opportunity for me to go?

Speaker 27 (01:42:58):
Like, okay, speaking of it, ahead, what do you got
I've never been anywhere. I just I just Monday in
the mail got my passport. Holy moly, So I can
actually travel somewhere. I've never been anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Look at you? So you're gonna like where you're gonna go?

Speaker 6 (01:43:13):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
Do you know yet?

Speaker 27 (01:43:15):
I do know one place I want to go. I
haven't done any work to work.

Speaker 6 (01:43:20):
Get it?

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Yeah's it?

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
Where a you're going to go?

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Italy?

Speaker 18 (01:43:23):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Yeah, I want to go to I want to go
to Venice. Yeah, yeah, before it's underwater. Yeah, I want
to go to Venice. That by the way, speaking of Witch,
you know what place I really want to go And
I've never I didn't even I may have heard of it,
but I've never seen it until I watched this movie.
Did you see The Last Equalizer? Oh? Yeah, of course. Okay,
So the town he's in is called Palermo if I'm

(01:43:47):
almost certain that that's it, that place. Roseanne and I
watched that movie and we saw that place and we're like, oh,
we have to Yeah, it looks amazing.

Speaker 27 (01:43:56):
Oh it's a nice, small, homely loving situation going on
with some good food and coffee exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
But the beauty of it is is I don't even
mind that the place is crawling with stairs. I don't
even mind that because I kind of feel like that
in and of itself is an adventure. I would love
to be above that and want to take pictures of
the homes inside the mountains. Those things have always been
fascinating to me that people would, you know, build their
homes inside the side of a rock. It just seems

(01:44:25):
wild to me. So I want to I want to
go there just for that. But like I said, what
are you doing? What's going on. Maybe you have a
knitting circle that you know, hangs out at a local
pub or something like that. Those are the things I'm
talking about. I'm not kidding, Please, I am serious. I
want to know. So you can either let us know
it at WT sorry on Recentradio dot com, or you

(01:44:49):
could just call me up here. I want to start
doing it, like on Thursdays.

Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
What are you doing? And you guys call.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Me up if you know something that's going on and
you think that I'd be interested in checking it out,
let me know. And because I got a wife who
says that I don't take care anywhere, and this gives
me an opportunity to cheat, I can cheat a little
bit because I can't think. Look, I'm in a new
town and it's new since because I haven't been here
twenty years. But because I'm new and I don't know

(01:45:15):
anywhere to go, you get me the opportunity to get
out of the house. Take my wife to that thing,
and then she can have fun, and then you know whatever,
you can hang out with with me, and I can
hang out with you, and you can introduce me to
something I've never done before. Perhaps it's a painting thing
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (01:45:34):
I just no, you don't want me because, uh what
you're just gonna take me bullying is gonna go to
the bulling alley.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
That's it. That's all.

Speaker 4 (01:45:42):
I've done that before. I've done bingo too.

Speaker 27 (01:45:45):
Bingo's fun at at at the casino is a different experience,
is that?

Speaker 5 (01:45:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:45:50):
Bingos I have.

Speaker 27 (01:45:51):
They give you a they give you an iPad and
you play on in your in your dabbing on the iPad.
Really yeah, you don't have to use the dabbers in
a paper. Really yeah, everything is digital.

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
You can.

Speaker 27 (01:46:03):
You can a lot of people use the dabber in
the papers because that's what they.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Like to do. Yeah, that's you know, the new age folks.

Speaker 27 (01:46:12):
I like buying on everything on a digital iPad and
I just sit back, relaxing.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
So do you actually download the program?

Speaker 27 (01:46:19):
And then there's no program because everything is already loaded
for you. Really yea, all the games, everything is already
loaded for you. All you gotta do is sit it
on the table in front of you, and when the
numbers call, you just press your finger on the number
on the iPad and it marks your card for you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Does the know does the pad know that the game
is won? When you win, I guess it right and
tell it.

Speaker 27 (01:46:41):
Lets you know, because you're playing multiple games at the
same time. I'll tell you one away on this card,
two away on that card.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Oh that's wild. Yeah. And then then then if you.

Speaker 27 (01:46:51):
Get it, a little dog jumps on the screen and
say yea yeo bingo, yeo bingo. And then you you
say bingo and you gotta say it fast up there
because if you miss it, you don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
Yeah, that's that's I didn't that's the professional bingo.

Speaker 4 (01:47:04):
Did I ever tell you my bingo story?

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
No? It was okay. So I go my ex wife Mary,
we go to play bingo, and I was reluctant to
go for the longest time because it wasn't my thing.
But Mary loves It's pretty fun. Man. She is crazy,
but she she's a gambler, that's why she loves it.
And she does the pull tabs too. I've never heard
of this, but those of you who know what they're

(01:47:27):
talking about, they know. And you buy the pull tabs
and you can win some serious money these things. Yeah,
no joke, but sometimes you got to spend money to
make money. And she'll play those anyway. So one day
She was like, look, this is something that I like
to do, and I want you to spend time with
me doing it. And so after I was reluctant and
I knew I didn't want to do it, I did

(01:47:48):
it anyway. So we sit there. She gives me a
tab a little pad and I do the whole thing,
and I'm dabbing.

Speaker 4 (01:47:54):
Away and blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
But apparently bingo is not like the bingo that I
know where you just go straight. Apparently this bingo game
you have to have not just bingo, but you have
to have it in the four corners something like yeah, yeah, yeah,
I didn't know anything about that. I didn't understand it.

Speaker 25 (01:48:12):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
See see I look, I didn't know it, but you
right there, you just expressed exactly what I felt or
what they made me feel when I did it. So
I go, I get the regular bingo. I don't get
the four corners, and I go bingo. Biggest voice in
the in the room. And let me tell you, shady
acres with nuts. Because the guy turns around, he looks

(01:48:40):
at me, he starts walking my way. Mary looks at
my thing, and she goes, you don't have the four corners.
I go, I go, I big up bingo. Yeah, I
double down, I got bingo.

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
Here she says, no, you know, you don't have the
four corners.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
So the guy walks up realizes that I don't have it,
and then every old woman in there groans in a
way that it wasn't a groan, yes exactly, that you
not have it. It was wait until I see you outside.

Speaker 4 (01:49:16):
It was like, yeah, we're gonna have to see you
when we get out there.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
And this groan was just so aggressive from these ladies,
and so I look around and I'm like, I'll admit
the only reason why I said it was because it
was a little intimidated, you know. And I could hear
some mumbling over the.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Son of amm blah blah blah blah, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
Like really upset now because I'm like, what, these people
are really mad because I made a mistake, Like what
about some grace here? Nope, well no, yeah, no grace.
It was pure hatred. And then I turn around. I'm
getting a little defense and I'm like, ah, calm down,
It's just a mistake. So I'm like pushing back a
little bit just to let them know, don't mess with me,

(01:49:57):
I'll fight, old woman. But they were so after that,
I looked to write in the face my ex wife
Mary at the time. As soon as it was over, No,
I'm never coming back. Look to write in the face
and I said, you sure you want me to experience
this with you?

Speaker 10 (01:50:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Maybe not. It's bad. I never knew it was that.

Speaker 27 (01:50:17):
They take it. They take it serious, man, They take
it serious.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
But I thought it was supposed to be fun. It
is fun, but they take the game. Is it because
it's money involved.

Speaker 27 (01:50:28):
I'm more than sure it's because it's money involved. But yeah, lady, okay, listen,
I can't believe you called bingle.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Look at you. I can't believe it could happen. It
clearly did. Where was Mary yet? She's supposed to be
watching you?

Speaker 14 (01:50:44):
Did she know you?

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
A first time?

Speaker 4 (01:50:46):
She's supposed to be.

Speaker 27 (01:50:47):
Any anytime I bring somebody, that's the first time. I'm
watching their cards because they either miss a bingo or
think they have it and they don't. Okay, so I'm
watching the car.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
You're watching their cards as well. I couldn't watch my own.

Speaker 27 (01:51:00):
No, no, no, I'm watching my card. I do my
cards fast, and then I watch to make sure. My
mom taught me that because we missed a mingo one time,
and ever since then, we watch each other's cards and
the people like that's in our circle, that's there with us.
We watch everybody cards. That makes sure and nobody miss one.

Speaker 2 (01:51:17):
Now, Mary who she's in Alabama now, so she will
occasionally listen.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
To the show. I'm gonna text her and tell her
that I talked about this.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
She will absolutely account for all of this, that I
am telling the truth. She's at work now, but she
knows that I'm telling the truth about everything that I
just described as it happened.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
But that was just one of Now, I've been with.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
Her there since that time, like I'd gone several times afterwards,
but I never played, and she never gave me guff
about it. I sat there, I would eat.

Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
I would just.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Pretty of decent food and I will sit there and
I will eat or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 4 (01:51:55):
It would have been great if they actually serve like beer.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Oh yeah, they can't do that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:59):
They can't for some reason. They can't do.

Speaker 27 (01:52:01):
That, because you think about it, it's gambling wet beer.
People are already just imagine you run away from one
thousand dollars and your number is up in a viewer
on somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
I was going to say, imagine I had yelled bingo
and didn't get the four quarters and they had been drinking,
and yeah, that's those old ladies probably would have Yeah,
not even think about it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:26):
Maybe it was wise that there was only soda.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
That was soda and water coffee. That's what you get. Yeah,
I just I'll never go so again, what you're doing.
It's an opportunity for one, for me to get out
into the public. You know how much I love Connecticut.
I really want to get out and sort of do
some things, have some fun, get my wife engaged in
some areas. Last night we went we went out and
we ended up bumping into a listener. John is his name,

(01:52:52):
and it was I was so happy that, you know,
he walked up and he was like, as soon as
I heard your voice, I knew it was you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
And he was a nice guy.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
And I feel like, I I mean, as soon as
I saw him, I felt like I'd already known him.
But he, you know, came up and shook our hand
and we talked for a bit. And that's kind of
the objective, is to get out there and sort of
like these.

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
I love the planned events and.

Speaker 2 (01:53:11):
Going out and doing the uh the in stores and
stuff like that, but I kind of want to do
something casually spontaneous. Yeah, spontaneous and casual and just show
up and do whatever everybody's doing, man, going to the fair,
going to a book club, going to all those things
like that, because those things are some of the things
that you engage in and I get the course experience.
I mean, then come back on the air and talk

(01:53:32):
about them going on, you know, just like you know,
going to see the million Dollar Quartet and talking about that,
because those things are fun and Connecticut is a great
place to be. It's a fun place to be. I
don't want people to to miss out on some of
the stuff. People some people don't know where to go,
that wouldn't know the first thing about going. So here's
an opportunity for you to share what's going on in
Connecticut with the show, and you know, drag me out

(01:53:55):
of the house where I'm not watching TV or reading
the news. You know, So let's uh, let's do that.
Richard says, Palermo is in Sicily never been but thought
most parts, but through most parts of Italy Richard. I
envy you, buddy. I hope I get a chance to
go myself. Uh, let's go to the BPS Traffic Center

(01:54:18):
with Mark Christopher Mark Italy.

Speaker 26 (01:54:20):
Have ever been no love to go there?

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
I ah, man, that's everybody's destination.

Speaker 26 (01:54:25):
I think I could probably put on a few LB's
sorry during that visit. It's just my guess.

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
The hour the bags out, Punch Punch, It's Reese on
the radio on w T I see News Talk ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
I told you that I didn't do it yesterday because
I didn't have anything.

Speaker 4 (01:54:44):
Worthy to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:54:46):
What I do today that sight it's Hollywood News with
your correspondent's on the radio, all the glamor all It's
Hollywood news. But I'm really excited about this because I

(01:55:11):
love this movie. From the moment that I said in
the theaters i watched it, I could wait for the sequel,
and I've always waited for this crew and this team
to get back. They tried it other ways and it bombed.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
Brendan Fraser, Oh The Mummy and Rachel.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Humming with the Mummy. The original cast, Rachel Weiss and
Brendan Fraser have signed on Now. Brendan Fraser's put on
some weight as a plate.

Speaker 4 (01:55:40):
But I'm so.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
Glad he's coming back. He's gonna drop a lot of pounds.
They're gonna get him in the I mean, he and
I have the same age. He's they're gonna get him
into tip top shape. I can't wait to get it back.
I thought those movies were fun. They were. They had
an element of Indiana jo. It was just fun, funny.
The characters were fantastic. It had the right right size

(01:56:03):
of adventure and and comedy. It was just, oh, it
was just such a good movie. I don't think I've
ever had that much fun in a movie. And I'm
so glad. When I heard it this morning, I was like,
thank you. It's it's not so much that it's a sequel, folks.
It says that Brendan Frasier played that role so well

(01:56:25):
it deserved a sequel, it deserved a trilogy. And from
what I'm hearing is that the third movie that they did,
which was like sort of unrelated to it, that was
so bad They're going to pretend in this movie that
that movie does not exist. So I'm very fast, Tom Cruise, No, No,

(01:56:45):
that's part of the talk. Yes, they're completely like disavowing
that that even exists in the franchise. But yeah, they
tried to bring it back with Tom Cruise. That that
was supposed to be a test run to bring Tom
Cruise back in another Trillo. G Uh, that's why it
made him sort of Yeah, he took over, Yeah, exactly
at the end, he's sort of like he's immortal. But

(01:57:08):
they never took off. So yeah, they're not gonna do that.
They're gonna go back to Brittain Fraser Rachel Weiss. They
both signed on. They are confirmed as cast members on
the New Mummy movie. I'm so glad. That's amazing. Yeah,
so happy about that one. And uh yeah so when
that comes out, I'm definitely going to the theaters, absolutely,
and I'm in Imax. Yeah. Absolutely. Let's get traffic when

(01:57:30):
Mark Christopher, he's in the VPS traffic center. I know
you never Mummy.

Speaker 6 (01:57:35):
No answer is no.

Speaker 26 (01:57:40):
The only Mummy I ever saw is Billy Mummy on
Lost in Space.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Mummy. I've watched Thank You, I try every time. I'm
never giving up.

Speaker 26 (01:57:52):
I'm never giving now that you know, you wouldn't even
go there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
There is no off switch, Mark, is it? I've been
lucky a couple of times with you in the movies,
Like maybe I'm gonna have to like say, hey, Mark,
there's a new Porky's coming out.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
Remember that one I've seen that.

Speaker 26 (01:58:10):
I saw that. That's my see. I think my senior
year in high school.

Speaker 24 (01:58:14):
I knew it.

Speaker 26 (01:58:14):
Porky's revenge.

Speaker 18 (01:58:16):
Danger danger, Ah, danger danger.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it right.

Speaker 1 (01:58:23):
One day, it's Reese on the radio on news w T.
I see, I see.

Speaker 4 (01:58:31):
I've just been told by Craig.

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
He says this, You and Roling are the most unusual
black men I've ever heard. First Bowling, now Bingo. I
will admit I have not seen a lot of young
black men at the Bengal Hall. I do know that
that is growing. I've seen a lot more than I

(01:58:56):
first saw them. There are, there's a growing number. And
I think it is about money.

Speaker 11 (01:59:02):
Man.

Speaker 27 (01:59:03):
Yeah, I knew it, say about the dollar bill. They're
trying to find new ways to get it. And I
didn't even know it was that many young people playing bingo.
My mom would ask me to take her. That's how
I found out. So I would take that would be
like a little outing. She'd be like Roland, come pick
me up and take me to to bingo.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
And so you would sit there and then having sat
there and watching some people get a little bit of grub, yeah,
you go, oh, I'll say, oh, this is okay.

Speaker 27 (01:59:31):
This is not just for older people, like I thought,
there are a lot of old people there, right, But
it's also I would say, it's like now it's like
sixty five thirty five wow, So it's like thirty five
percent young people in there trying to they realize, oh,
I could spend not a lot of money. Yeah, because
if I go to the casino, I must spend one

(01:59:53):
hundred dollars in like five ten minutes, if on a
slot machine.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
You know, it's funny because when Mary used to go,
you know, if she did win, like the pull tabs
were interesting because she would get goodness gracious, I remember
she yeah, yeah, but she would she scored like a
good six seven hundred dollars on those things, yeah, you know,
and only spend one hundred bucks, which is again that's

(02:00:19):
a good get.

Speaker 4 (02:00:21):
But she would.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
She was relentless, and of course the bad days were
the bad days when she you know, didn't make any
money and she spent a lot, but the good days
were the good days. But the bingo thing that was serious.
Like my biggest problem with that is I'll tell you
this and not that I.

Speaker 4 (02:00:37):
Know who's doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
I don't want to ever give the impression that I
know people are doing it, but I'm always because I know.
It was sometimes with Mary. Mary would use that as
a means to get extra money to pay for stuff
that she won't have to pay for. Yeah, you know
what I mean. It's like to get sort of a
come up to pay for like her car tax was
like considerable.

Speaker 27 (02:00:59):
If you if you one hundred dollars and you have
a bill at six hundred, yeah, and you use a
hundred to go play bingo and they get you to
six hundred. Yeah, Now you only spend one hundred dollars
for that.

Speaker 6 (02:01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
But that's what See, that's the kind of risk I
don't understand. That's you know what I mean. It's like
I don't you know, I get the whole.

Speaker 4 (02:01:17):
Idea of scared money, don't make nothing. I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
It's not like a but me, on the other hand,
I you can't talk yourself into riches, you know what
I mean. And you can't even convince yourself of winning.
That not for me. I couldn't walk into a bingo
hall if someone had convinced me, it says. You know,
I imagine I go to you Roland, and I go,
you know, man, I need seven hundred dollars, like you know,

(02:01:42):
a week and you go, how much money you got
on you right now? Like I got thirty five dollars?
And let me let me get that. Yeah, They're like,
let's go down to the bingo hall and I go
for what it was like, you know, we win. You
probably come up with a thousand, and I'm going now,
I'm gonna hold out to the thirty five.

Speaker 27 (02:01:57):
That the thirty Kess what that thirty five is already gone?
You might as well you might as well take.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
A chance with it, say, and you can you know what?
Think about this?

Speaker 27 (02:02:05):
The owner of FedEx he wrote that whole playing up
in college and a professor Tolham. It'll never work, I know,
and then boom, look at look at him, Look at him. Now,
I know they should fire that guy.

Speaker 4 (02:02:17):
You're right, yes, that guy will never get fired too.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
But that you gotta take a chance, yes exactly. But
me I'm looking at that going I could have used
this thirty year. You do what my wife does.

Speaker 27 (02:02:29):
If I if I go to the casino and I say, hey,
I'm taking two hundred to lose, I'm not If I win, great,
but I'm taking two hundred to lose. I know it's
the casino. I know the house wins. So what's the
amount that I'm okay with losing right now? And that's
two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:02:46):
So you're talking about like convincing yourself of this. You
know this is play No, No, I'm saying that this
is play money. If I lose it, I don't have
to get angry about it. Here it's gone. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 16 (02:02:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
So it's like that, that's what I want to set
my mind on.

Speaker 15 (02:03:02):
This.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Two hundred dollars is nothing to gain from if I
lose it. I don't spend two hundred and one dollars.
Is I just spend two hund spend the two hundred.

Speaker 27 (02:03:12):
Don't take that walk of shame to the ATM thinking
you're gonna because if you go there and you lose
that two hundred and nine times out of ten, whatever
money you take out, you're gonna lose that too.

Speaker 2 (02:03:22):
So the last time I ever won any money. It
was in two thousand and four at Mohegan Sun. Oh,
now what was I doing. I was playing Blackjack, which
I considered the easiest game ever. Is not one of
a bunch of people at the table. Yeah, Luckily it
was only about three or four. So Star was playing

(02:03:43):
and he was getting bored, and so he had won
a couple of bucks, and he handed me a couple
of chips. I cannot, for the life of me know
if it was twenty dollars chips or fifty dollars chips
or whatever it was. But I didn't care because it
wasn't my money. So he gives me a couple I
think fifty dollars chips, whatever was. I'm playing the game,
so I won. At the end, I pulled out again,
no money in I'm just taking his money, fifty dollars chip.

(02:04:05):
I get out three hundred dollars.

Speaker 17 (02:04:07):
YEA.

Speaker 4 (02:04:08):
Couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
As soon as I wanted three hundred dollars because I'm
not a gambler, huh. I was like, I'm out, immediately out.
I took my three hundred dollars, and I was like,
for me, it's sort of like and I know they're
gonna be some gamblers who are gonna give me crap
for this because they're gonna say it's like, that's horrible gambling,
that's nothing. Yeah, I get three hundred, three hundred. But

(02:04:30):
even if you just said, okay, well this was what.

Speaker 4 (02:04:33):
Gamblers do, is it poor gambling etiquette?

Speaker 6 (02:04:37):
Though?

Speaker 27 (02:04:37):
Yeah, what you want to do is you win it
three hundred. Okay, you put two hundred in your pocket
and you keep playing with one hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
That's what you want. That's that's considered good etiquette. That's
good etiquette.

Speaker 27 (02:04:48):
That way, you're at least giving some money back to
the gamble gods.

Speaker 2 (02:04:53):
For for a future, for a future future. Wind. Yeah,
and you got to. You got to. You got to
belie even that. It's hard though. It's hard because a lot. Yeah,
because I'm I. I don't have a gambling gene. I
guess that's the only way I can describe it, Like,
I don't have it in me. And it's not that

(02:05:15):
I'm concerned that I would become a gambler. I'm scared
the death of it. I am. I'm afraid.

Speaker 27 (02:05:22):
Well that's that's that's me with and this gambling with
me just proves this point that I'm about to make.
So I never drink a smoke or did any drugs.
I was surrounded by my whole life. My mom's side
of the family are all addicts.

Speaker 2 (02:05:37):
Wow.

Speaker 27 (02:05:38):
They started with selling and you know, doing all that
stuff right, and then the end result was hard life,
a lot of hospital visits and death because of what
they did.

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
So and because of that addictive nature. You feel like
if that were to.

Speaker 27 (02:05:52):
Happen to you, I know, and I'm automatically like that.
If I like something, I eat a lot of it.
If I like this snack, or I like this fruit,
I like this fried chicken place, or I like these greens,
mac and cheese and corn bread, I eat a lot
of it. The addictive that you know, that is a
part of me. So I said, if I actually tried
a sip of helcohol.

Speaker 2 (02:06:12):
And I actually liked it, goodness gracious.

Speaker 27 (02:06:16):
So I don't even I said, I'm never gonna do
any of that stuff because of that. And I gamble,
so I can easily tell I like, and it's not
even about the money gambling for me, really, it's about
the rush you get for when you finally that's the way.

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
That's the way. Mary describes it, it's like, oh my goodness.

Speaker 27 (02:06:34):
I like you feel like you beat somebody that you're
not supposed to beat, because.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Oh, is that okay?

Speaker 27 (02:06:39):
I'm going to I'm going to the casino with two
hundred to lose because I know they're gonna take it,
because that's the casino. They're gonna take your money. That's
what they're there for. That's how they get rich.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
So you're saying that you get like an underdog thrill,
right like it beat the big boss man.

Speaker 27 (02:06:52):
So if I double it, I'll go there with two hundred,
then I get up to four or five hundred. I'm
like the excitement inside me is in Surmond because it's
like I was supposed to lose this. Not only did
I not lose it, I doubled it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:06):
Oh got you. That's what it is for for me.
What's the load though?

Speaker 4 (02:07:13):
Just just because I know what's the low?

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
Like when you lose miserable? Is it really no?

Speaker 27 (02:07:17):
When you don't have what I just said that when
you don't have a set thing that you're playing that
you're going.

Speaker 2 (02:07:23):
To abide by.

Speaker 27 (02:07:24):
If you just go up there willy nilly, you're gonna
end up losing a whole bunch of money that you
needed for something else.

Speaker 4 (02:07:31):
That's what hurts. Is it shameful?

Speaker 17 (02:07:33):
Though?

Speaker 5 (02:07:33):
Like?

Speaker 2 (02:07:33):
Do you feel like you like because if winning is
beating the big boss man, losing is it's getting beat
up by the big boss man.

Speaker 27 (02:07:40):
Feel you feel stupid because you know you were there.

Speaker 2 (02:07:45):
Was a point.

Speaker 27 (02:07:46):
There's always a point at which you know in your head,
in the back of your head it says, stop right here.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
You say, stop right here. Yeah, you should have.

Speaker 27 (02:07:52):
Listened to any further, don't go any further. But then
you go further and you lose way more than you
and that's when.

Speaker 2 (02:08:01):
You feel horrible. Do you feel do you consider yourself
a a functioning gambler, like in the sense of you
know your limits?

Speaker 27 (02:08:09):
Yeah, well I do know my limits, but I have
had those those experiences.

Speaker 2 (02:08:14):
That's how I'm able to talk about it, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
there's one one level that's where you can you can
go beyond the realm or beyond the scope of what
your normal. Yeah.

Speaker 27 (02:08:25):
Yeah, I hadn't, and I had one really bad one,
and that's what stop me. It almost stopped me from
gambling completely. But then I said, okay, I really enjoy
this so let me see how I can do it
without that ever happen.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
You are probably one of the luckiest gamblers I know.
I haven't admit that because I don't know You guys
don't know this. We're code of Rowland as me completely
intrigued in this because I've never understood.

Speaker 4 (02:08:51):
People who do gamble.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
So if you, if you hear me out, like my
questions to Roland is for me to understand it, and
anything I don't understand, I want to.

Speaker 4 (02:08:58):
I want to dive deeper into it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:00):
But the reason why I say that, and why I'm
so sort of enthralled by that sort of subculture of
people who do it, is because one I know that
I can't and I know what would exactly happen, Like
I would try it, I would be scared to death
and then it would work like it would work out.
But Roland, when I say, has the best luck on this, privately,
Roland will tell me when he's won something. He'll send

(02:09:21):
me a text with like look and I look at it.
It's not it's not cheesy amounts, it's good money. It's not.
He never sends me like, hey, I won fifty bucks.
He's not playing around the stuff that he wins. He'll
send it to me and it's almost bragging when he
sends it. But there's a sense that I get every
time when you send it to me, like when you win,

(02:09:42):
like some serious money. I look at it and there's
a sense of envy that comes over me that goes, Damn,
I wish I could gamble like he does. Damn I
wish I cause I never win. Yeah, I never win
anytime I try. I'll play you like a stupid lotto,
or I'll buy Rosanna scratch off now and again. I'll say, hey, honey,
you know here's a scratch up because she'll like them
now and again. Well she doesn't win them.

Speaker 17 (02:10:02):
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:03):
I go, I even waste my money on that for
and then you come up. You'll send me a text
and like, hey, look I want forty four grand, like
damn it. Like I'm I'm so ticked off because I'm like,
how do you win? But it's primarily because you gotta play.

Speaker 4 (02:10:18):
Yeah, you gotta play, but you do you have to.
You lose a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
More than you win.

Speaker 27 (02:10:22):
No, no, no, no, not on not on the well
I will tell you this on the online casino that
I play yeah, I'm not just put it like this.
I'm nowhearing the red on that for the year nowhere,
dangn the red. But so I stopped other stuff because
I used to buy scratch offs and all that play.
Now I minimize that because I was winning so much,

(02:10:43):
I was like, I rather use my money to build
because it's connected to my profile at Mohican Son. So
that matters when you play online at home.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
Right, So then when you go to Mohican Son, that's
all type of I got a whole type of crazy
food and money stuff on my card.

Speaker 4 (02:10:59):
Do you ever get comped?

Speaker 27 (02:11:00):
Like, yeah, I m free rooms, free tickets. I got
all that stuff just from sitting down playing online.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
I know what I'm doing this weekend. No, don't get
I mean no you.

Speaker 4 (02:11:12):
I mean you and I room.

Speaker 2 (02:11:15):
Okay, okay, I got I got you, I got you.
I got you.

Speaker 4 (02:11:18):
I see I figured that. I figured why why the
hell not?

Speaker 2 (02:11:21):
But no, I just look, I see those folks who
do that stuff, and I.

Speaker 27 (02:11:25):
Go like, what I have to do it on a
budget though, because you know, I use and and I don't.
What I make here is what I you know, use
to pay my bills and give to my wife. I
pretty much give my whole check to my wife because she,
you know, handles all that stuff, and I'll take like
two hundred bucks for it just to put in my pocket.

Speaker 8 (02:11:46):
Type.

Speaker 27 (02:11:47):
But when I get my checks from bowling, I say,
this is my money that I earned from bowling well
at these tournaments. So then I'll take half of that
put it away, and the other half I do whatever
I want with And it's usually gamble, and it's one
hundred percent of the time is.

Speaker 2 (02:12:10):
Gambler of the time. Like I said, I envy you
because I, like I said, folks, I'm telling you, he'll
send it to me. It's like, hey, look at I
want here, And I'm like, damn.

Speaker 27 (02:12:20):
I feel like my boy said the same thing you said.
He's like, man, you like I said, Well, obviously I'm
not lucky enough because I can't win a big million
dollars that set me up for life.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
I'm just winning.

Speaker 27 (02:12:29):
I would be satisfied with just vacations, winning vacation money.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
The stuff that you text me. I would be enough
for me. I would be do you know right now?
If I would have win a lotto like a small
little if I want one hundred thousand dollars like right,
I would take that and just go, oh, that's perfect.
I would go, oh, yeah, hell ya, I'll take that
any day in a heartbeat. But you know, I don't
play enough. And to be honest with you, I'm too

(02:12:56):
shy and scared to death.

Speaker 27 (02:12:58):
I mean there's nothing well you shouldn't be scared to say, hey,
could I get a Powerball ticket?

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
That's not the power Ball ticket is crazy because and
I'll tell you this before we get to Mark Christopher.
I know I told this story before I played power Ball,
like one of the third times that had ever gone
to a billion dollars. Yeah, I played it. I bought
a whole bunch of tickets. And the reason why I
don't play lotto is because of this. And I know
what it does to you. You play those games and
you start fantasizing, like I don't spend half the money

(02:13:27):
before they draw the numbers, I'm going yep, and I'm
gonna buy a boat and I'm gonna buy a house.
And then when you lose, you're like, man, I had
all those plans, and it hurts. It sucks, it does,
And that's the reason why I don't play, because I
hate to lose.

Speaker 27 (02:13:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, but that's everybody does that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:46):
You do that whether or not you win money or not. Really,
so everybody doesn't fantasizing.

Speaker 27 (02:13:50):
About what you would do if you had a million dollars.
That's like kids say, oh, what would you do with
a million dollars. Oh, I'll buy my mama house. I'll
do this, I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:58):
I hate it, but you got to, but you don't
get it. So yeah, we got to go to traffic
wether Mark Christophers in the BPS.

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time that we got to fill in here. I'm looking
at some stuff online. Of course, only thing that you
can find in the news now is everyone responding to
mom Donnie, and of course this story about the ups
plane that's crashed. That's how you know it's a slow

(02:14:38):
news day because anything post election and there's nothing going
on like what do you expect. But there's a lot
of stuff that we got to cover tomorrow, so stand
by for that. But in what had happened was we
played some of the clips of the reaction to mom
Donnie winning last night in New York. This was an

(02:15:01):
interesting one from a resident from Queens. I didn't play
it earlier, but I saved it for now, talking about
what he's expecting from Mom Donnie and why he chose
to vote for Mom Donni last night.

Speaker 15 (02:15:14):
You've lived here in Queens for a while now, you
just voted here a little bit earlier.

Speaker 4 (02:15:19):
Can you tell me who you voted for?

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
Him won?

Speaker 13 (02:15:21):
Yeah, so I ended up voting for Mom Donnie.

Speaker 2 (02:15:24):
The reason why.

Speaker 13 (02:15:25):
Is, you know, I've always been a Democrat my whole life,
but I've been kind of frustrated with the direction that
some of the more mainstream or establishment Democrats have taken.
I feel like they struggle to really articulate a vision
for the society that they'd like to see.

Speaker 2 (02:15:40):
But that's not the case with Zoron.

Speaker 13 (02:15:42):
I feel like with him, he has a clear vision
for the kind of New York that he wanted, he imagines,
and that's the one that I believe in too, one
that's more equitable, one where you know, yeah, the rich
just don't dominate everything in the city like I feel.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
Like they're so used to doing.

Speaker 4 (02:16:00):
Think about that.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
Frustration with the mainstream Democrats not having a vision for
the Democrat Party of four Americans. And again, as I
told you on many monologues right here on this program,
they hate the wealthy. They hate the rich. And you
probably have asked yourself what does that mean? They hate

(02:16:23):
the rich? They never really define it.

Speaker 8 (02:16:29):
HM.

Speaker 2 (02:16:31):
It could be you, do you have a country club membership?
Do you drive a Mercedes or a BMW? That's what
many of them consider rich for them. In order to
be a mainstream you gotta drive a Subaru or a Honda.
Drive Alexis one hundred and eighty degrees on a phase

(02:16:57):
that's coming. It's coming. I can't wait eight. Even those
who voted for it, they'll learn. You expect it. Nobody's
happier to me, but you may not be happy on
the roads. Let's get to it. Mark Christopher's Inn, a
BPS traffic said, is this still Wendy out there?

Speaker 8 (02:17:19):
Mark?

Speaker 20 (02:17:19):
I think it is.

Speaker 26 (02:17:20):
Yeah, it was Wendy before I came into my ship.

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
This afternoon. Yeah, that always plays a role on the roads.
I can't say when they can feel that winds shave
my car to the left or right. I almost feel
like I'm in a spaceship.

Speaker 4 (02:17:33):
It's all of a sudden.

Speaker 26 (02:17:34):
You don't have that cool one hand stance on the wheel,
you get it. It's like you're just learning how to
drive to get two hands on the way.

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
It never happens, my wife says, I try, I drive
like an old woman. Really.

Speaker 26 (02:17:44):
I know you're a defensive driver.

Speaker 2 (02:17:47):
And then that's a good.

Speaker 4 (02:17:48):
Scared of everybody else on the road.

Speaker 26 (02:17:51):
Now, would we be accepted in the new Democratic Party?
My wife drives an Audi and I drive a passat
So sounds like.

Speaker 4 (02:18:01):
You might make it your wife.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
My wife would be rejected.

Speaker 26 (02:18:05):
All right, I'll let her know what's up.

Speaker 4 (02:18:07):
Everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:18:07):
You know who it is. You know it's on the radio,
Frederick Douglass of the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (02:18:14):
It's w T I S News Talk.

Speaker 13 (02:18:18):
Yeah, so I ended up voting for mom, Donnie.

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
I totally forgot about that stupid thing. Anyway, we're back
Reese on the radio, about to get up out of
here post election day, and there's nothing to fred. Folks
there's a whole bunch of stuff to get into. So
let me just tell you this right off the bat.
So tomorrow morning, the first thing I'm going to do

(02:18:43):
is I'm going to contact a couple of folks. I'm
going to see if we could get Ben Proto on
the on the on the show. It's I kind of
feel like it has to happen. He's chairit of Republican Party,
and he's one of the few people I've not had
a conversation with. I've talked to so many people in
a Republican Party in the legislature here on the program.

(02:19:04):
He is one who has not even reached out to
be on a program. Adam, if you guys are are listening,
talk to him, let him know that I want to
talk to him, just to be on the show. I'd
love to have him come on down to the studio
to I'm sure he can have a conversation with me.
There's no reason for him not to want to. I

(02:19:24):
just want to. I want to find out what the
strategy is, even if there is one. I'm just of
the belief that there should be a strategy, and people
are asking. The frustration is real, and I know he
knows it, and I know he goes over to the
other guys at this state and that other station, and

(02:19:47):
I don't want to refer to him as that other
station because then it seems like I'm trying to throw
them shade. I'm not. We're competitors. I know there's a
relationship there. I do understand that that relationship has been
around for all long time. And that's cool, that's great.
I don't I don't care about that, not trying to, you.

Speaker 4 (02:20:04):
Know, be besties with anyone.

Speaker 2 (02:20:07):
But I have some questions I'd like to ask, you know,
and you know, whatever the case is, just let's just
make it happen. Let's sit down. Let's develop a relationship
where we're asking questions and questions are getting answered. You know,
I want to know what the strategy is. I've dealt

(02:20:28):
with major campaigns, Glenn Youngkin to name a few, right,
and I've never just so everybody knows, I've never failed
on a campaign. I worked never once, every campaign I
ever worked one in a landslide. Youngkin's just a I mean,

(02:20:53):
that's that's an easy one. And I knew exactly where
win and how and it didn't even take If I
can I'll put it to you this way. Glenn Youngkin
won where winsome seers could not, and that was in

(02:21:14):
a little place called Loudun County. And Glen Youngin didn't
have to win Loudun County. You didn't have to win
it at all. He just had to perform well in
Loudun County. He needed forty five percent even if his
opponent Terry mcaffell got fifty five. All he needed was

(02:21:38):
forty five percent of that area, and he got it.
And that's how he won. Because again, win a considerable amount,
lose in a liberal area, but lose in a considerable way.
Forty forty three, forty eight we wanted forty eight we got.

(02:22:02):
Louden was a perfect place. Now think about it. Loudon
County was already screaming and hollering at the time about
the transgender issue at the time, and look what happened.
He still lost it, but he made significant gains to
actually win the election. Also, he ran a heavy ground

(02:22:24):
game in areas like Prince William County, which is overwhelmingly liberal.
We said, don't ignore it when Ralph Northam ran. Ralph
Northam ran for reelection. You want to know how he went.
He won before I got home from the voting booth,
before nine o'clock he had won. He had been projected

(02:22:45):
to win before I got home, and I went to
Napoleon Place at seven when Ralph Northam. We're talking Ralph
Northam against Ed Gillespie and talk about Ed Gillespie, how
horrible he was. Again, I didn't even campaign for him,
but I went to a couple of his events. But
when Gillespie was running, Gillespie's team did not find Ralph

(02:23:08):
Northam's college yearbook, where there was a picture of him,
quite likely in a clan's outfit or in a plant
suit wearing blackface.

Speaker 4 (02:23:20):
They missed that in their oppo research.

Speaker 2 (02:23:24):
They found out about it after he was already governor.

Speaker 4 (02:23:30):
And he had to address it, which, by the way,
is a great story.

Speaker 2 (02:23:32):
I'll tell you that one day, if you go back
and you watch it. The story's better when I tell
it than the actual press conference. But after that debacle
and Terry mcgaffel, Terry mccaulliff, Terry mcgoffell was running for
governor again. He had already been governor. He's running again.

(02:23:53):
He had the popularity, had the name recognition, and young
Kin was an unknown and whipped.

Speaker 4 (02:23:57):
The beat the pants off the guy.

Speaker 2 (02:24:02):
Why because he could put a ground game into places
where he wasn't supposed to win. There were actual there
was an actual ground swell in areas that Youngkin should
have never even tried. He should have never tried to
be And Prince William County was one of them. Loudon
County was another. Just practically that's a DC suburb. But

(02:24:26):
he did well. So I want to talk to Ben
Prodo about those strategies or whether and not be able
to feed off of him, whether or not he's got
to throw his hands up in the air, shrug his shoulders. Hey,
that's the way it is. If that's the way it is,
well know, I want to ask those questions. I want
to ask the questions that you know, and it's not

(02:24:47):
about you know, he doesn't answer the real questions Reese.
I just want him to answer the Reese questions. That's
all I want. I want to answer the Rene questions.
We'll get to that.

Speaker 17 (02:25:01):
Stevie, V.

Speaker 2 (02:25:02):
What's going on, big guy?

Speaker 20 (02:25:03):
Well, first of all, who wears plaid for their year book?

Speaker 2 (02:25:07):
He was wearing plaid, Stevie. He was wearing plaid with
black face on it. And then he says, I don't
think that I was in that picture. However, I did
put Brown's shoe polish on my face for a Michael
Jackson impersonation contest. And he said, And one of the
reporters said to him, which is my favorite line in

(02:25:27):
the thing. He goes, He goes, hey, you said that
you did a Michael Jackson impersonation thing. Can you still
do the moon walk?

Speaker 1 (02:25:36):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (02:25:38):
What were you calling about? Man?

Speaker 20 (02:25:39):
What's a few more things? Maybe you should have your
Richard Blumenthal and give him a call because he owes
a solidy.

Speaker 2 (02:25:46):
He does.

Speaker 20 (02:25:48):
And then, you know, as far as being New York
and having money, I think basically anybody owns a car
in New York gotta have some money because for parking
and you know, storage and everything. Crazy crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:26:03):
Having a car, having a car in New York City
in order to park, it's like paying for two cars.

Speaker 20 (02:26:10):
But by my last point is the one affordable house scene.
I'd like to see him get back to some affordable
Cars's work on that first.

Speaker 18 (02:26:18):
Yeah, good point, I mean it's going crazy, all right,
Thank you man, you got it.

Speaker 2 (02:26:23):
Let's go to Dave, who's in Branford. How are you, sir?

Speaker 17 (02:26:27):
Yeah, well I could be better. You know, the the
wipeout is painful to my town flipped in the wrong direction.
And uh the town clerk was an appointed position by
the first selectment. Yeah, and so my town was able
to fight off that Merrick shamp fraud, you know, to
be out of town immigrants.

Speaker 19 (02:26:47):
Yeah, country immigrants.

Speaker 17 (02:26:49):
And I'm afraid we're gonna slip, you know, to the
whole southern Connecticut. Uh. The kind of the tide to
your show tonight was, you know, you were getting on
proto the head of the Republican Party, what he didn't
do and the candidate weakness. I really think, and I
don't know how to phrase it, that the inhospitable soil

(02:27:10):
for Republicans in New England. As I get older, I
just understand it less and less. All the good governors
that I can think of, the Santus Abbot from Texas,
Christy Nome. There was Governor Walker in Wisconsin who want
the Unions to a draw. I thought he'd make a
wonderful president back in sixteen, and he was the one

(02:27:30):
I voted for in that primary back when I like
Nikki Haley. I think youngin would and none of those
good governors would ever get elected in Connecticut. Nope, because
we're too inhospitable. And I want to end it on this.
If you know how Rudy calls up and says, you
Connecticut Yankees, you stay north, don't come down here, and

(02:27:51):
they say the same thing in Texas. You Yankees stay
to Helloway, do not wreck our politics, you know, can
I wasn't different. It was a different country like Somalia
or countries with really idiotic ideas like John Dommy from Uganda.
There we call it racism when we say your culture
is really antithetical to Americans, and we call it racism.

(02:28:15):
There's not really a word. When states don't like are snotties.

Speaker 2 (02:28:20):
They don't want this, they don't want they don't want
the politics.

Speaker 6 (02:28:23):
Ever.

Speaker 2 (02:28:23):
Can I tell you real briefly, Dave, here's the reason why.
Having lived in San Antonio, and I listened, you know me,
I love talk radio, So I listened to what was
w KTSA down there right or KTSA not w KTSA.
I listened down there and Trey Trey ware is they gota.
He talks about it every day He says that every
day he wakes up, San Antonio turns into a little

(02:28:44):
more liberal every day, and that's the reason why they're
fearful of people coming to the state, because there are
people who are coming from other places and they do
bring their politics. They run from the politics that made
them move, and then they bring them to Texas. So
that's the reason why. And I know that's the reason
why Rudy's saying it. But this guy, Trey Ware, you know,
he's a famous, you know, singer back in the day.

(02:29:05):
He talks about her all the time. He says, Look, man,
every day I wake up and it gets a little
more liberal. We're still conservative, but they're shipping away every day.

Speaker 17 (02:29:14):
I you know, because I'm old, I see this better.
They used to say it's a pendulum. It goes back
and forth. Yeah, but more and more it looks like
a ratchet. It clicks in one direction and never goes back.

Speaker 2 (02:29:26):
I'm going to have to agree with you on that one, sir, And.

Speaker 17 (02:29:29):
I don't listen dislike mom Dommy, you know, he did
what he did. I'm starting to despise the people of New.

Speaker 2 (02:29:35):
York City because that's right.

Speaker 17 (02:29:37):
You would think after the lesson of Deblasio, they would
have learned what pain is like, and so they vote
for even more of it. I can't respect, but that's.

Speaker 2 (02:29:45):
Because they're kids, and you know, kids don't learn. You
know that they don't. They haven't been in pain enough,
they haven't paid enough bills, and again they get They're
probably following a pipe dream that this guy is telling
him that he is going to make their lives better
by making it less of a burden, and they're gonna
fall for it.

Speaker 4 (02:30:03):
And I can't believe the rude awakening they're about to get.

Speaker 17 (02:30:06):
I'm done, but I wish in the future you'd explain
what happened to Winson Sears, who was like a rising
star in the party, but she didn't do so well.
Whose fault is that? Are we racist?

Speaker 19 (02:30:17):
You know?

Speaker 17 (02:30:17):
Explained that I will get a future date.

Speaker 2 (02:30:20):
I will get to that.

Speaker 4 (02:30:21):
Thanks, boss, Let me go.

Speaker 2 (02:30:23):
I'm gonna take Teresa before we get a body here.

Speaker 21 (02:30:26):
Hello, Teresa Hies, how are you?

Speaker 2 (02:30:29):
I'm good? What's up?

Speaker 12 (02:30:30):
Good?

Speaker 21 (02:30:30):
I'm calling with two things and I'll try to keep
a brief. I wanted to follow up. Did the person
from DCF ever call you back to give you an
explanation as to what.

Speaker 2 (02:30:43):
The quiet, the things she wanted, the things she wanted
to talk to me about. Yes, I'm going to be
addressing that tomorrow. She did tell me some details about
what's going on in DCF I got. I'm gonna lay
it out tomorrow what all of that was.

Speaker 4 (02:30:57):
It's a little sickening.

Speaker 2 (02:30:59):
It is. It's but it's weirdly enough. I'll put it
in this way. It does have to do with the
criminal justice system.

Speaker 21 (02:31:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. And then real real quick, because
I know that you need to go, but I wanted
to just mention this to you. Last night. I was
at one of the UH election and you have to
excuse me, election polls and standing with some people that
I know in town, and someone asked a question, and

(02:31:29):
you know, said, I just don't understand why more people
don't come out and vote. And I said, you know, honestly,
until I got older, and I'm fifty five, until I
got older, I didn't realize how important it was, or
not even necessarily understood how it worked, like the whole system.
Like I said, I feel like they should have done

(02:31:51):
a better job of teaching that at school, not that
they didn't do it when I was a kid, and
you know, you just dismissed things when you're kid, but
then when they start affecting you as an adult, you're like, oh,
wait a minute, I didn't realize that. So there could
be a reason why people don't come out.

Speaker 2 (02:32:09):
I think it's because it's too vague in our culture.

Speaker 4 (02:32:12):
Teresa.

Speaker 2 (02:32:13):
Here's the problem. It's extremely vague in our culture because
you can watch an award show all day and Lizo
will get up there and we need to vote, never
telling them one how to or what to vote for.
They you know, they only focus on the idea of voting.
It's always the destination. It's it's always the final destination.
It's never the journey. One.

Speaker 4 (02:32:32):
Why are you voting?

Speaker 2 (02:32:32):
Two?

Speaker 4 (02:32:33):
Way do you go to vote?

Speaker 17 (02:32:34):
In?

Speaker 4 (02:32:34):
Three? Why?

Speaker 2 (02:32:35):
It's important? They don't bother that. They just say, hey, vote,
So that's what they need to learn. I do have
to get about it.

Speaker 21 (02:32:42):
I like the other day, real quick when you said
ask who, what, when and why?

Speaker 2 (02:32:46):
That's right. Always do Thank you, Teresa, you got to
have a wonderful night. As I always say Radio Street,
So we thank you for paying attention. Remember to keep
JC in your hearts and in your Mind show and
Patrick Gil love you. We miss you. Remember that panic
is not planning, so plan your work and work you're
plan I'm reaching the radio. You have a good night,
pleasant tomorrow. Mark Christopher's getting your home and I hope
there's no traffic out there. Mark Christophers in the BPS

(02:33:06):
Traffic centering. Goodnights,

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