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

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, hey, yeah, they think should calm down.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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Speaker 5 (00:44):
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Speaker 6 (00:55):
Damn man, oh man, old man.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Let's do. I hear there's fighting out there. They're at
each other's throat.

Speaker 7 (01:13):
I love a good brawl.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
It'ris on the radio on WTIC News Talk ten to eighty.

Speaker 8 (01:19):
I hear that out there, throwing bows. They're doing drop kicks. People,
are you know, doing scissor kicks in the Republican Party
here in the Nutmeg State. Let me just give it
up for everybody on the Republican side.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
They are fighting online. I say, we just get him
in the ring and everybody just ha ha, just get
it all out there. Look, I'm I'm a pugilist.

Speaker 8 (01:56):
I'm a fighter. I like a good scrum. That's always
been me and primarily because growing up I was bullied
a lot, and I got my butt kicked quite a bit.
I got jumped, almost got stabbed, guy shot at me

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because of something I said about his mother after he.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Insulted mine, Just so you know what you, mama.

Speaker 8 (02:30):
I said something harmful about his mama and he wasn't
happy with it. But after he insulted my mother, I
guess mine was. My line about his mother was far
more harsh than mine.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Than his.

Speaker 8 (02:47):
But nonetheless, I'm loving and I'm watching it online people
saying this about the election, people saying that about the
election on the Republican side, and people are angry. I
get it, I do. I really do understand it. And
you want to place blame. There was the reason why
I put out that silly post about you know, let's

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blame folks, let's have a good cry.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I was only half kidding.

Speaker 8 (03:14):
I said before the election, losing to learn instead of
learning to lose. And the war has begun, the inter
party war in Connecticut has begun. So at the risk

(03:37):
of playing sides on this, let me do what Reese
does best. Take none, whether they be friends or foes,
or people I know and people I don't. I'm just
gonna tell you Reese's point of view here. I don't
think anybody knows how to win. I don't think any

(04:01):
of you do. And I'm telling you, from the bottom
of my heart, I don't think any of you know
how to win. Now, if you take that as an insult,
take it. That's your business and that's your prerogative. Why
am I saying that? Why am I saying that you

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don't know how to win? Because winners don't complain winners.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Win Winners just win and when they lose, winners look inward.
That's what we do. We take the l And if
I'm going to, you know, kick a fit, as they say,
you know the actual term. But if I'm going to

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do all of that, I do that in the privacy
of my own home.

Speaker 8 (04:54):
I'll throw the pillows, I'll scream, and I'll stop. I'll
be jumping up in the house son of a brain surgeon, La.
No one will ever see me cry. I will get
on the floor in a fatal position with.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
My thumb in my mouth, going on your nose. You
no horrible, But I would never let you see it.

Speaker 8 (05:15):
I would never let them see it. The fact that
anyone can see this infighting because of anger and frustration.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I know it. That ain't winning now. I told you,
and I'm gonna keep saying it that I know how
to win. Why, Because I've punched a few noses, and
I've had my nose punched a few times. I pay

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attention to people's weaknesses. I find out exactly where they
are weak and I exploit it. But not to poke
fun or.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
To ruin them, No, to make them do what I
need them to do, and that's think of things in
a rational way. You have to expose them and then
work that exposure. See a lot of people, and I'll
tell you this is one of the things that democrats

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do when they got your beat.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
They laugh and point. They don't learn.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
Because the only thing they care about is the victory.
Because when they lose, notice that they don't know how
to act.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
What do they do? They burn stuff down.

Speaker 8 (06:35):
Right, the whole place goes bananas when they lose because they.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Can't understand why how did we lose?

Speaker 8 (06:40):
Well, because the last time you were pointing and laughing,
we were strategizing.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's how we won. Now, for all of you out there,
it's like, I don't like Donald Trump. Ask yourself why
you won in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 8 (06:57):
Ask yourself what he did for four years when he
was out of office. Do you think he sat around
and pouted and screamed and hollered at people about why
he lost. No, he didn't just say that the election
was rigged. He worked out the problem while telling everybody
it was rigged. And while you were all focusing why
does he keep talking about.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
The election being rigged?

Speaker 8 (07:20):
He found a way to win how by actually getting
people to start repeating the same refrain, the thing was rigged?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
How do I know this? Try this on for size.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
After the Iowa caucus, CNN did a video polling folks,
and in that exit polling, they asked how many people
thought that twenty twenty election was stolen?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
And the number skyrocketed.

Speaker 8 (07:55):
Because again, when people are saying, why is he talking
about this? Why does he keep rehashing? Why is he
doing this? What did he do? He built a coalition
knowing how to win. We have got to start learning
to do that. Learn from the winners. It doesn't matter.

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It's like this, I would put it to you this way.
It's a great way to look at it.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
New England may be.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
A bad example because a lot of you are Tom
Brady or were Tom Brady fans.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
So I'll talk to.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
The people who are fans of other football teams around
the country how many of you have lost titles to
Tom Brady?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
How many of you? How many of you have woken
up and lost the game to Tom Brady and been
frustrated at the end of us And damn it that
tom Brady. He's a cheater. This and the reft are
on his side. Same thing with Patrick Mahomes. Screaming and hollering.
You could do that all day. But are you strategizing

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to make sure that the refs ant cheat?

Speaker 8 (09:02):
Are you broadening the perspective of your game to make
sure that there are no penalties for them to call,
that there are no questionable plays that you can have
ruled against you? Are you improving the play against the
person you think has got the edge on you.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Now you can sit there.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
And be angry about that team kicking your butt or
having the odds stacked against you, or and oh, by
the way, you can all yell at each other while
you're doing it. Hey, man, you're not catching the ball,
and you're not going the ball, You're not guarding enough.
You know what, You're not playing good enough game, beets,
or you draw your eye towards the enemy and you

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go to beat them instead of beating yourselves. I don't
have to tell you this. This is embarrassing that this
has to be a discussion. But like I said, I
don't think you know how to win. The frustration has
gotten the best of a lot of you. The frustration

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is eating away at you. That you've lost focus. You're
not learning from the loss. You're learning to lose and
just decided you're going to be frustrated about it.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Do you know that there's a six percent increase in
conservatives in this state? Did you know that? I bet
you you didn't.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
With everything that's going on, when everybody's screaming that now
it's just becoming.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
More and more blue, did you know?

Speaker 8 (10:48):
I know I'm paying attention. I'm drawing my focus to
how we win.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I made a promise to you that we were going
to come here and we were gonna kick ass and
take names. I'm not playing with you. I'll do it
with you or without you. It's not about gaining your accolades.
It's not about you patting me on the back and saying,
you know what, that guy may how about you? I

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don't need it.

Speaker 8 (11:19):
I was talking to a woman last night at AC Peterson.
My wife wants to go there almost every night for
ice cream. Now, whenever she wants to snack, she wants
to go down there. So we went again, and we
met a woman who listens to NPR. Her name is Geraldine,
and I hope she's listening today. And I asked that

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woman sitting across from me, Hey, why do you listen
to NPR? And she just told me and she explained why,
and I didn't even bat an eye. I got to
understand why she listens to what I would consider as

(12:01):
my competitor, and I listened to her and I understood
what the interest was, and I jotted it all down.
I need to know what I'm going up against, not
what's holding me back. I could do that all day

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here on the show. I could say, you know what,
Roland ain't doing this, you know what the station ain't
doing that. You know they're not promoting this and they
and I'm gonna we need more time on the show,
and you know what this and that and we need
to stop doing break So I could.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Do all in an old day, or or I can
improve on this very program with what I have and
use what I have and make it better. What are
you doing to improve what you're doing to make it better.
I get the anger. It's frustrating to lose all the time.

Speaker 7 (13:00):
Time.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Huh, I'm a Jet fan. Come on, folks, I'm a
Jet fan.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
Year after year after year, we struggle, we fail.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
How many games have we won so far? Roland? What
do we want? Two one?

Speaker 8 (13:17):
We're one and seven and I still have a jersey.
One day They're going to win it all one day.
I say to myself sometimes, why am I still a
big fan? Why am I still rooting for this team?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Because I've got no give up. You can sit up
here and say, but Reese, that's football, that's not politics.

Speaker 8 (13:44):
Politics ain't life. There's a lot more to it. And
if you really really think it is life, then forget
about it. You're never gonna win. There's a strategy in
all of this. I'm gonna harken back to something I
said when I first got here. I told you in

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the early parts of this program.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I knew it when you guys made it clear
because you called on the phones and you said it
to me. Why do you talk to that liberal this?

Speaker 8 (14:14):
Why are you talking to that liberal that you know
you're wasting your time? What did I say to all
of you? How am I supposed to figure out why
they think that way? If I don't ask them why
they think that way, how am I supposed to know
what makes them take If I'm not even willing to
take their calls, if I'm not even willing to talk
to them with all due respect, I'm trying to get

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them to seem to see the world from my point
of view.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm trying to get them to see the error in
their ways.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
It isn't enough to just call them psychopaths or crazy,
or they don't know what they're doing, or dumb or stupid.
That gets nothing, that creates adversaries. That's not winning hearts
and minds, and fighting with the guy who wants the
same thing that I want is also hustling backwards.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
You want to win? Do you really want to win.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
That?

Speaker 8 (15:14):
I've got one request, follow me, Just give me a shot.
I'll be able to give you an opportunity to look
at this thing from a different perspective. When somebody gives
you their playbook, you read it. When somebody tells.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
You what they're doing and what they're thinking, you listen.

Speaker 8 (15:34):
That's how you learn. That's how you win. Stop writing
them off because they disagree with you. Stop writing them
off because they won't vote the way that you want
to vote. You want to win hearts and mind, you
gotta be convincing. That's how you get people to vote
your way. That's how you turn the tides. Otherwise, they're
just the people who are your enemies. They're just the

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people who want to beat you.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Other than that fight amongst yourselves, I love what you're doing.
I love a good fight.

Speaker 8 (16:12):
And while I'm paying attention to what you're fighting about,
what the frustrations are. While I'm paying attention to all
of those things, I'm finding a way to convince you
to follow me, to get results, for you to look
this way and go, you know what, maybe that guy
does have a strategy. By the way, on a side note,

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I read everything, everything everyone's saying, and you know, it's
the one thing I never saw.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Solutions, not one. No one even offered one up. They
didn't say here's what we need to do. And look
and I get the whole solution is get rid of
ben Proto. Then what get rid of Ben Proto? Because

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of what get rid of him. It's like when people
tell me we need younger blood because they're younger.

Speaker 8 (17:13):
If there are ideas are the same, how's that better?
Sounds like just dumb ideas in a younger package.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
We're smarter than this, folks. I hope be smarter when
we come back.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
I'm gonna give a couple of ideas on how we
can win, a couple of ideas, and I'm gonna use
the strategy that's already winning theirs. That's how I'm gonna
do it. It is real simple, stick around, more news,
more views than you can shake a stick at. We'll

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Speaker 3 (18:10):
What's going on all you Scalleywaggs out there? And I
got a great message from Ben? Thanks Ben, He says
a beautiful monologue today where's conservative show host spent too
much time preaching to the choir rather than engaging the left.
I was a liberal once, didn't really realize it, but
I was.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
I was only it was only through conversation in an
open mind did I see things differently. Million of people
like that out there. Please keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you, Ben, I appreciate that. And again, this is
an important thing when I say how to win? You know,
I remember getting a.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Phone call maybe about a year ago, and I was
expressing to a caller who was being I guess adversarial
or was trying to jostle me in some way, wasn't
familiar with my style or how I, you know, talk
to people like how I communicate I am. What I

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like to do is I'm usually talking to somebody who's
on a different political plane than I am. I always say,
stay calm, and I always let them know, hey, man,
it of course it's okay for you to disagree with me.
Come on, what do you kid me? Please? I really
want to know I immediately. And my wife says that
that sort of allows people to put their defenses down,

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and then you don't abuse them by once they put
their defensives down by attacking them, right, because once you
get them chilled, then you go. But there's a probabot
and I never do that.

Speaker 8 (19:45):
I always let the person who disagrees with me be
comfortable enough to tell me what they really think, and
not just about what they believe, but what they think
I believe. And I never push back on saying, well,
you don't know about it. No, I want to know.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
No, seriously, I really want to understand. Maybe you have
the answer. And I listen to them.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
So I'm talking to this guy on there and he
calls up the show and he says something all the
lines of you're not changing anybody's.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Mind, and I go, you have no idea. How many
minds I've changed? You have no idea? Now people know
the obvious, right. The women in my life have become
more conservative, but that's easy if they've been around me
twenty four to seven. After a while, you know, ideals shift,

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and if you have a goal as a family, usually
if you're guiding them in the right way and you're
becoming either more prosperous or you know, successful, people start
to see the error in known ways and they go, yeah,
maybe I am this way, maybe I'm I. Maybe I
do see things differently than I was telling everyone.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
That's different. But that's not my track record. My track
record is not just with people who have changed their
minds politically. They've also acted on those changes by trying
to get into elected office on our side.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
And I've got legions of those who started off very
liberal who listen to me in this capacity and others
regular communications and then call me years later and say, man,
remember that time when we were talking about and such,
You know what, you were right? I started to experience
this in my way. And now I'm running for public office.

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I'm running for city council, I'm running for board member.
And I never say a word. I never say say
told you so. I go, oh, man, that's fantastic, great
to hear. What's your platform? Tell me about it? Because
it was always about giving what they believed credibility, not

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saying it was right. But that's what they want, credibility.

Speaker 8 (22:15):
And I will say, okay, do you want to have
a discussion on this, because I may say something that
may make you uncomfortable, and if that's going to be
the case, if you're going to be emotional, maybe we
shouldn't have to talk, you know, if you don't want to,
because sounds like it's something you're passionate about. And I
would probably only irritate you if I give you my
point of view. And then they go, no, no, you
you gave me the same courtesy. I want to hear

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where you where you're coming from, you know, And it's
not about you're right and I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
It's about having a conversation. And I do that every day.

Speaker 8 (22:45):
Every day I sit around, I talk to a person
just like Geraldine who listens to NPR and when she
immediately got on the defensive about you know what her
political view.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
No, no, no, no, it isn't about that. No, seriously, it's
you're just your political views are just as legitimate as mine.
And you listen, and if you're trying to change minds,
if you're trying to figure out what these people are
thinking or even why they're doing it, give them an
opportunity to tell you they already think that they're right.

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As most political conversations go, usually when a person is
gung ho about what they believe, they're already they are
gung ho, and they can't wait to tell you how
much they know, they can't wait to tell you how
much they care, they can't wait to tell you how
much better at this than you are. Give them the opportunity,

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let them school you, soak it all in, and if
you are really like died in the wool cement in
the concrete, I mean, your feet in the concrete kind
of conservative. Nothing they say will influence you anyway. But
you don't ever have to let that on. You just ask.

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And when you do it enough times and you hear
the same thing coming from this person and that person
that one, you go, oh, now I know what motivates them.
How do I counter that? How did I counter that
the next time we have a conversation. How do I
counter that so I can get that get them to
see that there may be an error in that? How

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do I provide evidence that says, yeah, you know you
were talking about uh, you know, the transgender issue. The
other day. I read this article that I thought was interesting.
It made me think of you and send it over.
Tell me what you think I was. You know I
was thought about you. When I say I thought about

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some of the stuff that you said. This article said
something or related to what you were talking about. Tell
me what you think. You'd be amazed what happens. But again,
never fails, not me, never fails at it. All I
want them to do is think they already think they
know that's the thing.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
They already think they know where they are. And if
you really think about it, folks, what have you always said,
when you hear these people talking about this, that, and
a third you say to yourself, do they really believe that?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Is that?

Speaker 10 (25:22):
Like?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
It makes no sense? Well, clearly if you know it does.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
But you can harp so much on how deranged it
may be, or you can do the thing that all
of us should do in those circumstances. What would you
do if you found out a kid didn't know how
to do algebra and you did? What would you do?

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What would you do if you found a kid who
couldn't spell, even an adult who had a hard time spelling.
Let's say you knew an adult who could not remember
I before except after c What would you do? Would
you yell at them, hey stupid?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Or would you go, yeah, I make that mistake all
the time, and here's what I do to so that
I remember it. I remember the first time I told
my mother in law how to remember the road maps
or the interstate, how to figure it out. If it
ends in an odd number, it's north and south. If
it's an even number, it's east to west. When I

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was no longer with her daughter, she was driving with
her daughter and said, yeah, that's going northbound. That woman
hated me. She goes, that's going northbound, and her daughter said,
how'd you know that? She goes, I learned it from Reese.
That's your job, argue in fighting all that other nonsense unnecessary.

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You have to teach them, convince them the errors of
their way by actually saying that. So what I said
about about New York, you're not going to be able
to convince those bozos that'sor on, mom, Donnie is not
the way to go. They have to experience it.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
So when they were so busy screaming at me online,
going you're just mad because they won't listen to you.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
What are you talking about, they did exactly what I
told them to do. Vote for him. Sometimes, folks, you
have to see ground. Sometimes you have to give those
people exactly what they want. And then when they see
the error of their ways.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Then when they see that they're not making any money,
then they see that they're actually getting taxed, not the wazoo.
Then when you find out that jobs are leaving and
then they're losing their job. After a while, people start
looking around and going, what am I voting for?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
And that's when you come in and you don't even
have to say, see I told you, so you just
go yeah, yeah, it's messed up. Yeah yeah. I tried
to try to prepare people for that, but you know,
you give what you vote for. What's going on, Steve,

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how are you?

Speaker 11 (28:09):
This is a fantastic topic. This is what's lacking in
our school system. The socratic method. You you heard what
that is. That's when you ask somebody questions and you
get them to answer their own questions and they have
to think boom number one.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Number one.

Speaker 11 (28:29):
What it does is it flatters them that you're asking
your opinion, but it also puts them on the defenses
because now they have to explain themselves.

Speaker 8 (28:37):
That's right, and they come to the conclusion on their
own without the embarrassment that you told them right.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
That you taught them vote.

Speaker 11 (28:46):
Probably the best debater that ever lived. He doesn't get
enough credit with Jesus Christ. Whenever the Pharisees came up
to him and out out numbered him and through all
kinds of questions, what did he do? He answered, he
asked them questions that no matter which way they answered it,
it was it made them look bad. He was probably

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the greatest debater that ever lived.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's again I found it.

Speaker 8 (29:12):
I remember what my days were like, Stephen, where I
was screaming and hollering at folks that I got nowhere,
I only created enemies.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
And I kept saying to myself, I was like, what
am I doing wrong? And I realized I wasn't catering too.
It's not about caterins that there are better angels.

Speaker 8 (29:27):
But in some ways it is about people's ego, especially
when it's about disagreement.

Speaker 11 (29:32):
You know so, But you know, the thing is like
in ancient Greece they had the soulfis. Those were guys
that would give you any argument, real price.

Speaker 12 (29:41):
They could argue.

Speaker 11 (29:42):
They could argue either side of the question, that's on
what you wanted.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
That's right exactly.

Speaker 8 (29:47):
So I'm I'm so glad that you responded to this
because as it's again, I know that there is an
ideological divide in our country. The other part is is
that a large degree of the divide isn't ideological. A
lot of it is almost a come uppance or payback

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because I know a large group of people who voted
in these elections when they were asked in exit polling,
I voted against Trump.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Which means they're not voting their conscience. They're voting for
revenge or vengeance, whatever the case may be. Well good
if they're that, if it's if their argument is that
week use that.

Speaker 11 (30:29):
Oh yeah, they want to be liked by their friends,
so they're just following the crowd. It's kind of like
when you got a schoolyard bully. The ten people, fifteen
people gang up on somebody and it's like really popular
to hate this one person.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Exactly, and you've got to isolate everyone that you can who.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Is motivated by that and motivate them the other way.
Thank you, Steve, I really appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Body. I gotta go to a break.

Speaker 13 (30:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (30:54):
That's a great topic.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Thank you, sir much appreciating standby. We'll be back, more news,
more views, and you can shake a stick out. It's
Reesa on the radio on w t I S News
Talk ten eight.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
It's t I see, I see.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Bob says, isn't payback a part of the two of
the political process. Who is a bigger proponent of that
than Donald Trump? Republicans need to stop trying to sanitize
that reprobate. Okay, let's let's let let's.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
Try to understand exactly what this statement means, and again
it's and I know where this is coming from, so Bob,
fear me out here. I know that it's okay or
customary today to believe that the politics that we are

(31:49):
experiencing today started with Donald Trump, that there were times
where everybody was just getting along on either side of
the aisle. And you know, I've always deemed that as
a very ignorant and myopic way to look at politics.
Politics was far more volatile in the sixties, far more

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nothing compared to what you're seeing right now. And Donald
Trump doesn't give anybody permission to behave in any way.
If you think that people are meeting Donald Trump where
he is and then saying it's because of Donald Trump
that they're behaving badly, that only looks poorly on the individual.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's a kind of a silly argument. It's a Donald
Trump acts like that, I'm gonna act like that.

Speaker 8 (32:37):
Do But Donald Trump shouldn't be the arbiter of how
you behave He should not have that power.

Speaker 12 (32:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
You know, somebody used to say that to me all the.

Speaker 8 (32:48):
Time, A grown man, by the way, very accomplished man,
used to say, I make him feel a certain way
that he had to be volat ale, and it embarrassed
him when I had to say, Wow, I didn't know
I had that much control over you, like I didn't
know that I can actually make you feel things that
I can make you angry. It's an enormous amount of

(33:10):
power you're giving me. And I exploited it right to
his face. I said, really, so I can make you angry,
let me let me do it more. Let me let
me get you angrier. Let me get you really angry.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
So you start cursing and screaming and hollering, and you
start sweating, and then you want to fight. Let me.
I love that control. Let me let me have more.
Let me have that power. And you know what to
do with himself. I mean, he felt like a child,
And that's kind of the way I look at that statement.

(33:43):
It's childish. I don't know how to behave because Donald
Trump's a big bad man. He's a big bad meaning
that doesn't work on me. And I find that embarrassing
for you to admit out loud. That's just the way
I look at it. Okay, you probably have never been
told that, boy. Okay, marky Mark, what's going on? Sash?

Speaker 14 (34:04):
So I know how to read the room, and I
know you don't want to hear this and.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I don't and I'm not going to look.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Me.

Speaker 14 (34:13):
Just let me put it in a different way though,
because you just moved up here, I'd like to use
that as an analogy.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Okay, you just.

Speaker 14 (34:21):
Moved up You don't know anybody. You got a house
and you got to put a roof on it, and
you look up a general contractor and it's Ben Proto
General contract and he SHUBs out. Wait a second, wait
a second, he subs out the work. And these people
happen to be our TC chairmen and their candidates.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
For whatever position. Right, they screw up the roof at leaves.

Speaker 14 (34:42):
It's horrible right now, Okay, a few months down the road,
you want to put an addition on that same house.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
With the bad roof.

Speaker 14 (34:50):
He would go back to ben Proto, the general contracts.
He's throwing back. We look, this is now.

Speaker 15 (34:56):
Listen.

Speaker 14 (34:57):
Now it's time you come into a little money. Now
you want to build a house.

Speaker 15 (35:00):
So you're gonna go to Ben Proto.

Speaker 14 (35:01):
Well that's what we've done here in Connecticut.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
No, no, no, you're.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Preaching to the mark. You're preaching to the choir. Here
and again my diatribe. Although you were and I'm gonna
be honest, even though you're a part of what I
said in my opening comments, you're not the issue here,
Like you're not the problem. I get what you're doing
your age.

Speaker 14 (35:21):
I understand what you're doing. You're trying to figure out
how do we well, I don't have a solution. Well,
first of all, and I gotta use the analogy again.
You got to clean house.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
No, no, no, no, you are one.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
Hundred You are one hundred percent right on that front.
So let me, by the way, let me let me
sort of make up what Mark and I are talking
about here and what Mark's absolute righteous criticism is. But
I wouldn't do it in a way that everybody else
will doing it. But the righteous criticism here is the
fact that people have to be honest about the leadership

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of the Republican Party in Connecticut and its failures, and
people who were suggesting that they're doing a good job
when you had so many places flip to Democrats in
this election. You are not only are you lying or
being disingenuous.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
If it isn't those things, you're blind. And that creates
a little bit of a rift, and in Mark's case,
Mark is not going to stand for that.

Speaker 8 (36:20):
So Mark is going to call those people out, He's
going to call them fraud, He's going to call them stuff.

Speaker 14 (36:26):
Can I leave you with one thing though, really the
ironic party is Ben Proto is blaming what oh money?

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, saying money?

Speaker 14 (36:33):
Now, Republicans, what do they always tell us about the
education system when we want to dump more money in
the inner cities to educate the kids. Well, you can't
fix them with money, right, But yet they think they
could fix their own problem with money, right.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
You know what? I but women I read remember what
I read yesterday?

Speaker 8 (36:49):
He got three point two million dollars and only eighty
one thousand was used of it on on actual promotion
of candidates.

Speaker 15 (36:58):
It's big business and Ben Proto.

Speaker 14 (37:01):
Is terrible at doing business at the bottom line.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
But that's you got it? Absolutely absolutely no.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
And that's the part where Mark is right is the
fact that look, we cannot keep going to the same failures.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Can't built it. And it's a perfect example.

Speaker 8 (37:18):
If it's not working, it's not working and people need
to move on. Part of this deal is and not again,
this isn't a personal thing. I don't know Ben I
don't know him at all, he doesn't know me.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
But I've got to ask one question and then the
thing is an important question to anybody. Do you want
to win? I know the answer is yes. Are you winning?
I know the answer is no. So you've got to
keep saying it's like, well, we're gonna get better wide
receivers next time around. That's not a plan.

Speaker 8 (37:51):
What's the plan, and coming around saying it's like, don't
worry about it, we'll get him a good next year.
That can't go on every year, because every time you fail,
somebody's got to know that at the end of the day,
someone's going to take responsibility and give it to someone
else who can That's all I'm saying. All Right, we'll
get into some headlines when we return it. It's time to

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go to the WTIC newsroom with John Silva. We'll talk
about one of the stories he's covering in Virginia.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's res on the.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Radio, Greece on the radio making sense of the news, yea,
even when it makes no sense at.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
All at all.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
Now until a U t I see news talk to
ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Let's get in some headlines. The Bristol Board of Education
unanimously voted to add arms security personnel to the district staff.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
It's the first district in the state where employees are
authorized to carry firearms. The district said it would use
its current director of Security, Steve Cabellis, as the first
armed guard. With the policy change, the district said it
is the option to expand the program in the future.
It said that the goal is to add another layer

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of protection when it comes to keeping students and staff safe.
The district already has school resource officers who are armed,
but those positions fall under police departments.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Police Chief Mark Morello said.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
That his officers will work with the guards to improve
school safety and will also mark the first time the
elementary schools will have armed security. Bristol Police Department will
continue to collaborate and extend any and all support to
the that the board deemed necessary to make this a
successful program. State law requires that anyone hired for the

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position must be a retired law enforcement officer.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Cabellas is a former state trooper.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
Supplemental armed staff, along with the police department, will be
not only in schools, but our extra curricular sporting events
as well.

Speaker 16 (40:09):
We did it.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Well, they did it, but I'm glad that they did.
You guys have talked about this. Bristol will be the first.
Hopefully they will not be the last, So congratulations to
them and the kids. This will give the kids there.

Speaker 8 (40:25):
An opportunity to meet former law enforcement, you know, to
know that they're being safe.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
This is going to it's a great community outreach. People
don't realize that, but it will. And I know it's
not like these officers or former officers don't know that.
They know what it's going to be like and how
great that's gonna be. Now onto another story I talked
about earlier or earlier.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
The number of active Republican voters in Connecticut has increased
almost six percent. That's more than twenty six thousand voters
over the course of four years, a trend that is
especially prevalent in some of the state's biggest cities. Hartford
and New Haven saw large increases in Republican voter registration,

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each with over one thousand more Republican voters in twenty
twenty five than in twenty twenty one. This gain nearly
doubled the number of registered Republicans in both cities, but
the parties still sit strongly in a minority statewide and
nearly out of three hundred and three thousand voters.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Again, that is a net positive.

Speaker 8 (41:33):
Because what you guys have said is that we are
losing them.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
People are leaving. I just heard that yesterday that there
are so many Republicans who are leaving, but we're still
gaining some. And if they're in Hartford and they're in
New Haven, think about how liberal those places are. That
means whatever's happening there is obviously changing hearts and minds.

(41:58):
They are fed up and they are leaving the party.
So it's something to consider. Build on it. Build on it.
Not that we can locate these people.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
But by the way, if you're out there and you're
listening to WTIIC recent radio in particular, reach out to me.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
I'd like to talk to you. I'd like to find
out what made you switch. It'd be nice to know.

Speaker 8 (42:19):
Justice Clarence Thomas can be thankful that Yale University has
finally acknowledged that he is a Supreme Court justice. He
has finally had his portrait.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
At the at his alumni reading room in the Sterling Library,
according to Yale Daily News. A College fixed reporter confirmed.

Speaker 8 (42:41):
The location in late October, a group that promotes free
speech and conservative values. Yale thanked the unknown employee who
finally hung the painting of the nineteen seventy four law
school graduate after years of delay.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Quote. It is refreshing to see Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas's portrait finally take its place alongside other prominent Yale
alumni after six years of neglect. So we are glad
to hear that. Now it's time for the stupidest thing

(43:16):
I read today. Yes, you do.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
It could very well be the stupidest person.

Speaker 17 (43:28):
On the face of the earth.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Have you ever heard the term tree rat? Roland? Do
you know what that is? Have you ever heard that before?
That's ah, get out of here. He knows it's a squab.
You must hunt? Do you hunt? Okay? So tree rat?

Speaker 8 (43:53):
I only learned that terminology when I was in like,
I was in a foster home in Staten Island and
someone had made a of a bunch of animals he
trapped and I had bear meat. I had, of course venison,
which is d year for those of you who don't know.
And he said tree rat, and I went, what the
hell is tree rat? He says, that's a squirrel.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah. Well, the reason why I used the term tree
rat is because you might remember last week we did
a story about the about the rat problem in Hartford, Connecticut.
And you know what's crazy, Yeah that was since we.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Did that story, I've been seeing everything I'm scrolling, I'm
seeing rat infested this and rat infested that. I'm like,
get these rats off my phone, please. The algorithm is crazy.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
So isn't that wild?

Speaker 7 (44:40):
Right?

Speaker 3 (44:40):
So just talking about it now, you're seeing rats everywhere,
so yeah, and I'm seeing it as well. Well. The
reason why I use the term tree rats is because
we saw.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
The growing number of people a growing number of rats
in major cities, and Hartford shot up eight spots to
number five of all the major cities, being urratius. But
this story is and I only call it crazy because
our college students poured their poor souls. This past Monday,

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a school wide email was sent out announcing to students
and faculty that certain campus squirrels would be removed from
the premises of Trinity College. They said that many squirrels
in near Trinity are harassing students.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, that's right, they.

Speaker 8 (45:30):
Say, quote, we want to keep Trinity safe and if
relocating squirrels is how we do it, so be it.
The message urged everyone who had a negative experience with
one of these mammals to contact facilities immediately.

Speaker 13 (45:47):
Well.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Because of this news, it sparked outrage with many of
the Trinity students, who took to a website called yik yak,
which is an anonymous posting forum for colleges, and the
kids are are is if you could believe it? Expressing anger?
Why are they expressing anger.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
Because they want to save the tree rats.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
These sweet animals did nothing wrong except existing in spaces
overtaken by humans. To quote, relocate them would be an
act of cruelty. Many agreed with this statement, with one commenting,
how can Don Lugo allow this? Uh? This is? Is

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this really his vision for Trinity. Supporters of these remarks
took commenting to hashtag hands off our squirrels on the
Trinity College Instagram pa, Oh my goodness, the squirrels.

Speaker 8 (46:50):
Are being harassing students. I mean, I don't know if
they're being attacked by squirrels.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Squirrels. I would hate to be attacked by them. The
ones in New York. They'll go for your juggler if
you let them.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Well, I can tell you this, if they all got
together and wanted to attack us, we would be in
a heap of trouble.

Speaker 8 (47:10):
But I want to know why they're particularly aggressive at Trinity,
because Trinity doesn't seem like a place where unless unless somebody.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Is feeding the Oh yeah, that could be true, because
that could be the reason why.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Absolutely, they had a case. They had a case while
a while ago, many years ago out here of a
boy feeding the squirrel and he was backing up because
he wanted to try to get the squirrel as close
to the house as he could. Oh, and that squirrel
thought he was taking the food from him and sliced
his face. He had to get like like twenty five

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or thirty stitches from the top of his head all
the way like through his nose, through his lip to
his chin. Sliced him up real good.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yeah, so they'll let you know how sharp their claws really. Yeah,
those I mean, but look, the animals at the end
of the day, is not there.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
It's not like you could talk English to him and
be like I'm not I'm not taking food. I just
want you to come a little closer. And they say, oh, Okay, cool,
you know, back up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I'll be right there. So if I'm wait a minute,
So you're telling me the boy was trying to get
the squirrel to come with him to the house.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Yeah, he was. He was in the yard. He's backing up,
backing up, trying to come more close to closer to
the to the porch so he could, I guess, sit
down and and you know, feed the squirrel or whatnot.
And the squirrel thought it was trying to take the
food away, take the food away, and he attacked.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
I want to know, first of all, if anybody knows
about these squirrels that are attacking folks over at Trinity,
if you've got a kid that goes to the school
and they've been I got to hear.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Is there a movie attack of new squirrels. I don't
know there should be.

Speaker 8 (48:47):
Now that's what I'm telling you. I don't trust those things.
And the thing I'll tell you this, the thing I
don't understand them, And this is how I know they're dangerous.
Just coming into work today, two squirrels jumped right in
front of the wheels of my car, like at least
two feet from me, waiting until I got closer to they.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
I saw them sitting on the side of the road.
As I come closer to them, they wait until the
last minute and then dart across like.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
It's probably a game for them.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yes, sitting and I'm going.

Speaker 8 (49:20):
And now, of course, you say to yourself, I don't
want to hit the squirrel, because if you're squeamish about
that thing, you don't.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Want to you don't want to hear that crunch, and you.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
Don't want to kill a woodland creature, especially if you
have one of those conscience that you know will stick
with you for a while.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
So here's the worst thing.

Speaker 8 (49:35):
So you know, when I left, after I was doing
all my setup, I said, let me go out and
grab something to eat. Well, I come out of the
entryway of the radio station, and what do I say,
sitting on the road right at the same spot where
almost missed them, A dead squirrel.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Yeah, somebody got them.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Somebody did get them, you know.

Speaker 8 (49:49):
And I'm like these things, first of all, them having
a death wish is exactly my point. And if they're
attacking people at Trinity College, there's a reason for that.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
These things are vicious.

Speaker 8 (50:01):
They always have been. I don't think it's indicative of
just trinity. But I want to ask. I gotta ask, like,
what are the kids doing that are making these squirrels
so aggressive? And if it's true for what you're saying
about this young man who was carved up by its
woodland creatures, man, it's quite possible that that's the trinity problem.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
But they at least being nice enough to relocate. We
have a.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Neighborhood cat is owned by somebody in our complex.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Oh really, but.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
She it's a hunter cat. Oh so it hunts like
it hunts like little rabbits, anything that looks like, right, rats, whatever, mice, whatever,
And it recently left it would look what looks like
a liver on my porch, Yeah, of an animal, and

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then left the half of body somewhere down the road.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
It's a gift.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
So like my next door neighbor, she just she knows
the lad the owner, so she called her and said,
you have to come get this stuff up because it's
it looks it looks disgusting. And we were like, well,
why you let your cat hunt? She was like, well,
he's a hunter cat. And I took his collage because
it doesn't have a collar off. I took his collar off,
so the prey won't know he's coming. I said, Oh,

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I said, now that's that's strange.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Let's go to Kenon Meridan. How you doing, sir, I'm good, rece.

Speaker 18 (51:27):
How you doing all right?

Speaker 7 (51:28):
What you got hey?

Speaker 19 (51:30):
I got a squirrel story for you.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Go for it.

Speaker 20 (51:33):
Oh.

Speaker 19 (51:33):
Back some years ago when I started dating my son's mom, uh,
before we moved in together. She was in an apartment
that had a fireplace. Okay, that wasn't used, but nonetheless,
for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
It was active. It was an active one she never.

Speaker 19 (51:55):
Used, right, and the flu was left open when she
moved in, so it wasn't like she did it and
a squirrel got into the apartment. So she called me
and I grabbed a pair of leather insulated work gloves,

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jumped in the car, drove over, got there, and I'm like, okay,
where is it. It was in the fireplace still, but
there was I don't know, there was some kind of
junk in the bottom of it, so it was like hiding.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (52:30):
So I'm like, it's in there. She's like yeah, says
all right, So I start digging in there. I grab
it around the neck.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
And it.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Literally latched onto my thumb, and I'll tell you, if
I didn't have.

Speaker 19 (52:49):
These insulated work gloves on, it probably would have.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
Went through the glove and broke skin.

Speaker 15 (52:55):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (52:56):
Needless to say, I walked it to the back door,
opened up the back door, and I just threw it
out the door because it was latched onto me.

Speaker 20 (53:06):
The glove too, you squirrel and glove came off my
hand and it hit a tree that was not far
outside the door, and I just slammed the door shut
because I didn't want it to get up and try
to come back in.

Speaker 19 (53:22):
I waited a bit, went out and there was just
a glove there.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Were you concerned that the glove that the squirrel was
gonna be waiting for you to come outside?

Speaker 21 (53:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (53:34):
I uh, I wasn't happy about having to go out there.
Remember what the hell was the movie? I can't remember it,
but it was kind of like the uh, the cat
from Christmas Vacation in the tree. The squirrel was kind

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of like that that squirrel.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, isn't there there is a squirrel that comes that
darts out at him when he brings the tree home? Right?

Speaker 7 (54:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (54:04):
And then there was the cat too.

Speaker 8 (54:06):
Those things again like woodland creatures I'm telling you, I
don't even even the rabbits scare me.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
I don't. I don't care what they are. They're outside.

Speaker 19 (54:18):
If you want to have fun with rabbits, yeah, because
you know, for whatever.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Reason, go to YouTube okay.

Speaker 19 (54:25):
And have look up the sound of a red tail hawk.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Oh okay, and then play that out loud.

Speaker 19 (54:34):
You want to see rabbits run for Cover'll do it?

Speaker 8 (54:39):
Oh so okay, so they recognize the sound because they
know that they know it's coming in.

Speaker 19 (54:44):
Yeah, the red tail hawk.

Speaker 6 (54:46):
And then, if you want to have even more fun,
do an injured rabbit sound if you know there's a
red tailed hawk in the area and it'll fly.

Speaker 19 (54:58):
Around looking Holy moly, those things scare me.

Speaker 8 (55:03):
Every one of those things scare me. I'll tell you
I don't. I don't like anything Woodland. Thanks, thanks all.
Did I appreciate you, sir?

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Not a you later, but you got it. Let's go
to Jamie real quick. How are you Jamie? Nope? We
lost them? Rude? What's up, sir?

Speaker 9 (55:20):
Hey? Funny topic. So we have a family of squirrels
on our patio at work. Oh, my owner's husband hand
feeds them. They take nuts out of your.

Speaker 8 (55:31):
Hand yeah, I know this woman in New York who
does that, This woman at Washington Square Park, she's infamous
for it.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
They're like all all over her body.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
So they're crazy because in Philliate University of Pennsylvania, they
have the same problem as Trinity. You'll be eating your
sandwich and all of a sudden, it'll jump on your lap,
grab the half a sandwich that's not in your hands,
and take off, and uh, it's funny. They're not afraid
of you, yes, but they used to be. I had
a parson, Jack Russell. I'd he weighed twenty pounds, and

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I'd be in my garden, which was fenced in, and
a squirrel hop up on that fence with me standing there,
like he's gonna pick Brussels sprouts or something, and I would,
I would just I had a whistle that I'm like,
not a whistle physical, but I had a whistle that
my dog knew sound. He'd come out that screen door,

(56:26):
jump off my deck, and that squirrel would see him
and they'd all leave. They're afraid of a twenty pound
dog who would shred him. He'd shred them, but not
afraid of me. You should have seen it one day
I'm an old Saybrook and I'm coming up there's a
private community of like million dollar houses off at Essex Road,

(56:48):
right near ninety five the bridge, and a squirrel got
his tail run over and it got mushed so hard
it got trapped. Wow. And we were in traffic. We
were trying to get on Essex Road. There's eight cars
in each direction. You're crawling by. I'm like someone.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Running over, so put it out of his misery.

Speaker 9 (57:08):
It started chewing off its tail in the middle of
the road at rush hour traffic. I'm leaving my friend's
house to go back up Route nine to Middlefield and
this squirrel is trying to h.

Speaker 8 (57:24):
This is you know what this This may be the
kinds of squirrel that Trinity's talking about. These may be
some I gotta fight because I've never known squirrels to
be so aggressive that you have to relocate them and
not touch.

Speaker 9 (57:37):
Them because it's obviously they've fed them too much. And
I think the University of Pennsylvania they stopped being afraid
of you. And I mean the squirrel I'm talking about
at work. I've seen the adult one, not the babies,
the adult one jump a lady sitting outside on the
high top table with two chairs by herself. The freaking

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squirrel jumped in the chain across from her and put
his paws up on the table like seed me. I'm like,
you're out of your mind. I'm like, please, don't they
want me to feed him? And I'm like I can't.
I'm running food to the tables they see me with,
like a burger and French fries are gonna comes.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Like I won't want now this you're telling me now,
I can't eat outside. Let me go to a break. Thanks, Rudy,
I appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (58:22):
No get a Jack Russell.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Maybe you're right.

Speaker 8 (58:25):
Yeah, thank you man, Jamie, stay on the line. I'm
gonna get back to you in the next break. Yeah,
I'm scared of I gotta find out if somebody knows
something about this Trinity school.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Uh deal, let me know. We'll be back. More news,
more views. It's Rees on radio on WTICE Newstalk tenning.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Whoa, WHOA hold up, let's not put all one hundred
candles on the cake. Slow your roll. That's a fire hazard.
Then there's expensive radio equipment in here, and I'm not
quite sure what I'm wearing.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
His fireproof protect the equipment, just the equipment. It's rees
on the radio. We are back on WTIC News Talk ten,
and thank you guys.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
Everybody's in the chat room. I have to tell you,
I'm really really, I'm like on fire right now because
I kind of feel like the show's got a it's
got a momentum going, so don't ruin it.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
I just love the fact that people are reacting to
the squirrel story. The chat room has gone nuts on
the squirrels, and I guess this is something you all
can relate to, so I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (59:25):
I again, I try to stay away from them, don't.
I don't speak to anything that doesn't speak English.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (59:31):
I know it's health prejudice, but I don't care. Let's
get to the phones. Jamie in Middlefield is on the line.
Thanks for holding Jamie.

Speaker 12 (59:39):
Hey, welcome, he say. You know, I never thought i'd
be calling to talk about a squirrel. Actually, three quick
stories I will do, But I do want to welcome
to Connecticut. I hadn't known all that time you were
doing it remotely. Wow, it is the land of steady habits.
And you know what, that's a good thing because I
listen every day when I'm driving home, and I'm gonna
do it tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday. So well, you

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know that's actually a good thing for your audience.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:00:02):
We're very habitual like that. But anyway, story one squirrels.
Here we are in middlefield. I've seen little pockets and
towed where there are black squirrels. You do not see
black squirrels normally. It's a Canadian thing. So somehow they're
coming down. It's really cool. I get really mad if
I almost hit one. I'm like, no, no, no, I
want them to survive. It's really cool, right. Number two.
Back in the day when I was a kid, I

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might be a few years old, thank you. I was
born in sixty six, but it was common to place.
We walked around the neighborhood with bed guns and we
had a lady up the road, missus Peeddal. She would
be like, I will give you one dollar paper money.
We didn't have paper money back then. I would be
one dollar one dollar for every squirrel you get me,
meaning with our bb guns. She would make what's called
squirrel pie. And what is squirrel pie? Well, she would

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take the legs and the thighs and the front legs
and the rear legs and the middle section no guts,
and it would be cooked in like a stew with
potatoes and carrots, and she'd put like biscuit on top,
like a dumpling mix.

Speaker 22 (01:00:56):
Huh.

Speaker 12 (01:00:57):
I wouldn't eat it, but you know what, she did
it and she actually craved it. It was not like
this oh roadkill thing. But it was interesting, you know.
Can you imagine if that was going on today?

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Kids, you were like the local butcher.

Speaker 12 (01:01:10):
And lastly, I have squirrels in my yard right now,
just got home, looking around all over the place, and
I don't have a problem. And the reason is they
are self reliant, right. They take care of themselves, They
feed themselves, they house themselves. And it just shows you
when too much human interaction gets into play, whether you're
a squirrel or human being, things tend to go south.

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It's it diminishes the spirit of any being if you
do too much for them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
So that's what.

Speaker 8 (01:01:37):
And so you're reliant, you're of having, you know, in
the small capacity, having studied them and been around them.
Do you believe, as many others have said, even Rudy,
that the new aggressive squirrel is doing part to feeding
them and sort of acclimating them to sort of human relations.

Speaker 12 (01:01:59):
Well, it's not a space sypothesis that it is my
recollection that that would be the case. I think maybe
in some of these urban places they can't find as
much food as well, you know, right, there's not as
many trees and everything else. But it's interesting. Why the
heck am I calling you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Over because I'm telling you I don't know when it happens.
I say it all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:02:19):
Tattoos earlier this week for some odd reason when talking
about Hooters just set the thing ablaze and how the
squirrels are doing it.

Speaker 12 (01:02:28):
We got a little food show in there too, because
that used to be a Friday thing years ago. But
that's all good but awesome. Thank you Red for everything
you do. Appreciate it having you got a YouTube.

Speaker 8 (01:02:36):
And again, like I said, I don't know what the
phenomenon is about this. The thing I gotta say to
the Trinity College folks, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
No one is saying like, no one's bringing in an exterminator.
They're just relocating them someplace else these and it's not
like you're not going to get other squirrels who are
not gonna bite you or attack you. Maybe you need
some less domesticated squirrels who don't have an attitude. And

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I'll put any amount of money on it because I
know it's happening and I'm going to get calls from women.

Speaker 8 (01:03:15):
Fine, but I'll put any amount of money on it.
At Trinity, it's the girls who are feeding them. Who
wants to make a bet with me that the people
guys don't feed they don't feed them, then they don't
feed squirrels.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
It's the girls. They'll be out there sitting having a
picnic with their friends, you know, eating bread, wine or
whatever it is that the girls are eating now I
don't know, tofu whatever, and they'll be there on a
bet on a blanket, sitting cross legged, talking about whatever philosophy,

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and they'll see a little woodland creature hop along and
then they look at them and they go, oh, look,
how cute suckers. And then they'll reach out their hand
tip because they think the squirrel is a you know,
maybe the squirrel that had a big part in Snow

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White and the Seven Dwarfs or whatever Disney movie they've
seen in the last ten years, and they think they're
going to have this unique and miraculous bond with them,
and they reach their hands out and that little furry
woodland creature turns into the most evil person, well animal,

(01:04:33):
you can imagine, sucker. And then they're attacked, and instead
of doing what normal people would do when attacked by
a woodland creature, demand action. Get these things off there.
Know you become sensitive. It wasn't his fault. It was me.
I infated his space. It was us humans who have

(01:04:58):
taken over there. Not sure the hap aittack, what the buildings,
in the cars and the technology. That's why I know it.
I know it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:10):
There's no way there are guys on this petition on
yik Yak. By the way, if you're a guy and
you're on yik Yak, you're dead to me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
You're just dead to me. Just you can't. I don't know.
I feel horrible. I feel horrible.

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
Then people are trying to protect rabbid squirrels that are
attacking people at the college.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I gotta get I'm sorry. Maybe we just have to investigate.
Maybe we just have to investigate. I wanna, I wanna
talk to some Trinity College kids. If you've been attacked
by a squirrel, maybe you should call the show let
me know what the attack was like, that's all. I'm

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just trying to figure this stuff out. Let's go, Ralphie boy,
how are you doing, sir good?

Speaker 17 (01:06:01):
After the squirrels I hear in large numbers?

Speaker 23 (01:06:05):
Yeah there, And I have.

Speaker 17 (01:06:07):
I have a bird feeder out there with sunflower seeds,
which they love.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Okay, And we have a lot of oak.

Speaker 17 (01:06:12):
Trees in the yard and the acorns are starting to fall.
They don't eat the acorns. You know why Why Because
I got the sunflower seeds out there for them.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Oh so are the sunflower seeds something they attract to
more than the acorns? Now, like you have now changed
their diet because of this.

Speaker 17 (01:06:34):
A thousand times more.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (01:06:37):
And if I took the sunflower seeds away, guess what
they would eat.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
I'm assuming the acorns.

Speaker 17 (01:06:43):
The acorns exactly which the Good Lord provided us.

Speaker 8 (01:06:48):
Right, But look, is it a good thing, Ralph for
you to change their diet in that way?

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
Aren't you kind of playing god here?

Speaker 15 (01:06:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:06:55):
Absolutely, Well you know you like them. Hell like most people,
the squirrels, well, they've been feeding themselves for millions of
years without my health.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Hey, you know what, Look, I applaud you for admitting
that you're playing god here. Hello.

Speaker 8 (01:07:10):
By the way, Wendy in the chatroom has a great idea.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
She says, send the squirrels to New York. Well, you're right,
because after the first year of Mom Donnie, people are
gonna need something to eat.

Speaker 17 (01:07:21):
The main reason, the main reason I called. I've talked
about this before and I to me, it's extremely important.
All these Democrats, you got seven cuckoo clocks in Connecticut
and as Flowers are talking about the billion and a
half dollars they want to spend. Ask every one of them,
what taxes do you want to increase to pay for that?

(01:07:43):
Or what new taxes do you want to put on
to pay for all these programs you want to want.
I'm from right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
They're hoping to be honest with you, Ralph.

Speaker 8 (01:07:56):
They're hoping after the Mom Donnie election, all of those
folks who are gonna move up north to Greenwich, Darien
and other places that will be that the revenue that
they'll be talking about.

Speaker 17 (01:08:07):
And my second question to every one of those clowns,
and that's what they are there. I'm sorry, they're very
dishonest people. Most politicians, and I'm talking about both parties race.
Imagine can you just imagine if they were around and
end up being responsible for all the mess they created.
But no, when all these chickens come home, they're gone.

(01:08:30):
They got them bekons and their money and they hit
the road. But the second question I would like to
ask those clowns is how many illegals do you think
we should let in this country? Twenty million, fifty million,
seventy five hundred million, how many.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
I don't think they're gonna have to worry about that. Shoot.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
In fact, I've got a story coming up about that
next week that is gonna kind of Papa is gonna
pop a little hole in their balloon on immigration in
the state.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
But I'll talk about that next week. Thank you, Ralph.
Let me get to one more here. Richie is calling
from Bloomfield. How are you, sir?

Speaker 22 (01:09:03):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:09:04):
Reason?

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
What's that?

Speaker 15 (01:09:04):
Hey?

Speaker 17 (01:09:04):
The squirrel problem could be easily taken care of by
a couple of falcon ears.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
I couldn't agree.

Speaker 17 (01:09:11):
More falcons will be licking their chats and there won't
be a squirrel in that county.

Speaker 8 (01:09:17):
But see, the thing is that the Trinity thinks that
they're going to relocate squirrels is that ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
I mean, I'm thinking about that in my head. I'm going,
you can't. The DC said they were going to relocate rats.
I'm like, can you do that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Now?

Speaker 15 (01:09:33):
You can't reloase it.

Speaker 17 (01:09:35):
Depending on how far you bring them away, they'll come back. Yes,
I mean if they're gonna throw them in the woods
and they're used to people feeding them, they'll us die.

Speaker 13 (01:09:42):
So let the falcons have fun.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Oh what did that? How many falcons do you think? Oh,
a couple just to come Well those if it's only
a couple.

Speaker 17 (01:09:53):
A couple, Yeah, a couple of falcon ears with some
trained falcons, they will do some serious damage to a squirrel.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Popular Yeah, I don't know these Well, they would only
drive the kids at Trinity crazy because they're they're upset
about the relocation plan. So if the falcons come in,
they'd probably be really upset.

Speaker 17 (01:10:12):
Well, that's the falcon's natural.

Speaker 22 (01:10:14):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (01:10:15):
In my yard, the scrolls all the time, at least
once a week, a redtail comes to his wife's a
square off my front yard all the time.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
Does this?

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Does this then keep other squirrels away because of it?
Like it works as a deterrent?

Speaker 23 (01:10:29):
I think so?

Speaker 17 (01:10:30):
Yeah, I think some guy, some guy said earlier, Yeah,
you played the song of a redtail. Yeah, that that
works for a little while, until they're smart enough.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
Yeah, exactly, you have. Every every animal has a degree
of intelligence that they gain after a.

Speaker 17 (01:10:43):
While, exactly. But when they see their buddy just get
snatched them by a falcon, that makes a whole lot
of different.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Sometimes they're just like us. They say, thank you, boss,
all right, go ahead, well take a break, we'll come back.
I'm loving the fact that you're loving this story. I
just I thought it was crazy. We'll get to that.
We got plenty of news and plenty of views.

Speaker 8 (01:11:07):
I got to get into Nancy Pelosi, not literally, but
we got to talk about her.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
And of course at four o'clock we got Negro nonsense.
So stand by. It's Reesa on the radio on WTIC
news Stock ten eight.

Speaker 5 (01:11:18):
It's Reese on the radio on w T I see,
I see.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
I meant to show some love to the People's Lobby
on X he keeps saying, you never showed me any love,
showing you love now, People's Lobby, Thank you so much
for checking out the show. Let me go to John
in Weathersfield real quick.

Speaker 19 (01:11:37):
How you John, Hey, Rice, how are you doing pretty good?

Speaker 14 (01:11:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:11:42):
So I just walked in on this conversation. Where are
they planning? Just your last segment is when I walked.

Speaker 13 (01:11:48):
Down on it.

Speaker 18 (01:11:48):
Yeah, where are they? Where are they planning on relocating these.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Squirrels that I do not know? The focus of the
article was about relocating them and the students of Trinity
being upset about their being removed at all. They were
just trying to focus on the fact that these squirrels
had become uncommonly aggressive on the students.

Speaker 18 (01:12:11):
Okay, but wherever they relocate them, aren't they going to
be aggressive over there?

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
I would imagine so. And I'm almost I'm almost certain
of the plan because again, I've seen this happen before
with the rat problem in DC where they wished to do.
What they wish to do is.

Speaker 8 (01:12:28):
To put them out into like a field area where
they're going to eventually die because they have no way
of eating, right, there's no way to eat.

Speaker 18 (01:12:38):
Well, I have a better idea, okay, to drop them
in the middle of the ocean.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Oh no, that's just cruel. Now come on now, if
they were to suggest that, do you understand what those
kids at Trinity would do if that were the case.

Speaker 8 (01:12:53):
They're already upset about relocation. I don't know what they want.
I don't know what these gids.

Speaker 18 (01:12:58):
They gotta grow up, They got meet the wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Well, they'll learn, they will. I think. Look, I do
believe this. What's going to happen is there's going to
be an aggressive attack on someone and these kids will
finally like give up on the on the whole idea
of keeping the squirrels around. But I'm gonna find out.
Like I said, this story is too great to let
go of, because I think I'm gonna have to find
out what's the relocation plan because that may be even

(01:13:22):
more interesting than the story itself. Because I want to
find out one. I want to know who's the squirrel wrangler?

Speaker 18 (01:13:30):
Like god, yeah, I never understood that far. I mean,
if you can whatever, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Thank you man, I appreciate you. It's like a Steve
Irwin type crikey. There's a lot of very aggressive squirrels
around Trinity College and we've got to take a all
Dan wrangele get them somewhere where they can't hurt the soul. Criky.
Look at that one. Look at the team for one.

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That one one ort that that could cut into it
and cut into a bloody finger. There, that's that's probably
the case.

Speaker 24 (01:14:11):
What's up, Fulton, what's up, buddy? I tell you what
I could figure out why it's handy Connecticuin. We got
the Matron, We got the Christmas World for eighty thousand
dollars a year. If I fall my kids at Trinity,
I'd be happy that there's a hunch of mats.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
I don't even know if they're biting them.

Speaker 24 (01:14:33):
They should take a bad Buddy class to yell, which
sounds like a good class.

Speaker 15 (01:14:38):
Cupid in your job.

Speaker 8 (01:14:40):
One hundred percent for writing all of that.

Speaker 24 (01:14:43):
That's right, Frank is going to one hundred percent.

Speaker 14 (01:14:46):
Right.

Speaker 19 (01:14:47):
I think.

Speaker 8 (01:14:49):
What I'm trying to understand is, like I thought it
was crazy that they were doing the bad Buddies class,
but I think they're running out.

Speaker 24 (01:14:56):
Of education in the in the state they are coming
out for forgetting ideas like that you're reading and writing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Yeah, could we get back to the basics exactly?

Speaker 24 (01:15:06):
Yeah, I think I like a lawyer went to Yeah,
I'd rather like, you know, a real class, not that, Lenny, Okay, great.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
One hundred percent right, thanks buddy.

Speaker 24 (01:15:16):
I gotta go on outmate, though from my marketing stuff,
because they're only relocating the black One.

Speaker 22 (01:15:25):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 24 (01:15:26):
They're gonna here coming in there.

Speaker 15 (01:15:29):
I don't know, Thank you man.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
It's one hundred percent. They're only getting into the Black
Ones and Larkson's upset. Let's get a first check whether
traffic Mark Christopher's in the BPS traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
Mark is Rees on the radio. Brind don't say we
didn't more than you on News Talk ten eighty w
T I see, I see, all.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Right, we are back. Let's do this thing now as
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If you'd like to win, you gotta go to reseller
Radio dot com. That's our E E S E on
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the last six months, but you can enter as often
as you like. Okay, I'm gonna read this as we
could get past it. Okay, and I'll get one more phone.

(01:16:41):
Mark in Canton and Cantons on the line. I'll get
to him in a second. So what hold on, WAYMNTE.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Do I have to do the thing? No?

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
No, no, not no news. No, Jerry is in the building.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Who's in the building?

Speaker 22 (01:16:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Get out of here? Is pull you in the building?
No doubt he's coming to bring you some vagas ah,
no doubt. Okay, I can't get good. Ok, all right, good,
I'm glad. I thought I was breaking news. Anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:17:08):
Okay, I want to read this real quick before we
go to a break, before we get back to BPS.
The tripod, which is the Trinity publication that wrote the
story about the squirrels, He said they were able to
speak to the sophomore who was the victim of a
squirrel attack. Choosing anonymity, the student recounted the traumatic experience
and expressed relief that the college at the college's new protocol.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
When asked about the event that led to her.

Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
To file the report with the facilities, the student disclosed,
I was taking a walk on a weekday around three pm,
and as I passed the gym, I heard some sort
of rustling sounds in the bushes. I didn't really think
anything of it. Until I heard a squeak and then
something jumped out at me. This squirrel and I locked eyes,
and then it was just like started running towards me.

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I was actually so freaked out because I thought that
squirrels were like supposed to be scared of humans or something,
but this one wanted to scare me. And it wasn't
until I got to the library that I finally backed
it off.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
The student also acknowledged that the filing the report was
easy and the facilities was able to be sympathetic to
her anguish. Maybe the squirrel was saying, get the class.

Speaker 8 (01:18:20):
You're not gonna make any money to feed me unless
you get a good education.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
That's what smarked it. Let's take another check whether traffic
mark Christopher's in a BPS traffic center. I don't know
if he's ever been attracked by a squirrel. Attacked by
a squirrel.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
It's race on the radio on Newstalk ten WT.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
I see I'm reading so many messages because everything around
here is coming to me. I'm trying to get all
this stuff in here. I go to market a second
Negro nonsense coming up. H I want to give a
shout out to Samuel who's just sent me a text
saying he's on his way to Trinity to find out
where they're going to relocate the squirrel. So let me know,

(01:19:01):
Samuel if you get any on that one. I hope
he's getting but to be serious, I do want to know.
Let me get the Mark I promised I would.

Speaker 23 (01:19:09):
Hello Mark, Hey, uncle Rege, Hey, I want to thank
you for sponsoring squirrel Talk today.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
And I don't know what happened. I want to.

Speaker 23 (01:19:19):
Thank that gentleman for mentioning squirrel pie. That was a
delicacy for me growing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Up, was it.

Speaker 23 (01:19:27):
I grew up in the Appalachian Quiet corner of Connecticut, Okay,
and my father got paid every couple of weeks, so sometimes,
you know, money was a little tight. So a box
of Bisquick and a bag of frozen veggies and a
few squirrels goes a long way.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
That's incredible.

Speaker 23 (01:19:46):
You know, hey, it tastes just like chicken, doesn't at all.
The squirrel pie squirrel stew. That was pretty good starf
And then you know what.

Speaker 8 (01:19:55):
I don't listen. I don't criticize it. When I had it,
you know, we had a tea. I was in a
group home in Staten, Island and he would come in
every month with a stew of this, you know, you know,
wild creatures. And a part of the quiz was the
guests which meat was in the stew, and it was
usually some of the same stuff. But I remember the

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only year I got to participate. And you know, if
you got all of them right or most of them right,
you win a prize. But I thought it was educational,
and I remember he's when you couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Figure out most of the stuff. He starts writing down
the meat that was in there. What did I realize?

Speaker 8 (01:20:34):
It was bear meat? He got bear meat. There was
rabbit and another I'm trying to think.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Of course there was deer. I know there were I
said rabbit, right, and then he wrote and then he
wrote tree rat. And when every kid in the now,
mind you, these are.

Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
Inner city kids from New York, Queens and all over,
they see the word rat and we lost it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
I ain't rat, And he goes, no, tree rats of
what we call squirrels vegetarians.

Speaker 23 (01:21:00):
They're well fed on bird feeders, acorn to fatten them
up and get them out of your yard. And you
got a free meal. You'll have to go to the
soup kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
That's wow.

Speaker 8 (01:21:10):
Again, it's fascinating to find out, and said, well, you
know what, what would be the case if we all
had to you know, if you know, if they made
it popular for people to eat squirrel meat, we'd probably
eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
Windn't bat an eye.

Speaker 23 (01:21:23):
Hey, well, squirrel hunting is legal. You can go out
there and pop a few, you know, I like to
for our family. Was one night my sister went to
get something out of the freezer and opened it up,
and she had a few squirrels staring at her.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Oh yeah, and it's always the girls, right, it's always.

Speaker 23 (01:21:42):
The squirrel pie in our house. Thank you, buddy, I
appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
You got it. Oh hey, look, you know again, I'm
not gonna knock anyone for their delicacy.

Speaker 8 (01:21:52):
I know people who eat some of the weirdest stuff.
I'll never understand it, but you know, that's a part
of the culture. It's a part of the culture. All right,
let's get into it. You knew it was coming, folks,
It's Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
How dag you? How dare you? In today's installment of
Negro nonsense.

Speaker 8 (01:22:21):
There are people who are testing the theory of walking
into a supermarket and stealing groceries like this woman did
at an HB in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Okay, so I'm like ten minutes thirty minutes maybe from.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
My house, and I'm gonna tell y'all, is I.

Speaker 25 (01:22:42):
Don't get what's to do?

Speaker 15 (01:22:45):
Y'all think because for some reason that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
They watching now, they're not watching now.

Speaker 22 (01:22:52):
They don't care our people.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
It was not tenniss y'all.

Speaker 15 (01:22:55):
I'm in the white neighborhood at their AGB.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
I'm gonna walk out with my groceries easy, It is easy, PD.

Speaker 22 (01:23:05):
Nobody's looking at me, nobody's going.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
To tching to me.

Speaker 8 (01:23:08):
The only reason why I play this. Listen to this
black woman saying that she's in an EB. She's in
an HGB thirty miles or thirty minutes away from her
own home, and these white people aren't paying attention to her.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Think about what you're hearing. How many times have you
heard that when you're in a white neighborhood and you
go to the grocery store, you go somewhere, what's the
one complaint they always have? They be looking at me,
they be checking me, following me around the grocery store.
Here's this woman saying she is thirty miles away from
her home at a white grocery store with nothing, and

(01:23:45):
these white people ain't caring about what she's doing. Boy,
does that run counter to the narrative, don't it? Don't
it just run counter? But don't worry. We got much
more than that. We got some other nonsense.

Speaker 8 (01:24:00):
Imagine, black folks, you found out exactly the family who
owned your ancestors. Again, imagine you had the means to
find out exactly who owned your ancestors, and you knew

(01:24:23):
where they lived. How would you react if you found out? Well,
actor Roy Wood Junior did. He's a comedian from Comedy
Central's The Daily Show. He was also one of the
comedians at the White House Correspondence then are during the
Biden years.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
I looked him up.

Speaker 8 (01:24:42):
It looks like he's worth about three million dollars. It's
quite popular, quite famous. He does a lot of political commentary.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
Well, he was on Shannon Sharp's Club Shay, and he
talked about doing the find your Roots program and finding
out who his ancestor yours were owned by.

Speaker 25 (01:25:01):
I did Finding your Roots and they found the white
family that purchased the first black wood of my bloodline
off the slave ships in Charleston.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
That's what we came off of.

Speaker 25 (01:25:14):
If I wanted to today, I could find the white
Wood descendants in southern Georgia and pull up on their
house one day, I will. They ain't got no money,
though I zillowed, they crib. They broke, right. That's the

(01:25:38):
thing we want to talk about with slavery man, that
there's a lot of white people fumbled like y'all. Yeah,
you hadn't the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
You still couldn't come on how you broke and you
had slaves that was gold.

Speaker 7 (01:25:53):
They fumbled broke.

Speaker 8 (01:25:57):
Now, I don't know about you, I I really don't.
I don't know what you thought when you hear something
like that. But I'll be honest with you, I couldn't
be more angry when I heard that. And I don't
know whether or not I'm angry at the mocking of
it or the laughter of it, whatever it is. But

(01:26:17):
I'll tell you this is the part that drives me
up the wall, and I can I literally pinpoint it.
Roy Wood Junior again, we're two point three maybe three
million dollars. Guy's famous and the whole nine. He finds
out who who his ancestors were. He finds out the
descendants of the folks who enslaved them, and he mocks

(01:26:40):
them for being poor and does not see the irony
in that, does not see how ridiculous that is because
again also flying in the face of that idea that
we got to make sure we get reparation from.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Them because they benefited. And here's one boson and I
know it again that it's not indicative.

Speaker 8 (01:27:03):
Of all ancestors. It's not indicative of all slaves descendants.
I would imagine it probably is a large degree most
of them. But here's this guy finding out that the
ancestors did not financially gain from it, and then he's
mocking them, damn, you had slavesy you win'it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Keep that shut up and laughing at.

Speaker 8 (01:27:26):
Them, which would go to the argument that clearly no
one benefited from his family. I'll go one step further.
Maybe there's a reason why their family didn't benefit from
your descendants.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
M Maybe that's maybe there's a reason why, Maybe there's
a dark, ugly reason why the descendants of those slave
owners made no money off your ancestors. Perhaps there's a darker,
uglier reason for that. Ron Huh, let's find out. Let's

(01:28:04):
really really find your roots. Let's find out whether or
not there was enough, there was a worthiness. I mean
I could get ugly too, but I mean that when
I saw him just laughing about that, Oh, how are
you going full with the bag on slavery, talking about
you're gonna roll up on them while they live in

(01:28:25):
poverty to tell them what, Hey, look at you bums,
while I'm a millionaire, successful actor.

Speaker 8 (01:28:34):
Oh quasi successful? I just watched that. And I watched
the woman with the the what do you call it?
With the groceries. It's walking out. No white folks even
thinking about her, just going on about their day, getting groceries,
feeding their families. Nobody cared about what she was doing. Hey,
they don't care about what you're doing, and just walked out,
just like.

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
I hate thieves.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
Gotta hate thieves. I don't care what stripe you. I
hate them, hate them, and filmed their self doing it.
Where's the shame? Where's the shame?

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
This should be at least a monarch of shame. But
these people have no dignity and no self respect at all,
and not again to be with all the respect, I
don't care how angry black folks get about that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
You should be ashamed of them.

Speaker 8 (01:29:22):
You should be calling these folks out well that what
both of those people displayed.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Is not only nonsense, but despicable. That's all I'm saying.
Let's go. Franken is in Bristol. How are you, sir?

Speaker 15 (01:29:35):
I'm good. How are you today, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
I'm all right. What are you got going on?

Speaker 15 (01:29:40):
I was just listening to you, and of course you
know I called and discuss or talk about the black
and the yellow, the red, foolishness and all these shoe
constructs that you guys keep promoted. You never promote rid

(01:30:00):
of these color codes, which are not birth scientific, birth nature.
They are color codes from John seventeen ninety six, which
America the world adopted, and they classify even people with

(01:30:24):
wise like yours and may have a child.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Some reason. I'm losing your frank I don't know. Why
are you there?

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
Okay, okay, Now, unfortunately you go in in and out.
But you know what, call me back. I'm gonna spend
a little time with you because we're near the end
that we're coming close to a break. Make sure you
call me back. As soon as I see your number,
I'll put you on a hole. But get into a
solid place where there's no interference like you know, no.

Speaker 8 (01:30:52):
Like lack of self service. All right, I'll get back
to you. Let me go to John, who's in Washington, Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
How are you, John?

Speaker 19 (01:30:59):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:30:59):
Right, good to hear your voice. I'd have for one thing,
one thing to tell you that I'm an octoroon. And
you know what that is?

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
No, I wave in an octoroon? Is that associated with
an octagenarian in some way?

Speaker 7 (01:31:18):
Now? I'm one ash black, oh, one eighth black.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Okay, didn't know that? Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:31:23):
They used to have classifications down south for women and
their quatroons, and then you know, because a lot of
the gentlemen down there would have a side woman, either
an octoroon or a quat roon, and they would fight
duels and all sorts of things over their honor. But okay,

(01:31:45):
that's that's from the past. You would never know that
I am. I have any blasts to look at me.
I'm mostly I'm mostly Swedish.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:31:57):
But anyway, I got the squirrel stree. You gotta hear it,
you gotta hear it. Okay. My wife and I were
at church and we came home and we noticed that
all the things in the windows that we have were
all knocked over, and I thought it was a cat
that did it. So we went home and I went well,

(01:32:17):
we went to the bedroom. She put her clothes winging
closed the closet door. During the night, we hear the
sound and it's in the closet and it's like that
the squirrel had gotten down the chimney through our fireplace,
and so I'm thinking to myself, what am I going
to do? So this really gets to be something. My

(01:32:42):
wife finally, you know, I saw him going after the squirrel,
so she went out of the room. That's in the morning,
and I opened the door a little bit. Of course,
there's a lot of stuff on the closet floor, so
every time I pulled something out, the squirrel is going
further back back into the closet and further back, until

(01:33:03):
finally there's only a few boxes. So I think I
got him. He jumps out, jumps over my head and
he's in the bedroom. Try to catch the squirrels, it's
harder than catching a chicken. I was in the bedroom
and I worked up a big sweat chasing that squirrel

(01:33:24):
from underneath the bed, underneath the burros all over and
they're quick. They're so so quick.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
I know I got it. I have to take a
hard break. But hold on.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
Let me put you on hold real quick. I'll get
back to John in a second. I'll ask you a question.
Let's get to Mark Christopher, who's in the BPS traffic?

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
So hey, Mark, stay locked in locked race on the
radio is on w T I see news.

Speaker 8 (01:33:50):
We'll get to the phone calls in a second. Don't
forget to always got to reach on the radio dot com.
That's our E E S E on the radio dot com.
Go read my latest substack, which is food stamps, so
free them. And there plenty of other substats. They are
been writing them every week. I think the only week
I didn't write was the week that we moved up here.
But there are plenty of them there. They all are topical,
and they all are current. I don't think any one

(01:34:12):
of them is not a current. Nancy Pelosi has decided
to leave, but not right now.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Why is she not leaving now?

Speaker 8 (01:34:19):
Because if I'm Nancy Pelosi, get out now, go home,
Just do a special election and go home.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
The midterms. The midterms, ladies and.

Speaker 8 (01:34:26):
Gentlemen, it's all about the midterms. Let's see if we
can play a couple of Nancy Pelosi's greatest hits.

Speaker 26 (01:34:31):
I'm never been that impressed with his political operation.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Bid, Yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 26 (01:34:37):
I mean, I just hadn't it. They won the White
half Bravo. So my concern was, this ain't happening.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Nancy Pelosi talking about the Biden administration, saying that they
are not up to snuff. Here's another one.

Speaker 8 (01:34:54):
This is her responding to a tape of herself taking
responsibility for jane Ruary six and saying she isn't responsible,
even though she's on tape saying that she was.

Speaker 26 (01:35:06):
The fact is that the president of the United States,
the former president, and his toadies do not want to
face the facts they're trying to January sixth. Why weren't
the National Guard there to begin with?

Speaker 22 (01:35:24):
They thought that they had sufficient well, there was no question.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
They don't know.

Speaker 26 (01:35:30):
They clearly didn't.

Speaker 10 (01:35:31):
Know, and I take responsibility for not having them just
prepare for more. But we cannot let us be dragged
into their again false impression of what happened that day.
They know what happened that day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
Yeah, we all know what happened that day, Nancy. How
about the time when Nancy Pelosi said that Hamas was
a humanitarian organization.

Speaker 26 (01:35:58):
War is a thing, and I have many Palestinians who
live in my district and I'm hearing from them regularly
about how their families are affected who live in the region.
It's a terrible thing. But let me just say that
any missile that comes from someplace has a return address,
and if Israel is responding to that address, then that's

(01:36:20):
a shamed that the Palestinians are using a rumor to
be using children and families as shields for their missiles.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Should we all try.

Speaker 26 (01:36:32):
To know first of all, avoid conflict.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
The Harmas initiated this.

Speaker 26 (01:36:37):
So again, this has to be something where we try
to have the two state solution that we have to support.
We have to support a boss and his role as
leader there. We have to support arm Doom to protect
the Israelis from the missiles. We have to support the
Palestinians and what they need. And we have to confer
with the Kataris who have told me over and over
again that Hermas is a humanitarian organization.

Speaker 3 (01:37:00):
Yeah, she believed everything that they told her. Nancy Pelosi
gone but not forgotten, well, not gone yet, but will
probably never be forgotten. Yeah, great person, sad to see
her go. Mark Christopher is at the BPS traffic center

(01:37:22):
getting you home. Oh oh okay not maybe not ready yet. Okay,
he's finishing up.

Speaker 16 (01:37:28):
In n' ready ready.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
The NAACP calls him. WHOA, I don't think I'm all
read this.

Speaker 5 (01:37:37):
It's race on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Let's just say some people are not fans news talk
tennady w T. I see forgot about that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
I want to go back to Frank in Bristol.

Speaker 8 (01:37:50):
He's on the line, Frank, I, I do understand what
you're saying about the social construct of races in this country,
But as as a as a commentator, be it political
or otherwise as a talk show host, what I'm trying
to convey.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Is indeed nonsense, and I know that people do not.
It's it's funny because people say, if you have to
explain the joke, that it's not really a joke. But
what I'm doing is is sort of pointing out the
absurdity of certain behavior that is being promoted by groups

(01:38:31):
of people based upon race, be it white or black
and all of those things.

Speaker 15 (01:38:39):
If you do that, if you do that, being you
are saying there are black people, which means which means
that black people act a certain way.

Speaker 22 (01:38:51):
Right.

Speaker 15 (01:38:51):
There are no black people, right, So if you group
it in like that, then those that are classified correctly
as black would be painted with this broad brush of stupidity.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Okay, well then okay, look, let me counter that. Then
do you believe, Frank, that certain individuals of the so
called black community adhere to a stereotype for the sake
of confirming their authenticity?

Speaker 15 (01:39:24):
Absolutely? Okay, And that's where smart people like you come in.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
Then why you laugh when you said that?

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Now?

Speaker 15 (01:39:38):
I mean, I consider you a very smart, thank you,
intelligent person, thank you. However, the color code white with
the same mentality considers you not an intelligent person because
you are classified as black. You are not black, correct,

(01:40:01):
And I agree with you, And again this is my
we can disagree ever, that is that is the social construct, correct,
All that is classified in that group will say that, right.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
And I think you and I are having the same
and you and I are agreeing in two different ways
because the reason why I'm calling it negro nonsense as
it were, is that I believe that we are all
like in America as far as we're concerned. I consider
us all equal, right.

Speaker 8 (01:40:32):
Unfortunately, I have to deal with the construct that exists.
I can pretend that. Look, I can't look at it
that way, and I only want to have a discussion
with all of us as humans. But there are things
that are brought upon us that separate us in that construct.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
So I have to address them because they exist.

Speaker 15 (01:40:51):
Right, But who are the people in the black group?
I'm not mykin color is brown. I'm not in that
group because I know God created me in his image,
and God gave me the intelligence as he blew his
breath into me, and the same intelligence with the because

(01:41:12):
there's only two skin colors, brownish and pinkish, right, there
are no black skin color, there are no red skin color,
there are no yellow skin color. However, because of the
social construct, you are put in this group. Now I

(01:41:32):
reject that group because I am created in the image
of God and I have the capability with the intelligence
that God created me to do like all other humans.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
Frank, Can I ask you a question?

Speaker 8 (01:41:50):
Frank, I'm gonna ask you a personal question because I
trust you, and I because I love it when you
call it. I know you love this topic. But I
have your number here. Can I call you privately, because
let me tell you why. There's a thing that I'm
working on with a guy by the name of Chad O.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
Jackson. Are you familiar with him at all?

Speaker 15 (01:42:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Okay, So Chad O. Jackson is doing a piece about
Martin Luther King Jr. Which talks about his introduction into
Marxism and how he then moved that into the civil
rights movement.

Speaker 8 (01:42:29):
I want what I want to do is you have
to pay for it in order to own it. What
I want to do is I want to buy it
and then I want to afford it to you so
that you can watch it with me, and then you
and I if we can, because I think we want
to do this very soon, is to have a discussion
with you about doctor Martin Luther King Junior on this
very topic.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
Is that possible?

Speaker 15 (01:42:52):
Okay, absolutely, give me a call. Let me tell you
right up front. I disagree with Martin Luther King in
his approach to ending what he called the negro inequality. Okay,
about it the wrong way.

Speaker 8 (01:43:08):
Then you are going to love this documentary. Then I
can't wait. Okay, So I've got your number. I'm gonna
give you a holiday later on. I'll send you a
text first to let you know it's me and then
I'll give.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
You a call.

Speaker 15 (01:43:17):
Okay, absolutely appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
Thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time. Man. Uh,
let's go to I got John. Who's back? John? You
were telling me? Sorry, I unfortunately had to cut you off.
John is in Washington.

Speaker 7 (01:43:32):
So now that's that's great. Race. I enjoyed everything that
he just spoke to Frank about.

Speaker 3 (01:43:37):
No, no problem.

Speaker 7 (01:43:38):
Okay, so your squirrel.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
Situation, yeah, yeah, go to your squirrel story. You finally
get the squirrel out of the closet. What happens?

Speaker 7 (01:43:47):
Yeah, well, he jumped up at in my face and
over my head, and that really peeved me. I had
the door slowly man against beasts in there for a
solid hour, and finally I told my wife she wouldn't
come in, get me a knife, and get me my

(01:44:12):
fishing net. So chasing this squirrel wrong, and by this
time I met my wits end. I'm really really mad.

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
So you're frustrated and angry at the same time dealing
with the rodent. You know you probably can't catch.

Speaker 7 (01:44:27):
Well, what I did was I let him sort of
walk around and I didn't really try to chase him
and he went over into a corner, an open corner,
and I didn't look at him. I had him out
of this corner of my eye and it took the
net and just frew it really quick and I got him.

Speaker 22 (01:44:45):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:44:46):
And I hate to say.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
It, Oh you use the knife.

Speaker 7 (01:44:50):
I certainly did. That was that. I just had to
do it. I was so mad it was. I got
rid of him and that was it. Because he damaged
my door in my bedroom too, which I was not
happy about it at all. But but again, and my

(01:45:11):
story about my one Aceh black Blood is the fact
that my great grandfather went down to South Africa. I
guess he was prospect for gold or something. Okay, I
don't know he was. He was sort of a strange
guy in a lot of ways. He just roamed about

(01:45:32):
and he took up with a cape colored and brought
her up.

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
And so he went down there for gold and came
back with brown.

Speaker 15 (01:45:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:45:43):
Yeah, right. And you know it's funny the family, you know,
they they accepted it, you know they just did. This
was way back into you know, my nineteen ten or
something like that. Really oh way back. Yeah, I'm old.
I'm I'm like in my mid to late seventies. Oh man,

(01:46:03):
it was a while ago.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Yeah, and so that's where you get your your one
eighth blackness from. Hey, you know what you know? You
know you can say your one eighth African. I think
that's appropriate technically, right.

Speaker 7 (01:46:18):
Well, tell the tell the three black guys that tried
to mug me up in Harford. They didn't believe you,
right word, No, not really.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Thank you, John, I appreciate you, sir. Thanks for holding
on for me.

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
Yeah, I'm both of those gentlemen are really really they
are very grateful for both of them holding on.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
That was actually kind of sweet. Let's go I'm gonna
hold off on that. I'm gonna go to Sam and
Windsor let's go to him real quick.

Speaker 22 (01:46:49):
Hello Sam, Hey, ree, So I was just thinking you
should do a less messman thanksgiving this spoof with.

Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
The squirrel with the squirrels.

Speaker 22 (01:47:01):
I just sent you a link to a three minute
interview I walked rod from the Hartford Okay, no one
knows anything about it, including the campus security.

Speaker 8 (01:47:09):
So you okay, So this is Sam. Sam said he
was going out to the campus. He sent me a
text message goes, No, I'm really serious.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
I'm going down there.

Speaker 8 (01:47:16):
So you you asked, So, Sam, you did ask, and
no one was able to confirm that there was a
quote unquote squirrel incident or squirrel incidents that have been reported.

Speaker 22 (01:47:28):
I asked three students, two faculty member, and the security officer.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
No one knew what you were talking about.

Speaker 22 (01:47:35):
Nope, you have the voice file in your Facebook.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Okay, good, I'll go listen to it. Hey, Wyman, did
you do you have the interviews as well?

Speaker 22 (01:47:45):
Yes, yes, the interviews.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Oh beautiful, Thank you Sam. I appreciate you. Look at
that intrepid reporter Sam on the scene. Thank you. I'll
actually let me go look at them and say if
I can put them on the air.

Speaker 22 (01:47:58):
Have a good day.

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
Thank you man, you too. Jason is in West Hartford.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 22 (01:48:03):
Hey, good race, Thank you for having me my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
What do you got going on?

Speaker 22 (01:48:08):
Yeah, the squirrel situation there. I don't know if any
of your colors like grow gardens and stuff like that.

Speaker 16 (01:48:17):
I grow up.

Speaker 15 (01:48:18):
Yeah, yeah, so that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
So you said I dumped him, So you said they'll
leave it alone. If what.

Speaker 22 (01:48:30):
We leave it alone all like early summer through midsummer,
but then when it comes harvest time, you know, they
will for some reason. They want to eat your tomatoes,
you know, they want to eat your squash and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
So here's my question.

Speaker 8 (01:48:53):
Does it mean that you now have to acclimate to
keep them from like do you have to grow certain
vegetable just because they won't touch those?

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
Or do you have to go to other beings?

Speaker 22 (01:49:05):
No, that shouldn't be the issue. Actually I do. I
do trans have a hard trap them, transport them elsewhere
in the early spring before they have their babies and
all that, right, But then by come fall again, they
repopulated the area, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
So are you telling me that these squirrels are a
real big problem. I'll be honest, I did. I can't
tell whether or not they're too many or just the
regular amount. Are you suggesting that they're far too many?

Speaker 22 (01:49:46):
I would assume. So, you know, I don't I don't
haunt them. I don't need them. I try to just like, you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
Know, just work around.

Speaker 17 (01:49:57):
Yeah, you know, I don't.

Speaker 22 (01:49:59):
Try to kill them or anything. You know, I might
have hit a couple on the road or something, but
but the ones in my backyard I try to be
nice to and take them somewhere night, try to you know. Yeah,
they usually try to take them at least at least
five miles away.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Right right. I'm trying. I'm trying to have the squirrels
have a better experience. So sometimes I'll drive them down
to Grititch.

Speaker 22 (01:50:23):
Yeah. Well, you know, because as will take them out.

Speaker 13 (01:50:27):
Of Simisbury and.

Speaker 22 (01:50:30):
Something. You know, there's plenty of nature and everything for
them to love there. But U but by the end
of by the end of the season, they repopulated. They're
back there, you know, and I got to fight them
all and we got to fight them all over again
the same way I did in the spring.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Well, good good luck to you, sir. Uh you know,
happy trapping, as they say.

Speaker 8 (01:50:55):
Jason, Yeah, I didn't realize that this was going to
sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Have that effect. I don't again, I don't. I see
these squirrels in a.

Speaker 8 (01:51:09):
Sort of a I guess, a normal way. I see
them around. Sure, there are a lot of them.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
I thought the ones that were outside of the studio
today they were all, you know, a lot of them
running around.

Speaker 8 (01:51:20):
But I'll be you know, that's my naivete here. So
I see these squirrels everywhere, and.

Speaker 27 (01:51:27):
In my head, I'm going, oh, look, it's nature Connecticut
and all of these squirrels, and then you get a
story like this and you go, they're on the attack.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Little do I know.

Speaker 8 (01:51:39):
And if not for this story, I would have probably
been walking around, saw the squirrel, thought nothing of it,
and been jumped from behind attacked. Now I'm gonna walk
around being quite suspect of every squirrel I see. I'm
gonna have to grab Roseanna go no, no, no, no, no, come on,

(01:52:00):
can make you bine me?

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Get behind me? Like walking into the house with a
garbage can lid.

Speaker 8 (01:52:08):
This girl, this young lady, She said that the darn
thing looked at her locked eyes and jumped at her,
jumped at her.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
That would scare me. I never scared the hell out
of me. These things are not they's nothing to play with.
They're squirrels. You think they're nothing, but they've got you know,
they've got claws. When we come back, I gotta talk
about mom, Donnie. I got some movie news I need

(01:52:40):
to get to. It's not really movie news, it's Hollywood news.

Speaker 8 (01:52:43):
There's a new TV show that airs tonight at six pm.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
I believe on Apple.

Speaker 8 (01:52:49):
TV that I am crazy about. I want to find
out if you're interested in it at all. It's from
the writers of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. So
we'll talk about that in the break ad minute, and
then we'll get to your phone calls as well. So
stand by, all right, let's get to another check of traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
At weather Mark. Christenpher is back helping you on the
roads in the BPS traffic center. Hey Mark, And now,
hey rookie, watch me pull a rabbit out of my head.

Speaker 16 (01:53:24):
That wasn't a rabbit, the most famous squirrel of all.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
Yes, absolutely, yes. But he wouldn't attack you.

Speaker 16 (01:53:32):
No, no, he was very friendly, very friendly. He looked
like a not no more. At Trinity College, Well, you
get on, Trinity College is in a h It's not
in a it's in a tough neighborhood. That's a tough
neighborhood there.

Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
What did they do with squirrel initiations?

Speaker 16 (01:53:49):
Maybe go on, dang affiliated squirrels. Listen, go walk around
Trinity tonight around midnight, and I would have I would
have squirrels the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
The bag's a punch punch.

Speaker 5 (01:54:03):
It's Reese on the radio on w t I see
News Talk ten eighty rollerd.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
I gotta tell you know what's shoving me off the wall.
Right now.

Speaker 8 (01:54:11):
The messages that I'm getting about squirrels is incredible. Everybody
is sending me stuff about a squirrel incident. My ex
girlfriend Laura just sent me along missive about a squirrel
that got into her house, and she she was like,
I don't want to be on the air, but you're
talking about this squirrel thing.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
She sent me this whole story.

Speaker 8 (01:54:32):
About how a squirrel got in the house and she
freaked out because her husband Randy wasn't home and she
had to call her brother, and her brother screaming at
her saying, grow a pair.

Speaker 4 (01:54:40):
Just no girl, pair. Didn't they get a hold of you?
You gonna, you gonna It's gonna be a It's gonna
be a long night.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
I've never seen so many people react to this. And
by the way, Simps Sammy, thank you so much for
going out there. I'm gonna play his audio tomorrow. He
was asking people on the street about squirrel Gate.

Speaker 4 (01:55:01):
And that's what we're calling it's official.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
Thank you, Sam you get around them. Applause just for
doing it. Man, God love you. Hey, Mark and West Hartford,
Somebody's coming for you. That's what I'm probably gonna get
Sam to go out and do some of these crazy ones.
That's that's actually great stuff. We'll get it to that.
I don't have time for Hollywood news. I'll get to
it in a second. Actually, you know what, I will

(01:55:26):
do it right now before.

Speaker 8 (01:55:27):
So, there's this new TV show on Apple that's I
think it's starting today at six or seven o'clock. It's
supposed to be airing tomorrow, but it's from the makers.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
Of Uh Better Call Saul and the other one Breaking.

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
Back, Bringing back up? Already know what you're talking about?

Speaker 15 (01:55:44):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
It's called Plora of Us. Yep, Okay, are you Are
you interested in this at all? Yes? I am.

Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
I am so because it's so secretive what this storyline
is about. Yeah, I can't wait to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
So the first two episodes I hear are airing, if
not tonight, tomorrow, And I've got to watch this because
I'm trying to figure out, like what's going on. I've
never I've never had a TV show make me this
interested by knowing nothing, like I know nothing, and I'm
so intrigued, like I have to. The woman in this
show used to be on a TV show that I

(01:56:17):
love called Franklin and Bash.

Speaker 8 (01:56:18):
It was a procedural courtroom drama. Oh comedy, and she's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
I thought she was hilarious on that show, Like I
can't wait to watch it. Let's get to another checker
from Trafficking, whether Mark Chris h he's in a BPS
traffic center you watch Breaking Bad? I know nothing then,
And that's my answer, you know nothing about the show.
I know nothing. You know nothing. You didn't watch Better
Call Saul or Breaking Bad. That thing was like a

(01:56:44):
cultural phenomenon.

Speaker 16 (01:56:47):
See I'm I'm very un cultured.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Okay, So TV wouldn't have been that, Not even TV
shows would have been your thing.

Speaker 16 (01:56:55):
Well, I watched a lot of I watch a lot
of sitcoms in the seventies because I had a lot
more time in the in the shows in the seventies.
I haven't watched television in fifty years. I watched sports.
That's all I watched.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
Okay, So what was the last great TV show that
you watched? All them?

Speaker 16 (01:57:11):
Okay, all right, Curb your Enthusiasm sein.

Speaker 3 (01:57:14):
Fell years ago? Years ago?

Speaker 16 (01:57:17):
Well no, no, you're right, Well, no, Curb your Enthusiasm
was recently, and then before that Seinfeld obviously, and then
the Dukes of Hazzard.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
Okay, it was speaking of my language, because you know
I love Dukes.

Speaker 16 (01:57:30):
One other show, one other show. There was another show,
Oh the Sopranos.

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
Okay, that was That was the Phenomenon show.

Speaker 16 (01:57:39):
And when Fox first came on the air, okay, with
children married with children in living color, Okay, let me
tell you something. And what else did I watch?

Speaker 7 (01:57:53):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:57:53):
God, the Simpsons on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
I see, I see?

Speaker 18 (01:58:00):
Uh not.

Speaker 8 (01:58:00):
I gotta figure out exactly which thing I'm going to
bring up because I had so much stuff to get into.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
If you were listening at.

Speaker 8 (01:58:09):
The top of the hour all day today, at least
during the show, John Silva was talking about Abigail's Werner,
who is the teacher who was shot by her six
year old student in the first grade about two almost
three years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
And back in the days.

Speaker 8 (01:58:30):
When I used to, you know, do this show remotely,
I talked about this show.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
I mean this this event like nauseously.

Speaker 8 (01:58:38):
I couldn't stop talking about this story, primarily because of
everything that this kid was involved in.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
And you ever have a story that you know, you
wish that the rules were different so you can have
more information.

Speaker 8 (01:58:56):
Now I want you to think about this and there
is a picture of the child. The New York Post
actually has a picture of the young six year old
boy on a scooter, dressed fine and the blurred out
his face. This six year old at the time walked
into the classroom with a gun that he stole from

(01:59:21):
his mother's home and fired it on his teacher. What
made this story so wild.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
Wasn't just the fact that it was a six year
old who pulled out a gun and shot his nature.
It's everything that led to it. Now.

Speaker 8 (01:59:39):
We were led to believe in the beginning of this
story that the six year old was just a problem
child that needed special education and because of his.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
Unruly nature.

Speaker 8 (01:59:53):
Usually parents, the mother or the father would be in
the classroom with the child. If the mother couldn't be
there because she had to work, dad would be there.
Dad couldn't be there because of work, mom would be there.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
If mom or dad couldn't be there, mom's dad would
be there. That's what we were told after the shooting.
But sure enough, as we.

Speaker 8 (02:00:15):
Dug deeper and deeper and deeper, we find out far
more things about this six year old.

Speaker 3 (02:00:23):
If you haven't heard the story, go look her up.
Abigail'sswerner is awarded ten million dollars for her injuries at
this school in Newport Beach, Newport News, Virginia. Anyway, what
did we learn when we got underneath all of the layers. Well,
it turns out that this problem child was far worse

(02:00:47):
than that John Ritterer movie, you know, with the little
kid that was just screwing things up. No, no, no, no,
this child was far worse. It turns out that in knindergarten,
this young man had to be restrained because he went

(02:01:07):
behind a teacher who was sitting at her desk and
he put her in.

Speaker 8 (02:01:13):
The sleeper hold and tried to put her betty by
yoking her up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
Come on, go to sleep, Go to sleep, Go to sleep.
You said, I can't have snackies. You're going to sleep. Yes,
this child had to be restrained. This kid was a menace.
Attacked plenty of teachers in kindergarten. That wasn't the only incident.

Speaker 8 (02:01:40):
This child started fights with grown people, screaming, hollering, throwing things, kicking,
not just some wild child attacking the person, cursing, fighting.
We found out so much in kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
But did they do.

Speaker 8 (02:01:56):
Anything with the child, that they put the child in
any special education or even in a special school. No,
they kept the child in the same school, so in kindergarten,
as the child was doing the same thing, like locking
teachers out of their own classes while other children in there,
while he ran around this classroom punching kids in the face.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
Yes, this kid did. No one did a thing, and
Abigail's werner, who had tried to warn people that this
child was going to do something far worse, they ignored her.
And then the day came. This little child went.

Speaker 8 (02:02:35):
Into his mother's room, grabbed a twenty two and put
it in his backpack and.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
Went to class. Showed up at the school and grabbed
another six six year old, went deep down into his
book bag, pulled out to twenty two, looked at the
kind said yeah, you see what I got. He said, yeah, yeah,
I took this from my mom. Yeah. Yeah, someone's gonna
get handled today. Yes, that's what the kid said, put

(02:03:04):
it back in the purse. Hey, by the way, if
you tell anybody, I'll use this on you.

Speaker 8 (02:03:10):
What as wild as the story would get, that six
year old that was warned did the right thing, told
an adult.

Speaker 3 (02:03:21):
That kid wasn't scared.

Speaker 8 (02:03:22):
That kid said, Hey, that guy right there, guy, he's
got a gun.

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
Yeah, he showed it to me.

Speaker 8 (02:03:28):
He said it if I told anybody who's gonna show
me get it.

Speaker 3 (02:03:32):
Well, that little kid, do you know what he did
with the gun. He took it out of the knapsack
before anybody got to him, hit it somewhere else. And
when the school administrators got to the back, they went
and didn't find a gun. They thought the kid wild
warned and was lying.

Speaker 8 (02:03:49):
They thought the kid was lying, there's no gun there,
and kept the kid in class, to which that six
year old then got his hands on the gun and
then walked into the classroom and looked at his teacher,
Abigail's werner, and pulled out the gun and pointed it

(02:04:09):
right at her.

Speaker 3 (02:04:11):
And she thought he was kidding. Is that a real gun?
Is that a real pow? The kids are screaming and hollering.
She's trying to get the kids out of everybody got
a kid fired a weapon. Sure enough, other administrators heard it,
ran grabbed the kid, had to tackle him, get the gun,

(02:04:33):
put the kid in another room.

Speaker 8 (02:04:35):
Make sure all the other children are fine. After all
the children are firing. After the police are called fire
everybody else. The police officers were directed to the six
year old where they have.

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
Him sitting by that purpse, sitting right there. When the
police walked in to find out what would bring him
to coach shoot his first grade teacher, words out of
the six year old's mouth was and I quote, yeah, yo,
I killed that B word. Those were his words. He

(02:05:13):
thought he killed her, and he was celebrating it. Ten
million dollars wasn't enough. It turns out the entire school
knew this kid was. I mean what, I don't know.
How do you describe him a menace? This kid's far,

(02:05:34):
far from a menace. This kid's a terrorist.

Speaker 8 (02:05:39):
This kid set out to murder his first grade teacher.

Speaker 3 (02:05:46):
Now again, I don't know what to make of all
of this. I don't know what will happen to this child.

Speaker 8 (02:05:51):
They say that the child is in protective sir, I
mean on child services or maybe in a group home
or whatever. I don't know the status of the child now,
there's no way to know. No one's ever gonna tell you.

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
I do know that the.

Speaker 8 (02:06:02):
Mom is locked up. Mom is locked up in jail
right now. Why for cocaine possession and for cocaine use.

Speaker 3 (02:06:11):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (02:06:13):
Even while the mother was on probation, she kept testing
positive for cocaine.

Speaker 3 (02:06:20):
Oh yeah, that's stellar, stellar parenting skills by this young lady. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (02:06:29):
They did say that the child was with the father,
but uh, with the father, but that turned out to
be untrue. Then they said that the child was with
her father, the boy's grandfather. That turned out to be
not true. They just had to get that child out
of the bet. I the kid's not going to be
a gangbanger.

Speaker 3 (02:06:48):
Oh no, this is far worse.

Speaker 8 (02:06:52):
If he's got that kind of homicidal tendencies at six?
I mean, can you say bad seed anymore? Can you
do that? Is that appropriate today?

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
To say bad scene? And everybody, there's gotta be at
least one born every twenty years, Just one kid that's
just six and homicidal. It's gotta be. This has gotta be.
I know, you guys think I'm crazy here, but there's

(02:07:24):
just gotta be because every time, and I hope maybe
it was me.

Speaker 8 (02:07:30):
I thought I had seen it all, but to hear
that this kid was trying to choke out teachers at five,
at five.

Speaker 3 (02:07:40):
In kindergarten, who would work under those conditions.

Speaker 8 (02:07:45):
I know the kids are bad, but I usually expect
them to be I don't know, high school before they
really start, you know, becoming a terror.

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
Yeah, to the point that the police have to be involved.

Speaker 4 (02:07:57):
Right when I hear stuff like that, that, Yeah, as
much as I don't believe in and it makes me
believe that reincarnation is real. So because it's like, what
other what other answer is there? I get you even
if they see something from parents or uncles or older

(02:08:18):
cousins or whatever, they cast me to be already playing
video games for you to say to actually do it
in real life and say that and don't have any
remorse or yes, celebrating scared or yeah, you're six years old,
you're not scared.

Speaker 3 (02:08:35):
That's that's something scary.

Speaker 15 (02:08:37):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:08:38):
I never as I'm reading the story.

Speaker 8 (02:08:41):
The first time I saw it, I went no way,
just the six year old thing that blew my mind.
I'm saying to myself, damn, six year old kid pulls
out a gun and shoots his teacher. Then you get
the backstory about how bad this kid was, and in
some of the affidavits that came forward and said this
kid was a problem child, and there were records of it.
They actually had it in the school in the school

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records that the child was terrorizing other teachers in the classroom.
Like it wasn't just choking incidents. There was like the
choking incident in kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (02:09:13):
The administrator was a man who grabbed him off of him,
and then he then went and attacked the man. That's
crazy and he didn't it. And in your mind.

Speaker 4 (02:09:25):
You're saying to yourself and you can't slam them off
of you because it's a little six year old kid exactly.
Just gotta kind of defend yourself in trying.

Speaker 3 (02:09:34):
To right right, you know, it's like he's not a
chucky doll, although he's behaving like what It's like, what
do you do? Did the teachers? Did she live?

Speaker 7 (02:09:47):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:09:47):
Ebigails did live? She she again, She just she was
just awarded ten million dollars. She sued for forty but
the jury gave her ten million million. Yeah, ten million
for it. I'm not gonna sorry, I'm what do you think?

Speaker 4 (02:10:00):
I don't know too much. I think it is not enough.
It's not enough for going through that. That's crazy, she
said to her.

Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
You look, I don't know if she's afraid to go
outside anymore unless she lives.

Speaker 4 (02:10:11):
You know, no, she might she she damn sure. It
might be because a six year old could do that
to her.

Speaker 3 (02:10:17):
She's probably afraid to go outside because her neighborhood is
kid friendly.

Speaker 4 (02:10:22):
Oh my gosh, imagine going through that that it was.
You're laughing, but it's not, it's not. It's actually it's
actually a lot of trauma because you imagine you go
outside and there's just a bunch of kids outside waiting
for you, a bunch.

Speaker 3 (02:10:38):
Of kids gonna, hey, Abigail, how are you.

Speaker 4 (02:10:42):
I'm so happy she lived and she got and she
got the ten million, and because otherwise this wouldn't be
a joking matter right now.

Speaker 3 (02:10:49):
No, exactly she survived. But again I'm looking at this going,
how do you If the kid is that menacing at kindergarten,
you gotta do something about it. Kid was trying to
choke out of teaching.

Speaker 4 (02:11:00):
You got to put them somewhere and get them with
some doctors. You have to.

Speaker 3 (02:11:04):
But this was I'll tell you what all of that
was about.

Speaker 8 (02:11:07):
It was about not wanting to put that child or
deem that child problematic because of schisms and all that
healthy nonsense. That's the reason why. And it almost cost
somebody their life. And I hope they learned from it.
I hope because this could have been really, really bad
for the school system in Newport News, that's already a
poor town. Yeah, and Newport News did not, I mean,

(02:11:30):
they did not need for a.

Speaker 3 (02:11:32):
Lawsuit like this, you know, for them to have to
pay in that, you know to that tune.

Speaker 4 (02:11:37):
Crazy world, man, it is a crazy world.

Speaker 3 (02:11:39):
Let's get to another check of weather in traffic, Mark Christopher,
he's in the BPS traffic center. Hey, sir, what's up? Everybody?
You know who it is? Who is you know?

Speaker 8 (02:11:48):
It's on the radio, Frederick Douglas of the twenty first century.

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
It's w t i C News Talk.

Speaker 8 (02:11:56):
Before I get to the final phone calls, I wanted
to some of this stuff that I picked up for
the show. This in particular because of the Zoron Mamdani thing.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
These guys put this video out together.

Speaker 8 (02:12:14):
And I know I suck at math, but these guys
really suck at math. They were trying to make a
point about Zoron Mamdani taxing anyone who made more than
a million.

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
Dollars two extra percent. And then I went to to
go check out their numbers, and I kept getting the
wrong number. But then I looked it up and it
turns out their numbers were demonstrably wrong. Not that bad,
but bad enough. Boys do not do math very well.
They say that girls are but boys are horrible. So

(02:12:49):
I want you to listen to what they say. Here
one point five million dollars.

Speaker 8 (02:12:54):
This is the current tax rate for those making one
point five million.

Speaker 3 (02:13:00):
Here's what a one point.

Speaker 21 (02:13:01):
Five million dollars salary looks like in New York City.
So if someone makes one point five million dollars, you
don't take home all that money? Correct, You probably take
if I had to guess nine hundred k Okay, well,
see federal tax.

Speaker 3 (02:13:12):
Guess how much it costs if you live in New
York City. That's a huge one.

Speaker 9 (02:13:16):
I'm gonna say it's.

Speaker 21 (02:13:16):
Thirty percent of your salary. Okay, roughly thirty three percent.
It's five hundred six thousand, four hundred and seventy dollars.

Speaker 8 (02:13:23):
Now they put in five hundred and six thousand, four
hundred and seventy dollars. The actual number is five hundred
and six, one hundred and ninety two dollars. It's not
much of a difference, but still a difference, and I
just want to be accurate.

Speaker 3 (02:13:38):
Here, Okay, here's the next one.

Speaker 21 (02:13:41):
Already you're not a millionaire, correct, that's stupid.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
Next is state tax.

Speaker 21 (02:13:45):
This is the last one I'll have you guess. Okay,
I'm gonna say five percent of your salary.

Speaker 3 (02:13:50):
I can't do the math off my head. I think
it's closer to ten to fifteen.

Speaker 21 (02:13:53):
State tax is one hundred forty three thousand, nine hundred
and seventy eight dollars inaccurate.

Speaker 8 (02:13:58):
The actual amount is a one hundred and eleven thousand
dollars four hundred and twenty seven, so it's a little
bit less, but still one hundred thousand dollars in New
York state income tax. That's after your five hundred and
six thousand in federal taxes. We are now over six

(02:14:18):
hundred thousand dollars. You are below the one million mark
at this point, but there were more taxes.

Speaker 3 (02:14:27):
Jesus.

Speaker 21 (02:14:28):
Then you have city tax fifty seven thousand, seven hundred
and five dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:14:33):
They were almost on point for this.

Speaker 8 (02:14:35):
They were off by a dollar fifty seven thousand, seven
hundred and four dollars to be exact. So we won't
quibble about the dollar. That's a lot of money. So
we got federal, state, and city tax.

Speaker 3 (02:14:52):
They have a city tax.

Speaker 21 (02:14:53):
I have a city tax to live in New York City.
That's like, that's why, Like, why don't you just live
in Jersey City. Next, you have Social Security, which is
ten nine hundred and eighteen dollars, that.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
Number they got right. Then you gotta pay.

Speaker 21 (02:15:05):
For Medicare, which is thirty three thousand, four hundred and
fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:15:08):
That number they got right.

Speaker 21 (02:15:10):
Paid family leave, it's a fraction. It's only three hundred
fifty five dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:15:14):
They got that right.

Speaker 16 (02:15:15):
Stilts money.

Speaker 21 (02:15:16):
That comes to a total tax percentage of fifty point
two percent, which is seven hundred and fifty two thousand,
eight hundred seventy six dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:15:25):
That's wrong.

Speaker 8 (02:15:26):
The actual number is seven hundred and nineteen thousand, forty
six dollars, which means your take home from one point
five million dollars in New York again one point five
million dollars that you make your take home pay is
seven hundred and eighty thousand, nine hundred and fifty four.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
That's what that is.

Speaker 8 (02:15:53):
Now, with that being said, let's go to what business
owners said about mom Donnie and his plans.

Speaker 3 (02:16:01):
By the way, he won. They chose enough, so we're
gonna pay for it. What happens if he opens up
the government run grocery source, I'm not with it. Oh
you don't like the governt run grocery thirty dollars minimum wage?
Can you explain how that might affect businesses?

Speaker 7 (02:16:15):
How are they gonna make payroll?

Speaker 3 (02:16:17):
He's just about all the polishes that he's tried to do.
He increasing the workers and the taxes.

Speaker 2 (02:16:22):
It's not good.

Speaker 3 (02:16:22):
The middle way doesn't help the worker.

Speaker 22 (02:16:24):
It just helps the system pay more money.

Speaker 3 (02:16:26):
More taxes. Vice to square up overnight, half of them
we'll go out of business. So I'm gonna blue state up.

Speaker 25 (02:16:30):
Sorry, I've been read my whole life simmocrasts always ruined,
steal rob.

Speaker 21 (02:16:34):
And live any thoughts on having him for four years.

Speaker 3 (02:16:37):
What I can do is just swallow and try to
face it.

Speaker 25 (02:16:39):
But in that they say we're cooked.

Speaker 11 (02:16:41):
We're on the way to becoming a communist state.

Speaker 3 (02:16:43):
Cities and voting good lucky. They're not happy now with
all of that.

Speaker 8 (02:16:52):
Right, those business owners who know that some of them
are not going to be able to survive. Just imagine
if all of those business owned as you just heard
some guys saying I'm gonna have to swallow it. Some
people are gonna say, I doubt we'll make it.

Speaker 3 (02:17:06):
Imagine you hear you. I mean, you're that guy, and
you know what's gonna happen to your business.

Speaker 8 (02:17:11):
You're deathly afraid. Thirty dollars minimum wage. Damn, there's no
way I'm gonna be able. I'm just gonna have to
work twenty four hours a day. There's no way I
can do that.

Speaker 3 (02:17:20):
And then you hear from the supporters in the city
who nominated that guy, And when they're asked, why did
you pick him? You hear this. Do you support Zarn?

Speaker 11 (02:17:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:17:34):
He seems cool.

Speaker 21 (02:17:35):
What makes it ready to be New York's mayor?

Speaker 15 (02:17:39):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:17:40):
He sounds like he's like a Power Rangers character. So,
I mean, is anybody really ever ready to be married?
What makes Mandani qualify to be married for us? I
don't think at that's fine. It's necessarily a question of
who's qualified.

Speaker 7 (02:17:56):
Obama had very little experience, and Obama did very well.

Speaker 3 (02:18:00):
He's a really likable guy. What makes him ready to
be mayor? I don't know. Why is he ready? I
feel like he's like answering.

Speaker 21 (02:18:11):
It never really takes the most experience.

Speaker 3 (02:18:15):
I don't know what it takes to me a mayor.

Speaker 21 (02:18:16):
So how can I really say?

Speaker 3 (02:18:18):
Everybody else has qualified? Yeah, he's been a rapper. He's
about to run one hundred and fifty you know her
mudget tomorrow. None of these people know what they elected,
None of them do.

Speaker 8 (02:18:37):
Imagine you're a business owner and that's the people who
cost you thirty dollars an hour. Those are the people
who cost you taxes out the wazoo from one point
five million to seven hundred and eighty thousand, and you
know it's going to be worse than that. He wants
another two percent. I don't know if I could. Oh,

(02:19:01):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:19:01):
I don't know. I don't, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (02:19:03):
I'm still trying to figure out, how do you not
get angry at that?

Speaker 3 (02:19:06):
How do you not get angry at that? Let's go
to a well to do guy. He just got home.
How you doing, Frankie?

Speaker 13 (02:19:12):
I'm paying seventy five percent you and everybody else thirty
seven percent federal six, state seven for Social Security, and
it's twenty five percent as for being married. So I
get twenty I get twenty five cents on the ball.
That's a fool. Yeah, what can you do? It's a

(02:19:35):
wife with Hills Reese. How are you doing with the
furniture at your new apartment? With goes in.

Speaker 3 (02:19:39):
We're not at the new apartment yet, but she's going
through a couple of places like uh Wayfair. We've already
looked at a king sized bed. She hasn't. Can you
believe this? She doesn't want to get a king sized
bed because she says, and I quote, will be too
far from each other.

Speaker 13 (02:19:56):
Been I've been in the king sized bed since I
was three, so I know all about king sized beds.
What do you mean that you're going to be too
far out?

Speaker 8 (02:20:05):
She doesn't like, okay, because you know the king's size bed.
We've done the you know, hotels before, and every time
we're there, we're in the king size bed and the
kings she said, it just seems like we're far away.

Speaker 3 (02:20:15):
It's like a lot of room. I thought that was
a good thing, you know. She sometimes and she'll be
mad at me. No, she do won't be mad at
me for saying this, because she says to herself, so
sometimes she'll go through the hot flashes and she wants
me as far away from as possible. Why not have
a king's eye bed for that?

Speaker 13 (02:20:30):
Right? I just want to bring this one thing up
about food stamps. Yeah, the government, the United States government
budget is seven trillion. Foods stamps is one hundred billion.
It's less than two percent. That black woman that stole
the groceries in Texas East Democrat. They're using her as
a pawn and forty two million other people for their
political game. It's disgusting to give them the food. Sixteen

(02:20:53):
million kids don't have food because of their political games
they're playing.

Speaker 10 (02:20:59):
It.

Speaker 8 (02:20:59):
Listened that, yes, but that's you know what. I'm glad
that people get to see it right out in public.
This is a different time. Under any other circumstances, they
would blame the wrong people. Now they get to blame
the right people. That's all right, that's what we're getting.

Speaker 3 (02:21:13):
Thank you, boss man. I appreciate you. Let's go to
Bob Bob's and Wolfcott. How are you, sir?

Speaker 22 (02:21:19):
Hy Reece? Yeah, I want to talk about the previous
car before Frank White Mic was the joy to hear Frank.

Speaker 3 (02:21:31):
Were you talking about White Mic?

Speaker 22 (02:21:34):
Well, you know, I'm just talking about what people are
saying about, you know, race and everything. And I'm honestly,
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing this crap. I mean,
I'm not in nineteen sixty five anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:21:50):
What does that mean?

Speaker 22 (02:21:50):
This is not nineteen sixty five. There are people of
other races that are making huge profits millions, yeah, and
not based on their race. Right, And I go back
to Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman did a.

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
Sixty minutes interview with Mike Wallace and said that we
need to stop talking about race. Yeah, yeah, of course
we have.

Speaker 15 (02:22:19):
To stop it.

Speaker 22 (02:22:21):
He said, if you stop calling me a black man,
I'll stop calling you a white man.

Speaker 3 (02:22:26):
And what happened to what happened to that needs to go?
But what happened to that sentiment? And with that, let
me ask you this, I'll give you a perfect example.
Who were the ones who said that.

Speaker 8 (02:22:36):
We needed to talk about race more after we went
through the whole thing of color blindness after the nineteen
seventies and into the eighties, saying that we need to
accept people for who we are and what we are,
not what we look like. What who are the people
who said that it was absolutely paramount that we pay
attention to people's races.

Speaker 3 (02:22:55):
Who are the people who told us.

Speaker 22 (02:22:56):
That I don't know, Hona.

Speaker 8 (02:22:59):
The black and legentsia, the black elites told us, from
the Melissa Harris Perry's to the Michael Eric Dyson's to
the what's his name Cornell West to every person even
Barack Hussein Obama told us that we had to acknowledge
our skin colors so that we could give them racial equity.

Speaker 3 (02:23:23):
We had to.

Speaker 8 (02:23:25):
Yes, I agree with you. That's the reason why I
bring it up. That's exactly the reason why I bring
it up. That's the that's the absurdity of Negro nonsense.
It's to point out that this is the most ridiculous thing.
If you heard the bit that I played, that young
man Ron Wood Junior said that he looked up his
ancestors descendants, right, he knows where they live. These people

(02:23:48):
allegedly were supposed to have profited from his ancestors slavery,
and they have less.

Speaker 3 (02:23:53):
Money than him, and they live in squalor. And he
was mocking it again while he sits on a two million,
two to three million.

Speaker 8 (02:24:01):
Dollar fortune as a black man, which again flies in
the face of the idea that because he's black, that
and he's inherently poorer than the white people who oppressed him.

Speaker 3 (02:24:12):
It flies in the face of that nonsense. That's the
reason why it's called Negro nonsense.

Speaker 22 (02:24:17):
In my opinion, being from the military, if I had
to sit in a foxhole, I didn't care if the
guy next to me holding sixteen was black, white, Asian,
or even gay.

Speaker 3 (02:24:32):
I believe you, and I do. But I hope that
you understand as long as he can shoot no, I
understand that.

Speaker 22 (02:24:40):
That's why the same blood.

Speaker 3 (02:24:41):
Bob, you have to understand.

Speaker 22 (02:24:43):
We all believe the same blood.

Speaker 3 (02:24:44):
But Bob, you have.

Speaker 8 (02:24:45):
To understand that particular bit that I do is not
for a guy like you, because of who you are
and what you think and what you know as a
human being. For that, that particular piece that I do
is for the race spaders. It's to laugh at them
and say that it shows them how ridiculous this racial

(02:25:06):
thing is.

Speaker 22 (02:25:08):
It's part of your it is part.

Speaker 8 (02:25:10):
Of my stick because again, I couldn't be here if
I were listening to them, I wouldn't be here. And
I'll go right back to the old story I told
about my uncle Nicky, who looks very much like Richard Pryor,
so you can sort of get an image of what
he was. When I told him I wanted to do
radio when I was fifteen years old, he said to me,
the white man ain't gonna let you do that. Now

(02:25:30):
that I loved Uncle Nicky, imagine if I believed him.

Speaker 3 (02:25:34):
Bob.

Speaker 22 (02:25:35):
Well, here's the other thing. I don't know if you
know this, but way back in the day, during the
Depression area, when the Irish immigrants were coming.

Speaker 7 (02:25:45):
In, Oh, I know wanted.

Speaker 3 (02:25:49):
Irish need not apply.

Speaker 8 (02:25:50):
I know it very well. That's I trust me. It's
a part of my stick as well.

Speaker 3 (02:25:54):
Nobody even recognizes that I know, Bob, I do.

Speaker 8 (02:25:58):
That's the reason why I talk about it, because I
know it all too well. It's the reason why Irish
and Italians had to become police officers and firefighters, because
they were the most dangerous jobs in the world, because
nobody would take them.

Speaker 22 (02:26:11):
But I start talking about this, reading.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
Never gonna happen. Never, not on my watch. I gotta go.
As I always say, radio is free. So we thank
you for paying attention. Remember to keep JC in your
hearts and then your mind. Sean Patrick we love you
and we miss year. Remember that panic is not planning,
So plan your work, It work, you plan me. I'm
reasing the radio. You have a good night pleasure Tomorrow,
Rose hands here. Tomorrow You'll be here too. Mark Christopher
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