August 4, 2026 • 32 mins
Bob takes a call, talks about a large cannabis seizure in Greece, the burglar shot yesterday, Trump being mad at Jeanine Pirro, the situation in Iran, being allegedly short on missiles, a job for Mrs. Hegseth, and what is going on up at the house.
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Hi, how you doing today?
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Be good? Thank you sir, Hope you're the same.
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Yeah, thank you. I was just calling. I heard your
comment earlier. I was working about the Purple Rain thing.
I don't know if you misheard or of the radio
station said wrong information, but this it did come out
in June, but it hit the top of the chart.
It became number one this week and it stayed at
the top of the charts for the next twenty four weeks.
So that was the I just wanted to say that
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to clarify that for the listeners.
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There the album, I appreciate that. Driving down the road
early this morning, somebody said that the Purple Rain album
was released on this date in nineteen eighty four, and
that led me off on some long reverie about playing
that album when it came out. It was released in
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the spring, i think, and there were songs on the
air in May and June. But back in the day
playing records. No one cares about this, But in that day,
music was on records, and we would move the records
back and forth. You had two turntables at your control board. There.
You had these other little devices that would play things
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that looked like eight track tapes, and all the commercials
and the weather jingles and such like that would be
on those and you'd have the one turntable that was
playing the song that's on the air right now. You'd
have the other turntable playing the song that would come
on the air next. And sometimes you would go from
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song to song, and there was a certain amount of
art and science involved in making that a small transition.
But the Purple Rain album is older than dirt and
still sounds pretty gosh darn good. I reached out to
the folks in Greece seven got a response, no big deal,
they don't have to. But yesterday popped up from the
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Greece Police Department on social media the announcement that they
had seized some seventeen million dollars worth of marijuana and paraphernalia.
They had brought charges against two individuals, Joseph Grant of
Webster and Jason Grant of Rochester, and the allegation was
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that they were supplying marijuana products to smoke shops across
New York State. Apparently they were doing so in an
illegal fashion, at least as alleged by the Greece Police Department.
But that would seem to be a huge bust. Seventeen
million dollars is a lot of friggin money and a
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lot of marijuana, and I'm grateful to Greece for going
after it. It's an interesting kind of thing. The uh,
the legalization of of marijuana has, you know, made some
people rich, made a lot of other people, uh, nowhere
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near as rich as they thought they were going to get.
And the smell of marijuana has sort of the backdrop
of our state has you know, kind of become a commonplace.
But if you break the law, you're going to get arrested.
And this seems to be a good illustration of that.
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No idea yet that I've seen from this paroled burglar
who was killed while burglarising yesterday. This man's house has
been broken into twice since June by the same individual
or not, we don't know. Neighbors have told investigators from
Rochester Police Department that there had been a series of
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burglaries in that neighborhood in the past, and a four
iss yesterday morning, someone came unauthorized into well the kitchen door,
I think it was of this householder's residence, and the
householder engaged the intruder with a legally owned handgun, and
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the intruder is deceased, and it was priceless. Yesterday you
had Frank Ambrino, the captain of the Murder Police, the
major crimes investigators, and he said, straight up, you know,
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maybe you shouldn't burglarize, Maybe you shouldn't break into people's houses.
That might be the takeaway. And here's the thing. I
don't want anybody to die ever, you know, let's put
an asterisk on that. I usually don't want people to
die too often, but the fact that a guy breaking
into a house got shot dead, I sort of hope
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that that story gets told and retold, and I hope
that that story gets thought about. And I hope that
maybe fewer people think that breaking into other people's houses
is a good idea, right, And I think that that
kind of sends a little bit of a warning shot,
forgive the use of the word. It turns out that
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there is something other than an appearance ticket which can
result from your criminal conduct. And maybe being dead is
something which you know you want to try to avoid,
So possibly you might want to try to avoid the
you know, the activities that can make you more prone
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to end up dead. Here's another thing too wondering about.
And again crime, overwhelmingly you and I are not going
to be affected by. That's the great likelihood and the
overwhelming majority of people in this region listening to the
station our leading lives that will lead them largely to safety.
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But with all these crimes and all this gathering after dark,
whatever else like that in the city of Rochester, the
heartbreak of two lives lost. And here's the thing. The
thirty five year old lady who was killed early Sunday morning,
Shakira Green. She had been shot, as it turns out,
right outside the window of our studios here at Broadcast
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Central in downtown Rochester. She back in twenty twenty four
was among those individuals I can't remember two three four
who were shot at Daniel Prude Plaza down here. A
group of people gathered, guns come out, shots are fired,
and Shakira Green wounded then survived a similar type situation
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early Sunday morning, and God bless her, but the poor
lady did not survive. But here would be the thing.
If I were a mom or a dad, if I
were a neighborhood leader, if I a city council member,
if I were a pastor whatever else like that, I
would say, why don't we all, for the sake of
our personal safety, why don't we all try to be
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in home at home by I don't know, eleven o'clock
at night, maybe ten o'clock at night. Years and years ago,
when you'd watch the eleven o'clock news, there'd be somebody,
depending on what station you watched. For us down there
in the southern tier with cable out of Buffalo, he
was IRV Weinstein on Channel seven. He'd say, it's eleven o'clock,
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do you know where your children are? And honest with you,
that's a pretty good question, and maybe they should go
back to asking that question. It's eleven o'clock. Do you
know where your children are? But maybe if it's eleven o'clock,
it's time for whoever you are, however old you are,
it's time for you to be home. Right. If you
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like hanging out with your friends at three o'clock in
the morning, you might be surprised they could also be
interesting in good companionship at three o'clock in the afternoon.
But I don't know. Maybe your mother when you were young,
used to say, you know, like those church ladies, the
holy ghost goes to bed at midnight, and you better
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be home and in your bed by midnight or there's
going to be trouble. And that was good advice when
you're a teenager, and it's good advice now. And maybe
late night hell raising and hanging out, maybe that's not
a good place for anybody to be, regardless of the rage.
And you know, you're less prone to get into trouble
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if you're in on time, and you're less prone to
be the victim of somebody else getting in trouble if
you are in on time. Take a break back in
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appointed by Donald Trump in the United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, the top federal prosecutor for that
federal district, and she also was tasked by him with
prosecuting this fellow, David Hearn, who years ago was an
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Olympian in some obscure sport. No disrespect to solo stand
up canoe paddling, but you know, I kind of put
that near rhythmic gymnastics. I hope it's fun for you,
but I don't want to watch things. But anyway, the
point being, he was Olympian backed in the day, and
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not long after President Trump put in the new lining
on the reflecting pool, you know, the lining started peeling up.
He went overlooked at it and was arrested, was charged
with vandalism. President Trump said that he had been damaging
the deal and Janine Piro when she held a press
conference shortly after the arrest, she went after the guy hard,
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said he was damaging, vandalizing this, that, and the other. Well,
her office looked at it, and they were told by
President Trump to prosecute this guy, make an example of him.
The challenge arose when it turns out that the charge
as were bull crap, that there was no evidence to
indicate that he had broken any law, and that the
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problem with the peeling at the reflecting pool was shoddy
workmanship by a you know, a company that was awarded
a no bid contract by the Department of the Interior.
And so Jenny Pirol came to the conclusion that the
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charges had to be dropped against this guy because one
he was innocent and two there just was no evidence
to support the allegations. And so it was announced at
the end of Friday, closed the Business Friday Deal, that
the charges were dropped. President Trump seemingly very angry about
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this over the weekend. He sort of roasted her on
social media yesterday. You know, he's doing he's signing some
executive order and they're asking him questions like they do,
and he said that she folded like an umbrella, and
he said that she was one hundred percent wrong in this,
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and he seemed very angry with her. She last night
went to the White House, was summoned there. What came
of that, we don't know. Asked if her job was secure.
President Trump refused to answer. And you know, the chitter
chatter this morning is that she may potentially be removed
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as a United States attorney because she failed to prosecute
this man that Donald Trump wanted prosecuted. Well, here's a
deal at President Trump. President Trump operates outside the norms
of our government, our culture, and you know, we love
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him or hate him, that's how he rolls. I don't
say that as an excuse. I say it as an acknowledgment.
And our criminal justice system, from the very founding of
our republic has been blased based on the understanding that
evil people, despotic people in power could use, as the
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British Crown used, the courts and the criminal powers to
prosecute and persecute political opponents or enemies, and that the
power of government to lock people up or to criminally
identify them was a power that must be intelligently and
forcibly restrained. In the Soviet Union, in communist China, in Cuba,
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people who disagreed with the regimes, were identified as criminals
and were sent off to prisons, gulags, or worse. The
wishes of the president can never supersede the due process
of law, and in this instance, I admire Jeanine Piro
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for doing the right thing. If there was no evidence
to prosecute this man for a crime, then he, of
course must be exonerated. The charges must be dropped. That
is our system, that is right, that is justice. And
our commitment is to our system, to what is right
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and to justice. Our oath is to the Constitution and
all that flows from it. Our commitment is only secondarily
to the fellow for whom we voted a couple years back.
Jinny Piro is right. President Trump is wrong and he
would be wrong to remove her. But I don't think
many of us would be surprised if he did so.
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Hi, everybody wrote Jones here with James Probdan. I have
no idea, and neither do you. President Trump says, oh,
we're really close to a deal. Iran says you're high.
And there are seven separate instances now where President Trump
has threatened now we're really going to hit him and
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then said, hey, we've almost gott an agreement. Everything's great.
This is the seventh time that this exact same pattern
has played itself out. The stock markets and the oil
prices have responded, though increasingly they respond less robustly, you know,
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and and who knows where things really stand. There was
a report this morning that our military may be critically
low in munitions. Specifically, half of our total national inventory
of Tomahawk cruise missiles are gone used up against Iran
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precision strike missiles. We are almost totally out of I mean,
our whole country right pissed away against Iran and what
we have to show for it. And you know, I
voted for Trump, and also I'm not against a war
with Iran, as I've said a million times. These bastards
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have had it coming for forty seven years. But when
you fight a war you need to win a war.
And you know, right now the United States is decidedly
not winning this war. The only positive signs we've received
our assurances from President Trump repeatedly that we have wiped
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out their military, their air force, their navy, their army
are gone, their ability to launch missiles all gone, and
yet they remain in control of the strait of horror
moves and consequently of a portion of the world's economy.
They are the ones who fire missiles at us. They
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have wounded some six hundred of US. And you know,
you look at this and you just wonder. And if
we have, as reports this morning indicate, put ourselves in
a situation of strategic jeopardy by over expanding our munitions,
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then that's not a smart move. And you know, I,
you know, we all think what we think about President
Trump in regard to this war. I would point to
the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth. Once he called Secretary
of War, and he has a very active social media
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game wherein he presents himself as a rough, tough sob
we're gonna fight, We're gonna be men, We're gonna be lethal.
Where the most leth thal ever there was where really
we're bad. We're war fighters, we destroy, we kill, and
you know, those are all good things. But he has
led this nation in one conflict, and you know, we
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have not succeeded in that conflict, and our situation at
this stage of this conflict, and the world's situation is
rather significantly worse than it was before the conflict began.
And the conflict began because we attacked them. So whatever
strategic objective that Pete Hagseth had in mind as this
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conflict began, we have not achieved it. And you know,
I know that a lot of us, you know, who
voted for President Trump are biting our tongue hoping that
the you know, the Trump magic will come through and
his fourth dimensional chess and thinking several moves ahead will
deliver us. But the end of the day, hag Seth
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is supposed to be the one running this and you know,
thus far, you know, he's crap for results. And I'm
not sure when we're allowed to say that without getting
shouted down, but that is where we stand right now.
And further, just a note about hag Seth. Yesterday there
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was an exit executive order signing and President Trump said
that you know he was going to We're we're concerned
about military families, and so we're going to create a
commission and that commission will report once a year on
recommendation for, you know, how to make military families better, happier,
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and stuff like that. Well, put in charge of that
commission is Pete Hegseth's wife. Not the wife he had
when he was a soldier and she was a military wife,
but the wife he has now, who I don't think
has any background being a military wife. Also, when you
say you will make a report once each year and you,
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as a president have what two and a half years
left in your term, that's like one report maybe too.
I don't know. To be honest with you, I think
that this deal yesterday was less about military families and
more about creating something for missus hag Seth to help
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her to feel you know, important and connected and all
that other stuff. And I'm sure she's a wonderful person.
I wish her the best, but you know, I think
we have bigger fish to fry. So forgive me for
being critical of the administration, but this deal with Iran,
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and here's the thing. Let me one other thing. If
I could not being critical of President Trump. But yesterday,
which is what I always say immediately before criticizing him,
But yesterday he said that he had planned fry because
Friday he told us he's going to beat and live
in hell, out of out of Iran. He used the
F word, the S word, so you knew he was
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really serious. And then Saturday he said, Nope, they're begging
me for peace. They want to make a deal, and
so I'm going to back off. Yesterday he said that
he had planned and was going to unleash the largest
military action since World War Two. And that's been reported
and repeated, you know, over and over again since yesterday.
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Just if I could, you know, in the in the
interest of historical context and accuracy, since World War Two,
of course, we had something called the Korean War, a
peacekeeping effort, and we also had something called the Vietnam War. Okay,
we also had the First Golf War, and we also
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had the Global War on Terror. And you know, each
of those undertakings, especially the Vietnam War, were dramatically larger
than anything that President Trump had put together or could
put together over the weekend for Iran. And you know,
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I again, God blessed Trump, and we understand he says
things for effect often, but you know, in historical context,
the assertion that we were about to engage in the
largest military action since World War Two is preposterous, you know, posterous.
Take a break back in a moment, I'll say something
positive and nice. I think I'll look around see if
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I got anything like that in the bag of tricks.
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affecting your relationship? Welcome back. A lot of stuff happening
in the family. My son Jack today and I've spoken
a lot about him. Remember his last Wednesday, he climbed
up to the highest mountain, the top of the highest
mountain in Idaho. Had a situation where he and the
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others almost got struck by lightning. You know, everything's okay. Well.
This week he and some co workers there at a
resort in Idaho. They are well in the overnight, I
think they drove to Wyoming and they are now hiking
in in Grand Teton National Park or whatever it's called.
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They will today establish a base camp and tomorrow they
will their plan has climbed to the top of the
Grand Teaton and he sent the family yesterday a map.
There are certain routes that go up the mountain, and
at any rate, it will be an interesting adventure. He
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and his friends have been planning and training for it
over the last couple of months. And one of the
things they've been working pretty good on their repelling skills.
You don't need that to get up, but it's safe
for this one portion if you repel down. So at
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any rate, he you know, he's twenty one years of
age and he's out living life. And you raise your
kids to be adventurous and son of a gun if
sometimes they don't end up setting out on some adventures.
There was also an incident I found about over the
weekend last week involving another son of mine. It was
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a Friday evening, my son Lee, oldest of my children.
He the last year and a half has been really
into motorcycles. He bought himself one a year and a
half ago, and I think he's got a couple of
them now. He's got all the clothes and the special this,
that and the other, and he's tricked out his garage
so that it's completely motorcycle focused, and he's got all
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the stuff, and he's either riding or tinkering most of
the time. And this end the last week and into
the and had planned a multi day you know, go
visit his sister Hannah, go visit a high school friend,
all on the back of a motorcycle. Anyway, he's in
I think it's New Jersey Friday, and it's three lanes
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one way, three lanes the other way, and a car
doesn't see him, doesn't look it turns right into him
and he goes flying. Fortunately, miraculously, he ends up uninjured
and rolls out of the road before any you know,
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the whole succession of cars come that could have run
him over. And at any rate, you know, he tells
me about this Sunday morning in an early am phone call.
You know, he'd squared everything away, he'd rented a pickup
truck and put his mangled bike in the back of
the pickup truck and continued on his weekends. Itinerary, but
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you know, just kind of struck me that last week
on Wednesday and on Friday, I each k I had
two instances where I came very close to, you know,
losing children potentially, and you know that that'll kind of
catch you up a little short. I pray for them
every night. And you know, who knows your life or mine,
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how many times you know there are small little helps
to get us through things sometimes, you know, in God's wisdom,
you know, we things don't turn out the way we want,
and the miracles as we see them don't happen, and
there are tragedies that take place, and I think all
of us in our lives have examples of that. But
at any rate, today Jack goes to climb is tallest
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mountain he and his pals and his thought is that
if he can accomplish this, it will be a true
accomplishment in his life. And you know, last week and
when he got to the top of that tallest mountain
in Idaho, there was a smile on his face in
the picture that he sent back. That was about that.
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It was about achievement. It used to be some several
years ago. Remember, the big fat in schools was self esteem.
We must have let the children have self esteem. And
so we gave them all gold stars and told them
that their crap didn't stink, and everything they did was wonderful,
and they're all geniuses and they are all the most
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beautiful and the best and everything else. And you know
that ended up not being a very good thing for
those kids. Self esteem, true self esteem, comes through achievement. Right.
If you want to feel better about yourself, go out
and accomplish something. Now, that thing that you accomplish maybe
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I don't know, controlling a bad habit you have today,
or it may be going to work and doing your
best today, or maybe doing a little bit better than
you did yesterday. Right, It can come from setting a
goal and achieving that goal. It could be a weight
loss goal, it could be a get a ged goal.
Who knows what it might be. You know, prepare and
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take a test to get a promotion at work goal.
When we accomplish things, it's not that our nose sticks
up in the air and we get a haughty pride,
but that we demonstrate to ourselves that we can accomplish things. Now,
we often think that, oh, if I can achieve this goal,
I'll show people what I can do and who I am.
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And that may be useful, okay, and you might get
some little ego boosts out of that. But what really
matters is you prove yourself to yourself and that helps
you again not to stick your nose in the air
and say, oh, look I'm better than somebody else or
arrogant or whatever like that. But it goes back to
that little line that they tell you do hard things.
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When you do a hard thing, you get just a
little bit of confidence. I've been down a road like
this before. I know I can get down this road.
And when the next hard thing comes along, you are
less fearful of it, you are less anxious about how
it might turn out, and you have just that little
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bit of faith and confidence that allow you to encounter
this hard thing and master it to come out on top.
So I'm grateful. I hope that these young gentlemen, my
son and his palas climbing their grand teton. I hope
that they are able to achieve that goal. Of course,
I pray earnestly that they do so safely. But if
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they come down off that mountain having touched its very top,
I'm the sort of person who believes that that will
give them a little bit of oomph to carry with
them for the rest of their lives, and whatever obstacle,
literal or metaphorical, they face, they will be better prepared
for it. And I suspect that in your life, the
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difficulties you've faced, the obstacles you've overcome, whether it's getting
through basic training, whether it was finally getting that high
school diploma, whether it was, you know, getting through a
bad diagnosis and ringing the bell up at the hospital,
you know, getting the promote, whatever hardship you faced, who knows,
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maybe it was breaking that shoe, your fingernail habit. I
don't know. But when you've done hard things and you
have succeeded, you've proven to yourself that you are capable,
doesn't make you cocky, but it does give you again
a little bit of faith and confidence to go in
and go forward. And again, I am certain that such
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events have taken place in your life, and I hope
that every now and again, you remember them, and you
remember who you are and what you are capable of.
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Yeah, thank you. I was just calling. I heard your
comment earlier. I was working about the Purple Rain thing.
I don't know if you misheard or of the radio
station said wrong information, but this it did come out
in June, but it hit the top of the chart.
It became number one this week and it stayed at
the top of the charts for the next twenty four weeks.
So that was the I just wanted to say that
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to clarify that for the listeners.
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There the album, I appreciate that. Driving down the road
early this morning, somebody said that the Purple Rain album
was released on this date in nineteen eighty four, and
that led me off on some long reverie about playing
that album when it came out. It was released in
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the spring, i think, and there were songs on the
air in May and June. But back in the day
playing records. No one cares about this, But in that day,
music was on records, and we would move the records
back and forth. You had two turntables at your control board. There.
You had these other little devices that would play things
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that looked like eight track tapes, and all the commercials
and the weather jingles and such like that would be
on those and you'd have the one turntable that was
playing the song that's on the air right now. You'd
have the other turntable playing the song that would come
on the air next. And sometimes you would go from
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song to song, and there was a certain amount of
art and science involved in making that a small transition.
But the Purple Rain album is older than dirt and
still sounds pretty gosh darn good. I reached out to
the folks in Greece seven got a response, no big deal,
they don't have to. But yesterday popped up from the
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Greece Police Department on social media the announcement that they
had seized some seventeen million dollars worth of marijuana and paraphernalia.
They had brought charges against two individuals, Joseph Grant of
Webster and Jason Grant of Rochester, and the allegation was
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that they were supplying marijuana products to smoke shops across
New York State. Apparently they were doing so in an
illegal fashion, at least as alleged by the Greece Police Department.
But that would seem to be a huge bust. Seventeen
million dollars is a lot of friggin money and a
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lot of marijuana, and I'm grateful to Greece for going
after it. It's an interesting kind of thing. The uh,
the legalization of of marijuana has, you know, made some
people rich, made a lot of other people, uh, nowhere
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near as rich as they thought they were going to get.
And the smell of marijuana has sort of the backdrop
of our state has you know, kind of become a commonplace.
But if you break the law, you're going to get arrested.
And this seems to be a good illustration of that.
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No idea yet that I've seen from this paroled burglar
who was killed while burglarising yesterday. This man's house has
been broken into twice since June by the same individual
or not, we don't know. Neighbors have told investigators from
Rochester Police Department that there had been a series of
(04:09):
burglaries in that neighborhood in the past, and a four
iss yesterday morning, someone came unauthorized into well the kitchen door,
I think it was of this householder's residence, and the
householder engaged the intruder with a legally owned handgun, and
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the intruder is deceased, and it was priceless. Yesterday you
had Frank Ambrino, the captain of the Murder Police, the
major crimes investigators, and he said, straight up, you know,
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maybe you shouldn't burglarize, Maybe you shouldn't break into people's houses.
That might be the takeaway. And here's the thing. I
don't want anybody to die ever, you know, let's put
an asterisk on that. I usually don't want people to
die too often, but the fact that a guy breaking
into a house got shot dead, I sort of hope
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that that story gets told and retold, and I hope
that that story gets thought about. And I hope that
maybe fewer people think that breaking into other people's houses
is a good idea, right, And I think that that
kind of sends a little bit of a warning shot,
forgive the use of the word. It turns out that
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there is something other than an appearance ticket which can
result from your criminal conduct. And maybe being dead is
something which you know you want to try to avoid,
So possibly you might want to try to avoid the
you know, the activities that can make you more prone
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to end up dead. Here's another thing too wondering about.
And again crime, overwhelmingly you and I are not going
to be affected by. That's the great likelihood and the
overwhelming majority of people in this region listening to the
station our leading lives that will lead them largely to safety.
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But with all these crimes and all this gathering after dark,
whatever else like that in the city of Rochester, the
heartbreak of two lives lost. And here's the thing. The
thirty five year old lady who was killed early Sunday morning,
Shakira Green. She had been shot, as it turns out,
right outside the window of our studios here at Broadcast
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Central in downtown Rochester. She back in twenty twenty four
was among those individuals I can't remember two three four
who were shot at Daniel Prude Plaza down here. A
group of people gathered, guns come out, shots are fired,
and Shakira Green wounded then survived a similar type situation
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early Sunday morning, and God bless her, but the poor
lady did not survive. But here would be the thing.
If I were a mom or a dad, if I
were a neighborhood leader, if I a city council member,
if I were a pastor whatever else like that, I
would say, why don't we all, for the sake of
our personal safety, why don't we all try to be
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in home at home by I don't know, eleven o'clock
at night, maybe ten o'clock at night. Years and years ago,
when you'd watch the eleven o'clock news, there'd be somebody,
depending on what station you watched. For us down there
in the southern tier with cable out of Buffalo, he
was IRV Weinstein on Channel seven. He'd say, it's eleven o'clock,
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do you know where your children are? And honest with you,
that's a pretty good question, and maybe they should go
back to asking that question. It's eleven o'clock. Do you
know where your children are? But maybe if it's eleven o'clock,
it's time for whoever you are, however old you are,
it's time for you to be home. Right. If you
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like hanging out with your friends at three o'clock in
the morning, you might be surprised they could also be
interesting in good companionship at three o'clock in the afternoon.
But I don't know. Maybe your mother when you were young,
used to say, you know, like those church ladies, the
holy ghost goes to bed at midnight, and you better
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be home and in your bed by midnight or there's
going to be trouble. And that was good advice when
you're a teenager, and it's good advice now. And maybe
late night hell raising and hanging out, maybe that's not
a good place for anybody to be, regardless of the rage.
And you know, you're less prone to get into trouble
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if you're in on time, and you're less prone to
be the victim of somebody else getting in trouble if
you are in on time. Take a break back in
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appointed by Donald Trump in the United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, the top federal prosecutor for that
federal district, and she also was tasked by him with
prosecuting this fellow, David Hearn, who years ago was an
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Olympian in some obscure sport. No disrespect to solo stand
up canoe paddling, but you know, I kind of put
that near rhythmic gymnastics. I hope it's fun for you,
but I don't want to watch things. But anyway, the
point being, he was Olympian backed in the day, and
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not long after President Trump put in the new lining
on the reflecting pool, you know, the lining started peeling up.
He went overlooked at it and was arrested, was charged
with vandalism. President Trump said that he had been damaging
the deal and Janine Piro when she held a press
conference shortly after the arrest, she went after the guy hard,
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said he was damaging, vandalizing this, that, and the other. Well,
her office looked at it, and they were told by
President Trump to prosecute this guy, make an example of him.
The challenge arose when it turns out that the charge
as were bull crap, that there was no evidence to
indicate that he had broken any law, and that the
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problem with the peeling at the reflecting pool was shoddy
workmanship by a you know, a company that was awarded
a no bid contract by the Department of the Interior.
And so Jenny Pirol came to the conclusion that the
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charges had to be dropped against this guy because one
he was innocent and two there just was no evidence
to support the allegations. And so it was announced at
the end of Friday, closed the Business Friday Deal, that
the charges were dropped. President Trump seemingly very angry about
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this over the weekend. He sort of roasted her on
social media yesterday. You know, he's doing he's signing some
executive order and they're asking him questions like they do,
and he said that she folded like an umbrella, and
he said that she was one hundred percent wrong in this,
(12:11):
and he seemed very angry with her. She last night
went to the White House, was summoned there. What came
of that, we don't know. Asked if her job was secure.
President Trump refused to answer. And you know, the chitter
chatter this morning is that she may potentially be removed
(12:34):
as a United States attorney because she failed to prosecute
this man that Donald Trump wanted prosecuted. Well, here's a
deal at President Trump. President Trump operates outside the norms
of our government, our culture, and you know, we love
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him or hate him, that's how he rolls. I don't
say that as an excuse. I say it as an acknowledgment.
And our criminal justice system, from the very founding of
our republic has been blased based on the understanding that
evil people, despotic people in power could use, as the
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British Crown used, the courts and the criminal powers to
prosecute and persecute political opponents or enemies, and that the
power of government to lock people up or to criminally
identify them was a power that must be intelligently and
forcibly restrained. In the Soviet Union, in communist China, in Cuba,
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people who disagreed with the regimes, were identified as criminals
and were sent off to prisons, gulags, or worse. The
wishes of the president can never supersede the due process
of law, and in this instance, I admire Jeanine Piro
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for doing the right thing. If there was no evidence
to prosecute this man for a crime, then he, of
course must be exonerated. The charges must be dropped. That
is our system, that is right, that is justice. And
our commitment is to our system, to what is right
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and to justice. Our oath is to the Constitution and
all that flows from it. Our commitment is only secondarily
to the fellow for whom we voted a couple years back.
Jinny Piro is right. President Trump is wrong and he
would be wrong to remove her. But I don't think
many of us would be surprised if he did so.
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no idea, and neither do you. President Trump says, oh,
we're really close to a deal. Iran says you're high.
And there are seven separate instances now where President Trump
has threatened now we're really going to hit him and
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then said, hey, we've almost gott an agreement. Everything's great.
This is the seventh time that this exact same pattern
has played itself out. The stock markets and the oil
prices have responded, though increasingly they respond less robustly, you know,
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and and who knows where things really stand. There was
a report this morning that our military may be critically
low in munitions. Specifically, half of our total national inventory
of Tomahawk cruise missiles are gone used up against Iran
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precision strike missiles. We are almost totally out of I mean,
our whole country right pissed away against Iran and what
we have to show for it. And you know, I
voted for Trump, and also I'm not against a war
with Iran, as I've said a million times. These bastards
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have had it coming for forty seven years. But when
you fight a war you need to win a war.
And you know, right now the United States is decidedly
not winning this war. The only positive signs we've received
our assurances from President Trump repeatedly that we have wiped
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out their military, their air force, their navy, their army
are gone, their ability to launch missiles all gone, and
yet they remain in control of the strait of horror
moves and consequently of a portion of the world's economy.
They are the ones who fire missiles at us. They
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have wounded some six hundred of US. And you know,
you look at this and you just wonder. And if
we have, as reports this morning indicate, put ourselves in
a situation of strategic jeopardy by over expanding our munitions,
(17:49):
then that's not a smart move. And you know, I,
you know, we all think what we think about President
Trump in regard to this war. I would point to
the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth. Once he called Secretary
of War, and he has a very active social media
(18:09):
game wherein he presents himself as a rough, tough sob
we're gonna fight, We're gonna be men, We're gonna be lethal.
Where the most leth thal ever there was where really
we're bad. We're war fighters, we destroy, we kill, and
you know, those are all good things. But he has
led this nation in one conflict, and you know, we
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have not succeeded in that conflict, and our situation at
this stage of this conflict, and the world's situation is
rather significantly worse than it was before the conflict began.
And the conflict began because we attacked them. So whatever
strategic objective that Pete Hagseth had in mind as this
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conflict began, we have not achieved it. And you know,
I know that a lot of us, you know, who
voted for President Trump are biting our tongue hoping that
the you know, the Trump magic will come through and
his fourth dimensional chess and thinking several moves ahead will
deliver us. But the end of the day, hag Seth
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is supposed to be the one running this and you know,
thus far, you know, he's crap for results. And I'm
not sure when we're allowed to say that without getting
shouted down, but that is where we stand right now.
And further, just a note about hag Seth. Yesterday there
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was an exit executive order signing and President Trump said
that you know he was going to We're we're concerned
about military families, and so we're going to create a
commission and that commission will report once a year on
recommendation for, you know, how to make military families better, happier,
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and stuff like that. Well, put in charge of that
commission is Pete Hegseth's wife. Not the wife he had
when he was a soldier and she was a military wife,
but the wife he has now, who I don't think
has any background being a military wife. Also, when you
say you will make a report once each year and you,
(20:30):
as a president have what two and a half years
left in your term, that's like one report maybe too.
I don't know. To be honest with you, I think
that this deal yesterday was less about military families and
more about creating something for missus hag Seth to help
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her to feel you know, important and connected and all
that other stuff. And I'm sure she's a wonderful person.
I wish her the best, but you know, I think
we have bigger fish to fry. So forgive me for
being critical of the administration, but this deal with Iran,
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and here's the thing. Let me one other thing. If
I could not being critical of President Trump. But yesterday,
which is what I always say immediately before criticizing him,
But yesterday he said that he had planned fry because
Friday he told us he's going to beat and live
in hell, out of out of Iran. He used the
F word, the S word, so you knew he was
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really serious. And then Saturday he said, Nope, they're begging
me for peace. They want to make a deal, and
so I'm going to back off. Yesterday he said that
he had planned and was going to unleash the largest
military action since World War Two. And that's been reported
and repeated, you know, over and over again since yesterday.
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Just if I could, you know, in the in the
interest of historical context and accuracy, since World War Two,
of course, we had something called the Korean War, a
peacekeeping effort, and we also had something called the Vietnam War. Okay,
we also had the First Golf War, and we also
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had the Global War on Terror. And you know, each
of those undertakings, especially the Vietnam War, were dramatically larger
than anything that President Trump had put together or could
put together over the weekend for Iran. And you know,
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I again, God blessed Trump, and we understand he says
things for effect often, but you know, in historical context,
the assertion that we were about to engage in the
largest military action since World War Two is preposterous, you know, posterous.
Take a break back in a moment, I'll say something
positive and nice. I think I'll look around see if
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I got anything like that in the bag of tricks.
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affecting your relationship? Welcome back. A lot of stuff happening
in the family. My son Jack today and I've spoken
a lot about him. Remember his last Wednesday, he climbed
up to the highest mountain, the top of the highest
mountain in Idaho. Had a situation where he and the
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others almost got struck by lightning. You know, everything's okay. Well.
This week he and some co workers there at a
resort in Idaho. They are well in the overnight, I
think they drove to Wyoming and they are now hiking
in in Grand Teton National Park or whatever it's called.
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They will today establish a base camp and tomorrow they
will their plan has climbed to the top of the
Grand Teaton and he sent the family yesterday a map.
There are certain routes that go up the mountain, and
at any rate, it will be an interesting adventure. He
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and his friends have been planning and training for it
over the last couple of months. And one of the
things they've been working pretty good on their repelling skills.
You don't need that to get up, but it's safe
for this one portion if you repel down. So at
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any rate, he you know, he's twenty one years of
age and he's out living life. And you raise your
kids to be adventurous and son of a gun if
sometimes they don't end up setting out on some adventures.
There was also an incident I found about over the
weekend last week involving another son of mine. It was
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a Friday evening, my son Lee, oldest of my children.
He the last year and a half has been really
into motorcycles. He bought himself one a year and a
half ago, and I think he's got a couple of
them now. He's got all the clothes and the special this,
that and the other, and he's tricked out his garage
so that it's completely motorcycle focused, and he's got all
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the stuff, and he's either riding or tinkering most of
the time. And this end the last week and into
the and had planned a multi day you know, go
visit his sister Hannah, go visit a high school friend,
all on the back of a motorcycle. Anyway, he's in
I think it's New Jersey Friday, and it's three lanes
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one way, three lanes the other way, and a car
doesn't see him, doesn't look it turns right into him
and he goes flying. Fortunately, miraculously, he ends up uninjured
and rolls out of the road before any you know,
(26:36):
the whole succession of cars come that could have run
him over. And at any rate, you know, he tells
me about this Sunday morning in an early am phone call.
You know, he'd squared everything away, he'd rented a pickup
truck and put his mangled bike in the back of
the pickup truck and continued on his weekends. Itinerary, but
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you know, just kind of struck me that last week
on Wednesday and on Friday, I each k I had
two instances where I came very close to, you know,
losing children potentially, and you know that that'll kind of
catch you up a little short. I pray for them
every night. And you know, who knows your life or mine,
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how many times you know there are small little helps
to get us through things sometimes, you know, in God's wisdom,
you know, we things don't turn out the way we want,
and the miracles as we see them don't happen, and
there are tragedies that take place, and I think all
of us in our lives have examples of that. But
at any rate, today Jack goes to climb is tallest
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mountain he and his pals and his thought is that
if he can accomplish this, it will be a true
accomplishment in his life. And you know, last week and
when he got to the top of that tallest mountain
in Idaho, there was a smile on his face in
the picture that he sent back. That was about that.
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It was about achievement. It used to be some several
years ago. Remember, the big fat in schools was self esteem.
We must have let the children have self esteem. And
so we gave them all gold stars and told them
that their crap didn't stink, and everything they did was wonderful,
and they're all geniuses and they are all the most
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beautiful and the best and everything else. And you know
that ended up not being a very good thing for
those kids. Self esteem, true self esteem, comes through achievement. Right.
If you want to feel better about yourself, go out
and accomplish something. Now, that thing that you accomplish maybe
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I don't know, controlling a bad habit you have today,
or it may be going to work and doing your
best today, or maybe doing a little bit better than
you did yesterday. Right, It can come from setting a
goal and achieving that goal. It could be a weight
loss goal, it could be a get a ged goal.
Who knows what it might be. You know, prepare and
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take a test to get a promotion at work goal.
When we accomplish things, it's not that our nose sticks
up in the air and we get a haughty pride,
but that we demonstrate to ourselves that we can accomplish things. Now,
we often think that, oh, if I can achieve this goal,
I'll show people what I can do and who I am.
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And that may be useful, okay, and you might get
some little ego boosts out of that. But what really
matters is you prove yourself to yourself and that helps
you again not to stick your nose in the air
and say, oh, look I'm better than somebody else or
arrogant or whatever like that. But it goes back to
that little line that they tell you do hard things.
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When you do a hard thing, you get just a
little bit of confidence. I've been down a road like
this before. I know I can get down this road.
And when the next hard thing comes along, you are
less fearful of it, you are less anxious about how
it might turn out, and you have just that little
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bit of faith and confidence that allow you to encounter
this hard thing and master it to come out on top.
So I'm grateful. I hope that these young gentlemen, my
son and his palas climbing their grand teton. I hope
that they are able to achieve that goal. Of course,
I pray earnestly that they do so safely. But if
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they come down off that mountain having touched its very top,
I'm the sort of person who believes that that will
give them a little bit of oomph to carry with
them for the rest of their lives, and whatever obstacle,
literal or metaphorical, they face, they will be better prepared
for it. And I suspect that in your life, the
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difficulties you've faced, the obstacles you've overcome, whether it's getting
through basic training, whether it was finally getting that high
school diploma, whether it was, you know, getting through a
bad diagnosis and ringing the bell up at the hospital,
you know, getting the promote, whatever hardship you faced, who knows,
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maybe it was breaking that shoe, your fingernail habit. I
don't know. But when you've done hard things and you
have succeeded, you've proven to yourself that you are capable,
doesn't make you cocky, but it does give you again
a little bit of faith and confidence to go in
and go forward. And again, I am certain that such
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events have taken place in your life, and I hope
that every now and again, you remember them, and you
remember who you are and what you are capable of.
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