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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Bob Lonsbury, and from the banks of the mighty
Genesee in Rochester, New York, this is Downtown Section, 3rd Platoon.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I am old. I can still take you, obviously.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I have staggering virility, and I'm unusually good-looking, but I,
in fact, am old.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Old as hell.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To such an extent, am I aged, that I actually
remember when man first walked on the moon. I was
a kid like 10 years of age or so, but
when Neil and Buzz were up there hopscotching up there
on the green cheese, I was watching it live on TV.
I think it was kind of a bunch of staticky
white and black stuff on there, but it seemed pretty
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cool at the time. The point of all this is
that I have lived to see what was undeniably the
greatest technological achievement thus far our species has made. Now,
we've come up with cooler stuff since then, absolutely. But
in terms of pushing the very limits of our technological knowledge,
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that flight to the moon, that was pretty serious stuff.
Back then, we had a can-do spirit, right? You give
us a challenge, can-do, sir. Can-do, absolutely, we can-do. old
brother Kennedy, he laid down this thing, maybe we could
go to the moon and bring a man up there
and back by the end of the decade. Except he
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didn't know how to pronounce decade like you and I do.
He said it like a rich person from Austin, decade
or something like that. And after that young president was killed,
his successor said, we can do that, sir, and we will.
And the wonderful people associated with rocket design and propulsion,
the people at NASA and elsewhere, They got after and
they did it. And they represented the very best of
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who we were. And they demonstrated to the world that
we are the can-do people, 100%. Which gets to today.
It is hard for an old geezer like myself, remembering
those heady days of space triumph, to see how far
American society has fallen.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To the point where now, We can't even sell a
hamburger out a window without screwing it up. I'm talking
about drive-thru. Have you been to fast food drive-thru lately? Well,
the answer is probably not because you probably got burned
a year ago or two years ago and you swore
off it, right? It used to be, and don't ask
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me or my fat gut how this came to be,
but you're driving down the road and you see, for example,
to pick one of these companies, some golden arches over there,
And you say, you know what, I wonder if they
might have a McDouble over there to hold me till supper.
I mean, you're 20 minutes away from home and once
there you will have supper. But you never know, you
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don't want to get the vapors and pass out while driving.
So you pull up the drive-thru and the quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,
which you interpret to mean what would you like. And
instead of saying, you know, McDouble or something, you say,
do you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Have a quarter pounder with cheese? Do you have two
quarter pounders with cheese, please?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right? And you got them and the fries and the
shake and you're driving down the road. And you spent
about three minutes of your life in that transaction. Those
were the frigging days.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's when America was great. That's not how it is now.
And I don't put down fast food. I personally enjoy it,
almost all of it. And I think if you've got
a balanced diet and moderation and you exercise, what the hell,
eat whatever you want, right? Including what you get through
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a drive-thru. My nose is not in the air. If
I feel like a burrito supreme, I'm hitting Taco Bell, okay? 100%.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I don't do drive-thru anymore, right?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because the whole thing, it's like you get caught in hell.
You get in the line and then somebody comes right
behind you and then you realize, holy crap, this is
moving like a glacier. And well, here's an illustration last night.
And I'm not being negative. I love these businesses. But
my wife and kids, they love Chick-fil-A. Me, I'm come see,
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come saw.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'll go with you. I'll drive. But for the calories.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And the money, I'm good. I'll get something at the house.
It's nothing wrong with it. And I love the model
of the business. I love how well they do. I
love the values of the company that owns it and
so many of the franchisees. But, you know, I'm not
trying to be negative on Chick-fil-A, but it's a chicken sandwich, okay?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's, you know, okay. You can have mine. It's all
right if you're hungry.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But anyway, one of the tremendous things about Chick-fil-A is
traditionally excellent service, and however the heck they do their drive-through,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Last night, we had, what,
a soccer.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Game, and we stopped. His son's got to have Chick-fil-A.
The teammate riding home got to have Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's fine. Glad to get you some. And take the line, honey.
It'll be faster. And okay.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We're in the line at Chick-fil-A a half a mother
frigging hour. Right? And it's already like 730 at night.
I've been sitting out watching a soccer game after working
a full day. I have to be in bed asleep
by 9 o'clock. I haven't eaten any supper yet. And
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I'm sitting here a prisoner of this friggin' fast food
drive-thru lane. Right?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And you sit there and you say, if.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Chick-fil-A can't make a drive-thru lane work, nobody can. Right?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Nobody can. And so, yeah. I do look– because the
issue is I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Think the companies are doing anything different or wrong, right?
I don't think the companies want to torture us and
drive us away from their business by the incredible forever
in their damn line. I think that America doesn't produce
enough people who want to work or who know how
to work or have courtesy or the fast food places
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can only use who they can hire and not putting
down people who work fast food. I think I've had
four kids work jobs exactly like that. But getting a
system whereby you can get a hamburger out the window
quickly and courteously is not something the United States of
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America is capable of anymore. And that leaves me not
only hangry, but a little disappointed and afraid for the future.
This is downtown section, 3rd Platoon. on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This is downtown section 3rd platoon. Mike Fowler is the
chief deputy of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. He looks
like a movie star, I always thought. And I think
I've mentioned that to him enough times for him to
be truly perturbed by the observation. Mike Fowler was in
the Army Reserve where he rose to the rank of colonel,
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which impresses me quite a bit. He has lived his
adult life in service to his community and law enforcement
and to our country through the Army Reserve. I appreciate
such people. I wish I had more of what they
have in their heart. But Mike Fowler spoke to the
TV news people a little bit earlier about that situation
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in the trailer park in Penfield. It started out Sunday afternoon.
for a 911 call about a burglary. Somebody said somebody
was in their car or something like that. Looks like
they're trying to steal stuff or something like that. Maybe
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behavior you don't find overly surprising in a trailer park.
I know they're called manufactured housing communities or something like that.
But when I lived in them, they were called trailer parks.
So I'm kind of stuck in the terminology of an
earlier day. It is, in fact, a trailer, and it is,
in fact, parked. So I stand by my usage. But
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as the able deputies in the Murrow County Sheriff's Office
were there, the victim or a witness said, I think
that you might better go talk to thus and such
a person. He might know something about this. I think
that this thus and such a person was an individual
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who the neighbor thought might be involved in the burglary.
That individual was a 39-year-old by the name of Joe Petrella. So, uh, uh,
the deputies walk up to the, uh, trailer where Mr.
Petrella is in residence and, uh, they knock upon the door. Um, and, uh, may,
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may we come in, please? And, uh, he lets, uh,
the deputy or deputies in. They're making inquiry as to, uh,
you know, did you, were you in somebody's car down
here or something like that? And, uh, at any rate,
they had a certain point. Um, and the, the sheriff's
office has not given us the details and particulars of
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exactly how the conversation went. But it was not long
before the deputies were in a bathroom in the trailer,
and they discovered there in the bathtub the body of
Joe Petrella's mother, a 61-year-old woman by the name of
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Amy Hogan. And she had been stabbed and slashed. multiple
times there in the trailer. And subsequent to that, subsequent
to her demise as a consequence, allegedly, of this stabbing
at the hands of her son, he wrapped her in
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a shower curtain. And then there were frozen items. I
don't know, maybe ice cream, a pork roast or something.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I don't know. Bag of vegetables.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Frozen items had been placed over and around her body in,
one presumes, an attempt to preserve it or to forestall
or delay the process of decomposition. So, at any rate,
this man is now in custody, obviously. He now is
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charged and petted larceny, burglary, and murder. That according to
what Chief Deputy Mike Fowler briefed the press on today.
And it just leaves you with a question that we
all have and a question which none of us can answer.
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Who the hell would stab their mother to death? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
First of all, you're 39, she's 60. Right?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You are young, healthy, male, and she's 60.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And 60 is certainly not old. It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
She may be vital and strong, but she's still 21
years older than you are. And she's still your mother,
you frigging monster. And you can have a rough relationship
with your mom.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You can. That'll happen.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you turn and walk away. You don't go slash
her and stab her. What leads people to do things
like this? Is it mental illness?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Is it addiction? Right?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
If you're stealing stuff out of the car, were you
trying to steal stuff away from her?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Pure speculation on my part. Or are you just frigging nuts? Right?
I'm always slow to accept the frigging nuts thing. On
the Lindsay Clancy jury, if I'd been there, it would
have been 10 to 2, not 11 to 1.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Because like in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This situation, if you are sufficiently mentally well to wrap
her in a shower curtain and then stack the ice
cream around her to try to slow decomposition and smell
to avoid detection, I got to figure if you're sufficiently
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mentally well to formulate this plan to avoid detection, then
I'm going to figure you're sufficiently mentally well to have
known that you shouldn't have stabbed mom to death. And, uh, again,
I recognize I have no new information.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I have nothing to add to this.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Um, I don't have any thoughts or feelings on this
that you don't have, but, um, who the hell kills
their mother? And further, uh, to stab someone, to slash someone,
that's a, that's a, that's a dirty business. It's, uh, um,
When mama's blood is spurting all over you and you
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keep stabbing, you know, that's a little messed up right there.
And I'm not exactly sure what corner of hell you
came from, but I imagine sometime you're going to.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Go back there.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So these are allegations at this point, quite obviously. But
it is not an allegation that Mrs.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Hogan is dead. That is a fact.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And God bless her and those folks who may have
cared for her This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on
NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. It may not surprise
you that I am largely unfamiliar with the work of
rapper Macklemore. It also may not surprise you that I
am only very passingly familiar with the work of Ed Sheeran.
Ed Sheeran, a singer, and Mr. Macklemore, his opening act,
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a rapper. They had planned some grand multi-city, maybe multi-country
stadium performance. And, you know, I imagine that probably people
who would buy tickets to go see that would enjoy
both of them a great deal. And so, seems like
everything's great. Except that Macklemore, the rapper, he got up
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at a recent performance and he gave a little speech
about Palestine and Gaza and Israel and all this other stuff. And,
you know, that ticked off some people, to include, rather,
the fellow who owns the New England Patriots. I'm unsure,
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was there a massage parlor issue with him?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I can't remember. I could be wrong. Probably am, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
But the deal is that the man who owns the
New England Patriots is in charge of the arena where
they're going to perform. And he said, you know, we
just don't do politics. We don't want to offend people.
And so really you're not welcome here. And I think
that other venue owners might've got the call from this
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gentleman and they might have signed on to his views.
And so the word kind of came to Ed Sheeran,
you're going to have to lose this guy for your
opening act, or you are not going to be able
to have this tour because you won't have places to
do it, which probably would be very, very disappointing, not
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just to Mr. Sheeran and his financial situation, but to
the many tens of thousands of people who bought tickets
and wanted to go listen to him sing, right? So
at any rate, officially today, Ed Sheeran says Macklemore is
off the tour. And on social media and in the
news media, this is some kind of big First Amendment option.
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Some big arguments going on about Macklemore and his right
to this.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That, and the other.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, you do have a right to say anything you want, right?
Free speech, you bet. You don't have a right, however,
to stand on someone else's stage and do it. You
don't have a right to to the use of a
giant stadium facility for it. If you choose to, I guess,
pay for the stadium, you could, but you don't have
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that right. And to be honest with you, I agree
with the guy who owns the New England Patriots. I
am personally tired of politicians telling me what to think
and do. I'm sorry, politicians, entertainers. I'm tired of politicians
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telling me to but at least it's their line of work.
Politicians are in the business of having opinions, right? Musicians
are in the business of singing songs. And I'm tired
of entertainers, and not to be a jerk, but that
also includes athletes, okay? You're not making me a sandwich.
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You're not building me a car. You're not fixing me
a toilet. You're not programming my computer. You're singing me
a song, or you're playing a game for me to watch.
You're here to entertain. And I don't mean that in
a demeaning or disrespectful fashion. When you're lifting my spirits
and giving me something to listen to or to watch
and get excited about, you're doing me a great service.
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And I'm thankful for it. And I respect you, right?
But I think that this notion that if you want
to go watch a concert, you have to get your
face rubbed in the politics of whoever the hell is performing.
I just don't go for that, right? and if we
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go to a concert together, you and I, I mean,
you pay your own way, damn it. But if we,
or like I go and you go and we just
end up sitting next to each other, neither one of
us should have to worry about our being offended. That
doesn't mean people have to kiss our hind ends, sing
the songs, play the music, play the game, whatever it is,
I've just bought a ticket to watch. But if you've
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got to say something, Let it be positive and engaging
and uplifting for everyone in that venue. Right?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't make it political. People come. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know, Goo Goo Dolls, who honestly should be playing
tomorrow night at the home opener of the new Highmark Stadium.
A huge, unfortunate oversight on the part of the Bills.
But the Goo Goo Dolls, one of their people came
out here yesterday or today and said, yeah, we don't
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do politics. The reason being that people come here to escape,
to be entertained, to have their mind taken off their
challenges and difficulties for a few minutes. People come out
to listen to our music and to have a good time.
And And that's what they deliver with the Google DAOs. I, um,
agree with that and, and believe in it. And, you know,
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I recognize I sit here and I do a, you know,
a political talk show or a talk show that's maybe
one third politics. I understand that that's not for everybody. Um,
But I'm also sitting in a booth that says Current
Events Talk Show, about a third of it's politics, and
also the jerk host is some kind of right-wing lunatic,
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so you know what you're getting when you walk through
their front door.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
If you go see a.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Concert, I'm not coming for your politics. I'm not coming
for your opinion. I'm coming for your talent. And at
any rate, so Macklemore will probably be benefited by this.
He'll have a larger, more loyal following. I hope Ed
Sheeran doesn't get screwed over by this.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And I hope that people who.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just wanted to hear Ed Sheeran sing will be able
to do so. And I hope that it's a wonderful,
successful concert tour for everybody. And I hope that Macklemore,
as he goes forward, unless he chooses to go off
and be some kind of grand political campaigner, if he
decides that he's going to stick with that, I think
I'll be a performer thing. I hope that he performs
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less and performs more, rather, and opines less. The world
has enough obnoxious jerks like me shouting political opinions. We need,
in times that aren't political, for there to be a
whole lot less politics. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon
on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I may
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have intimated earlier in my career that I like big boobs.
If that's accurate... and I offer no confirmation here, I
would suggest that that is not a unique or uncommon
opinion for someone of the male gender to have. I
just throw that out there. And I do so in
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the context of Sydney Sweeney, who I didn't know who was,
but she popped up on social media, and female athletes,
to include people like gymnasts and stuff like that, God
bless gymnasts. That's a cool thing, I guess. But, like,
you know, maybe gymnasts are not our society's thought leaders.
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I think that's fair to say, don't you? Ditto for
pole vaulters. Not trying to be a jerk, but I'm
just saying. At any rate, a lot of female athletes, very,
very angry at Sydney Sweeney because she's an actress. posed
for some pictures having to do with an online gambling
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product where you can go bet on sports and stuff
like that. And the photographs that upset the female athletes
are pictures of Sydney Sweeney where she is naked, but
her tender bits are covered over by footballs or other
sports paraphernalia in different poses and whatever. And You know,
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I'm not some big Madison Avenue advertising executive, but I
think that given the fact that customers for online sports
gambling are overwhelmingly young men, a picture of a scantily
clad young woman would probably be appealing to a fairly
high percentage of young men like that. At any rate,
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the female athletes are deeply offended by this and say
that this Sydney Sweeney has set back women in our
society by decades. And then the female athletes have talked
about how they have been grand pioneers for the women's
rights movement. And I had to kind of scratch my
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head a little bit on that one. It's probably for
the best that they didn't make that ridiculous assertion until
after Gloria Steinem passed away. I think that, you know,
I mean, Billie Jean King, you could put in that category.
But I think that, you know, there were a lot
of women advocating pretty powerfully for women's rights long before
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we felt obligated to pretend we cared about the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
OK, right.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Before members, the women's national soccer team. you know, were
making millions off Nike ads. I think that there were
a lot of wonderful women all up and down our
society who were calling for and modeling a strong, powerful
leadership and role models and all that other stuff. But
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at any rate, the athletic publication has editorialized against Sidney
Sweeney There have been a number of female journalists who
have denounced her. And these female athletes, don't forget the gymnasts,
maybe a figure skater, I don't know. And, of course,
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the soccer and the basketball, they've all condemned her and
stuff like that. And I'll be honest with you, you know,
and here's the thing. We probably would all be better
off if we spent less time ogling the, you know,
the parts of other people. You want to see parts?
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Go find somebody, fall in love, and get married, and
knock yourself out. This is the preferred path to this.
But that said, this is the United States of America. Life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. And it is interesting that
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that in the name of women's rights, these female athletes
are condemning a woman for living her life the way
she wants to, right? It's interesting that women who insist
upon society accepting them is completely unaccepting of this other
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woman who merely has made different decisions, right? She is
an attractive woman. actor and model. And sometimes attractive models
and actors will be in pictures, right? And sometimes those
will be suggestive photographs. Further, the notion of a female
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posing naked with her tender bits hidden by some athletic paraphernalia,
we've had a number of female athletes over the years
who've done exactly that. But when you do it for
ESPN for a little bit of money, it's okay. But
if you do it for some online gambling thing for
a lot of money, that's not okay. And again, if
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we are to accept and respect women when they play
basketball or soccer, isn't the principle that we should accept
and respect women all the time in every situation? And if,
you know, again, there is.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
There are certain cultures.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
In women's professional soccer and in the WNBA. There's a
very large lesbian community there. There's a very strong Black
Lives Matter representation, especially in the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And that's all fine.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And if everybody there says, you must respect us as
we live our way, then why isn't that true for
Sidney Sweeney or anybody else? Shouldn't that just be our
rule of thumb for dealing with people? That old saying,
live and let live? Maybe that ought to be the
American motto. I'm free to live how I want and
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make my decisions for my life.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And so are you. And so is he. And so
is she.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And so is everybody, including Sidney Sweeney, whoever she is.
The thing most noteworthy about this reaction from these female
athletes is their hypocrisy. Right? Their hypocrisy. They demand respect
because they're women, but they will not give respect to
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this other woman. Right? That doesn't seem like our society
has a problem. It seems like those female athletes have
a problem with arrogance and maybe even bigotry. From the
banks of the mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York, this
is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon, and we are 10-7 on
the night.
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Bob Lonsbury, and from the banks of the mighty
Genesee in Rochester, New York, this is Downtown Section, 3rd Platoon.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I am old. I can still take you, obviously.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I have staggering virility, and I'm unusually good-looking, but I,
in fact, am old.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Old as hell.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To such an extent, am I aged, that I actually
remember when man first walked on the moon. I was
a kid like 10 years of age or so, but
when Neil and Buzz were up there hopscotching up there
on the green cheese, I was watching it live on TV.
I think it was kind of a bunch of staticky
white and black stuff on there, but it seemed pretty
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cool at the time. The point of all this is
that I have lived to see what was undeniably the
greatest technological achievement thus far our species has made. Now,
we've come up with cooler stuff since then, absolutely. But
in terms of pushing the very limits of our technological knowledge,
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that flight to the moon, that was pretty serious stuff.
Back then, we had a can-do spirit, right? You give
us a challenge, can-do, sir. Can-do, absolutely, we can-do. old
brother Kennedy, he laid down this thing, maybe we could
go to the moon and bring a man up there
and back by the end of the decade. Except he
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didn't know how to pronounce decade like you and I do.
He said it like a rich person from Austin, decade
or something like that. And after that young president was killed,
his successor said, we can do that, sir, and we will.
And the wonderful people associated with rocket design and propulsion,
the people at NASA and elsewhere, They got after and
they did it. And they represented the very best of
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who we were. And they demonstrated to the world that
we are the can-do people, 100%. Which gets to today.
It is hard for an old geezer like myself, remembering
those heady days of space triumph, to see how far
American society has fallen.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To the point where now, We can't even sell a
hamburger out a window without screwing it up. I'm talking
about drive-thru. Have you been to fast food drive-thru lately? Well,
the answer is probably not because you probably got burned
a year ago or two years ago and you swore
off it, right? It used to be, and don't ask
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me or my fat gut how this came to be,
but you're driving down the road and you see, for example,
to pick one of these companies, some golden arches over there,
And you say, you know what, I wonder if they
might have a McDouble over there to hold me till supper.
I mean, you're 20 minutes away from home and once
there you will have supper. But you never know, you
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don't want to get the vapors and pass out while driving.
So you pull up the drive-thru and the quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,
which you interpret to mean what would you like. And
instead of saying, you know, McDouble or something, you say,
do you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Have a quarter pounder with cheese? Do you have two
quarter pounders with cheese, please?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right? And you got them and the fries and the
shake and you're driving down the road. And you spent
about three minutes of your life in that transaction. Those
were the frigging days.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's when America was great. That's not how it is now.
And I don't put down fast food. I personally enjoy it,
almost all of it. And I think if you've got
a balanced diet and moderation and you exercise, what the hell,
eat whatever you want, right? Including what you get through
(03:52):
a drive-thru. My nose is not in the air. If
I feel like a burrito supreme, I'm hitting Taco Bell, okay? 100%.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I don't do drive-thru anymore, right?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because the whole thing, it's like you get caught in hell.
You get in the line and then somebody comes right
behind you and then you realize, holy crap, this is
moving like a glacier. And well, here's an illustration last night.
And I'm not being negative. I love these businesses. But
my wife and kids, they love Chick-fil-A. Me, I'm come see,
(04:28):
come saw.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'll go with you. I'll drive. But for the calories.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And the money, I'm good. I'll get something at the house.
It's nothing wrong with it. And I love the model
of the business. I love how well they do. I
love the values of the company that owns it and
so many of the franchisees. But, you know, I'm not
trying to be negative on Chick-fil-A, but it's a chicken sandwich, okay?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's, you know, okay. You can have mine. It's all
right if you're hungry.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But anyway, one of the tremendous things about Chick-fil-A is
traditionally excellent service, and however the heck they do their drive-through,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Last night, we had, what,
a soccer.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Game, and we stopped. His son's got to have Chick-fil-A.
The teammate riding home got to have Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's fine. Glad to get you some. And take the line, honey.
It'll be faster. And okay.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We're in the line at Chick-fil-A a half a mother
frigging hour. Right? And it's already like 730 at night.
I've been sitting out watching a soccer game after working
a full day. I have to be in bed asleep
by 9 o'clock. I haven't eaten any supper yet. And
(05:55):
I'm sitting here a prisoner of this friggin' fast food
drive-thru lane. Right?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And you sit there and you say, if.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Chick-fil-A can't make a drive-thru lane work, nobody can. Right?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Nobody can. And so, yeah. I do look– because the
issue is I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Think the companies are doing anything different or wrong, right?
I don't think the companies want to torture us and
drive us away from their business by the incredible forever
in their damn line. I think that America doesn't produce
enough people who want to work or who know how
to work or have courtesy or the fast food places
(06:44):
can only use who they can hire and not putting
down people who work fast food. I think I've had
four kids work jobs exactly like that. But getting a
system whereby you can get a hamburger out the window
quickly and courteously is not something the United States of
(07:05):
America is capable of anymore. And that leaves me not
only hangry, but a little disappointed and afraid for the future.
This is downtown section, 3rd Platoon. on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This is downtown section 3rd platoon. Mike Fowler is the
chief deputy of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. He looks
like a movie star, I always thought. And I think
I've mentioned that to him enough times for him to
be truly perturbed by the observation. Mike Fowler was in
the Army Reserve where he rose to the rank of colonel,
(07:41):
which impresses me quite a bit. He has lived his
adult life in service to his community and law enforcement
and to our country through the Army Reserve. I appreciate
such people. I wish I had more of what they
have in their heart. But Mike Fowler spoke to the
TV news people a little bit earlier about that situation
(08:05):
in the trailer park in Penfield. It started out Sunday afternoon.
for a 911 call about a burglary. Somebody said somebody
was in their car or something like that. Looks like
they're trying to steal stuff or something like that. Maybe
(08:26):
behavior you don't find overly surprising in a trailer park.
I know they're called manufactured housing communities or something like that.
But when I lived in them, they were called trailer parks.
So I'm kind of stuck in the terminology of an
earlier day. It is, in fact, a trailer, and it is,
in fact, parked. So I stand by my usage. But
(08:48):
as the able deputies in the Murrow County Sheriff's Office
were there, the victim or a witness said, I think
that you might better go talk to thus and such
a person. He might know something about this. I think
that this thus and such a person was an individual
(09:09):
who the neighbor thought might be involved in the burglary.
That individual was a 39-year-old by the name of Joe Petrella. So, uh, uh,
the deputies walk up to the, uh, trailer where Mr.
Petrella is in residence and, uh, they knock upon the door. Um, and, uh, may,
(09:31):
may we come in, please? And, uh, he lets, uh,
the deputy or deputies in. They're making inquiry as to, uh,
you know, did you, were you in somebody's car down
here or something like that? And, uh, at any rate,
they had a certain point. Um, and the, the sheriff's
office has not given us the details and particulars of
(09:53):
exactly how the conversation went. But it was not long
before the deputies were in a bathroom in the trailer,
and they discovered there in the bathtub the body of
Joe Petrella's mother, a 61-year-old woman by the name of
(10:14):
Amy Hogan. And she had been stabbed and slashed. multiple
times there in the trailer. And subsequent to that, subsequent
to her demise as a consequence, allegedly, of this stabbing
at the hands of her son, he wrapped her in
(10:38):
a shower curtain. And then there were frozen items. I
don't know, maybe ice cream, a pork roast or something.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I don't know. Bag of vegetables.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Frozen items had been placed over and around her body in,
one presumes, an attempt to preserve it or to forestall
or delay the process of decomposition. So, at any rate,
this man is now in custody, obviously. He now is
(11:13):
charged and petted larceny, burglary, and murder. That according to
what Chief Deputy Mike Fowler briefed the press on today.
And it just leaves you with a question that we
all have and a question which none of us can answer.
(11:34):
Who the hell would stab their mother to death? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
First of all, you're 39, she's 60. Right?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You are young, healthy, male, and she's 60.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And 60 is certainly not old. It doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
She may be vital and strong, but she's still 21
years older than you are. And she's still your mother,
you frigging monster. And you can have a rough relationship
with your mom.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You can. That'll happen.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you turn and walk away. You don't go slash
her and stab her. What leads people to do things
like this? Is it mental illness?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Is it addiction? Right?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
If you're stealing stuff out of the car, were you
trying to steal stuff away from her?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Pure speculation on my part. Or are you just frigging nuts? Right?
I'm always slow to accept the frigging nuts thing. On
the Lindsay Clancy jury, if I'd been there, it would
have been 10 to 2, not 11 to 1.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Because like in.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
This situation, if you are sufficiently mentally well to wrap
her in a shower curtain and then stack the ice
cream around her to try to slow decomposition and smell
to avoid detection, I got to figure if you're sufficiently
(13:10):
mentally well to formulate this plan to avoid detection, then
I'm going to figure you're sufficiently mentally well to have
known that you shouldn't have stabbed mom to death. And, uh, again,
I recognize I have no new information.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I have nothing to add to this.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Um, I don't have any thoughts or feelings on this
that you don't have, but, um, who the hell kills
their mother? And further, uh, to stab someone, to slash someone,
that's a, that's a, that's a dirty business. It's, uh, um,
When mama's blood is spurting all over you and you
(13:48):
keep stabbing, you know, that's a little messed up right there.
And I'm not exactly sure what corner of hell you
came from, but I imagine sometime you're going to.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Go back there.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So these are allegations at this point, quite obviously. But
it is not an allegation that Mrs.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Hogan is dead. That is a fact.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And God bless her and those folks who may have
cared for her This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on
NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. It may not surprise
you that I am largely unfamiliar with the work of
rapper Macklemore. It also may not surprise you that I
am only very passingly familiar with the work of Ed Sheeran.
Ed Sheeran, a singer, and Mr. Macklemore, his opening act,
(14:45):
a rapper. They had planned some grand multi-city, maybe multi-country
stadium performance. And, you know, I imagine that probably people
who would buy tickets to go see that would enjoy
both of them a great deal. And so, seems like
everything's great. Except that Macklemore, the rapper, he got up
(15:10):
at a recent performance and he gave a little speech
about Palestine and Gaza and Israel and all this other stuff. And,
you know, that ticked off some people, to include, rather,
the fellow who owns the New England Patriots. I'm unsure,
(15:32):
was there a massage parlor issue with him?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I can't remember. I could be wrong. Probably am, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
But the deal is that the man who owns the
New England Patriots is in charge of the arena where
they're going to perform. And he said, you know, we
just don't do politics. We don't want to offend people.
And so really you're not welcome here. And I think
that other venue owners might've got the call from this
(16:03):
gentleman and they might have signed on to his views.
And so the word kind of came to Ed Sheeran,
you're going to have to lose this guy for your
opening act, or you are not going to be able
to have this tour because you won't have places to
do it, which probably would be very, very disappointing, not
(16:25):
just to Mr. Sheeran and his financial situation, but to
the many tens of thousands of people who bought tickets
and wanted to go listen to him sing, right? So
at any rate, officially today, Ed Sheeran says Macklemore is
off the tour. And on social media and in the
news media, this is some kind of big First Amendment option.
(16:49):
Some big arguments going on about Macklemore and his right
to this.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That, and the other.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, you do have a right to say anything you want, right?
Free speech, you bet. You don't have a right, however,
to stand on someone else's stage and do it. You
don't have a right to to the use of a
giant stadium facility for it. If you choose to, I guess,
pay for the stadium, you could, but you don't have
(17:15):
that right. And to be honest with you, I agree
with the guy who owns the New England Patriots. I
am personally tired of politicians telling me what to think
and do. I'm sorry, politicians, entertainers. I'm tired of politicians
(17:35):
telling me to but at least it's their line of work.
Politicians are in the business of having opinions, right? Musicians
are in the business of singing songs. And I'm tired
of entertainers, and not to be a jerk, but that
also includes athletes, okay? You're not making me a sandwich.
(17:56):
You're not building me a car. You're not fixing me
a toilet. You're not programming my computer. You're singing me
a song, or you're playing a game for me to watch.
You're here to entertain. And I don't mean that in
a demeaning or disrespectful fashion. When you're lifting my spirits
and giving me something to listen to or to watch
and get excited about, you're doing me a great service.
(18:17):
And I'm thankful for it. And I respect you, right?
But I think that this notion that if you want
to go watch a concert, you have to get your
face rubbed in the politics of whoever the hell is performing.
I just don't go for that, right? and if we
(18:37):
go to a concert together, you and I, I mean,
you pay your own way, damn it. But if we,
or like I go and you go and we just
end up sitting next to each other, neither one of
us should have to worry about our being offended. That
doesn't mean people have to kiss our hind ends, sing
the songs, play the music, play the game, whatever it is,
I've just bought a ticket to watch. But if you've
(19:00):
got to say something, Let it be positive and engaging
and uplifting for everyone in that venue. Right?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't make it political. People come. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You know, Goo Goo Dolls, who honestly should be playing
tomorrow night at the home opener of the new Highmark Stadium.
A huge, unfortunate oversight on the part of the Bills.
But the Goo Goo Dolls, one of their people came
out here yesterday or today and said, yeah, we don't
(19:34):
do politics. The reason being that people come here to escape,
to be entertained, to have their mind taken off their
challenges and difficulties for a few minutes. People come out
to listen to our music and to have a good time.
And And that's what they deliver with the Google DAOs. I, um,
agree with that and, and believe in it. And, you know,
(19:58):
I recognize I sit here and I do a, you know,
a political talk show or a talk show that's maybe
one third politics. I understand that that's not for everybody. Um,
But I'm also sitting in a booth that says Current
Events Talk Show, about a third of it's politics, and
also the jerk host is some kind of right-wing lunatic,
(20:18):
so you know what you're getting when you walk through
their front door.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
If you go see a.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Concert, I'm not coming for your politics. I'm not coming
for your opinion. I'm coming for your talent. And at
any rate, so Macklemore will probably be benefited by this.
He'll have a larger, more loyal following. I hope Ed
Sheeran doesn't get screwed over by this.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And I hope that people who.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just wanted to hear Ed Sheeran sing will be able
to do so. And I hope that it's a wonderful,
successful concert tour for everybody. And I hope that Macklemore,
as he goes forward, unless he chooses to go off
and be some kind of grand political campaigner, if he
decides that he's going to stick with that, I think
I'll be a performer thing. I hope that he performs
(21:06):
less and performs more, rather, and opines less. The world
has enough obnoxious jerks like me shouting political opinions. We need,
in times that aren't political, for there to be a
whole lot less politics. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon
on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I may
(21:30):
have intimated earlier in my career that I like big boobs.
If that's accurate... and I offer no confirmation here, I
would suggest that that is not a unique or uncommon
opinion for someone of the male gender to have. I
just throw that out there. And I do so in
(21:52):
the context of Sydney Sweeney, who I didn't know who was,
but she popped up on social media, and female athletes,
to include people like gymnasts and stuff like that, God
bless gymnasts. That's a cool thing, I guess. But, like,
you know, maybe gymnasts are not our society's thought leaders.
(22:15):
I think that's fair to say, don't you? Ditto for
pole vaulters. Not trying to be a jerk, but I'm
just saying. At any rate, a lot of female athletes, very,
very angry at Sydney Sweeney because she's an actress. posed
for some pictures having to do with an online gambling
(22:39):
product where you can go bet on sports and stuff
like that. And the photographs that upset the female athletes
are pictures of Sydney Sweeney where she is naked, but
her tender bits are covered over by footballs or other
sports paraphernalia in different poses and whatever. And You know,
(23:03):
I'm not some big Madison Avenue advertising executive, but I
think that given the fact that customers for online sports
gambling are overwhelmingly young men, a picture of a scantily
clad young woman would probably be appealing to a fairly
high percentage of young men like that. At any rate,
(23:25):
the female athletes are deeply offended by this and say
that this Sydney Sweeney has set back women in our
society by decades. And then the female athletes have talked
about how they have been grand pioneers for the women's
rights movement. And I had to kind of scratch my
(23:48):
head a little bit on that one. It's probably for
the best that they didn't make that ridiculous assertion until
after Gloria Steinem passed away. I think that, you know,
I mean, Billie Jean King, you could put in that category.
But I think that, you know, there were a lot
of women advocating pretty powerfully for women's rights long before
(24:11):
we felt obligated to pretend we cared about the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
OK, right.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Before members, the women's national soccer team. you know, were
making millions off Nike ads. I think that there were
a lot of wonderful women all up and down our
society who were calling for and modeling a strong, powerful
leadership and role models and all that other stuff. But
(24:37):
at any rate, the athletic publication has editorialized against Sidney
Sweeney There have been a number of female journalists who
have denounced her. And these female athletes, don't forget the gymnasts,
maybe a figure skater, I don't know. And, of course,
(24:58):
the soccer and the basketball, they've all condemned her and
stuff like that. And I'll be honest with you, you know,
and here's the thing. We probably would all be better
off if we spent less time ogling the, you know,
the parts of other people. You want to see parts?
(25:21):
Go find somebody, fall in love, and get married, and
knock yourself out. This is the preferred path to this.
But that said, this is the United States of America. Life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. And it is interesting that
(25:42):
that in the name of women's rights, these female athletes
are condemning a woman for living her life the way
she wants to, right? It's interesting that women who insist
upon society accepting them is completely unaccepting of this other
(26:04):
woman who merely has made different decisions, right? She is
an attractive woman. actor and model. And sometimes attractive models
and actors will be in pictures, right? And sometimes those
will be suggestive photographs. Further, the notion of a female
(26:26):
posing naked with her tender bits hidden by some athletic paraphernalia,
we've had a number of female athletes over the years
who've done exactly that. But when you do it for
ESPN for a little bit of money, it's okay. But
if you do it for some online gambling thing for
a lot of money, that's not okay. And again, if
(26:51):
we are to accept and respect women when they play
basketball or soccer, isn't the principle that we should accept
and respect women all the time in every situation? And if,
you know, again, there is.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
There are certain cultures.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
In women's professional soccer and in the WNBA. There's a
very large lesbian community there. There's a very strong Black
Lives Matter representation, especially in the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And that's all fine.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
And if everybody there says, you must respect us as
we live our way, then why isn't that true for
Sidney Sweeney or anybody else? Shouldn't that just be our
rule of thumb for dealing with people? That old saying,
live and let live? Maybe that ought to be the
American motto. I'm free to live how I want and
(27:47):
make my decisions for my life.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And so are you. And so is he. And so
is she.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And so is everybody, including Sidney Sweeney, whoever she is.
The thing most noteworthy about this reaction from these female
athletes is their hypocrisy. Right? Their hypocrisy. They demand respect
because they're women, but they will not give respect to
(28:16):
this other woman. Right? That doesn't seem like our society
has a problem. It seems like those female athletes have
a problem with arrogance and maybe even bigotry. From the
banks of the mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York, this
is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon, and we are 10-7 on
the night.
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