September 15, 2026 • 31 mins
Bob talks about bribes for votes, new polling on congressional races, Bob takes a call, talks about Trump, and talks to Radio Mike.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Next news at 10.30, breaking news when it happens, anytime.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Another hour with Bob Lonsbury, starting now on NewsRadio WAM 1180.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Thanks, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you
showing up for muster. Hope all is cool and copacetic
on your end. It's interesting, you know, Kathy Hochul blew
through town yesterday. It's bribery time. Don Trump, he offered
you $ 5, 000 if you voted for Republicans for Congress. Kathy
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Hochul is sending you a $ 200 check as sort of
a grease your palms coming into election day. Supposedly, it
has to do with utility prices and such like that,
your rebate. That's bull crap, right? It's complete bull crap.
The cost of electricity in New York State is about 70%
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higher than the national average. This is a consequence exclusively
of New York State taxes and mandates, right? Your high
electric bill originates in the state capital. That's the period, right?
But she takes this large amount of money from you,
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comes back, offers you a pittance, and tells you that
she's doing you a favor. So I hope you don't
believe it. But here's the deal. both Trump and Hochul
apparently think that you're a whore. And the difference between
them seems to be that Trump at $ 5, 000 believes that
you're kind of a Julia Roberts sort of, you're sort
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of a high pride. Wasn't she in a movie where
she played a prostitute? Yeah. Whereas Kathy Hochul seems to
think that you're in an alley off Lyle Avenue, right?
But the point is that Both sides have contempt for you.
Both sides think that by giving you money, they will
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get your vote. It's deeply embarrassing, this offer from President Trump,
and it's sadly confirming to have one more check just
before election time from one more Democrat hoping to buy
your vote. So anyway, but Kathy Hochul, she was in Buffalo,
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and she stood up and she said, that Western New
York was her firewall and that she needed Western New
York in order to be re-elected governor. Well, you know,
these people, both my Republicans and your Democrats, lie like anything, right? And,
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you know, so there's the very real possibility that she's
lying and the very real possibility that you and I
are frigging idiots if we believe anything that you know,
these politicians say. But she did say that Western New
York was her firewall. Well, then I would politely say,
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I think Bruce Blakeman's in pretty good shape then. A
firewall is, in the political world, that last thing you
absolutely have to have. This is our last defense, right? Well,
Last time she ran four years ago, Kathy Hochul lost
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Western New York by 50,000 votes. And if she says
she needs Western New York to win, then the expectation
would be that she's not going to win. Of course, again,
getting back to the reality here, It could be that
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she's just saying these things because they all lie. So
that's the story with that. There are new polling out
this morning on the looming congressional elections across the country. And,
you know, the numbers from my Republican standpoint are not
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particularly encouraging. It seems that at least according to Siena,
people support Democrats in almost every significant issue. In healthcare,
it's Democrats plus 24. 60% of Americans say Democrats will
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do better handling healthcare as opposed to 36% of Republicans. Immigration,
it's Democrat plus 7. Deficit, it's Democrat plus 10. The economy,
it's Democrat plus seven. Cost of living, Democrat plus eight.
Foreign wars, it's Democrat plus seven. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it's
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Democrat plus 11. This is not good. It's worth noting
that the two issues that brought President Trump back to power,
immigration and the economy, and in the economy, I presume
you include... the deficit and cost of living. But in
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each of those areas where President Trump was strong and
those areas giving him his margin of victory, that has
now flopped and people trust the Democratic Party more in
those areas. President Trump remains underwater about two to one
in terms of his favorability rating. And it looks like
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Republican candidates at least potentially, could be negatively affected by this.
That's the national view, but we don't really elect anybody
nationally this time. They're all local races involving members of Congress.
And there's been so much gerrymandering by both parties across
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most of the states that people in office right now,
in the parties that control their seats, there aren't very
many places where You know, there's going to be any
change made. There are enough to change control of the House,
you bet. And quite possibly, though it's a little more unlikely,
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change in the control of the Senate. Here's one thing
I wonder. And I'll just throw it out there. I,
you know, have been a Republican all my life. And that's,
you know, typically how I vote. That's where my prejudices lie.
That said, not to piss you off, but I wonder
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if from the standpoint of the Republican Party and consequently
the best interests of our country, I wonder if it
might not be such a terribly bad thing if the
Democrats do win the Congress, either the House or the
House and the Senate. And here's what I say. Let
me just throw this out there. I could be full
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of crap. you know, the Trump era is a very
unique period in human history, in American history, rather. And,
you know, it's going to have an impact on the
Republican Party, potentially. If the Republicans retain control of Congress,
then I think that we'll probably have two more years
like the two years we've just had. And, unfortunately, you know,
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and I voted for Trump three times and all this
other stuff, and some of the things he does are very,
very good. But, So far in this term, we've had
two years of the Republican-controlled Congress being an absolute doormat
for the vanity and the folly of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He does some things that are about nothing other than ego.
And the Congress Republicans look the other way and don't
challenge him or act as a constitutional restraint upon him.
He also does some things... that absolutely are effing up
a lot of important issues. He has tattered almost all
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of our alliances. We are in a war with Iran,
which is having extraordinarily negative impact. There's been no restraint,
no pullback from the Republican Congress. So if the Republicans
retain control of Congress, we have two more years of
being a doormat to President Trump's vanity and folly. I
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would think at about that point the voters of America
might say, I'm done with the frigging Republicans for the
rest of my life, right? And I don't know. I
might be one of those people, just being honest with you, okay?
Nothing wrong with being an independent. Nothing wrong with staying
home if you got crap A versus crap B on
the ballot. But what if the Democrats are successful in–
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and they take control of the House and or the Senate.
What would that do? And here's the thing. Let the
Democrats bring in their socialists. Let them bring in that
Muslim guy from Michigan and give us two years of that, right?
First of all, Trump will be restrained. So Trump's vanity
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and folly will be on a very short leash. Two,
we have two years of just how extremist and anti-American
that the Democratic Party is. And that's two years for
the American people to look at that crap that the
Democrats will offer and say, I don't want that. And
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then I think if the Republicans were to offer up
a centrist candidate who would go back to the regular
order of just being a regular president, I think that
you could elect a Republican president in 2028 and that
you might well be able to, on his coattails or hers,
bring along a Republican Congress. So here's the deal. I
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know the whole world, we got to win the Congress,
got to win the Congress. But it could turn out, hypothetically,
that the best thing that could happen for the Republican
Party is And consequently, I think for the country, would
be for us to get our asses kicked in November.
Let me throw that out there.
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Hello.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Good morning to you, sir. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, good morning. Hey, Bob, I've been listening to you
for quite a while, a lifelong Democrat, and the stuff
you were saying about Trump this morning while I was
driving my truck just really impressed me, man. I like
that you're a staunch Republican, but at the same time,
you have common sense. You know, you just won't follow
blindly behind this guy. But the things you were saying about,
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you know, the way his leadership is being divisive and
you hope they get their ass kicked, it just impressed me.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm honored, sir.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's all I just wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's kind of you. Thank you very much. I mean,
I'll be out of a job by Tuesday. Oh, crap,
this is Tuesday. Oh, no! Here's maybe an illustration. One
of the things, I'm working on a little column. which
means I'm thinking about it. I haven't started writing yet.
I'll write it in about half an hour or so
when I get going. But we need a return to
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regular order. A regular order is a phrase, ask your
Joe Morelli about it or your Claudia Tenney. Regular order
is the process by which the United States House of
Representatives and the United States Senate handle their business when
they're doing it right. It's kind of a, we've got
a system, it's deliberative, It's kind of slow, but we
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do it ABCD. It's regular order. We don't skip steps.
We don't whitewash. We do ABCD. Regular order has evolved
over time to make sure we do our business right.
In America, with our presidency, and I'm not trashing Trump.
He does some things I'm really grateful for. Yesterday, his
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EPA took off. a cap on greenhouse emissions for electrical generation,
it was the right thing to do. It is a
very strong policy move. It would not have happened if
Donald Trump hadn't been elected, right? It will have tremendous
benefit for us now and in the future. I recognize
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and embrace and celebrate the things that President Trump and
his administration get right. But there's some things that will,
when he's done We need to get back to doing
it the American way. We've got to stop these business
entanglements that the president and his sons have in federal business. Also,
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members of his cabinet, some of them, have significant financial
interest in issues that they're dealing with. We've had the
sons of the president and the sons of at least
a couple of cabinet members make millions of dollars over
the last year and a half. And we've got to
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push back from that. We've got to push back from
this executive order thing where people govern by dictate. Here's
what I want. Here's what I want. Here's what I want.
Show me in the Constitution the phrase executive order. Show
me anywhere in our Constitution where that's the way business
is supposed to be done. We need to get away
from that. Also, small things like we want our presidents
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to be examples for us. And I recognize seldom are they,
but we got to get back to telling the truth
a lot more often. We got to get back to
a lot more personal humility. This thing about naming everything
after Trump, it's not only bad order, it violates our values.
It's contrary to our culture, right? Jesus said, when you're
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doing your alms, your good deeds, don't let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing. And that
has shaped a lot. Again, politicians are always blowing their
own horn. But among most people, we try to be
humble about what we do. And this thing about kissing
hind end and vanity and name everything after me, that's
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not been the American way. Here may be an example here.
Don Jr. got remarried earlier this year, right? Yeah. Whatever,
I don't know. I don't follow their social lives. I
couldn't care less. God bless everybody to be happy, right?
But Don Jr. gets remarried, and there was a two-day
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wedding party celebration on a private Bahamian island, and the
whole thing was paid for by a Russian rich guy
who's a close friend and advisor of Vladimir Putin, right?
So you're saying to Donald Trump Jr., who is himself
a billionaire, the son of a billionaire, why the hell
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are you taking this big, giant, you know, tens of
millions of dollars free gift from a guy who's like
a pal of Vladimir Putin, an enemy of the United States?
And why the hell are you taking this? Why aren't
you paying your own? Everybody else pays for their own
wedding party. Just stuff like that, we need to get
back into kind of the traditional way of, you know,
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following our values and stuff like that.
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Let's go to noted Rochester radio expert, the great radio
Mike Oden. Get his thoughts on what transpired yesterday. How
did it go, sir?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It went fantastic.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You are a man 32, 33 years of age, so
you didn't hear Gary Smith on the radio. Going back
that far, I know you're knowledgeable about history and such
like that. Is that an era of radio that you
nonetheless are familiar with and follow?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, kind of for the most part.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Al Hart, probably a lot better known to you, right?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And how did he do?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He did fantastic. He was excited to be here. He
was very involved in the conversations. He made an announcement
on a new second children's book that he is going
to be putting out sometime towards the end of this year.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Outstanding.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Outstanding. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Did you get pictures with those two guys?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I did not, no. I did not have time doing
two shows. Now I kind of have to run around
a bit.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, 100%. And the second show you do is what?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The John DiTullio Show on Fox Sports 1280 from noon
to 2.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There's a lot of enthusiasm in your voice as you
make that announcement, sir. I applaud you on that. You've
been well? Life's been okay?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
In addition to your second show, you've been training other producers, right?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, I have. I have been roaming around in the
background training Sarah and Carl on this show and the
John DiTullio Show.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They're cheating on me with DiTullio also?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yes, we all are.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, you all seem so happy when you go over there.
I'm not exactly sure what that is.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
A lot happier than air. Your $ 5, 000 check, what will
you do with.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, I have a truck repair bill for three grand,
so that'll go into that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, my.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Although I don't think we're going to get it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, well, see, he conditioned that check on the Republicans
winning in November. And that is, how do I put this,
extremely unlikely to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No, stop it right now. It'd be a– let me
bounce this off you because you follow politics even more
than I do. Certainly, on a national average, things don't
look good for Republicans. But overwhelmingly, seats are localized. And again,
that gerrymandering thing is real. A Democrat seat is going
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to stay a Democrat seat, and a Republican seat is
going to stay a Republican seat. Joe Morelli getting reelected,
Claudia Tenney getting reelected, no matter what happens. And that
predominates over a lot of the country. The float in
the middle, there's not very much of that. There is
not much, but there is enough still. There are seats
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that will flip. Even in Texas where they did that
big gerrymander that touched up the redistricting wars, three of
those five gerrymandered seats right now are expected to flip
because Republicans based it off of the Latino vote staying
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with them, and that is not going to be the case,
at least there.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The Senate race out of Texas, what do you think
about that?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Ken Paxton is going to screw the entire Republican Party
down there. Not only has he made a Senate race
in Texas a toss-up for the Republicans, but it appears,
based on polling, that he's dragging down Greg Abbott with him.
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He's a drag on the entire ticket in that state.
More question than observation.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Ken Paxton, who's the Republican attorney general down there, he's
the candidate because Trump wanted him to be the candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And it's become something of a loyalty test. Now all
Republicans must support this fellow Paxton and they must give
him money and stuff like that. And I'm not sure
that that's– he's a deeply flawed person and candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
He is.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
He was almost impeached by his own party as a
Attorney General for being cartoonishly corrupt. The only reason why
he wasn't impeached is because Trump stepped in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And then Trump, you know, in effect made him the candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And so I think that some people's attitude is the
big money folks in the Republican Party. Well, if Trump
wants him, let Trump pay for him.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, that's more or less been the situation. The Republican
Senate campaign arm basically went to Trump and said, OK, well,
this is your problem now.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And Trump, interestingly, has a lot of money in a
pack that, you know, theoretically is independent of him, but
we know he controls. He's been stingy with money coming
into these midterms.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He has, particularly with the House races. There was a
lot of Republican House candidates that were expecting him to
spend big on the races to try to keep the
House and Republican hands. And thus far, he's only spending
on like four or five of them.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And a fair amount of that money, you know, speaking
of the Senate, there's that one from South Carolina with
Lindsey Graham's sister. He put a lot of money into
making sure she won her primary.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Which is of, I don't know, marginal benefit. whereas spreading
that money out among House races could have been, from
the standpoint of the party at least, truly beneficial.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Or even spreading that money out amongst the other Senate races.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Your thoughts on the Senate? Which way that goes?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, right now, if the election was had today, North
Carolina would flip, Maine would flip, Ohio would flip, Alaska
would flip, and Texas would be really, really close. And
that would give the Democrats, I believe, a one-seat advantage.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Here's the thing. One, the lady up in Maine, I
think she's a nice person, right? I'd like to see
her reelected just because I think she's a nice person.
If Tallarico wins the Democrat candidate in Texas, that'll be
an interesting thing, not to be negative, but I think
he's an extraordinarily weak candidate. He's got a lot of,
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he has a lot of uniqueness in his life story
that doesn't, you know, America doesn't embrace all that uniqueness.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Texas is a case of two weak candidates. Two very
weak candidates. And it's going to be a test to
see who exactly is weaker there.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's what that race is about. Susan Collins, basically what's
happening there is Maine has been a heavy Democratic state
with the exception of her. For about 20 years now.
She's kind of like the last remnant of the Republican
presence in that state. And Trump has got that state
to the point where the partisan lean might be too
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much for her to overcome this time.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
One thing, too, I've never understood among my Republican friends
in regard to her is she gets lambasted vote after
vote after vote for not like towing some Republican Party line.
And you just want to say, look at where she's from,
you know what I'm saying? And appreciate the miracle that
you've got a Republican vote out of that state.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It was the same thing with Joe Manchin.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Went to Dems for years.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
They would get pissed off at him. And it's like, okay,
that's a Democratic vote in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah. What about– what's your thought on Fetterman? Because here's
the thing. We got this bombshell report from former Democrat
staffers saying Fetterman hates people pretty much. And then you
have Fetterman at the quasi-fake convention last week. What are
your thoughts there?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He's not getting reelected, if he even runs.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What if he's a Republican candidate?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He's not getting reelected, even if he runs.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
There's no lane for him. I don't see a lane
for him. I think the Democrats... The Democrats in Pennsylvania
are probably going to be super energized to get rid
of him.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
In 20, it's going to be a presidential year. It's
going to be coming off of Trump. There's probably going
to be big Democratic turnout in that state specifically because
there's going to be a lot of focus on it.
No matter who the nominee is, I think he's screwed
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The story may be– this is a question with Fetterman–
may be less that he's won over Republicans and more
that he's pissed off Democrats.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Also that apparently he doesn't want to– he has a
problem with doing like the basic stuff of his job.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Tell people what that article said, Ballpark.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
The article basically said that he likes being a senator
but doesn't like doing his actual Senate responsibilities. He wouldn't
meet with certain people.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
There was– Wouldn't meet with police.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He wouldn't meet with police. He wouldn't meet with other constituents.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah. There was an event where multiple police officers were
killed in Pennsylvania, not far from where he lived particularly,
and he wouldn't go to the memorial service because he
thought it was going to be too long. They were
going to have three separate masses.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And again, this came out a week or two ago.
I think it was Wall Street Journal. It was all
from staff members who probably are disgruntled Democrats, but you
have to either– it's either they're all a bunch of
liars and they're tanking him because he's not a good
Democrat or he really is not a very good person.
You know what I'm saying? Those are your two possible explanations.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Which one did you pick?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I picked his– pre-brain injury, I think he was a
decent guy.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Post-freight injury, he appears to not be as much of
a decent guy as he used to be.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
See, that is the thing that you forget. I mean,
he has good social media game. He says the right
things to draw kind of conservatives to him. But he
has had a, for a time, debilitating stroke. And he
also was institutionalized with mental health challenges. for an extended
period of time, and presumably probably takes medications in regard
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to that. He's holding some troubling cards. Not holding those
things against anybody, but they could impact his perception and
his judgment and his actions.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I think that stroke kind of changed stuff upstairs,
and that's why we have what we have now.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well, we Republicans like him okay, for the good that
does us. Anything else going on in the world locally?
Anything catch your attention of late?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Not really too much.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
September 11th, you were a very young man.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yes, I was nine.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And I remember on Facebook, you posted something from, you
were at school, right?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yes, I was at school. They didn't tell us anything.
They were very mum. The school was in lockdown. We
didn't know that. I get on the bus. I go home.
We're pulling up to the house. My mother is standing
at the edge of the driveway. And it had probably
been like three years since she'd done that. As soon
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as I got one foot off the bus, one foot,
she grabs me and runs me into the house like
there's a nuclear bomb about to drop. Runs me into
the living room and points at the TV without comment.
And that's when I learned about the attacks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And you were nine?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
She worked at the... At the time, she worked at
the Wegmans Bake Shop, which was right near the airport.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
She had problems getting home from there, obviously. And then
she kept me home the next day to the very
much displeasure of my teacher at the time because she
didn't have to work that day because Wegmans closed the
bake shop because of the stuff– because of how close
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it was to the airport and security and all that stuff.
And we basically stayed home and watched all the stuff
on TV that day.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, like most of America, I think. Donald Rumsfeld had
everyone back on duty at the Pentagon the next day,
trying to show that we were strong and resolute. That's
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Speaker 3 (00:07):
Thanks, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you
showing up for muster. Hope all is cool and copacetic
on your end. It's interesting, you know, Kathy Hochul blew
through town yesterday. It's bribery time. Don Trump, he offered
you $ 5, 000 if you voted for Republicans for Congress. Kathy
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Hochul is sending you a $ 200 check as sort of
a grease your palms coming into election day. Supposedly, it
has to do with utility prices and such like that,
your rebate. That's bull crap, right? It's complete bull crap.
The cost of electricity in New York State is about 70%
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higher than the national average. This is a consequence exclusively
of New York State taxes and mandates, right? Your high
electric bill originates in the state capital. That's the period, right?
But she takes this large amount of money from you,
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comes back, offers you a pittance, and tells you that
she's doing you a favor. So I hope you don't
believe it. But here's the deal. both Trump and Hochul
apparently think that you're a whore. And the difference between
them seems to be that Trump at $ 5, 000 believes that
you're kind of a Julia Roberts sort of, you're sort
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of a high pride. Wasn't she in a movie where
she played a prostitute? Yeah. Whereas Kathy Hochul seems to
think that you're in an alley off Lyle Avenue, right?
But the point is that Both sides have contempt for you.
Both sides think that by giving you money, they will
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get your vote. It's deeply embarrassing, this offer from President Trump,
and it's sadly confirming to have one more check just
before election time from one more Democrat hoping to buy
your vote. So anyway, but Kathy Hochul, she was in Buffalo,
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and she stood up and she said, that Western New
York was her firewall and that she needed Western New
York in order to be re-elected governor. Well, you know,
these people, both my Republicans and your Democrats, lie like anything, right? And,
(02:43):
you know, so there's the very real possibility that she's
lying and the very real possibility that you and I
are frigging idiots if we believe anything that you know,
these politicians say. But she did say that Western New
York was her firewall. Well, then I would politely say,
(03:05):
I think Bruce Blakeman's in pretty good shape then. A
firewall is, in the political world, that last thing you
absolutely have to have. This is our last defense, right? Well,
Last time she ran four years ago, Kathy Hochul lost
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Western New York by 50,000 votes. And if she says
she needs Western New York to win, then the expectation
would be that she's not going to win. Of course, again,
getting back to the reality here, It could be that
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she's just saying these things because they all lie. So
that's the story with that. There are new polling out
this morning on the looming congressional elections across the country. And,
you know, the numbers from my Republican standpoint are not
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particularly encouraging. It seems that at least according to Siena,
people support Democrats in almost every significant issue. In healthcare,
it's Democrats plus 24. 60% of Americans say Democrats will
(04:31):
do better handling healthcare as opposed to 36% of Republicans. Immigration,
it's Democrat plus 7. Deficit, it's Democrat plus 10. The economy,
it's Democrat plus seven. Cost of living, Democrat plus eight.
Foreign wars, it's Democrat plus seven. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it's
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Democrat plus 11. This is not good. It's worth noting
that the two issues that brought President Trump back to power,
immigration and the economy, and in the economy, I presume
you include... the deficit and cost of living. But in
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each of those areas where President Trump was strong and
those areas giving him his margin of victory, that has
now flopped and people trust the Democratic Party more in
those areas. President Trump remains underwater about two to one
in terms of his favorability rating. And it looks like
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Republican candidates at least potentially, could be negatively affected by this.
That's the national view, but we don't really elect anybody
nationally this time. They're all local races involving members of Congress.
And there's been so much gerrymandering by both parties across
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most of the states that people in office right now,
in the parties that control their seats, there aren't very
many places where You know, there's going to be any
change made. There are enough to change control of the House,
you bet. And quite possibly, though it's a little more unlikely,
(06:28):
change in the control of the Senate. Here's one thing
I wonder. And I'll just throw it out there. I,
you know, have been a Republican all my life. And that's,
you know, typically how I vote. That's where my prejudices lie.
That said, not to piss you off, but I wonder
(06:48):
if from the standpoint of the Republican Party and consequently
the best interests of our country, I wonder if it
might not be such a terribly bad thing if the
Democrats do win the Congress, either the House or the
House and the Senate. And here's what I say. Let
me just throw this out there. I could be full
(07:09):
of crap. you know, the Trump era is a very
unique period in human history, in American history, rather. And,
you know, it's going to have an impact on the
Republican Party, potentially. If the Republicans retain control of Congress,
then I think that we'll probably have two more years
like the two years we've just had. And, unfortunately, you know,
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and I voted for Trump three times and all this
other stuff, and some of the things he does are very,
very good. But, So far in this term, we've had
two years of the Republican-controlled Congress being an absolute doormat
for the vanity and the folly of Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He does some things that are about nothing other than ego.
And the Congress Republicans look the other way and don't
challenge him or act as a constitutional restraint upon him.
He also does some things... that absolutely are effing up
a lot of important issues. He has tattered almost all
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of our alliances. We are in a war with Iran,
which is having extraordinarily negative impact. There's been no restraint,
no pullback from the Republican Congress. So if the Republicans
retain control of Congress, we have two more years of
being a doormat to President Trump's vanity and folly. I
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would think at about that point the voters of America
might say, I'm done with the frigging Republicans for the
rest of my life, right? And I don't know. I
might be one of those people, just being honest with you, okay?
Nothing wrong with being an independent. Nothing wrong with staying
home if you got crap A versus crap B on
the ballot. But what if the Democrats are successful in–
(09:05):
and they take control of the House and or the Senate.
What would that do? And here's the thing. Let the
Democrats bring in their socialists. Let them bring in that
Muslim guy from Michigan and give us two years of that, right?
First of all, Trump will be restrained. So Trump's vanity
(09:26):
and folly will be on a very short leash. Two,
we have two years of just how extremist and anti-American
that the Democratic Party is. And that's two years for
the American people to look at that crap that the
Democrats will offer and say, I don't want that. And
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then I think if the Republicans were to offer up
a centrist candidate who would go back to the regular
order of just being a regular president, I think that
you could elect a Republican president in 2028 and that
you might well be able to, on his coattails or hers,
bring along a Republican Congress. So here's the deal. I
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know the whole world, we got to win the Congress,
got to win the Congress. But it could turn out, hypothetically,
that the best thing that could happen for the Republican
Party is And consequently, I think for the country, would
be for us to get our asses kicked in November.
Let me throw that out there.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
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Hello.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
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Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, good morning. Hey, Bob, I've been listening to you
for quite a while, a lifelong Democrat, and the stuff
you were saying about Trump this morning while I was
driving my truck just really impressed me, man. I like
that you're a staunch Republican, but at the same time,
you have common sense. You know, you just won't follow
blindly behind this guy. But the things you were saying about,
(12:16):
you know, the way his leadership is being divisive and
you hope they get their ass kicked, it just impressed me.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm honored, sir.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's all I just wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
That's kind of you. Thank you very much. I mean,
I'll be out of a job by Tuesday. Oh, crap,
this is Tuesday. Oh, no! Here's maybe an illustration. One
of the things, I'm working on a little column. which
means I'm thinking about it. I haven't started writing yet.
I'll write it in about half an hour or so
when I get going. But we need a return to
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regular order. A regular order is a phrase, ask your
Joe Morelli about it or your Claudia Tenney. Regular order
is the process by which the United States House of
Representatives and the United States Senate handle their business when
they're doing it right. It's kind of a, we've got
a system, it's deliberative, It's kind of slow, but we
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do it ABCD. It's regular order. We don't skip steps.
We don't whitewash. We do ABCD. Regular order has evolved
over time to make sure we do our business right.
In America, with our presidency, and I'm not trashing Trump.
He does some things I'm really grateful for. Yesterday, his
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EPA took off. a cap on greenhouse emissions for electrical generation,
it was the right thing to do. It is a
very strong policy move. It would not have happened if
Donald Trump hadn't been elected, right? It will have tremendous
benefit for us now and in the future. I recognize
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and embrace and celebrate the things that President Trump and
his administration get right. But there's some things that will,
when he's done We need to get back to doing
it the American way. We've got to stop these business
entanglements that the president and his sons have in federal business. Also,
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members of his cabinet, some of them, have significant financial
interest in issues that they're dealing with. We've had the
sons of the president and the sons of at least
a couple of cabinet members make millions of dollars over
the last year and a half. And we've got to
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push back from that. We've got to push back from
this executive order thing where people govern by dictate. Here's
what I want. Here's what I want. Here's what I want.
Show me in the Constitution the phrase executive order. Show
me anywhere in our Constitution where that's the way business
is supposed to be done. We need to get away
from that. Also, small things like we want our presidents
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to be examples for us. And I recognize seldom are they,
but we got to get back to telling the truth
a lot more often. We got to get back to
a lot more personal humility. This thing about naming everything
after Trump, it's not only bad order, it violates our values.
It's contrary to our culture, right? Jesus said, when you're
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doing your alms, your good deeds, don't let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing. And that
has shaped a lot. Again, politicians are always blowing their
own horn. But among most people, we try to be
humble about what we do. And this thing about kissing
hind end and vanity and name everything after me, that's
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not been the American way. Here may be an example here.
Don Jr. got remarried earlier this year, right? Yeah. Whatever,
I don't know. I don't follow their social lives. I
couldn't care less. God bless everybody to be happy, right?
But Don Jr. gets remarried, and there was a two-day
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wedding party celebration on a private Bahamian island, and the
whole thing was paid for by a Russian rich guy
who's a close friend and advisor of Vladimir Putin, right?
So you're saying to Donald Trump Jr., who is himself
a billionaire, the son of a billionaire, why the hell
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are you taking this big, giant, you know, tens of
millions of dollars free gift from a guy who's like
a pal of Vladimir Putin, an enemy of the United States?
And why the hell are you taking this? Why aren't
you paying your own? Everybody else pays for their own
wedding party. Just stuff like that, we need to get
back into kind of the traditional way of, you know,
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following our values and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'll shut up.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
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Let's go to noted Rochester radio expert, the great radio
Mike Oden. Get his thoughts on what transpired yesterday. How
did it go, sir?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
It went fantastic.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You are a man 32, 33 years of age, so
you didn't hear Gary Smith on the radio. Going back
that far, I know you're knowledgeable about history and such
like that. Is that an era of radio that you
nonetheless are familiar with and follow?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, kind of for the most part.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Al Hart, probably a lot better known to you, right?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And how did he do?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He did fantastic. He was excited to be here. He
was very involved in the conversations. He made an announcement
on a new second children's book that he is going
to be putting out sometime towards the end of this year.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Outstanding.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Outstanding. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Did you get pictures with those two guys?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I did not, no. I did not have time doing
two shows. Now I kind of have to run around
a bit.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, 100%. And the second show you do is what?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The John DiTullio Show on Fox Sports 1280 from noon
to 2.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There's a lot of enthusiasm in your voice as you
make that announcement, sir. I applaud you on that. You've
been well? Life's been okay?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
In addition to your second show, you've been training other producers, right?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, I have. I have been roaming around in the
background training Sarah and Carl on this show and the
John DiTullio Show.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They're cheating on me with DiTullio also?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yes, we all are.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
No, you all seem so happy when you go over there.
I'm not exactly sure what that is.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
A lot happier than air. Your $ 5, 000 check, what will
you do with.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, I have a truck repair bill for three grand,
so that'll go into that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Oh, my.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Although I don't think we're going to get it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, well, see, he conditioned that check on the Republicans
winning in November. And that is, how do I put this,
extremely unlikely to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No, stop it right now. It'd be a– let me
bounce this off you because you follow politics even more
than I do. Certainly, on a national average, things don't
look good for Republicans. But overwhelmingly, seats are localized. And again,
that gerrymandering thing is real. A Democrat seat is going
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to stay a Democrat seat, and a Republican seat is
going to stay a Republican seat. Joe Morelli getting reelected,
Claudia Tenney getting reelected, no matter what happens. And that
predominates over a lot of the country. The float in
the middle, there's not very much of that. There is
not much, but there is enough still. There are seats
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that will flip. Even in Texas where they did that
big gerrymander that touched up the redistricting wars, three of
those five gerrymandered seats right now are expected to flip
because Republicans based it off of the Latino vote staying
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with them, and that is not going to be the case,
at least there.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The Senate race out of Texas, what do you think
about that?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Ken Paxton is going to screw the entire Republican Party
down there. Not only has he made a Senate race
in Texas a toss-up for the Republicans, but it appears,
based on polling, that he's dragging down Greg Abbott with him.
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He's a drag on the entire ticket in that state.
More question than observation.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Ken Paxton, who's the Republican attorney general down there, he's
the candidate because Trump wanted him to be the candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And it's become something of a loyalty test. Now all
Republicans must support this fellow Paxton and they must give
him money and stuff like that. And I'm not sure
that that's– he's a deeply flawed person and candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
He is.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
He was almost impeached by his own party as a
Attorney General for being cartoonishly corrupt. The only reason why
he wasn't impeached is because Trump stepped in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And then Trump, you know, in effect made him the candidate.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And so I think that some people's attitude is the
big money folks in the Republican Party. Well, if Trump
wants him, let Trump pay for him.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, that's more or less been the situation. The Republican
Senate campaign arm basically went to Trump and said, OK, well,
this is your problem now.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And Trump, interestingly, has a lot of money in a
pack that, you know, theoretically is independent of him, but
we know he controls. He's been stingy with money coming
into these midterms.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He has, particularly with the House races. There was a
lot of Republican House candidates that were expecting him to
spend big on the races to try to keep the
House and Republican hands. And thus far, he's only spending
on like four or five of them.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And a fair amount of that money, you know, speaking
of the Senate, there's that one from South Carolina with
Lindsey Graham's sister. He put a lot of money into
making sure she won her primary.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Which is of, I don't know, marginal benefit. whereas spreading
that money out among House races could have been, from
the standpoint of the party at least, truly beneficial.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Or even spreading that money out amongst the other Senate races.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Your thoughts on the Senate? Which way that goes?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, right now, if the election was had today, North
Carolina would flip, Maine would flip, Ohio would flip, Alaska
would flip, and Texas would be really, really close. And
that would give the Democrats, I believe, a one-seat advantage.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Here's the thing. One, the lady up in Maine, I
think she's a nice person, right? I'd like to see
her reelected just because I think she's a nice person.
If Tallarico wins the Democrat candidate in Texas, that'll be
an interesting thing, not to be negative, but I think
he's an extraordinarily weak candidate. He's got a lot of,
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he has a lot of uniqueness in his life story
that doesn't, you know, America doesn't embrace all that uniqueness.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Texas is a case of two weak candidates. Two very
weak candidates. And it's going to be a test to
see who exactly is weaker there.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's what that race is about. Susan Collins, basically what's
happening there is Maine has been a heavy Democratic state
with the exception of her. For about 20 years now.
She's kind of like the last remnant of the Republican
presence in that state. And Trump has got that state
to the point where the partisan lean might be too
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much for her to overcome this time.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
One thing, too, I've never understood among my Republican friends
in regard to her is she gets lambasted vote after
vote after vote for not like towing some Republican Party line.
And you just want to say, look at where she's from,
you know what I'm saying? And appreciate the miracle that
you've got a Republican vote out of that state.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It was the same thing with Joe Manchin.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Went to Dems for years.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
They would get pissed off at him. And it's like, okay,
that's a Democratic vote in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah. What about– what's your thought on Fetterman? Because here's
the thing. We got this bombshell report from former Democrat
staffers saying Fetterman hates people pretty much. And then you
have Fetterman at the quasi-fake convention last week. What are
your thoughts there?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He's not getting reelected, if he even runs.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What if he's a Republican candidate?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He's not getting reelected, even if he runs.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
There's no lane for him. I don't see a lane
for him. I think the Democrats... The Democrats in Pennsylvania
are probably going to be super energized to get rid
of him.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
In 20, it's going to be a presidential year. It's
going to be coming off of Trump. There's probably going
to be big Democratic turnout in that state specifically because
there's going to be a lot of focus on it.
No matter who the nominee is, I think he's screwed
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The story may be– this is a question with Fetterman–
may be less that he's won over Republicans and more
that he's pissed off Democrats.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Also that apparently he doesn't want to– he has a
problem with doing like the basic stuff of his job.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Tell people what that article said, Ballpark.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
The article basically said that he likes being a senator
but doesn't like doing his actual Senate responsibilities. He wouldn't
meet with certain people.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
There was– Wouldn't meet with police.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He wouldn't meet with police. He wouldn't meet with other constituents.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah. There was an event where multiple police officers were
killed in Pennsylvania, not far from where he lived particularly,
and he wouldn't go to the memorial service because he
thought it was going to be too long. They were
going to have three separate masses.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And again, this came out a week or two ago.
I think it was Wall Street Journal. It was all
from staff members who probably are disgruntled Democrats, but you
have to either– it's either they're all a bunch of
liars and they're tanking him because he's not a good
Democrat or he really is not a very good person.
You know what I'm saying? Those are your two possible explanations.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Which one did you pick?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I picked his– pre-brain injury, I think he was a
decent guy.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Post-freight injury, he appears to not be as much of
a decent guy as he used to be.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
See, that is the thing that you forget. I mean,
he has good social media game. He says the right
things to draw kind of conservatives to him. But he
has had a, for a time, debilitating stroke. And he
also was institutionalized with mental health challenges. for an extended
period of time, and presumably probably takes medications in regard
(28:58):
to that. He's holding some troubling cards. Not holding those
things against anybody, but they could impact his perception and
his judgment and his actions.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I think that stroke kind of changed stuff upstairs,
and that's why we have what we have now.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well, we Republicans like him okay, for the good that
does us. Anything else going on in the world locally?
Anything catch your attention of late?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Not really too much.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
September 11th, you were a very young man.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yes, I was nine.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And I remember on Facebook, you posted something from, you
were at school, right?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yes, I was at school. They didn't tell us anything.
They were very mum. The school was in lockdown. We
didn't know that. I get on the bus. I go home.
We're pulling up to the house. My mother is standing
at the edge of the driveway. And it had probably
been like three years since she'd done that. As soon
(29:58):
as I got one foot off the bus, one foot,
she grabs me and runs me into the house like
there's a nuclear bomb about to drop. Runs me into
the living room and points at the TV without comment.
And that's when I learned about the attacks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And you were nine?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
She worked at the... At the time, she worked at
the Wegmans Bake Shop, which was right near the airport.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
She had problems getting home from there, obviously. And then
she kept me home the next day to the very
much displeasure of my teacher at the time because she
didn't have to work that day because Wegmans closed the
bake shop because of the stuff– because of how close
(30:49):
it was to the airport and security and all that stuff.
And we basically stayed home and watched all the stuff
on TV that day.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, like most of America, I think. Donald Rumsfeld had
everyone back on duty at the Pentagon the next day,
trying to show that we were strong and resolute. That's
Radio Mike Oden. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. The signs
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Except when it's football season. Always at the ready. The
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NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Hey, Franz Lonsbury here talking with Jason,
the general manager of Jamestown Mattress. Jason, are Jamestown Mattresses
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