9/16 Hour 1

Bob talks about ICE trampling a plant, kids raised with cats, the stabbing of Mark Steckloff, bribes for votes, and the RTA reaching an impasse with the RCSD.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fast forward today, the chance of a couple showers initially.

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Otherwise, that shower activity moves out, and we're just going
to see a lot of cloud cover hold on for
a lot of the day. Some limited breaks of sun possible,
but more cloud cover than sunshine. And the humidity, that
already is up a little bit compared to what we
have seen over recent days. Highs today in the mid-70s.
For tonight, mainly cloudy skies. Dry during the evening, but
overnight could pick up just a couple showers. We'll drop

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into the lower 60s. And as we head into the
day tomorrow, mainly cloudy skies. A couple showers possible, mainly
during the morning. Then that activity moves out. Temperatures tomorrow
in the low to mid 70s for highs. From the
13 Web Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. On Rochester's
news weather and traffic station, News Radio Web 1180.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Downtown cloudy, 67 degrees.

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It is 65 in Scottsville.

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It's 8.02 on Rochester Source for breaking news, weather, and traffic.
News Radio Wham 1180. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies have arrested
a Penfield man for the murder.

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Of his mother.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Deputies responding to a reported burglary Sunday afternoon on Ewald
Drive discovered Amy Hogan dead inside her home nearby. Chief
Deputy Michael Fowler says 39-year-old Joe Petrala was taken into custody.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
At the point of the discovery of the victim, he
had already been detained for the burglary investigation. Not arrested,
but detained to allow the investigation to continue.

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Deputies say evidence at the scene led them to Petrola.
He's being held without bail, and police have not announced
a motive. He's also charged with the original burglary. Todd Halliday,
NewsRadio WAM 1180.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
A man fighting for his life after a shooting on
Rochester's east side. Police say officers responded to East Main
Street near Durham Street around 12.40 Saturday morning and found
a man in his 40s with at least one gunshot wound.
He remains at Strong Hospital, and no one has been arrested.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
The man who allegedly blinded a Rochester police officer due
back in court today as he awaits a new trial.

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State appeals court overturned the attempted murder conviction of Keith
Williams back in June. Prosecutors say he slashed Officer Denny
right in the eyes during a mental health crisis call
in 2019. The court found psychiatric evidence was wrongfully excluded
at Williams' trial and ruled Williams was likely not fully
able to understand the charges against him. Denny is now
retired from the force after settling with the city and

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county for a combined $ 1. 75 million. Dominic Ciccarelli, NewsRadio, WAM 1180.

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A federal judge ruling in favor of the Rochester man
who got a warning from the feds for a message
he sent to ICE. David Striever says he was traveling
in Europe when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers showed up
at his home back in June and delivered a warning
notice to his wife. His email in January likened the
then-acting ICE boss to notorious Nazi Holocaust officer Reinhard Heyrich
and said he would never know peace. In a 43-page ruling,

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the D.C. judge says the government's pursuit of Striever practically
shouts that he could be prosecuted if he continues to
engage in his political speech, and he ordered ICE to
stop violating Striever's First Amendment rights.

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At least three people are dead after a news helicopter
crash in Los Angeles.

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The chopper was operated by Angel City Air and provided
news coverage for KNBC and sister station Telemundo 52. KNBC
reporter Ileana Ilemoreno. and pilot George Marcino were killed along
with a pedestrian on the ground. A fourth person was
rushed to a hospital. NBC4 and Telemundo 52 issued a
statement expressing heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues

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of those who lost their lives. Several news helicopters were
circling above a deadly bus accident in the Chatsworth neighborhood
when the helicopter went down, crashing next to the loading
dock of a warehouse and setting several vehicles on fire.

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I'm Tammy Trujillo.

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A new study shows that families with a cat had
children that were more likely to show signs of anxiety, withdrawal,
or emotional struggles. The researchers tracked nearly 1,900 families and
found that children ages 4 to 5 were more likely
to show those qualities by the time they turned 7
or 8. Researchers gave a couple possible explanations. Cats tend
to be lower maintenance and less interactive than dogs, so
kids could potentially get less outdoor play and social engagement

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time themselves. Another theory is that families who already have
a child dealing with stress or these behavioral challenges might
choose to own cats because they're easier to manage. They
note that the study is a correlation and does not
determine that cats cause anxiety. News Radio WAMP, 1180 time now, 805.
Thanks for listening to the morning news.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Here he is, the man. The legend, Bob Lonsberry, on
NewsRadio WAM 1180. It's kind of you, sir.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Thank you. Good morning, Rochester. Or it could be people
who get cats are nuts. Exactly. Yeah. And let me
say this. I live in a household with three cats.
My children and my wife insist that those cats have names.
I refuse to learn those names, okay? These cats will
occasionally rub up against me. They pester me when I'm

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sitting on the couch. Are people at my house nuts? Hey,
I'm not a trained psychologist. I wouldn't know. I'm not
making any diagnostic decisions here. First of all, on the plus,
if you raise your child with a cat or other animals,
your child is less likely to have allergies like to

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cats and other animals. Human beings, we were created by
a God who made animals. We evolved in an environment
where other animals were. And so we do pretty well
around animals. It is good to have a pet. It
helps your body and it helps your mind, okay? And
it is good for your children to be raised with pets.

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It helps their bodies and it helps their minds, okay? Now,
I would just like to say on this study that
says kids raised with cats end up being like, what, paranoid, anxious,
and all that other stuff. One, I'd like to know
how many of my frigging tax dollars paid for that
dumbass study. Right? And there's a line in the Bible

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about ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of
the truth. I think sometimes these frigging pointy heads at
the colleges, I think that's what happens with them. Right?
Because their world is not based on getting knowledge. Their
world is based on getting grants. And I don't criticize
the professors or the whatever for that. They didn't create
the system. They didn't make up the game. They're just

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trying to play by the rules. And the rules are...
If you want to keep being a teacher at this college,
if you want to keep your department funded, you better
be out there kissing grant ass all day, every day,
and you better be writing up something somehow, some way
that gets somebody somewhere in some corner of the federal
government to give us a grant, right? Hosing money out

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of students is not enough to keep your average college afloat.
They've got to be at the trough of the taxpayers' money,
and that comes through research grants. And so we end
up with people who aren't really good at actually discovering
new scientific knowledge, but they're damn fine at writing grant applications.
And again, I'm not criticizing those people. They're just trying

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to win the game that has presented itself to them.
And so you get a long line of dumbass studies,
ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth, right?
people research stupid things just to be researching something. I've
got a lab. I've got my graduate assistants. I need

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to write a paper. I need to be demonstrating that, oh,
look at me, I'm a scholar. And so you're standing
there at the cocktail party for your college professor friends,
probably at some convention somewhere. Oh, tell me, Jeeves, what
sort of studying have you been doing? And you say, well, I...
had a landmark study on neurosis and cat ownership in childhood.

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And I was on the radio once referenced in a newscast.
Everybody looks across the room and goes, oh my gosh,
that's amazing. Would you sign my program, please? You know
what I'm saying? So my theory would be people who
own cats have a greater propensity to be nuts, okay?
And listen, that's not me talking. You call up your

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lollipop farm law enforcement people and ask them, Now, I
don't mean in any way that anybody over there at
that wonderful organization would endorse any crap I say. But
you've heard about that whole Catwoman thing, and I don't
mean that hot chick in the 60s with Adam West.
I'm talking about, ma'am, you have 47 cats here. This
is too many, okay? You should see a head shrinker

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doctor right away. I'm just saying that people with cats,
on average, are nuttier than people who don't have guts. Cats,
if you think I'm wrong, let me see your hands now.
You know that's right, okay? So anyway, if I have cats,
better chance I'm nutty. And if I also have a child,

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there's a chance that through environment, nature, or nurture, my
nuttiness rubs off on the kid. So blaming it on
the cat, I don't think that's right. Anyway, I was
able to give you that scientific analysis, and I got
no federal grant. So you're welcome. It is time for
Traffic and Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

Speaker 8 (09:07):
From the Clarks Presbyterian Traffic Center.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Call William Mattar. Well, a couple sprinkles this morning. I
think you saw those if you had an early commute
today on the windshield. It will be cloudy, and then
it will be a little bit less cloudy. So that's
something to look forward to. The high today will be
in the mid-70s. It is 57 degrees at 812, and
you are listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. So, Channel 10.

(09:38):
I love Channel 10. You're wonderful people. Some of the
folks there are just the best. And I'm grateful to
Channel 10 for, you know, all the good it does
and such like that. But last night, they came with
a story that apparently ICE was trying to catch some
guys who were in the country. illegally, which is, I think,

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what they do. Yeah, no, no, that's what they do.
You can look it up. So there was a neighbor
lady to where these guys were part of a roofing crew. Apparently,
there were, what, four folks They're on the roofing crew,
and I think three of them were found to be

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illegal aliens or something and were taken into custody by ICE.
But the deal is there's a neighbor lady, and apparently
ICE officers came onto her property, came into a backyard
that boarded this property to assist in the apprehension of
these illegal alien gentlemen who may have thought We should

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leave this area very quickly. Let's go that way. At
any rate, in the course of this, it looks like
one of the ladies' iris plants. You know what an
iris is? Yes, it's part of an eye. That's very good.
But it's also a flower grown by people over 100
years old. This flower, irises, they are very pretty. Somewhat

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erotic if you look at them and think about it.
But to me, it looked like iris flowers. And it
looked like somebody had stepped or fallen on one. And
one of the iris, you know, the leaf things that
come up, as opposed to being upright, it was leaned
over to the side. Okay? No, I don't think there

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were two iris plants that were damaged, but I certainly
believe one of them was. And obviously, what the hell,
this being ice... This was a major crime. I'm surprised
they didn't put up a satellite van and go directly
to network on this. But Channel 10 was showing us
last night video of this broken iris plant. And, well, fortunately,

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fall is soon upon us, and those leaves are going
to die anyway. And I have a great deal of
confidence that come next spring, the iris will once again
bloom and probably still look, if you think about it
just right, somewhat erotic. So anyway, I don't know if
there will be an update today from Channel 10 on

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the status of the Iris plant, but certainly keep the
plant and its disgruntled owner in your prayers. It's time
for a break. It's going to be a great day.
This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

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You get a stream of data. Let data reign. NewsRadio
WHAM 1180. Not to be a jerk, but we're pretty
good at lip service in this society. Oh, yeah, I
support the veterans, Bob. I love the veterans. And I
tell you, my third great uncle was in some, I
don't know, he had a uniform somewhere. Well, that's good.
They got this thing, though, called Put Your Money Where

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Your Mouth Is. At the Veterans Outreach Center, I politely
suggest that's a place where you could put your money
where your mouth is. The Veterans Outreach Center, the largest
veteran service nonprofit in this region, is has been offering
services to people who've worn our uniform for a good
long time, half century now. If you'd like to learn
more about them, maybe you're a veteran, maybe you could

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use some of the services. Maybe you're one of those put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is,
appreciate-the-veterans sort of people. You can learn at the same website, vocroc.org.

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DeMar Hamlin will be signing autographs and cheering on the athletes.
Free hot dogs and ice cream. Don't be cloudy. No,
you deserve it. You deserve it. There is a chance,
if you're nice, later this afternoon there could be a
break in the crowds. Brief, fleeting, you may or may
not see it. High today forecast in the mid-70s. It's
57 at 821. And you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

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I feel.
I'm feeling comfortable. A damn Barry V or somebody like
that in the newscast at 8 o'clock did this story
about how children with cats, children raised with cats are
more anxious. And that's just got me thinking. We have

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three cats at the house and now I'm like, I'm nervous.
I'm apprehensive. It's like, I feel anxiety. I don't know
what it's, I don't know where it's coming from. You know,
and I got another theory on this deal with kids
and cats, all right? So a cat is, a child
is right now, we have three cats, okay? Because I'm
really trying to F with my kids' heads, honestly, you

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know what I'm saying? If you don't go into life
without some kind of anxiety, whatever else like that, you're
missing out on half the fun, honest with you. But
I got a theory on this, okay? As we established
earlier in the program, I'm not like one of your
actual white lab coat scientists, okay? I don't receive federal
grant money to make up bull crap and then put
it on, uh, uh, people's minds. But here's my, here's

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my theory, um, about why kids race with cats have anxiety.
Because you never know when them damn cats are going
to scratch you or something like that. If you're a
kid just living in a house, right? And it's okay.
It's safe there. You can watch TV. You can have
dinner with your family. You can wrestle with your brother.

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It's great. You can read your books, say your family prayers.
We know all they actually do is sit and stare
at their screens. But I'm listing other things that like
people back in old times did, right? You could be
at your house and you're just happy. And then the
old man gets drunk and brings home a cat thinking like, oh,
the kids will love this. Okay. And after that, that

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frigging SOB cat is just lurking around.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
All right.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Now you bring a cat in, say, sure, you want
to kill and eat mice, knock yourself out. But the
deal is the cat looks at the kids. With those
devil eyes. No, cats have devil eyes. Here's the thing.
Cats have devil eyes. Goats have incredibly devil eyes. And
then those white-eyeballed dogs out of Australia, those are freaking

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devil eyes, okay? Avoid them all, right? But that cat
is lurking around. And the kid's just trying to grow up,
just trying to live their life, eat their boogers. You
know how they do? And all of a sudden, meow, right?
and you got cat scratch on you. And I don't
mean a dramatically overplayed song from the late 1970s with

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Ted Nugent. Didn't he do that? I think so. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
People who have cats have anxiety because they never know
when the frigging little monsters are going to scratch them.
So I've answered your question there. You're welcome. You are welcome.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
This.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yesterday we talked about there are two stories of horrible stabbings.
And one of them involved this 77-year-old gentleman, Mark Steckloff,
over on North Union Street. I went out running up
North Union Street just a few days after his passing,
after the discovery of his body. It was coincidental. But

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as I went past his place.
They had landlord, whomever, whatever, taking all his stuff and
put it on the curb, just there waiting for the
trash man. And he had quite a bunch of stuff,
and it was probably chest high, stacked up and around. And,

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you know, you're killed one week, they empty out your
place the next, and we go knock on the door today,
and someone else is going forward in life there. But
I remember... seeing that stuff and going, oh, that's where
that man was killed. And just it was in the
moment sort of a sad, poignant reminder of the transience
of life. News, that's what we're getting from Joe Lasky next.

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He's the voice of the Finger Lakes. And this is
News Radio AM 1180. I was just a white trash.

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Country kid from way back in the mountains.

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Nobody notices I've got.

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A great ass, too.

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I will always love you.

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Thank you, Dolly.

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Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
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One day, you may need these people. No, if one day,
you or me both, maybe we'll be down there in
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your teeth, right? That can happen. And you go, oh, no, Bob.
Hasn't happened to me since I was six.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Me neither.

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But it could happen. And if and when it does...
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Car accident called Rochester's local car accident.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
An email from a guy yesterday ripped me pretty good.
He said that I had no integrity. An assertion I
do not contest. However, the specific instance he cited did
not seem to me to be convincing. You know, Kathy Hochul,
she's going to send you $ 200, maybe less. But this
is an energy rebate, she says. It has nothing to

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do with the looming election and her desire to grease
your palms just before you go to cast your ballot.
But if you should look at this check, and say,
my gosh, Kathy Hochul, you bring me to tears. Our number,
by the way, is 222-1180-1800-295-1180. If you if you happen
to be moved to tears and appreciation for your governor

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and And cast your ballot for her. I'm sure she'd
be very grateful. Anyway, it's a bribe. It's wrong. It's
costing the state about a billion dollars so that this
individual will increase her chance of being reelected. And they
do this almost every year. Democrats send you a check, right?

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They're very transactional and they think you're a whore. And
so they send you money. And it seems to work
for them. So who am I to criticize them? But
so that's the deal with the check. And I point
that out. And a gentleman writes me and he says, well,
I hope you're not going to cash it. And he

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talks about the last check he got. And he said,
I never cashed it. I kept it as a souvenir,
a proof of my resistance to what they were doing. Well,
here's my thought. I'm just one person, unusually good-looking person, certainly.
And I am a professional microphone operator. But here's my advice.

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Cash the damn check, right? How much frigging money have
these people taken from you? You live in the highest
tax state in the nation. You have collectively the highest
tax burden ever. of any person or group of people
living in the United States. That $ 200 is a tiny

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fraction of what they're taking out of you. And if
they're dumb enough to send you a check, hell yes,
you better be dumb enough to cash it. As some
people say, well, I'm going to give it to Bruce Blakeman.
You may, if you wish. It's your money. Do with
it what you want. If you want to make a
political contribution, you can. If you want to take the

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sweetheart and the kids out for fish fry on Friday night,
you can. It's your money. Except $ 200 won't cover it.
Here's the deal. For $ 200, you could drive to Kathy
Hochul's new Buffalo Bills football stadium. And from outside the
property with a telephoto lens, take a photograph of the

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stadium and then drive back to your house and stare
lovingly at that photograph for the rest of your life.
That costs you about $ 200. You could do that with it.
But they got this phrase called bleed the beast. And
if they're dumb enough to send you a check, you
and me better be dumb enough to cash it. That's
my thinking. Time for traffic and weather on the 10s

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on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
From Clark Christian Traffic Center.

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William Mattar. Hurt in a car? Call William Mattar. Well,
it's going to be cloudy most of the day. Had
a little sprinkle. That probably is past. And then there's
a chance this afternoon for a few breaks of sun
here and there. High in the mid-70s is forecast. Going
to be pleasant. 57, the temperature at 841. And you're listening.
Checked out at 842. And you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Bob,

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I'm glad you called up, sir. Good morning and welcome
to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Hey, Bob.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
Good morning. I am no more a fan of our
illustrious governor than you are, but what's the difference between
her bribing people $ 200 to vote for them and Mr.
Trump offering people $ 5, 000 if they vote his way?

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Nothing whatsoever. They both in this are despicable. They both
in this are morally wrong. They both in this... you know,
if Trump were to keep his promise, which is not likely.
I think he promises a check to us every now
and again. If Trump were to pay the money the
way that Hochul has paid the money, they both would

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be equally guilty of pissing away precious taxpayer dollars. You're 100% correct.
It is wrong. And we've got to get back both
sides to let's be people of principle, right? Let's be
good people who do good things for good reasons. And
Waving money in people's faces is crooked. It's bribery. It's

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not right. It's wrong when you're a Democrat does it,
and it's wrong when my Republican does it. And here's
one more. You have Bernie Sanders, who was this weekend
on all the talking head shows pushing his legislation he's
just introduced that would say we should have a 32-hour
work week and you should get paid the same and
you should have the same benefits. that's Bernie bribing you

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without having to put any money at risk. Bernie is saying, oh, look,
we're just six weeks till election day. Bernie is saying,
if you vote for us Democrats, we'll give you an
extra day off. Anytime folks dangle that, what, chicken in
every pot or whatever in front of your face to
get your vote, know that they think you're a whore, right?

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And that is not a title of trust and respect. Mike,
glad you phoned, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Hey, Bob, the best way to spend that $ 200 from
Kathy Hochul is to drive to Pennsylvania and buy ammunition.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
100%, brother. 100%. Listen, if you're going down there, if
I could give you my $ 200 in a wish list,
I'd be grateful.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
I'll bring back some fireworks, too.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Stop it. You're going to get arrested now. Mike, you're
a good man. Here's the thing. On ammunition, my son, Scott,
is going to hunt the youth hunt. And he's going
to use a 20-gauge, is what he decided. So, okay,
we need some 20-gauge slugs. I have not traditionally been

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a 20-gauge shotgunner. So, you know, I have 20-gauge ammunition.
I have 16-gauge ammunition. I have 12-gauge ammunition, unless you're
from the state in which I ain't got no bullets.
What the hell are you talking about, right? Anyway, so–
but I have 20-gauge slugs. But I'm at, like, you figure, okay,

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how many is going to need to sight this particular
gun in? And then how many is he going to
need for the season? And I have enough, but if
he slings a lot of lead, I could use up
most of what I have. I don't like using up
most of what I have, right? You never know when
the Canadians are going to attack, right? So I like

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to have a cushion. And in 20-gauge slugs, my cushion
is pretty thin. So I have thought, well, damn, I
had a day off Monday. But the stupid thing, I'll
tell you later, I had no gas money. So anyway,
when could I go to Pennsylvania and buy 20-gauge slugs?
Because since they came up with this thing where you

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have to do a background check and the state keeps
a permanent record of all the bullets and all the
calibers and gauges you buy, And so I thought, man,
when the hell am I going to get to Pennsylvania
between now and Columbus Day? That's when the youth hunt is.
And then I've been toying with the idea. Well, hold it.
If I go to like Sportsman's Warehouse or whatever, and

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I say, I just buy some 20 gauge deer slugs,
completely innocent game, you know, innocuous, would I be violating
some grand truth, would I be giving information to the state,
or would I look like what I am in this instance,
one more deer hunter just getting ready for the season?

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If you have any advice or counsel for me, I'd
be very grateful. 222-1180 is the number. We'll take a break.
Back with you in a moment on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
September 11, 25 years ago.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
We'll go down in our history as a day, 25.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Years ago, to remember.

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And you're listening to News Radio Wham! 1180. Rochester Teachers

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Association declares an impasse in its negotiations with the district.
We'll have Adam Urbanski, union president, on at 9.05. Larry,
glad you called, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
Hey, good morning, Bob.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (29:22):
Hey, so when I get my check, I'm going to
cash it and send it along to the Bruce Blakeman campaign.

Speaker 8 (29:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, a lot of people have been saying they'll do that.
I mean, that's a very good option. You bet. I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
Yeah, I think that would be a great... you know,
great in her face.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I wish there was, yeah, I wish there was some
way to rub it in her face. Maybe post a
social media picture of yourself or something. Nothing identifiable. You
don't want to get arrested. But yeah, putting that money
in the Republican pocket would be fine. Here's the deal.
I mean, I, you know, most of us don't donate
to politicians. I understand that. And I don't. We've, My

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wife and I, I think, have donated to two politicians.
One was Ben– who was the baby heart surgeon who
was in the cabinet for the first time of Trump? Anyway,
I'm off on a tangent. Let me, if I could,
read to you very quickly in a moment or two

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a message sent out earlier this hour by Adam Urbanski.
At the Rochester Teachers Association to his membership, it says, quote,
colleagues at their monthly meeting yesterday evening, the RTA representative
assembly voted unanimously to declare impasse in our stalled negotiations
for a successor contract with the Rochester City School District.

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We are filing for impasse today and asking the New
York State Public Employees Relations Board to appoint an impartial
mediator to help resolve the issues. After months of frustrating
and fruitless meetings since our contract expired on June 30th,
the district remains unresponsive to virtually all RTA proposals aimed
at adding needed services for our students, lowering class sizes,

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making our schools safer, increasing our capacity to attract and
retain teachers, and improving teaching and learning conditions in our schools.
The district currently has the money, more than a $ 1. 1
billion budget and a reserve of at least $ 312 million dollars, 85%
of which is unencumbered, to make schools safer, to make

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class sizes smaller, to provide our students the services that
they need and deserve, and to make Rochester teachers' salaries
much more competitive. The district is not only rejecting virtually
all our proposals, but also continuing to misrepresent their budget,
doing nothing about the lack of school safety, proposing to
curb teachers' rights and professional discretion, demanding concessions in our

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health benefits and insisting on a longer school day and
a longer school year, both uncompensated. In an effort to
avoid an impasse and expedite the stalled negotiations, we proposed
to Superintendent Rosser that he become directly involved in negotiations
at the bargaining table. He unfortunately declined. Dr. Rosser's dismissive
decision left us no choice but to file with PERB

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for impasse. And until we reach a successful conclusion to
the current negotiations, there can be no business as usual
between us and the district. It is only through collective
bargaining that we can have a real voice in policymaking
and that we can bring the collective wisdom of teachers
to the attention of the district. We remain confident that
our solidarity in this challenge will result in making our

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schools better for teaching and learning. Adam Urbanski, RTA president.
Like I said, he'll be on here in a couple
minutes to explain to us the particulars of their particular problem.
We're going to get news first, though. That's what Joe
Lasky is all about. He's the voice of the Finger Lakes,
and he's next. on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Horses!

Speaker 7 (32:50):
Screw you!

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I'll use what words I want.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Cause people to scream and holler. My voice in all this.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Horses!

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Speak up.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
NewsRadio. You have a lot of things to say. WHAM 1180.

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Roof, roof.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Time for a new roof or site.