9/8 Downtown Section 3rd Platoon

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good evening. I'm Bob Lonsbury from the banks, the mighty
Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is downtown section third platoon. Well, um,
as it turns out, uh, I could never be King
of England. Now I do a hell of a bang
up job over there for him. I'm saying I would,
I'd even go to like, what's that stupid game where
they ride around on horses with a croquet mallet, whatever

(00:33):
else like that frigging polo. Okay, whatever, you rich people.
But I would go to the polo matches, and I'd
sit there wearing some stupid hat, and I'd clap like that,
and I'd make people a knight and stuff like that.
I'd be a good king, a really good king. Because largely,
I think kings sit around their ass and do nothing
and get a lot of money. And to be honest

(00:54):
with you, every aspect of that sounds appealing to me.
Sitting around on my ass? Yes, please. Doing nothing? Uh-huh.
Getting a lot of money? Oh, 100%. That is, honest
with you, I've looked through some of these job search apps,
and I don't find those particular characteristics in very many
jobs at all. But I don't think I could ever

(01:18):
be king of England. One, there's that whole bloodline thing. Okay,
all right. But I think they've got a work your
way in thing. There's a deal, if you pull a
sword out of a rock or something along those lines,
you get to be king or whatever. I don't know,
at least kiss a pretty girl. I don't know about that.
But here is the final thing which lets me know

(01:42):
I could never be king of England. Now, hanging around
with that Kate woman, here's the thing. What's the one...
There are two of them over there we don't like
and two of them we do like. Oh, no, the
one we don't like was over here, and then they
went back over there. Okay, but the ones that were
over there we do like, the bald guy and then
the real pretty wife. They seem like decent people. I'll

(02:03):
be honest with you. They do. And fortunately, it looks
like she's come through her cancer. Okay, so we rejoice
in that. But I was going to say, oh, yeah,
why I couldn't be king of England. other than I
don't even freaking speak their language, okay? What planet are
they from? Chip, chip, cheerio, chap, stuff like that. You

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know what I'm saying? Everybody talking like they're in freaking
Mary Poppins. I don't get this, okay? Now, what's that?
It used to be Benny. There used to be a
show on TV named Benny something. He'd have busty women
walk around rather immodestly, hopping up and down, jiggling their boobs.
Benny Hill, Benny Hill. Not surprisingly, back in the day

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as a younger man, I may have found certain aspects
of that humor appealing to me. Okay? Honest with you.
But even, you know, all those years ago watching Benny
Hill reviewing Mary Poppins to learn the language, I could
never be King England. And not with a full head

(03:09):
of hair like this. But here's why. Today... um, the,
the Will and Kate, is that the ones, the ones
we like, the ones going to be king one day? Okay. So, um, uh,
they took their son whose name is George to school

(03:29):
and you go, okay, well, it's great. No. Cause like
two of my sons, Sam and Scott, 13 and 15 today,
they went to school also. And, uh, You know, they're
out there in front of the house for their first
day of school picture. Mom took it, like she's been
taken for a good number of years, these youngsters and
their three older siblings. I understand sending your kid off

(03:50):
to school, sure. But here's the deal. They do it
different over there. This kid over there is George. They're
taking him to a place called Eton, E-T-O-N. That's the
name of it. It's a school. It's a boarding school.
It's where they– no, this kid George is 13, right?

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So he's 13, and for all intents and purposes, he's
moving out of mom and dad's house, which, by the way,
is a castle. And he's going to be at a
boarding school, and he will spend the rest of his
education at this boarding school coming home for holidays. right?

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And they're short on holidays over there. They don't, they
don't do the 4th of July, right? Columbus day, they
skip right over and they don't even have an indigenous,
whatever the hell you call it that day. Right? So
it's rough over there. Um, but here's why I could
never be a King of England. I could not take
one of my children at 13 years of age and

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have them go live someplace else. Right? Um, I want
my kids in my house under my roof where I
can give them a hug, where I can hear their voices,
where I can be in close proximity to them, where
I can be, I don't know, within the happy hearth
of a home. I want that as long as possible, right? Well,

(05:25):
I mean, they got to move out at some point, but,
you know, let's at least graduate high school first. Let's
get them some height. Let's get them grown up and
then they can go off. Oh, yes. And I know
the Lord doesn't give us children to keep them at
the house. The Lord gives us children to raise them
up and put them out the front door. Our children

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don't come to us for us. Our children come to
us for them. And our job is to teach them,
love them, feed them, nurture them, guide them, prepare them,
so that when they do walk out the front door...
They can go live hopefully successful lives, having enough of
the tools and the values, the faith necessary to go
forward in a good direction, right? But while they're kids,

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I want them around me. And I, you know, God bless,
what's this fellow's name, George? God bless young George, because
you might be king one day yourself, but you're still
a 13-year-old kid today. And you've been living with mom
and dad from the jump. And it's been challenging there
because mom's been sick, right? So God bless George tonight

(06:36):
as he's away from home. And, you know, God bless,
isn't there like another one or two in there of kids?
They're going to miss their big brother. And God bless
the mom and dad. You can be the, you know,
whatever crown prince of Wales or whatever you call it.
I don't know what that job is called over there.
But you love your children. And I imagine that this
is unpleasant for them Yeah, I'd say, you know what,

(07:00):
how about he can just go to the school on
the corner. That's fine. We don't need to do this thing. Anyway,
so one more reason why I am not ever going
to be king of England. This is downtown section 3rd
platoon on news radio WHAM 1180. Have you ever gone
down to Washington, D.C.? It may be a trip when

(07:20):
you're in high school or something like that. Hopefully you've
gone down by yourself or as a family. Show the
kids what it's like down there. Washington, D.C., I really
think is worth the trip. I kind of like it
quite a bit. I recognize that it's two cities, that
there's all the pomp and circumstance and the big monuments

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and the fancy buildings, and there's horrific poverty and genuine
ghettos and a whole lot in between. But there's a
lot of cool stuff there. I have a son who
lives in Virginia. And most years, the last several, I
go down in the fall and run the Marine Corps Marathon.

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But I really like Washington, D.C. And one of the
great appeals for people like you and me is to
go down there and see the Smithsonian Institution, which is
a series of several museums where you can go see
a lot of cool stuff. And I mean, if you're

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an American... and you haven't seen the Smithsonian institutions yet, then,
you know, you put that on your to-do list more
likely than not. There's air and space, and there's natural science,
and there's like American history or something. There also is
an African-American museum. I've never been able to get into

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that since it opened up. It has been so popular,
and you have to have a, so popular you need
a pass, right? You come in at this time. You
come in at this time. And it shows you exactly,
it's so popular, I've never been able to get in.
Same is true for the Holocaust Museum. I've never been
able to get into that because it is so popular. Anyway,

(09:10):
Smithsonian Institution is a wonderful piece of Americana. Well, today,
the secretary of the Smithsonian, that's the big boss, announced
that he's leaving. And a lot of speculation that this
has to do with pushback against President Trump's assertion that

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the Smithsonian has gone woke and that a lot of
the stuff they put in there tears down America and
American history and heritage and our founders. And they say, well,
that's why the guy's leaving. And that may be so.
He has said that the job has been a little
more stressful of late than he's accustomed to. But also,

(09:55):
the gentleman is 73 years of age, which is, you know...
unless you're a Democrat politician, not an uncommon age to
be thinking about retiring. And I half apologize for the
Democrat line there. We do have to include Don Trump,
who I think is 80 in there also. So I
don't know what the gentleman's deal is, but You know,

(10:18):
when you look at the New York Times, the Washington Post,
a lot of their thing is, well, it's because he
doesn't like what Trump's doing. What is Trump doing? There's
a lot of stuff Trump does that I criticize and
I think is crap. But his call for American museums

(10:41):
to actually be American museums is a good one. And
his demand is that the woke anti-American spirit that's crept
into these places be scoured out of there, I think
that's a good demand. I'm grateful to him for doing it.
And here's the deal. I am no expert on these museums,

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but I go when I see them. And there are
undeniably countless instances where the take, the presentation is, anti-American,
where you would basically walk away saying, this country is

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a hellhole, and it always has been, that this country
is defined by bigotry and racism and oppression, and that
you'd think America is the most unhappy and miserable place
on earth, which is not consistent with the America where
I live, and I hope it's not consistent with the
America where you live. Here's an illustration of it. I personally,

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from boyhood, you know, to be honest with you, learning
the history of the Seneca people over in this end
of the Iroquois Confederacy, I've always been fascinated by the history,
the material culture, the technology, the lifestyle of Native Americans. And,

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you know, we of course have a civilization which predates
us on this land, And of course, probably civilizations that
came before the people we now call Native Americans. But,
you know, it's fascinating history right here. You can walk
through farmer's fields in the spring and you can see

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little chips of what you and I would ignorantly call
flint that are the product of some ancient American. They're
making a point or a tool and you will find
what you and I would call arrowheads there in the mud,
you pick it up and know that this was fabricated
by the hand of man, maybe one, two, three, four,

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5,000 years ago. Right. Um, it is, I love that,
that history. And, you know, when I was a young man,
19 to 21, I had a privilege for a couple
of years of being a missionary for my church out, uh, uh,
on and around the Indian reservation reservations of the Southwest.

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So anyway, when the Smithsonian opened up a museum of
Native American history, man, I was thrilled. I waited and
waited and waited for that to open. And the first
time I got down there after it opened was after
running a Marine Corps marathon. So as soon as I
got in with a marathon, I went and I caught

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a transit bus and I went over to the museum
and I went to the museum and excited to see
this grand history. But there was really nothing. It was
video screens with a bunch of contemporary Native Americans of
different nations and tribes all saying, you must respect our heritage,

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you must respect our heritage, you must respect our history.
And you want to say, okay, I will, but where
the hell is some, right? Show me some stuff. Have
some displays. It was a political lecture. as opposed to
an historical display. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on
NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon.

(14:17):
A little bit of news. Over the weekend, we knew
that Iran had launched missile attacks against U.S. Navy warships
to include an aircraft carrier. Each of these attacks was rebuffed.
What our government did not tell us is that this
attack was renewed yesterday on our Labor Day, and that, again,

(14:44):
the attacks were unsuccessful, but it is clear that the
technology and the capability of Iran is advancing at a
rather significant rate. They did not hit our naval vessels,
but they're getting closer, and our ability to swat away
their attempts is diminishing in effectiveness. Thus far, nothing has

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gotten through, but the concern is that that may not last.
How can this be that Iran, supposedly its military destroyed
by us, is able to not only continue to launch
attacks against our sailors and our ships, but how is
it able to do so with increasing capability? Well, you

(15:32):
and I have said for some months now, that this
conflict with Iran on the other side of the ball
is truly a proxy war being waged by Russia and
China against us. Russia has armed Iran. I'm sorry, China
has armed Iran. Russia has helped Iran with targeting Iran.

(16:05):
its missiles in a very significant way. Russia helped Iran
target its missiles to hit our naval installations in the Gulf,
blowing up our munitions and supplies that, you know, we
had this aircraft carrier that was over there so long,
had all the difficulty. Well, that all came about because

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our supplies there in the Persian Gulf were blown up.
meaning that food and stuff like that for that aircraft
carrier had to come from Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean long ways away. Anyway, also Russia gave Iran targeting
assistance striking a barracks where American soldiers were killed. In fact,

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they were able to specifically target the barracks where missile
defense soldiers were staying. They not only knew where the
barracks were, but where in the barracks the very soldiers
they wanted dead lived. And at any rate, it is
believed that Russia and China are assisting Iran in its

(17:16):
ongoing efforts to strike one or more of our naval vessels.
And here's the deal. If they were to strike one
or more of our naval vessels, that would imperil that
ship and its crew and would stand a fairly good
possibility or likelihood of killing American sailors. If American sailors

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were to be killed, that would almost certainly mean that
the United States would move into a larger, more involved
war with Iran. So clearly, our adversaries in this matter China, Russia,

(18:03):
and Iran want us to get into a full-blown knock-down,
drag-out war. And it would be prudent for us to
ask why. And it would be prudent for us to
presumably seek to avoid that eventuality. And when someone wants

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to goad you into a war or into any contact,
It is typically because they have something of an ambush planned.
They believe that in such a contest, they would come
out dominant, that their interests would prevail. I would again
like to say that China has aggressive intent relative to

(18:47):
Taiwan and possibly Japan. Iran has aggressive intent in regard
to the Gulf states, which we have sadly recently proven,
we are incapable of defending. And Russia has malicious intent
in regard to not just Ukraine, but other portions of Europe,
maybe all of Europe. And the thing holding back each

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of those desires by each of the three members of
that particular axis of evil is the presumed might of
the United States. I say presumed might because You know,
we have demonstrated ourselves to be a lot less effective
over these last six months than one would have expected.

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We are supposedly the world's superpower, and yet we have
been spanked and spanked hard by Iran. To say that
we have played them to a draw would be to
give us the benefit of the doubt, which we really
don't have. And so, again, we have two days in

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recent days had direct missile attack upon U.S. naval warships.
And two reasons Iran might want to do that. We
are blockading their ports with those ships. And we are
also assisting in the navigation of oil tankers out of
the Strait of Hormuz with those ships. At any rate,

(20:21):
it is also troubling that our government did not tell
us about the attack of yesterday. Our government, you know,
not to be overly critical because, you know, I voted
for Trump like you did, but our government has not
told us a damn thing about this war, right? There
have been no heroes. We had 750 people wounded. We've

(20:44):
not seen any pictures of anybody getting a Purple Heart
or anything else like that. We have pushed the reality
of the service members aside. We're praising President Trump. We're
praising Secretary Hegseth. But the actual G.I. Joe and G.I.
Betty over there doing the deed, they're completely under wraps, right?

(21:05):
Nobody's embedded. No reporting is being done. We don't know
anything that's happening. And America has never done war that way.
And I'm not sure that this is a very good way.
It's time for me to shut up. This is Downtown
Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This
is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. Downtown Canandaigua is a beautiful place.

(21:30):
It's stunningly beautiful and a reflection of the great wealth,
to be honest with you, the prosperity which defined Canandaigua
in the 1800s and for most of the 1900s. It
remains a relatively prosperous community because of its beauty. But
the courthouse which presides over Canandaigua up there on the

(21:54):
hill is beautiful. In my mind, the most beautiful building
in upstate New York. A lot of history in that courthouse.
A lot of cases have come through there. I've long
thought that If I had been a lawyer instead of
a whatever the hell I am now, I would have
loved to have practiced in the Canandaigua, Ontario County Courthouse.

(22:18):
I'd walk out every day and I'd go down Main
Street and I'd find one of the many places to
sit and eat lunch, visit with friends, say hi to passersby.
It'd be a pretty good life. You can go to
Main Street, Canandaigua. without just feeling good. Yeah, it's beautiful.

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This broad boulevard that leads all the way down to
the lake with its beauty stretching out beyond. Yeah, it's
an extraordinary place. But it'll be a while before I
feel exactly that same way about that courthouse and that
town again after the events today in that courthouse relative

(23:04):
to the sentencing of of two of the murderers of
this Sam Nordquist out of Minnesota. Sam was biologically female,
identified as a male. And Sam, pretty much like every
one of us walking this earth, just wanted to be loved, right? And,

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you know, Sam had a tumultuous childhood, most we can gather. And,
you know, life was a kick in the head more
than once. But Sam, like so many people today, turned
online looking for life and thought that he had online
found love. Twice. Both times he was duped. Once he

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picked up and moved off to Florida, but that person
took his money. Back to Minnesota, and online looking for love,
this time to Canandaigua. Well, that person took his life.
It was a lonely heart scam. And maybe the intent was,

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let's get him on welfare and we'll take his money.
Or maybe it was a purposeful sexual sadism thing. Precious Arzuaga,
the one who lured him here with promises of love,
Precious Arzuaga, a female, had a relationship with another female,

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Jennifer Quijana, who was likewise sentenced today. And Precious Arzuaga,
promising love and acceptance, invited Sam Nordquist out here. Sam Nordquist,
biologically female, identifying male. There was this group of people
in one or two transgender people in it, two, I believe,

(25:05):
convicted sex offenders, and they formed a circle around this
precious Arzuaga. That's the allegation. And at her behest, Sam,
this newcomer, quickly became something of a punching bag, figuratively
and literally. And the evil done is unimaginable. Um, it

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was a torturous, horrible, uh, experience, which today, if I
understand things correctly, left the judge essentially in tears. Um, uh, uh,
Sam was, was battered by these people, intimidated by these people.
No one, uh, got him help. Um, and some of

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them horrifically, torturously misused him. Sam, uh, biologically female, had
a vagina, of course. Um, and was raped therein with
a table leg, right? That was what Precious Arzuaga and
Jennifer Quijana and the others in this little cult imposed

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upon this individual who innocently came here looking for nothing
other than acceptance, right? Damn them all to hell. Just
damn them all to hell. There have been no trials
thus far. All have pled guilty. It's quite possible that

(26:33):
all of the seven defendants will plead guilty. In a way,
I hope they do, because we will thereby be spared testimony.
We won't know the extent of the torturous injury imposed
on Sam Nordquist. We won't know what caused his death.

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We won't have to relive, even these several times removed,
the hell, the uncertainty, the terror, the loneliness, the fear,
which he faced at the hands of these friggin' monster slobs.
It just breaks your heart. And at any rate, I

(27:19):
stand in awe of what, you know, Sarah Van Strydonk
is a name we've known for years. She prosecuted her
today in one of these matters. And to the current
staff at the Ontario County District Attorney's Office, we stand
in awe of you. To the New York State Police,

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to the troopers and the investigators from the state police
who put this case together, who discovered these awful truths,
who persisted and went forward in service to Sam and
his family, God bless you. God bless you, and God
damn these monsters who took this young person's life. And

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at any rate, it might be a few years before
I pass that beautiful yellow courthouse on the hill in
Canandaigua without thinking about the evil that was recounted there today.
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.