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Speaker 1: When it happens, anytime. Another hour with Bob Lonsbury, starting now on East Radio Wham! 1180. Thanks, Ted. Appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you showing up for Mustard, and I hope all is cool and copacetic on your end. There is currently underway at Gates Police, there at the town hall, a press conference with Chief Rob Long. He has just shown to reporters who are there the body-worn camera video from October 4th. an incident, an interaction between a citizen named Haley Rodriguez and an officer of the Gates Police Department. I've not yet seen the video, though I have heard the audio associated with it. The officer, if I understood it correctly, dismounts his vehicle, makes verbal contact with the lady, and he very passionately Not angrily, but Pat says, no, put it down, don't. Let's talk this out. And that's not an exact quote, but that's an accurate paraphrase. And that interchange lasts, again, as Chief Long said at his initial press conference a couple weeks back, that lasts maybe 10 or 15 seconds. And then you hear the discharge of the police officer's firearms. It may have been discharged four or five times. I couldn't count. But I have not yet seen the video. The chief was just saying that at that time of night, at that circumstance, in those light conditions, the device in the hand of this young lady looked like a handgun. It was a replica revolver. And You know, the chief's assertion is that the officer was in a situation where, based on all the evidence he had in that circumstance and situation, it had to be perceived as a threat upon his life. And he had a legal and moral obligation to protect himself. So, again, once I get a chance to put eyes on the video, I'll be able to describe it a little bit better. But that's the... a circumstance, in effect, where things stand now. And, you know, the audio does, in the voice of the police officer, he's seemingly imploring her not to do something. Let's talk this out, is what he says. And whatever action she engages in, that leads him to discharge his weapon. We'll have to wait and look at the video to see that. The Associated Press has done a poll relative to the presidential situation and a perception of President Trump. And it comes at it not from, you know, what are the issues affecting you and Probably most of us would say, you know, the cost of gas, things along those lines. But they raised the issue of corruption. And there's some interesting and dispiriting results. Do you think that the question was asked, do you think that President Trump cares more about making money for himself or helping the country? Just over 50% said no. making money for himself. 25% said it's about the same. He wants to help the country just about as much as he wants to make money for himself. Just 10% of respondents said that he puts the interests of the people ahead of his own financial concerns. Do you think that Trump is profiting illegitimately using the power of his office to you know, uh, make money. 60% of respondents said yes. 20% said no. Uh, 20% said they were unsure. Um, and here's the thing. Let, uh, fewer than half of Republicans, uh, deny that he's enriching himself. Um, do, do, do you believe that president Trump is enriching himself? Um, less than half of Republicans, uh, say no, which is an interesting deal because, you know, we Republicans are, you know, at least ostensibly, uh, on his team or vice versa. And, and here's the deal. I have pointed out that last year, president Trump made $ 2. 2 billion, by far the most money he has ever made in any one year in his life. Um, The AI deal and such like that, his approach to that seems to be benefiting himself, his sons, and the families of at least a couple of his secretaries. The state of New York, here's an example. The CalShe stuff where you bet on things. prediction market or whatever that is, President Trump has insisted that that be regulated by the federal government. He insists that technically it is not gambling. And so gambling being regulated by the states, but futures markets being regulated by the federal government, he says, oh, this is a futures market, a category of situation typically reserved for you know, people who are buying soybeans in Chicago next spring, you know. But the deal is, by calling prediction markets not gambling, they avoid state taxes. In New York, I think the tax that the prediction markets would be paying is 55%. As it is, they currently are paying nothing. And, you know, the deal is, I'm not the biggest Kathy Hochul fan. You might have caught on to that. But Kathy Hochul has said, listen, these prediction markets are gambling and they should be regulated or taxed by the states just as other sorts of gambling are. And again, I'm not a Kathy Hochul fan, but it's very hard to argue with her logic, primarily because she's right in that. But the deal is that both Trump sons are being paid by the two big prediction markets, And Donald Trump Jr. owns a significant stake in one of the prediction markets and, again, is being paid a large retainer fee by both of the major prediction markets. So this policy insistence by President Trump dramatically enriches his sons. I don't want to go on and on about this. There are a lot of illustrations, but decisions and business actions change. which typically people would like recuse themselves from or say, oh, I can't make that decision because I've got a conflict of interest financially or people creating some kind of financial divestment, you know, where they sell off what they've got so that they don't have that conflict anymore. That's what's typically done. Now, here's the thing. I remember the Biden crime family and we were appropriately upset because that the Biden family was profiting off the prominence of Joe Biden. It's really undeniable that the brother and the son were seeking to monetize access to the Biden family circle. There's no doubt about that. And we appropriately pointed out that that was crooked as hell, right? And Biden crime family was inappropriate. Yes, those words are justified and true. But The difference in the current administration is that where the Bidens were getting small millions, the Trumps are getting small billions.
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Speaker 2: And it.
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Speaker 1: Is an interesting situation because the investigatory things of the administration that should be looking into these the profit being made by the president's family. The federal regulators aren't looking into it because they're part of the Trump administration, one presumes. And further, not to be a jerk, but the congressional oversight that should be looking into these things isn't happening because the Congress is controlled by the president's party, my Republicans. These things are embarrassing at best, But far more significantly, they are almost by definition corruption. And those things that should be making sure that there isn't corruption, the federal regulatory agencies and the oversight of Congress, those things aren't occurring because the Trump administration won't look into Trump and because the Republican folks in Congress won't stand up to him. And listen, I'm a Republican myself. and all this other stuff, but it doesn't matter what team is doing it. What's going on right now is not appropriate. And this new poll out of the Associated Press indicates that a pretty large percentage of Americans, including a fair percentage of Republicans feel exactly that same way. 222-1180, something other than politics next. Or how about this? How about you call up and you give your opinion? It's always good to hear from you. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Dental implants are a major decision, and people wonder if they're making the right decision. It says here, Banana Ball is coming to Rochester on July 2nd and 3rd, 2027, as part of the Banana Ball Championship League's World Tour. The game will be between the Loco Beach Coconuts. They'll play the Texas Tailgaters. Loco Beach coconuts does not sound like the Savannah bananas. But you know what? Honest with you, we're used to AAA here in Rochester, and that does just fine. So we will take the Loco Beach coconuts, and we will enjoy them significantly. Now, here's the deal. Demand for games like this is so high. I mean, people come from other parts of the country, and they sell the tickets way out months in advance because a lot of people, to be honest with you, will plan a little bit of a vacation to come see them. I know my wife has, the last couple of years, tried to get tickets to different places in the Northeast, and we've not been successful. She, early this morning, sent out to the group text, the family group text, Everybody who's over 16, I think that's the age, put into the lottery. And here's the thing. I even put into the lottery to get a suite or something like that. Now, the lottery ticket list or ticket lottery list, it's open through October 31st, right? Halloween. That's just a couple weeks from now. You have to sign up on the lottery before that. I believe BananaBall.com. BananaBall.com is one place you can do that. Let me just click on here and make sure. BananaBall.com. I don't know how this works. You're smarter than I, and you could probably figure it out. But go to BananaBall.com, and that will get you. Let me click on Tickets, okay? Yeah, if you click on Tickets, then it says Join the Ticket Lottery List. So popular. Bananaball.com, that's where you can learn more. Follow those things that pop up there. So anyway, various members of the family have gotten to the lottery, and we're hoping one of us gets picked. And we hope that we're able to get tickets, and we hope that come July 2nd or 3rd, our fannies are over there at ESL Ballpark watching a little banana ball. It's going to be exciting. Music means, well, Joel Assey's got a complete newscast for us. We will hear what he's got to say. That's next on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Soon, things will be falling.
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And you can make an appointment at ZBART.com. Do you have three ex-wives and your current trophy wife wants a life insurance policy three times the size of the... Move away. from having Rochester police associated with any campuses. They want, they being the school board, all security to be provided by internal security employees, which is really the stupidest thing you ever heard of. And it's an illustration of the fact that the people on this school board hate cops more than they love kids, right? They hate cops more than they love kids. They are willing to endanger kids in order to act out their hatred of the police. See, that's what bigotry does. Bigotry leaves your ass uncovered. Bigotry is always gonna leave you out there in a bad situation because bigotry is never justified intellectually, morally, socially. It's always wrong. And when you're doing what's wrong, there are unforeseen consequences that are gonna come your way. And so because of their disgust, at the men and women of law enforcement, the Rochester City School District is going to, I'm sure they'll find someone's cousin or political contributor, somebody who used to be something who's related to, they'll find somebody and it'll work out. Oh, it'll be wonderful. They'll probably have matching t-shirts. It'll be very, very impressive. And maybe have little badges made up or something. No, that's too much like cops. That'd be wrong. But there will be big salaries. I think one thing, we can be assured of is that whatever the Rochester City School Board pulls out of its ass, that their close family members and political associates will get very large paychecks, okay? It always works that way. Here's something else that's fairly predictable. Governor Kathy Hochul, last night about nine o'clock, she takes a CBS News social media post about that horrible attack upon the elementary school in Bend, Oregon, And Kathy Hochul writes this, at least four people murdered at an elementary school in Oregon, three of them children, three kids who should have come home to their families tonight. How many more of our babies have to die before Washington finally finds the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and put our children first? That's what she posted after a citizen with a lawfully possessed firearm chased down engaged and killed the bad guy who, as a caller earlier today reported, had a shotgun. You just ask the question, Governor, okay, in your state, the most anti-gun state in America, you are working overtime to make sure that people have neither firearms nor ammunition nor whatever else they might need. In Oregon, a very progressive, very Democrat state, you know, they've got anti-gun laws just about as strict as New York's. And here these little kids are dead and their teacher and a little child and a teacher are at the hospital fighting for their lives. And immediately Kathy Hochul has got to make this about her politics again. how many more of our babies have to die before Washington finally finds the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and put our children first? Well, I would look at this situation and I would say, thank God there was a good guy with a gun there. I don't know if you remember, but there was a fellow a little back ago with the NRA said the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is is with a good guy with a gun. And thank God that there was a good guy with a gun who also had courage, who had something in his heart, who had something in his hand that led him to fight. And seeing what had transpired, he chased the gunman into the school and shot him dead. Now, there were 400 kids in that school who knows how much ammunition, who knows what the plan of this bad guy was. But it was the exercise of the Second Amendment that led to the end of this carnage. And, you know, I just, how she doesn't quite see. Now, is there, the bad guy had a gun and the good guy had a gun, right? I'd point out to you that a 16-year-old is in Oregon not allowed to use a firearm outside of a range or, well, not hunting, already against the law. You can't take a gun on school ground, already against the law. You can't shoot people down, already against the law. Right? What additional restriction on liberty would you impose, Madam Governor? And what Additional restrictions on liberty do you have planned for after the election? What are you coming for next? Every year Kathy Hochul has been in office, she has been ever more restrictive on the ownership of firearms and the acquisition of ammunition. What does she have planned for January? After she gets another burst of four and probably won't face another election again the rest of her life, when she's completely free to pursue whatever psychotic agenda she's got going, What is her next plan for those of us who believe that the Second Amendment applies in the state of New York as well? Hey, Mark, I'm glad you called up, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Good morning, Bob.
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Speaker 2: How are you today?
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Speaker 1: Good, sir. Good.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 1: I just want to point out that if you do a little research, you'll find that the leading cause of death among children is gun violence.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at this while we do that together. leading cause of death among children. Abortion is a leading cause of death for children. Firearms are a leading cause of death among adolescents. And then it's motor vehicle crashes, cancer. And here's a thought, though. Well, here's the thing. Ages 1 through 4, drowning is the leading cause of accidental death. Ages 5 through 9, cancer is the leading cause of death, with unintentional injuries and homicides also starting to impact that group. And then ages 10 through 19, the injury nature changes. And it's dominated by firearm violence, motor vehicle accidents, and suicide. And I would assert that that fact is a consequence of urban crime as opposed to the Second Amendment. Right? See, there's a thing about what causes death. I'd look at clustering. I would look at I'd look at clustering. And again, in no way to diminish the horror or the significance of these attacks on schools, right? But weekend in and weekend out, where are the deaths among people 10 to 19 in America? They cluster in our cities. It's an interesting thing because rates of firearm ownership are highest outside our cities and but rates of juvenile firearm death are highest inside our cities. That disproportionality would lead you, if you're thinking logically and deductively, to conclude that it's not the firearm that's the cause. If the firearm was the cause, you would have more firearm-related deaths where you have more firearms outside our cities. But instead, you have an intense clustering of violent deaths by a firearm within America's cities, which indicates that it is about culture and conduct. It is not about either freedom or firearms, right? If you want to save lives of young people in America, don't ban guns, demand better values. Demand that children, especially in America's urban cores, be raised better.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: I get confused, forgive me, I do shows in Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester, but over the course of the last week, I think that I've seen two 15-year-olds shot, one of them shot dead. I think this is Albany I'm thinking of. About a block and a half from the governor's mansion, a 15-year-old girl was shot dead here the other day. A 15-year-old boy was shot in another incident with him, three other teenagers. This is in the city of Albany, New York, where we, of course, have the most oppressive gun laws in America. In rural New York, where we have dramatically higher levels of firearm ownership, I didn't see any reports of any teenagers being shot this week. It's culture and conduct. It's not freedom and firearms. That's the answer. 222-1180, back with you in a moment on NewsRadio Wham 1180. It's not just a word. It's how we play.
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Speaker 1: A while back, my wife and I decided it was time to update our kitchen. And choosing Rochester. Today, actually yesterday, I'm sorry, Thursday, something called PLOS Medicine, in which a fairly large study covering, I think, 23 years, Mostly older people over the age of 50 found that there is no association overall between eating ultra-processed food and the incidence of colorectal cancer. It's still a good idea to eat whole grains, get lots of fiber. Dairy is our friend. Calcium is really good. And, you know, taking it easy on processed meat is a good idea. But they used data in this study from more than 460,000 adults, 50 to 71, and again, tracking them for in the neighborhood of 20 years. And they really could not find a correlation, um, you know, with, with colon cancer. Now they point out that this study was done on older people, um, and that they were largely white. Um, and, uh, you know, uh, I don't know if that changes how it is with younger people, uh, or with people who aren't white, but, um, If you're eating a hot dog or some chips or something like that, you need not necessarily fear that you're bringing on something bad. Steve, I'm glad you phoned up, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Bob. I listened to you. You're pretty much for no more gun laws. I wondered... What's your opinion for an assault-type rifle? This shooting, this latest one, was not that way, but most of them were, and I wondered what you thought about that.
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Speaker 1: This is just my opinion, but I think a gun's a gun, and I don't see an assault-style rifle as being particularly evil. I don't believe that assault rifle bans... are justified or constitutional. What's your thought on that?
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Speaker 2: Well, my thought is, not in this case, but in most cases, not near as many children would be killed if they only had a couple of shots. And, you know, this was a very unusual thing, having a you know, having a pump shotgun.
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Speaker 1: When you say a couple of shots, what are you saying there? What do you mean by a couple of shots?
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Speaker 2: Well, this guy had a pump shotgun, which I assume had probably five shots. That would be the norm.
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Speaker 1: What's one in the chamber?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, mine was four with one in the chamber, but regardless, had he had a... I mean, he was obviously a very sick individual. Had he had... uh... multiple rounds in a automatic type rifle semi-automatic probably would have probably would have killed more uh... it just just my opinion i don't see any need for those for those type of weapons i just don't see where anyone would need those and you know i've i've hunted my whole life i'm a gun advocate and uh... I mean, I'm probably a little unusual, but I have a single shot shotgun that's 60 years old.
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Speaker 1: That's what, that's what I, that's what I use. That's what I used to hunt with a single shot, single action. Here's the deal though. Um, I can't think of another American freedom, uh, which I have to give a reason for exercising.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Um, Why do you want a semi-automatic? Why do you want an AR-15? I mean, it says I got a right to keep and bear arms. Why do you want to be a Catholic? Why do you want to say what's on your mind? Why do you want to seek redress for grievances? Why do you want to have freedom of religion? Why do you want to have a due process? Why do you want to have probable cause?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Why do you want equal protection under law? I can't think of another civil right which I have to give a reason for choosing to exercise. It is not my use of my right that is at issue. It is the existence of the right, yes or no. Also, I would politely say that the notion that just some evil assault rifle can By the way, it's not an automatic, sir. It's a semi-automatic. You're a gunman. I presume you know that. But the notion that only a semi-automatic rifle can fire more than a couple shots is nuts, right? Sir, look in your gun safe. You might well have a Marlin Model 60, which is a. 22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, which has been on the market since, as you might guess, 1960, which would be 67 years now. It has a tube magazine that holds 18 rounds. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. You can keep shooting. Any sort of firearm with a box magazine would have a larger number of rounds. And that magazine could be replaced. To pick one category of gun, which by the way, assault rifles for more than 20 years have each year have been the biggest-selling type of firearm in America. Number two has been the Glock firearm. Interestingly, in this state, they choose to outlaw the two biggest-selling guns for a generation in our country.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Well, because they're about screwing with your liberty. Dave, glad you called. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Hello, Dave. Welcome, sir.
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Speaker 2: Yes, good morning. Just a quick question. Do you think if all of us gun owners voted, could we eliminate Kathy Hochul's candidate? Yes.
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Speaker 1: Is there enough of us? Absolutely, sir. If the gun owners of upstate New York got out and voted, we could overcome the New York City advantage. Dave, thanks for raising that question. And that's been a fact, a truth for a long time. Here's another truth. We don't. Here's the deal. A lot of folks who own firearms are just leave me alone kind of people. They're don't tread on me kind of people. That's how I am. I'll live my life. You live yours, right? Live and let live. We're not, a lot of people not into this political crap. But because gun owners stay home in rural upstate New York, Democrats rule the state from stem to stern, and Democrats are at war with your Second Amendment rights. And that's just one of the constitutional rights that they are working overtime trying to eliminate in this state. You've got to get up and get out and vote, or you better get yourself a little picture of Kathy Hochul, because another four years and you're going to have to be praying to her. It's time for news with the great Dave Debo on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. WHAM Rochester. WAIO HD2 Honeyoy Falls. W241 DG Rochester. For more information about contests on this station, go to WHAM1180. com slash rules. First, fast, accurate. Rochester's news, weather, and traffic station.
Speaker 1: When it happens, anytime. Another hour with Bob Lonsbury, starting now on East Radio Wham! 1180. Thanks, Ted. Appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you showing up for Mustard, and I hope all is cool and copacetic on your end. There is currently underway at Gates Police, there at the town hall, a press conference with Chief Rob Long. He has just shown to reporters who are there the body-worn camera video from October 4th. an incident, an interaction between a citizen named Haley Rodriguez and an officer of the Gates Police Department. I've not yet seen the video, though I have heard the audio associated with it. The officer, if I understood it correctly, dismounts his vehicle, makes verbal contact with the lady, and he very passionately Not angrily, but Pat says, no, put it down, don't. Let's talk this out. And that's not an exact quote, but that's an accurate paraphrase. And that interchange lasts, again, as Chief Long said at his initial press conference a couple weeks back, that lasts maybe 10 or 15 seconds. And then you hear the discharge of the police officer's firearms. It may have been discharged four or five times. I couldn't count. But I have not yet seen the video. The chief was just saying that at that time of night, at that circumstance, in those light conditions, the device in the hand of this young lady looked like a handgun. It was a replica revolver. And You know, the chief's assertion is that the officer was in a situation where, based on all the evidence he had in that circumstance and situation, it had to be perceived as a threat upon his life. And he had a legal and moral obligation to protect himself. So, again, once I get a chance to put eyes on the video, I'll be able to describe it a little bit better. But that's the... a circumstance, in effect, where things stand now. And, you know, the audio does, in the voice of the police officer, he's seemingly imploring her not to do something. Let's talk this out, is what he says. And whatever action she engages in, that leads him to discharge his weapon. We'll have to wait and look at the video to see that. The Associated Press has done a poll relative to the presidential situation and a perception of President Trump. And it comes at it not from, you know, what are the issues affecting you and Probably most of us would say, you know, the cost of gas, things along those lines. But they raised the issue of corruption. And there's some interesting and dispiriting results. Do you think that the question was asked, do you think that President Trump cares more about making money for himself or helping the country? Just over 50% said no. making money for himself. 25% said it's about the same. He wants to help the country just about as much as he wants to make money for himself. Just 10% of respondents said that he puts the interests of the people ahead of his own financial concerns. Do you think that Trump is profiting illegitimately using the power of his office to you know, uh, make money. 60% of respondents said yes. 20% said no. Uh, 20% said they were unsure. Um, and here's the thing. Let, uh, fewer than half of Republicans, uh, deny that he's enriching himself. Um, do, do, do you believe that president Trump is enriching himself? Um, less than half of Republicans, uh, say no, which is an interesting deal because, you know, we Republicans are, you know, at least ostensibly, uh, on his team or vice versa. And, and here's the deal. I have pointed out that last year, president Trump made $ 2. 2 billion, by far the most money he has ever made in any one year in his life. Um, The AI deal and such like that, his approach to that seems to be benefiting himself, his sons, and the families of at least a couple of his secretaries. The state of New York, here's an example. The CalShe stuff where you bet on things. prediction market or whatever that is, President Trump has insisted that that be regulated by the federal government. He insists that technically it is not gambling. And so gambling being regulated by the states, but futures markets being regulated by the federal government, he says, oh, this is a futures market, a category of situation typically reserved for you know, people who are buying soybeans in Chicago next spring, you know. But the deal is, by calling prediction markets not gambling, they avoid state taxes. In New York, I think the tax that the prediction markets would be paying is 55%. As it is, they currently are paying nothing. And, you know, the deal is, I'm not the biggest Kathy Hochul fan. You might have caught on to that. But Kathy Hochul has said, listen, these prediction markets are gambling and they should be regulated or taxed by the states just as other sorts of gambling are. And again, I'm not a Kathy Hochul fan, but it's very hard to argue with her logic, primarily because she's right in that. But the deal is that both Trump sons are being paid by the two big prediction markets, And Donald Trump Jr. owns a significant stake in one of the prediction markets and, again, is being paid a large retainer fee by both of the major prediction markets. So this policy insistence by President Trump dramatically enriches his sons. I don't want to go on and on about this. There are a lot of illustrations, but decisions and business actions change. which typically people would like recuse themselves from or say, oh, I can't make that decision because I've got a conflict of interest financially or people creating some kind of financial divestment, you know, where they sell off what they've got so that they don't have that conflict anymore. That's what's typically done. Now, here's the thing. I remember the Biden crime family and we were appropriately upset because that the Biden family was profiting off the prominence of Joe Biden. It's really undeniable that the brother and the son were seeking to monetize access to the Biden family circle. There's no doubt about that. And we appropriately pointed out that that was crooked as hell, right? And Biden crime family was inappropriate. Yes, those words are justified and true. But The difference in the current administration is that where the Bidens were getting small millions, the Trumps are getting small billions.
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Speaker 2: And it.
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Speaker 1: Is an interesting situation because the investigatory things of the administration that should be looking into these the profit being made by the president's family. The federal regulators aren't looking into it because they're part of the Trump administration, one presumes. And further, not to be a jerk, but the congressional oversight that should be looking into these things isn't happening because the Congress is controlled by the president's party, my Republicans. These things are embarrassing at best, But far more significantly, they are almost by definition corruption. And those things that should be making sure that there isn't corruption, the federal regulatory agencies and the oversight of Congress, those things aren't occurring because the Trump administration won't look into Trump and because the Republican folks in Congress won't stand up to him. And listen, I'm a Republican myself. and all this other stuff, but it doesn't matter what team is doing it. What's going on right now is not appropriate. And this new poll out of the Associated Press indicates that a pretty large percentage of Americans, including a fair percentage of Republicans feel exactly that same way. 222-1180, something other than politics next. Or how about this? How about you call up and you give your opinion? It's always good to hear from you. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Dental implants are a major decision, and people wonder if they're making the right decision. It says here, Banana Ball is coming to Rochester on July 2nd and 3rd, 2027, as part of the Banana Ball Championship League's World Tour. The game will be between the Loco Beach Coconuts. They'll play the Texas Tailgaters. Loco Beach coconuts does not sound like the Savannah bananas. But you know what? Honest with you, we're used to AAA here in Rochester, and that does just fine. So we will take the Loco Beach coconuts, and we will enjoy them significantly. Now, here's the deal. Demand for games like this is so high. I mean, people come from other parts of the country, and they sell the tickets way out months in advance because a lot of people, to be honest with you, will plan a little bit of a vacation to come see them. I know my wife has, the last couple of years, tried to get tickets to different places in the Northeast, and we've not been successful. She, early this morning, sent out to the group text, the family group text, Everybody who's over 16, I think that's the age, put into the lottery. And here's the thing. I even put into the lottery to get a suite or something like that. Now, the lottery ticket list or ticket lottery list, it's open through October 31st, right? Halloween. That's just a couple weeks from now. You have to sign up on the lottery before that. I believe BananaBall.com. BananaBall.com is one place you can do that. Let me just click on here and make sure. BananaBall.com. I don't know how this works. You're smarter than I, and you could probably figure it out. But go to BananaBall.com, and that will get you. Let me click on Tickets, okay? Yeah, if you click on Tickets, then it says Join the Ticket Lottery List. So popular. Bananaball.com, that's where you can learn more. Follow those things that pop up there. So anyway, various members of the family have gotten to the lottery, and we're hoping one of us gets picked. And we hope that we're able to get tickets, and we hope that come July 2nd or 3rd, our fannies are over there at ESL Ballpark watching a little banana ball. It's going to be exciting. Music means, well, Joel Assey's got a complete newscast for us. We will hear what he's got to say. That's next on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Soon, things will be falling.
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Speaker 1: ZBART's about protecting your car, which is essentially about protecting your investment, which is about looking after your family. ZBART, we've spoken all week long about the undercoating. how that helps protect your vehicle from rust, corrosion, things like that that come about, particularly in the wintertime with the corrosion and all the other stuff, the salt, the slush, the snow, all that crap gets up under there. But there are other services they offer at ZBART as well. They've got a thing that helps avoid scratches on your paint, helps keep rust on the body from coming about. They also have got a wonderful spray-in bed liner for your pickup truck that is just spectacular. And, you know, they do detailing. They'll tint your windows. But that undercoating is their stock and trade. That's their claim to fame. They invented it. They perfected it. Z-I-E-B-A-R-T, the spelling. And you can find the local outlets. You can learn more about their services. And you can make an appointment at ZBART.com. Do you have three ex-wives and your current trophy wife wants a life insurance policy three times the size of the... Move away. from having Rochester police associated with any campuses. They want, they being the school board, all security to be provided by internal security employees, which is really the stupidest thing you ever heard of. And it's an illustration of the fact that the people on this school board hate cops more than they love kids, right? They hate cops more than they love kids. They are willing to endanger kids in order to act out their hatred of the police. See, that's what bigotry does. Bigotry leaves your ass uncovered. Bigotry is always gonna leave you out there in a bad situation because bigotry is never justified intellectually, morally, socially. It's always wrong. And when you're doing what's wrong, there are unforeseen consequences that are gonna come your way. And so because of their disgust, at the men and women of law enforcement, the Rochester City School District is going to, I'm sure they'll find someone's cousin or political contributor, somebody who used to be something who's related to, they'll find somebody and it'll work out. Oh, it'll be wonderful. They'll probably have matching t-shirts. It'll be very, very impressive. And maybe have little badges made up or something. No, that's too much like cops. That'd be wrong. But there will be big salaries. I think one thing, we can be assured of is that whatever the Rochester City School Board pulls out of its ass, that their close family members and political associates will get very large paychecks, okay? It always works that way. Here's something else that's fairly predictable. Governor Kathy Hochul, last night about nine o'clock, she takes a CBS News social media post about that horrible attack upon the elementary school in Bend, Oregon, And Kathy Hochul writes this, at least four people murdered at an elementary school in Oregon, three of them children, three kids who should have come home to their families tonight. How many more of our babies have to die before Washington finally finds the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and put our children first? That's what she posted after a citizen with a lawfully possessed firearm chased down engaged and killed the bad guy who, as a caller earlier today reported, had a shotgun. You just ask the question, Governor, okay, in your state, the most anti-gun state in America, you are working overtime to make sure that people have neither firearms nor ammunition nor whatever else they might need. In Oregon, a very progressive, very Democrat state, you know, they've got anti-gun laws just about as strict as New York's. And here these little kids are dead and their teacher and a little child and a teacher are at the hospital fighting for their lives. And immediately Kathy Hochul has got to make this about her politics again. how many more of our babies have to die before Washington finally finds the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and put our children first? Well, I would look at this situation and I would say, thank God there was a good guy with a gun there. I don't know if you remember, but there was a fellow a little back ago with the NRA said the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is is with a good guy with a gun. And thank God that there was a good guy with a gun who also had courage, who had something in his heart, who had something in his hand that led him to fight. And seeing what had transpired, he chased the gunman into the school and shot him dead. Now, there were 400 kids in that school who knows how much ammunition, who knows what the plan of this bad guy was. But it was the exercise of the Second Amendment that led to the end of this carnage. And, you know, I just, how she doesn't quite see. Now, is there, the bad guy had a gun and the good guy had a gun, right? I'd point out to you that a 16-year-old is in Oregon not allowed to use a firearm outside of a range or, well, not hunting, already against the law. You can't take a gun on school ground, already against the law. You can't shoot people down, already against the law. Right? What additional restriction on liberty would you impose, Madam Governor? And what Additional restrictions on liberty do you have planned for after the election? What are you coming for next? Every year Kathy Hochul has been in office, she has been ever more restrictive on the ownership of firearms and the acquisition of ammunition. What does she have planned for January? After she gets another burst of four and probably won't face another election again the rest of her life, when she's completely free to pursue whatever psychotic agenda she's got going, What is her next plan for those of us who believe that the Second Amendment applies in the state of New York as well? Hey, Mark, I'm glad you called up, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Good morning, Bob.
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Speaker 2: How are you today?
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Speaker 1: Good, sir. Good.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 1: I just want to point out that if you do a little research, you'll find that the leading cause of death among children is gun violence.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at this while we do that together. leading cause of death among children. Abortion is a leading cause of death for children. Firearms are a leading cause of death among adolescents. And then it's motor vehicle crashes, cancer. And here's a thought, though. Well, here's the thing. Ages 1 through 4, drowning is the leading cause of accidental death. Ages 5 through 9, cancer is the leading cause of death, with unintentional injuries and homicides also starting to impact that group. And then ages 10 through 19, the injury nature changes. And it's dominated by firearm violence, motor vehicle accidents, and suicide. And I would assert that that fact is a consequence of urban crime as opposed to the Second Amendment. Right? See, there's a thing about what causes death. I'd look at clustering. I would look at I'd look at clustering. And again, in no way to diminish the horror or the significance of these attacks on schools, right? But weekend in and weekend out, where are the deaths among people 10 to 19 in America? They cluster in our cities. It's an interesting thing because rates of firearm ownership are highest outside our cities and but rates of juvenile firearm death are highest inside our cities. That disproportionality would lead you, if you're thinking logically and deductively, to conclude that it's not the firearm that's the cause. If the firearm was the cause, you would have more firearm-related deaths where you have more firearms outside our cities. But instead, you have an intense clustering of violent deaths by a firearm within America's cities, which indicates that it is about culture and conduct. It is not about either freedom or firearms, right? If you want to save lives of young people in America, don't ban guns, demand better values. Demand that children, especially in America's urban cores, be raised better.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: I get confused, forgive me, I do shows in Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester, but over the course of the last week, I think that I've seen two 15-year-olds shot, one of them shot dead. I think this is Albany I'm thinking of. About a block and a half from the governor's mansion, a 15-year-old girl was shot dead here the other day. A 15-year-old boy was shot in another incident with him, three other teenagers. This is in the city of Albany, New York, where we, of course, have the most oppressive gun laws in America. In rural New York, where we have dramatically higher levels of firearm ownership, I didn't see any reports of any teenagers being shot this week. It's culture and conduct. It's not freedom and firearms. That's the answer. 222-1180, back with you in a moment on NewsRadio Wham 1180. It's not just a word. It's how we play.
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Speaker 1: He's gone all the way into the end zone. Detailed.
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Speaker 2: In the air. What a catch.
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Speaker 1: A while back, my wife and I decided it was time to update our kitchen. And choosing Rochester. Today, actually yesterday, I'm sorry, Thursday, something called PLOS Medicine, in which a fairly large study covering, I think, 23 years, Mostly older people over the age of 50 found that there is no association overall between eating ultra-processed food and the incidence of colorectal cancer. It's still a good idea to eat whole grains, get lots of fiber. Dairy is our friend. Calcium is really good. And, you know, taking it easy on processed meat is a good idea. But they used data in this study from more than 460,000 adults, 50 to 71, and again, tracking them for in the neighborhood of 20 years. And they really could not find a correlation, um, you know, with, with colon cancer. Now they point out that this study was done on older people, um, and that they were largely white. Um, and, uh, you know, uh, I don't know if that changes how it is with younger people, uh, or with people who aren't white, but, um, If you're eating a hot dog or some chips or something like that, you need not necessarily fear that you're bringing on something bad. Steve, I'm glad you phoned up, sir. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Bob. I listened to you. You're pretty much for no more gun laws. I wondered... What's your opinion for an assault-type rifle? This shooting, this latest one, was not that way, but most of them were, and I wondered what you thought about that.
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Speaker 1: This is just my opinion, but I think a gun's a gun, and I don't see an assault-style rifle as being particularly evil. I don't believe that assault rifle bans... are justified or constitutional. What's your thought on that?
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Speaker 2: Well, my thought is, not in this case, but in most cases, not near as many children would be killed if they only had a couple of shots. And, you know, this was a very unusual thing, having a you know, having a pump shotgun.
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Speaker 1: When you say a couple of shots, what are you saying there? What do you mean by a couple of shots?
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Speaker 2: Well, this guy had a pump shotgun, which I assume had probably five shots. That would be the norm.
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Speaker 1: What's one in the chamber?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, mine was four with one in the chamber, but regardless, had he had a... I mean, he was obviously a very sick individual. Had he had... uh... multiple rounds in a automatic type rifle semi-automatic probably would have probably would have killed more uh... it just just my opinion i don't see any need for those for those type of weapons i just don't see where anyone would need those and you know i've i've hunted my whole life i'm a gun advocate and uh... I mean, I'm probably a little unusual, but I have a single shot shotgun that's 60 years old.
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Speaker 1: That's what, that's what I, that's what I use. That's what I used to hunt with a single shot, single action. Here's the deal though. Um, I can't think of another American freedom, uh, which I have to give a reason for exercising.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Um, Why do you want a semi-automatic? Why do you want an AR-15? I mean, it says I got a right to keep and bear arms. Why do you want to be a Catholic? Why do you want to say what's on your mind? Why do you want to seek redress for grievances? Why do you want to have freedom of religion? Why do you want to have a due process? Why do you want to have probable cause?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Why do you want equal protection under law? I can't think of another civil right which I have to give a reason for choosing to exercise. It is not my use of my right that is at issue. It is the existence of the right, yes or no. Also, I would politely say that the notion that just some evil assault rifle can By the way, it's not an automatic, sir. It's a semi-automatic. You're a gunman. I presume you know that. But the notion that only a semi-automatic rifle can fire more than a couple shots is nuts, right? Sir, look in your gun safe. You might well have a Marlin Model 60, which is a. 22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, which has been on the market since, as you might guess, 1960, which would be 67 years now. It has a tube magazine that holds 18 rounds. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. You can keep shooting. Any sort of firearm with a box magazine would have a larger number of rounds. And that magazine could be replaced. To pick one category of gun, which by the way, assault rifles for more than 20 years have each year have been the biggest-selling type of firearm in America. Number two has been the Glock firearm. Interestingly, in this state, they choose to outlaw the two biggest-selling guns for a generation in our country.
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Speaker 2: Why?
00:32:03
Speaker 1: Well, because they're about screwing with your liberty. Dave, glad you called. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Hello, Dave. Welcome, sir.
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Speaker 2: Yes, good morning. Just a quick question. Do you think if all of us gun owners voted, could we eliminate Kathy Hochul's candidate? Yes.
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Speaker 1: Is there enough of us? Absolutely, sir. If the gun owners of upstate New York got out and voted, we could overcome the New York City advantage. Dave, thanks for raising that question. And that's been a fact, a truth for a long time. Here's another truth. We don't. Here's the deal. A lot of folks who own firearms are just leave me alone kind of people. They're don't tread on me kind of people. That's how I am. I'll live my life. You live yours, right? Live and let live. We're not, a lot of people not into this political crap. But because gun owners stay home in rural upstate New York, Democrats rule the state from stem to stern, and Democrats are at war with your Second Amendment rights. And that's just one of the constitutional rights that they are working overtime trying to eliminate in this state. You've got to get up and get out and vote, or you better get yourself a little picture of Kathy Hochul, because another four years and you're going to have to be praying to her. It's time for news with the great Dave Debo on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. WHAM Rochester. WAIO HD2 Honeyoy Falls. W241 DG Rochester. For more information about contests on this station, go to WHAM1180. com slash rules. First, fast, accurate. Rochester's news, weather, and traffic station.
